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Many emerging economies have skills shortages but fail to effectively deploy students andjob seekers towards filling those shortages. In emerging economies, new technologies,digitization, automation, and other trends like Industry 4.0 result in a constantly changing demandfor sophisticated skills. ... Exibir mais + In this environment, there are often students and job seekers who couldpotentially fill skills gaps but face significant challenges in identifying job opportunities andthe skills needed to obtain them. The schools, training centers, and public service providers thatare responsible for preparing the workforce to fill skills gaps often face similar challenges in terms of deploying attention and resources towards filling those gaps. In Malaysia, the Critical Skills Monitoring Committee (CSC) is charged with producing a Critical Occupations List to serve as a platform for coordinating human capital development policies. The CSC is a specialized interagency body that was established as part of the Eleventh Malaysia Plan to monitor skills imbalances in Malaysia. To do so, the CSC created an annual Critical Occupations List (COL) of occupations that are middle- or highskilled, sought-after, and strategic. The COL has evolved during the last several years to become a best-practice tool for monitoring skills. The COL is updated regularly and improved continually, is based on rigorous evidence, and is widely circulated. The production of the list is undertaken by the CSC and incorporates a wide range of input from both the public and private sector. Exibir menos -
Documento de Trabalho 141614 SEP 01, 2019
Moroz,Harry Edmund; Schmillen,Achim Daniel; Abdur Rahman,Amanina Binti Disclosed
Malaysia has focused on civil service reforms to improve the efficiency of public service delivery. This Research and Policy Brief argues that this method needs to be supplemented with an approach that makes officials more directly accountable to citizens. ... Exibir mais + Improving governance by engaging citizens and strengthening local institutions is a policy implication that has lessons not only for Malaysia, but also for other countries around the world. Exibir menos -
Informativo 138279 JUN 01, 2019
Abdul Kader,Shahridan Faiez Bin Mohideen; Rao,Vijayendra Disclosed
Growth moderated in Q1 2019, owing to weaker investment growth and inventory drawdowns.Domestically, an easing of export growth, together with a decline in investment, has resulted in Malaysia's economic growth becoming more dependent on consumption. ... Exibir mais + In 2019, Malaysia's economy is expected to expand at a relatively moderate rate, with risks tilted towards the downside. The GDP growth rate is projected to reach 4.6 percent in 2019, 0.1 percentage points lower than in the previous forecast, reflecting weaker-than-expected investment and export activity observed in Q1 2019. Potential risks to growth include those related to escalating trade tensions, a sharper than-expected slowdown in major economies, as well as volatility in financial and commodity markets. Relatively high levels of private and public debt also pose risks to growth. In the short term, policies should focus on boosting resilience and protecting the vulnerable. In an environment of growing uncertainty, it is particularly important to rebuild fiscal policy buffers, to facilitate private investment, and to ensure adequate social protection for low-income and vulnerable households. In the medium term, bold reforms will be needed to boost human capital and to raise productivity. As Malaysia proceeds on its transition to a high-income and developed economy, incremental growth in incomes will be increasingly dependent on improvements in human capital and productivity. In turn, this will require a multi-year reform agenda to improve the quality of workforce skills and learning outcomes from the education system. The Malaysia Economic Monitor (MEM) consists of two parts. Part 1 presents a review of recent economic developments and a macroeconomic outlook. Part 2 focuses on a selected special topic that is key to Malaysia's medium-term development prospects and the achievement of shared prosperity. In this edition, the focus of the special topic is on re-energizing the public service to better enable it to facilitate Malaysia's future development. Exibir menos -
Atualizações e modelagem econômicas 138390 JUN 01, 2019
Record,Richard James Lowden; Chong,Yew Keat; Teh Sharifuddin,Shakira Binti; Bajpai,Rajni; Govindasamy,Jeevakumar Disclosed
Waqf is a potent tool for mobilizing resources to meet societal needs by the self-sustaining contributions of private donors rather than by governmental borrowing or spending of tax money. ... Exibir mais + Despite their social and economic importance, the potential of waqf remains largely unrealized because of the critical challenges of liquidity management and the shortage of viable investment opportunities. This report, which is jointly produced by the World Bank Group, International Centre of Education in Islamic Finance (INCEIF) and International Shari'ah Research Academy for Islamic Finance (ISRA), highlights the importance of waqf in mobilizing and maximizing resources to meet societal needs. The report also emphasizes the legal and regulatory frameworks that enable the implementation of waqf in selected countries. The report is expected to raise awareness on the importance of waqf and its huge potential for public good. Exibir menos -
Documento de Trabalho 138765 MAY 01, 2019
Abdul Aziz,Ahmad Hafiz Bin; Zhang,Wei; Hamid,Baharom Abdul; Mahomed,Ziyaad; Bouheraoua,Said; Kasri,Noor Suhaida; Sano,Mohamed Al-Amine Disclosed
Malaysia has experienced a rise in foreign labor inflows in response to steady economic expansion and demographic changes. The foreign workforce has been hovering around 15 percent of the total labor force in recent years according to labor force surveys by the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM). ... Exibir mais + Foreign labor is concentrated in low-skilled occupations, and in Malaysia the term foreign worker specifically implies a foreigner doing low-skilled work. Foreign labor makes important contributions to the labor market and economic growth. Yet, concerns over irregular foreign workers have been growing. Heated discussions have taken place on the number of irregular foreign workers in Malaysia as there is no definitive estimate of the number of irregular foreign workers. To illustrate the magnitude, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MOHA) reported that four out of ten foreign workers are irregular, based on its enforcement and amnesty program operations, suggesting the number of irregular foreign workers be about 1.2 million in 2017 and the total foreign worker population of about 3 million. This report attempts to estimate the number of irregular foreign workers in Malaysia. Its contributions to this field are the following: first, it develops a conceptual framework that lays out potential entry points of irregular foreign workers. Second, it identifies alternative administrative data sources that can help estimate the magnitude of irregular foreign workers at each entry point. Third, it identifies methods that can be employed to measure irregular foreign workers with the current data availability and outlines what can be carried out further in the future using immigration department's microdata. Exibir menos -
Report AUS0000681 MAR 28, 2019
Yi,Soonhwa; Tan Wei,Kershia; Loh,Wei San; Simler,Kenneth Disclosed
This paper sheds light on key innovation patterns and constraints within a selected set of developing East Asian countries (Cambodia, China, Indonesia, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam). ... Exibir mais + It follows a comprehensive approach about national innovation systems while highlighting the supply and demand dimensions of innovation as well as the markets where firms make accumulation decisions for different forms of capital (knowledge capital, human capital. and physical capital). The paper presents a set of empirical exercises drawing from various data sets. The results corroborate the idea of the importance of adopting a broad view of innovation policy and investing in missing complementary factors. Although investment in research and development is key to boost innovation, it is also crucial to have business and regulatory environments that are conducive to overall firm performance and capital accumulation (not only knowledge capital), as they are expected to improve innovation returns. In addition, the results suggest that other innovation inputs aside from research and development matter for innovation activities, such as training for innovative activities, acquisition/licensing of technology, and managerial practices. Exibir menos -
Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas WPS8706 JAN 17, 2019
Iootty De Paiva Dias,Mariana Disclosed
The green sukuk (green Islamic bond) is a new climate finance instrument that has the potential to channel the US dollar 2 trillion Islamic finance market toward funding of green and sustainable investment projects. ... Exibir mais + The World Bank partnered with the government of Malaysia to develop the green sukuk market in that country. Exibir menos -
Correspondence 136356 JAN 07, 2019
Firm-level survey data on registered private firms reveal that firms in Malaysia have much lower labor productivity than their counterparts in 43 upper-middle-income and 14 high-income countries. ... Exibir mais + It will be difficult for Malaysia to achieve the high-income status without a significant improvement in labor productivity of the private sector firms. The lower productivity of Malaysian firms is pervasive and holds across sectors and firm-sizes. Drivers of productivity such as outward orientation of the firms, innovation, training of workers and top manager's experience are all lagging in Malaysia compared to the high-income and upper-middle-income groups. Malaysia does outperform in terms of low regulatory burden on the firms and better quality of power supply. However, corruption and crime are worse in Malaysia than in the high-income and even upper-middle-income countries. Exibir menos -
Informativo 138329 JAN 01, 2019
Amin,Mohammad; Soh,Yew Chong Disclosed
Growing risks weigh on the economic outlook. On the external front, a slowing global economy, rising concerns regarding the impact of US-China trade tensions and increased volatility in financial and commodity markets all weigh on the prospects for Malaysia's economy. ... Exibir mais + On the domestic side, increased reliance on oil-related revenue amid heightened uncertainty around the commodity price forecasts and relatively high levels of private and public debt pose risks to growth. Efforts to sustain growth in the near term have to be carefully balanced with the need to restore fiscal buffers. In the short term, fiscal consolidation efforts are expected to be driven primarily by measures to reduce expenditure. However, efforts to broaden the tax base, to diversify revenues away from unstable oil and gas revenues, and to introduce greater progressivity, will require a multi-year reform agenda. Restoring fiscal buffers will be necessary to ensure that Malaysia is better prepared to respond to future macroeconomic shocks. The Mid-term Review of the 11th Malaysia Plan and the 2019 budget outline the Pakatan Harapan government's new priorities, with an emphasis on strengthening governance and improving accountability. The government has also expressed a commitment to reform the role of the state in business to level the playing field and to unlock future productivity growth. Reforms to increase the effectiveness of pro-inclusion expenditure programs have the potential to achieve greater impact with lesser public resources. The Malaysia Economic Monitor consists of two parts. In this edition, the focus of the special topic is on realizing human potential. Accelerating human capital development will be critical for enabling Malaysia's successful transition to a high-income and developed nation. With the advent of digital and other disruptive technologies, there has been a significant changein the nature of jobs, with an increasing premium on higher-order cognitive skills, such as complex problem solving, socio-behavioral skills, reasoning and self-efficacy. Building these skills requires a transformation in the way that Malaysia nurtures, invests and protectsits human capital. According to the World Bank's new Human Capital Index, Malaysia ranks 55th out of 157 countries. While Malaysia performs well in some components of the index, it does less well in others. To fully realize its human potential, Malaysia will need to make further advances in education, health and nutrition, and social protection outcomes. Key priority areas include enhancing the quality of schooling to improve learning outcomes, rethinking nutritional interventions to reduce childhood stunting, and providing adequate social welfare systems to enable households to invest in human capital formation. Exibir menos -
Atualizações e modelagem econômicas 132903 DEC 13, 2018
Record,Richard James Lowden; Chong,Yew Keat; Teh Sharifuddin,Shakira Binti; Aturupane,Harsha; Teo,Hui Sin; Schmillen,Achim Daniel; Moroz,Harry Edmund Disclosed
Effective fiscal policy depends on the amount of budget resources available to raise spending or lower taxes without jeopardizing fiscal sustainability. ... Exibir mais + This resource availability is often called fiscal space. Since the global financial crisis, fiscal space in emerging market and developingeconomies has narrowed. This makes these economies more vulnerable to sudden spikes in financing costs and limits their ability to counteract adverse shocks. Exibir menos -
Informativo 132195 NOV 01, 2018
Kose,Ayhan; Ohnsorge,Franziska Lieselotte; Sugawara,Naotaka Disclosed
Sixteenth in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 190 economies, Doing Business 2019 covers 11 areas of business regulation. ... Exibir mais + Ten of these areas - starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit, protecting minority investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts and resolving insolvency - are included in the ease of doing business score and ease of doing business ranking. Doing Business also measures features of labor market regulation, which is not included in these two measures. Doing Business provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 190 economies and selected cities at the subnational and regional level. This economy profile presents indicators for Malaysia; for 2019 Malaysia ranks 15 Exibir menos -
Documento de Trabalho 131775 OCT 31, 2018
The World Bank Global Knowledge and Research Hub in Malaysia partnered with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) for an End Poverty Campaign event on November 8, 2016. ... Exibir mais + Around 100 policy makers, development practitioners, civil society organizations and members of the media attended the half-day session, which addressed poverty, shared prosperity, and inequality issues at the global and community levels. This was the first joint World Bank-UNDP event in Malaysia and represents a first step toward future collaboration. The main part of the event consisted of two panel sessions, one highlighting grassroots civil society organizations working to reduce poverty in Malaysia and the other featuring public policy makers. These sessions sparked a lively exchange of ideas, drawing from respective best practices and challenges in translating research into policy and policy into results on the ground. Exibir menos -
Report AUS0000479 OCT 12, 2018
Governor's Statement OCT 12, 2018
Eng,Lim Guan Disclosed
This paper documents the best practices and practical lessons learned from Malaysia's largest mandatory public provident fund, the Employees Provident Fund (EPF). ... Exibir mais + The objective of this paper is to increase the knowledge base of efficient pension funds for developing countries, drawing from Malaysia's experiences. Findings include key critical factors that contributed to the successof the EPF, from a small pension fund set up in 1949, to become one of the largest pension fund among developing countries and the 15th largest in the world. This paper summarizes the EPF's key strategies in corporate governance, investment, and operational strategies, as well as policies deployed by the EPF in managing its assets. The lessons from the EPF come from three main factors. Firstly, the EPF has developed a strong governance structure which discourages external politicalmeddling and encourages transparency and accountability. Secondly, the EPF's investments strategy, guided by its Strategic Asset Allocation, including diversifying to foreign markets and new asset classes, has enabled the Fund to produce enhanced returns. Thirdly, the EPF's operational effectiveness which is driven by the professionalism of their employees and their continuous improvement for members' benefit. Nonetheless, several challenges remain in the present and in the future. The first challenge involves demographic changes as Malaysia is ageing more rapidlythan other countries and even now a sizable number of workers do not have the recommended minimum savings level needed for retirement. A revamp of the current model is needed to ensure that members will be financially independent post-retirement. The second challenge is lack of coverage: only half of those in the labour force are contributing to the EPF, which leaves the other half without oldage pension coverage. A reform agenda needs to expand coverage particularly for the self-employed. The final challenges are maintaining public trust and staying relevant, especially in the age of the fourth industrial revolution and the emerging gig economy that has different needs and demands. This case study will hopefully be of benefit to both policy makers andpractitioners, particularly in the developing world. It could help play an important part in designing a successful provident fund to contribute to a comprehensive social safety net for citizens. Exibir menos -
Documento de Trabalho 131289 OCT 01, 2018
Price,William Joseph; Khalif,Muhammed Abdul; De Luna-Martinez,Jose; Zhang,Wei; Arshad,Ashraf Bin Disclosed
This report is an inaugural issue in a new series that aims to offer a fresh look at how developing countries are overcoming persistent problems in public sector management. ... Exibir mais + Significant improvements in public sector performance are being evidenced across the developing world today, as government officials and political leaders find new and innovative ways to tackle long-standing challenges. Part I of this report demonstrates that public sector performance is being pursued diligently and successfully across a variety of country contexts, including in low-income environments. Through surveying its governance specialists from around the globe, the World Bank has assembled a collection of 15 cases that showcase how lessons from global experience are being adapted and applied in practice. The report also explores common success drivers that appear in each of the cases. Part II focuses on a special, cross-cutting topic that is critical to public sector performance -- policy and inter-agency coordination. As the responsibilities of government have grown in volume and complexity, policy and program coordination has become ever more challenging, and the stakes have never been higher. Enhancing coordination will depend not only on the adopted formal institutional mechanisms, but also on their interplay with the broader institutional environment and with other processes that influence coordination. Exibir menos -
Documento de Trabalho 131020 OCT 01, 2018
This report is an inaugural issue in a new series that aims to offer a fresh look at how developing countries are overcoming persistent problems in public sector management. ... Exibir mais + Significant improvements in public sector performance are being evidenced across the developing world today, as government officials and political leaders find new and innovative ways to tackle long-standing challenges. Part I of this report demonstrates that public sector performance is being pursued diligently and successfully across a variety of country contexts, including in low-income environments. Through surveying its governance specialists from around the globe, the World Bank has assembled a collection of 15 cases that showcase how lessons from global experience are being adapted and applied in practice. The report also explores common success drivers that appear in each of the cases. Part II focuses on a special, cross-cutting topic that is critical to public sector performance -- policy and inter-agency coordination. As the responsibilities of government have grown in volume and complexity, policy and program coordination has become ever more challenging, and the stakes have never been higher. Enhancing coordination will depend not only on the adopted formal institutional mechanisms, but also on their interplay with the broader institutional environment and with other processes that influence coordination. Exibir menos -
Documento de Trabalho 131020 OCT 01, 2018
Beschel,Robert P.; Cameron,Blair James; Kunicova,Jana; Myers,C. Bernard Disclosed
The fifth edition of the Development Digest begins with an article on why it's important to look beyond averages when it comes to the country's development, followed by a look at the region's success in the face of global uncertainty. ... Exibir mais + The Digest also touches on how inclusiveness can come about in a new Malaysia, the role of the digital economy as a new driver of development, and the future of work with automation on the horizon. Other articles include the issue of financial integration in the region, the use of Islamic finance toward sustainability, development financial institutions, budgeting for performance in Malaysia, and fighting HIV through harm reduction programs in the country. Exibir menos -
Documento de Trabalho 132530 OCT 01, 2018
Schmillen,Achim Daniel; Kamarulzaman,Adeeba; Aviles,Ana Maria; Suleiman,Anita; Myers,C. Bernard; Larson,Bradley Robert; Sitorus,Djauhari; Simler,Kenneth; Chuah,Lay Lian; Warwick,Mara K.; Lee,Min Hui; Loayza,Norman V.; Tatucu,Radu; Record,Richard James Lowden; Llovet Montanes,Ruth; Wahba Tadros,Sameh Naguib; Schmukler,Sergio L.; Teh Sharifuddin,Shakira Binti; Raja,Siddhartha; Osornprasop,Sutayut; Trujillo Tejada,Veronica Paola; Kwakwa,Victoria; Loh,Wei San; Chong,Yew Keat Disclosed
Malaysia's remarkable transition from low-income to upper middle-income status has occurred in parallel to the microelectronics revolution. Most of Malaysia's citizens are connected to the internet, and there is more than one mobile cellular subscription for each individual. ... Exibir mais + Malaysia needs to create a dynamic ecosystem for its digital economy that embodies changes to its infrastructure, regulations, skills, and public finance. This report examines three interrelated issues of digital connectivity, digital entrepreneurship, and taxation of digital platforms that are closely aligned with Malaysia's goal of becoming the e-commerce hub of the region. Following an overview of the report in Chapter 1, Chapter 2 details digital adoption in Malaysia, with an emphasis on how businesses are using but failing to fully exploit digital technologies to communicate with customers, market goods, and meet other core business functions. Chapter 3 discusses the information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure on which the digital economy is built, including persistent challenges related to the affordability and quality of fixed internet access that arise from high prices, market concentration, and an underperforming regulatory regime. Chapter 4 looks at the promise and challenges of digital entrepreneurship in Malaysia, highlighting the central role of government initiatives to date and what is required to fully empower the private sector. Chapter 5 explores options for taxing Malaysia's digital economy, including the impact of recent reforms to international standards. Finally, Chapter 6 presents a summary of key policy recommendations. The report covers an important, but by no means exhaustive, set of issues that Malaysia will need to address in order to maximize the opportunities provided by the advent of digital technologies and should be seen as the starting point in these endeavors. Exibir menos -
Documento de Trabalho 129777 SEP 01, 2018
Record,Richard James Lowden; Larson,Bradley Robert; Teh Sharifuddin,Shakira Binti; Chong,Yew Keat Disclosed
As Malaysia continues to strive toward high-income status, accelerating productivity growth has become the country's central economic policy challenge. ... Exibir mais + Productivity growth has become increasingly important as the country's traditional economic engines have slowed. Declining oil and gas output, coupled with the slowing growth of the Malaysian mining sector, has reduced the pace of capital accumulation, while demographic trends are slowing the growth of the labor force. Demographic trends underscore the vital importance of productivity growth to the continued development of the Malaysian economy. Malaysia's demographic transition is inhibiting the expansion of the labor supply, and female labor-force participation is low by the standards of comparable countries. Weakening external demand and intensifying global competition in Malaysia's key export industries confirm the necessity of increasing productivity levels. The report presents an empirical analysis of the role of productivity in the Malaysian economy. It evaluates the country's institutional and policy framework, and identifies key constraints to productivity growth. Using time-series data and cross-country comparisons, the report examines the ways in which infrastructure and institutional quality, market efficiency, innovation, and workforce skills influence productivity in Malaysia. This analysis is designed to inform a productivity-focused economic agenda, and the report concludes by presenting a set of policy recommendations and institutional reforms designed to bolster long-run productivity growth. Exibir menos -
Documento de Trabalho 126781 JUN 01, 2018
The historic outcome of Malaysia's recent elections provides an unprecedented opportunity for change. The country's 14th General Elections which took place on May 9, 2018, in the context of widespread citizen concern regarding the degree to which the proceeds of economic growth have been shared across the Malaysian society and a call for increased government accountability, have resulted in the nation's first change in government since its independence in 1957. ... Exibir mais + The new government's emerging economic policy framework is strongly guided by its election manifesto Buku Harapan, which responds to these popular sentiments. Heightened uncertainty amid the political transition exacerbated the ongoing turbulence in the financial markets arising from external factors. In the period between the elections and end-May, Malaysia's 5- and 10-year sovereign spreads against US Treasuries increased by 24 and 27 basis points respectively, while the stock market fell by three percent. Meanwhile, RM19 billion of foreign capital was withdrawn from the domestic financial markets in May as post-election market turbulence coincided with heightened investor uncertainty about the emerging markets asset class. However, since then volatility in the financial markets has been largely driven by external factors amid increased global trade tensions, as the uncertainty surrounding the political transition has gradually reduced. Exibir menos -
Atualizações e modelagem econômicas 127679 JUN 01, 2018
Record,Richard James Lowden; Chong,Yew Keat; Teh Sharifuddin,Shakira Binti Disclosed
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From Mark's Family
The outpouring of love for Mark is what prompted our family and friends to establish this foundation in his name.
Spring is here although when I look out my window I wonder if the snow will ever go away. But this is not detering us from getting started on organizing our 5th annual Make Your Mark Softball Tournament. We've been busy getting the fields reserved, contacting sponsors and already have some teams signing up for our BIG event.
2014 was a banner year and because of all the generosity and support of sponsors and the community, we were able to distribute over $48,000 in grants to a variety of groups that make a differnce in the lives of special needs children, adults and their families.
Last years tournament was an incredible success. We are hoping that 2015 will be bigger and better.
Since this is our 5th anniversary, we have some special events planned. Please join us for a funfilled day.
It is your commitment and assistance that enables The Mark Fidrych Foundation, Inc to enhance the lives of children and adults with special needs. None of this could be accomplished without your generosity and support.
March 2015

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Q. How can I book my holiday?
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Q. What days can I start my Holiday on?
A. Typically 7 or 14 night holidays start on a Monday, Friday or Saturday. 3 night short breaks start on a Friday and 4 night short breaks starting on a Monday. However if you are flexible on your arrival date and duration we may be able to find the perfect break for you, just ask your booking agent about 'book and go'.
Q. What is the difference between Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum Accommodation?
A. Please see our accommodation page for full specifications.
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A. You can pay by debit/credit card either online or over the telephone, some Customers prefer to pay an amount monthly and this is fine, please note that if your holiday is less than 30 days away we will request payment in full.
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Q. Can you accommodate guests who have accessibility needs?
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A. We are unable to accept bookings from anyone under the age of 18 and where half or more of your party is aged between 17 and 25 you must tell us when you book.
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A. Our Parks are family orientated and therefore do not cater for large groups of all male/female parties. Where the party is aged between 17 and 25 you must tell us when you book. Please note we retain the right to cancel and bookings made that breach these conditions.
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Please note that dogs must wear a collar and identity tag and be kept on a lead at all times. They must not be left in accommodation unattended. Dogs and other pets are not allowed in the Park buildings or pool areas. If a dog is proving to be a nuisance, we reserve the right to require the owner to remove the dog from the Park. The following dogs are not permitted on our Parks: Pit-bull Terrier, Dogo Argentino, Fila Brasileiro and Japanese Tosa. Other pets may be permitted at the discretion of the Park General Manager.
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Q. How can I cancel my booking?
A. The lead on the booking may request the cancellation of their holiday by emailing our holiday support team on [email protected] - please include the following information that will be on the booking: Booking Reference Number, Address, Contact Number, Full name, Arrival date and Park.
Q. Does a Baby count as a person for the number in party / berth spaces of caravan?
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There is a school of thought that this is largely down to planning restrictions around the most densely populated and/or desirable parts of California and New York, which in turn are the first and third most populous/popular states.
How much evidence is there for this (and how indeed do you measure the restrictiveness of planning and zoning laws?)..?
Let's download the stats from here and get crunching!
1. House prices vs earnings
As we see, there is a good correlation between average local earnings and house prices for the 714 counties (excl California and New York) for which we have data. The coefficient of correlation is 0.80, if you factor in the property taxes, the coefficient is even higher at 0.84.
A lot of California (red dots) and some parts of New York (green dots) are well above the trend line; most parts of New York are in the middle of the pack. The green dot in the top right corner is Manhattan 'island', of course.
2. House price-to earnings ratios vs earnings
Their evidence to show that housing is particularly expensive in those two states is that house prices are a high multiple of local average earnings, so let's do another chart:
As we see, the ratio of house prices-to-earnings is not a constant. In low wage areas ($40,000) the ratio is only 2.5; in high wage areas ($120,000) the ratio is 4.8, but the coefficient of correlation is quite low, only 0.46.
That's because this is a false comparison. You get a much more sensible figure if you use the first chart and compare house prices with the excess of earnings above the basic minimum household expenditure of (say) $20,000 - the trend line is now house price = [earnings - $20,000] x 4.2.
3. The coastal effect - California
We know that in the UK, there is a large premium attached to areas with a sea view. It's also nice being within driving distance of the coast, and because of the size and shape of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, three-quarters of it is within 25 miles of the nearest bit of coast or estuary and just about all of it is within 50 miles thereof.
Not so for the 48 main states! Only a per cent or two of the area is within 25 miles or even 50 miles of the coast. So we would expect the premium for being near a beach or even near the coast to be higher.
We can easily split Californian counties into 16 "coastal" counties and 24 "inland" counties and compare the two:
And we observe that having controlled for earnings, people are prepared to pay about $100,000 more to be nearer the sea, i.e. they are prepared to pay an extra $6,000 a year to for the benefit of coastal walks, surfing, sailing, fishing, sun bathing etc. If somebody inland spends an extra $6,000 a year on his inland hobbies, or extra gasoline for getting to the coast, then we would not count that as housing costs, would we? So I'm not sure that the extra $100,000 along the coast truly counts as housing costs either
4. The coastal effect - New York
New York state is triangular and has hardly any coastline whatsoever, just a few miles of beach, river and estuary at the southern tip (around Manhattan).
So I separated out the eight counties at the southern tip and contrasted them with the other 30 counties:
As we see here, the premium for a home in those areas is $150,000 to $200,000, much higher than in California because of the additional scarcity - less than a fifth of New York counties are 'coastal' as against over a third in California. And New York City is a huge economic and cultural draw as well, of course.
5. Strip out the coastal effect, and prices in California and New York are no different to anywhere else
Finally, I reworked the first chart comparing the rest of the USA with inland counties in California and New York, as we can see, there are only half a dozen outliers and the rest of them are slap bang in the middle of the pack:
Sunday, 5 January 2014
Why house prices in California and New York are so high.
There is a school of thought that this is largely down to planning restrictions around the most densely populated and/or desirable parts of California and New York, which in turn are the first and third most populous/popular states.
My latest blogpost: Why house prices in California and New York are so high.Tweet this! Posted by Mark Wadsworth at 10:30
Labels: California, House prices, New York, Planning regulations
36 comments:
- DBC Reed said...
Pretty convincing.Somebody should do some number crunching on high property tax Texas.
- 5 January 2014 at 11:20
- Mark Wadsworth said...
DBC, that's the strange thing.
I'm delighted that the BBC launched this myth, but even though property taxes vary widely in the US (between 0.1% and 10% of average incomes), this only has a marginal impact on house prices - probably because this is compensated for by lower payroll and sales taxes, so it cancels itself out.
The main factors are local average earnings and the coastal premium, which apply in Texas as in anywhere (their 'coastal premium' is zilch because it's not a very nice coast).
Or… if you believe the New Classical Economists, it's largely down to planning restrictions, although they have no evidence apart from circular logic to support this ("If prices are high that means that demand is not being met; the only reason for demand not being met must be restrictive planning; therefore high prices must be the result of restrictive planning").
- 5 January 2014 at 17:06
- The Stigler said...
Top analysis there.
So, Lex, when do we launch our plan to make Wiltshire coastal?
- 5 January 2014 at 21:54
- Dinero said...
Talking of circular logic a skeptic would claim ( "of course high earners live in expensive areas - who else can afford it.")
The combination of the two graphs , the second being the graph of price to earnings Vs earnings is very illustrative of earnings effect on prices.
- 6 January 2014 at 09:24
- Mark Wadsworth said...
TS, D, thanks for back up.
Sad thing is, I emailed him this and a previous link and he flatly refuses to even contemplate this as being an explanation.
He prefers circular logic. He seems to say that high prices cause higher earnings etc.
- 6 January 2014 at 09:55
- DBC Reed said...
@MW Are you sure Rick Perry's "Texas Miracle" is all a myth got up by the BBC? The Washington Post's "Breaking down Rick Perry's Texas Miracle" (on Net)does attribute some of Texas's growth to lower house prices consequent on high property taxes.
Would have thought Perry was behind the myth-making ,if myth it is.Googling Rick Perry Texas Miracle racks up a lot of responses showing plenty of local political PR in play.
- 6 January 2014 at 10:52
- Mark Wadsworth said...
DBC, Texas is a low tax state (as are all states which rely on land or property taxes, they are in-your-face taxes), it has no state income or sales taxes, in absolute $ terms, their property taxes are not that high either. And it has oil and liberal planning laws.
Houses are cheaper than these economic factors would dictate - Texas house prices are the lowest multiple of incomes at all income levels.
I suspect that's because the landsape is very dull and Texas is basically in the middle of nowhere.
But whatever the reason for low house prices, it is indisputable that Texas is a relative success story.
- 6 January 2014 at 11:02
- Bayard said...
"He prefers circular logic."
Presumably because it gives him the answer he's looking for.
- 6 January 2014 at 12:02
- DBC Reed said...
@MW In abslute dollar terms Texan property taxes may not be that high but as a percentage of median house prices Texas is the third highest state in the Union at 1.81%: the lowest Louisiana is 0.18%.
Perry is a Republican and an all_American political dope (see his hapless run for President last time out) but I can't see why we land taxers don't use his campaign points to squish British right wing buffoons who insist low property taxes are the key to prosperity.
- 6 January 2014 at 14:16
- Mark Wadsworth said...
B, yes, he had the temerity to send me a link to an article which he said explained what I observed properly, only that article says much the same as what I have been saying for ages and supports my case. Maybe he didn't read it himself?
DBC, yes their tax as a % age is high, but that is because the $ tax amount is pretty much in the middle of the pack and $ house prices are low.
So the Faux Libs will say that Texas' success is purely down to low income and sales taxes, in which they would be half correct, and they will just ignore the bit about property taxes.
The point is that there are other states and counties with incredibly high property taxes and people seem to pay them happily enough and nothing terrible happens (in fact, good things happen).
- 6 January 2014 at 14:25
- Kj said...
MW: who is "he", Allister Heath?
Maybe the thing about Texas is that it´s remarkably successful because of all the other factors *and* that it´s not desirable enough to command higher house prices/rents than anywhere else. A very large industrial estate of sorts where disposable incomes as the difference between income/rents are high.
- 6 January 2014 at 18:37
- Mark Wadsworth said...
Kj, Heath certainly does not reply to my emails any more, it is not him.
Whoever I'm talking about did at least respond to my emails, so far enough, he is entitled to anonymity.
- 6 January 2014 at 20:32
- Kj said...
Fair enough, I thought it was someone you were supposed to have mentioned or I had failed to pick up who/what this was in reference to.
- 6 January 2014 at 20:45
- George Carty said...
I wonder how much low property prices in heartland America are down to the dominance of wooden (rather than masonry) construction there? And how much are Texan house prices lowered by the use of cheap illegal immigrant labour for construction?
- 20 May 2016 at 12:32
- Mark Wadsworth said...
GC, not very much. Sure, you can get a wooden house built for $50,000 and the same house in stone costs maybe $150,000, so no more than $100,000 relates to the difference of $1 million or more.
- 1 June 2016 at 18:18
- George Carty said...
I wasn't contrasting heartland America with the expensive bits of America (Paul Krugman's "Zoned Zone"), but rather with the lower-cost bits of England.
Why are median house prices so much lower relative to median incomes in Atlanta or Indianapolis (let's forget high-property-tax Texas for now) than they are in Middlesbrough or Hull? Is it that land values are still much too high in the latter (as pro-sprawl campaigners would allege -- one such that I've been following was New Zealander Phil Hayward), or is it about the difference in construction costs that I alluded to in my previous comment?
- 2 June 2016 at 08:23
- Ben Jamin' said...
Land values in some parts of Hull are probably negative.
After looking into this subject myself I've personally concluded that Median Multiples are not a good measure of affordability, and there are so many different variables between Countries regarding taxes, health insurance, education fees, commuter distances, social housing, rental sector, etc, etc that all effect on where the median HP is and what discretionary incomes are(the important factor when measuring affordability) it becomes a meaningless exercise.
One question is put to the anti-planning zealots is, if affordability in one area (like San Francisco) is so bad, lowering their discretionary incomes, why haven't they all upped sticks and moved to Houston? It's still a free Country I've heard.
What is it about San Francisco that makes demand there higher and people pay more for housing?
Land values are derived from the efficient exploitation of agglomeration effects and a preference for spending on locational amenity over alternative goods and services.
So while the Houston Metroplex may well offer good wages, it's Sprawl not only adds considerably to living costs (many studies show how this de-capitalises land values) it's also a bit of a shit hole in places. Certainly not my cup of tea.
People are prepared to forego the ownership of a bigger car, extra holidays etc, because San Francisco is a nicer place to live and everything is closer.
I'm not sure why people find this so hard to understand.
- 2 June 2016 at 11:29
- George Carty said...
Higher transport costs may be something of a red herring, given how many heartland Americans drive cars far larger than they really need (which they wouldn't if transport costs were a problem for them).
I wonder though if the US South's racism (or maybe just its reputation for being racist) keeps property prices lower there by making it less attractive for immigrants? Third-world immigrants probably play a significant role in propping up land prices due to their willingness to live in overcrowded conditions that natives would find intolerable.
- 2 June 2016 at 14:15
- Ben Jamin' said...
And it's worth bearing in mind that the US is a very unequal country indeed.
I'd rather be poor in Hull, than poor in Atlanta or Chicago.
It's like comparing apples and oranges.
I seem to remember a few online encounters with "Phil Best" regarding all this some time ago. He is typical of the sort who see the State as being the instigator of all our troubles. Hence it must be planning that it the cause of housing affordability issues. It blinds them from seeing the bigger picture.
- 2 June 2016 at 18:49
- Mark Wadsworth said...
GC, the point about "immigrants" is that most people pushing up prices in NY or SF are "immigrants", they are highly educated and ambitious immigrants from elsewhere in the US.
The same goes for London - half of people who finish university move to London to try their luck.And people who move from elsewhere in the UK to London live in appalling cramped conditions, shared flats and shared rooms for very high rents.
BJ: "He is typical of the sort who see the State as being the instigator of all our troubles."
So he's a Faux Lib. But in a way he is right, while we have "the state" i.e. civilisation to thank for many things, their biggest mistake is allowing natural resources to be privatised while taxing and redistributing private efforts.
But "restrictive planning" is the least of our worries.
- 2 June 2016 at 21:05
- George Carty said...
Ben Jamin': I wonder how significant it is that most of America's "Zoned Zone" cities have nicer climates than "Flatland" ones, most of which have either the possibility of extreme winter cold (Midwest) and/or terrible summer heat and humidity (the South). Even if transport costs are something of a red herring as I previously suggested (as they could be reduced by running smaller, more fuel-efficient cars), maybe air conditioning costs are a more serious issue?
Mark Wadsworth: I think "Faux Lib" is a bit too simplistic a description for Phil, as he doesn't seem to have a problem with planning restrictions as long as the resulting increased location value is not captured by wealthy vested interests -- I think his support for sprawl is because he thinks it's more achievable politically than alternative ways to curb rent extraction (such as LVT, for example).
He regards Germany (with its combination of reasonably liberal planning laws, rent control and the threat of compulsory purchase to stop landowners getting too greedy) as an equally valid model to Flatland America, and he's also mentioned Japan favourably, where apparently most of the high-density residential property is either social housing owned by the state, or owned by the rail companies (which are unsubsidized and regulated in such a way that they must use fares to subsidize rents, not the other way around -- not sure how that works though). I'd love to have more info on the Japanese model if anyone can provide it, but a thread I started on Skyscraper City didn't satisfy me...
- 3 June 2016 at 15:57
- George Carty said...
One area where Phil Hayward could better be described as Faux Lib is that he attributes very low-density (> 2000 people per square mile) sprawl in the United States to exclusionary zoning designed to keep out poor residents for fear that they will ruin the local schools (which are generally funded by local property taxes rather than state or federal taxes). He suggests that without this schools issue, typical densities would be closer to 6000 per square mile – similar to Los Angeles or (apparently) to many suburban areas in mainland Europe.
However the fact that Los Angeles itself is a very expensive city suggests this reasoning may be flawed...
- 3 June 2016 at 16:09
- Mark Wadsworth (YPP) said...
GC, the nice weather is like a nice view or being near a beach which is what the whole post is about. No amount of new construction changes the value of those things.
- 3 June 2016 at 16:37
- George Carty said...
Sorry, very low density sprawl (in my previous message) was meant to be < 2000/square mile -- mixed up my HTML entities...
- 3 June 2016 at 19:10
- Mark Wadsworth said...
GC, we know what you meant, don't worry about that.
Again, refer to the post, in most countries, the really high density areas (New York, SF, London, Paris) etc are still the highest prices.
This is because of agglomeration benefits. The increase in value from agglomeration benefits always outweighs the downward pressure of added supply. That's a simply observable fact.
- 3 June 2016 at 20:22
- George Carty said...
Why is there no coastal premium in Germany? Germany doesn't even seem to have any major coastal cities (even Hamburg is on the Elbe estuary rather than the coast itself) and its most expensive city is the one furthest from the coast (Munich).
Is it that the Germans prefer mountains over beaches for cultural reasons, giving Munich an Alps premium?
- 4 June 2016 at 07:56
- Mark Wadsworth said...
GC, correct!
In Germany , Munich gets a premium for being near mountains, lakes (walking, skiing, swimming) and for being closest to Italy (where Germans love going on holiday).
The rest of Germany is fairly flat, and the northern/coastal regions are flattest of all, so their coastline is pretty boring. Like the Texas coastline.
- 4 June 2016 at 09:01
- George Carty said...
Oh, I thought that when you suggested that Texas had no coastal premium because it's "not a very nice coast" you were suggesting that the Texas coast was very industrial and polluted! It can't be down to topography alone as flat Florida still enjoys a substantial coastal premium.
Incidentally, could the American South be considered an argument against the Georgist belief that private collection of land rent is the main cause of economic inequality, as it is highly unequal in spite of its low land values? Could Southern US inequality be based more on unequal access to education?
- 4 June 2016 at 09:46
- Mark Wadsworth said...
GC, I've never been in Texas, I was going by what other people have said. I'm sure most of it is not polluted, but it's flat and boring People like coves and cliffs and sandy beaches.
As to Southern inequality, that is not my topic. Is it unequal or is just everybody poor?
- 4 June 2016 at 10:39
- George Carty said...
Could high housing costs in Miami (unlike coastal Texas, in spite of the fact that Florida is just as flat as coastal Texas) be down to the fact that Miami is the only major city in CONUS to have a tropical climate?
- 4 November 2017 at 16:44
- Mark Wadsworth said...
GC, I would assume so.
- 4 November 2017 at 17:09
- George Carty said...
Ben Jamin': So while the Houston Metroplex may well offer good wages, it's Sprawl not only adds considerably to living costs (many studies show how this de-capitalises land values) it's also a bit of a shit hole in places. Certainly not my cup of tea.
That got me wondering about Japan again (which many observers have viewed as the best way of providing high density at an affordable price). Could it be case that just as land values in sprawling red-state American cities are suppressed by the cost of all the driving that is required to function in such places, land values in Japanese cities are suppressed by the high cost of commuting by train (as trains are not subsidized in Japan, unlike in most western countries)?
- 19 November 2017 at 14:08
- Mark Wadsworth said...
GC, maybe so - housing costs = actual rent + commuting costs.
But it is difficult to do international comparisons, there are so many variables including "cultural differences" that it is difficult to reconcile, even between two countries whose tax systems and culture you know well (the UK and Germany, in my case), exactly why relative land prices and rents are what they are.
But comparisons within one country (like within the USA, or within the UK; or between the UK thirty years ago and the UK today) are much easier and meaninful because you can greatly reduce the number of variables.
- 19 November 2017 at 16:36
- George Carty said...
Carrying on from my point about climate, is Vancouver the most unaffordable metro area in Anglophone North America not just because it is hemmed in by the Cascades mountains, but also because is pretty much the only one in Canada whose mean January temperature is above freezing?
- 12 November 2018 at 10:36
- Mark Wadsworth said...
GC, clearly, there is some historic reason why the large cities are where they are, which often has to do with geography or climate. So yes, better climate might have been one of the things that kick started Vancouver (and which stil goes in its favour).
But normal histories say it is because it was a natural port/trading post for all the Canadian raw materials being exported, being at the mouth of several rivers.
Either way, the general rule over centuries is that larger cities become larger, more attractive and more expensive etc once they reach a critical mass, even if the original reason they started is now irrelevant (see London, the Thames could dry up tomorrow and nobody would bat an eyelid).
- 14 November 2018 at 20:24
- George Carty said...
I suspect Vancouver would be a lot smaller if there wasn't an international border roughly where the actual US-Canada border is.
- 15 November 2018 at 09:21


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Heisey hits slam, Mesoraco 4 RBIs as Reds top Rays
CINCINNATI (AP) — Chris Heisey hit his first grand slam and Devin Mesoraco homered and drove in career high-tying four runs as the Cincinnati Reds took advantage of Tampa Bay's depleted pitching staff for a 12-4 victory on Sunday.
The Reds' best offensive showing of the season featured Mesoraco's three-run homer, Joey Votto's two-run shot and Heisey's pinch-hit slam in the eighth. Jay Bruce doubled, walked four times and scored four runs.
Zack Cozart got it going with a bases-loaded double off Cesar Ramos (0-1), making his first start of the season because of injuries.
The Reds salvaged the final game of their interleague series but remained in last place in the NL Central at 4-8. The hitters have been the biggest problem, tied for last in the majors heading into the game.
The Reds had season highs in runs — they hadn't scored more than six in any previous game — and hits with 13.
Left-hander Tony Cingrani (1-1) gave up five hits in 6 1-3 innings. Ben Zobrist homered from both sides of the plate, hitting two-run shots off Cingrani and right-hander Nick Christiani.
The Rays are 3-3 on a trip that has been tough on their rotation. Matt Moore went on the disabled list with a sore elbow on Tuesday, and Alex Cobb joined him Sunday with a strained oblique. Also, reliever Joel Peralta was sick, leaving him unavailable.
The injuries affected the final game of the series. Ramos, who had made four relief appearances this season, started in Moore's place and helped the Reds' offense get unstuck.
Cincinnati came into the game tied with San Diego for fewest runs in the majors with 28.
Ramos walked the bases loaded in the second, and Cozart hit a ground-rule double for his third hit of the season and a 2-0 lead.
Votto's second homer of the series sparked a 10-batter, five-run third inning. Ramos left after throwing 45 pitches. Brandon Gomes relieved and gave up Mesoraco's homer.
Mesoraco added a sacrifice fly in the fifth. The catcher opened the season on the disabled list with a strained oblique. In four games the past week, he went 7 for 14 with three doubles, two homers and six RBIs.
Heisey connected in the eighth off Josh Lueke for his seventh career pinch-hit homer.
NOTES: The Rays open a three-game series in Baltimore on Monday, starting Chris Archer (1-0) against Wei-Yin Chen (1-1). … The Reds continue their six-game homestand by hosting Pittsburgh. Homer Bailey (0-1), who has won his last five starts against the Pirates, goes against Wandy Rodriguez (0-2). … Rays called up LH reliever Jeff Beliveau from Triple-A Durham to fill Cobb's roster spot. LH Erik Bedard, who also was added to the roster on Sunday, will take Cobb's spot in the rotation for now. … It was Zobrist's fourth career multihomer game. … Manager Joe Maddon batted Ramos eighth, figuring that he'd have to pinch-hit for him early anyway. … Reds starter Mat Latos was diagnosed with a sprained right forearm. He won't throw for 10 to 14 days. … Third base umpire Tim Welke was honored before he worked his 4,000th regular-season game.


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As Sen. Hillary Clinton makes centrist sounds on abortion, Kristen Lombardi of The Village Voice expresses some predictable misgivings: Clinton is "getting serious about God and guns" and "trying to sound like the second coming of John Wesley." But Lombardi also provides good background on how the Senator's language is more a return to her past than an ideological makeover:
Here's a little-understood truism about Senator Clinton: She feels right at home with the churchgoing crowd. A lifelong and devout Methodist, she spent her teen years active in the church's youth movement. In 1993, as the newly crowned first lady, she became the symbol of an emerging religious liberalism when she gave a speech in Austin, Texas, that called for "a new politics of meaning."
"She used those words," recalls Rabbi Michael Lerner, the editor of the progressive Jewish magazine Tikkun. Lerner used to meet with Hillary at the Clinton White House until, in his words, "the liberal media and the religious right demolished her for it."
Now the senator is reclaiming her moral roots. She hasn't found religion in order to make a presidential run -- it's more like she's finally coming clean. Says Lerner, "There's a new openness among Democrats to speak religion, and Hillary has gone back to being who she really is."
Clinton's aides put it another way. "The times may have changed, but Hillary Clinton's views have not," says Philippe Reines, her spokesperson. Everything she's voiced recently, he points out, she's voiced before.
Take abortion. In 1999, then first lady Clinton told another pro-choice crowd: "It's essential that as Americans we look for that common ground that we can all stand upon." Similarly, two years earlier, she expressed hope for dialogue with abortion opponents -- "people of faith who do not share extremism as their rallying cry." As for the phrase "safe, legal, and rare," the senator has used it to describe abortion going as far back as 1995.
Lombardi also explores the left's nervousness about Clinton's recent appearance at a fundraiser for the Rev. Eugene Rivers' National Ten Point Leadership Foundation. Gay activists warn that they consider Rivers as much a threat to their well-being as, oh, Alan Keyes:
Sean Cahill, of the Manhattan-based National Gay and Lesbian Task Force's Policy Institute, wrote a January 25 letter to the Boston Globe, calling Clinton's cameo in the city "disturbing." He wrote, "Rivers is a demagogue with a history of trying to pit gay people and people of color against one another."
But Cahill, who's now on leave from his job, stands alone among most pro-gay-marriage activists in New York. No one at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force responded to requests for comment on the Boston event -- even though its "Religious Leadership Roundtable" issued a January 19 statement condemning Rivers's Michigan speech as "homophobic." Other gay rights leaders aware of the event didn't return phone calls or declined to comment.
In Boston, meanwhile, gay rights activists have been left scratching their heads. Gary Daffin, who heads the Massachusetts Gay and Lesbian Political Caucus, likens the reverend to the notorious Alan Keyes. "He's saying the same things that come out of the mouths of the religious right," Daffin says, "so Democrats should stay 100 miles away from him."
Two remarks from political observers are especially insightful.
Clinton, of all Democrats, has no chance of winning over the hardcore religious right. Such conservatives, says University of Akron professor John Green, who specializes in religion and politics, "really don't like her. They associate her with her husband and see her as a raving liberal."
So her real target is middle-of-the-road churchgoers who take faith seriously enough to leave the Democrats because of absolutist stances on abortion rights, gay rights, and church-state separation. Yet they don't fit with the Republicans' domestic policies. "It's entirely possible for Clinton to do well with this group if she can find a moderate approach and a religious language," Green says.
And there's this from Marshall Wittmann of "the super-centrist Democratic Leadership Council":
"Senator Clinton has more leeway than most Democrats to appeal to those social conservatives because she has so much strength among the left within the party," Wittmann says. "She can do a Nixon-goes-to-China with greater ease than many Democrats."


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Adsense Failure0 shared love by: Ruby at 4:20 PM
Right now, I just want to rant about something that recently happened which shook me a bit. I'm supposed to sleep but I can't. Not with what I just found out with regards to my Adsense account. I must be so naive to trust someone so easily I barely know with something that can leave this effect to me. I can't say that I regretted trusting that person because for every experience, there is an underlying lesson that can be learned from that. I am just shaken right now because what he did to me was still so fresh in my mind and well, yes, I did not expect it to happen. This made it even harder.
There's two instances already that this has happened to me. I trusted them too easily even though I barely know them. Yes, I may have made a mistake by giving it so easily. From the first instance, I definitely have learned my lesson and I am careful to who I trust with regards to that. However, for the second instance, I can't really say that it was the same. I did weigh the pros and cons in trusting him. I was thinking that, hey, he's helping me get something from this somehow semi-abandoned blog and bring it back to life and I couldn't care less about adsense anyway or what it can bring to my blog. So why shun the opportunity? And I didn't even ask for the details of what he was doing behind the scenes since he said he was going to take care of it. Little did I know he was doing some sort of black magic. O.o I guess I also lost hindsight because I was beginning to see results from whatever it is that he is doing. My adsense was generating $$. So I thought everything went well until... he deliberately cut off ties with me. That's when I knew something was wrong.
As you can see in my blog I don't have any adsense anymore because it has been disabled. Because he made a mistake. I don't know if it was intentional or not, but because of the mistake he committed, he completely cut off ties with me without even explaining or apologizing about what happened. Honestly, I really couldn't care less if it was disabled so I am not that affected when it was disabled. I am shaken by the fact that after it happened, he suddenly disappeared like a magician! Along with his black magic tricks! *sigh* It would have been nice if he apologized and explained what happened and tell me this and that but no. He avoided the situation because his plan failed and who knows what he's gonna do afterwards. He's probably going to find a possible prospect to negotiate with and when it fails, he can just disappear without a trace. No loss at his part because it's not his account that is endangered.
Somehow I wish I could come up with a resolution and I just want him to know that it doesn't matter if my adsense account was disabled because of him. I'm not generating anything from it anyway. I just hope that he's not going to do it to others as well and bloggers and publishers of adsense must be vigilant as this can happen to anyone. So yes, lesson learned goes back to not being naive in trusting things to anyone so easily.
Online Education0 shared love by: Ruby at 12:05 AM
Online education is a distance learning or e-learning type of education which differs from traditional education as students are not required to visit an actual classroom to learn and study nor listen to an instructor physically. Rather it uses resources for learning mainly available on the internent and gives students their own pace in studying.
One of the advantages of online education compared to the traditional one is that it allows you to study and learn at your own time. You don't have time constraints and you can give more time to working overtime (if you're working), business travel (if you're into business), and having more time to spend with loved ones. The challenge, however, that this one poses is time management. You must be able to know and learn how to spend time wisely since despite of studying at your own pace, there are still deadlines to meet when it comes to assignments and projects.
Other advantages with this kind of education include not quitting your jobs to attend college, take time off from work, waste time walking from class to class, save time and money from going to colleges and universities and being able to take care of your family especially if you have children.
However, this kind of education may not be advisable for college students just graduating from high school as this will not provide them with an environment that can make them well-rounded individuals. The best place to learn is when you are in the school environment where you meet people and experience things that cannot be felt in the four corners of your home. Also, students fresh from high school may not fare well when it comes to time management and learning at their own pace. They may usually feel for some that going to college is a chore or a must and because of this, may not do well without the guidance of a actual professors and with the company of peers and friends. But for people that have just actually graduated from an actual college or university, those who pursue their studies further usually are more determined to make their studies worthwhile. They are usually the ones who pay for their continuing education and if it's a hard earned money, surely one would want to make the best out of the money that they have earned.
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The Ten Commandments0 shared love by: Ruby at 10:46 PM
I would like to share a link: ( The Ten Commandments ) that requires an open mind for one to be able to really grasp the essence of the whole article. It is simply a food for thought that gives one insight on viewing things. This is concerning the Ten Commandments and how it was modified and has led many to believe in it. The article is rather lengthy so I just want to magnify on the most important. Here are the two versions of the Ten Commandments which really made me ponder and reflect about:
1. I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
2. Exodus 20:4-6 You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my Commandments.
3. Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God In vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
4. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD your God: in it you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger that is within your gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
5. Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
6. Thou shalt not kill.
7. Thou shalt not commit adultery.
8. Thou shalt not steal.
9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.
1. I am the LORD thy God. Thou shalt have no strange gods before Me.
2. Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain.
3. Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day.
(The Sabbath is the fourth Commandment by normal count. The day to be kept is no longer mentioned since they changed the Sabbath to Sunday.)
(Note that God had more to say about the fourth Commandment than all others and with good reason. It is very important.)
4. Honour thy father and thy mother.
5. Thou shalt not kill.
6. Thou shalt not commit adultery.
7. Thou shalt not steal.
8. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
9. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife.
(The Tenth Commandment is split into two to get back to Ten Commandments.)
10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's goods.
Note the difference.
Labels: Bible, God, spirituality, Ten Commandments
Online Real Estate Marketing1 shared love by: Ruby at 10:56 PM
When it comes to real estate marketing and realtors, there are plenty of mediums that can be used to engage in this kind of activity. One can either have the traditional, modern, or even a combination of both to help a realtor attain the goal in getting high chances of acquiring interested parties to the viewings as well as high chances of sale.
One of the modern methods in real estate marketing is that there are actually websites that cater to realtors and brokers alike. There are companies who have built websites in providing a complete online marketing solution about real estate marketing. What's good about this is that these companies are focused on using the internet from a marketing perspective. For realtors, this is beneficial to them as this will generate leads and exposure on the internet.
Realtors, nowadays are aware of the power of social media and have been using the internet to their advantage. This makes it easier for them to access a larger audience wherein they normally wouldn't be able to contact. It is also easier for people to pass the word about a real estate since they can just direct them to the website.
Using the internet as a tool for real estate marketing can give one higher chances of making a sale since most people are pretty familiar with it and has access to it. Not only it's practical, but somehow it becomes required for one to be successful. Right now, most people who are in the market of making a large purchase always start online.
However, not all people are really fond of the internet. In this instance, one can expand his/her methods about this. As a realtor, one has to be resourceful and utilize all options that is available to him/her. He/she must be willing to take the risk and exert more effort and time if he/she really wants to pursue this and achieve more. When one has mastered the techniques in real estate marketing, there's no doubt that this will produce great revenues.
Labels: business, marketing, real estate, realtor
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