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The Essence of Groupon: Price Discrimination Degree Transformation
Note: This blog post is a section from my full paper on the Groupon business model in which I describe a novel economic framework for understanding Groupon. In my next blog post, also a section from the paper, I demonstrate the power of the framework by describing a strategy for Google to beat Groupon. The full paper is available at this link - "Undressing Groupon".
An Engine for Price Discrimination Degree Transformation
Groupon's core business is price discrimination – for now, a fancy word for discounted deals.
First a quick and simplified overview of the microeconomic theory:
In a typical market with one price, a merchant can increase customer demand by lowering price. But the benefit comes at a cost – the original customers who were willing to buy at the original price also receive the lower price and consequently provide less revenue as a group.
The answer: price discrimination – the practice of distinguishing and separating potential customers on the basis of price-sensitivity and offering a different price to each group. The revenue from the original customers is protected – by continuing to show them the original price, while additional revenue is generated from new price-sensitive customers who would otherwise stay away – because of the targeted lower price. The merchant gains as long as the lower price is higher than the marginal cost of producing their product or service.
The challenge lies in identifying price-sensitive potential customers, commonly addressed in two ways:
In 3rd degree price discrimination, an observable characteristic is used as a proxy for the price sensitivity of a customer. The observable characteristic forms the basis of segmentation and defines a coherent group for targeting. One example is the practice of offering student discounts. Students are presumably non-employed and consequently more price-sensitive as a result of the financial constraint.
In 2nd degree price discrimination, customers are categorized based on actions that reveal their price sensitivity, used when observable characteristics are lacking or impractical as a basis for segmentation. Customers are typically lured into signaling their price sensitivity based on their response to a set of choices crafted by the business. Coupons are a well-known example as users who go to the trouble of collecting them are taking an action that signals their price sensitivity.
A 3rd Degree Price Discrimination Service to Merchants
The primary Groupon service to merchants is a 3rd degree price discrimination service. From the perspective of merchants, Groupon subscribers are a readily identifiable group. The observable characteristic is that they are Groupon subscribers. The service provides a way to target the market segment directly with a promotional message and offer. All a merchant has to do is to sign a contract for the service.
It can be tempting to think of the service as block pricing - a form of 2nd degree price discrimination - because of the "deal activation threshold" requirement of a minimum number of customers. Block pricing, however, is designed to identify price sensitivity at the individual level by presenting potential customers with a quantity-based choice. With Groupon, the job of identifying price-sensitive customers is already done. Furthermore, the group is targeted with a single price, not a selection designed to elucidate price-sensitivity.
One way to appreciate the service is to contrast it with an alternative. A comparable method would have to include advertising on a grand scale – perhaps a half page advertisement in the New York Times. And the advertisement would have to include a price discrimination couponing mechanism to filter consumers based on the inconvenience of clipping them. Can you imagine coupons in the NYT? It would look terribly odd even if the editors were to allow it!
Two Tiers of 2nd Degree Price Discrimination
Groupon provides merchants with access to a unique targetable market segment of price-sensitive consumers. But how does Groupon identify price-sensitivity at the individual level in order to build the group in the first place?
As discussed previously, 2nd degree price discrimination is the method of identifying price-sensitive customers on the basis of their choices or actions. When a consumer subscribes to Groupon, they are essentially making a choice that signals their price sensitivity. If the process were a conversation, it would look like this:
Groupon: Hey, I have super duper deals, but you must give me your name.
Consumer: Oh yeah! Put me down because I'm price sensitive.
Groupon is therefore a self-selection mechanism for price-sensitive consumers to reveal themselves. Price-sensitive consumers cannot resist the bait – it is catnip for them. Subscribers provide their email address, which conveniently serves as a pipeline for continued messages.
But there is more. There is also a second tier of 2nd Degree Price Discrimination!
When subscribers are presented with a deal, there are strings attached. First, subscribers must prepay. Groupon provides the platform to do so. Secondly, they must agree to be bound by the limitations of the deal (e.g. admission after 7pm only). Lastly, subscribers must take action within the one-day limit of the deal offering. In combination, the actions are a set of choices that constitute another tier of 2nd degree price discrimination. Subscribers are signaling their price-sensitivity by agreeing to the hurdles placed in front of them.
So in totality, Groupon is a highly effective two-tier 2nd degree price discrimination mechanism that filters subscribers in a way that credibly demonstrates a price-sensitive group.
Price Discrimination Degree Transformation / Arbitrage
We can now begin to appreciate the beauty of the Groupon business model.
On the merchant side, Groupon provides a convenient 3rd degree price discrimination service in the form of a coherent targetable market segment. On the subscriber side, Groupon identifies price-sensitive consumers with a two-tier 2nd degree price-discrimination mechanism comprised of a self-selection filter and a set of hurdles consisting of prepayment, acceptance of limitations, and required action within the time limit. And Groupon sits in the middle.
The business model transforms the more powerful but difficult method of 2nd degree price discrimination to a more convenient and palatable 3rd degree price discrimination service. The arrangement is essentially an arbitrage platform. In the process, Groupon extracts a premium. One way to visualize it is from the perspective of the financial flow. Groupon sells a product or a service to individual consumers at a discounted price but then effectively buys it from a merchant at an even lower price. The difference is revenue to Groupon. The notion of arbitrage stems from the fact that Groupon risks nothing in terms of having to accumulate inventory or assume any obligations. Conventional wisdom states that arbitrage should not persist in the long-term. The increase in competition from Groupon clones makes complete sense when seen in this light. Groupon's margins - the arbitrage spread – will likely erode over time.


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ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani police Wednesday were looking for four men believed to have killed a couple and their four children as retribution for a perceived "honor crime."
Police officer Mohammed Aslam said the killings happened Tuesday in the town of Athara Hazari in central Pakistan.
Aslam said the men are believed to have hacked the family to death with axes and knives. One daughter, identified by police as Aisha, survived and relayed what happened to authorities. She and the other bodies were found after a man delivering milk to the house noticed that no one was coming to the door, Aslam said.
Aisha told authorities the killings stemmed from her mother's first marriage nearly 30 years ago to another man, Aslam said.
Another police officer, Mian Mohammad, said Ghulam Fatima's son from her first marriage visited the family a few days ago. He was joined on Tuesday by three more men, who the police say helped him with the crime.
The surviving daughter told authorities that the son said he was taking revenge on her for leaving her first husband.
"It is an incident of honor killing," said Mohammad.
In Pakistan, leaving one's husband or marrying against a family's wishes is extremely rare. Such actions are often perceived as crimes against the family's honor and the woman can be killed in order to restore the family's reputation.
Such retribution can be carried out years, even decades later. The killings are rarely prosecuted.


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Friday, July 27, 2007
From the Inside...
I was born in Mexico City but when I was 2 years old I moved to Oklahoma. I lived there for 4 years and then went back to Mexico City. I was raised in a Catholic family and went to an Opus Dei school from 3rd grade to high school. Except for 9th grade when I lived in Auburn, Alabama and went to a public school.
Given that I live in Mexico City, in a mainly Catholic environment, I tend to take for granted so many things. I became aware of this in 9th grade when I went to a public American school and realized that Catholics were a minority. This experience helped me grow in my faith as I started to study more about the Catholic Church and its teachings.
After a year I went back to Mexico and to my comfortable Opus Dei environment were everyone thought more or less like me and I never really found a challenge that made me question my self and what I believed.
This remained so until my senior year in high school when I started dating a guy 6 years older than me. We would constantly engage in discussions about ethics, philosophy and sometimes even about theological subjects. We could never really conclude this talks because I had something he lacked: I had faith. I believed, something he simply couldn't understand. For obvious reasons, this relationship didn't last long, however some doubts had been planted in my heart.
I started to question many things I used to believe as certain. I realized I wasn't sure about anything and I felt I had no one or nothing to rely on. I kept everything I felt inside and locked myself in my own world. I grew away from the Church and from my family. No one knew what was really going inside of me because I wouldn't tell anyone.
I lived my life day by day without really knowing what I wanted, or more, what God wanted from me. I finished high school like this and went into college. I entered a college in Mexico City and I am currently studying International Relations. During my time of doubts I still went to Mass and to Opus Dei formation but it didn't have any effect on me. I would just go without thinking about it or really feeling anything. I didn't want to go to school and I didn't want to be with my family either.
I hadn't been to confession in quite some time because I didn't feel like I needed it. I didn't commit mortal sins, but I wasn't doing much good either. I was stuck, I felt numb, I was lukewarm. My world started to crumble before me, and by the grace of God I felt the urge to go to confession. I realized I had been holding anger in my heart and was unable to forgive and forget. I knew I had to tell someone what I was going through. When I was inside the confessionary I felt Gods' love and his infinite mercy. I was overwhelmed and simply started to cry. I told the Priest the deepest desires of my heart and of course he understood perfectly. And the greatest thing was that by going to confession I opened once again my heart to Jesus.
Now I know that in order to be truly understood by others we have to open our hearts to them. But most of all we have to open our selves to Jesus and allow Him to transform us. He knows what truly lies in our hearts and is waiting for us to come back to him.
Now I find my self once again longing for the Eucharist and constantly seeking Gods' mercy through confession. I once again assist joyfully to school and I am in great terms with my family.
Let us pray that we may all have the grace, the strength, and the will to persevere in our way to sanctity.
-Maria Teran
Friday, July 13, 2007
Living in a New World
So the time is close at hand when I am going to leave the world and enter the rest of my life. On July 6, I officially begin my postulancy with the St. Joseph Province Dominicans. While this time is quickly approaching, I have had a great deal of time to reflect on my future thanks in part to my participation in the walk thus far.
One amazing thing that I've come to understand a lot better is that through my entrance into the Dominicans, it is not so much that I'm leaving the world, but rather that I'm entering into something so beautiful. My future is now beginning moreso than the current stage of my life is ending. Thus, when I leave
This is what the gift of self is about. It is giving that we receive. So too is it with giving away one's life to the Church as a priest or religious. Through the offering of one's life for the sake of the Kingdom, you begin to step into a new look at how heaven functions. Through your denial of self, you begin to understand what you are to receive in the end. Now, being that I haven't entered yet, I can only speculate about this, but I would venture to believe that this idea is true, especially since it's a main force behind John Paul the Great's Vita Consecrata and his section on "Celibacy for the Sake of the Kingdom" in his Theology of the Body.
Moreover, this principle extends to others as well. By a family member or a friend celebrating the entrance of another into religious life, they get a chance to actually sample heaven as well. Through their denial of their desires to spend time with the person, they come to more fully understand just how God is the goal of life. Through their sight of the person entering for a life of communion simply with God, they too get to experience God and come to more fully understand that heaven is all about union with the Lord. Thus, their gift of their own desires over to the Lord also allow them to receive a great grace – a better understanding of heaven, of the Eschaton!
So please pray for me as I continue to prepare for my postulancy, and join me in this gift of self. Please offer your desires to spend time with me over to the Lord so that you too might come to an even more beautiful understanding of the religious life and of heaven.
In Christ and St. Dominic,
Into the depths of Christ's love
the Passion of Our Lord and found such peace in their meditation. For me it
was often difficult to reflect on His suffering, to witness in my mind the effect
of my sins upon my Lord; it brought upon me both a feeling of guilt and of great
sorrow. I believe this was good in so much as it would cause me to flee from sin
that I might not hurt His Sacred Heart.
But I have perhaps discovered, or rather learned, a deeper meaning
behind such contemplation. This is found in the mystery of Christ's
great love revealed to us in every moment of His agony and death. It is
this love which gave Him the strength to say "Not my will be done but
Yours" and to die for those who sin against Him. It is this love which
was written upon His naked back by the scourge of the whip.
He spoke of it in His heart as His persecutors humiliated and uttered
insults against Him. This great love fell to the ground in drops of
blood and quenched the earth as the crown of thorns burrowed into His
Sacred Head. It gave Him the strength to pick up the cross and
patiently bear the weight of our sins. He would not let go of this love
even as His clothes were torn from His flesh, for it was stronger than
the nails that wounded His hands and His feet. It is this very love that
enabled Him to forgive His persecutors and to give to them His own
beloved Mother. And it is this love which flowed from His side as He
was pierced by the sword. It first came from the water that surrounded
the core of His heart, His last defense. This water poured forth from
His body that it might fill our empty souls and cleanse them by its
saving grace. The sword then struck the very heart of Jesus as He gave
to us His entire self. His blood flowed down into our souls that He
might inebriate us, that He might sanctify us. Our Lord said to us
"There is no greater love then this, to lay down one's life for a
friend." This act of love He began before He even reached calvary and
this act of love He completed as He spoke the words "Father into your
hands I commend My spirit." It is this love which He desires to give
to you and it is in this that one finds a more profound meaning in
contemplating the suffering and death of Our Lord.
Friday, July 06, 2007
Yes, I'm Mexican!
Actually I'm in college, Universidad Panamericana in Mexico City, studying Nursery, and yes! It's a catholic college from the Opus Dei. (The Opus Dei is another story that I will tell you later.)
I'm sure that as you read this you are wondering what I'm doing here far far away from my home, well that's a long story but in summary it's because I'm crazy hahaha, just kidding, I'm here because God wants me to be here.
In spite of growing up in a catholic family and having been in catholic schools for all my life, more or less two years ago I had a crisis of faith. With the help of my friends and of the people that love me I was able to find a new way of seeing the beauty of the Catholic Church.
I must confess that it was until the day of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, last Friday, that I realized the love that Jesus has for us, for me!!! That day I had the opportunity to be in intimate communication with Him. It was amazing how I started talking with Him like if we were best friends, actually He is my Best Friend. As I felt my heart full of true love all I could do was cry!
Being a part of the Missionaries of the Eucharist has been an unforgettable experience because it has contributed to my spiritual formation and is helping me to discern my vocation. So I ask you, the person that is reading my post to pray for all the missionaries and for me so we can all find our paths.
Meeting this amazing group of people has been incredible, each of us has their own story but they all coincide in one thing: GOD!
I'd like to use this space to thank all the people that made this trip possible, especially my parents and family without their support and their understanding I wouldn't be here! Thanks to all my friends who supported me, especially Maria, who is with me in this amazing adventure! Thanks to Lacy that was who put me in contact with the Missionaries of the Eucharist. But most of all thanks to God!
Thanks for all the blessings you give me every day!.
JPII said: "Don't be afraid", now I repeat to you "don't be afraid, don't be afraid to talk with Him"
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
Our Visit with Msgr. Reilly
- Maeve
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And so it continues...
In Christ and St. Dominic,
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Monday, July 02, 2007
The Desire for Beauty
The question arose as to whether or not at the root of a woman's desire to be beautiful there is a deeper good that has simply been distorted. A woman's desire to be beautiful is a physical manifestation of her desire to be loved. As Deus Caritas Est reveals erotic love, or self-seeking love, is not in and of itself disordered. Instead Pope Benedict claims that erotic love is good and a necessary part of the full conception of love. On speaking of love His Holiness explains that that love which fails to possess both erotic love and agape love is an impovershed love. We must remember that this real love loves the whole person. Our bodies are an intricate part of our being and so love of another's body is not necessarily bad. For a man to tell a woman that she is beautiful is not a sin. The sin lies in the tendency of our society to stop here, to stop at the body so that the body becomes a mere object rather then an insight into the understanding of the person as a whole. Woman has a natural inclination to desire to be beautiful because at some level she realizes the importance of the body as a part of her very being and something that is to be both loved and respected.
Her desire to be physically beautiful may also be a desire to express the beauty of her soul. As theology of the body teaches us we use our bodies to express ourselves. This is not merely in our interactions with each other but also in our very bodies themselves. The body's natural appearance may not necessarily fairly represent the beauty of the soul but how one takes care of the body and one's desire to be beautiful may reflect her person within. Beauty is that which is ordered and so a desire for beauty is a desire for order. In today's society it is difficult to understand the desire to be beautiful in such a way because of society's distortion of the idea of what beauty is and why one desires it. So often people desire beauty in hopes that they might win the affection of another not because by their person as a whole but purely by means of their physical beauty. In doing so they objectify themselves by using the gift of beauty as the sole means to win the heart of another. Often enough this superficial desire is satisfied but this is where the affection ends. As a result the woman's deeper desire to be loved for who she is, body and soul, is left unfulfilled.
Maeve O'Doherty
Who we are?
Conversion begins in our own hearts,which is why prayer is so important to our ministry. For this reason, everyday of our ten week walk begins with daily Mass. By receiving Christ in the Eucharist, we are given the grace to be the Love of Christ not only to those in our community but also to those we meet in the streets.
We walk throughout the day to be a witness of love. We are grounded in prayer-we pray with our lips, our hearts, and our bodies. In walking an average of twenty-five miles per day, we offer our fatigue as a gift of love to Christ and the people we meet. Our walking is both sacrifice and prayer.


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by Elena Cambio Pizarro
The daisy of your choice grows in a place you have never seen, never heard of, where you least expect it. Behind your back it appears, pretending not to care if you pick it. When you finally think to turn around, it sighs in relief. Now the suspense is released, so it can get on with its life and death. It knows that as soon as you notice, you will pick it. The daisy of your choice knows it will then rest in a crystal bud vase on your mantle, contrite.
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LAKE WORTH — It was a trick -- a ruse that proved costly for police and, ultimately, city taxpayers.
However, four Lake Worth High School students could end up paying part of the tab for a kidnapping hoax they concocted that had police countywide involved in a wild goose chase for two hours.
Lake Worth police officials said they will seek restitution of more than $1,000 for the man-hours spent by their officers last Thursday on the supposed abduction of two girls by four men at gunpoint from the school parking lot.
``It`s the fair and proper thing to do, considering the expenditure of tax dollars on this,`` said Lt. Marty Kerner. ``If people (are) involved in fictitious crime reports, we feel we have to petition the court for restitution.``
He said the $1,000 figure could increase if the $200-an-hour expense of the Palm Beach County Sheriff`s helicopter used in the search is figured into the cost.
Kerner said the request has been forwarded to the Florida Division of Youth Services. A juvenile court judge will decide whether restitution should be included in sentencing of the youths, he said.
The students involved, two sophomore and two junior girls, were arrested on charges of reporting a false crime, a misdemeanor. Two of the juveniles told school administrators and police that their two classmates were abducted at gunpoint from the school parking lot by four men in a blue van. The two reported abducted, however, were instead running away from home. They were found by police several hours later.
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Asking for Flowers [LP]
Kathleen Edwards' Asking for Flowers is her first new album in three years, and the acclaimed artist's most penetrating collection to date. The album features eleven new songs, all written by Edwards, and finds her performing at the peak of her creative powers, supported by a group of master backing musicians. Flowers tells indelible, clear-eyed stories of hope and resignation, humor and death, unconditional love and brazen inequality. Co-produced by Edwards and Jim Scott (Tom Petty, Whiskeytown), the album features, among others, keyboardist Benmont Tench from The Heartbreakers, drummer Don Heffington (Bob Dylan, The Wallflowers), bassist Bob Glaub (Jackson Browne, Warren Zevon, Leonard Cohen), guitarist Colin Cripps (Sarah McLachlan, Bryan Adams), and pedal steel ace Greg Leisz (Sheryl Crow, Wilco, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss).


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Hello, hello, hello!
Wow, it seems like such a long time since we've chatted...and I've missed sharing my little posts with all of you!
The summer has flown by for sure! After a pretty intense year of creating, I decided to take off the month of July to just recharge...no project creating, just refilling the creative brain by catching up on some reading (enjoyed some great books by an author new to me), scouring home decor boards on Pinterest, doing a bit of (very) early morning gardening, cooking, and actually teaching myself how to relax again. :) By August, though, I was raring to go...I guess I don't do relaxing all that well, or maybe better said, creating is my relaxation!!!!!
This coming Saturday, I am hosting and teaching a workshop at my home and instead of the typical fall theme I usually do this time of year, I decided to do an "end of summer" theme and project. As crafters, we tend to create ahead of holidays and special events...like Christmas in July, Valentine books in December...a bafflement to those who don't create, right? Well, this time, I created a project that would be great to summarize a summer and from what I've seen on Facebook posts, it's really been a sensational summer for many of you. What better way to display the good times than to print out those phone pics and get them into a happy, colorful handmade book?
The workshop is sold out but I've made just a few extra kits...and today, those kits are being offered for you to pre-order. I'll be shipping out those kits sometime during the week of September 26th to allow for time to stamp images, beef up the instructions a bit and package kits for shipping.
The book is a repurposed hardback book...it's got a very dimensional, highly detailed cover and the most adorable thimble tassel which is so beautifully displayed against the spine of the book. The inside of the book features sturdy watercolor paper, cardstock and vintage onion skin paper. In addition to the book structure, the cover and the tassel, I have also kitted nine super layered and detailed interior pages...plus, there are additional pages for you to add your photos and special papers, fabrics and embellishments from your personal stashes...of which you have many, I'm sure!!!!!
This is a bright, happy and somewhat whimsical book...a perfectly generic book to celebrate some summer highlights...maybe a special backyard dinner with friends or a luncheon, soiree or tea party with girlfriends, special blossoms from your backyard, or maybe those priceless pictures of children or grandchildren enjoying the summer sunshine. Consider the possibility of using it as a tribute book or celebration of life of a loved one who lived a full, rich and happy life...a wonderful book for that too!
In the spirit of summer, the book is designed in shades of aqua and turquoise with little splashes of red here and there...you'll find blossoms, birds and butterflies...and even a random tea cup or two!!!!! As I said...whimsical!
Because these kits are workshop kits, there are some techniques for which I provide materials in class and they are not part of the kit. To complete this project, you'll need some craft paints, a stencil of your choice (harlequin used in the sample) and some texture paste or lightweight plaster, as well as some drawing chalks in shades of aqua and turquoise. Most of you who have been around this industry for a while will probably find what you need in your stashes...or...darn...maybe you need to head out to your LSS or craft store for an item or two. Such a hardship. Grin.
These limited edition kits are available for pre-order today for just $120, plus shipping (within the US) (sales tax included in shipping for AZ residents)...and once they are gone, they are really gone. Shipping will happen sometime during the week of September 26th. To pre-order, simply click on the Buy Now button below and Paypal will walk you through the steps.
So, here's to a sensational summer...you've lived it...now record it!
As always, thanks for reading, for your orders and your referrals to friends and family.
From my studio to yours,


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TPP vs. RCEP: America and China Battle for Control of Pacific Trade
One vision of pacific trade will prevail. Will it be Beijing's closed one or the open system embodied in the Trans-Pacific Partnership?
Within hours of President Obama's announcement of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement on Monday, the landmark deal looked like it had already run into trouble in the U.S. Congress. The influential Nelson Report suggested the pact might be "DOA"—dead on arrival. The Senate and the House get an up-or-down vote on " the most ambitious trade pact in a generation ," and opponents were lining up early to criticize its terms.
The issue for America is not, as some think, TPP versus no TPP. The issue is whether the Asia-Pacific region follows Washington's vision of trade or Beijing's. As President Obama noted in his statement on Monday , "When more than ninety-five percent of our potential customers live outside our borders, we can't let countries like China write the rules of the global economy."
And whoever writes those rules also sets the template for trade agreements elsewhere. The Trans-Pacific Partnership, therefore, is more than just about the Pacific as it could end up as the model for future deals. And as important, geopolitical influence will undoubtedly follow trade in East Asia, as it already has in recent years.
The TPP, once implemented, will include the U.S. and 11 other nations bordering the Pacific: Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam. Those dozen states account for roughly forty percent of global gross domestic product, thirty percent of global exports and twenty-five percent of global imports.
And the pact's membership is not closed. As Joshua Meltzer of the Brookings Institution notes , the TPP is "an open platform." Already, the Philippines, South Korea, Thailand and Taiwan have expressed interest in joining.
India for the moment is outside the TPP tent, but the missing giant that everyone talks about is, of course, China. The comprehensive free-trade pact—the agreement will reduce or eliminate tariffs in nearly 18,000 categories of goods—is often viewed as part of Washington's effort to contain Beijing, but it's more accurate to say China contained itself. Beijing, after all, had been invited to become part of the initial group negotiating the deal but declined. Later, Chinese officials "put out feelers," as Obama noted in June , but then it was much too late to join the discussions which were then in their eighth year.
The truth is that China's leaders know their country has to remain outside the TPP because they cannot sign onto the "high standards" that are incorporated into the structure of the pact. Even if China could somehow meet labor, food safety and environmental rules, it would have to adhere to restrictions on the business activities of state enterprises, which would mean a fundamental change in the Chinese economic model and permit wider internet access, which would strike at the heart of the Communist Party's quasi-monopoly on information.
Furthermore, China would have to further open its services sector. At the moment, Beijing cannot even agree to allow investment in a few protected areas, which has stalled agreement on the long-awaited Bilateral Investment Treaty with the U.S.
Liberalization would be good for China: a bonanza awaits Beijing should it decide to make the reforms necessary for TPP inclusion. In a 2014 study , Peter Petri of Brandeis University, Michael Plummer of John Hopkins and Fan Zhai of China Investment Corp. estimate China, if it were to join TPP, could reap income gains of $809 billion by 2025. If it fails to do so, however, it might lose over $46 billion by that year.
This should not be a mystery to Chinese leaders. Their country reaped large gains after it joined the World Trade Organization in December 2001, due mostly to the reforms required by its accession agreement. The big story is that today, despite the obvious benefits of being a signatory to the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, there is no longer a consensus in Beijing to accept liberalizing change.
In fact, there is a consensus to reject it. Many people say Chinese President Xi Jinping is trying to reform China, but that is misleading. It's true he's responsible for the issuance of an impressive restructuring plan in November 2013 at the Communist Party's Third Plenum, but since then there has been little implementation.
Instead, Xi has been leading China back to a 1950s-inspired system of increased state involvement. Among other things, he has effectively been shutting his country's market off to foreign companies with highly discriminatory prosecutions, he has been increasing state-directed investment, he has authorized a partial renationalization of enterprises and he has recombined already large state businesses back into formal monopolies. On top of this, Xi is pushing a number of national security laws and regulations that will effectively prevent foreign companies from doing business with state enterprises.
His reaction to the stock market slide has been to outlaw many forms of selling, his remedy for the outflow of capital has been to impose restrictions on legitimate fund transfers, and his solution to the currency crisis he created has been direct and unprecedented intervention in both domestic and foreign markets.


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Rime Redux
The Rime of the Modern Mariner
By Nick Hayes
Jonathan Cape, 2011
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's otherworldly masterpiece The Rime of the Ancient Mariner has always been something of a shape shifter. The poem first appeared in the 1798 Romantic movement bellwether Lyrical Ballads, Coleridge's collaboration with his friend (at the time) William Wordsworth. Yet even Wordsworth was uncomfortable with the poem, commenting in a letter, "From what I can gather it seems that 'The Ancient Mariner' has upon the whole been an injury to the volume, I mean that the old words and the strangeness of it have deterred readers from going on. If the volume should come to a second edition I would put in its place some little things more likely to suit the common taste." He did ultimately condescend to include it in the 1800 edition, though it was moved from the opening of the collection to the less conspicuous middle.
Today, of course, it is that book's most well-known work, and remains as vibrant and disturbing as it was upon publication. The poem spills a cauldron of supernatural spirits, religious allegory, sin and retribution that has kept the pens of academics busy analyzing it for over two hundred years. Inspired in part by a popular book of the period, A Journey Round the World, by the way of the Great South Sea, which recounts a trip around South America's Cape Horn, and features the shooting of an albatross, Coleridge's ballad concerns a ship marooned in the endless ice fields of the Antarctic. In it, an albatross spotted overhead is embraced as a symbol of luck and salvation to the crew, which Coleridge renders in chanting quatrains:
The ice was here, the ice was there,
The ice was all around:
It cracked and growled, and roared and howled,
Like noises in a swound!
At length did cross an Albatross:
Thorough the fog it came;
As if it had been a Christian soul,
We hailed it in God's name.
It ate the food it ne'er had eat,
And round and round it flew.
The ice did split with a thunder-fit;
The helmsman steered us through!
And a good south wind sprung up behind;
The Albatross did follow,
And every day, for food or play,
Came to the mariners' hollo!
In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud,
It perched for vespers nine;
Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white,
Glimmered the white Moon-shine.
'God save thee, ancient Mariner!'
From the fiends, that plague thee thus! -,
Why look'st thou so?' – With my cross-bow,
I shot the ALBATROSS.
The mariner's decision to kill the albatross is an event without any apparent motivation, and the bird's demise triggers a dramatic reversal of fortune for the ship. The wind stops blowing, a drought ensues, and the entire crew, aside from the mariner, perish. The mariner is left alone, surrounded by dead sailors, "my soul in agony," shackled with the albatross around his neck. Although he eventually awakes to the beauty of other living things and is saved from his sinking ship, he is condemned to wander the world, telling his story for ever after.
Coleridge, initially stung by reviewers who accused his work of being too "Germanic," amended the text of the poem over the following two decades. For the reissued 1800 version, he gave Death's companion the name 'Life-in-Death' and changed the wording of the introductory paragraph that preceded the poem. Coleridge now starts by overtly accusing the mariner of having "cruelly and in contempt of the laws of hospitality killed a Seabird." Having originally aimed to create a work of "pure imagination" (as he told his literary contemporary Anna Barbault, "the work's "only, or chief fault … was the obtrusion of the moral sentiment so openly on the reader"), his stance tilted in more didactic directions. Indeed, still later he added notes on the text in the margins, giving the poem an even stronger tone of moral judgment. Unfortunately, Coleridge's glosses are often more distracting than illuminating. The following, for example, provides an uninspiring explanation to an already powerful passage in which the dead crew rise, and the ship sails on despite a lack of wind to blow the sails: "But not by the souls of the men, nor by daemons of earth or middle air, but by a blessed troop of angelic spirits, sent down by the invocation of the guardian saint." The result of Coleridge's years of tinkering is to make his intentions for the work that much more complicated to decipher.
Continuing Coleridge's propensity for revision, the author and illustrator Nick Hayes has tinkered further and created a graphic novel, The Rime of the Modern Mariner, based on the canonical text. The premise of the Ancient Mariner has provided Hayes with an apt vehicle for a story about modern transgressions against the natural world. With windswept hair and a curling beard that would do Poseidon proud, his seafarer looks every bit the part. Appearing silently amid the rustle of autumn leaves, the mariner joins a lone man eating on a park bench and begins the story of his sea journey to the ports of "old Japan". In Coleridge's poem, the mariner's audience is a wedding guest, en route to festivities; in Hayes' he is a divorcé having a packaged lunch. The character's disposable marriage – documented without emotion in the first pages of the book – is a harbinger of things to come.
It is no surprise that the divorcé is in for an unpleasant tale. Alienation from the surrounding world has dire consequences in both poems, with Coleridge portraying it as a form of spiritual purgatory and Hayes showing us how our shortsighted culture of self-interest and waste will be mankind's downfall. The modern mariner's journey is one of toxic, plastic-strewn waters and sickly sea creatures – a grand tour of environmental degradation. The story is set in the waters of the North Pacific Gyre, a slow-moving whirlpool, apparently better known as the North Pacific Garbage Patch – a place that is, unfortunately, all too real. The modern mariner encounters disaster upon disaster – among them a fiery oil spill and a tsunami – and is eventually swept to the bottom of the sea. Confronted by an angry cast of doomed sailors, vengeful gods, and ghoulish spirits at every turn – in keeping with Coleridge's other-worldly cast – he seems sure to perish deep amongst the very mess mankind has created.
Hayes has done a masterful job of echoing Coleridge's rhythmic verse, evocative imagery and rapid tempo. Although the prose is not written out in traditional stanzas – each phrase is designed with the images as part of a larger expression on the page – it reads, like the original poem, in quatrains. Here we find the mariner alone at sea; the albatross has been shot, the crew has perished, and a storm is gathering:
…I slept and dreamt of rain
At first it spat and pattered down
In peppered punctuation
But then it grew
Into a sluice of dense precipitation
Though my body lay comatose
My ears and eyes awoke
To sense a stirring of the sea
And the dead men of the boat
Like bats they darted round the deck
In spectral animations
That moved as swift and silent…
As my own imagination
I heard the wind from far away
A horn from foreign wars
And like a wrathful god it reached me
In a rough and ragged roar
The ocean roused insurgent strength
Against its mistress moon
The sky cried out a symphony
A trumpeting typhoon!
Screaming fists of hail and ice
Crashed down like weights of lead
…and ancient Thor of Nordic lore
Hammered on my head.
I gaped across Poseidon's lair
…and saw a gathering army:
Waves of wailing myrmidons…
Had formed a great tsunami.
Hayes has done his homework, infusing this passage with a number of the Romantic era's favorite themes: the embrace of classical Greek mythology, the redemptive, feminine moon, and man's self-destructive antagonism toward the natural world. It also features a subtle but important transition in the story, as the mariner becomes increasingly aware of his surroundings: "my ears and eyes awoke / to sense the stirring of the sea".
Yet, much of what makes Hayes' work so accomplished is his pairing of images and prose, which seem to work as one seamless entity. His artistic style conveys the texture of old European woodcuts, the flatness of Japanese fishing scenes, and decorative touches reminiscent of Art Nouveau. Shifting in size and placement on every page, the words and images create a constant sense of movement, much like the sea itself. Without the artwork, Hayes would be much harder pressed to summon the energy of Coleridge's hallucinatory visions. With a palette of blue, brownish-black and white, the drawings have nautical whimsy underlined with a sense of menace. The sailors are eerily blank-eyed, with long, thin fingers on oversized hands, as if on the verge of becoming fins, while the hostile spirits and sea gods are overflowing with malevolence. The "ghoulish apparition" that fills the
role of Coleridge's "Life-in-Death" figure sent shivers up my spine – she is decayed and skeletal, all bones and wild black hair, with angry eyes that protrude in heavily-lined swirls. Appearing on the prow of an approaching oil rig, which is spilling a slick of petroleum, she hovers by the mariner with pent-up rage: "I'm no figment of your frontal lobe … no children's story ghost. I am the real repercussion of your hubristic human boast!" As this quote shows, however, Hayes' ever-present lesson about mankind's evils against the earth and its inhabitants risks overshadowing not only the power of his imagery but also our ability to surrender ourselves to his story. The adaptation is not free of Coleridge's later didacticism.
Hayes is hardly the first artist to bring images to the story of the mariner, whether ancient or modern. Since 1832, when David Scott created the first illustrations for Rime of the Ancient Mariner – and even showed them to the invalid Coleridge in London – no fewer than 14 artists have produced images to accompany that text. The French artist Gustave Doré's edition, first produced in 1876, is the one most people associate with the poem. Doré, who was already something of a celebrity across the Channel by the time he was commissioned for the work, provided elaborate full-page engravings for Coleridge's text. Setting the story in the past – the characters and the landscape have a distinctly medieval affinity – Doré's illustrations are suitably dark, portraying both magnificent maritime landscapes and gruesome scenes of the sailors' unfortunate demise.
It is easy to forget, however, that the illustrated versions of Coleridge's poem are not the same as a graphic novel – Doré's images are an interpretation of the words, rather than an integral part of the storytelling. As Will Eisner has written about comics, "text, artwork, and meaning cannot be judged independently of the whole work. Word and picture interact in the best examples without one dominating the other." This is precisely what occurs in Hayes' work – the illustrations and the prose work as equals. His ever-changing page design – whether a solitary image without words, a series of images interspersed amongst the text, or a many-layered page of overlapping pictures, to name just a few – has an irresistible momentum that seems to inherently reflect back upon the pace of the poem itself.
Throughout the book, Hayes' view of our culture of consumption and waste is unambiguous and his hopes for the future are dim. But whereas Coleridge's poetry, with its evocative and mysterious imagery, keeps us teetering in a liminal, dreamlike state, Hayes' insistence on making his point keeps bringing us back to reality despite the intriguing visual structure he has devised. This leaves the reader with a feeling akin to reading Coleridge's glosses, which are most distinctive for their own heavy handed moralizing. Yes, Hayes has incorporated the supernatural beings, mythical interludes, and other themes of the Romantic era. But it is the very enigmatic quality of Coleridge's work that he cannot match – or, perhaps, chooses not to. Rather, the Modern Mariner stays true to its lesson – to what Hayes suggests will indeed be a bitter end.
Sara Henkin lives in London where she writes non-fiction and blogs about cities.


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Letter to the Editor: A letter to the Houston Chronicle
To the Editor,
As Houston continues the process of reconsidering its historic district designations, it is important to remind property owners in these areas, and their elected representatives on the City Council, of the many benefits to living and owning property in a historic district. Some of these factors—historic charm and character and enhanced "curb appeal," for example—are obvious, but others, including the economic benefits of owning property in a historic district, are not as well known.
We all know how the economy has battered real estate prices over the past few years, but according to several recent studies, properties located in historic districts have retained their value when compared to other homes. In a meta-analysis of studies conducted in several states, economist Donovan Rypkema found that the "results of these studies are remarkably clear: property values in local historic districts appreciate significantly faster than the market as a whole in the vast majority of cases."
And closer to home, the University of Houston's Hobby Center for Public Policy conducted a study that clearly showed the positive impact historic designation has on property values in Houston.
The bottom line is that homeowners in historic districts can have confidence that their investment will be protected over time.
Houston is fortunate to have 16 designated historic districts, an impressive number. The city is also fortunate to have a first-rate local preservation organization—the Greater Houston Preservation Alliance—working to retain and improve these historic areas.
Before residents and the City Council opt to repeal or revise historic district designations, they should consider the many ways that designation has improved their neighborhoods.
Stephanie Meeks
National Trust for Historic Preservation
The National Trust for Historic Preservation, a privately funded nonprofit organization, works to save America's historic places.
SavingPlaces.org | @savingplaces


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September 9, 2014 In Uncategorized
Designer Pick of the Day – Let's Talk Patterns
Designer Pick of the Day
Ever felt overwhelmed by choosing and using patterns? You're not alone! It can be hard to put a pattern you like into a room and make it look cohesive, or know where to start when picking a pattern to spruce up a space. For the next set of posts, we'll be exploring some ways to make using and pairing patterns fun instead of a hassle.
Check out this alpaca throw, or this fun and casual one!! On top of being a fun chevron pattern, these are probably super comfy and would be perfect across a living room couch or at the bottom of a bed. Small, moveable patterned pieces such as these are a great way to start working on a space.


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26 CFR 11.402(e)(4)(B)-1 - Election to treat an amount as a lump sum distribution.
(a)In general. For purposes of sections 402, 403, and this section, an amount which is described in section 402(e)(4)(A) and which is not an annuity contract may be treated as a lump sum distribution under section 402(e)(4)(A) only if the taxpayer elects for the taxable year to have all such amounts received during such year so treated. Not more than one election may be made under this section with respect to an employee after such employee has attained age 59 1/2.
(b)Taxpayers eligible to make the election. Individuals, estates, and trusts are the only taxpayers eligible to make the election provided by this section. In the case of a lump sum distribution made with respect to an employee to 2 or more trusts, the election provided by this section shall be made by the employee or by the personal representative of a deceased employee.
(c)Procedure for making election -
(1)Time and scope of election. An election under this section shall be made for each taxable year to which such election is to apply. The election shall be made before the expiration of the period (including extension thereof) prescribed in section 6511 for making a claim for credit or refund of the assessed tax imposed by Chapter I of Subtitle A of the Code for such taxable year.
(2)Manner of making election. An election by the taxpayer with respect to a taxable year shall be made by filing Form 4972 as a part of the taxpayer's income tax return or amended return for the taxable year.
(3)Revocation of election. An election made pursuant to this section may be revoked within the time prescribed in subparagraph (1) of this paragraph for making an election, only if there is filed, within such time, an amended income tax return for such taxable year, which includes a statement revoking the election and is accompanied by payment of any tax attributable to the revocation. If an election for a taxable year is revoked, another election may be made for that taxable year under subparagraphs (1) and (2) of this paragraph.
Title 26 published on 08-Jun-2018 03:50
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Pass the torch and follow the money
The Olympic ideal speaks of internationalism, but the Games have long been a focus for national rivalries. And while advertising remains banned from stadiums, the 'Olympic family' embraces corporate sponsors. Garry Whannel looks at the contradictory politics of the world's largest sporting event


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Navigation Rules
The "Navigation Rules" or Collision Avoidance Regulations (COLREGS) were designed to give direction to vessels in order to set a standard that everyone could follow in order to prevent collisions of two or more vessels. They are many in number and cover almost every imaginable sequence of events that may lead to collision.
The rules are laid out to describe International Rules and Inland Rules. Although many are the same for both International and Inland, there are some differences that should be noted. You do not have to memorize them all, but be aware of the basic rules that apply in order to operate safely on the water.
You will be using terms when dealing with the rules of the road that may be unfamiliar to you. Because the rules are federal laws, the definitions of these terms are important. The following terms are found throughout the rules of the road. You should have a thorough understanding of their meaning.
Disclaimer: The navigation rules of the road contained in this course summarize basic navigation rules for which a boat operator is responsible. Additional and more in-depth rules apply regarding various types of waterways and operation in relation to commercial vessels and other watercraft. It is the responsibility of a boat operator to know and follow all the navigation rules.
For a complete listing of the navigation rules, refer to the document "Navigation Rules of the Road" published by the U.S. Coast Guard (COMDTINST 16672.2 Series) and available through the U.S. Government printing office or on the web at http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/?pageName=navRulesMain. For state-specific navigation requirements, refer to the state laws where you intend to boat.
Except where noted, the following definitions apply to both International and Inland Rules:
- Vessel - Every craft of any description used or capable of being used on the water.
- Power Driven Vessel (Motorboat) - Any vessel propelled by machinery.
- Sailing Vessel - Any vessel under sail alone with no mechanical means of propulsion. (A sailboat propelled by machinery is a Motorboat.)
- Vessel engaged in fishing means any vessel fishing with nets, lines, trawls or other fishing apparatus that restricts maneuverability, but does not include a vessel fishing with trolling lines or other fishing apparatus that do not restrict maneuverability.
- Seaplane includes any aircraft designed to maneuver on the water .
- Underway- Not at anchor, aground or attached to a dock or the shore.
- Vessels are in sight of one another only when one can be observed visually from the other.
- Restricted visibility means any condition in which visibility is restricted by fog, mist, falling snow, heavy rainstorms, sand storms or any other similar causes.
The following two definitions apply to Inland Rules Only:
- Western Rivers means the Mississippi River, its tributaries, South Pass, and Southwest Pass, to the navigational demarcation lines dividing the high seas from harbors, rivers, and other inland waters of the United States, and the Port Allen-Morgan City Alternate Route, and that part of the Atchafalaya River above its junction with the Port Allen-Morgan City Alternate Route including the Old River and the Red River.
- Great Lakes means the Great Lakes and their connecting and tributary waters, including the Calumet River as far as the Thomas J. O'Brien Lock and Controlling Works (between mile 326 and 327), the Chicago River as far as the east side of the Ashland Avenue Bridge (between mile 321 and 322), and the Saint Lawrence River as far east as the lower exit of Saint Lambert Lock
The following rule about responsibility is somewhat confusing if you are not a student of the rules. Just read them and I'll explain what they mean after each one. This rule applies to both International and Inland rules.
Responsibility: Nothing in these Rules shall exonerate any vessel, or the owner, master, or crew thereof, from the consequences of any neglect to comply with these Rules or of the neglect of any precaution which may be required by the ordinary practice of seamen, or by the special circumstances of the case.
Means: If something happens, such as a collision, everyone is at fault.
In construing and complying with these Rules due regard shall be had to all dangers of navigation and collision and to any special circumstances, including the limitations of the vessels involved, which may make a departure from these Rules necessary to avoid immediate danger.
Means: If you are in danger of collision, you are obligated to do everything possible to prevent the collision even if doing so requires you to deviate from the Rules.
Additional definitions included in the Rules of the Road:
- Danger Zone - An arc of 112.5 degrees measured from dead ahead to just aft of the starboard beam.
- Stand-On Vessel - The vessel that should maintain course and speed.
- Give-Way Vessel - The vessel that must take early and substantial action to keep clear of the stand-on vessel.
- Visible (when applied to lights) - Visible on a dark, clear night.
- Vessel not under command means a vessel that through some exceptional circumstance is unable to maneuver as required by the Rules and is therefore unable to keep out of the way of another vessel.
- Vessel restricted in her ability to maneuver means a vessel that, from the nature of her work, is restricted in her ability to maneuver as required by the Rules and is therefore unable to keep out of the way of another vessel .
- Vessel constrained by draft means a power-driven vessel that, because of her draft in relation to the available depth and width of navigable water, is severely restricted in her ability to deviate from the course she is following.
- Length and Breadth of a vessel means her length overall and greatest breadth.
- Secretary means the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating.
- Inland Waters means the navigable waters of the United States shoreward of the navigational demarcation lines dividing the high seas from harbors, rivers, and other inland waters of the United States and the waters of the Great Lakes on the United States side of the International Boundary. Inland Rules or Rules mean the Inland Navigational Rules and the annexes thereto, which govern the conduct of vessels and specify the lights, shapes, and sound signals that apply on inland waters.
- International Regulations means the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972, including annexes currently in force for the United States.
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Farmers make plans to join us for the Annual Ellis County Wheat Plot tour to be held on Monday, May 20th beginning at 6 p.m. Extension specialist in Agronomy, Plant Pathology & Entomology will be present to discuss varieties, diseases, and insects of wheat in our area. Following the field day a complimentary meal is provided by businesses in the county.
The Ellis County wheat plot is located one-half mile South of the junction of Fairground Road and 330th Avenue. No RSVP necessary to attend. Plot Tour starts at 6:00pm.
All interested people are invited to attend.


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