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IRS Raises 401(k) Contribution Limits to $17,000 for 2012
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by John Sullivan
October 20, 2011 at 08:48 AM Share & Print
The Internal Revenue Service announced Thursday cost of living adjustments affecting contribution limitations for pension plans and other retirement-related items for fiscal year 2012.
According to the IRS, many of the pension plan limitations will change for 2012 because the increase in the cost-of-living index" met the statutory thresholds that trigger their adjustment."
Changes to dollar contributions include:
The elective deferral (contribution) limit for employees who participate in 401(k), 403(b), most 457 plans, and the federal government's Thrift Savings Plan is increased from $16,500 to $17,000.
The catch-up contribution limit for those age 50 and over remains unchanged at $5,500.
The deduction for taxpayers making contributions to a traditional IRA is phased out for singles and heads of household who are covered by a workplace retirement plan and have modified adjusted gross incomes (AGI) between $58,000 and $68,000, up from $56,000 and $66,000 in 2011.
For married couples filing jointly, in which the spouse who makes the IRA contribution is covered by a workplace retirement plan, the income phase-out range is $92,000 to $112,000, up from $90,000 to $110,000. For an IRA contributor who is not covered by a workplace retirement plan and is married to someone who is covered, the deduction is phased out if the couple's income is between $173,000 and $183,000, up from $169,000 and $179,000.
The AGI phase-out range for taxpayers making contributions to a Roth IRA is $173,000 to $183,000 for married couples filing jointly, up from $169,000 to $179,000 in 2011. For singles and heads of household, the income phase-out range is $110,000 to $125,000, up from $107,000 to $122,000. For a married individual filing a separate return who is covered by a retirement plan at work, the phase-out range remains $0 to $10,000.
The AGI limit for the saver's credit (also known as the retirement savings contributions credit) for low-and moderate-income workers is $57,500 for married couples filing jointly, up from $56,500 in 2011; $43,125 for heads of household, up from $42,375; and $28,750 for married individuals filing separately and for singles, up from $28,250.


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"I just had the privilege of training at Charles Gracie BJJ and it was truly a honor. The professors and students are some of the most welcoming and friendliest people I have met in the BJJ world. But don't let the friendliness fool you, because they are tough as nails. "
"I would give this establishment 20 stars if I could. My daughter started Jiu-Jitsu about 4 weeks ago twice a week and she LOVES IT I mean LOVES IT! Christiano is an AMAZing instructor and he is super wonderful with the kids. He keeps the attention of the class and does not take any crap which I love."
"I usually train at the Charles Gracie/BAFA academy in Hayward, but recently had the privilege to attend a couple classes here. My first impression of the school is that the place is immaculate. Very clean and tidy, just how a Jiu Jitsu school should be. The instructors are pretty awesome! Cristiano is the head black belt instructor and is doing a great job leading the classes."
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DBS and OCBC are regional pioneers in fintech and innovation.
Singapore retained the top spot in Asia's' open banking readiness index amidst proactive decisions by the city state's regulators to embrace the technology while regional neighbors are only just catching up to the growing momentum to open up their data, according to a report by Finastra.With a score of 8.1, Singapore towers over Australia (7.1), Hong Kong (6.6), New Zealand (6.4) and China (6.4) with strong showing that has even outpaced the Asia-Pacific average of 5.8."[Singapore is] most advanced in open banking readiness index in the region, primarily because of its Open Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and data infrastructure maturity," the report's authors said.
Also read: MAS refuses to compel banks to divulge open banking dataOpen banking leverages on the use of APIs to share the data they have on customers with third-party players like fintech firms in an effort to build new applications and create new revenue streams from a value proposition that they could upsell and cross-sell.The index evaluates the readiness of a country based on five factors: adoption of Application Programming Interface (APIs), fintech/third-party ecosystem, state of data-based transformation, data monetisation and state of innovation.Singapore holds an 'intermediate' score for data monetisation and an 'advanced' score across the four remaining categories.In fact, the city's very own DBS Bank holds the distinction as a regional leader in the fintech ecosystem sub-categories with a massive platform of over 155 APIs across 20+ categories which it developed in late 2017 through its API developer hub, DBS Developers. The bank was also lauded as a leader in the data transformation subcategory with technology, hardware, data centres, network management and app development that are 85% insourced - a bank that owns its tech.OCBC also made Singapore proud as it ranks amongst the regional leaders in the state of innovation subcategory as it steadily built its operations around the steady adoption of AI, machine learning, robo-advisory, cloud and blockchain tech.
Also read: Rise of the chatbots: Here's how Singapore's big banks are adopting fintechCiti leads in the API adoption subcategory with a thriving ecosystem in Hong Kong that already counts partnerships with AIA Hong Kong and Octopus Cards whilst India's third largest private sector lender Axis Bank leads in the data monetisation subcategory.Singapore's readiness for open banking also received a significant boost from the proactive stance taken by the regulatory bodies. In fact, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) was the first regulator in APAC to release open banking guidelines in 2016, effectively giving banks the confidence to liberalise their data."Singapore continues to set the pace for other regulators in the region," it added. Together with Australia and Hong Kong who released similar guidelines in the first half of 2018, the three economies rank as 'early adopters.'New Zealand, South Korea and India rank as 'steady warm-ups' as they do not generally have concrete guidelines in place although concepts and a thriving fintech ecosystem can be found across the industry. Thailand and Malaysia are dubbed 'fast followers' with expectations of guidelines to be released by mid-2019 to early 2020 whilst Japan and China are 'giants with potential.' On the other hand, Taiwan, Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam still have other priorities to settle such as financial inclusion before they can embark on their open banking journeys."Open Banking in the Asia-Pacific region is unlike Europe, where it is primarily driven by regulators," the report's authors said. "In general, banks in the Asia-Pacific can decide for themselves if they want to pursue it, how soon, and their preferred approach for partnering with trusted third parties (TTPs)."The Finastra's Open Banking Readiness Index is developed by Finastra in cooperation with with IDC Financial Insights.


The Most Important Thing About You!
A.W. Tozer stated, "What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us." And I wholeheartedly agree! As we begin a new year of ministry together I would like to challenge you to think deeply about the goodness and power of our God. I am convinced that as … Read moreThe Most Important Thing About You!
The women approached the tomb in the twilight of Resurrection morning passionately seeking a way to honor the Lord Jesus with one final act of worship and love. They came to anoint His body for burial. Perplexed and deeply troubled, they asked themselves, "who will roll away the stone?" The Bible says that the stone, which was … Read moreWho Will Roll Away The Stone?


Aura Nox Anima has made it to the city boundaries of the EU whereby it is currently being screened as part of the Instants Video Festival 2017. You can read more about that here.
My aforementioned short video art work has been curated into part of the Visual Container TV - an online channel for continuous video art streaming. Screening until November 30 - if you're looking for something non mainstream to watch, which within the content are embedded thematics around challenging the current status quo of modern humanity and building enlightening spaces of resistance to human, mercantile, warlike, xenophobic… stupidity, I'm proud that my work investigating existential contemplations brought on by vast geographies, somatic sensitivity and death has been considered part of this.
Watch it and some other great video art works here. 24hr/24d - for you insomniacs.
Aura Nox Anima is finally leaving Australian shores and will feature in 30th Edition of Instants Vidéo: Numériques et Poétiques, a French video art festival in its 30th year. This year's theme 'Our Desires are Disorders' was appropriately positioned in the way we're headed into this Anthropocene induced mass extinction. Yet also, in the great nothing, we probably could have even more than we can conceive. Out of a huge global mix of entries, apparently only 0.41% of entries came from Oceania, I'm pleased to be representing our often overlooked southerly position when it comes to international contemporary art.
A big thank you to Andrés Neumann (Roma, IT) for helping me realise my artworks are my children and in that, I want them to go forth and experience beautiful journeys around the world, have opportunities to connect with people and in that, help both myself and the works evolve.
Aura Nox Anima will be screened online at a specific time during November. I will update this post with the date/time/link closer to the then.
2017 has been a great year for artistic residencies, intialising via a collaboration with dancer Kathryn Puie and musician Yantra de Vilder at Bundanon Trust, NSW. I too will be collaborating again with Kathryn Puie at Critical Path later this year for a dance responsive research residency and now have just found out that I've been accepted into the 'Silence, Awareness, Existence' artistic residency at Arteles in Finland at the cap of next year.
After much collaboration this year, balancing out with retreat, respite and introversion is much needed to reset and discover new bodies of work in my solo practice, thanks to the thematic residency program by Arteles winter 2017-18 in Finland.
A collections of performed artworks at Articulate Project Space Leichhardt.
It's been over 14 years since I last performed. 2017 marks a year that I returned to the space not as an exhibiting 2D and video artist but as a empty body inhabiting space, vacant and moved in and under VOLUMIN. Under the sharp direction of a dear teacher and mentor, Tess De Quincey, a 5 minute window was granted to define space within the body and the vacancy that comes after death.
I just received notice that my photographic series from a previous exhibition of mine (DUNE) got featured in Artwort online. Write up in Italian. (But you can use web browser to translate).
Big thank you to Artwort.
I'm grateful I've recently taken a holiday to the holy land to acquaint with family I've never before met and as a result now understand from where my roots are spawned and why I am the way I am. Wouldn't say this holiday has provided me respite, but it has energised me in new ways and perspectives, for which I'm grateful. I've returned to delightedly announce the following news, that my artistic offspring are being exhibited this month across three different galleries and establishments.
If you are proximate to Sydney (and hence myself) you will have two opportunities to enjoy my work alongside those of other wonderful Sydney artists. One of my works will be featured as part of Gaffa's Ten Years anniversary exhibition, opening the 15th and running until the 23rd September. More info here and coming soon via social media channels, etc.
And for one night only - showcasing more than just flashing lights is one of Sydney's newest and rather needed nights for great art specific to it's inner city location of Chippendale is the BEAMS Festival 2016. My new work postquam terrae (an experimental video created in collaboration with the amazing performer Kathryn Puie) will debut on the rooftop of shop belonging to Extraordinary Ordinary Day - a flagship concept for shoes designed by the talented Ashley Lim. We both saw fit the connection of her minimal yet dynamic footwear to my work exploring the physicality of finding ground and walking unknown territory. We approached Nicky Ginsberg with this idea and here we are enjoying a Sydney spring art festival. So come down, the streets of Chippendale will be alive and plenty to see, eat, drink and chat about. Save Saturday 17th September from 5-10pm in your diaries and call out. Would be lovely to see you.
It's been so manic lately - I've only just noticed in my emails, that my above mentioned digital photograph of collected bones, was selected for exhibition at SeeMe in New York just recently. Falling within the collection entitled: 'The Beauty of the World', it was shown June 8th, at their main event in Times Square, NYC.
It's with great pleasure that I can announce my latest short video work Aura Nox Anima has been accepted into the Chippendale New World Art Prize, running as part of Vivid Sydney this year.
I would like to thank my friend and performer from the video, Jessa Holman for landmarking this to me and that I should enter. For winning the prize would mean I can finance parts of the next video production I have visions for creating. One can hope. Time in Assisi, Italy would be a dream come true to draw up the story board for the next video work, collect footage of different topographies, architecture and explore what the female gaze could mean with me, a woman behind the camera, in relation to dance, movement, subject and space.
I also rarely celebrate my birthday and instead of doing so, I will channel the celebrations into this night - with a design to go out for further drinks and maybe dinner afterwards. Please join me.
As I previously mentioned, I was approached by two very amazing women and interviewed about my life, my art and what it may mean to be a woman in this world. A huge thank you to Molly Schikosky and Alice Brose from the connection corner for granting me this opportunity to share parts of myself. So if you feel the desire to delve into my psyche, click through via the image below or here.
There's also a wonderful page on their website featuring our most beautiful and unsung heroes of the world; our Mothers.


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That was a very short/simple track, but had some interesting racing for short spurts all night. 43 second laps are ridiculous.
Several riders really conquered the whoops. Et was spot on. Webb is playing smart. Track was just right. Some of the racing was edge of seat stuff.
I didn't care for the track, Webb may be playing smart but he has nothing for ET when ET is on his game, and I don't even Like ET! Just fact. The guy has another gear, why he doesn't show it all the time is beyond me. He was terrible at MX'D. This said, obviously Webb stays up and title is his.
MM didn't have a chance, lol. He's done for this year, Webb has title unless he really screws up, if he does ET grabs it.
After ET blew by Marvin it looked like MM became a Team player.
I was speaking of condition, I suppose you were speaking of layout. Amazing considering the winter storm they had.
Webb even earned a couple more points.
This sport is brutal, watch marchbanks win the lcq with great hopes going foward, then few min later in the 250 final, see him seemingly destroy his hand in a crash. Just feel sorry for the guys when stuff like that happens.
You're correct, the track held up great, just almost arenacross. And yes it's a brutal sport, so many starts down by the end of the year every year. Tone it down and lose the spectators I guess.
Webb lost a couple of points to Tomac. 18 ahead I believe with 2 rounds to go.
I just can't wait for outdoors. By round 10 of sx, I am itching for the real racing to begin.


UDF president and 2014 presidential hopeful Honorable Atupele Muluzi will launch a "Jubilee Movement" on 15 May 2013 in Blantyre.
Opposition UDF president and 2014 presidential candidate Atupele Muluzi will launch a 'Jubilee Movement' next Wednesday May 15 in Blantyre to champion transformational change as Malawi turns 50 years next years.
UDF president and 2014 presidential hopeful Honorable Atupele Muluzi will launch a "Jubilee Movement" on 15 May 2013 in Blantyre. This is one way of championing the transformational political change as Malawi turns 50 years of its independence next years from Britain.
The event will be launched at Mount Soche in Blantyre.


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by: Noah Leon
Dear backers,
A big thank you to everyone for your patience leading up to the completion of Love Notes to Newton.
It is still in progress, the film will be done as soon as I can make it. Right now I have a fairly good beginning, a fairly good end, but the stuff in the middle could be edited much better, and I'm currently combing through the footage to make it so.
Just to give you an idea of some of the numbers I'm working with:
I have 44 interviews altogether
I have 43 hours and 59 minutes of interview footage (not including b-roll)
Out of the 44 interviews,
28 were done by me on location,
3 are self-submissions
6 are Skype or FaceTime interviews,
7 were hired out to other videographers to save money and time
I am really excited about the quality of footage and I want to make sure I take my time and do it justice. Like most people in the Newton community, having a job and a mortgage sometimes delays passion-projects, but they get done. I'll update you with an E.T.A. as soon as I get closer to a polished product, but I'm shooting for May, with a few test viewings before that to identify any problems or errors.
For fun, I've attached some images from Walter Smith's collection of the "original" Newton from May, 1988 (note the 8-10-inch screen, like a bulky version of the latest iPad). By this starting point, the Newton will actually be thirty years old in May of this year. Crazy, right?
Keep the green,
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Noah Leon (owner of MM) is an experienced videographer, video editor and motion graphics designer. He has worked on short films, advertising, commercial videos, and in the past worked in student TV at Concordia University Television. He believes in a cooperative approach to filmmaking and sharing of knowledge among filmmakers.
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"Good, beefy steak, fragrant peppercorns and red wine are a most sublime combination. Don't be tempted to think that naff restaurants that serve steak au poivre swimming in a sickly cream and brandy sauce have got it right – they haven't. This version is the classic one and the best."
I started out this post determined to just focus on variations of this classic dish, and then found, of course, that there isn't even agreement on what is classic, so it's expanded a bit. Why am I doing this? Well I have a bit of red wine left over from the date night and I had vague memories of a braised pepper steak kind of thing from Delia and thought I would make that. And I think I probably will, although I may have changed my mind by the time I get to the end of this.
Above you have the two variations of the 'classic' recipe - Delia's is on the right. So let's look at that first. Wikipedia seems to think it is usually served with a cream and brandy sauce, and maybe this is true, but I have to say that the 'classic' authorities in my little library - Elizabeth David and Robert Carrier don't think so. Neither of them have any sauce at all in fact - just a knob of flavoured butter on top - they both suggest parsley butter, Elizabeth David suggest tarragon butter as an alternative, and Robert Carrier garlic butter. But both very simple recipes, with Carrier grilling his rump steak and Elizabeth David dry frying, or frying on a griddle pan.
Which is interesting for whilst I could find plenty of pictures of plain grilled steak topped with various butters, there was not one of a pepper steak with butter. (I did subsequently find one from a site on which they tried Elizabeth David's recipe - Spicelines.) And it is certainly true that if you eat it in a restaurant you will almost always get it served with a creamy kind of sauce - indeed sometimes the pepper is in the sauce and not on the steak.
So what about the pepper? Both of my old masters, crush the peppercorns, and rub them into the steak before leaving them to rest - Elizabeth David goes so far as to suggest overnight, with a minimum of one hour, whilst Carrier goes for a minimum of half an hour. Not straight into the pan or on to the grill though. How much pepper? Well not too much. Carrier goes for just black peppercorns, Elizabeth David says half a teaspoon each of black and white for each steak and adds:
"The quantity of pepper suggested in this recipe is ample for most people, but can be increased or decreased according to taste. French restaurant cooks tend to overdo the pepper on steak au poivre to the point where their victims choke on the very first mouthful."
She also rubs the steaks with garlic and oil, before coating them in the peppercorns whilst Carrier doesn't - just peppercorns for him. They are both very simple recipes.
Interestingly Nigel Slater is sort of in agreement:
"Good though this dish is, I find the crunch of the virtually whole spices a bit too much and often throw in some unorthodox soft green peppercorns, too. An act that would be sacrilege, if it wasn't so darned good. These mellow the whole dish and avoid the gravel effect of a mouthful of dried spices."
Mind you elsewhere in the same article he says:
"You would think, wouldn't you, that the finer you crush a spice the more flavour you would get out of it. Yet do this simple test. Crush a palmful of your plumpest black peppercorns in a pepper mill, then crack another little batch lightly but firmly with a pestle, or other heavy object. Now inhale. No contest, is there? The roughly crushed spice is more heady and has much deeper, more interesting things going on than the fine powder. And while the finely ground stuff is invaluable for balancing the seasoning of your supper - fine tuning, if you like - the roughly cracked pepper seems to have more depth to it and will add a textural contrast, too."
And here we come to the variations - for many of the variations really just use different peppercorns and different liquids in the sauce. The most beautiful example is Donna Hay's Char-grilled sirloin steak with pink peppercorn and whisky sauce, shown at left with its Crispy potato and Gruyère dominoes to accompany it. Then the River Cottage people, in the person of Steve Lamb have a Szechuan-spiced venison steak, which can also be made with beef. No sauce with this one - the approach is the same as the classic versions I talked about above, but the pepper is different - the meat too - indeed Szechuan pepper is not really a pepper at all. You can watch a video on YouTube - but to be honest it's really almost not worth watching, as there is nothing to it. The coating is 3 teaspoons of the Szechaun pepper, i tsp flaky sea salt and 2 tsp of chopped thyme. No sauce or butter here. It's just cooked in oil, sliced and served with the pan juices poured over it. I'm not knocking it, just saying there is nothing to it!
You can also, of course, do a roast beef that is coated in peppercorns.
And finally - not really the same thing at all, and returning to Nigel Slater, he has a recipe for Roast chicken wings with lemon and black pepper. He also has another version which adds maple syrup to the mix - so a variation of a variation. But it does look yummy and lots of people on the net seem to have had a go and all declare it a winner.
I do like pepper steak, and I guess I could just make a pepper steak with a red wine sauce, but I think I'll go for the braised version this time. And I don't like those versions that just add the peppercorns to the sauce. They have to be pressed into the steak, though I have never tried leaving them to 'marinade' in them before. Must try that some time.


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Why, after two centuries, does George Washington remain one of the most beloved figures in our history? The Real George Washington answers that question by giving us a close look at this man who became the "father of our country" and the first American President. But rather than focus on the interpretations of historians, the book tells much of his exciting story in his own words.
1. lost his father at age 11 and nearly joined the British navy at 15.
2. was ambushed in the French and Indian War , receiving bullets through his coat and hat but escaping without injury.
3. held together a destitute army through the long and terrible winter at Valley Forge.
4. resisted plans to make him king and an army plot to take over the government.
5. made the Constitutional Convention credible by his presence and helped win ratification of the Constitution by his support.
6. sacrificed his desire for a quiet retirement to serve as the first President, and, while serving, set a valuable precedent of constitutional governance.
Part II of the book brings together the most important and insightful passages from Washington's writings , conveniently arranged in alphabetical order by subject matter.


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The Sustainable Development Centre (SDC) is a group of like-minded people who are dedicated towards working for community development and children in particular. The members of the organization are all local people who work voluntarily for the development of their state. SDC was established in the year 1990 and registered under the Manipur Societies Registration Act, 1989. The organization started working on issues like health, socio-economic development, human rights, gender education and peace promotion programs. Lamabam Pishak Singh, is the Project Holder of SDC. He has also become a trainer for LCP (Local Capacity for Peace), gender, conflict analysis, under UNM-M. He worked with the marginalized community and was the part of movement on AFSPA, Globalization, human right issues. He worked very closely with the marginalized community of the LOKTAK lake area and organized the marginalized community for their rights. He has also been involved in MACR and prime moved the district process of MACR at Bishnupur district.
SDC is currently working in 9 villages (5 new villages selected this year along with the previous 4) in the Bishnupur district. These new intervention villages are adjacent to the old villages. The new area is densely populated by schedule caste communities. There is low rate of enrollment in schools, high incidences of drop out and out of school children. The source of income is mostly pulling rickshaws, running ration shops, selling fish and vegetables, money lending, weaving, agriculture etc. Children are affected by HIV/AIDS. Non effective implementation of social welfare schemes failed to provide substantial employment opportunities. Children in most of the cases are unable to continue their studies and drop out from schools. Child trafficking, child orphans, girl child discrimination, child domestic workers are other prominent issues in the intervention area.
Building and strengthening Community Based Organizations, People's Organizations, Voluntary Organizations, Women groups, Self Help Groups etc in rights based approach.
Understanding the situation and impact of globalization, gender inequality, AFSPA, Arms conflict for long term intervention to establish peace and harmony.
Form community platform for collective movement without violence to ensure human values.
More alignment with alliance [MACR] to raise voice against exploitation and child rights violations.
Sustainable Development Centre is working in the field of community development and people's empowerment for establishing justice and equity for children since the last 8 years. The organization has strong linkages with the community and is close to the people at the grass root level. SDC has been able to create an environment within the community that is child friendly.
Some of the achievements for last year are:
Enrollment of children - 52% coverage increased among the children in age group 3-5 years in ICDS centre in 4 villages.
506 children immunized in comparison to last year's status of 125 by the government health workers.
Incidence of common diseases among the age group of 0-18 years has reduced by 5% in 4 operational villages.
40% increase in enrollment of children in government primary schools.
16% reduction in drop out status of children in government schools.
27% enrollment of children in the operational villages of the project area.
No new cases of child trafficking identified from the operational villages.
5 children rescued and rehabilitated at the community level.
350 children are engaged regularly in the children's collective process of SDC at community level.
Direct action with the children for creating the children's collective and to create a safe environment for developing the voices of children in the society.
Perspective building among the youth and developmental workers on child right issues.
Mobilization through people's organizations on issues of human rights, child rights and to acquire the basic facilities for survival and development.
Advocacy on the issue of protection of child rights and right to education through community mobilization.


Being on camera can be a scary thing!
Learning to be better on camera, through these useful video tips, can give you more confidence to move into traditional video. In this article, I'm focusing on useful video tips for traditional video but some of them will help with live streaming video as well. Being on camera is only one aspect of traditional video but baby steps are good for a new process.
Whenever you don't know what to say, take a breath.
Talk loudly, quickly, and energetically. You aren't reading a book, you're trying to engage someone in thirty seconds so they will stick around and watch your video.
ALWAYS look into the camera! If you find yourself looking away, take a deep breath and start the sentence over again.
Move around in between sentences. It makes the video more visually intriguing.
Don't be afraid to re-do words and sentences. If it isn't live, you can just edit it out.
If you replay it and the footage isn't good, reshoot it.
Break the video into sections where you change the topics. This is where jump cuts can be edited in for transitions. This can give you a chance to review the footage and see if you need to retake anything or add footage.
Remember that you're going to want an end screen. Film this separately. This is where you put your thank you and your call to action to like the video and subscribe to your YouTube channel.
Check out people who make video content in your area of expertise. What do you like? What don't you like? Take these things into consideration when you're filming.
[clickToTweet tweet="Write an outline for your video script. "Write an outline for your video. Being organized will help you create better content."] This will help with the ummms and fumbling.
Use the rule of thirds for being in the frame. You shouldn't be centered.


Le Havre On the Water offers waterfront living, conveniently located minutes from midtown Manhattan. Luxurious apartments located on 28 park-like acres including two swimming pools, health club, café, tennis courts, and children's playgrounds. Many apartments have magnificent views of the water, Throgs Neck and Whitestone Bridges and the Manhattan skyline.
Le Havre offers one, two and there bedroom apartments, each with a 20 foot terrace. For residents, Le Havre offers an on-site Management Office, a forty member maintenance staff, security kiosk with vehicle patrols from 4:00pm to 7:00am and year-round landscaping and exterminating services. Blocks away is Little Bay Park, which offers a dog run, ball fields, hockey rink and a shoreline walking path. Also nearby is Clearview Golf Center as well as the Bay Terrace shopping center and Whitestone Shopping Center.
Maintenance includes Heat, Security, Snow Removal, Taxes, Water and 2 Memberships to the Clubhouse/Fitness Center. Maintenance is approximately 39% tax deductible.
Le Havre does not allow dogs – except for service dogs.
Le Havre offers its shareholders one assigned parking space per apartment in garages located throughout the complex. A parking transfer fee of $8,500 (payable by either the purchaser or seller) will obtain the existing spot of the seller. There is a wait list for parking spaces, so it may be difficult to obtain one if you do not transfer the existing space at closing. Parking spots cost $60/month. There is no "Alternate Side of the Street" parking restrictions so you may be able to find ample street parking.
BOARD APPROVAL REQUIREMENTS The CoOp requires that you have at least 20% down payment and a debt to income ratio of less than 36%. The DTI includes the monthly minimum payments on your anticipated mortgage and maintenance, in addition to any student loans, car loans/leases and credit cards. The board does allow the acceptance of gifts with the proper documentation but does not allow non-residing co-owners. The board does allow, on a a case-by-case basis, guarantors.


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5 overtimes! Memphis women outlast Temple 100-97
PUBLISHED: February 19, 2016 at 5:21 a.m. | UPDATED: May 17, 2018 at 8:30 a.m.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Memphis and Temple matched the longest game in NCAA women's basketball history Thursday night, with the Tigers outlasting the Owls 100-97 in five overtimes.
Brianna Wright scored a career-high 35 points for Memphis, including the tie-breaking basket with 6.2 seconds left in the fifth overtime. Drexel beat Northeastern 98-80 on Feb. 22, 2007, in the only other Division I five-overtime game. Two Division II games have gone to five overtimes.
The game was tied at 50 at the end of regulation. Both teams broke the previous record of 43 points by a one team in overtimes and the combined 97 points in the five extra periods set a record, surpassing the 83 by Kentucky and Baylor on Dec. 6, 2013, in a four-OT game.
Both teams entered game having won six of their last seven and the game was close throughout. The game featured 22 ties and 17 lead changes and the largest lead was nine by Temple late in the third quarter.
Mooriah Rowser added 21 points for the Tigers (16-10, 10-5 American). Asianna Fuqua-Bey had 13 rebounds, and Wright had 10.
Feyonda Fitzgerald had 26 points for Temple (17-9, 11-4). Alliya Butts added 19 points, Donnaizha Fountain had 17 points and 11 rebounds, and Tanaya Atkinson had 15 points and a career-high 20 rebounds.
Temple had four players foul out and Memphis two, with four players finishing with four fouls. The Owls went 28 of 42 from the line and the Tigers 22 of 37.
Temple's Ugo Nwaigwe hit the second of two free throws with 18.1 seconds left in regulation to tie the game and Brea Elmore's 3-pointer for the Tigers with a second left rattled out.
Fuqua-Bey tied it for Memphis with 11 seconds left in the first overtime and the Owls couldn't get a clean look at the end.
After Temple's Atkinson tied the game late in the second overtime, which featured six lead changes, Fitzgerald blocked a Loysha Morris 3-pointer at the buzzer to extend the game.
Fitzgerald twice put the Owls up by seven in the third overtime but a 3-pointer by Elmore and her layup following a turnover tied the game at 80 with 46 seconds left. Temple regained the lead on a layup by Fountain with 35 seconds left but Wright tied it with 21 seconds left. Fountain's trey bounced off the rim at the buzzer for Temple.
In the fourth overtime, Temple opened an 89-84 lead after Fountains 3-point play with 2:14 to go but Memphis battled back and went up 93-91 on two free throws by Wright with nine seconds left. Atkinson again tied it for Temple with 4.5 seconds left and Elmore missed a jumper at the buzzer.
Memphis shot 42 percent from the field (37 of 88), including 4 of 18 from 3-point range. The Tigers had 34 turnovers. The Owls were 32 of 86 from the floor (37 percent), 5 of 26 behind the arc, and had 33 turnovers.
In Division II in five overtimes, St. Joseph's (Indiana) beat Northern Kentucky 131-130 on Feb. 2, 1988, and Florida Tech topped Florida Southern 82-81 on Jan. 28, 2006.


With the season starting before the transfer window closes, West Ham have a few extra weeks to get their squad in order.
It seems an oddity to me that the transfer window stays open for a further two weeks after the season has started. It would be far tidier if they slammed it shut on the eve of the new season so that all of our predictions could be based on the precise knowledge of which players are in each particular team's squad. A last minute sensational rabbit out of the hat signing or a bewildering 'too good an offer to refuse' departure could well define the season for some clubs, including our own.
The Homegrown rule is an odd one as for a player to be qualify he must, regardless of nationality have been registered with any club affiliated to the Football Association or the Welsh FA for a period of three seasons or 36 months prior to his 21st birthday. According to my interpretation of the rule the above squad (which, by the way, only includes twenty four players) has just seven that qualify as homegrown. More interestingly, many supporters preferred starting eleven would probably include just one or two homegrown players.
We can reasonably expect there to be changes to the squad before the end of the month with the potential (fingers crossed) departures of Feghouli and Snodgrass, leaving a few extra places available in a squad that remains thin in all key areas; striker, central midfield and centre back. There have been a few potential recruits linked (Gray, Wilshire) that would qualify as homegrown but the majority of the names mentioned continue to be johnny foreigners. Any shortfall would need to be made up by including at least one qualifying academy player in the named squad, even though technically any number of players under twenty one can be included in the squad without actually being part of the named twenty five.
The signing of Sead Hakšabanović was a surprise addition to the ranks this week and has all the hallmarks of a Tony Henry signing. Hakšabanović has only recently turned eighteen but has almost fifty appearances under his belt in the top tier of the Swedish league, as well as being a full international for Montenegro. An attacking midfielder he could, in theory, provide backup to Manuel Lanzini but time will tell whether his youth will once again prove a barrier to selection by manager Slaven Bilic.
Just a few days to go before the 26th Premier League season gets underway. For the first time there will be three south coast clubs in the competition (it is probably the first time ever in the top flight). There will be five London clubs, three from the Midlands, five from the North West, one each from Wales and the North East plus two others (Watford and Huddersfield). In total only nine of the twenty teams are from north of Watford (Professor Google assures me that Swansea is slightly south of Watford) and so the need to travel well to cold and desolate northern wastelands is not as acute as it has been in previous seasons.
For amusement only, here is a selection of cumulative all-time statistics from West Ham's previous twenty one seasons in the Premier League.
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...that would be the east side of Custer Street. There's an undeveloped tract across the street from our condos with no fast food pad site, nail salon, strip mall orthodontist, or car wash. Most of the year it is just grass back to the trees along the creek. Beyond the creek there are homes and apartments, shielded from the traffic noise. Nothing much happens in this tract beyond the occasional mowing, invasions of campaign signs, and temporary corrals of construction equipment. I've spotted coyotes over there two or three times, but in fourteen years I never walked OVER THERE.
Headed out into our slushy, fluffy snow this morning to move all the recycling carts back to the curb after the collection. Walked a loop around the complex a couple times with my hood up. The scrunch of the snow under my shoes was enticing. There were few cars on Custer, so I just walked across the street and into the wild.
With no traffic fifty footsteps brought me into a new awareness of sound. Two cardinals, a bluejay, a crow, and some small twittering birds were unphased by my approach. The cardinals seemed to be singing a psalm to a snowy creation. Children were giggling somewhere across the creek, glad to be out of school. The Plano recycling truck was working its way down an alley. Each dump of a recycling cart made a jingle of glass bottles and aluminum cans. The creek burbled and wet snow plopped off skinny branches. An emergency vehicle siren a mile away added to the music.
Back home and out of my wet shoes, it was good to have silence. Later I listened to the redemptive themes of Janacek's "Jenufa". A crazy squirrel hopped along the top of the fence straddling the 2" snow cap. Wouldn't that feel cold on his tummy and private parts?! The snow cap is carved in regular serrations by his jumps.
This evening the crockpot lid is rattling and letting off steam as the ham bone and split pea soup cooks. Snowfluffs have changed to freezing rain, and more snow plops off trees and roofs. Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock have the cd player. Who has the wild vacant lot?


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New Hire Announcement: Audrey Ramsay Joins Blouin, Dunn LLP
August 4, 2015 October 27, 2015
Claude Blouin and Jamie Dunn, Partners at BLOUIN · DUNN LLP, are extremely pleased to announce that Audrey Ramsay has joined the firm as an associate.
Audrey was called to the Ontario bar in 1995. She received an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree (Political Science and French) from Wilfrid Laurier University in 1989 and her Bachelor of Laws degree from Ottawa University in 1993.
Since her call to the Bar, she has handled a broad range of insurance defense work including property and casualty, professional negligence, commercial and automobile insurance.
Audrey is involved in a number of professional organizations, and has served as a member of the Ontario Bar Association Board of Directors, Chair of Professional Development, OBA Chair of Sections, OBA Chair of Insurance Law Section, OBA Chair of Civil Litigation Section, Vice-Chair, OBA Insurance Law Executive, Public Affairs Liaison on the Insurance Law Executive, member of OBA Council and Chair of Counsel Forum at the Financial Services Commission of Ontario.
Audrey was awarded the Linda Adlam Manning Award in 2010 for volunteerism by the OBA. She has written articles, presented and chaired continuing legal education seminars organized by the Ontario Bar Association, the Law Society of Upper Canada, and the Canadian Association of Black Lawyers. She was an instructor for the Law Society of Upper Canada's Bar Admission Course, and Skills and Professional Responsibility Licensing Program.
She is a past newsletter editor for both the Ontario Bar Association Insurance and Civil Litigation section newsletters. She has been a contributor to Briefly Speaking Magazine, the Insurance Law Newsletter and the Civil Litigation newsletter. Audrey has written many articles and spoken regularly at seminars on a range of topics. She has organized, chaired or presented at a number of continuing legal education programs.
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Important Changes To Legislation Re: Motor Vehicle Accidents
Important changes to the Insurance Act (and regulations enacted thereunder) regarding motor vehicle tort claims came into effect on August 1, 2015.
The changes are largely to adjust statutorily defined monetary sums for inflation.
These changes are as follows:
The deductible has increased from ,000.00 to ,540.00;
The FLA deductible has increased from $15,000.00 to $18,270.00;
The threshold beyond which the new deductible disappears has increased from $100,000.00 to $121,799.00;
The threshold beyond which the new deductible for FLA claims disappears has increased from $50,000.00 to $60,899.00;
S.267.5(9) of the Insurance Act has been amended to state that costs will be calculated on net general damages, not gross.
The specific wording of the regulation/Insurance Act changes are detailed in the attached link:
http://www.fsco.gov.on.ca/en/auto/autobulletins/2015a/Pages/a-05-15.aspx


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Brexit Britain's place in the world.
By Professor Chris Grey
[ 11 min read ]
Professor Chris Grey's latest Brexit analysis on how Britain has thrown away its global role and needs an overdue debate about its place in the world. That is made harder by sham patriotism but urgent by the UK falling apart.
As the talks between the UK and the EU limp on – last week, again, they finished early with little sign of progress – and coronavirus and its consequences continue to dominate the news, the Brexit process has fallen into one of its periodic quiet phases. There are reports of UK lack of preparedness for the end of transition, and an EU statement about the many things which, deal or no deal, will change at that point. However, the first isn't at all surprising and the second isn't, for the most part, news though it may shock those who haven't been paying attention. On a more amusing note, Michel Barnier's reply to Mark Francois' letter (discussed in last week's piece) drily pointed out that it had been complaining about things which Boris Johnson had agreed to and which he, Francois, had voted for.
Most likely the quiet phase will continue over the summer. But it was clear from the beginning that Brexit was never going to be simply about a redefinition of the UK-EU relationship and we are starting to see in greater detail just how profound and complex a geo-political shift is underway. Trade is only one issue to be navigated and trade itself cannot readily be separated from international relations more generally.
For example, as Philip Hammond, the former Chancellor, remarked in an interview last week, with the UK introducing new trade barriers with the EU it becomes increasingly important to improve trade relations with China. Yet these relations cannot be taken in isolation from political disputes over, currently, Hong Kong and Huawei. And the UK's stance on the latter, in particular, impacts in turn upon relations with the US. Britain is caught in a world of economic and political power blocs, but without belonging to any, in which any course of action regarding one of them has adverse consequences with respect to another.
Britain found a role – and threw it away
The bigger picture, of course, relates to Britain's place in the world. Having famously lost an empire but failed to find a role in the first two post-war decades, membership of what became the EU led to its finding a role of sorts. With Brexit, it has been observed that "Britain has lost a role and failed to find an empire". That role, primarily of being a transatlantic bridge, was not always a comfortable one – the Iraq War being an obvious example – but, in any event, it is a bridge that was burned with Brexit.
It's important to focus on both ends of that bridge. The impression given by some Brexit Ultras is that after the end of December the EU will simply disappear from view (perhaps one subtext of the current misnomer of an 'Australia-style deal' is that they imagine being on the other side of the world from Europe). Global Britain will then focus on its relations with the wider world and cement that with the US in particular. But whether or not there is a UK-EU deal there will still be relationships between the two, and between the UK and individual member states.
Dr Helene von Bismarck, an historian specialising in British international relations, has written last week about how Anglo-German relations, despite the genuine commitment from both countries to a good future partnership, will face the problem of how to put that commitment into practice. How, she pointedly asks, "can joint interests between a Britain that seeks to be 'global' but shies away from any form of institutionalised cooperation with the EU, and a Germany committed firmly to Europe be organized and managed in the future"?
Similar questions will arise for Anglo-French relations, and others. Repairing relations with Ireland, which have been horribly mangled by Brexit, will pose particularly profound challenges. Managing relations with Spain, especially as regards Gibraltar will be another complexity. At the core of all this is the strategic incoherence of Brexit in the context of a regionalised and multi-polar world.
What if Joe Biden wins the next Presidential elections? / Flickr – Gage Skidmore
A Biden Presidency?
Coming back to the other end of the bridge, the implications of that incoherence are coming into sharper focus as the possibility grows that Trump will lose the Presidential elections. His much-vaunted support for Brexit has never translated into anything concrete anyway, and if Joe Biden wins then UK-US relations will be transformed. Not so much in terms of any trade deal – it's likely that any US administration would make similar demands and make use of similar leverage – but because, like Obama, Biden and his team are well-known to regard Brexit as a serious mistake. A mistake for Britain, no doubt, but more particularly a mistake in terms of American interests.
A very thorough discussion of this was provided by Henry Zeffman in The Times this week. Biden is significantly more pro-EU than Trump (not a high bar, admittedly), and has strong links with Ireland. On the other hand, hardly less than Trump, he is likely to regard China with suspicion. More generally, a Biden presidency would represent some return to the US's 'normal' advocacy of the rules-based multilateral order and to that extent might regard Brexit as one of the things which has put that in peril.
But, more importantly, US-UK relations would be governed by unsentimental calculation of interests. And as a foreign policy expert quoted in Zeffman's article summarises those, "London has become a less valuable geo-political partner as a result of Brexit, which has eroded Britain's traditional role as a transatlantic bridge". That isn't to say that there would not be particular issues where the two countries may find common ground, but it is more likely to be ad hoc rather than amounting to a coherent – still less a 'special' – relationship.
Why seek a 'global role' anyway?
Of course, there will be many in the UK who think 'so much the better'. The problem, though, is what should replace it to re-define Britain's global role. But one might put that a different way. Why should Britain seek a 'global role' anyway? Why not accept being a medium-sized power whose global sway is largely in the past, and which has plenty of domestic problems to address rather than seeking to project itself on the world stage?
Here, the nationalism of the Brexit project, and its carry forward in Johnson's endless rhetoric about Britain's 'world-leading' or even 'world-beating' status in this that and the other is a major barrier to rational thinking. For of course any such national self-appraisal would probably have meant that Brexit would never have happened anyway – plenty of other former colonial powers of various vintages have found EU membership perfectly congenial. Plenty of them, too, don't experience any conflict between such membership and being a 'global trading nation'. And France manages to operate as a nuclear power and permanent member of the UN Security Council whilst being a central player in the EU. But the continuing appeal of British exceptionalism mitigated against that, which reflects the fact the present conundrum of post-Brexit Britain's role has roots which long pre-date 2016.
The Suez Crisis, no matter how it may have appeared at the time, does not in retrospect seem to have occasioned a profound shift in public (as opposed to official) realization that world powerdom was over; the Falklands War gave fresh impetus to the idea that Britain could project global military power at will even though, arguably, it could no longer be repeated. In particular, whilst from the 1970s Britain seemed to have found its post-imperial role via Europe, that was never anchored in a wider public debate about its past, either in terms of Empire or in terms of the ever-present mythologization of the Second World War. If anything, acting as the 'transatlantic bridge' served to prolong a certain delusion of grandeur, and enabled the historical amnesia I have written about in a blog.
Sham patriotism
Having failed to have such a reckoning with the past when it might, perhaps, have been possible, it's very difficult to see how it can occur in the present, highly partisan, times when it is most needed. The clear power imbalance in the Brexit negotiations – underscored by Angela Merkel's recent comments – which has played out since 2017 cannot, in such times, serve as an education. It is invariably dismissed as punishment or bullying. Nor can the obvious implications of the way that Ireland has been able to exert such influence because of its EU membership. Consider reactions such as that "the Irish should really know their place" and the hostility of the Brexit press to Leo Varadkar. Even Hammond's straightforwardly factual statements about the realpolitik of Brexit and China brought a furious denunciation from Brexiters.
So what should be lessons in political, economic and diplomatic reality simply entrench the division between those who understood it all along and those who deny it. That is especially so when news is refracted through a media which is not just partisan but parochial. The way that Brexit Britain is regarded by the wider world – take India, for example - scarcely registers, even as fantasies about 'Global Britain' and the Commonwealth are indulged in, often with more than a sense of being "the last gasp of empire" as Sally Tomlinson and Danny Dorling argue.
Unable to learn such lessons, this week Brexiters hailed Britain's new independent post-Brexit sanctions policy as a great "victory". Yet if the aim of sanctions is to be effective, they will be far more so if undertaken in concert with others. As with Britain's 'independent trade policy', which has little to commend itself economically, the emphasis is entirely on the 'independence' – on the symbolism rather than the substance.
Why independence matters, what it achieves, or what it even consists of remain stubbornly ignored. It's just better to have a 'British' policy than a policy, or that policy becomes good policy by virtue of being British. That looks like patriotism but it's a sham, not because it makes use of symbols but precisely because it lacks any accompanying substance. The failure of the British rival to the Galileo Project is one obvious example, indicating how hollow a slogan 'taking back control' is in a world where interdependence is vital.
Fiddling while home burns
The bitter irony is that just at the moment that Britain is least well-equipped but most in need of a serious re-appraisal of its place in the world, this sham patriotism neglects the ways in which, domestically, it is falling apart. A favourite Brexiter line is that Britain is "the fifth largest economy in the world", yet it is bedevilled by a longstanding productivity growth problem, dramatic levels of inequality and crumbling public services. A report from the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI) last year showed how, on a range of measures, Britain is actually 'undeveloping'.
The current coronavirus has exposed many of these problems to a greater degree, and exacerbated some of them, but it has also, as Fintan O'Toole argued recently, shown the delusions of Johnson's Brexity world-beating rhetoric. The issue, again, is symbolism over substance. There is no patriotism in endlessly declaring national superiority whilst daily delivering outcomes that are, as in this case, so much worse than most other countries.
There is no patriotism in endlessly declaring national superiority whilst daily delivering outcomes are so much worse than most other countries. / Flickr – Number 10
The break-up of Britain?
The strangest irony of all in this is that Britain, largely as a result of Brexit, although again exacerbated by coronavirus, looks ever more likely to, literally, fall apart. I'm not going to express any opinion on the merits of the case for Scottish independence or Irish unification (any such opinion would be ill-informed and presumptuous on my part, and whatever opinion I might express would probably invite more of a backlash than, even having written about Brexit for years, I could cope with). But it's been obvious since the Referendum that Brexit would make Scottish independence more likely, and the hard form and non-consensual way it has been undertaken since has made that even more true. It's now quite widely seen as inevitable that there will be another vote, and the latest polls suggest that, if so, the outcome would be independence.
Equally, Northern Ireland, which also did not vote for Brexit, was always going to be dramatically affected by it. As hard Brexit developed, and given the measures agreed in the Northern Ireland Protocol to accommodate it, what is about to be created is a significant continuation of economic integration and unification within the island of Ireland along with a significant economic barrier between Northern Ireland and Great Britain. That clearly makes the prospect of political unification much greater and at the very least puts it on the agenda in a way which wasn't true prior to Brexit. Even Wales – where a majority voted for Brexit – may be seeing increased support for independence.
Rethinking Britain?
So questions about Britain's post-Brexit 'place in the world' (rather than 'global role' per se) need also to be thought about in terms of what Britain itself is. And with no apparent appetite from the Conservative and, cough, Unionist Party to give serious consideration to either issue, there's a real possibility that they will still be chuntering on about Global Britain when Britain has simply ceased to exist.
I don't think that all the blame for this lies with the Conservatives, or even simply with politicians. It's also the case that the, specifically, English public don't really want to have the kind of debate that is needed. How often do countries ever really do so? Context is crucial. I would suggest the answer is usually only after some sort of cataclysmic event – most obviously war, occupation or the fall of dictatorships. Often, that is only partial and takes a very long time, as in the very different cases of Austria's post-war history or Spain's post-Franco period. Invariably, it is painful.
Moreover, 'debate' is perhaps a misnomer if it implies a formal, organized conversation. That sometimes happens, as with South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and similar initiatives in other countries. But I suppose – I don't have any expertise in this area - the reality is that countries more usually re-orientate themselves via multiple, connected but not entirely formalised processes. Perhaps the gradual social liberalisation of Ireland is an instructive example of that.
At all events, there needs to be an impetus and a willingness to do it. Could Brexit provide these? That's an especially difficult question because Brexit both potentially occasions such a debate but, also, represents an absolute refusal to engage in one: it has only been about what Britain did not want to be, not, in any practical sense, about what it could or should become, still less about what it has been. On the other hand, any such national debate would, if multi-stranded, be not just about Brexit but other aspects of Britain's past and future. The current increased awareness of the role slavery played in that past could be the beginnings of one example. Discussions of how an ageing society will shape the future of Britain might be another.
So, yes, perhaps – but perhaps not yet. Awful as it is, Brexit isn't on a par with war, occupation or dictatorship, and its effects will emerge gradually and be difficult to disentangle from other events. Unless or until those effects become very clear there's insufficient impetus. And it will probably need the coming to power and the coming of age of a new generation to supply the willingness.
What the UK will look like by then, and whether it even still exists, remains to be seen.🔷
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Domestic outsourcing has grown substantially in developed countries over the past two decades. One reason for this is technological change that allows work to be done externally. Antonin Bergeaud, Clement Malgouyres, Clement Mazet-Sonilhac and Sara Signorelli show that broadband technology increases firm productivity and the relative demand for high-skilled workers. Both low- and high-skilled workers in non-core occupations were more likely to be outsourced after the arrival of broadband. But only high-skill workers experienced salary gains from being outsourced, while low-skill workers lost out.
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The diffusion of BI has been very gradual. As shown in Figure 1, large urban centres were equipped in the early 2000s, while rural and remote areas had to wait almost 10 additional years. One reason for the gradual deployment of BI is the eligibility of telephone network lines for this new technology. In 2000, only 11 million lines (i.e. 1/3 of the network) could be equipped with BI technology and significant infrastructure investments were required to modernise the remaining two-thirds of the network. Therefore, the gradual roll-out of BI provides an ideal empirical framework for studying the causal impact of this technological shock: the significant spatial and temporal variations in broadband access, even within the same county, make it possible to compare firms that have access (treated firms) with similar firms that do not (control firms).
Figure 1. Gradual deployment of broadband internet in France
Note: This figure presents the geographical distribution of the measure of local broadband availability at the city level in 4 different years. Source: Bergeaud et al. (2021)
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It's the newly refurbished Mansion House – home of the Mayors of York, overlooking the extremely busy and vibrant St Helen's Square. This won't be the first time I've run around that square in a nightie. There's a lovely lamp-post. There are absolute bucketloads of bewildered shoppers to wish a Merry Christmas. But it requires a bit more courage than the current venue.
It could well be unwieldy, this York run, let's face it. Even if it's unknown right now. The fear is there's a lot that can be shifted by the wrong busker in the square at the wrong time. I suspect it's going to be impossible to avoid noise and light as we work. It's down to Jack and I to abandon all of the things we've grown to love in Sheffield – the quietest space we've ever worked. To adapt, and to make a new show that fits this York space. No smoke, no mirrors. No silence. No darkness. Us. With that in mind we need sightlines to be ace.
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