This year's Sinai Temple Gala, Stronger Together, will be held Sunday, June 16. We will celebrate Angela Maddahi's dedicated leadership throughout her term as Temple President, and bring our entire community together, building bridges and promoting strength in unity.
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It uses coconut milk with the curry powder and eggplant unlike the usual chicken curry we use to cook that uses milk and potatoes. But many chicken curry dishes in the Luzon area were also using coconut milk but the usual vegetables are potatoes. Since this �... How to Thaw Coconut Milk. There are at least a few ways you can thaw coconut milk. No matter the method you choose, make sure to give the thawed coconut milk a good stir.
For more authentic flavor, some usually do this dish with coconut milk and with extra chili. After all, it is the modified version of kalderetang baka, but still it�s your choice if you want to put coconut milk on it. Cook it the way you�ll love it. how to cook peanuts in oil Filipino Recipes with Coconut Milk Coming from the Southern Part of the Philippines, we do love to cook with Coconut Milk! Here are just a few recipes with coconut milk that I want to share with you!
Filipino Recipes with Coconut Milk Coming from the Southern Part of the Philippines, we do love to cook with Coconut Milk! Here are just a few recipes with coconut milk that I want to share with you!
Add the water, coconut milk, salt, and shredded coconut. Stir well; use a plastic or wooden utensil to avoid scraping off the non-stick surface. Cover and set to cook. Stir well; use a plastic or wooden utensil to avoid scraping off the non-stick surface.
For more authentic flavor, some usually do this dish with coconut milk and with extra chili. After all, it is the modified version of kalderetang baka, but still it�s your choice if you want to put coconut milk on it. Cook it the way you�ll love it.


So Wednesday night was Burn Your Plastic Jesus at the Entertainment Centre with Mark Driscoll from Seattle's Mars Hill Church. This won't mean much to the non-Christians among you, but take it from me, Driscoll is the hot ticket amongst the uni-age set in terms of speakers you have to go and hear preach. He's been in Australia for almost a month holidaying with his family, who have now returned home to the US to leave Driscoll to work. And he works hard! Seems he's speaking just about every day/night at various places in Sydney, the Central Coast and Brisbane until he goes home next week.
As Mark and I bussed into town, went to King's Comics and wandered down to Dixon St to meet the other Wild St Church people for dinner, we played Spot the Church Group. They just stand out so much from everyone else! We couldn't really work out why, but you just knew which ones were Christians. By the time we left the food court and the place had filled up, I think you'd be hard pressed to find a non-Christian (and the food court staff seemed a little bemused by it). But it's not surprising, as there were reportedly 10,000 people converging on the Entertainment Centre for this event. I enjoyed the chance to hang out with church people (especially the nutty youth groupers), and at dinner I had a whole plate of dumplings to myself, which was great.
As for the event itself, the staging was slick as a rock concert with the difference being that the house lights stayed up the whole time. The Engage band was full of familiar faces, and they did a great job – there is nothing quite like singing to God with 10,000 people! Though I was surprised at the amount of singing we did; I'm sure the non-Christians in the audience wouldn't have been too comfortable about it, and perhaps this could have been offset by someone from the front saying something like "One of the things we do when we gather together is sing praise to God – we'd love you to join in, but if you don't feel comfortable you don't have to". Anyway that's a minor gripe – from my point of view, the music was excellent. Nathan Tasker played a couple of songs with his band, but I didn't think that added a great deal to the night.
There was the obligatory screening of videoed vox pops, people saying what they thought of Jesus – if they thought of him at all. I was especially saddened by the young mother who was quite defensive about it and said basically her world was her children and family and she'd never thought about Jesus before so why should she bother now? He didn't have anything to do with her.
At the end of the night, he invited people to stand if they had decided to become Christians, or if they wanted prayer for something, and he asked the Christians sitting around them to pray. I had expected something like this to happen, as it's a fairly common end to a big event like this (they used to do 'altar calls' where they'd get people to go up the front, which is even more confronting), but it did take a while for people to start moving. It would have taken a lot of courage for people to stand up in full view of the entire Entertainment Centre, but gradually, as he spoke and kept encouraging people to stand, people started getting up. I don't know how many there were altogether, it wasn't a huge number, but there were a fair few. And then as the musos played quietly, we were asked to pray. I found it incredibly moving, looking around the room at this sea of people sitting, and here and there clumps of people standing together, praying. Gaz said it reminded him of white blood cells grouping together. I was so struck by the face of this one girl standing near us, her eyes closed, tears on her face, and a look of utter conviction.
It's a hard thing if you've made such a life-changing decision to go from a context like that back into the hard, gritty world. I really hope and pray that those people who decided to become Christians on Wednesday keep exploring God's word, that they are supported and loved by the friends who took them along to the event, and that God would continue to grow them in the knowledge and love of him.
And now I have to finish packing to go off to the mountains for Engage. Should be a great weekend!


I've been plagued with the ad.yieldmanager for quite some time. I give up!
I have downloaded the scan and removed everything I could. I have done a fresh reboot and then a clean hijackthis which is below. I need some guidance.
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Auto EPSON Stylus Photo R300 Series on BACKPACK] C:\WINDOWS\System32\spool\DRIVERS\W32X86\3\E_S4I2F1.EXE /P47 "Auto EPSON Stylus Photo R300 Series on BACKPACK" /O18 "\\BACKPACK\Printer" /M "Stylus Photo R300"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [lxcjmon.exe] "C:\Program Files\Lexmark 8300 Series\lxcjmon.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [EzPrint] "C:\Program Files\Lexmark 8300 Series\ezprint.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [PSDiagnosticM] "C:\Program Files\Linksys Wireless-G Print Server\PSDiagnosticM.exe"
Download the enclosed folder. [attachment=18773:YMSearch.zip]Save and extract its contents to the desktop. It is a batch file. Once extracted doubleclick on the YMSearch.bat file. The computer will be scanned for Yieldmanager entries and a report will be produced. It should take a few minutes to complete, please be patient. Post the contents of the report on your next reply.
1. Launch Notepad, and copy/paste the contents of the quote box below into a new Notepad file. Save it with file name options.txt and save as file type: all files to your desktop.
2. Download Registry Search to your desktop.
Right click on the compressed RegSearch folder, and choose "Extract All". In the box that pops open, click "Next", then "Next" again, and then "Finish". You now have another RegSearch folder on your desktop.
Click "Import" in the lower left corner and browse to the options.txt file that you just saved on your desktop. Do not choose the one in the RegSearch folder itself.
Click OK and Registry Search will scan your registry for the file(s), and a Notepad box will open with a report.
Please reply here with the entire contents of the Notepad file from RegSearch.


Describing the trial as a "complete success", they said that all the mission objectives were met during the test. "The trajectory of the trial was tracked by a battery of sophisticated radars, telemetry observation stations, electro-optic instruments and naval ships right from its launch till the missile hit the target area with pin point accuracy," defence sources confirmed.
India today successfully test-fired its short-range nuclear capable ballistic missile Agni-I with a strike range of over 700 km. The missile test was done from a test range off the Odisha coast, defence sources said.
The indigenously developed surface-to-surface missile was launched as a part of a periodic training activity by the Strategic Forces Command or SFC of the Indian Army to consolidate operational readiness, they said.
The state-of-the-art missile was launched at around 8:30 am from a mobile launcher at Pad 4 of the Integrated Test Range at the Dr Abdul Kalam Island, formerly known as Wheeler Island, sources said.
Describing the trial as a "complete success", they said that all the mission objectives were met during the test.
"The trajectory of the trial was tracked by a battery of sophisticated radars, telemetry observation stations, electro-optic instruments and naval ships right from its launch till the missile hit the target area with pin point accuracy," the sources confirmed.
The sophisticated Agni-I missile is propelled by a solid rocket propellant system and is equipped with a specialised navigation system that ensures it reaches the target with a high degree of precision, they said.
The missile, which has already been inducted into the armed forces, has proved its performance in terms of range, accuracy and lethality, the sources said.
Weighing around 12 tonnes, the 15-metre-long Agni-I can carry payloads up to 1,000 kg and is capable of hitting a target beyond 700 km. The missile is also capable of carrying nuclear warheads.
The Agni-I was developed by the Advanced Systems Laboratory or ASL in collaboration with the Defence Research Development Laboratory (DRDL) and the Research Centre Imarat (RCI). The missile was integrated by the Bharat Dynamics Limited, Hyderabad.
The Advanced Systems Laboratory is the premier missile development laboratory of the Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO).


No one can argue with a photograph. Photos of the broken bodies of the victims of abortion prove at a glance what CBR exists to establish – the humanity of the preborn and the inhumanity of abortion. But we are often told by pro-lifers and pro-aborts alike that it is wrong to display these photos publicly because the photos are too upsetting. This position makes no sense.
It makes no sense if the critic is a pro-lifer. CBR's experience sharing these photos with people in the public square has demonstrated that they save lives. How can someone claim to be pro-life if they honestly believe that not upsetting people is more important than saving babies from abortion?
It also makes no sense if the critic is a pro-abort. An abortion photo merely depicts something that someone has done to a baby. How is it possible that it is okay to do this thing to a baby if it is so horrifying to view that it is immoral for us to show it to people?
Nobody likes abortion photos. That's okay – they're not supposed to be liked. Sometimes it's hard to hear a victim's story. Abortion photos are the only way the victims of this global holocaust can tell their story.
You can see all of the images that are the backbone of CBR's various public, abortion-awareness projects by clicking here. The coins and pencils are included as size references and are part of the original photos. All ages are in weeks from fertilization..
1. You must condemn all abortion-related violence.
2. The photos are copyrighted, so acknowledge Center for Bio-Ethical Reform as the copyright holder by printing "Copyright AbortionNO.org" (or a non-English translation) in small font at the bottom of each photo used.
3. Always display the age of the baby (in whatever language is appropriate) so viewers understand how quickly children develop in the womb and how awful it is when they are destroyed by abortion.
4. Do not alter the photos in any way.
5. Do not transfer the photos to other individuals or groups that want to use them. Instead, refer those individuals or groups to us so they can obtain the photos directly from us.


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Q: Is it possible to install npm package only if it has not been already installed? Is it possible to install npm package only if it has not been already installed?
I need this to speed up test on CircleCI, but when I run npm install protractor@2.1.0 etc. it always downloads things and installs them from scracth, however, node_modules folder with all modules is already present at the moment of running commands (cached from previous build) and protractor --version etc. shows the needed version of the package.
Its perfect to have some one-line command like this:
protractor --version || npm install -g protractor@2.1.0

but the one that will also check version of the package.

A: You could try npm list protractor || npm install protractor@2.1.0
Where npm list protractor is used to find protractor package.
If the package is not found, it will return npm ERR! code 1 and do npm install protractor@2.1.0 for installation

A: with bash you can do
[ $(node -p "require('protractor/package.json').version") != "2.1.0" ] && npm install protractor@2.1.0

A: [ $(node -p "try{require('protractor/package.json').version}catch(e){}") != "2.1.0" ]  && npm install grunt

A: Function version of the excellent answer by @JeromeWAGNER:
function install_package_if_needed() {
    local p=${1:-Package required}
    local v=${2:-Version required}
    shift 2
    local i=$(node -p "require('$p/package.json').version" 2>/dev/null)
    [ "$i" == "$v" ] || npm "$@" install "$p@$v"
}

Use like:
$ install_package_if_needed protractor 2.1.0

To pass additional options to npm, specify them after the version, like so:
$ install_package_if_needed protractor 2.1.0 -g

A: I had this same issue together with wanting to install global dependencies from any "package.json" file requiring them.
This is for a Windows development environment.
Here is my solution.

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The Walt Disney Company (DIS) reported its quarterly earnings for the fourth quarter on Thursday, November 8. The company's revenues and profits both exceeded Wall Street's expectations.
Disney reported revenue of $14.3 billion, up from $12.8 billion during the same quarter last year. This beat analysts' expected revenue of $13.7 billion.
"We're very pleased with our financial performance in fiscal 2018, delivering record revenue, net income and earnings per share," said Robert A. Iger, Chairman and CEO of The Walt Disney Company. "We remain focused on the successful completion and integration of our 21st Century Fox acquisition and the further development of our direct-to-consumer business, including the highly anticipated launch of our Disney-branded streaming service late next year."
Disney posted quarterly net income of $2.3 billion, up from $1.7 billion at this time last year. On an earnings per share basis, the company reported $1.55 per share, up from $1.13 per share last year.
The entertainment giant's Studio Entertainment segment raked in $2.2 billion in revenue for the quarter, a 50% increase from last year's fourth quarter. Disney's Parks and Resorts segment and its Media Networks segment each posted quarterly growth of 9%. Consumer Products and Interactive Media was the only segment in which Disney posted a loss for the quarter, with an 8% decrease.
Walt Disney Company (DIS) shares ended the week at $118.00, up 1.9% for the week.
CVS Reports Earnings
CVS Health Corporation (CVS) released its latest quarterly earnings on Tuesday, November 6. The drug store company showed increases in revenue and profits for the quarter.
The company reported revenue of $47.3 billion. This was an increase of 2.4% from revenue of $46.2 billion during the same quarter last year.
"Strong revenue and adjusted EPS, along with significant cash flow year-to-date, demonstrate our success in driving value," said CVS CEO Larry Merlo. "Our year-to-date results continue to validate our confidence in the strength of our model. As we approach the closing of our transformative acquisition of Aetna, our integration teams are making great progress to assure that once final approvals are obtained, we can begin to execute on our integration plans."
Net income for the quarter totaled $1.4 billion, up 8.2% from $1.3 billion at this time last year. On an earnings per share basis, the company earned $1.36 per share.
CVS announced on Tuesday that the pending merger with health insurer Aetna will likely close before Thanksgiving. The deal, which was announced in late 2017, was approved by the Justice Department in October of this year. CVS expects the merger to facilitate an expansion in the services it provides at its retail locations.
CVS Health Corporation (CVS) shares ended the week at $79.83, up 8.8% for the week.
Roku Delivers Earnings Results
Roku Inc. (ROKU) announced earnings for the third quarter on Wednesday, November 7. The company exceeded analysts' earnings projections.
The technology company reported revenue of $173.4 million for the quarter, up from $124.8 million during the same quarter last year. This exceeded Wall Street's revenue expectation of $169.1 million.
"Roku delivered outstanding financial and operating results in Q3 2018," said Roku Founder and CEO Anthony Wood in a letter to shareholders. "Robust active account and streaming hour growth contributed to another great quarter with our advertising business showing continued strong momentum."
The company reported a loss of $9.5 million for the quarter. This was an improvement over the company's reported $46.2 million net loss at this time last year.
Roku, maker of online video streaming devices, also produces a software platform for use on smart TVs. The company reported $100.1 million in revenue for its Platform segment for the third quarter. While up sharply from $57.5 million in revenue for the third quarter of last year, this figure fell short of analysts' expected revenue of $103.2 million.
Roku Inc. (ROKU) shares ended the week at $43.94, down 24.2% for the week.
The Dow started the week of 11/5 at 25,261 and closed at 25,989 on 11/9. The S&P 500 started the week at 2,726 and closed at 2,781. The NASDAQ started the week at 7,344 and closed at 7,407.
Treasury Bonds Dip Following the Fed's Decision
Yields on U.S. Treasury bonds fell on Friday after the Federal Reserve announced it would leave interest rates unchanged. Earlier in the week, yields hit their peak prior to the release of the midterm election results.
On Thursday, the Federal Open Market Committee signaled that it would continue on its current path of gradual rate increases. The announcement was in line with analysts' predictions that the Fed would leave policy and rates unchanged.
"It was a benign statement, boring," said Michael Schumacher, rates strategist at Wells Fargo, referring to the Fed's statement which was taken from previously released statements. "It kept in the comment about further rate increases and there was no change in the interest on excess reserve."
On Friday, the U.S. Labor Department released the U.S. producer price index (PPI) had its largest monthly gain in over six years. After rising 0.2% in September, the PPI rose 0.6% in October. Economists were expecting to see a 0.2% increase.
"Inflation has been surprising to the upside but we believe this is later cycle behavior and has somewhat to do with tariffs between the U.S. and China," said Jim Caron, bond manager at Morgan Stanley Investment Management. "We still see inflation peaking in 2019 at core personal consumption expenditure levels around 2.2 percent and gross domestic product growth slowing to about 2.6 percent."
Mortgage Rates Continue Upward Trend
Freddie Mac released its latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey on Thursday, November 8. The report showed significant increases in average mortgage rates.
This week, the yield on the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 4.94%, up from last week's average of 4.83%. At this time last year, the 30-year fixed rate mortgage averaged 3.90%.
The 15-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 4.33% this week, up from 4.23% last week. Last year at this time, the 15-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 3.24%.
"The economy continued to show resilience as strong business activity and growth in employment drove the 30-year fixed mortgage rate to a seven year high of 4.94% — up 11 basis points from last week," said Freddie Mac Chief Economist Sam Khater. "Higher mortgage rates have led to a slowdown in national home price growth, but the price deceleration has been primarily concentrated in affluent coastal markets such as California and the state of Washington."

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Bayer Acquires Monsanto
Pharmaceutical Technology Editors
Bayer will acquire the agricultural company for $66 billion in an all cash transaction.
On Sept. 14, 2016, Bayer and Monsanto signed a long anticipated merger agreement, under which Bayer will acquire the agricultural company for $128 per share, approximately $66 billion, in an all cash transaction. Bayer first proposed the merger in May 2016.
Some of Bayer's shareholders have been critical of the move, saying the company "risks overpaying and neglecting the company's pharmaceutical business," Reuters reports. According to Reuters, the merger will have to be approved by multiple regulators, and the companies will have to file in approximately 30 jurisdictions. The merger is expected to close at the end of 2017.
The combined agriculture business will have its global Seeds & Traits and North American commercial headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri, its global Crop Protection and overall Crop Science headquarters in Monheim, Germany, and an important presence in Durham, North Carolina. The Digital Farming activities for the combined business will be based in San Francisco, California.
Source: Bayer, Reuters
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Pre-heat the oven to 225 degrees F and put inside 2 bowls to warm up, the serving dish and 4 plates.
Peel the onions and slice them in a mandolin. Set aside.
Peel the apples, cut in quarters and remove core. Cut in slices. Set aside.
In a large sautée pan, melt 1.5 ounces of butter. Add the onions, mix, lower the heat and put a lid on top and sweat for 10 minutes. Remove lid and let caramelize for another 10 minutes without letting them burn. With a slotted spoon remove from the pan to one of the bowls in the oven and keep warm.
In the same pan, using the butter left over from the onions, add the slices of apple and cook 1 minute on each side. Gently remove them from the pan to the other bowl in the oven and keep warm.
In the same pan add the other 1.5 ounces of butter plus one tablespoon of olive oil. When it stops sizzling add the liver slices, brown 1 minute on each side. Remove to a cutting board and slice in thin strips. Put back in the pan, add the thyme leaves, season with salt and pepper and deglaze with the balsamic vinegar, mixing well until reduced. Put in warmed serving dish.
Garnish with a sprig of thyme and balsamic glaze all over.
Serve on warm plates with a Creamy Potato Purée (see recipe posted before).
Made this with beef liver. I'm new-ish to cooking liver but need to eat it regularly for health reasons. This was definitely the tastiest beef liver recipe I've had so far, and it was very easy to make.
I made this with beef liver from a sustainable producer. Not calf. And I made a summer version with peaches and blueberries, and it was quite good.


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Country rocker and fiddler Charlie Daniels dies at age 83
by: KRISTIN M. HALL
FILE – In this Nov. 30, 2016 file photo, Charlie Daniels appears at the Charlie Daniels 80th Birthday Volunteer Jam in Nashville, Tenn. Daniels who had a hit with "Devil Went Down to Georgia" has died at age 83. A statement from his publicist said the Country Music Hall of Famer died Monday due to a hemorrhagic stroke. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP, File)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Country music firebrand and fiddler Charlie Daniels, who had a hit with "Devil Went Down to Georgia," has died at age 83.
A statement from his publicist said the Country Music Hall of Famer died Monday at a hospital in Hermitage, Tennessee, after doctors said he had a stroke.
He had suffered what was described as a mild stroke in January 2010 and had a heart pacemaker implanted in 2013 but continued to perform.
Daniels, a singer, guitarist and fiddler, started out as a session musician, even playing on Bob Dylan's "Nashville Skyline" sessions. Beginning in the early 1970s, his five-piece band toured endlessly, sometimes doing 250 shows a year.
His edgy, early music raised eyebrows in Nashville, with "Long Haired Country Boy" celebrating marijuana smoking and "Uneasy Rider" poking fun at rednecks. But he softened some verses in the 1990s and in 2008 joined the epitome of Nashville's music establishment, the Grand Ole Opry.
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Le modèle de Goodwin (ou modèle de lutte des classes de Goodwin) est un modèle économique qui explique les fluctuations économiques et les cycles économiques par le partage de la valeur ajoutée. Le modèle oppose les capitalistes et les travailleurs. Lorsque le partage de la valeur ajoutée va en plus grande partie au capital, les capitalistes investissent, faisant baisser le chômage jusqu'à ce qu'une pénurie de main d'œuvre fasse augmenter les salaires. Le partage de la valeur ajoutée se déformant au profit des travailleurs, les capitalistes investissent moins, ce qui fait augmenter le chômage, et permet de relancer le cycle.

Concept
Proposé par l'économiste américain Richard Goodwin en 1967, le modèle de Goodwin combine des aspects du modèle de croissance de Harrod et Domar avec la courbe de Phillips . Ce modèle propose une description de cycles économiques qui sont endogènes à l'activité économique, c'est-à-dire que les causes des fluctuations sont déjà présentes au sein même de l'économie. A contrario, un choc exogène serait dû à une variable imprévue et extérieure (une innovation technologique qui vient soudainement bouleverser la donne, par exemple).

Le modèle de Goodwin est surnommé  car il se fonde sur l'antagonisme entre les détenteurs du capital (les capitalistes) et les détenteurs de la force de travail (les salariés). Le modèle met en scène deux grandes variables : le taux d'emploi et la part des salaires dans le revenu national. Lorsque le revenu des salariés dans le revenu national est faible, l'investissement (égal au profit) est soutenu, ce qui permet une croissance forte et une baisse du chômage. Or, la main d'œuvre étant finie, il arrive un moment où le stock de travailleurs disponible est épuisé. Les salaires augmentent donc, car la pénurie donne un pouvoir de négociation plus fort aux salariés. Comme la valeur ajoutée va de plus en plus aux salariés, la part dédié au capital s'érode, ce qui ralentit et réduit l'investissement ; cela réduit nécessairement la croissance, et fait donc augmenter le chômage. Le cycle est par conséquent relancé.

Les postulats du modèle sont les suivants : le marché des biens est toujours équilibrés ; les profits sont épargnés et réinvestis ; les salaires sont consommés ; le marché du travail est déséquilibré ; le taux de croissance du salaire réel dépend du chômage (en vertu de la courbe de Philips).

Ce modèle explique les cycles de longue période, car, dans l'économie réelle, les salaires mettent du temps à s'adapter et s'ajuster au chômage.

Formalisation
La production est donnée par la fonction de production agrégée , où :
q  est la production agrégée ;
ℓ  est l'utilisation du travail ;
k  est le capital (homogène) ;
a  est la productivité du travail ;
σ  est le ratio capital-production, une constante.

Toutes ces variables sont fonction du temps, bien que les indices de temps aient été supprimés par commodité.

Contrairement au modèle Harrod-Domar, on suppose une utilisation complète du capital. Par conséquent,  en tout temps.
Le taux d'emploi est donné par , où n est la population active totale qui croît au taux β . De plus, la productivité du travail a, est supposée augmenter également au taux α. Notons que dans ce cas, le taux de croissance du taux d'emploi est donné par .

Le taux de croissance du niveau absolu de l'emploi est à son tour donné par .

On suppose que les salaires changent selon une relation de courbe de Phillips linéarisée donnée par .

En d'autres termes, si le marché du travail est « serré » (l'emploi est déjà élevé), il y a une pression à la hausse sur les salaires et vice versa dans un marché du travail «laxiste». C'est l'aspect du modèle qui peut être vaguement associé à la partie «lutte de classe» de son nom, cependant, ce type de courbe de Phillips peut être trouvé dans de nombreux modèles macroéconomiques.

La part des travailleurs dans la production est u, qui par définition est .

Par conséquent, le taux de croissance de la part des travailleurs est .

La part du travail dans la production augmente avec les salaires mais diminue avec la croissance de la productivité car il faut moins de travailleurs pour produire la même quantité de production.

Enfin, nous avons l'équation d'accumulation du capital et le taux de croissance de la production qui en résulte (puisque k et q croissent au même taux en supposant une pleine utilisation du capital et des rendements d'échelle constants). On suppose que les travailleurs consomment leurs salaires et que les propriétaires du capital épargnent une partie de leurs profits (à noter que le modèle se généralise au cas où les capitalistes épargnent plus que les travailleurs) et que le capital se déprécie au delta des taux. Le taux de croissance de la production et du capital est alors donné par .

Cela implique à son tour que .

Solution
Les deux équations différentielles

sont les équations clés du modèle et sont en fait les équations Lotka-Volterra (qui sont utilisées en biologie pour modéliser l'interaction prédateur-proie).

Bien que le modèle puisse être résolu explicitement, il est intéressant d'analyser la trajectoire de l'économie en termes de diagramme de phase. En définissant les deux équations ci-dessus égales à zéro, nous obtenons les valeurs de u et v pour lesquelles la croissance de v et la croissance u, respectivement, sont nulles.

Ces deux lignes (ainsi que les restrictions de paramètres qui garantissent que ni u ni v ne peuvent dépasser 1) divisent l'orthant positif en quatre régions. La figure ci-dessous indique avec des flèches le mouvement de l'économie dans chaque région. Par exemple, dans la région nord-ouest (emploi élevé, faible part du travail dans la production), l'économie se déplace vers le nord-est (l'emploi augmente, la part des travailleurs augmente). Une fois qu'il aura franchi la ligne u*, il commencera à se déplacer vers le sud-ouest.La figure ci-dessous illustre l'évolution de la production potentielle (production au plein emploi), de la production réelle et des salaires au fil du temps.Comme on peut le voir, le modèle de Goodwin peut générer des fluctuations endogènes de l'activité économique sans s'appuyer sur des hypothèses étrangères de chocs extérieurs, que ce soit du côté de la demande ou de l'offre.

Le modèle a été appliqué et étendu par de nombreux économistes depuis sa première présentation en 1967.

Statistiques

Critiques et débats
Le modèle de Goodwin a connu une fertilité certaine dans les années qui ont suivi sa publication. Il a été utilisé pour expliquer la dynamique de la désinflation compétitive. Lorsqu'il y a du chômage, les salaires croissent moins vite, stagnent ou chutent, ce qui augmente la compétitivité des entreprises et leur profitabilité ; ces gains assurent une hausse de l'investissement, à un redémarrage de la croissance, et donc à une réduction du chômage.

Références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Cycle économique
 Richard M. Goodwin
 Modèle de Harrod-Domar
 Économie marxiste
 Courbe de Phillips

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If you are like me, you're always looking for ways to save money, save energy and live a more green life. Whether its something as small as turning off the lights when leaving the room, unplugging your curling wand, or only washing full loads in the dishwasher. Below I have listed 6 simple home improvements that will help you save on your monthly utility bills.
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I'm not big on heart-warming stories, especially when they're designed to tug at your heartstrings. But this one is true, and I think you'll like it, too.
Helen's response to this was to find a day that was: 'breezy, but not too breezy. I needed to keep the chances of capsizing to a minimum. Hobie cats aren't really 'senior friendly'. They don't have any rails or a solid bottom. You just have to take your life jacket and go sailing." And here's the result of that!


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Start training now for the 8th Annual Lewis and Clark Marathon here in Bozeman—the race is September 23 at 8 am. Entry fee for the marathon is $45, the half marathon is $30, and the marathon relay team is $100. The race begins on Jackson Creek Road and ends at the MSU track. In grand Olympian style, runners will take a lap and half around the track to complete the race.
The Lewis and Clark marathon is a USATF-sanctioned event and a qualifier for the Boston marathon, although the route makes it a tough one to qualify with. Runners follow a somewhat grueling but ultimately beautiful route in and around town. The race path changes from gravel to paved, and at times runners will be racing on a single-track. These conditions, along with the chance of some crazy weather, make the Lewis and Clark Marathon fairly technical as far as marathons go.
Fleet Feet in downtown Bozeman is organizing the marathon and hopes to have a pre-race dinner the night before the event. Transportation is provided and mandatory for the marathon, half marathon, and relay. Aid stations will be available every two to three miles and postrace food and drink will be provided.
There is also a 5k and a 1k kids' fun run. Tony from Fleet Feet said that the race attracts "about 100 marathon runners, 300 half-marathon runners, 200 5k runners, and the marathon relay has about 25 teams." For more information email [email protected] or visit lewisandclarkmarathon.com.
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I write quite often on this blog about the virtue – nay, requirement – of living within your means. Even though I am earning a salary that many would consider laughable for my education and experience, I am determined not only to live within my means but give and save as well. I think everyone else should strive for this too – whatever your income, you shouldn't be running up debt for your living expenses.
However, I know there are some situations when the means you have are simply not enough to live on, let alone save and give. Ideally you would have savings for those times, but that's not usually the case for young adults. As an extreme case, the vast majority of medical and law students have (next to) no income whatsoever and take out loans for both tuition and living expenses – obviously they don't have means to live within! Other graduate students may not need to take out loans for their tuition and are even given stipends or fellowships, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the stipends are enough to live on. Combine a possibly-insufficient stipend with a contract that states that no outside employment is permitted (like in my program) and some graduate student may really be scrambling to make ends meet.
This post is to help graduate students (and other low-income individuals) weigh out whether or not they are able to live on their expected/current income. It's not often that PF bloggers consider how little money is necessary for living – no one wants to imagine himself living at the subsistence level. Only people who are truly dedicated to minimizing debt will attempt these exercises. Honestly, for those entering high-income professional fields like law, medicine, or business (with a graduate degree), I wouldn't be too fussed about living at a modest comfortable level even on debt. For those without great prospects for high-paying careers post-degree, though, I think it's smart to avoid taking on debt even if it means being less comfortable during graduate school.
compare your income to your peers and low-income people in your city – What do they live on and what are their strategies?
If you are a single person and double your income approaches the median income for your city, it's very likely livable and there will be plenty of people around living similarly to learn from.
Even if your stipend is less than the living wage, you can probably still manage by having a roommate and being very frugal with food choices.
If your stipend is below the poverty level ($11,334 for the continental US) and you live in a moderate or expensive city, that's an indicator that your means will not be enough and you need to look for other sources of income.
build a budget off minimums in advance – Research your city before you commit to a lease – find the cheapest (reasonably safe) place to live and estimate your cost of food, utilities, and transport. Add in whatever ongoing payments you might have. If the sum approaches your stipend it's probably not possible to survive on it alone (and if it exceeds it, it's definitely not).
your income is uncertain/variable – If your stipend offer isn't guaranteed every semester or you are only paid during the school year, it's going to be more difficult to predict whether or not you'll be able to live on it for your entire tenure as a grad student. Use your first semester to figure our your own minimum living expenses and save the rest so you have something for the leaner times.
Obviously the exact figure that constitutes a living wage is specific to each city/university and individual and will change with time. I feel fortunate that I haven't had to question whether or not my stipend provides me sufficient means to live. I certainly understand if people choose not to live on a questionably-sufficient stipend if they expect a much higher salary post-graduation – I think it's a reasonable risk. But I also admire those who strive as best they can to live on their stipends alone and I believe they are learning useful life lessons and building character.
Let's learn from each other: What internal or external indicators would you use to determine if you couldn't live on your means? At what income level would you be forced to give up saving or giving? Have you ever lived paycheck to paycheck and how did you stop? Have you ever set up your lifestyle to cost as little as possible?
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Great post ! My means are definitely not enough for once I have children, so I will need to start working more and paying down debt so that my budget has some extra wiggle room!
I have understood that becoming debt-free feels like getting a raise!
I think you're maybe conflating "enough" or "livable" to mean both "enough to live on to avoid debt" and "enough to save and give" throughout this post, even though there is a middle ground – for instance, my husband and I have enough to pay the basics, contribute to student loan payments, and give and save a little bit, but not in the realm of 15% and 10%. I think this is the case for a lot of people who are not in debt and have some savings, but don't have at least 25% to spare every month for retirement & tithing, either. Probably we could do that if we lived like we were seriously poor, but it would be quite unpleasant. I'm not sure what the line is between "reasonable standard of living" and "short-sighted, selfish priorities," and how many people who aren't, say, nuns would give up the first to avoid the second.
It's also important to remember that the local median wage isn't necessarily the local living wage. Housing is a huge problem in my area right now because a lot of it is unaffordable for low-income families, and we have a higher than national unemployment rate. Our household income is a few thousand above the local median, which I am grateful for, but in context that also makes me feel worse about our local economy.
Yes, I totally agree there is a middle ground of 10 or 20% or so. I thought about it when drafting the post but didn't want to get really detailed into that area since it is so difficult to navigate even when you have specifics, much less with the generalities that I am using here. I think there is a point where an income may be enough to live on but not enough to give or save on, but it's sort of… asymptotic? I doubt many people have ventured into that area (you are one exception I can think of). Most people would give up on finding that line and not attempt to save/give or just take on debt to have a more comfortable standard of living.
The real wrench in what you're talking about is our student status. If we weren't in school, there would be two differences: 1) we wouldn't have a reasonable guarantee of a higher income in the near future and 2) we wouldn't be, in many cases, prevented from earning more money through performance-based raises or outside jobs. Debt or suspension of savings and giving is a reasonable option for students in a way it isn't for non-students in the same situation.
I did assume that the median wage would be higher than the living wage in a given city – I didn't think about the exceptions that there are in our current economy. I guess the suggestion should be to compare your salary to other people in your city who aren't living on debt or savings to get by.
Thanks so much for voicing your thoughts on this post. It was a tough one for me to think about and write but I wanted to take a stab at it. If you have any further points to discuss I would love to hear them.
I think many of the PhD students at my university are in this space, as well as many of our recent graduate friends with MAs who have higher salaries, but unstable 1 or 2 year positions and loans coming due: enough to get by month to month, a little extra to build up a bit of a savings cushion for big upcoming or unexpected expenses, but not much beyond that. I'm not sure how many people find it problematic, though! Most of the grad students I know, and even my parents, think that we make so little that saving or giving anything at ALL exceeds expectations at this point in life. That is very different from your standard (and my ideal one).
You bring up a really good point that having it be temporary puts us in a different situation. In terms of income increases, question of whether grad students should be allowed to earn outside income is seriously in contention at my school right now, actually – a stipend may provide a living wage for one person, but what about those with spouses and children who may not be able to provide a second income? I think ideally, grad students should have options for taking on second jobs just like employees anywhere else, and it's really problematic that international student visas don't allow it. It's enough to make you really hope for those post-graduation raises – and that even with possible future expenses like kids and mortages we won't make excuses about saving and giving.
Early in my career I was worse than paycheck to paycheck: I made nearly no money for 12 months. The only way out for me? Find more income.
It amazes me the number of people I worked with who busted their brains trying to find a way to save $10 per month more rather than find $50 more income. You're right….in many cases it was an income problem, not an expense problem.
It's best to work both ends of the problem, I think. Sometimes there is no way, in certain life situations, to make more money and sometimes you've cut your living expenses as far as possible already – you need to check out both approaches.
I relocated to get married on the assumption that I would find work quickly, which proved to be false. My wife and I both had a substantial amount of debt from previously not living within our means, and then her wages started getting garnished at 25% of gross. For her wages at the time, it actually put her below minimum wage. We were well below subsistence then! Once she declared bankruptcy, we could afford to buy food other than peanut butter again.
Wow, that is quite a story of escaping the debt cycle!
Haha, yes very good point! You don't just have to look at your checking account balances. Mint would be particularly helpful to differentiate between income from your job and income from other sources such as selling things – would your head be above water without getting rid of resources?
This is a great resource, especially for graduate students. Once more thing that people can often go without is cable television. Whenever people come to me looking to cut costs, that is the first thing I suggest to cut from the budget. It does not provide enough return for the investment.
You are so right. The only time I had cable was when I had 3 roommates so it wasn't too expensive. It's so easy to waste time watching show after show, too.
I think that, even if you're not in school, you need to see whether you really don't have enough means or if it's a moment-in-time thing. If you looked at our finances today you would probably say that we just don't have enough- but you also wouldn't see that we're digging out of a short-term hole. If I'm still saying that in six months, then maybe I was wrong.
Also, I think you're far too forgiving of law/medicine/business grad students. Many of those students wind up making much less than people think for the first few (or several) years out of school, so I would discourage them from living any more extravagantly than any other grad student.
To your first point, yes I agree there is a distinction to draw between short-term and long-term means and spending discrepancies. There are short-term spending sacrifices that you can make to get through a rough period that aren't sustainable in the long-term, and likewise maybe there are ways to get some extra cash by selling things or working that is also unsustainable but workable for a short term.
Definitely I think that students should have a realistic prediction of their post-grad salaries. But I also don't think that med or law students have the option of working while in school because their programs are so all-consuming – so they really do have to take on some amount of debt unless they have savings or a source of passive income. I totally agree that they shouldn't live extravagantly, but it's also hard to pin them to a certain income level of another grad student since there is such a wide range of stipends.


Ocean Song shows a Laurel Burch mermaid holding two fish with a sun in the right hand corner. The inside of the card has a pale mauve and lemon design that shows the tips of the mermaid's hair in the bottom left hand corner.There is no greeting, The envelope is pale grey and mauve with a sun and moon on the left hand side.
The card is lovely and was delivered promptly, I am very pleased with the purchase.


Once you have captured the files out on location, only half of the process is complete. Elia then takes you into the post production studio and shares all of the intricate steps he takes to turn his images from a perfectly captured snapshot into a world class piece of art. It is here that you will learn how Elia pulls the most out of his raw files and how to adjust color and tonality so your images pop off the screen. As with all of our tutorials, Photographing the World III starts of pretty simple but quickly builds up in complexity. As a forewarning, if you are not proficient in Photoshop you might want to start with Elia's most basic tutorial Photographing the World: Landscapes. In this tutorial, some of the topics covered are advanced panoramic stitching, creating illuminosity masks from scratch, replacing skies in complex scenes, advanced time blending, difficult object removal, and building Photoshop actions to help speed up your workflow.
Unlike previous tutorials where Elia has used 3rd party plugins to achieve his signature look, in Photographing the World 3 everything is done entirely with Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop. This allows you to understand how you too can get the most out of the industry's two most used pieces of software without having to rely on extra plugins that might require extra money and constant updates.
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Please find listed below, this week's playlist for the fastest growing radio show in Atlanta: The Hurst Selection - London to Atlanta, which can be heard every Saturday evening between 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. EST, on WCLK Atlanta, Georgia, 91.9 FM/wclk.com.
The show, which came to WCLK in July 2009, is recorded in the UK and features a contemporary mix of Soul and Jazz and everything else in between. Added to the music is the fully interactive nature of the show where Facebook, Twitter, Skype, IM and e-mail are all fully utilised/incorporated as the show is broadcast.
I hope you get a chance to listen and please be sure to let me know if you require any further information.


The ban, which took effect immediately, eliminates the use of lead-based ammunition on federal lands like national parks and wildlife refuges, as well as any other land administered by the Fish and Wildlife Service. The ban is expected to have a major impact on much of the hunting that takes place on federal lands across the United States as lead-based ammunition is widely legal and used throughout the country.
"Exposure to lead ammunition and fishing tackle has resulted in harmful effects to fish and wildlife species," Ashe said in his order. "According to the U.S. Geological Survey, lead poisoning is a toxicosis caused by the absorption of hazardous levels of lead in body tissues."
"Ingested lead pellets from shotgun shells have been a common source of lead poisoning in birds," the order continued. "The Service recognized the problem of avian exposure to lead shot used for waterfowl hunting and enacted restrictions in 1991 and hunting and waterfowl populations have thrived since."
"The use of lead ammunition continues for other forms of hunting, presenting an ongoing risk to upland or terrestrial migratory birds and other species that ingest spent shot directly from the ground or as a result of predating or scavenging carcasses that have been killed with lead ammunition and left in the field" Ashe's order said. "Many states have enacted nontoxic shot and ammunition requirements to address this concern."
Gun rights activists expressed outrage at the last-minute move, labeling it political. The National Shooting Sports Foundation called for the agency's next director to immediately rescind the order.
"This directive is irresponsible and driven not out of sound science but unchecked politics," said Lawrence Keane, the group's senior vice president. "The timing alone is suspect. This directive was published without dialogue with industry, sportsmen, and conservationists. The next director should immediately rescind this and, instead, create policy based upon scientific evidence of population impacts with regard to the use of traditional ammunition."


Hard Candy Lollipops: This project is a glimmering, shimmering rainbow of colors and flavors that is super fun for kids and adults to do together… And, it's educational! Here are some hypothesis to ponder while working on your family sugar rush: How is hard candy made? Do different colors and/or of candy melt at different rates? How does the look and taste of different colors of candy change when melted together?
"Eat the rainbow" has taken on a whole new meaning — it's not just about making sure your plate is filled with vibrant veggies (or, err, Skittles?). Everything from bagels to lattes are magically getting the rainbow treatment, and we're not mad about it. But you may be wondering when the rainbow blur is going to fade from your Instagram feed.
Seems like this trend is certainly not going to lose its luster anytime soon. And since it's here to stay, we highly recommend you lean into the hues and try one of these fun, colorful creations yourself.
Food Network Kitchen's Rainbow Bundt Cake.
Somewhere over the rainbow bundt cake is a whole bunch of colored coconut flakes, and it's absolutely delicious.
You will need: a parchment-lined baking sheet, hard candy in a rainbow of colors, oven-safe lollipop molds, like these stainless steel molds from Get Suckered, and oven-safe (non-plastic) sticks. We used 6" long sticks, 3" molds. Insert the sticks into the molds before adding the candy and make sure that the molds lie flat against the baking sheets in order to minimize the amount of melted candy that leaks out around the edges. All of the following examples were baked at 350 degrees for approximately 5 minutes unless otherwise noted. Be careful because the candy and molds are hot and adult supervision may be required and be sure to let the candy cool completely before removing the molds.
I'm a sucker for a colorful lollipop. This "pop"ular rainbow treat is the perfect DIY to do with kids.
All that glitters isn't gold — but it just might be unicorn-esque. Candy melts swirl into a sweet treat that is sure to stand out at your next party (unicorns are not meant to fit in, after all). Place these shards of deliciousness into cellophane bags and tie with a bow to create a truly magical party favor.
Layers... we all have 'em. And so does this cake! Sifting the dry ingredients together helps to keep them light, while six different hues of food coloring make them jazzy. When you cut into this cake your guests are sure to be color-struck.
Birthdays and confetti go together like rainbows and unicorns — perfectly! If it's your birthday (or half-birthday, or friends birthday, maybe even your dog's birthday?) and you really want to treat yo' self, start your special day with these indulgent pancakes drizzled with cream cheese frosting.
Food Network Kitchen's Tie Dye Cheesecake.
If unicorns were able to make cheesecake (and if, you know, they actually existed) it looking something like this. A classic cheesecake is transformed using just a bit of food coloring and a wooden skewer to create an impressive tie-dye effect.
Food Network Kitchen's Confetti Gooey Butter Cake for W-Q4 2017 New FNK, as seen on Food Network.
If you're going to be magical you need to be able to turn the ordinary into the extraordinary. This gooey vanilla butter cake is made using a white box cake mix. When topped with a cream cheese filling and lots of colorful sprinkles you end up with a dish that is anything but vanilla.
This cake decorated with Peeps is perfect for spring entertaining. Food Photography, Ideas and Recipes By Jackie Alpers for Food Network.
Food Network digital contributor Jackie Alpers knows how to please the peeps. While there's no refraction or dispersion of light involved in the making of this rainbow cake, it is sure to catch everyone's eye. Make your favorite cake and decorate using these vibrant marshmallow treats.
Sunny Anderson is one smart cookie! These confetti cookies have a crispy surprise in the form of multi-colored puffed rice cereal. Add the cereal into the batter by hand at the end of the mixing process to ensure that your cereal stays in all its colorful glory.
Rainbow salad is displayed during an episode about rainbow foods to brighten your day, as seen on Food Network's The Kitchen Sink, Season 1.
The colorful arrangement of each component creates a presentation that will have everyone going back for more veggies. Rainbow foods have that effect on people.
Food Network Kitchen's Colorful Summer Rolls with Peanut Dipping Sauce.
We are on a roll with these colorful dishes. Summer rolls are the perfect way to display pretty veggies, like these thinly sliced beets and peppers.
You won't be missing the sprinkles (okay, maybe just a little...) when you eat Nancy Fuller's roasted vegetables with a balsamic glaze. The glaze is added after the rainbow vegetables have cooked, and is the perfect finishing touch.
Add fun, flavor and color to your spring meals with recipes from Emilie Guelpa's cookbook, Rainbow Tarts.


If an exploration of a particular culture will lead to a heightened understanding of a work of literature produced within that culture, so too a careful reading of a work of literature will lead to a heightened understanding of the culture within which it was produce.
Culture shapes the way we think; it tells us what "makes sense." It holds people together by providing us with a shared set of customs, values, ideas, and beliefs, as well as a common language. We live enmeshed in this cultural web; it influences the way we relate to others, the way we look, our tastes, our habits; it enters our dreams and desires. But as culture binds us together it also selectively blinds us. As we grow up, we accept ways of looking at the world, ways of thinking and being that might best be characterized as cultural frames of reference or cultural myths [my emphasis]. These myths help us to understand our place in the world—our place as prescribed by our culture. They define our relationships to friends and lovers, to the past and future, to nature, to power, and to nation. Becoming a critical thinker means learning how to look beyond these [socially constructed] cultural myths and the assumptions embedded in them.
This is a course that focuses on reading contemporary fiction and film to discover how society affects and shapes people's values, behaviors, and beliefs, as well as the consequences of that kind of social molding. We will be analyzing various authors' cultural critiques embedded in stories and how those stories mirror social myths that we are taught to believe are absolute, exclusively valuable truths, but which the stories' authors often re-present fictionally as dangerous to certain groups of individuals as well as to society at large.
Our core texts will be Michael Ryan's Cultural Studies, a Practical Introduction, along with 20th-century American short stories thematically centered on exploring social myths and truths carefully imbedded in the stories, which serve to mirror actual social beliefs and practices. We will detect and analyze those myths as they affect the fictional characters in the story, and, by association, actual readers--including us.
Later in the course we will take a close look at one or more feature films to discover how feature movies sometimes marketed as merely "entertainments" likewise mirror and critique serious sociocultural conditioning/molding. Some stories include Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues," Cisneros' "Barbie-Q," and Jackson's "The Lottery." Feature films screened in class might include Rabbit-Proof Fence or Up in the Air, or perhaps, No Country for Old Men, among other possible contemporary films.
Class requirements include regular weekly attendance and preparation, vocal, thoughtful in-class analysis, discussion and presentations (no silent auditing!) and textual and contextual readings of fascinating but sometimes unsettling historical themes embedded in the stories and films (e.g., Rabbit-Proof Fence is a provocative feature film about an Australian historically-accurate account Aboriginal oppression, but it is as well an engrossing, uplifting story in which 3 young Aboriginal girls defy, expose, and outwit their Eurocentric government's adult oppressors/kidnappers, causing their widespread public humiliation). The course also requires written interpretive analysis, applying cultural-studies premises to interpret stories and films, and practicing the use of standard literary and film critical terminology.
Advanced work in cultural studies.


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Moving to a four-day week
About three months ago we decided to trial a four-day week, at no loss of pay, for all members. We recently reviewed our trial and it easily passed as a permanent change to our employment statuses.
In this post, we'll outline how we did it, what we discovered in our trial and why the four-day week is an important step for any organisation.
Why move to a four-day week?
The idea of moving to a four-day week has been gaining a lot of traction in the last few years, and the pandemic has accelerated this trend. Governments and businesses around the world have already run successful trials:
According to pilot studies, workers reported anywhere from a 25% to 40% increase in productivity, as well as an improved work/life balance, less need to take sick days, more time to spend with family and children, less money spent on childcare, and a more flexible working schedule which leads to better morale.
— From A four-day workweek is the future. Here's why by Congressman Mark Takano
But it's not just about the benefits experienced by individual workers. The Four Day Week campaign have an expansive list of reasons for moving to a four-day week and how this can have a wider impact on our society, including:
A fairer society: more equal share of paid and unpaid work, including of caring roles traditionally ascribed to women
Strengthened communities: more time to build relationships, to care for children, the elderly and the disabled.
A reduced carbon footprint: research has shown that a four-day week could reduce the UK's carbon footprint by 127 million tonnes per year, equivalent to taking 27 million cars off the road (effectively the entire UK private car fleet).
More time to engage with politics, participate in local campaigns and shape society at a local, national and international level.
In the time of leisure by Martiros Sarian, 1930
Our hesitations
As a worker co-operative, it's admittedly fairly simple to initiate a change like this. We followed our usual consent-based decision making process: one of us made an initial proposal, we clarified it and addressed critical concerns as a group and then documented this decision on Loomio.
Our main concerns were:
We're already very busy, so will this impact our productivity?
We don't have a lot of surplus cash sloshing around month to month, so can we even afford it?
It can be a bit strange to make decisions around finances and productivity as a co-op member, because you're playing both the role of employee and employer, which can feel like you have somewhat conflicting motives. Ultimately, inspired by the four-day week as a political demand and we were curious to try it ourselves. We decided that a three-month trial was "good enough for now and safe enough to try".
We agreed that we would each work 32 hours per week, and take either Wednesday or Friday off. We hold regular team meetings on Mondays and Tuesdays, so we wanted to make sure that we could retain these rituals and have at least three days per week when we were all working. On the first few weeks, we found that we had a pile-up of meetings on Thursdays, so we've had to be very conscious of distributing our schedule across the whole week.
What we do with our time
Most of us have opted to take Wednesdays off. We find that only ever work two days at a time creates a good cadence that allows us to approach work in a much calmer way. It somehow seems to have an impact on mental health and happiness that is disproportionate to the actual amount of hours off.
Some of the things we do on our days off include:
Life admin, like going to the bank, doctor or other appointments
Personal projects, sometimes loosely related to work
Volunteer at a local community garden
Go to the gym (for a longer time than usual)
Write songs and play the guitar
Learn magic tricks
Do housework
We've found that having a day in the middle of the week for housework makes the rest of the week feel less stressful and also frees up the weekends for truly disconnecting from any type of work. Weekends feel more spacious and abundant, and weeks are calmer.
One thing that we've noticed is that some of us do find it harder to switch off than others. It's important to give yourself permission to actually take the time off and relax.
We were amazed to find after three months that there was no drop in productivity. That's right, despite the fact that we were collectively putting in 24 hours less per week (one member was already working four days), we haven't noticed a difference in our output. Wild!
Of course, productivity is notoriously difficult to measure, so this isn't an exact science. But we are getting through roughly the same amount of tasks per week, and are completing the same amount of projects. If anything, it makes us be more realistic about the time we have, and perhaps more cautious in our estimation of the work we can take on.
Try it yourself!
This is one of those decisions where we wonder why we hadn't done it earlier. We feel happier and calmer, we're just as (if not more) productive, and it's allowed us to take a more balanced approach to our work. We hope that more organisations will make the same move soon. We're happy to chat to anyone about our experiences – just email us at hello@commonknowledge.coop.
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Attorneys Clear Issues Before Opening Statements
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — With a jury now seated to consider a murder charge against George Zimmerman, attorneys are turning to unresolved issues Friday before opening statements next week, including whether a prosecution expert can testify that screams for help on a 911 call came from 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.
Six female jurors were chosen Thursday for the second-degree murder trial of Zimmerman, a former neighborhood watch volunteer who says he fired on the unarmed black teenager in self-defense last year in a gated community in Sanford. Zimmerman is pleading not guilty.
Opening statements are scheduled Monday. But pending issues to be resolved Friday include whether the audio expert can testify. Circuit Judge Debra Nelson said she would make a decision Friday. Defense attorneys don't want the expert to testify, claiming his analysis is flawed.
The jury's selection Thursday followed nearly two weeks in which potential jurors were quizzed by attorneys about their views on firearms, crime, race and self-defense.
"We've got a jury, which is great!" defense attorney Mark O'Mara said after jurors were sworn in Thursday. "We found six jurors that said they'll be fair, they'll be impartial and most important not allow any external pressures, sympathy, biases, political expediency to affect the way they're going to look at the evidence."
Prosecutors have refused to comment for the duration of the trial. In a statement, attorneys representing Martin's parents said they expected the jurors to be fair and impartial.
"This case has always been about equal justice," they said. "Equal justice under the law is not a black value or a white value. It's an American value. "
Prosecutors have said Zimmerman, 29, racially profiled Martin as he walked back through the central Florida community from a convenience store on a rainy night in February 2012 wearing a dark hooded shirt.
Race and ethnicity have played a prominent role in the case and even clouded jury selection. While the court did not release the racial makeup of the jury, the panel appeared to reporters covering the selection process to be made up of five white women and a sixth who may be Hispanic.
Zimmerman identifies himself as Hispanic.
Two of the jurors recently moved to the area — one from Iowa and one from Chicago — and two are involved with rescuing animals as their hobbies.
One juror had a prior arrest, but she said it was disposed of and she thought she was treated fairly. Two jurors have guns in their homes. All of their names have been kept confidential and the panel will be sequestered for the trial.
The central Florida community of Sanford is in Seminole County, which is 78.5 percent white and 16.5 percent black.
In Florida, 12 jurors are required only for criminal trials involving capital cases, when the death penalty is being considered.
If convicted, Zimmerman could face a potential life sentence.
On Feb. 26, 2012, Zimmerman spotted Martin, whom he did not recognize, walking in the gated townhome community in Sanford where Zimmerman lived and where the fiancee of Martin's father also resided. There had been a rash of recent break-ins, and Zimmerman was wary of strangers walking through the complex.
The two eventually got into a struggle, and Zimmerman shot Martin in the chest with his 9mm handgun. He was charged 44 days after the shooting, after a special prosecutor was appointed to review the case.
Martin's shooting death and the initial decision not to charge Zimmerman led to public outrage and demonstrations around the nation, with some accusing Sanford police of failing to thoroughly investigate.
The six jurors were culled from a pool of 40 candidates who made it into a second round of questioning. Two men and two women also were picked as alternates.
George Zimmerman Mark O'Mara Trayvon Martin


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I wake up every morning with blood sugar at no higher than 125. i started off at 650 then dropped to 400 now i'm at 129 the highest. it takes dedication, and patience.. Another cause of high morning blood sugar is the "dawn phenomenon." in the dawn phenomenon, your body releases hormones that trigger your liver to put out glucose while you sleep. if there is not enough insulin in the body to counteract this, then blood glucose levels rise during the night, resulting in a high reading in the morning.. Is 124 a good blood sugar? and check your blood sugar periodically. 140 is somewhat high. 124 is good i have tested my blood for a weekthe morning is. two fasting morning blood sugars 129 and 130, two fasting morning blood sugars 129 and 130, and another 124…type 2 diabetes? i guess i shouldn't be too.is this a harmful blood sugar level to be at? jump to content..
That early morning jump in your blood sugar? it's called the dawn phenomenon or the dawn effect. it usually happens between 2 and 8 a.m. but why?. Blood sugar 129 mg/dl (7.16mmol/l) fasting – is that good or bad? we help you interpret your blood sugar values. you have tested your blood sugar fasting and the result was 129 mg/dl.. This is the blog for blood sugar 101. visit the main blood sugar 101 web site to learn more about how blood sugar works, what blood sugar levels cause organ damage, what blood sugar levels are safe and how to achieve those safe blood sugar levels.. to visit us on facebook click here..
There are various possible causes of a high blood sugar level in the morning: the dawn phenomenon which is a natural rise in blood sugar due to a surge of hormones secreted at night which trigger your liver to dump sugar into your blood to help prepare you for the day.. Christy parkin, msn, rn, cde, responds: in the early morning hours, hormonal changes in your body will naturally cause blood glucose to rise. for people who don't have diabetes, the increase in blood glucose is offset by increased insulin production..
Christy parkin, msn, rn, cde, responds: in the early morning hours, hormonal changes in your body will naturally cause blood glucose to rise. for people who don't have diabetes, the increase in blood glucose is offset by increased insulin production.. Another cause of high morning blood sugar is the "dawn phenomenon." in the dawn phenomenon, your body releases hormones that trigger your liver to put out glucose while you sleep. if there is not enough insulin in the body to counteract this, then blood glucose levels rise during the night, resulting in a high reading in the morning.. This is the blog for blood sugar 101. visit the main blood sugar 101 web site to learn more about how blood sugar works, what blood sugar levels cause organ damage, what blood sugar levels are safe and how to achieve those safe blood sugar levels.. to visit us on facebook click here..


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Q: In Python, how do you determine whether the kernel is running in 32-bit or 64-bit mode? I'm running python 2.6 on Linux, Mac OS, and Windows, and need to determine whether the kernel is running in 32-bit or 64-bit mode.  Is there an easy way to do this?
I've looked at platform.machine(), but this doesn't work properly on Windows.
I've also looked at platform.architecture(), and this doesn't work when running 32-bit python on 64-bit Windows.
Note: It looks like python 2.7 has a fix that makes platform.architecture() work correctly.  Unfortunately, I need to use python 2.6 (at least for now).
(edit:  From talking to folks off-line, it sounds like there probably isn't a robust python-only way to make this determination without resorting to evil hacks.  I'm just curious what evil hacks folks have used in their projects that use python 2.6.  For example, on Windows it may be necessary to look at the PROCESSOR_ARCHITEW6432 environment variable and check for AMD64)

A: How about working around issue7860
import os
import sys
import platform

def machine():
    """Return type of machine."""
    if os.name == 'nt' and sys.version_info[:2] < (2,7):
        return os.environ.get("PROCESSOR_ARCHITEW6432",
               os.environ.get('PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE', ''))
    else:
        return platform.machine()

def os_bits(machine=machine()):
    """Return bitness of operating system, or None if unknown."""
    machine2bits = {'AMD64': 64, 'x86_64': 64, 'i386': 32, 'x86': 32}
    return machine2bits.get(machine, None)

print (os_bits())

A: >>> import platform
>>> platform.architecture()
('32bit', 'ELF')

A: Python 2.7.2 (default, Jun 12 2011, 15:08:59) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win
32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import platform
>>> platform.uname()[4]
'AMD64'

This is with Python 32-bit on a 64-bit Windows OS.

A: i hope this can solve the problem i tried it on my windows 8.1 64 bit and returns the value AMD64 for me
import _winreg
def get_registry_value(key, subkey, value):

  key = getattr(_winreg, key)
  handle = _winreg.OpenKey(key, subkey )
  (value, type) = _winreg.QueryValueEx(handle, value)
  return value

windowsbit = get_registry_value(
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE",
"SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\Control\\Session Manager\\Environment",
"PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE")
print windowsbit

just run this code if you are working on 64 bit windows machine this will print AMD64
or if you are working on 32 bit it will print x86
i hope this code can help to solve this problem fully

A: we can used follow  API to detect current is 32bit or 64 bit

platform.architecture()[0]

'64bit


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