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How Italians Drink Espresso in the Summer
June 2, 2015
Today: Shake your coffee.
When the temperature starts rising and their daily espresso is just too hot to sip, Italians often go for a caffè shakerato—an ice-cold "shaken coffee" that's enjoyed at the beginning of a hot summer's day or at the end of a meal (maybe even spiked).
A few ice cubes, simple syrup (regular sugar won't dissolve), and a freshly made, boiling hot espresso are quickly shaken together in a cocktail shaker. If you don't have a cocktail shaker, improvise with a jar with a screw-top lid. Before the ice melts, the coffee gets frothy—fluffy, even. You can also make this in a blender; you'll end up with a super frothy cocktail-like drink that will feel like you're drinking a caffeinated cloud.
Simple syrup is easy to make and handy to have if you like making cocktails at home. In a small saucepan, combine one part sugar with one part water and boil until the sugar dissolves. Store in a jar in the refrigerator and you can make yourself caffè shakerato all week long.
The classic way to serve this drink is in a chilled martini glass, perhaps garnished with a coffee bean or a dusting of cocoa powder. Then, all you need to do is put on your most Italian sunglasses and pretend you're sitting out in a sunny piazza.
Some variations to consider: Spice things up by spiking the coffee with a dash of something alcoholic. Try rum, sambuca, or amaretto. Or, how about adding some vanilla extract or a twist of lemon zest? Just as long as you add it to the shaker before the hot coffee, which must always come last because of risk of ice melting too quickly, you can experiment with additional flavors. And, if you really want something luxurious, you can always top your caffè shakerato with freshly whipped cream and cocoa powder.
Caffe Shakerato
Makes 1
6 to 8 ice cubes
1 to 2 teaspoons simple syrup, or to taste
1 dash of liqueur, such as rum, sambuca, or amaretto (optional)
2 shots freshly made, hot espresso
Photos by Emiko Davies
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Freaky Blue Eye
Princess Crown
Chapter One: The Princess of The Scheldt - The Beacon
In the beginning there was nothing except for the beating heart of the world. The steady sound set the gears of creation in motion and soon, The Land and The Water appeared the world’s edges. The Land and The Water lived as close as lovers, and for centuries this was enough. Then, suddenly and without warning, The Water gave birth to a son and she called him Princess. The Water laid The Princess down deep beneath her surface. Here The Princess slept peacefully, soothed by the sound of the world’s heartbeat. The Land, however, was mad with jealousy when he heard of The Water’s son, because he was unable to see her creation where it lay deep beneath the surface.
The Land would groan and tremble in an attempt to wake up The Princess, but the child was undisturbed by it all. The Land’s jealousy would not fade, so he set out to create mankind and he told them to mimic the heartbeat of the earth. Mankind, eager to please their creator, created drums and a new beat started. For hundreds of years mankind beat their drums and danced to the rhythm, but The Princess slept on still. The Land would guide mankind, wherever he thought The Princess might be able to hear the sounds, and told them to build cities. Slowly, mankind spread all across the world, their drums growing louder and louder. Finally, mankind arrived at the banks of the Scheldt and they built a city there and called it Antwerp. They had made a wise decision, for it was at the bottom of the Scheldt that The Princess lay sleeping, and he soon heard the very first whispers of mankind’s beat. The Princess sighed lightly at the disturbance, and his breath bubbled to the surface of the river. “Kijk! Kijk!”, the people of Antwerp yelled in their curious language, pointing excitedly at the Scheldt. Having seen this first glimpse of The Princess, they were more motivated than ever, and Antwerp grew along with the sound of their drums.
Finally, after a hundred long years, the rhythm awoke The Princess and he rose up from the water and stepped onto the banks of the Scheldt. Mankind rejoiced. The Land and The Water were at peace once again. The Princess, new to solid ground, quickly grew accustomed to the dancing and singing and celebrating that mankind did. For a hundred years more, the celebration went on, but The Princess became tired of the primitive rhythms mankind had created. He asked them to come up with new beats and new dances, but they were unable to do so. The Princess built a beacon to shine a bright light into space, hoping his invitation for new musicians and dancers might be heard. His call would soon be answered…
© Tomas Lebon
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Meet Sarah Munir, the First Pakistani Journalist to Work on Facebook’s News Team
Social media has not only changed the way everyone communicates with each other but has also transformed how different professionals perform their duties. One such impact has been witnessed in the field of journalism where information and stories are being sourced from social media more and more.
2016’s Social Journalism Study found that majority of journalists feel that social media has changed their roles in journalism.
Based on information from thousands of journalists from 7 countries, most journalists today use social media as their main source of information. A big majority uses at least three social networks for work. While email still remains the preferred medium of communication, social media comes in at a close second. Most journalists also feel that social media has helped them stay in touch with the public plus it assists publishers in content promotion and increasing profits.
Keeping the aforementioned aspects in view, we talked to Sarah Munir, a respected Pakistani journalist who has also worked at Facebook and Twitter, regarding the impact of social media on the field of journalism.
Sarah’s Background
Sarah Munir was the only Pakistani immigrant working for the news curation teams at Facebook and Twitter at the time. She has also worked in editorial roles at Express Tribune, Dawn News and some international news publishers like The Guardian, Al Jazeera English, VICE News, Quartz and a few others.
The young journalist told us that soon after she started her career, she left to complete her Masters degree in multimedia journalism from the Columbia Journalism School.
After completing her degree, Sarah has worked at both the social networks and at Forbes, a leading international publisher.
Journalism & Social Media
In today’s multi-connected world, every journalist wants to know the difference between working at local newsrooms, foreign ones and how much of an impact social media has had on crafting news stories.
We asked Sarah to differentiate how it was like working at so many places.
In my personal observation, Pakistani newsrooms are pressed on resources so most of our focus is consumed by politics and current affairs. I feel there is room and appetite for more nuanced reporting into beats like technology, fringe communities, science, gaming etc. in international newsrooms where there is more to play with.
But what drove me to move back (to USA) was the lack of innovation in newsrooms at home. I wanted to work with organizations who viewed the shifts in digital journalism as an advantage rather than a setback.
Sarah also agrees with the studies on social media and its impact on journalism. She admits that Facebook and Twitter have changed the way journalists communicate with each other, PR guys, experts and news sources. The whole field has changed as the demands and dynamics of the market continue to change.
I think social media has been a game changer in terms of both speed and format. No one wants to wait for the 9 pm bulletin anymore to find out the biggest stories of the day,” opines Sarah.
“Consumers now want stories as they are breaking and social media has enabled and fed that appetite.”
She goes on to say that, now you now have a whole array of formats to play with. She particularly brings up the example of the younger generation, who are the predominant audience on these platforms.
She adds,
“The younger generation does not necessarily read 1000 word stories but that does not mean they are not fully aware of the world. So you have to find ways to engage that audience in formats that they can relate to i.e. memes, Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, push alerts on smart phones etc.”
Social Media – A Paradigm Shift for Online Publishers?
As is usual with new technologies and systems, they make certain aspects of our lives easier but also bring new problems to deal with. Social media and internet forced publishers to go online and cater to the audience that spends most of their time while connected on the internet. This has brought about new sources of income, however, that has started to change in recent times.
Online publishing is a type of business that is driven by clicks. On one hand, these publishers have to compete against fake news and clickbait based publishers who consume viewers, on the other hand authentic publishers have to do something about deteriorating ad revenues due to the use of ad blockers. It is hard for ethical online publishers to earn a living in such a market.
Sarah believes that “every publication has their own balance between editorial and making the money to survive. Personally, I think there is a fine line between producing engaging content and being flat-out sensationalist. The only way to do the former is to understand the audience you are catering to.”
“You should know who your audience is, how they think and engage with the world and then speak to them in their language. If you do that well, the higher engagement will automatically lead to higher revenues.”
When talking about fake news, she said that since the barrier to information has been lowered, fake news has become a serious problem.
She says:
As a journalist, that means raising your bar for verification and authenticity exponentially. That means verifying your sources, cross-checking the sources of the material that you share (photos, videos, quotes) etc. and being completely transparent about the origins of that information.
As the audience, I would also recommend everyone to ask themselves a few basic questions before believing and furthering any content:
• Where is this fact coming from?
• Who is saying this?
• How do I know this?
Last but not the least, Sarah stresses the need for employing a basic common sense check when it comes to news stories of today. That can go a long way in avoiding the spread of misinformation.
Representing Pakistan Abroad
Sarah Munir believes that by working for Facebook and Twitter, she might have had a positive impact on the people at work and those who came in contact with her. She adds
“I think representing insight into things from my perspective and bringing the voice of a Muslim Pakistani woman of color in broader global discussions has been my biggest contribution to that end.”
However, life abroad is not easy especially for someone, especially when one happens to be a Muslim woman from Pakistan. Not only did she have to start over in a new country but even her former work was discounted by some organizations. Sarah had to work harder than most and prove herself all over again.
US President Donald Trump has openly voiced his concerns regarding immigrants and how he wants to rid the US of foreign workers. It can be said that Trump’s America is not as hospitable towards immigrants as it used to be. When Sarah was asked whether she had noticed any changes in journalism following Trump’s victory, she said,
“My journey as a brown immigrant Muslim woman in Trump’s America adds an interesting twist.” Sarah added “It has been a non-stop news cycle as you may have witnessed so most journalists are overworked and underslept.”
“On a more serious note, journalists have recognized the danger of echo chambers and working harder than ever before to be inclusive of multiple viewpoints. And to ensure that audiences are not isolated from narratives that are not in sync with their personal opinions.”
Final Words
For Pakistanis who are considering a career in journalism, they should be able to adapt to the modern ways of communication and information gathering. Social media isn’t a just means of interaction, several fields of life now depend on it and even journalists need to make use of it to stay ahead of the competition. And if someone intends to work abroad, it comes with its own set of difficulties that one needs to be mentally prepared for.
We asked Sarah if she had anything to say to future journalists from Pakistan and she replied
“It is a very exciting time to be a journalist because the industry is changing by the minute. But that also means that the way you are doing something might be completely obsolete tomorrow. Hence, the only way to survive is to adapt, learn and embrace innovation.”
He is the Editor-in-Chief at ProPakistani. Reach out at aadil.s[at]
• summary: another person who had to leave Pakistan to find a more professional & engaging work environment.
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Groupby Multiple Columns using an input vector SparkR
I am using SparkR 2.1.0 for data manipulation
I want to group by multiple columns in a programmatic manner. I know I can group by multiple columns if I list them out individually, or reference their position from a vector... But I want to be able to pass the list of columns as a vector (this way, the function automatically adjusts to the number of arguments I pass it)
Dummy data:
cpny <- c("Fakeco1", "Fakeco2", "Fakeco3", "Fakeco4", "Fakeco5", "Fakeco6")
state <- c("CA", "NY", "WA", "CA", "CA", "NY")
public <- c("Y", "Y", "N", "N", "N", "N")
color <- c("White", "Red", "Green", "Green", "Green", "Red")
revs <- c(400, 200, 900, 500, 200, 120)
df <- data.frame(cpny, state, public, color, revs)
# Convert to SparkR dataframe
df_s <- as.DataFrame(df)
Works:
df_grouped <- df_s %>%
groupBy('state', 'public') %>%
summarize(sum_Revs = sum(df_s$revs))
Also works:
group_vars <- c('state', 'public')
df_grouped <- df_s %>%
groupBy(group_vars[[1]], group_vars[[2]]) %>%
summarize(sum_Revs = sum(df_s$revs))
Doesn't work:
group_vars <- c('state', 'public')
df_grouped <- df_s %>%
groupBy(group_vars) %>%
summarize(sum_Revs = sum(df_s$revs))
Any solutions or alternative thoughts?
A:
You can use do.call() https://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/base/html/do.call.html and put your columns as well as the dataframe into a list. The following works for me:
cpny <- c("Fakeco1", "Fakeco2", "Fakeco3", "Fakeco4", "Fakeco5", "Fakeco6")
state <- c("CA", "NY", "WA", "CA", "CA", "NY")
public <- c("Y", "Y", "N", "N", "N", "N")
color <- c("White", "Red", "Green", "Green", "Green", "Red")
revs <- c(400, 200, 900, 500, 200, 120)
df <- data.frame(cpny, state, public, color, revs)
# Convert to SparkR dataframe
df_s <- as.DataFrame(df)
group_vars <- c('state', 'public')
function_params <- list(df_s)
for (i in range(1:length(group_vars))) {
function_params[[i+1]] <- group_vars[i]
}
summarized<- do.call(SparkR::groupBy, function_params) %>% SparkR::summarize(sum_Revs = sum(df_s$revs))
SparkR::head(summarized)
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In the USA, the Spotted Owl evokes the spectre of trivial busybody environmentalism. This species has been extremely well propagandised by the forestry lobby and other anti-environmentalists as a symbol for “putting other species ahead of humanity”. But it is not so in New Zealand (although there is Powelliphanta augusta). For a hint of what the public response to Gerry Brownlee’s plan to mine Schedule 4 of the conservation estate could be like, look no further than the firestorm which has erupted over the YouTube video showing Norwegians shooting protected native birds, among other things.
This has been a pretty persistent story. It’s been at or close to the top of the Stuff “most read” list for going on three days now; at the time of writing, it’s #1. It’s third on the NZ Herald website’s NZ section. It was in almost every dead-trees paper with a national news focus in the country on Friday. It’s featured prominently on One and 3 News (and consequently RadioLIVE), Radio NZ National, Newstalk ZB, and is at present the third-placed story on English-language Norwegian news website News and Views from Norway and has made Norwegian-language mainstream news there too, as well as action from Norway’s own environmental agencies. It’s drawn outraged official comment from DoC and the Conservation Minister; but notably not (as far as I can see) from the Minister of Tourism. There are 400-plus infuriated comments on the original YouTube clip, and 300-plus on the Fish’n’Hunt Forum, the oldest and most popular NZ internet site for discussion of hunting and fishing topics. Stuff.co.nz has a poll up, and the results are quite clear, for what they’re worth:
This outpouring of righteous fury has not come about because of the death of a few birds. None of the species shot by these hunters are so close to extinction that the loss of an isolated handful of individuals will critically harm the population. The reason for the response is that this sort of thing offends us deeply and personally. It is antithetical to who we are as New Zealanders, and it is as if a little part of each of us dies with those birds.
I wrote a few days ago that the task for the opposition, for conservationists and those who love the land and its wildlife was to relegate mining Schedule 4 to the “political too-hard basket”. More specifically, that task for those people — and for the 74% of (notoriously reactionary) Stuff respondents for whom these events are a grave injury — is to see the proposal to mine Schedule 4 as the same thing on a much greater scale, which it ultimately is, and to respond in kind.
Update 30 March: A vivid event like the one discussed above often primes the media and public to pay closer attention to similar events which previously might not have been newsworthy. Dog attacks are a case in point. So it is with this case: the release and eventual death of a weka, hardly endangered but well-loved, from Hagley Park, is now news.
The slogan and to an extent the photo frames the issue as a matter of identity, echoing Phil Goff’s “the many, not the few” and Phil Twyford’s “not yours to sell” (though the visual style has come a long way since that campaign, and there’s some subject-object confusion). It also echoes Iwi/Kiwi, undoubtedly the most effective campaign of this sort in recent memory. The hard economic matters — the cost-benefit analysis between mining and tourism and so on — are there, as they should be, but backgrounded to the symbolic concerns.
Goff is clear that he’s not anti-mining, but wants to focus on the 60% of mineral resources outside the DOC estate. That’s the crucial point to make because it draws a bright line between acceptable and unacceptable which is still well north of Schedule 4 — to cross that line the government must first gain electoral consent to mine DOC land, and having done that must gain consent to mine the most precious areas of that estate. The point isn’t that mining is all bad; the point is that mining conservation land is worse than the alternatives. The job of the opposition, environmentalists and anyone who loves the fact that NZ still has wild places which are sacrosanct, or who thinks of those places as a part of them, is to relegate the idea of mining them to the political too-hard basket.
Labour and the Greens are also well-coordinated on this, with Metiria Turei pointing out the government’s duplicity in not revealing its intent to mine areas on Great Barrier Island which are under Treaty negotiations. The māori party should get in on this, as well. It looks good.
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The information in this section is provided in good faith. Chairbiz accepts no responsibility for any claim arising from the treatments proposed. If in doubt, please contact the manufacturer or supplier of the relevant glass or marble used on your product.
With proper care and cleaning, the glass or marble surfaces on your Chairbiz products should remain looking great for years to come.
1. Dust regularly with a soft, lint-free cloth or a light feather duster.
2. Clean with a recognised glass cleaner (such as Windex) taking care to always follow the manufacturer's instructions.
3. Frosted, sandblasted or glass with a film are susceptible to finger grease residue when touched. Extra cleaning may be required on these surfaces to remove traces of grease or oil from the porous surface.
4. If the glass is inlaid into the surface, take care not to damage any surrounding timber or metal surfaces.
1. Wash regularly with clear, lukewarm water. Buff dry with soft, lint-free cloth.
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29 Yearather being good, I came into a body vndctiled, 21 Neuerthelelſe when T perceiued that I could not otherwiſe obtaine her, except God gaucher mice (and thatasa point of Hhbh wiſc- fOrgwens, *Genze. 1.28, *, King. 3.5. *PlaLiis, 36, *x:.Chron, 2 8, 7 2,chr, 1,9, *Prou.3,22 oh. 12,3, 10, Or, by hey Power or glory, *Ia 40,13, Apoctypha. - wiſedome alſo to know whoſe gift ſhee was) I [| prayed vnto the Lord, and beſoughthim, and with my whole heart I ſaid; CHAT 5A, : iAprayer vuto Goi for bu wiſedorie,, 6 without which the b:ft man # nothing worth, 13 neigher canbee rl how to pleaſe God, God of my fathers, and Lord of mer- cie, who haſt made all things with thy word, 2 Andordaincd manthrough thy wiſe- dome,rthar he ſhould * hauc dominion ouer the creatures, which thou haſt made, 3 And orderthe world according to e- quity andrighteouſnefle,and execute tudge- ment with an vpright heart : 4 Gue * mce wiledome that fittech by thy Throne, andreic&t menotfrom among thy children: 5 ForlT *thyſernant and fonne of thine handmaid, am a feeble perſon,and of a ſhorr time, and'too yong for the ynderſtanding of iudgement and lawes. 6 Forthougha man be neuer ſo perfeR among the ye, woe of men, yet if thy wiſe- dome be not with him, hce ſhall be nothing regarded, 7 Thou haſt choſen meto be a* King of thy people, and a Iudge of thy ſonnes and daughters, 8 Thouhaſt commanded me to build a Temple vpan thy holy Mount, and an Altar in the City wheretn chou dwcHeit , areſem. blance of the holy Tabcrnaclewhich thou haſt prepared from the beginning : 9g And* wiſdome was with thee : which knoweth thy workes , and was preſent when thou madeſt che world, and knew what was acceptable in thy fight, and right ia thy , Commandements, 19 O ſend herout of thy holy heauens, and from the Throne of thy glory, that be- ins preſent ſhee may labour with me, that T may know what is pleaſing vnto thee. 11 Forſhee knoweth and vnderſtandeth all things, and ſhe ſhall leade me foberly in my doings, andpreſerue me || in her power, 12 So ſhall my workes be acceptable,and then ſhal T judge thy people righteouſly,and be worthyto fit in my fathers ſear, 13 For what * man is hee that can know rom.1#.74. the counſell of God? or who can thinke 1,Ccor.2 36, what the will ofthe Lord is? 14 Forthe thoughts of mortall men arc [{Or, farefall, [[miſerable,& our deuicesg are but vncertaine. 15 For the corruptible body preſlcth downe the ſoule, and the earthy tabernacle weigheth downe the mind that muſcth ypun many things. is And hardly doe wee gueſte aright #t Wiſedomeof Solomon. - things that are vpon earth ' doe we finde the things that ep oikhe " but the things that arc in heaven, who > ſcarchedout ? » ola 17 _ thy counſell who hath except thou give wiſdome, 1 ly Spirit "A p = nd endrbyts 13 For fothe wayes of them which Ined on theearth were reformed, and men wer taught thethings that are pleaſing \ntothes, and were ſaued through wiſedome, ans CHAP, Xx, 8 at Wiſedome did for Adam = ham, 6 Lt LES rt 13 leſeph, 16 Moſes, 19 aid the Iſrarlge, Ci preſerued the firft formed father of the world that was created alone, and brought him our of his fall, 2 And*gaue him power torulealthings ,,,, ſje 2 *Butwhen the ynrighteous wentawy Gay U**+ from her in his anger, heperiſhed allointhe fury wherewith he murdered his brother, 4 For whoſe cauſe the*earth being droy. «;,, ned with the flood, Wiſdome againe preſer- = ved it, and direRed the courſe of the righ- " teous in apiece of wood of (mall value, 5 Moreover," henationsintheirwicked $a, | conſpiracy being confounded, ſhe foundout the righteous, and preſerved himblamelell vnto God, and kept him ſtrong || againſthis 6, { render compaſſion toward his ſonne. 6 - *'Whenthe vngodly periſhcd,ſhedeli- Yeu | uered the righteous man, whoflcd fomibe ga fire which fe}l downe vpon the | huecives, 6:6 7 Of whoſe wickednescuento this day, * the waſte land that fmoketh, 15a teſlimome, and plants Me that neuer come to ripeneſie: and a ſtanding pillar of lalt# a monument of an vnbeleeuingſoule. 8 Forregarding not wil me,theygate not onely this hurt , that they knewnotthe things which were good: but alloleft be. hind themto the worlda memorial of their fooliſhnes: ſothat inthe thingswhereinthe) | offended, they could notſo much 25 be hid, 9 But Wiſedome maj from pane thoſe that attended ypon her. 10 When the cigharons fledde from hi brothers wrath, ſhee guided him in paths, ſhewed him the kingdome of G00: and gaue him knowledge of holy things made him rich in his trauels,ad multplicd he fi wit of his labours. | - Tack couetouſnes of ſuch ac opprefes him,ſhe ſtood by him,and made _— 12 She defended him from bis ent * and kept him ſafe from tholc me _ wait, and in a ſore confli ſhe gave"! victory, that he might know is Rronger then ol, 164, M1719, | Ate 1; wap »A. riotiteous was ſolde, ſhee at; _ _ deliuered him from p% ©. he went downe with him into the pit, 14 Andleft himnot in bondes, till (hee be him the ſcepter of the kingdome, & | power againſt thoſe that oppreſled him : as 4 them that had accuſed him,ſhe ſhewed # chemo be liers , and gauc him perpetual] | No Shee delivered the || righteous peo- 3 e, and blameleſſe ſeede from the nation y that oppreſſed rhem. 16 Shee entred into the ſoule of the ſer- ant of the Lord, and * withſtood dreadfull no$in wonders and (ignes, 17 Rendred roche righteous a reward of their labours , guided them in a marueilous nay, and was ynto them for a couer by day, is, 2ndalight || ofſtarres inthe night ſeaſon : Gs 18 * Brought them thorow the red Sea, vl andled them rhorow much water, * 19 Butſheedrownedtheir enemies, and alt them yp our of the bottom of the deepe, 20 Therefore the rightcous ſpoiled the mngodly, and * praiſed thy holy Name, O Lord, and magnified with one accord thine hand that fought forthem, 21 For wiſcdome opened the mouth of thedumbe , and made the tongue of them that cannot ſpeake, eloquent, * CHAP, XI. ; : tens were puniſhed, and the Iſr aelites reſerue fark, wa thing, Log were pre by gw 31 ng finned, 20 God could hawe d:froy- « them otherwiſe, 23 but he # mercrfull to all, au proſpered their workes in the hand of the holy Propher, 6, 2 ** They went thorow the wilderneſſe a9, that was notinhabired, and pitched tents in * Placeswheretherelayno way. 3 Theyſtoodagainſt their cenemies,and wereauenged of their aduerſaries, 4 Whenthey were thutſtie, they called yon thee, and water was giuen them out of fliticrocke , and their thirſt was quen- chedout of the hard ſtone. 5 Forbywhat things their enemies were ed, by the ſame they in their neede "ere denehted, 6 Forinſtead of a fountain of aperpetuall nnung river,troubled with foule blood, 7 For a manifeſt reproofe of that com- ement,wherby the infants were laine, . you =_ =_ abundince of water . anes which they hoped not for, Jag Ne ig ing by that chirſ then, * how badft puniſhed their aduerſaries, R. For when they were tried,albeir but in _ cbaſtiſed,he knew how the vngodly edin wrath and cormented, thic- kl, "oats \l any 0, D | «7 1 Chap.xj. ſing in another maner thenthe Tuſt, 10 For theſe thou didſt admoniſh, and try a} a Father ; but the other as a ſcucre King thou didſt condemne and puniſh, 11 Whetherthey were abſent, or preſear, they were vexed alike, 12 Fora double griefe came ypon them, 2nd a groning for the remembrance of things paſt, 13 For when they heard by their owne puniſhments the otherto be benefited, they { had ſome feeling ofthe Lord, 14 For whom they ceiccd with ſcorne, when he was long before throwen our at the caſting forth of che 3ufants,him in y end,when they ſaw what cameto paſſe,they admired, 15 But for the fooliſh deuices of their wickednes, whereygth being deceiued,they worſhipped ſerpents void of reaſon, and vile beaſts: thou didſt ſend a multitude of vnrea- ſonable beaſts ypon them for vengeance, 16 That they might know that where- withall a man finneth, by he ſame alſo ſhall he be puniſhed, 17 Forthy Almighty hand that madethe world of matter without forme , wanted not meancs to ſend among them a multirude of beares,or fierce lyons, 13 Or ynknowen wild beaſts full of rage newly created, breathing out either a ficrie vapour,or filthy ſents of ſcattered ſmoke, or ſhooting horrible ſparkles out of their eyes: 19 \Whereof not onely the harme mighe diſpatch them at once: bur alſo theterrible ſehr vtterly deſtroy them, 20 Yea, and withour theſe might they haue fallen downe with one blaſt, being per- ſecutcd of vengeance, and ſcattered abroad through che breath of thy power, but thou haſt ordered all things in meaſure,and num- ber, and weight, 2 1 Forthoucanſt ſhew thy great ſtrength at all times when thou wilt, and who may withſtand the power of thine armie ? 22 For the wholeworld beforethec is as alictle || graine of the ballance,yea as a drop of the morning dew that falleth downe vpon the carth, 23 Butthou haſt mercy ypon all:for thou coal doc all things,and winkeſt at the ſinnes of men: becauſe they ſhould amend, 24 For thouloueſt all the things that are, & abhorreſt nothingwhich thou haſt made : for ncuer wouldeſt thou haue made any thing, if thou hadſt hated it. 25 And how could anything haue endu- red, if it had not beene thy will? or beenc preſerucd, if not called by thee ? 26 Burthou ſpareſt all : forthey are thine, O Lord, thou louer of ſoules, Hbkhbz' CHAP, [[Or, perce1- wed. weight, {[0r, lute. [[0r,ancient, lor, ſorcerics. bitance, *Fxod. 33.2. deut.2,22, *Gene, 9.2 3, YRom, 9:20, []Or, in thy preſence, j[Or,areutu- ger. F1.Per.5.7. Apocrypha. CHAP, XIL, 2 God did net defiroy thoſe of Canaan all at orce, 12 If hee had done ſo, who could cortrell bow? n @ But by ſparing then be tawght vs, 29 they were previſed with they god's, Or thine vncorruptible ſpirit is in all rnings. 2 Thercfore chaſteneſt thon them by litcle andlittlegthat off: nd,and warneſt them by putting them in remembrance, wherein ehcy have cftended, rhat Ieaving their wice kednellc they may belecue on thee, O Lord, 3 Forit was thy will to deſtroy by the hands of our fathers,both thoſe || olde inha- bitazts of thy holy land, 4 Whom thou hatcdſt for doing moſt odious workes of || witchcrafts, and wicked ſacrifices; 5 And alſo thoſe mercilefſe murderers of children , and dcucurers of mans fleſh, andthe fealts of blood z 6 With their Prieſts our of the midſt of their idolatrous crew, and the parcnts that killed with their owne hanges, ſoules deſti- ruce of helpe ; 7 Thattheland which thou eſteemedſt aboue all other,might receiue a worthy [[co- lonie of Gods children, 8 Neuerthelefſe, even thoſe thou ſpa- redſt as men, and did(t ſend * waſpes, fore- runners of thine hoſte, to deſtroy them by little and Jie, 9 Not that thou waſt ynable to bring the vngodly vnderthe hand of the righteous in bart: 1,or to deftroy them at once with cruell beaſts, cr with one rough word: 10 But cxecuring thy iudgements vpon them by l:uJc and l:ttle, thou gaueſt chem place of repentance, not beeing ignorant that they were a naughtie generation, and that their malice was bredde inthem, and that their cogitation would ncucr bee changed. 11 For it was x *cnrſed ſeedefrom the beginning , n- ither didſt thou for feare of any man giue them pardon for thoſe things wherein they linned, 12 Forwhoſhallſay , * What haſt theu done ? or who ſhall vithſtand thyjudgmenr, or who ſhall accuſ?: thee for the nations thar perith, whom thou haſt made ? or who ſhall come to| ſtand againſt hee, to be || reucn- ged forthe vnrighteous men ? 1; For neither is there any God but thou, that * careth for all, towhom thou mighteſt ſewthat thy iudgementisnot yn- right. _ Neither ſþa)l king or tyrant be ableto ſet his face againſt thee, for any whom thou haſt puniſhed, Wiſedomeof Solomon. Abe 15 For ſo muchthen a thoy nr ous thy ſelfe, thou ordereRt all things ri tcouſly:; * — It Not agreeable wihly « 5 power, to condemne him th {crued td be puniſhed, OT IG v . 16 For thy power is the beoing;. rightcouſnefle, and becaule ns ny _— Lorg of all , it maketh thee to begraci.u _ vnto all, 17 For when menwill not beleeys: thou art ofa || full power , they eve ſtrength,and amongthem that knowitchoy 4 makeſt their boldneſle manitef, 18 Burthou , maſtering thy power, ind geſt with cquitie, andordereſt yswith preat - tauour : for thou mayeſt yſe power whea thou wilt, = 19 But by ſuch workes haſt thou taught thy peopie, that the iuſt man ſhould bee. mercifull, and halt madethy childreawks | of a good hopethatthou giueſt repentance hen for ſinnes:; 5 20 For ifthou didſt puniſhtheenemicgof thec thy chileren, andthe condemned to death then with ſuch deliberation, giuing them time and 6 place,whereby they might be delivered from their malice: 2 1 With how great circumſpeRiondidh & 9 thou iudge thine owne ſonnes, vnto whele fathers thou haſt ſworne, and made coue- nants of good piomiles ? 22 Therefore whereas thou doeſtchaſten vs, thou ſcourgeſt our enemies a thouland lo times more, to the intent that when wee tudge, we ſhouldcarefully think of thy good my nefle, and when we our (clues are iudged, we ho ſhould looke for mercy. Y the 2 2 Wherefore, whereas men have lived ; difſolutely and vnrighteouſly , thou haſt eened them wich their owne abom- my wi nations. - ol xr 24 * For they went aſtray very farre in _ of the wayes oferrour, and hel themfor gods | » (which cuen amongſt the bealis oftherr &- nemies were deſpiſcd) beeing deceiued 3 children of no vnderitanding, | 25 Therefore yntothem, as tO children without the vſc of _ , thoudidltſend 3 judocment tO MOcke tNeM, 3 25 But they that wouldrot be reformed by that corre@tion wherein hee dallied wit them,ſhal feele a iudgement worthy 0 27 For looke, forwhat things they gve- ged whenthey were puniſhed, _ them whom they choughtto bego es being puniſhed in them 3 when BY — it , they acknowledged him to. God , whom before they denyed t0 Kn0 and therefore came extreame amnavm ypon them, CHAR gone _ f Ged any 8 s qe race are they hs worſhip the verkg of mens bands, : : ine are all men by nature, who — of God, and could not out ofthe good things chat are ſcene, know him wtis: neither by confidering the workes, lidthey acknowledge the workemaſter ; 4 *Butdeemed either fire, or winde, or the ſwift aire, or the circle of the ſtares, or the violent water, orthe lights of heauen to hethe ods which gouerne che world: thwhoſe beautic, if they being de- ohted, tooke them to be gods : ler them | know how much better the Lord of them | is;for the firſt Authour of beautic hath cre- wed then, ; : 4 But if they were aſtoniſhed at their pojer and vertuc , let them vnderſtand by chem , how much mighticr he is that made them, 5 For by the greatneſle and beautie of thecreatures, proportionably the Maker of themis ſcene. 6 Buryet for this they are the leſſe to be blamed: for they peraduenture erre ſeeking God, and deſirous to finde him, u, 7 Forbeing * conuerſantia his workes, k they [ſearch bimdiligently,and belceve their ſyght: becauſe the things are beautifull chac xelcene, 8 Howbeic, neicherare they ro be par- 9 For if they were able to knowe (o much, that they could aime at the world ; bow didehey not ſooner finde out the Lord thereof ? 19 But miſerable are they, and in dead gs istheir hope , who called them gods, n wich are the workes of mens hands, golde ad iluerto ſhewe arte in, and reſemblances aldeaſts, or a ſtone good for nothing, the worke Sag hand, !t *Now a {carpenter that felleth tim- after he hath h__ downe a tree meete forthe purpoſe, and taken off all the barke y round about, and hath wrought ic mely, and made a veſlell thereof fit _ brthe ſeruice ofmans life : * It Andafter ſpending the [| refuſe of his ——_ drefle his meate, hath filled him- tz And taking the very refuſe among Mcukich ona ro no vie (being a croo= piece of wood , and full of knots) hath and it diligencly when hee had nothing 3 =* Uerodoe, and formed ir bythe skill of his Caman and faſhioned it to the image y PeX11J-X1I1}. ts 14 Or made it like ſome vile beaft, laying it over with yermilion, & with paint, calou. ring it rcd, and _—_— cuery ſpot therein; 15 Andwhen he had made a conueniene roume for it, ſetitina wall, and made it faſt with yron: 16 For heeprouided for it, that it might not fall: knowing thatitwas vnableto ibs : _—_ = it is an image and hath neede of elpe: 17 Then maketh he prayer for his goods, for his wife and children,and isnot aſhamed to ſpeake tothat which bath nolite: 18 For health, he calleth ypon that which is weake: for life, prayeth co that which is dead: for ayde, humbly beſ&cheth f that #Gr.thethath which hath lcaſt meanes to helpe : and for a '* experience good iourney, he asketh of thatwhich can- ® all not ſet a foot forward: 19 And for gaining and getting , and for good ſuccelle of his hands,asketh abilitie to doe, of him chat 1s moſt ynable to doe any: thing, : CHA P, XIIIL. I men doe to their ſhips, ar Pharos 5 wt. by —_ C rhteee? aceurſed, and [os ave the makers of them, 1 4 Thebegin- ming of idolatrie, 23 and the effefts thereof, 30 Ged pruntſh them thag ſweave Ark ther woes, A Gaine,one preparing himſclfeto laile, and aboutrto paſſe thorow the raging waues, callcth ypon a piece of woed more rotten then the {| veſſel] that carieth him. 2 For verily deſire ofgaine deniſed({thar, and the workeman builtit by his skill, by 3 Burthyprouidence,O Father, gouer- neth it: for thou haſt * made away in the *Exod, r4. ſea, and a ſafe path in the waues : 4 Shewing thatthoucanſt ſaue from all danger :ycathough a man went to ſea with- out arte, 5 Neuertheleſſe thou wouldeſt not that the workes ofthy wiſedome ſhould be idle, and therefore doe men commit theirliuesto a (ſinall piece of wood, and pafling the rough ſeain a weake veſlell, are ſaued. 6 *Forin theoldetime alſo, when the *Gev.6.4. proude gyants periſhed, the hope of the and 7.10, world goucrned by thy hand, eſcaped in a weake vellell, andleft to all ages a leede of generation, 7 Forblcfſed is the wood, whereby righ. tcouſnefle commerh. 8 Butthat which is madle with hands, is curſed,as well * it, as he that made it: hegbe- *Pſal.rrs, 8, cauſe he made it, andir, becauſe being cor. baruc.6. 3. ruptible, itwas called God, 9 *Forthevngodly and his vngodlinefſe * Plal 5.5 are both alike hateful] vnto God, 10 For that which is made, ſhall be puni- ſhed together with him that made it. Hhh 3 11 There- v 4 p L-:0 '2 > [0rgtoor by, *Tere.10.3, abac.3.18, tGr. ſcandals, Rorgrep, 7 Gr. in time, HOr,tyrams yOrgin firhe. t&r. to the better, 1[0/Ged, ®Deu.18.10, cre 7.9, and 1 9.4. —_— £2 11 Therefore even || ypon the idoles of the Gentiles ſhall thcre'be a viſitation: be- cauſe in the creature' of God they are be- come an abomination , and * f ſtumbling bloeckes to the ſoules of men, and a || ſnare to the fcet of the vnwile, 12 Fcrthedeuiling of idoles was the be- ginning of ſfpirituelitornicatien, and the in- zention of them the corruption of life, 13 For ncither were they from the begin« ning, neither (hall they be for ever. 14 For by the vaine glory of men they entred into the world, and therefore ſhall they come ſhortly ro-an end, 15 For a father affliQed with vntimely mourning,when hee hath made an iwage of his childe {oone taken away, new honoured him as aged, which was then a dead man, and delivered to thoſe that were vnder him, ceremonies and ſacrifices, 16 Thus f in proceſſe of ttme an vrigod- ly cuſtome growen ſtrong , was kept as a law, and grauen images wete worſhipped by the commandements of [| kings. 17 Whom men could not honour || in preſence, becauſe they dwelt farre off, they took the counterſcit of his viſage from farre, and made an expreſle image ot a king whom they honoured, to the end that by thistheir forwardnes, they might flatter him that was abſent, as if he were prcſent, 18 Alſothe ſingular diligence of the arti- ficer did helpeto (et forward the ignorant to more ſuperſtition, 19 For he pecaduenturcwilling to pleaſe one in authoritie, forced all his skill to make the reſemblance f of the beſt faſhion. 20 And (o the multitude allured by the orace of the worke , tooke him now for a god, which alittle before was bur honoured as a man, 21 And this wasan occaſion to deceine the world: for men ſeruing either calamitic or tyrannie, did aſcribe vnto ones, and ſtockes,the incommwunicable || Name, 22 Moreouer, this was not enough for them, that they erred in the knowledge of God, but whereas they lived in the great warre of ignorance, tholc fo great plagues called they peace, 23 For whileſt they * flewtheir chi!dren an ſacrifices, or vied ſecret ceremonies, or madereuellings of ſtrange rites. 24 They kept neither hues nor marria- ges any longer vndefiled : but either one fewe another traitexoafly, or gricucd him by adulteric : 25 So that there reigned in all men {without exception , blood, manſlaughter, theft, and diflimylation , corruption, vB Niledomeot Solomon, "——_ » tumules, perivrie, - w icting ofpood men, - ot good turnes, defiling of foul of || kind, diforderin . Mhrny, pt , and SO vncleannefle, = 'B < 27 Forthe worſhipping of i G be named, is the wa.canay rm. wer ” 20; the endofall eu, my Me 28 Forcither they are madwhenihcyhs go merry,or prophecie lies, orliue vaivſtly, o : clſc lightly forſweare themſelues, © nl 29 Forinſomuch as their truſtiginide) nc which hauc no hife;thoughthey ſwearckille. ly, yet thcy Jooke not to be hurt, _ 30 Howbeit for both cauſes thallthey be on wſtiy punilſed : both becaulethey thought not well of God, || giving heed ynto idols, - and alſo yniuſtly (wore indecent, delpibrg i holineſſe, " 31 For it is not the power of them bz I: whom thcy ſweare: butit is the iuſtyence. ho ance of ſinners, that puniſl;eth alwayesihe I offence of the vngodly, hol CHAP, : IV. anc 1 We doe achrewldge the tyue God, 7 Thefoly ol | makers, 4 ard oj the enewmitse/ Gedspeople: 15 he; camſe beſides the 1doles of the Gentiles, 18 the) wwſugs ped wile brefts, ow Vt thou,O God, art gracious andtne: b, long ſuftering, and in mercy ordering to all things. 2 For if we (inne we are thine, knowing bo thy power: but wee wil: not {mne, knowing by that we are countedrthine, ſel 3 Forto know thee is perfe@righteoll | neſle: yea, to know thy power is the rootot th immortalitie, de 4 For neither did the miſchievous 0 pt uention of men decciue ys: nor animage | ſpotted with divers colours, the painters th fruitlcfielabour. 5 The (lightwhereof | entiſeth foolesto ar: h luſt afterit, and ſo they defire the formeof a wk Fl dead image that hathnobreath. # 6 Both they that makethem, ehey hat bl defire then,and they that worſhip them, ore overs of cuil things, and are wortbytobaue l ſuch things to trult vpon. AE 7 For the * —_ rempering loft earth, 1.25% fathionerh cuery veſſel] with much labour | for our ſervice : yea of the ſame clay be% keth both the veflcls that ſerve for cleae j vſcs: and likewiſe alſo all ſuch 3s =_ - the contrary: but what is thevle of & ſort,the potter himſelfe is the indge. yh ' 8 Andervploying his labours ya waketh a vaine gedof the fame &3y, " hee which alittle before was? =@ himſelfe, and within a little wi» qi turncth tothe ſame our of the a "ken: when bis * life which was lent him ded. wy Maadiog his care is, not that \ hal k2ue much labour, nor that [| his life : ſhort : bur {triueth 10 excell goldſmihs, 1nd filuerſmichs, and endeauoureth ro doe like the workers in brafſe,and counteth it his :o make counterfeit things. = 'o His heart 15 aſhes, his hope 1s more vile then carth , and his life of lefle value 0 auch a8 he new not his maker, 1nd him that inſpired into him an ative ſoule, and breathed 1n a |tuing ſpirit, | 13 Bue they counted our life a paſtime, andourftime here a matket for gaine: for of” (ay they, wee muſt be getting cuery way, though it be by euill meanes, 13 {Focthis mantharof earthly matter * maketh brickle veſſels, and grauen images, tnoactthimſelfe ro offend aboue all others. 14 Andall the enemies of thy peoplegchat holde them in ſubic&ion, are molt toolith, andaremore miſerable then very babes. 15 Forthey countedall the idoles of the keathento be gods: which neither hauc the ie ofeyesto | _ noſes to draw [|breath, norearesto heare, noc fingers of handes to handle, and as for their feete they are flowe to g0e, y For man madethem, and hee that borrowed his owne ſpirit faſhioned them, a no man can make a god like ynto him= «lfe, 17 For being mortall he worketh a dead thog with wicked hands : for he himſclte is better then the things which he worſhippeth: mereas he hued once, but they neuer. 8 Yea, they wo: ſhipped thoſe bealts alſo lhatare moſt haretull: for being compared together, ſome areworle then others, ly Neither are they beautifull , ſo much utodedelired in reſpe of beaſts, but they ent without the praiſe of God, and his eſling, CHAP. XVI, 2 God rave flrange meate to his prople, to ſtirre wþ their Ye, and vale beaſts to thur enemues to take it from 5 He ſtung with his ſerperts, 12 bt ſoone hca- thes bu word enely, 17 The creatures altered "ure to pleaſe Gods people , and to offerd thejr nem, Herefore by the like were they puniſhed Y L meas and by the multitude of beaſts $ initead of which puniſhment,dealin viouſly with thine owne people thou —_ _ them meat of a ſtrange taſte;euen q _=_ ſticreyp their appetite ; 3 10 the end that they deſiring foode he ougly light of the beaſts ſent $24 £54 0 Ch 3Þ.XVj. among them, loathe even that which they muſt needs defire: but theſe ſuffering penu- ric for a ſhort ſpace, might be made parta- kers of a ſtrange taſte, 4 For it was requiſite*, thatypon them exerciling tyrannic ſhould come penurie which they could not anoide: bur to thele ir ſhould onely be ſhewed how their enemies were tormented. 5 For when the horrible fierceneſſe of beaſts came ypon | theſe, and they perithed with the * ſtings of crooked (crpents, thy "dig wrath endured not for cuer, 6 Butthey were troubled for a ſmall ſea- ſontharthey mightbe admoniſhed,haning a * ſigne of (aluarion, to put themin remem- *Num, 21.9. brance of the commandement ofthy Law. 7 Forheethat turned himſelfe rowards it, was not. ſaued by the thing that hee (aw: but by theethat art the Sauiour of all, 8 And in this thou madeſt thine ene- mieg contefle, that itis thou who deliuereſt from all euill ; 9 For * them the bitings of graſhoppers *Exod.8, x4. and flies killed, neither was there found any 3d 10.4, remedy tor their life + for they were worthy roueh 9.7. to be puniſhed by ſuch. 10 But thy ſonnes, not the veryteeth of venemous dragons ouercame: for thy mer- Cy was ever by them, and healed them, 31 For they were þ pricked , that they {H4, flung. ſhould remember thy words , & were quick- ly laued, that not falling into deepe forget- fulnefle, they mighc be [| continually aund- full of thy goodneſlc, 12 For it was neither herbe, nor molli- fying plaiſter that reſtored them to health: but thy word , O Lord, which health all things. 1 2 Forthou haſt power of life and death: thou * leadeſt tothe gates of hell, andbrin- »pcy1.cog. geſt yp againe, 14 A man indeed killeth through his ma- '-{29.2.5. lice : and the ſpiritwhen it is gone foorth re- curncth not ; neither the ſoule receiued vp, commeth againe, 15 Butit is not poſlible to eſcape thine hand, 16 *For the vngodly thatdenyed roknow thee, were ſcourged by the (trength of thine arme: with ſtrange raines, hailes, and ſhow- ers were they perſecuted, that they could not aucide, 0 through fire were they con- ſumed. 17 For, which is moſt to be wondred at, the fire had more force in the water thar quencherh all things: forthe world*fighteth for the righteous, 18 For ſometime the flame was miti- oated that it might not burne vp the beaſts Hhh 4 thae Apocrypha. FIudg 5.30, ' Apoctypha. thatwere ſent againſt the vyngodly:butthem- ſelves might ſee and: perceiuc that they were perſecuted with the mdgement of God, 19 And at another time it burneth even in the midit of water, aboue the power of fire, that it might deftroy the fruits of an yniuſt land, | 20 * In ſtead whereof thou feddeſt thine *Px0.' 6.14. + owne proplewith Angels food, anddiddef pfal.78 25. fend them ' from heauen bread prepared 10h.6.31- ithour their labour, able to content euery mans delight, and agreeing to cuery taſte, *"Iudg. 64, 21 * For thy {| ſuftenance declared thy f9r,Mama, ſweerneflevnothy children, and ſerving to (07,9419 the appetirt ofthe eater , [| tempered ir ſelfe WT ro cucry mans liking, *Chap, 1 9. 22 * Butſnowand yce endured the fre, 20, and melecd not, that they might know that fire burning in the haile, and ſparkling in the raine, did deſtroy the truitsof the enemies. 23 But this againe Cid cuen forget his owne firength , that the righteous might be nouriſhed, 24 For the creature that ſerueththee who art the maker, encreafeth his ſtrength a- gainſt the vnrighteous for their puniſhment, and abaterh his ſtrength for the benefite of ſuch asput their truſt in thee. 25 Therefore euen then was it altered f6r,things, into all [[faſhions, and was obedient to thy acethat nouriſheth all things , according {{&r,ofthem tothe deſire [| of them that had need ; that prajed, 26 Thar thy children, O Lord, whom *Deur.8.3, thouloucſt, might know that * it-is not the mat.44 growing of fruits that nouriſheth man : bur tharit 1s thy word which preſerueth them that put their truſt in thee, 27 For that which-was-not deſtroyed of the fre, being warmed with a little Sunne beame, foone melted away, 28 That /it might be knowen, that wee wult preuent the Sunne,to giuethee thanks, and atrhe day-ſpring pray vnto thee, 29 For the hope of the vnfaithfull, ſhall melt away: as the winters ho2re-froſt, and ſhall runne away as ynprofitable water. CHAF, 2VIE 2 Why the Egyptians were punifhed with darkeneſſi, 4. The terr onrs of that darkenefie, 12 The terrenrs of an ih conjeeence, | | Orgreart are thy 1wdpgements, andcan- Or, ſands ps be exprefſed : raked vVANOuRU- 9 ne red ſouleshaueecrred, : 2 For whenynrighteous men thought to opprefſe the holy nation : they being ſhut YOr,ondy VP {[intheirhouſes, the priſoners of darke- ther reefs, 'nefle, and feteered with the ponds of a long 10”. fugs- night, lay [there] || exikd from the eternall % providence, 3 For while they ſuppoſed colic hid in Wiſedomeof S olomon, ; 4 their ſecrer linnes, they were der a darke yaile of for *tfulnes, being tne ribly aſtoniſhed and odd ya { apparitions, might the comer tha 4 For neither helde them,keepe themfrom feare:bur nay les (as of watets) 2 ing down, ſole, $ 2PPeared rn bout them, and ſad e them with heauie countenances, l | 5 Nopowerof thefire mights; light - neither could the brit ofihe » ftarres endure tolighten thatherrible woot, ] 6 Only there appearedyntothems ve p kindled of it ſelfe, very dreadfull:forbevy , much terrified, they _ the thine; which they ſaw to be w then the lg | they ſaw nor, 7 * As for theilluſons of ante Magi they were put downe, and Mews an " wifedome was reprooucd with di 8 Forthey thatpromiſedro thing 'terrours , and troubles from a ficke ſoul, were licke themſelves of feareworityw he laughed ar. 9 For though noterrible thing didfeen them: yer being skared with beaftsthat pul ſed by, and hifling of ferpents, x0 They died for feare, [denying they faw the aire, whichcould ofno bdek auoided. iz For wickednefſe condemned by br owne witneſle, is very timerous, and being preſſed with conſcience, alwayes forecafrth gricuous things. 12 For fcare is nothing elſe, tut a te trying of the ſuccours which reaſon & tererh, i 13 Andthe expe&ation from wichin be. ing lefſe, counteththeignorance morethch the cauſc which bringeth che torment. 14 But they ſlecping the lame oy þ night || which was indeed intoleravie, 4", which came pon them ourofehe bonon® gg, of incuitable hell: 15 Were partly vexed with __ apparitions, and partly fainted, _ - failing them : for a _— feuce looked for, came ypon them. 16 So then , whoſocuer chere fell downe, was ſtraitly kept, ur vp iD prion ron barres, x 17 For whether he were hushandnwn | ſhepheard,or alabourcrinthe]be! hen ouertaken, & endured chaenecefiie,n could not bee avoided : for _ bound with one chaine ofdarkene 18 Whether bene , 2 meloCions noiſe of b1: 08 3M rt ding branches , or 3 aig tif runnin violently: 4. W— ww ws Und1s, | Kjay, «$. } wy Gul,. ” Or a {| terrible ſound of flones caſt downe,or 3 ronning that could notbeſcene ofskipping deaſts , #r 2 roaring voyce of wolt ſauage wild beaſts, ora — rccho from the bollow muuntaines : theſe «made them tO ſwounc for feare. i For the whole world fined with ceare light,and none were hindered in their labour. 21 Ouerthem onely was ſpread an hea- vic night, an image of that darkenes which hould afterwards receiue them: but yet werethey vnto themſclues more grieuous thea the dukeneſle, CHA 4 SVUk ( ſhed with derkeneſſe an : bee +. the f i :8 ye Wins the cawſs thereof, 20 God alſo plagued bu owne pple, 21 By what meanes tbat plague was ftlajed, Euerthelefle, thy Saints had a very eat * light, whoſe yoice they hearing and not ſeeing their thape, becauſe they alſo bad not ſuffered the ſame things, they counted them happie. 2 But for that they did not hurt them ww, of whom they had beenewronged be- fore,they thanked rhem,and beſoughtthem pardon,for that they had beene enemies, 3 *Inftead whereof thou gaveſt them a burning pillar of fire, both 1o bee a guide of * the vnknowen iourney, and an harmlcfſc Sunat to entertaine them honourab)y, 4 Forthey were worthy to beedepriued of|ight, and imprifoned in datkenefic, who badkepethy ſonnes ſhut vp, bywhom the ſracorrupt light of the law was to be given yntothe world, 5 *And whenthey had determined to Gy the babes of the Saints, one child being caſt foorth , and faued: to reproue ther, thou tookeſt away the multitude of their children, and deſtreyedſt them all rogether aamighty water, wits - 6 ” Of that night were our fathers cer- tied afore, that aſſuredly knowing vnto whatoathes they had giuen credence , they mught afterwards be of good cheere, 7 Soof thy people was accepted both the aluationof the rightevus, and deftru- Qion of the enemies, 8 For wherewith thou didft puniſh our acucrſaries, by the ſame thou digſt glorthe whom thou hadft called. 9 * Forthe righteaus children of good men did ſacrifice ſecretly , and with ene = mace a |holy.law that the Saints _—_— "_ Ras of the ſame good n _ LOO ers now ſinging outthe 1 But. on the other ide there founded _ P-xV11j. an ill-according crieof theenemies, anda lamentable noile was carried abroad for childrenthat were bewailed, 1: * The maſter and the ſcruant were *Exod. 71.5 puniſhed after one manner, 2nd like as the £2912. 2.9, king,ſo ſufteredrhe common perſon. 12 So they altogether had innumerable dead with one kind of death , neither were the living ſufficient ro burie them: for in one momentthe nobleſt of-ſpring of them was deſtroyed, 13 For whereas they would nor belecue any thing by reaſon of the enchantments,. ypon the deſtrution of the hifl borne ,they acknowledged this people to bee the ſonnes of God, 14 For while all things were in quiet +- lence, and that night was in the middeſt of her ſwift courſe, 15 Thine almighty word leapt downe f. om heauen, out of thy royall throne, as a tierce man of warreintothe midſt of a land of deſtruRion, 16 And brought thine vnfained com» mandement as aſharpe (word, and ſtanding vp tilled 2ll things with death, & it touched the heaven, burit ſtood ypon the earth, 17 Then ſuddenly || viſions of horrible dreames trout led them (ore, and terrours came vpon them vnlooked for. 18 And onethrowen here,another there halfe dead,ſhewed the cavſc of his death. 19 Forthe dreames that troubled them did foreſhew this , Iſt they ſhould periſh, and not know why they were afthQed, 20 Yea, the rating of death touched the righteous alfo , and therewas a deſtruion of the * multitude in the wiſderneſle : bur the wrath endured not long 21 For then the blamelcffe man made haltc,and ſtood foorthto defend them,and bringing the ſhield of bis proper miniſterie,, euenprayerand the propitiation of incenſe, ſet hin ſeIfe againſt the wrath, & ſo brought the calamitieroan end, declaringthat hee was thy ſeruant, : 22 So hee overcamethedeſtroyer, not: with ſtrength of bodie, nor force of armes, but with a word ſubdued he him thatpuni- ſhed, alleaging the oathes and couenants: made with the fathers. 23. For when the dead were nowfijlen downe by heapes-one vpon another , ſtan- ding betweene , he ftaycd the wrath , and {parted the way to the Iruing, 24 *For in the long garment was the whole warld., and inthe toure rowes of the ſtones was the glory of the fathers grauen, = thy maicſtie ypon the diademe. of tus. cad. 15: Vito. f[Or,imagne- fron, "Num, 36 45 2 [[Or,cut off.” *Exod.z8;6* and a1,19; {[07,c2ft out by entreaty, HOrlce, Some vefrfre thu Protoguc to Athanaſius * becau't 1th found in bu Synopſes, 25 Vatotheſeche deſtroyer gaue place, and was afraid of them: for it was inough that they onely caſted of the wrath, CHAP, XIX. x Woy God (bewed no mercie to the Egyptians, 5 And haw wonderfully hee dealt with bu people, x14 The E- g3Þtiars were worſe then the Sodonutes. 18 The won- __ arreement of the creatures to ſerne Gods peo« 6. / S for the vngodly, wrath came vpon them without mercig vnto the end, for he knew before what they would doe ; 2 Howthat having ginen them leaue to depart, and ſent them haſtily away , they would repent and purſue them. 2 For whileſt they were yet mourning and making lamentation ac the graues of the dead , they added another fooliſh de- uice,and purſued chem as tugitiues, whom they had || entreated co be gone. 4 For the dcltinic , whereof they were worthic, drew them yntothis end,and made them forget the things that had already hapned , that they might fulfillche punill- ment which was wanting to their torments, 5 And that thy people might paſle a wonderfull way : but they might finde a ſtrange death. 6 Forthe whole creature in his proper kind was faſhioned againe anew,ſ(cruing the peculiar commandements that were giuen ynto them, that thy children might be kept without hurt, 7 Asnamd/j, a cloud ſhadowing the campe , and where water {tood betore drie land appeared , aadour Y the red Sca a'way without impedimentzand out of the violent ſtreame a greens field: 8 Where-thorough all the people went that were defended with thy hand, ſeeing thy marucilous (trange wonders, 9 Forthey went ar large like hor(es,and leaped likelambes , prarfting thee,O Lord, who hadſt deliuered them. 10 For they were yct mindfull of the thiags that were done while they ſoiourned in the ſtrange land, how the ground brought forrh || lies in ſtcad of catrell, and how the river caſt vp a multitude of frogs in ſtcad of fiſhes, THE WIS - ap.XIX. 11 But afterward ration of foules, irvrnel =_ appetite they asked delicare ie ie 12 For qualls camey the Sea, "vere [Pount ovasges = 13 Andpunilhments came ners not without former lignes - —_— : for they ſuffered iy ing to their owne wickednefle,j as they vicd a more hardand rs” hauiour towards ſtrangers: 14 For the Sodowmites did thoſe whom they knew not i vhs but theſe brought friends into bondayeghu had well deſcrued of them, Is Andnotonely (o: but perad ſome reſpeR ſhall be had of thoſ becal they vſcd ſtrangers not fricndly, 16 But thicle very grieuouſly afflied them , whom they had receiued with fea. {ings, and were alreadie madepartakersof the force Y:ACcor. the ſame lawes with them, 17 Therefore euen wich blindneflewere theſe {tricken, as thoſe were atthe doresof the righteous man : when being compaſed about with horrible great darkenefſe, cuery one ſought the pallage of his owne doores, 18 For the elements were changedfin #6 themſclucs by a kind of harmonie, ke 25in ſu a Pſalrerie notes change the name of the tune, and yet are alwayes ſounds, which may well be perceiucd by the Gight of the things that hauc beene done, 19 For earthly things were turned in- to watrie, and che things that before ſmamme inthe water , now went yponthe ground.
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Despite—And Actually Because Of—The Numbers, Hispanic Retail Sites Are A Bad Idea
Written by Evan Schuman
July 27th, 2011
With more than 30 million Hispanic consumers in the U.S. spending tens of billions of dollars a year, it would seem to be a no-brainer that major retail chains should have Spanish-language versions of their sites. In reality, not only is it not a no-brainer to create such a site, it turns out to be an impressively bad idea to try.
It’s not that the Hispanic segment is not a critically important one for retail. It absolutely is. But the reality is that there are far better ways to reach that audience than a Spanish Web site—and that such site creations come with massive downsides.
At the top of the list of reasons to not create such a site is simple economics. It’s not a trivial investment to create a full version of a chain’s site in another language—more on some of the huge non-monetary expenses shortly—which means that the benefits have to overcome that. And that’s where the math comes in.
Lee Vann is the CEO of Captiva, a digital marketing agency specializing in Hispanic sites. Vann makes his argument for why retailers should not launch Hispanic sites by breaking down Hispanic figures, starting with the roughly 30 million Hispanic consumers in the U.S. who are regularly shopping online.
“More than half of those 30 million actually prefer English. That takes the market from 30 million to 15 million,” Vann said. When he then removes bilingual consumers who are equally comfortable with both English and Spanish—a group that clearly neither needs nor particularly craves a Spanish version of a retailer’s site—that brings the Spanish-preferring number closer to six million. “And many of them are still comfortable with English,” even though it’s not their preference, Vann said.
“Compare that to the U.S. online market of about 280 million people,” he said, and the cost-benefit ratio of reaching that audience “would be astronomical.”
But the numbers get worse yet. For retailers selling certain types of products that the customer already knows well, Spanish descriptions may not even be necessary. “For many E-Commerce sites, a product is a product. When it comes to SKUs, product images and descriptions, most people can figure that out,” Vann said.
Indeed, when it comes to specs, pricing and measurement, the numbers and the universal terms, much of the “just the facts, ma’am” has always been fairly language neutral. It’s when the text moves into marketing promotional phrasing that language nuances kick in.
And therein lies another huge language problem.
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Sixty-four years after it sent research teams into the Central American nation of Guatemala and used the population there as guinea pigs in a study of venereal diseases, the government of the United States last week issued an official apology.
The apology was for a 1946-48 research study that involved purposeful infection of people in Guatemala with sexually transmitted diseases such as syphillis.
The U.S. study began only a year after similar studies by Nazi “doctors” came to a halt as a network of concentration camps across Europe was shut down at the end of the World War II.
A statement issued Oct. 1 by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius called the action “reprehensible.”
“We deeply regret that it happened, and we apologize to all the individuals who were affected by such abhorrent research practices,” their statement said. “The conduct exhibited during the study does not represent the values of the United States, or our commitment to human dignity and great respect for the people of Guatemala.”
Late Friday, the White House said President Obama planned to call Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom to personally apologize for American scientists deliberately infecting Guatemalan prisoners with syphilis.
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters that the news of the 1946-48 events was “shocking, it’s tragic, it’s reprehensible.”
The experiments were discovered by a Wellesley College medical historian. The studies claimed to test the effectiveness of penicillin.
The Nazi-like experiments were labelled the Sexually Transmitted Disease Inoculation Study of 1946-1948.
“The study is a sad reminder that adequate human subject safeguards did not exist a half-century ago,” the statement by Clinton and Sebelius said. “Today, the regulations that govern U.S. funded human medical research prohibit these kinds of appalling violations.”
Clinton and Sebelius said the United States is launching an investigation and also convening a group of international experts to review and report on the most effective methods to make sure all human medical research worldwide meets rigorous ethical standards.
“As we move forward to better understand this appalling event, we reaffirm the importance of our relationship with Guatemala, and our respect for the Guatemalan people, as well as outr commitment to the highest standares of ethics in medical research,” the U.S. statement said.
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Guillem Morey 4 years ago in bOS Configurator / Themes updated 4 years ago 8
I have an issue with this property, if I use integer value it works correctelly, but if I use a double float just works "EqualorGreater" and "EqualorLess" but not "equal".
Any idea?
Hi Guillem,
Never noticed. The double float values I use never have a perfect rounded value, so I have never tested with "Equals" but that is something that can be tested.
Will be glad to test that tomorrow in the evening.
Best regards
Hello again Guillem,
I guess that you're right, I'm having the same result as you.
It looks like it might be a little bug.
I think that someone from Comfortclick team will soon take a look at it. Just keep this post updated.
Best regards
Thanks Ricardo, In other hand could be a fine improvement add a function for ranges, because "Equal", "EqualOrLess" and "EqualOrGreater" are not enough, if is needed intermediate values is necessary make an "equal" for each value.
Under review
as Ricardo mentioned, our Float values do not have Equal values for floats because of the Float values them self, you could use EqualOrGreater as a workaround and play with that, I will put this Equal value into our programming plan and try to implement it in our next version of bOS.
Best regards,
Float values have "Equal" comparator, but don't works, in this case you can improve "Range Values" for fix it.
This is an screenshot that shows "Equal" comparator is implemented.
I do support Guillem suggestion.
There is no way to do range values with EqualOrGreater and EqualOrSmaller in float values, because they might overlap depending on the chosen values.
Let's say we would like to do a range filter EqualOrGreater than 20 and EqualOrSmaller than 30... it will assume every value below 30, like 10, 0, etc, because they are indeed smaller than 30. As EqualOrGreater will always assume every value even above 30.
So we can't use it as a range filter.
Proper Equal will be good. But a kind of range filter would be even better.
Guillem, I've tested a temporary workaround, but it's not that fancy, and I don't know if it fits your purpose:
- Create an integer, to use it as a kind of "pointer";
- Create a Task to set your range
- Use the incoming value in the Trigger of the task and use the AllowRetrigger
- Create a logic in the task
(eg. if incoming value >= 10 _ if incoming value <20 _ set pointer to constant 1)
(eg. if incoming value >= 20 _ if incoming value <30 _ set pointer to constant 2)
(eg. if incoming value >= 30 _ if incoming value <40 _ set pointer to constant 3)
- Use the "Pointer" in the visualization, and in the status collection use Equals 1... Equals 2... Equals 3...
I've tested and it works. But I know it's kind of boring...
thank you all for provided information and requests. We will implement and improve this feature in our bOS. Expect fixed and improved in our next version of bOS.
Best regards.
Thanks for great news, you are doing a great job, i would like colaborate with you to anhace this grat product.
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The Big Bang, Entropy Destruction, and the Beginning of the Universe?
1. Sep 13, 2010 #1
The Big Bang, Entropy Destruction, and the Beginning of the Universe???
So for a while now I've been pondering the idea's of times arrow, the creation of entropy and disorder, and ultimately how the higher order state of the universe all originates with the big bang. According to modern cosmology (as I understand it anyway) the universe began with a high ordered collection of energy in an unfathomably high concentration up until the "bang" which initiated the expansion of space-time. With the expansion of the universe, entropy is generated, and of course never destroyed, which generates or at least characterizes the direction of time. The continuous generation of entropy will eventually lead to the "heat death" of the universe or in other words a universe with zero order. This concept of having a big bang and heat death implies that there is a beginning and an end to the universe. I have a very hard time believing this.
The idea that the universe or existence itself has a start and a stop that we are stuck in the middle of just doesn't compute to me. Someone saying that the universe is finite in both time and space is like someone telling me that grass isn't green or rocks (at STP) are softer than pudding. This leads me to the point of this thread. If the universe is infinite in time and space, and time is monolithic, this absolutely must mean that entropy can be destroyed and the universe can go from a lower order state to a higher order state spontaneously disproving the second law of thermodynamics.
I would think that if this were possible, it would happen during the creation of the hot ball of mass and energy that would eventually create the bang. Similar to a creation of a star from gas and dust that will eventually turn into a supernova creating more dust. When the energy and mass in the universe converges to a single point due to gravity, the destruction of entropy occurs and the universe returns to a higher ordered state. This of course implies that the universe will eventually stop expanding and converge again making the universe indefinitely cyclical. This all makes perfect sense to me.
Does my "theory" have any real merit to it? Are there currently any scientific facts, theories, or phenomenon that I am not aware of that disprove the idea of a cyclical universe that involves violation of the second law of thermo (besides M-theory)? I would like to note that I am by no means a physicist. I don't mind if you call me stupid, just as long you tell me why I'm stupid.
EDIT: Just realized I posted in the wrong forum, thanks for moving it.
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Ken Robinson to Educators: You *can* teach creativity, and you must
{This is the first in a series on EDUCAUSE 2013}
There are 620 million youths aged 15-24; and 15% are unemployed. Many of these unemployed have college degrees. Long gone are the days when hard work and a college education guaranteed a lifetime of employment. Educators need to adjust to this new reality and quickly. That is the message of Sir Ken Robinson, who opened Educause 2013 with the keynote address, Leading a Culture of Innovation.
Sir Ken Robinson delivers keynote address at EDUCAUSE 2013
Sir Ken Robinson delivers keynote at EDUCAUSE 2013: Leading a Culture of Innovation
Robinson, whose 2006 TED talk is still the most-watched TED video at almost 20,000,000 views, describes “creativity” as the ability to generate original ideas that have value; as well as having the power to do something with the ideas. Value depends on perspective or context, which can dramatically vary with culture. Innovation is putting ideas into practice. Technology gives us the tools to do this.
A number of historical examples illustrate the often-unforeseen benefits that can come from creative ideas. Often ideas that may not seem new, or may have questionable value out of context, or in a different culture, develop in dramatic, unforeseen ways.
When Thomas Edison began working on the phonograph, he was specifically looking for a way to record and play back voice. Someone suggested recording music, but at the time Edison saw little value to that. There was skepticism even about recording voice, after all, if you miss something that someone says, just have them say it again. The concept of voicemail was over a century away
The full story of Edison’s motivation for the phonograph, which Ken did not have time to go into, is fascinating. In Edison’s time, the telegraph and telegram were the important methods of long distance communication. Incoming telegraph messages were automatically recorded as telegrams and then delivered to the end recipients. This process did not work well with the new telephone. The incoming telephone message had to be listened to and then written down in a form that could be delivered to the recipient. This dramatically limited the telephone’s value. Edison theorized that a device capable of recording voice from the telephone and then playing it back later would be the ultimate answer to widespread usage of the telephone. Enter the Edison Phonograph. At the time, the telephone was simply envisioned as a replacement for the telegraph, rather than a revolutionary new person-to-person communication medium, and the phonograph cylinder was the replacement for the telegram, rather than a personal entertainment medium.
The television faced strong doubters when it was first introduced. After Franklin Roosevelt’s kick-off of the 1939 World’s Fair in New York City was televised to demonstration TV sets, the New York Times ran a scathing op ed review. Television would never displace radio, they predicted. American families did not have time to stop and stare immobilized at a box. Radio would continue to thrive because people could stay active while they listened.
Google Glass at EDUCAUSE 2013
Google Glass at EDUCAUSE 2013: Opportunity for creativity and innovation
Similarly, it’s hard to believe that the designers of the iPhone understood the full range of uses and apps that would develop for the device. Robinson pointed out that there is now an app for playing blues harmonica. Imagine Steve Jobs and Jony Ive in 2006 pondering the required features for the iPhone. “It must store and play music, take and view photographs, run apps, have some telephone features; but as you know, people can become depressed at times, so it positively has to have a blues harmonica capability.” Nonetheless, the harmonica app is now one of over 800,000 apps available for the iPhone.
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The concept that time and the meaning of old differ among cultures, including between Robinson’s native England and America, is well known. Ken remarked that he moved to the US from a “new” home near Stratford that had been built in the 1850s. The difference between new and old is even more extreme in Asia. During a trip to China, Ken noticed an interesting egg dish on the menu. The server described it, but pointed out that it was not actually a Chinese preparation. It had come from Mongolia 800 years ago (so they’ve probably gotten the recipe right by now). Contrast this with the radio ad by a Los Angeles Saab dealer heard by Ken soon after he landed here, touting their four years of continuous service. Of course, Saab went defunct shortly thereafter.
Culture invades every aspect of our being. In others, culture can appear quirky, while our own culture is completely natural and simply common sense. In preparation for his trip to America, Robinson was given a thin book entitled, “How to Behave in America”. Since it said Americans don’t like to be hugged, he kept his distance, thereby perpetuating the notion of the chilly Brit to his American acquaintances
Through these examples, Robinson shows how creative value dynamically changes across cultures and over time, and even among individuals of the same culture. Creativity builds on creativity, with completely unpredictable, but very important results.
Should Robots be granted the same rights as humans?
Humans are quite similar to all other forms of life on earth, but very different in this regard: We live in the realm of ideas. We see through filters of ideology. We have the power of imagination and can bring into our minds things that are not present. We can visit the future, if not accurately predict it. The hardest thing to foresee is how people will behave in the future. As John Kenneth Galbraith said, economic forecasting makes astrology look respectable.
If a short while ago you had predicted that almost every child would now have a computer in school, you would have been thought crazy. What if you had described the iPhone to someone 50 years ago? Again, you’d be thought to have a screw loose; people might have started calling you Captain Kirk.
In the near future, robots may be granted the same rights as humans. In light of this, Robinson pondered whether people of the future might describe his talk as being delivered to a room full of quaint, fleshy beings.
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The challenge of dramatic population growth from undeveloped countries taxing earth resources.
Growing unemployment of the college-educated and increased competition from robots and computers are two important reasons that higher education needs to undergo a revolution. To this Robinson adds the danger that the earth cannot sustain our current rate of consumption. We’re facing a crisis in earth resources as well as crisis in human resources. Not that the earth is going anywhere. It may just say, “I tried humanity; wasn’t so good. Time to go back to bacteria.” As HG Wells put it, civilization is a race between education and catastrophe.
In making his charge to the audience, Robinson quoted James Baldwin, “We must lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers”, a quote that became a recurring theme of the conference. Too often a preconceived notion of the correct answer kills creativity, as dramatically shown in this short video by Elad Segev.
Anaïs Nin framed the issue as, “there came a point where the risk of remaining tight in a bud was greater than the risk to blossom.” The challenge to educators is how quickly can they change a system designed for the industrial age into an education process imparting creativity and innovation.
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If Your Business Looks Digital, What Should Your App Delivery Look Like?
When computers were invented 60 years ago, nobody would have thought that gazillions of 0 and 1s would soon rule the world. After all, that’s all there is in any computer memory, be it a laptop, a mobile phone, or a supercomputer like Watson; if you could open memory up and visualize the smallest elementary unit, you would “see” only an infinite sequence of 0s and 1s, something that would look like this:
Interestingly, that has not changed. Computers are still processing 1s and 0s. What has changed is that we live in an age of digital disruption, an age where software applications run and rule our business more and more. To be successful, those applications need to be engaging and entertaining so that consumers enjoy and are delighted by them; they also have to be mobile and accessible anywhere and at anytime, and they have to leverage tons of information, no matter if it comes from a database, a tweet, or Facebook.
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BBQ Chicken Quiche Recipe
BBQ Chicken Quiche Recipe
Chicken Quiche is amazing, that's all you need to know! Pie crust loaded with chicken, cheese, and honey Jalapeño BBQ sauce, you might as well double the recipe because there's no way you won't crave for more!
A recipe by Tim Crawford of BloodMountainBBQ, one of the most creative cooks we know. Enjoy!
You Will Need
The Prep
For this quiche recipe you will be needing the equivalent of 4-6 chicken thighs. You can either smoke those specifically for this recipe, or (and we guess this is more practical for most) cook some extra alongside whatever you put on the cooker the day before.
So, season those chicken thighs with some Dirty Bird rub on all sides, and smoke them at 250ºF (121ºC) until they reach an internal temperature of 175ºF (80ºC). Then let them cool down, and chop into small bits.
The Cook
Time to make your BBQ chicken quiche! Grab a 12 inch (30cm) skillet and grease it in. Now lay the pastry sheet in, making sure to form it to the skillet. Cut the excess off flush with the brim.
Next, spread the chopped chicken and bacon bits. Top with as much shredded cheese as your heart desires. Finally, whisk together the eggs, sour cream, and heavy cream, and pour on top of the chicken and cheese.
Place the skillet on your cooker or in the oven, and bake until the egg is set, and the edges of the crust are golden brown with a hint of char.
The Payoff
Your chicken quiche is almost done! Once it's off the heat, the only thing left to do is give it a drizzle of Honey Jalapeño BBQ sauce. Allow the quiche to cool down before serving.
And there you go! Another instant favorite recipe from Tim Crawford of BloodMountainBBQ- thank you Tim for sharing with our community.
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Farmer field level Trail data has been collected under HOPE Project - Farmer Field Trials at Solapur - Sorghum for the season 2011-12 Grain Yield and Fodder Yield have been recorded in different villages
Farmer field level Trail data has been collected under HOPE Project - Farmer Field Trials at Solapur - Sorghum for the season 2010-11 Grain Yield and Fodder Yield have been recorded in different villages
Farmer field level Trail data has been collected under HOPE Project - Farmer Field Trials at Solapur - Sorghum for the season 2009-10 Grain Yield and Fodder Yield have been recorded in different villages
Farmer field level Trail data has been collected under HOPE Project - Farmer Field Trials at Solapur -Followup data for Phule Vasudha,Phule Anuradha, Phule Chitra varieties of Sorghum for the season 2009-10 and 2010-11. Grain Yield and Fodder Yield have been recorded in the Aurad...
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Great Bear Rainforest, MV Swell, Oct 2-9, 2015
Mist rising from the forest, Great Bear Rainforest. Photo by Robyn Hutchings
Oct 7, 2015
After 5 days of glorious sunshine the moody skies of fall have descended upon us bringing some more much needed moisture to the rainforest.
We have been blessed with some amazing bear viewing, grizzly bears, American black bears and a spirit bear. Salmon runs are in their final days of life, so the bears are seeking out other foods before moving to their winter dens.
We’ve had the pleasure of watching grizzly bears in the evening and morning mist digging roots and feeding on the last of the Pacific crabapples. The spirit bear was patrolling up and down her home creek looking for the last bits of rotting salmon carcasses. This meant she paused for extended periods to search for fish, which made for some precious photo moments.
Humpback whales have continued to entertain us along our travel routes through the inside waters. They appear to be preparing for their long migration back to their calving grounds in warm tropical waters.
There are lots of signs of the seasonal seas of the Great Bear Rainforest starting to enter winter dormancy.
– report from naturalist Grant MacHutcheon
The start of the trip at Bella Bella. Photo by Mary Morris who was aboard the SV Maple Leaf.
Oct 4, 2015
We’ve been blessed by gorgeous clear sunny skies with a hint of fall coolness in the air. Clear skies have meant brilliant starry nights with a special treat of shimmering northern lights our first night out. All of that after watching a sea otter frolicking in the warm glow of the setting sun.
The salmon creeks are pungent with the last of the chum and pink salmon spawning and dying, but one creek yesterday had a few recent coho salmon arrivals. We just came back from an encounter with a grizzly bear in one creek who checked us out then returned to feeding on the last of the spawning pink salmon and carcasses of chum salmon.
Bear vs Wolves: Sometimes you wait a lifetime for an encounter like this
That's a good, close look they're giving each other. See write-up below for the story.Photo by Misty MacDuffee.
Mutual assessment: Guests and crew watched as two wolves and a grizzly 'discussed' how this bit of estuary was going to be used. See write-up below for the story. Photo by Misty MacDuffee.
Face to face: who gets to stay here? See write-up below for the story. Photo by Misty MacDuffee.
When one of our guests first spotted the wolf, we were already on the estuary. That in itself is a rare event; wolves don’t usually put up with advancing humans. Then, the second wolf was spotted.
We didn’t want to encroach further for the threat of discouraging them, but the tide was quickly rising and we couldn’t stay where we were. We slowly moved closer.
In their saunter on the estuary, one wolf found the remains of an old lifejacket washed ashore many tides previously. Like sibling pups, they played tug of war and tag, ripping apart what remained of the life jacket.
We watched the wolves while they napped, wrestled, and wandered to the absolute delight and amazement of us all.
That’s when we spotted the grizzly.
Our guests had waited 7 days in anticipation of such an encounter. For the crew, most of us had waited a lifetime. With both anxiety and anticipation we watched as the grizzly approached the wolves.
Neither the wolves, nor the grizzly seemed to be deterred. Do they know each other? Do they share this valley? Do they have history that is less benign? All these questions were silently pondered as the gap between them shrank.
The wolves circled, the grizzly stood his ground; but all seemed much more about posturing than actual aggression.
After several minutes, the grizzly stood up, seemingly to assert his growing intolerance for nippy wolves. The wolves relinquished, they retreated to the forest, and grizzly went back to digging roots in the estuary.
We all turned to one another with our mouths agape. No, we assured the guests, this doesn’t happen every trip!
Great Bear Rainforest, MV Swell, Sep 22-30, 2015
Despite the guarantee of wind and rain, Sept is still my favorite time to be in the Great Bear Rainforest. The slapping of salmon tails, the smell of an estuary filled with rotting fish, the slow lifting of mist from a river valley that reveals its hidden mountain peaks, and if you are lucky, the daily wanderings of a grizzly bear in pursuit of sustenance.
This morning we were lucky. We spotted a mom and two cubs on our slow toodle by zodiac up the river. We watched them dig and graze for half an hour before they decided to try the river for salmon.
Swimming, fishing, wrestling, and just being bears, they shared their morning activities with us.
Later, after hot cocoa, dry clothes and our own sustenance provided by our incredible chef, we left the valley as gently as we arrived, into the patter of soft rain.
We are blessed to travel in the footsteps of bears.
– update from naturalist Misty MacDuffee
Wrong way whales. These are whales that are travelling in the direction opposite to where we are going. But they were killer whales, and we suspected they were transient (Bigg’s) killer whales.
Besides, who wanted to leave the beautiful inlet we were in anyway?
We turned around to follow them back up the inlet. It was not long before our suspicions were confirmed. They were the marine mammal-eating killer whales, and out of nowhere they had a food source: a harbour seal – seen only once, 10 feet out of the air in a frenzy of splashing and porpoising whales below.
It was over. We all turned and headed back out the inlet, with the blows of whales accompanying behind us.
– update by naturalist Misty MacDuffee
Great Bear Rainforest, MV Swell, Sep 13-21, 2015
Transient (Bigg's) orca and the MV Swell in the Great Bear Rainforest, 2015. Photo by Phil Stone, who was aboard the SV Maple Leaf.
Great bears, great whales, great scenery, great people. And this update about a very impactful and moving experience:
When we first came across the five killer whales, we weren’t sure whether they were residents or transients. However after several minutes and the sudden presence of an elephant seal in the middle of the group, we were certain; these were transients – the marine mammal eaters.
Over the next two hours, with our engines off and just drifting with the whales, we witnessed one of nature’s most brutal, but fascinating, events. What made it more difficult was the drawn out way that the whales slowly killed the elephant seal. Whether to teach the young whale present or merely entertainment, it’s hard to understand.
It’s also hard to choose who to root for in these encounters. Should the seal live to see another day or should the killer whales get a meal? For the 10 year old that was accompanying us on this journey, there was no question. He backed the killer whales all the way, and it was the best action his iPad had ever seen.
– from naturalist Misty MacDuffee
Great Bear Rainforest, SV Maple Leaf, Sep 5-13, 2015
Still rather wet here but things are going extremely well for us.
Breaching humpbacks right beside us, great viewing a grizzly bear sow with 2 cubs that we know well in one of our favourite inlets, along with a black bear and 2 cubs in a tree. Great viewing of a white bear along the shore this morning. Everyone super jazzed.
Just topped the water at Butedale on Princess Royal Island, and off to Bishop Bay for a hot springs soak, crab dinner and anchorage for the night.
Great Bear Rainforest, MV Swell, Sep 4-12, 2015
Up early with much anticipation of our day of bear watching in Gitga’at territory. As this was our first day, there were gumboots to be fitted, raingear to be donned and training on getting in and out of the inflatable boats before we could launch the zodiac for the west side of our destination island. As we approached, we sighted a mother Black Bear her two cubs on the rocks in front of the creek; eventually they drifted back into the dark coastal forest. It was hard to know which way to look, as at the same time, Dall’s Porpoises surfaced at the stern.
With us for the day were guides from the village of Hartley Bay: Garnett, son Colby, Jolene (neice), and nephew (Jay). They know these bears well and were excited to report that they had seen quite a few bears coming to feed on salmon that had only recently come to the creeks after a dry summer.
We variously trundled and walked on a small trail through the lush rainforest with its towering Sitka Spruce, Western Red Cedar and Western Hemlock, along with a mossy carpet, tea-coloured stream and multitudes of greens in mosses, devil’s club and huckleberry.
Garnett led us to a small pool in front of a waterfall where we sat on a log and waited while pink and chum salmon schooled. Fairly soon we saw a Pine Marten that scuttled out to pick up carcass remains. Then a big male bear of about 400 -500 pounds ambled down river, casting a look with nostrils raised. Garnett and Jolene spoke quietly to the bear which went about its business searching for salmon behind the logs, near the waterfall and in every nook and cranny. This particular bear did not make any fishing attempts at the group of salmon, but certainly did lots of looking for salmon. Then came a smaller bear who must have made at least 100 (unsuccessful) attempts at pouncing on the fish, before to our great relief it finally dove over a log and came up with a large chum salmon. First, it devoured the head containing the rich brain matter, then went on to munch up the remainder of the bright pink flesh leaving only a tail and skeleton for the hungry Steller’s Jays, martens and mice that also benefit from the feast of salmon at this time of year.
Just as we thought it couldn’t get better and were watching a dipper, dip, dip dipping in the stream, another bear came down from the forest and fairly promptly caught a salmon and marched up to the forest (to its cubs?) with the fish.
All of us agreed that it was an amazing experience to be able to sit in the forest and watch bears at close range without affecting them and the bears tolerating us.
Once aboard we headed south in Whale Channel which completely lived up to its name. We were surrounded by humpbacks (30 blows in every direction), then there was 3 fin whales with their giant tall blows and their long sleek bodies built for speed. These are the second largest whales in the world and it is wonderful to see the comeback of this whale which was ruthlessly persecuted during the 19th century.
After our day in the wilderness, Oliver served a beautiful dinner of butternut squash soup, stuffed chicken breast with mushrooms, pesto, herbs served over wild rice and sponge cake, raspberries and Chantilly cream for dessert. Wow, what a day!
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“Season of mellow mists and fruitfulness”, so wrote Keats about autumn. I thought of this as we entered a mainland river estuary this morning. Mists swept the mountains on either side of this deep glacially carved fjord. and occasionally lifted to reveal a glacier at the mountaintop, forests and waterfalls on every side.
Mosses festooned the Sitka Spruce in the estuary, and the Lyngby sedge, so prized by grizzlies in spring for forage, were draped, limp, over the channel edges. At this time of year, the bears were only interested in the ripening Pacific crabapples and the chum salmon returning to the lower reaches of the river to spawn.
The estuary was full of life all waiting and feasting on salmon: plump Harbour Seals perching on shallow bits, Bald Eagles of every age filling the trees and perching on stumps waiting for the dead salmon to come to shore so they could feed. Bonaparte’s Gulls swooping down to pick up salmon eggs escaping from the gravels and Mew Gulls calling and feeding on carcasses on the bank.
Since it had rained inches per day since the beginning of September, everything was flowing at a great rate. Miles drove the inflatable with great agility up the raging river up to a view of some great rocks and impassable falls. We caught hold of a great sweeper of a log and watched the interplay of water and life going on in this coastal wilderness, thankfully protected from all forms of development and hunting. Once we untied from our log, we swept downstream rapidly and took an estuarine channel through the broad grasses, Douglas asters, scatterings of Sitka Spruce and crabapple. We could see the chum salmon, some swimming and some even now, starting to decay. We stopped to explore the estuary, looking for bear trails. We landed by a great crabapple patch, which even though not quite ripe, were heavily harvested by bears. Silently we followed Myles, marveling at dug patches of sedges and angelica, bear droppings full of crabapples and knowing every second that we were on the bear’s territory.
Here the soil was so fertilized by salmon and bear, everything was lush and somewhat giant.
We were called back to Swell by a growing hunger for lunch and the promise of more great adventures. We passed SV Maple Leaf in Princess Royal Channel and had a great “waveby ”as Captain Greg, his good wife/naturalist Jolie and crew Ashley while they headed north and we headed south.
Now we travel comfortably south and west to Fjordland in this great and misty country.
– updates from naturalist Trudy Chatwin.
Great Bear Rainforest, SV Maple Leaf, Aug 26-Sep 3, 2015
Just left Fjordland after 2 days of amazing bear encounters – wresting sub-adults right in the estuary, mom and cubs, etc. Left this morning in beautiful fog and drizzling rain and then found humpback whales in the Channel. On our way to Klemtu for lunch with Doug.
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“B to the 5, B to the 5, big black black bear butts!” (done to a rap beat)
We had a great trip across Seaforth Channel yesterday morning, accompanied by humpback whales, seabirds and a tired sparrow.
Had a morning venture ashore, but our afternoon hike was thwarted by storm force winds. But they cleared the skies, and so we had breakfast on deck this morning surrounded by nature. Heading south with sunny skies.
Enjoyed a great welcome into the Heiltsuk territory by William Housty, with Maple Leaf and Swell rafted together. Now, two boats are heading in different directions for two great trips.
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We spotted orcas approx 10 minutes after we got underway. We just had a great viewing of two big males splashing around.
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The first evening, we made it to the beautiful Goose Group of islands. We explored ashore and enjoyed dessert on the beach, watching the sun set into the Pacific.
Heading into Fjordland now.
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After spectacular time amid the fjords and waterfalls north of Bella Bella, we continued to explore mainland systems. In one that is a spectacular, mist-shrouded inlet, where waterfalls pelt down mountainsides that go deep under the sea, we spent time with 5 grizzly bears.
There were two siblings … younger bears who have left their mother but still spend time together, and there was a mother we know with her two cubs who are in their second year.
Then, seeking shelter from an unseasonable storm, we entered the coast’s longest fjord, the Gardner Canal, which is surely the most spectacular cruise on the coast.
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Spent time with many whales in the aptly named Whale Channel, and had a good visit with the whale researchers at Cetacealab. Met Marven, our Gitga’at guide and friend, the next day to explore Princess Royal Island.
– Updates from expedition leader / naturalist Kevin Smith
Whales & Wild Isles, Great Bear Rainforest, MV Swell, Aug 17-25, 2015
Humpback whale lunge feeding in the Great Bear Rainforest. Photo by Nick Sinclair.
August 20
In the morning some of the group when for a short kayak around the anchorage and we saw a small pack of wolves foraging in the estuary as well as a black bear. We left the anchorage en route to Cetacea Lab at Whale Point on Gil Island.
En route we had to stop as we were entertained by humpbacks feeding and breaching.
At Cetacea Lab we were given a wonderful tour of the lab by one of its founders, Janie, who also explained their studies of Orca vocalizations and their hydrophone network.
While we were visiting, the interns spotted three fin whales (the second largest whale in the world at up to 25 m in length). The whales crossed the bay in front of us and one came in close to the research station. After our visit to the station, we began making our way to Bishop Bay via Whale Channel, McKay Reach and Ursula Channel.
Whale channel was aptly named as we saw several groups of humpbacks, bringing our total for the day to well over 20. At Bishop Bay we took a dip in the hot springs and then made our way to Goat Harbour for our overnight anchorage.
– Mike Jackson, naturalist on board MV Swell
Great Bear Rainforest, SV Maple Leaf, Aug 17-25, 2015
We got off to an incredible start yesterday with resident killer whales (As and Gs?) calling on the hydrophone and fishing around us. We had humpbacks until heading to anchor and and delicious dinner by Yas.
It’s now a beautiful morning with the gulls. What a way to start a trip.
– Update from naturalist Misty MacDuffee
Alaska Adventure Supervoyage, MV Swell, Aug 6-16, 2015
Within minutes of leaving the harbour at the trip’s start at Sitka, we had seen our first sea otter and shortly after that our first humpback whale. Common murres and rhinoceros auklets were all around and we were soon watching four humpbacks feeding.
A strange bird took off beside the boat which we later identified as a long-tailed jaeger – a first for me! What a treat to be cruising in such rich waters.
We took the dinghy to explore De Groff bay where we were treated to marbled murrelets, bald eagles, great blue herons, and were surrounded by leaping pink salmon.
Rainforest mist swaths the channel in Alaska. Photo by Brandon Harvey
August 7th
We anchored in Kalinin Bay and went ashore to explore the estuary and then hike to Sea Lion Cove. Though the creek was full of spawning pink salmon, and there were many signs of bear feeding (scat, crushed vegetation, fresh salmon carcasses and “salmon bits”), we did not see any bears. We did see several bald eagels and a pair of greater yellowlegs.
We began our hike over the pass to Sea Lion Cove and passed through forested and boggy areas. In the bogs we found sphagnum moss, the insectivourous round-leaved sundew, labrador tea as well as huckleberries and blueberries. We stopped by the lake in the pass for lunch and then made our way down to the magnificent beach at Sea Lion Cove.
Some of us dipped our toes in the open pacific waves, others explored the expanse of sandy beach looking at sanderlings and plovers, and others investigated the flotsam and jetsam on the beach. Back on board, we made our way to Deep Bay for our overnight anchorage.
We got underway early on our third day as we have a long way to go. Just before breakfast we were treated to a humpback whale spouting and finning, and in the middle of breakfast a pod of half a dozen Dall’s Porpoises came to the bow and played in the bow wave for several minutes. After breakfast, a second group came by for a very brief play in the bow wave before moving on.
At least 9 humpback whales bubble net feeding in Chatham Strait, off Baranof Island's east coast. Photo taken from the MV Swell on Aug 8, 2015 by Capt. Steve Kempton
August 8th
After a morning of cruising on glassy calm seas we entered Chatham Strait and sat down to another one of chef Oliver’s marvelous meals. Halfway through, the call came though the intercom from the bridge “three humpback whales ahead”.
We all left our meals and went to the bow. The whales crossed in front of us and made their way to the nearby shore at Point Turbot. Before long we realized they were doing coordinated, group bubble net feeding right at the shore.
We shut down the engines and generator and put down the hydrophone. Over the next hour and a half, we were treated to a dozen feeding events, each preceded by haunting calls. Watching the water erupt with small fish instants before the huge whale gapes came out of the water was utterly amazing.
After our magical experience with these humpbacks, we made our way to Warm Springs Bay and the hamlet of Baranov. A short walk up the boardwalk and we were at the hot springs where we soaked in hot pools by a rushing river. Returning to Swell, we got underway again to go to Woewodski Harbour.
At dinner time, as we passed the southern tip of Admiralty Island, entering Frederick Sound from Chatham Strait, we saw a mother and calf humpback. They were feeding at surface with “lateral lunges”, turning their body sideways to engulf enormous mouthfuls of krill and/or small fish. The calf was copying her mother and we watched and photographed the pair for half an hour. Another meal interrupted! 🙂
After dinner, we continued north-east along the shore of Admiralty Island where we saw many more whales feeding on both sides of the boat right up until dark.
Just after sunset we saw the International Space Station pass over us and the sky was clear for star viewing. As it became truly dark, the sky was full of stars and the aurora borealis was visible. An hour and a half after the first sighting of the space station, we saw it come over again. Once at anchor in Cannery Cove, we were treated to several Perseid shooting stars and the sound of feeding humpback whales.
August 9th
So far today …. we set off for a long cruise to Windfall Harbor. Humpback whales were breaching in the distance. We then made our way over to the Brothers Islets were we took a dinghy ride to view the Northern (Steller) sea lions at their haul out. The sound and smell of several hundred sea lions is unforgettable!
After our visit with the sea lions, we continued northward,watching humpbacks spout, feed and breach in every direction. We gave up counting the whales seen today after twenty five or so!
A pod of Dall’s porpoises came to the bow and swam with the ship for 15 minutes or so, giving us a great show.
Just before dinner, we entered Windfall Harbor and shortly after spied three brown (grizzly) bears in the estuary of Middle Creek. After dinner, we took our dinghy and went to the estuary of Windfall Creek for a walk. The creek was chock full of spawning pink salmon and a few chum and we saw one more bear who sauntered off after seeing us.
Admiralty Island is famous for its high density of brown bears (the bears here are a very dark brown, almost black) The next morning we landed at Pack Creek. Pack creek is the site of Stan Price’s homestead and the bears here have been carefully habituated to human presence in certain areas. As a result we were able to observe the bears at close range without feeling like we were interfering.
We saw three more bears at the viewing spit site, including one very close (15m?) walk by. After that we hiked up to the viewing platform which is situated above a couple of pools in the creek that were jam-packed with spawning pink salmon. Along the way to the platform we passed by several bear rubbing trees, complete with scratch marks and bear hair. Though we were visited by herons and eagles, we did not see any more bears here, however the salmon put on an amazing show. We returned on board for a hearty halibut chowder lunch and then a few of us returned to the spit for a second visit with the bears. One of the two bears we saw was probably the same young one as one we had seen in the morning, while the other one was a new one to us – an older female. In all we saw eight different bears. As we walked back to the dinghy, we saw thousands of small molted shore crab shells in the tide line.
We are now making our way to Wood spit for our night’s anchorage. Another amazing day in Alaska!
August 11th – Endicott Arm and Dawes Glacier
We raised the anchor before breakfast to make our way down Endicott Arm towards Dawes glacier. As soon as we rounded Wood Spit we began to encounter ice bergs. The number of “bergy bits” continued to increase as we made our way and our captain, Steve, had to navigate carefully to avoid them.
The scenery of the steep-sided fjord was breathtaking – hanging U-shaped valleys and waterfalls everywhere. Some of the icebergs were an amazing blue colour, while others were a dirty brown due to the moraine sediment carried by the glacier. As we neared the end of the fjord, we caught our first view of the glacier. We boarded the dinghys and made our way up to within a few hundred metres of the face of the glacier.
The glacier face towers about 200 feet above the sea and was calving large chunks of ice which made great splashes and swell-like waves that caused us to bob about. By the glacier face we saw many gulls flying around as well as some harbour seals and a porpoise.
We spent an hour or more watching and observing the glacier, returning for a late lunch after watching a spectacular calving event.
August 12th -Wood Spit to Thomas Bay
We got under way before breakfast as we have many miles to cover today. By the time we sat down to breakfast we had sighted 15 humpback whales and by 10 AM our tally was at 35! I gave a short talk on rainbows and then our captain Steve gave a talk about the history of the Swell.
As we made our way south we continued to see humpbacks – our total for the day was 48! We had a neat visit with Fred Sharpe of the Alaska Whale Foundation at Five Fingers Lighthouse. Fred showed us around and told us about the work they are doing on humpback whale vocalizations. We had heard bubble net hunting vocalizations on the Swell’s hydrophone earlier, so it was neat to learn more about them and to learn that the whale we had heard was probably the one they know as “Melancholy”. Later in the day, I gave a talk on the physics of Rainbows – we have seen a few of these on the trip including in the blows of whales and porpoises! Coming into Thomas Bay we caught a glimpse of the Baird glacier which comes to within a few kilometres of the shore and then went for a short evening walk.
August 13th – Thomas Bay to Dewey Anchorage
We began the day with an early hike up the aptly-named Cascade Creek trail. The creek seems to be one continuous cascade for several kilometres. One of the highlights of this trip was finding a very large king bolete (porcini) mushroom – this made our mate, Given’s, day! Shortly after leaving Thomas Bay, we entered Wrangell narrows, a 21 mile long channel with several sections that can only be safely navigated at slack tide. Our timing was excellent due to careful planning by our captain Steve. We passed by the community of Petersburg at the entrance to the narrows and exited the narrows into Sumner strait. Here we began to see humpbacks again. I gave a talk about intertidal life to prepare us for our intertidal exploration the next morning. That evening we had a sundowner toast which was followed by an evening of stargazing. We were treated to a good view of the International Space Station passing over as well as dozens of other satellites, followed by as many as 50 Perseid meteors and a great view of the Milky way. After dropping our anchor by Onslow Island in the South Etolin Wilderness area (Dewey Anchorage) we were treated to excellent bioluminesence which outlined our salmon net as we pulled it through the water.
August 14th – Dewey Anchorage to Cascade Inlet
We started the morning with a couple of kayakers heading out and then the group went ashore to explore the beach on Carlton Island. We had a -1.5 ft tide which was excellent for observing life at the lower tide levels. We saw leather, ochre and sunflower stars, sea cucumbers, a hooded nudibrach, mossy chitons, several crab species, peanut and tube worms, and much more. Many of the organisms we saw were molluscs with a “radula” – a microscopically toothed tongue. Our deckhand, Jeff, was able to show us electron micrographs of these stuctures as well as the ossicles (mini bones) of sea cucumbers, which were taken during one of his marine biology classes at the University of Victoria. Back on board we started a long navigation south to Ketchikan to clear customs. On the way we stopped for a break in Meyer’s Chuck, a quaint coastal community of 150 in the summer and 6 in the winter. We spent a couple of hours exploring Ketchikan, including its historic and picturesque Creek Street and then proceeded on south to our anchorage in Cascade inlet.
August 15th – Cascade Inlet to Melville Island
We weighed anchor early to begin our trip south back into Canada. To get back into Canada we needed to cross Dixon Entrance which is a large body of water open to the Pacific swells. Our captain Steve chose a zig-zag course which minimized the amount of rocking and rolling that we were subjected to. As we neared the Canadian border, a group of Dall’s porpoises came to our bow and escorted us across the border. I think if you looked closely, you could make out their maple leaf tattoos! They stayed with us for almost half an hour to make sure we crossed safely! 🙂 As we neared the Gnarled Islands, just to the north of Dundas island, we saw our first Canadian humpback. As of leaving Alaska, we have seen over 130 humpback whales on the trip!
– reports by Mike Jackson, naturalist aboard Swell
Whales & Totems, BC, SV Maple Leaf, Aug 5-10, 2015
3 transient killer whales (aka Bigg's), hunting a marine mammal that was sheltering under the Maple Leaf. This photo was taken in Haida Gwaii in 2013, but shows a similar occurrence to what the guests experienced on this trip, too. Photo by Greg Shea.
A trip report from the Maple Leaf:
As we were watching Transient / Biggs killer whales hunt some dolphins, we stopped up the ship. A little later, a harbour seal swam over and ‘hid’ under one of the Maple Leaf’s Polaris shore boats.
We tow these boats behind the ship, and when we’re stopped, we pull them in close to the stern, so that they don’t tangle with one another. The killer whales knew about the seal and they came over to the boat, trying to figure out how to get it. For quite a while they circled around but in the end, with the seal not leaving its cover, they gave up.
Editor’s note: Why did the seal hide under a shore boat and not haul out onto shore? It probably figured out that it couldn’t swim to shore fast enough to get away from the orcas. As to why the orcas didn’t got after it as it floated under an 18-foot, metal-bottomed skiff, possibly it was because orcas often hunt marine mammals by swimming very fast up under them and bludgeoning them out of the water and into the air. Under the shore boat, this technique wouldn’t be possible.
– Report from Capt. Nick Sinclair
Alaska Adventure, MV Swell, July 29-Aug 5, 2015
Exploring the ice on an Alaska trip. Photo by James Warburton.
Days 1-2
Great rainy misty days up here in SE Alaska. With a morning spent in the icy waters of Endicott Arm, we filled our morning with ice-tastic spectacles. We travelled in the tenders towards the fortress that is Dawes Glacier. With a rising tide and bergy bits littering the sea and commentary from naturalist Briony, we meandered towards the towering wall of ice. Calving was underway. Rumbling alerted the group to the truth about glaciers: they are not still. They are alive, and ever-moving. Rocks slide, ice falls, and wakes move in the water from the ice. We cheer. Our little flotilla is thoroughly satisfied. We turn back towards Swell, not without witnessing one last massive calving episode, and are delighted by the welcoming warmth of Chef James’ Tomatoe Bisque and elegant grilled cheese.
Bonus ice exploring: from the zodiac, we axed off some ice for cocktails. and deckhand / stew Robyn took to her long johns and stocking feet to plunge into the ice laden water from a small bergy bit. A true Maple Leaf Adventures welcome to Alaska a this crew’s first tour in Alaska.
The previous day had brought the delights of Fredrick Sound, including humpback whales partaking in shallow feeding frenzies. Krill littered the surface of the water brought these gentle giants and their gaping mouths to the air. Later, Captain Dave tells us of a formidable rock where important research is being done and then we are welcomed onto Five Fingers lighthouse to meet the Alaska Whale Foundation. This team of devoted whale researchers shared with us their knowledge, passion, and incredible stories of what it is like to live on a remote rock in the middle of Fredrick Sound. As a group, we were delighted, as individuals were inspired. As we depart, we are waved off by red-footed pigeon gulliemots and the carrot-orange-beaked oystercatcher. We look back towards the lighthouse, a humpback whale blowing in the distance. This place is a coastal paradise, and we are so lucky to know it.
Day 3
An early rise for the fair ship Swell begins day three of our Alaska adventure, steaming from our mainland anchorage to the day’s destination of Pack Creek on Admiralty Island.
9 am and our guests and crew are well fed and well dressed as they set for shore with great excitement and silent anticipation. We are here to see brown bears and hope that our patience will be rewarded.
It doesn’t take long before we are delighted by entrance of a young grizzly. The animal saunters in a gentle and relaxed manner towards the group, with only the intention to approach the creek. He sniffs the air, aware of our presence, and carries on investigating his creek, the shoreline, and the world around. Quiet and still, we continue to be fortunate enough to see two other brown bears. The morning is a wonder.
Sea lions at the Brothers Group of islands, southeast Alaska. Photo by Tavish Campbell.
Day 4-5
It must be August. It’s 5:30 am and Captain Dave navigates Swell through thick fog. We reach the Brothers Islands and with a great sense of adventure we dawn our PFDs and camera’s and embark on a foggy excursion in search of islands, beaches, and sea lions. Not a minute away from Swell and we see neither ship nor land. Only sea birds whose navigation skill our Naturalist Briony knows to trust, (along with the Captain’s navigation tools). Sure enough we find the shore. The fog lifts enough for us to witness the vastness of a kelp forest on a low tide. We find winged kelp, sea lettuce, and porphyra (brown, green, and red algaes). We are delighted by sea stars, anemones, encrusting bryzoa, and many other intertidal animals.
With our heads down investigating the spineless lifeforms we barely notice the lifting of the fog. Rounding a corner we are made aware as we hear the classic roars of Steller sea lions. We lift our gaze and there they are, both blue sky and the haul out of many 600 lbs- 1 tonne brown, bundled together, bear-like animals. Maintaining a respectful distance, so as not to startle the sea lions’ restful state, Captain Dave moves our zodiac along the shoreline. We round another corner and our eye brows all lift. On the beach in front of us are even more sea lions — one on top of the other, all touching, roaring, groaning, sleeping, waddling, play fighting, or simply attempting to rest as others crawl up and over. We are delighted, and our camera’s are ignited.
After some time a curious bunch of juvenile sea lions “escort” as we move beyond the haul out and make our way to find out own, unoccupied, beach.
The sun is beaming, the sky never looked so blue, and the waters around are lit with a sparkling reflection. We take this beautiful moment to stretch our sea legs, feel the land beneath us and embark on a little treasure hunt. I’m reminded of how calming our human spirit can really be, when we are in a magical natural place and we let ourselves simply experience it.
Lunch awaits, and so with great hesitation we pull ourselves off our island paradise, cruise past our sea lion friends and low tide critters, to return to Swell where Chef James and First Mate Given great us with smiles and homemade BBQ burgers, yam fries, and refreshments.
Our Captain and Mate steer us towards Baranof Island with promise of warm water endeavors. Our journey towards Warm Springs Bay is littered with humpback whale tales, misty whale blows, and endless sun. Some take to the top deck hot tub, while others nestle in for a painting lesson with Naturalist Briony, or settle with a good book. It’s mid-way through our journey together and we’ve all found our place our comfort here on Swell, sailing together.
Day 6
Good morning sun. Good morning waterfall. Good morning sweet little boardwalk community of Warm Springs Bay. The early risers take a kayak cruise, while others saunter into the main salon for a warm cup of coffee. The pace is slow, peaceful, yet purposeful. A small group of us take to a bowl of cereal as we dress for morning walk to the lake, the bog, and finally the hot springs. “Botanizing” along the way Briony enlightens the guests about the incredible plants that border our path to the lake. A quick dip in the lake for Deckhand Robyn before we turn towards the bog. Our visit is short but inspiring as we find great wonder in the small things that live near the earth’s floor. A hop and a skip back down to the board walk, a quick left turn towards the river, and there it is- a natural hot springs like no other. Mist from the rushing river cools our faces as we dip into the hot water bath.
Orcas photographed on a Maple Leaf Adventures trip in Alaska. Photo by James Warburton.
We rejoin our fellow ship-mates, weigh anchor, and set off for another day. The sun is shining and the humpbacks greet us once again as we cruise along. The youngest of guest, a keen naturalist, had yet to see an orca in the wild. Not moments after saying this, our young friend spots orca off our port side. Small misty blows and tall black dorsal fins: there is no mistake, we’re with a group of killer whales. Maintaining course and speed, with a respectful distance so as not to disrupt this family, we travel with the orca. It’s not long and I notice we are not with just one, but 3 or 4 different groups of orca. At least 20 orca travel between us and the shoreline in the distance. Six large males with 6-foot-tall dorsal fins, and to boot, a humpback whale or two. These animals are clearly fish eating resident orca – with the humpback whales calmly paying them no mind at all. Our excitement is ecstatic as we discover mom and babe traveling together in the group nearest in view. The family bounds of killer whales are so clear, as they travel in family groups always.
An early evening stop to Nismeni Cove, first mate Given and naturalist Briony have taken the guests ashore to forage. They harvest fungi, ferns, berries, and sea asparagus, to the galley’s delight. Tonight this little ship will eat well from the land.
Day 7
The day’s begun with a stunning transit over to Kruzof Island for a day of exploring. Rolling seas lulling us around the corner and into the deep bay. On shore we’re embarking on a diverse exploration of the coastal environmnet – through estuary, rainforest, wild Alaskan blueberry patch, bog and lake, and out to west coast sandy beach. A full day of endless discovery.
Day 8
Our morning is tranquil. Still waters, high tide, roaming seabirds. We take in our final morning in this beautiful place. It is so calm, and we are so content.
A quick recap of some highlights on the Whales and Wild Isles trip over the last couple of days. After several encounters with humpback whales, including witnessing the remarkable coordination of cooperative bubble net feeding in Caamano Sound, we headed to Fjordland.
It is spectacular with its high granite cliffs, cascading waterfalls, and lush green estuary. While exploring some of the plants in the meadow, we looked up to see a grizzly bear, and watched it foraging on sedges, swimming across the river, and making its way up the bank into the forest!
Today’s highlight was just as amazing. We watched two coastal wolves frolicking together on a beach after traveling from different directions to meet and greet each other. A remarkable wilderness experience.
Anchored at some islands hanging onto the outer edge of the Great Bear Rainforest.
Today after the epic journey of rounding Cape Caution, we were welcomed in the most fitting way to the Broughton Archipelago: a visit with the A30 family of northern resident orcas (killer whales). This family is the most commonly seen family in this region and has been witnessed welcoming other families of whales back here each summer. It was our honour to be escorted in by them.
– Updates from naturalist Barb Beasley and first mate Ashley Stocks
Alaska Adventure, MV Swell, July 19-27, 2015
Alaska brown bear, taken on a Maple Leaf Adventures trip. Photo by James Warburton
July 19
On the first day we spent time with a pod of Orcas – 45 minutes after we headed out of Sitka at the start of our trip. By then we had also already seen sea otters. We also had a couple of harbour porpoises pass by and lots of sea birds.
July 20
Today we had an amazing encounter with a sub-adult brown bear from a good proximity. He lay down in the creek in front of us. He rolled over in the creek and stuck his feet in the air! We were treated to an excellent viewing of him fishing for crabs, grooming and entertaining us royally. He wasn’t perturbed and we spent the better part of an hour watching him until he got bored and wandered off.
We hiked up to a bog and a lake and picked blueberries before we made our way back through the rainforest. Later, after raising anchor and heading out, a gray whale in the bay breached 3 times!
Alaskan coastal rainforest. Photo by Greg Shea.
July 21st
Sergius Narrows and a warm sunny day made for great viewing along the way. We did some kelp 101 at Fairwinds and found some gigantic gooey duck clams and other musical sea instruments. Lots of baby guillemots as well as marbled murrelets all “keering” away to their parents. At Warm Springs Bay we stopped for a dip in the springs and a zodiac exploration around the lagoon to harvest some sea asparagus and licorice root to go with our fresh salmon dinner.
July 22nd
Steamed to the Brothers Islands and hit whale soup. Got into the zodiacs at the sea lion haul out and were treated to sealions and humpbacks feeding together in the shallows with oystercatchers, black turnstones, pigeon guillemots, eagles and scoters all watching on. The low tide provided some fantastic viewing too. It was hard to know where to watch. Alaska provides these times of grace. Mole Harbour for the night. No moles in Alaska but we did find a shrew [day 6], possibly Dusky.
July 23rd
Pack Creek for meeting up with Dana of the Forest Service. We sat and watched a new female with her three cubs in their second summer feeding out in the estuary for the morning. The rain didn’t daunt the bears or guests but the viewing platform gave us a bit of a break and we had two young bears feeding on the chum and coho in the afternoon. Lots of brilliant red elderberries, bunchberries and devil’s club berries for photo opportunities in the forest. Anchored in Windfall.
July 24
Walked the whole estuary following bear trails at high tide and lived the life of a bear for a morning, then at lunch we watched a young bear occupying his home. Coho leaping in the bay like crazy. Steamed to Woodspit with more humpbacks and a huge beautiful iceberg enroute. Gin and tonics with 30,000 year old ice to celebrate Jon and Judy’s 32nd anniversary.
Bald eagle on an iceberg. Photo by Kevin Smith
July 25th
Gorgeous day travelling Endicott Arm and geologizing. Lone mountain goat watching over us as we waited for the glacier to calve. Few terns but the gulls were out in force and the seals hiding out in the ice pack. Had lunch then a walk in the estuary and found another grizzly stomp, the shrew and some stunning glacial waterfalls and features. Some great humpback tail fluke flapping feeding round the boat.
July 26th
Headed south to Five Fingers and ran into whale soup again. This time they were all doing single bubble net feeding all around the boat. We nicknamed one whale Mr. Universe because of his “starry” tail. They must be feeding on krill because there was not a herring bit in sight, nor a gull. They weren’t lunge feeding much, mostly this quiet, relaxed bubble netting.
At Five Fingers, where they are now running the Alaska Whale Foundation with Fred Sharpe, the researchers told us that this group are working the east side of Frederick. They had recorded their feeding calls, which were the same as the ones that we recorded on the ship’s hydrophone — very chatty calls, and all over the place. We had a great visit at the lighthouse and then we headed to Keku Islets for the night. Beautiful limestone configurations with fossils and wildflowers embedded in the cliffs. Sea otters, sea lions and seals playing in the kelp for us at Flattop Island.
Alaska Adventure, MV Swell, July 8-17, 2015
Can you imagine a day that begins with Dall’s porpoises riding on the bow? And for those who missed the ones who came before breakfast, another group showed up after breakfast.
A little later we were floating in the skiff with curious sea lions all around us and a few humpback whales near by.
Our day ended with a few brave souls taking a dip in a glacial lake, and then we all headed to a beautiful hot spring for a soak right beside a beautiful waterfall. It was so wonderful, many did a repeat in the morning.
The morning also had a fabulous low tide, and we looked at the abundant sea life from the skiff and from kayaks. We had a great look at a young brown (grizzly) bear from the skill some time later and are now anticipating a great hike in the morning.
Brown bear at Pack Creek, Admiralty Island, on a Maple Leaf trip. Photo by James Warburton.
July 12
Admiralty Island has an extremely high concentration of brown (grizzly) bears. Over the last two days we have watched bears galloping through streams chasing salmon, standing up on two legs, settling down for a nap, and scratching their itchy places.
We have also watched salmon making their way up their natal stream to spawn a new generation and eagles and ravens have joined in the feast. We finished today with a pair of killer whales surfacing beneath a beautiful rainbow.
One of the special things about coming to Alaska is the opportunity to visit towering walls of ice and hear the thundering rumble as chunks break off and fall into the ocean to drift away as icebergs.
We were just heading away from our visit to Dawes Glacier (where we experienced all of this), and after drifting in the skiff among icebergs, some thought it a good idea to warm up in the hot tub. As they soaked in the warm water with the glacier in view, they spotted transient killer whales on the hunt for seals.
We turned Swell around and all the seals had come out of the water on to the small icebergs. They were aware these stealthy predators were in the area. We never did see them again, but came away with a bigger understanding of life in this challenging environment.
– update from naturalist Sherry Kirkvold
July 10
It would be an understatement to say we had a whale of a day. As we cruised through Frederick Sound, were surrounded by these gentle giants for the last couple of hours. One whale gave us an amazing bubble net demonstration by blowing bubbles off our bow!
We eavesdropped with the hydrophone and were treated to some wonderful grunts and calls.
As if that wasn’t enough some curious sea lions swam right up to the boat to check us out. We are headed up to our anchorage now and will be on the lookout for icebergs!
… 90 minutes later this came in:
Well I signed off too soon. Just as we approached the next point we encountered a large group of killer whales. We had humpbacks on one side of the boat and killer whales on the other!
Arriving at the point we saw two moose right at the water’s edge. If that wasn’t enough, we then saw a sea otter swimming nearby eating a red sea urchin. Slow progress getting to our anchorage!
– reports from naturalist Sherry Kirkvold
Haida Gwaii and Emily Carr trip, SV Maple Leaf, July 5-13, 2015
Cape St. James, on the southern tip of Kunghit Island, Haida Gwaii
July 13
Just in from a fabulous trip in Gwaii Haanas. Seems like the warm waters are sweeping some unusual critters in this year.
The guests were intrigued by Vellela, the blue-rimmed By-the-Wind-Sailor jellyfish, which have tacked up onto the shores of SGang Gwaay by the thousands. Also sighted, the weird and wonderful Mola Mola, or Sunfish.
Had a great rounding of Cape St. James, on calm though current-raked seas, past teeming Steller’s Sea Lion rookeries– lots of sleek chocolate-brown pups, nursing and bleeting. And plenty of birds of course, Rhinoceros Auklets and Common Murres; I was thrilled to see both Horned and Tufted Puffins!
Spent the evening of our final night visiting the village of Cumshewa, our last stop in “the footsteps” of Emily Carr.
She has been with us in spirit in our readings from her wonderful tales of travelling here in the early 1900’s, in the images of her paintings and especially in our sketching expeditions. I like to think she would approve of our attempts to draw the poles and deep green forests of Haida Gwaii that she loved.
– report from naturalist and art expedition leader Alison Watt
Gwaii Haanas forest glade. Photo by Kevin Smith.
July 8
Anchored as the sun sinks, butter yellow, over Burnaby Narrows. Pretty much a perfect Maple Leaf day—started with a sail into Juan Perez Sound, with warm 12 knot winds, through a beautiful flock of Sooty Shearwaters, resting in the gentle troughs.
We carried on south—we had a tide to keep—3 feet in Burnaby Narrrows. Piled into the zodiac and drifted through the narrows, looking at kelp crabs, a spectacular, golden-mottled sculpin, and a rainbow of bat stars.
Spent the rest of the day nestled in a glade, drawing the moss-hung cedars, mixing greens on our paint palettes and talking over of how much Emily Carr herself would have loved to draw in this spot!
– Report from naturalist and art leader Alison Watt
Haida Gwaii, MV Swell, June 26-July 3, 2015
From from the ship in Haida Gwaii by crew member Jeff Reynolds.
The trip is epic….getting in all the major experiences, only K’uuna / Skedans left. Sun everyday pretty much.
At 18.30 July 1 we transited through Richardson Pass looking for orcas that had been seen earlier and we found them! A pod of 6 with 2 young. I will be giving away 2 Maple Leaf Adventures ball caps to the spotters during our hot tub deck, pre-dinner Canada Day celebration, with Sea Cider and Maple Leaf beer!
– report from Capt. Steve
Haida Gwaii, Schooner, June 23-July 1, 2015
Humpback whale
Highlights:
Weather so calm we overnighted at Woodruff Bay (exposed beach at southern end of Haida Gwaii) and enjoyed breakfast at the Cape.
The Jun 18-26 trip on MV Swell and Jun 19-27 trip on SV Maple Leaf ...part way through the trips. Map of Gwaii Haanas area generated by OTrak software. Land day on Graham Island for each trip is not shown.
Haida Gwaii, SV Maple Leaf, June 19-27, 2015
June 21:
Puffins and Rhinoceros Auklets before breakfast, a marvelous tour of the monumental poles and houses in the ancient Haida village of SGang Gwaay with Reg Wesley (a Haida Argillite carver) and then surrounded by Humpback whales breaching and surfacing in a glassy calm Pacific Ocean.
How could this day get any better?
One of my favourite and wildest places on earth is Cape St. James. Here the currents converge and upwellings support thousands of nesting Tufted Puffins, Cassin’s Auklets, Common Murres, Pelagic Cormorants, Pigeon Guillemots and a breeding colony of Northern Sea lions (also known as Steller sea lions). Cape St. James has the highest recorded sustained winds in Canada, but on this day it was sunny and relatively calm which allowed Captain Greg to navigate carefully through the Kerouard Islands to give us spectacular views of new born sea lion pups, puffins and the wild rocky islands at the end of the Haida earth.
On this longest day of the year, there were more adventures to be had!
Maple Leaf anchored in a beautiful bay on the east side of Kunghit Island, affectionately known as “Hawaii” for its crystalline blue waters and fine white sand beach. “Dinner on the beach!” A gourmet picnic of beef tenderloin, roasted vegetables, Caesar salad, Spinnakers Maple Leaf brew and Sandhill Syrah was served by our lovely chef Yasmin.
Greg packed up the marine plastic debris we had collected for Parks Canada to remove, the heartiest of our crew had a swim in the sea and we reluctantly headed back to the ship. It wouldn’t be bad to be marooned at this lovely beach, but there were more places to go yet!
We anchored for the night in Keeweenah Bay, enjoyed dessert of blueberry tart and sunset followed by a waxing quarter moon and Jupiter and Venus rising in the indigo sky.
– report from naturalist Trudy Chatwin
Haida Gwaii, MV Swell, June 18-26, 2015
June 20: The beautiful weather continues. We’ve come from a great visit at Windy Bay (Haida site) this morning and it’s flat calm around Burnaby Island. Signing off as we’ve just spotted a whale.
June 21: After the spectacular intertidal life and rainforest ecosystems of the Burnaby Narrows area, we’ve cruised all the way down the east coast of Kungit Island and around the tip. We’re anchored in Luxana Bay on the southern end of Haida Gwaii, facing south. It’s 10 pm, the sky still has some light, and we’re headed ashore for a beach bonfire to celebrate the summer solstice.
Haida Gwaii with Canadian Geographic and Wade Davis, both ships, June 10-18, 2015
Read the full report with photos – coming this week.
Haida Gwaii, MV Swell, May 30-June 8 (ongoing)
Today at a sea lion rookery we witnessed numerous newborn pups, with gulls eating up the fresh afterbirth. The sound and smell were also quite a sensory experience!
– update from naturalist Sherry
Great Bear Rainforest and Kitlope, SV Maple Leaf – May 23-30
The Kitlope River and estuary, and the terminus of the Gardner Canal, the longest fjord on the coast. Photo by John Zada.
Started the trip with a conversation at Kitamaat village with elder Cecil Paul. Everything we talked about with him stayed with us throughout the whole trip and we referred back often to his words and concepts.
Some other highlights included the scenery & waterfalls of the Gardner canal [the coast’s longest fjord], travelling up the Kitlope River and making it up to the lake as per Cecil’s guidance; finding tracks of bears, wolves, cats, deer, moose & river otter in many places that we explored; seeing a spring bear.
Seeing mountain goats high in the hills. Soaking in 2 hotsprings. Seeing a group of close to 20 orca in a mini superpod with lots of playful activity & vocalizatons that we picked up on the hydrophone … possibly even some mating behaviour.
A great sail in Caamano Sound. Seeing fin whales including a group of 6 that came rushing towards the Maple Leaf. Many humpback whales, including a group of 6 that were doing coordinated group bubble-net feeding. We put the hydrophone down again, and listened to the ‘otherworldly’ bubble-net feeding calls. WOW!!!
[special bonus photos above and below of the Kitlope region from the airplane by John Zada – thank you, John]
– report from Capt. Greg
Kowesas (Chief Matthews Bay) in top left, Kemaano on bottom right, and the Gardner Canal slicing through the coast mountains. Photo by John Zada.
Part of the route of this trip, in the Gardner Canal, Great Bear Rainforest. Photo by John Zada.
Beautiful highlights as usual from Haida Gwaii, including the spectacular UNESCO World Heritage Site, SGang Gwaay.
We had an amazing Orca show in Richardson Inlet, a pod of about 5 to 8 feeding.
The weather was sunny every day, some folks did some kayaking in Island Bay and we mounted an expedition far up Rose Inlet.
We had an amazing inter-tidal show at Burnaby Narrows (aka Dolomite Narrows). Afterward the walk in the ancient rainforest to a culturally modified tree was a hit.
We had breaching Humpbacks at Scudder Point, and a huge line of moon jellies in Crescent Inlet and as always beautiful intertidal and sub-tidal life at Burnaby Narrows.
One evening in Bishchof Islands we decided to be a Pirate raiding party and jumped into the skiff and went to a float house in the inner bay and found a rat eradication work party of Parks Canada employees. They gave us a Rat-Pack of traps, poison and stickers.
The raiding party was successful, we returned with booty.
Also at Bischoff Islands we found a nesting pair of bald eagles. A good photo op.
May 7:
Just got the anchor down behind the Walkem Isles in Johnstone Strait.
It’s been an epic day, with 3 great shore trips, including an exploration of Vondonop Inlet, a hike up to a favourite hidden lake, and then two hours of a low-tide, intertidal float through, with naturalist Barb in a wetsuit and snorkel, in a high current pass / beach area.
The afternoon’s highlight was a pod of 4 transient / Bigg’s orcas, that seemed to be headed for Hole in the Wall at the same slack tide we were heading for.
[editor’s note: The Orca Navigators & Hole in the Wall
On the BC and Alaska coast, huge surges of water through narrow passageways, as the tide rises and falls each day, create very strong currents, and sometimes whirlpools.
These currents are dangerous to navigation and some of them should only be transited when the current is ‘slack’. Slack is the small time between the ebb (when the tide goes out) and flood (when the tide comes in). The water is not really moving at slack, so there is no current. This is a safe time to transit. There are usually 4 slacks a day.
All competent navigators keep track of these moments of slack, and plan their trips to go through passes at slack tide. The time of these moments of slack changes every day by about half an hour.
When I said all competent navigators above, I mean all competent navigators …whether they are human or another species! People on the coast have observed for a long time that the orcas also know when slack tide will be at these passes. One of coastal boating life’s great joys is to transit a pass in the company of a family of orcas — who are so clearly seeming to be doing the same thing you are, for the same reason.]
May 8:
Today, we accomplished a big travelling day, with stops, the entire length of Johnstone Strait and out to Queen Charlotte Strait.
We had great Pacific White-sided Dolphins with us for a long ride today up Johnstone Strait.
Then a great hike in the Broughton Archipelago, from a place called Pig’s Ranch (no pigs or ranch now just rainforest) up to spectacular views at Eagle Eye, on on a hot afternoon.
Naturalist Barb was great with entertaining info and I even got our chef out for the hike, complete with an epic picnic lunch we provided for everyone at the look-out on top.
Tonight, en route to our anchorage, we spent time with a lovely humpback whale. Anchoring in Sunday Anchorage tonight.
– report from Capt. Kevin
May 9:
A morning spent with charismatic sea lions. Then some fishing en route to a beautiful cove on Northern Vancouver Island. Here’s a photo of one of our guest’s catches: a ling cod.
Photo by Kevin Smith
May 10:
An epic day as we left the islands of southern BC and in flat calm weather crossed to the mainland and rounded Cape Caution. Heading to the Hakai Recreation area and a great beach.
– Reports from Capt. Kevin
May 13:
The last couple of days have included exploring an offshore island group we rarely get to – always exciting to see who and what is living in these rugged and remote places that nonetheless have plenty of food for marine life due to strong currents bringing lots of nutrients through.
On our last morning, a gift from the Great Bear Rainforest: One of the elusive coastal wolves allowed us to see her or him, and to spend time together in the estuary.
– Reports from Capt. Kevin
Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands), MV Swell – May 5-13 (updated)
Weather is absolutely GORGEOUS in Haida Gwaii, yesterday, today, and in the forecast for a few more days at least. Pinching ourselves and enjoying the moment!
After the land day exploring northern Haida Gwaii and the Masset and Skidegate areas, last night was spent at anchor in Thurston Hbr.
Today we did a skiff tour around the Tar Islands – very impressive intertidal life.
Enjoyed 4 hours ashore at Windy Bay – beautiful new Legacy pole, friendly watchmen, very informative, plus a forest hike with the watchmen through old growth and the old village site.
Several breaching humpbacks (including a mother that seemed to be teaching her calf how to breach) on the way to Ikeada Cove.
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Saturday, June 25, 2011
Polish style szarlotka (apple pie)
“Tarte Tatin is the second-best apple pie in the world…” started the The Wonders of Tarte Tatin article. Don’t remember how I found it, but the phrase got me and I had to keep reading. I can just give my respect to Edward Schneider for such a great opening. “…After Jackie’s Polish-style szarlotka” it continued, following up with a detailed description of the Tarte Tatin and its wonders. I skipped this part and went to search the web for the Polish pie.
I don’t know exactly which recipe the author meant, but one of the Polish apple pies I found really got my attention. The idea is that very sweet and reach short pastry shell holds the sour apple filling. The apples get precooked, so they cook down and form a thick, dense and intense layer. The top gets again covered by pastry array, which gets crispy delicious while it bakes.
Last weekend my parents got back from Florence. That was a rare occasion they didn’t have any willingness to cook themselves as they were tired. So I offered to bake an apple pie to welcome them back and they agreed.
I must say it turned out quite labor intense. Nothing complicated, but you have to peel, core and chop some 1.5 kg of apples and knead a considerable amount of dough. I got lucky with my mom ready to deal with the apples, so we installed ourselves in the kitchen and spent some 2 hours there chatting (we can always do as much chatting as needed, just give us a chance).
The pie came out completely worth the effort. Everybody in the house seemed to like it. Despite its impressive size, three quarters were gone immediately. I’m not going to say whether it is better than Tarte Tatin though. To me, the more different great apple pies I have in my collection, the better. Each will find its ideal occasion to fit in.
Polish style szarlotka (apple pie) (recipe adapted from Szarlotka (Polish Apple Pie) by Coffee and Vanilla)
serves 10
For the short pastry:
310 g plain all purpose flour
200 g butter
120 g light brown sugar
1/2 tea spoon salt
3 egg yolks
2 tbs sour cream
For the filling:
1.5 kg baking apples, peeled and cored, cut into 1.5 cm cubes
1 tbs lemon juice
2 tbs sugar
1 tea spoon vanilla
For the pastry, combine the flour and chopped chilled butter. Mix together to get to the texture of bread crumbs. It's easier to use food processor, but you can also do it with your hands. Mix in the sugar and salt. Add the egg yolks and sour cream. Mix to get even pastry that holds together. Cover and chill in the fridge for an hour.
Mix the chopped apples with lemon juice to prevent them from getting brown. Set a large frying pan over high heat, add in the apples (no oil needed) and cook stirring for around 10 minutes. The apples should soften and most of the liquid should evaporate. Remove from heat and let cool.
Butter a 22 cm round cake pan slightly. Take 2/3 of the pastry out of the fridge and roll it into a circle. Cover the bottom and sides of the pan (the border should be around 3 cm tall). Fork the pastry shell and prebake it for 12 minutes in 180C oven. Take out and let cool a bit.
Roll the remaining pastry 3-4 mm thick and cut it into stripes 1 cm wide (it seems that pizza knife is the best instrument for that, but surely you can use an ordinary knife).
Fill the pastry shell with apples. Spread them evenly and slightly press down, to form a dense layer. Arrange the pastry stripes on top of the apples in parallel to each other, leaving almost no space in between.
Bake the pie for 25-30 min, till the top gets golden. Take out of the oven and let rest for 15 minutes. Then it easily cuts into nice pretty pieces.
It was perfect just on its own and we didn't get to complementing it with anything. However I can imagine, that if you have a bit more patience, it will be great with vanilla sauce or ice-cream.
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Tarte aux poires normande (French pear tart)
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The perfect vanilla sauce
Moscow cafes and bakeries guide
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1. Hey i love apple pie and now i am learning myself how to make it, thanks for sharing your ideas in this post.
2. Oh, that's great news! You are very welcome :-) Enjoy it a lot!
3. That looks beautiful! Would it be blasphemous to add traditional apple pie spices?
4. thank you! :-) you mean clove, cinnamon etc.?
I must say it tasted quite self sufficient with virtually no spices. Probably that's because both the precooked apples and the pastry are quite intense and there is good contrast (sweet / sour) between them.
However if you have a feeling for that - do try, why not?
Keep me posted if you do.
5. It looks too good not to try!! I think I'm going to try it on an unsuspecting group of apple pie fans! I will def. let you know how it did w/spices :)
6. Hi, Polish there! I'm glad that you liked our szarlotka, it's one of the most favourite cakes among Polish. Therefore there are some variations which I thought you may be willing to try :) Sometimes the filling may be spiced with cinnamon or clove; there are also raisins or almonds added to it. The stripes of the top layer are sometimes not arranged parallel to each other, but they are formed in a form of a truss (not sure if the comparison is good - but they form a kind of check; I think that these photos illustrate it well: I find szarlotka with the "checked" top layer particularly decorative :) And, as you can see, some sprinkle it with powdered sugar.
Oh, I'm sorry for this long monologue, but szarlotka is very exciting problem, since everyone claims her/his recipe to be the best :) Good baking!
(Anyway, did you try the Polish-style cheesecake? That's my favourite :)
7. Oh, thanks so much for sharing this! I'm very interested in finding out these details. The checked szarlotka is really pretty, next time I'll try it this way. An adding almonds also sounds delicious to me.
Looks like fearandloathing question about whether you can use the clove and cinnamon in this pie was exactly looking into the existing recipe variations :)!
8. It's so nice to match a name to this delicious pastry. On the rare occasions I pass through the nearest Polish neighborhood, I usually stop by a bakery to buy a 5 pound slab off a huge baking sheet on the counter.
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Now playing: How Netflix hopes to unravel the global-local maze
Jonathan Friedland is the chief communications officer at the California-headquartered Netflix. In an exclusive chat with Amit Bapna, he unspools the Netflix plans for India, how it hopes to unravel the global-local maze amongst other things.
Excerpts.
The Market-entry Tool-kit
Whenever we enter a new market, over a period, we do a combination of original and local content. When I say local it does not matter whether Hollywood or English or Indian – it's about having rights to it. We learn in each country and improve the localisation on a variety of levels. In the US we have been operating for 20 years before we did our first piece of original content, and we were in Mexico for 4 years before we did the first original content. When we entered France and Italy we started doing original content faster. We are learning as we go and are getting better at it.
The content arsenal
We look at great creators across markets who have a track record of storytelling and then determine how much money to spend. We use our audience data to size the investment in a program. We don't use our data to figure out stories or people to work with but to figure out the investment in a project. In India we have already started looking at projects.
The global versus local dilemma
Everyone has been saying Netflix does not have much Indian content. That's true and we will never ever have the deepest catalogue. We can't and we won't. That is not the way we think. We think about providing great stories from all over the world for people all over the world. We are not trying to be Eros or trying to do what Hungama or other leading Indian creators of entertainment do.
We recognise India is very complicated. To begin with, we will primarily aim the service to a certain set of consumers – who are likely to speak English, who are likely to enjoy Western entertainment, likely to have an international credit card and who may have an iTunes account. Over-time we would deepen our content in India to offer a wider service to a broader Indian population, which would also include creation of local content in India for not only India but for the world. We are doing it in many other parts of the world already like Columbia, Mexico, Brazil, Italy, and the UK etc.
We learn and we get better
We always tell people that our first day will be the worst – because it'll get better from there. From now to March, you will see the amount of content on the site will continue to change. Every day we are learning about what people want to watch and are adding content. For example, when we started in Brazil, none of the content seemed right. Over the period of 4-5 years we improved and made it suitable to the Brazilian taste and now are doing well. We are a learning machine, we improve and we get better.
Being ad-free helps
We have no advertising absolutely. When one is in a business like YouTube or Spotify that are ad-supported, having a local team in the market is a necessity since they have to sell ads. Ours is a very simple business; it is subscription-only and hence we do not need the sales force that an ad-supported company needs from the day one. We have to grow subscriptions in order to be able to afford more content and in order to grow our margins, so we can earn back the investments that we are making in expansion globally and the investment on the content. We are spending $5 billion on content this year.
The Big P
We have had a lot of discussions internally about the pricing of the service relative to the GDP. At this stage we are focused on the wealthier consumer for whom $8 a month is still a pretty good deal for the kind of entertainment he is getting. As we go deeper in the market, we will be looking at the equation. We believe that people are willing to pay a reasonable amount of money for content if they get it quickly and at a reasonable price.
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A Few Perspectives on Debt
Published January 25th, 2021 by JMSCapitalGroup
The Biden Administration has proposed an additional $1.9 trillion in spending on a COVID relief package, and unsurprisingly, many Republicans are balking at the price tag.
The graph above shows why. Total Public Debt has risen steadily over time, then grew more sharply after the 2008 financial crisis, slowed a little bit during the late Obama years, sped up a bit after the Trump tax cuts, then spiked again with 2020 Covid relief. But while $27 trillion dollars is a scary number, it lacks perspective; it would be helpful to understand the size of the debt relative to the size of the economy.
From this picture, we can see Debt per GDP rose during the Reagan years, stayed roughly steady after the Clinton and Bush years, then rose sharply again with the financial crisis, flattened out for the next several years, and surged again with coronavirus relief. Considering the Debt/GDP ratio rose from about 30% of GDP during the early 1980s to 100% of GDP pre-COVD, while inflation fell steadily over those years, the economy may be more tolerant of debt than many fear.
For a perspective why, we add a third graph, from Pew Research at
Because interest rates have plummeted over the last 40 years, US debt was able to grow dramatically without increasing the relative share of interest payments. The above graph ends at 2019, and interest payments have risen since then, but we have a lot of room to run to get to Reagan-level interest costs.
Of course, we’re assuming interest rates remain low. Market expectations are for continued low interest rates, but if rates do rise, the debt will become an increasing problem. So why take the risk? What’s the economic benefit of increased spending? One answer comes in one last chart:
The US entered the financial crisis in 2008 with 5% unemployment. After the recession unemployment peaked at about 10% in 2009, then took 7 years to fall back to its pre-recession levels. Moreover, President Trump did his own experiment in deficit spending with his tax cut package. The deficit rose, but interest rates remained low, inflation remained low, unemployment fell to 3.5%, and wages increased in a tight labor market. The US economy showed the ability to be run “hot” without negative repercussions.
With unemployment at 6.7%, President Biden and Treasury Secretary nominee Janet Yellen would like to get the economy back to where it was pre-COVID. As Yellen stated in her opening statement (found at to the Senate Finance Committee: “Neither the President-elect, nor I, propose this relief package without an appreciation for the country’s debt burden. But right now, with interest rates at historic lows, the smartest thing we can do is act big. In the long run, I believe the benefits will far outweigh the costs, especially if we care about helping people who have been struggling for a very long time.”
President Biden’s COVID relief package comes with the likely economic benefit of helping those in need, but the uncertain costs of worsening the US debt situation. If Biden is able to shepherd this aid through Congress, we hope that his and Yellen’s judgment is correct that this additional spending will be a net plus for the US economy in the long run.
JMS Capital Group Wealth Services LLC
An SECregistered investment advisor.
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Hey I Know This Probably Sounds Like A Stupid Question We Are Learning About Pupillary Reactions Perla How Will The Pupils React To Light If Someone Is Blind In One Eye?????
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They should still both be equal in size.
"Shining a light in one eye of a normal subject causes both pupils to constrict equally. The pupillary reaction in the illuminated eye is called the direct response, and the reaction in the other eye is the consensual response. Because of the hemidecussation of afferent pupillomotor fibers at the chiasm, and because there is another hemidecussation of the pupillomotor fibres in the brain stem, the direct and consensual pupillary responses are equal. If one eye is blind, all input to the pupillary centers in the brain stem comes from the other eye, but the double hemidecussation ensures equal pupillary innervation and there will be not anisocoria
Shining a dim light in one eye of a normal subject will cause both puils to constrict. A brighter light will cause more constriction. If, after shining a light in one eye, the light is quickly switched to the other eye, the response will be an initial constriction of both pupils followed by an equivalent re-dilation."
From "Neuro-ophthalmology. Basic and Clinical Science Course 1996-1997" American Academy of Ophthalmology.
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"Pathophysiology: Pupil size is governed by the tone of the pupillary sphincter (parasympathetic) and the pupillary dilator muscles (sympathetic) in response to ambient light, adrenergic tone, and local pharmacologic or pathophysiologic conditions. Approximately 50% of the fibers of the optic nerve decussate in the optic chiasm, and the input to each of the parasympathetic nuclei in the brain stem remains equal. Under normal conditions, the pupils remain equal at all times in all levels of light. Therefore, anisocoria never is caused by retinal pathology. Even blindness in one eye does not cause anisocoria."
This is an area where I feel WEAK. And now realizing my co- workers don't so much. Thank you so much for the info! I had 2 neuro pts last pm and in the ER and one was a 16yr old who had been assaulted. His pupils started out equal but became unequal. My second pt was legally blind and the RN going off said "I didn't do pupil checks, he's legally blind,they don't react." I thought he knew what he was talking about since he has been an ED RN longer than me. Guess not.
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Absolute script-file line-numbers in Vim-function errors
When Vim reports errors within a function it typically reports relative line numbers. For example:
Error detected while processing function Foo:
line 11:
E123: Blah blah
Here indicating the issue is at line 11 relative to start of function Foo. Guess this is a result of how Vim load functions etc. – but is there a way to make it report absolute line numbers? As in line-number of script-file holding the function.
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There was an RFC suggesting this, but there was no response from Bram at the time.
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Saturday, 23 November 2013
Letter to the OIC: Evacuate the Rohingya from Burma
24th November 2013
Dear Members of the OIC,
I am writing to you regarding the Rohingya in Burma/Myanmar. I have been campaigning for them every day since June 2012 when they experienced the first round of terrible violence, when many were killed, thousands of homes were burnt and thousands of innocent people were driven from their land.
During that time my friend and I interviewed a Rohingya village leader via telephone. His village was surrounded by devastation and he pleaded with us to save his people and to send food as they had completely run out, and to send medical help as people were dying from untreated injuries.
We tried desperately to get the world to wake up to what was happening. When I told people that a genocide was taking place, I was warned that I was going to ruin my reputation, because that is not a thing you can go around saying.
In October 2012 I made friends with another Rohingya on the ground who had managed to acquire a phone and was learning how to use Twitter. He tweeted daily events from a camp, since he had just been driven from his home, which was not actually destroyed but authorities said he had to leave and he was never allowed to return. In the weeks that followed he tweeted details of terrible events as they unfolded. He sent reports of thousands more homes that were burning and thousands more innocent Rohingya fleeing to sea, where hundreds drowned or died in boats as they were not allowed to land for days.
It has been a traumatic time since then. Almost every day I have learnt of new atrocities. Hardly a day goes by when we don't hear of another innocent person wrongfully arrested, tortured, never to be seen again, or brutally slaughtered, or raped, or drowned at sea, or dying from starvation or untreated disease. The level of persecution is unimaginable and it is relentless. Day after day, month after month, the attempt to eliminate the Rohingya entirely from their country continues.
Delegations have come and gone. Politicians and ambassadors have expressed words of deep concern. Millions of dollars have been handed to the Burmese government to assist with the situation. However, very little of this funding actually gets through to the Rohingya. Still they are starving and dying from disease, not due to lack of aid, but due entirely to blocked aid and prohibited care.
Should you think to research the topic of genocide, you will quickly come to realise that what is happening in the state of Arakan towards the Rohingya (although Kaman Muslims and Burmese Muslims across the country have also been targeted) has all the characteristics of a textbook case of genocide. Professor William Schabas, former president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, says (with regard to the Rohingya’s position):
"When you see measures preventing births, trying to deny the identity of the people, hoping to see that they really are eventually, that they no longer exist; denying their history, denying the legitimacy of their right to live where they live, these are all warning signs that mean it's not frivolous to envisage the use of the term genocide."
Something else you will also learn is that genocide is always political, and does not happen by chance, it is planned. I encourage you all to watch the documentary 'Genocide: Worse than War' by Daniel Goldenhagen for greater insight into why and how genocide takes place, and what, if anything, you can do to stop it.
The elimination of the Rohingya from Burma is not a simple case of an escalation of hatred. The escalation of hatred is a result of carefully planned and targeted propaganda. The rise of the 969 group is not a simple case of rising intolerance but rather a criminal organisation that is paid to carry out the work of the genocidal masterminds.
The situation for the Rohingya, despite the many delegations, deep concern, and no doubt bribes (ie. aid), has not improved. Rather it has got worse, and continues to deteriorate. The level of persecution against the Rohingya is such that no human being on this earth could tolerate and so increasingly they are faced with no option but to try and flee the country. Thousands are taking to rickety boats knowing that there is a high probability that they will drown, but that is preferable to staying on the land to suffer a long drawn out death through starvation, or disease, under constant fear of torture, slaughter or rape, to themselves, or worse still to their loved ones.
Muslims around the world are horrified at the unfolding of events and feel powerless as we hear and see many reports of intolerable affliction. Everyone is looking for leadership and decisive action to alleviate the suffering of these desperate people. The concept of the 'Muslim Ummah' has sadly become little more than a topic of ridicule.
When I began campaigning for the Rohingya I had hope that when the world saw what was happening, UN forces would be sent to protect these people, who are officially the world's most persecuted minority. Yet not one country has called for such protection, instead choosing to believe the lies of 'reform' since that sits more comfortably with 'national interests'.
It is now apparent that no-one is going to protect the Rohingya. The Burmese regime is well aware that they can continue their crimes with impunity. The Rohingya are therefore being left to die, fast or slow, one way or another, they are being wiped from the land. They are under the very real threat that a third wave of violence will be unleashed against them any day that really could see the Rohingya suffer complete and total destruction. But the alternative to a wave of violence is that of deprivation of food, medicine, education and access to communications which would eventually result in the same outcome.
This week I called a Rohingya man in Burma, who I had been told spoke English, but when I called him I could not understand his words, nor him mine. So I just listened to his heart instead. He cried like I have never heard anyone cry in my life. He begged for help. I searched desperately for some words that he might recognize, and so I recited Surah Al-Fatihah so that he might understand we are one, and his suffering is also mine. What he was pleading, I learnt afterwards, was for the 57 countries of the OIC to take them away from there, because that would be better than what they are suffering now. You can listen to the recording here:
The Rohingya belong in the state of Arakan in Burma. They have lived there for centuries. They deserve to stay there and be protected. But no one is going to protect them, that fact is now clear. I therefore request that you give careful consideration to the possibility of evacuating all of the Rohingya from their homeland, as that is perhaps the only option left, should you really wish to save these, our brothers and sisters.
When considering the protection of a child at risk, it is always desirable to leave children with their parents wherever possible. The exception comes when that child's life is at extreme risk. In this case all other considerations must come second - the removal of the child from the immediate danger is the priority. Right now there are literally hundreds of thousands of children's lives at very serious risk of death. At any time now a third attack may be unleashed and at that stage the opportunity to act will have passed.
I therefore recommend that all member countries of the OIC act with urgency to send large naval ships to evacuate all of the Rohingya that wish to do so. I would expect the Burmese government to welcome such a proposal, as that was Thein Sein's original and only 'solution' when this started in 2012. I realise that the Burmese regime may then think that is their victory. But firstly I would like to point out that saving the Rohingya lives should be the very first consideration. Secondly, the matter of justice can be addressed once the Rohingya have been removed from the immediate danger. Thirdly, I must emphasize that the removal of the Rohingya, a very gentle and peace loving community, would actually be a great loss to Burma and a gain to any country that would welcome them. The Rohingya have so much to teach any society regarding endurance, perseverance, and gratitude of the simple things in life that we all take for granted.
Since the Rohingya are surrounded by people who hate them and want them dead, and the Burmese government would clearly not co-operate with a peace keeping force even if any country might suggest such (which they haven't), I do not think that protecting the Rohingya whilst they remain in Burma is now feasible.
Official figures suggest that there may be up to 1 million Rohingya living in Burma. I suspect that many more Rohingya have either died or have been driven out to sea over the past year than people realise so the actual figure may not be anything like that number now.
If each OIC country was to take in 10,000 Rohingya and offer them help to relocate and restart their lives, that would accommodate 570,000 people. I suspect this may suffice. Some people will naturally want to stay, but at least Muslim nations should give those that want to leave a way to do so? Surely that is better than watching them die?
I am pleading with you on behalf of the Rohingya man who pleaded with me on the telephone to take this request to the OIC. Please give this option careful consideration, urgently, before it is too late, as it may be the only option if the Rohingya are to be saved. Thank-you.
Yours faithfully,
Jamila Hanan
Human Rights Defender
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As previously described, a spread may be used to hedge a trader's risk in trading a tradeable object. Thus, a spread position is usually considered to be a lower risk strategy than an outright long or an outright short position. For example, if the price trend of a tradeable object is currently up and the trader is in a spread, (e.g., short one month and long another) the gain on the long position would likely offset the loss of the short position, and vice-versa. One side of the spread typically hedges the other, and therefore spreads typically have lower margin requirements than outright positions.
Spreads operate to hedge a trader's risk due to a correlation between the legs of the spread. When the legs of the spread are correlated, an increase in the price of one leg then typically corresponds to a decrease in the price of the other leg, thereby allowing the spread to hedge the trader's risk. If the legs were not correlated, then an increase in the price of one leg would not necessarily correspond to a decrease in the price of the other leg. Thus, where the legs of the spread are not correlated, or at least not strongly correlated, the spread would not effectively operate to hedge the trader's risk.
The legs of a spread may be correlated to varying degrees. For example, legs of a spread that have closer expiration dates are typically more closely correlated than legs of a spread that have expiration dates that are farther apart. Thus, a March/June spread is typically more closely correlated than a March/September spread. Of course, other factors may operate as well to define the correlation between legs of a spread. When the legs are more closely correlated, the spread typically operates more effectively to hedge the trader's risk.
As previously described, in the preferred embodiment, a margin requirement can be computed on the fly for a trader. The computed margin requirement can take into account working and filled outright positions that actually comprise a spread even though those positions were traded separately in the outright market. These outright positions can be combined into spreads when computing the trader's margin requirement. For example, net long positions can be combined with net short positions in order to form spreads, which are then assessed the base margin value for spreads instead of the base margin value for outright positions in making the margin requirement computation.
Instead of simply using one margin value for spreads in making the margin requirement computation, the system can optionally take into account the correlation between the legs of the spread, and hence the risk associated with the spread, when determining what margin value to use for a particular spread. Thus, the margin value applied to a particular spread can vary depending on the correlation between the legs of the spread and therefore how effectively the spread hedges the trader's risk.
One way to vary the margin value for spreads is to use the difference between the times to expiration for the legs of the spread. In one embodiment, the system might vary the margin value applied to a particular spread depending on how close or far apart the expiration times of the legs of the spread are. Where the expiration times are closer together, the system might apply a lower margin value. Where the expiration times are farther apart, the system might apply a higher margin value. For example, the system might use a lower margin value for a March/June spread than it uses for a March/September spread.
In computing the generic spread positions, or otherwise combining outright positions to form spread positions, the system may pair specific outright long positions with specific outright short positions. For example, the system may pair specific filled outright long positions with filled outright short positions in order to form a spread. The relative distance between the legs can then be used to determine the base margin value to be applied to the spread. Similarly, the system may pair specific working outright long positions with working outright short positions, and it may then use the relative distance between the legs to determine the margin value to be applied to the spread. Of course, other combinations may be made as well.
However, it is not necessary that particular positions are assigned to particular spreads in making these computations. In a preferred embodiment, the system can use average times to expiration in order to compute a margin value to be applied to the various spreads. The system might compute an average time to expiration for the long and buy positions, and it might compute an average time to expiration for the short and sell positions. The average expiration times can then be used to determine an average distance between the legs of the spread, thereby computing an average distance between the legs of the various generic spreads. The system can then use this average distance in computing the margin requirement, thereby taking into account the correlation (and therefore also the relative risk) across all the generic spreads.
FIGS. 11-15 show example inputs and margin requirement outputs from a module that operates substantially similarly to the spread risk calculator 100 described with respect to FIG. 1. Each of the Figures includes example information for trading tradeable objects for the months of March, June, September and December. Many of the fields displayed in FIGS. 11-15 were previously described with respect to FIGS. 5-10. However, FIGS. 11-15 include some modifications for using average expirations to compute margin values for spreads.
As depicted, the Figures include a time to expiration (“Time to Exp”) for the various tradeable objects. These are generally static values that represent the number of months from the present month until the delivery month for the tradeable object. For a current month of February, the time to expiration for a tradeable object with a March delivery date is one month. Thus, the March tradeable object has a value of “1” displayed in the “Time to Exp” column.
The times to expiration for the other tradeable objects are determined similarly. For the current month of February, the delivery month of a June tradeable object is four months away, the delivery month of a September tradeable object is seven months away, and the delivery month of a December tradeable object is ten months away. Thus, the time to expiration for June is “4”, the time to expiration for September is “7” and the time to expiration for December is “10.” It should be understood, however, that various other time periods may be used in computing the time to expiration values displayed in the “Time to Exp” column. For example, weeks, days, hours, minutes or some other measure might alternatively be used. Also, it is not even necessary that the “Time to Exp” column is displayed at all.
The Figures additionally include a weighted buy value (“Weight Buy”) for the net long and working buy positions, and they include a weighted sell value (“Weight Sell”) for the net short and working sell positions. The weighted buy and weighted sell values can be used in computing the average expirations for the tradeable objects, which are then used to compute the margin value for the spreads. The weighted buy and weighted sell values generally represent a weighting based on the time to expiration of working and outright positions for a particular month. As previously described, and as applied to other computations as well, it is not necessary to use months in computing these values. Other time periods may also be used.
The Figures additionally depict an average distance (“Avg. Distance”) for the weighted buy and weighted sell values. The average distance for the weighted buy is generally the sum of the weighted buy values divided by the number of positions used to form the weighted buy values. For the weighted buy values, the average distance generally represents the distance from the current month to the average expiration of the working and outright positions used to form the weighted buy values. The average distance for the weighted sell is generally the sum of the weighted sell values divided by the number of positions used to form the weighted buy values. For the weighted sell values, the average distance the generally represents the distance from the current month to the average expiration of the positions used to form the weighted sell values.
An average spread length (“Avg. Spread Length”) generally depicts the average spread length for the various generic spreads. Thus, the average spread length is generally the difference between the average distance for the weighted buys and the average distance for the weighted sells. In addition, the Figures depict a spread indication (“Spread Indicator”). The spread indicator is generally derived from the average distances for the weighted buy and weighted sell, and it indicates whether the trader is long or short based on the average expiration distances.
The base spread margin value in the Figures has also been modified. Instead of using one base spread margin value that is applied equally to all spreads, the system may use a time-based spread margin value, which can be applied based on the difference between the legs of the spread. Thus, the S-Margin field has been modified to have a time base of 20 (“S-Margin”, “Time Base=20”). The time base can generally represent an amount of margin to be applied for a specific time increment. For example, the time base might represent a margin value for increments of days, weeks, months or some other time. It should also be understood that the time base of “20” is merely exemplary in nature, and it may be varied as well. The margin value for a particular spread can then be determined based on the distance between the legs of a spread (e.g., the difference in delivery times).
The formulas for using average expirations in order to compute margin values may use those formulas described with respect to FIGS. 5-10. In addition the calculations may use other formulas, which are described below:
(15) Individual Leg S Buy=S_leg Long+W Buy (Spreads). This represents the number of individual buy legs for a particular month that are used in computing the weighted buy value for that month.
(16) Individual Leg S Sell=S_leg Short+W Sell (Spreads). This represents the number of individual sell legs for a particular month that are used in computing the weighted sell value for that month.
(17) Weighted Buy=Individual Leg S Buy*Time to Exp. This represents the weighted buy values for a particular month.
(18) TOTAL Weight Buy=summation of all the weighted buy values for the four months.
(19) Weighted Sell=Individual Leg S Sell*Time to Exp. This represents the weighted sell values for a particular month.
(20) TOTAL Weight Sell=summation of all the weighted sell values for the four months.
(21) Avg. Distance Weight Buy=TOTAL Weight Buy/TOTAL net long. This represents the average distance for the weighted buy values.
(22) Avg. Distance Weight Sell TOTAL Weight Sell/TOTAL net short. This represents the average distance for the weighted sell values.
(23) Avg. Spread Length=absolute value (Avg. Distance Weight Buy−Avg. Distance Weight Sell). This is the absolute value of the difference between the average distance for the weighted buys and the weighted sells.
(24) S-Margin=Spreads*Time Base*Avg. Spread Length. This represents the margin requirement for the spreads. The time base multiplied by the average spread length represents the margin requirement for the average spread, and this value is then multiplied by the number of spreads to get the overall margin requirement for the spreads. (25) S_leg Long and S_leg Short represent the net long and short positions with the excess outright positions removed. Thus, where there is a different number of outright net long positions than net short positions such that the outright positions do not all combine to form spreads, the S_leg Long and S_leg Short values remove the excess positions. These values can be calculated, for example, using the exemplary code listed in Table 1. It should be understood, however, that the code listed in Table 1 is merely one method for removing excess outright positions, and many other methods may also be used. Also, other methods for determining which outright positions to remove may be used, and the particular outright positions that are removed by whatever method is used may affect the computed S-Margin value and therefore also the total margin requirement.
TABLE 1 Sample Code for Calculation of S_leg Long and S_leg Short Private Sub CalcSlegs_Click( ) Dim outLong As Long Dim outShort As Long Dim outAvg As Long Dim currOffset As Long Dim tmp As Long Dim t_row As Long Dim idx As Integer outLong = ActiveWorkbook.ActiveSheet.Range(“NetLong”) outShort = Active Workbook.ActiveSheet.Range(“NetShort”) If outLong > outShort Then outLong = outLong − outShort outShort = 0 ElseIf outShort > outLong Then outShort = outShort − outLong outLong = 0 Else outLong = 0 outShort = 0 End If currOffset = 0 outAvg = (outLong/4) If (outLong Mod 4) <>Then outAvg = outAvg + 1 t_row = 3 For idx = 0 To 3 With Active Workbook.ActiveSheet tmp = .Range(“B” & t_row) If currOffset < outLong Then If tmp >= outAvg Then tmp = tmp − outAvg currOffset = currOffset + outAvg End If End If .Range(“E” & t_row) = tmp End With t_row = t_row + 1 Next idx currOffset = 0 outAvg = (outShort/4) If (outShort Mod 4) <>0 Then outAvg = outAvg + 1 t_row = 3 For idx = 0 To 3 With ActiveWorkbook.ActiveSheet tmp = .Range(“C” & t_row) If currOffset < outShort Then If tmp >= outAvg Then tmp = tmp − outAvg currOffset = currOffset + outAvg End If End If .Range(“F” & t_row) = tmp End With t_row = t_row + 1 Next idx End Sub
It should be understood that the formulas described herein are merely exemplary in nature, and various changes may be made. For example, many modifications may be made to the ways the filled outright positions, working outright positions, filled spread positions and working spread positions are used to form the maximum number of spreads and also to compute the average expirations. Other changes may be made as well, and these may have an effect on the exact total margin requirement.
Additionally, it should be appreciated that the calculations of the variables may be implemented in a variety of different ways. For example, the formulas previously described include some formulas that may be considered intermediate variables—such as S_legs Long, S legs Short, Individual Legs S Buy and Individual Legs S Sell—that are derived from some variables and then used in computing other variables. While these intermediate variables can be computed and then used in the computations of other variables, it is not necessary that they be computed outright. Thus, one or more of these intermediate variables may be combined into the formulas for other variables such that instead of computing an intermediate variable and then plugging it into the formula for another variable, the other variable might be computed directly. These are merely examples, and many other modifications may be made to the way the calculations of the variables are implemented.
The operation of the system using average expirations in order to compute margin requirements will now be described with reference to various examples.
A. Example 1
FIG. 11 shows one filled long position in an outright market for March, and it shows one filled short position in an outright market for June. Although these are outright positions, they may be treated as legs of a spread in order to generate a reduced margin requirement for the trader. The total number of net long positions is one, and the total number of net short positions is one. The system then combines these two positions to form a spread. Thus, for purposes of computing the margin requirement, the system treats the trader has having one spread position and no outright positions.
Using the previously described formulas, the March S_leg Long is “1”, and the June S_leg Short is also “1.” The March Individual Legs S Buy is “1”, and the June Individual Legs S Sell is “1.” The March weighted buy is then 1*1=1, and the June weighted sell is 1*4=4. These then represent weighted distances to the buy and sell expiration times (e.g., delivery dates). In this example, the weighted buy average distance is 1/1=1, and the weighted sell average distance is then 4/1=4. In this example, the average spread length is 4−1=3. The spread indicator then displays “LONG”, thereby indicating that the trader is long the spread.
As this example uses a single spread, the average expiration times and distances should correspond exactly to the legs of this one spread. The first leg of the spread is a March long position, which for a current month of February, has a delivery month that is one month away from the current month. This matches with the weighted buy average distance of one, which indicates that the average distance of the near legs of the spreads is one month away. The second leg of the spread is a June short position, which for the current month of February has a delivery month that is four months away. This matches with the weighted buy average distance of four, which indicates that the average distance of the far legs of the spreads is four months away. The computed average distance of the spread is three. This matches with the actual distance of the March/June spread, which is three months. As this example shows, for a single spread, the computed average expirations and distance match with this single spread's actual values.
The margin requirement can then be computed using the average spread length. The spread margin value is generally computed by multiplying the time base by the average spread length and also by the number of spreads. The product of the average spread length and the time base generally represent the margin value to be applied to a particular spread. It should be understood, however, that other linear or non-linear functions might be used to determine the spread margin value.
Further, the system may implement minimum and/or maximum spread margin values. For example, the system may compute the spread margin value using the previously described methods. If the computed spread margin value is below the minimum spread margin value, the system may then use the minimum spread margin value instead of the computed spread margin value in determining the trader's total margin requirement. Similarly, if the system determines that the computed spread margin value is greater than the maximum spread margin value, then the system may use the maximum spread margin value instead of the computed spread margin value in computing the total margin requirement. For example, when computing the margin value for a two leg spread, the system may use a maximum spread margin value that is twice the margin value used for an outright position.
Since the spread margin value is based on the temporal different between the legs of the spread, and hence the correlation between the legs of the spread, the margin value may more accurately reflect the risk associated with the spread. Spreads having legs that are farther apart, and which are therefore are less strongly correlated, will generate higher margin values. Spreads having legs that are closer apart, and which are therefore are more strongly correlated, will generate lower margin values. In this example, the spread margin value is 3*20*1=60. As there are no outright positions, the total margin requirement is “60.”
B. Example 2
FIG. 12 shows the March long position, and it also shows a September short position in the outright market. Similar to FIG. 11, FIG. 12 has two outright positions that the system combines to form a spread when computing the trader's margin requirement. The March/September spread of FIG. 12 has legs that are farther apart than the March/June spread of FIG. 11. Therefore, and as shown in this example, the system computes a higher margin value for the March/September spread than it computes for the previously described March/June spread.
For this example, the March S_leg Long is “1”, and the September S_leg Short is “1.” The March Individual Legs S Buy is “1”, and the September Individual Legs S Sell is “1.” The weighted buy value is then 1*1=1. The weighted sell value is 1*7=7. The weighted buy average distance is 1/1=1. The weighted sell average distance is 7/1=7. Using these two numbers, the system computes the average spread length. The average spread length then is 7−1=6. The spread indicator shows “LONG”, because, based on the average distances, the trader is long the spread. The system then uses the time based spread margin to compute the margin value for this spread. The computed margin value is 6*20*1=120.
The computed average expiration and distances match with those for this single spread position. The weighted buy average distance is “1”, which matches with the March leg of the spread that has a delivery month that is one month out from the current month. The weighted sell average distance is “7”, which matches with the September leg of the spread that has a delivery month that is seven months out from the current month. The average spread length is “6”, which matches with the six month difference between the March and September legs of the spread.
The margin value for this spread is “120.” This is different than the single spread depicted in FIG. 11 that generated a margin value of “60.” The legs of the March/September spread have delivery months that are farther apart, and therefore are generally less correlated. Therefore, there is a greater risk associated with this spread, and the system generates a higher margin requirement for this spread than it does for the March/June spread.
C. Example 3
FIG. 13 shows the March long position in the outright market and the June short position in the outright market. Additionally, FIG. 13 shows two orders in a spread market, which are displayed on the trading screen as two working buy orders and two working sell orders. Since these order are placed in a spread market, both legs of a spread will either fill or not fill. In computing the margin requirement, the system determines the maximum number of spreads. The two outright positions are treated as a spread, and the two working spread orders are treated as spreads. Thus, for purposes of computing the margin requirement, the number of spreads is “3.”
The March S_leg Long is “1”, and the June S_leg Short is “1.” The March Individual Legs S Buy is “1”; the June Individual Legs S Sell is “1”; the September Individual Legs S Buy is “2”; and the December Individual Legs S Sell is “2.” The system then computes the various average expirations and distances. The weighted buy value for March is 1*1=1. The weighted sell value for June is 1*4=4. The weighted buy value for September is 2*7=14. The weighted sell value for December is 2*10=20. The total weighted buy value is 1+14=15, and the total weighted sell value is 4+20=24. The average distance for the weighted buy is 15/3=5, and the average distance for the weighted sell is 24/3=8. The average spread length is then 8−5=3.
The average spread length is then used to compute the spread margin value. The spread margin is the average spread length multiplied by the time base for spreads and also multiplied by the number of spreads. In this example, the spread margin value is 3*3*20=180. As there are no outright positions, the total margin requirement is simply the spread margin value, which is “180.”
D. Example 4
FIG. 14 shows another example computation of a margin requirement. As depicted in FIG. 14, the trader holds ten March long positions in the outright market, seven June short positions in the outright market, two September long positions in the outright market and five December short positions in the outright market. For this example, the March S_legs Long is “10”; the June S_legs Short is “7”; the September S_legs Long is “2”; and the December S_legs Short is “5.” The March Individual Legs S Buy is “10”; the June Individual Legs S Sell is “7”; the September Individual Legs S Buy is “2”; and the December Individual Legs S Sell is “5.”
The weighted buy value for March is “10”, the weighted sell value for June is “28”, the weighted buy value for September is “14” and the weighted sell value for December is “50.” The total weighted buy value is “24”, and the total weighted sell value is “78.” These values are divided by the total net long and total net short position to get the average distances. The weighted buy average distance is “2”, and the weighted sell average distance is “6.5.” The average spread length is then “4.5.” The spread margin requirement is then 4.5*20*12=1080.
In one way of looking at these computations, the system idealizes the various net long and net short positions in the outright market into an idealized spread position, which has a near leg that is the average of the long positions and a far leg that is the average of the short positions. In this example, it would be a spread having a near leg that is two months away from the current month and a far leg that is six and a half months away from the current month. This idealized spread is the multiplied by the total number of spreads and also time based spread margin in order to get the total margin for the trader's spread positions.
E. Example 5
FIG. 15 shows two March long positions in the outright market and two September short position in the outright market. Additionally, it depicts one June working buy order in the outright market. In computing the margin requirement, the system again determines the maximum number of spreads and outright position. In the worst case, if the working buy order fills, the trader will have three outright long positions and two outright short positions. Therefore, for purposes of computing the margin requirement, the number of spreads is “2” and maximum outrights is “1.”
Making the computations as previously described, the March S_legs Long is “2”, and the September S_legs Short is “2.” The March Individual Legs S Buy is “2”, and the September Individual Legs S Sell is “2.” The March weighted buy value is “2”, and the September weighted sell value is “14.” The total weighted buy value is then “2”, and the total weighted sell value is “14.” The weighted buy average distance is 2/2=1. The weighted sell average distance is 14/2=7. The average spread length is then 7−1=6.
The spread margin value is then the average spread length multiplied by the number of spread and the spread margin time base. For this example, the spread margin value is 6*2*20=240. In the worst case, there will be one additional outright position, which has a margin value of 2000. The total margin requirement is then the sum of the spread margin value and the outright margin value, which is 240+2000=2240.
VI. Displaying Relevant Information
The variables described in this application may be displayed, such as on a graphical user interface (GUI). However, as can be noted from the examples, it is not necessary that all of the variables be displayed. And, it is not necessary that all the variables depicted in the Figures be displayed. In alternate embodiments, some variables depicted in the Figures may be omitted, while other variables not depicted in the Figures may be added. In various embodiments, the variables displayed on the GUI may be fixed, such as by a GUI manufacturer. In other embodiments, however, the variables displayed on the GUI, as well as other attributes of the GUI, may be customizable by a user.
The GUI can include any visual computer environment that represents components of the system with graphical images, such as icons, menus, and dialog boxes on the screen. Some examples of how and/or why one might display such information are described directly below, but additional reasons for displaying such information would be realized by one skilled in the art of trading upon reading the description herein.
According to one example, a trader can run the system in conjunction with other software that the trader uses to connect to an exchange and execute trades. While the trader interacts with the exchange using the other software, the trader can simultaneously view the information to track the margin requirements for the trader's positions and working orders. This allows the trader to conveniently view his or her current margin balance, as it is updated in real-time. Limits which are imposed on the trader may also be displayed so as to inform the trader when a limit has been reached.
In another example, a group of traders can run the system and view the information as the system tracks the margin requirement for each of the traders and/or tracks the margin requirement for the entire group. The margin requirement for the entire group could be just the sum of the margin requirements for each trader. This allows the traders to view their margin balance as a group, as it is updated in real-time. Similar to individual traders, limits which are imposed on the traders may be displayed to inform them when a limit has been reached.
In yet another example, an administrator or another user at a trading house, clearing house, exchange, or other entity can view the margin requirements for a particular trader or a group of traders. The spreadsheet can be updated in real-time, and thus the administrator or other user can view the trader's (or traders') changing margin requirements.
VII. Conclusion
The preferred embodiment described herein provides a quick and efficient way of computing risk associated with outright positions and spread positions for risk purposes. Current SPAN algorithms and similar risk management solutions are often too complicated and time consuming to be used for real time (or near real time) pre-trade spread risk management. Therefore, a system and method were described herein to calculate the risk based in part on working outright orders and working spread orders for exchange traded spreads. A generic spread number is determined in addition to a maximum outrights value, in which a margin requirement is computed. The computed margin requirement can be used in any fashion known to one of ordinary skill in the art such as by limiting the trading of one or more traders.
It should be understood that the programs, processes, methods and apparatus described herein are not related or limited to any particular type of computer or network apparatus (hardware or software), unless indicated otherwise. Various types of general purpose or specialized computer apparatus may be used with or perform operations in accordance with the teachings described herein. While various elements of the preferred embodiments have been described as being implemented in software, in other embodiments hardware or firmware implementations may alternatively be used, and vice-versa.
In view of the wide variety of embodiments to which the principles of the present invention can be applied, it should be understood that the illustrated embodiments are exemplary only, and should not be taken as limiting the scope of the present invention. For example, the steps of the flow diagrams may be taken in sequences other than those described, and more, fewer or other elements may be used in the block diagrams.
The claims should not be read as limited to the described order or elements unless stated to that effect. In addition, use of the term “means” in any claim is intended to invoke 35 U.S.C. §112, paragraph 6, and any claim without the word “means” is not so intended. Therefore, all embodiments that come within the scope and spirit of the following claims and equivalents thereto are claimed as the invention.
1. A method for computing a weighted margin requirement during a trading day in an electronic trading environment, comprising: estimating a number of spreads based on a first net filled long position and a first net filled short position corresponding to a first tradeable object and a second net filled long position and a second net short position corresponding to a second tradeable object, and further based on working spread buy and sell positions for exchange provided spreads associated with the first tradeable object and the second tradeable object; establishing a first time to expire for the first tradeable object and a second time to expire for the second tradeable object, wherein the first time to expire is determined based on a current time and an expiration date of the first tradeable object, and wherein the second time to expire is based on the current time and an expiration date of the second tradeable object; determining a first average expiration time for long positions of the estimated number of spread based on the first net filled long position and the working spread buy position associated with the first tradeable object and the first time to expire for the first tradeable object, and further based on the second net filled long position and the working spread buy position associated with the second tradeable object and the second time to expire for the second tradeable object; determining a second average expiration time for short positions of the estimated number of spreads based on the first net filled short position and the working spread sell position associated with the first tradeable object and the first time to expire for the first tradeable object, and further based on the second net filled short position and the working spread sell position associated with the second tradeable object and the second time to expire for the second tradeable object; determining an average spread length based on the first average expiration time and the second average expiration time; determining a spread margin requirement using the estimated number of spreads, the average spread length, and a spread base value; and storing the spread margin requirement.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the first average expiration time comprises: determining a first weight buy value by multiplying the first time to expire by a sum of the first net filled long position and the working spread buy position associated with the first tradeable object; determining a second weight buy value by multiplying the second time to expire by a sum of the second net filled long position and the working spread buy position associated with the second tradeable object; and determining the first average expiration time by adding the first weight buy value and the second weight buy value.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein determining the second average expiration time comprises: determining a first weight sell value by multiplying the first time to expire by a sum of the first net filled short position and the working spread sell position associated with the first tradeable object; determining a second weight sell value by multiplying the second time to expire by a sum of the second net filled short position and the working spread sell position associated with the second tradeable object; and determining the second average expiration time by adding the first weight sell value and the second weight sell value.
4. The method of claim 3, wherein determining the average spread length further comprises: determining a first average distance for the first and second weight buy values by dividing the first average expiration time by a sum of at least the first net filled long position and the second net filled long position; determining a second average distance for the first and second weight sell values by dividing the second average expiration time by a sum of at least the first net filled short position and the second net filled short position; and determining the average spread length by taking a difference between the first average distance and the second average distance.
5. The method of claim 1, further comprising: multiplying the estimated number of spreads, the average spread length and the spread base value to determine the spread margin requirement.
6. The method of claim 1, further comprising: determining whether to send an order for a tradeable object to an electronic exchange based on the spread margin requirement and an available margin requirement.
7. The method of claim 6, further comprising: sending the order to the electronic exchange when the available margin balance is higher than the spread margin requirement.
8. The method of claim 6, further comprising: refraining from sending the order to the electronic exchange when the available margin balance is lower than the spread margin requirement.
9. The method of claim 1, further comprising: determining a maximum number of outrights based on the first and second net filled long positions, the net first and second filled short positions, and working buy and sell orders corresponding to the first tradeable object and the second tradeable object; determining an outright margin requirement based on the maximum number of outrights and an outright base value; and determining a total margin requirement using the outright margin requirement and the spread margin requirement.
10. The method of claim 9, wherein determining the maximum number of outrights comprises: determining a first maximum outright value based on the net first and second filled long positions, the net first and second filled short positions, and the working buy orders corresponding to the first tradeable object and the second tradeable object; determining a second maximum outright value based on the net filled long positions, the net filled short positions, and working sell orders corresponding to the first tradeable object and the second tradeable object; and determining the maximum number of outrights based on the first maximum outright value and the second maximum outright value.
11. The method of claim 9, further comprising: determining whether to send an order for a tradeable object to an electronic exchange based on the total margin requirement and an available margin balance.
12. The method of claim 11, further comprising: sending the order to the electronic exchange when the available margin balance is higher than the total margin requirement.
13. The method of claim 11, further comprising: refraining from sending the order to the electronic exchange when the available margin balance is less than the total margin requirement.
14. The method of claim 1, wherein estimating the number of spreads comprises: determining a first maximum leg position for the first tradeable object based on the first net filled long position and the first net filled short positions for the first tradeable, and further based on the working spread buy and sell positions for exchange provided spreads associated with the first tradeable object; determining a second maximum leg position for the second tradeable object based on the first net filled long position and the second net filled short position for the second tradeable object, and further based on the working spread buy and sell positions for exchange provided spreads associated with the second tradeable object; determining a total maximum leg position using the first maximum leg position and the second maximum leg position; determining a number of outrights based on the net filled long positions and the net filled short positions associated with the first tradeable object and the second tradeable object; and determining the number of spreads based on the total maximum leg position and the number of outrights.
15. The method of claim 14, wherein determining the first maximum leg position comprises: determining a first absolute value using the first net filled long position and the first net filled short position for the first tradeable object, and further using the working spread buy position for exchange provided spreads associated with the first tradeable object; determining a second absolute value using the first net filled long position and the first net filled short positions for the first tradeable object, and further using the working spread sell position for exchange provided spreads associated with the first tradeable object; and determining the first maximum leg position using a maximum of the first absolute value and the second absolute value.
16. The method of claim 14, wherein determining the second maximum leg position comprises: determining a first absolute value using the second net filled long position and the second net filled short position for the first tradeable object, and further using the working spread buy position for exchange provided spreads associated with the second tradeable object; determining a second absolute value using the second net filled long position and the second net filled short positions for the first tradeable object, and further using the working spread sell position for exchange provided spreads associated with the second tradeable object; and determining the second maximum leg position using a maximum of the first absolute value and the second absolute value computed in relation to the second tradeable object.
17. The method of claim 9, wherein the total margin requirement is computed for a trader.
18. The method of claim 9, wherein the total margin requirement is computed for a plurality of traders.
19. The method of claim 9, further comprising displaying the spread margin requirement on a graphical user interface.
20. The method of claim 9, further comprising displaying the outright margin requirement on a graphical user interface.
21. The method of claim 9, further comprising displaying the total margin requirement on a graphical user interface.
22. The method of claim 1, further comprising: setting the spread base value.
23. The method of claim 11, further comprising: setting the outright base value.
24. A computer readable medium having program code recorded thereon for execution on a computer to compute a weighted margin requirement during a trading day in an electronic trading environment, comprising: estimating a number of spreads based on a first net filled long position and a first net filled short position corresponding to a first tradeable object and a second net filled long position and a second net short position corresponding to a second tradeable object, and further based on working spread buy and sell positions for exchange provided spreads associated with the first tradeable object and the second tradeable object; establishing a first time to expire for the first tradeable object and a second time to expire for the second tradeable object, wherein the first time to expire is determined based on a current time and an expiration date of the first tradeable object, and wherein the second time to expire is based on the current time and an expiration date of the second tradeable object; determining a first average expiration time for long positions of the estimated number of spread based on the first net filled long position and the working spread buy position associated with the first tradeable object and the first time to expire for the first tradeable object, and further based on the second net filled long position and the working spread buy position associated with the second tradeable object and the second time to expire for the second tradeable object; determining a second average expiration time for short positions of the estimated number of spreads based on the first net filled short position and the working spread sell position associated with the first tradeable object and the first time to expire for the first tradeable object, and further based on the second net filled short position and the working spread sell position associated with the second tradeable object and the second time to expire for the second tradeable object; determining an average spread length based on the first average expiration time and the second average expiration time; determining a spread margin requirement using the estimated number of spreads, the average spread length, and a spread base value; and storing the spread margin requirement..
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Stress, conflict and the wrong way of keeping the peace
Recent research has shown that our bodies are intertwined with all our emotional states. Having constant stress means that we are faced with the need to find peaceful surroundings.
What happens when you look for peace and love at home, and you find too many squabbles? You are searching for refuge and find instead constant quarreling with your spouse? Wouldn’t it be healthier to be able to go home and find loving companionship? This kind of home will give your health a boost, and make your heart sing with joy.
We need to say that couple fights are inevitable given that both parties, male and female need to start a fight sometimes when in need of refreshing the connection and companionship, and to keep the relationship growing. But fighting without skills can do a lot of damage to your health and your relationship. It’s the quality of the fighting the factor that matters in preventing unhealthy consequences.
There is the special case of marital conflict when one partner shows passive aggressive behaviors, where a supposedly mature person behaves in a way that pushes their own share of responsibilities to their partner’s side.
And if the partner tries to redress this issue, the response they get is not a good conversation about “what do we need to do now to improve”, but blaming, accusations, bad temper and either sulking or complete withdrawal. Then, women retreat.
When women make the decision to be silent, they are choosing the short way out to protect themselves from a sad situation, and it also signals that they have given up the hope to be treated with respect. Giving up your right to be respected is so stressful that affects women making them more vulnerable to heart attacks.
Now we know more about the price women pay for “keeping the peace by self-silencing”: studies led by Dana Crowley Jack , a professor of interdisciplinary studies at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Wash., have linked the self-silencing trait to numerous psychological and physical health risks, including depression, eating disorders and heart disease.
The quality of the interaction hinges on the mutual respect parties can show for each other, even in the heat of an argument.
Knowing this, there has to be a way to learn how to create a safe environment where both spouses can equally communicate with respect, and this is the area of fair fighting skills.
These are a set of skills that help partners to clarify the situation, allow both sides to recognize their needs and provide a way to find a solution without violence.
Women due to their ignorance of methods to fight fair and assert, find themselves being more attacked, hurt and put down. That is the reason women need fair fighting training! Do you want to learn the necessary skills to be more assertive? Do you need training in fair fighting techniques to deal with any passive aggressive partner in your life?
Here is the way to emotional healing.
1 comment:
Richard said...
Disputes are normal in marital relationships. I agree when you said that women should be assertive and not passive just to maintain peace at home. If a spouse is having a passive-aggressive behavior, being silent would mean condoning such behavior. I've read in a marriage counseling book that a partner becomes overly dominant because the other half continues to be silent. The silence actually enforces dominance because tokens of resistance are not present to counter the aggressive behavior.
There can be a lot of approaches to achieve emotional healing. Women can turn to marriage counseling books or group therapies to understand their own relationships. Talking to other people who have the same problem can also be helpful to come up with ways to resolve disputes inside the family.
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Basic Information
The modern evolutionary synthesis is a common name for the current theory of evolution, which is based in part on the work of Charles Darwin, so it is sometimes known as Darwinian, or NeoDarwinian Evolution. Darwin's theory has adapted and grown to reflect more recent research and concepts such as genes which were poorly understood in Darwin's time, and DNA which wasn't discovered till after he died. The term Modern Evolutionary Synthesis was coined in 1942 by Julian Huxley.
In addition to updating Darwin and incorporating Mendelian Genetics, the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis has also replaced various obsolete theories of the mechanism of evolution, such as Orthogenesis, Lamarckism, and Transmutation of Species.
Mechanisms of Evolution
2. Non-Fiction Book: Evolution for Everyone by David Sloan Wilson
3. Non-Fiction Book: Only a Theory by Kenneth R. Miller
Game and Story Use
• Evolution happens over generations. This means that the shorter the lifespan of a species, the faster it will evolve.
• That's a very scary thought when you consider how fast bacteria, viruses, insects, kobolds and goblins mature and reproduce (not to mention how fast the later two die). In a campaign that spans a few years, the PCs might find themselves fighting species that didn't exist yet at the start of the game.
• See the evolution page for more links and ideas.
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Easy methods to Use the Fasting Mimicking Eating regimen | Wellness Mama
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I’ve been thinking about fasting and associated ideas for a very long time due to the potential for main well being enchancment. Analysis continues to point out promising advantages. For years I’ve been fascinated by the work of Dr. Valter Longo on the subject of fasting and tips on how to use it to extend our odds of a protracted, wholesome life.
I had the distinction of interviewing him on the Wellness Mama podcast (listen here), so at present I assumed I’d share all I’ve discovered about his methodology of fasting referred to as the Fasting Mimicking Eating regimen.
His strategy means that you can get the benefits of fasting, with out skipping meals. ? Learn on!
Dr. Valter Longo and the Fasting Mimicking Eating regimen
Dr. Longo is the Director of the Longevity Institute and a professor who research how getting old impacts the physique and organic sciences on the College of Southern California. His analysis has targeted on longevity, fasting, getting old, and metabolic illness. Based mostly on his intensive analysis, he created a protocol referred to as the Fasting Mimicking Eating regimen or FMD. Right this moment we’re going to debate what it’s and the advantages it might need to give you.
The Fasting Mimicking Eating regimen got here out of Dr. Longo’s analysis of almost twenty years. The weight-reduction plan focuses first on the genes that control how the body ages and responds to illness. The idea is that lifespan and healthspan will be elevated by supporting the expression of those genes.
First, let’s overview a few of the several types of fasting earlier than we attempt to perceive how FMD works and why it’s completely different.
Totally different Sorts of Fasting: The Fundamentals
There may be a number of misinformation on the web and elsewhere about fasting: what it’s, what it isn’t, and tips on how to go about it. As fasting has gained recognition, it has additionally grow to be much less appropriately understood. Dr. Longo is among the world’s high consultants with reference to fasting.
Dr. Longo’s greatest fasting fact is that “fasting” in and of itself doesn’t imply something. You possibly can say “consuming” and it doesn’t really inform anybody something about your weight-reduction plan. The identical is true for fasting as a result of there are such a lot of other ways and kinds to go about it.
Fasting in lots of varieties nearly at all times means calorie restriction ultimately. Many sorts of fasting will induce ketosis resulting from decrease caloric consumption and infrequently decrease carbohydrates.
Some sorts of fasting embody:
• Water fasting: the identify just about says all of it… you simply drink water for a time period. You possibly can examine my experience (and cautions) about water fasting here.
• Alternate day fasting: not consuming any meals each different day (however nonetheless consuming water)
• 16/8: time-restricted fasting: consuming is proscribed to solely 8 hours throughout the day, typically referred to as intermittent fasting
• 5:2 fasting: a fasting strategy the place 2 days every week solely 500 energy are consumed
• Fasting mimicking diets: a protocol the place, for 3-7 days, anyplace from 300 to 1,100 energy are eaten on a selected protocol to imitate the advantages of fasting with out complete deprivation
Dr. Longo explains that, as with many issues, there are positives and negatives about all sorts of fasting. Not all sorts are good for everybody, so it’s by no means a good suggestion to simply do one thing by yourself with out personalised recommendation out of your healthcare supplier.
Be aware: Prolonged water fasts ought to solely ever be achieved below medical supervision and have extra severe dangers. Even below medical supervision, water fasting can nonetheless produce robust signs. These can embody fatigue, gastrointestinal signs, thyroid issues, and glucose imbalances, to not point out extra severe points like an infection or inflammatory issues. Please do your personal analysis and solely do one below the steering of your physician.
Why Fasting Mimicking?
Dr. Longo’s analysis focuses on Fasting Mimicking plans as a result of, in contrast to water fasting, they’re broadly safer and will be as efficient with out the dangers or deprivation.
I personally discover Fasting Mimicking to be fascinating. Whole deprivation from meals seems like torture to many individuals (though I’ve had constructive experiences, and it sounds worse than it truly is). Nonetheless, a protocol that accomplishes most of the similar advantages with out having to fully skip meals could be a nice start line for many individuals.
Enter the Fasting Mimicking Eating regimen. However how does it work?
FMD gives steering on macronutrients, like protein, as a result of it comprises amino acids. Amino acids are referred to as the constructing blocks of protein, and it’s how the physique actually repairs and restores cells and tissues. In addition they management development hormone ranges and insulin-like development issue 1, each of that are extremely concerned within the pace at which the physique ages and develops illness processes.
FMD additionally modulates sugar consumption to assist blood glucose, as a result of that controls one other gene referred to as PKA, which influences getting old and illness, too.
Well being Advantages of a Fasting Mimicking Eating regimen
Fasting Mimicking can affect genes in a strong means by offering the gasoline and circumstances the physique must implement some protecting modifications. It’s so impactful that it has an affect on gene expression lengthy after the Fasting Mimicking Eating regimen has ended. After simply 5 days of FMD, protecting advantages will be proven for months afterward.
These are the demonstrated advantages of following an FMD, in response to analysis.
Cell Safety with Autophagy
Autophagy is the physique’s inner protecting mechanism for eliminating cells which are damaged or broken. Cells replicate at completely different charges, relying on the place they’re within the physique. Pores and skin cells are changed each 2 weeks, whereas purple blood cells are changed each 2.5 to 4 months. The epithelial cells that line the intestinal partitions are changed each 5 days.
Cells are at all times replicating. In that course of, they switch DNA. Typically data will get misplaced or cells are broken. If the physique is allowed to proceed with damaged or broken cells, or ones lacking essential data, the physique would quickly deteriorate! Autophagy is the physique’s built-in system for cleansing home of damaged, broken, or previous cells with dangerous data.
A examine by Dr. Longo and colleagues from 2015 confirmed that the FMD plan helped to optimize the method of autophagy. Because of this, it has a protecting impact on cells and will even assist to sluggish mobile degeneration and getting old. Autophagy can also be proven to ramp up in nerve cells in response to short-term fasting.
Most cancers and Chemotherapy
Cancer is the second main reason behind demise in america (behind coronary heart illness). Whereas chemotherapy has been capable of deal with and produce many sorts into remission, the immune suppression of chemotherapy presents a hazard in and of itself. Immune system malfunction can also be a set off of most cancers, when the physique fails to destroy broken cells by means of autophagy.
A 2015 examine in mice confirmed that extended fasting might improve stress resistance in cells, in addition to the power for them to resume and regenerate. A number of rounds of fasting had been additionally capable of lower immune suppression and mortality related to chemotherapy.
A 2018 overview discovered that FMD, when paired with chemotherapy or immunotherapy, was capable of improve how properly the remedies labored whereas lowering unwanted effects.
Cardiovascular Well being
There are a lot of elements that have an effect on coronary heart well being. In a 2019 randomized trial of 100 topics, those that adopted the Fasting Mimicking Eating regimen in comparison with a standard weight-reduction plan skilled weight reduction, fats loss, decreased blood stress, and decrease ranges of fasting blood sugar, triglycerides, LDL ldl cholesterol, and C-reactive protein (an inflammatory marker).
This helpful image of FMD on elements that may affect coronary heart well being demonstrates the constructive results it may well have on folks in danger for illnesses associated to irritation and getting old.
Physique Weight
In the identical trial of 100 randomized topics who adopted both a standard meals plan or the Fasting Mimicking Eating regimen for 3 months (3 completely different 5-day FMD cycles), those that had been on the FMD plan misplaced weight and physique fats. Having extreme physique weight can improve the chance of many sorts of continual and age-related illnesses, so discovering a technique to assist ongoing and prolonged healthy weight is crucial.
The advantages of Fasting Mimicking additionally prolong to autoimmune circumstances like a number of sclerosis and irritable bowel illness (IBD) like Crohn’s and ulcerative colitis.
A number of sclerosis (MS) is a neurological degenerative illness with roots in autoimmunity. Previous analysis has proven that, general, particular diets haven’t been very profitable at treating or reversing MS signs.
Animal analysis from 2016 confirmed that periodic 3-day cycles of the Fasting Mimicking Eating regimen had been capable of tackle the foundation reason behind MS—assault on the myelin sheath of the spinal twine by the immune system. FMD was capable of cut back the severity of the situation in all mice and was even capable of reverse signs in 20 p.c of these studied. A Fasting Mimicking Eating regimen can promote immune system steadiness in addition to assist to restore the myelin sheath. FMD is discovered to be secure and efficient for treating relapsing remitting MS.
In animal research, FMD was additionally capable of cut back irritation within the intestines and improve the quantity of protecting good micro organism within the intestine. Three rounds of FMD was capable of decrease systemic irritation and enhance immune and stem cell ranges, displaying potential for eliminating IBD irritation.
Who Can Observe a Fasting Mimicking Eating regimen Plan?
It’s clear {that a} Fasting Mimicking Eating regimen has a number of potential advantages! Whether or not or not it’s best for you is dependent upon a number of elements. Checking along with your private healthcare supplier is the 1st step.
In case your physician provides the all-clear, following a Fasting Mimicking weight-reduction plan plan would possibly assist:
• Drop some weight
• Scale back threat for coronary heart illness, diabetes, autoimmunity, or different continual well being issues
• Handle a situation that FMD has been proven to be useful for
• Dwell a protracted life and selling healthy aging
A Fasting Mimicking Eating regimen is extra of a life-style shift with two elements: the 3-7 day fasts the place you’re taking in fewer energy for a set period of time, and the opposite days the place try to be consuming with well being in thoughts.
Dr. Longo isn’t a legalist in relation to this. As he explains, it’s in regards to the majority of what you’re doing. If you need a small little bit of sugar in your espresso, it’s such a small quantity that it’s not going to rewrite your genetic code. However the cumulative impact of a number of sugary sodas, desserts, and high-carb, refined meals each day—these will add as much as negatively impression the longevity of your genes.
Easy methods to Observe a Fasting Mimicking Eating regimen Plan
One of many essential ideas of an FMD plan is to eat low protein and excessive unsaturated fats, and to general cut back energy throughout the fasting interval. Plans ought to nonetheless be personalized with a healthcare supplier, however the common FMD plan will embody round 1,100 energy the primary day, and simply 800 or much less the following few days.
Protein restriction mixed with the fasting-mimicking protocol is what provides the weight-reduction plan plan its helpful results. So, no, you may’t simply eat high-protein (or no matter you need) on your allotted energy throughout the quick. Wholesome fat are additionally necessary for the weight-reduction plan’s advantages.
Easy methods to begin? Learn Dr. Longo’s e book The Longevity Diet to get began. Dr. Longo says that the FMD will be achieved anyplace from a couple of instances a yr to as soon as a month, relying in your present state of well being and age.
When you do observe a quick mimicking weight-reduction plan, just remember to observe correct refeeding strategies on the finish. Breaking a quick by speeding headlong into consuming high-calorie, high-carb, and high-fat meals will make you are feeling sick and will be harmful.
This text was medically reviewed by Dr. Shani Muhammad, MD, board licensed in household medication and has been practising for over ten years. As at all times, this isn’t private medical recommendation and we suggest that you just discuss along with your physician or work with a health care provider at SteadyMD.
Have you ever ever tried a Fasting Mimicking Eating regimen? You probably have, share within the feedback the way it went. When you haven’t, what drawbacks or questions do you continue to have?
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Flu Shots and Vaccinations
GBS|CIDP Foundation International Position on Flu Shots and Vaccinations
**This information is intended for general educational purposes only. Any decisions regarding vaccinations should be made in consultation with your primary doctor.**
You can find more information on the flu shot and GBS here
Learn about The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program
Vaccines and Guillain-Barré SyndromeKey-Facts-About-Seasonal-Flu-Vaccine
Summary: Vaccines are usually safe for most people; their potential benefits usually outweigh their small risks. However there is a lack of data to guide the use of immunizations in former GBS patients. For the rare person who developed GBS within four to six weeks of receiving an immunization, the Foundation advises to avoid the same immunization in the future. The decision to receive a vaccination is likely best made by conferring with the patient’s primary physician and following guidelines in the product literature.
History of Guillain-Barré Syndrome and Vaccines
GBS is a rare disorder caused by damage of the peripheral nerves. Major features are weakness, paralysis, and sometimes even breathing issues. Most patients recover but some are left with long term weakness. Infections commonly precede GBS and are thought to “trigger” GBS through a process called “molecular mimicry.” In this process, the body’s immune defense system attacks an infecting microbe and then inadvertently attacks peripheral nerves that “look” similar to that microbe.
The start of an American vaccination program against swine flu in the fall of 1976 was followed by more cases of GBS in vaccine recipients than would have been expected by chance. This experience raised concerns that future flu or other vaccines might also increase the risk of developing GBS.
However, a study of adverse events of flu shots given during the two flu seasons after 1976 showed no increased risk to developing GBS[i]. A recently published study looked carefully at vaccine recipients over the course of 11 years, 1995-2006, and found no increased risk of developing GBS from influenza or other vaccinations[ii]. Other studies suggest only a rare association with influenza vaccine citing an incidence of 1 or 2 excess cases of GBS over expected per million vaccinations[iii].
The risk of a former GBS patient developing GBS again from a vaccination is not known as the complication rate from vaccinations in recovered GBS patients has not been properly studied. Members of the GBS|CIDP Foundation Global Medical Advisory Board have deliberated on the safety of immunizations for former GBS patients and offer the following guidelines: For the rare person who developed GBS within four to six weeks of receiving an immunization, it seems prudent to avoid that vaccination in the future. For those whose GBS did not follow soon after a vaccination, there is no reliable data to indicate the risk of developing GBS after a vaccination.
Ultimately, former GBS patients should discuss the pros and cons of receiving a vaccination with their primary physician to evaluate its benefits and risks. Influenza is dangerous, accounting for 40,000 or so deaths each year in the US from complications, especially in the elderly and those with chronic illnesses (chronic lung disease, diabetes, etc.). The decision about a former GBS patient receiving or declining a flu shot or other immunization should be well thought out. Discussing this matter with the primary physician is likely the best means to assess a vaccine’s value.
Vaccines and Guillain Barre Syndrome 2018
[i] Schonberger IB et al. Guillain-Barre Syndrome: Its Epidemiology and Association with Influenza Vaccination. Ann Neurol 1981;9 (Suppl 1); 31-38
[ii] Baxter R et al. Lack of Association of Guillain-Barre Syndrome with Vaccinations. CID 2013; 57: 197-204
[iii] Lasky T et al. The Guillain-Barre syndrome and the 1992-1993 and 1993-1994 Influenza Vaccines. N Engl J Med 1998; 339: 1797-1802
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With an ingenious design, intelligent power management, advanced battery technology, low power radio and actuation system, Bitlock can perform more than 10,000 lock/unlock operations on a single battery. This is enough to provide a 5-year battery life under average usage (5 lock/unlock operations per day) before replacing the battery.
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Reader Kayos Troll
In case you missed it in the comments, our esteemed colleague “Weavingword” got rid of the one-star bashings that some malicious little left-wing nit posted on my books on And here’s how she did it.
Step One: “See all reviews.” 2. Scroll down to the review in question. 3. Find “Was this review helpful to you?” 4. Click “Report abuse” button, and when they ask, give them a reason why. In this case, it was because the reviews were not reviews of any books but merely personal attacks on the writer.
Weavingword wins by knockout in the first round. As for the troll, let him contemplate the following message:
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ديفيد أوتيو (مواليد 27 يوليو 1973) لاعب كرة قدم مكسيكي دولي معتزل كان يجيد اللعب في خط الهجوم .
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Teen With Cancer Hopes to See Parents Before Dying Qirat Chapra says there's "nothing like your parents."
-- A Texas teenager facing a life-threatening illness is hoping she can see her family one last time.
Qirat Chapra hasn't seen her parents since arriving in the U.S. as a child to treat multiple illnesses, including lymphoma and chronic lung disease.
"I’ve been here 13 years and I’ve been in and out of the hospital ever since," Chapra told ABC News. "I have a lot of family members and relatives here and they’re really great and so supportive, but there’s nothing like your parents."
She said she just wants to share a few simple experiences with her parents in person, instead of only talking with them on the phone or by email.
Chapra, 18, is a patient at Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston where she is being treated for T-cell lymphoma and other illnesses, including lung disease and pneumonia.
Neelam Ghanchi, an aunt who’s caring for the teen, told ABC News station KTRK that Chapra was born in the United States, moved to Pakistan but then returned to the U.S. at the age of four when she first became sick. She has been separated from her family in South Asia ever since.
"I'm only surviving because of all these prayers and all this belief and living up to each day that my parents would come hug me," Chapra told KTRK-TV.
Her aunt said the family is hoping that their visas will be approved so they can visit Chapra one last time.
"I really want them here," Chapra told ABC News. "I want to see them before I get really sick and can’t do anything with them."
Thousands have signed an on online petition that asks the Obama administration to grant visas to Chapra's family.
Chapra is not in hospice care, hospital officials said, but her condition is extremely serious.
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Ancient Greek Art
What is the Archaic smile?
Take a good look at an Archaic kouros or kore sculpture and you may notice a subtle, yet lighthearted smile playing on its lips. The close-lipped Archaic smile gives cold stone sculptures a sense of warmth and life. Over six feet tall, the Berlin Kore (570–560 B.C.E.) has remnants of red paint and depicts a poised, column-like woman. Her robes fall rigidly and the folds in the fabric look almost like the fluting of a Doric column. She also holds a pomegranate, which therefore links her to the mythological deity Persephone, who was abducted by Hades and taken to the underworld as his wife. Contrasting the otherwise stoic austerity of the work, the Berlin Kore features a warm Archaic smile, which brings her to life.
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Genomic Approaches Identify Novel Gene Associations with Out of Season Lambing in Sheep.
Sheep are seasonally polyestrous, traditionally breeding when the day length shortens in the autumn. The changing photoperiod stimulates reproductive hormones through a series of chemical pathways, ultimately leading to cyclicity. Some breeds of sheep, such as the Polypay and Dorset, have been selected for reduced seasonality and can lamb year-round. Despite this selection, there is still variation within these breeds in the ability to lamb out of season. The identification of out of season lambing quantitative trait loci has the potential to improve genetic progress using genomic selection schemes. Association studies, fixation index (FST), and runs of homozygosity (ROH) were evaluated to identify regions of the genome that influence the ability of ewes to lamb out of season. All analyses used genotypic data from the Illumina Ovine HD beadchip. Genome-wide associations were tested both across breeds in 257 ewes and within the Dorset and Polypay breeds. FST was measured across breeds and between UK and US Dorsets to assess population differences. ROH were estimated in ewes to identify homozygous regions contributing to out of season lambing. Significant associations after multiple testing correction were found through these approaches, leading to the identification of several candidate genes for further study. Genes involved with eye development, reproductive hormones, and neuronal changes were identified as the most promising for influencing the ewe's ability to lamb year-round. These candidate genes could be advantageous for selection for improved year-round lamb production and provide better insight into the complex regulation of seasonal reproduction.
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Adding a ApplicationBarIconButton from Application.Resources in XAML
I have a ApplicationBarIconButton which I use repeatedly on multiple pages.
I want to be able to define the Click action in my Application C# file.
I have
<Application.Resources>
<shell:ApplicationBarIconButton
x:Key="AddLocationAppBarIconBut"
IconUri="/icons/appbar.add.rest.png"
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in my App.xaml file and I want to load it into another page I have under
<phone:PhoneApplicationPage.ApplicationBar>
How do I go about this exactly?
Can I bind a click event to an event in my Application cs file?
A:
Unfortunately, you can't!
In full WPF framework, you'd be able to do something like this:
<phone:PhoneApplicationPage.ApplicationBar>
<shell:ApplicationBar>
<shell:ApplicationBar.Buttons>
<StaticResource ResourceKey="AddLocationAppBarIconBut" />
</shell:ApplicationBar.Buttons>
</shell:ApplicationBar>
</phone:PhoneApplicationPage.ApplicationBar>
The trick here is in the usage of StaticResource, but Silverlight doesn't have a backing class representation like that; you can only use the Markup Extension as {StaticResource AddLocationAppBarIconBut}, but this won't help you here!
What you can is define the full ApplicationBar object as a resource and then just call it on the page like this:
<phone:PhoneApplicationPage ApplicationBar="{StaticResource ApplicationBarResource}">
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<phone:PhoneApplicationPage />
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Corwin & Corwin LLP - Construction Law
Industry Knowledge Meets Legal Experience - Proven Counsel For Construction Projects.
Home » Articles » Tips For Reducing Your Litigation Costs
Tips For Reducing Your Litigation Costs
Litigation costs are an important element in pursuing or defending any construction claim. There are ways in which you can help control and even reduce those costs.
Construction litigation can get expensive due to the extensive number of project documents that may be relevant to your claim or defense. One of the simplest methods to control your litigation costs is to actively assist your lawyer in obtaining and organizing the relevant information and documents. Not only will this help to control costs, but it will also avoid situations where important documents are undiscovered until well after the litigation is under way. The late production of documents can lead to a court excluding those documents, not on the ground of relevancy, but because they were simply found too late.
There are a number of “dos” and “don’ts” that can save time and money.
• DO designate a point person for the collection of information and documents required by your lawyer. The most logical person to collect information is the project manager. Don’t make your lawyer chase the project manager, the project engineer, the superintendent, or other key personnel to obtain information. It only takes more time and results in a disorganized and incomplete collection of relevant information and documents.
• DON’T collect the information in a piecemeal manner. This results in repetitive review of documents by your own personnel and your lawyer.
• DO have your point person collect all documents from every person or department involved in the project including estimating, engineering, accounting, and field personnel. This includes obtaining any notes, documents, or photos kept by any employee in all personal files. This also includes all documents and correspondence saved in computer files, most importantly e-mails.
• DO have these documents immediately organized into separate files, such as contract documents, addenda, correspondence, plans, sketches, submittals, field reports, requisitions, change orders, field directives, punchlists, photographs, and any other major category.
• DO scan or import these documents to a CD or USB drive. Reducing multiple boxes of documents to a few CD’s will ensure that your lawyer is able to easily and quickly access and search documents.
• DO prepare summary sheets of the contract, listing the original contract amount, approved change orders, the date and amount of each payment and a summary listing all disputed extras.
• DON’T be the judge of what is relevant. Collect and organize all documents so that your lawyer can determine which documents are relevant to the claim or defense.
• If subcontractors or material suppliers are involved, DO have your point person obtain the job records kept by that subcontractor or supplier.
Every step you take to assist your lawyer in the gathering and organization of information and documents means that your lawyer can spend their time concentrating on the legal issues. The bottom line is that time is money, and time saved is money saved.
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Because French Montana's smash single, the Harry Fraud-produced "Shot Caller," wasn't already big enough, he got label boss Diddy and rapper pal Rick Ross to hop on the remix. The Bronx native was able to rally them and plenty of his buddies to a set somewhere to shoot some celebratory visuals. Even though we've played this cut do death, we're not about to pass on giving it another spin. You can, too, by watching the video above.
[via RapRadar]
Who Is French Montana?
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Published: Sept 2, 2003 2:05 a.m. ET
ANNANDALE, Va. (CBS.MW) - It's not exactly an all-around bond buy signal. But it's at least something that beleaguered bond market investors can hang their hats on.
It's a recommendation to buy tax-exempt bonds, issued last Friday afternoon by Richard Band, editor of Richard Band's Profitable Investing.
Band's rationale for doing so is based on the very narrow spread between the rates paid on tax-free bonds and taxable ones of similar maturities. Band believes that the inevitable widening of this spread renders tax-free bonds attractive even if general bond market interest rates continue to rise a bit more from current levels.
In theory, tax-exempt bonds should have the same after-tax yield as taxable bonds of similar credit quality and maturity. Since the primary demand for bonds come from investors in the highest tax bracket, this typically means that tax-exempt bonds will have a before-tax yield that is around 20 to 30 percent less than comparable taxable bonds.
This theory can't explain what we're seeing now, however. Consider the current yields on two of the Vanguard mutual funds that focus on intermediate term bonds. The Vanguard Intermediate Term Treasury Fund VFITX, +0.00% has a yield of 3.28 percent, while the Vanguard Intermediate Term Tax Exempt Bond Fund VWITX, +0.00% is yielding 3.31 percent.
How did this anomalous situation come about? Band believes "the hoopla over President Bush's dividend tax cut lured wealthy investors (the main constituency for munis) into high-yielding common stocks. As a result, the yield gap between tax-free municipal bonds and Treasuries of the same maturity has narrowed to the vanishing point."
Of course, it's always dangerous to assume that we know more than the market does. So it's important to at least ask the question: Might the market be acting rationally?
It would be if income tax rates were going to be dramatically lower over the next decade than they are today. In that event, tax-exempt bonds on a pre-tax basis would need to yield almost as much as taxable ones in order to be competitive on an after-tax basis.
But Band doesn't put much stock in that possibility. "In fact," he says, "muni yields could even drop as Treasury yields tick up -- if, for example, the Democrats gain traction in the presidential rate and threaten to repeal the GOP tax cuts."
Band suggests buying individual tax-free bonds instead of a tax-free bond mutual fund, for several reasons. "With individual bonds, you pay only one commission... There are no ongoing fees after the purchase, like you incur with a fund. You also get to choose your maturities and call dates."
However, Band makes an exception to his overall advice in the case of two tax-free bond funds. That's because they are closed-end funds trading at a discount to their net asset value per share, and "I'm always glad to buy merchandise for less than what I know it's worth."
These two closed-end tax-free bond funds that Band finds attractive are the Morgan Stanley Quality Municipal Income Trust IQI, +0.70% and, for investors in California for whom this second fund's interest would be exempt from both federal and state income tax, the Van Kampen California Value Municipal Income Trust VCV, +1.24%
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Monday, August 17, 2015
Julian Bond: RIP ... And Thank You
Julian Bond, Civil Rights leader, activist, politician, professor and writer died yesterday at the age of seventy-five.
From the 60s the the 21st Century he fought for change, for equality. He helped establish the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee [SNCC] and he served for over twenty years in the Georgia House of Representatives and its Senate. He was the first president of the Southern Poverty Law Center [SPLC]; he was selected as chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [NAACP] and stayed on until 2009 when the organization celebrated its 100th anniversary.
For Bond Civil Rights means rights for everyone, and he was as outspoken an advocate for the LGBT community as he was for the African American community. He publicly stated his support for same-sex marriage and even boycotted the funeral services for Coretta Scott King — who supported LGBT rights — on the grounds that the King children had chosen an anti-gay church as the venue; he was a lot of things, to a lot of people, but let’s have Julian Bond tell us who he was in his own words:
African Americans ... were the only Americans who were enslaved for two centuries, but we were far from the only Americans suffering discrimination then and now.... Sexual disposition parallels race. I was born this way. I have no choice. I wouldn’t change it if I could. Sexuality is unchangeable.
The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute.
Discrimination is discrimination no matter who the victim is, and it is always wrong. There are no special rights in America, despite the attempts by many to divide blacks and the gay community with the argument that the latter are seeking some imaginary special rights at the expense of blacks.
If you don't like gay marriage, don't get gay married.
I do think that some of us began to realize that this was going to be a long struggle that was going to go on for decades, and you’d have to knuckle down. A lot of people in our generation did that. They didn’t drop out and run away.
Most of those who made the movement were not famous, they were the faceless. They were the nameless, the marchers with tired feet, the protesters beat back with fire hoses and billy clubs, and the unknown women and men who risked job and home and life.
If your Bible tells you that gay people ought not be married in your church, don't tell them they can't be married at city hall. Marriage is a civil rite as well a civil right, and we can't let religious bigotry close the door to justice to anyone.The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.
There is no coloration to rights. Everybody has rights. I don’t care who you are, where you come from. You got rights. I got rights. All God’s children got rights. We could make a song out of this. But anyway, I think this discussion is more a diversion than anything else. Because we all have rights. And they are human rights because we are human beings. And that’s just it for me.
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31 Dec 2015
Category: book
Tags: book, crime, nonfiction, okay
I have always been interested in the criminal justice system both from a fiction and non-fiction perspective. Forensics is a non-fiction book about the various forensic sciences written by an author of fictional crime stories. It is basically a series of anecdotes, interviews, and case studies about a variety of different techniques used to catch and prosecute criminals.
I thought this book was just okay because there was a lack of depth. Specifically, I wanted to hear more about specific techniques and methodologies at a more detailed and scientific level. As it stands, this is a survey of what exists at the highest level, with an example case or two that demonstrates where the technique was first used or where it was very important to the outcome.
One strange aspect of this book for me personally was that the author is British and therefore most of the examples are in the UK legal system. I say this is strange because there is quite a bit of difference between the UK and US legal systems as well as how juries react to certain evidence. Therefore, I think it would be interesting to find examples strictly from the US legal system that are parallel to the ones in the UK in this book. The forensic techniques are basically the same so for that purpose the setting did not really matter.
After reading this book, I may look into more detailed books that focus on one or two of the different forensic sciences alone. All that being said, if you want a quick overview of the reality behind shows like CSI and Law & Order, then this is definitely something good to pick up.
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7 Types Of Coin Collectors – What Type Are You?
coin-collector-coin-collection-by-aresauburn.jpg Okay, so we know that there are all kinds of coin collectors in the world and that they all collect different types of coins.
But beyond that, do you know what type of coin collector you are?
That is, how do you define your coin collecting habits?
Believe it or not, there are several types of labels that coin collectors often apply to their specific types of collecting traits.
While a lot of people don’t like to box themselves in with labels, it does help to know what type of coin collector you are.
Why? Because you will have a better idea as to what coin collecting clubs to join, what kinds of coin dealers to seek out. And you will have more insight as to what types of coins you should be looking for in coin catalogs and coin magazines.
#1 – Type Coin Collectors
When someone asks, “What type of coin collector are you?” you may reply with, “I’m a type collector.”
Saying you are a type collector may sound rather humorous and vague in its own way.
But in fact, type collectors are numerous and belong to a very important and major group of coin collectors.
Type collectors are people who collect one example of every coin, design, denomination, or metal from a certain period of time.
What this means is that type collectors focus less on having every single date-and-mintmark combination from a coin series. They often spend their time trying to get representative examples of coins that belong to a certain time period instead.
Now, time periods are commonly used as the basis for deciding which coins to collect, but collecting all the designs from a certain denomination, country, coin designer, and other similar bounds are common as well.
If you wanted to collect all the coins from, say, the 20th century, you would need to first identify each of the designs made during those 100 years. Then you would need to collect one example of each of those designs.
Here’s everything you need to know about collecting 20th century coins.
1955-doubled-die-cent-Lincoln-penny-photo-public-domain-on-Wikipedia.png#2 – Error Coin Collectors
There are entire groups, clubs, and organizations dedicated to serving the error coin collector.
There also are many books and educational videos with the error coin collector in mind. And, there are coin dealers who specialize in error coin collecting.
A lot of people are interested in collecting coins with errors on them. What do I mean by errors?
I am referring to coins that have been struck 2 times — leaving a double-image of some or all of the design on the coin. These are called double dies.
Error coins also include coins that are not struck at all (blank coins), partially struck, clipped (leaving a crescent-shaped cut on the coin), and well the list of possible mistakes goes on and on.
If you are interested in collecting coins that don’t look like they are supposed to and the mistake was caused by the Mint, then you are an error coin collector.
#3 – Novelty Coin Collectors
A lot of people who ask questions here at The Fun Times Guide inquire about coins they have which don’t look like common coins.
For example, many readers have asked about these unique coins:
…and a number of other types of interesting pieces that you would not typically find in pocket change.
These coins are usually real, but they did not get struck at the Mint looking the way they now do. Instead, many companies, private individuals, and others have modified or altered the appearance of those coins to honor a special occasion, event, person, or place.
These modifications made to a genuine U.S. coin are collected as novelty coins.
Many numismatists don’t like collecting novelty coins because they simply deem them as being altered coins. However, there is a significant market for novelty coins. The fan base for these often unique coins is large.
You can regularly find novelty coins on the Home Shopping Network, which deals in selling numerous colorized and gold-plated United States coins. Another popular place to find novelty coins would be from a coin dealer who sells novelty coins.
Keep in mind that novelty coins may be neat to look at, but they don’t necessarily make for good investments. Buy novelty coins to appreciate the artistic quality some have, not because you are hoping to retire from the money you may get by selling them!
#4 – Bullion Coin Collectors
Okay, now let’s talk about coins that do usually make good investments: bullion coins. Bullion coins refer to investment-level coins struck almost purely from silver, gold, or platinum.
Bullion coins are often found in investment portfolios, but also are popular among coin collectors who appreciate the beautiful designs found on United States bullion coins.
Bullion coin collectors, like bullion investors, must pay careful attention to the value trends of the bullion coins they are buying because the prices for some fluctuate as quickly as the prices for stock shares — no joke.
People buying large quantities of bullion coins may pay a significantly higher or lower price one hour than they may pay the next hour. Of course, that would be on the occasional day when bullion prices are sharply and quickly increasing or decreasing in value.
Bullion collectors tend to collect both the uncirculated and proof versions of bullion coins, though the proof versions are usually sold with the collector in mind. Proof bullion coins have higher-quality surfaces and sharper strikes than the uncirculated versions of bullion coins.
#5 – Topical Coin Collectors
If you appreciate coins because of the kind of image they have on them, then you may be a topical coin collector. That is, you collect coins because they have designs of certain subjects you like.
If you are a sports fan, you will be chasing after sports-themed coins, such as:
Bird fans rejoice with the image of any U.S. coin with the image of the bald eagle.
coin-loupe-by-Kalense-Kid.jpg Canada’s 1967 centennial dollar with an image of a flying goose and the mid-20th century English farthings (with an image of a wren) are 2 other coins the topical coin collector would go after.
And the list of possible subjects goes on.
Topical coin collectors can easily make their own rules and, often, have to travel outside of the United States to find coins that match their subject interest.
While this may sound challenging, many coin dealers sell foreign coins. Therefore, it makes it easy for topical coin collectors to find the coins they want for their collections.
#6 – Modern Coin Collectors
What exactly is modern? Well, answering that question depends a lot on whatever you define it to be.
For U.S. commemorative coin collectors, that means any commemorative coin made since 1982. This is the first year of non-circulating commemorative coinage since 1954.
For collectors of U.S. Colonial-era coins, modern may mean any coin made since 1776.
In general, collectors of modern U.S. coins tend to deem any coin made since 1900 as modern, though this definition is not scientific.
Modern U.S. coin collecting generally entails pursuing coins like:
NOTE: Morgan dollars (1878-1921) may or may not fall into the category of modern though this depends on the collector.
#7 – Rare Coin Collectors
Rare coin collectors are those who chase after the scarcest, often priciest coins ever made.
Rare coin collectors are among the breed of hobbyist that may spend a weekend at a coin auction ready to spend thousands of dollars on the most sought-after coins that reach the block.
However, many rare coin collectors choose not to go to auctions and instead look for their coins from dealer catalogs and even on the Internet.
Rare coin collectors may not buy their coins with any particular design, era, series, designer, or nation of origin in mind. Yet, there are also many rare coin collectors who look to buy rare coins from a certain nation, era, metallic type, etc.
Rare coin collectors may also collect coins not necessarily rare but, rather are considered semi-key. In general, semi-key coins are those which are considered significantly scarcer than most coins.
But they are usually plentiful enough to be found in many coin collections.
Rare coin collectors may also seek coins which are highly common in lower grades but are considered greatly difficult to locate in higher grades.
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• Anonymous
me poor, collect pennys from take one leave one jar at gas station
• bob
i found a box of the san francisco 49ers “then and now” official 1994-1995 limited edition coin collection albums and coins. knowing me i must have put them up there around that time. looks like at leat 50 folders still in bubble wrap. maybe 500 coins or so in original plastic bags. can you give me any input on what i’ve got. thank you in advance bob j elk grove
• hi
Idk what kind of collector i am. I have coins from the early 1800s such as the capped bust
and coins from the mid 1800s like the large cents and late 1800s like indian head pennies. I also have barber coins and mint sets
• JoshuaTheFunTimesGuide
It sounds like you are a collector who appreciates classic American coinage. Nice collection!
• dustyg
You forgot the large number of us who collect Ancients, including Proto-Money (items used as currency before coins were used in those areas), and coins from about 600 BC to about 1000 AD, including Ancient Greek and Roman coins.
• JoshuaTheFunTimesGuide
That is true, collectors of ancient coins and similar types of money comprise a large part of the coin collecting community. Thank you for pointing out the omission in the article, and we will remember to include more nods to the ancient collectors in the future.
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Statement modifiers (yes, again)
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Matthijs van Duin
March 18, 2003 13:04
Statement modifiers (yes, again)
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I just read Piers' summary:
>Matthijs van Duin wondered if the issue of multiple statement modifiers
>has been settled. The thread is long, and the answer is essentially (and
>authoritatively) "Yes, it's settled. No, you can't do it." So, unless
>Larry changes his mind the point is moot.
So apparently I haven't presented my point in that thread very well
Don't get me wrong, if the answer is "no" then that settles it for me, but
most of the thread was not about multiple statement modifiers at all. So
it's the wrong question that has been answered.
To summarize what I said:
1. Has the issue of multiple modifiers been settled (answer: yes it has,
by Larry, and the answer is "no")
2. If multiple modifiers aren't done, how about <insert proposal>
It's point 2, that proposal I'd like feedback on: to replace the
conditional statement modifiers (if, unless, when) by lowest-precedence
left-associative operators, leaving only loops and topicalizers (for,
while, given) as statement modifiers.
To save people from having to re-read the thread, here is the actual
proposal in detail again:
Replace the 'if', 'unless', 'when' statement modifiers by identically
named lowest-precedence left-associative operators that short-circuit
from right to left.
This means 'FOO if BAR' is identical to 'BAR and FOO', except it has a
lower precedence, and 'FOO unless BAR' is identical to 'BAR or FOO',
except it has a lower precedence. FOO and BAR are arbitrary expressions.
Because of left-associativity, 'FOO if BAR if BAZ' is identical to
'BAZ and BAR and FOO'.
'FOO when BAR' is similar to 'FOO if BAR' except BAR is matched magically
like the rhs of the ~~ operator and an implicit 'break' occurs if true.
1. it doesn't hurt anything: existing use of the modifiers (now operators)
remains functionally the same.
2. it allows new useful expressions
3. it is more consistent: 'if' has no reason being more special than 'and',
4. it shouldn't make parsing more difficult
Matthijs van Duin -- May the Forth be with you!
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Watch The Erzberg Rodeo, In Slow Motion
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Is there any feat of off-road motorcycle riding more impressive than climbing out of the gravel quarry and up the mountain at Austria’s Erzberg Rodeo? Every year, thousands of riders start and only a handful reach the summit. This slow motion video does a good job of explaining why.
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Conservatives Snatching Defeat From the Jaws of Victory
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When I was a kid, there was a very simply rule of conduct, people in polite society did NOT talk about politics, religion, sex, or money in public.
In fact, unless you lived in the proverbial “one horse town,” your neighbors probably wouldn’t have any idea what church you attended.
A man’s vote or support for a candidate was a private matter and people who wore support pins did so only at political rallies.
That old saying, “No one knows what goes on behind closed doors,” was both a warning to mind your own business about my private life and a pledge that I won’t get involved in your private life.
Your salary, how much money you had in the bank (or under your mattress), and how much you spent or saved was simply private and personal information and most people had no idea how a person lived their financial life until the reading of the will.
Today, Republicans claim to adhere to the values that made America great. Yet, second only to blaming liberals and Obama for the destruction of America, conservatives do their darnedest to play the self defeating game of exclusionist politics all based on rejecting those basic rules of polite society. From national figures on major media outlets to your “friends” on social media, the message is loud and clear, if you aren’t “my” kind of conservative (unless you agree with me on religion, sexual or reproductive issues, my political candidate, and how people should spend their money), you aren’t a “real” conservative.
Meanwhile, Democrats have played a long game of inclusion. That is, as long as you vote with us, we don’t care what you believe in your private life, we accept you. This practice of inclusion has resulted in groups of people, who otherwise have nothing in common, voting in mass for the same candidate. Just think about this for a moment, the Democrats can count blacks, Jews, socialists, skin-heads, welfare recipients, dockworkers, and homosexuals as their support base. Clearly it isn’t because these groups all believe in the same things. Nazi skin-heads, blacks and Jews, certainly don’t all agree on world views.
In vox pols in 2008, people were asked three questions,
1. Do you consider yourself a Republican, Independent or Democrat?
2. With which party do you intend on voting.
3. Why?
More than half of those who responded considered themselves Independent and of those voters over 80% said that they would vote for the Democrat candidate. Despite the fact that most of the responders said that they agreed with the concept of smaller government, less regulation, and less intrusion into the personal lives of citizens, when asked why they wouldn’t vote for the Republican candidate, the overwhelming response was essentially some version of “I’m not rich, white, or evangelical, so that candidate wouldn’t support me.”
Just last week, the leader of a local Republican group announced that “we should all support X candidate because he is a good, God-fearing Christian family man, who pays his bills on time.” I wish that I had been shocked. Conservatives for more than a decade have moved farther and farther into “none of your business territory” to the detriment of this country and the Republican Party. We can all blame the liberals for driving us in the wrong direction, but with Republicans fighting in the backseat over who is the “real” conservative, we have no one to blame but ourselves.
So, let’s get this straight. There is a difference between a political conservative and a religious conservative. A political conservative is someone who believes in a small, constitutionally mandated government, limited intrusion into the private lives of citizens, and limited regulation as to the business of citizens. Religion is NOT an element of a conservative political position. Some people who are conservative politically are also religious conservatives, but they are not mutually exclusive.
In fact, you can be a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Jewish, Wiccan, or Atheist political conservative.
You can be a pro-choice or a pro-life political conservative.
You can be a homosexual or heterosexual political conservative.
You can be a wealthy political conservative or a dirt poor political conservative.
No matter what your religion, which candidate you support, what you believe about sex or reproduction, or how you spend your money, if you believe in a constitutionally based, small government, limited intrusion into the public lives of citizens, and limited business regulation, you ARE a political conservative.
Candidates and their supporters are so vehemently going after other conservatives who don’t share their religious beliefs, financial realities, sexual and reproductive beliefs, or chosen candidate that it will be impossible to forget the hateful and hurtful personal attacks and join behind one candidate come election time. Every day I hear, “oh we will all support anybody but Obama come election time,” but statistics show that that simply isn’t true. The disenfranchised conservative may not vote for Obama, but they will simply stay home and not vote at all.
It’s ironic that limited intrusion into the lives of citizens is a corner stone of the conservative belief, yet day in, day out people who claim to be conservative’s demand that we agree with their position on social issues. I say it’s high time that political conservatives adopt the real, traditional, American values of minding our own business when it comes to the religion, sex, financial realities, and the preferred candidate of fellow political conservatives.
Can we survive four more years under Obama? Unless we focus on small government, less intrusion into the lives of citizens, and limited business regulation and become open to ANYONE who agrees with the political conservative stance and mind our own business about the rest, we are guaranteeing another term and the destruction of this country. Wake up fellow conservatives, exclusion is snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
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21778 Kings Crossing Ter, ASHBURN, VA – $445,000
21778 Kings Crossing Ter
WELCOME HOME!! Through the main entry, guests are welcomed into the foyer and an open kitchen with breakfast bar, family room, dining space, and large windows with plenty of natural light. Double doors lead to the large back deck overlooking common space - Beautiful View! This functional townhome has stairways leading up and down allowing for both formal and causal spaces. Upstairs offers three bedrooms, two full bathrooms, laundry closet, and lots of storage. The master bedroom offers large window with great sunset views, vaulted ceiling, walk in closet with built in shelves/drawers, standing shower and oval soaking tub. The lower level features a versatile recreation/entertainment room, separate area with closet which can be used as an office/den, large storage closet with shelving and pegboard, full bath, gas fireplace, and new carpet! French doors walk out from basement level to the stone patio, wooden swing, and fully fenced back yard!~ Back gate leads right out to the common space. This home has two assigned parking spaces, a welcoming walkway, grand front bay window, and more! The sellers have lovingly maintained this home and recently updated with some fresh paint! Community has a large and small pool, gated tennis, multiple newer play areas, walking paths, bridges, additional parking near clubhouse, event room with rental options, and more! New roof, New Paint, New Floors - YES! Be sure to check out the nearby expected Silver Line Metro Stop, shopping, and restaurants.
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Planned vs. Spontaneous sex - Debunking the myth
Planned vs. Spontaneous sex - Debunking the myth
In the movies, we often see scenes in which the actor throws himself at his female counterpart and rips her clothes off.
A sudden, indomitable lash of desire gets them wild, even before they enter the apartment.
Post the 'quarrel' scene, we often see how the leads make up in dramatic love tangles in the car.
Needless to say, we're getting conditioned to this pattern.
A movie scene about a couple who's having mindful sex will look boring on screen.
This is exactly why in sex therapy we struggle with the myth of spontaneous sex.
One of the main reasons why spontaneity is overrated is because of the 'pop culture dictatorship'.
The other one is the lack of pressure to perform while having impulsive sex.
Often spontaneous sex means no expectations, hence no performance anxiety.
For some reason, it's also drilled into our heads that spontaneous means really passionate.
When I hear my clients complain about 'sex not being spontaneous anymore', often it's about the need of feeling wanted.
They want to feel desired.
They want to see that someone wants them so much that she/he can't resist themselves.
They want their partner's boldness and courage to express emotions.
This urge for passion is actually the urge for love, surrender, attention, born out of the need to be 'in control'.
And, for some passion occurs only when they do something 'bad', something which nobody else wants them to do.
If someone else wants them to do it too, they can't say if it's their need or someone else's.
This is a problem with autonomy and boundaries - solvable within the four walls of therapy and coaching.
And a separate topic to tackle.
ALSO READ - Sex Fantasies And You - Get To The Bottom Of Your Erotic Visions
Back to busting the myth between Planned and spontaneous sex, Planned sex is premeditated.
Partners are prepared for it.
They have a fantasy about what they'll do together. They also know when it's going to happen.
The partners have time to imagine it, then serve each other what they like best and check if they want something new.
But what's important to note is that they don't get attached to their fantasy scenarios.
They are aware of the unpredictable reality and that their scheduled sex night might finish with 'Netflix & chill' literally.
The space for 'NO' makes the situation risky.
And exciting.
Sex never happens out of the blue.
It's always a consequence of fantasy, even if it's impulsive.
And impulsive doesn't necessarily mean good.
Fantasy fuels desire.
Committed sex is premeditated and mindful. You need time create time and erotic space - first in your mind, then in your bedroom.
Planning and scheduling sex requires seduction as well.
It's not like you meet in the bedroom and undress while you talk about chores.
"Hey! It's been 3 weeks. Shall we?"
To make things romantic and hot, it has to have a sexy context.
This is why the invitation to the bedroom is such an important part of foreplay.
It can be a gaze, it can be a touch, it can be a compliment, it can be a playfight, it can be all of this together and something completely different - anything that suits you as a couple and creates a sexy ritual that helps you transform from your ordinary selves to erotic selves.
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I asked my friends who describe their sex life as amazing after years of being together as to what do they think about the spontaneous vs. planned sex dilemma.
Angela (34), mother of two, and has been in a relationship for the past six years says -
What does it mean to be spontaneous? For me, spontaneous happens when we're getting it on somewhere outdoor, hiding in some public space. But it's rarely for sex per se, it's more for fun.
What we do for sex is always planned because sex for us is more about exploration, development, attention, and connection. Of course, it happens sometimes that we just release tension with a 'quickie'. But it's like comparing a three-course meal at an upscale place with fast food. No doubt you can enjoy both but it's not recommended to eat only fast food.
To that order, having only compulsory 'spontaneous quickie' is sad as well. You need a good a balance of both. That's my opinion.
Martin (32), who works as a financial risk controller in Swedish bank, and has been in a relationship for four years now, answered my question with a story about his everyday observations -
I know that my partner isn't in the mood when she puts on sweatpants and my t-shirt to bed. And at times I take it as a challenge to see if I can her in the mood. My ex-girlfriend took my initiating as a pressure. She got angry at me like I was making a mistake by showing my desire for her.
With Eli, my current partner I feel that she appreciates me initiating but she would never have sex with me only to please me. In most situations, I manage to turn her on eventually and the 'sweatpants state of mind' is gone. If not, we schedule sex for another day.
We don't just plan everyday chores, we also plan activities which we're looking forward to.
When you want to prepare a fancy dinner for your partner, which you assume they will like, you need to know the recipe first.
You need to know what to buy, how to prep the ingredients, the method, and you can't wait for your partner to taste it.
The same can be said for planning sex.
Imagination fuels desire.
And it can turn you on, energize you!
So, which side of are you on?
Planned or spontaneous sex? Or maybe a little bit of both?
Let us know in the comments.
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Directions:
Peel the turnip and grate it in a microplane. In a container, sprinkle the grated turnip with salt, stir and let sit at room temp for 30-45 minutes.
Cut the cucumbers into chunks and slices (no wrong answers here). Toss them in a bowl with lemon juice and olive oil and season with salt to taste.
To plate: Spread Crème Fraîche on plate, then top by placing a layer of cucumbers, then picking apart the trout in chunks, place among the cucumber. Repeat until desired serving size. Then, place salted turnip and dill on top, adding a few cracks of fresh ground black pepper to finish.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
This is another recipe from the the shift.com. And apparently this one has changed quite a number of hands before landing to shift.com. As they put it this recipe is "derived from My Bombay Kitchen, a collection of Parsi home recipes by Niloufer Ichaporia King, by way of The Traveler's Lunchbox, by way of The Wednesday Chef, who says, "I could almost guarantee that you will find yourself hoarding it, instead of giving it away as you might think you would after lining up all your neatly-filled crimson jars just after filling them."
Niloufer Ichaporia King's Parsi Tomato ChutneySource: The Traveler's LunchboxMakes about four 8- to 10-ounce jars; recipe can easily be doubled
1. Open a window or two in your kitchen. Place all the ingredients in a heavy nonreactive pot and, over medium-high heat, bring to a boil, stirring well. Continue to cook, stirring every five to seven minutes (more frequently towards the end of the cooking time), until the chutney has the consistency of a soft jam, about an hour. Be careful not to scorch the chutney.
2. While the chutney is cooking, sterilize four or five glass jars and lids in boiling water or a hot oven. When the chutney has finished cooking, ladle it carefully into the clean jars and quickly screw on the lids. Turn the jars upside-down to cool. If you plan to eat the chutney within a few weeks of making it, there's no need to can it; simply keep it in the fridge.
Monday, June 6, 2011
One of my favorite dishes to order at Chinese restaurants in Chinatown is steamed fish. The fish is usually really fresh, coming either from the fish tanks within the restaurant or from the abundant Ctown's fish mongers. I'm convinced that this is the only way to order fish, as the recipe is a relatively healthy one - it doesn't have any of those mysterious gooey sauces and you actually know what type of fish you're eating.
It is also a very easy and quick recipe to replicate at home. It takes about 15-20 minutes to make, including prep time. You will need however either one of those Chinese wooden steamers or a wide enough pot with a steamer rack. The rack can be picked up at any Chinese store that sells cooking appliances for about $3. The good thing about Chinatown is that everything is cheap and nearby. And you can buy all of your supplies in a matter of an hour.
First thing you need to do is find a shop that has the freshest fish. For this recipe I like to use sea bass, which is easy to find. This is a great fish because it is not bony, has beautiful white flesh with a good amount of meat and mild flavor. If you order this dish in a restaurant the chances are you will be given a choice between sea bass or flounder, which is absolutely delicious but is often frozen.
So to the way to pick out the freshest fish is, first of all, not to be afraid to get your hands a little dirty. Don't ask the guy to give you one, select it yourself. Step right up to the counter and start touching. There're four things to look for.
1. Size. I like them at about 2lb or 12-14" including head and tail, so I can fit them in my pot. 2. Clearest eyes. Fish eyes tend to cloud and become milky-white if the fish has been lying there for too long. 3. The flesh should be firm and bounce back when you press it with your finger. And finally, probably the most important sign, 4. Lift one of the gils, it should be healthy, dark red. If the gils have brown tint, the fish is not fresh.
Now ask the guy to gut it and clean the scales. Normally you would steam it with the head attached, but if that's not how you roll, tell him to cut it off as well. Then you need peanut oil ( or use a mix of vegetable oil and sesame seed oil), good quality rice vinegar, some good soy sauce (I prefer Premium Dark kind, it's more concentrated and you can use less of it so it's not that salty). You can get some Chinese cooking rice wine to marinate the fish, but I have tried without it and can barely tell the difference. You need some cilantro, green scallions, ginger and garlic.
Here it is in more detail:1 sea bass - 2lb, about 14" long. Gutted and scales cleaned.1/4 cup of peanut oil1/3 cup of light rice vinegar2 large cloves of garlic, cut into thin stripsSame amount of ginger, cut into thin stripsHalf a cup of cilantro, coarsely minced3 whole stalks of young green scallion3 stalks of scallion cut into 2 inch segments on an angle and halved
First wash the fish, pat it dry and set it on a plate. With a sharp knife make quick diagonal slashes across one side of the fish, taking care not to cut too deep. Slice garlic and ginger, take a pinch and spread it inside the fish's gut. Drizzle some of the vinegar over the fish and let it stand while you prep the rest of the ingredients. Meanwhile, place the steam rack in your pot, pour some water in so there's about an inch of space between the surface and the rack. Bring water to a boil. When the water is rolling, reduce the heat, take three whole stalks of the scallion, cutting off and discarding the softest green tops, and place the scallions diagonally across the steam rack. This will prevent the fish from sticking to the rack. Finally, carefully place the fish on top of the scallions, making sure the fish rests comfortably and the entire surface is straight and even. Cover the pot, bring it to an even boil and let it steam for about 5-7 minutes.
Meanwhile, pour the oil into a small sauce pan and heat it over medium heat, until the oil starts to crackle and there's a whiff of just a slight smoke. Reduce the heat to a minimum and check your fish. You can tell the fish is ready when the diagonal cuts open up and the flesh is uniformly white. Turn off the heat under the fish and carefully, using a spatula and taking care not to tear the fish appart, transfer it into a large plate, large enough to accomodate the sause. When that's done, sprinkle the rest of the garlic, sliced scallions, ginger and cilantro over the fish. Take the heated oil and very carefully pour it over the fish. There will be crackling and slight splattering as the oil comes in contact with the fish's skin, crisping it. When the oil is poured take the soy sauce and the rest of the vinegar and drizzle over the fish. It's done.
One note about serving the fish. You will need two table spoons. Use a side of one spoon to cut across the spine of the fish, while lifting the meat off the bone. Use the second spoon to help you separate the bones as you fillet the fish and flip it butterfly open. Lift the spine with the attached bones, it should separate right off, and discard it. Check for renegade bones along the spine and pour the sauce over the meat.
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Some people call the stretch of Ninth Ave between 56th and 42nd streets, a little Thailand. And it's true that there's at least one and perhaps more Thai joints on nearly every block. But you realize very soon that most of those are either tourist trap versions of what the Thai may think Americans must think of Thailand and Thai food, or mini fast food chains with food akin Chinese greasy-spoon take-outs but more saccharine if not nauseatingly sweet. (Yes, I am talking about you Yum-Yum Bangkok I, and II, and III, and IV, and V).
It would have been a complete waste if it wasn't for some rare exceptions. Won Dee Siam, the one between 52nd & 53rd, and uber trendy Room Service have been satisfying my Thai food cravings with consistently solid if slightly generic menu. Until recently, that is.
Pure Thai Shophouse has opened it's doors in October 2010, and right away became a place to go for excellent and authentic Thai food. As soon as the construction scaffolding came down you could sense the difference. The restaurant brakes the mold with tasteful storefront design that includes a simple type marquee, surrounded by iridescent bulbs, and a sign featuring an iconic elephant. Inside shows the same degree of restraint and good taste. To recreate a feeling of an authentic Bangkok noodle shop the designers used unfinished wooden boards for the walls and old corrugated metal sheets for the ceiling. Not without a number of cute gimmicks, such as pulley suspended tip bucket, Pure is an exercise in maximizing space without sacrificing comfort and functionality, and good taste.
Curiously enough, the design and concept of the place reminded me of one of my other favorite spots called Recipe, on Amsterdam Ave on the Upper West Side. Although entirely different - Recipe serves a version of new American cuisine, with some excellent terrines and pickled vegetables, they both make use of vintage styling and found objects and both of their menus hark back to the do-it-yourself country grocery ethos. As I later found out to my surprise, David who owns and is an executive chef at Pure, also owns Recipe.
But what about the food you ask? Well, in short, It's excellent. To me, it's one of the best restaurants in the city. Period. No matter the cuisine. The combination of taste-to-price-to-quality is simply unbeatable.
First hint that it's not your regular Thai is the amount and power of spice these guys use. They love chilly, and don't try to modify the recipe to appeal to a broader crowd. The waitress will warn you however if the dish is spicy, and her spicy is VERY spicy. She will also love you afterwards if you have enough balls finish it.
Pure does offer some of the Thai stand-bys such as Pad Thai and Pad See Ew. But if you are in the mood for noodles, skip those and head straight for the house specialty - Ratchabury. These home-made egg noodles, a family recipe by the way, come flawlessly cooked with slices of pork and real crab meat in light and fragrant broth. Order it with a poached egg on top.
But I would strongly recommend exploring more original items on the menu. We all had Green Papaya Salad, right? Not really, until you try it at Pure. It's spicy and tangy and explodes with fiery chilly flavor. It comes with dry shrimp, as a true green papaya salad should. But ask to include a salted blue crab (+$2), and you're in for a real treat. The crab is marinated raw in fish sauce, cracked, its top shell removed, and tossed on top of the pile of green papaya. As you suck on the creamy salty flesh, trying to put out the flames in your mouth and, at the same time, shedding tears that are 50% pain and 50% bliss, you're already planning your next meal here. Because that dish is addictive.
Equally addictive and, probably the spiciest item on the menu, is Wok Chili Turmeric With Beef. I have tried a similar dish at Jitlada in LA. There it's called dry curry beef and is a recipe LA Times food critic Jonathan Gold swears by. To my taste Pure's version is better - the balance between the flavors of green peppercorns, kaffir lime, turmeric and hot chilly is mind boggling. Literally. It feels like it burns direct pathways to your brain's addiction centers. You suffer with every bite, but unable to stop. And it's hard to tell wether the speed with which you devour the dish relates to it's actual taste or more to your desire to extinguish the heat engulfing your whole being sooner.
Another fantastic dish on the menu, albeit not spicy at all, is Fried Rice With Lump Crab Meat. This too is a true masterpiece, as I have never tasted rice that fluffy yet chewy, and ingredients so flavorful that you want to just scoop it up with a spoon. For extra kick ask a waitress for a mix of fish sauce and fresh green chillies. And it's guaranteed to send you to heaven.
The wait staff is great and attentive and specials change every three days. Pure bliss this place is.
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Malignant wide complex tachycardia after adenosine administration to a postoperative pediatric patient with congenital heart disease.
Adenosine has become the treatment of choice for paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia because of its safety and efficacy. There have been no reports of malignant arrhythmias occurring after adenosine administration. This case report presents the occurrence of a malignant wide complex tachycardia after intravenous adenosine administration in a 10-year-old boy 2 days after a Fontan procedure. Thus the administration of adenosine in a critically ill postoperative patient can have morbidity or potential mortality and must be monitored closely.
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Asaf Fybish
Asaf Fybish is a Tel Aviv-based growth marketing professional. He likes all things organic, especially when it comes to growth. He's our Chief of Stash at StartupStash
19 Free WhatsApp Alternatives: Best Chat Apps
WhatsApp is one of the most popular online chats in the world. It counts over 1.9 billion users in 2019 and 60 billion messages are sent there per day. As you may already know, Facebook acquired WhatsApp. It is a free, security-wise app with end-to-end encryption so that the users enjoy accessible communication with each other.
WhatsApp allows you to send text messages, images, and video files, make free voice and video calls, send voice messages. You can use it on a smartphone or desktop. Thanks to multi-platform feature all your data will be available on all devices.
However, WhatsApp had some significant privacy issues in the past, and Facebook does not have a clean rap sheet on that. Also, many users just don’t feel like being a part of huge ecosystems like Facebook.
Whatsapp Alternatives
Whatever concerns you may have about WhatsApp, here is a list of 19 best Whatsapp alternatives you can try today.
1. Viber
Just like Whatsapp, Viber is an online chat that uses contact numbers to identify users. When you register, you get a code sent to your mobile phone number. You can call users for free, send messages, images, and videos, and unlike Whatsapp, it offers a lot of funny stickers to spice up your chats.
Platform: iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Bada, Mac, Windows
Download: iPhone | Android
2. Skype
Skype is the world’s best-known app for video calls. Skype has a new updated design that allows you to send messages, images, and files to a user, make videos and voice calls.
You can use it on both desktop and smartphone, but the most significant disadvantage of Skype is that spammers can send you messages there. We have written an article about Skype alternatives, so feel free to check it out.
Platform: iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Mac, Windows
Download: iPhone | Android
3. Google Hangouts
Google Hangouts can be a perfect Whatsapp replacement. You can connect and chat with all your friends who have a Gmail account. It is a separated app for sending messages on a smartphone, or you can use it inside Gmail.
But you can’t use it to chat with friends who do not have Gmail account. With the app, you can create group chats, send files, and search the text messages.
Platform: iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Mac, Windows
Download: iPhone | Android
4. WeChat
Wechat is a favorite chatting app in China. Similar to how you register to Whatsapp, you need to use your phone number and verification code. Connect to your email or Facebook to find people who also use WeChat.
Besides, it allows you to share files, location, make video and voice call for free, send messages.
Platform: iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, web
Download: iPhone | Android
5. Telegram
Just like many apps on this list, Telegram offers end-to-end encryption for all communication. Besides, you can send text and media messages in a chat with up to 200,000 users. Telegram claims to use cloud-based technology that allows sending messages faster than any other apps. Telegram is free and open-source.
Platform: Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Windows desktop, Linux (both 32 and 64-bit), macOS, and also offers a web version
Download: iPhone | Android
6. Line
When you register to Line, you need to use your phone number. This way you can find other users from your contact list who also uses Line and connect with them. You can install Line on your PC via email and chat with your friends.
You can not only send messages but also call other users for free. You need an instant internet connection to use this chat app.
Platform: Android, iPhone, iPad, Windows Phone, Mac, Windows
Download: iPhone | Android
7. Kakao Talk
Kakao Talk also uses your phone number and verification code when you register. You can use free chats with messages, calls, and videos with as many users as you want.
It allows you to send up to 100MB of files in your PC, including documents, videos, and images. Besides, you can even go live using your Kakao Talk app.
Platform: iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Mac, Windows
Download: iPhone | Android
8. Tango
Tango is a popular mobile video platform for broadcast. First, it appeared as a voice and video app that expands into the social network. You can broadcast your life online in the best possible quality. Besides, Tango allows you to send messages and media files.
Platform: iOS, Android
Download: iPhone | Android
9. Wire App
With end-to-end encryption and simple interface, Wire app is one of the best alternatives to Whatsapp.
Skype co-founder Janus Friis created it. To sign up, you need to provide your phone number and email address, however, this info will not be shared to anyone.
Platform: Android, iOS, web
Download: iPhone | Android
10. Kik
KIK is one of the most secure and private apps in this list. It has developed a little bit bad reputation as it was used for drug dealing and other stuff. It does not use your phone number so that only a username can identify you.
Besides, all messages are stored only on your phone that is a privacy feature.
Platform: iOS, Android
Download: iPhone | Android
11. Kontalk
Kontalk is an open-source, free chatting app for Android, web, and desktop. You can keep all the files entirely on your super secure server. You will be the only person in charge of all the chats you have with your friends and family.
Platform: PC, Android, Linux, Mac
Download: iPhone | Android
12. Threema
Threema is another chatting app for mobile phones with a similar interface to Whatsapp. You can send images, text messages, and GPS location in the chat.
It also syncs all your contact list so that you can easily find Threema users. Even developers have no way to read messages from the app; it means all your chat history is protected and locked forever.
Platform: Windows, Android, Linux, Mac, iOS
Download: iPhone | Android
13. Signal
Signal is a popular chatting app with a high level of privacy and user security. You can set up a timer for messages to be deleted that is a unique feature.
Just like with Whatsapp, you can send text messages, create group chats, share files, and make video/voice calls.
Platform: Android, iPhone, desktop
Download: iPhone | Android
14. Snapchat
Snapchat is a popular app for creating online Stories that disappear in 24 hours. This feature was stoled by Instagram a while ago and then copied by many other apps.
Even Whatsapp has a similar feature with 24-hours stories. With Snapchat you can not only share stories, try different funny masks with a camera, but also connect with friends and create your emojis.
Platform: Android, iOS
Download: iPhone | Android
15. Discord
Discord is a handy text and voice chat for gamers. It is secured, and it works for both a smartphone and a desktop. Moreover, Discord is a community for gamers built around playing games.
Their free voice and text messenger will help you to connect with people with similar interests.
Platform: Windows, Android, Mac, iOS
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16. Instant Messenger
IM+ is an all-in-one app for messaging in social media accounts. You can collect all your chat history from Facebook, Instagram, Skype, Pinterest, Telegram and Twitter on Instant Messenger.
It can save you a lot of time and the most important, a lot of space on your iPhone. Now it’s available only for iOS.
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17. Voxer
Voxer is a walkie talkie (PTT – push to talk) messenger and their main feature is voice messages. Just like with any other chat app, you can also send text messages, media files, and GPS location.
Voxer also has a pricing plan for business purposes. You can use it for fast customer support for $6.25 per month. Try this app 14 days for free.
Platform: Android, Windows, iOS
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18. Slack
Slack is a great, handy tool for work teams. It allows you to create chats with many users, share different types of media, and collect all the files for a project in one place. It will enable you to send not only text messages, but also make voice and video calls.
It’s free for small teams, but if you are going to use it actively for bigger groups, consider getting their business plan.
Platform: Chrome, iOS, Android, Mac OS, Windows
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19. Cyphr
For those of you who are looking for complete privacy with your chats, Cyphr is a perfect solution for you. With this app, all your messages are encrypted and secured.
Create an account for free, generate your key, and start chatting. This way only you and your friend can read these messages, not an internet provider, developers or third parties. Desktop and web versions are coming soon.
Platform: Android, iOS
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New Swedish environment minister named
Lena Sommestad has been named Sweden's environment minister following the return to power of Social Democrats after September elections (EED 02/10/02). Ms Sommestad is taking over from Kjell Larsson, who is suffering from ill health. The 45-year-old economic historian stressed the importance of forthcoming work on Sweden's sustainable development strategy. She said that this reflected, in modern form, the fundamental values and views of social democracy, including the need for long-term investment in common resources - as well as market competition. See Swedish environment ministry.
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Friday, January 18, 2008
Computer Saccades
Via a link to a link to a link to someone's link in the comments section to a post on Reason Hit and Run, there's this really cool web app that shows you the computer's thinking pattern as it plays you in Chess.
Have fun with it here.
The point, really, is that it's pretty useless on the whole. It tells you what you always suspected: that computer chess is hugely "brute force," consisting of considering a staggering combination of moves. Silicon computers are massive speed, smallish memory capacity, whereas human brains (which are computers) are slow speed, huge memory capacity. The mystery in Chess is sorta why humans are able to do it so well at all. What tips us that certain lines of thought are probably fruitless early enough to stop them and move on to something else?
It's sort of an urban myth in Japan (I say that because I haven't been able to verify this on the web) that best all-time Shogi player Habu Yoshiharu is at his most relaxed when playing. That is, it's widely said that brain scans of him playing show that he's thinking less than normal. Maybe true, maybe not, but it certainly squares with the idea that whatever humans are doing when they're doing things like playing Chess well, it's manifestly NOT "brute force." I can't remember which of Habu's biographers said it, but I remember reading a book about Habu in Japan that said something like "it's an open secret in the Shogi world that the move you make is just the one you like. There isn't any great reasoning that goes into it - rather, one just occurs to you and you spend all your clock time justifying it to yourself." I can vouch for that for myself. I play Chess pretty well. I'm not great by any means, CERTAINLY nothing like a pro - but I do a good job. And that's pretty much how I play too, yeah. Some move just "seems right." There's one that I just want to do for whatever reason. And most of what looks like "thinking" to an outside observer is just me playing devil's advocate with myself, trying to figure out what would go wrong if I did that move that I "want" to do.
Still, click the link and enjoy a round. It's fun watching the computer play through pretty much every possibility before making up its mind.
All of this, of course, is occasioned by the fact that Bobby Fischer's just died. Not the great loss for the Chess world that it probably should be (he hasn't played professionally in decades), but a great loss nonetheless. My favorite alltime Chess game is one of Fischer's. I haven't been able to find the transcript online, but if I run across it I will post it in an update as a my memorial.
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2017 Men's EuroHockey Championship II
The 2017 Men's EuroHockey Championship II was the seventh edition of the EuroHockey Championship II, the second level of the European field hockey championships. It was held from 6 to 12 August 2019 in Glasgow, Scotland. The tournament also served as a direct qualifier for the 2019 Men's EuroHockey Nations Championship, with the winner Scotland and runner-up Wales qualifying.
Qualified teams
The following eight teams, shown with pre-tournament world rankings, competed in the tournament.
Format
The eight teams were split into two groups of four teams. The top two teams of each pool advanced to the semi-finals to determine the winner in a knockout system. The bottom two teams from each pool played in a new group with the teams they did not play against in the group stage. The last two teams were relegated to the EuroHockey Championship III.
Results
''All times are local (UTC+0).
Preliminary round
Pool A
Pool B
Fifth to eighth place classification
Pool C
The points obtained in the preliminary round against the other team are taken over.
First to fourth place classification
Semi-finals
Third and fourth place
Final
Final standings
Qualified for the 2019 EuroHockey Championship
Relegated to the EuroHockey Championship III
Notes
References
External links
FIH results page
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Dr. Beard Criticized- HP Blavatsky - Theosophy Trust
Dr. Beard Criticized
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Dr. Beard Criticized
As Dr. Beard has scorned (in his scientific grandeur) to answer the challenge sent to him by your humble servant in the number of The Daily Graphic for the 13th* of October last, and has preferred instructing the public in general rather than one "credulous fool" in particular, let her come from Circassia or Africa, I fully trust you will permit me to use your paper once more in order that by pointing out some very spicy peculiarities of this amazingly scientific exposure, the public might better judge at whose door the aforesaid elegant epithet could be most appropriately laid.
For a week or so an immense excitement, a thrill of sacrilegious fear, if I may be allowed this expression, ran through the psychologized frames of the Spiritualists of New York. It was rumoured in ominous whispers that G. Beard, M. D., the Tyndall of America, was coming out with his peremptory exposure of the Eddys' ghosts and—the Spiritualists trembled for their gods!
The dreaded day has come, the number of The Daily Graphic for November the 9th is before us. We have read it carefully, with respectful awe, for true science has always been an authority for us (weak-minded fool though we may be), and so we handled the dangerous exposure with a feeling somewhat akin to that of a fanatic Christian opening a volume of Büchner. We perused it to the last: we turned the page over and over again, vainly straining our eyes and brains to detect therein one word of scientific proof or a solitary atom of overwhelming evidence that would thrust into our Spiritualistic bosom the venomous fangs of doubt. But no, not a particle of reasonable explanation or of scientific evidence that what we have all seen, heard and felt at the Eddys' was but delusion. In our feminine modesty, still allowing the said article the benefit of the doubt, we disbelieved our own senses, and so devoted a whole day to the picking up of sundry bits of criticism from judges that we believe more competent than ourselves, and at last came collectively to the following conclusion:
The Daily Graphic has allowed Dr. Beard in its magnanimity nine columns of its precious pages to prove—what? Why, the following:
First, that he, Dr. Beard, according to his own modest assertions (see columns second and third) is more entitled to occupy the position of an actor intrusted with characters of simpletons (Molière's "Tartuffe" might fit him perhaps as naturally) than to undertake the difficult part of a Prof. Faraday vis-à-vis the Chittenden D. D. Home.
Secondly, that although the learned doctor was "overwhelmed already with professional labours" (a nice and cheap reclame, by the way) and scientific researches, he gave the latter another direction, and so went to the Eddys. That, arrived there, he played with Horatio Eddy, for the glory of science and the benefit of humanity, the difficult character of a "dishevelled simpleton," and was rewarded in his scientific research by finding on the said suspicious premises a professor of bumps "a poor harmless fool"! Galileo, of famous memory, when he detected the sun in its involuntary imposture chuckled certainly less over his triumph than does Dr. Beard over the discovery of this "poor fool" No. 1. Here we modestly suggest that perhaps the learned doctor had no need to go as far as Chittenden for that.
Further, the doctor, forgetting entirely the wise motto, Non bis in idem, discovers and asserts throughout the length of his article that all the past, present and future generations of pilgrims to the "Eddy homestead" are collectively fools, and that every solitary member of this numerous body of Spiritualistic pilgrims is likewise "a weak-minded, credulous fool"! Query—the proof of it, if you please, Dr. Beard? Answer—Dr. Beard has said so, and Echo responds, Fool!
Truly miraculous are thy doings, indeed, O Mother Nature! The cow is black and its milk is white! But then, you see, those ill-bred, ignorant Eddy brothers have allowed their credulous guests to eat up all the "trout" caught by Dr. Beard and paid for by him seventy-five cents per pound as a penalty; and that fact alone might have turned him a little—how shall we say—sour, prejudiced? No, erroneous in his statement, will answer better.
For erroneous he is, not to say more. When, assuming an air of scientific authority, he affirms that the séance-room is generally so dark that one cannot recognize at three feet distance his own mother, he says what is not true. When he tells us further that he saw through a hole in one of the shawls and the space between them all the manœuvres of Horatio's arm, he risks finding himself contradicted by thousands who, weak-minded though they may be, are not blind for all that, neither are they confederates of the Eddys, but far more reliable witnesses in their simple-minded honesty than Dr. Beard is in his would-be scientific and unscrupulous testimony. The same when he says that no one is allowed to approach the spirits nearer than twelve feet distance, still less to touch them, except the "two simple-minded ignorant idiots" who generally sit on both ends of the platform. To my knowledge many other persons have sat there besides those two.
Dr. Beard ought to know this better than anyone else, as he has sat there himself. A sad story is in circulation, by the way, at the Eddys'. The records of the spiritual séances at Chittenden have devoted a whole page to the account of a terrible danger that threatened for a moment to deprive America of one of her brightest scientific stars. Dr. Beard, admitting a portion of the story himself, perverts the rest of it, as he does everything else in his article. The doctor admits that he had been badly struck by the guitar, and, not being able to bear the pain, "jumped up," and broke the circle. Now it clearly appears that the learned gentleman has neglected to add to the immense stock of his knowledge the first rudiments of "logic." He boasts of having completely blinded Horatio and others as to the real object of his visit. What should then Horatio pummel his head for? The spirits were never known before to be as rude as that. But Dr. B. does not believe in their existence and so lays the whole thing at Horatio's door. He forgets to state, though, that a whole shower of missiles were thrown at his head and that—"pale as a ghost," so says the tale-telling record—the poor scientist surpassed for a moment the "fleet-footed Achilles" himself in the celerity with which he took to his heels. How strange if Horatio, not suspecting him still, left him standing at two feet distance from the shawl! How very logical!
It becomes evident that the said neglected logic was keeping company at the time with old mother Truth at the bottom of her well, neither of them being wanted by Dr. Beard. I myself have sat upon the upper step of the platform for fourteen nights by the side of Mrs. Cleveland. I got up every time "Honto" approached me to within an inch of my face in order to see her the better. I have touched her hands repeatedly as other spirits have been touched, and even embraced her nearly every night.
Therefore, when I read Dr. Beard's preposterous and cool assertion that "a very low order of genius is required to obtain command of a few words in different languages and so to mutter them to credulous Spiritualists," I feel every right in the world to say in my turn that such a scientific exposure as Dr. Beard has come out with in his article does not require any genius at all; per contra, it requires a ridiculous faith on the part of the writer in his own infallibility, as well as a positive confidence in finding in all his readers what he elegantly terms "weak-minded fools." Every word of his statement, when it is not a most evident untruth, is a wicked and malicious insinuation built on the very equivocal authority of one witness against the evidence of thousands.
Says Dr. Beard, "I have proved that the life of the Eddys is one long lie, the details need no further discussion." The writer of the above lines forgets, by saying these imprudent words, that some people might think that "like attracts like." He went to Chittenden with deceit in his heart and falsehood on his lips, and so judging his neighbour by the character he assumed himself, he takes everyone for a knave when he does not put him down as a fool. Declaring so positively that he has proved it, the doctor forgets one trifling circumstance, namely, that he has proved nothing whatever.
Where are his boasted proofs? When we contradict him by saying that the séance-room is far from being as dark as he pretends it to be, and that the spirits themselves have repeatedly called out through Mrs. Eaton's voice for more light, we only say what we can prove before any jury. When Dr. Beard says that all the spirits are personated by W. Eddy, he advances what would prove to be a greater conundrum for solution than the apparition of spirits themselves. There he falls right away into the domain of Cagliostro: for if Dr. B. has seen five or six spirits in all, other persons, myself included, have seen one hundred and nineteen in less than a fortnight, nearly all of whom were differently dressed. Besides, the accusation of Dr. Beard implies the idea to the public that the artist of The Daily Graphic who made the sketches of so many of those apparitions, and who is not a "credulous Spiritualist" himself, is likewise a humbug, propagating to the world what he did not see, and so spreading at large the most preposterous and outrageous lie.
When the learned doctor will have explained to us how any man in his shirt-sleeves and a pair of tight pants for an attire can possibly conceal on his person (the cabinet having been previously found empty) a whole bundle of clothes, women's robes, hats, caps, head-gears, and entire suits of evening dress, white waistcoats and neckties included, then he will be entitled to more belief than he is at present. That would be a proof indeed, for, with all due respect to his scientific mind, Dr. Beard is not the first Œdipus that has thought of catching the Sphinx by its tail and so unriddling the mystery. We have known more than one "weak-minded fool," ourselves included, that has laboured under a similar delusion for more than one night, but all of us were finally obliged to repeat the words of the great Galileo, "E pur, se muove!" and give it up.
But Dr. Beard does not give it up. Preferring to keep a scornful silence as to any reasonable explanation, he hides the secret of the above mystery in the depths of his profoundly scientific mind. "His life is given to scientific researches," you see; "his physiological knowledge and neuro-physiological learning are immense," for he says so, and skilled as he is in combating fraud by still greater fraud (see column the eighth), spiritualistic humbug has no more mysteries for him. In five minutes the scientist had done more towards science than all the rest of the scientists put together have done in years of labour, and "would feel ashamed if he had not." (See same column.) In the overpowering modesty of his learning he takes no credit to himself for having done so, though he has discovered the astounding, novel fact of the "cold benumbing sensation." How Wallace, Crookes and Varley, the naturalist-anthropologist, the chemist and electrician, will blush with envy in their old country! America alone is able to produce on her fertile soil such quick and miraculous intellects. "Veni, Vidi, Vici!" was the motto of a great conqueror. Why should not Dr. Beard select for his crest the same? And then, not unlike the Alexanders and the Cæsars of antiquity (in the primitive simplicity of his manners), he abuses people so elegantly, calling them "fools" when he cannot find a better argument.
A far wiser mind than Dr. Beard (will he dispute the fact?) has suggested, centuries ago, that the tree was to be judged according to its fruits. Spiritualism, notwithstanding the desperate efforts of more scientific men than himself, has stood its ground without flinching for more than a quarter of a century. Where are the fruits of the tree of science that blossoms on the soil of Dr. Beard's mind? If we are to judge of them by his article, then verily the said tree needs more than usual care. As for the fruits, it would appear that they are as yet in the realms of "sweet delusive hope." But then, perhaps the doctor was afraid to crush his readers under the weight' of his learning (true merit has been in all times modest and unassuming), and that accounts for the learned doctor withholding from us any scientific proof of the fraud that he pretends to be exposing, except the above-mentioned fact of the "cold benumbing sensation." But how Horatio can keep his hand and arm ice cold under a warm shawl for half an hour at a time, in summer as well as in any other season, and that without having some ice concealed about his person, or how he can prevent it from thawing—all the above is a mystery that Dr. Beard doesn't reveal for the present. Maybe he will tell us something of it in his book that he advertises in the article. Well, we only hope that the former will be more satisfactory than the latter.
I will add but a few words before ending my debate with Dr. Beard for ever. All that he says about the lamp concealed in a bandbox, the strong confederates, etc., exists only in his imagination, for the mere sake of argument, we suppose. "False in one, false in all," says Dr. Beard in column the sixth. These words are a just verdict on his own article.
On the last night that I spent with the Eddys I was presented by Georgo Dix and Mayflower with a silver decoration, the upper part of a medal with which I was but too familiar. I quote the precise words of the spirit: "We bring you this decoration, for we think you will value it more highly than anything else. You will recognize it, for it is the badge of honour that was presented to your father by his Government for the campaign of 1828, between Russia and Turkey. We got it through the influence of your uncle, who appeared to you here this evening. We brought it from your father's grave at Stavropol. You will identify it by a certain sign known to yourself."
These words were spoken in the presence of forty witnesses. Col. Olcott will describe the fact and give the design of the decoration.
belonged to my father. More, I have identified it by a portion that, through carelessness, I broke myself many years ago, and, to settle all doubt in relation to it, I possess the photograph of my father (a picture that has never been at the Eddys', and could never possibly have been seen by any of them) on which this medal is plainly visible.
Willing as we are to give every one his due, we feel compelled to say on behalf of Dr. Beard that he has not boasted of more than he can do, in advising the Eddys to take a few private lessons of him in the trickery of mediumship. The learned doctor must be expert in such trickeries. We are likewise ready to admit that in saying as he did that "his article would only confirm the more the Spiritualists in their belief" (and he ought to have added, "convince no one else"), Dr. Beard has proved himself to be a greater "prophetic medium" than any other in this country!
23 Irving Place, New York City,
November 10th, 1874
H. P. Blavatsky
* This appears to be a misprint, unless the challenge had been made on the 13th, and was only repeated in the letter of Oct. 27th. —EDS.
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As a top-selling shoe, the Nike Huarache, is known for its chunky heel strap. First debuting in 1991, this Nike shoe featured a forward-thinking design. It was so different than it stood out from the back and caught a lot of interest that has continued in the 2010s. The rise in Nike Huarache popularity was a slow burn, but a trend was recognized as well as a renewed interest that makes this a must-have shoe for sports shoe enthusiasts.
Why You Should Buy a Pair of Nike Hurache Shoes
The shoe features a snug fit that makes the experience of wearing it comfortable. It features an upper neoprene mesh material that contours to the feet. The shoe run true to size and are lightweight and fold easily to fit in a travel bag. The Huarache comes in many colors and suits a variety of different outfits.
Huarache has air-sole cushioning that makes them extremely comfortable and durable. They also offer shoe ventilate with their three-layer mesh and perforated foam upper, which makes them more breathable than other comparable sports shoes. They’re also available in a variety of sizes, making them great for any member of a family. This extremely-light shoe is great for the gym, the track and even the basketball court.
The only downsides mentioned about the shoes by users is that they can be difficult to clean and some experienced having too much room in their toe box.
When you’re looking to purchase new sports shoes, opt for a pair of nike huarache for men or for women. Nike Huarache shoes come in a variety of colors and sizes to suit anyone’s preference.
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Managerial Epidemiology Week 1 Discussion
Credibility of Information
Credibility of information is vital for safe decision-making in any industry. Naturally, in the healthcare field, use of credible information is a must in order for healthcare leaders and managers to ensure that quality and safe care is given to individuals as well as to a community as a whole. How well an article is written and the presence of proper research methods help us determine if sources are reputable. To add, mistakes such as spelling and grammar can help determine credibility. Face validity matters; research/data needs to make sense and if it doesn’t, more analysis is needed. It is important that results correlate with the researcher’s original hypothesis (reason for the research). If an article seems to lead to no specific conclusion, further research needs to be done. If conclusions drawn are not related to the original hypothesis, whether they support or refute the hypothesis, then proper research steps (The Scientific Method) might not have been followed and the article might not be credible. Healthcare leaders never want to be in a position to explain why decisions were made or policies were written using data that is questionable.
Please research and thoroughly discuss the following questions; support your answers with direct quotes or paraphrases from credible sources.
Give at least five characteristics of a credible author.
Give at least five characteristics of a credible website.
What are at least three “red flags” to consider when determining credibility of information?
Please research the South Univer Library and other credible online resources to find three healthcare research studies. Analyze the studies for credibility and discuss your analysis.
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Cook County Sheriff Sues Craigslist for Erotic Services Category
By Eric Goldman
Dart v. Craigslist, Inc., 09-CV-1385 (N.D. Ill. complaint filed March 5, 2009)
Dart, the Cook County, Illinois sheriff, has sued Craigslist in federal court for creating a “public nuisance” because its “Erotic Services” category facilitates prostitution. Unfortunately for Dart, this lawsuit is almost certainly preempted by 47 USC 230:
* 47 USC 230 covers the publication of third party ads. See Cisneros v. Yahoo.
* 47 USC 230 preempts a civil claim that is derived from a criminal statute. See, e.g., Voicenet v. Corbett; Doe v. Bates. The federal crimes exception only applies to the enforcement of federal criminal statutes. Therefore, a civil claim based on state or local criminal laws is unambiguously preempted.
* Although hardly a model of clarity, last year the Seventh Circuit clearly held that Craigslist was covered by 47 USC 230 in a claim that Craigslist violated the Fair Housing Act.
* In distinguishing the Seventh Circuit Craigslist case, the Ninth Circuit’s case pointed out that Craiglist’s listings were open narratives and therefore fully covered by 47 USC 230. The complaint’s allegations that Craigslist was involved in creating the bad content because of its category title, search functions and other attributes aren’t likely to get around either the Seventh Circuit or Ninth Circuit precedent.
* Indeed, the Seventh Circuit concluded its opinion by pointing out that the Craigslist ads made it easier to find lawbreakers:
All of which is true here as well, and all of which is a good reason why the Seventh Circuit isn’t likely to reach a different result here.
At a few points, the complaint implies that Craiglist harmed the sheriff’s office because the office spent $105,000 busting 156 individuals for prostitution through Craigslist. WHAT?! Enforcing laws is what the sheriff’s office is given taxpayer money to do! And, at less than $700/arrest, I wonder if this is CHEAPER than trying to bust prostitution criminals through other techniques. In other words, it’s possible that Craigslist makes it cheaper for the sheriff’s office to do its job, so to claim any harm by spending taxpayer money to do its job is ludicrous.
While this lawsuit is little more than a sad publicity stunt by the sheriff’s office, I remain uncertain whether or not it’s a good thing for Craigslist to have an “erotic services” category. I understand the argument that it centralizes these ads in one place rather than having these ads spammed through other Craiglist categories, but I’m confused what, if any, “erotic services” advertised in this category are ever legal. If everything directed to this category is always illegal, it seems like Craigslist could, and perhaps should, voluntarily choose to eliminate the category altogether. That may require Craigslist to invest some more resources policing its other categories to prevent their spamming/hijacking by the dispersed ads, but that may be the unavoidable cost of a free classified ads service.
UPDATE: A reader points out the Craigslist FAQs:
Q: Why does craigslist have an “erotic services” category?
A: It was established at the request of craigslist users, who were tired of seeing ads for escort services, sensual massage, adult web cams, phone sex, erotic dancing, adult websites, nude housecleaning, etc mixed into the regular personals and services categories.
So it seems that there could be some non-illegal activities mixed into this category. Not having checked out the category myself (and not really wanting to do so from my work computer…), I wonder what percentage of posts actually offer these alternative services? i.e., do users actually regularly post nude housecleaning ads?
UPDATE 2: Craigslist says that its existing deal with the state AGs has reduced erotic services ads 90-95% in 12 months.
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Liu said in 2016 that less hard-working migrants have many children and ‘take welfare from the government’
Liberal candidate Gladys Liu has denied she favoured Chinese migrants in comments from 2016 that suggested “not as good migrants” from other countries were less hard-working, had too many children and lived off welfare after coming to Australia.
Liu, who is standing in the Melbourne seat of Chisholm, made the previously unpublished 2016 comments in answer to a question in a Guardian Australia interview about attitudes among Chinese-Australians towards crime in Melbourne and other migrant communities.
“They blame those migrants who are not as hard-working as the Chinese, not as disciplined in terms of respect for others,” Liu said. “They do distinguish themselves from those not as good migrants, if you know what I mean. Because there are different kinds of migrants. Some are very hard-working, do everything well for the family, for the country. Whereas others they just come in, and they reproduce, and have many children, and they take welfare from the government.”
Federal election 2019: Coalition attacks Labor's childcare plan as 'communist' – politics live Read more
Her comments were made amid widespread media coverage of Melbourne’s so-called Apex gang, a loose group which included a number of people of African background.
In May 2016, six Chinese international students were attacked and robbed in their home in Ormond by a group of young African men. According to the Chinese-language publication Sydney Today, Liu spoke on their behalf to Dandenong police to retrieve their property. Liu has verified her involvement.
In the Sydney Today story, Liu linked the robbery to wider fears of crime and said students were “soft targets”.
“International students being mugged in their bedrooms is linked to the recent security issues within Victoria. In recent times the Apex gang have become bolder, they are pretty much out of control. The police have no way of controlling, they go around destroying and mugging,” she said, in quotes that have been translated.
On Sunday, Liu said she was merely passing on views that had been expressed to her by members of the community.
“In 2016, I was asked about the Chinese-Australian community’s safety concerns in Chisholm. I responded with comments I had received from members of the Chinese community, who had been victims of crime. We welcome migrants from all over the world but encourage them to abide by our laws.”
Labor’s candidate for Chisholm, Taiwanese-born scientist Jennifer Yang, described Liu’s 2016 comments as offensive.
“Gladys Liu’s comments are offensive, racist and insulting to thousands of hard-working Australians of migrant backgrounds,” Yang said. “Gladys Liu’s comments are the sort of thing that Pauline Hanson or Fraser Anning would say and she and prime minister Scott Morrison should apologise.”
Liu was in the spotlight earlier in the campaign when audio from the same 2016 interview showed she had attacked the Safe Schools program and described LGBTI issues as “ridiculous rubbish”, contradicting her claim in an earlier candidate forum that the Guardian’s reporting of her words was “fake” and “wrong”. She later expressed support for equality and said she was reporting the Chinese community’s views. In the 2016 recording, Liu, who was then the communities engagement committee chairwoman for Victoria, also claimed Labor policies would open the gate for refugees, which she said the Chinese community linked to safety.
“People are so frightened about safety and they relate that to immigration policy … [They] blamed Labor for letting some immigrants come in, especially the refugees, and they just don’t like that policy.”
At the 2016 election, Chisholm was the only Labor-held seat to fall to the Coalition. The victorious Liberal, Julia Banks, has since quit the party to run as an independent against the health minister, Greg Hunt, in the seat of Flinders.
On Saturday the UTS sociology professor Andrew Jakubowicz told the Saturday Paper that east Asian votes influenced by religious-based conservatives effectively won the 2016 election for the Coalition, naming Chisholm as one of three crucial seats.
Almost 44% of Chisholm residents were born overseas and almost 20% of residents have a Chinese background.
On Saturday Liu spoke at a Chisholm candidate forum organised by the Australian Christian Lobby at Crossway Baptist church. Yang was also scheduled to speak, but pulled out.
Liu said Crossway – one of the largest evangelical churches in Australia – was where her children came to meet God and be baptised.
In a question and answer session, she said she felt “extremely uncomfortable” with late-term abortion, as the mother of two children.
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Asked about her current position on Safe Schools, she said her position was clear and that she had been involved in organising the presentation of petitions against the program to the Victorian parliament.
“The thing is – [Safe Schools] is not a proper program in a sense that it is not about anti-bullying. What we suggest is – or what I think – is we should have a real, true anti-bullying program. Everyone should be treated with respect but we do not want our children to prematurely be introduced with the contents of things that are not appropriate to the age.”
She received strong applause from the forum audience.
The Labor senator Penny Wong officially launched Yang’s campaign on Sunday, calling on Chisholm voters to elect Australia’s second female Asian-born Labor MP.
“Sadly, I’m sure, all of you here remember when Pauline Hanson had something to say about people like Jennifer and I. Remember? We were all going to be swamped by Asians. And now Scott Morrison is doing deals with Clive Palmer, a bloke who in 2014 described the Chinese as bastards and mongrels,” Wong said.
Wong said Banks had been “replaced by a Liberal candidate who, frankly, has been prepared to do and say anything, including saying things which are not true, in order to get herself elected”.
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C#: A Guide for the Lost and Confused
We regularly use the .NET framework and C# to produce eye-catching websites, but just what are they and how are they used to develop web applications? You just press a few buttons and a pretty site appears, right? Wrong! It’s about time more people understood the work that goes into web development.
In the first of our guides for the lost and confused, we’re tackling C#. By explaining its basic functions and the software that it is used in, we’ll hopefully clear up what it does on a basic level. Before long, we’ll have you explaining C# to anybody who will listen, but read carefully to make sure you hit the right note.
So, just where do you start?
C# (pronounced ‘C Sharp’) is a hybrid language created in addition to the existing C and C++ programming languages. Together with .NET, a software framework developed by Microsoft, C# can be used to develop websites and other web applications. It is an object-oriented language and one of the components that allow us to programme websites effectively.
As with all codes, a good place to start is usually with software and for C# this is more often than not Visual Studio. Used to interact with and manipulate code, Visual Studio offers a wealth of features all with the sole intention of helping developers build websites quickly and simply. One aspect that Visual Studio brings is the addition of Active Server Pages or ASP tags, a server-side script for dynamic web content.
Bringing the components together
At this point, there are two schools of thought when developing for the web – traditional web forms or Model-View-Controller (MVC). MVC is another subject for another blog post, but traditional web forms can be considered as comprising of two layers:
1. The front end which your users see. This consists of your average HTML mark-up and ASP tags, which form the interactivity on the webpage with features like textboxes, buttons and dropdown lists.
2. Supporting event handlers. These are optional ‘listeners’ that execute in response to actions, such as onButtonClick to handle a button click or key press, are attached to these.
An example of this structure can be found in the image below.
An example of C# structure
Whether grabbing data or performing a different action, C# reacts when an event handler is executed. Of course, writing classes in C# to hold data is a far better alternative to pulling data on the fly. It’s comparable to maintaining an organised filing system, being prepared as opposed to routing through everything when a request comes in.
C# and ASP go hand in hand; web development in this form cannot really exist without them both. C# on its own is a multifunctional code, but lacks specific functions required for web development – this is where ASP comes in. Together they are the bread and butter of web development and without them your website would just be simple filling with no substance or functions.
In many ways, the C# language is comparable to a librarian. It handles queries, pulls information and groups its findings into an output that people can understand. .NET provides the foundations, but it is C# that finds the requested material and does all the legwork.
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The wind failed us again towards evening, when we witnessed a most glorious sunset without a cloud in the sky. The parasailor was struggling, but we decided to leave it up for the night. Unfortunately, it would not hold for long and the collar of the sock (or snuffer) banged against the mast as the sail flailed from side to side with each roll of the swell and then collapsed. Julia was fast asleep when I woke her at midnight to suggest we took it down. It took a little while to bring her back to reality, but once awake, she was ready to help. It was very dark outside save that the stars and the Milky Way provided sufficient light for us not to use any torch power. Miraculously enough, we tamed the flailing sail into its sock and then brought the whole lot down into the forepeak. While Julia made a cup of tea, I cleared up on deck and got the engine going again to give us just over 4 knots of speed.
For the rest of the night we stayed on engine power with the rumbling propeller keeping my mind alive as to its possible causes: I would have another look in the morning, i.e. another dive. After the morning roll call, when everybody in the fleet reported very light winds, some from the West, some from the East, some from the North, but none from the South and many reporting plenty of engine power, I stopped the engine for another dive. The long lazy swell made the boat sway from side to side, a dodgy object to investigate. I might get clonked on the head. In my harness and tied to a long rope, armed with a brush tied to an old broomstick that I had meant to throw away ages ago, I plunged into the heaving sea. I tried to remove some of the growth under the boat, but that proved impossible to shift. It loved the anti foul. Then a deep breath and a dive towards the propeller. I poked each of the three blades, which seemed to be turning fine under pressure from my brush (the propeller is a self-pitching and folding one made by Brunton’s of Clacton). I could not see anything wrong with any of the blades other than that each sported some interesting sealife/growth on it. Back on board I put the engine back on again at 1600 revs giving us a meagre 4.2.knots (a clean boat would give us 5.2 knots). In the meantime Julia had made some fantastic rolls, currant tea cakes and a loaf of bread. Only 850 miles to go...We have enough fuel for 550 miles. However, there are no easy refuelling options in Hiva OA and no boating facilities. The nearest place is Papeete (Tahiti). We shall have the boat hauled out there and re anti fouled.
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The Twitter world is atwitter with a photo of a spectacular bar tab in Dubai.
Bloomberg News
The now infamous receipt is from the Cavalli Club, the posh bar at the Fairmont Hotel in Dubai. It’s dated 3:19 a.m. on Monday. The amount: $105,000.
And that doesn’t include dinner – only drinks. Apparently, however, it did include a birthday cake, suggesting that this epic drinking binge at least had a celebratory purpose.
The identity and nationality of the payer is not known. Yet the bill, confirmed by the club, is being seen as a sign that extravagance has returned to Dubai, which you might recall had some cash flow problems in 2009. According to the Cavalli Club’s operations manager, tabs of $105,000 or more are now commonplace.
“Spend of this nature is not unusual at Cavalli Club,” he told the The National.
What was the mystery drinker (or drinkers) drinking? Here’s are some of the items on the receipt, which says as much about the mark-ups at the Cavalli Club as the state of hyper-consumption in the Middle East.
“Bankers whose bonuses have not materialized, entrepreneurs suffering temporary lulls in cash flow and other formerly wealthy individuals are seeking respite at the pawnshop, more typically the refuge of the destitute,” the article states.
Apparently, the business of pawning Ferraris, fine art, Rolexes and and Cartier jewels has never been better. A pawn business called borro is sending tow trucks to posh enclaves like Kensington, Chelsea and Fulham to pick up an ever growing list of Porsches and BMW’s.
He said that the the volume of clients has more than doubled and the average size of loan has tripled. Clients can borrow up to $1.5 million as long as they have good credit, but the interest rates on the biggest loans can top 60%.
Why would the rich pay such rates?
Just as we’ve seen in the U.S., today’s rich are increasingly reliant on financial markets and therefore more prone to sudden income shocks that can leave them short of cash. Sometimes those shortages are temporary. Sometimes they signal long-term collapse. Either way, the over-leveraged, over-spending High-Betas continued to fuel a rise in high-end repo men and pawn shops to the wealthy.
This year’s bad bonus season (bad still being relative if you’re unemployed) will only add to the business.
The fact that the rise of High-Beta pawn shops is happening at the same time as the rise in luxury sales is not inconsistent. First, most of the luxury growth is in Asia. Second, the 1% is such a fast-changing group that some of the newer arrivals to wealth are celebrating with bling while the departing rich are headed to the pawn shops.
Why do you think high-end pawn shops are booming at a time when the rich are supposedly getting richer?
When it comes to mapping the world’s changing plutocracy, the Rolls-Royce Index is among the more useful tools.
Simply put, it measures which country is buying the most Rolls-Royces. The index not only gives us a sense of the country’s with the most excess wealth to burn (a base model Rolls will set you back at least $245,000), but also the citizens who are most anxious to display it. For ages, America has topped the list.
But 2011, China beat out the U.S. to top the index for the first time.
According to a report in the L.A. Times, the country known only a decade ago as the bicycle capital of the world now leads in Rolls Royce buying. To honor their new best customers, Rolls is unveiling “Year of the Dragon” models “with hand-embroidered versions of mythical animals on leather headrests.” The sticker price: $1.6 million.
Many of China’s Rolls buyers are heirs and heiresses, rather than self-made rich.
“Our customers are super-rich, second-generation young people who have inherited money or whose parents buy them cars,” Wilson Ho of the dealership and luxury group Sparkle Rolls. “Chinese parents love their kids. They’ll buy them whatever they like.”
Rolls Royce said the official numbers for 2011 won’t be out until Jan. 9, and it never breaks out country by country sales. In 2010, the company had its best year ever with 2,711 cars sold globally and 2011 will be even better.
The company said that as of June of 2011, Asia Pacific led the world in Rolls sales growth. While sales in North American grew 40%, sales in Asia/Pac grew 170%. Here is the 2010 Rolls Index, which will presumably be updated soon.
For the American wealthy, the year 1932 always conjures The Nightmare Scenario.
It was the year of reckoning both financially and politically.
After the 1929 crash and anemic recovery, American voters rose up in a wave of populist anger and sought to bring down the powerful cartels and plutocrats that they blamed for the country’s ills. Labor unrest was rife. In 1932, thousands of war veterans marched on Washington to demand their promised cash bonuses.
The year 1932 was the year Huey Long, “The Kingfish,” became a U.S. senator and launched his “Share Our Wealth” crusade, announcing that 4% of the American people own 85% of America’s wealth. (Today it’s closer to 60%). Long proclaimed, Michael Moore-like, that new limits had to be placed on the nation’s millionaires and billionaires:
“Giv’em a yacht! Giv’em a Palace! Send ‘em to Reno and give them a new wife when they want it, if that’s what they want. [Laughter] But when they’ve got everything on God’s loving earth that they can eat and they can wear and they can live in, and all that their children can live in and wear and eat, and all of their children’s children can use, then we’ve got to call Mr. Morgan and Mr. Mellon and Mr. Rockefeller back and say, come back here, put that stuff back on this table here that you took away from here that you don’t need. Leave something else for the American people to consume.”
The same year, FDR was elected President and pushed through a tax increase on the wealthy that included a hike in the top rate to 63% from 35%.
The year 1932 was also the year that many of the wealthy recorded their biggest losses, as the “false bottoms” of 1930 and 1931 finally caved. In 1929, there were 413 Americans earning more than $1 million a year. In 1932, there were only 20, marking a 95% decline.
It was, in short, the annus horribilis for the American rich – both politically and financially.
Will 2012 mark a replay? It’s unlikely in politics, but financially, anything is possible.
Obama is no Huey Long, of course. His proposed tax hikes on the rich are more Clinton than FDR. Yet the big fear among the wealthy is that the election-year political rhetoric will fan the flames of the Occupy movement and create another historic assault on the wealthy, where the rich are universally vilified by the public, taxed more by Washington and targeted in the broader culture.
There are already signs of this coming true. The Occupy movement is planning a new phase of “guerilla” tactics next year. Coverage of inequality and anger against the wealthy have reached a fever pitch (even if inequality is actually declining). New York has led the way to raising taxes on the wealthy, after promising not to. And even the Republicans are using “wealthy” as the ultimate insult against each other.
But the likely reality is that when it comes to policy, 2012 won’t come anywhere near 1932. National politics may shift slightly to the left next year, they won’t go as far as 1932. In the end, Americans care more about growth than inequality.
The real risks for the rich are in financial markets. As we’ve seen among today’s High-Beta Rich, financial markets make or break today’s big fortunes. Given the recent volatility, the real risk of a return to 1932 lies in the stock market – not in Washington.
Lost in the hyper-politicized debate over taxing the rich is one critical fact: the wealthy are bad taxpayers.
I don’t mean that they avoid taxes (though they do). I mean that of all economic groups in the U.S., the wealthy are the most unpredictable and unstable. (For more on their booms and busts, see here).
In an op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer, conservative author Brendan Miniter argues that raising taxes on the 1% would make an already precarious revenue stream even more dangerous. Take California, which derives more than 40% of its personal income-tax collections from the 1%. A study showed that the decline in incomes among those making $200,000 or more accounted for 93% of the state’s revenue decline between 2007 and 2008.
In other words, what’s wrong with California? The manic incomes of the rich.
He also cites New York as an example of the dangers of depending on the rich.
“The truth is that the wealthy are unreliable taxpayers because their income is volatile,” he writes.
His answer is to avoid taxes on the wealthy and to cut government spending – the usual conservative position.
Yet the volatility argument doesn’t have to lead to lower taxes on the wealthy. Another solution to the problem is to keep or raise taxes on the wealthy, but allocate their boom-time revenues to one-time infrastructure projects, like roads, bridges and school buildings. If the incomes of the rich crash (which they always do), the state won’t have to cut ongoing programs.
Another solution, ala Massachusetts, is to create a real rainy day fund, with enough money put away during a bubble to fund the aftermath.
What do you think is the solution to the extreme volatility of revenues from the rich?
We hear it every day: “Inequality is at an all-time high.” America has woken up to the real crime — the gap between the rich and the poor. The President says it. Pundits say it. The Occupiers are living, breathing proof.
There’s just one flaw: Americans as a whole aren’t more concerned about inequality.
According to a recent Gallup poll, 52% of Americans say the rich-poor gap is “an acceptable part of our economic system.” A slightly lower 45% said the gap “needs to be fixed.”
Associated Press
Protesters have been speaking out against the gap between the rich and the poor. But Americans as a whole aren’t more concerned about the gap.
Those are high numbers, no doubt. But Gallup says Americans are less concerned about inequality now than they were in 1998. In 1998, 52% of Americans wanted to “fix” inequality.
The survey found that Americans prefer growth over a reduction in inequality. Some 82% said growth was either “extremely” or “very” important; only 46% said “reducing the income and wealth gap between rich and poor” was “extremely” or “very” important.
“In short, the public wants fairness but retains a healthy skepticism about the federal government’s ability to achieve it,” as Charles Lanewrites in the Washington Post.
Inequality crusaders will say Americans just don’’t understand the problem. If they knew the real numbers, that 45% who said the gap “needs to be fixed” would be much higher. Others say Americans have simply become numb to the problem.
But there is another possible explanation for why Americans care less about inequality today than they did in 1998. Inequality itself is lower than it was in 1998.
I know this is hard to believe. But the most recent data from the IRS and Federal Reserve show that income inequality was lower in 2009 (the latest period available) than it was in 1995. The top 1% of earners held 16.93% of the nation’s income in 2009. In 1998, their share was 18.47%.
Their share of wealth is flat or down. “The share of the wealthiest one percent has shown no significant change since 1995,” according to arecent study by the Federal Reserve. In 1998, the richest 1% held 33.9% of the wealth. In 2009, it was 33.3%.
Would Americans notice the declines? Not likely. And the numbers may have changed since 2009.
But the stats showing flat to lower inequality may help explain why Americans aren’t more concerned about inequality than they were in 1998 – especially given how much it’s being covered in the media.
Why do you think Americans are less worried about the wealth gap than they were in 1998?
Yale University just released its top 10 quotes of the year. The rich, as is their wont, held a disproportionate share of the top.
The number one, two and three quotes were all about the rich, or more specifically, about the anti-rich. They were, in order:
1. “We are the 99 percent.” — slogan of Occupy movement.
2. “There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there — good for you! But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.” — U.S. Sen. candidate Elizabeth Warren, speaking in Andover, Mass., in August.
3. “My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress.” — Billionaire Warren Buffett, in a New York Times op-ed on Aug. 15.
As a full-time Wealth Watcher, I spotted some other quotes that should rank right up there. And not all were anti-rich.
To round out the top 10, here are seven of my favorites from this year’s Wealth Report:
4 - “He’s a wealthy man, a very wealthy man. If you have a half a million-dollar purchase from Tiffany’s, you’re not a middle-class American.” — Mitt Romney (who has a net worth of $160 million-plus on lesser millionaire Newt Gingrich)
5 - “Rather than assume that the wealthy are a monolithic, selfish and unfeeling lot who must be subjugated by the force of the state, set a tone that encourages people of good will to meet in the middle.” — Leon Cooperman, open letter to President Obama.
6 - “My personal taxes are 53% of my taxable income. That’s 36% on the federal level and 17% for state and local.” — Private-equity chief Steve Schwarzman on taxing the rich more.
7 - “When businesspeople take credit for creating jobs, it is like squirrels taking credit for creating evolution. In fact, it’s the other way around.” — Nick Hanauer, entrepreneur who supports higher taxes on the wealthy.
8 - “That would probably be the largest support order in the history of the Family Court.” — Manhattan Family Court Support Magistrate Matthew Troy, on Linda Evangelista’s request for $46,000 a month in child support for her three-year old.
9 - “As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.” — British millionaire Felix Dennis in his new book, “The Narrow Road.”
10 - “It only lasted 15 minutes but the flavors will last in the memory forever.” — Businessman Carl Weininger after eating his $34,000 pudding.
The GOP is supposed to be the party that celebrates individual success and achievement. Leave the politics of envy to the Democrats, Republicans always say. The GOP is about dynamism, unleashing the creative forces of growth and rewarding the hard-working, job-creating wealth builders.
Or they used to be. Last night saw a remarkable moment in the changing politics of wealth. One Republican candidate accused the other of being “wealthy.” And it wasn’t mean to be a compliment.
Mitt Romney – net worth $190 million plus – told CBS News that rival Newt Gingrich (net worth more than $6 million) is too wealthy to be in touch with the middle class.
“He’s a wealthy man, a very wealthy man,” Romney said. “If you have a half a million dollar purchase from Tiffany’s, you’re not a middle class American.”
Let’s set aside for a moment the issue of pots calling kettles black (or pearls calling the diamonds blingy). And we all know this is Romney’s effort to deflect criticism from his “$10,000 is mere pocket change” betting gaffe.
The important message here is that even among Republican voters, wealth may now be a dirty word. The real class warfare is between the 1% and the top 1% of the 1% — between the millionaire politicians and the centi-millionaire candidates. The Democratic anti-wealth narrative is creeping into the supposedly wealth-protecting ranks of the GOP.
Romney, who once touted his financial success in business as a qualification for his presidency, now uses “wealthy” as the ultimate insult.
The question is whether any rich candidates can win voters in the current wave of populist rhetoric. Recall the elections of 2010 – most of the self-financed, rich candidates failed.
There was Jeff Greene in Florida, who spent his whole Senate campaign defending his yacht. There was Meg Whitman in California, who spent more than $140 million of her own money and was attacked for being overly cavalier about money.
And there was Linda McMahon, the pro wrestling queen who lost her Senate bid in Connecticut despite contributing around $50 million of her own cash.
Of the 58 federal-level candidates who contributed at least a half-million dollars to their own campaigns, fewer than one in five won the seat they had sought, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
There were lots of reasons for the losses. But even before the Occupy movement, voters clearly showed a lack of enthusiasm and maybe even a distaste for wealthy candidates.
The Occupiers cite inequality and the ill-gotten gains of the wealthy as a chief cause for the nation’s economic ills.
Yet as I’ve written before, inequality today (by any measure) is lower than it was during the boom times of 2007.
The New York Times looks at the data today and notes that the income share of the top 1% fell to 17% in 2009 (the latest period available) from 23% in 2007. The average income of the one-percenters fell a surprising 32%, to $957,000 from $1.4 million.
We shouldn’t shed a tear for these sub-million-dollar earners, of course. (As The Times says: “Hold the condolence cards.”) And their incomes probably rebounded (somewhat) with the markets in 2010.
But the income stats highlight the swings of the “High-Beta Rich” – the new class of rich people who have huge jumps and crashes in wealth and income because of their reliance on financial markets.
They also highlight the fact that recessions have been the only regular reducers of inequality over the past 30 years. The declines are temporary. But recession-induced equality has had the desired effect for the Occupiers — a smaller gap between the 1% and the rest.
All of which raises a key question: Is inequality a necessary side-effect of growth, or a disease that ultimately reduces growth?
Steven Neil Kaplan of the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business tells the Times: “If you want to reduce inequality, all you need to do is put the economy in a recession. If you want the economy to do well, as all of us do, then you’ll get more inequality.”
Others disagree. In a piece in The Economist, Mark Thoma argues that inequality can reach such high levels that it reduces economic growth. Perfect equality lowers growth because people lose incentives to get ahead, while extreme inequality (where one person or group gets all the growth) also reduces incentives.
“We may be near or even past the level of inequality where growth begins falling,” Thoma writes.
For the past 30 years, however, the surest way to reduce inequality in America has been to have a recession. And when the rich lost, the rest didn’t gain.
President Obama was criticized by conservatives for suggesting that an income of $250,000 a year made people rich.
If anything, however, Mr. Obama may have been aiming too high.
A new Gallup poll shows that Americans say they would need to earn a median of $150,000, or have $1 million in total net worth, to consider themselves rich. The $150,000 in income puts you roughly in the top 10%.
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On the income side, 30% said they would need to earn less than $100,000. And another 18% said $60,000 a year would make them rich. Fully 15% said they would need to earn $1 million or more a year to think of themselves as rich.
Those who lived in cities said they would need twice as much ($200,000) than what those who live in towns or rural areas said they needed ($100,000).
Men also say they need more than women: $150,000 compared with $100,000.
As a whole, the results show that “Americans would need quite a bit less than what the wealthiest 1% of Americans earn to consider themselves rich,” Gallup says.
Income, however, differs from wealth. And to be rich in net worth requires a median of $1 million, according to the survey. That’s the same response Americans gave in 2003. Fully 26% of respondents said they needed $1 million or more to be rich, while 14% said $5 million or more and 13% said $100,000 or more.
The biggest winners in the world’s most winning economy are losing confidence.
Associated Press
According to a survey from Allianz China Life Insurance, the Chinese wealthy are putting more money into cash and less into stock, real-estate and other investments.
“Compared to three years ago, the rich people care more about the safety of their wealth than the returns,” said Liu Jian, the survey’s chief researcher.
They still have big exposure to risk –especially to real-estate. The survey, which polled individuals with more than $78,520 and $157,000 in investments (which apparently counts as “rich” in China for survey purposes) , said that property makes up 75% of the respondents’ assets.
The survey bolsters recent evidence that the froth may be settling on the Chinese luxury and auction markets. A recent Christie’s auction of Chinese contemporary art came up far short of expectations, with six of the 14 lots failed to sell for the minimums and four sold below their low estimate.
“I did really expect it to go better,” Christie’s wine sales chief, Charles Curtis told Reuters. “I knew that Lafite was soft and that it had struggled in my competitor’s auctions in recent months but I didn’t realize the depth of the problem.”
The depth of the problem is indeed the problem. The Chinese rich have been supporting markets for everything from Bordeauxs to Birkin bags and Gulfstreams, making up for slack demand in the U.S. and Europe. If the Chinese economy has a hard landing, the newly rich are sure to take a hit.
If they lose their consuming confidence, the business of selling to the global rich will become a lot tougher.
If you’re feeling guilty about spending $40 for that Harry and David “Tower of Treats” this holiday season, consider Carl Weininger.
Lindeth Howe Country House Hotel
He’s a wealthy businessman who reportedly just paid $34,000 for a chocolate pudding.
British press reports say that Weininger forked over the princely sum for a chocolate-laced confectionary made at Lindeth Howe Country House Hotel in Windermere, Cumbria. The hotel is hoping to win the Guinness Book of World Records title for the world’s most expensive dessert — usurping the title from Serendipity 3 and it’s $25,000 “Frozen Haute Chocolate.”
This may well be a classic British publicity stunt. Press reports say Weininger brought the pudding to a ball recently and allowed others to have a taste – with each bite costing him an estimated $1,200.
“It was absolutely delicious, as you would expect, ” the 60-year-old businessman who told the Daily Mail, adding that he bought the pudding as a “pick-me-up” after being dumped by his girlfriend. “It only lasted 15 minutes but the flavors will last in the memory forever.”
(A spokesman for the Lindeth Howe hotel confirmed the reports).
What did he get for his $34,000? A 3” by 3” pudding made with a cover resembling a Faberge egg.The pudding is made with a light biscuit joconde and champagne jelly, infused with peach, orange and whiskey. The outside is garnished with edible gold leaf and handmade flowers and a diamond. (The British use the word “pudding” as a more general term for dessert, while Americans sue the word to refer to the creamy custard-like stuff).
A spokesman for Serendipity 3 said that he hadn’t heard of the pudding until I called him.
“I’d like to see how it compares to our own record-breaking dessert,” the spokesman said. Asked if the company would plan to top the $34,000 pudding, he said “In this tough economy, we’ll probably leave that alone.”
News that New York governor Andrew Cuomo is no longer ruling out raising taxes on the wealthy follows reports that California governor Jerry Brown may file a ballot initiative asking voters to hike taxes for those making more than $250,000 a year.
Many say the Occupy Wall Street movement has helped change the debate over inequality and taxing the rich. And it probably played a role. But the real catalysts for taxing the rich are gaping and growing state budget holes. States need money, so (Willie Sutton-like), they’re going where the money is.
New York faces a possible $3 billion to $3.5 billion deficit for 2012-2013. California’s could be upwards of $13 billion over the next 18 months.
The tax increases, along with others that are sure to come in more liberal states, may cheer the majority of voters who support them. And with high inequality, it may even be smart politics.
But from an economic perspective raising taxes on the rich will cause already volatile state finances to become even more manic.
As I’ve written before, states are already highly dependent on the taxes of the 1%. Both California and New York already get more than 40% of their personal-income tax revenue from the top 1% of earners. Our new age of “High-Beta Wealth” means that those 1% are the most volatile segment of the population, with violent swings both up and down driven by stock markets.
But markets are more volatile today than they’ve been in years. And in the long term, states are piling more and more risk onto the most risky part of the tax base.
If going to increase their dependence on the rich, states should also create real rainy day funds that can smooth out the high-beta spikes and crashes that are sure to accompany any tax hikes on the rich.
The argument over whether the rich create jobs is ultimately unwinnable.
Democrats point to the lousy job market and revived fortunes of the rich and argue that the rich just create wealth for themselves rather than employment for others. Republicans argue that the rich are the most productive, inventive and dynamic people in our economy. Taking their hard-earned investment capital would kill jobs, they argue.
Now a millionaire entrepreneur has weighed in with his own twist on the debate. Rich people don’t create jobs, he says in a Bloomberg column. Demand does.
“I’ve never been a ‘job creator,’ ” writes Nick Hanauer, who helped start several start-ups, including aQuantive, which was sold to Microsoft for $6.4 billion. “I can start a business based on a great idea and initially hire dozens or hundreds of people. But if no one can afford to buy what I have to sell, my business will soon fail and all those jobs will evaporate.”
It’s this “feedback loop” between mass consumers and businesses that creates jobs.
“When businesspeople take credit for creating jobs, it is like squirrels taking credit for creating evolution,” he writes. “In fact, it’s the other way around.”
The spending of the rich can’t make up the difference for a gutted middle class. Hanauer said his biggest expense is his jet, which doesn’t support many American jobs since it was made in France and fueled with oil from the Middle East.
The answer, he says, is to tax the rich so their money can be used to improve the purchasing power of the middle class.
Some might argue that tech titans like Hanauer can’t talk about job creation since tech companies aren’t big employers. Yet he is CEO of the Pacific Coast Feather Co., which manufactures pills and bedding. And he helped start a picture-frame chain.
True, Hanauer has a political agenda. He co-founded “The True Patriot Network,” whose slogan is “Patriotism is Progressive.”
Yet his argument is worth considering in a debate that’s become as fraught as the argument over squirrels and evolution.
According to a new study from HNW Inc, half of the top 1% of earners don’t think they’re in the top 1%. (Note to one-percenters: if your household income is more than $340,000, you’re a one-percenter).
Some of the one percenters even side with the Occupiers when it comes to anger at Wall Street. More than two thirds of the one-percenters believe the wealth gap is a problem, and many of them don’t like Wall Street.
More than half support prosecution of executives responsible for the financial crisis and support more regulation of financial instutions.
Yet the one-percenters don’t fit neatly into the binary “left” or “right” dogmas. Only 37% of them believe the top 1% should be taxed more, and 44% say they already pay too much in taxes. Nearly 90% of them say they have worked hard to get where they are.
And here’s the kicker: 70% of them feel the wealthy are being unjustly demonized.
The survey proves one of the enduring paradoxes of the American rich: They like to think of themselves as middle class, even if their bank accounts say otherwise. “The rich” are always someone else, even to the rich.
Why do you think half of the one-percenters don’t think they’re one-percenters?
About The Wealth Report
The Wealth Report is a daily blog focused on the culture and economy of the wealthy. It is written by Robert Frank, a senior writer for the Wall Street Journal and author of the newly released book “THE HIGH-BETA RICH.”
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Wild Friends
From their website:
One Rainy Day at the University of Oregon, we were in our college apartment, scraping the bottom of yet another empty jar of peanut butter. As hungry college students and athletes, we ate a lot of peanut butter, and on this occasion, neither of us felt like biking to the store in the rain to buy more. So, we decided to try making our own! That day, Wild Friends was born.
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Tech & Work
Preventing code rot
Software developers call neglected code that stops working code rot. Chip Camden explains why this often occurs and how to avoid such trouble.
I sat alone eating breakfast at my favorite diner. The cook ambled out of the kitchen to the soda machine to fill her cup with ice, but she couldn't get any out. She called the owner, who came out of the back and fiddled with the machine a couple of times before it finally gave ice. "It just wanted some attention," she said as she left.
A system that needs periodic attention indicates poorly designed automation, I thought to myself. Yet, most systems do seem to require this kind of babysitting. If someone cares for the systems on a regular basis, they run indefinitely without a hitch; if the systems are neglected for too long, they fall apart.
In software development, we call that code rot. When nobody pays attention to a section of working code, it suddenly doesn't work any more. Sometimes after examining the problem, I conclude that it could never have worked — despite the fact that it had been running for years. This happens so frequently that it almost doesn't surprise me any more. The code didn't change itself (at least, most code can't do that), so how did this happen?
You might suspect that the metaphor "rot" is somewhat inaccurate. Physical materials degrade spontaneously — or do they? If you could place a tomato in a sealed environment and remove all microbes from it, it wouldn't rot. Nothing rots by itself — it needs some agent acting on it.
While extending a metaphor doesn't establish fact, it seems to shed light on this case. Code rot often occurs because the requirements for the code have shifted imperceptibly — as imperceptibly as bacteria infect organic matter. Nobody remembers that the environment in which this code operated successfully for years differed subtly from that in which it is now expected to function. Changes made elsewhere place new, unforeseen, and undocumented demands on this code. Common sense says that it should handle this case, but nobody thought of that specific combination of circumstances when it was designed.
Code can also degrade because it relies on the behavior of other code. The documented behavior of a library or framework often doesn't include specific details on which clients rely. The author may feel free to change an undocumented behavior — he or she may even consider it a bug. Combine a few of those changes together, and you can easily lose the trail back to "how did this ever work?"
What can we do to prevent code rot?
We can take another cue from our metaphor: avoid exposure, because exposure hastens rot. The less your software relies on other software, and vice versa, the less trouble you'll have. By "less," I don't mean fewer instances of usage, but rather fewer methods of usage. Consider the Unix 'tee' utility, for example. Other than the obligatory proliferation of GNU options, it hasn't changed significantly in decades, and yet, it doesn't rot. Why? Because from the beginning it defined a simple interface with clear expectations. Furthermore, it confines its expectations of the code on which it relies (the standard C library) to clearly documented behavior in the purpose for which it was written.
Documentation helps, but documentation is not the solution — simplicity is. No matter how well-documented the system, if it has too many interdependencies with other systems, some of those dependencies will change in incompatible ways. Therefore, break the system down into simple, independent components that each do one thing well, and document those things. As requirements change, the alignment of those components may need to be altered, but not so much the components themselves.
You must employ discipline to stick to that philosophy. When a new requirement arises, don't give in to the impulse to just hack in support for this special case by passing in a flag. That will introduce additional, unnecessary complexity to the interface. The more you do that, the more likely you'll create a web of unseen interdependencies that will lead directly to rotten code.
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Random Poem of the Day – VI
Endless
by Michael Ball
The crunch of leaves beneath my feet,
crimson gold reminders of a dying year.
A November wind blows coldly,
speaking of the coming snow.
Where has the year gone?
Spring’s promise of rebirth
and Summer’s heat and fury,
flit by like brief dreams of life.
Here and gone, leaving only
the drawn out passage into Winter
made longer by steel skies looming heavy
over a landscape, spent and weary.
Where does all the time go?
Soon the blankness of snow
will cover the skin of the world
like an alabaster shroud.
Wrapping the land in a cocoon,
to slumber till time curves upon itself
and begins the cycle anew.
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PU VC leaves for UK
LAHORE - Punjab University Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran on Sunday has departed for UK for two weeks. Till his return, Controller Examinations Prof Dr Liaqat Ali will be Acting Vice-Chancellor and notification has been issued in this regard.
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Photo Credit: Working Families Party
SJ: Can you talk a little bit about the Caring Across Generations campaign? I'm especially interested in the way that the campaign affects the relationship between the worker and the boss, because people who are being cared for often aren’t really traditional bosses.
AJP: We talk about this idea that what we need to be building is a more caring economy. A big piece of that is about accounting for the work that goes into raising families and taking care of homes. The fact that society has never adequately accounted for or valued that work is something that every single household grapples with, regardless of class or status. So it’s something that we have to deal with structurally as a society.
Twenty years ago, Gloria Steinem wrote this article that I have been talking about a lot recently called “Revaluing Economics.” In it, she talks about the two invisible resources upon which everything else is built in society and in the economy. Those two resources being the planet’s natural resources, the environment, and the work that women have done in the home to take care of families and children. Our vision for the economy of the future would actually protect them rather than make those resources invisible.
That’s something that every single household can participate in, and that every single household will benefit from. And what’s at stake if we don't do that is that every single household will actually suffer. If you go out there and you talk to any family, regardless of their race or class or ethnicity, they're grappling with somebody in their lives who’s growing older, because as a country we are aging, especially now that the boomer generation is starting to turn 65.
We're aging at a really rapid rate. So every family is struggling with how they're going to care for the aging relatives and loved ones in their family who need care. And it’s not an individual problem. It’s a problem of the way that our economy and our society is structured. And so what Caring Across Generations is trying to do is bring us all together to create the jobs that we need to make sure that everyone that we love that needs care can get it, and to really value that work and account for it in a way that the work force can actually take pride in what they do, be sustained in those jobs and support their families doing that work.
That will get us towards a more caring economy, and in a way that everyone wins. It’s in everyone’s interest to do that. And so whether you consider yourself a consumer of care or an employer or a worker, there’s a way in which all of our interests meet under this framework of a more caring economy.
SJ: I read a lot about the switch to a service sector economy in this country, and Walmart-style customer service jobs and how those are devalued. It feels in a way like the economy has been moving in this country toward the conditions domestic workers know well, and the people who do that work are the ones most suited to figure out how to fix this.
AJP: Yeah, it’s true. When I first started organizing domestic workers in the '90s, it was this scene of this marginal, kind of shadow work force. And you know, so our work was seen as marginal. And now, I’ve looked around and it just feels like more and more workers face the conditions that define domestic work.
I think that that is an opportunity to reinvent labor laws and protections, reinvent organizations and reinvent the economy in a way that actually accounts for all of these dynamics that domestic workers have been facing for generations, maybe centuries, and really try to reshape a 21st-century economy that doesn’t leave anyone behind.
SJ: One of the things that I come back to over and over again is that this is really gendered work. I wonder again if we need better ways to talk about gendered work.
AJP: Well, all work is gendered. And the economy that we have assigns different levels of value based off of that. And we have this opportunity at this moment when women workers are such a driving force in the economy to really transform how we value work and how we structure the economy. And that is exactly what domestic workers are doing in Sacramento today. They're mobilizing from all over the state to try to establish basic protections for domestic workers in California.
And that’s exactly what caregivers and consumers of care and women’s organizations, immigrant rights groups and unions, all the groups that are at the table with Caring Across Generations are trying to do through this campaign, to value what matters most. To have our economy restructured, based off of a different calculation of the bottom line, in a way that actually recognizes everyone’s humanity, because it’s the right thing to do, it’s the best and most sustainable vision for the future.
SJ: Since you brought up the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights in California, which just passed the state assembly, can you talk about these laws and what they accomplished? Are there lessons from the Bill of Rights model for more traditional labor organizations that are having trouble with their old forms of organizing?
AJP: I don't know if it’s a blessing or what it is, but basically, the exclusion of domestic workers from the labor law made it such that there was nothing for us to work with. And so we set out on another pathway to establish basic minimum standards for domestic workers, almost to build a ground floor upon which we could then continue to build a real economic opportunity for the work force.
What the campaign in New York allowed us to do was open up a public conversation about the work that goes into caring for families and homes. It was unavoidable that it was going to be a conversation about race and immigration and gender and the future of work. It allowed us to have this conversation in a way contextualized by a concrete change that could be made that would both improve lives and open up the possibility for more change. So we were able to organize thousands of workers in New York over the course of the campaign to pass the Bill of Rights, and we were able to educate dozens of lawmakers and inspire domestic workers and lawmakers around the country to get involved and to take action.
The National Domestic Workers Alliance was formed in 2007. 2010 is when the New York Bill of Rights was signed into law. After that, our membership doubled around the country, and state campaigns started emerging around the country. And we, in that process, by winning, we sent a message to workers that through coming together you can make history. And we can really change lives, we can open up and transform what is perceived as what’s possible.
We're continuing to do that in other states. And each state is a little bit different because the conditions are different, but what we're trying to do is create more awareness and space in the public imagination to understand the lives and experiences of domestic workers and recognize the humanity of this work force as true and real as their own humanity, and to see the ways in which we're all domestic workers. And to see the ways in which we all count on domestic work and care in one way or another.
That’s opened up the possibility to actually work in real partnership with employers and people who count on care. At the end of the day, that’s inclusive of every last American. It’s impossible to imagine winning meaningful change in people’s lives without building a very, very broad base of support and a broad based movement for change.
We're thrilled that the California legislature is standing with us on the right side of history. We're awaiting the governor's signature, but feel very encouraged by the 21-13 vote. One signature away from basic rights for domestic workers in the state with the largest concentration of domestic workers in the country.
SJ: We're at this moment in history where the workforce has changed. And I think that whomever figures out how to really organize contingent workers and freelance workers and home care workers, that’s going to be the next big change and the next big move for worker power. So I'm coming to you hoping you have all the answers and you’d figure all of this out for us.
AJP: Well, there is really, really great organizing happening in pockets around the country. The National Guestworkers Alliance has done really wonderful organizing. And they're really both figuring out how to organize the contract workers and guest workers who are among the most vulnerable workers in society. And they're figuring out how to aggregate a worker voice across a supply chain.
SJ: I spoke to them for a story that I did on Walmart.
AJP: The seafood workers in Louisiana? They're amazing. And the National Day Laborer Organizing Network has been a tremendous voice for day laborers around the country. They were the first national worker’s center network. The Freelancers Union has built a powerhouse of an institution providing healthcare for thousands, hundreds of thousands of people. So there are these different models that have emerged that are increasingly connected and in conversation with each other.
I think all of us are committed to building the labor movement for the 21st century that will help transform and bring dignity to work in this country. There is great work that’s happening out there. I know that there’s a lot of great work that’s happening in the context of union organizing as well. I mean, I think some of those most inspiring campaigns have been low-wage workers organizing in the union context, like janitors and home care workers.
SJ: Those are the jobs you can't outsource. The Hyatt workers make that point in the context of their work, cleaning up after people in hotels, that you can't hire someone overseas to do this work. You have to be here.
AJP: Exactly.
SJ: I’ve spoken to Sara Horowitz of Freelancers Union about this problem--our system is set up for a world where you go get a job and you stay at your job for 40 years, and they give you a pension and they pay for your healthcare. And that just doesn’t exist anymore.
AJP: Right. Our whole legal framework around social programs and around labor rights and protections were rooted in a very different economy, before globalization, in a manufacturing based economy.
SJ: And a mostly male workforce.
AJP: Right. And so now, it’s a fundamentally different environment and we need new frameworks for collective bargaining, new labor laws and new social programs that continue to meet the needs of people, but in a very different 21st-century context.
SJ: Do you think it’s hard for say, white-collar freelance workers, like freelance graphic designers to see themselves in solidarity with domestic workers, with guestworkers? Or do you think people are starting to get that it’s all the same?
AJP: I think the reason why the framework of “99 percent” resonated so broadly is because people do actually understand that the current economy is not benefiting the vast majority of people, and that we have common interests and common experiences across very, very different corners of the country.
I think that the power and the momentum behind that notion of the 99 percent is just a tiny indication of how much of a basis for unity there is in the country. And that’s why I think there’s a unique opportunity in this moment. Even as things become really polarized politically, people are understanding that there’s a real need for broad cross sections of the country to come together.
SJ: Most of the really exciting organizing I’ve seen in the last couple of years has really focused on letting workers tell their stories.
AJP: That is a lot of what we do. I mean, there’s no more powerful tool in our tool belt than the stories of the incredible courage and dedication with which domestic workers do their work and advocate for their rights. I mean, they go to work and provide such tremendous love and care for the families they work for, and then they care for and love their own families. And then they assert their dignity, despite the fact that our labor laws have excluded them, and employers may try to take advantage of that.
Just the courage to go to work every day and assert your dignity and the value and the worth of your work in the face of several generations of its devaluation is just incredibly inspiring, to see and to bear witness to. It’s built this movement, frankly.
SJ: Do you have a favorite story of somebody you’ve worked with?
AJP: There’s so many stories. So many stories. I mean, a recent one is Pat Francois, who is a domestic worker, a nanny here in New York. She intervened when her employer was being verbally abusive to his daughter. And then he physically assaulted her.
She was never paid overtime. So she stood up for her rights and for six years, you know, asserted her justice and finally won her case recently. And then in between, she became an advocate for the Domestic Worker Bill of Rights in New York. She must have gone to Albany, gosh, dozens of times to tell her story and meet with legislators and really challenge them, you know, to right this wrong of how domestic workers have been excluded.
It was her and hundreds of domestic workers like her who sacrificed days of pay to go to Albany. It’s a three-hour drive. It’s a long way in the winter. It was a lot of sacrifice over many years that actually brought this victory into being. It was women like Pat who experienced things that you can't imagine, and yet pushed it through.
SJ: You're involved in the Women for Paid Sick Days Coalition, which I think is a good example of women's organizing for labor issues, pressuring women politicians specifically, saying you don't just get to expect women's votes without supporting all women. Can you talk a little bit about how that coalition came together?
AJP: I mean, that’s a perfect example of the kind of expanding labor protections we need for the 21st century. Given that more and more women are in the work force than ever before, we actually need workplace flexibility laws. We need to provide an expanding safety net for families. And given the fact that we have more and more contingent and contract workers and freelance workers, we have to figure out how to expand labor standards and protections in a way that applies to all workers, as opposed to going workplace by workplace, because the traditional workplaces just no longer exist anymore.
So Paid Sick Days is a great example of how you can, in one measure, actually protect and create stability for huge numbers of workers, particularly those that are the most vulnerable in their workplaces. It’s a simple, very straightforward, tried and true, proven policy measure that can be implemented that will have a huge impact. It’s a perfect example of what I'm talking about when I talk about a more caring economy and actual labor laws that reflect this economy.
SJ: The people that are actually working on it here in New York -- it’s a very broad coalition from Gloria Steinem to Cynthia Nixon. And putting sort of very specific pressure on one very specific politician in a way that seems pretty effective, hopefully.
AJP: We started in 2003 when we came together at our first domestic worker convention in New York. There were over 200 domestic workers, speaking in seven different languages, who came together to share their stories and talk about what having respect on the job looks like for them. It’s from that convention that we actually drafted legislation that eventually became the Bill of Rights. And a key issue that all the workers talked about was sick days. How they have to choose between their health and their job. Or their family’s health, their children’s health. It’s just not a real choice.
It was a huge issue that just kept coming up, and it was in our legislative goals throughout the campaign. This coalition emerged a few years into that. We joined and have been a part of it ever since.
It’s actually no surprise that women led it, and I think that more and more, you’ll see these front line labor campaigns led by women. Because when women are responsible for a lion’s share of the work that’s happening in the world, they're going to actually be the most prescient to trying to understand what can really support that work, stabilizing it in a more healthy and sustainable environment. So to me, it makes sense that it’s a bunch of courageous women who are at the helm, and it makes total sense for our membership to be involved in supporting it.
SJ: Let’s end on a positive note. Is there one change on a national level that you can think of that would really help a lot of workers right now?
AJP: There’s the Caring Across Generations policy vision, which is to create 2 million new jobs in home-based care, improve the quality of those jobs, create a pathway to citizenship for the immigrant care work force and improve access to care for everyone who needs it.
Even in the context of all of the budget and austerity debates, home and community based care is much more cost effective than institutionalized care. There’s no way that all of our parents and grandparents are going to be in nursing homes. That’s the way the system is currently set up. We can actually save the system a bunch of money and improve the quality of people’s lives as they age, and make this work real dignified work that then helps to close the wealth gap in this country.
That’s the type of policy that is actually very bold and ambitious that we need in this moment. This is not a moment for tinkering solutions. Or even just defending the status quo. This is a moment for bold, ambitious vision that people can actually believe in and dig in and assert their right to. That’s the kind of thing we're trying to offer. And hopefully, more and more people will support it over time.
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1 Wn. App. 713 (1969)
463 P.2d 187
THE NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE OF SEATTLE, Respondent,
v.
GEORGE R. GREEN et al., Appellants.
No. 68-40558-1.
The Court of Appeals of Washington, Division One, Panel 2.
December 31, 1969.
Sherwood & Forrest and Marshall Forrest, for appellants.
Livesey, Kingsbury & Livesey and Burtan A. Kingsbury, for respondent.
Frank W. Smith, Jr., amicus curiae.
HOROWITZ, A.C.J.
Defendant Green was indebted to the plaintiff on a $15,000 note executed while he was single, prior to his second marriage. Plaintiff garnished the sum of $5,000 on deposit in the joint account of the defendants Green in the defendant garnishee bank. Following trial of the garnishment action, the court, sitting without a jury, found that the sum garnished was the defendant Green's separate property and accordingly entered judgment in favor of the plaintiff against the garnishee defendant in the sum of $5,000. Defendant Green appeals, contending that the sum garnished is the community property of the second marriage.
The substance of the court's findings may be briefly summarized referring to the persons involved by surname only.
Green, in September 1966, owned separate property upon which in a personal financial statement to the plaintiff, he placed a value of $150,000. Early in 1967, Green was divorced from his prior wife. In the divorce he assumed substantial financial obligations but received the bulk of the properties which belonged to him or the marital community. The value is not disclosed by the record. In July 1967, Green executed and delivered a $15,000 note to the plaintiff, on the basis of which the writ of garnishment below was issued. In August 1967, after Green's divorce from his first wife, Green borrowed $5,000 from Cohen, Green giving his 30-day promissory note therefor. The court found that
*715 This loan was paid and renewed every thirty days thereafter. Defendant Green would give Mr. Cohen a check for $5,000 and shortly thereafter Mr. Cohen would give Mr. Green a check for $5,000.00. On each occasion Mr. Green would give Mr. Cohen a note for $5,000.00. This transaction seems to have run from month to month, maturing about the first of each month, and after his marriage to his present wife, about November 1, 1967, Mr. Green continued the indebtedness by giving Mr. Cohen a check for $5,000.00 and receiving a check in similar amount, and giving a new note. This note was not signed by his present wife of George R. Green but was signed by him alone.
We understand by the finding supplemented by the evidence that the August 1967 note was paid by Green's check on September 1, 1967, and upon the check's clearing, Cohen again advanced the sum of $5,000 to Green upon Green's giving Cohen a new 30-day note; and that the same procedure of payment and re-borrowing was repeated on October 1st and November 1, 1967.
Green remarried about October 14, 1967. As in each prior note, the November 1, 1967 note was signed only by Green. The court further found that about November 1, 1967 Green also borrowed $10,000 from Cohen on the joint note of his present wife and himself. The proceeds of the $10,000 note were disposed of early in November 1967, although the use to which those proceeds were put does not appear.
On December 1, 1967, the November 1, 1967 note became due. The marital community about that time had some but virtually no assets. Green was without funds to pay that note. Accordingly, on December 1, 1967, he arranged to borrow $5,000 from one Martin. Martin wrote a check to Banks for $5,000 and Banks, on the same day, issued his check to Green in the sum of $5,000. Green deposited the Banks check in Green's joint account with his wife in the Seattle-First National Bank. On December 1 or 2, 1967, Green issued his check for $5,000 to Cohen in order to pay the November 1, 1967 note theretofore signed by Green. On *716 December 6, 1967, Green borrowed $5,000 from Cohen, receiving Cohen's check in that amount, which check he endorsed over to Martin. Martin deposited that check to his account. There was a delay in clearing the Martin to Banks check and the Banks to Green check, because of uncollected funds. There is no finding or evidence as to when Green's check to Cohen cleared nor is there any finding that it failed to clear. The evidence is that when the funds were finally collected in the Green account they were garnished about December 14, 1967.
The court found, as has already been pointed out, that beginning with the August 1967 loan from Cohen to Green, the "loan was paid and renewed every thirty days thereafter" (italics ours). The court further found that "the net result of the transaction set forth above (the December transaction) was that the loan from Mr. Cohen to defendant Green originating in the summer of 1967, was again paid off and renewed" (italics ours) and that "the transaction was intended to and did actually result in simply a continuation of the pre-existing indebtedness to Mr. Cohen which had existed since the summer of 1967." The court concluded that the $5,000 sequestered by writ of garnishment "was the separate property of defendant George R. Green and remained so. It was borrowed upon the separate credit of defendant Green and arose from a continuous transaction originating when defendant George R. Green was unmarried and continuing substantially unchanged thereafter during and after his marriage in October 1967." Green assigns error to the entry of the findings and conclusions which in substance treat the December 1967 transactions as a continuation of the preexisting indebtedness arising in the summer of 1967. The assignments of error raise the common issue of the community or separate status of the $5,000 sequestered by writ of garnishment and will be considered together.
The resolution of the basic question presented must be made in light of well settled principles of Washington law.
*717 [1] The statutory description of Washington's marital property system (RCW 26.16.010-26.16.210) is by no means complete and it is necessary to look to the decisions for amplifying detail. Generally, except for the separate property of each spouse acquired prior to marriage and the separate property acquired by either spouse after marriage, all other property acquired after marriage by either husband or wife or both is community property and the husband has the management and control of community personal and real property. The burden is upon one who claims that property acquired after marriage is separate property to establish such claim (Rustad v. Rustad, 61 Wn.2d 176, 377 P.2d 414 (1963)), by clear and convincing evidence. Dizard & Getty v. Damson, 63 Wn.2d 526, 387 P.2d 964 (1964); Beyers v. Moore, 45 Wn.2d 68, 272 P.2d 626 (1954); Meng v. Security State Bank, 16 Wn.2d 215, 133 P.2d 293 (1943).
[2] The husband as manager of the community personal property is empowered to subject the community property to community debts by his sole act or signature. Thus a note executed by him after marriage is presumptively for the benefit of the marital community, and presumptively is a community obligation. Fies v. Storey, 37 Wn.2d 105, 221 P.2d 1031 (1950); Meng v. Security State Bank, supra; Acme Fin. Co. v. Zapffe, 161 Wash. 312, 296 P. 1050 (1931). The proceeds of the note are presumptively community property. See Fies v. Storey, supra. The "acid test" for determining whether the obligation or liability is separate or community in nature is the purpose for which the note is executed. Fies v. Storey, supra. See Zarbell v. Mantas, 32 Wn.2d 920, 204 P.2d 203 (1949). If the note is executed for the benefit of the marital community, the presumption of community obligation is not overcome. Thus money borrowed to pay off a community debt or to acquire a community asset is for a community purpose. Kupka v. Dickson, 72 Wn.2d 217, 432 P.2d 657 (1967); Underwood v. Sterner, 63 Wn.2d 360, 387 P.2d 366 (1963); Beyers v. Moore, supra, Fies v. Storey, supra; Ness v. *718 Bender, 18 Wn.2d 243, 138 P.2d 864 (1943); Mattinson v. Mattinson, 128 Wash. 328, 222 P. 620 (1924); Rea v. Eslick, 87 Wash. 125, 151 P. 256 (1915). If the debt is separate in character, the note is collectible only out of separate property. Smyser v. Smyser, 17 Wn.2d 301, 135 P.2d 455 (1943). The wife's signature presumptively does not create a community obligation and hence such a signature is not necessary to the creation of a community obligation. Balkema v. Grolimund, 92 Wash. 326, 159 P. 127 (1916). The husband's act or signature is enough. The purpose or proposed benefit may be evidenced by the community or separate uses to which the proceeds of a note or other obligation are put. See Household Fin. Corp. v. Corby, 61 Wn.2d 184, 377 P.2d 441 (1963); Mapes v. Mapes, 24 Wn.2d 743, 167 P.2d 405 (1946); Steward v. Bounds, 167 Wash. 554, 9 P.2d 1112 (1932); Protzman v. Billings, 120 Wash. 123, 206 P. 848 (1922); Way v. Lyric Theater Co., 79 Wash. 275, 140 P. 320 (1914).
It follows from what has been stated that a joint signature of husband and wife presumptively renders the husband and wife each separately liable but also subjects the community property of the spouses to liability for community debts, not because the wife has signed but because the husband has done so. The presumptions created by joint signature of the spouses may be rebutted. Thus the evidence may show that the joint signatures create only a community obligation, (Finley v. Finley, 47 Wn.2d 307, 287 P.2d 475 (1955); Auernheimer v. Gardner, 177 Wash. 158, 31 P.2d 515 (1934)) or that the joint signatures, especially if secured by the wife's separate property, create only a separate obligation of the wife. Graves v. Columbia Underwriters, 93 Wash. 196, 160 P. 436 (1916). Whether the husband or wife has separate property at the time that the note is executed is not necessarily controlling. The power to contract and the ability to pay are not the same. See G. McKay, Community Property § 447 (2d ed. 1925). If, however, the husband's separate property is used as security for the payment of the note, that is some evidence not *719 necessarily conclusive that separate liability only was intended. G. McKay, Community Property, § 443 (2d ed. 1925). However, even a community debt may be secured by separate property. Finley v. Finley, supra. Accordingly we must go back to the "acid test" of purpose for which the indebtedness was created. Fies v. Storey, supra; Zarbell v. Mantas, supra.
In the instant case, the evidence shows that the purpose for which the $5,000 was borrowed from Cohen on December 6, 1967, was either to repay Martin for his advance by check to Banks followed by Banks' check to Green in the sum of $5,000, or to repay Cohen for the November 1, 1967 note which Green intended to repay by check to Cohen on December 1 or 2, 1967. In either case the proceeds of the loan were intended to be and were in fact used to repay a community debt presumptively owing either to Martin or Banks or Cohen. Fies v. Storey, supra; McLean v. Burginger, 100 Wash. 570, 171 P. 518 (1918). There is no evidence that the $5,000 sequestered was borrowed only on Green's separate credit. Neither Cohen nor Green so testified and there was no reason for Cohen to waive the presumptive community liability on the note. Accordingly the presumption of a community liability, whether arising from the November 1, 1967 or December 6, 1967 notes, was not overcome.
[3] Plaintiff contends, however, and the court in effect found that Green's note of December 6, 1967 was really a renewal note and that the $5,000 garnished represents the proceeds of a renewal note, standing in no different status than the proceeds of the original August 1967 note. If this contention be accepted, the proceeds would be separate property. Meng v. Security State Bank, supra; First Nat'l Bank v. Estus, 185 Wash. 174, 52 P.2d 1243 (1936). It is necessary to distinguish, however, between a note discharged by payment (RCW 62.01.119, now RCW 62A.3-603; 11 Am.Jur.2d Bills and Notes § 963 (1963)) and a renewal note as such. A renewal note is a new note given for the old with no discharge of the old note as, for example, by *720 payment, unless so intended. Dove v. Cowlitz Valley Bank, 191 Wash. 429, 71 P.2d 555 (1937); Boston Nat'l Bank v. Jose, 10 Wash. 185, 38 P. 1026 (1894). The proceeds of the August 1967 note were separate property because they were the proceeds of a separate obligation. W. deFuniak, Community Property § 78 (1943); G. McKay, Community Property, § 457 (2d ed. 1925); In re Estate of Finn, 106 Wash. 137, 179 P. 103 (1919). The proceeds of a community note would be community property. Acme Fin. Co. v. Zapffe, 161 Wash. 312, 296 P. 1050 (1931). When Green paid off his August 1967 note in September 1967, the payment operated as a discharge of the August note and the September note for $5,000 was therefore a new and independent rather than a renewal note. The same is true with respect to Green's October and November notes. The November 1967 note was attempted to be paid off by Green's check dated December 1 or 2, 1967, in accordance with consistent prior practice of the parties. The December 6, 1967 note was therefore not intended as a renewal note but as a new and independent note. See Boston Nat'l Bank v. Jose, supra. The proceeds of that note were presumptively community in character. Acme Fin. Co. v. Zapffe, and other cases supra. [4-6] Plaintiff contends, however, that under the Laws of 1969, Ex. Ses., ch. 121[1], approved April 18, 1969, community *721 property is liable for the antenuptial separate debts of the husband. Plaintiff contends and Green denies that the newly enacted statute operates retroactively. It has long been the rule in this state that community property may not be used to pay the antenuptial or post nuptial separate debt, of the husband over objection by an interested spouse or other party. Smyser v. Smyser, 17 Wn.2d 301, 135 P.2d 455 (1943). It is true that a marital community is not a juristic person (Household Fin. Corp. v. Smith, 70 Wn.2d 401, 423 P.2d 621 (1967)) so that it can be said in a literal sense that the new statute has the effect of taking the property of A to pay the debt of B. Yet in a very real sense this is the effect of the statute. The statute adds to the burdens of and pro tanto alters community property, changing one of its characteristic incidents by subjecting community property now to a burden to which it was not subject at the time that the community property involved came into being. The statute does more than merely provide a new or additional procedure for the vindication of an existing right. It actually alters that right. We would be slow to hold under these circumstances that the legislature intended the statute to be applied retroactively in face of the well settled rule that unless there is an intention expressed in the statute or clearly implied therein, that the statute operate retroactively, the statute will be deemed to operate prospectively only. State v. Ladiges, 63 Wn.2d 230, 386 P.2d 416 (1963); Sorensen v. Western Hotels, Inc., 55 *722 Wn.2d 625, 349 P.2d 232 (1960); In re Estate of Wind, 32 Wn.2d 64, 200 P.2d 748 (1948); In re Cascade Fixture Co., 8 Wn.2d 263, 111 P.2d 991 (1941). It will be noted that the language of the statute in the use of the word "shall" speaks in a future tense. It is consistent with prospective operation rather than retroactive operation. Furthermore, construing the statute as operative prospectively rather than retroactively would avoid a possible constitutional objection based on a claim of impairment of vested rights and thus be a preferred construction. George v. Our disposition of the plaintiff's contention makes it unnecessary to consider Green's further contention that the prejudgment garnishment statute pursuant to which the judgment below was entered is void as violative of due process. RCW 7.32; Sniadach v. Family Fin. Corp., 395 U.S. 337, 23 L.Ed.2d 349, 89 S.Ct. 1820 (1969). In that connection we express our appreciation for the able briefs of counsel and particularly for the very able amicus curiae brief of Assistant Professor Frank W. Smith, Jr. of the University of Washington Law School dealing with the issue of the constitutionality of RCW 7.32. Green not being injuriously affected by the prejudgment garnishment statutes involved may not raise the question of constitutionality. State v. Lundquist, 60 Wn.2d 397, 374 P.2d 246 (1962); Griffiths v. State, 28 Wn.2d 493, 183 P.2d 821 (1947).
The judgment is reversed.
UTTER and STAFFORD, JJ., concur.
NOTES
[1] "Section 1. Section 10, page 452, Laws of 1873 as amended by section 2405, Code of 1881 and RCW 26.16.200 are each amended to read as follows:
"Neither husband or wife is liable for the debts or liabilities of the other incurred before marriage, nor for the separate debts of each other, nor is the rent or income of the separate property of either liable for the separate debts of the other: Provided, That the earnings and accumulations of the husband shall be available to the legal process of creditors for the satisfaction of debts incurred by him prior to marriage, and the earnings and accumulations of the wife shall be available to the legal process of creditors for the satisfaction of debts incurred by her prior to marriage. For the purpose of this section neither the husband nor the wife shall be construed to have any interest in the earnings of the other: Provided Further, That no separate debt may be the basis of a claim against the earnings and accumulations of either a husband or wife unless the same is reduced to judgment within three years of the marriage of the parties.".
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1. Field of the Invention
The instant invention relates generally to bicycle seat supports and more specifically it relates to a suspension device for a seat of a bicycle.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Numerous bicycle seat supports have been provided in prior art that are adapted to cushion the riders of the bicycles against shocks and impacts and improve comfort of the rides. While these units may be suitable for the particular purpose to which they address, they would not be as suitable for the purposes of the present invention as heretofore described.
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The 100th film by master director Takashi Miike (“13 Assassins,” “Audition”), “Blade of the Immortal” is one blood soaked, gory affair. Following an epic battle, samurai swordsman Manji (Takuya Kimura) is given the “gift” of immortality by an old woman who infects him with blood worms. Flash forward 50 years, Manji is approached by a young girl named Rin (Hana Sugisaki), who seeks revenge for the murder of her parents.
“Blade of the Immortal” is a wild ride. And while the film is a lot of bloody fun, the narrative is lacking in coherence requiring the viewer to take notes to keep up with the story threads. But Miike’s visuals have to be appreciated as Manji does battle with constantly inventive weaponry against an array of increasingly ridiculous, but entertaining foes. If only I cared about any of the characters the graphic displays would have had greater impact. Still, those displays are worth the price of admission.
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Discussion in 'Ford Trucks' started by karl klein, Apr 19, 2006.
1. karl klein
karl klein Senior Member
Messages: 557
my buddy has a 99 f250 and the trailer lights wont work none of them any ideas there is no power to the plug accept the 12volt hot in the center of the seven way
2. motoxdk24
motoxdk24 Member
Messages: 57
take a test light and start pickin wires
none will be hot until you press the brake, turn signal, etc. then they will have power
im not sute how the fords are run...but the left and right turns signals are each separate (obv) but when the brakes are applied, both turns signals are powered on...make sense? so that equals brake lights.
the 12v int he middle is just for access. such as an extra dome light or soemthin....whatever...
weve all had our trailer light troubles...good luck
3. Crash935
Crash935 2000 Club Member
Messages: 2,377
Check the fuses in the power distribution box under the hood on the drivers side or the fuse box in the cab. Trailer marker and turns were on seperate fuses.
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Exceptionsafety of make_unique: Why is f(new T) exception safe
I have been reading GOTW102, and wonder, why make_unique is more exception safe than the other cases, or in detail why f(new T(...)) is more exception safe than f(new T1(...), new T2(...)).
The make_unique implementation from the blog reads:
template<typename T, typename ...Args>
std::unique_ptr<T> make_unique( Args&& ...args )
{
return std::unique_ptr<T>( new T( std::forward<Args>(args)... ) );
}
Now I wonder if f(new T(...)) is in general exception safe (leak free), or if it is just exception safe in the case of make_unique because of the added knowledge that the constructor of std::unique_ptr does not throw? (Since if it would the freshly constructed T would be leaked anyways according to my understanding.
Related: http://stackoverflow.com/q/19472550/
The reason is that in a function call or similar, the arguments do not induce sequence points (are not "sequenced before"). For example:
do_work(unique_ptr<A>(new A), unique_ptr<B>(new B));
The compiler is allowed to generate code that looks like:
new A
new B // might throw!
Construct unique_ptr<A>
Construct unique_ptr<B>
Call do_work
If new B throws, then you've leaked the A, because no unique_ptr was ever constructed.
Putting the unique_ptr construction into its own function eliminates this problem, because compilers aren't allowed to execute function bodies concurrently (so the "new" and "construct unique_ptr steps need to be done together).
That is, given:
do_work(make_unique<A>(), make_unique<B>())
The compiler must generate code that looks like:
Call make_unique<A>
Call make_unique<B>
Call do_work
or
Call make_unique<B>
Call make_unique<A>
Call do_work
making the leak where there are new'd objects floating around without owning unique_ptrs not possible.
I understand most of this, my question is more focused on make_unique. It is defined as function that does unique_ptr<A>(new A). Where do I get the gurantee from that unique_ptr<A> does not throw after new A finished (I don't see a bit of code that could throw => it won't throw). But if the constructor of unique_ptr could throw, it would not be exception safe (aka A would be leaked), right?
@ted: You get that guarantee because C++11 20.7.1.2 [unique.ptr.single]/1: // 20.7.1.2.1, constructors [...] explicit unique_ptr(pointer p) noexcept; <-- declared noexcept
Incidentally, shared_ptr's constructor from a raw pointer can throw (it has to allocate the control block), but it's guaranteed to delete the pointer in that case, so nothing is leaked.
@T.C.: were could I find the reference on this?
@BillyONeal: I could only find N3337, which does not have 20.7.1.2.1. SO what is up with what T.C. posted: is there a case conceivable were what he said happens? (While pondering this, since that was the only case I could think of for unique_ptr failing, I briefly thought that this case does not exist, which was wrong).
@ted I was talking about shared_ptr, not unique_ptr.
@ted: Look for [unique.ptr.single] -- the section numbers change in various releases of the standard. That said I'm not sure unique_ptr is in 3337; you may need a copy of the standard at least as recent as C++11.
@ted: Try N3376, the first working paper after C++11
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Systematic research of peptide spacers controlling drug release from macromolecular prodrug system, carboxymethyldextran polyalcohol-peptide-drug conjugates.
The primary purpose of this study was to comprehensively delineate specificity of the peptide spacer sequence to tumor-expressed proteases for the design of macromolecular carrier-peptide spacer-drug conjugate system. 225 conjugates of carboxymethyldextran polyalcohol (CM-Dex-PA) as water-soluble carrier and a dansyl derivative (N-(4-aminobutyl)-5-(dimethylamino)-1-naphthalenesulfonamide, DNS) as the model drug linked with different tetrapeptide spacers (Gly-Gly-P(2)-P(1), P(2), P(1): Ala, Asn, Gly, Cit, Gln, Ile, Leu, Met, Phe, Pro, Ser, Thr, Trp, Tyr, and Val) were combinatorially synthesized. First, the drug release assay of all of the fluorogenic model conjugates was performed in murine Meth A solid tumor homogenates. The drug release rate was higher with conjugates having hydrophobic amino acids at P(2). It was also found that conjugates with Asn release the drug rapidly and, in contrast, those with Pro does not. Second, we selected three peptide spacers (Gly-Gly-Phe-Gly, Gly-Gly-Ile-Gly, Gly-Gly-Pro-Leu), which release only DNS at different rates, and applied them to doxorubicin (DXR) conjugates. These three DXR conjugates were used for investigating relationships with drug release, pharmacokinetics, and antitumor activity against Meth A bearing mice of these conjugates. The release of DXR from the conjugates corresponded well with that of DNS conjugates in tumor homogenates. CM-Dex-PA-Gly-Gly-Phe-Gly-DXR and CM-Dex-PA-Gly-Gly-Ile-Gly-DXR indicated strong antitumor activity, with the comparable pharmacokinetic profile of released DXR in tumor. Taken with the fact that the drug release rate in tumor homogenates was approximately 10-fold different between these two DXR conjugates, it is likely that cellular uptake of the conjugate would be rate-limiting, rather than the drug release process under the in vivo situation. However, much weaker antitumor activity was observed with CM-Dex-PA-Gly-Gly-Pro-Leu-DXR, of which the drug release was extremely slow.
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A listening post monitoring public education and teachers’ unions.
Who Are the Freeloaders?
Written By: Mike Antonucci - Dec• 12•12
One Comment
1. Rebecca Friedrichs says:
Every time sensible folks stand up against union intimidation and non-representation, the union comes up with some “catch phrase” to ostracize those who speak out against their tyranny. This time, their bullying catch phrase is “freeloader.” I’ve heard it at least a hundred times this past month. It’s a lie – as usual. I’m a veteran California public school teacher and an agency fee payer. I pay full union dues ($950.00 a year in my district), and I receive an annual rebate for the non-representational “contributions,” which are monies that go to the union’s political agenda, which have nothing to do with my job, collective bargaining, or contract issues. The rebate is $320.00 for the 2012-2013 school year (before Right to Work lawsuits, they used to reimburse me only $35.00 a year). Therefore, I will pay $630.00 in dues this year, which means that I am paying a hefty price for union representation on contract and work related issues, and union employees are being paid through my dues. As a punishment for being an agency fee payer, I lose my union membership, I have no voting power, I’m treated with disdain, and I lose my liability insurance! I use my rebate to purchase liability insurance from an outside source. Sure, it’s illegal for the union to force me to pay for their political agenda, but they sure get away with treating teachers so badly for opting out that a large percentage remain in the union in order to keep peace and avoid harassment in the workplace. Seems to me the union is the freeloader – taking my money for 25 years without protecting me from litigation and denying me the right to membership or a vote. This is tyranny and nothing less.
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Saturday, July 17, 2010
Does anti-accommodationism harm?
One of the arguments in the accommodation debate is that anti-accommodationist/new atheist stridency, forthrightness, or whatever it's termed harms the cause. It drives people away apparently. So the anti side ought not be so loud or not argue their case as a tactic. I think that's what it boils down to. This of course is an empirical question. It's not certain a priori that the anti side are a problem.
Anyway, apparently there is some data.
Jerry Coyne starts here.
Jason Rosenhouse add his bit here with more data. He askes where is the backlash that was predicted to follow the new atheists nastyness.
Josh Rosenau has a post* giving his opinion.
Of course PZ had to have his say.
*I posted the wrong link before. Thanks to verbose stoic for the correction.
1. Two points:
First, you mean to reference this link for Rosenau:
The one you have listed is from May of 2009 and is clearly not a reply to this posting, unless Rosenau is psychic [grin].
Second, Rosenhouse's data may simply reflect that the number of atheists are rising. That doesn't mean that people who are not likely to be converted to atheism or who are not leaning that way already are not negatively impacted by the comments.
2. Good points. But the impression I got is that many believe that those rascally atheists would drive oodles (technical term) of people away from science or something. And there's no data to support this. I think that people who reckon the NAs are doing damage need to show this is the case.
3. Yes, anti-accommodationism does harm. While it is obvious that there is, on a practical level, some 'acceptance' of the various viewpoints in relation to science, faith and in between (BioLOgos, agh!), ultimately the situation must be resolved as either 'god' or 'not god' The fiddling in between, 'allowance' of scientists having faith, and the concept that 'we've gotten along so far' are all, of themselves, apologist and may have been able to meander along, except.....Given the current state of the world with the militant rise of Islam in its efforts to create a caliphate under sharia law, the Judeo/Christian and secular responses to this are interesting to observe. I think the xtains believe they are best able to 'fight the cause', while secularists believe that only they can. I'm with the secularists because if the xtians lead the battle, the outcome they will seek is for their own version of a caliphate and laws based on scripture. The other aspect to this point is that some xtians are radicalising to an extent with their own behaviour as they think 'well why not us too'. I know that this may all sound a bit 'radical' but perhaps it's just a mild exaggeration of the base reality.
4. Doh! Major blunder - meant to say No, it doesn't harm - too many ideas in head, must slow down
5. Yeah, I read your first sentence then thought the rest said the opposite. Don't worry, I'm sure most of what I write is confusing.
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Advent Virtual Small Group Study - Wk 2
December 7, 2016
Interrupted By Hope
(Richard Rohr “Going to the Depth of the Manger” video)
Watch Film
Advent is scandalous because it breaks into the everyday of our lives. It is not a far away
event, but strikes at the very core of the mundane. It is about teen pregnancy,
immigration, infanticide, assassinations, and homelessness. Theologian, Richard Rohr,
helps us to see the gospel story in these particulars with which we are often
Questions for Reflection
1. Rohr responds to the question, “When you think about the story do you set
yourself in the manger and the way which he came, and the interaction with
Mary?” by responding, “To the sophisticated, intellectual person, they are going to
say don’t sentimentalize it. Don’t make too concrete, to specific, because then my
mind will start fighting it.”
Why do we often seek to “spiritualize” and “universalize” the Christmas story,
rather than becoming specific about the details?
What about the details of the story that often makes it uncomfortable to believe?
2. Rohr comments, “That is the scandal of the particular; that is the scandal of the
incarnation. Incarnation is always concrete, particular, momentary—now here,
now this. When you struggle with the now this and go deep enough in one place,
you know what happens, it universalizes.” He continues to say, “A good poet tries
to lead you into the universal experience by leading you into the shock of a
particular experience.”
How might the particulars of the Christmas story help us to have a universal
appreciation for it?
How might we identify with each detail of Jesus’s birth and the
lives of those who were important in Jesus’ coming into the world?
3. Rohr continues to speak about moments of the particular: “When you have sunk
into one moment of love making with your wife, of looking at your new little baby
girl, when one moment becomes so perfect it becomes every moment. It becomes
the whole show. This is the way to that.”
How can Advent help us to appreciate these moments in our lives?
How can we focus on these particulars in order to find meaning in “every moment”?
4. When Rohr says, “You have got to be content with the ordinariness of the now,
and the non-holiness of the now,” the garbage truck begins to back up at the house
and they hear it picking up the garbage. However, this is the point of the
Christmas story; it is situated in the ordinary of every day lives.
How might looking at our ordinary experiences and encounters help us to
understand the extraordinary?
5. Rohr reflects, “Secularism is the definite and inevitable child of Christianity. When
you get the incarnation that nothing is unholy, that everything is a doorway to
everything.” He cites St. Bonaventure that “The center is everywhere and the
circumference is nowhere.” What Rohr means is that religion and religious
concepts can help us have access to ideas and images, but we need not be enslaved
to these ideas and images.
How does the incarnation allow us to use different language to describe our
religious experiences?
How might this become a “doorway to everything”?
How can we find other ways of speaking that might be able to take people into a
deeper faith?
6. Rohr makes a provocative statement that “Sometimes the prostitutes, the
drunkards, the tax collectors are actually ahead of us. Because their circumstance,
their failure, their sin, if you will, they have to go to the depth, ‘what does my life
mean’, ‘who does God mean?’”
How are some of these people actually ahead of Christians who do not ask these
questions about their faith?
How can we ask the difficult questions about our faith and avoid the Christian
clichés and pat answers?
7. Rohr talks about how St. Francis’ most common prayer was “Who are you God,
and who am I?”
What is this prayer trying to explore? Why is there “no end” to this prayer?
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34. Chaos Communication Congress
»Fixing mass surveillance: one court case at a time!«
2017-12-29, 15:00–16:00, CCL Hall 3
Today, French and UK governments are implementing some of the worst infringing surveillance laws in the world. Activist lawyers bringing litigation to challenge these laws will look at how to fight the spread of these models to the rest of Europe and the world and what the alternative should look like in a context where fears of terrorism influence government policy and result in measures that are beyond what is necessary and proportionate.
To do so let's have an overview of the measures' main elements that we tackle in the UK and France and our strategies and tactics.
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Most people caught wind of the recent Volkswagen emissions scandal that shook the automobile industry. In 2018, it was discovered that Volkswagen had been “cheating” emissions tests. The saying goes, “There are three sides to every story: ours, theirs, and the truth,” so let’s discuss what we know happened, what cars were affected, how it was resolved, and how you can you tell if your MAF sensor is failing.
What We Know
As of January this year, over half a million Volkswagen diesels were suspect for emissions violations. As it turns out, this was because Volkswagen installed emissions software termed “defeat devices,” that were supposedly compliant with EPA emissions drive-cycle parameters. These parameters are in place to prevent vehicles from producing over a certain amount of harmful emissions to help protect both the general population and the environment. Upon testing, all VW diesels produced between 2009 and 2016 were deemed compliant.
However, when you did a little deeper, you find the true problem. While the vehicles may have passed initial emissions testing, Volkswagen was producing emissions well-over the stipulated parameters. In some vehicles, the emissions reading was slightly over, but in others, it was discovered to be 40 times the legal limit. This means the emissions produced by some Volkswagens were highly hazardous and carcinogenic.
The worst facet to this problem was that the diesel VWs passed the initial emissions testing because the emissions software on the vehicles had 2 modes: one for testing, where the onboard computer controlled the speed and performance of the vehicle to comply with regulations, and one that drivers would use. This second mode was the mode which caused toxic emissions well over that of safe levels for both humans and the environment.
Which VWs are affected?
This emissions oversight affected multiple manufacturers owned by VW, such as Audi and Porsche. In regards to VW, the models affected include:
• 2009–2015 Volkswagen Jetta 2.0L TDI
• 2010–2015 Volkswagen Golf 2.0L TDI
• 2012–2015 Volkswagen Beetle 2.0L TDI
• 2012–2015 Volkswagen Passat 2.0L TDI
• 2009–2016 Volkswagen Touareg 3.0L V6 TDI
What do I do if I own an affected VW?
Once the legal actions concluded in October 2016, Volkswagen was left owing a $14.7 billion dollar settlement and had to start notifying the VW owners affected. They also engaged in a $10 million buyback program which started in November of 2016. Owners who didn’t choose this option received compensation from VW: between $5100 and $10,000 to compensate for the low resale value of their cars. Eligibility for these compensation options ended in mid 2018.
Aside from this, all affected VW owners were eligible for $350 compensation from Bosch, who produced the software.
What is the MAF sensor and how can I tell if it is defective?
The MAF (Mass Airflow) sensor is a piece of equipment found under the hood that is responsible for monitoring the air that enters the engine. It does this by measuring the rate of airflow through weight and pressure. Then it feeds this information to the VW’s onboard computer, which can then inform the fuel pump and injectors how much fuel to add to the engine for the perfect ignition and optimal running of the engine.
If the MAF sensor fails, then your VW’s onboard computer is left without this. It has to guess the correct amount of fuel to add into the engine. It will usually overcompensate, resulting in an engine that isn’t working correctly. This can produce far more emissions than it should.
Symptoms of an underperforming or failing MAF sensor include:
• Rough idling
• Poor fuel economy/efficiency
• Low MPG
• Increased emissions
• Poor performance at high speeds
• Poor handling
• Engine that is tricky to start
• Lean misfires
Where should I go to seek repairs?
If you suspect that your VW’s MAF sensor is beginning to Volkswagen Defective MAF Sensor Check fail, or you are simply concerned about its condition or the levels of emissions your vehicle is producing, then you should bring your VW to a specialist mechanic for diagnostic work and specialist repairs.
If you live in or around Santa Cruz, Aptos, Soquel, and Capitola, CA, you should head to Hayes European for all your motoring needs. We are specialists in imported European cars, including VWs. Our friendly technicians are trained to check VW emission levels. We will work with you to come to the right solution for your needs.
* Volkswagen Passat image credit goes to: kurmyshov.
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Ministers must do more
To encourage switch to vaping
Jawad Iqbal 29th October 2018
Smoking is one of the biggest killers in Britain today: each year it leads to just under 80,000 deaths and about half a million hospital admissions. The cost to the NHS is estimated to be at least £2 billion.
The good news is that each year tens of thousands of people are giving up smoking with the help of e-cigarettes — devices that mimic the act of smoking but without the toxic tobacco smoke. They are about 95 per cent less harmful than conventional cigarettes.
The government, through a combination of ministerial timidity and bureaucratic indifference, is failing to make the most of this potential public health revolution. It should make e-cigarettes available on prescription, with doctors being encouraged to recommend them.
Other changes are long overdue: e-cigarettes are banned in many workplaces, most enclosed public spaces and on public transport, for no evidence-based reasons. Workplaces should have vaping areas, hospitals should sell e-cigarettes and there is a case for long-stay patients having access to areas where they can vape. The piecemeal approach of leaving it to NHS trusts to decide policy on e-cigarettes only adds to the confusion.
The issue highlights a bigger problem, which is that governments everywhere are in danger of losing the information war when it comes to public health. The internet is awash with myths, scare stories and false information. Health bodies need to do much more to tackle widespread ignorance of what actually causes harm from smoking. It is the toxic constituents in smoke, the tar and carbon monoxide, largely absent from e-cigarettes, that are the main culprits rather than nicotine.
Another myth that needs to be knocked down is the idea that e-cigarettes are the “gateway” to young people taking up smoking: research suggests that less than 1 per cent of young people who have never smoked use e-cigarettes regularly.
A public information campaign is urgently needed, as well as the creation of better and clearer official online information sites where the public can look up the facts. Lastly, independent research should be commissioned to help build up a better database of the long-term health effects of using e-cigarettes to help combat the scaremongering.
Jawad Iqbal
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New satellite receiving stations provide real-time environmental data
The new satellite receiving stations are situated on the roof of the Willard Hall Education Building.
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12:48 p.m., Aug. 17, 2010----It's a process that begins 22,000 miles above our heads -- satellites collect information about our planet and transmit it back to Earth.
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Thanks to two satellite receiving stations installed last month on the Newark campus, University of Delaware researchers will be among the few who can access that data as it streams in from space.
The equipment, located on the roof of the Willard Hall Education Building, benefits faculty and others who study changes in the mid-Atlantic environment. It will support a wide range of research projects, including ones that monitor coastal flooding; observe coastal waters for harmful algal blooms, which can deprive waters of oxygen; and track changes in ocean circulation that could be related to climate change.
One of the receivers provides information on land and ocean surface conditions such as sea-surface temperature, chlorophyll concentration, and currents, while the other focuses on atmospheric and weather changes such as tropical storm activity and temperatures.
“The two stations really complement each other because to understand what's happening in the atmosphere you need to know about what's happening at the surface of the earth and vice versa,” said Dan Leathers, professor of geography and deputy dean in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment (CEOE). “We have a lot of people in the college who are interested in interactions between the atmosphere and the land and ocean surface.”
Leathers, who led efforts to acquire the equipment, received support from a committee of CEOE faculty that included Xiao-Hai Yan, Mary A.S. Lighthipe Professor of Marine Studies; Matt Oliver, assistant professor of oceanography; Tracy DeLiberty, associate professor of geography, and Young-Heon Jo, assistant research professor of oceanography.
Supplied and installed by California-based SeaSpace Corp., the stations cost about $500,000. A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) grant obtained by CEOE Dean Nancy Targett funded them.
From their perch atop the Willard Hall Education Building -- chosen because it allows a 360-degree view of the horizon with no electromagnetic interference -- the receivers collect information on a large swath of the globe. They capture data on the middle of the Atlantic to the center of North America and from Cuba to Newfoundland.
The beauty of having such technology right on campus, said the scientists involved, is that it gives them access to real-time data. There are only a handful of the receiving stations on the east coast, and UD researchers previously had to depend on other organizations to obtain data.
“That meant a delay of hours or even days,” said Yan, who also directs UD's Center for Remote Sensing. “Now we can monitor our coast so we will know right away if there is anything we need to respond to, a significant weather event for example.”
UD researchers also plan to provide that information to others who can use it, including other university and government researchers as well as state government emergency response and monitoring agencies.
Educators at the K-12 level are also expected to make use of the information. The Delaware Geographic Alliance plans to work with teachers to create teaching models that rely on such data for lessons on topics like meteorology or ocean currents.
Another benefit of the technology is that it provides raw data directly from the satellites. The data that come from the satellites give the intensity of electromagnetic radiation at different frequencies or wavelengths, Leathers explained.
“What the researchers really will be doing is developing algorithms or formulas to pull a bunch of those different frequencies and put them together in a way that tells you something,” he said. “They want that raw data so they can come up with algorithms to figure out better ways to look at what's happening on the earth's surface.”
Helping facilitate the huge amount of data will be a new technician to be hired this summer. That position, also funded by the NOAA grant, is designed for someone who will be responsible for data storage and dissemination to users.
Article by Elizabeth Boyle
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Search engine optimization is used to design a website and its content technically and in terms of content so that it achieves a better ranking in the results lists of search engines such as Google. Content – such as texts, images or videos – must also be optimized according to certain specifications in order to appear further up in the search results.
The content of a website is a decisive factor in search engine optimization. If you do not include the optimization of your content in search engine optimization, you will not achieve any success in the ranking of organic search in the long term. In some niches it may be possible to be successful without great content. However, as soon as there are competitors who compete with you for the best places in the Google ranking and offer high-quality content, the ranking of your website will deteriorate.
What is SEO content optimization about?
In the past, Google was dependent on the content of a website. Google and other search engines were only able to understand the contents of a website through text content and thus display them in the search results for relevant search queries. Search engines are now working much more intelligently and are able to capture the semantic connections of a website, but the importance of content has not diminished in practice.
Why is that? Using the various content elements, the search engine can deduce which search queries the website is relevant for and how relevant it is compared to other websites. Which elements are meant and how they can best be optimized, that is what this article is about.
A brief history of Google Updates
The evaluation of content by Google
While brand websites and blogs or other information portals have always placed great value on good content, this was not the case in the past with transaction-oriented websites, primarily online shops. Many shop owners feared that extensive content would lead to potential customers being distracted from the transaction. The concern was that instead of buying a product, potential customers would get lost in the texts. That is why “SEO texts” were often hidden from users, for example with very small font or gray font on a white background. So the necessary text for the search engine was available, but the users could hardly see it.
These pure SEO texts were not helpful for the users anyway, because it was only about using relevant keywords as often as possible in a text. The so-called keyword density was one of the most important indicators for the (supposed) quality of SEO content.
In addition, there were often separate pages for synonyms or even misspellings. In terms of content, however, there were hardly any differences between the texts.
The Panda Update
All of that changed fundamentally in February 2011 with Google’s Panda update. Google had recognized the problem and wanted to improve the quality of the content with this update so that users can also benefit from the quality of the texts. So anyone who had bad content or hid it from their users was the clear loser of the Panda update. Up until 2016 there were always new versions of this update to make the content better and better.
Since 2016, the criteria of the Panda update have now been incorporated into the so-called core algorithm from Google. This means that they are constantly being refined and rolled out very regularly. The advantage is that you don’t have to wait for the next update to get ranking improvements through optimizations.
Via the Google Panda update
The Panda update is a filter that is regularly applied to the entire Google index and significantly reduces poor quality websites in terms of their visibility, i.e. shifts their positions in the search results pages significantly backwards.
The algorithm change was first introduced in the US market on February 23, 2011 and then played out worldwide for all search queries in English on April 11, 2011.
On August 12, 2011, the change to the ranking algorithm was adopted worldwide for all available languages, with the exception of Chinese, Japanese and Korean. In this context, one speaks of the worldwide release of the Google Panda update.
Incidentally, the name giver of the algorithm change is not, as is often assumed, the panda bear but the Google engineer Navneet Panda, whose contribution was largely responsible for the completion of this filter.
Further improvement with the Hummingbird update
In August 2013, Google explicitly addressed the misspelling and synonyms of keywords with the help of its Hummingbird update. Since then, Google has recognized semantic relationships much better and you only need one page for each topic.
The aim of Google’s new search algorithm “Hummingbird” was to be able to better interpret search queries from users and thus improve the quality of the search results.
The code name “Hummingbird” (German: “Kolibri”) is intended to indicate that the search results will be presented quickly and precisely in the future.
The new search algorithm is able to interpret the entire search query (better) instead of just searching for individual words within the search query as before. Google understands the intention of a search query and the content of a web document even better. These two factors are fundamental to improving search results.
About the Hummingbird Update
“Hummingbird affects all types of requests, but it is especially effective on long requests that keep growing.”
– Amit Singhal, Google VP Software Engineer
What is the Google Hummingbird Update?
On the occasion of the 15th anniversary of Google search, it was announced on September 26, 2013 that Google had undergone a major overhaul of its search algorithm and that a new algorithm, Hummingbird, has been the basis of the entire Google search since August 2013.
Why was this algorithm change so special?
The Google Hummingbird update differs from other Google algorithm changes because it is a completely new search algorithm that forms the basis of Google search. Google updates like the Panda Update or the Penguin Update were significant changes (updates) to Google’s ranking algorithm – which is part of the search algorithm.
Most recently, Google made a similarly significant change with the Google Caffeine Update in 2010. According to the then head of the Google search team, Amit Singhal, a Google algorithm was last changed so fundamentally in 2001.
What was the goal of the Hummingbird update?
The code name “Hummingbird” is intended to indicate that future search results will be as fast and precise as a hummingbird.
The new search algorithm is able to interpret the entire search query in terms of content, instead of just searching for individual words within the search query as before. Google understands the intention of a search query and the content of a web document even better. These two factors are fundamental to improving search results.
So Hummingbird pays more attention to each word in a search, making sure that the entire query is considered, not just specific words. The goal is for the pages that match the meaning to perform better than pages that contain only a few words. So Hummindbird was the final entry into semantic search.
What was the Hummingbird update like?
According to Google, the Hummingbird update is intended to enormously improve the quality of search results for long and complex search queries. With these search queries, the entire search query of the user is better interpreted and correspondingly more relevant results are returned. The search results are sorted differently than before and ultimately ensure a more targeted answer.
Were other Google updates unimportant now?
Since the Hummingbird update is a completely newly developed algorithm, which from then on formed the basis of Google searches, other ranking algorithms such as Panda and Penguin were most likely integrated into the search algorithm as an elementary component.
At the beginning of 2015, Google then rolled out RankBrain. RankBrain was directly named the third most important ranking factor by Google.
RankBrain refers to an algorithm used by Google which, with the help of machine learning and artificial intelligence, is primarily intended to provide relevant search results for previously unanswered search queries.
The big difference to the Google updates to date is that the RankBrain itself learns anew and the adjustments to the algorithm are not made by humans.
There is a discussion among SEOs about how RankBrain should be classified in the systematics of Google Updates. Some SEOs – such as Danny Sullivan from SearchEngineLand – refer to RankBrain as part of the Hummingbird search algorithm.
Ultimately, RankBrain is another step towards better understanding the semantics of language. Google reduced this ability to a simple denominator with the words “things not strings”. Accordingly, since RankBrain, Google has not only been able to find “strings”, that is, chains of words, but also “things”, that is, the meaning of words.
Even if RankBrain ranks third in the ranking of Google ranking factors, it remains just one of several hundred factors that Google uses to determine the relevance and quality of a website in relation to a search query and to calculate the search results accordingly.
The EAT principle
Since the beginnings of Google and Co., the importance of content for SEO has changed considerably: If the content was previously primarily intended for search engines, today it must primarily be written for the user. Google rates how helpful and user-friendly texts are.
The acronym EAT has been on everyone’s lips since 2018, especially since the major algorithm changes in August. Google updated its guidelines for evaluating search quality at the end of July 2018, placing a stronger focus on the “EAT” principles of expertise, authority and trust. Ultimately, however, EAT only means that good content must be relevant and helpful.
E = expertise
A = authority
T = trust
In order to evaluate these points, Google is using more and more user signals such as the bounce rate or length of stay on a page. The search engine tries to understand whether the user has found what he was looking for or expected and how much the user likes this content.
Then came BERT
With the BERT update, Google tries to better recognize the context within a search query and to deliver corresponding results. Bert is the biggest algorithm change since Hummingbird and affects every tenth search query.
With the Google BERT update, Google wants to improve the understanding of complex long-tail search queries and show more relevant results. With the help of natural language processing, Google can now understand the semantic context of a search query much better.
BERT is a further development of Panda, Hummingbird and Rank Brain. With BERT, too, Google tries to recognize the context within a search query and to deliver suitable results.
As with all updates now, Google emphasizes that there is no need or possibility to react directly to the BERT update. Rather, it is more crucial than ever to create high-quality content and to make users happy.
New quality guidelines
With the updates of the Google search algorithm, the requirements for the content of a website have changed fundamentally. To follow Google’s quality guidelines today, here are a few things to keep in mind:
1. Research the topics for your texts thoroughly – this is the only way to answer all of the users’ questions and completely cover their needs.
2. Write unique texts and do not steal content from other websites.
3. Don’t worry about the length of your texts: just write as much as makes sense for the topic.
4. Write your texts for the users. So use the keywords as they would be used in normal parlance.
5. Also use synonyms, related terms and keyword combinations. This contributes to the legibility of the texts
6. Enhance your text visually: Use headings, lists, tables, images, videos and highlighting to present the content clearly and make it understandable to users.
7. Build the texts into the page in such a way that they are easy to read and easy for users to find. Otherwise there is a risk that Google will not rank your website at the top of the search results. Although you are allowed to “collapse” your texts to a certain extent or put them in tabs, sliders or accordions today, this can be a hindrance to good rankings.
The different types of content
Different requirements for different types of content
Before you can start optimizing your content, you need to think about the different types of content you need and what content you want to make available to your users. In SEO we differentiate between four different types:
1. Transactional content
2. Informational content
3. Branding content
4. Social content
5. User generated content
Each of the four types of content has a different intention and has different goals. While transactional content typically aims to generate conversions and leads – i.e. sales – informational and branding content is geared towards imparting knowledge and answering questions. In the case of social content, entertainment is usually the focus.
The different types of content can classically be displayed on websites using different page types. Transactional content is usually mapped via classic “shop content”, i.e. category pages, product pages or brand pages. Informational content, on the other hand, is often covered by an online magazine, advice or blog article. Branding content can be found on service pages such as FAQs and on the home page. Social content can typically be found in a magazine or guide or on separate landing pages. Social content can also be integrated outside of a website, for example on Facebook, YouTube and other channels.
But not all types of content play an equally important role in SEO. While transactional and informational content have a direct impact on sales from an SEO point of view, branding content and social content only have an indirect impact on organic rankings.
Transactional content
With transactional content, the focus is on the transaction. This means that users should buy a product on your website, register for a seminar, fill out a form, take out a subscription or something similar.
The task of transactional content is therefore to inform the user in such a way that he:
1. can choose the right product or service,
2. Is convinced that you are the best provider for them.
Transactional content can therefore be found primarily on product pages, category pages, brand pages, pages for buying advice, registration pages, etc. But blogs are also popular for conveying transactional content.
Transactional content is the most important type of content for SEO. This is mainly due to the fact that terms with a transactional character often have a high, steady search volume and these terms have high commercial relevance. With this content you can generate permanent organic traffic and thus sales.
What optimization measures do you have to take with transactional content?
Because the transactional content – as discussed – is particularly important, you should start your optimization here and proceed particularly systematically:
Use of Keywords
Because the valuable transactional keywords often have a high search volume, the market is practically always highly competitive. Therefore, the most important thing to do with this type of content is the use of keywords.
Clear structure
Since you want to convince your users of your offer, you have to provide them with good, advisory content. So that the user can quickly grasp what is most important for him, a good structure of the content is the alpha and omega: structure the content in such a way that it takes up meaningful subordinate topics and choose the subheadings so that they are already conclusive for the user convey what you are about. Use bullet points, lists and tables to make your content easier to understand. Use pictures and videos that support the user in his decision in favor of your offer.
Use of conversion elements
The user is supposed to carry out a transaction at the end. So you definitely have to include conversion elements (also called call to action) such as a booking button or a booking form. In the example of our Academy, these buttons are clearly visible.
Informational content
Informational content (also informational content) is primarily about the provision of information. In other words, you want to answer users’ questions and thus influence their decision. So you have to think in advance what questions your users and potential customers might have and answer these questions as best as possible and comprehensively. Informational content can be divided into evergreen content and time-related content.
Evergreen content is always relevant, while time-related content is only relevant for a short time. Seasonal topics count as time-related content because they are only relevant at a certain point in time.
In contrast to current content, which is time-bound, the creation of evergreen content is about keeping the possible questions of the clientele or target group in mind. And precisely those questions that are not bound by time and that will keep users busy in a few years. In order to create evergreen content, precise knowledge of the target group and their information needs is required.
How important is informational content for SEO?
Informational content is of great importance for SEO. Significant search volumes can be found in informational content. For example, over 5000 users search for “old-age provision” every month. Here you can create uniquely good content and thus achieve good rankings and traffic in the long term.
It looks different with time-based content. “Wm spielplan” is searched intensively every four years. As soon as the tournament is over, however, it subsides again. This is why time-based content isn’t that relevant to SEO as it won’t drive you long-term traffic. But if you work on this niche with seasonal offers, it is of course important for you to address this seasonal traffic with good time-related content.
Creation of evergreen content
However, if you want to use evergreen content on your website and thus achieve good rankings, you should be aware that it is not enough just to produce this content once. The constant demand for this topic alone does not represent a ranking factor. With every search query, Google evaluates again how relevant a target page is and also uses criteria such as the publication date or the time stamp of an update. This is intended to present the user with an optimal search result.
You should therefore regularly check your supposedly timeless content for possible updates or improvements. This applies not only to technical topics, for which a high level of dynamism ensures regular updates, but also to content that appears timeless at first glance. The higher the competition between websites for a certain evergreen content, the more criteria have to be optimized.
Tips for optimizing evergreen content
1. Use of keywords: The keywords that have search volume should be used in prominent places. But since the main thing is to answer users’ questions, you should focus particularly on mapping the topic comprehensively.
2. Structure: A clear and logical structure is just as important as with transactional content
3. Content upgrade: Informational topics typically benefit enormously from clear images or videos. So invest in good pictures and videos to differentiate yourself from the competition that deal with the same topics.
4. Internal links: Since the user does not want to buy or order anything here, you should use conversion elements sparingly. Instead, you can place internal links to your transactional pages at appropriate places.
Branding content
Branding content is all content that you create to introduce your company and to explain what your company does. This content can span many different pages and can be found in all business models:
• Home page
• about us
• Career
• Service pages
• FAQs
• Press releases
How important is branding content for SEO?
At first glance, branding content is not relevant for SEO. Typically, your brand keywords will automatically get good rankings. However, before you start optimizing your page for generic terms with a high search volume, you should make sure that you achieve good rankings for your brand terms (brand, slogan, but also word combinations from brand and career, etc.).
If this is not the case, it is usually due to technical problems, which you should definitely investigate. A bad or missing ranking for brand terms is mostly due to incorrect crawling.
What optimization measures should you take for your brand content?
Aside from a full crawl, there is no need to optimize your branding content. Usually it is sufficient to use your brand keywords in the most important places (e.g. title and headline). Since your branding content will also be about your offer, it should be well linked to your transactional pages in suitable places.
Social content
Social content refers to all content that is suitable for sharing on social networks. Above all, it is characterized by its high entertainment value. Social content does not have to be published on your website, Facebook posts and YouTube videos can also be social content. The main focus here is on the content on your website. Social content is very diverse, the main thing is that users are well entertained. Good examples are infographics, images, and videos.
How important is social content for SEO?
Usually, users don’t look for social content, but instead use it when they find it. But that also means that there is practically no search volume for social content. So you cannot generate traffic through organic search with social content. Nevertheless, the content is important for SEO, because it helps you to market your content and your website or your company.
The marketing of your content is important in order to get links and mentions on other websites, which in turn represent important off-page signals.
What optimization measures do I have to take?
Since you don’t want to rank primarily with social content, keyword targeting is secondary. Instead, you should make sure that they are linking your most important SEO pages like transactional pages well here. This is the only way to ensure that the backlinks that you may receive from marketing your website via social content have the best possible effect on your transactional pages. If these pages are no longer up-to-date, you should still ensure that the content remains accessible or 301 redirects are redirected to the new content.
User-generated content
In addition to the types of content already described, there is another type of content that is difficult to put into categories due to its diversity: user-generated content, i.e. content that is provided by your users. This can be done, for example, in the form of comments or within a forum on your site in which users can exchange ideas. You might even give users the option to upload photos.
The advantages of user-generated content for search engine optimization are obvious:
You don’t have to worry about creating this content yourself, your users do it for you.
Users create the content in “their language” and thus expand your keyword portfolio with terms and topics that you missed during your keyword research.
You will also receive interactions with your website, and the length of stay will be comparatively long.
However, you also need to be very careful about what people post on your site. Apart from the legal aspect, it is also important for the search engine to continuously check these pages.
User-generated content therefore offers high SEO potential. However, it is necessary that you moderate and control user-generated content. Accordingly, user-generated content will also produce considerable effort.
The myth of “punishment for double content”
There is no Google penalty for duplicate content. This means that if, for example, you take a press release from a company unchanged from its website and publish it on your website, you will not be penalized with a manual action by Google. However, Google will filter duplicate versions of content from search results.
So if two or more pieces of your website’s content are essentially similar, Google will pick a canonical (source) URL to show up in search results and hide the duplicate versions. It is not a punishment. This is a google filter that only shows one version of a piece of content to improve the searcher’s experience.
Images SEO
In addition to texts, images represent the most important content on a website. They have the advantage that they are easier to absorb than text and also loosen up the website and enhance it visually. In many cases, images (online shops, product images, hotel images, etc.) can also be decisive in consumers’ purchasing decisions.
But Google also rates text content with images better than content without images. Good images are therefore an important ranking criterion for a website.
The aim of image optimization is on the one hand to increase the placement of your own images in the Google image search and thus to create better visibility for the website. In addition, image optimization is also part of the SEO of a website as a whole, as high-quality content can be generated through images, which directly influences the ranking of a website in general Google search.
Tips for Using Images
• Avoid using stock photos if possible, and if you do, use high-quality and carefully selected stock photos
• Use images with a similar style. If you use images from different sources with a different look, it will appear unprofessional and unattractive to your users
• Optimize images for fast loading time. Save images in medium quality and in the appropriate size.
The creation of content
How do you create high quality content?
Now that we know what types of content there are, the question arises: How do you actually write good content?
Topics and keyword research
As already discussed, the EAT principle conveys a good idea of what constitutes good content. So it is important that you show expertise with your content, convey authority and build trust. So before you just start writing, you need to get comprehensive information on the subject. The following questions can help you:
• For which target group am I writing?
• How do I want to address this target group?
• Do I want to use “Duess” or “Sieze” my readers or not use a personal address at all
• What is the intention of the user reading my text? Is he looking to solve a problem or is his goal a transaction?
• What questions might a user have about the topic I’m writing about?
• Which pictures or videos can I use or create to better explain a situation?
• What additional information can I offer the user? For example in the form of links to other subpages of my website or to other websites?
• How do I divide the topic of my text into meaningful sections and sub-topics?
Your first starting point when researching the topic will certainly be the search engine itself. In many cases, Wikipedia should be a good start to familiarize yourself with a topic.
When researching, however, you should also look at the first results in search engines for relevant search queries for your topic. Here you will find the content that is currently ranking well. Use these websites as inspiration. Your thought should be: How can I prepare and present the topics of the top results even better. It goes without saying that you are not copying any content.
Take stock before you start writing
On extensive websites in particular, there is often the risk that a topic has already been dealt with. Before you start researching a new text, you should therefore check whether there is already content on your site that deals with the topic. Your goal must be to have only one piece of content per search intention on your page. So if there is already a post on this topic, it is advisable to revise it and improve it if necessary instead of writing a new, similar post. It makes no sense to provide two similar pieces of content for the user. How should the user assess what the difference is and which is more relevant for him? It also has problems for the search engine.
Writing texts
Once the research for the text has been completed, you can start writing.
The creation of a text is a creative process and there are no general criteria for the quality of a text. However, there are quite a few guidelines that can make writing your texts easier for you.
How many words should the text contain?
Unfortunately, there is no magic formula for the length of texts. The simple answer is: write as much as you need but as little as possible. The user must get all the information he needs and expects. This ensures that your content is relevant to a search query. Of course, complex topics need a longer text, while content on simple topics can also be kept short and concise.
If you want at least a rough guide for the length of your text, it can be helpful to take a look at the texts in the top 10 organic search results.
Which keywords should I include in the text and in which elements do I do that?
It is advisable to integrate the keywords that you have determined for your text through keyword research into the text from the start. This makes the text much easier to read than if you added the keywords later.
On the one hand, you need to use the important keywords prominently in your texts so that Google understands what your text is about. On the other hand, you mustn’t use the keywords too often, otherwise you will achieve exactly the opposite: The text will be difficult to read for the user and Google could rank the page worse due to the keyword stuffing and the below-average user engagement.
The ideal keyword density for a text is still controversial. How often should a keyword appear in the text? There is no one-size-fits-all answer because it depends a lot on the text and the keyword. The text must be user-friendly. Once you get bothered by the frequency of the keyword while reading, you should use it less often. Write a text yourself, have someone else proofread it and take this simple test. Of course, you can also use tools to measure keyword density. On the one hand, you can use the WDF * IDF tools for this. In addition, WordPress has the YOAST SEO plug-in, for example, which shows you whether your keyword occurs often enough in the text and sections.
So that the text is as easy to read as possible, you should not only use the keyword itself, but also different variants of the keyword – singular and plural, grammatical variants, but also synonyms or keyword combinations. In this way, you can also optimize for synonyms in the event that Google uses slightly modified results for them. Most of the time, the algorithm understands exactly which terms are to be understood synonymously. If your keyword consists of several words, you can also use stop and filler words between the terms. These are for example: “for”, “a”, “and”, “the”, “the”, “that” etc. Google still understands the keyword because the stop and filler words are ignored.
For how many keywords can I optimize in a text?
You should concentrate on one main keyword and a maximum of three to four secondary keywords per text. The keywords should come from the same cluster that you defined in the course of the keyword strategy. Based on the prioritization in the keyword strategy, you can evaluate which keyword is the most important within a cluster and is therefore included as the main keyword in the text. Different variants of the main keyword and secondary keywords may be used within the text.
Where is the best place for me to insert keywords in my texts?
You should of course not only use the keyword in the body text, but also in various other elements of your website, for example in the headings. The keywords have different meanings in the different elements. The use in the title and in the headings is of particular importance and much more important than, for example, in the ALT attributes.
In addition, the importance of keyword targeting also depends on the type of content. If the content is transactional (e.g. on category or product pages), precise keyword targeting is very important. It is less important on informational sites (e.g. guides, blogs, service sites). Again, it is hardly relevant for social sites.
In which style should I write the text?
As you write, remember that your readers will read the text on a screen or on their smartphone. Write in simple, short sentences so that the content is easy for readers to grasp. Reading behavior is different online than in print. Users tend to skim paragraphs rather than read them in full. It is therefore important that you formulate the statements in the text briefly and concisely.
How often do I have to update my content?
In addition to writing new texts, when doing search engine optimization you should also deal with revising existing texts. Basically, Google prefers current texts to outdated ones. That is understandable: Who wants to read a text about the laptops of the 2000s when they google for “laptop purchase advice”. How important the actuality is, depends very much on the topic.
In a text about the history of antiquity, there should be much less need for updating than in a text about machine learning.
Basically, so that your text remains up-to-date and your users can always be up-to-date, you have to revise your texts as soon as the topic has developed further. To do this, you should consider right at the beginning which topics need to be updated frequently and which not so often. Establish a process in which it is precisely determined in which cycle who is responsible for checking the texts for topicality and initiating the revision.
With this plan you can structure the cycle of revision of the texts. When you write an article, note how important it is for the text to be up to date. A revision cycle is then derived accordingly: For example, once a month for highly topical topics and once a year for less topical topics. Responsibility can be based on the topic or on the editor, because he has already dealt intensively with the topic.
Methods for improving your content
There are a few ways to improve your content. In addition to revising the content, revising the structure of a text can also noticeably improve the quality.
One of the most underestimated SEO measures is the formal optimization of texts with good content.
Headings help your users to quickly grasp the individual sections of your text. In this way, the user can better understand which sub-topics are dealt with in the text. He can therefore only read the sections that are most interesting for him. Therefore, headings should describe what follows in the section as briefly and concisely as possible. Use creative headings sparingly.
Headings also help Google and other search engines to capture the content of a text. In addition, they are one of the most important elements for keyword use. Headings are marked in HTML with h1, h2,…, h6. The h1 heading is your main heading.
Every website has a main heading – nothing more, nothing less. So there is exactly one h1 heading per page. You should definitely use your main keyword in the H1 heading. The h1 heading summarizes the content of a page so that the user and the search engine know what the page is about. You should structure the remaining headings h2 to h2 so that they appear in a logical hierarchy. The h2 is thus superordinate to the h3 etc.
Paragraphs of text
You should of course always use paragraphs. You should make sure that your paragraphs are not too long. Otherwise the clarity is lost and legibility suffers.
It is also advisable to use keywords in the subheadings. Here you can also include synonyms, variants or keyword combinations. The user then knows exactly what to expect in the individual sections. This makes your text easy to read.
Appreciation of the content with images
Images, graphics (and videos) not only enhance the visual appearance of a text, they also help the user immensely in understanding the text. In addition, there is great SEO potential in these elements, as such content can be found and displayed using the “normal search” as well as the image and / or video search. Particularly when describing complex technical contexts, representations of the content are very helpful for the user. The advantage for the user is clear: he can grasp the content of the page before he has even started reading the associated text. Are you wondering whether there are aspects in your text that are easier to explain with an image or video than with plain text?
Content revision
The revision can also make sense if the “first litter” was not optimal. Writing is also a creative work. In this respect, you cannot always expect consistently high quality from any copywriter.
If you notice that a text is technically correct, but not formulated in the best possible way in terms of language, it is best to plan a timely revision with fresh creative forces. This is another way to continuously improve the quality of your content.
Internal links
Links are known to be one of the more important ranking factors in the Google algorithm. While external links, i.e. the incoming links from other domains, are talked about a lot and their acquisition is carried out with a lot of effort, the internal linking of a website receives relatively little attention. The internal linking is a powerful SEO tool and should not be limited to navigation and the use of the keywords in the link text.
External links increase Google’s trust in the domain. The higher the trust, the more Google trusts the internal links. In this respect, both types of links are important and it would be a mistake to concentrate only on external links and ignore the possibilities of internal links.
The practical thing about internal links is that you can freely determine them yourself. You can implement your own plan for the number, placement and design of the link texts.
In addition, there is no need to worry about Google filters. While the excessive use of hard money keywords in the anchor text has quickly led to ranking losses in external links since the Penguin update at the latest, the opposite is more the case with internal links. Google recommends in its PDF “Introduction to Search Engine Optimization”: “… the better the anchor text, the easier it is for users to navigate and the better Google understands what the linked page is about.”
If the target page is about “private health insurance”, for example, it is absolutely legitimate to internally link the page with the link text “private health insurance” as often as you want. You don’t violate any Google guidelines. Most websites make insufficient use of this option. But remember that the linked pages must still be relevant to the user.
How many internal links should I use?
Unfortunately, there is no guide value for this either. Put yourself in the reader’s shoes. Can you still read the text with the links or are you just distracted? Here, too, the top priority is again that the text must get better through the internal links.
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Bash/Prompt customization
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Bash has several prompts which can be customized to increase productivity, aesthetic appeal, and nerd cred.
Bash has four prompt strings that can be customized:
• PS1 is the primary prompt which is displayed before each command, thus it is the one most people customize.
• PS2 is the secondary prompt displayed when a command needs more input (e.g. a multi-line command).
• PS3 is not very commonly used. It is the prompt displayed for Bash's select built-in which displays interactive menus. Unlike the other prompts, it does not expand Bash escape sequences. Usually you would customize it in the script where the select is used rather than in your .bashrc.
• PS4 is also not commonly used. It is displayed when debugging bash scripts to indicate levels of indirection. The first character is repeated to indicate deeper levels.
All of the prompts are customized by setting the corresponding variable to the desired string (usually in ~/.bashrc), for example
PS2='> '
While one can simply set their prompt to a plain string, there are a variety of techniques for making the prompt more dynamic and useful.
Bash escape sequences
When printing the prompt string, Bash looks for certain backslash-escaped characters and will expand them into special strings. For example, \u is expanded into the current username and \A is expanded to the current time. So a PS1 of '\A \u $ ' would be printed like 17:35 username $ .
See the man page bash(1) § PROMPTING or the Bash reference manual for a complete list of escape sequences.
Terminfo escape sequences
Aside from the escape characters recognized by Bash, most terminals recognize special escape sequences that affect the terminal itself rather than printing characters. For example they might change the color of subsequent printed characters, move the cursor to an arbitrary location, or clear the screen. These escape sequences can be somewhat illegible and can vary from terminal to terminal, so they are documented in the terminfo database. To see what capabilities your terminal supports, run
$ infocmp
The capability names (the part before the =) can be looked up in terminfo(5) for a description of what they do. For example, setaf sets the foreground color of whatever text is printed after it. To get the escape code for a capability, you can use the tput command. For example
$ tput setaf 2
prints the escape sequence to set the foreground color to green.
Note: If tput commands are failing for you, ensure that you have set the correct TERM value for your shell. For example, if you have set xterm instead of xterm-256color, tput setaf will only work with color numbers 0-7.
To practically incorporate these capabilities into your prompt, you can use Bash's command substitution and string interpolation. For example
PS1="${GREEN}my prompt${RESET}> "
my prompt>
Note: Wrapping the tput output in \[ \] is recommended by the Bash man page. This helps Bash ignore non-printable characters so that it correctly calculates the size of the prompt.
ANSI escape sequences
Unfortunately, valid ANSI escape sequences may be missing from your terminal's terminfo database. This is especially common with escape sequences for newer features such as 256 color support. In that case you cannot use tput, you must input the escape sequence manually.
See Wikipedia:ANSI escape code for examples of escape sequences. Every escape sequence starts with a literal escape character, which you can input using the Bash escape sequence \e. So for example,\e[48;5;209m sets the background to a peachy color (if you have 256 color support) and \e[2;2H moves the cursor near the top-left corner of the screen.
In cases where Bash escape sequences are not supported (such as PS3) you can get a literal escape character using Bash's printf builtin:
ESC=$(printf "\e")
Embedding commands
If you want to add the output of some command to your prompt, you might be tempted to use command substitution. For example, to add the amount of free memory to your prompt you might try:
PS1="$(awk '/MemFree/{print $2}' /proc/meminfo) prompt > "
53718 prompt >
53718 prompt >
53718 prompt >
But this doesn't work; the amount of memory shown is the same every time! This is because the command is run once, when PS1 is first set, and never again. The trick is to simply prevent the substitution either by escaping the $ or by defining it in single quotes—either way it will be substituted when the prompt is actually displayed:
PS1="\$(awk '/MemFree/{print \$2}' /proc/meminfo) prompt > "
# or
PS1='$(awk "/MemFree/{print \$2}" /proc/meminfo) prompt > '
To prevent long commands from making your PS1 huge, you can define functions:
PS1='$(free_mem) prompt > '
Note: You can use terminfo/ANSI escape sequences inside substituted functions but not Bash escapes. In particular \[ \] won't work for surrounding non-printable characters. Instead you can use the octal escapes \001 and \002 (e.g. using printf or echo -e).
If the PROMPT_COMMAND variable is set, it will be evaluated right before PS1 is displayed. This can be used to achieve quite powerful effects. For example it can reassign PS1 based on some condition, or perform some operation on your Bash history every time you run a command.
Warning: PROMPT_COMMAND generally should not be used to print characters directly to the prompt. Characters printed outside of PS1 are not counted by Bash, which will cause it to incorrectly place the cursor and clear characters. Either use PROMPT_COMMAND to set PS1 or look at embedding commands.
Tip: If the PROMPT_COMMAND becomes too complicated, bash-preexec (an implementation of Zsh's preexec and precmd hook functions for Bash) may make it more maintainable.
Escapes between command input and output
You can affect your input text in Bash by not resetting the text properties at the end of your PS1. For example, inserting tput blink at the end of your PS1 will make your typed commands blink. However this effect will also continue through the command's output since the text properties are not reset when you hit Enter.
In order to insert escape sequences after you type a command but before the output is displayed, you can trap Bash's DEBUG signal, which is sent right before each command is executed:
$ trap 'tput sgr0' DEBUG
Customizing root prompts
To ensure that you know when you are running as root, you can customize your root prompt to make it clearly stand out (perhaps blinking red?). This is done by customizing the Bash prompt as usual but in root's home directory, /root. Start off by copying the skeleton files /etc/skel/.bash_profile and /etc/skel/.bashrc to /root, then edit /root/.bashrc as desired.
Tip: infocmp shows the number of colors tput works with, for example colors#8.
To see the full range of colors your terminal supports, you can use a simple loop with tput (change setab to setaf for text foregrounds):
for C in {0..255}; do
tput setab $C
echo -n "$C "
tput sgr0
If that does not work (and you cannot fix it by setting the correct TERM value), you can test the different manual escape sequences:
# standard colors
for C in {40..47}; do
echo -en "\e[${C}m$C "
# high intensity colors
for C in {100..107}; do
# 256 colors
for C in {16..255}; do
echo -en "\e[48;5;${C}m$C "
echo -e "\e(B\e[m"
To change the manual escapes from background to foreground, the standard color range is 30..37, the high intensity range is 90..97, and the 48 should be changed to 38 for 256 colors.
Common capabilities
The following terminfo capabilities are useful for prompt customization and are supported by many terminals. #1 and #2 are placeholders for numeric arguments.
Capability Escape sequence Description
Text attributes
blink \E[5m blinking text on
bold \E[1m bold text on
dim \E[2m dim text on
rev \E[7m reverse video on (switch text/background colors)
sitm \E[3m italic text on
ritm \E[23m italic text off
smso \E[7m highlighted text on
rmso \E[27m highlighted text off
smul \E[4m underlined text on
rmul \E[24m underlined text off
setab #1 \E[4#1m set background color #1 (0-7)
setaf #1 \E[3#1m set text color #1 (0-7)
sgr0 \E(B\E[m reset text attributes
Cursor movement
sc \E7 save cursor position
rc \E8 restore saved cursor position
clear \E[H\E[2J clear screen and move cursor to top left
cuu #1 \E[#1A move cursor up #1 rows
cud #1 \E[#1B move cursor down #1 rows
cuf #1 \E[#1C move cursor right #1 columns
cub #1 \E[#1D move cursor left #1 columns
home \E[H move cursor to top left
hpa #1 \E[#1G move cursor to column #1
vpa #1 \E[#1d move cursor to row #1, first column
cup #1 #2 \E[#1;#2H move cursor to row #1, column #2
Removing characters
dch #1 \E#1P remove #1 characters (like backspacing)
dl #1 \E#1M remove #1 lines
ech #1 \E#1X clear #1 characters (without moving cursor)
ed \E[J clear to bottom of screen
el \E[K clear to end of line
el1 \E[1K clear to beginning of line
Visualizing exit codes
Using the same trick from embedding commands you can delay the interpolation of special Bash variables like $?. So the following prompt shows the exit code of the previous command:
PS1="\$? > "
# or
PS1='$? > '
0 > true
0 > false
1 >
This can be made more interesting using conditionals and functions:
if [[ $? == 0 ]]; then
echo ':)'
echo 'D:'
PS1='$(exitstatus) > '
:) > true
:) > false
D: >
Positioning the cursor
It is possible to move the cursor around the screen inside of PS1 to make different parts of the prompt appear in different locations. However, to ensure that Bash positions the cursor and output in the right position, you must move the cursor back to the original position after you are done printing elsewhere. This can be done using the tput capabilities sc and rc to save and restore the cursor position. The general pattern for a prompt that moves the cursor is
PS1="\[$(tput sc; cursor-moving code) positioned prompt stuff $(tput rc)\] normal prompt stuff"
where the entire block of repositioned prompt is wrapped in \[ \] to prevent Bash from counting it as part of the regular prompt.
Right-justified text
The simplest way to print text on the right side of the screen is to use printf
printf "%*s" $COLUMNS "right prompt"
PS1='\[$(tput sc; rightprompt; tput rc)\]left prompt > '
left prompt > right prompt
This creates a right-justified variable-sized field %*s and sets its size to the current number of columns of the terminal $COLUMNS.
Arbitrary positioning
The cup capability moves the cursor to a specific position on the screen, for example tput cup 20 5 moves the cursor to line 20, column 5 (where 0 0 is the top left corner). cuu, cud, cuf, and cub (up, down, forward, back) move the cursor relative to its current position. For example tput cuf 10 moves the cursor 10 characters to the right. You can use the LINES and COLUMNS variables in the arguments to move the cursor relative to the bottom and right edges. For example, to move 10 lines and 5 columns away from the bottom right corner:
$ tput cup $((LINES - 11)) $((COLUMNS - 6))
Customizing the terminal window title
The terminal window title can be customized in much the same way as the prompt: by printing escape sequences in the shell. Thus it is common for users to include window title customizations in their prompt. Although this is technically a feature of xterm, many modern terminals support it. The escape sequence to use is ESC]2;new titleBEL where ESC and BEL are the escape and bell characters. Using #Bash escape sequences, changing the title in your prompt looks like
PS1='\[\e]2;new title\a\]prompt > '
Of course your window title string can include output from embedding commands or variables such as $PWD, so that the title changes with each command.
See also
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Missiles are displayed as Iranian President Hassan Rouhani attends an armed forces parade in Tehran, Iran, September 22, 2017. President.ir/Handout via REUTERS
ANKARA (Reuters) - Iran said on Friday its ballistic missile program was for defense purposes only and non-negotiable, denying a Reuters report that Tehran may be open to discussing the controversial program with major powers.
“Iran has in all bilateral diplomatic meetings ... emphasized that its defensive missile program is not negotiable and that it is not inconsistent with UN Security Council resolution 2231,” Mehr news agency quoted Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi as saying.
A Reuters report on Friday, quoting Iranian and Western officials familiar with the overtures, said Iran has suggested to six world powers that it may be open to talks about its ballistic missile arsenal aimed at reducing tension over the disputed program.
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French Presidential Contender Macron Backs Tough Stand on Brexit
Given what a wild ride the French presidential campaign has been, it’s premature even only a couple of months from the vote to put too many chips on any horse. However, as Ambrose Evans-Pritchard points out in a new column, Emmanuel Macron is taking a hard line on Brexit. It’s not clear that Macron will make it to the second round to face off against Marine Le Pen. Fillon took a hit due to scandals involving potentially illegal government payments to his wife and son. But Macron’s own goal has put Fillion back ahead of him. From Bloomberg:
Republican candidate Francois Fillon is back on track to qualify for the run-off in France’s presidential race, a poll showed on Tuesday, as a sweetened program of reforms and intensive campaigning on social media and across the country pay dividends.
Fillon leapfrogged independent front-runner Emmanuel Macron, gaining three percentage points to 21 percent, while Macron shed five points to 18.5 percent, according to the survey by Elabe for L’Express magazine….
Running for office for the first time in his career, Macron suffered his first significant misstep of the campaign last week, when he qualified French colonial rule in North Africa as a “crime against humanity.” Since then he’s taken the brunt of rivals’ attacks and was forced to apologize to French citizens who left Algeria when it gained independence in 1962.
Presumably polls next week will show how lasting the damage to Macron is. Marine Le Pen is continuing to gain, with the Elabe poll showing her getting 42% to 58% versus Fillion in a second round.
Nevertheless, Macron is a serious enough contender that he was able to secure a meeting with Theresa May in London. Evans-Pritchard quoted his “Franco-German” unity versus the UK in a Brexit negotiation. While this is accurate, I find it an odd way for Macron to have stated his views. The fact is that the EU, from the very day the Brexit vote was announced, has been unified in telling the UK what its major negotiating parameters are, and how they are consistent with both EU principles and existing agreements with other countries that are not in the EU, like Norway and Switzerland. As we’ve recounted long form, the UK continues to be astonishingly obtuse, with its politicians and press having convinced themselves that the British Isles are oh-so-special that the EU will be forced to relent.
In addition, even in the event of a Le Pen win, it is far from a given that she could deliver on her promise of having France depart the Eurozone. From the Spectator:
Consider the long-term consequences of the two-round voting system. Many British commentators — and indeed some in France — call periodically for a ‘French Thatcher’ to sweep away institutional barriers to economic dynamism….The British system not only can but regularly does give power to a united minority over a divided majority. Mrs Thatcher could carry out a peaceful revolution without ever having the clear support of a majority of voters. In a French-style system, she and her parliamentary supporters would inevitably have been defeated in second-round ballots by a combination of Labour and the Liberals: Jim Callaghan would have been triumphantly re-elected.
In short, precisely because of its turbulent political history, France has developed a series of barriers against radical change. A leading sociologist, Michel Crozier, described it in 1970 as a ‘société bloquée’ — a ‘stalemate society’. Of course, much in France does change: but the price of political stability is that certain fundamental rights and privileges remain untouched. Advantageous retirement rights and pensions. Certain influential professions. Farmers, sheltered by the Common Agricultural Policy. People in permanent employment, protected by laws penalising redundancy and limiting hours of work. The public sector — in French le service public, significantly in the singular — is the core of this system: schools, public hospitals, railways, universities, local government, the post office. All are arms of the state. Think of le service public as the NHS multiplied by five. The politics of its workforce, combining a real sense of public service with a jealous defence of rights and privileges, explains why France is the most anti-capitalist country in Europe….
A ‘French Thatcher’ — assuming that there is one, however diluted — faces not only the electoral barrier but a wider ideological polarisation than that of Britain in the 1980s. Then a large minority, even at times a majority, felt that something radical had to be done, and accepted that this included weakening the trade unions and increasing the freedom of the market. There is little sign that any such consensus exists in France, where both left and right are deeply suspicious of economic liberalism. Marine Le Pen thunders against free trade and ‘unfair’ competition. The very word ‘liberal’ has long been a political kiss of death: we shall see whether Macron is immune. So there is widespread dissatisfaction, but no accepted solution….
Nevertheless, few now rule out a Le Pen victory completely…If she did become president, France would face a genuine crisis, the worst for half a century. There would certainly be strikes and violent demonstrations by those who would see themselves as defending the republic against fascism. How she could form a viable government or win a majority in parliament is unclear. We would see a conflict between the Fifth Republic’s powerful president and its parliament under a constitutional system that one liberal critic has called dangerous even in the hands of a saint. The consequences for the euro, the EU, western security and Britain’s relations with one of its closest allies would be dire.
And from Ambrose Evans-Pritchard:
The 39-year old centrist candidate and former economy minister warned that the EU’s four sacred freedoms of goods, services, capital, and people are indivisible, insisting that Britain will not be allowed to cherry pick parts of the arrangement.
The European Court must remain the supreme legal body with jurisdiction over Britain under any post-Brexit transition deal, a demand likely to raise hackles in the Conservative Party and endanger any accord…
Outside Downing Street, asked if he wanted banks to move to France after Brexit, Macron responded: “I will have a series of initiatives to get talented people in research and lots of fields working here to come to France … I want banks, talents, researchers, academics and so on…
French expatriates at the event at Central Westminster Hall on Monday night may seen him as the antidote to the soak-the-rich policies of his former boss, Mr Hollande, whose 75 per cent tax on millionaires Mr Macron himself derided as turning France into “Cuba without the sun”. The measure drove many to move o the UK…
Mr Macron has raised several million euros in campaign funds from dinners and invitation-only meetings with expatriates in London and other capitals at which guests are invited to contribute as much as €7,500 (£6,400) to support his candidacy.
Both Bloomberg and Evans-Pritchard pointed out that Macron is particularly vulnerable to the possible entry of François Bayrou, the mayor of the southern city of Pau. He ran for President in 2007 and 2012 and last time got 9.1% in the first round. Although he’d take votes from all candidates, Macron would suffer the worst. Bayrou is set to announce whether he’s in or not at 4:30 PM today. Stay tuned.
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1. PlutoniumKun
Two points:
As one of our French watching commentators here pointed out a couple of days ago this was probably less likely a ‘gaff’ by Macron, but a well calibrated ‘dog whistle’ to the left that deep down he is one of them – something straight out of the Obama playbook. Macron is playing a tricky game of getting centrists and economic right wingers to vote for him without losing support from the centre left. He may well be calculating that its worth annoying a few pied noir in order to keep his more left wing potential supporters on board.
Second point – I think that yet another big error the UK is making is assuming that any Brexit deal will be agreed with the Germans and French. But as noted here many times, any deal must be signed off by all members. It is being credibly reported here in Ireland, based on briefings from Irish civil servants who have been travelling Europe, that the true hard line stance is coming from Eastern Europe. Countries like Poland, the Baltic States and the Czech Republic have always for historical reasons seen the UK as an ally, but have seen the Brexit vote as a huge betrayal, and the widespread reporting of racist incidents against east Europeans in England have hardened opinions.
The Eastern European countries have far less trade with the UK so have much less to lose if it turns chaotic, but they may see themselves as potential winners if they take a very hard line. They might, for example, insist on their EU contributions being reduced in proportion to the UK’s exit payment – i.e. they could well simply demand more money from the UK to offset their contribution as the ‘price’ of support for any deal. Once again, the long term refusal of the UK to cultivate friends on the fringes of Europe could turn out to be very expensive.
1. Yves Smith Post author
Yes, I should have underscored the point you made re the breadth of the antipathy to cutting the UK any slack, rather than giving it a handwave. While it is true that normally, when the French and Germans agree on something, the rest of the Eurzone/EU (as appropriate) goes along because the two have such different interests that if they concur, the rest figure the policy can’t be that bad, this is one where there was close to unified opposition to a Brexit. This was an almost reflex consensus, not something arrived at by to-ing and fro-ing.
1. Graeme Irvine
There is no chance of the UK getting 5 EU presidents to agree a deal, let alone the rump-27 EU nations, anyone of which can block a deal, plus the Belgian Walloonatics, who also can block Belgium from agreeing any deal. The sooner both sides face up to reality the better. Niether London, nor Brussels, nor Berlin made any plan for Brexit since none of them expected the voters to vote to leave. Dodgy Dave Cameron was sent back from his European Farewell Tour with an empty envelope to sell to UK voters. In that hopeless cause he failed despite rolling out Obama, Abe, Tusk, Schulz, Hollande, and Carney in Project Fear. All have to live with the likelihood of a complete Brexit after two years along WTO lines.
1. Tom
I’m pretty confident that there will be no deal at all. Simply because 27 nations would only vote for a deal that suited all and therefore gave precious little to the 1. On the other hand why would the 1 ever bother signing up for such a deal. I believe there is some sort of notion that they can bully the UK into signing up for a deal that sees them right where they are now (rules, fees etc) but with no voice. The UK will not sign such a deal, hence no deal will be the prevailing option.
2. vlade
This. Way before the Brexit referendum I was saying how does the UK expect to get a better deal leaving the EU, which requires some very skilled diplomacy and alliance building, when it singularly failed to build an alliance within EU. Which would have, IMO, allowed it to get quite a few points it wanted within EU, as most of the countries north of Alps are not keen at all on EU to have much political clout but want to see it as primarily an economic bloc (which would have worked well for the UK).
The main problem I see now is that it’s very likely the UK will crash out of the EU, as the talks are getting more and more acrimonious even before A50 invocation. And, of course, it’s impossible that the Tories/UKIP (not to mention Labour Brexiters) would admit its their fault, so the relationship with the EU sours even more.
Were it early 20th century, I’d expect that Daily Mail would be calling for a war by 2019 to teach those EU fossils how the UK deals with those who displease it.
1. Colonel Smithers
Thank you, Vlade.
I have observed this in person (in a previous life). A friend, also originating from the same former French and British colony, who works at the UK mission to the EU has also observed.
I am in Paris this week and next and picking up anecdotal evidence that MLP is doing better than polled and may do better, not necessarily win, in the second round than expected.
When I saw Macron at the races with the family who controlled his former employer, he seemed bored when having to walk around the parade ring with the brothers and look at their horses.
See you soon. One looks forward to meeting you.
2. Colonel Smithers
I forgot to add that decades after withdrawal from the colonies and numerous economic and political disasters have not diminished the imperialist arrogance of so many Brits, right wingers and many so-called liberals (really neo-liberals). The UK’s perpetual falling back on the special relationship, a one-sided arrangement, is not healthy for either country.
Pas grande chose a faire au bureau aujourd’hui :-).
1. Tom
Hi Colonel,
Yes, we Brits are a bit arrogant but the fact, denied by many, is that we punch way above our weight (and we know it). It may be an accident of history, but it is where we are today. We come from a cold and pretty small island, but everyone in the world knows who we are, and a large portion want to come and live here.
I presume L’ancienne Isle de france is the island now known as the Repulic of Mauritius? 5% of Mauritians live in the UK last time I checked and probably all Mauritians know of the UK and where it is. Do all Brits know where Mauritius is? No.
I don’t mean at all to insult by that comment, but the fact that the whole world is dissecting Brexit is a reflection of the importance of the UK, the otherwise poxy island only good for having invented the sandwich. The UK sets the standard for a well governed country.
1. Fulvio
I suppose in the ruthless, inhumane sweepstakes, the British success at home and abroad must be regarded as a contender for some kind of a prize. Put another way, one might ask what kind of a people were the land owners who drove peasants off the common land into the satanic mills of Manchester, etc to endure a kind of poverty never seen anywhere in the world before? And, put another, what kind of a people put up with such sadists? So, bit arrogant, bit proud of sado-empire and all that. You betcha!
2. uncle tungsten
Yes Tom, Before Thatcher ungoverned it and then Blair untruthed it.Pardon me for being cynical but I am pretty certain that the UK is irrelevant.
1. Tom
We’ll see just how irrelevant when that 11bn is no longer put into the EU budget – they’re already panicking about what it means in terms of whether the Franco-German axis gets to pay more or the Eastern Europeans get less.
3. Colonel Smithers
Thank you, PK.
I am surprised that the opportunist Macron did not mention the Code Noir or may be that is too much of a sore point. Those who originate from former colonies, as I do, are often staggered by the hypocrisy of the metropolitains.
1. Jeff
A bit OT, but the best illustration of colonialism and hypocrisy is Bertrand Tavernier’s ‘coup de torchon’ (imdb). Don’t know whether it exists on YouTube or in English.
1. Colonel Smithers
Thank you, Jeff.
My family is from l’ancienne Isle de France. English is my third language, after Creole and French. A distant relative won the Nobel prize for literature, a rare francophone winner.
2. Colonel Smithers
That hypocrisy extends to my ancestry, slave and slave owner and on both sides.
A hundred years ago, my maternal great grandfather was kicked out of his planter family for marrying out. The family are among the top half dozen business families on the island and have expanded on the African mainland. They control hundreds of thousands of acres of land, mainly used for sugar cane. There are some rather elegant hotels in the portfolio, too.
On dad’s side, the turfing out occurred in the mid-19th century, not long after slavery was abolished.
1. PlutoniumKun
Yes, ‘betrayal’ is the word most commonly used so far as I have heard. Eastern European countries have always seen the UK as a friend and ally (mostly on the basis of the UK not being Germany or France) and for the UK establishment to use east European migrants as a negotiating card is seen as explicitly racist by those countries. Obviously they want to protect the status of their citizens abroad, as any country does, but any attempt by the Conservatives to use them as a negotiating card would almost certainly backfire in a very serious way. Most of those countries are doing quite well economically so would not find accepting a chunk of their citizens back a particular hardship.
1. Tom
I never really understand why the Eastern European countries are so concerned about “protecting the status of their citizens abroad”. UK has taken a large portion of their young educated population and will probably over time adopt these people as nationals.
How is that possibly in the interests of the the original countries, and why do these countries wish to encourage their brain drain?
It’s quite extraordinary.
1. PlutoniumKun
I don’t think there is any contradiction between protecting your citizens abroad – all countries do that, thats why consulates exist – and not wanting too much emigration. I don’t think there is any evidence that East European countries encourage emigration (except when it applies to unwanted minorities, like Russian speakers in Baltic States or Roma gypsies), but it is always a useful pressure valve when there is too much unemployment. It is a simple reality that people will move to more prosperous countries if they can when they are young, and they will move to warmer cheaper countries when they retire, if they can.
2. Graeme Irvine
Neither the UK nor the rump-EU should be thinking of expelling each other’s nationals after Brexit. Both are essentially Christian ethical parties, and reciprosity and doing right for very real people ought to be the driving principle.
4. Eustache de Saint Pierre
Does this not all put Ireland in an awkward position, in regard to it’s reported 1.2 billion a week exports to the UK ? I imagine much of that would be foodstuffs which the UK obviously needs.
I am probably allowing my imagination to run away with me, but it all faintly reminds me of the attempts by the Axis powers during WW2, to defeat Britain by way of a blockade.
1. PlutoniumKun
It doesn’t put Ireland in a particularly awkward position at all, because most of Irelands exports are pretty much non-replaceable – i.e. food. The UK is a net importer of food in a major way so any attempt to put duties or restrict it would damage the UK far more than Ireland. There are very tight supply chains between Britain and Ireland as so many major food and retail companies are interlinked (its not like during the 1930’s ‘Anglo-Irish Trade War’ where the Irish economy was crippled by British duties on imports). The drop in sterling is a much more serious threat to Ireland than a new border and this is already having an impact (mostly on tourism). In any event, there are many pre-EU agreements between Ireland and the UK (in terms of movement and trade) which will be revered to through default.
1. Eustache de Saint Pierre
Thank you for clearing that up – according to a cousin of mine the border areas especially, are once again seeing flocks of shoppers crossing the border.
The one thing that the ” Little Englander ” mentality can perhaps be thanked for is for keeping sterling, as it at least allows for some flexibility. I often wonder what state the UK would be in now if the over trillion bailout had been conducted under the Euro.
1. PlutoniumKun
I think I should clarify what I said above – I don’t want to be dismissive of the issue as there is a real worry that Irish exports would be caught in a limbo if there was no agreement. There is an attempt by some business interests in Ireland to try to drum up scare stories to try to get the EU to focus on the Irish boundary issue. But I do feel (and I think privately most businesses agree), that the likely impact would simply be that the British would turn a blind eye to agricultural imports from Ireland whatever the rules, simply because the alternative would be to have supermarkets run out of food. But there are potential knock-on impacts, especially for products made from dairy from both north and south Ireland (for exports to Asia, for example, which may no longer be covered by bilateral agreements if some of the milk comes from the UK).
Cross border shopping is a major local issue along the border. The border areas as strewn with petrol stations and shops which boom and bust in line with currency fluctuations. For a few years, it was UKers shopping in the republic, now its vice versa. But obviously if there was a border barrier the Irish government could (as it did in the 1980’s), simply force people to account for everything in their car as they come over.
1. Eustache de Saint Pierre
Hmmm…..yes my cousin who lives in South Armagh talked about the border, which according to him would be a nightmare to police & would leak like a sieve.
Probably very expensive too & apparently according to him – a substantial amount of illegal products such as washed diesel, imported Eastern European cigarettes & human beings are all part of the constant flow.
Perhaps as around 70% in the North voted to remain, this might all eventually lead to a United Ireland.
I imagine at least that nobody is talking about a wall.
1. PlutoniumKun
The border is impossible to control – it has no logic in topography and even in some cases runs right through houses – there are even a tiny number of ‘isolated’ enclaves. Some roads cross the border several times over the course of a few miles. Its possible to control large scale movements on the main roads, but not local smuggling.
NI is in a very peculiar position in that it voted Remain, but the single most powerful politician – First Minister Arlene Foster – is an ardent Brexiteer. She is in deep political trouble now due to an unconnected scandal. All the other parties are unusually united in being Remainers. Ironically enough, it is her base of Protestant farmers and small businesspeople who are most likely to suffer from it.
If – as is possible – the government of the Republic falls in the next few months, there is every likelihood that there could be a new government with Sinn Fein in it, which would mean they could achieve their strategy of being in government north and south. That would set the cat among the chickens politically as they would then push very hard for NI to achieve some sort of separate arrangement within the EU, maybe even with Scotland.
2. Clive
Illustrative of the legal and diplomatic quagmire the UK government is walking into vis-à-vis the Republic, the Anglo-Irish Trade Agreement gives a requirement to — in essence — take as much agricultural produce from the Republic as there is demand for (emphasis mine):
The Government of Éire, recognising that it is the policy of the Government of the United Kingdom to promote the orderly marketing of agricultural products, declare their readiness to co-operate in any arrangements made or approved by that Government for this purpose, and the Government of the United Kingdom, for their part, will not seek to regulate the quantity of any such goods produced in Éire and imported into the United Kingdom unless it appears to them that the orderly marketing of such goods cannot otherwise be secured.
Before any such regulation is put into force, there shall be consultation between the two Governments, and the Government of the United Kingdom undertake that, in determining the quantity of percentage share to be allotted to Éire, regard shall be had so far as practicable to the past position of Éire in the trade and to any special conditions which may have affected, or be affecting, the volume of Éire exports to the United Kingdom.
The Government of Éire, when so requested by the Government of the United Kingdom, will furnish estimates of the quantities of any agricultural product likely to be exported from Éire to the United Kingdom in any period.
This Article shall apply to fish and fishery products as it applies to agricultural products.
Border controls and tariffs would certainly be considered an attempt to “… regulate the quantity … imported into the United Kingdom”. And there is an obligation “as far as practical” to not enter into any domestic UK regulation which degrades the Republic’s volumes of agricultural exports.
And as PlutoniumKun says, agriculture supply chains are tightly bound anyway, especially for fresh produce. A milk processing plant in NI, for example, can hardly switch to imported milk from the mainland (i.e. refrigerated sea transportation) without impacting its cost base if it is currently supplied by tankers driving a few miles from the south.
1. PlutoniumKun
Oh, thats interesting, I didn’t know that.
The fly in the ointment might be that the Republic would not be able to accept dairy produce in return as Ireland is a major producer of dairy products (especially baby formula), and agreements in Asia are tied to all the milk being an EU certified product. Irish dairy producers would have no choice but to refuse to accept any dairy product from the north for fear of ‘contaminating’ the final product leading to trade issues with China.
2. Colonel Smithers
A majority of French migrants to the UK came before Hollande’s election in 2012. I remember attending a Sarko rally with French friends and colleagues in London in early 2007. The figures being talked about then were not so different to the figures bandied about now.
There are not that many people affected by the 75%. Many are sportsmen as they are paid salaries. Dividends and profits from the sale of securities, property etc., i.e. the real wealth of the rich, are not taxed at these levels. One can always shelter such assets with an investment vehicle based in Luxembourg. A leading French socialist politician from Rouen, but who served / was parachuted as mayor of a small town in the Correze, does just that with his brother and father.
France is going through a property boom, which to this UK resident observer seems odd and as if they don’t know anything about Blighty. This is making the wealthy wealthier.
3. oho
‘There would certainly be strikes and violent demonstrations by those who would see themselves as defending the republic against fascism’
Don’t Fillon and Macron want to gut French labour laws and government-owned industries?
Not endorsing LePen. just pointing out that it’s a mess and the pro-0.5% candidates w/their economic policies have left a huge opening for someone like LePen to fill.
1. PlutoniumKun
Yes. I think the assumption that in a run-off between Le Pen and Macron or Fillon the working class left will support Macron or Fillon in the way they reluctantly voted for Sarkozy over Le Pen senior is a very dubious one. Many may look at Le Pens policies and say she is more palatable even than Macron.
1. Colonel Smithers
Thank you, PK.
That is what I am picking up.
It is felt that if Le Pen can’t win this time, another quinqennat, or two, of neo-liberal rule may be enough to propel her niece, Marion Marechal-Le Pen, to the Elysee.
On a related note, the BBC World Service is getting just as hysterical about Fillon and Le Pen as it is about Trump and Putin. One of the clowns presenting the show from about 3 – 6 am called Exxon a small provincial outfit when slating Tillerson’s credentials.
2. Anonymous2
I agree MLP will probably do better than expected. In Paris last month, I was struck by two comments. ‘Not everyone who will vote FN will admit it’ and ‘when people are unhappy they do stupid things’. Whether she will do well enough to win the second round, who knows ?
But another troubling remark was that the FN have not really changed since MLP took over. All that has happened is a clever, cynical cosmetic makeover – they are still fascists in truth.
3. David
Agreed. The “Barrier to Fascism” approach may not work this time. French trades unions are now very weak, almost everything that is not nailed down has been privatized, and the Socialists have no mass movement base any more. I don’ know where these “strikes and demonstrations” would come from. I suppose the bobos of the 4th arrondissement could always pay their Malian cleaning ladies to riot.
4. Gman
The EU apparently helped a war torn Europe bury the hatchet, but clearly lots of people in the European family seem to remember exactly where they buried it or are currently fashioning shiny new ones.
Human nature suggests it’s inevitable that the UK’s potential, but by no means guaranteed, ‘difficulty’ might well be turned into someone’s opportunity amongst the various jostling EU members scrapping for their piece of the (r?)UK’s post EU carcass, but let’s not flatter to deceive about their motivations or their over egged perceived grievances.
What I suppose I find a little disappointing is the constant simplistic, one dimensional, hackneyed ‘deluded Little Englanders pining for long lost Empire’ shtick still be being peddled as if this somehow neatly defines and explains the entire Brexit phenomenon.
Even those who assume they occupy some sort of unique position on the sunlit EU moral high ground (and they are legion) aren’t above to employing their own lazy sweeping racial stereotypes, venting their own petty vendettas or prejudices or even resorting to a bit of the old dog whistle politics themselves either it seems.
5. pictboy3
Is it possible the UK is playing for time to see what happens to the EU after the next round of elections? If you really did see a FN victory in France, I would think it would put the EU on course for an existential crisis, which can only help the Brits at this point. Or am I overestimating the Tory pols by an order of magnitude?
1. Colonel Smithers
Thank you.
It was suggested, including by Fillon, to May that she delay invoking Article 50 until next year and allow the new French and German governments to settle. She was having none of it and could not even see that it would buy her time.
In 2014 – 5, I worked with May’s Home Office / law and order department on an immigration matter relating to banking. I was given the impression that she can’t handle complexity and hard choices and sees everything in black and white, e.g. crime is bad, foreigners and immigrants are bad. The Home Office suited her and did not prove the banana skin that it has been for others, although the MSM does not report how useless she was as Home Secretary.
As per one of my comments above, the former boss of a friend, the former UK ambassador to the EU, testified to parliamentarians this morning. The subtext of his testimony is that the UK has few, if any, cards to play with, not that the public or MSM are aware or care. The public is fed a diet of Trump outrages daily by click bait obsessed hacks.
1. Anonymous2
I think Murdoch plays a role here, along with the other press barons. The FCO were clearly arguing she should wait until after the French elections at least and she was talking of the need for ‘some control ‘ of migration. Then she went to see Murdoch in NYC and came back to the Tory party conference saying Article 50 by end of March and full control of borders. I read this as her taking her orders from her lord and master in NYC. I am
6. pietro gori
What a terrible place France is, where “certain fundamental rights and privileges remain untouched” according to the Spectator. You see, they have “advantageous retirement rights and pensions”, meaning pensioners won’t have to sleep under bridges, pick their dinner form dumpsters, and may have a chance to take a ride on an ambulance without flashing their credit card! Moreover, absurd as that may sound, they retain to this day such barbaric relics as “permanent employment, laws penalizing redundancy and limiting hours of work” (though here the Spectator is not quite up to date, after the passing of the loi travail)…
The continued presence of those archaic privileges is so outrageous that the French people will not miss the chance to sweep either Macron or Fillon to power, beating back Vichy Le Pen and her demagogic promises to stand up for labor and get out of the German-dominated EU…
1. Gman
Continued EU membership is definitely one of the major ‘éléphants dans la chambre’ for the French.
MLP, like Trump or even Fromage don’t necessarily accurately represent people’s shifting political views or a seismic shift to the Right, they just happen to be of the Right and the only politicians who seem to ‘get it’ at the moment. Their personal agendas are pretty much immaterial and that’s how bad things have got!
In many cases people are voting for these people in spite of who they are and often what they represent, not because they actively agree with them. That should speak volumes to establishment politicians on all sides, but there’s none so deaf as those who won’t hear.
Many Western erstwhile ‘social democracies’ are under threat because of the abject failure of the Left and its inability in ‘rosier’ times to win the arguments in the face of what seemed like overwhelming evidence that the good times really would never end. Whatever those diabolical neoliberal alchemists were doing it always seemed to be working.
Well now those ‘good times’ clearly have for increasing numbers. The party’s over and it’s time to survey the damage with sober eyes. The mainstream Left lost its mojo decades ago (or did they sell it?) and the vacuum they left unsurprisingly had to be filled by someone, anyone vaguely plausible, perceived to be from ‘the outside’.
1. Gman
Are a increasing number of voters desperately clutching at straws? You bet. That’s what drowning people do.
Increasing turnouts and political engagement after years of apparent voter apathy should tell those who are prepared to listen all they need to know.
1. Bugs Bunny
He’s proposing an “alliance” with Macron. A ministry, probably. He didn’t get much out of backing Hollande so we’ll see where that goes.
7. David
Well, he’s making two conditions, which apparently Macron has accepted. One is a law against corruption in public life, the other is proportional representation in the National Assembly, which is huge and would change the political landscape totally. I think he has calculated that he can manipulate Macron into doing what he would do if he were running, but of course these laws would still have to be passed by the parliament soon to be elected. All a bit unclear for the moment.
8. hush / hush
Why isn’t the Socialist candidate Hamon part of the conversation?
It seems like a rehash of the Trump / Clinton / Sanders dynamic. I imagine both LePen and Fillion would be deeply unpalatable candidates to the majority of French people. LePen’s exceptional euroskepticism and Fillion’s radical neoliberal economic reforms should virtually disqualify them from any hope of winning the presidency. But then the candidate hailed as “frontrunner” is Macron — the candidate of the status quo. His position seems to be: I’ll be like Hollande but better. He, like Obama, avoids taking firm or clear policy positions and leans on personal charisma and fear of the “evil other” to fuel his candidacy.
Meanwhile Harmon, the Sanders candidate among this crowd, goes overlooked. Harmon polls well. He wants to strengthen French institutions and protections that most actual, average voting French cherish: They like their reasonable work week; their universal healthcare; their strong labor laws; their “protected” farmers that supply a proud culinary tradition. I find Harmon’s proposal for a universal basic income paid for by a tax on automation to be really creative and very intriguing. Could he implement it? Would it work if he did? I don’t know. But I think it is more important that he is proposing a SOLUTION when the other candidates are mealy mouthed or want to take things away from French voters. Harmon is from Brittany. My brother lived there for years, it’s known as an independent, forward thinking region with a strong tech economy…
To those more in the know: Does Harmon have a chance? Is he being sandbagged by the press and establishment the way Sanders was? Is this election a rehash of the dynamics that brought about Brexit and Trump? Or is there something different going on in France?
1. Sputnik Sweetheart
I’m not French so I don’t know everything that’s going on, but let me take a stab at this. The 2012 election was a close call between Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande, and one of the reasons that Francois Hollande won in the second round, was because the candidates (except for LePen) who didn’t make it past the first round urged their candidates to vote for Hollande or said that they would be voting for Hollande. This includes Francois Bayrou, Eva Joly (of the Green Party), and Jean-Luc Melenchon. On NC, people often call Melenchon egoistic, but in that case, he did what was right and helped Hollande win the presidency.
Five years later, people are dissatisfied with the lack of change and the turns towards the worse (the state of emergency, the El-Khomri laws, the 49-3 (which Manuel Valls used six times)) and consider the Socialist Party as an ineffective and treacherous power. As a result, the left primary had far less voters than people from the right, and seems to have been poorly conducted as well. There are people who want a leftist party to win in this election, but others who are upset with the Socialist Party, and of course the European Question leans on the horizon. One of my friends who will be voting for Melenchon in the election admitted to me that even in the rare case that he won, the only way that he would be able to implement his policies fully without sabotage was if France left the EU. Another option would be if a pink tide swept the EU (as suggested in this Jacobin article: but I see that as unlikely because of the current fragmentation of the left).
My personal impression of Hamon is that he is a well-intentioned person and has good ideas, but is also surrounded by Socialists, many of whom are neoliberal and want to maintain the status quo, using the idea of Marine LePen as a threat. His ideas of UBI and marijuana legalisation are more popular with Anglo-American types, and there’s not as much of a push for them in France. Some French are even suspicious of UBI as an excuse to erode the current benefits of the French welfare state by giving people money in exchange for less protections. As for marijuana legalization, it doesn’t seem to be on the top of the French list, and is demonized regularly by the media, so people who haven’t tried cannabis often have huge misconceptions of its effects. Medications with cannabis derivatives are sold in France, but can only be used as a last resort.
The French left seems to really be dans la merde in this election. I personally like both Hamon and Melenchon and hope for unification because the way that Macron refuses to disclose his opinions (and still hasn’t released his position on budgetary issues!) suggests that if he gains office, he will most certainly ignore the wishes of the people and continue to erode the welfare state. However, the tensions between Hamon and Melenchon have been increasing for a long time now and neither want to give up their seat.
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abstract: 'Current approaches for activity recognition often ignore constraints on computational resources: 1) they rely on extensive feature computation to obtain rich descriptors on all frames, and 2) they assume batch-mode access to the entire test video at once. We propose a new *active* approach to activity recognition that prioritizes “what to compute when" in order to make timely predictions. The main idea is to learn a policy that dynamically schedules the sequence of features to compute on selected frames of a given test video. In contrast to traditional static feature selection, our approach continually re-prioritizes computation based on the accumulated history of observations and accounts for the transience of those observations in ongoing video. We develop variants to handle both the batch and streaming settings. On two challenging datasets, our method provides significantly better accuracy than alternative techniques for a wide range of computational budgets.'
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This research is supported in part by ONR PECASE N00014-15-1-2291 and a gift from Intel.
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Self Massage
The Most Popular Traffic Exchange
Are you aware of having a personal massage therapist, actually two of them, available to you and ready to serve and fulfill your wishes twenty four hours a day and seven days a week all year round and charge you not a dime? And would you believe me when I tell you that these massage therapists are perfectly happy to provide you with therapeutic sessions anywhere you please (your bedroom or living room, your office or car, in a public park or at the library), as frequently as you summons them and for the duration of your choosing? I am talking about your own two hands. Yes, your own two hands are perfect capable of massaging away your stress, your tension, your stiffness and your pains while bring forth an increase of blood circulation to invigorate and rejuvenate you with a fresh supply of oxygen into every cell in your body. Research shows that massage therapy, whether it is performed by a paid professional massage therapist or by your own built-in and securely affix hands, also boosts your immune systems as the production of white blood cells is stimulated in the process as is your mental capacity.
Chances are that you probably perform self massage therapy on a regular basis without ever calling it that. Stroking your forehead in a spontaneous reaction to a headache, grabbing the back of your neck to squeeze aware aches and stiffness, scrubbing yourself down with a loofah sponge in the shower or bath, rubbing your sore feet after a long day or hard work are all forms of self applied massage therapy. Congratulations! You are an experienced self massage therapist and you did not require formal training, a certification or a license.
The following is a list of techniques you can safely apply to your own body and promote overall wellness from the tip of your toes up to the crown of your head:
• Upon awaking and upon going to sleep. Twice a day, morning and evening, treat yourself to a session of gentle punches. Always moving in an upward motion from bottom to top, begin with the legs, proceed to the arms, then the torso, the back, the head and the face. This will beat out your tension, stress, kinks in your muscles, will improve your blood circulation and will strengthen your body.
• A treat after dessert. Whether you have had a large meal or a small one, help your digestive process by rubbing your tummy in the same direction as your food travels through the systems; clockwise. Therefore, use the palms of both your hands in a clockwise circular motion.
• A therapeutic exercise before and after the more athletic type. Punch yourself before stretching, cardiovascular or strength exercises to get more blood flowing into your muscles. After exercising, rubbing your muscles in the direction of your heart will promote the elimination of metabolic waste as well as expedite the relaxation and recovery of your muscles.
• Massage your appended massage therapists. You may do this with or without lotion buy you should do it daily. Intertwine the fingers of both hands and rub the heels against each other in a circular motion. With on thumb, rub the entire palm of the other hand and then switch. Untwine your fingers and thoroughly kneading each hand, gently pull on each finger and finish by pinching the webbing between the thumb and the index finger of each hand.
• Play tennis without a racquet. To exorcise tension and stress, massage your feet by stepping on a tennis ball. Actually, a gulf ball will work just as well. From a standing position press one foot on top of the ball, apply as much weight as you can and slowly more your foot around.
Enjoy yourself massage and stay well.
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Empowering the Customer
“If you’re a car dealer and you have a whole lot full of cars the buyer can shop and compare and make a decision. The same thing is true of sealcoating,” Miller says. “As soon as you give them the right amount of choices you can guide them to not only what is going to benefit you but benefit them. Then you can get them to move.”
• Enhanch Your Experience.
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Pratélan kabiskopan ing Inggris yaiku pratelan sing ngalebokake lan njlèntrèhaké pambagian kanggo wilayah administratif Greja Katulik Roma sing dipimpin dening biskop utawa ordinaris ing Inggris.
Konferensi para biskop Inggris gabung bebarengan karo para biskop ing Wales ing Konferensi Waligreja Inggris lan Wales.
Saiki ana 24 kabiskopan, ning endi 5 menika kabiskopan agung, 17 menika kabiskopan sufragan, 1 menika ordinariat personal, lan 1 ordinariat militer.
Pratelan kabiskopan
Provinsi Grejawi Birmingham
Kabiskopan Agung Birmingham: Bernard Longley
Biskop Auksilier: David Ernest Charles Evans
Biskop Auksilier: Stephen James Lawrence Wright
Kabiskopan Clifton: Declan Ronan Lang
Kabiskopan Shrewsbury: Mark Davies
Provinsi Grejawi Cardiff
Wilayah Provinsi Grejawi Cardiff ngeliputi uga loro kabiskopan liyane ing Wales.
Kabiskopan Agung Cardiff, uga ngeliputi wilayah Wales: George Stack
Kabiskopan Menevia: Sede vacante
Administrator Apostolik: George Stack
Kabiskopan Wrexham: Peter Malcolm Brignall
Provinsi Grejawi Liverpool
Kabiskopan Agung Liverpool, uga ngeliputi wilayah Pulo Man: Malcolm Patrick McMahon, O.P.
Biskop Auksilier, Thomas Anthony Williams
Biskop Auksilier, Thomas Joseph Neylon
Kabiskopan Hallam: Ralph Heskett, C.SS.R.
Kabiskopan Hexham lan Newcastle: Robert Byrne, C.O.
Kabiskopan Lancaster: Paul Swarbrick
Kabiskopan Leeds: Marcus Nigel Stock
Kabiskopan Middlesbrough: Terence Patrick Drainey
Kabiskopan Salford: John Stanley Kenneth Arnold
Provinsi Grejawi Southwark
Kabiskopan Agung Southwark: John Wilson
Biskop Auksilier, Paul Hendricks
Kabiskopan Arundel lan Brighton: Charles Phillip Richard Moth
Kabiskopan Plymouth: Mark O'Toole
Kabiskopan Portsmouth, uga ngeliputi wilayah Guernsey lan Jersey: Philip Anthony Egan
Provinsi Grejawi Westminster
Kabiskopan Westminster: Kardinal Vincent Nichols
Biskop Auksilier, Nicholas Gilbert Erskine Hudson
Biskop Auksilier, Paul McAleenan
Biskop Auksilier, John Francis Sherrington
Kabiskopan Anglia Wétan: Alan Stephen Hopes
Kabiskopan Brentwood: Alan Williams, S.M.
Kabiskopan Northampton: David James Oakley
Kabiskopan Nottingham: Patrick Joseph McKinney
Yurisdiksi Tahta Suci
Ordinariat Militèr Britania Raya, uga ngecakup wilayah Sekotlan lan Wales: Paul James Mason
Ordinariat Personal Maria Bunda Walsingham, uga ngecakup wilayah Sekotlan lan Wales: Keith Newton
Eparki Siro Malabar Britania Raya, uga ngecakup wilayah Sekotlan lan Wales: Joseph Srampickal
Eparki Ukraina Keluarga Kudus ing London, uga ngecakup wilayah Sekotlan lan Wales: Kenneth Anthony Adam Nowakowski
Deleng uga
Greja Katulik ing Inggris
Pranala jaba
Entri di Catholic-Hierarchy
Entri di GCatholic.org
Inggris
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One more workshop offered to the IUAES 2019 Participants
WORKSHOP “Experiencing World Solidarity Using Applied Drama Methods” by Olga Stobiecka-Rozmiarek
30 August, 11.00-12.45 (part 1), 13.45-15.30 (part 2)
The workshop is based on experiential learning approach and different techniques of body expression. Its participants will have a chance to explore the use of the innovative method of applied drama, working with people on the topic of diversity and solidarity. The basic questions we are going to answer are: what is the role of ‘me’ while meeting ‘the Other’?; what happens on the edge of meeting between ‘We’ and ‘They’?; how to build solidarity and the idea of Ubuntu among people from all around the world?; what could be the role of an anthropologist in the process of peace education?
Participants will:
• experience different applied drama exercises such as warm-ups and Image Theatre
• explore basic anthropological concept using body expression;
• build creative results based on the group’s experience referring to the Inter-Congress’s leitmotif of World Solidarities.
Olga Stobiecka-Rozmiarek is a sociologist and cultural anthropologist from Poznań who works as an applied drama teacher in areas of intercultural and diversity education. Since 2005 she has been working with diverse groups such as youth, intercultural groups, migrants, refugees, women, seniors, people with disabilities, people who face difficult socio-economic situation, and youth from care institutions. Under the name ‘Imaginarium’ she designs social and cultural projects promoting solidarity and social change.
Number of participants is limited (16 person).
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Recently I've struggled with a host of health problems: epilepsy, food allergies, asthma, severe joint pain that mimics arthritis, and overwhelming lethargy. The list just seems to keep growing as the years pass, which worries me because I've only just turned 33. Countless visits with specialists ruled out a number of diseases that could be causing my current health crisis including: rheumatoid arthritis, vitamin deficiency, and even lupus—which made me chuckle a bit (those of you who are House fans will understand why)—but it wasn't until a few years ago, when I participated in October Unprocessed, that I realized that my diet was root cause of my most recent problems. I knew that if I didn't overhaul the way our family looked at food, my son would eventually suffer the consequences of our poor food choices.
A close look at my pantry staples showed that most of the items I had been relying on, although marketed as healthy options, were filled with non-food items meant to make the food taste better, artificial colors to make things look more appealing, and preservatives to keep everything shelf-stable for obscene amounts of time. This eye-opening discovery set me on the path I am today, it's also one of the reasons that I was so excited to see that Kurt Beecher Dammeier was releasing a new cookbook this month.
For those of you who aren't familiar with his work, he's the founder of Beecher's Pure Food Kids, a foundation that has been working tirelessly over the past ten years to equip children with the information and skills necessary to make healthy food choices. This is a man who understands the struggles I've been going through, because he's struggled with similar issues and he's turned his quest to seek out unadulterated food for his family into a mission to educate America about the impact their food choices have on their health, starting with those most vulnerable to marketing hype and more likely to make poor choices: young children.
Some Alarming Facts:
Obesity rates have more than doubled in adults since the 1960s and tripled in children since the the 1980s.
For the first time in two centuries, the current generation of children in America may have shorter life expectancies than their parents.
Now take a minute to let that last fact sink in, how does it make you feel? I'll be honest, it completely blew my mind.
These are just a few of the startling details that are outlined in Pure Food: A Chef's Handbook for Eating Clean, with Healthy, Delicious Recipes. The first few chapters of the book give a close look at the disturbing changes to our food system over the past 50 years, the failings of our regulatory system, the impact this will have on future generations, and what we can do to affect change. But that's not all this book offers, it's full of ideas, tips, and recipes that will help you make smarter decisions about the food you eat. If you're interested in starting down the road to clean eating I'd consider this book a must-read, especially for anyone looking to make long-term changes to their diet, or who is concerned with GMOs, additives, preservatives, and other non-food items that have invaded our food system.
Because I love you (as well as this book) we're giving you a sneak preview of one of the recipes in this cookbook, a fabulous Tzatziki Sauce that's perfect on home made gyros, salads, and even sandwiches. We're also giving away a copy of this book to one lucky reader. Keep reading below for more details on how to enter.
Enter the Giveaway
The giveaway will run through July 22nd 2016 at 12AM EST and is open to US readers only, void where prohibited by law. You must be at least 18 years of age to enter, no purchase necessary. The number of eligible entries received will determine the odds of winning. Retail value of prize: $34.95. Winner will be selected by randomly and be notified by email. If no response is received within 72 hours the prize will be forfeit and a new winner will be chosen. Winners: your contact information will be given to Ben Bella Books so they can ship the book to you, you can expect delivery in 4 - 6 weeks.
Tzatziki
makes 1½ cups
Tzatziki is a cool, tangy yogurt-based sauce from Greece. I pair it with Lamb Gyros, but feel free to use it as a sandwich spread, alongside salads and grilled meats or vegetables, or as a dip. English cucumbers are drier and meatier and have fewer seeds and thinner skins than standard cucumbers. If you can’t find one, be sure to peel and seed your standard cucumber before grating.
Where to Purchase
Disclosure
This post contains my Amazon affiliate links. I try to keep advertising unobtrusive and to a minimum in order to provide you with the best experience possible. Purchases made through these links provide me with a small income and ensure I can continue providing you with quality content.
This book was sent to me for review by Ben Bella Books as always, all opinions are my own.
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The overall objective of our research program is an increased understanding of the active and inactive states of the eukaryotic genome. As a working hypothesis it is assumed that gene expression in the eukaryote is critically affected by the type and form of other macromolecules associated with the DNA, particularly the nonhistone chromosomal proteins (NHC proteins). As part of a program to study the roles of the various NHC proteins of Drosophila we will attempt to use a "reconstitution" procedure to bind specific NHC proteins in complexes with histones and specific segments of Drosophila DNA, the latter obtained as cloned plasmids. The success of this approach will be assayed by using an immunofluorescent technique to determine whether or not NHC proteins so isolated are indeed associated with these DNA sequences in vivo in polytene chromosomes. Subsequently, the transcription properties of the reconstituted "plasmid chromatin" will be analyzed using purified Drosophila RNA polymerases. The ability to work in vitro with a small, defined chromatin template would be extremely valuable in studies of the control of gene transcription in eukaryotes.
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This book is a guide to biblical stewardship and, more particularly, to Jesus' teachings. Jesus used money in a variety of ways to make the Gospel known.
Golv begins with the beginning of Matthew and carefully sifts through the texts finding the various ways in which a reference is made to money. Texts not found in Matthew but in Luke and John are added.
The author reflects on these texts incorporating insights from biblical studies, raising questions and discovering new insights. The result is 27 chapters of engaging insights for Bible studies, discussion groups and sermon development.
When money is talked about in church, it is often because the church needs money and is hoping to encourage people to be more generous. To do so is not inappropriate. However to only do so when the church is asking for money is a huge disservice and is not faithful to scripture. Jesus talked a lot of about money. At no time did Jesus ever appear to be asking people for money to support a local synagogue or the Temple in Jerusalem or taking up an offering for people in need. The Gospels indicate that Jesus however connected money with life and with faith. Jesus was concerned about how possessions possessed people.
Loyal Golv gifts the church by giving us a book that focuses on Jesus' Teachings About Money. This book is an excellent resource for anyone who desires to bridge the gap.
Golv was a parish pastor for 28 years. Stewardship was a significant part of his ministry. For ten years the ministry of stewardship became a full-time opportunity. He often shared the simple fact that Jesus spoke more often about money than about any other topic except for His central theme, Kingdom of God.
He decided that when he retired he would take the time to discover what Jesus taught us about money. This book is the fruit of his efforts.
In the introduction, accurately describes the outline of the book.
"The text for each chapter was selected simply by beginning at the beginning of the New Testament moving through the Gospel of Matthew, considering parallel passages in the other Gospels, including texts found only in the Gospel of Luke or the Gospel of John." Related notes and observations from other texts throughout the Bible are amply provided in the margins."
Each chapter is brief, distinct and provides "three opportunities to consider how the teachings of Jesus about money related to people in the 1st century also serves as a guide for us in the 21st century."
"Following each chapter is a page which describes a second and third opportunity. The second opportunity is to reflect on a portion of your own faith journey against the background of a portion of the teachings of Jesus. . . ask yourself, 'Of what practical value is this for my life, or for the life of my family, now?'"
"The second opportunity is to review a portion of the faith journey of your congregation against the background of what Jesus taught us about money."
The chapter below serves as a random example of the content of the book.
Chapter 22: Counting the Cost
The Parable of the Good Samaritan
'Take care of him, and when I come back, I will repay you whatever more you spend.'
The parable of The Good Samaritan was told in response to a question raised by a lawyer. He asked, Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life? On another occasion this same question was posed by a rich young man. In both instances Jesus began by referring them to the law. However, the law was viewed in different ways by each of these men.
For the rich young man the law is centered on the Ten Commandments. He is confident he has been able to keep these commandments faithfully but wonders if this is enough.
The lawyer is asked to define the basic meaning of the law. He replies, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself. He is not confident that he can be faithful to what the law requires, especially as it relates to loving his neighbor. This prompts him to ask another question, Who is my neighbor?
Reviewing this parable from a monetary perspective may be very expensive. Restricting our purpose only to the money involved may be to lose sight, at least momentarily, of many other dimensions to this parable. We dare not blind ourselves to its great importance for the church, for society and for our own faith walk. We can only hope that this limited focus will serve to sharpen our appreciation for other facets of this parable.
Counting the cost can be done by putting ourselves in the place of that man from Samaria. We can begin with the amount we earn each day. Then we take that amount and multiply it by three. The first third we have forfeited by personally spending the rest of that day and through the night taking care of the beaten man we picked up in a ditch.
The other two-thirds of this amount is given to the innkeeper. This is an open-ended arrangement in which the Good Samaritan promises to make a further contribution if it is needed. The risk is compounded by some unknown factors.
Did he have a factual basis for trusting the innkeeper? If the injuries suffered were made worse by the efforts of these well-intentioned amateurs, would they be held liable?
Counting the cost may also involve hidden costs. It is apparent that the Samaritan's time was precious to him. He could not spend more time with the injured man. It was cheaper for him to pay the innkeeper. What was the otal
amount of time and money he would contribute before the man who was half dead was able again to resume his life?
Counting the cost would not be complete if we failed to consider the possible benefits which the Samaritan may have enjoyed as the result of his good deed. If personal rewards were his motive, he may have been deeply disappointed. Only two other persons had knowledge of his compassionate generosity: the injured man and the innkeeper. The hostility between Samaritans and Jews may have prompted both of them to remain silent.
Counting the cost also depends on who is doing the counting. If the man near death in the ditch counts the cost, he would consider the time and money involved as incidental. His life was saved! He may not have headlined the fact that his life was saved by a Samaritan but his hostile attitude toward these neighbors would be challenged.
If the innkeeper counted the cost it may have made little difference whether he was a Jew or a Samaritan. The cost would not be of great concern for him. He witnessed an amazing kindness which involved neighbors who rarely spoke to each other. Speaking about it may have been hazardous for his business but it remained a beautiful memory.
As the lawyer counted the cost, he could only conclude that the lesson he had learned was very expensive. He had hoped that the Jesus would answer his question in a way that would make his religious life less demanding. Instead, the prospect of failing to achieve eternal life because he was unable to keep the law was very real. Apparently, he simply walked away to consider what he had learned.
How do we count the cost? Perhaps we will begin by recalling times when we had an opportunity to be a good Samaritan. However, we considered the cost to be too high. Our reactions were comparable to those of the priest and the Levite. Those memories remain painful. Is this the end of the story for us?
Again, how do we count the cost? We can turn our attention to the first question asked by the lawyer by putting ourselves in his place. We ask Jesus, Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?
We hear him say to us, What is written in the law? We give the same answer as did the lawyer about loving God and loving our neighbor. Jesus says to us, You have given the right answer; do this and you will live.
At this point, we would not try to justify ourselves by having Jesus define who our neighbor is. We have the enormous advantage of knowing Jesus as our Savior. We live in the wake of the resurrection. Jesus promised, Where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them.
We know that Jesus fulfilled the law perfectly for us. He calls us to follow him. He gives to us the gift of faith, the gift of forgiveness, and the gift of his grace. As we reflect of the story of the Good Samaritan in terms of the gospel rather than the law, we discover many other perspectives from which we can explore its great riches.
Now we are exploring this parable only from a monetary point of view. We examine the relationship of our faith to our courage to risk a lot of money in ways which are critical for someone else but of little or no benefit to us. Our action is motivated by mercy and justice. We grasp on opportunity to do what we decide to do simply because we know it is the right thing to do.
Obviously, in this 21st century we will not do what the Good Samaritan did in this 1st century parable. If we were traveling down a road and saw a badly injured person in the ditch, we would call 911. We would stay to comfort the injured person. When an ambulance arrived, we could go on our way. Neither courage nor cash was required.
You may remember a time when you had the courage to do the right thing, not counting the cost. Now as you look back, you may not remember how much money was involved but you are not sure you would do it again. There were so many things which could have gone wrong. If this had been a historical event rather than a parable, we may have wondered if the Good Samaritan would really do it again.
A little known historical event may prompt you to remember other Good Samaritan stories. We go back to three days in August 1991 when the Soviet Union simply disintegrated.
First came fear. Tanks rolled into Moscow on August 19, 1991. . . Yeltsin brought legitimacy to the new democracy . . . Key initial defenders of the Yeltsin White House came there directly from a liturgy in the Cathedral of the Assumption . . . Older women church-goers were among their supporters. Orthodox priests ministered to some in the ring of defenders as they awaited an attack; and, after the coup collapsed, everyone used one simple word to describe it all -- a miracle.
A key event in this miracle took placed on August 20th. Everyone was then expecting a military attack on the Russian White House. Young tank troops were awaiting an order from the coup leaders to crash through the ring of young people defending the fledging democratic government inside. But it was the older women who went on the attack. They moved out to scold the crew-cut troops for even thinking of attacking their pony-tailed brothers at the barricade.
The young soldiers, lacking written commands from their superiors, were taking orders from their mothers, grandmothers, aunts, and the selfless babushkas who had brought them up and kept alive memories of Russia as a motherland. The fearsome Red Army seemed to dissolve into a band of nineteen-year-olds being cautioned against misbehavior. The older women of Russia had become for a moment "world historical figures" in a way that the Russian intelligentsia had never expected -- and that Western historians have not yet recognized.
Those good Samaritans had great courage. Cash was not a critical factor but their very lives were at risk They grasped the opportunity to do something dangerous simply because it was the right thing to do.
Counting the Cost: Personal Notes and Observations
reflecting the risks involved in compassion:
A few questions to prompt questions of your own related to your faith journey.
What are the key factors you consider as you count the cost of giving?
What are some of the risks involved in compassionate giving in response to an urgent need?
As a thoughtful person, what are some key factors which serious givers should consider as they prepare their giving plan for the coming year or years?
Counting the Cost: Congregational Notes and Observations
related to compassionate giving to meet an urgent need.
A few questions to prompt questions of your own related to your congregation's ministries.
Does the parable of the Good Samaritan contain some key factors which a congregation may want to include in your vision for mission?
is there a contintence fund in your budget which will allow the congregation to respond to immediate needs like that of a man who had been beaten and left in a ditch?
Do you have some observations you will want to share with your groups about this issue?
A listing of the chapters gives further indication of the breadth and value of this work.
1 - Gold for Our King
Matthew 2:1-23
2 -- His Forerunner and Ours
Matthew 3:1-17, Luke 3:1-20
3 - His Temptation and Ours
Matthew 4:1-11
4 -- Money and the Making of Disciples
Matthew 4:18-22
5- The Teaching of Jesus: At the Beginning
Matthew 5:3 and Luke 6:20
6 -- Reconciliation, Then . . .
Matthew 5:21-26
7 -- A Special Place for the Poor
Matthew 6:19-21
8 -- Treasures: On Earth, In Heaven
Matthew 6:19-21
9 -- The Linchpin: The People of God
Matthew 6:24
10 -- The Linchpin: the World of Commerce
Matthew 6:24
11 -- Economics and the Kingdom: A Personal Evaluation
Matthew 6:25-34
12 -- Economics and the Kingdom: The Broad Scope of History
Matthew 6:25-34
Use these resources to encourage people to become stewards, strengthen stewardship leaders, tell congregational success stories, and give you powerful communications tools to lift up our call to stewardship in God's world.
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Sunday, June 11, 2017
A Well Respected Man
And he's oh, so good,
And he's oh, so fine,
And he's oh, so healthy,
In his body and his mind.
He's a well respected man about town,
Doing the best things so conservatively.
~~ “A Well Respected Man” by The Kinks
My, my, what an interesting week.
Like millions all over the country, I was glued to our TV set (not literally) Thursday morning as I watched former FBI Director James Comey have his say when he appeared before the Senate Intelligence Committee. (I really wish Senator Al Franken were on that committee.) It promised to be quite a spectacle, and it didn’t disappoint.
Let me preface this by saying that while plenty of my friends hate Comey for the way he handled the Hillary e-mail brouhaha, I’ve always had mixed feelings about it. I didn’t like it, either, and I think it may have played a part in her EC loss, but I don’t think it’s fair to lay it all on him. There were many factors involved. I also read quite a bit about his thinking, and I get where he was coming from. His goal was to protect the Justice Department and the FBI from any allegations of wrongdoing or coercion or undue influence or whatever you want to call it. Of course, it turned out that it probably did influence things somewhat, but I just don’t think we can lay it all at his feet. I remember talking to Ken about it at the time, and we agreed that he made the decision that he had to make. The guy was between a rock and a hard place. Neither of us cared for it much, but we understood his reasoning from a logical viewpoint. I felt then, and still feel, that Comey was a man of integrity.
I know that some of my friends on the left will disagree with me. Hell, probably plenty of people on the right will disagree with me. If you’re pissing everyone off equally, doesn’t that mean you’re nonpartisan? I don’t know. But really, I think the guy is the real deal and genuinely wanted to follow the law and fight crime. One of the Good Guys.
As for the hearing...holy shit! I was so riveted that I didn’t even get up to take a bathroom break, and since I’d fixed myself a Bloody Mary, things were getting quite urgent by the end of those two and a half hours! It was absolutely fascinating and Comey was beyond impressive. He was a cool customer who came across as highly competent, committed to the truth and the law, self-deprecating, but obviously intelligent and sharp as a tack. I enjoyed it so much that I watched it again via video from another network, and this one included lots of dramatic closeups of Comey’s face. That was fascinating in itself because you could see his rapid eye movements and his nods as the Senators were asking their questions. He was like a machine processing everything and figuring out how he was going to answer. Probably exactly how he reacted when sitting with the Yam, figuring out how he was going to answer those inappropriate requests.
I’ve said from the very beginning of this whole mess that the Yam picked the wrong FBI director to fuck with. This guy is a true professional who knows how things work.
Speaking of inappropriate requests, I’ve seen multiple stories equating how Comey felt in these encounters with his boss with how women sometimes feel in the workplace when we are faced with such comments. It even extended to the hearing, when several Senators—including a couple of female Senators!—asked him why he didn’t do more, say more, speak up, fight back at the time. Amazingly enough, James Comey was victim-shamed. As one Twitter comment said, “Mr. Comey, what were you wearing at the time?” The awful truth is that anyone, no matter their gender or any other qualifier, can be subjected to feeling that their job hinges upon how they respond to the advances of their superior. I think plenty of us have been in such a situation and it can be very uncomfortable and you try to tread as lightly as possible. Imagine that your boss holds the most powerful position in the country. How would you react?
Comey did the smart thing and documented everything. Ken and I have both been in that situation, too. His situation did turn into one where he had to give a deposition and his notes were invaluable. I give that advice to anyone having issues at work. Document, document, document! Of course, Comey didn’t need my advice. He was the freakin’ FBI chief, so he knows about documentation.
He also knows how to play the long game. One of the most fascinating things that came out of the hearing, at least to me, was that he said yes, I gave my notes about the meeting to a friend and asked him to give it to a reporter in the hopes that a special prosecutor would be appointed. He just flat-out said it! And that is exactly what happened. Checkmate, em-effers!
Now the Yaministration is trying to portray Comey as a “leaker.” Good luck with that, you incompetent dolts. He was a private citizen—you know, ‘cause you fired him—and he was careful to ensure that nothing included in his memo was classified. The Yam maintains that Comey is lying, which means that he is accusing him of perjury. I think only the most rabid Yampeople would look at the Yam and at Comey and conclude that the Yam is more trustworthy. Comey will win that contest every single time among the majority of the American people.
Also, James Comey is hot. Everyone knows that intelligence and integrity are attractive. Two of the many reasons I married Ken.
1 comment:
1. Yes, never good when you need to use your notes. And "Tank's Honey for the intelligence and integrity call out".
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A mother is charged after her son was shot following an argument in the Highland Heights area early Saturday morning.
Police said Debra Hall got into a fight with her son Saturday morning on Gordon Street in Highland Heights and ended up pulling a gun out. Now her son is recovering at Regional One Hospital.
When the son was brought to the hospital around 3 a.m., he was in critical condition.
Neighbors said they heard a gunshot and then saw the girlfriend of the man who was shot in the street yelling for someone to go back inside the house to get her three young children.
Other occupants of the house said the victim got into an argument with his mother, Hall. Then Hall pulled a gun out of her purse, came at the son, and the gun went off.
Neighbors said there have never been any problems at the house before, and they were surprised to hear who was responsible.
“Yeah, mother and son. I don’t understand why you shoot your son. I don’t understand that,” one neighbor said.
Hall was taken to Methodist Hospital and released, but police have not said what she was being treated for. She is being held on a $25,000 bond.
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16 April 2018
Nothing beats swimming outdoors so why not visit Beccles Lido, the heated open-air swimming pool in Beccles. Wether you fancy a straightforward swim or an action-packed fun family day out, Beccles Lido is the place to be this summer!
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Members of the law school class of 1996 celebrated
their fifth reunion, held in October on the Chicago campus.
photo by Jim Ziv
This years John Henry Wigmore Club Dinner brought law alumni and
benefactors to the Mid-Day Club in downtown Chicago last October.
Guests heard a presentation, Despite Innocence: Wrongful Convictions in
America, by professor Larry Marshall (L85) and Rob Warden, legal director
and executive director, respectively, of the law schools Center
on Wrongful Convictions. They also participated in the unveiling of a
portrait of Robert Bennett, who served as law school dean from 1985 through
95. His portrait hangs permanently at Lowden Hall.
In other news, nearly 400 alumni and guests returned to the law school
in October to celebrate Reunion 2001. In addition to catching up with
friends and classmates at informal gatherings, participants took part
in a career satisfaction symposium and learned about the progress of the
schools strategic plan. Topping off the festivities were a grand
celebration cocktail reception and individual class dinners at the law
school.
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