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Pol's Only Bills are Ones Taxpayers Get (NYPost)
Erik Kriss reports: "Indicted state Assemblyman William Boyland Jr. didn't introduce a single bill last year while billing taxpayers for more per-diem travel expenses than most of his colleagues. Even with the three dead-end bills Boyland sponsored this year after vowing an aggressive agenda, his was the lowest legislative output in the 2011-12 session, according to a report released yesterday. The Brooklyn Democrat also missed 280 legislative votes this year, more than all but four of his Assembly colleagues — three of whom were running for Congress — and more than a quarter of all votes, the New York Public Interest Research Group report found."
State Agencies Increased by 63 (Times Union)
Rick Karlin reports: "The state Authorities Budget Office, which oversees these entities, reported a net increase of 63 agencies under its purview during the past year, including the addition of 61 local development corporations to the list that the ABO oversees. LDCs are not-for-profit groups created to promote economic growth and support projects that will create jobs. Those projects can range from sports centers to factories to retail establishments."
City Agency Admits Illegal Lobby Effort (WSJ)
Michael Howard Saul reports: " New York City's economic-development agency and two related organizations admitted in a settlement Monday that they illegally lobbied the City Council on behalf of projects at the heart of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's redevelopment agenda. The concessions came after a three-year probe by the state attorney general's office. Investigators found that the Economic Development Corp. worked behind the scenes with the groups—called local development corporations—to nudge lawmakers to support projects in Willets Point in Queens and Coney Island in Brooklyn."
Ex-Marine's Family Files Lawsuit in Fatal Police Shooting in White Plains (NYT)
Chris Palmer reports: "The suit said that several White Plains police officers used an 'unreasonable and unnecessary' amount of force when they entered the apartment of the former Marine, Kenneth Chamberlain Sr., while responding to a medical distress call, and that the police officer who shot Mr. Chamberlain did so 'without cause or justification.'"
Another Day, Another McCarren Park Pool Melee (Gothamist)
Joel Del Signore reports: "Pandemonium broke out yet again at the newly-reopened McCarren Park Pool, where a lifeguard was assaulted on Saturday. This afternoon's fracas happened around 5 p.m., and one witness, Evan Rose, tells us at least four people were arrested."
Bus-drag Vic Nails MTA for $3M (NYP)
Three Post reporters write: "A Queens woman who was badly injured after being dragged by a city bus is getting $3 million from the MTA — which abruptly settled her lawsuit after a man responded to a blizzard of fliers seeking witnesses to the 2009 incident. 'After three years, I couldn't believe it,' said Crystal Wright-Johnson, 32, about the 11th-hour appearance of witness Daniel Zorrilla, who supported her testimony about the terrifying incident in Far Rockaway."
As the Sun Bears Down, Christie Growls, and Bloomberg Barks a Little, Too (NYT)
Michael Grynbaum reports: "It's not just ice cream that's melting down out there The region's politicians, accustomed to running the world from climate-controlled capitols and S.U.V.'s, are being thrust into the sweltering streets by this record heat wave, handing out water, touring tree-strewn roads and assuring the sweaty public that cooler days and fully functioning power grids lie ahead. But beneath the blue blazers and oxford shirts, their tempers — along with the temperatures — are rising."
This US Summer Is 'What Global Warming Looks Like' (AP)
Seth Borenstein reports: "Horrendous wildfires. Oppressive heat waves. Devastating droughts. Flooding from giant deluges. And a powerful freak wind storm called a derecho. These are the kinds of extremes climate scientists have predicted will come with climate change, although it's far too early to say that is the cause. Nor will they say global warming is the reason 3,215 daily high temperature records were set in the month of June."
A New Freedom Trail (WSJ)
Jennifer Maloney reports: "After the state abolished slavery in 1827, New York City became both a sanctuary and a trap for slaves who had escaped from their owners. By day, freed men and women could live and work here. But by night, they could be snatched off the street by bounty hunters. The landmarks of this chapter of New York's history—the homes, churches, printing presses and businesses of the city's abolitionist leaders—are all but gone. But Jacob Morris is on a determined quest to mark them nonetheless, a one-man mission to develop New York's own Freedom Trail of slavery, the abolitionist movement and the Underground Railroad."
NYPD Shames Activists By Hanging "Wanted" Poster With Their Photos, Address (Gothamist)
Christopher Robbins reports: "Last month we witnessed the NYPD's stop-and-frisk training regimen, which included live-action scenarios featuring officers acting like bystanders videotaping police interactions. The detectives undergoing the exercise treated them with respect, but we must have missed the part where the police shame them with faux 'wanted' posters. DNAinfo reports that activists Christina Gonzalez and Matthew Swaye entered the monthly meeting at the 30th Precinct to find their photos and Harlem address plastered on the podium. 'I saw it immediately and was kind of blown away,' Swaye says. 'It was designed to show us as people who are not trustworthy or safe.'"
Why Can't NYC Count Votes? (NYT)
The Times editorial board writes: "Voters in New York State use a vote-scanning system that can tally votes swiftly and, in most cases, correctly. Not New York City. The city's Board of Elections uses a creaky system of counting by hand that is prone to embarrassing errors on election night."


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Along the way, you also learn how to read characters you've never seen before, and even how to guess at their pronunciation with just one look — native Chinese speakers actually do this all the time too with characters they don't recognize.
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Are Chinese Characters Actually Tough to Learn?
You've probably been trying your best to learn Chinese. Maybe it's for a college course or maybe you just found it interesting and thought you'd give it a try (like I did over a decade ago). Learning this language is a great idea, so good for you for starting! No doubt you've heard people remark how Chinese is going to be so important in the 21st century — China's century.
However, those same people might have forgotten to tell you that learning Chinese characters is not necessarily a walk in the park at first, and you might have only discovered this after you started.
You've probably seen by now that it can be a challenge to remember all the correct pen strokes — if you can make out the individual strokes at all! And how can you possibly know what any of them actually mean or how they're pronounced? After all, there's no alphabet to refer to.
Maybe you're not only trying to read, but also to write. Great challenge, but I'm sure it wasn't easy at first, right? Maybe it's still not. Don't worry though — it gets better from here.
The good news is that learning Chinese doesn't have to be ridiculously complicated and difficult. And it can even be fun to learn!
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You can become the language expert you want to be! Maybe even impress a few people while you're at it. I'll show you in no time how to read, write, and understand Chinese characters without pulling your hair out or giving up on the first try.
I'll show you how Chinese characters are actually very methodical in their makeup and how each character you need to learn does not in fact have a unique form from all the other thousands out there.
How Many Characters Do You Need to Actually Read Chinese?
Although 2500-3000 is the "recommended" amount, you might be surprised to know that you can actually get by with far less. In fact, if you know just 200 characters, you'll be able to recognize about 50% of the characters you come across.
If you increase that number to 1000, you'll already be at 90%, and that's a huge jump from 50% just a few seconds ago! Increase again to 2500 characters and that lands you all the way at 98%.
Consider that the average educated Chinese person knows 5000-8000 characters and I think you can start to see how knowing even just 1000 of them (or roughly 1/5 of what an educated Chinese person knows) already allows you to recognize most of the characters (90%) used in China on a daily basis.
When it comes down to it, you have the potential to learn a lot quickly, and while increasing the number of characters you can recognize will obviously help you understand more and more of what you see, all you need is just a couple hundred to get yourself started.
And with the better understanding you'll get from this book about how Chinese characters are formed, you'll learn how to start reading every character for yourself, even far beyond the initial 1200 presented here!
This guide "teaches a man to fish" — to actually provide you with a deep understanding of how and why Chinese characters are written like they are — rather than just throwing some random characters at you and making you memorize them blindly!
Never Learned Any Chinese Before Now? No Problem!
In order to help you see why Chinese characters are written like they are today, this guide also goes into depth about how they have changed over time — this will help show you how to better understand their current forms.
For example, as you can see displayed directly below, these four Chinese characters look quite different.
However, upon further inspection, you might come to realize that they're actually just different forms of the same character!
Look at the character on the left-hand side. You don't need a good imagination to guess that it's just a drawing of a sideways horse. And in actual fact, this is how the character for horse was written about 3500 years ago.
All characters used to quite clearly represent the objects that people saw in everyday life, kind of like the simple drawings that you or I might sketch on a piece of paper when bored.
However, these characters also changed over time, and horse is written today like the character on the far right-hand side (but you can still see the four legs at the bottom, and the long tail at the back!)
While no one is expecting you to also learn these ancient character forms, this guidebook does dedicate a section to clearly explaining many of these gradual shifts in character formations so that you'll be able to better understand the actual modern forms that you will need to learn.
You'll see that Chinese characters do indeed have a predetermined design and that you too can easily learn to understand them.
chinEASE is a delightful, absorbing, and interesting introduction to Chinese characters which especially appeals to me as a late learner of the language who is still attempting to absorb the fascinating cultural differences between Chinese and English. The book's approach to providing clear and simple explanations of how characters were developed and how they are constructed and used in everyday situations helps put everything into perspective and makes one feel that reading these figures isn't nearly as daunting as might be feared when first starting in this language. Jack Feka Retired Entrepreneur
Chinese Writing is Actually Straightforward
Although there are probably more than 50,000 existent characters out there that have been used throughout time, only a few thousand are regularly used today, and probably less if you're doing more simple tasks that only require certain types of characters.
This is good news for you, since the characters needed, for example, to read a menu, are often similar and easy to learn.
Remember how I said above that many characters share a small set of common parts? On a menu, these parts may indicate animals, so the characters for chicken, turkey, and pheasant would all have a part indicating "bird" within them. If you knew how to spot this "bird," you would know right away that the menu item you're looking at is a type of bird dish, probably without having ever learned these characters before.
The picture on the far left presents the character for eternal, or yǒng, and the picture on the right shows the order in which the strokes are written. If you want to write properly in Chinese, you'll need to learn this skill for every character in the language.
Sound like a big task? Well, it isn't actually. And this guidebook shows you why.
Chapter 7 specifically goes into great detail about how all Chinese characters are written from top to bottom and from left to right. The character on the left here is no exception. Just count the order and direction of the strokes and see for yourself.
Take a Peek Inside the Guidebook
In Chapter 1, you start by being eased into a basic understanding of some of the most widely-used characters and how they all look just like pictures that you might doodle on a piece of paper when bored or when killing time.
In Chapter 3, we start to break characters down and see exactly how they've transformed from "doodles" to the forms they now have today.
In Chapter 7, you'll learn why Chinese characters have specific spacing properties to them and why a block of Chinese text can actually be more straightforward than a block of English text.
This chapter will prove to be indispensable since you'll also learn how to properly write characters with their correct stroke orders (something many students really struggle with).
Chapter 9 details the different types of Chinese punctuation. You'll see several differences from English, but through the detailed usage of example after example, you'll quickly learn to use these punctuation markers with ease.
Chapter 10 is your true goldmine. I'm sure you know how varied a Chinese menu can actually be. Well, with this in-depth chapter, you'll come away understanding not only the most important characters for ordering your favorite dishes, but also how to understand those slightly more exotic foods not found here at home.
Duck feet? Beef tongue? Pork ear? Knowing how to recognize the characters for these foods is especially important if you're not interested in eating them. This way you'll know how to avoid them completely (but if you are adventurous enough to try them, now you'll know what to look for!).
Chapter 11 will definitely help you when it comes to conducting business. Understanding what is written on a client's business card is essential if you want to know how to address them and make a lasting impact in their memory.
With this chapter, you'll discover how to successfully locate a person's name on a Chinese business card, their position, and their address, as well as a whole host of the most common Chinese surnames and positions within a company.
Additionally, this guidebook also includes several detailed appendices that contain information about pinyin, or the method of writing Chinese characters with the English alphabet, as well as a chart that includes information on every possible sound combination in the Mandarin Chinese language (hint: the number is far less than in English!).
Moreover, the appendices also include information on how to set up your computer so as to type in Chinese, as well as exercise sheets with grids on which to practice your Chinese writing by hand.
Chinese characters are the most challenging aspect for foreign language learners. However, this guidebook utilizes an effective method and a fun way to master the characters, and has been applied by many Chinese learners to date. I strongly recommend it to anybody who wants to learn how to read and write Chinese effectively. Gerrie Ying Instructor of Chinese Language & Culture Studies
I have never seen another resource like this anywhere. I've studied Chinese for over 10 years and I wish I had something this thorough and accessible to get me started. This book is packed with tons of interesting and useful tidbits and is a fantastic value. Tom Hazelton Software Engineer
Full Guidebook Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Your First Twelve Chinese Characters
Chapter 2: The Origins of Chinese Characters
- Mythical Beginnings
- The Actual Formation of the First Characters
Chapter 3: Modern Characters
- How Basic Chinese Characters are Formed
- What About Even More Complicated Characters?
- Chinese Radicals
Chapter 4: The Six Character Structure Types
Chapter 5: The Five Major Chinese Scripts
Chapter 6: Character Simplification
- Traditional vs. Simplified Characters
- Second-Round Simplified Characters
Chapter 7: Character Spacing and Stroke Order
- Character Stroke Order
- Names of Individual Strokes
Chapter 8: Outside Influences and Influencers
- Using Chinese Characters to Translate Foreign Ideas
- Substituting in English Vocabulary
- Using Chinese Characters to Write Japanese and Korean
Chapter 9: Other Types of Markings
- Chinese Punctuation
- Chinese Numerals
Chapter 10: Learn to Decode a Chinese Menu
- Common Meats
- Intestines, Brains, and Tongues
- Fruits and Vegetables
- Other Common Foods and Spices
- Methods of Preparation
- Methods of Cooking
- Chinese Dishes: Characters in Context
- Drinks
Chapter 11: Learn to Understand a Chinese Business Card
- How Chinese Names are Formed
- Chinese Phone Numbers and Addresses
- Common Chinese Surnames
- Names of Positions within a Company
Chapter 12: Take the Long Road to Learning Chinese
Chapter 13: How to Get Good at Mandarin in 4 Steps
Appendix A: An Introduction to Pinyin
Appendix B: Chart of All Possible Sounds in Mandarin
Appendix C: How to Type in Chinese
Appendix D: Practice Grids to Improve your Chinese Handwriting
BONUS: 36 Extra Resources for Further Study
I always thought learning Chinese was an impossible task that just didn't make any sense. But after reading this guide, it made me realize that it's very possible for beginners to excel when learning Chinese characters, even if you have no prior knowledge. I've gone from knowing nothing to being able to read another language and THIS IS AWESOME! I would absolutely recommend this guide to anyone who wants to get a good handle on reading and writing in Chinese. Braden James Internet Marketer
Here's What Other People Said About chinEASE
Isaiah Smith, Student, USA I loved it! chinEASE offers a fresh and easily understandable approach to learning this intimidating language! This book comes highly recommended to anyone who has little experience with this writing system and who is looking for a firm foundation and a fun experience.
Khoa Bui, Author, Australia Just by reading the first few pages of chinEASE, I started learning the principles of understanding this great language. If you want to learn how to read Chinese, I highly recommend this book! A fantastic read for everyone!
Allan Ngo, Entrepreneur, the Philippines I found that chinEASE taught me techniques for finding clues as to what certain characters mean and how they're pronounced even if I just encounter them for the first time. It changed my mentality to characters from something that needed to be memorized to something that has a story waiting to be understood. This book definitely brings you to the right path – a path where characters are definitely chinEASE!
Jacob Schroeder, Student, Canada chinEASE has not only helped me pick up new characters more quickly, but has also made previously learned characters easier to remember. I've also been able to gain an understanding of both possible meaning and pronunciation without immediately needing a dictionary; breaking through this barrier makes Chinese feel more accessible and has sped up my ability to learn it.
A Few Words From The Author
My name is Aaron Posehn and I've compiled over 17 years of experience studying Mandarin Chinese to let you see first-hand how simple it actually can be to learn this notoriously tricky script.
Although Chinese characters may appear daunting at first, it's likely that you have yet to grasp their distinctive subtleties.
Find out why Chinese characters are actually very systematic in their formation, and by extension, why this means that they're absolutely 100% accessible to a language learner like you.
Questions about the guidebook?
If you have any questions about this guidebook, or about learning Chinese in general, feel free to contact Aaron at email@example.com.
Want to contact the author?
If you want to contact Aaron Posehn personally, please do so at the email address to the left, or through his LinkedIn profile.
Thanks for reading! I hope you enjoy learning from chinEASE and gaining a deeper understanding of how to read and write one of the most widely used languages on the planet today!
Happy learning!
Aaron Posehn
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Despite the fact that climate change brought on extreme heat, drought and storms this year, winter will be here before you know it. In fact, there's reason to believe that although we're likely to see less winter precipitation, what we do see will be more intense than years past.
According to an early 2012 study led by University of Arizona researchers, we could see an average 12.6 percent increase in the intensity of extreme winter precipitation events in the next 20 years and a 14.4 percent increase in the next 50 years. This means lots of cold, snow, ice and for some, skyrocketing utility bills. Add that to the threat of cold and flu that has a way of catching us at the worst time, and it's no wonder people dread the onset of winter.
Well, it's time to put a little jolly back into the cold weather season. A few simple changes, coupled with smart behavior made easy by some cool technology, and you'll find that Old Man Winter is more bark than bite. Here are five of our favorite ways to save money, energy and your health this winter. Think we missed a tip? Please share it in the comments below!
1. Lower the temperature in your home to increase savings up to 12 percent. It seems obvious, but if you're lounging around in shorts in the middle of January, you're wasting energy. Control your home's temperature, especially while away or asleep by adjusting your thermostat. If you've got a programmable thermostat, turn the temperature down 8 degrees for 7 hours each night and an additional 7 hours each weekday for seasonal heating savings of approximately 12 percent. For the average home, this could result in savings of about $180.
2. Look for the Design for the Environment label on more than 2,800 products during winter cleaning. Thanks to toxins in many cleaning products, indoor air can often be more polluted than outdoor air. Add in the fact that we almost never open the windows to let fresh air in during the winter, and it gets even worse. The EPA's Designed for the Environment (DfE) logo differentiates products that use only the safest ingredients to protect people, our pets and the environment. In 2011, Americans using DfE products cut the use of harmful chemicals by more than 756 million pounds.
3. Keep a tight ship by sealing up drafts, cracks and unnecessary vents. Any opening into your house is a potential path for warm air to leave your home and cold air to get in. Maintain a comfortable temperature without cranking the heat by sealing up your doors, windows, vents and outlets. Use temporary silicone caulking around the inside and outside of door and window frames, and if you can, seal off windows entirely with a plastic window seal kit (this will also trap heat from sunlight inside during the day). Make your own draft snakes out of rolled up small blankets/towels or by filling up pantyhose with rice. Place them at the bottom of any outside facing doors.
4. Test your home for radon gas. One in 15 homes may have elevated levels. Radon, a colorless odorless gas, is the leading cause of lung cancer among non-smokers and levels can increase during colder months. Purchase an affordable Do-It-Yourself test kit online or at a local hardware store to determine the level in your home. Addressing high levels often costs the same as other minor home repairs.
5. Get creative about recycling heat. Warming up your living areas doesn't always mean you have to adjust the thermostat. Baking or cooking on the stove instead of microwaves and crock pots adds plenty of heat and often moisture into the air. Better yet open the oven after cooking your meals and let the heat escape. Open your dishwasher immediately after running to let hot air/steam out. Flip the seasonal reverse switch on ceiling fans to blow warm air downward, ensuring it stay where both you and your thermostat can feel it. This should keep your heater from switching on as often.
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Why Warming Up The Car Is The Worst Thing You Can Do This Winter
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Think about moving around - dancing or calesthenics or chores to warm you up after a quiet time reading. using the computer, or napping.
Thanks for the article~~very interesting.
There are loads of gorgeous jumpers in the shops this year, and wearing vests - there are loads of very pretty ones around - and/or tee-shirts underneath can help keep us warm. Leaving bath water in and the bathroom door open means the heat from the water can be felt for longer. Moving around a bit more can also generate heat. Starting the day with porridge, and having thick soups and stews/casseroles keeps the heat in, too.
Wearing outdoor clothing indoors in the winter plus enjoying hot drinks can be nearly enough to get away with keeping the heat thermostat set at forty degrees Fahrenheit to protect the plumbing.
Wonderful ideas, thanks!
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Sometimes I wonder if analog programs are dropped in public schools due to uninformed notions about photography, and what photographic (or art, for that matter) education is, or must be. I think often it is a budgetary choice ("we can't do both"), when, in fact the basics (and actually more of the actual basics) can be learned with film equipment, which doesn't need to be upgraded for technological reasons. Local museums and independent art education institutions still teach wet process, along with digital if they can afford the digital hardware.
My guess is that the hardware investment is also seen as able to serve non artistic disciplines also, should the budget necessitate the closing of art programs, as in the familiar lamented music program being dropped.
I also think, as the photographic world in general, moves to digital processes, knowledge and awareness of the analog ones diminishes. Note Brooks Jensen's editorial in the current issue of Lenswork.
And I notice, in observing work submitted for gallery competitions, a lot of the winning (or accepted) images are, in my opinion (whether I entered / was accepted or not) not what I would consider well "seen" and many are more interesting for their manipulated qualities. And some are outright derivative. Digital application is "in", whether we like it or not.


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Although it is presented from a magic and scam perspective, the studies he brings up are very telling, and representative of the difficulties we face in turning people away from blind obedience to "authority."
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The easily offended might do best to avoid Jim Jefferies' raunchy, rude humour (or at least imbibe the two-drink minimum beforehand), but the Australian-born comedian provides plenty of laughs for everyone else in this HBO special. In I SWEAR TO GOD, Jefferies continues his patented brand of comedy that once got him punched by an audience member, discussing the idiocy of no-smoking signs, sluts vs. studs, and his father's Holocaust jokes. Also included in this release is his deleted, outrageous classic set CONTRABAND.
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Caustic, Charming, Perceptive, Controversial… call him what you will, but stand-up phenom Jim Jefferies is acknowledged as the fastest rising, most hilarious cutting-edge comic ever to claw his way to the pinnacle of the comedy world. Hailed by critics and loved by his legions of fans, Jefferies glorious roasting of society's most sacred cows has made him a headlining sensation throughout the world.
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More than 7,000 psychiatrists, neurologists, psychologists and neuroscience researchers from all over the world met at the 23rd Congress of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) from 28 August to 1 September 2010 in Amsterdam.
The ECNP Congress is the largest scientific meeting on mental health in Europe, and this year included 46 sessions presented by more than 150 distinguished speakers from 20 countries. In addition, three poster sessions with in total more than 750 poster presentations from scientists from all over the world offered an exciting insight into the research activities of (young) scientists.
As well as providing a platform for the discussion of the latest discoveries, insights and perspectives, the congress covered a wide variety of issues of critical public health concern, such as depression, schizophrenia, addiction, chronopsychiatry, and neurodegenerative disorders, including multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease. The programme specifically emphasised the translation of new knowledge on fundamental disease mechanisms into clinical practice and clear take-home messages, paving the way for improved pharmacological and non-drug treatments for the prevention and treatment of all mental disorders and disorders of the brain in general.
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A group of British women—some nearing 90—breaks all of the rules of old age in the hot new documentary Fabulous Fashionistas.
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This did not move thee, but a foreign bed would lead in its result to an old age without honor.
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April Linton chairs the session "The Children of Immigrants in Comparative Perspective" at the Population Association of America (PAA) meetings in Washington, DC, March 31 – April 2, 2011.
CCIS at the Midwest Political Science Association meeting
CCIS Director John Skrentny will be presenting "Obama and Immigration Reform: A Tough Sell for a Grand Bargain" at the meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association in Chicago, March 31-April 3, 2011. CCIS Research Claire Adida will be presenting "Gender and Generosity: Problems in Islamic Integration into France" at the same meeting.
Claire Adida "Gender and Generosity: Problems in Islamic Integration into France"
CCIS Research Claire Adida presents at the "Gender and Generosity: Problems in Islamic Integration into France" at the Princeton University Conference on Comparative Approaches to Immigration and Ethnic Diversity, March 18 and 19, 2011 in Princeton, NJ.
Randall Hansen – States, Migration, and International Cooperation: Can there be a global migration regime?
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States, Migration, and International Cooperation: Can there be a global migration regime?
Seminar to be held in ERC 115 at 2:00 pm.
Within the migration literature and policy circles, there is a enthusiasm for the international governance of migration. At their most ambitious, scholars hope to see the emergence of a global migration governance regime that would do for voluntary migration what the UNHCR has done for forced migration. Drawing on a three-year research project, Hanson's paper critically examines global migration governance and explores the extent to which there can be any international cooperation of migration.
The paper begins with the assumption that cooperation in the area of migration is not natural; indeed, it is exceptionally difficult. States are rational, not altruistic (that is, they are motivated by that which benefits them and their electorates), and they are jealous guardians of power. It then makes three arguments. First, migration is not, as some argue, a public good (a good whose benefits are non-excludable), and therefore not an area in which there is a natural incentive to cooperate. Second, where cooperation occurs it is likely to be bilateral if it is formal, regional if it is informal, and rarely if ever global. The greatest scope for international cooperation is, therefore, to be found in informal, regional cooperation over migration Third, in terms of institutionalization, more is less: international cooperation will achieve more in substantive policy terms when it is informal, non-binding, and relatively closed to public scrutiny.
Randall Hansen is a Full Professor and Canada Research Chair in Immigration & Governance in the department of political science at the University of Toronto. His work covers immigration and citizenship and political history. He is author of Citizenship and Immigration in Post-War Britain (OUP, 2000), Towards a European Nationality (w. P. Weil, Palgrave, 2001), Dual Nationality, Social Rights, and Federal Citizenship in the U.S. and Europe (w. P. Weil, Berghahn, 2002), Immigration and asylum from 1900 to the present [w. M. Gibney, ABC-CLIO, 2005]. His website is www.randallhansen.ca
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February 26 – Second Annual UC Migration Conference hosted by the Gifford Center
The Gifford Center and UCSD's Center for Comparative Immigration Studies (CCIS) will host the Second Annual University of California Migration Conference on February 26, 2011 at UC Davis. This multi-disciplinary conference will provide an opportunity for University of California faculty and advanced graduate students to share their current migration-related research. Click here for information about last year's conference, held at UCSD. If you are a UC faculty member or advanced graduate student and are interested in attending, please contact Prof. David J. Kyle at email@example.com
Jennifer Hochschild — Genomic Science, Ancestry, and Racial Construction: New Complexity in the American Racial Order
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Genomic Science, Ancestry, and Racial Construction: New Complexity in the American Racial Order
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Jennifer L. Hochschild is Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government at Harvard University, with a joint appointment in the Department of African and African American Studies and a lectureship in the Harvard Kennedy School. She taught at Princeton University before moving to Harvard in 2000. Hochschild recently co-edited (with John Mollenkopf) Bringing Outsiders In: Transatlantic Perspectives on Immigrant Political Incorporation (Cornell University Press, 2009), and recently co-authored (with Brenna Powell), "Racial Reorganization and the United States Census 1850-1930: Mulattoes, Half-Breeds, Mixed Parentage, Hindoos, and the Mexican Race" (Studies in American Political Development 2008). Current book projects include Transforming the American Racial Order: Immigration, Multiracialism, DNA, and Cohort Change (co-authored) and Facts in Politics: What Do Citizens Know and What Difference Does It Make? Hochschild was founding editor of Perspectives on Politics, vice-chair of the Board of Trustees of Russell Sage Foundation, and program co-chair for the annual convention of the American Political Science Association. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Patrick Simon — Beyond assimilation: The Second Generation in France
Beyond assimilation: The Second Generation in France
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Seminar to be held in ERC 115 at 2:00 pm.
After being one of the most renowned "assimilationnist's country" in the world, France has recently been engaged in quick changes in its framing of incorporation of "immigrants". Indeed, not only the concepts and theories used to portray the processes behind the "remaking of the French mainstream" have dramatically changed but the categories of those targeted by these processes have also been renewed. Access of "new second generations" (i.e. those born from the waves of immigration of the 1950s and 1960s) to the job market and their visibility in social, political and cultural life have challenged the "French model of integration".
This presentation will confront the normative model of integration, the so-called republican model, to the prospects of the second generation. I will argue that the salience of race and ethnicity for minority members in contemporary France is challenging the expectations of a convergence in norms, values and practices at the second generation. A specific attention will be given to the role played by religion (Islam) and political participation. Data come from a new survey Trajectories and Origins: a survey on population diversity in France, which is the largest survey ever done in France on immigrants and second generation. Promoted by INED and the French National Statistical Institute (INSEE), the survey gathered information via a long questionnaire administered in face-to-face interviews to 22 000 respondents from 5 specific sub-samples: Immigrants (8300), descendents of Immigrants (8200), Overseas French (700), descendents of Overseas French (700) and "mainstream population" (3900). The questionnaire covers wide-ranging areas of social experience (education, employment, housing, family formation, language, religion, transnational ties, political participation and citizenship…) and focuses on experiences of discrimination and identity. Findings on religion, political participation, employment, neighborhoods and discrimination will be presented to support the thesis of an ongoing process of racialization of the French society and the rise of ethnic and racial minorities.
Patrick Simon is Director of research at INED (Institut National d'Etudes Demographiques –National demographic institute) (F) and is fellow researcher at the Center of European Studies (CEE) at Sciences Po. He is currently Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation in NYC and Fullbright Fellow. Train as socio-demographer at EHESS (Doctoral degree circa 1994), he has studied social and ethnic segregation in French cities, antidiscrimination policies and the integration of ethnic minorities in European countries. He has participated to several European projects, such as URBEX (The spatial dimensions of Urban Social Exclusion and Integration) and EMILIE (A European Approach to Multicultural Citizenship. Legal Political and Educational Challenges). He is coordinating the RTN TIES funded by Marie Curie funds. He is chairing the scientific panel "Integration of immigrants" at the IUSSP (International Union for the Scientific Studies of Population) and has been appointed as a member of the Scientific Board of the Fundamental Rights Agency of the European Commission in Vienna.
Patrick Weil — Comparative Citizenship Laws: Recent Transformations
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Seminar to be held in ERC 115 at 2:00 pm.
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Patrick Weil is a Visiting Professor of Law and Robina Foundation International Fellow at Yale Law School and a senior research fellow at the French National Research Center in the University of Paris, Pantheon-Sorbonne. Professor Weil's work focuses on comparative immigration, citizenship, and Church States law and policy. His most recent publications are How to be French? A Nationality in the Making since 1789, from Duke University Press, "Why the French Laïcité is Liberal, Cardozo Law Review, June 2009, Vol. 30, Number 6, 2699-2714 and (with Son-Thierry Ly), "The Anti-racist Origins of the American Immigration Quota System." Social Research, Volume 77, Number 1 (Spring 2010) pp.45-79.
Dr. Weil has worked extensively with the French government including participation in a 2003 French Presidential Commission on secularism, established by Jacques Chirac, and preparation of a report on immigration and nationality policy reform for Prime Minister Lionel Jospin in 1997 which led to the implementation of new immigration laws adopted the following year. Dr. Weil also holds an appointment as Professor at the Paris School of Economics.
Assessing the "Secure Communities" Program and the Impact of 287(g) Agreements
Co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida
November 18 2010, 8:45 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
The conference will include two roundtables, the first offering a macro analysis of immigration-related enforcement policies at the national level, the second focused on the experiences of communities throughout the country, where 287 (g) agreements and the Secure Communities program have been implemented. Speakers will include: Maria Hinojosa, senior correspondent, NOW on PBS; David Venturella, executive director, Secure Communities, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; Don Kerwin, Vice President for Programs, Migration Policy Institute; Jen Smyers, Associate for Immigration and Refugee Policy, Church World Service; Daniel Hernández Joseph, Director General, Protection of Mexicans Abroad, Foreign Relations Ministry (Mexico); Michele Waslin, Senior Policy Analyst, Immigration Policy Center; Chris Newman, National Day Labor Organizing Network; Marty Rosenbluth, North Carolina Immigrant Rights Project; Adelina Nichols, Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights; Leni González, Virginia Latino Advisory Board; and, Brian Stout, Federal Government Liaison, Arlington County (Virginia).
12:00-12:30 p.m.: Presentation on local-level immigration enforcement in Nashville, TN by Amada Armenta, doctoral candidate, Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, and a Pre-doctoral Fellow at the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California, San Diego.
A live Webcast will be available at the link below:
Stephen Lee — Unauthorized Migrant, Information Policy, and Workplace Enforcement.
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Professor Stephen Lee researches at the intersection of administrative law and immigration law and has been published in the Stanford Law Review and California Law Review. Prior to joining UCI School of Law, Professor Lee was a fellow at Stanford Law School, clerked for Judge Schroeder on the Ninth Circuit, and practiced at Skadden, Arps. Taking an expansive view of noncitizen rights, his current research examines the regulation of unauthorized migrants in the workplace. Professor Lee graduated from Berkeley Law in 2005.


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Joe had his first gig in the Grassmarket in Edinburgh in 1995 and has been a professional comic for the last three years. He has gigged all over Britain and is a regular at the Stands 'Best of Scottish' shows, which sell out every Fringe.


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France registered jobseekers pass 3 million mark: minister
Sun Sep 2, 2012 6:12PM
Meanwhile, due to the ongoing financial crisis in France, many other people working for small and medium enterprises were also dismissed more than ever.The rise in unemployment rate comes as socialist President Francois Hollande had vowed to create 80,000 subsidized jobs and hire 60,000 people in the education sector as well as to create a so-called "generation contract" to encourage companies to hire young workers. A recent opinion poll revealed that nearly 70 percent of people in France were pessimistic about the future of their country, amid the rising financial crisis in European nations. SAB/JR


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Like many countries, the U.S. provides a means of entry for wealthy people who will pump money into its economy. (See the Immigration and Nationality Act, at I.N.A. § 203(b)(5),8 U.S.C. § 1153(b)(5).) This is known as the employment Fifth Preference or EB-5 immigrant visa (which allows permanent residence immediately upon entry to the U.S.). However, applicants for a U.S. green card based on investment must not only invest between $500,000 and $1million in a U.S. business, they must take an active role in that business (though they don't need to control it).
Green cards for investors are limited in number, to 10,000 per year. Of these, 3,000 are reserved for investors in rural areas or areas of high unemployment. If more than 10,000 people were to apply per year, you would be placed on a waiting list based on your Priority Date (the day you filed the first portion of your application).
But don't worry yet: This 10,000 limit has never been reached. What's more, only principal applicants are counted toward the 10,000 limit. Accompanying relatives are not. Therefore, many more than 10,000 people per year can be admitted with EB-5 green cards.
Get a lawyer for this visa! If you can afford an investment-based green card, you can afford the services of a high-quality immigration lawyer. The EB-5 category is one of the most difficult categories under which to establish eligibility, and absolutely the most expensive. It is well worth paying for legal advice before taking any significant steps toward applying for this visa. If you try the application once on your own and fail, you may damage your chances of success in the future. What's more, because you are expected to make the investment first, and apply for the green card later, you could waste a lot of money.
Pluses and Minuses of an EB-5 Green Card
Here are some of the advantages and limitations to an investment-based green card:
- USCIS rejects many more applications than it accepts in this category. That is partly because the eligibility requirements are narrow, and partly because of the category's history of fraud and misuse. Some lawyers counsel their clients to use their wealth to fit themselves into another category with a greater chance of success. For example, by investing in a company outside the United States that has a U.S. affiliate, the person might qualify to immigrate as a transferring executive or manager (priority worker, in category EB-1).
- As long as you have money to invest and can demonstrate that you are in the process of investing it in a for-profit business, you yourself do not need to have any particular business training or experience. Nor does the law restrict entry to applicants from certain countries, although the immigration authorities are more suspicious when dealing with applicants from countries that have exhibited a pattern of fraudulent applications.
- You can choose to invest your money in a business anywhere in the U.S., so long as you maintain your investment for at least three years and are actively engaged with the company you invest in.
- After approximately the first three years, you can work for another company or not work at all.
- You must actually live in the United States -- you may not use the green card only for work and travel purposes.
- Your spouse and unmarried children under the age of 21 can get green cards as accompanying relatives.
- Your green card will initially be only conditional -- that is, it will expire in two years, after which you will need to apply to renew it and make it permanent.
- As with all green cards, yours can be taken away if you misuse it. For example, you live outside the U.S. for too long, commit a crime, or even fail to advise the immigration authorities of your change of address, you may become deportable. However, if you keep your green card for five years and live in the U.S. continuously during that time (counting your two years as a conditional resident), you can apply for U.S. citizenship.
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Green cards through investment are available to someone who invests a minimum of $1 million in creating a new U.S. business or restructuring or expanding one that already exists.
Where you got the money in the first place does not matter. Gifts and inheritances, for example, are fine. The key is that you obtained the money lawfully.
The required dollar amount of the investment may be reduced to $500,000 under certain circumstances, described in, "When $500,000 Is Enough to Get an Investment-Based Green Card (EB-5)."
USCIS also has the authority to require a greater amount of investment than $1million. This may occur when the investor chooses to locate the business in an area that's doing well economically, with low unemployment. At present, USCIS policy is to not raise dollar investment requirements on this basis.
The business in which you invest must employ at least ten full-time workers (not counting independent contractors), produce a service or product, and benefit the U.S. economy. Full-time employment is defined as requiring at least 35 hours of service per week.
The investor, his or her spouse, and any children may not be counted among the ten employees. Other family members may be counted, however. The ten workers do not necessarily have to be U.S. citizens, but they must have more than a temporary (nonimmigrant) U.S. visa. Green card holders and any other foreign nationals who have the legal right to indefinitely live and work in the U.S. can all be counted toward the required ten.
It's also important to realize that you won't be able to send the money, sit back, and await your green card. The investor must be actively engaged in the company, either in a managerial or a policy-forming role. (See the Code of Federal Regulations at 8 C.F.R. § 204.6(j)(5).) Passive investments, such as land speculation, do not ordinarily qualify you for a green card in this category—except under a temporary program described in "When $500,000 Is Enough to Get an Investment-Based Green Card (EB-5)".
The investment must be made in a new commercial enterprise. You can either create an original business, buy a business that was established after November 29, 1990, or buy a business and restructure or reorganize it so that a new business entity is formed.
There are two exceptions to the rule that the investment must be in a "new" commercial enterprise. The first exception is that you can buy an existing business and expand it. You would need to increase either the number of employees or the net worth of the business by at least 40%. You would also need to make the full required investment ($1 million or $500,000 depending on location) and you would still need to show that your investment created at least ten full-time jobs for U.S. workers.
The second exception to the "new" commercial enterprise rule is that you can buy a troubled business and save it from going under. To do this, you would need to show that the business has been around for at least two years and has had an annual loss of 20% of the company's net worth at some point over the 24 months leading up to the purchase. You must still invest the full required amount, but you are not required to show that you created ten jobs. Instead, you would need to show that for two years from the date of purchase, you employed at least as many people as were employed at the time of the investment.


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Kanye West hit out at Justin Timberlake's comeback song "Suit & Tie", the Grammys and commercial sponsorship in an 11 minute on-stage rant this weekend.
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Those who went to the most therapy sessions had a further reduction in risk, the researchers note. "The higher the attendance rates, the lower the risk," Gulliksson said.
"The psychological treatment had a clear impact beyond the already known beneficial effects of conventional treatments to prevent recurrent events," Gulliksson said. "The effects were similar for men and women," he added.
Exactly how the stress management strategies protect the heart is a question for future research, he noted.
It's possible that the better outcomes relate to long-term participation (six to 12 months at least) in a group designed to alter behavior, the authors say. Perhaps by decreasing emotional and behavioral reactivity, people can alleviate some of the burden placed on the cardiovascular system, they add.
"The positive results suggest that cognitive behavioral therapy intervention based on stress management should be added to secondary prevention programs and offered to all coronary heart disease patients," Gulliksson said. The therapy is also inexpensive and without side effects, he added.
But at least one expert remained unconvinced that the health benefits noted in the study were related to the CBT therapy.
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What isn't clear from the study is whether the therapy patients kept to their medication regimen more consistently than the non-therapy patients, he said. For example, the study authors don't show whether blood pressure and cholesterol were better controlled in the therapy group than in the non-therapy group, Myerburg said.
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I think they might be compensating for something... if you know what I mean.
they could get away with a 3 story tower out there, the airport is in the middle of a bunch of super flat farm land with fields surrounding it
They got to keep up with McKinney.lol
why, pray tell, does it need to be eight stories tall?
Wow...all great reasons to spend millions more dollars what with the tax deficit and all...
My son lives CLOSE to the airport. He and most of the nearby residents do not want an unsightly 8 story tower looming up in their everyday lives. Also, as a resident of Mesquite, I don't understand why we need such a big tower. Maybe when it's finished we'll have TSA workers at the driveway entrance to the airport.
I flew out of Mesquite for years and I know the answer to the question about why they need an 8-story tower: To get away from all the mosquitoes! The nearby lake's outflow from the dam creates massive pools of water and the mosquito population is incredible! They're big enough to carry away small pets and children!
Another reason why this country is so far in debt...