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PHOTO Four models show off coats fashionable for office, evening, weekends and every day.
Americans are experiencing an extremely cold winter, and with yet another storm on the way, people may be thinking of ways to stay warm.
Lori Bergamotto, a style contributor at Lucky magazine, visited "Good Morning America" to show some cold weather gear that's easy on the eyes and the wallet.
The Looks
Casual Weekend
Just because you're in a puffy coat, that doesn't mean you can't look stylish. The key is thin, efficient layering for a sporty, polished look, Bergamotto said.
Clothes, accessories:
Uniqlo heat tech turtleneck, $19.90
H&M Fair Isle snood, $17.90
Hue rugged cable knee sock in ivory $7/pair
Charlotte Russe lace-up rain boots $35.50
American Eagle Outfitters cable knit convertible knit gloves $14.95,
Tommy Hilfiger sailor knit cap, $29.00
Modern and Trendy
You might not want to look all sporty and bundled up. For moments when you want a trendier look, try pairing a camel coat with cozy, modern pieces that have a menswear-inspired vibe, Bergamotto said.
Clothes, accessories:
Talbots fedora $24.50
Uniqlo women's vintage soft leather belt, $24.90
Wooden Ships Isadora chain link scarf, $38.00
Dollhouse Athena faux fur wedge boot, $36.76
Isotoner suede gloves, $17.99
Evening Luxe
But let's say you're going to a more formal event. How can you really dress up while staying warm?
Even if it snows on the night of your big, dressy event, you can still step out in style, said Bergamotto. All you'll need is a little sparkle and a little shine for your look to transmit an evening vibe.
Clothes, accessories:
Jet Beaded cloche from TJ Maxx, $9.99
Club Monaco patent leather cropped glove, $29
Payless "Radley Over the Knee Boot" $49.99
Luxury Divas ruffled scarf , $17.99 at (It's a close match).
Office Chic
You don't want to walk into your morning meeting with hat head or crazy hair static, so you can opt for sophisticated earmuffs instead, Bergamotto said. You can also wear gloves with fingertip grips so you can use your smartphone while you're commuting to work, and wear boots that look professional but have rubberized soles so you won't slip on the street.
Clothes, accessories:
Surell faux fur earmuffs, $29.00
Echo touch glove, $30
Aerosoles "Roley Poley" slouch boot, $29.99
Coat: Attention by Kmart
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by interstate. california will have to high- speed trains. we are expanding 110 miles per hour service. that is high-speed train. in october i wrote on a train for a very short stretch. i saw the progress myself. i recently visited a plant that is building 130 rail cars increasing about 250 jobs in the process. these are cars being ordered from california and other places. these are american jobs. american workers building america's train sets. that is what this is about. this plant and not exist before president obama initiated a high-speed rail program. -- this plan that did not exist before president obama initiated a high-speed rail program. when i was there that day, they are talking about building another facility there as a result this is lustration has for rail. it is not just the future. these eight jobs exist today as a result of our investments. there strengthening the connections between regions and revitalizing -- they are strengthening the connections between regions in revitalizing. we're trying to determine the next corridor of service. in a short amount of time we have
california, mr. miller, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority leader. mr. miller: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. mr. speaker, i rise today with my colleagues to pay special tribute to several members of the california democratic delegation. it whose service in congress is shortly coming to an end. these six members served this house and their constituents with dedication and deserve our gratitude for the hard work they have done on behalf of california and our country. representative joe baca who was elected in 2002, served for 10 years from the 43rd congressional district. representative howard berman elected in 1982 and served 30 years from the 28th district. representative bob filner sworn in this month as mayor of san diego and served for 20 years. representative laura richardson served for five years from the 37th district. representative pete stark, outgoing dean of our delegation was elected in 1972 and served more than 40 wreers from the 13th district. representative lynn woolsey served for 20 years from the 6th congressional district.
-- language in the appropriation bills that says no federal money can be spent on california high- speed rail. that does not help us. that does not help but get any more product -- money to the project. that is why i say we are looking for private investment. >> amendments are not meant to help you. they are meant to stop this product until we see a plan terry we have been talking about this for two years. but something i can bring back to my state, my district and say this is the plan. like the last time we talked about it, i suggested he said that with mr. dan richard and go over the plan and review it. i would be happy to have mr. iraq -- mr. richard sit down with you and review what the plan is. if he does that, would you withdraw your language? >> when you can jammeh this project is fully funded and we have a private investor -- when you can show me this product is fully funded and we have a private investor. i have been hearing this story for many years. in the first came up in thought of the state senate, it was if he does support this, we will have a private investor before it goes to
to the sponsor of the house preemie act, the gentlewoman from california, mrs. etchue, such time as he she -- ms. eshoo, such time as she may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from california is recognized. ms. eshoo: i thank the gentleman. madam speaker, i'm very proud to rise in support of the preemie act legislation that i introduced with congressman leonard lance. he's been a terrific partner, not only on this legislation but on other pieces of legislation that we've moved through the energy and commerce committee and i salute him. this bill will expand research, education and prevention of preterm births. as the mother of two children i know how precious the earliest part of life is and it's our responsibility to do everything we can to make sure that our little ones begin their lives with more than a fighting chance. each year, as was stated, each year half a million babies are born prematurely in our country, and preterm birth is the leading cause of newborn mortality and the second leading cause of infant mortality. babies born even a few weeks too early can require weeks
: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, by direction of the committee on armed services i ask unanimous consent to take the speaker's table the bill h.r. 4310 with a senate amendment thereto, disagree to the senate amendment, and agree to the conference requested by the senate. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: h.r. 4310, an act to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2013 for military activities of the department of defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the department of energy to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes. . the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. for what purpose does the gentlelady from california seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, i rise to instruct the motion conferees, the national defense authorization for fiscal year 2013, to accept the senate language that requires the plan for promoting the security of afghan w
california. do you expect the governor to seek re-election in 2014? secondly in pennsylvania you are challenged to a republican governor and pennsylvania has a long tradition to have republican governors serve two-full terms. >> i think both california and pennsylvania are great opportunities for us. obviously the governor in california is doing a great job in california. he is making tough decisions i was impressed that he was able to win the referendum that that gave californians a choice that you can pay higher income tax to the yelt or you continue to slash educational -- he won that referendum. california voters voted for higher income tax on the wealthy in order to have an educated work force. that is huge. he does intend to run again. he's doing an extraordinary job out there. i was honored that he momed me to be a chair. we expect him to run and we expect him to win when he does run. we're excited about that race. in pennsylvania, another example of a tea party governor who isn't getting results. now, as you know the pennsylvania society met this weekend there is a lot of
for the poor and underserved during his entire career, not only here in congress but in the california legislature. i was privileged to work with joe on many, many issues, and he has been a consistent voice, both in the california legislature and now here in congress, for protecting low-income families from unfair predatory and credit practices. he has used his seat on the house agricultural committee and house financial services committee to help the most vulnerable americans. he has consistently played a role in raising funding levels for food stamps and nutrition programs to feed over 44 million hungry americans. he was a powerful voice against anti-immigrant laws and built bridges on the history of our nation. we will miss his principal leadership and his passion for serving as a voice for the voiceless in congress. and my fellow congressional black caucus member, laura richardson, she has many accomplishments during her brief time. she has worked hard to improve our nation's infrastructure and been advocate for inclusion of minority and women-owned businesses and opened up economi
and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california reserves. the gentlelady from florida. ms. ros-lehtinen: we have no further requests for time and we are ready to yield back once the gentleman from california yields back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. berman: i don't see the one individual who had asked to join in speaking on this so i will yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. ms. ros-lehtinen: we yield back the balance of our time. the speaker pro tempore: the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass senate 3331? those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, 2/3 being in the affirmative, the gentlelady from florida. ms. ros-lehtinen: i object to the vote on the grounds that a quorum is not present and make a point of order that a quorum is not present. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, further proceed option this motion will be postponedful for what purpose does the gentleman from -- th
. including indiana senator richard lugar. and representative lynn woolsey of california. that begins at 8:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. >> strangle me. take things from me. >> give it to him. >> he's not on that face. >> i've been on that bus. >> they are just as good as gold. >> as all of us in this country were starting to see people coming out and talking about their experiences, this phenomenon, that so many of us had experienced in one way or another, and had no words for. other than adolescence, other than growing up. we finally -- people were starting to stand back and say, hold on. this isn't actually a normal part of growing up. this isn't a normal rite of passage. i think there was a moment where there was a possibility for change. and director lee hirsch and i decided to start the film out of that feeling that voices were kind of bubbling up. coming up to the surface to say this isn't something that we can accept anymore. a normal part of our culture. >> film maker cynthia loewen has followed up her award winning film by gathering essays and personal stories in "bully." hear
east merced street in fowler, california thearks cecil e. bolt post office. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from texas, mr. farenthold, and the gentlelady from new york, mrs. maloney each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from texas. mr. farenthold: i yield myself such time as i may consume and ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days with which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the bill under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized. mr. farenthold: mr. speaker, h.r. 4389 introduced by the gentleman from california, mr. costa, would designate the facile i have to the united states postal service, located at 19 east merced street in fowler, california a this has the cecil e. bolt post office this bill was introduced on april 18 and prereported favorably from the committee on government oversight and reform on june 7. cecil bolt was drafted into the army prior to the start of world war ii. he was assigned to the allusion isl
club in california, just be careful about the strokes you give him. hold back just a little. [laughter] congressman is joined by so many in these halls to make it all happen. thanks to the congressional leaders who presented this award, the speaker, minority leader, and to mcconnell and reid and other members of congress here today. i hope that i can think you properly and tell you how much it means to me to accept this award. i am very humbled. fink you very much. -- thank you very much. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, please stand as the chaplain of united states senate gives the benediction. >> let us pray. eternal father, the giver of every good and perfect gift, we put our hope in you. thank you for laudable lives, and exemplary footprints arnold daniel palmer has left in the sands of time. we are grateful for this congressional gold medal ceremony in his honor. sustained and keep him and his loved ones in all of their tomorrows, making them pour in misfortune and rich in blessings. -- poor in misfortune and rich in blessings. give us wisdom, that we may know the fulfillment t
tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized for 15 seconds. mr. dreier: i thank my friend for the 15 seconds, and i'll try not to exceed that. if i do i appreciate his generosity in yielding me such time as i might consume. mr. speaker, let me just say that i appreciate the fact that my friend said we should have a defense capability that is second to none. we should be pre-eminent in the world. i appreciate his statement that that needs to be done. i also appreciate the fact that he talks about the multifairous societal needs out there, ensuring we don't see those who are struggling to make ends meet suffer. we concur wholeheartedly in that goal. but i have said this time and time again, i said it in the rules committee, and mr. bishop and i had a discussion about this. and mr. hastings got into this as well. and that is i argue, this is my perspective, and thomas jefferson said two thinking people given the exact same of facts can draw different conclusions, but i concluded as i look at the preamble of the constitution with all of the important statements in there, we th
: pursuant to the rule, the gentlewoman from west virginia, mrs. capito, and the gentleman from california, mr. sherman, each will control 20 minutes. the chair rebling nices the gentlewoman from west virginia. mrs. capito: thank you. i ask that all members have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and add extraneous material on this bill. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mrs. capito: madam speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized. mrs. capito: i would like to first thank mr. luetkemeyer and mr. sherman for offering the bill before the house today. i would like to thank -- the house has already passed one bill for duplicative requirement on the a.t.m. machine. common sense reform. i've ask that they provide this regulatory relief for banks and credit unions across the country. i know that mr. luetkemeyer share misconcerns that federal agencies have piled on more regulations without assessing the current regulatory regime to remove outdated, unnecessary, and overly burdensome regulations. last y
. we need more revenue and we need less spending at the federal level. what is good for california is not good for virginia and what's good for virginia is not good for maryland. maybe we need to focus on reducing the federal government overview. been there would not be as much spending or taxes needed. then let the states deal with the taxes they need to take care of their citizens. host: robert, milwaukee, democratic caller. caller: i would like to say that the republican party, not all of them, i think it's just the tea party, they are destroying the republican party. when i saw senator dole in his wheelchair yesterday and military disabled individuals throughout the world, when they did not pass the ada treaty, which was signed in 1990 by president george h. w. bush and then it continued on with president bush and clinton and everyone else thereafter, when they did that, now i understand they are just not the party that any of us would want to be involved with. that's all i have to say. host: the video we just showed was shot by a c-span producer with his iphone. it was the for
a discussion on climate science, politics, and global warming. from the commonwealth club of california, this is about one hour. [applause] >> thank you for coming. we are delighted to be here. welcome. seven years ago, there was a consensus in washington that the earth's atmosphere could be altered. it is a different story. over the next hour, we will discuss opinion, with james hansen and our live audience here at the in san francisco. today, dr. hansen is receiving the 2012 stephen schneider award for outstanding climate science climate one. stephen schneider was a who was involved in the formation of climate one that[applause] sandy. new york? to place it in a modern context, we have to turn to proxy data like coral and ice to piece together the puzzle of how the climate buried in the distant past. it showed it was relatively warm. it was about a thousand years ago. recently that exceeded anything we have seen. it was featured in the summary for policy makers in 2001. when it became an icon, those who find the science inconvenient saw the need to try to discredit this graph. they sa
and i reserve the balance of my time. >> the gentleman from california. >> i'd like to associate myself with her remarks that we hopefully will not go over the fiscal cliff. i would like to say that i can provide my friend from rochester, our distinguished ranking member from the rules committee, insurance and we will not be adjourning the congress today and ending our work. i said in the rules committee, mr. speaker, that we are going to continue with our work. the action we are going to take as it relates to these two measures, the reconciliation package designed to ensure that we do not see sequestration, which we all knew would be devastating -- it is a package of $230 billion. it is a responsible measure that is not going to be getting -- gutting programs. it will be tackling entitlements reforms. >> will be representative yields? >> sure, i will yield. >> thank you for yielding. we were assured that the bill we were getting was the bill we would vote on. all we got was doublespeak. >> if i can reclaim my time, i can say that i have served as long as the minority as john dingell. i
in creating. host: here is mike from san diego, california. guest: good morning. real quick question. i do air traffic control. with a do you think they'll do with the sequester as far as their traffic controllers? guest: i wish i could tell you. i've seen the same numbers you have. 20,000 people furloughed. they're going to provide as much coverage as they can so different people could be furloughed different days. host: ray, in iowa, democrats line. host: morning, ladies. earlier, one of the callers made a statement about federal workers having their jobs. they come to work, they didn't have to do their jobs and they couldn't be fired. nothing's further from the truth. the only way that someone's job cannot be fired is they have an i.p. -- income tent boss. if they do something wrong or they're not doing their job, all their supervisor has to and is document it. i'm a retired postal worker and there's nobody that cannot be fired. there is a point -- the other point i like to make is this absurdity about overpayment. the private sector equal jobs i know i was a postal worker. the private sect
is charles from california, on the democratic line. you are on with damian paletta of the wall street journal. caller: why in the world the we keep arguing about the fiscal cliff, because i know in my heart that the republicans are stopping this. there's no one else. we are still sitting here fighting and the republicans are still fighting him. guest: he raises a point a lot of democrats agree with. you talk to republicans and they say it's the democrats' fault. why can't the president give us a proposal we can vote on, they ask. each party believes they are right and the other side is wrong. that's why we are here a couple days before new year's wondering what policy makers will do at the white house meeting today. host: scott is from colorado springs on the republican line. good morning. caller: good morning. a couple things. i get tired of hearing obama was campaigning about we need to get a hold on spending. yet he comes back around with a $1.2 trillion budget. the other thing is harry reid has not voted on over 40 bills the republicans and put up there. he blames the republicans. i stopp
to climate change, and attitudes about science from the public. from the commonwealth club of california, this is about an hour. [applause] >> thank you for coming. we are delighted to be here today. welcome to clement won, a conversation about climate energy. burning fossil fuels release [indiscernible] they accepted the the fundamentals of climates science. today, things are different. skeptics are winning the comic communication battle even as temperatures rise and the intensity increases worldwide. over the next hour, we will talk about high school physics and chemistry and how science has committed in the public realm. we are joined by three distinguished scientists. michael mann is the author of "hockey and the current war." and a student from stanford university. >> i should mention that bill is here on very short notice. thank you for stepping in on such short notice you published the seminal work study on the hockey stick. tell us what the hockey stick is. >> it is not a sport. it is a curve that my co- authors and i published a few years ago. we had eight century of widespread
along with you. amtrak is extremely important to california. we have three of the top five busiest corridors are in our california area. two of them are supported totally by the state, but the shoreliner is not -- i see there are some cuts coming through and i'm going to be looking at very closely because it has $2.8 million ridership. all three are state support services program, and as has been stated, the vitality must be supported. for the straight sported services program. it's important to all states, especially california, we are a donor state. because it gives more options to commuters and many inner city travelers while reducing highway congestion pollution. california has been at the forefront of reduction of pollution in cars and several other areas. the california transportation commission is voicing their opinion on -- i talked to transportation secretary brian kelly, deputy secretary brian annis, and rail division manager on how they view amtrak's work with california and cal trans. they are concerned with changes to state support services program, section 209 of the
, and the urban institute's senior fellow. california republican congressman jerry lewis is retiring from the house after 34 years in office. the 17 term congressman represents the 41st district in southeastern california, which includes parts of san bernardino and riverside county. this interview is 30 minutes. >> congressmen jerry lewis, you are leaving after three plus decades here. in what ways is this institution different than when you joined? >> there have been many changes. the most significant difficulty with those changes is we have tended recently to more and more polarized ourselves. there is a tendency to want to paint everything in partisan terms. 90% of the issues we deal with have nothing to do with partisan politics. we are here to attempt to respond to our constituency needs in a way that reflects their priorities. the partisanship has gotten in the way of members working with each other. >> can you trace the roots of that? >> i think i can. i arrived here in 1979. one of my classmates was newt gingrich. early on, he took on as his target, the speaker jim wright. that wa
recognizes the gentlewoman from california, ms. woolsey, for five minutes. ms. woolsey: mr. speaker, the past weekend -- this past weekend we observed world aids day, a time to remember those lost to this horrific disease and to recommit ourselves to prevention, treatment and ultimately a cure. for more than 30 years now, hiv-aids has exacted a huge toll, killing more than 25 million people. every 9 1/2 minutes in our country, someone is infected. but this is predominantly a disease of the developing world. a shocking 33.4 million people are living with hiv-aids today, almost all in the world's poorer countries. particularly subsaharan africa. too many don't have access to the medication and overall health care infrastructure that they need. aids is linked to many other problems of poverty, malnutrition and other inphishes diseases as well. -- infectous diseases as well. it contributes to a sense of helplessness in countries that are already susceptible to violence and terrorism. if we don't contain and defeat this epidemic it will undermine democratic governments. it will continue to impede
warriors do. he spent time in a recovery facility in california to cope with the mental wounds of war. then in august, john decided to get some r&r. he wanted to go to costa rica with a fellow marine, ian, and they wanted to go on a surfing trip. according to ian, surfing gave john a peace of mind and helped really with his therapy. so the two packed up their car with their surf boards and began their journey from florida to costa rica. their trip took them through texas to the border, brownsville, texas. there they crossed the international border into matamoros, mexico, and that's as far as they got. john carried with him 100-year-old antique gun, a family air loom that belonged to his grandfather. when they arrived at the customs and border protection in texas, john did what he was supposed to do. he filled out all the necessary paperwork. he talked to u.s. customs and verified with them that the gun did not violate any mexican law. the two allegedly handed the mexican officials the paperwork regarding the rifle, but instead of continuing on their way to costa rica to go surfing, h
think both california and pennsylvania are great opportunities for us. governor brown is doing an extraordinary job. he is making tough fiscal decisions. i was impressed that he was able to win the referendum that gave voters the choice you either pay higher income taxes for the wealthy or you continue to cut school budget and opportunities to create a work force that is strange for 21st century jobs. he won that referendum. california voters voted for higher taxes on the wealthy. he does intend to work again. i was honored that he nominated me last week to leave the chair of the democratic governors association. we expect him to win when he runs. in pennsylvania, another example of a tea party gov. hugh is not getting results. -- who is not getting results. there are lots of very excited democrat who are not admitting they are running get. we will have an active field of candidates to challenge an incumbent in pennsylvania who has not created jobs and is therefore not very popular. >> let me ask you about the administration appeared this week he said we have to focus on climat
, with james hansen and our live audience here at the commonwealth club of california in san francisco. today, dr. hansen is receiving the 2012 stephen schneider award for outstanding climate science communication bestowed by climate one. stephen schneider was a pioneering scientist at stanford who was involved in the formation of climate one that which is a sustainability initiative at the commonwealth club. so please welcome, dr. hansen to climate one. [applause] dr. hansen, welcome back. it's been two years since you were here. i'd like to begin with hurricane sandy. you are a teacher at columbia, you live in manhattan, where were you when sandy was approaching and when sandy hit new york? >> i was on our farm in kintnersville, pennsylvania, where we ended up losing power for better part of the week, and four big trees blown over, the railings blown off our deck and windows blown out of the barn. so even in pennsylvania, which is separated from the atlantic ocean by new jersey, we still -- >> thanks, new jersey. >> new jersey didn't do much to buffer it. but that's where i was. and we -- y
tempore: the gentlelady reserves her time they have gentleman from california is recognized. mr. berman: yes, mr. speaker, i have no further requests for time and will yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california yields back. the gentlelady from florida. ms. ros-lehtinen: i also have no further requests for time and i yield back the balance of our time. the speaker pro tempore: the the question is, will the house suspend the rules and pass senate 2318. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, 2/3 -- ms. ros-lehtinen: mr. speaker, i object to the vote on the grounds that a quorum is not present and make a point of order that the quorum is not present. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, further proceedings on this motion will be postponed. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from florida. ms. ros-lehtinen: i move that the house suspend the rules and pass s.j. 44. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the 250eu9le of -- title of the joint resolution. the clerk: senate joint resol
, that is reported in the daily caller. we begin with a call from diane in julian, california, on our democratic line. caller: good morning, peter. my prediction came true, reelecting a president. women against violence acts, being held up by the house. john boehner and the republican house majority leader eric cantor. i tweeted last night quiet late saying the republicans are going to gang up on john boehner. there is an article in the new york times showing they feel he is dragging his feet and waiting until january 3. i also understand that the chairman of the government oversight and reform committee darrell issa, which is from our district here, is holding up the vote on the women against violence act also, which involves the illegals, native americans, and lgbt. this is a coal in the christmas stocking for women who helped to get president obama reelected, and is an attack on medicaid for women that have children, and seniors and -- host: we will leave it there. thanks for calling. olean is in tennessee, republican -- leeann. caller: we need to have more cuts. look at all the thousands obama ha
on september 8, 2001 new york sacramento, california. -- in sacramento, california. >> my name is paul mauser, i'm the father of paul maus -- of daniel mauser who was killed in the massacre at columbine high school. >> my name is paul wilson. my beautiful wife christy lyn wilson, 26 years, was cowardly shot and killed in california, onth 12, 2011. -- october 12, 2011. >> i'm andre, i am father of bear. my son miraculously survived the shooting, he was in the line of fire. i am here not to represent the entire town, i am here just on my own accord. >> obviously the town that andre is talking about is newtown, connecticut. before we begin, is there anybody else here who has a story they want to share? i also come to this issue through personal experience. my younger brother was shot in a shooting that happened on the observation deck of the empire state building and i have some prepared remarks here but before i begin them, i just want to point out today there will be 32 more families that know the pain and horror that you just heard here today. we pay a lot of attention, and appropriately so,
are recent arrivals, not necessarily for a-porn, but having migrated from california to new mexico because the drop of jobs opportunity if the past decade or so. that is not unlike the white population, too. it is very hard to find needed arizonans. a lot of people there are transplants from elsewhere. that explained a lot as to why the latino voters are still the sleeping giant in arizona. we saw them surging into mexico and colorado and nevada, but in arizona this year still asleep, and some people ask why, in part, because they're not established the roots. what percentage of the population, give us a sense of the percentage of the population, the growth rate, the expansion. >> in arizona, approximately one-third of the population are hispanic background. but when we take into consideration the qualifications to be able to vote, the voting age population, only 25 percent that are eligible to vote, or in terms of being over 18. of the population, one-third are disqualified from participating in elections because of their citizenship status. that twiddles the number down dramatically. onl
of california and was awarded and the board at the event. it was named for a stamford university environmental scientists who advised several u.s. presidents. this is about an hour and 15 minutes. [applause] >> i interviewed a lot of fantastic people in this room and that does not happen very often. welcome to climate one. i'm greta dalton. in 1988, james hansen told a congressional hearing he was 99% certain that burning fossil fuels was hurting the earth's atmosphere. the next day, and new york times had nine set global warming has begun. a quarter-century later, he and other scientists are still striving to convince much of the united states. seas are rising, floods are increasing. humans are the cause. half of americans now accept that fact. 40% to not, according to gallup. we will discuss climatized communication, public policy and opinion with james hansen and our live audience here at the commonwealth club of california. today dr. hanson received a steven schneider award for outstanding communication. he was a pioneering scientist at stanford. please welcome dr. hansen. [applause] >> we
would be prepared to do that. >> the democratic line is next, california. donna, hello. caller: i would like to state -- i think that one of our biggest problems is that the republican party has sold us out to grovers inquest. i think that everyone who took that pledge should be fired from the congress. they took an oath of office first. they have given away the oath. i sincerely believe that your republican party has gone down the tubes with the tea party and the evangelical christians. we no longer have freedom of religion. they want us to believe what they believe, stuff like this. that is the reason why we are facing this cliff. because of that. >> let's go next to texas. john, welcome to the conversation. >> thank you for having me on. ivory with jerry. >> jerry said that he would be comfortable with his taxes coming up. caller: it should not just be the 48%. it should be the 51% below war not paying any taxes. if they want to live in america, they should otherwise go back to where they came from. if you have got people just sitting there in the 51%, just sitting without rolling, w
next call is charles from california, on the democratic line. you are on with damian paletta of the wall street journal. >> we will break away. live now to the capital. that is senator ben nelson from nebraska, retiring, make your marks on c-span. -- making remarks on c-span. thank you. we thought we would catch a moment of his comments, which were brief. we're standing by four senators coming back from their party caucuses. caller: the other thing is harry reid has not voted on over 40 bills the republicans have put up there, and he blames republicans. , isopod you were supposed to bring bills up there and talk about them and vote on then. they have not pass a budget in over four years. they are not being responsible for that. guest: that is what makes him such a powerful figure. they said we sent you the legislation that would help the deficit cannot help create more jobs, and democrats in the senate have not acted. democrats say those are partisan bills with no bipartisan support. that is why the leader -- senate leader reid is going to be at the white house today because
: at this time, it's migrate pleasure to yield the gentleman from california, chairman of the ways and means health subcommittee, mr. herger. mr. herger: i thank my good friend. how wonderful it is to be able to sit here and listen to all these incredibly warm remarks from people who, like myself, know and love jay pearson. and there's a reason for that. jay, you're one of the best of the best. and i think, it's hard to believe that 26 years comes and goes so very, very quickly, but it was 26 years ago when i first came here. and of course, you come here and you're excited and you come here with a dream, because of our great country and preserve our constitution, but, boy, there's a lot to learn. there's a lot of hall ways to figure out. there are a lot of procedures to try to figure out how to work our way through. and jay, you were always there. you were there to a guy like myself that i could come up to on the q t and asked jay, what could do next? what is this vote on? when is the procedures coming up next? and no matter what the question, jay pearson had the correct answer in a way that
in the stockton, california, schoolyard at the cleveland elementary school. you would have thought that we would have acted. bills were put in. it took us until 1993, four years, to pass the gun -- assault weapon ban. courageous legislators stood up and said enough is enough. but hearings and all went on and on, about military-style weapons that should be banned. anybody knows you don't hunt with a banana clip with 30 shells in it or 30 bullets in it. that's not hunting. that's not what you use at a gun range. and that you should not be able -- we know we shouldn't be able to buy a gun if you have a record or serious mental illness. you would think those things that were common sense would become law. they became law in 1993, and there was a pushback from the national rifle association that said, well, all right. you can pass this. but put a 10-year sunset on it. why do you put a sunset on an assault weapon ban? but we did. the fight was led by a courageous lawmaker who was willing to stand up, take the chance of having the n.r.a. come down on him, name is pete stark. pete stark led the fight in
tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from california rise? without objection. ms. hahn: madam speaker, tonight in time's square, hundreds of thousands of people will be there at midnight to watch that ball drop. but here in congress we have also dropped the ball. we are in the final days of the 112th congress and no one expected us to be here on the house floor on new year's eve, but here we are racing towards that fiscal cliff, towards higher taxes on the middle class, on slashed investment for the american people, including nutrition for mothers and infants, education for our children, and our infrastructure. what part of the cliff sounds like a good plan? i know i'm not the only one who spent time with families that it will hurt. i know i'm not the only one who has visited the businesses worried that our country could have another recession. we should not be playing this game of chicken. there is too much at stake to have politics as usual. we have an opportunity to prevent the fiscal cliff, but in order to do so we must act as a unified
california continues to reserve. the gentlelady from kentucky is recognized. mr. whitfield: mr. speaker, at this time i would like to recognize for a period of three minutes dr. roe of tennessee who's a member of the education committee, for three minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from tennessee is recognized for three minutes. mr. roe: i thank the gentleman, the chairman, for yielding, and, mr. speaker, i rise today in support of h.r. 6582. this legislation would establish a uniform energy efficient descripter for all water heaters, walk-in freezers and walk-in coolers. the legislation also improves the testing methods that determine whether or not these products are energy efficient which will provide certainty for manufacturers and their products. in my hometown is one of the largest manufacturers who make up to 8,000 water heaters a day. and this is a real jobs issue in my hometown. these jobs have good retirement plans, health insurance and their competitors are both in canada and mexico and we need to do anything we can to help support these local manufacturers. this
to the gentleman from california, the vice chairman of the democrat caucus, mr. becerra. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized for two minutes. mr. becerra: i thank the gentlelady for yielding. if you're in the middle class, shouldn't it feel like you're in the middle of america? yet the politics of extremism is pushing the middle class to the very edge. the very edge. our house republican colleagues continue to ignore the calls from the american people to extend middle class tax cuts now . that politics of extremism is threatening to raise taxes on the middle class by the amount of about $2,200 starting january 1. republicans should once and for all join with democrats and the american public to bring the bipartisan senate-passed middle class tax cut bill to a vote on the house floor. . 97% of small businesses don't see a single tax increase next year. democrats and 2/3 of the american people agree with the growing number of republicans who are telling the republican colleagues, take the 98% deal. take the 98% deal. my friends, this is not the time to put the foot
financial manager will be reported. -- a ppointed. -- appointed. dana in california, republican. caller: i'm 56 years old. i live in california. i can give the perspective of what has happened in my state and the economy and all that stuff. back in 1982, i was making $8.50 an hour. but i have seen happen in my state and happening in more, not just illegal immigrants, but our children. i have watched my state do a nose dive. people cannot afford more things. i'm watching them destroy our social system, our schools. it is absolute insanity, but i see happening in our state. host: have you considered moving out of california? caller: what do you do? this is my home. it is like being shoved out of your own home. host: what kind of work do you do? caller: alarm system and surveillance system. every walk of life, every religious background, every part of town, a movie star's homes. i have seen life in a perspective that most people do not see it. i hear them talk. i see the same common denominator. illegal immigration is killing everything. host: has business been good? caller: in my business, w
is going to make those decisions. but there's a lot of potential already, well california is twice as efficient as the rest of the nation. it's about equivalent to europe, which is also twice as efficient as the united states. so there's a lot of potential in just energy efficiency but anyway. >> and so the next question, welcome. >> i'm james. the ongoing talks in doha, basically focusing on kyoto, i believe, you've said you sort of have issue with kyoto, what do you think the united states should be putting forward there, and how can we convince the countries who have equity issues with the united states and our carbon development to participate? what do you propose for that? >> the united nations process hasn't done a lot. what do you think should happen there? >> yeah, it's -- they -- as i've already said, i think instead of trying to fix the kyoto process but keeping the cap-and-trade system, we need to realize that we have to put a price on carbon. now, we do have a debt to developing countries because the climate impacts are actually going to be felt and are already beginnin
is recognized. mr. smith: i yield two minutes to the gentleman from california, mr. rohrabacher. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized for two minutes. mr. rohrabacher: thank you very much. i rise in strong opposition to h.r. 6621. the bill being considered promotes and is being promoted as a technical corrections piece of legislation and by and large that's exactly what it is. but it also -- there's one provision of this bill that raises significant concerns and needs to be addressed, and i have asked my friend from michigan, perhaps, to consider this and perhaps reconsider his position on the bill, because i'm sure he does not know about this. one of our country's patent -- our country's patent system has long been one of the strongest in the world, and one of its basic tenets has been the steadfast adherence to the principle of total confidentiality of a patent application until the patent is granted. the congress has repeatedly stood by that principle even though there have been many powerful forces in this country trying to eliminate that concept, but we have
the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentlelady from california seek recognition? without objection, the gentlelady from california is recognized for one minute. ms. sanchez: mr. speaker, down here in the well you might think that we are not a very friendly bunch towards each other but i want to let people know today that we actually have a lot of friendships here on this floor. and i want to take this time this week before we break for christmas to say good-bye to some of my friends who are leaving from congress, especially from the democratic side. but i have a particularly good friend on the other side. congressman gallegly. and he's had a congressional career here for 25 years, he's been a leader in -- and a fierce defender in animal rights. and with the successful passage of legislation that he recently sponsored, the creation and the sale of videos depicting the torture of animals, is forever illegal. and animals across -- lovers across the country are saying -- thankful for his leadership on that. and we a lot of times disagree on a lot of things politically, we've
, followed by retiring california representative jerry lewis talking about his career. later, "washington journal." >> today on "washington journal," will talk about the latest on the so-called fiscal cliff with stan colander and joshua gordon. that is followed by a look at president obama's cabinet for a second term. our guest is david jackson. then a look at what is next for iraq. we are joined by new york times correspondent and author michael gordon. "washington journal" is live at 7:00 a.m. eastern. >> he had to make a plan for the invasion without considering the atomic and -- on. -- bomb. landing on the coast would cost our men thousands. grandson, itruman's choose to honor both, both the sacrifice, sacrifice of american servicemen fighting in the pacific and of little girl in japan who died as a result of the atomic bomb. it is unimaginable what that must of been like to be close to that center where that fireball originated. >> follow clifton truman daniel on his journey to hiroshima. the president's grants and joins us in washington to discuss meetings with bomb survivors. this
from south carolina, on what senator dianne feinstein, democrat of california. it should be a busy morning on the sunday shows. back to your calls. june is waiting from wisconsin, on the independent line. good morning. host: good morning. first of all, shame on a congress, particularly the republicans who have just wanted to does -- to destroy this country. the tea party, i am so glad i am able to say this, the t stands for treason, because they have done all they possibly can to ruin america, to overthrow our government. host: can you take us through the next 48 hours on this debate on the fiscal cliff? what needs to happen? caller: ok. i say, the president should be willing to come up to $300,000, as far as tax increases. we need revenue. $400,000, some people make that. we need revenue. the only way to get it is to get it from people who actually have the money. there is no shame in helping our government. this is our government. the republicans need to understand that social security and medicare -- listen, those are so important. people are talking about i do not want children
them down. i yield back. mr. murphy: i yield 1:30 to the gentlelady from california, ms. esh -- eshoo. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. ms. eshoo: i thank the gentlelady from connecticut. there have been many heart -wrenching tributes this evening. on behalf of my constituents in the 14th congressional district in california, i hope that our words and our prayers and also our future actions will be a source of comfort to the parents of the victims and to the community of newtown, connecticut. it is appropriate that we offer our prayers and our sympathy, but that's not enough. that is not enough. it is in this chamber and in this congress we're together. we can indeed make the changes that the american people in their and wish are looking for. i can't help think of the words of you lincoln's gettysburg address when he said the nation will long remember what we say here but it will never forget what which did here. it is us to be dead cailted here to their great unfinished work. the massacre of these angels should really inspire us to take on the job of what really
. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. mcclintock, for five minutes. mr. mcclintock: thank you, mr. speaker. to understand the federal budget mess and the so-called fiscal cliff, it's important to know three numbers. 39, 37 and 64. 39% is the combined growth of inflation in population over the last 10 years. 39%. 37% is the increase in revenues in the same period. that's despite the recession and the tax cuts. not quite keeping pace but pretty close. 64% is the number that is killing us. 64% is the increase in federal spending in that period. that's nearly twice the rate of inflation and population growth over the last 10 years. now, the spending side of the fiscal cliff is the so-called sequester, automatic cuts in federal spending. some say it's the end of western civilization as we know it. it's hardly the case. after a 64% increase in expenditures during this decade, the sequester doesn't actually cut spending at all. it simply limits spending growth next year to about half of a percent. now i opposed the budget deal that created the sequester las
's right. host: let's move on to alan in california, republican caller. what's the name of your town? south of santa barbara. caller: we are in california here. we have gone over the fiscal cliff here. we are billions of dollars in debt. democrats and the labor unions are bankrupting this state. so democrat parties are so good why are we bankrupt? don't you think it's time that the unions instead of spending billions of dollars on political campaigns, give that money back to the membership so they can pay their own way? and as taxpayers and people like me that live on a fixed income don't have to be taxed out of our homes and lose the money we work hard to make? host: mr. welch. guest: first of all you have worked hard and -- but a couple things. number one, i can't comment on the california situation. i just don't know enough about it. although the reports are things are starting to turn around a little bit there. and it's very tough to pass a budget when you've got that superis majority requirement. number two -- supermajority requirement. number two, how we got here, it's not unions. the
of california and beyond even the borders of this hallowed land. together today we meet to celebrate this democracy, lord, with which you have blessed us and we assemble to cast the votes that will elect the next president of these united states of america. we pray that each person casting a vote does so with a pure mind, heart, and soul seeking the very best and the highest good for the people of this great nation, economic stability, moral integrity, and the ability to lead the world as a true example of freedom and fairness. we pray for the president, that he may be strengthened daily by your grace, that he may constantly remember his calling as both a leader for and a servant of the people and that we, the citizens of these united states, those who have elected him might be his ever constant source of encouragement as he seeks to fulfill his duties and obligations. and finally, lord, we ask you to inspire all those who have been entrusted to elected office, that they may search deep within their hearts and find the way to work with one another and with the president for the good
woolsey of california. that begins at 8:00 p.m. eastern heren on c-span. >> my inspiration was the idea that i wanted to explain how to toe tall tarynism happens. we do know the story of the cold war. we know that the documents we've seen the archives the described relationships between first roosevelt and stalin and churchill and truman. we know the main events from our point of view. we've read them and written them. what i wanted to do was show from the ground up what did it feel like to be one of the people who were subjected to this system. and how did people make choices in that system and how did they react and how did they behave? one of the things that happened is the region that we used to call eastern europe. these countries no longer have much in common with each other except for the common memory. this is about 30 minutes. >> defense reporter with plitcol here to explain to us how states are bracing for sequestration, particularly states that have strong defense industries and what they're doing to prepare for the cuts that could hurt their local economies. welcome to the p
of the money went to california for a true high speed rail. the rest is inner city enhanced passenger service and a number of other improvements and grants. for the fra representative and administrator, what is the intent of the administration for high speed rail in the future, the next four years? >> well, i think the president's vision is in his budget and it includes additional billions of dollars for high speed rail. and so it is spelled out in his budget which he continues to be quite committed to it and we hope that the congress will follow through on that. >> well, mr. boardman, you started out with i think less than a hundred million and some of the money that came into the northeast corridor came in sort of i guess at the same time we designated the corridor high speed, which i commend you on doing. but secondly, with the return of money from at least florida, wisconsin and ohio. and mr. boardman, you're using that in some -- i don't mean this to be critical but it's sort of a band aid approach because you don't have the money but you're trying to pick project that is would make a ma
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and considered that I've generated the ssh key (added it to UI of MAAS) and the API key, my environments.yaml file presents in this way:
type: maas
maas-server: 'http://x.x.x.x/MAAS/'
maas-oauth: 'NDPA86PsEzS7bFynSy:vqJLkyHUJbvYzbtY5Q:sXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
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authorized-keys-path: ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub # or any file you want.
when I try to run the command:
juju bootstrap
receive the following error:
ERROR environment has no access-key or secret-key
Someone can explain me where is the wrong?
• MAAS and JUJU are installed using their ppa stable on an Ubuntu 12.04.3 Server
• I've already enlisted 2 machines on my Maas and they are in Commissioning status
• In the environments.yaml file the line "default" has as value "maas"
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When nodes in MaaS are in the commissioning state, they are not available for Juju to use. When the nodes are ready for allocation, they will show in MaaS as the Ready state.
When you bootstrap using Juju, it creates a node that will queue future deploy and relation setting commands to be run at the correct time during the installation of the various services.
The gomaasapi: got error back from server: 409 CONFLICT error is a generic error meaning that Maas encountered and error while trying to fulfill your request. In your case, because all of your machines are in a commissioning state and not a ready state, MaaS has no nodes that Juju can use to set up the bootstrap machine on. Because of that, you get the 409 CONFLICT error.
When nodes are in the commissioning state, they should be booted up, running an image from the MaaS server that prepares them for use. You may want to check that the nodes that are supposedly commissioning are booted up and not stuck at some boot prompt or turned off. If they are running, try connecting a monitor to them and see what you can see.
If they are not running, check and see if you have the power setting set in MaaS correct -- MaaS may not be able to signal the machines to boot (using IPMI, WOL, etc) and therefore the commissioning image is never booted and run and the nodes are stuck in the commisioning state without human intervention. (If this is the case, you can get past this by manually (as in physically) powering on the nodes that are stuck in the commissioning state.)
If you are using virtual machines to test MaaS, let me know and I will update my answer -- there are some quirks to testing MaaS with virtual machines.
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From the specified error, I can assume you're using juju-core and trying to use the EC2 provider somehow. Are you sure you don't have any other environments in your environments.yaml? You'll need to specify default: maas at the top-level of your environments.yaml, or alternatively use juju switch maas on the command line. It'll be helpful to post your complete environments.yaml, as well as more context from the command output (which command did you run?), by passing --show-log as an argument.
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I modified the default section and run again the juju command, this time the error is the following: ERROR cannot start bootstrap instance: cannot run instances: gomaasapi: got error back from server: 409 CONFLICT – Riccardo Magrini Oct 30 at 10:53
@RiccardoMagrini Do you have machines enlisted in your maas master? – Marco Ceppi Oct 30 at 13:51
@Marco Yes, I've already enlisted 2 machines on my Maas and they are in Commissioning status – Riccardo Magrini Oct 31 at 16:08
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0.062112 | <urn:uuid:28dacf4a-bd2e-46ba-b945-a8e6835bb221> | en | 0.979119 | The Pittsburgh Steelers have agreed to terms with undrafted free-agent Adrian Robinson, according to
Robinson, an outside linebacker/lineman prospect from Temple, fits the perfect mold of a hybrid tweener if there ever were one. He played with his hand in the dirt more often than not, but does possess the ability and versatility to stand up.
He's got a good motor and his 4.7 40 time and finesse moves have earned him success in getting after the quarterback. Robinson simply isn't strong enough to make up for his lack of size, however.
At 6'1'' and 250 pounds, he manages to disappear on college game tape sometimes.
What the experts are saying breaks down Robinson's play style quite eloquently.
He's a quick-twitch athlete who projects as a 3-4 OLB or 4-3 strong side or SAM linebacker. Even when he isn't pass-rushing, he can mix it up well by staying at home and sealing the running lanes very well. Robinson has a really great spin move and can accelerate quickly out of it. In 2009, he had 13 sacks and garnered a lot of attention, but fell off in 2010 with only 3.5 sacks.
The folks over at offer up a point-by-point criticism of Robinson's prospects:
He’s simply not strong enough at the point of attack right now…has a nearly ineffective bull rush…really struggles to shed blocks…not strong enough to be a DE, but not flexible enough to be a OLB…gets too aggressive on zone reads and misdirection plays…gets sucked inside by fakes and loses any hope of containment…has only an average first step…still has a ways to go on how to use his hands…if the OT is able to lock out and engage Robinson then the play is basically over for him.
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Robinson has experience on the return squad from his time at Temple, and with his speed and athleticism it wouldn't be surprising to see him on the field in a special teams role with the Steelers, assuming he doesn't end up cut or on the practice squad.
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0.0283 | <urn:uuid:a87752ab-a282-424c-be8c-bec7600c2c1f> | en | 0.967045 | The UFC 158 main event played out exactly as many of the experts predicted, with Georges St-Pierre controlling Nick Diaz on his way to a unanimous decision victory.
Although the outcome was generally expected, GSP vs. Diaz was actually still fairly entertaining. If we were to rank it against some of the other main events that have happened so far in 2013, it'd probably be right up there as one of the most interesting, if for no other reason than the drama and antics created by the still-boiling rivalry between the two fighters.
But the fight itself wasn't particularly exciting outside of the drama.
In the seven UFC fight cards so far this year, three have ended by way of decision, two by submission and two by knockout.
The UFC on FX bout between Michael Bisping and Vitor Belfort started the year off strong, ending in a huge knockout for Belfort. The other knockout so far came in Japan when Wanderlei Silva knocked out Brian Stann in what is perhaps the current "Fight of the Year" favorite of 2013.
The two submissions came in back-to-back fight cards, the first when Renan Barao submitted Michael McDonald to retain his UFC interim bantamweight championship with a beautiful arm-triangle choke. A week later, Ronda Rousey and Liz Carmouche topped that fight with an epic battle which was the first female fight in UFC history, ending with yet another Rousey armbar
Of the three bouts that finished with a decision, St-Pierre vs. Diaz has to take the cake as the most entertaining bout. The other two, Demetrious Johnson versus John Dodson and Jose Aldo versus Frankie Edgar were both decent fights, but neither really lived up to the hype of being between two exciting stylistic fighters. Not to mention, the five-round decisions can get a little taxing to watch if there's not much in the way of near-finishes.
All things considered, GSP-Diaz was a good fight but only falls about middle of the pack in terms of entertainment when compared to the other main events so far in 2013.
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It also turned out to be a victory for the right-hander eager to prove he's back to being his old self.
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All is not well in Indianapolis. Through three games, the Peyton Manning-less Colts are winless, their starting quarterback belongs in retirement and speculation abounds that Jeff George could be the franchise savior. Did I mention things are not looking better in Indianapolis?
In addition to the aforementioned George, here are five QBs who could come to Indy's rescue...for the right price.
Option No. 5: Mike Kafka
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This may sound crazy, but hear me out.
The Eagles have a thing for stockpiling draft picks and developing young QBs. The Colts need a young QB who understands the NFL game and can develop behind an increasingly frail Peyton Manning. It may not be a match made in heaven, but marriages have been made to work with less.
At this point in his career, it would be fair to expect Kafka to manage an NFL game effectively, complete a large percentage of his short and medium throws and occasionally challenge a defense deep down field. With a solid offensive line, a veteran running back in Joseph Addai and the supremely talented Reggie Wayne already in place, everything in Indy is set for a QB like Kafka to have success.
The cost? Philadelphia would likely demand at least a second-round pick for Kafka, if they are willing to part with him at all. If the Colts were interested in including a young linebacker, like Kavell Conner, this deal would likely get done.
It may sound expensive, but Manning's health and career are both (increasingly) in doubt. Young QBs with solid fundamentals, good accuracy on high-percentage throws and who are coachable, don't exactly grow on trees.
Option No. 4: David Garrard
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Yes, we all know David Garrard has publicly stated he does not want to be a stop-gap quarterback. If he goes back on his word, it would be the first time in recorded history that someone has done an about-face in the media.
At this point in his career (actually, at every point in his career), Garrard is little more than a stop-gap solution. He doesn't possess the football IQ, the physical tools or the intangibles to be more than a mediocre starter or a solid backup.
However, given Indy's current situation, Garrard could be the best thing for the team. He's capable of putting up solid numbers if he's given a solid running game (hello, Joseph Addai) and more than one threat in the passing game.
Don't expect Garrard to be this season's Michael Vick, but should he come to Indy, it isn't unreasonable to expect Garrard to post a rating in the mid-80s, a 60 percent completion percentage and a positive TD-to-INT ratio.
Option No. 3: Jeff George
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Jeff George may not be the best option at QB for the Colts, but at this point, he's an option. That's how bad things are in Indy.
George does have a strong arm and is still in excellent shape. He's been around the NFL game long enough to know just about every offensive scheme there is.
More importantly, he's better than Curtis Painter.
Beyond those things, there really is no compelling reason to sign George. He's a 43-year-old QB who never delivered on the promise that made him the No.1 overall pick in 1990. He does possess a strong arm and quite a bit of veteran savvy, but no one is sure if he'll be able to handle the physical pounding that comes with being an NFL starting QB.
While George does stay in excellent shape and throw regularly, there is a big difference between no-contact throwing drills and standing in the pocket on any given Sunday. If NFL success could be predicted by throwing drills, George would already be in the Hall of Fame.
George, even at his best, is a mediocre starter who was the beneficiary of playing on some very good teams.
Option No. 2: Brett Favre
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When all of the Favre drama is said and done, when all of the ballots for the NFL Hall of Fame have been cast and counted, when all of the writers and pundits and former players look back on the career of Brett Favre, they will say he was one of the best of his generation.
They will say that he was football's Cal Ripken Jr. They will say he was a warrior to the end, the last of the old gunslingers, a quarterback for the ages. And they will be right when they say it.
But as it stands right now, Favre is better off retired. He should have retired after his magical 2009 season with the Vikings. He should have walked away before the house of cards came crumbling down, before the sexting scandal, before the injuries piled up.
While I do believe that Favre can still be effective in the right NFL system, I still think it's best for everyone involved (including the Colts) to leave No. 4 alone.
Favre, at this point, comes with too much baggage. There are questions about his locker room presence. There are questions about his relationships with female reporters. There are questions about his arm and his willingness to adapt his game to new realities. These kind of questions are better left outside a locker room.
In the end, there are just too many questions and not enough answers to justify giving No. 4 a call.
Option No. 1: JaMarcus Russell
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Yes, JaMarcus Russell struggled quite a bit during his first stint as an NFL QB. Yes, Russell's lack of a work ethic and alleged drug issues are cause for concern. Despite all of that, Russell remains the most talented option available. He's only 26-years-old, he's hit rock bottom (or at least come close) and sooner or later, someone is going to give him a second chance.
Simply put, Russell is a phenomenal talent. He's a rare combination of size, speed and arm strength. He's a man among boys at the QB position.
The Colts have the infrastructure in place to help someone like Russell. Colts owner Jim Irsay maintains close ties with former head coach Tony Dungy, the man that helped Mike Vick put his life back together. There is no reason to think that team president Bill Polian, head coach Jim Caldwell and offensive coordinator Clyde Christensen can't devise a strategy to help Russell put his career back together again.
Russell has all of the talent in the world. He just needs to play in an environment where he can be molded into a legitimate NFL QB. In Indy, he'd have the benefit of Joseph Addai. He'd be able to throw to Reggie Wayne. He'd be protected by a solid, veteran offensive line.
JaMarcus Russell is the kind of player that will get a second chance. It's just a question of who will give it to him.
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Over 1500 times the net worth of Bill Gates yet nobody has heard of him
Dr. Carlos Alves, owner and president of the Solomao Alves Group (I'm pretty sure there's an accent mark missing, but that's what it says on the site), must be the richest man on the planet: "Company generates annual revenue exceeding $20 billion and owns personal assets valued at $100 trillion."
One hundred trillion dollars in personal assets.
That means that he owns pretty much every single thing on the planet, seeing as global wealth was only $97.9 trillion in 2006 by one organization's estimate.
But that's not all. In addition to being a fantastically wealthy multi-trillionaire, he has a "Ph.D in NASA Technology" and has been "selected in Harvard University as Senior Personality with highest QI." Whatever QI is. He's also qualified to joint [sic] a consortiun [sic] consisting of scientists "to expertising [sic] at my works as greatest international Megastar."
What? You're that awesome but still, nobody has ever heard of you? How do you fix that? Simple: Issue a press release proclaiming how awesome you are.
Mind you, that didn't appear to help much. The only information available on the Solomao Alves Group I can find on the Internet comes from the directory itself (warning: annoying voice), a vanity publication where you have to pay to be listed. Some people claim it's a scam.
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I always get scared when I see people trying to organize the Internet into hierarchies
I always get scared when I see people propose building neat little "hierarchically organized" taxonomies of something that is, well, a web. I think these are people who get their kicks out of having all their shoes lined up neatly in front of the doorstep, sorted alphabetically by designer. "Hey, let's classify all the blogs so we can have a Microsoft\Technologies\IT\Desktop\.NET Framework\User Interface\WinFX\Color Management\Printing node that all the WinFX printer color management on desktop-class machines for IT managers blogs can be listed under."
All zero of them.
Meanwhile, Larry Osterman's popular blog which is "a bunch of random technical stuff, sometimes current, sometimes historical, with a few programming puzzles thrown in" doesn't fit anywhere.
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How to tell which end of the Metro platform to stand on, and other survival tips for the Lisbon subway system
The Metropolitano de Lisboa includes an English-language list of tips for riding the Metro. Here are some more tips that all the locals know, but which no guide book tells you.
In most subway systems, trains outside of peak hours are not full-length but rather fill only part of the station. In the subway systems I'm familiar with in the United States, short trains stop in the center of the platform. But in Lisbon and Madrid, short trains pull forward as far as possible before stopping. Therefore, you should stand on the forward end of the platform. But where is the forward end?
The forward end is the end that has the television monitors or mirrors, because the driver of the train uses them to check that the train doors are clear before pulling away.
Other tips: The vending machines in the Metro stations do not sell multi-day passes. To buy a multi-day pass, go to "the man in the little house", which is the cute phrase a hotel employee used to describe the ticket agent booth. The ticket booth is not manned at night, so plan accordingly.
(Just in case it wasn't clear: I'm not mocking the employee's English. After all, his English was far, far better than my Portuguese! Besides, the man in the little house is probably the phrase I would have used if I had to describe the same thing in Swedish, German, or Chinese.)
You don't need to take your pass out of your wallet or purse. Do like the locals: Place your wallet or purse directly on the sensor (oriented so that the pass is close to the sensor, of course) and hold still. After about one second, the sensor will recognize your pass and open the gate. A common mistake is to rub the pass in circles against the sensor. In my experience, moving the pass around just makes it harder for the sensor to find it.
Your multi-day pass covers all municipal subways, trams, buses, and elevators.
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What happened to winipcfg and netmon?
Commenter Michael Moulton asks:
Back in the Win95 & 98 days, we had winipcfg to manage DHCP leases on the client. Additionally, we had an app (I think it was netmon) to let you view people currently accessing your shares.
Now, we have ipconfig on the command line and nothing like netmon.
I'd be interested in hearing why those tools weren't retained.
Let's start with winipcfg. On the Windows NT side, the tool for managing IP addresses has always been ipconfig, and it hasn't gone away. It's still there in Windows Vista. The winipcfg program was created for Windows 3.1 as a workaround because Windows 3.1 didn't have a console subsystem. The program was retained in Windows 95 because Windows 95 was based on Windows 3.1. The workaround wasn't ported to Windows NT because Windows NT already had the functionality, as a console program, which is probably how it should have been done in the first place.
Oh wait, that is how it was done in the first place.
In other words, the question isn't why winipcfg changed to ipconfig but rather why ipconfig changed to winipcfg. The change was a workaround, and now the workaround is no longer needed.
Meanwhile, the functionality provided by netmon exists in the Windows NT series as an MMC snap-in. The quickest way to get to it is to right-click the My Computer icon and select Manage, then go to the Shared Folders node.
(This question really wasn't in my area, since I never worked on networking. I'm just answering the question based having used Windows for a while and not being afraid to look around.)
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21: like 24 but three hours shorter
When I first heard that a new project titled 21 was coming out, I simply assumed it was the same as 24, except that Jack Bauer gets some sleep.
Pre-emptive snarky comment: "Somebody was clearly sleeping when they designed Vista."
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One category of dubious security vulnerability that comes into the security response team is people who recently discovered the STATUS_BUFFER_OVERFLOW status code.
Title: Buffer overflow occurs in scenario X
Description: Run a file monitoring tool and perform scenario X. In the log, you will see entries that have the error STATUS_BUFFER_OVERFLOW. This is an easily reproducible buffer overflow bug.
If only the system were so smart that it could detect buffer overflows in this way. But what you're seeing is not actual a buffer overflow. The status code STATUS_BUFFER_OVERFLOW does not mean that a buffer overflow has occurred; rather, it means that the buffer passed by the application was too small to hold all the requested data. Its name should really be STATUS_BUFFER_OVERFLOW_PREVENTED or STATUS_INSUFFICIENT_BUFFER. Indeed, the corresponding Win32 error code has the less misleading name ERROR_INSUFFICIENT_BUFFER.
Every wannabe security investigator sees this error code in a monitoring tool and says "Jackpot!" And then they send a report to the security response team and brag about it to their friends. "Dude, I found two dozen buffer overflows in just a few minutes. I am so 31337!"
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When a treehouse just isn't good enough
Not satisfied with a patio or treehouse, some people have built a monorail or a roller coaster in their backyard. And then there's this one guy who apparently has not yet run out of strange things to build in his backyard. Former projects include include a domed swimming pool, a garden accessible only from above, a carousel, and a forty-four foot kite.
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How do I force the ECHO command to echo?
The ECHO built-in command, how much simpler could it get? It takes whatever you put on the command line and prints it. And yet it's not that simple.
For example, the ECHO must be careful not to compress whitespace, because people will write
ECHO Some text
ECHO Indented text
ECHO ---- underlined
and when you execute this, the result had better be
Some text
Indented text
---- underlined
and not
Some text
Indented text
---- underlined
But what if you want to echo a blank line or the word "ON" or "OFF" or a slash and a question mark?
C:\> ECHO ON
C:\> ECHO
ECHO is on.
C:\> ECHO /?
Displays messages, or turns command-echoing on or off.
To force the ECHO command not to interpret its arguments, put a dot immediately after the word "echo":
C:\> ECHO. ON
C:\> ECHO.
C:\> ECHO./?
This is what happens when a language develops not by design but by evolution. It becomes filled with all sorts of strange quirks in order to accommodate new behavior while remaining compatible with old behavior. Nobody actually likes the batch language; they just are used to it.
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Lisbon: The city whose public transportation system operates in three dimensions
Lisbon is a very hilly city.
The public transportation system in Lisbon is a quaint mix of old and new. There's a tram system over a hundred years old; on it run both historic trains as well as sleek modern ones. There's also a modern bus system and a subway. And all of these systems run north, south, east, and west all over town.
But it's the only city I've experienced in which the public transportation includes elevators which take you up and down.
The most famous of the three vertical forms of public transit is Santa Justa's Elevator which takes you from just off Rossio Square downtown six stories up a steep cliff face to Carmo Square in the Barrio Alto district. Without it, you'd have to go the long way around.
There is a Baixa-Chiado Metro stop on the uphill side of the elevator, and if your spatial relations are still intact, this tells you that the metro runs six stories below the surface. Coming out of Baixa-Chiado station requires four consecutive long escalator rides. Of course, people in Moscow read this and scoff, "You call that a long escalator ride? This is a long escalator ride."
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Maybe that's how you do it, but around here, we have a different convention for indicating which things are broken
One of the reactions to my story of investigating a dead computer struck me as rather strange. Commenter Steve wrote, "Usually video cards left on a table don't works well (the one inside a computer have a better probability)."
While it's true that the ones inside a computer are more likely to work, it's not the case, at least around here, that the cards on a table are unlikely to work well. Many people have a small stash of cables and other spare parts specifically for repair purposes. If you see a video card on a table, odds are that it's part of somebody's spart parts stash and works just fine.
At least around here, we follow a different convention for indicating when things are broken beyond repair: We put them in the garbage can.
Joke-ruining clarification: Or the recycle bin, as appropriate.
Computer repair follow-up: Last Thursday morning, I turned on my home computer and it didn't boot. The symptoms were exactly the same as the previous death, so started with what worked last time: I unplugged the video card. The computer booted up.
It looks like my home computer eats video cards.
Now what? Do I feed it cheap video cards? Was this just a fluke and my replacement video card happened to be a dud? Are the video cards actually just fine, and it's the motherboard that can't cope with them? Do I abandon the computer and start over?
I'm going with option two: Assume I just got a bum video card and try again. But if the second replacement video card also dies within a short period of time, then I'm going to have to decide what I'm going to do with the computer that eats video cards.
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Great Britain is the largest island of the British Isles. It is politically divided into three parts; England, Scotland and Wales. All three, with Northern Ireland, make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Once the greatest nation in the world (from about 1815 to 1915), Great Britain has been nearly destroyed by atheism and socialism from within. Today she is a mere shadow of her former self. Illustrations its pathetic current state include:
• A Christian physician has been fired "for emailing prayer to colleagues. ... He was finally dismissed after he queried the order not to use religious language in professional communications 'verbal or written.'"[1]
• A Devout Christian nurse was forced to resign after an employment tribunal ruled that National Health Service bosses were correct to ban her from wearing a necklace with a small crucifix which she considered to be a personal faith item [2]
• In the land of Shakespeare and Dickens an erotic novel is now the best selling book in Britain since records began. 50 Shades of Grey by EL James is the story of a virginal heroine who falls for a bondage-loving billionaire and features gratuitous sex scenes throughout. [3]
Population of the island of Great Britain is estimated at 60.5 million in 2010, which is 97% of the population of the UK.[4] The island has an area of approximately 88,745 square miles[5] - about the size of Minnesota - making it the 9th largest island in the world. Topography of the island is characterized by rolling countryside and scattered forests of low elevation in the South and East, with larger hills and mountains in the North and West.
4. This includes surrounding small islands and islets that also comprise England, Scotland and Wales. From the UK Office for National Statistics. "National Population Projections 2010-based Statistical Bulletin." October 26, 2011.
5. Taylor, Nick. "The British Isles and all that..." Accessed April, 2012. School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.
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power plant
1. the complex, including machinery, associated equipment, and the structure housing it, that is used in the generation of power, esp electrical power
2. the equipment supplying power to a particular machine or for a particular operation or process
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But that energy you're charging it with could come from a power plant burning
natural gas.
Holding a sign and ordering people around won't rebuild the ozone or stop the
government from building a new hydro-power plant.
Taking apart a nuclear power plant that has reached the end of its life is a
complicated task.
That's because they're either out on the reef, or hanging around the forbidden
zone around the nuclear power plant.
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by a Modest Farmer, The Australian Financial Review, September 29, 1978, p. 3.
Fred usually lives a simple life. Indeed he has to — he cannot afford to live any other way.
But recently the banker let him off the chain for a while and he had a long trip in an aeroplane. He returned to his farm full of excitement and eager to fill in any gaps in his recently acquired knowledge.
You spent a great deal of your time and even more of the taxpayer’s money gadding around in aeroplanes when you were a Member of Parliament,” he said truculently. “You ought to be able to explain why plane travellers behave as they do.”
I humbly replied that I would be glad to do what I could to oblige.
His first question was: “Is the Government continuing to supply services to the airline operators at less than cost?”
I have been made well aware that Fred has, in the past, resented having to subsidise, as a taxpayer, the travelling expenses of businessmen and holidaymakers while he stayed home working like a beaver to make a crust, on which he needed to pay tax, so that these people could fly at less than cost.
So I was glad to be able to tell Fred that from now on the Government expected to recover full costs incurred in the provision of airfield services.
We both adhere to the general principle that the user of a service should pay for it, and not the chap who doesn’t use it.
Fred was interested in the difference between first class and economy passengers and why some travelled first class when it was so much more expensive.
This wasn’t hard to answer. The people travelling first class were almost always travelling at someone else’s expense, while the economy passengers were paying for themselves.
Then Fred said that he was interested in the luggage that men carried on aircraft, particularly what he called their handbags.
I hurriedly told him that the proper name was briefcases and certainly not handbags.
“Now you needn’t get in a state, Bert,” he said sourly. “Just tell me why most of the men, particularly those travelling first class, were carrying flat, thin, sober-looking little cases. They all looked the same, as if they had been issued with them as soon as they got a certain distance up the promotion ladder.”
I then told him something that has been a well-kept secret for many years. Those black and flat briefcases are that shape because they are designed to carry haloes.
That is why they are so flat. There is a pouch in the lid into which the halo fits like a young kangaroo into its mother’s pouch.
Captains of industry carry their haloes to business seminars and when they come to that part of the proceeding where obeisance is made to their belief in free enterprise they quickly get their haloes out of their black briefcases, give them a quick polish with their sleeves, and hurriedly put them on.
Fred wanted to know why they didn’t wear their haloes all the time. Then they wouldn’t have the worry of carrying them around all the time.
So I told him that after they had paraded their devotion to free enterprise for a few days these seminars dragged to a close.
But instead of hurrying back to the bosoms of their families or their businesses, many of them, while they were in Canberra, usually took the opportunity of waiting on a minister or two.
They usually did this to be for some more tariff protection for their product. “And they can’t really do that convincingly wearing their free enterprise haloes, can they, Fred?” I said.
He had to agree that it would look a bit odd.
So if you happen to go into a minister’s waiting room after a big seminar in Canberra you will find the room full of important and earnest captains of industry, all looking rather embarrassed in the company they are in and all firmly clutching their small, flat, black briefcases containing their free enterprise haloes — hidden away.
(in order of appearance on Economics.org.au)
1. Bert Kelly on Journalism
2. Move for a body of Modest Members
3. Modest Members Association
4. Bert Kelly's Maiden Parliamentary Speech
5. Government Intervention
6. 1976 Monday Conference transcript featuring Bert Kelly
7. Petrol for Farmers
8. Some Sacred Cows
9. Experiences in Parliament
10. Spending your Money
11. Who needs literary licence?
12. A touch of Fred's anarchy
13. Supply and Demand
14. Bert Kelly on Disaster Relief
15. Bert Kelly Wants to Secede
16. Under Labor, is working hard foolish?
17. An Idiot's Guide to Interventionism
18. Bert Kelly Destroys the Side Benefits Argument for Government
19. Bert Kelly gets his head around big-headed bird-brained politics
20. First Modest Member (Bert Kelly) AFR Column
21. Second Modest Member (Bert Kelly) AFR Column
22. Third Modest Member (Bert Kelly) AFR Column
23. Fourth Modest Member (Bert Kelly) AFR Column
24. Fifth Modest Member (Bert Kelly) AFR Column
25. Sixth Modest Member (Bert Kelly) AFR Column
26. Bert Kelly on the 2011 Budget and Australia's Pathetic Journalists and Politicians
27. Bert Kelly, Bastard or Simple Sod?
28. Liberal Backbencher Hits Govt. Over Import Restrictions
29. Bert Kelly feels a dam coming on at each election
30. Bert Kelly Enters Parliament
31. Why take in one another's washing?
32. Bert Kelly breaks the law, disrespects government and enjoys it
33. Gillard's galley-powered waterskiing
34. Can price control really work?
35. Should we put up with socialism?
36. We're quick to get sick of socialism
37. Time the protection racket ended
38. Can't pull the wool over Farmer Fred
39. People not Politics
40. Bert Kelly admits he should have had less faith in politicians
41. Labor: a girl who couldn't say no
42. Why leading businessmen carry black briefcases
43. Ludwig von Mises on page 3 of AFR
44. Mavis wants the Modest Member to dedicate his book to her
45. Time to Butcher "Aussie Beef"
46. Bert Kelly reviews The War Diaries of Weary Dunlop
47. Bert Kelly reviews We Were There
48. Tariffs get the fork-tongue treatment
49. Bert Kelly reduces government to its absurdities
50. Politician sacrifices his ... honesty
51. It's all a matter of principle
52. Bert Kelly Destroys the Infant Industry Argument
53. Bert Kelly Untangles Tariff Torment
54. Bert Kelly resorts to prayer
55. Eccles keeps our nose hard down on the tariff grindstone
56. "Don't you believe in protecting us against imports from cheap labour countries?"
57. Even if lucky, we needn't be stupid
58. Great "freedom of choice" mystery
59. Small government's growth problem
60. Tariffs Introduced
61. More About Tariffs
62. Sacred cow kicker into print
63. Modest Member must not give up
64. Traditional Wheat Farming is Our Birthright and Heritage and Must be Protected!
65. Bert Kelly brilliantly defends "theoretical academics"
66. The Society of Modest Members
68. Modesty ablaze
69. Case for ministers staying home
70. The unusual self-evident simplicity of the Modest Members Society
71. Animal lib the new scourge of the bush
72. The Association for the Prevention of Cruelty to Krill
74. Thoughts on how to kill dinosaurs
75. Let's try the chill winds
76. Taking the Right's road
77. Bert Kelly: "I did not try often or hard enough"
78. Bert Kelly "lacked ... guts and wisdom"
79. A look at life without tariffs
80. The Gospel according to Bert
81. Tiny note on Bert Kelly's column in The Bulletin in 1985
82. Why costs can't be guaranteed
83. Hitting out with a halo
84. Paying farmers not to grow crops will save on subsidies, revenge tariffs, etc
86. Bert Kelly Destroys the Freeloading Justifies Government Argument
87. Government Intervention
Government Interference
88. Bigger Cake = Bigger Slices
89. Bert Kelly on the Political Process
90. Charabanc: Part 1
91. Charabanc: Part 2
92. Charabanc: Part 3
93. Relationships with the Liberal Party
94. Tariffs = High Prices + World War
95. Bert Kelly's Family History
96. Bert Kelly's Pre-Parliament Life
97. Why Bert Kelly was not even more publicly outspoken
99. How to stand aside when it's time to be counted
100. How the Modest Member went back to being a Modest Farmer
101. My pearls of wisdom were dull beyond belief
102. Bert Kelly on Political Football
103. Ross Gittins Wins Bert Kelly Award
105. This is the wall the Right built
106. Has Santa socked it to car makers?
107. Is the Budget a cargo cult?
108. Will we end up subsidising one another?
109. Do we want our money to fly?
110. Can a bear be sure of a feed?
111. How to impress your MP -
ambush him
112. The time for being nice to our MPs has gone ...
113. Don't feel sorry for him -
hang on to his ear
114. Trade wars can easily end up on a battlefield
115. Tariffs Create Unemployment
116. Bert Kelly recommends Ayn Rand
119. Parliament a place for pragmatists
120. Of Sugar Wells and Think-Tanks
121. Bert Kelly: "I must take some of the blame"
122. A Modest Farmer looks at the Problems of Structural Change
123. Government Fails Spectacularly
124. Know your proper place if you want the quiet life
125. Bert Kelly on political speech writers
126. Perish the thawed!
127. Modest Farmer sees his ideas take hold
128. Max Newton: Maverick in Exile
129. Why no-one nails the Big Green Lie
130. A case for ministerial inertia
131. Why politicians don't like the truth
132. Ominous dark clouds are gathering
133. Better to be popular than right
134. Crying in the wilderness
135. Ivory tower needs thumping
137. Rural Problems
138. Unholy state of taxation
139. Boring economics worth a smile
140. The Libido for the Miserable
141. Agricultural Development and Tariffs
142. Fred's too poor to have principles
143. The Playford charade is out of date
144. Bert Kelly: the odd man out who's now in
145. Dries must resist giving up struggle as going gets tough
146. Sir Roderick Carnegie's foreword to Bert Kelly's Economics Made Easy
147. The Vale of Popularity and the Protection Procession
148. Politics 101: Pay Lip Service to Capitalism and Shoot the Messenger
150. Bert Kelly on Free Enterprise
151. Cartoons of protected industry, the welfare teat and the nanny state
152. Bert Kelly on the theory of constant shares and the Fabian Society
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The evolution of the power grid has been compared, unfavorably, with the evolution of modern telephony; while Edison, one of the architects of the former, would recognize most components of the current grid, Bell, the inventor of the latter, would find telephony unrecognizably advanced since his time. It is not surprising, then, that the power grid is under immense pressure today from inability to scale to current demands, and is growing increasingly fragile, even as the repercussions of power outages grow ever more serious. Upgrading to a smarter grid has escalated from being a desirable vision, to an urgent imperative. Clearly, the computing industry will have a key role to play in enabling the smart grid, and our goal in this paper is to evaluate its readiness, in its current state, for supporting this vision.
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Developer(s) High Voltage Software
Publisher(s) High Voltage Software
Engine Quantum3
Platform(s) Wii (WiiWare)
Release date(s)
Genre(s) Shoot 'em up
Mode(s) Single-player, Multiplayer
Gyrostarr is a sci-fi tube shooter video game developed and published by High Voltage Software. It is one of several video games released exclusively as WiiWare through the Wii Shop Channel. It was released in North America on June 23, 2008.
Gyrostarr is described as a sci-fi shooter with 3D graphics procedurally generated by High Voltage Software's Quantum3 game engine, allowing the game's 50 levels of space track to be stored within the 40 megabyte size limit imposed by Nintendo.[2]
Gameplay in Gyrostarr
Several control schemes are available in the game. Players can choose between motion controls using the Wii Remote, or the buttons and analog joysticks of the Nunchuk. In addition, the Classic Controller is also compatible with the game. A "paired" control system allows two players to use a connected Wii Remote and Nunchuk or Classic Controller at the same time, with one player using the Wii Remote and the other using the attachment.[3]
Up to four players control spaceships as they travel through "a twisting, turning techno-plasma canal in space," the goal being to collect enough energy "to penetrate an alien portal and warp to the next conduit." Not collecting enough energy, which fills a meter at the top of the screen, will result in the player's ship being destroyed at the end of a level. If the player completely fills the energy meter, however, then at the end of the level the player will be transported to a bonus level where no enemies are present and the only objective is to collect as much energy as possible. Players can also collect points in the game to try to beat the high score by destroying enemies and collecting energy. Points multiply and accumulate when the player avoids enemy fire in addition to shooting down enemy spacecraft.[2][3]
A variety of weapons and power-ups can be found throughout the game. Defensive power-ups have a wide range of effects, such as providing temporary invincibility or slowing down enemies. Player ships also come equipped with a grapple gun, which allows the player to pick up distant power-ups more quickly. Unique for a scrolling shooter game, all power-ups can be targeted, shot, and bounced off the sides of a level, making them more difficult to acquire for other players.[2]
Gyrostarr is capable of supporting up to four players for multiplayer gameplay. Multiplayer can be cooperative or competitive, depending on the actions of the players. This allows for players to either work together to complete a level, or to hamper each others performance. Player ship positions are staggered across the track of a level; collecting a power-up moves a player to the last position, while collecting energy will eventually move player to the front.[2]
Aggregate scores
Aggregator Score
GameRankings 71%
(Based on 7 reviews)[6]
Metacritic 70/100
(Based on 9 reviews)[7]
Review scores
Publication Score
IGN 7.2/10[4]
Nintendo World Report 8/10[5]
Gyrostarr received mixed reviews upon its release. IGN gave Gyrostarr an average rating, saying that the graphics were better than many other WiiWare games and praising the co-op experience as being fun. Negative aspects of the game were identified as a lack of challenge in the levels and that the game's sense of speed was severely lacking, with levels starting out slowly and only speeding up near the very end. Overall, Gyrostarr was called "a pretty fun experience, though one that we think could use a sequel to really focus, refine, and capitalize on."[4]
Nintendo World Report gave the game a slightly higher score, citing the gameplay as "simple and addictive," and noting a strong similarity between Gyrostarr and the arcade shooter Tempest, but also criticized the lack of online leaderboards. The review concluded that "fans of arcade-style twitch shooters should get plenty of entertainment out of the game, and it's reasonably priced."[5]
See also[edit]
1. ^ "North America - Gyrostarr hits WiiWare this Monday!". GoNintendo. 2008-06-20. Retrieved 2008-06-20.
2. ^ a b c d Casamassina, Matt (2008-04-22). "IGN: Gyrostarr Preview". IGN. Retrieved 2008-04-23.
3. ^ a b Calvert, Darren (2008-06-23). "USA WiiWare Update: Gyrostarr". WiiWare World. Retrieved 2008-06-23.
4. ^ a b Bozon, Mark (2008-06-25). "IGN: Gyrostarr Review". IGN. Retrieved 2008-06-25.
5. ^ a b Metts, Jonathan (2008-06-25). "Nintendo World Report: Gyrostarr Review". Nintendo World Report. Retrieved 2008-11-08.
6. ^ "Gyrostarr Reviews at Game Rankings". Game Rankings. Retrieved 2008-11-08.
7. ^ "Gyrostarr Reviews at Metacritic". Metacritic. Retrieved 2008-11-08.
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Kargil Vijay Diwas
Date 26 July
Next time 26 July 2014 (2014-07-26)
Frequency annual
Kargil Vijay Diwas, named after the success of Operation Vijay. On this day, 26 July 1999, India successfully took command of the high outposts which had been lost to Pakistani intruders. The Kargil war was fought for more than 60 days, ended on 26 July. and resulted in the loss of life on both sides, India and Pakistan. Pakistan retreated after international diplomatic pressure[1]
Kargil Vijay Diwas is celebrated on 26 July every year in honour of the Kargil War's Heroes. This day is celebrated in the Kargil - Dras sector and the national capital New Delhi, where the Prime Minister of India, pays homage to the soldiers at Amar Jawan Jyothi at India Gate every year. Functions are also organized all over the country to commemorate the contribution of the Armed forces[2][3]
After the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, there had been a long period with relatively few direct armed conflicts involving the military forces of the two neighbors – notwithstanding the efforts of both nations to control the Siachen Glacier by establishing military outposts on the surrounding mountains ridges and the resulting military skirmishes in the 1980s. During the 1990s, however, escalating tensions and conflict due to separatist activities in Kashmir, some of which were supported by Pakistan[citation needed], as well as the conducting of nuclear tests by both countries in 1998, led to an increasingly belligerent atmosphere. In an attempt to defuse the situation, both countries signed the Lahore Declaration in February 1999, promising to provide a peaceful and bilateral solution to the Kashmir conflict.During the winter of 1998 -1999, some elements of the Pakistani Armed Forces were covertly training and sending Pakistani troops and paramilitary forces, some allegedly in the guise ofmujahideen, into territory on the Indian side of the LOC. The infiltration was code named "Operation Badr",its aim was to sever the link between Kashmir and Ladakh, and cause Indian forces to withdraw from the Siachen Glacier, thus forcing India to negotiate a settlement of the broader Kashmir dispute. Pakistan also believed that any tension in the region would internationalise the Kashmir issue, helping it to secure a speedy resolution. Yet another goal may have been to boost the morale of the decade-long rebellion in Indian Administered Kashmir by taking a proactive role.
Initially, with little knowledge of the nature or extent of the infiltration, the Indian troops in the area assumed that the infiltrators were jihadis and claimed that they would evict them within a few days. Subsequent discovery of infiltration elsewhere along the LOC, and the difference in tactics employed by the infiltrators, caused the Indian army to realize that the plan of attack was on a much bigger scale. The total area seized by the ingress is generally accepted to between 130 km² – 200 km².
The Government of India responded with Operation Vijay, a mobilisation of 200,000 Indian troops.Finally war came to an official end on July 26,1999,thus making it the Vijay Diwas.
Kargil War Martyrs[edit]
In all 527 soldiers from Indian Armed Forces sacrificed their lives during the war[4]
Lieutanant Col R.Vishwanathan
Major Ajay Singh Jasrotia
Major Rohit Gaur
Major Ajay Prasad
Major C.B. Dwive
Major Kamlesh Prasad
Major Padmapani Acharya
Major Parmanand
Major Rajesh S. Adhikari
Major Vivek Gupta
Major Mariappan Saravanan
Major Manoj Talwar
Captain Amit Bhardwaj
Captain Aditya Mishra
Captain Haneefuddin
Captain Jerry Premraj
Captain Jintu Gogoi
Captain Keishing Clifford Nongrum
Captain P.V.Vikram
Captain Vikram Batra
Captain Anuj Nayyar
Captain Amol Kalia
Captain Kanad Bhattacharya
Captain K.C.D. Shivakar
Captain Deepak Guleria
Captain Sumeet Roy
Captain Amit Verma
Captain Manoj Kumar Pandey
Captain Vijayant Thapar
Lieutanant Amit Kaul
Lieutanant Neikezhakou Kengurusie
Lieutanant Sourav Kalia
Lieutenant Amit Bhargava
Deputy Commander Sukhbir Singh Yadav
Driver-Soldier Gopinath Moharana
Flight Engineer Raj Kishore Sahoo
Flight Lieutanant S Muhilan
Grenadier Amardeep
Grenadier Bajinder Singh
Grenadier Mohan Katha
Grenadier Munish Kumar
Grenadier Raj Kumar
Grenadier Yogendra Singh Yadav
Grenadier Udhaymaan Singh (SM)
Havaldar Abdul Karim
Havaldar Beejay Singh
Havaldar Daler Singh Bahu
Havaldar Jai Prakash Singh
Havaldar Khazan Singh
Havaldar Padam Singh Dhama
Havaldar Ram Kumar
Havaldar Sarwan Singh Sengar
Havaldar Surendra Singh
Havaldar Sultan Singh Narwari
Havaldar Tan Bahadur Chhetri
Havaldar Tsweang Rigzin
Havaldar Yashvir Singh
Jawan Arvind Kumar Pandey
Lance Havaldar Ramkumar
Lance Havaldar Samandar Singh Hooda
Lance Naik Ahmed Ali
Lance Naik Balwan Singh
Lance Naik Bijender Singh
Lance Naik Daya Chand Jakhar
Lance Naik Eknath Khairnar
Lance Naik Gurmail Singh
Lance Naik Hera Singh
Lance Naik Keshan Singh
Lance Naik Madan Singh
Lance Naik Manas Ranjan Sahu
Lance Naik Om Prakash
Lance Naik Rakesh Chand
Lance Naik Ram Kumar Pradhan
Lance Naik Surianam Singh
Lance Naik Shankar Shinde
Lance Naik T.S.Jaswant Singh
Lance Naik Rajendra Yadav
Naik Anand singh
Naik Bharat Singh
Naik Birender Singh Lamba
Naik Buta Singh
Naik Chaman Singh
Naik Dharam Singh
Naik Ganesh Prasad Yadav
Naik Guardian Mekh Bahadur Gurung
Naik Jagat Singh
Naik Kasmir Singh
Naik Krishan Pal
Naik Mangat Singh
Naik Narayana Rao Desai
Naik Nirmal Singh
Naik R. Kamaraj
Naik Raj Kumar Punia
Naik Rakesh Chand
Naik Ram Swarup
Naik Sachidananda Malik
Naik Samunder Singh
Naik Shatrughan Singh
Naik Shiv Vasayya
Naik Surendra Singh
Naik Surendra Pal
Naik Surjeet Singh
Naik Subedar Lal Chand
Naik Vikram Singh
Naik Yoginder Singh
Rifleman Ansuya Prasad Dhayani
Rifleman Bachan Singh
Rifleman Dabal Singh
Rifleman Dilwar Singh
Rifleman Jaideep Singh
Rifleman Kuldeep Singh
Rifleman Linkon Pradhan
Rifleman Mohammed Aslam
Rifleman Mohammed Farid
Rifleman Rattan Chand
Rifleman Shaukat Hussain Kalgam
Rifleman Sunil Jungt Mahat
Rifleman Varinder Lal
Rifleman Vikram Singh
Rifleman Guardian Johar Singh
Rifleman Guardian Sarvan Kumar
Sergeant PVNR Prasad
Sergeant Raj Kishore Sahu
Sepoy Ajmer Singh
Sepoy Amardeep Singh
Sepoy Anil Kumar
Sepoy Arjun Ram
Sepoy Arvind Kumar Pandey
Sepoy Bajinder Singh
Sepoy Bhanwar Lal Bagaria
Sepoy Bhikaram
Sepoy Chara Nicholas
Sepoy Dharambir Singh
Sepoy Dineshkumar Vaghela
Sepoy Gangching Konyak
Sepoy Gazpal Singh
Sepoy Gopinath Mohrana
Sepoy Harendragiri Goswami
Sepoy Jugal Kishore
Sepoy Har Prasad
Sepoy Kalu Ram Jakhar
Sepoy Karan Singh
Sepoy Keolanand Dwivedi
Sepoy Kewal Anand
Sepoy Khem Raj
Sepoy Krishan Kumar
Sepoy Moola Ram
Sepoy Naresh Singh
Sepoy Pramod Kumar
Sepoy Rajinder
Sepoy Rajvir Singh
Sepoy Raswinder Singh
Sepoy Satvir Singh
Sepoy Satnam Singh
Sepoy Senthil
Sepoy Shaikh Mastan Wali
Sepoy Sheesh Ram
Sepoy Shiv Shankar Prasad Gupta
Sepoy Sukhwinder Singh
Sepoy Suresh Chhetri
Sepoy Suresh Kumar
Sepoy Varinder Kumar
Sepoy Vijaypal Singh
Signalman Rajan Sahu
Signalman Vinod Kumar
Subedar Bhanwar Lal
Subedar Harpaul Singh
Subedar Lal Singh
Subedar K. Medappa
Subedar Randhir Singh
Subedar Sumer Singh Rathore
Squadron Leader Ajay Ahuja
Squadron Leader Rajiv Pundir
Squadron Leader Lal Singh
Squadron Leader Ojha
Zrfn Man Singh
Zrfn Kaushal Yadav
Zrfn Basavaraj Chougala
See also[edit]
1. ^ http://www.india-today.com/itoday/26071999/cover.html
2. ^ City to observe Kargil Vijay Diwas today Allahabad, The Times of India, TNN July 25, 2009.
3. ^ Ahuja, B.N.; Saxena, Paresh (1 January 2006). Pitambar's Handbook of General Knowledge. Pitambar Publishing. p. 33. ISBN 978-81-209-0516-0. Retrieved 5 November 2011.
4. ^ Vijay Diwas The Hindu, July 27, 2009. | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kargil_vijay_diwas | dclm-gs1-052370002 | false | false | {
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In futures studies and the history of technology, accelerating change is a perceived increase in the rate of technological (and sometimes social and cultural) progress throughout history, which may suggest faster and more profound change in the future. While many have suggested accelerating change, the popularity of this theory in modern times is closely associated with various advocates of the technological singularity, such as Vernor Vinge and Ray Kurzweil.
Early theories[edit]
In 1938, Buckminster Fuller introduced the word ephemeralization to describe the trends of "doing more with less" in chemistry, health and other areas of industrial development.[1] In 1946, Fuller published a chart of the discoveries of the chemical elements over time to highlight the development of accelerating acceleration in human knowledge acquisition.[2]
In 1958, Stanislaw Ulam wrote in reference to a conversation with John von Neumann:
In his book "Mindsteps to the Cosmos" (HarperCollins, August 1983), Gerald S. Hawkins elucidated his notion of 'mindsteps', dramatic and irreversible changes to paradigms or world views. He identified five distinct mindsteps in human history, and the technology that accompanied these "new world views": the invention of imagery, writing, mathematics, printing, the telescope, rocket, radio, TV, computer... "Each one takes the collective mind closer to reality, one stage further along in its understanding of the relation of humans to the cosmos." He noted: "The waiting period between the mindsteps is getting shorter. One can't help noticing the acceleration." Hawkins' empirical 'mindstep equation' quantified this, and gave dates for future mindsteps. The date of the next mindstep (5; the series begins at 0) is given as 2021, with two more successively closer mindsteps, until the limit of the series in 2053. His speculations ventured beyond the technological:
The mindsteps... appear to have certain things in common - a new and unfolding human perspective, related inventions in the area of memes and communications, and a long formulative waiting period before the next mindstep comes along. None of the mindsteps can be said to have been truly anticipated, and most were resisted at the early stages. In looking to the future we may equally be caught unawares. We may have to grapple with the presently inconceivable, with mind-stretching discoveries and concepts.
Mass use of inventions: Years until use by a quarter of US population
Since the late 1970s, others like Alvin Toffler (author of Future Shock), Daniel Bell and John Naisbitt have approached theories of postindustrial societies. They argue the industrial era is coming to an end, and services and information are supplanting industry and goods. Some more extreme visions of the postindustrial society, especially in fiction, envision the elimination of economic scarcity.
Many sociologists and anthropologists have created social theories dealing with social and cultural evolution. Some, like Lewis H. Morgan, Leslie White, and Gerhard Lenski, declare technological progress to be the primary factor driving the development of human civilization.
Morgan's concept of three major stages of social evolution (savagery, barbarism, and civilization) can be divided by technological milestones, like fire, the bow, and pottery in the savage era, domestication of animals, agriculture, and metalworking in the barbarian era and the alphabet and writing in the civilization era.
Instead of specific inventions, White decided that the measure by which to judge the evolution of culture was energy. For White, "the primary function of culture" is to "harness and control energy." White distinguishes five stages of human development: In the first, people use energy of their own muscles. In the second, they use energy of domesticated animals. In the third, they use the energy of plants. In the fourth, they learn to use the energy of natural resources: coal, oil, gas. In the fifth, they harness nuclear energy.
US Patents granted, 1870–2005
White introduced a formula P=ET, where E is a measure of energy consumed, and T is the measure of efficiency of technical factors utilizing the energy. In his own words, "culture evolves as the amount of energy harnessed per capita per year is increased, or as the efficiency of the instrumental means of putting the energy to work is increased." The Russian astronomer Nikolai Kardashev extrapolated this theory to create the Kardashev scale, which categorizes the energy use of advanced civilizations. A Dyson sphere is Type II on this scale, and humanity is currently at about 0.72.
Lenski takes a more modern approach and focuses on information. The more information and knowledge (especially allowing the shaping of natural environment) a given society has, the more advanced it is. He identifies four stages of human development, based on advances in the history of communication. In the first stage, information is passed by genes. In the second, when humans gain intelligence, they can learn and pass information by experience. In the third, the humans start using signs and develop logic. In the fourth, they can create symbols, develop language and writing. Advancements in the technology of communication translates into advancements in the economic system and political system, distribution of goods, social inequality and other spheres of social life. He also differentiates societies based on their level of technology, communication and economy: (1) hunters and gatherers, (2) simple agricultural, (3) advanced agricultural, (4) industrial (5) special (like fishing societies).
Vinge's exponentially accelerating change[edit]
The mathematician Vernor Vinge popularized his ideas about exponentially accelerating technological change in the SF novel Marooned in Realtime (1986), set in a world of rapidly accelerating progress leading to the emergence of more and more sophisticated technologies separated by shorter and shorter time intervals, until a point beyond human comprehension is reached. His subsequent Hugo award-winning novel A Fire Upon the Deep (1992) starts with an imaginative description of the evolution of a superintelligence passing through exponentially accelerating developmental stages ending in a transcendent, almost omnipotent power unfathomable by mere humans. His already mentioned influential 1993 paper on the technological singularity compactly summarizes the basic ideas.
Moravec's Mind Children[edit]
In his 1988 book Mind Children, computer scientist and futurist Hans Moravec generalizes Moore's law to make predictions about the future of artificial life. Moore's law describes an exponential growth pattern in the complexity of integrated semiconductor circuits. Moravec extends this to include technologies from long before the integrated circuit to future forms of technology. Moravec outlines a timeline and a scenario[4][5] in which robots will evolve into a new series of artificial species, starting around 2030-2040.[6] In Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind, published in 1998, Moravec further considers the implications of evolving robot intelligence, generalizing Moore's law to technologies predating the integrated circuit, and also plotting the exponentially increasing computational power of the brains of animals in evolutionary history. Extrapolating these trends, he speculates about a coming "mind fire" of rapidly expanding superintelligence similar to the explosion of intelligence predicted by Vinge.
Kurzweil's The Law of Accelerating Returns[edit]
In his 1999 book The Age of Spiritual Machines Kurzweil proposed "The Law of Accelerating Returns", according to which the rate of change in a wide variety of evolutionary systems (including but not limited to the growth of technologies) tends to increase exponentially.[7] He gave further focus to this issue in a 2001 essay entitled "The Law of Accelerating Returns"[8] which argued for extending Moore's Law to describe exponential growth of diverse forms of technological progress. Whenever a technology approaches some kind of a barrier, according to Kurzweil, a new technology will be invented to allow us to cross that barrier. He cites numerous past examples of this to substantiate his assertions. He predicts that such paradigm shifts have and will continue to become increasingly common, leading to "technological change so rapid and profound it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history." He believes the Law of Accelerating Returns implies that a technological singularity will occur before the end of the 21st century, around 2045. The essay begins:
Moore's Law expanded to other technologies
The Law of Accelerating Returns has in many ways altered public perception of Moore's law. It is a common (but mistaken) belief that Moore's law makes predictions regarding all forms of technology,[citation needed] when really it only concerns semiconductor circuits. Many futurists still use the term "Moore's law" to describe ideas like those put forth by Kurzweil and others.
According to Kurzweil, since the beginning of evolution, more complex life forms have been evolving exponentially faster, with shorter and shorter intervals between the emergence of radically new life forms, such as human beings, who have the capacity to engineer (intentionally to design with efficiency) a new trait which replaces relatively blind evolutionary mechanisms of selection for efficiency. By extension, the rate of technical progress amongst humans has also been exponentially increasing, as we discover more effective ways to do things, we also discover more effective ways to learn, i.e. language, numbers, written language, philosophy, scientific method, instruments of observation, tallying devices, mechanical calculators, computers, each of these major advances in our ability to account for information occur increasingly close together. Already within the past sixty years, life in the industrialized world has changed almost beyond recognition except for living memories from the first half of the 20th century. This pattern will culminate in unimaginable technological progress in the 21st century, leading to a singularity. Kurzweil elaborates on his views in his books The Age of Spiritual Machines and The Singularity Is Near.
Some claim the exponential growth of technological progress may become linear or inflected or may begin to flatten into a limited-growth curve. In this model, instead of an overall acceleration of progress, technological advance jumps forward whenever there is a human "buy in" and stalls whenever there is no benefit large enough to profit the technologists. As a result, the sequence of changes never gets steep enough to become a singularity.
Examples of large human "buy-ins" into technology include the computer revolution, as well as massive government projects like the Manhattan Project and the Human Genome Project. The foundation organizing the Methuselah Mouse Prize believes aging research could be the subject of such a massive project if substantial progress is made in slowing or reversing cellular aging in mice.
Both Theodore Modis and Jonathan Huebner have argued—each from different perspectives—that the rate of technological innovation has not only ceased to rise, but is actually now declining. The validity of their conclusions has been criticized by John Smart.[9]
In fact, "technological singularity" is just one of a few singularities detected through the analysis of a number of characteristics of the World System development, for example, with respect to the world population, world GDP, and some other economic indices.[10] It has been shown[11] that the hyperbolic pattern of the world demographic, economic, cultural, urbanistic, and technological growth (observed for many centuries, if not millennia prior to the 1970s) could be accounted for by a rather simple mechanism, the nonlinear second order positive feedback, that was shown long ago to generate precisely the hyperbolic growth, known also as the "blow-up regime" (implying just finite-time singularities). In our case this nonlinear second order positive feedback looks as follows: more people – more potential inventors – faster technological growth – the carrying capacity of the Earth grows faster – faster population growth – more people – more potential inventors – faster technological growth, and so on. On the other hand, this research has shown that since the 1970s the World System does not develop hyperbolically any more, its development diverges more and more from the blow-up regime, and at present it is moving "from singularity", rather than "toward singularity".[12]
Juergen Schmidhuber calls the Singularity Omega, referring to Teilhard de Chardin's Omega Point (1916). For Omega = 2040, he says the series Omega - 2n human lifetimes (n < 10; one lifetime = 80 years) roughly matches the most important events in human history.
Kurzweil created the following graphs to illustrate his beliefs concerning and his justification for his Law of Accelerating Returns.
See also[edit]
1. ^ R. Buckminster Fuller, Nine Chains to the Moon, Southern Illinois University Press [1938] 1963 pp. 276–79.
2. ^ R. Buckminster Fuller, Synergetics (Fuller),
3. ^ Ulam, Stanislaw (May 1958). Tribute to John von Neumann,. 64, nr 3, part 2. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. p. 5.
4. ^ Moravec, Hans (1998). "When will computer hardware match the human brain?". Journal of Evolution and Technology 1. Archived from the original on 15 June 2006. Retrieved 2006-06-23.
5. ^ Moravec, Hans (June 1993). "The Age of Robots". Archived from the original on 15 June 2006. Retrieved 2006-06-23.
6. ^ Moravec, Hans (April 2004). "Robot Predictions Evolution". Archived from the original on 16 June 2006. Retrieved 2006-06-23.
7. ^ Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines, Viking, 1999, p. 30 and p. 32
8. ^ The Law of Accelerating Returns. Ray Kurzweil, March 7, 2001.
9. ^
10. ^ e.g., Johansen, A., and D. Sornette. 2001. Finite-time Singularity in the Dynamics of the World Population and Economic Indices. Physica A 294(3–4): 465–502
11. ^ e.g., Korotayev A., Malkov A., Khaltourina D. Introduction to Social Macrodynamics: Secular Cycles and Millennial Trends. Moscow: URSS, 2006; Andrey Korotayev. The World System urbanization dynamics. History & Mathematics: Historical Dynamics and Development of Complex Societies. Edited by Peter Turchin, Leonid Grinin, Andrey Korotayev, and Victor C. de Munck. Moscow: KomKniga, 2006. ISBN 5-484-01002-0. P. 44-62
12. ^ Korotayev A., Malkov A., Khaltourina D. Introduction to Social Macrodynamics: Secular Cycles and Millennial Trends. Moscow: URSS, 2006.
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Vascular dementia
Classification and external resources
ICD-10 F01.1
ICD-9 290.4
DiseasesDB 8393
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Vascular dementia or "multi-infarct dementia" is dementia caused by problems in the supply of blood to the brain, typically by a series of minor strokes. Vascular dementia is the second most common form of dementia after Alzheimer's disease (AD) in older adults.[1][2] Multi-infarct dementia (MID) is thought to be an irreversible form of dementia, and its onset is caused by a number of small strokes or, sometimes, one large stroke preceded or followed by other smaller strokes.[3] The term refers to a group of syndromes caused by different mechanisms all resulting in vascular lesions in the brain. Early detection and accurate diagnosis are important, as vascular dementia is at least partially preventable.
The main subtypes of this disease are: mild cognitive impairment, multi-infarct dementia, vascular dementia due to a strategic single infarct (affecting the thalamus, the anterior cerebral artery, the parietal lobes or the cingulate gyrus), vascular dementia due to hemorrhagic lesions, and mixed Alzheimer's and vascular dementia.
Vascular lesions can be the result of diffuse cerebrovascular disease, such as small vessel disease, or focal lesions; usually both. Mixed dementia is diagnosed when patients have evidence of AD and cerebrovascular disease, either clinically or based on neuroimaging evidence of ischemic lesions. In fact vascular dementia and Alzheimer's disease often coexist, especially in older patients with dementia.
MID is sometimes triggered by cerebral amyloid angiopathy, which involves accumulation of beta amyloid plaques in the walls of the cerebral arteries, leading to breakdown and rupture of the vessels. Since amyloid plaques are a characteristic feature of AD, vascular dementia may occur as a side effect of it. However, cerebral amyloid angiopathy can also appear in people with no prior dementia condition and a small amount of beta amyloid plaques are often present in cognitively normal older persons.
Signs and symptoms[edit]
Multi-infarct dementia and Alzheimer's disease, despite the fact that the two organic disorders have different causes, can be almost impossible to tell apart clinically and are often misdiagnosed.[4] Patients suffering from vascular dementia present with cognitive impairment, acutely or subacutely, after an acute cerebrovascular event. After the onset a stepwise progression is typical.
In small vessel disease the incidence peaks between the 4th and the 7th decades of life and 80% will have a history of hypertension. Patients develop progressive cognitive, motor and behavioral signs and symptoms. A significant proportion of them also develop affective symptoms. These changes occur over a period of 5–10 years. If the frontal lobes are affected, which is often the case, patients may present as apathetic or abulic. This is often accompanied by problems with attention, orientation and urinary incontinence.
As already stated, small vessel disease and focal lesions often overlap, so these two patterns may be evident in the same individual concurrently. Although atheroma of the major cerebral arteries is typical in MID, the condition mainly affects smaller vessels and arterioles.
Rare genetic disorders which result in vascular lesions in the brain have other patterns of presentation. As a rule of thumb they tend to present earlier in life and have a more aggressive course. In addition, infectious disorders such as syphilis lead to artery damage and strokes along with bacterial inflammation of the brain.
Several specific diagnostic criteria can be used to diagnose vascular dementia,[5] including the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) criteria, the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Edition (ICD-10) criteria, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke- Association Internationale pour la Recherche et l'Enseignement en Neurosciences (NINDS-AIREN) criteria,[6] the Alzheimer's Disease Diagnostic and Treatment Center criteria, and the Hachinski ischemic score.[7]
Signs may include cognitive decline from a previously higher level of functioning; impairment of memory and two or more other cognitive areas; sufficient severity as to interfere with activities of daily living; cerebrovascular disease is present, defined by the presence of focal neurologic signs (e.g., hemiparesis, sensory deficit, hemianopsia, Babinski sign, etc.); evidence of relevant features consistent with cerebrovascular disease on brain imaging (CT or MRI).[8]
In terms of cognitive testing patients have patchy deficits. They tend to have better free recall and fewer recall intrusions compared with patients with Alzheimer's disease. As small vessel disease often affects the frontal lobes, apathy early in the disease is more suggestive of vascular dementia because it usually occurs in the later stages of Alzheimer's. Consequently patients with vascular dementia perform worse than their Alzheimer's disease counterparts in frontal lobe tasks such as verbal fluency. They also tend to exhibit more perseverative behavior. They may also present with general slowing of processing ability, difficulty shifting sets and impairment in abstract thinking. In the more severe patients, or those patients affected by strategic infarcts in the Wernicke or Broca areas, dysarthrias and aphasias may be present.
The recommended investigations for cognitive impairment should be carried out, including a dementia screening blood test, chest X-Ray, ECG, and some type of neuroimaging, preferably a scan with a functional or metabolic sensitivity beyond simple CT or MRI. When available as a diagnostic tool, single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and positron emission tomography (PET) neuroimaging may be used to confirm a diagnosis of multi-infarct dementia in conjunction with evaluations involving mental status examination.[9] In a person already having dementia, SPECT appears to be superior in differentiating multi-infarct dementia from Alzheimer's disease, as compared with the usual attempts to differentiate the dementing processes by employing mental testing and medical history analysis.[10] Advances have led to the proposal of new diagnostic criteria.[11][12]
Pathology and necropsy[edit]
The 5-year survival rate is 39% for patients with vascular dementia compared with 75% for age-matched controls. Unlike Alzheimer's Disease, which merely weakens the victim to the point where he succumbs to bacterial infections like pneumonia, vascular dementia is a direct cause of death due to the possibility of a fatal interruption in the brain's blood supply.
The prognosis for MID is usually not very promising. Symptoms may begin suddenly with the onset of the disease and steadily become more prevalent with each progressive small stroke. Even though it may seem that people with MID improve over time, their condition often steadily declines after ensuing silent strokes. A rapidly deteriorating condition may lead to death from a stroke, heart disease, or infection.[15]
See also[edit]
2. ^ "Vascular Dementia: A Resource List".
9. ^ Bonte FJ, Harris TS, Hynan LS, Bigio EH, White CL. Tc-99m HMPAO SPECT in the differential diagnosis of the dementias with histopathologic confirmation. Clin Nucl Med. 2006;31(7):376–8. doi:10.1097/01.rlu.0000222736.81365.63. PMID 16785801.
12. ^ From NINCDS-ADRDA Alzheimer's Criteria: Dubois B, Feldman HH, Jacova C, et al. (2007). "Research criteria for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease: revising the NINCDS-ADRDA criteria". Lancet Neurol 6 (8): 734–46. doi:10.1016/S1474-4422(07)70178-3. PMID 17616482.
13. ^
14. ^ Arvanitakis, Zoe. "Dementia And Vascular Disease".
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I am searching for a single word which represents "written from left to right" or "written from right to left". Please make sure that the word should be meaning not only the direction but also meaning direction in case of writing. I want to use it like "This language is X", where "X" is the asked for word.
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Why do you need a single word? That seems pretty unnatural. – tchrist Dec 20 '12 at 12:55
Your question seems to be too broad for me. If you ask the same to every asker for a single word, I am sure English would lose its beauty then. – Mistu4u Dec 20 '12 at 12:57
Nit: languages are not LTR or RTL, only writing systems are. The same writing system can be used for multiple languages, and the same language can use multiple writing systems. – JSBձոգչ Dec 20 '12 at 12:59
See this Wikipedia article and scroll down to the paragraph on directionality. There seem to be no such words, only boustrophedon, which means "written from right-to-left and then from left-to-right". The only other single terms for directionality are "horizontal" and "vertical". – user21497 Dec 20 '12 at 13:01
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In technical contexts (the study of scripts, Unicode's various rules for communicating them with computers, graphic use of textual elements) the abbreviations LTR and RTL are very often used.
There are boustrophedonic for scripts which change direction on each line, and words in Asian languages to distinguish vertical from horizontal (e.g. tategaki and yokogaki), but no single word I'm aware of for left-to-right or right-to-left though my reading would be such to make me well-placed to come across them if they existed.
Note also, that languages are not left-to-right or right-to-left, but rather scripts are: Malkuth and מלכות are the same word, and so in each case the language is Hebrew, but in the first case it is Hebrew in Latin script, while in the second it is Hebrew in Hebrew script. Likewise hedgehog and הדגהוג are both the same word, in English in Latin script and English in Hebrew script respectively. There are languages which are commonly found in more than one script.
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the Hebrew word represented would, phonetically, malchut (with the gutteral ch), not malkuth. The second, in Hebrew, reads "hed-g-hoag" -- to write the J sound in modern Hebrew, you would need to put something akin to an apostrophe above and to the left of the gimel. – Dan Dec 20 '12 at 14:10
@Dan malkuth is the most common transliteration into Latin for English readers that I've seen, though I've also seen malchut and malkut. I agree that it's a nuisance to transliterate in such a way that leads to easy mispronunciation, but it does remain the most common. הדגהוג however was my own attempt at transliteration, so I'll happily accept correction. I do find upon googling that someone else has used the same spelling, though that hardly proves it was a good stab at it. – Jon Hanna Dec 20 '12 at 14:21
malkuth is wrong for a couple of reasons -- the word (meaning reign of, or kingdom) is spelled with a chaf, not a kaf so the middle sound would not be a "k". The th is often used for a sav because there is a sense that the sav is not a pure s sound even for Ashkenazim. For the hedgehog, you have to invoke the contemporary apostrophe as Hebrew has no built in J. – Dan Dec 20 '12 at 14:41
@Dan, I see from books.google.com/ngrams/… that malchut seems to have recently taken the lead. I note also that malkuth was in the lead at the height of the popularity of writings of Mathers, Crowley, Regardie et al - so the blame may lie there (Regardie certainly noted a few transliterations as less than ideal, being the only of them whose familiarity with Hebrew would have gone back to childhood). Since my own knowledge is next to zero, I'll assume you are correct. – Jon Hanna Dec 20 '12 at 14:55
I knew all those year in yeshiva would eventually pay off. I'll tell my parents I have justified all that money ;) – Dan Dec 20 '12 at 14:58
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I'm afraid you will be disappointed. The standard English terms for this are right-to-left (note hyphens) and left-to-right. There may be technical Greco-Latin vocabulary for this, but I couldn't find it, and if any such word exists it's extremely obscure and no one will understand it.
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Thanks for the suggestion.Anyways despite that I would wait for sometime. – Mistu4u Dec 20 '12 at 13:00
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Per Wikipedia, the standard terms for these directionalities are the quite obvious right-to-left and left-to-right, plus of course the ever-popular boustrophedonic. There are also top-to-bottom and bottom-to-top.
Unicode uses those terms for embedding control characters to change the direction of writing as follows:
* commonly abbreviated LRM
* commonly abbreviated RLM
* commonly abbreviated LRE
* commonly abbreviated RLE
* commonly abbreviated LRO
* commonly abbreviated RLO
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AutoCAD file converted to Microstation, why can't I get rid of the "0" layer?
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I have an AutoCAD file that I converted to Microstation. In that file are the two layers that AutoCAD can't live without, "Defpoints" and "0". When I convert I use the standards checker to move anything that might have been on those levels onto other levels. At this point I can compress the drawing. The "Defpoints" level goes away by the "0" level remains. In the level manager it doesn't have a dot under the "used" column. When I try to manually delete it, it states "Cannot delete Default Level". I know that Microstation doesn't require the "0" level like AutoCAD does because I have other drawings that do not have it that were created in Microstation. Any clues how to get rid of it? The client doesn't like these non-standard levels in the drawings.
P.S. I know that this is an AutoCAD forum and this is really a Microstation question, but I think it is relevent enough to still be asked here. Plus, I don't know any MS boards that are as good as this ACAD board. Thanks for any help!
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At a guess, there are block definitions in the drawing that were created on the 0 layer. so although no objects are on the layer, it's part of the block/cell definition. damifino how to go about resolving that on the uStn side.
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The fifth and final article in a series attempting to explain the science behind fairly common topics and exploring how they relate to ME/CFS. This time the topic is the nervous system – by Andrew Gladman.
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Wrong wording there dannybex.
The question should read: Why in the world would a private lab that HOPED TO, BUT THEN REALISED THEY DO NOT HAVE THE KNOWHOW to make millions from it's test want to 'bury the XMRV finding'?
Many possible answers, such as professional jealousy, schadenfreude, stupidity
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In advanced game setup, what does the "World Age" option do?
The choices for the option are:
• 3 Billion Years
• 4 Billion Years
• 5 Billion Years
• Random
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I've wondered this a couple of times too, was going to ask it myself, but I assume that it changes how mountainous the terrain is, like younger worlds are less likely to have mountains and older worlds will have more mountains. – Mr Smooth Jun 30 '12 at 4:12
Perhaps it affects the number of ruins scattered around the world too? – Kyle Trauberman Jun 30 '12 at 4:17
Yes, that could be the case as well, although they have a seperate option to disable ruins, so it also might not be. – Mr Smooth Jun 30 '12 at 4:21
@MrSmooth Right principle, but in reverse. Older worlds have less mountains (erosion has had more time to take effect). – user3389 Jun 30 '12 at 6:01
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World age affects the prevalence of hills and mountains: younger worlds have larger, more craggy mountains that appear in bigger clusters whereas older worlds have more sloping hills that tend to appear in smaller clumps.
The code that governs this is in ContinentsPlus.lua:
local world_age_old = 2;
local world_age_normal = 3;
local world_age_new = 5;
-- Set values for hills and mountains according to World Age chosen by user.
local adjustment = world_age_normal;
if world_age == 3 then -- 5 Billion Years
adjustment = world_age_old;
adjust_plates = adjust_plates * 0.75;
elseif world_age == 1 then -- 3 Billion Years
adjustment = world_age_new;
adjust_plates = adjust_plates * 1.5;
else -- 4 Billion Years
-- Apply adjustment to hills and peaks settings.
local hillsBottom1 = 28 - adjustment;
local hillsTop1 = 28 + adjustment;
local hillsBottom2 = 72 - adjustment;
local hillsTop2 = 72 + adjustment;
local hillsClumps = 1 + adjustment;
local hillsNearMountains = 91 - (adjustment * 2) - extra_mountains;
local mountains = 97 - adjustment - extra_mountains;
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I've seen quite a few videos on Youtube where spies repeatedly switch to a scout disguise after each kill. Slow scouts seem like obvious spies. Why not choose a Pyro or Engineer?
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The obvious answer is not everyone is a good spy...but the game has changed a lot since I last played so there may be some not/less stupid reason to do that now – Ben Brocka Dec 23 '12 at 15:52
Not even joking when I say I'll just go scout disguise, start jumping everywhere, and people rarely realize. Almost as good as heavy disguise. – Vael Victus Dec 24 '12 at 14:41
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Sometimes using an obvious disguise has its advantages. One example is if you are using the dead ringer. Being obvious can trick people into attacking you and activating your cloak. The enemy might think he just killed a crappy spy and then POW backstab!
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One reason is that scouts are often seen running around lots of different places on the map, unlike say the engineer, who can normally be found near his buildings. So if you're a spy disguised as a scout, your mere presence in a certain area isn't as likely to arouse suspicion as if you were a different class.
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As well as the other two points (Dead Ringer to get shot and Scouts are generally all over the map), I have my Spy-disguise menu set to short-hand notation, meaning instead of getting a list of classes with the numbers 0-9 to choose them, I get two groups of 1-3, the first chooses either the Attacking, Defending and Special class group, the second allows me to choose a disguise from that group.
So, when disguising quickly, I've found it easier to just hit 4-1-1, which is
• 4 - Bring up disguise screen
• 1 - for 'Attack' Group
• 1 - choose Scout
Which is where my fingers tend to sit naturally on the number keys. Sometimes if I'm thinking about it in advance, I'll choose 4-3-3 (Spy). When I'm actually trying to blend in successfully I'll choose more carefully.
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Hi, I have a query that creates a file. I transfer the file to my C drive as a cvs file that I send out to a vendor. He would like headings on the file.....I can't seem to find out how to do this.....I know this is a silly question but how can I get the column headings on the file? If I import into Excel the headings are there, the vendor finds the imports work better via a cvs file as opposed to an Excel file. Thanks in advance!!
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1. Use the ODBC Data Source Administrator tool of Client Access to setup a DSN using the library that your file is in and the IP address of your as400.
2. Open Excel
3. Data -> From other Source -> From Microsoft Query (make sure Microsoft Query is installed. If it isn’t, just use the ms office cd of your company and install it for free).
3. Select the data source you just created in step 1 above
4. Choose the file from the list, click next until you get to a finish button, click finish
5. The data will now be imported into Excel
6. Save the file as a .csv
7. You now have a .csv file with headings in tact
Anytime you rerun the query and populate the file, you simply go into your saved Excel sheet and click Data -> Refresh with the cursor on a line of data and your spreadsheet will refresh using your data source. You then resave as a .csv, etc
My directions above are brief, but I have typed instructions I did for some of my users if you need me to email them to you.
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Sorry, This is an AS400 query that is creating the file for the export.......
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Method 1 - really low volumn Once the file is on your C drive edit it, I would recommend NOTEPAD but you can use WORDPAD just make sure that you save it as a TEXT file. Press enter at the top of the file so you have a blank line. Type in your headings with commas between them. SAVE AS A TEXT FILE with CVS extension. Method 2 -- you can keep your headings A low volumn method. Make a test file using notepad on your C: drive with just the headings..remember to enter them as .CSV - comma's between them and end with a Carriage return and name the file hdr.csv Then use the DOS copy command to create a combined file From DOS PROMPT COPY Hdr.CVS + Dtl.CVS Out.CVS Phil You can check it by opening it in Excel
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Excellent, thanks. Phil
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Thanks Guys, Adam, could you send me the detailed instructions? Thanks in advance!!!! Rick
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Instead of having to manually type in all the column headings and maintain them, you could use the QUSLFLD API that will retrieve various field information from a file, including the field text and column headings. Then, via the QSH command, you could create a file in the IFS and then insert those headings into that file. CPYTOIMPF could then populate the IFS file with your physical file records. Ideally, you could package the API into a service program for reusability (as we have done in our shop). It would take some initial development, but once done, you'd have a flexible method for future needs with less coding and maintenance required.
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The following expression:
should be simplified to:
(even if I don't agree that this second is more simple than the first).
The problem is that I have no idea of the first step to simplify that.. any help?
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The magic words are "multiply by the conjugate". For what it is worth, I would actually prefer the former form to the latter. I find it is easier to keep radicals out of denominators, so I would call the former the simplification, not the latter. – Arturo Magidin Feb 5 '11 at 21:25
I prefer the latter because the removable singularity is removed. But I also am prone to say $\sin\frac{\pi}{4}=\frac{1}{\sqrt 2}$ rather than $\frac{\sqrt 2}{2}$. @Tom: An important use of such "simplification" is that the latter expression indicates how the original expression can be continuously extended to $h=0$. This allows you to determine that the slope of the tangent line to the curve $y=\sqrt x$ at the point $(4,2)$ is $\frac{1}{4}$. If you haven't already learned derivatives, these ideas are explained in the following article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative – Jonas Meyer Feb 5 '11 at 21:59
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If you multiply both the top and the bottom by $\sqrt{4+h}+2$, you get $\frac{(\sqrt{4+h}-2)(\sqrt{4+h}+2)}{h(\sqrt{4+h}+2)}$, which simplifies to $\frac{h}{h(\sqrt{4+h}+2)}$. Then, divide both by $h$ (assuming $h\neq 0$), and you get $\frac{1}{\sqrt{4+h}+2}$.
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It is really simple. Let us just do what is most intuitive, multiply numerator and denominator with what you want to have in denominator. You get: $$ \frac{(\sqrt{4+h} - 2)(\sqrt{4+h} + 2)}{h(\sqrt{4+h}+2)} $$ Then observe the numerator has a difference of squares. Multiply the numerator easily using that and then your left with $$\frac{h}{h(\sqrt{4+h}+2)}$$ Just assume $ h \neq 0 $ and get "rid" of it.
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HINT $\rm\displaystyle\quad\quad g^2 = 4+h\ \ \Rightarrow\ \ \frac{g-2}h\ =\ \frac{g-2}{g^2-4}\ =\ \frac{1}{g+2}$
Usually the "simplification" is the opposite inference - known as rationalizing the denominator.
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Is that step $\frac{g-2}{g²-4}$ correct? If you multiply g+2 up and down, you get $\frac{g²-4}{h(g+2)}$, and you can't go on from here.. – Tom Brito Feb 20 '11 at 19:27
@Tom: $\rm\ g^2 = 4 + h\ \Rightarrow\ h = g^2-4\:.\:$ That step results from substituting this value for $\rm\:h\:$ into the denominator. – Bill Dubuque Feb 20 '11 at 19:42
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So its not about simplification. You just want to show they are equal. What you do is put an equal sign between them, and cancel everything you can, if you get 1=1 or similar you are done.
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I have downvoted, because I think this answer is misleading. You have to be very careful when trying to prove an identity not to start with the equation you want to prove and arrive at another equation via potentially irreversible steps. It is best to work with just one side of the alleged identity at a time. – Jonas Meyer Feb 5 '11 at 21:04
@Jonas What is an irreversible step ? Do you not have to be equally careful when when working with one side? – user5904 Feb 5 '11 at 21:07
Let us prove that $-1$ can be simplified to $1$. So I'll put an equal sign between them, $-1=1$. Now if I square both sides, $1=1$. This is true, so $-1=1$. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that you are advocating such an illogical step, but starting by assuming (at least in appearance) what you are supposed to prove has the potential to lead to errors. – Jonas Meyer Feb 5 '11 at 21:11
You have a good point about being careful with one side, but there the rule is that you never even change what the expression is. You can multiply by $1$, add $0$, factor, cancel, etc., but you typically don't do anything that actually changes the value. (Of course, this warning is only for beginners, not those who have enough experience to recognize that there are many valid ways to prove an identity.) – Jonas Meyer Feb 5 '11 at 21:14
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For those willing to look deeper than company press releases, publicly available information suggests that investors should avoid MBIA (MBI) like a plague.
As important as it is for investors to analyze MBIA’s current economic position, however, the more important MBIA story lies in the lapses by those responsible for safeguarding policyholders of MBIA Insurance Corporation, MBIA’s principal insurance subsidiary until February of this year when its assets were stripped.
Parts 1 and 2 of this discussion focus on issues that should concern MBIA investors. Part 3 raises questions about what appear to be disturbing oversight failures.
Loss Reserves
Despite the large losses reported to date, MBIA’s loss reserves appear to remain disconnected from economic reality and deficient by conservatively $5B, easily enough to wipe out MBIA Insurance Corporation’s capital. Here are the main problem areas.
1. Second lien securitizations – MBIA paid approximately $600M on second lien securitizations during the first quarter, 75% of the year-end net reserves for these exposures. Servicer reports reveal that delinquencies on these deals increased to $2B during the first quarter. Therefore, payments are likely to continue at a similar pace through the end of 2009. MBIA’s net reserves decreased to approximately $600M ($1.2B minus $600M in anticipated recoveries from servicer lawsuits) as of the end of the first quarter, an amount that could easily be exceeded next quarter. If loan performance does not improve, MBIA’s future payments could exceed $8B. If loan performance improves gradually, investors should expect around $4B in future payments (over six times MBIA's current net reserve).
2. Multi-sector high grade CDO impairments – Slide 44 of the first quarter earnings presentation illustrates cash flow projections for MBIA’s high grade CDOs which imply about $3.2B of ultimate principal payments. By comparison, recent loan performance for the RMBS securities in MBIA’s high grade CDOs suggests that losses will significantly exceed Pershing Square’s Open Source Model projections from a year ago. Realized collateral losses in excess of subordination levels are likely to surpass MBIA’s ~$3.2B estimate within the next six months, then grow to a low end ultimate estimate of approximately $6B, assuming steady improvements in loan performance. If loan performance does not improve or improves more gradually, ultimate principal losses could easily exceed $10B.
3. Discount rates – The cash flows and present value impairment figure for high grade CDOs on slide 44 indicate that MBIA will consistently earn a significant spread above LIBOR, probably around 150 basis points, for the next 40+ years. The discount rate is discussed in MBIA’s 2008 10-K, which suggests that the New York Insurance Department allowed MBIA to artificially inflate the rate by using a portfolio yield calculated excluding low-yielding money market investments and including intercompany loans under repurchase agreements. Discounted at LIBOR would more than double the present value impairment numbers.
4. Guarantees of MBIA’s investment management business – As of the end of the first quarter, the book value of liabilities of MBIA’s investment management business exceeded the book value of assets by $500M. The market value shortfall was $2B. It is difficult to imagine how MBIA Insurance Corporation, which guarantees these obligations, can avoid a liability for the book value shortfall, at a minimum. MBIA Insurance Corporation’s Statutory financials do not reveal any such a liability.
5. Mezzanine CDOs – $500M is a reasonable estimate of losses on US and European mezzanine CDOs based on the ratings of the underlying collateral and subordination levels shown in MBIA’s first quarter CDO disclosure. MBIA's public disclosures do not provide any indication that a liability has been established for these exposures.
Commercial Real Estate
If commercial mortgage performance deteriorates to the extent anticipated by CMBS pricing, MBIA will realize losses well in excess of $10B on structured CMBS pools and commercial real estate CDOs (this estimate is based recent CMBX pricing and MBIA’s November 8, 2008 commercial real estate presentation). Loan losses large enough to wipe out CMBS securities originally rated BBB or lower from 2005 through 2007 would result in losses in the neighborhood of $5B. SEC filings state that MBIA would make payments once realized losses breach subordination levels for most structured CMBS pools, so it would be impossible to suppress these liabilities using steep discount rates. MBIA Insurance Corporation has established no reserves for structured CMBS pools and commercial real estate CDOs.
Originator Lawsuits
MBIA has filed lawsuits against originators responsible for roughly half of MBIA’s known losses, Merrill Lynch, Countrywide, and Residential Funding. The Merrill lawsuit alleges Merrill deceived MBIA into assuming credit risk on four CDOs. The Countrywide and Residential Funding lawsuits allege that loans supporting second lien securitizations breached these originators’ representations and warranties, and therefore need to be repurchased.
MBIA’s complaint against Merrill argues that MBIA did not perform adequate due diligence and Merrill knew this. This lays a shaky foundation for a claim because most people believe that it is incumbent on large financial institutions to diligently review relevant information before assuming credit risk on large transactions. In addition, most of the key allegations in the complaint are false or irrelevant. Here are a few examples.
1. MBIA’s lawsuit claims that Merrill exploited an advantage due to detailed analyses of loan level data that Merrill performed, but MBIA did not. This contradicts MBIA’s February 11, 2008 response to Pershing Square Capital’s Open Source Model, where MBIA describes a “loan by loan analysis” much more detailed than Pershing Square’s analysis. At the time of this letter, both MBIA and Pershing Square had access to much better and more current information than Merrill had at the time the deals were closed, yet MBIA was projecting no impairments on the disputed CDOs.
2. Page 27 of the complaint states that collateral losses had wiped out all or most of the subordination as of the closing date for each disputed CDO. This is obviously false, as it would have made it impossible for these deals to carry even spurious AAA ratings when they were closed. In addition, MBIA disclosures showed that subordination levels remained largely intact through year-end 2007.
3. Subsequent to closing the deals with MBIA, Merrill reported losses on CDOs multiples larger than what was hedged through MBIA. If Merrill knew that these structures would generate massive losses that nearly led to the firm's collapse, as the complaint alleges, other CDOs would have been sold or hedged in 2007.
Page 7 of the complaint argues that the disputed transactions threaten MBIA Insurance Corporation’s ability to maintain minimum capital and solvency requirements. If these transactions threaten MBIA Insurance Corporation’s solvency, how could management possibly justify the February restructuring that further weakened this capital position?
The Countrywide and Residential Funding lawsuits and MBIA’s forensic analysis of loan files will almost definitely yield future recoveries in cases of very clear breaches. However, the prospectuses for these deals may make it difficult to obtain sweeping recoveries, because these documents clearly highlight their extraordinary credit risk, and in fact disclose many of the problems identified in the complaints as contributing to the claims for damages. In other words, the loans were bad, but they were clearly advertised as being bad.
In addition, the Countrywide and Residential Funding deals have performed similarly to other second lien securitizations that MBIA wrapped, including CSFB, Morgan Stanley, and IndyMac deals. This will make it difficult to argue convincingly that these companies’ underwriting was generally substandard.
A fundamental problem with MBIA’s lawsuits against originators derives from MBIA’s access to superior information and unique perspective to anticipate the mortgage crisis. Instead of withholding capital and voicing concerns about the erosion in credit quality, MBIA leveraged its balance sheet with credit risk. MBIA’s lawsuits allege that MBIA was an unwitting victim, when in reality MBIA was part of the problem.
Complaints by Aurelius and Third Avenue seek to reverse or modify MBIA’s February 2009 restructuring, which diverted over $5B away from MBIA Insurance Corporation to fund another subsidiary. These lawsuits mention that rating agencies slashed MBIA Insurance Corporation’s ratings, and CDS pricing on MBIA Insurance Corporation obligations spiked to 70% up-front (which implies almost a 100% probability of default) immediately following the restructuring announcement. These two facts provide compelling evidence that the restructuring left MBIA with inadequate capital, a key ingredient in a constructive fraudulence claim.
However, plaintiffs’ strongest ammunition in these lawsuits may have come from MBIA managers, who claimed that the restructuring would motivate insureds to terminate MBIA’s obligations at a discount. This implies that there was intent to hinder creditors, a requirement in showing intentional fraudulent conveyance. These comments might also convince a court that MBIA breached its duty to negotiate fairly and in good faith, as the complaints allege.
The restructuring was designed to allow MBIA, which has effectively been in run-off for the past year, to write new public finance business. However, the uncertainty introduced by these lawsuits makes it unlikely for MBIA to generate significant new business for the foreseeable future.
This leaves long-term investors with the likelihood that toxic legacy assets will wipe out shareholders’ equity, without the upside that would come with new revenue generation.
A Low Down Dirty Shame
The views expressed in Parts 1 and 2 of this discussion are shared by a variety of investors. Therefore, if it distorts the truth, MBIA management or any other interested parties should seize the opportunity to disabuse the investing public of any misconceptions, and turn critics into advocates.
If the facts and conclusions are basically correct, the situation raises numerous questions for individuals charged with protecting policyholders’ interests.
1. How could the New York Insurance Department allow over $5B to be extracted from MBIA Insurance Corporation, leaving it at best drastically undercapitalized, and at worst insolvent? And why would regulators allow the restructuring to place the interests of policyholders below the interests of MBIA management and shareholders?
2. Why have insurance regulators been so willing to facilitate transactions that transfer needed assets from insurance operations to other holding company operations? Examples include loans to investment management affiliates of monoline insurers, and an offer to allow AIG’s insurance subsidiaries to assume credit risk on risky securities insured by the financial products division of AIG. These types of transfers clearly increase risks to policyholders, the group that insurance departments are charged with protecting.
3. How have regulators and auditors allowed monolines to recognize large anticipated litigation recoveries given that the likelihood of such recoveries is highly questionable?
4. How have insurance regulators justified the reduction or elimination of Statutory contingency reserves in the face of unprecedented credit risk?
5. Why would the New York Insurance Department allow creative calculations to boost the rate used to discount MBIA’s losses?
6. What has prevented the National Association of Insurance Commissioners or other agencies from investigating or at least questioning the New York Insurance Department’s decisions to repeatedly facilitate large transactions that place the interests of shareholders and management ahead of monoline policyholders? In addition to MBIA’s restructuring and an offer to prop up AIG’s financial products unit, NYID allowed XL Capital to commute its obligations to XLCA, a transaction that voided valuable protection for many policyholders and reduced the pool of assets available to protect all policyholders.
7. Why haven’t one or more attorneys general investigated MBIA’s restructuring, which effectively confiscated assets from insureds and gave it to shareholders and management?
8. How could MBIA’s auditors and actuaries allow MBIA to record such optimistic loss estimates in the face of data that supports much larger losses?
9. How does S&P justify an investment grade rating for MBIA Insurance Corporation? MBIA Insurance Corporation is extremely leveraged and assumes credit risk on highly correlated below investment grade credits many multiples of Statutory Surplus.
10. Regardless of the notional capital available to support MBIA Illinois, how does S&P justify the AA- rating despite numerous lawsuits that threaten the operation and a management team that recently raided the assets of a company it manages?
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m headed to North Carolina for the weekend with the Marines. (My other job) So as easy as it is to recycle last weeks headlines I won't, but think about it for a second. Greece not solved, companies blow out earnings on lowered expectations, Republicans have little idea who will be the nominee, market continues to climb higher on lower volume, defying any traditional logic... Same as last week.
#Let's play a game: Which portfolios of mine do you think are algorithmically controlled and which are discretionary? (Hint: I might rename the Hardline portfolio, to the Honey Badger portfolio)
#Busy Robots: I was doing some research for someone the other day in regards to High Frequency Trading and it appears that 70% is the number of trades handled by robots. For a video explanation see 60 minutes.
#If you get a chance be sure to thank Bernanke: Even CNBC is openingly admitting Benny and his Ink Jets have saved the economy. I wonder how many bankers will start crying when the "Bernake" takes away the free money or stalls on QE 3.
#Jobs number?: I was slightly vindicated for my last post about the jobs number. Due in part to Bernanke's testimony on Tuesday and the following article. #Let's make a movie: I don't usually see movies as an investment vehicle, but since this isn't from Hollywood and it involves Marines it's definitely worth checking out.
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• The Jobs Number Is Bogus And Bernanke Knows It.
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"If you tell a lie that's big enough, and you tell it often enough, people will believe you are telling the truth, even when what you are saying is total crap." ~ concept accredited to Joseph Goebbels
Anyway you look at the jobs number, you have to realize it is easily the most manipulated number in all of government financial reporting. If you think the current party in political power is the first one to do so then I think you should cast your vote for the following candidate. The real question should be why are so many people contesting people and defending the number?
1. Cramer on Jobs Data: That's Why Stocks Have Rallied
2. Santelli: Here's What's Wrong With the Jobs Number
3. The Gigantic Conspiracy To Inflate Jobs Numbers In America via Business Insider
4. TrimTabs Explains Why Today's "Very, Very Suspicious" NFP Number Is Really Down 2.9 Million In Past 2 Months via Zerohedge
Cramer is the CNBC cheerleader, Santelli is the antagonist, and Business Insider is usually lots of pictures & graphs and generally leans left. The Business Insider provides a good argument as well. However TrimTabs uses real time data based on tax income receipts. Simple numbers. The trimtabs piece is the one I believe is the most analytical. (aside from the brief mention of politics) You either have a job or you don't. I can understand the concept of a birth death model in the jobs report, but as he says in the video no one understands the seasonally adjusted model. You have a job in one season and not in the next?
So if someone can explain the seasonally adjusted component of the BLS, please tell me or Trimtabs. Or you can keep it to yourself and make millions. The other key issue as stated in the video, most financial reporters don't actually read the report, they just report the number. And for someone who has written millions of lines of code, I can tell you it's not hard anymore to write a program that evaluates the number and starts buying or selling based on the number long before you have a chance to refresh your web browser. Code doesn't need details it just looks for the number and then the market are off to the races...
So how do I know the number is manipulated? Well the Federal Reserve has dual mandate. The first is max employment and the second is price stability. (The unspoken third mandate, is to maintain confidence in the stock market.) So if the employment number continus to decrease and yet the Federal Reserves interest rate policy remains at zero, then the Fed is clearly indicating it doesn't believe the jobs number and continues to hold interest rates low to stimulate the economy.
Only when we start to see an increase in the interest rate will we know that the Federal Reserve actually believes the economy is getting better and there is actual sustainable job growth. But seeing as how the Federal Reserve has projected a zero interest rate policy until 2014, I think we know the answer. If the jobs number continues to decrease, look for interest rates to increase soon rather than later and say goodbye to Quantitative easing part 3 or 4 or 5. If the jobs number continues to decrease and the interest rate stays at zero, then start buying guns and gold because inflation or a revolution is pending.
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If you are wondering what was the leading cause of today's rally, it might be one of 3 things. First, it could be Republican candidate Mitt Romney's confirmation that he doesn't care about the very poor and is focused on the super rich, which is generally considered bullish for the markets. A second item could be the successful conclusion of the Greek Debt Crisis. Or finally, it could be the market rallying on the anticipation of the (enter team name here) winning the superbowl. There is a very strong correlation with this (enter team name here) and stock market performance. The market is also clearly telling the American public that it is time to get back into stocks or they might miss out on the 40% rally that lies ahead! I can't guarantee the following, but I suspect this rally will probably kick off with the launch of the Facebook IPO, don't worry it's different this time.
#pic: Unrelated. I have to do something to get your attention. Irrational exuberance or fear tactics get old after a while. (plus people keep downloading my pictures, so it must be working)
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Comment: Re:"chronic disease" (Score 2) 545
'in TFA summary "chronic disease" jumped out at me...that's a pretty high bar for ***anything known to medical science*** to hit, and no one ever really claimed that multivitamins would just flat prevent cancer.'
"In two large, independent cohorts of nurses and other health professionals, the frequency of nut consumption was inversely associated with total and cause-specific mortality, independently of other predictors of death. (Funded by the National Institutes of Health and the International Tree Nut Council Nutrition Research and Education Foundation.)."
The funding body is unfortunate, but there do seem to be similar studies backing this up.
Comment: Re:In the UK and Canada they now belong to buyer (Score 1) 616
Err - no.
Money was accepted for an item to be sent to the buyer.
A different item was sent to the buyer.
The first contract has not yet been fulfilled, and the item actually delivered was a delivery in error.
As the delivery in error was not an intended delivery (the law specifically regulates spamming random products to addresses that diddn't order them - in that case they get to keep it) they have to return it.
Comment: Re:What about FAT32 (Score 1) 192
by queazocotal (#45626503) Attached to: German Court Invalidates Microsoft FAT Patent
Oh yes it does.
If your device doesn't support SDXC + exfat - you can't call it SDXC on the sticker.
Windows will not format as other than exfat volumes >32G, without jumping through hoops - and automatically formatting non exfat volumes >32G as exfat is actually conforming to the spec.
Comment: Re:Obviousness (Score 2) 115
by queazocotal (#45621917) Attached to: Supreme Court To Review Software Patents
Patents are to trade the private good of being able to exploit your idea as a monopoly for the public good of releasing that idea to the world after a time.
One very obvious point is that If it would take longer to research and find a patented idea than for a skilled engineer in the field, facing the same problem to reinvent that patent - there is no public good in having the idea released after a time.
I would go so far as to say that no patent should ever be given for any invention where it is reinvent-able by someone unfamiliar with the patent who is skilled in the field and facing the same problem in under about a month of lab time.
Comment: Re:Is this new? (Score 1) 267
by queazocotal (#45615921) Attached to: Moore's Law Blowout Sale Is Ending, Says Broadcom CTO
Yes, this is new.
I got my first computer about 30 years ago.
It is approximately a million times slower than the desktop I bought for less money this year. Admittedly, it uses about a quarter of the power.
Yes, each successive fab has been costly - with newer ones costing over a billion dollars.
But, until relatively recently, you could go from 2x to x feature size, and get lower power consumption, and higher performance.
This simple geometrical scaling has broken down - narrower features may mean you need more power, not less, and though they may be able to run at a higher frequency, cooling becomes a major problem.
As the summary stated, you now can't make - for any amount of money spent on a new fab, a denser process simply by virtue of geometry that gets you better power and clock speed.
I feel I'm really unlikely to see another factor of a million increase in computation, barring mature nanotech.
Comment: Re:This is the Published Application, not patent (Score 3, Informative) 152
by queazocotal (#45588649) Attached to: Patent Battle May Loom Over 'Copenhagen Wheel' Electric Bike
While interesting, and some things might seem novel to the casual uninterested reader, I can see nothing truly novel - as in would not be thought of in a few days by an engineer skilled in the field facing the same problems.
Aspects of this patent I've got prototype code somewhere (if I haven't thrown out the disk) around optimising fuel use of a hybrid car.
Comment: Re:When you have a bad driver ... (Score 1) 961
by queazocotal (#45583731) Attached to: Is the Porsche Carrera GT Too Dangerous?
Being a pro does not make you immune to making mistakes.
If, for example, you go out every day with your full attention on the road at all times, well rested and prepared - great - you can handle it.
For a car you may have to drive in suboptimal conditions, or when tired, a car that requires 100% accurate flawless decisionmaking all the time is a bad idea.
Comment: Re:"but can run most apps" (Score 1) 141
by queazocotal (#45557877) Attached to: Jolla: Ex-Nokia Employees Launch Smartphone (MeeGo Resurrected)
Whatever the 'goal' - it has that function.
The new play services APIs are not in the open-source code.
The only way as an OEM to get those APIs available, and to be able to run the increasing number of apps that require them is to either reimplement them - which may run into patent issues - or to comply with all of the google terms and conditions and get them to bless your device.
Which means doing nothing that google does not like.
This _INCREASES_ fragmentation that vendors that choose not to, or are not legally able to install play services face.
Comment: Actually reading the paper... (Score 2) 341
by queazocotal (#45556431) Attached to: Study Linking GM Maize To Rat Tumors Is Retracted
The study involved 200 rats, half female, split into 10 groups.
As I understand it, the greatest 'statistical significance' comes from the female rats.
Taking one part, and closely analysing it.
'Up to 14 months, no animals in the control groups showed any signs of tumors whilst 10–30% of treated females per group developed tumors, with the exception of one group (33% GMO + R). By the beginning of the 24th month, 50–80% of female animals had developed tumors in all treated groups, with up to 3 tumors per animal, whereas only 30% of controls were affected.'
Starting with the first statement. 'up to 14 months, 1-3 rats in some of the groups developed tumors, whereas no rats in the control group or the group fed GMO + roundup did' So, of 7 groups, 2 groups were cancer free.
Going onto the next part.
3 rats got cancer in the control group.
5-8 in the other 6 groups.
But, half of those 6 groups were also fed roundup.
So, a total of between 9 and 15 extra rats got cancer, apparantly, if you multiply up the control group.
But - the whole basis of this paper now rests on two rats.
If in the control group at the 24th month, 5 rats would normally have gotten cancer, and 2 happened to get lucky, the paper largely becomes non-statistically significant.
I am not a statistician.
If normally, half of rats get cancer at 24 months, then you would expect 5 rats, not 3 in the control group to have it.
How likely is it that only three rats would die?
Only if this chance is under 5% does the rest of the paper have any weight whatsoever.
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The code for an ActiveX control, such as a button_click on a worksheet, may be called from other subs, even on other modules. Simply use the keyword "Public" to describe the ActiveX control sub instead of "Private". Then call the sub with a statement such as Call Sheets(mySheetName).myButtonName_Click.
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It's not entirely clear what you're asking, but I understand this to be your problem:
You have an ActiveX Control that runs on a click event. The VBA for this is only called by the button click and cannot be called from any other Sub, but you would like to be able to call this code from another module.
I don't believe you can do that, but there is a better approach to the problem. Place the code for your ActiveX control in a new Sub in a module. Then replace the code for the button click event with the following:
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"Possible he's picking up on Noct. Man certainly knows how to give off a strange vibe."
"A half-werewolf? Poor child, a half-werewolf must be hard on them when they were younger." He then looks around. "I don't know who this Noct is, but this feeling is making even I nervous. I already know about the balencer, but he wouldn't be what I am feeling."
"Eh, nobody really knows about the energy Noct gives off except maybe him."
"You know of the Way's Wanderers Demon."
He nods. "Yes, I have heard about them. They are a crazy bunch that should just be exterminated for all the trouble they bring with them. But this is just my opinion, I may grow to like him though." The feeling came back to him. "But no, it can't be him then. This feeling is demonic, almost like it has a demons power but it isn't a demon, it's...young."
"Now's not the time or the place. I'll inform you of what information you need, but not now." Valencia came down the stairs and chuckled at the congregation of people and went to the hangar, climbing on her bike and taking off.
I arch an eyebrow at Valencia's and continue munching;
"Where's she off to?"
I ask.
"If you'll excuse me...I'll be on my way and I'll introduce myself later."
I picked myself up from the chair, my back was stiff but it wasn't to much. "Well, time to check on her again."
Linnzie was gripping the sides of the bed as the tension increased. The pain was unfolding as it grew.
Edited by CrymsonRaven on 10/21/2012 9:59 AM PDT
Meanwhile, as if perfectly queued...
"No! Its mine! Mine! You were too slow!"
"Get back here you bloody thief! Or so help me, I'll kill you again!"
Cackling, Solaris ran by the doorway to the room the group was in, pausing when he noticed them. Turning so the group could see him, he raised a croissant to his mouth, and almost took a bite of it-
Only to be interrupted by a rather cruel-looking scythe emerging from the right side of his chest. Eyes widening comically and straightening, he only had time to gasp a single swearword before he was tugged back out of sight, while the croissant hung in mid-air, as if frozen in time. With a scream, the mansion's walls were once again splashed with golden blood.
Stepping into view, Noct simply swiped the little pastry from the air, and took a large bite out of it, failing to notice most of the group in the room with Ravener. With a smile, he turns to where Solaris's corpse probably was, and simply said one word with a point of his finger.
Edited by morrjo on 10/21/2012 10:01 AM PDT
I shrug. "She's always been like that. Usually just likes to ride, but here...Who knows. Might have received a private request. She has those kinds of connections." I then glance at Noct. "Well, you know when to pop up."
Edited by Zarkun on 10/21/2012 10:08 AM PDT
I nod and give Noct a bemused look;
"Was that really necessary?"
I ask.
Didn't know that the entire mansion could be covered in blood?
The demon chuckled at the sight of Noct. "Never mind about the Way's...I think I'm going to like this guy already." As he walked right past him and left the room.
Noct straightens on hearing the conversation. Giving a brief stare as the demon walked by, he turns to Seraphim.
"Yes. Very much so. Food always tastes better wrest from undeserving hands!"
Solaris crawls into view, on his stomach. His face looked quite green.
I sigh, and shake my head at Noct's antics.
"Well, unless someone is in need of medical attention, I'm heading down to the armory."
I say, finishing my 'snack' and looking over my revolvers.
Edited by Warhawk on 10/21/2012 10:09 AM PDT
"Nah, he'll be fine. Just give him a moment. ...I really hope I don't have to pay for painting this place, gold-colored paint might be a nice style for it. We've got that in excess."
Taking a look down at the floor, he eyes Solaris temporarily. Pulling out his scythe once more, he rams its straightened blade through the back of his double's head, and pulls it out, coated once again in golden blood.
"Well, I suppose that my plans for a vacation will be put on hold, then. Whats going on?"
Edited by morrjo on 10/21/2012 10:13 AM PDT
The demon walked up a set of stairs and heard a slight moan that had a wolf like accent to it. "This must be the half breed." He opened the door, opening up he saw that Linnzie was in pain and was stirring, yet asleep. "What do we have here?"
I made my way up the stairs and the door to my room was open. "What's going on?" As I approached it.
"Well, we've got a demon in a suit of armor and, unless I'm mistaken, a gleeman whose probably wondering if coming here was the best idea..."
I say, gesturing to Thom.
Edited by Warhawk on 10/21/2012 10:16 AM PDT
Ravener staggers out of the room.
They think I, one who has conquered universes, needs to rest? Fools.
He walks out of the manor and slumps down by the door.
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I chuckle. "There are few who don't know your rather interesting side job, Thom. What's your real reason for being here?"
Thom laughs. "I'm here to find a story boy. I'm much to old to be chasing vampires these days."
You blink and Thom is juggling knives instead of brightly colored balls. "That said, I haven't let myself slip... much."
10/21/2012 09:27 AMPosted by Warhawk
"Let's see; a werewolf, a half-werewolf, and a wanderer. I have no idea who or what your picking up on, demon."
Thom nearly drops a knife. "Light boy! It's true. You are sheltering monsters here!"
Linnzie awoke to see the demon slowly walking over to her, she started to scream. "DEMON! GET AWAY FROM ME!"
He was taken a back. "I'm not going to hurt you."
I came running in with the weapons out. "What's going on here!?" I then noticed the demon. "Linnzie, it's okay."
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Google Calendar has an option of adding ready-made calendars like certain holidays for country/religion. I wonder if there is something similar for the Outlook.com calendar. I really want to add my holidays.
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Like so? – Nicholas V. Oct 23 at 19:52
No, that is for the outlook mail app. I am looking for outlook.com email. – c s h Oct 23 at 20:02
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I found a helpful link on a microsoft help page which directs how to do it, and link with a list of holiday calendars available
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The Zhongshan Park (Chinese: 中山公园/中山公園), is a former imperial garden and now a public park that lies just southwest of the Forbidden City in the Dongcheng District of central Beijing.
Of all the gardens and parks surrounding the Forbidden City, such as the Beihai and Jingshan, Zhongshan is arguably the most centrally located of them all. The Zhongshan Park houses numerous pavilions, gardens, and imperial temples such as the Altar of Earth and Harvests or Altar of Land and Grain in some translations (Shejitan, 社稷坛), which was built in 1421 by the Yongle Emperor,[2] and it symmetrically opposite the Imperial Ancestral Temple, and is where the emperors of Ming and Qing dynasties made offerings to the gods of earth and agriculture. The altar consists of a square terrace in the centre of the park.
By 1914, the altar grounds had become a public park known as the "Central Park". That park was then further renamed in 1928 after Sun Yat-Sen (Zhongshan Park), in memory of China's first revolutionary political leader who helped bring about the first republic era in 1911, which is what the park is known as today.[3] Many parks in China during that period also took on this name (see Zhongshan Park). The Zhongshan Park includes various halls and pavilions built for the members of the imperial family, stone archways and a greenhouse which houses fresh flowers on display all year round.
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0.026799 | <urn:uuid:92490fa3-849a-4f46-933d-54f7e0477b5c> | en | 0.971082 | Anders Breivik reveals full extent of planned attack
Updated April 20, 2012 08:09:00
Norwegian gunman Anders Behring Breivik has revealed in court that he had intended to murder everyone on Utoeya Island, and decapitate a former prime minister. His testimony caused many in the court to break down. Prosecutors now wonder if his mental state was skewed by the fantasy world of violent video games.
Source: AM | Duration: 3min 5sec
Topics: terrorism, courts-and-trials, murder-and-manslaughter, norway
ELEANOR HALL: The gunman Anders Breivik prompted many people in the courtroom in Norway to break down as he revealed the full scale of the attack he planned last year.
The Oslo court heard that the man who has confessed to killing 77 people wanted to murder everyone on the island he targeted, and decapitate a former prime minister.
Europe correspondent Rachael Brown reports.
(Music from World of Warcraft video game)
RACHAEL BROWN: This is the World of Warcraft video game that Anders Breivik immersed himself in - 16 hours a day for a year.
Prosecutors now wonder if he viewed his violent attacks through the prism of this online fantasy world.
(Lyrical music from World of Warcraft)
KJETIL STORMARK: He was not able to create a political career for himself. He was not able to succeed as a businessman and then ended up playing online games in his mother's apartment for a year.
RACHAEL BROWN: Kjetil Stormark is one of the few journalists who've had access to Breivik's private emails.
KJETIL STORMARK: When you do online gaming for a year full time and for almost 16 hours a day, it is hard not to be influenced to some degree of the things you're preoccupied with doing.
RACHAEL BROWN: Breivik then moved onto the game 'Call of Duty - Modern Warfare' to train himself as a marksmen, and to simulate police responses and escape strategies.
(Musical excerpt from the game Call of Duty - Modern Warfare)
RACHAEL BROWN: On the day of the attacks last July he arrived in Oslo's city centre and was surprised life didn't imitate art.
He told the court, 'I expected three or four officers to come out and get me'.
But Utoeya survivor Tore Bekkedal says linking war games addiction to acts of terrorism is a knee jerk reaction.
TORE BEKKEDAL: I mean I've played the same violent video games and I don't go round bloody shooting kids. I mean half the people in Utoeya played the same games.
RACHAEL BROWN: Yesterday, Breivik was on the defensive, refusing to answer questions.
Overnight he seemed to relish explaining his operation.
He'd initially wanted to detonate three car bombs, including at Norway's Royal Palace, and the Labour Party headquarters.
But building a bomb proved more difficult than he anticipated. The shooting massacre at Utoeya Island was Plan B.
The court heard Breivik also wanted to decapitate the former prime minister Gro Harlem Brundtland and post the footage on the internet.
And the island's casualty count of 69 was supposed to be much higher. He'd hoped his bullets would chase hundreds of teenagers into the icy waters of Lake Tyrifjorden to drown.
Many in court broke down hearing this.
Christin Bjelland is the vice-chair of the victims support group.
CHRISTIN BJELLAND: Well, it was very shocking because we heard details that we hadn't heard before, but that is part of the picture that is so important that the judges get to hear. Not only to read the reports, but that they can hear themselves how this man has planned and how his thoughts have been.
RACHAEL BROWN: It'll be another emotional session tonight.
The counsel for victims' families warns it will be a "day full of evil", and says they should leave the court if it's too painful.
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JWT Breaks Rare Ritz Work
Nabisco is rolling out its first ad campaign in five years focusing solely on the Ritz cracker.
Created by J. Walter Thompson Chicago, the TV and print campaign uses the tagline, "Nothing fits like a Ritz" and officially breaks this week, although a spot inadvertently ran last week.
The animated 15-second television spots use the red and yellow of Ritz packaging and star the crackers as both actors and inanimate objects.
"Ritz has been around for a long time and it's an icon brand," said JWT group creative director Bob Merlotti.
In a spot called "Bed," the crackers represent two parents in bed. The couple is joined by a young cracker and sibling crackers while copy describes Ritz as "the perfect bedtime treat."
"Bell" features the cracker as a clock, a school bell and a boy running home for a snack.
"It's the first job where I thought casting was a joy," said JWT creative director Pete Griffith.
Animation for the television spots, scheduled to air on all five major networks, was done by Wild Brain in San Francisco.
Print executions show crackers as tires on a car with the copy "great for road trips" or a half-eaten cracker as a moon with the text "a perfect late night snack."
Griffith said the campaign provides for potentially endless extensions, "as long as there's circles to work with."
The campaign is JWT's first for Ritz since winning the $20-30 million Nabisco cracker brand account in October 1998. Nabisco spent $4 million last year promoting Ritz crackers, according to Competitive Media Reporting. | http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising/jwt-breaks-rare-ritz-work-33637 | dclm-gs1-054730002 | false | false | {
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North Korea no longer answering South Korea’s phone calls
North Korea severed its hotline with Seoul and confirmed its decision to scrap the armistice halting the Korean War on Monday, as South Korean and US troops launched a joint military exercise.
The two sides normally speak twice a day during the week on the hotline, which has been in place since 1971.
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Samsung 300U 11.6 inch Notebook - Silver (Intel Pe&hellip by Samsung
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
I used to buy Samsung almost by default. This notebook initially fulfilled all my expectations - its slim, quick and easy to install and has neat power-up. However, its battery does not last anything like the frequently quoted 5-6 hours, and I'm lucky to get 4 from Word and occasional net browsing, much less than a conference day and my train or plane trips. This has turned into a sorry saga, where Samsung make it impossible to buy an additional battery (which is also going to be a worry when the battery needs replacing).
So, its neat and portable, but if you want to carry it about be very wary of how long it will last you.
Dreamland Intelliheat Heated Fleecy King Size Dual&hellip by Imetec Uk Ltd
13 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Good range of heat, good timer 1 hour v 9 hours, even washable.
Controls nearly match the manual.
They need to rethink the logic of the top heat (6).
Some may find the unnecessarily bright standby light disturbing.
Its massive drawback is that the controls are completely inaccessible - there is no tactile feedback, nor any sound feedback. It is impossible without vision to work out what setting it is on, and since it offers no 'reset' or 'zero' facility it's impossible to start again.
CyberLink PowerDirector 8 Deluxe (PC) by Cyberlink
[I have used this to try to create DVDs for TV and not any of the youtube or facebook stuff]
Initial hopeful reactions to a good-looking interface were rapidly dashed by far too many unnecessary problems. These range from the annoying (continuously congratulating me on registering the product immediately before asking me to register again and again, and adverts for a christmas product while working) through frustrating parts of the interface, to the ultimate fact that **it fails to write PAL dvds**.
Support was of 2 types - when I said "if I set A, B should happen and it doesn't" the reply was to try setting A, and when I pointed out a readily repeatable bug they suggested… Read more | http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/pdp/profile/A86M79TF5A60N | dclm-gs1-054780002 | false | false | {
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Wiggins, Jillian
Monk, Christopher
University of Michigan
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United States
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A hallmark symptom of autism is rigidity, or difficulty in adapting to changing environments. This adaptive ability is also known as cognitive flexibility. In autistic individuals, brain regions which control cognitive flexibility may be abnormal, but research has yet to directly link abnormal activity in these brain regions to rigidity symptoms. Rigidity symptoms may also have a genetic component, as genetic variation could affect cognitive flexibility and brain function. Genes linked to autism are candidates for being involved in these processes. The present study will examine the association between cognitive flexibility, pathways of neural activity, and a particular autism-linked gene, 5-HTTLPR, which is involved in signaling by the neurotransmitter serotonin. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), the predoctoral fellow will test the hypothesis that variation in the 5-HTTLPR gene is related to rigidity symptoms. She will use fMRI to look at the patterns of neural activity while ASD individuals perform a task measuring cognitive flexibility. The subjects will include people with multiple different alleles of the 5-HTTPLPR gene. This will determine whether different 5-HTTLPR genotypes are associated with abnormal brain activation patterns during cognitive flexibility tasks, or with the severity of rigidity symptoms. This research may identify genetically influenced neural and cognitive abnormalities affecting cognitive flexibility that could potentially be targeted by therapies to alleviate symptoms of rigidity. | http://www.autismspeaks.org/science/grants/fmri-evidence-genetic-influence-rigidity-asd?destination=about-us%2Fgrant-search-location%2Fresults%2Ftaxonomy%3A9771+field_state_province_full%3A%22Michigan%22 | dclm-gs1-054860002 | false | true | {
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0.214365 | <urn:uuid:ad8e327c-d5a6-4de5-a9a7-785172e28c5d> | en | 0.973785 | ESPN erases another headline surrounding an Asian American athlete
Written by Matt Yoder on .
Hines Ward was released by the Steelers yesterday. Given his history with the Steelers and great career including 1,000 catches and a Super Bowl MVP, it was a big story in sports. Hines Ward was born in South Korea to a Korean mother and African American father. In 2010, he was sworn in as a member of President Obama's Advisory Comission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
ESPN is just coming out of one of the biggest controversies of the year in media regarding their insentive headline about another Asian American athlete, Jeremy Lin. An ESPN mobile editor lost his job and a SportsCenter anchor was suspended. The website headline drew such scrutiny because headlines are often filled with puns and turns of phrase and that particular headline should have never been published.
Given all of that information, it is out of the realm of possibility to me that ESPN could have this as its headline about Hines Ward being released by the Steelers (via Alicia Barnhart)...
The headline has since been changed to read as seen below...
If you need to know the link between Koreans and happy endings, you can Google it yourself. By no means is this on the same planet as the infamous "chink in the armor" headline. Nobody's going to be disciplined or lose their job (likely). The Twitter outcry was minimal and the headline was up as early as last night. If it wasn't for the Jeremy Lin scandal, nobody would probably notice except for a minor chuckle and a few raised eyebrows. So before anti-PC folks start crusading furiously, in no way is presenting these headlines a way of stirring up the pitchforked online mob to march towards Bristol.
But how can ESPN produce any sort of headline involving an Asian American athlete that needs to be taken down or replaced for any reason! How?!?! It's nothing if just a little bit clumsy and makes you shake your head in bemused amazement.
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Question: English & Literature
how and why did lyddie start rachel as a doffer?
Lyddie, chapter 17 author: catherine paterson
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Lyddie started Rachel as a doffer because Rachel was too young to work in the loom room.
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0.058973 | <urn:uuid:0a1cc4d3-0a55-4c0a-b043-10266ddbfd26> | en | 0.970866 | Teresa Giudice
Teresa reveals her potential memoir title.
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Italian Peach “Sangria”
Makes 6 servings
“Vintage” Italians, as I like to call my parents’ generation, follow most meals like this: they slice fresh peaches, put them in a glass, pour red wine over the top, and then spend the rest of the evening spearing out the fruit with the tip of a knife. They eat, drink, eat, drink, repeat. I turned their tradition into an Italian “sangria” by mixing peaches with sugar in a pitcher (the sugar helps the peaches release some juice) and then adding the wine. While my parents like it room temperature, I prefer it chilled.
2 ripe peaches, pitted and cut into 1/2 inch slices
2 tablespoons sugar
1 (750-ml) bottle fruity red wine, such as merlot
1. Combine the peaches and sugar in a glass pitcher. Let stand at room temperature about 1 hour, or until the peaches give off some juices.
2. Pour in the red wine and stir well. Cover and refrigerate until chilled, at least 2 hours and up to 8 hours.
3. Pour into wine glasses, making sure that each glass gets some peaches. Serve chilled.
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Giles 39 pts
Omg. When Melissa was down on her knees begging you to stop, all you had to do is pull her up, hug her and say I'm sorry. That's it! Think of your brother and Melissa as one person. Be happy that joe is happy. Just stop the childish jealousy. Just follow this simple direction if what you feel is true, when or if there are problems between them, joe will come to you for support. Support his marriage now. It will only benefit all of you in the end.
Eblack10 17 pts
I thought these blogs were about the show. Stop trying to sell us your books and start talking about your feelings on the show. This still shows that you take no accountability for anything!
rustyrusty123 753 pts
ROFLMAO are you watching the same show!!! Jellous of Melissa. Think more protective of her brother. Why Jellous of that ugly 10head instead of a 4head. She knows Melissa better then us all. She loves her brother with all her heart. She does not want to see him hurt. If i herd the things about my brothers wife like she has. I would feel the same way. You will see in the end.
rustyrusty123 753 pts
In no way did i see him trying to down Jako son. By any way. Come on. saying that lots of them go on to do great things. I thought was a complement. Joe is not the sharpest pencil in the box. So you could turn his ignorance into a negative thing. Truly to me his heart was trying to say the right thing.
MizzouTraveler 1203 pts
Enough with Teresa already. Bravo makes soooo much money. Set aside all of the adults, doesn't anyone else see the price Teresa's kids are paying by her being on the show. Save her children and write her off the show. Teresa and her wanna be gangster, plump husband, need to focus on being good parents and take parenting classes. Not creating drama for ratings so everyone can make a buck.
dianemuck 14 pts
Teresa my dear you need to zip your lip and own up to the damage you've done!! Quit blaming everyone else PLEASE!!!! You are so jealous of Melissa you can't hardly stand it. I had friends like you whom I am no longer friends with. Open your eyes!!!
rustyrusty123 753 pts
my2navysons 114 pts
Tre, I absolutely adore you and Joe! Joe can be a little abrasive but I have to respect his honesty! You are right, blood is thicker than water and in my opinion, I believe that Ro and Kathy will be your best allies when you've all hit rock bottom! Joey is WRONG for how he has treated you. He does need to let Melissa fight her own battles with you and stay out of the middle. Based on my own experiences, it's the only way the drama will stop. You did the right thing by going and getting security. Joey attacked your husband and Melissa expected you to help Joe after he called you scum... my mouth hit the floor. She can't have it both ways. I didn't like to see them fighting either however, we can't say we didn't see this coming. Tre, I respect that you keep your mouth shut and seemingly ignore those you are hanging with that trash Melissa. On the other hand, when she's with Jac and Jac decides to trash you she chimes right in... "disgusting". She can't have it both ways. She needs to practice what she preaches and stop blaming you for everything and of course stop playing victim! I hope you all find your way back to each other! Take Care!
talmquist 1186 pts
I am very sorry that you were called scum by your brother. Melissa likes to play the victim but you actually put this together to try to mend fences. When Melissa heard Joe call you scum she should have said right then and there this isn't right. How would Melissa feel if one day her sons called Antonia scum? Her deplorable comments about your husband and your marriage in the party bus was completely hypocritical. To think she was just complaining you sit by while other malign her name. She was the one maligning your name in front ot the group on a bus. Which is worse, you sitting quietly or Melissa playing the role of the instigator. Also does she not realize Joes nieces will see these and hear her bash their mother? Please dont' give up on your brother, he will realize what she is truly about after her book tour haha. She wants your level of fame and notariaty and she will do anything to manufacture it.
diazal 5 pts
I agree to disagree with most of all the characters on RHONJ Teresa being an example of what not to do or act.....it shows us how the 99% percent live and act......quite entertaining. In our circles such behavior is unheard of....then again it is a reality show
ccap1125 89 pts
Unfortunately Teresa, I don't think your relationship with your brother will ever be what it was - Melissa will never allow that to happen. It's too bad but she has his ear ALL THE TIME! How can you compete with that - even when you try to talk to him alone, she has him so brainwashed at this point - I hope everyone has finally seen Melissa's true colors. If she really wanted you and Joe to be friends, she has the power to make it happen and let it happen but she is constantly in his ear with negative things about you. Maybe one day he will see the light, I hope so. Good luck!
coraline.cool.56 45 pts
I find you plain gorgeous, beautiful, breathtaking. Cool as cucumber - team T. all way in.
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coraline.cool.56 45 pts
I am mortified for Teresa. You must be a lunatic thinking that her kids – going to public schools will not hear about this, or Senior Mr. Gorga does not hear about all this. I just hope they are strong enough to shake it off. My heart breaks for Giudice and Senior Gorga. Big hugs T.
lainec 33 pts
Hmmmm you and your little brother sure have a hot temper and ignites instantly! How do you control that? Your husband and your brother will not get along as long as you tell your husband everything tha goes wrong with your brother. Haven't seen the show after the first day at the retreat ... but you need to work on being calm and not a hot head.
Grammies28 412 pts
You r not Scum!!!!!! What kind of brotherly love is that?
why3cats 60 pts
Grammies28 It's called the TRUTH.
Jag1128 130 pts
@why3cats @Grammies28 Right!!! True statement
BrenLeigh 52 pts
why3cats Grammies28 Wrong! It's called a little boy shouting petty and mean insults to someone he knows won't smack them.
Diori 65 pts
I don't know what's going on in here. But anyway, Teresa I see you now very clearly. You say you want to have a relationship with your brother, that you love him very much but your goal is to destroy his marriage. You had been extremely jealous of Melissa and is also clear that you want to destroy her reputation. So stop trying to show us you are the pacemaker because your behavior says all the opposite. You told your husband that Joe said you were a "scum" and you know your husband very, very well. You knew he was going to confront your brother. in an explosive way. There it go. You had it. Now don't try to cry over this. You are responsible for what happened.
miabella12 962 pts
Theresa I love you. I think you are adorable genuine real and just a good person over all. Missy is not a real person. she is a phony and I don't know how you ever tolerated her but its sad your brother does not see through her just yet. She is a gold digger. I know one when I see one. She step into a lucky situation and is acting like she is the queen of England. we all know what a tramp she was and is and used her sexual ways to get your brother. She is a good actress. Your brother fell for her phony nonsense in the sack. He will wake up one day and realize she is out for the money. just about everyone I talk to that watches the show sees right through her. Theresa ....................I am on your side. You are a good soul.
alohagirl 143 pts
so funny - self promotion imbedded in the blog about the show.
michelle.nicholas.77 441 pts
Joe's comments regarding Nicholas offended me as a person diagnosed with autism. If you know nothing (which was obvious), say nothing. You both were blessed with four beautiful daughters. How DARE he minimize what the Lauritas are going through in raising their son. He faces so many struggles in his life, and no matter how hard they all work, those struggles will never completely go away. SHAME ON JOE!
CrazyKoolaid 1817 pts
Though don't believe Joe was offending Nicholas specifically, he obviously is ignorant on the topic. Like you commented, he should have said nothing. That he allowed his dislike for Jac to then engage & unfairly connect w/his uneducated rant to include autism, was offensive.
Informative contributing post michelle.nicholas.77......
naustin55 24 pts
Watching you on this show is so sad. You play victim in every situation and have NEVER taken ownership. Your brother seems to be the only one hurt. I hope you guys stop acting like this and grow up. Its people like you that make me glad we are not rich. Watching what the show, money and fame did to you makes me thankful for my family. We may not have it all but we have each other.
PiaDiddly 577 pts
The "Retreat" -- Rules of Engagement
Did no one notice that guests barely made it in the door before Teresa started gossiping about Jacqueline who wasn't even there?
For being the self-proclaimed "bigger-person" wouldn't the more pressing concern be to get agreement on ground rules for how everyone will interact? -No yelling, name calling, interrupting, ... and then demonstrating leadership by role modeling those behaviors?
With a couple of exceptions, the cast acts as if they were raised by wolves. -Even wolves adhere to a code of conduct.
ckhanna 1166 pts
Teresa, just say sorry, shame on you, just sitting there and listening to someone bad mouth your sister in law.
CalaS 15 pts
Teresa is so fake an boring on TV. She restricts what she says to try and look like the one who tries and yet she calculates every move. It is ridiculous she can't admit to anything she does and says.
sunnyboy 8 pts
Thersa needs to take ownership in her part that's what everyone wants but she blames everyone else it's all their falt she never liked Melissa and poor joe has had to hear about his wife from Thersa over and over again he's sticking up for his wife and Thersa needs to accept that she not #1 in his life his wife's is like it should be Thersa keep your mouth shut!!!!!!! Learn to like your family instead of tearing them apart !!!!!!!
buttercupsy 171 pts
Keep your head up Teresa! I hope you and your family are able to reconcile. Also hoping you get your own spin off without Melissa.
shawty 8 pts
I feel that everyone, EVERYONE is to blamed. Instead of pointing fingers at everyone, point fingers at yourself: Melissa, Joe Gorga, Joe Guidice, yourself. There are people out here in this world who lost love ones case in point the Treyvon Martin case. You guys really needs to look up the word "family" in the dictionary all of you guys.
And I hope you guys work it out.
cindy1963 4545 pts
Why do you always run away when you are confronted with the "truth?" Can't you face up to the problems that are going on in your family? You are not innocent in all of this, everybody is at fault but you want people to believe that you did nothing wrong. You told your brother to "grow some balls" but you need to learn how to accept responsibility! You set up this whole thing and then you call Melissa a "witch" saying that maybe she would get along if there was a ghost there. How can you say you want things to be better and yet you constantly call her names and say things about her? That's a bit of a contradiction, don't you think Teresa? You're not being GENUINE!!
mookie14322 6 pts
Yes! Teresa write your book that would be awesome . I love your family .. & Joe is so hilarious love him !!!! <3 xx <3
lizwalker 14 pts
Teresa followers, please advise her to step back, heal her family, (that being her marriage and four daughters) and resume a normal life. I fear that this show has had such an egregious effect on her. When it first aired, she was secure, cute, a little ditsy but in an endearing way. This shrill, manipulative and almost manic woman is no fun to watch. She is in denial about her husband. Her oldest child looks miserable. He next to youngest daughter has a foul mouth and her parents look exhausted because of the drama. Please stop feeding into her rabid behavior and help her seek the peace that she so desperately needs, even if she doesn't even know it. Her brother and his family are not the problem, but they do escalate it.
melly27 10 pts
I can't even believe I'm reading all these ridiculous comments. Has everyone just started watching the show or are most of you blind??? Teresa is behind all the lies and manipulation. She's so good that she's got all of you guys believing her. Shes a joke and a disgrace. She can't take accountability for any of her actions instead she blames it on Jaquelin or Melissa or Kathy. Always someone else. She can never say she was wrong and just apologize. If everyone on the show, that knows her personally not just threw a TV, has a problem with her than guess what maybe she's not the greatest person.
sessy1979 21 pts
If everyone around you has a problem with you then maybe it's not everyone else with the problem.....maybe it's you!
falvey77 155 pts
UGH...Did we really have to see you and your husband in the bath together....YUCK
TexasThoughts 134 pts
Teresa - you were brave to put this together and not surprising, Melissa is doing everything she can to destroy any reconciliation. My brother is autistic plus other problems and I truly understand the exhaustive time it takes. He is now in his later 40's and can't work etc. I DID NOT FIND your husbands comments unkind. Although any pain of any kind is personal and tough on the parents and siblings, it isn't a death sentence and Jac uses it to an extreme. I do like the information she passes on, but I have always found her unstable and immature. I also will say her response as decent on this issue.
Jac needs to move on. She raised her daughter to respond in the same way and that got Ashley put in court. Like mother like daughter. She is probably still on for attention and using autism as an excuse to be relevant. The way she took the phone from Kathy was nuts and going off on Teresa just showed how nuts she is. She and Chris should worry about the law suites pending on them and get off the show. Do a special on Autism and get off the show.
Melissa needs to get out of the way of her husband and Teresa. Teresa and Joe should have gone on the retreat by themselves than do another retreat with the spouses in the future. Bet that would have been much more productive.
Good luck Teresa - remember we love you that is why you are the second highest paid housewife - because you are awesome even with your craziness too! Love Love Love you.
why3cats 60 pts
TexasThoughts Maybe if you had a child with autism and not a brother you would feel differently. Raising a child with autism is a tad bit more challenging than being a sibling - just sayin'.
rustyrusty123 753 pts
Melissa set Teresa up!!! Using her best friend to talk about her So she would have more AMO before leaving for there trip!!! So obvious. Obviously Last thing Teresa wanted she new dam well they would blame her. Wake up Teresa!!!!!! Shes Good at sceeming!! Call her out!! They acuse with out proof so go for it
mary.mroz.54 6 pts
I watched Melissa's so-called friends at her lunch/dinner when she was speaking about her book. Her two "friends" were darting their eyes at each other as if they had their own negative opinions about Melissa and were not "fealing what she was saying". Then in the episode you see them with Theresa and they were bashing Melissa. Obviously they WERE not feeling Melissa and were ready to gossip about her. M DID NOT set that up, she was blindslided by her friends and I bet when she saw the episode she saw what was on their faces and how they were darting their eyes.
I believe Kim D and Theresa, et.al. have decided that being mean to people is fun and "makes good TV", especially mean to Melissa. It probably does but there are children and feelings involved and they should all be ashamed of themselves.
Some of the things that Teresa has said really hits home that she is against Melissa because she feels jealous of her. Some comments sound like she forgets he is her brother and acts like Melissa is the other woman and her brother is someone else. If she wants to have her brother in her life she needs to treat her sister-in-law better and her other family better and stop fighting and stop back-stabbing them. Maybe the fame has gotten to her or maybe she is protrayed that way on the show, etc. It is hard to tell. We should all take everything with a grain of salt since it is Tabloid and TV drama. I hope if it was something said about me that people would give me the benefit of seeing for themselves not in the "press". Keep the fighting on the show and away from me, I HATE CONFRONTATION. I just want to get along with everyone.
Although, might I add that based on what I "see" I like Jacqueline and Melissa and Kathy and Caroline more than Teresa. I liked Teresa much better when she was on Celebrity Apprentice and was rooting for her then. Not so much when she is fighting with her poor family, friends.
Good luck everyone on the show.
cheezewiz_97@yahoo.com 118 pts
Teresa, I have seen this show since Season 1 and since then I have always disliked your husband. He thinks he is all that and a bag of chips. You are turning into your husband and that has sadden me a lot, because you where so fun at first. Own up to what you do and you will live better with yourself. Stop talking, keep your mouth shut and you will see your problems disappear. There is a mexican saying "You get what you crop", example... if you are creating a building garden and you are planting flowers, if they don't turn up as you expected it's because of how you have taken care of it. If you are not feeding it love then don't expect love back. Stop wanting other people to forgive, change or accept mistakes. CHANGE YOURSELF FIRST!!! Do it for you and your kids. Stop with all this madness. It's up to you to stop everything. Live your life and if you hear gossip, stop it right away, walk away and go about your life. Stop trying to live others!! Thank you.
Praying for you every day.. GOD will hear my pray for your change. I want you to be happy and this is what I will do for you. Move on!!
rustyrusty123 753 pts
Bravo you loose Teresa, You realize you loose the entire show!!!
rustyrusty123 753 pts
To get up and walk away and not listen is all about doing it with Class. Just because they want you to sit and fight there battles and get into confrontaion on there behalf is STUPID. Thats there way of doing things not yours. They have no class. You dont need to fight there battles!!!
CrazyKoolaid 1817 pts
This "Battle"?......Not individual, rather a 'Family Battle'. Deal w/it together!
Teresa, instigated and engaged this 'intervention'. I applaud that effort. So stick it out. No need to walk out because you don't agree. Whether thought(s) or (un-necessary disgusting) name-calling that both need to own.
juleslv 14 pts
Teresa, I have always thought you were hilarious and cute - even with your temper in past seasons. I hated seeing Joe and Joey fight! It's getting hard to watch the show now. It's just too much bad blood. You are not scum, you are a lovely Italian mother and wife. I can't believe Bravo didn't break up the fight earlier - shame on them for profiting on physical abuse! I wish you would stay away from the rest of the boring cast and get your own show. I wish Melissa would leave the show - she makes everything about her silly drama. She's toxic, manipulative, selfish and acts like a child. Good luck and wish you all the best!
kj1217 53 pts
There is no doubt that Juicy's comments about Jacq's son were insensitive and unnecessary. Only Jacq and Chris know the challenges of raising their son. However, his comment was not completely ignorant that there is a wide range of functioning levels on the autism spectrum. Although some individuals with this diagnoses face severe challenges, there are those on the lower end of the spectrum that do excel at careers in engineering and other math and science related fields. I work professionally in the developmental/intellectual disability field and have worked with examples at both ends of the spectrum. Juicy is no word-smith, but it seemed he was actually speaking of the capability and potential that many with the autism diagnosis have. Some major companies have created special recruitment departments to target individuals with autism as it is now being recognized that the differences those with autism have in processing information can be of benefit to certain fields. Temple Grandin, one of the most well known individuals with autism, is one of the most sought after specialists in her field of animal science.
piperbeau 39192 pts
kj1217 He meant know harm!! and ya know it... And what are we watching Lifetime or the tlc channel that you write three paragraphs about autism?! No offense but this isn't really the type of show you would want to use as a platform for autism! Lets just keep it real...
michelle.nicholas.77 441 pts
kj1217 No sane person (professional or not) would defend Joe's ignorance. I'm not talking about his ignorance regarding autism itself, because many still have no clue what this diagnosis entails. The man is a neanderthal because he pretends to know what the Lauritas are or are not going through, and he actually insults them by implying that their son's diagnosis didn't rip their hearts out of their chest. The man's behavior is simply sickening.
michelle.nicholas.77 441 pts
kj1217 And BTW-I'm someone who is diagnosed with autism AND I support others with this disorder. I was highly offended by Joe's remarks. While I am highly intelligent in some areas, there are others where I am severely lacking. That's what makes it a disorder! Don't try to minimize what myself and others like me have to deal with on a daily basis. I would rather be "normal" than be headhunted by companies looking for my unique take on the world.
coraline.cool.56 45 pts
The kid just(June 9-th) turned 4 years old:
Jacqueline Laurita @JacLaurita 12h Nick took his alphabet magnets the other day and spelled by himself…”Friend” “play” “train” “dog” “spider” “social” “One” “the” “you”. ..
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The quantitative physiological aspects of the respiratory and cardiovascular systems are studied. Classical models of these systems are considered including lumped element models, branching tree structures, and distributed parameter models to predict wave propagation in compliant walled tubes filled with compressible or incompressible fluids. Extensive computer models are developed to simulate the behavior of these systems in the frequency and time domains. Includes lab.
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Introduction to the mammalian auditory system from a systems prospective. The class follows how sound propagates into the ear, how mechanical energy is transformed into a neural code, how that code is transformed through the mammalian auditory pathway from the cochlea to the cortex, and how auditory sensation and perception are related to this chain of neural processing. Anatomy and physiology will cover the structure and function of the middle ear, cochlea, brainstem, midbrain, thalamus, and cortex. Perceptual topics include basic sensitivity, spatial hearing, pitch perception, auditory scene analysis, attention, and speech perception. Implications for hearing impairment and prosthetic hearing devices will be covered. Associated discussion sessions cover recent research findings from general-interest, high-impact publications.
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Is This Famous Redhead A Natural Or Faking...
Erin La Rosa
1. 1. Christina Hendricks
1. Look at that hair! Joan’s a natural, obvi.
2. She was clearly meant to be a redhead, but wasn’t born that way.
2. 2. Jessica Chastain
1. Naturally she’s a natural. Naturally.
2. She can thank her stylist for those Oscar noms.
3. 3. Lucille Ball
1. I Love Lucy and her natural red hair!
2. I Love Lucy, but that’s a total dye job.
4. 4. Prince Harry
1. Come on, this one’s easy! He’s a royal redhead.
2. He may be royal, but that’s no natural redhead!
5. 5. Isla Fisher
1. “Wedding Crashers” girl? Oh yeah, she’s a total redhead.
2. Not a chance in natural hell that she’s real.
6. 6. Amy Adams
1. Hello, natural!
2. Goodbye, faker!
7. 7. Nicole Kidman
1. Nic’s got an honest face. Gonna go with au naturale.
2. I’ve seen her as a blond before, and that’s my final answer!
8. 8. Angie Everhart
1. Hot redhead model with natural locks, for sure.
2. Hot model with a dye job, duh.
9. 9. Emma Stone
1. Are you kidding? This girl’s my redhead goddess!
2. I wish it were natural, but it’s just not.
10. 10. Jayma Mays from "Glee"
1. I’ll gleefully report that she’s a natural.
2. “Glee” has a dye job, and her name is Jayma.
11. 11. Rupert Grint
1. This witch is a natural.
2. Not real, he dyed his hair for the “Harry Potter” role.
12. 12. Julianne Moore
1. She’s perfect in every natural sense of the word.
2. She’s a beauty, and I wish she’d share her dye job secrets!
13. 13. Laura Prepon
1. I only watched “That ’70s Show” for Laura and her real red color.
2. Girl is a blast from the dye job past!
14. 14. Alyson Hannigan
1. I know a redhead when I see one!
2. I smell a faker!
15. 15. David Bowie
1. Look at that fair skin, he’s a ginger.
2. This is a “Young American” faker.
16. 16. Deborah Ann Woll
1. I’d bet a vampire bite that she’s real.
2. Fang me once, shame on you, fang me twice shame on me. Fake!
17. 17. Molly Ringwald
1. My ’80s icon is a natural.
2. My ’80s icon got herself a dye job.
18. 18. Lindsay Lohan
1. Natural red is what LiLo looks best in.
2. Her “Mean Girls” dye job was the best she’s ever looked!
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1 Jul, 2007 By: Kenneth Wong
French architect Houdin turns the pyramid theory inside out.
On January 2, 1999, a retired French engineer in Paris was watching a television program about the construction of the Great Pyramids. He wasn't satisfied with the hypotheses presented by the show. They just didn't pass muster, he thought.
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"If I were to build a pyramid, I'd build it from the inside," he told his son. He asked his son if this theory could be examined, tested and, perhaps, proved with 3D computer models.
"I couldn't say no," said Jean-Pierre Houdin, the son, reflecting on the phone call eight years later, "because he's my dad."
But the more he explored the inside-out theory, the more seductive it became. The project eventually attracted the attention of Dassault Systemes, a French PLM (product lifecycle management) company. Under the Passion for Innovation sponsorship program, Dassault gave Houdin access to all of its digital tools. During the past two years, Houdin (figure 1) and a multidisciplinary team of 15 engineers, designers and developers painstakingly recreated the Great Pyramid of Giza in a digital environment. They rebuilt not just its stony façade but also its narrow corridors, ramps, passageways and inner chambers. Along the way, they learned just how efficient the ancient builders from the Nile were.
Figure 1. Jean-Pierre Houdin, a French architect, turns the pyramid theory inside out with the help of 3D products from Dassault Systemes.
Lean Construction
One of the prevalent hypotheses is that the Egyptians used an external ramp to transport the bulk of the 5.5 million tons of stone that the project required. As the structure got higher, so did the ramp. In Houdin's view, this plan is implausible because "If it were to reach the top of the pyramid, such a ramp would be twice the volume of the pyramid itself. Or it would have an incline that's too steep." So he proposed instead that the external ramp was used for only part of the construction.
"As I understand, the Egyptians were very smart about volume," he reasoned. "In the beginning, they used an external ramp to build up to 43 meters' height [approximately two-thirds of the entire pyramid's mass], which is the base of the King's Chamber. At that stage, the ramp would have been one-third of the pyramid's total volume. So, after the King's Chamber was completed, they dismantled the external ramp, and brought these blocks inside to build the rest of the pyramid using an internal ramp [figure 2]. So they wasted nothing."
Figure 2. Houdin's theory is based on an internal ramp spiraling to the top of the pyramid.
Reverse-Engineering a Great Wonder
The first task was to build a 3D geometric model of the Great Pyramid, Pharaoh Khufu's ambitious tomb that measures approximately 53,000 square meters at its base, 146 meters to its summit. Houdin and his team used CATIA, the industrial design software used by Boeing and Lockheed Martin, to replicate the pyramid's massive structure on a 1:1 scale.
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Rotating and inspecting the model from different angles, Houdin and his collaborators obtained a better understanding of its cross-sections, internal corridors and inner chambers. Houdin was now able to visualize in 3D what he'd imagined all along—a spiraling internal ramp climbing to the top of the pyramid. With the ability to easily measure the distance between any given points, he was able to check clearances and verify the soundness of his theory.
Egyptology Digitized
Egyptology Digitized
Houdin had obtained the dimensions of the pyramid and the 2D plans from the measurements that were made by another French architect, Gilles Dormion. But Houdin had an advantage over his predecessor. "Jean-Pierre was thinking in 3D, so he was able to visualize the pyramid differently, understand the relationships between its elements and ask new questions," remarked Mehdi Tayoubi, Dassault's online marketing and communication director.
In addition to the geometric model, the team also produced a physical model reflecting the granite block's elasticity and density, among other variables. This was done by embedding the materials' characteristics as defined by François Schlosser, a geology specialist, in the geometric model. In the digital experiments to reproduce the lever actions and counterweight systems that the Egyptians might have used, the physical model would serve as a stunt double, if you will, behaving identically to the real pyramid in how it reacts to the laws of motion.
A Crack in Time
Stacked on top of one another, five stout granite beams sit above the King's Chamber, at the heart of the pyramid. Some weigh as much as 60 tons, so they represent yet another archeological conundrum. How did the Egyptians place them there? (It's not as if they had mechanical cranes to hoist them.)
The visible fractures on some of the beams also have generated many speculations, with some scholars "going so far as to suggest that the builders abandoned the King's Chamber after the crack, in favor of another yet-unknown design," noted Houdin. That, of course, assumed the accident occurred mid-construction. Using SIMULIA, Dassault's stress test and structural analysis software, Houdin and his colleagues were able to prove the crack occurred long after the chamber was completed (figure 3).
Figure 3. Using SIMULIA, Houdin and his team were able to under-stand how the cracks in the King's Chamber occurred.
"So we built the first [level of] the ceiling [in the software]—nothing happened," recalled Houdin. "We put the second ceiling up—nothing happened. Then the third, the fourth, the fifth and the rafters—nothing happened. We put the whole load of the pyramid [on top of the chamber]—still nothing happened. We were confused."
Houdin admitted, for a brief moment, that he doubted the software's fidelity to real-world physical conditions. But eventually his faith was restored; the cracks corresponding to the ones in the pyramid appeared once they introduced the collapse of the south wall. Armed with this evidence, he proposed that the King's Chamber's ceiling cracked "under the combined effect of the substance of the south wall and the separation of the rafters."
Clockwork Perfection
With a combination of geometric and physical modeling, Houdin and his colleagues tested the counterweight system the ancient builders might have used to transport the granite beams to the site of the King's Chamber (figure 4). In their simulations, the Grand Gallery, a narrow passageway devoid of liturgical embellishments, revealed itself to be an efficient mechanism for pulling the blocks. Relying on gravity and friction, the system would have employed trolleys, sledges and counterweights built with ropes and wood.
Figure 4. Physical modeling (left) allows the researchers to recreate the mechanisms the Egyptians might have used to pull the granite beams (right) to the King's Chamber.
Using DELMIA, Dassault's software for organizing factory-floor operations, the team was able to assess the amount of human labor and the length of time the whole project would have required. The digital simulation indicated it would take 20 years, which accurately corresponds to the span of Khufu's reign as well as the testimony from the Greek historian Herodotus.
"Due to the Dassault Systemes V5 architecture, no data conversion was needed to go from the initial CATIA model to DELMIA or SIMULIA," said Houdin.
A Classical Platform
Writing nearly 2,000 years after Khufu's time, Herodotus recorded the supposed construction methods of the Egyptians. "The method employed was to build it in steps, or, as some call them, krossai or platforms. When the base was completed, the blocks for the first tier above it were lifted from the ground level by contrivances made of short timbers; on the first tier, there was another, which raised the blocks a stage higher, then yet another, which raised them higher still . . ." (Herodotus, Histories, Book Two).
Houdin didn't set out to prove Herodotus's account in particular. In fact, he'd prefer to rely on architectural instinct than on the Greek historian's secondhand narrative, set down long after the event. But as it turned out, his theory produced a workflow not so different from what Herodotus wrote. For instance, he postulates the blocks were lifted from one flight to the next using wood-and-rope contraptions, operated on notched landings or corner platforms (figure 5).
Figure 5. The platform that the laborers might have used to raise the blocks from one level to another.
Skip the Camel Ride
On March 30, Houdin publicly unveiled his theory at the Paris Geode Cinema, a dome-shape auditorium with a 1,000–square-meter seating area. His findings, captured in an immersive 3D environment, now reside permanently on the Internet. At, you can let Houdin's digital avatar guide you through the episodic reenactment, or you can circumnavigate the Great Pyramid and its environs on your own. The public site is powered by Virtools, Dassault's 3D content-creation software for the Internet and game consoles. Houdin's book, Khufu: The Secrets Behind the Building of the Great Pyramid (Farid Atiya Press, 2006), is now available at as well as other booksellers.
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If it is simply a matter of how many have died by a weapon as opposed to how many the weapon can kill at once, then the sword could also be classified as a weapon of mass destruction. It has been responsible for millions of deaths.
So a grenade, bomb, or missile should be labeled the same as a sword? Makes as much sense as labeling a simple rifle as such.
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mcaw2000#213199 writes:
Both Michael and Elvis were indeed radiant stars. Yes, Michael Jackson had controversies surrounding him, but with most things, only those involved know the actual truth. Let's not forget that Elvis was also accused of things that were not quite moral, like supposed unfaithfulness with many women. Because modes of communication were much more limited in the 1970s, who knows what type of information we didn't know about. All this said, let's remember both "Kings" for their talent and musical joy they left us.
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So long as cars are legally parked, ie, not in a not parking zone; whats the point.
They were not allowing other citizens to use the spaces claiming them as their own, even though the spaces were public
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BlueTiger writes:
way to go RC blow a tradition that's been ongoing since 1948 !...
since 2002 Memphis has played Ark St 6 times and Middle Tenn 4 times, and that doesn't count the Austin Peays and Murry States or UT Chattanoogas.
how could anyone wonder why fan support is dwindling...of course winning will cure everything but i'd rather lose and make money to an Ohio State, North Carolina, etc., than continue the humiliation of losing to the Arkansas States and Middle Tennessees of the football world.
go away asap RC !!!
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Q: Exactly how does Attorneys asking a witness whether teachers could possibly lose some protections if MSDs are formed, and the witness replying "I don't know" merit an article suggesting that teachers will lose salary and benefits?
A: Yet another opportunity to mislead readers into thinking MSDs are a bad idea.
I agree with the other posters that the chances of MSDs sticking it to teachers is virtually non-existent.
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The problem isn't with registered voters and whether they are registered or not. The problem is with a person walking into a library impersonating a registered voter, being able to obtain the stupid library card with a Cricket phone bill from a volunteer library attendee.
This measure will be overturned in January and as for this election; every felon, illegal and irressponsible individual in general within Shelby County could vote for Obama and it won't matter--because Romney will carry Tennesse with no effort at all.
So; legal, doesn't matter, a vote for Obama is a waste of time in Tennessee. know for a fact that a Cricket invoice alone would suffice, or that volunteers are allowed that type of duty? Or are you just desperately fishing for an argument? If the Democratic votes don't count for anything in TN, why are are the Repubs undies in such a wad about this issue? Just because they can be? Fairly typical.
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Unions and bankruptcy, two words that go together these days like peanut butter and jelly.
Yup, and you know why: because corporations have learned they can avoid contracts with their unions by filing for bankruptcy, and thereby screw their employees out of their health, retirement and other benefits. This is a lesson Romney's vulture capital firm learned quite well.
You right wingers who constantly tout "personal responsibility" as your mantra somehow never seem to hold corporations to that same standard. Honor contracts---nah, corporations don't need to honor no stinkin' contracts.
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LarsJ (Inactive) writes:
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Did you notice EdRedLives just put you to shame with the facts, compliments of someone on your side?
I take it back. You don't have to apologize. You've been beaten up enough.
LOL, I noticed you're a complete hypocrite! But then you made that clear previously.
I won't be intimidated by the bigots who celebrate this mother being separated from her child in order to please haters on the far right who oppose comprehensive immigration reform. It's coming. They cannot stop it. It WILL include a path to citizenship for immigrants like this mother.
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ChrisP writes:
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false equivalence again. Are you arguing you want a Lenin or Castro Park? I don't get your thoughts. We name parks after people we all aspire to, not those that please some niche group while most of the rest consider him a symbol of hate. Stop defending the poor actions of the past.
It's not "false equivalence", so get your liberal panties unwadded.
I'm asking why you're not casting a broader net, rather than being so oddly specific in two things that you seem to believe DO warrant changing park names for, but a whole lot of other offenses against humanity that don't seem to rank high enough in your mind.
I believe you're being so specific because you want your argument to fit your desired outcome, which is simply to rename Forrest Park, and now you're trying to justify it. It's OK. Just come out and say what you want, and stop trying to justify it.
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Written on Letter: Tired of the drama:
in response to ItsJustJello:
I have to agree with datGuy on this one. Until America is on better financial ground all subsidies should end. None for any farmers, including black farmers. None for big oil or to doctors who are doing studies on why gay women are fat compared to gay men. NO MORE FOREIGN AID! We're broke and have to borrow money to give to other countries. How dumb is that.
As far as Cohen goes I don't care for the guy. I live in his district and I just find him to be kinda creepy. I think the area could do a lot better.
Maybe we should also stop title 8 subsidies, welfare payments and food stamps unless the recipients are unable to work due to physical or mental disabilities. Laziness isn't a disability.
Written on CRIME REPORT: Overnight shootings injure 3:
Why isn't Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson here crying for justice in these shootings? Where's the outrage in the black community? Where are the public protests? I guess it's as AmazedAgain stated. Sad!
Written on Letter: No justice for Trayvon:
Teri, you really need to diversify your information sources, as you obviously don't have a clue of what you're talking about. Read responses to your LTE from audrackos#256732 and inthegrove72#700117. Do you think they made up the information they cited? If so there's no help for or the other mindless minions of mediocrity who are so easily manipulated by the liberal media and Dumbocraps.
Written on Letter: Media built the case:
in response to hearts:
Gee...what new thoughts from the letter writer.
Anyone want to predict his take on OJ?
Jesse Jackson stood with MLK in Memphis when he was killed. Sharpton has long moved on from the Brawley nonsense...and why is it wrong for him or others to point out problems?
Zimmerman shooting and killing this child was the main reason for the trial. This is about THIS case...not the fact there are plenty of other problems (because there is black on black crime we MUST ignore this case????)
The initial police investigation WAS adult admitted to shooting an unarmed child...claimed the unarmed child had him in fear for his life...and that was it.
And should not have been. He killed the witness.
Likely reality- the 17 year old unarmed child was in fear for his life...then they crossed paths (which should not have happened had Z not ignored the police), some fight ensued...and once that happened, armed and angry, Z killed this kid.
Then immediately realized he better cater his story to be self-defense.
His marks looked like anyone who has been in a fight. Which sets the stage that any fight sets the stage for one of the fighters to kill.
Once a fight started, Z was going to shoot. A bit surprised the jury did not see that...based on all the evidence, but fair enough that the entire case was reduced to did Z feel threatened (at all) AFTER his fight started.
A shame.
And the reactions are more shameful.
Where did you get your facts from? Martin a child? Please! I've encountered more than one 'child' that I've had to be leery of due to their size. Anyone who states they wouldn't be concerned for their safety in being confronted by a 'child' who is bigger than them is either a liar or an idiot. I concede this incident is a tragedy. I don't see from the facts presented in this case that Zimmerman broke any laws, unless poor judgement is against the law.
Written on Letter: Media built the case:
in response to WalBar:
Not guilty does not mean innocent. It means the jury had reason to doubt the certainty of guilt.
When a man with a gun can stalk a teen, kill him with that firearm, and claim he acted in self-defense, there is something wrong with the law that allows such an action. I am not a fan of Rev. Sharpton; but I do fully understand his enthusiasm in his actions. His nemeses over at Fox News are equally inserting themselves into the judicial and political systems. Skullduggery [that’s the way it is actually spelled, Mr. Owens] goes both ways. As for Zimmerman, I do not think he had the intent of murdering his victim, but I have no doubt that he was emboldened by the weapon to make him feel like a real man. He is a wuss, a coward who got away with it.
Zimmerman NEVER said he was innocent of killing Martin, haven't you read about this?
Zimmerman did NOT 'stalk' Martin, he followed him, which is NOT against the law. The only reason Zimmerman shot and killed Martin was because Martin attacked him and he felt his life was in danger. There is NOTHING wrong with the law allowing someone to defend themselves with deadly force. I CANNOT understand Uncles Al or Jessie and their ilk, their logical is not only illogical but also irrational and NOT founded in reality or law. Whether or not Zimmerman was emboldened by the weapon is conjecture on your part, NOT based on fact or direct knowledge of Zimmerman by you. Zimmerman got away with NOTHING, he was found not guilty. Zimmerman should NEVER had been brought to trial. The fact that he was brought to trial on flimsy evidence proves how unbalanced our political system is in trying to coerce the established legal system.
Written on Letter: Shameful injustice:
in response to midtownpooldude:
Did anyone WATCH the trail, or listen to the juror who was interviewed on CNN last night?
The prosecutors did NOT prove their case. (in our justice system, everyone is innocent until proved guilty).
It was NOT about race.
Based on both Zimmerman and Martin's misunderstandings of the situation, Trayvon Martin CHOSE to act violently.
In Florida, with its concealed carry law, and imminent fear of his harm/death, Zimmerman could legally meet this violence with deadly force using his concealed weapon.
We must accept (or work to change) our legal justice system. It is the rule of law.
The jury decision should be respected, regardless of opinion of those of us not on the jury.
There you go, confusing the issue with the inconvenient truths!
Written on Letter: Racism's new direction:
in response to Niyaf:
You are irresponsible and dopey Ms. Cox. I am white and I have close friends in this city and out of it who are Hispanic, and the notion you imply that George Zimmerman should have been convicted in our minds because he is Hispanic is deeply offensive.
Trayvon Martin was a kid, a big overgrown kid admittedly, but still a kid. I have seen statements that he should have responded to this Zimmerman person with "respect." What is there to be respected about George Zimmerman who was not even an official Neighborhood Watch person? He should have minded his own business unless he saw Trayvon committing a crime which he didn't. The statements the unidentified juror made on television last night only confirm what a travesty it was.
He should not have been shooting in the first place. However, it strikes me it must take some effort to shoot anybody in the heart, why not shoot him in the shoulder or disable him? The fact that there was no African American on that panel underlines how unfair it was. If ever there was a hate crime,in my opinion this is it. If the Feds dont bring charges, it is going to be very bad.
This is not 1953 when Emmett Till was killed. This is 2013, and people wont forget.
You wonder why there are so many badly behaved black kids now you know.
This reminds me of Murder On The Orient Express.
Several points to your post.
Martin was a young man, not a kid, who should have known better than to break the law by committing assault.
As a resident of that community it was Zimmerman's business to be concerned about what was going on in that community.
Agreed on the travesty issue, Zimmerman never should have been charge on such flimsy evidence.
Most firearms training is to aim for center mass, not a limb.
There was a black female on the 'panel'.
The Feds will be extremely hard pressed to find any facts to bring hate crime charges against Zimmerman, unless they ignore the facts, as did the Sanford Florida DA and press on for political reasons. From a legal standpoint this case is over, like it or not, the jury has spoken. Have a great day!
Written on Letter: Shameful injustice:
Philip, Niyaf, LarsJ, you all need to review the FACTS involved in all of this. IF Martin had stayed home, none of this would have happened. IF Martin had not confronted and attacked Zimmerman, none of this would have happened. If Zimmerman had followed the directions of the Sanford police dispatcher, none of this would have happened. So much for the IFs, now for the FACTS. FACT, Martin broke the law by attacking Zimmerman. FACT Zimmerman lawfully defended himself by shooting Martin. Tragic, yes, but the only one who broke any laws was Martin. Here's another FACT, the jury found Zimmerman not guilty. FACT Zimmerman killed Martin, but did not break any laws in doing so. You don't have to like it, but you do have to accept it, which is another FACT!
Written on Letter: Gun violence is threat to all:
Those of you of the liberal anti-gun persuasion can commiserate with one another and continue with your inane rants on these posts if that makes you feel like you’re accomplishing something, which you’re not. Those of us who are law abiding, handgun carry permit holders will continue to exercise our constitutional second amendment rights by being armed everywhere we go; to work, shopping, dining, church, etc. The ironic thing is, we're probably next to you at some point during the day and you're completely oblivious to it. Like it or not, that's the law and there's nothing you can do about it. Have a great day!
Written on Letter: A measure of change:
in response to thecatsmeow:
Beyond the silliness of the "if you don't have anything to hide" argument, our 4th amendment rights being a basic foundation of our freedoms, my concerns run more to cost/benefit rather than who knows when I wash my drawers.
Manpower savings? They will still have to manually read the water and gas meters.
Are we buying a 486 meter when a Pentium meter is a month down the road? (sorry, I'm old and it still bugs me. It was the "last" computer I would ever need) We can't just trade them in on a newer model in 2015.
It provides the ability to manage electricity usage to save on costs? Uh, we could do that now. If we don't bother, now, I doubt we will later.
OTOH, I see no reason for a consumption monitoring system to necessarily be linked to a production and transmission system. It could easily be a closed system, it seems to me. Granted I'm not an expert. But, it seems doable and would address threats to the grid.
Your logic is as illogical as the anti gun crowd. You simply want to ban something because you understand it and are affraid of it. The antigun crowd's logic goes something like this. "The founding fathers couldn't have imagined automatic and semi-automatic weapons when they wrote the 2nd amendment. Therefore they aren't covered by it. They also couldn't have imagined PCs, the Internet, smartphones or smart meters for that matter. So just because something wasn't anticipated over 200 years ago you feel we don't need them, shouldn't have them as they violate the 1st amendment. Hogwash! The aforementioned items no more violate your 1st amendment rights than does applying for a credit card or online banking. It's a convenience and if you don't want to avail yourself of it then remain in your cave.
Written on Letter: A measure of change:
The folks that are against smart meters are probably some of the same folks who are against the NSA monitoring their cellphone and Internet usage patterns. Unless you have something to hide don't worry about it.
Written on Letter: The race is on in the suburbs:
The new SCS will be a reincarnation of MCS and a dismal failure just as its predecessor. This is why the suburbs want nothing to do with SCS and will form their own school system which will succeed and be cooperative with each other. Those areas of Shelby County not within the confines of Arlington, Bartlett, Collierville, Germantown, Lakeland and Millington will see an exodus of their tax base as suburban school system suceeds and flourishes. MCS wasn't happy until it brought SCS down to its own sorry level. The suburbs will soon go their own way with a viable municipal shool system and SCS (formerly MCS) will be stuck with their self created short end of the stick with no alternatives other than a state mandated take over. During the 15 years I've lived here I've observed that Memphis continues to shoot itself in the foot in a number of ways, not the least of which is how it mismanaged the city schools. No amount of money will ever correct it's ills, school or city wise.
Written on Letter: Citizen service:
As a 20+ year military veteran I agree we need to go back to mandatory military conscription. Every able bodied U.S. citizen, male or female ages 18 to 30 should be required to serve at least 2 years in the military. Military service allows the opportunity to gain national and international perspectives not available by other means. It's very easy to see that most in this country don't have a clue as to what's going on around them or why.
Written on Letter: Behind the facade:
in response to NavyVette:
I seem to remember President Bush graduating from Harvard AND Yale not to mention Flight School with the US Air Force but that didn't prevent you or the rest of your fellow Libs constantly berating his intelligence! I guess by your NEW standard then George W. Bush was as smart as they come!
You'll never get shatGuy or any of his fellow idiots to agree to that. In their eyes Nobama is god and can do no wrong. While Nobama appears to be a likable person, he's no leader, lacks morals, is irresponsible and clueless about what's going on, or appears to be so. This country was once capable of electing much better to the office of POTUS.
Written on Letter: A record of success:
When Obama's time in office is over and history looks back, I believe his non-accomplishments will be second only to that other failed Dumbocrap Jimmy Carter.
Written on Letter: White racism lives on:
Until folks like Isaac are gone, racism will continue. Like Don Henley said so eloquently in one of his songs, "Get over it".
Written on Letter: It's debate, not terrorism:
Betsy, since you're so concerned with regards to correct terminology, let's call 'abortion' what it really is; state sanctioned murder of the unborn! Therefore anyone who performs an abortion is a murderer, and anyone else involved is an accomplice guilty of aiding or abetting.
Written on Letter: Outrage missed:
Hearsay and other unsubstantiated "facts" are what all good Democrats believe in, including revisionist history. Who cares what the truth is, as long as what's currently being touted makes you feel good, and it's not a lie if you believe it's true.
Written on Letter: Scandal of the press:
in response to WalBar:
Thanks for the laugh, Mr. Owens; we need a little humor now and then.
The press does not cover the distortions of fact except to point out the faux press is at it again. The likes of Fox and Limbaugh et al would find the President bad in his job if he achieved world peace or discovered a cure for cancer. The press has made errors in the past decade, WMDs and war with Iraq come to mind first but there are others like ACORN. When the real press looks at Fox News reporting, they see a “news” organization that has no creditability. The conservative media gets it wrong many more times than they get it right which is the tragedy of the day for the free press.
Your rant, Mr. Owens, appears to head in the direction of the AP issue. When the Republicans, i.e. conservatives, filibuster a federal shield law for the press, they retain the legality of what was done by DoJ. Justice took it a bit too far, in my opinion, but there is no call for the Messiah of Marxism [whatever that really is] to have his head chopped off. The straw that breaks the camel’s back should be the historic number of filibusters the Republicans have mustered over the last few years. This AP “scandal” merely points out that fact. Ooops, facts don’t penetrate that bubble, do they, Mr. Owens. I guess we are left with your right to free speech even if you writings are full of excrement.
Thanks again for the laugh.
"The press has made errors in the past decade, WMDs and war with Iraq come to mind first but there are others like ACORN."once again for someone of the progressive persuation you sound more like you're doomed to live in the past rather than progress towards the future. Bush and his administration have been gone for well over 4 years. The mess this country is in and the current scandals rest solely with the Obama administration, like it or not. Only an idiot would continue to blame past administrations or believe it to be so.
Written on Letter: How soon they forget:
in response to WalBar:
No Shinola, Sherlock. Amnesia is one of the underlying characteristics of being a Republican right next to being inept to govern.
"Amnesia is one of the underlying characteristics of being a Republican right next to being inept to govern." just as incompetence, ignorance, irresponsibility and lying are underlying characteristics of being a Democrat.
Written on Letter: Not on the level:
in response to WalBar:
Alas, poor anybodybut, did we get our feelings hurt? Ah, poor baby. If the shoe fits….
I aimed my remarks in an unfriendly manner which fitted fairly well into the letter writer’s presentation. It appears I only make use of opinion of quality and make references to various aliases of the Republican Party, aka t-bagger, aka Bush, aka Pilgreen.
The problem with pointing a finger at someone usually involves four fingers pointing back at you. Any reference to Dubya though, there just aren’t enough fingers so none points back. To sum up Dubya’s governance requires but one finger erected and not pointing.
"Any reference to Dubya though, there just aren’t enough fingers so none points back. To sum up Dubya’s governance requires but one finger erected and not pointing." more than 4 years post Bush and you still can't get over it and move forward. I guess that's the way it goes with 'progressive' thinking, you can't progress.
Written on Letter: Tax reform would end IRS abuses:
Why not a flat tax rate of 10 percent? It's good enough for tithing; it should be good enough for the government. No deductions, no exemptions, no legalese mumbo jumbo, flat out 10 percent regardless of whether you are an individual filer, business, Republican or Democrat.
Written on E. J. Dionne: 'Slow-motion mass murders':
E.J., Your argument is so weak it's laughable. Despite all the current gun laws crazy folks and criminals continue to find ways to obtain weapons and commit their acts of violence. Insanity is defined as doing the same thing, in this case creating yet more gun laws, and expecting a different result, less deaths from gun violence. When will those such as yourself realize the only way to reduce the number of illegal incidents involving guns is to remove those individuals from society that are predisposed to committing violent acts? Instead of more feel good, do nothing gun laws why not pass legislation that will cure the cause of the problem rather than attempt to treat the symptoms? Harsher punishment for those committing gun related crimes, and mandatory institutionalization of those mentally or criminally predisposed to violence. Now that would be truly welcomed legislation with teeth in it that would have a positive impact on reduction of not only violent gun crimes, but violent acts in general. I’m sure this will never happen. Just as you profess conservatives rely on the gun lobby for support,I believe liberals depend on those with mental issues and criminal tendencies for their support.
Written on Letter: Playing games:
in response to BogeyMan:
But hey, at least he hasn't (yet) lied us into a war or tortured prisoners of one. Being a war criminal, like his predecessor, is something Obama can only aspire to.
What proof do you have that George W. Bush was a war criminal? Last time I checked there haven't been any charges brought forward to confirm your erroneous assertions. Your idol is in the White House and you still can’t get over the 2 terms of Bush. Sad, pathetic little libertard!
Written on Letter: Gun data absent:
in response to audrackos#256732:
The background check would not stop the suicides; that is the majority of the gun deaths.
If you look on page 11 of this source: You will see that the Firearm suicide rate is and has been declining; irregardless of background checks or assault weapons bans. You should also note, that the rate of non-fiream suicides over the same time period has INCREASED.
Read David Kennedy's essay; you might find it enlightening.
Read Dr Ridgeway's white paper; you might find it enlightening.
The increased backgound check has been shown that it will do nothing to eliminate the current level of gun violence, neither will any AWB.
So the question is, why would the liberals insist on passing these useless laws? Perhaps it is because they believe the words of a noted leftist: “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” (November 6, 1938), Selected Works, Vol. II, p. 224; Mao Tse Tung.
Is this the reason for gun control, a hidden agenda to disarm the American people??? One must ask. Why else would the liberal left push for the legislation which will not accomplish its stated goal?
So explain, why do we need a background check that will not, as noted by research, do anything to accomplish a reduction in firearm crime nor firearm suicides.
I can't wait to see the answer on this one.
You ask a question that the Dumbocraps, Nobamaites, and Liberunreals cannot answer. They don't care whether something is effective or factual, only that it makes them feel good and is aligned with their misperception of reality. I carry every where I go and never really have any concerns for my safety in any part of this city or parts of the county I travel to.
Written on Letter: Common-sense gun laws:
Since knives are the weapon of choice for murder throughout most of the world and figure so prominently in murders in the U.S., let's pass legislation banning knives! Especially those that come in high capacity butcher block sets. There's no constitutional right to bear knives, so we won't be infringing on anyone’s rights. Let's collect or destroy all sharp edged knives, outlaw all high capacity knife sets, and only allow one plastic butter knife per household, registered of course. Liberals continue to spew their unique brand of stupidity daily across our country. They don't understand it's the criminals and crazy folks they coddle causing the mayhem, not the inanimate weapon. You want common-sense gun laws? Execute anyone caught possessing any firearm illegally on their first offense, no exceptions. That’ll reduce gun crimes better than any of the proposed legislation and halt the rate of recidivism for crimes committed with firearms. Until the liberal mindset changes in this country to go after the cause of these heinous crimes rather than their knee-jerk reaction to "ban all evil guns" we’ll continue to have senseless mass murders committed by felonious and insane individuals.
Written on Letter: We won't miss them:
Eddie, why stop with SOCV? Let's chase all tourism dollar generating conferences away from Memphis since the city government and business coffers are full! It's minuscule minded morons like you Eddie that keep Memphis from achieving any semblance of greatness.
Written on Letter: Faulty logic on gun laws:
Jack, you poor misguided fool. Like most liberals you miss the point entirely. It's not the inanimate object that needs to be controlled, but rather the criminals and crazies. Let's look at worldwide homicide rates per capita As anyone can plainly see, the U.S. isn't even in the top 20. Number one is Ethiopia. Closer to home, look at our peaceful neighbor to the north, Canada! For the latest year statistics are available, 2011, the majority of homicides were comitted by stabbing. If you were Canadian, I guess you'd be pressing for stricter laws governing knifes of all types. You'd probably want to concentrate your efforts on laws dealing with butcher block knife sets, since they have such a high capacity of knives. I really wish you and all the other anti gun nuts would see reality. It's the crinimals and nut jobs, not the weapon of choice which needs to be regulated and controlled. Pass stricter laws dealing with criminals and the mentally insane, otherwise you're just wasting everyone's time with your garbage.
Written on Letter: Stick to what's relevant:
in response to Vril:
Slovenly, poorly trained cops can make all kinds of errors, including shooting people in situations where shooting them could have been avoided. How many people were actually "menaced" by the guy at 4 am in the middle of the street, anyway? More likely it ended the way it did due to intolerant, hyperauthorative cops with itchy trigger fingers and a license to kill, who knew they would be protected from blame by a Toney Armstrong whitewash press usual.
You stated "Slovenly, poorly trained cops can make all kinds of errors, including shooting people in situations where shooting them could have been avoided." MPD officers go through approximately 6 months of training at their academy, which is followed by several more months of street training with a veteran officer. They also have extensive training using firearms, both handguns and long guns (rifles). So your statement of them being poorly trained reflects your ignorance of law enforcement.
You asked "How many people were actually "menaced" by the guy at 4 am in the middle of the street, anyway?", At least 2, the MPD officers who responded to the call and subsequently neutralized the threat of a mentally unstable individual wielding a firearm.
..." It ended the way it did as that is how law enforcement officers are trained to respond to deadly threats; again, you show your ignorance of law enforcement.
Better yet, why don't you move to California or some other liberal state where you can commiserate with likeminded (mindless) individuals such as yourself?
Written on Administrators armed in West Colorado school district:
Laura Cutilletta you are indeed a naive individual totally ignorant of reality as evidenced by your statement "I think, unfortunately, this would probably make them less safe by introducing a gun into school." I'd be willing to bet the elementary school principal in Newtown wishes she had a firearm and training when confronted by Adam Lanza. Introducing a gun into schools by a lawful individuals trained to use them makes everyone in that school safe, especially when confronted by an individual armed with a firearm. Look at where incidents similar to the one in Newtown occur, they’re in areas such as schools where the shooter knows they have an unarmed captive group of targets. To believe otherwise is not only foolish, but dangerously ignorant!
Written on Letter: Stick to what's relevant:
Richard, the Commercial Appeal reflects the general mood of the area, which is the “anything goes mentality”. Those who complain about the tactics of local law enforcement are ignorant. This is evidenced by their belief that law enforcement officers should allow an armed individual to act in a menacing manner and compromise the safety of both the officers and the public. All I can say to them is that they're idiots and need to get a grip on reality.
Written on Letter: Color was the key:
Until the Memphis majority acknowledges they have a cultural problem, nothing will improve; crime rate, illegitimate birth rate, education level, etc., etc. The anything goes mentality doesn't get it. If you disagree, take a look around you. Do you really believe things are moving in the right direction in Memphis? No wonder those who can are leaving in droves daily.
Written on Slain restaurant worker in Memphis was about to start new job:
Unfortunately this is the way it usually goes. Those like Aaron who are capable of and deserve to live a full life have it cut short. Meanwhile the miscreants who have miserable lives and don't deserve to live plague society for decades. Hopefully the scumbag who perpetarted this senseless criminal act will be caught and held accountable. My prayers go out to Aaron's family and friends.
Written on Letter: History can't be erased:
Kyle, great letter that's spot on. Revisionist history will only fly so far with those ignorant enough to demand it rather than real change on issues that impact their daily life.
Written on Letter: Time to let go of symbols of the past:
John, you need to get over it and move on, it's 2013! There are many things I feel are a complete waste of my tax dollars, but you don't see me complaining about it on the pages of the Commercial Appeal. You can only be a victim if you allow yourself to be one. The past is what it is, get over it and move forward.
Written on Leading Democrat: Gun control faces uphill climb :
Sen. Feinstein, like most on the left, is incorrect in her beliefs. The main NRA supporters are gun enthusiasts, not gun manufacturers, contrary to what she may think. I use the term ‘think’ loosely as I believe she and those like her are not thinking, at least in a logical and rational sense. The cause of gun violence has nothing more to do with guns or gun manufacturing than drunk driving has to do with the legitimate use and manufacture of automobiles and alcohol. Until both sides agree on the cause of gun violence, which is the illegal use of guns by criminals and the insane to carry out their twisted plans, we will continue to see incidents such as Sandy Hook, Aurora Colorado and the like.
Written on David Kopel: Arming the right people can save lives:
Finally an article that dares to state the obvious and is rational. Existing laws regarding gun ownership and public carry are more than sufficient. We need stricter laws regarding how we deal with criminals and crazy folks who have a propensity for violence as well as repeat violent offenders. Too bad those on the left are incapable of understanding this truism.
Written on Margaret Carlson: Obama has power of parents:
Margaret, you raised so many issues that it completely obliterates your focus. I'll cut right to the chase rather than entertain your long winded inane rant. The bottom line in the national debate on mass killings such as the Sandy Hook school shooting should be a focus on those with criminal and or mental issues. Why the left continues to focus on laws penalizing law abiding citizens legally possessing firearms defies logic, reasoning and understanding. Existing laws addressing gun ownership, possession and carrying in public as well as the purchase of high capacity magazines and ammunition are more than sufficient. Laws regarding criminals and those with mental issues who possess, exhibit or have a history of violence need to be looked at for possible increased enhancement and enforcement. Guns are inanimate objects, just as cars, knives, tools and the like. The unlawful use of inanimate objects by criminals and those with mental issues is where the focus should be, not further restricting or penalizing Second Amendment rights.
Written on Jason Ross: Shrink gun magazine to save lives:
Another rambling by a misguided liberal elitist. Mr. Ross' statement " What's clear is that a limit on magazine capacity undercuts the hardest punch of the pro-gun side — "They're taking away your guns!" — and leaves most hunters unmolested." No where in the Second Amendment is there any reference of its application to hunters, either solely or wholely. The Second Amendment allows for the God given right of every American to possess a gun for protection; from those who would do them harm, including their own government. Maybe Mr. Ross should reread it several times so he can understand that this is the true intent of the founding fathers with regards to the Second Amendment.
Written on Editorial: Fiery rhetoric hurts gun debate:
in response to Blak:
The Republicans are trying to claim "States Rights" to deny enforcing gun bans. I saw a clip yesterday where the Governor of Alabama stood on the steps of the University during desegregation and told a Federal Agent "you can't come in here and we won't desegregate as we are enforcing our "states rights".
It was those same "states rights" the southern plantation owners used to try and defend and maintain the evil institution of slavery.
To hell with states rights.
The article stated "Those kind of grandstanding statements, first of all, are legally suspect when it comes to state and local officials refusing to follow federal laws and regulations." and you stated "To hell with states rights". The recently passed Colorado state law legalizing pot defies a federal ban outlawing pot, yet no one has been stopped by the feds from toking. How can that be allowed but a state law nullifying a federal gun ban not be? Seems to me you liberals want it both ways when the legislation sides with you. Besides the legality involved in both issues, there's a term for this type of behavior, it's called hypocrisy.
Written on Letter: Similarities are striking:
in response to memp10:
Responding to your last paragraph, I think you are starting to see my point. Get an education! Get out of poverty! Society can only go so far in providing equal opportunity. At some point people have to take that opportunity.
Who today does not have the opportunity to go to college? You might say, "well, these kids are in a culture of violence and poverty." They have to overcome it! We can't go in their home and make them.
You are enabling this culture. YOU! I've worked in almost every public housing project in Memphis. I've seen the attitude that holds these people down.
We need black leaders to stand up and say no more excuses. We aren't going to wait on the government to take care of us.
I also want you to understand another point. Money isn't everything. Yes, a minimal amount is important for obvious reasons, but I've met many unhappy rich people and many happy poor people. And I'm dead serious. I've seen women in Dixie Homes that took such great pride in that little patch of grass they had in front of their building. You should have seen them snap at kids that dared walk across it. LOL.
With that said, I have a passion for helping the poor through my church, but I don't want the government giving them things for free. I want them to have incentive to achieve, incentive for effort.
I too came from humble beginings. I never knew I was poor as a child as everyone around me was the same as me. During and after high school I worked several jobs before deciding there had to be more to life. That prompted me on a life long path of learning which included joining the military to better myself. During my 20 plus years in the military I received many types of education. This included exposure to the world beyond my hometown, and a college degree which has opened many employment opportunities for me since retiring from the military. The point is as you stated, government handouts are not motivators to excel, but are quite the opposite.
Written on Letter: Human rights, not gun rights:
in response to Crevulator:
Mr. Aussenberg, you need to get an historical perspective here. At the time the Constitution was penned, healthcare was a joke. (President Washington was treated with leeches for his epiglottis). On the other hand firearms were needed by the population to hunt for food and defend against hostile Native Americans who, however justified, were out to kill the settlers. British attempts to disarm were naturally a matter for concern.
In the 21st century however the above stated need for guns is no longer applicable. We can buy food at supermarkets and Indians are no longer scalping anyone. The need for the 2nd amendment has been long gone and, quite frankly, should go the way of the 18th.
This does not mean a ban on the possession and manufacture of all firearms, which is a ridiculous and unfeasible proposal, but an opportunity for a state or region to prohibit the presence of weapons that serve no useful purpose tan to wreak havoc and death.
So we get rid of the 2nd amendment today, do we then work on removing the 1st amendment tomorrow just because some idiot such as yourself thinks it's outdated? Then next thing you know all of the Constitution is gone and no one has any rights The thing about the U.S. Constitution is you either accept it all as is or you don't. If you don't then may I suggest you leave the country immeditaely and move to Canada or France, this is, if they'll have you!
Written on Memphis TV reporter to return to court in April on disorderly conduct charges:
I've had encounters with air personalities from News Channel 5 who tried to use their professional status to their advantage, who wouldn't. Young Jason is very fortunate the officer he chest bumped didn't take him on a face ride to the street. Hopefully he'll consider alternative actions next time he encounters a LEO or things may not work out as well as they did for him this time.
Written on Gun access cited in homicide rise in Memphis:
in response to JuliusJones:
I'll say it for the umpteenth time.
ZERO TOLERANCE law enforcement is what works. Look at NYC ... went from most dangerous to safest in a matter of just a few years.
Liberals and minorities whined, but the results speak for the success of the program.
BTW, it just so happens that minorities are the largest group of offenders, by far. ... No wonder they whine about strict law enforcement, eh???
This is why Memphis is "off the charts", ... it's a "minority majority" city!
Could I have said it any gentler than that?????
You pretty much nailed it!
Written on Gun access cited in homicide rise in Memphis:
in response to oldgrouch:
Years ago when he was AG, Bill Gibbons instituted a no deals for gun crimes policy. It didn't last long. What happened with that? Abandoned because of political pressure? And CA, how about some investigative reporting of the weapons used in those 141 criminal homicides, whether a gun was involved and, if so, the type and how it was obtained by the killer? I predict that absolutely none involved an "assault rifle" and at least 90% involved a gun obtained illegally.
That'll never happen as the CA isn't interested in real journalism. Their stock and trade leans to the lefts knee jerk, PC reactionism.
Written on Gun access cited in homicide rise in Memphis:
With all due respect, Director Armstrong has his hands tied on what he can and cannot do not only by the politics of Memphis, but also by city, county, state and national laws. Until law abiding citizens have had enough of the "anything goes mentality" which runs so deep in Memphis and is the root cause of these problems, this lunacy will continue. MCSTHOMASPAINE has a point, "No one has the guts to do the right and obvious thing." although I'm sure we all will disagree on what the right and obvious thing to do is. I agree with MemphoDaddy and thevans70 on what the right and obvious thing to do is. Until the political correctness imposed by the left is over come with common sense to allow proper enforcement of existing laws we'll continue to get what we have, which is borderline anarchy.
Written on Editorial: Vote yes on local tax increases:
"Here is another reason to support the gas tax referendum. There are many Memphians, who, for a variety of reasons, depend on MATA for transportation. Think about them when you drive by a crowded bus stop in your air-conditioned or well-heated vehicle." I drive almost the full length of Germantown Parkway Monday through Friday and NEVER see a crowded bus stop, or a crowded MATA bus for that matter. MATA should be scuttled and the money wasted on it spent on better things. I voted NO on the gas tax increase, likewise the on the sales tax. The city and county need to tighten their respective belts just like those of us who work, own our own homes and pay taxes must do to get by!
Written on Letter: Both parties' platforms call for critical thought:
One thing is for sure, Obama didn't take out Bin Laden, the men of SEAL Team Six did! So why does Obama and his nitwit VP continue to extol this as thought they did? As a retired military member, currently private citizen who thankfully is gainfully employed, no thanks to Obama, I'll be voting for Romney.
Written on Letter: Sneaking in Elvis:
in response to ebenezer66:
That is a good idea. I dont know if that
theatre on McLemore has been demolished
yet, I would have to google it.
However it would be wonderful to have
a Black Musical Heritage Week. It would
be nice to hear Motown and the Blues
(I heard this was where Elvis started,
playing blues with black people not
Stax but somewhere down here).
That is what Soutbrook Mall could be
used for. Memphis is and will remain
majority black so let's celebrate the
legacy with pride, and not give these
kids the idea that they are regarded
as less if they are not in white schools.
I met another successful middle aged
black man yesterday (a doctor), people
can make it. They should not listen to
old fossils from 40 years ago, or from
people younger that messed up on the Board
at MCS, should not have been there in the
first place, now are clinging to power.
I think there is an association of minority
businessmen in Memphis. If only they would
take up the cause of the kids and their heritage.
If somebody could contact somebody like
Bill Cosby, he would know organizations
who could help.
Written on Do you agree with Rep. Steve Cohen's assertion that the Afghan Infrastructure Fund has been “the epitome of wasted taxpayer dollars"? :
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Obama Should Veto Empire Over Republic
The political, military industrial, corporate class in Washington DC continues to re-make our constitutional republic into a powerful, unaccountable military empire. Yesterday the U.S. Senate voted 93 to 7 to pass the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2012 which allows the military to operate domestically within the borders of the United States and to possibly (or most probably) detain U.S. citizens without trial. Forget that the ACLU called it "an historic threat to American citizens", this bill is so dangerous not only to our rights but to our country's security that it was criticized by the Directors of the FBI, the CIA, the National Intelligence Director and the U.S. Defense Secretary! For the first time in our history, if this Act is not vetoed, American citizens may not be guaranteed their Article III right to trial.
The government would be able to decide who gets an old fashioned trial (along with right to attorney and right against self-incrimination) and who gets detained without due process and put into a modern legal limbo. Does anyone remember that none of the first thousand people the FBI rounded up after 9-11, and which were imprisoned for several months (some brutalized) were ever charged with terrorism? Does anyone remember that hundreds of the Gitmo detainees who were handed over to their American military captors in exchange for monetary bounties were found, after years of imprisonment, to have no connection to terrorism?
When in doubt about a case, what do you think the government will again do? Does it prefer to submit its evidence to a jury's scrutiny and its witnesses to the trouble of being cross-examined in court by a defense attorney or would it be easier to have no questions asked and dump the accused into detainee prison without rights? I think we already know that answer from the nearly ten years of experience at Guantanamo.
Senator Lindsey Graham declared that suspected citizens open themselves up "to imprisonment and death". "And when they say, 'I want my lawyer,' you tell them: 'Shut up. You don't get a lawyer.'"
Of course, the politicians will say we are just talking about a few cases. But in fact the sky's probably the limit given the current legal ambiguity in the Patriot Act expansion of "material support for terrorism" to now include humanitarian aid and even mere advocacy speech without any need to prove an accused person intended to support any kind of terrorist violence. The Department of Justice has been currently using this ambiguity for over a year to investigate twenty three American citizens who are anti-war activists in Chicago and Minneapolis. Additionally, the "war on terror" will undoubtedly expand even more when it is de-linked from 9-11 -- see "The War on Terrorism Congress Never Declared -- But Soon Might" by Stephen I. Vladeck, a law professor, expert on these issues and associate dean for scholarship at American University Washington College of Law:
... an individual may be detained for providing "direct support" (which, in the government's view, may be nothing more than minor financial or logistical assistance) in aid of "associated forces" that are "engaged in hostilities against ... coalition partners." Thus, the NDAA effectively authorizes the military detention of any individual who provides such assistance anywhere in the world to any group engaged in hostilities against any of our coalition partners, whether or not the United States is in any way involved in (or even affected by) that particular conflict.
Given this expansion of the 2001 Authorization to Use Military Force contained in the 2012 NDAA to encompass undefined "associated forces", we could witness the US government targeting a large range of political dissidents, human rights activists, humanitarians, and maybe even "occupiers".
The NDAA is deliberately confusing for political purposes but much is at stake. Obama's determination as to whether or not he will veto the problematic 2012 war funding bill will determine how Benjamin Franklin's glib response to the woman waiting outside the Constitutional Convention is ultimately answered. Franklin and other founding fathers had created "a Republic, Madam, if you can keep it". But a lawless Military Empire could now await where U.S. "emergency war powers" trump the Constitution, where the Commander in Chief becomes king for a term(s), the military enters into police state actions in violation of 130 years of Posse Comitatus law, and the Constitution becomes as quaint as the Geneva Conventions were for Alberto Gonzalez and the Bush Administration.
Corrupted, compliant politicians have already allowed their fears to get the better of them by going along with pre-emptive war in violation of the Nuremberg Principles and international law and torturing in violation of the Geneva Conventions and the Convention against Torture. So why should they also not go for detaining American citizens without constitutional rights or trial?
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Giro Atmos Replacement Coolmax Helmet Pads
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Here's what we know: The Giro Atmos is the undisputed greatest helmet ever made. It's the only one we want to sell because it's so much more comfy and breathable than any other helmet on the market, and its customization of fit is pretty much infinite. In fact, the only issue we've ever had with it is that its featherlight Coolmax helmet pads get a wee bit smelly after a long summer of riding. It's not an Atmos-specific problem -- in fact, all helmets get a bit ripe after a year or two. What makes Giro so great, though, is that they offer replacement helmet pads. Identical in every way to the pads that come standard in a new Atmos, installing them makes your helmet feel (and smell) brand new.
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If you have a Speedplay Grease Gun and use it only to lube the spindles on your Speedplay pedals, chances are good that one cartridge of grease will last you a lifetime and beyond. However, the Synco Super Lube that comes with the grease gun is good for just about everything that has moving parts and requires grease.
So eventually you may need this Speedplay Grease Gun Refill. It's a 3oz tube of Synco Super Lube that gets housed inside the grease gun handle. Super Lube is a multi-purpose synthetic grease with PTFE (Teflon) particles in suspension within the grease. Because it's synthetic, it's exceptionally pure, stable, and predictable. It's superior to standard petroleum based lubricants, and you can use it on your pedals, suspension pivots, hub bearings, etc. Super Lube is waterproof as well.
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Almost double what you would pay elsewhere just because it has a Speedplay label. Sorry Comp Cyc, but its true. And it isn't the Super Lube shown, but a blue green Sta Lube Marine Grease that was shipped to me last time. Not what I wanted. | http://www.competitivecyclist.com/speedplay-grease-gun-refill?ti=UExQIEJyYW5kOjoxOjY | dclm-gs1-055460002 | false | false | {
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How would we know since our government has not tried very hard to enforce the law. Once Arizona passed their law illegals fled before the law came into effect.
Canada dropped the anchor baby clause when chinese women flew into the country to drop babies to gain citizenship. We need to drop the anchor babies clause.
Mexico has stricter laws on immigration, and they have no trouble enforcing the law against who they want. Israel, Norway, and many other countries have no problem keeping illegals out of their countries.
I know many legal immigrants who did it the right way, and they are working multiple jobs to get the rest of their family over here legally. How is it fair to let these illegal felons that use identity fraud to remeain here to jump in front of people who have followed the rules. The answer is it is not fair.
Sorry, but we were promised no more amnesty programs back in the 80's.
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december writes:
in response to lipservice:
"people who are truly too poor for women's health services should technically qualify for Medicaid..." But they don't. Isn't it less expensive to pay for birth control than to pay for the child's needs after the fact? That doesn't make sense. Witholding aid is (in my opinion) punitive. Punishing women for having sex. No one, of course, is punishing the men.
Truly poor people DO qualify for Medicaid if they take the time to fill out the paperwork. If they don't qualify because they make too much money, then they should have enough money to budget for birth control. No one is "punishing" anyone for having sex, but if you can't afford a baby or the resources to prevent it, then you shouldn't be having sex. The argument that men aren't being punished doesn't really make sense because they aren't physically capable of being pregnant. Women are not being punished, they are being asked to be responsible individuals according to what they can afford.
It IS less expensive to pay for birth control than a child's needs...but an individual's choice to be sexually active isn't the taxpayers' responsibility.
If I want to lose weight, but can't afford a gym membership, does that mean the government should pay for my bariatric surgery when I become morbidly obese? Absolutely not.
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Why are they always talking of cutting SS & Medicare, but no mention of cutting Medicaid? The cost of SS & Medicare is going to rise because of the number of "baby boomers" now entering the system, most of whom have paid into the system their entire working lives. Yet the rising number of people on Medicaid by many who's never paid a dime into the system is rarely mentioned as a place to cut costs. All foreign aid needs to be cut. Why are we giving our money overseas when there are so many here who could benefit from it? Also, we need to pull all of troops home who are not currently in a war zone, and close the overseas bases instead of the bases here. Let those military families spend their money here. And make it so that no "pork barrel" riders can be added to legislative bills. All those grants of a million here, a million there add up over time.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court left little doubt during last week's marathon arguments over President Barack Obama's health care overhaul that it has scant faith in Congress' ability to get anything done.
The views about Congress underlay questions from justices who appear to be on both sides of the argument over the constitutionality of the law's key provision, the individual insurance requirement, as well as whether the entire law should be thrown out if the mandate is struck down.
The comments were particularly striking from the conservative justices who have called on unelected judges to show deference to the actions of elected officials.
Justice Antonin Scalia, who appeared strongly in favor of striking down the entire law, was the most outspoken in his disdain for the branch of government that several justices can see from their office windows.
"You can't repeal the rest of the act because you're not going to get 60 votes in the Senate to repeal the rest. It's not a matter of enacting a new act. You've got to get 60 votes to repeal it. So the rest of the act is going to be the law," Scalia said, explaining it might be better to throw the whole thing out.
Justice Anthony Kennedy draw laughs when he asked a lawyer describing what Congress would want the court to do, "Is that the real Congress or a hypothetical Congress?"
Several justices joined in the courtroom's laughing reaction when the lawyer leading the challenge to the law appeared to suggest Congress could pass new legislation "in a couple of days," if the court wiped away the entire law.
The justices thus seemed to be thinking along the same lines as the public, according to polls that show Congress' standing at historic lows.
That outlook, more prevalent among the conservatives than the liberals on the court, is one reason that the Obama administration's lawyers ran into such stiff resistance in questions from the bench.
Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr. repeatedly invoked Congress' power under the Constitution to take aggressive action to deal with health care, which makes up 17 percent of the U.S. economy, and with the problem of 50 million people who lack insurance but whose health costs are being passed on to taxpayers and those with insurance.
The court, Verrilli said at the end of Tuesday's argument session, "has a solemn obligation to respect the judgments of the democratically accountable branches of government."
Certainly, the liberal justices appeared to agree with Verrilli that Congress, then under Democratic control, did not exceed its power.
Now, Congress is essentially locked in a stalemate, with power divided between Republicans who control the House and a Democratic majority in the Senate.
Chances are slim that Congress would act to restore any parts of the law that the court might strike down, even noncontroversial provisions.
The bleak prospect for legislation is one reason why Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg urged a cautious approach to a raft of provisions, many already in effect, that have nothing to do with the insurance requirement, including changes to benefits for victims of black lung disease.
"So why should we say, it's a choice between a wrecking operation, which is what you are requesting, or a salvage job," Ginsburg told Paul Clement, the lawyer representing states opposed to the law. "And the more conservative approach would be salvage rather than throwing out everything."
Put another way, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said, "Why we should involve the court in making the legislative judgment?"
Kevin Walsh, a law professor at the University of Richmond who previously served as a Scalia law clerk at the court, said he was surprised by the conservative justices who revealed no apparent trepidation about getting rid of the entire law.
"That would be a very muscular exercise of judicial power," Walsh said.
Scalia has a long history of calling for restraint on the part of unelected judges, and telling people who want changes in the law to go first to their elected representatives.
"You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility," Scalia said in a 2005 speech in Washington, an example of the kind of remarks he has made many times over his more than 25 years as a justice. "Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?"
But he and Kennedy both suggested that it would be more respectful to Congress to give it a blank slate than to hand it back a massive law, with its key provisions excised.
"Do you really think that that is somehow showing deference to Congress and respecting the democratic process? It seems to me it's a gross distortion of it," Scalia said.
Kennedy envisioned an outcome in which the insurance requirement is struck down, but the court leaves in place other requirements forcing insurers to accept people regardless of existing medical conditions and to limit the premiums for older people.
"We would be exercising the judicial power if one provision was stricken and the others remained to impose a risk on insurance companies that Congress had never intended. By reason of this court, we would have a new regime that Congress did not provide for, did not consider. That, it seems to me, can be argued at least to be a more extreme exercise of judicial power than striking the whole," he said. | http://www.crescent-news.com/ap%20washington/2012/03/31/congress-gets-rough-treatment-at-supreme-court-1333197112 | dclm-gs1-055540002 | false | false | {
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0.529354 | <urn:uuid:3f64775f-68c7-4a24-9cee-41a7b8463621> | en | 0.965246 | SOUTH BEND- The aftermath of what happened in Newtown, Connecticut is shedding more light on mental health in our country.
The mental health of the shooter, Adam Lanza, is being investigated as to a possible motive of why he did this.
We're digging deeper to find out.
As a parent, how do you know if your child is suffering from a mental disorder?
Doctors say if you constantly keep an eye on their behavior, you'll know when they're acting out of character and if it goes beyond just a tantrum over a cookie, you'll know the difference.
Reports say Adam Lanza, the shooter in the Sandy Hook tragedy, suffered from Asperger's Syndrome, an autism spectrum disorder. Doctors say there's no connection between that and violent behavior, still leaving it a mystery of why he acted the way he did.
Doctors say these are red flags when it comes to your child's behavior.
They might have a drastic change in behavior, more rebellious in manner. They may isolate themselves, don't want to be around their friends or family anymore. If they're showing alarming signs of repetitive behavior, and if you notice changes in their sleeping and eating patterns, you may want to seek help.
Psychiatrists say parents play a huge role in getting their children the help they need.
"Recognize it's not a shameful thing; its not a failure on their part," said Dr. Suhayl Joseph Nasr, the medical director and psychiatrist with Memorial Epworth Center. "It's not a shameful thing, it's a disease that they have, and it's better to address it than put your head in the sand. Untreated, it could be very devastating for the families and for the victims."
Doctors say help is out there for young children suffering from a mental disorder, but there's not enough of it to go around.
There's a high demand for psychiatrists right now across the country and in our community, so much so there are waiting lists across counties to specifically see a child psychiatrist.
"There's unfortunately a huge shortage of child psychiatrists nationwide," said Sandy Westra with Oaklawn Psychiatric Center. "There's a need for 30,000, and they only have 10,000, so that helps understand why there's such a long wait."
The South Bend, Elkhart and Goshen offices of Oaklawn Psychiatric Center are feeling these long wait lists.
Then you have Memorial Epworth Center in South Bend. They have 4 child psychiatrists on staff right now, but doctors have seen such a high demand, they're adding 4 more to their staff in 2013.
"There's a sizable amount of distress in the community, and if you look at statistics, 10 to 15% of kids have some kind of emotional problem, Dr. Nasr said.
Doctors say psychiatric services have been so underfunded over the years.
The Washington Post says only 5.6% of national health care spending goes toward mental health treatment.
Many doctors out there hope this tragedy sheds some light that mental illness is a very serious issue that needs more funding and more attention.
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Contador's contaminated food: excuse or possibility?
Laura Weislo
September 30, 2010, 03:12,
September 30, 2010, 15:59
Second Edition Cycling News, Thursday, September 30, 2010
Alberto Contador can't wait to don the yellow jersey for the final time this Tour.
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Anti-doping expert: Clenbuterol contamination plausible
In 2008, Catlin's lab worked on the case of swimmer Jessica Hardy, who sat out of competition for two years after testing positive for clenbuterol, and found the drug in supplements that she was taking. Hardy used the information to sue the manufacturer.
The drug is a stimulant as well as an anabolic agent, and because of these properties it is not prescribed in its primary use an anti-asthma medication in the US.
In the past the drug was popular amongst athletes before testing was introduced. Djamolidin Abdoujaparov was banned for life after testing positive for the drug at the 1997 Tour de France. It is now easily detectable and tends to remain in the body for an extended period of time, making it a poor choice as far as performance enhancing drugs go.
Can Contador keep his Tour de France title?
The anti-doping rules state that an athlete is responsible for what enters his or her body, and many athletes have fought doping positives with the contaminated supplement defense and lost.
Most recently, Belgian Iljo Keisse, who was acquitted of doping by his national federation after successfully using the defense, had his ban re-instated by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
However, the UCI's statement issued early Thursday, which made public the level of the drug (50 picograms/millilitre, or 40 times less than the required limit of detection) indicates that the contaminated supplement defense may have some weight to it.
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The smile that says it all! A grinning Taylor Swift and Harry Styles leave hotel moments apart after dashing in at 4am
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I'm a former cheerleader, I hate football now.
Will I be forever treated as a bimbo, for being a cheerleader 35 years ago?
Did you know that when David Duke was of the age to court and sparking, it was illegal for a white person to marry a black person?
I concede your point. I honestly considered taking everything he said except his personal details, and making the exact same video and posting it here. It is not because I suspect Duke is trying to discredit important information, it is because I suspect people here try to discredit Duke regardless of how valid the information he presents may be. That is not really a poor reflection on David Duke, though.
Why did KKK membership not haunt these men? Because they served their masters when the time came. Duke is out to expose the Zionists, so they have made his name "poison" in every weak mind they can influence.
Harry Truman
Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman (Democrat) was 33rd President of the United States from 1945 to 1953 and was from Missouri.
In 1924, Harry S. Truman was a judge in Jackson County, Missouri, which includes Kansas City. Truman was up for reelection, and his friends Edgar Hinde and Spencer Salisbury advised him to join the Klan. The Klan was politically powerful in Jackson County, and two of Truman's opponents in the Democratic primary had Klan support. Truman refused at first, but paid the Klan's $10 membership fee, and a meeting with a Klan officer was arranged.[1]
According to Salisbury's version of the story, Truman was inducted, but afterward “was never active; he was just a member who wouldn't do anything”. Salisbury, however, became Truman's bitter enemy in later years, so this version is suspect.[2]
According to Hinde and Truman's accounts, the Klan officer demanded that Truman pledge not to hire any Catholics or Jews if he was reelected. Truman refused, and demanded the return of his $10 membership fee; most of the men he had commanded in World War I had been local Irish Catholics.[3]
Truman had at least one other strong reason to object to the anti-Catholic requirement, which was that the Catholic Pendergast family, which operated a political machine in Jackson County, were his patrons; Pendergast family lore has it that Truman was originally accepted for patronage without even meeting him, on the basis of his family background plus the requirement that he was not a member of any anti-Catholic organization such as the Klan.[4] The Pendergast faction of the Democratic Party was known as the “Goats”, as opposed to the rival Shannon machine's “Rabbits”. The battle lines were drawn when Truman put only Goats on the county payroll,[5] and the Klan began encouraging voters to support Protestant, “100% American” candidates, which was anathema to the Catholic Pendergasts. The Klan allied itself against Truman and with the Rabbits, and Shannon instructed his people to vote Republican in the election, which Truman lost.[6] Sympathetic observers see Truman's flirtation with the Klan as a momentary aberration and point out that his close friend and business partner Eddie Jacobson was Jewish, and assert that in later years, Truman's presidency, notably the President's Committee on Civil Rights, marked the first significant improvement in the federal government's record on civil rights since the post-Reconstruction nadir marked by the Wilson administration.[7]
Robert Byrd
Senator Robert Byrd was a Kleagle, a Klan recruiter, in his 20s and 30s.
Despite being the only Senator to vote against both African American U.S. Supreme Court nominees (liberal Thurgood Marshall and conservative Clarence Thomas) and filibustering the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Byrd has since said joining the Klan was his "greatest mistake." The NAACP gave him a 100% rating on their issues during the 108th Congress.[9] However, in a 2001 incident Byrd repeatedly used the phrase "white niggers" on a national television broadcast.[10]
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0.068446 | <urn:uuid:6a3bc580-1247-4ab2-8de7-9f042850e0ee> | en | 0.99071 | WARREN, Ohio — Sitting in the front passenger seat of a speeding SUV with six friends crammed behind him, Brian Henry pleaded for the 19-year-old woman behind the wheel to slow down.
But she only sped up when the SUV that was later reported to be stolen rounded what's known as "Dead Man's Curve" just blocks from his home, Henry told investigators in the northeast Ohio city of Warren.
The sport-utility vehicle smacked a guardrail and rolled, landing upside-down in a pond and killing five boys and the driver, Alexis Cayson, who didn't have a valid license, according to a report on the crash released Tuesday.
Henry and the only other survivor, who both swam out of the submerged vehicle, told state troopers of the frightening minutes before and after the Sunday morning crash that has devastated many in Warren, a mostly working-class city in the shadow of Youngstown.
Asher Lewis, 15, told a state trooper it felt like the SUV was going 80 mph on the road that winds past a steel mill and has a 35-mph speed limit.
"The lady driving was playing around when she was driving," said Lewis, who added that the five-passenger Honda Passport was so packed he couldn't see who was driving when he climbed into the back. "She was swerving and speeding. I think she was driving on purpose like that, but I'm not sure why."
Henry, 18, said in his statement to a trooper that Cayson lost control on the curve after speeding up. He hit his head on the dashboard when the SUV flipped.
Henry broke out the rear window with his elbow, the report said. "My feet were stuck on the seat belt, so it took a little bit to get out. I came out with no shoes on."
The two boys, who sustained only minor injuries, swam to shore and ran to a home to call for help.
While the reports released Tuesday shed more light on what happened just before the crash, it's still not clear if the passengers knew the car was stolen.
Henry said Cayson picked him and Lewis up after they stayed at a friend's house. Henry said there were already five or six others in the Passport. He said he was not sure where the others in the Passport had been earlier.
The SUV's owner told state troopers that his sister lives with Cayson and that she took the keys without his permission early Sunday while he was sleeping at their apartment.
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September 28, 2013 - LONDON The Earth's moon may be a present from Venus, which once had a moon and then lost it, a new theory suggests. Under the theory, Earth's gravity captured Venus' old moon, giving our planet its big natural satellite.
This idea contrasts to the thinking of the vast majority of moon researchers, who believe that the Earth's moon formed some 4.5 billion years ago when a planet-size body slammed into nascent Earth at high speed. This giant impact hypothesis, however, has its own issues, as did all the alternative moon formation theories discussed this week at the Origin of the Moon conference at the Royal Society here. "I think part of the key to [understanding] the moon may be that Venus has no moon, and we certainly have to study it (Venus) more," said Dave Stevenson, professor of planetary science at the California Institute of Technology, who proposed the Venus idea at the conference. In an interview with SPACE.com after his presentation, Stevenson said that he himself favored the impact theory on moon formation, but unfortunately this theory did not yet answer all the questions.
How did Earth get its moon?
The "moon capture" theory assumes that Earth used its gravitational pull to attract a pre-formed space body into its orbit, thus making a satellite of this object. [How the Moon Formed: A Lunar Tour (Video)]
However, the geochemical composition of the moon and Earth likely trips up this theory. Analyses of the lunar rocks brought back by NASA's Apollo moon landing missions have shown that the satellite has an isotopic composition very similar to that of Earth.
Isotopes refer to varieties of chemical elements that have the same number of protons, but different numbers of neutrons. Two isotopes behave the same chemically.
And if both moon and Earth have very similar isotopes, it makes the capture theory difficult to maintain, said Alex Halliday, head of science at Oxford University. Such isotopic similarities suggest that "the material that makes up the moon did actually either come out of the Earth, or that the stuff that was in the disk that formed the moon got completely mixed up with the stuff in the Earth."
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How old is the moon? Scientists put formation forward 100 million years
The Moon Just Got 100 Million Years Younger
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SS 11 Timeline Assignment: Canadian Autonomy & Pride!
World War 1 marked a huge turning point in Canada’s role on the World Stage.
Events such as Battle of Vimy Ridge and participation in the Treaty of Versailles peace
process were instrumental in Canada’s development from “Colony to County”. What has
happened since??
To develop an understanding of the various people and events involved in shaping
Canada’s part in 20th Century World Affairs
To practise basic research skills
To analyse and interpret information
To present data in an organized and efficient manner
Part A: Timeline-Canadian Independence 1920-2000
1.) Research the dates for the following 15 events.(most are in your textbook)
D-Day King-Byng Crisis United Nations formed
CBC created Terry Fox’s Marathon of Maple Leaf adopted as
Hope Canadian flag
Korean War Expo 67 Canada Act/Charter of
Rights & Freedoms
Persons Case Statute of Westminister Suez Crisis
League of Nations formed Newfoundland joins Citizenship Act of 1947
2.) Research and find any 5 other events from 1920-2000 that helped promote
Canadian pride or independence. These events can be personal achievements (ie
Terry Fox), international organizations ( ie UN) or specific events (ie Expo 67).
3.) Create a timeline starting in 1920 and ending in 2000 which shows all 20 (15 +
4.) Also, on the timeline, highlight the 3 following eras:
a) The Great Depression 1929- ?
b) World War 2 1939-?
c) Cold War 1947-?
Part B Written Explanations
1. From the list of 20, choose and rank your Top 10 events in
order of importance for promoting Canadian pride around the
2. Write a brief explanation for each of the 10 explaining WHAT
the event was and WHY it is important.
Ie: Citizenship Act of 1947 – This post WW2 piece of Canadian
legislation changed the terminology on all personal domestic
documents (ie Birth Certificates, Passports etc.) from BRITISH
SUBJECT to CANADIAN CITIZEN. This was a small but very
significant change that made all “Canadians” proud and more
Marking Criteria
Part A-Timeline
1) Accuracy –(20 x ½ ) 10 marks
2) Readability-(scale, organization, title, clarity) 10 marks
3) Creativity 5 marks
Part B –Written Explanations
1) Explanations & interpretation 10 x 2 = 20 marks
2) Creativity – Top 10 – 5 marks
Total 50 marks
Due Date : Friday December 7, 2001
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E-2 VISA: Significant investment required (e.g., $200,000
plus), extended every 5 years, allows foreign national to remain in the
United States on an open-ended basis (without a green Card) subject
to the work limitations with the Visa. Although there is no employee
hiring requirement, a total lack of employees may be evidence that
the business is marginal. If the E-2 employee is a manager (rather
than an investor), managing other employees may be expected as
part of their job duties.
This type of Visa will be particularly valuable for foreign
nationals who wish to visit the United States for up to 122 days per
year (less than 183 days in any one year), and who do not require a
Green Card (in order to avoid U.S. income taxation on their world-
wide income). The E-2 Visa is particularly suited for international
investors who would like a second home in the U.S.
Treaty Investor (E2 Visa)
Section 101(a)(15)(E) of the US Immigration and Nationality Act
provides for visa status for nationals of countries that maintain an
appropriate treaty of commerce and navigation with the United States
or that is considered to be a treaty country under US law. The
applicant must be coming to the United States to carry on substantial
trade or to develop and direct the operations of an enterprise in which
the national has invested, or is actively in the process of investing, a
substantial amount of capital.
Treaty Trader and Investor visas are nonimmigrant
categories. They do not confer permanent residency in the US
nor do they lead to US citizenship, although they permit the
applicant and qualified family members to live in the US for an
extended period. For permanent residency in the United
States, there is a separate program based on investment.
To qualify as Treaty Investor (E-2):
The investor (either a real or corporate person) must be a
national of a treaty country.
The investment must be substantial. It must be
sufficient to ensure the successful operation of the
enterprise. The percentage of investment for a low-cost
enterprise must be higher than the percentage of investment
in a high-cost enterprise.
The investment must be a real operating enterprise.
Speculative or idle investment does not qualify.
The investment must not be marginal. It must generate
significantly more income than needed to provide a living to
the investor and family, or it must have a significant
economic impact in the United States.
The investor must have control of the funds, and the
investment must be at risk in the commercial sense. For
the purpose of measuring the investment, loans secured
with the assets of the investment enterprise are not counted.
The investor must be coming to the US to develop and direct
the enterprise. If applicants are not the principal
investors, they must be employed as a supervisor,
executive, or as the possessor of highly specialized skills.
What is a substantial amount of capital? There is no fixed
amount which is considered "substantial." A substantial amount
of capital constitutes that amount which is ample to ensure the
investor's financial commitment to the successful operation of
the enterprise as measured by the proportionality test.
The proportionality test compares the total amount invested in
the enterprise with the cost of establishing a viable enterprise
of the nature contemplated or the amount of capital needed to
purchase an existing enterprise.
Such comparison constitutes the percentage of the treaty
applicant's investment in the enterprise. That percentage must
compare favorable in the fashion of an inverted sliding scale
starting with a high percentage of investment for a lower cost
enterprise. The percentage of investment decreases at a
gradual rate as the cost of the business increases. An amount
of capital invested in an enterprise is merely presumed to be
substantial when it meets or exceeds the percentage figures
given in the following examples (amounts shown are in US
75% investment in an enterprise costing no more than
$500,000 (if the cost of the enterprise is substantially
lower than $500,000, 85-90%, or even 100% investment
may be required).
50% investment in an enterprise costing more than
$500,000 but no more than $3,000,000.
30% investment in any enterprise costing more than
A multi-million dollar investment by a large foreign corporation
is normally considered substantial, regardless of the examples given
The investment must do more than merely yield a return
capable of supporting the investor and family. A marginal enterprise
is an enterprise which does not have the capacity to generate
significantly more than enough income to provide a living for the
investor, family and other alien employees.
Are joint ventures permitted? Yes, provided that the
business or individual investor applying for the visa is in a
position to "develop and direct" the enterprise. The applicant is
in such a position by controlling the enterprise through ownership
of at least 50% of the business, possessing operational control
through a marginal position or other corporate device, or by other
means showing the applicant controls the enterprise.
How long may the Treaty Investor stay in the US? The
applicant must have the intention of departing the US upon
conclusion of the commercial activities. Nevertheless, holder of E-
visas may reside in the US as long as they continue to meet E-visa
"Essential employees" may remain only as long as their skills
are required to operate the business, and only as long as the
owner can show either that US workers cannot be trained to
duplicate the skills or that the owner is making reasonable efforts to
train US workers as replacements.
On initial entry, immigration officials normally authorize a stay of
up to one year in the US, with extensions generally available for as
long as the E-visa holder and family maintain their E-visa status.
The initial visa for an investor in an existing business may be up to 5
years; new U.S. business may be up to 2 years. A new business
may require a Business Plan with financial projections.
E-2 Visa Application Process
The E-2 visa application process may vary from one country to
the next. Different formatting rules, different forms and fees, different
processing times, should be expected. (For example, Vancouver is
currently testing the DS-160 form rather than the DS-156/156E forms;
Istanbul says it can review an E-2 in about a week while other
Consulates and Embassies may take up to 12 weeks; Some
Embassies and Consulates require hand delivering the petition at a
pre-review interview while others allow the petition to be mailed in
advance of the interview; etc.) Filing within the U.S. as a “change of
status” is possible but if the alien leaves the U.S., the alien will need
to complete the Embassy or Consulate review of their application and
have their visas processed before they are allowed to return to the
U.S. on their E-2 status. Consequently, if they are from a country
with a long review time, the alien needs to make arrangements to
start the review so it concludes in time for their reentry.
Is a visa available to the applicant's wife and children?
Yes. Spouses and children under age 21 qualify for derivative E-
visas based on the principal applicant's qualification. It is not
necessary that they hold the nationality of the principal applicant.
However, when the surnames of a spouse or children (as appearing
on their passports) differ from that of the principal applicant, copies of
marriage certificates, birth certificates, or other legal
documentation must e submitted to establish the relationship. De-
facto spouses and fiance(e)s do not qualify for derivative status.
Dependent E-visa holders are allowed to work in the United States.
Gary S. Wolfe
9100 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 530 East
Beverly Hills, CA, 90212
Tel: 310-274-8847 Fax: 310-274-3118
email: gsw@gswlaw.com
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?The Internet has opened many avenues for people who want to start a Internet
business. Before you can answer
that question "how to start" you must understand what a Internet business is.
A Internet business has four components:
1. Website
2. Content
3. Products/Service
4. Marketing
At first glance someone might ask the question, don't you have to be a technical
person to build a website? The answer is no. In the past few years there have been
services and software developed that simplify this process.
There are also people who will build a website for you at a reasonable price. Of
course this depends on the complexity of your site.
Realistic Expectations
If you watch TV you have seen advertisements claiming Internet riches virtually
overnight. When this doesn't happen people get frustrated and quit. They quit because
they had a picture planted in their minds of getting rich fast.
Actually, to start a Internet business is easy, the challenging part is to continue
building it as you hit the bumps in the road. Week after week you keep writing and
promoting your business, but hardly anyone comes to visit. You start to question if
this really works, you wonder if you haven't been led down the wrong path.
Start A Internet Business Right
To start your Internet business right you must understand it takes time. Learn one
process at a time, get a good overview of how the steps fit together.
Interests - You will have a much better chance of succeeding, especially in the
beginning months, if you start with something you like to do. You won't know exactly
how to sell it or how to promote it, that's OK, you will learn. The point is your
motivation to build a business and move forward will come from passion, the passion
you have for the subject you build your Internet business on.
Type of Internet Business
You can build a Internet business that is purely informational. You make money by
selling advertising, the most common advertising sold is Google Adsense.
You can sell other peoples products, this is called affiliate marketing.
You can build websites and then resell them. It's the same principal that they use in
real estate.
You might have a service instead of an actual product, it just depends on what your
It is extremely important when you start a Internet business to have the proper
overview of how it works. It is not a "get rich quick" business, but if you view it as a
business you will make money. It doesn't take a lot of money to start a Internet
business, but like any business it takes planning and time.
Start with what you love to do add in some patience, and over time, you will be
Sean Gallagher - an Internet Entrepreneur teaches others How to Start a Internet
Business that will allow them to work for themselves in an Internet based business.
You can visit to learn how to start your online business!
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Date: 14/12/09, updated on 14/12/09 (8 review reads)
Advantages: Beautiful graphics, good fun, solid adventure.
Disadvantages: Sometimes deeply frustrating, terrible story, a lot of death. A lot of it.
Given that the sequel has arrived and is garnering rave reviews I thought I'd take the opportuinty to catch up with the first title in the series before I splashed out on the latest iteration in this new franchise. I'm happy to say I can recommend it, but not whole-heartedly.
Uncharted has you playing as Nathan Drake, a man who claims to be a descendant of Francis Drake, but seems to be more of a cross between Lara Croft and Rambo. A treasure hunter in pretty much name only the game sees you on the trail of a big payday through some lush, unnamed, fictional jungle island as you relentlessly slaughter anybody else who has been unfortunate enough to also pick up the trail.
Despite the massive body count Drake is a likeable enough hero, better written and acted than the majority of video game leads, and is pretty fun to play. Supporting characters on the other hand are barely there, you'll struggle to remember their names or get a handle on who they are or how Drake knows them. The story itself is modern-adventure fluff. Nothing too deep and certainly not remotely credible, it follows on from recent attempts to revive the Indiana Jones style formula (such as The Mummy films, National Treasure or Sahara) and is about as throwaway.
It has inherited more than just its story from other sources, the game plays out as a cross between a Prince of Persia/Tomb Raider platform adventure and the cover and shoot style popularised by Gears of War and unfortunately this is where the game takes a few mis-steps. Chief amongst them is the instant deaths you'll suffer frequently throughout the game, forcing a restart at the last checkpoint. The checkpoints are plentiful but you will find yourself playing certain sections over and over again, and often it feels slightly unfair. Drake's jumping distance and what he can and cannot grab onto are sometimes unclear and you will frequently find yourself overwhelmed by enemies and unable to progress via anything other than perseverance and luck. At the time of release these instant deaths could possibly have been overlooked but plenty of games released in the interim have shown that this doesn't have to be the case. Drake's acrobatic abilities pale in comparison to those of the leads in the Assassin's Creed and Prince of Persia franchises.
On the upside this is a beautiful looking game and great fun when the balance is right. I tore through it in just three sittings, partly on account of the ten hour length, but mostly because I was having a blast and wanted to see what big-budget action scene was just around the corner. And when it was done I started up a new game almost immediately, always a good sign. It's clear that a lot of time and effort went into the production and if you can find this for cheap (and you can, I got mine for under a tenner) you won't regret the purchase.
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1. Make sure the printer is turned on, but not printing, and letter-size plain paper is loaded.
2. Do one of the following:
Windows: Right-click the printer icon on your taskbar (in the lower right corner of your screen) and select Print Head Alignment.
Macintosh 9.x or earlier: Open the File menu and choose Page Setup or Print. Then click the Utility button. In the Utility menu, click the Print Head Alignment button.
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In my last post I looked at bringing meaning to mass marketing. In this one I’ll be looking at how we do it.
So let me start with personal experience. On the surface, most of my friends are just like me. Steve and Jane, for example, grew up in the same town, went to the same school and have very similar tastes. But if you look beneath the surface, they are actually quite different.
Steve dislikes social media whilst Jane lives on Facebook and Twitter. Jane is annoyed by marketing emails but Steve uses his inbox as a virtual shop window. Steve logs on in the morning and evening, and Jane flits in and out of social media at all times of day and night. Both love travel, but Steve has a weakness for exotic luxury breaks whilst Jane adores adventure holidays.
How then does a marketer distinguish the differences and similarities between Steve and Jane to understand: the who (consumer), the what (message), the where (channel) and the when (timing).
Segmentation is one answer, but traditionally many organisations have only invested in market segmentation which helps to identify groups with different needs but can’t then be mapped back to individuals to support prospect and customer targeting. This type of segmentation helps to create the right message, but falls short when trying to understand the people who will receive it. So we need to combine market know-how with consumer segmentation, which demands insight into both consumer purchasing and engagement behaviours.
A good tip is to go to specialist provider here, because it can be complicated if data isn’t your business. Experian’s Mosaic UK is a good example, allowing marketers to identify the customer types most likely to engage with their brand. With classifications such as ‘Suburban Comfort’, ‘Symbols of Success’ and ‘Blue Collar Enterprise’, suddenly you can see the lives your customers lead and how they are likely to behave. This is the foundation of any effective marketing strategy. We have worked with many organisations to use specific customer behaviours and market needs to reclassify Mosaic to build bespoke segmentations, with the crucial benefit that the resulting segments can be identified in the real world.
The second strand is to add in customer profiling — drilling down further into the individual. The good news is that most organisations already have the ability to distinguish between Steve and Jane using profiling — the bad news is that many don’t know it.
The key is to profile your consumers to bring benefit:
1. Identify the data that drives your customer understanding and business objectives.
2. Make sure that you collect this data effectively (perhaps refining online/email/instore sign up processes to get information on channel preferences, for example).
3. Authenticate this information. This should be at point of capture (e.g. validating postcodes and mobile numbers) and, because databases degrade quickly, regularly thereafter.
4. Pull together behavioural data on your customers such as purchase and communications engagement history and start to understand groups such as high and low value, engaged vs. not engaged and product purchases.
5. Append third party sources that cross reference your data with national factors such as income, demographics and known behaviours.
Segmentation and profiling build an incredibly rich and detailed picture of your audiences. By understanding the ‘who, what, where and when’ your audiences get the messages they appreciate and are far more likely to become long-term customers.
Now you can reach Steve with messages about five star breaks perfectly timed to reach his inbox as he logs in, and Jane with integrated newsfeed and banner advertising on performance clothing and swimming with sharks holidays. Vive la difference!
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8:54 EDT [Ed]: A few other random notes are in order before we turn off the liveblog and spend a little time mulling over deeper thoughts for posting tomorrow. With 88% of the precincts reporting, and a lot of those still out in high-population areas like Fairfax and Richmond, 266,000 votes have been cast in this primary, over the 250k most often predicted. Looks like PPP's "high" estimate of 300,000 votes could be close to right.
And maybe it doesn't matter that much except for the pride of the participants, but it's still not clear who will finish second behind Deeds. At the moment, McAuliffe's running just under 7,000 votes ahead of Moran. Of the precincts still out, the biggest blocs are in Fairfax, where Moran's been running about eight points ahead of McAuliffe; in the City of Richmond, where their positions are reversed; and in Roanoke, in a region where Moran has been running very poorly. Unless the Fairfax numbers are very big, looks like McAuliffe will probably hold onto the consolation prize, such as it is.
8:37 EDT [Nate]: Well, I think both parties are going to go into November with a candidate they're feeling pretty happy about. And the stakes are fairly high: given Virginia's newfound status as a swing state, whomever wins is a decent bet to make a VP short list in 2012 or 2016.
8:24 EDT [Ed]: So in addressing the three analytical factors I posed last night in anticipation of this primary, you'd have to say that: (1) yes, the Persuasion camp in the Persuasion-versus-Mobilization debate on how to win low-turnout primaries got a nice talking point for the future, since there was no Deeds Machine in sight today, while the highly-organized Moran and McAuliffe GOTV efforts missed most of their marks; (2) no, you can't chalk it all up to the Washington Post endorsement, given the margin of Deeds' win and its breadth, far beyond the DC media market (though the endorsement was a good momentum generator); and (3) no, the race wasn't at all close enough for Virginia's relatively restrictive early voting rules to matter.
8:15 EDT [Ed]: If I were Bob McDonnell, I wouldn't be real happy about tonight's results. Deeds showed no real regional weaknesses, and with all due consideration of the problems that Moran and McAuliffe caused themselves and each other, it does look like the Bath County senator knows how to run a campaign. The win was decisive enough that there shouldn't be too many hard feelings among Democrats, and Deeds will get some nice media buzz. And let's don't forget that Deeds basically tied McDonnell in the AG race four years ago, despite being outspent. The first couple of head-to-head polls between Deeds and McDonnell should be very interesting.
8:00 EDT [Nate]: This really is looking like a collapse of Howard Dean in Iowa proportions for McAuliffe; he had the lead just two weeks ago and now he's about to lose by 20+ points. Just for fun, here's another version of the Iowa polling in 2004, this one generously provided to 538 by Ann Selzer of top-ranked polling firm Selzer & Co.
7:50 EDT [Ed]: With the votes now pouring in, Creigh Deeds is winning in nine of Virginia's eleven congressional districts (Moran narrowly leads in the 8th on the strength of his Alexandria performance, but the lead probably won't hold, and McAuliffe leads narrowly in the 3d, with Richmond still out). This is quite a statewide victory for Deeds.
7:45 EDT [Nate]: OK, the 538 decision desk is calling this one for R. Creigh Deeds. Almost half the vote is in, and although we're a little bit light on turnout from areas like Richmond, neither Moran nor McAuliffe is doing anywhere near as well as they'd need to to make up for Deeds' large advantage. It's really a battle for second place at this point.
7:38 EDT [Ed]: Very bad signs for Brian Moran. He's winning Alexandria handily, but Deeds is beating him in Arlington, Fairfax, Loudon and Fauquier by big margins. And McAuliffe isn't doing well at all in NoVa so far.
7:29 EDT [Nate]: Below is a map of Virginia's Congressional Districts; you can see the results as they come in by CD here.
7:20 EDT [Nate]: Deeds' strength in the rural part of the state is overwhelming -- we don't have many results in from NoVa yet but I don't know I see how McAuliffe gets enough votes there to make up for Deeds' huge margins elsewhere in the state, particularly with Moran eating into some of the NoVa vote.
7:18 EDT [Ed]: Took a quick look at the official returns page, and the early precincts are mostly in Deeds' base area: Staunton and vicinity. His statewide lead was significantly diminished by a single precinct from Henrico coming in for T-Mac.
7:15 EDT [Nate]:Wow -- just 20 precincts in, but Deeds has a very early lead of 67% to T-Mack's 18%. See for yourself here.
7:00 EDT [Ed]. The polls are about to close throughout Virginia, so we'll be having some commentary and analysis from the 538 crew as the results come in.
A Note About Those VA Turnout Numbers
As we get ready for a fun night, or at least a fun couple of hours, of following Virginia primary results, there's a simple but important point to remember about the "turnout percentages" for the state and particular locations that you will be hearing about (as, indeed, we have been hearing about sporadically all day).
Virginia does not have party registration. So "turnout" is measured against total voter registration. That's why Virginia's primary turnout percentages always look so incredibly low (e.g., today's anticipated turnout of 5% or less) as compared to party registration states. Moreover, this factor makes comparison of "turnout" in various jurisdictions perilous. Heavily Democratic jurisdictions (e.g., Arlington County and most of the state's independent cities) will naturally tend to show much higher turnout percentages than more competitive areas. But that does not mean Democrats are turning out there at higher rates.
This is obvious if you think about it for a minute, but some of the "reports" kicking around today contrasting "high" turnout in parts of NoVa to abysmal turnout in SW VA garble this key point. The percentage of the statewide primary vote cast in different parts of the state is indeed a very big deal, and we'll be looking at that when the votes start coming in.
N.R.A. Muscle Saves 538, Blocks D.C. Voting Rights
The Hill reports that a bill to give the District of Columbia a vote in the House of Represenatives, which would increase the number of Electoral Votes from 538 to 539, has stalled out in the House after and is unlikely to become law:
Hopes have evaporated for passing a bill giving the District of Columbia voting rights in the House, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Tuesday.
The district's leaders can't reach consensus on what to do about an amendment that would gut D.C.'s gun laws, according to Hoyer (D-Md.), the bill's patron in leadership.
“There is not a consensus among leaders in D.C.,” Hoyer said. “I don't think we're going to be able to move the bill at this time.”
The bill has been stalled for months, but today represented Hoyer's most dismal assessment since the Senate passed the bill with the gun amendment attached. Previously, Hoyer had said he was confident the bill could pass this year.
What's a bit unusual is that this bill has already passed the Senate, which is presumably the more difficult chamber to get legislation through. In fact, it did so with a little bit of room to spare, getting 65 votes for cloture and 62 votes for the underlying bill, with several moderate Republicans defecting to vote with the Democrats. (Democrats Max Baucus and Robert Byrd, on the other hand, voted against both cloture and the bill text).
The complication is that the version of the bill the Senate approved was passed with an unrelated amendment, introduced by Senator Ensign of Nevada and accepted by a 62-36 majority, that would limit the District's ability to set its own policy on gun control. The amendment is opposed by some Democrats in the House and has created more of a stir there, as it has a proportionately somewhat larger and more empowered contingent of progressive and minority Democrats.
So why can't they simply remove the gun control provision and start over? The Hill explains:
The gun amendment is backed by the National Rifle Association and supported by conservative Democrats, particularly Blue Dogs from the South and the West. Together with Republicans, they form a strong majority in support of gun rights.
Democratic leaders have been flummoxed by the drive by the NRA and Republicans to add the gun provisions to the D.C. vote bill.
Lawmakers believe that the NRA would “score” any procedural motion that brought up a D.C. vote without the gun amendment. That means any member who voted for it couldn’t have a perfect voting record with the NRA.
But it has long been expected that if the D.C. vote came to the floor with the gun amendment, Republicans and liberal Democrats would both vote to defeat it. That's because Republicans oppose giving the District a vote in the House, and liberals oppose NRA efforts to loosen gun restrictions.
Emphasis mine. Even if the gun control provision is completely removed, the NRA appears poised to treat a vote on the revised bill -- a bill on whether the District of Columbia should have a vote in the U.S. House -- as a gun control bill, and would score a yea vote on the bill as ruining the "perfect" voting record for the roughly 50 House Democrats who had NRA ratings of A or A+ as of the 110th Congress. Absent those 50 votes -- and maybe another half-dozen or so from conservative freshman Democrats who have not yet been rated by the NRA -- the Democrats would be stuck on about 200 votes out of the 218 needed for passage. Although the Democrats could expect a few Republican defections, particularly from among the six Republicans who represent Virginia or Maryland, the House Republicans are more organized than the Senate ones and presumably have other reasons to vote against the bill since it would essentially lock in an additional House seat for the Democrats. Although the bill would balance the situation out in the 112th Congress by giving Utah an additional seat as well (Utah came up just short of adding a 4th House seat based on the 2000 Census), there is no guarantee that Utah would keep the seat once the lottery balls were reshuffled again after 2010.
In any event, Steny Hoyer seems to have concluded that he doesn't have the votes for either version of the bill.
As a piece of political maneuvering, this is pretty darn brilliant by the NRA. And more power to the NRA if they want to lobby to pass the Second Amendment provisions on their own accord; based on the votes on the Ensign Amendment, they'd probably have the votes if they could get it to the floor. But as a window to how the sausage gets made in Washington, it's fairly revealing -- and it's a pretty disgusting sausage.
Starbucks Beats Peet's?
Zagat has its annual survey out on fast foot restaurants and there are some surprising results, at least to my tastes. Perhaps the most surprising is that Starbucks beat Berkeley, CA based chain Peet's Coffee for the title of best cup'o'joe.
Mind you, I'm not a Starbucks hater. It's fine. The stores are usually comfortable and well run, and it's often a convenient spot to sit down between meetings (or even to take a meeting).
What Starbucks isn't, however, is Peet's, a chain that elicits a ridiculous amount of loyalty from those in California and the few other locations where they have a store. Poll any ten San Franciscans, and I'd assure you with a high degree of confidence that at least seven of them would tell you that Peet's has the better coffee.
Perhaps this Zagat survey proves that San Francisco values are, true to the conservative refrain, are out of touch with those in the rest of the country. Except that, this isn't necessarily the apples-to-apples comparison that you might think. There are something like 200 Peet's Cofeee stores around the country; by comparison, there are something like 11,000 Starbuckses. Most of the people that Zagat surveyed have probably never even heard of Peet's Coffee, let alone tasted it.
Zagat's methodology is a little opaque, but from what I gather it's in fact quite simple and works like this. Periodically, Zagat sends surveys to a number of diners in a given area; these reviewers rate each restaurant they've sampled from 0 to 3. The ratings are then averaged together and multiplied by 10, so if I give a restaurant a 1 and my two best friends give it a rating of 2, it will get a composite score of 17, which is 1 plus 2 plus 2 divided by three, multiplied by 10, and rounded to the nearest whole number.
The problem is that different restaurants are rated by different numbers of people -- in a national survey of 6,000 adults, for instance, like the one that Zagat just conducted, Starbucks will get thousands of ratings and Peet's will probably only get a few dozen. When something like that happens, you could potentially encounter a problem such as this:
In this (entirely hypothetical) example, Starbucks finishes with a slightly higher rating on average than Peet's, even though from among the five people (Alice, Chloe, Felix, Gwyneth and Harry) that rated both Peet's and Starbucks, Peet's was rated as the superior option on three of the five ballots and was tied with Starbucks on the other two.
Perhaps this seems like a contrived example, but just for fun, I looked up the ratings on Yelp.com, another user-driven restaurant review service, for busy Starbucks and Peet's stores located about a block away from another on California Street in the Laurel Heights neighborhood of San Francisco. Overall, the ratings were barely distinguishable; the Starbucks store finished with 3.6 stars on average (out of 5 possible) and the Peet's finished with an average of 3.8. However, from among the 11 reviewers that rated both the Peet's and the Starbucks, six rated Peet's higher and just one preferred Starbucks, with the other four rating the two stores equally. What seems like a too-close-to-call verdict is actually a relatively clear one for Peet's.
Maybe Zagat's methodology is more sophisticated than I'm giving it credit for, but it seems to me that you have the appearance of a comparison when there really isn't one; very few of the people that rated Starbucks also rated Peet's, and probably some of the people that did rate Peet's failed to rate Starbucks. There might be demographic differences between the Starbucks' customers and the Peet's ones and there are certainly geographic ones. Perhaps it's also the case that Peet's customers are a bunch of San Francisco snobs and harsher critics in general and give lower ratings to all restaurants; that would tend to bias downward the results. I'm working on a consulting project for a (non-political) client right now and we're encountering a problem very much like this one.
People are generally much better at making comparisons between two things than they are taking any one thing as an abstraction. This is something to keep in mind when evaluating political polls. You can find lots and lots of surveys to suggest that people want to cut taxes, balance budgets, and have the government spend more on many key initiatives. Well, terrific: I'm sure they want to cure cancer, win the lottery, and increase the size of that certain part of the male anatomy too. But these economic goals are rather mutually exclusive; the question is what happens when people are asked to pick between them. Surveys generally reveal, for instance, that people prefer lower taxes to balanced budgets, and that they're willing to accept a higher tax burden for universal health care. It's those sorts of results that drive political calculations in Washington -- who's to say about their coffee preferences.
Primary Eve in VA: Anticipating the Analysis
As political junkies everywhere await their next fix in tomorrow's Democratic gubernatorial primary in Virginia, there are a number of variables that will bear watching when the returns are in, aside from the possible "Martin Effect" that Tom identified today, and the mutual-destruction/Iowa 2004 hypothesis offered last week by Nate.
The most obvious question involves an anomaly: in what will almost certainly be a low-turnout primary, the candidate universally considered to have a weak "ground game," Creigh Deeds, is also the candidate surging in the polls in the last week, when pollster screening for likelihood to vote generally becomes more accurate. (A new SUSA poll of likely voters came out today showing Deeds moving from 29% to 42% in the last five days, with McAuliffe falling from 35% to 30%, and Moran from 26% to 21%). That makes four late polls in a row, all claiming to screen for likelihood to vote, placing Deeds in the lead, two by double digits. That's a bit unexpected for a candidate whom many observers left for dead a month ago when he was running a poor third in most polls and was laying off part of his small field staff.
If Deeds hangs on to win, then we'll have another, and somewhat heretical by recent standards, data point in the ancient debate between mobilization and persuasion strategies, and air versus ground spending.
A second and possibly related issue is the impact, if any, of Deeds' endorsement by the Washington Post, which the Deeds campaign has tried to amplify with direct mail in Northern Virginia.
It is true that the Post endorsement immediately preceded Deeds' rise in the polls, and it's also true that the Deeds Surge seems to have been especially powerful in the Washington media market: the final PPP poll suggests that the rural senator's support in NoVa more than tripled in the last two-and-a-half weeks.
But it's also true that it's engraved on stone tablets in most political science departments that newspaper endorsements don't amount to a hill of beans in contemporary politics--particularly now that nobody outside the chattering classes reads op-ed pages, and newspapers appear to be in the last phase of a decades-long decline in media market share.
Thinking back to Nate's Iowa 2004 analogy, it's worth remembering that the startling end-game in that contest involved not only a surge for the ultimate winner, John Kerry, but another surge by near-winner John Edwards, from even further back in the pack, that seemed to be fed by an endorsement of the North Carolinian by the Des Moines Register. With all due respect for the Register's atavistic dominance of Iowa media, its endorsement of Hillary Clinton in 2008 didn't, to use a familiar phrase, seem to amount to a hill of beans.
But just to toss a theory out, perhaps newspaper endorsements do matter, or at least reinforce trends, when late-deciding voters are casting about for another candidate in reaction to unsavory front-runner rasslin': Dean and Gephardt in Iowa 2004, and McAuliffe and Moran in Virginia 2009. If that's the case, then obviously Creigh Deeds could be benefitting from the dynamics that helped both Kerry and Edwards in Iowa in 2004, punctuated by a major media endorsement.
A third and smaller factor should draw attention if the results tomorrow night are very close: Virginia has a relatively restrictive early voting system. Voters can go to their precincts before election day and apply for and then cast absentee ballots, but only if they certify in the presence of a witness (if only a poll worker) that they qualify under specific grounds for absentee voting. So while the level of early voting in VA has risen rapidly in recent years, it hasn't matched the massive percentages of many other states.
This is relevant because Gov. Tim Kaine's bill to allow "no excuse" absentee voting in Virginia was killed by the legislature in February. And in a contest where the two campaigns with the "ground game" resources for an intensive early voting effort are also the campaigns that would have benefitted from "banking" votes before a third candidate's late surge, it could be a what-might-have-been factor if tomorrow night's results are very close.
Now we'll just have to wait for voters to vote, and see if any of these factors ultimately matter to anyone other than serious geeks.
Following Leadership Coup, Gay Marriage Probably DOA in New York State [UPDATED: Or Is It?]
Who knew there could be such excitement in Albany?
It was a noisy and acrimonious scene on the floor of the Senate as Senator Thomas W. Libous, a Republican from Binghamton and the party’s deputy leader, shouted for a roll-call vote, while Democrats attempted to stall the vote by asking to adjourn the session.
All 30 Republicans stood with their hands raised, signaling a vote for a change in leadership. Mr. Espada and Mr. Monserrate joined them, each raising his hand. Republicans won the vote by a 32-to-30 margin. The Senate will now be governed under a new joint leadership structure, with Mr. Espada serving as the president pro tempore, and Senator Dean G. Skelos, of Long Island, as the new majority leader.
The prospects for gay marriage in New York State, which were already fairly tenuous, would now seem to be very bleak for the current senatorial term. The deposed majority leader, Malcolm Smith, had already been reluctant to bring a vote to the floor unless he had the votes. The new "bipartisan" leadership, with control of the chamber's agenda, presumably will prefer to vote on other issues rather than focus one where New Yorkers are almost evenly divided and it will be very hard to extract advantage from their tenuous, and possibly temporary (see below), hold on power. Indeed, quite a few senate Republicans had explained their no (or undecided) votes by saying that they viewed gay marriage as a "distraction".
It would be dubious, however, to suggest that gay marriage itself was the cause of the leadership change. Among the two disloyal Democrats involved in the kerfuffle, Espada was a supporter of gay marriage and Monserrate was on the fence.
And indeed, we ought to be careful of coming to too much of any conclusion, period. These things can sometimes unravel themselves with as little as a stray tweet here and there, and one of the defectors, Monserratte, is facing an indictment for felony assault and would automatically be ejected from the senate if convicted. Even if Smith and the rest of the Democrats win back control of the chamber, however, one expects they'd be reluctant to rock the boat by pushing forward on the gay marriage issue. The fact of the matter is that there are three NYC-based Democrats who are no votes on gay marriage and another three NYC-based Democrats who are undecided. If Democrats had most or all of those votes, gay marriage would be (or would have been) a heavy favorite to pass, but they don't.
New York's 62 senators are elected to concurrent, two-year terms; all will be up for re-election in 2010.
EDIT: If you absolutely need a ray of hope, the new rules the Senate seems prepared to operate under appears to give more power to individual members in pushing legislation to the floor.
# A new motion for consideration is created. A sponsor may move to have his or her bill included on the next active list if a majority of members present and voting agree to the motion.
# A petition for consideration is also created, which allows a majority of the members elected to request a bill be put to the floor. If successful, the bill shall be placed on the active list for the next session day. If within the last four days of session, it shall be immediately considered by the body if successful.
So in theory, if gay marriage had the 32 votes it needed to begin with, it would also have the votes for a "motion for consideration" to bring it to the floor. The problem is that gay marriage only had about 20 or so enthusiastic supporters, and under the current conditions my guess is that most the other 12 are going to be careful about making any false moves, even if you might find a couple of sympathetic Republicans who were planning to vote no on gay marriage but were nevertheless willing to bring it to a floor vote.
But, who knows. Marriage equity advocates should probably be focusing their attention for the time being on collecting votes (or signatures) for a so-called motion (or petition) of consideration, and calling out senators who are trying to have it both ways -- pun somewhat intended.
Has The Geithner Plan Succeeded?
Ezra Klein has noticed something that the rest of the world seems to have ignored: Tim Geithner's Public-Private Investment Partnership Plan, announced to great fanfare and much controversy in March, has gone kaput. The banks aren't interested, and the FDIC has (temporarily, it says) pulled the plug.
Ezra takes this as an ambiguous sign: "The economy certainly "feels" better," he writes, "and that's been enough to drain the urgency from some of these questions. But have the questions really gone away?".
I'll stick my neck out there and say that it's more unambiguously a positive sign. For one thing, among the reasons that the banks aren't interested in getting loans subsidized by the Fed is because they're raising unexpectedly large amounts of private capital: some $50 billion in May. For another, the economy is doing more than just feeling better; it's showing some fairly robust signs of turning the corner and actually getting better. The Leading Economic Index improved significantly in April (the most recent data available; it is quite likely to improve further in May), with seven of ten key indicators improving -- these are things like consumer sentiment, supplier deliveries, the S&P 500 (which is up about 20 percent since the Geithner plan was announced) and initial unemployment claims.
Mind you, we aren't out of the woods just yet. For one thing, the most direct way in which most of us feel the impact of the economy -- unemployment -- is unfortunately a lagging rather than a leading indicator, and has particularly been so in recent recessions. That fewer people are losing their jobs doesn't mean that the economy is creating jobs -- it isn't doing so yet. For another, the history of recovery from recessions is littered with false starts and double-dips.
But a lot of the debate about the Geithner plan was about the very "feeling" that Ezra describes. Were the toxic assets that the banks were unable to dispose of "probably fundamentally undervalued", as Brad DeLong put it at the time, implying some fear and loathing and "irrational" sentiment? If that were the case -- and this seemed to be the Geithner Plan's bet -- it would serve as a sort of artificial boost of confidence for the economy: an ecstasy pill for the banks. Conversely, if the toxic assets were correctly and appropriately assigned a (very) low value by the markets, the Geithner Plan would amount to a big giveaway -- TARP III under another name.
The "spontaneous" recovery in equities markets, capital flows and bank balance sheets hints at the former scenario: there was a bit of fear and loathing that the markets have now shaken off. Current market valuations are now very much in line with long-term indicators like 10-year P/E ratios (although some smart observers now think they're modestly overvalued); moreover, market volatility has decreased by about 40 percent since the Geithner plan was announced and is barely more than a third of what it was at the peak of the financial crisis over the winter.
There was always a bit of hocus-pocus to the Geithner Plan and, particularly, the stress tests. The markets needed to see some sort of coherent plan plan coming out of Treasury; they tanked in February when the initial rollout of the Geithner plan was woefully short on details. Treasury couldn't just sit around and do nothing, even if -- and perhaps specifically if -- they thought the crisis was indeed being perpetuated by a certain amount of irrational despair.
But the goal of the Geitherner plan was never about the toxic assets themselves, and always to get capital flowing again in a sustainable way. If that is what's happening, and it seems to be, the plan may be a victim of its own success.
VA Gov a Test Case for the "Martin Effect"?
Last December, with Republicans still licking fresh wounds, Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss won a runoff election against Democrat Jim Martin. Chambliss' 15-point victory margin in the runoff was far greater than his 3-point margin in the initial contest a month earlier, in which Martin, despite finishing second, was able to keep Chambliss under the state-mandated 50 percent threshold, triggering the runoff.
What accounted for Martin's disparate performances? Race was certainly a key factor, as African American turnout dropped even more precipitously than the statewide voter dropoff, which fell by almost half. Though the lack of exit polling data makes it impossible to know for sure how much the black voter turnout rates at both moments affected Martin's performance in each election, as Nate pointed out in December, there's almost no doubt that Barack Obama's presence on the ballot helped Martin in November and, thus, his absence pretty much doomed Martin in December.
From the New York Times story the day after the runoff:
“For a lot of African-American voters, the real election was last month,” said Merle Black, an expert in Southern politics at Emory University. “The importance of electing the first African-American president in history generated enormous enthusiasm. Everything else was anticlimactic.”
A little more than two million people voted in the runoff, compared with 3.7 million on Nov. 4. In heavily black Clayton County, just south of Atlanta, Mr. Martin’s vote was less than half what it was in the earlier election. Only 9.2 percent of registered Georgians cast early votes in the runoff, compared with 36 percent in the general election.
Tomorrow's Virginia Democratic primary provides another opportunity to test the racial turnout implications of Obama's candidacy. It is not a perfect analog to the Georgia senate race, for the obvious reason that Georgia was a two-way general election runoff between a Democrat and Republican, not a party primary fought among three Democrats. But as the Washington Post reports today, what's uncertain for all three of those Democratic contenders--Craigh Deeds, Terry McAuliffe, Brian Moran--is not only whom African Americans will support, but what the overall turnout among black voters will be.
Enthusiasm among black voters for Barack Obama last fall helped him become the first Democrat since the 1960s to carry Virginia in a presidential election, but it is unclear whether any of the Democrats who hope to succeed Gov. Timothy M. Kaine (D) has succeeded in tapping that energy.
In a race without a clear front-runner, state Sen. R. Creigh Deeds (Bath), former Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe and former state delegate Brian Moran (Alexandria) have touted endorsements from civil rights leaders and black newspapers, mailed thousands of fliers and competed on radio for support in areas that are not a natural base for any of the three.
They have crafted messages targeting black voters -- who accounted for an estimated 30 percent of the Democratic primary vote in 2008 -- with promises to reduce childhood obesity, spur economic renewal in the urban areas of Richmond and Norfolk and restore voting rights to nonviolent felons. All three have pledged to crack down on predatory payday lenders, an issue McAuliffe elevated by promising to drive such businesses out of the state.
If Barack Obama has changed black politics--and even if he has done so only in symbolic ways, is there any doubt he has?--the interesting post-2008 electoral questions are whether and to what degree African Americans will turn out in non-presidential contests, particularly those without a black candidate in (presumably, though not necessarily) Democratic primaries and/or general election contests. Tomorrow's result should provide one of the first pieces to this racial turnout puzzle.
Black voter share of the VA Democratic primary electorate should be higher than it was four years ago, if for no other reason than the greater level of attention paid and amount of resources invested by the three contenders in African American parts of the state. (Besides, Tim Kaine's nomination was never in doubt in 2005.) What will be harder to tease out is whether an increase is a byproduct of African American voters newly-engaged by the Obama effect, or simply a result of all that attention and resources. But if black share of the primary electorate is only slightly higher than four years ago, or the same or lower, Jim Martin may be chuckling--and wincing--tomorrow night.
Obama's Top Targeter Bullish on Montana and Worried About Gingrich; Predicts Deeds Win Tomorrow
Ken Strasma, recognizable to many 538 readers as Barack Obama's national targeting director in 2008, is the first participant in a new series of interviews we will be conducting with consultants and experts from the field of campaigns and elections.
In this interview, Strasma describes the voter targeting approaches of the 2008 Obama campaign, explains why he thinks Montana is the top target for Obama to flip in 2012, calls Newt Gingrich an unconventional and thus potentially tough 2012 Republican nominee, and predicts that Virginia Sen. Craigh Deeds will win his state's Democratic gubernatorial primary tomorrow.
First, give our readers a little bit of background on you and Strategic Telemetry.
Strategic Telemetry specializes in providing microtargeting and other strategic consulting services for progressive candidates and organizations. I founded Strategic Telemetry in 2003 in order to help make sure that Democratic candidates didn't fall behind in the targeting arms race against the Republicans, who under the leadership of Karl Rove were making big investments in voterfiles and data analysis.
My own background is in campaign management. I was using microtargeting as a manager long before there was a buzzword to describe the process. One of my favorite early successes with microtargeting was when I was able to combine polling data from more than 20 individual legislative races in Minnesota in order to find likely swing voters. The morning after a mailing using that model hit, I was listening to a right-wing talk show host in the Twin Cities who was attacking our strategy in sending out the mailing. He felt that because it was attacking the legislative Republican's votes on education, it should have been targeted to hard-core Republicans who always vote, and he didn't understand why he hadn't gotten the mailing. He went on to say that his girlfriend who voted for some Democrats and some Republicans had received the mailing. So that made my day, having the right-wing talk show host confirm for us that our targeting had succeeded in finding his swing-voter girlfriend.
What was your role as a consultant for the Obama campaign?
I served as Obama's national Targeting Director, and my firm provided the Obama campaign's microtargeting in both the primaries and the general election. We started planning for the IA Caucuses in late 2006. The primary process lasted longer than anyone expected, so we shifted right into targeting for the general election even before the last primaries had been held.
Without giving away any trade secrets, can you explain to us how you developed the targeting models for the Obama campaign?
At the most basic level, any campaign is about persuading undecided voters, and turning out supporters. Using telephone IDs, we were able to ask hundreds of thousands of voters who they were supporting, and how they felt about certain issues.Those IDs by themselves were very valuable, but there were still millions of voters who we were not able to reach. Using the ID information we did have, combined with demographic and commercial marketing data, we built statistical models that predicted how voters we weren't able to reach would have answered the ID questions if we'd been able to reach them. Some of the statistical modeling techniques are well known from the academic and commercial marketing worlds. Other proprietary techniques fall under the category of trade secrets that we'll have to keep to ourselves for the moment. The Obama campaign was in some ways a wonderful 2-year research and development project, with the most aggressive testing of microtargeting models that I have ever seen. We'll be continuing intense R&D to make sure that we maintain the technical lead we established in 2008.
The Obama campaign used Catalist, supplemented with some other voter databases. Can you give us a status update on the quality of voter lists today?
While I can't get into the details of exactly what voterfiles the Obama campaign used in the primaries and the general election, I can say that the voterfiles were the best I have ever worked with. There are always problems with voterfiles, but a lot of progress was made this cycle. Because my work is highly dependent on having accurate voterfile data, I was especially pleased with the advances in the quality of voterfiles in 2008. Another major achievement was the quick turn-around on voterfile updates. The Obama campaign focused heavily on voter registration and on early vote. Getting new registrants on the voterfile and flagging who had voted early was extremely valuable. Because we knew who had voted early, and because we had support scores for those voters telling us how likely it was that they were Obama supporters, we were able to estimate our margin from early vote going into election day, and calculate the percentage of the at-the-polls vote that we needed to get to 50 percent +1.
Obama flipped nine states: three each in the Southwest, Midwest and South. How did the demographic challenges differ in each region?
One of the key demographic challenges was to avoid treating groups as if they were all the same. There are significant differences between Protestant and Catholic Hispanics in the Southwest, between Cuban and non-Cuban Hispanics in Florida, and between Hispanics living in majority Hispanic neighborhoods and those who live in more diverse areas.
Once you start looking at voters on the individual level, rather than as monolithic blocks, there are a lot of similarities between these states. There are pockets of similar voters in all of these states, but the share of the electorate made up by the various groups differed dramatically.
OK, I lost a bet to you about Obama winning North Carolina. In my defense, that bet was made in July, before the September economic collapse and McCain's "fundamentals are strong" blunder. But, to your credit, you were bullish on NC five or six months out. What made you so optimistic?
The North Carolina primary gave us a lot of insight into how the state was changing, and what was doable in the general election. Winning North Carolina wasn’t just about mobilizing African-American turnout, although that was very important. North Carolina’s electorate is changing, with a significant increase in younger, well educated voters who made up another key part of Obama’s winning coalition. Even when things looked bad for a little while when McCain briefly took the lead following the Republican convention, we knew that we were on track to hit or vote goal in North Carolina. That gave me confidence, even when the polling looked bad.
Indiana might be the biggest puzzle of 2008. Aside from the neighboring state advantage, how the heck did Obama swing Indiana so far in one cycle?
Indiana is one of those states whose dark-red status in presidential elections has become something of a self-fulfilling prophecy. Indiana is Republican-leaning, but still competitive at the state level. We made Indiana competitive by choosing to compete there. It is important to understand that this wasn’t any kind of head-fake. We invested serious resources in building an unprecedented field operation in Indiana.
It's also worth noting that our primary organization paid huge dividends in the general election. People are still debating whether the long primary process helped or hurt, and I don’t claim to know the answer to that question. One thing I am sure of is that winning Indiana would have been much more difficult if we hadn’t been forced to compete there late in the primary process.
We're a long way from 2012, but if you had to project forward, what will it take for Obama to flip states like Montana and the Dakotas?
I'm very bullish on Montana. It is currently my number one pick to flip in 2012. Energy, land-management and environmental issues are key in Montana and the Dakotas. If, after four years, voters there see that Obama’s policies aren’t the caricatures that Republicans have claimed, we should do quite well.
Which Republican of the potential field of names presently under discussion-Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Haley Barbour-do you think would present the biggest obstacle to Obama in 2012?
I would love to see Sarah Palin as the Republican nominee if only for the entertainment value. In terms of who I think would be the strongest opponent, that depends on what type of environment we’re facing. If the economy is still in dire straits, and voters blame Obama, than I would worry about facing Romney. He is an inoffensive, reasonable-appearing candidate, especially compared to some of the other candidates competing for the support of the right-wing of the Republican Party.
However, I expect that the economy will begin to recover, and that Obama will continue to be a popular and successful president. In that case, the Republicans will not win by nominating an inoffensive candidate like Romney. In those circumstances, Newt Gingrich is the candidate who worries me the most. Gingrich has new and unusual ideas. While those ideas are usually dead wrong, and often quite scary, he is something different. You don’t defeat a popular incumbent with a conventional politician, so an unusual choice like Gingrich would be what would worry me the most.
You got to know Virginia demography pretty well in 2008. Any predictions on what will happen Tuesday in the Virginia primary?
The key in Virginia as that we don’t yet know the demographics of the primary electorate. The Democratic primary electorate in VA has been changing over the last several cycles. The share of the Democratic primary vote coming from Northern Virginal more than doubled between 2001 and the 2008 presidential primary. We’ll see on Tuesday who does the best job of turning out their vote.
Most public polling is showing Deeds and Moran gaining and McAuliffe dropping, but the numbers are close enough that a good GOTV operation could make the difference for any one of the three candidates. I see the most likely outcome as a Deeds win, but McAuliffe could still win if Deeds and Moran continue to split the “non-McAuliffe” vote. If Moran’s supporters begin to defect to Deeds then there is probably no way for McAuliffe to win what would then be functionally a 2-person race against Deeds.
The Palin Paradox: Women More Likely to be Elected in Male-Dominated Districts
Alaska isn't the first place you'd expect to see a woman elected to higher office. With its harsh climate and reliance on traditionally male-dominated industries like fishing, mining, and oil extraction, it has the most male population in the country: 106 men for every 100 women. Things are a bit worse still for the guys on Alaska's single scene -- the ratio of unmarried men (15 years or older) to unmarried women is 114:100. Throughout the rest of the United States, the men have it a bit easier, as the ratio is 86:100 nationally.
And yet, Alaska is one of just five states to have elected a female governor -- the irrepressible Sarah Palin. One of its two Senators, Lisa Murkowski, is also a woman.
But Alaska is a quirky state, and presumably this is highly irregular behavior. Except that -- it really isn't. Although women are still having a relatively tough time getting elected in general -- they represent just 17 percent of the members of the U.S. Congress -- Congresswomen, as opposed to Congressmen, are more plentiful in areas where the male-to-female ratio is higher.
I have a database containing the names of 535 members of the Congress -- 435 Representatives plus 100 Senators -- as well as a bunch of demographic information on their states and districts. Of these 535 geographies, 91, or about 17 percent, elected a woman at their last opportunity. (A couple of methodological notes: state-level observations are deliberately double-counted, to represent the two senators that each state has. I also look at the identity of the person who was last elected in each geography, so if someone has since resigned their seat in the Congress, I'm still counting as holding their seat unless there has already been a special election held to name their replacement.)
The chart below lists the 25 most male "districts" in the country (from here forward, I will refer to state-level observations on the Senate side as "districts" in addition to actual congressional districts from the House side), along with the 25 most female districts. The female office-holders are highlighted in red.
Nine of the 25 most male-dominated districts (36%) most recently elected a woman to office, as compared with 4 of the 25 most female-dominated districts (16%). This alone is somewhat interesting -- however, it actually conceals the strength of the relationship because female-dominated districts are more likely to vote Democratic, and Democratic-leaning districts are more likely to elect women to office regardless of their sex ratios. Let's look, for instance, at what's happening only in strongly Democratic districts, which I define as those with a PVI of D+10 or higher:
The most male-dominated from among these strongly Democratic districts elected women in 10 out of 15 instances. The 15 most female districts elected just 3 women.
Next, moving to moderately Democratic districts with a PVI of between D+3 and D+9.
A less impressive result here: 3 of the 15 most male districts elected women, as compared with 4 of the top 17 most female districts. (Note that we include 17 districts rather than 15 on the gals' side because there's a three-way tie between Delaware's two senate seats and its one U.S. House seat in 15th place).
Next up are the swing districts:
Just two of the 15 most male swing districts -- IL-8 and NV-3 -- elected women. But women were shut out in the 15 most female-dominated swing districts.
Moving on to lean Republican districts:
Once again, it's the more male districts that are more inclined to elect women to office.
Lastly, the strongly Republican districts:
Same story here. Among the 15 most female districts, only OH-2, which reelected the inimitable Jean Schmidt, sent a woman to Congress. All told, after controlling for the district's partisan affiliation, male-dominated districts were more than twice as likely to elect a Congresswoman as were female-dominated districts.
We can generalize this result by means of a logistic regression analysis. This is the estimated probability of electing a woman to Congress based on the sex ratio in three types of districts: a strongly Democratic one, a strongly Republican one, and a neutral one.
Note that, although the pattern manifests itself regardless of the partisan affiliation of the district, it is strongest in Democratic-leaning districts and weaker in Republican ones.
What I don't have for you is a ready explanation for this seeming paradox. What's especially perplexing is that although the sex ratios differ some from district to district, they don't differ all that much. In the most male district in the country, CA-20, about 54 of every 100 people you'd encounter on the street will be a man, as compared with 45 of 100 in the most female district, Philadelphia's PA-2. Unless perhaps you were specifically looking for a marriage partner, you might not notice those discrepancies. For that matter, I recently moved from the fifth-most male district in the country, IL-4, to the second-most female, NY-11. I couldn't in good conscience tell you I had any idea about that until I looked up these statistics.
Nevertheless, I cross-checked at least a dozen different demographic variables in addition to the sex ratios, such as race, income and educational status; none of them were statistically significant once the sex ratio of the district was accounted for. There is also no doubt as to the statistical significance of the effect; we are more than 99.9 percent certain that it isn't the result of chance alone.
It's possible, and maybe even somewhat likely, that there is some sort of latent variable affecting both the sex ratios and elections to the Congress that I haven't accounted for. If this really is being driven by the sex ratios, however, and it's being driven in this extremely counterintuitive way, it's one of the more fascinating things that I've come across. Perhaps in male-dominated areas, women are more likely to violate traditional sex roles including something like running for political office, which has traditionally been a male-dominated occupation -- the Sarah Palin frontierswoman caricature works well here. It would be interesting to know whether there more women actually running for office in male-dominated areas, or rather, whether they are winning more often when they do run. Or perhaps this is a phenomenon that goes beyond politics, and career growth is retarded for the dominant gender when there is an insufficient number of the opposite one. Or perhaps there is even something more Freudian: a lack of female companionship (or vice versa) triggers a yearning for it that is manifested in the way we vote.
March of the Greens?
The end of the speculation is near in the European elections, with final results from four days of voting to be released this evening at 20:00 GMT. In the meantime, we'll take a look at a curious trend regarding the protest vote and small parties in Europe - something that has possibly played into this cycle of voting.
The buzz around western Europe has been that in France and elsewhere, the Greens are on the move. With a charismatic leader in Daniel Cohn-Bendit (French-German fellow), and widespread dissatisfaction with the larger parties in France (and Germany), many people are looking at Les Verts as a good "lefty" option, but without the ugly party politics of the Socialists or Communists. Particularly among the young, green social democracy has become a new leftward movement, fueled in part by frustration with the mainstream system, and the recognition that environment damage, particularly climate change and natural resource depletion are the burden of the younger generation.
It turns out, however, that a "green" sensibility has a lot more power at the European level than at the national level in most big EU countries.
Across each of the four largest delegations to the European Parliament, green factions outstrip their national counterparts by wide margins. Only in Germany do Die Grünen have a significant presence, where green politics have made great inroads to the mainstream left since the reunification in the early 1990s. Perhaps green movements, which recognize the need for cooperative global action on issues such as climate change, are the pragmatic new leaders of the pan-European movement, following the first wave of economic liberals and trade integrationists?
Perhaps. It also turns out that far-right/right wing & nationalists are also far more powerful at the European level than they are at home.*
Nationalist, far-right parties are an interesting category, particularly in the scope of European elections. In Germany, for example, mainstream parties have attempted to have the National Democrats disbanded, under post-Nazi era anti-right legislation. While there is a robust population of supporters, the National Dems have not made much progress at the national or EU electoral level, while at the state level, they have had some success in the north.
Exactly the opposite, the former Italian neo-fascist party MSI seamlessly transformed into the National Front in 1995, with only a small portion of the old party joining the alternative (and more conservative) Fiamma Tricolore. The National Front, which officially renounced some of the more far-right policy positions that it had before 1995, now plays a large role in the governing coalition, as part of Silvio Berlusconi's "The People of Freedom".
Nationalist parties in the UK have a completely different setup, with independence parties in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in some ways playing a similar more mainstream role in the House of Commons as the UK Independence Party plays in the European Parliament. In France, while the Front Nationale has had great success in garnering votes at the European level, at Presidential and Parliamentary level the results have not been there. Across the four countries, we can also see that where green parties are strong, nationalist parties tend to be weaker at both the EU and national level, and vice versa.
All in all, smaller constituency parties, include the fringes, play a far bigger role in the EP than in national parliaments, which indicates some of the thinking that EU voters have about the role of the EU elections. With less at stake, they say, why not vote for someone who you would not normally? With strict proportional representation enforced by the EU, the fringes suddenly become accessible to voters who might otherwise vote for more conventional parties and candidates. And with incredibly low turnout, only the most committed of voters are casting their ballots - perhaps those who are committed to parties farther from the center than would be the case in national balloting.
*Note: As it is often quite difficult to make the distinction between "mainstream" nationalists and "fringe" nationalists, my charts throw an inclusive net.
UPDATE: Looks like the Greens indeed performed well , especially in France.
Renard Sexton is FiveThirtyEight's international columnist and is based in Geneva, Switzerland. He can be contacted at sexton538@gmail.com
New York's Gillibrand Has Become Lockstep Liberal
New York voters seeking a progressive alternative to Senator Kirsten Gillibrand may have found one: Gillibrand herself.
According to ratings compiled by ProgressivePunch.org (Progressive Punch founder Joshua Grossman is a contributor to FiveThirtyEight.com), Gillibrand has thus far compiled a progressive score of 98.45% in the 111th Congress, and 94.12% on critical votes. Although there has been little to distinguish the first 30 or so Democratic senators, most of whom have voted in lockstep with the President's agenda, those scores rank Gillibrand 15th among the 59 Democratic Senators; her ratings are essentially identical to those of reliably liberal Senators like Tom Harkin and Pat Leahy, as well as those of her colleague in the Senate, Chuck Schumer. Gillibrand has also been among the most liberal of the 11 freshman Democratic Senators:
Progressive Scores for Freshman Democrats
Merkley OR 98.69%
Burris IL 98.65%
Kaufman DE 98.65%
Gillibrand NY 98.45%
T. Udall NM 96.73%
Shaheen NH 95.33%
M. Udall CO 92.16%
Warner VA 90.20%
Begich AK 89.47%
Bennet CO 88.89%
Hagan NC 88.08%
It's not as though Gillibrand, who rated as a relatively conservative Democrat while representing New York's 20th Congressional District in the House of Representatives, has done much to conceal her newly more liberal politics; she flipped to become a supporter of gay marriage almost immediately upon taking office, for instance, and she has become a regular contributor on progressive websites like Daily Kos and The Huffington Post.
Still, this might help to explain why the White House has been not-so-subtly trying to dissuade other Democrats -- first Steve Israel and then Carolyn Maloney, both U.S. Representatives with solidly liberal voting records -- from issuing a primary challenge to Gillibrand.
Voting this way, of course, is probably an asset to Gillibrand in New York, where Obama retains a 73 percent approval rating, including getting the thumbs-up from about half of the state's small but hearty base of Republicans. It's a reminder, indeed, that with very few exceptions, electoral considerations bear far more firmly on a Congressperson's voting record than any sort of deep-seated personal convictions.
Latinos Love Sotomayor--But How Much?
There's finally some polling out on the SCOTUS nomination of Sonia Sotomayor that breaks out Latinos, and unsurprisingly, she's very popular in this demographic. But the degree of this approbation, and thus the potential risk to Republicans of fighting her confirmation, is still in some question.
Yesterday Quinnipiac released a national poll showing a 58/24 approval/disapproval ratio for Sonia Sotomayor's nomination among Hispanics; a solid majority, to be sure, but barely distinguishable from the 55/25 ratio for all voters.
But another poll released today by DailyKos/Research 2000, conducted on 5/31-6/4, with a MoE of 2%, tells a very different story. You can read the full findings over at DKos, but the most important numbers, for Latinos, are very stark: Their approval/disapproval ratio for Sotomayor is 82/5, and for Rush Limbaugh is 3/77. In terms of the big conservative talking points against Sotomayor, Latinos like the idea of empathy in a judge by 79/4; and don't think she's a racist by a margin of 83/2. There are a scattering of undecideds on all these questions, but it's fair to say that Latino support for Sotomayor in this poll is overwhelming and unconditional.
We'll soon see more evidence, and have a better idea which of these two snapshots of Hispanic/Latino opinion is an outlier, since one of them almost certainly is.
If DKos/R2k is right, or conservatives decide to take a different tack with this confirmation, it may well be time for Republicans to ponder Nate's "Operation Gringo" strategy for winning the presidency with little or not Latino support.
Liberal Blogger Matt Yglesias Wants to Tax Your Beer! I Want to Tax Drunk Drivers.
Matt Yglesias writes:
[E]xcessive alcohol consumption is associated with a lot of health problems, and not only problems for excessive drinkers—drunk driving and the linkage between alcohol and violence impose significant costs on other people. Mark Kleiman estimates that “Doubling the tax on beer (from a dime to twenty cents a can) would reduce the assault rate by at least 5%, and maybe as much as 20%.”
Meanwhile, you could get a healthy chunk of the revenue needed to pay for health care reform. [..] I don’t want my beer to get more expensive. But at the same time, I do want to see comprehensive health care reform. So someone will have to pay something. And this is a pretty good option.
There's pretty good economic evidence to suggest that alcohol consumption is fairly sensitive to price. And there's lots of good economic (and commonsencial) evidence that alcohol consumption is associated with a wide array of undesirable outcomes, from increased highway fatalities, to decreased productivity at work, to increased violence against women, to worsened health outcomes. Increasing alcohol taxes would, therefore, almost certainly save lives.
One problem, however, which is somewhat unique to liquor consumption, is that these behaviors aren't particularly strongly associated with drinking unto itself. They are associated, rather, with drinking to excess and/or engaging in other, particularly stupid sorts of behaviors while doing so. I know the evidence on this is mixed, but many studies have suggested that moderate alcohol consumption is in fact associated with improved health outcomes -- especially if you're drinking red wine and especially if you're a guy. A person who has a couple of drinks a couple of days a week, and who never drives or has the compulsion to engage in violence while doing so, imposes virtually no negative consequences either on himself or on society. Drinking doesn't cause negative externalities in the same way that, say, driving (traffic congestion and pollution) or smoking (second-hand smoke) intrinsically do.
People say it's difficult to tax the undesirable behaviors associated with drinking without taxing drinking itself. But is that necessarily so?
In 2006, there were 1.1 million arrests for drunk driving in the United States (source), not counting Florida which didn't report its statistics. Fine each of those people $8,000, and you'd have almost about $9 billion more to pay for health care every year. Why $8,000? Because that's the figure, according to a 2001 paper (.pdf) by Steve Levitt (the Freakonomics guy) and Jack Porter, that would be required to internalize the negative externalities associated with driving drunk.* By the way, if you're concerned that this tax might be regressive, you could scale it according to a person's income, as they do for traffic fines in Finland.
Of course, if you were actually to fine people $8K every time they got a drunk driving conviction, you wouldn't raise quite as much as $9 billion. Faced with a choice between an $8,000 fine or a $20 taxi fare, a lot more people would have Yellow Cab on speed dial, and you'd have fewer revenue-producing arrests.** But this is a feature of the policy rather than a bug -- you'd be stopping drunk driving. Moreover, it's exactly the same feature/bug problem you'd run into by raising alcohol taxes in general, or any time you were trying to use tax policy to disincentivize an undesirable behavior.
The drunk driver tax would also produce at least as much revenue as the liquor tax. The CBO estimated (.pdf) in December that raising alcohol taxes to $16 per proof-gallon (by about 10 cents a drink over current levels) would raise about $6 billion per year. Even if our $9 billion total were decreased somewhat by deterred drunk driving -- and again, that would be a Good Thing -- we could probably beat that number.
Of course, there are probably some jurisdictional or federalism issues with this. And like Yglesias, I'd be willing to chip in a few extra cents with every beer to help pay for universal health care. (Although as a self-employed person who could probably expect some cost savings from alternatives to employer-based insurance, this is not necessarily a selfless act for me -- though I do drink a lot of beer!).
But a drunk driver tax would be fairer, more efficient, and more Pigovian than a beer tax -- and good luck to the liquor industry in trying to oppose it.
* Levitt and Porter don't account for fines and other sorts of explicit and implicit financial penalties (e.g. raised insurance premiums) that drunk drivers already face; on the other hand, they also don't account for externalities associated with merely maiming, rather than killing, innocent victims. Nor do they blame drunk drivers for the deaths of the other passengers in their cars, figuring that those people had knowingly accepted the risks of driving with someone who had been drinking to excess.
** Then again, there is probably some low-hanging fruit. The number of drunk driving arrests varies a lot from state to state -- from a high of 861 per billion vehicle miles traveled in Alaska to a low of 26 in Delaware. These differentials have virtually no correlation with the amount of drinking in each state -- slightly more Delawareans than Alaskans are binge drinkers, for instance. While I'm enough of a libertarian to be opposed to things like random traffic checks, clearly some states can afford to be more vigorous in their pursuit of drunk drivers.
Exit Polls and Outrageous Folded Ballots in NL and UK
European Parliament voting is complete in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, with few surprises. Though the European Commission threatened legal action, Dutch exit polling was released last evening, indicating that Geert Wilders' Party of Freedom, and the Liberal Democrats (D66) had picked up four and two seats respectively, while the governing Christian Democrats and coalition partner Labour had lost a combined six seats.
In the UK, local election results so far indicate a strong showing from the Liberal Dems and the Tories, who each earned four additional councilor's chairs, at the expense of Labour. For the UK Independence Party, a bizarre "scandal" has emerged with regard to the folding style of the EP ballot. Apparently, requiring the reading of ballot instructions and/or unfolding more than one crease represents an "outrage" that undermines the fundamentals of democracy. The EP results from both countries will be officially released on Sunday, once the rest of the EU has voted.
UPDATE:As Gordon Brown remains under fire, local election results continue to trickle in from the counties. Overall, Conservatives are at +29 on councilors, +4 on councils, while Labour is -25/-1 and Liberal Dems -8/-1.
McAuliffe : Virginia :: Dean : Iowa?
We haven't been paying quite as much attention to next Tuesday's Virginia Democratic Primary as we probably should. But these charts from Pollster.com tell you pretty much all you need to know:
The purple line is Creigh Deeds, whom I'd been hoping might lose mainly because I don't want to be misspelling his first name for the next six months. But there's been some fairly robust polling of this race, and Deeds has all sorts of momentum. The green line is Terry McAuliffe, the outspoken former DNC chair and longtime Democratic consultant. McAuliffe does not have the momentum. In fact, his stock is dropping like a rock. Meanwhile, the third candidate, Brian Moran, is gaining ground on McAuliffe too but having trouble keeping up with Deeds. Does this pattern look familiar to anyone?
This was the polling situation in the run-up to the 2004 Iowa Democratic Caucus, with the last data point representing the actual results. As you can see, while it was clear from the polling that Howard Dean was losing momentum and John Kerry and John Edwards were gaining it, the polling far underestimated the magnitude of the momentum, and Dean wound up losing to Kerry by 19 points.
These kind of dramatic late swings happen more often in primaries than in general elections, and more often in multi-candidate fields than in two-candidate ones. I don't want to say they're always dispositive, because I haven't studied the issue systematically enough. Of note is that at least one hot-off-the-presses poll (from SurveyUSA) still has McAuliffe ahead by 6 points. But overall, and particularly in consideration of the fact that is Terry McAluiffe, who started out with the biggest warchest and the most name recognition, it's hard to see what he's going to do to halt his slide.
McAuliffe does, however, have one asset that Howard Dean didn't: Bill Clinton, whom he already pulled out of his hat in mid-May and who will return to Virginia over the weekend. McAuliffe, because of his access to the Democratic establishment, presumably also has things like superior voter lists, which could help his turnout on Election Day.
There is one last problem for McAuliffe, though: what happens to those Moran voters? Will they stick with their guy? He does, after all, seem to have some momentum of his own, and is polling within the margin of error in several surveys. Or, rather than playing the role of John Edwards, will Moran be more like Dick Gephardt, who also lost momentum in the days before the Iowa Caucus and saw most of his vote go to candidates like Kerry and Edwards? If some Moran voters do defect, presumably they would be more likely to go to Deeds, who has substantially better favorables than McAuliffe according to PPP (although Research 2000 disagrees).
My armchair assessment is that the probabilities here are something like Deeds 60-70%, McAuliffe 20-30%, and Moran 10-20%. Like Dean, McAuliffe wears his emotions on his sleeve, and if he were to lose, the concession speech should be something to watch.
As Go These Four So Go the Dems?
As a final look for the moment at re-election prospects of the House Democratic rookies, I'm going to focus on four white, Rust Belt freshmen, two each from Michigan and Ohio: Steve Driehaus, OH1; Mary Jo Kilroy, OH15; Mark Schauer, MI7; and Gary Peters, MI9.
Here are some basics on the four:
This quartet provides a nice mix, with variation in their own victory margin, Barack Obama's performance in their district, and the racial makeup and levels of college education in their districts. None of the four were among the 11 Democrats who voted against Obama's stimulus or the 20 who voted against his budget.
Based on this limited, preliminary sketch of the four, if I had to list them from least to most vulnerable, it would be Kilroy, Peters, Schauer and then Dreihaus.
Kilroy won the open seat vacated by Deborah Pryce's 2007 retirement, though she nearly beat Pryce in 2006. So Kilroy has run strong twice, and almost certainly will not have to face a challenge in 2010 from a politically-revived Pryce. Thanks to Ohio State University, her district, which includes significant chunks of Columbus and Franklin County, has a high rate of college education--in the heart of the so-called "diploma belt." Though Kilroy benefited from Obama's solid showing, her win was not dependent on a minority voter surge, as her close defeat in 2006 and the relatively low minority voter district percentage shows.
Gary Peters posted only 52 percent in his 2008 elected, but won by 9 points thanks to third party votes. Still, 52 means 48 percent voted against you, and so it will be important to see what sort of challenger the Republicans recruit here. Peters' is an even better-educated district than Kilroy's and he got an even bigger push from a more diverse district than Kilroy's. Again, given that all of this put him at just 52 percent, quality of opponent here is crucial. Fortunately for Peters, he's raising cash at a clip that would make Rahm Emanuel proud--fourth best among rookie Democrats in pickup districts.
I'd rank Mark Schauer next, second most vulnerable among the quartet. On the upside, he didn't get much of a pull from Obama in this district with relatively low levels of college degrees and a small non-white population. Schauer's victory was partially set-up by the victory of the man he beat: Conservative Republican Tim Walberg, who successfully primaried moderate GOPer Tim Schwarz in 2006, making Walberg a poster boy for what goes wrong when the far right dominates a primary and making the seat a prime target for Democrats in 2006. Though Walberg hinted soon after his loss that he may be back for a rematch in 2010, the tougher challenge might actually come from Schwarz, were he to decide to run.
That brings us to Driehaus. Not only did Driehaus win by a small margin, but he benefitted from arguably the largest Obama coattails, courtesy of the large share of minority voters in the district. Steve Chabot is clearly convinced that Driehaus was a coattail winner: He already announced, on February 9, that he will run to take back the seat, and identified a large minority turnout as "a key factor in our loss, probably the most substantial factor. With the turnout model you saw this past election cycle in a district like mine, it was just impossible to overcome."
CORRECTION: Sorry, I initially and accidentally had the OH16 (Boccieri) results in the column for Kilroy's OH15 district. She won by 1, not 10 points, and that said, she surely has a far more tenuous hold on that seat. I'd re-order it from least to most vulnerable as Peters, Schauer, Kilroy and then Driehaus--putting Kilroy slightly ahead of Driehaus despite the closer victory margin because she's run twice and, so far at least, is not facing the recently-deposed Republican, as Driehaus will with Chabot.
Get Ready for Hockey Dad!
Yesterday, we noted that Tim Pawlenty's approval ratings, even if we give him a bit of extra credit for being a Republican in a blue state, have been nothing remarkable. He's no Charlie Crist or Jon Huntsman Jr., someone whose popularity at home clearly points toward some kind of special political acumen. True, almost any "opposite-color" governor of a reasonably large state is someone who is going to get at least a passing thought from his party. But there's no particularly good reason why, say, Tim Pawlenty is considered a serious presidential candidate and someone like Jodi Rell isn't.
Since Pawlenty has announced, however, that he won't seek a third term as Minnesota's governor, and he seems poised to tip his toes into the Presidential waters instead, let's take another look at what his strengths might be. Below is a comparison, from exit polls, of Pawlenty's performance in 2006, when he defeated DFL candidate Mike Hatch by a single percentage point to win re-election, against that of a generic House Republican candidate. That 2006 year was, of course, not a very good one for Republicans: they lost all sorts of key demographics, including independents by a 3:2 margin, en route to losing most of the key races that they were competing in. Palwenty's narrow re-election was one of the few bright spots for them. Where and with whom did he overperform a generic Republican?
There are a lot of numbers there but, although be perfectly frank, I'm not sure this was quite as enlightening as I was hoping for it to be. But a few interesting things stand out.
Firstly, Pawlenty performed relatively well with young voters. Although he lost the 18-29s, he didn't lose them badly, and he won Gen X'ers by a solid margin. This may have more to do, however, with the peculiar politics of Minnesota rather than anything in particular that Palwenty was doing. While Minnesota is blue now, it was very blue before, once sometimes thought of as the most reliably Democratic state in the nation. What this implies is that the old folks in Minnesota might be at least as liberal as their younger counterparts.
Likewise, Pawlenty split the independent vote with Hatch -- not a bad outcome in a year in which the Republicans lost it by 18 points nationally. But part of that may have been because of the presence of Peter Hutchinson, an independent who won 6.4 percent of the vote. Hutchinson's vote share, naturally, was large among independents, but exit polls also revealed that about twice as many of his votes came from Kerry voters as Bush voters; he probably cost Mike Hatch the election. (Of course, any Minnesota politician who is hoping to win a race without a third-party candidate mucking things up somehow is making a mistake).
The number I find most interesting here, actually, is Pawlenty's strong performance among people with children under the age of 18 -- he won them by 15 points in a year where Republicans lost them by 4 points nationally. Although some of this may have to do with the age-based demographics in Minnesota that we described above -- it's that 30-44 age range where most people are raising kids -- it was nevertheless an impressive performance. And Pawlenty's performance was particularly good with dads: he won them by 25 points, when Republicans won them by just 2 points nationally.
Perhaps this can be Pawlenty's elevator pitch: the 30-second (or less) soundbyte that distinguishes him from some of the other, relatively strongly-branded Republican hopefuls like Mike Huckabee and Sarah Palin. He's Soccer Dad! Or since this is Minnesota, he's Hockey Dad! Or, since Palin has sort of deflated the Hockey Parent bubble, he's Curling Dad!
All right, you might be interpreting this as sarcasm. But doing well with middle-aged men is a pretty good attribute for a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination to have. Some 56 percent of the Republican turnout in the Iowa caucuses was male, as was 57 percent in New Hampshire, and 56 percent in both Michigan and Florida. Just as it's an advantage to have your demographics skew female in a Democratic primary, it's nice to have them skew male in a Republican one.
Pawlenty is not the only Republican hopefuls with some appeal to the working class -- Palin and Huckabee, notably, are big problems for him. So the Hockey Dad schtik alone won't be enough for him. The Republican presidential field is crowded, but, as I noted in February, it's least crowded in the dimension of a moderate populist:
Pawlenty's small opening might come among voters who conclude that Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee are a little scary (although Pawlenty is an evangelical Christian, he'll lose if he tries to out-conservative them), but that Charlie Crist and Mitt Romney are a little creepy. If I were him, I might talk a lot about guns -- but not so much about God. On an issue like gay marriage, I might take the tack that a lot of the Republican moderates are taking in the New York Senate: don't necessarily come out forcefully against it, but blame the other side for creating a "distraction". Don't be a jingoist, but talk a lot about American jobs and the need to protect them.
It's going to take a lot of ingenuity for Pawlenty to win the Republican nomination -- he starts out with much lower name recognition, and a much weaker brand, than most of his rivals. But that is, I suppose, why he's decided to take two years off to get ready for the race.
Control of Virginia Redistricting Hinges on Races Far Under the Radar
Many millions of dollars are being spent in Virginia this year in order to affect the primary election being held there five days from now as well as the general election being held in November. The battle royal that’s attracting the vast majority of attention right now is the red-hot, three-way Democratic gubernatorial primary between Terry McAuliffe, Creigh (pronounced "Cree") Deeds and Brian Moran. Deeds had been trailing but now has caught up to the other two (see the most recent three way horse race primary poll from PPP). We’ll have more on the general election race against Republican Bob McDonnell after the primary.
But underneath all the thunder and lightning and money being hurled around in the gubernatorial primary, there is pitched battle for control of the State House, and with it a significant stake in the coming redistricting. How it shakes out below the break.
Operating far below the public awareness levels of the three statewide elections (Governor, Lt. Governor and Attorney General) are the one hundred races for the Virginia House of Delegates, which is what the lower chamber of the state legislature is called in Virginia. Why should anyone outside of Virginia care whether the Democrats or the Republicans control the Virginia House of Delegates? Collectively, the House of Delegates comprises one leg of the three-legged stool (the other two are the governor and the state senate) that will determine the lines that demarcate all the new 2010 census-based congressional districts and state legislative districts in the state of Virginia for the next decade. (Because Virginia is one of the rare states that holds elections in odd numbered years, the new post-2010 census lines actually go into effect in Virginia in 2011, before everywhere else in the country implements new lines in 2012.) The 2009 elections are the last for the House of Delegates before redistricting.
As things currently stand, control of Virginia redistricting is wide open, which would have been a surprise to anyone after the 2001 elections. Republicans seized full control of Virginia government leading up to the 2001 redistricting, and drew aggressive new lines. Despite Mark Warner winning the Governor’s race and collecting broad support throughout the Commonwealth, Virginia Democrats dropped from a 49 seats out of 100 all the way down to 34.
But Virginia Democrats are on a very strong victorious streak. They’ve won two governors' races in a row and picked up Jim Webb’s U.S. Senate seat in 2006. In 2008 came an across-the-board triumph with Mark Warner easily picking up the other U.S. Senate seat for the Dems and the defeat of two incumbent U.S. House Republicans -- not to mention the first Democratic triumph in the presidential race in Virginia since 1964. Today, the House of Delegates sits at 55 Republicans (including two independents who regularly caucus with the Republicans) and 45 Democrats.
Bob McDonnell, the Republican nominee for governor, leads all three possible Democratic candidates in trial heat polling, although not by enough to enable a prediction with much confidence. So that leg is up for grabs.
Virginia state senators are elected to four-year terms, with all 40 senators being elected at once. The next election for them will not be held until November of 2011. In theory, Democrats control the Virginia state senate over Republicans 21-19. But the Democrats’ margin is even more tenuous than it appears. That’s because the Virginia State Senate Republican Caucus had successfully lured Democratic State Senator Ralph Northam to join them, which would have created a 20-20 tie and terminated Democratic control over the State Senate. But Virginia Democrats had been blessed with inept opponents: Jeff Frederick, then the Virginia state Republican chairman, sent a premature tweet boasting to all and sundry that the Democratic hegemony in the Virginia State Senate was about to be overthrown. The tweet allegedly gave members of the Virginia State Senate Democratic Caucus sufficient time to whisper their own counter lures in Northam’s ear and so the announced defection never actually transpired. But if Republicans can seize control of the governorship and the state House of Delegates, Northam and other individual conservative Democrats in the state Senate would have tremendous leverage to extract concessions from either side in order to either consolidate or foil Republican control or redistricting. So control of the senate leg of the redistricting stool is also in serious question.
The House of Delegates is the leg of the stool whose control appears most likely to be held by Republicans. The key questions in determining the outcome of the Delegate elections are:
1. Is Obama's victory last November a harbingers of a changing Virginia -- or a unique result unlikely to be replicated in a 2009 election with no federal offices on the ballot?
2. How good are the Democratic candidates in these “Obama seats” currently held by Republicans?
3. Can the Democrats overcome not having candidates in some of the most closely-fought districts from 2008?
As he did nationally, Obama ran ahead of typical Democratic performance in the vast majority of Virginia -- essentially the entire state outside of Appalachia.
There are 22 House of Delegates districts in Virginia where Obama won more than 63.5% of the vote (NOT shown below on the chart), all of which are all currently held by Democrats. There are also 38 districts of the 100 where Obama received less than 47.0% percent. That leaves 40 districts in which you might expect a competitive contest:
But in some of these districts, one or the other party hasn't managed to field a nominee. Rather, there are 26 districts out of these 40 with both a Democratic and Republican candidate. Throw in the three additional off-chart districts with competitive races in places Obama underperformed and you’re left with 29 competitive races -- 16 seats defended by Republicans, 13 seats by Democrats. Democrats would need to win essentially two-thirds of these seats to take the chamber, a very challenging but not insurmountable task. Recent projections as well as “deep background” briefings I've received indicate a mid-range scenario where the Democrats would pick up two or three seats in the November 2009 general election, leaving them just two or three short of capturing a majority in the body. Just one or two more candidates in (the right) currently uncontested districts could provide some cushion to their efforts this fall.
Many of the districts where Obama won or came very close and that are currently uncontested by the Democrats in 2009 are in key swing areas in Virginia where the Democratic tide washed farthest in 2008. These districts are in Virginia Beach and the far exurban reaches of the Washington D.C. Metro (Fauquier, Loudoun, the farthest reaches of Prince William Counties).
Virginia Democrats (I know, because I’ve spoken to them) come up with cogent reasons as to why this or that Republican incumbent is too tough to be taken down. But the fact of the matter is you can’t win the fight if you’re not in the fight. If a scandal involving a Republican incumbent should arise in one of these districts between now and the November election, the Democrats won’t even have an alternative on the ballot whom people can turn to. (And of course it’s also bad for the democratic process to have unchallenged elections.)
There are a few days left for both Democrats and Republicans to at least get a warm body on the ballot in the House of Delegates districts that aren’t currently being contested, in case a sudden scandal blows up in a member’s face or some act of God removes the unopposed incumbent.
Of course, it’s not all on the shoulders of the Virginia Democratic Party that there are a dearth of Democratic candidates in these districts. These are geographic areas lacking in a recent rich tradition of Democratic Party activism. The hundreds and hundreds of people who volunteered for Barack Obama in these areas are still catching their breaths or have otherwise moved on with their lives. The lack of ongoing participation by Obama supporters in local Democratic Party electoral politics -- not just in Virginia, but elsewhere in the country too -- is something worthy of a whole post unto itself. | http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009_05_10_archive.html | dclm-gs1-056070002 | false | true | {
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HYPOTHESIS Bodybuilders and powerlifters often wrap their knees with elastic bandages when squatting with extremely heavy weights. In theory, this offers protection to the knee from the stress of heavy weights—but until recently there was no data proving it works.
RESEARCH Researchers from the U.K. had lifters wrap their knees and squat with 80% of their one-rep max to determine the effects the wraps had on the biomechanics of the squat, compared with when the men performed the squats without wraps.
FINDINGS The use of knee wraps significantly improved the force production of the squat, particularly during the descent, or eccentric, phase of the lift. However, the wraps significantly impacted the biomechanics of the squat, restricting the lifters’ movement at the hip joint and forcing them into a more upright posture while causing greater flexion at the knee.
CONCLUSION Knee wraps create a mechanical advantage that occurs when elastic energy, generated during the lowering phase, is released. Much like when you press down on a spring, the energy is stored, and then upon release, it accelerates upward. The study discovered two major points: 1) wraps alter squat technique enough to compromise lower-body development, and 2) the combination of the modified body positions and the physical barrier at the back of the knee joints may place more stress on the joints.
APPLICATION Knee wraps should not be worn when increasing lower-body strength is the goal. Relying on artificial aids can actually weaken the knee joints, making them more vulnerable to injury.
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Published: Apr 01, 2002
The onerous but necessary task of computing the weight and balance before a flight is now easier with Sporty's Weight and Balance Kit. Place an aluminum plotter over a diagram of the airplane's weight and balance envelope and draw a line for each payload element. The result is a series of connected lines on the diagram; the point where the line ends is the airplane's total weight and center of gravity. If the end of the line is within the envelope, you're good to go. The kit includes an aluminum plotter engraved with the airplane's N-number, a reusable laminated graph and instructions. The kit for piston singles weighing less than 3,000 pounds is $50; it is $55 for piston singles weighing more than 3,000 pounds; for piston twins weighing less than 6,000 pounds, the cost is $65; and for piston twins weighing more than 6,000 pounds, the price is $70. To order or for more information, call 800/543-8633 or 513/735-9000; | http://www.flyingmag.com/gear/pilot-supplies/kit-simplifies-weight-and-balance-calculations?quicktabs_most_popular=1 | dclm-gs1-056090002 | false | false | {
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This exclusive test evaluates which machine is the right choice for your application.
Compact wheel loaders and large skid-steer loaders are both versatile tool carriers that can accomplish many of the same tasks. To gather insight into the strengths and weaknesses of each machine, we gathered four expert operators and turned them loose to complete five common tasks. Among the operators we assembled, most were more familiar with the skid-steer controls. While this made them more comfortable using the skid steer in most tasks, they also came to recognize the potential advantages a compact loader can offer.
For the test, Case Construction Equipment opened its Customer Experience Center in Tomahawk, WI, to us and provided the machines and attachments necessary for the event.
The four operators included:
Jamie Steen is a 15-year veteran who works for Haas Sons Inc. and owns SJS Excavating, Curtis, WI. His equipment includes a Case 85 XT skid steer and 621D loader.
Mark Rosenlund, Dollar Bay, MI, started his electrical contracting company 14 1/2 years ago. His fleet includes a skid steer, compact excavator, cable plow and horizontal directional drill.
Randy Passow, Minocqua, WI, has spent the past 20 years as an operator for Howard Brothers, a plumbing and heating contractor performing a variety of municipal water and sewer work. The company runs wheel loaders, excavators and dozers.
Jamie Greenberg, Stratford, WI, has been a co-owner of Greenberg Farms for 10 years, and has been operating equipment for 20 years.
Three Case machines were used for the comparison: a 21E compact wheel loader, a 465 vertical-lift skid steer and a 450 radial-lift skid steer. The 21E compact loader is powered by a 52-net-hp Deutz engine, while the 450 and 465 skid steers feature 82-net-hp Case Family III engines.
Task 1: Truck loading
In this task, operators were asked to transfer soil from a stockpile to the bed of a Class 8 dump truck. A couple weeks of wet weather meant the Northern Wisconsin soil was very heavy, with an estimated weight in excess of 4,000 lbs. per cu. yd. Underfoot conditions on the load floor were also soft.
For the test, the 21E compact wheel loader was equipped with a 1.05-yd. bucket. The unit has a 10,168-lb. operating weight and a maximum hinge pin height of 127.7 in. The vertical-lift 465 skid steer was equipped with a .72-yd. bucket. It has a 125.5-in. hinge pin height and weighs in at 8,910 lbs.
The operators were asked to complete the task with both machines, then give us their impressions.
Steen liked the increased visibility from the seat of the 21E. "You have all four views," he states. "You can see out the front, back and sides."
"There is a lot more visibility out of the loader," agrees Passow. "You are up a lot higher." This allowed for improved visibility when backing.
The increased weight and larger bucket were advantages for the wheel loader, as well. "The wheel loader was nice for the capacity," says Steen. He felt the skid steer bounced more when handling the heavier material.
Greenberg appreciated how the loader handled while entering the stockpile. "With the loader, you didn't lose power driving into that stockpile. You were able to control the power and still get your full load into the bucket," he says. He also felt it was easier to keep the bucket level. "You tend to want to dig down more with the skid steer rather than stay level."
Even though it had a smaller bucket capacity, the skid steer was able to maneuver quickly in the space allotted for this task. "The cycle times were definitely faster for the skid steer because of the short turning radius," says Steen.
"The maneuverability of the skid steer is unbeatable," Greenberg adds.
However, the added reach and lift height favored the wheel loader. Rosenlund said this made it easier to position the load over the truck.
"You had more visibility and you could fill the truck more fully with the loader than you could with a skid steer," Greenberg adds. "You could dump a little higher. Finishing off the load is way easier with the loader."
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0.043141 | <urn:uuid:fe76e92d-0ad8-4e25-a23b-27ac96cf029d> | en | 0.948187 | User avatar #6 - fuzzyballs (05/16/2013) [-]
I didn't like this hulk
that is all
#26 to #6 - anonymous poster (05/16/2013) [-]
Owned by a anon...that must really hurt.MEDIC!
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User avatar #11 to #6 - rossbelfast (05/16/2013) [-]
Not trying to be a dick just stating the obvious
User avatar #13 to #11 - fuzzyballs (05/16/2013) [-]
who said I didn't know? maybe I just don't care
#9 to #6 - pocoyothegreat (05/16/2013) [-]
My humblest apologies for the inconviniences.
Yours, Stan Lee.
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User avatar #23 to #14 - bobthedilder (05/16/2013) [-]
How to Dig Your Own Grave by fuzzyballs
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#7 to #6 - anonymous poster (05/16/2013) [-]
no one wants your opinion.
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#17 to #8 - Zacblackbow (05/16/2013) [-]
You're the new found tier of faggotry. Aren't ya?
Just asking
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0.911159 | <urn:uuid:60633f4d-0d1b-4538-a16a-937d7a54f5c7> | en | 0.922455 | #86 - benotter (01/11/2013) [-]
Its a Show called "Fool Us',
It's about magicians trying to trick Penn and Teller.
It's actually quite entertaining.
User avatar #119 to #86 - smittywrbmnjnsn (01/11/2013) [-]
What channel is it on?
Or is it just a youtube thing?
I love Penn and Teller, but I can never seem to find them on TV anymore.
User avatar #123 to #119 - thatirishguy (01/11/2013) [-]
It used to be on TV in Britain, but was cancelled in June of 2012.
User avatar #125 to #124 - thatirishguy (01/11/2013) [-]
I know, I never got to see it, but having seen tricks like that, I feel like I missed out.
User avatar #105 to #86 - jetpistol (01/11/2013) [-]
The one with spiff the dragon is hilarious
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Asked: 4 years ago
After the game?
If you beat the game can you continue to run around or do you have to start a new one and i read that if you have a kid and go to the tattered spire when you come back he/she gets bigger does that happen if you have a kid after the spire?
Additional details - 4 years ago
No i mean can they get older if you have one after the spire
Accepted Answer
From: hylianarmy 4 years ago
You can run around Albion after you finish the main quest; there are quests that are only available after you save the world from Lucien. As for your children, yes, they will be older when you return from the Spire.
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