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Pope Francis' June 21 & 22 Schedule Details
Official Tweet points to the longer, official version: Papal schedule for Turin visit §RV http://rv.va/I32ZUR
Catholic World News provides a good-enough condensed version:
The Vatican has released a full schedule for the trip to Turin by Pope Francis on June 21-22.
The highlight of the papal trip will be a visit to the city's cathedral to reverence the Shroud of Turin during its current public exposition.
The Pope will leave Rome early on Sunday morning, June 21. Arriving in Turin's airport, where he will be greeted by local Church leaders and civic officials, he will travel into the city. At the cathedral, he will pray before the Shroud and also before the altar of Blessed Waldensian.
After concelebrating Mass at the Piazza Vittorio, the Pontiff will make a series of short visits: to a youth-detention center, with immigrants, with a Roma (gypsy) family, with religious, with the sick and disabled, and finally in the evening with young people.
After a night in the archbishop's residence, Pope Francis will speak on Monday morning at the Evangelical Waldensian Church. Later he will visit his own relatives, celebrating Mass privately with family members who still live in the Piedmont region, from which his own parents migrated to Argentina. In the afternoon the Pope will meet with members of the committee that organized the exposition of the Shroud before taking his flight back to Rome.
Time of visit news grabbers competing with the pope's visit to the shroud:
- Visit to the Evangelical Waldensian Church, (good explanation).
- Prayers before the altar of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati.
- Visits to a youth-detention center, with immigrants and with a Roma (gypsy) family.
- Mass at the Piazza Vittorio
June 2, 2015 at 5:39 am
The proposed visit of Pope Francis to the Waldensian Temple is interesting, and only time will tell if it yields a fruitful outcome. Judging from some of the sad comments on the linked web-site, a strong bitter anti-papal feeling and resentment is still evident among the Waldensian community, while yet another comment is curious that the Pope is visiting heretics. Evidently a spirit of ecumenism has yet to spread its roots in that corner of the world.
The original Waldensian movement is one of the earliest reform groups, and dates from the preaching of Valdes in Lyon 1170-76. At the Lateran Council of 1179, Valdes made a profession of orthodoxy and was confirmed in his vow of poverty by Pope Alexander III. However Valdes did not receive the recognition he sought, was condemned by the archbishop of Lyon, and in 1184 Pope Lucius III placed the Waldensians under a ban. Thereafter the Waldensians departed from orthodoxy, and the movement spread rapidly throughout Europe. Rome responded vigorously turning from excommunication to active persecution and execution.
A number returned to orthodoxy, and by the end of the 15th century the movement was confined to the French and Italian valleys of the Cottian Alps. A second period in their history began in 1526 when they were introduced to Reformation theology, and thereafter eventually becoming in effect a Swiss Protestant Church, with some emphasis on predestination and millenialism. Years of persecution continued until they were granted full civil rights in 1848. In the 19th century, a number of Waldensian emigrants migrated to Uruguay, and thence established a number of small communities in the United States.
The interest of Pope Francis in the Italian Waldensians seems to be connected to his own parents' origins in the Po Valley, where he still has family, and which seems to remain a stronghold of the movement. It seems typical of Francis that he reaches out to those most disconnected from the main stream, and always in a spirit of reconciliation. He will be reinforced in the knowledge that the prayers of many will accompany him, in the hope of a fruitful and conciliatory outcome.
June 2, 2015 at 6:39 am
Pope Francis is an excellent pastor, an example many should follow. He impressed Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of England, who is doing his part of the job in that country, where Catholics and Anglicans havê begin to share churches. My bet is that Francis will bring many Catholics and Evangelicals together when he goes to the US.
June 2, 2015 at 5:08 pm
Thank you Daveb for the information and thank you Louis for your expectation of Pope Francis.
I like Pope Francis very much. Even Francis did simmilar things before he became the Pope. Hope one day he authorise to do more research on the Shroud of Turin and I have no doubt that the outcome of this will help to bring more Catholics and Evangicals together.
June 2, 2015 at 5:21 pm
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Perhaps you could check this information in January 2016:
"The Syrian Malabar Nasrani of southwestern India may have connections with the Essenes, according to the Manimekalai, one of the great Tamil epic poems, which refers to a people called "Issani." The high presence of Cohen DNA amongst today's Nazareans make further support to the full or part Essene origin of the Malabar Nazareans. The Essenes were often of Levite or Cohen heritage and this may further explain the frequent 'priestly heritage' claims of several Nazerean families of India."
June 2, 2015 at 5:31 pm
Yes I will remember this and try to get more information from Kerala as well as from my Tamil friends.
June 2, 2015 at 5:33 pm
There is Jewish influence in the Nasrani church liturgy and some customs:
June 4, 2015 at 7:57 am
The Holy Father before arriving in Turin should go and visit the city of Sarajevo …
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June 5, 2015 at 8:45 am
Yesterday I wanted to add something about the question of the Holy Father and the Eucharistic miracles (in Turin and Argentina).
See also: the eucharistic miracle of Turin in 1453 and that of August 18, 1996 while Pope Bergoglio was at that time bishop of Buenos Aires …
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>At seven o'clock in the evening on August 18, 1996, Fr. Alejandro Pezet was saying Holy Mass at a Catholic church in the commercial center of Buenos Aires. As he was finishing distributing Holy Communion, a woman came up to tell him that she had found a discarded host on a candleholder at the back of the church. On going to the spot indicated, Fr. Alejandro saw the defiled Host. Since he was unable to consume it, he placed it in a container of water and put it away in the tabernacle of the chapel of the Blessed Sacrament.
On Monday, August 26, upon opening the tabernacle, he saw to his amazement that the Host had turned into a bloody substance. He informed Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, who gave instructions that the Host be professionally photographed. The photos were taken on September 6. They clearly show that the Host, which had become a fragment of bloodied flesh, had grown significantly in size. For several years the Host remained in the tabernacle, the whole affair being kept a strict secret. Since the Host suffered no visible decomposition, Cardinal Bergoglio decided to have it scientifically analyzed.
>On October 5, 1999, in the presence of the Cardinal's representatives, Dr. Castanon took a sample of the bloody fragment and sent it to New York for analysis. Since he did not wish to prejudice the study, he purposely did not inform the team of scientists of its provenance. One of these scientists was Dr. Frederic Zugiba [instead of Dr. F. Zugibe!], the well-known cardiologist and forensic pathologist. He determined that the analyzed substance was real flesh and blood containing human DNA. … …
>… ..Two Australians, journalist Mike Willesee and lawyer Ron Tesoriero, witnessed these tests. Knowing where sample had come from, they were dumbfounded by Dr. Zugiba's testimony. Mike Willesee asked the scientist how long the white blood cells would have remained alive if they had come from a piece of human tissue, which had been kept in water. They would have ceased to exist in a matter of minutes, Dr. Zugiba [instead of Dr. F. Zugibe!], replied. The journalist then told the doctor that the source of the sample had first been kept in ordinary water for a month and then for another three years in a container of distilled water; only then had the sample been taken for analysis. Dr. Zugiba's was at a loss to account for this fact. There was no way of explaining it scientifically, he stated. Only then did Mike Willesee inform Dr. Zugiba [instead of Dr. F. Zugibe!] that the analyzed sample came from a consecrated Host (white, unleavened bread) that had mysteriously turned into bloody human flesh. Amazed by this information, Dr. Zugiba [instead of Dr. F. Zugibe!], replied, "How and why a consecrated Host would change its character and become living human flesh and blood will remain an inexplicable mystery to science—a mystery totally beyond her competence."
Dr. F. Zugibe was a well known sindonologist…
>a journalist reported that miracles had been more than one. The first "signs" occurred "in May 1992, the same month and year that Bergoglio was appointed auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires", then "24 July 1994 while the minister of the Eucharist took the cup contained in the Tabernacle he noticed that a drop of blood was flowing on the inner wall of the same Tabernacle "and the last, that of 1996 described by Fr. M. Piotrowski, had not happened on August 18 (as erroneously reported) but on the 15th, the Feast of the Assumption Mary into heaven.
>After the article by Antonio Socci, a journalist Maurizio Blondet, who had already reported in an article published on the website Effedieffe, he came up with the idea of going personally to Buenos Aires to investigate the events in person and riportarali in a subsequent publication.
>Exactly one year later, in March 2014, Blondet went actually in Argentina accompanied by two people, one of which, for the strange coincidences of the case, it is a friend, then a direct witness of what they learned during the ten day stay in Buenos Aires…
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Now Pope Francis does not go to Medjugorje …
I don't know.
In any case Karol Wojtyla was perhaps the most daring of the Popes exorcists.
He began releasing a girl without knowing the basics of exorcism, but they did not want to pull back. And he reimprovvisò exorcist in at least two other occasions.
The devil, as a result, sent word to Monsignor Andrea Gemma (known exorcist) who hated Pope Wojtyla (dubbed "the old man"), as well as Pius XII hated, but feared beyond measure Pope Ratzinger.
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I have just read about a supposed prophecy about Papa Francesco:
he will be forced to leave the Papal See in Rome …
September 26, 2013, one of the sensitive, Angela, had a vision:
"I saw Pope Francis, who was sitting at a desk, ahead had as a scroll, on the desk. At one point he brought his hands to his face and began to cry."
So it is assumed that something bad will happen in San Pietro (= ISIS ???)…
But Pope Francis will be saved!
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>The Islamic State (Isis) has beheaded an alleged volunteer for the army loyal to the internationally recognised Libyan government of Tobruk in front of a group of children…


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Re "Israeli Bulldozer Crushes U.S. Activist to Death," March 17: Rachel Corrie's death is tragic, not because of how she died but because a young life was cut short. She stood in front of a house of a terrorist supporter. She fell and was unseen by the bulldozer destroying a house (property). The terrible accident followed.
But where are the human shields who should be standing by the markets and bus stops in Israel protecting innocent Israelis who are killed or maimed by the hundreds by Islamic terrorist groups like Hamas and Islamic Jihad? Israeli retaliation, after horrific murders of innocent civilians, is destruction of property. Israelis are entitled to live in safety and not have an ongoing fear of death by Palestinian terrorists.
Rabbi Arnold Stiebel
Woodland Hills
Running a woman over with an army bulldozer and bulldozing homes are acts of terrorism. There are no other words for it. To call Corrie's death a "regrettable accident," as the Israeli army has, is a little like a bank robber saying that robbing a bank is a financial transaction. Corrie, a woman of true grit, is my hero.
Christopher Schaefer
Long Beach
I was horrified to see the photo of an unarmed American girl about to be killed by an Israeli bulldozer. This was a peaceful demonstrator, just like the man who stood in front of a tank in Tiananmen Square. The Israeli army had the gall to call this an "accident." On the contrary, it was a deliberate act done in broad daylight.
Where is the outrage from our government at this odious murder? Where is the apology from Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon? The only crisis in the Middle East is in the Palestinian territories, where unarmed civilians, including children, are being killed and maimed and left homeless every day. Will this latest atrocity change our government's neglect of this crisis? Don't bet on it!
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Quiz time! How long would you estimate it takes for a paper to go through peer review?
On average, it takes 80 days per paper or 1,920 hours (according to an article by M. Ware in Publishing Research Consortium). That's a lot of time spent waiting for a decision. In hopes to alievating this pain point, Wiley is piloting "transferable peer review." As outlined in a recent Wiley Exchanges article, this new system will cut down on review time.
Here are a few of the main points:
- The system allows you the option to preserve and transfer initial peer review, should you receive a decision to reject from one journal and wish to request transfer to another.
- The review is now able to travel with the article on its route to publication. By reducing the number of reviews in the universe, the aim is to reduce the burden on reviewers, while helping editors to make faster decisions and increase the publication speed.
There are initiatives to take some journals out of the peer review process altogether and detach reviewer reports from publication in a specific journal. Many authors know which journals they would prefer to publish and would rather not be told which journal they should submit. Many authors do not want undesirable journals to bid for publication of their paper.
The system is currently been piloted among nine of our high impact neuroscience titles and will run for about six months. The results will be used to develop a new process.
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December 18, 2017ABINGDON, VA The Friends of Southwest Virginia and Emory & Henry College have teamed up to produce three videos, reflective of outdoor recreation projects that are being implemented in Southwest Virginia.
Friends of Southwest Virginia's outdoor recreation arm, the Appalachian Spring Initiative, started in 2012 with the goal of developing the outdoor recreation industry cluster in Southwest Virginia. This project and collaboration, showcasing enhancements to High Knob Recreation Area, Damascus, Haysi and Breaks Interstate Park, gave seven Emory & Henry students the opportunity to explore assets and areas that are right in their backyard.
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Children playing in al-Menshieh Park overlooking Shukri al-Quwatli Street. Syria has a very young population. About 46% of Syrians are under the age of 15 and nearly 60% are under 20.
11 comments:
- Omar said...
interesting demographic. It's probably a combination of migrations, as well as average life span.
- 4:05 am
- Desert Island Boy said...
Actually it's more of a combination of the birth rate exploding, and the death rate and infant mortality hitting the skids.
Religious fervor has playes apart as well. The booming population is a problem the whole Arab world will facec in a few years. Will we have enough to go around for everyone?
- 4:52 am
Just curious as to why you never seem to have any comments whenever a posting deals with Syria's government?
--------from an American that just wants to see someone in the Syria actually have the guts to openly criticize your own government
- 5:06 am
Dear american ,ask your government to stop supporting the middle eastern dictatorial regimes and after that we will be able to criticize these regimes.
The middle eastern people don't have any esteem in the American politics because this one only serves the Israeli interests and the dictatorial regimes.
- 10:51 am
- Ayman said...
Desert Island Boy is right. Syria has the highest population growth rate in the Arab World and one of the highest in the whole world. Look at the following indices:
Population growth rate in Syria: 2.4% (compare to Lebanon 1.3, UAE 1.57, Egypt 1.83, Morocco 1.61, Greece 0.2 and US 0.92)
Birth rate 28.93/1000 population (compare to Lebanon 19.31, Egypt 23.84, UAE 18.65, Morocco 22.79, Greece 9.73, US 14.13)
Fertility rate 3.61 children born/woman (compare to Lebanon 1.95, Egypt 2.95, UAE 3.02, Morocco 2.81, Greece 1.32, US 2.07)
Infant mortality rate 30.6/1000 live births (compare to Lebanon 25.48, Egypt 33.9, UAE 15.06, Morocco 43.25, Greece 5.63, US 6.63)
Source www.indexmundi.com
- 11:40 am
- Ayman said...
Dear American, I had to delete comments on previous political posts because they were filled with bad language rather than points of view. Freedom of expression is limited here, evrybody knows that, and this blog is not the place to test these limits by posting "anonymous" dirty language. In case you are curious to know, you can openly criticize the government here, not as freely as in the States, but also not less freely than in many other Arab countries.
- 12:03 pm
Thank you for your reply, Ayman. It's a shame that the distrust that prevents any realistic peace is produced by ALL parties in the Middle East. Each government (US and yours) have economic and power agendas. Please don't make the assumption, as one writer did, that it's purely the fault of the Israelis and Americans for all the ills in the world. Nice blog, by the way!
-----the American
- 6:42 pm
Dear American blogger! You are right that not everything that goes wrong in the world is the fault of your country or the Israelis - arguably your closest ally in the world, in fact the US is the biggest state sponsor & patron of Israel economically, politically, diplomatically and militarily! However you in turn must accept that your foreign policy is unfortunately biased and NOT even handed. There is a lot of pressure on Syria from the US and other members of the international community to implement UN resolution 1559 and withdraw its troops from Lebanon, this is fair enough. However we don't really see any kind of REAL pressure of ANY KIND exerted by the US and the international community on Israel to withdraw from the Gaza strip, West Bank, Jerusalem and the Golan Heights in violation of BOTH international law and decades old UN resolutions. I'm sorry if I sound cliched but to most Arabs and Muslims around the world that does seem to smack of double standards and hypocrisy. This is why a lot of Arab and Muslim youth become apathetic & get pushed towards extremism and terrorism when they see different rules and standards being applied to different countries - please note that I'm NOT condoning or justifying any kind of terrorism whether it is state terrorism or individual/group based terrorism! I am giving my opinion as to why I think terrorism has unfortunately become attractive to some young people in the Arab and Muslim world!
Howvever having said the above it should also be noted that the vast majority of Arabs and Muslims do admire the democratic and civil rights that are available in the US, UK, France etc. but which we are denied in our own countries. This is partly due to as you hint power and economic agendas of various countries but also the remnant of cold war geopolitics when western countries covertly supported pro-western authoritarian dictatorships in central and south america, africa, middle east, south asia and soth-east asia, because these autocrats were 'forces of stability' preventing any 'socialist/communist takeover' - I am sure that somebody of your insight probably knows this. Even though the cold war has long ended the US continues to support in 1 way or another various dictators (who hold sham and laughable elections or referenda i they hold them at all) such as Ben Ali in Tunisia, King Mohammad VI in Morocco, Mubarak in Egypt, King Fahd in Saudi Arabia and the other monarchial dictatorships in the gulf, King Abdullah II in Jordan, Islam Karimov in Uzbekistan, Emomali Rahmonov in Tajikistan, Nursultan Nazarbayrv in Kazakhstan, Askar Akayev in Kyrgystan etc. Sorry the list of Arab and Muslim countries with dictatorships went on and on but I did have to illustrate my point!
Most Arabs and Muslims like US and western culture: we watch Hollywood movies, Friends, Simpsons etc. drink Coke and Pepsi and eat McDonalds, fried chicken and wear like wearing denim jackets and jeans! Contrary to misconceptions we don't hate western culture or people but we do have significant differences on your governments' foreign policy!
- 9:39 pm
- yaman said...
We must really ask ourselves how such old, decrepit thought has come to dominate such a youthful population...
- 12:30 am
well there is no place in this country at all to critisize I am afraid. Such a shame...That is why Syria will turn into Afganistan or North Corea with time..that is why everything is going downhill.
- 11:22 pm
We will come
And we will fuck you
In your Arab ass
With a loaded M16
die now.
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Finding Rebecca by Eoin Dempsey
Published Oct 28, 2014
Christopher discovered Rebecca one day in 1924 when he was six years old. She had escaped from her abusive father and alcoholic mother. Christopher and his father and sister, newly arrived from Germany to the island of Jersey (an English colony off the coast of France), take her in without a moment's hesitation. From then on, Christopher and Rebecca are inseparable. As a teenager, she runs away to England to again escape her family and Christopher believes he has lost her. She eventually comes back with a fiancee, but Rebecca falls in love with Christopher despite this. Things were going well for the two lovers until the Nazis came into power in Germany and suddenly Rebecca's Jewish ancestry gets her and her family shipped to labor camps in 1943. Christopher decides to try to rescue her and gets himself into the SS as an accountant at Auschwitz, hoping to be able to secure her release. Will he be able to rescue her and be reunited? Will his cover be blown at the hands of the Nazis? 3 stars.
I found this book on Netgalley and thought it had an intriguing story. I am always fascinated by books about the Holocaust, and this one was different because of its original setting on the Isle of Jersey and as it is taken from the viewpoint of someone working for the Nazis. The author definitely did a lot of research for this volume. It was a little sad to see how easily the British gave up the island to the Germans. The book kind of dragged in the middle and then the subject matter kind of got to me. Whenever I have gone to the National Holocaust Museum in DC, the one thing that always makes me upset is the piles of shoes and suitcases that the Nazis collected and sorted after the prisoners exited the cattle cars that took them to the concentration camps. I guess I'm always a little out of sorts reading about a culture who willing participated in genocide as though it was a commonplace everyday activity. The detail in which the author describes how the Nazis methodically got rid of a person's belongings, separated the people out (to see which would live and which would die), and then heartlessly killed them. And continued to do it day after day because it was their job. Another reason the book dragged, for me at least, was how long it took the story to resolve itself and the ending wasn't that great.
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Call for Nominations for the 2017 UPLSAA Distinguished Alumnus Award
To give acknowledgment to the UP School of Library and Information Studies (UP SLIS) alumni who have given pride and recognition to the Library and Information Science profession, the UP Library Science Alumni Association (UPLSAA) will once again hold the nomination for the UPLSAA Distinguished Alumnus Award.
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SRINAGAR, Nov 5: PDP president Mehbooba Mufti today stressed for the mitigation of the losses incurred by Kashmir's fruit growers due to snowfall.She stated that the government is duty bound to safeguard Kashmir's horticulture sector which acts as a backbone to state's economy. According to party spokesman, the PDP chief held detailed deliberations with the people from north Kashmir's Sopore and central Kashmir's Khansahib areas and sought details from them about the aftermath of the recent unseasonal snowfall and the damages incurred by the orchardists at large in Kashmir. Mehbooba underscored further the vitality of the horticulture in the state while highlighting that same is the mainstay of the economy in Kashmir with 2.3 million people associated with the sector and 237,000 hectares of land in the valley under fruit cultivation.She added that the change in the weather pattern in Kashmir has been hitting Kashmir's fruit industry over the years and that from the record apple production of over 2.2 million tons in 2014, climate change and unseasonal rains and snowfall has restricted the crop to mere 1.3 million tons as per various estimated.The PDP president added that the recent snowfall in Kashmir has wrecked havoc on region's fruit growers with damage caused to the crops turning calamitous with each passing day. "The government is duty bound to mitigate the losses incurred by the farmers and fruit growers in the state so that they could save themselves from getting debt-ridden and being caught in the midst of the tumultuous times," she said.Mehbooba said comprehensive assessment of the losses must be initiated without any further delay by the government and the areas which are far- flung and where damage is massive merits government's immediate attention.
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Advances in Consumer Research Volume 7, 1980 Pages 195-197
Roger M. Swagler, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
This paper treats information acquisition as investment in a specialized form of human capital. The cost of that investment is measured in terms of the consumer's time. A series of hypotheses are offered concerning the impact of age, education and income on consumers' information acquisition behavior.
It has been nearly two decades since researchers first began to give serious attention to the role of information in consumer behavior. During that time, the importance of information has been accepted and an impressive amount of effort has gone into research in the area. The results have been encouraging, but because of the diverse nature of the investigations, it is difficult to fit together the numerous partial explanations which have been offered concerning consumers' information acquisition behavior.
In part this is due to the tendency in both theoretical and empirical investigations to focus on specific situations. Stigler's original formulation was developed in terms of the search process for a single purchase (Stigler, 1961). Nelson later expanded the analysis to information gained through experience. He was describing a learning process, but he confined his attention to the analysis of that process in a particular purchase situation (Nelson, 1970). He did not explore the obvious relationship to learning over time and its influence on consumer behavior.
Empirical investigations have also tended to be situation specific. Research has dealt with purchases of specific products (Goldman & Johansson, 1978), identified groups of consumers (Engledow, Anderson & Becker, 1979), or processes employed in particular decisions (Jacoby, 1977). The latter, as undertaken by Jacoby and others, has the advantage of recognizing that decision making should be seen "as a dynamic ongoing process rather than as a static, cross-sectional event" (Jacoby, et al., 1977, p. 120). Consideration of process, however, has been limited to the manner in which consumers utilize information in particular decisions and has not been extended to information and decision making over time.
In other areas of consumer research, the long-term view has received attention. It is recognized, for example, that the pattern of purchases varies over the life cycle; individuals' consumption behavior will therefore be influenced by where they are in the life cycle (Ghez & Becker, 1975). The lifetime pattern provides a context for the particular purchase; focusing on the latter to the exclusion of the former provides a limited, and possibly distorted, perspective.
The same is true for information. Explaining information acquisition in terms of behavior in a single situation overlooks the fact that the consumer has made numerous other purchases and has learned (and forgotten) large amounts of information over time. Theories of learning and cognitive development have dealt with these issues, but in amore general context (McGuire, 1976). Thus, the purpose of this paper is to look at information acquisition behavior as part of a dynamic process which extends over the consumer's lifetime. That view presupposes a macro, rather than a micro, approach. Instead of focusing on particular consumers or specific situations, the perspective is expanded to deal with consumers as a group over time. As is always the case with aggregation, the detail which goes with individual variations is lost. However, there is a gain in terms of being able to explore the overall determinants of consumers' information acquisition behavior.
This analysis combines two closely related theoretical developments--human capital and time. The former owes its development to studies of labor force activities, although the relationship to non-market or home production has been noted (Ghez & Becker, 1975). In its simplest statement, investment is made in human capital through educational activities; the cost of these activities is weighed against the return the investment will bring in higher future wages (Ben-Porath, 1967).
Investment in information may be viewed similarly, except that the return is measured in terms of the expected discounted value of the increased flow of services to the consumer. The notion that the cost of information must be considered in terms of the benefits it provides is not new and has been the basis for empirical investigation (Stigler, 1961; Goldman & Johansson, 1978). However, earlier efforts focused on individual purchases and did not account for the accumulation of information over time. That is, the consumer's stock of informational capital was not taken into account.
Analyzing the accumulation of informational capital is more complex than the more general analysis of human capital. With the latter, individuals make specific, identifiable investments in the acquisition of skills and these investments earn a return through higher incomes. In the case of informational capital, a similar process operates only when consumers undertake explicit search (although the return is measured differently). The problem is that information may be accumulated in ways which are not associated with formal search processes.
Educational activities, although they may be focused on some other goal, provide consumers with both specific information and more general training which is needed to function in the marketplace. Education also broadens the consumers' time horizon and makes one aware of both an expanded range of possible actions and the implications of those actions. Other information comes from experience in the marketplace. As they learn about specific products, places to buy and ways to approach the market, consumers accumulate a considerable reservoir of knowledge from which they can draw. However, information may also come from activities which are not related to the individual's own market experience. Consumers learn through talking with friends, observing others, advertising; reading or any of a broad range of possible experiences and associations.
As information is accumulated, it is structured and organized by the individual. In that process, information from a variety of sources may be blended together. For example, consumers learn something about automobiles through explicit search, but that information is combined with what is learned from individual experience, the experiences of friends, the media and other sources. A particular piece of information which the consumer carries into the market is therefore likely to be a compound element and not traceable to a unique source. [Obviously, the question of information processing is relevant to this discussion. More effective processing will result in improvements in both the quantity and quality of the informational stock. The source of the information is important to the extent that information from different sources is likely to be processed differently. A chance remark from a friend, if it is remembered, may prove useful in the market later; however, it is likely that the information will be dismissed as useless and never processed. In different terminology, "bits" of information are accumulated into "chunks;" these chunks (which correspond to the compound elements discussed above) are more useful to the consumer (Simon, 1974). Clearly there are individual differences in this process and all bits of information do not stand an equal chance of making it into a chunk. Having said that, it should also be clear that the argument in this paper is independent of the processing question. The latter is worth exploring, but for the argument here it is sufficient to know that consumers accumulate and recall information not how they do it.]
It should be clear that the consumer's stock of informational capital is not static. It expands as the consumer adds new information and deteriorates (or depreciates) as information is forgotten or becomes obsolete. Assuming that the latter is a continuous process, some new investment in information will be needed to maintain the stock of information. When net investment is positive, the stock of informational capital expands. [The precise nature of the capital accumulation process will depend on the production function for informational capital (Ben-Porath, 1967).]
In a particular encounter with the market, the consumer's stock of information may be adequate to meet informational needs; in that case, there will be no information acquisition. However, if the returns on investment in new information are greater than the costs, the consumer will make that investment. Either way, the outcome is shaped by the existing stock of information and cannot be understood without reference to that stock.
Consider an alternative situation in which the consumer fails to make use of information, even when it is readily available (e.g., nutritional labeling). Such information would be disregarded when the individual feels that he or she already knows enough about nutritional qualities or when the individual lacks the ability to make use of the information. In the first instance, the stock of informational capital is adequate and new investment is unwarranted. In the second, the amount of investment which would be required to make use of the information would not be warranted by the return.
At this point, the cost of information should be examined in more detail. Following Becker, the analysis treats consumption as a process which utilizes both time and goods to produce commodities. It is the commodities which enter the individual's utility function (Becker, 1965). Because time has value and is utilized in consumption, the costs of both the time and goods inputs must be considered to account for the full price of the commodity. [Designating the commodity as Zi, we have Zi = fi(xi, ti), where xi and ti are goods and time inputs respectively. The full price, which includes the cost of both time and goods is: p = S(pibi + tiw)Zi. The terms ti and bi express the input of time and goods respectively per unit of Zi. The price of goods is pi, and w gives the wage rate or earnings per unit of time. Hence, tiw becomes an opportunity cost measure of time (Becker, 1965). The proper valuation of time (w) may be difficult for individuals who are not employed in the market.]
Similarly, the time and goods costs associated with acquiring information must be taken into account. These can be incorporated directly into the cost of the commodity. Obtaining information about a purchase requires time for shopping and goods inputs such as transportation, telephone, or buying guides. It is clear that when information costs are high, the cost of the commodity will increase. [There are, however, certain trade offs the consumer can make. For example, more extensive shopping may reveal features about a product which make it less time consuming to use. That is worthwhile if the discounted value of the time saved over the life of the product is greater than the cost of the time expended in search. The consumer's time horizon is relevant her in determining strategy.]
As in the general case, consumers can substitute goods and time inputs in seeking information. Buyers guides may be purchased to help focus the search process. Other goods inputs, transportation and communication, can reduce the time input required. The determination of the precise combination is made according to the relative prices of goods and time. [This suggests that higher-income individuals would substitute for time in the acquisition of information. Higher-income consumers do in fact make the most use of product testing information (Engledow, Anderson & Becker 1979).]
The argument thus far can be summarized by considering a given consumer at a given point in time. As the individual goes into the market, information needs will be determined by the type of purchase and the amount of information the person already has (the stock of informational capital). Additional information will be obtained if the return on the investment is greater than the cost. The former is determined by the discounted value of the flow of services which results from the effort. The latter is set by the cost of the goods and time inputs.
This discussion provides the basis for the development of a formal model of information acquisition. However, the arguments set forth thus far are themselves sufficient for generating the stable hypotheses. Because these hypotheses are worth investigating in their own right and because they will aid in the further specification necessary to develop the model, a preliminary investigation is warranted. The hypotheses are set forth in the following section.
The preceding section developed the idea of the accumulation of informational capital as a learning process. Therefore, the factors associated with consumer learning should be significant variables. Among these, years of formal education and experience in the marketplace are obviously important. Age may be used as a proxy for the latter. Cost considerations are dominated by the value of the individual's time, which makes income the key consideration. Numerous other aspects could be identified, but in this preliminary inquiry, the focus will be on education, age and income. In each case, the discussion will focus on the variable in question, without reference to the others.
Education has an obvious impact on information capital, but it also bears upon cost considerations. Therefore, no directionality can be assumed. Looking only at the accumulation of informational capital, it is clear that additional information should expand the stock. Because an expanded stock of informational capital should reduce the need for additional investment, there should be an inverse relationship between years of education and the amount of information acquisition.
The returns to investment in information, however, are measured in terms of the expected value of the discounted stream of benefits. Because the measure is expectational, education should have an impact. Individuals with more education will be more aware of both alternatives and the potential benefits from additional search. To the extent that education expands the individual's time horizon, additional search can be expected. Take the example of purchasing an appliance. The person with a shorter time horizon would be less concerned about energy costs over the life of the product and would therefore search less.
Thus, no unambiguous prediction can be made about the impact of education on information acquisition. The accumulation of human capital would discourage search, but expanded expectations would promote additional investment. The outcome therefore depends upon the relative strength of the two factors.
Because age serves as a proxy for experience in the market, older consumers should be more experienced. It follows that they will have accumulated more information through those experiences. As a result, there should be an inverse relationship between age and information acquisition. This assumes a constant rate of depreciation of the capital stock. The depreciation rate may increase for the elderly as it becomes more likely that information is obsolete and that problems will develop with memory. Therefore the prediction is limited to the individual's working years.
It is clear from the discussion above that higher income raises opportunity costs and therefore increases the cost of investment in information. It follows that there should be an inverse relationship between income and information acquisition. However, it is likely that higher-income individuals (regardless of their education) have expanded expectations; as with education, this would tend to expand investment. Furthermore, higher-income consumers buy a wider range of more expensive goods; this too would increase the need for investment in education. Thus, no clear prediction can be made about directionality.
The preceding sections have outlined a human capital approach to consumer information. The basic premise is that in any purchase situation, the consumer carries some quantity of information obtained from personal experience and learning. That stock of informational capital becomes a dominant factor in the consumer's decision whether or not to seek additional information. New investment in information is warranted when the returns from that effort (measured by the discounted value of the flow of services it generates) is greater than the cost (measured by the goods and time inputs required). However, just as business may increase production without expanding its capital stock, the individual may expand consumption without obtaining additional information.
Although this is a macro view, it can be integrated easily with research efforts. The link to information processing has already been noted. Other research on specific situations can be included by accounting for the consumer's previous experience in a more systematic fashion. The result should be a more comprehensive view of consumers' information acquisition behavior.
In order to focus that view, more refinements are required. The relationships involved, which are laid out here in general fashion, need to be further specified. That effort is underway as part of the development of a formal model. The hypotheses set forth above should also be tested; those tests are also underway, with data based on consumers' time use. Together these efforts should provide added definition to a comprehensive view of consumer information.
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