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Faculty Publications and Research
Faculty in the College of Business Administration are frequently publishing their research in journals, conference proceedings and presentations to other scholars.
- Edward Fee, Joshua Pierce, Hoontaek Seo, and Shan Yan (2014).
"Bank Debt, Flexibility, and the Use of Proceeds from Asset Sales."
Journal of Financial Services Research, 46(1), 77-97.
- Li, Zhihong, William A. Peek, and Tenpao Lee,
"The Correlation Between the Circulation Sector and the Economy in Wuhan, China: A Canonical Correlation Analysis,"
International Journal of Business Strategy, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2014, P. 61-66.
- Miller, Daniel, Tenpao Lee, and Jay Walker,
"An Empirical Analysis of the U.S. Fiscal and Monetary Policies Following the Financial Crisis,"
Journal of International Finance and Economics, Vol. 14, No. 4, 2014, P. 135-142.
- Lee, Tenpao, Zhihong Li, and Zhen Pei,
"Quantitative Easing and Its Global Impacts,"
Open Journal of Social Sciences, No. 3, Vol. 3, P. 18-21. (Conference on Engineering and Business Management, Suzhou, China, March 19-20, 2015) http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/iss.2015.33004
- Kline, C., Vermette, P., Ph.D., and Aquino, C.,
"Using Sustained Mentoring, Educational Expertise and Student Perceptions to Improve Accounting Instruction," .
Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning, Vol. 9, No. 1, Fall/Winter 2015.
- Seigmann, S., Moore, D., and Aquino, C.,
"Exam Performance in a Hybrid Course: A Model for Assessing Online and In Class Exam Delivery Modes,".
The Online Journal of Distance Education and e-Learning (TOJDEL), Vol. 2, Issue 4, Oct 2014.
- Conn, C., Aquino, C., Vermette, P., Ph.D., and Kline, C.,
"Perspective on the Pathway's Commission Report,"
Business Research Consortium Annual Conference Proceedings, 2014.
- Federspiel, M. (student) and Aquino, C.,
"The Student Loan Crisis: Shaping Our Nation One Block at a Time,"
Business Research Consortium Annual Conference Proceedings, 2014.
- Christopher Wright
"Decomposing airline alliances: A bid-price approach to revenue management with incomplete information sharing".
Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management (2014) 13, 164-182.
- Hoontaek Seo, Daniel L. Tompkins and Sangho Yi (2014)
"Corporate Cash Holding,"
Journal of Finance and Accountancy, Vol. 15, P.1-23
- Shawn Daly
"Emic, Etic, and In-Between: Differing Roles in Building Tourism Understanding a Value"
Leisure Studies Association 2014 Conference, Paisley, UK
- Bohdan Pikas and Sorrentino, Gabriel (alumna 2013) (summer 2014 refereed)
"The Effectiveness of Online Advertising: Consumers Perceptions of Ads on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube"
Journal of Applied Business and Economics, Vol 16 (4)
- Jay Walker and Routon, W. J. (Apr 2014)
"The impact of Greek organization membership on collegiate outcomes: Evidence from a National Survey"
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Volume 49
- Jay Walker, Hussey, A., & Nikolsko-Rzhevskyy, A. (Jan 2014)
"AIDing contraception: HIV and recent trends in abortion"
Applied Economics, Volume 46, Issue 15
- Anna McNab, Hess, T.J., Basoglu, K.A., (Jan 2014)
"Reliability Generalization of Perceived Ease of Use, Perceived Usefulness, and Behavioral Intentions"
MIS Quarterly, Volume 38, Issue 1.
- Anna McNab, Hust, S.J.T., Lei, M., Ren, C., Chang, H., Marett, H.M., & Willoughby, J.F., (Nov 2013)
"The Effects of Sports Media Exposure on College Students' Rape Myth Beliefs and Intentions to Intervene in a Sexual Assault"
Mass Communication & Society, Volume 16, Issue 6.
- Christopher Aquino and Lei Han (forthcoming)
"A QuickBooks Group Project in Financial Accounting"
International Research Journal of Applied Finance, forthcoming.
- Peggy Choong and Chee, M., (forthcoming)
"Social Capital, Emotional Intelligence and Happiness: An Investigation of the Asymmetric Impact of Emotional Intelligence on Happiness"
Academy of Educational Leadership, forthcoming.
- Christopher Aquino, Vermette, P., Ph.D., & Roe, T. (student), (forthcoming)
"Use of an Interdisciplinary Sustained Mentoring Collaboration to Enhance Teaching and to Develop at Tool Kit for Continued Growth"
BRC Journal of Education, forthcoming.
- Ian Burt, Gunz, S., & McCutcheon, J., (forthcoming)
"Ethical Warning Lights on the Dashboard: A Case Study"
Accounting Perspectives, forthcoming.
- Jay Walker and Routon, W., 2013 (forthcoming)
"A Smart Break? Internships, Academic Leave, and College Achievement"
Education and Finance Policy, forthcoming.
- Peggy Choong and Paul Richardson, 2013 (forthcoming)
"Relationship Marketing in Bank Mutual Fund Retailing: Re-engineering from a Sales to an Advisory Platform"
Academy of Marketing Studies Journal, forthcoming.
- Paul Richardson, Peggy Choong, & Melnik, M, 2013 (forthcoming)
"Even on eBay it Pays to Buy in Volume"
The BRC Academy Journal of Business, Volume 4, No. 1, forthcoming.
- Anna McNab, Hust, S.J.T., Marett, E.G., Lei, M., Chang, H., Ren, C., & Adams, P., (ePub 2012) 2013
"Health Promotion Messages in Entertainment Media: Crime Drama Viewership and Intentions to Intervene in a Sexual Assault Situation"
Journal of Health Communication, Volume 18, No. 1, p. 105-23.
- Edward Hutton, Osberg, J., & Ryan, K. (students), 2013
"Do Investors Rationally Evaluate Investment Fees? A Behavioral Finance Investigation"
BRC Journal of Business, 2013
- Kristine Principe, Ann Rensel, & Tenpao Lee, 2013
"The Impact of IT System Support on Hospital Techechnical Efficiency Over Time"
International Journal of Strategic Management (IJSM), Volume 13, No. 3, 2013, p. 93-100.
- Ann Rensel, Tenpao Lee, & Gao, Q., 2013
"Credibility Questions About the Non-performing Loan (NPL) Values Reported by Chinese Banks"
Journal of Academy of Business and Economics (JABE), Volume 13, No. 4, 2013, p. 119-124.
- Lisa Williams, Mislin, A., & Shaughnessy, B., May 2013
"Gender Differences in Motivating Trust Between Strangers"
In S. Braun, (Chair), Understanding and overcoming obstacles to women in leadership. Symposium to be conducted at the 2013 16th Congress of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology, Muenster, Germany.
- Lei Han and F. Hsiao, 2013
"An Innovative Approach to Engaging Students in Learning Bank Reconciliation"
Presented at AAA Annual Meeting Effective Learning Strategies board session, Anaheim, CA.
- Lei Han and F. Hsiao, 2013
"Examination of Firm Performance Following the Early Adoption of SFAS 142"
Presented at AAA 2013 Annual Meeting Research Interaction Forum, Anaheim, CA.
- Christopher Aquino and Vermette, P., Ph.D., 2013
"Improving Teaching: A Sustained Mentoring Collaboration Between Accounting and Education"
Advances in Accounting Education: Teaching and Curriculum Innovations, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Vol. 14, pgs. 101-129, 2013.
- Lei Han and Vincent Agnello, Jan 2013
"Companies' Incentives to Early Adopt Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 142"
Journal of Business, Volume 3, Number 1
- Vincent Agnello and Audrey Agnello, Jan 2013
"The Sarbanes-Oxley Act Section 806: Ten Years Later"
Journal of Business, Volume 3, Number 1
- Seo, Hoontaek, and Daniel L. Tompkins (2012)
"Product Market Competition and Firms' Credit Ratings."
International Research Journal of Applied Finance, 2012, Vol. 3, No. 9, P.1222-1244
- Lisa Williams, Lewandowski, J., & Aquino, C., 2012
"Individual Differences in Applications of Ethics."
Presented at the 19th International Conference Promoting Business Ethics, Buffalo, NY.
- Jay Walker and Routon, W., Nov 2012
"The Impact of Greek Membership on Collegiate Outcomes: Evidence from a National Survey."
Presented at the meeting of the Southern Economic Association Conference New Orleans, LA.
- Shawn Daly, Nov 2012
"Opportunities in the Chinese Medical Tourism Industry: Consumer & Corporate Decision Maker Attitudes"
International Symposium on Sustainable Development, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China.
- Edward Hutton, Oct 2012
"Socially Responsible Investing Funds After the Financial Crisis"
Business Ethics Conference, Buffalo, NY.
- Edward Hutton, Aug 2012
"The Financial Planning Capstone Course-What Have We Learned?"
CFP Board- Financial Planning Education: Vision 2020 Conference, Washington, DC.
- Edward Hutton and James Goldstein, Ph.D., Canisius College, 2012
"The Perception and Use of XBRL by Equity Research Analysts"
BRC Journal of Education
- Edward Hutton, Jun 2012
"Creating a Faculty Learning Community (FLC) to Advance the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning"
Lily Conference on Teaching and Learning, Bethesda, MD.
- Edward Hutton, Apr 2012
"Integrating a Real Time Stock Market Simulation into the Finance Curriculum"
Western New York Business Research Conference, Oswego, NY.
- Edward Hutton, Jennifer Herman, and Rehab Ghazal, Nov 2012
"Evaluating the Implementation of the Boyer Model of Alternative Scholarship"
American Society for Higher Education Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV.
- Hoontaek Seo and Daniel Tompkins, 2012
"Product Market Competition and Firms' Credit Ratings"
International Research Journal of Applied Finance 3(9), 1222-1244 (2012).
- Edward Hutton, Apr 2012
"Implications of XBRL for Security Analysts"
Presented at the BRC conference in Oswego, NY.
- Lei Han co-authored with Zhu, X., and K. Ho., Apr 2012
"Financial indicators of business failures for Chinese Companies."
Journal of International Business and Economics
- Chris Aquino and Vermette, P., Ph.D, Mar 2012
"Improving Teaching in a Freshman Managerial Accounting Class: Collaboration Between Accounting and Education"
Presented at the American Accounting Association (AAA) - Southwest Regional Meeting, Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Section, New Orleans, LA. (Best Manuscript Award)
- Hoontaek Seo co-authored with Ranadeb Chaudhuri, Mar 2012
"An Agency Theory Explanation of SEO Underperformance: Evidence from Dual-Class Firms"
Journal of International Markets, Institutions & Money
- Hoontaek Seo co-authored with C. Edward Fee, Joshua R. Pierce and Shan Yan, Feb 2012
"Bank Debt, Flexibility, and the Use of Proceeds from Asset Sales"
Presented at the 2012 meeting of Midwest Finance Assoc.
- Bo Pikas, Ann Pikas, & Rebecca Shied (2011 marketing alumni) Feb 2012
"Assessing the Qualities of Athlete Endorsers: A Study of Consumer Preferences for the 3 Qualities of Sports Endorsers Attractiveness, Trustworthiness, Expertise"
Journal of Marketing Development and Competitiveness
- John Overbeck and Anna McNab, Jan 2012
"Developing a Marketing Plan as Part of Undergraduate Principles of Marketing Course" 11th Annual Niagara University International Conference on Teaching & Learning, Niagara University, NY.
- Anna McNab, Sarker, S., and Basoglu, K. A., Jan 2012
"Evolution of Trust in Distributed Software Development Teams: A Punctuated Equilibrium Model."
Electronic Markets - The International Journal on Networked Business. Special Issue on "Cross-Organizational and Cross-Border IS/IT Collaboration" 22 (1) pp. 21-36.
- Chris Aquino, Jan 2012
"Improving Teaching in a Freshmen Managerial Accounting Class: Collaboration Between Accounting and Education,"
Presented at Niagara University International Conference on Teaching and Learning, Niagara Falls, NY.
- Lei Han, co-authored paper with F. Hsiao, Jan 2012
"Exchange rate effects on a small open economy: Evidence from Taiwanese firms"
International Journal of Business and Finance Research V6 (3) pgs 1-13.
- Hoontaek Seo, co-authored with C. Edward Fee, Joshua R. Pierce and Shan Yan, Nov 2011
"Bank Debt, Flexibility and the Use of Proceeds from Asset Sales"
Accepted for presentation at the 2012 meetings of Midwest Finance Association
- Kathy Ho co-authored with Lei Han and Terry Zhu, Oct 2011
"Internal Factors Associated with Business Failure Companies in China - From a Financial Analytical Perspective"
Paper presented at the American Accounting Association Northeast Region Meeting
- Kathy Ho co-authored with Alfonso Oddo and Susan Sze, Sept 2011
Chapter 14 "Active Learning in Accounting: Lessons Learned" in the book "Case Studies in Active, Integrative Learning, Teaching Innovation that make a difference"
- Kathy Ho co-authored with Chris Aquino, Sept 2011
Chapter 11 "Glo-Bus Simulation in a First Management Accounting Class: An Assessment" in the book "Case Studies in Active, Integrative Learning, Teaching Innovation that make a difference"
- Kathy Ho, Sept 2011
"Monitoring Costs, Managerial Ethics and Corporate Governance: A Modeling Approach"
Journal of Business Ethics, vol 9.
- Lisa Williams, co-authored with Treadway, D.C., and Bentley, J.R., Sept 2011
"Political skill and Leadership"
Oxford Handbook of Leadership and Organizations
- Ed Hutton, Sept 2011
"The Pedagogical Impact of University Finance Competitions"
Paper presented at the Financial Education Annual Meeting in Orlando, FL
- Anna McNab, co-authored with Marett, K., and Harris, R., Aug 2011
"Designing Social Networking Websites and Posting Personal Information: An Evaluation of Protection Motivation Theory"
AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction
- Anna McNab, co-authored with Hust, Marett, Lei, Chang, Ren & Adams, Aug 2011
"Health Promotion Messages in Entertainment Media: Crime Drama Viewership and Intentions to Intervene in a Sexual Assault Situation"
Journal of Health Communication
- Lei Han, co-authored with Ho, L. J., Apr 2011
"Does SOX Reduce the Gap in Earnings Quality between Annual and Interim Reporting?"
Accepted by the American Accounting Association Annual Conference 2011.
- Anna McNab co-authored with Hust, S.J.T., Marett, E.G., Lei, M., Chang, H., Ren, C. & Adams, P. Apr 2011
"Health Promotion Messages in Entertainment Media: Crime Drama Viewership and Intentions to Intervene in a Sexual Assault Situation"
Journal of Health Communication
- Lisa Williams co-authored with Treadway, D.C., Breland, J.W., Yang, J., Cho, J., and Ferris, G
"Social Influence and Interpersonal Power in Organizations: Roles of Political Skill and Past Performance"
Accepted for publication in Journal of Management.
- Lisa Williams co-authored with Yang, J., Bentley, J.R., Reeves, M. & Seitz, S., Apr 2011
"The Impact of Narcissism and LMX on Followers' Feelings of being Envied and Job Performance"
Presented at annual Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Chicago.
- Kristine Principe, co-authored with Joe Eisenhauer of University of Detroit, Apr 2011
"Measuring Aversion to Health Risks"
6th Annual Business Research Consortium conference
- Kristine Principe, co-authored with MBA student Jenifer Maynard and Emory University colleagues Kathleen Adams and Ned Becker, Apr 2011
"The Individual Mandate, IRS Form 990 and Schedule H: What will be the Impact on Community Benefit?"
American Journal of Public Health
- Anna McNab, co-authored with Traci Hess and Joe Valacich, Feb 2011
"Designing Emergency Response Dispatch Systems for Better Dispatcher Performance"
AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction
- Bohdan Pikas and 2010 NU Alum Candice Lymburner, Jan 2011
"The Future of the Music Industry"
Journal of Marketing Development and Competitiveness
- Lisa Williams co-authored with Treadway, D.C., Breland, J.W., Yang, J. & Shaughnessy, B.A., Dec 2010
"Interactive effects of narcissism and political skill on network positioning"
Accepted for presentation at Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Annual meeting, Chicago, IL.
- Lisa Williams co-authored with Bentley, J. Treadway, D.C., Shaughnessy, B.A., and Yang, J. Dec 2010
"Thriving in the face of oppression: The moderating effect of political skill on the perceived victimization performance relationship, a three-study constructive replication"
Accepted for presentation at Society for Industrial and organizational Psychology Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
- Kathy Ho and Chris Aquino, Nov 2010
Kathy presented their paper "Glo-Bus Simulation in First Management Accounting class: An Assessment"
National Taiwan University, Taipei.
- Abdiweli Ali, Oct 2010
"State-Controlled Election: Why the Charade?"
Allied Academies conference, Las Vegas, NV
- Jim Kling, coauthored with Bill Angus, and Robin Wilber, Oct 2010
"Ethical Concerns in the Application of Transportation Company Fuel Surcharges"
Franklin Business and Law Review Journal
- Kristine Principe and Ann Rensel, Oct 2010
"The Relationship between Health Information Technology and the Provision of Community Benefit by Non-Profit Hospitals"
1st annual Workshop on Health IT and Economics, sponsored by the Center for Health Information and Decision Systems at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith's School of Business.
In addition, A. Rensel was the invited discussant of a paper, "A Premier Study of Physician Ratings on the Internet" by Guodong Gao of the University of Maryland.
- Tenpao Lee coauthored with Ann Rensel, Jian Zhao, and Shaoan Huang, Oct 2010
"Money Privatization and Economic Volatility"
International Academy of Business and Economics Conference in Las Vegas.
Published in the Journal of Academy of Business and Economics.
- Lisa Williams co-authored with Shaughnessy, B. A., Treadway, D.C., Breland, J.W., & Brouer, R.L., Sept 2010
"Influence and promotability: Importance of female political skill"
Journal of Managerial Psychology.
- Ed Hutton, Sept 2010
"Financial Laboratories — Their Role in the Finance Curriculum"
Financial Education Association Annual Meeting and their Conference Proceedings, San Antonio, TX
- Kathy Ho and Chris Aquino, July 2010
"Glo-Bus Simulation in First Management Accounting Class: An Assessment"
41st annual International Simulation and Gaming Association, Spokane, WA
- Alfonso Oddo, May 2010
"It's Time for Principles-Based Accounting Ethics"
Journal of Business Ethics
- Vince Agnello and Teresa Cardon, Apr 2010
"You Can't Always Get What You Want: Emerging Entrepreneurs and Law"
Business Research Consortium of Western New York 5th annual conference, Geneseo
- Kathy Ho coauthored a paper with Lerong He of Brockport University, Apr 2010
"Corporate Governance Model and Business Ethics Education"
Business Research Consortium of Western New York 5th annual conference, Geneseo
- Vince Agnello and Bohdan Pikas and coauthors Audrey Agnello and Anastasia Pikas, Mar 2010
"Today's Learner, Preferences in Teaching Techniques"
American Journal of Business Education
- Bill Peek, Mar 2010
"The Impact of U.S. and Canadian exchange rate on sales tax revenue"
Southwestern Society of Economics, Dallas, TX
- Abdiweli Ali, Mar 2010
"Inequality and Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation"
International Atlantic Economic conference, Prague, Czech Republic
- Christopher P. Wright, Feb 2010
"Dynamic Revenue: Management in Airline Alliances"
Transportation Science (Vol. 44, No. 1)
- Ed Hutton, Jan 2010
"Challenges and Opportunities of Teaching Finance in a Computer Lab"
CCTL Conference, Niagara University
- Alfonso Oddo, Jan 2010
"Students as Partners in Education"
CCTL Conference, Niagara University
- Chris Aquino and Kathy Ho, Jan 2010
"Best Practices for Using Simulation Projects in Accounting Classes"
CCTL Conference, Niagara University
- Anna McNab and co-authors X. Li, T. Hess, and Y. Yu, Sept 2009
"Culture and Acceptance of Global Web Sites: A Cross-Country Study of the Effects of National Cultural Values on Acceptance of a Personal Web Portal"
The Data Base for Advances in Information Systems
- Kristine E. Principe and Joseph G. Eisenhauer, March 2009
"Gift-Giving and Deadweight Loss"
Journal of Socio-Economics March 2009: 38(2) 215-220. Lead Article
- Joseph G. Eisenhauer and Kristine E. Principe, 2009
"Price Knowledge and Elasticity"
Journal of Empirical Generalizations in Marketing Science 2009: 12(2).


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T. Bullock. I 'AZAAR, BURNETT STREET. I > WEEKLY SALE OF HORSES EVERY SATURDAY, Commencing at 1 p.m. F OR SALE, CHEAP. 127 Acres first-class LAND, fronting on the Wakanui Creek, being Rural Sections 20632 and 20633, divided into three paddocks; all in English grass ; there is a hut and stable on the farm. This would make a capital dairy farm. Will be sold cheap and on liberal terms. Apply to T. BULLOCK. rjlO FARMERS AND OTHERS. TO LET for CROPPING about SCO acres, 100 of which have been cropped once, the remainder is ploughed and ready for cross-ploughing. Apply to T. BULLOCK, Or MR W. L. RICHARDS, Near The Grange. TO LET.—BOARDING HOUSE in East street, presently in occupation of Mr C. Truckle. Apply to T. BULLOCK. rjpO PERSONS DESIROUS OF STARTING A BACON CURING FACTORY. FOR SALE CHEAP—--4 Sections on the South East Town Belt, containing 1 Acre. Capital site for Bacon Curing Establishment. Arrangements can be made for suitable buildings to be erected on the site. Purchasers will only be required to pay current rate of interest on the outlay. For further particulars, apply to T. BULLOCK. JpOR SALE. A BARGAIN!! A 4ft Cin RANGE. Quite new. T. BULLOCK. MONEY TO LEND, at a low rate of interest, in sums of £SO and upwards. Apply to T. BULLOCK, T. Bullock, Auctioneer, estate, iKD GENERAL COMMISSION AGENT, EAST STREET, AND AT THE BAZAAR, BURNETT STREET, Ashburton.
PROPERTIES FOR SALE and TO LET with a purchassing clause : FARMS. 66 Acres —a compact farm ; all fenced, well watered, and partly in English grass. Improvements consist of a comfortable S-roomed cottage, stable, stockyard, etc., etc. Situated at Longbeacb. 270 Acres, well cultivated, situated at Wakanui, about six miles from the town of Ashburton, all fenced and subdivided into seven paddocks, with live fences. Improvements—seven-roomed house, seven-stalled stable, chaff-store, and other bu'tdings. 220 Acres, all fenced, partly improved and well watered, Longbeach. Would make a capital dairy farm. 65 Acres, about 3 miles from the town of Ashburton ; fenced and cultivated. To be sold cheap. 150 Acres, near the above, and adjoining Mr. George Aston's. Fenced and otherwise improved. 84 Acres, subdivided into four paddocks, well watered with a never failing stream. Capital dwelling-house of five rooms, coach-house, store, etc. Situated on Mr Hart's Run, about eight miles from the township of Ashburton. This is a very desirable residence. 162 Acres Freehold ) A well cultivated farm, 24 Acres Leasehold ( all fenced and subdivided with live, well kept fences. There are also two wells with a plentiful supply of water. The land is also broken up, part in crop, and part in English grass. Improvements consist of a well built comfortable six-roomed dwelling-house, also a four-stalled stable and granary capable of storing 2,000 bushels of grain. 236 Acres, situated near Messrs Gould and Cameron's, close to the Ashburton Forks railway. 50 Acres near Winslow, partly improved. 267 Acres about I mile from Hinds railway station, on Maronan run. SUBURBAN PROPERTIES. Lot 2, half an acre on the East Town Belt, near the Parsonage, on which is erected a Dwelling-house of seven rooms ; this is a desirable property, and will be sold cheap. Lot 11, 12, 13, Alford Forest Road, with 5roomed Cottage erected thereon. Terms, small deposit, cash; balance on mortgage foi a number of years. Lot 34, 35, each % acre, Mayo's Block ; good land, and capital she for a house. Lot 12. Trevorton, on which is erected a well built 4-roomed Collage, it is securely fenced. The garden is well stocked with fruit trees. This is a desirable property, and will be sold cheap, and on liberal terms of payment. 278—First-class land, good site for private house. TOWN PROPERTIES. That Valuable Town Section 159 Tancrcd street, wi'l be sold very cheap and on easy terms. 439 —Eighth of an acre, terms same as above. "77 —Kermode street. 32 —Corner section, with a well built cottage erected thereon. 337 —Moore street, on which is erected cottage and blacksmith's shop. 9 5,< '6, East street North, also T.S. 771, coiner of Wakanui road and Cox street. This valuable section contains about half an acre, and has five chains front ageTINWALD TOWNSHIP. Lots 187, 188, containing about four acres of really first-class laud, close to the bridge and fronting the river. This is a desirable site for a private residence, price "low, terms easy. Lots 502, 503, 510, 511, four sections in one block, small deposit cash, balance by instalments. Lot 134 —Quarter-acre to be sold cheap. Lot 89—Quarter-acre, cheap,, and on easy terms. Lots 357, 358, each Quarter-acre, with cottage of four rooms erected thereon, TO LET. Two Shops in Moore street. Butchers' khop and Dwelling House attached, and situated in Havelock street, lately in the occupation of Mr Geo. Worner. There is a Ihree-st ailed stable, and other necessary buildings on ihc premises. Shop situated in the Tr : angle, Wakanui Road, near the Post Office. For full particulars, apply t® T BULLOCK, 221 a Estate Atp nt
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Chelsea interim manager Rafael Benitez will shake Neil Warnock's hand before Wednesday's Capital One Cup quarter-final against Leeds.
Warnock, the Leeds boss, is unsure whether he will complete the pre-match gesture at Elland Road due to a dispute between the two dating back to 2007 when they were respective Sheffield United and Liverpool managers.
Benitez was accused by his rival of playing a weakened team that Warnock felt contributed to United's relegation from the Barclays Premier League. "I'm professional so will do my job. I'm professional, I will behave," the Spaniard said.
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After a slow start for the first three months of the year, we are now into the busy spring period and the supply of listings on the market remains very high, based on reports through the Association of Regina REALTORS® Inc MLS® System.
Statistics for April 2014 compared to April 2013:
- Sales increased 16% from 339 to 393, in the city sales increased 14% from 279 to 318
- Active Listings at the end of April increased 36% – from 1,449 to 1,966. In the city, an increase of 46% from 803 to 1,215. This is the highest number of homes for sale at the end of April in the past ten years.
- In April, there were 897 new listings, up 25% from 715 in 2013
For April, the MLS® Home Price Index (HPI) which is a much more accurate measure of housing price trends than the average price – reported a composite residential price of $305,000 and index of 280.8 for the city. These are down 1.5% from last year's levels of $309,600 and 285.0. This indicates that residential property values have actually declined in Regina over the past year. The decrease is evident in all housing types. The HPI measures residential price trends based on four benchmark home types.
The supply of listings for sale has grown, bringing the number of homes on the market to a level not seen in recent years. This is offering choice to buyers in almost all price ranges and locations.
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If you are an connoisseur of irony like I am, you're gonna love this story that Jason Thibeault picked up on the other day. They're making a movie about Noah's Ark and the production was delayed. Due to flooding from the hurricane. The punchline:
To make it as realistic as possible, the director built a massive ark, which measures 450 feet long, 75 feet tall and 45 feet wide. Unfortunately, it was never meant to be sailed.
Imagine that. Mother nature is a method actor. In fact, they apparently can't even get to the ark they built to see how much damage there was:
An interior set built on a Brooklyn sound stage was unharmed but the crew have been unable to reach the 75-foot-tall, 450-foot-long and 45-f00t-wide exterior structure in Oyster Bay, which was directly in Sandy's path.
"Noah," which stars Russell Crowe as the biblical character, was set to wrap filming in three weeks, cinematographer Matthew Libatique wrote on his Twitter account Oct. 24.
"@DarrenAronofsky @russellcrowe What better place to be during a hurricane than on an ARK. Here's to a strong finish," Libatique tweeted Sunday before the storm hit New York.
"I take it that the irony of a massive storm holding up the production of Noah is not lost @DarrenAronofsky@russellcrowe @MattyLibatique," Emma Watson, who also stars in the film, tweeted Sunday.
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Killer7 from Capcom has been announced and is one of the highly anticipated titles of E3 this year mainly due to that fact that this is the second cell shaded first person shooter game to be released. XIII was the first FPS that was cell shaded, but Killer 7 has a unique twist to it. In the game you are Harman Smith, an assassin who is the dominate consciousness over 7 different personalities. Switching between his seven different personalities, Harman employs each personality's unique abilities to complete their mission. Using each personalities unique abilities, you must destroy creatures released by a kingpin crime boss and make your way to him to end the criminal madness. You can switch through any of the 7 personalities during gameplay to reach your goal. Killer 7 will be released in June 2005 for the PS2 and Gamecube.
Never Be Disrespectful To Prospects
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I just read a great example of how to not grow your company and maintain good rapport with potential clients. Unfortunately, I have seen it too many times. If you are trying to sell a product or service, you need to know that you will more than likely not be the only one selling it. Based on this fact, you will win some - and you will lose some. The key is to be gracious in defeat. If you are trying to pitch to someone, and they choose a competitor, always let them know that you appreciated their consideration of your services. You never know - they may choose to go with you in the future. Whatever you do, do not become another statistic:
One finalist in the process replied with a snide comment to me after I informed the firm that I was moving forward with someone else. I thanked him for his time, and he replied with a curt email that read, simply:
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E3 2005: Teen Titans Comes To Consoles
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I'm a big fan of the comic and show Teen Titans and Majesco has brought them to the console world. Not much of the story has been revealed, but we know that the game includes more than 10 of the villains from the series including Slade, Cinderblock, Jinx, and more. You start off with the standard Titans team: Raven, Starfire, Cyborg, Beast Boy, and Robin, but you can also unlock at least 10 more characters. You can switch between which Titan you want to play as in real time, which is good because each Titan has unique abilities. There is a multi-player mode where you can either do Co-Op or up to 4 player versus. I haven't gotten a chance to play the game yet, but from what we've seen it looks promising. Teen Titans will be on Xbox, PS2, and Gamecube and is scheduled for release early 2006.
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If, after 2008, you still expect the stock market to fund your retirement, most people probably consider you a few congressmen short of a bailout. (Zing!) Yes, it was tough being openly optimistic after a year in which every bull became a steer.
But there are a few perks -- like profiting from buying stocks at what could be some of the best prices you'll ever see.
A brief history of 2008
2008 was a fantastic demonstration of what happens when, in a highly leveraged world, everyone needs liquidity at the same time.
Anyone who borrowed to buy mortgage-backed securities needed cash as mortgage values plummeted. Investment banks like Morgan Stanley
The problem is, when everyone needs cash, the only way to get it is to sell off assets. And that's what investors did, dumping almost every asset class with the exception of ultra-safe Treasuries. The stock market took it on the chin.
An overreaction
That's not to say that the market collapsed simply because everyone cashed out. The problems in our economy are real. We've seen huge bankruptcies, the unemployment rate has risen to around 10%, and consumer confidence is low.
But the carnage in the market isn't limited to the shaky companies that are likely to suffer the most. The S&P 500 contains the biggest, most successful, and most stable businesses in America. Yet despite the recent market run-up, more than 68% of the companies in the S&P 500 are down from the start of 2008. Some 10% lost more than half their value!
Certainly, deteriorating business prospects are responsible for some of that drop. But based on valuations, it seems likely that stock investors sold because they had to. Like everyone else, they needed the cash.
And that's a really great thing if you're not one of Wall Street's forced sellers, because it means that despite the broader market run-up in 2009, at least some of those companies remain deeply undervalued -- for now.
The sweet spot
Large-cap value stocks could be the best way to exploit this opportunity. I'm not just talking about slow-growing companies trading at low single-digit earnings multiples, but also compellingly cheap growth stocks.
For instance, these days, the universe of large-cap value stocks includes Microsoft
So why are large-cap value stocks a great investment these days? Not because these stocks are certain to outperform the other categories under all circumstances, but because they present the ideal trade-off between risk and reward in these troubling times.
While there's a good chance that the economy will continue showing signs of life this year, there's a possibility that things will get even worse. When you're betting your retirement, you should own businesses that can survive the worst-case scenario.
Low risk, high reward
Generally, large-cap stocks fit that criterion. They have the most stable cash flows, the most well-known brands, the greatest economies of scale, and the best chance of recovering from mistakes.
Would you put your money on Intel
In normal times, you'd really have to pay up for these sorts of dominant companies. But thanks to forced selling from investors struggling to raise cash, right now you can still find some excellent businesses extremely cheap.
What's more, thanks to the poor economy, the earnings of these powerhouse companies have been depressed this year, which means that their normalized earnings multiple is even more compelling. Large-cap stocks are still cheap, and I believe they will offer superior returns over the next few years.
The Foolish bottom line
Of course, you still have to be careful -- as 2008 has shown us, you can't just throw a dart at the S&P 500 and expect to strike it rich. You still need to pay attention to balance sheets and monitor how much cash companies are bringing in during these troubling times.
But if you're alert, you can find the stocks right now that will pay for your retirement. So now is a good time to start buying large-cap value stocks. If you're interested in ideas, our Motley Fool Inside Value team has identified the dirt-cheap stocks that we think offer the most enticing combination of safety and upside potential. You can read our complete analysis with a 30-day free trial.
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This article was originally published Jan. 8, 2009. It has been updated.
Fool contributor Richard Gibbons knows all too well the pain of becoming a steer. He owns shares of Microsoft. Intel, Microsoft, and Pfizer are Inside Value recommendations. The Fool owns a covered strangle on Intel. Motley Fool Options recommended buying calls on Intel and diagonal calls on Microsoft. The Fool's disclosure policy wears a large cap to avoid sunburn.


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I'm supposed to be eating whole grains to help manage my cholesterol, but I can't stand the taste of wheat bread, nor do i particularly like brown rice. So far I've come up with Wheat Thins crackers and an oatmeal recipe I'm hoping will be good for breakfasts (trying it tomorrow morning). Any ideas for bento-friendly recipes where I won't taste the whole grains very strongly?
hello yamikuronue,
you could throw a handful of cooked grains on a salad, they give fun texture and you won't taste them very much that way..
Have you tried bulgar wheat? It cooks in 20 minutes, and it's not so "wheaty" tasting, although it is considered a whole grain. It's great in tabbouleh. It also makes a nice pilaf, esp. if you cook it with dried apricots and slivered almonds. Rehfilet's suggestion is great; you can try barley in a salad with apples and walnuts, and you can try fattoush--a mid-eastern salad made with dry pita bread (you could use whole wheat pita bread). You toss the salad with lemon juice, herbs, extra virgin olive oil, tomatoes and lettuce, along with torn, dry pita bread. It's very good, and you wouldn't have the pronounced taste of the whole wheat bread.
Also, don't overlook grains like millet, quinoa, rye, and others, and even though it's not technically a grain, buckwheat. Millet and quinoa cook rapidly and are mild-tasting and good for you.
Hope this helps.
Oh, lest I forget, there is actually a white wheat that is increasingly available in breads. Look for "whole white wheat" on the label. I used to bake my mom and grandmother fresh bread with whole white wheat, because they, like so many, didn't like the whole wheat taste, but needed to add whole grains to their diet. They really liked it, and you may, as well.
All the grains Bento-ing suggested are great options, I would also add barley. The most user friendly of using it is to put it in a soup, but you can also use it on it's own like rice or in a porridge.
For oatmeal there are a ton of different options, when I am in the mood for it I make a big pot of steel cut for the week and use whatever I have on hand for flavor. Some of my favorites are apple cinnamon (unsweetened applesauce and cinnamon), pumpkin (unsweetened puree'd pumpkin with pumpkin pie spices), banana blueberry (mash banana and fresh/frozen blueberries), or simply adding raisins with some cinnamon and nutmeg.
The recipe I have uses dried figs, dried cranberries, buttermillk, and water in a crock pot overnight. The power went out last night so I still haven't tried it but if it turns out well I might try some of your ideas
"Stop having the boring tuna; stop having the boring life" - Vince Offer
That sounds delicious. You know, you can soak the oatmeal and other ingredients overnight (even if you don't put it in slowcooker) and in the morning, it takes mere minutes to heat up. I've read, too, that such a method makes it easier to digest and more beneficial, too (although I don't know why). I'm wishing I had figs, now; that recipe of yours makes me hungry for breakfast.
You know, one way you might accustom yourself to other grains is to add a few to your slow cooker oatmeal recipe--just a little at a time.
There are also some excellent multi-grain rolled cereals that cook like oatmeal. One of my favorites has rye, barley, wheat, oats, and spelt. I order it by 25-lb bags from Walton Feeds.
Give brown basmati rice a try. I find it lighter and much more satisfying than regular brown rice. You might also try mixing things up in a pilaf or fried rice with lots of vegetables. I keep a bag in the freezer into which I toss different kinds of rice leftover from dinner (e.g., white, haiga, brown basmati, etc.). Whenever I have a sufficient amount, I make fried rice.
Also, give lentils a try, either as a side dish or tossed in soup, curry, stew or spaghetti sauce. It has a lot of fiber, and practically disappears when cooked in dishes with a lot of liquid.
Here's a fiber chart that might be helpful in finding foods to manage your cholesterol. http://www.wehealny.org/healthinfo/dietaryfiber/fibercontentchart.html
Fish disguises the taste of a lot of things. I can't remember who it was on the forum who first mentioned salmon and avocado on rice with soy sauce, but it's delicious and I do it with bulghur instead of rice. Bowl of bulghur (your good whole grain), chopped avocado (good fat + vitamins), sliced smoked or raw salmon (good fats and protein), I put in some shredded nori or the seasoned seaweed Koreans have as a snack, and a wee drizzle of soy sauce. Mix and eat. Yummy. Good also with brown rice, or also probably with any other grain.
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Except that already I only eat fish if I can disguise the fishy taste of it - so using that same taste I don't like to hide the grains won't work >.>
Mm, avocado... I wonder if guac on wheat thins would be good instead of tortilla chips. They have sort of a neutral, salty flavor...
"Stop having the boring tuna; stop having the boring life" - Vince Offer
I forgot to mention kibbeh and meat loaf. Bulgar is used in kibbeh (one of my favorite dishes ever), and you can use any number of grains to extend the meat in burgers or meat loaves.
Have you tried dressing up whole grains? I tend to get people to be more open if the healthy food is full of flavor rather than a plain side. I think a whole grain dish like this would be great for a bento, since it reheat well but also is pretty darn good just out of the fridge.
I agree with dressing up whole grains. Is it the flavor of the brown rice that you don't like, or is it the texture? If it's the flavor, you could try cooking it with chicken/vegetable stock and spices instead of plain water. I've never tried this, but you could look at risotto recipes for ideas. You'd end up with a different texture than a risotto, but you could probably duplicate the flavor.
I have a bunch of soba noodles and no idea what to do with it :)
i love soba noodles but i need some ideas to make it more interesting for a winter bento
You could try looking for rustic breads at a bakery. If your in the mood to do some baking, bran muffins are always good. Making the muffins yourself gives you the opportunity to add whatever extras you want (wether it be raisins, nuts, dates, cranberries, applesauce, ect.) and you can make them as small or big as you want so that they can fit in your bento :)
On a side note, I never ate wholewheat anything as a kid (except for oatmeal and bran muffins) then I married my hubby who did grow up eating wholewheat. Thats the only kind of bread we buy (lack of a budget for both...I drew the short straw) Anywho, its taken a while, but I'm use to the texture/flavour now and I don't think twice about ordering sandwiches on whole wheat. I guess what I'm getting at, is it does get easier:D
I found that recipes that include whole grains but have a lot of other strong flavors or ingredients helped me include more into my diet since I'm not a huge fan of the taste of whole grains myself.
This quinoa salad (http://ipixy.wordpress.com/2010/06/23/black-bean-quinoa-salad/) recipe worked well because it had so many other flavors and things going on that it doesn't even taste like a grain based salad to me. Try whole grain pastas too, with a really good flavorful sauce you might not notice the difference at all.
have you tried triscuit crackers? there are so many combinations of things that you can put on them to mask the whole grainy flavor but still be able to get a good amount of your whole grains for the day. and they have a variety of different flavors too! rosemary and olive oil, sun dried tomato, roasted garlic, garden herb... to name a few.
a few toppings:
-avocado and turkey
-cottage cheese with pepper
-ham and cheese
-B&B pickles and cheese (odd but very delicious)
-etc.. etc...
i also have found that if you are making meat balls, instead of the regular bread crumbs, triscuits work very very well!
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The problem with conservativism in 2013.
The key problem that I believe conservativism has to face in 2013 and the near future is that it doesn't have an answer to what has become the most critical problem for the 21st century economy: inequality.
There has been a historical tendency over the past 15 years and three Presidents to concentrate more and more wealth with the wealthy, and less and less wealth with everybody else. Inequality is at all time highs on that front, and it gives the middle and lower classes less spending money, slogs down the economy, and ultimately splits the economic pie even greater into the hands of the few.
Liberalism has a whole host of solutions, bordering from the more free market tendencies of the Democratic Party and the mainstream liberal movement, to the more socialist suggestions frequently made by the party's left wing. Some of them can be argued as legitimately good ideas (raising the minimum wage, capping the multi-billion dollar tax breaks for huge corporations, any number of investments in college education), some of them are obviously more on the fringe.
Conservativism's answer seems to be singular and ineffective: get "government out of the way," undo the massive structure of government regulation, and the economy will grow. And like a rising tide that lifts all boats (think "trickle down" economics), as the economy grows, so too will the fortunes of the lower and middle classes. Honestly, if conservativism has more of a message than this right now with regards to inequality, I've missed it.
The problem with this message, and conservativism in general right now, is that it seems outdated for 2013. As the economy has grown at times throughout the past fifteen years, the middle class and working poor have seen less and a less of a return on that progress, and the upper class has soared. In other words, the absolute core conservative response to the biggest issue affecting working Americans in 2013 is no longer applicable. It had some bearing, perhaps, in previous decades, but we now reside in an era where this dynamic no longer holds water.
Economists are reportedly attempting to figure out why that is the case. A decrease in education quality seems, to me, to be the most convincing cause, although obviously this is something that deserves a holistic analysis.
But either way, I don't really see convincing analysis that growth is enough anymore. It seems that a reduction in inequality seems now to be just as important.
Growth isn't enough to help the middle class
By Jim Tankersley
Published: February 13
Two kinds of middle-class Americans are struggling today — people who can't find any work or enough work, and full-timers who can't seem to get ahead.
Democrats and Republicans prescribe economic growth to help both groups. There was a time that would have been enough. But not today.
In the past three recoveries from recession, U.S. growth has not produced anywhere close to the job and income gains that previous generations of workers enjoyed. The wealthy have continued to do well. But a percentage point of increased growth today simply delivers fewer jobs across the economy and less money in the pockets of middle-class families than an identical point of growth produced in the 40 years after World War II.
That has been painfully apparent in the current recovery. Even as the Obama administration touts the return of economic growth, millions of Americans are not seeing an accompanying revival of better, higher-paying jobs.
The consequences of this breakdown are only now dawning on many economists and have not gained widespread attention among policymakers in Washington. Many lawmakers have yet to even acknowledge the problem. But repairing this link is arguably the most critical policy challenge for anyone who wants to lift the middle class.
Economists are not clear how the economy got to the point where growth drives far less job creation and broadly shared prosperity than it used to. Some theorize that a major factor was globalization, which enabled companies to lay off highly paid workers in the United States during recessions and replace them with lower-paid ones overseas during recoveries.
There is even less agreement on policy prescriptions. Some liberal economists argue that the government should take more-aggressive steps to redistribute wealth. Many economists believe more education will improve the skills of American workers, helping them obtain higher-paying jobs. And still others say the government should seek to reduce the cost of businesses to create new jobs.
The problem is relatively new. From 1948 through 1982, recessions and recoveries followed a tight pattern. Growth plunged in the downturn, then spiked quickly, often thanks to aggressive interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve. When growth returned, so did job creation, and workers generally shared in the spoils of new economic output.
You can see those patterns in comparisons of job creation and growth rates across post-World War II recoveries. Starting in 1949 and continuing for more than 30 years, once the economy started to grow after a recession, major job creation usually followed within about a year.
At the height of those recoveries, every percentage point of economic growth typically spurred about six-tenths of a percentage point of job growth, when compared with the start of the recovery. You could call that number the "job intensity" of growth.
The pattern began to break down in the 1992 recovery, which began under President George H.W. Bush. It took about three years — instead of one — for job creation to ramp up, even when the economy was growing. Even then, the "job intensity" of that recovery barely topped 0.4 percent, or about two-thirds the normal rate.
The next two recoveries were even worse. Three and a half years into the recovery that began in 2001 under President George W. Bush, job intensity was stuck at less than 0.2 percent. The recovery under President Obama is now up to an intensity of 0.3 percent, or about half the historical average.
Middle-class income growth looks even worse for those recoveries. From 1992 to 1994, and again from 2002 to 2004, real median household incomes fell — even though the economy grew more than 6 percent, after adjustments for inflation, in both cases. From 2009 to 2011 the economy grew more than 4 percent, but real median incomes grew by 0.5 percent.
In contrast, from 1982 to 1984, the economy grew by nearly 11 percent and real median incomes grew by 5 percent.
Today, nearly four years after the Great Recession, 12 million Americans are actively looking for work but can't find a job; 11 million others are stuck working part time when they would like to be full time, or they would like to work but are too discouraged to job-hunt. Meanwhile, workers' median wages were lower at the end of 2012, after adjustments for inflation, than they were at the end of 2003. Real household income was lower in 2011 than it was in 1989.
Obama alluded to the breakdown between growth and middle-class wages and jobs in his State of the Union address. "Every day," he said, "we should ask ourselves three questions as a nation: How do we attract more jobs to our shores? How do we equip our people with the skills needed to do those jobs? And how do we make sure that hard work leads to a decent living?"
But outside of some targeted help for manufacturing jobs and some new investments in skills training, the proposals Obama offered focused comparatively little on repairing the relationship between growth and jobs, or growth and income. Obama's boldest plans included increasing the minimum wage and guaranteeing every child a preschool education. Both aim largely at boosting poorer Americans and helping their children gain a better shot at landing the higher-paying jobs.
The Republican response to Obama's speech did not appear to nod to the new reality at all. Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) said that "economic growth is the best way to help the middle class" and offered few job-creation proposals that appeared materially different from what Republican politicians have pushed since the 1980s.
Economists are still trying to sort out what broke the historical links between growth and jobs/incomes.
Economists are still trying to sort out what broke the historical links between growth and jobs/incomes.
Federal Reserve Bank of New York economists Erica Groshen and Simon Potter concluded in a 2003 paper that the recoveries from the 1990 and 2001 recessions were largely "jobless" because employers had fundamentally changed how they responded to recessions. In the past, firms laid off workers during downturns but called them back when the economy picked up again. Now, they are using recessions as a trigger to lay off less-productive workers, never to hire them back.
Economists at the liberal Economic Policy Institute trace the problem to a series of policy choices that, they say, have eroded workers' ability to secure rising incomes. Those choices include industry deregulation and the opening of global markets on unfavorable terms for U.S. workers.
In the latest edition of their book "The State of Working America," EPI economists argue that an "increasingly well-paid financial sector and policies regarding executive compensation fueled wage growth at the top and the rise of the top 1 percent's incomes" at the expense of average workers.
Robert Shapiro, an economist who advised Bill Clinton on the campaign trail and in the White House, traces the change to increased global competition.
"It makes it hard for firms to pass along their cost increases — for health care, energy and so on — in higher prices," he said. "So instead they cut other costs, starting with jobs and wages."
Shapiro said the best way to restart job creation is to help businesses cut the costs of hiring, including by reducing the employer side of the payroll tax and pushing more aggressive efforts to hold down health-care cost increases.
Obama seems to have embraced an approach pushed by Harvard University economists Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz: helping more Americans graduate from college and go on to high-skilled, higher-paying jobs. It's a longer-term bet. But as senior administration officials like to say, the problem didn't start overnight, and it's not likely to be solved overnight, either.
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New study badly undermines GOP position on sequester
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on February 20, 2013 at 12:02 pm
In a rational world, a new study that came out today on income equality would constitute a major blow to the GOP argument on the sequester.
The new study was performed by Thomas Hungerford of the non-partisan Congressional Research Service. Though the study is not a CRS product, Hungerford's data is widely cited on both sides; he's an impeccably objective analyst.
Here's what Hungerford found: The single greatest driver of income inequality over a recent 15 year period was runaway income from capital gains and dividends.
This finding is directly relevant to the current debate, because Obama and Democrats want to offset the sequester in part by closing loopholes enjoyed by the wealthy, such as the one that keeps tax rates on capital gains and dividends low. Dems want to do this in order to prevent a scenario where the sequester is averted only by deep spending cuts to social programs that could hurt a whole lot of poor and middle class Americans. Republicans oppose closing any such loopholes and want to avert the sequester with only deep spending cuts.
Hungerford's report, like all serious examinations of inequality, is very complicated. He looks at a bunch of recent data on inequality from the period from 1991-2006 — measured by the so-called "Gini index" — and calculates the degree to which various factors exacerbated it. Hungerford found that over that period, the rise in the Gini index (a story that's been widely told elsewhere, one that's largely been driven by the runaway wealth of the top one percent and top 0.1 percent) was driven mainly by the rise in capital gains and dividends income.
"By far, the largest contributor to increasing income inequality (regardless of income inequality measure) was changes in income from capital gains and dividends," the report concludes.
Or, as Hungerford put it in an interview with me: "The reason income inequality has been increasing has been the rising income going to the top one percent. Most of that has come in capital gains and dividends."
In other words, wealthy beneficiaries of low tax rates on capital gains and dividends are doing extremely well — and their runaway wealth is a major driver of income inequality. There's a lot of that money out there that could be taxed as ordinary income — as Obama and Dems want — as a way to avert the sequester, which could badly damage the economy. Republicans oppose this.
This finding comes as even some conservatives are reckoning with the fact that the GOP's message on the sequester is deeply flawed. Writer Byron York notes today that Republicans are openly conceding that the sequester will gut the military, even as they openly point to the sequester as an acceptable policy outcome. As York argues, this has put Republicans in an "untenable position."
If anything, that position is made worse by the new study's finding. After all, Republicans are openly conceding the sequester will damage our national security, even as they refuse to avert it by agreeing to the closing of loopholes benefiting the wealthy — even though this would likely be part of a deal in which they got more in spending cuts than they'd be conceding in new revenues! As the new study shows, those benefiting from GOP opposition to any new revenues are doing extremely well indeed — lending more ammo to the Democratic argument that Republicans would sooner damage our military and economy than ask for a penny in new revenues from the very rich.
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What major event were Austrian economists very vocal about during the Nixon administration? Figure that out, and you will have the cause of the growing income inequality. It isn't less progressive, more unequal tax rates.
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A capitalistic economy requires the movement of wealth through the system. A capitalistic economy requires the movement goods. If wealth is concentrated and monopolized at the very top, then that money is doing nothing for the overall economy. Its not moving through the system. It turns it from capitalism to a sorta Corporate Feudalism.
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1) Why would high levels of wealthy inequality be good?
2) If the top percent have increased their share of the economic pie, why haven't we seen any sort of trickle down?
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For example, the top target of people who seem to think income inequality is bad is our tax code. Specifically, those people claim that our tax code isn't progressive enough and that the rates on investment income (cap gains and dividends) are too low. You're telling me that the problem with inequality is a lack of upward mobility. Increasing progressivity and increasing rates on investment income both hinder upward mobility.
So again, what's the problem with income inequality?
And since upward mobility is important to you, do you agree that we should flatten the tax code further and reduce taxes on investment income instead of increase it?
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It seems expensive to me for three hydrometers and a rack that are not also thermometers. Price aside though, I question the need for them.
I have no need to be that precise. As long as 5 or 6 of my beers give me a nice buzz I don't really care what the precise ABV was.
That's a pretty good deal. A typical three-hydrometer brewer's set would run closer to $100 (example), though as Tom mentioned those would have thermometers and correction scales. Assuming the quality is decent, my other concern is that the ranges aren't really set up well for beer. The professional models cover ranges of about 8°P, from 0 to 24. The ones NB is selling are 10, 17, and 16, give or take. They go way above and below the practical range, sacrificing precision.So while the price is right, if I was set on committing that kind of money to a precision set, I'd pay a little more and get the real deal.


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Stay Nourished! Our 10 Favorite Lunch Recipes from March 2012
This past March we went meal by meal, eating our way week by week through breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert. We especially love focusing on lunch, since eating a good lunch is such an important part of staying nourished every day. Here's a look back at 10 recipes that emerged from March — from frittata cups with kale and goat cheese that are good for any meal of the day, to lentil wraps that beat the socks off Trader Joe's very popular version, to barbecue shredded chicken that can be made and frozen ahead of time. There are vegetarian lunches, and lunches with meat — take a look!
• 1 Kale and Goat Cheese Fritatta Cups
• 2 Spicy Lentil Wraps with Tahini Sauce
• 3 Boiled Egg, Seared Asparagus & Pickled Onion Sandwiches
• 4 Black Rice Salad with Avocado and Grapefruit
• 5 Springtime Soba with Miso Sauce
• 6 Roasted Sweet Potato Wraps with Caramelized Onions and Pesto (chicken optional!)
• 7 Chicken Cordon Bleu-Croque Monsieur
• 8 Yogurt-Marinated Chicken & Creamy Greek Sauce
• 9 Sausage, Artichoke & Goat Cheese Egg Bake
• 10 Barbecue Shredded Chicken
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From December 17 through January 1 we are rounding up some of our favorite (and your favorite) posts from the past year.
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By: William Mansell
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Sinkholes are scary, loud, damaging and can come without a moments notice. Does that mean, however, that you cannot prepare at all?
Can your purchase property insurance in Westchase that covers sinkhole damages?
According to Florida Statute 627.706, in most cases, the answer is yes:
"Every insurer authorized to transact property insurance in this state must provide coverage for a catastrophic ground cover collapse.
The insurer shall make available, for an appropriate additional premium, coverage for sinkhole losses on any structure, including the contents of personal property contained therein, to the extent provided in the form to which the coverage attaches. The insurer may require an inspection of the property before issuance of sinkhole loss coverage. A policy for residential property insurance may include a deductible amount applicable to sinkhole losses equal to 1 percent, 2 percent, 5 percent, or 10 percent of the policy dwelling limits, with appropriate premium discounts offered with each deductible amount."
While current property insurance policies should include coverage for sinkhole damages, there are exceptions.
According to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, an insurance company can deny you sinkhole coverage if a sinkhole has been reported in a nearby "area" of the property you are wishing to insure.
"Currently, an insurance company has the right to not issue an insurance policy on the basis of sinkholes in the "area." The definition of "area" remains subjective, and the issue will likely only be resolved through specific legislation, or by the general adoption of a standard by the insurance industry. Some companies utilize private sinkhole data to assign relative sinkhole risk (see question #12). Other companies may have more liberal policies, and you may wish to shop around for other insurance that may be available."In an interview with WTSP, State Rep. Mike Fasano said there has to be remedy to allow more homeowners to protect their homes.
"If you fix a sinkhole according to the engineer's requirements then no company should then drop you. That should be against the law in the state of Florida," Fasano told WTSP. According to the Christian Science Monitor, more recent sinkhole claims have caused insurance rates to skyrocket.
"We ended up with an enormous explosion in the amount of sinkhole claims coming forward," says Robin Westcott, Florida's Insurance Consumer Advocate, in a telephone interview with the Monitor. "We were handing out checks to people with cracks in their driveways and patio for sinkhole damage and it didn't mean repairs were required. There was not a clearly defined threshold for what structural damage was covered."


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I hope everyone is enjoying that wonderful week between Christmas and New Year's wherein not much work ever gets done. That would include me and I'm going to be taking a bit of a break by reposting pieces from my archives. This is a post I wrote as a guest piece for 5 Minutes for Mom back in March but it's even more applicable to blogging today as that post-holiday lull hits hard.
I've been blogging at Scribbit for almost three years--four if you count that first year of goofing around without much purpose--and I can tell you that there are some definite cycles that come with the business.
Ups and downs, highs and lows, durm and strang, whatever you want to call it it's there and it's deadly because it will make you forget why you started blogging in the first place and why you love it. You can be cruising along, everything going great--your stat counter ticking along like a dream--and *WHUMP* suddenly you hit a blogging speed bump. How you deal with those speed bumps will determine whether your blog has a chance at success or whether it will be yet another casualty along the side of the road. Call it blogger's road kill if you will (now that's a pretty picture isn't it?)
Here are a few of the trends--or speed bumps--I've observed in my blogging days and how I've handled them. Maybe it'll give you some solace that you're not the only one struggling on those days you want to take a hammer to your laptop.
1. Traffic fluctuates from day to day during the week. Monday is typically a high traffic day as readers come back from lazy weekends of bloglessness. At first this was counter-intuitive to me because I would have thought that people would have had more time for reading or writing blogs on the weekends but no, it's just the opposite. Weekends are about relaxation and don't be surprised when your weekend traffic stinks. It stinks for almost everyone.
Solution? I do easy stuff on the weekends. Saturdays I always host a product review/giveaway and Sundays I share a recipe. These are easy posts for me to do so it's a little break for me while still keeping up the pace of my blog. Find your own little way to take a break. Post your favorite picture, a one-sentence thought, something small and easier to come up with to take the strain of everyday writing off. You may even consider not posting at all on weekends--even big blogs like Design Mom sometimes take this route so maybe it's the path for you too.
2. Holiday traffic fluctuates the most. December is the busiest month of all--those days leading up to the holidays are a flurry of activity as readers look all over for ideas and gadgets to make their lives a little better. BUT . . . once Christmas hits the traffic plummets. Suddenly everyone's sick of surfing the net and they want to just enjoy the season and you'll see half the visits you would normally see--and I have to say that's a good thing. "Go home to your families, people! Enjoy a life and don't worry about the blogs on important days like that." Life's too short to spend Christmas at the office.
This is true for all major holidays, not just Christmas. Activity tends to build a bit leading up to the day then the day of the holiday it drops as people have more important things to do than read blogs. And that's a good thing, right?
Solution? Concentrate on good content before the holidays. Use good key words and focus on holiday-relevant content leading up to the day but plan on either not posting at all on the big day itself or posting very lightly. Find someone's else's post to link to, do a review of a movie you just saw and liked, post a picture of the family, whatever. Take a little break and put your feet up--you've earned it.
3. Traffic fluctuates seasonally as well. Every year I've been blogging I've found the early months of the year to be the most productive for building my blog. Maybe it's the spirit of New Year's resolutions but the months between January and summer are a period of growth that you should capitalize on. Once summer hits, however, traffic slows down as people head outside to enjoy the weather or to vacation in places where they can enjoy the weather so just expect that you could see fewer visitors during that time.
Solution? Once again, really focus your efforts on the times when it's the most effective. If your blog were a plant, you'd want to fertilize it when it's growing and blooming to get the most growth. Work at producing good content and getting involved in the community when it's the most effective--and don't give up when you see things are slowing down.
4. Finally, traffic just ebbs and flows for no reason at all. How's that for a statement? It's like a catch-all for any cycles I may have missed that have no apparent reason whatsoever.
Solution? To use a personal example, my own blog hadn't seen a lot of growth since last November. I'd done some things like a template redesign and tried out a few new ideas for content but nothing had made much difference. It grew a bit in December (as I predicted it would according to point number 2) but nothing much. Even after the first of the year I wasn't seeing a lot of results for my hard work.
Then, about mid-to-late January a couple of things happened where suddenly things were flying. My traffic shot up by 20%, my content felt better and I was seeing some payoff finally. That continued for a couple months and I thought, "Wow, this trend is here to stay, things are looking great" and then it happened, inexplicably I hit a speed bump and I was back to where I'd been the previous fall. All the growth I'd seen had, for no visible reason, disappeared and I was back where I'd been before.
Now I have to admit I'm very serious about my blogging, for me it's become a job and a source of income. I have plans to stick with it for the long haul and I'm enjoying myself completely but when this happened it was so deflating, so frustrating that for the first time I really thought, "Do I want to keep doing this?"
The more I thought about it the more I decided that I was tired and worn out and ready to quit. To see all my work come to nothing was so depressing and irritating that I wanted to toss my laptop out the window and swear I'd never return.
Luckily I have an amazing husband who acts as mentor, tech support and cheerleader who talked me down off the ledge and said, "This is just a phase, it'll pass but the only way you're going to succeed is to keep going." He said it enough that I finally decided to listen and I pushed through. It was only about three weeks but just as quickly as I dipped I rebounded and not only were things flowing great but I was well on the way up the hill again with a spring in my step, bigger than ever.
So for all of you out there who don't have the benefit of living with my amazing husband I'm here to tell you the same thing he said to me: These fluctuations happen, it's just a natural thing and you've got to expect it. The bloggers that make it through are the ones that will succeed in this crazy business--so decide whether you're in it for good or whether the next speed bump is going to take you out.
It's like anything in life, there are ups and there are downs, but the only way you'll know what's ahead is if you keep at it and don't give up.
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Definitions of drive
v. t. - To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to; as, to drive cattle; to drive a nail; smoke drives persons from a room. 2
v. t. - To urge on and direct the motions of, as the beasts which draw a vehicle, or the vehicle borne by them; hence, also, to take in a carriage; to convey in a vehicle drawn by beasts; as, to drive a pair of horses or a stage; to drive a person to his own door. 2
v. t. - To urge, impel, or hurry forward; to force; to constrain; to urge, press, or bring to a point or state; as, to drive a person by necessity, by persuasion, by force of circumstances, by argument, and the like. 2
v. t. - To carry or; to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute. 2
v. t. - To clear, by forcing away what is contained. 2
v. t. - To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel. 2
v. t. - To pass away; -- said of time. 2
v. i. - To rush and press with violence; to move furiously. 2
v. i. - To be forced along; to be impelled; to be moved by any physical force or agent; to be driven. 2
v. i. - To go by carriage; to pass in a carriage; to proceed by directing or urging on a vehicle or the animals that draw it; as, the coachman drove to my door. 2
v. i. - To press forward; to aim, or tend, to a point; to make an effort; to strive; -- usually with at. 2
v. i. - To distrain for rent. 2
p. p. - Driven. 2
n. - The act of driving; a trip or an excursion in a carriage, as for exercise or pleasure; -- distinguished from a ride taken on horseback. 2
n. - A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving. 2
n. - Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; esp., a forced or hurried dispatch of business. 2
n. - In type founding and forging, an impression or matrix, formed by a punch drift. 2
n. - A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river. 2
v. i. - To make a drive, or stroke from the tee. 2
v. t. - Specif., in various games, as tennis, baseball, etc., to propel (the ball) swiftly by a direct stroke or forcible throw. 2
n. - In various games, as tennis, cricket, etc., the act of player who drives the ball; the stroke or blow; the flight of the ball, etc., so driven. 2
n. - A stroke from the tee, generally a full shot made with a driver; also, the distance covered by such a stroke. 2
n. - An implement used for driving; 2
n. - A mallet. 2
n. - A tamping iron. 2
n. - A cooper's hammer for driving on barrel hoops. 2
n. - A wooden-headed golf club with a long shaft, for playing the longest strokes. 2
The word "drive" uses 5 letters: D E I R V.
Direct anagrams of drive:
diver rived
Words formed by adding one letter before or after drive (in bold), or to deirv in any order:
a - varied b - verbid c - cervid e - derive reived f - fervid l - drivel n - driven verdin o - devoir voider r - driver s - divers drives t - divert
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Sunday I had the pleasure of speaking with the author of THE 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS IN GEORGIA, Susan R. Spain, (I'm the illustrator) at the very first Suwanee Festival of Books in Suwanee, Georgia!
Our books made their first public appearance, as did Susan and me together, and if I do say so myself, it was FABULOUS!!! We had a GREAT crowd as we sang and went through the fun and sometimes crazy things you can find in our fair state of Georgia. I drew like crazy as Susan described each layout.
I may do a few things differently next time to create better drawings, but as it was, it was an hilarious adrenalin rush to draw "12 kangas bouncing..."! Everybody was laughing as I tried to keep up (in a good way)!
(Notice the superheroes who dropped by to help us out?)
Afterwards we signed a ton of books. Barnes & Noble bent over backwards to get our new title in stock (it's only just now starting to reach warehouses - expect the big TA-DA! soon). Boy did they make us look good. And Kolinda Scialabba was a wonderful hostess. Boy can that woman throw a party. She even recorded us and other visiting authors for quick television promos!
(Mark Braught and Laura Knorr can be seen in the background signing their books; and Heather, our B&N sales guru.)
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Gorillaz alums De La Soul, Del join Albarn at SXSW
AUSTIN — For a guy who got his start in the '90s British rock 'n' roll scene, Damon Albarn sure knows how to throw a hip-hop party.
Albarn invited De La Soul and Del The Funky Homosapien to join him during his performance Friday night at South By Southwest, pulling off one of the bigger surprises so far at the annual music conference and festival. De La Soul joined Albarn for their Gorillaz collaboration "Feed Good Inc.," before Del came on stage to perform initial Gorillaz single "Clint Eastwood" for the first time since its release 13 years ago.
"What can I say about them? They're very dear friends of mine," Albarn said of De La Soul before the performance. "But it's Del The Funky Homosapien I'm most excited about. It is literally the first time that not only have I met him, but he's going to sing 'Clint Eastwood.' It's actually quite a momentous moment."
And not just for Albarn, who also debuted songs from his new solo album "Everyday Robots," out April 29. Those who bothered to stick around after De La Soul's high-spirited appearance got a double surprise. Snoop Dogg took the stage at the Fader Fort, where the magazine is celebrating its 15th anniversary by inviting artists to perform who have appeared on its cover, contributing a surprise verse as well. Albarn said Snoop's appearance was meant to add "a little cayenne" to the set.
Albarn's music has increasingly featured hip-hop and bass-inflected electronic music, and he says he finds inspiration working with diverse artists from different musical worlds.
"I'm more of a fan of making it than listening to it," Albarn said of hip-hop. "I've got my favorites, A Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul, and I suppose that first wave really. Mind you, I love Kendrick Lamar. That sort of excited me again. Of course I love hip-hop but I'm not hip hop. It's another aspect of the spectrum that I kind of can hear the spirit of music in."
Dave Jolicoeur of De La Soul said Albarn's open-mindedness has led to a great friendship.
"He's a cool dude who just likes to have fun and create music," Jolicoeur said of the Blur frontman. "For us, that's been our MO ever since Day 1, goofing around, having a good time. There's no real rules at all, but hopefully we get something out of this. That's been the person that I've known, a guy who just likes to create. There are no embarrassing moments where you say, 'You can't do that, you can't say that.' Just do what you're doing, and be free."