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General Motors (GM) to Cut 15% Workforce in Thailand, 350 Workers Affected
Author: Viraj Shah
American automaker General Motors (GM) said that it is cutting over 15% of its workforce in Thailand that would reduce 350 jobs at two plants it owns in the country. GM's coordinator for Labor Relations Group for Eastern Thailand, Boonyeun Sookmai, informed Reuters that contractors and employees who were affected by the cuts were informed last week.
A change in Thai markets
Thailand is an important manufacturing hub for the Southeast Asian region. Therefore, cutting jobs in the market is a significant event for the company. The company in a release said that it is cutting jobs because it wanted to "right-size" its Thai operations. The statement also highlighted that the company is taking adequate measures to support the recently laid-off employees. Each employee will be paid severance pay, depending on the time of their employment with one month of pay.
It said,
"There is no change to our ongoing business in Thailand – we continue to build and sell world-class trucks, SUVs, and engines for Thailand and the world."
The company has two plants in the eastern Thai province of Rayong where it conducts vehicle assembly services. Another plant focuses on engines and powertrains. The first operation for vehicle assembly began in 2000. The second operation started in 2011. With about 1,900 employees, GM produces about 180,000 units of vehicles each year for both the domestic and international market, with Holden and Chevrolet nameplates.
Problems in the Thai market
Thailand is one of the most significant regional vehicle production bases in Asia that also acts as an export hub. Harley-Davidson, Honda, and Toyota are some of the top names in the auto industry who have set up base in the country. Interestingly, the presence of top manufacturers has helped the auto industry represent 10% of the Thai economy. At a time when exports are already falling, it has been one of the few growth drivers of the country.
However, the Thai auto industry isn't as robust as it used to be. Domestic auto sales fell in June and July 2019. According to current data, sales are down by 1.1%. The local lending firms are now adopting stricter measures for auto lending, which has led to market contraction.
General Motors Thailand is suffering from a decline in financial performance. Cutting its manpower expenses and operating costs could help it curtail some of the issues. Bangkok Post reported that the company is not following a regional restructuring plan. It just wants to keep its costs in check to survive in testing times.
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LIVERPOOL should treat recent Press praise with their usual scepticism, aware that winning five trophies hasn't prevented them being dismissed as lightweights when it comes to the real business of the Premiership.
Ten goals in two games got the critics reaching for the superlatives again, while keeping the stun grenades close to hand. Having once more tipped Liverpool for the title, I suppose I should be on the side of the respectful.
That I'm not owes much to the fact that Liverpool's recent rampages have taken place away from Anfield, where they are at their most deadly - drawing teams on and then brutally dispatching them.
At Old Trafford, Elland Road and Portman Road they have looked to be in charge of their destiny - that destiny being to bring back the first championship trophy in 12 aching years.
Don't get me wrong, I still believe Liverpool can do it. But only if they can bring their supreme cutting edge into home games, where teams come to spoil the party, not form an honour guard. And where Michael Owen and Emile Heskey don't get nearly enough help from midfield runners, particularly in wide areas.
That must change - and soon - if the most prized piece of domestic silverware is at long last to end up in the Anfield treasure chest.
A glance at the fixture list shows seven home games left to play, beginning with Everton a week on Saturday and ending - as if omens were needed - with Ipswich Town on May 11. Turn all of those matches into a magnificent seven victories - Newcastle United and Chelsea are among the visitors - and the answer to the title question may yet be a resounding 'Yes' in favour of Phil Thompson's Reds.
EASY to interpret Sir Alex Ferguson's U-turn as the shrewd Scot's greatest triumph.
After all, it was the PLC's men in suits who refused to back some of Fergie's most imaginative buys, while hinting there were others equally qualified to take on the job. Then there was Martin Edwards who once questioned Sir Alex's hunger for the chase . . . and almost lost the best manager in the country.
Sir Alex's decision to name his own departure date spread panic. After letting United wriggle on the hook for a year, he finally offered them the name of the best man for the job. Himself.
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The Dolphins changed the roster on Monday morning when they waived linebacker James Crawford and signed wide receiver Andy Jones.
Jones was waived by Miami on April 20, 2020. He spent two terms on Miami's practice squad during the 2019 season. Jones has also spent time with Detroit (2017–19), Houston (2017) and Dallas (2016–17). He originally entered the NFL on May 6, 2016 with Dallas as an unpublished college free agent. During his career, Jones played in 11 matches with three games, 11 receptions for 80 yards (7.3 average) and one touchdown.
Saturday scrimmage evaluation
"I'll have to watch the film to be honest with you," Brian Floers said after Saturday's scrimmage.
Monday, Floers answered emerging questions surrounding what he saw when he reviewed the tape.
"Defensively, just communication," Floers said. "There were a few instances where we had the wrong amount of people on the field, so we've got it cleaned up. But I thought they worked hard."
The coach continued to discuss the work of experts in quarterback play, offensive line and kicking games.
"From the point of view of an offensive line, we made some moves there," Floers said. "We played Robert Hunt with a few different people; we played the role of Solomon (Kindley) with a few different people. Hunt was good to get with some of those more legendary players, so it was cool. I figured That they played well. I thought. The line played perfectly well. I felt that our experts are playing well. I think the pair of (Matt) Hack had really great punches. Jason (Sanders ) Kicked the ball well. We got some good snaps from Blake (Ferguson). "
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For some Jews, the Bible is frequently cited as the source of the belief that the land of Israel belongs to the Jews, and that Israel should hold onto all this land even if doing so eliminates the possibility of peace with the Arab world.
In this understanding of the Torah, one very important Bible story is invariably ignored, a story that offers very different guidance as to how Jews, "the children of Abraham," should act.
The story occurs early in the Book of Genesis shortly after we are introduced to Abraham, the first Jew. A chapter earlier, God instructed Abraham to leave his father's house, and to go to "the land that I will show you." Abraham follows God's command and, after a brief stay in Egypt during a famine, heads with his wife Sarah and his nephew Lot, along with their cattle and workers, into the land of Canaan.
Abraham and Lot have at this point accumulated large flocks and are quite affluent. Nonetheless, "there was fighting [the sort of fighting that can quickly lead to bloodshed] between the herdsmen of Abraham's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock." The fighting is severe – the Torah says, "and they were unable to dwell together" – and Abraham is anxious to find a solution.
Abraham approaches Lot: "Please let there be no fighting between you and me, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen…. Is not all the land before you? Please separate from me: If you go left then I will go right, and if you right then I will go left." The Bible records that Lot accepts Abraham's offer, and chooses land in the plain of Jordan.
It sometimes seems as if the Torah set down this 3,500-year-old incident for no other reason than to offer guidance for the situation Israel is in right now.
I am well aware that there are other biblical stories that reflect a more militant point of view (such as the command to destroy the Amalekites), I just want to emphasize that this is one of the first stories the Torah tells us about Abraham, and it depicts him as a man willing to compromise. And what is he willing to compromise about? Land, and avoiding unnecessary conflict about it.
Certainly, the Torah's words, "and they were unable to dwell together," seem a pretty apt description of the situation of the Palestinians and Jews today. The Palestinians of the West Bank (and in Gaza) want their own country and, like the herdsmen of Lot, are willing to fight until they get what they want.
Abraham, by the way, could certainly have instructed his herdsmen to fight back. It is clear from the Torah that Abraham was stronger than Lot, and just one chapter later, Lot and his workers are unable to defend themselves against an attack from local Canaanite forces and are taken captive. It is his uncle Abraham and the people under his command who go on the attack and free Lot.
And yet, as noted, he chooses to compromise with his weaker nephew to avoid conflict.
Why? Not because he was afraid that Lot and his herdsmen could defeat him. They couldn't. But because he didn't want strife and bloodshed. And to avoid that happening, Abraham knew that he and his nephew needed to agree on a separation between them.
Today, of course, no one is suggesting that Israel make the same sort of offer to the Palestinians that Abraham made to Lot. The Palestinians have made it clear that they are also willing to compromise, and reach an agreement with Israel under which some 80 percent of Jewish Israelis who live beyond the 1967 line will be incorporated into the new internationally recognized borders of Israel.
Thus, all of the settlement blocs will be inside Israel. Fatah wants to reach such an agreement and settle the border issues permanently, so that they can establish the new State of Palestine.
They have also agreed that their state will be a demilitarized state without an army. And in behindthe- scenes negotiations they have made it clear that only a small, symbolic number of Palestinian refugees would be admitted to Israel, and only with Israel's agreement.
What Israel can and should say to the Palestinians can be modeled on Abraham's words to his nephew, and adapted to the present situation: "Please let there be no fighting and bloodshed between my people and your people… Please separate from me, and take the land on which so many of your people, and so few of mine, live. We have been fighting now for close to a century, and if we don't reach an agreement we will go on fighting for another century and more.
When I look at the parties on Israel's Right, they often speak the language of military might. Israel is, after all, militarily much stronger than the Palestinians, and in fact Israel today is probably the strongest military power on earth per capita. But all that their bravado is leading to is a Jewish state that will one day have more Arabs living in it than Jews.
Today, the time has come for the children of Abraham to start speaking the language of Abraham.
The author is an American entrepreneur and founder of the Center for Middle East Peace in Washington. Follow the center on Twitter: @AbrahamCenter.


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When Federal Reserve officials first started last year to mention wireless network data plans as a possible explanation for a fifth year of "transitory" factors holding back consumer price inflation, it seemed a bit transparent. One of the reasons for immediately doubting their sincerity was the history of that particular piece of the CPI (or PCE Deflator). To begin with, the unlimited data plan wars that kicked off with Verizon's entry into them wasn't all that much of a change for the industry.
It seemed a little weird to be suggesting falling wireless telephone prices (the category of the CPI carrying the carriers' various products and services) were a "transitory" factor when wireless telephone prices have been falling since they were first added to the index twenty years ago. It's kind of what they do. They may drop at times at varying rates, but by and large their direction is consistently downward, almost always a drag on the overall headline inflation rate.
Whenever analyzing monetary factors through inflation, we begin with a basic problem. Economists of generations following the Great Depression have an intense fear of deflation that didn't uniformly exist before it. The Great Collapse starting in 1929 was a shock, to be sure, but not all deflation is monetary in origin.
In fact, the successful practice of capitalism should always lead in the direction of lower consumer prices. That's the beauty of it, where via the right combination (the invisible hand) of labor and capital (machines or intellectual property, not cash) we consumers are able to buy more for less. It's exactly why the CPI sub-index for Wireless Telephone Services debuted for December 1997 at 100 and is now about 48 – approximately twice as much service for the same price.
But, as noted a few days ago, it's not always that easy to distinguish. There are other forms of deflation that aren't so pleasant though they may seem that way on the surface. Monetary deflation is the worst, the insipid version that devastated the global economy in the early thirties and then wouldn't really let go until Bretton Woods in 1944 (long after the world had spiraled into the true abyss of WWII). Briefly, monetary deflation is where a shortage of money is so spectacular regular folks as well as business are forced to liquidate anything and everything in order to raise cash (oftentimes so it can be further hoarded).
The prices of just about every good and commodity will plummet at that point, destroying real capital (businesses) as output prices fall below production costs, essentially shrinking the economy on the all-important supply side.
Monetary deflation need not be so extreme, however. In what might be more fairly called macro deflation, an economic downturn might force businesses to cut prices on excess inventory, for example, or what becomes surplus production those businesses didn't anticipate before the cycle turned. And it can be all relative, too. A firm that plans for 10% growth because it expects 5% GDP growth will find itself in a similar bind should 2% GDP leave it with but 4% revenue.
For wireless telephone services, the trend in prices does seem more than a little like what I just described above. After steadily declining in the late nineties in what was surely capitalist deflation (the introduction phase leading to widespread adoption), wireless plan prices stabilized throughout the growth period in the middle 2000's. It wasn't until the second half of 2009, just after the Great "Recession" was at its worst, prices began falling all over again.
It sure looks a lot like the economy at least on the consumer side shrunk. What might happen to, say, wireless data providers trying to operate profitably during this shrunken portion? It stands to reason that competition in that space would be even more dramatic than at any other point, which would lead them toward outsized price sensitivity (driven largely by those macro constraints on their customers and prospective customers).
AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon may not be trying to literally liquidate inventory, but in one meaningful sense it does appear that that's just what they have been doing. Furthermore, if we see the 2017 bigger drop in wireless prices in this context, what might that confirm about our sense these same macro factors, especially those of the labor market beyond the unemployment rate?
Payroll growth has been awful for ten years, but even within that decade last year stood out as being particularly awful. There is much more than a trivial chance that explains Verizon than it does add up to some "transitory" factor time easily displaces for Janet Yellen (now Jerome Powell).
The CPI for December 2017 rose by just 2.11% year-over-year, a little more than two-thirds of what it is supposed to be (remember, the PCE Deflator is targeted for 2%, and CPI methodology is different where it has a higher overall beta). And the only part really keeping it near 2% is the energy sector and the boost from marginally higher WTI.
Despite all of 2017 now being put down in stone (the unadjusted CPI cannot be revised by law, only the seasonal adjustments change), the various "core" readings uniformly describe an economy being held back rather than one likely to accelerate.
None of this is to say there is no "good" capitalist deflation within the CPI or any of its components, including wireless telephone services, 2009 and after. There almost certainly is, but at the same time there are serious indications that too much of the "bad" kind of deflation remains a problem (worldwide). Verizon's action may have been the anomaly FOMC officials hope that it was, or it may have been what the labor statistics (and retail sales) keep showing.
Yellen's little committee, I think, made a big mistake in choosing to highlight mobile telecom prices. There is more of a case to be made for that particular part of the inflation universe being all-too-consistent than there is for them being a benign and "transitory" reason for starting a sixth year significantly beneath the FOMC explicit target mandate. All that despite four QE's, years of ZIRP, and now ridiculous internecine debates about why inflation targets might need to be raised. It all tallies instead on the side of the ledger where they really don't know what they are doing.
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Threemile Pond is a lake located in Windsor and China, Maine.  Despite the name, the pond is in fact 2.71 miles long. The lake has a boat ramp for aquatic activities . The lake has 4 small islands named Camp Island, Marsh Island, Shallow Island, and Overlook Island.   South Vassalboro is located less than half a mile away from the lake. Three of the lake's Islands are private, and one is an undeveloped marsh.

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Apprenticeships at the Eden Project
Work and study at Eden Project or another organisation in Cornwall
Starts autumn each year
We offer a range of apprenticeships at the Eden Project, run in partnership with Cornwall College, and Truro and Penwith College. You can apply for our new vacancies now.
Meet our apprentices
Watch this to get a flavour of what it's like to be an apprentice at Eden.
An Eden apprenticeship is the chance for talented, enthusiastic and passionate individuals to work at the Eden Project, or another organisation in Cornwall, while studying for a nationally recognised qualification.
As well as enjoying expert tuition from Cornwall College's and Truro and Penwith College's expert trainers, apprentices benefit from working with the Eden's team members in their chosen area.
We offer the following core apprenticeship opportunities:
In collaboration with Cornwall College:
horticulture apprentice
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In collaboration with Truro and Penwith College
commis chef apprentice
You can read about these in more detail towards the bottom of this page.
Other apprenticeship opportunities
In addition to the three core apprenticeships above, Eden is committed to developing young people in other areas of the organisation. To support this we also have apprenticeships in the following disciplines:
HR/business administration
(Read a 'day in the life' from a previous apprentice)
In collaboration with Cornwall College
(Read an article by one of our Finances apprentices on what it's like at Eden)
Like the core apprenticeships these are also two-year placements and become part of the overall Eden Learning cohort. Each year there will be a small number of new apprenticeship placements added, which are publicised on our Current vacancies page.
Apprenticeship awards
Three of our apprentices were awarded Cornwall Apprentice of the Year prizes in 2016, and in the same year Eden Project won the Outstanding Commitment to Apprenticeships award at Cornwall's Excellence in Training Awards. In 2017 we won the award for Outstanding Commitment to Apprenticeships in Cornwall's Excellence in Business Training Awards and Large Apprentice Employer of the Year at the Cornwall Apprenticeship Awards. See the show garden that students created for the 2017 Cornwall Spring Flower Show.
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We are also looking for businesses within Cornwall who would like to join us by recruiting their own Eden apprentice. Find out more.
Core Eden apprenticeships on offer
The Eden commis chef
The primary objective of the commis chef is to learn and understand how to carry out the key functions in every section of the kitchen. Therefore having the opportunity to experience, consider and value each section with a view to choosing an area where they feel most inspired.
The programme involves developing effective knowledge, behaviours and skills in four main areas – culinary, people, business and food safety with specific topics including:
Preparing, cooking and finishing basic dishes including fish and shellfish, poultry, meat, game, stocks and sauces, bread and dough, rice and pasta, soups, vegetables and pulses, egg dishes, hot and cold desserts, cakes and biscuits.
Health, safety and security of the working environment including food safety and hygiene practices.
Food waste management and minimisation.
Professional behaviours – timekeeping, attendance, following company standards, reliability, communication.
Importance of working within budgets.
Understanding the supply chain and how to work with suppliers.
Risks in a work environment and how to manage them.
Taste – basic flavour profile, seasoning, herbs and spices.
Correct techniques including common knives, tools and equipment.
Key allergens.
Working as part of a team.
Meeting targets and effectively controlling resources.
The Eden gardener
As an Eden gardener apprentice you will:
Be employed by the Eden Project or an organisation or business with a similar ethos in Cornwall.
Learn the very best skills and theory working with Eden's world class Horticulture team.
Enjoy unrivalled access to work in the wide range of different environments within Eden.
Have the opportunity to specialise in one of the seven sectors of horticulture at Eden (the Rainforest Biome, Outdoor Biome, Mediterranean Biome, Outer Estate, Nursery, Temporary Display and Science team).
Benefit from industry insight and networking by becoming a member of the Chartered Institute of Horticulture.
Develop the skills and experience to prepare for a career in horticulture.
Receive a Level 2 Diploma in Horticulture.
Have the opportunity to progress to an Eden Project Learning Higher Education Programme on completion of your apprenticeship.
We have a team available to help you find a suitable employer if you need the support.
The training, theory and practical skills development of this programme will be delivered predominantly at the Eden Project through a combination of master classes and workshops in a dedicated learning space.
Read how one apprentice is growing exotic food for our cafes.
Eden event management apprentice
As an Eden event management apprentice you will:
Be employed by the Eden Project.
Learn the very best organisational skills and theory working with Eden's world class corporate events team to deliver events including parties and weddings.
Develop the flair and creativity needed to ensure that Eden's event guests have an unforgettable experience.
Develop superb interpersonal skills to achieve the World host kite mark, an internationally recognised customer service standard.
Receive a Level 2 Diploma in Event Management.
Read about who can apply and how
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Apprentices earn the standard national apprenticeship rate (£3.50 per hour during the first year) and work a 40-hour/week contract, including four days at Eden and one day a week at College.
All of our apprenticeships are on a two-year fixed term contract of employment.
Apprentices receive 30 days' annual leave, including bank holidays.
Apprentices who complete the programme will receive a nationally recognised qualification in the area of their chosen career.
We unfortunately cannot provide accommodation for apprentices.
You do not need any specific qualifications to take part in our apprenticeships, we are far more interested in your enthusiasm, motivation and commitment.
Our apprenticeships start at the end of September each year, in line with the academic year. When applications are open these are advertised on our current vacancies page, where you can sign up for vacancy alerts. We occasionally offer other selected apprenticeships outside of these three core areas - keep an eye on our vacancies page.
To speak to a member of staff about the apprenticeships, please call Lorraine on 01726 818739 or email ltonkin@edenproject.com
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ZTE may lose Android licence
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ZTE may not be able to use Google's Android operating system in its mobile devices after the U.S. limited ZTE's access to American suppliers this week, a source familiar with the matter said, potentially adding another drag on U.S. sales for the Chinese firm.
ZTE and the Alphabet unit have been discussing the impact of the U.S. government ban, the source added, but the two companies had not reached a decision about the use of Android by ZTE as of Tuesday morning.
The U.S. Commerce Department on Monday banned American firms from selling parts and software to ZTE for seven years. The move was sparked by ZTE's violation of an agreement that was reached after it was caught illegally shipping U.S. goods to Iran.
A day later, U.S. telecoms regulator the Federal Communications Commission voted 5-0 to advance new rules to bar government programs from buying from companies that pose a security threat to U.S. telecoms networks, a rule that could also hurt U.S. sales of ZTE and China's Huawei Technologies [HWT.UL].
The United States and China have threatened each other with tens of billions of dollars in tariffs in recent weeks, fanning worries of a full-blown trade war that could hurt global supply chains as well as business investment plans.
The proposed new FCC rules are expected to be finalized this year. They would prevent money from the $8.5 billion FCC Universal Service Fund, which includes subsidies for telephone service to poor and rural areas, from being spent on goods or services from companies or countries which pose a "national security threat to the integrity of communications networks or their supply chains."
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Bahía de Buenaventura är en vik i Colombia.   Den ligger i departementet Valle del Cauca, i den västra delen av landet,  km väster om huvudstaden Bogotá.

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Agnieszka Dygacz (born 18 July 1985 in Chorzów) is a Polish race walker. She competed in the 20 km kilometres event at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

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Ask yourself, when's the last time you got away from the concrete jungle to take a good deep breath? When's the last time you stood beside the sea, away from all the things in your mind?
If the answer is too vague to be remembered, it's a signal for you to take a break. A break that is refreshing enough for you to clear all your residues away. Close your eyes, take a good deep breathe, and feel the wind when it lightly strokes your face. Releases the breathe and let all stress out.
Now, let's flow Through The Wind at Watsons Bay.
A harbourside, eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.
I have always found it extra calming when I stand by the sea and listen to the gently hitting of the waves while wind lightly hits my face. Whenever you are under pressure, always remember that you are only a tiny dust among the entire universe. All you need to do is work to your best and God will do the rest. Flow through the wind and wait and see where it brings you to.
The world is big, but one's heart is small. Too many things to be remembered, yet too few things one heart can really remember.
Finally, #FollowDearPostman In the Waves at Mackenzie's Point Beach.


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Recently, long-term follow-up on chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) patients treated with the chemoimmunotherapy regimen fludarabine, cyclophosphamide, rituximab (FCR) demonstrated that a substantial subset of these patients with lower-risk disease can achieve prolonged disease-free survival. The BTK inhibitor ibrutinib (Imbruvica) was recently FDA-approved as a single agent for frontline therapy of CLL, and it is highly active across all CLL subsets, including high-risk disease. Yet, ibrutinib monotherapy usually leads to only partial responses, requiring patients to stay on indefinite therapy. In this investigator-initiated clinical trial, we hypothesized that combining ibrutinib with FCR (iFCR) for younger patients with previously untreated CLL would result in deeper responses that would allow for durable remissions even in patients with higher risk disease, and potentially obviate the need for continuous ibrutinib therapy.
In the first phase of the trial, we treated 35 patients with iFCR, and in an interim analysis presented at the 2016 ASH Annual Meeting we reported that 89% of patients achieved minimal residual disease (MRD) negativity in the bone marrow, significantly higher than the approximately 20-30% rate seen historically with FCR alone. The toxicity profile of iFCR has been favorable, with low rates of hematologic and infectious toxicities compared to prior studies of FCR alone, likely due to the focus on a younger population and the requirements for mandatory growth factor support and antimicrobial prophylaxis on this study.
Based on these promising initial results, we recently opened a 50-patient expansion cohort to further explore whether a time-limited course of 6 months of iFCR plus 2 years of ibrutinib monotherapy maintenance can provide durable remission without the need for indefinite therapy in patients who achieve bone marrow MRD-negativity (see schema above). Eligible patients are those age 65 or younger with previously untreated CLL who do not have deletion 17p or TP53 mutation. This study is actively accruing, and we would be grateful to see in consultation any potentially eligible patients who may be willing to participate in this or other studies.
For more information about this study, call 617-632-6331 or email matthew_davids@dfci.harvard.edu.


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Man accidentally kills himself with shotgun on Desert View Drive in Northeast El Paso
Police said a man accidentally killed himself with a shotgun early Tuesday in Northeast El Paso.
Israel Perez, 41, was pulling the shotgun out of the trunk of a car when the trigger got snagged, causing it to fire, police said.
He was found dead on the sidewalk at about 12:56 a.m. Tuesday in the 12000 block of Desert View Drive.
More:Police investigate fatal morning shooting on Desert View Drive in Northeast El Paso
Police on Wednesday said the shotgun had been illegally modified, including the removal of safety features such as the trigger guard that left the trigger exposed.
The Police Department's Crimes Against Persons unit was able to use forensic evidence to determine how Perez was shot, a police news release said.
Police said Perez had arrived at that location to sell the shotgun.
The case remains open while police wait on the final autopsy report.
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Trump: "Media is AWOL" on Hunter Biden's International Scams
By Staff Writer Last updated Oct 15, 2019
In a tweet on Monday, President Donald Trump took aim once again at Joe Biden's son, Hunter, who announced that he would step down from the China-backed investment firm BHR Partners.
"Wow," Trump wrote. "Hunter Biden is being forced to leave a Chinese company."
But Trump warned that the media would continue to shroud the Bidens in the protective coating that Democrat politicians are accustomed to.
"Now watch the Fake News wrap their greasy and very protective arms around him," Trump wrote. "Only softball questions of him please!"
The day before, noting the younger Biden's record of international business dealings, Trump accused the media of being completely "AWOL" on coverage of the scams.
The media was, however, quick to report and celebrate Hunter Biden's decision to step down from the BHR board of directors on Sunday. While it is true that Biden is removing himself from that board, that move alone will not divest him of interest in the company's stakes. Biden is still one of two directors of Skaneateles LLC, the company that represents his 10% investment stake in BHR. So the move to remove himself from the BHR board – which was an unpaid gig – really did not speak to Biden's financial involvement in China. At all.
"Hunter Biden traveled to China on Air Force Two in December 2013 and arranged for his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to shake hands with the CEO of BHR," reported the Daily Caller. "At the time of the meeting, which Hunter Biden later described as social in nature, BHR was seeking to raise $1.5 billion from Chinese state-backed investors. The firm currently manages the equivalent of $2.1 billion in assets, according to its website."
The elder Biden was naturally eager to take advantage of his son's show of political responsibility.
"The statement my son put out today, which I saw when he put it out — I was told it was going to be put out, I did not consult with him about what's being put out — in fact represents the kind of man of integrity he is," Biden said with his usual clarity.
As for the media – and Joe Biden's campaign allies – the big question is: Why does Hunter even need to respond to the president's attacks?
"I wouldn't have put Hunter on the air," former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell said. "I think the more you respond, the more you're playing into Donald Trump."
The game here is to make it seem like the charges against the Bidens are so absurd that they don't even require a response. The only problem is that Hunter Biden, of all people, knows for a fact that this isn't true. He wants to head this off at the pass before some enterprising reporter actually gets hold of some damning evidence of corruption. And while there is probably little appetite for that at the major left-wing networks, we'd say it's only a matter of time before a Sharyl Attkisson or a John Solomon gets their mitts on something good.
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More On the Midwest vs. the South
October 10, 2014 By Aaron M. Renn
My post on Sunday about SEC vs. Big 10 football produced quite a stir. There are 165 comments and counting, and it even prompted posts by Richard Longworth and Crain's Cleveland Business.
Not everyone was critical but the ones that were basically say that it's ludicrous to say that football proves anything. I don't think that it does. But I will make three points:
1. The differing fortunes of the two conference is yet another in an extremely long series of data points and episodes that demonstrate a shift in demographic, economic, and cultural vitality to the South.
2. Sports is one of the many areas in which Midwestern states have clung to traditional approaches, even though those approaches haven't been producing results.
3. Demographic and economic changes have consequences. It's not realistic to expect that the Midwest's excellent institutions will necessarily be able to retain excellence when supported by hollowed out economies.
I'd like to throw up a couple of charts to illustrate the longer term trends at work. The first is a comparison of per capita personal income as a percent of the US average for Illinois vs. Georgia since 1950:
Here's the same chart of Ohio vs. North Carolina:
If I put up the population or job numbers, the same charts would show the South mutilating the Midwest. (Indiana, Georgia, and North Carolina were all about the same population in 1980, but the latter two have skyrocketed ahead since then for example). What's more, the South's major metros score better on diversity and attracting immigrants than the Midwest's major metros as a general rule.
These charts show the convergence in incomes over time. The decline in relative income of the Midwest is possibly in part to increases elsewhere, not internal dynamics. But think about what the Midwest looked like in 1950, 60, or 70 vs the South, then think about it today and it's night and day. The Midwest may still be endowed with better educational and cultural institutions than the South, but we can see where the trends are going. Keep in mind that those things are lagging indicators. Chicago didn't get classy until after it got rich, for example.
Now we see that Southern income performance hasn't been great since the mid to late 90s. This is a problem for them. As is their dependence on growth itself in their communities. I won't claim that the South is trouble free or will necessarily thrive over the long haul. But they seem to have a clearer sense of identity, where they want to go, and what their deficiencies are than most Midwestern places.
Longworth seems to buy the decline theory but has a different explanation of the source, namely that Chicago has sucked the life out of other Midwestern states:
In the global economy, sheer size is a great big magnet, drawing in the resources and people from the surrounding region. We see this in the exploding cities of China, India and South America. We see it in Europe, where London booms while the rest of England slowly rots.
And we see it in the Midwest where, as the urbanologist Richard Florida has written, Chicago has simply sucked the life — the finance, the business services, the investment, especially the best young people — out of the rest of the Midwest.
To any young person in Nashville or Charlotte, the home town offers plenty of opportunities for work and a good life. To any young person stuck in post-industrial Cleveland or Detroit, it's only logical to decamp to Chicago, rather than to stay home and try to build something in the wreckage of a vanished economy.
This seems to be a common view (see another example), even in the places that would be on the victim side of the equation. But I've never seen strong data that suggests this is actually the case. Are college grads and young people getting sucked out of the rest of the Midwest into Chicago?
Thanks to the Census Bureau, we now have a view, albeit limited, into this. The American Community Survey releases county to county migration patterns off of their five year surveys sliced by attribute. There seems to be some statistical noise in these, and for various reasons I can't track state to metro migrations, but thanks to my Telestrian tool, I was able to aggregate this to at least get metro to metro migration. So here is a map of migration of adults with college degrees for the Chicago metro area from the 2007-2011 ACS:
Net migration of adults 25+ with a bachelors degree or higher with the Chicago metropolitan area. Source: 2007-2011 ACS county to county migration data with aggregation and mapping by TelestrianThis looks like a mixed bag to me, not a hoover operation. What about the "young and restless"? Here's a similar map of people aged 18-34:
Net migration of 18-34yos with the Chicago metropolitan area. Source: 2006-2010 ACS county to county migration data with aggregation and mapping by TelestrianThis is an absolute blowout, with a massive amount of red on the map showing areas to which Chicago is actually losing young adults. Honestly, this only makes sense given the well known headline negative domestic migration numbers for Chicago.
I do find it interesting that there's a strong draw from Michigan. Clearly Michigan has taken a decade plus long beating. There's been strong net out-migration from Michigan to many other Midwestern cities during that time frame, and its the same in Cleveland, which also took an economic beating in the last decade. This is just an impression so I don't want to overstate, but it seems to me that a disproportionate number of the stories about brain drain to Chicago give examples from Michigan. Longworth uses the examples of Detroit and Cleveland. These would appear to be the places where the argument has been truly legitimate, but that doesn't mean you can extrapolate generally from there.
What's more, even if a young person with a college degree does move to Chicago from somewhere else, will they stay there long term? They may circulate out back to where they came from or somewhere else after absorbing skills and experience. It's the same with New York, DC, SF, etc. I've said these places should be viewed as human capital refineries, much like universities. That's not a bad thing at all. In fact, it's a big plus for everybody all around. Chicago is doing fine there. But it's a more complex talent dynamic than is generally presented, a presentation that does not seem to be backed up by the data in any case.
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Brian M says
Ah. Of course.
This is the argument I always have with my sister. People may "want" the suburban home and the three car garage and the cul de sac, but is it sustainable?
Especially given MY litany of error, which suggests that the United States will not be prosperous enough to sustain the suburban Megastructure. Even here in suburban California, we cannot afford to maintain very well our local streets in the endless subdivisions…but meanwhile we are starting to build a multi-billion dollar interchange to temporarily improve traffic flow!
John Morris says
Its pretty debatable how many people really want that. People chose from available options, within their resources. The government has decided people should want that even if they don't.
At least a few polls show "most" people would like a house- in a walkable neighborhood near stores, parks and schools which is closer to Squirrel Hill or Lakewood, Ohio than most of Dallas.
It also is not as deep in the DNA of most places as suggested. Indy and Atlanta once had extensive streetcar suburbs.
George V. says
@ Aaron:"Some of the very recent changes are likely due to cyclical effects. Manufacturing is pro-cyclical, and the Midwest is known to lead into and out of recessions."
Aaron, you're not still buying that garbage, are you? Manufacturing has been on an overall downward trend for quite some time. Yes, it's still cyclical, but there's no denying that at the end of the day (or decades, in this case) it's contracting. The Fed Reserve Bank of Chicago has a great chart at the end of this article that tells the real story: http://michiganeconomy.chicagofedblogs.org/?p=256 .
Manufacturing will always be a part of the Midwest economy, but it's never going to be the major driver in its growth again unless the world economy drastically changes.
Jon says
@Alon,
Sorry, but that's just not true. Per-capita income in the Midwest is much higher than in the South, and the gap between them is widening. This is at the state level.
"it's never going to be the major driver in its growth again unless the world economy drastically changes."
But the world has radically changed, which probably helps explain these figures and probably the increasing tech and engineering job base in the Midwest.
Manufacturing today, overwhelmingly replaces people with automation, software and process improvements. More companies are growing in the US but the number of workers continues to shrink.
Extremely low interest rates and policies that increase labor costs have created a huge push towards automation.
This has played to Pittsburgh's strengths in software and robotics.
Alon Levy says
Jon, okay, let's look at the state level. Per capita income levels, as a percent of the US, in 2000 and 2013:
Illinois: 107.7 –> 105
Indiana: 91.9 –> 86.3
Iowa: 90.2 –> 100
Michigan: 98.1 –> 87.2
Minnesota: 105.7 –> 106.1
Missouri: 91.6 –> 90.8
Ohio: 93.6 –> 91.7
Wisconsin: 96.1 –> 96.6
Alabama: 80.5 –> 81.5
Arkansas: 74.5 –> 82
Florida: 96.7 –> 92.7
Georgia: 93.7 –> 84.5
Kentucky: 81.5 –> 80.9
Louisiana: 77 –> 92
Mississippi: 70.5 –> 75.8
N Carolina: 91.1 –> 86.4
Oklahoma: 81.1 –> 93.5
S Carolina: 82.1 –> 80
Tennessee: 89.8 –> 88.4
Texas: 92.7 –> 98
Virginia: 106.1 –> 109.1
W Virginia: 72.2 –> 79.4
Notice how the differences within each region – Iowa vs. Michigan, and Oklahoma vs. Georgia – are much larger than the differences between the two regions. Overall the Midwest is richer, but it's not getting richer any further.
Paul Lambie says
Aaron said: "I don't know all the dynamics, but would guess that since we've generated huge numbers of low wage and temp jobs in recent years, places lie Charlotte, Indy, etc. are attracting a disproportionate share of those jobs and thus the people to fill them. This would pull down averages quite apart from the incomes of the existing base."
John Morris said: "Some cultures and values are likely to lead to bankruptcy. Just saying people like something doesn't mean they can afford it."
Exactly. Chasing growth for the sake of growth. It's such a popular philosophy, but when you're providing incentives to bring in low wage jobs because any job growth is better than no job growth, it would appear that you're actually hurting your city if you're simply attracting more low wage workers who will not be able to pay the taxes necessary to provide the minimally acceptable amount of infrastructure and public services that the middle class demands. The accompanying deterioration of infrastructure and services then makes the city even less attractive to middle and upper income workers who are needed to fund local government. This sounds like the textbook example of unsustainable growth.
Bottom line is: who cares about population and job growth, if GDP and median and average incomes are decreasing? Who cares if Charlotte is growing quickly, if incomes are decreasing there, especially in comparison to the rest of the country? Of course, very few metros would be well served by losing population, but fast growth based on being an attractive place for low wage jobs is not a sustainable policy that should be trumpeted and mimicked.
And thinking about it on a national level, isn't it actually a net negative for the country to be supporting so much subsidized infrastructure in places like Charlotte, Indy, or whatever city is attracting low-income jobs while we must also continue to maintain and rebuild existing infrastructure in the cities from which these high-growth cities are attracting low-wage workers? Of course, we can't and shouldn't restrict people's right to move, but, considering the numerous federal tax dollars that go to infrastructure, should we rethink the policies that contribute to jobs relocating and almost forcing the people to follow?
Notice how Aaron wants to have it both ways. He says low per capita income growth in a place like Houston is OK because the city is attracting the striving poor and working class. (Which is true)
But then he posts this:
"Brooklyn is getting poorer"
http://www.urbanophile.com/2014/09/09/brooklyn-is-getting-poorer-by-daniel-hertz/
News item- a large parts of Brooklyn are showing the same surges in striving low income residents. (large parts are actually mired in multi-generational poverty)
Brooklyn's Chinese Pioneers (City Magazine)
http://www.city-journal.org/2014/24_2_chinese-immigrants.html
"Over the past several decades, hundreds of thousands of mostly poor and sometimes undocumented immigrants from the Chinese province of Fujian have crammed themselves into dorm-like quarters, working brutally long hours waiting tables, washing dishes, and cleaning hotel rooms–and sending their Chinese-speaking children to the city's elite public schools and on to various universities. The new Chinese immigrants are quietly having as great an effect on Brooklyn's social, economic, and cultural landscape as are the borough's hipsters and "trustafarians." In turning a once-forgotten, now-overcrowded portion of Brooklyn into a launching ground into the middle class, they're challenging new mayor Bill de Blasio's portrait of New York as "a tale of two cities.""
The South is growing on four things – cheap labor, cheap land, cheap/new infrastructure and arguably better weather than the Midwest.
Cheap labor can continue as long as people keep moving South for cheap housing, the low-tax environment and the weather, but I don't believe those attractions are sustainable. Income parity is going to be a bad, not a good thing for the cult of growth in the South.
Commercial and industrial land is just going to fill up. There will always be sprawl, but as in the Midwest they're going to reach a limit of how far companies are willing to locate from business centers. And as in Chicago, people are going to start complaining about the environmental impact of heavy industry as housing inches closer to the smokestacks.
Everything from public infrastructure to factories is cheap now because it's new. The bills for the roads are going to start coming due in 20-30 years, and then taxes will have to go up. Unfortunately Illinois has shown business' ability to extract subsidies for existing facilities, but people are also getting tired of it. As we've seen in Detroit and Chicago, sometimes businesses want/need to build a new plant to address changing needs no matter how much you pay them to retrofit their old site.
I won't get sanctimonious about how global warming is going to destroy the South because it's not a good look, but it's not going to get any less muggy down there. Plus, killer bees, fire ants, giant snails, etc.
Eventually the South is going to hit the wall, and then it's on to somewhere else.
Chris Barnett says
Harvey, you may be using a faulty mental cost model. The warmer Southern weather doesn't tear up roads and bridges or cause subsurface disruptions to water and sewer lines like the freeze-thaw cycles in the I-70/I-80 tier. Their roads will genuinely last longer if built to the same standard.
My point is, the first cost or the lifecycle cost is lower either way, giving the Southern states a more or less permanent infrastructure cost edge.
@Alon…
You have a source for those numbers? As with the graphs Aaron posted, I suspect there are internal trends that are not being shown or acknowledge.
For example, did the Midwest states bottom out before 2000-2013, or during it? Have any of them shown rises from that bottom? And the reverse could be asked with the Southern states. Also, you're only showing one way to measure income to begin with.
Here are a couple graphs I made using BEA data. First, per-capita regional GDP. I've also broken off Texas alone and the South without Texas, to show that, for the most part, the South owes quite a bit of its regional success to a single state.
http://www.chartgo.com/linkshare.do?id=257f5e32aa
And here is per-capita income.
http://www.chartgo.com/linkshare.do?id=55d8ac9faa
I know they're a bit hard to read, but you can follow the lines anyway. Neither chart shows the Midwest losing ground vs. the South. In fact, it's increasing its lead.
http://www.chartgo.com/linkshare.do?id=4f38c47daa
This is true despite the fact that the South had much faster income growth by percent through the 1970s. Since the 1980s, however, the two regions have largely been very close to each other, and the Midwest led during the 1990s and is leading so far in the 2010s. This tells me that the South's greatest move upward happened quite a while ago.
@Chris Barnett
Thanks for stating the obvious downside of sprawl in a cold wet climate with many freeze thaw cycles.
We can add the huge problems smow, ice and wind cause without buried power lines. Visitors from outside the U.S. are shocked by an unreliable almost third world power grid.
The generalization here is absurd. Almost all of the so called south outside of southern Texas, Florida and the Gulf coast experience some cold winter weather. Those places tend to face extreme heat and a high hurricane risk.
Even so, this does prove that building sprawl in a cold climate plays against one's strength.
John, did you not notice the byline on the first article you linked to? It's not by Aaron. It's by Daniel Kay Hertz, who does not share Aaron's general philosophy of cities; for one, he's well to Aaron's left, and somewhat to my left on social justice issues. He writes about issues of segregation and gentrification, and the main point of the article is to attack trend pieces in the New York Times and similar outfits that posit that Brooklyn (and by extension all of New York) is gentrifying. The Sunbelt has nothing to do with this – Daniel's talked about it in his blog posts even less than I have in mine. He's attacking claims that New York is becoming a playground for the rich, rather than participating in Kotkinian pissing matches over whose state is better.
Also, that City Journal article you linked to is horrific: racist model minority mythologizing (complete with "I'm not saying they're a model minority, but" statements), gratuitous digs at gender studies majors (ha ha, they can't get jobs, ha ha), indifference to the fact that the very journal has published nativist screeds by Mark Krikorian.
Jon, all of my numbers are from the BEA's annual state income tables. I use per capita income and not GDP, because GDP is comically inaccurate at boundaries between cities and suburbs, and also includes corporate profits even if they go to out-of-state shareholders. I also don't include the Plains states (KS, NE, SD, ND), which grew faster than the industrialized states and which don't really belong in any conversation about the Midwest any more than Maryland, officially part of the South, belongs in a conversation about the South. But since the Plains states are so small, their effect on the overall regional numbers is small, so the difference ends up not very important. Notably, your third graph, the bar chart, shows that the Midwest and South have had basically the same per capita income growth since 1980, after decades in which the South was catching up to higher Midwestern incomes.
Please- its pretty clear why Aaron posted the Hertz pieces, for the same reason he posts constant Houston rising stuff. The clear implication is somehow NYC is failing or falling off a cliff.
The point is that he celebrates Houston's attraction of poor and working class immigrants as huge sign of success but tries to spin the same trends in NYC as a sign of failure.
For the same reason, we notice Aaron stopped making comparisons between the South and the rest of the country.
Clearly the first "SEC post" pushed the idea that the South was kicking the entire country around the block. Now he is trying to walk that claim back or ignore it.
"Now we see that Southern income performance hasn't been great since the mid to late 90s. This is a problem for them. As is their dependence on growth itself in their communities. I won't claim that the South is trouble free or will necessarily thrive over the long haul. "
WHAT???!!! The first post absolutely pushed the idea that the South was destined to crush everyone.
I think Renn sees a lot of similarities between the south and Indianapolis and probably equates their trajectories together on some level, hence the need for southern dominance.
The development strategies seem to differ among the Midwestern cities. If you look at the city of Indianapolis, everything seems to be done or built cheaply with a few exceptions like the cultural trail (like parts of the south). It appears that they currently have a nice amount of infill being built around downtown but it also some of the most uninspiring and cheap buildings I have seen in an urban area in the country.
They do a good job of attracting lower income or lower middle class earners but unless things change, Indy is going to have a hard time ever attracting high income earners. In many ways it's admirable to present opportunities for lower wage workers but it is probably not something that is sustainable. At the risk of being politically incorrect, Indy also has one of the highest homicide rates in the Midwest and unlike other Midwestern cities does not seem to be improving in this respect.
Other midwestern cities which are more stagnant seem to be chasing the high income earners to the exclusion of the lower class or even middle class. My hometown Cincinnati is attempting to gentrify the inner city by redeveloping old historic buildings into expensive condos (for Cincinnati) which is a long painstaking process. There are so many vacant buildings around the inner city that at this rate I question whether they will all ever be filled. It is gentrification similiar to what we have seen in coastal cities but Cincinnati is much smaller. Cincinnati has built its share of cheap new buildings too but the approaches of the cities seem different and it will be interesting to see the results in 30-40 years.
Yes, but he wants to have everything both ways.
Both Nashville's removal of parking minimums and Atlanta's Belt Line infill boom are a departure from the old pro sprawl development he seems to love. Same with recent trends in Houston's core.
He makes an excellent point- the San Francisco type, city as gated community of the uber wealthy and high skilled fails everyone else. We need more cities open to growth and real economic diversity.
What I don't see is how highway socialism is a sustainable way to do that. Even many conservatives and tea party types are catching on to the weakness of this model.
"We need more cities open to growth and real economic diversity."
Unfortunately this is difficult to achieve. The upper and middle classes generally do not like living with the lower class and never have. Lower income residents are almost always segregated into their own communities which proceed to have high crime rates and little upward mobility. Which is why you see low income per capita growth in places like Houston and high income per capita growth in places like San Francisco. Most cities are probably attracting a specific class within certain areas. Perhaps the key is to attract a diversity of incomes but who do you feel is doing that successfully now? Maybe Atlanta? It seems that they are a laggard in per capita income growth.
My take on it is that the middle class still overwhelmingly prefers the exurbs or suburbs outside city limits for reasons such as safety and schools. Most cities are either attracting a majority low income or a majority high income within city limits. (The upper class are obviously more likely to send their kids to private schools). I don't know of any city that is attracting a significant amount of people of all incomes within their city limits.
thebillshark says
Aaron has a real point here. Cincinnati/NKY is losing 1,600 good Toyota engineering and professional jobs to Dallas (more precisely, Plano TX) announced last summer. Our airport hub is a shell of what it once was compared to airports in cities like Charlotte to whom we lost the Chiquita company. (Although Chiquita has since announced a plan to move to Ireland so maybe no big loss there.) The Midwest absolutely cannot rest on its laurels. I think the answer in Cincinnati is to continue to apply urbanist principles and to grow the Downtown, Over the Rhine, West End, and Uptown neighborhoods to their full potential. These can serve as business incubators, hopefully for tech and services. Also, there's already been some success with new restaurants started in our core that have recently expanded to locations in other cities. We also need as many local businesses in walkable neighborhoods as possible so we can recycle the money we do earn from the global economy many times before sending it out of town.
"Perhaps the key is to attract a diversity of incomes but who do you feel is doing that successfully now? Maybe Atlanta? It seems that they are a laggard in per capita income growth."
NYC once did this pretty well and my on the ground impression was that Atlanta was moving in this direction. Now cities in northern New Jersey are building out rapidly.
One huge thing a few places get is that young people are mostly poor. If you want millennial creatives and immigrant energy, you probably need a lot of cheap housing.
Pittsburgh is doing this pretty well, but prices are starting to explode.
"I think the answer in Cincinnati is to continue to apply urbanist principles and to grow the Downtown, Over the Rhine, West End, and Uptown neighborhoods to their full potential."
I agree that Cincinnati needs to continue to do this. The problem is that it is happening extremely slowly because the city simply doesn't have the size to support all the vacant buildings in places like the West End any time in the near future without considerable growth in its suburbs.
There is an "us vs them" attitude between the urbanists and the suburbanites in Cincinnati. One group feels that it must succeed at the expense of the other. There was recently a nice mixed use project that fell through in West Chester and some urbanists were gloating in the comment section of the news article at West Chester's mishap. That is the kind of development Cincinnati needs everywhere because not everybody wants to live downtown.
Even many Conservatives are questioning the auto based city model, recognizing it as an unnatural creation of state policies.
I see it as the most biggest and most destructive US example of central planning's failure.
"Joel Kotkin Fears Conservatives Against Suburban Sprawl"
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/urbs/joel-kotkin-fears-conservatives-against-suburban-sprawl/
"Moreover, Kotkin persists in maintaining the false dichotomy that the only choices in development are post-war sprawl and soaring "concrete jungles" like New York City. In fact, widely spaced single-family lot developments curling into a never ending patchwork of disconnected cul-de-sacs are one extreme; skyscrapers are another. Conservative New Urbanists don't embrace either extreme, but rather seek to build interconnected networks of walkable communities, with corner stores and pizza shops mixed in with a wide variety of housing, single-family homes included.
James Bacon picks up on this very distinction in criticizing a survey that purportedly debunks Millennial urban-friendliness:
The authors confuse the issue, however, by their indiscriminate use of the words "suburbs" and "suburban." They do not differentiate between close-in suburbs where single-family dwellings have small lots and walkable streets and the far-flung "exurbs" on the metropolitan fringe where single-family dwells have large lots and rely exclusively upon automobiles.
Many New Urbanist developments could accurately be characterized as suburbs, in fact, built as they were as greenfield developments with the majority of jobs still requiring commutes. But they aren't "suburban," insofar as they don't partake of sprawl."
Which is why you see low income per capita growth in places like Houston and high income per capita growth in places like San Francisco.
This is not actually true. In fact, the opposite is true – Houston's per capita income growth is faster than the US average, while the Bay Area's has been about zero since 2000, when the tech bubble burst.
And John:
If you want millennial creatives and immigrant energy, you probably need a lot of cheap housing.
Many immigrants to the US get free temporary housing. It has bars and barbed wire and guards and is pending their deportation to countries where they face risk of death.
I'm so over the way certain factions of Americans talk about immigrant energy and never once talk about the US's abuses of refugees, its bureaucratic nightmare of a system for dealing with work migrants, and its constant violations of immigrants and foreign visitors' civil liberties. It's as if immigrants are a secret sauce rather than an oppressed minority.
One can make a case that Houston is doing a lot of things right (Better than the US average) in terms of absorbing and providing opportunity to a lot of people.
A great city doesn't just attract the wealthy and middle class it moves poor people into it.
I doubt however that the massive sprawl is the key to its success or sustainable. The country needs high growth cities with reasonable urbanist qualities.
Kotkin used to say, Queens was his ideal model. If so, he needs to accept a lot more apartment style urbanism and transit.
Paul W. says
Long term, the only winners out of the Midwest or South will be those cities that can control their suburban sprawl. Suburban sprawl is not sustainable due to the required stretching of infrastructure (roads, water, sewer, energy, goods delivery, etc.)
Even if you analyze a metro like DFW, which doubled in population over the last 50 years, you'll find unabated suburban growth. This spells disaster in the wake of a deep, prolonged recession.
The industrial midwest "survived" the test, the South has yet to be tested.
Houston's recent success is due to high oil prices. That's all. Nine of its ten largest companies are in the oil industry, construed broadly (for example, Halliburton counts since it provides professional services to oil companies). The areas close to major extraction sites – Oklahoma, North Dakota, Alaska, Alberta – have had even higher income growth. The Persian Gulf states, which had declining real per capita GDPs in the 1980s and 90s, held up last decade as prices rose.
In a sense this has to do with sprawl, since sprawl generates more demand for oil, but it's not about the sprawl in those specific regions, but rather about sprawl in the entire world. Calgary has a fair amount of sprawl but also a busy light rail network (with 300,000 weekday riders, more than Portland with half the metro area population), powered by wind power; it, too, has high and growing incomes.
wkg in bham says
@ Alon "…once talk about the US's abuses of refugees, its bureaucratic nightmare of a system for dealing with work migrants, and its constant violations of immigrants and foreign visitors' civil liberties."
This would be (has been) an interesting thread. I don't want to get into this here/now. The next time we have a dead thread I'd like to dig into this.
@Paul: "urban sprawl is not sustainable due to the required stretching of infrastructure (roads, water, sewer, energy, goods delivery, etc.)" Site Strong Towns talks about this a lot. By all logic, the statement is unassailable — until one opens one's eyes. Our urban areas should have the best of everything — particularly infrastructure. How often is this the case? Let's not even get into soft infrastructure (e.g. schools).
Back to the article at hand. The South's per capital numbers are going to look bad for the immediate future. It's hard to raise IPC when the capita part of the equation is growing. Hat's off to Houston for being able to do this.
As has been pointed out by others the South (like the Midwest) has substantial urban minority populations mired in intergenerational poverty (and every other pathology). But the South also has a substantial rural population (of all races) that is at least as poor — if not more so). The rural part is hard to see since it's almost hidden.
Another factor is the lack of substantial class of very-high income individuals. Birmingham has a very substantial population with incomes in the 100K-500K range. But I can't think of a billionaire in the entire state.
Southern Auto Manufacturers Association was in town this week. I'm aware of this because the Governor gave a speech at is (The Governor always has time for the auto industry). Twenty years ago, Alabama didn't have an auto industry. Today it has three large assembly plants (Mercedes Benz, Honda and Hyundai) and an engine building plant (Toyota). There's also a Kia plant just across the border in Georgia — located there specifically so it could plug into the network of suppliers. These plants were lured with substantial "incentives". I can say they were worth every penny of the "incentives". The plants may (the point is debatable) be loss leaders. But today there are hundreds of small plants that build and supply parts. I don't know how many businesses supply services to the plants: from truckers who haul stuff in and out of the plant engineers who design and install instrument and control equipment.
The South has been atypical in not throwing the working class under the bus accomplish other goals. This includes immigration control to certain EPA regs.
New Geography has an interesting post (which will no doubt be greeted here with derision) about how a metro resident's standard of living is affected by (at least) two components: income and cost-of-living. With these adjustments, Southern Metros shine.
EJ says
Just what is it with Kotkin's obsession with advocating for suburban sprawl, anyway? It's become much more to him than merely a closely-held rationalized argument–to say nothing of its quality; It's taken on the patina of religious dogma, and he's become a particularly overzealous evangelist for it.
Back to the discussion at hand:
Paul W.: "The industrial midwest "survived" the test, the South has yet to be tested."
In some respects, a "test" occurred during the crash of 2007-8. Granted, it wasn't anywhere near as severe or as long as what the Midwest suffered through during the mid-1970s through the early 1990s, but it still could still could be instructive on what could happen down the road for the Southern economy.
The problem for Kotkin is the business model hasn't produced results and constantly requires state support- and a new supply of true believers unwilling to look at the record.
"In some respects, a "test" occurred during the crash of 2007-8."
The recent housing bubble hit many areas of the South very hard. Inland California and the Southwest were the epicenter, but Florida and Georgia's suburbs took a huge hit.
The positive news is that many Southern cities are waking up and changing course.
I also posted per-capita income and not just GDP. However, I absolutely did include the Plains states because they are widely considered to actually BE a part of the Midwest. The Plains is more like a sub region of the Midwest, much like the Great Lakes states are.
And the South may have been growing faster by percent prior to 1980, but the actual per-capita income graph does not show that the South was catching up. The gap between the two has generally only gotten wider. Counterintuitive maybe, but it is what it is.
David Holmes says
Regarding several comments on the south's cost advantage in maintaining its highways, the cheapest freeway is the one that is never built. Approximately 50% of the freeways that were originally planned for the Milwaukee area were never built due to a wave of public opposition in the 1970s-80s. I've always viewed this as a big plus for the City of Milwaukee, in particular, the lakefront freeway that was never built.
The second cheapest freeway is the one that is torn down. The former Park East Freeway is an example of this in Milwaukee.
The third cheapest is the freeway that is rebuilt after having provided 50 years of service, and which has the possibility of serving for another 50 years when rebuilt as a consequence of being located in a slow growth city.
Greg says
I asked in the first post on the subject about income. Thanks for posting the information. It looks like it the move towards parity began some 60 years ago but has been parallel since the early 90's.
Now, how about migration from the Midwest to the south by age? Could some of the numbers be attributed to a migration of above average income retirees from the Midwest to the South? The dual residency Midwesterners I know claim the south for tax purposes.
My point is that these retirees are an income loss for the Midwest and thus a gain for the south. However, if the data you posted are correct, the parallel downward trend is actually worse for the south considering the source of the retirees income (ie no economic engine behind social security and capital gains).
The Big Ten Network, which was a first of its kind, pays each school $20 million plus and growing. Also, I don't believe all SEC schools are accredited research institutions. Let's be honest, they care as much about football as the B10 cares about academics and that's not likely to change.
@ thebillshark NKY losing most of Toyota has more to do with their California operations than NKY.
And wouldn't moving to Dallas/TX be an argument of B10 vs. B12, rather than the SEC? Take away Texas and Atlanta from the discussion and you're talking about the Midwest minus Chicago with even less industry.
Economists: Cincinnati's Regional Economy Outperforming Both Pittsburgh and Cleveland:
30% of the regional workforce holding a bachelor's degree
relatively low unemployment rate which stands at 5.2%
When compared to Pittsburgh and Cleveland, the only other two metropolitan regions with more than 2 million people in the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland district, Cincinnati is, by far, the healthiest performer.
http://www.urbancincy.com/2014/10/economists-cincinnatis-regional-economy-outperforming-both-pittsburgh-and-cleveland/


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