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I stayed at the Cleveland Marriott Downtown at Key Center last weekend for a wedding. As soon as I checked in, I noticed the employee nametags had something noticeably different on them: another name. (Sorry the pic is tough to see...not an easy shot)
"Why does your nametag say 'The Boss' on it?" I asked Jonathan.
"Oh, Bruce is my favorite! See, we all have a different musician underneath our name - you know, to promote the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame."
"Ahhh...nice. Great idea. So, what's your favorite Springsteen song?"
"I'd say 'Born to Run,'" Jonathan said.
"Good call! 'Glory Days' is my jam," I said.
"Yeah, that's a great one too...well, here's your room key, Mr. Ginsberg. And let me know if I can do anything else for you. Enjoy your stay!"
* * * *
I stay in hotels a fair amount. But rarely do I tell everyone I know about a conversation I had at the check-in counter.
And why?
Because they usually suck. Or don't exist. Or begin with "Name?"
But in about 30 seconds, this frontline employee made an UNFORGETTABLE first impression. And a big part of that was discovering the CPI, or Common Point of Interest via his employee nametag.
Upon checking out, I wrote Jonathan a glowing comment card. That's the first time I've ever done that in my life. After I handed it to him he said, "Mr. Ginsberg, I noticed you wore a nametag all weekend - even on your tux! You must really like nametags, huh?"
"You have no idea."
When was the last time a frontline employee stepped onto your front porch?
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Scott Ginsberg
Author/Speaker/That guy with the nametag
Wednesday, January 04, 2006
The Cleveland Marriott gets my vote for best employee nametags ever


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Hits and Misses by Pacific Division Teams
by Staff Writer / San Jose Sharks
Best first-round pick: Paul Kariya (1993) -- The Anaheim Ducks were ecstatic when Kariya fell to them at the No. 4 pick in the first draft in franchise history. He turned pro in 1994 and was a 50-goal scorer in 1995-96, his second season. Kariya left the Ducks in the summer of 2003 after leading them within one victory of the franchise's first Stanley Cup, but never scored anywhere else the way he did in Anaheim.
Honorable mention: Joffrey Lupul (2002), Ryan Getzlaf (2003), Corey Perry (2003), Bobby Ryan (2005)
Best pick, rounds 2-4: Ilya Bryzgalov (2000) -- The Ducks picked Bryzgalov from Lada Togliatti in Russia with their second-round pick 13 years ago and he became an effective backup behind Jean-Sebastien Giguere on the 2007 Stanley Cup-winning team. The Phoenix Coyotes claimed him on waivers in 2007 and he led them to back-to-back playoff berths before signing with the Philadelphia Flyers in the summer of 2011. He'll be a free agent again this summer as the Flyers announced they'll buy out the final seven years of his contract. While he had two up-and-down seasons with the Flyers, at his best he's still among the NHL's top stoppers.
Honorable mention: Matt Cullen (1996), Jordan Leopold (1999)
Best later-round pick: Trent Hunter (1998) -- Hunter had a fine career for a sixth-round pick -- though not for the Ducks, who dealt him to the New York Islanders for a fourth-rounder in 2000. Hunter had 25 goals and 51 points as a rookie in 2003-04 and was a solid two-way player on Long Island before finishing his career with the Los Angeles Kings.
Honorable mention: Martin Gerber and PA Parenteau (2001), Shane O'Brien (2003)
Biggest disappointment: Stanislav Chistov (2001) -- The Ducks selected Chistov with the fifth pick in the 2001 NHL Draft and brought him to North America for the 2002-03 season amid high expectations that never panned out. After totaling 12 goals and 30 points as a rookie, he slipped to two goals and 18 points in 2003-04 before being sent to the Ducks' American Hockey League affiliate in Cincinnati. Chistov went home to Russia for the 2005-06 season, came back to North America the following season, and was traded to Boston early in 2006-07. Chistov went home for good after totaling five goals and eight assists in 60 games with Boston; he has spent the past five seasons in the KHL.
Best first-round pick: Mike Modano (1988) -- The Stars, then based in Minnesota, took Modano with the first pick after a 47-goal, 127-point season with Prince Albert of the Western Hockey League in 1987-88. He put up 105 points in 41 games with the Raiders the following season, then turned pro and became the face of the franchise. Modano's 561 goals and 1,374 points are the most by any U.S.-born player in NHL history. The Michigan native played one final season with the Detroit Red Wings in 2010-11.
Honorable mention: Brian Bellows (1982), Derian Hatcher (1990), Jarome Iginla (1995), Brenden Morrow (1997)
Best pick, rounds 2-4: Jere Lehtinen (1992) -- The North Stars used a fourth-round pick in their final draft in Minnesota on Lehtinen, a forward who had scored 32 goals in 43 games in Finland's second division. Lehtinen never became a huge offensive producer in the NHL, but he won the Selke Trophy as the League's best defensive forward three times and had 20 or more goals seven times -- 30 or more twice. He was plagued by injuries during his final seasons and retired in 2010.
Honorable mention: Neal Broten (1979), Jamie Langenbrunner (1993)
Best later-round pick: Marty Turco (1994) -- The Stars took a flyer on Turco and were rewarded for their patience. A fifth-round choice in 1994, the Stars didn't bring him to the NHL until 2000-01, after he had spent four seasons at the University of Michigan and two more in the minors. Turco then spent two more seasons backing up Ed Belfour before earning the starting job in 2002-03. In his nine seasons with the Stars, he had as many seasons with a goals-against average under 2.00 (three) as over 2.50.
Honorable mention: Arturs Irbe (1989), Roman Turek (1990), Jussi Jokinen (2001), Jamie Benn (2007)
Biggest disappointment: Jason Botterill (1994) -- Botterill was expected to develop into a star after Dallas drafted him with the No. 20 pick following an excellent freshman season at the University of Michigan. He added to those expectations with 32- and 37-goal seasons for the Wolverines (he was a teammate of Turco) before turning pro. But the scoring touch Botterill showed in college didn't translate to the NHL. He managed five goals in 88 games during parts of six NHL seasons with four franchises before retiring in 2004.
Best first-round pick: Larry Murphy (1980) -- Murphy was the best offensive-minded defenseman in Los Angeles Kings history almost from the moment he stepped onto the ice after being chosen with the fourth pick in the 1980 draft. He had 16 goals and 76 points as a rookie in 1980-81, 22 goals in his second season and 14 goals in his third. But after a slow start in 1983-84, the Kings traded him to the Washington Capitals. He kept piling up the points wherever he went, becoming a key part of two Cup-winning teams each with the Pittsburgh Penguins and Detroit Red Wings in the 1990s before retiring with 287 goals and 1,216 points on the way to the Hall of Fame.
Honorable mention: Olli Jokinen (1997), Anze Kopitar (2005), Drew Doughty (2008)
Best pick, rounds 2-4: Rob Blake (1988) -- Little did the Kings know they were getting one of the best defensemen in franchise history when they used the 70th pick in 1988 on a college defenseman from Bowling Green. Blake became an NHL regular in 1990 and went on to total 240 goals and 777 points in 1,240 games, mostly with the Kings -- though he won his only Stanley Cup with the Colorado Avalanche in 2001. He finished his career in 2009-10 as captain of the San Jose Sharks.
Honorable mention: Mike Cammalleri (2001), Jonathan Quick (2005)
Best later-round pick: Luc Robitaille (1984) -- Robitaille is the patron saint of low-round draft choices. He filled the net as a junior while playing for Hull in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, but wasn't taken until the ninth round (five rounds after the Kings selected future baseball Hall of Famer Tom Glavine). Much to everyone's surprise, Robitaille scored in the NHL just as he had in the QMJHL -- he had 44 or more goals in each of his first eight seasons before being traded by the Kings in 1994. Robitaille returned to Los Angeles three years later and had three more seasons of between 36 and 39 goals. He went to Detroit for two seasons (including a Cup win in 2002), and made a third appearance in Los Angeles before retiring in 2006 with 668 goals and 1,394 points, still the most by a left wing. He never got a Cup in L.A. as a player, but did earn one last spring as their president of business operations.
Honorable mention: Billy Smith (1970), Cristobal Huet (2001)
Biggest disappointment: Jens Karlsson (2001) -- The Kings took Karlsson, a big right wing, with the 18th pick, but he never came to North America. Karlsson spent six full seasons in the Swedish Elite League, then three seasons at the next level down, mixed in with time in Germany and Denmark. He returned to the SEL in 2009-10 but dropped a level in 2010-11 -- though he put up a career-high 22 goals with Boras and had 23 points in 50 games in 2011-12. He played in Sweden and Norway in 2012-13.
Best first-round pick: Teemu Selanne (1988) -- The Winnipeg Jets had to wait four years for Selanne to move from Finland to North America. But when he did, it was memorable. Selanne shattered NHL rookie records with 76 goals and 132 points in 1992-93. He never got close to those totals again and was traded in 1996, but he's continued to pile up goals and points; he had 26 goals and a team-high 66 points for the Anaheim Ducks in 2011-12, playing all 82 games as a 41-year-old, and added 12 goals and 24 points in 46 games this season. His 675 goals and 1,430 points are the most ever by a Finnish-born player. He's debating whether to come back for another season.
Honorable mention: Dale Hawerchuk (1981), Keith Tkachuk (1990), Shane Doan (1995), Danny Briere (1996)
Best pick, rounds 2-4: Teppo Numminen (1986) -- Numminen wasn't flashy, he just showed up for work every night and did his job, beginning when he arrived in the NHL as a 20-year-old defenseman in 1988. He kept at it through his 15 seasons with the Jets/Coyotes, and played in three NHL All-Star Games. He was traded to the Dallas Stars in the summer of 2003 and signed with the Buffalo Sabres a season later. He retired after the 2008-09 season having played 1,372 NHL games.
Honorable mention: Dave Christian (1979), Alexei Zhamnov (1990), Keith Yandle (2005)
Best later-round pick: Nikolai Khabibulin (1992) -- The Jets took Khabibulin in the ninth round of the 1992 draft, and three years later he was their starting goaltender. Khabibulin won 30 or more games in each of the franchise's first three seasons in Phoenix, but he enjoyed more success after being dealt to the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2001, helping the franchise win the Stanley Cup in 2004. He signed with the Chicago Blackhawks in 2005, and after backstopping them to the Western Conference Final in 2009, he signed that summer as a free agent with the Edmonton Oilers.
Honorable mention: Thomas Steen (1979), Igor Ulanov (1991)
Biggest disappointment: Scott Kelman (1999) -- Phoenix took Kelman with the 15th pick in 1999 but never brought him to the NHL. He played with 12 teams in four leagues on two continents after turning pro in 2002, but none of them were the NHL -- not exactly what the Coyotes were counting on from a mid-first rounder.
Best first-round pick: Patrick Marleau (1997) -- The San Jose Sharks' all-time leading scorer has spent every day of his pro hockey career in teal and has been a consistent producer -- though perhaps not at the level some fans might have expected from the second player taken in his draft year. Marleau has excelled in his five seasons under coach Todd McLellan, scoring a career-high 38 goals in 2008-09, topping that with 44 in 2009-10, adding 37 in 2010-11 and 30 in 2012-13. His 17 goals this past season made him the first player in franchise history to score 400 times as a Shark.
Honorable mention: Jeff Friesen (1994), Brad Stuart (1998), Milan Michalek (2003), Logan Couture (2007)
Best pick, rounds 2-4: Ray Whitney (1991) -- The one-time stick boy for the Edmonton Oilers was the second player ever selected by the Sharks, and has long since outlasted first-round pick Pat Falloon. Whitney is a late bloomer who didn't really come into his own in San Jose; he never scored 20 goals with the Sharks, but has done it 10 times since leaving in 1997. Whitney was a Second-Team All-Star with the Phoenix Coyotes in 2011-12, and put up 11 goals and 29 points in 32 games with the Dallas Stars this past season. He turned 41 last month, but will be expected to play a significant role with the Stars in 2013-14.
Honorable mention: Christian Ehrhoff (2001), Matthew Carle (2003), Marc-Edouard Vlasic (2005)
Best later-round pick: Evgeni Nabokov (1994) -- The Sharks found a gem 19 years ago when they spent a ninth-round pick on Nabokov, a young goaltender playing in Russia. He came to North America in 1997, spent two seasons in the American Hockey League and has been an NHL regular since 2000-01, when he won the Calder Trophy. Nabokov outlasted challenges from Miikka Kiprusoff and Vesa Toskala, finally becoming the undisputed starter in San Jose in 2007 and winning 131 games in his last three seasons before leaving as a free agent in 2010. After playing in Russia in 2010-11, he returned to the NHL with the New York Islanders and led them to the Stanley Cup Playoffs in 2012-13.
Honorable mention: Miikka Kiprusoff (1995), Ryane Clowe (2001), Joe Pavelski (2003)
Biggest disappointment: Teemu Riihijarvi (1995) -- The Sharks chose the Finnish left wing with the 12th pick in the 1995 draft, but he never came to North America. Riihijarvi continued to play in Finland until 2003, spent two seasons in Sweden, and then retired after five games back in his home country in 2005-06. Riihijarvi never scored more than eight goals or 18 points in any season.
By John Kreiser - NHL.com Columnist


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Academic Advising for CSAM Students
For CSAM majors, understanding course prerequisites and course sequencing is extremely important. The decisions you make regarding course selection for each semester should be made collaboratively with your department academic advisor to make sure you are meeting the correct requirements and are on track to graduate.
Academic advisors do more than work with students to plan their coursework for each semester however. Academic advisors support and partner with students so that you can make informed decisions, develop appropriate goals in order to succeed academically, and plan for the future. The relationship you develop with your faculty advisor is one of the most important relationships you will have throughout your academic career.
We want you to be informed, empowered and proactive!
Working With Your Academic Advisor
The relationship between advisor and advisee is one of shared responsibility. Though you as a student are ultimately responsible for the choices you make in college, the University realizes that in order to make informed decisions, students need the mentoring and advice of academic advisors and others in the University community. Your academic advisor is your primary resource regarding academic issues, opportunities, and programs and could perhaps be thought of as the coordinator of your educational experiences.
CSAM Academic Advisor
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Boca Raton Wine & Food Festival: Decadent Tastings, Parties & More
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The last date listed for Boca Raton Wine & Food Festival was Sunday November 10, 2013 / 12:00pm - 3:00pm (Jazz Bubbles & Brunch).
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*Braman Motorcars Palm Beach Grand Tasting: A Culinary Affair
*_Saturday, November 9, 2013 – 6:00pm to 10:00pm
_As you stroll through the festival on Saturday feeling the balmy breeze while the sun sets you will be embraced in sensory delight. The 1/6 Mile Distance will be transformed into a lavish walkway of elaborately decorated countries and regions that come alive through a gastronomic journey of tastes, sounds and visions! Meet and mingle among 70 Chefs from the tri-county area as they prepare their most beloved dishes from 6 World Regions and a Sweet Endings Village. Premier vintners will offer tastings of some of the world's finest varietals of wine. Cultural music and décor will take you to places afar. Live cooking demonstrations in Kitchen Alley and enjoy boutique experiences with the festival sommeliers in the Sensory Garden. Visit the Farmers Market, sponsored by Cabot Cheese, in partnership with NuTurf of Pompano Beach and Pero Family Farms, stroll through the Retail and Business Shopping Bazaar, and visit the outdoor Art Gallery. This year you can learn the art of cooking with rum in the Spirits Region and enjoy a varietal of seasonal craft beers. Enjoy Live Entertainment and dancing at the Main Entertainment Stage & Lounge with local songstress Kendra Fulmer opening up for the Urban Gypsy Band.
*VIP Dinner Under The Stars: A Four-Course Food & Wine Affair
*_Friday, November 8, 2013 – 7:00pm to 10:00pm
_On Friday night we are hosting an exclusive VIP Dinner Under The Stars. It's about Atmosphere. It's about Food. It's about Wine. And now, seven south Florida chefs are bringing their culinary talents to your table. Friday evening includes a four-course dinner prepared live to please your palate as you are introduced to perfectly paired wines by our seven Sommeliers. An intimate number of guests will choose the region of their choice to dine for the evening; America, Italy, France, and Spain. After your culinary experience, you'll make your way through the Retail and Business Shopping Bazaar and Art Gallery. Then, you'll head to the Main Entertainment Stage & Lounge for Dancing. The Dinner Under The Stars has limited seating available to ensure an intimate experience. The VIP Dinner Under The Stars is hosted by Honorary Chair Robert Stanfield.
*Menu for VIP Dinner Under the Stars:
*1st course:Heirloom Tomato Salad fresh herbs and farmer's cheese
2nd course:Blackened Grouper baked grits, wilted mustard greens, spicy ham-hock pot liquor
3rd course:Beef Shank potato and acorn squash hash, roasted beets with pan juices
4th course:Sticky Apple Cake custard cake, candied apples, vanilla bean ice cream
Wines Paired: _*
Chardonnay, Napa, Arroba Winery, Sonoma, CA _
100% Chardonnay. Tasting notes: Flavor profile: Rich, clean, moderate oak, not too much butter, aromatic, smooth, and long finish. Free SO2 at release, less than 15 ppm. Low histamines, preservative and Velcorin free.
_Merlot, Mendocino, Arroba Winery, Sonoma CA _
85% Merlot, 10% Cabernet Sauvignon, 3% Syrah, 2% Cabernet Franc
Alc. 14.3%; pH: 3.85, T.A. 6.1g/L; R.S. 0.1% (classified dry).
Barrel aged 24 months in 50% French and 50% American oak, barrels were two to four years old. Tasting Notes: Mouth-filling flavors of plums, cherries and wild red berries dominate from start to finish. Soft, supple and complex. Free SO2 at release, less than 15 ppm. Low histamines, preservative and Velcorin free.
Cabernet Sauvignon, Deerfield Ranch Winery, Sonoma CA_
75% Cabernet, 13% Cabernet Franc, 10% Merlot, 2% Malbec
Alc. 15.1%; R.S.: 0.05%.
Barrel aged 36 months in 75% French and 25% American oak barrels. 2006 produced gentle Cabernets. The blend and extended barrel aging brought out the subtleties of the vintage. The result is a full flavored Cabernet without aggression, depth and balance without strong tannins or high acid.
Cantina Colli Euganei, Fior d'Arancio_
*Vineyard Party: A Vine to Glass Affair
*_Friday, November 8, 2013 – 7:30pm to 10:00pm
_If you want to take advantage of the experience that we have created join us on Friday night for the Vineyard Party. While walking through the vineyard, the sights, sounds and aromas transport guests to Sonoma and Napa Valley. There you will find a lavish selection of cuisines prepared by our chefs along with plenty of wine varietals to enjoy while watching the live cooking demonstrations in Kitchen Alley. Guests can hang out in the Wine Sensory Garden with the festival sommeliers for a sensory wine tasting experience. There is something for everyone's palate…enjoy varietals of craft beers and cordials in the Spirits Region. Stroll into the Farmer's Market for fresh herbs and organic produce. The outdoor Retail and Business Shopping Bazaar and Art Gallery is open all evening. At the Main Entertainment Stage & Lounge enjoy the vibe of The Valerie Tyson Band. This will be a fun-filled Vine to Glass Affair for a limited number of guests.
*Jazz Bubbles & Brunch: A Social Affair
*_Sunday, November 10, 2013 – Noon to 3:00pm
_And, for those of you who like to wake up on Sunday mornings to enjoy a delectable brunch we have the perfect atmosphere waiting for you! Start your Sunday at the Jazz Bubbles & Brunch. Luxuriate in the chic, European breakfast, featuring an array of brunch stations, including unique fruit preparations and fresh catch dishes. Cheers to festival friends, both old and new, while enjoying Sparkling Wines, Mimosas and Bloody Marys. Don't be shy … you can go up for seconds!


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LettersIf A = B ...Dear Alibi, [Re: The Radford Files, "Logic 101," April 10-16] I almost never point out illogic in published opinion pieces, the instances of unintended and intentional (rhetorical) illogic being so common. But I do so in this case because the entire point and purpose of Radford's sarcastic article was to decry—illogic! Berating Mayor Marty Chavez' contention that "children are in significant danger of being molested by strangers in libraries," Radford states that "kids are in far more danger of being abused, kidnapped or killed by their own parents than by any stranger or sex offender in a library or on the Web." Radford's allegation displays the same types of illogic and innumeracy exemplified in the common contention that the fact that most accidents happen at home means that homes are more dangerous than other places. The real reasons more accidents happen at or near home are that a) people spend many more daily and nightly hours there overall, and b) much more travel occurs in that zone because homes are by far the most common starting and end points of travel. Applying directly analogous probability realities to Radford's fallacious objection, the real reasons more young kids are harmed by a parent than by a stranger are that a) most kids clock far more overall day-and-night hours with a parent than with strangers, and b) there are far more kids who have a parent than kids who get involved with a stranger. In Radford's snide article condemning illogical reasoning, his reasoning is clearly fallacious in these two important ways. Smart WaterDear Alibi, The reprint from the Utne Reader [Re: Feature, " Environmental Justice For All," April 17-23] that was the centerpiece of the Alibi's Earth Day coverage was interesting but had nothing specific to say about what's going on in Albuquerque. There are critical environmental issues right here at home that bear discussing, and among these is water conservation and water resource management. We are looking at a state-mandated usage goal of 155 gallons per person per day in order to meet permit requirements for the San Juan-Chama Drinking Water Project, and our daily usage today stands at about 167 gallons per person. We're doing a lot better than we were a decade ago, and Albuquerque is to be commended for its conservation gains over the last 10 years. Nevertheless, we still have a lot of work ahead of us. One area where we can do a lot better is outdoor watering. Watering of lawns and landscapes consumes some 40 percent of our drinking water every year, and in a desert environment such as ours, that's just too much. To encourage smarter watering habits, the Water Authority is now promoting a program called "Water by the Numbers." It's a voluntary initiative that asks homeowners to pick just one day a week to water in March, two days a week in April and May, three days a week in June, July and August, and then ramp down again in the fall. If it works, it could save us upward of 2 billion gallons this year alone. We also offer rebates for the removal of turf and installation of xeriscaping, as well as classes on efficient irrigation. More information is available at our website, www.abcwua.org. Life, Liberty and TaxesDear Alibi, I read Jim Scarantino's article on "The Fair Tax" [Re: The Real Side, April 17-23] with great interest. I spent nearly eight years in Washington working on tax reform and advocating for taxpayers. Like Jim, I believe America's tax system is broken. Unfortunately, the political will to seriously reform or abolish our income tax system is sorely lacking in Washington. The problem is that each loophole and tax shelter now written into the Tax Code was put there because a powerful interest group successfully lobbied to put it there. The home-owners tax deduction is just one popular provision that, rightly or wrongly, will be extremely tough to eliminate in the name of tax simplification. As if entrenched special interests were not enough of a problem with any fundamental tax reform, the Fair Tax faces the additional obstacle of being untested. On the other hand, more than 20 nations, especially rapidly growing states of the former Soviet Union, have adopted flat taxes. It might work, but making the leap will be a serious challenge. Rather than focusing on reforming how we collect taxes, we instead need a philosophical shift away from the belief that government is a tool by which one person can live at the expense of others. 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Even though informality is a widespread phenomenon and poses serious social, economic, cultural, and political challenges across the world, many issues about its nature and consequences still remain largely under-explored or unresolved. For example, the evidence presented in the existing literature has failed to generate a consensus among researchers around the measurement of the informal sector. There are also many other open questions regarding the determinants and/or effects of informality, including even such basic ones such as whether the informal sector size is larger in low-income or high-income nations (see Dreher and Schneider 2010); whether taxes are positively correlated with informal sector size or not (see Schneider and Enste 2000, Friedman et al 2000, and Elgin 2010 among others) or whether the shadow economy and corruption are substitutes or complements (Dreher and Schneider 2010).
As the number of papers in the growing literature on informality indicates, there is an increasing focus on the economic analysis of the shadow economy. Yet one particular setback that, despite the development of various methods, still persists in the literature is the lack of significantly large datasets that would make informality subject to robust (applied) policy analysis. Even though there are various methodologies suggested for its measurement, this issue mostly arises due to the fact that the size of the shadow economy, by definition, is hard to measure and to subject to empirical analysis. Most of the suggested methodologies (see the next section for a longer review) are usually used for a particular country or even a region and could not be generalised to cross-country panel frameworks. One particular exception is the dataset presented by Schneider et al (2010), which reports the shadow economy size (as a percent of GDP) for 162 countries in an annual basis for the nine years between 1999 and 2007. In this study, however, the authors rely on the MIMIC (Multiple Indicators and Multiple Causes) approach to estimate the size of the shadow economy which, according the Breusch (2005), is largely unfit for purpose.
New research on shadow economies
In recent research (Elgin and Oztunali 2012), we aim to address two issues:
- First, using a two-sector dynamic general equilibrium, we present a new approach to estimate the size of the shadow economy. We believe that this approach has various advantages over the existing methodologies.
- Second, we use this new methodology to construct a new unbalanced 161-country panel dataset over the period 1950 to 2009. This aims to be the largest dataset in the literature, particularly with its time-series dimension. Among many possible advantages regarding its use, the construction of such a dataset would allow for various policy analyses that require a significantly large time dimension.
Our procedure allows us to have a dataset with 7,395 observations for 161 countries in an unbalanced panel framework running from 1950 to 2009. The complete dataset is reported on a country-by-country and year-by-year basis in Elgin and Oztunali (2012). Nevertheless, we report various descriptive statistics and present illustrative figures here.
In order to observe the variation of the shadow economy size in different group of countries over time, we divided the world into six different groups. These are OECD-EU, Latin American and Caribbean, post-Socialist (Transition), Middle East and North African, sub-Saharan African, and Asian-Oceanian countries.
As looking at unweighted series may be a misleading way of calculating the shadow economy size in a group, in Table 1 we report the descriptive statistics of GDP-weighted series in different groups of countries. Note that these are regional descriptive statistics for the whole 1950-2009 period.
Table 1. GDP-weighted shadow economy as percentage of GDP
Region | Mean | Median | Minimum | Maximum | Std. dev. |
Latin | 41.98 | 38.44 | 35.54 | 55.51 | 6.29 |
Post-Socialist | 37.37 | 34.98 | 28.18 | 55.67 | 7.83 |
Sub-Saharan | 43.06 | 39.90 | 36.84 | 55.25 | 5.64 |
Asia | 32.84 | 33.06 | 18.05 | 51.83 | 9.40 |
World |
22.67 | 21.84 | 18.54 | 27.74 | 2.98 |
Investigating Table 1 reveals two crucial points:
- First, judging from the standard deviations, the size of the shadow economy experienced a significant variation both across groups and within groups.
- Second, Latin American and sub-Saharan economies have significantly larger shadow economies than the other groups of countries, while the OECD-EU group has a significantly smaller shadow economy.
Next, in Table 2, we report the evolution of the shadow economy size in different groups over time in approximately 10-year intervals. In line with Table 2, Figure 1 presents the GDP-weighted shadow economy size on an annual basis. For almost all country groups (except for the post-Socialist one), we observe a declining trend over time. However, the pace of the reduction seems to lose some momntum in the last decade. Somewhat more interestingly, we observe a spike staring in 2007. Considering the emergence of the global economic crisis, this could give further support for the hypothesis that the size of the shadow economy is countercyclical, as suggested by Roca et al (2001) and Elgin (2012).
Table 2. Regional trends over time
Region | 1960-1970 | 1971-1980 | 1981-1990 | 1991-2000 | 2001-2009 |
Latin | 47.50 | 40.86 | 36.88 | 36.59 | 36.19 |
Post-Socialist | - | - | - | 34.13 | 35.95 |
Sub-Saharan | 48.71 | 41.74 | 37.44 | 38.68 | 39.00 |
Asia | 39.40 | 34.39 | 29.63 | 23.97 | 19.85 |
World |
25.75 | 22.56 | 20.76 | 20.02 | 21.67 |
Figure 1. GDP-weighted shadow economy size (as % of GDP) over time
In Figure 2, we group countries with respect to GDP per-capita and then report the average GDP-weighted shadow economy size in each group. Here, we divide the countries into five categories – poorest, second, third, fourth and the richest 20%. Not surprisingly, richer countries tend to have a smaller shadow economy; however, Figure 2 shows that this relationship is not exactly linear, especially in a cross-country sense. Even though further research is required, this might be considered as a support for informality dimension of the Kuznets Curve hypothesis.
Figure 2. Evolution of the shadow economy in different income groups
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The number of books on trauma, PTSD, and sexual abuse churned out each year is astounding. One is tempted to believe that there cannot be much left to be said on these thoroughly researched subjects. However, Sam Warner's Understanding the Effects of Childhood Abuse approaches, from an entirely novel angle, the theory, research and practice surrounding childhood sexual abuse. The result is a compelling study that forces an overturning of current assumptions about the way that the public and the psychological and legal "experts" understand the effects of sexual abuse on children and adults, and how this understanding affects treatment of survivors.
Sketching out the three areas of inquiry--theory, research, and practice--Warner demonstrates how the three are entwined, mutually informing each other and mutually constituting a "knowledge base" about women and girls and childhood sexual abuse, which configures mental health approaches and legal and healthcare services. Warner proposes a new approach, grounded in a marriage of two theoretical models, feminism and post-structuralism. Feminism problematizes the category women, refusing that term as a stable social category with fixed and definitive meaning; "if we are to claim a feminist voice, whilst not denying our differences, it is crucial to theorize, rather than simply accept gender distinctions" (p. 5). Post-structuralism offers the approach for this fresh theorizing, since "according to post-structuralism, reality is understood to be socially constructed through language" (p. 5). Post-structuralism assumes all knowledge, because it is all socially produced and regulated, to have epistemological equivalence. Thus, according to both feminism and post-structuralism, there is no "natural social order" into which "normal" individuals should neatly fit. Rather, discourses of normalcy and deviance are strategic, rather than transparent, because knowledge is never a benign thing but is a practice that has the power to influence. Knowledge is Power (Foucault, 1978, 1991, 1971/92). In patriarchal society, we cannot assume that expert knowledge is "pure" or "objective" but is necessarily influenced from the outset by the fact that males are both the dominant voice of the society and the most common abusers of women and children.
Once Warner helps us to appreciate the way the landscape of reality comes to be constituted through relationships of power and knowledge, then we see that we can now inquire into any phenomenon (such as child sexual abuse) from a rich array of angles, from the perspective of differing "epistemic communities." We come to appreciate that the groups and persons marginalized and subordinated in the society, whatever the disadvantages of marginalization, do have a singular benefit: they enjoy greater access to knowledge, since "structural privilege (such as male power) impedes clarity of thought [there being]no impetus to theorize the norm (what it means to be a man in patriarchal society)" (p. 5). The dominant in any social structural hierarchy are limited as to their understanding of themselves and their worlds, precisely because structures are organized in such a way as to hide the structures of domination, under the rubric of "the naturalized order of things." The marginalized epistemic communities, therefore, can offer rich starting points for research and social inquiry, unhindered by the myopia that handicaps the dominant.
The result of Warner's feminist-post-structuralist rethinking of the effects of child sexual abuse is nothing short of a revolution in psychology, culminating in a radical political agenda that transforms research, theory and practice as they relate to child sexual abuse. Warner's reframing of the accepted knowledge culminates in a new therapeutic approach, "Visible Therapy," which abandons the conceptual framework that currently guides treatment of vsurvivors of childhood sexual abuse, and challenges the language of diagnosis, symptoms, personality disorder, normalcy, and pathology. The charge Warner makes to traditional psychology and psychiatry is that once survivors of abuse are diagnosed, the symptoms that permit the diagnosis (voices, visions, denial, distraction, dissociation, and self-harm) are seen as qualities inhering in the diseased individual. That is to say, the behaviors, which compose the effects of childhood sexual abuse are dislocated from the event of abuse that gave rise to them.
Warner argues that the "symptoms" are better understood as coping strategies, to which the sufferer has turned to make sense of the abuse that she has endured. When her behaviors are seen--made visible--in this way, the patient often feels empowered, recognizing herself as a survivor of abuse, rather than remaining locked in the identity of "victim." The therapist may now lead the patient to explore and expand her arsenal of coping strategies to other more effective tactics, or at the least, she may help the patient to learn to exercise enhanced control over the (harmful) strategies she is employing.
Warner's recovery-focused model of psychotherapy valorizes the patient's ability to effect change in her own life, by helping her to appreciate the multiple factors that impact how she thinks and feels about what she has suffered and about what behaviors she has take up to work through her thoughts and feelings, in the aftermath of childhood sexual abuse. Visible Therapy avoids diagnosis and value judgments about behaviors; the aim is to make sense of experiences, past and present, that have shaped the mental and social life of the patient.
Warmer is a brave explorer, overturning the very knowledge base that frames diagnosis and guides treatment of sexual abuse survivors. Warner's feminist post-structuralist approach to the problem of childhood sexual abuse exposes the broader landscape of the problem, locating its roots in Power/Knowledge systems, in gender roles and master narratives about "normal" ways that women and girls should behave. Childhood sexual abuse is a worldwide social problem, and Warner's compelling study reveals that it is inequalities in gender relationships that underpin sexually exploitative and abusive relationships.
Understanding the Effects of Child Sexual Abuse is a refreshing new voice in violence and abuse studies. It is a must-read for practitioners in the field, as it offers a spectrum of practical therapeutic approaches to suit individual patients and situations. Students would benefit from Warner's study, as would any educated reader who is interested in rethinking the way our societies work to suppress some knowledge (such as "violence begins at home and generally at the hands of a male you know intimately") and elevate as "self-evident truth" other, more convenient understandings ("mental patients are personality-disordered").
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By all accounts (check out the Apple Community Support boards) the just released and hotly awaited Apple iOS upgrade 6.0 is causing major problems, users report. Many, though not all, users of devices that now have the upgrade available at the push of the button, including the Apple iPhone 4S, the iPhone 4, the iPhone 3GS, the new iPod touch and the Apple iPad 2 and iPad 3 are reporting issues such as Wi-Fi bugs, performance problems, the lack of Google Maps and YouTube, battery drain, Passbook compatibility problems, and other issues, just for starters.
Without an official Apple-supported method to downgrade, IT pros hoping to downgrade enterprise users who've already upgraded to the new iOS 6 back to the more stable Apple iOS 5.1.1 are out of luck — unless they borrow a page from Apple jailbreakers and use tools like TinyUmbrella or CYDIA to back up essential files known as SHSH blobs.
As it turns out, upgrading to Apple iOS 6 automatically wipes the blobs for Apple iOS 5.11, making a downgrade, should problems arise, impossible. Before you let anyone else upgrade, here's how to make sure you've got those blobs. It isn't pretty, but it's the only way, at least for now, to guarantee you can downgrade unhappy Apple iOS 6 users later.
But doesn't Apple save older iOS versions - especially the latest (the current one until just last week) iOS 5 - on its servers? That's what everyone else is wondering in the support forums.
"It's true Apple does host the old iOS version on its servers — here is the IPSW file for an iPad 2, for example — but unless your users thought ahead to save the blobs, restoring it will just throw a 3194 error back at you. Your problem will be missing SHSH blob files and tech pros need to do those backups before users upgrade, given the problems reported with Apple iOS 6", says Dino Londis, an IT pro at a large law firm in NYC.
Londis, a technologist at aNewDomain.net, emphasizes the problems IT pros face if users upgrade to Apple iOS 6 before the Apple iOS SHSH blob files are backed up.
Otherwise, there's likely no going back, as Apple iOS 6 is not signing in with firmware. So how to back up the blobs before issues with Apple iOS 6 plague your help desk?
One option - the best, in Londis' view and other tech pros, I interviewed - is Notcom's TinyUmbrella. It is a free, lightweight utility familiar to jailbreakers, which will save the crucial SHSH blobs. Upgrading to Apple iOS 6 via air or Wi-Fi iTunes destroys those Apple iOS 5.1.1 files, making a downgrade practically impossible unless a backup of the blobs is available.
The free TinyUmbrella utility will let you save the critical SHSH blob files for Apple iOS 5. Only with those files is it possible, if necessary, to downgrade users from Apple iOS 6. The install of iOS 6 wipes those files, making a downgrade impossible. Apple has sealed its firmware.
Another, albeit more hairy option, is to get for the beta version of the redsnOw iOS 6 jailbreak tool, which will let you restore Apple iOS 5.1.1 provided you've saved SHSH blob files with Tiny Umbrella or another recognized SHSH blob-saving tool, like Cydia.
Find the link for the beta RedSnow jailbreaker before your users find it. It's free from developers at iPhone Dev Team (not related to Apple Inc.).
Developers at iPhone Dev just released the beta version of RedSn0w, a jailbreaking tool for Apple iOS 6 that will let you restore Apple iOS 5.1.1 to users' devices. The catch? Aside from all the issues associated with jail breaking - i.e., customer support from Apple down the road - it won't work until, you guessed it, you've backed up SSH blob files with SHSH blobsaving freeware Tiny Umbrella, which Londis recommends above, or another utility SHSH blobsaver like Cydia.
So why the big problem?
Apple reps have as yet to return calls for comment, but as Charlotte, NC tech pro Ant Pruitt points out, there's no real mystery here. Apple iOS warriors in BYOD shops know and have known for awhile that Apple has pretty much locked up the ability to downgrade from Apple iOS 6 by deleting those key files and not "signing" the firmware inside.
Tiny Umbrella unveiled its tool for backing up the SHSH 5.1.1 files for Apple iOS 5.1.1 this week. It is available for download from here in two versions: TinyUmbrella [OSX] and TinyUmbrella [WIN] (These are zipped executable files).
We'll keep you updated on an Apple fix for this issue if it arrives. If you have tips we missed, please leave them in the comments below. In the meantime, back up the blobs, or your users will find that like the Eagle's song, "Hotel California," you can check in, but you can never leave.
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Then there were the pigs. They ran loose on the streets of New York at the time, disgusting well-bred visitors and residents alike. Here, though, is where our perceptions of history are liable to interpretation. It occurred to me that pics running wild must have looked entirely different to immigrants. To men and women who had been through the famine, and for whom slaughtering the treasured family pig was the last, desperate measure before facing starvation, the pigs must have made it seem as if the streets were paved with gold.
Therein lies the paradox of the immigrant experience. For all the pent-up fury of the mobs, for all the atrocities they committed, it was also their fellow immigrants who suppressed the uprising. Many of the troops who were hurried back to the city were Irish-Americans themselves, including the fabled "Fighting 69th" regiment. So too were most of New York's police; this would be their finest hour, keeping the city in the Union by the strength of their locustwood clubs, against overwhelming odds. For all they had been subjected to, for all that they could have stooped to lawlessness and depravity, enough immigrants found America worth preserving, even if it meant fighting their friends and neighbors in the streets.
How, then, to put a human face to this epic story? Again, I was lucky in what the historical record had left me. Paradise Alley has many characters, male and female—a New York City fireman turned soldier, a hack journalist, an attendant at the Colored Orphans' Asylum—but it is centered on a trinity of Irishwomen living in the squalid Fourth Ward, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
Deirdre Dolan is one of the "lacecurtain Irish," based closely on the countless young women who came to this country to work as domestics, aspiring to a house and a home and middle-class respectability of their own. Maddy Boyle is modeled on a real-life prostitute of the time, an Irishwoman named Mary Burke who, when the mob came after her for the great crime of having black clients, fired a pistol at them and cursed them for "Irish sons-of-bitches!" To understand what she meant is to know truly what it means to be Irish. The third woman, Ruth Dove, is also based very closely on a real person, a Mrs. William Derrickson, of Worth Street—an Irishwoman who was married to a black man. Her husband was not at home when the uprising started, and when the rioters came, she went out into the street herself to defy them and to try to save her teenage son from being lynched.
For this is the immigrant story too. It is one of monumental courage, the courage not just to survive and endure but also to embrace the new country and rise above the past. Intermarriage was not prevalent in antebellum New York, but it was not uncommon either, and while the draft riots were first and foremost a racial tragedy, there were also whites—most notably the police—who sheltered and defended African-Americans against the mobs. This was just one small measure, one cautious step forward, toward realizing the freedom and dignity that America had always promised but was so tardy in delivering.
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Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton was found dead in his Michigan home.
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