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MARRIOTT GROUP GLOBAL PRIVACY STATEMENT
The Marriott Group (PDF), which includes Marriott International, Inc., Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, LLC (formerly known as Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.) and their affiliates, values you as our guest and recognizes that privacy is important to you. We want you to be familiar with how we collect, use and disclose data.
This Privacy Statement describes the privacy practices of the Marriott Group for data that we collect:
through websites operated by us from which you are accessing this Privacy Statement, including Marriott.com and other websites owned or controlled by the Marriott Group (collectively, the "Websites")
through the software applications made available by us for use on or through computers and mobile devices (the "Apps")
through our social media pages that we control from which you are accessing this Privacy Statement (collectively, our "Social Media Pages")
through HTML-formatted email messages that we send you that link to this Privacy Statement and through your communications with us
when you visit or stay as a guest at one of our properties, or at homes and villas offered on the Homes and Villas by Marriott International platform ("Homes and Villas"), or through other offline interactions (collectively, "Property Visits and Offline Interactions")
Collectively, we refer to the Websites, the Apps and our Social Media Pages, as the "Online Services" and, together with the Property Visits and Offline Interactions, the "Services." By using the Services, you agree to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Statement.
California Privacy Statement
Read the Marriott Group California Consumer Privacy Statement.
At Marriott, we respect your privacy and want to provide you with the options, information, and choices below to express your preferences: what and how much you share with us and when and how you hear from us.
We want to learn what is relevant to you and ensure you have a personalized experience. As described in more detail in our Global Privacy Statement, we use digital tools like cookies and tags on our webpages. Cookies also help us provide, protect and improve our services. To adjust your preferences, please visit our Tracking Preferences page.
We want to engage with you in a way that is valuable to you, including how often you want to hear from us. To set your preferences, please sign in to your loyalty account profile and select Communication Preferences. To unsubscribe, use the link at the bottom of any of our communications to you. NOTE: Even if you choose to opt out of communications, we will continue to send you transactional messages about your reservations or stays, including pre-arrival, confirmation and guest satisfaction surveys.
Data Sharing Preferences
Notice for California and Nevada Residents: To update your data sharing preferences under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CAL. CIV. CODE § 1798.135 (a)(1)) or the Nevada Privacy Law (NRS Ch. 603A, Sec. 2(2)), please:
1. Submit your preferences.
2. Visit our Tracking Preferences page.
If you would like to request to access, change, delete, or restrict the use or object to the processing of your Personal Data that you have previously provided to us, or if you would like to receive an electronic copy of your Personal Data for purposes of transmitting it to another company (to the extent these rights are provided to you by law), please complete this form. If you have any questions about the form or our process, feel free to contact us at privacy@marriott.com, or by mail at:
Global Compliance, Privacy
10400 Fernwood Road
EEA Contact Information:
Marriott Hotels Limited
Global Compliance
Barnard's Inn
86 Fetter Lane
London EC4A 1EN
For your protection, we only fulfill requests for the personal data associated with the email address and/or loyalty account number that you identify in your request, and we may need to verify your identity before fulfilling certain requests. When permitted by law, we may charge an appropriate fee to cover the costs of responding to your request.
Marriott acknowledges and respects our guests' privacy and we will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable and consistent with applicable law.
"Personal Data" are data that identify you as an individual or relate to an identifiable individual.
At touchpoints throughout your guest journey, we collect Personal Data in accordance with law, such as:
Credit and debit card number or other payment data
Financial information in limited circumstances
Nationality, passport, visa or other government-issued identification data
Important dates, such as birthdays, anniversaries and special occasions
Membership or loyalty program data (including co-branded payment cards, travel partner program affiliations)
Travel itinerary, tour group or activity data
Prior guest stays or interactions, goods and services purchased, special service and amenity requests
Social media account ID, profile photo and other data publicly available, or data made available by linking your social media and loyalty accounts
In more limited circumstances, we also may collect:
Data about family members and companions, such as names and ages of children
Biometric data, such as digital images
Images and video and audio data via: (a) security cameras located in public areas, such as hallways and lobbies, in our properties; and (b) body-worn cameras carried by our loss prevention officers and other security personnel
Guest preferences, enquiries and comments and any other personalized data ("Personal Preferences"), such as your interests, activities, hobbies, food and beverage choices, services and amenities of which you advise us or which we learn about during your visit
If you submit any Personal Data about other people to us or our Service Providers (e.g., if you make a reservation for another individual), you represent that you have the authority to do so and you permit us to use the data in accordance with this Privacy Statement.
How We Collect Personal Data
We collect Personal Data in a variety of ways:
Online Services. We collect Personal Data when you make a reservation, purchase goods and services from our Websites or Apps, communicate with us, or otherwise connect with us or post to social media pages, or sign up for a newsletter or participate in a survey, contest or promotional offer.
Property Visits and Offline Interactions. We collect Personal Data when you visit our properties, Homes and Villas, or use on-property services and outlets, such as restaurants, concierge services, health clubs, child care services, and spas. We also collect Personal Data when you attend promotional events that we host or in which we participate, or when you provide your Personal Data to facilitate an event.
Customer Care Centers. We collect Personal Data when you make a reservation over the phone, communicate with us by email, fax or via online chat services or contact customer service. These communications may be recorded for purposes of quality assurance and training.
Owners and Franchisees. We collect Personal Data from Owners of Marriott Group branded properties that we manage. We also collect Personal Data from Franchisees of Marriott Group branded properties that are independently owned and operated under a franchise agreement with us. Owners and Franchisees are independent from the Marriott Group.
Homes and Villas Property Management Companies. We collect Personal Data from companies and their service providers who manage Homes and Villas properties, your booking of Homes and Villas, and provide additional support to you during your stay at Homes and Villas ("Homes and Villas Property Management Companies"). Homes and Villas Property Management Companies are independent from the Marriott Group.
Authorized Licensees. We collect Personal Data from companies when we enter into a license or similar agreement to sell goods and services under a Marriott Group brand ("Authorized Licensees"). Examples of Authorized Licensees include our time share partners, Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corporation and Vistana Signature Experiences, Inc. Examples of other Authorized Licensees include Cruise Yacht Optco Ltd. d/b/a The Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection, developers of Marriott Group branded real estate and co-branded credit card partners. Authorized Licensees are independent from the Marriott Group.
Strategic Business Partners. We collect Personal Data from companies with whom we partner to provide you with goods, services or offers based upon your experiences at our properties or Homes and Villas, or that we believe will be of interest to you ("Strategic Business Partners"). Examples of Strategic Business Partners include on-property outlets, travel and tour partners, time share partners, rental car providers and travel booking platforms. Strategic Business Partners are independent from the Marriott Group.
Other Sources. We collect Personal Data from other sources, such as public databases, joint marketing partners and other third parties.
Internet-Connected Devices. We collect Personal Data from internet-connected devices available in our properties. For example, a smart home assistant may be available for your use and to tailor your accommodations and experience.
Physical & Mobile Location-Based Services. We collect Personal Data if you download one of our Apps or choose to participate in certain programs. For example, we may collect the precise physical location of your device by using satellite, cell phone tower, WiFi signals, or other technologies. We will collect this data if you opt in through the App or other program (either during your initial login or later) to receive the special offers and to enable location-driven capabilities on your mobile device. If you have opted-in, the App or other program will continue to collect location data when you are in or near a participating property until you log off or close application (i.e., the App or other program will collect this data if it is running in the background) or if you use your phone's or other device's setting to disable location capabilities for the Marriott Group App or other program.
"Other Data" are data that generally do not reveal your specific identity or do not directly relate to an individual. To the extent Other Data reveal your specific identity or relate to an individual, we will treat Other Data as Personal Data. Other Data include:
Browser and device data
App usage data
Data collected through cookies, pixel tags and other technologies
Demographic data and other data provided by you
How We Collect Other Data
We collect Other Data in a variety of ways:
Your browser or device. We collect certain data through your browser or automatically through your device, such as your Media Access Control (MAC) address, computer type (Windows or Macintosh), screen resolution, operating system name and version, device manufacturer and model, language, internet browser type and version and the name and version of the Online Services (such as the Apps) you are using. We use this data to ensure that the Online Services function properly.
Your use of the Apps. We collect certain data when you download and use an App, such as App usage data, the date and time the App on your device accesses our servers and what data and files have been downloaded to the App based on your device number.
Cookies. We collect certain data from cookies, which are pieces of data stored directly on the computer or mobile device that you are using. Cookies allow us to collect data such as browser type, time spent on the Online Services, pages visited, referring URL, language preferences, and other aggregated traffic data. We use the data for security purposes, to facilitate navigation, to display data more effectively, to collect statistical data, to personalize your experience while using the Online Services and to recognize your computer to assist your use of the Online Services. We also gather statistical data about use of the Online Services to continually improve design and functionality, understand how they are used and assist us with resolving questions.
Cookies further allow us to select which advertisements or offers are most likely to appeal to you and display them while you are using the Online Services or to send marketing emails. We also use cookies to track responses to online advertisements and marketing emails.
If you do not want data collected with cookies, you can learn more about controlling cookies at: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/index.html.
You can choose whether to accept cookies by changing the settings on your browser or by managing your tracking preferences by clicking on "Tracking Preferences" located at the bottom of our home page. If, however, you do not accept cookies, you may experience some inconvenience in your use of the Online Services. For example, we will not be able to recognize your computer, and you will need to log in every time you visit. You also will not receive advertising or other offers from us that are relevant to your interests and needs. At this time, we do not respond to browser "Do-Not-Track" signals.
Pixel Tags and other similar technologies. We collect data from pixel tags (also known as web beacons and clear GIFs), which are used with some Online Services to, among other things, track the actions of users of the Online Services (including email recipients), measure the success of our marketing campaigns and compile statistics about usage of the Online Services.
Analytics. We collect data through Google Analytics and Adobe Analytics, which use cookies and technologies to collect and analyze data about use of the Services. These services collect data regarding the use of other websites, apps and online resources. You can learn about Google's practices by going to www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ and opt out by downloading the Google Analytics opt out browser add-on, available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. You can learn more about Adobe and opt out by visiting http://www.adobe.com/privacy/opt-out.html.
Adobe Flash technology (such as Flash Local Shared Objects ("Flash LSOs")) and other similar technologies. We collect data through Flash LSOs and other technologies on some Websites to, among other things, collect and store data about your use of the Online Services. If you do not want Flash LSOs stored on your computer, you can adjust the settings of your Flash player to block Flash LSO storage using the tools contained in the Website Storage Settings Panel at http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html. You can also control Flash LSOs by going to the Global Storage Settings Panel at http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager03.html and following the instructions (which include instructions that explain, for example, how to delete existing Flash LSOs (referred to as "information" on the Macromedia site), how to prevent Flash LSOs from being placed on your computer without you being asked, and (for Flash Player 8 and later) how to block Flash LSOs that are not being delivered by the operator of the page you are on at the time). Please note that setting the Flash Player to restrict or limit acceptance of Flash LSOs may reduce or impede the functionality of some Flash applications, including those used with the Online Services. For more information, please refer to https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/disable-local-shared-objects-flash.html.
Your IP Address. We collect your IP address, a number that is automatically assigned to the computer that you are using by your Internet Service Provider (ISP). An IP address is identified and logged automatically in our server log files when a user accesses the Online Services, along with the time of the visit and the pages that were visited. We use IP addresses to calculate usage levels, diagnose server problems and administer the Online Services. We also may derive your approximate location from your IP address.
Aggregated Data. We may aggregate data that we collected and this aggregated data will not personally identify you or any other user.
Use of Personal Data and Other Data
We use Personal Data and Other Data to provide you with Services, to develop new offerings and to protect the Marriott Group and our guests as detailed below. In some instances, we will request that you provide Personal Data or Other Data to us directly. If you do not provide the data that we request, or prohibit us from collecting such data, we may not be able to provide the requested Services.
We use Personal Data and Other Data for our legitimate business interests, including the following:
Provide the Services you request. We use Personal Data and Other Data to provide Services you request, including:
To facilitate reservations, payment, send administrative information, confirmations or pre-arrival messages, to assist you with meetings and events and to provide you with other information about the area and the property at which you are scheduled to visit
To complete your reservation and stay, for example, to process your payment, ensure that your room is available and provide you with related customer service
To support our electronic receipt program. When you provide an email address in making a reservation, we use that email address to send you a copy of your bill. If you make a reservation for another person using your email address, that person's bill will be emailed to you, as well. You can opt out of receiving your bill via email and instead receive a paper copy by contacting the front desk
We will use Personal Data and Other Data to manage our contractual relationship with you, because we have a legitimate interest to do so and/or to comply with a legal obligation.
Personalize the Services according to your Personal Preferences. We use Personal Data and Other Data to personalize the Services and improve your experiences, including when you contact our call center, visit one of our properties or use the Online Services, to:
Customize your experience according to your Personal Preferences
Present offers tailored to your Personal Preferences
We will use Personal Data and Other Data to provide personalized Services according to your Personal Preferences either with your consent or because we have a legitimate interest to do so.
Communicate with you about goods and services according to your Personal Preferences. We use Personal Data and Other Data to:
Send you marketing communications and promotional offers, as well as periodic customer satisfaction, market research or quality assurance surveys
We will use Personal Data and Other Data to communicate with you with your consent, to manage our contractual relationship with you and/or because we have a legitimate interest to do so.
Loyalty Programs. We use Personal Data and Other Data to:
Offer and manage your participation in our global loyalty programs, as well as others that are specific to certain properties or tailored to your interests
Send you offers, promotions and information about your account status and activities
Assess your benefits
Administer points earned through co-branded credit cards
Manage your choices regarding how you wish to earn, track and use your points
We will use Personal Data and Other Data in this way with your consent, to manage our contractual relationship with you and/or because we have a legitimate interest to do so.
Sweepstakes, activities, events and promotions. We use Personal Data and Other Data to allow you to participate in sweepstakes, contests and other promotions and to administer these activities. Some of these activities have additional rules and may contain additional information about how we use and disclose your Personal Data. We suggest that you read any such rules carefully.
We use Personal Data and Other Data in this way with your consent, to manage our contractual relationship with you and/or because we have a legitimate interest to do so.
Business Purposes. We use Personal Data and Other Data for data analysis, audits, security and fraud monitoring and prevention (including with the use of closed circuit television, card keys, and other security systems), developing new goods and services, enhancing, improving or modifying our Services, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and operating and expanding our business activities.
We use Personal Data and Other Data in this way to manage our contractual relationship with you, comply with a legal obligation and/or because we have a legitimate interest to do so.
Right to Withdraw Your Consent
If you have given us consent in relation to particular processing or activities, you can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us as indicated below.
Disclosure of Personal Data and Other Data
Our goal is to provide you with the highest level of hospitality and Services, and to do so, we share Personal Data and Other Data with the following:
Marriott Group. We disclose Personal Data and Other Data to other companies within the Marriott Group (PDF) for the purposes described in this Privacy Statement, such as providing and personalizing the Services, communicating with you, facilitating the loyalty programs, and to accomplish our business purposes. Marriott International, Inc. is the party responsible for the management of the jointly-used Personal Data. We share your Personal Data and Other Data used for making a reservation with the applicable property to fulfill and complete your reservation.
Owners and Franchisees. We disclose Personal Data and Other Data to Owners and Franchisees of Marriott Group branded properties for the purposes described in this Privacy Statement, such as providing, facilitating and personalizing the Services and facilitating the loyalty programs.
Homes and Villas Property Management Companies. We disclose Personal Data and Other Data to Homes and Villas Property Management Companies and their service providers for the purpose described in this Privacy Statement, such as providing, facilitating and personalizing the Services and facilitating the loyalty programs.
Authorized Licensees. We disclose Personal Data and Other Data to our Authorized Licensees for the purposes described in this Privacy Statement, such as providing and personalizing the Services and fulfilling your requests. For example, this sharing enables you to purchase Marriott branded goods and services, including time share properties.
Strategic Business Partners. We disclose Personal Data and Other Data with select Strategic Business Partners who provide goods, services and offers that enhance your experience at our properties or Homes and Villas, or that we believe will be of interest to you. By sharing data with these Strategic Business Partners, we are able to make personalized services and unique travel experiences available to you. For example, this sharing enables spa, restaurant, health club, concierge and other outlets at our properties to provide you with services. This sharing also enables us to provide you with a single source for purchasing packages that include travel-related services, such as airline tickets, rental cars and vacation packages.
Service Providers. We disclose Personal Data and Other Data to third-party service providers for the purposes described in this Privacy Statement. Examples of service providers include companies that provide website hosting, data analysis, payment processing, order fulfillment, information technology and related infrastructure provision, customer service, email delivery, marketing, auditing and other services.
Linked Accounts and Promotional Activity. We partner with certain third parties that allow you to enroll in their services or participate in their promotions. For example, certain companies allow you to use your loyalty program number or Online Services login to receive or register for their services. These companies include airlines and rental car providers, as well as sponsors of sweepstakes and contests. Additionally, your social media account provider allows you to connect your social media account to your Online Services account or log into your Online Services account from your social media account. When you enroll in those services, we disclose your Personal Data and Other Data to those third parties. If you do not want us to share your Personal Data or Other Data in this way, do not provide your loyalty program number to third parties, do not use your Online Services login to register for third-party promotions and do not connect your Online Services account with accounts on third-party services. Data shared in this way will be governed by the third party's privacy policy and not this Privacy Statement.
eFolio Program. If you are an employee of a company that participates in the Marriott Group eFolio Program and book your room using a company corporate code or pay for your expenses using a corporate credit card, an extract of your folio detailing the goods and services provided to you may be sent to your company and to the credit card company. This Privacy Statement does not apply to the handling of your Personal Data by your employer, and any credit card company or bank, and we are not responsible for their practices.
Corporate Reorganization. We may disclose or transfer your Personal Data and Other Data to a third party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of the Marriott Group business, assets or stock (including any bankruptcy or similar proceedings).
We will use and disclose Personal Data as we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) to comply with applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities, including authorities outside your country of residence and to meet national security or law enforcement requirements; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations; (f) to protect the rights, privacy, safety or property of the Marriott Group, you or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.
We may use and disclose Other Data for any purpose, except where we are not allowed to under applicable law. In some instances, we may combine Other Data with Personal Data (such as combining your name with your location). If we do, we will treat the combined data as Personal Data as long as it is combined.
Non-Marriott Group Entities
This Privacy Statement does not address, and we are not responsible for the privacy, data or other practices of any entities outside of the Marriott Group, including Franchisees, Owners, Homes and Villas Property Management Companies, Authorized Licensees, Strategic Business Partners or any third party operating any site or service to which the Services link, payment service, loyalty program, or website that is the landing page of the high-speed Internet providers at our properties. The inclusion of a link on the Online Services does not imply endorsement of the linked site or service by us. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, any third party's collection, use and disclosure of your Personal Data.
In addition, we are not responsible for the data collection, use, disclosure or security policies or practices of other organizations, such as Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, RIM or any other app developer, app provider, social media platform provider, operating system provider, wireless service provider or device manufacturer, including with respect to any Personal Data you disclose to other organizations through or the Apps or our Social Media Pages.
We may use third-party advertising companies to serve advertisements regarding goods and services that may interest you when you access and use the Online Services, other websites or online services. To serve such advertisements, these companies place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser (including through use of pixel tags). If you would like more information about this practice, and to learn about your choices in connection with it, please visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp and http://www.aboutads.info/. To opt out of the practice, you may download the AppChoices app at www.aboutads.info/appchoices.
We seek to use reasonable organizational, technical and administrative measures to protect Personal Data. Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, if you feel that the security of your account has been compromised), please immediately notify us in accordance with the "Contacting Us" section, below.
Choices, Access and Retention
You have choices when it comes to how we use your data and we want to ensure you have the information to make the choices that are right for you.
If you no longer want to receive marketing-related emails, you may opt out by visiting our unsubscribe page at https://www.marriott.com/profile/email/unsubscribeChallenge.mi or by following the instructions in any such email you receive from us.
In addition, members of our loyalty programs can opt out from marketing-related emails through their program account, or by sending a letter to: Internet Customer Care – Unsubscribe, 1818 North 90 Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68114-1315 USA.
We will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable. If you opt out of receiving marketing emails from us, we may still send you important administrative messages, from which you cannot opt out.
Special Notice for Nevada Residents: To exercise your rights under the Nevada Privacy Law (NRS Ch. 603A, Sec. 2(2)), please contact us at privacy@marriott.com.
Special Notice for California Residents: Customers who reside in California and have provided their Personal Data to us can request, once per calendar year, information about our sharing of certain categories of Personal Data to third parties and within the Marriott Group, for their direct marketing purposes. Such requests should be submitted to us at privacy@marriott.com or:
We will provide a list of the categories of Personal Data disclosed to third parties for their direct marketing purposes during the immediately preceding calendar year, along with the names and addresses of these third parties. We reserve our right not to respond to requests submitted to addresses other than the addresses specified in this paragraph.
How You Can Request to Access, Change, Delete, Restrict the Use or Object to the Processing of Your Personal Data
If you would like to request to access, change, delete, restrict the use or object to the processing of your Personal Data that you have previously provided to us, or if you would like to receive an electronic copy of your Personal Data for purposes of transmitting it to another company (to the extent these rights are provided to you by law), please complete this form. If you have any questions about the form or our process, feel free to contact us at privacy@marriott.com, or by mail at:
For your protection, we may need to verify your identity before fulfilling your request. We will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable and consistent with applicable law.
Please note that we often need to retain certain data for recordkeeping purposes and/or to complete any transactions that you began prior to requesting a change or deletion (e.g., when you make a purchase or reservation, or enter a promotion, you may not be able to change or delete the Personal Data provided until after the completion of such purchase, reservation, or promotion). There may also be residual data that will remain within our databases and other records, which will not be removed. In addition, there may be certain data that we may not allow you to review for legal, security, or other reasons.
We will retain your Personal Data for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Statement unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
•The length of time we have an ongoing relationship with you and provide the Services to you (for example, for as long as you have an account with us or keep using the Services)
•Whether there is a legal obligation to which we are subject (for example, certain laws require us to keep records of your transactions for a certain period of time before we can delete them)
•Whether retention is advisable considering our legal position (such as, for statutes of limitations, litigation or regulatory investigations)
Unless specifically requested, we ask that you not send us, and you not disclose, on or through the Services or otherwise to us, any Sensitive Personal Data (e.g., social security number, taxpayer identification number, passport number, driver's license number or other government-issued identification number; credit or debit card details or financial account number, with or without any code or password that would permit access to the account, credit history; or information on race, religion, ethnicity, sex life or practices or sexual orientation, medical or health information, genetic or biometric information, biometric templates, political or philosophical beliefs, political party or trade union membership, background check information, judicial data such as criminal records or information on other judicial or administrative proceedings).
Use of Services by Minors
The Services are not directed to individuals under the age of sixteen (16), and we request that they not provide Personal Data through the Services.
The Marriott Group is a global organization and provides a global service. Sharing data cross-border is essential to the Services so that you receive the same high-quality service wherever you are in the world. As a result, we will, subject to law, transfer Personal Data and Other Data collected in connection with the Services, to entities in countries where data protection standards may differ from those in the country where you reside. By making a reservation, visiting or staying at a Marriott branded property or using any Marriott Group branded service, you understand that we transfer your Personal Data globally.
In certain circumstances, courts, law enforcement agencies, regulatory agencies or security authorities in those other countries will be entitled to access your Personal Data.
Some of the non-EEA countries are recognized by the European Commission as providing an adequate level of data protection according to EEA standards (the full list of these countries is available here).
Privacy Shield Certified
Marriott International, Inc. and certain of its U.S. affiliates have certified to the EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield frameworks. Our certifications can be found at: www.privacyshield.gov/list. For more information about the Privacy Shield principles, please visit: www.privacyshield.gov. Our Privacy Shield Guest Privacy Policy can be found here.
Updates to This Privacy Statement
The "Last Updated" legend at the top of this page indicates when this Privacy Statement was last revised. Any changes will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Statement on the Online Services. Your use of the Services following these changes means that you accept the revised Privacy Statement. If you would like to review the version of the Privacy Statement that was effective immediately prior to this revision, please contact us at privacy@marriott.com.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Statement, please contact us at privacy@marriott.com, or by mail:
For additional information about our complaints management practices and contacts, please refer to our Privacy Shield Guest Privacy Policy. Because your email communications to us may not always be secure, please do not include credit card or Sensitive Data in your emails to us.
You also can:
Contact our data protection officer responsible for your country or region via MarriottDPO@marriott.com. In your email, please indicate the country from which you are contacting us
Lodge a complaint with a data protection authority for your country or region or where an alleged infringement of applicable data protection laws occurs at http://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/article29/item-detail.cfm?item_id=612080.
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Share this Story: Varcoe: Industry fixated on falling costs and rising oil and gas prices
Varcoe: Industry fixated on falling costs and rising oil and gas prices
Chris Varcoe • Calgary Herald
Delegates explore the booths at the Global Petroleum Show in the BMO centre at Stampede Park. Photo by Gavin Young /Postmedia
Like kids in a classroom staring at the clock moments before the lunch bell rings, Canada's energy industry is watching two things very closely these days: operating costs and commodity prices.
Operating costs are still going down. Commodity prices are now headed up.
Varcoe: Industry fixated on falling costs and rising oil and gas prices Back to video
And no one is keeping an eye on this pendulum more sharply than the country's hard-hit oilfield services sector.
For the past 18 months, it's endured a lot of pain caused by the collapse of oil and gas prices and the ensuing reduction in spending by petroleum producers.
At the opening day of the 2016 Global Petroleum Show in Calgary, service operators say the unrelenting pressure to drive costs down is seeping throughout the sector, although the return of US$50 a barrel oil has provided some relief.
"Cost control is everything. It's survival of the fittest right now," says Jason King, president of Red Deer-based King's Energy Services Ltd. "You over-extend yourself, you over-leverage yourself, you are not going to survive."
During the industry's boom years, between 2000 and 2014, the compound annual growth rate for oilpatch operating costs in Canada rose by eight per cent, according to a recent report by ARC Financial Corp.
Today, existing production now costs 15 to 25 per cent less than it did two years ago. Expenses tied to drilling and completing new wells are down by up to 30 per cent.
Efficiency comes at a price.
More than 110,000 direct and indirect jobs have been lost since November 2014. ARC estimates wages for oilfield workers have tumbled 10 to 15 per cent since the peak across the western provinces.
King's Energy Services, which offers valve instrumentation, service supply and manufacturing to oil and gas firms, has trimmed its workforce to 75 from about 110.
As the downturn grinds on, some customers are looking to extend payment schedules, King notes. His average time for receiving payment has risen from about 30-45 days to between 60 and 90 days.
Other customers are seeking to lower costs further to weather the storm.
"Everybody in the industry got the nice form letter a while ago to reduce your rates by 20 to 30 per cent from a number of the producers. Most recently now I've got letters saying we are only willing to pay this rate," he says.
"Margins are shrinking 20, 30, in some cases 40 per cent."
Jerry Jacobsen, president of Edmonton-based Atlas Oil & Gas Process Systems Inc., notes this is the worst downturn he's seen in 35 years in the industry.
Business at his company, which designs and manufactures production equipment for the processing of oil and gas, is off about 35 per cent from a year ago, although he's received more inquiries from potential customers in recent weeks.
"The mood — well, I will tell you what I noticed. Guys are working harder. Quick coffees, lunches are exactly an hour. That's interesting. Everybody who is still working is happy to have a job," Jacobsen said.
Like many people in the sector, he is tracking oil and gas prices closely each day — "big time," he stresses — waiting for signs of stability.
"It's going to be tough for the next few months, definitely summer and into fall," Jacobsen adds. "I really believe this coming winter and spring, though, there will be an uptick."
The optimism is fuelled by the recent price recovery.
Crude oil traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange closed Tuesday at US$50.36 a barrel — it's highest point since last July.
There's also some good news for hard-hit gas players.
Gas traded at the AECO hub in Alberta closed at $1.70 per thousand cubic feet Tuesday, after collapsing briefly below 50 cents last month following the Fort McMurray wildfires.
Most of the gains for gas in the past two weeks are tied to ongoing field maintenance. Analyst Martin King of FirstEnergy Capital estimates production has dropped about 10 per cent since February, calling the recent uptick "welcome but transitory."
On the oil side, the combined impact of outages in Nigeria and in Alberta, due to the wildfires, is helping to propel prices. As well, inventories are expected to drop in the United States.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration reported Tuesday that oil production is expected to average 8.6 million barrels per day in 2016 south of the border, down from 9.4 million last year.
"I think $50 to $60 is very do-able for the rest of the summer as a range," says King. "It's just steadily getting better."
At the petroleum show, the price rally is catching everyone's attention, although few are prepared to declare the tough times over.
John Anderson, regional sales manager for Triangle Fluid Controls Ltd., figures business is down 60 per cent from the peak.
But the second half of 2016 is looking better. Securing a few deals thanks to stronger commodity prices would help mitigate the past year's ugly downturn.
"It's a psychological barrier, especially $50 a barrel. More importantly, we've seen some stability in the price of oil," says Anderson, whose company sells fluid sealing products, including gaskets and check valves to the industry.
"Hopefully that is a good sign of things to come."
Chris Varcoe is a Calgary Herald business columnist.
cvarcoe@calgaryherald.com
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20 Inconvenient Truths About Politics In America
1) Joseph Goebbels is often credited with saying, "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe." Not only was Goebbels right, his comments are at the core of the Democratic Party's messaging strategy.
2) There's a reason why being right isn't enough in our political system. It's because as a general rule in politics, emotions > logic, soundbites > longer, better arguments, negative ads > positive ads, liars > honest politicians, and wrong and easy > right and hard.
3) The race-neutral "people should be judged by the content of their character, not the color of their skin" model that white Americans have overwhelmingly accepted has been rejected by black and Hispanic Americans. Skin color matters to most black and Hispanic Americans and it matters a lot.
4) There is no practical way to balance the budget in the next decade without raising taxes and cutting defense, Social Security, and Medicare.
5) Neither the Republican Party nor the Democratic Party want to solve our problem with illegal aliens. Democrats want as many illegal aliens here as possible because they believe they will eventually be able to turn them into poor, dependent American citizens who will vote for them overwhelmingly. Republicans have corrupt allies in the business community who are willing to give the GOP millions in return for cheap illegal labor. Additionally, some Republicans believe that coddling illegals will bring Republicans more Hispanic votes, although that hasn't been borne out by actual election results and it conflicts with the Democratic belief, which is likely correct, that they'll be the ones who'd benefit from illegals becoming citizens.
6) You cannot follow what's going on in D.C. just by listening to politicians talk. In fact, most Americans need a politically savvy translator to explain what's really going on because there is so little resemblance between what politicians say and what they do.
7) In presidential elections, the most indecisive, least informed, least deserving voters end up deciding the winner because they're the ones who are still undecided right before the election.
8) The vast majority of politicians in this country care much more about keeping their well-paying, prestigious jobs than they do about taking care of the country. Most of them would far rather back a popular proposal that's terrible for America than do the right thing if it makes it more likely that they won't be elected.
9) Except for the poorest Americans, everyone should have to pay in taxes what he gets back in government services — along with a little extra to cover the poor. The fact that 47% of Americans aren't being asked to pay income tax and most of the Americans that do pay think they're being taxed far too much tells you that most people don't think they're getting their money's worth in services.
10) In national elections, liberal politicians usually promise to be moderates and later turn out to be lying if they're elected. On the other hand, Republicans usually promise to be conservatives and then break their promises to move to the middle.
11) Because of gerrymandering and the partisan lean of states, a majority of politicians in Congress don't ever have to worry about being beaten by anyone from the opposing party. Because of this, as long as they don't anger any powerful special interest groups from their party that could fund a primary against them, they might as well have a lifetime appointment to Congress.
12) If you don't vote, your opinion is so meaningless that there's no real point to even asking what you think.
13) America's debt crisis along with the rapidly escalating cost of popular programs like Social Security and Medicare practically guarantees that America's military is going to become considerably weaker in the coming decades.
14) The majority of politicians aren't going to appreciate the work you do for them, your small contribution, the signs you put up, or your help in getting them reelected. They will, however, pay a great deal of attention to you after they're elected if you provide them with a lot of money.
15) Americans claim to want politicians who are honest with them. However, in practice most Americans vote for politicians who tell them what they want to hear while calling it honesty.
16) This country is engaged in an unsustainable level of deficit spending. Yet we can't raise taxes on the rich to make a big dent in it, both parties claim to oppose middle class tax cuts, and making spending cuts is unpopular. So it's a lose/lose/lose/lose situation.
17) Politicians from both parties have proven that they can work together in a quick, bipartisan manner. Unfortunately, it only seems to happen when they're wasting extraordinary amounts of taxpayer money or when they're passing far-reaching, poorly-thought-out legislation in response to a crisis.
18) In the political sphere, most of the people who claim to be "victims" haven't been harmed. To the contrary, they're ecstatic about being "victims" because it gives them an opportunity to bask in public attention as the pretend-to-be aggrieved.
20) A majority of Americans have only the most rudimentary understanding of economics, history, budgeting, the way our system of government works, and the hottest political issues of the moment. That being said, these voters still often catch on when politicians are lying to them because the pols talk to them as if they know absolutely nothing instead of a little something about what's going on.
20) There's a simple reason a lot of politicians aren't nearly as concerned about the country going bankrupt as ordinary Americans: They have so much money and influence that they'll have the option of leaving if things get really bad.


Worldwide mobile phone sales grew 21.5 percent year on year to 251 million units in the third quarter, with India and China driving growth, according to research from Gartner.
Gartner predicts that sales for the year will fall just shy of one billion phones. Sales should reach 986 million units by the end of the year, the research group said.
Europe, one of the most mature mobile phone markets in the world, showed just 1.9 percent growth over the same quarter last year.
Asia Pacific experienced the most dramatic gains, with sales of 80.8 million units during the third quarter, an increase of 54.7 percent over the same period last year. That significant growth happened despite a decline in sales of 4.7 percent in Japan compared to the third quarter in 2005. An increase in retail outlets and better distribution channels in emerging markets such as Indonesia, Philippines and India significantly offset that loss though, driving growth in the region.
Other regions of the world also reported solid growth. In Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa, sales grew 19 percent compared to last year, to 48 million phones. North American sales reached 40.8 million units, up 12 percent. Sales in Latin America grew 13.7 percent over the same time last year, to 29.8 million phones.
Gartner reported that the smaller phone makers will increasingly struggle to compete against the giants. In the third quarter, Nokia, Motorola and Samsung together accounted for 68 percent of phone sales.
Among those three, competition is fierce. While Motorola increased its market share during the quarter, it lost its number one position in Latin America, to Nokia, and also lost its number two spot in Western Europe, to Samsung. Nokia has the largest market share worldwide, but failed to grow its market share in North America during the quarter.
Nokia's worldwide market share was 35.1 percent, up from 32.5 percent in the same quarter last year. Motorola had 20.6 percent, compared to 18.7 percent during the third quarter in 2005. Number three vendor Samsung had 12.2 percent market share, just slightly down from 12.5 percent last year.


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Crime has always fascinated human kind even before there was film and other mediums. Tales have been told through the centuries of characters involved in criminal acts, not just of Read morethe malevolent type but also the benevolent, such as the iconic Robin Hood, for example. Photowall has a tremendous collection of crime posters that can reflect that fascination and bring more meaning to it, turning your room into something more interesting visually and metaphorically. Crime films encompass or cross over to many levels, and may include at least these different types of films, the gangster film, the detective film, the crime comedy, the suspense-thriller, and the police procedural film. The allure of the protagonists, or antagonists if you are so inclined, comes from our own psyche. With crime posters, you can showcase your admiration for this type of entertainment, while also expressing another side of yourself but in a positive light. You can also alter these items to match your overall aesthetic, colour schemes and other decorative elements.
The appeal of crime posters
The main characters in this specific genre of movies often show an overwhelmingly ambitious desire for success and recognition, but underneath they often express sensitivity and gentleness. This is not just to entice the viewers, but also makes sense cinematically. Gangster films in particular are often morality tales, where the central figure comes from a poor, frequently immigrant family, who fall prey to crime in the pursuit of wealth, status, and material possessions because all other "normal" avenues to the top are unavailable to them. Although most of them are doomed to failure and inevitable death, criminals are sometimes portrayed as the victims of circumstance which is why we can relate and symphatize with them. In crime posters, you will find real life photographs that will get up right in your face with their rich detail and intricate features. There are also works of art, truly, that can give this genre a whole new dimension and your decoration plenty of meaning.
There is practically no one who has not played a cop or a robber in his or her childhood. Pitting the good guys versus the bad guys is a staple of growing up. The lines between the two get grayer as we get older, but our fascination with this dichotomy of humanity is everlasting. Crime posters can serve as a gentle reminder of when things were simpler, but also as an inspiration to keep true to your ideals. Crime films made a huge wave in America, and eventually the world, in the 1970s. Some of the best films of all time in this genre came to fruition during that specific era. Although there were cop films earlier in the century, there was a re-emergence or new wave of revitalized, noir-inspired cop films in that period. These refashioned anti-hero cops were mostly rough vigilantes, or those who worked outside the bounds of traditional law officers. The most known and immediate example is the one and only maverick Detective "Dirty" Harry Callahan in 1971. "Dirty" Harry, noted for his oversized Magnum, had become exasperated with the corrupt and inept San Francisco Police Department as he battled a psychotic kidnapper and serial killer known as Scorpio. Get yourself a crime poster like Dirty Harry, perhaps one of the most iconic scenes in the 70s, if not of all-time.
The pinnacle of crime posters
During said time, there was also re-envisionings of gangster films within the new wave of crime pictures, especially gangster sagas. Two of the most successful gangland 'Mafia' films ever made appeared in the 1970s with Francis Ford Coppola's direction of Mario Puzo's best-selling novel, The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1974). To this day, these films are considered the best of all time. You can show your appreciation and love for these with crime posters in the form of Godfather - Al Pacino and Marlon Brando. Both were epic sagas of a violent, treacherous, and tightly-knit crime family from Sicily that had settled in New York and had become as powerful as the government and big businesses. Crime posters like this will transform your space immediately into something visually arresting and memorable.
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The Ultimate Volcano Bay Attractions Guide - Tour America.
Universal's Volcano Bay is Orlando's newest water park, and it's filled with some of the tallest and fastest water slides in the world. It's also a great place for relaxation because the TapuTapu wristband does all the waiting in line for you. Just tap it to a kiosk and it lets you know when it's your turn to ride.
After convenient pickup, begin your tour with an introduction to the charm of the Hilo Bay area, including sights of its distinctive black sand beach. Make your way to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Enter the gates of this immense park and marvel at its sprawl of protected forest, breathing in the brisk air that comes with 4,000 feet (1,219 m) of elevation.
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Personal VIP tours are also available, and the specialized Star Wars at Disneyland tour offers a Jedi's-view perspective of the resort's many attractions related to the saga. the specialized Cultivating the Magic tour sheds light on Disneyland's extensive gardens.Join us at Universal Orlando and enjoy Islands of Adventure and Universal Studios, with optional add-ons to Volcano Bay and a backstage tour! When: November 2020 Registration Deadline: September 24. The answers to frequently asked questions about this trip are available in our Universal FAQs forum. Please read that (and this entire page) before emailing me with questions and registering.Select Payments, it should say "Use Universal Pay at Universal's Volcano Bay" Click "Add Card" and add a credit card and a 4 digit PIN and a billing address; Link the account to one or more tickets. The easiest way to do this is to allow the app to use your camera and scan the bar code on your ticket. Enter in a name for this account. Now you can tell who bought what with the.
Volcano Bay This article is not aimed at describing the rides, but rather the basics of getting in and around the park. Getting there:- a) If you are staying at one of the Universal resorts hotels, you can make full use of the free buses that run to Volcano Bay from your hotel. (You will also get early access by 1 hour b) You can be dropped off at the drop-off point close to the multi-story.Volcano Bay is a water theme park, where thrills and relaxation flow in perfect harmony. Here, the TapuTapu wearable lets you hold your place in the ride lines and reveal wondrous surprises with just a wave of your wrist. It's a tropical paradise just steps away from everything Universal Orlando Resort has to offer. At Universal's Volcano Bay water theme park, the water is delightfully.
Staying On Site. Volcano Bay is located right next to the Cabana Bay Beach Resort, making it easily walkable from there and the two other close hotels, theSapphire Falls Resort and Aventura Hotel.Other resort guests and day guests take frequent shuttles to the water park. Just like Universal's theme parks, Volcano Bay has Early Entry for Universal hotel guests (although there is no Express.
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A total 47 people were on the island in New Zealand's Bay of Plenty when the volcano exploded, including 24 Australians on a cruise ship tour. But the Red Cross missing persons list still shows.
This tour is the Ultimate experience SeaWorld has to offer. 8 hours of immersive family fun that is a must for animal lovers. You will get to experience fine dining, front-of-line ride privileges, close up encounters with the animals, and your very own tour guide. Your Ultimate VIP Tour includes: VIP Guide; Preferred parking; Express Park Entry.
A walking trail from the centre takes in some spectacular views of the volcano and the landscape around it. There should be time for those who choose to do so to take part in a 30-minute helicopter-flight around the main crater. Late afternoon coach-ride to the city of Portland, Oregon, our base for the next two nights, where we check-in to a centrally located 4-star hotel.
The views from above will amaze you! The perspective of how vast and unique each corner of the island is will inspire you. Explore Oahu's many sides in luxury during one of our private or shared seating helicopter tours. Feeling adventurous? Book a private helicopter and choose to take the doors off and really soar with excitement! Located convenie.
Universal Studios Hollywood is offering an all-new R.I.P. Tour for this year's Halloween Horror Nights. The premium experience will feature a private guided tour with trolley access, a gourmet buffet dinner, unlimited Universal Express line privileges and exclusive access to a specially-themed "Stra.
The second of three villages in Universal's Volcano Bay, River Village has fun for people of all ages, including the very youngest Waturi. Rainforest Village The third village you'll discover in Universal's Volcano Bay, Rainforest Village stretches along the shores of an action-packed river and features the perfect mix of relaxation and exhilaration.
That's the philosophy celebrated at Universal's Volcano Bay water theme park. It's the carefree attitude the fabled Waturi islanders have embraced on their Pacific isle for centuries. Now you can live the Waturi way at this tropical getaway where thrills and relaxation flow in perfect harmony. With over 30 unique experiences and 19 different attractions, it's a theme park like no other.
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The Ultimate Volcano Bay Attractions Guide. Universal Orlando's third park has risen in the form of Volcano Bay and this brand new water theme park has been thrilling guests since it opened in May. With a carefree vibe, many thrilling rides and excellent food, the park offers a lot to those who visit. From lazy rivers, to thrilling tube.
The purpose of this plan is to give you a framework for visiting all of the attractions at Universal Orlando's Volcano Bay in one day. It's written for guests without Express access (but if you do have Express Passes, be sure to check out our complete guide for full details). It's important to understand that Volcano Bay is unlike Universal Studios Florida or Islands of Adventure.


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Mass Effect Launch Date Locked In For November 20
– August 30, 2007Posted in: Mass Effect, Microsoft, News, Screenshots, Xbox 360
Next to Halo 3, Mass Effect is probably the most anticipated Xbox 360 release of the year, and thanks to an official announcement from Microsoft and BioWare today we now know exactly what launch date to mark on the already jam-packed holiday release calendar. And that date is… November 20th!
"With 'Mass Effect,' BioWare is delivering an incredible next-gen gaming odyssey. Our fans will journey through a vast, futuristic universe as they are challenged to make impactful decisions that will determine the very fate of the galaxy," said Ray Muzyka, chief executive officer, BioWare Corp. Added Greg Zeschuk, president of BioWare Corp., "The best games bring players into an immersive, realistic world that is fun to explore from beginning to end. We've achieved that in 'Mass Effect' by putting the player at the center of a compelling, cinematic storyline full of realistic characters and hundreds of exciting locations."
Bob McKenzie, Senior Vice President of Merchandising at GameStop Corporation commented that, "Only a handful of video games redefine their genres, and judging from the excitement and demand we've seen from fans, 'Mass Effect' for Xbox 360 is one that can bring role-playing games to a broader audience through its beautifully realistic graphics and cinematic, emotionally charged gameplay experience."
These five screenshots showing off the game's character creation have also come along today.


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I'm not a theme developer so perhaps I don't understand how this all works, but a lot of premium themes add custom options in your admin area. Some of these options will be stuff like custom SEO settings or other stuff.
If you were to deactivate and delete a theme before uploading the updated version, wouldn't it delete the settings you've saved for all those options?
Additionally, when you try to simply upload the new theme in the admin area without deleting the old version, it says that it can't overwrite the existing folder. Is there a way to force themes to overwrite their existing version so they can just be uploaded via the admin area without having to delete the previous version?
Hopefully this makes sense :) Any help or advice would be appreciated :)

A: The theme's options are stored in the database, and when you delete the theme from the "themes" folder you are only deleting its files, you are not altering the database in any way, so when you upload the new version of the theme it can still access those options without you losing any information.
You don't even need to deactivate the old theme providing the new version's folder name is the same as the old one.
To avoid the "folder already exists" error you can simply rename the old theme's folder and upload the new one, that way you can have a backup in case the new version of the theme doesn't work as you expected.
And just a side note, if you are planning to make modifications to premium themes, always use child themes, otherwise all your modifications will be lost once you update.

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A New Test of Ricardian Equivalence Using the Narrative Record on Tax Changes
Haug, Alfred A. (2016): A New Test of Ricardian Equivalence Using the Narrative Record on Tax Changes.
This paper empirically tests the Ricardian equivalence hypothesis with a narrative measure of tax shocks. The present value, at the time of legislation, of tax increases motivated solely by concerns for improving the fiscal health of the government is used for the tests. These tax news represent a switch from debt to tax financing that should have no effects on the economy if Ricardian equivalence holds as a good approximation. For the post-1980:IV period, I find evidence for fiscal anticipation as many of the tax increases are implemented with substantial delays and distortionary taxes increase economic activity before taxes go up, which iscaused by intertemporal substitution. Therefore, Ricardian equivalence is rejected.
Ricardian equivalence hypothesis; narrative record; exogenous tax changes; government budget deficits
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Evans, George W., Seppo Honkapohja and Kaushik Mitra (2012). Does Ricardian Equivalence Hold When Expectations Are Not Rational? Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking 44, 1259 1283.
Evans, Paul (1991). Is Ricardian Equivalence a Good Approximation? Economic Inquiry 29, 626–644.
Favero, Carlo, and Francesco Giavazzi (2012). Measuring Tax Multipliers: The Narrative Method in Fiscal VARs. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 4, 69-94.
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The Scheck Hillel middle school volleyball team lost 0-2 to Hebrew Academy in their season opener, Wednesday, August 29.
"I am so proud of how well the girls performed today," said head coach Danny Perez. "They've only had one full day of practice as a team and with the way they played today I am excited for what the future holds.
The team lost the first set 15-25 and the second set 16-25.
The team plays its next game at home against Sheridan Hills, Thursday, August 30 at 4:30PM.
Make sure to follow us on Twitter @eHillelLions and on Instagram for future news and all our game-day updates!


The Veterans Hospital in Phoenix has dismissed three of their executives who were involved in a national wait-list scandal that caused unnecessary deaths of war veterans. Although the scandal was revealed two years ago, it was just last Tuesday that Phoenix saw the discharge of Dr. Prior to the recent firing of the three executives, the VA had already dismissed its former director, Sharon Helman, who oversaw the VA that time, the Press of Atlantic City disclosed. Whistleblowers were able to attest in front of the Congress that tens of thousand of veterans had suffered and waited as the seniors tried to schedule appointments with the hospital's medical team. President Barack Obama has alleviated some of the problems, but the VA acknowledges that many problems remain. Helman Gibson, the Deputy VA Secretary, expressed his disappointment in the slow movement of justice for these veterans. 19 firefighters were killed in a battle against the 6,000 acre Yarnell Hill wildfire on Sunday.
According to Fox News, the 19 firefighters killed in the blaze were members of Hotshots, an elite crew known for containing the worst blazes the region has to offer.
A brutal wildfire, authorities believe the Yarnell Hill fire was sparked by a lightning strike on Friday. According to Ward, the 19 firefighters killed in the fire are members of a hotshots crew, a highly trained squad that battled the fires up close.
Scientists Demonstrate Three-Way Quantum Communication: What's Faster Than The Speed Of Light? Louis Cardinals' Thomas Pham, left, tags home plate as he gets around Arizona Diamondbacks' Welington Castillo, right, during the seventh inning of a baseball game Monday, Aug. The Department of Veteran Affairs has come under fire after reports of the deaths of 40 patients forced to wait for medical care at the Phoenix VA hopsital. Further investigations had proven that the veterans indeed faced chronic delays for treatment.
Congress continues to pressure lawmakers and agency leaders to improve the given amendments and overhaul signed by President Barack Obama. By Sunday night, the blaze had already spread 6,000 acres and destroyed more than 100 structures. Working long hours in extreme conditions, Hotshot crews hike for miles into the wilderness armed with chainsaws and a backpack full of equipment in order to build protection lines and barriers to stop the wildfire from spreading. What's worse, secret waiting lists and falsified records were produced by the VA authorities to hide the hold ups. The risk is well-known to the brave men and women who don their gear and do battle against forest and flame.
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Q: Small subset of users get very slow page loads. CPU/bandwidth/etc not under load This is driving me crazy, so I thought I'd see if anyone could give me a clue. I have a small VPS running Centos 5, newest Apache and MySQL and PHP.

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*About 1% of my users report very slow page loads, even for static HTML pages. On the order of 0.1 kbps. But they do eventually get the pages to load.

*It is always the same users who are afflicted, and they are always afflicted.

*The server is not under CPU or disk load and it is not memory or disk constrained.

*Throughput is very fast and consistent for all the non-afflicted users.

*Afflicted users can download files very fast from other VPS servers on the same host. So it doesn't seem to be the host.
Has anyone else experienced an issue like this?
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*Tracert from affected users is normal

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*Users claim to have tried various operating systems and browsers

*Users come from a range of different geographic regions

A: It could be some craziness with DNS - esp. if the users are in a corporate environment. Usually, DNS lookups are cached, but if every request also includes a DNS lookup, that might explain the behaviour you identify.
If at all possible, you could ask those users to take their PCs (hopefully laptops) onto another network and try to connect.
You could also ask them to install Firebug (a plugin for the Firefox browser) - this gives you a very visual indication of what's going on.
Does the page include Javascript - esp. analytics tags from other providers? This can sometimes cause a visually slow page - it's downloaded fine, but the browser doesn't render it because it's working on the analytics code.

A: what does redbot.org say?
Also try running a web page test from a geographical region close to the users having the problem. Look at the waterfall chart and see if there are big wait times or TTFB times.
And in the off chance your users are in a location which may have a CDN/node down or even blocked. For example if your users are in china for example and you have 3rd party widgets being loaded like facebook/twitter they will be blocked by china firewall and will get 10 to 20 second timeouts.


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Rotation - The Walkmen
Olivia Flores Alvarez
Olivia Flores Alvarez | November 22, 2006 | 5:58pm
The Walkmen Pussy Cats Starring the Walkmen Record Collection
Evidently, the Walkmen recorded Pussy Cats Starring the Walkmen as a spontaneous send-off to their Brooklyn studio, the building having been slated for demolition. To that we say, Who cares? With the exception of a few songs off its past two albums ("The Rat," "Louisiana," etc.), Pussy Cats is the band's best work since its debut, 2002's Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone. This is a high-spirited re-creation of the criminally underworshipped Harry Nilsson's 1974 album, which was produced by John Lennon during the latter's "lost weekend" separation from Yoko Ono (i.e., when he came to his senses and finally, albeit briefly, remembered the maxim "bros before hos"). Both this tribute and the original are playful and desperate, baroque and broke, smelling of open windows, dirty bathrobes and overloaded ashtrays. Half the songs are covers, including "Subterranean Homesick Blues"; "Loop De Loop"; "Rock Around the Clock"; and the arresting opener, a weeping-guitar version of Jimmy Cliff's "Too Many Rivers to Cross," on which Walkmen singer Hamilton Leithauser transforms his Rod Stewart gravel driveway into a bed of jagged slate. The centerpiece remains, of course, Nilsson's own "All My Life," an upbeat ditty that brings a greasy, Bizet-like string section into the shenanigans. They call the original the ultimate buddy album of the '70s; the updated version is a pal to lost weekenders everywhere. — Jason Harper


This is going to be a great dance party of course with our local band Edessa but to have Yanni lead us in dance is a special treat!
Easy parking on the street or in the adjacent parking lot.
Édessa is one of the Bay Area's premier Balkan dance bands, devoting decades to the study and performance of the rich cultural expressions of the southern Balkans. They play with a deep understanding of the connection between dance and music. Using both traditional and modern instruments, they perform in a variety of styles, featuring long sets that interweave melodies, improvisation, and beats with dancers in mind. Édessa is George Chittenden on clarinet, gaida (bagpipe), zurna (shawm), and guitar, Lise Liepman on santouri (hammered dulcimer) and accordion, Ari Langer on violin, and Sean Tergis on percussion.


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Bible > Sermons > Revelation 14:1-13
The New Song
James Kidd, B.A.
And I looked, and, see, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand…
We shall begin our meditation on this vision by considering the occupation of those referred to. They sing. Praise is often spoken of as the chief occupation of the saints in heaven. Nor need we wonder that such is the case. They have passed to the land of pure delight. They mingle in congenial society. Above all, they behold Him, whom they have long adored afar off, and with Him they maintain unbroken communion. His presence and voice fill their hearts with joy, deep and intense. Nor does the inspiration of their song come only from the present; it comes also from the past. Then they fully learn what has been done to them and for them during their earthly journey. This praise, too, is unceasing. Other engagements and interests concern men in this life. They have wants that must be supplied; they have burdens that must be borne; they have battles that must be fought. And these urge them to prayer as often as to praise. Even up to the Jordan's bank they must stretch forth their hands and raise their voice in supplication. But, in that better land, they enjoy satisfaction and rest. Full provision has been made, and they have only to celebrate the goodness that has done it all. That which they sing is called "a new song." It is heavenly in origin and character. It is no feeble strain of earth, weak in thought and poor in expression. It far transcends in matter and in form the psalms and hymns and spiritual songs of the Church below. These were suited to the partial knowledge of this lower sphere, but they are inadequate to the fuller view and the deeper experience to which the redeemed have risen. Of that anthem we catch some echoes in the revelation which John has given us. It is a song of salvation, it is a shout of triumph. It is called "the song of Moses and of the Lamb," and this title is suggestive of its tenor. From a danger greater than that to which the Israelites were exposed have those who are with the Lamb been delivered. Not from physical evil or an earthly enemy, but from spiritual loss and death, and from the power of the wicked one, have they been rescued. Not only, therefore, do they sing the song of Moses; they sing also the song of the Lamb. Being a new song, it must be learned by those who would sing it. But the text warns us that this is possible only for those who have undergone a certain training. Without discipline we cannot take our place in the choir above, engage in the occupations, or enjoy the beauties and delights of the Paradise above. This, indeed, we might understand apart from revelation. All experience combines to suggest it. In the material world everything has its place and work, and is specially fitted for filling the one and performing the other. We recognise in that sphere the reign of law. Every branch of industry has its own rules and its own methods. To learn these an apprenticeship must be undergone. And this is as applicable to the moral region as it is to the social and the intellectual. Place a man of dissolute habits, of vicious temper, of impure thought, of blasphemous speech, in the company of men and women who are spiritual in tone, pure in thought, reverent in speech, and what will his experience be? Not certainly one of satisfaction and enjoyment. He will be wretched. He will long to escape that he may go to his own company and to his own place. Now, this truth, which is received and acted on in all spheres of human activity, has force beyond the limits of earth. It touches the constitution of things: it rests on our nature, and must, therefore, determine our experience not only here but hereafter. To occupy our minds with the foolish, if not the wicked, things of earth, is to render ourselves incapable of dealing with the concerns of heaven; that before we can even learn the song of the redeemed we must have been prepared, for not every one can learn the new song that is being sung before the throne, before the four beasts, and before the elders. But we are not only warned that preparation is required; we are also taught in what it is to consist. Its general character may, indeed, be gathered from what has just been said. We have been reminded that to engage heartily in any occupation we must make ourselves acquainted with its rules and methods, that to enjoy any society we must have in some measure risen to the attainment of its members. In order, then, to discover what is needful, by way of training, before we can join this company, enjoy their fellowship, and sing their song, we have only to inquire by what features they are marked. They are spiritual in character, they are with the Lamb on Mount Zion, they are pure and holy. From this it follows that the education which those who would join them must undergo is spiritual. It is not intellectual only. Mere acquaintance with what concerns persons is not of necessity sympathy with them. Only when knowledge touches heart and life can there be fellowship, for only then are companions animated by the same spirit and interested in the same subjects and pursuits. Nor, on the other hand, can the training be merely mechanical. By no outward washing or cleansing can we free the soul from its foul blot; can we make ourselves pure, worthy to stand before the great white throne and Him who sits thereon. The one hundred and forty and four thousand who do learn the song are said to have been "redeemed from the earth." They have been "redeemed." This indicates that by nature they are not fit for the occupation referred to. The faculty qualifying them for it has been lost, and has to be restored. The dormant faculties must be roused and developed, the powers that have been misapplied must be converted. The term "redemption" is employed in Scripture in two different senses, or rather to suggest two aspects of the change which it indicates. At one time it signifies release from the bondage of the Evil One without; at another, release from the bondage of the evil nature within. Here it is the inner rather than the outer reference that is in view. It is less escape from slavery and danger than purity and elevation of character that is thought of. Not at once are we made fit for heaven in the fullest sense: not at once is the hold which sin has gained on us relaxed. That comes by struggle, by warring against the powers and principalities arrayed against us, and to which we have submitted. Emancipation in this view is education, growth, advance. The possibility of it rests on living faith, and the realisation of it is gradual, to be carried forward day by day. We have not yet attained, neither are we already perfect, but we follow after, pressing "toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." In His footsteps we should be seeking to walk, and only as we are doing so are we preparing ourselves for the engagements and the delights of the Better Land. That such is the nature of the redemption spoken of in the text becomes still clearer when we observe that those spoken of are to be redeemed "from the earth." By the earth is meant the lower nature, and what stands related to it. To be redeemed from the earth is to be lifted above it, to use it without abusing it, to act under the control of the Spirit, and this is a movement that should be upward as well as onward — not monotonous progress on a dead level, but achievement, victory, exaltation. It must be apparent to every one that redemption from earth means meetness for heaven, Heaven and earth, in their spiritual use, stand opposed to each other. To be subject to the one is to be beyond the range and influence of the other. We should then be striving after this redemption; we should be seeking to value aright the things around, and we should be endeavouring to free ourselves from their dominion; we should be struggling, that the evil powers within may be subdued — knowing that only thus can we be prepared for joining the glorious company above, for learning the new song, and for celebrating the praise of Him who hath wrought salvation for us.
(James Kidd, B.A.)
KJV: And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads.
WEB: I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.


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Scientists in spat over whether to infect people in coronavirus vaccine trials
Professor Adrian Hill, the director of the Jenner Institute at Oxford University - www.johncairns.co.uk/Voltage TV
Coronavirus Article Bar with counter
Scientists working on Britain's best hope for a coronavirus vaccine are understood to be at odds about whether to deliberately infect healthy patients in order to test it.
Professor Adrian Hill, the director of the Jenner Institute at Oxford University, wants to recruit young volunteers for such tests in the hope that it will speed up the race for a successful jab.
Prof Hill is among hundreds of scientists advocating the use of "human challenge trials", which would see healthy people under the age of 30 deliberately infected in order to test the vaccine.
But Sarah Gilbert, professor of vaccinology at the institute, is understood to have clashed with him over his intentions, believing the risk to volunteers is too high.
Their dilemma is whether to expose volunteers to the virus – which could mean a successful vaccine becomes available more quickly – or wait until any potential long-term effects are better understood.
Prof Hill is part of the research team working on a vaccine, and last month said he would like to see trials that test the jab on those who have been deliberately infected with the virus occurring by the end of this year.
"Everybody would agree that the risk is extremely low in young people," he said.
Professor Sarah Gilbert told the House of Lords science and technology committee that the success of lockdown in cutting transmission of coronavirus was making it more difficult to develop a vaccine - www.johncairns.co.uk/Voltage TV
However, Prof Gilbert told BBC Radio 4: "It's not something that's going to happen in the short term," and The Mail on Sunday reported a source as saying the two scientists are "not particularly happy" with each other at the moment.
In a statement, the Jenner Institute said: "We are not planning to test the Oxford vaccine in challenge models at the present time."
Earlier this year, Prof Gilbert told the House of Lords science and technology committee that the success of lockdown in cutting transmission of coronavirus was making it far more difficult to develop a vaccine.
She told peers that the UK study had "little chance, frankly, of determining efficacy", with researchers seeking to work with multiple countries in order to test it in places where the virus was more common. The Oxford team is already running a trial in Brazil because the numbers of transmissions are much higher than in the UK.
Meanwhile, Downing Street has been advised that there is a 50 per cent chance that a vaccine could be administered by next year but it is unlikely to give complete protection against the virus.
Instead, the Oxford University team expect the jab to "mitigate" the worst effects by lessening the severity of the symptoms. Trials found that two thirds of recipients developed headaches and a fifth developed a high temperature, it is understood.
In July, Prof Hill announced that initial trials on 1,077 British adults showed the Oxford vaccine induced strong antibody and T-cell responses, potentially offering a "double defence" against coronavirus. Antibodies can repel the virus, while T-cells, a type of white blood cell, help to target infected cells.
During the trials, 90 per cent of recipients were shown to have developed neutralising antibodies after one dose of the vaccine, prompting ministers to order 190 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine, of which 100 million are the Oxford version.
Also in July, Prof Hill said he had been working with a US campaign group called "1 Day Sooner" to secure medical-grade doses of Sars-CoV2, the virus that causes Covid-19, which would be required for the human challenge trials.
The group is made up of more than 30,000 would-be volunteers in 140 countries who say they are prepared to take part in challenge studies.
A spokesman for Oxford University said: "We are not planning to test the Oxford vaccine in challenge models at the present time as we have extensive international clinical trials to evaluate the Oxford vaccine in a real world setting.
"Challenge studies could be very helpful in understanding the biology of the disease, and better understanding immunity after infection, if they can be conducted safely – and groundwork to think about how these studies could be conducted safely would be helpful for any future studies."