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If Obama wants to help Arizona, he should look to Mexico
President Obama: Welcome to Arizona. Now look south.
We mean Mexico. And we don't mean problems.
The theme of Obama's speech today is housing, and this is a perfect place to deliver it. The housing collapse is one of two big national issues that whacked our state harder than most.
The other is illegal immigration.
Obama will likely link the two, which could give a welcome boost to proposals for comprehensive immigration reform. A White House report says legalizing the current undocumented population would increase demand and help the housing market.
Comprehensive immigration reform is so important that the president should not miss this opportunity to give it a plug.
But there's another opportunity that shouldn't be missed.
The president should use this visit to Arizona to talk about revving up an economic engine that's been quietly purring along for years: trade with Mexico.
This, too, has a direct connection with the housing market. Trade creates good jobs, and people with good jobs buy houses.
Mexico is the United States' second largest export market and third biggest trading partner.
According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, trade between the United States and Mexico was up 7 percent last year over 2011. The total for goods was $494 billion in 2012, with another $39 billion in services.
Mexico is Arizona's top trading partner. But Arizona is not unique. Mexico is the first or second most important export market for 21 U.S. states, according to a report issued this spring by the Border Research Partnership.
Mexico's economy is growing at a healthy rate and its young population has a taste for American goods. Mexican shoppers spent $2.69 billion in Arizona in a one-year period stradling 2007-08, according to a study by the University of Arizona.
What's more, as wages in China rise, Mexico is becoming more attractive to manufacturing. When goods are made in Mexico, they contain an average of 40 percent U.S. materials, according to the Border Research Partnership. That means Mexican imports are good for U.S. manufacturing, too.
U.S. exports to Mexico also tend to have a high content of Mexican materials. This means U.S. exports to Mexico create jobs south of the border and decrease the need to cross the border illegally to seek work in the United States.
In 2011, Obama made doubling exports worldwide a five-year goal. So you'd think he'd be crowing about the potential and the possibilities south of the border.
Yet an Associated Press story last week pointed out that Obama's ambitious trade goal "has vanished from White House talking points."
Problems with the European and Asian economies were cited. Yet exports to Mexico were up 59 percent from 2007 to 2012.
We need some cheering.
We need a cheerleader-in-chief to help redefine how Americans view the relationship with Mexico.
Obama is in the right place today to talk about one of the best kept secrets: trade with Mexico is a successful foundation on which to build increasing economic benefits for Arizona and the United States.
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My personal experience was great, and I don't think it was just because I was a magazine guy, because at the time I was freelance and we didn't even have a guarentee that the article would run. He was very occomidating to me and my son, and allowed us free access to his shop and crew as long as we didn't get in the way. Since the first time I met him we have met many other times and he has always been very nice to me and my family.
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In spatial markets firms typically use either FOB (mill) or uniform delivered (UD) pricing. What competitive factors motivate this choice and what are the welfare implications of the choice? We study these questions in a duopsony market, where farmers with unit elastic supply curves sell to processing firms. In results that differ considerably from prior work, we show that the equilibrium price policy depends upon the extent of competition in the market, with FOB pricing emerging under very competitive structures and UD pricing emerging under less competition. Mixed FOB-UD pricing may also emerge in equilibrium. In most cases welfare is higher under UD than FOB pricing. Copyright 2001 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd
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Overall a nice kit for the price. I replaced the beater heads and moved the Tama heads to the bottom/resonate. This made a huge difference for a minimal investment. The stock resonate heads are unbranded peices of plastic. The brass cymbals are throw away, but can be replaced one at a time with good quality bronze.
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Dr. Johnson and ACG Institute Director Edgar Achkar, M.D., FACG announced P&G's gift at the College's 72nd Annual Scientific Meeting in Philadelphia. "Procter & Gamble shares many of ACG's interests," said Dr. Achkar. "This gift from one of our specialty's leading providers of consumer health products and pharmaceutical therapies for some of the most common digestive disorders is important to the success of our efforts. We recognize the generosity and commitment of Procter & Gamble."
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The redoubtable Adam Machanic left a comment on The Technique That Lance Found which points out that special XML characters in a string will get entitized.
As usual, Adam is correct. If we make a subtle change to the contents of the Parent table in the original script:
INSERT Parent VALUES (1, '<Parent 1 String>')
INSERT Parent VALUES (2, '<Parent 2 String>')
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As an aside, another potential flaw in this code would be the inclusion of the low-order ASCII characters (below ASCII 32, with three exceptions) in the input string for the XML. These would spawn objections from the SQL Server XML parser in the form of a runtime error. Back when the blog was relatively new, here I blogged a method for stripping these characters from inbound character and text data.
Adam also gave us Tony Rogerson's fix, which I attempted to apply to Lance's artifact. I have thus far fallen short of success, but I'll keep plugging. In the meantime I can offer the slightly cold comfort of nested REPLACEs, shown here for the two characters I've introduced above (if this is the best we can do, we'd have to expand the nested REPLACEs to cover all of the entitizable characters in XML).
Here's the current state of affairs:
-- PERFORM THE REVISED TRICK -- PIVOT Parent VALUES INTO 1 COLUMN FOR 1 BASE ROW -- AND REPLACE TWO OF THE CHARACTERS ENTITIZED BY XML SELECT REPLACE(REPLACE(STUFF(( SELECT [text()]= ',' + ISNULL(Parent.ParentString, '') + '' FROM Child JOIN Parent ON Child.ParentID = Parent.ParentID WHERE Child.ChildId = 2 -- MUST SPECIFY 1 BASE ROW. COULD BE A CORRELATED SUBQUERYORDER BY Child.ParentID FOR XML PATH('')), 1,1, ''), N'<', N'<'), N'>', N'>')
.. and, not to beat a dead horse, but here's the result:
More to come, in the form of either new code or capitulation.
Thanks to Adam Machanic for insisting, as he always does, on the highest standards of clarity and quality.
and don't forget the ampersand (&) character :)
Just another nested REPLACE, Mladen.. we were just proving concept here. :-) If I can get Tony Rogerson's syntax working with this construction, we hopefully won't have to instantiate every entitizable character.
Stay tuned.. :-)
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Should a man be able to treat his female employees differently based on how sexy he thinks they are? Is it okay for him to give promotions and raises to a subordinate he is sleeping with instead of other, more deserving women? How about firing a woman because he finds her "irresistible?"
Federal courts think that all of this is just fine. The law has no problem with employment being a beauty contest for women.
The latest example comes from Iowa City, where a dentist fired a long-term employee because he found her attractive. He was afraid he would start an affair with her and did not want to threaten his marriage, so she paid for his inability to control himself by losing her livelihood.
Ironically, there was no chance of an affair: the employee viewed the dentist as "a father figure," the AP reports. She had no sexual interest in him. The entire thing was in his mind.
This is a crystal clear example of degrading and objectifying women: in the workplace, where people should be judged by merit, they are instead judged by how attractive they are to men. There might as well be wet t-shirt contests to allocate bonuses.
The logic judges apply to these cases is easy to follow. Take the case of the dentist: he had hired the woman and employed her for years, all his other employees were women, and after he fired Ms. Irresistible, he replaced her with another woman. So how could he be discriminating against women or based on gender? He was discriminating solely based on perceived hotness, and that is not illegal.
The same is true of the man who awards a promotion to the woman he is sleeping with. He may have overlooked other women and men who were better qualified, but it wasn't because of their gender; it was because of his relationship with the worker he promoted.
Laws against sex discrimination aren't the only ones that protect working women. There are also the more specific rules that prohibit sexual harassment. But they aren't any help here.
Again, the judges apply those laws to these kinds of cases and find no legal violation. In the dentist's case, the fired employee didn't even bring a sexual harassment claim because the few "colorful" or potentially objectionable things the boss said to her didn't happen to offend her. One example: he told her that if his pants were bulging, her clothing was too revealing. Classy.
Sexual harassment also doesn't quite apply to the situation of a boss who is sleeping with a female subordinate and favors her over her colleagues. As long as the sexual relationship is consensual, is not tied to the subordinate's employment (e.g., "sleep with me and I'll promote you"), and the man is not sexually inappropriate with or around his other female subordinates, then legally there is no sexual harassment.
Still, it feels wrong. Something is off. Being fired for being too pretty is exactly the kind of objectification that feminism abhors. If the laws don't cover this situation, maybe it is because the laws need some adjusting and not because the situation is acceptable.
Devising an alternative law is tricky. We don't want to forbid employers from making personnel decisions based on appearance, because it is more reasonable for a boss to fire a salesperson of whatever gender who insists on dressing like a slob, or to ask a receptionist who dresses like she is at the beach to wear more professional-looking outfits. It isn't focusing on appearance that rubs the wrong way, but focusing on sexual desirability.
Perhaps the solution is as simple as prohibiting bosses from making employment decisions based on their opinion of a worker's sexiness. This would put the onus for the dentist's lust on him, instead of punishing his innocent employee for it.
There is no good business argument against this rule. Legally, while it will be difficult to prove what was in someone's mind when they made a promotion or firing decision, that is true in all discrimination cases and is not reason enough to make discrimination legal.
In addition to protecting the beautiful, adopting this rule might help give the more plain among us a leg up – no more discriminating against them in order to hire a bombshell.
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in NC your boss can fire you for ANY reason... hire/fire at will State. I can be fired because I look funny, or because they discover I like spinach and they find that unacceptable.
Interesting thank You
It's disturbing to me that looks are so important to the value of a woman and her role in the workplace. I look forward to the day when a woman's value is based off her personality and her character as opposed to her looks.
No one will like reading this...but....I have had problems consistently in the workplace because of my looks. The last full time job was a state position, and a very well heeled (and yes, very attractive) male would hang over me when I was at the reception desk. He stared and stared and dropped sexual innuendos (okay...the "juice" was fine by me but I never encouraged him). In fact, I tried to defuse the situation.
I left my first job at age 23 (in a hospital) because of a doctor pursuing me relentlessly.
By far the worst are other women...catty and back stabbing. Psychopathic and stalking behavior...set-ups...dropping hateful remarks and deliberately ignoring me or telling the woman who sat next to me how beautiful she was...obviously meant to undermine me.
I will take a lusting male any day over a catty female. These women are relentless.
The dentist sounds like he needs mental help.
Mark said, "We are the descendants of the best fighters and rapists of a past era." Umm, no. That's one contributing group to our genetic makeup. Other groups would be merchants, blacksmiths, scholars, farmers, and herders. People who used their charm, brains, or brawn to secure economic advantage for their families. Nice myth / origin story you're trying to spin there, but it doesn't explain anything about the situation. The guy didn't want to behave professionally and that's his fault, no one else's. Firing her was a solution and it happened to be legal.
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Short term outreach can be very good, but 80% of the time it is very bad. And so as a hallmark of his churches missional expression, I have to protest.
It's easy to write a book and say "the problem with the church is sin." But then you're completely overshadowing your own woundedness and deficiency.
One thing he does point out and is at the same time guilty of is doing church in the culture of professionalism, and the Babbit-styled production line is really what most churches tout themselves as, and all they do is play into the military industrial complex.
The best chapter deals with the gospel being for the lost and the lost's american inoculation to the gospel of the common church. True. I wonder what the missional walk looks like in a mega church in the deep south. It doesn't look like this book where I am from.
This is a fantastic book on the theory, and as most missiologists are guilty of, it does a superb job of identifying cultural markers, and then blows by them in pursuit of a monochromatic gospel. The real test of a radical gospel is stopping business as usual. What Mr. Platt seems to say is that there aren't really churches in America, there are only corporations in the field of religion. What he fails to realize is this applies just as much to his church as anyone else.