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Basic Staging Principles (part 2)
Staging is such a subjective area that it's really hard to talk about - there's really no "right" or wrong way to stage anything, as long as the action and emotions are clear to the audience.
So when I'm trying to figure out the best way to stage a scene, I try to find the staging that best expresses the feeling you want to put across. How are the characters feeling and what staging puts that emotion over the best way?
I remember when I was working on "Home on the Range" I ran into a tough problem in that regard. The jackrabbit character in the movie was acting as a guide for the three cows in the movie. He claimed to the cows that he knew where he was going...but at one point he became lost and didn't know which way to go. The difficulty was that he couldn't tell the cows he was lost because he didn't want them to know. So there was no dialogue solution to make the idea clear. Also he had no prop that would help - if he had a map he could look at in a confused way, or a compass that he could look at in a puzzled manner, that would help clarify the idea. But I had none of those things to rely on. So I found the best solution I could think of - I staged it like this:
You start on a closeup of the rabbit glancing left and right, looking puzzled and confused. Then you cut back to see his surroundings all look the same, and as you pull back, he ends up looking very small in the midst of the large and overwhelming environment. These two shots together were the best way I could think of to say, visually, that he was lost.
That was a 2D movie, of course, and I suppose in a 3D movie maybe I would have tried a different approach, maybe like the camera circling around him as he looked around, puzzled and confused.
That scene isn't in the final movie, by the way.
When a character is supposed to feel lost, abandoned, or alone, a wide shot with a lot of empty space around them is always effective. Here are a couple more examples: a Norman Rockwell painting of a lonely salesman on the road, playing solitaire in a hotel room by himself, and one by Vance Gerry from "The Rescuers" of the orphan Penny, alone by herself in the orphanage bedroom.
Things that are staged in a very flat way (where the action is perpendicular or parallel to the camera) feel very comedic, by their flat nature. Use this to your advantage when staging scenes that are meant to be funny.
Here are some examples from Steven MacLeod's Framefilter blog that illustrate this theory. Just look how funny these pictures look, even without knowing their context within the story.
Some of them are very symmetrical as well. We usually try to avoid symmetry because it flattens out a picture, but in these examples, where flatness is helpful to the funny moment, it was used purposefully.
The same action, when staged in depth, becomes dramatic and exciting.
Here are some examples from different live action movies that show how dramatic a picture can be when it has depth.
These are from "The Illusion of Life" and they are a great example of how to improve the staging of a scene. Here are two examples of how to stage Bernard slipping down into a hole.
The first one (on the the left) has many weaknesses that are improved in the second example (on the right). The one on the left is very flat - the wall that Bernard is clinging to is flat onto the camera. Also the lines that describe the wall are parallel to the edges of the frame so the whole shot feels very flat, which would be more appropriate for a comedic scene. Laying out the scene this way makes the animator's job tough, because you can see how awkwardly Bernard is looking over his shoulder to look at the danger beneath him and we can't really see his expression all that way. Also the composition has him too close to the bottom of the frame, for my tastes, because there's no negative space beneath him to make it feel like he could fall down into the abyss.
The second one is better in many ways. The best part about it is that you can easily see his scared expression clearly and also see the peril beneath him at the same time without having to twist his head around awkwardly (like it was in the first example). Being able to see the danger in the scene as well as how he feels about it make for a great choice for staging. Also the sense of depth in the second shot makes for a much more dramatic scene, instead of the flat first example. Also this staging allows diagonal lines through the composition which add more drama too.
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Germany and Slovenia have ratified the Protocol on the Provisional Application (PPA) of the Unified Patent Court Agreement.
According to a report of the UPC Preparatory Committee, the German government deposited the instrument of ratification for the PPA on 27 September 2021. It wrote: “This is a decisive step on the way to the establishment of the Unified Patent Court after the work had been on hold for several years during the examination of the Agreement by the German Federal Constitutional Court (FCC).”
In a press statement, the German minister of Federal Justice, Christine Lambrecht, said: “With this step we have come a decisive step closer to European patent reform, which is so important for innovative companies in Europe. The Unified Patent Court will come. For German industry, which holds around 40 percent of all registered European patents, better protection of their inventions in the European internal market is of particular importance. This also applies to small and medium-sized companies that make a significant contribution to the innovative potential of our country. ”
Slovenia, Austria
In Slovenia legislation ratifying the PPA came into force on 24 September 2021 when it was published in Slovenia’s Official Gazette. Austria is also expected to ratify the PPA shortly. As the UPC Preparatory Committee reported, apart from Germany, “two further ratifications of the (…) Protocol are necessary to enter the final phase for the set-up of the Unified Patent Court. It is expected that the required ratifications will soon be attained triggering the implementation of the UPC as an international organization.
In this phase of provisional application will take place e.g.: the adoption of the secondary legislation and the Court’s budget, the completion of the electronic case management system including stress testing, the process to select and appoint the judges of the Court. When it is clear that the UPC will be operational upon the entry into force of the UPCA the final ratification of the Agreement by Germany can take place serving as a “gatekeeper” for Member States to ensure a proper process.”
EU Competitiveness Council
During the EU’s Competitiveness Council of 29 September 2021, the state of play of the UPC project will be discussed. Last week a note on this issue was published by the presidency, which makes clear the UPC Preparatory Committee expects the provisional application period to last from six to ten months. About the start of this period, the note says: “Slovenia envisages to deposit the ratification instrument for the PPA together with its ratification instrument for the UPCA. Austria, which was the first Member State to ratify the UPCA, has submitted a draft law for the ratification of the PPA to the national parliament in July 2021. Once the ratifications of the PPA by Germany, Slovenia and one other participating Member State are completed, the provisional application phase will start.”
EPO Select Committee
According to the note, the EPO Select Committee, which is in charge of preparing for the Unitary Patent, will resume its work soon as well: “In view of the entry into operation of the unitary patent system, the relevant preparatory bodies, namely the Select Committee of the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation and the UPC Preparatory Committee , stand ready to resume their activities to ensure that still outstanding preparatory work is concluded in a timely manner. To that end, the next meeting of the Select Committee is foreseen for 14 October 2021.”
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1. Brexit implications suddenly vaporized, why this question is not addressed in the Council document?
2. Copied from the EU Council website today:
Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (UPC)
United Kingdom: Withdrawal of ratification received on, and effective as from, 20/07/2020
3. “This also applies to small and medium-sized companies that make a significant contribution to the innovative potential of our country.”
Court fees of the UPC for cancelling a patent are 20.000EUR. In Czech Republic, they are 80EUR.
Lawyers fees will also be on the rise, due to the tight agenda of 12 months imposed by the UPC.
Refundable amounts are too low, so even if you are in yoru own right, you won’t be fully refunded.
So much the “it’s also good for SMEs”.
Mdme Lamberts has a different calculator than mine.
4. An interesting question will apply to judges that might be recruited during the provisional application period. That is, will they be prepared to accept employment from a court that, strictly speaking, does not have any legal basis (and hence is not a bona fide legal entity)?
Of course, accepting an offer of employment by the UPC under these circumstances would (or at least should) disqualify the judges concerned from hearing any cases that challenge the basis (under international law) for the UPC. This is because any party raising such a challenge would be able to point to the judge’s acceptance of employment by the UPC as providing objective justification for a fear of partiality on the point of law in question.
Thus, it will be impossible for any judge of the UPC to handle, in an objectively unbiased manner, any challenges to the legitimacy of the UPC.
Pray tell, which courts and judges would be able to handle such challenges in an unbiased manner? There is absolutely no doubt that such challenges will be raised. So is this another reason to conclude that, as currently constructed, the UPC suffers from fundamental and irredeemable flaws … including an impossibility of demonstrating compliance with the Art 6 ECHR rights of litigants to an “independent and impartial tribunal established by law”?
1. Your comment is very interesting and you raise a real problem.
When do you state that the UPC “does not have any legal basis” are you aiming at Art 7(2)UPCA?
Another way of looking at it, is it possible, without amendment of Art 7(2)UPCA, to consider that the notion of legal judge is not respected should the duties of the London Section be “provisionally”transferred to Paris and/or Munich?
As far as judges are concerned there are quite a few of them jumping at the bit to get a post at the UPC.
Some of them openly complain that the delayed opening of the UPC costs them a lot of money in view of the higher wages they could get at the UPC in comparison to their national wages.
It is not difficult to understand why the promoters of the UPC ignore all the legal problems which the UPC faces. The only legally correct way to amend Art 7(2) UPCA is to renegotiate the location of the section of the central division. This means a new round of ratifications.
UPC promoters know too well that the interest for the UPC would vanish. After all, 45+ years have passed since the Luxembourg conference and it does not appear that the few supranational litigations in the EU need such a complicated thing as the UPC.
Not only the British legal profession has already lost out due to Brexit, but the same fate would occur to the legal profession on the continent.
All the efforts put into the setting up of the UPC would have been in vain and there would be no return on investment.
But wanting to go through the wall for the sake of a return on investment will end up with a similar result.
1. Attentive,
There are many problems with the purported legal basis for the UPC (and its Protocols). However, I was thinking mostly of Article 3(1) of the PAP.
Unless and until the PAP comes into force, the UPC will not have any legal personality, and will therefore be legally incapable of employing any judges. Thus, for any judge who accepts employment by “the UPC” during the provisional application phase, an objectively justifiable fear of partiality would arise on questions that will be crucial to determining whether the current UPCA provides sound legal basis for the UPC.
For example, an objectively justifiable fear would arise that any such judges had already made up their minds with regard to either the legal effect of the withdrawal of a ratification, or the possibility of “rescuing” (under international law) an instrument that has not been ratified by the relevant contracting parties specified in that instrument. Both of these questions will be highly relevant to determination of the validity of the current UPCA. Further, the same objective fear of partiality would apply to any judges recruited after the end of the provisional application phase. Which would leave precisely no judges of the UPC who would fit the criterion of an unbiased adjudicator on the question of the legal validity of the UPCA.
Thus, if things go to plan for the UPC’s promoters, the UPC will launch in circumstances where it will be impossible for any of its judges to provide an impartial hearing on crucial questions that WILL be raised by certain litigants. This would hardly inspire confidence in the UPC. Further, the serious deficiencies regarding the governance of the UPC are, over time, pretty much certain to make things even worse. So much for the supposed rule of law.
1. If I understand you well you are of the opinion that any judge recruited under the PAP, or thereafter, cannot exercise his duties correctly due to a justifiable fear of partiality on questions that will be crucial to determining whether the current UPCA provides sound legal basis for the UPC.
With reference to Art 3(1) PAP you consider that, since the UK is still mandatory signatory of the PAP, any recruitment during the PAP is void ab initio as the recruited judge cannot decide that the PAP has a legal basis.
Am I correct?
1. Attentive,
If the UPC were to operate without a valid legal basis (under the PAP and/or the UPCA), then it would not be a valid legal entity.
At least the references in the PAP to the UK, and in the UPCA to London, provide prima facie reasons to believe that there is no valid basis under international law to bring either instrument into force. In other words, it would seem that the only valid way to proceed would be to draft (and separately ratify) new instruments that exclude references to the UK and London.
If the UPC is not a valid legal entity, then this would call into question the legitimacy of any UPC judge’s contract of employment (and hence whether they were appointed in a manner according to the law).
Thus, a UPC judge would not be able to reach a negative conclusion regarding the legal basis for the UPC (under the PAP or the UPCA) without calling into question his or her own legitimacy. Under these circumstances, which judge of the UPC could ever be seen as an impartial arbiter of the question of the legal basis for the UPC?
5. The civil servants in the Ministry of Justice have had their hands guided all along by external lobbyists.
If you compare the content of the explanatory note for the second ratification with an article published by Mr Tillman (from Hogan Lowells) in GRUR Int a few months before the resemblance is baffling.
The whole waffling about the provisional allocation of the duties of the London Section to Munich is to be found in the article in GRUR Int.
Does anybody think that the countries having claimed the reallocation of the London Section (IT, NL, IR) will simply acquiesce to such a crude manoeuvre?
Such an absence of sense of the realities is flabbergasting.
It give the feeling that the promoters of the UPC think that the more fake information is repeated the more they hope it will become true.
In the explanatory it is also said that it will be cheaper for a German SME to go to´ the UPC rather than to a German court. Hard to believe, but true.
Mrs Lamberts has definitely a different calculator, but we know where it comes from.
Without amendment of Art 7(2)UPCA it is a fallacy to think that the UPCA is in conformity with Union law.
6. “Never mind the (lack of) quality; feel the width” as the legendary seller of poor quality carpets used to say. All these worthy but legalistic objections are powerless in the face of a political will at the level of the EU, to have the UPC succeed.
Recall the time when the Editor of the London Times was exasperated by his journalist embedded with the British forces in the Boer War in South Africa. The war was not going well. The journalist filed a succession of reports of British defeats in battle. The readership of the newspaper was not happy at all. The Editor telegraphed his employee at the Front with a short message, namely “Send news of victories”
Those pushing the UPC operate in a world where the axiom “Fake it till you make it” is usually successful. As somebody on another blog thread pointed out, it will be pressure from the global titans, the bulk accumulators of portfolios of unitary patents, the so-called “national champions”, who will apply irresistible force on courts and governments, to force the UPC to work.
That irresistible pressure on the politicians and jurists, applied by lobbyists, will result in a political mindset that the UPC must be made to succeed. After all, as everybody knows: “Where there is a will, there is always a way”. The Little Countries will presumably be bought off, in successive rounds of the usual EU horse-trading. The SME’s are mostly not even aware what is at stake and those few who understand have no lobbying muscle.
For those pushing the UPC, harm to our precious Rule of Law is mere “collateral damage”.
1. Max,
All hard to deny. The most galling part of the political support for the UPC is that it seems that the intention is to raise the current legislation from the dead merely for the sake of political convenience. This will create a Frankenstein’s monster of a court. The ultimate fate of Frankenstein should be a cautionary tale for those politicians intent upon ramming this court down all of our throats.
7. Dear Max Drei,
I understand and share your anger at the way the UPC is pushed down our throats for the benefit of very few which want to make the big buck. The usefulness of the UPC for SMEs is also one of the fake news which helped as a fig leaf to lure politicians in accepting that the UPC is something which is absolutely necessary for the benefit of Europe.
The contrary is true and the big beneficiaries are the big industry, but even more internationally active lawyer firms specialised in litigation.
Portugal and Slovenia have been bought off as an arbitration chamber was offered to them.
A training centre for judges has been promised to Hungary, but in view of the constitutional problems to be solved before it cannot ratify the UPCA and the centre will have to be transferred somewhere else. Here we have another problem which should be settled before the PPA enters into force and the judges are trained.
I cannot accept that the Rule of Law is mere “collateral damage”.
If the EU accepts that the UPC enters into force as it stands, then it should refrain from requesting Poland to restore the independence of justice. By accepting that the duties of the London Section of the central division is pushed around as suggested, it behaves exactly as Poland.
I have not yet given up the hope that in the end the rule of law will prevail.
1. I would not go as far for the EU. There are lots of criticisms, but I do not think that any referendum deciding to leave the EU would have any chance of success, even in countries which are at odds with the Commission.
They would lose a lot of money.
8. Can someone please explain how the Protocol and the UPC can enter into force soon when the UK has withdrawn its ratification in 2020?
9. The European Commission has cheated the Impact Assessment of the UPC.
The Harhoff 2009 study was about the “Community Patent”, not the “Unitary Patent”.
It was done to hide the controversial changes made in between, such as the “self-financed” aspect of the UPC, which explains why it is so expensive for SMEs.
This is a intentional fraud.
1. Does anybody know where is the UPCA Impact Assessment (IA)?
In the IA on the 2 regulations, you can find this curious statement:
“Finally, this IA does not address the unified patent litigation system that follows a parallel work stream and will be subject to different legal instrument.”
FFII has also published some allegations in June:
“according to a testimony we received [Margot Frohlinger] did not want to “redo the impact assessment because it would attract critics”.”
The Commission is obliged to ship Impact Assessments attached to each of their proposals (which was correctly done for the 2 regulations), why was it not done with the UPCA?
1. Thanks for the information.
It is even worth than what one could expect.
Cheating was voluntary.
This is lobbying at its best, and the politicians were too happy to fall for it!
The rule of law should not be degraded as it would be should the UPC start!
It makes one want to puke at such duplicity!
10. Those who claim that the UPC is good for European industry in general and SMEs in particular cannot believe what they are saying.
The simply use the SMEs as fig leaf.
There have been studies showing clearly that the UPC will have a deleterious effect on SMEs.
I refer here at the study of Mr Dimitris Xenos “The Impact of the European Patent system on SMEs and National States and the Advent of Unitary Patent” available at
Why have countries like Poland and the Czech Republic refused to ratify the UPC? Because it will have a deleterious effect on their industry.
11. Dear Concerned Observer,
I can fully subscribe to your view as far as the position of a judge acting under the UPC as it stands.
But would it not be easy for such a judge to say that the subject-matter of the debate before the UPC is an infringement or nullity action and hence challenging the legality of the UPC is a not-admissible question?
I fear that this might be the position of all judges also hoping to make the big buck at the UPC. They would not be so stupid as to saw the branch on which they are sitting?
Before the entry in force of the UPC, its conformity with Union law has to be checked. It is not enough for its promoters to claim that it is conform.
In the previous project of 2009, the UPLS, the Rules of Procedure had to be validated by the CJEU, not the Commission, like in UPC. No idea what that has been changed.
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Q: Greg, I’m part of a bunch of car lovers who go to the area car shows and love to talk cars. Can you tell us some history on car companies in America and also what you think is coming in the future? How many car companies were there and can you comment on where the car industry is headed?
-Clint K., Jacksonville, Florida
A: Clint, I’d be glad to answer your questions as best I can.
From the years 1900 to 1919, some 2,000 American companies were involved in some way with the construction of motor vehicles. Henry Ford receives credit for building the first mass-produced car in 1908 with the Model T. Along the way, and while still building the Model T, Ford actually shut down his plant several times to re-tool for his second car, the 1927 Model A.
Through it all, the competition caught up to Ford’s assembly line advances and produced quality automobiles as the smaller companies folded. Larger concerns forged ahead with General Motors (GM), founded in 1908 with its Buick line, becoming a giant thanks to even better production methods than Ford. However, Ford adapted well to GM’s threat, and the two went head-to-head for superiority.
A third powerhouse, Maxwell, continued its climb and in 1925 became Chrysler Corporation, which then purchased Dodge in 1928. Their cars and trucks were very popular, and these companies formed the “Big Three” that we know today.
This Big Three wheeled its power and affordable price as the number of U.S. car companies by 1929 had shrunk to 98. During the 1930s, this number dwindled to 44.
At the beginning of the 1940s, The Big Three accounted for 90 percent of all U.S. car sales, with the rest divided between Packard, Hudson, Nash-Kelvinator, Checker, American Bantam/Austin, Studebaker, Crosley and Willys-Overland/Jeep.
In the early ’50s, Tucker, Muntz and Kaiser-Frazer joined the fray. Nash-Kelvinator, which produced the Rambler, merged with Hudson to become American Motors in 1954, while Studebaker and Packard also joined forces in 1954 and lasted until 1963.
Crosley closed its doors in 1952, American Austin, now just building trailers, closed shop in 1954 while Earl “Madman” Muntz tried car building with Frank Kurtis in 1950 and closed shop in 1954 with his Muntz Jet. Kaiser purchased Willys-Overland, stopped car production in 1955 and then concentrated on the Willys-Overland Jeep and Jeep truck/station wagon vehicles. The company was re-named Kaiser Jeep Corporation until 1970, when Kaiser sold the Jeep line to American Motors and exited the manufacturing business. Preston Tucker made just 51 of his famous car, recounted in the movie “Tucker,” which I recommend viewing.
By 1976, only 11 car companies were left, with many consolidating their businesses. Checker Motor Company, one of the many car companies founded in the 1920s, was famous for its taxi cabs and hung on in auto manufacturing until 1982 as one of the last independents.
Chrysler gobbled up American Motors in 1987, acquiring the popular Jeep line as its trump card along with the strong sales of Dodge Ram trucks. These years would be Chrysler’s last as an official American company as first a partnership with Renault in the mid 1980s was followed by a sale to Daimler AG, parent of Mercedes-Benz, in 1998. Daimler gave up in 2007, selling Chrysler to Cerberus Capital Management LLC, a private American company. After several troubled years, Chrysler found a savior in Fiat, and today operates as Fiat Chrysler Automobiles after a successful reorganization and some U.S. Government assistance. GM also received assistance during the serious recession in 2008, although Ford never took a penny.
Today, California-based electric car manufacturer Tesla has joined the American manufacturing fray, and makes a fine all electric automobile. Further, many foreign car companies including Toyota, Honda, Nissan and Mercedes-Benz also build cars in the United States but are still official foreign car companies. Thanks to their many assembly plants in the states, these car companies employ thousands of American workers that build quality foreign cars.
As for the future, we’re already there. General Motors huge multinational footprint includes factories in Hungary, Columbia, Egypt, Brazil, Japan, India, Ecuador, Thailand, Argentina, Russia, Mexico, Canada and France in addition to co-ops in China and Australia. Today, General Motors has reorganized after bankruptcy reorganization as General Motors LLC.
This all helps explain further that today’s American cars have much worldwide manufacturing influence. Fiat Chrysler offers its Alfa Romeo, Chrysler, Dodge, Lancia, Fiat 500/Abarth, RAM Trucks, Jeep and Maserati brands and may be the best example of a most interesting current bloodline. Fiat’s Ferrari was spun off in 2016 and gave Fiat Chrysler shareholders stock in Ferrari (ticker RACE) in a needed corporate business disassociation. Regardless of this split and public offering “separation,” Ferrari and Fiat will always be joined at the hip.
In ending, the days of Ford, GM and Chrysler all having their own vehicles built 100 percent in America are over and won’t ever return. We must admit, however, that today’s modern multinational cars and trucks are way better and safer than ever, while progress in electric cars will continue until one day, not that far off, the modern internal combustion powered car will be as rare as the electric cars were 20 years ago when the Honda Insight and Toyota Prius came to America.
Hope this all helps and thanks for your letter.
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U.S. stocks up, Tesla lowering prices of its cars for China
The stock exchanges in New York were largely positive on Wednesday, but saw earlier gains evaporate. Tech funds advanced across a broad front. Investors in the US were preparing for a long weekend. On Thursday Wall Street remained closed due to Thanksgiving. Only half a day will be traded on Friday.
The Dow-Jones index eventually closed at 24,464.69 points. The broad S & P 500 gained 0.3 percent to 2649.93 points and the technology heavy Nasdaq climbed 0.9 percent to 6872.25 points.
Tesla is going to lower the prices of its electric cars in China to compensate Chinese customers for the import duties on American cars. The prices of the Tesla Model S and Model X are reduced by 12 to 26 percent.
Elon Musk’s company said the reason for a significant share of import duties to make cars more affordable for customers in China, the world’s largest car market with strongly increasing sales of electric vehicles.
In order to avoid Chinese tariffs on US imports, Tesla is working on the construction of a large factory near Shanghai in order to be able to produce locally. Last month, Tesla signed an agreement on the rent of a piece of land in China where the first factory of Tesla should be built outside the United States.
Currently Tesla imports all cars that it sells in China. The company stated earlier that the import tariffs ensure that the company is making extra haste with the construction of the Chinese factory. In this way, the costs for transport by sea must also be cut. Recently the company started with the pre-sale of the new Model 3 in China.
Apple trimmed earlier gains amid ongoing concerns about iPhone sales continue to haunt the company. For example, the major supplier Foxconn announced that it was going to cut costs sharply due to challenging market conditions.
Sector peers such as Amazon, Alphabet and Microsoft did made progress. Facebook ended 1.8 percent higher after the company appeals against a British privacy fine.
Steel and aluminum producers were also in the spotlight. World Trade Organization WTO is going to investigate the American import duties that have been in effect since this spring. US Steel, Century Aluminum and Alcoa were up almost 3 percent.
Foot Locker presented better than expected figures. The sports store chain jumped 15 percent. In the wake, peers like Nike and Under Armor went up 3.2 percent. The agricultural machinery manufacturer Deere gained 2.4 percent after numbers.
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Entrepreneur Training and Free Stuff
Don't you just flipping LOVE training? I'm such a nerd. I love soaking up info and turning it into wisdom. It's amazing how much of it you can pick up online absolutely free, too.
Now, my mission with this blog was and is to help people live awesome lives DESPITE the economy, so I love bringing you stuff that's clearly underpriced or even free. It's also important to me that I do due diligence on what I bring to you so that you can trust it. On that score, I've placed another small order with Groupon to see if they come up trumps this time. If they do ... I'll reinstate the banner. I've got my eye on them for you.
Anyhow ... free stuff. Not only have I recently found a STACK of free stuff to give you, but I've decided to make some of my own. I'm going to give away a course on Google+. Now, just to put this in perspective, I'm currently (statistically) the most influential person in England on Google+ so this is valuable training. I want to give it to you for free though because the news is full of s*** and you could do with a break. It's not your fault that the economy's falling to bits, so I don't see why you shouldn't have some cool free stuff to help you turn your own situation around a bit. Sound good?
Leave comments and let me know if there's anything particular you want to know. I'm just doing the final edits to the video course and I might still be able to put in some answers to those questions. Ask away!!
Can You Trust Groupon?
Until recently, I adored Groupon so much that I had a big, flashy, Groupon banner on this blog. I even blogged for them, and I had a wonderful editor who they were insane to let go of, but I became disenchanted with the company after I noticed some changes in the way they treat customers and others. These changes happened so fast that I began to wonder if there was any truth to the rumours that the company is in trouble.
They recently halved the amount they were paying bloggers, without warning, which doesn't smell like a company surfing the never-ending wave of success, but should recent revelations about their financial performance be ringing bells for others looking to make a name in the same space, or is it a wobble in an otherwise unwobbly bike ride to good fortune?
Groupon's View of Customers
My experience? I won't bore you with every detail, because some will only apply to writers, bloggers, or affiliates (email me if you fall into those categories and I'll fill you in) and also my aim here isn't to be a whining and disgruntled type, but rather to save you from going through what I'm currently enduring, and to get some feedback from other customers of the company to work out whether my experiences are isolated or the symptom of a bigger problem. If the former, I'll reinstate banners and keep recommending the company for non-urgent purchases. If the latter, I can't in good conscience continue to recommend them to you. Your trust is paramount.
Other issues aside, here are my experiences as a customer in the last couple of months:
1. An item was delivered with a European plug on it rather than a UK one. No adapter supplied with order. Item delivered after 28 days.
2. Numerous other items were all delivered late. Some after 28 days.
3. An item I ordered on 26th June still hasn't arrived. It hasn't even left the warehouse. No refund has been provided. I am just in a constant cycle of being pointed to emails and phone numbers with no resolution in sight.
4. I have received rude and patronising treatment by customer service and other departments.
Now, clearly, after waiting for nearly two months for an item that has yet to leave a warehouse, I may have lost my cool on the phone - not to the point of dropping the f bomb or anything but there may have been a 'do you have any idea who I think I am?' rant when I ran out of other options. Never a power move. I don't recommend it. That aside, I've given them every opportunity to fix this, and I've given them multiple warnings that they were leaving me with no option but to warn others of their lack of professionalism and customer service. I did actually get one decent customer service person on the phone once - which gave me hope - but I think she may have been whisked out of there on the back of the nayan cat to pastures new because my experiences since then have been dire.
I'm right in the middle of this, so it's difficult for me to be objective but I'm going to try.
• I have found some great deals on Groupon, and for that reason I would still consider recommending it to people on a budget. Being the largest player in the niche, it probably gets some of the best deals. If you're buying for yourself, you don't mind waiting, and you can handle being patronised by customer service, go for it.
• If you're relying on Groupon to provide your wedding day, give it some serious thought first. I promoted such a deal when I was still hopeful about Groupon resolving my issues, but I wouldn't do so again, unless completely convinced they've turned things around. Anything where speed of delivery and reliability are absolutely crucial look to be a gamble at the moment. Maybe my experiences aren't typical (feel free to tell me so in the comments) but I'd urge caution if you're buying presents, etc so you don't let people down if Groupon lets you down.
• Keep an eye on Groupon's competitors. There are plenty of hyper-local sites popping up that may offer better customer service and local knowledge. Compare what's on offer and go with the company that treats you with the most respect. Promote companies that care enough to earn your trust.
Here's how I would have handled the situation (and I'm only giving edited highlights of the problems I've had with the company in recent weeks):
1. I would have treated the customer with respect. The customer may not always be right, but when you're clearly in breach of contract (and at over 28 days, you're also in breach of statutory rights so the customer is 100% right. No question) hand over a cash refund, whether they paid in cash, by card, or with special mcnopoly money and plead for forgiveness, or say 'goodbye' to any the shiny paintwork on your brand.
2. It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice. If you've screwed up as a company and inconvenienced your customers, don't patronise them. Don't try to make them think it's their fault that you failed. Don't make them phone foreign countries and do your work for you. Educate everyone in your business that the customers are worth more than the money they spend. We all have networks online. We tell our friends about your brand. If you value your brand, value the people who are talking about it.
3. I would have apologised, and meant it. How hard is it to say the following words?
• I've looked at your case and seen the mistakes we've made in recent weeks. We've messed up here and we want to make it right. I've spoken to [person who can make it right] and they are [doing thing to make it right] so that [thing will happen to make it right]. If it hasn't happened by [date when things will be right] phone me directly on [number] and I will make absolutely sure that it is made right. In the mean time [something to sweeten the wait]. Please accept our apologies again. I've cc'd [person who makes things right in a more general way] and she's going to take steps to make sure this doesn't happen to anyone else again.
A final point. Google+ is constructed of purest win, and the team behind it do care about their customers. Google attempted to buy Groupon once. Groupon turned them down. Google's now opening their own version. It's in beta now if you're a business looking for this kind of service. Personally, given my experience with both companies, I'd recommend going to Google first. They treat people with respect, and I trust them.
I hope that my experiences are isolated, and maybe the result of some staff changes they've had recently, but I'd welcome your feedback. Do you trust Groupon?
EDIT: By the end of the day following this post, of the two outstanding items, one arrived and the other was refunded in Groupon vouchers. I was also called by the head of customer services and given £25 of 'good will' groupons. Where does that leave me? I have to remain a customer of the company despite their poor treatment of me. Having said that, it gives me the opportunity to monitor how they change. If I receive no further bad treatment from them, this is just a blip. If so, I'll feel confident about recommending them, and will put up the banner again. If, however, they mess me around again, I'll let you know.
One of the assurances I sought from them was that they would look at the broader context. We are in a very difficult economy at the moment and many of their customers are buying from them because they can't afford to buy the products at the normal price. If they order a birthday present or wedding present and it doesn't arrive, that's a huge kick in the teeth. When your market is people without huge amounts of disposable income, in a recession, it's important to treat them with respect. You never know when someone's on the edge. Hopefully they've listened and this will help to nudge them towards a better approach towards their customers. I'll keep you posted.
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PEBCAK Errors and OCSO Sheep
A friend of mine in the retail business shared an acronym used among his fellow-employees. Having regular interaction with confused computer customers, geniuses often identify PEBCAK Errors: Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard. I’ve sat in the middle of a few of those myself.
That same friend and I, along with a couple other youth staff leaders, were conversing about small groups. One leader remarked that we regularly run into a certain sort of sheep, and another acronym was born. This type is an OCSO Sheep: One Continual Shepherding Opportunity. A shepherd’s watch never really ends anyway, but some sheep make it more of a ride.
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BJU INTERNATIONAL, Volume 83 Supplement 1, Pages 63-73,
January 1, 1999.
Involuntary circumcision: the legal issues
Medical College of Wisconsin, Department of Paediatrics, Marshfield Clinic -- Lakeland Center, Minocqua, WI, *Attorneys for the Rights of the Child and University of Wyoming, USA
Circumcision is the amputation of the prepuce from the rest of the penis, resulting in permanent alteration of the anatomy histology and function of the penis [1,2]. Recently, legal scholars have challenged the legality of neonatal circumcision [3-7] and argued that it constitutes child abuse [8,9]. While this conjecture may seem outlandish to American physicians, who tend to a population in which 70-90% of the males are circumcised neonatally, such claims have a strong foundation in legal precedent and medico-ethical standards that aim to protect the bodily integrity of persons.
Bodily integrity and informed consent
Among a free society's most treasured principles are personal autonomy, respect for the individual and preservation of the body's physical integrity [10]. Patients are entitled to make decisions about their medical care through a process of `informed consent'. Medical providers must refrain from unwarranted interventions and allow patients the individual self-determination to control their own lives [11,12].
Incompetent persons cannot, of course exercise a right of self determination; someone must make decisions for them. Ordinarily this surrogate decision making is not regarded as anyone's right. Rather, some individual is accorded the privilege of acting as advocate for the incompetent person's interests [13]. However, for children, the law in common-law jurisdictions has historically ignored this norm and has allowed parents to make medical decisions for their minor children without having to demonstrate that their choices were in the children's best interests. This stance is particularly prevalent in the USA, although echoes of it are seen in other common-law jurisdictions, especially amongst lay people, who find ideas of children's rights uncomfortable. However, in recent years there has been a trend among legislatures, courts, legal scholars and child-welfare advocates toward insistence on respecting children, legally and morally, as distinct persons whose fundamental needs or `welfare interests' warrant legal protection [14], rather than viewing children as appendages or property of their parents to be treated however parents (within minimal limitations) see fit [15]. Simply complying with parental wishes is increasingly less acceptable; the child's best interests must also be considered [16,17]. Like surrogate decision-makers for incompetent adults, parents should be able to demonstrate that their judgement is the same as that which the child would rationally choose for himself, if able to do so. Such a demonstration should be necessary before medical professionals may accede to the preferences of parents regarding medical intervention for their children. [12].
In an effort to protect the rights of children, the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Bioethics developed a policy about informed consent in cases involving children. Informed parental permission can substitute for consent from the child only for medical interventions in situations of clear and immediate medical necessity, such as an immediate threat to the child from disease, trauma, or deformity. For non-essential treatments, which can be deferred without substantial risk, the physician and family should wait until the child's consent can be obtained [18]. Such a principle should apply even more strongly in the case of circumcision, which carries significant potential for causing serious harm. The committee emphasized the duty of the physician to protect the patient (the child) from parental desires that might be detrimental to the child.
United States case law
American case law clearly protects the bodily integrity of incompetent individuals. For example, doctors may not sterilize or administer contraceptives to a mentally retarded woman, regardless of parental desires, without showing it is the least restrictive means available for protecting the woman's interests [19]. Similarly, courts have limited the authority of parents to secure medical intervention for the child. In Wisconsin v Yoder, the US Supreme Court held that parental authority may be limited `if it appears that parental decisions will jeopardize the health and safety of the child' [20]. Lower courts have refused to allow parents to secure non-medically indicated procedures on children. For example in Little v Little, the guardian ad litem of a 14-year-old mentally incompetent, but otherwise perfectly healthy girl applied at the behest of the girl's mother for an order authorizing the mother to consent to the removal of a kidney from the girl's body, for the purpose of transplanting the kidney into the girl's brother who was suffering from end-stage renal disease. A Texas Court of Appeal rejected the request, holding that the `power of parents to consent to surgical intrusions upon the person of the limited to the power to consent to medical "treatment".' [21]. To date, all courts have held that surgical removal of a normal, healthy, uninjured part of the body is not `treatment'. In a transplantation case similar to Little v Little, a Louisiana Court of Appeal ruled that surgery could not take place and accorded `protection to a minor's right to be free in his person from bodily intrusion to the extent of the loss of an organ unless such loss be in the best interest of the minor'. [22].
United Kingdom
Under English law, assaults ranging from common assault to inflicting grievous bodily harm are offences under the Offences against the Person Act 1861. The Children and Young Persons Act 1933 makes willfully assaulting a child an offence. The Children Act 1989 requires that paramount consideration be given to the welfare of the child and the child's wishes [23]. Newborns can only be a subject of a research trial if the risk is no more than minimal and the child stands to benefit directly [24]. The UK Department of Health guidelines similarly provide that `those acting for the child can only give their consent provided that the intervention is for the benefit of the child. If they are responsible for allowing the child to be subjected to any risk (other than one so insignificant as to be negligible) which is not for the benefit of the child, it could be said that they were acting illegally' [25]
In Queensland, Australia, the Queensland Law Reform Commission concluded that `on a strict interpretation of the assault provisions of the Queensland Criminal Code, routine circumcision could be regarded as a criminal act' [26].
International Law
International human rights law clearly protects the child from unnecessary bodily intrusion [27]. The Convention on the Rights of the Child [28] calls for states that are parties to the convention to ensure that no violence, injury, or abuse occurs while the child is under the care of a parent or legal guardian (Article 19.1). It requires that children be protected from torture, from any cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment (Article 37a), and from unlawful interference with their privacy (Article 16), Similarly, the Declaration of the Rights of the Child stipulates that children must be protected from all forms of cruelty, neglect and exploitation [29]. This respect for bodily integrity is also reflected in the European Charter for Children in Hospitals, which states that `every child shall be protected from unnecessary medical treatment and investigation'. [30]
Can involuntary circumcision be lawful?
The test for the lawfulness of a surgical intervention on a child has three parts; the intervention must be medically necessary [21,26,31], must be in the best interests of the child [22,23,26,32,33], and must not expose the child to unnecessary suffering or injury [24,25,34]. When a child has an illness, a medical or surgical intervention selected to facilitate the child's recovery can be justified. On the other hand, when healthy flesh is amputated from a healthy organ in a healthy child, the intervention is presumptively unlawful and the onus lies upon those who conduct the amputation to demonstrate that it satisfies the three part test. Justifications for neonatal circumcision have taken several forms, but as discussed below, under close scrutiny all of these purported justifications fail to satisfy these criteria.
`Neonatal circumcision is not child abuse because parental consent is given'
In the USA, parents sign a consent form that allows physicians to medically intervene on their children, and some physicians may believe that this absolutely absolves them of legal responsibility. However, if left unchecked, parents can then act to the detriment of their child., who is vulnerable and at the parents' mercy [35], so several safeguards exist.
First, parental consent in only effective for interventions that are in the child's best interest. Routine circumcision involves the painful removal of healthy tissue from a child and thus involves significant physical harm. Without medical benefits that outweigh this harm, circumcision must be deemed contrary to a child's best interests (see the following discussion of costs and benefits). When a conflict between parental preferences and the child's interests arises, the physician must protect the child, who is after all the physician's patient. [18]. In such cases, a replacement for the surrogate should be sought [10]. Court authority should be obtained for any surgery that is invasive, irreversible, or major; if there is a significant risk of making the wrong decision; or if the consequences of a wrong decision are particularly grave. [36]. As for the circumcision of males (like circumcision of females) is clearly invasive and irreversible, and arguably has substantial consequences for the person circumcised, court authority should be required for all circumcisions not required by exigent medical necessity. While on the face if it this may appear excessive, this rule is necessary to protect the individual's fundamental and legally protected rights, which despite the clear law have been ignored or over-ridden by dogmatic parents and /or complaisant doctors. Difficulty in accepting this conclusion may arise from a resistance to recognizing that infants have rights of their own.
The same point might be made by viewing parental consent as surrogate decision-making. Surrogates are expected to make decisions based on what the incompetent patient would want for himself if competent. Significantly, among males in the USA who were not circumcised as children, only 0.3% choose to undergo circumcision later in life [37] This suggests that parents who elect to have their sons circumcised violate this principle of substitute consent.
Second, parental permission is reserved, even for medically indicated interventions, to those that cannot safely wait until the child can be involved in the decision-making process. Even if there were sufficient medical benefits to outweigh the evident harms, would there be any harm in waiting to circumcise? Would most of the supposed medical benefits still be realized if a male chose to be circumcised upon becoming competent to decide for himself? Are there significant benefits in postponing the operation for months or years rather than performing it on a newborn? Significantly, although circumcision is the most frequently performed operation on children (indeed it is the most frequently performed surgery in the USA) a recent review article addressing the optimal timing for urological procedures in children did not even mention circumcision [38], suggesting either that their is no urgency to performing circumcisions immediately after birth or, more probably, that this surgery has not been given the attention it deserves. While a few urinary tract infections may be prevented with neonatal circumcision [39], the reported complication rates in the newborn period (2.0% [40] to 6.4% [41] are higher than those reported in circumcisions later in life (1.7% [42,43]). The risk of meatal stenosis after circumcision may be reduced if the surgery is delayed until after toilet training. [44]. While general anaesthesia is considered too risky for neonates, the results of attempts to control the pain with topical and local anaesthetics, although better than no anaesthetic, have been lackluster [45-50]. Postponing circumcision until the risk of general anaesthetic is more acceptable would be in the child's best interest.
In Australia, the Queensland Law Reform Commission neonatal circumcision `consent by parents to the procedure being performed may be invalid in the light of the common law's restrictions on the ability of parents to consent to the nontherapeutic treatment of children'. [26] Likewise, in Re Z [32] a UK court ruled that it `could refuse to permit a parent's exercise of parental responsibility even though it was bona fide and reasonable, if it was contrary to the child's best interests'. This invalidation of parental consent to an unjustified procedure has been suggested as applying to treatment performed with `consent' but without cause or excuse'. [31]. Thus, in those jurisdictions, parental privilege clearly does not extend to procedures not required by medical necessity including purely cosmetic surgery. The over-riding criterion of the child's best interests limits parental power [36,51]. It is understood that what is in the parents' or family's best interest is not automatically in the child's best interest [26]. The child's best interests must be determined objectively, and parental preference is irrelevant.
Third, any parental consent to circumcision must be informed consent, and the actual process for obtaining parental consent to circumcision in the USA typically falls far below the standard for other surgery [52]. Physicians performing the operation often know little about the prepuce or the care of the normal, uncircumcised penis [53]. Not surprisingly, this low level of knowledge in physicians is paralleled by a similarly poor level of parental knowledge about the complete penis [52,54]. In addition, doctors typically do a poor job of communicating information to parents, such as the surgical risks inherent in circumcision. [55].
Fourth, parental consent cannot be valid if any coercive elements affected or induced the granting of consent [56]. Nevertheless it is routine in the USA to ask a woman during a prenatal visit or on admission to the obstetrics ward [57] whether she desires circumcision for her child if it is a boy [58]. Offering a medically unnecessary surgery that will benefit the physician and hospital but not benefit the patient is clearly unethical [59]. Such a practice is a subtle but no less insidious form of coercion. Offering circumcision to a mother is often interpreted as a recommendation [52,58,60]. Mothers are left with the impression that `it must be the thing to do, or our doctor would not have told us about it'[61]. Given the perinatal emotional upheaval, parental consent in the neonatal context is rarely , if ever freely given [62]. The epitome of absurdity is Wiswell's suggestion of obtaining informed parental refusal [63].
To summarize, reliance on parental consent for neonatal circumcision is inadequate unless proof is provided that circumcision provides medical benefits outweighing the harms it occasions, that the health of the child would be significantly prejudiced by postponing the procedure until he is capable of giving effective consent to it himself, and that parental decisions are fully informed and uncoerced.
`Neonatal circumcision is not child abuse because it has medical benefits'
Is the prophylactic value of neonatal circumcision enough to justify violating a newborn's bodily integrity against his will? (The use of restraints and the degree and character of crying [64,65] show that the child undergoes circumcision unwillingly.) Currently surgical prophylaxis has been assessed in only one other instance [66]. Because the risk of breast cancer and ovarian cancer are significantly increased with BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations, and their presence can be detected, women with these mutations may consider prophylactic mastectomy or oophorectomy. Even in the average 30-year-old woman with out these genetic markers, prophylactically removing both breasts and ovaries would add an additional 8 months in life expectancy. In either case, such prophylactic surgery is considered a `highly personal decision' made only after clear discussion of its effects on medical outcomes, and despite the increase in life-expectancy for the average woman, the authors of the study concluded that `prophylactic surgery is obviously unreasonable for these women'. [66]. Yet, for every cancer death for penile cancer in the USA, 264 women will die from either ovarian or breast cancer [67]. If prophylactic mastectomy and oophorectomy at age 30 are considered `obviously unreasonable' [66], why should prophylactic circumcision be considered `reasonable' when the benefits, existence of which are dubious, are markedly more remote? One study found that circumcision decreased the number of quality-adjusted years by a mean of 14h [68], while another found a mean increase of just 10 days [69].
The assumption that neonatal circumcision has prophylactic value has never been conclusively proven [68-71]. Haberfield, who has written in defence of circumcision, relies heavily on asserted benefits in asserting its legality [72]. By doing so, that author shows ignorance of the law, the medical evidence and the thrust of the QLRC report [26] In contrast, that author argues that female circumcision is properly classified as illegal by many Western countries because it has no medical benefits acknowledged by Western medicine [72]. These arguments are fundamental flaws. First, female circumcision has in the past been proposed by some medical professionals as possessing many of the same medical benefits that supporters of male circumcision currently argue result from the latter procedure [73]. If studies of a quality comparable to that of the studies that have purported to show a medical benefit for male circumcision, a medical benefit for female circumcision might be `demonstrated' as well. Moreover with both male and female genital alteration, the persons responsible for performing the procedures, as well as the respective cultures as a whole, validate the importance of childhood genital surgery, and for many of the same asserted reasons [74].
Second, Haberfield largely ignores the costs involved in circumcision. While amputating a foot to prevent ingrown toenails could be construed as a benefit, one clearly needs to incorporate the decision-making process due consideration of the risks, complications and loss of function resulting from the proposed procedure. Neonatal circumcision has repeatedly been shown to be cost-ineffective and to have an overall detrimental effect on health [68-71]. These findings negate any argument that the procedure's asserted benefits override a child's rights to bodily integrity and health, both of which are protected by international human rights standards [5,7,28]
The Convention on the Rights of the Child [28] requires all nations to respect the child's right to enjoy the highest attainable standard of health (Article 24). The Convention calls for the abolition of traditional practices prejudicial to the health of children (Article 24.3). Unnecessarily exposing a child to health risks (including death), pain and genital alteration clearly contravenes these provisions. The Convention of the Rights of the Child has attained a rare level of international authority because it has been adopted by every nation in the world except the USA and Somalia.
`Neonatal circumcision is not child abuse because it constitutes only "minor surgery"'
Haberfield's argument that circumcision is allowable because it is not `major surgery' [72,75] conflicts with the conclusion of the QLRC [26]; Haberfield provides neither evidence or discussion. The analysis suggests that Haberfield is unfamiliar with the procedure, which clearly qualifies as major amputative surgery, and misstates the effect of the legal position. The all too common comment that `minor surgery' is surgery that `someone else undergoes' applies here. Circumcision performed on older children and adults often requires general anesthesia with a mean recovery time of nearly 2 weeks [76]. Although newborns have a lower pain threshold than older infants, children and adults [77], the vast majority of newborn circumcisions in the USA are performed with little or no anesthesia [78].
During the circumcision, a baby's blood oxygen level decreases [79]; his heart rate, respiratory rate, blood pressure and stress measures increase dramatically [80-84]. His cry takes on a surprisingly high-pitched piercing cry observed only when a baby experiences excruciating pain [64,65]. He may completely dissociate, a response that is similar to post-traumatic stress disorder. He may become oddly quiet in apparent despair at the lack of any available escape from his ordeal [85]. Nearly 20% of those circumcised without anaesthesia will have apnoea/choking episodes [49] consistent with an apparent life-threatening event [86,87].
A boy's sleep pattern is altered after circumcision, with light sleep increasing and deep sleep decreasing in the period after surgery [81,82,88,89]. Infants who are circumcised have been observed to suck harder, faster and more vigorously at their bottles, making them less available to their surroundings, and less able to interact with their mother [90,91]. Feeding also deteriorates after circumcision [45].
Even if the complications from the procedure are ignored, the penis is markedly altered. Circumcision amputates nearly all the fine-touch neuroreceptors [1], thickens the epithelial layers of the exposed glans, reduces the mobility of penile shaft skin, and results in different sexual behavioural preferences [92,93].
The QLRC (Australia) stated that `in the absence of "real" consent, circumcision would fall under the definition of assault under s.245 of the Queensland Criminal Code. It might also be an offence endangering life or health'. [26] Some would even argue that the practice of neonatal circumcision constitutes torture, because of the intense and unwarranted pain the newborn suffers, and torture is clearly condemned by international instruments such as the Convention Against Torture [94] and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights [27].
`Neonatal circumcision is not child abuse where it is performed pursuant to a religious requirement'
While the USA Constitution prohibits government from interfering with religious beliefs, it does not protect practices performed in the name of religion that are harmful to society [95] or to another individual [96,97]. Rights of religious freedom do not relieve an individual's obligation to comply with valid, neutral law of equal application [98-104]. Likewise the Convention on the Rights of the Child [25] (Article 14.3), the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights [105] (Article 18.3), and the American Convention of Human Rights (Article 12.3 all provide that the free exercise of religion is protected so long as it does not violate public safety, order, health, or morals, or the fundamental rights of another human being.
The European Convention on Human Rights (1950) contains similar provisions and is in the process of being incorporated into the Human Rights Bill in the UK. Although the Bill currently before Parliament contains amendments by the House of Lords exempting mainstream religions, it is likely that the UK Government will remove or change those amendments so that the Bill follows the requirements of the Convention. Even without changes to the Bill as it now stands, there will be nothing to stop an aggrieved person, who complains that his protected rights have been damaged and that remedies have been made unavailable in domestic courts because of the defective incorporation of the Convention, from seeking remedies in the European Court of Human Rights.
Given the significant lifelong harm caused by circumcision, the clear human rights violations entailed by the procedure, and the absence of genuine medical benefit, circumcision cannot be justified by appeal to the rights of religious freedom of parents or of religious communities. It is a mistake to understand anyone's right to religious freedom to include a right to make decisions regarding the medical care of another person. Rights in our culture protect individual self-determination, which includes control over one's body but which clearly does not include control over the body of another. Thus, regardless of how fervently a person may wish to decide what will happen to another's body, we simply do not understand that person's constitutional liberties to include that decision-making power. In fact we deem that person's religious convictions to be entirely irrelevant in deciding what rules he or she must abide by in interacting with or making decisions on behalf of others. [33]
The US Supreme Court endorsed this conclusion in Prince v. Massachusetts [106]. In deciding a conflict between parents' religious beliefs and children's physical well-being, it ruled that `parents may be free to become martyrs themselves but it does not follow that they are free to make martyrs of their children before they have reached the age of full and legal discretion when they can make that choice for themselves'. The religious beliefs of the parents, over which the child has no control, cannot be used to excuse harming the child's temporal interests [96] nor can they entitle the parent to control the child for the parents' benefit [33].
In English law, all factors must be taken into account in deciding what are the best interests of the child [33]. Thus parents' religious beliefs are only one factor among many when looking at non-therapeutic circumcision, and should be relatively unimportant when making a decision about circumcising children.
Furthermore it would be improper to impute any religious beliefs to children: doctors are no more in a position to assume what a person will believe when he grows up than are parents. Parents choosing circumcision for religious reasons may in fact be violating the child's own religious freedom, including the freedom to change religious beliefs [20, 107-109]. Children should therefore not be compelled to undergo a painful medically unjustified surgery that alters their genitals mere because the procedure is considered by some members of a religion to be essential to that faith. The procedure may well be inconsistent with the dictates of other religions that the person, who is presently an infant might select when he becomes an adult. The common use of the phrase `Jewish or Muslim boy' reflects our inability to approach the decision from the infant's perspective. These are boys of Jewish or Muslim parents; they have yet to determine their own religion. Cutting a child's genitalia takes away his right to choose whether to be marked with the scars of that particular religion. A boy, on reaching maturity, may resent a permanent change to his genitals made without his approval for a religion he did not accept.
Thus Etchells et al. [110] are misguided when they suggest that physicians should base the content of their informed decision on parental motives. They state that `if the parents' decision is based on strong cultural beliefs and practices, a detailed, impersonal disclosure of all known risks and benefits would probably not be relevant or helpful. However, if the decision is based on personal experiences (e.g. the father was circumcised), a detailed, impersonal disclosure of the risks and benefits would be helpful in helping the parents to come to a decision'. This statement contradicts their positions on therapeutic privilege [111] and substitute consent [112], does not address the child's interests, and may be little more than misplaced `political correctness' in an attempt to preserve tradition and placate Jews and Muslims. They fail to explain how parental motives alters the risks, benefits and treatment options, or the physician's duty to give full disclosure. Risks that these parents consider insignificant may well be significant for the infant. In short, all infants deserve the highest possible level of care, regardless of their parents' beliefs [113].
`Neonatal circumcision is not child abuse because it has cultural benefits"
Haberfield [72] argues that a child of Jewish or Muslim parents may feel psychologically and spiritually isolated from his religion and culture if not circumcised, that a practice integral to these religions has credible cultural value, and that ritual circumcision should be allowed on this basis. He argues that `the autonomy of its citizens' is of enough value that a state's intervention is inappropriate. This prohibition `seems further inappropriate in a multicultural society espousing tolerance for multicultural practices'. He recognizes that multiculturalism cannot be used as a blanket approval for all cultural practices and argues for example, that female circumcision would not warrant approval, and that local legislators should be free to prohibit practices they perceive to be repugnant to their communities [114]. However, Haberfield provides little empirical support and no principled thesis for treating male and female genital alteration differently.
More reasonably, Poulter [115] argues that a tentative argument for parents authorizing an intervention against a child's interests can be made if the harm caused by the intervention is compensated by sufficient advantage to others, and if the intervention is not seriously detrimental to the child. However, Poulter characterizes as `unlikely' a justification based on the more remote and controversial benefit of satisfying a deeply felt community attachment to traditional customs'. A year later he wrote that any custom that involves `cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment' such as female circumcision should not be tolerated [116]; he fails to discuss male circumcision.
While Haberfield chastises Richards for failing to `consider the right of an individual's autonomy in a liberal society'[75] he inexplicably fails to recognize the autonomy of the individual whose genitalia are to be altered. A cultural or religious community may view the child, and more specifically the prepuce, as community property; however, a child must be regarded as possessing the same full rights as any adult to exclusive ownership of his body [33]. Supposed benefits to the rest of society are not accepted as sufficient justification for involuntary surgery on adults. Nor should they be so accepted with children. Such procedures cannot be justified by the possible existence of cultural blindness regarding a particular practice, a phenomenon that allows several clear human rights violations to persist in various cultures throughout the world. The QLRC states that the best interests of the child `is a matter to be determined objectively'. [117]. Clearly, Haberfield's attempts to justify a harmful cultural practice fall short of the mark.
`Neonatal circumcision is not child abuse because it is not as damaging as female circumcision'
The notion that female circumcision is more damaging than male circumcision may be more the product of cultural blindness than any actual difference in severity. The justifications given for altering the genitalia of both sexes are strikingly similar [6,74], and several legal scholars find the practices equally problematic [6-8]. The dramatic changes in anatomy, the horrific complications (including death) that can arise [118-124], and the prolonged psychological sequelae [85, 125-128] leave little doubt as to the damaging effects of male circumcision. While the most drastic forms of female circumcision arguably entail greater harm than male circumcision, some forms of female circumcision involve less drastic procedures that are comparable in severity to male circumcision.
In any event, the human rights principles outlined above are absolute in their protection of certain basic rights that are violated by genital alterations, regardless of severity [3-5]. Any genital alteration that is not medically necessary infringes the basic human right to bodily integrity. Statutes that safeguard females against any alteration of their genitals while ignoring male genital alteration are illogical in their discrimination against males [5-7]. Such laws highlight the artificiality of our culturally based treatment of male circumcision.
The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the US Constitution guarantee equal protection under the laws and prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex without an `exceedingly persuasive justification' [129], i.e. proof by the state that affording lesser protection to one sex closely serves an important state interest [13]. It is therefore unlikely that American gender-specific laws against female genital alteration could survive constitutional scrutiny [131]. Circumcision serves no interest of the state, let alone an important one. Case law and constitutional law in the USA demonstrate that courts have the power and duty under equal protection principles to extend the protection of female circumcision statutes to boys [131-133].
Equal protection principles embedded in international law and binding on all nations under treaty and/or customary law similarly prohibit invidious discrimination on the basis of gender, such as is inherent in the statutes that prohibit only female genital mutilation but permit the continuation of the male procedure. The International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights [105] provides that every child must have, without discrimination, the right to the same protections. (Article 24.1). This is echoed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which states that all are equal before the law and entitled without discrimination to equal protection of the law'. (Article 7). The Charter of the United Nations likewise calls for the `observance of human rights and freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion'. (Article 55c) [5].
Revealingly, lawmakers in the USA have at times implicitly acknowledged that male circumcision may constitute ritual abuse, at least in certain circumstances. No other apparent explanation exists for the specific exemptions for male circumcision in the ritual abuse laws of California (California Penal Code, para 662.83), Idaho Criminal Code, para 18-15-06 a4.b) and Illinois (Illinois Compiled Statutes para 5/12-32 and 5/12-33). These legislators must have considered male circumcision ritual abuse; otherwise there would not have been a need to include this statutory loophole.
`Neonatal circumcision is not child abuse because it has never been prosecuted as such'
The only judicial references to the lawfulness of male circumcision in the UK appear in two offhand comments by the court in R v Brown [134] and R v Adesanya [135]. In neither case is supportive evidence given for these declarations. With a similar lack of justification, Williams considered the illegality of ritual circumcision `utterly absurd' [136]. Most commentary supporting circumcision's legality relies on the untenable notion that is in no way medically harmful [115,137]. On the other hand, several scholars have credibly argued that neonatal circumcision could be prosecuted under current statutes [26,138]. Adequate consent is the usual source of privilege that may justify an otherwise medically unjustified and harmful surgery. In the absence of such consent, neonatal circumcision satisfies the definition of criminal assault and battery. All assaults that inflict bodily harm are illegal [139]. Brigman states that `since circumcision is medically unwarranted mutilation and disfigurement, it would appear to be a clear case of child abuse' [8]. While there have been no reported cases of successful prosecution of a male circumcision that was performed to the standard of care and to which the parents consented, this may be largely an artefact of the cultural tolerance of a practice that other cultures consider reprehensible. Numerous activities once tolerated as lawful are now considered criminal, including violence against one's wife, children, servants, or animals [134]. Among the functions of criminal law are protecting citizens, especially the young and vulnerable, from what is injurious, and providing safeguards from exploitation [140]. Brigman recommends using existing state laws prohibiting assault and battery to prohibit circumcision, but acknowledges that it would be extremely difficult to obtain a conviction [8].
American attitudes toward neonatal circumcision may be in the throes of a paradigm shift [141]. The medical justifications suggested for neonatal circumcision are rapidly being exposed as myths, while the procedure's defenders are becoming more vocal in their attempts to prevent the truth about the procedure from being absorbed into mainstream American culture [142-144]. However, cultural blindness is likely to hinder progress in allaying the damage caused by male circumcision. Laws generally reflect societal attitudes and rarely herald dramatic social transformation. Likewise, judges are more likely to respond to well-established social trends than to be the vanguard of dramatic change. Courts naturally view issues through society's social and cultural prejudices [5].
There is little doubt that a physician who today performs an operation with no therapeutic benefit, and which results in significant risk and inevitable loss of function, risks a civil claim for damages as well as censure from his professional body. In the USA, circumcision commonly serves as a basis for malpractice claims [145]. The current practice of inadequate disclosure of information during the informed consent process may be responsible for some of these claims. Citing Bolam vs. Friern Hospital Management Committee [146], Haberfield [72] argues that while a physician is always obliged to fully disclose the risks and benefits of a proposed procedure, as long as the physician follows the practice accepted at the time by a responsible body of medical opinion, the doctor cannot be held negligent. However that analysis dose not take into account a recent Irish court ruling that a doctor who follows a practice approved by colleagues of similar specialities could nevertheless be challenged if it can be established that the practice has inherent defects that ought to be obvious to any person who gives the matter due consideration [147]. Likewise under British law, physicians cannot defend themselves from charges of malpractice/assault/battery by stating that they were `inspired by a belief in the efficacy of a pseudo-medical treatment' [134]. Haberfield's suggestion does not accord with the law in the UK or elsewhere; full disclosure is required regardless of contemporary medical opinion [148]
However, Haberfield also contends that circumcision's `claimed prophylactic medical benefits' would help a physician pass the Bolam test. In reality, the physician's liability is related to the body of medical opinion and, more importantly, to the validity of parental consent. In the context of circumcision, the current American practice of solicitation of a medically unnecessary operation with no prior parental inquiry and unrequested consultation represent glaring exceptions to ethically practised medicine [58]. In the absence of medical need, it is hard to see how solicitation for this surgery amounts to anything more than the exploitation of normal and healthy children for money.
The medical community is violating the law through a combination of faulty medical opinion, negligence and inadequate consent [7]. Circumcision amputates the prepuce from the penis, resulting in a permanent alteration in the anatomy, histology and functional integrity of the penis. The procedure is not without risk, and horrific complications have been recorded in the medical literature. For circumcision of a non-consenting minor to be legally valid there must be a clear and immediate medical necessity; unsolicited, uncoerced, fully informed parental consent; and a determination that it is in the child's best interest. It must be shown to a reasonable degree of certainty that the child would, upon attainment of the age of reason, desire circumcision for himself. For circumcision to be permitted as a religious ritual, it would need to be demonstrated that the child is virtually certain to practice that religion upon attaining the age of reason and that the child will suffer in some way from having the decision reserved for him to make as an adult. Circumcision as currently practiced on non-consenting minors fails to meet that criteria.
There is no reason, other than cultural bias, why the current child abuse laws and laws prohibiting female circumcision are not applied to those performing involuntary male circumcision. For those physicians currently performing involuntary circumcisions, the only protection may be full disclosure, but based on current legal precedent, this may not be enough.
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The terrifying video of a Russian plane crash on a freeway was captured using a dashboard-mounted camera. Those cameras are going to become a lot more common for documenting driving, and Ambarella is going to make them more cost-effective.
Ambarella A7L-ASanta Clara, Calif.-based Ambarella designs low-power video chips used in all sorts of sports cameras and digital still cameras. But the new A7L-A chip it’s introducing today at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is designed for use in car video cameras.
Cameras in cars have become like airliner black box recorders, capturing video proof in case of an accident, Ambarella marketing vice president Chris Day told me in an interview. They’re a lot more popular in places such as Russia, China, Taiwan, and Korea. But Day believes they will eventually equip cars in the West as well.
The new A7L-A is a version of the A7 chip that has been the workhorse of video cameras since 2010. It can capture decent image quality, even if you’re driving at night or at dusk. Video memory is integrated directly into the chip.
Rivals include CSR’s Zoran division as well as major Japanese and Korean companies that make chips for their own cameras.
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How to Travel in Style: Finding a Perfect Flight
What’s potential in every week? Should you dedicated seven days to the achievement of one objective, how formidable might you make this objective? These have been the questions that the multilingual associates Katy and Sara posed themselves once they determined to study English in a single week, to prove that it may be achieved and anybody can do it with the fitting methods.
They might try and liberate themselves from the distractions and duties of modern-day life in an effort to cram eight hours of research time and I was observing a number of the world’s most succesful language learners at work.
The language studying professional: Sara
The buddies set themselves the challenge of studying a language in every week as a way to stretch themselves, and then it was a question of choosing which language to study. English introduced itself as a pure choice; there are nigh on 300,000 English audio system in Germany’s capital, and the areas are dotted with stores adorned with signs in English.
“Really understanding one’s surroundings requires one to first perceive English”
The first operational step within the associates studying process was to embellish the whole condominium with sticky notes. This had an virtually ceremonial touch to it as the buddies delved into dictionaries and proceeded to label every thing with its corresponding English identify.
Inside the area of about an hour it was unattainable to hold out any menial activity, be it making a espresso or flicking off a light-weight change, without first being introduced with at the very least three totally different words associated to this motion.
Sara studying within the park
The significance of the opposite twin’s presence turned immediately apparent as Katy and Sara delegated duties for rooms to embellish with sticky notes. This easy process was augmented by continuous little checks that they might spring on one another, and the truth that they cut up up their day slightly in another way and studied totally different subjects meant that every twin turned a source of data for the other.
Probably the most extraordinary second got here in the direction of the top of the week!
The buddies merely switched their on a regular basis conversations to English, asking one another if they needed tea or coffee, have been able to prepare dinner dinner or once they have been going to go away the house.
Katy and Sara had quite a few micro-challenges all through the week. On the first day they have been visited by a English good friend who greeted them in English and complimented them on how shortly they’d picked up their first phrases and phrases.
They then discovered the names of fruits and the numbers from one to a billion so that they might visit the English market (although they kept away from buying 9 hundred thousand kumquats). Displaying their haul after their first practical trade in English, they beamed with satisfaction and a palpable sense of accomplishment earlier than marching back house to review further.
Katy enjoying audio classes
On our second go to to the brother’s house 24 hours into the week, we discovered them sampling dozens of different kinds of English snacks.
Like youngsters staring at the backs of cereal packs earlier than heading to high school, the dietary info and numerous special provides and competitions on the packaging have been analysed during snack breaks.
There was no moment of full removing from the language learning process in the course of the eight hours that the buddies had allotted to it.
They have been always utilizing their present information to help the ever-growing information of English, this being the basis of their success.
“you’ll doubtless come across words that share widespread origins together with your native tongue”
The buddies spent a variety of time engrossed in books or on their computers and apps, flicking and swiping their method via workouts eagerly, but at other occasions they have been to be discovered looking busily for English radio stations and write-ups of English football games on the internet.
There isn’t a definitive technique to study a language fluently
All too typically, individuals enter their weekly language class to converse with their instructor, but then barely have any contact with different audio system and that’s not enough.
The previous saying that we will clear up problems extra effectively once we sleep on it might be especially true if the problem we’re making an attempt to unravel is studying a new language.
Motivated Katy out to the library
Researchers from two Swiss universities needed to know if they might improve the training of words from a overseas language by exposing individuals to the words during non-rapid eye motion sleep the deep, dreamless sleep period that the majority of us expertise through the first few hours of the night time.
To seek out out, they gathered two teams of research members, all of whom have been native German audio system, and gave them a collection of Dutch-to-German phrase pairs to study at 10 pm. One group was then instructed to get some sleep, while the other group was stored awake.For the subsequent few hours both groups listened to an audio playback of the word pairs they’d already been exposed to and a few they hadn’t yet heard.
The researchers then re-gathered both teams at 2 am and gave them a check of the Dutch words to uncover any differences in studying. And indeed there was a difference:
“The group that listened to the words throughout sleep did better at recalling the phrases they’d heard”
The straightforward yet potent trick the researchers employed is called verbal cueing, and this is not the primary declare made for its success whereas sleeping. But what makes this research totally different is that it places a finer point on the circumstances mandatory for this trick to truly work specifically, it only works once we’ve already been uncovered to the verbal cues before we sleep.
The researchers added a techie dimension by conducting electroencephalographic (EEG)recordings of the sleeping members brains to trace neural electrical exercise through the learning period.
They discovered that learning the overseas words overlapped with the looks of theta mind waves, an intriguing end result since theta is the mind wave state typically associated with heightened studying whereas awake (often we’re in both the high-frequency, high-alertness alpha or beta states while awake, however it’s thought potential to induce theta state slower in frequency than alpha and beta via concentration methods).
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Platinum Partner
An Introduction to OpenStack
OpenStack is an open source platform for building massively scalable cloud operating systems and can be used to power both public and private clouds. Diablo is the latest stable release of OpenStack.
The OpenStack project was originally launched by RackSpace in collaboration with NASA in July 2010 where it gained a lot of attention in a short period of time. NASA contributed their code from the Nebula cloud project to OpenStack compute, and RackSpace contributed most of code behind their cloud platform, specifically Cloud File products. Technology giants like Intel and Dell embraced OpenStack immediately after it started and now there are over 140 companies that support the OpenStack initiative. Giants like IBM, AT&T, and HP all recently announced they’ve joined OpenStack and Sony has moved a portion of its PlayStation services from AWS to OpenStack in Rackspace after suffering from a cyber-attack last year which caused a major outage to their services.
OpenStack consists of a set of inter-related projects which make up the various components of a cloud computing platform. Its services are interoperable with existing cloud services like AWS, which heightens its appeal. Three key components of OpenStack are:
1. OpenStack Compute (Nova)
2. OpenStack Object Storage (Swift)
3. OpenStack Image Service (Glance)
OpenStack Compute (Nova)
OpenStack compute aka Nova, is a python-based software used to orchestrate cloud and manage virtual machines and networks. Nova allows us to create and manage virtual servers using machine images. These images are handled by a separate OpenStack service called Glance. Nova includes the underlying software, APIs, and a control panel. It is hypervisor agnostic which means it can run on variety of hypervisors and doesn’t include any virtualization software, whereas it defines drivers to interact with well-known virtualization software like Xen, VMWare, Hyper-V.
Nova has server logical components which fall under two main categories:
1. WSGI daemons to accept and manage API calls
2. Worker daemons to carry out orchestration tasks
Apart from these two, there are two other components, a database and message queue which perform critical roles in orchestration tasks through data sharing and message passing.
The most important part of OpenStack Compute is nova-api WSGI daemon which provides an end-point for API requests to the OpenStack API or EC2 API. This end-point can be used start and manage instances similar to managing EC2 instances using API requests. Nova basically interfaces with OpenStack Image Service through the glance-api.
Next we have nova-compute worker daemon which handles the instance life cycles by executing a series of system commands while updating the state in a database. nova-network daemon deals with the network-related tasks like allocation of IP, network manipulations, etc. It accepts networking tasks from a queue and performs a series of commands to manipulate networks. nova-scheduler processes takes a virtual machine instance request and determines where it should run.
An SQL database will store the configuration and run-time status of the cloud infrastructure. Sqlite3, MySQL, and PostgreSQL are the currently supported databases; though sqlite3 is the most widely used.
OpenStack Object Storage (Swift)
OpenStack Object Storage is roughly similar to Amazon S3. Swift allows us to store objects in massively scalable infrastructure with in-built redundancy and fail-over. It can be used to store static data (like Images and Videos), make back-ups, archive data, and so on. Swift will write copies of data to multiple redundant servers which are logically grouped into Zones. Zones are isolated from each other to safeguard from failures. We can configure Swift and decide the number of Zones and replicas we need to have in the system.
Object is the basic storage entity in Swift. An object can be anything like a document, audio, or video data. A container, which is similar to buckets in S3, allows you to organize objects by grouping them. Swift simply provides API endpoints to store and manipulate objects. We cannot use Swift as a file system and they are not accessible via any file sharing protocols. To access the Object Storage you must authenticate against an authentication service to receive a token. This token must be passed in subsequent API calls. Every Swift user will have their own storage account with full access to it. An authenticated user can create and delete containers and objects in their account.
There are many components for Swift, like Object server, Container server, Ring, Proxy server, and so on. Object server is a simple blob storage for storing and retrieving objects. Container servers primarily list the objects by grouping them. Ring contains the information about the physical location of objects. It is something similar to an index in traditional database. The Proxy server acts as an entry point to the OpenStack Object Storage infrastructure. Users access Swift by making API requests to this Proxy server. It is responsible for handling failovers by switching requests to any handover server.
OpenStack Image Service (Glance)
Glance is responsible for storage, discovery, and retrieval of virtual machine images. Glance can be configured to store VM images in Object Storage, Amazon S3, or simple file-system. Glance-registry and Glance-api are the two important components of Image Service. Glance-registry stores and retrieves metadata about images. Like I mentioned previously, Nova interacts with Glance using Glance-api for querying and retrieving actual VM images.
Clients can register VM images by making API requests to Image Service. Glance supports a variety of image formats like RAW, ISO (Archive disk format used in optical disks), AMI (Amazon Machine Image), etc.
Incubated Projects
In addition to the three core projects there are two projects, OpenStack Identity (keystone) and OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon), incubated in the Diablo release which will be added to the core in next release. OpenStack identity provides a unified authentication across all OpenStack projects. Though this is not quite production ready right now, it’s going to be a key component in coming releases.
OpenStack Dashboard enables users to manage their infrastructure using a simple web interface. Administrators can launch and manage instances and resources from here. Dashboard will list all available images, and users can select one to launch from this list. It also allows users to create volumes and attach them to any instance.
OpenStack has the support of a code base that powers Rackspace cloud and big companies in the industry are actively contributing to the project. OpenStack is committed to creating an enterprise cloud platform that is truly and completely open-sourced. Open-source software prevents any kind of proprietary vendor lock-ins. Even more interesting is its interoperability with existing IaaS providers like AWS.
In October 2011 Rackspace announced transitioning of its management to an independent foundation called OpenStack foundation, to protect the OpenStack brand for the benefit of community participants. Making OpenStack a ubiquitous cloud platform and ensuring its interoperability are the most important goals of the OpenStack foundation. There are two interesting initiatives that are intended to make using OpenStack easier: StackOps provides tools for making deployment and operation of OpenStack by packaging them to Distros and DevStack provides a set of well-documented shell scripts to build a complete OpenStack environment.
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Tossing out some thoughts on Tolkien
So Erin Horakova just wrote a brilliant essay on "Kirk Drift" about how we have entirely invented a captain Kirk who did not exist in The Original Series. Go and read it, because the how and the why matter a lot.
And the same day, there's this actually-not-bad-except-kinda-bad essay/interview about "historical diversity", which does a good job of telling the story that racism in Epic Fantasy is bundled up with European Imperial conceptions of race, and its great progenitor Tolkien. It's not a *bad* argument, and clearly there are still plenty of people who are more interested in denying or downplaying racism in genre generally and Tolkien specifically that it needs to be said.
Erin reminds me that:
And the thing is, I'm pretty sure that this story of genre's Original Sin embedded and cocreated with Europe's great sin elides so much as to be incorrect. So here are some thoughts and complications, some of which I'm more confident in than others, which I'd like to explore more later. (When we're moved into a house and I can unpack my library, for instance).
• The invention of "Race" and "Racism" should probably be located with Portuguese colonizers in something like the 15th century. It's well fleshed out and embedded by the time Tolkien's writing.
• Tolkien's also writing in the midst of a broader European project to legitimize various Nations and Nationalities (locating the "volk") by finding or inventing "Great National Epics", pre-Christian (i.e. uncivilized and authentic) culture.
• Those 400 years of writing and inventing race include a bunch of Epic Poetry (in a different tradition from things like Beowulf and Gawain and the Green Knight, for instance, which we know Tolkien was interested in). There are, in other words, a lot of interesting sources and traditions Tolkien was writing in the context of. I don't know much about these, but would like it.
• (So there's a bunch of bullets about what Tolkien was doing, since he didn't spring sui generis, and I think that's rarely engaged with)
• Meanwhile, the Story of Tolkien as progenitor jumps two decades to the remarkable coincidence of Lord Foul's Bane and Sword of Shannara published in the same year, picks up David Eddings, Robert Jordan, the Canonization of Fantasy Races in D&D, and then the backlash of grimdark as embodied in George R R Martin. Race and racism are embedded throughout (this seems largely true to me).
• This story erases (at least) women, magazines, the ways that Fantasy and Sci-Fi are probably interrelated. It's a fine story, but deserves to be complicated
• More importantly, this story recreates Tolkien. His grand mythology is played up at the expense of the ways The Hobbit in particular isn't a fully immersive story and refers back to its readers. The fantasy that Tolkien's imitators created becomes Tolkien's work. Which seems unfair to Tolkien and his language jokes at the opening of The Hobbit, at least
• Something-something marketing creates our readings of books and traditions of inheritance (and other things to, but here I'm far out of my depth).
I want to think about all of these through a rereading of Tolkien, but if you've got suggestions, send me an email at contact at cabbagesandkings dot audio. At some point, I'll probably work these up into some essays.
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Prospective Employees
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With Bamboo Index | Home Page
"Stradivarius or Yamaha; Tool or Treasure"
by Ralph Moon (Part 2)
The second factor must inevitably be tied in to the nature of the material itself. As Gingrich rather pungently pointed out , plastic just does not cut it. A dear friend of mine, Walton Powell, expressed his feeling about impregnated rods to me once, by stating, "Hell, if I wanted a plastic rod, I'd have gotten a plastic rod."
There is something about natural materials that attracts the true enthusiast. Would you rather go hunting with a plastic stocked J.C. Higgins shotgun or a Purdy? Would you rather use a b eautifully finished rosewood and brass T-square or one stamped from sheet metal? Would you rather fish with a Jim Payne rod or a Sage? If you answer by selecting the first choice in these examples read on.
Vincent Marinaro is perhaps better known for his theories on presentation than as a rod builder, but the fact remains that his stature would forever stand secure on his expertise as a rod builder. His theories on rod building are based on the proper application of the principals of length, materials, and taper.
On materials Marinaro says without reservation "it was apparent to me that the only suitable material was bamboo." He goes further and makes the comment that bamboo is still the great standard against which all other materials are measured.
The major difference between bamboo rods and modern composite rods, be they fiberglass, graphite or boron, lies in the structural differences. On the one hand you have a solid structure composed of fibers of various densities, on the other hand a hollow tube of homogeneous material.
The difference manifests itself in a couple of different ways. Most anglers (although not all) will agree that vibrations are more readily discerned through a solid structure than throu gh a hollow one. The increased sensitivity of the rod in detecting the action of the terminal tackle, including the take of fish, is a decided advantage that might in and of itself be sufficient cause for advancing the merits of the bamboo rod over the sy nthetics.
There is however, an even more important reason the bamboo rod is superior to the tubular rod. Most anglers are aware that present day bamboo rod construction is marked primarily by six strips of bamboo laminated together. Each strip is a tapering equilateral triangular solid that is characterized by long, hard fibers on the surface of the strip and a softer underlayer of pith in the center.
The assembled section then has a very dense hard layer of power fibers covering a softer pithy interior. Many who are aware of this construction understand that the stretching and compr ession of the outer surfaces when the rod is flexed are cushioned and strengthened by the softer interior. This is true, and again if for no other reason this might be construed as further evidence that the bamboo rod has superior characteristics. The fla ttening and deformation of a tube under stress may lead (as many have found to their consternation) to catastrophic failure of the structure.
There is another factor that is governed by the composite structure of the bamboo rod and that is a dampening and cushioning action. As the rod flexes and bends the dampening effect of the pithy center serves to slow down and delay the transmission of unwanted vibrations. While extreme sine waves may sometimes be seen in bamboo rods, either because of poor design or of improper casting, they are far less prevalent then in graphite and f iberglass rods.
Marinaro states that this dampening effect is the closest thing he has seen to a repeal of Newton's Second Law of Motion. (Ed. note: the law mentioned is that a body in motion tends to remain in motion, while a body at rest tends to stay at rest.) The subjective aspect of this effect is to be in comments that bamboo is smoother, closer to natural action, less tiring.
I'd conclude by saying that this is in no way an indictment of modern synthetic rods. They have many advantages and even superiority in some aspects. They are lighter (for the most part), they present a smaller profile in the casting stroke allowing for some increase in speed, and today they are cheaper to purchase.
Still, I think that bamboo richly deserves the nickname "the lovely reed." - Ralph Moon
With Bamboo Index | Home Page
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France and the euro
The time-bomb at the heart of Europe
Why France could become the biggest danger to Europe’s single currency
See article
Readers' comments
Europe is like a collection of dogs of different breeds whom some crazy idealist wants to make all the same size and shape and to all bark identically. In the longer run of history it won't work. Don Donovan . NZ
What if there's a full moon? When I ring the dinner bell all the dogs in the neighborhood salivate. Perhaps we can just get the Europeans to answer the dinner bell then. After all, most dogs bark. Why do they have to bark identically? Speaking of which, is there any such thing as twin dogs? Just wondering if they bark identically. It's these sorts of questions that keep me up at night...laughs
Dominique II in reply to donovan0001
Bad example. Dog packs which go back to the wild soon evolve to a common outlook. After a few generations they share a sandy coat, robust legs and a tendency to devour stray human children. In the longer run of dog history it works perfectly.
Before, during and after Marie. Perhaps a nice Pinot Noir. Bought a case of Italian Sangiovese for under $40 yesterday. The Sicilian Grecanico looked good too. May go back tomorrow and pick up a case of that too. Wine's good for the heart. The Americans don't know. The idiots like their table wine sickly sweet...laughs
Sure, New York right? Lots of Long Island wines too. The affordable California stuff use to be good, but then they went and spoiled it. I think they water the vines before the harvest. That's America for you, anything for a quick buck. I settled on the Italian wines. The price is very good and the wine is pretty good for the price, if the bottle isn't corked. If ever I make it to France, I'm going to drink wine until I drop, and then get up in the morning, and do it all over again...laughs
Hello Zorbas!
Come to Friuli/Trieste. Just fly to Venice Marco Polo and head eastward on the train. The City of Trieste has Italy's largest Greek community (and two Orthodox churches, one Greek and one Serbian) - with reasonable prices for pensions inside the city.
Then head to the countryside (rented car?) There are many agrotourist restaurants and wine farms where one can drink strong wines (13%-14%) from the vat for very reasonable prices (€7 per bottle in the restaurant - €8 per five-litre jug right from the farmers).
You can chat with friends for two hours over two glasses of wine - and spend €2. Or drink copious amounts of excellent wine for a little more. One of the last few pleasures the global market hasn't ruined for us yet.
In the province of Trieste they are called the "osmizze" (or "osmice" in Slovenian) - local farmhouses where the right to sell limited amounts of their local produce right in their backyard several months of the year is still recognised.
Not a few Austrian and even German tourists hanging around, I might add. The famous "weinstrasse".
Milovan, how are you my friend? Thank you for the invitation. It's good to hear that they haven't ruined everything I remember about Europe yet. A Brussels oversight I'm sure.
It appears that Germany has had her way with the Euro. Too hard a currency for the rest of us, except for Europe's elites. They were born wealthy, and only wanted for a hard currency, which they have now. The price? They sold the rest of us out to the Devil.
Fitting that their vast real estate holdings should be deemed unsellable in the new system. After all, there is a price they too must pay for such treachery. Akinita is what we call them in Greek. An akinito is something that does not move. Many of course sold out in time, while the banks were still lending. This was very short lived for Greeks, but prosperity continues for the Germans. That in itself tells us all we need to know about the Euro.
But if it is a 50 year plan, at least they left us our wine! Back to the farmer's life. The farmer was rich back in the day. His family had to eat. I remember the stories my father use to tell me about the katohi, the war years. He predicted bad times would return for Greece.
Multi-Moniker Psycho Mod
"It is not just the future of our country, but the stability of the entire eurozone that depends on the successful completion of this effort in the coming days," Samaras said.
"Whatever technical difficulties (there might be) in finding a technical solution, do not excuse any ... delay," he said.
Read more here:
Throw the bum out so I can travel to Greece on the cheap. Let all his property holding be devalued in drachmas. With my dollars I'll hire his wife as a maid to clean our house. Now that's deflation! I become a Greek elite overnight, and Samaras and his cronies become working stiffs like me...laughs
History repeats itself. European governments should take this lesson to heart. Their actions will lead to a bloody war. Let's see for how long austerity will be "peacefully" tolerated.
Oh yeah, now I remember! Our rights. But listen, I'm an American. I traded all of mine in a long time ago for my right to consume.
So, I'll tell you what; I'll trade you what's left of them for a larger TV screen.
Any Chinese out there? What's the largest TV screen that China manufactures...laughs
PS - Happy Thanksgiving to all my friends, German, French, European, Chinese, and American alike.
France has a powerful socialist gov. China has a powerful socialist gov. Dear Sirs, Writers, and Readers, please add:
1 + 1.
Thank you.
sikko6 in reply to Il Garino
China has communist government.
France has fascist givernment.
One common trait will be that both will NOT fly high!
Because government contaminated companies will not be able to travel abroad!
Marie Clear in reply to chinachip
isn't it your new Chinese government a old Maoist faction now?
Socialism in France is much more liberal than your socialism
and a "socialist" government is France is most likely the only government that can achieve reforms, that will be accepted by a larger spectre of the french population than if it was a Sarkozian government.
Today, if Sarkozy was in office, you would see strikes in french cities,and that is precisely what the markets don't like, also the reason why Hollande had more support from WS and Washington. Now these world finances lobbies through Moody are reminding Hollande why they supported him in the first place
chinachip in reply to Marie Clear
I am an American teaching English in China, with priate diplomacy on the side. You should come spend a year here doing something constructive. Some of my students and their parents as marvels to behold! You sound young and energetic. The two countries have some interesting & surprising cultural similarities and habits. And some big differences. Both are very human. From the China, France could learn to fear more acutely the consequences of its actions. France could use a little of the old wisdoms. China could learn how to make itself a breathtakingly beautiful global brand from France. There are grounds for some union between the two. Both have great glories, and looooong roads with many problems will stretch before them both for centuries to come. It will be a while before Beijing is as sweet as Paris! Or France as economically successful as China has recently become. Catch my drift, ma chère jeune? How many people in both countries would say to the other, in the appropriate conditions, “Take my hand my dear, take my hand, and let us go forward together”
Chinese live in a fascist "socialist" dictatorship. Chop, chop! Now they must work for peanuts to produce what Americans want, or lose face. And I just sit here in my American paradise, consuming their cheaply made goods on my credit cards.
But of course the Chinese actually think they're in charge of something. You could never fool a Greek so easily. Very obedient workers the Chinese. Let us see how far it gets them when we all stop consuming.
Truth be told, I avoid Chinese goods as much as possible. There is a stigma associated with them, a sort of cheapness in quality. Another piece of Chinese crap is how I put it more time then not.
Marie Clear in reply to chinachip
I know that the Chinese people are rather admirative of anything french, I think that we have the largest Chinese diaspora in Europe in Paris XIIIe since a long while.
In France Chinese don't try to open stores with their cheap products (that rather french importers who do that), but rather our quality products or rather try to compete with our cooking, one Chinese restaurant got 3µ in the Michelin guide.
I know that Napoleon is revered (he who said when China will awake the world will tremble" after haveing read Lord Macartney's book : Travel in China and Tartaria", and of course "the Art of war of Sun Tsu), he got a special exhibition in Beijing. Chinese tourists are more numerous in France, even some of their TV series are made in Provence.
and a former french MP is in love with Chinese civilisation, he funded a Institute of Chinese civilisation around Poitiers, where we can learn Chinese language, and all about chinese History and civilisation
here a vid of his discourse after the last Communist party congress:
this has been a buzz in the french NET, because Raffarin has always been a laughing stock because of his "english"
that you can "admire" here too during the 2005 campain for the EU constitution :
Just remember Marie. The natural progression of things is anarchy, and just like everything else, the Greeks got there first.
Let the Germans work hard and organize. The turtle will be waiting for the hare at the finish line. We took a short cut you see...laughs
PS - And as for China, I have two words for the Chinese: Chop, chop!
chinachip in reply to Fooli Cat
FC, take the long view. "Civilization" is just, say, 10,000 years old, give or take. Being optimistic, (no armageddons, big asteroid strikes, etc) how many centuries do you think lay ahead of us human as a species, and as the population of our planet’s civilization? Seems to me, more than lie behind us. Catch my drift? Like some of your other posts. Keep on plugging!
"I avoid Chinese goods as much as possible"
I'd love to see how you can possibly do that ?!?
Yeah, you are stronger ...
I am not asking you where your car spare parts are produced OR where was made the computer you are now using ...
EVEN your peanut butter can have peanuts :
- that are produced in China
- that are produced in Africa w/ chinese managers
- ...
China is now just everywhere on the side of Earth. Please as for French bashing, avoid Chinese bashing or any type of bashing. It does not help. Maybe it helps you have some relieve?
Well, put it this way, I'm never buying a Hyundai. The lawn mower's Chinese, and that's why it stinks. The motor's pretty good, but the auto propel and everything else on it is an engineering accident waiting to happen. You buy, you buy! Me sell cheap...laughs
chinachip in reply to chinachip
Dear Fooli Cat, Sir!
You flatter me, thanks. But really, you do have a sense of humor, and sticktooittiveness, a developing sense of honor, ( we are a young nation…) though perhaps, may I put this as gently as possible, you’re weeee bit peevishly homieistic. ( I well remember good, sincere, well-meaning, and tough folks like you when I came back from Vietnam in ’59, age twelve, knowing we would go to war there and eventually leave with out tails between our legs and millions dead as Ike [my Dad’s boss] feared. Forget “life of Pi” for interesting luck, try me, Forrest Gump… ;-)
Meet for a beer some time? First round’s on me, maybe. Re grad thesis, all and more done a loooong time ago, just not on paper, face to face, voice only. These preposterously impotent twenty six flat-surface two-dimensional symbols currently in use are just SO inadequate, know what I mean? In fact, this pathetic four-to-two-and-back-to-four dimensional commo disconnect-fiasco is a prime cause/glitch of why one has to wait a long time for a good monkeys to write a good poem, (etc) as you referred to. Yet most any monkey will know, from twenty feet away, if your GF is pregnant, often before she, you, the doc, and the pee-test will. Capiche? Well, these pathetic twenty six are all we’ve got for now. Scheeeesh! Its been FC. BTW, did you look at the two sites? I await your approval with bated breath, come on…
chinachip in reply to Fooli Cat
Dear Fooli Cat, Sir!
Meet for a beer some time? First round’s on me, maybe. Re grad thesis, all and more done a loooong time ago, just not on paper, face to face, voice only. Much more efficient! These preposterously impotent twenty six flat-surface two-dimensional symbols currently in use are just SO inadequate, know what I mean? In fact, this pathetic four-to-two-and-back-to-four dimensional commo disconnect-fiasco is a prime cause/glitch of why one has to wait a long time for a good monkeys to write an OK poem, (etc) as you referred to. Yet most any monkey will know, from +-twenty feet away, if your GF is pregnant, often before she, you, the doc, and the pee-test will. Capiche? Well, these pathetic twenty six are all we’ve got for now. Scheeeesh! Its been, dear FC. BTW, did you look at the two sites? I await your FC approval with bated breath, come on…
Fooli Cat in reply to chinachip
My good Mr. Wood,
I admit I had not read the material you shared and I've only just given it a quick once-over even now. I'm curious, what happened to that toy rocket you're holding in the picture? :-) The uniform looks good but the m16 is a cold reminder of the realities that go with that sharp looking outfit. I hope you never had to put it to use.
Don't be shy about calling out my homieism, I'm recently aware of it myself and it serves me only a dis-service to to pretend anything other.
Seems perhaps you've lost touch with this mortal world a little. Puts you a little on the outside, doesn't it? I mean I get the impression 'normal' people have a hard time relating to you, and you with them of course. You go around thinking they're all wasting their time and efforts concerning themselves with such trivial matters I suspect.
Beer? Sure. let me know next time you're State side. I'd love the opportunity to needle you in person and I'm 110% certain you wouldn't hesitate to do more than the same.
powermeerkat in reply to sikko6
"China has communist government.
France has fascist givernment."
Nothing further from the truth.
France has a Socialist/statist government.
China has a fascist regime, that is state-controlled.
While its economy is capitalist hailing back to the ruthless robber-baron era. With ca 10% of population filthy/corrupt rich and ca 90% of of abjectly poor (been there, seen that).
chinachip in reply to Fooli Cat
In series:
The “toy rocket” was made by The L. M. Cox Manufacturing Co, Inc., the model is of the Convair XFY Pogo.
I’d been in Vietnam in the late fifties as an embassy brat, so the Viets knew me. When I returned, the Viets & me took the long view as previously envisioned by Roosevelt, and I ended up completing A. Peter Dewey’s failed mission of 1945. The history-copy about Dewey’s mission has changed a lot in the last few years, even on the Arlington Cemetery page. Its gone more right wing. I think originally, Roosevelt wanted Vietnam/Ho Chi Minh to escape Stalin’s bear-hug, and go straight to what Vietnam is today without the two wars, millions dead, and so much communist legacy. No such luck.
We should all be aware of our limits, just as Dirty Harry said. To bad he recently got involved with empty chairs, huh? So welcome to the club. Though it’s more work than sitting in a Lazy Boy loudly spouting Gingoistic opinions, its much more satisfying in the long run. Myself, I grew up with in the Marshall Plan in Europe, and my childhood hobby was model airplanes. So I like global non-stupidity, and solving the problems that prevent a good safe flight, so to speak.
“Lost touch with the mortal world?” You will have to convince me of that! Some one back there went to some loud and expensive length last July to have me killed here in China. I’m quite mortal. Maybe now Obama will deliver on his hand-shake promise to give me some support. We shall see… My opinion is that by continuing to ignore his promise, he is building up ill will towards himself, and our country. Its been a long slippery slope from the Marshall Plan, Korea, & Vietnam.
“Me on the outside.” Absolutely! Way WAY out there! So far its amusing, so I play it as game. A Great Game. Normal people do have trouble relating, but here, may I please diplomatically join with Romney re something about a +-47%? (Just read Yahoo’s home page copy… ;-)
For example, from 1959 to, say, the fall of Saigon, I occasionally whispered to some folks that we could not win in Vietnam. This morphed over time, in some folks mind, into me being a genuine certified prophet. That naturally brought out some crazies, and so on. That’s pretty amusing considering I was born wall-eyes, and thought retarded for a decade or two. In fact, and old friend in allegedly not in No Such Agency, certainly NOT, once told me the film Forrest Gump used a metaphor of my ops profile. (Gee, that’s nice. How about my cut, huh Rupert? Meet you a Bubba Gumps eatery on top of HK’s Victoria Peak for my fat un-marked envelope under the table? ;-)
But suggest I can relate to THEM. And often do. But is it a good use of my limited time? If you read Song of Saigon, you will see that it was futile, back then, for me to try to save the life of a right wing militant determined on going to Vietnam and dying there. Or more often, get them out of their Lazy Boys to do something globally useful or wise. It’s still a problem which you appear to have grasped. So, if truly a breakthrough, well done sir! Welcome to the Out There. Please fasten you seat belt, and if some one foaming at the mouth sits next to you and starts talking, do Forrest Gump.
“You go around thinking they're all wasting their time and efforts concerning themselves with such trivial matters I suspect.”
Well, yes and no. You, who appear to have made a huge leap, are welcome, though I actually prefer coffee with Frog-bread dip. And why don’t you pop over to chugging-right-along China instead? What’s new in America, anyway, Paula Broadwell? We can chat about comminizum, capitalizum, Nash EQ point, and so on ad nausium infinitum. And maybe actually do something interesting.
Well, enough. This was originally about France, who got a boost to their economy a while back by copying and automating the technology of China’s ancient silk brocade loom. That tech moved on to be, would you believe, the fly-back of TVs, and now, the screen upon which you are reading this. Yep. You are welcome to get in touch if you’re interested. Chipnanjingatyahoodotcom. Piece of cake. Good Luck!
Multi-Moniker Psycho Mod
Years of pain? Count me out then. Zorbas don't do pain.
Besides, I count seven wasted baguettes in this photo op. That's bread that could have been put to better use in a Greek soup kitchen!
You see, I left the wife to stand on line for soup whilst I blog away from home. Stupid Greeks. Can you imagine? The damn place is not a wireless hot spot. Shouldn't be long, a day or two for cold soup and stale bread. She'll call me on the handy.
It appears Greek soup kitchens are low tech, the whole of Greece for that matter too...laughs
"Greeks live very well indeed!"
This one does, and that's good enough for me. What? You expect me to feel sorry for the Germans who will have to work to bail out their banks. Print some money and welcome to America, where inflation is a way of life.
Or better yet, have the government change the bundle of goods that they use to calculate it with. Something goes up, throw it out, so the banks don't have to pay inflation on top of interest.
Keeps the working stiffs poor and confused you see...laughs
Accounting INDEED! How can impotent two dimensional symbols on a FLAT surface accurately represent our four dimensional reality? Oh Holograms, oh holograms! Wherefore art thou OH HOLOGRAMS!? Will we never see THEE before the eyes of our children in math classes?
Marie Clear
“please don't put Theo theMorph into the same basket with pompelinotte, it's not the same gabarit. Pompelinotte is decerebrated”
Ma foi, a brand new word “decerebrated”! As in, they ‘removed his cerebellum’ ?
But you are wrong I am sorry to say because both PP and Morph appear to be “decerebrated”; Morph thinks thousands of Brits on the Continent who would be deprived of work permits if the UK left the EU. CRAP:
1. Norway and Switzerland are not in the EU but their nationals are allowed to work in EU countries through the EEA agreement which Britain would presumably join.
2. There are thousands of EU nationals working in the UK ( 400,000 French in London alone). Is he implying there would be a tit for tat, massive cross Channel expulsions?
3. If the EU ever sank so low as to take trade reprisals, they would lose out. The UK has a trade deficit with the EU which needs the UK market more than the UK needs the EU. The UK is the largest European market for German cars. The UK had the whip hand here.
The same would apply if France left the “EU“.
And, now, on to the 900 pound gorilla sitting in the room.
The real problem is that governments have promised more to their people than they can possibly pay for in taxes. So, for some time now, the four major central banks of the world have been printing money to buy debt on the open market.
Converting all balances to USD, central bankers around the world have expanded their balance sheets beyond $13 trillion, from only $3 trillion ten years ago. Global central banks’ assets now comprise at least a quarter of all global GDP – up from only 10% in 2002.
This will not end soon;
September 6, 2012 the ECB starts its unlimited bond buying program.
September 13, 2012 the US Federal Reserve starts QE 3 to the tune of $80 billion a month
The BOJ on October 30, 2012 increased the total size of its asset repurchase program.
The Peoples Bank of China now holds over $4 trillion USD in assets.
The discussions about credit ratings or which country in the EU is the biggest problem are interesting intellectual exercises, but that is about all it is, an exercise. Although, I must say one of the key challenges to the Euro is demonstrated in these comments. Many are based on nationalistic ideals rather than economic fact. This is the biggest problem with the common currency. I cannot see how 17 different countries will ever agree on a common solution because any agreement will cause some pain somewhere.
The challenge for the developed economies of the world it to find a way to grow competitively while limiting transfer of payments to people who do not work, or, cannot work.
No one knows which bug will hit the windshield first, Japan, China, the US or the EU. But, one surely will. I am betting on Japan, for what it is worth. So, what is the bug? INFLATION
Once the inflation genie is out of the bottle, there is no way to contain it. The traditional way to stop inflation is to raise interest rates and suck up all the excess money that was created to “prime the economic pump”.
In the US today, we pay $200 billion a year in interest on the debt. If interest rates were to move back to the 30 year average of 7.5% we would have to pay $1,000 billion a year! This cannot happen without crashing the economy. The EU, BOJ and PBOC all have exactly the same problem!
Jonathan Parks
Sounds like "deja-vu" See: Money Inflation in France, by Andrew Dickson White,
Marie Clear in reply to Jonathan Parks
the French then had a great Master for inflating money, the Scottish John Law
from your link:
"Early in the year 1789 the French nation found itself in deep financial embarrassment: there was a heavy debt and a serious deficit."
yet, if the US had repaid what they owed to the King of France in time, no terror would have happened. Yes I know, there wasn't any reliable american bank then, but no american effort was seen for thanking the french for their help, in the contrary, as soon the Independance was won, they reverted to their former masters !
"A turning-point in French-American relations took place in 1794 when John Jay, a Federalist, was sent to London to discuss pending issues between the United States and Britain. Jay's Treaty, signed in November 1794, was interpreted by French authorities, then pitted against Britain in a merciless war, as a sign of American surrender to British demands, and thus as treason : the United States was at the time the only French ally remaining. A French editor wrote, recalling French support during the War of Independence: "Si n'aviez-vous pas une dette sacrée à payer, n'aviez-vous pas l'honneur national à défendre ? Qui retenait vos forts, qui capturait vos vaisseaux? L'Angleterre. Qui voulut vous asservir? Qui vous suscita (sic) la guerre contre les Algériens et les Indiens? L'Angleterre. Qui vous défendit quand vous brisâtes vos chaînes? La France. Qui veut pour son intérêt que vous conserviez votre liberté? la France "
Confronted with the serious defeat at Yorktown and with world-wide conflicts with the French, England accepted to negotiate peace terms. Congress named peace commissioners to work in Europe 'under the supervision of the French': Franklin, Jay, Adams, and Laurens.
On 30 November 1782, without informing the French, the American commissioners signed preliminary articles with the British negotiators. However, it stipulated that the provisions depended upon France making its own preliminary treaty with Britain. The Americans were aware that they violated their instructions and had not kept faith with the French ally.
Vergennes was not surprised. He had his reasons for terminating the war quickly, and accepted the American diplomatic acts with the chide:
"We have never based our policy towards the United States on their gratitude. This sentiment is infinitely rare among sovereigns, and unknown to republics."
PFG1976 in reply to Jonathan Parks
Jonathan; Thank YOU for the link to Money and Inflation. I find it AMAZING that the introduction was writing in 1912! The next year, the US crated the Federal Reserve Bank in 1913. (The Creature from Jekyll Island). I also find it interesting that the FED will have its 100th birthday in 2013. Will we celebrate, or, will we want to bury it?
Felipe Coelho
"Which countries should have the top rating?" is not the really important question. Instead one could ask: "Which countries have economies (or political leaders) that are sensitive to grading by unreliable private agencies?". If the countries have sound economies such rating changes have just a short-lived effect. If the economies are too sensitive that should ring alarm bells for politicians and societies.
There is always the emotional aspect "How does someone outside my country (agencies, IMF, investors, speculators) dare to analyse its performance and its investment safety?". This is a understandable but useless feeling, as we live in a globalized world since perhaps Vasco da Gama sailed to India (almost certainly much earlier than that, VG voyage just marked the start of the Western European dominated globalization). Since then safe heavens are in short supply. There was a sucessive rise and fall of empires and nations, some of them coming back from ashes like China, Japan, and Germany. Some other former seats of empires - Russia, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Iran, Poland, even Mongolia - are also coming back, as proud of their pasts as France rightfully is, notwithstanding their ratings by the agencies.
Best wishes from Rio
Il Garino in reply to Felipe Coelho
Felipe, thanks for your historical analysis.
After you said "understandable but useless feeling, as we live in a globalized world", let me add an illustration of our worlds' crazyness and fragility.
When a vulcano started shocking in Iceland last year, air traffic was shut down for a few days between the Americas and Europe.
Enough days for an Air France CEO to tell eihter French gov. or EU (?): "if you don't support our balance sheet through financial support, AF will have to fire XYZ 000 employees". Sure that was not true, but he tried. I doubt he got the money, fortunately.
How strong is our "globalized world" ?
Could be an interesting issue for TE to analyze, don't you think ?
BUT I doubt very smart people at TE are likely to get involved in too much mess, "one country at a time, please"...
Deviding issues is always easier than bringing global analysis.
Is it helpful?
Felipe Coelho in reply to Il Garino
Thank you for your comment, that is a good example of trying to manipulate information. A few days of localized trouble, even in the tragic cases of Chernobyl, Katrina, Sandy, or Fukushima, will not destroy a global company.
It was said that military strategists make detailed plans for the last war, but one could say that societies (including politicians, economists, journalists) do the same. All of us individually know that is not that simple, the future is not a repetition of the past, but when societies discuss they fall easily into that trap. In Physics we would say that the future is a analytical continuation of the past: is determined by it, provided one has complete information, but is not a repetition.
In practical terms there is a rising tide of globalization but, in mental terms, we live at most in the early XX century (some nations have political debates that go even earlier).
For instance, were it not the fears of past famines and of the social instability on the countryside (leading to many tens of millions migrating to the cities, as in a Bertolucci film or in the Marx Manifest) some of the reasons behind the Common Agricultural Police? Western Europe does not need to be self-sufficient in food and these many tens of millions of people that will either starve in the slums of the big cities or migrate simply don't exist now (the same for the slums). The world changed a lot - the many millions displaced by the Agricultural and the Industrial Revolutions and widespread abject poverty are now a thing of the past almost everywhere (parts of Asia and Africa are exceptions) - but in our imaginary it remains the same. Now it is the feared migration of uncountable Arabs, Africans, and Eastern Europeans into Western Europe, are there so many of them?
And the fear for the military safety in Europe, if millions of Russian soldiers should go West? Now the whole of Russia has about a third of the population of the rest of Europe. That fear is mostly a memory of the past Hun, Hungarian, Mongol and Turkish invasions, a memory that creates the need for NATO. Russia, not Europe, is the one that should be concerned with migrations to her empty Asiatic region (as Brazilian nationalists are concerned with foreigners in the Amazon basin, after perceived imperialist threats during XIX century). But that is life, we prepare for the past happening again. Meanwhile the world continuously changes!
Best regards from Rio
The British newspaper writes an article about the French inability to compromise and that they therefore too easily protest, demonstrate or strike. In response to this article the French readers protest en masse!
France should maybe consider to change political system to a more democratic and less presidential authoritarian. In a parliament with representatives from different political parties they will have to listen to the voice of people even when there is no election and they will learn how to compromise and make long term political strategies.
What will then happen with the president? Either you could do like Germany or Italy and elect a president that no one outside of France will ever care for or either you could consider Louis XX or Henry VII. This change to a modern European constitutional monarchy would for sure give France a lot of international attention, luxury French goods would get free marketing and the French Kingdom would see a vast increase in tourism from already being number one in the world!
Vive la monarchie d'une France forte!
Dominique II in reply to Kroosus
Never seen the pretenders to the French throne? ages old family, utterly degenerate. We'd have to import a foreign monarch like all the others did.
Maybe a Swede... the Bernadottes are French after all... of course the founding king was a vile traitor but for a monarch, that's an asset.
Meanwhile we'll erect a ceremonial guillotine... velvet cushion in the basket and a gold blade, it hurts a bit but it's so ... majestic!
Dominique II in reply to Kroosus
My god its a world conspiracy against France..First it was the S&P,short while ago the Economist and now Moody..How dare they?
France the most powerful and competitive economy in the world..
Marie Clear in reply to Duplex2411
hey loulou, seems that Germany is playing the russian roulette with the EZ:
Take the last European Union summit, in October. EU summits are ritualized events at which member states’ national leaders sign joint statements and then rush off to their assigned rooms in the building to hold separate news conferences. There, they try to define what the deal really means. German Chancellor Angela Merkel signed the October summit’s conclusions, which committed to start building parts of a banking union, and then started to distance herself from it before she had left the building.
This raised a few eyebrows, but it should have raised the alarm. Most commentators assumed that any backtracking was just about election schedules. Merkel was keen to push off potentially contentious issues until after Germany’s 2013 elections, they argued.
That assumption was probably false. Germany isn’t interested in taking the steps required to establish an effective banking union, not now and not ever. Without a banking union -- and, by extension, some degree of fiscal union -- the euro project stands little chance of survival.
The main objective of a banking union is to break this negative-feedback loop by allowing banks to fail and to be liquidated or recapitalized without contagion to other lenders or to sovereigns. In order to work, the union has two minimum requirements.
The first is a single supervisory mechanism to oversee all banks in the euro area. The second is a bank-resolution plan, which would put processes in place for recapitalizing systemically important banks that get into difficulty, and for liquidating their nonsystemically important counterparts.
Some progress has been made on establishing a supervisory mechanism. At the EU summit in October, euro-area policy makers agreed to legislate one by the end of 2012, and to implement it in 2013. Once this has been done, policy makers agreed that the EU bailout fund, the European Stability Mechanism, will be able to recapitalize banks directly.
Germany only wants the mechanism to supervise systemically important banks. It’s no secret that this is because Merkel doesn’t want euro-area supervisors poking around Germany’s sick Landesbanks and highlighting that Germany’s banking system hasn’t been immune to the crisis. This hurdle is probably surmountable.
why should we comply to the German austerity dictats only for that Germany still can nuke our competivenesses and and our economies with a DM euro, very useful for the german exportation machine !!!!!
Better let the euro Kaput !
Marie Clear in reply to Marie Clear
oh and that Bloomberg article comment (mille excuses to the author for borrowing his prose, but it's for the same religion's sake), sums up what the EZ members fhinks, except the Germans of course
"The educated PRAY for the demise of the Euro, especially those of us in Policy Administration.
Someone commented that German taxpayers don't want to pay for the mistakes of Spanish Banks?
Are you kidding me? Germans haven't yet paid a single Euro cent. That's not how the bailout fund works, the member state in need must layout their plan and ask permission to be bailed out by the fund (EC / EU / ECB). THEN, a bond offering takes place to raise those funds which are then LOANED to the member state in question, AT INTEREST. Stop stirring up trouble with rumors that German taxpayers are bailing out the EU, that is a lie. Those of us sitting in these policy meetings are fed up with Germany and their bad attitude, like an angry child, they storm out of most meetings, toys in hand leaving the sandbox.
Of course Germany doesn't want to be controlled by the ECB, especially as long as they no longer have the keys to the shop. Germany is bitter as they can no longer use the ECB as their own personal cash register, as they did for 10 years, foisting their predatory tactics upon the defenseless periphery, as well as Germany having subsidized
trading for the last decade, AND the future fall out for
which they shall have financial havoc within their own nation, which will be passed on and spread out among the other EU member states to choke on.
Deutsche Bank, alone, owes the FED $354 BIL USD, See GAO FED Audit pgs. 130-131. Germany is hardly in a position to lecture anyone on financial matters. The ECB as a Central Bank is the "public authority" that supervises financial institutions and markets, while conducting monetary policy, FULL STOP. The ECB DOES NOT NEED PERMISSION as their mandate is granted by European Supervisory Authority, which clearly trumps Germany's Constitutional Court (BGH, Karlsruhe), which is only applicable to Germany within it's own sovereign boarders.* If you (ECB) SUPERVISE someone, they (Germany) are SUBORDINATE to you, your are their SUPERIOR, and they MUST follow your ORDERS. Germany, read the treaty you signed and agreed to follow: Treaty on Functioning of the European Union.Article 3, 1. The Union shall have exclusive competence in the following areas: (a) customs union; (b) the establishing of the competition rules necessary for the functioning of the internal market; (c) monetary policy for the Member States whose currency is the euro; (d) the conservation of marine biological resources under the common fisheries policy;(e) common commercial policy. 2. The Union shall also have EXCLUSIVE competence for the conclusion of an international agreement when its conclusion is provided for in a legislative act of the Union or is necessary to enable the Union to exercise its internal competence, or in so far as its conclusion may affect common rules or alter their scope.READ the LAW to understand the LAW, Germany joined the Union of their own volition, they can also leave. restoring balance among the remaining core (we all hope)."
enriquecost in reply to Marie Clear
Not a single member state has the majority in the ECB. Even Germany only has 18% of the capital subscribed. Decissions taken by the ECB have to take into account the economic fundamentals of the whole Eurozone of 331 million people.
It is true that in Spain austerity is now taking its tall, but we cannot forget that over a decade there was a lot of money, GDP increased almost 4% on average, 7 million immigrants from the rest of the World arrived to Spain in five years....Meanwhile, German GDP growth was much lower. So, if now German GDP is increasing more than Spain´s, that is something logical.
Marie Clear in reply to Plazidus
you should know that we only have belly buttons in France
uh la Tribune ain't TE, I feel sorry for you
"Romaric Godin est un journaliste financier français, correspondant à Francfort de La Tribune."
better than a anonymous contribuator on TE
Marie Clear in reply to Plazidus
"Il est jeune, il est vrai, mais aux âmes bien nées,
La valeur n'attend point le nombre des années."
The erudite, tell me, who said that?
"Or Marie Clear's bit of eye candy?"
I love the nice looking candides
Marie Clear in reply to la.výritý
poor Merkin, she hasn't been blackmailed, she was just playing her Merliavelli part, pretending that she was a member of the EZ club, while knowing that the day after, this EZ meeting wasn't a decisive meeting, that Germany wasn't signing into it...
if you like so much Germany, then lobby the German policital parties to Leave the EZ the hell out !!!
and you see, that the inter european countries relations will recover their sanity
la.výritý in reply to Marie Clear
MC: ". . . then lobby the German policital parties to Leave the EZ the hell out !!!"
I'm emotionally and spatially too far removed as to "lobby German political parties". But even if I weren't, why should I? Isn't it you who always trumpets that it's Germany which benefits most from the EZ?
But to answer a question with a question: Why isn't France signing up for an instant banking union with Italy and, as the case may be, with Spain and Greece, when it thinks Germany's participation isn't needed? There is no law which hinders any EU country from signing bilateral or multilateral agreements with its neighbors.
Marie Clear in reply to la.výritý
too simple for your sofistication, but not surprising according your well known editorial Pravdavian skill
you already were complaining that poor Merkin was blackmailed by the Latins
"Isn't it you who always trumpets that it's Germany which benefits most from the EZ?"
not just me but the world economist, and more and more simple citizens living outside Mittel Europa aeras
la.výritý in reply to Marie Clear
"not just me but the world economist, and more and more simple citizens living outside Mittel Europa aeras think so" . . . about France!
LOL! The Germans?????
Quote "French Banks Race To Dump Crisis-hit Assets . . .
. . . France's largest banks are stepping up moves to unload their subsidiaries and sever their unhappy ties to the crisis-hit countries -- whose future in the euro zone is still shaky. Societe Generale SA, France's second-largest bank, said it is in talks to sell its 99.1 percent stake in its ailing Greek unit Geniki Bank . . .
Marie Clear in reply to la.výritý
Goebbels has many followers, and a great mentor with you for lying: repeat a lie ten or more times, it will become a truth
so what, it's not a mystery that french banks lost money in Greece, but also that they repatried the assets that were still valuable, and they aren't the only banks to do that
la.výritý in reply to Marie Clear
As a comparison study of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics shows, concerning hourly compensation costs of the manufacturing export industries in major OECD countries shows, in 1997, the average hourly compensation costs in Germany were $29.19. These hourly compensation costs (labor costs per working hour) had risen in Germany to $43.76 in 2010, while in France, the hourly compensation costs were $24.88 in 1997 and $40.55 in 2010, or roughly 8 percent lower than in Germany.
So, please tell us, MC, why aren't French manufacturers 8% more competitive than their German counterparts with these 'dumping wages' (compared to Germany) they're paying their workers?
la.výritý in reply to Marie Clear
MC: "also that they (French) repatried the assets that were still valuable, and they aren't the only banks to do that".
Where did I say they were the 'only' ones?
But it's you who blares dimwittedly all over the place as if it were only the German banks trying to protect their assets.
Marie Clear in reply to la.výritý
1997? that was when you were on the down track, and when we still had our own currencies
give me the franc back and you'll return back to your down track
PAPA Shulz told that if the Germans get back to their DM, they'll lose competiveness to the benefit of France and of Italy, at least, as a naive German, he isn't lying, him !!!
you're a chicaneur !
la.výritý in reply to Marie Clear
I wrote: the average hourly compensation costs in Germany had risen to $43.76 in 2010 (!!), while in France, the hourly compensation costs were $40.55 in 2010 (!!), or roughly 8 percent lower than Germany's. These are cost figures converted in US Dollars, neither in Euros, nor in DM.
If the Germans would have kept the DM and the DM had appreciated steeper against the USD than the EURO later did, then the hourly compensation costs would have been just the same in USD, since global competitiveness comparison is always denominated in USD, not in DM or EURO. This is as least how German manufacturers measured their global competitiveness when I was there. Merely with a DM currency the hourly compensation gain would have been less steep.
If socialist 'PAPA Shulz' says something different, then, indeed, he is a "naive German", as 'dumb' as those Europeans who measure global 'competitiveness' only in the Euro currency.
la.výritý in reply to Marie Clear
MC, you are posting nonsense again. Keep your hands off that cheap french wine!
Germany's global trade surplus was 150.400 billion euros in the 12 months through March 2012. The country’s trade surplus with the other 16 countries in the euro zone was 62.2 billion euros in the same period. This is approx 41.1% of the total, fully in line with the percentage of Germany's trade with the 16 countries in the euro zone (approx 40%) ... and also fully in line with Germany’s trade surplus with countries NOT in the European Union, which also amount to approx 40% of Germany's trade, with a combined trade surplus of 62.9 billion euros or 41.8% of the country's total trade surplus.
"German factories say orders continue to rise from buyers outside the euro zone, and continue to decline from companies within the zone."
As I've said in earlier posts, it's not in the interest of Germany to have trade surplus with anyone, especially not with countries in the southern Eurozone, since no money ever leaves these countries toward the German Bundesbank. Instead, it is 'piled up' as negative TARGET2 account.
In general, as long as a country can pay for all its imports, a balanced trade is entirely satisfactory. This is true for all other large trade surplus countries in the world; e.g. China with $280.600 billion surplus, Saudi Arabia with $151.400 billion, Japan with $122.800, Russia with $90.510 or Switzerland (!) with $76.700 trade surplus - BTW, Switzerland is a country with a population of less than 10% of Germany's and its own 'very appreciated' currency, but with a global trade surplus half that of Germany's.
Switzerland's example also proves that 'trade surplus' is not a question of "IN" or "OUT" the Euro, but solely one of high, efficient productivity or less efficient productivity in manufacturing, as e.g. in France or even outright inefficient 'productivity' as in Greece.
Marie Clear in reply to la.výritý
what a ÜberGermanheit again, mere BS, you aren't more intelligent than the others at work, say rather that the euro Lebensraum is quite a support for the german industry
"Or, une étude de la fondation Robert Schuman tend à montrer que le niveau de productivité de l’Allemagne n’est pas extraordinaire par rapport à la moyenne de l’UE. En fait des pays comme la France, l’Autriche et l’Irlande obtiennent des résultats meilleurs. La prise en compte de la productivité globale (PIB que divise la population active) a tendance à favoriser les pays qui ont un secteur financier très développé. Mais, si cela permet d’expliquer les excellents résultats de l’Irlande, du Luxembourg et des Etats-Unis, on est dans
le cas d’une comparaison entre la France et l’Allemagne avec une structure de la production qui est à peu de choses près équivalente. Les résultats sont donc comparables.
’analyse du Graphique 4 indique un décalage de près de 15% entre le coût du travail réel entre l’Allemagne et la France, alors que le la hausse des prix ne peut expliquer qu’environ 5% en termes de décalage avec l’Allemagne.
Ceci reflète l’effet de la politique fiscale allemande qui, en 2002, a décidé de transférer massivement les charges patronales sur la fiscalité pesant sur les salariés et la population. À travers l’application de cette « TVA sociale », l’Allemagne a réalisé l’équivalent d’une dévaluation de 10% au sein de la zone Euro qui avait été conçue pour éviter en principe ce type de stratégie.
Il faut noter que cette politique allemande de compression des coûts unitaires du travail n’a été possible que parce que les autres pays n’appliquaient pas une politique similaire. L’Allemagne n’a pu se permettre une telle politique que dans la mesure où ses voisins faisaient l’opposée. Si tout le monde avait pratiqué la même politique de contraction du coût réel du travail, l’Europe aurait été plongée dès 2003 dans une terrible dépression. Le gouvernement allemand doit donc être mis devant ses responsabilités. C’est lui qui a pratiqué une politique de « Passager Clandestin» et qui a rompu le pacte Européen le premier.
why arguing with you, you just want to have your clinical argumentation, like in the Monty Pythons
hey, there's a crisis in Brussels, Barroso is at la lose mood, Merkin aux abois...
Yooooopiiiii! C'est bientôt finiiiiiiii!
la.výritý in reply to Marie Clear
The text provided with your post is not from an economist, but from the well known globalization opponent (and German-basher), heterodox sociologist Jacques Saphir. In his article, he merely ‘interprets’ charts from a report of the Robert Schuman Foundation which he quite outlandishly expounds.
For general information: Jacques Saphir has close connections to Putin’s Russia, is a ‘specialist’ of the Soviet and Russian military and teaches at the Moscow School of Economics.
As I proved with hard data, provided by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, the wages for the German export-relevant manufacturing sector are among the highest in the world, about 8% higher than in France. The overall productivity, including low paid service jobs and public-services is indeed not higher in Germany than 'average'.
Yet, Jacques Saphir is not all wrong when he asserts that German companies outsourced big parts of their supplier industries to Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia (to a lesser extent, though, to Hungary) which is then re-imported into Germany for final quality control and final assembly; thus, turning “Made in Germany” rather into a label ‘assembled in Germany’.
However, this is an almost ‘literal’ implementation of the European “Treaty of Accession” of April 2003. Nobody can reproach Germany for following the ideas and intentions of the ratified EU treaties.
Bonjour Cocorico
"His Socialist Party remains unmodernised and hostile to capitalism: since he began to warn about France’s competitiveness, his approval rating has plunged".
The Economist is wrong on everything: pay attention to the history of the socialist party in France before writing such things. François Hollande's approval rating is now stabilized, and its competitiveness reform got a large support from French citizens.
This article is all widespread prejudices against France, I'm am very disappointed.
French civil servants and politicians, and even the trades unions (who represent a very small proportion of the workforce), benefit from all kinds of special allowances (regimes speciaux), including up to 80% pensions and unaccountable expenses. Reforms such as the grouping of communes into 'communautes de communes' have not saved money, only increased public expenditure unnecessarily ... etc. The only solution, in my view, would be a referendum organised, somehow, outside party political and governmental structures, proposing the outright abolition of all these privileges, across the board, in the name of 'egalite'. As almost all French people - other than civil servants and politicians - agree that this is where considerable spending cuts could be made, the result would be preordained. But as the article stated, the French middle classes have a long history of pessimism, indeed cynicism, and vested interests ('corporatisme') across the political spectrum, plus the anti-capitalist rhetoric of irresponsible left-wingers, make such a referendum impossible. Hollande is right to increase the number of teachers, as the educational scene is pretty catastrophic (other than in primary schools and the grandes ecoles), but he seems unwilling or unable to make the public sector cuts that are long overdue. His lack of business experience is a real problem too, as others have remarked. Nearly all French people agree that small businesses are penalised by labour taxes, but nobody seems to know how to set this right and make young people into enthusiastic entrepreneurs.
Again a clear attack against Europe by corrupt rating agencies .
When will someone put an end to this madness?
la.výritý in reply to Super-pedrolx2
"Again a clear attack against Europe by corrupt rating agencies. When will someone put an end to this madness?"
The Commission promised more than a year ago to 'initiate' an EU-based rating agency. What happened to this project?
If you read the Moody's summary document - The 3 major issues they highlight are:
1. France, and especially French banks' exposure to periphery countries assets.
2. The inability of France, as they did in previous crises, and as the UK has done to some extent this time, to print their way out of trouble.
3. France's historic failure to restructure their economy, workforce etc when these promises have been made by their governments.
None of these points are relevant to the UK. But in any event, the UK review isn't due till early 2013 so the same thing may happen here.
The fact that the French comments below the article here, have bizarrely strayed onto Muslim-bashing, kind of makes me hope France does suffer. About time you joined the 21st century.
Marie Clear in reply to guest-innwsaa
c'est fou les off topic today , Muslim bashing?
if you want french bank exposure try BIS, it's the most reliable source
but I can tell you that they are lesser deleveraged to the spanish debt than the German's and were lesser deleveraged to the Greek debt until the german banks managed to unload them to BCE, they also are lesser deleveraged to the irish debt, to the protugese debt, except to Italy's debt, but Italy is relevant as far as paying her due !
Othewise, kiki va être in the merdia if French debt is attacked? UK for 30%, the US, for a significant percentage, China, the Arab countries, Germany...
Would you think that these global investors would nuke France? not a minut, they keep on buying french bonds, at negative interests, and why? because nowadays it's dangerous to put one's money in unstable countries.
The Moody pression is for impressing Hollande, for that he makes what he promissed to make... cuz otherwwise, the euro will get kaput, and y'a know what would happen then? a World wide Krach Boom DUH HELLO
Might be the only sane happening for these neo-liberal Ponzi schemes...
Salam "Alec" Kum salam
guest-innwsaa in reply to Marie Clear
I'm not entirely sure what language you're writing in but if that's a representation of what's going on in your mind then...
Actually, it was you who made the minaret comments and disparaging comments about Africans wasn't it? Then you're accusing others of being off-topic? It seems that deflection is your only strategy.
For all your ramblings, you haven't addressed any of Moody's analysis. I'd remind you also, that Moody's is commonly criticised, every time they're reviewed, for having an extreme over-representation of French analysts.
Marie Clear in reply to guest-innwsaa
the problem with you, is that you take sentences out of context, I was responding to a Swiss french basher !
but as far as Moody, since you read all my posts, it should be clear the I couldn't care less of what Moody makes of the french Debt, since the US, UK, aren't better graded than France, and that these countries still are bankable for investors...
but I understand that you are one of our friends, next time you come to France, don't forget to remove your religious signs, you know, we are a laïc country, where no ostentary religious signs are de rigueur, it's for the peace between the communauties !
guest-innwsaa in reply to Marie Clear
Hilarious - Anyone who takes offence at your unprompted Islamaphobia and racist comments towards Africans must be either black or Muslim, or both. I'm actually neither, though I find it interesting that you frame it as an accusation. That view explains one of the chasms between the UK and France - Here, we try to treat people equally rather than just refusing to measure the relatively dire socio-economic conditions of minorities and saying its because all citizens are equal. I didn't take your comment out of context, if anything my entry sanitised it.
You say you couldn't care less about Moodys ratings - The quantity, if not quality of your contributions to the site would suggest otherwise. And where did you get the idea that the UK and France have the same rating?
Marie Clear in reply to guest-innwsaa
"though I find it interesting that you frame it as an accusation."
oh that's curious, I had rather the impression that you were the procurator who was accusing the French, me in the occurence, of racism when I was firing back a response to a a Swiss Frenchbasher, hence my referrence to the Minarets, that were the object of a hot polemic a couple of year ago in Switzerland
Bizarrely, though you're the alone person that found my comment "racist", I wonder why, no true Brit would have had any grief with my words.
I can understand that you don't appreciate my posts, they are at the antipodes of your virtue, not so british, that you pretend to show off now.
as far as UK's Debt rating , read the right papers sometimes, not just be satisfied of coming around to flame the French, aka me, on supposed racism !
guest-innwsaa in reply to Marie Clear
That's not how it went down - The Swiss muppet complained that there were too many French relocating to Switzerland - Your instinctive response was 'You'd prefer Africans would you'?
Now I'm not a 'True Brit' because I found it offensive. I can assure you that the majority of Brits would find it offensive, I was just silly enough to lower myself to engage with you on it. The fact of the matter is that very few Brits read the Economist.
Your UMP is significantly to the right of the Tory party here and your FN is just disgusting. Time you faced the fact that the French are behind the British, I'd say by at least 30 years, when it comes to equality. And this is symptomatic of the fact that you're behind on most matters. I can't imagine the retrogade farce you would have made of the Olympics, had you won it...
Marie Clear in reply to guest-innwsaa
ah yes, I said that, because Switzerland is a country that can't fonction without foreigners, as apparently he didn't like the French "frontaliers" (living on the border aeras, though lots of Swiss bought their home in France, because it's less expensive) coming into Switzerland taking the Swiss wages, I said then that he would have to hire Africans for doing the same jobs at lower costs, and in the meanwhile he would have to build minarets (that was the peak of my acerbatic response)
see why
If I hurted you with that, my apologies, but,
you have no excuse for your racism anti-French, Never saw a intelligent Brit affirming that they were superior to the French, and certainly not for tolerance
if you reduce your superiority to the Olympic games, I pity you since usely the Brits weren't shining from their Olympic medals. It's normal, that while hosting the OG, Britain made a effort to get a honnorable place
Il Garino in reply to Marie Clear
Marie Clear that never sleeps .. how many are you?!?
Just crazy to read the number of sounded comments and great "capacity of fire" you have!! Whoever you might be, I hope you get a load for this interesting presence on the Internet.
But do you think Hollande needs this kind of push from Moody's?
Moody's ? = what a pessimistic name ...
Marie Clear in reply to Il Garino
I have a certain martian moon
Don't worry, I get my resting times, like a "navigateur solitaire"
Moody is working for the international finance lobbies, if France doesn't do what these are expecting, their whole cards castel will crumble
I wish we still could have a De Gaulle, who told these people :
La Politique de la France ne se fait pas à la corbeille"
ta111 in reply to Il Garino
Good question, how many? Would not bother with this person any
more, this person's world consists out of swiss french bashers,
british french bashers, german french bashers etc etc and rambling on and on; this
person needs to see a shrink, typical case of inferiority complex,
hard to heal....
Marie Clear in reply to ta111
certainly but only towards your intellectual knowledge of the franco-germain litteratture LMAO
you prefer to close your eyes on your Merkalliavi politics, than to deal with them, you'll have to assume them one day or the other though, and perhaps not in reading into your mythic EU dream
The French President, François Hollande, wants to realize savings and appreciates efficiency, but...
As a civil servant in a French administration department, I have saved the government a lot of money. First, I refused to take part in smuggling funds out of the ministry, disguising bills or sending new technological materials and furniture paid by the ministry to my superior's house. Later on, I was very efficient dealing with contracts for purchasing aircraft and equipment for the Army. No late payment interest charges were incurred on my account during my 4 months management period though 8 millions euros worth of interest payments were recorded during the other 8 months of the year. After taking exemplary care of public money (some thought 'too good'), I was declared mentally ill and then dismissed without compensation or retirement benefits. However no psychiatrist declared any mental illness.
The case went to Court but the legal proceedings were corrupted. The head office wanted to confine me in a psychiatric institution in order to hide the case and methods employed. I was summoned by the police, but instead I succeeded in meeting with expert witnesses in psychiatry : these doctors - experts in the field of mental illness - confirmed I was fine. Due to the repression applied, I have not been successful in fighting for my rights on my own.
In 2012, The French government has promoted CGA Palagos to second head of the Defence cabinet. But, he was the man who has dismissed me, without taking in to account neither my honesty, nor my efficiency. He judged on my health, without the medical committee's agreement, though regulations demanded it. Besides, he made a forgery. The decree declaring my dismissal is based on an agreement of personnel representatives which does not exist. It takes into account discriminative letters. All the personnel representatives refused getting involved in my dismissal.
My website gives more information :
Florence Jarrier
Marie Clear in reply to guest-innwlaw
It's dangerous to deal with Defense secrets, these persons aren't "rigolos", some payed the life price for unveiling deals. Deviers-Joncour fled in Norway.
isn't it funny, your site can't be opened, surely a coup from the Barbouzes
But wwhen we search your name on google the pages are full of your same intervention, is it really the best way to get a audience?
guest-innwlaw in reply to Marie Clear
My good mental heath is not a defence secret.
My website address is and not Please try again with the hyfen and let me know.
I would appreciate that an English newspaper writes an article about my story. This would be the best way to get an audience and a solution.
Pumpernickel_ in reply to guest-innwlaw
Bravo, Florence
Excellent idea to bring your case to the attention of the world via the Internet. There are politicians of this kind in every country and little people often at the mercy of their despotism. I wish you good luck with your case. Bon courage!
I hope this example will be followed by the many out there in similar situations. In fact, I hope that there will be Websites dedicated to this kind of complaint. The Internet to become a podium for claiming justice where it is refused by little politicians with Napoleon syndromes who then will have to sue if they want to defend themselves. In this way such cases will then be brought to the attention of the media.
Food for thought!
Pumpernickel_ in reply to Pumpernickel_
We might call such a Website the "Michael Kohlhaas Forum".
If one of you useless overpaid Brussel's parasites sitting on your lazy backsides dreaming about the next pay cheque are reading this, perhaps you could do something useful for a change. Create a "letterbox" for disenchanted Europeans not getting justice from their local lords, like Michael Kohlhaas, so that they are dissuaded from taking matters in their own hands, like Michael did and march on Brussels one of these days.
Chop, chop!!
Pumpernickel_ in reply to Marie Clear
Charlemagne of the Economist could take this one up with a lot of support from the usual crowd.
Maher, do your stuff. You would have done it for Florence Nightingale. Once more unto the breach, dear friends...
You have my full respect and my admiration.
But take care of yourself.
Attacking a system by a single or a few persons usually is causing very strict and severe reactions by the whole system.
I also only can recommend to you informing interested journalists and we know meanwhile how most French journalists are working, the best will be to give your experience to journalists outside of France.
Your fate reminds me how in the former Soviet Union people have been treated.
And in most countries in Europe and especially in Germany I have more and more the feeling that almost all journalists are on the payroll of Mrs.Merkel and her friends.
My French folder gives more details and shows that some French politicians - a few of them – have been positive, but they were not dynamic enough, to block aggressive ones and their methods.
Actually I need to have my story publish by a foreign newspaper.
The value of debt as a percent of GDP is not a convincing measure and the assertion that 100% Debt/GDP suppose to be some kind of insolvency cliff is misleading as well.
The Japan debt/GDP is 220% long surpassing the magic 100% and the Japan economy is further from the insolvency cliff than for instance Italy’s economy at 120% debt/GDP ratio. Other variables such as government revenue and thus the repayment potential and the GDP growth must be incorporated in the formula.
SEVEN839 insolvency index of 12. I do not want to sound too technical, however if the computed index based on 1.Government Revenue 2.Gross National Debt 3.Bond (10y) Average Yield and 4.GDP real growth, exceeds magic number 12 a given economic entity would hit the insolvency cliff.
The following is the insolvency 2012 index (1st edition) for the selected countries: Germany 4.5, France 5.1, Italy 10.6, Spain 7.2, Greece 30.3, UK 7.3, US 7.1 and Japan 7.0.
Fiscal conservatives’ idea of cutting taxes that would eventually increase tax revenue via GDP growth has never materialized a case of US economy where Gov revenue is only 35% of GDP - insufficient to cover the spending. France is further from the cliff than others.
Pumpernickel_ in reply to Tizian
Interesting computation, Seven but Italy looks odd to me. Italy to me always seemed very sound looking shaky, a bit like the beggars one sees lying prostrate in front of Italian cathedrals, appearing ashen and pathetic but in pink health underneath.
Perhaps Joe Milovan will do us the honour and tell us why e.g. Italy is so much healthier than France. Milovan, you have the floor.
Tizian in reply to Pumpernickel_
Pumper you are too hasty to discredit my index; Italy’s bond yield is higher than US that mean higher interest payment for Italy and US growth is 2.9% and Italy’s only 1.3. Comparing to UK debt, Italy’s is much higher again Italy’s growth is only 1.3% and UK is 2.3%. Figures do not lie.
I am objective and you are not...apologise for slandering my magic INDEX.
Marie Clear in reply to Tizian
Pumper's, LV's... main purpose is to trash France
Yesteday France sold state bond for 6,983 billion euros at negative interest
"La France a levé 6,983 milliards d'euros lors d'une adjudication de bons du Trésor à taux fixe et intérêts précomptés (BTF), à des taux d'intérêt négatifs pour deux des trois lignes proposées, a annoncé lundi l'Agence France Trésor (AFT).
Tizian in reply to Pumpernickel_ statistics and also forecasts till might find it complicated but if you click on country and then on indicator it will show you bar graph by years. The 2012 values are best estimates – the year is not finished yet.
sikko6 in reply to Pumpernickel_
Unlucky 7 doesn't understand the economics of debts. Japan's government debt isn't the same thing as PIIGS or Latin American debts. Not even similar as German debts. Basically Japan's debts are from Japanese savings. Which means Japan has to print enormous amount of money to repay to Japanese savers. However Japanese won't need the money immediately. There is no hurry or worry about Japanese debts, because if Japanese government repays, the money has to be exported to other countries, creating another bubbles. Or they will be idling in Japanese bank warehouses! Can't you see the difference from Germany? Note that Germany cannot print money!
Forlana in reply to Tizian
Seven, your index is great and I'm waiting for an unabridged version!
And thanks for finally solving the eternal economists' dispute cut-taxes-versus-increase-them-in-dire-straits. Now I know!
Tizian in reply to Tizian
Sicko: “Basically Japan's debts are from Japanese savings. Which means Japan has to print enormous amount of money to repay to Japanese savers.”
VLCC: “They have very high private savings rates - and they owe the money to themselves.”
You would be better in polishing shoes on the street than write this nonsense. Japan ranks 58th and Italy 116th respectively in savings percent. Sicko, printing money means inflation...Japan inflation is ¼ percent. VLCC have you finished high school?
VLCC in reply to VLCC
I have to eat a portion of humble pie. Their savings rates figures appear to have dropped off a cliff. Though my underlying point is like Italy they owe the debt mainly to themselves so are special cases.
Eelco Gijsbertsen
Moody's Downgrades France by One Notch, Maintains Negative Outlook (Story developing)
"Analysts at the three biggest credit rating agencies who gave positive, investment-grade ratings to AIG and Lehman Brothers up until their collapse have not been fired or disciplined, the heads of the agencies admitted at a Congressional hearing today.
Moody's, Standard & Poor's, and Fitch Ratings all maintained at least A ratings on AIG and Lehman Brothers up until mid-September of last year. Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy Sept. 15; the federal government provided AIG with its first of four multibillion-dollar bailouts the next day."
"At the hearing today, the exchange between Speier and the agency chiefs was particularly contentious.
"You had rated AIG and Lehman Brothers as AAA, AA minutes before they were collapsing. After they did fail, did you take any action against those analysts who had rated them?" Speier asked. "Did you fire them? Did you suspend them? Did you take any actions against those who had put that kind of a remarkable grade on products that were junk?"
who cares of such rating agencies?
"Les vingt banques internationales chargées de placer la dette française auprès des investisseurs ont été reconduites pour trois ans dans leur fonction, a annoncé lundi l'Agence France Trésor (AFT) dans un communiqué.
Dans le détail, figurent sur la liste, Bank of America-Merrill Lynch, Barclays Capital, BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole, Citigroup, Commerzbank, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, Natixis, Nomura, Royal Bank of Canada, Royal Bank of Scotland, Santander, Scotiabank, Société Générale et UBS.
"Cette diversité géographique confirme le rôle central et l'attractivité des valeurs du Trésor français sur le marché de la dette en euros", observe l'AFT, au moment où la France bénéficie de conditions historiquement favorables pour emprunter sur le marché.
How much longer is Europe going to wait before kicking these three monkeys, S&P, Moody’s and Fitch, who all have their eyes and ears covered but not their mouths, spouting imbecilities, out of Europe and bring in our own agency just like the Chinese have done and start rating some countries realistically?
What are we waiting for? If Merkel does not have the balls now is the time for M. Ollande to earn his spurs.
Marie Clear in reply to Majong
yes, since he is said to be Merkel twin as political animal. They both benefitted of the eviction their party mentor, they both opposed to exuberant candidats, Schröder, Sarkozy, they both prefer discretion, they both are post modern politicians, they both manoeuver behind the curtains for getting what they want... They are likely to not compose a Ehe Paar, but be farouches adversaires... While Merkel and Sarkozy found their complement in acting de concert.
So Merkel will have hard time to subjugate Hollande
Do you really think that kicking off the rating agencies will solve the problem and bring back confidence to investors?
And do you really believe that all public deficits will be gone if the rating agencies are kicked off?
Confidence of investors you can not implement by force as less as you can force people buying certain products or not.
I think you are mixing cause and effect.
Il Garino
Something surprises me : I read comments from around the world, from the Americas, from every and any European country etc.. from people who traveled around the world and speak English as a foreign language ...
BUT is there any brits in this VERY large debate?
Regular John ?
People from the press?
Great civil servant?
Anyone who dares saying "something" (pros and cons) after that "BOMB" was thrown last week from London?
Germanambassador in reply to Il Garino
The British just read, listen and smile.
They are right watching a disbanding Europe.
What should they say?
That the French have been aways this nike?
What came out of the idea of Anglo.-French navy Sarkozy and the French were that much praising as the newest model in Europe?
French waffles as usual?
Majong in reply to sikko6
You should look deep into the very core of the economy of France before you do your judgement about it. You should try to avoid doing your judgement by looking around the surface and reading several macro parameters of the economy of France.
1. France owns cutting-edge technologies in almost every fields.
2. France owns efficient, effective and well-managed manufacturing bases.
3. France owns world's first-class human capital.
4. The French are efficient and highly productive.
5. And many more.
You see, it would take a nation a century and huge amount of cash and so much effort in order to develop such "bases" as the same as those of France for economic development.
France is facing with several surfacial troubles and macro problems, such as high costs of production, budget strain, high level of public debts, labour market rigidity, increasing share of the government in GDP ... But such factors are easily and quickly adjusted and changed for good by doing necessary reforms and adjustments.
So, what's the big deal about that for you to talk too much about "economic bomb"???
Pumpernickel_ in reply to Majong
"But such factors are easily and quickly adjusted and changed for good by doing necessary reforms and adjustments."
and herein lies the rub. Sarkozy might have been up to tackle such reforms and. therefore, was voted down. Hollande had to oppose them in order to be voted in. Will he do the necessary "Mitterand" and abandon his socialist folly and close ranks with Germany or go the populist way and close ranks with Italy and Spain and force Germany to agree to print, baby, print bringing the whole edifice down on our head?
The French are indeed the ticking time bomb at the heart of Europe, as I have always maintained, and Monsieur Hollande has his finger on the key.
Majong in reply to Pumpernickel_
Yeah, I agree. I think that President Hollande is not a dude so he understands that he should go ahead with deep cuts. But I think that he's still mulling over it because he fears that the French will get angry, flocking to streets of big cities of France to f.. him, destroying and burning cars and shops, killing dogs and cats etc. That causes social unrest and chaos.
He should develop a pro-business environment. He should pack whoever flocking to street to cry out for funds from the government in containers and "export" them to former colonies of France (Africa, for instance).
Marie Clear in reply to Pumpernickel_
Hollande is the French Merkel, he doesn't care to revert his jacket for becoming the N°1, like Merkel he had a socialist education, though he is from a far-right pro business family, so, the sound of business isn't a discovering for him. You might get surprised, he who will nuke la Merkel
Marie Clear in reply to Majong
they won't be such, cuz Hollande is delegating to the Union responsibles to find a solution, and those know that they have no choice, it's how the AirFrance union voted for ending 300 pilot contracts in a couple of years. The Misnistress of the space industry, who knew nothing in the business, managed in 4 month to get the scientists from the research institute and the businessmen who pwill pay for the next Ariane 6 launcher to get one voice, whereas the former Sarkozy'sMinister only got quarrels, anarchy
I'm starting to like some of this government ministers, Vals still is my favorite
Indeed Sarkozy was starting some reforms but very half-hearted as anything he started and then suddenly stopped.
And it is a mater of fact that just Sarkozy was increasing the huge public deficit of France during his time.
Hollande now has to face the music which has been ordered by Sarkozy.
Il Garino in reply to sikko6
Have you heard the expression "who gets the benefit out of the crime"? You might not, it is French.
YES I do believe you understand France ONLY throught your personal / historical clichés and DO NOT care so much about our country.
This is why I believe, like others here, that this article's only benefits TE and the UK. You say "bring light"?. This light is just biased. Unreliable.
Please give us some credit about our capacity to criticize ourselves : we do it, like any country around the world.
De Gaulle, no the funniest guy on political French field, has said something like "how can one run a country made of 350 cheeses".
It is a 1000% full time job. Unsatisfying one, because French are very critical and very unsatisfied.
Please give some respect to our capacity to run an election and elect a President, freely. Few countries liked our last. Guess Hollande won't be much appreciated either.
Finally, wathc out: when solutions to this complexity is solved, your are in trouble.
Il Garino in reply to Germanambassador
This is just based on your feelings, not even analysis, Mister Ambassador!
Germans knew how to handle maps especially in the Nothern France - not to say I regret it : Waffles are from Belgium.
Have you lost it on your way here? Could help to understand and read how we function.
Il Garino in reply to Pumpernickel_
Situation in France is far more complex and tougher that this easy image of "Monsieur Hollande has his finger on the key" ...
1°)eventhough he is a powerful man, our last king died a long time ago and Hollande cannot do everything.
Load is very heavy onto his neck.
This is why we elected him.
This is why we pay him for, right.
2°) Hollande as to face with French social system and beyond that French habits - supposingly not competitive?
Have you felt French social tension just before the Presidential elections where run? Just before Indian metal maker was - the car industry going south - to shut down a plant? French population, globally, has to make a "strong effort", after several crisis. Again, not easy task for a President to have them accept.
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3. Increases your metabolism. A person’s basal metabolic rate (BMR) is the amount of energy used by the body while awake and in a state of complete rest. The BMR is affected by several things — gender, body composition and activity level. A regular exercise program will help prevent a decline in both your lean body mass and your BMR. Additionally, the need to rely on exercise to maintain a caloric/metabolic rate balance would be lessened if you also incorporate other forms of physical activity into your daily routine (gardening, yard work, house-cleaning, taking the stairs, etc.).
5. Offers an excellent way to reduce stress. Several studies indicate that exercise dissipates hormones and other chemicals that build up during periods of stress. Exercise also generates a period of substantial emotional and physical relaxation that sets in about an hour and a half after a relatively intense bout of physical activity.
6. Reduces the risk of heart disease. Experts have found that non-exercisers have two times the risk of heart disease than individuals who exercise regularly. Exercise has been found to increase the ability of the blood to clear away clots in the blood vessels. Furthermore, individuals who exercise on a regular basis are at least 20 percent less likely to suffer a fatal heart attack. The point to remember is that your heart needs more than love — it needs the beneficial consequences of exercise (reduced demand on the heart to pump blood, increased stroke volume, lowered heart rate, less wear on your cardiovascular system).
7. Can slow the aging process. It is never too late to improve the functional quality of your life. Sound exercise can slow the age-related decline in the various physiological systems that many individuals experience as they get older. For example, instead of losing aerobic fitness, as older adults often do, typically at the rate of 10 percent per year, proper exercise can increase your aerobic capacity as you age. Furthermore, sound strength training exercise can reverse the loss of muscular fitness that typically occurs in older adults.
9. Improves the quality of sleep. Researchers have found that exercisers go to sleep more quickly, sleep more soundly and are more refreshed than individuals who do not exercise.
10. Prepares the muscular system for the upcoming (more strenuous) physical activity. Numerous studies have shown that individuals who exercise regularly have better memories, better reaction times and better levels of concentration than non-exercisers. All factors considered, research suggests that exercise can do for your mind what it does for your body — energize and revitalize it!
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That is correct. I REFUSE to play NEStalgia. Why? Because I want to. Huh?
Brilliant, I've confused you, now I get to make an explanation that will eventually lead to a point I'd like to make.
I have been quietly monitoring what's been going on with the game and SilkWizard's posts for a long time in regards to development of BYOND games. Two very interesting articles are found here and here.
Everything said in these two posts are valid. The idea of moving my games on BYOND to the outside world is one that I've talked about on this blog for years. I've never done it because I've never polished any of them to the point that I was 100% happy with. Even Exploder needs a little bit more tweaking, and then I feel that game will end up like current featured games Ultimatum, Feval, and Casual Quest as BYOND games that deserves to be played but rarely do.
That said, I do have a game that does get players and that is Wargames. When front page listings by "popularity" came about, Wargames did lean in the top 10-20 for awhile, but it gradually receded down due to Anime games. I'll admit this was a point in time when I stopped actively developing due to other circumstances and it ended up showing in the number of people logging into the game.
With the recent rollback in the de-listing of Anime games, Wargames crept back into the front page for the first time in a long time. I was pleasantly surprised by this, and amazingly I grew to like developing it again. I've watched it over the last few weeks how its crept up the page, from 20th up one by one to its current place in 16th. I won't lie, I want to see it higher.
I think I can do that, and get it featured by doing several things:
1) Do as I'm doing now, host. Its great when others can host, but I can do bug tracking and ensure the server stays up if I do it myself. For all the regular hosts who did keep their games up, thank you and your more than welcome to continue doing so if you wish in the future.
2) Ensure that, as I used to; as many bug fixes, tidy ups, balancing and new features are released after every major game hosted. I was updating regular every week in my high point, I don't see why that can't continue.
3) Tidy the damn looks of the game. I'm not talking about graphics, I'm talking the general feel, when 4.0 came out, I struggled to make an interface work for me and used a modified version of the default. I've had some practice now so I should be able to tidy this up.
4) Make good on my plans to create a tutorial. Yeah, my strongest weakpoint is the lack of accessible information on how to play the game. I've gradually improved it by making the hud describe the costs and features of the things they do when clicked, but general how-to on the game has remained rushed notepad works since the games inception.
5) Make a way for people to download the game outside of BYOND, and connect to an online game easily. This is probably the big one, wanting to find an easy way for non-byonders to connect to an online game rather than playing on their own not knowing what's going on. Any ideas on this is appreciated, but the best I can think of is to just upload the tutorial level of the game to other websites and then link to the hub page, hmm.
So there you have it, why don't I want to play NEStalgia? Because I'm jealous. I should be at that level by now with the level of commitment I have placed on Wargames over the years. I swear to ride off the backs of their success until I've had at least a taste of what they have had. I have made a bit of money from BYOND, but not at their level.
When I do, the first thing I'm going to do with that money is buy a lifetime subscription to NEStalgia and hide in my room for a week.
Lol'r. Awesome.
I like NEStalgia but after having beat all of the content up until the recent adding of the Black Sanctum I just can't motivate myself to play anymore.
Oh I'll love playing it, I'm a DW freak. I just don't want to let myself play it till I have the funds to buy it and my own game is tidied up.
Then I can really enjoy it, hence the post.
I don't play NESTalgia because... it's not really my type of game =P.
Flick's and Leftley's games are the only ones I've enjoyed "consistently" on BYOND, I suppose. I've recently taken a liking to a platformer by Forum_account, because of the atmosphere, but it doesn't really have gameplay atm.
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Did Persona 4 Golden boosts Vita sales?
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3 years ago#1
I'm just curious.
Previous rank 5 all time in the world Capture the Leader/Guardian Gears of War 3.(Now rank 25)
3 years ago#2
I'm sure it gave a slight boost, but the game itself only sold like, 300k? 500k?
I have never been more serious about anything in my life.
3 years ago#3
In Japan it did. It obviously boosted a little but not that much. P4 isn't a hugely popular mainstream title. Plus it's a port of a PS2 game. Unless you're FFX, you aren't going to boost anything by much.
But with the ridiculous bumming this game has been getting it has turned a lot of people to get Vitas and by a lot I mean a lot of the core minority gaming crowd. If you go around the gaming media, several staff from sites bought vitas and P4G was their #1 incentive.
3 years ago#4
Not significantly on its own but it's always good for future buyers with another quality title in the library. Many people buy a console when it has X games that they want.
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3 years ago#5
I think a lot of people bought a VITA before P4G came out in anticipation for it. So it probably boosted sales decently overall, but not as much after the game was released as people predicted.
3 years ago#6
Probably not because they were too greedy with the Persona 4 Golden Complete bundle as a pre-order.
Persona 3 and Tales of Innocence R would have sold more Vitas. That Tales game should be translated by now too.
I guess they base not bringing it out here, due to the poor sells of the no story fan game that Tales of Mythology is for the PSP.
3 years ago#7
Yes, but not by much.
As good as P4G is, its still a port.
3 years ago#8
I would have preferred a Persona 3 Portable Golden Complete bundle. ... and I have 3 versions of Persona 3 already.
Oh and they got too greedy with the sell of the P3G Complete bundle as pre-orders at amazon and ebay for even the game itself to boost sales. Yes, greed is a real turn off, even if it was the Complete bundle. Also people see Tales of Innocence R still has not been translated. A tales Bundle might have boost sales.
Oh and I have something to do with you going with a Persona game. My kind of game and not most of the people that post about the game on this board. Most of you wanted a better Call of Duty game for the Vita. Oooh yes, you are or you have been converted to a Shooter Gamer.
You know most JRPG Gamers would not push DL games or content. We collect those hard copy JRPG. We bought more of the game this and last game gen. YEah, you tried to punk the Gamers that have been buying most of these games in every Game gen.
Now it's time for you to Cry Us a River on Gamefaqs. Ha ha ha ha!
Oh that was bad new for you this morning, wasn't it? XD
3 years ago#9
always good to see you Neojian.-_-
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You know all the social networks we use? Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, hell even LinkedIn and everything else? They're all just replacing old stuff we used to do by ourselves at our desks. Twitter would be Post-Its, Skype would be a phone call, Foursquare is your globe and YouTube is the distracting window to the outside world. I rather like these old world translations to new social networks. Quick! Somebody find something that we used to use at our desks and create a social network. You'll make millions!
The hilarious image was created by John Atkinson for Wrong Hands. [Wrong Hands via Laughing Squid]
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ORganic, plant-based and seasonal.
Since 2010, Seabirds has been on a mission to push the boundaries of vegan cuisine. As we've grown from a food truck into our current restaurant, our artisan approach has remained true. We make our sauces and condiments from scratch. We base our menu around seasonal produce, unique flavor combinations and creative techniques and we use top-notch ingredients and locally grown fruits and vegetables.
(714) 549-2584 - Costa Mesa
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There’s nothing better than natural ingredients when it comes to a nourishing beauty routine. Not only is it the sign of purity but it also evolves your regimen in a more wholesome manner. That’s exactly how we felt when we discovered ginseng or Ashwagandha. Before you begin wondering what this ingredient really is, let us explain...
What is ginseng?
What is ginseng?
Although the fleshy root has witnessed a recent rise in popularity, it has been used in traditional Chinese medicines for centuries. The English word ‘ginseng’ is derived from the Chinese word rénshēn, which translates to ‘plant root’. The Chinese translation refers to the forked root of the ginseng plant, which resembles a person’s legs. Besides being an energy stimulant and a herbal tea staple, ginseng is a powerful ingredient for hair care. Find out 3 ways in which the ingredient can boost your hair care routine.
Prevents hair loss
Stops dandruff in its tracks
Stops dandruff in its tracks - BENEFITS OF GINSENG FOR YOUR HAIR
If it is those unsightly white flakes that are getting you down, ginseng just might be your answer. The root is high in Saponin, an anti-bacterial compound, which will sweep away dandruff from the scalp and prevent it from reoccurring. This ensures that your follicles stay clean and flake-free.
Restores nourishment from within
Restores nourishment from within - BENEFITS OF GINSENG FOR YOUR HAIR
Thanks to its nourishing capabilities, ginseng is a herbal plant that helps both, the roots and lengths of the hair. The simplest way to make the best of this coveted ingredient is by getting your hands on the TRESemmé Botanique Detox & Restore Shampoo and Conditioner. This range combines the magic of ginseng with neem to create a botanical blend like none other. It cleanses the scalp of build-up and restores cuticles from the brink of damage to get manageable, nourished tresses.
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Introduction - Rubber Magnet - Products - Anhui Xuanfeng Permanent Magnet Co., Ltd.
Rubber Magnet Product Collection
As a composite material, rubber magnet is made by mixing ferrite powder with rubber and finished through extrusion or rolling. Since the material is flexible, the finished or semi-finished product can be cut, punched, slitted or laminated tailed to specific need. It has good resistance to demagnetization and corrosion. Abundant source makes it cheap in price. There are two major types of rubber magnets, isotropic and anisotropic. Isotropic rubber magnet is weak in magnetic property, mainly used in refrigerator, printing, and promotion, while anisotropic rubber magnet is much stronger, thus extensively applied in micro motor and magnetic toys, etc.
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How to Cut a Mango
We take the mystery out of cutting a mango
Cutting a mango doesn’t have to be a mystery. National Mango Board's Megan McKenna covers all your mango basics - how to select a mango from the grocery store, cut it up and share it wilth your family and friends.
A mango has one long, flat seed in the center of the fruit. Once you learn how to work around the seed, the rest is easy.
Always use a clean knife and cutting board to cut a mango. ALWAYS sanitize your hands, work area, utensils and cutting board before handling or cutting any fruits or vegetables, including mangos, especially if you've handled or cut any type of meat or seafood.
Always wash the mango before cutting.
Mango Dices
1. Stand the mango on your cutting board stem end down and hold. Place your knife about 1/4" from the widest center line and cut down through the mango. Flip the mango around and repeat this cut on the other side. The resulting ovals of mango flesh are known as the "cheeks." What's left in the middle is mostly the mango seed.
2. Cut parallel slices into the mango flesh, being careful not to cut through the skin. Turn the mango cheek 1/4 rotation and cut another set of parallel slices to make a checkerboard pattern.
3. Here’s where you can choose your favorite method. Either “Slice and Scoop”—scoop the mango slices out of the mango skin using a large spoon—or “Inside Out”—turn the scored mango cheek inside out by pushing the skin up from underneath, and scrape the mango chunks off of the skin with a knife or spoon.
Hint: If you are making a recipe that calls for diced mango, make your cuts in step 2 closer together. The result is small pieces of diced mango and no need to further cut up the mango pieces on your cutting board.
Mango Slices
1. Slice each side just past the seed.
2. Slice flesh without breaking the skin.
3. Scoop out slices and enjoy!
Using a mango spliter
1. Stand the mango on your cutting board stem end down and hold. Center the Mango Splitter above the mango, with the opening in the splitter aligned with the widest part of the mango.
2. Firmly push down to separate the mango flesh from the seed.
3. Use the "Slice and Scoop" or the "Inside Out" methods shown above to separate the mango flesh from the skin in cubes, dices or slices.
The mango spliter can be purchased at stores that sell kitchen accessories or online at Amazon or Chef's Resource.
Learn more about mangos on Mango.org. Discover delicious mango recipeshealth benefits of mangoshow to choose and use the perfect Mangos + more.
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Misti McDaniel gave up a more lucrative career in computer software design to make sure that seventh graders could learn to read and write more proficiently. She teaches at Neshoba Central High School.
Trading in your briefcase and fancy business lunches for chalkboard erasers and lunch lady sloppy joes can't be easy. However, for a whole group of new, non-traditional teachers in the state of Mississippi that is exactly what has happened in the past few weeks.
Most people wouldn't believe that highly trained career professionals would trade in their casual, calm white collar jobs for the possible chaos of a classroom. Despite the increasing pressure of state-mandated testing, and more paperwork and responsibility there has been a large increase in the number of non-traditional teachers who have sought employment in the state.
According to data provided by the Mississippi Department of Education, in the 2012-2013 school year approximately 1,500 people were enrolled in some kind of alternate route licensure program.
Professionals leaving their white collar worlds to enter teaching certainly aren't unheard of, but why would successful professionals make such drastic changes? Some professionals have found their given line of work to be mundane, impersonal, and unfulfilling. Although teaching may not be the fairy tale presented in movies such as "Lean on Me" or "Stand and Deliver" it offers many new teachers personal satisfaction.
Tiffany Hudnall gave up a more lucrative career in computer software design to make sure that seventh graders could learn to read and write more proficiently. Hudnall now works as a Language Arts teacher in Meridian at Carver Middle School. She says her transition to the classroom was easier than many may suspect.
"I have three sisters who were all teachers so I knew a lot more about teaching than most people did," says Hudnall. "I always thought I would eventually get into teaching. It is a lot different than working for a company. I loved my other job, but this kind of career is special."
In order to make her teaching dream come true Hudnall turned to Mississippi State University-Meridian and a unique scholarship program that helped her not only become a licensed teacher, but also helped ease the financial burdens associated with going back to school. The Learning and Educating through Alternative Programs (LEAP) scholarship was specifically designed for professionals like Hudnall, who wanted to enter the teaching profession. The scholarship offers applicants who already have a bachelor's degree in any other field the skills to quickly enter the classroom and make an impact in school districts that have long suffered from teacher shortages. The scholarship can provide financial aid of up to $5000 for recipients.
The opportunities available to participants of the LEAP program doesn't end with simply acquiring a teacher's license either. Participants who take advantage of the program can also choose to obtain a Master's degree through the university's Masters of Arts in Teaching Secondary (MAT-S) program. Mississippi State University officials estimate that more than half of LEAP students eventually obtain the Master's degree.
One of those students who chose to continue her education with LEAP by obtaining the master's degree was Misti McDaniel.
McDaniel originally obtained a bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences and thought she had a promising career doing biological field work, but she lost her once promising job due to budgetary cuts.
Although distraught at first, McDaniel decided to turn her passion for science into a career in secondary education by obtaining her teaching license and master's degree from MSU's online MAT-S program.
"I had taught a few science labs in college and I really enjoyed it, but I wanted to do field work at first," says McDaniel. "I always thought I would go back to school and get a master's degree in something eventually. When I heard about the LEAP Scholarship and MAT-S program it seemed like a great fit for where I was in my life."
After several years of teaching McDaniel now believes that she has found her true calling in a science classroom at Neshoba Central High School.
"Teaching is a challenging job and you have to learn to wear a lot of different hats on different days. Some days you wear just the teacher hat, but on other days you may have to wear the nurse or counseling hat," she says. "For me, seeing my students grow educationally and emotionally is rewarding. You feel like your job really helps to make someone else's life better."
For those who may be thinking about the kinds of career changes that Hudnall and McDaniel have made, the two say the MAT-S program can be challenging, but the Mississippi State faculty and staff offer a lot of support.
Many people who look to enter an alternate route teacher licensure program can be slightly intimidated because many are non-traditional, older students who haven't been in a university classroom in multiple years. Several of those non-traditional students can also be intimidated because they now have families and work to juggle along with a new college career. For those who think the burden is too much to overcome McDaniel offers some advice.
"It's kind of a scary thing to go back to school if you've been out a while, but I think people would be surprised to find out just how quickly they can get themselves back into that 'school mode' we all have. If you feel like you could be successful then do it because our kids need and deserve quality teachers."
Despite the many challenges that teachers now face, Hudnall agrees that the profession is a unique one in which the rewards may not be large financially, but emotionally there is nothing else as rewarding.
"We've got a lot of problems that we deal with like poverty and other issues on a daily basis and it is hard on you at times, but the students have this unique way of rejuvenating you. It's like their hearts lift you up when you teach."
Ben Alexander is the Coordinator of Learning and Educating through Alternative Programs at MSU-Meridian.
For information regarding the LEAP Scholarship or MAT-S program, contact him at Hbalexander@meridian.msstate.edu or 601.484.0100.
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Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Something More Important Somewhere Else
If you can excuse the language, Louis C.K. has a great explanation for why smart phones are taking away a part of our humanity:
I don't necessarily agree with the "great sadness" part (and think you can replace that with "boredom"), but completely agree that smart phones are doing something horrible to our attention spans. I keep coming back to the idea that we are all made to have some evolutionary pleasure response to interactions with other people and that being inundated with unlimited means of "cheap" connections have "cheapened" that response, and probably dulled it.
Looking at your phone, regardless of the circumstance, communicates that something more important is somewhere else. I have a horrible screen addiction, but small nudges like Louis CK's bit help me get the reigns back, even if only for a few days.
Have a great Tuesday doing what you love!
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Home Entertainment Bollywood The importance of being Dhanush
The importance of being Dhanush
Hyderabad: Actor Dhanush during the interview for his upcoming film
Actor Dhanush
There is nothing more self-indulgent than a superstar at the pinnacle of his stardom trying to show the world that he isnt self-indulgent…reports Asian Lite News
Hyderabad: Actor Dhanush during the interview for his upcoming film "Kaala" in Hyderabad.(Photo: IANS) by .
Actor Dhanush
It reminds me of that superstar named Rajinikanth who “allows” other actors to take centrestage, knowing that even if he stands grinning in the corner of a frame, the audience will be looking at no one but him.
Dhanush has the Tamil audiences eating out of his hands. He can do anything, almost anything, he likes, and the fans would be with him. The slobbering raves for his new film are proof enough. In “Vada Chennai” he plays Anbu, a carrom player (like Siddharth in Chandan Arora’s “Striker”) who repeatedly ends up in jail where he befriends dons, gangsters and their cronies
The brutality is kept at bay. The director Vetrimaan has had enough of it in his last film.
To give the very routine gangster drama an epic feel, the director (who earlier helmed that raw but flawed film “Vissaranai” about police atrocities) spreads the narrative and the characters into a stretched-out sprawl which takes us nowhere. At the end of the cumbersome three-hour film, I realised I was standing at the same place where the film had begun.
This isn’t to say that the cycle of life is completed. It’s just depleted and dismantled scene by scene until we are left staring at a film that equates dark exteriors and slimy roads with the shadowy glances thrown at a soul that’s gone completely corrupt.
The mounting is impressive, though. So is Dhanush’s changing hairstyle over the decades. He is lanky enough to carry off the role of a teenager in the first flush of love. The object of Dhanush’s adoration is Padma (Aishwarya Rajesh) who plays that emboldened, impassioned, street-smart sweetheart whom Dhnush loves to kiss in his films.
When a local goon (there are so many of them it’s impossible to keep track) heckles the couple, Dhanush’s Anbu gets murderous.
The scenes of gang war and internecine rivalry are shot on suitably dark, dingy and desolate locations so that glorifying violence is never an option. But celebrating it, is.
Director Vetrimaaran seems awed by the antisocial world that his characters inhabits. Every character is a potential law-breaker. This fact we are given to ingest from the start. Dhanush’s character is constantly in a crowd of potential rioters and murderers.
He is the Common Man with an axe to grind. He gets to grind it in grating leisure. We are often invited to participate in the wages of lawlessness. But the recurrent prison scenes are never compelling enough.
Many times the gangsters are hard to tell apart from one another. And not only because the film is shot largely in the night light. It’s not just the characters who have something to hide. It’s the film’s chosen karma. It conceals more than it reveals, more for the sake of effect than authenticity.
If Dhanush wants to play characters contrary to the ones played by his illustrious father-in-law, he must ensure that the projects are credible and authentic, not merely to impress audiences. His obsession with establishing an iconic reputation at odds with Rajinikanth’s is quite obvious. In “Vada Chennai”, a Rajinikanth potboiler is played out for jail inmates as Dhanush hobnobs with his prison pals.
The message is clear. Dhanush doesn’t want to be Rajinikant, The Entertainer. He wants to be the reverse of that entity. Which in this case is not “non-entertainer”.
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Dec 2, 2013
Book Review--A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True, 1907-1940
Victoria Wilson
Simon & Schuster, 2013
It's impossible not to ask the question: how can you justify writing 1,000 pages about thirty-three years of a life? The answer is both intimate and grand. Stanwyck is uniquely worthy of careful attention for her impact on her industry, but also for what she stood for, for her grit and for the times she lived through, from the New York theater world of the teens and twenties through the early talkies, World War II and the years leading up to and after the studio age.
She was active throughout enormous social changes and always managed to stay with the times. And yet, there was a loneliness to her. She clung to whatever family she could find, while simultaneously protecting herself from the world around her.
Wilson has made Stanwyck the center of a history that includes the social, political and artistic life the goes on around her. It's as if the book is an epic mini-series and she is the star. She floats and fights in this vibrant world; you can sense its energy pulsing around her. Not many subjects could justify this kind of attention to detail. A woman as complicated as Barbara Stanwyck practically demands it.
Sometimes I would become impatient with the scope of the story. Stanwyck can disappear for several pages while Wilson devotes her attention to a detail of the Roosevelt administration or a Hollywood scandal. As a whole it works though. It's a big, juicy story. Fifteen years of enthusiastic research woven into an addictive whirl of lives and events, with its subject perched on top.
Barbara Stanwyck was orphaned at four, a showgirl by her teens and in a short period of time advanced to dramatic roles on the stage. Independent, tough and hardworking, she funneled the emotion of her turbulent life into passionate, moving performances. Hollywood followed, and there she allowed directors like Frank Capra to mold her rough, natural talent so that she became a screen actress of breath-taking power, drawing as much emotion from the film crew as theater audiences.
The book takes the star from her rough childhood and early years on the stage, through her stifling, abusive marriage with Frank Fay and early screen stardom, to a more easygoing relationship with movie heartthrob Robert Taylor. In thirty-three years she advances from poverty to wealth, obscurity to worldwide stardom. She succeeds through the force of her talent, and yet she struggles to relax and to enjoy her success. Always fighting to keep up her weight up, drinking twelve cups of coffee a day and reading through the night due to insomnia, any happiness she finds has an edge.
Stanwyck confounded many with the extremes of her personality, friendly and open to some, frosty and distant to others. Sometimes she'd shift from one to another with a single, baffled friend. She was often on guard. Still, she overcame the hurt and dysfunction of her early life to build many strong relationships and even occasionally grab a little fun.
Steel-True ends on a tense note, with World War II ready to explode. Stanwyck has finished Remember the Night (1940), with costar Fred MacMurray, and she is preparing to work with director Frank Capra for the fifth time on Meet John Doe (1941). She's already seen enough for a lifetime, but there is so much more waiting in the years ahead. Even a partial list of films to come is enticing: The Lady Eve (1941), Double Indemnity (1944), Christmas in Connecticut (1945), The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946), The Furies (1950) and The Thorn Birds (1983). I don't know how I'm going to distract myself until the next volume arrives.
Many thanks to Simon & Schuster for providing a review copy of the book.
1. I got a review copy maybe three weeks ago -- I'm on page 12. I almost had a stroke when I saw it was 1000 pages and then had another one when I saw the words "Volume One." Crickey!
I've been feeling very stupid lately. Anything more challenging than a Nero Wolfe mystery makes my head hurt.
2. It's not stupid to be overwhelmed by a 1000 page book! It's actually about 860 pages of text. Fortunately I knew about the length before I received it, but it was still a shock to see it. I also got stuck on the early pages, but then I got into the flow of it and curiosity kept me turning pages. Keep going. It's worth it!
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How to Adventure
Many years ago, when I lived in San Francisco, someone asked me how to go camping. They had never been. I had never met a person who had not camped, had no memory of being a person who didn’t camp, and it was hard to know where to start. That was back when I still camped in campgrounds, where they generously provide tables, toilets and water. Sometimes, you can even make a reservation to make sure your spot will be waiting for you.
These days, we camp dozens of weekends a year, but we hardly ever camp in a campground, and often don’t even know exactly where we will be when we start to think about a place to put our tent. Camping is how we eat and sleep in the outdoors, which is a little bit different from camping as the main event.
A friend of ours recently came over with a bunch of maps and asked for our advice selecting some weeklong summer vacation adventures. No problem! Our favorite thing to do is head out with a general direction, casual destination and no certain plan. How do we do this and still have a successful (meaning fun) weekend?
Define Your Goals: We aren’t really goal oriented people, but sometimes you want to be far away from people, or want to ride your bike, or go creekin’. Sometimes it feels important to be somewhere new, other times we seek familiarity. It’s helpful to have something in mind when you consider which direction to go for your weekend adventure.
Weather: We all have different definitions of “good” weather. I encourage you to push your limits with this. The odds of experiencing solitude increase dramatically with the ability to tolerate colder or hotter temperatures, rain, snow, wind, mud… There is a sweet spot where a warmer jacket is the only thing needed to have an A+ weekend. Learning to read the weather and knowing how to check or guess the conditions is a useful skill. Reading the temperament of other people’s camping plans is crucial. Avoid 3-day weekends, for example, if you want to go to a popular mountain biking destination.
Are you sure you want a trailer?
4WD: It is not required to have 4WD, but you have a much bigger world to explore if you do. This is also true with trailers, which might be nice once you get there, but what a burden if the road is a rutted, rocky, high-clearance situation.
Gear: Our camping gear is a long-term project in refinement. We have it pretty dialed, at this point, and so packing is quick and easy. All the essentials live in a small tub. The rest (tent, sleeping pads, pillows) go into a large duffel. Most importantly, water goes into a 5-gallon jug, with an extra 3-gallon container if it going to be hot or we are going for more than 2 days. Or we are going somewhere particularly isolated. Don’t forget the shovel and a headlamp. I believe it is important to keep the gear minimal. The idea is to be comfortable eating and sleeping outdoors, and to be nimble. You do not need to re-create your house to be successful.
Camp site by the river, pasta for dinner…
Provisions: I have a list of delicious, easy-to-make dinners for camping. We pretty much always have the same breakfast, snacks, coffee and cocktails when we are camping. It’s important to simplify, or be highly organized, because forgetting the coffee or the eggs is a bummer. If we are going to Wyoming, we know we will stop for beer in Evanston.
Dogs and dirt in the desert. You will get dirty.
Dirt: It is pretty much essential to be okay with dirt, and a lower level of hygiene. Take the soap, by all means, and even a solar shower if you are fancy or intend to get super sweaty (it’s awfully nice after a bike ride or run). But there are dirt roads, dogs, rivers… you just get dirty camping. It is so much more relaxing if you can embrace it rather than freak out about a little dust in the dinner. Don’t take your best, cutest, newest technical clothes. Just don’t.
Clothing: Always bring a beanie, a down jacket and extra socks. I tend to overpack, bringing three tees for a weekend and wearing one, maybe two (see “dirt” above). I like to have enough to stay warm, and then consider what happens if anything gets wet or torn. Do I have a back-up plan? That’s all I need.
Atlases: A map is not really enough, and GPS doesn’t cut it for adventure. You want to know where the dirt roads are, and where the creeks are, and where the trail heads are, and you need the big picture as well as details. It’s best to have a driver and a navigator as you head into the unknown. The more you get to know the dirt roads and the terrain the better you will get at choosing a route. The Benchmark series of atlases are the best we have found for the west. But there is always room for improvement (please let me know if you have a better resource). Make sure you understand where there is public land versus private land, and learn the rules for dispersed camping where you are.
Noisy neighbors? Just pick up the tent and walk down the road a bit…
Flexibility: Let’s say that the canyon in that mountain range looks promising, and you’ve read there is good fishing in the creek. But once you get there the camping is meh. Just take a look at the map, identify a new road and see what you can find. Last fall we headed up a canyon in Southern Utah to see about the fishing. There were a couple of camp-able spots near the river, but the cows!! Holy moly. We high-tailed it to higher ground and found a camp site with incredible views of the Grand Staircase.
Curiosity: You are all set once you decide that there is a place you want to see or know more about. Checking out the places in between the “destinations,” the land that is not really on the collective radar, helps us appreciate how incredibly lucky we are in the west. We can look at a map, drive there, camp, fish, hike, bike, let our dogs run around, look at the stars, listen to silence (and birds and coyotes), and it is free and we already have permission.
I could provide you with a check list of things to take with you, but everyone has different things that they deem essential. The idea is to keep it simple, stay flexible, and make sure you have what you need to be comfortable. For us, that is lots of down, coffee and whiskey.
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Grabbing bigger slices of the pie
What happens when nations cut taxes for their richest citizens?
Economists Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez, two of the world's most respected authorities on the incomes of rich people, have a straightforward answer: In nations that slash tax rates on high incomes, the rich significantly increase their share of national income.
Here in the United States, for instance, the tax rate on income over $400,000 has dropped by half, from 70 to 35 percent, since the 1970s. Over that same span, the households that comprise the "1 percent" have over doubled their share of the national income, to 20 percent.
In many European nations and Japan, by contrast, tax rates on the rich didn't fall as fast or as far. And rich people's slice of the income pie increased "only modestly," note Piketty and Saez in a new analysis they co-authored with researcher Stefanie Stantcheva.
This phenomenon doesn't trouble conservatives. High taxes on rich people, they claim, do terrible economic damage by discouraging the entrepreneurship that makes economies strong. Lower taxes on the rich, this argument continues, encourage entrepreneurs, who invest and create jobs when lower taxes let them keep more of the income they take in.
Yes, conservatives freely admit, the rich can and do amass plenty of money in a low-tax environment. They'll even increase their share of national income. But the rest of us shouldn't worry. Thanks to the rich, right-wingers argue, we all benefit from a bigger and better economy.
Piketty and his colleagues put these claims to the test. If the conservative argument reflected reality, they point out, nations that sharply cut tax rates on the rich should experience much higher economic growth rates than nations that don't.
In fact, the three economists note, reality tells no such story. Nations that have "made large cuts in top tax rates, such as the United Kingdom or the United States," they explain, "have not grown significantly faster than countries that did not, such as Germany or Denmark."
So what's going on in countries where the rich all of sudden face substantially smaller tax bills?
In countries that go soft on taxing the rich, top business executives don't suddenly - and magically - become more entrepreneurial, more "productive." Instead, they suddenly find themselves with a huge incentive to game the system, to squeeze out of their enterprises every bit of personal profit their power enables.
The more these executives can squeeze, the more they can keep. The result? The 1 percent in nations that cut taxes on high incomes proceed, as Piketty and his fellow authors put it, to "grab at the expense of the remaining 99 percent."
Millions of us know this grabbing first-hand. We've seen corporate execs routinely outsource and downsize, slash wages and attack pensions, cheat consumers and fix prices.
How can we start discouraging these sorts of behaviors? Piketty and his fellow analysts have a suggestion: raise taxes on America's highest-income bracket. Raise them as high as 83 percent.
This suggestion, the three scholars acknowledge, may right now seem politically "unthinkable." But back between the 1940s and the 1970s, they remind us, the notion that we ought to raise taxes on the rich to reduce the incentive for outrageous behavior rated as our conventional wisdom.
In those years, policymakers - and the public at large - felt strongly that pay increases for the wealthiest Americans reflected "mostly greed or other socially wasteful activities rather than productive work effort."
Is this mid-20th century perception about pay at the top now about to make a comeback? Piketty and friends certainly think so. Let's hope they have that one right, too.
SAM PIZZIGATI edits Too Much, the online weekly on excess and inequality published by the Institute for Policy Studies.
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Apollonian and Dionysian
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German philosophy[edit]
In anthropology[edit]
Anthropologist Ruth Benedict used the terms to characterize cultures that value restraint and modesty (Apollonian) and ostentatiousness and excess (Dionysian). An example of an Apollonian culture in Benedict's analysis was the Zuñi people as opposed to the Dionysian Kwakiutl people.[2] The theme was developed by Benedict in her main work Patterns of Culture.
Paglia's usage[edit]
American humanities scholar Camille Paglia writes about the Apollonian and Dionysian in her controversial 1990 bestseller Sexual Personae.[3] The broad outline of her concept is borrowed from Nietzsche, an admitted influence, although Paglia's ideas diverge significantly.
Post-modern reading[edit]
Nietzsche's idea has been interpreted as an expression of fragmented consciousness or existential instability by a variety of modern and post-modern writers, especially Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze.[7][8] According to Peter Sloterdijk, the Dionysian and the Apollonian form a dialectic; they are contrasting, but Nietzsche does not mean one to be valued more than the other.[9] Truth being primordial pain, our existential being is determined by the Dionysian/Apollonian dialectic.
Michael Pollan[edit]
The dichotomy is a major theme in Michael Pollan's book, The Botany of Desire in which he details humanity's attempt at controlling nature through large-scale production of food crops. He argues any attempt to bring control to a single variable in a natural system only results in more variables to which disorder and entropy will reign. Thus, all control is partial, temporary and largely illusory. Some farmers accept this and use strategies like crop rotation, variety and secondary crops which complement their main crops with beneficial insects and such. Other farmers try to sustain monocultures, which is the ultimate attempt at order among chaos, and must depend on chemicals or genetic tampering to defend against encroaching disorder. Farmers who embrace the chaos are usually far more successful and less beholden to corporations, but can't match the production or homogeneity necessary to supply restaurant chains.
Stephen King's usage[edit]
American novelist Stephen King uses Apollonian and Dionysian analysis in Danse Macabre (1981),[11] a non-fiction survey of horror literature that was expanded from King's lecture notes for creative writing and literature courses he taught at the University of Maine in the late 1970s. Though wary of indulging in what King describes as "academic bullshit", he nevertheless argues that mythology can illuminate recurring themes in horror, saying: "I used the terms Apollonian (to suggest reason and the power of the mind) and Dionysian (to suggest emotion, sensuality and chaotic action)".[12]
See also[edit]
4. ^ Paglia, 1990, p. 40
5. ^ Paglia, 1990, p. 96
6. ^ Paglia, 1990, p. 100.
7. ^ Michael, Drolet. The Postmodernism Reader.
11. ^ King, Stephen (1981). Stephen King's Danse Macabre. New York: Everest House, ISBN 0-89696-076-5.
12. ^ King, 1981, p. 181.
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Megabytes are commonly used to describe computer storage and memory. A megabyte (MB) is equal to 1,024 kilobytes (1,048,576 bytes) (1,024 x 1,024). A gigabyte is equal to 1,024 megabytes (1,073,741,824 bytes) (1,024 x 1,024 x 1,024). It’s easy to see how this adds up quickly.
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Tuesday, January 25, 2005
"Don't say too much, it may be put against you in the future."
Whoever said that deserves a Nobel Prize.
Things are complicated in my life lately. Everyone - me, people and friends are so emotional these days (but has a lot to say). There are so many issues, so many complications and so many things to ponder upon. I need lesser hours these days to be able to escape from this emotional captiveness. Sleeping is even better since it provides instant get away from whatever I am feeling (or whatever I am dreading?).
I did a truly stupid thing days ago and I suddenly found myself...against the world. I have my reasons, I have my beliefs and I have my solid convictions. I can be wrong. There might come a time when I will look back at this episode of my life and just laugh and shrug. I know I am losing people because of this complicated complications. The weird thing is...I am saying one thing and standing up for something YET feeling and doing the exact opposite of what I am fighting for. Quite weird.
Another weirdness - whatever I am going through right now makes me stronger. After all, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, right? I may whine, cry, complain and even curse... but I know that I would never ever fall. I even found peace within me. But they always say that there's calm before a storm, right? Watch out for fireworks then!
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For an plane—whether or not set-wing or rotary—to efficiently carry out each one browse around here of these roles, it must have specification properties for example lower loitering pace, long endurance, simplicity in maintenance, and the aptitude to complete brief or vertical get-offs and landings from makeshift and about manufactured runways.
All through Earth War II, evening fighters were both intent-designed or day fighters modified to be efficient evening battling fight plane, normally utilizing radar or visit other systems for offering some sort of detection functionality in low visibility.
The last query will be the 1 that no-one hopes to ask. Do we even require men and women aboard this stuff? As Rick Robinson factors out, there are only 3 missions for House fighters:
In the event the writer has now permitted handwaving a lot quicker-than-gentle journey into their literary universe, it should be clear-cut sufficient to tweak it these types of to enable the existence of spacefighters. Television set Tropes states just use Utilized Phlebotinum or Minovsky Physics.
If the universe has PD which can mow down way more aggressively-manoeuvring missiles like cavalry ahead of Gatlings, only blatant Plot Armor can defend sluggish strikecraft from receiving torn to pieces a lot more very easily.
An interdictor is a type of attack plane that operates far behind enemy traces, Together with the express intent of interdicting the enemy's armed forces targets, most notably those linked to logistics. The interdiction stops or delays enemy forces and materials from achieving the battlefront; the expression has generally fallen from use.
In the look of a space carrier, engineers might have to bear in mind exactly what the goal of the provider is.
So it’s probably that long run air fight, requiring response moments that surpass human abilities, will combine AI wingmen – Unmanned Beat Aerial Automobiles (UCAVs) – effective at undertaking air combat and teamed with manned plane whereby an onboard battle administration procedure would be capable of course of action situational consciousness, identify reactions, pick methods, regulate weapons use and much more.
Entire world War II/Battleships/Fighters in space is about as likely to be an accurate design of House battle as, modeling jet air-to-air beat with pike square formations.
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BUSI 340 BUSI340 Quiz 5 (Liberty University)
BUSI 340 BUSI340 Quiz 5 (Liberty University)
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BUSI340 Quiz 5 (Liberty University)
1. Which of the following types of task interdependence is seen among production employees working on assembly lines?
2. Social loafing occurs:
3. Self-directed teams:
4. Which of the following competencies would primarily assist team maintenance?
5. Which of the following foundations of trust is determined mainly by the other party's predictability?
6. Identify the task-related characteristics in the ‘five C's' of effective member behaviors.
7. Synergie Inc. formed a team to improve revenues for its service stations along major highways in Malaysia. This team, which included a service station dealer, a union truck driver and four or five marketing executives, disbanded after it had reviewed the Malaysian service stations and submitted a business plan. This team is called a(n):
8. How do norms affect the behavior of team members?
9. Which of the following generally occurs during the storming stage of team development?
10. Groups are considered teams only when:
11. Groupthink characteristics cause team members to be _____ their decisions.
12. Production blocking and evaluation apprehension:
13. The encoding-decoding process is generally more effective when both parties:
14. Which of the following represents the first step in the communication model?
15. Effective communication occurs when:
16. Which of the following is an advantage associated with using written communication channels in persuading people?
17. Active listeners improve their evaluating activities by:
18. You have made an important presentation to several Japanese executives regarding a proposed partnership between your American company and their Japanese firm. The Japanese executives were very silent during the presentation. Most people in the United States would view this silence as:
19. _____ are collaborative web spaces in which anyone in a group can write, edit, or remove material from the Web site.
20. In the communication process model, "decoding the message" occurs immediately:
21. Which of the following fundamental drives is highly influenced by effective communication?
22. Emotional contagion occurs when:
23. Which of the following communication channels has the highest media richness?
24. The organizational grapevine is useful because it:
25. How do men and women generally differ in their communication styles in organizational settings?
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App Lock Security
The one issue at the top of most mobile users' minds should be security. We carry around so much precious data, and when it's lost, trouble often ensues. To that end, Android developers are always searching for new and improved methods to help give your ever-growing mobile world even more ways to secure that data.
There are instances when security can come in the simplest forms, such as keeping prying eyes out of certain apps. You might hand your phone over to someone so they can make a call or look at a picture. If you turn your back, that user could always dig into your data. Fortunately, there are ways to keep certain applications readily available while others are locked down. One such method is a third-party app called AppLock.
With AppLock, you can create a specific PIN (or an app-specific PIN) that can then be used to lock down whatever applications you wish to secure. It's incredibly simple to use. Here are some AppLock features:
Lock any app
Re-lock policy
Multi-lock feature (Pro version only): Add different locks to different apps
Auto-lock base on Time or Wi-Fi (Pro version only)
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Theme support
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Lock Android installer
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Prevent AppLock uninstallation
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A Canadian Heroine, Volume 2 eBook
A few words can tell the happiest or the saddest news life ever brings us; all that Harry knew could be told in two sentences, and, half announced as they were by his looks, Mr. Bellairs instantly understood the message, and why it was brought to him. He took his hat, and before Harry was quite sure whether he had made him understand what had really happened, he was halfway to his own house.
An hour later, the dray, now more carefully arranged and covered, brought its load to the door of the house which had been so lately prepared for the bride’s coming home. For convenience’ sake they carried the body into a lower room, and laid it there until its burial, while Bella sat in her chamber above, silent and tearless, not understanding yet what had befallen her, but through her stunned and dreary stupor listening from habit for the footsteps which should have returned at that hour—the footsteps which death had already silenced for ever.
It is easy to imagine how, in so small a community as Cacouna, the news of a frightful crime committed in their very midst, would spread from mouth to mouth. How groups of listeners would gather in the streets, round every man who had anything of the story to tell. How the country people who had been in town when the murdered man was brought home, hurried along the solitary roads with a kind of terror upon them, and carried the news out to the villages and farms around. As to the murderer, there was a strange confusion in the minds of many of the townspeople. Doctor Morton’s feud with Clarkson had been so well known that, if there had been any signs of premeditation or design about the crime, suspicion would have turned naturally upon him. But there was no such appearance, nor the smallest reason to suppose that Clarkson had been within half a mile of the spot that day. On the contrary, no reasonable doubt could exist that the real murderer was the Indian who had been found among the bushes. The men who knew him spoke of him as passionate, brutal, more than half-savage—there was perfect fitness between his appearance and character, and the barbarous manner of his crime. And yet while everybody spoke of him as undoubtedly guilty, almost everybody had a thought of Clarkson haunting his mind, and an uneasy desire to find out the truth, entirely incompatible with the clearness of the circumstantial evidence.
It was already nearly nine o’clock when Margery going from the Cottage to Mr. Leigh’s, on some errand to his housekeeper, brought back with her the story which a passing acquaintance had carried so far. She came into the parlour full of the not unpleasant sensation of having a piece of strange and horrible news to tell.
Mrs. Costello had left the room for a moment and Lucia was alone, sitting rather drearily looking into the fire, with her work fallen into her lap, when Margery came in.
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Showing posts from February, 2011
Book of General Ignorance
As promised earlier, here are a few gems from the book of Ignorance- edited for brevity, of course.
1. Who coined the phrase The Survival of the Fittest? Not Charles Darwin, who used it, but Herbert Spencer.
2. Many Eskimos don't know what an igloo is. Only some live in one.
3. Which metal is the best conductor? Silver..
4. How many States of Matter are there? Solid, liquid, gas, Bose-Einstein condensate, and several others..totaling to about 15. Quark-glucon plasma being one of the exotic ones..
5. And will close with many senses do we humans have? Five? No, more like nine...Body awareness (knowing where the body parts are), Sense of balance, Sense of heat, Perception of pain...interestingly, the brain has no pain headaches actually originate somewhere outside!
Foray into Madhya Pradesh
Drove to Jabalpur through a National Highway from Nagpur and came across something that thrilled me. MP Tourism has set up a jungle lodge kind of a hotel with a rest stop restaurant which others on the move can also use. Set up next to a thousand year old banyan tree, it is a lovely point to break the journey for a cup of tea or more. Some of the road is absolutely world class, and you can race the wind on it.
Passed the cantonment town of Kamptee, and towns called Lakhnadoon and Seoni. Also visited the marble rocks at Bhedaghat while there. Sheer cliffs of marble, and a narrow stream of Narmada in which boating is available.
MP is a huge state, and many more things remain to be visited. Pachmadhi, Gwalior, Bhimbetka (where early man lived-real early!), Sanchi, Mandu, Khajuraho and so on.
Meantime, placements have happened at a fast clip and we (IMT) got a lot of our students jobs in the last week. That should bring a smile on to many faces.
Book of Ignorance
That's the hilarious title of a book I am currently reading. It lists our many misconceptions and then proceeds to clear them up. Ranges from silly to the sensible. For example, How many wives did Henry the Eighth have? Apparently he married quite a few and then annulled the marriages, which means they "never happened', reducing the actual number by a few. Many such gems of knowledge that's a must for all. Still reading it, and will therefore update all you poor souls.
One such book I read a long time ago was A book of Insults I think compiled by : Louis Safian. It had delightful insults. It was a good conversational tool for a long time when I was in college. At least 25% books sell on their titles alone. For example, Why Men Don't Look at Maps, and Women Cry or something of that sort. Or, Women are from Venus, Men are from Mars etc. Blink and The World is Flat are also good titles.
As for movies, people are so short of titles that they keep using old ones over a…
Thought Leadership
The seminar course on Thought Leadership closed yesterday, with the exception of the final exam. A wide variety of presentations from student groups were the only component of the course. It went off very well, with a lot of learnings on subjects like how to create fun based companies (Walt Disney and Richard Branson were topics of two presentations) to Genetics and what it can do for us. Leonardo Da Vinci, Ayn Rand, and Scott Adams were a few other thought leaders covered. War, terrorism, environmental degradation were some more themes explored.
A couple of guest sessions by Jogeswari and Padmapriya, both exploring completely new things themselves, added to the course significantly. I am writing a case study on Golftripz, the company that Jogeswari, Madhav Misra and Ajit co-founded. It has a video add-on which brings in novelty.
I will add some new dimensions to this in the next offering to try and innovate some more. Meanwhile, a meeting in Dubai and a wedding to attend in Jabalpur …
Ah, To Be a Dictator
Hosni Mubarak, Zindabad. I am all for dictators. Or rather, for being a dictator. The reason is not what you guys (with your dirty minds) are thinking about. It is simply the fact that you can dictate, and you have people who will listen to whatever crap you tell them. These days, it is so good for your morale. What with kids of five or less having a mind of their own (whoever heard of such a thing in 'the good old days?'), it is really nice to have SOMEBODY listen to what you have to say, let alone obey unquestioningly.
Even if this goes on for about 20 years (as the average lifespan of a modern dictator seems to indicate), I would say, go for it. It's a rocking lifestyle. And you always have Uncle Sam to bail you out, if things start closing in around your neck at the end of it all.
One thing I always missed out in India, and the US-two countries I lived in so far, is a good dictator. Imagine if there was a dictator in the country, would anyone dare to refuse you a ration…
The Elephant Vanishes
Finished reading a marvelous set of stories by Murakami which is titled "The Elephant Vanishes." What gets me is his ability to blend the real and the surreal in a mixture which leaves you thought-provoked. Stray remarks and lines in the stories are pregnant with meaning, and make you introspect about life, love, relationships, 'pragmatism', jobs, and the whole business of being. A similar effect was when I read Zorba The Greek a few months ago.
The stories are also about a variety of things-an amazing variety, from cats to elephants to clocks, to ordinary people and extraordinary people- TV people, in one of the stories, who behave somewhat like aliens visible only to the protagonist. There is a hidden meaning in almost all the stories, and sometimes you don't get it, too.
Also read a book on Kundalini and Tantra by a westerner. Seems quite interesting, though complex.
Two Films and a Lecture
Saw two movies this past week. Dil To Bachcha Hai Ji by Madhur Bhandarkar and Yeh Saali Zindagi by Sudhir Mishra. Both are very good, in different ways. The first is a nicely flowing film with a surprise ending, about three guys and their love stories. Ajay Devgan has acted really well, and his love interest brings a freshness and vivacity to her role. Emraan Hashmi is competent, but funnyman Vaidya who debuted in Three Idiots is the one who makes a greater impact as the innocent poet-ardent lover.
The other, Yeh Saaali Zindagi, is a black comedy about a bunch of gangsters and two love stories connected with two of them. The scene-stealer is actually Saurabh Shukla, a third gangster. Very intricate plot, a tight script which brings the complexities to a very interesting climax, and good acting by Irrfan Khan, Chitrangada Singh, Aditi Rao (her debut) and Arunoday Singh, and most others makes this a treat to watch. It has shades of Johnny Gaddar in terms of pace and type of plot, but thi…
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Modest Mouse: No One's First, and You're Next (EP) (Sony/Epic)
This enjoyable collection of odds and ends by Modest Mouse—an EP of eight tracks at 33 minutes—collects holdovers from the group's previous two LPs and serves as a fitting snapshot of a fecund career.
Opener "Satellite Skin," sporting the group's current lineup with Johnny Marr on guitar, displays wide hooks, plentiful quirks and Isaac Brock's retrospective defiance. ("Well, no we're not praying, we're kneeling.") "Guilty Cocker Spaniels" finds the Good News-era lineup charging through a peppery, vocally frantic song of building aggression.
"Autumn Beds" is one of Modest Mouse's finest pop moments. It's a hauntingly gorgeous tune that builds a menacing subtext of gallows imagery around a lilting chorus ("We won't be sleeping in our autumn beds"), gauzy atmospherics, gently plucked banjo and a guitar funneled through enough distortion to sound like an electric kazoo. "History Sticks to Your Feet" bounces across swirling guitar loops with increased intensity and punchy optimism. ("Don't you look at me like life don't hold you any more mystery.")
The EP occasionally falters. "The Whale Song" feels like a forced return to the epic guitar workouts of the group's earlier career. Its chirpy, looping arpeggios sound aimless, while its slight lyrics seem inconsequential; granted, its thrilling, thunderous conclusion works. Meanwhile, "Perpetual Motion Machine" is a loose, brass-laden tune whose improvisational approach doesn't work.
Still, it all makes for a charming EP of damaged pop, electrified folk and scrappy rock—or, another batch of Modest Mouse tunes.
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The 5 nasty skincare and makeup ingredients you need to avoid at all costs
Scrolling through the Trump scandals and Kylie Jenner baby watch updates, you’ve probably read some headlines about how the ingredients in your makeup are potentially harming you and your skin. This is alarming, to say the least, because even if your routine is less ‘Kardashian contour’ and more ‘I’m a busy mum doing the school drop off with two minutes to myself in the morning’, there’s no denying a lick of mascara and some well-placed concealer can do wonders for your mood. But you don’t want that makeup to be doing you damage. And the truth is, it could be.
So go and grab your makeup bag and have a look at the ingredients list. If you spot any of the following five ingredients, that’s a sign you need to chuck it in the bin.
Ingredient #1: Sodium Lauryl Sulfate
Why should you avoid it? SLS is linked to skin irritation and disruption of skin’s natural oil balance and may contribute to acne breakouts around the mouth and chin.
Ingredient #2: Parabens
Why should you avoid it? Parabens can mimic oestrogen and have been shown to disrupt hormones, in addition to being linked to skin and breast cancers.
Ingredient #3: Phthalates
Why should you avoid it? Two decades of research on phthalates have shown hormonal disruption and potential harm to the unborn baby during pregnancy. Also inked to infertility and reduced levels of sex hormones.
Ingredient #4: Lead
Why should you avoid it? Neurotoxin linked to hormonal disruption, miscarriage and fertility problems.
Ingredient #5: Butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) and butylated hydroytoulene (BHT)
Why should you avoid it? These preservatives have been shown to impair blood clotting and promote tumour growth: they are banned in many countries.
PS. If you want to know what products I use, or what ingredients you should be looking for, head here.
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Monday, July 31, 2006
Language creativity
Responding to my post yesterday, Tonya muses about whether she has just coined the term "cringeworthy." Well, in fact, she admits that she did:
Turns out that I did make up that term -- Ira [Glass] does use the term cringe-a-thon, however -- but I'm not gonna pat myself on the back too much. I think that ever since that Spongeworthy episode of Seinfeld, it's been common for people (or at least me) to add "worthy" as a suffix to existing words to create a new word that describes whether some thing qualifies for some other thing.
Putting a new word into American lingo has been a goal of mine for many years. Remember, I tried to launch "eyedar" using this blog and its 40-50 regular readers as a vehicle. People had uttered "eyedar" in the past, but not to mean the uncanny ability of women to detect when their male companion is checking out another woman. But my "launch" of "eyedar" doesn't seem to have worked so far. It's not easy to invent a new word, particularly if you're not a high profile person.
I used to believe I had invented the word "megabucks." I used the word in a college newspaper column in the late 1970s, several years before the word became popular (during the 1980s Wall Street boom). I swear to this day that I had never previously heard or read the term. And the term "mega" stuck in front of an English word wasn't really popular back in the 1970s. But then I found in some lexicography or etymology book that there was a printed use of the "megabucks" dating back to 1948.
Anyway, getting back to Tonya and her new word: Nowadays, if you think you may have invented a word, it's handy to Google it. The absence of a word on Google doesn't prove that the word is not in use, but its presence on Google might tell you the opposite. A Google search for "cringeworthy" yields 174,000 results.
Tonya, I hope that doesn't make you cringe, or even wince. As Mr. Verb pointed out in your comments, you undoubtedly went through the same creative process as those other 174,000 people -- like Newton and Liebniz independently discovering calculus at the same time.
Sunday, July 30, 2006
Calling Mr. Verb
Cringe and Wince
This post by Tonya put me in mind of a linquistic issue that's been irritating me like a hangnail. Mr. Verb, what is the name for this process -- using a similar, sound-alike word in place of the "dictionary-correct" word?
Here are two words that sound alike, and whose dictionary definitions, while overlapping, have a subtle but significant difference. According to the American Heritage Dictionary*:
cringe: 1) To shrink back, as in fear; cower. 2) To behave in a servile way; fawn.
wince: To shrink or start involuntarily, as in pain or distress; flinch.
"Cringe" has become the word of choice signifying the emotional pain that accompanies intense embarassment. It's a figure of speech,** since the "cringe" is presumably the physical expression of the pain. This is how Tonya used "cringe" (and the delightful "cringeworthy") in her post, and how Ira Glass used it in the This American Life episode Tonya was riffing on.
As you can see, people are using "cringe" when they mean "wince." While both cringe and wince involve physical shrinking back, it's fear-based in "cringe" but more broadly pain-based (including the pain of embarassment or shame) in "wince."
You can see the attraction in preferring "cringe." It sounds more like the desired meaning. And "cringeworthy" -- as in the "cringeworthy story" Tonya was telling -- sounds so much better than "winceworthy."
At some point, the dictionary definitions have to conform to real-world usage, right? Maybe cringe and wince are now synonyms in fact. Only pedants will insist on "correcting" people who say "cringe" to mean "wince."
The pedants do have one point, though: when cringe primarily means wince, what word do we have to describe the demeanor of, for example, Golum in Lord of the Rings? I guess there's still "cower."
*Is there a good online, preferably free, dictionary? This one kinda sucks.
** Right on the border between metonomy and synecdoche. Do you notice how this is a blog in which the word "synecdoche" will appear the day after the word "boner"? "Boner," by the way, is often used as a synecdoche.
Saturday, July 29, 2006
Random thought
Why aren't there dogs named "Boner"?
I mean, I know why, but -- why didn't it become a popular name for dogs before it became a popular name for... the other thing?
It's such a cute, old-fashioned name for a dog. You could imagine Boner playing quite happily with Rover, and Old Yeller, and Fang. Well, maybe not Fang.
For some reason, I woke up this morning with that thought.
Friday, July 28, 2006
Existential Friday: Sod to Vancouver Island
... or Nature as a Potemkin Village
In my sojourn to Vancouver Island last month, I was struck by the seeming oddity of a truck full sod waiting at the ferry terminal to make the trip from the mainland to Vancouver Island. Why would a place so lush and green as Vancouver Island need to import sod from the mainland?
"Sod to Vancouver Island," I thought, could be the Canadian version of "coals to Newcastle," the homespun homily referring to redundancy. Except when you think about it, the green on Vancouver Island is moss and ferns and rain forest, not lawns. The importation of lawns means real estate development.
And then there's logging. In wilderness areas in the U.S., the logging strategy is apparently to leave the landscape unspoiled near the roads, and do the heavy deforestation a bit further in where most National Park tourists won't see it. It's nature as a Potemkin Village.
Canadians don't observe such niceties. On Vancouver Island, at least, the logging activity is pretty much in plain view of the tourists. On the seaward side of the road, you've got national parkland. On the inland side of the road, it's another story. We heard that the island is currently about 75-90% logged out. Well, bring in some sod!
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Thursday, July 27, 2006
Honor bar
I don't get why hotels are increasingly referring to the in-room snack bar -- what they used to call a "mini-bar" -- as an "honor bar."
There's no honor in it -- only the dishonor of paying grotesque markups that would make even the most rapacious convenience store blush. Every night I go to bed in a hotel I pray that I will never be that desperate for a package of M & Ms.
If "honor bar" is so named to suggest an "honor system," then we have on our hands a major misnomer that dishonors the notion of trust-based self-reporting systems. Hotels, of course, place their trust in housekeeping staff -- some hired specifically for the purpose -- to keep careful account of items missing from the "honor bar" stock in each room, so that what you take ends up on your bill without the nicety of self-reporting.
Some parents have told me stories suggesting that the honor- or mini- bar presents a opportunity to teach their kids an important life lesson about the complex and intangible nature of property relations. Kids, who have only just learned that they're not supposed to take stuff from stores without paying for it, are often puzzled why they can't just take food items from the mini-bar. It's sitting right there in their living space, after all. Maybe it's now called an "honor bar" so we people can teach their kids about honor.
Look at me -- I'm one of those people whom the Jack Nicholson character was sneering at in the trial scene in A Few Good Men:
"We use words like honor, code, and loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending our country. You use them as a punch line."
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Word Verifictionary: mighggv
Neel Mehta
mihggv (me-guh-give): I give, and give, and still no verifictionary contest results.
Sorry, Neel. Can it really be five weeks since the last Word Verifictionary contest? Gosh. Do I need to reduce it to monthly? Time will tell.
Wendy is this contest's hands-down winner, as she posted at least three entries good enough to win, and a bunch of other good ones to boot. (See appendix.)
In honor of the Tour de France, prizes are announced in (Pepe Le Pew- style) French:
Le Grand Prix, Cordon Bleu, etc., etc.
fexil - A drug to cure fecklessness, from the makers of Paxil
Les Runner(s)-Up
Sleep Goblin
uszlj: ("use-a-lage") A type of measurement denoting usefulness, often used by those who wish to appear smarter than they really are. "You got a new camera? Cool! What's it's uszlg?"
Neel mehta
kdvqk (KID-vac): toddler with tendencies to suck up edible and inedible items on the floor.
Les Mentions Honorables
Janelle renee
momusr: A person (usually a sibling) who takes advantage of Mom's generous nature. They are often guilty of being a dadusr, too.
clbprhi ("clob-per hi!"): What Lucy from the Peanuts shouts in her Kung-Fu class when clobbering other classmates. Such a drama-queen!
xyprbndz (XY PR Bands): Music bands hired by PR firms for promotional functions when the target audience is straight female (XX) or gay male (XY).
Neel mehta
pccqmkd (PICK-em-kid): how parents fill out lottery tickets.
jgnvtoj (jog-and-VETO-age): President Bush's morning routine.
Joint Tortfeasor
kfrug: knit, furry rug. (The kind you see up north in cabins.)
Warren p.k.
yusmgls -- "youse muggles!" (referring to non-magical people from Brooklyn)
wolym -- a golem's female mate (y'all ever seen a golem??)
ygfeyryg -young celtic fairy
jpypi: pie made from rare but delicious jpy berry.
Quinn the Brain
jycyqp (juicy-quip): one of those sexual-tension-filled one-liners that get flung back and forth at parties to which you're never cool enough to be invited
eyqks (eye-quicks): those furtive glances used to size up attractive people without them noticing you.
Mr. Verb
ykgpksnn (ook-g?p-k?-s?n: 'person from Ykgpks'.
Moral Turpitude
ifojbar (I fo' jhe bar): Statement indicating a preference to eat at the bar rather than wait for a table in the main dining room.
Oscar Madison
hbmzoae -- "homeboy-mezoae": single celled homeboys from the paleozoic era.
The Dubious "Can You Top This" Category
rncmfy (RN-comfy):
a relaxed nurse. -- Neel Mehta
a nurse who works as a "comfort woman" (see ongoing Japan/Korea conflicts if phrase is unfamiliar) -- Warren p.k.
a recliner manufactured by hospital supply companies for nurse's break rooms, costing 5 times as much as a La-Z-boy -- Oscar Madison
The "My Word Verification is a Real Word" Award
My verification word is a real word: "sunny"
Les autres bons mots de Wendy
emhssa - (EM-sah) a word of deference for a female of superior rank.
fbiluf - the act of disguising a wad of cash to appear to hold much higher denominations than is actually there.
ivxwe - I vex we - an ungrammatical admission to annoying not only yourself but your entire social group simultaneously.
eyjlzjcy - (eye-jizzle-juicy) (1) the stuff that's usually in the corner of your eye upon awakening, but before it hardens into crust. (2) someone who is very easy on they eye.
sibtu - "Sib, tu?" An archaic phrase when trying to determine if two people are related. The phrase nearly made it into Shakespeare's "Julius Ceasar," but was cut for unknown reasons.
dxstng - (1) "seduce sting" - a con where the object is seduction (2) sad exes: the next generation - a show about the dissolution of second and later marriages.
ozgandbt - (1) oz gambit: a chess move that proves to your opponent that you are living in a fantasy world.
(2) oh, zig and bit:(a) horse tack. (b) a pub in the English countryside. (c) dancing and eating at the same time.
omyxxy - (oh, my! xxy!) what you say to an offer of a threesome consisting of two women and one man.
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
I don't like to let myself be goaded into particular decisions about what to post, but I'm going to make a limited exception for these comments.
Not that I plan to write an essay on the merits of an impeachment case against Bush. I don't have what I consider a unique take or anything interesting to add to what's already been written, e.g., here and here. And getting into a debate over substance with people who are invested in supporting Bush is a sterile and frustrating exercise in this political climate, since it's virtually impossible to engage constructively: there's simply no agreement on the basic facts, and each side sees the other as reasoning backward from a fixed conclusion.
But I'll make a couple of points.
1. The case against Bush is probably as strong as the case against Nixon, and far stronger than the case against Clinton. The three biggest items:
Bush lied to the public and congress to justify the invasion of Iraq, which, as is well known, was a key element of his advisors' foreign policy program before he even became president.
Bush has been an active accomplice in illegal detention and torture, in violation of the U.S. constitution and international law. He may or may not have authorized the worst of the torture beforehand, but he has ratified it after the fact by continuing to push for broad latititude for it to be conducted.
Bush has violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act with his illegal wiretapping program.
2. There's considerable historical evidence that many of the framers believed that impeachment of the president was not an extraordinary remedy, to be resorted to only in cases of provable criminality by the president, but an institutional check on tyrannical wielding of power. I have mixed feelings about such a view of the impeachment power.
The Bush administration certainly has run roughshod over any notion of political consensus buidling, but more pointedly, has aggressively pushed arguable executive authority to the limit. Bush's order establishing secret military tribunals is one example. A more pervasive example is his routine issuance of unconstitutional "presidential signing statements" in which Bush, while signing (rather than vetoing) legislation basically announces an intention not to follow it. Bush has done this some 750 to 800 times. Even Arlen Spector agrees with me that Bush's signing statements are an unconstitutional abuse of power.
3. The commenters say "impeaching Bush is stupid" because of the "small likelihood of success" and the "downside" of success. The commenters specify neither what constitutes "success" nor what the downside is they have in mind.
"Impeachment" is the formal charge by the House, and is not the same as removal from office, which can only follow the Senate's vote to convict the impeached officeholder. So is "success" defined as the House voting articles of impeachment (which has happened three times in our history) or the Senate voting to convict (which has never happened)?
Either way, I find those comments to be somewhat knee-jerk. If an outcry for impeachment among Democratic party faithful can gain momentum, this will mean a broad public summing up and focusing on Bush's six years of abuse of presidential power in the run-up to his last mid-term election. It will focus people on important stuff rather than inane distractions like Kevin Barrett. That strikes me as pretty much all upside.
It doesn't matter whether Bush is actually impeached. Republican congressmen who oppose impeachment will have to either defend Bush's unpopular policies, or make mealy-mouthed statements about why they oppose impeachment even though they're not in favor of, say, torture, or lying to the public to justify a war. Democratic congressmen will be put in the sometimes awkward position of having to find their backbones. That's not such a bad thing either. And the mobilization is likely to help in the 2008 election as well.
If the argument is that an impeachment movement will create a backlash, then let's recall how in 2000 the Republicans ended up with control of the White House and both houses of Congress after impeaching Clinton at a time when his approval ratings were about twice as high as Bush's are now. What backlash?
If the argument is that successfully removing Bush from office has the downside that somebody worse will take over -- an argument that contradicts the critics' point that impeachment won't succeed -- then the answer is that the impeachment process will significantly hamper the Bush administration's ability to (mis)govern for the next year to eighteen months. And after the hypothetically successful conclusion to the impeachment process, there would not be enough time left for a mortally wounded Cheney administration to do much damage.
4. One final point. "A serious move toward impeaching Bush now will only encourage the Republicans to try to impeach the next Democratic president simply because they disagree with him." That argument sounds good, until you think about it and realize it's BS.
Basically, that ship has sailed. The Republicans, simply because they disagreed with Clinton, trumped up an impeachment charge against him. They maneuvered him into having to talk about his sex life under oath, and he, naturally, prevaricated.
The Republicans have resurrected impeachment as the vehicle for expressing intense disappointment with a sitting president. They'll do it next time, whether or not Bush is impeached -- you watch.
Monday, July 24, 2006
A theory about the 9/11 conspiracy theory
Maybe that guy Barrett is in earnest. But maybe he's not.
While very few people believe the nonsense about the Bush administration conspiring to take down the Towers, I ask you: who is best served by the controversy now swirling around Barrett and his ilk?
Next to the crimes alleged by the grotesque circus of the "9/11 Truth" movement, the stuff Bush has actually done -- invading Iraq based on lies, illegal electronic surveillance, presiding over and justifying the use of torture and illegal detentions -- doesn't seem nearly so bad.
So here's a conspiracy theory: how much of the "9/11 Truth" movement is actually being fueled by agents provacateurs sponsored by the Bush administration to distract the public?
Sunday, July 23, 2006
Hey, here are two questions about about movies. (I'm hoping this will distract you -- especially Neel Mr. Movies Mehta -- from the fact that I broke my promise to post word verifictionary results last week.)
The first question arises from a discussion about whether to see Clerks II. I liked Clerks well enough, but in my view Kevin Smith has not gotten better since then, and many of his movies are not as good. Add that to the natural downward trajectory of sequels, and Clerks II is not promising. In my view, Clerks wasn't good enough to leave room for a good sequel.
Anyway, the question is:
Can you name a movie -- other than a horror / slasher movie -- in which the sequel was as good as or better than the original?
I defy you! I can't think of a single one.
Nex question:
Name one or more movies that you thought were better than the book.
My answers:
1. The Wonder Boys. This was a terrific adaptation that supplied some much needed editing to Chabon's novel.
2. The Unbearable Lightness of Being.* The novel just didn't do much for me, and I couldn't even get through it. The movie was compelling.
.. and with some trepidation, since the Jane Austen fans will rip me for this:
3. Sense and Sensibility
*Tonya came up with this one first, but I agree.
Friday, July 21, 2006
I checked today's temperature on, and was informed it was going to be a high of 83 degrees. A bit skeptical, I hit the "refresh" button on my toolbar. The web page now said there would be a high of 72 degrees.
I feel this incident is rife with symbolism and double-meaning. I'd try to work it out here, but I have a train to catch.
Thursday, July 20, 2006
Good writers and very good writers
The very good ones just have that certain something, don't they? I'm reading My Detachment, the Vietnam war memoir of Tracy Kidder, the non-fiction writer who won a Pulitzer in 1981 for his book on the computer industry, Soul of a New Machine.
Kidder was a Lieutenant in a rear-echelon intelligence unit, and early in the book tries to Vietnam vets who did not experience combat might come home to tell phony stories about how they did:
When one considers the suffering of actual combatants, or the much more numerous sufferings of Vietnamese civilians, it seems like sheer perversity for a rear echelon solider to come home wishing his experiences had been more dreadful than they were.... Most of the soldiers who went to Vietnam were boys, whether they were 22 or just 18. They had watched a lot of movies and TV. I'm sure that many set out for Vietnam feeling confused or unhappy, as adolescents tend to do.
A good writer might have gone on to write this next sentence:
And deep down many probably thought they the would return with stories of their own heroism.
But Kidder, a very good writer, prefers the ironic, over the obvious, truth. He wrote:
They had watched a lot of movies and TV. I'm sure that many set out for Vietnam feeling confused or unhappy, as adolescents tend to do. And deep down many probably thought they the would return with improved reasons for feeling that way.
Kidder admits that his first book length manuscript -- a never-published Vietnam war novel about a junior grade combat officer -- was his own version of a bullshit story. My Detachment --I like the ambiguous title -- is a great read so far.
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
That 70s show
(My life as a rock star, continued...)
Tonight I'm participating in a "teach-in" on impeaching George W. Bush. I'm supposed to speak briefly on the legal and constitutional issues relating to presidential impeachment, con law prof that I am.
A teach-in! How early-70s is that?
Equally reminiscent of the '70s is the organizational finesse of the left, insofar as the organizers were unsure what time the event was to begin and issued a detailed agenda and order of speakers only late last night.
Anyway, I'm happy to participate. As Dan Savage would say, ITMFA!
I promise!
New word verifictionary results... tomorrow or Friday at the latest!
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Don't make me post this
Dear Volkswagen:
Don't make me do this. Don't make me use the power of my mighty blog against you. I really like the car I bought from you, so I don't want to have to slam you for a bad business practice.
I didn't need a fancy decorative chrome ring around the knob of the gear shift, but you chose to put one there. Recently, the chrome started to peel off. As a result, my spouse and I both got bloody cuts on our hands from the jagged edges where the chrome had peeled or puckered. Finally, I put this ugly piece of hockey tape over it.
The local Volkswagen dealer ordered the replacement part and now tells me it will cost $65 plus labor. They also say that it's not covered by warranty, even though the car is only 2 1/2 years old, because Volkswagen -- you -- considers the top of the gear shift knob to be "trim."
Trim my ass. You have to put your hand on the gear shift knob in order to operate the vehicle, and your lousy "trim" defect is causing wounds. Are you saying you wouldn't replace the steering wheel if a big old rusty nail was sticking out of it?
Do the right thing, Volkswagen.
Stay tuned, readers.
Monday, July 17, 2006
It's good, but not that f*cking good
The Fancy Cafe with the French Name sells this season iced coffee: cold filtered, pre-sweetened with sugar and nutmeg, and then cream added before it's served.
They call it "Magic coffee." Price: $3.50.
Basically, it's like a fancy version of Starbucks' bottled iced coffee that you can get at any gas station mini-mart.
Saturday, July 15, 2006
Crazy people on their cell phones
Why do people talk unnaturally loudly on cell phones?
Friday, July 14, 2006
Existential Friday: knowing when it's over
Don't read this post if your life will be somehow diminished by knowing the ending to The Break-Up.
A light, watchable comedy, The Break-Up is also highly missable. Certainly not worth getting stuck in a traffic jam. So when Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Anniston have a chance, post-relationship encounter on the Chicago streets, and begin a desultory conversation, B and I gunned it for the exit of the drive-in.
No one else at the drive-in even started their engines. It's not like they were absorbing the incredible poignance of the scene... they thought, "there has to be another scene if these guys are getting back together."
But since B had already heard from a friend that they don't get back together in the end, this scene was obviously nothing more than a very short denouement. We were on the highway, still listening to the movie soundtrack being broadcast over our car radio, when the tired little scene ended and the closing credits music kicked in.
Sometimes you just know it's over, and you don't need to wait to see the credits to start rolling.
Thursday, July 13, 2006
The Drive-In Movie Theatre Gap
Harper's Magazine used to an amusing feature in which they'd put together incongruous but pointed statistics. Maybe they still do -- I haven't read it in years.
One that I still remember, from the early 1980s, was called "The Drive-In Movie Theatre Gap," listing the 20 nations with the most drive-in theatres. The U.S. topped the list, of course, with something like 2000 drive-ins. Second was Canada, with something like 200. Can you guess which country was third?
It was Australia -- with 30 or so. It makes sense: a successful capitalist economy with large driving distances was likely to have more drive-ins. The Soviet Union actually had drive-in theatres too, apparently, but only a half dozen or so.
Drive-in movies are vanishing from the scene, for reasons that escape me. Maybe movie-goers simply demand better sound than you could get from those clunky drive-in squawk boxes that hooked over your window. Maybe there's some weird thing about the economics of it -- higher overhead relative to indoor theatres. It's not like we've gotten over cars in this country. For whatever reason, our drive-in theatres are vanishing: they are converted into flea markets, or paved over, or just abandoned.
Saratoga Springs has a thriving drive-in theatre, and a couple of weeks ago, B and I took in a first run double feature, Click with Adam Sandler, and The Break-Up, with Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Anniston. The two light, watchable comedies were perfect drive-in fare, but neither of them could top the vintage advertizements for the snack bar that aired for 20 minutes during intermission. Those ads, specially created for drive-in theatres and dating from the 50s, 60s and 70s -- many of them cartoons -- were worth the price of admission by themselves.
Drive-in sound technology has improved: the old speakers are replaced with a radio broadcast that you tune into on your car radio. (And the snack bar offers free jump starts if that happens to kill you battery.)
But a new technical problem is the profusion of SUVs. Parking behind one is like sitting in an indoor theatre behind a really tall guy wearing a hat. Supposedly, the SUVs, minivans and pickup trucks were all supposed to park in the left half of the theatre lot, but that segregation policy wasn't enforced, and we ended up behind a pickup-truck camper shell that blocked out a wide rectangle at the bottom edge of the screen.
Still, it was a great time. The beautiful anticipation of watching coming attraction trailers against a darkening sunset sky can't be matched by indoor theatres. I hope drive-ins make a comeback.
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
If you love a song, sometimes you just have to let it go
The cafe where I ate lunch today was playing a CD of a female jazz vocalist performing a "jazz" version of Bob Dylan's You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go. She sang it in the same smooth, down tempo, low energy way she sang the jazz standards that filled up the rest of the album.
I suppose that musicians who do a cover of a song probably really like the song and usually intend their interpretation to be a tribute to the original. There are many fine pop covers that are, in their own way, as good or even better than the original, and many cover artists who can really get to the heart of someone else's song.
Then there's this thing. The singer had a rich voice to be sure, but many songs just don't lend themselves to jazz reinterpretations. I suspect most Bob Dylan songs are in this category; certainly this one is. The cover sounded like a big, steamy pile of poop.
I would like to identify by name the vocalist who made Dylan's hard edged love song sound so sappy. But then I'd have to do research which would require me listening to her again, and I'm mad at her.
Dylan's gravelly tuneless singing voice fools many people into thinking he was a "bad" singer, but he had a way of putting his songs across that's hard to top. Jazz singers, who by profession are generally not songwriters and whose repertoires consist mostly or entirely of cover songs, tend to think they are consumate song-stylists. But they have to realize that many of their songs are a short step away from elevator music. If they're not careful, they can take a tune that has pace and tension and deceptive simplicity, and just let all the air out of it.
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Iced coffee wars: just a border skirmish
I saw these posters in Dunkin' Donuts yesterday, while buying iced coffee.
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They're unmistakable potshots at Starbucks, but when understood in the broader context of the Iced Coffee War, they are not an attempted invasion of Starbucks territory. Rather than trying to raid the higher end Starbucks customers, these sarcastic slogans are plainly designed by Dunkin Donuts to build up an esprit de corps among its existing customers at the lower half of the coffee market. Dunkin is just firing a warning shot to protect its border. (Was it necessary? I don't see any major danger of Starbucks lowering its prices or developing a massive donut selection.)
Since the conflict has expanded beyond iced coffee to include hot coffee and breakfast sandwiches, the name "Iced Coffee War" has become a misnomer. But it's catchy, and it accurately describes my first experience of the war, so it's a keeper. Sometimes you just have to accept a misnamed war, like "the War of Spanish Succession."
If you find any of this confusing, here is a map graphically depicting the conflict so far.
iced coffee war
I forgot my damned cell phone!
Okay, it's official: I'm now fully dependent on having a cell phone with me. I forgot mine on this trip to a Major Metropolitan Area, and it's quite the pain in the ass. The $7.50 hotel charge for the long distance call to B's cell phone, that would have been free from my my cell phone, is just the tip of the iceberg.
Back when I practiced law, I remember how at the courthouse the lawyers and other folks would rush for the pay phones whenever there was a break in the courtroom action. Lots of impatient foot tapping while waiting for a free phone, and the like.
Today, I'm observing a civil rights trial in a busy federal courthouse in a major metropolis. At the lunch break, I needed to use the phone, and was directed by a U.S. marshal to the one forlorn pay phone in the entire building.
The good news: since everyone else had their cell phones, the pay phone was not in use.
Monday, July 10, 2006
Starbucks escalates into full breakfast war with assault on Egg McMuffin
Starbucks has opened a new front in its growing war with McDonald’s, exploding the once-contained iced coffee dispute into a major breakfast conflict. Starbucks has unleashed a new line of EggMcMuffinesque breakfast sandwiches. "Let the day begin!" the Starbucks ad exclaims, euphemistically. By "day" they obviously mean "smackdown" or "ordeal of total war."
Apparently, neither corporation is fully satisfied with its place in the breakfast world – Starbucks as an upper half of the market coffee-and-pastry retailer, McDonald’s as a 3-meal-a-day (incl. breakfast) low-end junk food purveyor. McDonald's doesn't want Egg McMuffin customers to nip over to Starbucks for coffee, and now offer what they call "premium" hot coffee. Starbucks wants to cut into the fast-food "full" breakfast trade, by offering breakfast meat 'n' eggs in addition to their former menu of breakfast pastries.
Like all wars that spin out of control, a certain loss of sanity may be at work here. Is there really that much overlap between the customer bases? Does one company think it can make major inroads into the others' patrons? Or is Starbucks simply retaliating for McDonalds' coffee upgrade?
Hard to say. Starbucks breakfast sandwiches are priced just a few dimes higher than the competitors' (not just McDonald's, but also Dunkin' Donuts and the other fast food joints), while offering much more high falutin' ingredients. "Black forest ham" in one sandwich, "eggs florentine" (!) in another.
To make a more apples-to-apples comparison between Starbucks and McDonald's, I order the "peppered bacon and egg" sandwich, a scrambled-egg, cheddar cheese and bacon affair on an English muffin. It's a tad less greasy, a tad more flavorful, especially with the pepper. But at the end of the day, all these breakfast sandwiches taste like airplane food. Mass produced scrambled eggs, reheated in microwaves or convection ovens, will always be rubbery; and the English muffin will always be chewy rather than crsiply toasted. For all its supposed class, Starbucks can't lick these technological cooking problems.
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Just an Egg McMuffin in a fancy bag? The taped package looks like something from an expensive gift shop, bearing the message: "epiphanies rarely happen over plain toast." Has the word "epiphany" ever been uttered in a McDonald's?
Iced coffee war update
Meanwhile, on the iced coffee war front... McDonald's may have launched a briefly successful blitzkreig (oops! Nazi analogy!) for my business as an iced coffee consumer, but I now think that it is not equipped for success in a longer term war for Starbucks customers.
Apparently, the McDonald's thrust is what military analysts would call a "reconnaissance in force." It's just another in a long line of McDonald's experiments with new menu items. In fact, this one appears to be regional. I've checked out a number of McDonald's restaurants back in the midwest -- no iced coffee.
What's more, my return visit for the McDonald's iced coffee while I was still back east proved rather disappointing. A long wait, an order screwup, and ultimately, it didn't taste nearly as good as it did the first time.
The problem with McDonald's and high end coffee service is that it's retail model is too dependent on the lowest-common-denominator production line. Everything is set up so that it's workers can function as de-skilled automata.
But up-market coffee menus involve too many variables for automation. Recall that Burger King has long exploited this aspect of McDonald's with hamburger service -- McDonald's bread-and-butter, if you will -- with it's "have it your way" theme, offering made-to-order departures from the standard sandwich makeup. McDonald's has always struggled with customer requests for variation.
Coffee is all about that. People take their coffee too many different ways. With or without sugar, cream or black or milk, whole or skim, or soy milk for that matter. And we haven't even gotten to cocoa powder, cinnamon, etc. McDonald's simply can't handle that many choices on a beverage that's so tangential to its core menu mission -- large, medium and small is about it's limit. (On my second visit, for instance, they gave me cream and sugar, when I asked for cream, no sugar.) Starbucks, with its dedicated coffee menu, can production-line all this variation.
While Starbucks can let their customers add their own cream and sugar, to taste, the fast food chains apparently need to control the cream and sugar outlay. They add it for you, I assume, as a cost-containment measure. This strikes me as an insuperable barrier to McDonald's making a serious inroad into the upper-half coffee market, because those customers really want to add their own. Dunkin Donuts, like McDonalds, has their counter employees add the cream and sugar, but they haven't demonstrated any pretensions to the upper-half market.
Meanwhile, on another front...
In its ongoing war on American health, McDonald's steps up its propaganda
campaign: "hey! We're into exercise!"
As an observer of the war, I try to maintain neutrality.
Sunday, July 09, 2006
Running for mayor
[Western Massachusetts, June 26-28, 2006]
My friends Lynn and Abigail live in a small town in the eastern foothills of the Berkshires, in Massachusetts. It's one of those towns where everybody knows everybody else. There are only a couple of restaurants in town, so you're almost automatically a regular just by living there. And with the premium on keeping good relations with the neighbors, you can't go into a restaurant and say, in a loud voice, "don't get the asparagus omelette -- it's going to be canned asparagus!"
Lynn and Abigail had an out-of-town guest who said just this in the local restaurant. A guest who said this and then closely examined the waitress about other menu items. When they were alone after this incident, Abigail said to Lynn, "you know we're just going to have to go back there as soon as we can and apologize."
That's what it's like in small towns, as well as smallish cities like mine, and even in big cities at your own version of Cheers bar, where everybody knows your name. Doesn't it suck when your visitors blow into town and screw it up for you?
I've come up with a phrase to describe the situation when you flip the bird at people who turn out to be your near-neighbors whom you will no doubt encounter again. I call it, ironically, "running for mayor."
"Running for mayor" doesn't necessarily mean you're being impolite. Sometimes you may be in the right, like when you scream out the window "HEY! there's people trying to sleep!" at your backyard-adjoining neighbors who have just launched a major barrage of bottle rockets along the fence line at 12:30 a.m. on July 2 in early anticipation of the Fourth of July. I'm just saying, you don't necessarily pick up the votes that way.
The phrase can be used in the non-ironic sense, when you're trying to guide the behavior ofl your out-of-town friends when you take them to your local hangout. "I need you to try to act like you're running for mayor."
Above and below: "Gas ... Eat" -- Carm's Restaurant, Chester Massachusetts.
Saturday, July 08, 2006
Prime suspect
How to make yourself a prime suspect, in 2 easy steps:
1) Travel in a group known as a "murder."
2) Linger suspiciously at crime scenes.
Friday, July 07, 2006
Existential Friday: End of Part One
B and I recently watched the two-DVD set of No Direction Home, Scorcese's documentary of Bob Dylan's transformation from folk to rock singer.
Old news -- the film has long been moved out of the "new releases" section of the video store. And if you're a Bob Dylan maven, pretty much everything in it is apparently old news.
For me -- a Bob Dylan fan but not a maven -- it's fascinating. I love the images of Greenwich Village circa 1960, the back-story of the music industry as it transitioned from popular 1950s crooners into (ultimately) Rock, the original footage of both live and studio performances by Dylan, home movies of Hibbing, Minnesota, and great interviews with era musicians.
Most of all, I love the interview footage with Dylan himself, which I'd never seen anywhere. You're tempted to say, looking at this wrinkled 60-something imp with the graying mop of curly hair, that he's wasted, a shadow of his former self. And yet he's his old self. I mean, isn't his former self a shadow?
I'm totally on board with the idea that Dylan is, or was, a genuis. To me, he had a genius for words that are shallow and deep at the same time. He would purposely strive for the resonant phrase that is vague enough to be meaningful to everybody, and then laugh at you for finding meaning in it. The most repetitive theme in a lifetime of interviews is him "debunking" interpretations of his lyrics (or, analogously, of his choice of the name "Dylan").
The shallow/deep character, to me, goes a long way toward explaining how a song like Blowin in the Wind can be the most exquisitely meaningful folk song in the world in 1963 and an unplayable cliche less than 10 years later.
What I find endlessly fascinating is the compressed time span for popular music since Dylan hit the scene. Five years is a small fraction of a life -- how much has changed in the past five years of your life? -- yet it's an age in music. Musicians can go from #1 hit to game show host in five years. In the five year span from 1961-66, Dylan goes from his first album, when he records not one original song and indeed has only even written a couple of songs, to accoustic folk icon, to newly-minted electric rock star. It's a whole career.
Though Dylan's career was longer than most popular musicians -- a 13 year run, if you take Blood on the Tracks (1974) to be his last great album -- his star was never higher than when he performed Blowin in the Wind at the Newport Folk Festival in 1963.
The Newport Folk festival marks the "end of part I" of the two-part, two-DVD movie. Arguably, it was the "end of part I" -- the accoustic part -- of Dylan's career. He was 22.
How many parts are there in a life? Just two? I'm pretty sure my part I ended a few years ago. What about yours?
Thursday, July 06, 2006
The cheap seats -- July 4, 2006
Every year, the people of my neighborhood, gather in a little park on July 4 to watch the firework show put on by the town across the lake.
It's like the scene in Titanic, where you see the ship shooting off distress signal flares that look tiny above the vast expanse of sea. Only more festive.
More about gardening
I've been really pleased about how pretty our garden is looking. It turns out, though, that these purple flowers are weeds.
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
Gimme an "E"!
Is Carly Simon's You're So Vain still (or was it ever) the anthem for women disgruntled by self-centered crush object?
For me, it's just an earworm, one that will always pop up when I go up to Saratoga or watch a solar eclipse. (I did think it was funny to see Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey sing it in the mostly unwatchable How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days, but that's not a tribute to the song.)
The identity of the unnamed subject of You're So Vain is apparently a mystery. Neel refers us to an informative Wikipedia article which explains that the vain, Saratoga-goin', Lear-jet-flyin', apricot-scarf-wearin' mystery man is not Mick Jagger but does have an "e" in his name.
All I can say is: Carly, don't wait too long to reveal the secret, lest the handful of middle-aged people who still even give a hoot grow old and forget they once cared.
The identity of Vain Man could be the pilot for a series of a cable station time-filler shows called "Less-than-Compelling Mysteries" -- lingering secrets about matters that are either very trivial (Simon's song) or where everyone's educated guess is actually correct (who exposed Valerie Plame to the press?).
A couple of theories about "Who's So Vain."
1) It's Carly Simon herself. Check out the prominent nipples in her album cover photo. She's very vain.
2) My real name is Not Oscar Madison. It has an "e."
3) "Neel Mehta" has three "e"s.
4) Wikipedia states that "he" is not Mick Jagger, who actually sings back-up on the song. I always thought that sounded like Jagger back there, but then I thought that can't be him singing backup about how he himself is so vain. Yes it could: he's that vain.
Tuesday, July 04, 2006
Fourth of July -- Main Street, USA
Saratoga Springs, New York -- June 25, 2006
What is it about "Main Street" in a small American town, it's grand Victorian-era buildings draped in bunting, that says "it's the Fourth of July in the good old U.S. of A"? This image is such an ingrained cliche that Walt Disney, the master of the obviousl-evocative image, turned it into the entry-walkway-cum-shopping-mall of his theme parks.
Maybe it's because so many of these Main Streets, in Anytown, USA, were built around 1876, when our nation celebrated its Centennial. I have the distinct (though vaguely informed) impression the Centennial celebration was grand.
Today is the 230th anniversary of Declaration of Independence, which also happens to be the 30th anniversary of the Bicentennial celebration. You may recall what an incredible dud that was. Except for the "tall ships" sailing into a couple of east coast ports, the celebration wasn't worthy of a great nation. (It was a good deal less than the excitement over the more-or-less meaningless millenium, for example.)
In Washington, D.C., our nation's capital for god's sake, the splashiest bicentennial attraction was the ill-conceived idea of gutting DC's Union Station and converting it into a huge standing-only theatre for the screening of a cheesy 15-minute film. The conversion was (fittingly perhpas) over budget and behind schedule, and right after the Bicentennial, the decisionmakers thought better of it, dismantled the theatre, and launched the 12-year construction project that converted Union Station into the well-appointed transportation hub it is today.
1976 was not a fortuitous year for a national celebration. At the tail end of the Vietnam and Watergate eras, in the midst of the energy crisis and the great fiscal crisis of our major cities, on the eve of disco, it was something of a low point in national self esteem. It was certainly a time when public works projects were heavily stinted. Thus, as a matter of available fisc and public taste, the Bicentennial could hardly help being cheesy.
I hope that our nation has a fitting celebration of its Tricentennial. I hope that in 2076 it is proud and free, that it has led the world in solving the now-looming environmental crisis, and that its democratic institutions have spread elsewhere in the world by example rather than by force. Meanwhile, here are some nice pictures on and around Main Street -- actually Broadway -- in Saratoga Springs.
Above: patriotic bunting, Broadway, Saratoga Springs. Below: Victorian storefronts.
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Adelphi Hotel, Broadway, Saratoga Springs.
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Above: City Hall. Below: The Algonquin.
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What could be more patriotic than small town law practice? Left: "Robert L. Katzman,
Attorney at Law." Right: Chambers of the county judge, Frank B. Williams --
two windows right of the flag, one storey above the toy store "G. Willikers."
They should bottle that stuff. Saratoga's hot springs are free to the public via several drinking fountains in Congress Park. Salty, but interesting.
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Monday, July 03, 2006
Sweet rental rides
My mildly horrendous train trip from Chicago to Albany ended with the inconvenient fillip of a transfer -- via $30 cab ride -- from the Amtrak station to the airport to pick up our rental car.
The car rental is usually the last travel hassle you have to go through after a wearing trip. You negotiate the rental car desk, which is just as fun as the airline check-in desk, and designed to look exactly the same: frustrated patrons leaning forward, legs crossed, and folded arms resting on the chest-high counter while the customer-weary counter clerk tappity-tappity-taps on a computer keyboard.
With age, I've gotten pickier about rental cars. The American-made cars they offer really suck: Chevy Malibu, Pontiac Grand Am. I always wind up at the rental desk trying to negotiate a better car, often unsuccessfully, and I was preparing myself to swallow the bitter pill of a week in a Ford Taurus -- a fitting end to a disappointing journey. But a pleasant surprise awaited me.
"We're giving you a free upgrade," said the Hertz counter clerk. "Would you like a pickup truck or a Volvo S60?"
"Okay..." I eyed her suspiciously. What was the catch? "I'll take the Volvo."
"Would you like a blue one or a silver one?"
The Volvo S60 is for all intents and purposes a luxury car. Not top of the line, perhaps, but a sweet ride. Roomy, ergonomically designed interiors, buttery leather seats the color of ... well, butter, actually. Nice power and handling. Definitely a car that makes you feel a tad cramped and dissatisfied when you get back into your own car after the trip.
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Volvo S60. Mmmmmm.
This was my second really good rental experience in a row. In Vancouver, we were able to substitute a Toyota Matrix for the Ford Taurus. Technically a downgrade, and therefore a cut in price, the Matrix was also a smooth ride. It was comfortable, decently powered, and had two features I really liked.
Toyota Matrix.
One was the "old knees" feature. You may know that a lot of older people are drawn to minivans and SUVs, not because they want big-butt vehicles, but simply because the higher chassis enables riders to get in and out of the seats without doing deep knee bends. Well the Matrix offers high seats in a normal sedan-sized station wagon. I don't know whether this means the car is dangerously high-centered like SUVs -- I hope not. I like the idea of a high-seated alternative.
Second, the Matrix offers what I call the "ABSD" -- or "Anti-Back-Seat-Driver" -- feature. Technically, the design deters annoying kibbitzing from the passenger seat by making it impossible for the front-seat passenger to see any of the dashboard dials.
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Toyota Matrix ABSD dashboard indicators, front and side views.
Neat, huh?
Sunday, July 02, 2006
Sometimes trash is really just trash
Our Town has a thriving culture of what it calls "trash picking." This sounds like, but decidedly is not, rooting through garbage cans, which would be sad and yucky, but rather a social contract in which potentially reusable items are put out on the curb with the trash in an implicit offer to the public: "help yourself" to anything you may find useful. Almost invariably, any such item gets snapped up hours before the trash pickup crew arrives the next morning.
Some of my friends make a hobby out of trash picking. They will dine out for years on stories of how they trash-picked a picnic table, a perfectly decent bike, a pair of great old cross country skis.
Moral Turpitude is furnishing her new solo practice law office these days. Clearly, she is doing what she can to keep her overhead down, but I would really like to steer her away from picking up this sort of thing.
And now, back to our regular programming
I try to avoid "meta" blog posts talking about the style of the blog, but I can't help but notice how verbose I've been recently on the pages of CM. Long, rambling posts and humor that, if it's there at all, can be spotted from so far off that by the time the punch line arrives one feels only boredom. And sentences like that last one.
Maybe the frustration of not being able to blog every day while traveling has skewed my style. Maybe I'll get back to my pithy, funny self now that I'm home.
But what if this blog depression is more chronic than I thought? What if my funny is just gone?
Good god! Did I just use an emoticon?!
Saturday, July 01, 2006
I {heart} you, Southwest Airlines!
Yesterday was a day of candy machine karma.
What is "candy machine karma"? A few days earlier at our hotel in Saratoga, seized by a late night chocolate craving, I hunted down a candy machine after making a floor-to-floor vending machine search. The least objectionable of its pathetic selection was a king-size Snickers for $1.25. The machine slurped up my first dollar but refused to take in my second dollar, while spitting back the first. After about six tries, and remembering that insanity is sometimes defined as trying the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different outcome, I gave up.
Which was just as well. How could consuming a 3.7 ounce, 510 calorie vending machine candy bar at midnight possibly be a good idea, especially from the vantage point of the next morning? Thus candy machine karma: sometimes the universe conspires to prevent you from getting what you want, and you're better off.
Well, yesterday at 3:30, B and I showed up at the Albany-Rensselaer Amtrak station to catch the overnight train back to Chicago. I had managed to put the outbound Chicago-Albany trip behind me, and true to my positive-outlook, was looking forward to a much more enjoyable return trip. (Note definition of "insanity," above.) The train was cancelled.
This is not like having your flight cancelled. In that situation, the airline will try to get you on a later one that day or the next. This was "cancelled" as in dead, done, stick a fork in it. The ticket window clerk told us that there might not be another train to Chicago for days. The heavy rains that have pounded the Eastern U.S. had, we were told, put some track under water, and probably weakened the soil supporting sections of track or even railroad bridges.
"You wouldn't want to be on a train with track collapsing under you, would you?" she said complacently. No I most certainly would not.
B and I took this news serenely, almost with a kind of relief. We immediately set cell phones and laptops in motion and began formulating alternate plans. It was exciting to think of the possibilities for making lemonade out of this lemon: renting a car and taking that road trip after all to get back to the midwest. Or making a further weekend vacation out of the fact that we might have to wait two days to get a flight out on the busy July 4th weekend.
Of course we soon found that a lot of these last minute plans were prohibitively expensive, and at one point we discussed, more than half seriously, buying a new Toyota Prius and driving it home.
At the Albany Airport, I worked my cell phone headset like George Clooney in the Peacemaker, holding the phone with one airline's reservation line while hurrying from ticket desk to ticket desk trying to find a last minute deal.
As you know, for reasons of their own, airlines punish you for last minute purchases, and they punish you for one-way travel. I was getting quoted ticket prices between $550 and $750 per person, one way, to fly out the next day or the day after. This accompanied by patronizing looks and tongue-clucking, as if I were the frivolous last-minute grasshopper in a world of airplane traveling plan-ahead ants.
That's when I reached the Southwest counter. Sympathy for my plight and a price of $200 per person. They would try to get us out standby on the next flight. They bent over backwards to get us out on the next flight -- just 45 minutes away. And they did. The flight was on time, smooth as butter, and our luggage came out first on the other end.
So here's the net result of the weather-based Amtrak cancellation. Amtrak gave us a full, no-hassle refund that would not have been available to us when merely as disgruntled customers. We paid less to fly back than the amount of our refund. And we got home about 14 hours sooner.
I have to find that candy machine again.
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Is 2018 Really the Year of the Woman?
There is hardly a day goes by without a new or historic case of child sexual abuse hitting the headlines along with considerable coverage of the #timesup and #metoo campaigns, you would probably think that the answer to that question above is yes.
The Right to Speak Up
This year marks the centenary of those brave women who fought and finally won the right for women to vote. Oprah Winfrey’s powerful acceptance speech for the Cecil B. Demille award at the Golden Globes, 2018 was inspirational as she announced that the ‘Time was up’ for abusers with particular reference to powerful and brutal abusive men. She went on to commend all of the brave women who came forth and told their story. Mentioning celebrities speaking out about their abuse has ignited and bolstered women everywhere to finally come forward and speak out. All of this would appear to suggest that 2018 will be a year when women finally take control of their lives and careers.
Is it a Cause for Celebration?
This all sounds very positive and encouraging. However, just because women are speaking out and finally telling their stories of abuse does not necessarily make it a cause for celebration.
As survivors of sexual abuse, we understand the level of courage it takes to simply type the words ‘Me Too’ or join campaigns like #timesup. Our concern is what happens when they do? For many women their secret has been hidden or buried for many years and now they can’t go back.
Do we have the resources to deal with the number of victims emerging through these campaigns? What happens to them after they speak out? Where do they go with their pain, confusion and hurt?
No Political Interest
There is no evidence of our politicians showing any great concern or interest in this issue. Once again, we appear to be waiting for men in positions of power to do the right thing. What is holding them back? How can they not see the value in putting in place the necessary resources? What has to happen in order to acknowledge that this issue will not go away and requires men to become part of the solution and not the problem.
Something has to give, and things will only get worse if the current stance of turning a blind eye to the underfunded, overburdened minimal services that currently struggle to meet the demands placed upon them. Services like the Rape Crisis Centre, One in Four and The CARI Foundation, currently have long waiting lists and their CEO, s have to spend an inordinate amount of their precious time fundraising just to stay open. It would appear that in Ireland the stance has been taken that it isn’t really anything to do with us and that it is an American celebrity issue.
Taking Responsibility
Although we didn’t have the back up of such campaigns when we were prosecuting our father, we do know the turmoil in our lives when we spoke up and tried to deal with the sheer devastation that came with it. The memories came flooding back quicker than we could process and for most of the time it felt like we had been hit by a truck.
We who encourage victims to speak out must share the responsibility to provide these brave women with the answers, support and help they so badly need. We also must be mindful not to place undue pressure on women who may not yet be ready to speak out. Waiving anonymity may be a step too far for some and we must honour everyone’s process. Sexual abuse may be in the media much more than ever, but headlines die as quick as they arise. Unless there is a celebrity involved the story doesn’t even last 24 hours.
If a victim is lucky enough to receive justice through the courts, what then? The offender may be placed in prison for a few years, which also seems to depend on the mood of the judge on the day. The sheer lack of understanding around the impacts of this crime not only on the victim but their families, communities and society are demonstrated all too frequently through grossly inappropriate sentencing.
There remains no pressure on the judicial system to educate themselves on the impacts on its victims and although we can appreciate that all cases are not the same, are we to simply look on as injustice continues through the courts sentencing procedures. Have we no recourse? Have we no rights? It would appear that judges are accountable to no one. Why are they not listening to the people they are there to serve?
We are aware there are many treatment programs available to perpetrators, but none appear to be mandatory. How can that work? How can things ever be different or produce better outcomes for the public.
These are just some of the real concerns we have around the current outpouring of pain in the world. Particularly on this little isle of ours. We are sure we are not alone when we urge everyone to get on board and do whatever you can do to ensure that women’s pain does not become sound bites and that it does in fact become the year of the woman. It is time for change……
The Kavanagh Sisters – 23rd April 2018
The Aftermath of the Belfast Rape Case
I believe timing played a major role in the publics reaction to the Belfast rape trial. The world has changed a lot in the last six months and for many, the trial represented the straw that broke the camels back.
Shift in Thinking
Rape cases happen every day but because of how this trial was reported on, and the treatment of both the victim and the accused men, this case caused a palpable shift in thinking about casual sex and how consent is given and understood. For many women both north and south of the border it was time to stand up and say enough is enough. It is also reasonable to say that we only heard about this case because the accused were celebrities in the rugby world. Although the accused were found not guilty of rape, the public’s reaction following the verdict was understandable and, in my opinion, warranted. Even though they were found not guilty of rape, they were most definitely guilty of treating a young girl as an object for their own sexual gratification. They demonstrated no understanding of the condition they left the young girl in and showed a complete lack of consideration for her wellbeing. They paid no regard to the fact that the girl they had intimate relations with left their home bloodied, bruised and in tears. In my opinion this is a disgusting way to behave towards anyone. The inappropriate texts that emerged during the trial added to how enraged the public felt towards these men. It is rare that people react so strongly to a rape case, but the Belfast trial provoked an enormous response as it clearly highlighted the plight of the victim. It must have resonated or affected people personally in order to trigger this level of response. In my opinion both our drinking culture and our not too distant relationship with the church and its deliberate misrepresentation of what sex and sexuality meant in our lives allowed both men and women to relate to the victim and accused. There probably is no one, male or female who hasn’t woke up at some time in their past, hung over and not remembering where they were or how they got home. I find It commendable that people got behind the victim in the Belfast rape trial as she demonstrated such courage while being treated appallingly by the courts. However, it would be even better if everyone could respond to the entire issue of rape and sexual violence in the same way and recognise how personally our lives are impacted by these crimes. We are in danger of becoming de-sensitised to this crime through the regularity of media reports. We need to see this crime for the epidemic that it is?
Living in Denial
Knowing that the available statistics around rape and sexual violence is not reflective of the actual numbers of victims living with the impacts of this crime, makes it inconceivable that Northern Ireland was left with no rape crisis centre due to lack of funding. It speaks volumes about the levels of denial that currently exists around the need for providing resources for these crimes. We need to understand how victims of sexual crimes are affected if we are ever to realise how these crimes ultimately impact and shape our communities. When will we see that through not providing adequate supports to both the victims and perpetrators in these cases, we all pay the price? Some examples of how the effects on victims spill over into all our lives:
1. Some victims looking for pain relief from their emotional and psychological suffering turn to drink or drugs. These individuals that we often refer to as “druggies” are merely trying to stop the pain they feel. If anything, we should feel compassion for the levels of pain they are trying to avoid.
2. Some victims get in deeper and deeper and have to turn to crime to support the habit that began because of an inability to cope with their suffering. They don’t’ feel they are worth anything. The drugs they take to avoid their pain is also preventing them from any positive feelings or hope for a better future.
3. Violence is often the trade mark of male victims of sexual abuse in an attempt to take back their power and their masculinity. These victims often end up in prison for committing violent crimes and are likely to be there because they don’t know how to express emotions in a healthy manner as they were neither given the permission or the tools necessary to speak out.
4. We found during our research for ‘Why Go Back? 7 Steps to Healing from Childhood Sexual Abuse’ that men and women that have experienced abuse and don’t receive treatment for trauma are more likely to develop mental health issues, addictions, eating disorders and have suicidal tendencies.
5. Marital issues around sex, spills over into discontentment and unhappy marriages. This leads to poor parenting which contributes to the next generation of dysfunctional adults.
These are just some of the ways rape and sexual violence impacts all of us. Although this might seem like an extreme generalisation, it is not even touching the sides of the scale of this problem. Yet another way we pay for this crime is through our taxes. We pay for this crime through the health sector, judicial system, child and family services, addictions services, and probation services.
Wake Up Call
We need to collectively wake up to the scale of the problem and start taking it seriously. An obvious starting point would be providing the much-needed funding for the current experienced service providers both north and south of the border like the Rape Crisis Centres-One in Four-CARI and Nexus. We need to recognise the vital role these services play in providing advice and support to victims and their families. The waiting lists for these services are outrageous with Nexus NI currently holding a waiting list of 800 people. I wonder what it will take before the government understand just how short sighted it is not to supply the funding on this end of the problem, knowing that if these individuals cannot access the help they need they will end up costing the state more through the fall out. The state needs to step up to the plate and start fulfilling their responsibilities. Victims are tired of being let down with nowhere to turn and trying navigate their pain and suffering while this country constantly demonstrates no consideration or compassion through lack of provision for them. It is also important that we all understand that we can play a role in calling for change. We have a right to feel outraged and see the current situation as unacceptable. Protesting does have an impact on how we move forward. Everyone needs to do whatever they can, public voices do count.
Moving Forward
In relation to the men at the centre of the Belfast trial I offer the following advice. Give back, find a relatable cause (such as the new development of a rape crisis centre in Belfast) and fund raise or give talks if that’s what is needed to redeem yourselves. Rightly or wrongly you find yourselves in a very negative position. A position that represents an era of misogyny and male domination that we are rightly moving away from. Your actions now could make a huge positive contribution to that movement. June- 19th April 2018
Child Abuse and PTSD
Talking and writing about our childhood abuse and how it impacted us, were key to us gaining a greater understanding of thoughts and behaviours that we had as adults, and that we hated. We didn’t know that these thoughts and behaviours were actually disorders that were researched and understood by many health professionals. These disorders or conditions developed as a direct result of the abuse we had each endured as children and some still impact us today.
Mental and physical health issues like depression, anxiety, poor self-esteem, headaches, backpain, and panic attacks are just a few. We would find it difficult to identify any area of our lives that wasn’t altered or damaged as a result of our abuse. However, it is extremely unlikely that we would have ever fully accepted that we were not responsible for causing these problems, if we had we not gone back and picked our lives apart.
With that in mind we continue researching and working on ourselves. This blog is about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and we hope that it helps make sense for those of you who suffer from this particular disorder and those that support them.
What is PTSD?
PTSD is defined as a mental condition that makes it difficult to regulate emotions. It is said that individuals who have suffered childhood sexual abuse and repetitive or prolonged exposure to trauma can develop any number of conditions and disorders. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is just one of them.
Most of us will have heard of PTSD and we associate it with soldiers following a tour in a war-torn country. We don’t tend to connect it with adults that have suffered child abuse, and this is probably because as an adult, the symptoms of PTSD can mimic other disorders like, depression, anxiety, hypervigilance, problems with alcohol and drugs, sleep issues, and eating disorders, all making it difficult to diagnose the condition. PTSD often develops in children that experience any form of prolonged trauma. The list below outlines some of the conditions that drive the development of this condition.
PTSD can develop in children if the following conditions exist:
• If the child feels threatened.
• The relationship of the child to the perpetrator, the closer the relationship the more likely the child will experience PTSD in later life.
• If the child feels alone or abandoned by their caregiver.
• If the child feels guilty or responsible for the abuse.
• The child’s physical and emotional short-term response to abuse (i.e. if the child’s heart rate escalates, this will increase the likelihood of developing PTSD as an adult.
PTSD is grouped by the following types of symptoms:
1. Re-Experiencing.
1. Re-experiencing, or reliving, the traumatic event.
2. Avoidance.
1. Actively avoiding people, places, or situations that remind you of the traumatic event.
3. Hyperarousal.
4. Negative Thoughts and Beliefs.
These symptoms show up in the following ways.
• Trouble sleeping / bad dreams / flashbacks.
• Fear of dying, anxiety, or depression.
• Loss of interest in activities.
• Regular physical complaints such as headaches or stomach-aches.
• Extreme emotional reactions.
• Irritability, anger, violence.
• Difficulty concentrating.
• Increased vigilance or alertness to their environment.
• Avoiding people or places.
For us, PTSD is not just another collection of trivial words and symptoms put together for dramatic affect. They are real symptoms that as survivors of child sexual abuse, we have dismissed for far too long believing we were just hypochondriacs’ or plain mad. It is also understandable why PTSD can be difficult to diagnose as the symptoms can be associated with many other conditions. It is for this very reason that understanding how abuse impacts the human psyche is vital if you are to recover.
It would be very difficult for those of you who have not been abused to try to image the levels of fear a child feels being raped by an adult. It is all the more difficult when you understand that in most cases it is an adult the child trusts and loves. You might get a glimpse of the fear by trying this, Close your eyes, imagine your in bed and a loud sound wakes you up, you can hear sounds downstairs. You know no one else should be in your home, but you hear the sounds of presses opening and closing. You contemplate if you should go and investigate, and then you hear footsteps at the end of the stairs.
That can only give you a tiny sense of what it is like growing up in a home with an abusing parent.
It is impossible to live with that level of awareness or fear on an ongoing basis, so children learn to dissociate or compartmentalise their experiences in order to cope with daily life. These suppressed emotions are what cause various mental conditions and disorders to develop later in life. I doubt that any victim of trauma can escape the occurrence of mental health issues and with PTSD like other mental health conditions there appears to be no cure other than a combination between medication and therapy. I believe that if you work through your abuse and fully understand the origins of your thoughts and behaviours you will be in a much better place to control the symptoms and live a much healthier life.
We strongly recommend researching and writing as an approach when you begin your own healing journey. We also believe that if we had a book with the information that is contained within our book ‘Why Go Back? 7 Steps to Healing from Childhood Sexual Abuse’ we could have been spared years of unnecessary pain and suffering. We know that anyone suffering from the impacts of sexual abuse will benefit from the learning we have gained. We also want to spread a clear message of hope to other victims, that there is life after abuse.
If everyone understood abuse and its impacts, people would better comprehend why it can take so long for victims to come forward and speak out. It may also help people appreciate why it takes so long to recover from this horrendous crime. With understanding would come the desire to provide the necessary resources and demand the changes in policy and practices of the judicial system. The more everyone understands how sexual abuse impacts its victims the more compassionate we will all be towards each other.
Paula-8th April 2018
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Advocating for Canada Geese
Advocacy for Animals is pleased this week to publish this article by M. David Feld, who is cofounder and National Program Director of GeesePeace, an international nonprofit organization dedicated to devising nonlethal and environmentally sound solutions to problems created by the presence of geese and other wildlife in human communities.
From Awe
Loyalty, fidelity, cooperation, heroism, and sacrifice: the mother goose and gander mate for life. They will never abandon their goslings, even under intense pressure and threats to their lives. If the parent geese do fly off, it is only a strategic ploy to allow the goslings to escape by taking advantage of their speed, agility, and ability to hide in small places. The parent geese always return.
In the spring, migrating Canada geese in the Atlantic Flyway travel 1,000 or more miles to the Hudson Bay in Canada to nest in their birthplaces. It is a biological imperative that they cannot break, just as salmon must swim upstream to spawn. By April, most migrating geese are flying north. And then in October, they fly south before the northern water bodies freeze over. There are three other flyways in the United States for migratory birds like Canada geese: the Mississippi Flyway, the Central Flyway, and the Pacific Flyway.
Canada geese fly in a V-formation. The lead goose in the formation reduces the air resistance for the rest and so expends more energy than the other birds. The geese change positions in the formation, taking turns at the lead so that all bear the burden of leadership. When a goose is injured or exhausted, its mate leaves the formation and stays with the injured or exhausted goose until it recovers or dies. On the migration south this may result in the mate’s own death, because a single goose will not have the advantage of flying in formation to conserve energy and therefore may not reach the temperate areas before the water bodies freeze over.
In my hometown of Brooklyn, New York, migrating geese were the only noncaptive wildlife we ever saw. I remember waiting for the heralds of spring and winter each year: the sound of honking geese. Sometimes they flew low enough for me to hear the whoosh of their powerful wings as they passed overhead in magnificent V-formations, wave after wave. That was in 1956, the year the Brooklyn Dodgers finally won the World Series.
To Awful
Today some Canada geese are staying all year in urban and suburban areas. They seem never to migrate, and each year there are more of them. Many people in these areas consider Canada geese to be a pest. They fear that geese droppings are harmful to humans and that geese make parks, playgrounds, and beaches unusable. They believe that geese are aggressive and noisy and are destroying their lawns,sparks, and golf courses. It is a fact that they have become a danger to aircraft.
What happened? Why are the resident geese not joining their migratory cousins in Canada during the great migrations? Are they just too lazy? Do they stay for the abundant sweet, freshly clipped grass and fresh water we provide in our parks and golf courses? Understanding what happened is the first step toward becoming an advocate for the Canada geese living in our urban and suburban areas.
Today’s resident Canada geese are the descendants of migratory geese who were captured in the early 1900s. The flight feathers of these birds were clipped to keep them from escaping. Commercial hunters then used them as live decoys to increase their take of migratory geese. Because the captured geese were made flightless, their immediate offspring and later descendants never learned how to migrate (migratory behavior in geese is learned). Thus resident geese have no choice about whether or not to migrate—they are biologically trapped in the human communities in which they live.
Some resident geese in urban and suburban communities are descended from geese that were resident in rural areas. The rural geese came to the towns and suburbs because people began to feed them or because some of them learned that they were safer in human communities than in the wild. Their goslings then treated the town or suburb (or nearby islands or marshes) as their refuge.
After decades of hunting using live decoys, the migratory geese flocks were nearly gone. In the 1930s, however, the practice of using live decoys was made illegal in the United States, punishable by large fines and prison sentences. Still, by the mid 1960s, U.S. federal and state wildlife managers had become so alarmed by the continued failure of the flocks to recover that they joined conservationist, sportsman, and water-fowl groups in an extraordinary effort to increase the Canada goose population through artificial incubation of eggs in hatcheries, the use of nesting tubs to reduce predation of the nests, and relocating geese to better and safer breeding grounds.
By 1990 this effort seemed to have been a great success, and wildlife managers were rightly proud of their accomplishment. Little did they know that the Canada goose would eventually be reviled as a “pest” species in some American communities. In some urban areas, where hunting is not an option (and for good reason), human residents have resorted to capturing geese and their goslings while they are flightless during the molting season (June and July) and killing them one by one by putting them in air-tight boxes which are then filled with carbon dioxide gas. This is not an acceptable way to treat innocent wildlife.
And Back: The GeesePeace Approach
Advocacy is not just wishful thinking. It is a process that begins with knowledge, empathy, and leadership. It ends with communities resolving the wildlife conflict and being happy about the way they did so. To advocate for Canada geese one must first understand why the Canada goose is revered by many people as a symbol of wildlife appreciation and protection. (The Canada goose is still the symbol of the US Fish and Wildlife Services Refuge System.) Then one must understand why some of these same geese are now resident all year in urban and suburban areas and coming into conflict with people. Then one must find a respectful and humane solution to the community’s problem. And then, finally, one must implement the solution in partnership with community leaders, people who wish to protect the geese, and people who find them a nuisance. This is the general approach developed by GeesePeace, a nonprofit organization that I cofounded in 1999 in my community of Lake Barcroft, Virginia, a lakeside suburb of Washington, DC.
The specific elements of the GeesePeace program include: stabilizing the resident-goose population by oiling or addling goose eggs, thereby preventing them from hatching (this practice also makes it easier to flush out parent geese and other adults from nesting areas, since there are no goslings to protect); establishing a “geese-exclusion zone” by posting border collies on each body of water in an area where geese cannot be tolerated; enhancing the border collies’ effectiveness by planting tall grasses or other high vegetation, which the geese perceive as a hiding place for land predators; using chemical repellants for short periods to prevent geese from feeding in particularly sensitive areas; and establishing a no-feeding program, which may include the use of colorful and attractive signage that people are more likely to read. Collies are not used during molting season and from mid-November to mid-March, when the weather is cold, and from mid-March to mid-May, when geese are nesting.
The GeesePeace solution will work in any community in which there are conflicts with urban wildlife. We simply take the “lethal option” off the table and at the same time commit ourselves to solving the problem for everyone involved, including the geese. In an instant, the negative energy of controversy is converted into the positive energy of cooperation, as everyone works together toward the same goal.
In the 10 years since its founding, GeesePeace has become an organization of national and international scope. All GeesePeace programs are managed by local communities, some of which form partnerships to share resources and coordinate activities.
In addition to its program for dealing with resident Canada geese, GeesePeace has also developed strategies that address the presence of deer in suburban communities and the very important problem of bird strikes with aircraft.
—M. David Feld
GeesePeace—where “Birds of a different feather, flock together.”
Images: Canada goose, Leonard Lee Rue III; Canada goose, © Getty Images; the GeesePeace logo, courtesy of GeesePeace; GeesePeace signs in Eisenhower Park, Long Island, New York, courtesy of GeesePeace.
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The thrill is gone
"It's funny because it's true," said Homer Simpson. But just how far can you take the adage that all humor is rooted in truth? Saturday night's White House Correspondents Dinner suggests there is a limit.
This year's event featured comedian du jour Stephen Colbert playing his right-wing blowhard alter ego, also named Stephen Colbert, celebrating President George W. Bush, who sat, mostly unamused, just a few feet away at the head table for all 25 excruciating minutes of the satirical roast. Colbert's material revolved around the same themes that dominate his nightly parody on Comedy Central: the superiority of emotion over intellect, the power of acting from the gut rather than the brain, the irrelevancy of reality, of dogma over doubt.
On television, before a live, like-minded, studio audience, this stuff can be devastatingly funny. On C-SPAN, with Bush seated just off-camera, it was something else. What was hilarious in one context was awkward, uncomfortable and unsettling in another.
This took me completely by surprise. To my ears, there are few hours of television that generate more laughs than the one-two punch of Jon Stewart's Daily Show followed by Colbert's Colbert Report. It's fine to draw attention to Bush's anti-intellectualism and the disastrous consequences for the world around us, on a comedy channel. But when the guy is sitting right there, it's much harder to forget about those consequences.
You may not share my discomfort. Many of the invitees at the dinner did chuckle along with Colbert, though not as heartily as I suspect the organizers would have hoped. (The entire thing can be seen here. and read here.) But consider a few excerpts:
That's funny, until you remember that Bush's refusal to accept the findings of the world's best epidemiologists -- and fund family-planning programs that include the distribution of condoms -- has condemned countless thousands of Africans to an existence cursed by AIDS.
That's funny until you remember that his dismissal of the overwhelming consensus of the scientific community is wasting precious time as we struggle to put the brakes on climate change.
That's funny until you remember that this is a guy who would undermine the education of our children with creationist nonsense instead of sticking to evolution.
That's funny, until you remember that the Bush administration exposed the identity of a covert CIA operative for purely political purposes. Or until you remember that reality really does seem to have a liberal bias, at least it does relative to the neo-conservatism of those in charge at the moment.
That's funny, until you remember that there are thousands of families who are missing a father or mother or son or daughter thanks to a war waged on false pretences, and that, eight months after Katrina, thousands more still have almost nothing to their name thanks to the worse disaster response in American history.
And then it's not so funny anymore. Not when the president is sitting right there.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Colbert sounded truely angry at points. His delivery, although amazing, was clearly deeply felt and designed to be as direct as possible. He may have maintained the vanier of a comedian, but there is no doubt everyone in the room got the real message. Uncomfortable? Absoultely. But to see all these people forced by polite social conventions to just take it was unforgettable.
10:12 AM
Blogger James Hrynyshyn said...
Very true. But did Bush and his cronies get the message? I'm not so sure.
10:26 AM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
I agree with what you're saying, and I think that making the audience and the president actually *think* about the consequences of the President's actions (or inaction) is exactly the point of Mr. Colbert's entire speech.
I applaud you for highlighting specific examples of each of the points Stephen was making.
10:59 AM
Blogger wolf21m said...
I agree that this is a very, very sad state of affairs. Its even sadder that under the guise of comedy is the only way that someone will get away with saying this directly to the president. I am glad he had to sit there and listen to it.
11:33 AM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Isn't the best satire supposed to make us giggle -- but ultimately leave us a bit squeamish? I don't like the idea of eating children, but that doesn't mean that Jonathan Swift should have written any other way . . .
11:55 AM
Blogger James Hrynyshyn said...
The pleasure we get from reading Jonathan Swift today comes in part from not having to read "A Modest Proposal" out loud in the presence of the artistocracy he was skewering.
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What do you say to yourself when you’re in the alley lane getting ready to race? You might say things like, "I had two good runs, but I always blow the third run." And sure enough, what do you do? You blow it.
What happens is that you have a self-image – a picture of yourself and your behavior in any particular situation. You talk to yourself about this self-image, and then you go out and perform. Afterward, based on the result of your action, your self-talk either reinforces the self-image ("Yes, that's just like me" or "I always do that") or it negates the self-image. If your self-talk negates the self-image, you usually try to justify the result of your action. For instance, in competition, if you are used to always blowing it on the third run, and for some reason you didn't blow it this time, your self-talk is "I don't know what happened this time. I got lucky," and you start running yourself down or making a justification, so that you can retain your self-image – your comfort zone.
We're pretty hard on ourselves, usually for no good reason and certainly to no good end. Would you let me talk to you the way that you sometimes talk to yourself? Of course not, and you'd be right to stop me. Yet we have no problem doing this to ourselves over and over.
A lot of self-talk is about what we don't want: what we don't want to do, what we don't want to take place, or what we don't want to say. That's what worry is – a form of negative self-talk about the things that we don't want to take place. Instead, we need to emphasize what we do want.
Mark Mosely, who played for the Washington Redskins, was in the Super Bowl several years ago. Mark was being interviewed after the game, which the Redskins lost, and he said, "You know, I had a funny feeling all week long that I was going to miss the field goal. And sure enough, that’s what happened."
Now, what would Mark Mosely have given to understand how to manage and control his self-talk in that situation? The feeling he was getting was coming from the self-talk that he had inside of his head. And not only what would he have given, but what would the other players on his team have given to have him understand that?
The computer industry uses the acronym "GIGO: garbage in, garbage out." We can apply this same acronym to our minds; if we put negativity into our minds, we should expect to get negativity as a result. If 60-85% of self-talk is negative, and we're talking to ourselves many times as fast as we can verbalize, we're putting a lot of negativity, and possibly misery, into our lives. We can't stop talking to ourselves, so if we want to live positive lives, if we want to increase our happiness and success and reach our potential in life, then we'd better learn how to make our self-talk positive.
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4 More Common Misconceptions About Jesus Becoming Human
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She [Mary] gave birth to her firstborn son [Jesus]. (Luke 2:7)
Today, we conclude answering some of the most common questions regarding God entering history as the man Jesus Christ.
1. Did Jesus cease to be God when he became a man?
No, he did not. Jesus proclaims his deity throughout the gospels, and Jesus' opponents admitted that they wanted to put him to death "because you, a mere man, claim to be God" (John 10:33, NIV). Jesus not only said he was God, but he also did things only God can do, like forgive sin (Mark 2:5). Unless he was God, Jesus had no business forgiving other people's sins. Jesus didn't lose his divinity, he added to it humanity. Jesus Christ is not God-minus; he's God-plus.
1. Is Jesus God or man?
Yes. He's the God-man. He's both.
Theological liberals often emphasize Jesus' humanity and describe him as an exemplary leader who helped the poor, fought for justice, and cared for the widow and orphan. They'll put him in a category similar to Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and Mother Teresa.
Theological conservatives, on the other hand, often emphasize Jesus' divinity. His suffering and temptation weren't that big of a deal because Jesus was God and therefore impervious. Like Clark Kent, Jesus looked like a regular guy on the outside, but underneath the Galilean peasant garb he was a man of steel.
The truth is, Jesus was fully man and fully God. He lived life perfectly as a man, to serve as our example and a flawless substitute sacrifice in our place. He didn't "cheat" by using his divinity "but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men" (Phil. 2:7). At the same time, Jesus never stopped being God. Jesus was one person with two natures: fully God, fully man. And he lived by the power of the Holy Spirit.
1. Did God have intimate relations with Mary?
Mormons believe that God the Father is a flesh-and-blood physical being who had actual intimate relations with Mary and impregnated her as a result. The Bible doesn't teach that at all. The angel Gabriel described the conception to Mary as a miracle of the Holy Spirit. Mary says repeatedly that she's a virgin. Joseph, a godly, honorable man, has been waiting to consummate his marriage with his wife, and it would be a horrendous thing to think that God himself violated Mary.
1. Is the incarnation of Jesus a secondary issue?
Some churches and leaders throughout history, including the present day, have argued that the incarnation is not crucial; we can agree to disagree and it doesn't really matter if Mary was a virgin. There are many reasons, however, to consider the incarnation a primary, non-negotiable element of faithful Christian doctrine. If Mary was not actually a virgin, the implications would be numerous and vast. For example:
• If Mary was not a virgin, then the Bible is not true. Gabriel said that Mary was a virgin. Mary said that she was a virgin. If we don't trust God's word on this point, there is no reason to trust his word elsewhere.
• If Mary was not a virgin, then Scripture remains unfulfilled and our sins are not forgiven.
• If Mary was not a virgin, then Jesus' mother was an ungodly and deceptive woman. If Mary concocted a story to hide the fact that she was cheating on Joseph or messing around with Joseph, then the entire story surrounding Jesus' birth is greatly altered.
• If Mary was not a virgin, it would mean that Jesus was just a normal guy.
• If Jesus was raised by a woman who made up preposterous religious lies to cover up her own bad behavior, why should we believe the extraordinary claims of her or her son?
Jesus is fully God and fully man. We cannot expect to fully understand this mystery here on earth, but thanks to the God-man we will join him in heaven someday, see him face to face, and know fully as Paul tells the Corinthians (1 Corinthians 13:12).
Which do you tend to appreciate more: Jesus' humanity (his works and example), or Jesus' divinity (his power and perfection)? How would a more complete understanding of the incarnation change the way you serve, follow, and relate to God?
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Deal to remove Northern Ireland sectarian walls precedes G8 meet
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain and Northern Ireland will unveil an agreement on Friday aimed at removing physical walls separating Catholic and Protestant communities in the British province over the next 10 years.
The agreement comes as Northern Ireland, which along with Britain is part of the United Kingdom, will be the setting next week for a meeting of the world's eight major economies (G8).
The meeting will be chaired by British Prime Minister David Cameron, who is hoping to use it to attract investment to the economically struggling province.
In the deal aimed at breaking down economic and physical barriers left behind by the region's troubled past, the Catholic and Protestant communities will also agree to boost investment and temporarily allow Northern Ireland to borrow more money.
The region will also get help to develop its infrastructure and to create new jobs.
"This agreement is a symbol of our ambitious vision for Northern Ireland - a genuinely shared society that is fulfilling its economic potential and strengthening the foundations for peace, stability and prosperity for the future," Cameron said.
A 1998 peace deal largely ended more than three decades of violence in the province between mainly Catholic Irish nationalists seeking union with Ireland and predominantly Protestant Loyalists who want to remain part of the UK.
Cameron and the head of the devolved Northern Irish government Peter Robinson will meet in London to agree the deal ahead of the G8 meeting.
The agreement will include new regeneration programs and measures to better integrate Catholic and Protestant schools and housing, while paving the way for former defense ministry houses and land to be used for civilian purposes.
(Reporting by William James; Editing by Andrew Osborn and Michael Roddy)
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Religion and politics don't mix
Bruce Gorton | 03 May, 2013 10:54
A mosque burns during a riot in Meikhtila.
Image by: Soe Zeya Tun / REUTERS
Religion mixing with government has never been a terribly good thing, whether it is in Pakistan or Soviet Russia, Malaysia or America.
Most Muslims view Islam the same way most Christians view Christianity, or Buddhists view Buddhism, it is about trying to be a good person. The trouble is a significant minority of these populations view their religions as being about the rules set forth within the holy teachings.
And when you have political dominance by one group you will generally end up with that minority getting powerful because they are actually the ones who are most outwardly pious.
They take their religion seriously, and it isn’t about being a good person to them, it is about being a good Muslim, Christian, Buddhist or whatever.
And if the rules of being a good Muslim, Christian, Buddhist or whatever clashes with being a good human being, they will always pick their religion. The 969 movement in Malaysia is all about being good Buddhists, which doesn’t seem to be working out to being good people for the local Muslim population.
That is why gay rights has such a hard time with religious conservatives in America, they seem to pick being good Christians as being more important than being good people. They can see the suffering they inflict but it comes second to the fact that they believe their god views homosexuality as being an abomination, and obeying their God on that issue is part of what they mean by being good Christians.
And it doesn’t really help when you have the religious left arguing that their interpretation of scripture says otherwise, because rights should not be contingent upon theological arguments, they’re rights.
Note: there is a difference between the religious left and secularists who happen to be religious: the former believes that their religion calls for a more feminist or gay friendly society, the latter believes their religion is their own business and shouldn’t be law. This isn’t a criticism of all religious people.
And you know why I included Soviet Russia in the list? Because we atheists suffer the same basic issue when we end up with an explicitly atheist government making a big deal about how atheist it is going to be - for most atheists being a good atheist is all about trying to be a good person but there is always going to be that minority with more elaborate ideas on the subject.
This is why theocracies, including atheocracies, tend to end up poorer and with more internal instability than their secular counterparts – all fraud is identity fraud because we all tend to think someone who agrees with us is a good person and someone who disagrees is not.
And that often isn’t the case, often the person who most seems to agree with you is in fact the person you should be most worried about.
To see this in action one only needs follow the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) in the US – 96% of its clients are actually Christians but because they aren’t quite the right Christians for the ones doing the proselytising they are facing discrimination within the military.
And this is causing greater and greater strain, leading to more suicides and less unit cohesion.
But if you look at any column where the MRFF is brought up you end up with Christians arguing that the organisation is bigoted against Christianity even as the bulk of its clients are Christian.
This is because those evangelical proselytisers are vocally proclaiming how Christian they are, while the MRFF is ‘on the other side’ by virtue of the fact that it disagrees with them.
Most of the people posting about how bad the MRFF is being for disagreeing are not on the religious right, most of them think what the chaplains are doing is encouraging soldiers to be good people and what is wrong with that?
And the same thing happens with Islamist governments – because they make such a huge deal of running the country according to Islamic doctrine the average Muslim in those countries think they mean less corruption and less injustice because, well, the Quran is all about that right?
Then they end up with morality police and rape victims being subject to the lash. These people aren’t alien to us, they are us. They fall for the exact same tricks the rest of us do, because we all tend to “side with our side.”
And then it turns out that the whole concept of sides is bullshit designed to keep us defending the same lunatics we would rather not associate with.
Secularism is an attempt to get around this problem, it is an attempt to get us to think about things aside from religion, not a rejection of religion precisely but rather, “deal with the issue and facts in front of you”.
You don’t know what Jesus or Mohammed or Buddha or Vishnu or Kant would do, you’re none of those figures. Secularism is about doing the best you can do.
And really it is what people do that matters in the end.
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Humidification and Dehumidification Introduction
Humidification and dehumidification (drying) of air are required in many commercial and industrial applications for the following reasons:
• The control of air moisture content within the occupied space to ensure the well-being of human, animal, or plant life
• The control of air moisture content within a space for process control or to protect products in store
Table 9.4 indicates some of the factors that have to be considered when dealing with the moisture content in air. In the case of inert gases used in various industrial processes, other factors have to be considered.
The process of air humidification is achieved by means of a device called a humidifier. Humidifier Types
Many different types of humidifiers are in common use; the humidification process is simply achieved by adding moisture into the air to be conditioned.
Humidification and Dehumidification
High humidity
Low humidity
111 health and associated
Encourages the growth of
Lowers the body’s resistance to
Spores and fungi.
Infection and respiratory disease.
Electrostatic shocks
Eliminated at high moisture content.
Increased at low moisture content, causing discomfort to occupants and damage to electronic components. High explosion risk.
Eye conditions
Possible bacteria buildup and health effects.
A high rate of evaporation of the eyeball oil film results in dry, itchy eyes with an increase m eve damage in dusty environments,
Respiratory tract (nose and throat) problems
Increase in bacterial infection.
Resistance to throat, nose, and lung infection is increased, due to the breakdown of the protective mechanisms in the body.
Thermal stress
Reduction in evaporative body cooling. In hot industries, this results in body overheating.
Increase in body cooling with an increase in air movement.
Skin effects
Bacteria growth in skinfolds. Clothing type has to be considered.
As moisture is required to keep the skin supple, low humidity causes cracking of the skin, increasing the risk of chemicals and bacteria entering the body
Rusting of steel, breakdown of timber and fabrics. Damage of stored goods by insects and mold growth.
Rapid drying out of paper, timber, and fabrics. This is an important factor for storing antiques.
The dust concentration is higher in a dry atmosphere, causing health and discomfort problems. Odors, irritant gases, and vapors are more noticeable at low humidiry.
Vegetation effects
Various diseases, depending on produce.
Various diseases, depending on produce.
The selection of a particular method depends on the size of the installation, availability of water or steam, the degree, of control required, and the methods used for conditioning and distributing the air.
Humidification is achieved by one of the following methods:
1. By producing a fine mist or spray
2. By evaporation from a pad of absorbent material within the airsrream
3. By vaporizing water
4. By steam injection
Figure 9.14 shows the processes of humidification and dehumidification in a skeleton psychrometric chart, while Table 9.5 explains the cycle.
Note: The actual final air conditions given in Fig. 9.14 and Table 9.5 must always be related to the slope of the line, as in some cases the specified conditions may not be met.
Humidifiers Complete with Water Storage
Humidification and Dehumidification
-> 3
подпись: -> 3In this type of humidifier, the water required for the humidification process is stored within the unit and is normally fed automatically from the water mains. However, smaller portable units do not have this automatic facility and have to be manually filled with water as required.
Moisture content, kg kg*1 dry air
Dry-bulb temperature, ”C FIGURE 9.14 Humidification and dehumidification processes.
State line: Center point to
Final air conditions
Equipment used
Increase in moisture content, specific volume, dry and wet bulb temperature, specific enthalpy, and % saturation
Air washer with beared water
Heating and humidification
Increase in moisture content, specific volume, dry — and vvet-bulb temperature, and specific enthalpy: decreased % saturation
Steam humidifier or recirculated hor-water spray
Sensible heating only
Constant moisture content; increase in specific volume, dry — and wet-bulb temperature, and specific enthalpy; decreased % saturation
Steam, hot-water coils, or electric heating
Dehumidification and heating
Decreased moisture content: increase in specific volume and dry — and wet-bulb temperature; decreased specific enthalpy and % saturation
Chemical dehumidification
Decreased moisture content and specific volume; constant dry-bulb temperature: decreased wet-bulb temperature, specific enthalpy, and % saturation
Not practical
Cooling and dehumidifying
Decreased moisture content and specific volume, dry — and wet-bulb temperature, specific enthalpy, and % saturation
Chilled-water washer
Sensible cooling only
Constant moisture content; decreased specific volume, dry — and wet-bulb temperature, and specific enthalpy; increased % saturation. When point 7 reaches the 100% saturation line, the air is saturated; further cooling will result in moisture being removed from the air.
Cooling coil and washer at dew point
Evaporative cooling only
Increased moisture content and specific volume; decreased dry — and wet-bulb temperature; increased specific enthalpy and % saturation
To prevent contamination of the water mains by back-siphonage, the water inlet to the appliance should incorporate either
• an air gap,
• an approved type of pipe interrupter, or
• a combined check and antivacuum valve.
The national and local water bylaws and codes should be consulted to ensure that the device fitted is of an approved type.
Spray-Type Humidifier
Water is pumped from a storage tank located at the base of the unit to one or more spray nozzles that inject a fine water spray into the airstream. In large units, the air movement through the ductwork system ensures efficient mixing of the moisture and the air. Units used in small enclosures or rooms use a fan with the pump on the same shaft.
Pan-Type Humidifier
In this type, an absorbent material is partially immersed in a water pan store at the base of the unit. The evaporation of the water into the airstream takes place from the wetted surface of the absorbent material.
Mechanical Pan
In this case, an absorbent material is fixed to a drum or disk. Part of this drum is immersed in the water. When the drum is rotated in the water pan, it absorbs moisture, which is then transferred into the airstream by evaporation.
Steam-Generating Pan
This type consists of an enclosed water tank, which is connected to the main air duct.
High-temperature water coils or direct-fired gas or electrical elements heat the water in the tank. The tank water vaporizes, and the moisture is entrained into the airstream as it passes over the tank.
Humidifiers without Water Storage
Water need not be stored within the unit; this is often the case where the equipment used for humidification forms part of a central station plant or where a suitable source of steam is available.
Spinning-Disk Humidifier
In this case, a controlled quantity of water is discharged against a rapidly rotating disk where centrifugal force spins the droplets radially against circumferentially placed baffles, producing a fine water mist which is discharged into the airstream.
Steam Jet
Steam generated from an external source positioned close to the unit is injected into the airstream. It is essential that the steam supply is uncontaminated and odorless. In order to stop scale buildup, it is essential that some means of water treatment be provided.
Full use can be made of ultrasonic frequencies in producing a fine, atomized jet, which is liberated into the airstream.
Air Washer
A device called an air washer is also used for humidification and dehu — midification. It consists of a chamber incorporating a water spray system, a collection tank, and an eliminator section. The eliminator plates are necessary to reduce the incidence of water droplets that are carried out of the plant into the duct run.
The air, in passing through the chamber at velocities in the range 1.5 to
3.5 m s-1, comes into intimate contact with the water, and depending on the conditions required, mass transfer of moisture into the airstream occurs. This transfer produces either addition or removal of moisture; hot or chilled water is used in this process.
The spray bank consists of a series of standpipes with nozzles connected to a horizontal header. The nozzles are arranged to ensure that the spray gives good coverage of the spray chamber without causing any interference with the adjacent nozzles. The pressure through these nozzles is normally between 140 kPa and 280 kPa.
The spray water requirements vary from 0.3 L s_1 for a single bank to
K. 8 L s_1 per 0.5 m3.
Depending on spray pressure and the strainer, pipeline, and valve resistance, the pumping head is normally in the 16 to 24 m range.
By having more than one spray bank discharging into the direction of airflow, the mixing efficiency is improved. The nozzles provide water atomization by means of forcing the water under pressure through a small orifice, producing a wide-angle rotating spray.
In the past, air washers were used for air cleaning; today, however, more efficient methods are available for the cleaning process.
The continuous recirculation and spraying results in dirty water building up in the sump. In order to reduce the incidence of infection to occupants and fouling of the nozzle, water treatment with biocides and softening of the water supply are required. The sump is complete with strainers in a position which allows easy access for cleaning. See Fig. 9.15.
Another type of air washer is the capillary air washer; see Fig. 9.16. It consists of many thousands of small glass or plastic filaments (cells) providing a large, wetted surface area. These are placed to allow a parallel path of air through them. The surface of each of these strands is covered with the water that is discharged from sprays. Selection Factors
Humidification can be achieved by placing separate humidifiers directly in the conditioned space. In order to maintain the design conditions, however, humidity control should be incorporated into the system. When positioning humidifiers, care has to be taken to ensure that the leaving moisture does not impinge on adjacent surfaces, forming lime or algae deposits.
Humidification and Dehumidification
Regardless of the type of unit used, full consideration should be given to provide a suitable method of water treatment on the following counts:
• To prevent solids from being carried over into the airstream
• To stop deposits from fouling the unit and the associated heat exchanger
• To stop a fine dust of the salts from being discharged into the conditioned space. This is particularly important in the case of spinning-disk or spray-type humidifiers.
For all humidifiers, full consideration should be given to the possibility of the growth of fungi, algae, bacteria, and in particular Legionella pneumophila, the microbiological contamination that causes humidifier fever, etc.
The reverse of the humidification process is that of dehumidification. In this process the water content of air, gases, or fluids is reduced.
In many industrial applications, the moisture extraction takes place at atmospheric pressure; however, certain applications may require a reduction in the atmospheric pressure in order to achieve the maximum efficiency.
The process may be required for the following reasons:
1. Reducing the moisture content of a gas to aid the manufacturing and handling of hygroscopic materials
2. For comfort or process air conditioning in combination with cooling to reduce the latent load
3. Providing protective atmospheres to reduce the oxidization of metals
4. Controlling set humidity conditions in warehouses
Dehumidification can be achieved by one or more the following methods:
1. Compression
2. Refrigeration
3. Liquid sorption
4. Solid sorption
5. A combination of the above
Figure 9.14 and Table 9,5 cover the dehumidification processes.
If a gas is compressed, its absolute moisture content is reduced, generally resulting in a saturated gas at the elevated pressure. Due to the high cost of providing compression, it is used on its own only in limited applications. It is, however, used as the first stage with one of the other three methods. If a high — pressure gas is allowed to expand, the increase in volume and reduction in pressure result in a lower dew point.
By allowing moisture-laden, relatively warm gas to come into intimate contact with a cold surface which is below the dew point of the gas, moisture is condensed from the gas.
The term refrigeration refers to the gas coming into contact with evaporator coils on a dx vapor-compression cycle, coils on an absorption cycle, vortex
Cube, thermoelectric cycle, chilled water coils, or even water mains passing through coils.
The required refrigeration capacity is <t>r = t7m(6] — hi) kW.
Chemical Dehumidiflcation
Certain chemicals (sorbents) have the ability to absorb moisture from a gas; they may be either solid or liquid. Performance of a chemical dehumidifi — cation device depends on the sorbent used. The sorbent must be able to attract and remove the sorbate, such as water, from the gas stream. Sorbents absorb water on the surface of the material by adsorption or by chemically combining with water (absorption). If the unit is regenerative, the process is reversible, allowing water to be removed. This is achieved by a sorbent such as silica gel, alumina gel, activated alumina, lithium chloride salt, lithium chloride solution, glycol solution, or molecular sieves. In the case of nonregenerative equipment, hygroscopic salts such as calcium chloride, urea, or sodium chloride are used.
An absorbent material is one which changes either chemically, physically, or both during the sorption process. Certain chemicals, in absorbing moisture during this process, will dissolve into the water from the initial crystalline structure. Further added water results in a phase change from solid to liquid. An adsorbent is another material in which there are no chemical, phase, or physical changes during the sorption process.
Liquid Sorption. If a moist gas is passed through sprays of a liquid sorbent, such as lithium chloride or an ethylene glycol solution, moisture is removed from the air at a rate depending on the vapor pressure difference. This is a function of the absorbent concentration and is maintained at the required level by a regeneration cycle. The regeneration process is continuous and is achieved by allowing a percentage of the chemical into the exhaust-heated air.
If the vapor pressure of the sorbent in its active state is below that of the gas being dehumidified, moisture is absorbed from the gas stream. As the process continues, the sorbent becomes diluted due to the moisture increase. See Fig. 9.17.
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We weren't kidding when we said that they're pedophiles.
WWOEC: which stands for 'We Wank Over Erotic Crap' - was a shitty pornographic fanart site where all your childhood memories were sent to die, unless of course, you're a pedophile like all the artists on there.
Unlike sites like deviantART, SheezyArt and FurAffinity, you have to actually pay to get an account. WWOEC is PayPal's public enemy number one, meaning that you have to mail cash to the site's admin, which sucks. Once that money gets there (IF it gets there, that is), all you get is a crappy Frontpage like template to store all your Simpsons porn on. Recently, WWOEC came under control of a malevolent squirrel who, despite claims to the contrary, is furry in every sense of the word.
90% of the time, it's lolicon using American cartoons instead of Japanese style drawings. AKA: Ameriloli.
Most prevalent fandoms in WWOEC[edit]
If you really want to get a page in WWOEC (can also mean Wacky World Of Erotic Cartoons), your art MUST be either MS Paint quality or badly penciled, and MUST be of the following:
Anything else is very likely to be baleeted. Sorry, my dear pedophile, but there's always Inkbunny.
The General Discussion[edit]
Typical WWOEC artist.
The General Discussion is where these "people" try to be normal and act like they actually belong in society.
Threads include:
• Letting everyone know it's your birthday.
• Over 9000 celebrity memorial threads (including an anime voice actor).
• Bitching about getting banned from deviantArt.
• Bitching about their job.
• Bitching about their imaginary friends.
• Bitching about life.
• Asking for advice on whether or not they should off themselves (on a cartoon porn forum).
• Politics. Because if there's one thing furry porn fappers know, it's their government.
Thanks to WWOEC...[edit]
We now have a meme on our hands! It's basically the following: "A scene from the hit TV Show ________" then post a nasty picture from WWOEC. Whoo hoo...
Pandora's Box[edit]
Pandora's Box, also known as PBX is a sick fuck who's, unsurprisingly, an artist for the WWOEC.
Like 75% of the artists on the site, Pandora is a pedophile who draws incest. Pandora's Box is probably the most well-known user on the WWOEC. Lastly, Pandora's Box is a woman from the Philippines.
If there has ever been one pedophile most responsible for the rape of a single childhood memory, it is 8HORNS and his OBSESSION for Dot from Animaniacs. This fucktard has actually been drawn in other fucktards' art taking Dot from behind. This is the level of sick fuck that he has reached. Also, pretty much 100% of other Ameriloli pedophiles drawing Dot are actually drawing a gift for this fucker.
He needs to die. Seriously.
An artist capable of showing unprecedented flexibility in his shitty half-assed porn, traced and drawn from half of the Internet too busy yiffing and fantasizing about childrape to notice or care.
Prophet enjoys drawing tasteful pictures of respectable topics and beloved innocence. As a respected artist of at least twenty years, he really brings to the Internet a sense of wonderment and joy not witnessed ever cause he has all of it and his oh so awesome pictures of Sonic penetrating what ever furry porn icon he can find, as his art reflects the time and patience of a five year old with crayons. Naturally, he's an "exclusive" artist for WWOEC.
Col Kink[edit]
Col Kink is a homeless man who draws pictures of The Little Mermaid being decapitated while Eric skull fucks her and their daughter watches. Like many sickos, Kink's IQ is around 70, so even his newest art looks like it was made on an Amiga500.
Dtiberius is a sick fuck who draws nothing but dickgirls and has as much talent as a thumbtack. He's also a WWOEC artist but, in a first for WWOEC artists everywhere, Dtiberius rarely draws lolicon and furries. Although 90% 100% of everything he draws is dickgirls, the other 10% 0% isn't even worth talking about.
Dtiberius is a talented artist that demands top dollar for any of HIS patented illusionary paper figures done by a pencil. Thus you cannot even think about his art without at least $500. $50 dollars will get you nothing and $150 will get you the majesty that is a background with some characters MAYBE should you be so honored.
He has many fans that will tell you of his skills. They are also top artists that don't challenge them ever.
Last Thursday, some sexual deviant who went by the name of Mor-El commissioned a pic of Rogue jacking off, he then got in an argument which caused Dtiberius to cry and whine on the forums about some evil man harassing him and to never do any art for Mor-El. Mor-El quickly learned that Dtiberius hates people who color his art without permission. Mor-El quickly started coloring pictures for the lulz, a move not yet seen in the community of intellects and connoisseurs.
Drama eventually happened and people were totally hurt. Mor-El eventually continued to troll Dtiberius by posting on Kochan as him, and signing up to sites using his name.
SIGH!!!!!!!!! COCKSUCKER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Of course it's not me... This little bitch keeps getting lower & lower. This is all the work of one pathetic lowlife imposter... If anyone knows who he is, please burn him alive & bring me his charred skull. I just registered there myself just to tell everyone that he's a fraud, but "You can't comment 'till you validate your email." I DID confirm my registration email...but what else do I have to do to post there? EDIT*- NM... Just got it to work. Everyone please go there and tell them it's not me (why the fuck would I just post my worst stuff...and so little...and be a total ass about it?). If I ever find out who & where this shithead is, I will fucking slaughter his sorry ass!!! *Smilie using a gun on a tombstone* ...I'm dead fucking serious.
—A proclamation of butthurt as told by Dtiberius.
A forty-year-old-something man from Malaysia who draws eye-raping intersexual girls fucking in a cum-tornado orgy, as seen in his notorious comic, Penis Pleasure. Aside from that particular fetish, XJKenny likes shota and loli all the same, but don't mention it to him on his deviantArt or he'll call the administrators on you.
Some argue that *Majic* draws horrendous porn as a joke, but it is more likely that he engages in the illustration of eye rape as means of sexual gratification.
He is super, super cereal about his art and is a growing artist!1! BARNEY PORN IS A BEAUTIFUL AND NATURAL THING NOT SICK, SRSLY!!! But seriously, who the fuck gets off to Barney?!
Rumored to be a furry which would put him only at a mild level when compared to other furry artists.
Called Raylude for reasons unknown. Not to be confused with Raygold who is another kind of sick fuck.
He is a well observed artist on WWOEC and known to be self absorbed. He has an avatar in his drawings, which usually features him having sex with a female character or characters. Which is you know, completely impossible and not creepy at all. His fandom on Palcomix and WWOEC is matched in size by Dtiberius, and topped only by Pandora's Box. But if you know anything about anything on the internetz, level of popularity is directly proportionate to level of faggotry. In that respect, Raylude is a king.
Another sick fuck bent on showing the world the talent that is his art, Nydax is an effictive and efficient carbon clone of every other tartlet, capable of tracing any piece of art and readily claiming it as his own, post haste! His artistic talents include tracing and signing his name.
Absolutely bland in the cauldron of depravity that is WWOEC and really is incapable of creating anything worth mention other than his own worthlessness. He is expected to really usher in a new age of artistic talent with his amazing skills that no one can ever defeat.
Malistrom is an artist who dabbles exclusively in the HIGH-TECH ART THAT IS MS-Paint as it is the ONLY medium capturing the nuance that is his skill. His art ranges from blob like "characters" as he calls them all the way to slightly viewable bitmaps. Many critics expect great things from this man who is incapable of mastering the most basic of motor skills.
He is, among other things, an unabashed pedophile. IT'S NOT WRONG, IT'S LOVE!!
Usako Man Z[edit]
No artist can be more shitty than Usako Man Z, a man who's been inflicting his poorly drawn self-insert porn on an innocent Internet for ten years or so now. Imagine Gonterman x 1000 and you get Usako. The worst part: He's actually married to a better artist named Kitty Kross. He is also known as The Bane of 4chan. As of 2011, Usako is officially divorced, thankfully sparing us of the horror of spawning mutant offspring.
An unemployed, basement-dwelling male virgin furry from Staten Island, A-Log is basically what you'd get if you took Chris-chan and made him fatter, uglier and even more pathetic by damaging his already autistic brain with a life time of syphilis. He has posted numerous shitty fanfics to the WWOEC forum, all of which feature his fursona yiffing various cartoon characters with his massive six inch foxdick.
A devoted fan of the obscene scrawlings of Usako Man Z, A-Log's loyalty to Usako was recently repaid when Usako immortalized the bloated lolcow by giving him a cameo appearance in one of his poorly drawn fapcomics, Game Playas, getting blown by Cammy from Street Fighter.
Black Card Ace[edit]
Black Card Ace is a grade A pedophile with a penchant for erotic stories involving DEEP LOVE between complex and interesting characters all with a conclusion meant to tug at your very heartstrings. Excluding his many award winning Hallmark classic stories he's written such classics as "Mommy, what are lesbians" and an Arthur fanfic story about a mother and her underage daughter having sex.
Black Card Ace is a dedicated member of WWOEC returning after each forum demise to grace the Internet with more of his award winning stories.
The individual known as Gix is a mysterious and disturbing Internet dweller known for his long winded stories and epic delays between updates. Reportedly seen on a number of websites, including a short stint as a mod on the failed Operation Mindfuck board. His stories revolve around what is his personal avatar kidnapping and raping young girls mainly for the lulz.
The site was originally shitted out on a Yahoo Groups page in 2000-2001, by some asshole named Cobra. The site consisted of people drawing pedophiliac pictures of them raping children to show people what they want their first time to be like, but then it evolved into them raping famous children, then raping furries, then famous people raping furries, etc.
The "OH SHIT, WE'RE SCREWED!" Era[edit]
The time period from July 2005 to January 2006 is known as The "OH SHIT, WE'RE SCREWED!" Era. This was because they couldn't program a fucking forum, and heated power struggles that consisted of arguing who got the site...because nobody wanted it. The forum software was re-installed five times because they're stupid faggots. WWOEC itself was experiencing recurring difficulties. High bandwidth consumption slowed down the main site and often forced WWOEC to go offline entirely, which almost made everyone piss their pants in joy. However, that faggot bought a new server.
In September 2005, WWOEC was shut down when they found Cobra jerking off to the huge amounts of child pornography.
Some dumbass named Depth cried himself to sleep when they stripped him of his mod powers. God, what a fag.
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April 16, 2012
Crew Rest Issues Cited In Pilot-Induced Turbulence
By Russ Niles, Editor-in-Chief
A sleepy Air Canada first officer who was waking up from an approved cockpit nap initially mistook the planet Venus for a C-17 and is being cited for a wild ride that hurt 14 passengers and two flight attendants on a flight from Toronto to Zurich in January of 2011. Canada's Transportation Safety Board issued a report Monday that suggests pilot fatigue was behind the FO's decision to throw a Boeing 767-300 into a dive and send unbelted passengers and flight attendants to the ceiling. Seconds later, the flight's startled captain yanked back on the yoke and ensured an uncomfortable return trip for the affected people in the back. Most suffered bumps, bruises and lacerations from their unscheduled contact with aircraft fixtures. Everyone on the back side of the bulletproof door thought turbulence was to blame and some weren't happy to learn a year later that the turbulence was pilot-induced. "No one came on for an announcement and said, 'This is what happened, but everything's OK, or there might be some more turbulence up ahead,'" passenger Ashlyn O'Mara told CBC News.
Air Canada allows flight crew members to nap in the cockpit with the approval of the other pilot. The TSB says the FO woke up after 75 minutes of slumber (40 minutes is the norm) when the aircraft's TCAS noted a C-17 dead ahead and 1,000 feet below. The FO initially thought Venus was the approaching military aircraft but the captain told him the cargo plane was below them. The pilots flying on both aircraft flashed their landing lights as they approached one another and the TSB says the FO saw the other aircraft and, "interpreted its position as being above and descending towards them." The altitude excursion was 400 feet. What happened next caused what passengers called "chaos" in the cabin and led to an expedited landing in Zurich with medical units rolling. The TSB noted that many of the unbelted passengers were sleeping across unsold seats. The injured flight attendants were in the galley and the lav. The TSB did not issue any recommendations but the report does cite studies of the effect of overnight trans-Atlantic flight on people from North America who are used to sleeping at night and working during the day. "Night flights from North America to Europe have an inherent risk of fatigue for North American–based pilots. Most of these pilots fly a small number of night–time legs per month and revert to sleeping at night when not working," the report said. "The circadian system of pilots who fly only a small number of night–time legs will not adapt to working at night and these pilots are likely to display performance decrements during the night–time legs in spite of any countermeasures."
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Is walking a good exercise for weight loss
Walking have several health advantages, including weight loss. It’s also one of the most straightforward and cost-effective ways to exercise. Many folks can benefit from increased activity by walking daily.
Picking up the pace
The pace is crucial for running, swimming, and other aerobic exercises. When opposed to walking slowly, a person burns more calories walking fast.
According to a study, people burn more calories when their pace is increased to a run. The runners in this study also weighed less than the walkers, implying that speed directly impacted the number of calories burned when exercising. On the other hand, increasing the tempo does not mean that a person must become more active.
Wearing a weighted vest
More calories are burned when you add weight to your workout. Because their bodies require more energy to do the same action as someone who is not as hefty, heavier people burn more calories; wearing a weighted vest while walking promotes a person’s body to work harder.
According to one study, people who walked at 2.5 mph on a flat surface while wearing a weighted vest weighing 15% of their body weight burnt 12 percent more calories than those who did not. A person who walked at the same pace on a 5-10 percent incline while wearing a weighted vest that weighed 10% of their body weight burnt 13% more calories on average.
Avoid wrist weights or carrying weights in their hands, even though a weighted vest may help them burn more calories. Muscle imbalance and injury are possible outcomes of both practices.
When wearing a weighted vest, however, you should always be cautious. Before utilizing a weighted vest, a person should consult their GP like with any new workout. No one with back or neck difficulties should wear weighted vests.
People who can securely wear a weighted vest will likely observe an increase in their calorie burn.
Uphill walking
A person should walk uphill regularly to enhance calorie burn. Walk up hills, stairs, or inclines two to three times each week.
Focusing on form and posture
When walking, it’s crucial to keep your form and posture in check. A person should walk with their eyes forward at all times, as this assists in increasing their walking pace and extending their stride. A person should focus on strengthening their abdominal muscles and glutes when walking. You can do this for the entire walk or in brief periods. This strategy can aid in developing strength and the prevention of injury, allowing a person to continue their walking routine.
Incorporating resistance training intervals
Walking can be more effective by adding resistance exercises, such as tricep dips. A person can incorporate resistance training into their walk to help burn more calories and promote the creation of new muscle.
• Squats
• pushups
• Squat thrusts or burpees
• Dips in the triceps
• lunges
Short exercise intervals can assist a person’s heart rate rise and muscle mass growth. They can also assist in making the walking regimen more enjoyable.
Intervals of power walking
Intervals of power walking can be an efficient strategy to improve the number of calories burned when walking.
A person should warm-up for power walking in intervals by walking for 5 to 10 minutes. Then pick up the pace for 10 to 15 seconds at an uncomfortable but manageable pace before returning to an average walking pace. This can be done throughout the walk or as long as the person is able.
A person can gradually increase the number of power walking intervals in their walks by starting with 5 minutes per walk.
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If you're one of those people who likes to know the full lyrics for every song in your library, prepare for a shock. The TuneWiki service will be shutting down on Friday, June 28th, after nearly five years of dutiful service providing scrolling lyrics for pretty much every song under the sun. The shutdown was announced on TuneWiki's website, with no concrete reason given, aside from members of the company moving on to "new journeys."
@LarryG, CEO
The TuneWiki lyric app has been downloaded more than 10 million times on Android alone, to say nothing of its somewhat controversial inclusion in carrier-specific Android builds for subsidized phones. As of version 4.6.2 of the local music app, it's added full album art, an Instagram-style photo/lyric combination function, and various social options. The TuneWiki publisher has also created an ad-free pro version of the app, a lockscreen add-on, and various editions for partnered Motorola phones. The shutdown announcement did not say if the apps will disappear from the Play Store on the 28th, but without access to the service's database, the lyric function will almost certainly cease to work.
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TuneWiki gave no explicit reason for the shutdown, but it's a good bet that the company was having trouble monetizing its service. Streaming music providers like Pandora have since added lyrics to their apps, and the $3 TuneWiki Pro Android app has been downloaded fewer than 10,000 times. In honor of TuneWiki and its users, I'll leave you with the following video - hopefully you probably won't have to look up the lyrics.
Source: TuneWiki
Jeremiah Rice
• Xeratun
People actually use Tunewiki? Huh. It was included as bloatware on my phone so I always just assumed it was just as much crap as the rest of the junk that my phone came with.
• Yorick Reuvekamp
I use it in Spotify (desktop). Shame to see them shutting down.
• Xeratun
I opened it up back when I got my phone two years ago to see what it did, but never found it useful and haven't touched it since. I didn't realize it's actually good at what it does. Too bad I'm just finding that out now haha.
• PandaFire
• Pablo Romo
Yeah! MusixMatch is way better. TuneWiki drained battery all day long.
• enomele
Seems to be good app. Hooks in via power amp very well. But what I don't get is the Facebook login... What does Facebook have anything to do with lyrics. :(
• Danny365
Big deal... Lyrics Grabber is free, lightweight and has a huuuge, up-to-date database.
• Jeff B
TuneWiki was one of the original day one apps available on the android market for the G1. So Long!
• Rami
Could be something related to copyright, because I use the Spotify app of TuneWiki, and frequently I can't find lyrics for new songs because they were removed due to request from publishers, or something like that,
• Matthew Fry
That always blows my mind. Even if they have the copyright for the performance and for the lyrics, in what world is the copyright owner harmed by providing lyrics to consumers? Just another reason to hate the music industry and support artists going outside of the system and using bandcamp and cdbaby. Here's hoping some big and famous artists make waves by leaving the gigantic publishers. I was completely flabbergasted when I saw the latest Daft Punk CD. Daft Punk once in small letters and COLUMBIA in gigantic yellow letters 6 times. (end of rant)
• Kashmieer
So long, and thanks for all the fish!
Try A google search and find "minilyrics.apk", thats too a super cool music player with lyrics support.
• Bjajjull
Now Playing is awesome. It costs 1$ and has a 5 days trial. You should check it out. I used it until I started using All Access.
• Indranil Nandi
thats not the right step guys,if you can't maintain your app sell it to others who can.
• TritiusJ
I hope this means I can finally have this useless piece of bloatware uninstalled.
• LTI
At least we won't miss something... There's plenty more apps like TuneWiki. Goodbye.
• Droider
MixZing has lyrics, radio, song ID, an EQ and a lot of other advanced features, and it's been around for years.
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Best of 2011, Part III: Top ten new releases for 2011
OK, I know I already did a post on this already, responding to Francis Davis' request for his poll. I screwed that up royally, putting some musicians twice and others not at all. So let me try this again...
10. Greg Ward's Phonic Juggernaut (Thirsty Ear) Hard hitting trio for sax, bass and drums. This is tough, gritty and strong music that deserves an audience; it's potent stuff.
9. Rudresh Mahanthappa - Samdhi (ACT) Samdhi looks forward to new vistas in Mathanhappa's all-encompassing musical vision. Combining multi-cultural music and looking at jazz in a fresh direction, he has created a unique synergy of music that is fresh and exciting.
8. Darius Jones & Matthew Shipp - Cosmic Lieder (AUM Fidelity) This was a masterful performance from the two musicians - one an established master himself, and another on his way to becoming one. Jones and Shipp's Cosmic Lieder is the aural equivalent to a dark and stormy night. Short, stark ideas collide like in a particle accelerator, and the brief nature of the performances just adds to their pointedness.
7. David S. Ware - Planetary Unknown (AUM Fidelity) You can chart Ware's lineage in the depth and strength of the music, from a young devotee of Sonny Rollins and Albert Ayler, to a loft scene veteran developing his own unique sound to an esteemed elder statesman and master improviser and instrumentalist, Davis S. Ware is one of a kind and every note is a treasure.
6. BB & C - The Veil (Cryptogramophone) BB and C is a cooperative group consisting of alto saxophonist Tim Berne, drummer Jim Black and guitarist Nels Cline. This was a very exciting and continuously engaging album to listen to, moving between avant-garde squalls of noise and abstract passages of sound sculpture.
5. Matt Lavelle - Goodbye New York, Hello World (Musicnow) This album was very well planned out and executed, with both the duo and full band tracks succeeding well. Fans of progressive jazz are urged to check this out soon.
4. Steve Reid, Kieran Hebden and Mats Gustafsson - Live at the South Bank (Smalltown Superjazz, 2011) Shifting from dark and brooding textures to exciting, heavy and powerful features, the double album unfolds in a continuous suite waxing and waning like the unstoppable tide. This unique and fascinating performance is highly recommended for progressive jazz and rock fans.
3. Matthew Shipp - Art of the Improviser (Thirsty Ear) The power of the piece comes from the juxtaposition of heavy with light, much like the recent work of Ahmad Jamal. This was an excellent set that is highly recommended to anyone looking for the state of the art in jazz piano.
2. World Saxophone Quartet – Yes We Can (Jazzwerkstatt) The musicians play with great authority throughout this very exciting album, showing that regardless of the passing of time and the changing of lineups, the WSQ remains a powerful force in jazz.
1. Mostly Other People Do the Killing - The Coimbra Concert (Clean Feed) What makes the band so much fun to follow is the impish delight they take in making music, from the delightful spoof covers to wryly quoting famous jazz songs amidst their original compositions. But make no mistake, their music is taken seriously and played with a very high degree of competence.
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Is Poor Numeracy Ruining Lives? 489
Hugh Pickens writes "The BBC reports on how millions of people struggle to understand a payslip or a train timetable, or pay a household bill. Government figures show that almost half the working population of England have only primary school math skills, and research suggests that weak math skills are linked with an array of poor life outcomes such as prison, unemployment, exclusion from school, poverty and long-term illness. 'We are paying for this in our science, technology and engineering industries but also in people's own ability to earn funds and manage their lives,' says Chris Humphries. He is the chairman of National Numeracy, an organization seeking to emulate the success of the National Literacy Trust, which has helped improve reading and writing standards since it was set up nearly 20 years ago. The Department for Education wants the vast majority of young people to study math up to 18 within a decade to meet the growing demand for employees with high level and intermediate math skills. 'It is simply inexcusable for anyone to say "I can't do maths,"' adds Humphries. "
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• by peter303 ( 12292 ) on Friday March 02, 2012 @03:26PM (#39223419)
Often either a customer or the cashier makes an arithmetic mistake and neither catches it. If the errors didnt average out over time, then I might have said something. Dont want to slow down the line.
• by Rary ( 566291 ) on Friday March 02, 2012 @03:37PM (#39223613)
Cashiers used to be expected to be capable of some basic arithmetic, but not so anymore.
It used to be that they would confirm the change amount by adding it up from the owed amount to the paid amount. Now, they just pile the change on top of the bills and silently try to slide it onto your hand, which invariably results in some of the precariously piled change falling onto the counter.
And if, after they've rung it in and had the cash register tell them how much change to give, you try to give them a little extra change so that they'll give you back a nice round bill instead, then they'll just stare at you like you're trying to pay with live snails.
• by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 02, 2012 @03:43PM (#39223711)
Some of that isn't the cashiers fault. It's amazing how many people get confused if you try to count back change like that now.
On the other hand, I've seen some registers that instead of showing change due as $14.68 will show
Except with pictures of the coins and bills.
• by EdIII ( 1114411 )
That might actually be required.
CompUSA, before it went bankrupt, had some of the worst cashiers and managers of all time.
I have tried to purchase a $30-$40 dollar item before, handed the girl a $100 bill, and she handed me back ~$160 dollars in change. I just looked at her for a moment and then nicely asked if she wanted to double check that. She acted like I was trying to rip her off and failed the double check. Gave her a quick math lesson and walked off.
She needed the visual indications for what chan
• ? Whenever I pay by cash the change amount is worked out on the register from the amount tendered. Seems like there is actually no need for any basic mathematical skills these days apart from just counting up the change to match the read out on the register. Not saying it is right, just that the modern cash register has made all but the most fundamental mathematical skills redundant at the cash point.
• Sometimes, when I buy just three or four items, I add up the bill in my head while I am in the line. The following scene already happened to me two times: the cashier tells me the total, I realize it doesn't match, I make a strange face and say something, I double-check the bill, I realize that they have scanned an item twice. The saving was trivial, but the impression you make on the cashier is priceless.
• Re: (Score:3, Informative)
by Trapick ( 1163389 )
This is terrible thinking. You're right, the cashier doesn't have to know anything about arithmetic to give out change - unless they accidentally hit the wrong button the register. Which they do. Because fingers are fat and slow, and registers are dumb machines. So when the cashier hits $10.00 instead of $20.00 for the bill I gave him, I want him to know enough math to give me an extra $10 in change - since that's what he owes me. If you think this is a trivial example, manage some cashiers sometime. A qua
• .. cashier does no math ...
Or offer the cashier something other than a couple of big bills to avoid getting a pocketful of change, and watch the light turn on when your change is a twoonie instead of 13 coins.
• by w_dragon ( 1802458 ) on Friday March 02, 2012 @10:30PM (#39228543)
I worked at Wendy's through high school, so I have some experience with cash registers and handling those small amounts of cash. I also have a degree in math - simple arithmetic has never been an issue for me. That quarter of people who adjust quickly were either paying extra attention to you for some reason, or were new at their jobs. Handling a cash register is a simple, repetitive task so your brain quickly makes a habit out of the normal transaction and you do it unconsciously. When someone tells you you've made a mistake your brain turns off autopilot and dumps you into a situation you haven't really been aware of. They shouldn't need to call for help, but it does give you a moment of panic, like walking in the front door of your house and not remembering the trip home because you weren't really paying attention. That moment makes it look like you don't know what you're doing, but that isn't always the case.
• Re: (Score:3, Interesting)
This is also the case, for different reasons, in Japan. If you give someone extra money to make the change a round number, they give it back to you first, and then give you change. And the most hilarious thing is that vending machines there have the exact same behavior.
Disclairmer: I am no expert on japan, but this was the experience I had on a short trip there several years ago.
• You wanna know what is sad? I ended up getting $25 worth of groceries free last year because the local grocery was gonna have to shut down because their cash registers went on the fritz. i told them "If you need them so bad why don't you just send someone down the street to pick up some cheapo calcs?' but since they were short handed the manager offered to pay me for the calcs AND give me my groceries for free if I'd go do it. They were late teens/early twenties and not a single one could count change witho
• ex wife goes to a store armed with a 25% off coupon. buys a few items and goes to register. the cashier can't figure out 25% off, even with a calculator. so she calls the manager. they slap some buttons for a while and eventually decide on an amount that's 25% of the price... ex wife wishes she'd bought a cart load.
• If you can't (Score:5, Insightful)
by gurps_npc ( 621217 ) on Friday March 02, 2012 @03:28PM (#39223447) Homepage
If you can't add, you can't buy things.
If you can't multiply / divide , you can't run a business.
If you don't know anything about combinatorix (odds), you get suckered by any form of gambling, including insurance, warranties and the stock market.
If you don't understand exponential math, you can't become wealthy.
• Re:If you can't (Score:4, Insightful)
by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 02, 2012 @03:36PM (#39223595)
Insurance is not quite the same as gambling... while it is true that *if* you can afford it, self insurance (i.e. none) is generally more economical in the long run, most people are not able to absorb the high impact, low frequency damages that insurance protects against. If you can't absorb losing your house @ $250k, then you get fire insurance. If you can't absorb the cost of a new car in the event you crash your own, you get car insurance.
The warranties thing is definitely true, though, as most people can afford a new computer ($1k) if their current one breaks. Given the price of extended warranties, if you buy it three or four times you have spent enough to buy a new machine anyway.
• Re:If you can't (Score:5, Insightful)
by Sique ( 173459 ) on Friday March 02, 2012 @04:04PM (#39224071) Homepage
Car insurance covers much more than just the new car. Car insurance mainly covers the damage you could inflict upon others if you make a mistake while driving. I don't know if you are able to pay the care for someone who is quadriplegic for the rest of his life because you hit his motocycle in an accident.
• Re:If you can't (Score:4, Insightful)
by tibit ( 1762298 ) on Friday March 02, 2012 @04:50PM (#39224835)
Car insurance has limits, and the legally mandated minimums are silly in some places. In many, if not all, U.S. states, the minimums are at or under $20k per person in bodily injury liability coverage. If I'd be seriously injured by someone in a car accident, then say $20k pretty much pays to get me in the door of a hospital and may cover a relatively simple trauma case like a simple fracture of a leg, say. It won't cover any rehabilitation, loss of wages, nor any complex procedures that include external circulation and such, nor will it cover more than a couple of days of stay in the hospital. IOW: it's a joke. I personally carry injury coverage for more than 25x that, and I seriously consider doubling or tripling that.
• Re:If you can't (Score:4, Insightful)
by Hatta ( 162192 ) on Friday March 02, 2012 @06:29PM (#39226187) Journal
Of course, if most people were required to bear complete financial responsibility for an accident, they'd be unable to drive. That would grind the economy to a halt. The real solution to this problem is universal health care. If you get into an accident, it shouldn't matter how wealthy the person at fault is.
• Where I live only the car insurance that covers your damage and liabilities to others is mandatory. I expect that is common. Collision (what we call own damage) and fire/theft/etc... is optional.
• Oh well, if you do not understand exponential maths, you can become an economist preaching that the status quo is sustainable. Good money to be made there.
• > If you don't understand exponential math, you can't become wealthy.
I know a guy who married into wealth. I'm pretty sure there wasn't a test...
Ever wonder why the State Gambling Commissions revenues go back to schools? Probably to buy equipment for the sports programs.
• by Oswald McWeany ( 2428506 ) on Friday March 02, 2012 @03:28PM (#39223457)
Don't know about Numeracy - but numerology ruined my life. Fortune cookie told me 05 14 46 52 56 were my lucky numbers. I ran up huge credit card debt expecting to win the lottery with these numbers... then I found out fortune cookie didn't give me the powerball number.
• by sconeu ( 64226 ) on Friday March 02, 2012 @03:28PM (#39223459) Homepage Journal
That many people are proud of their innumeracy.
• Re: (Score:3, Funny)
by Anonymous Coward
I agree with you. Sad thing is that the three of us can't change the world.
• by mosb1000 ( 710161 ) <> on Friday March 02, 2012 @03:30PM (#39223483)
The generally poor understanding of numbers on the part of others adversely affects my life as well. Not only to the extent that they make poor decisions for themselves, but from the way they make poor decisions on my behalf. Damn politicians.
• Citizenship math (Score:5, Interesting)
by Beryllium Sphere(tm) ( 193358 ) on Friday March 02, 2012 @03:36PM (#39223597) Homepage Journal
A large part of the problem is that if they got math at all then it was part of the track to the physical sciences (algebra -> algebra 2 -> calculus -> differential equations).
Voters who aren't in a physics-based career need math, but not the same branch of it. Statistics is critical. Understanding what correlation means and what it doesn't, what a control group is for, recognizing sample bias, and definitely the base rate fallacy are all vital for resisting propaganda.
• by SomeKDEUser ( 1243392 ) on Friday March 02, 2012 @06:25PM (#39226133)
Actually, people need to understand what are models. And yes, this includes understandings statistics, and errors.
It is essentially the same skill that makes you understand that "this move will cut x$ from the budget" contains no information and what order of magnitude your change is supposed to be. You create models all the time: a car approaches: should you cross the road? It depends on the speed of the cars and yours. You could calculate the results, but the important thing is that you can identify which are the factors, why they matter and that you could bash them together to get a numerical answer. Then, you can decide whether you really want to do that.
The point is that people bemoan innumeracy in terms of "people can't add numbers in their heads very well". Well duh. This is why before calculators, we had abacuses, and why computers used to be people. But it is irrelevant: the basic skill is making models of reality, realising that you can get numbers out of them if needed, and that what matters is the _model_ of the guy selling you this insurance/car/political programme. His numbers may be crap, but you may fix that. If his model is based on the interpretation of the multiply mistranslated myths of bronze-aged shepherds, then beware.
• Trivial subjects (Score:5, Insightful)
by Pfhorrest ( 545131 ) on Saturday March 03, 2012 @01:19AM (#39229329) Homepage Journal
This. Basic statistics education for the win.
There used to be a thing in classical education called the "trivium". It's the origin of our modern English word "trivial", and the latter got its meaning because the trivium was considered the basic groundwork that every educated adult was expected to know already. It consisted of three subjects: grammar, (propositional) logic, and rhetoric. We only bother trying to teach the first of these to people today, and generally let them reach adulthood without having really mastered even it.
I think that these three "trivial" subjects should not only be reinstated, but they should be paired with comparable mathematical subjects which should be considered equally trivial requirements for any adult: arithmetic, (elementary) algebra, and statistics.
In primary school, kids should learn their grammar and arithmetic, and be capable of accomplishing basic tasks with words and numbers, writing and understanding qualitative and quantitative statements.
In middle school, kids should learn their elementary algebra and propositional logic, and be capable of meaningfully converting qualitative and quantitative statements between each other, seeing how words and numbers relate to each other in a more abstract way.
In high school, kids should learn statistics and rhetoric, to be able to persuade people with both words and numbers and, even more importantly, to avoid being mislead by others attempting to do the same.
Trigonometry, calculus, and all the more advanced mathematics are awesome and may be necessary depending on what you want to do, but are not necessary just to function in the world. Likewise predicate and modal logics and all the more complex variations on those; anyone who argues for a living (i.e. most politicians, lawyers, etc) should be required to understand them as much as a physicist needs to know calculus, but normal people can get by well enough without them.
But grammar, arithmetic, elementary algebra, propositional logic, rhetoric, and statistics... those are just... trivial.
Or, I guess, "sexial". Which might help sell it? Support sexium education today! It's the other "sex ed"!
• by RichMan ( 8097 ) on Friday March 02, 2012 @03:33PM (#39223533)
The education system needs to require results not just apply time and expect education to happen due to exposure.
• by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 02, 2012 @03:33PM (#39223535)
Life is hard; it's harder when you're stupid.
• Must be said (Score:2, Insightful)
by Anonymous Coward
Innumeracy is what keeps the mythology of supply-side economics and the Laffer Curve alive.
• Re:Must be said (Score:5, Informative)
by Mindcontrolled ( 1388007 ) on Friday March 02, 2012 @03:48PM (#39223791)
The usual Laffer curve argument doesn't even rely on innumeracy, it relies on the inability of those to be indoctrinated to do basic logic. Has anyone actually *seen* this fabled curve? All you get is the trivial cases of no revenue at 0 and 100% tax rate, and, ergo *jedi hand wave*, we must lower taxes. If you do actually plot revenue against rate for different countries, you get a complete mess which you cannot fit against any meaningful function. That is not the purpose anyway, the whole Laffer curve argument relies on that Jedi hand wave.
• Re:Must be said (Score:5, Informative)
by khallow ( 566160 ) on Friday March 02, 2012 @04:39PM (#39224659)
It is a consequence of three things, the assumption that revenue as a function of tax rate is continuous (loosely, that small changes in tax rate mean small changes in revenue), the above assumption that there is zero revenue at 0 and 100% tax rate, and Rolle's Theorem []. The combination of those three things yields the Laffer curve. The theorem is unassailable. That means one of the two assumptions have to be wrong before the Laffer curve model is wrong.
You aren't really complaining about the Laffer curve, but rather about a rhetorical and unwarranted jump from existence of the curve to deciding that tax rates must be lowered. That only would be true, if a) the current tax rate is above the optimal rate, and b) maximizing or increasing tax revenue is a primary goal, neither which was established in your example.
It doesn't help that figuring out what the Laffer curve looks like is extraordinarily hard. For example, there's no reason to expect that the Laffer curve for the US and Sweden would be the same. The primary reason just being the relevant effectiveness of public spending in each country. The US is remarkably less effective at spending public funds (at all levels of government) than Sweden is.
So one would expect that a lower tax rate would be more effective in the US for increasing overall revenue (that is, private sources are more effective at increasing value and future revenue relative to public means in the US than the same in Sweden). And actual tax rates (including state and local levels) in the US are usually lower than those in Sweden.
• Just ask anyone relying on Social Security's solvency in 20 years.
• by manonthemoon ( 537690 ) on Friday March 02, 2012 @03:38PM (#39223617) Homepage
My eldest son is a whiz- he's a couple years ahead and should get through AP Calculus and Stats by the time he gets through HS.
On the other hand we adopted 5 girls from foster care and it is a STRUGGLE. I don't know how much of it is organic (all of them were exposed to drugs/alcohol in utero) and how much of it is early formative, but they all have incredible difficulty making the most basic inference or deduction or story problem. I'm really concerned for them because I forsee them potentially running into the roadblocks referenced by the article summary. But there are in fact SOME excuses for saying "I can't do maths." Some people may never be able to master the basics no matter how hard they try.
Not to say we are in any manner giving up. They get extra tutoring at school and spend hours doing homework, despite being in elementary school, but different people have different top levels of achievement and sometimes that level is below what any of us would like.
• You strike upon an important point.
In my own experience, the hardest part about math is mastering the basics (simple arithmetic). But after that point, learning most things mathematical is like jumping between baby steps.
If it's possible, I would advise working with your girls for as long as possible with the basic math skills until they get if, even if takes years. It would be nice if all schools could be configured to let some students work at their own pace (whether behind or ahead), but since they don
• by willworkforbeer ( 924558 ) on Friday March 02, 2012 @04:13PM (#39224197)
Am I the only one who feels the urge to raise a toast to someone who adopted not 1, but 5, children from foster care? Well done.
• by Jah-Wren Ryel ( 80510 ) on Friday March 02, 2012 @06:35PM (#39226257)
Have you considered that they aren't necessarily "mathematically challenged" but instead need to approach it from a different angle? For example, I've worked with a handful of physical trainers (as a client) and universally all of them thought they were bad at math - not even able to understand compound interest bad.
But all of them that were good at their job also had a natural intuition for things like geometry and even calculus because those maths were all part of their jobs. For example, the body is a bunch of interconnected levers with ranges of motion described by arcs and different rates of change in motion can be safe or dangerous. They work with math all day long but they don't recognize it as math - they even had a hard time understanding that it was math when I tried to explain it to them - their schooling had so completely failed them that they couldn't recognize the math right in front of them.
• by hey! ( 33014 )
Not to say we are in any manner giving up.
Well, while I wouldn't want to adopt the Japanese philosophy of education wholesale, one of things I think that's worth copying from their culture is the way people don't automatically make this kind of inference: "I'm not good at X THEREFORE I shouldn't have to do X."
If you can put that behind you, then you can think this way: "I may not be naturally talented at X, but if I work hard enough I can learn to do it well enough."
Not to minimize the difficulties you're experiencing with your adopted children. I
• by geekmux ( 1040042 ) on Friday March 02, 2012 @03:40PM (#39223661)
"...'It is simply inexcusable for anyone to say "I can't do maths,"
It is also simply inexcusable for people to live well beyond their means riddled with massive amounts of pointless debt, but let's go ahead and blame calculus for the reason most people are flat-ass broke, living paycheck to paycheck. Lord knows we wouldn't want to offend anyone by telling them they SUCK at saying "no".
• by MacGyver2210 ( 1053110 ) on Friday March 02, 2012 @03:47PM (#39223775)
I think it's more of a matter of people being exceptionally lazy recently versus in the past than it is a matter of poor numerical comprehension. Everyone's attitude seems to be "I don't need to understand it, there's an app for that." ...then again, I'm a computer programmer who deals with charts and numbers thoroughly on an hourly basis, and I don't think I've ever had to read the "How to use this guide" section on the 40-some page bus schedule in my town to figure it out.
Sometimes I wonder if a global-scale EMP or solar flare would be the best thing to ever happen to humanity.
• by Fjandr ( 66656 )
I don't think the general amount of laziness has changed. What's changed is that the landing for those who crash due to their own laziness is much softer these days. Prior to the modern era there were strong disincentives to not "figuring it out." Even as hard as times are now economically, the disincentives are far easier to deal with for those who choose not to look beyond their narrow worldview of what is and is not "possible."
• Big Deal. (Score:4, Interesting)
by korgitser ( 1809018 ) on Friday March 02, 2012 @03:47PM (#39223781)
Millions of people struggle to understand. Whatever. We do remember that we come from a times when there was no math around at all, right? So how much time do we spend being happy abouth the fact that millions of people do understand a payslip or a train timetable? Making fuss about these millions without context shows poor skills in philosophy and can ruin lives.
Some important questions to ask around these skills and the millions are here:
How many and much total skills do people have?
Is the total going up or down?
Is the relative amount of math skills in this total going up or down?
What are the other skills that might be replacing or being replaced by math skills?
Which skills should be priorities? For which professions?
• by Hognoxious ( 631665 ) on Friday March 02, 2012 @03:49PM (#39223811) Homepage Journal
weak math skills are linked with an array of poor life outcomes such as prison, unemployment, exclusion from school, getting a knighthood for services to the banking industry and then having it revoked.
• by Kozar_The_Malignant ( 738483 ) on Friday March 02, 2012 @03:50PM (#39223827)
My college career was greatly aided by the fact that many of these people will play poker for money.
• by drooling-dog ( 189103 ) on Friday March 02, 2012 @04:28PM (#39224467)
The other day - in a discussion of quantum computing, of all things - I was downvoted into oblivion and called a "stupid fuck" twice for pointing out that a quantity that grows at a constant rate follows an exponential growth curve. Now I don't think the people behind that were necessarily innumerate, because one of them managed to misapply some first-semester calculus in his argument. What does often happen is that people who learn some math in a rote way are unable to apply it to real-world problems, or even to interpret them correctly. Taking a math course or two - unless focused on creative problem-solving - isn't necessarily going to help much.
• Re:Even Here (Score:5, Informative)
by WastedMeat ( 1103369 ) on Friday March 02, 2012 @05:19PM (#39225263)
A quantity that grows at a constant rate grows linearly. A quantity that grows at a rate proportional to its value (which is necessarily not constant, unless it is zero) grows exponentially. What you describe is something like x-dot = c, which is linear growth. Something like x-dot= c x is exponential. (if you are familiar with the symbols from calculus). I wouldn't go as a far as calling you a "stupid fuck", but what you are saying about constant rates is incorrect.
• Re:Even Here (Score:5, Insightful)
by _0xd0ad ( 1974778 ) on Friday March 02, 2012 @05:50PM (#39225665) Journal
I'll nip this in the bud and post something similar here to what I posted in the thread which drooling-dog referred to.
"Rate" is ambiguous. You can have a fixed rate of acceleration, which means linear growth; you can also have a fixed interest rate, which means exponential growth. Neither is really any more correct than the other, and the meaning of the phrase "constant rate" is very hard to interpret without any context to indicate what is meant by it.
• by ZedNaught ( 533388 ) on Friday March 02, 2012 @05:09PM (#39225139)
I was behind a woman at the gas station who was buying PowerBall tickets @ $2 apiece. She was clutching two $20 bills in her hand.
Woman: Give me 8 QuickPick tickets .. Cashier: That'll be $16
Woman: OH! give me three more.
Cashier: That'll be $22
Woman: Hmm give me three more..
Cashier: $28
Woman: Try 3 more. Cashier: (exasperated) How much do you want to spend???
Woman: $40
Cashier: so you want 20 tickets ....
Woman: If I have enough money yes, give me 20..
• by iliketrash ( 624051 ) on Friday March 02, 2012 @05:13PM (#39225185)
How about this for an example of bad math? Researchers post an article making the age-old mistake of equating correlation to causation.
• Linked with means related to. There's no causation implied, sorry. Xkcd's comic [] had a lot of success and since then it's a knee jerk reaction to accuse people of confusing the two terms, but it often pays off to count to three.
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If I were to suddenly gain supernatural power, without becoming any more of a loving or moral person than I am now, I have a few things I would do. First on the list is that any persons who became my priests would be physically incapable of child rape or even desiring to see children in … More If I Became a God
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A congressional committee questioned representatives from several states about the health insurance exchanges they were given federal money to create.
Greg Van Pelt is Governor John Kitzhaber's advisor on Cover Oregon. He said "While the launch of the ACA (Affordable Care Act) had been different than we hoped, over 300,000 individuals had enrolled in health insurance plans." Most of those people were automatically signed up through the Oregon Health Plan. 59,000 people have signed up through private insurance companies.
Van Pelt was asked whether Cover Oregon was financially viable and he said "The target is sustainable at the level we have enrolled and the projections going forward." But, he also said they would have to make cuts to expenses to match the revenue generated by each person signed up for insurance.
Oregon is the only state where people can't sign up for insurance online, so it must be done with the assistance of an insurance agent. Cover Oregon has not said whether the website will work. There have been suggestions by some that Oregon stop the work and convert to the national exchange. Some members of the committee called on other states to repay the federal dollars if they received money back from companies that botched the launch.
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The evolution of marketing 1.0, 2.0 y 3.0
When Marketing 1.0 was recently started, it was based on the product, since it develops all its strategies around it. It is based on the basic needs of the consumer without taking into account feelings. Its diffusion is by traditional means such as television and radio, so it is not present on the Internet. It should be mentioned that its message is unidirectional because it does not provide feedback to the client and the units of measurement are very few and variable.
Unlike the previous one, Marketing 2.0 is responsible for developing strategies based on the consumer, is responsible for knowing them and satisfying their needs, reaching a specific segmentation of sex and age, as well as highlighting their feelings and the wide capacity for evaluating different products or services. This is why Marketing 2.0 communicates with, in addition to traditional media, interactive media that promote the participation of society and obtaining constant feedback. Here applies communication through social networks.
Marketing 3.0 is based on the values of society, so it seeks to reinforce the integral image of the person and therefore create a better and balanced world, this is why companies start making public that they are socially responsible. It also seeks to improve the environment, retaking green marketing tends in order to reinforce products and campaigns, joining in this trend some of the most important brands around the globe, such as The Coca-Cola Company, McDonald’s or Pepsico, among others.
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Sunday, March 30, 2014
Can't slay this dragon
Growing up in a very Catholic neighborhood large families were a reality.
We had six kids but I had relatives and friends with many more, the maximum that I was aware was 14, and not the blended “Brady-bunch” kind, all flesh and blood.
It is possible that one explanation was the infamous “rhythm-method” where periodic abstinence was touted as the alternative to carnal desires and artificial birth control methods were considered evil.
Forbidden fruit has been the downfall of mankind since day one. The bishops should have known better, or possibly there was a “Master Plan”, keep it on the down low so the laity will keep filling the pews and the clergy will always have jobs!
We had decided to settle on a smaller brood, (2 max) but looking back this was a big mistake.
If I could commandeer a way-back machine, and start afresh, I would certainly make every effort to convince the Mrs. of the benefits of a large family. I would wish to hold a record so large it bumps the 5:15 pm dog story on local television news each evening.
I know there still exist 1960’s hippie types who will lecture me about over-population, the survival of the planet and then start finger wagging at my own selfishness.
I will admit there is a very personal reason for my desire, but I truly believe a larger family is crucial to survival, mine!
All men in a committed for life relationship should properly plan that he move-on beyond this earthly existence at just the right moment, namely when you finally place the belongings of the last of the brood on the front lawn with a “see ya around sometime” note attached.
When the last of the loin-produced leave, plan to be at least 90 years old or more. Make that family really big!
And you wonder why I say this?
The dream of the empty nest and the joy of discovering each other anew again are certainly not based in any reality.
What occurs when that final little bird sprouts wings and moves on is an almost immediate discovery that when something happens around the house a dragoness awakens, breathing fire, wagging her spiky tail and ready to pounce on the one who did something wrong.
Without a kid around to blame, that would be me!
Not only do you have to start denying everything (“I didn’t break it, it was probably an earthquake”) you also get hourly life-lessons, those little moments (usually when you’re napping), where the dragoness has a show-and-tell explaining the correct way to load a dishwasher, close a zip lock bag, or demonstrate how to properly fold everything.
Without kid distractions, and having too many available moments for thought, honey-do lists grow to epic proportions.
They usually pertain to repairs that require a real contractor (and big $) and not you and your little Phillips-head screwdriver and a how-to video on youtube.
You cannot even think about retreating to the safety of a man-cave. If you had no privacy with a house full of teens, constant hands outstretched awaiting car keys and cash, you have no hope hiding from an angry dragoness.
My suggestion is try bringing home a puppy.
You can relax on the lay-z-boy, point to the hound and claim, “it wasn’t me who ate those cookies” it was the pooch!
Just be certain you wiped off your mouth first.
P.S. No dragoness was injured during the making of this blog.
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Saturday, December 8, 2007
A Powerful, Little Breath Exercise
Everyone has times when they need an energy boost. Why not try a quick Tantra pick-me-up instead of a cup of coffee? Suzie Heumann explains a powerful, little breath exercise that can wake you right up. Plus it can raise your sexual energy. Can coffee do that?
It’s 11:30am on Wednesday. You’ve got a 1:00pm lunch appointment, there’s that call you need to make and the report due before lunch, and YOU KNOW you’re at your best in the morning.
You take a deep breath into your belly and close your eyes as you feel your breath fall back away from your body. Imagine a moment in time when you melted under the touch of your lover. When every fiber of your being was focused and suspended in ecstasy.
Imagine that feeling now, noticing the warmth of your genitals. Begin slowly squeezing your vaginal muscles, pulsing and feeling your passion grow. Bring your mind to stillness, as you pump, and hold the vision of “I am perfection”. Read more
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People who suffer from memory loss could find kindred spirits in machines afflicted with a condition known as "catastrophic forgetting".
The affliction is caused when neural networks are trained to complete new tasks.
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These systems learn by analysing training data that helps them interpret future information, whether they're facial recognition software scanning profile photos to learn how to detect humans in a video, or self-driving cars studying obstacles on the road to understand what they need to avoid.
When they're taught a new task they have to adapt their parameters to solve it. These can overwrite the parameters that they learned before and lead them to "forget" the knowledge that they previously acquired.
The phenomenon is one of the biggest barriers to creating an artificial general intelligence (AGI) as it eliminates the capacity for continual learning, a process of learning new tasks in a sequence.
"This artificial general intelligence should have this capability of sequential learning in a changing world as it's always going to find new things that change and it should adapt to these changes," says Joan Serrà, a research scientist specialising in deep learning and machine learning at Telefónica R&D. "And if by adapting to these changes it forgets then it's not intelligent anymore."
Computer scientists have been tackling the challenge for decades. Serrà's research team may have found a solution.
Memory improvement
The Telefónica research team in Barcelona have developed a system that addresses the problem of catastrophic forgetting by minimising the amount of memory that the algorithm requires.
Their mechanism consists of two separate parameters. One compacts the information that the neural networks require into the fewest neurons possible without compromising its accuracy, while the other protects the units that were essential to complete past tasks.
"Our solution tries to minimise the space while learning a new task and at the same time not changing what was learnt before in this reduced space where you put this knowledge," says Serrà.
The research turned established ideas into a functioning system.
"We all know that if we don't touch the neurons they don't forget," says Serrà. "And also there is a trend in neural networks and machine learning of trying to learn very compact models for deploying these super-advanced neural networks in resource-poor machines like a car or a mobile phone or machines that have very little memory or capacity, so you want to compress these neural networks. There were these two things and we just combined them in a clever way."
His team now hopes to use this compression capability to deploy advanced algorithms in resource-poor devices such as cars or mobile phones.
"We think that part of the techniques that were used can be recycled for deploying these algorithms," he says.
Alternative systems
Telefonica's R&D team is not the only organisation that has developed a solution to catastrophic forgetting. Google DeepMind researchers recently created an AI agent that can imagine what something found in one virtual environment may look like in another.
The system draws on five examples of how an object looks from different angles to learn what it is and how it might look from other angles or in different lighting. It can imagine how it would look in a different virtual world and differentiate between that and what it had previously seen, allowing it to remember the learning that preceded it.
Telefónica's system may not be the first Serrà believes it is the best.
Many of the alternatives only tested their systems with limited quantities and types of data and then artificially created tasks from these datasets, while Telefonica's team tested different datasets for different tasks, from identifying handwritten digits to recognising faces.
"It's when you put the algorithms in this more rigorous evaluation setup that you see that some of them are really underperforming and then there is still room for improvement. They are still forgetting something," says Serrà.
Remaining barriers
Serrà admits that the Telefónica system alone will not cure catastrophic forgetting.
He believes that they could still make more efficient use of the units of information used by neural networks, but this alone would not solve the fundamental issue of training neural networks using backpropagation. The problem with this method is that it optimises a network for a fixed target, and that could be disrupted by inputting new information.
Serrà is convinced that further compression is possible but believes that the ultimate solution would be an entirely new method of remembering that no longer relies on backpropagation.
"I would say that the key thing would be to find a training algorithm that's maybe more biologically inspired and that is not based on erasing past information," he says. "But that is a huge thing."
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How to measure Energy?
Energy meter is integrating meters which measures electrical energy consumption in a circuit and registers the amount in the B.O.T. units on a scale or dial and thus permits an evaluation of the energy from time to time.
The essential difference between an energy meter and a wattmeter is that the former is fitted with some type of registration mechanism whereby all the instantaneous readings of power are summed over a definite period of time where as the latter indicate the value at the particular instant when it is read.
Motor Meters:
The meters can be used in d.c. as well as in a.c. circuits. In principle the motor meter is a small motor of d.c. or a.c. type whose instantaneous speed of 6. rotation is proportional to the circuit current in case of an ampere hour meter and to the power of the circuit in case of a watt-hour meter.
The number of revaluations made by the revolving portion in any given time is proportional, in case of A. (Ampere hour) H. meater, to the quantity of electricity supplied during fir that time, and in the case of energy meter to the energy supplied.
A train of wheels connected to the spindle (rotor) count the number of revolutions made and thus registers the A-H or kwh directly. Essential parts of such meters are as follows:
1. An operating torque system which produces a torque and causes the moving system to rotate continuously.
2. A braking device, which is usually a permanent magnet. The permanent magnet, known as brake magnet, induces current in some part of the moving system, which in turn produces the braking torque.
Therefore the braking torque is proportional to the induced currents; whereas induced currents are proportional to the speed of the moving system and hence the braking torque is proportional to the speed of the moving system (disc). The moving system attains a steady speed when the braking torque is equal to the driving torque.
3. A device of registering the number of revolutions made by rotating element. This is obtained by having a worm cut on the spindle of the instrument. The worm engages with a pinion and thus drives the train of wheels and registers A-H or kwh directly.
Motor metre is (i) mercury motor meters: (ii) commentator motor meters and (iii) induction energy meters. Mercury motor meters and commentator motor meters are used in d.c. and induction meters are used in a.c.
Mechanical Details of Construction:
The construction of the meter must he such that the functioning of the meter is not readily interfered with by tilting or any external means. For safety the meters are enclosed in insulating or metal casing provided with glass windows for the purpose of reading the meter readings.
House service meters are so designed that both the terminal block and the remainder of the meter can be sealed separately in order to prevent access to both the leads to the meter and to the internal working parts. Thus complete protection is provided against electric shock by accidental contact with the meter.
There are two principal errors common to all motor meters -
The friction error, which is due to friction at the pivots and bearings, plays a considerably more important part than the corresponding error in most indicating instruments, since it continuously operates and affects the speed of the rotating element (disc) for any given value of current or power.
The friction torque which exists, when the disc is just starting to rotate, may prevent it from starting at all, if load is small and will cause its registration to be won small loads.
This part of the friction torque may be assumed to remain constant when the moving system of the meter is in rotation and may be compensated Tor by providing a small constant driving torque on the moving system independent of load.
When the moving system of the meter is rotating normally, a frictional torque proportional to the speed of rotating element also exists but this torque is not of considerable importance since it merely adds a retarding torque and helps the braking magnet action.
In some meters such as those of the mercury motor type, a frictional, torque, which is proportional to the square of the speed also exists and has to be compensated for. In order to reduce the frictional torque to the minimum, the weight of the rotating system should be made as small as possible.
(i) Variation in braking action affects the speed of the rotating element of the meter, for a given' driving torque, and therefore affects the number of revolutions made in a given time.
The rotating element of the meter attains steady speed when the braking torque, which is proportional to the speed, is equal to driving torque. The braking torque is also proportional to the strength of the brake magnet.
The braking torque is the flux of brake magnet and is the eddy current induced in the rotating disc due to rotation in the field of the brake magnet.
From the above expression of steady speed it is obvious that the steady speed attained for a constant driving torque Td is directly proportional to the resistance of eddy current path and inversely proportional to the square of the flux of the brake magnet.
Hence it is necessary that strength of the brake magnet should remain constant during the use of the meter. Careful design and treatment of brake magnet during its manufacture are necessary in order to ensure this consistency.
With the increase in temperature, the resistance of eddy current path will increase and therefore the braking torque will decrease and cause an error in the instrument registration.
Though it is somewhat difficult to compensate completely the reduction in braking torque due to increase in temperature but in some meters driving torque also decreases with the increase in temperature and thus automatically compensates partially.
(a) Mercury Motor Meters:
The most common used and best form of mercury ampere hour meter is Ferrants mercury motor meter. It can be used only It is essentially a motor the magnetic field is provided by a permanent magnet known driving magnet. The permanent magnet used for driving purpose represented by ND SD in the figure.
Another permanent magnet represented by Na San figure is used for creating braking torque. The pole pieces of the magnets are made of steel.
BB are the circular brass plates into which the pole pieces are fitted. A fibre ring of same external diameter as the plates is placed between the brass plates BB.
The plate fibre ring together from a hollow circular box in which rotates the copper disc and the space is filled with mercury which exerts a considerable upward thrust on the thereby reducing the pressure on the bearings. The disc is mounted on a spindle at the bearing.
The spindle is so weighed that it just sinks in the mercury bath. The upper part of the spindle has a worm cut on it to engage with the recording mechanism.
The operating current enters by the positive terminal C connected to the centre contact of the mercury bath and flows through the mercury and copper disc from periphery to the centre of the disc where from it flows out through the supporting screw D.
When the current flows through the copper disc, the driving torque acting on the spindle is produced due to interaction between the fluxes of the disc where from it flows out through the supporting screw D.
When the current flows through the copper disc, the driving torque acting on the spindle is produced due to interaction between the flux of the permanent magnet and the current flowing in the disc. Under the influence of this driving torque disc starts rotating as an armature of the d.c. motor.
The rotating disc cuts the magnetic field of the braking magnet and therefore eddy currents are induced in the disc which in turn set up the braking torque. The braking torque so created is proportional to the speed of rotation of the disc. When stable condition of constant disc speed is attained, the driving and braking torque will have reached equality.
Now the former is proportional to the current passing through the meter and the latter is proportional to the rotational speed of the disc. Thus equality of two torques means that the speed of the disc is proportional to the rotational speed of the disc.
Thus equality of two torques means that the speed of the disc is proportional to the current passing through the meter. Thus the number of revolutions made in any given time will be proportional to dt i.e. quantity of electricity.
In order to compensate for the mercury friction, two iron bars are placed across the two permanent magnets, one above and another below the mercury bath. The lower bar carries a small compensating coil of a few turns through which the load current passes.
The compensating coil sets up a local magnetic field, which strengthens the magnetic field of the driving magnet and weakens the magnetic field of the braking magnet. Fluid friction is thus compensated for.
This meter is essentially of the ampere hour type; it can, however, be calibrated to read watt-hours or kwh for a constant supply voltage.
To minimise errors on account of changes, with temperature, in the mercury fluid friction, and in the field of permanent magnets, adjustable magnetic shunts of low temperature coefficient of resistance are often used in the ampere hour meters so that the field strengths of the permanent magnets may be varied.
Modification For Watt-hour Measurement - If the permanent magnet, employed for producing operating torque, in the above ampere-hour meter, is replaced by around electro-magnet connected in series with a resistance across the supply, these results in a watt, hour meter.
For small variations in the supply voltage, the driving flux can be made proportional to supply voltage. The driving torque is thus proportional to the product of this flux and current through the disc i.e. proportional to the product of supply voltage and the current and therefore to the power. Thus, with induced current braking, the meter registers energy directly.
In some forms of these meters the disc has radial slots cut in it in order to ensure radial flow of the current in it, this current being led into and out of the disc through mercury contacts as diametrically opposite points.
Such a disc cannot be used for eddy current braking, the braking torque is obtained from a second disc mounted on the same spindle, but outside the mercury chamber, and rotating between the poles of a permanent magnet, known as brake magnet.
Comspensation fluid friction at high speeds of revolution is provided by taking one or two turns of the current lead round the poles of the electro-magnet so that is field is strengthened thereby when the load is heavy.
Since, due to magnetic hysteresis, in the electro-magnet, there is a lack of strit proportionality between the flux in the magnet and the voltage creating it, so the modified meter is only an ampere hour meter with compensation for voltage variations, rather than a true energy meter.
(b) Commutator Motor Meters:
The Elihu Thomson commutator motor meter. It is essentially a small d.c. motor with a wound armature. It consists of two fixed coils, known as current coils, represented by c.c. in the figure, each made of a few turns of heavy copper strip and connected in series with each other and with the circuit so that they may carry the circuit current. Thus the strength of magnetic field produced by the current coil is proportional to the load current.
The pressure coil consisting of a number of coils connect to the segments of a small commutator connected in series with a suitable resistance across the, supply. Thus the pressure coil carries a current proportional to the load voltage.
The commutator is made of silver and brushes are also silver or gold-tipped in order to reduce the friction at the commutator.
A compensating coil is also connected in series with the pressure coil and is so placed that it strengthens the magnetic field of current coils when the current flowing through the pressure coil flows through it. Thus the friction error is compensated for.
The operating torque is proportional to the product of flux created by current coil and that due to current flowing through the pressure coil.
Since the flux created by current coils is proportional to the load current and current through the pressure coil is proportional to load voltage, therefore, the torque is proportional to the product of load current and load voltage i.e. proportional to the power supplied to the circuit.
Such meters are commonly used for switch boards. House service meters are invariably of the mercury type. The advantages of mercury type meters are
(i) Simple construction
(ii) Small voltage drop across the meter
(iii) The considerably large current carrying capacity without use of shunt and
(iv) Small starting friction owing to the very small pressure on the bearing as a result of the up thrust of the mercury on the rotating system.
(c) Motor Meters for A. C. Circuits:
The most commonly used meter on ax. circuits for the measurement of energy is the induction type watt-hour meter, the induction type energy meters have got the following advantages:
(i) cheap in cost (ii) simple in operation (iii) little maintenance (iv) efficient damping (v) robust construction and long life (vi) uneffected by temperature variations (vii) more accurate than the commutator type energy meter on light loads owing absence of a commutator with its accompanying friction and (viii) correct registration even for very low power factor.
Induction Type single Phase Energy Meters:
The brake-magnet and recording wheel-train being committed for clearance. It consists of a shunt magnet, a series magnet a brake magnet and a rotating disc. Shunt magnet consists of a number of M shaped iron laminations assembled together to form a core.
A coil having large number of turns of fine wire is fitted on the middle limb of the shoe magnet. The coil is known as pressure coil and is connected across the supply mains.
The series electro-magnet consists of a number of U-shaped iron laminations assembled together to form a core. Each of the two limbs is wound with a few turns of heavy gauge wire. This wound coil is known as current coil and is connected in one of the lines in series with the load to be metered.
The series electro-magnet is energized and set magnetic field cutting through the rotating disc, when load current flows through the current coil (c.c.). The rotating disc is an aluminums disc mounted on a vertical spindle and support.
The magnetic field produced by shunt electro-magnet is pulsating in character, cuts through the rotating disc and induces eddy currents there in, but normally does not in itself produce any driving force. Similarly series electro-magnet induces eddy currents in the rotating disc, but does not in itself produce any driving force.
In order to obtain driving force in a single phase meter, phase displacement of 90° between the magnetic field set up by shunt electromagnet and applied voltage V is achieved by adjustments of the copper shading band, also known as power factor compensator or compensating loop.
The reaction between these magnetic fields and eddy current set up a driving torque in the disc which would revolve at a very high speed in the absence of any opposing force.
The brake magnet consists of C Shaped piece of alloy steel bent round to form a complete magnetic circuit, with the exception of a narrow gap between the poles. This magnet is mounted so that the disc revolves in the air gap between the polar extremities.
The movement of rotating disc through the magnetic field crossing the air gap sets up eddy currents in the disc which react with the field and exerts a braking effect. By changing the position of the brake magnet or by diverting some of the flux there from, the speed of the rotating disc may be adjusted.
Errors and Adjustments:
1. Phase and Speed Errors:
It is necessary that the energy meter should give correct reading on all power factors, which is only possible when the field set up by shunt magnet lags behind the applied voltage by 90°. Ordinarily the flux due to shunt magnet does not lag behind the applied voltage exactly by 90 because of winding resistance and iron losses.
The flux due to shunt magnet is made to lag behind applied voltage by 90° with the help of copper shading band provided on the central limb. An error due to incorrect adjustment of shading band will be evident when the meter is tested on a load of power factor less than unity.
An error on the fast side under these conditions can be eliminated by bringing the shading band nearer to the disc and vice-versa.
An error in the speed of the meter when tested on non-inductive load can be eliminated by adjustment of the position of the brake magnet. Movement of the brake magnet in the direction of the spindle will reduce the braking tarque and vice-versa.
2. Friction Compensation:
The two shading bands embrace the flux contained in the two outer limbs of the shunt electro-magnet, and thus eddy currents are induced in them which cause a phase displacement between the enclosed flux and the main gap-flux. As a result, a small driving torque is exerted on the disc, this torque being adjusted, by variation of the positions of these bands, to compensate for friction in the instrument.
In some energy meters, the disc continues rotating when the potential coils are excited but with no load current flowing. This defect is known as creeping and is prevented by cutting two holes or slots in the disc on opposite sides of the spindle. The disc tends to remain stationary when one the holes come under one of the poles of the shunt magnet.
In some cases, a small piece of iron wire is attached to the disc. The force of attraction of the brake magnet upon this wire is sufficient to prevent continuous rotation of the disc under no-load conditions.
3. Temperature and Frequency Errors:
The errors due to variation in temperature are very small, since the various effects due to change in temperature tends to neutralize each other on unity power factor if not on low p. f. (lagging). Since the meters are used normally at fixed frequency, they can be adjusted to have a minimum error at declared supply frequency which is normally 50 Hz.
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1.4: Case Study - Why Should You Learn About Science?
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• Case Study: To Give a Shot or Not
Elena and Daris are expecting their first child. They are excited for the baby to arrive, but they are nervous as well. Will the baby be healthy? Will they be good parents? In addition to these big concerns, it seems like there are a million decisions to be made. Will Elena breastfeed or will they use formula? Will they buy a crib or let the baby sleep in their bed?
Pregnant woman in third trimester of pregnancy
Figure \(\PageIndex{1}\): Pregnant Woman
Elena goes online to try to find some answers. She finds a website from an author who writes books on parenting. On this site, she reads an article that argues that children should not be given many of the standard childhood vaccines, including the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine.
The article claims that the MMR vaccine has been proven to cause autism and gives examples of three children who came down with autism-like symptoms shortly after their first MMR vaccination at one year of age. The author believes that the recent increase in the incidence of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders is due to the fact that the number of vaccinations given in childhood has increased.
Elena is concerned. She does not want to create lifelong challenges for their child. Besides, aren’t diseases like measles, mumps, and rubella basically eradicated by now? Why should they risk the health of their baby by injecting them with vaccines for diseases that are a thing of the past?
Once baby Juan is born, Elena brings them to the pediatrician’s office. Dr. Rodriguez says Juan needs some shots. Elena is reluctant and shares what she has read online. Dr. Rodriguez assures Elena that the study that originally claimed a link between the MMR vaccine and autism has been found to be fraudulent and that vaccines have repeatedly been demonstrated to be safe and effective in peer-reviewed studies.
Although Elena trusts their doctor, she is not fully convinced. What about the increase in the number of children with autism and the cases where symptoms of autism appeared after MMR vaccination? Elena has a tough decision to make, but a better understanding of science can help her. In this chapter, you will learn about what science is (and what it is not), how it works, and how it relates to human health.
Chapter Overview: The Nature and Process of Science
In the rest of the chapter, you'll learn much more about science, including how scientists think and how they advance scientific knowledge. Specifically, you'll learn that:
• Science is a distinctive way of gaining knowledge about the natural world that is based on evidence and logic. Scientists assume that nature can be understood with systematic study; that scientific ideas are open to revision, although sound scientific ideas can withstand repeated testing; and that science is limited in the types of questions it can answer.
• A scientific theory is at the pinnacle of explanations in science. A theory is a broad explanation for many phenomena that is widely accepted because it is supported by a great deal of evidence. An example of a theory in human biology is the germ theory of disease. It took more than two centuries of research to provide enough evidence that microorganisms ("germs") cause disease for this explanation to become widely accepted and attain the status of a theory.
• The process of science is epitomized by scientific investigation. This is a procedure for gathering evidence to test a hypothesis. A scientific investigation typically involves steps such as asking a question based on observations and formulating a hypothesis as a testable answer to the question. It also generally involves collecting data as evidence for or against the hypothesis, drawing conclusions, and communicating results. In reality, the process of science is not simple and straightforward. The process actually tends to be nonlinear, iterative, creative, and unpredictable. "Doing" science can be very exciting!
• Scientific experiments are a special type of scientific investigation, in which variables are manipulated by the researcher to test expected outcomes. Experiments are performed under controlled conditions to mitigate the effects of other variables on the outcome variable. Experiments provide the best evidence that one variable causes another variable in scientific research. An example of an experiment in human biology is the astounding public health experiment to test Salk's polio vaccine that was undertaken in 1953. Some 600,000 children received a vaccine injection; another 600,000 received a placebo injection of useless salt water. The vaccine group had a significant drop in polio cases relative to the placebo group, providing support for the hypothesis that the vaccine prevented the disease.
• Many questions in human biology are not amenable to experimental research. Consider the question: "Does smoking cause lung cancer?" It would not be ethical to deliberately experiment with human subjects by exposing them to harmful tobacco smoke in order to see whether they develop lung cancer. For questions like this, observational studies are done to look for correlations between variables. For example, Doll and Hill gathered information on past smoking habits from a large sample of lung cancer patients and another large sample of controls without lung cancer. Smoking and lung cancer were found to be correlated. Correlation does not imply causation, but it can be a big hint!
• Research involving human subjects presents special challenges to scientists. Until the 1970s, there were few ethical guidelines for researchers to follow when studying human subjects. A shamefully unethical syphilis study called the Tuskegee study changed all that. The Tuskegee study was conducted on African-American men in Alabama from 1932 to 1972. This study was done to see the progression of syphilis. In this study, the control group with the disease was not treated for syphilis. When details of the study were leaked to the media, the public was outraged and the U.S. Congress got involved. In 1974, Congress passed important legislation to protect human subjects in scientific research projects. Chief among the protections was the necessity of informed consent.
As you read this chapter, think about the following questions:
1. What do you think about the quality of Elena’s online source of information about vaccines compared to Dr. Rodriguez’s sources?
2. Do you think the arguments presented here that claim that the MMR vaccine causes autism are scientifically valid? Could there be alternative explanations for the observations?
3. Why do you think diseases like measles, polio, and mumps are rare these days, and why are we still vaccinating for these diseases?
1. Pregnant woman by Petar Milošević licenced CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
2. Text adapted from Human Biology by CK-12 licensed CC BY-NC 3.0
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There are no deals on the ah
You sure... look again... and again... and again.
The lovable little amateurs who state "Gold Guru, but there are no deals on my server, sorry your strategies just don't work," are few and far between, but they tend to be a vocal minority in the jmtc community. What I say to them is this... "Go try again." You think this site rose up out of nowhere on lies? You think people are making up their gold intake on the jmtc forums and the blog itself? Course not, they take the ideas and either follow them correctly or better yet, develop new ones.
I have to apologize to those that are long time followers of this blog and players who have at least made very good attempts at making use of my gold making strategies. That being said, the people who are "not getting it" are not stupid people. I argue a lot with Euripides on Call to Auction who is a fantastic guy, father, and bright player. However, I cannot tell you how many times he has said "oh that doesn't work on my server" and I wanted to take my microphone and bang it against my forehead! It is such a blanket statement, completely and utterly based on personal opinion with no factual evidence! Now, obviously it is possible for a server to not make a certain strategy likely or viable, but it's pretty rare. Everything is a balance, so if one strategy is broken it's often because another one is actually more profitable on that particular server.
To what degree a strategy is profitable is certainly server dependent, but it's very rare for something to be 50% profit on one server and -50% on another. If you find that a strategy on this site does not work on your server... find out why and milk the reason if you can.
As long as you take action other than crying for help, you're stepping in the right direction.
I tend to write these style posts when I get lots of people all saying the same thing and I have to herd them all like cattle to the jmtc forums for re-entry into normal gold making society.
Full Moon - Crazy Auction House Lunatics
Leoricsbride said:
Hey what's up?
Aight bro, let me know
Bag of Jewels
Hi Marcko
Dont know if this mail be will read or if you already know this, but Bag
of Jewels, the 24-slot JC bag, is a nice way for easy profit. I dont sell
it in large quantities, but since there is no competion at all they go for
100 gold a piece (50-60g profit). I sell about 4-5 a week.
Kind regards
Mcschnitzel, Dragonblight EU
Thanks for the email Mcshnitzel, although I have covered this sort of thing before it never hurts to remind people!
The Snowfall Rush - It's that time of the month
There are not all that many ways to get rid of snowfall inks (darkmoon faire cards, off hands, or runescrolls) and of the ways to get rid of them selling them right back to the auction house is usually the least profitable.
Option 1: If you have too many snowfalls
Try to sell them for sub optimal prices during this week and the next for the darkmoon faire. You will have much more demand for the items but will probably have to sacrifice a little profit in exchange for lots and lots of bulk sales.
Option 2: You have no snowfalls and want them for crafting
Buy them now when people dump them just to get rid of their surplus snowfall inks for those making cards in the faire. If you are one of those people trying to buy them now is the time to do it. During the week of the faire prices can skyrocket randomly if there is not enough supply to handle the sudden spikes in demand from card makers buying hundreds of inks.
Obviously if you have eternal lifes your best time to sell is this week and during the faire. Have fun!
Subtle Cardinal Rubies
Wow Gold Blogs - Suggestion Box Friday
Suggestion box Friday is your chance to be the blog writer, it's when I, the gold guru, defender of small kittens, last bastian of protection pvp, and all around good guy... markco, step down from my primordial, saronite plated throne and allow you, the adorable amateur a shot at making heads or tails of the world of warcraft auction house.
There are literally thousands of blogs out there which discuss making gold in world of warcraft. However, there is always room for improvement and there is always a blog idea which doesn't exist yet. What type of blog, focused on specific topics you care about, would you like to see that is currently not out there regarding gold in world of warcraft? Specific professions, classes, arenas, etc. feel free to list any topics you'd like to see combined into a new blog. Perhaps someone reading will see what you wrote and start one!
If you are interested in starting a blog, and need a little inspiration... check out this post I did about blogging.
Make Gold Like the Native Americans!
Ok perhaps the title is a stretch and should instead read as: "Make gold by letting nothing go to waste like the Native Americans did." Everything you touch or produce should be used in making gold to some degree. Let nothing go to waste! If you are prospecting and have lots of uncommon gems just taking up space, make them into disenchanting fodder or cut them and sell them! Don't just let items sit in your bank and rot until the next expansion when you do some random spring cleaning. Are you milling and have tons of snowfall ink taking up space? Ever consider selling off hands, runescrolls, or just selling the inks at half price just before and during the dark moon faire?
Do you have any items that are getting vendored or just piling up in your bank?
Comment on your situation and perhaps the readers here can pull together to help you out like they always do :)
We all need to vent sometimes and I don't mean ventrillo! Well at least I hope you don't vent on ventrillo because the record button is always in reach... Anyways, we all have our moments where we get really pissed at our fellow auctioneers for their intentional or even unintentional actions. Someone posting five hundred armor vellum III's for 2 gold each (cough guilty cough) may piss you off big time, but it's important to understand that getting mad does not help the situation either. Ask yourself, why did that person do something so rash? What was/is their goal? How can I react? The appropriate response is sometimes just to do nothing! Let the market correct itself and jump back in during the next cycle. Sometimes you should move on and try another market for a bit and then come back when it's profitable in the days or even weeks to come. Perhaps the person who did it will realize that they are making minimum profit and such tactics are not worth their time? Maybe that person has a lot of real life stuff going on as well as maintaining an awesome gold making community for world of warcraft and posted the auctions as an example for a post?
Next time you get "walled" as I like to call it where an entire page (50 items) or more appears and undercuts you severely, be sure to ask yourself:
• Should I respond?
• Can this person maintain this?
• Am I wasting my time and should I temporarily move on to another market?
What Motivates You to Make Gold?
Just wanted to know, what modivates you to keep on working the AH and making gold, when you have more than you ever will need? At one point I hit 115k, but I just can't seem to make myself want to keep at it... I just wanted some advice.
Great email CMill! Motivation always is either dependent upon a need or a joy in life. If you find that making gold in wow is a fun, joyous occasion in which you need nothing other than the sound of incoming money to fuel your efforts, the more power to you! However, for most people it comes down to a need; i.e. epic flying or a new carbine, etc. If you are one of the many people who make gold to fulfill a need, odds are you will lose your motivation once the gold required for that need is surpassed.
Myself, I find that I love to find new ways to make gold in an effort to master the world of warcraft economic system. Because that is my motivation, I have difficulty staying on any one gold making method for a long period of time. Thunderion, from the castaclysm podcast, likes to call this phenomenon "Productive ADD." What's funny is that he's spot on; I literally move from productive idea to productive idea with great intensity. I only ever return to a method of gold making to try and tweak it or bring some new look at my old ways.
Thanks to my personal love for finding new ways to make gold and reevaluate the old ones, you get the crazy and often illogical rantings that make up the just my two copper posts.
Which is why guest posts are always wanted, and emails like this where you ask me an open ended question make great posts for me and awesome links for your site. Thanks CMill!
So what motivates you to make gold? Joy or Need?
20,000 Gold Contest for Call To Auction Listeners
Attention Call to Auction listeners!
The following has been decreed!
At 7:30 PM eastern time on Sunday, the 28th of March, there shall be a give away unprecedented in the history of WoW gold podcasts.
Faeghleis is trying to decide what to do with his gold before his retirement until Cataclysm. He has decided to give a 20,000 gold prize to the lucky, skilled, intrepid, valiant, lucky character who wins our contest!
The first contestant to open a trade window with Faeghleis, a dwarf hunter on the Onyxia-US realm, while flagged pvp will get the bounty!
Well, we're not making this that easy for you. You will have to go through Markco to get to Faeghleis. Markco is a level 80 prot warrior gladiator pvp enthusiast, who will be doing his utmost to prevent you from getting to Faeghleis.
They will both be in the cave to the southern end of coldridge valley, the dwarven starting area. You must be level 3 or under to win the prize, you must be flagged, and you must be in the call to auction guild.
Show up a few minutes early to get an invite to the guild.
The prize money will be awarded on the Khaz-goroth US server- if you want to transfer it from there to your primary server, that's your choice. There will, however, be a Faeghleis sized hole in the Khaz-Gorath economy soon after the end of this contest.
List of Items I will Stockpile for Cataclysm
Early outland materials.
Twink weapon and chest enchanting scrolls.
Wrath enchanting mats.
Let's look at my reasoning behind these items.
From April 1st to 5th I will be releasing a much more thorough analysis of what to buy for Cataclysm, expect some great information and how to get started right away!
What are your thoughts on cataclysm? Comment!
Big Deals on the AH
I'll often see something like: [Trade]: WTS [Ametrine]*4 400g [Cardinal Ruby]*1 120g
This is a great deal on my server, so I buy it immediately, and then what often enough happens is they will then put other items in trade, and whisper me a great price. If I wait too long, usually because I'm unfamiliar with the items or because I don't consider it that much of a deal, they'll whisper me a lower price until I think it's acceptable. They'll repeat this until I've spent 10-20K gold and they have nothing else. Usually near the end they'll trade me a couple of harder to sell items at a really low price, and sometimes about 100-300g worth of items for free.
Usually they trade me items at about 40-75% of market price, and it's usually high demand and possibly farmable Northrend items like Titanium Ore/Bars, Titansteel, Dragonseyes, Spellweave, Eternals, Primordial Saronite, epic gems, Darkmoon Cards, a handful of enchanting mats, occasionally herbs or cobalt or saronite, maybe some flasks or enchanted scrolls.
Is this a normal occurrence? Sometimes it will be a level 80, sometimes a level 1. My thoughts are it is 1) A gold farmer getting rid of items in bulk 2) A hacked account dumping items 3) A server transfer getting rid of their items ASAP.
This usually makes me a decent amount of money, but it does makes me wonder.
Anonymous, Ysondre-US"
Your analysis of the situation, Mr. Anonymous, is probably spot on that the seller falls into one of the three categories you listed. All three have one thing in common: the seller wants to sell his stock as quickly as possible. It is extremely wise of you to look at your current sizeable investment as a great deal, even if you only have a thousand gold remaining after making it. This is an important point because many people will read your story and say: "well that works great when you can drop 20k gold on a bunch of deals." If you are one of those people then please take a moment to consider the fact that it takes money to make money, and most auctioneers are selling items which yield 20-50% of their investment. So that means that if you want to make 5k gold a day you need to invest a solid 10k-20k gold into your mats. Now there are certainly markets which yield 100%-300% profit all throughout the various professions, but I wanted to make the point that you definitely require money to make more money. With that in mind, if you saw cardinal rubies selling for a great deal but only had enough gold to buy a handful, you still should go buy that handful knowing that you will make a decent amount of gold after cutting and reselling them. Obviously don't go nuts and invest all your gold in one place, but be aware that just because you can't buy every deal you see doesn't mean you shouldn't avoid deals in the first place.
Eternal Earths Up... why?
I've been doing the "modified saronite shuffle" (buying cheap gems and eternal earths, crafting rings/necks, and vendoring them for a 50s-1g profit) as a way to make some quick gold while getting back on my feet after a server transfer. When I first got to the server there was a plentiful supply of sub 4g eternal earths, and I snapped them all up. But now, the prices seem to have skyrocketed. For the last week or so, prices aren't getting below 6g or so (where I'm at break even or losing gold depending on if I can find VERY cheap gems). I've built up a large supply or orange/yellow/red gems (500+ sitting in my bags atm), but I have NO eternals left. I don't want to get stuck with all these gems, but the prices on the eternals would leave me at a fairly large loss if I bought them, and farming up enough eternals would take forever, and I don't have the time for it.
Is there something I can do to either A) bring the price of eternals down or B) repurpose my gems. Gem prices aren't high enough for me to make a profit on selling them off. I probably don't have enough gold (a bit over 6k) to manipulate the eternals market, and I don't have the time to farm up eternals.
I have access to 450 JC/LW/Mining/Skinning - not sure the LW/Skin are much help here.
I checked my server the day of this post just to be sure and the eternal earths had not changed one bit since frozen orb changes were announced. As I explained to Stig, I believe this was simply a strange move by locals on his server attempting to raise the price of eternal earths to that of frozen orbs. Now this is an impossible task because even though frozen orbs are technically worth one eternal earth (technically not because this is not the best value for an orb), some person(s) believed that it was wise to buy them up and relist for the price of a frozen orb.
If this theory is incorrect, then the only explanation is that you are just buying too many and creating additional demand for the earths and thus the price goes up. You could stop buying them for a few days until the price gets back down to below what you're looking for. Perhaps even several people have decided to do exactly what you're doing and they will most likely stop buying as well while they wait for the price to go down.
I would suggest that Stig makes use of trade chat to help get eternals a little cheaper, and offer slightly more than the 4 gold normal that he is used to. Regardless of why the earths are cheaper, you should make use of trade chat and wait for the prices to drop again.
Thanks for the question Stig, anyone here have additional thoughts/comments they'd like to add?
Suggestion Box Friday - Podcast Questions
Haha I love that openning line, it never gets old.
Anyways, I would like today's comments to focus on podcasting and questions you might have for either one that I participate in, as well as ideas for future shows. The shows are Call to Auction and Castaclysm.
Otherwise, you may comment on anything if you'd like.
Also, I'm scrapping the Art of Gold Contest as no one seems to want to participate :(
Golden Guild Signatures
If you have a bank alt with no guild associated with the character than you may want to keep an eye out for players "LF Signatures." I do this when I try to make 1k gold on a new server with just a banking toon and it is very nice to get some easy starter cash. Sometimes you can even make 5 gold from a desperate guild leader, and that's not half bad considering they come to you and all you do is click sign charter and accept trade! Don't worry about not getting paid, if they refuse to pay you then you can cancel your signature and they get nothing (please be nice and let them make the guild before leaving it).
Battered Hilt - Profit Analysis by Wow Confidential
Flip High Priced Items for Large Profit
This is a guest post by Will from Where he runs a blog posting daily WoW gold making articles.
Auction house buying and selling is one of the best ways to make gold in WoW and can be done very quickly if you utilize the /auc getall command to scan the auction house in a couple minutes.
However for those with deeper pockets there is a more lucrative side to buy low sell normal that isn't done on the auction house but is actually accomplished via the trade channel, a channel I usually avoid since it takes up valuable time to barter when you could just throw the items on the AH and move on with your gold making.
This method entails buying up high priced items with lowball offers via the trade channel but you must know a few vital things before partaking in this risky but potentially extremely profitable activity.
How to Find a Flip
Many high ticket items are announced for sale by players in the trade channel because they are so excited to have won a roll on a high priced BoE that they know can fetch upwards of 10k and are eager to get rid of it so they can buy up the other items they always wanted.
Most of the time you can count on people broadcasting items in trade chat to be a bit on the desperate and impatient end, many of these items take a little bit of time to sell since the niche of players that have 10k on hand to buy them are few.
You can usually lowball these offers but the trick in negotiating is to know what your profit margins are and most importantly to know inside and out the average price and demand for that particular item.
Know When To Flip and How Much
The most important element of a successful high priced item flip is to be very sure of the items current value and if the price trend is stable (headed up, down or steady).
There are a few ways to accomplish this:
1. Obviously step #1 is to first check the auction house for the item and see if there are any lower auctions than the average.
2. Download the addon Market Watcher and run scans daily on a few high priced items, this will show a graph of the average and lowest priced item currently on the auction house in a graph. If the line is stable for a few weeks you can be sure the item won't drop dramatically, if the graph has extreme high's and lows be sure to grab it at the lowest point possible.
Stable - Battered hilts sell for 10k or more almost always.
battered hilt price history
Unstable - Artic fur can go from 25g to 75g overnight.arctic fur price history
3. By following these graphs you will start to develop a feel for the item and know what constitutes a high price, an average price and a good buying price. You are now ready to act on any flipping opportunities announced in trade chat.
Figuring out a Price
Armed with this knowledge you are now ready to act on a flip, here's a quick case study of a typical flip:
Battered Hilt
Price: Sells consistently for 10k - 11k gold on my server, never seen it below this price on the auction house.
Auction House Cut: 5% or 500g
Acceptable Profit: 2,000g
Spot someone in trade channel announcing a high priced item you're looking for.
spot battered hilt resale
Sometimes people will be tough, just know you're desired profit margin and don't go below that, reply with a polite "no ty" they will either accept your offer or hold onto the item.
And other times you'll get a desperate seller accept the offer right off the cuff
another battered hilt flip
In the latter case, I knew I already had 1 battered hilt now for 8k and decided if I was to pick up another I'd go lower to 7.5k, looks like it worked.
Potential Profit gained in 15 minutes of buying/selling flipped items: 4,500g
Suggested High Priced Items to Flip
Here are some suggestions I have based on current market conditions, make sure you keep in mind to not invest more than 30% (or a large portion) of your total gold amount into flips.
Battered Hilt
Primordial Saronite (Item is on a downward trend on most servers, buy at a very discounted price)
ICC BoE's (These always fall in price a week before new content patch, so stop flipping or expect dramatic drop in prices beforehand)
Rare Gems (not usually found at a discount but a very stable and easy to flip item. Keep in mind that when Honor token change comes in effect that there will be a flood of players turning in tokens for gems thus lowering the price)
Darkmoon Card: Greatness and Nobles Deck (People desperate to sell Nobles Decks when the Darkmoon Faire isn't on, hang on to these until you can convert them to cards)
Rare Companion Pets - ex: Razzashi Hatchling
Bulk Sales of Eternal Fire/Eternal Life - You'll sometimes see players shouting in trade WTS 20 STACKS of eternal fire fast PST, great buying opportunity to lowball and offer 50% of value. (keep in mind frozen orb trade in change incoming 3.3.3)
That is it for now, good luck with your flips and be sure to take into consideration speculation on item demand and not to buy up items just before a major content patch, unless you know that item will go up in value. Markco discusses major shifts in item prices and patch speculation on his podcast Call to Auction.
This was a guest post by Will from Where he runs a blog posting daily WoW gold making articles.
Call To Auction Episode 7 Up
Call to Auction Episode 7 is up and running for your viewing pleasure.
It's a secret to everybody!
Kudos to anyone who gets the title quote, that is one of my favorite video games of all time.
Gold making strategies that rely on secrecy can be fun, but they don't last forever. Isn't it ironic that players often seek "secret" ways to make gold or methods that require a limited number of participants from extremely popular websites? Even your humble auction house guru understands that he hurts his own profits when he reveals a "secret" way to make gold. But that is why 99% of my strategies that I use are not reliant on a limited number of participants. My readers here understand, or are well on their way to understanding, that becoming an expert with simple methods which anyone can use is the key to success in making gold in world of warcraft. Yet still so many players search for that secret method which if it truly is good always gets nerfed eventually. Then the vicious cycle of looking for secret methods continues...
I am going to start viewing other gold making sites and critiquing their 'secret' strategies, similar to the way I dissected and 's posts on making gold. I will however try my best to be objective and the goal of this exercise will be to educate readers here, not to demean the writers of these sites. You see, these people are good people who want to provide interesting information, but the ironic qualities in sharing secrets (thus no longer making them secrets) are definitely not lost on this auction house guru.
Mid Life Leveling Crisis
There's a part of wow that I love to take advantage of, and I like to call it the Mid Life Leveling Crisis! Everyone goes through this crisis at some point in their career, in fact we tend to go through it smack dab in the middle of leveling a profession (hence the name)! So you have everything but that stack of adamantite ore, that citrine, or that handful of mountain silversage and being a savy wow player you decide to take a short cut and use the auction house. Low and behold your item is there... but it's over 800% market value!!! Cursing under your breath you buy the item and I see "A buyer has been found for your auction of..."
I consider this market to be the most valuable method for a player who has no professions and would like to learn to use auctioneer to make gold. The items tend to sell in about 24 hours and you can make many times what you bought them for through resale scans (hint bidding is a good idea on 12-24 hour items).
How do you handle the mid life leveling crisis? Do you take advantage or fall victim?
I can't use the resale scan! HELP!
This is going to be one of those long winded lecture posts. You know the kind where you can see the steam coming out of the author's ears as well as the love pouring out of his heart?
The answer to someone saying "I can't use the resale scan, all the auctions no longer exist when I go to purchase them!" is one of the following:
- You are being too selective with your bid buyouts
- You are full of crap
Now the first option I can help you with, the second I can't! I think that secretly people are saying with the quoted statement: "This method for making gold can't work for me because I have my own way that gets me some extra cash and I don't want to think that there is another way I haven't thought of or succeeded with." Please, for your own sake, break the bonds of this mentality! If you do this then you will have more fun and possibly will eventually come up with something to share with the community here! I certainly do not believe that I have all the answers and I've been open to criticism of my ideas since day one. Try to test something more than once and push yourself to find a way to make a strategy work for you (in this case resale scans). It doesn't hurt to take a step back and review if perhaps you are missing an essential credential or fundamental concept for a gold making strategy either.
Perhaps you are focusing on buyouts with too low a PCT? Maybe you are walking away from your PC and coming back too late for the scans to matter (possibly hours or even a day later without rescanning)? Perhaps you do not quite understand how resale really works? Are you trying to buyout items such as infinite dust which fly off the shelves very quickly if they are low enough?
The fact of the matter is that someone on your server is doing fine with the same strategy or auction house method that you are failing with. If you take a step back and reevaluate the situation you'll be surprised how differently you can approach a problem. Same is true with the real world.
Making Gold in Heroics
Heroics via the dungeon finder have been a huge game changer for world of warcraft. Most people absolutely love it (myself included) and there are definitely ways to profit from using it. Here's a list of how to make some monies off the dungeon finder tool.
1. Need on the frozen orb. Every single time I run a heroic at least one or two people don't do this, but the other three do. Don't miss out on a nice chunk of change!
2. Skin, mine, and herb everything you see. Loot first, ask questions later. If there is a miner/skinner/herbalist than you can say "ok you get the next node" and seriously do alternate with the person, but otherwise go to town and assume you're fine.
3. Loot every mob you can. As a tank (especially a dps tank) I tend to avoid looting. Don't be a nub like me, instead loot every single thing you see.
4. Use your professions to convert your loot into better items. You know the drill, but many people simply dump unmodified goods on the auction house from heroics since it's not a full stack for whatever reason. There's nothing wrong with holding onto an handful of items until they are a full stack if that's your reasoning.
Did you check out the Art of Gold Contest?
Discussion Topic:
Community Spotlight:
Be Careful With Your Bids
You probably read the above title and thought, "Who isn't careful with the auctions they bid on, is that what everyone's favorite gold guru is talking about?" Actually, my young apprentice, I was talking about when you create auctions, be careful and make sure that your bid price is higher than the amount of profit you'd like to make off the item. Auctioneer has a terrible habbit of placing items with extremely low bids and this can leave yourself open to serious financial losses (and for someone else huge financial gain). I've noticed this happens frequently the first time I post recipes, trade goods, and sometimes for weapons/armor. The reason I believe auctioneer does this is that it sees items which only have a bid value with no buy out and then factors them into the bid calculation for the item.
This has been a public service announcement from JMTC. Happy Auctioneering!
Do NOT Play For Second Place
When I got home from my six mile run I was surprised to read this article about Just My Two Copper which subsequently blew me away. It also got me thinking about the author's blog and the hundreds of ones like it throughout the wow blogosphere. The author is Bigjimm, who blogs with Zekta and both write for Phase 3 Profit, a blog I love to check in on whenever I have the time to do some wow gold research, and has been a member of the JMTC community for quite some time.
His article praises my work on this here wow gold blog and makes the claim that all other bloggers who write about making gold are playing for second place. Bigjimm, it is with great thanks that I am writing this post and I want to give some advice to not only you but every other wow gold blogger out there who looks at JMTC and wonders if they are writing for second place.
I'm going to drift away from the usual gold post today because I want to make a point about blogging. I've been doing it for quite some time and I have seen my share of bumps, writer's block and hate from the wow blogosphere (sometimes deserved, sometimes not). Bigjimm makes the point that most people who write about gold now end up writing something that I've already written or covered and sometimes this is very true. With the inception of the JMTC gold forums, now pretty much every gold making thought that can be thought is tucked away somewhere on the forum boards, on this blog, the youtube, the twitter, the podcasts, or anywhere else within reach of the JMTC community.
Bigjimm, I'm begging you and every other blogger for the sake of this community to never write for second place! You are writing to the same community that I am, and to be fair, your content is excellent. Perhaps you are wondering then why did Markco succeed as rapidly as he did? (who doesn't love talking in the third person?) Maybe I should leave that to those people curious enough to buy the book on my blogging adventures, but I'll shed some light on it in this article and explain further why you should ditch the idea that you are writing for second place. First off, I created a community focused on the idea of making gold in wow. Second, I expanded to every social media outlet I could find, since wow is a very social game. Third, I always wrote as if I was the best out there, playfully calling myself the gold guru and doing my best to live up to that expectation. I did not care if I failed, because I was and still am having so much fun building the JMTC community and providing quality information to the wow gold making community. I was always open to criticism and willing to implement excellent suggestions from the community. That's what it's about, having fun and taking everything in stride.
You see Bigjimm, if you don't have fun blogging, you don't succeed. And I'm trying not to lecture right now, because I don't doubt that you do actually have fun blogging, but what I'm saying is very true. When Gevlon attacked my terrible sales pitch and blew my proposal way out of proportion, many people thought I was done as a blogger. When I made the terribly uninformed accusation that was stealing my content (it most likely wasn't) many thought I would never see another link. When I made a host of other mistakes during my naive blogging career, it was the fact that I enjoyed writing that kept the site going, and still keeps me going today. It was also the community, have you seen their puppy eyes when they ask for help?... just can't let them down!
The second part of the answer to why you shouldn't write for second place is how I truly became well known. I worked my ass off for hours every night and wrote exciting content that applied to current game events as well as new approaches to very tried and true methods for making gold. My bid low, sell normal method was not something truly inspiring or intelligent, but it was one of hundreds of new and interesting ways I came up with to look at old methods for making gold. The articles I wrote on upcoming patches and how they would affect not just primary markets but secondary and tertiary ones as well were also a new approach to writing about wow gold. Sometimes the most simple of articles made the greatest impact, since so many people who knew the information took it for granted. Every day I come up with new things to write and if I write from now until I die there will still be things left unsaid. The trick I've used is to not look at what someone else writes and say "wow that's really good" but rather "ok what are they missing here; what could of been better?"
By writing this way, I wrote for the same community everyone else did but with my own personal style and spin on wow gold making. In order to follow in my footsteps you need to do the same. You need to find interesting and personal approaches to age old methods of making gold. I didn't truly build this community, I simply put a name on it and gave it a place to roam each day. If I die tomorrow and the blog fades into nothingness, this community will continue to roam until it finds a new home. I wouldn't even call it a home, but rather a favorite meeting place. Now that so many wow blog enthusiasts are in one place, you can hop on my shoulders and write directly to them on the JMTC forums, your blog, and anywhere else. There is plenty of room up here at the top of the wow gold blogging mountain, and I have paved the way for many more to join me. What you have to do is be Bigjimm the Billionaire, write till your fingers bleed, spend hours every day just digesting and thinking about wow gold making, becoming a member of the same community you slowly build, and always looking for the next big risk to take.
As Patrick and Sean said about the interview I did with them on How I Wow: "It's as if for Markco gold is not the goal. Excellence is the goal." That is how I approach my life and the wow community has seen how that level of motivation can turn a crap site with 1 follower (Thunderion) into the juggernaut (to use Bigjimm's verbage) it is today. Motivation can weather the storm and it can truly allow you to do anything, as long as you're having fun along the way.
Keep blogging Bigjimm, and blog for first place amongst the great community here. Break big news, make mistaken predictions about icy dragonscales, get accused of tax evasion by Tobold, get vilified by Gevlon, please be smart and be nicer than I was to, mispell your own name, and most importantly... get profession cooldowns mixed up on a monthly basis! In other words take tremendous risks and have fun! It all works out in the end and the more risky you are, the more adventurous, the more it will come out in your writing and suddenly a community will form around your ideas as well that is attracted to your way of looking at the game they love to play.
Bigjimm's Billionaires... I can see it now! I hope you can, and every other blogger out there. Because if you don't aim for the highest pinnacle, you will never reach it. Perhaps you, the person reading this load of hot air I call a post, are going to be the next big wow blogger. If you need help, send me an email, give me a guest post or take advantage of the new social media I've created for gold making in world of warcraft: Just My Two Copper.
Thank you, the community and especially Bigjimm! Rock on JMTC. I don't just hope to motivate you to make gold in wow, I hope to inspire you to improve your life in the real world as well. All great things must come to an end, and even the mighty Markco will eventually disappear from the pages of wow history. But while I'm on the front page and living large, I'm going to have one hell of a good time.
~ Markco: Gold Guru, Last Bastian of Prot PvP, and Podcast Specialist
Iron Bound Tome - Oh but those don't sell right?
I have been making about 500 gold profit a week from iron bound tome sales, even with up to three people competing with me. Those 4-6 sales a week are due to new pve alts trying to fill the oh so elusive off hand slot and save badges for tier gear. Do you have any idea how many people still tell me and will tell me after this post that these are impossible to sell? What is it with everyone thinking that things have to sell in the same 12 hours they post them, or that having someone undercutting you means you can't sell your product? I don't say that to put the people that say these things down (after all Euripides on the Call to Auction told me flat out that these never sell and I still respect him for his gold making skills), but rather I say this to explain that if one person is succeeding at making gold and you are not, then you might want to pick there brain on the subject.
So here, I'll do some of the picking for you:
First off, the profit margin on these things is ridiculous. I am making literally 150 gold profit per sale. Next, many people assume this market is pointless and whenever the vast majority of players aren't doing something, you can bet that I am. Engineering for instance is a great money maker, but no one will tell you that because they have all heard it isn't. Finally, unless there are more than 2 off hands below your price yours will most likely sell in a 24-48 hour period. On my server after some time observing this market I've found that on average about one sells every 12 hours. So if I put it up for 24 hours and there are two underneath me, I will undercut. That's no a smaller server with less demand, so if you have a higher population server then you will want to adjust your tolerance for undercutters accordingly.
When the going gets rough...
The tough get going! If you write me an email that looks like this. To make things interesting, I made it a madlib!
Write down a Negative Verb, Present Tense.
Write down an Expensive item in game.
Write down an Inexpensive item in game.
Write down a Negative Adverb.
Dear Marcko, Marko, Marco, Guru Gold Guy,
I can't make gold because my economy [Negative Verb]. People undercut each other instantly all day long. I can't make gold. Help! This [Expensive Item] is impossible to craft to make gold! Also, this [Inexpensive Item] has fallen below vendor cost! These are just two examples of how [Negative Adverb] unprofitable my server's economy is. What should I do?
First off, I won't ever make fun of you for sending this kind of an email. There's no such thing as a stupid question in my mind. We all start off like this and I don't mind if you spell my name wrong either. It's actually pretty funny if I don't catch it and then post the email on the site at a later date.
Next, I want you to think about what it is you are saying. How could anyone possibly make gold under your scenario? I didn't elaborate much in the example email but a lot of people will go to great lengths to tell me how bad their server's economy is. Your economy is NOT BAD! I say that in all seriousness and in the nicest way possible. Instead of looking at your economy as an absolute good or bad, look at it as a living, breathing animal. This animal cannot be tamed, EVER, but it can be influenced by intelligent use of bidding, buying, crafting, modifing and reselling. Before you can ever be successful with the auction house you first have to get over your incorrect way of looking at your economy.
Everyone, and I mean everyone looked at their economy in wow and even the real world this way at some point in their lives. There's no way to force someone to see their world differently; instead it has to be discovered. I can yell all day long and stomp my feet in a terrific display of orc superiority yet my words will always fall on deaf ears until you open up to the idea that maybe your world view needs to change.
Don't worry, that's why I'm here. Keep sending the emails and I will keep answering them with helpful information to get you on the right track.
If you are thinking about sending an email like the one featured today, please look at my Helpful Wow Gold Forums. Feel free to ask for help but please be very specific with your professions and server prices. More information is better than less. Also, look around for other people with the same professions and how they make gold.
Rags to Riches Question
sabot7726 asked on the JMTC forums under Rags to Riches:
I was wondering what the big time money makers do in a typical gold-making session because I'm curious if my routine is the norm or if I'm wasting a lot of time.
I typically get home from work and do something like this:
1. Log my alchemist, do my daily xmute, make as many flasks as I can from the herbs my farming character got and send to a bank alt.
2. Log my JC, do the daily for a token, cut whatever gems look low based on QA3 summary, process any cheap saronite I find on the AH
3. My JC is also my enchanter so I DE any greens I happened across and make a few scrolls based on what's low in the AH.
4. Log my miner and do my daily titansteel CD, maybe a couple laps around somewhere for some more ore.
I realize I could hire tons of farmers and really build up a money making machine but I also play at 6am server time since I work all night, so it hasn't been easy even finding people on :p
Just curious what the millionaires do instead? What order do you do what in?
This was a great question and it got some good responses. The thread just goes to show you how organized some players are for making gold in this game. Post in the comments section or on the thread with your own list of what you do.
If you don't have your own list of what order you perform actions with your characters to make gold then you had better write one down and stick to it! You'll save tons of time and become way more efficient at making gold in wow.
Castaclysm Episode 3: Purple/Pink Dragons
Check out episode 3 of castaclysm: a world of warcraft podcast, as Jhaman, Thunderion and I talk about everything world of warcraft related :D
Isle of Conquest PvP Trick
Here's a quick strategy I found and made a short video about. Horde grabs the workshop and then takes all their demolishers to the far west of the alliance base. If you position the demolishers behind the hill shown in the video then it is impossible for the guns on the tower to reach you. What's more, melee will have to run from the alliance portal and around the hill in order to reach the demolishers, making it an excellent defensive position. A crafty balance druid, fire mage, or ele shaman could chuck people off the cliff and into the sea as well.
This strategy is way better than taking docks and trying to use the glaives damage wise and it's far easier to defend the demolishers in the position shown in the video.
Suggestion Box Friday - The Art of Making Gold Contest
Discussion: The Art of Making Gold Contest
I've been brainstorming for a while now as to what I would do for the next JMTC gold guide contest. As you all know the past two contests went really well and provided the community with lots of fun gold tips in the form of youtube guides. This time around however I'd like to break into a completely different medium: Art! This includes all types of art: drawings, models, digital art, cakes, ANYTHING you can think of that is art. Now the art can't just be about anything however, it has to relate in some way to making gold in world of warcraft. Therefore you could draw a picture of two characters fighting over a titanium node, draw a scenic shot of the orgrimmar bank or anything else you can think of that in some way relates to gold or the process of acquiring it. The art must be of something in the game with no pictures of people or places in the real world. This does not mean you can't take a picture of something you made and send it in such as a cake or model or whatever.
The winners will receive a free copy of the gold guide and if they already own the guide they will win $25 instead (sent to their paypal account). I will create a page on the site where I will display all the artwork as it comes in, and then I will judge along with Jhaman and Thunderion from the castaclysm podcast to decide the top two pieces of art.
Deadline for all entries will be May 1st, and you may submit up to three entries but only your best will be counted towards the final decision. Winners will be announced May 7th.
Good Luck Everyone! - Visit the page for the contest entries.
Accept Summon for Halaa Raid - WAIT WTF?!
Post One Item for Max Price
In quick auction 3 there are two settings called threshold and fallback for your items. Every so often the lowest priced item on the market will fall below your threshold (lowest price you're willing to sell at) and so quick auction will decide to post your item at your fallback (price you consider market value or whatever you want to set it at). My fallback for high profit meta gems are 125 gold. Every so often I will see my meta gems sell (as well as tons of other items that I won't list here) for my fallback price eventhough there are plenty of items below my price on the auction house.
Why does this happen? It's simply really, the buyer didn't even look at the prices to compare them, but rather purchased the first item in the list. Depending on how their sort was created (auctioneer's name, etc) it is possible for the highest priced item to show up first. Also, keep in mind that with items like meta gems, glyphs, and other large categories, players are often sorting through a list of assorted items with similar names to what they are looking for. Mine could simply be the first one they spotted and therefore the one they purchased.
Due to this buyer mentality (particularly among people who are low on game time) it is actually worth your while to post a single overpriced item along with your normal postings for each item type. Have you seen this phenomenon as well?
Hyacinth Macaw - Selling Vanity Pets
Hyacinth Macaw - This item is obtained from the booty bay pirates and will occasional appear on your auction house from someone farming the bloodsale buccaneers for their pirate title. When you see this item realize that it usually goes for a minimum of 5k gold on a small server and as much as 10k on a larger one. I've picked this up for 500 gold from a happy farmer and resold for literally 5k gold.
Information and Experience are the greatest tools as an auctioneer, so keep learning, keep reading, keep experimenting, and keep expanding your knowledge (Most importantly, keep visiting this blog, forum, etc!).
Gold Tips for Patch 3.3.3
Gold Tips you should pay attention to for Patch 3.3.3...
Tons of free honor for marks - Gem prices will tank temporarily.
New Engineering Pets - Watch for Mithril bars, heart of fires, core of earths, and truesilver bars to disappear from the auction house.
Sun Crystals will slowly rise in price as they are being made part of the scourge JC daily.
Calcedonies and Dark Jades will plummet in value as far less will be purchased for icy prisms.
Many Glyphs that took 2 inks of the sea to craft will now require 1 ink. Expect the markets to change but not too much. Changes to icy touch and flame shock will make these glyphs in high demand for the first week of the patch as players experiment with glyphs and specs.
If any of the Eternals on your server (perhaps fire or air) are more expensive than frozen orbs then they will decrease in value to match frozen orbs.
Tailoring Cooldowns and location restrictions removed. However, the demand for tailoring epic recipes will increase with changes to material costs and frozen orbs being used to get runed or crusader orbs. Expect prices to drop at least slightly, so sell your cloth prior to the patch.
Titansteel Bar cooldown removed. Sell your bars prior to the patch. Like tailoring cloth, the bars will have higher demand but this demand will not be enough to save titansteel bars from dropping lower than the current price.
Crusader Orbs may actually go up in value, as they will take 6 frozen orbs. Depending on where frozen orbs settle crusader orbs could see a 10-40 gold boost in value.
Check out the wow podcast: Castaclysm Episode Two on Patch 3.3.3 as well!
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Kenny Butterill
Americana Artist, Songwriter & Producer
Is There More?
Album: Just a Songwriter
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Is there more to love than just enough?
Is there more to sex than just the lust?
Is there more to me than what you feel?
Is there more to us than just what’s real?
Looking for answers,
or some kind of sign,
So many questions,
So little time
Got to know,
before I go ….
Is there more to life than just the ride?
Is there more to soul than what’s inside?
Is there more to the moon than just the tides?
Is there more to spirit when we die?
And then a voice said, have no fear
through the storms and the rain
through the sorrow and the pain
keep moving on.
Song NotesIn the quiet and the stillness of a country morning, sitting on the back porch watching the sunrise over the mountains, thinking about some of life’s questions. A spiritual song about getting back to reality in a way that Eastern philosopher Alan Watts or Mythology expert Joseph Campbell might have liked. — Kenny Butterill
Drums: Jim Norris
Bass: Bill Laymon
Electric Guitar: Jim Lewin
Acoustic Guitar and Vocals: Kenny Butterill
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Loneliness or Cheap Wine
I’m alone in Europe, living in an apartment and cooking for myself. I bought a bottle of decent red wine for the remarkably low price of $2.99 and am consuming about one-fourth of it with each dinner (instead of the one-fifth or one-sixth of a bottle I would drink with each dinner at home).
Have I substituted toward wine, moving down the demand curve because the price is lower than at home? Or am I drinking more because I am alone and miss my wife? has my demand curve for wine merely shifted out due to my solitary lifestyle?
This question illustrates a general problem in economics: when quantity consumed increases, is it because relative price has dropped or because demand has increased? One needs more information than I have here; but being a Chicago-type economist, I’m convinced the relative price has altered my behavior.
Unfortunately, I am too foggy from the wine to sort out the answer!
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Sunday, 29 September 2013
Autumnal Loveliness
Oh autumn. You are wooing me with your lovely orange leaves and cosy evenings. Anyone else with me?! There are just so many things to enjoy about this brilliant season but here are a few that are currently making my autumn days awesome.
1.New Crafts
I've always known I would start knitting at some point, it is one of the few crafts absent from my repertoire, the question was when. As I've been absorbed by my love affair with my sewing machine for the last couple of years the time just hasn't felt right. That was until I realised my great need for a chunky cream knit scarf and thus the stars aligned and I was off into the world of knitting.
And what a world! I spent Saturday morning perusing a yarn shop and my autumn evenings in front of the telly are well and truly transformed. It also means I get to dig out my Mum's old Golden Hands magazines. They are a feast of sixties joy, full of ways to knit, sew and embroider pretty much anything you could ever think of. And the pictures are hilarious. Love, love, love it.
2. Autumn Feasting
There is nothing like the cold weather/hot food combo. This week I've been making autumn soups from the glut of squash that keep arriving in my veg box. Here's my tip for a steaming bowl of autumnal loveliness.
Awesome Autumn Roast Veggie Soup
1 small squash, peeled and chopped into chunks
3 carrots chopped into 3 pieces
1 large onion, peeled and chopped into wedges
2 cloves of garlic (you can leave then whole)
A handful of chopped sage
1.5 litres of chicken stock
A little olive oil
Chuck all the veg a baking tray and toss together with the sage and some olive oil. Put in the oven on high (200 degrees C) for half an hour or until the squash is nice and soft when you put a knife into it.
Remove from the oven a leave to cool slightly. Add the veg to a blender with the chicken stock and whizz up. Reheat to serve and voila, autumn goodness in a bowl!
P.S You can basically chuck any veg in this soup so it is a great waste saver, Jamie Oliver would be proud!!
3. Autumn Fashion
If my local charity shops are anything to go by then now is the time to get down there and get your winter wardrobe sorted. My last trip saw me leaving with two new jumpers, two new woollen skirts and some brogues. Delightful.
Happy Autumn!
Thursday, 19 September 2013
Fake it till you make it
When you're self taught you always worry that you will be found out – Cath Kidston
The start of a new term, and my second year of training at Vicar school, is fast approaching. In terms of workload not much will change from now but there is something about it becoming 'official' that puts butterflies in my belly all over again, just like I had them last year. Perhaps it is that the start of something new always makes you stop and take stock a little. To look back and gaze a little further forward. That is where the butterflies come in.
One of the best books I read before starting training was by the Bishop of Oxford, John Pritchard. He described an incident where he invited the local primary school to the church for a special service. He went in to the school to do assemblies often but not in full Vicar garb so when one of the children saw him dressed up in robes and dog collar he said 'Mr Pritchard, why are you pretending to be a Vicar?' To which Bishop John thought, 'Crikey I've finally been found out! Why am I pretending to be a Vicar?!'
I've never met anyone who lives with complete self assurance or on some level doesn't feel like a bit of a fraud in their own world. I regularly chuckle to myself at what an excellent job I am doing pretending to be a grown up. Maintaining a house, having an ISA, going to garden centres. No one except those who have seen my CD collection truly understand that underneath I still have the mentality of a fifteen year old. I don't know whether there comes a moment when you suddenly think, 'This is it, I have arrived. I am terribly grown up.' Perhaps when you have kids, though I can quite imagine that moment arriving and thinking 'Why am I pretending to be a parent? This can't be safe!'
I suppose it is the same thing with work and it is deeply encouraging to here people I admire express the same feelings. The quote above comes from Cath Kidston's autobiography 'Coming Up Roses'. I love reading stories of business people who have made a hugely successful enterprise against all the odds. They always have such tenacity and self belief. And yet...that nagging thing still hangs about and Cath writes about consistently 'faking it till you make it' and the frequent moments wondering what on earth she had really gotten herself in to and if she could really handle it after all.
So as I start another term as a REAL TRAINEE VICAR. I'm going to take comfort that we all feel a small sometimes and it doesn't mean we can't think big. And hey, they may never figure me's hoping! ;)
Thursday, 12 September 2013
Daring Greatly
I've just emailed an article I'm really scared about. I'm not scared about the content, I stand by that. I'm scared of the reaction. You see, I've written what I believe to be true, something I think needs to be said but that I am pretty sure people don't want to hear. Man, it is scary.
While I was travelling this summer I read a book that describes my current feelings so well that it has made me think completely differently about it. The book in question is Daring Greatly by Brene Brown. She calls what I am currently experiencing 'a vulnerability hangover'. It's that moment when you open your eyes in the morning and thing 'Why on earth did I do that?' and want to crawl under the duvet and emerge when it is all over. In my case when everyone has commented and gotten over it.
I had a massive vulnerability hangover after writing about my feelings on the failedvote for women to become Bishops in Engalnd. Perhaps I was right to do so as I received some stark criticism in the comments that I was just too stupid to understand the mechanisms of the Church of England and their voting processes. What struck me was that this response was simply to a young woman expressing how it felt to continue to be excluded because of gender in her place of work. That post resonated with people, particularly with other women in my shoes, and I'm not sorry I wrote it.
And that is the nub of it really. That even when it is excruciating to put yourself out there, and writing is where I feel constantly compelled to do so, it is all part of daring greatly. If you hand on heart believe in what you are doing, you are doing so courageously in the hope of a better deal for everybody then vulnerability is just part of the package.
Brene starts her book with this brilliant quote form Roosevelt that deserves to be quoted in full again here.
Now when I feel those creeping feeling of fear and wanting to hide I am thankful because I know I have done something courageous. Success or failure doesn't really matter when you are being courageous and as Roosevelt writes both are inevitable at some point if you are going to step out and take risks. Instead it is being in the game, wanting to see change in the broken world and being willing to fight for it. That's worth a little vulnerability eh?
Thursday, 5 September 2013
Being Male, being Female - asking Big Questions!
Since I've been back from my travels it has been straight into the work but it hasn't felt like much of a chore. My major project at the moment is my dissertation which is taking me to far flung corners of the Bodleian Library and into parts of Oxford I've never seen before. It really is such a beautiful city and none more so that when you are studying in it. For me there is still no thrill quite like the one I get as I step into a library packed floor to ceiling with books. All those words, all those thoughts. It makes me buzz!
Yesterday I found myself in the Social Sciences Library amid what must have amounted to a least a hundred books on the subject of gender. I found myself a spot and poured over introductions to the research of the last fifty years. The questions are huge and stretch your mind to the limits. We are, after all, social creatures who have grown up in a particular culture. It is so hard to disentangle yourself from that and see things objectively. That was why it was so exciting to see books about what it means to be male or female in countries all over the world. It was the anthropologists who studied people in different cultures who first started to indicate that 'how we do it' is not the only way but rather is something we have constructed in our particular time and circumstances. Things can and do change.
For me this project is a bitter sweet thing. Sweet to have the time to read works of great women and to read about the history of feminism in my own country and culture. It is enriching to understand more about where we have come from and it raises so many fundamental questions. Why do we understand that to be a man is this and women that? What even is gender? Social research point to so much of our conceptions of maleness and femaleness being constructions of our culture and environment. As Simone de Beauvoir famously wrote 'One is not born, one becomes a woman'. But of course biology and society are interacting constantly. We adapt to our environment, our biology, like our culture, is fluid not static. For me it has blown open the categories I have in my head. The pieces of my understanding are floating about somewhere in the air and are waiting to resettle again!
The other side of my research is looking at the theological understandings of gender, particularly in the Evangelical wing of the Church of England. The perception of women and femininity both shackled and liberated women over the last 150 years. Digging down to the base beliefs about men and women is fascinating and at times bitter. More than anything it makes me want to push on to seeing mutual respect and understanding between the sexes and opportunity based on ability and calling, not gender.
Today a former tutor from my college was made a Bishop in New Zealand. Times are changing. We really need to ask ourselves these big and deep questions and allow ourselves to be surprised by the answers. As for me, I'm having the time of my life and so thankful for the opportunities I am being given right now. Even more so in the light of what I am reading, knowing how privileged I am given how women have lived throughout most of history. It is a privilege and it is a great responsibility. Back to the books!
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Thursday, February 4, 2010
Macro Photography #2
Do some macro shoot again.. Well, like someone said practice makes perfect so, here it is..
another "object-less" shoot.. I said object-less cause it's really a random object that I found in my house hahaha...
Well, this is the Photosynthesized Plumeria Leaves..
And the second try..
My Old-fashioned lock can't escape from my PASSION!! Muahahaha..
The last try of the day..
This is just a random shoot, so I really don't have any idea why I took that objects.. What do you think guys? Basically I learned that Macro needs a lot of light.. The Brighter the better.. more like a natural light is better than using lamp, is this correct?
1. yeah I like macro shot but I need better camera ^^;;
2. yeah agree.. and of course cost a lot of money too >.<
3. wow, this macro shot is really nice :D What camera and lens are you using?
4. @h4mster: Actually I'm just using an ordinary camera..
Canon Powershot SX100IS.. hehe..
thanks, but do really want a DSLR
5. amazing details! definitely strong natural light is best. your using a tripod too? need to be really steady with macro shots lol
6. @rocklee: thanks.. yeah, we should need the tripod.. but unfortunately I still don't have a decent tripod, so I "manually" hold it steady and with full of sweat.. :3
7. Nice micro shots!
I should use my cam and do something other than toy photos, which doesn't have much detail in the first place.
For macro shot, it is better to use tripod + remote control for perfect sharpness.
8. @B-Mecha: you know.. actually your photo is awesome..
thanks.. I should buy a decent tripod..
9. for tripod you can buy like mine, a goriilapod.
I always use it now for all my photo shots.
10. nice pics bro! The globe gembok looks artistic, hahaha.
what's in the last photo?
11. @divinelight: yeah.. I have a thought on that.. but it's model really.. uhm.. something..
@heathorn: thanks hahaha, old fashioned isn't it?
well try to guess it?
It's actually a corrosion at the street lamp house hahaha...
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<jats:sec><jats:title>OBJECTIVE</jats:title><jats:p>Delayed cerebral ischemia (DCI) causing cerebral infarction remains a significant cause of morbidity and mortality following aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH). Early brain injury in the first 72 hours following rupture is likely to play a key role in the pathophysiology underlying DCI but remains difficult to quantify objectively. Current diagnostic modalities are based on the concept of vasoconstriction causing cerebral ischemia and infarction and are either invasive or have a steep learning curve and user variability. The authors sought to determine whether saccadic eye movements are impaired following aSAH and whether this measurement in the acute period is associated with the likelihood of developing DCI.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>METHODS</jats:title><jats:p>As part of a prospective, observational cohort study, 24 male and female patients (mean age 53 years old, range 31–70 years old) were recruited. Inclusion criteria included presentation with World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS) Grades 1 or 2 (“good grade”) aSAH on admission and endovascular treatment within 72 hours of aneurysmal rupture. DCI and DCI-related cerebral infarction were defined according to consensus guidelines. Saccadometry data were collected at 3 time points in patients: in the first 72 hours, between Days 5 and 10, and at 3 months after aSAH. Data from 10 healthy controls was collected on 1 occasion for comparison.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>RESULTS</jats:title><jats:p>Age-adjusted saccadic latency in patients was significantly prolonged in the first 72 hours following aSAH when compared with controls (188.7 msec [95% CI 176.9–202.2 msec] vs 160.7 msec [95% CI 145.6–179.4 msec], respectively; p = 0.0054, t-test). By 3 months after aSAH, there was no significant difference in median saccadic latency compared with controls (188.7 msec [95% CI 176.9–202.2 msec] vs 180.0 msec [95% CI 165.1–197.8 msec], respectively; p = 0.4175, t-test). Patients diagnosed with cerebral infarction due to DCI had a significantly higher age-adjusted saccadic latency in the first 72 hours than those without infarction (240.6 msec [95% CI 216.7–270.3 msec] vs 204.1 msec [95% CI 190.7–219.5 msec], respectively; p = 0.0157, t-test). This difference was more pronounced during Days 5–10 following aSAH, the peak incidence for DCI (303.7 msec [95% CI 266.7–352.7 msec] vs 207.6 msec [95% CI 193.7–223.6 msec], respectively; p < 0.0001, t-test). A binary generalized linear model showed that latency in the first 72 hours was the only significant predictor of cerebral infarction (p = 0.0185).</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>CONCLUSIONS</jats:title><jats:p>This is the first study to use saccadometry to measure the saccadic latency of eye movements in patients with aSAH during the acute period following aneurysm rupture. The results showed that median saccadic latency is associated with the risk of developing cerebral infarction due to DCI and may act as a potential objective biomarker to guide the need for intensive care admission and treatment. Future studies will look to formally validate saccadic latency as a biomarker of DCI in a larger cohort and assess whether the addition of saccades improves current clinical models for predicting patients at risk.</jats:p></jats:sec>
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Journal of Neurosurgery
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Wednesday, December 07, 2011
The True Horror of the Harper Cons
But nothing I have done, or could ever hope to do, better illustrates the true horror of the Harper Cons, than the sight of the Alberta M.P. Jim Hillyer, celebrating a vote to kill the long gun registry.
By giving the opposition the finger GUN...
Gawd. I suppose we should be grateful that he didn't take his dick out and wave it like a flag eh? Because those vulgar rednecks ReformCons from Alberta are capable of ANYTHING.
But have you ever seen anything so disgusting? Or anything that better illustrates the contempt the Cons have for this country and its values.
Today Hillyer was claiming he didn't he mean to offend anyone.
"No offence was intended. No one who sincerely looks at the video and the timing of the video would think for a second that I intended offence towards victims of violence."
But nothing can conceal the fact that him and the other Con good ol' boys were screaming like jackals. Or hogs in heat.
Torontonian Elaine Lumley was in the gallery the day of the vote, and she said it wasn’t just Hillyer behaving badly that day.
"There was a lot of high-fiving and laughing," said Lumley. "They kind of turned it into a huge celebration."
Even as the precious legacy of these murdered women lay dying...
Oh boy. If foulness had a party it must surely be the Harper Cons.
You know, in a post today Steve V of Far and Wide wonders whether we have reached a tipping point.
And I so hope he's right eh? Because our country can't take much more.
And I just want to say that I am willing to work with Steve and his Liberals, and the NDP, and the Greens, or any other decent Canadians young and old, to defeat this ghastly regime.
For as I've also tried to illustrate, in my humble way, unless we stand up together and say enough is ENOUGH.
The darkness will only get darker.
And our nightmare will only get scarier...
1. Anonymous9:40 PM
It IS extremely bleak at he moment....but this is what gives me some hope amid the massive bluewash that used to be Canada - say hello to the Canadian leaders of the future:
2. Anonymous10:18 PM
It's not that he specifically intended offence towards victims of violence, it's that the cons don't consciously intend things like this but simply cannot help themselves. It's inherent to their current nature and they're unwilling to change.
3. Vulgar rednecks from Alberta? Can we please stop the tiresome stereotyping? Kindly don't paint my province in such a negative light simply because a segment of city folk are ignorant about firearms and use them to commit crimes.
4. "A segment of city folk"? Could you possibly be more patronizing? Or more asinine? FYI, the majority of long-gun murders take place in rural regions. Especially in Alberta. Which thoroughly deserves its bad reputation, and which you've done nothing to improve.
5. Rev Effect6:50 AM
Hey WWU!
YOUR province!? Didn't you lecture me for calling Alberta "your province" while commenting on an article back in mid-November sometime? What happened since, did you acquire some newfound connection to that greasy land under your feet or is this just another run-of-the-mill righty flip-flop?
Didn't a guy in rural Alberta just shoot at a couple cops again recently?
6. Anonymous12:47 PM
WWU. Ignorant planted red neck FOOL
7. Bina....thank you for judging an entire segment of the Canadian population. Many First Nations people I know would be disgusted but I suppose it's nothing new.
Rev. Effect....sorry I have a life so I don't have time to search way back for some comment I made. Sure I probably changed my mind...I consider it a consequence of having an open mind. Yes, there was a shooting. I have RCMP in my family in Alberta thank you very much so it hits close to home. The gun registry, once again, did a stellar job of preventing this tragedy.
Anonymous.....seriously? Is that the best you can do? You don't even have the stones to leave a name. Feel free to grow a brain any time now, pal.
8. Ironic how the previous post had to do with bullying. And people wonder where the kids pick it up from.....
9. hi anonymous...yes I saw that, and I was particularly pleased to see that they got more applause than the Con delegation did. I am hopeful that at least some young Canadians have become more politicized and will hopefully encourage more of their friends to vote. But we're talking about all those under 40, so it's going to take a lot of effort from all of us. However, I'm up to the challenge, I'm a very impatient person, so those slackers better get off their asses or else... ;)
10. his anonymous...I agree with you, I'm sure he didn't intend to offend victims of violence. But his gesture, in a house of democracy, was crass and vulgar beyond belief. And yes, I think you're right, it must surely be in their nature...
11. hi Way Way Up...You are from Alberta. You and I have exchanged comments frequently. Right? We almost never agree on ANYTHING? Right? But have I ever called you a redneck? No. So where would you get the idea that I am slandering all Albertans. I am fully aware that there are many decent people in that province, and all I was referring to are the Alberta Cons, who are the worst of the whole bunch. But in case that wasn't clear enough, I added a word to my post. Just to make you happy.
As for your comment about the gun registry I'm afraid it makes no sense. One because now it's you who are definitely generalizing. And two because you make it sound that crimes don't happen in rural areas, and that's not right either. After years of trying to work out a compromise that would satisfy people in both places, I finally gave up. Now I don't really care what the other side says, and I'm sticking to my guns... ;)
12. To be clear, I was referring to the criminal element who obviously don't register their firearms. As for me generalizing, turn around is fair play.
And I'm sure there is plenty we agree on. For one, I have no time for homophobes or racists. I saw enough of their mindless crap back when I was at university. I also don't hate urbanites. Technically I m now part of this crowd. With cities, it's more of a "toleration with effort" type of deal. Some cities I loathe, others I don't mind. I'd happily take Montreal over say Vancouver, Edmonton or Toronto any day of the week.
13. Rev Effect10:17 AM
I don't think WWU is a "redneck" by any means either, rednecks are a different sort altogether. That said, I was surprised to see you mention that you associate with First Nations people. My wife happens to be FN, and I do most of my work in rural southern Ontario (true blue Con land) and I commonly hear the most vile anti-native racism from supposedly good ole conservative folks.
Maybe you're an old-school conservative, from a time when some conservative values actual made sense (i.e.. living within one's means, strong work ethic, taking personal responsibility, etc), shame that many of those values have been replaced with bigotry, religious intolerance, and war-mongering, amongst so many right-leaning individuals.
How do you feel when your Conservative brethren behave with such hatred towards Aboriginal peoples and other identifiable groups, and I know this is not unusual in Alberta. I'm not judging, I'm genuinely curious.
For the record, I think we make mistakes on the left too.
14. Rev Effect...I'm not sure why you are so surprised. I've lived and worked among FN, Inuit and Metis people my entire working life.
I'm not sure who exactly you mean by my "Conservative brethern" If you mean CP members, I'm in no way associated with the CP at either level of government. If you mean close friends and relatives, their political views span the spectrum. My one sister tends to vote Liberal, the other CP, a good friend of mine from my alma mater is a Liberal/NDP mix and couple Inuk colleagues from my Nunavut days were more conservative than I am. So it is quite the interesting mix.
Speaking specifically about the CP's though I will say that I find it bizarre they champion property rights and freedoms yet really seem to muck things up when it comes to FN's property rights and freedoms. I have heard it said though by quite a few Inuit that the Conservatives (or at least the Mulroney flavour) have done a lot for Nunavut as relates to the signing of the Inuit Land Claim Agreement. I'm not sure I completely agree with that but I have heard this said on more than one occasion.
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Media multitaskers pay mental price, Stanford study shows
Think you can talk on the phone, send an instant message and read your e-mail all at once? Stanford researchers say even trying may impair your cognitive control.
Social scientists have long assumed that it's impossible to process more than one string of information at a time. The brain just can't do it. But many researchers have guessed that people who appear to multitask must have superb control over what they think about and what they pay attention to.
Is there a gift?
So Nass and his colleagues, Eyal Ophir and Anthony Wagner, set out to learn what gives multitaskers their edge. What is their gift?
"We kept looking for what they're better at, and we didn't find it," said Ophir, the study's lead author and a researcher in Stanford's Communication Between Humans and Interactive Media Lab.
In each of their tests, the researchers split their subjects into two groups: those who regularly do a lot of media multitasking and those who don't.
"The low multitaskers did great," Ophir said. "The high multitaskers were doing worse and worse the further they went along because they kept seeing more letters and had difficulty keeping them sorted in their brains."
Still puzzled
Puzzled but not yet stumped on why the heavy multitaskers weren't performing well, the researchers conducted a third test. If the heavy multitaskers couldn't filter out irrelevant information or organize their memories, perhaps they excelled at switching from one thing to another faster and better than anyone else.
Wrong again, the study found.
Again, the heavy multitaskers underperformed the light multitaskers.
The researchers are still studying whether chronic media multitaskers are born with an inability to concentrate or are damaging their cognitive control by willingly taking in so much at once. But they're convinced the minds of multitaskers are not working as well as they could.
"When they're in situations where there are multiple sources of information coming from the external world or emerging out of memory, they're not able to filter out what's not relevant to their current goal," said Wagner, an associate professor of psychology. "That failure to filter means they're slowed down by that irrelevant information."
So maybe it's time to stop e-mailing if you're following the game on TV, and rethink singing along with the radio if you're reading the latest news online. By doing less, you might accomplish more.
Media Contact
Adam Gorlick, Stanford News Service: (650) 725-0224, agorlick@stanford.edu
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1AVCenter Help
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If your OS is Windows 98 or Me then 1AVCenter won't be able to change the hardware acceleration but you can do it yourself going to Start/Control Panel/Video/Settings/Advanced/Performance and moving the acceleration slider as far to the left as you can.
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Windsor Ontario reporter discovers the Current Middle Ages
"Amy Cooper is a bubbly, happy-go-lucky kinda gal -- that is, until she dons steel armour, straps a cross-bow behind her back and gets medieval on her friends.
But, that only happens about once a year, during war time.
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011
If I had a nickel...
“If I had a nickel for every time someone thought I was gay, I'd have change for a $3 bill!”
I start off this story with that glorious sentiment, because it is both witty and hapless at the same time. I just have to hope that the proprietor of this powerfully poignant proclamation knowingly conjured it up, and did not just stumble into one-liner greatness.
The orator of the statement was a handsome yet simple looking guy in his early thirties. He had a wannabe hipster vibe written all over him. He was wearing a V-neck sweater, pre-faded jeans, with the strap of a man-purse crossing his chest, a generous growth of hair adorning his face, and his drink of choice was a Pabst Blue Ribbon (or PBR for those of you “in the know”). He was sitting along the wall on a raised pew in my favorite bar. He was surrounded by a group of other thirty-somethings; all of which had been drinking for an ample amount of time. They didn't seem to be close friends, but rather, they were old acquaintances that were catching up after spending a long time apart. I could tell, because most of their stories started with “Do you remember when...?”
It was obvious that at least one (if not three) of the men around him were members of the homosexual community. The loudest (and most inebriated) one of them all could only be described as a short medium-sized ginger with very big hair. If the group were having a “gay-off”, he would have left the others in his dust. There were two women in the group as well. One referred to herself as “Gay Mecca”, and the other was happy just listening to the stories and smiling.
The orator quickly took over as the main attraction in the conversation. He told stories of going to prom with two different men in two successive years. Those tales were quickly interrupted by a qualifier. He said that each time, he went with his girlfriend, and the double date was completed by a male friend and what turned out to be their final heterosexual relationship.
He spoke of nicknames he had received over the years. One of his gay friends called him a “Fruit Fly.” Another referred to him as a “Fag Stag.” But the one that he seemed to adore most was “The Enigma.”
After announcing to the group that he had been given the name, he immediately explained why it was bestowed upon him. Apparently, it was a common occurrence for him to be among his circle of gay friends and repeatedly asked by those who he had just met if he too were “one of them.” His closer friends would explain to their rainbow congregation why he was called “The Enigma.” Basically, he was just a well dressed 100% heterosexual male who felt comfortable around anyone.
It was only when The Enigma was asked bluntly how often he was mistaken for a gay man, that he brought forth his gold-plated one-liner, “If I had a nickel for every time someone thought I was gay, I'd have change for a $3 bill!”
He followed up the statement with stories of Drag Queens and their love of bingo, the difference between bears and otters, and just exactly how easy it is to win at Gay Chicken (hint: everyone wins). He was like a hipster version of Abe Lincoln, and the crowd to his left and right were his own drunken version of the Springfield townspeople.
After being asked questions about how or why the moniker was given (or earned), The Enigma would shrug his shoulders and glance over at Gay Mecca for backup. As it turned out, Gay Mecca and The Enigma were married. She would always give a similar smile and shrug, but hers had a little less sheepishness to it. She too was someone who always just found herself feeling at ease around others who were comfortable in their own skin. That is a standard trait of the non-straight, and something that she and The Enigma had in common. It was probably the way those two had met, and I for one, applaud them for finding each other amid a flamboyant ocean of gay.
I thought The Enigma was a prime candidate for what I like to refer to as “heterosexual hubris.” You know, the kind of guy who is so sure of his heterosexuality that he was doomed to be gay (okay, maybe doomed isn't the right word to use there). One minute he would be telling a story of his experience at a gay bar in Syracuse, then on a dime (or two nickels) he would turn to his wife and plant a heartfelt kiss on his beautiful Mecca.
I guess it is possible in this day and age for someone to be so comfortable with their heterosexuality that they could embrace such a nickname. I can name a few guys that I always knew were gay, but turned out to just have a lisp and enjoy a White Wine Spritzer every now and again. However, I've also known a few guys who I never would have thought were gay. One was a 6'4” volleyball player, another joined the Marines right out of high school, and the third was more obsessed with female breasts than I will ever be. I've been fooled before, and I'll be fooled again. I might even go as far as to say, “If I had a nickel for every time I thought a friend of mine was straight, and turned out to be gay, well... I guess I would have three nickels.”
1 comment:
1. "Flambotant ocean of gay". "Heterosexual hubris". "The Enigma" (I had forgotten that moniker). There's so many lines I love in this one. And the photo. I'd even say I'm gay for this post. In a completely heterosexual way. Strange how the couple and the ginger sound so oddly familiar...
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July 31, 2007, 9:42 am
No consensus on global warming
The planet constantly goes through heating and cooling periods, if you doubt that then you doubt the evidence of past global ice ages or warm periods. Fact, the earth was warmer during the 1930s then it is today. And far less green house gasses from “human” caused energy emissions. Fact, the earth went through what is called the little ice age during the 1500s through 1700s. Fact, the earth was warmer around the year 1000 or else the Vikings couldn’t have settled in Greenland. (later having to leave because the area froze due to the little ice age) Fact, presently only the northern hemisphere is heating up while the southern hemisphere is remaining static in temperature with Antarctica actually cooling down!
Areas of the Earth heating up is due to natural factors beyond our control, such as solar and cosmic radiation and variations in our orbit / axial tilt and no matter what we do will affect it to any measurable extent. Basically the whole green eco nut crowd wants to do is take away our access to cheap abundant energy while establishing themselves as the new ruling order while the rest of us suffer because of it.
Joe Hoffman, Denver
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Jake helped me to become a better English speaker.
I am a biologist from Serbia and a lot of my time is spent researching with colleagues which involves a lot of speaking. I had become very frustrated and embarrassed because people couldn’t understand what I was saying, even though the words that came out of my mouth were correct. I initially wanted to lose my Serbian accent, but Jake empowered me to embrace it, and gave me the skills to slow my speech down – Serbian is very quick. I can’t thank him enough!
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Skype Love
Are we drawn closer by being farther away?
Illustration by Tamara Shopsin
“It is an interesting question &mdash what one tries to do, in writing a letter &mdash partly of course to give back a reflection of the other person.” So wrote tireless correspondent Virginia Woolf to her friend Gerald Brenan, on October 4, 1929. Now all it takes to capture an accurate reflection of someone far away is a Skype account. This raises another interesting question &mdash what are we trying to do when we Skype?
Skype is the most popular and sexiest form of VoIP, or Voice over Internet Protocol &mdash a technology that allows any computer with a broadband Internet connection to act as a telephone. Skype was created in 2003 by the same Danish and Swedish entrepreneurs and Estonian software developers who created Kazaa (a file-sharing program similar to Napster). Since then, Skype has taken the communications world by storm: as of April 2008, it had more than 309 million registered accounts.
Its popularity is no mystery: anyone can download the software for free, and talk to anyone else with Skype, anywhere in the world, also for free. This includes the option of video conferencing. (Skype makes most of its money from people who “SkypeOut,” buying credit that lets them Skype land lines or mobiles for as little as 2.1 cents a minute.)
The technology has created a wave of Skype Love, which means millions of romantic partners around the world can live in different cities, countries, and time zones and not actually be separated, as long as they have a computer with an Internet connection, a microphone, and a webcam. The sound quality is not always the best &mdash it ranges from a cut above the telephone to echoey or garbled &mdash but there is something comforting in its retrograde tinniness (like jazz on a crackly LP). And who can argue with no long-distance charges and no maintenance fees?
For the past year and a half, I’ve depended on Skype to stay in touch with my girlfriend, a writer and translator who has been based in Vilnius, Lithuania, while I move around from Canada to Europe to the Middle East to, most recently, the Caucasus, doing research for a new book. In a Skypeless world, we might have been less inclined to hang in there, but now separation is less challenging. To be able to see her, and for her to see me, is more satisfying than a telephone call, email, instant message, or letter; the silences are more comfortable, the flow of conversation more natural. The image of my girlfriend’s face and the familiar environment &mdash her piles of poetry, her thick Lithuanian dictionary, a white tunic she bought in Rajasthan &mdash conjure up so many other sensory associations (her smell, her touch) that sometimes I feel we’re in the same room. It’s a strange and modern feeling: to be so intimate and yet so far apart.
According to Skype’s “Users Online” status, there are millions of us out there at any given moment of the day, sitting in front of our computers for two, three, sometimes ten hours at a time, gazing into the pixellated eyes of our beloved. (So far, people have Skyped for more than 100 billion minutes.) Obviously,this makes being apart less lonely. But has it brought people closer? Does it make us better lovers? Does sitting in front of a webcam free us up to talk more intimately? And what the hell do we talk about so often for so long?
Me: Hey.
She: Hey.
Me: How’s it going?
She: It’s going.
A long pause. A really long pause &mdash not awkward, just adjusting to Skype Reality: volume, screen angle, the pleasure of seeing.
Me: You look really nice today.
She: You, too. Did you shave?
(When I’m wearing headphones, my lover’s voice comes into my consciousness in stereo. Her soft sound surrounds me. I see her image on my laptop screen. The video allows me to detect certain details in her face that you wouldn’t be able to pick up on the phone. A particular glance denotes a bad day, a poor night’s sleep, something on her mind.)
Me: Yeah.
She: You missed a spot.
There is something old-fashioned and romantic about this new connection. With couples who have just met, there is an undercurrent of lost courting rituals: people are forced to talk and get to know each other without immediately jumping in the sack. Skype also creates an intimacy of focus that’s missing in a café or bar. The Skyper is forced to look at his partner, undistracted (unless he’s busy surfing the Net), and to listen closely to her words; it could be argued that this form of long-distance connection is more intense than face-to-face conversation. Tyee Bridge, a Vancouver writer who used Skype to speak to his partner every day during a month-long separation, concurs: “[Because Skype has] a bit of a delay . . . [it] makes you talk more deliberately, and not respond so quickly to what the other person is saying.” Skype encourages us to be present, to get to know each other, and become close through conversation. As a Skype forum member writes, “Technology doesn’t just speed up information, it speeds up love!”
But accelerated love still presents a problem: as the mind races forward to embrace a lover, the body is left behind. The closer you get on Skype, the more you miss the feel of someone’s skin, their weight beside you in bed. So near, so in your ear, yet so far away. It can be incredibly frustrating. Several months into our physical separation, my girlfriend and I found ourselves joking that we were not having a relationship with each other but with our computers (sometimes I actually kissed my screen and hugged my keyboard).
At other times, I found myself emotionally confused. First, there was the issue of what to talk about. Speaking long distance by phone doesn’t present this problem, because it costs money. So when you’ve run out of things to say, you don’t just breathe into the receiver, you say goodbye and hang up. But because Skype is free, and if my partner is available and so am I, the logic goes, we should be talking . . . and talking . . . Isn’t that what a relationship is about &mdash communication?
Zoe Hart, a mountain guide based in Chamonix, France, who is more on the road than at home, spoke to me about overusing Skype. “Skype makes people think they’re not actually away from their partners,” she said on her way to a climb in Alaska. “People Skype each other every day and think they’re still together. Reality becomes confused. You do not accept that you’re in a long-distance relationship.”
I know what she means. Even when there is nothing to say, I find it difficult to say goodbye.
She: I need to get going.
Me: Now?
She: I have to get ready for work.
Me: You don’t want to talk to me?
She: I’m going to be late.
Me: You have an hour still.
She: It’s not like we’re really saying anything important right now. Let’s talk later, and we’ll have more to talk about.
Me: I was just about to say something important.
She: Okay. What do you want to say?
Me: No. I can’t.
She: What do you mean you can’t?
Me: The moment’s gone.
She: Oh, God. Tell me what you wanted to say.
Me: No, no, no.
She: Why the hell not?
Of course I have nothing to say. It’s just that I find it difficult to re-enter the ordinary boredom of my real life. I call this the “Skype Get a Grip Factor.” When it came time to get on with our day-to-day lives at the end of a call, I’d realize I was not in the same room as my partner, but separated by thousands of miles. I found it difficult to return to the tedious and unnerving everyday. I was neither alone, with the compensations of perfect solitude, nor with my warm-blooded partner.
It was in the middle of the fourth month apart that we discovered a novel approach: Scrabulous and Skype. The secret to sustaining virtual love may be . . . to get more virtual. Spending time playing online Scrabble meant that my girlfriend and I didn’t have to just talk on Skype; we could hang out, drink wine or tea, listen to music together. The emotional muck of “relationship” conversations could be avoided, and the tedium of “How was your day, sweetie? ” could be replaced by an X here, an O there, and some good, healthy competition.
The non-verbal approach is popular among Skypers. In one YouTube interview, a couple talks about how they sleep with their laptops in bed, each under the gaze of their respective cameras. The woman in this video explains how she once woke up her boyfriend when she was having a nightmare. He adds that she likes being able to see him go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. The couple also talked about cooking together, with the camera on, logged into Skype. Everything but the epidermis is shared.
Which brings us to Skype Sex. A friend wrote me, “[Skype] added a bit of erotic juice to things . . . We discovered new possibilities for long-distance intimacy . . . Suffice to say we both laughed a lot afterwards. I’m not sure why. Embarrassment. So wrong it’s right . . . Like you’re slipping a quarter into a skyscraper telescope or midway peep show.” American sex columnist Dana Olsen puts it slightly more crassly: “When used correctly, [Skype] is the best practical-turned-sexual invention since handcuffs . . . The beauty of Skype sex . . . is you can pretend your girlfriend is a porn star . . . except you get to talk to your favorite video girl afterward.” The ’60s was the generation of love. I belong to the generation of mutual masturbation virtuosos.
The problem for me with Skype is that the likeness is so real it makes me hungrier for the real thing. Yes, there is intimacy &mdash but none of it is physical. I’m not only talking about sex: I mean what happens when two people are in a room together. The middle-of-the-night conversations. A shared glass of water. Sweat on the pillow. Even the arguments are better; one doesn’t feel the need to resolve a disagreement before the other logs out. In physical reality, you can let the unformed thoughts hang in the air &mdash and bodily communication without words can say so much.
Of course, I can’t help but wonder if more people want to be separated, if we prefer being virtually connected to physically cohabiting. There are certain advantages to being in a Skype relationship. Couples don’t have to contend with their different standards of cleanliness when they only meet in cyberspace; they don’t have to fight over who’s going to take out the garbage or who forgot to return the DVD. And while they might not have a warm body to snuggle up to at night, they know they are still there for each other. Virtually.
Skype may not be taking our communication into the future so much as revisiting the past &mdash the Romantic era, when snail mail arrived several times a day. We court, we pine, we imagine our lover beside us.
In another century, John Donne wrote these lines to his wife:
Though I must go, endure not yet
A breach, but an expansion,
Like gold to aery thinness beat.
Skype encourages us to sustain and possibly deepen our relationships across vast distances. But in learning to be a better Skype lover, perhaps it is best to heed Donne’s advice: it’s healthy to allow enough room for a certain amount of longing. And to have some time to be alone.
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Take the 2-minute tour ×
I play an American Fender stratocaster. Whenever I play a note on the g string and take my fingers off of it, the open g rings out very loud (when playing through my amp at a loud volume). I can palm mute the string or mute it with my right hand, but this is somewhat tedious. Is this a setup problem with my guitar, or is this just a normal aspect of playing electric guitar that I have to come to terms with? When I say ring, it just sounds like I picked an open g.
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Without hearing the sound I think it may just be feedback. Can you try turning the gain down on your amp? – Dom Oct 25 '13 at 21:06
Is this only happening with this particular guitar ? – Tim Oct 26 '13 at 6:54
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I suspect that you are unintentionally "pulling off" when removing your fingers. To address this I would look at (a) playing the piece very slowly and making sure that you smoothly remove your finger from the string and (b) trying to find comfortable an smooth ways to use your fret hand fingers to dampen the string. If other surrounding notes allow this, it could even be the finger that had been fretting the g-string.
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To add to Dave's answer, if you're absolutely sure that it's not your technique causing the problem (other people don't have the same problem on your guitar, or you play other guitars without this problem), you can increase the action of your G string (i.e raise the G string's saddle a little).
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Everyone en femme
Up at 5 AM for a busy day, I dressed in my new Sofia Vergara outfit and drove to Diana (of Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State fame) to carpool to the True Colors Conference at UCONN.
The forecast was for a pleasant day… sunny and temperatures around 50 degrees. I figured my new trench coat would be adequate, however, when we arrived at UCONN, it was more like Yukon. The wind was blowing hard and I can’t recall ever feeling so cold walking the quarter-mile from the parking lot to the Student Union. My guess is that the wind chill was well below freezing.
I checked in, got my presentation package and spent most of the day hanging around my old support group’s table, which was staffed by a very able crew of transwomen including my old Fantasia Fair pal, Karen Marie, who is magical in the way she is able to interact with the adults and kids, who stopped at our table.
I encountered a lot of old friends and sadly, I missed a few who I know were there but who did not appear to me in the crowd of nearly 4,000 attendees. I also made some new friends, like Susan Collins and Lorelei Erisis, so I guess I am “even Steven” as fast as missing old friends and making new ones!
As I mentioned here on Thursday, I changed the name of my presentation from a title that mentioned “femulate” to something that mentioned “crossdressing” figuring that the latter would garner a larger audience than the former because all the attendees knew what the latter meant, but not so much the former.
My strategy paid off. I did not do an exact headcount, but I estimate that there were nearly 40 people in attendance, which is by far an all-time high for my True Colors Conference presentations. By the way, there were three or four adults in the group and the rest were middle school, high school and college students.
My presentation, Crossdressing Successfully in the Real World, went well. There were a lot of good questions and exchanges throughout my presentation and most of the post-presentation evaluations rated me Above Average or Excellent.
I hope I helped someone. I noticed a few people taking notes, so some people must have taking away some useful information.
Diana and I left Yukon about 5 and ate dinner at an old mill that was converted into a restaurant (Adam’s Mill Restaurant in Manchester). There were no issues - the staff treated us transwomen like ladies and when we left the restaurant, a middle-aged gent (a customer, not an employee) held the door open for us.
I was home around sundown and my big takeaway from True Colors this year was how great it was to see so many of the students en femme. When I started attending True Colors back in 2007, few if any of the students presented en femme. Actually, I don’t recall any presenting en femme, but I did not see everyone, so I might have missed someone.
Fast-forward 7 years and there were students everywhere presenting en femme, which warned my heart and put a big smile on my face.
Source: IMDB
Actor Christopher Hewett (right) femulating in the 1967 film The Producers.
Source: ShopBop
Wearing Diane Von Furstenberg.
1. I just wanted to say.... you look beautiful in that dress....and have a great day!
2. You really should find a shot of Hewett in his "Chrysler Building" outfit from the same film....
3. You really should find a shot of Hewett in his "Chrysler Building" dress from the same film...."
1. I don't believe Christopher Hewett wore a Chrysler Building dress in that film. However, in Tuesday's post, I have a photo of Gary Beach wearing a Chrysler Building dress in the 2005 remake of that film.
4. As always Stana thank you for representing and presenting we femulators in a positive light! I have no doubt your ability to present our case has given inspiration and guidance to many.
Not but a few years ago when I was still on the road, I'd often femulate dine at the Adams mill, all my experiences there were wonderful, the food and service was always it should be for a lady. There was another wonderful restaurant always dined at when in Milford. Armellino's. Got on great with the barmaid there.
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Writing a letter to your confirmation candidate
I have three such letters saved on this blog:
My Dearest Daughter
In 1958 my mother got married and moved across the country. These are the letters written to her, mainly by her mother, between 1958 and 1960. Others in the series are in my del.icio.us file.
I don't have a letter from grandma for this particular week, so I thought I would explain a little bit about the courtship between my grandparents.
My great-grandparents, Paul and Mary, came to this country from Lithuania. I believe they had six children and my grandmother, Helen, was the oldest. They settled in Springfield, Illinois.
I gather from stories and things I heard growing up that my grandmother was very pretty and very popular. She had been engaged once to a man named Tony and even had engagement pictures taken. But Tony wanted her to move back to Lithuania with him and she didn't want to go. He left without her and that was that. I remember when my grandma once recounted this story to me she wasn't a bit sad or whimsical about it either; she thought he was kind of silly for wanting to leave America in the first place. Helen also played tennis and was involved in the theater. Of course all of her activities were under the umbrella of the Lithuanian Catholic community!
My other great grandparents lived in Indiana. Calvin was the second child of ten children born to Dan and Lowertta. Sometime in the early 1900s my great grandpa Dan and his kin were given some handbills promoting the wonderful farmland in Manistee County Michigan, and so they moved the family up there, sight unseen. Of course, anyone who lives in that part of the Michigan knows that the soil is mostly sandy and not great farmland, but that's another story. Calvin, grew up there and stayed until he had a falling out with his father. He became a welder.
When Calvin was in his mid 20s a friend of his told him that there was a lot of work in Springfield. So they traveled from Manistee County Michigan down to Springfield Illinois any way they could and started working as welders. Grandpa Calvin had a friend, who had a friend, who thought that a girl he knew would be just perfect for him. And so my grandparents were introduced on a blind date. It was love at first sight for my grandpa. For my grandma Helen? ...not so much.
They went out a few times, to dances, dinner and church socials. Calvin started to come around the house. He made friends with her brothers. He stayed for supper. In fact to her, it seemed as if he were always there and it started to annoy her.
So Helen decided she was going to get rid of him once and for all. She invited him to drive her (in her car) to choir practice. Calvin was thrilled to have the chance to be alone with with his girl and he happily drove her downtown for the practice. Once they arrived, he got out of the car, like a gentleman, and went to the other side to let Helen out. But while he was going around to the other side, Helen slid over, started the car, and took off, stranding Calvin downtown by himself. I guess that did the trick because he quit bothering her and shortly thereafter went back to Michigan.
He wrote though. I guess he wrote just about every day sending letters and postcards. She never responded. But he wrote for months and months. I'm actually impressed with his persistence. Eventually though, he became discouraged and he sent her one last letter saying that if she didn't send him some sort of an answer, that he would never write to her again.
And something snapped in my Helen. After all that indifference she wrote him back and told him that she loved him and did want to see him again. I still don't really understand this, but maybe she really enjoyed his company and letters and the idea that he was growing weary of not ever having his feelings or actions reciprocated might have scared her. Maybe she realized he was a quality man. Or maybe she just wanted to get married.
The timing was somewhat unfortunate. Calvin had just broken his leg in a work related injury and was in a lot of pain. However, when he received the note he was determined to get back to Springfield as soon as possible. The story goes that he got a friend with a car to drive him there. The story is more impressive when you figure it was probably a Model T or some such car on all of the bumpy roads that existed back int he 1920s, and that since there was no national highway system yet, it was a long trip. Calvin must have really wanted her to endure a long bumpy car ride with a painful broken leg.
This time they clicked and the two were married on April 17, 1927 (Easter, Sunday), in her parent's home.
The wedding of Calvin and Helen
The result of that blind date, courtship and marriage was two children, two grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren. Thank goodness for my grandfather's persistence and patience!
On a more somber note -
Last year at this time was the beginning of the end for my Mother.
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This is theory for a science fiction scenario. For the sake of speculation, suppose that power is not an issue.
I've done reading on eddy currents, and I know they can exert drag forces on objects moving parallel to the source of the field. What I want to know is if they can exert the same force on an object moving directly towards the source of the field.
Wikipedia for those interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Eddy_current
The theoretical situation would be a sort of magnetic shielding that uses powerful (UNLMITED POWWEEEEERRRRR) electromagnets embedded in the hull of a flagship to deplete the kinetic energy of incoming conductive munitions. I don't need speculation of whether this would be necessary, or advantages/disadvantages, I just want to know if it's possible.
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$\begingroup$ Of course. Take the magnetic field at the surface of a neutron star and you are in business. 12 or even 25T from a physical research magnet won't do it, though. I could imagine that an optimized undulating magnetic field might actually be used to stop something the size of a bullet within the distance of a couple of meters, though, but I will let somebody else do the math. Having said that, technically this is not a solution. There really is no solution to defend against rail guns with tungsten penetrators - why do you think the Navy wants them? $\endgroup$ – CuriousOne Jun 18 '15 at 0:17
• $\begingroup$ @CuriousOne 25T Ye Gods! I'm a bit out of touch - so I googled "highest magnetic field achieved". I had to laugh - one of the entries, from Science Daily, featured a (coincidental unrelated) ad for a car key tracking device. Its caption, under the reporting of a 90T pulsed field, was "Never Lose Your Keys Again": carkeys next to a 25T magnet evokes quite an interesting mind picture. $\endgroup$ – WetSavannaAnimal aka Rod Vance Jun 18 '15 at 0:27
• $\begingroup$ @WetSavannaAnimalakaRodVance: I used to work in a lab with 8T and 12T magnets. Anybody who was seen with a screwdriver near the magnets was given an earful... for good reason. The impact of such a metallic object near the bore would have destroyed or damaged the cryostat and endangered people. $\endgroup$ – CuriousOne Jun 18 '15 at 0:31
• $\begingroup$ @CuriousOne I can imagine. I was involved in the signal processing for 1T to 2T medical imaging devices. Fatalities, thankfully seldom because people quickly learnt from them, nonetheless made for a gruesome folklore woven out of accounts of early deaths: oxygen bottles in the next room, and, sadly, patient deaths from prostheses - especially tiny little clips in the brain to staunch brain aneurysms that people mistakenly thought would be no problem. $\endgroup$ – WetSavannaAnimal aka Rod Vance Jun 18 '15 at 0:42
• $\begingroup$ @WetSavannaAnimalakaRodVance: Folklore is always good to make people cautious, whether it is true, or not. I have seen only one accident where someone lost track of a tool and it actually impacted the magnet. It made a very loud noise, everybody came running and a red-faced physicist saw his PhD chances decay exponentially... luckily nothing happened and even the magnet was OK, but it taught everybody a lesson and the minimum safety distance for tools was voluntarily raised. Most importantly, the cryostat didn't start bleeding. $\endgroup$ – CuriousOne Jun 18 '15 at 0:50
You have absurd electromagnets on your ship. They are powered. They produce (somehow) a large magnetic field gradient outside your ship.
Lenz's Law means every conductive thing passing through this absurd field will pick up a magnetic eddy current and slow down. Very resistive things will not generate large currents/fields and therefore not slow down as much as conductive things. Conductive things will dissipate much more power and therefore are more likely to melt or catch on fire. In terms of whether any particular bullet can be stopped/melted/vaporized depends on what that bullet is made of(and its shape). I could imagine glass bullets or what have you might, if traveling very fast indeed, exceed the dielectric breakdown voltages and become much more conductive.
So: given a large enough magnetic field, you can melt or break down most things. Does this help you at all? Maybe not. A glass bullet that is traveling fast enough to induce an eddy current that ionizes it into a conductive plasma is not made much less deadly by turning it from a bit of glass to a rapidly expanding cloud of conductive plasma(which will interact with the field in complicated ways I don't really know much about. Possibly the field will 'bottle' the plasma. Possibly it won't. Possibly it will accelerate it into the magnets like a tiny aurora borealis.). Small conductive objects might be thrown at the shielding simply to vent as much power as possible from the fields through the object, turning them into tiny EMP devices that also explode conventionally.
(At first there was a bit here about how your flagship would heat the water it floated on, and possibly simply sink to the bottom of the sea in a cloud of superheated steam. I realized you probably didn't mean ocean flagship, but it's a fun mental image anyway.)
The general answer is no. The eddy currents are always exerting drag on objects moving perpendicular to the magnetic field, because they come from Faraday's Law of Induction. That's simply a limit of physics. The magnetic field is perpendicular to what we tend to think of as "the magnetic source," in laymans terms, so the only way to apply drag is to move parallel to the source.
However, if you are really playing games with whether it is possible, consider that electric fields emitted by a ship are not as simple as those generated by a simple horseshoe magnet. There is some curvature to the field, and flying through that curvature would generate magnetic flux, which causes inductive effects.
However, there would have to be a pole, at which the curvature would vanish. Fortunately, you could probably make this go straight up. After all, if someone did manage to put a metal projectile directly above your ship, there would be no way to stop the impact, because the effects diminish as velocity goes down.
There's also a funny side effect that flagship would be unable to move while using this field, because the motion of the propeller would probably generate enough heat to melt the propeller... it's in the same field. The field could also not be deployed all that quickly without buckling the walls of the battleship under the strain of the changing magnetic fields (motion of metal in a field and change of a field on stationary metal are identical in many cases in E-M).
If you are able to put a charge on the incoming object, then the effect of the magnetic field (or electrostatic field) would be enhanced and it could be used to deflect, or slow down the incoming object.
Strong pulsed magnetic fields, pulsed lasers, and obviously charged plasma can cause an object to gain a specific charge.
Or you could simply create an ionised layer of gas at stratospheric pressure perhaps 20 KM thick which could be swung by magnetic fields into the path of the oncoming objects. The objects kinetic energy would cause it to destroy itself in most cases.
On a mass to protection basis, gas is more effective than armour, but obviously typically needs to be at least 1000 times thicker, reasonably practical in space.
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Bob Jenkins
El vendedor
Voluntad: 2. Intelecto: 4. Combate: 3. Agilidad: 3.
Salud: 6. Cordura: 8.
En cualquier momento, un investigador que esté en tu Lugar puede revelarte los Apoyos Objeto de su mano.
Puedes realizar una acción adicional durante tu turno, que sólo se puede usar para jugar un Apoyo Objeto de la mano de un investigador que esté en tu Lugar, bajo su control (ambos investigadores pueden gastar recursos para pagar su coste).
Efecto : +1 por cada Apoyo Objeto que controles.
Cristi Balanescu
Los confines de la Tierra Expansión investigadores #16.
Bob Jenkins
Bob Jenkins - Reverso
Tamaño de mazo: 30.
Opciones de creación de mazos: Cartas Superviviente () de nivel 0, cartas Rebelde () de nivel 1-5, cartas neutrales de nivel 0-5, hasta otras 5 cartas Rebelde () de nivel 0.
Requisitos de creación de mazos (no cuentan para el tamaño de mazo): Transacciones astutas, Codicia, 1 Debilidad básica aleatoria.
Según Bob, el secreto del éxito de un vendedor es la persistencia. Hay que decirle a la gente lo que quieren. Repetidamente. Hace poco, Bob se hizo con un puñado de monedas de oro "malditas" y espera que la misma persistencia por la que aboga lo ayude a descubrir cuál es su origen y a qué propósito sirven. Si juega bien sus cartas, tal vez sea el mayor negocio de su vida. Quizás pueda jubilarse por fin, comprar el barco al que le tiene echado el ojo y pasar el resto de sus días pescando en un paraíso tropical. O a lo mejor Bob acabe por ver finalmente que no es oro todo lo que reluce.
Bob Jenkins
• Q: Can Bob Jenkins use his additional action to play Item assets from his own hand? A: Yes. Bob Jenkins is "an investigator at his location" and can therefore use his additional action to play his own Item assets. - Edge of the Earth Investigator Expansion Frequently Asked Questions section
Last updated
(If you've seen The Music Man, proceed. If not, have a look here first: )
CASH for the Lucky Dice, CASH for the Rabbit’s Foot.
CASH for the Leather Coats, CASH for the Trench Coats.
CASH for the Fancy Goods, CASH for the Track Shoes.
CASH for the Tokens and the Totems and the Moonstones.
CASH for the Thermos, Pipes and Painkillers.
CASH for the Shovels and the Lanterns and the Newspapers.
Look, howdoyafight, howdoyafight, howdoyafight, howdoyafight, howdoyafight? HOWDOYACLUEVER? Howdoyafight?
Ya can Move, ya can Draw, ya can Parlay, ya can Fight,
Ya can Cluever, Cluever, Cluever, ya can Fight, ya can Fight,
Ya can Move, Draw, Play, Fight, Cluever, Cluever, Cluever,
Ya can Fight all ya wanna but it’s different than it was!
No it ain't, no it ain't, but you gotta know yer inventory!
~Shh shh shh shh shh shh shh~
Why it's the Axe / Horse combo made the trouble,
Made Survivors wanna blow, wanna get, wanna get, wanna get up and blow
Seven, eight, nine, ten, twelve, fourteen, twenty-two, twenty-three cash on any fight they meet!
Yes sir, yes sir!
Who's gonna draw and play a little batty two-hand break-onna-skull anymore?
Howdoyafight, howdoyafight? HOWDOYACLUEVER?
Gone, gone, gone with the Thermos, Pipes and Painkillers.
Gone with the Derringers, the .41, the .18.
Gone with the Signs and the Knives and the Vests.
Ever meet a fellow by the name of Bob?
Just a minute, just a minute, just a minute!
Never heard of any salesman Bob.
Well he knows what’s in your inventory!
Knows what’s in my inventory?!
What's his stat line?
Never worries 'bout his line!
Never worries 'bout his line?!
Or a doggone thing!
He's just an all-in, neck-wringing, dumb luck, hard knocks, double-nothing, high-rollin’,
Turns-into-a-great rogue salesman!
That's Mister Bob Jenkins, Bob Jenkins!
What's the fellow's line? What's his line?
He's a fake, and he shouldn't know your inventory!
Look, howdoyafight, howdoyafight, howdoyafight, howdoyafight?
He's a Shrewd-Deals man!
He's a what? He's a what?
He's a Shrewd-Deals man and he sells Catalogues
To the ‘gators in the town with the big Thompsons
And the rat-a-tat guns. Cigarette case, cigarette case!
And the Lupara, the Lupara, and pocket-Colt, too!
With a shiny gold pock-et-watch for yer big red glove-wearin'-
Weeell, I don't know what’s in yer hand but I do know
You can't make a living playin’ other people’s cards, no sir.
“You owe me one”, perhaps, and here and there a Teamwork-
No, the fellow plays hands. YOUR hands! I don't know how he does it!
But he lives like a king! And he dallies and he cluevers and he picks and he shines.
And with a transaction, certainly, boys, what else? The gator pays him!
Yes sir! Yes sir! Yes sir! Yes sir!
With a transaction, certainly boys, what else?
The gator pays him!
Yessssir. Yessssir.
HanoverFist · 532
This is incredible. Absolutely top notch stuff. — supertoasty · 30
thank you! I figured there's likely 4 people at best in the universe who'd recognize it, but hey, in for a penny... — HanoverFist · 532
"Gentlemen, you intrigue me. I believe I'll have to give Antarctica a try." — Voltgloss · 277
So what the heck. Yer welcome! Glad to have ya with us! (Eeeeven tho you'll likely never be heard from again!) Ya really ought ta give Antarcticaaa a tryyyyy! — HanoverFist · 532
Can i use extra actions to play a fast item card? — LDWZ · 1
LDZW: Assuming you mean "out of another player's hand", the consensus seems to be "no". You're granted an additional action, and this action is exceptional from others in that it may only be used to play out of other's hands (something you normally can't do). So a playable item that requires an action to be played is necessary. Anything else you could do during that action- such as fast or reaction effects- is unaffected, and therefore you can only do fast/reaction effects you could normally do during an action. Weird, huh? Bob can buy a Lightning Gun for his friends, but not a Leather Jacket! — HanoverFist · 532
Oh we got trouble, right here in Arkham city! That's trouble with a capital T my friends, that's trouble with a capital T, and that rhymes with C and that stands for C'thulhu! — Fenris49 · 1
So, I don't have a ton to say yet, but I've always wanted to build a Lupara Scavenging deck, I've tried in Finn, a bit, but you need a lot of cards to reach a good level of efficiency, and his 5-card splash is a bit limiting. Bob can take both Lupara and Scavenging without it counting toward any card limit, and his ability both synergizes quite well with Scavenging (mitigating some of the disadvantage of not being able to run Scavenging (2)), and gives him a built-in way to get the Lupara into play without using a normal action (other investigators must find stuff like Joey "The Rat" Vigil or Sleight of Hand to do this). He can even dump it into his discard with Act of Desperation for an additional 2 damage (at +3 no less).
Like Finn, he could have some issues making making shots connect, but he does have access to a lot of the same means that Finn can use to pass tests. A few examples are Lucky!, Momentum, Well Connected, High Roller, Fight or Flight, Justify the Means, Sure Gamble. Of these, Finn can only choose a very limited sub-set of the Survivor cards if he wants to also have Scavenging, while Bob has to use limited slots for Well Connected, but it is a pretty good card for him (Plus, with RttCU, we get Well Connected (3), which is no longer taking up his 5 L0 Rogue cards).
I, for one, am excited about this!
Zinjanthropus · 209
With Bob Jenkins's of 4 and his access to Lola Santiago / Gené Beauregard, he looks like a good candidate as a cluever in a duo. And with Shrewd Dealings, Scavenging and the free action to play an Item each turn, you have a great combo to cycle Old Keyring / Flashlight as long as you succeed your investigations by 2.
As Flashlight doesn't discard by itself, you can use Joey "The Rat" Vigil to discard it for a profit and have it in your discard pile ready to be scavenged.
And once the Old Keyring is free, the Flashlight makes you a profit of 1 thanks to Joey, you can go for a Well Connected deck.
AlexP · 201
Can you win an adventure without taking any move actions? Yes, with safeguard, shortcut or an automobile! Can you do it without getting any clues or evading? Yes, if you’re a guardian.
But can you do it without playing any items? Even in mystic, that’s difficult.
At maximum, Bob revolutionizes cross-class item usage. Sister Mary with a lucky cigarette case for draw power. Lily doing gunkata with a Thompson. Monterey Jack with durable lockpicks that start at +9. And those are just things Bob can slot naturally! With Shrewd Dealings, any non-signature item can go to any investigator in a three-player game.
At minimum, your party gets a free chance every turn to do the action everyone likes to do: fill their tableau with assets. Live a little, make some money, even in Antarctica. Maybe somebody needs a refrigerator.
MrGoldbee · 1265
Bob Jenkins has a bit more flexibility with his starting deck compared to his fellow Eote investigators, because he can easily swap in level 0 cards later with Adaptable should he want to. Not a huge deal, but maybe interesting if you want to upgrade one of your level 0cards
schafinho1 · 53
"At any time, an investigator at your location may reveal to you the Item assets in their hand." This is not just the first step to use the 2nd paragraph's ability, but a flavorful play with the "Table Talk" guideline stated in the Revised Core Set booklet that the hand (and the deck) is hidden information. And I recommended trying this out to get the most fun out of this character. I opt-in to "Table Talk" for the first time recently and it makes the game really interesting. (e.g. Cannot say "Perception" or an amount of icons you can contribute. You have to believe in friendship and go for it if someone says "I can help!".)
It means player cannot just outright say, "I just draw .45 Automatic, let's group up and you play it for me." while being remote. You may hint that you needs Bob's help to buy an item, before finally revealing it once you grouped up.
Cards on hand are not necessarily telling the story that the investigator suddenly found a gun, it maybe that he brought a gun all along but need "resources" to use it, which is an abstract value, in this case it might take some time putting bullets into it, or finding it from deep in the bag, or gathering courage to use it. But when playing with Bob, the story changed to that when you reveal your .45 Automatic from hand, you are asking Bob to order this specific gun (maybe you forgot bringing it) and then pay for it together. This is a win for flavor for your table.
Bob's resource count is an open information, so you may hint that Bob has enough or not enough resources to pay, without saying "4" cost of .45 Automatic before you group up. (However with more talks/probing, it maybe easy to deduce the cost of the hidden information card.) This affects Bob's decision if Bob also need to use resources for his own and adds to the fun of declining or accepting the group up.
On the other hand, Bob with Shrewd Dealings make this more complex to ask for stuff that might be useful for him from all players. e.g. Even if Bob knows someone put Painkillers in the deck and wants it, since deck is also a hidden information, Bob cannot ask for a specific card. No one can answer that they have Painkillers on hand without breaking the character, either.
Instead, the other players need to give a hint to Bob once they see Shrewd Dealings in play (now an open information), and Bob needs to give a hint that he is in trouble. Even when Bob is not in trouble, Bob don't know what could make him even better with cards of other player's hand. So the table needs to speak up (intentionally vaguely). The secret to success as a salesman is persistence, after all!
For example: Wendy wants her partner, Roland, to take an investigate action, and she desires to communicate that she can help. Instead of saying something like, “Take an investigate action; I can commit Perception” or, “Investigate our location; I can contribute two icons,” Wendy stays in character by saying, “You should investigate. I can help!”
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You can download this picture and keep it in case you ever need to quickly respond to a Snapchat. You’re welcome.
Why does everyone want to be Snapchat? Seriously, can someone explain this to us? Does ANYONE remember what the program is actually designed for?! Collin is alive, Zohner is tired, Zuke is pissy, and the entire world has gone crazy it seems. People are trying to defend a digital drug lord like he’s some kind of hero, Uber is actually making a SMART business decision, and we talk about dog tongues (or something).
PS: Yes, the typo is on purpose.
Zuke’s Favorite: The Arlo Pro camera
Collin’s Favorite: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 – Doritos Bag
Zohner’s Favorite: Samsung Sound Assistant
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Tour de France. Stage 16.
Green Giant.
Somewhere between the Col de Gabre and Gap, I became a Sagan fan. The fact that he was in the breakaway for the third day straight, like getting tired is something he just doesn't feel like, the fact that he did most of the work and the fact that he threw himself down that hill into Gap like a kamikaze pilot on a carrier. That made me realize that I love his style of riding, combine that with his relaxed attitude and hey, I'm a fan.
A bit disappointing the other riders refused to do any work, afraid of going to the finish with Sagan. By just sitting on a wheel like that you're never going to win, at least give it a shot.
Shame that he gets almost no support from his team, understandable with Contador in the ranks. But still, Sagan really should have a team built around him.
Not even that, just give him half a team and he'll probably win half of the races he starts in.
So, then there was the incident with Barguil. It's probably hindsight talking, but during the 'cow-descent' I was thinking Barguil must have had quite the amount of adrenalin rushing through him, descending like he did. I was glad nothing bad happened then, today was different unfortunately.
Maybe he just gets overexcited when the road goes downhill. Anyway, he'll probably learn from this.
Like yesterday, it's been an interesting stage..
Tour de France. Stage 15.
This agression will not stand, man.
Now was that really necessary? As if there isn't enough negativity in the Tour already.
We already witnessed the Team Sky riders warming up under extra police protection, it's a pity to have to say that it was probably a good thing after what happened to Froome and Porte.
So it was a shame that on a day the teams could make a stand against the appaling behaviour of certain individuals, someone needed to throw a waterbottle at a cameraman.
The worst thing about it was that it was someone from one of the teams. What a great way to show the public how to behave. And to do it to someone who, in a way, helps you to earn a living. No cameramen, no money.
Sure, it was a heat of the moment thing. But you know that is the last thing cycling needs right now.
At least it provided some more excitement for this stage, not that it needed any more. Boy is that Greipel fast!
zaterdag 18 juli 2015
Tour de France. Stage 14.
Despite all of the negativity that is present in this years Tour, today's stage had another gem for those who wanted to see it.
A great final climb, with a pair of French riders wanting to make something of a failed Tour, ultimately being beaten by an Englishman riding for an African team.
While everyone seems to be talking about doping like it's 2005, some truly great racing is going on.
Seemingly coming out of nowhere, someone made it up to the two Frenchmen.
Throwing himself into corners in a do- or die way, he earned himself first place. His first stage win in the Tour, and his teams first win in the Tour.
Tv-commentators everywhere must have been talking about how great this victory is, and how much it means. And they are right, it was even on Mandela day..
vrijdag 17 juli 2015
Tour de France. Stage 13.
No seconds.
What a feeling it must have been for today's winner. After so many almost-wins finally there's this one really big triumph.
Sure, he won twice before this year. But those wins are nothing like a win in the Tour.
Third in the Tour of Flanders, third in Roubaix, second in the Strade Bianche. All fantastic results, but they are no wins either..
How hard must that be mentally, to keep missing out on that one big win. To have a cyclingcrazy nation watching you, wanting you to cross that line first. But to keep coming in just behind someone else.
It must be hard, very hard. But to keep going when maybe you and the people around you are losing hope is probably one of the marks of a champion.
Let's hope that the rider coming in second today will have his big triumph one of these days. He earns it as well.
Oh, and that poor Peraud...
donderdag 16 juli 2015
Tour de France. Stage 12.
Reactance Theory.
Did you see it? The Cannondale-Garmin guys missing the break, followed by two of their riders chasing down the lead group? Did you see the Sky guys coming up, telling them to stop chasing?
Did you see the guy from Sky, giving the Lotto-nl guy the deathstare when he got up to the front?
I saw it, and i wondered why it is that the non-Sky riders seemed to follow these 'orders'.
I would have loved to see a different reaction from these non-Sky riders, 'It's not your road!', or, 'We can chase whatever we want whenever we want!'
Why is it that Sky seemingly hase a huge influence on other teams? Of course, they have the yellow jersey, but still..Is it because their campervans are the biggest, are they frustrated after being booed so much at the start?
Whatever reason it may be, I hope to see a rider doing the opposite of what Team Sky tells him to do.
Reactance Theory, basically doing just the thing you're told not to do.
Tour de France. Stage 11.
A grown man, wearing a red bathingsuit and a wig while standing halfway up a mountain.
He's probably been there all day, waiting for the riders to come by.
And when they do, he's going to run with them, yelling and shouting while carrying a life-saving device.
The riders, some fighting for the win, some fighting for their top ten place in the classification, and some just struggling to get up that mountain in time.
Do they enjoy the shortlasting company of this man? Does it help you when your heartrate is through the roof? Does is help you after all those hours on the bike when you just feel empty?
Or does it make them think: 'Get away from me, how can you be happy when i'm suffering like this?
Don't you know I am trying to do my job here? Just go home..'.
Why does he do it? I don't know, I don't understand. And maybe that's a good thing.
dinsdag 14 juli 2015
Tour de France. Stage 10.
C'est quoi ca?
July 14th, Bastille day. France is having a party.
It's been ten years since a French rider won a stage on Bastille day, and today hopes are high.
But while Fédrigo is still in a break, France's new 'chouchou' Warren Barguil takes a tumble. For a moment it's unclear if he will continue, and when he finally does he looks like the loneliest man in the world. Alone, no teamcar in sight, he drafts his way back to the peloton with the help of a racedoctor.
Still, a French rider could win this stage.
Then, on the climb to the finish, it's first Bardet who can't keep up. Soon after Pinot suffers the same fate, so does Peraud. Peaked too soon? Bad legs after the rest day? Anyway, all hope is lost.
France will have to do with two riders finishing in the top ten, yet again no win..
Does this kill the party? No way, there's more to life than cycling.
Party on France, party on..
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Well, here's something that hasn't happened for a very long time: Epic Games, creators of the Unreal Tournament and Gears of Wars series, is working on a PC exclusive.
Not a PC port of something else, a game built from the ground up with the PC in mind, and Epic's "current plans are to keep the game exclusive to the PC platform".
There's nothing else to it - names, genres, etc - but the declaration itself. Before you get too excited, remember, when we hear the words "PC exclusive" these days it can just as easily mean a free-to-play game as it does an expansive core title that makes the most of the hardware. Especially when Epic is so hot about getting games running in Flash. So bear that in mind.
Mike Capps: Epic Games has a PC-exclusive game in the works [Joystiq]
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Mattru Hospital
Mattru Hospital
Mattru Hospital has been an important and highly respected ministry in southern Sierra Leone for many years. The hospital operates primarily under the leadership of medical and administrative personnel from Sierra Leone and other African countries.
Mattru Hospital shut down in 1994, when all Global Ministries personnel were evacuated from the country. Rebels swooped in and ransacked the hospital, destroying decades of hard work.
In 2001, as the rebel war came to an end, Doctors Without Borders reopened the Mattru Hospital, and invested thousands of dollars in equipment, renovations, and personnel. They discontinued their work in 2002 and turned the hospital over to Sierra Leone Conference.
The hospital has struggled to maintain itself without the money and personnel (paid by Global Ministries) which had made the hospital so successful in the past. But new sources of funding have been developed--the United Nation, the Sierra Leone First Lady's office, and foundations. This ministry continues to grow and serve the people of Sierra Leone.
History of Medical Work in Sierra Leone Conference
One of the original three persons sent to “spy out the land” in 1855, J. C. Kumler, was a medical doctor. However, he stayed only a few months.
In the early 1900s, several missionaries took coursework in tropical medicine, qualifying them to treat various ailment. However, it wasn’t until 1934 that a licensed physician, Dr. Leslie Huntley (right, with family), arrived on the field. He was joined in 1936 by Emma Hyer, a registered nurse. They worked out of a dispensary at Danville.
Both Huntley and Hyer joined the US military during World War 2 and served in various countries; Emma Hyer would return for a period during the 1950s, but Huntley never did.
The Danville dispensary closed for a couple years until two more nurses, Oneta Sewall and Martha Bard, arrived from the States. Oneta Sewell transferred to Mattru in 1950 to open a dispensary and was soon joined by another RN, Juanita Smith. They started a nursing school, preparing for the eventual opening of a hospital at Mattru, in addition to holding daily clinics at Mattru and in surrounding villages, and sometimes holding evangelistic meetings. Other nurses joined them in the years ahead, and Mattru became an important medical station.
Finally, in 1957, a medical doctor arrived: Dr. Alvin French and his family. They left in 1959, and were replaced by Dr. Sylvester Pratt (right, with family), a Sierra Leonean who had just finished his medical internship after earning a medical degree from Indiana University. Whereas French had done only a few minor surgeries, under Pratt the Mattru Hospital became a very busy surgical hospital.
Mattru Hospital was then a 15-bed cement block facility without electricity or plumbing. Pratt set up an operating room, and the hospital was soon bursting at the seams with patients in need of surgery, many of whom had to be turned away. Funding came not only from United Brethren in North America, but from the Sierra Leone government and from a British mining company located near Mattru.
The hospital was expanded to 34 beds, an 18-bed pediatric unit was built in 1966, a maternity ward was started in 1970, and x-ray and laboratory facilities were built. Skilled Sierra Leoneans joined the medical team, along with a continuing string of nurses and other medical practitioners from North America.
Dr. Pratt returned to the States in 1974, seeking treatment for a serious eye infection, and he ended up establishing a medical practice in Dayton, Ohio. But he was replaced in 1974 by Dr. Ron Baker (right), who had grow up in Sierra Leone (and spoke the Mende language fluently) as the son of United Brethren missionaries.
Under Baker's leadership as Chief Medical Officer, and with the addition of other skilled surgeons, Mattru became a prominent and very busy surgical hospital. By 1981, Mattru Hospital had grown to 69 beds with pediatrics, obstetrics, surgical, and outpatient units. Many buildings had sprung up on the hospital’s 15 acres.
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To trick a peasant (Útgard travels part 1)
Thor and Loki travel to Jotunheim but make a stop on the way. This is when they meet Thialfi and his family.
The skies rumbled with the sound of thunder. Thor, the famous guardian of Midgard, was on his way to Jotunheim for an exploratory expedition. He had heard stories of a place called Útgard, a place ruled by a mighty giant king. The god was traveling along the sky in his chariot, which was pulled by his two faithful goat companions: Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr. We will soon learn that these were not random goats (although the fact that they were pulling a chariot through the sky might already have set you off on that). Loki was at his side. The god of thunder had figured that the journey would be long and boring, so he had asked the trickster to come along. Despite their differences, Loki would often be amusing company during their travels.
Feasting with the peasants
As the two gods decided that they would soon make camp for the night, they came across a cabin. “Halt!”, Thor shouted at his goats while pulling the reins. “Let’s see if we can stay the night here”, he said. Loki grimaced. He was not a big fan of human beings. Then again, their minds were almost as fun to toy with as those of the Aesir. Thor pounded on the door with his mighty fist. “Who’s there?”, a shrill voice came from the cabin. “I am Thor Odinson, and with me is Loki Farbautison”, Thor boomed. “We are weary of our travels and would appreciate your hospitality for the night”.
A boy opened the door. “My name is Thialfi”, he said. “These are my parents, brothers, and sisters”, he gestured to the other humans in the cabin. One of the peasants, most likely the boy’s father, rose from the table and invited the gods in. “You are welcome to warm yourselves to our fire and to share our roof for the night”, he told them. His face then turned solemn,
He pointed at the pot on the fire. “You are also welcome to our food, but I am afraid it is not much. I do my best to provide for my family, but I have not been able to put meat on the table for a long time”. Thor shrugged his shoulders, clearly not moved by the scene before him. “I will take care of the meat”, he said brusquely. He then left the house without further explanation, closely followed by Thialfi.
Here, have a haunch of my companion
The boy was astonished when he saw the events that unfolded outside. One of Thor’s goats lay dead by the door. The god was sitting on top of the other one, strangling his animal companion to death. He then began skinning the animals and hung their hides across the fence outside the cabin. “I told you I would take care of the meat, boy”, he grinned. Thialfi gazed at him in shock. Thor handed him one of the goats. “Here boy, take this inside. You and your family can eat all the meat you want tonight. Just make sure that the bones are not damaged”. Thialfi hurried inside and shared the news with his family. They were overwhelmed by this act of kindness.
During the feast, Loki took the boy apart for a moment. “Boy, have you ever tasted marrow before? It is the most delicious thing. Just crack one of those bones”, he said. Thialfi shook his head. He then pointed out that Thor had asked him to not damage the bones. “Of course he would say that”, Loki replied, “as the marrow is the best thing about the goat”. He then turned away from the boy and went off to his bed, clearly pleased with his own cleverness.
You goat to be kidding me
The next morning, Thialfi woke to see that both his family and the gods had already woken before him. Thor had just finished his breakfast and walked outside. As Thialfi followed him, he witnessed a wondrous scene. Thor was greeted by both his goats as if they had not feasted on their flesh the night before. “How is this possible?”, the boy murmured. “I saw you killing both of them. We ate them!”.
Loki grinned at him. “These are the perks of being a god, boy. Those goats are a walking, unlimited supply of food for the great Thor Odinson”, he said with nonchalance. “And they even pull his chariot for him”, he added with a wink. For the gods, this was not a strange thing. After all, Odin had a boar in Valhalla that would be revived each day as well, feeding thousands of fallen warriors each night. For us, mere mortals, this is hard to fathom.
Out on a limp
When the two goats started running towards Thor, all parties noticed something curious. One of the animals was limping as if his rear leg had been hurt. When Thor had examined the leg for a brief moment, he turned around. He looked as if he was ready to smite the entire peasant family. “Who has had the guts to crack his bones when I explicitly told you not to?!”, he boomed. Thialfi blushed, staring at his feet. “I did, my lord”, he finally confessed. He then threw himself at the feet of the gods, screaming “please allow me to repay you, my lord!”.
Thor, clearly uncomfortable, gave Loki a look. Although he was not the sharpest tool in the shed, he quickly understood what had transpired. He raised the boy to his feet with one hand. “How would you repay this debt, boy?”, he asked calmly. “The boy will serve you, my lord”, his father said. “He is strong, so he will carry your tools”, he continued, “and he is a good runner too!”. Thor nodded. “I suppose that will do”, he said. He gestured to his chariot. The boy would never see his parents again (which meant the peasants had one less mouth to feed, so we guess everybody wins).
Into the land of giants
So it was that the boy Thialfi pledged himself to servitude. And although they were slowed down by the injured leg of the goat, they were still able to reach Jotunheim in one piece. As they explored their surroundings, they could only see trees and mountains. It was a beautiful, raw scene of nature. Then they heard a rumbling sound. This time it was not the sound of thunder, but something more horrifying. They looked around but could still only see trees and mountains. Thialfi pointed to one of the mountains, his mouth was open from anguish. Then they realized that this mountain was in fact a giant, one that was bigger than any giant they had ever encountered.
“Well, hello there little ones”, rumbled the giant. “What might you be doing here?”, he asked eyeing them with curiosity. The three travelers were speechless. The one eye that was taking stock of them was easily bigger than the three of them combined. Finally, Loki regained his senses. “We are some humble travelers, in search of Útgard”, he said. “Could you provide us with some directions?”. The giant frowned. “My name is Skrymir”, he said. “ I am familiar with that place. It is just a few days from here. Just follow me, if you can keep up with me”. Now Thor was the one to respond: “Are you mocking us? Of course we can keep up with you. Lead the way!”. Skrymir grinned and repeated, “Of course you can keep up. For I am but the smallest giant of my village”.
Having said those words, he headed off in the direction of Útgard. The three travelers looked at each other in silence for a moment, all pondering the same question. What had they gotten themselves into?
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Only Hours Old
Only hours old,
the wee ones all are sleeping.
Helping with their struggling births,
had me worried and weeping.
Now they lay at their mother's side,
suckling their needed milk.
Mother lies there proud and weary,
cleaning their furry silk.
Such tiny, little faces
and those itty, bitty paws.
Their squeaky, precious mewing
has me in 'kitty awe.'
Smaller than the palm of my hand,
sweet miracles to behold.
These adorable newborn kittens,
only hours old.
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Written: 07/15/02
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Sunday, October 2, 2011
Smiley from
I'm hosting today's's an inspiration challenge to make a card or project based on this fun photo:
I used the Flourishes Think Pink - Fight Like A Girl stamp set and Melanie's Little Tees stamp set to make these. And of course PINK!!!!! Come play along with my've got all month to play!!!!
~ Have A Creative Day! ~
1. Lee, WOW!!! These just blow me away!!! I totally adore the earrings!!!AWESOME!!
2. WOW! So cute! If possible can you explain how you did the ear rings or can you purchase them? Thank you for sharing. You really are an inspiration to me.
3. Fabulous cards and earrings Lee! I have a stamp set in mind for playing your HYCCT challenge and hope to find the time today to sketch it and actually make it tonight!
4. Amazing work from deep within the heart and soul, Lee. Got some friends who fought the fight and WON - recently another was diagnosed! Save the ta-tas!
5. Lee,
your cards are awesome! They just make me happy!
Angie in Utah
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Thief steals geriatric dog's wheelchair - WNEM TV 5
Thief steals geriatric dog's wheelchair
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This thief may have meant their actions as a practical joke, but it showed they have a cold heart.
"It takes a special kind of crazy to do something like this," Franklin County Deputy Jerrod Fredericks said.
That something was steal a 10-year-old dog's wheelchair when it was attached to the dog's body.
Lou and Jeffrey Baker contacted the authorities at 11:25 a.m. Saturday to say the wheelchair, which has a value of $250, was missing.
"She was just there by herself with none of the hardware on her so we knew someone had taken it off of her," Lou Baker said. "I think it was someone thinking it was a funny prank and it wasn't funny at all. She was left laying on the cold ground because she can't get around."
She said Sammy, a 50-pound boxer, began to use the wheelchair last autumn after developing a progressive muscular disease that cost him the use of his back legs. Sammy, who is 10 years old, was outside Saturday morning alone when the chair went missing, Lou Baker said.
Jeffrey Baker noticed it was missing and alerted police. The family was upset and even law enforcement officers were taken aback by the callousness of the thief.
The Bakers and Sammy live next to The Spirit trail. They suspected someone thought it would be a fun prank, knowing Sammy is disabled and a friendly dog.
As a result, they suspected the thief would dump the wheelchair along the trail. Sure enough, the family found it about an eighth of a mile from the house by some cedar trees.
The wheelchair still had the seven straps intact but a pin had been removed that made it easy to get the device off Sammy's body.
Sammy is one of four boxers.
"She's our family companion. Been here a long time," Lou Baker said.
While she's mad at the person responsible, she is also grateful that Sammy came through unscathed.
"We were lucky," Lou Baker said.
The family is vowing to keep a much closer eye on Sammy in the days to come.
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