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The Declining Wage Gap for Gay Men
With laws prohibiting same-sex marriage falling to court challenges on a weekly basis, it's an exciting time for gay rights. But for gay men in America, there have traditionally been two different avenues of discrimination: The legal system, and by the economic system.
The good news is that things are looking up on that second front as well.
"We find evidence that, in the United States, the wage gap against gay men has significantly decreased over the last two decades," economists Bruce Elmslie of the University of New Hampshire and Edinaldo Tebaldi of Bryant University write in the journal Kyklos.
"This study finds that gay men earn more than unmarried heterosexual men who cohabitate with a woman."
"We find no evidence of wage differentials in traditional blue-collar, male-documented occupations," they write. "In comparing 13 occupational categories over the period from 2001 to 2011, a wage gap exists only in managerial, sales, and protective services occupations."
Elmslie and Tebaldi used micro-data covering the years 1995 to 2001 from the March Supplement Current Population Survey, which is conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau.
They identified homosexuals by restricting their study to "unrelated and unmarried same-sex partners cohabiting whose age is 25 years or older," they write, "but excluding those individuals designated as roommates."
They note they were guilty of "not properly excluding roommates" in a 2007 study which found there was indeed widespread discriminatory treatment against gay men in the marketplace (but not lesbians). These new figures presumably reflect both the fact they made that adjustment, and the ongoing rapid changes in the social environment.
Their new estimates show that the wage gap between married heterosexual men and gay men in the U.S. has shrunk considerably in recent years, from approximately eight percent in the late 1990s to 4.5 percent in the 2000s.
"This study finds that gay men earn more than unmarried heterosexual men who cohabitate with a woman," they write. "These estimates support the view that the overall improvement in people's perception regarding homosexuality has contributed to reduce the wage gap against gay men in the U.S."
However, their results point to pockets where discrimination still exists. For one thing, they found "a significant wage gap against gay men in small cities and towns," where social attitudes presumably take longer to change.
Moreover, they found a continuing wage differential of 11 and 16 percent between gay men and married straight men in management and sales positions.
This suggests some people are uncomfortable being managed by a gay male, or being served by a gay male as a customer. Or, perhaps, some employers who don't realize attitudes have shifted hold onto outdated perceptions, and are hiring and promoting accordingly.
Nevertheless, the study presents welcome evidence that, for gay men, the economic landscape is changing along with the social one.


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. . . in the UK that is. Lines from my poem 'Letter to John Forbes' appeared, along with the work of others, on the sides of Sydney streetsweepers during that city's Writers' Festival. Thanks to Ben Strout for the photo.
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poets on music
Check out The Economy magazine's special issue in which various poets (including me) make lists and sometimes talk about the music they like.
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For those interested an interview with me appears under today's date on Rob McLennan's blog here.
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Over Friday and Saturday at the University of Kent a mini conference took place on the San Francisco Renaissance focussing largely on Robert Duncan and Jack Spicer. Over five two-hour sessions the guests acted as the leaders of animated discussions. The two days, organised by Ben Hickman, were both intensive and productive and left the participants (myself included) with the desire for more.
Joanna Pawlik spoke about the origins of 1940s San Francisco modernism paying particular attention to Circle. This was one of many little magazines flourishing across the English-speaking world at the time (Australia's Angry Penguins appeared over the same period). A contemporary article by the economist Mildred Edie Brady looked at this new Californian phenomenon anthropologically. Brady's depiction of the nascent beatnik culture was in places obtuse, in places astute. Her comments on the male-dominated scene, which she compared unfavourably with early-twenties modernism, were right on the money (Michael Davidson was later to explore the homosociality of the 1950s American scene in his book Guys Like Us). Some images from Circle included an advertisement for Daliel's bookstore that announced some of the titles expected to interest current readers. These included works on Surrealism, books by Herbert Read, Henry Miller, Christopher Caudwell and Sigmund Freud, and of course the Kinsey Report.
Amy Evans led a lively session on Robert Duncan. After some years of legal wrangling Duncan's work is now being reissued in a more complete and uniform edition by the University of California Press (the second and final volume of the Collected Poems should appear later this year. The first, plus (finally) The HD Book have been available for a while and a collection of essays will also be appearing. North Atlantic Books put together a fine collection of interviews in one of which Duncan discusses the visual arts at length, and of course Lisa Jarnot's biography of the poet came out last year. Some attention was paid to the rift between Duncan and Denise Levertov over the nature of the political in poetry. Duncan wasn't entirely consistent here though his concern was that the substance of a poem shouldn't be decided beforehand. A section from Ground Work savages Levertov in an uncharacteristically misogynist manner. It's the kind of bad poetry only someone who is any good can write, but it's bad nonetheless.
After dinner on Friday evening a reading took place at the Veg Box Café in Canterbury. Several of us read work by Spicer, Duncan, Joanne Kyger, and Allen Ginsberg. The latter was read over a piano composition by Philip Glass (one of his cod neoclassical pieces). There was nowhere to sit when we entered but on some steps (a 'stoop') behind the readers. I felt I ought to be pouring wine and shouting 'Go! Go!' to egg on the performers. Unfortunately I had to miss the second part of the reading in which the fire alarm went off in the middle of Juha Virtanen's piece. Juha read on to this accompaniment. He was possibly the only one who could have. Someone had to come from Herne Bay to turn the thing off.
Saturday's first session was on Spicer's book Language and was led by Daniel Katz who has written the first substantial critical work on the poet. We noted Spicer's essentially anti-projectivist stance in which the sentence became more important than the line (and consequently 'breath' etcetera). While Duncan's work seems to come from the line of Whitman and particularly DH Lawrence, Spicer's work follows a path of negation beginning perhaps with Stevens and leading into Language Poetry. I have always liked the project of Spicer's Book of Magazine Verse with its pieces designed for magazines which would nonetheless reject them (in doing so exposing the faultlines in their own political aesthetic).
Following this, Kat Peddie and Natalie Bradbeer looked at Spicer's 'translations' of Lorca. If Spicer saw the poet as a radio rather than an individual human voice then translation would perhaps be like transmission, subject to interference. All the way though the sessions we discussed the nature of the nascent gay culture and its place in the work of these poets. Duncan had famously published 'The Homosexual in Society' in Politics in 1944. The editor, Dwight Macdonald, had suggested he do so anonymously but Duncan felt the whole point would have been lost had he done so. Spicer split with the Mattachine Society because (characteristically) he felt contrary to the beliefs of most members of the group that sexual practices were the point at which the homosexual and the heterosexual were most alike. His was very much a queer politic.
Finally, Tim Atkins showed some digitized videos taken in 1993 at Carla Harryman's Poet's Theatre with some commentary on the nature of these loose performances (Atkins was a participant himself during that year which he spent in San Francisco). These involved getting a cast and an audience together for a work that of its nature would be amateurish and unrehearsed. Most of the 'scripts' were probably disposed of after the performance and the footage we were shown was certainly not designed to memorialise the events. These practices certainly shared the anarchic ethos of the Spicer group (I think here of the questionnaire from his 'Poetry as Magic' workshop) and one of the participants, Kevin Killian, has both edited Spicer's work and co-written a biography.
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J.D. Drew has been out since mid-July with a left shoulder impingement, but Ian Browne of MLB.com reports that the Red Sox's "current plan" is to activate him from the disabled list once rosters expand on September 1.
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Reddick was hitting .367 with a 1.088 OPS when Drew was placed on the disabled list, but in 30 games since then he's just 22-for-92 (.239) with two homers and a .631 OPS, striking out 23 times while drawing just six walks.
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We have previously discussed how to make big gains on the expiry day in Nifty using open interest and options chain data. We have seen that all out of the money or OTM options become zero "0" after the expiry. It has also been noted that more than 90% of options expire out of the money. So there is a huge profit opportunity for the option sellers, who are also known as option writers. This post, I will discuss, Nifty and Weekly Bank Nifty options writing strategy, that is used by professional traders.
In another word the market always expires in a way, that favors the option writers most and hits the options buyers most. So the market expires at a point where there is the least pain for the options writers and maximum of max pain for the option buyers. That point is called Max Pain. You can get Nifty and Weekly Bank Nifty Max Pain data live at the Options Max Pain page in our site. To access the page go to MARKET DATA –> OPTIONS MAX PAIN.
So we have understood that on the expiration day price often moves to a point that creates maximum pain for the option buyers. Our options max pain chart shows the point live. You can refresh the page from time to time and have an idea where the market is going to expire.
How To Trade Directionally Using Max Pain?
- These trades start just before few days of expiry and close on expiry day.
- If the market is trading 100-200 points from the max pain point, traders can take a directional trade towards the max pain point. Check the image below:
- Suppose the Options Pain is at 9600 and the market is trading at 9500 before 1-2 days of expiration, traders can buy calls in anticipation that the market will expire at 9600.
- Similarly, if the market is trading at 9700 before 1-2 days of expiration, traders can buy puts for the targets close to 9600.
How To Write Options Using Max Pain?
- We can create our Nifty or Weekly Bank Nifty options writing strategy using options pain.
- Suppose the options pain is at 8600 and the market is trading close to the options pain before few days of expiry within a 100 points range.
- We have an idea that the market is going to expire near 8600.
- We can simply short 8700 / 8800 calls those are out of the money and also short 8500 / 8400 puts those are also out of the money.
- We can hold the trades till expiry or book profit beforehand as per our convenience.
Due to the weekly Bank Nifty contracts, Weekly Bank Nifty options writing strategy can be created more frequently using Max Pain as we can create a trade setup every week in the Bank Nifty weekly options. We will do a case study on this.
Case Study – Bank Nifty Options (11th January 2018):
The current Max Pain of Bank Nifty index is hovering at 25500 on 6th January 2018. Today is Friday, so the market will again open on Monday. See the Bank Nifty Max Pain below:
Now let's add the 11th January expiry Bank Nifty options on the Market Watch. Let us assume that Bank Nifty will expire at 25500-25600 on the 11th of January. 11th January series 25700 call option costs Rs. 138 and 11th January 25500 put option costs Rs. 71.65.
Let's short both the options. The total premium received Rs. 138 + Rs. 71.65 = Rs. 209.65 (rounded to Rs. 210). So the premium received per lot is Rs. 210 x 40 = Rs. 8400. In case Bank Nifty expires between 25500-25700 we will receive the whole premium as both the options will expire worthlessly.
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SOUTH JORDAN, Utah, Feb. 10, 2017 (Gephardt Daily) — Bingham High School in South Jordan was placed on lockout Friday morning as police searched for two students who they say are known gang members and might have stolen a gun.
South Jordan Police Department Lt. Sam Pennington told Gephardt Daily that a gun was missing from the home of one of these students' parents' in Herriman.
Pennington said the parents stated the two students have an ongoing disagreement with two other students who are also known to be gang affiliated. The latter two students are in school Friday.
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text: DUBAI- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's historic phone call with US President Barack Obama is likely to provoke resistance from powerful hardliners in the Islamic Republic who have built their support on enmity with the West.The first thing Rouhani did on his return to Tehran at the weekend was to state that he had acted within guidelines set by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei when he took part in the highest-level contact between Iran and the United States in three decades.The brief mobile phone conversation led many to speculate that since the election of the moderate Rouhani relations between Washington and Tehran, in the deep freeze since the US embassy hostage crisis, may be about to improve."MACHO AND WRONG"It is perhaps not surprising that the IRGC, a force grown mighty on a mission to protect the Islamic Republic from its enemies, both internal and external, should balk at mending ties with the greatest of Iran's foes, the United States.But Jafari's remark seemed to fly in the face of Rouhani's own coded message to the Guards only two weeks before."The IRGC is above and beyond political currents, not beside them or within them," the president had told the Guards. "The IRGC has a higher status, which is that of the whole nation." In other words, he was telling them to stay out of politics.The public comments of ministers, politicians and military commanders represent only a pale reflection of what is likely to be an intense debate within the largely opaque corridors of Iranian power, where policy is often arrived at by laboriously thrashing out a consensus, with Khamenei having the final word.Rouhani, who took office in August, had the supreme leader's approval for his move to build bridges with Washington and gain some relief from sanctions that have fuelled inflation of more than 40 percent and led to a sharp fall in the value of the rial.But by taking Obama's last minute phone call as he headed for the airport in New York, Rouhani may have over-stepped his remit from the ever cautious and deeply anti-Western Khamenei, according to some analysts."I think that Jafari's comments underscore the unscripted, improvised nature of Rouhani's conversation with Obama," said Dr. Siavush Randjbar-Daemi, lecturer at Britain's University of Manchester. "It also gives some credence to Rouhani's claim that the Obama call was really an improvised initiative.""Regarding Jafari, I think he too was taken aback by the speed with which events moved last week in New York, and sought to try to bring about a more moderate pace in the rapprochement process between Iran and the United States," he said.With two weeks to go before the next round of nuclear negotiations in Geneva between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council - Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States - plus Germany, the debate within Iran appears to be intensifying."The Revolutionary Guards gave public support to Rouhani's trip to New York, but made clear that he has to negotiate from a position of strength," said Scott Lucas, an Iran expert and co-founder of EA Worldview which monitors Iranian media."Jafari's comments go further. This is a challenge for Rouhani to deliver on actual changes of US behaviour. 'Show us the progress', he's saying. He's testing Rouhani to see whether he can get some move forward from the US," he said.More strident comments by Rouhani's foreign minister and chief nuclear negotiator Mohammad Javad Zarif on Tuesday appeared to show that Rouhani's government may be getting the message."President Obama's presumption that Iran is negotiating because of his illegal threats and sanctions is disrespectful of a nation, macho and wrong," he wrote on Twitter.Rouhani's invocation of Khamenei, the man at the top of Iran's complex political system, looked like a bid to ward off a backlash from hardline power centres and their supporters, some of whom were already lying in wait to throw eggs at the president's motorcade.The demonstrators' chants of "Death to America" were, however, likely to be only the opening shots of a campaign against Rouhani by a conservative political and military establishment opposed to the West in general and to the United States and Israel in particular.Such is the mistrust between Iran and the United States that a big sticking point of negotiations over Tehran's disputed nuclear program has been who should make the first move.Iran has insisted the United States and the European Union should ease sanctions before it makes any concessions over enriching uranium, while Western powers have argued the reverse.For Iranian hardliners, Rouhani's conversation with Obama was a step too far and, they argue, Washington must now take concrete steps to dispel the distrust. "The Americans should prove their goodwill by taking practical steps (such as) ending enmity with the Iranian nation and lifting sanctions," a senior member of parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, Hossein Naqavi Hosseini, said on the assembly's website on Sunday.The head of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards, which are backed up by a vast industrial and military complex accountable only to the leader, at first complimented Rouhani on his speech to the UN General Assembly, in which he said Tehran was prepared to engage in "time-bound and results-oriented" nuclear talks, but then issued a coded warning:"It was better that no time was given for a face-to-face meeting with Obama and he should have turned down a phone conversation until after the American government has shown its sincerity," Mohammad Ali Jafari, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), told Tasnim news agency.


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The Securities and Exchange Commission has awarded its largest whistleblower payout ever. The agency is paying more than $14 million to a whistleblower whose information helped the agency recover "substantial investor funds," the SEC said in a statement released today.
The SEC's whistleblower program, authorized by the Dodd-Frank Act, launched in 2011 and rewards people who report information that leads the commission to more than $1 million in sanctions. The agency awards whistleblowers 10 percent to 30 percent of the money it collects in a particular case. It paid out about $50,000 in its first award in August 2012. It will likely also pay more than $125,000 in total to three whistleblowers who helped halt a sham hedge fund this year.
Jordan Thomas, chair of the whistleblower representation practice at Labaton Sucharow and former SEC enforcement official, says this award is "the beginning of what is likely to be a wave of SEC whistleblower payments," because it has been two years since the rules went into effect, and agency investigations typically take two to four years to complete. "I can tell you as someone who worked at the SEC for a year after Dodd-Frank passed and who has represented corporate whistleblowers for almost two-and-a-half years: many of the SEC's most significant cases in the coming years are likely to be the result of whistleblowers," Thomas says.
The payout sends a message that the commission is committed to the program, he adds. "The SEC has committed to making significant monetary rewards, which will make higher-net-worth individuals, particularly on Wall Street, more willing to come forward," Thomas says. With this award and future payouts in mind, companies should make sure they have "robust and credible internal reporting systems, because failure to do so will lead people to report externally, as they did in this case," Thomas adds.
Though Congress allowed the government to shut down Tuesday morning, the SEC has enough money in its coffers to operate at full staff for a few weeks, a spokesperson said Monday afternoon.


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ESRA 2019 Programme at a Glance
Linked Administrative Data and Applications for Evidence Building 2
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| Dr Asaph Young Chun (Statistics Research Institute, Statistics Korea)
Dr Manfred Antoni (Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Germany)
|Thursday 18th July, 14:00 - 15:30
The survey data linked to multiple data sources, such as administrative records and big data, are increasingly at the heart of evidence-based policy making across continents. We call the multiply linked data as "pandata" (Chun and Scheuren, 2011). This session presents papers that demonstrate how multiple sources of data linked together are instrumental to evidence-based policy making. In the vein of papers published in a Wiley book (Chun, Larsen, Durant, and Reiter, forthcoming 2019), "Administrative Records for Survey Methodology," this session will discuss linked administrative data papers that address the following topics of substantive applications or methodological research:
- Papers demonstrating the use of administrative records linked to survey data in developing or evaluating public policy. For example, how administrative data linked to survey data have informed the policy making process to bring about social and economic benefits that were not possible to research by relying on traditional survey data alone?
- Substantive census applications where administrative data are linked and transformed into information that is useful and relevant to policy making.
- Papers utilizing dynamic data visualization involving the data linked by multiple data sources to communicate the public policy issues.
- Papers involving experimental design, such as randomized controlled trials, to advance evidence-based policy making with case studies in economics, education, and public health.
- Recent methodological advancements in linking administrative data with survey data (one-to-one) or with multiple sources of data (one-to-many).
- Papers applying Bayesian approaches to using linked administrative data in order to produce information that is useful and relevant to key sectors of health, economy and education.
Keywords: administrative records, evidence-based policymaking, linked data, multiple data sources
Privacy-Preserving Linkage of Encrypted Survey and Administrative Numerical Data using Distance-Preserving Bloom Filters
Professor Rainer Schnell (University of Duisburg-Essen) - Presenting Author
Mr Philip Höcker (University of Duisburg-Essen)
Mr Christian Borgs (University of Duisburg-Essen)
Linking data on natural persons under the jurisdiction of the European GDPR usually requires encrypting all identifying information.
An example is linking survey data to administrative records of different organizations. Encrypting identifiers while preserving error-tolerant data linkage requires using Privacy-preserving Record Linkage (PPRL) techniques.
A widely used similarity-preserving encryption in PPRL is the Bloom Filter approach.
Currently, numerical identifiers in Bloom Filters can only be compared by string similarity measures. However, these are neither distance- nor order-preserving. Recently, Christen et al. (2016) proposed an extension to the method. This approach allows for numerical sorting and calculating distances on encrypted data. The idea consists in mapping a generated interval centered at the numerical value of interest into a Bloom Filter. The amount of overlap between two intervals as a proxy for the numerical distance is estimated by the intersection of the Bloom Filters.
We test this technique using several data sets. Distance-preserving properties and linkage quality results will be reported. The new method allows the computation of distances and order but is highly dependent on correct parameter choices for the intervals. Some best-practice recommendations will be given.
"What's My Wage Again?" – Comparing Survey and Administrative Data to Validate Earning Measures
Mrs Britta Gauly (GESIS) - Presenting Author
Mrs Jessica Daikeler (GESIS)
Dr Tobias Gummer (GESIS)
Professor Beatrice Rammstedt (GESIS)
Survey data remain an influential source for researchers in social science. Thus, the quality of these data has been an important topic for survey methodologists for several years. One issue is the existence of measurement error in recorded values which is particular present in sensitive questions, such as income. Also from a content perspective, income measurement error is a crucial topic as it obscures true economic relationships (Bound and Krueger, 1989). Recent results by Drechsl-Grau et al. (2015) show that depending on the data source (survey vs. administrative data) different economic relationships are estimated.
The present study aims at advancing our knowledge on measurement error in wage questions by exploiting the potentials of data linkage. We use data from the German sample of the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) which was linked with administrative data provided by the German Federal Employment Agency.
We consider administrative data as "true wages" and define measurement error as the difference between administrative and survey data. In a first step, we test the correlation between measurement error and true earnings. In a second step, we run separate regressions using survey and administrative wage as dependent variables and test whether the regression coefficients of variables that are widely used as controls in wage equations, differ significantly.
Our results show that measurement error is significantly related to true wages and thus "non-classical". In addition, we find statistically significant differences in the coefficients of our control variables when using either administrative or survey wages as the dependent variable. This suggests that findings from survey data can lead to biased results and misguided political interventions. Learning more about size and type of measurement error might help to correct for existing biases or to improve the quality of surveys, e.g. by using tailored wage question designs.
Incomplete Data - An Approach to Compensate Nonresponse in Income Data with Administrative Data and Imputation Methods
Ms Nadine Bachbauer (research assistant) - Presenting Author
The individual income is regarded as sensitive issue and missing values as well as incorrect information in income data constitute a persistent problem of survey data. Different mechanisms like social desirability, memory errors and motivational factors can cause missing data. Incomplete income data can lead to reduced data quality and thus entail biased estimation results. Imputation approaches are a well-established method to close gaps caused by missing values. However, imputation can only provide an estimation and not necessarily the true value. Moreover, its quality depends on whether assumptions of the imputation model hold. NEPS-SC6-ADIAB, a linked data product by the Institute of Employment Research (IAB) and the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi) incorporating administrative data of the IAB and survey data of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) constitutes the database for this research project. I examine if the multiple imputation of NEPS earnings achieve results comparable to the administrative earnings, which are considered to contain the true value. Comparative analyses of the imputed earnings and administrative earnings should show whether the quality of the survey earnings has improved as a result of multiple imputation. First, I identified nonresponse in earnings in the NEPS data and a generated nonresponse dummy is used to analyse if the nonresponse behaviour of the survey respondents is missing at random (MAR). Therefore, I estimate a model including the nonresponse behaviour as dependant variable and the independent variables consist of variables usually used to impute earnings. To identify the underlying process of missingness a further model additionally contains the administrative earnings.
Preliminary results show that earnings has no significant effect if all relevant survey variables are included. This can be interpreted as evidence that earnings nonresponse follows a MAR-process.The final comparison between the administrative earnings and the imputed earnings will show if there are significant difference concerning the distribution.
Selectivity in the Record Linkage Process – A Big Issue?
Dr Dina Frommert (German Pension Insurance) - Presenting Author
Mrs Christin Czaplicki (German Pension Insurance)
Dr Thorsten Heien (Kantar Public)
Mr Marvin Krämer (Kantar Public)
The combination of data from different sources offers many benefits. From a methodological point of view however, any data linkage introduces new sources of error into the process of data gathering. As far as the linkage process is concerned, this could be bias inherent to the new or alternative data source, bias introduced by the technical process of data linkage, or, if the active consent of the respondents is needed, another form of nonresponse error.
For the German study "Life courses and pension provisions (LeA)", extensive survey data on life courses and pension provisions in different pension schemes are linked with administrative data from the respondents' individual pension accounts. Because of the strict data protection rules in Germany, every respondent is required to consent to the data linkage; otherwise, the administrative data may not be extracted and linked to the survey data. In practice, this means the respondents need to sign a consent form during the interview, which is a lot to ask from respondents who have already consented to take part in a lengthy survey. For the first time, LeA provided the respondents with an electronic consent form, so that the effort of signing and sending off the form was considerably reduced.
The proposed paper will report the consent rates for specific subgroups of the population, e.g. Germans, migrants, employees and civil servants. We will also examine socio-demographic characteristics of consenters and non-consenters and estimate the amount of selectivity introduced to the sample by the record linkage. To this end, we estimate a logit model to test the inclination to consent of different subgroups.
Due to high consent rates in LeA, we do not expect noteworthy additional selectivity. Nevertheless, the results demonstrate that consent varies between different groups. Reducing the effort to consent can play an important role in reducing selectivity.


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He has extensive experience in software development in scientific computing, mainly using C and MPI, to develop codes that scale to thousands of cores in parallel. He has also been involved in various digital humanities projects in TCD including the 1641 Depositions and the CIRCLE (Irish Chancery) Collections. Dermot has been involved in founding two successful IT SMEs in the last few years: Crème Software is a world leader in probabilistic exposure assessment and Annertech is a web development company that focuses on the Drupal platform.
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Shared Assessments is a member-driven, industry-standard body with tools and best practices that help organizations manage the full lifecycle of a third-party relationship, from planning for third party engagement, to due diligence and vendor selection, contract negotiations, ongoing and continuous monitoring and termination. The SIG questionnaire provides an inventory of industry standard questions for the remote assessment process that allows an organization to scope initial assessment information regarding a service provider's controls.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Timmy Nation
I have actually not watched during one of his commentary jobs. Somebody tell me how he was.
- Greg Seltzer
12 comments:
- owen said...
Hes okay better than keller and tt and miles better than wynalda. Now that i think about it probably the best ex usa player turned announcer. Did anyone catch lalas on comm a few days ago... So many awkwArd moments between him and color guy hard to listen to
- July 29, 2014 at 12:18 PM
- owen said...
Forgot martino hes decent imo
- July 29, 2014 at 12:19 PM
- JJO said...
He's a cliche machine. Doesn't add anything interesting or insightful. He comes across like exactly what he is - a current player who won't say a controversial word about or against players or managers he still plays against.
- July 29, 2014 at 12:28 PM
- Tony M said...
He was okay, He has some intelligent things to say, and like all players he will have a learning curve and will have to develop the willingness to criticize players. The tone of his voice isn't great, but its not bad.
Twellman is the example of a guy who can develop. (This will be an unpopular opinion, by the way.) He started as a guy I just couldn't stand to listen to. He was horrible. But he has developed into an observant commentator who often calls out tendencies in the game before they have an impact. (I don't think the pairing with him an Darke works, however.)
Right now, the brightest of the ex-players by a mile is Martino.
I think many of my fellow Americans have a tendency to react negatively to anything but an English accent announcing games. There is also a tendency to make a judgment about an ex player and never give them credit for developing.
I think Howard could develop into a good announcer, but he will need more of his badass self to emerge. That will take time - and possibly retirement. He is not going to call out players he plays with or against until then
- July 29, 2014 at 12:53 PM
- RobUsry said...
He's done very well IMO. He just needs to learn that less is better. He gives great insight. He just talks way too much.
- July 29, 2014 at 3:03 PM
- Devin Mathias said...
He's done okay. Definitely don't see it as a true long term option for him. He's much better than Keller and Lalas, imho, but not as good as Wynalda.
- July 29, 2014 at 5:28 PM
- Kyle said...
I really liked JP and McBride on Fox in the ManU v Roma game. I hope they take over as the Fox #1 team
Timmy is pretty good, he has some insightful things to say on the flow of the game, but as others have said he's not willing to call out fellow players enough.
- July 29, 2014 at 5:39 PM
- Tony M said...
Kyle, I like JP as well. I think that Steve Cangelosi is good too.
Devin: I like Lalas in the studio. He does try to be provocative at times, but I think he's funny in a dead pan way and is a good observer of the game. When he did the studio stuff with Macca last World Cup, that was a priceless combination. I really wanted to go drinking with those guys!
- July 29, 2014 at 5:52 PM
- Devin Mathias said...
Tony M. - I went into the World Cup dreading all the Lalas time we were going to get, but grew to accept he was okay. Not great, but okay. But when it comes to calling a game, I don't think he's that good.
- July 29, 2014 at 7:53 PM
- Tony M said...
Devin, I agree about game calling. He's a bit flat and well behaved. That ain't him, But I really enjoy him in the studio.
- July 29, 2014 at 8:05 PM
- Jolazo said...
I think Martino is the cream of the crop among former U.S. players. Twellman has potential, but he just does not take set-ups well. Half the time he's completely silent after Darke sets him up, and the other half he begins his sentence with "But" and makes a completely different point.
Jay Demerit and Stuart Holden are 2 guys that Fox should be trying really hard to bring in as studio analysts for the next cycle. I also think Friedel does a pretty good job in the rare times he shows up in studio.
Howard is too new to it to really judge. As was a said early, he's kinda bland and cliched. Most of the time, Arlo White has to hold his hand throughout the commentary.
McBride provides good insight, but he's not a great personality. He's kind of rigid. You have to grade him on a curve though with all the idiots he has to work with.
Keller is the Jonathan Spector of announcers. He can fill in just about anywhere (studio or in-game analyst). He'll call the game alright and you generally won't feel strongly one way or another. He can be really negative at times.
And then we get to the trolls. Wynalda, just no. Whoever is responsible for this needs to remedy it before the next World Cup. Put him out to pasture with Harkes and Balboa. At least Lalas seems self-aware, almost like he's in character. He can be smug and belabor stupid points for months on end, but he can also be entertaining and insightful.
- July 29, 2014 at 9:38 PM
- angler23 said...
Howard was just okay - he was a bit too neutral, most likely a symptom of being an active keeper (as identified by others). Could improve like fine wine as he certainly boasts a CV that lends itself to providing interesting in-game analysis.
I like Cobi as a color commentator, especially for MLS games. He has been around since the cretaceous period of MLS, he has one hundred and sixty four billion caps, a toothy grin that can be seen from space, an inspirational hair style - what's not to like!
- July 30, 2014 at 12:09 AM


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Pride that depends on the approval of others is a false pride, layered on from outside yourself like gold leaf. When the leaf begins to flake and chip, you see the base material beneath it. When you see the base material, the shiny deception exists no more. What are you left with?
Soul-crushing disillusionment. A sorrow that seems absolute.
There's something about youth that is so wonderful and yet so sad. This is displayed perfectly in the story of five young boys who attend Ben Raphael Academy, a boarding school, together. They're more than friends, they're family, but in the midst of a chaotic world filled with typical teenage drama, they're virtually invisible.
When one of them comes up with a plan to change that, to make them become noticed and to highlight their "mystique" as virgins who aren't trying to chase tail, a rare breed among boys their age, the rest go along. What starts out as a simple act to try and make a quiet, forgotten group noticed and desired winds its way into a far darker journey of discovery, loss, and love.
I forced myself to look at the sky. The stars wheeled thickly overhead. This night, they seemed like a gateway to infinite possibilities, not a glittering veil over a dark, suctioning void.
I went into this thinking it was going to be a fun, cute Young Adult story. I'm not typically one for that genre, but this sounded interesting.
Well, I can say for certain that cute and light were not quite what I got out of this. It speaks volumes about the thought process of youth and how they seek to be seen, but more than that seek acceptance. It was all a very sad reality to me. And while there is an element of romance in this between Rider and Jake, I feel the heart of the story lies more in the group of boys themselves.
Reading the blurb again, I think it sounds a bit cheesy toward the end in regards to an unspeakable tragedy, and when I read what this tragedy was, it may have at first seemed over-dramatic and far-fetched, but the more I thought about it, the more realistic it actually was – and that thought made me incredibly sad.
*POTENTIAL SPOILER REGARDING POSSIBLY TRIGGERING TOPIC: I was also surprised at the heaviness of a certain topic in this. I will say that if anyone has a hard boundary line when it comes to relationships between minors and adults of the more manipulative nature, you should steer clear of this. For some reason, I didn't expect it to happen. Granted, this isn't a long book, but it still surprised me when the initial idea was hinted at and then fleshed out.
I do think that the tragedy aspect of it, as well as the taboo relationship part, would've been more impactful in a book of novel length. With this being 134 pages, everything was quick, and the brief glimpses we got of this issues being dug into were quite nice, but just not enough given the weight of them.
In general a good story, but certainly not something I'd suggest if you want a quick, light read. Quick, yes, but light, not so much.And although I'm not an expert regarding the classification of a young adult story, this does depict teenage boys going through life. While there are several references to sexual activities, and times when we see what leads up to it and the aftermath, there are no explicit sexual details. As such, I'd say it does fall pretty well into the Young Adult category.
Cover Artist: Maria Fanning provided a simple cover that at first seems quite basic in regards to the type of story. Boys in a boarding school – thus a boy with a uniform on the cover. Yet, when you get into the story, the backdrop of the cover comes to have a great meaning, and really highlight a beautiful element of the story.
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Intel i7 5960X Review with ASUS X99 Deluxe
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Published: 29th August 2014 | Source: Intel | Price: £759 |
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The motherboard we'll be using to test the Intel Core i7-5960X is the ASUS X99 Deluxe. Finally a motherboard with ice white heatsinks. It has taken a long time for motherboard manufacturers to catch up to the rest of the world. As you can see from the one on the right, the amount of circuitry on modern motherboards is almost moving to a level beyond the space available. With the eight DIMMs it's astounding how much extra room the additional four take up. We're used to it with the original X79s, but the extra hardware supported on the X99's really squeezes the PCB to capacity.
The X99 Deluxe includes the ASUS OC socket, which we'll look at in detail in the Rampage V Extreme review, but it's still a nice surprise to find it included in a non-ROG model. Don't underestimate the importance of that and definitely check out the Rampage V Extreme review whilst you're here. With 8 DIM slots, 4 full PCI Express slots, alongside the increased amount of SATA ports and boss audio solution, the X99 Deluxe truly earns its Deluxe moniker.
Because different CPUs in the latest Haswell E refresh come with different amounts of PCI Express lanes onboard, 40 in the top model and 28 in some of the other ones in the range, then the 2x/3x switch is important to enable the Deluxe to dedicate the maximum possible lanes to the slots you're actually using.
There are more additional elements than we could possible in a review that is, ostensibly at least, about the i7-5960X. However, two that we particularly like are the addon card that provides x4 PCI Express support for the M2 drives, ensuring that both your current drive and any future ones that move from the PCI Express 2.0 x2 to PCI Express 3.0 x4 are supported.
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Marie Kreutzer's The Ground Beneath My Feet (2018) is a cinematic exploration of gender expectations and mental health. A workaholic business consultant, her life already complicated by caring for her paranoid-schizophrenic half-sister and an affair with her female boss, begins to feel her own mental state destabilizing. The Austrian drama premiered this year at the Berlin International Film Festival and was selected to compete for the Golden Bear.
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2013 Aston Martin v8 Vantage
The Aston Martin V8 Vantage was hailed at its 1977 introduction as "Britain's First Supercar" for its 170 mph (270 km/h) top speed. Aston Martin V8 Vantage engine was shared with the Lagonda, but it used high-performance camshafts, increased compression ratio, larger inlet valves and bigger carburetor mounted on new manifolds for increased output. Straight-line performance was the best of the day, with acceleration from 0–60 mph (97 km/h) in 5.3 seconds, one-tenth of a second quicker than the Ferrari Daytona.
The first series had 375 hp (280 kW), and series specific details such as a blanked bonnet vent and a separate rear spoiler. 38 of these were built. The Oscar India version, introduced in late 1978, featured an integrated tea-tray spoiler and smoother bonnet bulge. Inside, a black leather-covered dash replaced the previous walnut. The wooden dashboard did find its way back into the Vantage during the eighties, giving a more luxurious appearance. The Oscar India version also received a slight increase in power, to 390 hp (291 kW). This line was produced, with some running changes, until 1989. From 1986 the engine had 403 hp (301 kW).
The Vantage name had previously been used on a number of high-performance versions of Aston Martin cars, but this was a separate model. Although based on the Aston Martin V8, numerous detail changes added up to a unique driving experience. One of the most noticeable features was the closed-off hood bulge rather than the open scoop found on the normal V8. The grille area was also closed off, with twin driving lights inserted and a spoiler added to the bootlid.
The 1986–1989 580 'X-Pack' was a further upgrade, with Cosworth pistons and Nimrod racing-type heads producing 403hp. A 'big bore' after-market option was also available from Works Service, with 50mm carbs and straight through exhaust system giving 432hp (the same engine as fitted to the limited-edition Aston Martin V8 Zagato). 16 inch (406-mm) wheels were also now fitted. If this wasn't enough, a 450 hp (336 kW) 6.3 litre version was also available from Aston Martin, and independents offered a 7 litre version.
304 Series 2 Vantage coupes were built – including 131 X-Packs and 192 Volantes. Of the 'Cosmetic' Vantage, 14 Series 2 coupés and 56 Volantes were built. Cosmetic Vantages lacked the powerful Vantage engine but retained the Vantage name and most of its body alterations, though the lack of carburetor allowed a flattened hood. From 1980 they featured DOT-approved 5 mph (8 km/h) safety bumpers front and rear. Most of these cars have since been retrofitted with full power, European spec engines. Although the full spec Vantage models were not imported into the USA when new, they now qualify for entry under the DOT's 'Show and Display' rules in most US States. Federal requirements are also less strict for cars over 25 years old.
The Aston Martin V8 Vantage convertible version was also produced, between 1986 and 1989. Six mechanically similar cars had been built earlier to special order, but it was not regularly available until then. The production version featured an even deeper front spoiler than fitted to the Vantage, even wider wheel arches, and extended side skirts. In 1987 The Prince of Wales took delivery of a Vantage Volante, but at his request without the production car's wider wheelarches, front air dam and side skirts. This became known as the 'Prince of Wales Spec' (or POW) and around another 26 such cars were built by the factory. These are now generally considered the most desirable of all the 1970s/80s V8 models.
James Bond's car in the 1987 film The Living Daylights. At the beginning of the film, the car is a Aston Martin V8 Vantage (convertible). The car used in these scenes was a Volante owned by Aston Martin Lagonda chairman, Victor Gauntlett. Later, the car is fitted with a hardtop at Q Branch, and these scenes feature a pair of non-Vantage V8 saloons, fitted with the same number plate as the initial car, but with Vantage badges now fitted to match the previous Aston Martin V8 Vantage.


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New 22mm barndoor front wheel cylinders, currently in development.
Og Barndoor front beam, POA
Barndoor glass, reproduction. All except corner glass available.
Basket case porsche 356 required... By basket case, I mean one that cannot be moved for fear of it falling apart, one so rotted and kippered that nobody in their right minds would take it on. This is where I step in. Ring me. Nothing is too bad, nothing is impossible.
10/11 window barndoor project required. Any condition, the worse (cheaper) the better.
Collection across europe for the above is no problem. Just make sure the kettle's on when I get there...
'50-'52 complete LHD barndoor pod
Early wheel bolts
Oval beetle heater channels
'52-'58 centre brake light engine lid
RHD Barndoor 6 leg middle seat
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From powerful engines to high visibility and totally cool technology, the 5600 Series makes short work of all kinds of farm tasks.
- Big muscle from 3 cylinders: Advanced AGCO POWER 33AWI HD engines gives you a whole new level of performance, generating torque that tops many 4-cylinder engines
- A Load of Fun: Experience the first fully integrated multi-function loader joystick this side of row crop tractors.
- New AUTO-DRIVE: Proven Dyna-4™ transmission now has new features, including AUTO-DRIVE that automatically shifts gears smoothly
Ideal for livestock, dairy, hay and general farm work, these exceptional loader tractors are all about getting the job done, even in small spaces.
- Rugged, reliable transmission: Make the most of the legendary Dyna-4 transmission with our integrated, interactive Dash Control Center system.
- Open center hydraulic system: Two systems (Standard and Twin Flow) are available ensure a flow robust enough to handle the heaviest demands.
- 3 or 4 cylinders: Choose the power-packed 3-cylinder, or step up to the 4-cylinder AGCO POWER engine with 2nd gen SCR technology to meet Tier 4i emissions without sacrificing performance.
Get row crop tractor big cab features in a smaller, more maneuverable tractor that gets you in and out of tight spaces with ease.
Easy rider: Mechanical cab suspension is available to make the ride easier - and long days seem shorter.
Load in plain sight: See right down to the loader bucket on the ground with the new steeply sloped hood, plus see the bucket fully raised with our Visio roof.
Large 6-post cab: Enjoy a sweeping 360° view plus a roomier, more comfortable and productive workspace.
|Rated Engine Power HP (kW) at 2200 RPM
|125 (93.2)
|Max. Engine Power HP (kW)
|130 (96.9)
|Rated PTO Power HP (kW) at 2200 RPM
|100 (74.6)
|PTO Power HP (kW) at Nominal PTO Speeds
|110 (82.0)
|AGCO Power 4.4L 4-cylinder
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|EPA Tier 4i: DOC, SCR
|Dyna-4 16x16 Power Shift and Power Shuttle Transmission, Available 14:1 Creeper
|4 Gears, 4 Ranges, all fully electronic shifting on the roll without foot clutch
|Transmission Control
|Left hand 3-function power control lever and right hand T-handle control lever
|Wet multi-disc clutch, foot pedal and electronic control
|Rear Axle
|Solid cast steel with flange, internal planetary reduction
|Internal wet disc, hydraulic power assist, individual left and right foot pedals
|Differential Lock
|Fully locking front and rear axle differentials, electro-hydraulically engaged
|Front Axle
|Single piece steel with outboard planetary final drives hydraulic suspension optional
|Hydraulics -PTO-3-Point Hitch
|Hydraulic System
|Open center or closed center PFC
|Hydraulic Flow at Remotes gpm (Lpm)
|15 (57) standard, 26 (100) optional (Twin Flow), 29 (110) optional (closed center)
|Remote Valves
|Up to 4, mechanical and electronic control
|Factory Loader Joystick
|Mechanical multifunction joystick in RH console, or electronic multifunction joystick in RH seat armrest
|3-pt Lift Capacity lbs (kg)
|540/540e standard, 540/540e/1000 optional, electro-hydraulic engagement and speed selection
|Electrical System
|12 volt system, 120 amp alternator standard, 175 amp alternator optional
|Operator's Area
|Large 6-post structure, twin doors, flat foot deck, available mechanical suspension
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|Classic and Deluxe
|Electronic User Interface
|Dash Control Center (DCC) or Control Center Display (CCD) color terminal
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|100.4 (2550)
|Width in (mm)
|79.3 (2013) to 100.4 (2550)
|Height Over Cab in (mm) 16.9R38 Rear Tire
|111.3 (2826)
|Weight w/o Ballast lbs (kg)
|2wd: 8,929 (4050) 4wd: 10,582 (4800)
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Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy LLP signed a 108,000-square-foot lease with Empire State Realty Trust for floors eight through 10 at 1400 Broadway in Manhattan. Fragomen is an international law firm with more than 40 offices in 20 countries, representing large Fortune 500 companies in industries ranging from technology to sports and entertainment.
The 37-story asset features a total of 919,405 square feet of office and first floor retail space. Originally built in 1930, the property was renovated in 2010. Notable tenants include Kohl's, Renfro Corp., Verifone Media and Burlington Coat Factory.
Newmark Knight Frank's John Shaunfield, Seth Weinstein and Paul Ippolito represented Fragomen in the lease, while Scott Klau, Erik Harris and Neil Rubin, in addition to ESRT's Keith Cody, represented the landlord.
"Fragomen joins a roster of high quality tenants at 1400 Broadway," said Thomas Durels, executive vice president & director of leasing and operations for ESRT, in prepared remarks. "Fragomen was attracted to the desirable Times Square South neighborhood and the property's 21st Century modernization combined with its unique building characteristics."
Earlier this year, Empire State also inked a lease with Gap Inc., for 80,900 square feet at 111 W. 33rd St. in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood.
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... Voces are among the Spanish-language nominees in the 2013 GLAAD Media Awards. It always feels good to announce the nominees for the GLAAD Media Awards, because they remind us of the great work ...
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Popular Nollywood actor, Pete Edochie who has been in the news of late for airing out his opinions on crucial matters like; engagement proposals, and single mothers, have once again opined on a controversial topic.
This time around, the veteran talked about homosexuality and how it is caused by "Ogbanje" (Abiku in Yoruba).
In a video making the rounds on micro blogging platform, twitter, Edochie said that when a child is born and looks sickly, he or she is suspected to be an 'Ogbanje'(spirit child) and a mark is put on the child's hand.
Edochie further says that the child eventually dies and then if the child comes back to the world, the spirit of a different gender might still be inside of him which may cause homosexuality.
Homosexuality is an issue that has become quite prevalent in the society and social media has also further helped to popularized it.


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I did a review like this in – 2017 It's fun to look back on what I've learned and what I've accomplished. This will be contracting focused and side projects focused. (Appologies to Julia Evans, I basically just stole her format) I got married! I won't embarrass my wife online. But this year, after a… Continue reading 2018: Year in Review
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I've been contributing on and off to PyMC3 and other projects for a few years now. I'm still learning a lot about Bayesian Statistics and building software. I intend to continue to work on this stuff. Chris Fonnesbeck – recently did a talk at NeurIPS where he talks about some of the stuff we've learned in… Continue reading 3 key lessons from being an OSS developer


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If you're in the market for a new portable, sturdy, and affordable gas grill then I urge you to read on. The Cuisinart CGG -220 is a great portable grill that is designed for camping, tailgating, fishing, and of course grilling in your backyard. This grill features 240 sq. inches of cooking area with porcelain enamel cast iron grill grates, which can accommodate a lot of food at once. It can cook 10 burgers, 8 steaks or 8 chicken breasts; more than enough for a portable grill. I personally like the sear marks the grilling grates leave on steaks and chicken. So if this got you hooked, you'll love it even more when you find out its whole package.
The Cuisinart CGG-220 Everyday Portable Gas Grill
This grill is ideal for a small to medium size family with 3 -5 family members as the single burner can heat up fast and uses a lot less gas. With the single burner reaching up to 15,000 BTUs with an electric ignition for easy start up. The Everyday portable grill can actually be your primary grill. It may not perform as well as the other high end, full sized grill. But it can perform extremely well for a portable grill and at only a fraction of a price of a full sized grill.
The Everyday portable grill is smartly designed to weigh less than 40 pounds and can easily be packed up and carry to wherever you will need it. The grill is 40 by 19 by 18 inches when in grilling mode and only 26 by 18 by 19 inches when it is packed up, which makes it extremely easy to move around.
The grill has a green enamel-coated steel lid with a heat resistant stainless steel lid handle. The lid helps maintain even temperatures when grilling by decreasing heat loss during grilling. You also get a lot of extras when you buy this grill like the pair of removable 10 x 10 inch side table, which you can use as a prep space for tools, food, or even a place to put your drink while grilling. It even has a precision temperature gauge, which is a great bonus for a portable and affordable grill.
Fair warning though, the grease catch is a bit difficult to clean and some customers find it a bit frustrating. But it's not that big a deal that you would miss a fairly good grill. To be perfectly honest, there are a lot of grills in the market that are at par or even better than this grill. But that doesn't mean this grill is bad. Not at all. It actually performs very well for the price and the quality you get since it is from Cuisinart.
Assembling this grill is fairly easy and will only take you about 15 minutes.
The Cuisinart Everyday portable gas grill is available on Amazon for only $150 and has a rating of 3.9 stars out of 5.
Bottomline, if you want or need a portable gas grill or even a primary grill that won't require you to spend hundreds and hundreds of dollars then this might be a good option for you. It definitely performs well worth the price but it's not anything outstanding in my opinion.
If you want a portable grill and feel this is perfect for you, you should buy this from Amazon and here's why:
- All the reviews are like having hundreds of really good friends give you their personal experience with the grill, then taking all of that personal experience and giving it a star rating. You're buying quality when there are 100′s of fans of the grill.
- A friendly UPS driver will deliver it right to your door. No waiting in line, no hauling it in your car. No sore muscles or achy back the next day.
- Amazon has the best price 99% of the time. Amazon constantly watches competitor pricing and makes sure you get the best deal. They do a ton of business and take advantage of economies of scale, which means you get the savings!
- FREE shipping. Enough said.
- Returns are easy. Amazon recently shipped a car, and they ship a ton of large items, all day, every day. If they can ship a car, rest assured, you will get your grill in perfect condition. BUT if for any reason it comes damaged, it is super easy to return. Just print out a UPS label, slap it on the box and a friendly UPS driver will pick it up, free of charge. This is way easier than waiting in a return line at Home Depot and talking with a bored, angsty teenage sales clerk.
Product Details for Grill Geeks:
- Portable gas grill designed for backyard use, camping, tailgating, and more
- 240-square-inch porcelain-enamel cast-iron grill grate offers plenty of grilling space
- Single 15,000 BTU burner with TwistStart electric ignition and precision temperature gauge
- Pair of removable 10-by-10-inch side tables; heat-resistant stainless-steel lid handle
- Measures 26 x 18 x 19 inches in transport mode; weighs less than 40 pounds


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// PHP Login Script Thing // Developed by Chad Smith // Web: http://mktgdept.com/ // Download: http://mktgdept.com/php-login-script.zip // Support: http://posttopic.com/topic/php-login-script // Twitter: chadsmith // Google Talk: firstname.lastname@example.com // // Copyright (C) 2008 Chad Smith // // This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify // it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by // the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or // (at your option) any later version. // // This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, // but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of // MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the // GNU General Public License for more details. // // You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License // along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. // // Build: 20090107211851 Several sites I am working on required some kind of authentication using PHP, but since the sites were entirely custom coded - and needed to be to serve their purpose - I was unable and unwilling to use a CMS just to have user registration and sign-ins. The enclosed code is a PHP class I came up with to enable secure logins on any site it's dropped into. Some configuration is required, but as you will see, it's fast, secure, easy to set up, and most of all gets the job done. This version uses PDO and SQLite3 to quickly read and write user information to an SQLite database, rather than requiring MySQL to be installed and setup. Here is what you need to get started using the script: Requirements - PHP5+ - PDO & PDO-SQLite enabled - Apache - mod_rewrite enabled Installation - Save user.php in the root folder of your server and place users.db one directory above that (so it is not accessible from the web) Use the pages and css file provided for your signup, login, activation, and ... pages or create your own A) Use what we provided - Copy change.php, login.php, manage.php, signup.php, and login.css from example to your root folder B) Make your own - Add the contents of login.css to your css file and follow the usage instructions below Rename the filenames if desired, but remember what you change them too because they will need to be changed to your .htaccess file Configuration Open user.php in your favorite text editor and change any necessary settings in the $config array: protected $config=array( // the settings 'username'=>array( 'min'=>4, // minumum username length allowed 'max'=>24 // maximum username length allowed ), 'password'=>array( 'min'=>6, // minumum password length allowed 'salt'=>'a bunch of random characters and symbols for security' // random characters for salting passwords & sessions ), 'pages'=>array( 'login'=>'login', // login page 'signup'=>'signup', // registration page 'change'=>'change', // change password page 'manage'=>'manage', // change email page 'activate'=>'activate' // activation page ), 'site'=>array( 'admin'=>'Chad Smith', // your name 'email'=>'email@example.com', // address to send new account emails from 'name'=>'PHP Login Script', // site name to display in emails 'cookie'=>'mktgdept' // cookie name ) ); The sections that should be changed are to the right of 'salt'=>, 'admin'=>, 'email'=>, and 'name'=> as well as the page addresses: 'pages'=>array( 'login'=>'log-in', // login page 'signup'=>'register', // registration page 'manage'=>'change-email', // change email page 'change'=>'recover-password', // change password page 'activate'=>'activate-account' // activation page ), Be sure you only change what is on the right side, as the keys on the left are called later in the script. .htaccess Setup If you don't already have a .htaccess file in place, use the one provided in the example folder or add the important parts to the one you have ### Options -Multiviews RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^login$ /login.php [L] RewriteRule ^signup$ /signup.php [L] RewriteRule ^manage$ /manage.php [L] RewriteRule ^change$ /change.php [L] RewriteRule ^change/([a-f0-9]{32})$ /change.php?key=$1 [L] RewriteRule ^activate/([a-f0-9]{32})$ /user.php?activate=$1 [L] RewriteRule ^logout$ /user.php?logout [L] ### Be sure to keep Options -Multiviews in place if necessary and change the pagenames to what you set in $config. Example: ### #Options -Multiviews ## not needed since page names are different from the file names RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^log-in$ /login.php [L] RewriteRule ^register$ /signup.php [L] RewriteRule ^change-email$ /manage.php [L] RewriteRule ^recover-password$ /change.php [L] RewriteRule ^recover-password/([a-f0-9]{32})$ /change.php?key=$1 [L] RewriteRule ^activate-account/([a-f0-9]{32})$ /user.php?activate=$1 [L] RewriteRule ^logout$ /user.php?logout [L] ### Change the filenames (on the right side of the RewriteRule) if you used your own pages or renamed any of the files above. Basic Usage Simply add <?php require_once('user.php'); ?> to the top of any page where you want to use the script. This will allow you to see: - if the user is logged in <?php if($user->logged_in()) ... ?> - if the user is logged out <?php if(!$user->logged_in()) ... ?> - the user name <?php echo $_SESSION['user']['name']; ?> - the user's email address <?php echo $_SESSION['user']['email']; ?> - the user's id <?php echo $_SESSION['user']['id']; ?> Or call <?php require_once('user.php'); $user->require_login(); ?> at the top of any page to require a login to access If you are making your own signup, login, and account pages, call the necessary forms using the following: - login form <?php $user->login_form(); ?> - registration form <?php $user->signup_form(); ?> - recover/change password form <?php $user->password_form(); ?> - change email form <?php $user->account_form(); ?> (you should probably require a login to access this page although it is not required) - link to /logout (whatever you have set in your .htaccess) to log out And that's all! Contents contrib users.sql - SQL used to build database (reference only) example .htaccess - .htaccess file (place in root or add contents to your own) auth.php - example page that requires authentication change.php - example change/recover password page index.php - example index page login.css - example stylesheet (place in root or add to your own stylesheet) login.php - example login page manage.php - example change email page (requires authentication) signup.php - example registration page root user.php - PHP login script thing CHANGELOG - list of version changes COPYING - license details README - the thing you're reading user.db - the database file (place on server above root) Features - Authentication using PHP and SQLite - Expiring nonces to deter spam and session hijacking - Salted passwords and sessions - Secured against SQL Injection - Built in change password, e-mail address, & password recovery - Account activation & user registration notification - Extendable using plugins - Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict Summary I chose to write my own class rather than using a pre-made one so I could fix all the bugs and security flaws of the scripts that already exist, and so there would be something that works with SQLite. Let me know if you come up with any bugs or questions. Things are in the works to make the script extendable (with plugins and such) to add features such as user tracking and profiles. The script as is provides a secure system of login, registration, and account management. When finished, I plan to make an OpenID and MySQL version as well.
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Seth Godin proclaimed that "content marketing is the only marketing left."
Unsure as to what I mean?
Let's dive in!
There are more than 1,7 billion websites online that all want to get traffic and sales.
Does the internet need all these websites?
Of course not.
That's why 91% of all websites have no organic traffic and only 0,3% of all websites have more than 1,001 organic visitors per month.
Digital marketing is extremely competitive.
Many of my customers come over to me from other SEO agencies due to the fact that they have failed miserably in getting traffic - for a few years!
I have identified three mistakes many new websites have in common:
Standard SEO doesn't work anymore because almost all websites use it.
However, Google only ranks the best websites on their top-10.
That's why it's crucial to find another way with individual promotional methods.
Content marketing is marketing that provides value and helps people.
There is no sales function.
Once you have built up a loyal audience and traffic, then you can monetize your content.
Using content marketing doesn't guarantee results, because there are over 1 billion blogs online.
It's also important not to compete with famous blogs.
I create a content plan once I have identified a lack of quality online content in y9our niche, coupled with a low level of competition.
The next step is to create much better content than the websites featured on the top-10.
Many website owners hire writers on Upwork or other freelance platforms.
However, freelancers usually write about a broad spectrum of topics.
There is no value in writing such as this, because Google considers the E-A-T parameter (Expertise, Authority, Trustworthiness).
A writer only needs to know one topic very well!
Just imagine the situation - you are going on vacation in a new exotic country.
First you start reading comments and feedback from travellers who have been to this country or hotel before.
Will you read comments or thoughts from people who have never been there?
I don't think so.
That's why Tripadvisor, Expedia, Yelp and many other similar websites strongly control reviews on their platforms.
Freelancers who do not know the topic usually get the information from the top-10.
However, people read this daily - they are not interested in reading the same thing again.
Bloggers will never link to plagiarism simply because of the fat that it's not unique.
Enjoy reading my content.
If you are interested to get traffic - book a call with me.