Working with the Hawaii Olympic Development Program is an excellent opportunity to work with some of the most talented and promising players in the State of Hawaii. Every State Coach will be responsible for the evaluation, identification, selection and development of players in a the Pool of his or her age group to represent HYSA in State, Regional and National ODP events and activities. Below are some guidelines required by Hawaii State Coaching Staff. For a full description of State Coaching Staff requirements, please refer to the Hawaii ODP State Coaching Requirements and Expectations.
Coaches must hold at least the USSF "C" Coaching License. Candidates who do not have a USSF "C" License may be considered under certain circumstances.
State Coaches shall manage, supervise and conduct at least 3 State Pool Training Camp weekends and 2 Team Training Camp weekends. State Coaches will be paid a per diem stipend for all training and travel events.
Regularly communicate the objectives of the State Pool development program with players and parents.
Attend and participate in the ODP Sub-Regional Event and ODP Region IV Championship Tournament, if working with an age group that will be attending the Tournament.
Being selected to the State ODP Coaching Staff is a privilege, not a right. Coaches must, at all times, conduct themselves in a manner that represents HYSA at its highest standard. State Coaches are prohibited from recruiting players to participate in any club or non-ODP related events. Generally, ODP State Coaches are assigned to age groups they do not coach in Club.
Steve Adlard is the Region IV Boy Program's Head Coach. Adlard is the Technical Director of Idaho Youth Soccer and a former professional player in England. During the Hawaii ODP Sub-Regional, Adlard will work with the male Goal Keepers.
Liam Connors is a Region IV Staff Coach and will work with the 2000 and 2001 Boys groups. Connors is an Associate Head Coach at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV). He is also a Director of the Downtown Las Vegas Soccer Club.
Matt Broadhead is the Region IV Head Coach of the 2002 Boys age group. Broadhead also coaches with the AFC Apex club of Utah. He recently led the '02 Boys team to an undefeated record on their international trip to Costa Rica.
Michael N'Doumbe is the Region IV Head Coach of the 2003 Boys age group. N'Doumbe has been a Region IV Staff coach for over 12 years and is also the Director of Coaching of Riptide Soccer Club in Point Loma, California.
Brandon McNeil is a Region IV Staff Coach and will work with the 2004 Boys age group. McNeil is a former University of Portland Assistant Coach with the men and currently is a FC Portland Development Academy Director for U12s.
Mark Biagi is a Region IV Staff Coach and will work with the 2005 Boys age group. Biagi is also a staff coach with the Arizona Youth Soccer Olympic Development Program.
Nate Shotts – is the Region IV ODP Girls Head Coach. Shotts is also CEO of Colorado Soccer Association. He will also lead the HYSA Senior All Star Game.
Paul Mulvany is a Region IV Girls Staff Coach and will be working with the 2000 and 2001 Girls Age Group. Mulvany is the Director of Coaching at Westminster AFC in Colorado.
Brandi Chastain – Former US Women's National Team Star Brandi Chastain is the Region IV Girls 2002 Head Coach. Chastain played 192 games for the USA scoring 30 goals. Famous for making the winning shot in the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup victory over China in a penalty kick shootout. Chastain also coaches at her alma mater Santa Clara University with her husband Jerry Smith. Chastain has won Olympic Gold as well as a FIFA World Cup.
Tiffeny Milbrett – Former US Women's National Team Forward Tiffeny Milbrett is the Region IV Girls Staff Coach and will work with the 2003 age group. Milbrett has 204 caps (appearances in international games) and scored 100 goals for the United States. The former University of Portland star has won an Olympic Gold medal as well as a FIFA World Cup. Milbrett currently coaches with the Colorado Storm.
Kelly Labor – is a Region IV Staff Coach and will work with the 2004 girls. Labor is an Assistant Coach at Colorado State University as well as a Staff Coach with Colorado Youth Soccer's Olympic Development Program. Labor played collegiately at UNLV.
Jen Klein – will lead the Region IV 2005 girls age group. Klein is the Associate Head Coach at the University of Southern California who won the 2016 NCAA Division 1 National Championship. Klein played collegiately at the University of Arizona before coaching at UNLV and Washington State.
Scott Newman – is the Region IV Girls ODP Staff Coach and will work with all female Goal Keepers. Newman is the Goal Keeping Coaching for the Seattle University Women's Soccer Team as well as the Technical Director/Girls Director for the Greater Seattle Surf Soccer Club.
Michael Morris – is a scout with the Seattle Sounders FC and is Head Coach of the U15 Sounders Academy team as well as the Head Coach of the Washington State EDP.
Marcelo Balboa – Former US Men's National Team Member, Marcelo Balboa played in 3 FIFA World Cups appearing in 128 games for the United States. He was the first American man to get 100 caps. Balboa has worked with the Colorado Rapids and currently is a television commentator for Univision. He will also lead the HYSA Senior All Star Game.


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Q: Magento in wordpress: [mage object] catalog price rules not applied in externally loaded shopping cart I am loading the Magento shopping cart block in wordpress with the Mage Enabler plugin, but unfortunately I can't get the catalog pricerules to work with the shopping cart.
When I add a product on which discount is applied through a price rule, the original price is used in the cart, after I add the product to this cart.
The catalog pricerule is working of course because I can see the right price in the product detail page.
I am using this code:
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Is there something else I need to do to get the catalog price rules to work in the shoppingcart and checkout, with the Mage Enabler plugin?
So basically I would like to know how to run the catalog pricerules through the Mage:: object.
Thanks in advance.

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Texoma Shore – 2017 (Warner Nashville)
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CDs by Blake Shelton
All About Tonight (2010)
Based on a True Story (2013)
Blake Shelton (2001)
Blake Shelton's Barn & Grill (2004)
Bringing Back the Sunshine (2014)
Cheers, It's Christmas (2012)
Fully Loaded: God's Country (2019)
Hillbilly Bone (2010)
If I'm Honest (2016)
Live EP (2017)
Loaded: The Best of Blake Shelton (2010)
Pure BS (2007)
Pure BS Deluxe Edition (2008)
Red River Blue (2011)
Startin' Fires (2008)
Texoma Shore (2017)
The Dreamer (2003)
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Blake Shelton's 11th studio album finds The Voice advisor in a contented, one might even say homey, frame of mind. The opening track and first single "I'll Name the Dogs" sets the tone. It's a rollicking ode to domesticity that manages to make household chore distribution ("You find the spot and I'll find the money / You be the pretty and I'll be the funny") both romantic and amusing. The beat switches to hip-hop on "Money," but the sentiment - and the humor - ("Writing rubber rent checks, livin' on Ramen / Chappin' our ass 'cause we can't afford Charmin") remains the same.
Make no mistake, domestic doesn't mean dull. Settling down doesn't mean settling for less. Monogamy can be very hot. Even though Blake and his lady friend like to hit the town occasionally ("Hangover Due"), they're much happier when they "get the party started / Where the party always ends" i.e. "At The House." When they're not burning up the sheets ("Turnin' Me On"), they're reminiscing about how it all began ("The Wave") or just counting their blessings ("Why Me").
Only a couple of songs are out of step with that cozy vibe, and they're something of a mixed bag. "I Lived It" is a look back at an earlier time that is obviously geared to engender nostalgia, but might instead make you grateful you don't have to swat flies in the house or ride in a truck with the windows up while grandaddy smokes Salem cigarettes. "Got the T-Shirt" is a break-up song comparing a relationship to a summer getaway ("If my heart was just a destination / She had herself one hell of a vacation") that holds together pretty well until the end when it turns out the titular top is not a metaphor for memories; he's actually p.o.ed that she absconded with his Rolling Stones t-shirt. These two tracks can either be skipped or used as a palate cleanser perhaps, but should certainly not be allowed to admit impediments to the marriage of true minds that is "Texoma Shore."

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Q: Regression: Causation vs Prediction vs Description In my experience it seems me that the interpretation about regression, its meaning and its scope, are debatable and great confusion exist about those things. It seems me that confusions are not go away yet. I started to study regression by Econometrics side and I started to be puzzled, some years ago, thinking about regression and its causal role. My perplexity became both, confirmed and go deeper, when I read: Regression and Causation: A Critical Examination of Six Econometrics Textbooks - Chen and Pearl (2013).
Great light was done to me by this article: Shmueli - To explain or to predict - Statistical Science 2010, Vol. 25, No. 3, 289–310. In last article the Author use the word explanation as synonym of causation. To now I'm feel myself more confident about the distinction between prediction and causation. I asked and replied in some related post in this site, as example:
Endogeneity in forecasting
Regression and causality in econometrics
However in his article Shmueli spent some word about description. Unfortunately those word are very few and the only clear thing that we can understand from those are: description is different from both causation and prediction; the role of description are much less important than the others two.
My main question is precisely: what description meaning is? What are the main distinction from description and the other two role for regression?  Can you give me a simple as possible example where those differences emerge clearly?
Before to reply, to read the follow seem me needed.
I have found in the web a set of recent slide where Shmueli underscore more clearly that the role of description exist and that is different from others two. To Explain To Predict or To Describe? – satellite conference August 15-16  2019  Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia). You can easily download those. These slide speak precisely about the confusion that again exist in both Academia and Industry about the role of regression. These slide are good. However, unfortunately, too few words are spent about description yet.
I understand that description is markedly different from prediction because, first of all, overfitting and related out of sample measures are the core for prediction while become irrelevant for description scope. However it seem me that dangerous conflating area remain between causation and description.  Infact, let me note that a couple of slides was insert for underscore the core difference between: prediction-causation and prediction-description but no one for causation-description.
In my mind I justify, but not appreciate much, the existence of description so: given the variables of interest I estimate regressions in order to reveal pure statistical dependencies. This can be a reply for my question above. This my related question can help (Joint probability distributions and regression)
However, unfortunately yet, at slide 23 Shmueli says something that contradict my position. Because she say that significance (difference from 0) are relevant for the variable to "remain" in the model. Why? It seems me that no dependencies is a respectable descriptive result.
Worse, if there are variables selection issue also for description purpose this selection looking for what? It seems me that in this case conflations, mainly toward causation side, hardly will go away. My mistake?
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Often the regression and in particular the linear regression, that represent the object on which we are most focused here, are presented without the distinctions above or at least them do not emerge clearly. More precisely several presentations leave the impression that once reached a sort of "best specification" (no bias) the regression is ready for any scope and it represent, simultaneously, the best for each of these. All the above precisely contrast this perspective. Regression can be useful  for each of three scope above but it must been builded keeping in mind only one. Said that, the differences above come from the scope but the algebra of linear regression remain the same, then the core problem for one scope can play some less important role in any others. This question is strongly related Omitted variable bias vs. Multicollinearity.
Moreover, we have to remember that all scope above are though for some kind of "induction/inference", more data are always better. Basically we observe one sample and would to say something about population or at least something that are not observed yet.
Just here let me note that "regression for description" seems me a misnomer it seems refer on "descriptive statistics"t; instead it is focused on inference about parameters. "Regression for associations" seems me much better as name.
About causation the endogeneity is the main problem, about prediction it is overfitting. At this stage I do not understand clearly if for description particular issue exist. Shmueli suggest multicollinearity and significance of regressors. About the former I'm only partially convinced (see below), about the last I'm almost convinced that is not. From comments was suggested that overfitting, defined as in it, can be problematic for any scope. I'm not convinced about this point also. My motivations follows. They are related to linear regression. More in general the distributional problems and functional form for regression matters but those problem are out of my scope here. Said that:
why endogeneity is not an issue for description?
Is true that both are focused on parameters inference. However in causation the concept of bias is related to causal interpretation of at least one parameter while in description the concept of bias not matters. Parameters are unbiased per se in the sense that, stated the existence of conditional expectation and the invertibility in design matrix, parameters are given (as the covariates) and them genuine associational meaning always remain.
Why overfitting is not an issue for description?
In linear context overfitting can appear only if we add too many regressors, but we already said that them are given. If we have many regressors and too few data is possible that $R^2$ is much higher than is asymptotic counterpart (overfitting). Similarly is possible that parameters estimators are very imprecise. However we can do nothing. If regressors of interest are given, then, also the best linear approximation of conditional expectation, by linear regression estimated with OLS, are given.
Why (near) multicollinearity only partially is an issue for description?
For the same previous motivations. Strongly linear correlation among some regressors are a bad news for inference that is the scope. However we can do nothing if not to separate the collinear regressors and perform several regressions that not suffer from collinearity. Unfortunately in this case the goal is only partially or, at most, indirectly achieved.


Cool, calm, and collected are words that describe Chad Athey, a stationary engineer at UIS and the university's Employee of the Month for November 2013.
His nominator commends Chad for doing such a great job of keeping operational "the creature comforts in campus buildings." He has tended to ceiling leaks, sewer pipe spills, and room temperature issues, all while keeping an upbeat and can-do outlook that inspires others, including his nominator. "In a time where customer service is going the way of the proverbial Dodo bird, it is refreshing to see him in action each and every day," his nominator writes.
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The Amish Hair-Cutting Trial Begins
I've been reading through the coverage of the Amish hair-cutting trial that kicked off this week. Today's award for the stupidest lede goes to one James F. McCarty of the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The law of God will collide with the law of man this week in a crowded federal courtroom in Cleveland, where 16 Amish defendants -- 10 men with full beards, six women in white bonnets -- will stand trial on charges related to a series of beard- and hair-cutting attacks against fellow Amish men and women last year.
That would be true if the government were simply prosecuting Sam Mullet and his followers for practicing their religion. But that implies that religious freedom gives people the right to assault and degrade other people. That is, more or less, what the defense is arguing -- that, somehow, Sam Mullet had the right to "punish" people who weren't even under his religious authority.
As with U.S. Catholic Bishops, we're now expected to accept a definition of religious freedom as the right to control other people.
Ironically, it was the Bergholz gang who attacked the religious identity and practices of their victims by cutting their hair and beards and photographing them, violating longstanding Amish customs and beliefs. They don't dispute that they did these things. They simply argue that they were entitled to do so. McCarty continues:
In Mullet's world, the word of God provided the imprimatur for him and his followers to punish enemies as he saw fit. That included cutting their beards and hair -- a humiliation more dreaded in the Amish religion than being "beaten black-and-blue," one of the victims said.
But what federal prosecutors call hate crimes, punishable by life in prison, Mullet calls an exercise of his religious freedom. God's will allowed him to mete out punishment as he saw fit, he said, giving him the power to shame and punish people who ostracized the Bergholz clan and who defied his laws.
So the argument is that the Bergholz clan's religious freedom gives them the right to assault members of other sects by violating their religious beliefs. That takes a rather remarkable level of audacity.
The problem starts with Sam Mullet's abuses of his own followers which are reputed to involve incarcerating men in a chicken coop for days, beatings, and sleeping with other men's wives to "cleanse" and "counsel" them. Mullet who split with other Amish over policy differences became increasingly authoritarian. But those who left his Bergholz community, or were excommunicated, were accepted by other Amish communities. Mullet felt he was being undermined by the refusal of other bishops to respect his excommunication orders and their willingness to take in those he felt were apostates. His followers, in turn, felt their own family members were betraying their faith and pursued them to their new homes, attacking them with horse trimming shears. Prosecutors explained as they opened their case:
[Assistant U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Brennan] described how sons pulled their father out of bed and chopped off his beard in the moonlight, and how women surrounded their mother-in-law and cut off two feet of her hair, taking it down to the scalp in some places.
In the final attack, a man and his wife lured his parents to their farm, Brennan said. Once there, the older man's grandsons held him down while his son cut his hair, she said.
Prosecutors say those who were targeted in the attacks were people who left the settlement over disagreements with Mullet's authoritarian methods. Others were bishops who had intervened in Mullet's decision to excommunicate several members. The bishops agreed the excommunications weren't consistent with Amish teachings and decided not to recognize the penalties, which angered Mullet and inspired the attacks, prosecutors said.
A good deal of physical evidence was also recovered from the defendants' homes, including hair and shears. A disposable camera with photos documenting the crime was found buried under a tree on Sam Mullet's property. There is a certain irony -- or one might say hypocrisy -- to an Amish clan attacking former members for "straying" from Amish "roots" and using a camera in the process.
Splits like the one that created Mullet's Bergholz group have become increasingly common precisely because of the challenges over where to draw lines between the Amish way of life and the encroachments of modernity.
Some within the community have trouble letting go following a dispute, [Matthew Schrock] said, because the Amish so closely identify themselves based on their beliefs. "When someone believes something slightly different, that's a threat to my existence," he explained.
When there are splits, a new set of bishops and ministers take over. Sometimes the new group will move away but not usually. Those that are pulled apart can join together at weddings and funerals but not for worship services. Even families can be divided.
"Each side says you go off and do your own thing and that's the end of it," said Johnson-Weiner. "There's an understanding that you can't judge them. It's up to God to judge the choices they make."
What is unusual in this case is the aggression and violence perpetrated by Sam Mullet and his followers. Even stranger is his lack of forgiveness -- a hallmark of Amish culture. (Although, as I have previously noted, there is a very dark side to their forgiveness and reconciliation practices.)
The tactics Mullet is accused of violates basic principles of the Amish who value nonviolence and forgiveness even when churches break apart. "Retribution, retaliation, the use of force; that's almost unheard of," said Thomas J. Meyers, a sociology professor at Goshen College in Indiana.
Stranger than Mullet's aggression was his open interference in the sex lives of his followers. His excommunicated former son-in-law is one of those who has testified to Mullet's unwholesome preoccupation.
Aden Troyer said he was once part of the Mullet family compound. He married Mullet's daughter, Wilma, and the couple had two daughters. Concerned about the way Mullet was "ruling" his followers, Troyer said he started making arrangements to move his wife and children out of the group.
Not long after, Troyer said, Mullet began interfering with their marriage. Troyer said Mullet would ask women, including his wife, "about their sexual relationships with their husbands."
"That's very atypical behavior for Amish to do that," Troyer said. "It's unheard of."
He said, "In the Amish community, no one has jurisdiction over what goes on between a husband and wife. He's the only guy and only leader that I know of that ever has gotten into an Amish couple's married life."
Yet, the jury will hear testimony about Mullet's sexual counseling of numerous married women. To my mind, this more than anything marks the Bergholz clan as a cult in the clutches of a dangerous, charismatic leader. It's just so typical.
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Feds Close Investigation Of George Zimmerman Without Pressing Charges
Joe Burbank
George Zimmerman answers questions from a Seminole circuit judge in Sanford, Fla., last November.
Federal authorities have decided to close an investigation of George Zimmerman, the Florida man who shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin back in 2012.
The killing sparked protests and a national conversation on race. Zimmerman, who is white, was acquitted of murder of the unarmed black teenager by a Florida jury, but federal prosecutors were weighing whether to bring hate crime charges against Zimmerman.
Today, they announced they would not bring any charges against Zimmerman.
"Though a comprehensive investigation found that the high standard for a federal hate crime prosecution cannot be met under the circumstances here, this young man's premature death necessitates that we continue the dialogue and be unafraid of confronting the issues and tensions his passing brought to the surface," Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement. "We, as a nation, must take concrete steps to ensure that such incidents do not occur in the future."
In a press release, the Justice Department said its investigators had independently reviewed all of the evidence generated in the case by local authorities and conducted 75 witness interviews.
Ultimately, they could not find enough evidence that Zimmerman "willfully" used force against Martin on account of his race or color.
The Justice Department explained that requiring that a prosecutor prove a defendant acted "willfully" is one of the highest standards imposed by law.
Acting Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta of the Civil Rights Division said that the Justice Department's decision not to pursue charges does not "condone the shooting" and is "based solely on the high legal standard applicable to these cases."


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The sensors in this business sedan totally prevented an accident
John Brandon@jmbrandonbb
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I'm a bit of a coffee addict. At my local Dunn Brothers coffee shop, they know which breakfast sandwich I like right down to the Swiss cheese and that I'm a fan of light roast. They also know I arrive around 6 a.m. with a look that says, "Help me — I need caffeine right now."
It's not that I'm drowsy. It takes a few cups before I'm in full work performance mode. That's why it surprised me so much when I backed out of a parking spot after being fully caffeinated, wide awake for hours, and ready to tackle the rest of the morning without looking as much as usual for cross-traffic. Honestly, I've become a hypervigilant driver. I usually look once, then twice, then a third time just to be on the safe side.
I think even the car itself was surprised when I didn't look as thoroughly. Fortunately, I was driving a 2017 VW Passat, the model with a V6 engine with the technology package that costs $29,295 (the base price is $22,440). New sensors that are constantly looking all around the vehicle noticed a passing car, driving way too fast behind me from left to right. An audible alarm sounded, I pressed the brakes, and everyone was fine. No harm, no foul.
Yet it was irritating — not because the car failed to do its job, but because we're not living in an age of AI and connected cars. For now, these sensors — which you can see visually in the touchscreen display when something comes too close to the car, represented as radiating pulses similar to the Wi-Fi radio icon you see on a Windows 10 laptop — are one-directional. They see an object, you get a warning. In the near future, a car like the Passat would have already known there was another car in the Dunn Brothers parking lot.
Here's how the AI would have helped. At least a block away, sensors in the parking lot would identify the car and start tracking it. This is not a privacy issue. It's like tracking a car today when you pull up to a stoplight (the pads built into the road), just with more intelligence. The AI will track every car's location in real time. If that junky old Malibu that almost hit me started accelerating close to the Passat, I'd know about it long before I had to start braking.
The next steps after this are even more interesting. Someday, automated cars will brake and accelerate in perfect unison. The Malibu would not have this tech unless someone added it as an aftermarket kit. That's not impossible at all, considering there are devices like the Navdy that already provide services like text-to-speech and navigation for older cars. We need to reach the point where cars don't even need sensors that alert you to other cars, because the other car would slow down automatically. I'd pull out because the AI would determine that I had the right of way based on the fact that the AI in the other car made it drive at a sane speed.
Multiply this scenario out to every parking lot, every intersection, highways all over the world. It's not autonomous driving that will prevent accidents. It's not even the sensors in the car, or the pedestrian detection, or the adaptive cruise control. It's an AI that knows the location of every car and truck and can optimize traffic, instruct the local AI in each car to adjust speeds, and create a vast car network that runs as smoothly as a fine-tuned network server.
Don't laugh at that too much — yes, servers still crash. But the intelligence in a car network, aided perhaps by a human agent in a car traffic control center, will definitely reduce fender-benders in parking lots and help tremendously on the highway.
My hope is that this scenario becomes a reality soon. I've become a little impatient about progress lately, although I appreciate the fact that the Passat saved me from an accident.


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Cost of Home Ownership in L.A. Makes Other Financial Goals a Challenge
Los Angeles has long been touted as one of the costliest cities, so the stress-level of homeowners trying to stay above water isn't surprising. California has the third highest average mortgage payments in the country at $1,642 per month, or 19.06 percent of the average Californian income.
With equity built up in their homes but little to no cash on hand for more immediate expenses, 77 percent of Los Angeles-area homeowners feel house rich and cash poor, and 26 percent of those feel this way most or all of the time.
Since its infancy, Hometap has been studying the house-rich, cash-poor phenomenon that has been building since the Great Recession. The widening gap between wages and housing costs as well as the lack of attractive options to access home equity is largely to blame for this crisis. In fact, according to a recent Hometap study, 80 percent of Los Angeles-area homeowners report their housing costs are rising faster than their income while 67 percent say they're spending a higher percentage of their income on housing than ever before.
Our study of nearly 700 homeowners aimed to track the impact the house-rich, cash-poor crisis is having on homeowners across the country. What we found when we took a closer look at Los Angeles homeowners was stress compounded by the overall cost of LA living.
A Porch study found Los Angeles to have one of the highest home maintenance and repair costs in the country, at $26,474 a year on average. Eighty-six percent of those surveyed said the anticipated cost of home repairs was moderately to extremely stressful.
Another major source of stress is security of future income, despite an explosive job market.
Los Angeles County added 63,400 jobs year over year, a 1.4 percent increase, yet 86 percent said they're moderate to extremely stressed.
Access Your Equity, Eliminate Stress
If you're like most homeowners, you have other financial goals you want to meet besides homeownership. But 68 percent of Los Angeles-area homeowners say high housing costs make it difficult to achieve other financial goals, whether that's paying off debt, starting a business, or any number of goals.
Yet 66 percent of Los Angeles homeowners in the study said they don't feel like they have good options for turning the equity in their home into cash; 37 percent don't want to take on a loan and the debt, interest, and monthly payments that come with it. Another 21 percent say they could sell their home to access equity but would prefer not to.
As a homeowner, you do have options. You can access home equity via a home equity loan, home equity line of credit (HELOC), cash-out refinance, or home equity investment—and not all of these options involve taking on additional debt. Feeling trapped in a house-rich, cash-poor scenario? Compare your options for accessing your equity.


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Summer has been busy at Docs In Progress and the wider world of documentary: find out more about our new screening series, what alumni are up to, and check out upcoming funding deadlines, hot reads, and more...
Residency Reflections
André Perez came to Docs In Progress for several weeks in June to progress with America In Transition, a documentary series about trans people of color. While at Docs In Progress, André attended the AFI DOCS Film Festival, gave a workshop on intersectional social justice documentary filmmaking, screened the first three episodes of the series at Busboys and Poets, and launched a Kickstarter campaign to help complete the next three episodes.
André also deepened important connections beyond the documentary world, as many trans activists were in town for meetings on Capitol Hill. Now back in his homebase of Chicago, André reflected on why the timing of being in DC couldn't have been better. Read more.
New Docs In The City Screening Series Gets Personal
As We Revisit an Iconic Documentary and Incubate a New Work-in-Progress
Docs In The City, a unique new screening series which builds on our work to support emerging documentary talent while providing both professional development for filmmakers and engaging film fans by exploring the many genres and themes of documentary.
The series pairs seasoned and emerging documentary filmmakers whose films share a genre or theme. Each program includes a screening of a work-in-progress by an emerging filmmaker followed by a feedback session with the audience and the seasoned filmmaker as respondent. This will be followed by a new look at an iconic film by the seasoned filmmaker.
The series kicks off with a focus on personal documentary as we delve into the lives of two filmmakers and their families. The work-in-progress is Searching for My Jewish Soul, Bonnie Rich's light-hearted approach to a serious matter—convincing her millennial daughters to raise her unborn grandchildren Jewish. This will be followed by Doug Block's acclaimed personal documentary 51 Birch Street which weaves together 60 years of footage in telling the tale of what can happen when our most fundamental assumptions about family are suddenly called into question.
This program is made possible through the support of the National Endowment for the Arts and the presenting partnership of the Washington Jewish Film Festival. Doug Block's participation is also made possible through the support of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Sunday, August 6 at the Edlavitch DCJCC (16th and Q Streets, NW in Washington DC). Searching for My Jewish Soul screens at 2:00 pm. 51 Birch Street screens at 4:00 pm. Tickets are $13.50 per film or $25 for both.
Submit Your Film for Community Stories Festival
Now heading into its seventh year, the Community Stories Festival is an annual film festival organized to spotlight stories from around the Washington Metropolitan area. In addition to showcasing works produced by youth and adults in our production classes and camps, we will also be showing short documentaries produced by other filmmakers from around the region.
If you have a short documentary which is about people, places, events, or history in Washington DC, Northern Virginia, or Suburban Maryland, please consider submitting. In fact, if you submit before our earlybird deadline on July 31, we are happy to waive your entry fee. Simply use Waiver Code DIPCS2017.
Find out more and submit.
Programs and Deadlines Coming Up From Docs In Progress
July 12 & 13 (Wednesday & Thursday): Webinar: Understanding the Film Festival Selection Process
July 15 (Saturday): Legal Issues in Documentary Production
SOLD OUT July 21–August 11 (Weekdays): Impacting the World Through Video Summer Camp
July 31: Earlybird Deadline to Submit Films for Community Stories Festival
August 5 (Saturday): Master Class in Producing with Doug Block
August 6 (Sunday): Docs In The City: Spotlight on Personal Documentaries
August 12 & 19 (Saturdays): Adobe Premiere Pro For Experienced Editors
August 14 (Monday): Documentary Roundtable Silver Spring: Trailer Night
August 17 (Thursday): Ethics in Documentary Filmmaking Workshop
August 25: Regular Deadline to Submit Films for Community Stories Festival
September 7–October 5 (Thursdays): Documentary Filmmaking from A to Z Class
September 16-November 4 (Saturdays): Intro to Documentary Production
September 30: Deadline to Apply for Docs In Progress Board of Directors
October 1: Deadline to Apply for Fiscal Sponsorship
NEWS FROM OUR COMMUNITY
So many exciting things to share from filmmakers in the Docs In Progress community. We are so proud of you all!
2017 Peer Pitch Alum Featured in Special Panel at March on Washington Film Festival July 15
Less than a month after participating in our Peer Pitch program, Margo Precht Speciale and Suzanne Kay will present clips from their work-in-progress, Sullivision: Ed Sullivan and the Struggle for Civil Rights at the March on Washington Film Festiva. The film chronicles the story of the pioneering television host and his contribution to the civil rights movement. The filmmakers will participate in the panel which also includes actress Diahann Carroll and Dawndalyn R. Reece from the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. The panel takes place on Saturday, July 15 at 3 pm at the U.S. Navy Memorial in Washington DC. Find out more.
TV Premiere of Indivisible July 29 on Fuse
Indivisible will have its world television premiere on July 29 at 10 pm. The film is part of Fuse's #WeTheDreamers documentary series spotlighting young, idealistic and diverse subjects who overcome prejudice in their fight for inclusion and fairness. The film was developed through first-time director Hilary Linder's participation in the Docs In Progress Fellowship Program, and it is also fiscally sponsored by the organization. Find out more.
DEEJ Heading to Festivals, Screening Tours, and America Reframed
You will have a number of opportunities to see Robert Rooy's long-awaited ITVS-supported documentary DEEJ this summer and fall. It will be featured at more than 50 screenings in 25 states, including film festivals (Woods Hole, DOCUTAH, and Real to Reel); two screening tours (Mid-Atlantic Arts On Screen/In Person and Southern Circuit); and an October 17 broadcast on public television's World Channel series America ReFramed (Tuesday, October 17). For those of you in Washington DC who don't get America ReFramed, save the evening of Tuesday, September 26 when Docs In Progress will be co-sponsoring a screening of the film at the Atlas Theatre in Washington DC. The film was workshopped through Peer Pitch and a Work-in-Progress Screening, and is also fiscally sponsored by Docs In Progress. Find out more.
Samuel Barber: Absolute Beauty World Broadcast Premiere July 15
Docs In Progress teaching artist H. Paul Moon's feature-length documentary Samuel Barber: Absolute Beauty will receive its world broadcast premiere on PBS' Philadelphia affiliate WHYY-TV, on Saturday, July 15 at 8:00 pm. The film about the composer best know for his Adagio for Strings, is also playing in festivals, and is available for purchase. Find out more.
City of Trees Now on Netflix
The award-winning documentary film, City of Trees, which participated in a Docs In Progress focus group program, is now on Netflix! If you haven't yet seen the film, add it to watch list. If you have, support fellow filmmakers by rating and reviewing it. The Meridian Hill Pictures team has also released a Community Screening kit for those who want to bring the film and conversation to your community.
TransMilitary Headed to IFP's Documentary Lab
Peer Pitch alum TransMilitary is one of ten projects selected for the IFP Documentary Lab The IFP Filmmaker Labs support first-time feature directors with projects in post-production as they complete, market and distribute their films, providing filmmakers with the technical, creative and strategic tools necessary to launch their films and careers. Find out more.
2018 Fellow Yi Chen Featured in Article about Chinatown
After the documentary Chinatown: A Changing Neighborhood screened at the DC Ideas Fest in May, Greater Greater Washington spoke with director Yi Chen about her experience working with the residents at Wah Luck House and Museum Square to preserve affordable housing in Chinatown and the challenges facing the community. Read the full article.
Kol Hanashim Inspires Extended Dialogue With Launch of Our Voices Project
Expanding on the themes of the work-in-progress documentary, Kol Hanashim, a film which explores cultural integration in the U.S. through the lens of Orthodox Jewish women, the Our Voices Project brings people of different backgrounds together for dialogue, guided reflection and an interactive arts project. The film is part of Docs In Progress Fiscal Sponsorship Program and was developed through director Yisrael Welcher's participation in our Fellowship Find out more.
Exotic Now Streaming on Amazon
Exotic continues to garner press coverage and screenings across the country and is now streaming on Amazon. It will also be featured in Feministing, Maximum Rock and Roll, and Bitch. The film was workshopped through our Work-in-Progress Screening program and director Amy Oden's participation in the Fellowship.
Roar of a Lion Cub Gets Funding
2015 Peer Pitch alum Martina Radwan's work-in-progress Roar of a Lion Club has received funding from the New York State Arts Council and the AmDocs Fund.
2017 Best Indigenous Film Award for Ice Cream Man
If you attended our March alumni showcase screening in Takoma Park, you had a chance to see Rebecca Drobis's Ice Cream Man which tells the story of young entrepreneurship ad hope on a Montana Indian Reservation. The documentary short recently won the Flathead Lake International Cinema Festival's 2017 Best Indigenous Film Award. This video is a part of Rebecca's Grown Up West Project.
In Lorton's Darkroom Receives Spotlight Documentary Film Award
Congratulations to former Fellow and current Fiscal Sponsoree Karen Ruckman whose documentary short In Lorton's Darkroom was recognized by the international film competition Spotlight Documentary Film Award with a 2017 Gold Award. The film has also been selected to screen at the Art of Recovery Film Festival Florida.
Cheers of JOY Accepted to Multiple Festivals
Nancy Frohman and Goldendoodle Productions are proud to announce that Cheers of JOY:The Road to the Special Olympics World Games has been selected for the Impact DOCS awards and is a semi-finalist in the Austin Revolution Film Festival. The Virginia International Film and Music Festival honored this Roundtable alum with inclusion in its Artist Circle. Find out more.
Bill Doorley Film Receives Award at 2017 Neuro Film Fest
A five minute short The Remarkable Journey of Dr. Warden, has won in the category "Why I think neuroscience is essential" in the 2017 Neuro Film Festival. Produced by Peer Pitch alum Bill Doorley, the film chronicles how a neurologist and psychiatrist, is managing her life with primary lateral sclerosis. Stay tuned for the full-length documentary which is on track for completion this fall.
Alums: Don't be left out! Send your news via our new online form. The Fall Newsletter will be published the first week of October. Deadline for submissions is September 22.
OTHER HAPPENINGS IN THE WORLD OF DOCUMENTARY
Double Exposure Investigative Film Festival and Symposium October 19-22
Double Exposure (DX) Investigative Film Festival and Symposium showcases the best new films inspired by the investigative instinct paired with a concurrent symposium for journalists and filmmakers to connect with each other, and with the producers, editors, funders, and experts who can advance their work. Passes are now available for the third edition of DX in Washington DC, October 19-22. Docs in Progress members receive a 15% discount on passes using the code DX17DIP.
Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival In Search of New Director of Film Programs
If you have the chops to manage a year-round film program, including the spring Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival, the Sebastopol Center for the Arts in Sonoma County, California is looking for a new Director of Film Programs. Just a little more than an hour north of the Bay Area, this is an opportunity to continue to develop Sebastopol as destination for filmmakers and film lovers. Find out more
Women in Film and Video DC Master Class Series on The Business Side of Media
DC-area media powerhouse Linda Maslow is offering a master class series for those who are starting a business in media - whether you are hiring others or are a one-person freelance shop. The next session in this series takes place July 25 about getting your office in order, marketing and launching your brand. Find out more.
Virginia Historical Society Free Screening July 20
As part of the Created Equal Film Series, the Virginia Historical Society in Richmond will host a free screening of Here's to Flint, a documentary about the ongoing water crisis in Flint, Michigan followed by a discussion with an academic from Virginia Tech's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech who served as Communications Director for the team of researchers who conducted the Flint water study. Find out more.
Check out our calendar of upcoming documentary film screenings and events in the Washington DC Metro area at http://www.docsinprogress.org/dcfilmevents.
We love to feature updates from our fellow film organizations. Send us your updates, announcements or deadlines via our new online form. The Fall Newsletter will be published the first week of October. Deadline for submissions is September 22.
UPCOMING FUNDING, LAB AND PITCH DEADLINES AND OPPORTUNITIES
The D-Word Hosts Special Topic on IDA Enterprise Documentary Development Fund
From Wednesday, July 12-Friday, July 14, professional members of The D-Word can participate in a discussion with Carrie Lozano, Director of the IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund. She will discuss this brand new fund and specifically the Development Grant, which is currently accepting proposals through the end of the month. The IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund provides development funds to documentary film projects taking on in-depth explorations of original, contemporary stories which integrate journalistic practice into the filmmaking process. Inclusion and diversity, both in terms of the filmmaking team and subject matter, are a priority of the fund. The development grant period is open until the end of July and the fund will make development grants up to $15,000. The fund is for project applicants who are either US Citizens or Permanent Residents, but the subject of the film can be domestic or international. The final format of the work is open–short, feature, series, VR or other emerging format.
Learn more about the application guidelines
Check out the Special Topic on The D-Word (professional members only - it's free to join)
Other Upcoming Opportunities
Note that some are limited by geographic or other requirements. Please read guidelines carefully.
July 10: Chicken and Egg Accelerator Lab
July 12: Points North Fellowship
July 12: Points North Institute Shortform Editing Residency
July 14: Firelight Media Documentary Lab
July 28: ITVS Open Call
July 28: IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund Development Grant
July 28: Mountainfilm Commitment Grant
July 31: Pare Lorentz Documentary Fund
July 31: Southern Documentary Film Fund
August 3: Visions Sud Est Fund
August 4: Tribeca Film Institute IF/Then Short Documentary Program
August 9: NEH Media Development Grants
August 9: NEH Media Production Grants
August 15: The Alter-Ciné Foundation
August 18: Hot Docs: Blue Ice Group Documentary Development and/or Production Fund
Rolling Deadlines
Sundance Documentary Fund
Fledgling Fund
HotDocs Ted Rogers Fund
The Bertha BRITDOC Documentary Journalism Fund
Want to see the full list of funding deadlines and more information on funders?
We now have a permanent place on our website which you can bookmark to see a full list of funding and pitch deadlines and get links to more information on major film funders. You can access the page for free as long as you sign in to our website
Here's the link to bookmark: http://www.docsinprogress.org/funding_for_documentaries
Have you been too busy to keep up with what's been going on in the world of documentary? We've compiled links to some articles and blogs we think you may find of interest.
Notes on Bad Documentaries (Or, Can a Documentary Be So Bad It's Good?) (Filmmaker Magazine)
The Joys of the Regional Festival: Why You Should Attend Small Market Festivals (And How to Pick Out the Great Ones) (MovieMaker)
Why Nonprofits Should Stop Supporting Film Production — Opinion (IndieWire)
10 Production-Saving Tips for Filming in Remote Locations (No Film School)
Contemplating the Cut: Takeaways and Tips for Documentary Editors (POV)
In the Mix: A Practical Guide to Navigating the Post-Production Audio Process (Documentary Magazine)
'Weiner,' 'Life, Animated' Disqualified From 2017 Emmys Race (Variety)
The American Black Film Festival and Lightbox Announce Partnership to Foster Diversity in Documentary Filmmaking (CSRWire)
How to Promote Your Film on Social Media Without Being Annoying (No Film School)
Oregon Doc Camp: A Weekend in the Woods with Documentary Filmmakers (Filmmaker Magazine)
What Amazon and Netflix's Demand for 4K Means for Documentaries (IndieWire)
Want to see more? We now have a permanent place on our website which you can bookmark to keep up with the latest articles and blogs of interest. You can access the page for free as long as you sign in to our website. Bookmark this page: http://www.docsinprogress.org/hotreads
How You Can Make a Difference to Docs In Progress?
Docs In Progress is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering, educating, and engaging emerging documentary filmmakers and the audiences they are trying to reach. We offer more than 50 different educational, professional development, screening, and artist services programs every year. Without you -- our incredible community, Docs In Progress would not be sustainable. If you believe in the mission of Docs In Progress, you can support us by:
Making a tax-deductible donation
Sharing your skills by teaching for us
Volunteering or interning with us
Joining our Board of Directors


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Home Countries England Anderson calls Kohli out on personal runs comment
Anderson calls Kohli out on personal runs comment
England fast bowler James Anderson feels that Virat Kohli was not entirely honest when he claimed that it doesn't matter if he gets runs or not.
Anderson says that if India are to win the series in England Kohli will have to make runs and joked that the Indian skipper was lying when he said 'It doesn't matter whether I get runs or don't get runs, what I want is the team to play well and the team to win'.
The fast bowler told PTI: "It doesn't matter if he gets runs or not? I think he is telling lies there.
"For India to win here, of course it matters. Virat will be desperate to score runs for his team, as you would expect from the captain and one of the best players in the world."
Quiz: Test your knowledge of the career of Cheteshwar Pujara
Anderson suggested that the battle between Kohli and the England attack will add tremendous intrigue to the Test series.
He added: "I am sure he is practising hard at certain aspects of his game and that will make the battle between him and not just myself, but him and the rest of our bowlers, a really exciting one."
Anderson opined that Kohli would have little trouble switching from limited overs cricket to the Test game.
The paceman said: "You would think that the red ball swings more or does more off the seam but it doesn't work like that.
"When the players you mention, and not just Virat, they play the ball so late that they have got so much time and they make you feel slow as a bowler.
"It is hard with white or red ball. Sometimes when batsmen are trying to be more attacking in white ball cricket than red ball, you might create more chances, but overall it is hard to say."
England v India Tests 2018
1 August: first Test, Edgbaston, Birmingham
9 August: second Test, Lord's, London
18 August: third Test, Trent Bridge, Nottingham
30 August: fourth Test, The Rose Bowl, Southampton
7 September: fifth Test, The Oval, London
Shubman Gill learned backfoot game with '1500 short balls every day'
Shubman Gill impressed with his technique against short-pitch bowling, and his father has said he honed those skills during practice.
Sri Lanka steady ship after James Anderson takes three wickets in Galle
The home side reached 155 for three at tea, with England's record wicket-taker responsible for all three dismissals.
CSA confident Australia tour will go ahead
CSA is confident the scheduled Australia tour to the country will take place despite the increasing number of Covid-19 cases in South Africa


Navigating the space between two cultures — between your family of origin, and the culture of the American mainstream — it's not always easy. And it presents unique challenges and opportunities for how we show up in our lives, and as leaders.
The reward of taking on that challenge and exploring those opportunities: an authentic life, lived to the fullest alongside the people and customs you love.
Live a more authentic, wholehearted life, alongside the people and customs you love, and in service to your deeply held values.
In a circle of your peers, cultivate your innate resourcefulness, so you can engage powerfully and wholeheartedly in your life and work, without burning out.
I've noticed a pattern in my coaching practice: over the years, most of my clients have been women of color. And a significant percentage have been daughters of immigrants, or they are immigrants themselves. And I don't think it's a coincidence, given that my experience as a brown-skinned daughter of immigrants was so formative for me.
I have loved working with these women. It has felt intuitively right to me. Maybe it's because there are (generally speaking) some important commonalities.
Like an orientation to what it means to be home. To belong to a nation, and to belong in the world. Our connection to our families, our cultures, and the mainstream over-culture. To the web of expectations they place on us and our bodies. To the perception of our bodies as different. To what all this means for our relationship to our bodies.
And most of all, our relatedness to each other. Our shared experiences and the infinitely varied ways they affect the way we show up in life. Our unique ability to see and recognize each other. To tell each other the truth and support each other.
That is why I believe it can be so powerful when we support each other. And if any of this resonates with you, I'd love to hear from you.


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The Order of Victory from the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republic is a five pointed platinum star with rubies and diamonds. The center medallion is coated with blue enamel and portrays Lenin's mausoleum and the Spasskaya Tower within the walls of the Kremlin. The medallion is surrounded by oak and laurel leaves and studded with rose cut diamonds. The total weight of diamonds is sixteen carats.
This is the highest military decoration for members of the higher commanding personnel of the Red Army and to top ranking foreign military personnel who contribute to a major Soviet victory. The Order was instituted November 1943. The Order was presented to Eisenhower by Marshal Zhukov at Allied HQ in Frankfurt/Main, Germany on the occasion of the visit of Zhukov. The Order of Victory was awarded to 11 Marshals and 1 Soviet Army General, and 5 foreigners. The award has been presented 20 times to 17 individuals, 3 of which received it twice; Josef Stalin, G.K. Zhukov and A.M. Vasilevsky. The others are:
Marshal K.K. Rokossovsky
Marshal I.S. Konev
Marshal R.Y. Malinovsky
Marshal F.I. Tolbukhin
Marshal L.A. Govorov
Army General, A.I. Antonov
Marshal S K. Timoshenko
Marshal K.A. Meretskov
Marshal L.I. Brezhnev (later revoked)
The foreign list:
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
Field Marshal B.L. Montgomery
King Michael I of Romania
Marshal of Poland M. Rolja-Zhimersky
Marshal and Dictator of Yugoslavia, I.B. Tito
All Orders of Victory that were awarded to Soviet Marshals and Generals and the one awarded to Poland are kept at the Almazny Fund of Russia. Tito's and Montgomery's are at the Imperial War Museum in London, and King Michael I's is the only one in private hands. General Eisenhower's is located at the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum.
Eisenhower Presidential Library & Museum
200 SE Fourth Street
August - May
June - July
Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day.
IKE Education
The Eisenhower Foundation provides private support for the Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum, and Boyhood Home located on a 22-acre campus in Ike's hometown of Abilene, Kansas. While the federal government, through the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), supports the overall administration of the facility, the Eisenhower Foundation helps provide funding to support the exhibits, programs, and events.


One thing that the current crisis has done is to expose just how much economists differ in their mental models of the macroeconomy. It seems as if we often talk right past each other, not really understanding the points the other side is trying to make. And I don't think this is an inevitable part of academic discourse. In microeconomics, for instance, Chicago economists may differ from salt water economists about just how competitive most markets are, but at least they can debate the issue using a commonly understood language. Not so in macro.
1. What does the term "monetary policy" mean? A Mundellian might visualize monetary policy in terms of the price of money (in terms of gold or foreign exchange.) Thus Mundell argued that the price of gold was set too low after WWI, and that that was a root cause of the subsequent deflation. Friedman might visualize monetary policy in terms of the quantity of money (M1, M2, etc.) and see the cause of the Depression as being the sharp fall in the monetary aggregates in the early 1930s. Most economists visualize monetary policy as the rental cost of money, the interest rate. For them, money is too tight if interest rates are set at a level too high to allow for full employment. So there are at least three very different indicators of policy. But even worse, it's not clear how to interpret any individual indicator. Michael Woodford has argued (correctly in my view) is that what matters is not changes in the current setting of the policy indicator, but rather changes in the expected future path of that indicator. He also argued that what matters is not the level of interest rates, but rather how they compare to the (unobservable and always changing) Wicksellian equilibrium rate.
2. What is the Phillips Curve model? Friedman developed a "Natural Rate Model" where unexpected changes in inflation pushed unemployment above or below the natural rate (which was itself unobservable.) In his view, an expansionary monetary policy would raise M*V, or nominal spending. In the short run some of that increase would show up as increased output (due to sticky wages), and some as higher inflation. Today, however, most economists see the Phillips Curve model very differently. Expansionary monetary policy might lower interest rates, and if interest rates fall that might boost investment and real output, and if real output rises that might boost inflation. What Friedman saw as the direct effect of expansionary money, is instead a long run and very uncertain effect. Because I take Friedman's view, I find I have trouble explaining to other economists why the current problem is simply to get an expansionary enough monetary policy to boost nominal spending. They see the problem more in real terms–will monetary stimulus lower interest rates and raise real investment spending? Inflation is an effect of growth, not of monetary expansion.
I often observe people switch from the Keynesian mental framework to the Friedman mental framework in a matter of seconds. In an earlier post on hyperinflation I mentioned that most people today do not believe that monetary expansion can boost AD. But when you give them a reductio ad absurdum example of running the printing presses and buying up everything in sight, they envision hyperinflation. To do so they switch to the monetarist excess cash balance model (assuming they are not a skilled macroeconomist who understands Krugman's "expectations trap" model.) The transition is not smooth, it's as if they are forced to speak a different language. One can can briefly observe the cognitive dissonance on their face when they make the transition.
Bennett McCallum identified no less than 10 different versions of the sticky wage/price model, each with different theoretical implications. And all that is within mainstream macro. If one moves into Austrian macro, post-Keynesianism, or even the writings of Keynes himself, the language changes much more radically. What do phrases like "savings exceeds investment" really mean?
Elite macroeconomists may have a common mathematical language with which they can communicate via DSGE models (a language I do not speak) but it is becoming increasing apparent that when thrown out in the open to face complex real world problems, they revert back to their instinctive worldview, which varies greatly from one economist to another. Some say monetary policy is obviously impotent today, others cannot imagine a more absurd idea under a fiat money regime. And no one knows whether familiar models like IS-LM are of any use in resolving that debate.
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It is hard to see how an increase in the money supply can increase nominal expenditure unless it somehow increases some element of real expenditure. I don't find it plausible that an increase in M will result in a matching decrease in V, but someone must be responding to the higher M by trying to purchase something, otherwise, it seems to me that V will drop to match an increase in M. Someone must be spending excess money balances on something, or the demand for money must be rising to match the added supply.
The relationship between open market operations, nominal interest rates, real interest rates, and so efforts to buy something, seems reasonable. What is the alternative?
Helocopter drops is a combined monetary/fiscal policy–which is what tax rebates will amount to under current conditions.
On the other hand, the notion that we have lowered the target for Federal Funds close to zero, and the T-bills that are usually purchased are closer to zero, so, monetary policy can't work, appears to me to be confused. The traditional approach to monetary policy isn't working. Something must change. It has always been obvious to me, anyway, that only after the entire 5 trillion national debt has been purchased using base money, can we even begin to say that there is a "problem" with monetary policy being effective. And then you start looking at private securities.
And, of course, as long as the Fed pays interest on reserves, how can anyone take seriously any claim that monetary policy isn't working?
As for the phillips curve business… really? Demand raises output and maybe prices? I thought everyone figured that firms sell more, and they raise prices and production–with the added production being a "mistake" in some kind of global sense.
I think you are being fooled because everyone only cares about the added output, and the inflation is an unfortunate side effect. But, maybe I just am assuming they must see it like I do.
Bill, Here are a few random observations about the money transmission mechanism.
1. How does money raise prices during hyperinflation? Surely it is not through the Keynesian mechanism of higher real output?
2. How does money raise prices in a primitive economy with no financial system–say an island nation using shells for money? It's not through lower interest rates, it is through the "excess cash balance" mechanism. If one thinks of money as just another good, then an increase in the money supply will lower the relative value of that good in the same way it would for any other good. We don't say that more apples lowers the relative value of apples only if interest rates change, why is money any different?
3. Of course we do have a sophisticated financial system and interest rates do play a role. But consider the other following mechanisms. If we suddenly have 20% more money, and it leads to higher expected future prices, then there will be an immediate effect on all flexible prices set in auction-style markets. The the dollar will immediately depreciate–pushing up the prices of imports. The prices of commodities will rise immediately if their future expected prices rise. The price of stocks will rise immediately. the price of real estate will rise. This is exactly what happened when FDR depreciated the dollar. The reason that it is usually hard to see, is because monetary policy is now very endogenous, and it is very hard to identify monetary shocks.
1. I find it hard to believe that anyone believes that increased demand only impacts output and then perhaps prices. I think the natural idea is that increased demand impacts both price and quantity at the same time. If one is trying to raise output, then perhaps it is natural to also think–we get the increase in output, good. Ah, but what is the cost in terms of undesirable price increase. Of course, there is also another way of looking at it. In some sense, only prices "should" change, adjusting the real supply of money to the demand. Why is it that there would be an increase in output?
As for hyperflation, the impact of expected prices on supply and demand for particular goods is only going to happen if people believe that increased money will impact the real demand for something. If sellers raise their reservation prices enough, then there is no impact on real output. But, this is conditional on them believing that if they didn't raise their prices, there would be an increase in real demand. They are preemptively choking it off, right?
2. Where do the new shells come from? Any helocopter drop story is like fiscal policy financed through money creation. I do expect that this will increase demand. And as the money passes through cash balances as it is earned and spent, it appears no different than any other increase in income. In the shell economy, there isn't anything like money being lent into existence (so that someone must pay it back) or else an open market purchase, so that those receiving the money initially have given up an asset they were holding.
3. 20% more money will increase the expected price level. Why? Why? It seems to me that arguments through expectations assume some other transmission mechanism. Well, if expecatoins are rational. Anyway, if the current price level is 20% above equilibrium, then the 20% increase in the money supply simply raises the equilibrium price level back to equilibrium. There is no increase in prices. I suppose, of course, that this story is inconsistent with "auction-type" markets.
I don't believe that interest rates actually need to change for money created through lending or else open market operations (which of course involves lending on the secondary market) to increase real demand. If interest rate elasticities are really high==perfectly elastic, then interest rates don't change at all. But I think that transmission mechanism generally does involve changes in interest rates.
I also agree that thinking about the supply and demand for money is a powerful tool. (spending excess cash balances.) If additional money doesn't cause additional spending, then there must be some account for why people are willing to hold the additional money. Usually, claims about inneffective monetary policy do provide such a rationale. Too bad they aren't more explicit about it.
You are probably right that people generally don't believe AD impacts only prices in the short run. I think that was Keynes' assumption in the GT (at least for less than full employment), but modern Keynesians would presumably see some price level impact. Even so, I think many Keynesians over-estimate the extent to which money can only raise prices by raising spending.
On the interest rate transmission mechanism, I don't think it's merely a question of elasticities. In the example I gave in the post on Ratex, the Dec 2007 contractionary surprise lowered bond yields from 3 months to 30 years (due to the income and Fisher effects.) These are the maturities that matter to investors. But even though there was a surprise fall in these rates, the markets saw the contractionary nature of the announcement, and stocks fell sharply. I view the fact that contractionary monetary surprises do raise overnight rates as an incidental effect flowing from wage/price stickiness, that plays almost no role in the monetary transmission mechanism.


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Then & Now: We'ave
We'ave wall mural. Photo by Merri Schwartz, courtesy of Dan Snaith.
Article originally published December 20, 2013 by The Grid online (thegridto.com).
In the late 1990s, this quirky three-storey Dundas West venue provided a homebase for emergent female DJs and was a hotbed for techno, drum 'n' bass and all kinds of experimentation. It also helped launch the careers of Caribou, Peaches, and future Azari & III member Christian Newhook.
BY: DENISE BENSON
Club: We'ave, 330 Dundas St. W.
Years in operation: 1997–2000
History: There is a row of heritage properties along Dundas West, between McCaul and Beverley Streets and directly opposite the Art Gallery of Ontario, that tend to catch the eye. Built in the late 19th century as homes, the properties at 312–356 Dundas West gained heritage status in 1973, and now host a mix of galleries, cafés, and other businesses.
The building at number 330 stands out for its shape, colour, and newness. An infill property that sits snugly between number 326 (the Howard Bryant House) and 334 (the Richard Chadd House), 330 is the relatively modern two-and-a-half-storey commercial building that replaced one of the original detached houses. It's a quirky build, but not entirely out of place with OCAD University right around the corner.
The address opened as We'ave, an arts and music complex, in March of 1997. Its original general manager, Sherri Ranger, had envisioned the venue as an artists' co-op.
"We'ave stood for 'We Have,' which was Sherri's concept," explains musician and DJ Barbi Castelvi, hired in April '97 as its live-music booker and publicist.
"They were having some parties, but there was no liquor licence or restaurant yet," Castelvi explains in an email interview. "It was literally a drop-in artist co-op. [Experimental jazz ensemble] GUH already had a residency; they were Sherri's friends. There were also artist workshops, curated by Sherri."
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Then & Now: Mod Club
Mark Holmes—a.k.a. DJ MRK—holds court at the Mod Club Theatre. Photo by Trevor Roberts.
Article originally published November 16, 2012 by The Grid online (thegridto.com).
As the Mod Club Theatre turns 10, Then & Now explores the story of how a '60s-retro dance night came to spawn a world-class concert and DJ venue, transforming College Street in the process.
Club: Mod Club Theatre, 722 College
Years in operation: 2002-present
History: To share the history of how The Mod Club Theatre came to be, one must first trace College Street's evolution as a nightlife destination. The stretch of College running west of Bathurst to Dovercourt has, of course, long been a hub for Italian, Portuguese and Latino communities. Restaurants and cafés have dotted the strip for decades—with Café Diplomatico at College and Clinton serving as a landmark spot for over 40 years—but it wasn't until the 1990s that people began to open a broader array of venues that would entertain into the wee hours.
El Convento Rico—originally a haven for Latin gays, lesbians and transgendered people—opened in 1992, bringing dancing and drag shows to College and Crawford. The early-to-mid '90s also saw the opening of spots including Souz Dal, College Street Bar, Ted's Collision, and Alex Lifeson's live music venue The Orbit Room. Intimate café 52 Inc. fed, entertained and politicized on the other side of Bathurst from 1995-2000, while Bar Italia opened on College in 1996 and Ted Footman launched Ted's Wrecking Yard and Barcode—two floors of live music in one building—in 1997.
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An analysis of the Jewish community in Canada in the mid-1990s. The author addresses different demographic aspects of the community, challenges facing the community - such as an ongoing risk to Jewish continuity and financial setbacks - and evaluates the ability of Canada's Jewish community to adjust to internal changes occurring in the country. Among the internal changes is Montreal's declining Jewish community, in both size and influence, since the 1970s. The author describes "Quebec's Unique Jewish Community" and the impact of the province's separatist movement.
Goldberg, David H. "Canadian Jewry: A Diaspora Community in Transition." AVAR ve'ATID: A Journal of Jewish Education, Culture and Discourse (September 1996): 94–101. http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/downloadFile.cfm?FileID=13361.


This weekend, we went out for sushi and went karaoke-ing, and even had mini day-cation where we made our way up to the Springs. We also went to Target for whatever reason and found a $17 deep fryer on sale. After walking around with it we decided to get it. We spent the next evening frying everything we could think of- cheeze sticks, pickles, zucchini, chicken, and even french fries. Later on we sort of regretted it and felt super unhealthy afterwards, but it was still pretty awesome. I am going to have so much fun with this fryer. The other day I made a joke to Andrew about how awesome our life is, and after we chuckled a bit out of amusement, we realized, yeah, our life is pretty freakin' great. It is not because we live this lavish, glamourous lifestyle. I think it is because we just utilize our moments actually living, and that is the best way to enjoy things.


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On 18 March 2019 Borealis received the 2019 Foreign Investment of the Year Trophy from Flemish Prime Minister Geert Bourgeois. With this Award, Flanders Investment & Trade (FIT) honours an exceptional investment by an international company in Flanders.
With this initiative, FIT is highlighting the socio-economic importance of foreign direct investment for the seventh year in a row.
Borealis is investing EUR 1 billion into the construction of a new propane dehydrogenation plant on its existing site in Kallo, at the Port of Antwerp, Belgium. "We feel honoured and proud to have won the FIT trophy", comments Borealis CEO Alfred Stern. "Our investment strengthens Flanders' position as an industry location, creates additional employment, and enables us to supply our customers with end products in a competitive and sustainable way.
Watch FIT's video with Borealis CEO Alfred Stern and Vice President Hydrocarbons & Energy, Thomas Van de Velde, explaining the importance of this project for the region and for Borealis.


Is Steam Cleaning Safer Method For HVAC Coil Cleaning?
Ensuring that facility air is filtered properly is largely dependent on the cleaning and maintenance of HVAC units.
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Question Of The Week: HVAC Coil Cleaning Methods?
Health conscious people often cite an old adage about water that says, "If you are not drinking filtered water, then you are the filter." The same is true of the air that we breathe. If you are not breathing filtered air, then you are the filter. For facility management leaders, ensuring that air is filtered properly is largely dependent on the cleaning and maintenance of HVAC units. However, many use harsh chemicals that do not properly clean the unit, and may harm building occupants.
It's a catch-22 for many facilities maintenance professionals. Without cleaning the HVAC units, indoor air quality will suffer. Yet, the cleaning products used to clean these units may do more harm than good.
The problem is that the two-way foaming chemical cleaners that are often used to clean cooling coils within HVAC units can make their way into the aquifer and compromise the building's water system.
The fact that many of these cleaners come with warning labels about the toxicity of its contents should be reason enough to not use them on such a critical system within a building. However, chemical cleaners can also compromise the integrity of the cooling coils. In some cases, harsh chemicals can erode the aluminum and copper and require facilities to replace parts of, or even their whole, HVAC unit.
What's more, conventional cleaning products are not always an effective means of cleaning the high efficiency cooling coils found within HVAC units. While systems may appear clean on the surface, these products push dust and debris further into the unit, which can create blockages in the system and initiate mold and bacteria growth.
This can lead to excessive operating costs, comfort control problems, and unhealthy sanitary conditions that are not conducive to good air quality. As a result, building occupants may experience allergy-like symptoms, coughing, wheezing, watery eyes, asthma-type conditions, and other symptoms.
In some cases, poor indoor air quality can even affect an individual's ability to perform specific mental tasks. The worse the air quality, the more likely that the building's occupants are affected by these symptoms—and that is a liability to the organization and/or property owner.
To safely and effectively clean HVAC units, facilities managers can consider a green steam clean process. One process uses steam heated to 350°F at 350 psi to deep clean cooling coils, which is a much more effective and safer cleaning method than topical chemical treatment.
While some have tried to duplicate this process with pressure washing systems, these typically operate at around 2,000 psi and can bend the fins of the cooling coils and negatively impact airflow. The key to the steam cleaning process is the more moderate pressure that pushes steam through the coils to clean the system without compromising its integrity.
While chemical cleaners may only penetrate a 1/2″ of the coils, the steam clean process can penetrate 8″ to 12″ into the coils, for deep cleansing that removes dust and debris, and kills mold and bacteria instantaneously.
In most cases, spore counts will drop by 99% (and sometimes 100%) in units that are cleaned using this process. The result is increased airflow, improved indoor air quality, and improved comfort for building occupants.
Nack is an IAQ Solutions Provider for Pure Air Control Services, an indoor environmental quality firm that offers a range of professional solutions. Pure Air's PURE-Steam Coil Cleaning process is the only U.S. Certified Green Clean Institute coil cleaning process, designed as a deep cleaning of coils for energy savings and improved indoor air quality.
Question Of The Week: What methods are used at your facilities to clean HVAC cooling coils? Do you employ steam cleaning methods?
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I made a comment above on March, 17, 2017 at 4.25am and again on February 23, 2018 at 4.12am.
However, no one has replied to my questions.
Can someone from pure air kindly talk to me through email?
I have made a comment on March 17, 2017 and had not got any feedback on my questions. Can someone in PURE Air Control Services, kindly reply?
I have a problem with your logic in using a STEAM CLEANER with a 350 degrees Fahrenheit (170 degrees Celsius) into a cooling coil that has chill water tube of between 42 to 50 degrees Fahrenheit (6 to 10 degrees Celsius). Will the extensive differences cause a possible explosion, cracks, brittleness of the tubes and fins through expansion and contraction????
Are there any scientific evidences to prove your claims if your answers are positive????


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Planetary system
The SuperWASP project announced an extrasolar planet, WASP-7b, orbiting this star in 2008. The planet appears to be another hot Jupiter, a dense planet with Jupiter's mass orbiting very close to a hot star and thus emitting enough heat to shine.

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 List of extrasolar planets

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The despair that envelopes the new "Les Mis," however, didn't overshadow the radiant display of talent onstage. While Go is the main come-on for this production, she isn't the only one who shines.
Among the females, Kerrie Anne Greenland from the Australian production was also excellent as Eponine. Although gifted with powerful pipes, she chose a more emotional approach the musical's other popular ballad "On My Own." Such feels in that number.
As her object of affection Marius, Paul Wilkins' vocal tone is similar to that of Michael Ball but one remembers his big number, "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables" for its gloomy and stark staging.


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JACKSON — The Evans brothers were sentenced on Dec. 19 in U.S. District Court on charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering and bank fraud in what is the largest known commercial real estate fraud scheme in Mississippi history. Charles Evans Jr., 57, received 20 years in prison, and Chris Evans, 53, got 14 years.
In January the brothers pleaded guilty to the charges related to a Ponzi scheme in which banks were used as investors. Using almost 30 shell companies, the brothers purchased commercial properties in DeSoto, Madison and Harrison counties then falsely subdivided them and stacked mortgages on each subdivided tract. The brothers also purchased properties in Texas and Tennessee.
The six-year scheme involved nearly 50 banks and loans totaling more than $80 million. The total collective loss due to the scheme is more than $25 million. Each brother received a judgment of $18 million, although both of them are broke. Authorities determined the brothers spent all the stolen money on themselves and loan payments.
When Judge Daniel Jordan gave the brothers opportunity to speak, both accepted responsibility for their actions.
According to a court filing, the brothers began their scheme in 2003, in order to pay down debt they owed on Gulf States Publishing, a metro Jackson phone book company started by their late father.
Their comments were followed by those of Derek Henderson, U.S. Bankruptcy Court trustee, who spoke on behalf of all the creditors who had made loans to the Evans brothers. Henderson said he was offended and thought the court should be offended that the Evans brothers were both attorneys. They used the knowledge and access they had as lawyers to commit their crimes, and "I think the court should take that into consideration when sentencing them," he said.
In December 2010, more than a year after news of the fraud surfaced, the U.S. District Attorney filed criminal charges against the brothers.
The scheme surfaced when the brothers missed loan payments. The first civil lawsuit was filed in September 2009 in Madison County by Mississippi Valley Title Insurance Company, for whom Charles H. Evans Jr. was an approved attorney. Many banks also sued the brothers. The lawsuits were moved to U.S. Bankruptcy Court after Chris Evans filed for bankruptcy about a month later.
While Chris cooperated with the court and authorities, Charles did not. After numerous failures to appear at bankruptcy court Charles was found by U.S. Marshals in May 2010 at the Metro Center Mall in Jackson. He resisted arrest and reached for a loaded gun. He has since been held in Madison County jail. The case for that action is pending.
Chris Evans is set to begin his prison sentence Feb. 21.