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US Census Bureau
Ongoing Projects
Automation, Labor Share, and Productivity: Plant-Level Evidence from U.S. Manufacturing
(with Emin Dinlersoz),
new version
CES Working Paper 18-39
This paper provides plant-level evidence on the relationship between automation, factor usage, and productivity based on the U.S. Census Bureau's Survey of Manufacturing Technology. More automated plants exhibit lower production labor share, higher capital share, and higher labor productivity. They also experience greater long-term labor share declines and production labor productivity growth. Motivated by these patterns, a model of production with technology choice is estimated. The estimates indicate that more automated plants have higher total factor productivity and place less weight on production labor relative to capital, resulting in lower share and higher productivity for production labor.
Macro and Micro Dynamics of Productivity: From Devilish Details to Insights
(with Lucia Foster, Cheryl Grim, John Haltiwanger and Jake Blackwood),
NBER Working Paper No. 23666
new version
Researchers use a variety of methods to estimate total factor productivity (TFP) at the firm level and, while these may seem broadly equivalent, how the resulting measures relate to the TFP concept in theoretical models depends on the assumptions about the environment in which firms operate. Interpreting these measures and drawing insights based upon their characteristics thus must take into account these conceptual differences. Absent data on prices and quantities, most methods yield ``revenue productivity" measures. We focus on two broad classes of revenue productivity measures in our examination of the relationship between measured and conceptual TFP (TFPQ). The first measure has been increasingly used as a measure of idiosyncratic distortions and to assess the degree of misallocation. The second measure is, under standard assumptions, a function of fundamentals (e.g., TFPQ). Using plant-level U.S. manufacturing data, we find these alternative measures are (i) highly correlated; (ii) exhibit similar dispersion; and (iii) have similar relationships with growth and survival. These findings raise questions about interpreting the first measure as a measure of idiosyncratic distortions. We also explore the sensitivity of estimates of the contribution of reallocation to aggregate productivity growth to these alternative approaches. We use recently developed structural decompositions of aggregate productivity growth that depend critically on estimates of output versus revenue elasticities. We find alternative approaches all yield a significant contribution of reallocation to productivity growth (although the quantitative contribution varies across approaches).
Innovation, Productivity Growth and Productivity Dispersion
(with Lucia Foster, Cheryl Grim, John Haltiwanger),
NBER Working Paper No. 24420
. A version prepared for the 2017 CRIW can be found
The large dispersion in labor productivity across firms within narrowly defined sectors is driven by many factors including, potentially, the underlying innovation dynamics in an industry. One hypothesis is that periods of rapid innovation in products and processes are accompanied by high rates of entry, significant experimentation and, in turn, high paces of reallocation. From this perspective, successful innovators and adopters will grow while unsuccessful innovators will contract and exit. We examine the dynamic relationship between entry, within-industry labor productivity dispersion and within-industry labor productivity growth at the industry level using a new comprehensive firm-level dataset for the U.S. economy. We examine the dynamic relationships using a difference-in-differences analysis including detailed industry moments and focus on differences between High Tech and all other industries. We find a number of distinct patterns. First, we find that a surge of entry within an industry yields an immediate increase in productivity dispersion and then a lagged increase in productivity growth. Second, we find these patterns are more pronounced for the High Tech sector. Third, we find that these patterns change over time suggesting that other forces are at work in the latter part of our sample. We devote considerable attention to discussing the conceptual and measurement challenges for understanding these relationships. Our findings are intended to be exploratory and suggestive of the role innovation plays in the dynamic patterns of entry, productivity dispersion and productivity growth. Given the difficulties in directly measuring innovation, our findings could be used to help identify areas of the economy where innovation may be taking place. Alternatively, our findings suggest a useful cross check for traditional measures of innovation,
Dispersion in Dispersion: Measuring Establishment-Level Differences in Productivity
(with Lucia Foster, Cheryl Grim, Sabrina Pabilonia, Jay Stewart, and Cindy Zoghi)
Productivity measures are critical for understanding economic performance. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) produces the official U.S. productivity statistics using aggregate industry level data. However, those statistics cannot provide insight on the within-industry variation in productivity, limiting our understanding of the rich productivity dynamics in the U.S. economy. Existing research has shown that there are large and persistent productivity differences across businesses even within narrowly-defined industries. These differences vary across industries and time and are related to productivity-enhancing reallocation. More generally, dispersion in productivity across businesses is informative about the nature of competition and frictions within sectors. Productivity differences across businesses have also been shown to be related to wage differences across businesses and growth in dispersion is, in turn, related to the rising wage inequality across businesses. To address this gap in productivity statistics, BLS and the Census Bureau are collaborating to create measures of within-industry productivity dispersion with the goal of developing public-use and restricted-use statistics that complement existing statistics. Building on earlier related work, we construct establishment-level labor productivity using Census Bureau microdata. We provide some measure of compatibility by comparing micro-aggregated industry-level measures to BLS industry-level measures of inputs, output and productivity. With some basic summary statistics about these hybrid measures, we begin our exploration of the variation in our industry-level productivity dispersion measures across industries and time.
Using Census Microdata to Forecast U.S. Productivity
(with Eric J. Bartelsman and Christopher J. Kurz), A version prepared for the 2011 NBER CRIW Workshop can be found
We contribute to the productivity literature by building a bridge between time series analysis of macro-level productivity growth and firm-level productivity studies. Confirming earlier results that information from firm-level data improves univariate and multivariate forecasts of aggregate productivity (see the 'Published Papers' section on this web page), we use plant-level data from U.S. Manufacturing and extend a state-space model to forecast medium term productivity growth by including a role for heterogeneous firms and the evolution of firm-level productivity and size distributions. We find that adding time series that capture the contribution to productivity growth of within firm productivity growth and reallocation for US manufacturing firms improves estimates and forecasts of trend productivity growth for both the manufacturing and the aggregate non-farm business sectors in the United States. In an updated draft of the paper, we use structural timeseries models to explicitly model the slowly changing (trend) and cyclical components of aggregate productivity.
Forecastability, Procyclicality and the Granular Hypothesis
Ph.D. dissertation chapter, 2011.
The dissertation chapter explores the mechanisms that may explain why firm-level information may help forecast aggregate productivity. Using simulation results from a recent theoretical model of heterogenous firms, I show that the productivity components of previous forecast experiments correctly detect shocks to the productivity distribution. This finding helps understand why firm-level information is useful in forecasting aggregate productivity. In addition, I demonstrate that changes in the cyclical behavior of aggregate productivity may be related to changes in the properties of firm-level factor adjustment. To my knowledge, this study is one of the first to demonstrate the relationship between cyclical productivity and factors adjustment costs using a model of firm-level heterogeneity. Finally, I provide evidence that the productivity and market share evolution of large firms may explain aggregate productivity fiuctuations if the firm-size distribution is fat-tailed. This is an important finding because if firm size matters for aggregate developments, then the moments calculated using data on the largest firms may prove useful proxies when data on the entire distribution is not available.
Published Papers
Measuring Productivity Dispersion
(with Eric Bartelsman),
Chapter 18
The Oxford Handbook of Productivity Analysis
Measuring the dispersion of productivity or efficiency across firms in a market or industry is rife with methodological issues. Nevertheless, the existence of considerable dispersion now is well documented and widely accepted. Less well understood are the economic features and mechanisms underlying the magnitude of dispersion and how dispersion varies over time or across markets. On the one hand, selection mechanisms in both output and input markets should favor the most productive units through resource reallocation, thereby reducing dispersion. On the other hand, innovation and technological uncertainty tend to increase dispersion. This chapter presents a guide to measurement of dispersion and provides empirical evidence from a selection of countries and industries using a variety of methodologies.
Firm-Level Dispersion in Productivity: Is the Devil in the Details?
(with Lucia Foster, Cheryl Grim and John Haltiwanger),
American Economic Review , May 2016, Vol. 106, No. 5
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We explore current interpretations of firm-level dispersion in revenue-based productivity measures. Since revenue function estimates using proxy methods differ from factor elasticities, the residual emerging from this method remains a combination of demand and technical effciency shocks, and is not equal to the concept of revenue productivity that plays an important role in recent literature on misallocation. This has implications for applications where measured revenue productivity dispersion is used as an indicator of misallocation. Our empirical evidence suggests, under iso-elastic demand, measured dispersion may indicate either distortions or variation in demand shocks and technical effciency or all of the above.
Forecasting Aggregate Productivity using Information from Firm-Level Data
(with Eric J. Bartelsman),
Review of Economics and Statistics, October 2014, Vol. 96, No. 4
, Pages 745-755.
In this paper, we explore whether information from firm-level data can improve forecasts of aggregate productivity growth. We generate firm-level productivity measures and aggregate them into time-series components that capture within-firm productivity and the productivity contribution of reallocation. We show that these components improve aggregate total factor productivity forecasts in a simple univariate setting, even when firm-level data are available with a time lag. Lagged firm-level information also improves aggregate productivity forecasts when we combine results from a variety of different multivariate forecasting models using Bayesian model averaging techniques.
Working Papers
The Role of Institutions and Firm Heterogeneity for Labour Market Adjustment: Cross-Country Firm-Level Evidence
(with Alex Hijzen and Peter Gal),
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7404
, May 2013.
This project focuses on the role of labor market policies and institutions for aggregate labour market dynamics during the recent nancial crisis. Using firm-level data from a cross-country dataset (ORBIS), we find that differences in firm-level labor adjustment accounts for a nontrivial fraction of the cross-country variation in aggregate employment growth at the outset of the crisis. The framework of our analysis implies we can attribute this to institutional differences. In addition, we offer evidence that stronger employment protection shifts the burden of adjustment from the extensive to the intensive margin of employment adjustment.
Driving factors of growth in Hungary - a decomposition exercise
(with Gabor Katay),
Working Paper 2008/06
, National Bank of Hungary.
Based on a large panel of Hungarian manufacturing firms, we decompose value added growth to input factor, capacity utilization and estimated TFP growth contributions. We find that using an hours worked proxy, the variance of the residual drops considerably. We also find that TFP's role has not been stable over the period: it contributed to value added growth mostly in periods when/after institutional reforms, privatization or FDI inflow took place and lost its importance several years after the shocks.
Investment Behavior, User Cost and Monetary Policy Transmission - the Case of Hungary
(with Gabor Katay),
Working Paper 2004/12
, National Bank of of Hungary.
In this paper we investigate corporate investment behavior using a large panel of Hungarian firms between 1993 and 2002. The standard neoclassifical framework is used to derive empirically feasible specifications. We draw on the research carried out in the Eurosystem Monetary Transmission Network (EMTN). Our results are, by and large, similar to those obtained within the EMTN. Namely, the effect of user cost changes on investment is significant and robust across several specifications providing strong evidence against simple sales-accelerator models of investment. Firms' cash-flow proves to be a significant determinant of corporate investment, which suggests that financial position of firms may have consequences for investment.


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The specifications for the HTC Desire 210 are as follows.
Screen : 4-inch touchscreen display with 480x800 resolution.
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Connectivity : Dual Sim - SIM1 : 3G/HSDPA SIM2 : 2G/EDGE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, 3.5 mm audio out.
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The competition for the budget Android smartphones is on between all phone manufacturers.
Recently, Motorola announced their budget Android smartphone - Moto E, with similar specifications.


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Tuesday, September 30, 2014
A Quick Two Weeks
Here is a quick recap of what we have been up to.
We made the trip to College Station for my oldest daughter Jessie's Ring Ceremony.
She got the Gold!!!!
When the girls were Senors in High School they all wanted a big High School Ring. We all know the High School Class ring is just for High School so I bought all them a cheap Walmart Class Ring. You really couldn't tell the difference between it and one of those high dollar rings everyone else was wearing. I told each of them when they graduate from college I will buy the real deal because it will stay with them for the rest of their lives. So Jessie was the first to call my bluff on it and I had to dig deep, but she has got the gold now, it's the real deal. I am so happy I was able to do it and I was even more proud when I slid it on her hand. I was going to write a long sappy post about her and that ring, but it would not do justice to the way I feel. My girls are the best thing my wife and I have and will ever do. Graduation is set for August.
I think I was more nervous than they were because I did not have the time to prepare. I wrote the ceremony on Monday and did not have the time to go over it until the day of.
Just so happens I had my Chili Hat in the truck and my Nephew said he wanted me to wear it, so I did.
Everything went off without a hitch. I am happy for them and wish them the best of luck.
Other than that, last week we made several hand crafted decorations for a friend of mines soon to be grand son's baby shower. We made cup cake holders out of real trees and some other little wood crafts. We also made some trophies for an upcoming chili cook off in two weeks out of horse shoes. I don't know why I don't have pictures of any of it.
And this week we are getting ready for the new chili year by holding our own Chili Cook Off this weekend so preparations for that are underway as we speak.
I need all the support I can get on this so if anyone is around Gainesville TX and would like to cook, we would like for you and need for you to be there. Come on, you know you want to.
Really, other than that it's just the same old boring routine looking for something else to do.
See ya at the cook off,
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Time flies when you're having fun.ReplyDeleteReplies
Sure does Rob, thanks.Delete
Congratulations to your daughter Jessie!!
Beautiful ring, I know you and your wife are proud parents :-)
I love your Chili hat!!!
It's beautiful weather for a chili cook off, good luck and I hope you take first place.Replies
Thanks Sandy, we will give it the best we haveDelete
Doesn't sound like the old routine at all! You've been a busy man. Best wishes from central FL!ReplyDelete
Holy smoke, you've been busy! Congrats to your daughter and to the newlyweds. And best wishes on the chili cook-off.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks hobo, we don't like sitting idle for too long.Delete
Sounds like you have lots of irons in the fire !!!! Congratulations to you,your wife and daughter...It takes a lot to get a child thru high school much less college.You should all be very proud.ReplyDelete
The nephew seems to favor you a little, glad everything went right for you all.(finally)I hope you have all the people you can handle for the cook-off.I know a good time will be had by all! Good luck and good times!Replies
Thanks ZZ, yea he thinks I am his dad and we are not telling him.Delete
I will let you know how this weekend turns out.


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The first confirmed written record of the creation of whiskey globally comes from The Irish Annals of Clonmacnoise in 1405. In it, an entry on whiskey blames the death of a chieftain to "taking a surfeit of aqua vitae" at a celebration. Well, doubtless it wasn't the thirst that killed him! At the height of our powers, the island of Ireland had hundreds of working distilleries going full tilt around the clock in order to supply the global need for our 'Uisce Beatha' – which is Gaelic for 'The Water Of Life'. (pronounce it as ish-ga ba-ha)
Irish Whiskey is enjoying a revival at present and is once again in worldwide demand. Here at An Púcán, we are proud to be involved in this revival of Irish whiskey by offering Galway's first unique bottling in possibly over 100 years, since the Persse Distillery closed its gates on Nuns Island at the start of the last century. This remarkable Irish drink is the product of our collaboration with the award winning Teeling Whiskey Company, bringing you a unique Single Malt. Aged and matured for 13 years, it is finished in a Carcavelos (White Port) Cask & we call it Revival.
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Still, we find teenage shooting victims almost everyday in news reports from across the US. We came across these stories while searching for information after a Maryland high school student was shot to death on the first day of school Monday .
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Its already 2014!Time flies so fast isn't?My little boy Rizqi also has grown up like a magic.Its fun and and at the same i'm blessed because i could still watch my little boy grow healthily.There were so many things had happend in 2013 and i'm sure i'm gonna miss it.especially the his phase of growing up.oh my cheeky cheeky boy.hiihi.
Ok.just want to share.For the starting of year 2014.I'm gonna take a little step further on my business i need to settle a few things more including my new house(can't wait!). Some of you maybe did not know that i'm running my new business .So for today, i want to announce that we have a new collections and its very convenient for breastfeeding mommies. Free postage is still going on until today for people who purcahsed 2 items above. Check out my page ya. in fb and instagram.But i've always update my fb first.Kalau u pembaca blog i kena bagitau mana tau i bagi diskaun lagi:)
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text: This ten-day-old baby, Harper, was named after Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird, which served as the inspiration for this lovely shoot by Jesse Leos Photography. Her nursery was designed by her parents, Katy and Grey, who aimed for a vintage flair in the space. The furniture was custom designed and created by Harper's dad and grandpa. By bringing in vintage and handmade items, the nursery really feels warm and cozy. In addition to a fabulous nursery, Harper also has an incredibly sweet and loving family. Jesse Leos Photography has captured the tremendous love and soft moments of this new family so beautifully. You can see more of this session in the full gallery.


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The original Iraq war resolution: invade "anywhere in the region"
[GQ] Do you wish you'd voted differently in October of 2002, when Congress had a chance to authorize or not authorize the invasion?Greece? Well, geez, this would have been nice to know...like, four years ago, for example!
[CH] Have you read that resolution?
[GQ] I have.
[CH] It's not quite the way it's been framed by a lot of people, as a resolution to go to war. That's not quite what the resolution said.
[GQ] It said, "to authorize the use of United States Armed Forces against Iraq."
[CH] In the event that all other options failed. So it's not as simple as "I voted for the war." That wasn't the resolution.
[GQ] But there was a decision whether to grant the president that authority or not.
[CH] Exactly right. And if you recall, the White House had announced that they didn't need that authority from Congress.
[GQ] Which they seem to say about a lot of things.
[CH] That's right. Mr. [Alberto] Gonzales was the president's counsel at that time, and he wrote a memo to the president saying, "You have all the powers that you need." So I called Andy Card, who was then the chief of staff, and said, "Andy, I don't think you have a shred of ground to stand on, but more to the point, why would a president seriously consider taking a nation to war without Congress being with him?" So a few of us—Joe Biden, Dick Lugar, and I—were invited into discussions with the White House.
[GQ] It's incredible that you had to ask for that.
[CH] It is incredible. That's what I said to Andy Card. Said it to Powell, said it to Rice. Might have even said it to the president. And finally, begrudgingly, they sent over a resolution for Congress to approve. Well, it was astounding. It said they could go anywhere in the region.
[GQ] It wasn't specific to Iraq?
[CH] Oh no. It said the whole region! They could go into Greece or anywhere. I mean, is Central Asia in the region? I suppose! Sure as hell it was clear they meant the whole Middle East. It was anything they wanted. It was literally anything. No boundaries. No restrictions.
[GQ] They expected Congress to let them start a war anywhere they wanted in the Middle East?
[CH] Yes. Yes. Wide open. We had to rewrite it. Joe Biden, Dick Lugar, and I stripped the language that the White House had set up, and put our language in it.
For what it's worth, Hagel goes on to relate his feelings about military prisons, torture and Guantanamo (pg. 5):
Does being a veteran also make you sensitive to the administration's approach to interrogation and the use of secret military prisons?It's quite fascinating to watch Hagel 'come out' like this. I highly recommend the entire GQ interview. Should you want to see Hagel "Bring it," check out his performance in the Sen. Foreign Relations Cmte., last week (transcript).
It does, because that's not who America is. We have always, certainly since World War II, had the moral high ground in the world. But these secret prisons and the treatment at Guantánamo destroy all of that. We ought to shut down Guantánamo. There shouldn't be any secret prisons. Why do we need those? What are we afraid of? Here we are, the greatest nation the world has ever seen. Why can't we let the Red Cross into our prisons? Why do we deny they exist? Why do we keep them locked up? What are we afraid of? Why aren't we dealing with Iran and Syria?
H/T to the Sam Seder Show for pointing the way to GQ (and here I thought it was another mag about 'fab abs,' cigars and Axe body spray. For shame!).
Read on, MacDuff!


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Food & Hormones: Think of food as a drug that effects your hormone production. Food is made up of the Macronutrients: protein, carbohydrate & fat. (Micronutrients are vitamins & minerals) Eating carbohydrates effects your production of the hormone insulin and eating protein effects your production of the hormone glucagon. Glucagon releases stored energy (glucose) out of the liver and into the bloodstream where insulin pulls that energy out of the bloodstream into your cells to be used as fuel. We need to maintain a healthy balance of these two hormones for optimal health, mental & emotional balance, and physical performance. (Eating fat is hormonally neutral and supports the balance.) We need a balance of Carb/Sugar/Insulin (lets energy into the cell) and Protein/Glucagon (lets energy out of the cell) to maintain optimum health.
Carbohydrates: (CFJ Nov 2002) Insulin is the hormone – produced in the pancreas – that allows glucose into cells where it can be utilized as fuel. Though insulin is absolutely essential to life, chronic and acute elevation of insulin (through heredity or eating too much carbohydrate) will decrease the cells sensitivity to it. This causes the pancreas to secrete more insulin than is normal to get glucose inside the cell. This process is known as "insulin resistance" and the resultant condition is "Hyperinsulinemia". Hyperinsulinemia is the chronic & acute elevation of insulin as a result of habitual consumption of excess carbohydrate. Chronically elevated levels of insulin will wreak havoc on your health. Diseases like Diabetes Type II, coronary heart disease, depression, Alzheimer's, hypertension, osteoporosis & obesity have all been scientifically linked to a diet too high in processed carbohydrate. The food we eat also elicits a hormonal response that determines how energy is stored in the body. Sugar drives the Insulin response & Insulin drives fat storage & slows the metabolism.
Protein: Eating protein along with carbohydrate in the correct proportions will negate the insulin reaction and the fat storage trigger. In the absence of ingested protein, your body will break down muscle to fulfill its protein requirement.
Fat: Fat is your optimal energy source. It contains over 2 times the calories of protein or carbs. Eating "Good" fat (polyunsaturated fatty acids, Omega-3, DHA, EPA) does not slow metabolism, subjects do not feel hungry and energy is released from fat storage. The "Good" fats can actually increase insulin sensitivity and reduce insulin resistance. (Gary Taubes – "Good Calories, Bad Calories"). The human body can not produce these fatty acids, they must be ingested. These essential fatty acids also help in hormone production, regulating blood pressure, blood clotting, immune response & inflammation response. The human heart and skeletal muscles prefer fatty acids as fuel where the brain prefers glucose. Good fats are found in nuts & seeds, avocado and fish. "Bad" fats are the trans-fats, man-made fats and animal fats and have none of the beneficial effects of the good fats.
Sickness & Health: A balanced diet allows for optimal health & fitness and guards against sickness. If you are fit, you first have to get well before you can get sick. Fitness provides a margin of protection against sickness. Wellness is the state of not being sick.
A Balanced Diet: A balanced diet is essential to maintaining good health. It begins with good quality and the right quantity of food. Real food is perishable. The stuff with a long shelf life is circumspect. The Paleo Diet: You should base your diet on lean meats, vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch and no sugar. This is based on Dr. Cordain's "Paleo Diet". The Paleo Diet mimics the types of foods a person (hunter-gatherer/stone tools) ate prior to the Agricultural Revolution (from 2.5 million years ago to 12,000 years ago, about 10,000 BC). This period of time comprises 99% of human history and is the diet to which the human species is genetically adapted.
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Amid an ongoing war between incumbent telcos and new entrant Reliance Jio over its predatory pricing and promotional offers, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India issued a consultation paper on Friday to undertake a review of the tariff assessment process.
The paper, among other issues, has sought views on which tariff offers should qualify as promotional offers, what should be the features of a promotional offer, and whether there is a need to restrict the number of promotional offers that can be introduced by a telecom service provider.
The consultation paper comes after the three incumbent operators – Airtel, Idea and Vodafone, moved TDSAT against TRAI alleging that the regulator failed to prohibit Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Jio from violating the tariff regulations by allowing it to continue with its free offers.
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SABINE, TEXAS (Smith County). Sabine is 1½ miles south of the Sabine River, east of U.S. Highway 69, and three miles north of Lindale in extreme northern Smith County. Lindale Club Lake is southeast of Sabine and Mill Creek is to the south. By the 1840s the commercial activities of settlers from the South had established the Dallas-Shreveport Road, and the north loop of this thoroughfare ran through the area. The Sabine settlement, however, was not founded until 1899, when Rev. W. L. Pate organized the Sabine Methodist Church as part of his circuit. Joe Crone donated the land for the church, a cemetery, and a school. Brush arbor meetings were held there in the early days, and the church and school became the center of local activities. County records for 1903 showed that the Sabine School had one teacher and fifty-three white students. During the 1920s classes were held in a large one-story white frame structure, and the average enrollment was forty. The church remained active and in 1922 began to share a minister with the Lindale Methodist Church. By 1936 Sabine included a church, a school, and a small cluster of farms on bituminous and dirt roads. One elementary school had two teachers and forty-five white students, while the other, known as the Sabine-Saline school, had two teachers and seventy-six black students. By 1952 both schools had been consolidated into the Lindale Independent School District, along with other local rural schools. In 1960 Sabine had a church, a cemetery, and several scattered farms, but in 1969 the local congregation transferred to the Lindale Methodist Church. In 1981 the community included only a few dwellings.
Edward Clayton Curry, An Administrative Survey of the Schools of Smith County, Texas (M.Ed. thesis, University of Texas, 1938). "School Sights," Chronicles of Smith County, Fall 1969. Smith County Historical Society, Historical Atlas of Smith County (Tyler, Texas: Tyler Print Shop, 1965). Albert Woldert, A History of Tyler and Smith County (San Antonio: Naylor, 1948).
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Maybe next year
December 23, 2013
Is anyone else a little tripped out to realize that next year begins next week?
So, on the eve of Christmas eve it's probably time to call it … I will not be making my Christmas gifts this year. Again.
Bonus: With that
simple decision, I am totally ahead of the game for next year!
One of my many lists is a "Maybe next year" list and it seems to grow longer each year, not in a "things to feel guilty about" way, but more like "think of all the possibilities" kind of way.
Also, I will be putting
a few of the tasks from my Mission: Organize Everything off until the new year.
And, then there is my Project Life collection. The albums from yesteryear still hover hopefully on a shelf too narrow for them, waiting for me to make good on my dream of catching up on my pages.
Truth is, I'm doing the Living Life thing and that means we can't have all of our priorities be number one all of the time. Things we care about get back-burnered all the time.
What we think about a thing is more important than the thing itself, so for me it's not that big a deal that I'm not "all caught up" on Project Life 2013 (or 2012, 2011, 2010 …)
If I vanish tomorrow and leave behind Project Good Intentions/Project Sticky Notes, it's something more than nothing which is what I'd have if I waited for life to be easier, calmer and complete with of large chunks spare time before starting any projects I feel passionate about. .
I can't tell you what week I left off on – only that I've done a few simple things to help me get back on track if and when I'm able to make it a priority again.
- I keep taking my picture of the day, most days. That has become a habit since I first started Project 365 and helps me see the awesome in the ordinary.
- I jot a few notes in the margins of my planner and/or journal. I've also started a Project Life notebook in my Evernote on my computer, and have downloaded the app so I can make notes quickly on my phone – by speaker even! I love the search capability on Evernote.
- I keep tucking memorabilia of our day-to-day life in my Project Life file in my Planner Files.
- I've let go of trying to do it perfectly, or at all.
And, get this … I'm totally planning to get started on a new Project Life for 2014.
Who knows? Someday the boys might think it's cool I purposely recorded the first six weeks of every year for posterity.
Who am I kidding? They will recognize my handwriting on the sticky notes and know exactly what happened. But if they ask me about it I'll remind them of the fact that they wanted dinner every. single. night.
Also lunch. And breakfast. And the clean clothes and all the other details that go into the care and feeding of little people. (Who are totally worth it by the way!)
So, I snap a few pictures of that part of real life too, it'll be worth it one day.
For now, here are a few of our ordinary moments lately and some pages in progress.
(You can click on the pictures for a little bit more detail).
One of very few runs this year, you can correctly assume this is something else on my "maybe next year list!"
Getting to volunteer at Sam's first field trip was a holiday mom highlight for sure. I was afraid going back to work would mean no field trips, and it's true I won't be able to make a lot of them, but I will enjoy the ones I can show up for. Sam kept squeezing my hand and telling me he was glad I was there. I don't need the cards to remember that, but I wrote it down, just in case. Maybe to remind him someday
Some mornings on the way to work I can spend a few extra minutes with Jakey at preschool and I love those moments.
This. This is what snuggling little guys looks like. Please note no one is sleeping in the same direction in our Queen size bed.
Two boys quiet at the same time?! Amen. Totally validated my vision of turning this downstairs room into a family studio.
Look at the lovely frozen water … which turned into a lovely mess we were so lucky to have stay outside and under the house!
Look who else is taking notes? In the backseat, in his journal, on the way to school.
Curious to hear what other people have on their "Maybe next year" list. If you don't have one, I recommend it as a freeing way to cross some things off and move on …
For more notes from behind the picket fence, find me on Facebook at Nathalie's Notes, I'd love it if you liked me. Like, liked me like me, on Facebook I mean.
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Studying at a global business school in the heart of the Chinese economy provides CEIBS MBAs with many unique opportunities to develop an in-depth knowledge of the Chinese market. Though the MBA programme is conducted in English, sometimes Chinese entrepreneurs and executives are more comfortable sharing their experiences in their mother tongue rather than English. Given the frequency of student club events and the busy schedule of the CEIBS Translation and Interpreting department, there are not always adequate interpretation resources available to support every event outside the classroom.
With this in mind, the MBA2018 class has created an innovative, student-led initiative to provide simultaneous interpretation services for student events with Chinese guest speakers — a project consistent with CEIBS "China Depth, Global Breadth" approach to education. Following strong support from the MBA Office and the Career Development Centre, more facilities on campus have been upgraded to support real-time interpretation for student events. Given the cost of professional simultaneous interpreters, the students asked their peers with strong linguistics skills to volunteer as interpreters.
Since its inception in January 2017, the student- led interpretation service has already supported three company visits and six club activities. With a dedicated team of nine MBA students contributing to this interpretation initiative, the MBA Class of 2018 hopes that future MBA cohorts will take this initiative further and continue to set CEIBS apart as the top business school in Asia.
"This student-led initiative not only empowers all students to develop more China Depth, but also creates a more inclusive environment where all students are able to attend activities that interest them without language being a barrier," said Student Council Vice President and MBA 2018 Richard Higgs.


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ACNAC 10 accompanies the ANS's Coinage of the Caravan Kingdoms: Studies in the Monetization of Ancient Arabia. Built over the last 20 years, the Martin Huth collection of pre-Islamic coins covering all parts of the Arabian Peninsula represents the largest assembly of such material ever put together, exceeding by far the holdings of existing Museum collections. 480 coins are fully described and illustrated on more than 70 plates. A comprehensive epigraphic index lists all inscriptions and monograms found on these intriguing series. Together with its sister volume—where many of the collection coins are discussed in detail—ACNAC 10 will serve as a reference volume for Arabian coins for years to come.
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As is always the case with an updated piece of technology you don't always get it right away when buying a new PC. USB 3.0 is a prime example. We all know the standard is agreed, the faster transfer speed is available, and some laptops and hard drives are already shipping with the ports installed. But if you went out and bought a laptop tomorrow it would not have USB 3.0 out of the box.
A solution to that problem could come from Buffalo which is about to release a new USB 3.0 ExpressCard in Japan. For around $60 your laptop can get two USB 3.0 ports via this card opening up the 5Gbps transfer speeds promised by the new standard.
The Buffalo IFC-EC2U3/UC ExpressCard is compatible with Windows XP and Vista, and Windows 7 32- and 64-bit. Buffalo has not stated whether the card will be released in the West, but we suspect it will appear in some form next year.
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I think by March or April next year USB 3.0 is going to start becoming commonplace on PCs and laptops. If you are buying before then you may end up relying on one of these cards for faster transfers, but at $60 it's not a peripheral you are going to have trouble affording. If it knocks a few minutes off a backup to a shiny new USB 3.0 external hard drive then it will be well worth the asking price anyway.
The chances are you won't buy USB 3.0 devices for several months or even until 2011 due to the price premium they will carry. If that's the case you may be considering yet another new laptop by then anyway. With Intel's Core processors becoming more widespread in laptops as we head through 2010 the desire to own one will surely grow due to the performance boost the processors offer. Core i7 and USB 3.0 will surely be on everyone's laptop wish lists by this time next year.


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Debris from a helicopter carrying a New Zealand pilot that crashed in Papua New Guinea has been discovered in a stream.
The wreckage came from a container stored in the helicopter.
Captain Antony Annan, 49, of New Zealand, pilot captain Russell Aitken, 42, and engineer Emmett Fynn, 36, both of Australia, have been missing since their Bell 206 helicopter disappeared near the town of Wabag on Friday.
This morning a villager discovered debris from the helicopter, prompting a concentrated search effort in the area.
Ian McBeath from Hevilift, which operates the helicopters, said a villager was searching the waterways and rivers when he found some pieces of plastic that were clearly from a "fly away kit" that is usually kept in the boot of helicopters operated by Hevilift.
It is a plastic container that holds items like oil, rags and grease guns.
"It is obvious that it is part of the missing helicopter as it is consistent with the size and shape of the container we use for the kit and it has what we believe to be the outline of a 'H' in blue paint. We paint the helicopter registration number, in this case HCY, on each container," Mr McBeath said.
When the villager found the piece of debris he returned to Umasia Village on the Purari River, about 13 kilometres from where he found it.
When search headquarters got the news at around midday local time, an aircraft was dispatched to pick up the villager and have him show searchers where the debris was found.
When that position was determined, searching began upstream.
Another villager then flagged down the search helicopter, about a kilometre upstream, and provided a second piece of the same plastic container.
"The search effort was rapidly redeployed following this development," Mr McBeath said.
"Regrettably these broken pieces of container would most likely indicate that there has been a hard landing and the aircraft has broken up.
"Finding these pieces means the search area has narrowed significantly. However we still have a large section of countryside to cover."
Mr McBeath said there was very heavy rain in the area last night and this had most likely flushed the items out of the bush and into one of the dozens of rivulets which run into the Gipi Creek which runs into the Purari River.
"We now know that the area where we have been searching was the correct one and we can concentrate the ground search teams upstream of the location of where the debris was found, which is five miles (8km) from Bawata," Mr McBeath said.


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Lilly Pulitzer for Target Boom Boom Print Pants
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This weekend was so much fun! From swimming at Clearwater to spending the afternoon relaxing on Sunday; it was a much-needed break. I bought these "Boom Boom" print Lilly Pulitzer for Target pants the day the collection debuted but just now got around to wearing them. Palazzo pants have always been a favorite of mine since then stepped onto the scene a couple years ago.
This particular pants works well with neutrals as the print is very eye-catching already. I paired mine with a tulip-backed lacy tank and neutral Tory Burch flat sandals. A few layered necklaces and this JORD watch added some delicate interest to top it all off.
I've been craving a 'wooden' watch for awhile simply because of how unique the piece is. So, naturally, I jumped at the chance to review a watch from JORD. I chose a watch that was simple and classy enough to go with literally anything I wore and I wasn't dissapointed. It's the kind of watch that works with a casual outfit all the way to a summer's dress. I'm also loving this one, this one, and this one.
If you like wooden watches, check them out. They have tons of different designs and the quality is wonderful.
Hope you enjoy your Monday 🙂
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What is Synthetic Rattan Garden Furniture?
Synthetic Rattan is the popular name used by many retailers describing a poly-ethelene extruded material. It looks similar to natural Rattan, however it has many advantageous properties.
Whilst Indonesia harvest the majority of natural vines, It is also widely respected as the premier manufacturer of synthetic rattan furniture. Their unique ability to hand weave the fine strands so masterfully is the result of generations of practice. Emulation of this complex process has recently been undertaken by a variety of nations, in particular India and China. Whilst garden furniture from these regions is inexpensive, the quality of the weave, and furniture is often reflective of the price. This inexperience is most evident when given more complex tasks.
How Can You Tell the Quality of Synthetic Rattan?
Like natural Rattan, synthetic Rattan is available in a vast array of styles and qualities. Synthetic Rattan can be extruded to almost any thickness, colour or shape. The most popular extrusions are those with a full round weave, a half round weave, or a flat weave. Weaves that use more material (i.e. full round weave) are more expensive, and generally manufactured to a higher quality. The appearance of full round weave is more authentic, and it is more attractive when woven. However the type of weave is not the only aspect to take into consideration when selecting Rattan furniture.
The extrusion process is when the quality of the synthetic Rattan weave is determined. There are many components to take into consideration that will ultimately determine how weather resistant and durable the weave is. If manufactured to a high quality, UV inhibitors and stabilisers will be added in order for the garden furniture to resist intense heat and cold, as well as resistance against fading, cracking or splitting.
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Acting is not just for stage and film. Emerging technologies create more opportunities to perform. Michigan Tech's program integrates traditional theatre studies with electronic media performance. Our graduates are well-rounded performers qualified to work in theatre, film, video, digital arts, video-game voice-over—wherever their careers take them.
Do an audio play. Join a mainstage production, or a media project. At Michigan Tech, you start performing from Day One.
"Within my first year and a half at Michigan Tech, I was able to complete my Acting Practicums. Each practicum was worth 1 credit, which means I had already acted in 3 productions with the Tech Theatre. It's been an incredible learning experience, for the fact that I was able to immerse myself in the program right away."
First-year practicum is only the start. Theatre and electronic media performance (TEMP) majors hone performance skills in stage productions, radio dramas, and television sitcoms. They work on TV and radio commercials, as video-game characters, and in other voice acting projects.
Actors typically earn half of their living outside the theatre—a diverse skill set means more job prospects.
- Develop your talents and refine technique through high-tech training at state-of-the-art performance venues including Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts and the black box McArdle Theatre.
- Log significant time onstage and in the studio—more than what is required by many comparable programs.
- Limited enrollment means more time with professors, professors, advisors, and equipment.
- Learn and create in our department's computer lab, equipped with the latest entertainment-dedicated programs.
What Kinds of Projects Will I Do in School?
The creativity never stops.
- Perform in live theatre productions including contemporary dramas and comedies, classical plays, children's theatre, and musicals.
- Play a role in media projects: documentary and training films, radio dramas, radio and television commercials, and student film projects.
How does Michigan Tech help me start my career?
- Your professional portfolio: You start your portfolio your first semester, and continue to develop it during your time on campus. You'll move forward on your career path with a solid, cohesive, professional presentation of who you are, what you want to do, and what you have to offer.
- One-on-one academic guidance: You and your advisor talk in-depth at least once each semester to discuss your program, progress, and what you need to do to stay on track to graduate. The meetings also shape your production experiences at Michigan Tech.
- Career advice: You and your advisor discuss career options and post-graduation goals. Your advisor assists you in finding internships—skills you can apply to job searches when you graduate.
- Connections: You regularly network at professional conferences to meet industry professionals—upperclassmen present their work. Opportunities to apprentice or intern at local radio and TV stations also increase your employability.
What will I do after graduation?
Our program promotes entrepreneurship—the potential is boundless. We teach students to discover new avenues of employment. Our graduate work in theatre, film, video, digital arts, video-game voice-over, audio-book narration, theme-park entertainment, and mass media, including radio and TV.
Learning Outcomes
Creative Analysis
Graduates will employ methods of creative analysis to understand how the disciplines of design, technical, and management in theatre and entertainment are used as meaningful expressions of the human experience. They will:
- gain foundational analytical skills to be able to recognize and interpret quality works of design and technical theatre and entertainment.
- understand and apply complex methods of expression.
- approach important questions pertaining to performance works of theatre and entertainment in a focused and methodical way.
Artistic Expression
Graduates will apply a diverse set of artistic and practical techniques in creating works of art in theatre and entertainment design, technical, and/or management. They will:
- understand the foundational elements and principles of design in structure through various artistic forms relevant to their chosen disciplines.
- demonstrate foundational skills and techniques within design, technology, and management.
- present the body of their technical and performance work in an organized and artistic manner.
- demonstrate the ability to modify their work after self-evaluation and external review.
Historical Context
Graduates will apply knowledge of the context and evolution of diverse artistic media in creating works in theatre and entertainment design, technology, and management. They will:
- understand the history and evolution of theatre and entertainment design, technology, and management.
- demonstrate a familiarity with major artistic works throughout history.
- independently evaluate and understand a performance work in its artistic, cultural and historical context.
- research, interpret, and apply historical artistic theatrical or entertainment forms and methodologies to their own artistic practice.
Technological Principles
Graduates will apply scientific and technological principles to support work in their chosen emphasis areas. They will:
- understand the scientific foundations relevant to theatre and entertainment design, technology, and/or management.
- apply principles of the scientific method as a tool in solving artistic and technical challenges in theatre and entertainment.
- demonstrate a working knowledge of current technology that supports work in their chosen emphasis areas.
- demonstrate a technical flexibility to accommodate the use of new and emerging technologies related to theatre and entertainment.
Industry Engagement
Graduates will engage the theatre and entertainment industry with relevant professional skills. They will:
- familiarize themselves with the diverse theatre and entertainment industries.
- understand basic structures and organization in the entertainment industry.
- demonstrate professional skills in their theatre and entertainment industry-specific areas of study.
- converse and write using the diverse modes of theatre and entertainment industry standard communication.
- join important industry-related organizations and participate in meetings of those organizations.
- evaluate their work within the context of the work of peers and professionals in their chosen emphasis areas in the field.


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(WHNT) - Today, the WHNT News 19 Family said goodbye to a close friend. Mark Gentle lost a tough battle with cancer early Wednesday morning.
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The No. 11 ranked Barton Community College men's basketball team was in unfamiliar territory Saturday in Dodge City with an unusual halftime lead before fending off Dodge City Community College's seven second half three-pointers for a 97-92 win. Barton improves to a conference leading 18-3 record and 22-3 on the year in sending Dodge City to its second straight loss in slipping to 6-15 and 8-17 overall. Next up for Barton is a 7:30 p.m. "Pink Out" Wednesday showdown at the Barton Gym in hosting No. 16 Hutchinson Community College (17-4, 21-4).
In a back-n-forth first twenty minutes of action featuring sixteen lead changes and five ties, Akeem White's thirteen points off the bench and Elijah Ford's late jumper gave Barton just its eighth lead to the halftime break in its twenty-one conference games this season with the Cougars on top 41-38.
The Cougars built the lead out for its largest margin in opening six munities of the second half as Noah Webster's trey pushed the lead to 58-49. With the Conquistadors doing their damage with 7-of-15 shooting from beyond the arc, it was the Cougars' long ball from Kawanise Wilkins beating the shot clock with under a minute to play to keep the Dodge City at a nine point deficit.
Putting the game away with four perfect tosses from the charity stripe, the conference leading and No. 13 ranked free-throw shooting Cougars sunk 32-of-38 free throws in the game (84.2%) to go along with nearly 53% shooting from the field.
Wilkins and Keshon Montague each scored twenty with Montague a perfect 10-of-10 from the stripe in scoring nineteen of his points in second half action. Marvin Cannon was a near perfect 9-of-11 from the line scoring fifteen of his seven points in the final twenty minutes to go along with a career tying five blocks. White finished with fifteen while Ford contributed eleven points and joined Cannon and Roy Broomfield with a team high six rebounds.
The Conquistadors also had five players in double figures led Justice Dixon's twenty-one. Sixteen points each came from Tajae Anderson and Jyrus Freels while Dayton McGroarty and Jordan Seniguar each added twelve as Seniguar points were a career high.
Barton's one-game lead in the Jayhawk will be severely tested on Wednesday with the Blue Dragon riding a four-game win streak, the latest in an impressive eleven point win over Butler. Hutchinson took the earlier meeting from the Cougars by eight points back on December 10 at the Sports Arena, holding Barton to its fourth lowest output (73) while putting up a fifth best 81 points on a second best 51.7% shooting from the field. The Cougars also gave up its second most rebounds (43), had a season high ten of their launches rejected by the Blue Dragon defense, and put up a season second lowest fourteen free throw attempts.