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Sunday, April 4, 2010
A Couple More Pieces of Information!
Suzy and Beth asked me this question and I think it's important enough to tell everyone the answer!!! They are coming in on Friday and wanted to know how early they can arrive.
Here's the deal... I don't really care how early you arrive, but if you want breakfast (served at 9) or lunch (served at noon), just let me know and you can pay when you arrive. You can have breakfast with us for $5 and lunch for $6. You can even bring your own food in if you want!
The reason you can't arrive earlier than 1 on Thursday is so I (and my team) have time to get the room set up! Plus we don't have food being catered in.
A couple more things I've thought about.
1. Bring an extension cord (or power strip) if you will have power items at your work area. I've tried to set the tables up to optimize the outlets, but it would just be a sad day if there weren't enough places for you to plug in your Cricut, your computer, your printer, your light source, your craft gun or whatever else you may be bringing!
2. There will be a Drop and Swap table. This will earn you $100 in CROP CASH to leave whatever you are going to leave. This is too hard to keep track of, so it's a one amount deal. So you know... feel free to leave and pick up whatever you like. Whatever is leftover at the end of the retreat was taken by Debbie last year and donated to a woman's shelter... I hope she will do that for us again this year!
3. Last year, everyone got one of those pop-up trash cans. Not doing that this year! So, don't forget to bring some type of trash receptacle for your area if you want to have one there. There are big trash cans throughout the room that they pick up for us, but sometimes it's just more convenient to have a small receptacle at your own space.
4. If you have ANY questions for me, don't hesitate to ask! Or send me an email! This is YOUR Retreat and I want you to enjoy it as much as possible and I want to help any way I can!
Back to organizing and packing!
1. Janis,
Thanks so much for the info. We'll get back to you on when we plan to get there.
Do you know if there will be some kind of recycling for plastic soda/water bottles or aluminum cans? I'm kind of a self-proclaimed recycle freak.
2. I don't really know about that as the hotel takes care of our trash!
3. Janis, Can you tell us more about the Drop & Swap thing.
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Dome Creek, B.C.
The tiny home trend in the larger economy appears to be driven by the cost of land and the house itself. Does anyone in McBride, or soon to live in McBride, fit the demographic?
In some urban areas the cost of a simple home has put many younger people out of the market. It’s just too expensive. As seniors retire with a fixed income and often with reduced health circumstances, a conventional house just doesn’t make sense anymore.
And there are other potentially important concerns for seniors: access for disabilities, and reduced contact with society at large. Yes, that means loneliness.
McBride’s proposed concept of a Pocket Community could help address some of these issues. Planning the lot layout to maximize potential for social interaction could be both a result and conscious goal of a Pocket Community.
The smallest floor area for the first-story of a dwelling unit according to the regional district is 438 square feet per the latest zoning regulations.
Of course there are minimum set backs from adjacent lots and other requirements. But, seriously could the average person be content in a house that small?
I’m wasn’t sure, so I asked my friend of 15 years, Dawn Deydey who resides in the Fernie, B.C. area and lives in a tiny home.
Dawn has a number of distinctions: She founded the Fernie Community Garden (14 years of success), is a team member of the Avalanche City Roller Girls, and in 2013 was a National recipient of the Earth Day Canada Hometown Hero individual award.
So, what’s it like to live in a Tiny house?
“It was a big change downsizing from a 1400 square foot home on a half-acre to 200 square feet, but once we got rid of most of the stuff we didn’t need it was great,” shared Dawn.
Dawn is a single Mom. Her son Kai — like most kids — loves the small spaces and especially the ladders in her tiny home. The tiny house experiment was to be for five years, she says, but at three and a half years in it still seems like a good choice.
As an outdoor educator, gardener, skier, etc. spending time outside was never an issue. What it did mean was the reduced space naturally encouraged her son to choose to be outside more.
For Dawn, living in a rural area and not being connected to community services like water or gas has meant becoming more aware of her family’s propane and water consumption.
Dawn’s Tiny home remains mobile. The home does lack storage, she admits, saying the missing “mud room” and storage for seasonal clothing, camping equipment, skis, bikes could be perfect with a garage addition. She acknowledges privacy may become an issue down the road, too.
There is no confusion about the smaller permanent homes planned for McBride and Dawn’s tiny house, which is more mobile.
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Is AI Coming TO or FOR Your Job? It Depends. | BankNews.com
Is AI Coming TO or FOR Your Job? It Depends.
By Kimberly Nevala
August 13 — The forecast regarding AI’s impact on jobs is foggy, at best. In Cognizant’s 2015 paper, The Robot and I, one out of five companies surveyed reported up to a 25 percent reduction in employees in core administrative functions including supply chain, HR and finance.
The industry vertical predicted to have the highest level of staff reduction long-term? You guessed it: banking.
More recently, while acknowledging the likelihood of short-term job loss, Gartner predicted that by 2022 AI will create more jobs (2.3 million) than it replaces (1.8 million) annually. Other opinions (many of which Georgious Petropoulos skillfully documented on Brueges.com) abound.
Yet, as divergent as many of these opinions appear at a cursory glance, they are not necessarily in conflict. Why? The question is not: will AI will replace, augment or create jobs? (It will.) The question is: when and in what proportion will each circumstance occur?
To demonstrate, let’s consider the application of AI in customer service.
Initial AI solutions focus largely on automation: deploying conversational chatbots to answer rote, high-volume customer queries (i.e., what’s my balance, transfer money between accounts and so on.) Implementation of such systems requires new skills including AI engineers and conversational designers. The education and experience required is fundamentally different than that of the customer service reps the AI solution is designed to mimic. Nor are the new roles as numerous. It is, therefore, disingenuous to suggest that deploying chatbots to autonomously respond to 2 billion inquiries will not result in a significant reduction in staff. Or that the $8B in cost and time efficiencies predicted when these applications come of age will be immediately offset by redeployment of displaced resources to new, as yet undefined, roles.
But why not? The argument could be made that agents displaced by chatbots could be retrained to assist with higher-touch calls previously handled by more experienced, senior agents. Thereby eliminating the job losses noted above. Which would be true if AI did not also have a role in enabling, as well as automating, customer service. For example, AI may pre-authenticate a customer based on their voiceprint and then route that customer to an appropriate agent based on their profile and non-traditional factors such their emotional state: how harried does the customer sound? AI may also assist the agent by displaying integrated customer highlights, providing cue cards for next best actions or drafting responses using the agent’s individual speech and writing patterns.
Human agents enabled with AI in this way become more efficient and effective: reported improvement in issue resolution times and customer satisfaction range from 10 percent to 35 percent. Creating a seamless collaboration between the experienced agent and AI solution requires changes to existing operating practices and training. However, the resultant productivity gains eliminate the need to retain previously displaced agents to meet demand. Even as customer inquiries requiring the human touch become more complex or increase in volume.
Last but not least? Creation of new roles for both AI (autonomous financial advisors) as well as humans (the AI-enabled banking concierge?) At this juncture, we know AI will play a central role in enabling human endeavor. Exactly what that future symbiosis between man and machine will entail is yet to be determined.
Regardless, as this simple example shows, AI (not unlike other emerging technologies) typically manifests in business in three primary stages.
1. Automation: Using AI to automate rote, high-volume decisions and activities.
• Job impact? Replacement of low- to medium-skilled jobs by the AI solution. Addition of new highly-skilled roles to create and maintain the AI solution.
• Net effect? Negative.
1. Augmentation: Augmenting and supercharging existing practices with AI.
• Job impact? Retention and retraining of some existing resources to exploit new AI-assisted processes. Continued investment in AI conversant resources from algorithm development to business management.
• Net effect? Neutral or Positive.
1. Creation: Using AI to deploy new engagement models, products and service models.
• Job impact? Creation of new roles, the specifics of which are TBD.
• Net effect? Positive.
So how will AI impact your business specifically? It depends on the AI application at hand. Feeling overwhelmed by the possibilities? Don’t be. Considering the long-term implications of AI on business and society is an important but complex undertaking. Assessing the material impact of AI on your workforce within the context of your business strategy need not be. Simple questions to ascertain whether existing jobs are likely to be axed, augmented or added as a result of proposed AI solutions include:
• Which tasks are repetitive, high-volume and well-defined?
• What percentage of an individual’s role do these tasks comprise?
• Which activities and decision points can be streamlined? Eliminated?
• What information, provided when, could expedite an individual’s decision or action?
• How much individual bandwidth will be created as a result?
• What is required to create, monitor and maintain the AI solution?
Last but not least: while AI is a hot topic by any standard, multiple studies (such as this recent survey of North America’s biggest banks) confirm that most companies are just beginning their AI journey. As a result, the most immediate impact on jobs may well result from seemingly mundane predictive analytics applications, no AI required! As well as rapidly evolving FinTech solutions as digital innovators reinvent how individuals manage their money, make payments and invest with and without AI.
Kimberly Nevala
As the Director of Business Strategies for SAS Best Practices Kimberly balances forward-thinking with real-world perspectives on business analytics, data governance, analytic cultures and change management. Kimberly’s current focus is helping customers understand both the business potential and practical implications of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).
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You’ve probably asked yourself this question on numerous occasions. Have I had enough or am I still hungry? Fish also eat a lot when they have the chance. But often they are fed far too little. How active their food intake is depends on their metabolism. Unlike a human, fish are ectotherm. The ambient temperature determines the intensity of their metabolism. In summer their metabolism is significantly faster than in winter. That’s why the feeding needs to be adapted to the time of the year. A balanced diet not only ensures a species-appropriate growth and the continuation of all the fish’s life functions, but also a strong resistance to disease.
Feeding facts
• The frequency of feeding depends on the time of the year. At temperatures between 5-10 °C you only should feed 1-2 times per week, between 10-15 °C 3-6 times per week and over 15 °C 1-4 times per day. Juvenile fish even get fed 4-6 times per day.
• The amount of food always corresponds to the daily ration, which is to be apportioned to the individual feedings. In winter this amount corresponds to the weekly ration. Consequently you don’t feed 4 times the daily amount but each time only ¼ of the food. The food needs to be adapted to the jaw form and be easily taken up by the animals. Small and young fish therefore need smaller food than big fish.
• The type and composition of the food depends on the animals. Sturgeons, for instance, feed on microorganisms living on the ground, whereas koi feed mostly on plants and goldfish eat everything they can get. Nevertheless they get plant food. It is therefore very important to take into account the protein/fat ratio.
• As soon as the fish become active you can feed them. Myths which say that fish don’t need to be fed in winter/autumn are wrong. Most fish already show activity at 5-15 °C and want to feed.
• Use special winter food for the winter which is easy to digest despite their slow metabolism.
Despite all the calculations, the rule of thumb „ Only feed as much, as can be eaten within 5 minutes” remains best. This way you can see if the amount currently calculated is too much and polluting the water unnecessarily. As a basis you should use the following calculation:
A medium sized koi with 40 cm weighs approx. 100 g in our example. It thus needs about 20 g of daily food (temperature between 15-30 °C). With a stock of 20 koi this results in a daily ration of 400 g of food which is given in 3 feeds of 133,33 g each (morning, afternoon and evening).
With this amount the basic needs of the animals are covered and a healthy growth is ensured without the fish becoming fat. Additionally we recommend a protein/fat ratio of 4:1, e.g. with the Main food .
This is how to determine the weight, even without a suitable container for your scales: How can I calculate the weight of my fish?
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Diocese on a Diet: Reducing the Temporal Power of the Bishops
As frustration and anger toward bishops grow, Catholics are asking what they can do to resist the corruption that has infected the episcopate. Ideas include prayer, fasting, writing letters, and protesting at USCCB meetings. All these are valid responses, but some are advocating for something more concrete – specifically, withholding financial support to the men who have enabled and promoted predatory monsters in their midst. The bishops receive most of their funding from the laity; discontinuing funding is one of the only mechanisms by which the laity feel they have some pull.
Yet many Catholics are hesitant to make such a move. If money is withheld, do we really think it will restrict the lifestyle of most bishops? How many bishops will cut their own salaries or sell their houses? More likely, it will mean less money to diocesan programs as well as to parishes, including some important services and outreaches. As a former diocesan director of evangelization, I can attest that these concerns are valid. The most likely outcome of a financial shortfall is that diocesan services will be decreased. But I have to ask: would this necessarily be a bad thing? Perhaps it’s time to rethink how dioceses operate.
Growing Fat
Taylor Marshall recently argued that the “mega-diocese” – a diocese so large that one man cannot effectively oversee it – is a contributing factor in the rise of clericalism and sexual abuse. I agree – there’s no reason to have dioceses with ridiculously high Catholic-to-bishop ratios, as can be found in Los Angeles, New York, and elsewhere in the United States. It creates an unnecessary – and dangerous – distance between a shepherd and his flock. I’d also argue that not only should we split up a number of dioceses in the United States, but we should put every diocese on a strict diet, reducing its size and scope.
Dioceses have become bloated bureaucracies, expanding their outreaches beyond their natural mandate and at the cost of diminishing of their essential mission. This bloating has given bishops an outsized view of their own role in politics and society, distracting them from their fundamental mission to administer the sacraments and teach the faith. Instead of a diocese directly paying employees to perform many of their current services, it could allow those services to be performed by lay-run, independently funded apostolates in which a bishop serves in an advisory role.
Before we consider the practical implications of this proposal, we should be clear about the reason we have dioceses in the first place. Dioceses were set up early in the history of the Church for practical purposes. There needed to be a way to organize the work of the Church in the Roman Empire (and beyond). For example, in the city of Antioch (where disciples of Christ were first called “Christian” [Acts 11:26]), there was a strong Christian community that needed to be overseen. Thus an episcopos (i.e., bishop), which means “overseer,” was appointed to make sure that the spiritual needs of the Christians were met, particularly that they were able to receive the sacraments and be taught the faith. Implicit in the term “overseer” is that the bishop, although he had ultimate authority, was not the sole person responsible for all the Christian activities in the diocese – he simply oversaw them. So a diocese was a means to organize which bishops had authority over the Christian activity in which areas.
Over time, dioceses have evolved in both size and scope. Diocesan bureaucracies have become directly responsible for engaging in all areas of Christian work. The presumption is that if it’s a duty of Christians, then there needs to be a paid diocesan staffer involved in it. A diocese must have on paid staff someone in charge of social services, education, evangelization, etc.
As an example, let’s consider the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. I pick this diocese because it’s a typical one, and it’s my home diocese. It’s not unique in how it operates – one could pick almost any diocese in the United States for this exercise.
According to Cincinnati’s archdiocesan website, there are 46 total ministries and offices within the diocese. These offices can be broken down into six categories: Sacraments, Vocations/Religious Life, Education, Social Outreach, Evangelization/Apostolates, and Internal Services:
Is it necessary to have paid staff in all these areas to fulfill the mission of the diocese? I propose that the only categories absolutely necessary for a diocese to operate directly would be Sacraments and Vocations/Religious Life. The other outreaches – Education, Social Outreach, and Evangelization/Apostolates – could be run by independent lay groups, who are simply advised and “overseen” by the bishop, not directly hired and paid by him. Of course, if all those offices were eliminated, then Internal Services offices would be greatly reduced in size as well. A typical diocese following my proposal would be reduced in staff size by at least 50%, likely much more.
Effective Apostolates
The most important thing to consider is whether the work of the Church would be better or worse off under such a plan. I believe that it would improve how the Church exercises her mission.
Currently, most dioceses operate under the same principle as governments: they receive funds whether they are effective or not, and often the funds they receive have no connection to the people they serve. Thus, there is nothing that tracks how well a diocesan service is performing and whether it should continue. Instead, the diocese just continues as it always has, regardless of the results. An independently funded lay apostolate, on the other hand, must provide a useful service in order to continue in existence. Just look at OnePeterFive itself. If 1P5 were serving no real need, then no one would visit the website, and no one would donate to the cause. (And while the subject is broached: donate today!) Yet if 1P5 is serving a need in the Church, then it will continue through financial support. This is true of all apostolic work, including education, social services, and evangelization outreach. In a diocese, on the other hand, an office could be horribly ineffective in its mission and still continue by means of bureaucratic inertia.
Another strength of a diocese “outsourcing” apostolates is that it reduces the temporal influence of a bishop. Too often today, a bishop gets involved in politics and other popular causes in an effort to appear relevant. Just consider Cardinal Cupich of Chicago stating that the “work of the Church” is environmentalism and protecting migrants. Bloated dioceses foster this sense of self-importance among bishops; they feel they are VIPs in the community who should naturally be invited to the fanciest cocktail parties and soirées. More often than not, bishops are simply useful idiots to the cultural elites: they supply a veneer of religiosity to fashionable pet causes. More importantly, bloated dioceses detract from a bishop’s essential mission: to preach and teach the Gospel and bring salvation through the sacraments.
I realize that my proposal to reduce the paid outreaches of dioceses radically changes how modern dioceses currently operate. One objection to my plan is that historically, bishops have often served as social and political leaders in their communities. For a long time, they have been directly involved in politics, education, and social services, particularly in those societies where Church and State are intermingled. Yet these involvements reflect a different, more Catholic, age, and are later additions to the core mission of a bishop and the core purpose of a diocese. If these temporal responsibilities take away from that core, then they should be jettisoned, not clung to. Leaner, more focused dioceses could prevent bishops from thinking the “work of the Church” is primarily about secondary issues like environmentalism or immigration.
Another objection is: what about the employees who would be laid off under this plan? Won’t hundreds, perhaps thousands of Catholics be put out of work if dioceses across the world adopt it? Yes, they will, and as a former diocesan employee, I have great empathy for those who would lose their jobs. (In fact, I’m arguing that my own past position was unnecessary to the running of a diocese.) Yet this argument cannot be a reason to avoid improving how a diocese operates. First, many of these employees could find work in the lay-run, independently funded apostolates that would emerge from the smaller dioceses. Second, such an argument succumbs to the prime weakness of every bureaucracy: failure to improve because it upsets the status quo. If a business has a department that’s failing and losing money, it can’t afford to continue that department for fear of letting its employees go – even if those employees were hardworking and not the cause of the department’s failure. If a business does that, then it risks that failure spreading to the whole of the organization, leading to a much greater disaster. Some might argue that a diocese is not a business; it’s more like a charity. But a charity still needs to be run efficiently and successfully; the charity is directed toward those it serves, not to the people employed by it.
A final objection: Where would the money come from for all these lay-run apostolates? First, a lot of money would be freed up by discontinuing the annual heavy-handed “Bishop’s Appeal.” Second, Catholics would be more incentivized to give to specific apostolates, instead of worrying that their donations are just falling into an endless diocesan pit. If your passion is for Catholic education, wouldn’t you be more motivated to give to the local solid lay-run Catholic school than a system of diocesan schools that are barely Catholic?
Rediscovering the Roots
The current crisis facing the Catholic Church has many causes, but a primary one is how bishops operate. Unfortunately, too many bishops live a life detached from the lives of those they are to shepherd. By overseeing vast diocesan operations, they have become more administrators than apostles. Along with dividing up mega-dioceses, perhaps it’s also time to cut down the direct services offered by a diocese so each bishop can focus again on the core reason for his episcopal office.
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Apple hits back at Motorola with multitouch patent suit
• The patent battle between Apple and Android vendors is hotting up, with a new lawsuit from Apple alleging that Mororola has infringed its intellectual property with its touch-screen phones, including the Droid line.
First reported by Patently Apple, the two lawsuits claim that Motorola has infringed six different patents relating to some of its most important technologies.
The multitouch and user interface patents, Apple says, are infringed by Motorola's Droid, Droid 2, Droid X, Cliq, Cliq XT, BackFlip, Devour A555, Devour i1, and Charm phones.Apple wants the phones to be pulled from the shelves, and wants unspecified damages along with legal fees.
The move follows a patent suit from Motorola a month ago, claiming that Apple had infringed 18 of its patents, covering wireless and other technologies. It went on to claim that Apple's multitouch patents were invalid, and asked a federal judge to throw them out.
The current crop of disputed patents aren't the same ones, which Apple also sued HTC over earlier this year.
They are as follows:
US Patent No. 7,812,828 - "Elipse fitting for multi-touch surfaces"
US Patent No. 7,663,607 - "Multipoint touchscreen"
US Patent No. 5,379,430 - "Object-oriented system locator system"
US Patent No. 7,479,949 - "Touch screen device, method, and graphical user interface for determining commands by applying heuristics"
US Patent No. 6,493,002 - "Method and apparatus for displaying and accessing control and status information in a computer system"
US Patent No. 5,838,315 - "Support for custom user-interaction elements in a graphical, event-driven computer system"
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My 2.3L N/A Project
Discussion in '2.3L (N/A & Turbo) Tech' started by 4cMadness, Jan 15, 2007.
1. The whole reason for a project like this is just the "neato" factor. Something that not alot of other people have. Sure I could do a turbo swap like everybody else, or shoehorn a massive V8 into the engine bay, but why not be different?
Besides that, the mods listed were only for the engine. What about other things that have to be taken into account? Throw in a beefed up T-5, different rear gears, a stiffer suspension, etc. and it'd actually be quite nice to drive. After all it's not just how much power you have it's how efficiently it's applied. Kinda like "size doesn't matter it's how you use it." Not saying it'll be a race monster, but it definately won't feel sluggish.
And the whole thing, while maybe not the most cost effective project, will definately be fun to drive as a daily driver. And doing it this way means I don't have to change my front brakes, fuel lines, motor mounts, crossmember, etc. that would be involved in a V8 swap.
2. Well if he decides to do a port and polish on the head, depending on what kind of P&P and mechanic, it can be done cheaply. Personally I am doing a N/A project, and NA i am building will blow the doors off most V8s and turbo 2.3L.
3. :bs: :bs: :bs: :bs: :bs: :bs: :bs: :bs: :bs:
That's not the only reason to bore a cylinder. Perfectly good cylinders are bored just to increase displacement. It happens all the time. Nothing wrong with it, the Pope doesn't cry when it happens and no kittens are harmed. :D
Yes, the end result of boring creates a nice, round, concentric, LARGER, hole. Of course you'll need a new set of pistons to go along with the new holes. Honing gives the rings a nice place to call home. I also agree that it's not a large increase in displacement even at .040" While it may be impractical, it's still possible to bore for increased displacement. One byproduct of a rebore is a slight bump in static compression.
Here's the math:
Stock: Bore 3.780 Stroke 3.126 = 140ci or 2.3L
.020 overbore: Bore 3.800 Stroke 3.126 = 142ci or 2.32L
.040 overbore (max) Bore 3.820 Stroke 3.126 = 143ci or 2.35L (hey that's enough to round up to 2.4L :D :D )
There's an old rule that says "There's no replacement for displacement" Forced induction being the exception to that rule. Since huffing is not an option in this guy's project, then by all means he should look at making the engine move a larger mass of air per revolution. A set of bigger slugs hung on longer arms will do just that.
4. Hey Anlushac, do you already have the 200? If you could find a 250, it uses the same bellhousing pattern / flywheel / clutch / pressure plate / making life much easier and clutch selection much broader. the head interchanges between the 200/250 and most if not all of the accessory brackets. Sounds like a cool project There was a hopped up Falcon in Car Craft a few months back with a 6-pop running 11's. Pay attention to the head. What a poor design that was. There's been some success in cutting off the intake log and attempting to make a better flowing deal. IIRC, there was even one welded up for port EFI.
Rock on! Can't wait to see the finished product.
5. ...aaaaaaand that was entirely my point. Yeah, you can get a miniscule increase in displacement with boring, but that is NOT the point and purpose of doing it in the first place.
edit: I'm revising this to state that you CAN bore an engine to increase displacement IF you have an aftermarket block that is made for you to do that. I'm sure there are a couple exceptions, but for the most part, on a factory block it's not possible.
6. Would love to run a 250 I6 but two problems
1) No one makes a 250I6 rear sump oil pan and pickup for a Fox body.
2) Cant find 250's around here.
2a) Already have all the parts short of bellhousing to do 3.3L and T5.
For what it would cost to get a intake fabricated and machine work I can get the new Aluminum head coming out.
If I cant get the Aluminum head I can still get a Australian 250-2v head which is basically the US head but with a removable bolt on aluminum intake. Had one but had to sell it.
The 11sec Falcon is Will and Kelly's turbocharged 250 I6 Falcon. He posts on Ford six Forums as Does10's
7. not to **** on your parade, but won't you be a bit disappointed when you get your 150hp 2.3, line up next to a BASE 2006 mustang and get your doors blown off? Sorry, but that's not my idea of fun.
I played around with the NA 2.3 for a while. For my NA setup, I had about 10:1 compression, ported head, ported intake, CAI, a long tube header and a cam. I dynoed at 120hp at the wheels, and the trap speed in the quarter (17s at 78mph) showed 115hp based on my weight. What is that, 140-150 at the flywheel after accounting for the automatic transmission and other driveline losses? I could pretty well beat the 94-98 V6 mustangs, but they are terrible slugs. Overall, I had some fun and learned a lot, but it couldn't be called strong or impressive by a long shot.
8. Well there is a couple of things to consider here, some I won't go over, but I will say this, have an automatic transmision in the variable really kills your 1/4 mile times.
9. true... you might get low 17s @ 80mph with a manual ;)
10. Well initially I find your story of having 120 to the wheels and getting high 17s hard to believe considering a 2002 cavalier has similair weight to a 4cly. mustang, and produces 150HP to the crank which is roughly 120HP to the wheels and pops 16.2 in the 1/4 mile, hell the auto cavalier will even get low 16s in the 1/4 mile.
11. 150hp is closer to 130hp at the wheels...Cavi's weigh about 2600lbs which is 400-500lbs lighter than a 2.3 EFI mustang...that's a half second or a bit more in the 1/4 right there, plus 10 more hp, plus different gear ratios.
I suggest you quit telling us what a 2.3 will and will not do...we already know. If you think you have the magic quotient, go do it and quit acting like the 2.3 n/a wizard that basis all his info on a CHEVY.
Bottom line is NOBODY has made more than 300 FLYWHEEL hp with a 2.3 based n/a engine and even the .600+ lift cam, 10k rpm, 13:1 compression "race" engines typically only make ~230-250rwhp, don't idle below 1500 rpm, and are absolutely not a "street" engine. A full-tilt 2.3 n/a on pump gas will be LUCKY to get more than 150rwhp, period.
There are only TWO cheap and effective ways to make a 2.3 engine go even respectably fast (15's or faster) on pump gas and that is 1) Nitrous or 2) Turbo. Anything else is just blowing smoke up someone's ass...
12. Git Sum!!:D
13. Damn knowitall noobs.
14. Notice I said roughly...
And when the hell did I say all that? Or even imply that you would get loads of horsepower from an N/A 2.3L All I said is doing a 2.3L N/A would be neat, and different I didn't say you would get blistering high HP ratings. Your also forgetting a couple of other things to take into consideration on doing a N/A engine. It is kinda funny though, you think I am over rating a N/A 2.3L I think you are under rating it.
I am planing on doing a 2.3L N/A and when I get over 150 HP I am going to rub it in your face. I already stated earlier I was doing a N/A one.
You can do a volvo head conversion. I don't suppose doing one of those will be blowing smoke up someones ass.
15. Until there are multiple examples of the Volvo head swap running on people's daily drivers, I'm not going to accept that as an option. Because right now it is FAR from being a bolt-on affair.
16. Well, next time I remember a 1/4 TON is "roughly" the same weight :lol:
Really? How about when you said:
Considering your average V8 runs low 14's to high 13's and your average 2.3T is right around there as well, to "blow the doors off most" of them would require you to build a n/a engine that will push you into the low 13's/high 12's at MINIMUM. I guess if you put your 150hp engine in a 1200lb chassis you might have a chance.
I wasn't giving you a blueprint on how to build one, I was simply stating some of then "race" components it takes to get there :nono:
Therein lies the difference, I KNOW what a 2.3 n/a pump gas engine can do, you "think" you know what they can do because of the aluminum dohc 30 year newer technology 4 cylinders can do...people have been modifying and racing the 2.3 engines for nearly 30 years...there is nothing new to discover about them. Somebody has already done it.
I never said it wasn't possible, I said you'd be lucky to surpass it. Your gonna rub "lucky" in my face...ok...have at it. Make sure you keep all the reciepts so we can figure out how much power you could have made if you would have done a turbo swap and spent the same cash...
Wow, 1500 bux is cheap...I forgot we all make 60k a year in here...don't forget that new standalone EFI system you are going to need to run it as well...that's another 800-1200 bux. I guess you could go side draft...yeah, that would be MUCH cheaper :lol:
I'll say it again: If you think you have the magic quotient, go do it and :Zip2:
17. The volvo head isn't a realistic option. If you are considering that, you might as well get an Al head from esslinger. You know it will bolt on, and it may even be cheaper once you fabricate new exhaust and intake manifolds, along with the new timing cogs and the physical fabrication for the volvo head.
Yeah, it is very possible for you to get 150hp out of a 2.3. Get a head/intake/exhaust/cam that can move some air, mated up to a proper sized carb and your in business.
However, you have to remember that this isn't a modern engine. As compared to the 150hp cavalier you mentioned, it doesn't have variable valve timing, or 16 valves per cylinder. The torque curve for that modern engine is going to be quite flat. The torque curve for your 2.3 is going to be suffering on the low end, it'll have a pretty good mid range, and then it will drop off on the top end. That's what 30 years of technolodgy can do for ya. A flat torque curve will always give you a better quarter mile time when compared to one that isn't.
You also have to keep in mind that the modern car has other huge advantages. That cavalier has lighter wheel/tire combiation (look how narrow and short they are), it has a drive line that isn't totally overdesigned (our 4cyl has pretty much the same driveline as the ol' 5.0) and it weighs less. All this adds up, and leaves you at quite a disadvantage when playing around with NA 2.3s.
Hey, I say have fun with it. I played around and modded the NA for a while. As for the differnce between the auto and manual... when my 88 was bone stock, I raced a bone stock 89 manual mustang. From 30 to 70mph (takes for freaking EVER!!!) I had my nose at his door when we ran out of room. If he hadn't been power shifting, I'd guess we'd have been dead even.
I'd be interested to see your results anyway.
18. do this....swap in a super coupe motor.... 3.8L V6 factory blown....i think that would be cool...
19. I was referring to HP not weight so where does "1/4 ton" fit in all this?
At what cost? 5.0L mustangs sell normally at 4K and that is for what 14.7 in a 1/4. Anything faster than that is going to cost. Hell the new 05 mustang can do 13.5 in a 1/4 and cost 25K. Actualy your average 2.3L is not in the 13s and 14s it is more like the 15s and 16s. With a 150 HP to the rw in a 2600LB car I should be able to beat a 5.0L, if not come damn close. And with what I am doing 150 is easy to get and not very costly.
It's too bad you spit out all of these statistics and leave out too many other varables to consider.
Lucky? ROFL, I will remember that next I bolt on my friend's cold air intake to cross my fingers and my toes for good luck to get extra ponies.
Then out of 30 years I think they found a way to break your luck anomaly and get a powerful N/A 4.
HA and rely on your domestic skills to search for a junkyard turbo that doesn't even function properly? Hmmm I guess you will just have to take my word for it. If you don't, all well.
ROFL, you a **** shoper then. I could build one cheaper, and the power output will be so great, the money will be worth it.
Now enough of this petty bull ****. When it comes down to it no one is going to shut up about this, so lets just let the topic die, you do things your way, I do things my way. K?
Well yeah I know all that, but if you can conjure up the cash to do a volvo it is worth it. Plus there are way to build one cheaply.
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Sunday, November 27, 2011
"Yoda Conditions", "Pokémon Exception Handling" and other programming classics
Just reading through some of the excellent answers to this question posed on by John K
What programming terms have you coined that have taken off in your own circles (i.e. have heard others repeat it)? It might be within your own team, workplace or garnered greater popularity on the Internet.
Reposting some of the best ones below ...
Yoda Conditions
Using if(constant == variable) instead of if(variable == constant), like if(4 == foo).
Because it's like saying "if blue is the sky" or "if tall is the man".
by [zneak]
Originally, yoda conditions might have been introduced to reduce the potential of coding errors in the form if (5 = count) which would be picked up at compile time.
Pokémon Exception Handling
For when you just Gotta Catch 'Em All.
// do something
// catch em all
by [woot4moo]
Egyptian brackets
The style of brackets where the opening brace goes on the end of the current line ...
if (a == b) {
This style of brackets is used in Kernighan and Ritchie's book The C Programming Language, so it's known by many as K&R style.
by [computronium]
Refer to the Wikipedia entry on Indent style for further reading, including 1TBS (The One True Brace Style), Allman style (also known as ANSI style) and Whitesmiths style.
Different kinds of bug reports
Smug Report - a bug submitted by a user who thinks he knows a lot more about the system's design than he really does. Filled with irrelevant technical details and one or more suggestions (always wrong) about what he thinks is causing the problem and how we should fix it. by [aaronaught]
Drug Report - a report so utterly incomprehensible that whoever submitted it must have been smoking crack. The lesser version is a chug report, where the submitter is thought to have had one too many. by [aaronaught]
Shrug Report - a bug report with no error message or repro steps and only a vague description of the problem. Usually contains the phrase "doesn't work." by [aaronaught]
Fermat's Last Post - a post to a bug tracker/email list/forum in which the author claims to have found a simple fix or workaround for a bug, but never says what it is and never shows up again to explain it (even after others have been puzzling over the bug for years). by [alan moore]
Floater - the case in a bug tracking system where a bug report remains "floating" at the top of the queue, but never gets assigned to a developer, maybe because there is a workaround in place.
The process of taking a well-designed piece of code and, through a series of small, reversible changes, making it completely unmaintainable by anyone except yourself.
by [dan-vinton]
A play on the term Refactoring which was popularized by Martin Fowler in his book of the same name.
Stringly Typed
An implementation that needlessly relies on strings when programmer and refactor friendly options are available. For example, method parameters that take strings when other more appropriate types should be used. Excessively stringly typed code is usually a pain to understand and detonates at runtime with errors that the compiler would normally find.
by [mark-simpson]
A play on the term Strongly Typed, code which restricts the mixing of different or incompatible data types, allowing errors be picked up at compile time.
Different kinds of bugs
Heisenbug - a bug that disappears or alters its characteristics when an attempt is made to study it. by [jacob]
Higgs-Bugson - a hypothetical bug predicted to exist based on a small number of possibly related event log entries and vague anecdotal reports from users, but it is difficult (if not impossible) to reproduce on a dev machine because you don't really know if it's there, and if it is there what is causing it. To find these you will need to invest in a Large Hadron debugger. by [runrunraygun]
Hindenbug - a catastrophic data destroying bug - "Oh the humanity!". by [mike-robinson]
Counterbug - a bug you present when presented with a bug caused by the person presenting the bug. by [mike-robinson]
Bloombug - a bug that accidentally generates money. by [mike-robinson]
Schrödinbug - refers to a function/feature that appears to fluctuate between buggy and correct (like Schrödinger's cat, fluctuating between alive and dead), until somebody looks at the source code (opens the box), at which point it becomes permanently bugged. by [aaronaught]
Loch Ness Monster Bug - a bug which cannot be reproduced or has only been sighted by one person. by [russau] (Also, Bugfoot is a great alternative).
UFO bug - a bug presented by customers, who, even when they're shown that it doesn't exist, will repeatedly report it again and again, believing it is real. by [Tuqui]
Mandelbug - a bug whose causes are so complex that its behavior appears chaotic or even non-deterministic. Named after fractal innovator Benoît Mandelbrot. by [coehlo]
Brown-paper-bag bug - a bug in a public software release that is so embarrassing that the author notionally wears a brown paper bag over his head for a while. by [ESR via Jargon File]
Sorcerer's apprentice mode bug - a bug in a protocol where, under some circumstances, the receipt of a message causes multiple messages to be sent, each of which, when received, triggers the same bug. by [ESR via Jargon File]
Mad girlfriend bug - a bug whose immediate effect remains hidden - the app outwardly seems to function normally and tells you that everything is fine. by [jeduan-cornejo]
Excalibur bug
- when all of the developers within a company have tried to fix a particular bug but none are worthy have succeeded, so far.
Load-bearing printf
bug - when a line of debug output is required for the code to work - the code does not function if you remove it. by [Ken]
Doctype Decoration
When web designers add a doctype declaration but don't bother to write valid markup.
by [zurahn]
New software features
A Unicorny - A feature that's so early in the planning stages that it might as well be imaginary.
A Barack Obama - A feature we'd really like to add to a project but will probably never get approval for.
by [jordan]
Different types of Code
Spaghetti Code
- Code that's got one too many GOTOs, exceptions, threads, or other "unstructured" branching constructs. Program flow tends to look like a bowl of spaghetti - twisted and tangled.
Spaghetti with Meatballs Code - An attempt at object-oriented code, but where the end result still remains dependent on some messy procedural (spaghetti) code.
Baklava Code - Code with too many layers. Also known as Lasagne Codeby [john-d-cook]
Ravioli Code - Object-oriented code consisting of a number of small and loosely-coupled software components.
Sausage Code - Once you've examined the code in detail ("how it's made") you'll never want to use it again.
Jenga Code - The whole thing collapses when you alter a block of code. Also known as Crispy Noodle Code.
Hydra Code - Code that cannot be fixed. One fix causes two new bugs. It should be rewritten. by [nick-dandoulakis]
Scar Tissue Code - Any code that is commented out but still included in the current and/or checked-in version. by [kelly-french]
Hooker Code - Code that is problematic and causes application instability (i.e. the application "goes down" often).
Pig's Lipstick Code - Code which has large amount of legacy and/or spaghetti code hidden via wrapper objects, so while it appears to new developers to be well designed, elegant, object-oriented code, when they start working on it in depth they realize just how ugly it really is.
Mortgage Code - Code purposely so terrible and complicated that only you can maintain it, forcing your employer to keep you, thus providing job security (so you can pay your mortgage).
Ghetto Code - A particularly inelegant and obviously suboptimal section of code that still meets the original requirements.
Swiss Army Code - Application code that is suffering from feature creep - it does a lot of things, but it does nothing well.
NP Tricky Code - An algorithm whose complexity is too hard for a mere mortal to figure out.
NP Hilarious Code - An algorithm whose complexity is "a joke", literally (as in BogoSort) or metaphorically.
Cut-and-waste Code - When someone cut and pasted code they found online (usually from a blog) into a production product; the result is usually a lot of wasted time trying to track down an obscure bug from code that undoubtedly made sense in the original context but not in our app. Also known as BDD - Blog Driven Development.
Neighborhood Bike Code - A module or a piece of code that every programmer at the company has touched.
Eraser Stains Code - Code that has been written, then re-factored multiple times leaving swaths of legacy code and design. Like erasing a sheet of paper so many times, the pencil marks are no longer the problem - the large greasy stain is.
Objectfuscated Code - Object-oriented code which has been abstracted to so many levels that no-one can understand it anymore.
Barnacle Code - Any piece of code (usually a static method) which has been appended to a class where it doesn't really belong, due to a lack of anywhere else to logically put it.
Autopilot Code - Code that was written by a programmer who was on 'auto-pilot' or wasn't really thinking about what they were doing.
Fear Driven Development
When project management adds more pressure (fires someone or something).
by [arnis-l]
A prototype that ends up in production.
by [chris-pebble]
Ninja Comments
Also known as invisible comments, secret comments, or no comments.
by [schar]
Smurf Naming Convention
When almost every class has the same prefix.
by [sal]
Thanks again to the above answerers from the original StackOverflow question:
[zneak][woot4moo][computronium][aaronaught][dan-vinton][mark-simpson][jacob][runrunraygun][mike-robinson][russau][zurahn][jordan][john-d-cook][arnis-l] [nick-dandoulakis][chris-pebble][schar][sal][kelly-french][jeduan-cornejo]
And to the original poster of the question:
John K
If you have any good suggestions, please add some comments below and I'll update the post.
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1. Heh, nice.
You are missing "Hate Driven Development" for when the code you just saw is SO horrible and stupid that you JUST. MUST. REWRITE IT.
It happens.
2. Yoda conditions do have good uses though; for instance they protect you from accidentally doing a = 5 (since you cannot do 5 = a) and they protect you from null-pointer dereferences in Java/C# (5.equals(a) cannot throw whereas a.equals(5) will if a is null).
1. Yeah nice idea, but in Java you can't call equals() on a primitive ;)
You could do that in Ruby though...
2. Except that you can since, like, JDK 1.5. It's called autoboxing.
3. Super useful for strings as well:
if("".equals(possiblyEmptyString)) {
// no need for null check
3. Absolutely hilarious article, thanks for brightening up my day. ;D
4. you missed: Crispy Noodle Code - like spaghetti code but when you touch it it breaks.
5. I new the Higgs-Bugson as Bohr Bug because of the quantic physics nature of it and I had two more on my list
Mendelbug : Chaotic bug caused by a huge number of factor.
Schrödinbug : Crash provoked by an external action, not code related crash. (resource substraction)
6. I always wondered about Yoda Conditions. The idea is good, but practically, I find it non-usefull because you cannot compare non-const variables. And I bet you have a few of those. Example:
int foo = f();
int bar = g();
int baz = h();
if( foo == bar )
bar += baz;
7. Nice one. I'd add the "Sausage code", the one that, once you know how it's done you won't ever use it again.
8. Don't forget the UFO bug, a bug presented by the customers and even when it's show that it doesn't exist/it's not there, they will report it again and again believing it is real.
9. @Tuqui (UFO bug) nice, thanks - I'll add that to the list.
@Galvão (Sausage code) - been there before! similar to "black box code" I suppose, when you don't know or care about what's happening inside of it.
10. @coehlo, thanks, I've added Mendelbug to the list.
11. These days, your compiler will prevent you from writing if (x = 5) via a warning.
12. csc (c# compiler) won't compile at all this:
if(x = 5) {}
as an assignment is neither true or false.
I use Yoda conditions in JS.
1. You could however mistake a boolean assignment for a comparison in both C# and Java
13. @id: 5.equals(a) isn't valid in Java. Anyway, in Java, if (a = 5) will not compile at all. The only syntactically valid form is if (b = true). That's why I often advise to use just if (b) (with a good boolean name to make this reading like English, like if (isValid)) as it is both non-redundant and less prone to typos.
14. I use the term "anti-bug" to mean incorrect code that nevertheless seems to work correctly.
15. "Quantum Debugging" When someone stands over your shoulder to see an error occur, the error no longer occurs.
1. I call that one a Proximity Bug.
16. Don't forget
A specification that if followed will make a bug.
17. If you code in a language where constants does not have methods, Yoda conditions makes sure that you don't unintentionally use an overloaded "==" method.
1. This actually may be the only valid reason to use yoda conditions. However, if you're going to have to be jumping through hurdles to avoid the overloaded operator, you should probably weigh the pros and cons about overloading ==.
18. I've referred to "Anecdotal bugs" for years: those are real bugs that cannot be reproduced at will and do not have any data available for debugging, but which are worth reporting *and closing as unfixed*. That way if multiple customers report it, eventually (hopefully) enough details are collected that it can be fixed, and you can tell all the reporting customers, making them happy (well, happier).
19. Stockholm bug - Having a bug so long that eventually you express empathy and have positive feelings towards it.
After fixed you'll usually hear "Aww i liked that bug!".
20. @Jerry LaGrou (Spec bug) nice, could also be called a "bug by design".
@JFarrand (Stockholm bug) now that is the product of a sick mind. I like it. ;-)
@phsiii (Anecdotal bug) nice - sounds a bit like a Loch Ness Monster bug.
21. This was an awesome read, thank you! :-)
Many of these have the hallmark of good humour: I kept finding myself saying "That always happens to me! / I do that!"
22. +1 for the Stockholm Bug. I've seen it happen. It's mad, but it's true. :)
23. Another possible interpretation of the Stockholm Bug is something I see occasionally, where a bug is actually treated as a feature by a customer and integrated into their process (the customer is the hostage in this scenario). Inevitably another customer raises it as a bug and there's a bun fight over whether it gets fixed.
1. I could definitely see this happening.
24. The Stockholm Bug comes up often if the bug occurs under exraordinary condidions - and as such is experienced rarely by users - but has hilarious consequences.
I worked on a CRM, where if the 'Country'-field was changed from the default value while creating a new customer into the system, the CRM would repopulate all the other field with values from random customers already in the database. Everyone felt a little down for a while after the bug finally got squashed, just because it was like a messed up version of mad libs debugging the thing.
25. And don't forget the Sherlock comment:
//Set a equal to b.
(No shit, Sherlock!)
26. Lots of talk about "bugs". A manager I reported to back in the 90s once told me, "There are no bugs, only undocumented features."
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28. Yoda conditions do work with select case / switch too:
Select Case True
Case opt1.checked
'do something
Case opt2.checked
'do something else
Case opt3.checked
'fuck everything
End Select
29. I've taken to using "objectfuscate" when I see someone taking the concept of abstraction far too far.
30. You should add what I call the "Load-bearing printf", which is a line of debug output that should not be necessary for the code to work, but nonetheless, the code does not function if you remove it.
31. I once came up with "Fermat's last post", which is a post to a bug tracker/email list/forum in which the author claims to have found a simple fix or workaround for a bug, but never says what it is and never shows up again to explain it (even after others have been puzzling over the bug for years).
32. Debris Code
Non-functional code left over from previous versions. Code someone was too lazy to delete or too afraid it did something somewhere else in the code.
33. As a man of faith, I am often reminded of my need for "Prayer Programming", which is tightly coupled with "Trust Driven Development" (TDD)
34. @Alan Moore. +1 on Fermat's last post
35. I like the "load-bearing printf" quite a bit.
One of my personal favorites is the "OB one" (pronounced Obi-Wan), which of course means a loop that doesn't work correctly because your logic is "off by one".
36. Our database application is Hydra Code (I LIKE that term!) with about 20 years of development invested, going back to the early days of DOS programming. One of its lovely features is that certain record sets must follow the Highlander Rule: there can only be one.
37. The Palestinian-Israeli BUG : when there is a bug involving two software from two company and they both say "it's their fault they have to fix it"
38. "murphy-code": incorrectable code; code that keeps filling up with errors (similar to Murphy's law that what can go wrong, will go wrong)
"death clock script": a line or lines of code that alter the physical system in order to effect a change for the program. An example would be a game that forces 256-bit color to run.
"Minesweeper development": For every error you fix, a bunch more develop until eventually the whole thing just blows up.
"The U-Boat": a phenomenon that occurs when two or more people are editing the same document at the same time, where each person's changes cause the other people to completely lose track of where they were and what they were doing. Also called "The Phantom Menace" or "Phantom Coding"
39. The Henny Youngman Bug:
Customer: "Developer, it crashes when I do this"
Developer: "Then don't do that"
Often a sign of extreme creativity on the part of the customer. ("Wait: Step three is 'unplug your network connection?'")
40. Error 415 - The error is between the Chair and the Keyboard
41. I once was working on some legacy code in a telephone switching system and saw code labeled with "PFM" in several different (and critical) places. I asked one of the senior engineers about it and was told it stood for Pure 'Freaking' Magic. Needless to say, I have perpetuated this moniker!
42. @Ken (Load bearing printf) that's awesome and has happened to me once before... the debug statement remained in production software without the customer ever knowing about it. I've added it to the list of bug types.
@Alan Moore (Fermat's last post) that's pure gold ... I've added it above.
43. The Wormhole Bug
A bug in a part of code that causes malfunctioning in another distant and supposedly separated part of code.
44. If ever there was a good read, followed by just as well written(thought out) comments this is it. Esp. from a Computer Science student point of view
45. @AlbertOne (The Wormhole bug) awesome and totally possible. A little bit similar to the load-bearing printf. As a matter of fact, developments in Quantum Entanglement could some day bring about a whole new class of these types of bugs... ;-)
46. @Dodgy_Coder the load-bearing printf is a line that you don't know why it causes the code to work (and on the other hand why the code doesn't work without). The Wormhole bug is effectively a bug, but the consequences appear in a very distant part of the code where you don't expect it.
A Quantum Entanglement bug could be a bug that causes a malfunctioning in another program or distant PC! ;-)
47. an other term for "hydra code" is "jenga code": you touch it at one place and falls apart everywhere else.
48. The Möbius Conditional: when coding does not take into account that a circumstance may meet more than 1 condition; typically occurs when changing over from multiple IF... THEN statements to a SELECT/CASE statement as would be used in a FizzBang solution.
As for the Yoda Conditional, I have not used it before; but, I was inspired by it and tried it within a Sql statement...
Original: Select * From [table] Where (This = 1) Or (That = 1)
Yodafied: Select * From [table] Where (1 IN (This,That))
49. @Mad Myche - I like your Yoda conditional in Sequel (also known as "Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back") groan ;-)
50. @Bence Erős (Jenga code) nice - or could it be that if you remove one line, the whole thing falls apart ;-)
51. Ooops I wish I had known the Yoda condition, it would spare me so many ackward UFO bugs...
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53. Test Constrained Architecture:
When your code could be greatly simplified by a certain refactoring, but you'd need to redesign tests in order to change it so you don't bother.
54. @Unknown (Test Constrained Architecture) nice ... that sort of constraint might be eliminated by the replacement of your existing test code with 'Ninja Tests' - as with Ninja Comments, Ninja Tests are so small and awesome that they cannot be seen - in fact there is none there at all. ;-)
55. '69 Code'- where two separate modules have references of each other and call each other's functions or set flags. After few days none of the programmers knows what is happening in either of the modules and who is doing it.
56. "Pasta code": code that is a mix between spaghetti code and lasagna code, layers of spaghetti code, for when a library or class made out mostly of spaghetti code is used in other spaghetti that builds a framework around (saw that one a lot at my former employer).
"alien code": code that makes ANY static analyzer crash
57. As an amplification to "69 code", I propose "Orgy code", the same, but with several intertwined modules.
58. @3dPrasad (69 Code) ... classic, sounds very much like some legacy FORTRAN code I worked on where functions modified global flags instead of passing parameters around.
59. @Kurisu (Pasta code) ... that sounds very much like Object Oriented Programming's arch nemesis - Object Oriented Pasta.
60. In the Foswiki project, the term "pre-deoptimization" is used to describe either features or code that are arbitrarily crippled or overly convoluted in the name of performance, but actually create new bottlenecks and slowness.
61. There's a great explanation here of why yoda conditions are so hard to read, and seem unnatural ... Extract from 'The Art of Readable Code'
62. Industry standard word 'Cruft' should cover these two; 'Scar Tissue Code' - and 'Debris Code', and has the advantage of being a made up word that also somehow sounds like it's meaning.
63. @hogbag ... thanks, 'Cruft' is a great term that I'd heard used around the place. I am amazed at the origins of this word ... apparently there was a place at Harvard called 'Harvard University Cruft Laboratory', which was the Harvard Physics Department's radar lab during World War II. As unused technical equipment piled up in the building in the decades after the war, the piles of gear became known as 'Cruft'. From there, the idea of "discarded technical clutter" migrated from hardware to software. [Refer to the wikipedia entry here for details.
64. hahah hilarious. This made my day :D
65. Great great great article. Thank you!
66. "... Allman style (also known as ANSI style) ..."
Allman style is referred to as "ANSI style" in the astyle documententation, but that's incorrect; all versions of the ANSI and ISO C standard use K&R / 1TBS.
See the updated Wikipedia article.
1. Hi Keith, thanks & sorry for the late reply - I will update this. I was also under the impression that Allman == ANSI style ever since I started programming.
67. Great list yet, Smurf Naming Convention: When almost every class has the same SUFFIX
Papa Smurf, Brainy Smurf, etc.
68. Chtulu code, a code back from the old age and so horrible that you can't even try to read it without a great chance to loose your sanity.
69. Sloppy Paste - When a piece or fragment of code is copied and not adapted completely to match its new context.
70. "Pig's Lipstick" is known as "covering shit with whipped cream" where I work. ;)
71. +1 for the Stockholm bug :D
Grat article, thanks!
72. Matrix bug: An impossible bug that the only explanation for it happening is that you are living in Matrix and it failed.
(The bug I am having now btw)
73. A-Bug (Apocalypse Bug or Atomic-Bug) - A bug that crashes the OS and eliminates any form of crash data, effectively putting you at square one and usually forcing you to step through every line of code.
Maintaining windows driver code with no relevant BugCheck information, which happens to be a driver that affects the system's ability to write the mini-dump data, is a rather annoying, dangerous, and pain-inducing bug.
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75. (original text)
Host A is replying to Host B after a task is finished in some specified time, however, Host B was waiting for the reply during the same specified time and resulted failure. Simultaneously, Host B receives the reply, but Host B already decided it has been failed. I call this 'Romeo and Juliet Bug.'
76. Magic Spell Code:
if (that.get_part().accessToSubpart().transmogrify_it().isWhatever()==6) ...
Has lots of steps and some magic contents. Not even Yoda can shed some light on it
77. "Baklava Code - Code with too many layers. Also known as Lasagne Code. by [john-d-cook]"
- what I like to refer to as "Inception Code"
78. At my company we've been using "Bimboware - an application that looks good on the outside, but is quite shallow on the inside". Might be the product of a protoduction app or some form of RAD method. Performs well on your three-record dev database, but halts on your real life production system.
79. Then there is the Wiederganger Bug, that returns from the grave in every release until the feature is dropped.
I have another reason for yoda conditions: often people hide the actual comparison after a long line of accessor methods, when the condition starts with the comparison, I can usually grasp the intent of that condition much quicker.
80. The "Disclaimer Bug". this is a bug reported by the customer that is actually a new requirement but the customer does not want to pay.
81. I love these! Having been a programmer since '84, I've seen almost all of these.
FWIW, load bearing printf bugs usually mean that you've got an argument mismatch in a function call. Move the printf around until you find the spot where it stops/starts helping and check the argument type/size/counts on the functions near that spot.
82. I have the following additions (Mostly due to out-sourcing):
Choose Your Own Adventure Code - Code that eventually ends up crashing in many different ways and only has one happy path.
Cargo Cult Code (Stone Radios) Anti Pattern - Code that resembles a recommended consistent pattern, but misses the point and therefore never works because of terrible implementation.
Life Support Anti-Pattern - Making small imperceptible changes like guard clauses and exception swallowing - doesn't do any good, but may inadvertently result in placebo-like relocations of the issue to another piece of code.
Homoeopathic Anti-Pattern - Creating interfaces that promise incredible underlying implementations, but never actually provide the claimed behavior. Ex: - implementation is neither Transactional or Recoverable.
1. Hi Lex, thanks for these comments, they sound like really inventive ways to kill off a codebase ...! ;-)
83. We have The Compatibility Bluff: saying the product is compatible with legacy software when it hasn't been tested or the tests had horrific results. Like: should work on Win98.
The bluff is generally low risk as the small percentile of clients using these dinosaur systems don't update our software either and our bosses have no clue on how to check legacy compatibility.
1. Oh, and Variable Amnesia. It's a condition where one defines a variable but never uses it.
84. Some more jargons we use are, Chaos methodology, and PDD (Panic Driven Development)
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Fightin’ Words: Chile’s Little-Known Literary War
By | 23 October, 2014
La Guerilla Literaria begins on the streets of Geneva in 1992, a couple of years after the fall of the Pinochet dictatorship. Pepe de Rokha, exiled grandson of the volatile Chilean vanguard poet Pablo de Rokha, meets a fellow exile on a busy street. Don’t we know each other? de Rokha says. No, says the latter. I belong to the enemy camp. Ah, so you’re a Pinochista, says de Rokha. No, the fellow exile says. I’m a Nerudiano.
Thus begins journalist Faride Zerán’s history of one of the more interesting (and least known internationally) wars in a century dominated by wars: fought in prose and verse, not bombs and guns.
It’s been said often enough down in Chile: this “Hallway Country”, as Roberto Bolaño put it, has room enough for poets. Two have won the Nobel Prize in Literature, three the Cervantes. Before the boom period of Magical Realism and the post-modern acclaim of Bolaño, however, the 1930s could be considered a Golden Age for Chilean literature. Three heavyweights, one of which would never reach over the spine of the Andes and find fame abroad, dominated the scene. Their styles, though at times overlapping, were distinctive. Two belonged to the Communist Party. One did, then was ostracized from it. Two developed along a romantic tradition. One eschewed it completely. Two lived in relative wealth, their literary output sold at home and abroad. One rode the countryside town to town on horseback, distributing his work to farmers and fisherman and wanderers.
That “one”, in Zerán’s charismatic and heavily anecdotal retelling of the Guerilla Literaria, is the driving force behind a feud that survived a World War and a two-decade dictatorship, and well after its protagonists had found the grave (for only one of which mourners lined the streets in mass to see the coffin pass). His name was Pablo de Rokha, to his friends, the “amigo piedra”.
De Rokha was a massive, imposing presence, known both for his temper and his conviviality, often displayed simultaneously. Once, a fattened pig strayed from a neighbour’s farm onto his own property outside of Santiago; angered that his neighbour had been careless enough to let his livestock sniff around other people’s property, he decided to kill the pig there, throw a party (with the roasted trespasser placed at the centre of the table) and, when the neighbour finally came by to enquire whether or not de Rokha and company had seen a wandering sow, fed the unsuspecting man what he was looking for along with a few glasses of his home-made wine. The neighbour, of course, forgot about his pig completely.
When it came to writing about both Vicente Huidobro (the third belligerent in this battle) and Neruda, however, he was not so kind.
Zerán is careful in the book not to explicitly imply something that, upon first glance, seems obvious: de Rokha was jealous. Huidobro, the godfather of the creacionismo movement, hailed from an old aristocratic Chilean family. He talked their talk, walked their walk, and dressed their dress — of the few included in the book, there is a picture of a 19 year-old Huidobro, dapper, shoe-shined, the definition of bourgeois elegance leaning against a grand piano. De Rokha believed him to be imperious and snobby, a poet of the elite instead of the people, and both rich and successful in his time.
Neruda, on the other hand, hailed from a tiny, one-road town cut out of southern Temuco forest. He came to Santiago as a teenager, ten years de Rokha’s junior, to live the poet-bohemian life. He met de Rokha and the two actually became friends, if not falling into the roles of mentor-mentee. In fact, Neruda’s Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair was written for de Rokha’s niece, a beautiful Venus for which Neruda was smitten, but ultimately forbidden to have by the latter’s family. Twenty Love Poems, which de Rokha would take great pains over the years to deride as “fashionable”, launched Neruda to international fame, diplomatic missions in Burma, France, Spain and to eventual literary immortality. De Rokha hated the work.
It was only de Rokha himself, as the poet of the pueblo and unwavering champion of the vanguard, that was left to live the blue-collar poet’s life, self-publishing and grinding out poetry that played with language, modern life, the quotidian of the labourer. It wasn’t until he was in his 60s, not many years before he would take his own life with a single bullet to the head (a fate his son would also self-inflict, leaving his father to bury him), that he won the National Literature Prize. By then a relatively old man with a relatively weakened inner fire, his response is not so much that of jealousy (maybe this was never the case) but melancholy. His life work had finally been recognized, but by then the point seemed to have been missed completely. Upon the announcement he stood up at a party given in his honour at his house in Barrio Brasil, the attendees drunk on his booze, caterwauling from his windows into the quiet avenue below, and bellowed to no one in particular: “I wanted to win this prize when my wife was still alive… it’s come late, it finds me old and alone.”
The most celebrated writers, like the most celebrated of all cultural icons, are nearly always carved into dualities in the popular imagination, recognition of the divinity almost presupposes a forgiveness for the humanity. All three of these poets certainly suffered from human inclinations. Huidobro’s insatiable attraction for a sixteen year-old beauty while he sat in the Pantheon of Latin American poets in his early forties led him to kidnap her from her family and take her to Europe, shooting the tires out from the car her father had hired to take her back. De Rokha was overbearing and vengeful, even claiming once to a friend that he wouldn’t mind murdering Neruda if he saw him in the street. And Neruda himself was not one for letting the proprieties of married life get in the way of his lusts for the fairer sex. In the end, the work endures while the fallibilities become fodder for interesting gossip and entertaining books. This is perhaps the nature of societies fed on icons. What is interesting about Guerilla Literaria is the extent to which these three poets went to weave their work into the conflict, or the extent to which they avoided such a combination.
Again, here de Rokha takes the fore. “The diatribe is the desperate verbal expression of the class struggle,” he wrote, and it is in the diatribe that de Rokha put his considerable energies. Over a series of months in 1935 in the periodical La Opinión, he took the fight to both Huidobro and Neruda. Yet it was for the latter that he displayed the most virulent polemic. Besides the short-lived scandal (egged on by Rokhianos) that Neruda had plagiarized from Rabindranath Tagore in Twenty Love Poems, De Rokha was sharp-tongued and vicious in general with his former friend:
“His style is calculated and treasonous… those poor devils and horny señoritas, the clan of little boys from the SERIOUS PRESS and their scribes, have licked the ass of THE GREAT POET OF FILTH.”
Neruda was not sucked in, officially. He was already gaining international renown, a diplomat for the Chilean government living abroad, far from the pageant Huidobro and de Rokha played out in the country’s periodicals. He denied the plagiarism in no uncertain terms from his consulship in Spain while he penned verses for the Republicans, publishing Spain in My Heart in 1938, then losing his consulship. However, that same year appeared the poem “Aquí Estoy (Here I Am)”, a vicious work of verse that Neruda biographers normally never attribute to the poet, according to Zerán. It was only through his Spanish friends that the poem saw the light of day in Paris. It is a brutal, whimsical response:
sons of bitches.
My testicles are full of petals,
my hair is full of birds
I have poetry and steam
cementaries and houses…
I shit on the bitches that misbirthed you.
Could he have thought that they would tarnish his international reputation if he published his own diatribe under his name? Or did he feel that he was above engaging (in public) what he surely considered a bitter rival who had tried, unsuccessfully, to wrench him down from his literary pedestal?
Huidobro, for his part, ventured into the fray in the same periodical for which de Rokha wrote, penning stately and condescending responses to de Rokha’s claims, in which he called Huidobro the “little-great bourgeois megalomaniac”.
“You have never achieved a balance between the thinking and what is thought, Huidobro responded, nor between expression and what is expressed…it is a tragedy.”
These back and forths became a sensation in Santiago, where readers of the two poets’ respective magazines gobbled up the weekly issues. Sales soared, and the editors of both encouraged the battle’s continuation. All while all three poets continued to publish their own work, far from the literary circus of the Guerilla. In the case of the Huidobro-de Rokha feud, the spark was the publication by two of Huidobro’s ardent followers, of an anthology of Chilean poetry. Among the names both Huidobro’s and de Rokha’s appeared. However, the former’s work took up nearly 2/3 of the total, the latter’s, significantly less. There was also the matter of de Rokha’s wife, Winnette, another poet of great importance (at least according to de Rokha himself) who was not included at all in the anthology.
Huidobro would be dead by 1948, de Rokha by 1963 and Neruda followed a few years later, two weeks after the presidential palace was bombed and the democratically elected president of Chile killed in a coup d’ etat. However, the Guerilla reached beyond the grave: from denial of the de Rokha clan into the Communist Party of Chile (said to have been engineered as a soft but well-struck blow from Neruda) to that meeting on the streets of Geneva, just as the country had finally overcome one of the most brutal dictatorships Latin America saw in that century.
The Guerilla Literaria is, today, one more footnote in the heady cultural menagerie of the 20th century. There have been other literary feuds, of course; the spat between Hemingway and Faulkner, and in Latin America between García Marquez and Mario Vargas LLosa. The former dealt with more literary blows; the latter more concrete (to the eye of García Marquez, to be exact). But there have been few in the last 100 years that reached the consistently contentious heights of the Guerilla Literaria, and which have been so little known. It is therefore a pleasure and an important piece of cultural study Zerán conducted on the lives of these poets, whose work does indeed stand, and whose reputations, it must be said, definitely do precede them.
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Learn How to Knit Cables: It's Easy!
By Sarah Johnson
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Cables are one of the most iconic knitting design elements. Many people picture braided twists of stitches when they think of knitting. They add texture, volume, and visual interest to knitted work and can dress up any project. They aren't just for sweaters, but can be a great element on gloves or mittens, a hat, or a headband. Maybe not for the sole of a sock, though.
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To many beginner knitters, cabling can seem like a scary, highly advanced technique not to be attempted. Cabling, though, isn't difficult at all. If you can slip stitches, knit, and purl, you can make a cable. Half the knitting patterns out there involve cables, so letting yourself believe that cables aren't just possible, but actually pretty easy will open up a world of new project ideas for you. (Here on Craftsy, we have over 1000 patterns that feature cables.)
Reduced to its simplest terms, a cable is nothing more than a section where you work your stitches out of order. Working your stitches out of order makes them twist and braid around each other, creating that raised cable look. Say I'm working a 3 stitch cable. I would knit stitches 4, 5, and 6 from my left hand needle before coming back to knit stitches 1, 2, and 3.
When you get to the point where your cable is to start, you slip the stitches you are skipping onto your cable needle (cn), then come back to them a few stitches later. Which way your cable twists depends on where you hold your cable needle with its suspended stitches while you are working the stitches after them. For a right twisting cable, hold the cable needle behind your working needle. To twist left, hold the cable needle in front.
That's it, all there is to it; that is the heart of cabling. Once you understand the basic concept, the number of cable designs you can create seems infinite. There are some commonly used cables, like the braid cable, open cable, wave cable, and honeycomb. But there is no limit to how pattern designers can incorporate a cable element into a pattern.
You can add in a simple cable effect by twisting one stitch in front of another without even needing to employ a cable needle. You can have that effect only repeat for a small section of your overall project if you choose. Or you can make a honeycomb cable, like this honeycomb hat, where the entire fabric appears covered in cables. A cable can be a design element around a neckline, like this turtleneck. And different cable styles can be mixed and matched, like this adorable baby sweater with its multiple cable styles.
The usual practice is to knit the cable itself in stockinette stitch while knitting the background in reverse stockinette. This makes the cable stand out both visually and physically. But there are no wrong answers. Try experimenting with a different background stitch, like garter or seed stitch.
Many specific cable types cover only 8-15 stitches, so they're easily added as a panel insert to any project. A braid cable, for example, is an effect that looks like a hair braid. It is its own stripe, if you will, on your project, either vertical or horizontal. If you know how to create the braid cable, then you can easily add the cable in. If you are knitting a plain, stockinette bag, for example, you can dress it up by knitting a braid cable right down the center. Just pick out a section of your bag where you can add in a vertical panel and make your cable. Cables are often demonstrated in patterns with a chart to help you visualize the direction of the twist and which stitches go where. That chart can then help you visualize the cable as a stand-alone panel.
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When adding a cable panel to a project, be sure you pick a spot void of increases or decreases. You only want to add a design panel where your project maintains a consistent height and width. You will also need to think about the change in width between a cable section and a non-cabled section. Because cables involve crossing stitches over each other, they require more yarn and cover less width than the same number of stitches would without cables. If you are modifying a pattern to add a cable element to it, you will need to account for that difference by adding stitches.
As for the tools you'll need, the only new item you must have is a cable needle. There are a variety of styles of cable needles. Many knitters prefer a cable needle with a U shape to it, rather like a hook. The U helps hold the stitches on the needle and it's easy to keep it out of the way. Some cable needles look more like a flattened bell curve. I have a set of 3 bell curve shape needles in varying thicknesses. With a cable needle, you don't need to worry about having one in every needle size. You don't need a size 9 cable needle for when you are working on size 9 needles; you just want a cable needle that's close enough. It isn't necessary to have any particular type of cable needle. Strictly speaking, it isn't necessary to have a cable needle at all. I have a good friend who is an experienced knitter who often uses whatever double point needle is closest. All you're really doing is holding a few stitches off to the side for a moment, so what you hold your stitches on doesn't matter that much.
Once you try cable knitting, you'll be sorry you weren't always adding cables to your knits. Now that you know how easy it can be, if you're ready to take your knit cable skills to the next level, be sure to check out Craftsy's classes: Custom Cabled Pullovers, Creative Cabled Necklines, Celtic Cables, and Mastering Cable Design. What kind of cable is your favorite?
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As The Food Turns: Nature's Bounty
Where the heck have I been?
We all know what is due here - a refrigerator clean-out post. But I kept putting it off. The refrigerator had gotten to the point where we almost couldn't use it - every time we tried to take something from it, a zillion other things would fall out. We'd shove those back in, thus making everything else fall out.
Look, if you don't understand that last sentence, go read some other blog, will ya? We don't need your kind around here.
Anyway, today I decided that if we could land a man on the moon (um, 40 years ago), I should be able to clean the old stuff out of my refrigerator. I made the kids leave the kitchen (I knew it was going to be ugly) and dove in. It wasn't too bad, once I started (I mean, by my standards - Jenn, I really advise you to leave, if you haven't already).
As we can see from the picture below at the right, it's high summer, the season of produce! Really, I don't even know where to start describing nature's bounty here. How about back row, from the left:
1. baggie with moldering scallion tips - meant to plant these in a pot outside on the deck
2. a container that says potato salad - It's lying! There's homemade cole slaw in there. I didn't open it, because I figured something frightening would happen, like in that scene at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
3. grapefruit - I rescued this grapefruit from my neighbor's refrigerator to keep it from going bad during her European vacation. It went bad in my fridge instead. At least it wasn't lonely...
4. Directly behind the grapefruit is a cucumber, standing straight up on its non-mushy end. Why, yes, I am proud of that bit of photography - it took me a while to set it up. All you wildlife photographers, move over! I've got the produce covered.
5. a stack of baby carrots, grape tomatoes, and two withered senior citizen carrots - all casualties of our too-deep American refrigerators
6. one red bell pepper - I do not remember buying this; I'm thinking other people are leaving their ruined produce in my refrigerator.
Front row, right to left -
1. a bag of sugar snap peas from our town's farmers' market - my motto is "Buy Local, Waste Local."
2. 2 more senior citizen carrots - not withered, but sprouting those white whiskers all over
3. ah, the piece de resistance! It's an almost completely liquefied baby squash garnished with loose onion skins - I found it on the bottom of the produce drawer. (Warning! Do not enlarge this photo, especially if you have eaten recently.) And, folks, please don't try this sort of project at home - it requires time, and patience, and a knack for procrastination that takes years to develop.
So, how about a more cheerful picture? A picture, say, of one of my freshly cleaned-out produce drawers filled with my future victims? See? Over there to the right? Veggies check in, but they don't check out!
Note the empty produce drawer to the left - it still has remnants of liquefied squash and onion peels in it, because I couldn't properly scrub it without removing it from the refrigerator. But the last time I tried to remove that drawer, I ended up hurting my neck. Really. Just another example of how dangerous housework can be to your health...
Coming next week! A Condiment Retrospective!
1. So you're saying you have the Hotel California of refrigerators?
I can't actually remove my left-hand veggie drawer, because the fridge door won't open wide enough (the wall is just enough in the way). How scary is that? I can't ever clean it properly unless we take the door off the hinges. You'd think this would prompt vigilance on my part, but no.
2. Liquified veggies are the worst.
I think I'll start using "hurt my neck" as an excuse. Thanks!
3. The contents of my refrigerator mirror the contents of your refrigerator. Homemade lentil soup last night was a comedy of errors... no onion, because THAT had molded. No scallions because, ditto. No leeks, because I gave those all away at Vacation Bible School. Then I burnt the first batch of lentils by trying to multitask (blog and boil lentils at the same time). Luckily I wasn't out of bay leaf or lentils. The 2nd batch made it to church 30 minutes late, garnished with freshly chopped carrots and celery (compliments of my 13yo son). Maybe I should blog more and just hand the cooking duties over to the kids?
4. a condiment retrospective? oh, give us that salsa, girl!!!
5. I'm with kcinnova above - this week I was going to make pork tenderloin with balsamic sauce and didn't have balsamic vinegar OR chicken stock when it came time to make the sauce. I ended up pouring out on of the 18,376,592 bottles of dressing in our fridge and reducing it.
I currently have cilantro and parsley goo in the bottom of my produce bin. Just bought some fresh today to accompany it.
6. I can only dream of a produce drawer that looks that good!
7. hahah! that is HILARIOUS!! I USED to buy all kinds of veggies in order to let them rot in my fridge too! Now they don't sell them where I live, and I am sad that none of them can die in my house anymore.
It kinda made me feel healthy-like.
8. Sigh. You make me feel so normal. Your fridge and mine...related.
9. That post made me laugh.
10. We are growing our own veggies this summer and letting them rot. It's more economical than buying them from the store and the garden is my husband's little project so it keeps him out of the house. It's a win-win!
11. ewww liquified veggies. I try to keep my bought produce in bags, that way, when we get liquified dying ones I simply through out the entire bag. It does makes it kinda difficult though to remember what's in each bag.
12. Veggies check in, but they don't check out!
Too funny!
13. Damg it, now you reminded me I have to clean out my fridge again. It's past time, I just don't want to. :(
14. Please quit coming to Arkansas, breaking in my house, and taking pictures of stuff in my fridge while I am not home. Thank you.
15. I did the "fresh" food clean out just before we went away last week... I tried not to cry for the loss of life. I kept a head of broccoli, probably shouldn't have bothered... I was just delaying the inevitable.
16. AnonymousJuly 19, 2009
I enlarged the photo. I HAD to since you told me not to and of course, I'm sorry I did. The liquid veggies were nasty! I need to clean my own fridge...
17. I just purged my fridge last night, and found some wilting lettuce and other left overs from the previous week. Its so much cleaner now!!
But yours? Yours takes the prize!
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Last Friday we were told by the capitalist mass media of another so-called Iranian crime. We were "informed" that the Iranian state had kidnapped 15 British sailors and marines members of the frigate HMS Cornwall who were engaged in routine boarding operations of merchant shipping in Iraqi territorial waters, and had completed their inspection of the merchant ship suspected of carrying weapons to the anti American fighters in Iraq. If we are to believe the official version, all of a sudden they were accosted by Iranian vessels.
Britain’s Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett demanded a full explanation of the incident. Sir Peter Ricketts, a senior aide to Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett, held a brief meeting with Rasoul Movahedian, after the Iranian diplomat was called to Britain’s Foreign Office to account for the incident.
One day before UN Security Council met
This incident happened one day before the meeting of the UN Security Council scheduled to impose harsher sanctions on Iran. And as could be expected the United Nations Security Council on Saturday voted unanimously to impose tougher sanctions on Iran to force Tehran to capitulate to the demand that it suspend its nuclear enrichment programme.
The same capitalist mass media was very sarcastic about Iran’s side of the story. Iran said that the 15 British military personnel were inside Iran territorial waters, in a clear violation of its national sovereignty and that they confessed to it under interrogation.
None of these gentlemen of the mass media stopped for a moment to ask themselves why Iran would carry out such a provocation, the same Iran that in the last month has offered the US help in maintaining its control over the Middle East after the US occupying forces will be forced to withdraw from Iraq following its defeat there. What interest could the government of Iran have in provoking an international incident on the eve of the UN Security council? Could there possibly be any connection between this incident and the fact that the United States House of Representatives on Friday voted to impose a September 1, 2008 deadline for withdrawal of all American combat troops from Iraq, and that Bush reacted by saying that he will use his power to veto it?
The decision to end the occupation by the end of next year was carried by a narrow majority of a 218 to 212 votes, which shows the extent of the division within the American ruling class over this issue at a time when the majority of ordinary Americans are opposed to the war. While the Democrats voted for the Bill all but two House Republicans voted against the legislation, which they say will tie military leaders’ hands and contribute to failure in Iraq.
House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio warned, "We have no choice but to win. If we fail in Iraq, you’ll see the rise even further and faster of radical terrorism all around the world."
It does not make much to understand that Bush, as President, the commander-in-chief of the army and the leader of the Republican Party, is determined to continue with the war and even extend it to Iran. In that sense the incident with Iran serves him well.
The Security Council, supporting Bush, approved a ban on Iranian arms exports and a freeze of the assets of 28 additional people and organisations involved in Iran’s nuclear and missile programmes. The list includes Sepah, a government-owned bank This resolution would allow Bush in the near future to open a new military front, this time against Iran.
In the interests of US imperialism
The cynicism of these gentlemen of the Security Council has no limits. They are ready to allow Bush another war after what he did to Iraq, on the ground that it is necessary to prevent Iran from developing its nuclear capability, while the US and Israel are armed to the teeth with these same weapons. And the US has a history of using atomic bombs against Japan, while Israel has a record of using biological weapons against the Palestinians back in 1948, the systematic oppression of the occupied Palestinians over decades and the horrible destruction it brought to Lebanon last summer.
There is also one very interesting fact: none other than Shimon Peres of Israel, serving as the vice Prime Minister of Israel, last week stated before the Vinograd commission that since in his opinion it is impossible to prevent other states in the Middle East from developing nuclear weapons it is time to make peace in the Middle East. In other words as long as Israel was the only state with such weapons it was in a position to terrorize the people of the Middle East, but now it must rethink its position.
And yet the UN Security Council, under pressure from the US, rejected an amendment from Indonesia and Qatar that wanted the resolution to include a sentence calling for the Middle East to be free of such weapons of mass destruction, namely including Israel.
But let us return to the incident. Today, Sunday, March 25, the mass media in Israel began to admit that it was a British and not an Iranian provocation. In an article in Haaretz under the title Analysis: Iranian President Ahmadinejad sends a signal, Yossi Melman, Haaretz Correspondent, wrote: "The border between Iraq and Iran on the Shatt al-Arab waterway has been in dispute for decades. Thus, the possibility that British Royal Marines were inside Iranian territorial waters when they were abducted should not be entirely discounted."
In the past there have been similar incidents. In June 2004, six British Marines and two sailors were captured, then paraded blindfolded on Iranian television. They admitted they had entered Iranian waters illegally but were released unharmed after three days.
In the recent period Iran has attributed various subversive activities, carried out by opposition and separatist groups, to the CIA and MI6 agents. Several months ago an elite US unit raided the Iranian consulate in Irbil, northern Iraq, and arrested five Iranians…"
Now the official line is that if the British Marines are not released within a few days, as happened in that similar incident in 2004, the crisis may take a sharp turn for the worst. To say it in simple words: the British incursion was aimed at provoking a reaction on the part of Iran that would justify "retaliation".
In the meantime the President of Iran, Ahmadinejad, cancelled his appearance before the Security Council, where he was supposed to present Iran’s position. There has been some speculation about the reasons for this, some stating security concerns, but it seems to be more a diplomatic gesture of defiance on the part of the Iranian regime.
They talk of peace while they prepare for war
For some years now the line of the imperialists has been that Iran is a threat to the "free world". From time to time we are "informed" of the possibility that the US and Israel must attack Iran to "save democracy". A strange kind of democracy indeed, one that is identified by the mass media with the war crimes committed by the US and Israel in Iraq and Palestine!
We have been told over and over again that the nuclear energy programme of Iran "must be stopped" before this "evil" state develops "weapons of mass destruction" and this will require a massive aerial attack on Iran.
Gerard Baker, Times Online US editor, who supported very enthusiastically the invasion of Iraq, wrote on 27 January, 2006: "The unimaginable but ultimately inescapable truth is that we are going to have to get ready for war with Iran… If Iran gets safely and unmolested to nuclear status, it will be a threshold moment in the history of the world, up there with the Bolshevik Revolution and the coming of Hitler."
The justification for such an attack is the fraudulent and well-worn cliché of the "war on terror" that has been used since 9/11 to justify every US attack on a sovereign nation. Bush is doing a lot of dreaming and in his dreams his God is telling him: "go my beloved son and disarm Iran and I will reward you with all the oil of Iran."
Iran on the other hand claims that it has the right to acquire nuclear energy for peaceful purposes and it does not want to arm itself with nuclear weapons. However, even if Iran is aiming at arming itself with nuclear weapons, it has the same right to this as the US and Israel that are using their nuclear arsenal to terrorize the world.
While Iran is denying that it is developing nuclear weapons, the US and Israel do not hide the fact that not only do they have them but that they are also ready to use nuclear bombs. They have warned time and again of the possibility that they will attack Iran’s nuclear installations.
The other side to this is that the Iranian regime is clearly trying to build a deterrent in order to create a new balance of fear. They saw Iraq that did not have weapons of mass destruction being invaded. Therefore to them it makes perfect sense to acquire such weapons in order to prevent such an attack.
Anyone at all familiar with the recent history of Iran, must know that while Iran has not attacked anyone it was the US that used Saddam Hussein to attack Iran using weapons of mass destruction provided by the US in the 1980s. And that was a terrible war that lasted 8 years and cost the lives of one million people.
At the same time, the same propaganda machine that portrays Iran as a "terrorist state" is the one that uses ugly racism to attack the Muslims in general. Last year’s media campaign against the Muslims in Europe, presenting the Prophet Mohammed as a "terrorist", is the same racist campaign that is aimed at justifying wars against Muslims worldwide. It has nothing to do with "free speech" but every thing to do with promoting hate against oppressed people. It is the same kind of propaganda used by the Nazis in the 1930s against the Jews. It is not Iran that has created the nightmare in Iraq and Palestine, but the American and Israeli imperialists.
As a result of this war propaganda, many people in the West, even among those who now object to the continuation of the war against Iraq, Americans in particular, have been led to believe that war against Iran is necessary. They are being led to believe that Iran is developing nuclear weapons in order to use them against the US and Israel.
American air strikes on Iran would vastly exceed the scope of the 1981 Israeli attack on the Osiraq nuclear centre in Iraq, and would most likely to be the opening days of an aerial bombardment like the 2003 air campaign against Iraq. Using the full force of operational B-2 stealth bombers, staging from Diego Garcia or flying direct from the United States, possibly supplemented by F-117 stealth fighters staging from al-Udeid in Qatar or from Saudi Arabia, the two-dozen suspect nuclear sites would be targeted.
Yesterday’s sanctions show that the 15 members of the UN Security Council are acting in unison, contrary to what we saw prior to the invasion of Iraq, which was partly opposed at the diplomatic level by France and Germany. Washington has been building "a consensus" both within NATO and on the UN Security Council.
Moreover, a number of front line Arab states, the so called "moderates", Egypt, Jordan, Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania, the Seniora government in Lebanon and the Saudis are now tacit partners of the US/Israeli military plans against Iran.
How desperate Bush is can be seen from the fact that he has even looked at the nuclear option. The preparation for such a war against Iran is in fact based on the Bush administration’s doctrine of "pre-emptive" nuclear war under the 2002 Nuclear Posture Review. The media has played its part by extensively concealing the devastating consequences of military action involving nuclear warheads against Iran.
What is most alarming is that, according to a 2003 Senate decision, the latest tactical nuclear weapons or "low yield mini-nukes" as they call them (in spite of having an explosive capacity of up to 6 times a Hiroshima bomb) are now considered as "safe" because they explode below ground! Thus they are considered not only as legitimate weapons but also as a means of "building peace" and a safer world!
What further aggravates the situation is the number of sites that would have to be bombed. A recent report by the Oxford Research Group has revealed that to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities (that all the evidence point out it is so far for civilian use), the US and its allies would have to attack Kalaye Electric Company that produces components of gas centrifuges, the Nuclear reactor at Bushehr, the heavy-water reactor at Arak, the Uranium enrichment facilities at Natanz and the uranium mines and mills at Saghand, as well as the research reactor at Isfahan. However, the chances of destroying al off them at the same time are very slim. Besides, such an attack would cost the lives of many innocent civilians.
The irony of this is that Iran today is still some years away from having enough fissile material to fabricate nuclear weapons. But the end result of all these threats to bomb Iran’s nuclear research facilities is that it will be pushed to build at least one nuclear bomb at any cost. And it will do it in a very short period, a maximum of two years.
While the US speaks of this "evil state", in Iraq the US occupying forces and their vassals continue their murderous campaign. Hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi men, women and children have been murdered by the occupying forces. Tens of thousands more have been arrested, imprisoned, and tortured to death.
While Bush and Blair boast of the great benefits for the Iraqis as the result of removing Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi economy has fallen below pre-war levels. The living conditions of ordinary Iraqis have worsened considerably since the 2003 criminal invasion of the country. Iraq, which once enjoyed a reasonable standard of living compared to today, is in a terrible state.
Similarly while Israel is presented in the mass media as the "only democracy in the Middle East", it continues to steal Palestinian land in contravention of international laws and UN resolutions. Some 2,000,000 Palestinians, residents of the West Bank, are prohibited from entering around one-third of the West Bank, and this includes the Jordan Rift, the area of the Dead Sea shoreline and the eastern slopes of the West Bank. At the same time the Israeli soldiers use brutal force to kill and maim many Palestinians.
In addition, Israel has encircled and isolated Jerusalem from the rest of the Occupied Territories, making the creation of a viable Palestinian "state" impossible. More than 3.5million Palestinians are living in ghettoes under an unbearable apartheid system of control, checkpoints, roadblocks and walls. And with the election of Hamas, Israel has increased the terror against the Palestinians. Thousands of Palestinian men, women and children are imprisoned by Israeli occupation forces without charge. It has sent thousands of Palestinians to prisons using a Mickey Mouse military judicial system that by itself is a war crime.
Mecca Agreement
In the light of the preparations for a new war, the real meaning of the Mecca Agreement is becoming even clearer. It is an attempt to bring the so-called "moderate" Arab states, namely those who act as American puppets, on board in the preparation of the war against Iran. It is simply the continuation of the war on Lebanon last summer.
This agreement will in no way solve the question of the occupation and the oppression of the Palestinian people, but it will serve to isolate Iran from the other Arab states. We saw it before the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 when Israel and Egypt made a so-called peace that in reality allowed Israel to attack Lebanon while Egypt was neutralised. The fact that the civil war between the gang of Abu Mazen’s Fatah and Hamas – that flared up again last Wednesday and that has cost the lives of several Palestinians including a two-year-old girl – does not fall from the sky. The fact is that the imperialists are not ready to accept Hamas’ half capitulation to their demands; they want a totally subdued Hamas.
This was clear from the visit of the South Korean UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon (remember that South Korea is a client state of the US) during his visit to the region where he put pressure on the new Palestinian coalition government to accept the demands of the "quartet, i.e. to recognize Israel and renounce violence, as if the main source of violence has not been Israel since its creation and later on throughout the years following the 1967 occupation; as if it were not the US forces and their allies who are continuing the destruction of Iraq, the killing and the torture of Iraqi civilians.
Ban speaking after he had talked with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who was hosting US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Arab foreign ministers this weekend for discussions on the "Middle East peace process", said, "We expect that the national unity government will meet the expectations of the international community for peace and security in the region," and added that he had discussed the need to encourage this ongoing peace process with Mubarak.
Needless to say Ban did not meet with the Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh but only with President (Mahmoud) Abbas and other members of the cabinet, all people who are trusted by his master, Mr George W Bush, to be loyal puppets.
It is clear that the imperialists and their servants feel the need to free Israeli hands in other areas so as to be able to prepare aggression against Iran. Part of the propaganda machine is this need to spread new illusions about peace between Israel and the Palestinians. The Saudi Arabian regime is playing an important role in this. It fears the rise of Iran as a regional power and is this trying to help by brokering some kind of deal between the Palestinians and Israel, not to make peace in the region, but to prepare for war.
It is in the interests of the international working class to defeat the plans for war against Iran. It would not serve the interests of the workers of any country. In particular it would bring terrible destruction and suffering on the people of Iran. It would consume immense resources, both material and human on the part of the aggressor countries, increasing the suffering of the workers in these countries.
Some of the more far-sighted strategists of imperialism (see the Baker report) are of the opinion that rather than waging war on Iran, this country should be involved in finding a solution to the mess in Iraq. They must be watching with dread as Bush pushes for an attack on Iran. But the situation is so unstable, and the contradictions have piled up to such a degree, including the contradictions within the US ruling class itself, that an attack looks likely. Once an attack does start it would be difficult to limit it to a so-called "surgical operation". It could indeed escalate. In such circumstances it would be in the interests of workers everywhere that the imperialists and their servants should be defeated.
Imperialist Hands off Iraq and Iran!
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I almost resisted The Hunger Games trilogy, but…
Woods image courtesy of Bobby, Morguefile.
Sometimes, I hear about a book so much that I grow weary of having it mentioned at all. It seemed like every other day in the blogging world, somebody wrote a blog post about Suzanne Collins’ young adult book, The Hunger Games. Plus, there was the movie based on the book and then the movie was regularly mentioned on websites and in magazines. I got turned off by all the hype.
I confess that the premise behind the book — kids killing other kids in a televised tournament to the death — was also a turnoff. So I was determined to resist reading the book. But then a young relative of mine had to go and show me The Hunger Games movie, and it was good. The premise made more sense when you know the tournament is intended to punish the people of a conquered country for a previous uprising. (The ultimate game of “Survivor”? Except for the voting-them-off-the-island bit.) So I read the book to see how it lived up to the movie.
I like how Suzanne Collins chose to tell the story using a first-person narrative, so we readers experience the story from the heroine’s point of view. I don’t think it would create the same impression if the story was told using another narrator; we form impressions of Katniss Everdeen and the people she meets through her observations and we have a more direct link to her thoughts and character this way.
I also appreciate how strong a character Katniss is, even though she’s only 16. She’s brave, intelligent, resourceful, affectionate and talented. She had to become a mother to her family at an early age, after her father’s death in a mining accident and her mother’s intense grief which caused the mother’s withdrawal from the world for a long time.
Katniss also has the ability to see through the hypocrisy of the Capitol’s game and people. She’s got enough self-control to avoid expressing out loud what she’s feeling, but it isn’t always easy for her.
I see why The Hunger Games became so popular. It has something for everybody: danger, intrigue, romance, friendship, family affection and a touch of irony now and then. There’s even hints of Roman-style gladiator games for the history buffs.
After reading The Hunger Games, I went through Catching Fire and Mockingjay. Suzanne Collins avoided the mistake that many book and movie sequels have — she added new characters to the story and expanded the plot line rather than repeating the exact same formula that created a success of the first book. I constantly thought, “Okay, what happens next?” while reading the sequels.
Mockingjay was graphic, but there was a war going on, after all. There are constant plot twists that you don’t expect to keep you engaged in the action and characters.
And the two sequels are also going to be made into movies, according to the Internet Movie Database. Catching Fire is already being filmed. Mockingjay will be split into two separate movies to be released at different points in time. I guess I’ll have to go see those movies, too.
Overall, all three books are a good read. I’m hoping the movies live up to them.
Have a good weekend, people. And may the odds be ever in your favor.
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Things go unnoticed around here
while we do the important stuff
the singing praying sermonizing baptizing.
We don’t read the instructions
want to get on with it insert the batteries
push the button watch the screen light up.
Script stage directions steps one two three are all
fine print we think, or don’t until
we find ourselves at home
watching rain soak the garden
and notice that the screen has gone dark.
When is it that we turn to face
the back of the church? Do we stand or sit
at the Psalm and is there anything at all
about bowing as the cross makes its leisurely progress?
What words are to be said
while earth is cast upon the coffin
and who was it after all
who was supposed to meet the body
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Thursday, September 30, 2010
Luminosity as an indicator of economic activity
When working with worldwide data, it si often frustrating that data quality and availability is far from uniform across countries. Especially for developing countries, or those with large informal sectors or notable self-sustenance, we have a very imperfect idea of how much economic activity there is. Hence, looking at other indicators that GDP can give us interesting clues.
Xi Chen and William Nordhaus make the case for luminosity. By looking at how brightly various locations shine at night, it allows you to infer something about economic activity and the level of development. Also, it allows to say something about regional distribution of economic activity. Of course, this is not going to be perfect, especially for developed economies where data is of much better quality to start with.
The standard data set for international macroeconomics data is the Penn World Tables. It also grade grades to its data, telling us how reliable it is. Unfortunately, these grades are largely ignored in empirical work. Chen and Nordhaus ask whether they can increase the quality of output measured with their luminosity data and they claim this is only useful for those labeled D and E. Yet they do not advocate using luminosity data for countrywide analysis. Indeed, data collection methods will eventually improve and traditional data will move up in the quality ladder. Luminosity data is far from perfect, it is just that in some countries official data is even worse at the moment. Chen and Nordhaus are more confident with luminosity as a proxy for regional activity in some cases, even if measurement error is even larger there.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Overinvestment in financial expertise
One conventional story about the 2007-2008 financial crisis is that some bright financial bankers created complex financial instruments that have then been traded by people who did not understand them, thus leading to mispricing and ultimately to a major market correction. In other words, financial advisors were not too bright. No, Wall Street has hired a lot of PhDs, so how could this happen?
Vincent Glode, Richard Green and Richard Lowery present a theory that would yield identical outcomes, but because there is too much investment in financial expertise. They build a model where financial intermediaries hire experts to create, manage and trade complex financial instruments. This allows them to extract some of the consumer surplus created by these instruments. But the intermediaries are competing with others that do the same thing. The fact that this investment in expertise is made may make the surplus disappear under some circumstances, for example some information shocks.
Thus the competition between financial intermediaries boils down to an arms race, where each move is privately beneficial but socially neutral, and sometimes even harmful. All the bright people hired by Wall Street have created very complex instruments and information systems that lead to adverse-selection problems. When a shock occurs, the fact that they have more information makes that others think they are going to sell lemons, and nobody trusts them. Markets come to a halt. In a sense, the financial intermediaries suddenly wish they would not have all this expertise, so that they do not come under the suspicion of offering bad assets. Maybe firing all of them is the solution.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Women stay longer
It is widely documented that women have a much higher tendency to drop out of the labor force than men and that they quit jobs more often. It is obvious that fertility and marriage have a major impact here. And nobody disputes that. But apparently nobody looked into more details by differentiating genders for job market transitions.
Boris Hirsch and Claus Schnabel do it for Germany using excellent panel data that included many job and workplace characteristics along with some details about the workers. Hence, they can factor in a good chunk of heterogeneity. The interesting results is that once you control for the wage, women are less likely to quit their job for another one or non-employment. As women take jobs that pay less, a composition effect is hiding the loyalty of women to their employer.
Monday, September 27, 2010
Men last longer
Women live longer, yet paradoxically they can claim pension benefits earlier in many countries, where there is strong resistance to equalizing the retirement age (let alone increasing it, see last week's post). Would true believers in markets and efficient politics still find an explanation of this paradox?
Wolfgang Maennig and Michael Stobernack offer one: the physical performance of men declines much slower with age than for women. They base this on the worldwide top performers by age on rowing machines. The latter are of uniform quality, thus environmental factors do not matter and everyone competes on level ground. This is better than previous studies relying on track-and-field records, that more susceptible to whether influences (and doping). From the 40's to the 60's, the physical performance of men declines by about 15%. This is less than the productivity decrease that would be implied from wage changes (and labor productivity does not depend solely on physical performance, one could think older workers have in fact better non-physical qualities like experience). For women, this is more in the order of 20%. The difference is even more pronounced for those in the "lightweight" category.
The study does not go beyond the 70's (and I suppose the records pertain to the younger ones among those). So it must be that at some point the men start declining really fast. It also be that the age differences among the best rowers are simply not representative of the age differences among the general population. These elite athletes maintain their body, whereas the general population may not, and especially there may strong gender differences in doing so.
Friday, September 24, 2010
Why Greece will never make it: self-fulfilling expectations about social security
Mediterranean countries have many things in common, one of them is an early retirement age. You certainly read about the uproar when the Germans learned that they had to bail out the Greeks who enjoy retirement many years earlier. Now there is much pressure on Greece to lower and delay pensions, but there is tremendous resistance from the street. The same is happening right now in France as well. Yet, initiative to delay retirement in Northern Europe or North America, where retirement age is already higher, do not generate much discussion.
Ryo Arawatari and Tetsuo Ono may have an explanation for this dichotomy: self-fulfilling expectations. The story is very intuitive. If you expect pensions to be generous, there is no point in accumulating savings for retirement, and you do not invest in education either. And once you are low skill, you will vote for generous pensions. The opposite happens with expectations of small pensions. And once you are in such an equilibrium, it is very very difficult to get out of it: people want generous pensions, and the newcomers know this and thus expect this not to change, and make the appropriate (non)investments. To change this, you need to massively lower expectations during a whole generation or more. No Greek government can have that much staying power. And neither does the French one.
Thursday, September 23, 2010
When should amniocentesis be performed?
Every pregnant woman past some age is recommended to perform an amniocentesis to check whether her fetus suffers from Down syndrome. The reason is that the risk of this syndrome increases with the age of the mother. But the test is risky, as it can lead to miscarriage, thus it is only performed for higher (syndrome) risk pregnancies.
Eduardo Fajnzylber, Joseph Hotz and Seth Sanders tell us that the logic that the medical profession has adopted is wrong. The basic idea is that the risk of miscarriage is constant with the mother's age, while the risk of Down syndrome is increasing. At first sight you would only want to test older women. That is the logic from the perspective of the physician. They now propose to see this from the perspective of the mother. An older women will have fewer opportunities to conceive, thus a miscarriage is much more costly to her compared to a young woman. This would make her to want to avoid the risk of miscarriage. The recommended strategy becomes much less obvious and could in fact be that young women carry out the test and older ones bypass it. It all boils down to a personal evaluation of the cost of miscarriage, Down syndrome and abortion. Not as easy as the physicians say it is.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Worker overconfidence and unemployment duration
The current (well, some say it is over now) recession is different from others because it has unusually long unemployment durations, among other things. This can be explained by a really poor labor market. But there could also be other reasons.
René Böheim, Gerard Thomas Horvath and Rudolf Winter-Ebner explore using Austrian data the components of a wage: one part comes from firm fixed-effects and the other from worker fixed-effects. In other words, the wage depends on the productivity of the firm and of the worker. They find then that those workers who had larger firm fixed-effects later end up having longer unemployment durations. This means that they misinterpreted their high wage as their own doing, and became overconfident and set a reservation wage that is too high.
In the current US context, it is clear that real wages need(ed) to decrease to clear the labor market. But many of those who were laid off may not have been understanding this and have (had) too high reservation wages, and thus have been at least initially rejecting some job offers, thus prolonging the duration of their unemployment. I have no hard evidence for this conjecture, may be someone has for or against it.
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Pennsylvania liquor stores are welfare maximizing
In many countries, and in particular North America, the state holds a monopoly on the sale of alcoholic products. And in those areas, everybody complains how inconvenient the purchase of alcohol is. Of course, this inconvenience is part of the purpose of these state monopolies, along with keeping prices high and keeping the margin for government coffers. But discouraging the consumption of alcohol does not need to be done this way, simply taxing it would achieve the same goals.
Katja Seim and Joel Waldfogel claim that at least in the case of Pennsylvania, the state monopoly is beneficial. Indeed, the layout of the network of stores, and the number of stores is much closer to maximize welfare than maximize profits. Now, of course, we need to define welfare. They measure it à la Hotelling: consumer surplus is based on the price of liquor and the distance between stores and customers, the producer surplus is based on profits, and there is a fix cost of operating a store. In other words, Seim and Waldfogel treat this problem like it would apply to any good. But we are taking about liquor here. And there is a reason we want to regulate it: it generates negative externalities.
Thus, if they find that in Pennsylvania the outcome is close to welfare maximizing according to their criterion, it tells me that there are too many stores if that social welfare measure included the negative externality of alcohol.
Monday, September 20, 2010
How big are welfare stigma?
There is some literature that has tried to establish how large the stigma of participating in welfare programs are. Indeed, the fact that not all those that can obtain welfare benefits actually take them is an indication that feel bad about it, as long as they are aware of the relevant programs.Just how bad do people feel about this? The problem is that another factor comes in: time costs. Getting welfare benefits typically takes time: getting to the welfare office, waiting, filling forms and getting interviewed. This implies that the econometrician has a hard time figuring out the psychological costs of welfare participation. Indeed, time and psychological costs have very different policy implications. Time costs have a good reason: to select against welfare cheaters who are more likely to be discouraged by lost time. Psychological costs, however, are lower for the cheater. Also, discovering that the latter costs are high for the intended recipients is detrimental to the success of a program.
Colleen Flaherty Manchester and Kevin Mumford build a model of labor supply with an additive, one-time cost to welfare program participation in the utility function. Using structural estimation, they infer what the time cost as well as the psychological cost are, using the example of food stamps and WIC (healthy food checks for small children and pregnant mothers-to-be) in the US. They conclude that time costs amount to 0.5 hours a week for food stamps and 3 hours a week for WIC. The psychological costs are larger, about 3 hours for each program, but incurred only in the first week of participation, by assumption.
I am a big fan of structural estimation because it gives us the right quantitative framework for policy experiments. But the inferences in this case seem rather heroic to me. Indeed, there is no direct observation of the time cost. It is inferred from estimating a labor supply equation on a population where many do not work, for reasons beyond observables, and for them virtual wages are inferred. And the psychological cost amounts to a residual, and accordingly is estimated with a very large standard error. With all these caveats, I am surprised that there is no data that would measure the actual time lost through participation in those programs. This would considerably tighten estimates.
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Video review in football/soccer
The Australian Football Association has started to implement post-match video reviews to help in refereeing games and in particular uncover things the field referee may not have seen. The most striking example so far has been the reversal of an added-time penalty kick that followed a dive by an attacker. The diver is now suspended for two games, and the goalie got his red card reversed.
After the multiple controversies in the last World Cup about outcome determining refereeing errors, FIFA has been adamant that it is not considering overriding the authority of the referees on the field. The Australian initiative is definitively a thorn in the eye of FIFA, and it will be interesting to see how the football politics pan out.
But beyond this, this could lead to particularly interesting behavior on the field. Suppose a penalty kick is awarded on a dive. The diver, knowing that the decision could be reversed after the fact and new punishments could be handed out, could volunteer and ask the referee not to give the penalty kick. Should the referee accept this plea that undermines his authority on the field? Obviously his authority off the field is lost with post-match video reviews, but his decisions still have an impact.
In any case, I would love to see this implemented in Southern European leagues or in South America. It would make football strategy even more interesting.
Friday, September 17, 2010
Is fair trade unfair?
US colleges make big money from the sale of all sorts of items imprinted with their logo, in particular clothes. Of course, to maximize the margins on these goods, their production has been mostly outsourced off-shore, to factories that were often likened to sweatshops. Whether a large portion of those factories were indeed providing substandard working conditions is a debate I do not want to enter for now. The fact is that student activists demanded that those factories should not be retained for production. As universities and their suppliers complied, the poorest workers were out of a job, and the university gift stores are making less of a profit. Unintended consequences.
Aurélie Carimentrand and Jérôme Ballet explore a similar story with fair trade. Their case study is about quinoa from Bolivia. The goal of fair trade is to give local producers in developing countries a larger share of the retail price of their product. But beneficiaries need to get certified, and this process does not necessarily favor the most needy, in particular as they need to obey some rules. In the case of Bolivian quinoa, this works through the membership in a growers' association which markets crops to fair trade networks. As associations typically are, this one is dominated by the big producers. The latter are located in the big plains, where they could get the full advantage of mechanization. The small producers are on steep terrain and cannot use tractors. The latter are the poorest, but, as the authors argue, they benefit the least from fair trade, often even skipping membership. Indeed, the association pays the same unit price to all members, and given the differences in production costs, this exacerbates inequalities.
The authors claim that fair trade has failed here. It made inequities among producers worse. But was domestic income equality really the primary role? Isn't it really about world income inequality? There, clearly fair trade is transferring some rents to developing economies. Whether they are large enough to be worth the trouble is another question.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
How to raise government revenue: tax bling bling, but subsidize hip hop?
Lost in the debate on how governments could be raising much needed revenue in our difficult times is that there are some goods that are just begging to be taxed: diamond goods. These goods are valued solely because they are expensive. The money spent on these goods is independent of their price. Thus taxing them all the way to infinity makes them even more attractive, as very little of the diamond good needs to be produced for the same satisfaction. Thus, everybody should agree diamond goods must be taxed heavily: the buyers because of the prestige of the high sticker price, the others for the tax revenue.
Per Engström adds a little nuance to this argument. Suppose there is a strong complement to the diamond good, like hip hop music is a strong complement to bling bling. As the diamond good constitutes a free lunch for the social planner, the latter would want to subsidize it. But that beats the purpose of taxation. However, one can subsidize the complement, which encourages the consumption of the diamond good.
Engström mentions other pairs of goods. Entry to the Sex and the City should be free and designer shoes should be taxed to the hilt. The same for James Bond movies and champagne. Any other examples?
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Trade theorems revisited
International trade economics is a constant disappointment to me. It still relies on the Hecksher-Ohlin model, which is static and thus cannot say anything reliable about dynamics. And the vast majority of the empirical work uses linear reduced forms and is only out there to test signs, not to find out how large an effect is. It is then refreshing to see a paper that steps out of this morass, and into the right direction.
Yu Sheng and Xinpeng Xu get back to the foundations of the Hecksher-Ohlin model and integrate some frictions that go beyond the usual iceberg costs. Specifically, they take into account that the reallocation of labor across sectors takes a while by including a Mortensen-Pissarides search framework. Even in steady-state, it turns out some classic trade theorems may not hold. For example, factor price equalization does not hold for labor, as there is unemployment and the expected wage is equalized. Endowments determine the labor force, but employment is endogenous. This allows also to explain why countries with similar endowments still trade a lot: cross-country sectoral differences in unemployment mean the factor content of trade is not a sufficient statistic. All this also means that empirics of the Hecker-Ohlin model need to be adjusted, in particular unemployment needs to be factored in.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
The problem with experimental economics: people are weird
Experimental economics is the up and coming new field, with plenty of interesting research going on. But many people criticize it because the experiments, while controlled, do not reflect real world situations. The stakes in the experiments are too small, the participants are not representative, the experiments not relevant. Add to these criticisms a new one.
Joseph Henrich, Steve Heine and Ara Norenzayan claim this literature, and others, concentrates on Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic (WEIRD) societies. And these societies, with 12% of the world population, are not representative of the rest of the world, in fact they are downright ... weird. To make their point, Henrich, Heine and Norenzayan look, among others, at the ultimatum game in all sorts of societies. This is a standard game that is in particular used to measure altruism ans spite: a prize is to be shared, one player proposes a split, and the other can reject the proposal, leading to both getting nothing. In "weird" societies, the standard result is a 48-50% for the second player, who accepts. Offer below 30% are typically rejected. Subgame perfection, however, would suggest that any amount above zero should be accepted, and the smallest possible is to be accepted.
What about in other societies, the "non-weird" ones? Small scale societies, where people are used to live face-to-face, make low offers and accept them. Worse, it appears that offers that are particularly high are rejected, something that also applies to European societies. Quite consistently, and the authors provide other examples, American experimental subjects end up at an extreme of outcome distributions
Does this mean that the US undergraduate, on whom the vast majority of experiments are performed, is misleading us thoroughly? Not necessarily, after all he may help us understand the homo economicus americanus, but even there one can have doubts. But we may need to rethink seriously how economic theory applies to other societies, at least for some research questions. Experimental economics has still a lot of work on its plate.
Monday, September 13, 2010
C{A|R}RA utility
When it comes to modeling preferences in uncertainty, the usual choice is usually between constant absolute risk aversion (CARA, with an exponential function) and constant relative risk aversion (CRRA, with a power function). That is somewhat limiting, especially when one needs to cover a rather wide domain, as there is then no reason to believe risk aversion remains constant.
Masako Ikefuji, Roger Laeven, Jan Magnus and Chris Muris come up with a mixture, which they name Burr utility. It is CRRA at the origin and CARA at infinity and is a function that has some familiarity for those who use subsistence consumption (Stone-Geary utility function) except that this constant term is added. This implies in particular that marginal utility is never infinite, which is a property I am not sure I want to miss.
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Is Europe a third world country?
Following up on last week's rant, why would an American arriving for the first time in Europe think he arrived in a third world country?
1. Cars are tiny, many people use bicycles or walk.
2. Food portions are small and rationed.
3. People live on top of each other.
4. Lots of idle people in the streets.
5. Many places do not accept plastic money, including hotels.
6. Ethnic hatred going far back in time.
7. No shyness about being naked.
8. Many monarchies.
9. And... passports are checked when you leave.
Friday, September 10, 2010
Large plants and distance to customers
Understanding why some firms export and some others do not is important for industrial policy. In empirical studies, one factor that always appears to be important is plant size: larger plants have a higher propensity to export. This has been rationalized, for example, by some fix cost of exporting, for example learning about foreign markets and producing to their specifications. But there is more to the story.
Thomas Holmes and John Stevens find that the distance to domestic markets is also associated to plant size. As export markets typically also distant, the link is clear. In fact, Holmes and Stevens claim that 50% of the plant size-export relationship can be explained by distance. Then how are we going to rationalize this? But it is clear from this that it makes little sense to assist a plant in exporting if it does not ship across the country.
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Bubbles with collateral and infinite credit
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
It is difficult to measure poverty
Measuring poverty is very difficult. First, it is a relative concept and requires the definition of a standard or threshold. Second, as people are usually not normally distributed, any single measure misses some aspect of the distribution. Third, the item whose distribution is measured may not be the appropriate one to represent poverty. Most of the time this is income, but temporary low income is very different from permanent low income, and in both cases, purchasing power may differ dramatically on location, social policies and period. All these difficulties have lead to a plethora of poverty measures. In fact, if you look at the program of any economic inequality conference, there will be plenty of papers on new measures by authors hopeful that their names will stick to a new index or coefficient.
Walter Bossert, Satya Chakravarty and Conchita d'Ambrosio come up with a new measure that emphasizes the persistence of poverty. They are very careful in making their measure following three axioms: the measure corresponds to static poverty in the one period-case, a measure is worse is poverty spells are longer ans spells out of poverty are shorter, and two decomposability axioms too complex to describe here.
The measure they propose is a weighted sum of per period poverty measures, where weight are proportional to the current poverty spell. Using the European Community Household Panel, they find that their measure does not change rankings much whether poverty spell weights are used or not. But I bet they would change quite a bit for the US.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
The iPhone must have an exclusive carrier
Aren't you angry that the particular mobile phone you prefer has an exclusive contract with a carrier? This limitation of carrier choice seems anti-competitive, if not frustrating. US anti-trust authorities seem to be getting interested in these arrangements and may intervene. It turns out that maybe they should not.
Robert Hahn and Hal Singer say exclusivity contracts are in fact the best thing that could happen for consumer welfare. Indeed, they spur competition through innovation, and the fact that the smart phone industry is innovative is hardly an understatement. Indeed, the exclusive contracts allow manufacturers to share the risk with the carrier, they make sure that both want the success of the new phone, and thus insure better reception and coverage. All this taken together induces manufacturers to take more risk and go for even faster and bolder innovations, which ultimately benefits the consumer.
Monday, September 6, 2010
Studying migration with experiments
One of the big difficulties with Economics is that one cannot perform controlled experiments like in the physical sciences. While experiments exist, they all have major drawbacks: they may be of too small a scale (although this does not deter medical research to have ridiculous samples), the stakes in the experiment may not be real-life-relevant, controls are to come by, or results may not be easy to generalize. And the larger the problem, the more difficult it is. Think macro-policy, for example.
So I am surprised to find a paper that reviews the literature on migration experiments. You cannot randomize people on whether they migrate or not, or where to. But, as David McKenzie and Dean Yang point out, visa lotteries are exactly that (and decisions of visa officers seem just as random to me...). But only few of those lotteries have been studied, Natural experiments are more common, but about migration per se, rather its impact. For example, the Asian crisis led sharp and unexpected changes in the value of migrant remittances, which impacted families at home. But, of course, one can have questions about how random the "assignment" is across migrants.
As to field experiments, again it is about the impact of remittances. McKenzie and Yang cite as an example a randomized trial where some migrants had access to a savings account in their home country in their name only. This experiment corroborated that migrants have a much stronger savings motive than their families back home. The survey also mentions a paper I discussed before about seasonal famines and migration in Bangladesh.
These are not the experiments I had first in mind, but an interesting introduction nonetheless.
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Is the US a third world country?
Of course it is not. But for a European who sets foot on the continent for the first time, several observations would lead to this conclusion:
1. Urban ghettos, homeless people, trailer parks are certainly not a showcase of an advanced and rich civilization.
2. High criminality and violence.
3. Rampant corruption, which is even legal. Politicians can be bought openly, and few people see a problem with that.
4. Crumbling infrastructure. Roads are full of potholes, in particular urban highways.
5. Telephone and electricity are still supplied through overhead cables that are high in maintenance.
6. Cellphones cannot be used to pay in stores.
7. Credit cards do not have chips.
8. No sidewalks in many places.
9. A quarter of all homes still use septic tanks.
10. Idle police officers watching every construction site on roads.
Friday, September 3, 2010
Growth success in Africa: firms become smaller
How could one characterize a developing economy with little growth? Large informal sector, small firms, lots of red tape in the formal sector. As the informal sector typically has low productivity (before red tape), a typical prescription for growth is to move its activity into the formal sector. This can be achieved, for example, by reducing regulation in the formal sector.
Justin Sandefur looks at Ghana, which has recently experienced solid growth following some deregulation, and remarks that average firm size was halved over a 17 year period, while the share of the informal sector has increased. Using a manufacturing survey covering 1987 to 2003, Sandefur finds that aggregate growth did not come from firm growth, but from firm creation. These microenterprises stay tiny until they die, while the existing big firms stay as big.
While the growth experience of Ghana seems encouraging, one needs to realize that small informal firms stay small and informal. Thus once all entry opportunities have been used, growth will petter out.
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Why so few drug innovations?
Research and development has an inherent tendency to have a decreasing growth rate. As the pool of things to discover continuously shrinks, it becomes harder to innovate. But we a groundbreaking discovery is made, this opens a lot of new opportunities and one should see a lot of new innovation. But with molecular biology and genomics, the pharmaceutical industry should have seen a burst of innovation, and in particular a jump in innovation productivity. Yet the contrary happened. One argument could be similar to the one that has been made about the productivity slowdown of the seventies, that an groundbreaking innovation like information technology needs time and resources to be understood.
Fabio Pammolli, Massimo Riccaboni and Laura Magazzini claim that this effect is very important. They observe that all the low hanging fruit have been picked in pharmacology and that first have shifted their investment portfolio towards more difficult problems. They suggest that one particular reason to do so is that improving current drugs is not profitable as generics are close substitutes and little rents can be extracted. Thus new classes of molecules are sought.
I would add another development in the field of R&D in general. It has become increasingly difficult and costly to file patents, as the field is littered with "predators" who file vague patents to prevent other from innovating, or to claim royalties. Not only does this increase the cost of innovating, it also increases its uncertainty, as any discovery can be subject to litigation even if it was a genuine discovery. This also encourages laboratories to find new molecules that are much different from existing ones.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
The Great Depression: demand or supply shocks?
The fact that we are in a big recession has renewed interest in the Great Depression, and this has revived the questions about its origin. In particular, the eternal question on whether demand or supply shocks have driven it is back.
This time it is asked by Mark Weder, who runs a horse race between tow versions of a real business cycle model: one with only shocks to total factor productivity (supply shocks) as measured by Solow residuals, one with only preference shocks (demand shocks), measured as residuals of an Euler equation. The latter, though, are not associated with monetary or fiscal variables. Both types of shocks are the evaluated in their ability to forecast what happened to GDP, and none is a clear winner.
But is this really the best one could do? Clearly the models are way to simple to 1) forecast anything, 2) to capture the changing policy environment during this period, as highlighted by Milton Friedman, Anna Schwartz, Harold Cole, Lee Ohanian and many others. Also, the relative importance of the two shocks may have shifted over time, something that would have been worthing looking at. | <urn:uuid:11a94616-ec07-4ad9-b22e-e23e9052308a> | http://economiclogic.blogspot.com/2010_09_01_archive.html | en | 0.960404 | 0.032386 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Survivor: South Pacific Season 23 Episode 8 ‘Double Agent’ Recap 11/02/11
Survivor: South Pacific Season 23 Episode 8 'Double Agent' Recap 11/02/11
Tonight is the eighth episode of Survivor: South Pacific and it is called ‘Double Agent.’ On last week’s episode Ozzy allowed himself to be voted out on purpose in the hopes of winning over jury members and winning enough challenges to go back into the game right before the finals. Ozzy gave his immunity idol away and had Cochran promise to give him back when he comes back in the game.
Tonight we will find out if Ozzy’s move was the smartest or the dumbest move ever made on Survivor. Host Jeff Probst called it a “crazy move.” “Crazy move, right?” Probst tweeted. “I dig it. I respect big moves. This would have to be one of the biggest and riskiest moves in (Survivor) history, right?”
Ozzy does dominate the challenges but there is no guarantee he will be able to win against Christine who has won the past five challenges on Redemption Island. You can never tell what is going to happen Survivor is always unpredictable. If you missed last week’s episode you can read our official recap here!
Episode Synopsis: With a potential merge on the horizon, one tribe puts on an elaborate show in hopes of gaining the upper hand on their competition, and an unlikely castaway holds all the power at a game-changing Tribal Council, on SURVIVOR: SOUTH PACIFIC, Wednesday, Nov. 2 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
Tonight’s episodeSavaii is hoping that they is going to be a merge today. If all goes down as they want they think it will be the biggest and greatest move in Survivor history. The other team members are not thrilled that Cochran let Ozzy save him they believe tahat Cochran should have been voted out and proved himself. ughh Cochran is making me natious tonight, it is really time for him to go!
Ozzy arrives at Redemption Island and introduces himself to Christine. He tells Christine that Cochran had the idol and that the ‘little weasel’ pulled out the idol at Tribal Council. Ozzy put on a good act. Ozzy admits the move is either the craziest thing he ever did or the boldest thing he has ever done.
Redemption Island duel: Both tribes are at the duel to witness it. Ozzy continues to put on the act that Cochran did it all to him. Ozzy puts on a good act, he tells the two teams he revenge. The Challenge – the competitors must use sticks and rope to make a long pole. They will use the pole to get three keys and the keys open a lock the first person who gets the keys and opens the door and gets through the door wins. There is a difference to this challenge, the winner comes back to the game. Ozzy wins the challenge and goes back into the game. After 19 difficult games Christine’s game as ended and she is going. As fast as Ozzy was vote out of the game he is back in the game.
Jeff tells them to drop their buffs and the merge is on. Ozzy is hoping Cochran their Double Agent can infiltrate the other team. The teams get back to the camp to a feast. Right away Coach decides to question Cochran and he tells Cochran that he does not believe that Ozzy was voted him out he believes it was a plan. Coach tries to get Cochran on his side by sympathizing with him. Cochran believes Coach is a very intelligent man. Cochran is such a snake he is telling the other team everything that he is suppose to be gathering information. They guarantee Cochran if he jumps ship that they will save him.
Cochran gives the immunity idol back to Ozzy because he feels it is the fair thing to do.
Cochran and Dawn went for tree mail and Dawn is talking about how she really does not like how people treated Cochran and she is upset about the fact that she did not stand up for him. Cochran tells her that this is the first time they will be making their own decisions because it is an individual game now.
They get tree mail and they are going to the immunity challenge. There is no more immunity there is individual immunity. Tonight two people will get immunity one man and one women. The first women out of the challenge is Edna and the first man is Cochran.
Ozzy wins immunity for the men and Dawn wins immunity for the women. Tonight one person will be voted out and go to Redemption Island.
The old Savaii is happy because they have swung the votes the other way now since two of their old team won immunity. Coach is still trying to convince Cochran to defect to their side. Cochran is actually thinking of it. Dawn tries to convince him that it is not a good idea. She tells him the only reason Coach is talking to him is because his old team lost the immunity.
Ozzy gives his immunity idol to Whitney
Keith (6 votes)
Rick (6 votes)
It is a tie they have to re-vote!
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Crop insurance: Private benefit, yet public impact
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Steve Griffin
West Des Moines, IA | November, 17, 2012 at 12:47 PM
The HPO, harvest price option, is similar to replacement cost coverage on a home or farmstead.
You may have built the structure at a cost, but when it is destroyed by fire, windstorm, etc. you want to be compensated for the full cost of replacement. If a homeowner builds a $100,000 home and it is destroyed a couple of years later when it would take $110,000 to build it again - replacement cost coverage provides the extra $10,000. The storm itself might have caused construction material prices to have risen.
HPO does the same. Initially the crop price is set at the beginning of the year, then if the crop is lost and its value has risen, the HPO kicks in. Bottomline, this is not a special benefit, but an ordinary and usual part of a comprehensive insurance plan for good risk managment.
Robert Smith
Ames, Iowa | November, 19, 2012 at 11:59 AM
Dr. Griffin:
While you certainly make a compelling plea in defense of the HPO and it's apparent similarities to replacement cost coverage, you fail to mention the obvious fact that American taxpayers don't subsidize replacement cost coverage on personal homes or autos. Today, American taxpayers pick up, on average, about 62% of crop insurance premiums (of which nearly 80% are revenue, not yield coverage policies), whereas producers pay only about a 1/3rd of the total premium costs. Meanwhile, the Approved Crop Insurance Providers (APIs) also recieve a negotiated annual payment of $1.3 B (yes, billion) from the fed. gov't (taxpayers) to sell and administer these policies. Many of the assigned high risk policies are pooled and reinsured by the gov't, whereas the private APIs assume a much lower risk by pooling lower risk commercial coverage. That's a much different system than today's free-market, private auto or home owners insurance policies.
Furthermore, another fundamental flaw with today's highly subsidized HPO is the fact that when supplies are down (due to widespread drought, floods, disease, etc.) prices are likely to go up. Therefore, one can expect high indeminities payouts and increased risk to taxpayers during periods of widespread yield/revenue losses.
Like you suggest, HPO would be like replacement cost coverage, if producers actually picked up the entire cost.
Michael Hunt
Correctionville, Iowa | November, 19, 2012 at 01:12 PM
I don't think the analogy to homeowners insurance is a valid one, but is perhaps a favorite of the crop
insurance insiders - as it strikes a sympathetic chord with the public while glossing over the many
dissimilarities. From a purely legal standpoint, authorities differ on whether crops, Fructus industriales,
constitute real or personal property and further legal complications are illustrated when the landowner is not
the crop owner. Another glaring difference has already been highlighted in these comments: crop insurance is
heavily subsidized at multiple levels by the federal government while home and other property owners go it
alone. This fundamentally alters the risk to, and therefore decision making of, both the insurer and insured,
such that contemporary crop insurance is insurance in name only and should more accurately be called a
revenue guarantee.
SD | November, 30, 2012 at 07:41 PM
A couple of thoughts, but first a disclaimer: I am not a field crop producer, but a cattle producer for which there is no such program.
A point missed or ignored in all criticisms of 'farm programs' is that they are designed more to protect consumers by keeping food prices artificially low, not necessarily to protect farmers' income, but to assure they have the means to continut producing that low cost food.
Further, isn't do "home and other property owners" TRULY "go it alone"? As we write and read here, FEMA and many other government groups/programs are picking up the pieces after the Hurricane Sandy destruction. Granted no one will 'be made whole', but some will benefit significantly from government programs there, and all will benefit in one degree or another. Further, there is also an 'income protection' program for 'city folk', aka various forms of welfare benefits, even Social Security and similar programs where govt' and worker both pay, but the worker CAN get far more out of it than both parties together in nursing home care for the destitute, as just one example.
Michael Hunt
Correctionville, Iowa | December, 04, 2012 at 11:26 AM
Maxine, you are incorrect as to the intentions of Farm Bill program. They are not intended to keep food cheap for Americans - given our vast exports, this would constitute market manipulation and therefore go against international trade agreements. Farm Bill programs are meant to ensure long-term viability for farmers, such that total crop loss wouldn't drive them out of business and leave the nation wanting for farmers when it is all said and done. That said, even the true intentions may be lost today.
The Hurricane Sandy example is also misleading - this a case of cherry picking a very unique situation and applying it to the whole. Perfect storms aside, the insurance market doesn't work like this. Go burn your house down with your BBQ grill and give FEMA a call.
I do like the idea suggested though, treat farm subsidies like welfare and social security. All farmers involuntarily pay in annually and then the funds are there when needed, supplemented as needed with general funds. It does beg the question though, we pay a factory worker if his knees are shot and he can no longer work. As a corollary, should we also continue to pay if a farm is eroded such that the land is no longer fertile?
SD | December, 15, 2012 at 05:48 PM
Isn't it splitting hairs as to whether farm subsidies are to keep food prices low, or to allow farmers to keep producing when their income from crops can't cover cost of producing them, in that the EFFECT is about the same....lowest cost food in the world for consumers in the USA???
Re. 'Sandy', again, the effect is similar.....AND there is the non-emergency situation where so many community services are federally funded to a greater or lesser degree, seemingly due to 'pull' of a particular community for things such as water and sewer systems, roads, etc. Granted, farmers do benefit from roads and other transport systems, but do have to fund their own sewer systems, tho recently some have benefitted in part from rural water systems.
Farmers already do pay social security taxes, and certainly do pay taxes which fund welfare of all sorts.
People all to often like to criticize people whom they envy, due to believing the envied person or group is getting a break or is 'wealthy'. Often farmers are that groups envied and believed to be getting 'rich off the government'. A problem brought home to some of us when a 'city lady' complained that farmers had it easy because "the grass is free, the water is free, and your cows just eat and drink and make money for you", when complaining that we do not pay enough land taxes. It SD, at least, farmer/ranchers pay a disproportionate 'share' of property taxes, as probably is true in other states as well.
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Locale City of Zürich
Termini Central
Opening 1889
Owner UBS AG
Operator(s) Verkehrsbetriebe Zürich
Track length 176 metres (577 ft)
Track gauge 955 mm (3 ft 1 1932 in)[1]
Entrance to the lower station of the Polybahn at the Central square
Car leaving the lower station across the viaduct over Seilergraben
The passing loop above the viaduct
Car approaching upper station
Entrance to the upper station
The Polybahn, also known as the UBS Polybahn, is a funicular railway in the city of Zürich, Switzerland. The line links the Central square with the terrace by the main building of ETH Zürich, which was formerly called Eidgenössisches Polytechnikum, and from which the railway derives its name. Previous names for the line include the SBG Polybahn and the Zürichbergbahn. The line is owned by the banking group UBS AG, and operated on their behalf by the municipal transport operator Verkehrsbetriebe Zürich.[2][3][4][5][6]
In 1886 a concession for the railway was issued, and the line was opened by the Zürichbergbahn company in 1889. The funicular was initially water-driven (filling water in a ballast tank under the carriage at the top station, emptying at the bottom); the railway was converted to electric drive in 1897.[7]
In 1950 the Zürichbergbahn company began losing money, and eventually (in the 1970s) decided not to renew the concession. In 1972 a foundation was created to help preserve the Polybahn. In 1976 the Union Bank of Switzerland, then known in German as the Schweizerische Bankgesellschaft or SBG, rescued the Polybahn, branding it as the SBG Polybahn. The line and cars were refurbished for a planned 20 more years service.[7]
In 1996 the railway was completely rebuilt. The haulage mechanism was replaced, and fully automated, whilst the old three-rail tracks were replaced with the current two-rail tracks. On 21 October 1996 the railway reopened and is now advertised under the name UBS Polybahn, reflecting the rebranding (in 1998) of the owning banking group as UBS AG. In 1998 the line set a new record, carrying more than 2 million passengers.[7]
The line has the following parameters:[4][6][2]
Number of cars 2
Number of stops 2
Configuration Single track with passing loop
Mode of operation Automated
Drive Three-phase AC motor with frequency changer
Track length 176 metres (577 ft)
Rise 41 metres (135 ft)
Average gradient 23%
Track gauge 955 mm (3 ft 1 1932 in)
Capacity 50 persons per car
Maximum speed 2.5 metres per second (8.2 ft/s)
Capacity per direction 1200 Persons/hour
Travel time 100 seconds
Frequency Every 2.5 minutes
The standard Zürcher Verkehrsverbund zonal fare tariffs apply, with the whole of the line being within fare zone 110 (formerly zone 10) (Zürich city).[8] However, there is a special flat tariff only applicable to Polybahn for CHF 1.20 per ride.
See also[edit]
1. ^ Zurich’s Urban Funiculars: The Polybahn and Rigiblick Funicular
2. ^ a b "UBS Polybahn" (in German). VBZ. Retrieved 2011-08-09.
3. ^ "Zürich - Polybahn". Lift-World.info. Retrieved 2011-08-09.
4. ^ a b "Polybahn". Funiculars.net. Pantograph.se. Retrieved 2011-08-09.
5. ^ Funiculars net archive
6. ^ a b Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Verlag Schweers + Wall GmbH. 2012. p. 65. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
7. ^ a b c "Geschichte der UBS Polybahn" [History of the UBS Polybahn] (in German). VBZ. Retrieved 2011-08-09.
8. ^ "Frequently asked questions". Zürcher Verkehrsverbund. Retrieved 2011-08-26.
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Alison Walls, a mother-of-two and special-needs learning assistant, welcomed this year's Budget provisions for young, hard-up families and the extra money for schools.
Mrs Walls, aged 38, is married to Steve, an ICT project manager at Cadburys, and they live with their two children, Daniel, aged four and Amy, aged six, in Pelsall, Walsall.
"As a parent you realise the need for extra books and equipment in schools have and I work in a school too, so that makes me even more aware of it," she said. "We get the minimum of child-tax credit, so I don't think the rise in that will make much difference, but it is a step in the right direction, as is the provision of extra nursery school places.
"We do have a computer at home, but the cheap-lease scheme for parents who can't afford IT equipment is good because hopefully it means fewer children getting left behind." The family have two cars, a Renault Clio and a Ford Escort, but their mileage is minimal as Mr Walls takes the train to work. She said they did not smoke and drank only the odd glass of wine, so the small rise in duty would make little difference to them.
But she welcomed the raise in threshold before inheritance tax was paid, saying with the spiralling of property prices it was an issue that no longer only affected the very well off. "As a daughter with ageing parents you do worry about them and I'm glad about the provisions made for elderly people," she said.
"We do have an ISA, so the rise in the tax threshold is good, although with two young children, we don't have much in it." She said in an ideal Budget, she looked for provision for young families and the elderly.
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The last thing you need when you're unemployed is a bank account that's suddenly emptied. But that's exactly what some unwary users of employment search site faced after identity thieves made off with the personal information of more than a million people looking for jobs.
This still-developing story has enough nooks and crannies to confuse a gumshoe, but some facts are clear: Monster's resume database was looted, and the personal information taken was used to forge convincing messages that deposited password-stealing Trojans and ransomware on users' PCs.
Calculated and ambitious, the attack is striking for how it blended several elements - stolen credentials of legitimate users, phishing e-mails, Trojan horses, money mules and more - into a slick assault. Here's what we know so far.
Was hacked? No, as Symantec said immediately. Instead, the attackers accessed the resume database with legitimate usernames and passwords, probably stolen from professional recruiters and human resource personnel who use the "Monster for employers" section of the site to look for job candidates. But it wasn't until Thursday that admitted as much. "By gaining unauthorised access to employer accounts, the software was obtaining job seeker contact information," a new alert said.
What was snatched from the database? Names, e-mail addresses, mailing addresses, phone numbers and resume IDs, said Symantec. Yesterday, added that only about 5,000 of the people whose data was filched live outside the US That squares with what Symantec's Amado Hidalgo said in an e-mail: The information-stealing Trojan was hard-coded to dig through only the "" and "" domains, limiting their theft to the Monster USA site's database. "They only targeted the US Monster site and not any other international Monster [Worldwide] sites, such as those in the UK, Spain, etc.," said Hidalgo.
How was the information stolen? The Infostealer.Monstres Trojan runs batch searches by sending HTTP commands to the Monster Web site to navigate through folders, said Hidalgo. The malware then parses the output that appears in a pop-up window that holds the job seeker profiles that match the search criteria. Essentially, the Trojan worked as an automated search bot that located candidates, captured their contact information and sent it to a remote server controlled by the criminals. Symantec said that the server, though located in Russia, was hosted by a company out of Ukraine.
By using Infostealer.Monstres to do their harvesting, the attackers also covered their tracks - the Trojan could be planted on any computer previously compromised, with the search seemingly originating with that computer's owner - and could easily spread the work out among a number of IP addresses, probably to slip under any Monster radar potentially watching for unusually large numbers of search requests coming from any one location. (There is no evidence at the moment that Monster deploys such radar.)
How many people are affected? Initially, Symantec's researchers played it vague, saying only that "several hundred thousand" were at risk. Thursday, though, Monster said that it had found contact information on the hackers' server for about 1.3 million people who had posted resumes. The other number that's been bandied about - 1.6 million - represents the tally of contact entries Symantec counted on the server last week; a significant number of Monster users apparently post more than one resume.
How did the hackers manage to grab so many contract records without noticing? That's a good question. Monster itself hinted at one explanation: automated searches like the ones Infostealer.Monstres ran aren't unusual. "Many of our customers use automatic or semi-automatic means to search our database," said Monster spokesman Steve Sylven last Sunday. "Moreover, many of our larger customers rely heavily on our database, and their use may be similar to programmatic or scripted access." Translation: The searches conducted by the bigger Monster customers are as bot-like as those run by the Trojan.
The thieves also probably relied on some standard tactics to avoid detection, including running the searches from innocent PCs and spreading out the work (see "How was the information stolen?" above). Spammers and malware spreaders use zombies to send junk mail and malware for the same reasons.
What did the criminals do with the Monster data once they had it? No one's arguing the facts: personal information purloined from the Monster resume database was used to create, then send, targeted phishing e-mails - the term is "spear phishing" - that spread other malicious software or recruited "money mules," the middlemen who transfer money from a phished bank account to a foreign bank account. It's the emphasis where Monster and Symantec part.
Monster has focused on the mule-recruiting angle or even depicted those e-mails as run-of-the-mill phishing. "The purpose of gathering this information appears to be sending email disguised as Monster in order to gain recipients' trust, and then attempting to convince users to engage in financial transactions," the company now says on its revised security alert. Only in passing does it also call out "or lure them into downloading malicious software."
That, however, is the prime use of the stolen information, said Symantec's Hidalgo, who traced connections between Infostealer.Monstres and at least two other Trojans. The first, Banker.c, watches for, steals, then transmits back to hacker HQ online banking log-in information for accounts at Bank of America and the German arm of Citibank. The second, Gpcoder.e, is "ransomware," a Trojan that encrypts files on the infected PC's hard drive, then informs its owner that the files will be unusable until a fee is paid. In Gpcoder.e's case, the ransom was US$300.
What good does the other stolen information do the thieves? Two words: response rate. According to research conducted by an Indiana University team in 2005, people are much more likely to click or give up information if the message contains clues of legitimacy, as when the message appears to come from a close friend. In fact, 72 percent of the people in the study who received phishing mail from someone in their social network took the bait and divulged their log-on information, four and a half times the number in the control group.
Spear phishing, then, can be incredibly effective, at least from the criminals' point of view. By using the Monster resume data to target the recipient and flesh out the e-mail with the recipient's real name - often usually difficult or impossible to guess from the e-mail address itself - the crooks can expect more people to let down their guard and actually launch the attached file. (In the case of Gpcoder.e, the file posed as Monster Job Seeker Tool, fictitious software of course, but likely enough to get people to click; when they did, they installed the Trojan, not a job search assistant.)
So the goal of the attackers is...what? Bank account log-ons, clearly. Ransomware, though not uncommon, usually flops because someone - often one or more security vendors - cracks the encryption used to lock up the files and makes that public, eliminating the need to pay up.
Another clue that bank accounts are the endgame is the effort spent on recruiting money mules. The group wouldn't need mules unless it had, or anticipated having, access to bank accounts.
When did this start? We don't know, and so far, Monster has not talked about this. But one self-described Monster user claimed here to have received money-mule messages between June 3 and June 13, and had reported them to Monster. "Monster only said it was not from them and did not admit that they had let my information get away from them," said "Anonymous." Symantec first alerted Monster of its findings last Friday, Aug. 17, both the security company and Monster have said.
Evidence of the Gpcoder.e seeding - using phony Monster messages touting a nonexistent tool - goes back at least as far as early July, according to analysis by UK-based security company Prevx. It may have started days or even weeks before that.
Some reports, in fact, have claimed users started seeing phishing mail built atop the stolen personal information as early as February of this year.
What can Monster users do to protect themselves? For the 1.3 million whose resumes have been pillaged, it's too late; the horse has left the barn. Even so, some users decided to cancel their accounts as a way to block any future malware-based searches. "I can still search for jobs and submit my resume to postings, but employers/recruiters cannot find me in their searches," said a Chicago user identified as "Greg" in a comment on a Computerworld story that ran Thursday. "I certainly would encourage others to protect themselves and delete their Monster accounts as well."
Monster hasn't disabled batch or automated searches, or if it has, it's not said as much. (On Sunday, company spokesman Steve Sylven seemed to say that because large corporate customers of the service used automated searches, banning them would be out of the question.) It has, however, shut down the server that the gang was using to store its stolen data and presumably disabled the legitimate accounts used to access the database. (Symantec's Hidalgo said last week that his team had forwarded those accounts to Monster.) We say "presumably" because while we have asked Monster if those accounts have been closed, the company has not explicitly acknowledged doing so.
Other than that, the only advice being given by Monster or Symantec is the usual: Be suspicious of all unsolicited, unanticipated e-mail, run up-to-date antivirus software - to stop Trojans such as Banker.c or Gpcoder.e at the door - and refuse to give out personal information.
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Come Follow Me: Magic Crayon for Younger
Even the word sounds full of magic.
And that’s what this activity called “Magic Crayon” is. Magic.
Here is a general post about this kind of activity.
And here is the specifics for Come Follow Me.
Tell the children that you have a magic crayon in your pocket. Take out an imaginary crayon and hod it up in the air. With your other hand, make a “poof” movement like a magician, then tell the children that your crayon is magic and it just turned yellow with sparkles (or whatever color you want it to be).
Now ask the children to take out their magic crayons and go “poof” to turn it their favorite colors. Start singing the song and draw in the air with your magic crayon. Circle, circle, circle on one side. (Come follow) Switch to the other side. Circle, circle, circle. (me, the) Repeat. (Savior) (said)
Stop singing. (You should have finished the first phrase ending in “the Savior said.” Ask the children what colors their crayons were. Now go “poof” again to your crayon and change its color. Tell the children to change the color of their crayon also. Pick up singing the second verse and circling with your new color. “Then let us…”
Change the pattern
When you get to the end of that phrase “footsteps tread,” stop again ask the children what colors their magic crayons were. Change colors yet again.
Tell the children to watch carefully because you are going to change. With big sweeping motions, color the sky three times (for thus a-), then color the floor three times (-lone can) . Repeat. (we be) (one.) Stop the singing and ask the children to have their crayon follow your crayon. Go back to the original pattern of circle, circle ,circle to the side as you sing the last phrase, switching after three circles to the other side, and repeating that pattern.
Changing the pattern in the middle keeps the children alert and challenged. Changing the colors often, especially when they hear the colors chosen by the other children, allows them to expand their imagination. Young children really like this activity!
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1. Vanek and clarkson would add about 12 mil in cap hit.... although a first line sniper would be nice and 2nd line center would cost less and allow Z and D to play on th same line. AA maybe ready but XO and Sproul havent even played in the AHL
3. So Wings fans can't still be mad at Weber for something he did 2 games ago, but Preds fans are getting pissy about Bertuzzi taking a ping pong table away? Johnny Cochran says that just doesn't make sense. Also to add what's the difference between Wings fans playing the we have more cups then you card and fans of other teams playing the if you're a Wings fan you are probably a bandwagoner. Also didn't Rinne (isn't he supposedly better then Howard) get Sniped by Emmerton? If he can do it then the other Wings should have no problem doing it. See I can play that game too Now I know you'll probably comment on my joined date so lets get that out of the way. I'm not a big fan of forums too many idiots and whiners so I was slow to join this site when I learned about it. Does my date coincide with me being a bandwagoner? Nope, I've like the Wings since 92 (I was 7) they were involved in the first game I ever watched on TV and I picked them because I liked the color red. Doesn't make me a bandwagoner? No, that makes me a kid who picked his team based on the color jersey they had. Now that that's out of the way, I've noticed your joined date, why didn't you join the forums the last 2 times the Wings and Preds played in the post season? Now I won't accuse you of being a bandwagoner, partially due to the fact you guys just barely won your first playoff series but I will say I'd wager you joined so you could rile up us Wings fans, because now you feel confident with that first series win and the fact you finished higher in the standings this year. With all that said I think what Bert did was funny.
6. If you hate Hudler, youd hate penner. Thats probably why you got negged. I mean seriously penner is probably just as lazy as Hudler and hes is at less of a disadvantage due to his size. And as for Stewie leaving 2 words Ryan Suter. If hes available i dont see holland passing him up if he can get him. lets say lids come back next year and we get suter Lids-White Suter-Kronwall (let them build chemistry now for when we do lose Lids) Ericisson-Smith-Kindl
7. Franzen suffers from laziness. With that said WHEN Franzen WANTS he can open up the ice just fine. And in the end it might not even be laziness but at times it seems that hes just trying to skate thru a game(pun intended) and just relying on our good centers to make things happen for him instead of working himself
8. If i recall correctly during that stretch jimmy was carrying the team yes but big bert was the only one consistently scoring goals for us during that stretch. With Jan out itll most likely be Fabian and Cory making it for the final two spots. Then when Mursak gets back we may see a trade involving a forward who is considered extra. Ideally by the time Mursak does come back someone like Hudler, Brunno or Emmerton.will have upped their trade value enough to get a decent return.
9. I doubt they sign Richards. Sharp is a UFA next offseason and he'll be looking for around 4 mil a year.
10. I'd be fine with Jovo for the right price and term. Sign him to a 1 year and see how he does, if he plays well bring him back next year. Jovo at 2mil> Big Rig at 2 mil
11. LOL I'd bet Kenny had talks with Minny about Burns and possibly the flyers as well. If I'm a GM looking to trade those players that the Wings missed out on I'd ask: Burns: Flip (mind you Minny wants more Offensive and Im not a flip hater but Divin Seto provides more O), Tatar, Abby or Helm and a 1st rounder. Carter: 1st and 2nd rounder and Tatar What ppl dont seem to realize we dont have a high first rounder to wave in front of ppl's faces a la Columbus. We also lack a true blue chip prospect like Brayden Schenn, so in order for us to make those trades we'd have to give up a bit more. In all honesty if i was looking to trade carter and the wings said they'd give me their first rounder and flip and then the jackets called and said theyd give me Vorachek and their first rounder (which was the 8th pick BTW). Id take the jackets offer every time
12. Only when it comes to hudler
13. Maybe..... but from what I've gathered Habs fans, in general, tend to have incredibly high expectations for any player wearing their jersey.
14. This is a what have you done for me lately world and Hudler hasnt done anything lately so thats why i think he would be the first to be traded. Also I could see Kenny trading for the rights for Wiz. If we were too trade his rights and then sign him, all of a sudden Big Rig has that much less leverage when it come to his contract. | <urn:uuid:dd10ba61-7592-4ab5-af15-fe81295a7b68> | http://www.letsgowings.com/forums/profile/16578-pockets/ | en | 0.977949 | 0.019915 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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Nutrition Info . . .
NutrientsProteins, Lipids, Cellulose
VitaminsA, B2, B3, B9, B12, C
Ingredients Jump to Instructions ↓
1. 6 chicken thighs , boneless and skinless (or 4 boneless, skinless breasts)
2. 4.92 ml seasoning salt
3. 14.79-29 1/28 ml olive oil
4. 118 1/59-158 1/21 ml water (for sauteing chicken)
5. 170.09 g cream cheese , cubed (if you like a thicker, richer sauce use 8 ounces cream cheese)
6. 177.44 ml milk (adjust depending on how thin or thick a sauce you like)
7. 2.46 ml seasoning salt
8. 2.46 ml garlic powder
9. 2.46 ml ground pepper (red, white or black pepper)
10. 2.46 ml dried parsley flakes (to garnish) or 1/2 ml chives (to garnish)
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1. Sprinkle chicken with seasoning salt and garlic powder, and set aside.
2. In a microwaveable bowl, mix cream cheese, milk, garlic powder and pepper.
3. Microwave for 30 seconds at a time, checking and stirring until cream cheese is melted.
4. Heat olive oil in a saute pan.
5. Add chicken to pan and saute at medium heat adding small amounts of water to pan, as needed, so that chicken doesn't get too dry or stick to pan. The chicken will release juices that blend with the water.
6. When chicken is cooked through, but there is still some of this "juicy water" in the pan, add the sauce to the pan and cook until heated through.
7. Remove chicken with a slotted spoon and arrange on a bed of white rice.
8. Spoon or pour sauce over the chicken and then sprinkle with parsley or chives.
9. NOTE: I usually serve this dish with a side of steamed broccoli drizzled in heated olive oil (I season the heated olive oil with lime juice and garlic powder). YUMMY!
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Complexes in Egypt
Owning your own house (villa) IN A COMPLEX abroad is certainly prestigious, but to have your own house in Egypt is not only prestigious, but also profitable.
Own a house or apartment in the resort of Hurghada, where you can come and enjoy the lovely warm climate
at any time of year. You have the opportunity to invite your relatives as well. Time spent in Hurghada is not only beneficial for your general health and well-being but can strengthen family relationships too!
Possible scenarios:
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1. Doesn't that sound like a problem when a class has to trade away it's gameplay mechanics just to get something it needs, I was there when the p008 was made its the WHOLE reason bio was made
2. I definitely agree with this post This post does a good job in my opinion of addressing some concerns but I would like to add something to it, With donation items it isn't just that we hate all donation items or that simply having them is P2W but the issue is that RP on the server is in an incredibly sorry state and in dire need of work , many things such as rp only existing as /me's, no interactable systems to actually DO the rp actions with and the systems that are in place feel like nothing more then a mini game ( see trash man ) The actions themselves don't add to the RP and the RP being done feels pointless, like there isn't some change to a narrative or anything to make it feel like your actions are worthwhile aside from the possibility of a promotion more work for you to do that still ends up feeling meaningless and the only reason people stay are the friends they make in the community. But the insult comes in when you have all these issues with rp and what do people see being added? the 43rd weapon balancing that month and donator weapons being added it starts to feel like your not meant to be there and are just an observer to the actual thing they care about, combat. which brings the thought that why do they only care for combat and adds a cynical view onto the whole situation leaving you feeling like its Pay to win cause the only things that are there are weapons.
3. - Support Over the past year I had been on the server I noticed a very aggressive change to combat wherein if you weren't a combatant with 200,200 you were dead. D Class just fucking stomping maintenance in the halls and slaughtering medical staff and just beating the shit out of researchers ruined all fun for none combatants as if you weren't a combatant you were dead. You never had the time to play cause you were always dead, one fuckin D Class could end a room of maintenance. This balance was necessary to bring fun back to all, this isn't just a combat server and while it may need adjusting you may just need to suck it up so everyone can have some fun doing what they want to
4. I do believe he should 100% recieve reserves as even up to the point of being kicked for "Inactivity" he was regularly showing up on raid logs and such, the removal reason was a farce and it's completely bullshit and feels down right targetted
5. Damn, One of the people who could always make me laugh. Good luck with your future endeavours and I hope you stick around just to chat
6. Damn, Stay around to chat why dont ya Nobody has such a sharp wit for your mom jokes Take care
7. Damn, It was nice to chat with you and I hope you do well in your future endeavours
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According to Verizon's Schijns, the M2M movement could also have a major impact on the food industry, particularly by pinpointing food that's been spoiled almost the moment it goes bad.
As an example, Schijns said a recent investigation in New Orleans found that "billions" of spoiled grain products -- ranging from wheat to corn -- were being shipped around the world at any given time. Not only could this potentially endanger actual consumers of the grains, Schijns said, but it wastes precious resources such as fuel.
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David Clayton-Thomas of Blood, Sweat & Tears
by Carl Wiser
Led by Al Kooper, Blood, Sweat & Tears released one album (Child Is Father to the Man, 1968) before reconfiguring with new lead singer David Clayton-Thomas. A Canadian upstart who spent much of his teenage years in reformatories, he came bearing a song: "Spinning Wheel." Worked up with a fusillade of horns, it became one of the biggest hits of 1969, arguably the biggest year in music history.
The nine-piece band mixed a variety of styles, but their hits were derived from David's urgent vocals, those startling horn arrangements, and a sprinkle of jazz. These hits included covers of the Laura Nyro song "And When I Die," the Motown tune "You've Made Me So Very Happy," and another Clayton-Thomas composition, "Lucretia Mac Evil."
As David explains, a brutal touring schedule took a lot out of him, and he left the band in 1972. He returned in 1975 and did 30 more years in a BS&T lineup that saw scores of musicians come and go. The band is still active, kept alive by drummer Bobby Colomby, who owns the name. Since 2014, they've been fronted by Bo Bice, the runner-up to Carrie Underwood on American Idol in 2005.
David, who now lives in Toronto, released an album of soul music covers called Soul Ballads that was issued in Canada in 2010 and finally got Stateside distribution in 2015.
Carl Wiser (Songfacts): David, can we talk about "Spinning Wheel"?
David Clayton-Thomas: Sure.
Songfacts: I understand you wrote the song when you were still in Canada, and it was one of the first ones that you wrote. Can you talk a little bit about what was going on when you wrote it and coming up with that song?
David: Yeah. I wrote the song two years before I joined Blood, Sweat & Tears. I tried to get a Canadian record company interested in it, and it got turned down by everybody. A familiar story in this business, right? They said, "It sounds too jazzy. We can't sell jazz." So, I just put it back in my guitar case and carried it around for two years until I met the guys in Blood, Sweat & Tears, and then it all fell into place.
But I came up with the song just picking it away on a guitar when I found some chord changes I liked. As for the lyrics, everybody was getting so serious about "The Revolution" and everything else in those days. Do you remember "The Revolution"?
Songfacts: The Beatles sang about it.
David: It was just kind of a way to say, "Lighten up people. Take it easy. It's all going to come full circle." And it did. Ten years later, we went from "The Revolution" to Ronald Reagan.
Songfacts: Can you talk about how you came up with some of that imagery, like the carousel with the painted pony.
"Spinning Wheel" may have been the first song to directly reference a Joni Mitchell composition. Mitchell gained a following in Canada in the mid-'60s, with "The Circle Game" part of her live repertoire. That song was recorded by Buffy Sainte-Marie in 1967 and by Tom Rush in 1968. Mitchell, who didn't start recording until 1968, included it on her 1970 album Ladies Of The Canyon.
David: I stole those two words from Joni Mitchell.
Songfacts: Oh, no way!
David: In "The Circle Game" she says, "The painted ponies go up and down." I just love the line, and I've always been a huge Joni Mitchell fan. As a writer, she was one of my early influences.
Songfacts: This is an interesting song, because it's one of those that you can read so much into if you really want to. And it certainly is profound. Have you had people read things into it that you haven't expected?
David: Constantly. Over the years, yes! I've had born-again Christians write me letters and say it's all about God, and Jesus, and religion – which it wasn't. And I've had other people say that the song is from the Devil – which it wasn't. No. People do read their own things into song lyrics, especially if they're a little bit oblique. And those song lyrics are.
Songfacts: When you guys ended up putting it on record, there's some crazy stuff - at least on the album version - that happens at the end where you're really bringing the carousel thing into play. How did that come about?
David: By pure accident, as most of the best things in the studio do. We didn't really have an ending for the song. We were cutting the track, and I think Frank Lipsius [BS&T sax player/arranger] kicked into that funny little "Oh du lieber Augustin" thing, and everybody jumped on it.
That's the way it went down. There was something to be said for the way we recorded in those days, because everything was recorded live. We had very little multi-tracking capabilities, so we simply rehearsed the song, went in the studio, and everybody did it live - the vocal cut live with the band and everything else. A big contrast to the way things are done today where everything starts with a click track, and the bass player might come in on Wednesday, and the piano player comes in on Friday. Those kind of spontaneous moments happen when you're recording live.
Songfacts: I'm trying to understand how you can do your vocals live when there are all these guys making all this noise around you. Were you in an isolation booth of some kind?
David: Oh of course. Oh Yeah – everybody's in an isolation booth. You'd have the horns in one section, drums in its own booth.
Songfacts: Everybody's in a booth, but you're all playing at the same time?
David: Yeah. We were all on headphones. We could all hear each other and, for the most part, because they are glass windows in the booth, we can see each other. But they'd separate the audio.
Strangely enough, I just finished an album this past couple of weeks, actually the artwork's being done, and it's called Combo. It's recorded with a quintet. It's an album mostly of standards, which I've always wanted to do. And we went back to the "old school," where literally we put everybody out and we recorded everything live, because it is a jazz album, and that's the only way jazz can be recorded. You can't record jazz through a click track.
Songfacts: Well, very often the vocals are done afterwards.
David: Oh yeah. Today, yes, because you have unlimited digital editing capabilities. But in those days, the only way to edit was to take a razor blade and actually cut the tape. The best engineers were masters at doing that. So now, with the digital studios, you just push a button to do editing. And even though we did the Combo album completely live, there's going to be a few parts where I say, "You know, I could do something better on the bridge of that tune. Let me go back and punch some vocal in." In those days, it was a little more difficult. The first Blood, Sweat & Tears album that I was involved in, the "Spinning Wheel" album, was basically recorded on two four-track machines gang-hooked together, the same way that Sgt. Pepper was recorded. The big multi-track studios didn't exist in those days.
Songfacts: I don't understand "gang-hooked" together.
David: Oh, you just take two four-track machines and hook them together so you're actually recording eight track.
Songfacts: Gotcha.
David: But four-track machines were the best we could get.
Songfacts: Yeah. And that means you have to mix down a couple guys onto one track sometimes. Because if you have ten streams on audio coming in, but only eight tracks, then a couple of them are going to have to share.
David: Exactly. And you know what? The most remarkable records were made that way. Sgt. Pepper was made with two four-track machines. And in my earliest records, all we had was two track. So everything had to be done live, with no editing whatsoever. What happened on the floor was what went on the record.
Of course, today it's a whole different ballgame. But it was kind of fun doing Combo with everybody live, which is not old-school for jazz, because all jazz is recorded that way. The musical interaction between the musicians – the musical conversation – is so intuitive that you can't overdub. It happens in the moment and that's it, as opposed to a lot of the records that are made today where they set the click track to a dance beat and then put the parts in one at a time over a period of weeks or months. That's pop music. That's not jazz. Jazz can't be recorded that way.
Songfacts: I think it's interesting how your voice is so conducive to that big sound because it cuts right through. There are so many instruments playing, but you never miss a word of your vocals.
David: Well, I guess so. And after 40 years of doing that, that's why I went back to the jazz-combo quintet, small band to do this album. Because there's nothing getting in the way of the vocals. When you're just singing with a piano, bass and drums, all acoustic, all unplugged, the vocal sits in its own pocket. You don't have horns blasting away here, and big arrangements and everything else. So, it was kind of a treat to do this album and not have to sing against that big horn section.
David's is the only name listed on the songwriting credits of "Spinning Wheel," "Lucretia Mac Evil" and "Go Down Gamblin'." This provided some passive income in the form of royalties, but many of the other band members made their living from the live shows.
Songfacts: I read somewhere that at one point you offered half of your publishing on "Spinning Wheel" to Fred Lipsius. Is that true?
David: Yes. A lot of the songs that Fred worked on were my compositions, but Fred's contributions were so great that we did split publishing, because the arrangement was just as important to the song as the lyrics and the melody.
Songfacts: Okay. So he did get half of the publishing on that, and probably on some of the others.
David: Yeah, but I did that with a lot of the guys in the band. Dick Halligan and I co-published a lot of songs where his arrangement really made the song work.
Songfacts: You're the only guy listed as the songwriter, so that gives you the songwriter credit. But the publishing is a different animal.
David: The band was very much a team effort. As a matter of fact, the publishing company that we published all of that early music on was jointly owned by five of the original members of the band.
Songfacts: So you weren't the only guy getting rich off of that song.
David: Oh no. And you know, that's very common in rock and roll. Eagles and bands like that, quite often somebody will come in with a guitar lick that turns into a song, and that guitar lick is just as integral to the composition as the rest of it. So, it's quite common for groups to share.
On his album Soul Ballads, David covers some of the songs that inspired him to become a singer. The tracklist includes "Midnight Train To Georgia," "Dock Of The Bay," "When A Man Loves A Woman" and "A Change Is Gonna Come."
David has plenty of credibility in the world of soul music: James Brown recorded a funky instrumental version of "Spinning Wheel" for his 1970 album Sex Machine, and released it as a single the following year. His version went to #90 in the US. Surprisingly, David didn't know about Brown's recording.
Songfacts: Talking about Soul Ballads, when one of your songs gets recorded by the "Godfather of Soul" that kind of clears up any question of your bona fides in that area. What was it like having James Brown do your song?
David: James Brown did one of my songs?
Songfacts: He did "Spinning Wheel."
David: Did he?
Songfacts: It's instrumental.
David: Well, over 400 artists have recorded it. I guess I missed that one.
Songfacts: I'm really surprised you didn't know that.
David: No. I didn't know that. Since he was one of my idols, I'm very complimented.
Songfacts: Here's one that I'm sure you did know: Milli Vanilli used some of "Spinning Wheel" on their song "All or Nothing." What happened there?
David: It was funny. I was living in New York at the time. I came home one day, and there was a phone call from my friend, Doug Riley, one of our legendary keyboard players up here in Canada. His eight-year-old son had just come home from school and said, "Dad! I heard Uncle David's song on the radio. It was by somebody named Milli Vanilli. It was different words, but it was his song."
He called me up, so I made a point of going out and buying a Milli Vanilli record - you couldn't download it in those days. And there it was: a note-for-note copy. So, of course immediately I called my publishing lawyer and said, "Hey! We've got an infringement here." And sure enough, it was an infringement, and they had to pay me for it.
Songfacts: When you did cover songs with Blood, Sweat & Tears, some of them are really, really, different. You put a completely different spin on them. Especially "You've Made Me So Very Happy" and Laura Nyro's song ("And When I Die"). Can you talk about how you came up with those different versions and what your process was?
David: Well, it was very much a group of friends. Laura Nyro was Jimmy Fielder's girlfriend. Jimmy Fielder, who by the way I just had lunch with two days ago here in Toronto, was the original bass player with Blood, Sweat & Tears, and Laura used to come to our rehearsals and hang out. Sometimes she'd bring a pizza to the rehearsal place - we were just all pals, and we knew Laura's songs. Even before she got her recording career launched, she was one of the inner circle of people we hung out with.
That's how a lot of great music starts, you know. Mostly its friends in the studio. Yeah, there's two ways of doing it. I guess you could hire a bunch of faceless studio musicians, but I much prefer working with friends. It's a much more creative environment. And the strange thing is, I hate to keep going back to the Combo album, but the young man who called me on the Milli Vanilli thing who was eight years old at the time, Doug Riley's son, actually played drums. He's a young drummer now, I guess he's 30 years old. Beautiful drummer. So sometimes it's really valuable to have a personal connection with the guys that you're in the studio with.
I think one of the reasons why I'm making such good records up here in Canada now, including Soul Ballads, is that nearly everybody on that record were buddies of mine. We all worked together. Lou Pomanti, the producer, was in Blood, Sweat & Tears with me for five years – toured the world with me. Some of the other guys in that band went back to my jazz club and barroom days in Toronto in the '60s. So I'm in the fortunate position now, in the musical community here, if I want to make an album, I just call my friends up and say, "Let's do one."
Songfacts: Did you have any kind of religious, gospel upbringing? I was thinking about that when I was listening to your cover of "People Get Ready."
David: No, not in my family. Only in that I just loved that kind of music. Coming into the music business, my first influences were R&B. People don't understand why Toronto is such a heavy R&B city. What's described as the "Toronto Sound" is just steeped in rhythm and blues, and the blues. And the reason that came about was because when we all started out back in the '60s there was a severe color bar south of the border. If you were a black band in Detroit, you played in black clubs to black audiences on the black side of town, and they very seldom mixed. So the R&B artists from Chicago and Detroit used to love to come up and play in Toronto - it was a short drive up the highway. And up here, there was no color bar. So, they played in clubs to mixed audiences, and the young musicians just idolized them.
We grew up on the Yonge Street strip here playing the clubs. It would be nothing to be playing in a club and have the James Brown Band playing next door, Ike and Tina Turner down the street, and everybody from Muddy Waters to The Temptations. We saw these people, and we just idolized them as young artists, much the way the British artists did.
There was a whole school of music called "British Blues" - from The Stones, to Led Zeppelin and everybody else – and they literally took those songs that were so much a part of their growing up – everything from John Lee Hooker, to Lightnin' Sam Hopkins, to B.B. King - and they did them with a British flavour. Here we had a little more of an advantage, because we saw these people live, we didn't just hear them on records. The high point of my life in those years was to run over between sets and listen to The Muddy Waters Band – arguably the greatest blues band ever. I'd just sit at the bar with my jaw hanging open and watching them.
We were exposed to this very, very early, so when we came to do the Soul Ballads album, I didn't even have lyric sheets in the studio. Those songs were so much a part of me, I knew them all so well. I'd sung most of them a thousand times in the clubs in the old days. It just all fell back into place. It's a very natural style of music for me.
Blood, Sweat & Tears, without me, was basically a jazz band. I think my contribution to the band was the rhythm and blues and the soul I brought into it.
Songfacts: Yeah. I can definitely hear that. When you listen to a song like "And When I Die," it has a very spiritual component to it. It's almost like reincarnation. And when you listen to many of the songs you sing on Soul Ballads, it's like church.
David: But the church runs through all of rhythm and blues. It always has. One of my earliest idols was a Staple Singer. It was Mavis Staples. And Pops Staples. That was pure gospel. Even early Elvis Presley stuff – that was the first time they heard a white guy singing gospel music. So, the blues and the black church were very much intertwined. Even a song like "God Bless the Child" is basically a religious song.
Songfacts: You are a very accomplished songwriter. When you look at the songs that you did on Soul Ballads, which one to you is the most impressive feat of songwriting?
David: Oh my goodness! That's very hard, because every single one of those songs are great. The hardest thing about picking songs for Soul Ballads was paring it down to 10 or 11 songs that we were going to put on the actual album. Most of the songs, we stayed fairly close to the original arrangement, but just made it better.
I say better in that the original recordings from the '50s and '60s of some of these songs were not recorded very well because of the technology and the musicianship. But it didn't matter because that soul and that feeling came through – never mind the horns are out of tune or anything else, or it wasn't very well recorded. It was probably recorded on a two-track Nagra machine or something. But we have the advantage of now re-recording those songs and bringing them into the 21st century with a full orchestra, some really skilled players, and a top-notch digital recording studio. So, it sounds incredible.
Songfacts: When you did "Midnight Train to Georgia" were you working off of the original version, which I think was "Midnight Plane to Houston"? [Jim Weatherly wrote and originally recorded the song as "Midnight Plane to Houston." When Cissy Houston recorded it, she changed the title because, you know, she's Houston. This is the version Gladys Knight & the Pips worked from when they recorded the definitive version.]
David: No. Not at all – I didn't even know there was a "Midnight Plane to Houston." As a matter of fact, that's one song that I had some trepidation about doing. I once jokingly said in an interview several years ago, "There should be an act of congress saying that nobody again can ever again record "Georgia On My Mind," because Ray Charles has done it." And I can probably say the same for "Midnight Train to Georgia."
We didn't have the Pips, so most of the Pips parts are written for the horns. And of course, I'm not going to sound like Gladys Knight - I'm a guy, and I have my own voice. But that was an intimidating song.
Songfacts: What about that song makes it interesting or difficult? I'm just trying to get the perspective of somebody that's a very accomplished songwriter/musician to break it down and talk about what's going on there.
David: "Midnight Train to Georgia," the original Gladys Knight version was just a great record. You can listen to the whole history of music and that's got to be in the Top 10 of some of the greatest records ever made, which is why it was a daunting task and a little intimidating to record it.
I've faced that many times in my career. I faced that same dilemma with "God Bless the Child" in which I was advised by a lot of people - even people at the record company – don't touch that song. It's a black anthem. It's a Billie Holiday classic, and it probably shouldn't be done again. Probably nobody can do it again.
And the guys in the band, Blood, Sweat & Tears and I, we sat down while we were doing the arrangement and we said, "Look, we've got to come at this from a completely different perspective. We can't just clone the Billie Holiday recording of 'God Bless the Child.' We've got to do it differently." I even changed up the melody somewhat to accommodate the horns. We came out if it with our own very distinctive version of it, and it stood up very, very well.
But these songs are intimidating. Soul Ballads especially, because we didn't go looking for obscure R&B songs that nobody had recorded before. We went looking for those great iconic songs that everybody already loves, and that makes it a little intimidating because you're setting a pretty high bar. If you're singing a song that was made famous by Otis Redding or Ray Charles or Sam Cooke – oh boy!
Songfacts: The Sam Cooke song ["A Change Is Gonna Come"] was pretty specific to that time. How did you relate to the sentiment in that song and make it so convincing?
David: Oh, I don't think it was specific to that time. A great song is timeless. You know, you talk about "A Change Is Gonna Come," it was true in the '60s, and it's happening now. There is always change, isn't there? We've got a world right now that's in enormous change. So, I think that's a great song, and the message doesn't relate to a particular period in time. A great song is just a great song, and it's forever.
Songfacts: You talked about how one of the reasons you left Blood, Sweat & Tears back in the '70s was because it was physically difficult to perform with them night after night. Which of those songs was the most difficult physically to sing?
David: Oh, I don't think there was any particular song. It was just wear and tear. Understand that the band in those days, the only people that were making some serious money were myself - as the songwriter - and Bobby Colomby who owned the name. The rest of the guys only got paid when we toured. They made 100 percent of their living from gigs. And so, to take more gigs all the time was voted for in the band. More gigs, more work, more work, more money.
And a voice isn't like a bass guitar. It doesn't stand up to it. It can only take so much pounding. I used to go through airports in the middle of a concert tour and I couldn't talk until three o'clock in the afternoon. I was always afraid I'd get onstage that night and the pipes wouldn't be there. I was putting a lot of pressure, as were a couple of other guys – I wasn't alone – to ease off on the touring.
Even our management wanted to cut back on the touring. From the time we released our first Blood Sweat & Tears album - the "Spinning Wheel" album with 50 million sales - to the time we got back into the studio to record BS&T III, was almost three years. And even the record company and the managers were calling us up and saying, "You guys have to get back into the studio and get some new music out, because in the three years you guys have been on the road making your millions, Chicago has put out three albums, and there's more horn bands coming along every minute."
We just couldn't get the touring to stop, so the only way for me to stop and take a vacation and take a break, was to stop and take a break. And that's what I did.
Songfacts: Which of the songs on Soul Ballads was the most difficult to sing?
David: None of them really – they were old friends. Every one of those songs is like an old friend. I've sung them all so many times.
Songfacts: Yeah. But knowing a song is very different from being in there and trying to sing a Ray Charles song. I understand this is what you do for a living, but to a listener, that's like, "Wow!"
David: Well to me it was like "Wow!" too, because Ray Charles is way up on a pedestal to me. He was one of my early gods. I have early recordings here in Canada where you can tell I'm trying to sound like Ray Charles.
Songfacts: David, I'm wondering why you didn't write more songs. On the BS&T album that came after "Spinning Wheel," I think there's only one song that you wrote: "Lucretia." I'm wondering why there weren't six or seven David Clayton-Thomas songs on that album.
David: Well, there are two reasons for that. The band in the early days was very much a cooperative band and everybody brought in material. Steve Katz was also a writer, and he got a song on the album. And sometimes we'd do a tune like "God Bless the Child" just because Dick Halligan had written an extraordinary arrangement to it. So everybody was contributing.
And I've always considered myself to be a singer first and a songwriter second – a singer who happens to write songs now and then. But I'm not like a Bob Dylan that's got an 800-song catalog who's primarily a writer first and a singer second.
As a singer, I've come out of the tradition of Ray Charles and Sam Cooke and Ella and Sarah Vaughan and Mel Tormé. I played guitar in the early days because I couldn't afford a band - the only way I could get gigs was to do the guitar work myself. But I never considered myself to be a great guitar player.
I'm first and foremost a singer, and one of the lovely things about Soul Ballads is that all I had to do was sing. Lou Pomanti handled the arrangements and the production, and basically I just came into the studio and sang to his finished tracks. It was a snap. They just flowed very, very naturally. We knew they would. That's why we selected them.
Songfacts: Were you the second-highest paid act at Woodstock next to Jimi Hendrix?
David: We were, but it's all relative because nobody got paid anyway.
Songfacts: Nobody got paid for their Woodstock performance?
David: You didn't know that? Well, how could anybody get paid? The fans broke down the fences. Nobody was paying for tickets. There was no money. Jimi got $17,500. We got $15,000. We were the two highest-paid acts. But we didn't get paid. Nobody got paid.
Here's another little piece of trivia: If you notice the Woodstock movie, none of the headliners are in it. The Grateful Dead aren't in it. The Band isn't in it. Dylan's not in it. Janis Joplin's not in it. They cut us out so they wouldn't have to pay us.
All the headliners had an agreement with the promoters that they would get X number of dollars and then a percentage of the film rights. Well, Woodstock was a financial disaster. All of those bands wanted to be paid, but there was no money. The only chance they had to make money was out of that film. So they couldn't be giving away pieces of that film to all of the headliners who had, contractually, a piece of that film. So, they cut us all out. I'm in great company. Basically, the Woodstock film is all of the opening acts who didn't have a piece of the film rights.
So in a way it's a shame, because we were kind of cut out of history. I feel funny when my daughter says, "Dad, were you at Woodstock? I saw the movie and you weren't in it." I don't think Jimi Hendrix's iconic National Anthem was in the movie either. None of the big stars from Woodstock were in the film.
Songfacts: I had no idea. I always figured you guys made a fortune off of that.
David: No. Nobody got paid at Woodstock. And following Woodstock there were years of litigation and lawsuits. The artists basically went on their way and said, "It's not worth it. I don't want to spend the next 10 years in court fighting for a few thousand dollars."
May 1, 2015. Get Soul Ballads or Combo at davidclaytonthomas.com.
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• Sherman Cundiff from Summerfield, FloridaI was in the paratroopers @ Fort Bragg,N.C. In 1969. I was a big Blood,Sweat & Tears fan. On a July Saturday afternoon I was skydiving and having a great time. On my third jump as the plane was climbing into the sky, I began singing “ what goes up must come down- spinning wheel got to go round”. Exiting the plane I continued singing, feeling the exhilaration of the free fall. All was well until I pulled the ripcord but the chute wouldn’t properly deploy.
I pulled the emergency chute in time to land in a large pine tree. Even today, over 50 years later I still love the song and think of that experience.
• Robin from Bossier City, LaI works as a stage manager with him once. Very nasty disposition. Band had to apologize profusely to our Director. BUT WHAT A TALENT!
• 'georgy' Mysie( Watson) Mcjannet from Vernon B.c.I knew David in 1966 in Yorkville village.He spoke about going to New York. I recall him as being such a gentleman and I always wondered thru the years how accurate my perception was,,,but reading this interview confirms my recollections. He was not only a super nice guy who could sing but a songwriter who reflected and expressed the times with songs like Brainwashed and I am proud to have been his friend albeit for a short time. I wasn't as nice to him as I could have been,,,I was young,,,,and to this day I regret that,,,,,he truly was a lovely person,,,a little uncommon for a person with so much talent,,,very down to earth,,,I miss him.
• Mark The Amp-shark from Aurora, ColoradoTHANKS for yet another fantastic glimpse into the past, with yet another amazing talent delivering tasty trivial tidbits for our pleasure! How ignorant I was until now, to not fully realise all the best acts were absent from the Woodstock movie! Clayton-Thomas waxed some of the best pipes ever recorded, and Blood, Sweat and Tears was a seminal contributor and essential component of, the soundtrack of its time. Too bad the corporate killed musical creativity long ago, and now gives us regurgitated pap, where we once enjoyed truly gifted artistry. Painted ponies for all!
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VS1 Clarity: A Balance of Beauty and Affordability [2021]
VS1 Clarity diamond
Most people believe that diamonds should look crystal clear and sparkling as marketed in the mainstream media. Thus, they would typically go for a piece with a translucent quality, not minding the expensive price that comes with it.
A smart buyer would not fall to this scheme because diamonds do not have uniform qualities, and they vary from one stone to another. That is why you must learn how to scrutinize each of its characteristics. There are four words in the diamond world that you must always remember: Cut, Clarity, Color, and Carat Weight.
Among the four, clarity is the most confusing concept because you have more terms to remember. However, one scale stands out from the rest, and that is the VS1 rating.
The Basics About VS1 Clarity
How much do you understand about clarity in diamonds? Clarity is the visibility of imperfections within and outside a diamond during its natural growth. Some are noticeable, while others do not have them. Like colors, clarity is an indicator of a diamond’s price. Thus, a GIA report is not complete without this information.
As we said earlier, most people adore diamonds that are blemish-free. However, this quality also comes with a price that can be unbelievable to many. Clarity rating has ten terms that you must keep in mind always. The following are:
These terms might overwhelm you, especially that they almost have the same use of words. Their main difference lies in the number of inclusions found in a diamond. Imperfections are inevitable since diamonds are formed in the earth’s mantle under 2,200 degrees Fahrenheit. If you find one with the least number of blemishes, that is indeed a rare find.
That is why those with Flawless and Internally Flawless qualities have the most expensive prices relative to their cut, color, and carat weight. FL is the highest rating, which indicates that a diamond has crystal clear features within and outside its walls.
However, not everyone can afford to spend more than $100,000 on a diamond. Thus, FL and IF are also the most impractical grades. If you are one of the many looking for a piece with a reasonable price and flawless-looking quality, the safest threshold for you is those falling in the Very Small Inclusions category.
VS1 inclusions are barely visible to the naked eye. Even expert gemologists find it difficult to identify the stone’s flaws when magnified 10x. It will still take them a few seconds to notice the inclusions, especially if the diamond has a smaller size and carat weight.
If you want an eye-clean diamond, a VS1 clarity rating is the best choice for you because its price is way lower than those with FL and IF qualities. In the end, they will still look the same from your perspective. Eye-cleanliness is the paramount concern of many clients, and you will already gain that character with a VS1 diamond.
VS1 vs. Other Clarity Scales
what is diamond clarity
Two scales are falling to the Very Small Inclusions category, namely VS1 and VS2. Among all the diamonds in the market, only 20% have VS2 and above ratings, making them more valuable than the Small Inclusions and Inclusion group. Both grades in the VS category look eye-clean from a wearer’s perspective, but they still have some significant differences.
Generally, VS1 has a higher grade than VS2. It represents 5% of the top-quality diamonds in the market. When magnifying it 10x, inclusions such as white and black crystals, feathers, knots, needles, and dents may surface. However, these are not detectable in natural circumstances regardless of the diamond’s carat weight.
On the flip side, VS2 grades have eye-visible inclusions, especially in more than 1.00-carat diamonds. If you prefer a larger stone, it is best to settle with VS1 because it costs 20% less than VVS1 and VVS2. However, it does cost more than the other grade in the same category.
Below are two round-shaped diamonds with ideal cuts and color H qualities from Blue Nile. They both weigh more than a carat. The one on the left has a VS1 grade, and the other has a VS2 grade.
vs1 vs vs2
From this face-up perspective, their differences are immediately visible. The VS1 diamond looks clearer, whiter, and more polished than its counterpart. Both images are magnified 10x, and you will see that VS2’s black crystals are more prominent than VS1. It also looks hazier and more pigmented.
The other scale close to VS1 is those falling in the Very Very Small Inclusion group. Below are Blue Nile’s top-selling examples of VS1, VVS1, and IF diamonds, respectively.
vs1 vs vvs2 vs if
They all look almost the same, except that VVS1 diamond’s pigments are more flagrant despite having the same color grade. With a 1.00-carat weight, the VS1 piece only costs around $5000 while the higher grades have more than $6000.
VS1 is more reasonable than VS2 because their difference is not too significant when it comes to pricing. If you are into diamonds with more open facets like a princess, cushion, and emerald, VS1 is a more advisable quality to get these stones’ maximum brilliance.
Examples of Less Desirable VS1 Diamonds
Not all VS1 diamonds have outstanding qualities. Their eye-clean quality is not a guarantee, especially if they have poor symmetries and lower color grades. Thus, it is essential to talk to an expert before checking out a diamond.
This James Allen 4.02-carat princess-cut diamond is not as appealing as you would expect it to be because of the black shadow’s prominence. Its selling price is $50,000, and it has a VS1 clarity rating. If you look closely, you will notice some spots at the center and on each diamond side.
Its real-life brilliance looks darker than other top-selling diamonds, making it less impressive.
James Allen 4.02
You will observe the same thing in this oval-cut diamond. This shape is known for having a bowtie effect at the center that is quite distracting to some customers. Apart from the shadows, you can also easily detect the dents on its sides.
Asscher-cut diamonds
Due to their facets’ mediocre arrangement, these diamonds are not worthy of their prices despite having higher clarity grades. Please keep in mind that step-cut diamonds show blemishes the clearest. Thus, you must be extra careful when picking an emerald-cut or Asscher-cut diamonds.
If possible, choose a diamond whose inclusions are not on the center because masking them is not difficult with a prong setting.
Best Cuts for VS1 Clarity
Like in color grades, the cut is also a significant factor when choosing a diamond based on its clarity. Some diamond shapes show flaws more than others, especially those with larger and more open table area. If you want to enjoy the most out of a diamond’s price, pick a cut that hides colors and blemishes well.
#1. Round-Cut Diamonds
64% of diamond buyers go after this cut, making it the most popular diamond variety. You will always find this piece in engagement rings, wedding rings, and fashion accessories. Apart from its fire and brilliance, a round-cut diamond’s facets have a reputation for covering its imperfections perfectly.
It has a superior light return quality, leaving fewer rooms for shadows to appear at the center. Its crushed ice glow can overpower any dents found in a VS1 diamond, no matter how prominent or small they are. All you will notice is the eye-clean quality that makes it shine better.
This James Allen diamond is a prime example of a round-cut stone with the perfect symmetries and proportions. It has an ideal cut with a color F and VS1 grades that add to its elegant-looking appearance.
#2. Pear-Cut Diamond
This diamond is as bizarre as its name. It may not have the highest demand in the market, but it is one of the top performers when it comes to clarity. Pear-cut diamonds are also known as teardrop-shaped diamonds. It has curved and pointed ends resembling a teardrop formation.
Like its round counterpart, it has a less open table area and a curvy edge that helps hide its flaws. You will love how its unique appearance glows brightly with enough light passing through its features.
However, some diamonds in this variety have poorly cut dimensions, making them less favorable to many clients. You will know if it has an excellent proportion when the bowtie effect is less noticeable. Moreover, its tips make the diamond fragile. That is why you need to frame it in a setting that gives extra protection to the stone.
Below is a best-selling pear-cut diamond from Blue Nile. It has a near-colorless quality and a VS1 grade. Its appearance is as brilliant as those with color D and FL qualities, but it only costs around $5000 for a 1.00-carat weight.
VS1 grade
#3. Heart-Shaped Diamonds
Diamonds and hearts are two symbols of love and commitment. Combining the two on an engagement ring signifies the extent of your feelings towards someone. More than these meanings, heart-shaped diamonds rank third among the best cuts for a VS1 quality.
It is like combining two pear-shaped diamonds to create this unique item. Gem cutters do not favor this piece because it takes a lot of time and effort to perfect its shape. The sides must be identical to each other so that it will produce a mirroring effect. It also generates the most wastage from a raw and rough diamond.
The complexity of its creation makes it one of the most valuable and rarest diamond variety. Most heart-shaped diamonds in the market either have lower color grades or clarity rating. Thus, if you find one with the best qualities in all aspects, you can say that it is a true and exceptional find.
Here is a James Allen piece that will best represent what you must be looking for in a heart-shaped diamond.
Pros and Cons of VS1 Clarity
This section shall sum up the positive and negative things you will get from a diamond with a VS1 clarity rating. Knowing these points will make you an informed and smart buyer. Preferences and priorities are subjective from one person to another, and a diamond’s worth depends on what you do and does not get from it.
#1. Fair Price
More people seek diamonds that are not too expensive. James Allen and Blue Nile are popular brands that offer diamonds with premium quality and reasonable prices. With all else equal, a VS1 diamond is neither too expensive nor too affordable. It lies in between, making it a fair option for people who opts for a superior item.
Most diamonds with a 1.00-carat weight in this scale runs around $4000 to $5000. Going up in the level would increase it to a minimum of $10,000 with the same flawless-looking piece. Thus, diamonds with VS1 clarity grades are the fairest choices as long as you pick one with the right cut and proportions.
#2. Eye-Clean
Eye-cleanliness is a term jeweler uses to describe a diamond that looks flawless in the naked eye. It is typically the paramount concern of customers, so they prefer those with higher quality ratings. However, you do not need to settle with more expensive pieces if you can have an eye-clean diamond at a lower price.
Most VS1 diamonds are eye-clean, even those with larger sizes. It is unnecessary to spend more on a luxurious item that you can buy for less if you are more observant of their qualities.
#3. Number of Selections
Unlike FL, IF, and VVS diamonds, diamonds with VS clarity have many selections. Since the demand here is higher, jewelry shops tend to make diamonds falling into this category more available in the market. However, its supply is still lower than SI and I diamonds.
#1. Not Entirely Flawless
As its name suggests, VS1 diamonds still have flaws. In the earlier part of this article, we mentioned that some diamonds in this category have less appealing appearances because of their poor symmetries. Thus, blemishes look prominent and detectable.
When buying a diamond, the best thing to do is magnifying their images up to 20x. James Allen even allows you to magnify it up to 40x. It is a way to ensure if the stone’s flaws are visible or not.
#2. Not a Good Investment
For people who buy diamonds as an investment, this may not be the best piece for you. FL and IF are the rarest and most expensive items based on clarity rating. Thus, it might be best for you to settle with these items instead of those in the lower ranks.
Again, VS1’s average price runs around the four-digit range. You can go higher on the scale for a more valuable item.
#3. Not the Least Expensive
VS diamonds are not the safest threshold when we talk about value. Most jewelers suggest SI diamonds for the best price. While their blemishes are more visible using a jeweler’s loupe, they still look as eye-clean as VS diamonds. Setting them in the right frame will improve their appearance, giving you a sparkling clean jewelry piece.
With all this information, the choice is now yours to make. If you find the benefits more convincing than the drawbacks, go on and search for a VS1 diamond.
The Verdict: Is Buying a VS1 Diamond Worth It?
It all boils down to your preference and budget. Since VS1 diamonds are not the least expensive items, you may find it unreasonable if your priority is an eye-clean piece. VS2 and SI diamonds look well-polished in the naked eye, too, but they have less expensive prices.
However, if you love larger-looking diamonds with more open table areas, it is best to prefer an item with a VS1 clarity grade. The blemishes are still there, but they are less dominant than those falling in the lower categories.
As you have seen in this article, VS1 diamonds illuminate the same glow as those in the VVS, FL, and IF categories. Thus, choosing the former as the main stone of your engagement ring is the wisest thing you will ever do.
A VS1 diamond is worth the price if you have enough funds to pay for it. However, you can still go one level lower if it does not fit your budget.
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RSEnt : Lab 6.3.1 Configuring and Propagating an OSPF Default Route
Step 1: Connect the equipment
Connect each of the routers, switches, and hosts as shown in the topology diagram.
Step 2: Perform basic configurations on the routers
1. Connect a PC to the console port of the router to perform configurations using a terminal emulation program.
2. On Routers 1, 2, and 3, configure the hostname, console, Telnet, privileged passwords, and message-of-the-day banner and disable DNS lookups according to the addressing table and topology diagram.
Step 3: Configure the ISP router
1. Configure serial and loopback interfaces on Router 3.
2. On Router 3, configure a default route to both the and the networks.
Step 4: Configure the Area 0 OSPF routers
1. Configure loopback, FastEthernet, and serial interfaces on Router 1 and Router 2.
2. Save the running configuration to the NVRAM of each router.
Step 5: Configure the hosts with the proper IP address, subnet mask, and default gateway
Each workstation should be able to ping the attached router. Troubleshoot as necessary. Remember to assign a specific IP address and default gateway to the workstation. At this point, the workstations will not be able to communicate with each other.
Step 6: Verify connectivity
Ping from R2 to both the ISP and R1 routers. Were the pings successful? Jawaban: yes
Step 7: Configure OSPF routing on both Area 0 routers
1. Configure OSPF routing on each router. Use OSPF process number 1 and ensure that all networks are in Area 0.
Step 8: Test network connectivity
Ping the R1 host from the R2 host. Was it successful? Jawaban: yes
Step 9: Observe OSPF traffic
1. At the privileged EXEC mode, enter the command debug ip ospf events and observe the output. You may have to wait at least 40 seconds for the hello packet to be sent before observations can be recorded
2. Turn off debugging by entering no debug ip ospf events or undebug all.
Step 10: Create a default route to the ISP
On R2 only, enter a static default route.
R2(config)#ip route
Step 11: Verify the default static route
Verify the default static route by looking at the R2 routing table.
Step 12: Verify connectivity from the R2 router
1. Verify connectivity from R2 by pinging the ISP Serial 0/0/1 interface from the R2 router.
Is the ping successful? __________ yes
1. Next, on the host attached to R2, open a command prompt and ping the Serial 1 interface on the ISP router.
Is the ping successful? __________ yes
1. This time, ping the loopback interface address of the ISP router, which represents the ISP connection to the Internet.
Step 13: Verify connectivity from the R1 router.
Verify the connection between the ISP and R1 by pinging the Serial 0/0/1 interface of the ISP router on R2.
Step 14: Redistribute the static default route
Propagate the gateway of last resort to the other routers in the OSPF domain. At the configure router prompt on R2, enter default-information originate.
R2(config-router)#default-information originate
Step 15: Reflection
1. How does OSPF reach networks outside of the domain? Jawaban: OSPF must know about the network or OSPF must have a default route.
2. What does a router use to generate a gateway of last resort? Jawaban: Default route.
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The Comprehensive Overview of Health Economics : The Economic Relationships of Health Care
The Comprehensive Overview on the Principles, Concepts and Applied Theories in Health Economics: The Economic Relationships of Health Care
In order to understand the role of economics in relation to health care, we have to understand the basic structure and functions of economics. The concept of economics is concerned with describing the interrelationship between different individuals and organizations related to production and consumption of goods and services. The main point of the study of these interrelationships is to explain how the institutional framework and the rules of behavior specified for the individuals and organizations influence the final outcome.
1. The economic need of the individual for health care is more on the concern of medical treatment .Hence, the idea of consumption explains the health care services provided in the medical care centers (hospital and clinics) and the medicines for the medical treatment and recovery on health.
2. The organization provides the health care services for the confinement of the patients. The public health sector provides the infrastructures such as hospitals, health clinics and other medical services while the private health sector provides highly competitive medical centers on quality health care to attract the different individual to avail the health services.
Economic Relationships of Health Care
1. Economic Production. .It is the creation of manufactured products and services that has market price and value which is being created by the economic demand in the society. This is consider as economic suppliers and producers with other terms such as traders, proprietors, investors, capitalists, and managers.
HEALTH CARE : The production and investment side of the establishments of hospitals and medical centers with the complete facilities, equipment and amenities for the quality health services. This is the cost of production for health care services to provide the medical diagnosis and tools to identify the medical problems of the patients.
2. Economic Revenue. It is the income produce by the selling of particular products and services in the market. This provides information about the projected income, assets and liabilities, profitability indicators, including Cost-Benefit Analysis or Ratio(CBA), Cost Effective Analysis (CEA),and Cost Utility Analysis ( CUA.)
HEALTH CARE : The hospital and medical centers are establish to provide quality health care for the substantial health demand. The revenue of the health care services are the following:
a) The user fee for the health care institution- The confinement, medication and treatment in the health care institutions (hospitals, clinics and medical centers) through the room rate, accommodation, medical diagnosis, and other amenities .
b) The use of medical facilities and equipment – The medical diagnosis such as x-ray radiographic equipment, sterilizing equipment, operating room instrumentation, fetal monitors, infant incubators, ecg instruments, ct scans, and other medical instruments. This is included as the operating revenue of the hospital.
c) The use of drugs for the medication and treatment of the patient and the establishment of drugstore section. The hospital provides the drugs and other medicines for the patient. This translates as the revenue as medicine is part of the product of the health care institution.
d) The physician’s fee and the medical care provided during the confinement, consultation and treatment in the health care institution. The physician provides the necessary health care support in the medical diagnosis and treatment of the patient.
The medical revenues provide the general income as the result of the collection of user fees for the medication and treatment in the hospital. The profitability of the hospital depends now the number of patients being confined and treated in the hospital.
In public sector, the financial subsidy given by the national government for the operations of public hospital, and health programs are measured by the effectiveness in relation to the prevention and control for the possible increase of patients from the target clients on this health programs. This is computed by the CEA and CUA.
3. Economic Distribution. . This refers to marketing strategy to identify the economic demand and supply. The economic distribution designates specific market delivery of the manufactured good to the potential consumers, customers or stakeholders.
HEALTH CARE : The potential market of the health care services is the use of medicines and the treatment of the patient. The economic distribution on health care relates on the geographical and territorial unit of the local government for the public health institutions. However, for the private hospital depends on the demand on health care that is usually in the urban areas wherein you can find various hospitals and medical centers. The increasing number of hospitals and medical centers may result to the increasing market delivery on medicines for the drugstores and medical equipment.
4. Economic Resources. The economic resources are the processing of producing good and services that satisfy the human needs and wants of the society. The broad categories of the economic resources such as labor, capital, entrepreneur, and natural resources.
4.1 Labor. . These are the workers, supervisors and managers who used their physical and mental effort to produce good and services in the society. The productions of goods cars, appliances, computers, air condition units, canned goods and other market products are created by services of factory workers and personnel.
HEALTH CARE : The medical personnel and staff in the delivery of health care services such as physicians, medical specialists, nurses, attendants, and other.
4.2 Capital. The needed financial resources to pay the materials, labor, equipment and facilities, machineries, and other related expenditures in order produce the specific goods and services in the market
HEALTH CARE : This is the hospital investment that may be derive through the equity of the hospital owners, and loans from the commercial banks.
4.3 Entrepreneur. The entrepreneurs invest the “save money” for self-interest to earn more from the income through ‘profit”. When the entrepreneurs organize a corporation, partnership or single proprietorship to produce the market products in the highly competitive world must see to it that the enterprise would work to earn profit.
HALTH CARE : These are the owners of the hospital, it can be classified as corporation ,partnership or even single proprietorship.
4.4 Natural Resources. The transformation of the natural and mineral resources including the land for the production of good and services with the corresponding monetary values.
HEALTH CARE : The location of the hospital including the needed material goods for the health care services.
5. Economic Sectors . These are economic institutions that are providing good and services for the society. It can be public sector or private sector in the management scarcity of resources. The public sector provides the needed public goods and services for the pro-poor programs such as the establishment of the hospitals or schools. Likewise, the private sectors exist on the “self-interest” for the profit on what is invested by the proprietors.
HEALTH CARE : The establishment of hospital to cater the needs of the poor. The rise of medical centers and private hospitals as the increasing need of medical demand from the middle class in the urban areas.
6. Economic Good and Services. It is derive from the economic demand as to the satisfaction of human wants that is being produced in the market.
Economic Demand The economic demand derives from the human needs and wants based on the capacity to purchase certain goods and services in the societal market. In this sense, there are two conditions to meet the economic demand : (1) the willingness to buy the products; and (2) the capacity of paying the amount for that particularly products. Economic Demand
The economic demands are assumed to be unlimited-because survival of human being reflects on the basic needs such as clothing, shelter, education and other physiological needs. This is the reason why there is no end to consumption needs. We need to produce the following in order to survive:
1. clothing - shirts, pants, underwear, sweat shirt, and etc.
2. food -fish, meat ,chicken egg and vegetables including water and canned products
3.shelter- house, hotel, apartelle, apartment and condominium
4. education- elementary education, high school education,and college education
5. health- medicines, hospitalization and medical check
Economic Supply.The concept of supply reflects on the goods and services needed to produce in a given market. It is more on the production of goods and services to satisfy the increasing needs and wants of the society. The main player in the study of economic supply is the entrepreneurs; the other terms are businessmen, capitalists, supplier, traders or investors.
The economic resources are always scarce in supply. We need to produce clothing, food, shelter, education and health. In clothing you can simply produce shirts or pants the resources such as a tailor (labor), garment (raw material), sewing machine ( production equipment) and factory ( land and building). There are specific cost in producing shirts and pants such as wage for the tailor, per yard cost of garment, unit cost of sewing machine and electricity for its operation, and the rent or loans paid for the construction of the factory.
HEALTH CARE: The demand of medical care focuses on the consumer demand. The confinement or treatment of patients is the example of economic demand. It is also the presence of the medical inputs in curing illness or disease of the patient such as medicines, laboratory facilities and equipment and other tangible medical products. While the economic supply of medical care is the presence of hospitals, clinic and medical centers that provide medical services to the patients who have problem about their health.
At this level, it should come as no surprise that health economics may be viewed as the economic discipline which deals with the institutional frameworks for health care (consumption, provision, financing) and the interconnections between rules and institutions on the one side and the resulting health condition in the population on the other. There still remains a somewhat loose description of the field, and it seems difficult to get closer in a few words. It may be emphasized here that health economists do necessarily deal with cost-effectiveness analysis or benefit-cost ratio analysis of health management. However, that is not the only task of a health economist. Rather, cost effectiveness is perhaps treated as the least important aspect of what a health economist can contribute.
The health care services are those activities we can get from the treating of patients in the hospital or clinic which they need to pay the hospital expenses such as physician fee, laboratory fee, hospital room fee. medical and medicine expenses. The health condition is the reason for the existence of hospital because of the presence of illness and it should treated properly once they are confine in the hospital.
Take note that in public health program your health care service is measured on the benefit of individual in absence and treatment of diseases. The economics of health welfare has significant role in the development of the health society. The health sectors can also be measured along the medication or treatment as it has financial value as to the health cost and benefits. The specific cost of the health care treatment is measured through Cost-Effective Analysis, Cost Utility and Cost-Benefit analysis which will be discussed in Economic evaluation. The use of fund is effective when you can treat more patient and there are many patients being serve from than financial fund use in the project.
The developing countries have problem in supporting the health resources such as the existence of enough physicians and hospitals, medical centers and primary health care centers. Why?
The significance of health economics in developing countries ( these are the countries that are not fully developed or industrialized just like Burma, Afghanistan, Cambodia, Vietnam, and other countries in Africa and Asia we may consider Philippines and India under this level). The developing countries have problem in supporting the health resources such as the existence of enough physicians and hospitals, medical centers and primary health care centers.
1.Economic climate where resources are extremely scarce and decisions on priorities are crucial but difficult. The economic climate reflects on the economic status of a country. The limited national income created a problem in supporting the basic health services such as producing more primary health care center, hospitals and medical centers . They give priority in health services to reduce the health problem for the communicable and non-communicable diseases, however, it is difficult for them to provide these services because of limited budget and funds to construct hospital and primary health care.
2. A growing appreciation among health professionals and policy-makers that health economics and economists can help them formulate policies and make decisions. The health professionals and policy maker( such as congressmen, legislators and health officials)are also interested and appreciated the complementation of health economics and economics. It is already here that they could study further the cost of medicines, hospitalization, medical consultation for their return of investment in putting up hospitals and clinics. The prevention, rehabilitation, and promotion of health may study further through its utility and effectiveness of a given health service program. The use of financial resources or expenses of a particular illness or disease may further studied as to the Cost-Effective Analysis or Cost Utility Analysis which means that you can also translate the health expenses incurring a particular disease or illness.These are quantified to analyze by the expenses incurred in medicines, hospital bills, consultation fee and other medical expenses.
The economic activities provide some sort of regulation and policies to promote the general welfare particularly in buying manufactured products. Let us take the case in manufacturing cigarette products, the health department provides specific policy that the labeling of cigarette must put note or label that “ Smoking is dangerous to your health. The reduction of smokers means lessening the burden of the health sector on the risk of lung cancer, tuberculosis and other cancer diseases taken from smoking cigarette.
Likewise, the regulation on quarantine and monitoring of individuals with illness or diseases on AIDS,HIVS, SARS and other deadly diseases. This will prevent the spread of the sexually transmitted as AIDS. There is also health policy to have medical check up in employment and going to other countries.
There are many health policies formulated to prevent illness or disease which may reduce the problem for health expenses in the hospital.For example the study of Economic Evaluation which simply knowing the expenses of a particular illness and the possible cure of that illness .If you provide immunization then you can possibly save medical expenses of patients. The prevention of illness is the result of the immunization program.The Health Technologies that facilitated to the early cure and recovery of patients in the hospitals.
The growing of interest among economists and others in applying their economic skills to health issue. The economists are now integrating concepts on the demand and supply in the health sector. Likewise, health issues are synthesize within the perspective of cost of investment and the possibility of curing the patients.
The Economic Relationship in the Formulation of Health Policies
There is usually the assistance by the economist in the formulation of health policies on the basis of economic demand and supply, the measurement of cost and benefits and other economic variables on the user fees of health services.
Primarily, the economist might assist in the form of demand studies and policy makers’ preferences to formulate specific health service policy. In economics, the demand studies are conceptualized along the need of health services for the people. It is oriented on the direct medical care given to poor patients in the hospital or clinic. The demand studies are therefore given as health data such as on mortality rate, morbidity, fertility, the prevalence of diseases and illnesses, including Human Index Development (such as life expectancy, nutrition intake, and other health related variables).
These are important data by policymakers to come up specific regulatory measure to either prevent or control the spread communicable and non-communicable diseases. As good example of health policy is the regulation and quarantine of diseases such as AID/HIV, SARS, Birds Flu, Salmonella contamination and other diseases. The inspection and regulation by the Bureau of Food on the health products and other canned goods; the health programs to reduce the prevalence of dengue, TB, malaria, rabies, cancer, and skin diseases.
Secondly, the economist can provide assistance in the measurement cost in delivering health care services and the real costs on the health system. The poor patients are given medicines to treat their illness in the hospital. The medicines given to them are being studied as to its real cost such as the price of the medicine, effectiveness of the medicine, recovery of the illness after taking the medicine, the medical diagnosis and check up of the physician and cost variables of the medicine. This will specifically determine the regulation and specific policies for the regulation and monitoring as to the cost of medicine and probable estimates on health and medical expenses of patients in the hospital. A good example of this health policy analysis is the generic law, regulation of medical diagnosis fees, regulation of the prices of medicines in the drugstores and other related health policy researches to integrate the study on the real cost of health services.
The third relationship of economics present the relative cost and benefits of particular policy options for health services. This usually studied in the economic evaluation wherein we have to know the cost and its direct benefit to a patient. The medical expenses ( user fees on drugs, laboratory diagnosis, physician fees, and other expenses) of certain diseases are measured as to its treatment. Basically, these are the health programs to prevent the recurrence of certain diseases or illness such as dengue, cancer, TB, malaria, cholera, rabies, Once, it is prevented it could reduce the health expenses of the national government.
These are the examples of health programs and regulated policy of the public health institutions and other health organizations :
1. The health programs on vaccination for anti-rabies, anti-polio ,anti-TB, anti-measles to reduce the possible hospitalization of poor patients.
2. The information dissemination for the awareness on the early detection of certain diseases such as cancer, TB, stroke and etc.
3. The health program for clean water and waste management program which will reduce the incidence of cholera ,dengue and other diseases.
Economic Variables on the Utilization of Health Services
The economist can assist the health policy makers to study the economic variables like user charges, time and distance costs of accessibility, etc on the utilization of health services may be estimated. The user charges are translated as to the financial expenses of the patients for their medical treatment in the hospital. The economist can compute the user charges and other variables related to the illness of the patient.
Examples of the Economic Variables for the User Fees for the Treatment of Typhoid Fever for one week (7days) confinement in the medical ward of a public hospital:
Summary Expenses Report after a Week of Confinement
A. Hospital Expenses
Physician’s Fees ($30.00 x 7days)…………………………… $ 210.00
Laboratory Examination ( blood, x-ray, ecg, and etc.)……....$ 300.00
Medicines ( anti-biotic, paracetamol, dextrose and etc)….....$ 400.00
Other Medical Expenses…………………………………………$ 150.00
Total Hospital Bill…………….$ 1,070.00
There is also the inclusion as to the transportation expenses, the time use in staying at the hospital which you were not able to work in the office and other related variables as to the direct effect in the hospitalization of patients
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Most probably we can estimate the current health care condition of the country; as due to slow economy rate we have found that health care system is quite slow to provide beneficial health care service in the country. So in a slow economy government and health care organizations are fails to provide advanced health care facilities to the people.
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Thoughts on The Dragon Prince (Netflix, 2018)
I’ve made no secret of how much I adore Avatar: The Last Airbender. I didn’t discover it until a few years ago (after a friend bugged me endlessly to watch it) and my eventual experience bingeing it was life-changing. I wrote at length about what I think makes Avatar: The Last Airbender so magical, but the gist is that Avatar was able to imbue levity and colour into every facet: from its humour and character building, to its plot, worldbuilding, and visual design. It’s an absolutely delightful show, which makes it so much more effective when it hits you with an emotional hammer. I discovered Avatar at a difficult time in my life, and it helped me through a period of (what I now recognize as) depression.
My praise was high:
Avatar: The Last Airbender is a remarkably consistent piece of storytelling that retains its quality from the first episode to the last. In fact, even if pressed, I’d find it difficult to find a point in the entire series where pacing is ever an issue. Every episode, even the sidestory episodes that don’t directly involve Aang’s plot against plight against the Fire Nation, like the previously mentioned “Tales of Ba Sing Se,” all serve a purpose in the tale, revealing more about the characters and their world. There’s not a wasted frame, not a wasted word, and that’s something that can be said about so few pieces of fiction, no matter the medium.
A season of The Legend of Korra (a follow-up set in the same world with some of the original creators involved) was already out when I finished Avatar, and I unabashedly jumped on board, expectations unfairly high. Korra did many things right (and its third season is particularly good), but it’s much more of a roller-coaster in terms of quality compared to its predecessor. Though I enjoyed it in its entirety, and appreciate many of the elements it introduced to the series (Korrasami <3), it failed to capture me in the same way as Avatar. In a lot of ways, Korra was missing the heart and soul that made Avatar so special. It took itself a bit too seriously at times, its storytelling was fraught with melodrama, and thanks to never quite knowing if it would get another season, the pacing of the overall narrative was rocky.
One notable exclusion from the Korra staff was Aaron Ehasz, and now, with hindsight, I realize how many elements of Avatar likely originated with him. Ehasz (along with Justin Richmond) has returned to the world of YA fantasy with a new show on Netflix, The Dragon Prince. In many ways it’s the follow-up to Avatar that I’ve been waiting for.
The Dragon Prince is the story of Callum, Ezran, and Rayla, unlikely companions who are thrust into the middle of a thousand year old conflict between humans and elves. Much of the series revolves around the titular Dragon Prince, and the trio’s efforts to undermine their warring factions in an effort to build a bridge and renew the bond that existed between humans and elves until it was broken a thousand years earlier. Like Avatar, The Dragon Prince is full of wondrous magic, great action, beautiful set pieces, terrific characters, and rich relationships.
Avatar (and Korra) always did a great job with representation and diversity, and The Dragon Prince is no different. Though set in a stereotypical western European fantasy world—a trope Avatar purposefully broke away from—it’s full of a wide, varied group of characters. The core trio of Callum (a young mage), Ezran (heir to the throne), and Rayla (an inexperienced elvish warrior), fill predictable roles—its a coming-of-age tale from many angles—but the cast surrounding them is wonderful, and full of many secondary characters that breath life into the world. Ellis, a young girl from a mountain-side village, rides a wolf and brings to mind Binabik from Tad Williams’ classic Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn trilogy. (So much so that I wonder if she’s an intentional homage.) King Harrow is a dreadlocked black man with a biological son and a white step son. Harrow’s late wife was a heroic and respected warrior. Siblings Claudia and Soren fill a complex role as both antagonists and friends of Callum and Ezran.
The human kingdom of Katolis eschews ridiculous online cries for “historical authenticity” and is instead filled to the brim by people of various ethnicities, and women fills all roles in the society, from guards, to mages, to soldiers, and beyond. It’s beautiful, and an extension of what made the worldbuilding in Avatar so unique at the time. This is not a homogenous fantasy world, and such worldbuilding implies a rich, labyrinthine history that extends well beyond what we’re shown in the episodes of the television series.
Not to mention the elves.
And then there’s Amaya. Oh, my heart. Callum and Ezran’s aunt is a tough, experienced solider tasked with guarding the viciously contested border between Katolis and the elvish land of Xadia. She’s a respected warrior, and fiercely protective of her nephews and the throne. She’s also deaf and mute. Amaya shows up midway through the series, and steals every scene she appears in. There’s one moment in particular in episode five, “An Empty Throne,” where Amaya visits a memorial for her late sister and signs, without translation, for an extended period of time. It’s one of the most emotionally stunning moments on the show, and speaks to a subtlety and respect for the audience that’s rarely seen in television aimed at kids (or adults for that matter.)
“That was very deliberate,” Devon Giehl, senior writer on the show, told Polygon when asked about the scene. “We went back and forth on it, but we decided that when Gren wasn’t speaking for her, she spoke for herself. The scene where she’s at her sister’s grave—we were worried, because it’s a show for children, that we might lose people. But then the animation came back, and she was so emotive, and it’s so beautiful. I think even in the absence of subtitles, it really stands on its own. And she’s a deaf character — we wanted it so that understanding what she’s communicating here is for the deaf audience.”
The level of effort and care that went into Amaya’s character from both the writers and the animators is obvious. As an example of the show’s respect, Amaya’s bio on the official website for The Dragon Prince describes her thusly:
Renowned for her iron will and ferocity in battle, Amaya is one of the highest-ranking generals in the army of Katolis. She’s both an immovable object and an unstoppable force: in a fight, she’s more likely to use her shield like a battering ram. Nevertheless, she’s fiercely protective of her nephews, Callum and Ezran. Amaya is often accompanied by Gren, her most trusted lieutenant and Sign Language interpreter.
“Iron will.”
“Unstoppable force.”
“Fiercy protective.”
She’s not described as deaf or mute—it’s only inferred in the final line, which mentioned her interpreter. Amaya’s physical disabilities are unique to her among the characters on the show, but never once is she pitied for them. Never once are her abilities questioned, even by her enemies. Her disability does not define her.
In many ways, Amaya showcases many of the elements that make The Dragon Prince so compelling. She’s layered and complex, evokes strength and compassion, and illustrates the power of diverse and unrestricted storytelling. There’s the old adage about turning a weakness into a strength, and Amaya rises above similar characters because her unique challenges require her (and the show’s writers) to approach situations from a new perspective. The show and its plot hinges on these unique character elements, and there would be no way to replace someone like Amaya with a generic general without having to rewrite major parts of the show. Avatar and Korra were great at this—Toph’s blindness, Aang having to constantly hide his tattoos, Korra’s PTSD—and it’s great to see The Dragon Prince continuing the trend.
Above and beyond the heroes, who are easy to root for, the show continues Avatar‘s tradition of having complex, morally grey antagonists. The elves are posited as the “big bad” off the bat, but it quickly becomes clear to princes Ezran, Callum, and Rayla that the situation is much more complex. In an era of political partisanship and extremism, The Dragon Prince is rife with themes that examine how ego, xenophobia, and tribalism are used as weapons by political leaders.
Where the villains really shine are in the subordinates. We meet Rayla as she’s planning with her fellow elves to assassinate King Harrow and his son, Ezran, but she emerges as a hero when she refuses to kill a human guard. Claudia, who begins the show as a clumsy bookworm who has Callum’s romantic attentions, is quickly thurst into a more complex role alongside her brother Soren as they do the bidding of their mage father, Viren, the king’s best friend and right hand man, as he orders a pursuit of the elves. Claudia and Soren are dogged in their pursuit, without quite understanding the stakes of the game into which they’ve been thrust. Misinformation and labyrinthine goals abound, and The Dragon Prince is unafraid to ratchet up the complexity of its layered story, trusting its readers, no matter how young, to follow along. It’s not exactly accurate to call this Game of Thrones for adolescents, but it’s not a far off comparison.
Like Avatar, The Dragon Prince relies heavily on its great cast of characters, but the worldbuilding around them is also integral. This time around there are two warring factions: humans (in Katolis) and the elves (in Xadia). A millennia before the show begins, the humans broke their peaceful union with the elves after a human mage discovered dark magic (the seventh Primal Source, joining the Sun, the Moon, the Stars, the Earth, the Sky, and the Ocean) and killed Thunder, the King of the Dragons, and destroyed his only egg. It’s suitably epic, and the writers do a good job of humanizing the various factions, while also keeping the tension high. The first three episodes are very tightly wound, taking place almost entirely in one location, but after that the world begins to breathe a bit and the series really hits its stride.
One of Avatar‘s most defining and admirable traits was the space given to the story. There was so much opportunity to explore the slow, quiet moments that exist between travelling companions, and this brought forth so many interesting facets to each character’s personality and conflicts. It’s rarely seen on television. There’s a rare goodness in these scenes. Because The Dragon Prince checks in at only nine episodes (as opposed to Avatar‘s 20ish per season), these moments are fewer and further between for Callum, Ezran, and Rayla than they were for Aang, Sokka, and Kitara; however, when they do crop up, they’re no less effective. There’s a particular moment during the eighth episode when the group is split up (along with a fourth companion) and having to bide time until a crisis passes. There are two parallel conversations going on that when taken together, gain a level of insight and context that would not be possible if the group were all seated together conversing. It’s just one glimpse at the potential for the series. When (not if) season two is announced, I hope we see at least a 13 episode order. It’s clear there’s enough character and story to fill more space than Ehasz and crew were given for season one.
Visually, the show is bright and vibrant with fantastic art direction, choreography, and cinematography. All of the characters visually stand out from one another, even if they fill a similar role within the universe, and are often marked by subtle visual clues that link their personality to their role in the story. The Dragon Prince makes an unusual attempt to marry its 3D-rendered/animated models with a low-framerate animation style that’s meant to emulate traditional hand-drawn animation. It’s a bit jarring at first, but I found myself become accustomed to it by the end of the first episode, and by the end of the first season I no longer noticed at all. In fact, thanks to this approach, there’s a level of care to the animation that makes it feel unique. The end result is that each frame feels uniquely crafted. It’s gorgeous, and matches or exceeds anything in Avatar or Korra.
In many ways, the first season of The Dragon Prince feels like a prologue to a much larger work. Like an epic fantasy novel, we’ve been introduced to the principal players, given a taste of a much larger world, and set on a path toward an enormous, world-changing conflict. It feels like we’re seeing the Hobbits flee The Shire, only for things to fade to black as soon as they set foot on the Buckleberry Ferry. In other words, I’m desperate for season two now. This is also a nice change from The Legend of Korra, which wrapped up its seasonal storylines, and didn’t have quite the same lingering effect.
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API Algae Eater Premium Algae Wafers Ingredients Analysis
Primary ingredient is Wheat Flour. The next 3 ingredients, however, are preferred plant proteins. Combined with other preferred proteins located subsequently in the ingredient list (Squid Meal, Shrimp Meal, Mussel Meal) we can safely assume that the primary protein content of this food is sufficient for herbivores.
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How to win: Investing in Bitcoin and other cryptoassets in Nigeria
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One way or the other, most people have heard about bitcoin in Nigeria, even if they haven't fully understood the opportunity it provides.
If you live in Nigeria, you'll likely have heard adverts about Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies on the radio or seen posters of a cryptocurrency exchange trying to lure you to their platform.
Some people also have friends or relatives who have tried to convince them to start investing in bitcoin.
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Also, if you're already interested in investing in this asset class, there's a section where we explain how you can buy bitcoin in Nigeria.
Learning the fundamentals
It's important to start from the fundamentals, however. Not "what is blockchain"? or "what is cryptocurrency?" kind of basics, but helping you understand the potential for bitcoin and other cryptoassets.
Please, do understand that people often incorrectly categorise all cryptoassets as cryptocurrencies but as we'll see later in this article the word "cryptocurrency" only expresses a fraction of the innovation and opportunities available in the growing ecosystem.
We prefer the term cryptoassets. It is a word that accurately encapsulates the different characteristics and value of this new asset class.
Since cryptoassets are a new technological leap, expect to see some unfamiliar terms. Getting acquainted with these words could take some time. However, the basics you'll learn here gives you a good foundation.
Confusing media reports and risks...
With lots of confusing media reports about the value of bitcoin, is it worth getting into this space yet? Fair question.
You could even say the risks are just too high; it's easier to stay away and stick to only traditional investments for now.
You're right, the risks are high but remember all investment come with some element of risk. There's a positive correlation between the amount of risk and the potential for return. Understanding how to evaluate an asset's value and market fundamentals can help reduce some of that risk.
This article gives you a soft landing into the world of cryptoassets and bitcoin investment.
However, first, let's start with the frequently asked question:
Is bitcoin a fraud?
Bitcoin has been declared dead more than 300 times and called a fraud about the same number of times. Some media platforms have compared it to Ponzi schemes. Even the Nigerian central bank has distanced itself from cryptocurrencies.
Hence, it's fair if you also had some doubts about this new technology.
In 2014, Kaushik Basu's research paper for the World Bank profiled the origins of Ponzi schemes (the latest one being the Mavrodi Mundial Movement (MMM), one of the world's largest Ponzi schemes).
The World Bank research squashed the ignorant assertions and classification of Bitcoin as a form of Ponzi scheme.
“Contrary to a widely-held opinion, Bitcoin is not a deliberate Ponzi. And there is little to learn by treating it as such," the research paper said.
Moving beyond scams...
To understand Bitcoin you have to move beyond categorising Bitcoin as another MMM or a shadowy payment network used by criminals.
Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, wrote on the Fund's website that "it would not be wise to dismiss crypto-assets; we must welcome their potential but also recognise their risks."
Ernst & Young (EY), a global accounting firm, proudly proclaimed Bitcoin the future of money in a research in 2017. (EY Switzerland became the first "big four" accounting firm to accept bitcoin for its advisory and auditing services in late 2016).
Indeed, these global organisations would not waste their time and resources - or even put their reputation on the line - on a fraudulent asset with no growth potential.
Bitcoin and Cryptoassets: Where to start?
Let's talk about the unbelievable returns people are getting from cryptoassets since their emergence. That's what brought you here in the first place. You want to know how to make money investing in bitcoin. Right?
2017 biggest cryptoassets by profit
If you had bought 100, 000 naira worth of XRP on January 1, 2017. At the end of the year (31st December) you would have 36,118, 000 naira in your bank account as the return on your investment.
bitcoin price change 2011 to 2017
Ether price change 2016 to 2017
litecoin price change 2013 to 2018
Some cryptoassets have yielded massive returns for investors over the past few years; others, however, are outright fraud.
Moreover, how do we even explain this mania, or "bubble" as some would like to call it? Bitcoin investment appreciates more than 1, 000 per cent between 2016 and 2017, while investment in Ethereum during the same period was up about 9, 000 per cent. The total market capitalisation of all cryptoassets becomes ~$200 billion in less than nine years of the market's existence.
To get a sense of what’s going on, let’s look at the crowd mentality for the past two years.
Mob Mentality during the bull run
If you invested in Bitcoin or Ethereum in 2016, you are sitting on a windfall by mid-2017. You have excess money and feel smart and eager to sacrifice more than you otherwise would. Might as well diversify a bit and reap more gains from another cryptoasset, or two, or three.
Also, those that didn't invest earlier, the fear-of-missing-out continued to build until they eventually bought a popular cryptoasset. Many people just invested in these assets so as not to be left out. They jumped into the market and placed their bets on things that sounded complex and impressive.
“You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out," said Warren Buffet in one of his letters to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders.
Prices of bitcoin and ether are dropping...
Bitcoin and Ether performance between January and August
Unfortunately, prices began to drop and returns dwindled.
Consequently, some of those who went in without a good grasp of the long-term utility of cryptoassets sold their portion at a loss, losing some of their initial investments in the process.
It doesn't have to be this way. Speculating isn't bad, don't get us wrong.
It's way better when you are grounded in common sense to identify proper investments from bad ones; you need to build up your knowledge of cryptoassets and be able to recognise when buying opportunities exist and when it's just the madness of the crowd out there.
Fear of missing out (FOMO) is the all-consuming feeling of apprehension that you might be missing out on something others are enjoying.
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In the long-run, the public adoption of a cryptoasset project would determine its value. While it’s still early days, there's some justification for the high valuations because of the potential impact of these technologies.
Want to see how we evaluate and rate cryptoassets? We have also thrown in our cryptoassets evaluation tool.
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The conversations around Bitcoin in Nigeria often limit people's perspective about cryptoassets in general. Most Nigerians commonly think of all these assets as just cryptocurrencies, and this could also be true for people in other parts of the world too. Cryptocurrencies are just one of the types of cryptoassets.
Cryptoassets exist as a mechanism to allocate resources to a specific form of organisation, just like other traditional asset classes.
Corporate equities fund companies, government bonds fund nations, states and cities. Cryptoassets are a means of funding traditional and decentralised organisations.
Decentralised applications and organisations are a new model for developing, financing, and operating software services. They are much different from software as we know it today, and the organisations building them are operating with a decentralised structure.
More than half of all cryptoassets are not currencies.
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But why has there been so much confusion?
Bitcoin sparked the cryptoasset revolution, and its success opened the door to several other different innovative projects all powered by the blockchain technology - the decentralised digital ledger. However, Bitcoin continues to be the most popular cryptoasset, casting a massive shadow over other assets.
bitcoin market dominance 2018
Cryptoassets are divided into: cryptocurrencies, cryptocommodities and cryptotokens.
Infographic showing types of cryptoassets and market size
Barely 20 years ago, when you required information from someone - or you need to send something relevant to a friend - you would send a letter. If you were lucky, three weeks later you might get a reply.
However, today while you’re on the street corner you can send a message to someone in another country and get a reply before you even walk across the street.
The email and internet may appear commonplace now because we are used to it. However, it was an incredible leap then. They radically changed our perception of life. We even had to evolve new vocabulary -- spam, lol & hashtag.
So, why can't we extend that to payments?
Why do we have to wait for days before someone in another part of the world receives a transfer while still paying high transaction fees?
Cue Bitcoin
This new technology allows us to securely send money directly to each other without going through banks. Magical!
It uses cryptography (a system of encryption and decryption) to ensure security and a public ledger --blockchain -- to record each person's possession, deposits and withdrawals.
The currency transferred on this technology is the bitcoin.
Notice "Bitcoin" and "bitcoin"?
- "Bitcoin" is the software. Think the IOS or the Android operating system.
- "bitcoin" is the native digital asset on the software. This currency makes debit and credit entries possible on the Bitcoin software.
The Demand Side of bitcoin
Bitcoin had zero value when it was launched -- meaning it couldn't buy anything. The early adopters and supporters subjectively valued the currency. However, as the utility of the network proved reliable, it started facilitating e-commerce, remittances, and international business-to-business payments.
Alongside the growth in utility, investors started to speculate on the future use cases which creates demand for bitcoin.
How much is someone (a buyer) willing to pay for a certain quantity of bitcoin (the bid), and how much is another person (a seller) ready to receive to part with that quantity (the ask)? That is a template on investing in bitcoin. You buy and then hold till when others are ready to buy at a higher price, then you sell.
The Supply Side of bitcoin
Bitcoin's issuance model is key to its value.
Remember Bitcoin is a decentralised application for payments? So, then, how do we ensure the integrity of payments and records when there are no banks?
Usually, when we forward a file through the internet to someone else what we send is a copy, but we can't allow that happen with money.
How do we ensure that people can't keep a copy of the money they already sent or even game the system?
The breakthrough solution was to let entities compete to record transactions on a public ledger. However, the system has to avoid designating one entity in advance or using the same one for every batch of transactions.
Let’s call the entities competing for a chance to record transaction “miners.”
Also, to ensure true decentralisation, anyone can join this contest at any time because the code and network are open.
Still, how do we still ensure the integrity of records since random guys are now recording transactions instead of a central authority?
The system tasks these so-called miners to find a random number generated by the network. The number is tough to find, and the fastest way to solve it is to use tons of computer processing power and burn through electricity.
Why this difficult process?
It's just to be sure the competitors have incurred a real financial cost. With that we can be sure if they win the race to find the random number, they won’t use that power for manipulating transactions.
Instead, they carefully scan each pending transaction and ensure all rules are followed and broadcast that validated batch to the rest of the network.
If they follow the rules, the network is programmed to reward them with newly minted bitcoins, plus the transaction fees, in bitcoin, paid by the senders.
Economic Interest of Miners
For the first four years of Bitcoin's life, a lucky miner was rewarded 50 bitcoin for winning a batch of transactions. However, the difficulty of this process is re-calibrated automatically every two weeks with the goal of keeping the amount of time between batches of transactions at an average of 10 minutes.
In the first year of bitcoin running, 300 bitcoins were released per hour (60 minutes, 10 minutes per batch, 50 bitcoins issued per batch), 7, 200 bitcoins per day, and 2.6 million bitcoin per year.
These miners sell their bitcoins to anyone willing to buy so they can recover their capital expenditure. The margin between the cost incurred and the selling price of the bitcoin is the profit for participating in the contest.
Ultimately, miners follow the standardised rules of the technology because it is in their economic self-interest to do the right thing. Just like it's in the best interest of any private business to do the right thing that puts them in a position to make profit year-on-year.
bitcoin supply and market size
Bitcoin's supply maxes out at 21 million units by 2140. This maximum limit is a function of dividing the units of supply released by a factor of 2 every four years.
Other Cryptocurrencies
Within a couple of years of the launch of Bitcoin, other developers worked on new cryptocurrency platforms that fixed some deficiencies of the Bitcoin protocol.
Birth of altcoins
Altcoins are alternatives to Bitcoin. These other cryptocurrencies aim to solve the limitations of the Bitcoin protocol - and they can do that because the protocol is open-source. These cryptocurrencies operate similar to Bitcoin but now require their own set of developers to manage it and a different digital ledger to keep track of the debits and credits of the new digital asset.
Litecoin, XRP, Dogecoin, Dash, Monero and ZCash all fall under this category. We have a post on XRP that gets you started investing in the asset.
The demand side of altcoins maintain the same principle as Bitcoin, but most have a different supply side.
Chris Burniske and Jack Tatar, in their book Cryptoassets: The Innovative Investor's Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond, aptly defined cryptocommodities as assets "provisioning raw digital resources." They are raw materials that serve as inputs into finished products.
We are used to physical commodities like wheat, oil, cocoa and rubber. However, to assume commodities can only be physical ignores the digital trend occurring in every aspect of the world's economy. Some of the digital products we have now include storage capacity, compute power and network bandwidth.
The largest cryptocommodity is Ethereum. It's a decentralised world computer upon which you can build decentralised applications. Ethereum provides a tangible digital resource that developers can use to create consumer-facing digital products and services.
You may have heard of “initial coin offerings” (ICOs). Most of the projects offering ICO are on the Ethereum platform.
Ether is the native cryptoasset on Ethereum’s software. The currency is used to compensate people who contributed their computing resources to the network and incentivise developers to write applications on the software.
Other interesting cryptocommodities that function similar to the Ethereum are EOS, Ethereum Classic, Neo and Waves.
The native assets on the decentralised applications built on cryptocommodities are called cryptotokens. These decentralised applications mostly provide a consumer-facing product or service.
The consumer-facing products in the digital world include social media and games. Cryptotokens give consumers access to these products.
You can exchange your cryptotokens for specific services like distributed storage, video game and social media applications.
Example: If a developer plans to launch a decentralised video game that requires the use of in-game currency. This currency could be offered to investors to raise money to develop the game. Investors (future users or speculators) can buy these tokens at the time of the initial offering if they believe in the potential of the game to attract future users.
Finally, software-as-a-service or video games are not new; Electronic payments too. What’s new is that everyone in that gaming community can own them.
How to buy and sell bitcoin in Nigeria
Purchasing a cryptoasset (Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Litecoin and XRP) with cash can be as easy as buying groceries in a shopping mall.
There are platforms on the web that offer the opportunity to buy - and also sell - your cryptoassets at any point in time.
Buying Bitcoin in Nigeria through an exchange
The easiest way to buy cryptoassets with Naira is on a centralised exchange. Guava Digital Assets, Luno, NairaEx and NGExchanger are some of the familiar cryptocurrency exchanges in Nigeria.
Guava exchange, for example, offers you a simple interface to buy bitcoin in Nigeria. We help busy people learn about, invest in and manage digital assets in a safe and secure environment. All you need to do is create an account and verify your identity. After that, you can buy bitcoin, Ether or XRP with your bank account details.
Guava bitcoin signup process
You can sell bitcoin in pretty much any exchange you bought your cryptoasset.
Selling through an exchange
If you’ve bought from an exchange before, then you should already have an account. If you’re happy to sell your asset through your account there, then you’ve already completed the first steps.
However, if for some reason you don’t want to use the exchange you bought from; or if you did not acquire your asset through an exchange, but you do want to sell through one. Then you need to open an account with the cryptocurrency exchange that you want to use.
It’s important to evaluate your options in advance as most exchanges typically have security and anti-money laundering procedures they carry out with new customers. That process can take time -- a day or two.
Creating a "sell" order
Once verified on an exchange, then you need to create a "sell order." That authorises the exchange to help you sell your asset at a given rate. Some cryptocurrency exchanges allow you to add a limit. That means you can abort the sale if the price falls below a certain amount that wouldn't be profitable.
Cryptocurrency exchanges, however, offer different sell rates. Could be based on the volume of buyers and sellers on the exchange and how much they are currently willing to buy a specific cryptocurrency.
Trading Pairs
You can trade your bitcoins for Ether, XRP, Litecoin and other cryptoassets. Similarly, you can trade your Ether for other cryptoassets including bitcoin.
Many centralised exchanges let you trade for other assets directly. Examples are Bittrex, CoinEx and Binance.
Which exchange should I use?
These are some of the things to examine before choosing an exchange:
- Security
The steady growth of Bitcoin in Nigeria and exchanges mean new security challenges might begin to spring up. No one likes to lose their money. Find out whether the exchange you intend to register with has been previously hacked or not, and what their security process is.
For example, most exchanges would demand a 2FA code each time you attempt to use their website. Also, if your IP address changes from the regular one to a new address, the system verifies you before you log in.
- Customer Service
Customer service is a challenge for most exchanges. Even the most reputable exchanges are fraught with customer service challenge.
However, this an essential factor. An exchange must be able to resolve its customers’ issues within the shortest possible time.
- Cryptoassets listed on the exchange
Some cryptocurrency exchange offer just bitcoin and ether. It would help if you looked out for exchanges that provide more coins to give you the opportunity to diversify your investment.
Peer-to-peer exchanges
These exchanges match buyers with sellers to trade directly. The sellers get to set their price and how they want to receive their payment.
LocalBitcoins is a typical example. It works worldwide as an advertising community board for users to agree on a price beforehand and then trade.
It might seem dangerous as it involves strangers, but it is still popular and has excellent reviews from users. You have to figure out a way to store your cryptoasset yourself if you intend on using a peer-to-peer exchange.
Storing your cryptoassets
How do you secure your Bitcoin investments? That is what this section predominantly answers. The buying and storage of cryptoassets are two separate decisions. When you buy from an online exchange though, they help you store your cryptoassets.
What does it even mean to store your cryptoasset?
Each cryptoasset comes with a private key that proves your ownership. You can think of a private key as a string of digits the network uses to validate whether you own a portion of cryptoasset or not.
So, if someone were to know your private key, they would also have access to your asset, and that is dangerous in the hands of the wrong person.
Your private key is what needs to be secured. That key can be in a hot wallet or cold storage.
Don't let these new terms rattle you. It's simple.
Hot Wallet
This wallet works with the Internet. It means you can access your cryptoassets directly through a web browser, or through a desktop or mobile application connected to the Internet. Also means you are susceptible to online hackers.
Cold Storage
You can disconnect this storage from the internet. The private key would have to be physically stolen to gain access to your cryptoasset.
If you don't want to store your cryptoassets on an exchange, you should consider one of the following wallet options:
Web Wallets
They aren't so different from exchanges. Your private keys are still outside your control and in the hands of a centralised third party. You can access a web wallet from anywhere. A web wallet provider makes you set a password which it uses to encrypt your wallet on its server.
Desktop Wallets
This wallet is a software application downloaded on your personal computer. The private key is now on your computer. You have full control of your key. There are two different types of these applications. Examples are Electrum, Exodus, Coinomi and Jaxx.
Mobile Wallets
These wallets store the private key on your smartphone. You can use them on the go should you need to transfer your asset to friends, pay for transactions at shops that accept bitcoin in Nigeria. A few popular ones include Airbitz and Breadwallet.
Hardware Wallets
These keep private keys secure on a dedicated hardware device. There are different types. While some offer a full suite of key generation, storage, and sending capabilities; others used as an extra layer of transaction confirmation security, and there are those you still have to plug into a computer to work.
Hardware wallets don't often support a wide array of cryptoassets and are more expensive than other wallet types because they require specific hardware engineering.
Some of the commercial hardware wallets include Ledger Nano S, KeepKey, Pi Wallet and Trezor.
Paper Wallets
It is an offline wallet usually made out of paper or other items that have a printable space. There are free web services that can generate a printable wallet for you.
The general security advice would be to clear your browser after printing and delete the copy of the paper wallet from your computer or phone.
Examples of cryptoasset wallets
Web Wallet
Desktop Wallet
Mobile Wallet
Hardware Wallet
Bitcoin, Bonpay, Gatehub
Exodus, Electrum,Bitcoin Core, Armoury, Coinomi, Jaxx
Myceliu, Airbitz
Ledger Nano S, KeepKey, Pi Wallet, Trezor
MyEtherWallet,, MyCrypto
Mist, Exodus
LykkeWallet, Edge
Ledger Nano S
Ledger Blue
Bitcoin Cash
Ledger Blue
Ledger Blue
Ledger Blue
How to make money with bitcoin and mitigating risks
Bitcoin Investment
Investing in bitcoin is about taking long-term positions, focusing more on asset fundamentals than immediate profits/returns. An uncomplicated approach to investing overtime is through dollar cost averaging.
Dollar cost averaging (DCA)
According to Investopedia, this is an investment technique of buying a fixed amount of a particular investment on a regular schedule, regardless of an asset's price.
Instead of investing a lump sum, an investor can build their investment portfolio over time. In doing this, you may buy at the peak but also buy all the way to the bottom.
Example of how to use DCA
(This example's adapted from
Let's assume you buy 10,000 worth of bitcoin in Nigeria on the first of each month. Let's make the assumption, for convenience sake, that the price of bitcoin on the beginning of each month was as follows:
• January: $20
• February: $16
• March: $12
• April: $17
• May: $23
(Another assumption we'll make is 1 naira = 1 dollar)
On the first day of each month, the number of bitcoin purchased each month is equal to:
• January = 10,000 naira / $20 = 500
• Febuary = 10,000 naira / $16 = 625
• March = 10,000 naira/ $12 = 833.3
• April = 10,000 naira/ $17 = 588.2
• May = 10,000 naira/ $23 = 434.8
As a result of using DCA, the total number of bitcoins the investor now own is 2,981.3. Also, the average price paid for each of that bitcoin is $16.77. If the investor decides to sell off all his bitcoins at the current price of $23 in May, this means an original investment of 10,000 has turned into 68, 570 naira (rounded up to the nearest whole number).
Returns on your Bitcoin investment
If you had invested all 10,000 naira on one of those months instead of spreading the investment across five months, the total profitability of the position would be higher or lower than 68, 570 naira depending on the month chosen for the investment.
What should you consider before investing?
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission advises to:
1. Draw a personal financial roadmap.
Before making any investment decision, take an honest look at your current financial situation.
Figure out your goals and risk tolerance – either on your own or with the help of a financial advisor. Bitcoin and other cryptoassets fall in the category of risky assets.
Before you make any investment decision, sit down and take an honest look at your entire financial situation.
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2. Evaluate your comfort zone in taking on risk.
All sound investments involve some degree of risk. The money you invest in cryptoassets is not federally insured or guaranteed. You could lose the amount you've invested.
The reward for taking on risk is always the potential for a higher investment return.
3. Consider an appropriate mix of investments.
Including asset categories with investment returns that move up and down under different market conditions within a portfolio can help an investor protect against significant losses.
When you invest in more than one asset category, you'll reduce the risk of losing all your money. Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
5. Consider dollar cost averaging.
We explained how to do that above.
6. Consider rebalancing portfolio occasionally.
This technique involves bringing your portfolio back to your original asset allocation mix. It ensures your portfolio does not overemphasise one or more asset categories.
It also forces you to buy low and sell high.
Also, you can do this on a regular time interval, such as every six or twelve months; or when the relative weight of an asset class increases or decreases more than a certain percentage that you've identified in advance.
7. Avoid circumstances that can lead to fraud.
Always take your time before investing.
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language of the south of France in the Middle Ages, the language of the troubadours (Provençal is one of its principal branches), 1660s, from French langue d'oc "speech of the south of France," literally "the language of 'yes,' " from oc, the word used south of the Loire for "yes," which is from Latin hoc "this," which in Vulgar Latin came to mean "yes" (see oui). The name also was given to one of the provinces where it was spoken. Opposed to langue d'oïl, from the way of saying "yes" in the north of France, from Old French oïl (Modern French oui). The langue d'oïl developed into standard Modern French. Related: Languedocian.
Langue d'oc was truer to Latin than Old French or Castilian Spanish were, and had fewer Germanic words. Dante considered it a separate language, and it and the northern French were not always mutually intelligible. Jonathan Sumption's "The Albigensian Crusade" [Faber and Faber, 1978] refers to a court official at Albi "who in 1228 referred to a seal as bearing an inscription in 'French or some other foreign language.'" The French authorities began to repress langue d'oc in 16c. | <urn:uuid:ac527a94-0a6b-4337-9986-5eb4a0b851f7> | https://www.etymonline.com/word/Languedoc | en | 0.962099 | 0.46027 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
1-Man’s Opinion on Sports-Wednesday “NFL-Do These Players Deserve Second Chances?”
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“Do People Deserve Second Chances?”
It’s a question always being asked, and now so this week in places like Cincinnati and Oakland.
History in the NFL is filled with players who had lots of problems. Some were given 2nd chances and did well, others self-destructed.
The Rams drafted running back Lawrence Phillips, who had a career track record of violent outbursts, but was allowed to play at Nebraska. Cornhuskers coach Tom Osborn warred with the media who inquired why Phillips was on the team after a violent outburst with a woman he was dating, dragging her by the hair down a stairwell.
Osborn was furious when asked, ‘what if it had been your daughter, would you have let him return to the team?”
A social misfit, Phillips played, was drafted by the Rams, and washed out with more violent incidents off the field. He killed himself in prison last year.
Christian Peter, another Nebraska star, was drafted by the Patriots, but the owner ordered his release, because of a violent incident with a woman in college. He never played again.
Tight end Jeremy Stevens had alcohol and legal issues at Washington, but was drafted. Given lots of chances, he could never stay out of trouble, and was soon gone.
The list goes on and on, including a series of Cowboys draft picks, most recently drug craving pass rusher Randy Gregory.
In the NFL, Adrian Peterson was allowed to return, after an ugly child-beating incident. Carolina’s Greg Hardy, involved in a bad domestic abuse case, resurfaced in Dallas, but lasted one year.
Ray Rice never got his career back after the 1-punch video while with the Baltimore Ravens. Ex-49er-Raider Aldon Smith remains out of the league because he can’t stay out of trouble.
The league has been harsh with multiple time drug offenders like the Browns talented and troubled wide receiver Josh Gordon, and many more.
It leads us to where they are today, with Oklahoma running back Joe Mixon and Raiders cornerback Gareon Conley. The Bengals are taking enormous heat for the Mixon pick. Conley is professing innocence and the Raiders said they did all their due diligence.
The video of Mixon sucker punching his girlfriend, shattering 4-bones in her face, is hideous. It was worse that the Ray Rice video.
Conley issue is so called consensual sex, a ‘he said-she said’ case.
The NFL, which has taken stern measures against players who break the law, domestic abuse, DUI, drugs, guns, says it does not have the power to discipline players for what they did in college.
The Bengals believe they have to give Mixon his second chance, not out of Mike Brown’s benevolance, but rather the running back’s gifts. They did the same thing with troubled linebacker Vontaze Berfect.
Yes, the NFL cannot discipline them coming into the league, but you can believe, they will keep an open file, and if those players, or others with troubles, step out of line, once they step into the NFL, the sanctions will be severe.
Do they deserve second chances? I guess so. But Joe Mixon and people of his ilk better understand, second chance is a last chance, for them even if they are in the NFL.
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Friday, 30 March 2012
My life lately.
I purchased this delightful little headband. :)
Packed up some of my old clothes and shipped them to my cousin.
Took the most amazing photo of Phoebe!
Gave Joey a piece of apple which he didn't eat, yet he insisted on
guarding it to keep it away from Phoebe. :D
Worked on a group assignment with my besties. :)
Picked up my trial set of monthly contact lenses. So far so good, although
they tend to make me tear up when sitting in front of the computer screen.
1. Aw your dogs are cutee(: I am kind of afraid to wear contact lenses because so many people get infections:/ so I stick to my glasses(: ha
2. Have you had contacts before? I just finished a trial too.. just feels like there's something in my eye all the time (which there is I guess) :(
3. Love the picture of Pheobe, your pups are so cute! :)
Frances x
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4. Hi! I'm a new follower, and just happened to stumble across your blog! It's so cute! Your dogs are adorable :) Also, noticed in your about me that you live on the Gold Coast, and are studying Bachelor of Education (primary) and i'm also living on the Gold Coast studying Education (primary)!
Anyway just wanted to say hi!
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I shall have him be killed.
She is to be stoned for adultery.
What are the constructions be +verb called, grammatically? I feel like the above sentences are very adjectival in nature, more so than
I shall have him killed.
She will be stoned for adultery.
Is that correct? Also, are both couplets of sentences in the exact same future tense?
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I would not regard I shall have him be killed as correct. She is to be stoned for adultery puts the emphasis on stoning as a punishment rather than an event. – Henry Apr 23 '11 at 12:32
@Henry I believe Robusto told me it was grammatical, I was unsure myself. – Uticensis Apr 23 '11 at 14:21
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The construction with have (and also with make) is usually referred to as a causal construction. Then be + verb is usually referred to simply as a passive infinitive. It isn't usually necessary to invent a special term for infinitives, passive or otherwise, in causal constructions.
As a side issue, it's worth noting that if you use make, the infinitive is introduced by to when it is passive but not when it is active. So the sentnces below marked with (*) are ungrammatical:
I made him cry.
*I made him to cry.
*He was made cry.
He was made to cry.
However, even in this case, there isn't usually a special term for the infinitive: it's just a (passive or active) infinitive.
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Copula is the word used for a connecting word, in particular a form of the verb be connecting a subject and complement.
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18 June 2011
The Undefeated, early showing
Palin's film, The Undefeated, was shown to the Right Online convention in MN this weekend. It will be released in Iowa (and a few other states?) on July 15th, rivaling the premiere of the last Harry Potter movie. Har har.
It is important to note that the movie was produced by an independent film maker, and Palin had nothing personally to do with it other than writing the book on which it is based, Going Rogue. Palin's voice over work in the film was taken from her audiobook. Perhaps to maintain distance and to provide the film with indy cred, Palin did not give the audio to the filmmaker. He had to buy it, just like anyone else would.
Obama on Seal Team 6: In His Own Words
yoinked from Tom O'Halloran
Directive 10-289
In Ayn Rand's magnum opus Atlas Shrugged, a devolving economy fueled by crony capitalism and misplaced moralism destroy our country. Moral capitalists attempt to save the world while others refuse to contribute to its demise (thereby going underground).
This is a must read for anyone paying attention to the world today. This is a must reread for any Rand lovers. This is a must re/read for anyone paying attention to the world today who dislikes Rand. Lastly, this is a must read for anyone who has ever chanted "This is what democracy looks like."
About midway through the book, after the shadow government has passed myriad directives meant to improve the economy by limiting those participating in the economy and subsequently worsened the economy, the cronies bring out Directive 10-289. Even they are nervous about it, nor do they know (or care) if it is legal. When it is introduced to the public, it is clouded in "for the public's good" phrases that bring to mind contemporary phrases like "social justice."
The actual purpose of Directive 10-289 is, essentially, to freeze the economy to give the great crony minds time to figure out how to solve the problem without the economy getting worse while they work on their plan. (And, of course, to allow the cronies to remain in power. All that they do has the underlying purpose of remaining in power.)
The problem, of course, is that the economy is a living thing that can only be halted via death. Like any mighty beast, it also needs the freedom to move as it pleases; more restrictions lead to a psychotic beast that is difficult to predict and even more difficult to contain. Some animals can never be tamed. Some animals were never meant to live in cages. Rand's cronies did not understand this, nor do our modern cronies.
Point One. The right to have a job. No one can be fired, no one can switch jobs, and all children will be assigned a job by the government when they turn 21.
This is What Democracy Looks Like, vol #38947203527
Here a Hitler, There a Hitler, Everywhere a Hitler Hitler
I have had it up to here with the union's Nazi rhetoric. First thing the Nazis did, they took away the unions... it took WWII to get rid of Hitler... what will it take to get rid of ["union buster" du jour]...
In Hitler's own words, unions were an essential part of his master plan.
Mein Kampf:
Bing Bang Bam. And pbbbbb.
Hot Air June Poll
Palin, Perry: lookin' good.
Check out the purty graphs and data here.
Breitbart crash a Coffee Party?
Mediate says yes... and no.
I say, Brietbart's balls are so big that they oughta be tweeted.
Will she or won't she??
Is Sarah Palin running? In case I've not yet done so here, I want to go on the record with my prediction. Palin will announce her intentions to run for president during a Fourth of July celebration.
Til then, she will tease us mercilessly. And we will eat it up like Augustus Gloop.
Libya: Is an impeachment pending?
The NYT ran an article about the whole Libya fiasco. No, not that we're involved with a war (or whatever ya wanna call it). It's the War Powers Act, and Obama's desire to do whatever the fuck he wants to do, the Constitution be damned.
Hot Air sums it up thus
What they’re basically saying here, without actually saying it, is that the president’s own lawyers told him that the Libya war is illegal and he responded by looking around for other lawyers who’d tell him what he wanted to hear.
Glenn Beck & Van Jones: Am I the Asshole?
I got the video and link from this post off Twitter, where people are tweeting that Van Jones has challenged Beck to a debate in his last days on Fox.
Yep, Van Jones wants to debate Glenn Beck. Asshole.
Here's the article from Think Progress, and its accompanying video.
"I issue a personal challenge to my beloved brother Glenn Beck. I will debate you anytime, anywhere, at any point. I'll give you an hour, you give me five minutes, and I will stand up for our values. But you have to stop talking [expletive] about us and start talking to us. You got one week left before your show goes off. My phone is ringing. Call me. Call me, Glenn Beck. And let's have this fight. Let's have this discussion. Let's have this argument. Let's have this battle of ideas. Battle of ideas. And let's fight for liberty and justice for all."
Van Jones wants to debate Glenn Beck?
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New is Always Better: "Jumbo Jim's Grape Scotch. Don't Let It Touch Your Skin"
New Coke, Ghostbusters 2... why depend on the originals when New is ALWAYS better? Why get back to basics when Van Jones wants us to REbuild the American dream?
In no particular order...
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annaironside RT @wiartteacher#YouMightBeAWisconsinProtester you know every product Koch makes.
G0vSWalker If you can look at a map and mentally fill in the reds and blues#youmightbeawisconsinprotester
MollyMag #YoumightbeaWisconsinprotester if you have ever thanked the cops "guarding" the Capitol or seen them carrying signs the next day
BattiestGrrl If your spouse has ever referred to him/herself as a #WalkervilleWidow/er, #YouMightBeAWisconsinProtester
4SHCrane #YouMightBeAWisconsinProtester if you sing #wiunion songs while mowing the lawn
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Sunday, December 31, 2017
Winter Outdoor Workouts
Aging Up - "This business about aging is a sore point with me. People seem to think that because you get to a certain age, you should act in a certain manner. I never did it when I was young, I'll be damned if I'm going to do it when I'm getting older. If I finish the Ironman, and I'm an Ironman, then I can die happily." Jimmy Stokes (yes, Ironman Finisher, when interviewed before his first and only iron distance attempt)
"There are some men (and women) for whom the unattainable has a special attraction. Usually they are not experts: their ambitions and fantasies are strong enough to brush aside doubts which more cautious men might have. Determination and faith are their strongest weapons. At best such men are regarded as eccentric, at worst, mad..." -Walt Unsworth
In my world, they call such people...Triathletes!
Happy New Year
Yes, You Can Workout Outside in January
This is the time of year when many folks, the non-believers as it were, think we're nuts. "What, you're going outside to run in this kind of weather, why you must be ______ ." Fill in the blank with the word you've heard most recently.
We typically spend the Christmas holidays in Chicago and on Christmas Eve, when our 25 year old son went out for a morning run, at 0 as in z-e-r-o degrees, grandma was after him like flies on flypaper. "How about this wool hat? Those gloves couldn't be thick enough. Would you like this scarf?" Etc. And she meant well. But with a little trial and error, you can still run outdoors providing the footing is safe and visibility OK. In the car vs runner arena, the car still wins.
Toe box blocked from the wind with duct tape.
It's been said that you heat up 10-15 degrees once you get going so that's in your corner and a friend tells me "There's no such thing as bad weather, only bad gear." Many of us have other issues like Raynauds Syndrome which you can compensate for or a cold/flu which you cannot and should wait till completely healed before out of doors exercise. I didn't mention that men can get frostbite of their private parts if they don't make allowances for it with their gear. Take it from the voice of experience, "It hurts big time!" says one local athlete. Avoidance is best.
Knowing the expected weather as accurately as you can before you open the door is important. Chemical hand and toe warmers are absolutely essential for some of us and learning the number and make up of your clothing layers makes the next run even easier. Thinking "would a turtle neck or scarf be important today? Gloves or mittens? A running waist belt with your cell phone just in case you get in a jam and need some help will probably never be needed, but that one time......
There are those who live in the country who feel it important to give their proposed running route on very cold or snowy days and an approximate time they expect to be back home to a friend or relative. I can't say that's a bad idea at all. It might also be a time when you take one more step ensuring your visibility. How about a bright yellow outer layer or strobe light on the back of your belt. Since you're already moving, most folks I see use the light in the non-strobe mode. (Makes me think about those little kids you see at the mall or the airport where every time they take a step there's a flash of light from their shoes. Wish they had them when I was little.)
Biking is the same but the relative "wind chill" and lack of toe motion need to be accounted for. Shoe covers, booties, balaclavas, mittens with hand warmers and a reminder that although your thirst drive on cold days is pretty low, you can still get dehydrated. Water bottles can freeze so a couple bucks in that waist belt for a pit stop at 7-11 for the beverage of your choice usually works. Lastly, being ultra careful and attendant to your road surface, black ice, and cars that may have difficulty seeing you put you on the offensive for winter.
But if you still have questions, head back to your local running shoe specialty shop. Probably not your generic sporting goods store. But you don't buy your running shoes at a sporting goods store anyway. Most likely the run shoe store sales team is made up of runners - who've had their outdoor exercise for the day already - and would be only too happy to discuss cold hands and feet ,wool socks, mittens, caps and the like. It's runners talking about running. Doing the thing they like second best.
So, from the Post family to yours, Happy New Year, happy and successful training, and here's to a (hopefully) injury free 2018.
Wednesday, December 20, 2017
Triathletes Alcohol-Free for January. Want to Participate?
OK folks, here's round three. Ready for this one? In January 2015 and 2016 we went alcohol free for the entire month of January. I wrote it up for IRONMAN last year and it was well received. So well, in fact, that it seems logical to do it again. On the Mayo Clinic web site then, the question was posed;
"Does drinking alcohol kill brain cells?"
This was their answer:
Alcohol is a neurotoxin that can disrupt communications of the brain. It also affects functions of brain cells directly and indirectly through different organ dysfunction from alcohol usage and vitamin deficiency. Depending on the area of the brain affected, people can have different symptoms. Abusing alcohol can lead to seizure, stroke and dementia to name just a few conditions. Additionally, alcohol is toxic to a developing brain during pregnancy and can cause birth defects, including developmental disorders with lifelong impact.
Maybe that warning should come on your post-ride Mojito. Then again, maybe not. So, do I drink? Sure. I'll have a glass of wine while cooking dinner some nights, beer on the weekends or at the Tap House watching the Patriots (Aaak, not the Patriots!), a mixed drink or two at a party. Moderation in all things though. Some athletes feel that having a dry January is an important first step to their training year. It gives them one more thing in sport that they have complete control over.To them it makes a statement about commitment to the triathlon lifestyle. Not unlike a Tweet I put up recently about food which went this way:
Food - a choice. Pleasure if I eat it.
Pleasure if I don't eat it. I'll stay true to my core values, I'll feel strong, I'll feel proud, I'll feel I'm doing something meaningful.*
So we're talking about the whole month here, no alcohol. Birthday parties, NFL playoffs, dinner out at a nice restaurant, nada. Abstinence.
I know that some athletes make a point of taking 2-3 days per week where they don't imbibe. I've read that other triathletes report that a month away from alcohol can be a life altering, life improving adventure.
Believe it on not, I used to smoke. A lot. I was a Marine Corps helicopter pilot overseas and a primary helicopter instructor for the Navy when I returned from Vietnam. There's a fair amount of down time there. But I went from 2+ packs of Marlboros a day to zero the day I got accepted to medical school. Haven't had one since. And that was a good while ago. It was certainly life altering for me and my family. Oh yeah, and I discovered triathlon!
Getting back to this January challenge, I'd suspect that for some of us this won't be easy. In fact, I'm sure it will be quite a challenge. For example let's look at Alan, a 40 something year old tech guy who's been in triathlon going on seven years. He drinks wine with dinner virtually every night and a cocktail or two, maybe 3, over the weekends when dining out. He is well past his college days, thus flaming shots and Jager bombs are ancient history. So for Alan, taking this January challenge is just part of his long range plan to prepare him for the upcoming racing season. He doesn't see this as detoxing, just a desire to see if he can do it. What he's learned is that in addition to changing his relationship with alcohol, it changed his life for the better. And, as an unexpected side effect, he got faster. Woowee!
So are you curious? Me too. If it's anything like smoking cessation, the first week will be quite difficult requiring dedication and focus to get on the other side. But by mid January, Alan says "You feel brighter, cleaner." You're even in a better mood. The recipe for success starts with New Years eve and not guzzling everything in sight. It will make day one easier. Then on your first day, give away or pour out the beverages you most commonly consume. You're less likely to slip that way.
One author wrote that when you choose to be dry for the month, a lot of people "including your close friends" will be surprisingly nonsupportive and give you a hard time about it. I'm not sure I accept that. Maybe it says more about his "friends" than yours or mine. They're certainly not into triathlon! He even went so far as recommending in some social situations that you pretend you're on antibiotics and can't drink. Maybe that's OK for some but I doubt I'd do it.
So, are you with me? Alan says that after January with no booze that you might just do the same with February. It's a short month, remember? So let's liken this to bike inspection at our first triathlon. You were a little nervous, might have made a mistake or two during the race. At the end, though, you were all smiles. I'm thinking come the end of the month you'll be all smiles. So I'm up for giving it a try. Are you with me?
The Calorie Myth, Jonathan BailorFre
Sunday, December 10, 2017
Why T2 is the Important One, Especially in Ironman & 70.3 Racing
T2, a time to regroup, assess status and plan for the run
Fresh off the bike, a smile on her face, she's ready to run
Aren't people nice? I had a root canal done about 15 years ago and got a call from the doctor's office telling me that he was doing a study and would I possibly be available for a follow up xray. Reluctantly, I agreed having been in that position before putting together lectures and am always grateful when patients will go out of their way to help out. When I got to the oral surgeon's office, he mentioned, "I think about you almost every day."
"Right, I believe that!" I replied. "No, really I do. You taught me that copious irrigation, really wash
ing out surgical wounds the way you ortho guys do, would decrease my infection rate. And you were right. So whenever I operate on a patient, I think I'm doing the John Post wash out."
While I thanked him very much, my suggestion was hardly original. However, if I saved any patients from an infection, then it was more than worth it.
The same thing is true in triathlon. How often, say before a race, are you just sitting in transition waiting, and you see another athlete with different tires, or a funny transition area set up and you ask her, "say, why do you do that?" People are very willing to share this information with you. If fact, they consider it a true compliment that you might wish to emulate them. So for the remainder of your tri career, every time you set your transition area up like you learned that day, you could tell that athlete, "right, I think about you almost every race."
Slow transition? SlowWhadya mean my transition is slow?
T2 - A Place to Regroup
I've always thought that T1 and T2 served different functions in longer races. In a sprint, my goal is to have the absolute fastest transitions, both of them, in my age group. If you've read this blog previously, you know that I preach repeatedly that giving away time in transition is just plain dumb for the serious triathlete. I enter the race thinking, "how close to 1 minute can I make each of these discipline changes?" And just like practicing flat tire changing, rehearsing transitions before ever race is just plain smart racing.
But, in a 70.3 (when did the half ironman get that title? When WTC wanted to corner a larger part of the long distance market. Charlottesville, VA attorney and 2004 Kona finisher Mike Hemenway said "nobody wants to do a half anything. They should call it 70.3.")
or 140.6 race, the transition areas take on a whole new significance. Especially at the Iron distance.
In these longer duration contests, frequently larger races, fewer athletes may be aiming for the podium. The remainder just want to finish with a respectable performance and the ability to maintain a near normal gait pattern the next day. T1 after a 1.2 or 2.4 mile swim is the same. Animated chatter with the volunteers, see how fast can you get into biking mode after a refreshing morning dip with 2500 of your closest friends, and get a heaping dose of sunscreen to head for your waiting 2 wheeled steed.
112 miles later, with dried salt on your bike outfit, a nutrition plan that may or may not have worked as well as planned, maybe a little less enthusiasm or brightness than upon completion of the swim, you enter T2. For some, like T1, it's continued press. Push, push, push. But for the remainder of us, T2 can be race changing. It can be a big contributor to race success.
On one hand, especially for first timers, Iron distance racing may now seem a whole lot harder than first imagined last winter filling out the entry on line with one of your kids in your lap. It's supposed to be. But with this brief interlude, like the mango sorbet you get between courses to cleanse your palate at a fancy restaurant, you can clear your brain of the past few hours and focus squarely on the upcoming run. For some it can be almost spiritual as they blast out of T2 teasing the volunteers who are putting even more sunscreen on you pointing toward the transition exit and the first steps of the marathon. Even those athletes who may have experienced self doubt and possibly considered turning in their chip feel this rejuvenation. Stimulation is a good thing.
This will sound odd, but for those of you who've been around for a good while, you'll remember that T1 in Kona was on the pier and T2 was at the old Kona Surf Hotel some 7 miles to the south in the golfers locker room. What made this T2 cool was that you were encouraged to take a full shower in the golfers shower room before your run. Soap on a rope anyone?
Then you remember why you signed up for this crazy adventure, and another athlete pulls up along side you smiling. "Care to run a little?" you're asked. "Why sure," you answer. The finish line may be a good ways away, but a journey of a thousand miles begins with.....
Image 1, Google Images
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
Posterior Tibial Tendon Disease, A Triathlete's Cure
Posterior Tibial Tendon Induced Ankle Pain
I answer a lot of athlete's questions, many from coach referrals, some from various publications like Joe Friel's Triathlete's Training Bible. I rarely get follow up, especially follow up that's designed to help other athletes. But Stacy is different and if you have a PTT problem, read on and you may be able to benefit from her experience.
Dear Dr. Post:
Throughout my years of running (and injuries!), I noticed no one ever seems to come back to message boards or threads to update when things actually go well. I wanted to provide a little hope to some folks.
I originally posted back in May of this year (scroll up for the dirty details)* and I truly believe that time and keeping your calves stretched are the "magic potion" to dealing with this obnoxious injury. I did get both softer, "accommodative" orthotics and a pair of rigid ones. The softer ones fit perfectly into my Allbirds and took enough pressure off the PTT to allow me to walk around like a normal person without any pain. That alone was worth the cost, and I even popped them in my recovery shoes after my 18 and 20-mile runs...just to "protect" things. The rigid ones were just as useless this time as they were seven years ago. They're big, clunky, don't fit in any decent running shoes...and they DON'T SOLVE THE PROBLEM. This is what drives me crazy about orthotics and the prescription of them. Unless there is proof that your injury is due to mechanical issues and *absolutely nothing else*, they usually don't help and can often make things worse. For me, I figured out that running on banked sidewalks that actually made my left foot collapse were the culprit. I changed my running routes and voila! - my pain started going away. I got new shoes, but they're still neutral shoes. When I run, I don't overpronate...if anything, I wear pattern shows this.
Anyway, I just finished week 16 of Honolulu Marathon training and am proud and happy to say my PTT has been SILENT for the last five months. Not a peep, not a niggle. Starting in June I began running three days a week, and worked up to four. The deal was, I needed to get through the first three weeks of marathon training pain-free before we could buy our plane tickets to Hawaii. I'm a glass half-empty kind of girl, so I didn't have my hopes up too high. I had no pain, so we bought the tickets. I have two black toenails and a nice, cranky callous on my big toe on my left foot...but no tendonitis. I changed my running to a walk/run and I'm sure that's helped as well...I did that mostly to "ease" back into heavy training (esp during the Texas summer), but somehow it's made me faster, so there you go. I'm actually in better shape now than I have been in years...I've managed to get my hips and glutes strengthened and my core is nice and strong.
Anyway, I just wanted to share that there IS light at the end of the tunnel. This wouldn't have been much comfort to me back in February when I couldn't walk to the bathroom or the kitchen without wanting to cry from the pain, but if I knew then what I know now...and I said this back in May...I would've just sat my butt down on a couch for a month and not moved. And I would've kept foam rolling my calves. Impatience got the best of me, and that was both a huge mistake and a big lesson learned. I spent a lot of money looking for a "quick fix" and being an injury-prone runner, I should know better. Likewise, I'm glad I ignored the orthopedist who delivered the scare tactic of telling me I either had to get orthotics or I would need surgery, and the other orthopedist who told me to stop running altogether because I was "getting older". I'm only 46! Some day I will not be able to run ever again, but today is not that day. :)
Stay strong and stay positive, folks!
One last note...we're taking next year off from marathon training. Halfs are so much more fun, and I have a 4-year old PR that needs to be taken care of. Stay healthy, folks!
One more resource that may be quite helpful comes from the Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons. Warning: it's pretty thorough but with patience, you'll find it helpful.
*Stacy's original request.
This is probably going to sound really "out there", it possible...for pressure on the post tib tendon where it inserts into the navicular (that squishy part you can feel) to cause pain and - if done repeatedly (like, up to 35 mpw during a marathon training season, lol) to ultimately cause post tibial tendonitis? As an example, I wear "no show" socks which run right across that area and one of the first "symptoms" I had was a sore navicular, very tender to the touch.
I've been struggling with PTTD since last August, but didn't it didn't get ugly until mile 17 of the Chicago Marathon. I've gone through all of the protocols everyone else has mentioned except a boot or a brace. My PT said a boot would cause immeasurable other problems up the chain and a brace irritated my navicular just having it on so I declined.
I was off running from Dec 1 to Apr 1 (more on that below) but was able to bike pain-free during that time as long as I loosened up my shoe...keep the navicular free. Interestingly, over the last eight months my greatest "healing spurt" took place when we were in Europe in March. I walked 6-8 miles a day, but wore tights or long socks with loose-fitting boots. When we came back, I could walk around barefoot (and my affected foot is super-flat and pronates) with ZERO pain. Went for a run the next day (socks around navicular area, tight-ish shoes) and boom, back to pain in that specific area.
Saw a foot/ankle ortho who told me I needed orthotics (I'm skeptical, but he's saying it's that, stop running, or get surgery) and I have a pair of accommodative orthotics until my pedorthist can get me the rigid ones in three weeks. I've worn them twice for biking and both times was unable to bike more than ten minutes without my navicular hurting and that irritating the rest of the area. There's a really high medial post on my orthotics, and I'm wondering if that is also one of the culprits as I know my navicular is hitting it. Even more frustrating, that slight AM irritation seems to linger through the day even with icing. I didn't bike pain. Biked this AM, more pain. Once that PTT flares up...even just a takes a long time to quiet back down with me. One step forward, two steps backwards. No problems BTW, wearing the orthotics just walking around...not as much impact hitting the medial part of my shoes, I suppose. | <urn:uuid:ad87f3bc-b191-4177-8743-938b3db8b9dc> | https://archive.johnpostmd.com/2017/12/index.html | en | 0.969633 | 0.05307 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Proficiency questions for new player
1. The target values for standard Throws like Hear Noise and Detect Secret Door are under Dungeon Adventures on pg. 93. Dwarves are at 14+ and 18+, respectively.
2. For other Proficiencies they learn, yes. This came up recently, as there are somethings called out as "Proficiency Throws" that are not learned. An example escapes me at the moment, but just assume you get the +3 on Throws for other Proficiencies you have selected under Proficiencies (i.e., 1 Class and 1 General + Intelligence bonus at 1st Level).
3. Yes, they have Theology, although it's not called out as such in the Class description. It is, however, mentioned under the Proficiency description for Theology. It does not count against their available Proficiencies.
4. Some Proficiencies specify how they improve. Others do not improve. On pg. 56 it states: Unless its description says otherwise, a proficiency may only be selected once. If a proficiency can be selected more than once, then the proficiency throw value required for success is reduced by 4 each time the proficiency is selected.
Glad to hear you've come back to ACKS!
As a new player, I wonder why that stuff is buried on page 93 and not more obvious - not everyone has played D&D a billion times and knows this stuff in their sleep...what if ACKS was the first RPG I found not the 10,000th that I've found? :)
Is the "assume 18+ if you don't see it stated otherwise" spelled out somewhere? PDF search not finding it - is this another thing assumed to be common knowledge or am I just being a doofus again an not seeing it?
For one, you'd probably read the whole book before playing. I don't mean that to be in any way facetious, either! I have a lot of the same frustrations and errors so far, but they almost universally result from never having sat down and actually read the whole book. Why? Because I've played umpteen different variations of the game previously. This is not to say that doing so cures this problem entirely - there's a certain amount of disorganization based on the way the book written and structured - but it alleviates it a great deal.
I don’t think even reading the whole book would save you, because it’s too much to keep in RAM. I’ve run plenty of wargames where we all read the whole rulebook and promptly forgot a bunch of rules during the first couple of games.
This is true, and I acknowledged that. But it greatly improves the situation, and it's a big difference from someone who's totally new to the game, and someone who's played for ages. I dunno...I just hink it's really easy to overlook the slightly negative effect of that experience.
EDIT: Again, just to be clear, I am not arguing that there's nothing confusing about the rulebook - there is! - just that there is a difference in how someone without prior experience approaches ACKS.
I think it is fair to say that I went in with a lot of assumptions and thus didn't realize ACKS did things differently until it came up. Reading the thing cover to cover might've helped.
That said, the book does have some severe ergonomics issues where nothing is ever technically in the WRONG place, but it does seem like it takes me more guesses than with other systems to find what I'm looking for. That said, I think Alex knows and feels bad about it, so we try not to mention it too much.
The book was absolutely written as if you would read it cover to cover, and as a result many mechanics are in the wrong place when you want to use it as a reference. The inspiration/guide for the presentation was BX, which very much introduced rules in an as-you-are-ready-for-them format. Unfortunately (a) few players that buy ACKS read rule books that way anymore and (b) ACKS is a teensy bit longer than BX. So it didn't quite work as well as I'd hoped.
If someone is so inclined, it would be helpful to me if you started a thread mentioning the rules you find least accessible/hardest to find or learn in actual play.
Dreaming of 2nd edition, huh?
Nothing like opening a can of worms!
But back to my questions ... :)
Essentially you have a 10% to do stuff that's not explicitly stated you have a better chance (if I'm doung my 18+ on a d20 math correctly) that right?
tcgb, I find the ACKS reference tables (from the download section) invaluable at collecting key numbers spread across the book in one place for easy use at the table - and yes,they have the open doors stuff right on the first page. Some stalwarts put them together ages ago:
Regarding the last question, 18+ is basically a 15% chance and is the closest you can get to 1d6 on a d20 - it's a good guideline to use when there's no rule. Lots of things that were 2 in 6 chances in the old BX system are now 14+ in ACKS (like elves detecting a secret door).
No. The stuff mentioned is explicitly's and there.
By "10%" I meant "15%" of course. I was using that new metric math.
I get an "access denied" message trying that link. Perhaps they've vaporized my account for being a troublemaker. I'll try at home - maybe it's this phone that is the problem.
Just as background, ACKS core was written for a broad OSR audience, some of whom demonstrate their OSR -ness by despising anything that smells like a skill system. Therefore, ACKS core walks the difficult path of Proficiencies being presented as optional (with a light hand).
As time has passed, it seems people who like ACKS like Proficiencies, and there are numerous posts on the forum asking for more detail and explanation on Proficiencies and related throws.
Still, there are many who tweak Proficiencies and throws to their tastes, such as d6 rolls, ability checks, etc. “Every campaign is a law unto itself …”
I think the Autarchs have way too much cool stuff in the pipeline to seriously contemplate a 2nd edition. However, I dream of a glorious 10th Anniversary Deluxe edition – largely the same as ACKS core, but with a wealth of clarifying sidebars and cross-references. And a few key bits from D@W, maybe. And an integrated Auran Campaign primer. And a Judge’s Screen, darn it.
You had me at "glorious 10th Anniversary Deluxe edition."
Weird, I'd drop support (email in the footer) a note about the downloads section. I thought it was public for all forum folks.
Shut Up And Take My Silver Talents!
Can't get the file on my home PC either - sent question to support.
That particular file is locked to original Kickstarter backers of ACKS.
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What Is In and What Is Out in Public Relations
By : Phineas Gray Category : Finance
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There are many rules and guidelines that used to be followed in accounting firm PR. Everyone would follow them because they thought that this was the best way to represent their firm. Some of the old guidelines for accounting firm PR were to use smoke and mirrors to confuse people, qualitative research, having one person speak for the entire group, and using print advertisement. There are some new guidelines that you should know about for your accounting firm PR that can change the way that you conduct PR. Here are some comparisons between the old guidelines and the new guidelines in accounting firm PR.
Smoke and Mirrors/Transparency
It used to be the normal for accounting firm PR to put up a lot of smoke and mirrors in order to confuse the general public. These firms will worry about telling their words in a way that makes them look good but hides any of the things that make them look bad. But because of many of the accounting mishaps that came up in the 2000s, the general public is not buying everything that they are being told. It is now more important to be truthfully honest when you are talking about your company because someone is bound to find out about it if you are lying or covering something up.
Quantitative vs. Qualitative Measurement
There are two types of research that can be used in public relations. Quantitative is when you try to get a certain amount of research, or put a number on it such as you have saved a company so much money. Qualitative is when you try to get the best research possible but you do not concentrate on the numbers. Qualitative used to be the research that was used because it is difficult to find enough quantitative research, it is easier to get a few really good facts then it is to spend a lot of time finding facts.
One Person vs. Everyone
There used to be only one person who would talk for the whole company. They would be considered the face of the company and would let everyone know what is going on. They were also the first one to fall if something went wrong with the company because this is the person that everyone associated with the company. It is now more likely that everyone will have a voice in the company and this helps to make the company seem more open to the public.
Print vs. Online
Print used to be the only way that you would receive any news. You would read it in the paper, or through a flyer, or maybe even on the radio. Now there are so many more options that are available. Most people want to get their news on the go and so being able to keep up with this is an important step. Accounting firm PR will have to help keep a website going and send out emails to people who are interested in hearing about the company.
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FOR the story of Richard Parker, I shall quote almost verbatim the account, which is very detailed, by Camden Pelham in Chronicles of Crime, London, 1840.
In the year 1797, when the threatening aspect of affairs abroad made the condition of the naval force a matter of vital importance to Britain, several alarming mutinies broke out among the various fleets stationed around the shores of the country. In April of the year mentioned, the seamen of the grand fleet lying at Portsmouth disowned the authority of their officers, seized upon the ships, hoisted the red flag, and declared their determination not to lift an anchor, or obey any orders whatsoever, until certain grievances of which they complained were redressed.
There is no denying or concealing the fact—the men had been ill-paid, ill-fed, shamefully neglected by the country, which depended upon them for its all, and, in many instances, harshly and brutally treated by their officers, and belly-pinched and plundered by their pursers. They behaved with exemplary moderation. The mutineers allowed all frigates with convoys to sail, in order not to injure the commerce of the country. The delegates of the vessels drew up and signed a petition to Parliament and another to the Admiralty; their language was respectful, and their demands were very far from exorbitant.
After some delay, satisfactory concessions were made to them by Government, and the men returned to their duty. But the spirit of insubordination had spread among other squadrons in the service, and about the middle of May, immediately after the Portsmouth fleet had sailed peaceably for the Bay of Biscay, the seamen of the large fleet lying at the Nore broke out also into open mutiny. The most conspicuous personage in the insurrection was one Richard Parker, a native of Exeter, privately baptized, in St. Mary Major parish, 24 April, 1767. His father was a baker in that parish, and had his shop near the turnstile. It was afterwards burnt down. He rented it of the dean and chapter, from 1761 to 1793, and acquired a little land near to Exeter as his own. Young Parker received a good education, and at the age of twelve went to sea. He served in the Royal Navy as midshipman and master's mate. But he threw up his profession on his marriage with Anne McHardy, a young woman resident in Exeter, but of Scottish origin, a member of a respectable family in Aberdeen.
This connexion led Parker to remove to Scotland, where he embarked in some mercantile speculations that proved unsuccessful. The issue was that before long he found himself in embarrassed circumstances, and unable to maintain his wife and two children. In Edinburgh, where these difficulties arose, he had no friends to whom he could apply for assistance, and in a moment of desperation he took the King's bounty, and became a common sailor on board a tender at Leith. When he announced to his wife the steps he had taken, she hastened to Aberdeen in great distress to procure from her brother the means of hiring two seamen as substitutes for her husband. But when she returned with the money from Aberdeen it was too
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Richard Parker
who was executed on board the Sandwich off Sheernets on Friday June 30th, 1797
pursuant to the sentence of a Court Martial for having been the Principal
in a most daring Mutiny on board several of his Majesty's Ships at the
Nore which created a dreadful alarm through the whole Nation.
late, for the tender had just sailed with her husband on board. Her grief was aggravated at this time by the loss of one of her children. Parker's sufferings were shown to be equally acute by his conduct when the vessel sailed, crying out that he saw the body of his child floating upon the waves; he leaped overboard, and was with difficulty rescued and restored to life.
In the early days of May, 1797, Parker reached the Nore, a point of land dividing the mouth of the Thames and the Medway. Probably on account of his former experience as a seaman, he was drafted on board the Sandwich, the guardship that bore the flag of Admiral Buckner, the Port Admiral. The mutinous spirit which afterwards broke out certainly existed on board the Nore squadron before Parker's arrival. Communications were kept up in secret between the various crews, and the mischief was gradually drawing to a head. But though he did not originate the feeling of insubordination, the ardent temper, boldness, and superior intelligence of Parker soon became known to his comrades, and he became a prominent man among them. Their plans being at last matured, the seamen rose simultaneously against their officers, and deprived them of their arms, as well as of all command in the ships, though behaving respectfully to them in all other ways. Each vessel was put under the government of a committee of twelve men, and, to represent the whole body of seamen, every man-of-war appointed two delegates and each gunboat one to act for the common good. Of these delegates Richard Parker was chosen president, and in an unhappy hour for himself he accepted the office. The representative body drew up a list of grievances, of which they demanded the removal, offering return immediately after to their duty. The demands were for increased pay, better and more abundant food, a more equal division of prize-money, liberty to go on shore, and prompt payment of arrears. A committee of naval inquiry subsequently granted almost all their demands, thereby acknowledging their justice. Parker signed these documents, and they were published over the whole kingdom with his name attached, as well as presented to Port Admiral Buckner, through whom they were sent to the Government. When these proceedings commenced the mutineers were suffered to go on shore, and they paraded the streets of Sheerness, where lay a part of the fleet, with music and the red flag flying.
But on the 22nd of May, troops were sent to Sheerness to put a stop to these demonstrations. Being thus confined to their ships, the mutineers, having come to no agreement with Admiral Buckner, began to take more decisive measures for extorting compliance with their demands, as well as for securing their own safety. The vessels at Sheerness moved down to the Nore, and the combined force of the insurgents, which consisted of twenty-five sail, proceeded to block up the Thames, by refusing a free passage, up or down, to the London trade. Foreign vessels, and a few small craft, were suffered to go by, after having received a passport, signed by Richard Parker, as president of the delegates.
In a day or two the mutineers had an immense number of vessels under detention. The mode in which they kept them was as follows: The ships of war were ranged in a line, at considerable distances from each other, and in the interspaces were placed the merchant vessels, having the broadsides of the men-of-war pointed to them. The appearance of the whole assemblage is described as having been at once grand and appalling. The red flag floated from the mast-head of every one of the mutineer ships.
The Government, however, though unable at the moment to quell the mutiny by force, remained firm in their demand of "unconditional surrender as a necessary preliminary to any intercourse." This was, perhaps, the best line of conduct that could have been adopted. The seamen, to their great honour, never seemed to think of assuming an offensive attitude, and were thereby left in quiet to meditate on the dangerous position in which they stood in hostility to their own country. Disunion began to manifest itself, and Parker's efforts to revive the cooling ardour of the mutineers resulted in rousing particular hostility against himself.
Meanwhile, formidable preparations had been made by the Government for the protection of the coast against a boat attack by the mutineers, and to prevent the fleet advancing up the Thames and menacing London. All the buoys and beacons in the three channels giving entrance to the Thames had been removed. Batteries with furnaces for red-hot shot were constructed at several points. Sheerness was filled with troops, and at more distant places outposts were established to prevent the landing of parties of the mutineers. Two ships of the line, some frigates, and between twenty and thirty gunboats lying higher up the river were fitted out in great haste, to co-operate, in the event of an attack by the mutinous fleet, with the squadron from Spithead, that had been summoned. Alarm and perplexity disorganized the council of the mutineers. The supply of provisions had for some time been running short.
A price had been set on Parker's head—£500. It was thought that he might attempt to escape, and therefore a description of him was published: "Richard Parker is about thirty years of age, wears his own hair, which is black, untied, though not cropt; about five feet nine or ten inches high; has a rather prominent nose, dark eyes and complexion, and thin visage; is generally slovenly dressed, in a plain blue half-worn coat and a whitish or light coloured waistcoat and half-boots."
But Parker made no attempt to escape. The mutineering vessels held together till the 3Oth May, when the Clyde frigate was carried off by a combination of its officers and some of the seamen, and was followed by the S. Fiorenzo. These vessels were fired upon by the mutineers, but escaped up the river. The loss was, however, more than counterbalanced by the arrival of eight ships from the mutinous fleet of Admiral Duncan, anchored in Yarmouth Roads.
On the 4th June, the King's birthday, the Nore fleet showed that their loyalty to their Sovereign was undisturbed by firing a general salute.
On the 6th June two more ships deserted under the fire of the whole fleet, but the same evening four more arrived from Admiral Duncan's fleet. On this day Lord Northesk, having been summoned on board the Sandwich, found the council, comprising sixty delegates, sitting in the state cabin, with Parker at its head. After receiving a letter containing proposals of accommodation to which the unfortunate Parker still put his name as president, Lord Northesk left, charged to deliver this letter to the King. The answer was a refusal to all concessions till the mutineers had surrendered unconditionally. Disunion thereupon became more accentuated, and on 10 June, Parker was compelled to shift his flag to the Montague and the council removed with him.
On the same day the merchantmen were permitted by common consent to pass up the river, and such a multitude of ships certainly had never before entered a port by one tide.
Fresh desertions now occurred every day, and all hope of concerted action was ended by stormy discussions, in which contradictory suggestions were made with such heat as to lead in many instances to acts of violence. Upon ship after ship the red flag was hauled down and replaced by one that was white, signifying submission. On the 12th only seven ships had the red flag flying. Such was the confusion, every crew being divided into two hostile parties, that five ships were taken up the Thames by those in favour of surrender, aided by their opponents under the belief that an attack was about to be made on the shore defences. The discovery by the latter that they were betrayed aroused terrible strife. The deck of the Iris frigate became a battlefield; one party in the fore, the others in the after-part, turned the great guns against each other, and fought till the mutineers were worsted.
By the 16th the mutiny had terminated, every ship having been restored to the command of its officers. A party of soldiers went on board the Sandwich to which Parker had returned, and to them the officers surrendered the delegates of the ship, namely a man named Davies and Richard Parker.
Richard Parker, to whom the title of admiral had been accorded by the fleet and by the public during the whole of this affair, was the undoubted ringleader, and was the individual on whom all eyes were turned as the chief of the mutineers. He was brought to trial on the 22nd of June, after having been confined during the interval in the Black-hole of Sheerness garrison. Ten officers, under the presidency of Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Pasley, Bart., composed the court-martial, which sat on board the Neptune, off Greenhithe. The prisoner conducted his own defence, exhibiting great presence of mind, and preserving a respectful and manly deference throughout towards his judges.
The prosecution on the part of the Crown lasted two days, and on the 26th, Parker called witnesses in his favour, and read a long and able defence which he had previously prepared. The line of argument adopted by him was—that the situation he had held had been in a measure forced upon him; that he had consented to assume it chiefly from the hope of restraining the men from excesses; that he had restrained them in various instances; that he might have taken all the ships to sea, or to an enemy's port, had his motives been disloyal, etc. Parker unquestionably spoke the truth on many of these points. Throughout the whole affair, the injury done to property was trifling, the taking of some flour from a vessel being the chief act of the kind. But he had indubitably been the head of the mutineers. It was proved that he went from ship to ship giving orders and encouraging the men to stand out, and that his orders were given as though he were actually admiral of the fleet. Nothing could save him. He was sentenced to death. When his doom was pronounced, he rose, and said, in firm tones, "I shall submit to your sentence with all due respect, being confident in the innocency of my intentions, and that God will receive me unto His favour; and I sincerely hope that my death will be the means of restoring tranquillity to the Navy, and that those men who have been implicated in the business may be reinstated in their former situations, and again be serviceable to their country."
On the morning of the 3Oth of June, the yellow flag, the signal of death, was hoisted on board the Sandwich, where Richard Parker lay, and where he was to meet his fate. The whole fleet was ranged a little below Sheerness, in sight of the Sandwich, and the crew of every ship was piped to the forecastle. Parker was awakened from a sound sleep on that morning, and after being shaved, he dressed himself in a suit of deep mourning. He mentioned to his attendants that he had made a will, leaving to his wife some property in Devonshire that belonged to him. On coming to the deck, he was pale, but perfectly composed, and drank a glass of wine "to the salvation of his soul, and forgiveness of all his enemies!" He said nothing to his mates on the forecastle but "Good-bye to you!" and expressed a hope that "his death would be deemed sufficient atonement, and save the lives of others."
He was strung up to the yard-arm at half-past nine o'clock. A dead silence reigned among the crews around during the execution. When cold, his body was taken down, put in a shell, and interred within an hour or two after his death in the new naval burying ground at Sheerness. A remarkable and pathetic sequel to the account has served as the basis of a popular ballad still sung.
Richard Parker's unfortunate wife had not left Scotland, when the news reached her ears that the Nore fleet had mutinied, and that the ringleader was one Richard Parker. She could not doubt that this was her husband, and immediately took a place in the mail for London, to save him if possible. On her arrival, she heard that Parker had been tried, but the result was not known. Being able to think of no way but petitioning the King, she gave a person a guinea to draw up a paper, praying that her husband's life might be spared. She attempted to make her way with this into His Majesty's presence, but was obliged finally to hand it to a lord-in-waiting, who gave her the cruel intelligence that all applications for mercy would be attended to, except for Parker. The distracted woman then took coach for Rochester, where she got on board a King's ship, and learnt that Parker was to be executed next day. She sat up, in a condition of unspeakable wretchedness, the whole of that night, and at four o'clock in the morning went to the riverside to hire a boat to take her to the Sandwich, that she might at least bid her poor husband farewell. Her feelings had been deeply wrung by hearing every person she met talking on the subject of her distress, and now the first water-man to whom she spoke refused to take her as a single passenger. "The brave Admiral Parker is to die to-day," he said, "and I can get any sum I choose to ask for carrying over a party."
Finally, the wretched wife was glad to go on board a Sheerness market boat, but no boat was allowed to run up alongside of the Sandwich. In her desperation she called on Parker by name, and prevailed on the boat people, moved by the sight of her distress, to attempt to approach, but they were stopped by a sentinel who threatened to fire at them, unless they withdrew.
O Parker was the truest husband,
Best of friends, whom I love dear;
Yet when he was a-called to suffer,
To him I might not then draw near.
Again I ask'd, again I pleaded,
Three times entreating,—all in vain;
They even that request refused me,
And ordered me ashore again.
As the hour drew nigh, she saw her husband appear on deck walking between two clergymen. She called to him, and he heard her voice, for he exclaimed, "There is my dear wife from Scotland."
Then, happily, she fainted, and did not recover till some time after she was taken ashore. By this time all was over, but the poor woman could not believe it so. She hired another boat, and again reached the Sandwich. Her exclamation from the boat must have startled all who heard it. "Pass the word," she cried in her delusion, "for Richard Parker!"
The ballad says:—
The yellow flag I saw was flying,
A signal for my love to die;
The gun was fir'd, as was requir'd,
To hang him on the yard-arm high.
The boatswain did his best endeavour,
I on the shore was put straightway,
And there I tarried, watching, weeping,
My husband's corpse to bear away.
On reaching the Sandwich she was informed that all was over, and that the body of her husband had just been taken ashore for burial. She immediately caused herself to be rowed ashore again, and proceeded to the cemetery, but found that the ceremony was over and the gate was locked. She then went to the Admiral and sought the key, but it was refused to her. Excited almost to madness by the information given her that probably the surgeons would disinter the body that night and cut it up, she waited around the churchyard till dusk, and then clambering over the wall, readily found her husband's grave. The shell was not buried deep, and she was not long in scraping away the loose earth that intervened between her and the object of her search. She tore off the lid with her nails and teeth, and then clasped the hand of her husband, cold in death, and no more able to return the pressure.
Her determination to possess the body next forced her to quit the cemetery and seek the assistance of two women, who, in their turn, got several men to undertake the task of lifting the body. This was accomplished successfully, and at 3 a.m. the shell containing the corpse was placed in a van and conveyed to Rochester, where, for the sum of six guineas, the widow procured another wagon to carry it to London. On the road they met hundreds of people all inquiring about, and talking of, the fate of "Admiral Parker."
The rude ballad thus relates the carrying away of the body:—
At dead of night, when all was quiet,
And many thousands fast asleep,
I, by two female friends attended,
Into the burial-ground did creep.
Our trembling hands did serve as shovels
With which the mold we moved away,
And then the body of my husband
Was carried off without delay.
At 11 p.m. the van reached London, but there the poor widow had no private house or friends to go to, and was constrained to stop at the "Hoofs and Horseshoe" on Tower Hill, which was full of people. Mrs. Parker got the body into her room, and sat down beside it; but the secret could not long be kept in such a place, more particularly as the news of the exhumation had been brought by express that day to London.
An immense crowd assembled about the house, anxious to see the body of Parker, but this the widow would not permit.
The Lord Mayor heard of the affair, and came to ask the widow what she intended to do with her husband's remains. She replied, "To inter them decently at Exeter or in Scotland." The Lord Mayor assured her that the body would not be taken from her, and eventually prevailed on her to consent to its being decently buried in London. Arrangements were made with this view, and in the interim it was taken to Aldgate Workhouse, on account of the crowds attracted by it, which caused some fears lest "Admiral Parker's remains should provoke a civil war."
Finally, the corpse was buried in Whitechapel Churchyard, and Mrs. Parker, who had in person seen her husband consigned to the grave, gave a certificate that all had been done to her satisfaction. But, though strictly questioned as to her accomplices in the exhuming and carrying away of the body, she firmly refused to disclose the names.
Parker had, as he said, made a will, leaving to his wife the little property he had near Exeter. This she enjoyed for a number of years, but ultimately lost it through a lawsuit with Parker's sisters, who claimed that it was theirs by right. She was thrown into great distress, and, becoming almost blind, was obliged to solicit assistance from the charitable. King William IV gave her at one time £10, and at another £20.
In 1836 the forlorn and miserable condition of poor Parker's widow was made known to the London magistrates, and a temporary refuge was provided for her. But temporary assistance was of little avail to one whose physical infirmities rendered her incapable of any longer helping herself. When Camden Pelham wrote in 1840, she was aged seventy, blind, and friendless; but time and affliction had not quenched her affection for the partner of her early days. However, in 1828, John C. Parker, the son of the mutineer, obtained a verdict against his aunts for the possession of the little estate of Shute that had belonged to his father's elder brother. The question turned on the legitimacy of the plaintiff, which was proved by his mother, a woman who then exhibited the remains of uncommon beauty, and who was able to prove that she had married Richard Parker in 1793.
Then farewell, Parker, best beloved,
That was once the Navy's pride,
And since we might not die together,
We separate henceforth abide.
His sorrows now are past and over,
Now he resteth free from pain—
Grant, O God, his soul may enter
Where one day we meet again.[1]
The melody to which the ballad of the "Death of Parker" is set is much more ancient, by two centuries at the least, than the ballad itself. It is plaintive and very beautiful, and the words are admirably fitted to the dainty and tender air.
Richard Parker was a remarkably fine man. The brilliancy and expression of his eyes were of such a nature as caused one of the witnesses, while under examination, to break down, and quail beneath his glance, and shrink abashed, incapacitated from giving further testimony.
Douglas Jerrold wrote a drama upon the theme of the "Mutiny at the Nore." But it is a mere travesty of history. The true pathos and beauty of the story of the devoted wife were completely put aside for vulgar melodramatic incidents.
For authorities, the Annual Register for 1797; The Chronicles of Crime, by Camden Pelham, London, 1840; The Mutiny at Spithead and the Nore, London, 1842; "Richard Parker, of Exeter, and the Mutiny of the Nore," by S. T. Whiteford, in Notes and Gleanings, Exeter, 1888.
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Judge: Ex-Trump aide broke plea deal
Source:AFP Published: 2019/2/14 20:48:41
Manafort, 69, faces maximum sentence of 10 years for conspiracy charges
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort could face a much longer prison sentence than expected after a Washington judge ruled Wednesday that he had broken his plea deal with Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.
Federal district judge Amy Berman Jackson agreed with prosecutors that Manafort had "intentionally" lied to investigators about his contacts with a suspected Russian operative, Konstantin Kilimnik in 2016 and 2017, despite having pledged to cooperate as part of his September plea agreement.
Jackson also ruled that Manafort had lied about a secretive payment he made to a law firm, and lied on another occasion when investigators queried him about a separate, still secret investigation related to the Mueller probe.
The ruling meant that Mueller no longer has to abide by the deal, in which Manafort agreed to plead guilty to two reduced conspiracy charges, carrying a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.
It could also elevate whatever punishment arises from the 69-year-old's guilty verdict in a separate jury trial last year in Virginia.
Mueller's side is "no longer bound by its obligations under the plea agreement, including its promise to support a reduction" in Manafort's sentence, Jackson said.
Theoretically that could mean Manafort is also vulnerable to new charges, though prosecutors have indicated they want to move quickly to sentencing and not spend more time on the case.
The breakdown of the deal set back what had been seen as a major success of the 21-month-old Mueller probe in turning Manafort into a possible key witness against President Donald Trump, his family and other top aides.
Manafort is one of seven former Trump campaign associates who have been charged by Mueller's team.
He was convicted in August in a Virginia court on eight charges of banking and tax fraud related to his work for Russia-backed political parties in Ukraine between 2004 and 2014.
He was separately charged in Washington with money laundering, witness tampering and other offenses, which were consolidated into the two conspiracy charges in the plea bargain.
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This is one of the first attempts of TILO&TONI to connect photography to , not by hanging them together but by trying to create a . Relatively cryptic and prints on baryta paper, which are arranged associatively, are embraced by one or several colors. The originally transparent and unsettled exhibition room is coated with black cardboard to create calmness and to isolate it from other influences. and are virtually being absorbed by the black cardboard.
The title originates from a citation of a pop song and basically it describes the careful and approach of these two types of media. Astonishingly enough, this step turned out to be more difficult than initially expected and it evoked a certain dispute. The difficulties arose due to our deep respect for the pictures. Admittedly, the respect remained but the recognition appeared that no rules must be observed when dealing with pictures and other types of media.
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I can't go on
Discussion in 'Suicidal Thoughts and Feelings' started by wants2die, Sep 23, 2007.
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1. wants2die
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Just when I thought I was over the suicidal feeling, I still picture my own death. I'm constinly cutting my self and whispering under my beath "kill me." I feel as if everyone is judging me. All I can think about are all the bad things that happen to me why does my life suck what did I do to deserve this. I feel weak and useless all the time. God has a plan for every body well, tell me the plan God. There's no hope for me, I can't go on I feel like something bad is going to happen.
2. twilightki
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You know what the plan is? The plan is up to you. The world is yours to map.
Be strong my friend.
3. Robin
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To me one of the most frustrating things in life is being without purpose, some people find there's, some people have it forced upon them and others like us wander aimlessly looking for a reason for our pain. Sometimes pain is the purpose, or at least I think it can be, sometimes when I'm at my worst I like to believe that I'm paying for sins in a past life or sins made in the here and now, it's probably not a healthy view I know that much but it helps get me through.
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I recall a scene where Larry David meets Cheryl in a Fundraiser (Season 9 Episode 1) after their breakup or divorce and the fundraiser is called People Against Mutilation and he cracks a hilarious joke about vaginas or mutilation in general.
I am looking for the dialog itself.
Is there a website where I can read the dialogue for the scene?
• This isn't an identification question. It is asking about a specific dialogue from a transcript – KharoBangdo Jul 4 '18 at 6:35
I think this is what you are after:
What is this name, PAM? That's the best you could do? It's like-- it's a cooking spray-- PAM.
No, it's People Against Mutilation, genital mutilation.
Yeah, I know what it stands for.
And there are very few charities that actually focus on the clitoris and talk about it.
I think you got half the population focused on the clitoris.
I'm deadly focused on it.
Read more: https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=curb-your-enthusiasm&episode=s09e01
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Food For Thought Friday
💡 Who are you becoming?
💡 Indecision is a decision.
💡 The right time is now. Do it now!
💡 Resist the temptation to make excuses.
💡 Sometimes it’s ok to say nothing.
💡 The truth is often uncomfortable.
💡 Ask for advice versus an opinion. One creates a partnership, the other produces a critic.
💡 Help someone who can’t help you back.
💡 Overthinking is a problem. Failure to think is doom. Exercise balance.
💡 Remember, active minds have constraints.
Limiting Beliefs
What is the danger of limiting beliefs? We sell ourselves short without trying.
Let’s look at some limiting beliefs.
“I don’t have a good memory.”
Saying we don’t have a good memory is a convenient excuse to forget. The solution is finding an optimal way to store information in our brains.
“There is too much information out there.”
Many people spend a significant amount of time reading commentary on a position they hold – never realizing how much they are missing.
Others realize that reading everything is unsustainable and tend to overvalue information they’ve spent a great amount of time consuming.
Instead of reading everything, identify the key variables that can impact your progress.
“All the good ideas are taken.”
Companies have been starting and competing with different ideas, variations, and strategies for centuries.
“We need to move first.”
The answer is not as black and white as this statement. The iPhone wasn’t first, it was better. We have to break each situation down into its component parts and see what’s possible.
“I can’t do that; it’s never been done before.”
Think Elon Musk. A better bet is to look at what could be and plan for that.
Our thinking improves when we stop making assumptions and subscribing to limiting beliefs.
Adapted: FS Brain Food No. 396 | Photo: Tony Robbins
Behaviors Are Contagious
There’s more to life than good or bad.
For example, if a wealthy person is miserable and a poor person is happy. Is the wealth or lack thereof good or bad?
So much of our stress comes from labeling the challenges we encounter throughout our lives.
💡 The “why” of life has infinite answers.
When life doesn’t go as planned, we as human beings tend to give more weight to the negative.
For example, you just had the most exquisite meal at a highly rated restaurant. As you walk to your car, you step in a pile of dog poop. What happens next?
You are in control of the way you look at life.
Choose wisely.
Behaviors are contagious.
Why do we tend to take greater responsibility for our successes than we do our failures?
Why do we overestimate our positive qualities and underestimate our negative ones?
Why do we cling on to messages like “you messed up” versus “I appreciate you”?
Why do we look for the negative even when good things are happening?
Why do we talk the talk but don’t walk the walk?
Why do we complain about the monotony of our lives yet choose no course for correction?
Why is it the more connected we are, the more isolated we feel?
What are some of your thought provoking Why’s?
Have you ever tried to talk to someone who was in a hurry, multi-tasking, or dealing with other background distractions?
Have you ever engaged in a conversation and wondered whether the person was listening to you or if it was worthwhile to continue speaking?
How did that make you feel?
We can express a real interest in others by:
✰ Having a welcoming posture
✰ Smiling
✰ Making eye contact
✰ Giving yes signals (nodding)
✰ Taking notes
✰ Asking follow-up questions
If time or other commitments are a factor, acknowledge your interest in speaking to the individual and establish a time when you can give your undivided attention. Wouldn’t you want the same for yourself?
Food For Thought Friday
💡 What size is your leadership (S, M, L, XL, or One Size Fits All)?
💡 Think critically about what you see, hear, and witness.
💡 Who and what do you gravitate to? Why?
💡 Character is revealed when pressure is applied.
💡 Many imagine. Few execute.
💡 What you “don’t want” and “don’t like” is not a meaningful contribution.
💡 Gratitude is an attitude and a powerful influence over behavior.
💡 Who can tell your story better than you?
💡 Your response defines who you really are in other people’s eyes.
💡 Consistency beats intensity.
Food For Thought Friday
💡 What happens to them if they listen to you?
💡 Things won’t change until you change.
💡 Want to help yourself? Help others.
💡 Want to make money? Give value.
💡 Want to find an idea? Look for a problem.
Food For Thought Friday
💡 Make inspiring confidence in your team a priority.
💡 How you think is everything.
💡 Is your will stronger than your skill?
💡 Lack of forgiveness always impacts you more than others.
💡 Forget the excuses and take action.
Food For Thought Friday
💡 Focus on making it part of the culture.
💡 If you put forth the effort, help always appears.
💡 Is coaching an integral part of your leadership style?
💡 What do your actions speak?
💡 Look for people who love what they do.
💡 Think “people” first, always.
💡 Get comfortable making decisions.
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One Image Makes the Case that GTA V Features Our Favorite GTA Antiheroes
Could Grand Theft Auto V star CJ from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Tommy Vercetti from GTA: Vice City and Nico from GTA IV?
One image percolating over at Reddit makes the case, comparing three stills from yesterday's GTA V trailer to iconic images of the three lead characters of the last three console GTA's. (Click the image to expand it.)
Vercetti was voiced by actor Ray Liotta in Vice City. The actor's management told IGN he wasn't involved in the making of the new game's trailer, which had a narrator that sounded like him and was saying things Tommy might say. That's being interpreted as meaning Liotta did not work on GTA V. Niko Bellic's voice actor, Michael Hollick ran afoul of Rockstar when he went public with his dissatisfaction for his pay for the game, which may have disqualified him from future work on the series. A lack of these voice actors, of course, doesn't indicate a lack of these characters. As for CJ's voice-actor, Young Maylay, we're unaware of what he's up to these days.
Rockstar Games has selected where GTA V takes place. They've not said a peep about who is in it or who we'll play as.
I know I've seen these people before... [Reddit]
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Hinduism existed long before the Abrahamic Religions.
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what is misleading about it?
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do some people practice at all to be proficient??
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It wouldn't resemble a pyramid for any species.
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Man created gods, many of them.O
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You're just parroting others. . . .
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Rather than open mouth and insert Manolo Blahniks.
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Devil's advocate, humans were made in God's image.
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First, it isn't OUR heritage, it is certain states.
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Benefits & Side-Effects of Cherry Juice for Gout
Around the world, people have often turned to cherry juice for gout, as it is known to reduce the symptoms and underlying factors that contribute to this condition.
What is Gout?
Gout is a form of inflammatory arthritis in which an excess of uric acid is present in the body, causing small, crystal-like formations in the joints, which can be extremely painful. A gout attack often occurs after a night of heavy drinking, in which the concentration of uric acid in the blood rises rapidly, or after physical activity that causes these acidic crystals to shift position in the joints. These gout attacks can comprise 8-12 hours of severe inflammation and pain, followed by a few days of discomfort. The interval between gout attacks can be days or years, depending on your treatment approach and lifestyle.
While there are certain pharmaceutical drugs that can counter the symptoms of gout, many people instead turn to traditional remedies and changes in their diet, considering that uric acid levels are highly influenced by what you eat – namely rich, sugary and high-fat foods. One of the most trusted remedies for gout, however, comes from an unexpected source – cherry juice!
Cherry Juice for Gout
The use of cherry juice for gout is a relatively new remedy, as the beneficial effects of this fruit were only connected to gout in the 20th century.
Rich in Antioxidants
Different cherry varieties are generally rich in certain minerals and vitamins, many of which can help to prevent inflammation, but the organic compounds and antioxidants found in cherries are where the real benefits occur.In particular, tart cherries or sour cherries are rich in anthocyanin, which are powerful components that can effectively block pro-inflammatory compounds in the body.
Lowers Uric Acid Levels
There are also certain bioflavonoids that can help to lower overall uric acid levels in the body by improving the function of the kidneys.When the kidneys are working better, they process purines more effectively, release less uric acid into the bloodstream, and thereby reduce the chance of those crystals clumping and forming painful growths at various joints or extremities. By further blocking the pro-inflammatory compounds that the body releases when it detects a foreign substance or growth (e.g., a clump of crystals), it can reduce the pain and discomfort of this condition. Essentially, if your joints don’t swell up, the uric acid crystals will experience less pressure and friction in the joint.
Effective Diuretic
Tart cherry juice is also widely used as a diuretic, which further factors into the effect that this juice can have on gout. By stimulating urination, cherry juice can help to eliminate excess water, salts, fats and toxins from the body, which can improve the functioning of the kidney and further reduce uric acid deposition in the blood. While sweet cherry juice is more pleasant to drink, it doesn’t have as many anthocyanins or bioflavonoids as tart cherry juice.
That being said, tart cherry juice is also extremely sour, and may not be pleasant to drink in its pure form. Making tart cherry juice more drinkable, without adding more sugar to the beverage can be difficult. High concentrations of sugar – such as in the alcohol during a long night of drinking – can exacerbate gout symptoms. Some of the most common solutions for the powerful flavor of tart cherry juice is mixing it with green tea or sparkling water. Using black cherries can also be a solution, as the flavor is much more palatable, and its nutrient profile lies somewhere between sweet cherries and tart cherries.
Side Effects
While cherry juice for gout appears to be an excellent remedy, there are some potential side effects involved, as tart cherry juice can lead to weight gain and gastrointestinal problems.
Weight Gain
Considering that a single glass of cherry juice contains an average of 140 calories, those who are drinking cherry juice in excess to relieve gout symptoms may be compromising their calorie limits for the day, which can lead to weight gain. Unfortunately, obesity is often a precursor to symptoms of gout, so drink this juice in moderation.
Stomach Issues
Cherry juice has a high level of sorbitol, which is a sugar alcohol that can have a strong effect on digestion. In excess, the sorbitol found in cherry juice can lead to diarrhea and other gastrointestinal problems, including cramping, bloating and indigestion.
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The Christ in Prophecy Journal
The Blood Moons: Tetrads Explained
What in the world is a Blood Moon?
Ever since 2008 when a pastor from Tacoma, Washington by the name of Mark Biltz announced that he had discovered an astronomical phenomenon that might point to the date of the Lord’s return, there has been much hoopla over what he calls the Blood Moon phenomenon. The resulting Blood Moon mania has simply swept Christendom over the past few years, causing some to conclude that a significant prophetic event will befall the world in September 2015.
Dr. David Reagan and I will discuss this theory and answer the question above on our latest Christ in Prophecy television episode. Watch below or click an icon above for a mp3 and transcript.
Super-Rare Celestial Event
Nathan Jones: A Blood Moon is a complete lunar eclipse. The earth passes between the sun and the moon and the shadow of the earth passes across the moon. The light from the sun bends around the atmosphere of the earth to give the moon a reddish color like blood.
Dr. Reagan: So not all lunar eclipses are full? There’s partial eclipses and also total eclipses? We are talking here about total eclipses that cause the moon to appear red?
Nathan Jones: Correct.
Dr. Reagan: Alright, now how rare is this?
Nathan Jones: During the 20th Century, for example, there were 229 lunar eclipses, but in total only 81 totally covered the moon. In the 21st Century, there are going to be 228 lunar eclipses, and of those 85 will be total eclipses.
Dr. Reagan: Total eclipses will be 85. There is something even more rare than that, I understand. It is what’s called a tetrad. What in the world is a tetrad?
Nathan Jones: A tetrad is four total lunar eclipses that occur over the course of two years.
Dr. Reagan: Four over the course of two years, okay. How often does that occur?
Nathan Jones: Very rare. There’s only been 87 tetrads since the time of Christ. In this century alone there will be eight tetrads. In some centuries there are never any at all.
Dr. Reagan: With only 87 tetrads since the time of Christ, we are talking about something very, very rare?
Nathan Jones: Yes, a tetrad is very rare.
Dr. Reagan: There’s something even rarer, and that’s what Mark Biltz discovered. That’s what I call the Feast Tetrads. What is that?
Nathan Jones: That’s when the Jewish feasts actually fall on the same dates as those four total lunar eclipses. We’re talking about the Feast of Passover and the Feast of Tabernacles.
Dr. Reagan: I think there was a Feast Tetrad in 1967-1968?
Nathan Jones: Yes. Passover happened on April 24, 1967. There was a Blood Moon on that day. Then on Tabernacles of October 18, 1967 another Blood Moon occurred. Then the next year a total lunar eclipse happened on Passover again on April 13, 1968, and then on Tabernacles on October 6, 1968.
Dr. Reagan: That’s four Blood Moons occurring over a period of two years and they all fell on the Jewish feasts of Passover and Tabernacles.
Nathan Jones: Super rare! Supposedly there’s been only eight since Jesus.
Three Tetrads
Dr. Reagan: The crucial point here is that Mark Biltz argues that these particular Feast Tetrads tend to be omens, or prophecies, or harbingers of major events that are going to occur in Israel. He gives us some examples. What three examples does he really focus on?
Nathan Jones: Biltz focuses on three example and the eighth tetrad in particular.
One example of a Feast Tetrad supposedly occurred in 1492 when Ferdinand and Isabella expelled all the Jews out of Spain. The second one was 1948 when the Jewish State was created. The third is attributed to 1967 during the Six Day War.
Dr. Reagan: On the surface those events sound very, very, important for those are three of the major events in Jewish history: 1) when the Jews were expelled from Spain, 2) when the nation of Israel was re-established and, 3) when the Six Day War occurred.
But, there is a problem here, and the problem is that the first one of those is not legitimate because the Blood Moon Feast Tetrad occurred after the event. While the Jews were expelled in 1492, the tetrad didn’t occur until 1493 and 1494. Therefore, the Feast Tetrad could not have been a harbinger, or a prophecy, or an omen beforehand of any kind for the Jewish people.
Nathan Jones: Yes, this Feast Tetrad totally missed by a full year.
Dr. Reagan: Totally missed! The second Feast Tetrad Biltz pointed to has to do with the re-establishment of the State of Israel which occurred on May 14, 1948. But again, the Feast Tetrad occurred a year later. It occurred in 1949-1950 and so again it was no harbinger or prophecy.
Nathan Jones: Yes, the Feast Tetrad missed the event again by a whole year!
Dr. Reagan: So, out of the eight of these Feast Tetrads that have occurred since the time of Christ, there has been only one that would serve as a prophecy, or an omen, or a harbinger of something great that was going to happen in Israel. That was the Six Day War in 1967, because the Feast Tetrad actually happened on 1967-1968. The war really occurred after the first Blood Moon of that tetrad in 1967.
Nathan Jones: And, of the eight Feast Tetrads, the first five fell on nothing of significance for the Jewish people.
Dr. Reagan: Nothing of significance — whatsoever! One out of eight is not very good odds.
Nathan Jones: I wouldn’t bet on them. No, I wouldn’t.
In the second segment of our study of the Blood Moon phenomenon, Dr. Reagan and I will look at what the Bible actually has to say about celestial signs.
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• Nathan: I am really interested in the Blood Moons. I have seen all of them this year, even got up in the middle of the night to peek out my window and see the large red moon. Tonight is supposed to be a blue moon, which is very rare too. (Once in a Blue Moon.) It will actually have a blue cast to it. I don't remember seeing these moons, red or blue as a child, they are awesome to me.
• Yes, I would say the Blood Moons have more to do with Israel and the Jews, and their biblical history and events that happened to them down through the centuries. They are very interesting, I have seen all of them too, quite a sight in the sky, being blood red instead of a white and shining moon.
• I believe that the "blood moons" are simply an astronomical event, with no influence on human events. Quite similar to meteors falling, comets, etc.
I believe that when "the moon turns into blood", it will be a one-time, supernatural event, that will strike fear into persons viewing it. It will be seen by all people on the earth, not like a blood moon event, which is seen only by people on the earth who live in the viewing area of the eclipse. Think about it, a total eclipse is viewable in certain areas, and just for a short time. God's blood moon will be a fearful event, for the entire world!
• "And God said, "Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times [Mo'eds, same word as used for the feasts], and days and years," Gen 1:14
The first tetrad happened at the crucifixion of Christ, the last one now. There has been a pattern of eclipses before and after the tetrads as well that has been largely overlooked, but verifiable through the NASA charts. The current eighth tetrad pattern spans eight years and contains 40 eclipses, all of them perfectly symmetrical to the tetrad midpoint, the Feast of Epiphany (aka the 12th day of Christmas). For the "First and the Last" to have established the courses of the sun and the moon to arrive at this astronomically unlikely arrangement, I'd say He has something planned. What it is, I'm not so sure about. See for details. Concentrate on the pretty graphics. Like Mark Biltz tends to do, the author gets a bit excited about assigning exact meanings to dates. All I know is if there are a bunch of ballons in the sky and big search lights sweeping back and forth, something is going on. Likewise when God has established unique events in the heavens. Which should be treated like road work ahead signs – pay attention, stay in the course, don't act like an idiot.
• I'm very familiar with Mark Biltz's finding and sharing about the blood moon tetrads, past and future. I first heard it in 2008 and Mark Biltz has repeatedly cautioned against date-setting. Do some people still want to set dates, yes; but then he can't control that anymore than you can control those who take something you say and run way off with it.
I've concluded that these tetrads are signs of significant events to/for/in Israel. What, I have no idea, but I'm watching the news. I'm not bothered by those who think differently, giving more or less significance to them. My comment is that I was disappointed at how the tone of the tv broadcast became one of ridicule directed at Mark Biltz and those who agree with him. As happens far too often Christians are guilty of trampling their own brethren. Is it too hard to simply say "I don't agree with this teaching because…., but I love him anyway", without chuckling with derision. We all receive so much grace from our Lord, we have more than enough to pass on to others.
I am in-step with most of what comes forth from LambandLion, but don't doubt for one minute that when we get to heaven Jesus will have to set all of us straight on at least one thing or another. I'm sure he will be more perturbed about how we treated each other than whether the blood moon theory was right or wrong.
• Do not the revealing of the Antichrist, 3rd Temple & its desecration all have to happen before the Return of Christ therefore return is not to be at least until 2022
• We were reading Joshua 10. Israel was attacked by five kings who were trying to destroy the Jewish people as they were leaving the bondage of Egypt and making their way to the Promised Land. Joshua and Israel were winning the fight but they needed more daylight to defeat their enemies. Joshua spoke directly to the sun and asked it to Stand Still..and the sun obeyed. The sun stood still until the people of Israel had revenge on their enemies for an entire day. God has control over the sun and moon, he is the creator of all things, sun, moon, stars, day and night. I believe God will show more signs in the heavens and they will be significant for Israel as well.
Take a step back from “throwing the baby out with the bath water”. Review the information at the referenced URL.
September 23, 2017, the Rev. 12 sign will be in place in the heavens the day after Yom Teruah. Its a mystery to me as to its timing, yet it will be there. The big question is will the “Red Dragon” also be there. This sign points to the manifestation of Jesus. Which means the tribulation can’t be far off. And this also means that rapture could very well be “at the door”.
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Anna biography
There are several artists called Anna: 1) Anna Santos (Spanish/Japanese) of Latin band BON-BON BLANCO, who solos as "Anna" 2) German pop band (written "AnnA") 3) 90's Rock band from Croydon, England 4) Techno Project ("Schneewittchen EP") 5) Swiss rap artist (Debut: "Still Young", 2006, muve/Musikvertrieb) 6) Ukrainian nu-metal band. 7) Brazilian tech house and techno producer (written "ANNA") 1) Anna Santos is the vocalist of Latin band BON-BON BLANCO. She releases her solo work under just "Anna". Anna's father is Spanish American, and her mother is half Japanese. She used to be dual citizenship, but she chose to carry on her American citizenship when she became 18. However, she cannot speak English. Currently, she takes Career Design in Hosei University. 3) Anna were a four piece Rock Band from Croydon, England. The band consisted of four members: Pete Uglow, guitar / vocals; Darren Lynch, guitar ; Philip Lynch, bass guitar ; Cormac, drums / percussion / b. vox. London, 1989: The "Electric MotherFucker Brothers" play their first gig at the Gun Tavern, Croydon - Philip and Daren had their heads shaved, Crom went mad and Pete wore pink, The press hated it. Playing loud guitar music in the midst of the industry's love affair with baggy beats and floppy fringes, EMB continued to build their audience ... In 1990 the band changed their name to ANNA. With the name Anna, things started to happen, people started paying attention. And when they weren't they were joining in a weird variation on stagediving, the Croydon Pile. Now legendary, the pile was a tribute to Anna and the two-inch high stage at the Rose & Crown in Croydon. Once your average stagediver had launched offstage is was difficult to do much more than lie on the floor and wait for more bodies to join the ruck. Anna once had to stop playing in the middle of their epic 'Masonic Youth' when the pile reached critical height and no-one could see them any more. Banned from the Rose, the Pile still followed them from gig to gig, getting ever bigger, and getting Anna banned from ever more venues. Their debut single 'Masonic Youth', though recorded in summer '91, was finally released through Go! Discs in May '92. Their Debut album 101ism was released through Free Records in Oct '93. 4) Anna is Boris Brejcha. One such revolutionary elements and surprise that occasionally appear (luckily) in the arena of electronic dance music. With a sound personal super blunt and direct, get to collect the best of each house. After his great maxis in harthouse and autist and his fantastic album recently released on the label of frankfurt "Die Maschinen Kontrollieren Uns" regular reaches under his pseudonym anna to make a lot of noise black is dynamic, aggressive, and extremely direct,breaking the dance floor!. Green combines the speed and forcefulness of the groove that boris has accustomed us, but with a happy ending. Melody and deep united forever..
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Mar 16, 2011
10 Day Challenge: Day 3
Day 3: 8 Fears
1. Losing my family
2. Clowns
3. Spiders
4. Being/dying alone
5. Driving to unfamiliar locations
6. Sharks
7. Driving next to Semi's
8. Catching an incurable disease
9. Public toilets
10. Slipping back to my old unhealthy habits
2 lovely comments:
Etosia (e-tasha) said...
eff spiders! I got bit on the leg by a brown recluse 3 yrs ago and the pain and infection was terrible!! and I still have a grape sized dent/scar in my leg from it!!!
Short Leg Lucy said...
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Perez Hilton Whines, Issues New Statement on Assault
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Perez Hilton is sad.
After getting his clock cleaned by the manager of the Black Eyed Peas following a war of words outside the MuchMusic Awards in Toronto, Ont., the celebrity gossip blogger is not only bitter at his attacker, but people who don't feel really sorry for him.
While no one condones a violent assault (follow the link to check out the video of the fight), many find it difficult to sympathize with a classless idiot who:
• Clearly relishes the role of instigator.
• Went out of his way to cause trouble, as usual.
• Chose terribly offensive language to provoke someone.
This upsets Perez.
Here are excerpts from his whiny statement:
"In fact, several television and radio shows over the past couple of days echoed the sentiment "He had it coming.' Would they have said the same thing if I was a woman? Would I have 'deserved it' if I had been stabbed? Or shot? Or killed?"
"There are many ways to deal with disagreements, both good and bad, but violence is never the answer. Never. I now know that first-hand. It should not be condoned, promoted or accepted. No one 'deserves' to be the victim of violence."
"No one 'has it coming.' NO ONE. And victims should not be ridiculed."
What do you think? Whose side are you on?
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Common scenario: geeky, overweight, glue-eating, nose-picking kid gets picked on in the playground, and vows to become evil avenger who will take out his hate on everyone. Grows up to be evil blogger who is famous for hateful comments in a hateful world. Contributes nothing to world aside from whiny hateful comments. Is shocked when world does not therefore embrace and love him. Violence may not be the answer, but this guy really has had it coming for a while. The U.S. tends to go overly P.C. in some of these issues, and a good punch in the face is still the best recipe for an asshh@le like Perez. The best would be if people just stopped paying attention to people like *Perez* entirely and focused on REAL victims in the world, of which there are many, and not some assface who incites anger by actively and aggressively trying to get them to punch him. *Perez* is not a real victim in this sense. Just in his mind.
what a joke
I'd punch him.
Hope you use the money to do something good to offset all the hate you put in the world. You are an awful person Perez Hilton.
Ouch. I guess the rest of us who have real jobs, aka ad agencies, offices, doctors, teachers, etc. are nothing compared to someone who earns his living writing trash about people and drawing little drool marks on their faces in Microsoft Paint.
I'd punch him.
Hopefully he can use the money for some plastic surgery...the guy really is quite unattractive, and not just his personality.
To all the mean people out there that don't understand that a bad comment and a punch in the face are two different things. For all the bad comments you all have stated, I'd like each of you to get your face smacked and then you would understand how I felt. Luckily for me I have a career that pays me well so I will recover in style, yet each of you are just mean and then have to return to your dirty horrible existence. After this lawsuit, you'll see who ends up the winner - Perez!!
perez is a bully in every sense of the word... we dont allow it in society especially with kids yet in the entertainment business its all good. the bully is always the first to bitch/cry/whine and try and get as much attention as they can, point and case perez hilton... deal with it!! bully got the beat down. team
Perez sucks. He is the guy that everyone loves to hate, but after a while that just turns old, like him.
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I Found This Very Old Photo
What can you tell me about this man?
Micky-T said...
He looks to be very content.
wReggie said...
Yes, and confident too. A man of style.
Phfrankie Bondo said...
I can tell you that he could do well to aquire a girdle and a bra; other than that, he's got a swell car!
Rock Chef said...
Not a care in the world...
He forgets to put air into his tyres...
Dice Mardell said...
•When in Rome, they do as he does.
•He's the life of parties he's never attended.
•He's won trophies for his game face alone.
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There's a persuasive case to be made that Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, widely touted as a potential vice presidential pick for Mitt Romney, isn't as boring as everyone says, but he's never going to shake the label and he probably shouldn't want to, either. Tuesday, NBC's Andrew Rafferty highlighted a story about a "haunted" hotel Portman and his siblings own. The Golden Lamb Inn in Lebanon, Ohio, is the state's oldest continuously operated business. Twelve presidents have stayed there, as have Charles Dickens and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Rafferty's report is worth reading if only for the comically formal note that, "Portman neither confirmed nor denied the existence of a haunting spirit in his hotel," but his main point is that owners of maybe-haunted hotels are not boring:
Owning a self-proclaimed haunted hotel can be added to the list of quirky facts that have trickled out about the Ohio senator since he became a key surrogate for the GOP nominee. A knock against him during this season of VP speculation has been that he is boring. But friends and close aides are quick to push back against that narrative.
This is a follow up to Buzzfeed's excellent post last month "15 Genuinely Interesting Things About Rob Portman," which also makes the case that he's exciting. (Sample item: "He wrote a chapter in the book First Descents: In Search of Wild Rivers about his experience smuggling a kayak into China in the 1980s to kayak the Yangtze River." Cool.) Elsewhere, Bloomberg's Margaret Carlson repeated some of these facts, calling Portman "The Best of the Boring White Guys."
So it's well established that Rob Portman actually has some interesting stuff going on. But even today, reacting to news that Marco Rubio might not be on Romney's VP shortlist, Daily Intel titled their post, "Boring White Guy's VP Hopes Just Soared." That's in reference to Portman. So it's worth asking, if Portman's not actually boring, why does the adjective persist and what do we actually mean by it? Herein a brief glossary of synonyms for "boring" in the Rob Portman sense:
• Boring = Unknown: The Atlantic's Molly Ball reported from a regional Conservative Political Action Conference last week, during which attendees took a straw poll on VP options, that Portman "got just 2 percent of the straw poll vote, ranking 11th of the 23 choices offered. Of the dozen activists I spoke to, just one mentioned him." Portman's been in politics for awhile, so he's had a chance to create a huge media profile like Chris Christie or Marco Rubio. But he hasn't. He's not well known and therefore, he must be boring.
• Boring = White Male: One origin of the "boring" VP pick meme is a May Politico article by Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei that cited "Republican official familiar with the campaign's thinking" who said, "the prized pick" is an "incredibly boring white guy." Portman could have walked on the surface of the Yangtze River Jesus-style instead of kayaking it, but that wouldn't change the fact that he's a white male, and thus he fits this description just by nature of his profile.
• Boring = Not Sarah Palin: From that same Politico article, Vandehei and Allen write that the VP process "will be designed to produce a pick who is safe and, by design, unexciting — a deliberate anti-Palin." So a synonym here is "safe" which isn't exactly a pejorative form of "boring."
So then, more broadly, calling Portman "boring" is actually sort of like calling him "the kind of guy Romney's looking for." Owning interesting hotels and having interesting hobbies does not make him less white, less male, better known, or more Palinesque. We can find fun facts about him all day to point out that he's exciting, but maybe the "friends and close aides" NBC's Rafferty notes are pushing back against the term shouldn't be quite so worried, at least, not if they want their guy to get the nod. | <urn:uuid:59a12567-bf0f-491d-90f5-fc3b6ce6479c> | http://www.thewire.com/politics/2012/06/case-against-case-against-boringness-rob-portman/53703/ | en | 0.970023 | 0.050824 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Terry Crews Has His Own Assault Story and Why We Need to Believe Everyone
Terry Crews’ experience is being hailed as shocking, while countless female victims of assault are ignored daily.
Sexual assault and harassment exists in the workplace. Also, water is wet, and the Pope is Catholic. It’s an embarrassingly obvious statement, yet it still takes a large-scale scandal for us to speak its name.
As more victims of industry mogul Harvey Weinstein come forward to speak of their victimization at his hands, the elephant in the room (with his hands down his pants) becomes harder to ignore. Yet, Weinstein’s accusers are put under the microscope. In heartbreaking irony, while they are being scrutinized over the validity of their statements, they are chastised for not speaking out sooner. The actions of the mob validate their fears about coming forward, and the backlash they might receive in doing so.
In an effort to offer solidarity and support to Weinstein’s victims, actor Terry Crews reached out yesterday with the details of his own sexual assault perpetrated by an unnamed Hollywood executive. Crews discusses the moment his genitals were grabbed, and why he resisted the urge to respond with violent retaliation. Recognizing his reputation, and by extension his career, would be on the line, he chose to leave the venue and keep stay silent on the assault.
As with any victim, regardless of gender, it was an act of bravery for Crews to come forward, and his experience should not be minimized. But the reaction to Crews’ story differed greatly from the rest. First and foremost, Crews’ story was taken at face value. He was not widely accused of fabricating a story for attention. His sexual history was never considered. He was not admonished for staying silent on his attack.
Objectively, this is fantastic. This is how all victims of assault and harassment should be treated; but, we all know this isn’t how it works for most female victims. Indeed, Crews has become the standard to which Weinstein’s victims are being held. “If Terry Crews was scared to come forward, imagine how female victims felt.” Supporters point out that his impressive size and masculine persona did not prevent him from being assaulted, nor make him feel safe to speak of his experience.
All of this is true. There is no denying that Weinstein’s female victims felt every bit as much fear, perhaps even more, as did Crews, but that Crews has to validate their experiences points to a worrisome trend. It seems that whenever marginalized people speak of their victimization, someone with privilege comes forward in an attempt to validate their experiences by framing it within their own. In this case, Terry Crews’ experience is being hailed as shocking, while countless female victims of assault are ignored daily. That it happened to a man, particularly a famous one, seems to carry more weight.
Crews’ experience is valid, and his story deserves telling. He is a victim and we need to listen to him with earnest. His decision to come forward in support of Weinstein’s victims was genuine and noble. The reactions to him are neither his fault nor his responsibility. But this phenomenon of placing the experiences of the privileged over those of the marginalized is not unique to Crews, nor to sexual assault.
Recently, editor Martin R. Schneider accidentally discovered sexism in the workplace when he mistakenly signed an e-mail with a female name. The response he received was uncharacteristically dismissive. This prompted him to do an experiment in which he spent the day signing his e-mails as a woman. Shockingly, Schneider found he was treated differently. This was eye-opening to Schneider, but not even slightly to the female population at large.
Schneider’s experiment is going viral. Thousands of women speak daily of the discrimination they face in the workplace, but what makes the news is that a man in disguise experienced it for one day. His one voice is somehow meant to validate and confirm the experiences of all women. As if their voices can’t be heard without a man saying, “It’s true, I saw it, sexism exists.”
It happens in all areas of discrimination. Tyra Banks put on a fat suit and filmed her experiences for her now-cancelled talk show. Unsurprisingly, people treated fat Tyra differently than supermodel Tyra, and this was portrayed as some sort of revelation. She could have spoken with an overweight person, who faces this discrimination daily, but instead she chose to put her voice first.
It happens with racism, it happens with sexism, it happens with homophobia, it happens anywhere prejudice exists: the voice of someone who “put themselves in their shoes for a day” is louder than those who are shouting their own real experiences.
It’s problematic, not just because of the injustice of it. There is a vast difference between facing discrimination for a day, and facing it for a lifetime. It may be eye-opening for that individual, but at the end of the day, they get to take the mask off. They don’t experience the cumulative crushing effect of systemic and repeated oppression.
It sends the message that in order to be taken seriously, the experiences of the marginalized need to be replicated and the results confirmed. It tells victims that their voices are not as important as those with power. It’s not real until the privileged say it is.
This is not to say that allies are not important. Allies are an integral part in a movement for change, not just for moral support, but because allies are often the influencers and decision makers. There is a need for the voices of allies, and their support should be shouted from the rooftops - but it should be exactly that, support.
We need to place the highest importance on the experiences of the victims, the marginalized, the oppressed. We need to listen carefully to those who live this reality, not just experience it in an ah-ha moment.
Thank you, Terry, for coming forward with your experience. I’m so very sorry that you had to go through that, no one should be subjected to sexual assault as you were. I am heartened to see that you are being taken seriously and that your voice is seen as valid. I hope that one day all victims with be heard as clearly.
RELATED: Will Fear of Sexual Assault Quash Your Daughter's Dreams?
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Fear, Negative Cognition, and Depression Mediate the Relationship Between Traumatic Exposure and Sleep Problems Among Flood Victims in China
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Objective: To examine the prerequisites of sleep problems among a traumatized population, and assess the underlying mechanisms of sleep problems following trauma. Method: The current study investigated 187 flood victims from 5 makeshift shelters in the Wuhu city of Anhui province after a major flood disaster that occurred in July 2016. A traumatic exposure questionnaire, a fear questionnaire, a posttraumatic cognition inventory, a depression inventory, and a sleep problems questionnaire were used. Results: Traumatic exposure had a direct and positive association with sleep problems and could also be indirectly associated with sleep problems through fear, depression, but not negative cognitions. The positive association could be the result of a path from negative cognitions to depression, but not from fear to negative cognition, or from fear to depression. Furthermore, a threefold multipath from fear to depression via negative cognitions could also link traumatic exposure to sleep problems. Conclusions: Flood victims’ sleep problems are elicited by the combined role of fear, negative cognitions, and depression following trauma.
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traditional homes and modern homes
Traditional Houses Vs. Modern Houses
Some people prefer cream with waffles, while some people prefer syrup with waffles. You may like your prawn deep-fried, or you may like it rolled in sushi. Everyone has different preferences for everything. When it comes to having the perfect dream house, many people prefer having a traditionally designed one while some prefer a modern home.
A custom luxury house can either be traditional or modern. However, you will notice that many people end up having a house that has a mix of both, a little bit of traditional and a little bit of modern put together. You can add certain elements from both styles to come up with a unique house for yourself.
When we talk about traditional homes, they have characteristics that reflect one or more historical architectural styles. It doesn't necessarily set with a single style, but it's a blend of several styles.
However, modern homes are made typically keeping in mind the mid-century designs, which helps in achieving a much better and refined design while keeping in mind the simplicity of form, space, material, details, and colors.
You can read more about the two in detail here.
Traditional Houses
Traditional homes are considered to be modern-day interpretations of extremely extravagant historical styles. As their name says, they tend to incorporate various traditional plans such as a formal living style and historically designed dining rooms.
Along with that, they also have traditional aspects like front porches and intricately designed fireplaces. You can design a traditional house in many sizes and build it with one or more stories.
Some of the best traditional house designs can be seen throughout North America, where these houses are the most commonly built style of home. They work for all ages and lifestyles, from singles or small families to new families starting out and even growing families or retirees.
Standard Features Found In Traditional Homes
• Architectural details influenced by any historical style
• Porches in the front
• Living and dining rooms with a formal touch
• Fireplaces to add a touch of coziness
Modern Houses
If you are searching for a more iconic and classic style, you can opt for a modern architecture style. While building a modern house, the materials used typically consist of concrete, wood, glass, steel, and plastic.
When it comes to modern houses, you will find plenty of open spaces, clean lines, and ample space for the architecture and furniture placed in any room to "breathe." Modern houses have a feeling of simplicity, calmness, and warmth.
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Standard Features Found In Modern Homes
• Simplicity in the form and function
• Basic wall finishes
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How Do Furnishings Change Between The Two Houses?
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The Marxists famously took a deterministic view of the world. They saw the evolution of society as one where certain stages of development were inevitable. So, they believed that capitalism emerged, but that it too must evolve into the next order, which they of course understood to be full-blown socialism. They were wrong.
However, there is a contingent of folks out there who believe in individual psychological determinism (i.e. we have no free will). Whatever your view on that is, let’s think about the implications. If it is true that all behavior is deterministic, then it must be be the case that we can theoretically design a powerful computer that understands our every last hope and desire, our every last ability, and in fact can figure out how to mesh our hopes, ambitions and desires with those of everyone else on the planet to create an order that is beyond anything we can imagine.
It sounds great (for some, not me). But it is patently absurd. And we know it is patently absurd because of simple statistics that a grade schooler could figure out once someone taught them scientific notation. Take the size of the population on planet as fixed forever at 7 billion, or 7.0 x 10e9. The folks who subscribe to the planning view think we can take all of these brains, download them into a computer, and go ahead and solve some equations. My point is, even if it is theoretically feasible, it is not physically feasible. Literally, the laws of physics do not allow it.
Suppose that each of these individuals has only one choice to make in their entire lives (such as where to work) and that you want to allow a lot of heterogeneity in the population, such that there are not 7 billion different people-choices, but perhaps only 1 million (i.e. person one chooses between career A and B, person two chooses between C and D and so forth). The relevant question for our computer programmer is to figure out how to mimic the choices of these million different “choice groups” (remember, they represent the entire 7 billion, so we are already assuming that we can do such a grouping — presumably the smart computer could do this). How many different permutations of choices exist among a million “people” choosing their careers? How about 1 million factorial. That is, 1 million times 999,999 times 999,998 times 999,997, times …. times 2, times 1.
How big is this? I don’t have a piece of software on my computer that is able to calculate it! In fact, if you assume that there are only 100 such choosers, then my computer can handle the calculation. How big is the number of possible outcomes that society may demonstrate? Well, 100! (factorial) is roughly equal to 9.3 x 10e157. Yes, that is 9.3 with 156 zeros after it. For reference sake, that is much larger than a Googol. OK, so you might not be overwhelmed, because you believe that computing power will improve enough to be able to process the “desirability” of each of these 9.3e157 possible outcomes and then spit out the “best” one.
This is problematic for two reasons. First, and I will write more about this in the future, we’d have to pre-program this machine to understand what could possible be “good” versus not good. It’s not a matter of adding up the good and bad from each individual’s choices, because my thoughts on good are a function of what everyone else is doing. Second, and this is the point of today’s post – is that physics suggests (to me) that it is impossible to design such a computer.
Why? Because there are “only” approximately 10e89 total particles in the entire universe. In other words, I wonder whether it is possible to run combinatorial calculations on numbers that exceed this base number. I need to think this through some more. But consider it from a different angle. What limitations does the speed of electro-magnetic radiation force on such a computer. Suppose that it can analyze each decision in the time in takes light to travel the smallest length you might think a computer chip can be engineered down to (perhaps a nanometer, or 10e-9 meters). How long does it take light to travel this distance? Well, light travels at about 3e8 meters per second. And we know that the time it takes for something to happen is the distance traveled divided by the velocity, so we have:
Time for EM to travel on a chip = 1e-9 / 3e8 = 0.33e-17
In other words, it will take about 3.3e-16 seconds to make each calculation. In a second, the computer could make a little over 33 pentillion calculations. If there are 86,400 seconds per day, our computer could make about 3 million pentillion calculations per day (about 3e21). So, how long would it take to process the 9.3e157 calculations that only a 100 choice world would entail? How about 3.1e142 seconds. Well, there are 32 million seconds in a year, and the universe is about 20 billion years old. Therefore, the universe has had about 640 million billion seconds tick away since its start – or about 6.4e17 seconds. In other words, if we asked our supercomputer to start this calculation with the Big Bang, and it processed the choices at the speed of light, but today it would still have only made an infinitesimally small fraction of the way through all of the possible choices we’d have to analyse.
The actual “calculation problem” is much worse than that of course, because 7 billion of us have tens of thousands of decisions to make over the course of 80 years, and our preferences and constraints are changing from second to second as well. I do not mean by this to argue that what we all choose to do here in the spontaneous order it “optimal” but rather that the concept of optimality is beyond comprehension, and beyond this, the idea that a computer could get anywhere near optimal is silly. But it’s worse – the computer is unlikely to stumble upon anything that would resemble tolerable, even if we brushed aside the impossibility of making the calculations.
Here is Nozick’s experience machine idea.
3 Responses to “Pithy Proof Against Planning”
1. Busterdog says:
“Well, light travels at about 3e8 meters per second squared”
I don’t think you want the word “squared” in that sentence. That would imply acceleration.
2. Harry says:
You do not have to convince me.
Anyone who hangs out with people wearing suits knows about “Strategic Planning” which every MBA is taught is among the highest of management pursuits, often done at retreats. Often the product of these efforts is a Five Year Plan, four inches thick and put into a three-ring binder.
While one has to plan, certainly for the next month or two to make sure the machines have enough backlog not to be idle and be reasonably sure the sales department thinks you will be able to sell whatever is going out the door, it is a neat trick to make all that happen.
Two questions:
1) Is the interest in a five- or even a three-year plan an idea of progressive academia? (Did Andrew Carnegie concern himself with such things?)
2) Didn’t Goedel prove that computers can’t do metaphysics?
3. Rod says:
It seems to me that the best managers are the ones who can adjust to continually changing conditions, and not shoehorn every choice into the model of a strategic plan.
Our local chamber of commerce recently spent $50,000 of state grant money (the kind of money that grows on trees in Harrisburg) on a study of our local valley’s economic scene, the PERK UP project. The cleverness of that choice of acronym (stands for Perkiomen Economic Redevelopment something or other) betrays the emptyheadeness of the study, which was done by a band of clueless planners from Carlisle. While in some cases there might be a virtue in having outsiders offer some fresh ideas, this group began its study by transcribing much of our bureaucrat-written comprehensive plan into theirs.
When the Carlisle planners presented a draft of their plan to the executive director of the chamber of commerce, she called me up to ask me to “clean it up” grammatically and structurally so it would not be a total embarasment to the chamber of commerce. I hardly knew where to start. Absolutely none of their findings were anything more than what the members of the chamber of commerce already knew. Worse, however, were the broad conclusions they made for the chamber to foster prosperity.
The first recommendation was that the chamber encourage the development of “eco-tourism.” The idea was that yuppies from the suburbs (including employees of the Montgomery County Planning Commission) would flock to our area for the “amenities” of our public parks. Kayakers would tool around the reservoir (the water turns green in the summer and emits a sulfurous odor) and then stay at a bed-and-breakfast and have a meal at one of our local fine dining restaurants. By making the area a mecca for nature lovers, the regional planning commission would then be able to justify zoning fewer acres of land for real economic development where a business brings in money by the truckload. Everyone would be happy, then. And a bonus: fewer carbon emissions and a happier planet! (Will one be able to transport that kayak on top of a Smart Car? Sure, you can fit at least ten clowns in that car!)
The PERK UP Plan, like all similar plans, now sits in a pile of useless plans. The worst part is that fifty grand of taxpayer money got spent on this. Those planners from Carlisle should get real jobs in the private economy, where they might have an opportunity to add and not subtract from this nation’s wealth.
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Too Broken To Heal? The Challenge of Child Abuse Survivors
by Silvia Hartmann
There is no doubt in my mind that the idea of child abuse survivors and especially child sex abuse survivors "are too broken to heal" comes from moments when emotions and feelings with their correlated thoughts are such that this seems to be the only logical conclusion.
This is because
a) emotions, sensations and body feelings are so extreme and so overwhelming, it is hard to put words to those kinds of experiences, real dark nights of the soul; and
b) because time doesn't seem to heal it and in many cases, things just seem to get worse and worse, the longer a person lives with these sort of injuries.
What we need to do is to look at things in a different way altogether; forget about psychoanalysis and therapy in its old forms for a moment and take a different tack to the very real problems of firstly, there being these totally insane emotions and feelings with their correspondingly insane thoughts and behaviours, and secondly, things not getting any better for all the suffering and talking or not talking in the world.
I've been working and living with these challenges for over 45 years now and have both personal as well as professional experience with a huge amount of people along the way; here's what I have learned.
1. There really is a problem, it's not all in your mind.
Nobody likes to think of themselves as "broken" and people aren't cars, they are much more elegant and complex than that, being living systems that strive to repair themselves all the time.
However, there really is something seriously wrong with child abuse survivors and child sex abuse survivors.
They have sustained significant damage that persists not in the body, not in the mind, but in the energy system which is quite real, and every person has one.
2. There are REAL injuries in the energy system as a result of having been abused as a child.
This damage, these injuries in the energy system directly cause the extreme emotional disturbances from which there follow the extreme disturbances in thought and behaviour; these injuries are real and they need treatment and as soon as possible.
There is another side to this, namely that people - including children - who have significant damage in their energy bodies learn to re-route the flows of energy through other systems so they stay alive.
This leads directly to:
3. Child abuse survivors have EXTREMELY unique and complicated energy systems.
Think of it as a form of wiring that couldn't go straight from a to b any longer because there was a problem, and now has to route energy through f, g, r and s instead to get any energy at all to do anything at all.
Child abuse survivors use systems in order to be able to get out of bed, cross a street, have a conversation, or do anything at all that "normal" people find so easy that are both convoluted and energy draining because these are not the obvious and natural pathways any longer.
This leads to all sorts of secondary problems and a lack of available energy to do many "normal" things, making life hard even in mundane and everyday circumstances.
Put all three of those together, and what you get is a person who is constantly struggling with reality in every sense of the word, and for whom the ongoing experience of trying to live like that causes further significant problems with their self esteem, with their own ideas of how sane or insane they are, and a lack of faith in their mind, body and spirit all the same time.
Put all three together and you have a person that your average healer is afraid of, and who appears so "broken and weird" that your average healer thinks they can't fix any of that - and of course, whatever they think, they're right.
Such is the nature of belief and reality creation.
However, here are the saving graces.
1. The energy system has never been worked with properly in the vast majority of child abuse survivors. Nobody has ever directly enquired into the actual source of pain, where that is located, and then applied pure energy healing to the system that has been begging for such a thing to be done sometimes for decades - by sending powerful, painful emotions which are in fact the feedback systems to tell us not just how the energy body is doing, but also where the injuries are located.
* This is not theoretical - next time you feel a powerful emotion, stop and ask yourself, "Where do I feel this in my body?" and then put your own hands on that exact location. That's where the major injury is located. Has anyone ever worked on that area with a will and an intention to heal in your entire life?
2. The injuries in the energy body are energetic in nature, which means they can and will be influenced by the application of a whole range of energy forms. These energy forms can be the healing hands of people; but they can also come from other sources such as a pet, nature, crystals and other energy rich sources.
3. We need to re-define what we mean by "healing."
This is the most important message I have for all child abuse survivors and those who try to treat and help them.
Don't think in terms of "healing" whatever that may mean to you - and what does that mean to you?
* By all means, take a moment and make that concept of healing and being healed real as you think about it. Do you really want to be "normal"? Are normal people - like you see in the street and on TV - "healed"? Or in other words, who do you want to be when you grow up?
I propose we go for something else. Instead of "healing" by any other name, I say we look for evolution, try to bring about an evolution in the problems that we have.
What that means is to unstick something that's been stuck and the same for a long, long time, and to bring back movement into our systems of feeling, thinking and doing.
We call this principle, "You don't have to solve it, only evolve it."
Even a small evolution is movement, movement in the right direction, if you will.
Forget about some lighting strike and boom! you're completely normal like all the people who live in your road.
Instead, what we want to do is to embark on a quest to firstly find out what there really is in the way of injuries; to learn more about ourselves and how our systems work so we can understand ourselves better; and to move anything that's been stuck on as best we can.
Working with the energy system gives us every scope and every power to do something about even the oldest, darkest, most painful feelings - that's the real problem with child abuse survivors, those old feelings that are painful still, more painful even the longer they remain untreated.
All the crazy thoughts and crazy behaviours come about BECAUSE OF THE FEELINGS.
Work with the feelings, and thoughts and behaviours follow suit when the feelings start to calm and get better.
It's a direct cause and effect.
Here is the final part to using the path through the energy system to not "fix the broken child abuse survivors" but to EVOLVE THEM so they can become the best they can ever be, given all the ins and outs of their experiences in this incarnation.
This is much overlooked - if not entirely overlooked! - in current psychology, therapy and healing practice and is in many ways the master key for evolution.
The good feelings.
The fact is that people who have the capacity to experience these incredibly powerful negative emotions gain at the same time the capacity to experience powerful positive emotions too.
It's like the range of human experience expands when you put extreme suffering and extend the scale of what is known on one end, there is an expansion on the other end too.
Child abuse survivors are capable of experiencing the most extraordinary joyous and wonderful emotions too; often if not always much, much more powerfully than their "normal" compatriots.
By constantly only hunting and questing for trauma and more trauma, we're missing the point in so many different ways.
Firstly, the real structure of emotion, how that works, how our feelings work to produce thought and behaviour, doesn't become revealed until and unless we take ALL emotions into consideration and include good and extremely good emotions in the investigation.
Secondly, without understanding how good emotions and especially, extremely good emotions, we call these Guiding Stars, shape our beliefs just as powerfully as trauma does, people's lives don't make any sense.
And thirdly, by ignoring the positive emotions we are ignoring the obvious pathway out of endless negativity and the potential for actual structural evolution.
To actively seek to have more positive emotional experiences is a big part of evolution for a child abuse survivor.
This is simply structural; it has nothing to do with whether or not you think you "deserve" to be happy or feel good; it has to be done in order to foster your own evolution and healing.
I'm not suggesting that by constantly focusing on trauma only we are blowing up trauma out of all proportions; what I'm saying is that to stabilise the energy system there should be a fifty/fifty share between positive and negative emotions, both must be present, both are energy flows and until that sort of even keel has been established, we might have to engage in positive discrimination towards the positive emotions.
I would say that the most important evolutionary step for any child abuse or child sex abuse survivor to take is to start taking note of their own emotions and to study them in a new light, like a scientist would.
To not try and ignore them (you've tried that for a few decades, and it didn't work, so now try something else!) and instead, start a process of documentation.
What kind of bad do you feel and when? How many different kinds of bad are there, and where do you feel those in your body?
What kind of good you feel and when? How many different kinds of good are there, and where do you feel those in your body?
When you start to observe yourself in that way, you start to build up a conscious awareness of what makes you feel how, when, and where. This is essential knowledge about ourselves, and in and of itself a form of evolution.
Making the effort to get to know how we work, each one of us, as a system, alleviates so much confusion and weirdness, it's amazing. Try it for yourself. Simply take note of your good AND your bad emotions, don't judge them, just notice when they happen, how they feel and most importantly, where you feel them in your body.
Most child abuse survivors use a variety of substances and rituals to control the way they feel. Include those too in your assessments; don't be ashamed of what you do to try and control your moods, whether it is sex, heroin, coffee, tranquilizers, alcohol, people, rituals, sleep deprivation or whatever it is you use. Don't be ashamed of any of it, just note what happens to your feelings, and how the things you use to try and control your feelings affect you.
Think in terms of energy - flows of energy through your body, and some feel good, and others feel bad and that's because there's a real injury that's trying to gain your attention.
Establish the cause and effect between your feelings and your thoughts and behaviours. That's the most important step towards evolution; the fact is that people are very logical, even if it seems to an outsider that what they're doing is crazy or abnormal, when you factor in the feelings and the energy body, it starts making sense and you start to understand yourself a little bit better.
When that happens, you start to like yourself a little bit better, and that's perfectly normal and nothing to be worried about.
Now here's what I've been wanting to tell you about one more time in brief.
1. We are only "too broken to heal" from the old paradigm of mechanical and physical bodies and minds only.
2. We have never had our real injuries in the energy system treated at all, not directly, not properly, not ever. That gives us a whole new pathway into finding out more how energy and emotions work, and there's lots to learn, and lots of evolution to be had that was never available before now.
3. People have been trying to understand thought and behaviour without the emotions which cause them in the first place which was doomed to failure. Most importantly, the causes and effects of good emotions were never explored or discussed, and they are just as important as bad emotions in every way.
4. We don't need to seek instant healing, instead we should consider personal evolution - taking us from wherever we are and moving us on and out of stuck emotional states, which cause stuck thoughts and stuck behaviours.
5. It's high time to stop being ashamed of all and any method we have used to try and gain control over our emotions in the absence of any useful help from anyone.
6. By starting to pay attention to the reality of our emotions and where we feel them in our bodies, good and bad emotions alike, we get to understand ourselves better, and this leads to liking ourselves more.
7. By actively encouraging positive emotions of all kinds we are heading in the right direction if we want to evolve beyond whatever we currently struggle with.
I think the idea of evolution rather than a mysterious idea of "healing" is a step in the right direction; and I encourage everyone who deals with child abuse issues, be they a survivor themselves or someone who wants to help child abuse survivors and child sex abuse survivors to really look into the emotion -> energy connection, because that's a straight path towards evolution.
In the meantime, remember this:
ANY movement in an old system is good news, and should be celebrated and encouraged. That's the right way forward, that's the right way to go, and eventually, such small movements become bigger, really noticeable, and a sense of flow forward and life's purpose begins to reveal itself.
Be kind to yourself, always,
Dr Silvia Hartmann
March 2011
Further Reading:
EmoTrance: Emotions, Energy, Information & Love - DragonRising 2011
Events Psychology: How To Understand Yourself & Other People - DragonRising 2009
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Antarctica receives heat from the Sun every day, so how does it stay frozen?
I have some thoughts about the answer but I'm unsure of whether it is correct; I hope people here can clarify.
My idea: the heat that Antarctica receives from the Sun is always 'travelling' from one spot to another, but the heat does not stay in a spot long enough to melt the ice.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, thanks.
• $\begingroup$ The Earth is a complex system, so there are many factors at play. $\endgroup$
– Jimmy360
Mar 25 '15 at 12:29
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$\begingroup$ Not every day. There are months of darkness... $\endgroup$
– mankoff
Mar 29 '15 at 11:25
• $\begingroup$ The simple answer is that Antarctica does not receive enough heat, since surface is at a low angle to the incoming sunlight. Additionally, it is covered with snow & ice, which reflects a lot of the incoming energy. $\endgroup$
– jamesqf
Mar 30 '15 at 21:32
It doesn't stay frozen. Ice evaporates (or sublimates is the correct term) under direct sunlight, but that's at a molecular level, it doesn't melt, it goes from solid to gas under sunlight and in the cold, some of this newly formed water vapor goes back being to ice.
In an absolutely dry climate, well below freezing, ice would slowly sublimate and disappear. In a warm dry climate, ice would melt (much faster), then it would evaporate. The sun does sublimate ice off the antarctic ice sheet every day, but quite a bit less than is added by snow and condensation from moisture due to temperature change and brought over by wind. The antarctic ice sheet is also, always moving. Mostly Antarctica loses ice by pushing it into the ocean - over long periods of time and it gains ice by (see above) snow and condensation. The ice has been on Antarctica for over 30 million years, but as far as I know, the oldest ice core we've found there is about 1.5 million years old. Everything moves.
First of all, the Earth does not receive heat from the Sun, it receives visible light that is absorbed by the surface of the Earth and then heat is re-radiated back into the atmosphere. If the surface is ice/snow, most of the light from the sun is reflected back to space. Sunlight will sublimate a little bit of the ice, but it is normally replenished at a faster rate than it is lost.
Ice endures through the summer in Antarctica, even as the air warms up. This is in contrast to the ice at the Arctic pole that completely melts every summer. This is for 2 reasons:
1. Unlike the arctic, the ice in Antarctica is on a continental shelf, so there is no water beneath it to help melt the ice.
2. Antarctica is the highest continent on Earth, with an average elevation of 8,200ft. At that elevation and within the polar region, ice can persist indefinitely because the average atmospheric temperature is very cold. At high elevations, there is little atmosphere to trap any heat radiated by the Earth, which is why the air is so cold at high elevations.
For these reasons, ice near the coast of Antarctica typically is lost much faster than ice in the mountains.
• $\begingroup$ the Earth does not receive heat from the Sun — what do you mean by this? The Earth receives 340 W/m² of heat from the Sun. Visible light carries the bulk of this heat. The Earth atmosphere only absorbs the solar heat mostly indirectly (when re-radiated from the Earth surface), but to state that the Earth does not receive heat from the Sun is probably not what you mean to state (since, of course, it does). $\endgroup$
– gerrit
Oct 14 '19 at 12:38
• $\begingroup$ The earth receives solar radiation from the sun, not heat. In order to transfer heat, conduction is required. Space is void of enough material to sustain any significant temperature, so no measurable heat is conducted from the Sun to the Earth. Solar radiation is absorbed by the surface of the Earth and then the energy is radiated back to the atmosphere in the form of infrared, which is captured by the atmosphere and measured as "heat". $\endgroup$
– f.thorpe
Oct 15 '19 at 3:13
• $\begingroup$ Heat can be transferred by conduction, convection, or radiation. The Sun transfers heat to the Earth (essentially) exclusively through radiation. Solar (visible) radiation carries energy exactly like terrestrial (infrared) radiation does, the difference being that the clear-sky atmosphere is mostly transparent to visible radiation and partially opaque to infrared radiation. Solar radiation turns into heat as soon as absorbed by the Earth surface (which then reradiates it to the atmosphere). Either way, the heat that the Earth receives is undoubtedly from nuclear fusion processes in the Sun. $\endgroup$
– gerrit
Oct 15 '19 at 7:32
• $\begingroup$ Equating radiation to heat energy isn't appropriate. Heat energy of electromagnetic radiation can be calculated, but thermodynamic heat is not the same thing as electromagnetic radiation. $\endgroup$
– f.thorpe
Oct 16 '19 at 2:22
• $\begingroup$ Indeed, electromagnetic radiation is not the same as heat, but the heat on Earth is clearly originating from energy carried by electromagnetic radiation energy transfer from the Sun. Radiation transfers heat. $\endgroup$
– gerrit
Oct 16 '19 at 7:28
userLTK has explained that not all of the ice in the Antarctic stays frozen all the time. But perhaps there's a more basic view needed : sunlight in temperate areas melts all of the ice quite quickly, so why doesn't the same happen in Antarctica?
There are a number of reasons, but the simplest (and probably most important?) is one of geometry, and the way that sunlight reaches parts of the planet's surface.
Imagine that you are shining a torch onto a ball, where the beam from the torch is circular and much smaller than the ball.
• If the beam hits the middle of the ball, it appears as a small circle on the ball's surface.
• If the beam hits near the top or the bottom of the ball, it covers a larger area of the ball's surface - so that any given point receives less light.
The same is true for the earth. Near the poles, the light from the sun is "skimming" the planet rather than hitting at right angles, and so any given amount of energy leaving the sun is spread over a wider area near the poles, and is thus less intense. So, the amount of energy landing in Antarctica per square metre is much less than it is near the equator.
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I just tried copying a file over cifs (windows file sharing) between a server 2003 R2 and a new server 2008 SP1 and I'm getting horrible speed.
it's a 300MB file that is taking around 30 minutes to transfer. I'm getting around 1-2Mbit/s and this is on a local switch.
I have tried initiating the transfer from both servers with the same results.
Copying from the 2003 to another 2003 is less than 1 min, so it's obviously something with the 2008-server.
An even weirder behaviour is that if I simultaneously copy another file from the 2003 server to another 2003 server, the transfer rate from the 2008 server increases drastically (like 10x times, but still slow though).
Over RDP-drivesharing I get full VPN-speed, approx 20Mbit. No other services seem to be suffering from any latency.
I have seen post about tcp offloading causing trouble in win2008, could it be related?
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Make sure the 2008 server is working properly on its own. Try tranferring files betweeen it and another 2008 server, or if one isn't available a vista workstation, they use the same cifs version.
I've seen similar file transfer behavior when there was a speed/duplex mismatch between the NIC and the switch, sometimes because of an autosense problem and sometimes because of a misconfiguraton of one or the other, or both.
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Duplex mismatch is a real PITA! Additionally due to lack of good flow control in 100 Meg ethernet (you do not specify if it is GigE or 100 Meg) it can be oddly faster to run your 100 Meg at HALF duplex. Sounds crazy, but really interesting when you test it in the real world! – geoffc Jul 13 '09 at 1:48
I agree verify the servers are not at half duplex and check the switch, crazier things happen. You may need to set it to full duplex. – Luis Ventura Jul 13 '09 at 3:23
This is a ggit NIC connected to a 100Mbit-switch. Both use setting auto, and in my experience duplex mismatch generates far worse performance, aswell as plenty of packetloss which I don't seem to have. – jishi Jul 13 '09 at 8:33
After a few months, I stumbled over a huge error-counter in my switch for this expicit port, and oddly enough my comment about having both set to auto wasn't accurate so it seems. Obviously, an auto-setting against a full duplex setting will revert the auto to half duplex "just to be sure". – jishi Mar 16 '10 at 9:04
You could try turning off TCP auto-tuning:
netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled
If that doesn't work, turn it back on with:
netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=normal
TCP auto-tuning is a new feature in the Vista and Windows 2008 TCP/IP stack. The amount of data you can send through TCP/IP depends on (among other things) the size of the receive window size. In previous versions of Windows, the receive window size was capped at 64KB. With auto-tuning, the window size is dynamically changed based on the connection's capacity and speed. The idea being that this would speed up data transfers.
The problem is that this feature can actually cause slower transfer rates if the client operating system or network hardware doesn't support this feature correctly (as described in RFC 1323, TCP Extensions for High Performance).
In any case, this may not be the issue here, but it is worth a shot.
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Can you explain WHY that matters? I.e. What does it do, and what might it be doing wrong, that is worth turning it off. – geoffc Jul 13 '09 at 1:46
@geoff - updated the post with a fuller description. – Adam Brand Jul 13 '09 at 2:31
I actually tried this, but no difference. However, I did not reboot the machine after this change, is that necessary? – jishi Jul 13 '09 at 8:27
I don't think a reboot is necessary, but it wouldn't hurt to try. – Adam Brand Jul 13 '09 at 14:16
I've just solved a similar problem to this on my network. A Windows 2003 Server machine was getting terrible (~20Kb/s) read speeds from shares on a new Windows 2008 R2 box (but strangely, 2003 >> 2008 was fine, ~50+Mb/s).
Some of the things I tried...
• Setting autotuninglevel=disabled as suggested above
• Disabling SMB 2, as described here
• Tweaking the adapters duplex and flow control settings, mostly based on this post but suggested in a number of places
None of which had any (positive) effect.
For me the solution turned out to be disabling TCP offloading (described here) by adding the following registry keys...
Value = DisableTaskOffload
Type = DWORD
Data = 1
Value = EnableTCPChimney
Type = DWORD
Data = 0
Value = EnableTCPA
Type = DWORD
Data = 0
Value = EnableRSS
Type = DWORD
Data = 0
After a restart all transfers were up to speed.
From my (limited) understanding of the problem it only occurs with certain NIC models (mines a Intel 82578DC) in a box running 2008 or Win 7 that's talking to a box running 2003 or XP. In my case the 2003 box was a virtual machine running on VMware Server 2.0.2 (but I don't know if that's relevant).
Hope that helps someone!
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People have suggested a few different things in this question: Windows networking performance (SMB/CIFS)
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My first guess would be a hardware problem. Try using FTP or HTTP to transfer the file and see if that's also slow.
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I'm getting full speed over RDP drive-sharing, which max out at around 20Mbit over the VPN. – jishi Jul 13 '09 at 8:42
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It is made up of essential oils that work at the molecular level to remove bad odor and keep the litter box smelling fresh. It is a good product that mixes well with many kinds of litter and enhances its life.
It is made of natural, non-toxic, and 100% biodegradable material that effectively absorbs moisture from feces and urine. As a result, the strong ammonia smell from the litter will be reduced so that you and your pet can enjoy an order-free environment. In addition, this product works well in neutralizing smells from kennels, cans, trash compactors, and animal carriers.
With this product in your life, you will enjoy less scooping and you won’t have to replace the litter box too often.
2. Non-Scents Cat Litter Deodorizer
Most cat owners are happy that the deodorizer lasts longer giving them an odor-free home. It is easy to use and ideal if you are looking to mask the smell and eliminate it from the root level as a good choice. If you want a more permanent fix you should try this deodorizer.
Unlike most products with hazardous chemicals and strong scents, this is a fragrance-free solution with fewer chemical additives. This makes it even safe for your pets. The deodorizer is also four times more concentrated, which makes it highly effective in neutralizing even the strongest odors in the litter boxes.
3. Citrus Magic Pet Odor Absorbing Solid Air Freshener
This is a budget-friendly purchase that comes in twin packages. It is ideal if you have many pets at home. It is made of the safest, natural, and effective products which are non-toxic and have no harsh chemicals.
It produces a long-lasting effect allowing you to enjoy the odor-fighting benefits of natural ingredients like baking soda. The refreshing fragrance or pure linen fills the air and eliminates bad odor for up to 12 and 14 weeks.
You also do not have to worry about your pets or family members because this air freshener does a good job of removing tough pet odors in a 350 sq ft room for 8 to 12 weeks.
4. Stink Free Every Cat Litter Spray Odor Eliminator
Your house does not need to stink if you love pets. This smart odor remover does well with beddings, carpets, furniture, hardwood floors, and walls to remove the smell of urine and poop.
You can also use it for your litter box to keep it fresh at all times. Your house will not only smell good but will save you money in time by increasing the gap between litter box replacements.
As an all-natural spray, it is made of safe non-toxic elements that make it harmless for pets and humans. It uses a natural enzyme-based technology for absorbing ammonia vapors coming from the litter box. The result is a replaced pine scent. There is also a 2-ounce bottle you can carry in your bed wherever you go with pets.
Pet owners find it an easy way to eliminate the odor from the litter area and other house areas that could be stinking from cat poop. As an easy-to-use product, you can carry it in your bag as well.
5. One Fur All 100% Natural Soy Wax Candle
The product works like magic if you own several pets at home. It removes urine, poop, wet cat and fart smells. The candle also comes in a beautiful jar with a fragrant smell to make the house have a good fragrance.
In a specially formulated formula, the odor neutralizing elements are used to eliminate the unpleasant smell and odor. This candle comprises an enriched blend of essential oils and premium fragrances leaving a pleasant aroma without being overbearing to the senses.
The candle wax is made from an eco-friendly and 100% natural soy wax, a highly renewable resource. The cotton wick contains no dye or paraffin thus is a clean burn. After purchase, the burn time is 60 hours delivering a safe and long-lasting use.
6. Venti fresh: Odor Neutralizer Cat Litter Deodorizer
The product is ideal for people living in small apartments with pets. The home will smell nice making it comfortable for pets too. It works well for cat litter and not other odors.
This is a convenient little machine powered by photocatalytic technologies. The package has a motor fan and flat USB power cable that enables a smooth extension and continuous running time.
There are accessories such as gel pads and built-in magnets that make it easier to install on metal or non-metal surfaces.
You can also use take it with you when traveling provided you have a power bank. It also consumes less than 3W an hour to keep your home smelling fresh and nice.
The product is harmless to pets and kids since no chemicals or hazardous by-products are involved.
7. Moso Natural Air Purifying Bag
This is the perfect air freshener to put next to your cat’s litter box or any other areas with odor problems. As an organic air freshener, it uses 100% activated bamboo charcoal free from chemicals and fragrance. This means it is very safe for cats and dogs.
The normal bag covers about 90 square feet and they come in sets of threes. You can use the bag for up to two years and when you set them out in the sun their productivity returns.
In addition, they absorb excess moisture in rooms, making them ideal for those hot days. If you have several cats these bags will prove sufficient for use.
8. Air Wick Plug Scented Oil starter Kit
This scented oil starter kit has a 5-star rating and works more efficiently compared to most other air fresheners for cats. The scent is always subtle and fresh in masking the odors.
It has many different scents that can be used and diffused into your home. This air freshener works for up to 60 days and the strength is always adjustable by twisting the top.
It also comes with 6 refill packs and two warmers and is great for use in closets, kitchens, living rooms, bathrooms, and anywhere you want to feel light, fresh, and scent.
Once the oil in the air freshener starts to heat up, it releases a fragrance that moves around the room. You have a choice of five fragrance settings depending on your needs.
This air freshener plug-in can be used anywhere that has a standard plug-in and with a starter set that can blend fragrances in your home using different scent diffusers.
9. Germguardian Pluggable Air Purifier and Sanitizer
This purifier and sanitizer eliminate germs by using UV-C sanitizer and deodorizer to keep your home fresh and free from any pet odor.
The air enters the front of the unit and travels through before coming out the top. As it leaves, the UV light reduces the airborne bacteria, germs, viruses, spores mold, and other impurities.
The Germ Guardian uses UV to filter 99.9% of germs in the air including pollen, smoke, mold, pet fur, dander, dust mites, and bacteria spores.
Practices to reduce litter box smell
You have to do daily scooping to prevent the litter box from smelling. Always wash the litter box well with soap and water at least once a month. You must wear gloves to protect your hands from pathogens and germs. Refrain from using harsh chemical cleaners as the strong smell might make your cat avoid the litter box totally.
When your cat is hiding the waste they will scratch the litter box making it a hiding place for germs and bacteria. You should replace the litter box at least once a year and use an effective deodorizer to keep it smelling good.
If you have multiple cats then ensure you have separate litter boxes for each pet. They need personal space so they can use them with ease and comfortability.
You should also avoid putting your litter boxes in compact areas and confined spaces. Your cat will avoid using it. Instead, keep the box in a well-ventilated place in the apartment or house to allow the smell to infuse with air circulation.
FAQs About Air Fresheners for Cats
Let’s now have a look at some of the frequently asked questions about the best air fresheners for cats.
How often should I scoop out the contents of a litter box?
You can clear the contents of a litter box twice a week depending on the number of cats and odor. You might have to replace it every other day. Using air fresheners will remove the smell allowing you to clean less frequently.
What is the best way to clean a litter box?
A little warm water and a mild detergent such as liquid dish wash soap will do. A natural cleanser can be made with baking soda and warm water to remove stains inside the litter box itself.
How can I keep my litter box from smelling?
The best way to keep your litter box from smelling is by using an air freshener or purifier. If you can, use the two in a combination to make your room smell great while eliminating the odor.
What is the best cat urine odor remover?
You can use a Rocco & Roxie Litter Box Odor Eliminator or Silver Onyx Air Purifier. The two deodorizers can effectively remove such smells. The air purifier uses activated carbon to absorb the odor as the air freshener emits a great smelling aroma into the air.
What is the best litter box deodorizer?
The most effective litter box deodorizer is the Rocco & Roxie Litter Box Odor Eliminator or Air Wick Plug-in Air freshener. The plug-in device will remove odor from the litter box and cat urine resulting in a great smelling room.
Does cat pee smell go away?
The smell cat pee gives goes away when you clean with non-scented detergent and plenty of clean water. You can also use an air freshener or air purifier as it reduces the bad smell by releasing good fragrances into the air.
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10 lbs of HBS in a 5 lb bag
So you mean this whole “HBS rejects applicants who ‘hacked’ into admissions site” hubbub is about people seeing what happens if they truncate the URL for their account?
I guess they’ve got a brand image to protect as the home of the utterly and irrationally technology-ignorant executive of tomorrow. IT people–hell, people who know how to change their default browser settings–everywhere are shaking their heads.
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Jeremy, wearing his famous "i pwn n00bs" shirt and bandana
Biographical info
Early 20's
Hair colour
Preferred game
All games, specialization in real-time strategy
• Command & Conquer: Generals - Zero Hour
Political info
Gamer Army, teh_masterer
Miscellaneous info
First appearance
Life of a Pro Gamer
Last appearance
Just the Guys Part 2
Jarett Cale
Owning n00bs
Jeremy (online handle teh_pwnerer) is the main protagonist of Pure Pwnage First shown in episode 1, Jeremy is originally the subject of his brother Kyle's film project. he is a self-proclaimed pro gamer who specializes in real-time strategy (RTS) games. Jeremy is known for his "uber micro", or his ability to micro-manage many units very quickly in RTS games, especially Command and Conquer: Zero Hour. Despite being well known in the RTS community, Jeremy is shown to be ridiculously good at practically any video game he plays. His immense skill also comes with a comparatively large ego - Jeremy is known to boast when defeating opponents, going so far as to hump people's heads while gloating. Jeremy's skill with video games eventually leads to him becoming Teh Masterer's apprentice.
Jeremy is commonly portrayed as an aloof gamer who is uncomfortable in the real world - he does not understand some social conventions and often tries to apply game logic to the real world. Despite his somewhat awkward personality, Jeremy has good friends like Doug and Dave. Jeremy also befriends T-Bag during the series, and becomes romantically involved with Anastasia.
Early life Edit
Not much has been revealed about Jeremy's early life, except for his livelong interest in games, and that he met Doug while still a child. At some point during his childhood he started playing console, which eventually led to him starting to play PC games, such as Doom. It was sometime after this that Jeremy and Doug split up as Jeremy choose to pursue a career within RTS instead of FPS, which Doug chose. He once says he pwned at pong when he was two.
Season one Edit
Addiction to World of Warcraft Edit
In the sixth episode of the show, Jeremy buys a copy of World of Warcraft, so he can meet with Anastacia in-game. However, after playing all day and night, and allegedly leveling from level 1 to 60 in only a matter of days, Jeremy passes out in front of his computer due to the lack of sleep and food, and is admitted to a rehabilitation clinic. In the next episode, we learn that Jeremys mind is still "stuck" in the game, and that he believes that he is part of the game. At the end of the episode, Jeremy is cured after Anastacia pays him a visit, and he is seen having a barbeque with his friends.
Season finale Edit
Season two Edit
Relationships Edit
Kyle Edit
Kyle is Jeremy's brother, and one of his only true friends, despite their occasional fights. Kyle is the cameraman for the series, and is almost always following Jeremy around to get footage.
Anastasia Edit
Anastasia (Also called Tagi) is Jeremy's love interest in the series. She met Jeremy while playing World of Warcraft, a game she was addicted to until Jeremy deleted her character. Jeremy and Anastasia broke up in the second last episode of the series.
Doug Edit
Jeremy's childhood friend, Doug is addicted to FPS games. When not playing CounterStrike: Source, he's constantly imitating FPS games in real life, shouting "BOOM HEADSHOT!" quite frequently.
Dave Edit
Dave is Jeremy's friend, who often enjoys playing Fighting Games, though he really isn't particular to any genre. Dave has his own show, Pro at Cooking with Dave
T-Bag (Terrence Brown) Edit
While at first their relationship was off to a bad start, after re-introducing themselves, Jeremy and T-Bag became friends.
• Jeremy is portrayed by Jarett Cale in all of the Pure Pwnage series.
Characters of Pure Pwnage
Main Characters KyleJeremyDoug
Web Series Characters AnastaciaDaveTeh_MastererT-BagKris
TV Series Characters OctoberTyrelSimon
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Dear Angry lady at Coborn's,
Coborn's new mask policy went into effect on Monday. Everyone is now required to wear a mask while shopping inside of their stores. The policy excludes children five years and under as well as people with health conditions that prevent them from wearing a mask. They are just one of MANY stores in the area that require masks.
In fact, St. Cloud just passed a temporary ordinance that requires people inside public buildings to wear a mask. The penalty for violating the ordinance is a warning and then a possible fine of up to $250.
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I had to make a quick trip into the Pine Cone Road store on Monday. I completely forgot about the new policy, but was reminded upon walking into the store's entry. There was a huge sign displayed letting customers know the drill. I'll admit, I was in a hurry so I didn't have time to stop and read through the whole thing. I was also with my two-year-old.
I grabbed my items, went through checkout and headed back out the door. That's when I saw it...the "situation".
There was an employee standing at the door next to you, an older woman who clearly, judging by your words, was upset about the policy. The employee informed you of the policy and asked you to put a mask on. That's when you lost it. You said a few choice words before going off on the employee about how you don't 'live in Russia'. I was in a hurry out the door, so I didn't stick around to see how things ended.
Listen, this isn't a political post--even though I recognize that it definitely feels like masks have become political. I understand why you were upset. I get it. I'm not advocating either way and I'm not going to let you know how I feel about masks personally because my views really don't matter in the grand scheme of things.
I understand your argument for not wearing a mask. I also understand the argument of those who are upset with you for not wearing a mask. I have a Facebook page. I've read through the angry comments and arguments on both sides of the fence.
My thinking is, all masks aside, we need to be kind to each other. Especially to people who are just doing their job and not actually responsible for the decision making.
I'm guessing that this particular Coborn's employee didn't make the policy, can't change the policy and...who knows, maybe totally agrees with your stance...or maybe doesn't. Who is to say?
What I do know is, he was trying to make a paycheck like the rest of us. So, instead of taking out your anger on someone who doesn't deserve it, let's all try to be respectful to one another.
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Re: How long does the Fluorite last?
In principle it should last forever, because what flourite brings to the
table isn't nutrients, but the ability to hold them instead. This is a
function of the type of clay it is. I can't think of anything off the top
of my head that would change that in the short run (i.e. the time spans
we're dealing with).
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1821 S. Maxwell St.
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Your Opinion: Don't vilify Prop. B supporters
Your Opinion: Don't vilify Prop. B supporters
February 23rd, 2011 by Judy Baumgartner, Holts Summit in News
Dear Editor:
Why is it that opponents of Proposition B continually try to vilify its supporters? They call us names and imply that we are stupid because we took the initiative at its written word and did not try to read between the lines.
Supporters of Prop. B never said that all dog breeders are puppy mills and are abusive and/or neglectful. There were actually a few good dog breeders that came out for Prop. B.
Proposition B contained the clearest language on the November ballot. People who voted for Prop B were better informed about that than they were the legislators they voted for. We were not mis-informed.
There is no "hidden agenda"! Just because most of us are not agri-business farmers does not mean we are stupid.
Opponents of Prop. B continue to lambast the HSUS, and for what - because they are a "humane" organization? It seems that those who try to do good are always criticized, and those who are out to make easy money are applauded.
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Cheese Exchanges
Is this a situation you've experienced? You have several cheeses in the refrigerator and you're in the mood for a particular recipe, but you don't have the cheese the recipe calls for. You don't want to buy more cheese until your current "stock" diminishes a bit. What to do? Fear not! It's possible—even easy—to substitute some cheeses for others with very good results.
Here are our suggestions for Wisconsin cheese substitutions. We're not promising the dish will taste the same, but we think it will taste very good, and the texture of the suggested cheeses will be fine as well. Certainly, not having a specific cheese shouldn't prevent you from creating a winning dish for everyday occasions. When ethnic authenticity is important, or you want to emulate exactly a chef's dish, it's best to buy the specified cheese.
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June 28, 2010
A new crop of systems are coming to the data center, and they owe a lot of their heritage to Linux. Space and power are at a premium in today's datacenter, and Linux will be the top choice for smaller and less power-hungry machines powering cloud computing.
A couple of systems have made the news recently that are targeting "scale out" cloud workloads, and Linux is likely to be the OS of choice on these systems. The SeaMicro SM10000 and the Quanta S2Q take different approaches, but the theory is the same: Cram a lot of low-powered cores into a system to handle workloads with massive amounts of small transactions. Sounds like a job for Linux!
The Quanta S2Q
According to Andy Patrizio on ServerWatch.com, the S2Q is a low-power and high-density machine that utilizes massively multicore CPUs. The S2Q is based on the TILEPro64, a RISC-based CPU with 64 cores on a chip running at 700MHz or 866MHz. According to ServerWatch, those cores are about as powerful as an Atom CPU.
The S2Q is rated for eight TILEPro64 chips, providing a whopping 512 cores per 2U server, addressing up to 64 DIMM slots. Targeted at cloud computing workloads, the S2Q won't run off-the-shelf software. It doesn't support the x86 instruction set, so software will need to be recompiled to run on the TILEPro64 chips. Bad news for Windows, good news for Linux. Not only is Linux tailor-made to work with cloud loads, it won't be hard to get a LAMP stack up and running on these systems.
The SeaMicro SM10000
What do you get when you combine 512 Intel Atom processors in one system? It's not the lead-in for a joke, it's a new approach to saving space and power in the data center. SeaMicro, a company focusing on reducing power consumption for data centers, has rolled out a new system that takes up less space, less power, and is tailor-made for "scale out" workloads.
The first system from SeaMicro is the SM10000. The SM10000 is a server with 512 Atom Z530 CPUs, 1 Terabyte of RAM, up to 64 SATA drives, up to 64 Gigabit Ethernet ports. All that fits in 10U of space, which means that you can fit four units in a standard rack. According to the company, the system reduces power consumption by 75 percent when compared to forty dual socket quad core 1U systems and support hardware.
Even taking the vendor numbers with the requisite grain of salt, the SM10000 does look like it offers some interesting advantages over traditional systems.
Use Enough Dynamite There, Butch?
The current crop of server-specific CPUs are way more horsepower than necessary for many use cases. If you're doing serious enterprise data transactions, you might need the latest 8-core CPUs. Companies that are handling heavy Web traffic, and thus a lot of small files, don't need the same kind of processing power just to churn out Web pages.
Even underutilized, those beefy systems suck up a lot of power. The Atom CPUs, while less performant, also consume far less power. Expect to see companies exploring similar solutions with ARM and MIPS CPUs soon. The Atom is likely to remain the leading choice, though, since its x86 architecture means that most organizations will be able to run their existing software unchanged.
Aside from the swarm of Atom CPUs, the actual design of the system is what makes it really interesting. The SM10000 combines the servers with the networking infrastructure. The system includes the rack switch, terminal server, and load balancer in one tiny case.
Why It's Important
The SM10000 is nice and all, but it clocks in at more than $130K. Pricing isn't announced for the S2Q yet, but it's not unreasonable to assume it won't be cheap. Is it really worth the sticker shock to save money on some space and power?
In a word, yes. Companies that run their own data center soon find that as their computing needs expand, so do the space requirements. Eventually, you're running out of room and looking at either expanding the data center (not cheap) or investing in smaller systems. If you're renting space in a data center, investing in a smaller system that fits in 10U of space could result in significant savings as well.
And the power requirements are a major factor. Google did a study in 2007 that indicates that the cost of powering systems could cost more than the actual equipment over the life of the systems.
Cost isn't everything. Some facilities are simply reaching capacity in terms of space and power availability. At that point, it doesn't matter if the power costs are excessive or not — you have to deal with the space and power available.
Not for Everything
These machines aren't going to be replacing commodity x86-64 servers for every use case. The servers are specifically designed for "scale out" workloads, and might not be appropriate for many types of computing. While the SM10000 may be ideal for cloud computing workloads, it may not be the ideal replacement for financial institutions or other workloads that require larger transactions. The TILEPro64 will require software to be recompiled, so it'll be ideal for LAMP applications — but not for proprietary software without source code available.
The SM10000, S2Q, and similar systems also have a few disadvantages. Commodity x86 and x86-64 systems may slurp down more power, but they have the benefit of being commodity systems. Even if your vendor goes out of business tomorrow (highly unlikely if you're getting systems from Dell, HP, etc.) you should be able to get replacement parts for those systems.
Since these systems are composed of non-standard parts, CIOs have to decide whether to take the risk on non-standard systems. If SeaMicro or Quanta don't make the long haul, what to do with those systems if a vital component goes belly up? You're not just losing a server, you might lose the entire system.
Approaching an Atom Age?
Are low-powered chips going to take over the data center? It seems unlikely, but I do expect to see variations on these systems carving out a niche for Web hosts and companies with the "scale out" workloads.
These systems will need to prove themselves in the datacenter before they'll become common-place. But the SM10000 and S2Q could be the fore-runners for a new breed of Linux-powered systems that will scale-out loads in data centers in the near future.
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Child Safety
Children can turn anything into a toy or a game and that is why it is so important to pay attention to dangers in the home.
Something that may seem harmless, such as window coverings, can actually be a strangulation hazard.
Whether blinds are up or down, make sure children can never reach the cords.
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Got The Urge To Take Some Profits?
Personal Business: INVESTING
Does watching the stock market surge to a new record level week after week tempt you to call your broker and cash in on some of the highfliers in your portfolio? In February, the Dow Jones industrial average topped 4000 for the first time, and, despite red flags such as a falling dollar and weaker consumer spending, on Apr. 24 it closed at a record 4304. Market strategists believe this bull still has room to run. But if you own some of the companies that have led the rally, you're probably itching to get out while you're ahead.
In general, it's best to fight the urge to unload stocks that are performing well. If you sell too early, you not only miss out on future gains but also incur taxes. Even if Congress cuts the capital-gains rate virtually in half this year--as proposed--when you sell a winner, you inevitably have less money to reinvest in a new idea.
NO SENSE. The buy-and-hold strategy has proved the best time and again. Many experts expect a small downturn in the market this summer to "correct" some inflated prices, but they still advise staying the course. "When you add up the costs of commissions, the spread between the bid and the asked price, and taxes, then match that up against a mild 3% to 5% pullback in the market, it doesn't make sense to trade out and take short-term profits," figures Jack Fisher, president of Wilson/Bennett Capital Management in McLean, Va.
That said, there are plenty of good reasons to sell. Maybe you need to raise cash, and it's a question of deciding which stock has the least potential for gains. Or maybe a company's prospects have cooled. And in an optimistic market like today's, some stocks run up so far and so fast that a slide is inevitable.
The key to identifying candidates for selling is to leave aside the larger macroeconomic issues and consider just the company's fundamental strength. And don't focus only on those stocks that have already had a good run. "The sell side shouldn't be that price-driven," says Martin Whitman, manager of Third Avenue Value Fund. "Don't sell anything unless it's grossly overvalued."
The easiest measure for judging a stock's value is its price-earnings ratio. A stock's worth is based on its future earnings potential. If those earnings are small in relation to the price, the stock can be overvalued and its p-e high. To get an accurate reading, you have to compare a company's p-e not with the market average (now at 14.6 based on '95 estimates) but with its industry. For example, a hot tech stock may not be expensive at a p-e of 25, but International Flavors and Fragrances looks pretty pricey at 25. And remember that some stocks are a better buy when they have a higher-than-normal p-e. Auto stocks typically have a high p-e at the beginning of an expansion, when their earnings are still low. That's when you should load up.
You'll also need to take a hard look at the quality of a company's earnings. As recent tumbles at U.S. Healthcare and Sybase have shown, the market is unforgiving on bad news. If a high-priced company's quarterly earnings report is lower than expected, or if a product launch falls flat, get out quick--particularly if the stock had a lot of momentum to its rise. "The first bad news is the best bad news you're ever going to get," says Michael Murphy, editor of Overpriced Stock Service newsletter, which recommends stocks to sell short. "Once something goes wrong, things tend to keep going wrong."
HIGH HOPES. With a spate of stellar first-quarter earnings being reported daily, "look for stocks that have been providing overly strong surprises and where those aren't likely to continue," advises Thomas McManus, a U.S.-equity strategist at Morgan Stanley. Many companies got a boost from the declining dollar. But if a company's earnings improved just because of exchange rates, you can't consider that a positive. For example, IBM's first-quarter earnings exceeded all analysts' expectations, driving the price up 51/4 points that week. But part of that rise resulted from exchange rates. Robb Knie, editor of The Equity Advisory, a newsletter for short-sellers, doubts IBM can repeat those earnings, since it has done about all the cost-cutting it can. "At this point, IBM has gotten ahead of itself," he argues.
The entire technology sector has been so hot that some market strategists worry it is vulnerable to a quick chill. "It seems like there are very high expectations built in," says Marc Usem, an equity strategist at Salomon Brothers. Indeed, Microsoft, Intel, and Sun Microsystems have benefited from positive earnings surprises. But disappointing news could reverse the inflows of cash that have propelled share prices.
And don't forget to consider the dividend yield (the overall market's is a low 2.6%) and dividend-payout level (the ratio of dividends paid to earnings) when weeding a portfolio. If the ratio is high relative to the industry, that's a caution signal, since it means there is likely little room to raise the dividend.
Be sure to look at who is buying and selling the stock. If you have a small company that institutions are just starting to buy, it's a good sign. Another is if insiders are purchasing more shares. But don't be too harsh on a company where insiders are selling, advises Harold Levy, manager of First Eagle Fund of America. Since that's often a major part of their compensation, "you have to expect owners to peel off shares every now and then," he says.
Only after you've looked at fundamentals should you consider the impact of any economic news. Try to ignore scary headlines, unless they have a direct impact on the companies you own. Rising interest rates are generally a bad sign for stocks, since bonds may then become an attractive alternative for investors. But you shouldn't get out of the market on news of a rate hike, unless you are heavily into financial and utility stocks, which are interest-rate sensitive.
STEADY STAPLES. There is so much optimism in the market now because strategists believe interest rates will stay low as the economy slows gradually, coming to a so-called "soft landing" from its peak. This prospect has boosted prices of consumer-staple companies, because people buy food, drugs, and soft drinks whatever the economy does. Some consumer multinationals, such as McDonald's and Anheuser-Busch, have prospered because they can participate in worldwide expansion. But consumer cyclicals, such as autos, restaurants, and retailers, are tied to a slowing U.S. economy, and their shares are getting battered.
So if you are looking to prune your portfolio, it makes sense to sell defensive stocks that are at all-time highs and buy retreating cyclicals such as paper, autos, and steel. Some of these companies are so cheap that money managers are predicting a wave of foreign takeovers. "I am convinced that, given the very weak dollar, companies in strong-currency countries are going to buy up Corporate America with a vengeance," predicts Whitman.
Selling is easier if, at the time you bought a stock, you set a target price based on the company's fundamentals and economic sensitivity. Then, when it hits the target, reevaluate. "It's not a great idea to start kidding yourself [that] it can go higher," says Murphy. "If there are genuine new reasons to think it can, that's different." And if that's the case, you may actually find yourself buying more of a stock, just when you were thinking about selling.Amey Stone EDITED BY AMY DUNKIN
Video Game Avenger
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Bucket bursts into flames at OU Service Center
OKLAHOMA CITY – Fire crews were called to a building near the OU Medical Center after a bucket filled with rags spontaneously combusted.
Authorities were called to the OU Service Center near Lincoln Blvd. and the OU Medical Center just after 3 a.m. on Friday.
According to fire crews, a small fire sparked inside a paint booth where someone was staining doors on Thursday.
Investigators say the discarded rags, covered in stain, were thrown into a bucket.
That bucket suddenly burst into flames, filling the paint booth with smoke.
OU police saw the flames and were able to put them out before crews arrived, using a fire extinguisher.
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Can You Develop ADHD At Any Age?
Can you trigger ADHD?
Identifying Your ADHD Triggers.
You can’t cure ADHD, but you can take steps to manage it.
You may be able to minimize your symptoms by identifying your individual trigger points.
Common triggers include: stress, poor sleep, certain foods and additives, overstimulation, and technology..
What does untreated ADHD look like?
You may have arguments with others more often than your peers. And your partner or friends might have trouble getting you to listen. People with untreated ADHD have higher rates of divorce. You’re also more likely to be depressed or have low self-esteem.
How can I tell if my girlfriend has ADHD?
Signs and symptoms of ADHD in girlstalking all the time, even when parents or teachers ask them to stop.frequent crying, even from small disappointments.constantly interrupting conversations or activities that include their friends.trouble paying attention.frequent daydreaming.having a messy bedroom, desk, or backpack.More items…
How do I get tested for ADHD?
There’s no simple test to determine whether you or your child has ADHD, but your specialist can make an accurate diagnosis after a detailed assessment. The assessment may include: a physical examination, which can help rule out other possible causes for the symptoms.
Is ADHD a form of autism?
Autism spectrum disorder and ADHD are related in several ways. ADHD is not on the autism spectrum, but they have some of the same symptoms. And having one of these conditions increases the chances of having the other. Experts have changed the way they think about how autism and ADHD are related.
Does ADHD shorten your life?
People with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have a lower life expectancy and are more than twice as likely to die prematurely as those without the disorder, according to new research.
Are there any ways to prevent ADHD?
Though there is no way to prevent ADHD , there are ways to help all children feel and do their best at home and at school.
Can you develop ADHD as a teenager?
But if your child has the inattentive type of ADHD, as is often the case with girls (quietly staring out the window rather than paying attention to the lesson, or leaving their work undone), signs may be missed through elementary school — ADHD doesn’t suddenly develop during the teenage years but it may not be fully …
What happens if ADHD is left untreated?
Untreated ADHD in an adult can lead to significant problems with education, social and family situations and relationships, employment, self-esteem, and emotional health. It is never too late to recognize, diagnose, and treat ADHD and any other mental health condition that can commonly occur with it.
Does ADHD get worse with age?
Hormonal changes can cause ADHD symptoms to worsen, making life even more difficult for women. For men and women, aging can also lead to cognitive changes.
How a person with ADHD thinks?
What are 3 types of ADHD?
Three major types of ADHD include the following:ADHD, combined type. This, the most common type of ADHD, is characterized by impulsive and hyperactive behaviors as well as inattention and distractibility.ADHD, impulsive/hyperactive type. … ADHD, inattentive and distractible type.
Are you born with ADHD or do you get it?
Genetics. ADHD tends to run in families and, in most cases, it’s thought the genes you inherit from your parents are a significant factor in developing the condition. Research shows that parents and siblings of a child with ADHD are more likely to have ADHD themselves.
At what age does ADHD peak?
At what age are symptoms of ADHD the worst? The symptoms of hyperactivity are typically most severe at age 7 to 8, gradually declining thereafter. Peak severity of impulsive behaviour is usually at age 7 or 8.
Can ADHD go away?
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Rorate Caeli
Papal Commissioner over Franciscans of the Immaculate Fr. Volpi dies
The man who was named by the Congregation for Religious to oversee what was effectively the destruction of the Franciscans Friars of the Immaculate, Capuchin Fr. Fidenzio Volpi, deeply ill for the past few months, had his death announced today by his province (the Lombardy Province of the Capuchins). May he rest in peace.
When he was first hospitalized, there were rumors that his replacement would be a member of the Pope's own order, the Jesuits.
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Friday, June 24, 2011
Extech IR250 infrared thermometer disassembly and plans for thermal imaging
Common digital output IR thermometer sensor:
TPS334 sensor datasheet:
Analog Devices app note regarding thermopile sensors:
Servo pan/tilt IR imaging scanner project:
Redshift thermal imaging:
1. Hi Ben,
The potted IC looks a lot like the stuff i've seen on some of the digital bathroom scales i've taken apart (and currently use to get realtime weight of my beehive :)
Weigh scales are pretty much the same situation, microvolt output in need of significant amplification.
On my scale, the VPP was 'programming' voltage I think.
Also i have an old DLP projector with a broken colorwheel if you want to play with it. I'm also in the bay area.
2. Do you know of any website where I can have detailed and clear explanations of device's inner workings as you do perfectly in this video ?
Your posts are really very instructive !
3. Thanks for really great explanation. Please create a link where we could subscribe to your blog.
4. Krasnow... Краснов, вы русский?
5. Anonymous, use the "follow" button at the top of the page. I believe you can also find an RSS feed, but I've never used it myself, so I don't know the details.
Tmk, thanks. I've always wanted to play with a DLP system. Youtube user tesla500 had a neat teardown of a DLP TV. It sure seems like the DMD could be used for all sorts of neat projects. Stay in touch.
6. Anonymous, my family name probably comes from Ukraine about four generations ago. I had to use google translate, as my language skills are pretty much limited to English.
Anonymous, search the web for "teardown", and check my youtube channel for links to other youtube channels that feature instructive electronics stuff.
7. May be from Ukraine, but name is russian.
Krasnow: "krasni" = "red" or "handsome"(literary)
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The King of Queens - Bun Dummy View more episodes
Aired at 05:00 PM on Saturday, Jul 03, 2010 (7/3/2010) View all transcripts from this day
00:00:00I saw that.
00:00:03♪ My eyes are gettin' weary ♪
00:00:06♪ my back is gettin' tight ♪
00:00:09♪ I'm sittin' here in traffic ♪
00:00:10♪ on the queensborough bridge tonight ♪
00:00:13♪ but I don't care'cause all I want to do ♪
00:00:19♪ is cash my check ♪
00:00:20♪ and driveright home to you ♪
00:00:24♪ 'cause, baby,all my life ♪
00:00:26♪ I will bedriving home to you ♪
00:00:29captioning made possible bysony pictures television ] [ Female Announcer ] THIS IS NOT A BURGER.
00:00:38It's better.
00:00:38Because with 57% less fatthan regular ground beef, it's better for you.
00:00:43YOU SEE, THIS IS A MorningstarFarms® Meatless Griller.
00:00:47That's right, meatless.
00:00:48And it tastes as good as it looks.
00:00:51So you can still enjoy ..
00:00:54And everythingthat comes with it.
00:00:55Morningstar Farms®Grillers® Original.
00:00:59[ indistinct conversations ] Now that's more like it.
00:01:02[ ding! ] mark twain was morethan a mere nom de plume.
00:01:39He was a full-bodiedalter ego who allowed clemensto speak with a voice that was inelegant,at times profane, ..
00:01:51Hey, spence, do me a favor.
00:01:53Stuff that oily ragin my mouth and light me on fire.
00:01:57This isa great documentary.
00:01:58Give it a chance.
00:01:59 twaindoesn't take her top off soon, we're going back tocops.
00:02:06Oh, hey, you know,that's light beer.
00:02:10I know.
00:02:10Well, just,you told me to warn you in case you evergrabbed one by mistake.
00:02:13No, no.
00:02:14I know. it's ok.
00:02:15I'm trying to get back downto my football weight for the reunion.
00:02:21You know what?
00:02:22Light beer does suck,and I am who I am.
00:02:28[Grunts] so do you want meto pick you up?
00:02:30We'll go together?
00:02:30Um, I don't think I'mgonna go to the reunion.
00:02:33Why not? 'cause youwork in the subway?
00:02:35Look, I bet there areguys from our class who live in the subway.
00:02:38That's not why.
00:02:41[Turns tv off] [sighs]the truth is, I had a very intenserelationship with someonefrom high school, and it would bequite awkward for us to see each other again.
00:02:49Who was it, sallyyour-right-hand?
00:02:53If you must know,it was a teacher.
00:02:55Miss berman, the weirdhome ec teacher with the limp?
00:02:59No, no, wasn't miss berman.
00:03:00It was miss mancini,the spanish teacher.
00:03:05you had a thing with the hottest teacherin school?
00:03:07Yes. yes.
00:03:08It was the summerafter we graduated, and we raninto each other at the jersey shore.
00:03:13I won hera stuffed frog playing skee-ball, and that night,she made me a man.
00:03:20I--i promisedto call her back.
00:03:22I never did. I'm sureshe's very upset.
00:03:24if you want anybody to believeany part of this story, I would have gone with limpyfrom home ec.
00:03:30Hey, hon. hey, spence.
00:03:31I'm gonna go to the gym now.
00:03:33 hey, look,remember how I was gonna lose 20 poundsfor my reunion?
00:03:36Well, that'snot gonna happen, so I'm gonna need youto get your body just that much tighter, you know,to make up for me.
00:03:42I will do my best.ok.
00:03:44Ok. bye-bye.
00:03:45Hey, what you got goingon your head there?
00:03:46 oh, I justput my hair up in a bun for spinning class.
00:03:50Hey, knobby!
00:03:52This thing get f.m. stations?
00:03:53Ok, hon. all right, I'm going.
00:03:54 [laughs] Doug: Hey, honey, instead of the movie, you want to go to the new sculpture garden at the brooklyn museum?
00:04:03Oh, I'd love to see that.
00:04:05[Imitates fart] who do you think I am?
00:04:07All right. you ready?
00:04:10Hey, you going with the bun again?
00:04:13 [chuckles] you know, we're going to the movies.
00:04:15We're not going to the library.
00:04:17[Mimics laugh] I like it, ok?
00:04:19And amy, the spinning teacher at the gym, said it looked really cute.
00:04:23Come on, give me one of these: Shh. people are trying to study.
00:04:27Like you know what goes on in a library.
00:04:29Come on, honey, let's go.
00:04:33[Dramatic music playing] hey, babe, what's up?
00:05:23 just getting some chips for the boys.
00:05:31Hey, you guys want to hit cooper's for the mets game on friday night?
00:05:34Ooh. can't.
00:05:35Me, doug, and spence got a reunion that night.
00:05:37Actually, I don't think I'm gonna go.
00:05:39¿Por que? ¿señorita mancini?
00:05:43Doug told you about that?
00:05:44Si, senor.
00:05:45Ok. well, hey, it's true, ok?
00:05:47We had a very intense thing together.
00:05:49 that probably happened while I was busy smoking crack with mrs.
00:05:56I mean, you believe it happened, right, deac?
00:05:58I believe you believe it.
00:06:00Spence: All right. you know what?
00:06:01Fine. I'll go, all right?
00:06:03But just be ready for a very big, ugly scene.
00:06:07Spence: Oh, hey, doug.
00:06:07Thanks for turning my personal memory into a cheap laugh. hope you had fun.
00:06:11You got it.
00:06:13Let me ask you guys a question.
00:06:14What do you think about women wearing their hair up in buns?
00:06:18Ooh. fugly.
00:06:20Am I crazy? I mean, is that a good look?
00:06:22Yeah, if you're the old lady who owns tweety bird.
00:06:25 carrie started wearing her hair in a bun like a week ago, and I thought it was just gonna be like a one-time thing, but it's--it's hanging on like a bad cold.
00:06:34That's a tough break, man.
00:06:35I just don't get it.
00:06:36I mean, tying your hair up?
00:06:37I mean, why not tape your breasts down while you're at it, am I right?
00:06:41You're so right.
00:06:42And the only reason she's doing it is because some stupid girl at the gym told her she liked it that way.
00:06:46 I mean, we're here.
00:06:49We know what we want.
00:06:50We're ready to answer their questions.
00:06:51It's easy. halter top? yes.
00:06:53Driving miss daisyhair? no, thank you.
00:06:59Oh, god.
00:07:00What if carrie wears the bun to my reunion?
00:07:02She--she wouldn't do that, would she?
00:07:05 she sounds pretty messed up.
00:07:10[Sighs] I might have to say something to her.
00:07:11You're gonna tell carrie she doesn't look good?
00:07:14[Laughs] I admire your acorns.
00:07:17Holly: Arthur, I'm here!
00:07:20Holly, arthur went down to atlantic city with his friend mickey.
00:07:24He--he didn't call you?
00:07:25 I was pretty hung over.
00:07:29Anyway, see ya next time.
00:07:31H-hold up a second.
00:07:35Ok, look, here's the thing: Carrie started wearing her hair in a bun.
00:07:46Well, the problem is, I can't tell her I don't like it because I think I wrote something in my wedding vows about loving her no matter what.
00:07:54But-- but if it was to come from someone else-- say, like, another woman-- me? oh, no, no, no. I could never do that.
00:08:01Plus, carrie wouldn't care what I thought, anyway.
00:08:05That's not true.
00:08:06I mean, she has mentioned to me how much she admires your sense of style.
00:08:10 just the other day, she was wondering where you got this very outfit.
00:08:14Dress barn. dress barn. thank you.
00:08:15I will tell her. yeah. yeah.
00:08:17Thank you.
00:08:17Look, you'd really be helping me out, and you'd be helping carrie out, too.
00:08:21It's like when you do an intervention with a drug addict, except in this case, the monkey, it's on the back of her head.
00:08:32[Exhales] I don't-- I don't know.
00:08:34All right, I'll tell you what.
00:08:3520 Bucks right there.
00:08:35No, I couldn't take money for this.
00:08:38Although I am a little low on cash.
00:08:40Going a little crazy with the lotto tickets.
00:08:43Here. thanks.
00:08:47Oh, hey, hol.
00:08:48Um, my dad's in atlantic city.
00:08:51Yeah, I know. that's ok.
00:08:56Well, see ya later.
00:09:02Like your shoes. heh heh.
00:09:04Well, thank you.
00:09:05Yes, but that bun-- not working for you, girlfriend.
00:09:17You know, just maybe there's a better look, you know, for you.
00:09:22Well, holly, my hairstyle is really my business, now, isn't it?
00:09:26Yes. yes, it is.
00:09:29I got this at dress barn.
00:09:34Good to know.
00:09:49And then, out of nowhere, holly starts talking about my hair and where she bought this horrible dress she was wearing. it was creepy.
00:09:56Yeah, I hear she drinks a lot.
00:10:02What you-- what you doing?
00:10:04Well, I'm in the mood for a little lovin', ..
00:10:19I love you.
00:10:20Oh, honey, you're sweet.
00:10:23I love you, too. come here.
00:10:27Mmm. mmm. mmm.
00:10:38Oh, I love you so much.
00:10:39.. oh, god, I love you. I just love you.
00:10:40 what--what are you doing?
00:10:42Get off! get it out!
00:10:46What are you talking about?
00:10:51Your bun.
00:10:53My bun?
00:10:55You don't like my bun?
00:10:56[WHISPERING] I can't stand it.
00:10:58Oh, my god.
00:11:00So that stupid thing with holly, that was you?
00:11:03You asked her to do that?
00:11:05Actually, I paid her to.
00:11:08You paid her?
00:11:09Well, I thank god that money's not going to our mortgage, 'cause we got a bun crisis on our hands!
00:11:15It's just that you got so many great hair looks, like down, over here, you know, bangs.
00:11:22I just don't think the bun is the pick of the litter.
00:11:24Well, what don't you like about it, doug?
00:11:25Tell me.
00:11:26I mean, obviously, out of the two of us, i mean-- [gasps] t-shirt over stained sweats-- how is that not in every magazine?
00:11:37It's not just me, ok?
00:11:38Buns are bad. everybody thinks so.
00:11:39 that's funny, because everybody at work who sees me like this says they think it looks really good.
00:11:44They're just kissing up to you.
00:11:45Why is that, because I'm a secretary and I know where the sweet'n low is?
00:11:49No, doug, buns are very chic, ok?
00:11:51They happen to be the preferred look in spain.
00:11:54Well, then, why don't you wear a sombrero, too?
00:11:57That's mexico, you friggin' idiot.
00:12:00The thing is, I'm not making this up.
00:12:02Like in the movie, there's always the mousy receptionist with the bun.
00:12:06And no one will look at her twice until finally she lets her hair down.
00:12:10And then, everybody's, like, "why, miss fryhoffer, " and what movie is that, doug?
00:12:18I don't know, but it's a movie.
00:12:19Mmm. must have missed that.
00:12:20Sorry, I don't watch 112 hours of tv a .
00:12:24 you want to talk about my tv problem, that's valid, but not until this bun thing is over.
00:12:28Well, I'll tell you, I don't think this bun thing is gonna be over, because the more you talk, the more I'm liking this.
00:12:34It's just a stupid little problem!
00:12:35Why are you giving me so much crap about it?
00:12:37Because when I came in here to make love to my husband, his idea of foreplay was to pull my hair out of my head and tell me I repulse him.
00:12:44I never said that!
00:12:45It's not about you or me, it's about the bun.
00:12:47 maybe you would like my bun better if it had powdered sugar on it.
00:12:52Oh. ok.
00:12:54It took some time, but I knew you'd go there-- " how predictable.
00:13:01I'll tell you one thing, you're not wearing that little hair burger to my reunion.
00:13:04Oh, ok, so you're scared my bun is gonna humiliate you in front of your high-school friends?
00:13:11Not just my friends.
00:13:12People I don't even know, too.
00:13:14Well, you know what, doug?
00:13:16I could take the bun out for your reunion-- easily done-- or, and I am leaning this way, I could leave it in and just not go.
00:13:26Let's do that.
00:13:31Good night to you.
00:13:32Good night.
00:13:37Yeah, look at it, look at it!
00:15:01Oh no, no!
00:15:02I just parked here a second ago!
00:15:04Give me a break, will you?
00:15:06(announcer) DR. SCHOLL'S MASSAGING GEL INSOLES With two different gels for softness and ..
00:15:10...Are outrageously comfortable.
00:15:12...On second thought, I think I'll walk...
00:15:14(announcer) ARE YOU GELLIN'? DR. SCHOLL'S Morning. morning.
00:17:05Ahh. that feels good.
00:17:09By the way, I'll be going to my reunion directly from work.
00:17:13I'm probably gonna be late, too.
00:17:14Great. gives me a little alone time.
00:17:16 hey, maybe you can kick back in your rocker and knit something.
00:17:22Sorry I won't be there to help you impress your little buddies.
00:17:26Oh, you'll be there.
00:17:28What's that?
00:17:28Just a little picture of you from our trip to barbados.
00:17:33Beautiful, long hair flowing in the breeze, and, yeah, a little younger.
00:17:39Give me that.
00:17:41Ohhh, no. ow!
00:17:42 you retard, give it-- get your own, bun head! ow!
00:17:47Yeah. ok.
00:17:48Oh, you know what? I make shakes in there!
00:17:52[Knock on door] hi.
00:17:55Hey, guys. ooh, coffee.
00:17:57Come on, man. let's get out of here.
00:17:59Carrie, you mind if i-- no. go ahead, hon.
00:18:07Can I ask you a question?
00:18:09What do you think of my hair like this?
00:18:14You--you mean the bun?
00:18:15Yeah, come on, the truth.
00:18:17Well, you know, in general, I think it's, um-- just tell me. it's ass ugly, girl.
00:18:32[Culture club's karma chameleonplaying] then, after medical school, I designed this implantable insulin pump for diabetics.
00:18:42I do pretty well from the patent on that, but I'm still working over at mount sinai with the kids.
00:18:48Oh, excellent.
00:18:49So what do you do?
00:18:50I'm married to her.
00:18:53Cute. very cute.
00:18:54What happened to the picture?
00:18:55I had to tape it together.
00:18:56My wife stuck it in a blender, but, uh, everything's good. we're very happy.
00:19:00Well, great. itisgreat.
00:19:03Hey, spence, why aren't you mingling?
00:19:06What happened, you run into miss mancini?
00:19:09Was it awkward?
00:19:10No, but do you know what is awkward?
00:19:12Your obsession with my sex life.
00:19:14Ooh, you got me.
00:19:15Yeah, I should take a good, hard look at ..
00:19:17Mm-hmm. yeah.
00:19:18But first, guess who just walked in the door.
00:19:21She taught you spanish, then you tossed her paella.
00:19:27 I mean, it couldn't be going better, you know?
00:19:30Basically, I get paid to wear shorts.
00:19:33That sounds great.
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00:19:42Your hair's down. what did you do?
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00:19:49The point is, you didn't like it, so it came down.
00:19:53You know, this is your night, and I want to look good for my dougie.
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00:20:04Now mancini's talking to miss berman, that home ec teacher.
00:20:08I think she's trying to make her way over to you.
00:20:10Yeah, you know what? I'm gonna go.
00:20:11Oh, oh, too late. here she comes. miss mancini!
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00:20:16Remember me?
00:20:18Level 2 spanish, repeated it.
00:20:21Danny heffernan, right?
00:20:22 that is some memory you have there, yeah.
00:20:25Well, if you remember me, I get the feeling you might remember this young gentleman.
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00:20:39Right. right.
00:20:41Well, it's wonderful to see you guys.
00:20:44Hasta luego.
00:20:46Oh, sorry, guy. you had a good run.
00:20:52[Clears throat] oh, miss berman.
00:20:54You said you'd call me, you bastard!
00:20:57Well, i-- [spandau ballet's trueplaying] I'm just gonna move you a couple steps to the left.
00:21:14Stu gibbs is checking out your ass, and i want him to get the whole picture.
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00:21:21 I'm sorry, you've been a champ.
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00:21:30 you don't like my orange dress?
00:21:32Not unless you're wearing it as a hunting vest.
00:21:35You're a moron. that's a versace knockoff.
00:21:38, the only reason I took the bun down is because deacon said he didn't like it.
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00:21:49You asked deacon about this?
00:21:50Yeah. I asked him if he liked my bun.
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00:22:02But then deacon comes along and "bwoop," there it is?
00:22:05That was the sequence of events, yes.
00:22:07So where do I fall on this list of people you do listen to?
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H-1B Cap Reached Today; Didn't Get In? Too Bad 512
First time accepted submitter Dawn Kawamoto writes "Employers stampeding into the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service to get their H-1B petitions filed before the cap is reached are getting the door slammed in their face today. The cap was hit in near record time of 5 days, compared to the 10 weeks it took last year to have more than enough petitions to fulfill the combined cap of 85,000 statutory and advanced degree H-1B petitions. While U.S. tech workers scream that they're losing out on jobs as H-1B workers are hired, employers are countering that the talent pool is lacking and they need to increase the cap. Of course, Congress is wrangling in on this one as to whether it's time to raise the bar."
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• talent! (Score:5, Insightful)
by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 05, 2013 @07:16PM (#43374115)
talent pool is lacking = we don't want to pay
• by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 05, 2013 @07:18PM (#43374137)
No *competent* tech worker is screaming that. Seriously. If you are in tech and unemployed right now, it is nobody's fault but your own; everyone is hiring like a madman right now.
• Re:talent! (Score:4, Insightful)
by Penguinisto ( 415985 ) on Friday April 05, 2013 @07:19PM (#43374147) Journal
Sad but true.
I'm willing to bet that the big H1-B heavy corps (Microsoft, Intel, Infosys, and similar) had people sitting at the door waiting in line, metaphorically speaking. They likely snatched up their maximums in less than an hour after opening.
Good luck if you're a small operator, but at least the good news is the big guys made it easier to work with a lot of excellent-but-smaller companies.
• by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 05, 2013 @07:30PM (#43374249)
At higher levels, they focus on "Purple Squirrels" -- hard to meet combinations that aren't available -- instead of people who can do the job well.
• by 14erCleaner ( 745600 ) <> on Friday April 05, 2013 @07:30PM (#43374251) Homepage Journal
From NPR [], a few days ago. Why is Congress supporting this (other than the obvious answer, campaign contributions)?
If you scroll through the government's visa data, you notice something surprising. The biggest employer of foreign tech workers is not Microsoft â" not by a long shot. Nor is it Google, Facebook or any other name-brand tech company. The biggest users of H-1Bs are consulting companies, or as Ron Hira calls them, "offshore-outsourcing firms."
The biggest user of H-1B last year was Cognizant, a firm based in New Jersey. The company got 9,000 new visas. Following close behind were Infosys, Wipro and Tata â'â' all Indian firms.
• by slackware 3.6 ( 2524328 ) on Friday April 05, 2013 @07:33PM (#43374265)
Talent has nothing to do with it. I can get dozens of jobs at any moment but not one that pays over 50K because a foreign worker will do the same job for 30K. I made 70K when I was 23 (2003) 75-80K when I was 25- 27 doing the same job with less experience.
• Re:talent! (Score:5, Insightful)
by lightknight ( 213164 ) on Friday April 05, 2013 @07:33PM (#43374269) Homepage
Well, it has been a fairly interesting week. Let's see, got the jobs data right here, and it's a doozy: link []
Given those unemployment figures, it's kind of hard to argue that there is a lack of people in those fields seeking gainful employment. Oh, wait, I'm wrong; apparently, a large number of them have recently given up looking for work, as they simply couldn't find any, and thus are dropped from the count in the future (hurrah!).
Personally, I can't wait until we see the past few months' employment figures readjusted, at some future date.
But yeah, if you had to listen to the techs or business people on this one, the techs are probably telling it straight: they're being screwed. But that's alright, it's not like it's going to affect the security / whatever of our nation, as surely people will continue to enter into these great fields despite the now frequent hardships, right? Only no, it appears that a lot of programs seem to be having problems here. It warms the cockles of my heart to know that the US's CyberCommand will, in time, possibly be 100% foreign-born.
Hey Congress, just keep doing what you've been doing. Fantastic job thus far, can't wait to see the results next quarter. Just know that a large, angry, and extremely vocal contingent of unemployed techs will certainly not spend their idle time trying to find ways to undermine you as you've undermined them. Nope, that'll never happen. Plus those are votes you can count on not getting on election day...not that it will matter with the kickbacks you will be earning for passing this crap...on the other hand, an untimely exposure of a scandal does tend to limit one's chances, and does cost a lot less. Price of a bought Senator? $5,000,000. Price of an Android phone? $300. Catching the good Senator making out with someone not his wife, and uploading it to YouTube? Priceless.
• by slackware 3.6 ( 2524328 ) on Friday April 05, 2013 @07:37PM (#43374297)
"In nearly every other case a foreign coder is a better match for the employer."
In nearly every other case a foreign coder is a better match for the cheap ass that wants to give himself a bonus for having higher profit margins because he paid less wages.
There fixed that for you.
• by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 05, 2013 @07:40PM (#43374313)
Bullshit, what US employers want are an exploitable workforce that will work for cheap. This shit extends to other industries as well (mining in Canada, for example.) And these assholes that come from overseas are all-too-willing to go along with it too, fucking us all over in the process.
And then there are assholes like YOU who fucking support these cocksuckers in their mission to enslave working people.
Fuck your mother
Die of cancer
Rot in hell!
• by Maxo-Texas ( 864189 ) on Friday April 05, 2013 @07:44PM (#43374353)
Jobs report today said no jobs being created.
Yet we are hiring many h1b's.
Meanwhile, many of our 30 year olds are suicidal over a combination of unforgivable debt and no jobs.
Quite a disconnect.
I think it's time to put a tariff on offshored/outsourced jobs- including h1b's.
• by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 05, 2013 @07:53PM (#43374417)
US tech workers have to compete with the tech elite of the world.
With the nice handicap of a higher cost of living.
It is then quite obvious that most of US workers are not competitive on their skills alone, not even counting salary and benefits and other expectations (like a somewhat limited work week.)
Is it? I see Indian companies setting up shop in the US and importing people with the primary goal of exporting knowledge and jobs from the country. It's the same bloodbath that manufacturing has seen engaged in by greedy executives as they export manufacturing jobs to China.
India and China are large places, and their people are not corrupted yet with ideas that everyone owes them a fine living.
Ah yes, because expecting to be paid a living wage in your nation of residence is an insidious ideal.
A salary that barely feeds a US worker is a windfall in the 3rd world.
Precisely why corporations like to offshore jobs. They get to take advantage of a wage gradient that individuals don't.
The US tech worker is forced to compete with the best of the best of the whole world, and he cannot win that competition unless he is aided by his own brilliance (it does happen!) or unique skills, or requirements of citizenship (for classified work.)
He cannot win. So long as India and China can keep the cost of labor down and increase their knowledge pool, much like US manufacturing, US tech jobs will be exported as well and US workers will have no recourse. Except, of course, to accept pay as low as received in India and China but without the lower cost of living. Which is what employers want. To keep income high and impoverish their workers - without realizing that they are shooting themselves in the head by destroying their market.
Perhaps we should end the bullshit that is "free trade" and start some creeping tariffs. Exporting jobs should be met with a nice, stiff tax.
• Re:talent! (Score:1, Insightful)
by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 05, 2013 @07:59PM (#43374453)
Just because you have an "education" and can put a list of "skills" on a resume, that does not mean you're actually worth your salt. If you interview anything like how you type, I'm not at all surprised that you're frustrated.
• by t0qer ( 230538 ) on Friday April 05, 2013 @08:14PM (#43374569) Homepage Journal
Just scrolling through the +5 comments, I see a ton of xenophobia...
Can't find an entry level IT job? Where are you? Arkansas? Here in silicon valley, we're experiencing another surge in hiring. I'm pretty low on the skillset, so whenever I get myself back into IT, I consider the economy to be doing well. Case in point... Company I work for. We've been losing a ton of local talent to google who's been on a hiring binge. When a small shop like ours (120 or so employees) can afford to pay great salaries, but we lose out to name brands like google, we have to turn to H1B.
And for the H1B worker, life isn't all cherries and apple pie. Case in point, this big ass march from immigration voice. []
See the white guy with pelican case in tow? That's me.
Let's say you're here from India on H1B and you have a family emergency. You have to go home. So many H1B's are scared to go home, because when they try to return more often than not, they're denied re-entry into the country. I haven't met a single H1B that wouldn't LOVE to be a US citizen, but instead we give them a non-citizen status as an H1B that gives them basically no rights as a US citizen.
I think we should just trash H1B altogether, and allow anyone of decent education (BA or BS) come live here, become a citizen, and pay taxes.
As slashdotters, we shouldn't hate on the H1B people. They are not the problem. It's our policy, the very creation of H1B to sidestep proper citizenship that is.
• by PhamNguyen ( 2695929 ) on Friday April 05, 2013 @08:16PM (#43374587)
Maybe it's time to clarify what kind of a site Slashdot is? It claims to be "News for Nerds" but there are a lot of nerds who have H-1B visas, or live outside the US.
This article's title is just plain nasty. There is room for debate on these issues, and I personally think the numbers of H-1B visas are excessive (or better put, the requirements for getting one are too lenient), but the idea that people applying for H-1B's are to be despised is very offputting to potential users of this site. Unless, of course, Slashdot isn't really for these people in which case you should be more explicit about that.
On the issue of H-1B's themselves, it is necessary to separate out generic issues of free trade, from issues that are specific to trade in human labor. Any valuable commidity will benefit country that imports it. If there were a ban on importing rare earth metals to the US, and suddently this was lifted, it would benefit companies that utilize these metals (and ultimately consumers) and harm producers of rare earth metals. However the net benefit would be positive, this is standard economic theory. Now I imagine that when the ban is lifted, the rare earth producers would say "there is no shortage of rare earth metals, people just aren't willing to pay a fair price. If people paid more, we could mine previously uneconomic deposits, etc.". This would be a mistaken interpretation, again because economic theory says that the welfare of society is maximized under free trade.
Now this theory breaks down when it applies to people, but only because of externalities. That is, people who come to the US on H-1B visas may have a negative influence on the US apart from their impact on the labor force. Some of these are simply because a person in the US temporarily will be less engaged with the community and civil society. Also many Americans prefer that the US retain its cultural and ethinc composition, and so these people may be negatively affected.
So there are many valid arguments against H-1B visas, although most of the economic arguments are wrong. I think the criteria should be stricter so that only the people who add the most value to the economy can get one. This way, the US would get the maximum benefit for the minimum number of people. A masters degree should be a minimum.
Anyway that is my view on H-1B visas but can we please keep personal animosity towards people on H-1B's out of it?
• by blue9steel ( 2758287 ) on Friday April 05, 2013 @08:30PM (#43374673)
If the shortage is so terrible why aren't we seeing tons of stories talking about exploding pay rates and people hopping from company to company because of ridiculous job offers? Oh that's right, it's because there is no shortage of talent, just an unwillingness for them to pay the market rate.
• I'm not sure if it is "xenophobia" to truthfully say that we have a jobs crisis in this country and are importing foreigners to drive down wages on the few remaining middle-class wage jobs. That's not "Xenophobia," that's mathematics.
• by erice ( 13380 ) on Friday April 05, 2013 @08:46PM (#43374777) Homepage
One of the issues that always comes up when talking about H-1B is that employers say they can't satisfy their needs with the talent already available. So, how about adding the requirement that any H-1B applications require the company post a "Help Wanted" ad in a national database for three months before the application is approved. Let's see why companies don't like citizen talent. Let's see how citizens can fill those jobs.
A requirement similar to this already exists. It is quire trivial to work around. All it takes is to write a list of requirements that exactly much the foreign person you want to hire (or retain) and virtually no one else in the world. Then you place the ad wherever it is least likely to be seen. A mid-week newspaper classified will do. For extra insurance, the only contact method should be a PO BOX.
• Re:talent! (Score:3, Insightful)
by lightknight ( 213164 ) on Friday April 05, 2013 @09:05PM (#43374925) Homepage
Increasingly stigmatized? Really? Holy sh*t, where have you been? For the last two years, we've been thrown under a bus, repeatedly! Demonized by the media? Name one computer-related incident where they haven't mentioned the person was a hacker, whether or not it turned out true? And the punishments handed out by the courts? Fuck, I could rip off the NY stock exchange for $50 billion, and get a lighter sentence, than reporting a bug in some company's latest software.
• by tompaulco ( 629533 ) on Friday April 05, 2013 @09:22PM (#43375077) Homepage Journal
Exactly. These companies have exactly zero citizens employed at the consulting level, and yet they year after year clamor for more and more H1-bs to fill their ranks. I have been approached by these companies before, but as soon as they find out you are not on an H1b then you never hear from them again. They are the proof in the pudding that H1bs lower wages and that the only reason we need any H1bs is to keep the cost of labor down.
• by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 05, 2013 @09:22PM (#43375079)
There's way more positions to fill than there are qualified people.
Yep. The real problem is that there is a lot of people who aren't nearly as qualified as they think. They've got a few flavor-of-the-month certifications, a couple of dead end entry level jobs on their resume... and they think they're God's own gift to IT and rate senior salaries. They don't seem to realize the dot bomb detonated over a decade ago now, employers aren't lining up to desperately grab anyone with a pulse and a barely passing grade on their Introduction to HTML course anymore.
• by jedidiah ( 1196 ) on Friday April 05, 2013 @09:35PM (#43375201) Homepage
It's easy to look good when you have no student loans to repay and are willing to work for half the market rate.
Of course slave labor is going to look better to to an employer. That doesn't make it acceptable.
• by Kumiorava ( 95318 ) on Saturday April 06, 2013 @12:56AM (#43376307)
How do you want foreign people to come to work to US? Close the borders for the foreign workers? I had opportunity to work in US for 3 years (L-2 visa), I liked it and I never had any problems with the salary level. At the moment I'm working in Europe again and happy, but if I ever wanted to return to work in US how should I do that? I also worked in China and sad to say the Chinese government is more open towards foreign workers than the US government.
I would hope that a real capitalistic economy would be able to handle also free market for employment. I would say that foreign workers also bring more to the table than just the low wage and inferior skills. Open the borders for foreign workers who pay their taxes to US and economy will benefit from that, having companies held hostage to some nation wide union of american workers is not a good thing in the long run.
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China prepares for war over South China Sea, Spratly Islands
April 23– Philippine and Chinese warships are in a stand-off over claims to the remote Scarborough Shoal.
The crisis began when a Philippine warship stopped Chinese fishing vessels trespassing in waters claimed by the Philippines.
President Obama is closely monitoring the crisis, since American and Filipino forces are conducting joint military exercises near the heavily disputed Spratly Islands. The Chinese Communist Party objects to these military exercises authorized by President Obama.
This new confrontation near the Scarborough Shoal reaffirms the CCP has all but officially declared a challenge to American hegemonic superiority and international order.
Click here for a JULY 14, 2012, Spratly Islands update by THE LAST COLUMNIST
Chinese naval vessel runs aground in territorial waters of the Philippines: BBC News update July 15, 2012.
The CCP hopes to overthrow governments (aligned with the United States) through internal revolution, global economic colonization and by enforcing territorial claims to destabilize American allies. The CCP believes these actions will deplete American resources, thereby causing a hegemonic paradox (America’s decline).
President Obama has recently authorized many foreign policy measures to protect the national security of the United States concerning the South China Sea. For more information regarding the president’s implementation of preemptive measures to confront the CCP’s challenge to American hegemonic superiority, including joint military exercises conducted by the United States and the Philippines near the heavily disputed Spratly Islands, visit this update link by THE LAST COLUMNIST.
The CCP’s territorial claims over the Spratly Islands, Scarborough Shoal and the entire (Eastern/West Philippine/South China) Sea is a clear violation of maritime law and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. International laws establish a country’s right to make continental shelf claims, based on an Exclusive Economic Zone of 200 miles off a country’s coastline. China has no right to make these claims regarding 90 percent of the (South China) Sea, especially claims involving the distant Scarborough Shoal and Spratly Islands. This is discussed in detail below under the heading, “LEGITIMATE CLAIMS BASED ON GEOGRAPHY AND MARITIME LAW.”
For more on the stand-off between the Philippines and China, please visit this BBC News link.
May 1, 2012, update on diplomatic tensions between China and the U.S. concerning South China Sea and Chen Guangcheng in this New York Times article: “Unease Mounting, China and U.S. To Open Military Talks.”
Jan. 16– Imperialist Chinese Communist Party leader Hu Jintao warned the United States against “militarism” after President Obama announced a new military strategy Jan. 5, 2012.
Obama said the U.S. would increase its air and sea capabilities, focusing attention on East Asia.
The U.S. military is preparing to confront the genocidal and despotic Chinese Communist Party over its belligerent claim to the Spartly Islands and South China Sea.
The CCP’s imperialist dreams of worldwide domination through economic colonization, military conquest and systematic genocide will end in a nightmare when it finally faces the full onslaught of American military force.
For the latest information regarding China’s warning to the United States and President Obama’s new strategy, visit BBC News.
President Obama’s strategy follows President Truman’s policy of “containment,” in line with George Kennan’s “Long Telegram” and the containment of Soviet communism.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has clawed its way into the Middle East, Africa and South America, threatening the national security interests of the United States.
The CCP will eventually face a direct– and debilitating– confrontation with the United States, as it can no longer hide behind proxy wars it wages through Iran, North Korea, the Lord’s Resistance Army and al-Qaeda.
Communist China finances al-Qaeda’s terrorist activities and provides Iran with military intelligence, as well as nuclear and anti-aircraft carrier missile technology to fight the United States with proxy wars in the Persian Gulf/Strait of Hormuz, Middle East and Africa.
By cutting off and controlling the Persian Gulf and South China Sea trade routes, the CCP hopes to disrupt oil supplies and all commercial trade to destroy the U.S. economy.
Dec. 8 Update:
Imperialist Chinese President Hu Jintao told China’s military industrial complex it must prepare for global warfare with the United States.
War is imminent with the United States, Vietnam and the Philippines, Hu Jintao said.
Hu wants the Chinese Communist Party’s military industrial complex to speed up modernization to achieve military readiness, because the military is not prepared to accomplish the CCP’s dreams of world conquest.
The Chinese Communist Party seeks a full-scale and decisive confrontation with the United States in the Pacific Ocean, so the CCP can advance its policy of Imperialism.
The heavily contested South China Sea, home of the Spratly Islands and their vast natural resources below the ocean floor, is the ignition point.
The illegitimate and genocidal Chinese Communist Party leaders lost patience with their military. The CCP believes the world is ripe for its economic colonization phase to enter the territorial expansion phase with the military enforcing the most brutal form of Imperialism.
The slow pace of modernization has infuriated the elite ruling class, as the worldwide economic crisis is causing problems with maintaining social order with its 1.4-billion slaves.
THE LAST COLUMNIST predicted Hu Jintao’s speech, given on Dec. 7, with the military warning, two days before the announcement in a LAST COLUMNIST article titled, “China braces for economic collapse, social unrest.”
Please visit this BBC News link for the latest information on Hu Jintao’s belligerent statements, released on Dec. 7, 2011.
Recent South China Sea and Spratly Islands updates BY THE LAST COLUMNIST:
China, Obama, Vietnam, the Spratly Islands and World War III
Nov. 16– President Obama confronts the Chinese Communist Party’s belligerent claim to the South China Sea and Spratly Islands by sending U.S. Marines to Australia for “military exercises.”
Obama’s actions are intended to shore up an American naval presence in the western Pacific due to increased tensions caused by military actions conducted by the genocidal Chinese Communist Party.
The CCP’s claim to the region has grave consequences for America’s Pacific allies and U.S. national security. The number of U.S. Marines dispatched will increase to thousands in the near future.
During the last year, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Obama have made repeated warnings to the CCP in regards to the South China Sea, as the CCP has warned the United States to stay out of the disputed region and not meddle in the “internal affairs” of the Chinese Communist Party.
The CCP is after the vast, untapped oil and mineral reserves located below the ocean floor around the Spratly Islands, which are claimed by Vietnam, the Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia and China.
Make no mistake about this one, people. We are witnessing the long forestalled prelude to World War III.
For background information on the significance of these explosive geopolitical events, please read the last two updates made by THE LAST COLUMNIST below the following links:
Also read an article by THE LAST COLUMNIST titled, China’s Aircraft Carriers, Taiwan and World War III.”
For information on the “joint military exercises” with Australia, please visit this link to the BBC News website. For information on increased tensions in the western Pacific Ocean, visit this BBC News link.
NOV. 20 UPDATE: Article link to the N.Y. Times about the U.S., Vietnam, Malaysia and the Philippines confronting China’s Premier on South China Sea territorial claims.
Oct. 2011– Vietnam changed its military draft code in preparation for war with China in the South China Sea.
China’s belligerent claim to the strategic and mineral-rich Spratly Islands increased, after the Chinese Communist Party deployed its largest military vessels to the region in response to Vietnam’s “live-fire exercises” and what the CCP calls the “U.S. government’s meddling” in China’s internal affairs.
Vietnam’s Prime Minister, Ngyuen Tan Dung, recently leveled charges of increased belligerency against the Chinese Communist Party and said Vietnam’s sovereignty regarding the Spartly Islands is not up for discussion.
The Chinese Communist Party is attempting to permanently cut off international shipping lanes in the Eastern Sea (AKA South China Sea) to cause economic chaos in Western nations and to lay claim to the [currently] unattainable riches found far below the ocean floor around the Spratly Islands [explained later in this article].
Chinese Communist Party navy personnel, under orders from Beijing, have massacred Vietnamese, Filipino and Malaysian military personnel, as well as respective civilians in the region due to CCP territorial claims.
The CCP’s navy also had several incidents with U.S. Naval vessels, and it has warned the United States to stay out of the [Eastern] South China Sea. The U.S. Navy tries to constantly enforce international laws by making its presence known in international shipping lanes.
The following video takes you to an international news report on the Chinese Communist Party’s 2011 warning for the United States to stay out of the South China Sea, which is a clear violation of international law regarding Freedom of the Seas:
The United States has stated that maintaining stability (and open shipping lanes) in the heavily-contested Spratly Islands region is a matter of “national security” to the United States.
For more information on the most recent update regarding Vietnam and China’s dispute over the Spratly Islands, please visit The CS Monitor.
The Philippines and the Spratlys in July 2011
Let it be known that THE LAST COLUMNIST isn’t taking sides with the preceding report on Vietnam’s claim. THE LAST COLUMNIST merely presents international debate to increase public awareness and supplement geopolitical analysis.
In July 2011, Philippine President Benigo Aquino III made it clear in a speech that the Spratly Islands belong to the Philippines based on international law pertaining to rights given to archipelago nations and continental shelf extensions, especially in regards to the Spratly Islands. The Philippines refer to the area as the “West Philippine Sea.”
For more on President Aquino’s speech, visit this link to a news report detailing the Filipino president’s stance on the issue.
In the article, the U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines, Harry Thomas, is quoted as saying the United States supports the Philippines’ sovereignty over the Spratly Island region.
THE LAST COLUMNIST’S original June 2011 article with extensive Spratly Island background information and in-depth geopolitical analysis follows:
World War III starts over an area in the western Pacific Ocean known as the Spratly Island group.
Claimed by Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines, Brunei and Taiwan, the Spratly Islands also attract a belligerent ownership claim from distant neighbor China due to issues of geopolitics.
Found in the middle of major shipping lanes and having abundant commercial fishing possibilities, the Spratly Islands trigger human conflict for an even greater reason: untapped oil, gas and mineral reserves discovered far below the surface of these remote islands.
Geological estimates put the regions oil and gas reserves at 25-billion tons, far outweighing the combined reserves currently found in Kuwait and Nigeria. Here’s the problem: nobody has the technology to extract anything— yet. Most reserves sit far beneath the oceanic crust in sedimentary beds.
By violently establishing their claim on the Spartly Islands, the Chinese Communist Party hopes to prepare for technological advances in deep sea drilling and mining, so they have the ability to directly profit from the area’s natural resources– and cause irreversible environmental damage in the process.
Geographically speaking, the Spratly Islands are closest to the Philippines, Vietnam and Brunei. But Malaysia claims the Spratly’s based on the United Nation’s Law of the Sea, recognizing rights granted off their continental shelf and every nation’s right to make a claim based on an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of 200 miles off a country’s coastline.
Of course, the most belligerent and ridiculous claim comes from the distant Chinese Communist Party. Citing the Spratly’s as ancient Chinese fishing grounds found in a vague reference in mythological maps, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) set up military stations on the uninhabited island group under the guise of fishing outposts and lighthouses.
The CCP gave warnings to Vietnam and Malaysia after the two countries made new claims in 2009. Claiming the Spratly’s as sovereign territory, the Chinese Communists have warned of dire consequences if other countries infringe on their ridiculous claim.
In 1988, the Chinese Communists intercepted several Vietnamese military vessels. The CCP massacred the Vietnamese soldiers for attempting to land on Vietnamese soil in the Spratly Islands.
Many confrontations have taken place over the years: all between the CCP and whoever dares to lay claim to the Spratly Islands.
Based on the interpretation of international and maritime law, THE LAST COLUMNIST believes The Philippines hold the strongest claim. Since it’s entirely an Island Nation, the Spratly Islands fall within internationally accepted definitions of territorial possessions for archipelago nations.
An Iron Curtain drops across the Pacific Ocean
The Chinese Communists stepped up their claims and military presence after the United States reduced it’s presence in the Philippines. Now the CCP has successfully delivered its secret weapon to their puppet nation of North Korea.
The CCP delivered several conventional surface-to-surface anti-aircraft carrier missiles. The missiles have the capability to travel 700 miles and destroy a United States aircraft carrier with one shot. As long as North Korea does the CCP’s dirty work, they can plead innocence on the world stage. Also, they successfully tested a new space weapon that can destroy U.S. satellites. All U.S. military weapons, including ships, tanks, aircraft, and soldiers rely on satellites to maintain military readiness. Once the satellites are destroyed, the CCP can move at will.
Recently, the Chinese Communists began economic warfare against countries refusing to recognize their alleged sovereign right to the Spratly Islands and their desire for worldwide conquest.
The CCP controls 90% of the world’s rare-earth minerals, crucial to manufacturing technologically advanced goods. Due to economic disagreements with the U.S. and Japan, the CCP stopped exporting the minerals. The Chinese Communist Party lifted the embargo after heavy diplomatic pressure. But how long will it last?
Here is a BBC News link to a short video explaining the Spratly Island/South China Sea conflict: BBC News video.
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Discussion in 'Computing and ICT' started by dk55, Apr 8, 2011.
1. Hi Unit 7ers
You are right, time to try to second guess the exam and tear what is left of my hair out!!
With that in mind, for Q2. It says only some aspects of the login will be implemented at this prototype stage..........
Do you think it wants all the four points and then extra ones to be suggested in the exam?
2. Have put together a provisional er - planning to make a mock up over the weekend. What does everyone make of the sentence in the introduction that implies students will pay for reviews? It's not mentioned again - bad wording? Assuming it is bad wording I can see the solution having four or five tables (depending on whether the same film can be viewed on different Wednesdays). Message your email if you would like to work with me on this.
3. I 'd go for bad wording - besides, it is not asked for in the four tasks. Traditionally, it would be four tables. A clue may be to consider the film details as details of the show including the film itself rather than a video shop type solution. However, I can see how a fifth table would be very tempting to prevent duplication - but might err on the 'prototype' implication having just read the new exemplar on the website.
4. Exemplar being the jan 2011 model example answer.
5. I'm teaching unit 7 for the first time this year. Was hoping for a stock control or ticket ordering system like prevous years. At present I'm assuming that it's 4 tables but have no clue how to tackle Q3 - "Members can make more than one payement......." any thoughts would be gratefully received.
6. A separate table for payments with viewing id as foreign key. When a payment is made run an update query to update total paid in the viewing table.
7. Have I read the scenario right - they're expected to pay £10 to watch each film in an after school club?
8. JaquesJaquesLiverot
JaquesJaquesLiverot Established commenter
Why would you do that? Wouldn't keeping all of the payments and a separate total introduce redundancy? That's the best-case scenario, assuming that there are no problems. At worst, if the payment record is saved but the update query fails for any reason - e.g. due to record locking - then the saved total wouldn't match the actual total.
If there's a record of all the payments, then I'd have thought that best practice would be to calculate the total on-the-fly if you ever need it.
9. Yes, you're right it would introduce redundancy - I realised that when I started working on the model and in my prototype total is calculated on the fly.
10. I have the following for generating the new customer ID on a form, but it's not quite working for me:
=Left([LastName],3) & Right(DMax("[MemberNo]","[tblReg]"),4)+1
where the Registration table (tblReg) already has some customers with membership numbers in the form:
Jon1001 - for Jones
Smi1002 - for Smith
Blo1003 - for Bloggs
It partly works but not fully - any ideas?
11. You don't need the ,4 as you've already asked for the highest number + 1
12. I've created 4 unbound boxes on a form. The first two allow the user to enter a firstname and then surname. The third box calculates the sequential number based on a DMax function. The fourth box creates the username by taking the first letter of the forename, the first four of the surname and the sequential number and joining them. Obviously I have no idea what the format is like but my students should be able to adapt it. Also, if the members need to enter further details I just have unbound boxes for that data which is ready for the query.
I just now need to create a query which takes this data and appends it to the table.
13. colwynexile
colwynexile Occasional commenter
In Access 2010 it's easy (must be, I did it) to create a field after appending data called a calculated field, this can then be formated to look at the x number of characters from another field in the table and if needed to add them on (Left([customerid],x) & right([surname],y). This allows you to append the data from the text file and then update the table so all existing records have correct IDs that you can then use as primary keys. I assume you then make the add customer form so you DMax the customer number you appended across and +1 for the new number and if I'm thinknig right it will show the new id number when you save the record.
However, we use 2003 in school. As I'm not at work I can't remember if this is available, however my sinking heart has the feeling it already knows the answer. If it is right to feel low, if I set the expressions given in previous posts into the New ID box, how would I save this retrospectively into the tblcustomer? And how would I do everyone else that's been entered?
14. My current solution is to have a registration table (tblReg) in the format:
MemNo, LastName, DOB, UserName, Password
This is populated with two records:
My registration form contains all these fields, some bound, some unbound as follows:
MemNo: =DMax("[MemNo]","tblReg")+1
LastName: unbound
DOB: unbound with appropriate validation
UserName: =Left([LastName],3) & [MemNo]
Password: unbound with default value of "Teapot" and input mask of "Password"
All the fields on the form are named appropriately (and obviously!)
My button runs a macro which in turn runs an append query which adds the contents of this form to tblReg (subject to validation rules being met) as well as displaying a message and closing the form afterwards.
15. For the login bit I am teaching it this way -
Create a blank query .
Then make it an append - to wherever the password and username are stored e.g. tblReg'
You will have to manually choose the fields from the drop down - which is all of them but probably not the default 'teapot' if it is in the table design - not tried yet.
Manually, or with the build option, add the unbound controls (tmpUsrename etc) from the form - [forms]! etc.
Then in the macro use - 'is not null' giving "accepted" or 'is null' giving "invalid"'
If a record is found then a password and username match is a given.
So, in the macro the mainmenu can be ran etc.
Might be Grandma and eggs here but new to me as I tried a calling macro which worked at home but not on the school networked system - dunno why.
16. Mixing together the register and login here. Sloppy deleting on my part. Should read -
Create a select query.
Ignore 'You will..' sentence.
17. JayEmAy
JayEmAy New commenter
I'll work with you on this if it's not too late? Jon
18. colwynexile
colwynexile Occasional commenter
You have to have the 4, as this tells the database how many significant figures to use and the function will not work without it. It has nothing to do with DMax+1, so just check you've the right function.
19. Have I missed the discussion on the tables and entity relationships being used? Interested in what this viewing table ID thing nonsense is all about
20. If it's nonsense why are you interested?
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Countries like Japan, India or Singapore has much better lifestyle conditions. This means the girls that sign up on the site are looking for reasonably wealthy men. They want to settle down in cities that offer way more luxuries than the countries they come from. Now while it is true these countries are quite developed and economically stable, the parts of the nation the women come from may not be the same. So, when you find yourself chatting with one of these Asian ladies make sure to understand which part of the country they’re from. This will help you to get a better understanding of their lifestyle conditions.
Countries like Thailand, the Philippines or China are generally deficient in lifestyle conditions or put too many restrictions on their citizens. There, the women are less expectant and merely want to settle in a much better country. You wouldn't need to be a wealthy individual just financially stable to raise a family on your own. As long as you promise them a free life with excellent living conditions, they might not look for too much. This could still vary depending on who you're talking to, but generally, this seems to be the case.
As for the appearance of the brides and which country has the best-looking women, this is a more personal question. There are plenty of beautiful girls all over Asia. The mail order brides that are listed on our website are definitely some of the best looking single Asian women. If you like features like a darker skin tone and slender physique, then you might like ladies from India or Thailand more. They have more girls with such attributes. If you like cute facial features with lighter skin tones, then Japanese or Chinese singles would catch your eyes. The question of which nationality makes the best wives can only be answered by you.
Conclusion for this mail order Asian brides site
Girlsasian has great features for chatting, messaging, profile visibility and more. ThisAsian wife finderhas tons of profiles and online activity, so you are bound to find someone of your interests. The customer service of our website is also very responsive and helpful. We respond to requests and issues quickly. You can also report to us if you encounter fake accounts which are very unlikely.
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