The love planet spends more-or-less a month in most signs as she moves along her path. However, Venus will be in Aries until June this year, thanks to her retrograde movement.
Yes, you heard me right! Mercury is not the only planet that goes retrograde. All the actual planets (i.e., not the Sun and Moon) appear to change directions in the sky and move backwards. When the relationship planet turns around, all things Venusian must be reconsidered, and some pop up from the past.
Old lovers may come back to haunt you, and you'll have ample opportunity to take stock of past relationships to determine what you really want from a partner. Venus retrograde is not the ideal time to move forward in a relationship, but rather a time to confront problems that keep you from thriving in love.
In the sign of the Ram, Venus attracts others and expresses affection in an impulsive, direct manner. She is dignified in Libra, the sign opposite Aries. Rather than charming and people-pleasing, Venus in Aries can be brash and self-centered. She wants sensual pleasure right here, right now, in whatever way she can get it.
How have I gone for what I wanted in love?
What have I regretted doing in my pursuit of sensual pleasure or a relationship, and how would I do things differently?
What do I want from a relationship, now that I know from past experience what I don't want?
This transit will be strongest (and most challenging) for people born under any of the the cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn). Venus' stay in Aries will be beneficial for Leo and Sagittarius, as well as for Gemini and Aquarius. For the rest of the zodiac, Venus' transit will require an "adjustment," as her stay in Aries won't fit well with your Sun's expression.
If you have a personal planet near 29 degrees of a mutable sign (Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, Pisces) or 0 or 15 degrees of a cardinal sign, this transit will be especially impactful, as Venus will be stationing conjunct or in hard aspect to a planet in your chart.
Jeffrey Kishner is editor and publisher of Sasstrology.com.
This transit wouldn't bring about sudden unexpected pregnancies would it!?!?!
Let me also add, with a Libra ex bf w/ moon in Aries.
Thank you for getting back to me. I appreciate you taking the time.
I am capricorn and my boyfriend is cancer . I am worried as for last couple days we were really tensed and argumenative . We are fine now but he is with his friends vacationing .. I read that venus retrograde can even trigger cheating in one's mind or even breakups.. any idea if this is true ?
Umm I applaud this for being ON THE DOT because my capricorn was acting normal but all of a sudden went crazy and all booty-call status on me so I dumped him. Oops.
Another Capricorn here, who just broke up with her Gemini guy mid March. It was pretty weird. In six months of no arguments, and much mutual passion, he suddenly decided he was not ready for a relationship. I know there is no one else, and he is quite upset himself about his change of feelings, but I on the other hand although heartbroken, strangely feel a sense of relief. It was all just too good to be true, and now I know , it wasn't true.
Our once very stable relationship hit a surprise roadblock at Xmas and exploded at the start of March. Now we're deciding if we should split up. He keeps calling things off but leaving a little door to reel me back in later when he calms down, which he keeps doing. He seems to have a lot of personal healing to do related to his past, and so do I as a result of what is going on.
I see a *lot* of planets here that are at degrees you've described as "challenging" above. What does all this mean for us?
star-crossed, I don't do that level of analysis in the comments section, but you're invited to look at my services. Just click on my name.
Thanks. Just writing out how many planets are involved in this retrograde has helped me to an extent. I don't have $180 for a whole consultation though!
Could you answer one question to really help me out – is this retrograde likely to be more intense for a Taurus with Venus at 3 deg Aries?
star-crossed, absolutely. The degree area is being transited three times, plus Venus is Taurus' ruling planet, so there is increased sensitivity.


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T-Pain's Favorite Battle Rapper Carter Deems Loves Cats and Making Friends
Friday, May 8, 2015 by Chaz Kangas in Music
Carter Deems: A Champion of Battle Rap Fans and Cats Alike
Who doesn't love a good rap battle? While plenty of colorful characters have taken turns creating legacies for themselves in the age-old art of insulting one-another through rhyming, there's never been any battler quite like Carter Deems. He's the first MC we've seen step in the ring and spend his rounds attempting to make friends with his opponent and express his love for cats.
While Deems is hilarious, his talent and skills are no joke. Legitimately one of the sharpest writers in the medium today, his intricate wordplay and impeccable timing in his flow is what has made him such a success. His style and approach is a little left of center, though as esoteric as it may seem, Deems' fanbase is one of the fastest growing in the medium, which has seen T-Pain sing his praises.
With battle league No Coast North's The Invasion event this Friday (at 33rd Realm) and Saturday (at Club Underground), the huge two-day battle event will see Saturday's card feature Carter Deems' Minnesota debut as he takes on Minneapolis' own Breakneck the Mage. We spoke to Deems about his growing influx of fans, cats, and what he hopes to do while in Minneapolis.
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How are you doing today?
Carter Deems: I'm having a good lunch. It's a Green Giant steamer bag of seasoned broccoli. Then I had two bean burritos. That was a pretty good lunch. The burritos only cost 39 cents because I'm a value member at the grocery store, it's high quality stuff here.
I spoke with you in August for LA Weekly, and you've had a pretty busy nine months since then,
(laughs) Yeah, I joined a new water aerobics class. Thanksgiving was in that time, it was pretty crazy, family coming in. I've done a couple of battles too.
One of the biggest things in that time was the tweet from T-Pain.
Yeah, that was weird. I didn't really know how to respond to that and I wrote probably nine different drafts of direct messages to T-Pain. I never sent any of them, I was too nervous and didn't know what to do. I tried ignoring it, because I didn't know how to respond and I've thanked him for the tweet and everything, I was just trying to figure out how to turn his tweet into an actual friendship. I've always wanted to be friends with T-Pain even before that — I thought that was my chance, but I don't think it happened.
You mentioned during that last interview that you didn't really feel like you were connecting with that much of a fan base because of how people walked out of your battle with Joe Cutter. But since then, it's hard to deny that people seem to finally be "getting you."
Yeah, a few more people are watching my videos, but a lot of people are adamantly against it. It's cool. I don't try to track each person down that dislikes my battle, I wasted so much time doing that. There's different battlers for everyone, and I guess that's what I'm trying to do, trying to put out a different style people might enjoy. Battle rap has become wordplay heavy, and I tried to put my own personal spin on it.
A lot of people have been saying I'm doing a parody of rap battles, but I don't see it as a parody. I'm just kind of taking the formula that's popular right now and putting my own version out there. I love parodies, I'm a huge "Weird" Al fan, even a Cletus T. Judd fan. But it's not something I'm trying to make fun of. It's something I'm trying to open the other side of. We're providing entertainment for people who want to spend part of their day watching two people rhyme at each other.
While this battle against Breakneck the Mage will be your battle in Minnesota, it won't be your first time battling a Minnesotan as, a few years ago, you battled The Vesh.
Yeah, he actually flew to Atlanta to battle me. So yeah, I'm coming to his home turf. Even though we aren't battling, hopefully we'll eat pizza or something. I always thought he's one of the funniest people in this thing, one of the most clever guys, really underrated. And I'm not just saying that so he'll eat pizza with me. But hopefully he'll see this, and he'll buy my pizza.
This is my first time battling Breakneck. I've always wanted to go to Minneapolis, to be honest. I wish I was going without the anxiety of having to do a rap battle int he back of my head, but it will be fun.
You're from Georgia originally, but you recently moved to California. Are the cats out there much different?
Yeah. There's a park here that has a contingent of street cats that I've been trying to break into and become friends with those guys and gals. I've been putting out pizza crusts for them, slowly earning their trust, but I haven't been fully accepted yet. I'm not close enough to touch them, but they've made eye contact with me a few times. It's progression, I understand it's a process.
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Statesmen or Manager? The Image and Reality of Leadership in Southeast Asia
Transcript of a Forum jointly sponsored by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies's Bangkok Liaison Office, and Chulalongkorn University's Political Economy Centre of the Department of Economics and the Faculty of Political Science, April 2, 2004.
Benedict Anderson, Cornell University
Vedi Hadiz, National University of Singapore
Paul Hutchccroft, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Francis Loh Kok Wah, Universiti Sains Malaysia
Pasuk Pongphaichit, Faculty of Economics, Chulalongkorn University
Giles Ji Ungpakorn, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University, chair
Giles Ji Ungpakorn: Good afternoon everyone and welcome to this international forum, "Statesmen or Manager? Image and Reality of Leadership in Southeast Asia." To open this seminar I would like to welcome Professor Sutiphan Wirathiwat, representing the Dean of the Faculty of Economics, Chulalongkorn University.
Professor Sutiphand Chirathiwat: Excellencies, colleagues, distinguished participants, ladies and gentlemen. It is my great pleasure to welcome you all to this international forum. The topic is timely and I must say the forum has been able to secure prominent speakers to come to this venue. What is new when we address this particular topic is that, on the one hand, we understand that political leadership is very important in any form of political system, democratic or not. On the other hand, people in any country and also in our part of the world would like to see a more positive outcome of economic and political change and improvement related to this leadership. Putting it all together, we could say that Southeast Asia today is already undergoing a major shift in the style of political leadership. This tendency has provoked controversies and debates not only in Thailand but in the whole region. With elections upcoming in countries like the Philippines, Indonesia, and Thailand, we expect to see more transformation in the kinds of economic and political image and reality that we used to know
I do not know how our colleagues will address this interesting topic this afternoon, but I do believe you all share the feeling that in the process of further development of Southeast Asia, we need to look carefully at economics and politics at work and their relation to our political leadership. These can create much benefit but also burden us with some cost to our democratization and economic advancement, affecting not only the image of a party's program but also its real motives and deeds.
In Thailand, for example, during the first three years of this government's leadership, people tended to give the leadership the benefit of the doubt. However, the real test case opened more recently and more loudly, with much controversy with regard to our overarching so-called "manager." It has elicited strong public outcry, including even from our beloved King himself in a speech he delivered on his birthday last year.
So there is a good and bad side to the changing style of leadership and its impact on economic and political change in Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries. From the perspective of modern nation-building in Southeast Asia from World War II through the boom years, to the end of the Cold War, the financial crisis, and now the recovery and new path of development, it is much with great interest to look today at this current development and the future challenges it holds.
On the part of the organizers, I would like to thank the sponsors who kindly initiated the project to organize this forum, especially Prof. Patricio Abinales of the Bangkok Liaison Office of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University; Acharn Viengrat Nethipo of the Faculty of Political Science and Khun Pai Lin from the Political Economy Centre of the Faculty of Economics. They have played an instrumental role in putting together this successful gathering. I would also like to thank the panelists, sponsors, colleagues, and the participants. Without you we could not have made this forum interesting for everyone today. On this note, I now wish you all the success in this deliberation and beyond. Thank you.
Giles Ji Ungpakorn: As Prof. Suthipand has pointed out this forum is about the perceived change in leadership in Southeast Asia towards a more business-oriented leadership. This is an issue which is causing a lot of controversies. Within Thailand, one of the questions which many people are asking is whether the increased efficiency claimed by this government is happening at the expense of human rights. At the moment, we are very concerned with the disappearance of the lawyer Khun Somchai Nilapaijit who has defended many cases in the south. Many human rights activists are also concerned with the extrajudicial killings taking place in this government's war on drugs. But there are many, many other issues, which will arise in the process of discussion concerning the changes within leadership.
Without further ado, I would like to invite the panelists to give their talks:
Pasuk Pongphaichit on Thailand
Francis Loh Kok Wah on Malaysia
Paul Hutchcroft on The Philippines
Vedi Hadiz on Indonesia
Benedict Anderson on Southeast Asia
Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia. Issue 6 (March 2005). Elections and Statesmen
Middle Classes Prompting Change in the Political Landscape of East Asia


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So anyone paying attention will notice that some of my work is of a different style from most other calligraphers in Houston. The difference that you see is called Spencerian calligraphy, which was the first American handwriting/calligraphy form started in the 1800's by Platt Rogers Spencer. This writing form evolved into a fancier form called Ornamental Penmanship. The greatest talent known for Ornamental Penmanship during the Golden Age was Louis Madarasz. As his family was exiled from Hungary, Madarasz was born in San Antonio, TX.
This is where my calligraphy passion lies as it is exhibited quite heavily in the website gallery. Below is my first attempt to imitate this particular specimen of his. HIs specimen is on top and my partial attempt is at the bottom. It's not his work by a long shot but closer than I expected to get for the first try.
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There's an old phrase attributed to the former British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli which states there are three types of lies: "lies, damn lies and statistics". The insinuation here is that statistics are so easy to make up they are unreliable. However, statistics are extensively used in empiracle science so surely they have some merit? In fact, they have a lot of merit. But only when they are used corrrectly. The problem is they are easy to misuse. And when misused, misinformation happens which in turn does more more harm than good.
There are strong parallels to this narrative in the world of software engineering. Object orientated lanuages introduced the notion of inheritance, a clever idea to promote code reuse. However, inheritance - when misused - can easily lead to complex hierarchies and can make it difficult to change objects. The misuse of inheritance can reek havoc and since all it takes to use inheritance (in Java) is to be able to spell the word "extends", it's very easy to reek such havoc if you don't know what you are doing. A similar story can be told with polymorphism and with design patterns. We all know the case of someone hell bent on using a pattern and thinking more about the pattern than the problem they are trying to solve. Even if they understand the difference between a Bridge and an Adapter it is still quite possible that some part of the architecture may be over engineered. Perhaps it's worth bearing in mind that every single one of the GOF design pattern is already in JDK, so if you really want it in your architecture you don't have to look very far - otherwise only use when it makes sense to use it.
This 'Powerful use, damaging misuse' anti-pattern is ubiquitous in Java systems. Servlet Filters are a very handy feature for manipulating requests and reponses, but that's all they are meant to do. There is nothing in the language to stop a developer treating the Filter as a classical object, adding public APIs and business logic to the Filter. Of course the filter is never meant to be used this way and when they are trouble inevitably happens. But the key point is that it's easy for a developer to take such a powerful feature, misuse it and damage architectures. 'Powerful use, damaging misuse' happens very easy with Aspects, even Exceptions (we have all seen cases where exceptions were thrown and it would have made more sense to just return a boolean) and with many other features.
When it is so easy to make mistakes, inevitably they will happen. The Java compiler isn't going to say - 'wait a sec do you really understand this concept?' and codestyle tools aren't sophisticated enough to spot misuse of advanced concepts. In addition, no company has the time to get the most senior person to review every line of code. And even the most Senior Engineer will make mistakes.
How easy is it for people to misuse this? Is it at the risky levels of inheritance or the safer levels of encapsulation?
What are the consequences of misuse?
And what can you do to minimise misuse and its consequences?
Aim to increase 'powerful use' and minimise 'damaging misuse'!


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Equivalent Key Signatures
I've noticed that a variety of pieces in the classical repetoire (certainly at least the piano repetoire), label what seems to be effectively the same key signature differently. That is, I am not aware of any differences in terms of key between a piece in "G Sharp major" and "A flat major" (or their equivalent minors). Is there any reason that sometimes a sharped key signature is used while at other times the equivalent flatted key signature is used?
As a related point, I have undoubtedly noticed the preference of certain "equivalent" key signatures over others. For example, one encounters "E flat" significantly more than "D sharp" and likewise "C sharp" significantly more than "D flat". Is there any particular reason for this, or is it simply a convention that has been handed down to use through musical history?
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Alex Basson
NoldorinNoldorin
The short (and oversimplified) answer is: Because Ab Major has fewer flats than G# Major has sharps, and thus it's easier for musicians to read. This becomes especially apparent with keys such as D# Major, which has a double-sharp in it---the seventh note of the D# Major scale is not D, but Cx (that's "C double-sharp").
The longer and more accurate answer is that these keys are not in fact equivalent. Only in an equal-tempered tuning system do G# and Ab have the same pitch, Eb and D# have the same pitch, etc. That is, only in equal temperament do enharmonically equivalent notes actually have the same pitch. In every other tuning system, the enharmonically equivalent notes are slightly (but definitely noticeably) different from each other. If you've only been exposed to fixed-pitch instruments such as the piano and the guitar, this concept can be challenging at first, but violinists, wind, and brass players know that their intonation depends on the context of the key in which they're playing.
This in turn leads to different keys having different sonic characteristics. In the modern, equal-tempered era, we've mostly lost these distinctions, but to composers of two hundred years ago and more, the keys of Ab and G# didn't sound the same at all, and they would compose to a specific key in order to take advantage of its particular character.
Update: In response to Brian's comment, I thought it would be helpful to post an example. Here are links to YouTube videos, all three of which were posted by the same person, using the same synthesizer, all three playing Bach's Air on the G String. But each link uses a different tuning system:
Equal Temperament: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6XkgNT20Eg
Just Intonation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdL8aPQUOk0
Pythagorean Tuning: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq-SrgV7_Ow
Alex BassonAlex Basson
Good answer: consider also that pieces with key changes in the middle are often set up so that the different keys are related in some way. This often necessitates the use of one key over the enharmonic spelling.
– NReilingh
And in that time, I decided to ask that as a separate question rather than just a comment. Perhaps you could provide your update as an answer to that question.
– Brian Campbell
Thanks for the great answer. Equal temperement does indeed seem to be the key here! As a piano player, one just wouldn't generally notice it without having been taught music history/theory.
– Noldorin
Yes, before equal temperament a work played in G# and any other key would sound different (different intervals between scale notes), but G# and Ab are identical keys on a keyboard, producing identical pitches. You are essentially arguing that, after playing a piece in G#, keyed instruments would be re-tuned before playing in Ab. Is there evidence that that was actually done?
– Steve Clay
@SteveClay It's not so much that performers would retune to play in Ab as it is that they would choose a program of pieces in related keys and then have the harpsichord tuned (or more likely, tune it themselves) so that all the pieces in that program would sound pretty good. In fact, performers playing in period style continue this practice to this day.
– Alex Basson
There is a strong case for certain enharmonic key uses depending on the mode (minor/Major).
These four little tables show that Eb is significantly easier to write than D# for a major scale as the latter would involve double sharps in the signature.
But F# and Gb Major are really close in complexity.
Major scales
Number of #s (upper lines) versus enharmonic number of bs
Number of bs (upper lines) versus enharmonic number of #s
Likewise C# minor is to be prefered to Db minor but D# and Eb are interchangeable and this is indeed what Bach did in its Well Tempered Keyboard (Preludium 8 and Fugue 8, BWV 853). He used one for the prelude and the other for the fugue (See Alex Basson's answer about the validity of this substitution).
Minor scales
It explains that one favor keys that are practical in both modes especially in styles when it is frequent to make modulations or to switch between modes, such as variations.
ogerardogerard
Ah, I knew enharmonic was the fancy theoretical term I was looking for! Looks like a good reply, but I'm about to doze off here, so will read tomorrow.
I think it's important to say, though, that Bach was trying to make a point with the Well-Tempered Clavier. Up until that time, musicians did not consider D# and Eb interchangeable, as indeed they are not unless one is using equal temperament.
Also, I find the tables a bit confusing. The first one, for example, seems to imply that Ab Major, say, has 4 sharps. I can only assume that you mean to say that Ab has four altered notes (all flats) while its enharmonic equivalent, G#, has eight altered notes (all sharps).
Regarding "He used one for the prelude and the other for the fugue"... which BWV?
– James Tauber
Okay, so this seems pretty logical: using a fewer number of accidentals in the key signature. I think this is more or less the best reason. :-)
This is a great question that is subtlely different from the usual "what is the difference between A♭ and G♯?" Apart from frequency differences in non-12-et tunings, that question relates to the function of the note within the chord/scale/key.
But if we're talking about choice of key, then there are other factors at work. Obviously in non-12-et tunings, the choice of A♭ major vs G♯ major does have to do with how it will sound. But let's assume 12-et for the rest of this answer.
There are three general factors that, I would have thought (but see below about Bach), led a composer in the common practice era to choose one key over another enharmonic one:
avoid double sharps and double flats in the key signature itself
reduce double sharps and double flats in the keys to be modulated to
reduce double sharps and double flats in the keys used by transposed instruments
As others have mentioned, the Well-Tempered Clavier is interesting here. The point of the piece was to demonstrate the 12-major and 12-minor keys on an instrument where enharmonic notes have the same frequency. So frequency-wise there really can only be 12 major keys.
But from a naming point of view (assuming you wouldn't be as crazy as to have double sharps or double flats in your tonic) you have 21 possible key names for each of major and minor.
How would one go about choosing which 12 key names out of 21 to use? First step might be to avoid double sharps and double flats in the key signature itself. Note that the result is different between major and minor keys (as WTC demonstrates). That reduces your choice from 21 to 15 (so G♯ D♯ A♯ E♯ B♯ F♭ majors are out)
Then it likely just comes down to what you're going to modulate too. If you are going to modulate to V, you might want to avoid having to introduce the double-sharp to do so (which means C♯ major is out). If you are going to modulate to V of V, then F♯ might be out too).
All that said, it makes it particular interesting that WTC does use C♯ major and F♯ major and instead eschews D♭ G♭ C♭ to get from 15 possibilities to 12. The C♯ major prelude and fugue does indeed need a double-sharp in modulated passages, even though the note is diatonic.
In the case of ensemble pieces with transposing instruments: imagine a clarinet part in concert C♯ major :-)
James TauberJames Tauber
Thanks for the answer. I think your justification is pretty good, in general, though it is interesting how seemingly common C# major is as a key signature... WTC is far from the only example. What do you mean by modulate btw? I haven't encountered this term before in music.
Modulation is the process of changing the key within a piece (e.g. from the tonic to the dominant). See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulation_(music) for a lot more information.
I've cleaned up the comments.
Some of the answers have touched upon convenience for the player, but have missed one point about this. In making arrangements band and orchestral arrangements, I have found that wind players often prefer sharps to flats, preferring for example 7 sharps over 5 flats. This is noticeable particularly with transposing instruments. String players, on the other hand, seem to prefer flat keys to sharp ones.
Colin FineColin Fine
Do you know why this preference exists?
@Matthew: this is not strictly true about string players, but certain sharp keys can be awkward, especially in linked arpegio, and do not resonate well with open chords but the difference blurs when you progress in skill. Double-bass players have different tastes than violin/viola/cello because they have a different tuning.
– ogerard
I always anecdotally thought string players preferred sharps. Not sure where I picked up that impression, though.
-1: As a wind specialist, I will say that wind bands universally prefer flat keys over sharp keys. Many band instruments are keyed in Bb or Eb, which makes concert Eb the overwhelmingly popular band key in middle-school level ensembles.
@Colin, I fully understand how key signatures translate for transposing instruments; my issue is that I think you've got the instrument families mixed up. The other comments above seem to agree with this (also given that string instruments' open strings are the roots of sharp scales), and my personal experience as a wind instrumentalist and educator contradicts what you have suggested in your answer.
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It is obvious that in the eyes of the guerrillas themselves, the category of "combatant" was not limited to the arms-bearing fighter. Instead, as in any other army in the world, it included males and females in support roles. Yet many academic sources discussing women's participation in guerrilla movements distinguish between arms-bearing combatants and women in support roles. The latter group is considered part of the guerrilla membership but is not included in the estimates of the combatants. This artificial distinction tends to obscure and denigrate the important role played by women and men who provided logistical support.
31 As a combatant, Wilson continued her work in communications. An account of her years in the mountains depicts a challenging situation. Men and women were required to carry the same forty-pound backpacks with ammunition and also shared in traditionally female tasks such as food preparation. Men, however, dominated the command structures. "I didn't know a single female commander of a column," Wilson emphasized, although she maintained that women held lower-level command positions. " Eventually a number of women assumed leadership positions.
The Guatemalan experience encompasses thirty-five years of struggle, and this had repercussions on the gender composition of the URNG. While female participation during the 1960s and 1970s was limited, it started to increase in the 1980s. There is no question that the Salvadoran conflict, with its strong incidence of female FMLN fighters played a role in this development. In addition, the international context of the 1980s favored increased female participation. When the URNG signed the 1996 peace accords, the Guatemalan guerrilla movement was composed of four different groups: the Ejército Guer- 24 After the Revolution rillero de los Pobres (Guerrilla Army of the Poor, or EGP), the Organización Revolucionaria del Pueblo en Armas (Revolutionary Organization of Armed Citizens, or ORPA), the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias (Revolutionary Armed Forces, or FAR), and the Partido Guatemalteco del Trabajo (Guatemalan Workers' Party, or PGT).


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Bahá'í – every day's a holiday!
March 2 is the first day of the last month of the Baha'i calendar. The calendar consists of 19 months of 19 days each for a total of 361 days. Between the 18th and 19th months are 4 "intercalary days" from February 26 to March 1.
Each 19-day month begins with a "Feast." It's not the kind of feast we think of where folks pig out on big fat chicken legs, guzzle wine, and someone plays the lute. The Baha'i "Feasts" are monthly meetings/services.
The Feast consists of three parts. The devotional part when sacred texts are read. The consultative part when the congregation conducts administrative affairs and discusses anything from upcoming events to the situation of the Baha'i Faith around the world. And the social part, when the host serves refreshments and members share their thoughts on the previous two portions in a more casual atmosphere.
There are no clergy. A chairman conducts the meeting, but portions of the service are "led" by different members each month.
Today is the Feast of Ala (Loftiness). It's a special "Feast" because it actually marks the beginning of the annual 19-day Fast of Ala. Born in the same tradition as the Jewish High Holy Days and the Christian Lent, the fast of Ala is more similar to the Muslim Ramadan in the sense that Bahais can eat at night, but must refrain from eating from sunrise to sunset.
At the end of Ala, Bahais usher in the New Year (Naw Ruz) which coincides with the Spring Equinox on March 21.
Lofty, yes. But the Bahá'í Faith is currently the fastest growing major religion. It counts among its prophets Abraham, Buddha, Jesus, Muhammad and Krishna, as well as Bahá'u'lláh.
Today is World Religion Day in the Bahá'í Faith.
For two years I drove by the Baha'i Faith Center just a few blocks from my apartment without bothering to stop in.
It wasn't until after I moved away that I finally decided to come back and sit in on a Sunday service to find out more about the Baha'i Faith first hand.
To my surprise, the center was mostly empty, despite it being a Baha'i holiday: World Religion Day. Members taught me two things about the Baha'i Faith that helped explain why to attendance on a Baha'i holiday was less than packed.
Most Baha'i services are not held in formal places of worship at all. Bahais usually meet at the homes of the congregation's members.
Baha'u'llah, the religion's founder, believed that the people's scarce resources shouldn't be spent on lavish buildings. The Baha'i world headquarters in Haifa, Israel, is the exception to this.
The community center in Los Angeles on the other hand is a plain, underwhelming box that's easy to miss amid the grid of traffic and mini-malls known as La Cienaga Boulevard.
I was surprised the meeting didn't mention anything about World Religion Day. The Baha'i Faith combines the philosophies of the world's major religions — Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, and Zoroastrianism — with the writings of its founder and final prophet Baha'u'llah. The people at the service came from all different religious backgrounds, and they said members were encouraged to continue attending the services of their original faiths.
World Religion Day was not an invention of Baha'u'llah it turns out, but was promoted by the American chapter of the Baha'i Faith beginning in the 1950's. I don't want to call it a publicity stunt, but it may have be more for those outside the Faith than within.
Today followers of the Baha'i Faith celebrate the Birth of the Báb, the Faith's founder and one its two great modern Prophets.
Báb means "The Gate". The Báb was born on October 20, 1819, and no, he wasn't born "The Báb." He was born Siyyad Muhammad Ali in Shiraz, Persia, and was raised by his uncle after his father's death. He worked in the family trading house.
So why are they Twelvers if there are only 11 Imams?
The Twelfth Imam was the son of Hassan ibn Ali. He was about 4 years old at the time of his father's death in the 9th century. Twelvers believe the boy was taken into hiding at that time, and would return when the time is right to save mankind. He is known as the Qa'im, the Shi'a Messiah.
The Báb grew up at a time when Shi'a clerics were preaching about the Qa'im's imminent return to Persia.
Unlike Christianity's Jesus, little is known about the circumstances of the Báb's birth. But we do know that on May 23, 1844, at age 24, he first made his divinity known to a Twelver named Mulla Husayn in what is celebrated by followers of the Baha'i Faith as The Declaration of the Báb.
After informing Mulla Husayn of his divinity, an event known as the Declaration of the Báb, Husayn introduced the Báb to his doubting companions. Upon meeting the Báb, his companions grew to believe in his authenticity. The first 18 believers of the Báb were known as the 18 Living Letters. They spread news of the Báb's arrival across Persia.
But as the circle of believers grew, so did the animosity and persecution against the Báb and his followers. Religious leaders had the Báb arrested and tried for his claims of divinity and for undermining Islamic law.
By this time the Báb had written numerous books and treatises which would become the foundation of the Bahai Faith.
The Báb and his follower Muhammad Ali were scheduled for execution by firing squad on July 9, 1850.
Both men were bound by ropes prior to the execution. The order was given to fire. When the smoke cleared, Muhammad Ali was found unharmed, as if the bullets had only broken his ropes. And the Báb had disappeared.
He was marched back to the firing squad and promptly executed again, this time for good.
The Bab is one of the two divine messengers of God of the Baha'i Faith. He foretold the coming of the religion's great prophet Baha'u'llah.
This holiday remembers neither a war, nor the death of a martyr, nor a seasonal change, nor a leader's birthday nor any event commonly called upon as the origin of a holiday.
Today followers of the Bahai Faith celebrate a simple conversation between two men in a quiet house in Shiraz, Persia, on the evening of May 23, 1844.
The two men were Mulla Husayn and Siyyad Ali Muhammad, and the date is considered to be the foundation of the Bahai religion and the beginning of its 'Badi' calendar.
Mulla Husayn, was traveling through Persia with two companions. They had been informed by their teacher Siyyid Kazin just before he died that the Qa'im–the Promised One of Shi'a Islam–was about to make his presence known. Kazin ordered his students to set out and find this long-awaited Qa'im and with him the fulfillment of the prophecies of their sect.
Siyyid Kazin passed on to Mulla Husayn some indicators of the coming Qa'im. He would be of pure lineage, of noble descent (of Muhammad's daughter Fatimah), of medium height and build, endowed with innate spiritual and philosophical knowledge, free from bodily deficiency, and he would be a non-smoker.
In addition Kazim offered specific tests of wisdom that would be posed to any claiming to be the Qa'im, and he further predicted that the true Qa'im, upon answering the preceding tests would immediately and of his own volition launch into the deepest and most revealing commentary of the Qur'an's Sura of Yusuf (Joseph) the world had never known.
After traveling for many months, Mulla Husayn and his companions reached Shiraz in what is now Iran. Just before evening they separated with plans to meet up later that night.
His dignity and self-assurance silenced me. I renewed my ablutions and prepared for prayer…It was about an hour after sunset when my youthful Host began to converse with me: "Whom, after Siyyid Kazin, do you regard as his successor and your leader?" asked Siyyad Ali Muhammad.
Shocked at the man's audacity, Husayn proceeded to grill the impostor with tests based on the teachings of his teacher Kazin and Kazin's teacher Shaykh Ahmad.
Finally, the moment of truth: Without provocation, the man took pen to paper and wrote, without hesitation, the first chapter in the beginning of what would be his great commentary on the Sirah of Joseph.
When Husayn accepted the veracity of the man's claim, Siyyad Ali Muhammad announced the name he would be known as for the rest of his life and for generations after: the Báb, or "the Gate".


A car park is a space specially designed for all road users so that they can park their vehicles safely. In addition to being a functional place to park, parking is also an infrastructure that reduces the CO2 emissions of vehicles that are forced to shut down their engines once parked.
The car park is a functional, equipped and secure place where vehicles can park. In the majority of European Union countries and in France, the car park is represented by the symbol P in capital letters. White and blue (panel), this symbol is placed at the entrance of a car park, but you can also see it in the street or on dedicated displays (city maps for example). In the majority of cases, parking in a public car park is subject to a charge based on the duration of parking. The dimensions of a parking space are governed by standards NF P91-100 and NF P 91-120 (public and private car parks).
Covered car parks are enclosed areas specially designed for parking vehicles. They are in a closed place or in the basement of a building. They can accommodate both cars and motorcycles. The closed car park consists of several levels or floors. To move from one level to another, drivers use ramps. Some urban constructions such as railway stations or airports for example have the obligation to have underground car parks that comply with the standards and legislation in force for safety, ventilation and emergency exits in case of fire. Outdoor car parks are single-storey spaces, specially designed for parking vehicles. Very economical, they do not need fans and use natural light as lighting unlike covered car parks that consume many more resources (lamps, air vents, fans, etc.).
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School district sends replacement levy to voters
Posted Wednesday, December 11, 2019 3:02 pm
Oliver Lazenby
Though the state legislature met its Supreme Court-ordered obligation to fully fund basic education for public schools, the Blaine school district will ask voters to renew a four-year maintenance and operations levy to cover about 15 percent of the district's day-to-day expenses.
The school district board of directors voted unanimously at a November 25 meeting to put a replacement property tax levy on a February 11, 2020 special election ballot. The four-year levy will replace one that expires at the end of 2020.
Taxpayers would pay less for the replacement levy than the current levy. Currently, property owners in the Blaine school district pay about $1.39 per $1,000 of assessed value annually for the maintenance and operations levy. The replacement levy would tax voters at approximately $1.26 per $1,000 in assessed value in 2021, and rise to $1.30 per $1,000 by 2024.
School district superintendent Christopher Granger said the average maintenance and operations levy for school districts in Whatcom County is $1.49 per $1,000 in assessed value.
Levy rates are approximate and depend on the assessed value of all property in the district in the coming years. According to meeting documents, the replacement levy would bring in $6 million in 2021, $6.4 million in 2022, $6.8 million in 2023, and $7.25 million in 2024.
The district would use the money to "support the district's educational maintenance and daily operations, including teachers, staff, classroom materials and textbooks," according to a resolution the school board passed on November 25.
"We just want the community to know that we do appreciate their continued support of the district because without this, some of the things the community is used to seeing in our schools would be impacted," Granger said in a phone interview.
The Blaine school district also collects a six-year "technology and capital projects levy" that voters passed in 2018. That levy collected about $0.51 per $1,000 in assessed value this year.
In 2017, state lawmakers passed a new education funding plan that increased state funding and limited the amount that school districts could levy for basic education. With the plan, lawmakers intended to make school funding more equitable across the state.
The plan reduced the amount that the Blaine school district could levy for maintenance and operations by about $2 million, while also raising the amount local taxpayers pay to the state for education.
From those state education taxes, the Blaine school district is getting about $5.24 million annually, Granger said. So while the district has more money, the state funding came with some stipulations that increased operating costs, such as higher starting teacher salaries. The bulk of the extra revenue is going toward salaries.
Also, the state's formula for fully funding basic education doesn't always work in practice, said Lisa Moeller, the district's new public relations specialist. "They say it's fully-funded, but it's based on their model, which has some big gaps." For example, Moeller said, the state's formula gives the district funding for 0.057 school psychologists for the entire district.
Not only is it difficult to hire 0.057 of a school psychologist, it's also not enough to meet the district's needs, Moeller said.
"That's a good example of the way the state's funding formula leaves some gaps for us," she said.
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The Northern Light: January 16-22, 2020


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The Times manages the appropriate — all snark excluded — balance between fact reportage and wistful discomfort with the caucus regime. The logic of equality pressures us toward something that politics, to work well, cannot deliver: equal suffrage, every issue, every election, every time. We can't but grow irritated with Iowa when we hear of active-duty citizens who can't impact a vote that will probably be decisive in shaping the general election — citizens whose votes would count hugely if they could devote the time to caucusing. But without doubt the baby sitter that would enable (both) parents to caucus without worrying about their children is not the sort of good that politics itself should provide. Indeed, when we face a civic duty we hate, like jury duty, we proudly and eagerly point out that we can't afford the time off, and we get off the hook, too, and rightly so. But when a civic opportunity appears that stokes our envy, not our pride, our same obligations taste sour.
In other words, no specific individual is being harmed, no protected class is being harmed, no government vote is taking place, and the venerable caucus system is a private privilege, not a public right. Where we really feel hypocritical is elevating Iowa to the colossally significant status it now enjoys — one because a private affair has taken on great public import, but two because as a private affair it's exclusive, and exclusive status is anathema to the sentiments that drive and reproduce democratic politics. Not just Iowans without babysitters but Californians with them can't play ball. Their Americanhood simply matters less, and although Americanhood isn't relevant at all to the question of whether the Iowa caucus is legitimate, it dominates the way we democratic souls think about moral rectitude.
But I wonder whether the reason Iowa's jumped to such prominence has to do exactly with the political rigor and specific exclusivity of the caucus system. Maybe someone can tell me whether this is nonsense and Iowa simply wrangled a first-place slot and kept it, but when I look at the demands the caucus system places on candidates, and the uncertainty of outcome it generates right up until caucusing day, I think it generates more politics than would happen otherwise. It's not just about pulling a lever, casting a ballot, or standing up and bleating out a name. The rallies, the volunteering, the editorializing, the presence of political questions on public lips — these things wane when the envious itch for equal participation may be scratched safe in the knowledge that everyone's input reduces finally to one lousy vote. When we're all just lever-pullers, our political liberty transforms into equality in servitude. Under such circumstances, as we know, many are so comfortably unenvious that they don't vote at all.
"It disenfranchises certain voters or makes them make choices between putting food on the table and caucusing," said Tom Lindsey, a high school teacher in Iowa City.
Finally the argument about politics is lifted to superpolitical terms. Even if caucusing is politically and legally kosher, the argument has to run, shouldn't Iowa's political parties — out of something resembling moral guilt — democratize their democracy? As Tocqueville put it, we like liberty but we love equality, and if inequality is the price of liberty we turn against the latter. Seeing politics in action turns out to be only a subsidiary good. And real politics — well-informed exercises of political agency by self-selecting agents making decisive face-to-face judgments — turns out to be something we wish wasn't worth the cost.
So what do we do? Probably Iowa is too hardwired into the system now to change. But fatalism here complements fatalism in so many other places, and we've accustomed ourselves to the notion that some, if not most, anxieties can't be eliminated by cure. We'll cope with Iowa's power imbalances as we cope with Washington's — trying, as we bounce back and forth between hopeful optimism and embittered cynicism, to find and enjoy moments of fugitive respite in the multifarious analgesic distractions of our apolitical lifestyles.


The combination of the sour passion fruit with the richness of cheesecake creates a delightful but not overpowering delicious flavour.
We import of blueberries frozen direct from France to ensure only the best flavour.
The name gives it away, we take the delicious unique biscuit from the oreo cookie and combined it with our secret cheesecake mix.
We have taken the beautiful sweet and sour meringue and combined it with our rich and creamy lime cheesecake.
Cheesecake Ngon is a cheesecake shop/ cafe based in the of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Our head Chef Nathan, is from Australia and painstakingly creates every recipe to ensure their quality and taste are amazingly ngon. We also supply our famous cakes to cafes and restaurants across the city.
We hope you can find the time to come and try our delicious food & cakes or better yet order online and we will deliver to your door.


There are a number of ways you can donate to ISM.
You can donate directly to our UK Charitable Trust either from the UK or from around the world with a one off donation or a monthly direct debit. The ISM Charitable Trust bank details are given below.
You can also give directly to the school, to our African Leadership Scholarship, or the Keiron White Scholarship funds, through our online Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) page.
UK tax payers can claim Gift Aid with either way of giving and claim an extra 25% for the trust on top of any donation made. For bank transfers, please complete the form linked below. For CAF Online payments, you will be given the option to select Gift Aid.
To find out more, contact our fundraising department at development@ed.ismoshi.com.
We want to be able to offer more scholarships to talented students around the world as we continue our journey to become UWC East Africa. UWC (United World Colleges) makes education a force to unite people, nations and cultures for peace and a sustainable future. These scholarships will be for the 2 year IB Diploma course for a boarding student. Once ISM receives full UWC status all students and alumni will also gain the benefits of becoming part of the UWC network.
Click the picture link above to learn more about UWC and who gets scholarships.
The ISM Scholarship Programme develops the future leaders of Tanzania by giving talented local students scholarships to complete their International Baccalaureate Diploma.
Over the last 14 years we have offered two or more full scholarships to Division 1 Tanzanian students from the national education system each year.
The scholarships can cover a proportion or all of their tuition and boarding fees together with course materials and extra curricular costs. Additionally our scholarships students also participate in our well known outdoor pursuits programme.
You can read and view some of our scholarship students' experiences under Watch ISM Stories.
Details of our Scholarship programme are given if you click here.


It's been four years now since I walked down the aisle to the love of my life and said "I DO" to a lifetime of love, ministry, surrender, and adventure with my wonderful hubby! I can truthfully say that marriage has been one of the very best things that has ever happened in my life, but I would not be truthful if I said that it hasn't been work and time on each of our parts. There are so many things I could share that we have learned over the past four years through the day by day moments of having two children, living in three different homes, changes of jobs, and now going through the process of raising support to be in full-time college ministry! But, instead of listing all of them, I will share a few of the most important lessons we have learned through our marriage journey so far.
Working together in unity, focused on the same things, being in ministry TOGETHER sharing Christ with your children and those around you is so important because even the Bible says there is strength when there is unity! And, when you are focused on God and keep him a part of your relationship, there is that threefold cord, because Christ has come to dwell with you, and as it says above, those three strands are not quickly torn apart.
Back when we had our first son, Daniel, we had some friends greatly encourage us to start having weekly date nights. When they first said weekly, I was shocked because that seemed crazy to try to find a babysitter each week in order to get away for a few hours with my hubby. But, God blessed those times and date nights have been some of my most treasured times since then. Scott and I have been able to spend a lot of time focusing on our walks with God, our parenting strengths and weaknesses, and just having fun playing games, having coffee, and eating together with no little kiddos interrupting! Having God in our midst and taking the time for each other has strengthened our marriage time and again.
Find someone you respect who can mentor and council you biblically throughout the stages of marriage and raising kiddos. This is something that has been very important for both Scott and me. Having someone we can go to who keeps us focused on our relationship with God first and foremost, but also someone who doesn't put down our spouse is so important! God wants us to be building up our husband instead of tearing down the one God has given us in marriage.
These are just a few of the things we have learned over the past four years. Next month read part two where I'll share two more areas I've grown in. And, please take the time to share some of your lessons learned in your marriage journey! Especially for those of us who haven't been married as long, or those who are newlyweds or even single. We would LOVE to hear from you!


Linda Ramirez-Eaves Shares Her Story!
Posted May 31, 2016 by pat.burke & filed under Blog, Success Stories.
I joined MBS in September 2015, along with my husband, Jeremy, and our two boys—Jackson and Jonah. The boys and I had previously been at a different box, while MBS was Jeremy's first introduction to CrossFit.
I originally began CrossFit because I had a long-time love of lifting weights, beginning with my early days on the Adams City High School Iron Maidens powerlifting team. I fell off the lifting wagon for a while as I pursued college, law school, marriage, home ownership, motherhood and a partnership track legal career. Unexpectedly, both of my boys had very serious heart conditions. Jackson's required open heart surgery, and Jonah's very nearly landed him on a heart transplant list. I share this because these challenges reinforced for me the importance of taking care of your health, and forced me to take a long hard look at my priorities.
At MBS I am able to care for my health AND spend time with my family. As soon as our warm up begins all thoughts, whether it be about the big transaction at work, or chores at home, immediately evaporate–I'm in the moment and have lost all self-consciousness. As a mother, I can't describe for you how awesome it is to be in the middle of a heavy lift and look over and see my boys doing the same! In the 8 months since joining MBS, I have participated in my first Open, strung together 20ish doubleunders, completed my first kipping pull up, finished a Spartan Race (yeah!), completed a Sugar Detox and Paleo Challenge, and countless other accomplishments. I have done these things while being cheered on by my MBS community (special shout out to the 6:30 pm Hangar class). Today I can say that MBS is more than a box to us—it's a family. It's a community that cares about us, encourages us, challenges us, and hopefully helps see Jonah to his first Games (Jonah's ultimate dream). As for me, I'll settle on matching my PRs from my Iron Maiden days and completing the 2017 CrossFit Open—RX!


A large share of US corporate profits come from overseas, while foreign firms operating in the US tend to be unprofitable. In new research, Mona Ali examines why it is so profitable for US firms to go abroad. She finds that this enhanced profitability stems from increasingly sophisticated tax avoidance schemes by large companies and the declining wage-share of workers employed overseas despite their increasing productivity.
An increasingly large proportion of US corporate profits originate overseas. As Figure 1 shows, at its peak, income earned overseas contributed to almost half of all US profits in 2008. Foreign direct investment (FDI)—investment in the foreign subsidiaries of US multinational corporations—comprises the majority of these US incomes generated abroad (about 61 percent in 2012).
The growing reliance of US corporations on foreign income suggests that it is very profitable for US firms to go abroad. But why is going overseas so advantageous for American firms? (In contrast, foreign firms in the US are remarkably unprofitable.) Recently, some economists attempted to answer this question. Hausmann and Sturzenegger argued that US FDI's remarkable profits are rooted in intangible assets or 'dark matter'. Daniel Gros claimed that the US is the economic equivalent of a 'black hole' in which the profits of foreign firms mysteriously 'disappear'. Curcuru, Thomas and Warnock suggested that the apparently low returns to foreign firms in the US maybe driven by tax avoidance strategies.
To assess these contesting claims, I compared the profits and characteristics of the foreign subsidiaries of US multinationals against those of the US-located subsidiaries of foreign multinationals. (I also analyzed these two direct investment portfolios against US based industries (which include foreign firms located in the US).
My findings revealed that US-owned subsidiaries were much more profitable than foreign-owned subsidiaries in the US. The former's rates of return were between 16 percent pre-tax to 10 percent post-tax above the latter. Contrary to the risk-return tradeoff in which high profits are associated with higher risk investment, American investment overseas was also less risky compared to foreign-owned investment in the US.
I also found that research and development (R&D) expenditures were twice as great for US firms overseas compared to foreign firms in the US. While this finding may appear to bolster Hausmann and Sturzenegger's 'dark matter' thesis, to rely on relatively higher R&D expenditures as a proxy for 'dark matter' is problematic. For one, foreign firms in the US might choose to locate their R&D expenditures in their home countries. Moreover, intangibles—such as human capital, brand equity and reputation—may be inadequately captured by this proxy measure.
Is tax avoidance partially responsible for the apparently low profits of US-based industries (note that these industries include foreign firms located in the US)? It is clear that taxation is an important consideration in determining where multinational corporations locate their foreign subsidiaries. Modes of tax avoidance have become increasingly complex. Current strategies include extracting royalties and management fees—thereby stripping income from profits—from subsidiaries in high-tax zones or re-locating a firm's assets to special-purpose entities in tax havens. Larger companies with more extensive transnational networks are more advantaged compared to smaller ones. The current 'tsunami' of US firms engaged in corporate inversions—whereby firms reduce their global tax bill by shifting their corporate headquarters overseas when merging with a smaller foreign rival—suggests the skillfulness of US firms at tax avoidance.
Given the confidentiality of firm-level data, it is difficult for tax authorities and statisticians to figure out which modes of 'tax planning' are at work. Using industry data, I found that the effective corporate tax burden (corporate income as a share of pre-tax income) was fairly similar for US investment overseas (20 percent) compared to foreign investment in the US (18 percent). However the tax burden for US based firms (which includes foreign firms located in the US) was remarkably lower – around 5 percent. This finding backs Kleinbard's claim that US-based firms are leaders in tax avoidance. It is worth noting that foreign investment in the US is overwhelming acquired through mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Here profits might be artificially suppressed through amortization of goodwill effects and M&A tax avoidance strategies.
It is plausible that the higher profitability of US FDI compared to FDI located in the US may be rooted, among else, in superior proprietary assets ('dark matter'); the power of American multinationals over their foreign competitors; and, possibly, greater tax avoidance as well. However the influence of these factors on profits is difficult to establish empirically. Easier to identify is how imbalanced capital-labor dynamics bolster profits, particularly for US FDI.
We may think of income generated from production as being split into three shares: the share of income paid to employees (the wage share), the share of income that employers keep (the profit share) and the share that is paid out in taxes. Standard economic theory argues that the more efficient a worker (measured by her 'labor productivity' or the output produced by that worker in a given hour of work), the more likely it is that her wages will rise. I found that US firms located overseas exhibited the lowest wage-share, the faster decline in wage-share, and the fastest growth in labor productivity. While workers were becoming more and more efficient, their wage-share were actually declining! US based firms also exhibited the same tendencies but at a slower pace.
My study did not include firms subcontracted by US multinationals (such as Apple contracting out the production of its iPads and iPhones to the Taiwanese multinational Foxconn). The separation of ownership in subcontracting relationships allows for an even greater off-loading and off-shoring of the risks involved in manufacturing (exemplified by the Foxconn case). In other words, these 'race to the bottom' effects would have been magnified.
I also found a dissonance between the successes of US multinationals abroad and domestic economic outcomes. For the period examined, US based output did not generate net gains in employment whilst US-owned foreign investment exhibited the fastest growth in output, employment, investment and tax revenues overseas.
The industrial dynamics mapped here suggest the intensification of international competition and its transmission—in complex, uneven ways—by modern multinationals. The 'race to the bottom' is no longer just about old-fashioned labor exploitation but also about cross-border tax minimization.
This article is based on the paper, "Dark matter, black holes and old-fashioned exploitation: transnational corporations and the US economy" in the Cambridge Journal of Economics.
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Mona Ali is an assistant professor of economics at the State University of New York at New Paltz. She teaches courses in international trade and finance, multinational corporations, and asymmetries in the global economy. Her research centers on understanding the place and privilege of the US in the global economy. At present, she is working on a long-run study comparing US and UK balance of payments and its implications for monetary hegemony and hegemonic transition.
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Today we have shareholders who do not just expect us to be the airline of the Jewish nation," says El Al chief executive Haim Romano. "They expect us to be profitable." Three and a half years after privatisation and with less indulgent owners than before, the flag carrier has survived domestic and overseas competitors at Tel Aviv Ben Gurion's new terminal under the government's open skies policy, rising fuel prices and the blow to the region's tourism of the 2006 Lebanon conflict. The airline has been working hard to develop markets in Asia and eastern Europe, as well as cutting costs and improving load factors. Profits have risen sharply during 2007.
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El Al has been boosted by a growth in traffic to and from Israel and passenger numbers on international flights are expected to break the 10 million mark this year for the first time. El Al's Israeli rivals Arkia and Israir are adding frequencies and, among the overseas airlines increasing their activities, Delta will add New York to its current Atlanta daily service in March and BMI will begin flights from London the same month.
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In December 2006, Israir put an end to Boeing's monopoly when it ordered two Airbus A320s for delivery in 2010. The carrier is also evaluating the A330. But El Al operates a 36-strong all-Boeing fleet and plans to rationalise its long-haul aircraft around the 777 or 787. Romano does not rule out the A350 - "If Airbus come to us with the right proposition" - but a breakthrough looks a distant prospect.


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Semantisches Targeting oder Kontext-Targeting (aus dem Bereich semantisches Advertising) ist eine Targeting-Art, die es ermöglicht, Anzeigen gezielt in einem relevanten Umfeld zu platzieren. Beim semantischen Targeting wird der gesamte Content auf Webpage-Ebene technisch mit linguistischen Mitteln gescannt und analysiert. Dadurch ist es möglich, den Bedeutungszusammenhang bzw. den Sinn des Textes auch im Umfeld mehrdeutiger (sogenannter polysemer oder homonymer) Begriffe zu erschließen.

Funktion
Beim semantischen Targeting erkennen die Adserver Bedeutung und Hauptthemen einer einzelnen Webpage automatisch und in Sekundenbruchteilen. Entsprechend dazu können sie das Online-Werbemittel jeglichen Formats einer dazu thematisch passenden Online-Kampagne ausliefern. Zu diesem Zweck werden sämtliche Begriffe einer Website betrachtet und ihre Kombination, sowie Relevanz mithilfe eines komplexen Algorithmus mit menschlichem Semantik-Verständnis analysiert. Der Adserver greift dabei auf eine riesige taxonomisch aufgebaute Datenbank mit sämtlichen Wortbedeutungen, Redewendungen und wichtigen Eigennamen zurück. So kann bestimmt werden, ob es zum Beispiel in einem Artikel über David Beckham hauptsächlich um Fußball, Mode und Lifestyle, Promiklatsch oder eine Kombination aus all diesen Themen geht.

Semantisches Targeting erhebt somit den Anspruch, Werbetreibenden folgende Vorteile zu bieten:

 Thematische Relevanz von Werbung steigert die Akzeptanz der User. So werden Streuverluste minimiert und die Performance einer Kampagne optimiert.
 Gezieltere Ansprache der vermuteten Zielgruppe durch die Möglichkeit sehr präzisen oder sehr allgemeinen thematischen Targetings, je nach Kampagnenziel und Kundenwünschen; gegebenenfalls auch kombinierbar mit anderen Targeting-Methoden wie etwa regionalem Targeting.
 Vielfältige und effektive Optimierungsmöglichkeiten im Laufe der Kampagne.

Unterschied zu anderen Targeting-Lösungen
Im Gegensatz zum Keyword-Advertising, bei dem lediglich einzelne Wörter identifiziert werden, ist sich semantisches Targeting der Mehrdeutigkeit vieler Wörter bewusst und erkennt zudem den Sinnzusammenhang vermeintlich eindeutiger Wörter, die aber in negativem Kontext stehen können oder eine so untergeordnete Rolle spielen, dass sie für den Sinn an sich irrelevant sind. So kann bei Keyword-Targeting-Ansätzen Werbung für Autos neben einem Bericht über eine Massenkarambolage mangels Verständnis für den Gesamtzusammenhang erscheinen, auch wenn das Wort "Auto" korrekt identifiziert wurde. Der Anspruch des semantischen Targetings ist es, in einem solchen Fall zum Beispiel Verkehrsunfälle oder Notärzte als Thema eines derartigen Berichts zu erkennen und die Auslieferung somit zu unterbinden. Mehrdeutige Begriffe werden anhand der semantischen Umgebung disambiguiert und für den Sinn weniger relevante Wörter als solche erkannt.

Beim Behavioral-Targeting wird angenommen, dass das Interesse eines Users in der Vergangenheit mit seinem gegenwärtigen Interesse gleichzusetzen ist. Semantisches Targeting hingegen verfolgt die Strategie, den User exakt in dem Moment anzusprechen, in dem er sich mit einem bestimmten Thema beschäftigt. Dadurch soll ausgeschlossen werden, den User zu spät zu erreichen oder in einem Moment, in dem er für das Thema nicht offen ist. Auch will man die rechtlichen Schwierigkeiten vermeiden, mit denen Behavioral-Targeting häufiger konfrontiert wird, da es aufgrund der notwendigen Datenspeicherung und -analyse als invasiv wahrgenommen werden kann.

Auch beim Buchen von kompletten Themen-Channels, bei dem nur Websites zu einem bestimmten Thema gebucht werden (z. B. Channel "Reise"), für Werbeschaltungen wird die thematische Relevanz von Werbung angestrebt. Hier werden die Themen sehr allgemein gefasst, so dass präzises Targeting und Optimierung kaum möglich sind. Da die Channelbildung nur auf Website-Ebene stattfindet, nicht aber die Themen von einzelnen Webpages berücksichtigt werden, gehen häufig wertvolle Platzierungsmöglichkeiten verloren.

Literatur
 René Martens: Werbung an der richtigen Stelle, zeit Online, 16. März 2010

Weblinks
 iX Magazin 01/11 über semantisches Advertising und andere Targeting-Arten

Einzelnachweise

Online-Marketing
Semantisches Web


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