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The property list provides an easy way to create a database of relatively permanent facts about objects, e.g., the parts of speech of a word. It is convenient because additional kinds of facts can be added without interfering with existing facts, so long as the property names are different.
(setf (get 'car 'part-of-speech) 'noun)
Note that the symbol car can play several roles: it can hold facts about the English word ``car'' on its property list; it can be used as a variable name; and it is the name of a system function. These uses of car are entirely separate and do not conflict.
The property list provides an easy and safe way to create networks of relationships among objects (sometimes called semantic networks) while avoiding potential problems due to circular structures and multiple references to the same entities. These problems are avoided because a symbol is always guaranteed to be a single, unique structure in memory.
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What you need to know about PowerShell's “secure by default” philosophy
As you probably know, PowerShell is Microsoft's latest Windows operating system (OS)
shell and scripting tool. A shell is a program that provides a user interface for the OS.
When we're talking about PowerShell, the "shell" part usually refers to its command-line
interface (CLI). A CLI is a basic user interface that lets you enter a command (or a series
of commands) at a prompt. When you press Enter, the shell performs an action, then the
CLI displays the prompt again and waits for another command.
At first, a CLI might not seem as efficient as a graphical user interface (GUI) because you
have to type in commands, making sure of spelling, spacing, quotes, etc. However,
command shells have always supported some form of batch execution, which is also called
scripting. A script is simply a list of commands stored in a text file you can execute on
demand. PowerShell is no exception—although PowerShell is an excellent CLI, it becomes
even more flexible with the use of scripts. A PowerShell script is simply a text file with a
.ps1 extension that contains a list of commands PowerShell should execute.
However, PowerShell's secure by default philosophy prevents all scripts from running, so
double-clicking a PowerShell script from Windows Explorer won't execute it. Also,
PowerShell doesn't execute scripts from the current directory. The good news is that you
don't have to be a PowerShell guru if all you want to do is run PowerShell scripts. Simply
follow these steps:
1) Install Windows PowerShell.
2) Set PowerShell's execution policy.
3) Run your PowerShell scripts, keeping a few important details in mind.
Install Windows PowerShell
If you have Windows 7 or later, you don't need to install PowerShell because it
comes preinstalled with the OS. If you're using Windows Vista or earlier, you need
to download and install PowerShell. Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 also
require the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0. (The .NET Framework 2.0 SP1 is required
for PowerShell 2.0.) You can find the links to the downloads on the "Scripting with
Windows PowerShell" web page.
Set PowerShell's Execution Policy
As I mentioned previously, PowerShell is secure by default. The first implication of
this philosophy is that PowerShell won't execute scripts until you explicitly give it
permission to do so. PowerShell has four execution policies that govern how it
should execute scripts:
Restricted. PowerShell won't run any scripts. This is PowerShell's default
execution policy.
AllSigned. PowerShell will only run scripts that are signed with a digital
signature. If you run a script signed by a publisher PowerShell hasn't seen
before, PowerShell will ask whether you trust the script's publisher.
RemoteSigned. PowerShell won't run scripts downloaded from the Internet
unless they have a digital signature, but scripts not downloaded from the
Internet will run without prompting. If a script has a digital signature,
PowerShell will prompt you before it runs a script from a publisher it hasn't
seen before.
Unrestricted. PowerShell ignores digital signatures but will still prompt you
before running a script downloaded from the Internet.
To display the current execution policy, you need to enter the command
at a PowerShell prompt (which will look like PS C:\> assuming the current location is
C:\). To set the execution policy, enter the command
Set-ExecutionPolicy policy
where policy is one of the policy names (e.g., RemoteSigned).
Setting the execution policy requires administrator permissions. In Vista and later,
you must run PowerShell with elevated permissions if you're already an
administrator and User Account Control (UAC) is enabled. To run PowerShell under
elevated permissions in Vista and later, right-click its shortcut and choose Run as
administrator, as Figure 1 shows.
Figure 1: Running PowerShell under
elevated permissions in Vista and later
If you're logged on to XP or Windows 2003 as a standard user, you can right-click
the PowerShell shortcut, choose Run as, and enter administrator account
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Everyone recognizes that physics is a science. Everyone also recognizes economics--a "social science"-- is somehow not quite the same as physics in its ability to be science-like. But what is a science and how is economics different? At first glance, a science is a way of thinking that emphasizes putting forward basic hypotheses and then doing controlled experiments that are set up to distinguish in stark relief whether each hypothesis is right or wrong. Clearly economists cannot usually do controlled experiments in a laboratory. Economists often are stuck with using historical or cross-country evidence to tease out what might merely suggest a result. Political viewpoints and the everyday language used in economics make unbiased statements or interpretations of results, or the understanding of ideas, imprecise and easily misinterpreted. Economics is a science in some ways but not others.
At second glance, though, even the most fundamental scientific aspects of physics are more complicated than the ideal. Real life physics experiments can't always be set up to test the key hypotheses. Experimental results in physics are never 100% conclusive and are subject to dispute even centuries after the fact. The ideal of creating a physics hypothesis before looking at the evidence is often more of an art than depicted in physics textbooks.
In what ways is economics like an idealized science? unlike an idealized science? Does mathematical modeling make economics closer to being a science than, say, psychology? How can economists keep their own biases in check--and should they? Are there some ideas about which all economists agree? Do disagreements suggest that economics is an exciting, viable academic discipline or a perpetually unresolvable dispute?
Definitions and Basics
Lionel Robbins, biography, from the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics
Robbins' most famous book was An Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science, one of the best-written prose pieces in economics. That book contains three main thoughts. First is Robbins' famous all-encompassing definition of economics that is still used to define the subject today: "Economics is the science which studies human behavior as a relationship between given ends and scarce means which have alternative uses."...
Rosenberg on the Nature of Economics, EconTalk podcast. September 26, 2011.
In the News and Examples
Diane Coyle on the Soulful Science, EconTalk podcast.
Diane Coyle talks with host Russ Roberts about the ideas in her new book, The Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do and Why it Matters. The discussions starts with the issue of growth--measurement issues and what economists have learned and have yet to learn about why some nations grow faster than others and some don't grow at all. Subsequent topics include happiness research, the politics and economics of inequality, the role of math in economics, and policy areas where economics has made the greatest contribution....
Henderson on Disagreeable Economists. EconTalk podcast, July 30, 2007.
Confirmation bias: A Philosopher's Take on Political Bias Youtube. A LearnLiberty video.
Chris Freiman, a philosophy professor at the College of William and Mary, describes the phenomenon of "confirmation bias": how people look for evidence to confirm their existing beliefs. He shows how confirmation bias plays an important role in citizens' voting decisions.
Vernon Smith on Markets and Experimental Economics, EconTalk podcast. May 21, 2007.
Vernon Smith, Professor of Economics at George Mason University and the 2002 Nobel Laureate in Economics, talks about experimental economics, markets, risk, behavioral economics and the evolution of his career....
Derman on Theories, Models, and Science, EconTalk podcast. March 12, 2012.
Weinberger on Too Big to Know, EconTalk podcast. February 27, 2012.
Don't blithely believe every science report you read. Yong on Science, Replication, and Journalism. EconTalk Podcast.
Ed Yong, science writer and blogger at "Not Exactly Rocket Science" at Discover Magazine, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the challenges of science and science journalism. Yong was recently entangled in a controversy over the failure of researchers to replicate a highly-cited and influential psychology study. He discusses the issues behind the failed replication and the problem of replication in general in other fields, arguing that replication is under-appreciated and little rewarded. After a discussion of the incentives facing scientists, the conversation turns to the challenges facing science journalists when work that is peer-reviewed may still not be reliable.
Leamer on Macroeconomic Patterns and Stories, EconTalk podcast. May 4, 2009.
Ed Leamer, of UCLA and author of Macroeconomic Patterns and Stories, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how we should use patterns in macroeconomic data and stories about those patterns to improve our understanding of the economy. Leamer argues that economics is not a science, but rather a way of thinking, and that economic models are neither true nor false, but either useful or not useful. He discusses various patterns in the recessions and recoveries in the United States since 1950. The conversation closes with a discussion of the reliability of econometric analysis....
A Little History: Primary Sources and References
Economics is sometimes called catallarchy or catallactics, meaning the science of exchanges. Where did this term first come from? Lecture I, Introductory Lectures on Political Economy, by Richard Whately.
Isn't economics nicknamed the "dismal science" because it is all about running out of resources and the inevitable decline of life as we know it? Who coined the phrase "the dismal science"? The Secret History of the Dismal Science: Economics, Religion, and Race in the 19th Century, by David M. Levy and Sandra J. Peart. Econlib, January 22, 2001.
Everyone knows that economics is the dismal science. And almost everyone knows that it was given this description by Thomas Carlyle, who was inspired to coin the phrase by T. R. Malthus's gloomy prediction that population would always grow faster than food, dooming mankind to unending poverty and hardship.
While this story is well-known, it is also wrong, so wrong that it is hard to imagine a story that is farther from the truth. At the most trivial level, Carlyle's target was not Malthus, but economists such as John Stuart Mill, who argued that it was institutions, not race, that explained why some nations were rich and others poor....
Advanced Resources
Vernon Smith on Rationality in Economics, EconTalk podcast. March 3, 2008.
Nobel Laureate Vernon Smith of Chapman University and George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in his new book, Rationality in Economics: Constructivist and Ecological Forms. They discuss the social and human sides of exchange, the robust nature of equilibrium in experiments and the real world, the seeming contradiction between Adam Smith's two great works, the unpredictability of how innovation emerges and its rationality, what neuroscience might tell us about economic decision-making, and the challenges of small-group intimate exchange and our interactions with strangers in the extended order of the marketplace....
Manzi on Knowledge, Policy, and Uncontrolled. EconTalk Podcast.
Nosek on Truth, Science, and Academic Incentives. EconTalk Podcast.
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Savour the last of the great hybrid SUVs
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Obviously the oil industry doesn't want electric cars even though western countries oil supplies are running out. The world auto manufacturing cartel doesn't want them either, it disrupts the status quo which is to sell high complexity for very high profits. The above article is very good for outlining some of this complexity.All of the problems for building electric cars for urban commuting and shopping are now solved, especially with the new lithium-ion with nano-graphite batteries. If you add performance boosters like ultra capacitors (researched by Panasonic, Honda & Toyota)and 3 phase motors, these cars are suitable for most urban uses.In Canada electric cars are opposed by the federal and provincial governments because we will sell less oil. British Columbia is actually bringing legislation against electric cars, which shows we are electing the wrong kind of people.The electric car will arrive eventually but not until we have a near uprising from the public over gas prices. And these will be made by Tesla, Tata, and hopefully Nissan/Renault.All this shows that tailpipe emissions and pollution are not a factor for change, only the bottom line counts.
The coming oil-fueled recession will not dent Big Auto. They will continue to make fuel guzzling cars as long as they can make consumers buy them. And average america buys them. So green energy and hybrids are great and everything, but they won't catch on. Not until Joe Schmoe can afford it.The current fuel economy gains from buying a hybrid car are appalling. They serve no real purpose. Unless there is a QUANTUM leap in fuel efficiency (electricity, bio-diesel, water whatever) there is no pressing need for average consumer Mr. J. Smith to buy a new hybrid that costs USD 10,000 more than a normal car. And the car manufacturers will not incorporate technology that saves the customer money, not until it breaks his wallet. They've had technology to change our lives from the 60's, but like Microsoft they've bought it out and mothballed it. I am proud of them, its what I would have done.
The age of wasting valuable natural resources to transport soccor mom's around in 5,500 lb SUVs is finally over thank god. It should have never been allowed, but our leaders aren't exactly the brillant long term thinkers you'd expect to be running the "free world".
To jakiefnh's comment, the auto industry won't build electric cars simply because they are living in the past. There is no motivation for them to develop disruptive technologies that may challenge the profits they are accustom to. Fortunately they are no longer making profits and there are outsiders like Tesla Motors introducing pure electric vehicles. So the electric vehicle age is upon us. Soon the established auto companies will have to follow or perish. The age of gas station fillups, oil changes, air filters, radiators, and all the other crap they make us buy and maintain with our gas engines will soon be behind us.
Wet Hole
Neo econ:There is a lot of buzz in Detroit right now centering around Ford's Transit Connect. The vehicle is a carry over from Europe which, is designed to satisfy urban and longer range transportation at a lower environmental cost. The two liter diesel engine is equipped with a after treatment system that captures 2010 government regulation emission benchmarks at a lower CO2 cost than traditional gasoline.
The technology outlined here is quite good when you look past the miss in application. So the market for jumbo-sized SUVs is drying up in the US; find a better way to apply this technology.
Consider realigning this technology to a more appropriate application on a global level (not just a fraction of a shrinking US market): light-duty delivery trucks. These are the swarms of vehicles that buzz around our cities and suburbs all day long belching out diesel exhaust. Why waste this technology on a family’s SUV that is driven 10,000 miles per year when it can be used on vehicles that are driven up to a 100,000 miles per year or more?
If heavy transportation and agricultural sectors are among the biggest polluters, then one would be led to believe they are among the biggest consumers of fuel as well. Perhaps we should do what we can to chip away in these sectors, such as GM’s new technology, as well as leveraging the existing hybrid passenger vehicle technologies on the road today.
I am living 20km away from the Mercedes factories in Germany, my brother works for a supplier.
Believe me Mercedes (and most likely all other serious car makers) have environmently friendly cars on their drawing board, it just a matter of cost of mass production and acceptance in the population when they will bring it on the market (i.e. who in the states would have bought a car that cost more than a standard car, is smaller, but runs on hydrogen? Especially when fuel prices where very low? I gues VERY few)
And to skeptics out there: i.e. Mercedes has Prototypes with Hydrogen running since 1980! And, don't the have supplied New York with 80 Hydrogen busses?
To the article above: This technologies sounds really promising, it is just in the wrong application: Put it into trucks that do City deliveries or Buses and you have a perfect system!
I had a friend who once weighted over 120 kg, so he was greatly pleased when diet sodas came to the market. So much that he would wash down his lunch with eight Diet Cokes.I guess that's more or less the same as devising a clever, fuel-saving hybrid system and strapping it to a six-litre, eight-cylinder, 2,5 tonnes monster truck with three gear sets and four clutches (!!!!). Is this what passes for environment-friendly cars in the US? The gringos have gone nuts. Worse, The Economist has the nerve to praise this folly as "not bad", as it does 20 mpg, instead of the usual 14.... I would expect a little more sense and composure from an European newspaper. And these are the same people who want to lecture us about the Amazon, the future of mankind and the good stewardship of our fragile planet....
I think it is more likely that hydrogen will be part of a grand collection of localized alternative fuel sources- including bio, full electro, etc.Infrastructure will more likely based on fueling stations out of people's own homes - i.e. reforming natural gas and/or electrolysis from solar panels/wind on property and/or electrolysis off grid and/or some on-property bio-conversion-type set-up. All of these exist in residential single-family home configurations elsewhere in the world such as Japan and Scandinavia. A hydrogen infrastructure will likely be limited to a few scattered stations mostly at malls and the sides of the Interstate. There will be no need to hook-up every gas station with a hydrogen line.Also, I believe take-up in the high-tech corridors will be much more rapid than in the centre or south of the country (i.e. california to washington state and north-east states). Other areas will likely stay with low-tech solutions such as 2nd gen bio-fuels. I predict 20% of all passenger vehicles take-up of H2 within these high-tech corridors by 2015, 40% by 2025, and topping out at 60% after 2030. Other areas of the US will have take-ups half of this. And it will be so gradual that it will be as anti-climactic and behind-the-scenes as the Y2K thing.Cost affordability will be solved by a leasing program where you will not own your own car.All of these ideas are based on extrapolation from the wealth of technological news out there.The only thing that I have not heard about conclusively is the actual fuel price - whether we can get a 300mile trip for $30 or not. I am confident that hydrogen will be a significant but not overwhelming part of our infrastructure within the next 25 years.
"Fuel-cell vehicles will never come of age."I agree. The efficiency losses associated with making hydrogen essentially make it unviable. Certainly, it isn't worth the expense of building a whole new hydrogen infrastructure.Electric cars will dominate in cities, and liquid hydrocarbons will remain the norm for distance travel, at least in the foreseeable future.
Ron Melancon
To all this is a great article.You are correct Detroit is downsizing.But I am 43 and I remember the last time back in the 1972-73 when we had gas lines and regular gas... I still remember the way the gas smelled.Neverless Detroit did not get it back then and why should they get it now? My web site is and .org and and .org.I just got it and need time to make it look great.My point is the CONSUMER has to demand that Detroit MUST make a car that does not run on gasoline or WE the consumer will not buy it.So what I am asking for you to do is to make it clear that either I try my best to keep my current car on the road or if I must buy a car today the next one better not be a gasoline model.If we make it clear that we are not going to buy it do you think they will make a car that nobody wants to buy?If Honda and Toyota gets it then I will buy from them.I'ts over.........when will the consumer finally stand up and say...........If you can put a man on the moon in 7 years... then certaniallyyou can build a car that does not run on gasoline in 5 or 6 years..end of story.When will the consumer rise up????
If you have a good enough battery, you can make an EV with an auxiliary generator that extends range. jakiefnh, the car will be made when the battery is available. My guess is 3-5 years from now. The auxiliary generator can be a fuel cell, a gas turbine, or a gasoline or deisel engine. Because it will run at a single high speed optimized for electicity generation, it can be both small and efficient with no drive train. To truly take advantage of this technology will require a radical redesign of the automobile. Some new entrant may be better positioned to design an effective EV than the current big auto firms with their legacy technology.
rico5, there are batteries in the lab that will recharge 80% in 10 minutes, but producing them cheaply en masse will take time.
The issue with an all electric is recharge time. With your gas or diesel car, run out of gas, pull into station, 10 to 15 minutes later ready to go for several hours. With an electric go ac couple of hours, recharge for 5 to 10 hours. Not an issue for the daily commute, but for a lot of trips that is an issue. This is what makes hybrids so attractive, run the battery down and you can still go. What I'm wondering is why no diesel electrics like in a railroad engine with the additon of batteries.
jakiefnh:It's hard to discern what you mean by a "high-end on-board electric generator." By definition a generator must be driven by some fuel or energy source. Perhaps you envision a miniature nuclear reactor?As for renewable energy, perhaps the prototype Solartaxi would interest you ( as a city car.
Can someone with a EE background explain why none of the auto manufacturers are working on a pure EV with some kind of high-end on-board electric generator rather than these complex hybrid systems?
Fuel-cell vehicles will never come of age. Developments in Li batteries will make electric cars feasible in the next 10 years (at least in the 100-mile range, which will displace a lot of vehicles). Hydrogen is an energy transmission technology and will not be able to compete with the electrical grid, which is already in place. Couple that with nuclear power and we have truly emission-free transportation.
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Your HELOC bank is the carrier of your home equity line of credit. A HELOC is a credit line based on the amount of equity you have built in your home. Your bank may reduce or cancel your HELOC at any time after notifying you in writing of its intentions.
Why a Bank May Cancel a HELOC
If the average home value in your area is declining, your bank may cancel your HELOC to avoid incurring a loss. Because your credit line is based on your home’s value, your lender may not be able to recover the amount you owe on a line of credit through foreclosure if you fail to pay. By canceling your ability to charge purchases using your home’s equity as security, the bank protects itself from losing money due to the lower value of your home.
Banks May Freeze a HELOC with a Balance
If you currently carry a balance on your HELOC, your bank will not cancel your line of credit outright. Instead, it will “freeze” your ability to make new purchases. You must continue making payments on your credit balance until your debt has been paid in full. At this point, the bank may either reinstate your HELOC or cancel it altogether.
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Transmission interchange - mechanical speedometer w/ speed sensor
Discussion in 'GM Powertrain' started by dualdj1, Mar 14, 2011.
1. dualdj1
dualdj1 Rockstar 100 Posts
The trans in my old van has seen better days. I'm gonna have to pull it to fix a leaky main seal or cam plug on the new engine, So I wanted to see if anyone knew of a good year/model transmission I could use.
My main requirement is that I have a mechanical speedometer. I wouldn't mind going to an OD trans that's computer controlled, but it would have to have an electric speed sensor with a mechanical speedo cable. I'm thinking it would need to be somewhere in the 88-92 year range. Anyone know if any 2wd trucks/vans in that range had a mechanical speedo?
2. Crawdaddy
Wait, so it needs both a speed sensor AND a mechanical speedo output? I don't think those exist. If you just need the mechanical speedo, I think you can swap the tailshaft with one from a mechanical speedo 700R4 and be fine. If you need both, I think you'd still need the mechanical speedo tailshaft and one of those speed sensors that ties inline with the speedo cable like they use for the cruise control setups. From 88ish on they only had speed sensors; not even Suburbans still used mechanical speedo cables.
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OK Thanks. I only questioned it as I wasn't sure if GM had put the sensor on vehicles with mech speedo. My 89 mustang had a cable driven speedo with an electronic speed sensor as well, where the cable went into the trans. So Ford did both, wasn't sure if GM did.
I don't necessarily need the speed sensor, but I *think* it's required if you do trans control with the computer.
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With the 700R4/4L60E, the speed sensor and mechanical speedos pulled off the same spot, a couple inches into the tailshaft. So, you'd actually need the tailshaft and the gear off the shaft that drives the speedo cable.
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OK thanks for the info.
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Empowerment, education and discipline: implementing a diabetes self-management plan
Nowadays, few people would question the role of a person with diabetes as the central figure in his or her diabetes care team. But ‘patient’ empowerment extends well beyond the concept of self-determination. Diabetes does not occur in a vacuum, but interacts with a variety of emotional states and exists within many cultural and social boundaries. People with diabetes hold the power to manage their condition – not their healthcare providers or their family members.
The benefits of diabetes education: better health outcomes through successful self-management
Diabetes is mostly managed by people with the condition. In order to do so effectively, people with diabetes need to acquire and develop a broad base of knowledge and skills, and incorporate lifestyle choices into daily living which facilitate and enhance self-care. Diabetes education is an active process that supports people in building self-management skills, and provides for shared decision making about how best to fit diabetes treatment into daily life.
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Diabetes is increasingly common worldwide, and Kenya is no exception. The Ministry of Health estimates the prevalence of diabetes to be around 10% (3.5 million people). The cause of much human suffering, diabetes also places a considerable economic burden on individuals and families, and healthcare systems.
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Date of Joke: Friday, 28th January, 2005
The first blonde said, "Easter is a holiday where they have a big feast and we give thanks and eat turkey." St. Peter said, "Noooooo," and he banished her to Hell.
The second blonde said, "Easter is when we celebrate Jesus' birth and exchange gifts." Once again St. Peter said, "Noooooo," and banished her to Hell.
The third blonde said she knew what Easter was, and St. Peter said, "So, tell me." She said," Easter is a Christian holiday that coincides with the Jewish festival of Passover. Jesus was having Passover feast with his disciples when He was betrayed by Judas, and the Romans arrested him and hung him on the cross and eventually He died. Then they buried Him in a tomb behind a very large boulder...
St. Peter said, "Verrrrrry good." But the blonde continued, "Now, every year the Jews roll away the boulder and Jesus comes out. If he sees his shadow, we have six more weeks of basketball."
St. Peter fainted.
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MIT students (left to right) Ayush Bhandari, Refael Whyte and Achuta Kadambi pose next to their nanocamera that can capture translucent objects, such as a glass vase, in 3D. Image: Bryce VickmarkResearchers in the MIT Media Lab have developed a $500 “nanocamera” that can operate at the speed of light.
The three-dimensional camera, which was presented last week at Siggraph Asia, could be used in medical imaging and collision-avoidance detectors for cars and to improve the accuracy of motion tracking and gesture-recognition devices used in interactive gaming.
“Using the current state of the art, such as the new Kinect, you cannot capture translucent objects in 3D," Kadambi says. “That is because the light that bounces off the transparent object and the background smear into one pixel on the camera. Using our technique you can generate 3D models of translucent or near-transparent objects.”
In a conventional Time of Flight camera, a light signal is fired at a scene, where it bounces off an object and returns to strike the pixel. Since the speed of light is known, it is then simple for the camera to calculate the distance the signal has travelled and therefore the depth of the object it has been reflected from.
Unfortunately though, changing environmental conditions, semitransparent surfaces, edges or motion all create multiple reflections that mix with the original signal and return to the camera, making it difficult to determine which is the correct measurement.
“We use a new method that allows us to encode information in time,” Raskar says. “So when the data comes back, we can do calculations that are very common in the telecommunications world, to estimate different distances from the single signal.”
The idea is similar to existing techniques that clear blurring in photographs, says Bhandari, a graduate student in the Media Lab. “People with shaky hands tend to take blurry photographs with their cellphones because several shifted versions of the scene smear together,” Bhandari says. “By placing some assumptions on the model — for example that much of this blurring was caused by a jittery hand — the image can be un-smeared to produce a sharper picture.”
“By solving the multipath problem, essentially just by changing the code, we are able to un-mix the light paths and therefore visualize light moving across the scene,” Kadambi says. “So we are able to get similar results to the $500,000 camera, albeit of slightly lower quality, for just $500.”
Conventional cameras see an average of the light arriving at the sensor, much like the human eye, says James Davis, an associate professor of computer science at UC Santa Cruz. In contrast, the researchers in Raskar’s laboratory are investigating what happens when they take a camera fast enough to see that some light makes it from the “flash” back to the camera sooner, and apply sophisticated computation to the resulting data, Davis says.
“Normally the computer scientists who could invent the processing on this data can’t build the devices, and the people who can build the devices cannot really do the computation,” he says. “This combination of skills and techniques is really unique in the work going on at MIT right now.”
What’s more, the basic technology needed for the team’s approach is very similar to that already being shipped in devices such as the new version of Kinect, Davis says. “So it’s going to go from expensive to cheap thanks to video games, and that should shorten the time before people start wondering what it can be used for,” he says. “And by the time that happens, the MIT group will have a whole toolbox of methods available for people to use to realize those dreams."
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Manti Te'o's got nothing on these guys.
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Unless you're as clueless as Manti Te'o, chances are you've heard about his infamous girlfriend hoax. But Manti's was far from the first - or most exciting - hoax in the world of sports. Below, some of the best.
1. Simonya Popova
Scores of female athletes have stolen our hearts (Arianny Celeste, Kenda Perez, Hope Solo...), but this Uzbek babe would have taken the cake - if she was actually tangible. In 2002 Sports Illustrated published an article about the supposed up-and-coming tennis player who incidentally resembled every prepubescent boy's wet dream. But shortly after the issue hit stands, it was revealed that Popova was nothing more than a computer-generated image, and the entire story was a fabricated joke. Bastards.
2. Kimo Nakahimi
In the early '80s the Daily Mail concocted a story about a Japanese runner who entered to participate in London's first annual marathon. As the story went, Kimo entered the marathon, but due to a language barrier he was under the impression that he had to run for 26 consecutive hours, not miles. While the entire story turned out to be nothing more than an April Fool's joke, various people remained convinced the event had actually taken place, and went directly to the paper's editor claiming to have witnessed his running spree firsthand. But whether it was 26 miles or 26 hours, we can probably all agree that running is the worst.
3. Sidd Finch
Leave it to Sports Illustrated to destroy our faith for a second time. In the April 1985 issue, George Plimpton wrote an article about Sidd Finch, an insanely talented rookie baseball player training at the Mets camp in Florida. Reportedly pitching a baseball at 168 mph with total accuracy (the current record being a measly speed of 103mph) without ever having played the game in his life, the kid also had a heartwarming sob story to match: he was an orphan adopted by an archeologist who was killed in a plane crash, leading him to Tibet to study things we've never heard of. After an overwhelming response from readers, the magazine held a press conference to announce the article had been an April Fools joke. We're really starting to hate this holiday.
4. Kevin Hart
This poor kid is the quintessential example of how shitty high school is. Kevin Hart, a high school offensive lineman from Nevada with a lousy GPA and poor athleticism, held a fake press conference in 2008 to announce his signing with the Cal Golden Bears, a D-I college football team. Filling his school's gymnasium with the entire student body along with school administration and his own family members, Kevin proudly accepted his peers' praise of being the first player from his high school to play at a D-I school. A few hours later, the college's administration reported that the offer had never been made, and that they had never even heard of him to begin with. Later, Kevin blamed his disillusioned reality on his dreams of playing for a good school. After that show we'd suspect the kid would have at least made it onto the waiting list.
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Unwritten road signals are part of our everyday road communication. This sign could mean trouble ahead or it could be a warning about traffic police ahead. PHOTOS BY ABUBAKER LUBOWA.
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We face challenges every day and we often come up with measures to counter them. On the road, drivers use different signals to communicate. Some are official while others are merely created and they sometimes confuse people.
Jude: When I was leaving the parking lot, I could see a boda boda rider in my side mirror. But maybe he thought I wasn’t seeing him and that I was going to knock him and his passenger -so he whistled! At the back of my mind I was asking myself that in the event that I hadn’t seen him, would that whistle signal work? On the road we have so many signals, but how practical are they?
Mustafa: I think the question is what did you expect from the boda man, what did you want him to do?
Jude: He should have hooted.
Paul: I think his mechanism of alerting you was effective. Wasn’t it?
Jude: I had already seen him. That is why I am asking in case I hadn’t seen him, would this whistling have worked?
Mustafa: Perhaps he whistled because you had seen him!
Paul: Jude, your car and Mustafa’s have proximity sensors to alert you about oncoming bodas (jokes). Anyway on a serious note, you raise a point here. What are the effective rules of communicating on the road?
Mustafa: My father taught me how to drive. He warned me against honking at people. You can wait for them to pass or listen to the sound of the engine and only honk if you really have to. Eeh, is honking American English? Okay, hooting. There are people who just hoot all the time. Anything as small as a cat crossing the road, they just hoot.
Jude: When they are impatient and thinking of you as holding up traffic, they will hoot. It is even noisy.
Mustafa: Then many times, when taxi drivers are behind you they may not hoot but will flash their lights at you. I don’t know if you have noticed this. Personally, I think the way someone communicates while on the road is purely circumstantial. If you want to reach a certain junction before someone else you want them to slow down. So you flash your lights for them to slow down. Another incident may be, I am flashing you to pass so that I can pass next. The boda man who whistled at you, may be the circumstance forced him to.
Jude: But how many road users know how to interprete these signs? Some in wanting to give you space to join the road, they flash their lights twice. Others do it but kind of like warning you.
Paul: What does the traffic manual say about giving the hand or any kind of signals? There is also acquired culture or road behaviour. If you drive on the highway in Uganda, you are forced to learn. When someone from the oncoming traffic flashes their indicator on the highway it is a sign for you not to knock them. In other words suggesting, this is how far you should go. I used to wonder what it meant and I was told in Uganda it means, I am approaching you, so keep your distance.
Mustafa: But still on the highway, it could mean do not overtake at this particular point.
Jude: Who comes up with all these rules?
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Vast Reservoirs of Arctic Carbon Could Affect Global Warming
NASA is measuring greenhouse gases above the Arctic tundra to assess the future of global warming
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Pasadena’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has been working on a project called “Carve,” to study climate change in the arctic. The project brought the team to Alaska, to determine whether global warming is accelerating more than initially expected. Patrick Healy reports for the NBC4 News on July 5, 2013.
Six to eight times a month, a Sherpa airplane with special instruments takes off from Fairbanks, Alaska, in search of data to answer the question: Is global warming causing changes to the environment that inevitably accelerate the climate change?
That is the suspicion of Charles Miller, principal investigator for a research project that is focusing on greenhouse gas emissions in the skies above the Arctic tundra, the vast treeless region that produces only grasses and low brush during the brief growing season.
"Climate change is already happening in the Arctic, faster than its ecosystems can adapt. Looking at the Arctic is like looking at the canary in the coal mine for the entire Earth system," said Miller, who is based at Pasadena’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, but who now spends much of the year in Alaska.
The carbon compounds implicated in global warming are often associated with combustion, and that is a significant source. But Miller said the amount of carbon compounds such as methane and carbon dioxide that are trapped in the permafrost beneath the tundra is staggering -- comparable to all of the greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution two centuries ago.
Enter global warming.
“The warmer it gets the more of this carbon gets released from the thawing permafrost. And it then itself contributes to the warming. So you get this positive buildup -- more and more warming.”
Determining whether that is actually happening is the mission for CARVE -- Carbon in Arctic Reservoirs Vulnerability Experiment, a five-year study now in its third summer.
Ask Miller now if any trends are apparent, and he demurs, wanting to wait for more data. But he does say the airborne surveillance periodically encounter large “plumes of methane,” as much as 150 kilometers (90 miles) across.
There are nuances, as well.
It turns out not all carbon compounds are created equal when it comes to effect on the atmospheric greenhouse. Methane, for example, has a much greater impact than carbon dioxide, as much as 100 times greater over a 20-year period, according to Miller.
What’s more, the climate itself can influence the type of carbon compounds thawing permafrost is more likely to release. Warm and dry is more favorable for carbon dioxide. Warm and wetter would be expected to produce more methane, and it would not take much of a shift to have a significant impact, Miller said.
“Iif the amount of methane to carbon dioxide shifts just a little bit in favor of methane, just one or two percent, then without increasing the amount of carbon that’s released from the soil tremendously you can actually double or even triple the amount of ‘radiative forcing’ and greenhouse gas warming," Miller said. "That’s why we’re really interested in -- whether the arctic is becoming warmer and drier or warmer and wetter.”
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World's largest prime number discovered
US mathematicians have found the largest prime number ever identified, but good luck remembering it.
The researchers from the University of Central Missouri identified the 17 million-digit number last month as the 48th known Mersenne prime. A different computer system running on different hardware confirmed that it is a prime number. Primes are whole numbers such as 3, 7 and 11 that can only be divided without a remainder by themselves and 1.
This is the third Mersenne prime identified at the university, about 80km east of Kansas City.
Mersenne primes are named after their discoverer, 17th century French mathematician Marin Mersenne. They're expressed as 2P-1, or two to the power of "P" minus one. P is itself a prime number. For the new prime, P is 57,885,161. | http://www.news.com.au/world/breaking-news/worlds-largest-prime-number-discovered/story-e6frfkui-1226572443126 | dclm-gs1-478645528 | false | false | {
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This story has been edited to clarify that it discusses different approaches being taken to develop a theory of everything.
But theologians needn't lose too much sleep just yet. Despite decades of effort, progress has been slow. Many physicists have confined themselves to developing "quantum gravity" theories that attempt to reconcile quantum mechanics with general relativity – a prerequisite for a theory of everything. But rather than coming up with one or two rival theories whose merits can be judged against the evidence, there is a profusion of candidates that address different parts of the problem and precious few clues as to which (if any) might turn out to be correct.
Here's a brief guide to some of the front runners.
String theory
This is probably the best known theory of everything, and the most heavily studied. It suggests that the fundamental particles we observe are not actually particles at all, but tiny strings that only "look" like particles to scientific instruments because they are so small.
What's more, the mathematics of string theory also rely on extra spatial dimensions, which humans could not experience directly.
These are radical suggestions, but many theorists find the string approach elegant and have proposed numerous variations on the basic theme that seem to solve assorted cosmological conundrums. However, they have two major challenges to overcome if they are to persuade the rest of the scientific community that string theory is the best candidate for a ToE.
First, string theorists have so far struggled to make new predictions that can be tested. So string theory remains just that: a theory.
Secondly, there are just too many variants of the theory, any one of which could be correct – and little to choose between them. To resolve this, some physicists have proposed a more general framework called M-theory, which unifies many string theories.
But this has its own problems. Depending how you set it up, M-theory can describe any of 10500 universes. Some physicists argue that this is evidence that there are multiple universes, but others think it just means the theory is untestable.
Loop quantum gravity
The basic idea is that space is not continuous, as we usually think, but is instead broken up into tiny chunks 10-35 metres across. These are then connected by links to make the space we experience. When these links are tangled up into braids and knots, they produce elementary particles.
Loop quantum gravity has produced some tentative predictions of real-world effects, and has also shed some light on the birth of the universe. But its proponents have so far struggled to incorporate gravity into their theories. And as with string theory, a true experimental test is still some way off.
Causal dynamical triangulations looks pretty similar to loop quantum gravity at first glance. Just as loop quantum gravity breaks up space into tiny "building blocks", CDT assumes that space-time is split into tiny building blocks – this time, four-dimensional chunks called pentachorons.
The pentachorons can then be glued together to produce a large-scale universe – which turns out to have three space dimensions and one time dimension, just as the real one does. So far, so good, but there's a major drawback: CDT as it currently stands cannot explain the existence of matter.
Quantum Einstein gravity
This idea, proposed by Martin Reuter of the University of Mainz, Germany, takes a rather different tack.
However, Reuter has come up with a way to generate a "fixed point": a distance below which gravity stops getting stronger. This could help solve the problem, and lead to a quantum theory of gravity.
Quantum graphity
All the theories above assume that space and time exist, and then try to build up the rest of the universe. Quantum graphity – the brainchild of Fotini Markopoulou of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, and colleagues – tries to do away with them.
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Manna Korea Garden
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I'm on the lookout for the best Korean restaurant in town. I was hoping to meet a Korean foodie who would be kind enough to share his/her tip on the best Korean places in town. But I have not found one, so please send me your Korean resto favorites in the comments section.
One of the most recommended Korean restaurants by both Filipinos and Koreans is Manna Korea Garden Restaurant in the P. Burgos area. We thought it was just OK (probably because we didn't know what to order in Manna). What's your favorite dish there?
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Most of the tables have a grill in the middle for cooking the meat. During lunchtime, it gets full with Filipinos, Koreans and other foreigners. We decided to go for the Korean BBQ and the Beef Stew for the kids.
Manna Korea Garden Menu:
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Spare Ribs Meat BBQ (P500).
The beef is grilled with onions or garlic and dipped in soy sauce. It is wrapped with lettuce and has denjang sauce -- a red sauce with the color and texture of chili but with a salty taste. The meat has good marbling. Overall, it was OK.
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Korean Side Dishes: Toque, Raddish, Kimchi, Fish Cake, Cucumber, Sayote, Lettuce and Garlic.
Most of the BBQ comes with an unlimited serving of Korean side dishes. If there are two of you, you cannot order just the BBQ with side dishes. You are required to order one more dish.
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Kaibizzim - Beef Rib Stew (P350). The beef, potato and carrots were "super soft" and a bit overcooked. We were looking for a tastier version.
Manna is popular with a lot of people -- what's your favorite dish in Manna Korea Garden?
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Kim Yong Joon
#5650 Don Pedro Street, Poblacion, Makati City
Telephone: +632 897-6799
Mobile Number: +63917 525-6150
Directions: From P. Burgos, drive all the way past Kalayaan Avenue. Turn right (first corner) on Gen. Luna and then right again on Don Pedro. You'll see the Manna Grocery first and then Manna Korea Garden.
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Thanks for posting the complete address of Manna, the only problem is I don't know the whole stretch of Burgos.=P But it is a start.
This is the first Korean restaurant I was able to eat at and I must say it was pretty good. It was my Japanese bosses who recommended it to us but judging from the flock of Koreans who ate there that night, I am quite sure it was okay. I have rules with restaurants like this, first it must be run by someone from the country the cuisine came from and second, their fellow countrymen flock the place. You will be sure it passess their taste buds and close to what they have in their own country.=)
I don't eat beef so I can't pass judgement on that but we ordered their grilled pork belly as well and it was so good! What I liked the most is their side dishes. We had pajeon (not sure if it is the right spelling) which are Korean pancakes made out of leeks and I highly recommend this. I tried a little bit of Bibimbap and it was not bad either. What I didn't like was their spicy and sour noodles.
Definitely will come back for more grilled pork belly, octupus maybe and some more pajeon! I definitely like Korean food now because of this restaurant. The combination of sweet, salty and spicy is heavenly.
A friend suggested to me to try the Korean restuarant at the corner of Adriatico Street in front of Cafe Adriatico in Malate. Her family has been going to that restuarant for years now and it has been there for quite sometime. At the stretch of J.Bocobo you can also find a couple of Korean restos you might want to try.
Hope it helps.=)
Across Manna is another Korean restaurant called MIN SOK. Friends and I had been frequenting this since 2006 to get our Korean food fix. They have the basics of Korean food: Kalbijim, Samgyupsal (grilled pork meat dipped in sesame oil and salty bean paste and wrapped in lettuce), Jjigae (soups mostly of spicy to very spicy variety) plus ten side refillable side dishes. They even serve the "unthinkable" of Korean food here, only which a true Korean foodie would know! xD
It's owned by a Korean couple and Korean families flock to this restaurant mostly on weekends and dinner time weeknights. It's open around 11am but drop by around 2-3pm to enjoy your food longer. Ajumma (auntie/married woman term for Korean) tend to hurry people who leisurely eat. Also, Derek Ramsey somewhat mentioned the place. =)
Thanks for sharing your experience! There are a lot of Korean restos in
Malate and I wanted to feature the best ones based on raves of people. I
think the entire Malate is now Korean Town I guess...
Any Korean Foodie readers out there who can give some recos?
The "unthinkable" Korean food is intriguing... I know where this is and we
will give it a try too :)
Once in a while I find myself craving for the spicy, garlicky flavors of Korean food. Just like most restaurants, some dishes are better than others. For beef stew, I think Korea Garden along Jupiter St. is the best. They also have this set meal for two that's great value for money at P1,000 (the last time I checked). For grilled spicy chicken, I go to Koreano Restaurant in one of the side streets off Kalayaan Ave., Makati.
By "unthinkable", do you mean dog?
Yes it is a sad truth that Malate has become a Korean Town now. Even the Old Swiss Inn restuarant there has been turned into a Korean videoke/restaurant.
But the Korean restaurant that my friend suggested has been there way back the street party days of Malate. Maybe for that you may do a review on the restaurant. I just don't now the name I only now the location.=P It is not hard to miss as it is the only restuarant at the corner or Adriatico and if I am not mistaken Marcelino street.=)
We prefer the other Korean restaurant along Don Pedro St. I'm sorry I just can't remember the name right now but it's right across Manna.
The food is cheaper and at least in my opinion, better tasting.
I like Dona Dona on Makati Ave right before Kalayaan if heading towards Ayala. The best part about Dona Dona is they use charcoal instead of a gas for their table grills. I usually order they SamGyupSal.
jin go ge and san soung near makati ave is the best authentic korean resto , and korean garden in jupiter has the best bulgogi and kimbap
koreans has invaded the philippines.... i think you were talking about korean palace restaurant in malate, they also have a branch in kalayaan , makati and i'm sorry but the food is not that good
Korean food is one thing that I haven't tried, I'm adventurous when it comes to food but still, I'm clueless on what to order in a Korean resto.
I heard about Korean Palace. Thanks for the comment!
MIN SOK it is! xD
Hi Anton! By unthinkable I mean dog dishes. I was told they raised the dogs themselves coz only the richer koreans can afford it. The dog dishes are not on the menu of course. LOL. but I saw a group of ahjussi (uncle termn in Korean) eating it one very rainy weekend.It helps their body stay warm daw. Which is typical Korean need kasi may winter/snow sila.
Yedang, in Metrowalk! :)
Minato near CRC along Escriba St. tel: 6336960. FYI lang, I went on a couple of dinners with some koreans.. and a lot of them order soup and mix their rice with it, it seems like they eat this more often than the grilled meats. Try having the tofu soup w seafood (usually spicy) and mix it with your rice.. then eat the grilled meats as ulam. If you don't like spicy things.. i know they have some sort of beef soup and that's really good too.
we ate at this korean restaurant near kapitolyo in pasig, po suk jung. food was delicious! now im craving and want to go back there again!
Yah thats the thing right, its hard to order korean food if your not korean! haha. atleast for me, Im limited to what I know and what others recommend.
I do frequent DOng WOn Korean Resto along Jupiter St. Corner near Makati Ave. You can ask for a discount card, which you can use right away. 10% cash 5% card. If you are a group, you can ask for their private rooms at no extra cost(double check when you go there)
Hi Anton,
I used to frequent Yedang along Meralco Ave, just before Metrowalk and beside Muchos (our fave "hole in the wall" videoke joint) and I'd say it's nice there and serving is quite huge at least for me. Food in my opinion is quite good too. My predictable fave is the bibimbop rice paired with bulgogi (beef strips). Meat orders come with a plate of greens and a couple of mini plates of side dishes that's good for a second refill. Sometimes they offer free dessert of sliced pineapple/melon fruit. Note the operative word "sometimes" since oddly we don't always get it :p
Where is CRC and Escriba st?
Hi Anton,
I was glad to see that you featured Manna Garden. Honestly, I've (along with family & friends) been patronizing this place for almost two years now. They've got authentic Korean food, well I'd back up that claim because it is always frequented by Koreans also. We really like it here that we dine here almost weekly. They serve good food at prices that wont bust your budget, it's always great for a weekend dinner with friends and after the meal have fun with some Soju (Korean vodka) or their beer: Hite.
If you want to deviate from the "Pinoy preference" in Korean cuisine (beef stew, japchae, barbecue etc), may I suggest that you order their casserole dishes. They've got: spicy tripe soup, haemul tang (spicy seafood stew) and the spicy octopus and beef casserole is good too! Also if you are dining alone or with a companion, try ordering their spicy rib soup or the beef broth hangover soup and I'm sure you'll never go wrong. For 200 its a meal in itself, its accompanied with a serving of rice and the side dishes. You may also try their noodles, for 200-220 bucks they've got hot noodles that is almost good enough for 2 persons. Haven't tried their summer noodles (served cold) yet.
By the way, the owner's sister, Mrs. Yu is really friendly and would suggest certain dishes for you to try out. Hope I was of help. =)
hi Anton,
Looking at the pics in your entry, I should say you had Samgyupsal. It's one of my favorite Korean dishes because it's one meal in one. You can put rice, grilled pork strips (samgyupsal) some kimchi (fermented chinese cabbage or radish), garlic, onions, etc. into a leaf of chinese cabbage or lettuce and then you make a roll from it. You are supposed to put the whole thing in your mouth in one go(as you might have seen the other patrons there do). The sauce is probably gojujang sauce or pepper sauce; they may also have it with fish sauce but I have forgotten the name for it. Kimchi is a must in Korean meals, by the way.
Kimchijigae or kimchi soup (kimchi with pork or bacon strips and tofu) is also very good but it may be too hot and spicy for most Filipinos. Tuk bok ki (the spelling varies as Koreans rely on phonetics) which is made from small rice patties or rolls in sweet and spicy sauce is also a must-try.
I don't know if I can attach a picture (of Tuk bok ki) here so I will just email it to you to give you an idea.
Koreans don't like oily or fatty food, and they like veggies a lot. Korean food is actually very healthful so I hope you can acquire a taste for it.
Gyumon is Pan Pacific Hotel is good also though a little bit pricey, they have a branch in Mile Long too, but not sure if as good as the one in Pan Pacific.
KAYA in Glorieta is good too, their price is quite reasonable.
My korean friend brought us to a small korean restaurant in Malate and the food was really good. Sadly, I don't remember the name or any of what we had because we made him order and everything was sooo good.
Seoul Barbecue in Libis is also a must try for Korean food lovers.
in my neck of the woods, there's a huge korean population so i've come to rely a lot on korean places for my daily meals (and it's cheaper and healthier than most filipino places!). i find their barbeque and bibimbop (rice casserole) to be quite satisfying. the beef in the picture though looks odd to me as it looks like it hasn't been marinated...
oohhh lala lol..besides the swiss 'leberli' in herb sauce favorite namin yung bbque's ng mga koreans i love those kalbi{e-bbque's}those meat-shrimp strips ready to be grilled and yes those healthy steam vegetables..pero yung saksakan ng sarap ay yung ginisa na soft 'sotanghon' at yung tofu soup nila na may cut na konti ng dahon ng sibuyas ang sarap talaga nun..we lived in another state outside those best korean restos so plane ride was necessary just to visit-eat para hindi ako malungkot dahil addicted ako sa korean beef bbq's tufo soup at yung sotanghon nila.. naku lagot ako na naman ako nagutum tuloy ako lol!
i wonder if the legendary world famous american journey rock band/arnel pineda{journey's lead singer}from the philippines who had just a great concert in oslo norway at in sweden rock fest 2009 i saw in youtube under stonan:journey rock band in sweden rock fest 2009 watched in sweden by 35,000.00 crowd just in sweden alone 'wondering' if they went-try in old towns in europe 'eating' in chinese filipino indian o korean foodie restaurants..asian in norway & sweden had a great time had a blasts in journey'pineda european rock concert just a few nights ago
I share in Mrs. Lavendula's rave!!! :D Thank God that Oranbo Dr. is relatively near Libis.
(apologies for the poor memory and unfamiliarity with Korean dish names on this eons-ago-old post)
Near UAP, this is also my fave Korean restaurant. Recommended by Koreans themselves!
Our favorite Korean restaurant was "Ara", which was the next building from the new branch of Happy Cream Puff. Have you gone there before? Their kalbi was amazing! Too bad it was forced to close down by the BIR.
Korea Garden on Jupiter near reposo st.
Hello Anton, my boyfriend is a korean and i really love korean food! We usually eat in Ortigas area(near Astoria, at the back of University of Asia and the Pacific) where there are a lot of traditional korean restos to choose from. Each restaurant has their own korean food specialty and I must say most of them are great. One of our favorite is in Happy 6 Days, it's our daily lunch spot. We used to eat in P. Burgos in Makati before where there are also a lot of traditional korean restos to choose from. Korean Restos serve unlimited soup, side dishes, and even rice for free. Korean dish is not complete without soup and their spicy sauce which is the Gojujang. Some of their favorite drinks are Soju, Rice Juice and Rice Wine. Aside from the grilled pork and beef here are some of the korean food that i like:
~ Galbi Tang (like a Bulalo) ~ Bulgogi ~ Kimbap ~Bibimbap ~ Dwendang Jigae ~ Pa Jon (korean pizza) ~Jjampong ~ Vegetable Dumplings ~ Jajangmyon (black noodle) ~ Bokumbap(this is the best!) ~ Dukbokgi ~ Kimchi Bokumbap ~ Jeyuk Bokum(Spicy pork with vegetables) ~ Duk Bokki ~ Patbingsu (korean halo-halo) ~ Sundae(Korean Sausage w/ noodles inside) ~ Ojingo Bokum (spicy squid) ~ Mandu-guk (Dumpling Soup) ~ Gyeran-tang (Egg Soup)~ Gamjatang (Potato Soup) ~ Al Tang (Fish Egg Soup) ~ Ddeok-guk (Rice Cake Soup) ~ Budae-jjiggae (Army Soup with interesting story why it's called as such) ~ Tteokbokki (Stir Fried Rice Cake, usually pulutan) ~ Dumpling Rameun (Ramen) ~ Porridge, etc. etc.. TwoTwo restaurant also in Ortigas (along Pearl Drive, night restaurant) has a great korean spicy fried chicken.
And i have to add that korean resto also serve good Omu Rice (rice omelette) and katsudon. You should also try their candies, crackers and ice cream which can be bought from korean groceries. It's really yummy! ^^
Also try Song Do, in El Pueblo.. they also have good sushi..
hi! isn't Kaya a Korean restaurant? I love Kaya :) Want to try that new place in Greenbelt 2 too, just beside Cyma , I guess.
I love the Grilled Mackerel and Bulgogi in Kaya :) Oooh, and the rice! Yumm.
Try Song Do in El Pueblo Ortigas. Their grilled meats are US Angus beef, and for only 350 (if I remember correctly). Servers are very attentive, and are willing to help you navigate your way through the menu. Lots of Koreans dine there, so I guess it's a good sign? hehe.
hmmm... there's this korean restaurant in SM Baguio... love their bibimbap! and i don't know the name of the other stuff my cousin ordered... there was a kalbi gim(sp?), i think... and a noodle dish that is not chapchae... i love the place! it inspired me to make my own kimchi when i got back to manila.
cheap beef stew... nothing beats Kimchi... mall food courts.
and that korean restaurant along the food court in powerplant... it has been a while, but i recall having a very good time there. even my picky relatives enjoyed the food. the servings were a bit small though.
been meaning to check out Silla.. a korean restaurant that recently moved to morato/timog circle. it used to be across ice berg along timog... it has been there for as long as i can remember - even before ice berg moved to it's current location across, until they were forced to move due to renovation.
Hi Anton,
I'd recommend Korean Garden along Jupiter Street. For me, they have the best Korean BBQ because its quite juicy unlike other restos which tend to be dry.
these comments here in our awesome planet blog corner na pag aari ng filipino family anton diaz are really great good signs about how korean foodies are great-good & well appreciated patronized love by local filipinos that is GOOD NEWS now it will be even greater if filipinos-philippines government like of senator lacson & senator villar will be given a chance to encourage to be passionate about talking mediating to fellow asia continent member like of NORTH KOREANS-NORTH KOREA GOVERNMENT to reconcile in peace with neighbor SOUTH KOREANS-SOUTH KOREA if 'possible' to open up their fences-gates just like germany's east berlin's walls IN EXCHANGE OF all north korean family members leaders to run for a new elections just like what the south koreans do in their present system of government also to allow south koreans government to help care-guard-watch all their nuclear weapons under a united nations agreement but still north korea should be allowed to keep their other non nuclear weapons a 'secret' north koreans 'dignity' must be also upheld but it is wonderful beautiful a greater dream if north koreans are all free to travel anywhere and investments of manufacturings machineries tourism the boosting of asia's dentistry just like how west germany helped east berlin when east berlin was once a deteriorating depressive backwards but now east berlin is a free flourishing advancing wealthier respected part of that would be an interesting and the MOST CHALLENGING ROLES for philippine senators lacson & villar to explore hopefully 'sooner' than later bcoz north korea is a tough country to deal with but i-we want to see senator lacson & villar to practice to expand their new ideas of diplomacies bcoz north korea to become the next berlin sooner than later is good for asia continent one problem at a time..meaning philippines and the rest of the wolrd can-will perhaps enjoy the secret best north korean hidden secret foodies-gourmets so the world can take trains and will enjoy new north koreans 'state of the art' mountain resorts museums art & theaters lines of new korean specialty restaurants that would be an interesting TWIST of any world history ever combined meaning a FREE happier wiser educated wealthier respected honorable NORTH KOREANS STUDYING-TRAVELLING DINING SHOPPING WORKING FREELY AROUND THE our awesome planet families & friends please help us by pressuring calling or text senator lacson & villar to practice non traditional foreign diplomacy to 'surprised US WITH A new twist of a HAPPY ENDING in asia continent one at a time but starting with TOUGH north koreans we will appreciate it for life sounds too impossible looks like it is too big so well see what friendly adventurous philippines senators can do with tough mean daw at scarry daw according to the rest of the world americans in particular hopefully before this year christmas 2009 we have a happier even a new historic christmas 2009 meaning hope to see north koreans celebrating merry christmas with the rest of the world but remember any national security weapons in particular must be protected by sovereign countries so south koreans should kept them secret too but make sure they will 'never' be used and hopefully these kind of weapons are only to deter non human enenmies and not the human neighboring countries like united nations member countries..salamat philippines thank you ng marami filipinos lol
by the way..i would like europe's germany greece italy philippines in particular to build european restaurants european resorts for the north koreans also the largest asia's bamboo filipino restaurants in north korea if it will come true complete with christmas trees festive decors hopefully this will make dali lama and all other christians happier or hopeful at least coz i know how impossible how outrageous how non traditional how inconvenient this might sounds to those who feared scared of north koreans but when it comes to foodie festivals we should not descriminate if the nort koreans would like to do the east germany's BERLIN wall collapsed for a merrier for a new well developed advanced new highly educated north koreans a chance so far fetch so overwhelmingly unpopular but asia's philippines needs these kinds of tough difficult diplomatic practices i hope these philippines senators can help make them happened to better served the modern advancing civilized world if former east berlin of west germany made it happened why not asia too must be interesting to sit and swim in any future north korean restaurant full of smokey street parisian like open markets of kalbi..a new additional new foodie street paradise sounds spooky & hellish but who knows it could mean the reverse also just think of east germany's BERLIN WALLS IN THE PAST lol
The secret's out!!! hehehe
I'm surprised that you featured this Anton :-) My favorite Korean resto ever! Been to Korean Garden and other restos but still prefers Manna.
i've eaten here once and i love their spare ribs meat bbq.
what's with the 3-4 posts above me?
to our awesome planet below my comments viewer name topster: my comments is to save some stupid 'filipinos' from what stupid/dangerous things they do in life just in case na mag karoon ng giyera na ika tatlo at para huwag magalit yung ibang koreano sa norte at para huwag kayong hulugan ng bomba o whatever para huwag kayong idamay sa galit nila sa mga political squeezes na ipinapataw sa kanila all i can tell you is huwag na kayong maki alam sa mga comments ko kung gusto nyung may peace na regular sa daigdig ay kailangan yung mga iniipit na peligroso daw na mga bansa according to american foreign policies eh huwag lalong galitin kasi yung tarantadong mga organized crimes dyan sa pilipinas ay dumadagdag na magkaroon ng giyera ika tatlo saksakan ang katangahan kasi a few years ago i was there sa phils. vacationing when employees of western union i always take my dollar allowances for 6 months suddenly was playing games with me i was cashing dollars/pesos they suddenly change attitude when dealing with me they keep reading-putting something in the computer and keep asking me questions so i spent more time there and it never happened before so they handed me the dollars but i did not exchange to pesos there sa western union sa local town where i was staying kasi i was irritated when i change my dollars to another money changer who knows who trust me well in the past suddenly start touching my money then i realized i am being treated-attached to fake dollars though i didnt question and he still change my money i was offended bcoz i can be set up without realizing it 'the biggest problem' was they know i am an american citizen meaning the united states government/interpol are investigating according to american news media the american government believed-suspected north koreans of printing
fake money u.s. dollars so reporting-complaining what happened to me when i was cashing u.s. dollars means i will become a part of suspected north koreans money laundering-printing money JUST BCOZ OF THAT STUPID GAMES BY WESTERN UNION EMPLOYEES IN THAT LOCAL TOWN plus that man that keep mentioning an asian name as i was being harrassed meaning attaching me to some set up illegal activities is really some filipinos big stupid ideas i hope they are still alive because making me a suspicious person would not help anybody even united states will be in trouble if they
cont: if they put-place me as victims then the world will know how mean how bad u.s. government to their own citizens if it was just a set up event lol
Hi Anton,
I joined your group in Subic for the Hot Air Balloon Fest 2 years ago. I hope you still remember me.
I'm working for a Korean company and has been eating Korean food for the past 5 years. My boss even asked me to recommend korean dishes which I think will be liked by Filipinos. So, you might wanna try the Korean restos we frequent to:
1. Korea Garden (along Jupiter St. Makati) is known for its Kalbi chim and other soup dishes. It's one of the oldest Korean restos established in the country, so most of the Korean diplomats and Filipino govt officials know about this place.
2. Kaya Restaurant is famous for bibimbap or "mixed rice' (plain rice topped with sauteed vegetables, egg, sliced meat usually beef and chili pepper paste in a stone pot). If you're into raw food, you might want to try Yuk hoe (yuk-hwe) which is raw beef. It's really fresh and best taken with Soju (Korean alcoholic beverage). Kaya Restaurant is also along Jupiter St. in Makati.
3. San Sung is along Makati Avenue. I personally love the seafood pajeon (pancake-like with squid and veggies) here. I also like samgyeopsal (sam-gyup-sal) which consists of grilled pork belly meat. Prior to consumption, the large slices of meat are cut into smaller pieces with scissors. A dipping sauce consisting of sesame oil, ground black pepper and salt often accompany samgyeopsal. A common way to consume the meat is to place a slice inside a lettuce or other green leaf with some cooked rice and ssamjang, a paste made out of chili paste (gochujang) and soybean paste (doenjang). It is also common to serve samgyeopsal with large green chilies and slices of garlic, as well as a spring onion salad.
4. Another resto in Makati called Bi-won serves Naengmyeon (neng-myun) which is a cold noodle dish. Buckwheat noodles are garnished with sliced pork or beef, egg, sliced pear and cucumbers in an iced broth which makes it really refereshing.
As you know, there are a lot of Korean restos in Makati area and they usually have house specialties that's why you should tell what dish you prefer to have. But if you're a first-timer, I'd highly recommend Korea Garden or Kaya to sample some of the usual korean dishes.
I will send the complete adds of these restos thru ur email next week. Btw, I might go to Korea in July so I might share with you my food trip there :)
~ Yan
we love koren food as well... Min sok for affordable food, Dong Won for the spicy octopus and Jap chae, we havent posted our korean finds yet
here is my choce in quezon city
i've tried one of the korean restos along malate cirlce. i think it's korea house. they have great food there... love it!
this is a weird comment.
I really like YEDANG near Metrowalk - sorry can't remember what we ordered but everything was really good, especially the lettuce wrap with beef and an array of dips...and seems authentic, since half of the patrons we saw there are Koreans.
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to joey name viewer: weird comment comment not at all if you know the seriousness of american illegalities 'way'..people like me go-vacations to philippines to relax exerienced local cultures like foods fiestas travelling locally spending our hard earned dollars so we can be happy have excitements attend parties dining-dancing all nights and shop till we drop..meaning as a decent person who grew up 'never' was involved in anything negative[directly or indirectly}in my entire life plus knowing how american way of life can operate in a mean way i have to learned to be pre-cautious not to be entangled with anything suspicious questionable activities-entanglements o anything illegal.. transparency to me is a need so i can help those who do not understand what revolves around life for others to enjoy life freely being aware to what happened to me as you said is weird but these weird things{not exactly same issues} happens to almost everyone
unless you're in denial that you could mean one good normal-regular thing but could ended up with other things unexpectedly..i could not possibly be involved in any fake dollars we have enough means to live decent just me & my husband and bcoz i do not have the needs for them i have a personality that understands i have only one set of feet to put shoes on one set of arms to put bracelets-rings one neck for necklaces one body to treat myself designer clothes and i cannot forget there are 7 days in a week and i am quite capable to know that i am a housewife i do not have to need more if i am a carrer woman i actually give away what i have what i owned what i shopped not only in the philippines but around the world where we travels for decades bcoz i & my husband do not have a need for what we already have
i do not need cash dollars when was vacationing in the philippines because i used u.s. military debit-credit cards when dining-dancing-shopping-hotels-plane rides-rent a car etc. so it will be useless for any holdappers kidnappers muggers to take-victimized me lol..when those western union employees was harrassing me suddenly printing in the computer all the code numbers in every dollar bills they handed me that day but didnt do the same with the rest of the customers bcoz i was
irritated and sat here to see if that is their new rules coz the sudden changes created weird feelings i hold my temper bcoz that is what harrassments are all about they want people to see you're an angry o lunatic person so upset blowing non stop angers there would make me 'really' an angry lunatic out of control person
it was a kind of trapped no one would enjoy so i just obeserved what people do there bcoz i learned from here in america u.s. military life is a luxury but tougher than civilian world coz american military wives are always left behind if not 6 months a year every 2 years to above so we the wives became the father mother of our children also the mechanic the plumber the kitchen chef the driver the waitress the mailman the messenger the secretary the nurse the accountant the security guard meaning i became the CEO of my husband's kingdom's but corporate like home it sounds so great but only for a minute bcoz men in the military has another term for that great homey 'status' instead of CEO they sometimes call they regard housewife job{as jokes} as his-their maid in the living room-cook in the kitchen-his whore in the bedroom just to let you know how tough also it is here to be a woman in america meaning i have enough decent experienced to know who i am who am i.. i know enough myself if i am a good person or not SO I WAS SHOCKED being attached-entangled in fake dollars thru computers i went to the philippines just to enjoy life mainly dining-dancing-travel-shop until i drop so i was shocked
to even get attached to anything illegal so i could not travel the philippines bczo it is a sign that there will be more harrassments bcoz fake printing dollars is a serious crime maybe not in the philippines where maybe filipinos are allowed to make fake printing pesos a good habits activities but not for americans the media the justice system will ruin-humiliate-destroy you-your families no matter how decent we maybe so i am surprised YOU LEFT A COMMENT THAT MY COMMENT IS WEIRD i hope people will learned from my experiences that weird strange things do happens but it is not the end of the world life is beautiful so no matter how difficult we must moved on just keep learning so you win in any bad circumstances meaning so youre prepared not shocked before it happens also i am doing them a favor coz they got the wrong person to entangled in harrassments lol!
cont: btw..that local town western union in the philippines was the ONLY place where i get my husbands trasfered cash u.s. dollars from america no other places no other resources i can possibly get cash dollars Not involving any of my husband's electronic cash transfers by western union my husband or i do not-will not need to send me cash dollars every month besides my debit-credit cards if i have cash dollars with me when he left me alone for 6 months in philippines he stayed only 10 days in the philippines plus the harrassments happened only on the last 2 months i was there not in those first 4 months of all electronic cash transfers i had a total of 20,000,00 u.s. dollars total 6- months allowance for myself that excluding the western union cash transfers and oohhh i did not buy any properties & did not travel anywhere outside manila did not leave any more than 20 kilometers circumference of manila just back & forth from place where I stayed & the spa world i was pre-cautious it's worth it coz i had a peace of mind lol!
Hi Yan,super thanks for the detailed recos including the korean names of the dishes and how to pronounced them. Please do send the address so that I will try out all your reco.
I stumbled into Manna Garden last week. Food-wise, it was okay. But the service? BLAH! The (female) waitresses were NOT courteous. The male waiters were nicer. But all in all, not a very pleasant dining experience.
My favorite Korean resto is still Korea Garden along Jupiter. They have the best beef stew!!! Beef ribs bbq is great too. I don't think their appetizers are unlimited tho (as compared to the Korean restos along P Burgos), but I'm not too sure about that. Service is wonderful, and they still employ the same old waiters from their original location. They also serve the best and sweetest pineapples for dessert. I have NEVER tasted sour pineapples when I eat there- they're always sooo sweet! I always wonder where they source their pineapples from.
Also a great place for Korean dumplings is this place near Astoria Plaza... It's walking distance going into the street, maybe less than 5 minutes walk, and you'll find this small store/mall with a couple of Korean marts and groceries and small Korean restos. They're tiny restos, almost turo-turo in feel, some with karaoke, all filled with Koreans. Most of the stores only have Korean names tho. One store inside (the one without karaoke) has really yummy dumplings and very authentic dishes. They're so authentic that the menu they'll give you is in Korean. We had to request for English menus :)
Korea Garden on Jupiter Street, Makati wins hands down. They used to be a small resto on P.Burgos until they transferred to Jupiter. We go there so often we don't even look at the menu anymore. My family loves to order their kalbi chim, dak bulgogi, udyok, octopus and bbq shrimp. Even their chap chae is tasty. :)
Anton! Musta?! Long time!! :)
Try Ye Dang!! :)
PAnget and I LOVE that place!! Hehehe..
Let us know when you'd like to try - sama kami!! :)
Regards to Rache and the kids!!
manna garden is my family's favorite korean restaurant :) been eating here since forever. I love the fact that this restaurant is "tago" hehe. and the owner is friendly too :)
Hi Anton,
I'm kinda familiar with Korean dishes since I'm working in a Korean company for 7 years. My brother-in-law is also Korean. I lived with them and I usually eat Korean food everyday. Me and my Korean friends often drink and eat in restaurant.I can recommend Yedang in Pasig, Songdo in El Pueblo, Pasig. You can also try the other Korean restaurants around Burgos, the not so famous like Manna because they serve better, the price is cheaper and you can see and chat with a lot of Koreans there especially duringf dinner time. Kaya is not an authentic Korean restaurant, my Korean friends called it as a "fast food" resto. I can recommend :
1. Kimchi chigue- Kimchi stew is a very popular soup made with kimchi and kochujang. It is normally served in a stone pot and still boiling when served on the table. It contains kimchi as well as other ingredients such as green onion, onion, tofu, and beef as well as some seafood. The specific ingredients, aside from kimchi, vary widely. Typically kimchi chigae is eaten with a bowl of rice.
2. Samgyupsal- is another popular Korean meat dish. It consists of thick pork strips, served in the same fashion as galbi but there is no marinating involved. Sometimes it is cooked on a grill with kimchi, mushrooms, garlic, onions and consumed together. This dish is usually served with a side of lettuce, spinach, or other leafy vegetable(s), which is used to wrap a slice of cooked samgyupsal. A dab of ssamjang (usually made of kochujang or dwenjang), kimchi, or other side dishes are also added and then eaten as a whole. Really good to eat with Soju (Korean wine)
3. Kimbap- is considered one of the most popular and nutritious Korean meal. It consists of rice and strips of vegetables, egg, and meat, rolled in laver (dried seaweed) and sliced. This is a popular snack or lunch with its ingredients being very variable. Popular ones include bulgogi, spinach, pickled radish, and eggs.
Gimbop, at first glance, often resembles Japanese maki or a sushi roll. However, there are a few differences between the Japanese sushi roll and the Korean-style gimbop. The main difference is that Japanese sushi rolls are rather minimal in ingredients. Sushi rolls usually consists of just tuna or salmon within the roll whereas gimbop contains a variety of ingredients (vegetables and meat). Also, while the Japanese use raw fish (sashimi) in their sushi rolls, Korean gimbop do not contain any raw fish. Lastly, Japanese sushi are often dipped in wasabi while gimbop usually has sesame oil.
4. Japchae-is a stir-fried dish that combines sweet vermicelli noodles made from the starch of a white sweet potato, thinly slices of beef, and various vegetables. It is usually prepared with carrots, green onion, spinach, shiitake mushrooms and green peppers. Beef may be added as an option but may be left out to be served as a vegetarian dish. The noodles are gray when raw and turn almost translucent when cooked (thus given its popular nickname, glass noodles). When cooked correctly, they retain a chewy texture.
5. Bulgogi- is one of Korea's most popular beef dishes. It is made from thinly sliced sirloin or another prime cut of beef. The meat is marinated with a mixture of soy sauce, sesame oil, black pepper, garlic, onions, ginger, wine and sugar. It is marinated for two to four hours to enhance the flavor and its tenderization. Bulgogi is traditionally grilled, but broiling or pan-cooking is common as well. Whole cloves of garlic, sliced onions, and chopped green peppers are often grilled or cooked at the same time. It is often served to non-Koreans as a first taste of Korean cuisine.
This dish is usually served with a side of lettuce, spinach, or other leafy vegetable, which is used to wrap a slice of cooked meat, often times along with a dab of ssamjang, kimchi, or other side dishes, and then eaten as a whole
6. Galbi- Galbi is a Korean meat dish made from beef short ribs. The ribs are marinated in a sauce made from fruit juice (generally Asian pear juice), rice wine, soy sauce, garlic, sesame seed oil and sugar. Most recipes contain these basic ingredients, although many variations exist, including variations from clear marinades to spicier marinades. This dish is usually served with a side of lettuce, spinach, or other leafy vegetable, which is used to wrap a slice of cooked meat, often times along with a dab of ssamjang, kimchi, or other side dishes, and then eaten as a whole.
7. Pajeon-is a traditional Korean-style pancake which is a very popular appetizer or snack. It is made with flour batter, eggs, and green onions/scallions, served with a mixture of soy sauce & vinegar for dipping. In translation, “jeon” (pronounced “jun”) is the actual battered ingredients and “pa” means scallions in Korean. The basic type of this dish consists of just scallions along with flour and eggs but endless variation of this dish can exists by simply adding other ingredients such as seafood, kimchi, or vegetables. To cook, the batter is poured into an oiled pan and fried to a golden crisp on a frying pan. Just like a pancake and one of the key to this dish is the egg which contributed to the crispness in texture. The most popular pajeon dish is the seafood Hae-Mul pajeon, which usually consists of little bits of oysters, fresh baby clams, shrimps and even squids. It’s nothing compared to pancakes most frequently found on North American breakfast tables as a regular pan of pajeon is big enough to feed three hungry mouths.
8.Jokbal is a very popular pork dish to many Koreans worldwide. In translation, it means pig’s trotters or legs (boneless) which have been seasoned and steamed. It may sound strange and unappealing to foreigners, but anyone who has once tried jokbal will get into the charm of this delicate dish. The pork is spiced with black taffy, soybean sauce and ginger which give its irresistible taste of the meat, soft fat and chewy skin. The secret of its popularity is the broth in which the jokbal is cooked as it is seasoned and simmered for about 2 to 3 hours. The steam rises from the pot until the mouth-watering meat is cooked to perfection. The secret of the delicious meaty flavor lies in the rich broth, and to this day, every restaurant’s broth recipe is considered top secret. Almost all restaurants will serve the same condiments and side dishes to go along with jokbal. Various side dishes include lettuce, radish “water” kimchi, kimchi, shredded radish, and buchu (Korean leek). And usual condiments include ssamjang (mixture of pepper and fermented bean paste) and salted shrimps for dipping. For consumption, jokbal can be wrapped in lettuce leaves along with some of the side dish or condiment to fully enjoy this meal.
9. Bibimbop- literally means "mixed rice" or "mixed meal" in Korean. It's a popular meal consisting of a bowl of steamed white rice topped with vegetables, beef, a whole egg, and kochujang (Korean chili pepper paste). Kochujang is usually served separately to control its spiciness of this rice dish. A variation of this dish, dolsot bibimbop ("dolsot" meaning "stone pot") is served in a heated stone bowl, in which a raw egg is cooked against the sides of the bowl. Before the rice is placed in the bowl, the bottom of the bowl is coated with sesame oil; consequently, the portion of the rice touching the bowl becomes golden brown and crispy. Vegetables commonly used in bibimbap include julienne cucumber, zucchini, carrot, white radish, mushrooms, bellflower root, and laver, as well as spinach, soybean sprouts, and bracken fern stems. Tofu, either plain or sauteed, may also be included in the dish. Within both types of bibimbops, all ingredients are typically stirred together thoroughly before eating.
10. Dwenjang Chigae is a stew made from Korean dwenjang. This soup is often served alongside rice as a meal during lunch or dinner but it can also be served with a main course like galbi or other meat dishes. Usually, it contains a variety of vegetables and several shellfish including small mussels, clams, shrimp and/or large anchovies.
I hope I can help you! Hopefully next time you'll find a better Korean resto to satisfy your cravings for Korean food.
I am a big fan of your blog Anton!! And it really helps me whenever I crave for different kind of food experiences.
I think it is my time to give you something back.
Oh~ By the way I am a KOREAN~
My recommend for a Korean Restaurant is “MASAN GARDEN” located in Polaris st. Makati City. You can access Polaris st. from Jupiter st.. very close to Makati ave. 896-5094 for more info.
Recommended food… Well.. I can really see the commonality when it comes to the foreigner’s choice of Korean food. So let me recommend other menu than those. (Oh~ It doesn’t mean MASAN doesn’t offer those your favorite menu or the taste isn’t right. I just want you to try the variety of Korean food.) Further, this restaurant is popular among the large Korean corporate such as Samsung, LG, Hanjin, Kepco, Korean Embassy and etc. due to the authenticity of the food. The chef is LICENSED KOREAN COOK for the fact~
You might say some of my recommended menus don’t seem authentic Korean food, but I am telling you they are. Some of cuisines are influenced by Japanese food culture vice-versa, just like some of the Filipino cuisine is influenced by Spanish cuisine.
1. SUNG GAE MI YUK GOOK (Uni Seaweed Soup)
If you don’t like ‘Uni’ you can try ‘So Go Gi Mi Yuk Gook(Beef Seaweed Soup)’ as well.
2. BOK SASHIMI, BOK JI RI (Balloon fish sashimi, balloon fish clear soup)
This may be one of the unusual dish like someone described on this page as Balloon fish is known to be poisonous. But the restaurant has been serving this menu for 4years already and no one has ever reported as poisoned. This menu is also popular among the Japanese customers as well. If you are really into trying out this menu, reservations are highly recommended, considering the limited live balloon fish.
3. LAPU LAPU SASHIMI SET ( Lapu Lapu Sashimi + various side dishes (specialized for the set) + spicy fish soup –available in not spicy at all version ask for clear soup)
4. BAEK KIMCHI GOOK SOO ( White Kimchi Cold Noodle Soup)
If you are not daring enough to try this, you can first try their Baek Kimchi (white kimchi) that is being served as the free side dishes. (some call these as appetizers, but we usually eat them with rice and other dishes all together. So I must call them as side dishes.) This Kimchi is color white and NOT SPICY AT ALL unlike the well-known kind of Kimchi you know~
5. HWAE DUP BAP ( Sashimi topping rice )
Think of it as different version of Bibimbab. You will be mixing the rice with sashimi, lettuce, onions, chives, other Korean veggies, sesame oil and spice sauce.
Hope I have given you inch binch of ideas. Good luck with your next Korean food experience.
i wonder when philip & amy duet in starking korea show last may if they had typical korean meals while doing the STAR KING SHOW which btw looks extremely successful for these exceptional extra talented cutest youngest philippines entertainer at the age of 7 & 9 years old just turned 7 from 6 years old not long was great watching them in star king show in korea the best concert show daw ng 2 youngest filipino philip & amy after the the best korean concert in korea it made me laugh to that comment but philip & amy did gave the wonderful appreciative talented korean audiences & guest worth their best time ever just watch the star king show in korea by amy & philip makes thousands of people around the world very happy indeed!
Korea Garden along Jupiter St. is a really good used to be in P. Burgos, then they closed for a while before transferring to their current location.
Another good place serving authentic Korean food is Woori jib in Kalayaan Ave., Quezon City.
Ara Korean Restaurant in Makati Golf Club,(Malugay street near Zuellig). The "Galbijjim" (Rib Stew) there is really good. I think the potaoes and carrots are supposed to be really soft as they are cooked for a long time, (mine came out also like that when I tried to cook them though the meat is tender) but then again I haven't tried Manna Korea Garden.
Another one is Koryo Samgyetang along Adriatico (nr Bedrock i think). Known for their SAMGYETANG, A soup with whole young chicken and ginseng. Very refreshing dish.
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Maru Restaurant along Polaris street Makati nr corner Orion. Though the food there is mostly fusion of Korean snack dishes. Korean snack dishes are also heavy though not traditionally eaten for meals. (eq-
Kaya Restaurant (the one in Jupiter Makati) is popular for Koreans and Filipinos alike. Kaya Express/Kaya Restaurants in the malls have very different taste, almost Filipino style.
Hi Lhars,Thanks for the detailed input on this. I wrote down all your inputs and Ill do a feature of the best korean dishes in the country. Ill prioritize the dishes that you mentioned here :)Anton
hi anton!i'm a loyal customer of manna, next time you visit try to order their bibimbap(fried rice), chapchae(sotanghon), seafood pancakes,pork bbq, and rice cakes in chili paste sauce.the pork bbq comes w/ lettuce, try to eat it w/ bibimbap, chapcahe and other side dish. it's like making your own lumpia except that you wrap it with lettuce.
you can also try Korean restaurant along ermita(near robinson's place manila), it's my no.1 choice for korean restaurant before i discovered manna.
Raja Korean Restaurant in Tagaytay is where my family and I would go whenever we have a craving for Korean food. My favorite would have to be a soup dish which uses thick crystal noodles with mushrooms, leeks a bit of beef, cucumbers and a whole lot more....makes me hungry all the time....
they also serve free korean appetizers..Korean Pancakes (oh...yum!), sesame chayote, kimchi...etc...
one of my fave restos in manila...=) anton! you should've ordered sangyopsal!!!
We were cruising along Libis one night a couple of years ago, scouting for a good place to eat, and chanced upon SEOUL BARBEQUE, a Korean restaurant near Gerrys Grill (on the other side of Libis from the Citibank bldg). We've been hooked since then. The place is almost always filled with Korean diners, so I guess it means their food is close to authentic. It is owned by a Korean couple. Service is friendly, food is not as expensive as Korea Garden, and the best thing about it is you can order unlimited appetizers for free. Appetizer palang, busog na kami lagi... =) Really worth a try when you happen to be in QC area.
Oh, and almost all the main dishes we've tried in Seoul BBQ were good... but funny thing is, what keeps us going back time and again are really the appetizers and their PLAIN RICE!!!! It's very fragrant and not too sticky like those of other Korean restos'....the perfect accompaniment to their Korean beef stew or spicy squid dish! (sorry, i forgot their Korean names. hehehe)
Try Minato Korean Restaurant in Ortigas Center. It is located in Escriba Drive, at the back of UAP.
OK, Thanks for the vote for Minato! We will check it out...
hi anton. been following your blog for years now.
i love korean food and i think the 2 korean restos along libis are the best-- soul barbeque (soup dishes) and jang-gun (for bar-b-q). do give them a try.
OK thank for this feedback and tip!
hi anton. this is my first time posting a comment here but i do love reading your blog. :) i dont know if you've ever heard of sogamiga, but that for me is the best korean restaurant here that i've tried so far. its in Alabang, where BMW, swiss inn, golds gym's at. its in that area. my friend brought us there one time and after that, we just kept on coming back every weekend. the place is always packed of koreans even on weekdays. you should try their beef brisket, flower of sirloin, liempo.. (all are thin slices of meat, grilled. SO GOOD!) our friends like their wagyu.. but i still like the thin slices of beef. you dip it in their sesame oil with salt, and always ask for their sweet soysauce. :) i havent tried a lot of their soups, but i like the spicy beef soup so much. its not too spicy. just right. :) i highly recommend this restaurant. enjoy! :)
Thanks for this tip! very unique, and we will try this out!
i must suggest you try KOREAN GARDEN in jupiter thats the oldest and best korean food in town...(if you dont want KAYA resto):) u must trust me i have korean bf and friends :)) hehe
i love your site anton~~!
I used to work for a Korean air carrier and our bosses would usually take us to Korean restos in Makati. We would frequent Korea Garden in Jupiter, esp. for our xmas parties or biwon at EDSA, Pasay for lunch (great location cos it's near the airport) or Korean Palace in Malate (cos it's owned by my boss' friend)..I love samygeopsal at Korean Palace...goes well with Soju...I also like the pajeon at Kaya and kalbichim a lot!!!
I recommend Korean Garden Restaurant at Jupiter Street. They have a long history of excellent service and taste. Order their Beef Galbi (spare ribs) and Nakjibokum (spicy stir-fried octopus with vegetables and noodles) with mul mandu (steamed dumplings) on the side. They are a little bit more expensive than other Korean restaurants but I can guarantee that you will have a genuine taste of Korean food at its best.
hi anton .. i love the kalbichim(beef stew) in korea garden along jupiter ...
Minato maybe the most authentic Korean Rest. Situated in Ortigas near Shaw Blvd. Forgot the name of the street. But this is the street where the Astoria Hotel is located.
ARA in Makati (near the Zuellig loop) and UMMA at the Fort Strip are convenient places to go to for Korean food. I suggest dining in one of ARA's floored rooms.
For the traditional and not-so-upscale but authentic kind, I highly recommend Chambyuru along Escriva Drive in Mandaluyong (near Astoria Plaza). Inexpensive (unlike ARA) but very tasty plus they have a floored dining area too. I suggest ordering samgyupsal, tteokbokki, kimchi jiggae.
If you are ever in Alabang and want to eat authentic Korean food, Head to Casa Susana, its right beside the Alabang Town Center. SEOUL-SEOUL KOREAN RESTAURANT:)
a lot of good korean restaurant at clark! me and my sister love korean food! also in subic there is a good korean restaurant near the cinema square. the interior is kinda plain but its the best in subic :)
My absolute favorite is Korea Garden in Jupiter. Their beef stew (P350) and Octopus in red sauce are incomparable. Worth mentioning too is their spicy chicken bbq.
oh oh oh, try Songdo in El Pueblo. I ate there before and it was really really really good. I got to know about this because the family of my Korean student owns it. Nice place, nice ambiance, and nice food. Perfect. ;-)
you should try Pajeon! (Onion leek & Seafood Pancake) :)
Hi Anton, if you're looking for a korean resto in Malate, I would recommend Korean Village. It's popular amongst the chinese. =)
I can point you out to all the hole in the wall korean restaurants in Malate and in Makati ^^ And, may I say, that Korean food is not just about bulgogi, bibimbab and Korean BBQ. There's much more to discover...the combination of different flavors and the history that comes with each dish ^^
Korean restaurants have different classifications. Most of it are what you call "Hansik Restaurants" (한식) that serve Korean foods that you can normally find in average Korean homes. There are some restaurants that only specialize in serving meats that are usually grilled. They are known as "Gogi Gui Restaurants" (고기구이). There are also restaurants that only serve Chinese-Korean dishes. These are called "Jungguk Jib" (중국집). Another is their "Hui Jib" (휫집). This is where they get their fix of raw fish(sashimi) and seafood. They also have what's called a "Soju Bar", which is a drinking place where people get their alcohol and bar munchies. There are so many restaurant classifications for Korean food. Unfortunately, I have not much of it here in Manila.
People get intimidated with Korean restaurants because most Filipinos cannot read the signages. But, if you are brave enough to just try the restaurants, I'm sure you won't get disappointed ^^
Feel free to contact me should you be interested for me to accompany you and your fellow food bloggers on a Korean food trip around the metro ^0^.
hi jeogirl,
may i ask where is Happy 6 Days?
hi tere
what korean restos could you suggest?
do you also know some korean cuisines that are not spicy?
This comment might be late but I just couldn't help but share my favorite Masan Garden in Polaris St., Makati City.
Please visit my blogsite..
Thanks, Mr. Anton!
Try Woo Ri Jib in Kalayaan, QC. It's really good!
Korean food super love it, there is noodle house in poblacion named Kumando am not so sure if i spell it correctly, i tried their noodles after our drinking session it’s sooooooooo great!!! :)
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My situation was the opposite, I always the one sending the invites and hosting. I can probably count on two hands the number of times I actually went to another friend's house as a kid.
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JK Rowling didn't give Ginny any notable flaws either. In the later books, she's constantly described as beautiful, smart, funny, athletic, popular, etc...
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MACIEL, Márcia Regina Antunes e GUARIM NETO, Germano. Juruena local healers and the plants and verbal blessings they use for healing in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Bol. Mus. Para. Emílio Goeldi. Ciênc. hum. [online]. 2006, vol.1, n.3, pp. 61-77. ISSN 1981-8122.
Quack benediction has been used in Europe since the middle ages to treat lots of illness. In Brazil the bezendores appeared during the XVII century and interpretation of their knowledge, traditional use and management of plant resources are commonly addressed in ethnobotanical studies. Braziliam bezendores prescribe plants that can be used as medicine or as an amulet for personal protection. This use of plant material are present in the national popular culture. The present study was carried out at the municipality of Juruena, in Mato Grosso state, and it aimed to understand the importance of benzedeiras, to identify the plants used by them and how they are prescribed and manipulated. To reach the objectives we used techniques of participant-observation, semi-structured interviews and intentional samples. Additionally botanical material were collected and is deposited in the UFMT Herbarium. Four benzedeiras were interviewed between Septembrer/2002 and November of 2003 and they revealed an expressive botanical knowledge relating to quack benediction. They can benzer, prepare and prescribe teas, bottle preparative, medicinal baths and unguents. The illness cited by the benzedeiras was grouped as physical (for example, toothache, bellyache), and spiritual. A total of 87 ethno-species was mentioned arranged in 31 botanical families and between them it is important to pointing out erva-de-Santa-Maria (Chenopodium ambrosioides L.), chapéu-de-couro (Echinodorus macrophyllus Miq.), quina-do-mato (Strychnos sp.), ipê-roxo (Tabebuia heptaphylla (Vell.) Toledo), arruda (Ruta graveolens L.), guiné (Petiveria alliacea L.), comigo-ninguém-pode (Dieffenbachia picta L.). The popular medicine practiced by bezendeiras meets the necessities of people that is looking for the cure for its own problems. Values and cultural heritage are inserted in the "benzimento" and this culture is alive at Juruena
Palavras-chave : Ethnobotany; Benzedeiras; Plant resources; Mato Grosso.
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Musical road gets repaved after drivers complain
Okay, so the idea here is that when you drive over the road at a particular speed, it plays the William Tell Overture. Seriously. A bunch of grooves were cut into the road to create the differences in pitch as a part of a marketing campaign for the Honda Civic.
The problem, is that unless you're driving a Honda Civic at a particular speed, all you'll hear is a high-pitched drone. And even if you are driving at the right speed, it has all the musical quality of trying to play Jingle Bells on your phone's keypad. It's just not melodious and distracting, if anything. Enough drivers complained and now the stretch of highway is getting repaved.
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The New Netflix Canon
My students love quality TV but barely know who Tony Soprano is. Why? Netflix.
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When I was an undergrad, my professor would talk about stars and directors by showing us actual slides of them, all loaded up into the Don Draper “carousel.” Clips were on actual film, with actual projectionists, or an assortment of badly edited VHS tapes. When a professor recommended a film, I’d go to the video store and rent it for 99 cents, the standard fee for classic movies. I never missed a screening, because it would be nearly impossible to find many of the films on my own, let alone someone with a VHS that wasn’t in the common room at the end of my dorm floor. It was the good old analog days, when film and media studies was still nascent, the Internet only barely past dial-up, and Internet media culture as we know it limited to a healthy growth of BBS, Listservs, and AOL chat rooms. It was also less than 15 years ago.
My four years in college coincided with dramatic changes in digital technology, specifically the rise of the (cheap) DVD and the personal computer DVD player. Before, cinephilia meant access to art house theaters or a VHS/television combination in addition to whatever computer you had. By the time I graduated, most computers came standard with a DVD player and Ethernet, if not wireless, connectivity. That fall I signed up for Netflix. I envied those with TiVo. Two years later, the growing size of hard drives and bandwidths facilitated the piracy culture that had theretofore mostly been limited to music. Then YouTube. Then streaming Netflix. Then Hulu. Then Apple TV. Then HBO GO. Or something like that.
Today, we live in a television culture characterized by cord-cutters and time-shifters. Sure, many, many people still appointment-view or surf channels old-school-style. I know this. I also know people watch the local news. Yet as a thirtysomething member of the middle class, I catch myself thinking that my consumption habits—I subscribe to Netflix, Hulu Plus, and full cable; I still appointment-view several shows—are somewhat typical.
I’m so wrong, but not in the way I might have expected. My students taught me that. They watch Netflix, and they watch it hard. They watch it at the end of the night to wind down from studying, they watch it when they come home tipsy, they binge it on a lazy Saturday afternoon. Most use their family’s subscription; others filch passwords from friends. It’s so widely used that when I told my Mad Men class that their only text for the class was a streaming subscription, only one student had to acquire one. (I realize we’re talking about students at a liberal arts college, but I encountered the same levels of access at state universities. As for other populations, I really don’t know, because Netflix won’t tell me (or anyone) who’s using it.)
Some students use Hulu, but never Hulu Plus—when it comes to network shows and keeping current, they just don’t care. For some super-buzzy shows, like Game of Thrones and Girls, they pirate or find illegal streams. But as far as I can tell, the general sentiment goes something like this: If it’s not on Netflix, why bother?
It’s a sentiment dictated by economics (a season of a TV show on iTunes = at least 48 beers) and time. Let’s say you want to watch a season of Pretty Little Liars. You have three options:
1) BitTorrent it and risk receiving a very stern cease-and-desist letter from either the school or your cable provider. Unless you can find a torrent of the entire season, you’ll have to wait for each episode to download. What do you do when it’s 1:30 a.m. and you want a new episode now?
2) Find sketchy, poor-quality online streams that may or may not infect your computer with a porn virus. (Plus you have to find individual stable streams for 22 episodes.)
3) Watch it on Netflix in beautiful, legal HD, with each episode leading seamlessly into the next. You can watch it on your phone, your tablet, your computer (or your television, if it’s equipped); even if you move from device to device, it picks up right where you stopped.
It’s everything an overstressed yet media-hungry millennial could desire. And it’s not just millennials: I know more and more adults and parents who’ve cut the cable cord and acquired similar practices, mostly because they have no idea how to pirate and they only really want to watch about a dozen hours of (nonsports) television a month. (Who are these people, and what do they do after 8 p.m. every day?)
Through this reliance on Netflix, I’ve seen a new television pantheon begin to take form: There’s what’s streaming on Netflix, and then there’s everything else.
It’s not that they don’t want to watch these shows—it’s that with so much out there, including so many so-called quality programs, such as Twin Peaks and Freaks & Geeks, to catch up on, why watch something that’s not on Netflix? Why work that hard when there’s something this easy—and arguably just as good or important—right in front of you?
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1. Keiran
yo breh we gotta fight for randbat tourney but i see you on irc so its all good
2. Pocket
yes, I am thinking of putting up a Doubles thread on OU. HOwever, I am really busy right now, so it probably wont be posted until I am settled.
3. Kaitii
Hey, you good to battle for the RandBats tourney now?
4. Kaitii
I'm good to go at anytime lol, so it's no problem when you get up. I'll stick around on Showdown and check on it periodically in case you're on.
5. Kaitii
Hey there, we gotta battle for the Randbats tourney, I'm GMT -8 and pretty much any time or day I'm good to go so just lemme know what works for you.
6. Metal Bagon
Metal Bagon
Breh, would you be able to give me a scramblemon?
7. Huy
why are you not a ludicolo anymore
8. Yamata no Orochi
Yamata no Orochi
breludicholo, you honor me with having me in your sig.
9. Nickscor
How do you have so many posts? @.@
Edit: Oh shit, you're Breludicolo?
10. Lady Salamence
11. Lady Salamence
Lady Salamence
before you got a namechange
12. Lady Salamence
Lady Salamence
Wait so who are you
13. tennisace
zeb didn't run that by me
14. tennisace
I never took it away from natgeo after it was reassigned
15. Zebraiken
........yes i meant cacturne but your name made me think breloom
also, just put up a new thread when you have it written. i can't move it out of L&O rn because i only mod NU, and i'm too lazy to ask someone else to do so, so yeah.
16. NatGeo
17. Zebraiken
hey, about cacturne; it's really the compiled fault of natgeo's and myself, as he didn't ask and i didn't remind him to. if you are really intent on writing breloom up (and if what superjocke said was true, you having the intent to write it up a month ago), then i'll maneuver things so that you can work on it again. however, primarily because you said you'd write it up a while ago and it's been untouched, as well as the looming deadline and natgeo's desire to write it, if you don't get it done by the deadline (the end of the month) then natgeo has first dibs on it. okay?
18. Omicron
Oh i was like who dafuq is this
19. Limi
ah, ok
btw, come around on the server and irc more!
20. Limi
never realised you changed your name.
when'd you do this?
21. Fantom0
GMT, and yeah, I'm good to play on the weekend.
22. Fantom0
Hey, I'm your opponent for the regionals tourney. I am available tomorrow, 4:30 to 5:00 pm GMT. I'm also available Friday 8:00 to 9:00 pm, and all weekend.
23. New World Order
New World Order
K, my team is ready. I'm usually available from 8:00pm-11:00pm EST throughout the week. Tell me when you're good to go.
24. Komodo
25. Omicron
Sorry for the delay, was pretty busy today. Anyways, finished
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A user-friendly and powerful video recording utility that helps you capture video streams from various devices or the PC screen, and generate slideshows or clips
VideoVelocity is a professional video utility built specifically for helping you record video streams from webcams, cards, IP network cameras, DSLRs, or other devices, capture your screen activity, and compile a video or slideshow using the images stored in your computer.
It sports a clean and straightforward layout that offers step-by-step assistance for helping you configure the dedicated parameters for each project.
The program gives you the possibility to select the recording device, start or stop the recording process, as well as flip, mirror, or rotate the images to different angles.
Additionally, VideoVelocity features several options for tweaking the video process. You can ignore duplicate frames, select the speed recording mode (e.g. fast, slow, custom), capture frames at a preset time (in seconds or minutes), enter the frame playback duration, and apply fading frames.
You can crop videos, enable the enhancement filters for applying automatic adjustments, increasing the sharpness, altering the saturation, and equalizing the brightness, choose the output folder, filename, and video encoder (WMV, MPG, JPG or PNG file sequence), and create a new video at a certain hour.
Other notable characteristics worth mentioning are represented by the possibility to publish the video on Teleport, embed timestamps on clips, enable the smart motion detection mode for grabbing more frames when motion is found, and schedule a recording operation.
What’s more, you are allowed to generate a slideshow by adjusting the frame duration and applying fade effects between frames (in a fast or slow rendering mode). Plus, you can build a fast moving video using photos and videos, adjusting the video speed and frame rate, and speeding up or slowing down the frames, or re-encoding the video files.
All in all, VideoVelocity proves to be a reliable application that offers many configuration settings to play with. Thanks to its well-organized set of functions and advanced features, it is an ideal video recording utility for rookies and professionals alike.
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VideoVelocity - VideoVelocity will provide users with a time lapse video software recorder, easy and powerful with HD video and automationVideoVelocity - You have the possibility to easily modify the frame capture and the frame fade configurationsVideoVelocity - The Enhancement Filters section enables you to adjust the saturation effect effortlesslyVideoVelocityVideoVelocityVideoVelocityVideoVelocityVideoVelocityVideoVelocity
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Renowned curator Jacques Saunière staggered through the vaulted archway of the museum's Grand Gallery.Dan Brown
They called him Moishe the Beadle, as if his entire life he had never had a surname.Elie Wiesel
I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on my helmet after screaming down an Alpine descent at 75 miles per hour.Lance Armstrong
It happened every year, was almost a ritual.Stieg Larsson
There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.Charlotte Brontë
The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home.Kenneth Grahame
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0.043704 | <urn:uuid:79aea183-1e2f-4810-a49a-9f77d1552018> | en | 0.981236 | A healthy person can live life to the fullest. If one is physically fit, he is also capable of being emotionally and mentally healthy. In the busy and modern world we live in, it could be very easy to forget about staying fit because these days, what is fast and convenient is what is easy. If you are hungry and running out of time, you can just grab a snack at a fast-food chain or cook instant meals. Taking time to exercise is also not a priority. People, who, despite their busy schedule maintain a healthy lifestyle, are truly admirable. They are the people who know the value of good health. They know that everything they have been working hard for will all be wasted if they will only get sick later in life.
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If a person were used to an unhealthy lifestyle, which includes unbalanced diet and lack of physical activity, it would be quite a challenge to make him change. What it takes is for him to change his mindset. Healthy habits have to start early in life. Most of us start being concerned with our health only when we feel something wrong about our body. All the food you take starting from your childhood will all accumulate later in your life, meaning, if you do not eat healthy, the bad effects of the food you take shall manifest soon. Therefore, if you want to live longer and enjoy life, it is better to start today. It helps if you take inspiration from someone who were just like you, but decided to switch to a healthier lifestyle.
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Staying fit and healthy despite busy schedule is possible. You need not enroll in a gym immediately for you can start at home or your office for a regular physical activity. Set days of commuting or biking for work instead of driving. At home, you can buy exercise equipment such as rowing machine. You can use this while listening to music or watching TV. This offers an aerobic exercise that burns calories and conditions your upper and lower body. It can help you lose weight if you want to. Check out this review about the best rowing machine by clicking here.
If you have diet-related medical conditions such as hypertension and diabetes, consider lap band surgery. In this procedure, a band is placed around the stomach to make you feel full easily and thus limit your food intake. Losing weight helps you look better but more importantly; this will prevent you from suffering from life-threatening illnesses. For more information about lap band surgery, click here.
Knowing is good, sharing the knowledge is even better. That is why I love teaching. I take pride when students learn from lessons I taught. There is an unexplainable sense of fulfillment from seeing expertise being passed on to other people.
Aside from teaching, one of the ways to acquire knowledge is taking on worthwhile hobbies. Look for something you love, be good at it and share it to others. One of the hobbies most recommended by people who have done it, is traveling. The thrill of going to a new place you have not visited before and the bliss of discovering beautiful places, people and culture is worth the expenses you will spend. Meeting people along the way and exchanging ideas is also a great learning.
When traveling, I make it a point to discover a piece of a place's culture such as music. I have listened to countless songs of different types and took pleasure in the magic of it. Through time, I have decided to learn to play music and started looking for music teachers. I eventually found one and learned to play the guitar.
I am a fan of The Guitar Lesson Guru, I love teaching my students how to play the guitar. I love sharing the skill that was shared to me, especially such beautiful art like music. It is even more enjoyable playing music with my students.
In today's world young people enjoy a variety of things that the previous generation did not have the luxury to enjoy. Most of these things relate to technology. It's easy to discover a hobby through technology. It's even easier to learn through technology. But sometimes technology brings us closer to the rest of the world but further away from our loved ones. Gone are the days when kids meet up, form a band and play in their garage. Nowadays, kids chat and bash each other's electronic music online. They develop hobbies negatively.
Music is also greatly affected by these changes. Just like how everyone can learn to play guitar using the technology such as the internet, this medium also has jeopardized not just the commercial value of music, but also the integrity of the musicians. Gone are the days of intricate guitar patterns, replaced with the metallic scratches of modern electronic music like auto-tuned songs. Gone are the heartfelt lyrics replaced by hate, insecurity and greed. Meeting people does not also require travel, you just have to open an application on your phone or computers and you get to meet people and hopefully learn something from them.
For me, teaching does not just happen in class, it happens when you tell a stranger on the internet about your hobbies and your views. Teaching also happens when I tell someone how lovely a song is and they ask me to teach them how to play it. Teaching is when you discover something you have not experienced before and pass it on to other people who will eventually love it.
Sadly our society is getting more and more unequal as the results of the financial crisis bite deeper. Unemployment is everywhere, more than 50 million people are on food stamps and so many people are struggling from day to day.
There is a rise in bankruptcies, small value loans such as payday loans and installment loans are becoming more and more popular and more and more people are turning to financial counselling.
This is an indictment on our society. The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. We even reward the rich, for example when they run a bank and cause a financial crisis we just give them tax payers money as a reward rather than putting them in jail.
We need to do something to help the poor in our society. So many people are struggling financially and it's important to try and help them out of the hole they are in.
In so many cases it's not their fault. They are usually ordinary hard-working people but who have been caught up in the entire credit crisis thing. For many people the value of their home has collapsed and they can't raise any money against it. For others, particularly older people, it's a reduction in the value of their retirement portfolio which has had the result that they are forced back into looking for work.
For others it's a reduction in working hours or pay.
We have thousands of people who are even living in their cars.
There is a big rise in the number of people with credit problems. Bad credit is an issue for people who are looking to borrow, although this can be addressed.
All of these issues are things which can be addressed by government if it is prepared to put in the time, work and finances. There should be a place in every town where financially distressed people can go for independent advice about managing their finances better.
Rather than giving taxpayers money to the rich, when they stuff up, we should be using it to support the poor who are suffering from the problems caused by the rich.
I believe that we have an obligation to everyone in society. Whether they be rich or poor, old or young, educated or uneducated, working or unemployed. Everyone, no matter how down and out they are has a right to be protected by the more powerful in our society.
It's time for the government to step up and take responsibility for those who are less well off than themselves.
I don't know who's going to do it. There doesn't seem to be many politicians around who are willing to even consider this issue. They are more interested in sending troops to Iraq than they are interested in helping our own citizens who are facing serious stresses in the life from issues caused by others.
I don't know who will address it but someone has to address it. If it's left to get worse it will be bad for all of us.
Some of the things happening in America now are worrying me seriously. I see so many problems emerging that I'm getting very concerned about.
It seems to me that social problems are leading to all sorts of other issues. Everybody has seen the gun massacres that have happened over the last few years, the school shootings among them. I'm sure that this will only get worse.
It seems to me there's a number of issues here. One is the growing divide between the rich and poor and the resentment that this causes. Another, probably related, is the greed of so many people who are wealthy but who just want more.
For instance I think it's high time that we did something about the gun laws. I can't believe that people in America carry around loaded weapons in the streets. However every time this issue is raised the NRA are able to defuse it until it goes away, until next time.
That's because of course the NRA is made up of wealthy people who make lots of money selling guns. They just want to make more money, they don't care about the people that the guns kill.
We should make sure that the right to carry guns is finished. Of course some people will still be able to do so, for instance licensed hunters, but in all cases they should use an accredited gun safe, there's plenty around, you can even get safes for scoped rifles. No one has an excuse to have an unsecured gun in the house.
And our politicians have got to step up to the plate. I find it appalling that our politicians are in the pockets of the lobby groups. It's not just the NRA, there's so many other lobby groups out there who have financial interests in maintaining the status quo and every time our politicians attempt to change something that might harm their financial interests they kick up such a fuss, and have such political power, that they can stop it.
The government has got to stop supporting the rich when they make mistakes. When bankers stuff up and bring us to the edge of financial ruin they should be made to pay, not given taxpayers money. Many of them should end up in jail instead of getting taxpayers money.
The financial crisis impacted so many people so negatively and yet the wealthy people who caused it just got richer.
I think society in America is becoming more unequal, or unjust and more unfair, and if it keeps going this way we will see more people shot in the streets by individuals who are so resentful of their lot in life.
Something has to be done about it. I don't know what, I'm not a politician and I don't have any power to do anything, but something has to be done about it.
Our politicians need to stand up and take responsibility. Otherwise we should vote them out. We the citizens should do something about it if our politicians don't. Remember that when the next election comes.
Everybody knows that the economy is bad right now. President Obama keeps telling us everything is fine, the Federal Reserve keeps printing money and telling us everything is fine and the newspapers keep telling us everything's fine. But unfortunately you and I know that this isn't true. Everything is fine and it's getting worse.
We are the ones who have seen the value of our houses plummet. We are the ones who are out of work. We are the ones who have lost half the value of our retirement savings. We are the ones suffering.
And as a result of these difficult economic times there's been a huge rise in the number of companies offering small value loan products to financially stressed people. These products are loans such as installment loans for bad credit, like this one.
Unfortunately the current economic circumstances have seen a massive rise in the number of people who are struggling financially. People who were getting by comfortably in the past are now having all sorts of financial problems. This could be because, for example, they are out of work or have had their working hours reduced.
Some of these people are retirees who have seen the value of their retirement nest egg decimated and who have been forced back into low paid work. Some of these people are just unable to get by at all.
There's been a steep increase in the number of people suffering from credit problems. Issues of bad credit are now affecting tens of millions of people and people with issues to do with their credit score are forced into non-mainstream loan products.
These non-mainstream loan products are usually for extremely small amounts of money, commonly under $1000, and attract very high rates of interest and fees. Often when you work out the interest rate on these loans as an annual percentage they are way over 100% per annum, or even much higher.
This proliferation in small value loans companies is an indication of where our society is heading. There is a growing gap between the rich and the poor, and the poor are those who will need to turn to high interest small value loans just to get by.
Bankruptcies are also on the rise. Many people cannot even keep their family afloat without turning to a small loan like an installment loan.
I don't know where our society is headed but I don't like it. I like to see everyone having a fair chance. I like to see everyone able to support their family. I like to see everyone employed. I don't like to see anyone forced into financial stress.
It's a sad situation and one which, in my view, is caused by some of the richest people amongst us who control the banks. It was the banks that caused this problem in the first place and it was the taxpayer who had to bail out these people who caused the problem.
Something needs to be done about this because in my view this is not how our society should work.
My obsession with hair has started about 5 years ago. One day, out of the blue, I've decided to dye my hair red. Although I have always liked my hair, just how it was, in a moment of weakness, I've decided to make a major change.
At the Centre of Attention
After dying my hair, I really liked the attention I received from co-workers, friends and family. Having just a natural Chestnut hair color, changing it to red was a major change for me. I received many compliments about how sparkly my hair looked, and I really liked my new glamorous appearance.
Now that I had my new hair color, I started looking into different hairstyles and hair-dos. I also started testing different styles on my hair. Some were more successful than others. To give you an idea, some of the styles I've tried were:
• Beehive
• Bouffant
• Different buns
• Different braids
• With and without bangs
• Up do
• And others…
Not Only Me
Playing with my hairstyle and color was so much fun, that I've started doing it for my friends as well. Now I'm having a larger variety of my "clients'" (= my friends) hair types to style and express my creativity, and I love it. Having a friend leaving my place with a smile on her face, looking as if she had just came out of the pages of a magazine, is very rewarding.
Although I know that treating hair with harsh chemicals and a heat dryer is not good for the health of hair in general, changing the look and feel of my own hair and my friends was way too much fun.
In an attempt to prevent excessive damage, I would use more gentle hair products, whenever I could. I prefer using natural products when possible. Using gentler shampoo and conditioner, at least helps maintaining the color for longer periods of time, but I also believe it slows down the damage from all of the chemicals in hair colors and hair styling gels.
At least for my own hair, I've started noticing some hair thinning recently. This was expected, but is still difficult to deal with. Although I'm trying to use some special shampoos to conceal the problem, I know this is not a long-term solution. It seems like pretty soon, I'd have to go back to my natural hair, and avoid using harmful products, in order to at least keep the hair I currently have.
Getting Back to Natural?
Although hair styling is a great hobby, I feel that I have to educate my friends about maintaining the health of their hair. Just like I've started seeing hair damage, many of them have experienced the same thing too. When trying to change the natural hair, and using it as moulding clay for artistic creations, the damage is unavoidable.
This is not really what our hair is designed for. The real choice is between keeping your hair natural and healthy or expressing personality through hairstyle and color. If you are considering dying your hair or grossly changing your style, carefully consider these two options. Which one will you chose?
Your decision today might affect your life for a long time to come.
Power of WordsWhat has Writing Taught Me
I think that every author tends to grow personally and intellectually with every work he creates. Obviously, any kind of factual writing requires a great amount of research and understanding of the topic. This lends itself to becoming a more well rounded individual and intellectual, but these kinds of lessons are really the most insignificant part of the learning process. I have grown much more personally than intellectually because of my writing and teaching pursuits than I would have ever thought. That’s why I always encourage my students to write for the fun of it. Here are a few things that my career as an author has taught me.
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1406700715SA_teachersWhy Education is Important
A lot of the time I have trouble with my kids and my students trying to convince them just how important a good education is and as time goes on it just keeps getting more and more important.
Not too long ago you could graduate from high school and work at the local factory, get a good paying job to support a family on, and retire with a pension where you could live comfortably in retirement. Most of those jobs are now gone and the days of not needing a good education to be successful are gone.
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Curuco_13 asks: Added Jun 22nd 2008, ID #121337
Hey I'm trying to upgrade my hammer to a new one but I need 5 union ores. What is the easiest way to get them. Im currently on HR2. I know I can get them from my farm bla bla bla. I need to upgrade to HR4 to upgrade my mining point that far. Is there something I can trade to a elder to get it? Please help!!!! and get
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WiseMan.. answered: Added 24th Jun 2008, ID #264162
Only other way is to trade a teostra horn+ to desert vegie elder
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Lee Zhun Xian answered: Added 14th Nov 2008, ID #290189
Theres no simpler way.... About the previous answer, getting Teostra Horn+ is impossible for a HR 2 level player!!!
So the only way is to play til you are HR 4-5 pain no gain except you use cw cheat....for noooobiiess~~~~
Guest answered: Added 1st Apr 2011, ID #396000
Yoooo! I'm trying to find some union ores is there other way to find them pleas
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Posted by jdg | Tuesday, October 02, 2007 |
Our normal exit ramp was closed off the highway after a Sunday afternoon at the pumpkin patch where we fought off bees trying to climb into our gallon jug of cider and bought homemade watermelon pickles and breathed in thousands of hay particles following the kid on our knees through labyrinthine tunnels built under a giant pile of straw. Actually my wife didn't do that; I did that, though she paid for the pickles and the donuts and the pie pumpkin that Juniper spent all day carrying around like a trophy she won for being such a giant pain in my ass.
So we took an earlier exit, finding ourselves jettisoned from the highway onto one of the thirty or so serpentine off-ramps that commit you to one of the various arteries through the city. This one left us sitting nearly at the foot of Ford Field, where apparently the Detroit Lions had finished their fourth quarter only moments before, surging against the Bears with 34 points in those final fifteen minutes. So at least the 65,000 or so drunk bejerseyed people streaming around our car in one massive human sea were happy, except for those heavyset men wearing navy and orange, who had a long drive back to the Windy City ahead of them and a lot of bratwurst and $9.75 beers in their bellies. I sure wouldn't want to share an SUV with one of them for five hours.
It was the worst possible timing. We were stuck in our idling car for twenty minutes, staring at the white-gloved palm of a lady cop while tens of thousands of people I didn't really care to know I shared oxygen with shuffled past us. We passed the time pretending to talk like those Chicago Bears guys on the old Saturday Night Live sketch, except neither Wood nor I can do any accent properly. We always end up sounding like Indian convenience store clerks raised by my Dutch grandmother among marshmallow-cereal leprechauns in an Irish theme pub. The one-way street we were stuck on was heading the opposite way we wanted to go; to get back home we knew we needed to get through the mess another time. Morale was not good.
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Files not overwriting
Created: 19 Feb 2013 • Updated: 21 Mar 2013 | 11 comments
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Once again, let me say that I am new to Backup Exec. I have all of our servers backing up to 2 different storage devices. I believe I have the backup jobs set up identical to each device, however I am seeing one main difference between the files on the devices. The one device never gets full, it always maintains about the same amount of free space. The second device always gets full, I have to go in and manually delete the files so I do not receive failed jobs. My first thought is that I did not have the media sets set up correctly, so I created a new media set. I specified that I wanted the data to append and overwrite in 45 days. However with that said and done I still have files from more than 45 days ago. I want this device to be self sustaining like the other device.
The second thing that I need is some advice... What is the ideal size for back up files? I have just taken over the back up's for the company I work for and they had the file size limit set from any from 1 GB to 999GB. I always thought 4 GB was a good limit, although I am guessing that it should also be dependent on the amount of data in which you are backing up.
I would appreciate some input on these 2 questions. Thanks for your time.
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Gurvinder Rait's picture
There are 2 parameters to media set. Append and overwrite protection period. This is important to know that overwrite protection period is counted from the date the append period ends
for example if APP - 2 days, then the b2d or tape will be appendable for 2 days. In this time period if the B2D has space then the data can be appended to it. When this append perios ends then starts the overwrite protection period. So for example if the OPP is set to 2 days , that means the bkf or tape will be protected for 2 days after the append period ended.
Please refer this link as well :
For the second part of the question I would recommend the bkf file size be around the size of the backup. The positives are that Backup Exec has to then mount the media less times and it can carry on writing to it. Secondly, select the maximum size when creating the backup-to-disk file, this will help reduce fragmentation. Refer Admin Guide for Backup Exec 2010 and look under the following topic Creating a backup-to-disk folder by setting properties (download admin guide from
CraigV's picture
So if a backup job is 500GB would you recommend creating a B2D file size of 500GB?
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Craig, I would like to correct myself. Would not really want the size of the bkf to be that large since as you pointed out there are chances a slight corruption could cause major damage and entire set might not be recoverable.
On the contrary if the disk is fast and end user is duplicating the data as well, in that case I think it should be ok. Depends really how much of a performance gain is achieved with setting the size large, allocate the entire space along with the read/write settings of the B2D. Would you agree to this ?
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No I wouldn't to be honest. The performance you gain by streaming 1 x 500GB flat-file to tape is offset by the chance of losing 100% of your backups, no restores, lots of trouble. The speed of disk plays no role here. I could run backups to EFD disks and still lose everything in 1 file.
Nowhere does it mention in any Symantec article that having 1 file is recommended, and the forums are rife with advice against it.
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Never append to B2D should always overwrite them. It is a recommendation from Symantec. This is probably why you have files for longer than 45 days in your backups...
On the size of your B2D files...4GB is the minimum, but the larger you go, the more risk you take in losing data if a *.bkf file is corrupted. I've seen anything from the default 4GB to 100GB (I wouldn't recommend this). Maybe increase the size fo 10GB and see what difference it makes.
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So is my thinking wrong if I want to allow media to be added to the current media set to 7 days and be kept for 45 days, I would set my append value to 7 and my overwrite protection to 38? More or less my goal is I want to have backups for 30 to 45 days of our servers, which we have now, but I want the one device to overwrite its' bkf files after the for mentioned length of time
Also why is it not recomended to append B2D files? Why would you not want to allow media to be added to a media set? If this is the case should I set my append to 0 and overwrite to 45?
Also back to the subject of recomended file size is it correct to assume that if you had 5 files of 10gb each, if one got curropted that you would still be able to get data of the other 4?
As always thanks for the knowledge!
pkh's picture
The OPP starts from the end of the last job that writes to the media and NOT from the end of the AP. Here is a quote from the document referenced earlier
The Overwrite protection period starts at the end of each job run, not the beginning. It is lengthened each time a media is modified.
As such, each time to append to the media, the protection period for the entire media gets extended.
This is the reason why it is not recommended that you append to disk media is that you only prolong the protection period of the media. Suppose Job1 writes 30GB of data to a disk media on Monday and the OPP is set to 3 days, so the media is protected until Thursday. If on the following day (Tuesday), Job2 appends to the media, the media will be protect for 3 days from Tuesday which is Friday. The 30GB which could have been reused on Friday is now no longer available. For tape media, we append to them to maximise the use of the tape capacity. For disk media, there is no advantage to append to a media because the media is only as large as the data in it. It is for this reason that in BE 2012, you are not given the option to append to disk storage or disk cartridge devices.
Be careful when you specify allocate max size. When you have this option, BE will allocate the max size even if it needs to write 1MB. Suppose you say allocate max size of 100GB and BE needs to write 1MB, it will allocate 100GB. If there is, say, only 90GB of space left on your disk, your job will fail because BE cannot find 100GB to allocate the .bkf file. If you don't check the allocate max size checkbox, then BE will allocate and use only the disk space that it needs which in this example is 1MB.
You have to use your judgement as to what the max size should be. If your backups are huge like 200GB, then leaving it at the default 4GB would mean that you have a lot of small files and will fragment your disk. Also there are overheads involved when the system allocate a new file. For this example, I would use something like 40 - 50GB as the max size, so that there are not too many files to be allocated.
To know why one of your disk is full and the other is not. Check what is being written on the disk and when they expire. How much you can put on the disk and how long you can retain the data depends on the size of your data and the size of your disk. Depending on the size of your data, you need to calculate whether it will fit onto your disk if you adopt a certain OPP. If not, then either get a bigger disk or shorten the OPP.
If your disks are in a device pool, note that BE will write to the first available disk.
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I now understand why you would not want to allow media to be appendend to a b2d. However I do have a question about unchecking the "Allocate the maxium size for b2d files". When you uncheck that box another option becomes availible "Maxium number of backup sets per b2d file. Am I correct in assuming that this is the total amount of files allowed for one job. For example, if you were backing up 200gb worth of data and the max size for b2d files was 50gb you would want to set max number of backup sets per b2d file to atleast 4?
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Maximum number of backup sets per backup-to-disk file -
Lets say you have 2 backup jobs and they are backing up C and D drive respectively. The first creates a C Drive Backup Set and lets say the next backup appends to the same bkf since the maximum size of the bkf file is not reached. If that case you would probably have 2 backup sets in that bkf (if both complete on that same bkf) Similarly you can have more backup sets if there is space available.
Fewer backup sets in a backup-to-disk file mayallow the overwrite protection period to expire sooner, and disk space to be reclaimed faster
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pkh's picture
Backup sets in this case refers to a resource that is backed up, like the C: drive, D: drive, system state, SQL database, etc. When you hit the max backup set limit, a new .bkf file would be created. Suppose you set the max backup set to 10 and you are backing up the C; drive and system state of 10 servers. After 5 servers (2 backup sets * 5 servers) you would have hit the max backup set limit, even if the max size is not reached, a new .bkf file would be created for the backup of the subsequent servers. The default limit of 100 should be more than sufficient.
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The Pirate Party of Germany (Piratenpartei) achieved breakthrough success capturing the protest vote last autumn - but its appeal may be starting to wane.
The anti-copyright party won 8.9 per cent of the Berlin vote and has been attempting to build a national party organisation. However, Der Spiegel reports that "almost half of the party's members have yet to pay their annual membership fee."
The paper suggests that in-fighting and an absence of policy, tactics or strategy are hurting the German branch of the international movement. Party members are almost exclusively male, according to a recent Graun report.
Der Spiegel also makes the rather startling claim that the German Pirate Party doesn't 'stand' for anything. Quite why this makes the Pirates unique is a puzzle; a characteristic of modern parties is that they don't 'stand' for anything either, and this has been a factor in fuelling support for parties that run against the political mainstream - like the Pirates.
If the major parties offered voters a real choice, then making a protest vote against the system would not be so attractive. As I wrote two years ago, the major parties offer the prospective member little except the prospect of the exercise of power itself.
Yet aside from platitudes about 'internet freedom' - where that freedom is gained at someone else's expense - and a common belief in direct democracy and the importance of privacy, the accusation has some truth. The Pirates readily admit to being an umbrella for 'marginal groups' ... including groups which may be marginal for a reason.
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When starting seeds indoors, a soilless, pre-mixed growing medium is perhaps the most convenient to use. Soilless mixes are generally made up of peat, perlite (improves drainage) and vermiculite (aids in water retention) along with some nutrients. These mixes are for the most part free from disease, insects and weed seeds.
Follow the instructions on the back of the package or in this Growing Guide under the particular variety heading. Some large seeds, such as watermelon or squash seeds can be seeded directly into the pot where they will grow until transplanting outdoors. For small seeds like carrots, it is best to simply scatter the seed thinly over the surface of the soil and then cover with an appropriate amount of soil. After germination the tiny seedlings can be separated and transplanted into larger containers. Most plants can be grown in fiber packs with 4-8 seedlings per pack, depending on the plant. Some vegetables, such as lettuce and those in the cabbage family, can be sown and grown directly in 1 inch cells with one plant per cell. Growing in cell packs helps to eliminate root disturbance at the time of transplanting.
Soil temperature refers to the ideal temperature of the soil required to initiate germination. Most seeds germinate at a soil temperature of 18-22°C. Keeping the temperature within this range can be hard, especially for seeds which take more than a week to germinate. Regular air temperature is generally warmer than the soil temperature, and is not sufficient enough to warm the soil. For best results, try using a propagation mat, heating cable or a hotbed. A really warm room, like a furnace room may be suitable, depending on the seed.
Cold-Moist Stratification (Pre-Chill) Some seeds germinate best after a period of cold and wet that stimulates the winter season. This is called cold-moist stratification. The easiest way to stratify seeds is to sow them into their pots, water them lightly, cover the pots with plastic, and place them in the fridge for the recommended amount of time. You can also place seeds in a ziplock bag and put it in the fridge. After the recommended amount of time, remove the seeds from the fridge and pot them up. You can also add peat moss in with the seeds that will provide them with just the right amount of moisture. After stratification, place the seed pots with the required temperatures and lighting.
Soil moisture is equally as important as the temperature. The seed needs water to help soften the seed coat and stimulate the root development. Once the root has penetrated into the soil, the young seedling emerges from the soil towards the light. If the soil is allowed to dry during this process, the germination will be delayed or, in most cases, ended. To keep the soil moist, mix the growing medium with water, enough so that if a handful is squeezed, a small dribble of water will run out. After mixing, sow your seeds accordingly and then cover the containers with clear plastic, this can be anything from freezer bags, plastic wrap, or the clear domes which come with some of the large holding trays. Using the plastic covering will help to keep the moisture and humidity in the soil. If you find the soil drying out due to the constant heat, use a water bottle which will provide a fine mist or watering can with a gentle nozzle, so as to not disturb or bury the seed deeper. After germination, be sure to remove the plastic and place plants under grow lights in a bright, south facing window.
After Germination
Watering: When watering new seedlings it is very important to follow some simple guidelines to avoid the spread of diseases that can attack and destroy newly emerging plants. The most common disease is known as "damping off" which can attack a seed before it germinates but is best recognized as rot at the base of the plant causing irreparable wilt. The following instructions will help you maintain a healthy crop by providing a disease resistant growing environment.
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1. Is this that movie where Saddam Hussein realizes he’s slept with 19 women, and tries to find that special someone before it’s too late?
2. Um, why is everyone speaking English?
3. I actually did know that about Liberace. Why? Because those are the things I know. Couldn’t remember enough Biology to get into med school, but the Liberace thing? Solid fact living in my head. Also, isn’t that the vampire who kidnapped Tara in True Blood? I’d look it up but I’m too lazy.
4. Eh.. I’ll wait for the Devil’s Five
5. “I am not real Saddam. The real Saddam Hussein has a scar on his forehead. I am no scar. I am no scar. Dot com”
6. I liked it better the first time:
• This movie has some of the best lines in cinematic history:
“I hear all sorts of bullshit everyday, pal. You want some advice? Take your fancy clothes and your black silk underwear and go back to Disneyland”
“Alex, don’t! He’s your brother! ”
“Why, because he looks like me? I’m going to change that. I’m going to fuck up his face!”
7. Ok, I was unsold until the girl fell of the bridge in a wedding dress. Serious drama right there.
8. Will the real Uday Hussein please stand up?
I repeat will the real Uday Hussein please stand up?
We’re gonna have a real problem here…
Y’all act like you’ve never seen the son of a despot before
Jaws all on the floor, like a sociopath just walked in the door
9. So basically this movie is about sweating, firing guns indiscriminately, cocaine, and falling in love with the crazy persons chick. Why do I feel like I have seen this a million times before.
10. Woo boy, I bet Tony Stark is going to be pissed when he finds out his dad is alive and well and doubling for Uday Hussein (His First Avenger dad, not his Iron Man 2 dad)
11. This looks excellent, no jokes, and I would like to watch it. Who’s version of “Personal Jesus” do we think that is?
12. What’s ‘say hello to my little friend’ in Arabic?
13. Is this a modern-day adaptation of the Prince and the Pauper?
14. It’s like a cross between Kagamusha and Dave
15. Will no one comment on the hotness of Dominic Cooper? Fine, I’ll say it. He’s pretty/I’d hit that.
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Homeopathy - A New Model for Health and Disease<The following is a full and exact copy of Chapter 5: Definition and Measure of Health contained in A New Model for Health and Disease.
Definition and Measure of Health
The first task of a science that claims its primary aim is to restore health should be to define what "health" is, what the target or goal of treatment is, and in what direction the patient should be guided during his treatment.
One should also define the parameters for measuring health. This should be defined so that anybody can easily ascertain whether an individual under treatment is progressing toward health or is actually regressing toward a deeper state of imbal- ance.
I doubt whether any medical graduate could provide these definitions; I also doubt that medical students are taught to recognize an ideal state of health or to identify the parameters that measure it.
When the pain is gone, when the inflammation has subsided, when a bothersome symptom has disappeared, when the pathol- ogy is no longer evident, the patient usually is pronounced cured. Yet there may be long-term disturbances caused by the treatment, especially in deeper or more subtle parts of the human organism such as the immune or hormonal systems or, even worse, in the mental or emotional planes, that are not taken into consideration. A treatment therefore should have a beneficial effect simultaneously on all these levels in order to claim that it is the right kind of treatment.
Treating the whole person, which is now accepted on a rhetorical level by everyone, should be more than a theoretical dictum; it should be an applied reality.
I hope to clearly show in this treatise that such an objective is almost impossible to attain through treatment with allopathic drugs, and that only through some form of alternative medicine practiced correctly, such as Homeopathy, Acupuncture, Osteopathy, Naturopathy, etc., can the potential for such a goal be realized.
The Definition of Health for the Physical Body
Disease, whether expressed through pain, discomfort or weakness, always tends to restrict the individual. Its opposite, health, gives a sense of freedom. This is the reason why in the definition that follows I have used the word "freedom" as a key word.
I also give a separate definition of health for each of the three planes since I know that an individual can be sick on one level while on another level he may appear completely healthy. For example, a schizophrenic that is deeply disturbed in his mental- emotional plane appears to be extremely healthy in his physical body. It is a well-established fact that severely mentally ill patients almost never get sick with physical ailments, even under the most adverse conditions, while others that suffer from physical ailments can be very healthy in their emotional and mental spheres.
As we have already stated, every pain, discomfort, uneasi- ness, distress or weakness of the physical body results in a limitation of freedom and a feeling of bondage to the pain or discomfort. The individual necessarily directs all his attention to the pain, to the exclusion of everything else, and of course loses his general sense of well-being. It is for this reason that health on the physical plane can be defined as follows: Health is freedom from pain in the physical body, having attained a state of well-being.
The Definition of Health on the Emotional Plane
On the emotional plane, that which enslaves the individual and absorbs all his attention is excessive passion - passion in the broadest sense and not with only a sensual connotation.
Excessive, inordinate passion for anything shows a degree of imbalance within the emotional plane. For instance, when an overwhelming erotic passion for another person reaches a point where murdering this person is contemplated because of jeal- ousy, we definitely have a disease state rather than a love state. Passion for a cause, even a lofty one, that brings the individual to the point where he contemplates destructive actions against others is definitely a diseased state rather than justified ideal- ism. A healthy state of the emotions never goes so far as to bring Ot Ë Mew Model For Health ana uisease about destruction, but rather tries to follow the "golden mean" of the ancient Greeks.
Fanatical and dogmatic attitudes that divorce themselves from logic and understanding show a degree of unhealthy emotional involvement that usually results in some type of catastrophe, either for the individual or for others. Passionately loving somebody may mean that the degree of attachment is so great that if the love is not reciprocated, the individual may commit some kind of crime (homicide or suicide).
We too often mistake our emotional needs and insecurities for real love and affection. The latter two presuppose giving without reservation. It is emotional attachment that constantly makes demands of others under the pretense of giving. Certainly the opposite of passion - apathy - is no more desirable. Apathy is an extremely unhealthy emotional state, very much akin to the idea of death. What is desirable is a state of serenity and calm that is dynamic and creative, not passive, indifferent or destruc- tive - a state where love and positive emotions prevail, as opposed to hatred and other negative emotions.
In order to justify their origin and destiny, human beings have to transcend their animal nature, and have to make conscious efforts to evolve, not so much in their physical body as in their mental and emotional spheres.
I believe that it is clear now that passion comes from weak- ness rather than strength on the emotional plane. Thus the definition for this plane should be: Health on the emotional plane is freedom from passion, having as a result a dynamic state of serenity and calm.
The Definition of Health on the Mental-Spiritual Level
To give a concise definition of health on the mental-spiritual plane is a rather difficult task because one must identify the most important mental-spiritual qualities, which if disturbed may seriously injure the mental equilibrium.
After much deliberation I have come to the conclusion that peace of mind can be drastically affected by egotism, selfishness and acquisitiveness. The more egotistical and selfish an indi- vidual is, the greater his potential for mental derangement.
It is a known fact that a person who is very egotistical can be quite upset when his authority, knowledge or attainments are challenged. A humble man with the same attainments will hardly react to the unjust criticism of others, and will actually see the positive side of the criticism and correct his course of action accordingly. The same "shocks" that can set off an egotist and destroy him can leave a humble man almost unaffected.
An egotistical industrialist who fails in his business and loses his factory cares more about the opinion that others now have of him than the fate of the families, including his own, that will have no means to support themselves. It is his ego that has been hurt. Even if he has plenty to live on without the factory, he will feel miserable after the failure and is bound to develop a host of symptoms because of his "false" and selfish grief.
In a similar way, acquisitiveness could become the core of mental disturbance. Can you imagine how an avaricious man might react to the loss of his physical wealth and the deep symptomatology that could result?
Hardly anyone today is totally free from the feelings of egotism, selfishness and acquisitiveness.
It is also a fact that the person engrossed in his own ego can neither see objectively nor perceive the truth. He thinks he always knows everything and knows it better than anyone else. Humanity has suffered great disasters because of such atti- tudes. Looking back in history we frequently recognize this quality and label it insanity.
We speak about the insanity of Hitler, Idi Amin Dada, even of the captain in charge of the Titanic whose arrogance cost the lives of hundreds. In our own way, every one of us is dealing with similar issues on a smaller scale. This "disease" called egotism and selfishness seems to be universal. That is why we are so likely to admire and worship the saints; we believe that they actually managed to subdue their egotism and sacrifice their own lives for the sake of others. We worship them as "superior" human beings because their accomplishment seems beyond our comprehension. Although rare, this "saint-like" attitude is the healthiest to possess; in such a state true peace of mind and happiness is achieved.
It is peculiar, though, that this state of health can only be achieved through conscious efforts of the individual, while the state of health of the physical body is a birthright.
There is a natural legacy and an inherent urge for human beings to evolve into people of "Love and Wisdom." Only then A New Model For Health and Disease will there be hope for the human race. Not until we start seeing the issue in all of its dimensions will there be hope for a better state of health.
This imbalance we feel on the mental-spiritual plane is perhaps the most challenging and complicated issue we have to face. Nobody is exempt from this imbalance, though there are different degrees. The greater an individual's egotism and selfishness, the greater are his possibilities for a mental break- down.
We can therefore define mental health as: Freedom from selfishness in the mental sphere, having as a result total unification with Truth.
So now we summarize the whole definition of Health: Health is freedom from pain in the physical body, a state of well being; freedom from passion on the emotional plane, resulting in a dynamic state of serenity and calm; and freedom from selfishness in the mental sphere, having as a result total unification with Truth. A truly healthy indi- vidual should therefore combine both divine qualities of Love and Wisdom.
It is obvious that such a state of health is an ideal and that nobody can possess it in its entirety; but the definition points to an ideal Model of health toward which therapeutic treatments should aspire. The more a patient under treatment approaches this state, the healthier he becomes; and the more he moves away from it, the less healthy he becomes.
The Measure of Health
It is obvious at this point that we need some parameters to measure health.
Some questions are required of us. For example: If we cure somebody of asthma and as a consequence he develops a heart condition, how do we know that this new state of health is better or worse than his previous condition? If we treat a patient with a cardiac condition and he improves, but after a certain period of time he develops a phobic state or an anxiety neurosis, can we say that the treatment benefited the patient?
We shall see that in order for a treatment to be successful it has to push the disorder's center of gravity more and more to the peripheral, the skin being the final avenue of expression, leav- ing the deepest parts of the human being - his mental and emotional levels - intact.
As I have said, the issue of determining an individual's exact degree of health is a complicated task requiring much research and involving a number of parameters before precise answers are possible. But as a general rule of thumb, we can say that a good parameter for measuring the health of an individual is the degree to which he is free to create. Anybody who is basically healthy will seek to create rather than destroy. By creativity, as I have stated previously, I mean all those actions that promote the interests and good of oneself and others. To the degree that one commits destructive acts toward either himself or others, the degree to which he is diseased is apparent. | http://www.vithoulkas.com/en/component/content/article/2039.html | dclm-gs1-481295528 | false | false | {
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From FT: Look further than the fads and fashions of geopolitics
Released on 2012-10-19 08:00 GMT
Email-ID 5129418
Date 2010-02-19 17:22:24
Look further than the fads and fashions of geopolitics
By Philip Stephens
Published: February 18 2010 21:55 | Last updated: February 18 2010 21:55
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Beware fashions in geopolitics. They change as often as the hemlines on
Paris catwalks.
The fast-shifting distribution of power in the world is feeding a
burgeoning community of geopolitical seers. Change sharpens our appetite
for certainty about the future. By and large, though, the myriad maps of a
new global order are turning out to be as ephemeral as the couturiers'
spring collections.
Not so long ago, the competing ambitions of autocracies and democracies
were set to shape the future. China and Russia would square up against the
west. Washington rang with calls from pundits and policymakers for a
global league of liberal democracies. As I recall, France's Jacques Chirac
and Germany's Gerhard Schro:der were mustard keen to side with the
The predicted collision was always fanciful, not least because Beijing and
Moscow are more plausible strategic rivals than allies. Nor is India, the
world's largest democracy, ever likely to join a US-dominated club of
political pluralists.
Never mind. The great thing about fashion is that it moves on. Soon
enough, we were told that democracy and autocracy would make their peace;
the US and China would jointly rule the global roost. Europe, Russia and
the rest would trail quaking in the wake of this all-powerful G2.
This theory had a fair run. It held sway until quite recently. Then
came Barack Obama's so-so visit to Beijing last autumn. There followed a
series of Sino-American spats about everything from climate change and the
renminbi to Google, the Dalai Lama and arms sales to Taiwan.
Fortunately this provided a seamless segue to the latest grand theory of
the world, the future and the universe. Forget about the G2; the
geopolitical landscape will be marked out in coming decades by competition
rather than co-operation. For an aggressive Germany in the second half of
the 19th century substitute an assertive China in the first half of the
21st. The international order will again be held in thrall to a struggle
between a mature and a rising power.
The above, of course, is an abbreviated list. I might have mentioned also
the fleeting but sure belief around the turn of the millennium that the US
would be a permanent global hegemon. This was followed, in the wake of the
terrorist attacks of September 2001, by the dismal certainty of an
epoch-defining clash between the west and Islam.
I often wonder what happened to those predictions that the 21st century
would belong to the soft power of a postmodern Europe? It seems only
yesterday that the euro was being hailed as the currency to oust a feeble
dollar. Now, or so it seems, the eurozone is breaking apart, courtesy of
some dodgy book-keeping inGreece.
You will have seen by now what I am getting at. The greater the conviction
of the soothsayers, the more likely they are to be wrong. If we should
have learnt anything from the tumultuous changes of the post-cold war era,
it is how hard it is to predict the way things will turn out. Sad to say,
the economists who failed so dismally to spot any flaws in the financial
system are not alone in their myopia.
Understanding present trends is not the same as knowing where they will
lead. We know the world is changing faster than at any time in modern
history - hence the pervasive sense of insecurity in western societies
that have so long taken for granted their privileged status in the
hierarchy of nations.
The biggest shifts - the rise of China, India, Brazil and the rest, and a
shift in the centre of geopolitical gravity from the Atlantic to the
Pacific - speak for themselves. So do the mega-trends: climate change,
population growth, intensifying competition for resources and the ubiquity
of modern communications technologies among them.
Much harder to fathom is how these changes will fit together: will they
promote collisions or co-operation? Most likely both. But in what
proportions? An optimist might see the planet's rising temperature as a
catalyst for the refurbishment of an outdated system of global governance.
A pessimist - even a realist - might look instead to the prospect of new
conflicts driven by resource scarcity.
The best in the crystal-ball gazing business understand all this. They
eschew primary colours and prefer to paint the future in subtler hues.
They delineate the direction of travel - from the changing balance of
power between states to the worldwide trends mentioned above - but draw
only tentative conclusions.
The US National Intelligence Council has done this well for many years.
Its latest survey, Global Trends 2025, was published more than a year ago.
It has weathered well the fads and fashions since.
A study published last month by Britain's Ministry of Defence (spooks and
the military pay close attention to all this stuff) peers further into the
future. Global Strategic Trends - Out to 2040 declares that it wants to
inform "without being constrained by the latest good idea, fashionable
trend or received wisdom".
True to its word, its analysis usefully measures the implications of the
way the world is going against the potential for dislocations. Thus it is
quite possible China will boast the world's largest economy by 2030 or so;
it is also plausible, as its leaders never stop telling themselves, that
China's progress will hit the buffers of political and social unrest. It
is often forgotten that China is in a race to get rich before it gets old.
The US does not look quite the waning power of fashionable fancy. It has
geography and demography on its side - a friendly neighbourhood and a
growing population that is ageing less fast than that of rivals. It has a
big technological edge, a culture of enterprise and innovation, first-rate
universities and a stable, if infuriating, political system.
It is not at all hard to paint a picture of the future that has the US and
China fighting it out for the title of superpower-in-chief. It is equally
true that the biggest losers would be, yes, the US and China. Their
interdependence is inescapable. Both need the preservation of a relatively
stable international order.
Human nature being what it is, competition may indeed triumph over
self-interested co-operation. If so, the really big struggles in coming
decades will be between order and disorder and between governance and
anarchy. On the other hand, Beijing and Washington might just end up on
the same side after all.
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Welfare is a government program that provides money, medical care, food, housing, and other things that people need in order to survive. People who can receive help from these welfare programs are children, elders, the disabled, and others who cannot support their families on their current income. The welfare program has gone from a well-meaning program designed to sustain people who are unable to work and provide for their children, to a program that has become counterproductive to eliminating the unending dependence of the recipients. It must be understood that the welfare system, as we know it, must be fixed over a long period of time; but unfortunately there are no quick fixes.
There are several reasons why the welfare system must be eliminated. A utilitarianist, or someone who believes in doing what will maximize social utility, like John Stuart Mills, would say that the money used to fund welfare could be used in bettering the education system.
In doing this, it would fix the problem at the root of it all, and educate people, instead of feeding their current state. This would be best for society as a whole. Another way to describe utilitarianism is to say that they believe that the decisions we make should always benefit the most people as much as possible, regardless of the consequences to the minority or even yourself. Another reason under that theory would be to say that by eliminating welfare, each person would have to pay less income taxes through obligatory payments. This would benefit society as a whole, since the number of Americans not on welfare outnumber the amount that are. Another reason a utilitarian would be opposed to welfare is because it allows people to be more complacent and lax about supporting themselves. By allowing people to not... | http://www.writework.com/essay/america-s-welfare-programs-should-abolished-views-shared-b | dclm-gs1-481685528 | false | false | {
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Development. January 1, 2009; 136 (1): 161-71.
The mammalian kidney is organized into a cortex where primary filtration occurs, and a medullary region composed of elongated tubular epithelia where urine is concentrated. We show that the cortico-medullary axis of kidney organization and function is regulated by Wnt7b signaling. The future collecting duct network specifically expresses Wnt7b. In the absence of Wnt7b, cortical epithelial development is normal but the medullary zone fails to form and urine fails to be concentrated normally. The analysis of cell division planes in the collecting duct epithelium of the emerging medullary zone indicates a bias along the longitudinal axis of the epithelium. By contrast, in Wnt7b mutants, cell division planes in this population are biased along the radial axis, suggesting that Wnt7b-mediated regulation of the cell cleavage plane contributes to the establishment of a cortico-medullary axis. The removal of beta-catenin from the underlying Wnt-responsive interstitium phenocopies the medullary deficiency of Wnt7b mutants, suggesting a paracrine role for Wnt7b action through the canonical Wnt pathway. Wnt7b signaling is also essential for the coordinated growth of the loop of Henle, a medullary extension of the nephron that elongates in parallel to the collecting duct epithelium. These findings demonstrate that Wnt7b is a key regulator of the tissue architecture that establishes a functional physiologically active mammalian kidney.
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We lay pressed to each other, like always, your head resting on my chest. I smile to myself, sniffing your hair lightly. I chuckle and hold you closer. I shift ever so slightly, my knee finding your weak spot. You take in a sharp breath and cover your mouth.
“What?” I ask, acting as if I’ve done nothing wrong.
You glare up between your fingers, cursing me in your mind. I press my knee harder towards you and you breathe in yet again. I bite my lip, holding back my smile. Swiftly, I take your arms, pinning them down before I let my lips travel to your lips, down your neck, to you silky, soft chest. Your Sports bra is still damp from the pool as my lips trail down towards your stomach, stopping at your waistline. I pull back, letting my fingers trace along your skin, smirking lightly at your sweet reactions. Your hands slap over your mouth as I take hold of your breasts, squeezing them and pressing against you lightly.
I snicker, leaning in, my lips inches from yours and stay there a moment before pulling back. Your brow furrows and disappointment and irritation flash in your eyes. I grin, letting my hands travel down to the front of your jeans. I remove my knee, replacing it with my hand. You jerk back, grabbing at my neck, your nails cutting into my skin. I grit my teeth as you yank me towards you and kiss me, the movement of my hand causing you to breathe in harder. I pull away from your kiss, that same irritation in your eyes and place you back onto your back. I let my kisses go down your stomach again, my hands moving back up to your lovely chest. I move back up, kissing your lips softly.
“I love you…” I whisper in your ear.
“…” Silence escapes your lips and I move back down to your neck. I kiss it gently, nibbling on it a bit before making my way back down to your chest, pushing your bra up and let my lips suck softly on your breast, nibbling lightly at the weak spot. My other hand played simply with the other as I pressed my own body to yours. Your head fell back and you bit down on your finger, a small squeak erupting from your throat. As I continue, my hand moves down slowly, almost taunting you and teasing the outside of your jeans. A slight struggle is brought up while I try to unbutton your jeans with one hand and remove my mouth from your breast. You wine from the sudden retreat and your hand slaps against my wrist when my hand slides past your jeans. Your eyes grow large and you stare at me. Those gorgeous hazel eyes glowing with…fear and nervousness. Yet…also begging. Begging for my hand to go lower. Pleading for my lips on every inch of your body. I lean down, taking a minute and biting softly on your neck, your fingers running across my back. I arch my back, biting my lip, a slight wine escaping my lips and your hand removes itself from my wrist, and I take my chance, pressing my fingers to your lace thong. The feeling was slick. I lick my lips and smile. I move down, biting on your ear and you lurch under my body. I snickered, rubbing a tad harder against your panties. You grab at whatever part of my you can, pulling me towards you and kissing me deeply. Your tongue slides in slightly and takes me by surprise and I smile into the kiss. You move your hips slowly against my hand. I smirk, pulling away from you completely, your flushed face and exposed body glorious, and glowing. I grin, and wink at you.
“I fucking love you.”
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Fri Feb 11, 2011 3:11pm GMT
* Taylor boycotts court for a third day
* Judge agrees to allow appeal over documentation
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THE HAGUE, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Former Liberian president Charles Taylor, who boycotted his war crimes trial for a third day on Friday, was granted the right to appeal over key documentation for a case that has drawn international interest.
Prosecutors accuse Taylor of directing Revolutionary United Front rebels who raped, killed and hacked the limbs off women, men and children in a campaign of terror, and say he sought control of Sierra Leone's diamond mines, using so-called "blood diamonds" from the conflict zone for profit or to buy weapons.
The case is being followed closely in West Africa, Europe and the United States because of the political and security implications, and a final ruling is expected later this year.
A U.S. diplomat has warned that if Taylor is acquitted or gets a light sentence, his return to Liberia could "tip the balance in a fragile peace".
But on Friday, the judges agreed to allow Griffiths to appeal that decision and postponed hearings for two weeks.
Griffiths welcomed the court's decision.
Taylor's lawyer has questioned the Sierra Leone court's impartiality, citing leaked U.S. diplomatic cables which he says suggest Taylor's prosecution was politically motivated.
More than three years of testimony was due to end this week, but proceedings were briefly thrown into disarray on Tuesday when Griffiths stormed out of the court.
Justice Richard Lussick sharply rebuked Taylor and the defence, telling them: "You're not running the court you know." (Reporting by Svebor Kranjc; writing by Aaron Gray-Block; editing by Sara Webb)
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I graduated from the RN-BSN completion in 2005, went on to Walden and abtained my MSN in nursing education, and am currently attending the PhD program at the University of Phoenix.
The program at WVU is alright, but after being a nurse for 20years prior, there was a lot of review.
Attended Walden University, and my gpa was 4.0. It was hard, but manageable.
Now, the PhD program at UOPX is very challenging, But I am working full time at a college.
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0.082806 | <urn:uuid:03a64899-3486-4116-8f5b-54cdbf65e3a3> | en | 0.939263 | International Space Station Benefits for Humanity
Almost as soon as the International Space Station (ISS) was habitable, researchers began using it to study the impact of microgravity and other space effects on several aspects of our daily lives. This unique scientific platform continues to enable researchers from all over the world to put their talents to work with innovative experiments that could not be done anywhere else. The unified goal is to share the resulting knowledge for the betterment of humanity. We may not know yet what will be the most important discovery gained from the space station, but we already have some amazing breakthroughs! In the areas of human health, telemedicine, education and observations of Earth from space, there are already demonstrated benefits to human life. Vaccine development research, station-generated images that assist with disaster relief and farming, and education programs that inspire future scientists, engineers and space explorers are just some examples of research benefits. This book summarizes the scientific, technological and educational accomplishments of research on the space station that has and will continue to have an impact on life on Earth.
Human Health
The space station is a unique laboratory for performing investigations that affect human health both in space and here on Earth. Over its 10 years of assembly, the space station has supported research that is providing a better understanding of certain aspects of human health encountered, such as aging, trauma, disease and the environment. Several biological and human physiological investigations have yielded important results, including improved understandings of basic physiological processes normally masked by gravity, and development of new medical technology and protocols driven by the need to support astronaut health. Advances in telemedicine, disease models, psychological stress response systems, nutrition, cell behavior, and environmental health are just a few examples of benefits that have been gained from the unique space station microgravity environment.
Earth Observation and Disaster Response
The space station is a "Global observation and diagnosis station." It promotes international Earth observations aimed at understanding and resolving environmental issues of our home planet. The space station offers a unique vantage for observing the Earth's ecosystems with both hands-on and automated equipment, both of which benefit from the crew's faculty for observing and explaining what they witness in real time. Station crews can observe and collect camera images of unfolding events as they occur and may also provide input to ground controllers for the programmed observations of the station's automated Earth-sensing systems. This flexibility is an advantage over sensors on unmanned spacecraft, especially when unexpected natural events such as volcanic eruptions and earthquakes occur. A wide variety of Earth observation payloads can be attached to the exposed facilities on the station's exterior; several instruments are proposed by researchers from the partner countries. The station contributes to humanity by collecting data on the global climate, environmental change and natural hazards using its unique compliment of crew-operated and automated Earth observation payloads. The existing international partnerships that are fundamental to the ISS facilitate data sharing that can benefit people around the world and promote international collaboration on other Earth observation activities.
Global Education
The space station has a unique ability to capture the imaginations of both students and teachers worldwide. The presence of humans onboard station for the past ten years has provided a foundation for numerous educational activities aimed at capturing that interest and motivating study in the sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics or STEM. Projects such as the Amateur Radio on ISS or ARISS, Earth Knowledge-based Acquired by Middle Schools or EarthKAM and Take your Classroom into Space events among others have allowed for global student, teacher and public access to space through student image acquisition and radio contacts with crewmembers. Educational activities are not limited to STEM but encompass all aspects of the human condition. This is well illustrated in the Uchu Renshi project, a chain poem initiated by an astronaut while in space and continued and completed by people on Earth. With ISS operations at least until 2020, projects like these and their accompanying educational materials will be made available to more students around the world. Through the continued use of the station we will challenge and inspire the next generation of scientists, engineers, writers, artists, politicians, and explorers.
The benefits outlined here serve as examples of the potential of the space station as a groundbreaking scientific research facility. Through advancing the state of scientific knowledge of our planet, looking after our health, and providing a space platform that inspires and educates the science and technology leaders of tomorrow, these benefits will drive the legacy of the space station as its research strengthens economies and enhances the quality of life here on Earth for all people.
International Partners
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the-dinner-divaLooking to add some heat to the dinner menu? So, you want to start spicing things up, but you don’t know where to start. Chances are, you walk through the pepper aisle examining all of the pretty little peppers and wondering what in the world you would do with them if you were to bring them home with you.
There are a hundred or so varieties of chili peppers out there, and they range in flavor and heat from sweet and mild to “are-you-nuts” fiery. Some chilies are used in their fresh form (jalapeño), while others are most often dried or powdered (cayenne).
The heat of peppers is rated on something called the Scoville scale. If you’ve ever eaten an jalapeño, you know that it has a bit of a bite to it. Jalapeños rate about 2500 on the Scoville scale and, to give you an idea of how much hotter chili peppers can get, a habanero pepper rates about 100,000–350,000 on the scale.
Some chili peppers are so extremely hot that they rate 2,000,000 on the Scoville scale. At that level of intensity, it’s no longer about taste—it’s about seeing how much pain you can stand in your mouth before you die! That might be a little extreme, but I’m more about eating for flavor and not so much about eating food hot enough to make me sweat.
Where does the heat come from?
Many people think the heat from peppers comes from their meat, but the heat in peppers comes mostly from the compound called capsaicin in their seeds, veins and the pepper parts near the veins. If you want a less fiery dish, remove and discard the chili pepper seeds and membranes before chopping them. For more heat, include the inner bits.
Nutrition in chili peppers
The capsaicin in chili peppers is a strong antioxidant. In addition to antioxidant properties, chili peppers contain carotene, Vitamin C, B vitamins, potassium, iron and magnesium.
How to use chili peppers
Once upon a time, the only place you’d see chili peppers used would be in Mexican dishes, but that’s not the case anymore. Roasted chili peppers are delicious in salads. Fabulous in soups, on nachos and in pasta dishes, chilies offer a sweet heat to a variety of meals.
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Living with PTSD
Well it is another day of work. The weekend has passed we all look forward to the next time we have off from work, to bad when you are in a combat zone there is not a lot if any at all time you have off and can let your guard down.
One thing while I was overseas that got me hot under the collar was the command would not get our mail but only 2 or 3 days a week. That really sucked because when you had a rough day out in the field and looking to come back to something from home and they didn’t get it yet really sucked. Yet, the command wanted you to go out on missions every single day. It just didn’t make since to me and still don’t, I guess that is what a shitty command does for you.
What is funny is how business back home cannot offer a veterans discount, yet they have a sign in their window or something saying that they support the military and such. Or they only offer it on certain days of the year. Man I wish I only had to go to a combat zone a couple days out of the year. What is the use of saying you support the military and brag about this and that on it? If you cannot show support all year round? You are going to say because they hire veterans. You know why a lot of places hire veterans? It is because they get a tax break for hiring veterans every year. It is not to support the veteran that is just a spin they put on it. The real reason is they get a dang tax break every year for it.
Some of you are going to also say I don’t deserve a discount. So does the company that hires a veteran do they deserve a tax break for hiring a veteran?
Well for some reason writing is a little rough today. So I will end this hear.
God Bless
Keep fighting the fight
Never give up
Together we can save lives #TWCSL
Ok, another burr under my skin.
I work near a county jail. I take Hero for a walk past it a few times a day.
Every freaking time I walk past I hear this banging. It is people trying to get attention of others on the outside so they can “talk.”
Well dang it last time I checked you were in jail for a reason.
They have visiting hours for a reason.
It is not do what you want while you are in jail. You are supposed to be punished.
If you ask me, people that get caught doing this should get an extra week and go up from there the more they do it.
And the ones on the outside should spend a week also. This is just crazy, what’s the point of them being in jail?
They should also paint the windows black. Sorry if people want to abuse the privilege of seeing the outside world, everyone shall suffer.
When I was in Iraq, I didn’t get a TV, visitation, rec time, 3 hot meals or a cot half the time.
So I say, hey you are in prison you do as I say. Want to riot? Fine with me. We shoot to kill if you disobey. We should make the prisons less cushion and more actual hard time. Beat those rocks for fun. Move that big rock over there and back. I don’t care what it is, lets hook them all together in a chain gang again.
I volunteered to serve my country.
Speaking of! Another thing has pissed me off; why the hell are we letting illegal immigrants serve in our great military as we kick out good soldiers to “down size.” The heck is up with that?
It makes me go back to my first post today. I served! I bleed! And I now come home to this shit?! You’ve got to be kidding me. What is this country coming to?
It hurts, suffering almost every day, trying to make it to the next day. Trying to deal with my PTSD or as some people like to refer to it, PTS, since they don’t want the disorder part on it. Then you look up and see what this country is becoming and it makes you wonder: Was it worth it? Why did I go and serve my country? Did I waste my time? I now suffer because of things that I saw and did and the people back home….do they actually care? Does it really matter to them?
We didn’t get treated as bad as the Vietnam veterans did when they came home. We didn’t come home to the mass gatherings and such. But there were protests; I did get spit on my very first steps outside Walter Reed Medical Center. But it was not as bad as others have faced, which I am thankful for.
I want to thank all the soldiers who came before me, who put so much on the line to let me live free.
Thank you to the ones who will come after me, for letting me stay free.
As for the ones who sit and don’t stand up and be thankful, well you’re a disgrace and I wish I could show you the exit door right out of this country. I am still trying to figure out what is worse, the ones who admit to it, the fakers who say they served or that they care. You all can just leave the country, leaving it to the good, honest, hard working, AMERICAN flag carrying, red white and blue blood pumping through our veins Americans and get the hell out! We don’t need you, and we certainly don’t want you.
It is dark out. It is raining.
I wish I got good sleep.
I think I have sinus issues, who the heck gets sinus issues when it is raining? Got post nasal drip going on, oh what fun it is. I feel like a duck, it has been raining here since last Fri if not longer, sorry can’t remember.
I think the lack of sleep makes the PTSD worse; then again the PTSD makes it where you can’t sleep. So it is a no win situation. I don’t think it is playing fair, it should not be allowed to play both sides of the fence. Can someone please teach it how to play fair and be nice?
Ok, I was just goofing around on that last part. Got to have a little humor every now and then, what is life without a good laugh once in a while? Then again if we didn’t have lows in life, how would we treasure the good times if we had nothing to compare them too. When we have a low spot in life we just need to do our best to remember the good times to help us pull through the bad ones.
I know it is easier said than done to remember the good times when you can barely think about the next second in your life. It is something I struggle with in life also, trying to think on the positive side. I wish there was something that I could say that would help you do it, but there really is not. What I can say is try different things and see which helps you out.
Let it be a picture that you carry around of a special moment, a place that just makes you smile. Or a note from that special someone that brings a smile to your face are just a few ideas. I can’t think of to many other ideas right now. So if someone has an idea please feel free to comment on http://avetwithptsd.com I actually encourage you to leave any type of comment, it sort of lets me know people are reading these things. There are times when I wonder if I should just stop posting stuff. It seems like it is the same people over and over commenting. So new people and new comments are always great to hear and see, if someone can send some sun and little less rain that would be great.
What is up with this Ebola stuff? Another one in TX!!! Why do we not shut down all the airplanes coming from Africa, and anyone from there in the past month put them in quarantine? I wonder how that photographer is doing raising funds for his medical bills. That still makes me shake my head and wonder what the heck is going on with some people.
I might make a video and go around and get pics and such of homeless veterans and such and put it up. See what people think then. Maybe not just veterans but any homeless person, there are even homeless CHILDREN!!! You think people would find a better place to donate money then to some idiots who go to a place knowing that the risk of catching a deadly virus is EXTREMELY HIGH!
It is hard for me, I love my country and would do anything for her. I go away to war. Then I come home and people act like they don’t care…
about the Veterans
about their own country
about themselves
I could go on but what is the point. I don’t want to hear it saying you all care. I asked for you to show me and you guys don’t. You can’t take 20min out of your day to make a video showing how you support a veteran and how you care. I don’t care about if you donate money. That is nothing, anyone can do that. This is really starting to tick me off. You say you don’t know how to load a video. So the smart guy that helps me out greatly with the website and everything posts something on how and still nothing.
What’s the use! This might be my last post ever. I feel like I am just talking to a wall and no one is really listening. Why should I keep banging my head against the wall? That is what it feels like to me right now.
Just go back all your excuses you want about why you support some idiot who got Ebola.
Don’t even dare give me some political bullshit either saying because of this and that you don’t do it, all that is a cop out and bullshit.
Go somewhere else and spew the bull about you support veterans and say you don’t need to prove it to anyone.
The point I am trying to get across is MONKEY SEE!!! MONKEY DO!!!
If people see you doing it maybe they will start doing it.
God Bless!
Stay Strong
Never give up.
Not sure if I will write for a while or ever again! Just ticked off right now.
Well it is Tuesday I think. Long night with little sleep, it seems like I fall asleep right before my alarm goes off and then I miss my alarm. Which really sucks, because then I have to run around quick to make it to work on time.
Since I woke up late my mind is not working just yet. So I am not sure what is going to come out of this post or what I will say. Hope it makes since. If not oh well deal with it.
I am not sure why I have not been sleeping well; I wish I could figure this out and deal with the issue. It is hard to deal with something when you have no clue what it is.
Everyone knows that October is breast cancer awareness month. Do a lot of people know when PTSD awareness month is? It is June. I wish we could make it where June and PTSD gets as much awareness as breast cancer does. I just think there are a lot of places that say they “help” veterans, well some do. But they are so spread out and not concentrated in one area that it is hard to get an organization to devote just to PTSD. But I think we need to make people more aware of this crazy debilitating issue.
Yeah it does not take as many lives as cancer and many other diseases. But I could be wrong on this but I will go out on a limb, and say this just does not affect just the person who has PTSD it affects everyone they come in contact with. There is an end to cancer, some of the time it is good and they recover and other times it is the other side of it. With PTSD there is only one side and that is end of life. There is no real recovery from it. At least not that I have found, yeah you can manage it, but that is not a total recovery from it. You will always live with it and battle with it.
Ok, some of you will go and say you will always deal with cancer and the residuals, that is true and you have to worry about it coming back. But until the day it comes back you are free from it. You can live a normal life; you can go and do lots of things. With PTSD not so much, you try to avoid things that set you off and things that give you flash backs and reminders.
When I say it affects others around you more than cancer does, yeah having cancer is a really big strain on you and your family and friends. But it does not ALWAYS affect your daily living and life. I know there are times when my wife is stressed out and worried about me that I will make it through the day, how I will react when I get home, or when she says something or does something, how will I react to things.
I hope that little bit come across right. I am not trying to down play anything that has to do with cancer or anything like that.
I wish I knew how to get the word out about PTSD like a lot of other things do. Maybe I am a little jealous how they get noticed. I just need to figure a way to get the word out there. To do so I need everyone and anyone’s help I can get to spread the word. To get more attention and awareness about PTSD and the word out there, we need to get a united front.
22 people a day is 23 to many. Yes I know my math is off, but you all should get the point. If you have ideas please post comments on http://avetwithptsd.com
God Bless!
Stay strong!!
Keep fighting the fight!
Don’t give in!!!
Don’t ever give up!!!
Ok I have been thinking. I want to start a go fund me site to help Sgt Andrew Tahmooressi out of Mexico. Why do we need to wait for the shit heads in Washington to do something.
We can raise funds and either bride Mexico or we can go down and do a snatch and grab.
I am just sick and tired of waiting on Washington to do something right. It has been way to long for us not to take action. Or do we not give a sh!t about a real soldier and only care about traders.
Speaking of why have we not heard anything lately about that little trader? What are they waiting for? For all of to forget about him?
I want to say sorry to Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi family if anyone knows them and they don’t like this post I will take it down if they ask me too.
Just thought I would put this out there. It has been on my mind for a few days now.
WOW this just stunned the hell out of me. I just saw this.
MSN did a story on a cameraman who got EBOLA and people are sending money to him. They have raised OVER $31,000 in 3 days.
People are sharing it like crazy!
Yet when I (the person who bleed and served his country) tried to raise money for a service dog. I had to beg plead and everything.
How is it that peoples like this get this attention? It is this idiot’s fault that he went over there on his own will and choice. Yes I volunteered to serve my country; yes I knew there might have been a chance to go to war. What did this guy do to deserve all this attention? And helping? At least there are two comments on their Jeremy Reese and another one who say it how it is. But others are donating like crazy.
Oh he gave you pictures. I gave you FREEDOM!
I just can’t figure out why people donate money to the things they do.
The other day I was watching TV and some actor comes on asking to donate for some kid some other country. Just such and such a day and they will write you. Who says it is not some adult or print of something and everyone gets the same writing. Since they say the WILL write you back. Give me a break.
Look at your own country. Why not help your own people.
Why not help the ones who served.
Maybe I am just jealous that I had to struggle to get anything.
What also gets me is how the press picks up on this shit. But they don’t give two hoots about the soldiers coming back struggling. No they just try to make us out to be bad people.
I just people around the world would take care of their own issues before going outside their borders and taking care of others.
Just like this whole Middle East thing…no matter what we do they will always fight amongst each other. So I say let them. Or carpet bomb the whole dang area to take everyone out. Yeah I know people will say what about the innocent people. Well are there any that are truly innocent? The same person that sells you ice alongside the road is the same person trying to kill you at night. I am sorry I am just sick of spending our countries money on other countries problems. They don’t give us jack to repay us. Back in WWI, WWII, Korea, etc did we ever help them rebuild the stuff we blew up? No they did that on their own after, during the war. These countries have tons of money and oil why not make them pay us?
Where ever the whole Ebloa thing is going on I forget all the countries. Like them down. Whoever is there stays there until this whole thing is cleared up. Why risk our own people sending them there and when they come back they can infect more. It is not happening (well until we allowed people back from there) in our country so not our problem.
Something else that I don’t understand, maybe someone can explain. Cuba has been blocked from lots of things, trading, embargo, etc for how long? Why dictatorship? Well look at china why don’t we do that to them then? The cold war is over; the wall has been down for how long? I just don’t understand why they still have sanctions against them yet other countries don’t.
But then again I don’t really care about Cuba, just was wondering why.
I only care about this country. Once we get our country fixed then we can maybe go out and help others.
Just wanted to blow off some steam.
Hey do me a favor if you read this just put a comment saying if you agree or disagree or say I read it.
Just wondering how many people actually read this, and thinking about ending this blog since I don’t get the scene many people actually read this.
Well yesterday sucked just didn’t feel like writing anything didn’t feel like doing anything. I just am in a funk and can’t not seem to pull myself out of it, been in this funk all week.
That is something that some people don’t understand all the time. They think if you have PTSD, you have to be down and depressed all the time. They don’t realize you can have great days, bad days, ok days, and you don’t want to be around days. Awhile back I saw a news report about the people from the world trade center events, they were pretty much saying that these firefighters or what not were lying because they have proof of them riding a jet ski or something and if they actually had PTSD that they would not be doing this.
Well let me tell you this, that is total bullshit and who ever put that report together should be fired on the spot and have to make a public apology to those people. You have to take advantage of the good days, and try to make the bad days last as little as possible.
That is the hard part, how do you handle the bad days and minimize them. Where they don’t take total control of your whole life, it is an everyday battle even on the good days you have to battle so it does not take everything over. It is always in the background trying to poke through and to get control.
Don’t ask me how you keep it from popping out, don’t ask me how you get rid of it, don’t ask me anything because I have no clue if I did I would be the most popular man around because I would know that answer and many many other things. Maybe even the meaning of life.
When you go to the “dark side” it is hard to explain. You just feel so drained, lost, empty feeling inside, there is more but I just can’t explain it and how it feels the words just seem to lack me at the moment.
It is hard to write this morning, the words are just not coming to me or something. So I might write later today or some other time. I am just going to end this one here.
God Bless!
Keep fighting the fight!
Don’t ever give up!!
You can beat this!
Stand by someone in the downtime.
Is it morning?
This week seems to be going really slow. Can’t seem to sleep right, can’t seem to wake up. Just in this daze all week. Oh what fun I am having.
Yesterday the wife asked me to watch the baby for a bit while she did some stuff. So I have been slowly trying to take the baby and what not. Well yesterday I felt so hopeless and was not sure what to do. The baby started crying like I have never seen her cry before. I tried to feed her she would not take the bottle. I tried to bounce her she still cried. I tried everything I could think of and she still cried, and for the first time I saw little tears start to appear. This made me feel so helpless…I didn’t know what to do. So the wife came and she took the bottle right away for her. Just sucks that I didn’t know what to do. Maybe she is a mommy’s girl that is why she didn’t take the bottle from me and wanted her mommy.
Have you ever felt so out of place? Like you were somewhere and didn’t belong or felt unwanted there? I normally get this feeling but a few weeks ago this feeling was worse than ever before. I don’t like crowds as it is, and to top it off I just felt so out of place and unwanted it made things worse. I just don’t understand why people invite you to something yet it seems like they go out of their way to make you feel unwanted. Sorry just had to get that off my chest.
I need your help. I cannot figure something out for the life of me. Why are we sending OUR troops over to Africa to build hospitals and what not for the Emboli break out? Don’t they have people over there that know how to build stuff? Why not stop anyone who has been to that region in the past 6 months from entering the USA? Instead of sending people there and risking their lives to build them things that they can build on their own.
I saw a commercial the other day on TV asking people to donate money for some child so they can eat. Do we even really know if this child is for real? What about the children HERE in the USA that go to bed hungry, don’t have proper medical care and so on. It is like the old sayings don’t throw rocks at a glass house when you live in one yourself.
I am sick of the USA being like a babysitter to the rest of the world. If two countries want to fight let them go at it sell popcorn and take bets to the event. If another country has issues let them figure it out and work it out. That is how they learn; we don’t need to be there to hold their hands. Does anyone ever send us people when we have a natural disaster? Or when we have issues….most other countries leave us out hanging to dry.
Why don’t we get our soldier back from Mexico before we send troops out to another country? Heck we got what I would consider a traitor back, when he was ready to come home. We really need to get our priorities straight if you ask me. We need to take care of OUR people! We need to build a strong community, a stronger everything (schooling, financial, economic etc).
I think I am done ranting for the day.
I hope everyone is having a good week so far.
God Bless
Don’t ever give up!
Keep fighting PTSD!!!
Ever have those days where you didn’t get any real decent sleep and can’t wake up no matter what. Well I am having one of those days. I didn’t sleep well at all last night; just wish I could get a good night’s rest once in a while. Waking up in a cold sweat sucks! Ever experience that? You shiver so bad it is not even funny, it is weird that you can be sweating so bad and yet be so cold at the same time.
The past few days have not been the best day or nights. The flash backs are coming and the nightmares along with the anxiety and just that feeling like what is the point of being here. You sit and think and wonder what is the use of staying on this earth? You think you found a reason to live yet you look at it and wonder does it really matter?
So many questions go racing through your head. Yet none of them ever seem to get answered. You wonder if the pain you are going through is worth it. How many others have you put through hell with when you go off like a bottle rocket for no reason. You wonder why you are crying for no reason.
You try to take your mind off it all and do anything to stop thinking about it but the thoughts keep coming back. They don’t seem to ever stop. You look for help from god but he seems to be nowhere with an answer. You don’t want to turn to friends or family because they have enough going on in their own life and you don’t want to burden them with your issues.
I wish there was a way to turn all these thoughts off from running around in my head. Why can’t there be a on and off switch. So many different things set it off so it is so hard to try and stay away from things that set it off. Maybe I should just stay in a room with no windows and keep it dark and sound proof. Just so there is nothing that can set it off and I might get a piece full rest. But I am sure something will make me have the flashbacks.
You get so tired of taking medications every day, most the time you wonder if they actually are working you don’t feel any real change. I wish they would spend as much money as they do developing these drugs into a way to cure all this. I don’t feel the medications are a way to cure this, it is just a Band-Aid, your body gets use to the medications after a certain time, then you get to try to find another one to replace that one, and then you adjust the dosage, and repeat over and over till it is your time.
I have tried so many diff types of therapy I can’t even name them all. It is crazy, I am not sure if there is one therapy I have not tried. I really happy that some people have found a therapy that helps them deal with all their issues and to live a better life. Maybe I will go back and try some of them again. Never know something might click the second time around.
God Bless
I hope everyone has a good day.
Don’t ever give up
Keep fighting the fight.
Well since I last wrote to you roughly 44 veterans took their own lives. That is 44 people no longer with us that answered the call to defend this great country.
I wish I could say that 22 people a day committing suicide due to PTSD is more than breast cancer, ALS, Parkinson’s or anything like that. But I can’t. Because the population of people who are at risk of getting PTSD are dramatically less than the ones who are at risk of getting other deadly disease. I am not trying to minimize any other deadly disease at all.
I am also not saying you can’t get PTSD as a civilian, but let’s face it. Most the people who suffer from PTSD are military only roughly 8% of the civilian population has PTSD compared to roughly 35% of combat veterans get PTSD.
Less than .5% of the American population joins the military. WOW! That is less than I thought it was. So if you really compare numbers, which I suck at, so I leave it up to you all to do that and take this information however you like it. That is a extremely high rate of the population of military committing suicide every day. The average age of the veteran committing suicide is 60 years old. That means it is not just the current returning veterans committing suicide but many from the Korean, Vietnam, First gulf war are also committing suicide.
That means this issue has not been handled the greatest for a really really long time. The number one way a veteran commits suicide is drug overdose. What a surprise there, as much as everyone pushes drugs onto someone with PTSD to “try and help” them with it, it is not really a big surprise at all.
What really gets me is most the anti-depression, PTSD, etc. drugs one of the major side effects of these drugs is what? Suicidal thoughts may increase…how is this good thing to give someone who already has these thoughts? No wonder the suicide rate of veterans is extremely high.
I wonder if there is a study out there, between the numbers of prescription drugs a person with PTSD is on that sees a civilian doctor compared to ones that see someone from the VA. Not just the number of prescription drugs but also the dosage level. I would also like to know the number of veterans that commit suicide that see a civilian doctor compared to the number of veterans that see a VA doctor. These would be some very interesting facts and statics to see and compare.
I highly doughty we will ever get a chance to see these statistics. It might show that the VA health care is broken worse than it is.
Something else that has been bothering me for a while! I am a registered independent. I am not a democrat or republican. I am getting sick and tired of people trying to blame the veteran issue on one party over the other. Here is a hint! All politicians lie! All will say what they think you want to hear to get your vote. They all don’t give two shits about the veteran. Most of them didn’t serve and most of their families are not in the military so it is no big deal to them. It only comes a big deal until WE the people no matter what political party you are with STAND UP!!! CALL THEM OUT! And SPEAK up for the .5% of the population that defended your freedom.
So stop thinking your political party is the best for the veteran. Because it is NOT!!! If it was the veteran would not be getting treated the way they do. So if you want to call out one republican you better be ready to call out one democrat and vice versa.
We need to start speaking up for the veteran, or do we not care about those who put their life on the line and the ones who died for us to be able to do what we do?
Do we take it all for granted?
I am still waiting for everyone that says oh I support the veterans…….I do this and that. I donate money all the time.
Well here is something, yes a lot of the organizations that help veterans need your money to keep the doors open. But they also need your time to support them and help them do things that help the veteran. Money helps by the food for the homeless veteran but it does not get out there to feed them, or make the food for them.
Also if you are going to donate I know I said this once before but do some research before you donate to anything. A lot of these “NONprofit” places are paying there higher up a whole lot of money, look how much they spend on the cause compared to the staff.
I want to see your video of you helping or calling your political rep out (remember if you call one democrat out you need to call one republican out) and also challenge your friends to do the same thing.
I hope you have a great day!
Keep fighting the fight!
Don’t give up!!
God Bless
Morning, Wow made it through the “work week”. This is the first time in a long time that I think I posted a blog once a day for a whole week.
Something has been bothering me the past few days. I just don’t understand how people retweet or share something when they don’t even read it themselves. I also don’t understand how on Facebook or somewhere else you see more shares and likes for what I would call ridiculous pics. You know what I am talking about, the ones where my boss said he would do this or that if we get 1,000 shares, share this and get $1,000, get a free whatever if you share this, tweet this and get 1,000,000,000 followers in 20seconds. But yet people can’t take the time to share something important. Well I think it is important at least.
I just don’t understand where some people priorities are, or why people try and mess with me and try and do things to get under my skin. I know some people think they can have fun and hide behind a computer screen and do and say what they want. But come on don’t you have morals?
People say I am hiding because very few people know my name. Well I will tell you this, no I am not hiding. I just don’t want people to relate anyone’s name to this. I want them to be able to read and then maybe relate it to someone they know. Not have someone’s name stuck in their head. That is why I do it this way. If you can’t understand that well I am sorry I don’t know what to tell you.
It is frustrating, I feel like I am not doing enough to help my fellow veterans. I just can’t figure out how to help more of them. I really wish I knew how to make everything go viral that would help any veteran to save their lives. I don’t care if it is something I wrote or if it is something else. I am just sick every time I hear about a veteran taking their own life.
The military spends so much money on training someone on how to do their job. I would like to know how much they spend on someone teaching them how to be a civilian again, how to deal with civilian life, how to deal with others, to make sure their mind is right. I think the military needs to look on better ways to transition people from military to civilian life.
So anyone have good plans for this weekend? What’s that, you are making a video to show how you support veterans, how you volunteer to help veterans out? Can’t wait to see them, be sure to post it on YouTube and follow my channel….avetwithptsd is the channel name.
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Not sure what to say or where to start. It was a long night for me with a nasty headache; it felt like my eyes were going to pop out of my head. Oh what fun it is on days/nights like that.
I am not sure how much longer I can take the time to tweet the blog link out to a bunch of you every day I post. But a lot of you are not signed up to get the emails of the blog post. So that means if I don’t tweet it out to a bunch of you not a lot of people will see it that will defeat the goal of mine. So please sign up to get the email of the blog. Please share it often and as many times as you can.
My mission/goal on posting these blogs is to bring the issue of PTSD to the forefront, so people are aware of the daily struggles we go through, but my main thing is to let others know that they are not alone in feeling the way they feel. Other people out there go through the same issues, deal with the struggle every day. That taking your own life is not the answer.
You might think you are alone and no one will care if you take your own life, but trust me someone out there cares, someone out there somewhere will miss you. Someone is there to support you. You might not feel that right now but trust me, if you just let the wall down a little bit they will slowly come into your life and let you know. You have to be willing to take that wall down and explain to them all that is going on in your head. It takes a lot of courage and effort and strength to do it, but I know you can do it.
A lot of people don’t understand anything about PTSD and it is hard and frustrating to try and explain all that is going on when you struggle to figure out yourself on what is going on in your head. Before I meet my wife I had a few women find out that I had PTSD and just ran away as fast as they could, they didn’t understand anything about it, they had that stigma that I was nuts or something. It hurt me when they acted like this. But they just were not worth my time. I then found the women who would turn out to be my wife. She didn’t run away, she asked questions and read up about it on her own. You two can also find someone like this. You just have to be willing to let them into your world a little at a time. In the end it will be well worth it.
I still have many dark days, but having someone by my side and willing to support me no matter what makes dealing with those days so much better.
You cannot give up on yourself; you have to keep pushing through life. I wish I could say one day the whole thing will be over with and you will be back to normal with the snap of a finger. I really wish I could but I am not going to lie. I am not sure if that point is out there; if it is I have not reached it.
You might not know me and I might not know you, but that does not mean we cannot support each other and help each other through the struggles of life. Just know that someone else is/has/will gone through the same feelings and struggles means a lot.
For the ones who don’t struggle with this please I encourage you to pick up the phone and call all the veterans you know, call them just to say hello once a week or so. Invite them out to do something, anything even if it is just a walk through the neighborhood.
Share this blog with them, so they don’t have to feel alone.
By doing this I am hoping we can get rid of the number of 22, even if it just goes down to 21 it is a good starting point and that is over 300 people a year, and with time I hope we can get that number down to 0 that is the goal here.
Thank you for reading this
Remember you are not alone.
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I got some bad news yesterday. A friend of a friend who is a veteran has lost 3 of his friends due to suicide in the past 13 months.
We need to do something people!
We got to stop this somehow, some way.
When I heard this news it reminded me of a song:
A simple phone call every now and then to a veteran could mean a lot. I am not saying it will prevent them from doing anything but just knowing that someone is there and thinking about you means a lot.
For the people who do not have PTSD I am sure you really enjoy a call from a friend that you have not heard from in a while. Just think if you were a veteran and had all these thoughts running crazy in your mind, when you get that call from someone just to say hello. It would mean a lot. It might give them that one second to rethink things through.
Veterans Day is a little over a month away! What are you going to do for Veterans Day?
How you going to honor the veteran?
You know, why should people like a veteran get only one day a year?
Many of you say you support veterans, and say you read this blog, but never accept my challenges. I am sick of seeing people with all TALK. I want to see ACTION!!! Action speaks so much louder than words will ever be. Some of you remind me of politician. ALL talk no ACTION!
It is just rough when you know 22 veterans everyday are taking their own life and you try to do everything you can think of and it is not enough. What do I need to do to get them to stop?
They deserve to live; we made it back from WAR!! Only to come home to a nation that says they care about us but when you look for help it is so hard to find. So we get tangled up in a big mess in our heads and can’t find a way out so we end up taking our own lives!
Why does it seem like the only people who care about veterans are other veterans.
I am sitting here trying to write this blog and I can’t think of anything to say. It just makes me so sad, 22 veterans a day. 22 people!
Where is the compassion?
People cry out for every little thing, and the news picks it right up!!! But they don’t ever hardly mention about 22 VETERANS taking their own life every day.
I don’t have a flag pole in my yard just yet. But as soon as I do I will raise that American flag to the top of the pole then slowly lower it to half mass to never be at full mass again! I think we all should do this. We can lower the flag when some celebrity dies, but we can’t lower it for the VETERAN who died? If you do this make a sign and put it out their saying why your flag is at half-staff.
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I am not sure what else to say or do right now.
Please call a veteran today
Stay strong!!!!
Keep fighting the fight!!!
Don’t give into PTSD!!
Why does it seem like everything we do come down to a political pissing match?
When it comes to helping veterans and the elderly it should not be about what political party you belong too. It should come down to helping people and what they have done for us. What they have done for our country.
Without the elderly we all would not be here. We need to listen to them becomes some of the time wisdom comes with age. I know no matter how old some of us get they will never become mature, but when people have provided for others and can no longer provide for others maybe we need to change something to make sure they are taken care of.
When it comes to veterans, I am not talking about me here, yes I might be a little bias but hey.
Look over the years even before our constitution was ever written we had veterans. We few people out their defending the masses. Veterans have stepped up and forward when there country called. Yes I know there was the draft, but they did not run and hide or try to get out of it. They still stepped up and went and served.
It just seems like whenever the political parties can’t get along or get what they want they hold the elderly and the military and veteran’s hostage until they get what they want. This just does not seem right. This seems like a childish game they are playing. Why don’t they hold their own pay checks hostage and not pay themselves. Maybe then they would come to an agreement real quick.
I know people say they don’t get paid as much as they would be if they did their regular job as an attorney or other civilian jobs some of some type. But they get so many other benefits to make up for it is unbelievable. They also make so much after they write a book, for speaking at events afterwards.
I think it should be more of a privilege more than anything to be elected to a public serving office. Not something you do for the money, or fame, but to create a better world for tomorrow and be able to put this country on a good path.
I also think that you should not be able to serve more than 8 years max in any capacity in one seat, so you can only serve as senator for 8 years then you need to take a 4 year break or something, that way they don’t lose touch with the other people.
I also think that if you want to be the commander and chief, I think you should be required to have at least served 4 years in the military. How can you lead a group of people if you have no clue about it or walked in their shoes? It is like having the best surgeon ever trading jobs with the best home builder ever. They might know the basic but they cannot do each other’s jobs the best as they would do their own.
Can someone please explain to me why does it always seem to come down to political bullshit and not what is best for the country?
Right now I don’t think it is the best thing for the USA sending millions of dollars in foreign aid to other countries when we are struggling in our own land. I just don’t see how this helps our country; we can’t count on them for support or anything, no matter what we do. So how does it help us? If we put all that money we spend on other countries and dump it back into our own country maybe things would be a heck of a lot better.
Maybe we would not have to worry about the gang violence, or the drug traffic, or the homeless. Just maybe the money can be spent on giving our children a better education. Maybe colleges would not cost so much because they would have more federal backing.
Still waiting on those videos! Either showing how you help veteran or telling your political people etc, to pay more attention to the veterans.
Just think maybe if you call them out we would not lose 22 Veterans to SUICIDE!!! Maybe it will save your best friend or a family member.
I hope you have a great day!
God Bless
Keep fighting the fight!!!
Don’t ever give up!!!
God Bless
Is anyone out there?
Can anyone hear me?
Does anyone see me?
Why do I have this pain?
I take my meds, I try to do everything I can to avoid things that will make me think of things that will give me flash back!
It just seems like no matter what I do they won’t go away!
Why do these things keep coming back?
There are good days and bad days. There are days I feel like I am normal and then there are the days I wish I could just hide from everyone and everything.
When people see you having a good day then the next is a bad one people call you a faker, they think you just want attention. They don’t understand the roller coaster ride you are on.
It is hard to come to grips that even if you go to all the doctor appointments, take your medication every day like the doctor tells you too. That you will still get the bad days. It makes you wonder why even go through all the mess to find a decent doctor to help you, make the appointments, go to the appointments, pick up your medicine, take time off from work and so on.
What really gets me is if you get your medicine from the VA they will give you a 90 day supply, which is good right? To bad you have to call in for a refill 2-3 weeks before you run out so the medicine can get to you on time before you run out. Even then it is not a guarantee that it will. But who looks at their meds and is able to tell that. There are times when I didn’t realize it and have run out. You think they could put in a system that will…
1. Call you to make sure you are still on it and need a refill
2. Auto refill it
3. Call the DOCTOR if you don’t have refills to ask them what they would like to do.
I can’t talk for everyone on this matter but just myself. If I didn’t have a great wife like I do, I would be out of meds a lot of the times and scrambling around to figure out what to do. It is hard enough for me to make it through a normal day let alone to try and figure out what all I need to do so I won’t run out of things and I will be safe.
It is not just a veteran on this issue, I am sure lots of other people could use a reminder. Yes I know some of you will say it is my body and I need to take responsibility to make sure I am doing everything I need to do. Well come walk in my shoes, life gets in the way and there are times when I put others ahead of my needs and forget to take care of my own self.
Back to my point about the ups and downs. It might be a pain to make an effort to do everything right, you will have days when it feels like doing everything was not worth it at all because you still get those days of helpless, useless low down garbage days. But I will tell you this, the days you don’t feel like that are so worth it and believe it or not the high days will slowly start to outnumber the low days.
You might start out 1 out of 7 days are good. Then stay at that for a month or even more. But soon you will get to the point where it is 2 maybe even 3 days out of 7 are good. You want to tell yourself this is great but then day 4 comes and you are back at the bottom trying to figure out what happened. Then maybe 6 months pass and you keep pushing yourself to take the medication, keep going to the doctor appts and so on and you are at 5 or 6 out of 7 good days. Heck you might even get to the point where you have 25 out of 30 good days. That is when you can tell yourself it is worth and keep going.
Don’t let the bad days get you down and stop you from doing what you need to do. Everyone has bad days in life no matter what background they have or even if they are “perfect” and don’t have any mental issues.
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Content (marketing) is King! Let’s define and discuss the fundamentals of web-based content marketing because, frankly, too many business owners misunderstand the purpose and methodology of this marketing strategy. To start, let’s get one thing clear: content marketing is brand building. I know it’s hard to believe, but hear me out.
Hard Sell vs. Soft Sell
Let’s start by defining the two basic schools of thought in marketing: the hard sell vs. the soft sell (AKA outbound marketing vs. inbound marketing).
The “hard sell” refers to finding customers and directly offering your pitch, such as through a targeted ad or a marketing email. The “soft sell” refers to attracting customers by going to where they are and offering help or entertainment that is in some way related to your product, service or brand.
The soft sell succeeds by making customers feel as if it was always their own idea to do business with you, which is not the effect achieved through the hard sell.
Brand Building is Soft Selling
Soft selling can feel synonymous with brand building because that’s essentially what you’re doing. You make your brand obvious, entertaining and/or useful in the places where your customers spend much of their time, whether it’s a live event at the Staples Center, Facebook on a smartphone, or the checkout page on your website. But you should always do it in a way that improves the audience’s perception and awareness of your brand.
By building up your brand within your target audience, you ensure future success because those potential customers will eventually need your actual product or service - either from you or a competitor - so it really helps to close the deal if your brand is the first brand that they think about when they’re suddenly ready to buy.
It’s a very convenient form of marketing for both the customer and the brand because customers feel as if they aren’t being pushed to buy, and once a brand is aware of where the target spends time, 50% of the work is just being there while the audience is there.
Content Marketing is Brand Building
Content marketing is a strategy that marketers use to raise brand awareness by engaging the interests and needs of the target audience through the distribution of free tutorials, free entertainment, free advice, free downloadables, and other free media. The goal is to convince your audience that your brand is THE authority in your industry, so your brand naturally comes to mind when the customer thinks of your industry or related topics. If you do this correctly, when the customer is finally ready to buy, he naturally turns to your brand, not the competitors.
But if you’re giving away all your secrets, advice and tutorials for free, why would any customer ever want to pay you?
You may find that you offer a lot of free advice, free tools, free documents and much more than the customer could ever use in a lifetime, but he probably doesn’t have the time to do it all himself, much less understand it all. That’s why he’s always looking for help on your blog - after all, you’ve been his indirect mentor for weeks, months or years! And now that he’s ready to commit, he wants to do it the right way, your way. That’s when the customer will hire you.
The Difference Between a Battle and a War
Every blog post is a miniscule battle (one of thousands of battles) that could eventually turn into a small victory in a never-ending war, so don’t expect any single post to be “the one that goes viral and makes you millions”. It almost never happens that way, and when it does, it’s almost never intentional. Content marketing is about building up your brand by gaining the audience’s trust and respect in a memorable way.
In Summary…
1. Soft selling is a type of marketing that makes the customer feel as if it was always his idea to do business with you.
2. Brand building is a type of soft sell.
3. Content marketing is a type of brand building.
4. Content marketing works by distributing free media that is clearly related to your brand and labeled with your brand.
5. The goal, of course, is to make the customer think of your brand whenever they think of your field of expertise, so when they are ready to buy, they start with your brand.
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By Fausto Mendez
Email is no longer private. What that means for marketers and the businesses they serve. #MarketingMonday
By Fausto Mendez
Email was never an extremely secure medium, but today, it’s as insecure as your “private” Facebook page. In other words, it’s open to any hacker or government agency that wants to get inside. But what does that mean for business owners and the marketing guys that serve them?
If you’re reading this article, you’re probably aware that the US government is currently spying on you and the rest of its citizens by accessing private and corporate email accounts in mass, and it may have a tremendous effect on American businesses and the marketers that serve them.
Why Businesses Are Paranoid of Spying
IT and security experts are paranoid, but it’s not because American businesses are often breaking laws. However, it is true that unlawful businesses have a lot to fear. The real problem is that this kind of spying occurs without warrants, which means a judge doesn’t have to determine if it’s actually necessary to access your email. And a judge won’t be there to make sure that government agents did not abuse their powers when accessing your data. Normally, judges keep tabs on law enforcers that spy on citizens, but today, nobody is monitoring the depth or breadth of information that is accessed.
The National Security Agency and its partners may access your digital data without restraint, and this wouldn’t be such a big deal if governments always acted in ways that benefit their citizens. But like people, governments are open to corruption, so all it takes is one corrupt NSA agent to start auctioning off your data to the highest bidder. Then, your company secrets are out on the open web.
How Businesses Will Respond to Digital Spying
The way that companies and consumers react to this news can have a major impact on the way that marketers, like me, do business. It’s easy to imagine the following reactions.
+ As it was before the ’00s, face-to-face encounters, including video calls, may become the standard way of meeting with clients. Of course, traditional phone calls will continue to occur as often as they do now, but I imagine that anyone that wants to hide behind an email will come off as an amateur or uninformed. A marketer that understands the value of a client’s privacy will be more important than ever, so email will not be the standard way of discussing company secrets.
+ Email marketing may get harder, especially B2B email marketing. If companies and their customers stop relying on email so much, it will be harder to reach them via email because that’s not where they will be. Private forms of communication, such as custom IM software, may become rather common at big corporations. There are probably more practical ways of working around email, but that’s a topic for another article.
+ If email marketing gets harder, social-media marketing may get easier. I know what you’re thinking, “doesn’t social media have the same vulnerabilities as email?” Yes, it does, but social media is not often used to discuss and share company secrets. From the most successful CEOs to the greenest interns, we will all continue our use of social media even if we all abandon email. And just like email, a marketer can easily message a list of Facebook fans and Twitter followers with special offers and sale flyers, so you can think of your social-media profiles as replacements to the holiness of your email list.
+ If email is no longer secure and private, email service providers that offer a truly private experience will go out of business. That’s exactly what’s happening to companies like Silent Circle, which has officially closed its doors because the National Security Agency has made it impossible for the company to deliver on its promise to offer a truly secure and private email experience.
Why (Not How) Social-Media Marketing Works: It’s Just Like Dating
By Fausto Mendez
Most people understand how social-media marketing works, but a lot of business owners and marketers can’t wrap their heads around why it works. In my most recent guest post at Smart Blogs, I break down “why” - not “how” - social-media marketing is such an effective marketing channel.
Actually, the answer is more closely related to the mechanics of dating than any subcategory of marketing. It turns out good daters may have it all figured out. I suggest you dive into my post at Smart Blogs for the details. It’s a short but insightful read, and if you’re involved in marketing in any form, you may find it more useful than you may have assumed.
Once you understand why social-media marketing is so powerful, you may find a boost in your ability to execute more effective marketing campaigns in any marketing channel.
I’m currently authoring a new guest blog for a different site, but the details are still up in the air. Needless to say, I’m excited. Of course, you’ll hear about it when it finally hits the air.
How Wendy’s Uses Social Media to Influence (Good) Business Decisions
By Fausto Mendez
It’s probably safe to say that we haven’t seen everything that #social media can do for businesses. Most brands use it to post company updates and engage customers with sharable content, but Wendy’s is thinking way outside the box for social. And the rest of us should be taking notes.
Beyond marketing, Wendy’s employs social media to influence important decisions, and it’s becoming a core component of the company’s decision-making process. That’s because effective social-media management involves a ton of listening, so Wendy’s leadership listens to the customer base via Facebook, Twitter and other social channels to find out what motivates them. Then, they act upon the information they gather, according to Brandon Rhoten, director of Digital at the company.
At his recent BlogWell presentation in New York, Rhoten described Wendy’s fresh, effective approach to social, and we beak down three of his more eye-opening examples below.
+ Earlier this year, the “pink slime” issue hit the news with full force. Fast food chains, supermarkets and restaurants that sell the cheap, disgusting slime quickly came under public scrutiny. As the beef industry clamored to keep everyone quiet, Wendy’s was more interested in what the company’s fan base had to say about it, and the fans had a lot of negative things to say. As a result, Wendy’s determined that it had to effectively spread the word that it doesn’t serve pink slime, and the company did this successfully through its various channels, including social media.
+ You can say the 1” x 1” real estate on a smartphone’s home screen is more valuable than 100 highway billboards. That’s because every time a fan opens his phone, you have an opportunity to make a connection with him, so when Wendy’s found out that its social audience was complaining about the restaurant’s lack of healthy meals, the company was quick to respond with an app that features each menu item’s nutritional details. Though it’s technically not a nutritional meal, Wendy’s understood that the app would alleviate many concerns of the healthy conscious.
+ Wendy’s recently set a goal to raise sales of value items, and it would do this with the help of social media. Unfortunately, value items don’t make for great social content, and the company’s social channels seemed to be hush on the topic. But the company wouldn’t give up so easily. As a result, Rhoten’s team came up with a new plan: ask customers to rename the value items through its social channels. When the company finally decided on the new names, there was a significant increase in orders of items from the value menu.
The 80 Rules of Social Media Every Social Specialist Must Know
1. Obey the rules
2. Social media is ALL about your audience, be they consumers, viewers, fans, followers or users. It has nothing to do with you, or what you think.
3. Followers lead from the middle of the pack – usually by example.
4. 1 active user is a BIG deal. They have 140 friends.
How Social-Media Marketing Boosts Sales by 30% in the Video Game Industry
By Fausto Mendez
The effectiveness of SMM (social-media marketing) is a widely debated topic, but the video game industry is done with that debate. And its verdict is in. It turns out SMM may be its most powerful marketing channel yet.
Twitter broadcasts over 400 million tweets everyday. That’s a lot of talk - most of it gibberish, but the video game industry is learning that guiding those conversations towards upcoming video-game releases has a very significant impact on sales, according Twitter and Deloitte LLP. Twitter UK commissioned Deloitte LLP to measure the impact of those 400 million daily Tweets on the sales of 100 best-selling PS3 and Xbox 360 games, and you can see the results for yourself in the full infographic below (click to enlarge it).
The Lesson: Creatively Integrate Multiple Channels in Your Marketing Campaigns
The point is not to rely solely on Twitter - or even social-media marketing - but to shape your campaign using a variety of tools that guide your audience towards positive online conversations about your products or brand.
Now, let’s use this lesson to design an effective marketing campaign for a company like Rockstar, maker of the famed Grand Theft Auto series. As a marketer for a major gaming company, you have to think bigger than an unforgettable TV ad, a beautiful billboard, a hilarious Twitter author, or a well-designed Facebook page. You want to design marketing tactics that start conversations that move to and from various marketing channels.
The Example: How to Move Customers From Channel to Channel
For example, you might design a set of TV commercials that confuses and surprises viewers. Throughout the commercial, you’d display a unique hash tag at one of the corners of the screen. The confusing ad would encourage users to search for the video or the hash tag online. The confusing ad also airs between 4PM and 8PM because that’s when the target audience watches TV. By 9PM, the audience is most likely playing video games and/or browsing the Web.
At this point, those gamers that aren’t gaming are probably searching for the video or hash tag in order to discuss it and share it with their friends. After discussing with their friends, they probably want more information, so they would search for related websites later that night. This campaign would have three important effects.
+ By adding social and online components (that are easily searchable and sharable) to the TV ads, the ads are viewed by many, many more people than if they were developed without those social and online components.
+ Conversations with friends about upcoming games has a more powerful effect than ads that intrude on the audience’s time and attention. Friends are often entertaining, welcomed participants in such conversations. Ads that try to dictate how you think, on the other hand, run the risk of being an annoyance if they appear in the wrong situations. In other words, your friends’ excitement for the next Madden NFL game is more effective than a tv ad for the same game, but the conversation that exposed you to that excitement may have never occurred if it wasn’t for the TV ad in the first place.
+ The search-engine performance of your website is increasingly becoming dependent on the performance of your social-media profiles and content. As your profiles and content are shared across social-media sites, your website’s SEO grows too, so by catalyzing conversations that involve your social-media profiles, critical keywords and links to your website, you should increase the traffic that your website receives from search engines beyond the traffic that arises from curiosity just after a new ad airs.
Why does it work?
In the previous example, the process starts in the living room. That means you have to know when your audience will be there. If you do your homework, your customer will see your ad on TV at the perfect moment. They would then search for your hash tag or video online (which would cause the initial search-engine traffic boost). As the audience start conversations about the video and any related content, they would share this content on social networks, and then you get a second search-engine traffic boost as Google notices that your brand name and content are being shared on social-media sites. As excitement, rumors and information spreads, sales grow. Just rinse, and repeat.
Whether you’re ordering promotional products for a trade show or finalizing the details for your next TV commercial, a strong and wise marketing campaign can go a long way. Take notes, people!
Honda Leveraged Pinterest to Reach 5 Million Users With Tiny Budget - #MarketingMonday
By Fausto Mendez
Every Monday, we analyze a successful marketing campaign, or we assemble a set of tips on a relevant marketing topic to help you boost your business to the next level. This week, we dissect Honda’s very successful #Pintermission campaign.
Social-media marketing is a tricky landscape to navigate, but some out-of-the-box creativity can go a long way. Big brands know this well, and Honda knows this better than most. In fact, Honda’s #Pintermission campaign reached about five million users, according to Marketing Mag, including 5,000 repins and 2,000 “likes” so far. Overall, Honda measured 16 million impressions when the campaign (which included traditional advertising) was said and done, and that’s not including Facebook and Twitter conversations. But exactly how did Honda leverage Pinterest to such great effect?
The campaign specifically advertised the new CR-V, which encourages the concept of enjoying life beyond the walls of home. The CR-V is also targeted at younger adults that are about to settle down, and these young adults grew up with social media. They are accustomed to making plans online, and a good chunk of this demographic are on Pinterest too. Now, here’s the tricky part. How do you reach all of these people with a minuscule budget?
The name of the game is creativity. If you have it, you can probably be an amazing social-media marketer, and whoever’s working for Honda apparently has it.
Honda reached out to Pinterest users with profiles that have massive follower numbers, and a significant chunk of these followers are individuals from the target demographic. The company offered these users $500 each. All they have to do in return is to make or complete one of their pinned images. Honda calls this concept - taking a day off of Pinterest to give life to a pin - a #Pintermission.
Pinterest is a popular place for sharing how-to articles and images of places or activities that people would love to be a part of, so the rest of the campaign was rather easy. Honda created boards for these users to post their #Pintermission photos, and the company also requested that these users create their own dedicated boards for the campaign (with Honda’s Pinterest profile as a collaborator). In addition, Honda also posted and shared custom images that advertised the concept of a “Pintermission”. With the stage set: online discussions, viral shares and “likes” took off.
Most importantly, Honda understands that Pinterest is not the best place for marketing many of its other vehicles. The CR-V has a unique target audience. As a result, Honda found those users online, and then, it developed a plan to engage those users with the CR-V as the centerpiece for discussion. That’s the big lesson here: find the customers, understand them and engage them.
Social Media Has Taken Over SEO and Online Marketing: What You Need to Know
By Fausto Mendez
The old saying goes, “content is king.” This is still true, but recent developments in search-engine algorithms have forced marketing professionals to rethink their SEO strategies. Older SEO techniques are just about useless and, in some cases, dangerous to a brand’s reach, authority and reputation. Why is this happening? More importantly, what can you do to fix your SEO strategy?
For better or worse, social media has taken over online marketing and search-engine optimization (SEO). The direct force behind these changes appears to be the search industry, but the real driving force is the online marketing industry. That’s because, in the past five to ten years, online marketers have learned to game search engines too well, so search companies were forced to rethink the way their search engines work in order to serve more relevant search results, not just the results of the companies with the most cash to spend.
How Did Social Media Take Over SEO?
The marketing industry’s relentless gaming of the system actually caused a significant drop in search performance, which is really bad for the good ol’ fashioned web surfer. And that’s really bad for the search companies, which are arguably the heart and veins of the Web.
Marketers would game search engines by manipulating backlink counts. At the time, Google assumed that pages with the most backlinks are the most relevant and carry the most authority. For example, a New York Times article may be reposted, curated and outright copied thousands of times across the Web, which would create tons of backlinks to the original article. Google realized that such articles must be important because it is the target of so many links. But what happens if an online marketer pays a few teenagers to build some artificial backlinks to that article?
What if it’s not a few links; what if it’s a few thousand links? What if it’s a few million links? In Google’s eyes, the page must be important, but if its backlinks are not genuine, chances are it’s not relevant to the end user. As a result, fake backlinks became a real problem, real fast.
Google had to diminish the SEO power of backlinking, but how would it measure authority without giving backlinks so much weight? Google learned that another signal of important content is social engagement, meaning the sharing, “liking”, reposting, commenting, etc. of keywords, content, links and brands. This is why social media has taken over SEO.
How do you adjust your SEO strategy?
Now, how can your company take advantage of the new search algorithms? First, read Google’s just-released-to-the-public Search Quality Ratings Guidelines, which the company hands out to evaluators that manually rate pages for search relevancy. You’ll learn some critical stuff, but we’ve also made a quick and dirty best-practice list to help you get started fast. Check it out below:
+ Google and search engines prefer user friendliness over relentless keyword optimization. Over-optimization can actually hurt you, and hiding keywords with invisible text or coding tricks is a red flag to Google. It was a cheap trick that worked back in the day, but those days are over.
+ Set up sharing buttons on all your posts or product pages. If you run an e-commerce store, set up the sharing buttons on the product pages. You also need obvious links to your blog and other social-media accounts. A user shouldn’t have to think twice after deciding to take a few seconds out of his day to visit your brand’s social-media profiles.
+ Content is still king (you just have to make sure it’s shared over social media). Before this year, you could submit your latest blog post to your SEO company, and suddenly you’d have hundreds or thousands of backlinks that push your post to the top of search-results lists. It’s not so easy anymore. You need real fans, not dead social-media profiles, to share your content. Work on social-media recruitment, and stop relying on services that fill your social-media profiles with fake fans.
+ Use a tool or company to find poor quality backlinks, and remove them. If you paid for backlinks, chances are they are now hurting your search engine performance.
+ If you need real fans and followers, that also means you’ll have to work on improving your content. Ugly, over-optimized content just don’t cut it anymore. It must really appeal to your fan base. Otherwise, it’s dead in the water. Amazing content is king.
+ Don’t forget about your robot.txt file and other website optimization. This makes it easy for search engines to find relevant content on your website, and it also boosts load speed to prevent impatient users from leaving too quickly.
+ Take advantage of microdata markup. This is the next level of meta tagging, and all the major search engines use it to read and understand the content on websites. In the eyes of a search engine, it defines content, such as “article” or “product”. Otherwise, content is just code and keywords, which is not good enough if you want to boost your SEO to the max. also competes with Facebook’s Open Graph protocol, so Google will use it more as Open Graph becomes more widespread. Actually, may prevent the widespread adoption of Open Graph since it’s more open and doesn’t require integration of Facebook’s proprietary API, JavaScript and other Facebook annoyances. Also, it was launched and widely implemented before OG.
If you plan to integrate your business with OG, the best thing to do is to learn it, understand it and, if you decide it’s worth your time and effort, plan it into a long-term strategy. This is exactly our strategy at
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Egyptian Bassem Sabry did more in 31 years than many do in their lifetimes. He was a political analyst, an advisor to presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabbahi, and a part-time film producer. His voice surfaced in the blogging he did during Egypt's 2011 revolution. His writing, in English and Arabic, attempted to crystallize the ambitions and divisions of that political moment. His work stood out as a rare voice of moderation and conciliation, even at the country's most polarized moments.
Egypt remains just as chaotic and disorganized as it was when Sabry first started up his blog. Tragically, he will no longer be around to catalog the country's steps and stumbles. Sabry, 31, died on Tuesday after falling from a balcony in Cairo. While the circumstances of his fall remain unclear, friends said they believed he fell after losing consciousness for dietary reasons, perhaps related to his diabetes.
His sudden death has been met with an outpouring of shock and grief. While Egypt today is more politically polarized than at any point since the revolution, Sabry is being remembered by friends and associates as an insightful political thinker who managed to maintain relationships with members of an array of Egypt's political factions while always holding fast to his revolutionary ideals for a democratic and economically stable country.
"I lived my childhood believing that Egypt was the centre of the universe because of its 'special geographic location, as well as its climate that is hot and dry in the summer, warm and rainy in the winter' as we were made to memorise in schools," Sabry wrote in a post for his 30th birthday. "And I believed that Hosni Mubarak was the greatest president in the world as they had written in Al-Ahram and said on Channel one." Traveling the world made him see new possibilities for Egypt and brought him to Tahrir Square in January 2011. But more than that, he wrote, "I have found out that borders are merely creations of mankind, that you are a one of mankind before being French, Chinese or American, that blind patriotism is an idea of the past..."
Since his death, a number of Sabry's friends have published moving tributes to his life and career. For those unfamiliar with Sabry, the obituaries by Mohamed El Dahshan, H.A. Hellyer, and Max Fisher convey a strong sense of the man and the loss felt by the Egyptian community. Many others, including Secretary of State John Kerry and figures across the spectrum of Egyptian politics, expressed their condolences on Twitter.
Sabry published one article here at Foreign Policy, on the eve of the 2012 elections that brought Mohamed Morsi to office. Sabry helped establish the al-Dostour political party with Mohamed ElBaradei, but unlike many others in Egypt's divisive political landscape, Sabry never lost sight of the whole picture. He sincerely and pragmatically gauged the country's political fortunes and his fellow revolutionaries' own failings -- and ways that they might still play an active role in an election that pushed them to the sidelines. He wrote:
His insights came from a thorough knowledge of the challenges Egypt faced -- and still faces. In August 2012, soon after Morsi entered office, Sabry laid out the issues that the new administration would have to address in an 18-part guide. In many respects, it was the Morsi administration's failure to address the problems that Sabry identified in 2012 that led to its ouster at the hands of the Egyptian military in July 2013.
Sabry was in the streets, along with thousands of other Egyptians, when the military seized control of the government and deposed Morsi. "The floods of people in the streets around Cairo appeared to me bigger than before, people seemed to genuinely believe they 'took back their country,' and that the military was a hero doing all the right things," he wrote for Al Monitor the day after Morsi's ouster.
Unlike many of his peers, Sabry was more cautious and more circumspect about what would come next. "But perhaps," he wrote, "what characterized this time in Tahrir for me was my sense of worry, deeper than ever before." He called for moderation and political reconciliation: "Egypt will never find stability, and its democracy will never thrive, without inclusiveness, fairness, due process and separation of powers," he wrote. "The Brotherhood and its big base cannot be excluded or treated outside of due process. Repression, especially of a genuinely sizable, believing and passionate public group, will only lead to an explosion.... I wish all of this was different, and it would have been better for Egypt."
That inclusion that Sabry called for seems more distant than ever. In December, the Egyptian government declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization and has tried hundreds of its members. Just earlier this week, a court sentenced 683 Brotherhood members to death in a mass trial. But Sabry, despite the last three years, remained an optimist in a country where optimism has become more and more difficult to maintain.
Sabry continued writing until his abrupt death. His most recent article for Al Monitor was published on April 26, three days before his death, and looked ahead to potential surprises in Egypt's upcoming presidential election. Despite his concern about the direction of Egyptian politics, Sabry remained optimistic. Though retired Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's election is almost guaranteed, Sabry noted that the election would provide opportunities for other voices. As Sisi tries to distance himself from regressive, Mubarak-era tendencies, Sabry wrote, he may have to turn to new policies to address Egypt's challenges. Sabry concluded that Sisi's dominance might, surprisingly, wind up being a boon for other candidates: Without the pressure of pandering with broad platforms to an electorate that has largely made up its mind, they might be able to hone in on specific issues.
Sabry had a talent for seeing Egyptian politics as they are. He was clear-eyed about the country's polarization, but he refused to abandon hope that rivals could come together for the common good of Egypt. That prospect seems far more remote without him.
The Obama administration has spent years arguing that the killings of Osama bin Laden and numerous al Qaeda lieutenants have defeated what it describes as the "core" of the terror group. On Wednesday, though, the State Department warned in its annual terrorism report that al Qaeda had evolved from a centralized group to a set of "operationally autonomous" and financially independent affiliates, and grimly noted that the shift has resulted in a sharp spike in the total number of terror attacks and fatalities around the world.
The State Department also highlights the continuing threat posed by Iran, the country with which the Obama administration is trying to conclude a long-sought nuclear deal. Iranian terror, according to the report, is a "predominant concern" to the United States given the "resurgence of activity" by Hezbollah, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Force, and the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security. The report notes that authorities have intercepted several arms shipments intended for terrorist groups financed by Iran and that Hezbollah, which is thought to receive extensive support from Tehran, has helped prop up the Assad regime by sending in thousands of skilled fighters motivated by a desire to help the strongman "protect the Shia Muslim community from Sunni extremists."
Read the full report here.
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"I love this city for so many reasons. One, it creates constant drive. There is a very high competition factor in the city. You want to be successful because making it in New York does mean something. The other thing is that I love how this city makes me feel very small and insignificant. There is something very comforting about laying my head down on my pillow at night, knowing I am closely surrounded by millions upon millions of people, all crammed in around me, in shoebox sized apartments. I’m an anxious person and, in a weird way, there is something extremely calming about how this city makes me feel insignificant. New York, for being what it is, can also be the loneliest place in the world. You walk the streets with millions of people or sit on the subway next to some of the most beautiful and interesting people, but we rarely say a word. There’s something wildly romantic, yet heartbreaking, about that."
- Brad Smith, interviewed on The Great Discontent
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by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
1. Dependable character
2. Emotional stability, maturity
3. Pleasing disposition
4. Mutual attraction, love
5. Good health
And, in 2008:
1. Mutual attraction, love
2. Dependable character
3. Emotional stability, maturity
4. Education, intelligence
5. Pleasing disposition
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Categories: Texas Rangers
Trading for Fausto Carmona would help ease the pain of losing out on Lee and Greinke.
Since we can all feel OK about losing out on the Cliff Lee sweepstakes, it's fair to evaluate Jon Daniels' Plan B, especially with the trade of Zack Greinke -- easily the best pitcher to be had on the market as a 27-year-old with filthy stuff, two years left on his contract and a Cy Young Award on his résumé -- to Milwaukee. I asked Daniels directly about his post-Lee plans in November and I included Greinke among the options, but there wasn't room to fit his response into my story about the Rangers' offseason plans.
"There are multiple ways to build a club, and I have a high degree of confidence in our decision-making group that we'll find ways to be as competitive if not more so next year," he said.
Me too. I'm confident that Daniels, Thad Levine, Nolan Ryan and the rest of management won't sit on their hands. They are too good at what they do not to improve this club. But starting pitching options are getting thin, so the time to be aggressive is now.
It took four solid young prospects from the Brewers -- shortstop Alcides Escobar, center fielder Lorenzo Cain and pitchers Jake Odorizzi and Jeremy Jeffress -- to land Greinke, which decimated an already mediocre farm system. Doug Melvin, who has been excellent as Milwaukee's GM, also acquired starter Shaun Marcum, who had a strong season with the Toronto Blue Jays after recovering from Tommy John surgery, for top prospect Brett Lawrie this offseason.
Greinke and Marcum would have been great pick-ups for Texas, but both teams were targeting specific players. The Royals wanted up-the-middle offensive players and a couple top pitching prospects, and the Blue Jays really like Lawrie. It's unclear what it would have taken to nab either one, but I'd assume Kansas City asked for Elvis Andrus, with Daniels saying, "Thanks, but no thanks." Toronto may have not been a match because the Rangers don't have a second base prospect comparable to Lawrie, although Ian Kinsler could have been a match in a multiple-player deal.
The so-called top free agent left on the market is Carl Pavano (who's drawing interest from the Twins and Nationals), but the Rangers have focused on Brandon Webb, who missed most of this year recovering from shoulder surgery. He represents a considerable risk much like the Rich Harden signing last offseason, but assuming Texas inspects his medical reports as closely as it did before watching Ben Sheets ink a one-year, $10 million deal in Oakland, it could be a savvy move. Apparently, the Rangers and Cubs are bidding against each other for the former Cy Young Award and 22-game winner.
Even with a potential Webb signing, Texas should be in the market for another starter. Several intriguing names are out there in the free-agent market (Jeremy Bonderman and Brad Penny) and are supposedly available in a trade (Matt Garza), but no one matches the appeal of Indians right-hander Fausto Carmona, who just turned 27, won 19 games in 2007 and was an All Star this year.
Carmona's stats over the past four seasons don't knock you over (45-41 record, 4.32 ERA and 1.42 WHIP), but he's entering his prime years and has a very attractive contract. He's set to earn just $6.1 million next year, with club options for 2012 to 2014 at $7 million, $9 million and $12 million respectively. That would give the Rangers an emerging young starter with upside and no risk as they can go year-to-year deciding whether to keep him. And if they exercise all three options, Texas would pay only $34.1 million for what should be Carmona's best four seasons at an average of $8.5 million annually.
The Rangers apparently like Carmona, just not as much as Greinke. But with Greinke off the board and other options likely to sign or be dealt elsewhere soon, Daniels and his staff need to find out what Cleveland wants and give it to them, of course, within reason. But let's not covet prospects to the point where the Rangers can't build on a team that won the AL Pennant less than two months ago.
Remember Ruben Mateo? The Rangers wouldn't part with him to land Roger Clemens from the Blue Jays. How about John Danks? Sure, he's the one erroneously dealt to the White Sox for Brandon McCarthy (who signed with the A's recently), but he's also the pitcher coveted by the Florida Marlins in a potential swap for Josh Beckett, but Texas passed on trading him and Hank Blalock for Beckett and 2007 World Series MVP Mike Lowell.
As for Plan B, Daniels told me he actually doesn't have one.
"Whenever we set out into an offseason, it's not even plans A, B and C, because in some ways that would suggest that Plan C is bad. You have to parallel path it. You have to walk through a lot of different options. Our goal is not to come out with this exact roster. Our goal is to come out with a roster that can win the division, advance to the playoffs and ultimately win a World Championship. I'd love to bring a lot of players in here, but we're never going to put all of our eggs in one basket. There are certain players that are going to necessitate a higher priority and a higher degree of our focus and time, and that's fully appropriate, but you always have to have multiple balls in the air because it's such a competitive marketplace and you can't control what other teams do."
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His thesis is that Russia has the right to decide the fate of the countries in its neighborhood in its own interest. “Ukraine serves as a buffer state of enormous strategic importance to Russia,” writes Mearsheimer, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago. “No Russian leader would tolerate a military alliance that was Moscow’s mortal enemy until recently moving into Ukraine.” By this token, Mearsheimer would consider any Russian attack on Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and other neighboring NATO states as justified. Mearsheimer is denying countries their right to self-defense or to join NATO.
Throughout his article, Mearsheimer has nothing but good words to say about Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, which speaks volumes. When Putin was nominated president through an accident of history as Boris Yeltsin’s powers were failing, Russia was a far freer country, verging on a democracy. It was Putin, not the West, who turned Russia into a dictatorship. That is the reason why Putin is so worried about any democratic breakthrough in his neighborhood, and Mearsheimer clearly sympathizes with him. Why should a dictator have the right to impose his will on his oppressed people?
Mearsheimer invokes the role of popular will in two instances in his article. In one case, he claims that most of the people in Crimea “wanted out of Ukraine.” But the evidence is missing. Opinion polls before the “referendum” under Russian military control showed nothing of the sort, and the referendum was a blatant fake.
The other case is when Mearsheimer, again without evidence, claims that Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych was ousted through a “coup.” He lost his parliamentary majority on February 20 after having ordered the killing of 100 citizens, and he was voted out with a constitutional majority of two-thirds. One may complain that a more complex impeachment procedure should have been applied, but Mearsheimer’s hero Putin is not even democratically elected.
In his defense of Putin, Mearsheimer claims that “there is virtually no evidence that he was bent on taking Crimea” before February 22. Sorry, it was all too evident that Russia had contingency plans for doing so. Otherwise the Russian takeover would not have been so successful. The Russian special forces’ film of the events on YouTube shows these plans in all their clarity. The Russian action was a carefully planned aggression. Fortunately, Putin does not appear to have had ready-made plans for occupation of the rest of Ukraine.
Mearsheimer also defends Putin’s rationality, which is a tall order. Let us just note that Putin clearly believes, as former US Ambassador Michael McFaul has so eloquently put it, that no popular uprising can happen anywhere, and that everything is instigated by security services, notably the US services. Therefore, it could not have been the Ukrainians who ousted their corrupt dictator Yanukovych—it had to be the Americans. Only a conspiratorial and paranoid mind like Putin’s can take that at face value, but Mearsheimer bolsters him.
Mearsheimer goes on to claim that Putin is no “modern-day Adolf Hitler.” But how else to explain why Putin’s speech on March 18 about his defense of the Russian-speaking people appeared to be partly copied from Hitler’s speeches in 1938 and 1939? In 1938, Nazi Germany was economically and militarily strong, accounting for 38 percent of Europe’s economic output. Apparently, Hitler was more realistic than Putin, but that is no reason to defend either of them.
Mearsheimer could not care less about international law, presumably because it runs counter to his defense of “realism.” He does not even mention that Putin in his military aggression has violated the UN Charter, the Helsinki Act of 1975, the Treaty on the Dissolution of the Soviet Union of 1991, the Budapest Memorandum of 1994, the Russian-Ukrainian Friendship Treaty of 1997, or the Russian-Ukrainian Sevastopol Base Treaty of 1997, and so on.
A final ludicrous argument advanced by Mearsheimer is that Putin’s actions are justified because Russia is a great power. “Washington may not like Moscow’s position, but it should understand the logic behind it,” he says. “This is Geopolitics 101: Great powers are always sensitive to potential threats near their home territory.” He enumerates what the United States, also a great power, does not accept on its doorstep. Well, the United States has accepted Cuba on its very door-step for quite some time.
Moreover, the United States is a great power, while Russia is not, which Mearsheimer acknowledges: “Even if Russia did boast a powerful military machine and an impressive economy, it would still probably prove unable to successfully occupy Ukraine.” He pursues this thought further: “Russia is a declining power, and it will only get weaker with time.”
Indeed, Russia’s GDP is merely 2.9 percent of global GDP and 6 percent of the NATO countries’ GDP. Its defense budget is less than one-tenth of the defense budget of the NATO countries. So why should Russia stand above any law, if it is not a great power? This is Geopolitics 101, which Mearsheimer seems to have missed. He leaves us without an answer. Apparently, he has not thought his case through.
With Mearsheimer’s arguments, any crackpot military aggression anywhere in the world could be defended. He could use the same arguments to justify Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, or Saddam Hussein, which suggests that these arguments in defense of Putin might not be of much value. | http://blogs.piie.com/realtime/?p=4464 | dclm-gs1-482565528 | false | false | {
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"I'm ready to kill some cops" is probably the last thing anybody would ever think about calling 911 and telling an emergency operator when they pick up. One Inwood man did, and the resulting standoff ended up with him dead as of yesterday morning. A protest is being planned.
Twenty-four-year-old Emmanuel Paulin called up 911 and had the following conversation with them:
911 Operator: "911 Operator, where is your emergency?"
Suspect: "Yeah, I want you to call the cops 'cause I'm ready to kill."
911 Operator: "What?"
Suspect: "I'm ready to kill some cops right now."
911 Operator: "You're ready to kill some cops? Where are you?"
Suspect: "Yeah [lists address], New York, I'm right here, outside."
Operator: "OK, so what's going on there?"
Suspect: "Yeah, I'm ready to kill cops right now."
Operator: "Oh, OK."
Suspect: "OK, yeah, get em, I'm [Inaudible], I'll be right here."
Note that final "Oh, OK," of the 911 operator, because what the hell else do you say at the point? Surely, maybe somewhere in the 911 operator's manual there's some kind of direction as to how to handle callers like this -- attempting to get them not to, for example -- but it doesn't seem like that was the route taken, for whatever reason, though what would you have said? Come to think of it, is there a page in the 911 operator's manual for What You Do When Someone Calls Telling You They Want to Kill Cops? Likely not. Regardless, cops showed up on the scene, tried to Taser the knife-wielding Paulin, and after Paulin pulled the tasers out of his own body and kept approaching police, was shot dead by police. Some are calling this an overreaction. Via CBS New York:
Fernando Mateo, the president of Hispanics Across America, held a vigil Sunday night in front of Paulino's home. "We believe that with all the technology and all the training the finest police department in the world has, it could have been prevented, it could have been handled differently," Mateo said.
The entire incident seems bizarre. A 911 operator gets a call with a hostile suspect officers should be prepared to handle, the suspect has a knife, the officers have guns, the suspect gets shot after one attempt with a Taser him doesn't work. Maybe an over-reliance on Tasers without training towards what to do if the first Tasing failed might have helped, but then again, none of us have ever had to deal with a guy who called 911 threatening to kill cops come after us -- while we're dressed in cop uniforms -- with a knife. So there's that.
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We've taken the starch right out o' them terr'ists!
Anonymous said...
Job justification and all that...
Nathan said...
Parkour, eh?
Great link.
Hypnagogue said...
"Bizarre shapes like X's and arrows."
That's a new definition for the word bizarre.
I heard that satanic cults are putting up blood red "stop" signs, and if you stop at them you are obeying Satan and are going to h-e-double-hockeysticks! *hockspit*
Anonymous said...
O.K., you have to admit, live-action D&Ders was a good guess.
"Oh, no, Jared, Todd failed the saving throwing against SUVs. He'll never get his advanced calculus homework done now."
Hoosier Cynic
Anonymous said...
"Sleepy" Lafayette?
Pffft, O.K., so our cops don't run down motorcyclists, the local FBI office is busy having naptime instead of investigating our Prosecuting Attorney (who left the office early to ref girls' basketball and take his wife to prayer circle), and the only police action shootings we have are at the range, or at mad cows . . . but if this is big enough news to interrupt the evening news (no, really, this was the "big news" last night at 6PM), then there is something to be said for the slower lane.
Shootin' Buddy
Anonymous said...
When I worked on plans in NYC I was told all suspected anthrax calls would be in level A moonsuits.
Tried reasoning that this was overkill but was told it was not going to change.
My last remark on the subject was,
"You know the moonsuit makes your ass look fat?"
He (NYPD EMS) was not amused.
Link P said...
You would think with 406 runs held by the Hoosier Hash House Harriers since January 1st 1992, that local LE would already know about the worldwide drinking club with a running problem.
To the Hash!
Anonymous said...
Tam, it's trail markings from the local hash house harriers group, probably Indyscent H3 http://www.indyhhh.com/
I run with the Minneapolis group, and there are independent kennels, we call them, worldwide. if you like a moderate bit of exercise and beer drinking with some bawdy songs thrown in, give them a try, your first time is usually free (and moderately priced afterwards)
The 'X' is called a check, and trail can go in any direction from that point. you follow arrows and blobs of four to where the trail setter, or hare, has stashed the beer for a mid trail stop. I'm sure the kennelis hoping no one clues the authorities in on this, because there have been incidents in other cities with Hazmat callouts where there's been talk of billing the group (which, if it's anything like ours, has about a hundred bucks to its name).
Matt, aka TD
St Paul & the Minneapolis H3
Anonymous said...
Actually, in Lafayette, it's probably the Hoosier H3.
St Paul
D.W. Drang said...
I gotta admit, Lafayette is sounding pretty good right now...
hazmat said...
Anon, I was thinking the same thing. When I was stationed in Ko-Rea in 2001 we had a rash of 'white powder' responses post 9-11.
Turned out they were talcum powder arrows laying out the route the hashers were to run.
Now, I'm not too familiar with stateside hashers, but the Far East Korean chapter was a drinking club with a running problem.
Tam said...
D.W. Drang,
"I gotta admit, Lafayette is sounding pretty good right now..."
It's definitely in the heartland of American-occupied America. ;)
Einherjar said...
The "dirty" little secret of hazmat clean up and anthrax is that it's a black or dark grey powder not white.
Those rubes knew it wasn't anthrax at first sight. They just wanted to justify using the shiny new space suits the Feds bought for them and maintain the fear factor.
If they didn't try to look useful they'd run the risk of being called what they really are, "Oxygen Thieves".
Ted said...
Police have been unable to locate the international white powder terrorist. No known photos exist, and he is only known by his code name "The Hare".
Tam said...
"Those rubes knew it wasn't anthrax at first sight."
Nobody said it was anthrax, except me being funny. They said it was starch.
Anonymous said...
Starch? Is that some sort of jargon for Maryjane? WV: disever
Anonymous said...
"Job justification and all that..."
Yup. I call it Assumption of Authority Through Overreaction. Or something like that. It's certainly nothing new. -- Lyle
Cybrludite said...
Having worn one of those moonsuits in a New Orleans March morning as part of a bio-chem incident drill, I can tell you that if they did this for the glory of playing with them, then it was it's own punishment. Tyvek jammies aren't very comfortable in anything warmer than a walk-in meat locker. I poured about a half-pint of sweat out of each glove when we were done. | http://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2010/09/weve-taken-starch-right-out-o-them.html | dclm-gs1-482655528 | false | false | {
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Losing foie gras virginity in Paris
Hope now I've got your attention...
I'm a fairly recent addition to the foodie world. That, coupled with my rearing in suburban Ohio and schooling in rural Central New York, has left few opportunities to try foie gras until my recent move to Boston. But, knowing I was headed to Paris this April, I thought I would hold out and experience foie gras for the first time in its most quintessential location. Now, I just need to know where in Paris to lose this (what I perceive to be) monumental foodie virginity. I don't really have any requirements as far as preparation...advice on that would be appreciated as well. Just looking for a rec for a restaurant serving delicious foie gras that's reasonably priced (I am a recent college grad, after all, so on a bit of a budget).
(I apologize if this is a difficult topic...perhaps all foie gras in Paris/the world? is delicious, but I would love to hear if any one restaurant pops into your mind when you hear the words 'foie gras.')
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1. Important to try different preparations to really appreciate it. First there is duck (Canard) and goose (Oie) foie gras - duck is cheaper than goose.
Then there is "Pate de foie gras", "Mouse de foie gras" (both 50% foie gras) and "Parfait de foie gras" (75%) which are obviously cooked pates/mouses etc each with varying degrees of foie gras content. Then "Bloc de foie gras" which is livers moulded together then cooked (by law 98% liver), and finally there is "foie gras entier" which are lobes of the liver that are lightly cooked (cuit) and served warm.
Try them all and decide which is best. I am afraid I can't recall where the best is.
Two suggestions. First go to "Le Bon Marche" (great department store with a fantastic food hall) and buy some Bloc - vacuum packed not a tin, with truffles or not - approx. €25 for a healthy chunk enough for three people. Add a half bottle of riesling from Alsace or a half bottle sauternes, and a brioche. Chill the wine, toast the brioche, add a pinch of sea salt, ideally from Brittany, and have a picnic (try sunset on the Pont des Arts - the footbridge near the Louvre). You could even push the boat out and get a small jar of onion or fig confit to complete the dish.
Second, find a restaurant that serves "Foie Gras Cuit" - it is a very different experience. A melting texture and very fine flavor. Not at all like the pate people generally think Foie Gras is. Again a glass of sweet white wine works well. This will not be cheap but it is essential (the picnic balances the cost).
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For really good foie gras try A La Biche au Bois 45, avenue Ledru Rollin 75012
Tel: 01-43-43-34-38 They also sell it to take away. They offer a menu of 4 courses for about 24€, the foie gras supplement is about 6 or 8 € more. The owner of the hotel where I stay loved it when he tried it last year after my first visit. When I returned the next month he had me pick him up a half a kilo; I think it was 40€; he pronounced that some places go for texture; some for taste; that this had good texture but definitely the best taste. Reservations here are essential, you can call; Bertrand and Céline both speak English.
1. re: PhilD
The foie gras at l'Opportun (62, boulevard Edgar Quinet / 75014 Paris) is very good. The owner (an amazing character) won a "meilleur pot" a few years ago, and serves very good Lyonnais food. Chirac hosted then-Prime Minister of Spain Asnar there a few years ago.
2. My "go to" fois gras is the 250g block of "entier" at Monoprix (about 20-23 euro). Let it get to room temperature and consume with a Rhine white of some sort or a Sauterne. As for restos, most of the starred places do some preparation. At L'Altelier de Joel Robuchon I had the raviolis with fois gras and lobster. Those were good, but for just a nice slab, you can't do much better at a resto than you can get at a supermarket.
I did have some homemade fois gras on a couple of occasions that was very nice too.
1. Au Petit Sud Quest, 46 Avenue de la Bourdonnais 75007 Tel 01 45 55 59 59
They specialise in Foie Gras. You toast your own bread to spread the beautiful foie gras on top - melts in your mouth.
It was recommended by a French mother and son who lives locally.
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1. re: aussiechinoiseinparis
aussiecinoiseinparis, you have described heaven to me!!!!! Is this a restaurant, or can you just go in for a drink at the"bar" and order this foie gras and a glass of wine???
2. How fun! But beware; foie gras has a high fat content. I enjoyed foie gras so much on my trip to Paris that I over did it. I got sick; it was mostly cramps, but it was enough to ruin the evening.
Go slow and enjoy!
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The first time I had fois gras I was not impressed, believe it or not. The second time, however, I was enthralled! As others noted there are many types and preparations of fois gras, and keep in mind what you drink with it makes all the difference. As a frequent Bordeaux visitor I suggest Sauternes! It might be a good idea to rethink your virginity and have a taste of fois gras before you get to France, if only to realize how great it is in all its glory! At any rate, have a great trip!
2. This is totally different from the "slather it on thick" concept, but it might be a good warm-up for you before the full foie gras immersion. I had an appetizer at ze kitchen galerie that consisted of fried foie gras, almost like fritters, that was probably the single best thing I ate in Paris the 5 days I was there. It came with a cup of delicious beef-based lemongrass minestrone on the side. highly recommended!
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It is a strange coincidence that over the last few days I have also had foie gras in some novel ways. Last night at "Spring" it was served with raw beetroot salad vanilla sause and a coco bean - it was great. Earlier in the week at "Senderens" it was a warm liver poached in chinese broth with different types of mushroom (cloud fungus and enoki I think), and then a classic presentation at Le Comptoir with fig compote.
All very good - all very different.
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Speaking of Senderens, I had the most amazing foie gras several years ago when the restaurant was still Lucas Carton. Two large lobes wrapped in bright green napa cabbage and poached, presented on a large all white plate with only a small pyramid of cracked pepper and fleur de sel. When sliced, the pink color contrasted with green envelope of cabbage and brilliant green olive oil came streaming out of the package onto the plate. Definitely food as art.
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Pants On Fire and Anna Rose were fantastic. What a beautiful run. After his last race, I knew he was fast, I love his name....but his breeding is total royalty...by AP Indy son, Jump Start, out of a Cape Town mare. I enjoyed seeing the win. Mucho Macho Man ran a gritty race considering his terrible gate injury. I hope he heals in time for the Ky Derby....he holds so much promise.
Ambient, one of the favorites, was pulled up in the race, and you have nothing to say about her condition?
I think what most people don't realize is that Medicare is not free. Once you pass 66, and are retired, and living on a fixed income, you still pay health insurance. A percentage pays for Medicare that covers 80% of expenses. A fee is paid to a private insurer who covers the remaining 20%. (This can be twice as much for a premium) Prescription drugs are an entirely different category, requiring an additional monthly fee plus a copay at the counter...if that drug is covered. There are many plans available, but retirees are actually paying $300 to $400 or more a month for all medical coverage + deductibles and co-pays. On a very limited income, it's a tight squeeze. So before you yell "Socialism"...you might want to check out how much you're actually going to continue paying out.
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Oh Really....funny you should mention South Carolina...since I was born there. I know my geography, probably better than you since I do READ lots of books. Fort Sumter was built as part of a coastal defense system after the war of 1812 to help protect the coast against foreign invasion. As such, it was Federal property. It didn't attack South Carolina. So the first shots fired were against the Federal government, by the "Confederacy" and started the Civil War. The Union did NOT fire the first shot. The Union did NOT secede. He who shoots first is the attacker. Fort Sumter wasn't attacking anyone. You really, oh_really, shouldn't be so proud of your total ignorance of FACTS!
And don't forget, the Articles of Secession were rejected by the President, (both outgoing Buchanan and incoming Lincoln) so they did not, in fact, legally exist....and secession became an illegal act of rebellion. Hostilities began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces attacked a U.S. military installation at Fort Sumter in South Carolina. Lincoln responded by calling for a volunteer army from each state to recapture federal property.
And in case you haven't noticed...Washington DC is SOUTH of the Mason-Dixon line, as is Maryland and Virginia....so why did the Confederacy travel all the way to Pennsylvania for their bloodiest battle, in Gettysburg, where Lee was forced to retreat to the South. Who attacked whom?
If not for the Secession and the attack on Fort Sumter, Lincoln would have allowed slavery to remain in the states where it already existed. He just would not allow it to spread to any other states. The Emancipation Proclamation was a way of economically crippling the South to help end the war more quickly. If not for the establishment of the Confederacy and the attack on Fort Sumter, the Emancipation Proclamation never would have existed. That's sort of like shooting yourself in the foot. Nothing to celebrate if you ask me.
Your "war of Northern Aggression" is as false a notion as saying the war was not about slavery. (economics). 150 years have passed, and you have learned so little.
Oh Really...you said "since Southern troops did not move against the North and only defended their own land when the North invaded the Confederacy."
Oh really????? Have you ever read a history book in your entire life???
The first shots fired were by the Confederacy on Fort Sumter, trying to wrest the fort from the Union. So your fable about "the war of Northern Aggression" is totally false and unfounded ...in fact... it sounds more like the war of Southern Aggression.
Expand your mind...read a book!
Personally, I don't care what Vick wants! No dog deserves having to live with him. For everyone who thinks he deserves a 2nd chance... would you let your child have weekly visits with a convicted child molester? ...because they've served their time? Didn't think so! As far as his children wanting a dog....the sins of the father....(maybe Vick will finally realize the terrible injustice he committed when his kids are deprived because of his blatant actions).
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And then, Star Guitar just romped through it all...still the Louisiana Champion. Were the rest of the fans as excited as John Dooley? I love when he calls a race!
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rdy07: Since Louisiana fell under Napoleanic laws, rather than English, their treatment of slaves was very different than the rest of the South. Actually, even New Orleans differed from the rest of Louisiana in their denounciation of cruelty toward slaves, and their laws that prevented it. That fact seems to elude most people. However, where was that major slave market? ....right in the middle of the French Quarter. What factor most promoted slavery?...King Cotton.
Posted on Civil War's 150th anniversary stirs debate on race on December 13, 2010, 8:51AM
Conservative 1: You've never heard of Memorial Day...when we celebrate all Americans soldiers who were killed in both domestic and international conflicts? Celebrating the first shot at Fort Sumter is simply not respecting the men who died....it's celebrating the reasons for the conflict.
Bigmeanie...gosh your view of history is so distorted, I don't know where to begin. The Emancipation Proclamation freed ALL slaves. Maids and handymen are paid; slaves are not. The North did NOT start the conflict, as you seem to assume. It was the Confederacy who fired the first shot. When you celebrate the Confederacy, you celebrate the act of subjugation, the act of classifying any non-white as less than human. That is what is so disturbing. That fact that the Civil War was about slavery is noted by the vice-president OF the Confederacy. Yep, the ante-bellum pastoral pictures of "Gone With the Wind" are certainly more pleasant to recall than the reality of the slave markets in the French Quarter. But you're trying to rewrite that. Men and women treated like livestock...it's not such a pretty picture after all. While slavery may have been practiced by many countries in the history of the world, that has never made it the correct or moral thing to do. Celebrating such events simply exacerbates tensions that have never fully dissolved.
and to USAFCajun...comparing Slavery to the Holocaust is a fair assessment. Haven't you read about the LaLaurie's....one family's cruel experimentation discovered. How many other atrocities were not discovered. Families were torn apart, lives were lost cruelly and unjustifiably. An entire culture was was buried in the slime of self-importance and smug superiority. And the Aryan Brotherhood is most malevolent in the South under the guise of "The Knights of the White Camellia". ....just a white-washed name for the KKK (neo-Nazis). How could one refrain from making the comparison?
muspench, while I usually respect what you have to say, please re-read the original article. I quote:
But as the war progressed, the Confederate government shifted its rationale to states' rights "
..in order to gain support from England.
As I said...it's an old chestnut. Well-landed folks were also cheap and couldn't work the acreage themselves. They also did not have the money to pay anyone else...so they imported slaves. Without slavery, the South could not survive financially....and it really didn't until the oil boom. As I said, too many wars are economically motivated....people are greedy...for territory, for oil, for power, for money. Even the Revolutionary War movement began because of over-taxation coupled with under-representation in Parliament.
Posted on Civil War's 150th anniversary stirs debate on race on December 13, 2010, 7:40AM
It seems to me, it might be more appropriate and acceptable to celebrate the END of the Civil War rather than the start of it. And trying to push that old chestnut about states' rights is ridiculous. Wallace already tried that in Alabama in the 60's, and it didn't work then either. It was a matter of economics...which seems to be at the crux of most wars with no one willing to admit it. More American lives were lost in the Civil War than all the World Wars combined. How tragic! We don't celebrate the Holocaust or the Spanish Inquisition or the Mei Lai massacre even though they are a part of history. What we should be doing is a remembrance of lives lost....and parties and fancy dress balls just don't seem to cut it. ...and don't we already have a Memorial Day.
Posted on Civil War's 150th anniversary stirs debate on race on December 11, 2010, 7:38AM
9thgeneration: My grandson is a US Marine. The killer was a useless piece of crap. NOPD does a good job for once. And now the rest of the Marines know who the killer is.
"What makes his life more important?" you ask. You are enjoying the freedom of speech he is defending...there are no foreign invaders in your port because of him....he puts his life on the line every day to protect your sorry self. Where ever a threat to the USA arises anywhere in the world...he will be the first one there. So don't ask such a silly question again.
I have to say, when I watch HRTV, I appreciate that in post parades sires and dams are named. On ESPN and the major networks, that information is neglected and I, as a casual fan, really miss it. It does help me evaluate the card better if I know a horse's sire is a sprinter or a distance horse. It's a boon to know a Bernardini colt from an Unbridled Song colt from a Ghostzpper colt. (or filly as the case may be). Since I am older, I recognize the lineage....and I have to say....Seattle Slew and Mr. Prospector lines seem to dominant still.
HPPrograms: It sounds as though Hollywood Park gets it.
You've just got to love Star Guitar; he's been fantastic. But it won't be a run-away. He'll be slugging it out with Snug all around the track.
Posted on Star Guitar is favored in Louisiana Champions Day Classic on December 11, 2010, 6:31AM
The Breeders' Cup was sensational for 2010. Dubai Majesty, Blame, and Chamberlain Bridge deserve kudos for their wins. How venal is it to add political non sequiturs on horse racing's crowning achievements? Aren't there enough political blogs in the paper where you can vent?
Congratulations to the Champion trainers. It is so fantastic to have a home-bred trainer take home the biggest race of the year. Blame was awesome. (though I'm still a Zen fan). The 100th Anniversary of Claiborne Farms has now been capped, and I wish Seth Hancock the best.
Hey folks, get with it. Evolution remains a theory just as creationism remains a myth. Funny how the "missing link" has never been found. But don't you consider your children intelligent enough to learn all the theories, then choose for themselves which is the most logical? We cannot grow unless we learn, and we cannot learn with a closed mind.
Posted on New high school biology books recommended by state on November 13, 2010, 7:31AM
Excellent shot! I'm betting it would be one of the most popular among home owners...9mm.
What a spectacular Breeders' Cup....all 14 races. From the upset wins on Friday, to the Saturday three-peat of Goldikova in her lightning moves, to Uncle Mo's dash, and finally to the finest Classic I have ever seen.....I don't think we will ever see another gut-wrenching run like we saw in that one race to perfection. While Zenyatta missed perfection by mere inches, those same few inches etched her name in the top legends of horse racing. I was sorry to see ESPN repetitiously showing the Friday brawl every few minutes. It tended to mar the the reputation of Borel who has worked so hard for so many years to be a top jockey and an amiable spokes person for the sport. And how about a big hand for Louisiana with Theriot and Desormeaux taking top honors in their respective races. When all the dust settles, and the arguments fade, as great as Blame performed, I still believe Zenyatta deserves HOY. When's the last time you saw a horse on "60 Minutes"....never, until Zen. ESPN top 10 female athletes? Oprah's top 20 most influential women? "W" Magazine feature? And thousands of adoring fans who slather over the rock star that is Zenyatta.
For what she's done for the sport of horse racing, and for her spectacular run in the Classic, 2 years denied, Zenyatta finally derserves Horse of the Year. This is spoken with utmost respect and admiration for Blame who dug in so deeply in the Classic as to be the only horse to ever be ahead of Zenyatta at the wire. I just wish they weren't retiring him so quickly.
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Kolehiyo ng Sining
Departamento ng Sikolohiya
Sta. Mesa, Maynila
(Mag-aaral ng BSIOP 1-1, Mananaliksik)
(Guro, Filipino1023, Pagbasa at Pagsulat tungo sa Pananaliksik)
Taong Aralan 2010-2011, Ikalawang Semestre
Talaan ng Nilalaman
Nilalaman Pahina
Kabanata I: Panimula 1-8
(1) Batayang Historikal……………………………………………..1
(2) Batayang Teoretikal…………………………………………..…2
(3) Batayang Konseptwal ………………………………….....…..3
(4) Mga Kaugnay na Kabanata at Literatura……………………...…4
(5) Suliranin ng Pag-aaral…………………………………………...6
(6) Saklaw at Limitasyon ng Pag-aaral……………………...………6
(7) Kahalagahan ng Pag-aaral…………………………………….....7
(8) Terminolohiya…………………………………………………...8
Kabanata II: Metodolohiya 9-11
Kabanata III: Paglalahad at Pagsusuri ng Datos 12-18
Kabanata IV: Pagbubuod 18-20
1. Paglalahad ng Natuklasan……………………………………….18
2. Paglalahad ng Kongklusyon…………………………………….19
3. Paglalahad ng Rekomendasyon…………………………………20
Bibliyograpi 21
Apendiks 22-50
Kabanata I: Panimula
Batayang Historikal
Sa pagkonsulta ko sa mga talatinigan, iba't ibang kahulugan ang nagbigay kulay sa salitang imahinasyon at realidad. Ang salitang imahinasyon na una ng ginamit noong ika-14 siglo ay maaaring isalin sa ganitong pakahulugan: kakayahan o kapangyarihang bumuo ng mga mental na imahe ng mga bagay na hindi pa nararanasan sa katotohanan. Ito rin ay ipinakahulugan na isang malikhaing kakayahan ng pag-iisip upang harapin at lutasin ang problema. Pinapakahuluhan din ito bilang kakayahang mag-isip, maniwala at maramdaman ang isang bagay na hindi totoo. Sa kabilang banda, ipinapakahulugan naman ang salitang realidad na mga katotohanang pangyayaring nagaganap na kabaligtaran ng mga pangyayaring kathang isip lamang. Ito rin ay isang lugar kung saan lahat ng mga bagay ay nagkakatotoo. Sa pag-aaral na ito inuuri ang pangarap o mithiin kung saan upang ang pangarap ay maging isang realidad na kabaligtaran ng nasa imahinasyon, may pagtatakda ng layunin o goal setting.
Ang unang pag-aaral ng prinsipyo ng goal setting o pagtatakda ng layunin ay isinagawa ni Cecil Alec Mace na isang British philosopher at Industrial psychologist. Taong 1935 ng mapatunayan sa kanyang pag-aaral na mas nahihikayat ang mga manggagawa ng pera upang mas lalong paghusayan ang trabaho. Huling bahagi naman ng 1960 nang ipagpatuloy ni Edwin Locke ang nasabing prinsipyo na mula rin sa prinsipyo ni Aristotle na final causality. Ayon sa ideya ni Aristotle sa kanyang final causality, ang isang dahilan ay nagbubunsod ng isang pagkilos. Ang lahat ng gawi ng tao ay laging sumasagot na tanong na "bakit?". Balik naman kay Edwin Locke, napatunayan niya sa kanyang pag-aaral na ang isang ispesipiko at mahirap na layunin ay nagbubunsod ng mas mahusay na kapasidad ng isang gawi kaysa sa malabo at madaling layunin.
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Ang pag-aaral ng prinsipyo ng pagtatakda ng layunin ay isang mahalagang bagay sa bawat isa upang malaman natin kung ano ba sa ating mga pangarap ang dapat nating pagtuunan muna ng pansin. At matapos nating matukoy ang mga ito, dapat naman nating alamin kung gaano natin ito kayang punan ng atensyon at kapasidad nang sa ganon masukat natin ang katagumpayan sa buhay. Dito rin ay maiiwasan natin na magtakda lamang ng magtakda ng mga kung anu-anong bagay dahil matutunan natin ang maayos na pagtatakda nito na maglalayo sa atin sa pagkabigo.
Batayang Teoretikal
Ang Goal Setting Theory ni Edwin Locke ay nagpakita ng ilang katangiang dapat taglayin ng isang mabuting hangarin sa buhay upang maging matagumpay sa pagkamit nito. Upang magkaroon ng direksyon ang ating buhay, ang pangarap o mithiin ay dapat may clarity, commitment, challenge, feedback at task complexity. Tinukoy niya ang clarity bilang pagkamalinaw at kasapatan sa oras ng isang layunin; ang commitment kung saan upang maging epektibo ang layunin, dapat ay may malinaw tayong pagkakasundo rito; ang challenge naman ang nagpapakita ng ating kahusayan na makamtan ito; ang feedback naman ay nangangahulugan na pagiging bukas sa pagpapalinaw at pagbabago nito; panghuli, ang task complexity kung saan napatunayan niya na ang mga taong nabubuhay sa mas mahirap na trabaho ay mas lalong napapahusay ang kakayanan. Sa kabilang banda, ang isang pangarap na hindi natutugunan ng limang prinsipyong nabanggit ay nangangahulugang may hidwaan sa pagitan ng pinaniniwalaan ng isang tao sa kanyang ugali. Ang teoryang ito ay tinatawag na Cognitive dissonance kung saan kahit na may alam na bagay ang isang tao na sa tingin niya ay tama o mali ay hindi niya ito
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natutugunan ng tamang asal. Isang halimbawa nito na alam ng mga tao na nakasasama sa ating kalusugan ang paninigarilyo. Kahit alam nila ito ay mayroon pa ring mga naninigarilyo na nagpapakita ng conflict o hidwaan sa nalalaman at pag-uugali.
Batayang Konseptwal
Clarity, Commitment, Challenge, Feedback, Task complexity
Conflicting belief and behavior
Mabuti at Masamang Epekto
Ang pag-aaral na ito na ginamitan ng dalawang teorya na makikita sa teoretikal na balangkas ay tutugon sa dalawang magkatunggaling aspeto ng pangangarap. Sinabi sa goal setting theory ang limang katangian ng isang pangarap upang madaling makamtan ito. Ang limang ito (clarity, commitment, challenge, feedback, task complexity) ang siya ring katangian ng isang makatotohanang pangarap. Kung gayon, kung may hidwaan ang ugali at nalalaman ng isang tao na inilahad bilang cognitive dissonance theory ay hindi niya maaaring gawing makatotohanan ang isang pangarap kung kaya't ito'y hango sa imahinasyon lamang. Para sa ikalilinaw, ito ang isang halimbawa: Ang isang mag-aaral ay nangangarap na makapasa sa
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pagsusulit bagama't hindi naman siya nag-aral. Alam ng mag-aaral sa sarili niya na kapag hindi siya nag-aral ay siguradong hindi sa makapapasa sa pagsusulit ngunit inaasam pa rin niyang pumasa. Dahil ang pag-uugaling ito ay inilalarawan ng teoryang cognitive dissonance, ang kanyang pangarap ay maituturing na pang-imahinasyon. Sa madaling salita, ang kaibahan ng pangarap sa imahinasyon sa pangarap sa realidad ay bunga ng kaugaliang nakalahad sa cognitive dissonance theory. Dahil naman sa pagkakaiba nito ay pagtutuunan ng pansin ang pananaw naman ng mga tao sa dulot, epekto at ilan pang katangiang marahil hindi nabanggit sa mga teorya.
Mga Kaugnay na Kabanata at Literatura
Isa sa mga kasalukuyang lumalabas na pag-aaral ngayon tungkol sa pagtatakda ng mithiin o goal setting ang pag-aaral ni Manktelow kung saan upang mas matagumpay ang pagkamit ng mithiin at mabawasan ang tsansa ng kabiguan ay nakabuo siya ng ilang katangian ng isang abot-kamay na pangarap. Ani niya, una dapat ay gumawa tayo ng "malaking larawan" kung ano ang gusto nating gawin sa buhay. Pagkatapos, paliitin at hatiin ang mga ito sa mga simpleng mithiin. Maaaring ang pagpapaliit nito ay sa panahon. Halimbawa, aalamin mo ang kaya mong gawin sa loob ng limang taon, isang taon, limang buwan hanggang sa pinakamaiksing panahon. Panghuli, maaari ng simulan ang pag-abot sa mga ito nang nagsisimula mula sa maliliit na bagay. Dapat din na ang pagtatakda ng ating pang-habang buhay na pangarap ay gawing ispesipiko tulad ng pagtatakda muna sa trabaho, pinansyal, edukasyon, pamilya, malikhaing pangarap, ugali, pisikal na katangian, kasiyahan at paglilingkod sa bayan.
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Ang mga ekonomistang sina Lise Vesterlund ng University of Pittsburgh at si Muriel Niederle ng Stanford University ay nagsagawa ng pag-aaral kung saan kinabilangan ng 40 babae at 40 lalaki. Sa kanilang ginawang eksperimento, sa loob ng limang minuto, ang bawat kalahok ay mag-a-add ng mga two-digit numbers at sa bawat tamang sagot ay bibigyan sila ng 50¢. Isinagawa ito ng isa-isa sa kani-kanilang tahanan. Sa sumunod na hakbang ng kanilang eksperimento, hinati ang mga kalahok sa tigdadalawang miyembro sa bawat grupo na parehong lalaki at parehong babae. Dito sa larong ito ay magpapaunahan naman sila sa pag-add pa rin ng mga numero at sa ngayon, ay may kalaban na. Ang makakakuha ng tamang sagot ay bibigyan ng $2 samantalang ang hindi makakasagot ay hindi makatatanggap ng premyo. Parehong nagpamalas ng kagalingan sa dalawang laro ang kababaihan at kalalakihan. Sa huli, tinanong sila kung anong laro ang mas gusto nila. 35% ng mga kababaihan ang gusto ng ikalawang laro o iyong may kumpetensya at 75% naman sa kalalakihan ang sumang-ayon din. Napatunayan dito
na mas pinipili ng mga lalaki ang may katunggalian na nangangahulugan na sila ay mas kompetatibo kaysa sa mga babae. Nilinaw din nila na hindi ito nangangahulugan na hindi kumpetatibo ang mga babae.
Sa pag-aaral naman ni Peter Demerath na isang anthropologist sa Ohio State University ay nagpaserbey siya sa 600 mag-aaral ng isang mataas na paaralang may mataas ding karangalan at pagkakakilanlan. 70% ang nagsabi sa kanila na nakararanas sila ng pagkahapo paminsan-minsan at kadalasan. Nang tanungin ni Demerath ang isang mag-aaral kung anong masasabi ng magulang sa sobrang gawain sa kanyang pag-aaral ay naisagot nito na hindi siya madalas nakakauuwi ng bahay sabay abot ng isang business card kung saan siyang video store nagtatrabaho. Dahil dito, naalarma ang mga anthropologists, psychologists at iba pa sa tunay na
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rason kung bakit at paano natutulak ang isang tao sa pag-ambisyon ng matataas na bagay.
Suliranin ng Pag-aaral
1. Ano ang ibinubunga ng pangarap sa imahinasyon at pangarap sa realidad?
2. Ano ang mabuti o masamang epekto ng pangarap sa imahinasyon at pangarap sa realidad?
3. Ano ang katangian ng pangarap sa imahinasyon at pangarap sa realidad?
Saklaw at Limitasyon
Ang pag-aaral na ito ay sumasaklaw sa pananaw ng mga tao sa dulot, epekto at katangian ng umiiral na pangarap sa imahinasyon at pangarap sa realidad. Sakop lamang sa pag-aaral na ito ang mga mag-aaral sa kolehiyo at hayskul na ginamit bilang respondente. Nakapokus din ang pag-aaral na ito sa kasalukuyang aspeto ng isang tao kung saan ang estado ng pamumuhay sa kasalukuyan lamang ang ikinonsidera. Ginawa ito ng mananaliksik upang mapanatiling balido ang magiging resulta nang hindi nagpapaapekto sa mga pabago-bagong pangyayari sa buhay ng isang tao. Upang mas malinawan, isang halimbawa ang sitwasyong ito: Isang tao ang nangangarap na makapaglakbay sa buong mundo ngunit siya ay isang dukha lamang. Malinaw na makikita rito ang walang kakayanan ng tao sa kanyang pangarap at hindi tiyak o ispesipiko kung kailan at paano niya ito gagawin kaya masasabi rito na ito ay pangarap sa imahinasyon ayon sa kasalukuyang estado ng kanyang buhay. Ngunit kung ikokonsidera pa na maaari siyang yumaman o umunlad ang buhay, magkakaroon ng pagkakataon na ang pangarap ay pang-realidad. Kaya't kung ikokonsidera ito ng mananaliksik ay mas lalong hahaba ang pag-aaral.
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Kahalagahan ng Pag-aaral
Isa sa pinakamahalagang ambag ng pag-aaral na ito sa mga mambabasa ay ang pagpapamulat sa sarili. Ito ay maaaring maging instrumento upang mamulat ang isipan ng mga tao sa tamang pagtatakda ng layunin. Ilan pang mga bagay na maitutulong nito sa mga mambabasa o indibidwal ay ang kakayanang malaman ang katangian ng pangarap na hindi makatotohanan ngunit mas binibigyan ng pansin at ng mga makatotohanang pangarap na hindi naman nabibigyan ng pansin. Sa tulong nito ay mas maiisip ng mga mambabasa na mas pagtuunan ng pansin ang mga makatotohanang bagay na binabalewala lamang. Ang isa pang kagandahan nito sa bawat indibidwal ay dahil pare-pareho tayong nangangarap sa kahit ano pa mang panahon, ito ay aplikabol para sa lahat kahit ikaw pa man ay bata, matanda, mayaman, mahirap, nag-aaral o hindi basta't may sariling hangarin o mithiin sa buhay.
Para naman sa larangan ng pananaliksik, ambag ang pag-aaral na ito sa larangan ng sikolohiya dahil matutukoy rito ang ilang mga bagay na may kinalaman sa pag-iisip ng mga tao. Ang pangangarap ay isang gawaing mental o ginagamitan ng utak na naaapektuhan ng panlabas na impluwensiya. Kung gayon, ang gawaing sikolohikal na ito ay maaaring may maganda at masamang dulot sa pagkatao ng isang tao at sa pag-aaral na ito ay siya ngang aalamin. Pagkatapos ng pag-aaral na ito ay maaaring pagmulan ito ng mga ideya para sa mas malawak pang mga pag-aaral sa nasabing larangan.
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Kabanata II: Metodolohiya
Ang pag-aaral na ito ay nasa ilalim ng uri ng panananaliksik ayon sa metodo na deskriptibo dahil sa malalimang pag-aaral tungkol sa mga dulot, sanhi at katangian ng mga pangarap sa imahinasyon at realidad kaugnay sa mga respondenteng pinili. Kwantitatibong pamamaraan ang ginawa ng mananaliksik kung saan pinasagot ang 50 mag-aaral ng hayskul at kolehiyo ng 4 na aytem ng mga tanong na humihingi ng humigit sa 6 na kasagutan na may kinalaman sa paksa. Ang mga respondente ay napili sa pamamagitan ng simple random sampling. Upang madaling matiyak ang relasyon ng mga sagot sa suliranin ng pag-aaral at sa ikadadali na rin ng pag-unawa sa resulta ay ginamit ng mananaliksik ang pinakabasikong paraan sa pag-unawa ng mga numerikal na datos - percentage distribution. Sa istadistikang pamamaraan na ito ay kukunin ang ratio ng bilang ng mga sagot ng respondente sa isang tanong sa kabuuang bilang ng respondente. Pagkatapos makuha ang ratio ay kukunin ang bahagdan nito sa loob ng 100 bahagdan. Upang mas madaling maintindihan, narito ang pormulang tinutukoy:
Bahagdan ng Sagot sa Isang Tanong = Bilang ng sumagot X 100
Kabuuang bilang ng respondente
Narito naman ang sample survey sheet na ginamit sa pagkuha ng datos:
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Unang bahagi ng survey sheet
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Ikalawang bahagi ng survey sheet
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Kabanata III: Paglalahad at Pagsusuri ng Datos
Pangarap sa Realidad
Ang pangarap niyang mapagkakitaan ang ani sa pamamagitan ng pagbebenta nito ay nagpapakita na:
Mabuting Epekto
Masamang Epekto
Paghikayat at paghamon sa sarili
Paghigit sa kasalukuyang natatamasa
Walang kakuntentuhan
Pagiging ambisyoso
Talahanayan 1. Bunga ng pangarap sa realidad. Makikita sa talahanayan na nagkaisa ang mga respondente na ang pangarap sa realidad ay nagbubunga ng mabuting epekto. Hindi rin gaanong nalalayo kung ano sa dalawang mabuting epekto ang naidudulot nito. Dahil marami ang nagsabi na nais higitan ang kasalukuyang natatamasa ang epekto nito at nasa ilalim ito ng mabuting epekto, ang pangarap sa realidad ay nakabubuti.
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Grap 1. Bunga ng pangarap sa realidad. Mas makikita ng malinawan sa grap na ito ang pagkakaisa ng mga respondente na ang pangarap sa realidad ay nagbubunga ng mabuting epekto.
Bilang ng sumagot
• Nais niyang hikayatin at hamunin ang sarili. Ang kanyang pangarap na ito ang driving force upang magpaandar sa kanyang buhay sa kabuuan.
• Nais niyang higitan ang kasalukuyang natatamasa. Ginagawa niyang stepping stone ang pangarap para sa susunod na mithiin.
Talahanayan 2. Talaan ng mabubuting epekto ng pangarap sa realidad. Katulad ng nabanggit kanina ay hindi gaanong nagkakalayo ang mabubuting epekto ng pangarap sa realidad. Kahit
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ganoon pa man, ipinapakita rito na ang mga tao'y gumagawa ng pangarap sa realidad upang higitan ang kasalukuyang natatamasa o gawing stepping stone ang pangarap para sa susunod pang mga pangarap.
Grap 2. Bahagdan ng mabubuting epekto ng pangarap sa realidad. Makikita naman dito ang grapikong representasyon ng talahanayan 2 na nagpapakita ng parehong interpretasyon.
Pangarap sa Imahinasyon
Ang pangarap niyang makapunta ng ibang bansa kahit kapos sa kakayanan ay nangangahulugang:
Mabuting Epekto
Masamang Epekto
Paghikayat at paghamon sa sarili
Paghigit sa kasalikuyang natatamasa
Walang kakuntentuhan
Pagiging ambisyoso
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Talahanayan 3. Bunga ng pangarap sa imahinasyon. Inilalarawan sa talahanayan na ito na kapag pangarap sa imahinasyon ang pinag-uusapan ay nagkakaiba-iba ang paniniwala ng mga tao ukol sa kung ano ang bunga nito. Sa pangkalahatan, mas malaki ang kinalabasan na bahagdan para sa mabuting epekto ng pangarap sa imahinasyon.
Grap 3. Bunga ng pangarap sa imahinasyon. Ang grap na ito ay nangangahulugang may mabuti at masamang dulot ang pangarap sa imahinasyon.
Ang pangarap niyang makapunta ng ibang bansa kahit na kapos sa kakayanan ay nangangahulugang:
Bilang ng sumagot
• Wala siyang kakuntentuhan sa buhay dahil sa kabila ng kanyang natatamasa ay naghahangad pa rin siya ng iba.
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• Siya'y ambisyoso. Nagnanais siya ng bagay na 'di makatotohanan.
Talahanayan 4. Narito ang bilang at bahagdan ng mga mabubuti at masasamang epekto ng pangarap sa imahinasyon.
Grap 4. Mabubuti at masasamang epekto ng pangarap sa imahinasyon. Halos hindi nagkakalayo ang mga pananaw ng mga respondente ukol sa epekto ng imahinasyon. Nangunguna sa kanilang pananaw ang pagiging ambisyoso, sinundan ng paghigit sa natatamasa, tapos ang paghikayat at paghamon sa sarili at panghuli ang pagiging hindi kuntento.
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Pangarap sa Realidad
Pangarap sa Imahinasyon
Pagkakitaan ang ani
Pagpunta sa ibang bansa
Talahanayan 5. Nakatala rito kung alin sa dalawang pangarap na binanggit ang ikinokonsidera ng mga tao bilang pangarap sa realidad at pangarap sa imahinasyon. Una itong itinanong bago ang susunod na mga kadahilanan upang matiyak muna kung magtutugma ang sinabing katangian ng dalawang pangarap mula sa mga teorya't dokumentong ginamit at mula sa mga tao mismo. At lumalabas nga sa talahanayan na ito na nagtutugma at totoo ang mga teorya't mga impormasyon sa dokumento.
Katangian ng pangarap sa realidad ayon sa resulta ng pag-aaral
• Ito ang nararapat
• Ito ay makatotohanan
• May sapat na kakayanan
• Tanda ng pagsisikap
• Madaling gawin
• Angkop sa pamumuhay
• Likas sa tao
Talahanayan 6. Narito ang buod ng mga kasagutan ng mga respondente sa tanong na kung ano ang dahilan kung bakit itinuturing nilang pangarap sa realidad ang pagkakitaan ang ani.
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Katangian ng pangarap sa imahinasyon ayon sa resulta ng pag-aaral
• Hindi angkop sa estado ng buhay
• Hindi sapat nag kakayanan
• Walang oportunidad
• Mahirap
• 'Di kapani-paniwala
• Gumugugol ng mahabang panahon
Talahanayan 7. Nakatala naman dito ang kabuuang kasagutan ng mga respondente sa tanong na kung ano ang dahilan kung bakit nila itinuturing na pangarap sa imahinasyon ang makapunta sa ibang bansa.
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Kabanata IV: Pagbubuod
Paglalahad ng Natuklasan
Matapos ang masusing pag-aaral ng mananaliksik, natuklasan na:
lalo na ang mahihirap na huwag mawalan ng pag-asa.
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Paglalahad ng Kongklusyon
Matapos ang masusing pag-aaral ng mananaliksik, napatunayan na ang pangarap sa realidad ay nagdudulot ng mabuting bunga samantalang ang pangarap sa imahinasyon ay nagdudulot ng mabuti at masamang epekto. Dahil na rin sa nalalaman nila sa pagkakaiba ng pangarap sa imahinasyon at realidad masasabi na maaaring ng matukoy ng bawat indibidwal ang mga ito sa kanilang sarili lamang. Bukod sa mga pansariling kakayanan ay binibigyang pansin din ng bawat indibidwal ang aspetong panlipunan na isa sa mga bagay na magdidikta sa katangian ng isang pangarap. Minsan may mga pangarap nga na masasabing pang-realidad dahil napupunan ng sapat na kakayanan ngunit nagiging pang-imahinasyon dahil sa dikta ng kapaligiran.
Paglalahad ng Rekomendasyon
Matapos ang mga natuklasan at napatunayan na mga impormasyong nabanggit, bilang
mananaliksik, narito ang ilan sa aking rekomendasyon sa ikauunlad ng pag-aaral:
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Carson, Heady, Mace, Cecil Alec, The man who discovered goal-setting, http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a779939894~frm=abslink
Kluger, Ambition: Why Some People Are Most Likely to Succeed, http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&sqi=2&ved=0CA8QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C1126746%2C00.html&ei=UQdVTZe8A86PcYHZwYwN&usg=AFQjCNH3Toy_ES0mUhGSqsVgM0UWHxVqQQ, 2005
Manktelow, Personal Goal Setting – Planning to Live Your Life Your Way, http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=Planning+to+Live+Your+Life+Your+Way%2C+http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mindtools.com%2Fpage6.html
Sander, Sam, Goal Setting Tips, http://www.achieve-goal-setting-success.com/goal-setting-tips.html
Sander, Sam, Types of Goals, http://www.achieve-goal-setting-success.com/types-of-goals.html
Straker, David, Goal Setting Theory, http://changingminds.org/explanations/theories/goals.htm
Zalta, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy – Aristotle on Causality, http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-causality/, 2006
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Personal Goal Setting
Planning to Live Your Life Your Way
(Manktelow, mindtools.com)
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Why Set Goals?
Starting to Set Personal Goals
You set your goals on a number of levels:
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Step 1: Setting Lifetime Goals
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As you do this, make sure that the goals that you have set are ones that you genuinely want to achieve, not ones that your parents, family, or employers might want. (If you have a partner, you probably want to consider what he or she wants - however, make sure that you also remain true to yourself!)
Step 2: Setting Smaller Goals
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If you feel that you're not paying enough attention to certain areas of your life, you"ll find our articles on The Wheel of Life and the Life/Career Rainbowuseful.
Staying on Course
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Achieving Goals
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Goal Setting Example
Her lifetime goals are as follows:
Let's take a closer look at how she might break down her lifetime career goal - becoming managing editor of her magazine:
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Goal setting is an important method of:
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Types of Goals
(Sam Sander, achieve-goal-setting-success.com)
Part of the reason why goal setting fails is that people don’t understand the different types of goals and how to treat them. Goals may involve:
• Developing a new skill or improving current skills.
• Beating old habits, or developing better ones.
• Producing an outcome, achieving a dream.
The way each of these types of goals are treated is different – some are short term, others are medium to long term, some have a clear direction to achieve them, others may have a more torturous path, and some are naturally easier than others to achieve.
Goals can also be:
• Big-picture goals – your end destination as defined by the ‘Big-Picture' Statements for your various life aspects. These goals are typically not achievable in one simple step – there is a journey to be taken to get there.
• Milestone Goals – these are the series of goals that will take you to your destination.
• Mini Goals – milestone goals may need to be broken down into bite-size chunks to make them more manageable.
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This is shown diagrammatically as follows, where you can see that your ‘Big-Picture’ is achieved through a few long-term milestone goals, which are achieved through several medium-term goals, which are achieved through many short-term mini goals.
Like climbing a mountain, you need to start at the bottom with the mini-goals before you can get to the top. This is just recognizing that it takes time and effort to achieve your goals, but achieving the mini-goals along the way keeps you inspired to continue – they’re like stepping stones down the river of life or the traffic lights along your road to success! You need all types of goals.
Too many Big-Picture goals can be daunting and it is difficult to measure progress against. Too many mini-goals can make you lose sight of the big picture, but they keep you heading towards your big picture if done right.
So you need the right mixture of each, and this will depend on your specific goal.
As an example, you’re Big Picture might include to become fit and healthy. A milestone goal might therefore be to lose 10kg or to jog 5km in under 30 minutes.
Mini-goals might then be along the lines of “lose 2kg” or “walk 5km without stopping” – these goals are steps in the right direction towards both the milestone goals and ultimate big-picture.
Once the mini-goals have been achieved you’ll get a great sense of satisfaction as you have leaped onto the first stepping stone towards your big-picture, so use this motivation to set the next set of mini-goals to put into action!
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Why people don't follow through
But many people still fail to get anywhere because:
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Ambition: Why Some People Are Most Likely to Succeed
by: Jeffrey Kluger
TIME Magazine 2005, TIME Inc., USA
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Of all the impulses in humanity's behavioral portfolio, ambition — that need to grab an ever
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persistence — the ability to stay focused on a task until it's completed just so — which they consider one of the critical engines driving ambition.
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Politeknikong Unibersidad ng Pilipinas
Kolehiyo ng Sining
Departamento ng Sikolohiya
Sta. Mesa, Maynila
Mahal na mga mag-aaral,
Magandang araw po. Ako po ay isang mag-aaral sa unang taon ng Sikolohiya sa Politeknikong Unibersidad ng Pilipinas at kasalukuyang nagsasagawa ng isang papel pananaliksik na may pamagat na Agwat na kayang Marating ng Imahinasyon ng Isang Tao mula sa Realidad ng kanyang Buhay. Ito po ay isang katugunan sa aming asignaturang "Pagbasa at Pagsulat tungo sa Pananaliksik (Fil1023)" at bilang bahagi ng aking pananaliksik ay magsasagawa po ako ng isang serbey.
Naglalaman ito ng 6 na katanungan na hinihiling ko po'y sagutin ng buong katapatan. Ang lahat ng katanungan ay pawang may kaugnayan sa sitwasyong babanggitin. Pagkatapos mabasa ang sitwasyon ay nais ko po sanang isaisip ninyo na kayo ang nasa ganoong kalagayan nang sa gayon ay masasagot ninyo ang mga katanungan batay sa sariling pananaw. Ang mga impormasyong ilalagay sa serbey ay masisiguro ninyong para lamang sa nabanggit na gawain.
Maraming salamat po!
Lubos na gumagalang,
Margust S. Ching
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using (ComReleaser comReleaser = new ComReleaser())
This is the link from the Best practices for using ArcObjects in .NET "Releasing COM references" topic: http://help.arcgis.com/en/sdk/10.0/arcobjects_net/conceptualhelp/index.html#/Releasing_COM_references/0001000004tm000000/
And here is a post on the Geodatabase Blog to a fourm discussion that does contain a list of objects: http://blogs.esri.com/dev/blogs/geodatabase/archive/2010/05/18/what_2700_s‑up‑with‑comreleaser_3f00_.aspx
(lastly a blog post with a link to help in case the url didnt work) http://blogs.esri.com/dev/blogs/geodatabase/archive/2008/12/18/using‑the‑comreleaser‑to‑manage‑the‑lifetime‑of‑cursors‑in‑.net.aspx
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I believe that ComReleaser is part of a 32bit assembly meaning that you won't be able to run ComReleaser in a 64bit process (e.g. ArcGIS Server). I was writing an SOE and got burned on this. – bcollins Jul 30 '13 at 14:36
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There is no point to releasing workspaces because they are cached by the workspace factory singletons. – Preston Nov 20 '13 at 23:58
Always destroy:
• ICursors
• IEnums
Be careful to not destroy something that's being used somewhere else.
I never release any IGeometry's. Anyone tried that?
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The same link in 10: help.arcgis.com/en/sdk/10.0/arcobjects_net/conceptualhelp/… – MathiasWestin Feb 17 '11 at 16:53
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Thu Nov 4 04:54:31 PDT 2010
At 11:01 PM 11/3/2010, Detlef wrote:
>The Medieval Recreation and Re-enactment Society, maybe?
Maybe, except that we don't really do re-enactments (at least not the
way the Civil War folks or the guys who re-do the Battle of Hastings
every year do.)
>I don't know. I actually like the name Society for Creative Anachronism.
>That's what we do. We create an anachronism. We don't recreate medieval
>history (if we did, King Arthur, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Saint Francis of
>Assisi, Meister Eckhardt, and Joan of Arc would be walking among us); we
>make our OWN history (so we have people like Siegfried von Hoflichskeit,
>Diana Listmaker, Willow de Wisp, Simonn of Amber Isle, Elizabeth Seale, and
>Jean Paul de Sens in our midst). We constantly struggle with the paradox of
>reconciling our quest for a medieval life with the necessities of modern
>We have quite a few serious medievalists among us, but unlike academic
>medievalists, we don't just study the Middle Ages. We LIVE the Middle Ages,
>in our own weird way, by taking what we learn in our research and giving it
>a practical application. We're living an anachronism of our own creation.
>Unlike historical re-enactment groups, we don't follow a script in history
>books. We make our own script as we go along--just like the people of the
>original Middle Ages did.
>This thread can go on and on, because there really are no easy answers to
>these questions. If there IS an answer, it lies somewhere between dropping a
>McDonald's bag onto a table during a feast and surviving on nothing but the
>technologies that people actually had access to in the Middle Ages. Where
>specifically seems hard to pinpoint.
As a group, it's impossible to pinpoint but as individuals we do it
all the time. And I think that the sum total of our individual
efforts *is* getting better over time: fewer blue plastic tarps and
more period-style pavilions; more period-looking armor; Del Tin
rapier blades with swept hilts instead of foils or epees with modern
cup hilts; more widespread use of linen and wool for our clothing,
etc. (And yes, there are some areas that still need improvement, or
where we're backsliding, like plastic armor, nylon bag chairs and cell phones.)
-Tivar Moondragon
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Four celebrity mentors will help four candidates to launch their ideas in the opportunity of a lifetime.
The project, called Launching People will see pop-up chef and Sunday Times cook Gizzi Erskine search for undiscovered British and Irish talent.
But it’s not just food. Award-winning actor and producer Idris Elba, singer-songwriter Paloma Faith and portrait and fashion photographer Rankin will also be nurturing candidates with a passion for film, music and photography.
The mentors, together with Samsung will be scouring the length and breadth of the UK and Ireland to find people with extraordinary potential and original ideas. The chosen candidates will work with one of the four inspirational mentors to collaborate on a unique project. Their journey, from meeting the mentors to the launch of their project, will be documented in a television series to air later this year.
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So where do Samsung fit in with this?
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How to enter:
To apply you need to make a 2-minute video all about you and your ambition. This is your chance to show off your passion, your personality, and your project idea, to get the attention of the four celebrity mentors. Then supply an image and a bit of copy and you’re good to go. You can find out more and upload your submission at:
Submissions are open until Thursday 6th March and the final four will feature in the television series later this year.
There will also be a ‘People’s Choice’ winner per category, voted for by the public on Facebook, who will receive personal tuition and Samsung products that will support them in pursuing their dreams. The ‘People’s Choice’ winners will be announced on Friday 7th March.
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• Going to be interesting. I wonder if the show will only feature the final four or whether we’ll get to see any of the “hopefuls”?
1. Gizzi is lovely, I attended an event with her. The person who gets to work with her will be very fortunate indeed!
2. Alright, the American needs some clarification. I understand that this could be a bit of a sore point, so please no one yell at me. I thought the Irish were British but not English? When they say the show is for British and Irish talent, are the Welsh and Scottish included in British, but not the Irish?
• Interesting question. I had interpreted it as being a show that would air both in UK and Republic of Ireland (which are two different countries with their own TV networks never mind governments etc).
To answer your overall comment though is rather complicated and some people might be touchy about the explanation. I’m not an expert and probably someone will shout down at this explanation but my understanding is:
(I should preamble this explanation by explaining and not assuming you already know Ireland is split into the Republic of Ireland (southern larger bit, capital Dublin) and Northern Ireland (smaller northern bit, capital Belfast). I won’t get into the historical reasons why etc etc because it’s way to complicated for me to explain. Republic of Ireland is a completely separate country to the UK. Always was until the English invaded in 16th Century and occupied Ireland until around 1920. (My dates may be slightly off here).
So. Citizens of ROI are Irish and NOT British and would be unamused if you thought they were British. Folk from Northern Ireland are definitely still Irish but are British citizens eligible for British passports (although probably a lot of them are eligible for dual nationality and hold Irish passports too if they choose). Quite probably, depending on their political standpoints, Northern Irish folk are even more likely to be upset if you described them as British rather than Irish. The Scottish are definitely Scottish and the Welsh are definitely Welsh. Scottish and Welsh folk are eligible for British passports and (to my knowledge) there’s no such thing as a Welsh passport or a Scottish passport (yet). The Welsh and Scottish very likely take offence if you erroneously describe them as English but less likely to take umbrage at being described as British.(So yes term “British” for this TV show refers to Welsh and Scottish candidates too). The Irish (north and south), Scottish and Welsh are quite like each other but none of them like the English whom they resent for invading/occupying/dominating over the years. (This is a simplistic description and not intended to start a fight with anyone).
The English have British passports and there’s no such thing as an English passport. The British Government in London governs England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales but in the past decade or so, Scotland has had its own parliament and Northern Ireland/Wales have had Northern Ireland and Welsh Assemblies who pass legislation affecting their own countries. England doesn’t have its own parliament, only the British one because arguably the British parliament is so England focussed there’s no point. (Parliament is all the elected politicians, Government is the party in charge although right now it’s more complicated than that because we have a coalition government and two parties are sharing power).
Both Britain and Republic of Ireland are in the European Union. ROI uses the Euro, Britain does not. Ostensibly all EU countries also have laws made at European level but each country seems to make it up as they go along which countries adopt what as law in their own country. Technically we’re all EU Citizens and free to travel, live and work wherever we like within EU countries.
Golly I had no idea I lived somewhere so complicated and I can understand why outsiders get confused!!!!!
• And yo confusing the issue the United Kingdom and British Isles are different. Citizens of the Channel Islands hold British passports, but the islands are not part of the EU.
• Ack I meant to say the Northern Irish, Scottish and Welsh “all quite like each other” NOT “are like each other” but cannot edit on this tablet.
3. LOL, I think there’s a certain amount of convenience ‘countries’. The best example was when Andy Murray looked as if he might win Wimbledon and all of a sudden went from being a ‘Scottish’ tennis player to a ‘British’ one;) – whatever, I like this initiative and will be forwarding on to friends with kids who might be interested
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The product $N$ of three positive integers is 6 times their sum, and one of the integers is the sum of the other two. Find the sum of all possible value of $N$.
Based the given, I think the sum would be 2 because $N$ itself is 2. However I don't know if this is correct.
$ N=ab(a+b)=12(a+b)$
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$$6(a+b+c) = abc$$
$$6(a+b+a+b) = ab(a+b)$$
$$ab = 12$$
$$a = 3, b = 4, c = 7$$
$$a = 2, b = 6, c = 8$$
$$a = 1, b = 12, c = 13$$
$$N = 84, 96, 156$$
Not sure if this answers the question but the sum of all possible values of $N$ is therefore $341$.
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Thanks,This is the answer I am looking for. I saw the careless mistake I made. – user11355 May 6 at 23:24
@shevliaskovic - thanks for the edit, I was using my phone and it's hard enough to type without the formatting! – mjsqu May 7 at 9:00
Hint: Let $x,y,z$ be the three positive integers. Then, $$xyz=6(x+y+z)\\ x+y=z\\ \implies xyz=6(z+z)=12z\\ \implies xy=12$$
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How to: Break Execution
When you are debugging an application with the Visual Studio debugger, your application is either running (executing) or it is in break mode. Most debugger features, such as evaluating expressions in the Watch window, are available only in break mode.
The debugger breaks execution of the program when execution reaches a breakpoint or when an exception occurs. For more information, see Handling Exceptions. You can break execution manually at any time. If you break while executing code without corresponding source, you will be able to debug in the Disassembly window.
To break the execution of your program manually
• On the Debug menu, click Break All.
The debugger stops the execution of all programs running under the debugger. The programs do not exit and you can resume execution at any time. The debugger and your application are now in break mode.
If you are debugging multiple programs, a breakpoint or Break All command affects all programs being debugged by default. You can change this default if you want to break only the current program.
To change break behavior when debugging multiple programs
1. On the Tools menu, click Options.
2. In the Options dialog box, select the Debugging folder, and click the General category.
3. Toggle When one process breaks, break all processes.
4. Click OK.
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Prelinking Nick Krafft
When I get my thoughts on the subject sorted out I plan to write some posts on maximum utility and fitness landscapes. When I do, I'll certainly want to link to this post I saw on Economist's View:
In which I “attack old-fashioned economics,” i.e. utility maximization, by Nick Krafft: At an off-campus discussion toward the end of my senior year of college, the topic of behavioral economics came up. Leading the discussion was a professor of mine, David Ruccio- whose blog I link to regularly- who argued that to really move forward with these iconoclast ideas, we still have to get rid of the max u thing- it’s holding everything back. I didn’t really agree with him at the time, or I just didn’t know, but a recent panel I attended helped clarify why Ruccio, and other heterodox economists before him, are right, even if the panelists themselves don’t want to see it it or admit.
Hypertension or Blood Pressure?
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Landscapes and Lab Rats
A good Bayesian Textbook?
Just wondering . . .
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Carbon Sequestration, Lap Band Surgery and the Seductive Allure of the Grand, Deferred Solution
There's a paper out (discussed here) which claims that (according to the Guardian):
We'll see if this actually kills support for CCS, but even before the paper came out, the popularity of the idea was a clear example of Grand Deferred Solution Syndrome (GDSS).
GDSS actually requires at least two solutions. The non-GDSs need to be simple, practical, available for immediate implementation, with high likelihoods of success. The GDS (usually produced by a marketing department or think tank, though spontaneous GDS formation has been observed) does not need to be simple or practical. Its implementation date should be distant and open-ended and its likelihood of success can be anywhere from small to negligible. Sufferers of GDSS will opt for for the GDS even when its chances are one or more orders of magnitude lower than any of the non-GDSs.
Notable examples of non-GDSs include carbon taxes, plug-in hybrids and diet & exercise.* Notable examples of GDSs include fuel cell cars, liposuction and about twenty percent of solutions using the phrase "market forces."
Almost everyone has suffered a few bouts of GDSS, but cases involving climate change may be reaching pandemic proportions.
* This does not apply to those suffering from certain diagnosed medical conditions and eating disorders. For those people, extreme measures may be the only reasonable option.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Predicting the spread
Have you ever been working on a problem and had that nagging feeling that you're missing an obvious solution? Well, I'm having one of those moments now. I'm working on a project that, though it has nothing to do with sports or betting, is analogous to the following:
You want to build a model predicting the spread for games in a new football league. Because the line-up of teams is still in flux, you decide to use only stats from individual teams as inputs (for example, an indicator variable for when the Ambushers play the Ravagers would not be allowed). In other words, you're using data from individuals to predict a metric that is only defined for pairs.
Assume there are around fifty teams and each team has played all of the others exactly one time.
This feels like stat 101 but I can't recall seeing another problem like it. Anyone out there have any suggestions?
A serious discussion of the role of barter in health care
Last week I suggested that someone should dig into candidate Lowden's suggestion more deeply. I'm glad to say someone has.
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I'm amazed that no one in the audience seemed to know what a chicken ranch was.
David Brooks' 100K statistic explained
If you follow this sort of thing, you may recall that a few weeks ago, David Brooks claimed that "Over the last 10 years, 60 percent of Americans made more than $100,000 in at least one of those years, and 40 percent had incomes that high for at least three." based on research by Stephen J. Rose. It was one of those statistics that just looks wrong and it turns it was, though the fault seems to lie mainly with Rose's less-than-clear prose and his algorithm for calculating adjusted household income for individuals (an individual living alone could make considerably less than six figures and still have an adjusted household income of 100K).
Andrew Sprung (who was on this from the beginning) has the details:
I should not have cast my inference that Brooks was misquoting Rose as a near-certainty without being able to verify it. Literally, there was no misquote -- or rather a minor one, converting Rose's "fully 60 percent of adults had at least one year in which their incomes were at least $100,000" to a more active verb formulation: "Over the last 10 years, 60 percent of Americans made more than $100,000." Brooks' re-cast also edits out a ghost of pronoun slippage in Rose's studiedly vague formulation: "adults" had years in which "their" incomes were over $100k. While "their" grammatically agrees with "adults," keeping both in the plural somehow highlights the elision by which household income (the term Rose uses in earlier writings citing similar statistics) becomes the income enjoyed by the individuals in the household.
(h/t to Brad DeLong)
Monday, April 26, 2010
Fitness Landscapes, Ozark Style
[Update: part two is now up.]
I grew up with a mountain in my backyard... literally. It wasn't that big (here in California we'd call it a hill) but back in the Ozarks it was a legitimate mountain and we owned about ten acres of it. Not the most usable of land but a lovely sight.
That Ozark terrain is also a great example of a fitness landscape because, depending on which side you look at, it illustrates the two serious challenges for optimization algorithms. Think about a mountainous area at least partially carved out by streams and rivers. Now remove all of the rocks, water and vegetation drop a blindfolded man somewhere in the middle, lost but equipped with a walking stick and a cell phone that can get a signal if he can get to a point with a clear line of sight to a cell tower.
With the use of his walking stick, the man has a reach of about six feet so he feels around in a circle, finds the highest point, takes two paces that direction then repeats the process (in other words, performs a gradient search). He quickly reaches a high point. That's the good news; the bad news is that he hasn't reached one of the five or six peaks that rise above the terrain. Instead, he has found the top of one of the countless hills and small mountains in the area.
Realizing the futility of repeating this process, the man remembers that an engineer friend (who was more accustomed to thinking in terms of landscape minima) suggested that if they became separated he should go to the lowest point in the area so the friend would know where to look for him. The man follows his friend's advice only to run into the opposite problem. This time his process is likely to lead to his desired destination (if he crosses the bed of a stream or a creek he's pretty much set) but it's going to be a long trip (waterways have a tendency to meander).
In the next post in the series, I'll try to make the jump from mountain climbing to planning randomized trials.
These assumptions will be easier to justify when start applying these concepts in the next post in the series. For now, though, just be warned that these are big assumptions that can't be made that often.
And my second favorite quote on lying
Comes from Dashiell Hammett (who, of course, had his own Hellman connection). You'll find it in the Continental Op story, "Golden Horseshoe."
Distributions and outliers
John Cook has an old but good post on the issues that even well behaved normal distributiosn can have have in the extremes. I would tend to argue that these extreme outliers (women over 6' 8", for example) probably are due to some process that is rare (i.e. a genetic mutation, an extreme environmental exposure) and so the real height distribution is a mixture of several underlying distributions with latent (or unobserved variables).
But this line of thinking is actually dangerous. After all, with enough latent variables I can model almost any distribution as a sum of normal distributions. And, if I can't observe these variables, how do I know that they exist?
So I guess this is one place where my intuitions are precisely wrong for handling the problem.
Best quote ever on lying
Matt Springer's review got me to thinking about Mary McCarthy's take on Lillian Hellman
(with thanks to the good people at wikiquotes)
Fox News covers quantum physics. What could possibly go wrong?
Via Felix Salmon, Matt Springer thinks he has a winner:
The Worst Physics Article Ever
Freaky Physics Proves Parallel Universes Exist
Every word in the title is wrong but "physics". It's not freaky, doesn't prove anything we didn't already know, and has nothing to do with parallel universes nor does it shed any light the question of their possible existence.
Quantum states are visible to the naked eye all the time. Neon signs, laser pointers, and all kinds of other devices show quantum behavior at the macroscopic level. What this UC Santa Barbara group has done is impressive and important - they've put a tiny but macroscopic object into a superposition of macroscopic quantum states. This is a big deal, but the difference between this and everyday single-atom quantum
mechanics is just one of scale. It's not new physics. And time travel? It's a category error on the scale of a reporter watching the Ottawa Senators play hockey and writing an article claiming they were the new lawmaking body of Canada.
Read more here.
In games of perfect information, bluffing is a really bad idea
But that seems to be the Republican strategy on financial reform. Jonathan Chait has the details:
So wait. Republicans think they can limit the political damage of a filibuster if they reach a bipartisan deal. But what incentive do the democrats have to reach a deal? If they can force the Republicans to maintain a filibuster, why not keep the issue going until November? The strategy here seems to be, take a political hit by opposing popular legislation, and then hope that somehow this will strengthen the party's hand in the negotiations to follow. How will this work? It's like trying to bluff your opponent in poker when both you and he know he has the stronger hand.
What's more, Republicans are no longer even pretending to be able to hold the line after today's vote. This is amazing:
McConnell secured a commitment from his conference to hold together in opposition on the first vote, but all bets are off after that, aides acknowledge. McConnell’s challenge after Monday is preventing moderates such as Snowe and Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) from breaking away and weakening Republican leverage.
Now that the Democrats know the Republicans are planning to defect after the first vote, why on Earth would they compromise? Moreover, what is the point of taking the hit by filibustering reform in the first place? It could work, in theory, if you could bluff the Democrats into thinking the GOP might hold the line indefinitely. But I'm pretty sure the Democratic party has access to articles published in Politico, which means the jig is up. So now the Republicans are trying to bluff in poker when they and their opponent know they have the weaker hand, and their opponent has heard them admit that their strategy is to bet for a couple rounds and fold before the end. Why not just cut their losses now? This makes zero sense.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Friday, April 23, 2010
"Any color you want as long as it's black"
Following up on Joseph's post, I have two points about SAS's graphics:
First, as bad as they are now, you should have seen them in the early Nineties;
Second, I think the graphics are a pretty good indication of the culture of SAS, a large, privately-held company with an effective monopoly over much of its market. SAS does good work and has an incredible record of innovation but is (in the words of some of its employees) a benevolent dictatorship. The company's attitude has always been we will decide what you need and what's a fair price for it.
I don't mean this as a slam against SAS. After almost twenty years you can put me down as a satisfied customer. It's a good company to work with and, by all accounts, a great company to work for. I don't think going public would make SAS a better company, but I do think it would make it do some things better.
SAS graphics
Why is SAS different?
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Weight of evidence
One of the annoying things in bio-medicine is that we often cannot replicate findings in a quick or efficient way. Unlike, for example, many areas of physics, an unusual finding can't be looked at quickly. So what do you do with a marginal finding?
Say for example, p=0.045 and conservative analytic approaches (such as BMA or LASSO regression) exclude this parameter?
If you publish it then you risk it being oversold and creating confusion.
If you don't publish it then you might join a long list of other people who ignore an important association.
Both alternatives seem unsatisfactory in the absence of a "hypothesis generation" tag for papers. I like the clinical pharmacology literature for these papers as the best of the alternatives but wish that it'd be cleaner.
A chicken in every pot, a couple more for your HMO
Sue Lowden, the candidate who is currently on track to become the next senator from Nevada recently said about health care:
My first thought was that she meant 'barter' in the figurative sense, that patients should try to cut a deal with their doctors, not that patients should literally give doctors goods and services in lieu of cash.
I was mistaken:
Aside from comic potential here (there are a lot of services you can barter for in Nevada), this suggests an interesting thought experiment:
Assuming that medical costs were driven by individual doctors and not by hospitals and drug companies (which really can't be bartered with), what would the introduction of barter do to the economics of health care? I would think that the introduction of wide-scale bartering would make the market less efficient and would produce more maldistribution of resources. Is this always true or is this another case where the strange economics of health care produce counter-intuitive results? And what would the other consequences be?
Given that there are approximately eight gazillion economics blogs out there, is there any chance that someone who knows what he or she is talking about could answer this one for us?
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Financial reporting done right
With relevant facts, important context, smart commentary and lots of obscenity (some of which is not that effectively bleeped out so you might want to wait until you get home to watch this).
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Journal Impact Factors
Candid Engineer has a post on impact factors. I find the variability of impact factors by field quite frustrating as it often neglects the field specific differences in publication style. Take, for example, the field of statistics. I have yet to find a statistician who would not be proud of an article in the Journal of the American Statistical Society (JASA). It has an impact factor of 2.3; this does not compare favorably with (for example) Epidemiology (IF=5.4) which also publishes methodological papers. But the impact factor approach understates the effort required to beuild on or develop methods -- more sophisiticated methods take a lot longer to work their way into the literature.
In any case, comparing JASA to the New England Journal of Medicine (IF=50!!) makes it clear that the field has a lot to do with the impact of a journal.
So what do you do when you are on the borders of a field?
It's a tricky problem . . .
Tragedy of the grading commons
Unless things have changed radically over the past few years, there's a simple way of determining which teachers are grading the hardest and/or assigning the most homework: just go to parent/teacher night and look for the longest line of concerned or angry parents.
This is not to say that there is no positive feedback; you will have parents who will thank you for keeping standards high and will offer their sincere support, but they will be the minority and more importantly, their per capita impact is less because of the nature of administrators.
As I mentioned in an earlier post, there are very few promotions available to teachers. Administrator is one of the few exceptions, but once you've made the jump into administration the situation changes radically.
Here is some context from the Bureau of Labor Statistics:
In May 2008, elementary and secondary school administrators had median annual wages of $83,880. The middle 50 percent earned between $68,360 and $102,830. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $55,580 and the highest 10 percent earned more than $124,250.
In May 2008, postsecondary school administrators had median annual wages of $80,670. The middle 50 percent earned between $58,940 and $113,860. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $45,050 and the highest 10 percent earned more than $160,500.
When I first decided to go into teaching I asked a retired superintendent I knew for advice. The first thing he told me was, "Never trust a superintendent; they'll lie to your face." I think he was being just a bit harsh but I understand his position. Administrators live in an intensely political world where the right move can double their incomes and the wrong one can get them demoted or fired. It tends to test character.
Under these circumstances, you can understand how frightening an angry parent can be. When a mother and father storm in and demand to talk to the principal, they bring considerable pressure to bear. Enough pressure that even a dedicated educator (and most administrators fall into that category) has to be tempted to cave.
These tense conferences are often the result of an A student receiving a B, and they, in turn, often result in an equally tense principal-teacher conference.
I have never heard of an angry conference caused by an A.
Like a well-maintained commons, high educational standard are in everyone's best interests. Unfortunately, just as it is in the best interest of the individual farmer to overuse common land, so it is in the best interest of individual parents to see their children's grades inflated.
I haven't seen any recent reform proposals that will address that problem; I have seen quite a few that will make it worse.
Monday, April 19, 2010
Who could have seen this one coming?
Apparently the competition for students willing to pay huge tuitions might occasionally lead to a drop in academic standards.
From the New York Times:
Career paths, educational reform and unintended consequences
This post by Joseph about career paths for researchers reminded me of some disturbing trends in career paths on the other side of academia, teaching.
In primary and secondary education, you can have a completely successful career by any conceivable standard and never get a single promotion. You can easily spend your entire professional life doing the same job with the same title. That might even be the ideal.
For a field requiring a degree, additional coursework and certification, this is an extraordinarily limited career path. To make up for that we have traditionally offered the following:
1. Reliable income that increases at an agreed-upon rate annually.
2. A high level of job security after a certain number of years (though this is somewhat offset by low job security before reaching tenure).
As well as creating a career path that didn't depend on promotion (and therefore largely avoided the Peter Principle), this emphasis on deferred, but steady compensation meant schools could minimize their investment in new, untested personnel (most really disastrous teachers do not make it to the tenure mark).
Two of the central tenets of the current move for education reform are elimination of tenure and replacing raises based on experience and education with merit pay. This leaves us with a career path that offers no real chance of promotion, no job security and wildly variable pay based on metrics that are largely out of the teacher's control and can easily be gamed by a biased administrator (see here).
Research Scientists
In the comments on a post on the unintended consequences of increasing post-doctoral salaries, Drug Monkey comments:
I also want to reiterate that at least 70% of the arguments going on here are complaining about the postdoc as a short training stint morphing into a substantial part of, if not the very pinnacle of, a science *career*. If this is the root of your problem, whinging for small raises ain't solving the issue. I've made myself quite clear that I think the lack of a career scientist job track is a horrible situation that bears fixing..and would save the NIH money to boot.
I think that this is really insightful. If we want to have a strong body of directed semi-independent researchers (currently the ground held by post-docs) then it might make sense to formalize the career path. My only thought is whether the new "research scientist" would end up looking a lot like a traditional professor?
On the other hand, so long as the grant system is in the present form, it's rather hard to argue for reform as the financial incentives are pretty well aligned towards making researchers who repeatedly win grants very valuable to their institutions.
Sunday, April 18, 2010
And you thought you didn't want to know how they made sausage...
The New York Times has an interesting article on the world's most expensive coffee.
Saturday, April 17, 2010
A discussion you ought to be following
Bruce Bartlett and Mark Thoma continue their analyses of the relationship between think tanks, the media and economics.
Here's Bartlett:
Conservatives understand--better than liberals, I think--that most stories are lucky to last one news cycle. If the reporter later decides that the liberal study was really worthwhile and the conservative one was worthless, he isn't going to go back and do another article on the subject. It's water over the dam.
Parenthetically, I would add that the talking head approach to policy debate on the cable news channels reinforces all the negative aspects of this development. Once upon a time, I used to do a lot of cable interviews. At first, I was often paired with people I knew at other think tanks who were slightly more liberal than I am. But because we both shared common facts and knew the limits of what could be demonstrated through serious academic research, we naturally tended to agree with each quite a bit.
Having two guests who agree with each other is the last thing cable channels want; they want their guests to be 180 degree polar opposites. So gradually I noticed that I was no longer being paired with peers from liberal think tanks, but people I had never heard of who were identified as "Democratic consultant" or something like that. Such people clearly knew virtually nothing about the subject we were discussing and were just there to endlessly repeat talking points that someone gave them.
And here's Thoma's reply:
Some of the people on these shows aren't qualified to speak as economists, but they get called again and again because they can spout talking points in an entertaining fashion. Paul Krugman paired against journalist Robert Samuelson* in a CNN debate on the deficit a week or so ago is an example of this (though from what I saw it's not clear that Samuelson satisfies the "in an entertaining fashion" constraint). Menzie Chinn was certainly frustrated by the pairing:
Nonetheless, overarching all this is a simple question. Why do we ascribe any credibility to a person with an undergraduate degree in political science (what is called Government at Harvard) in the area of economics (let alone accounting)? (The question is inspired by watching the debate between Professor Krugman and Mr. Samuelson on Fareed Zakaria GPS yesterday...)
I'm not sure what the answer is. The elevation of entertainment over facts isn't going to change as that is the most profitable strategy for the networks, and economists are unlikely to become more entertaining.
Though it won't solve the problem, one force helping to counteract the elevation of entertainment over facts is a pair of the most entertaining shows on television, the Daily Show and the Colbert Report. Not only do these shows routinely savage cable news channels for sensationalism and lack of content, they often provide more factual context in their satirical coverage than you'll see on CNN et al.
* I wonder if anyone at CNN has confused Robert Samuelson with Paul Samuelson?
Friday, April 16, 2010
Another reason to abolish tenure
You may have seen this story from Inside Higher Ed (via Andrew):
Students in introductory biology don't need to worry about meeting her standards anymore. LSU removed her from teaching, mid-semester, and raised the grades of students in the class. In so doing, the university's administration has set off a debate about grade inflation, due process and a professor's right to set standards in her own course.
Anyone who has spent time behind a podium can give you examples of parents and administrators pressuring teachers to raise a students' grades. The most egregious case I know of took place at a highly prestigious and very pricey prep school, but even in public schools in the days before school choice, a call from a parent to a principal about a grade would often result in an unpleasant employer-employee chat and the loss of a badly needed hour of grading and lesson planning.
I remember those meetings, and I remember thinking how much easier it would have been to stand up to that pressure if only the administrator had had more authority to fire teachers. Thank God for education reform.
Bartlett on the intellectual decline and political rise of think tanks
Over at Forbes, Bruce Bartlett provides an insightful insider's view of the development of the modern think tank. Mark Thoma adds his comments here.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Quote of the day on financial innovation
Felix Salmon is blunt:
In the world of credit, innovation generally consists of taking risky stuff, waving some kind of diversification and/or overcollateralization magic wand, and ending up with something which is (a) meant to be safer, and (b) much more difficult to analyze on a fundamental basis: you end up having to use models instead. And models have a tendency to break.
While on the subject of evolution...
I can't miss a chance to recommend Ian Stewart's "Through the Evolvoscope," a clever and elegant discussion of fitness landscapes. I believe this originally appeared in Stewart's Scientific American column, but you can find it in Another Fine Math You've Gotten Me Into.
Way cool.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Is Tea Party extremism simply aspect dominance?
It has been widely suggested that the coverage of the Tea Party has been focused on a few offensive and unrepresentative cases. Many of the arguments have gone something like this (from the LA Times:
A new Gallup Poll out this morning of 1,033 finds nothing fringe about self-proclaimed Tea Party adherents; they are slightly more likely to be employed, male and definitely more conservative. But otherwise Gallup's Lydia Saad writes, "their age, educational background, employment status,and race -- Tea Partiers are quite representative of the public at large."
But in an excellent post, Tom Schaller at FiveThirtyEight has a different take:
But the Gallup results only confirm that tea partiers are "mainstream" in their demographics, when what really matters are their attitudes. Results released Friday of a new multi-state poll of white voters conducted by the University of Washington's Christopher Parker paint a more complicated picture. The survey asked white respondents about their attitudes toward the tea party movement--and their attitudes toward non-whites, immigrants and homosexuals.
Evolution in the Lab
I try to link to pretty much everything that appears in Olivia Judson's Wild Side, but this piece on the implications of the continued evolution of lab animals should be particularly interesting to readers of this site.
A second area where laboratory evolution can be a serious problem is in the study of subjects like the evolution of aging, and the diseases associated with it. For example, the study of laboratory populations may give a misleading impression of how easy it is to extend lifespans: since laboratory organisms tend to have unnaturally short lifespans, discovering ways to make them live longer may not be especially informative. We may simply be reversing the unnatural shortening that we created in the first place, a view supported by the fact that selection to increase lifespan in laboratory populations often simply restores it to levels seen in the wild.
Definitely worth a look.
You can always get the answer you want if you ask the right question
In today's Wall Street Journal op-ed page, Arthur C. Brooks claims that most Americans oppose progressive taxation. This would seem to contradict most recent polling on the subject but Brooks has his own data:
A 2009 survey conducted by the polling firm Ayers-McHenry asked respondents to choose which of the following statements came closer to their views: "Government policies should promote fairness by narrowing the gap between rich and poor, spreading the wealth, and making sure that economic outcomes are more equal"; or "Government policies should promote opportunity by fostering job growth, encouraging entrepreneurs, and allowing people to keep more of what they earn." Respondents chose the second option over the first, 63% to 31%.
Jonathan Chait responds:
Ayers-McHenry is a Republican polling firm, and the question Brooks cites is an advocacy poll, not a legitimate survey of public opinion. Public opinion experts understand that loading the terms of a question can produce almost any result. The question cited in this poll is filled with loaded language to an almost comical degree.
Straightforward measure of public opinion show strong public support for a progressive tax system and higher taxes on the rich. Gallup finds that Americans overwhelmingly think the rich pay too little:
Raising taxes on the rich enjoys broad support, including among Republicans, though this belief is not reflected at all among Republican elites:
Polling on progressive versus proportional or regressive taxes is hard to come by. The conservative Tax Foundation asked a loaded question last year: "Would you support or oppose the government redistributing wealth by a much higher income tax on high income earners?" The language seems clearly designed to prompt a negative response, but respondents said yes anyway, by a 52%-31% margin. (This is probably why the Ayers-McHenry poll cited by Brooks threw in even more loaded terms in order to produce the desired result.)
Four things you probably didn't know about the Boston Tea Party
Bruce reblogs (am I using that right?) a piece by tax historian Joseph Thorndike. It's a great read. Here enough to give you a taste:
1. The Tea Party was not a protest against high taxes. The Boston Tea Party was certainly a tax protest, but it was not a protest against high taxes. In fact, it was sparked by a tax cut, not a tax hike.
2. The Tea Party was prompted by a corporate bailout. What's not to like about cheap tea? Plenty, at least when it comes as part of a corporate bailout. Because that's what the Tea Act was: an 18th-century version of corporate welfare.
3. The Tea Party was a grass-roots movement -- with an element of AstroTurf. What moved Bostonians to activism? Ideology certainly played a role. But so did political leadership, particularly on the part of the Sons of Liberty, Adams, and Boston's merchant class.
4. The Tea Party wasn't always a touchstone of American nationalism. The Tea Party looms large in the annals of American civil disobedience. Who can't warm to the notion of outraged citizens moved to public action against monopolistic tyranny?
Well, as it turns out, quite a few people.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
"Health And Virtue"
Once again we go to Chait:
This is of a piece with what, as I wrote last month, has become the dominant right-wing view of health care: that it's a matter of personal responsibility. Just as rich people are rich because they work hard (and the poor and poor because they don't), good health is largely attributable to responsible personal behavior, and poor health to sloth. Here's Jim DeMint:
In the closing chapter of “Saving Freedom,” DeMint outlines an action plant that starts with the individual. It encourages every individual to take responsibility for themselves.
“As we look at the health care of our nation, we’ve got to look at our own health care and the health care of family –– what we can do to lower the cost of health care just by taking care of ourselves.
And here's Newt Gingrich:
I think you want to re-establish that the individual has a big responsibility for their own health, because otherwise you can't deal with diabetes and obesity and things that are chronic conditions.
First Spider-Man, now Rush
You may have known that Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko was a dedicated objectivist. Now we learn that the Canadian band Rush was heavily and openly influenced by Ayn Rand.
Jonathan Chait has the whole story here.
How about an alternative to p-value?
Or, more accurately, a complement.
I think we can all agree that the quality of a study cannot be described by a scalar. Given that, is it possible to come up with a fairly small set of standard metrics that would give us a better picture?
P-value should be included and the set shouldn't have more than four metrics. Other than that, does anyone have any suggestions?
The ongoing tyranny of statistical significance testing in biomedical research
This is the title of an article that appears in the Europen Journal of Epidemiology. I think that it is a good contribution to the recent discussions on p-values. The authors seem to be focusing on the difference between clincial significance and statistical significance (and pointing out the many cases where the two may diverge).
Usually this is happens for strong effects with small samples sizes (real associations are hard to establish) and weak effects with very large sample sizes (where unimportant differences can be demonstrated).
I was surprised that the authors did not consider the possibility of observational meta-analysis -- which seems to me to be one of the possible ways to handle the issue of small sample sizes in any specific experiment. But I think the message is in concordance with the larger mesage that these tests are not a substitute for personal judgement. In the context of designed experiments they may be fine (as the experiment can be created to fit this criterion) but the uncritical use of p-values will also be an issue in the interpretation of observational research.
Another financial piece from This American Life
TAL provided some of (if not the) best stories to come out of the crisis and they've been on top of it since the beginning. Click here for their piece (free this week) paralleling Magnetar and Mel Brooks' The Producers.
There's also a fascinating profile of an ex-cop turned crusader against the war on drugs.
Good piece on education funding
Kevin Carey has the details at the New Republic.
This is great news
I was listening to Marketplace on my way to the gym this evening and I heard the following:
Kai Ryssdal: You've seen them at gas stations and at the gym probably. Maybe even in the elevators at work. Small television screens showing news and weather, and more often than not, a whole lot of ads. But really, how many people do you suppose are actually paying attention to those things? Nielsen, the company behind the television rating system, well, they know. They released their first report for those little screens today.
Nielsen tracked the impact of ads you see when you leave the house. But how does the company know when someone running on the treadmill is actually paying attention to what's on the screen in front of her?
BRENNAN: We actually measured the proximity to the machines and that they were actually on the machine and watched the content. And then we asked them to recall what it was that they watched and what they remembered.
Turns out those ads you see when you're exercising sink in.
BOB MARTIN: This report shows that what a quarter billion impressions are generated every month.
Bob Martin is chief marketing officer at RMG Networks. It's one of the 10 networks, including Gas Station TV and the Hotel Networks, that Nielsen included in this report. Martin says the new measurements could help his network sell more ads.
Why is this great news? Because my gym keeps its channels tuned to three stations, none of which I like. If they put screens on the bikes, I can stop watching videos on my really small $24 media player.
Monday, April 12, 2010
The Complexity of the Commons
This passage from an interesting interview with Nobel Prize winner Elinor Ostrom has been making the rounds. (I picked it up from Mark Thoma). Take a look:
Fran: Why were Netting’s findings so surprising to you?
Mixed messages
From Valuing Another Degree by Jonnelle Marte
These days, however, as employers continue to cut spending, expectations for such higher pay could backfire when you're competing against less educated -- and less expensive -- candidates.
For example, entry-level teachers with master's degrees often have a harder time getting hired than those with bachelor's degrees because schools typically pay more to teachers with master's degrees, says Steven Rothberg, founder of
One of the best teacher's I've known was the wife of an army officer who had to move every few years. Despite her outstanding resume and glowing references, she had a hard time getting jobs because her years of experience made her too expensive.
This is, after all, a write in haste-repent at leisure medium
[make sure to check out the comments section]
There's a common type of blog post that consists of sarcastic dismissal of a statement followed by critical statements. Though they tend to be mean, they can be fun read and, if the criticisms are valid, can add quite a bit to the conversation.
The main problem with this type of post is that has an ugly habit of devolving into just a sarcastic dismissal and those devolved posts are not so defensible (even if I'm the one writing them). This is not only mean but cowardly. By leaving out the reasons behind your sarcasm you deny your subjects the chance to defend themselves.
A couple of days ago, I made a sarcastic comment about this passage from the New York Times. Here is the quote:
And here are comments to my post by Prof. Flesch.
My problems with Prof. Flesch's statement and more importantly with the NYT article are as follows.
Altruistic punishment has become a bit of a flavor of the month, one of those fashionable ideas that people like to work into conversations and op-ed pieces. Unfortunately this often leads to the ideas being applied where they don't fit or being used as labels for related ideas. This can (and, I would argue, should) prompt greater scrutiny and that scrutiny should always start with the question, is the concept being used correctly?
What are the requirements of altruistic punishment?
The punisher has to proceed knowing that not punishing the offender would produce a better outcome for the punisher. Outcome here needs to be broadly defined to include not only the material but also reproductive and reputational – the loan shark who has a defaulter killed is not engaged in altruistic punishment even though he probably would have collected more from a living customer; he is investing in a reputation that will make future defaults less likely.
To make sure not to confound the problem, researchers often focus on unrelated strangers with whom no future encounters are anticipated.
Altruistic punishment is normally discussed in the context of the evolution of large-scale cooperation. "Unlike other creatures, people frequently cooperate with genetically unrelated strangers, often in large groups, with people they will never meet again, and when reputation gains are small or absent." (Fehr and Gächter) The behavior suggests that individuals are biologically programmed to want to enforce the rules that make complex societies possible.
With all that out of the way, can we reasonably say that Odysseus (or, for that matter, Hamlet or Poirot) is an altruistic punisher?
The mythic world of the Odyssey was small and greatly concerned with reputation and social standing. It was clearly in Odysseus' interest to be seen as a dangerous and vengeful opponent. Acts that enhance that reputation can't really be considered altruistic punishment even if (as with Polyphemus and his father) the acts turn out to be more costly than expected.
It is even more difficult to make the case for altruistic punishment in the killing of the suitors. Here we have a group that has threatened to take his property (material), marry his wife and kill his son (genetic) and humiliate him in the process (reputational). It is the trifecta of self-interest. There was a high potential cost to this act but that alone is not sufficient to make it altruistic punishment. (besides, the consequences were based not only on the deaths of the suitors but also on the loss to those who accompanied him to Troy. He might well have faced an angry mob if he had simply told the suitors to go home.)
I admit my knowledge of the Odyssey is weak and I may well have missed some important aspect that supports the hypothesis that Odysseus was an altruistic punisher and not simply someone who pursued great goals at great costs, but they aren't obvious to the casual reader.
As for the other examples, Don Quixote probably does qualify. Hamlet is more problematic. He is acting in the interest of his father which brings in a genetic component (I'm not sure what the evolutionary psychology implications are of his father being a ghost). There's also a self-preservation aspect (perhaps more obvious in the Amleth version). As for Poirot, both his livelihood and his reputation rely on his ability to solve crimes. There are cases (most notably Curtain) where his goal is clearly altruistic punishment, but in most of his cases there is a clear element of self-interest. You could, however, make a pretty good argument for Lord Peter Whimsey.
And there are certainly examples of altruistic punishment out there. The Count of Monte Cristo is a good fit since there is no apparent material or reproductive gain and most of the revenge is carried out anonymously. Crime fiction also provides numerous protagonists (Lew Archer, Travis McGee, Matt Scudder) who take cases from strangers then continue to pursue them after their clients had stopped paying them. In one book, Scudder went so far as to make a suicide look like a murder then frame the man who was morally responsible for the death.
We could go on (anyone care to make the case for Miss Havisham?) but I don't know what it would accomplish. Like every other imaginable human behavior, altruistic punishment occurs in literature. We can take that as a not very interesting given.
There are cases where analyzing a work in terms of evolutionary psychology can provide real and unique insights. All too often, though, when an idea like altruistic punishment becomes fashionable, juxtaposition often replaces analysis. References to trendy terms like market forces or the prisoner's dilemma are stuck into arguments where they contribute little and often don't even apply (such as trying to use the prisoner's dilemma to describe a stag hunt).
We should always welcome new ideas and cross-pollination, but when we see a headline in the New York Times that starts with the words "Next Big Thing," it's probably a time to be a bit more critical.
(and if I had an issue with an New York Times article, I suppose I should have done more than slam one quote.)
Friday, April 9, 2010
And you thought the academic job market was tough
Chait on careers in journalism
I had some posts up earlier (see here and here) on how economic changes had affected the career options for writers of fiction. Over at The New Republic, Jonathan Chait looks at old and new career paths for writers on the nonfiction side. His comments on columnists are particularly interesting:
The traditional ladder is even more problematic for columnists. Calderone notes, "a Washington column has traditionally been the reward at the end of a climb up the journalistic ladder, with stops along the way at small-town papers, medium-sized city desks and local TV newsrooms." Whereas the small town beat is merely unnecessary as a career chokepoint for national reporters, it's actually counterproductive for columnists. Writing opinion about politics and public policy is a very different skill than reporting. The almost-uniform rule of political reporters-turned-columnists is that they're awful at it. They have no idea how to construct a persuasive argument or marshal the kinds of evidence they need to make their case. Usually, their argument relies on authority -- I am asserting opinion X and you should believe me because I am a prestigious veteran reporter.
The practice of training people for one kind of work and then shifting them into something that requires a completely different set of skills is one of the more bizarre habits of the traditional journalism world. If the New York Times approached me and said that I've done a good job as a columnist and blogger for TNR, and now I should start covering the city hall beat for them, it would be nuts. I'd be horrible.
Statins in healthy individuals
This new york times article was quite worthy of thinking about. In particular, it's still not clear to me that C-reactive protein is the best possible marker of high cardiovascular risk. Nor, if the primary mechanism is inflammation, why conventional anti-inflammatory medications like aspirin are not the best therpuetic choice. Statins also lower blood pressure but they are clearly not the best anti-hypertensive medication option for healthy, low risk patients.
It is a pretty large public health experiment and I can only hope that the benefits will exceed any potential side effects of medication use.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Outsourcing English papers
Confessions of a Community College Dean has a good detailed post up the practice of off-shoring grading:
I got my undergraduate degrees (one in creative writing, one in math, but that's a story for another time) from a small four-year school. With a handful of exceptions, my professors were experienced, tenured teaching professionals who took undergraduate education and mentoring every bit as seriously as professors at big universities take their research.
A few years later I did stint at the state's big university, teaching undergrad courses and helping supervise the teaching assistants. I came away from that experience with the conviction that undergraduate education at most large universities is basically a scam, tricking students into buying a third-rate product with the lure of a big name and prestigious faculty members whom most of the students will never even see let alone study under.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Does this sound right?
From David Brooks (via a disbelieving Brad Delong):
Positive Reviews
Have you ever reviewed a paper and thought "wow, this paper is excellent". It's well written, relevant and obviously crafted with care. Well, know I have.
My question is what do you do with it? Do you find items to nitpick so you can show that you were rigorous or do you simply recommend that the paper proceed to publication?
“Gives new meaning to company town.”
From the Asilomar International Conference on Climate Intervention Technologies reported by Jeff Goodell and brought to our attention by Brad Plumer:
It was generally agreed that for CO2-sucking technologies, private investment was not a problem [n.b., assuming we have some sort of cap-and-trade system in place]. Sunlight-reduction technologies, however, are another issue. if some company (or entrepreneur) is able to develop a new way of injecting particles into the stratosphere that becomes indispensible to the survival of the human race, well, that gives that company or person a lot of leverage.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
I know there's a Schrödinger's cat joke here somewhere
Andrew Gelman has an excellent post up on the contradictory findings of two teams of researchers on the effect child-gender has on parents' political leanings.
Understanding the results (possibly) in terms of "family values"
This is a fun problem: we have two different studies, both by reputable researchers, with opposite results! I took a look at both papers and can't immediately see a resolution, but I will offer some speculations, followed by some scattered comments.
Andrew speculates that the differences in the findings can be explained by the fact that one study looked at the U.S. while the other looked at Britain with some additional data taken from Germany. Commenter DN elaborated further:
This brings up one of my least favourite practices in bad statistics reporting: generalizing conclusions about attitudes drawn from a specific culture or social group. One example that stayed with me (reported by the ever credulous NYT under the headline Bicycle Helmets Put You at Risk) was that of Ian Walker, a psychiatrist at the University of Bath. Walker, an opponent of helmet laws, put a sensor on his bike and rode with and without a helmet until he had been passed 2,500 times (see the curse of large numbers). To control for potential gender effects he sometimes donned a long wig (to get the full comic effect, check out Walker's picture below).
Walker found vehicles came on average 3.35 inches closer when he was wearing a helmet (for context, the average passing clearance was over four feet).
Putting aside for the moment questions about the methodology of the study and the sweeping conclusions Walker from it, the New York Times article works under the implicit assumption that despite major differences in traffic laws, road conditions, driver etiquette and education, vehicle type and biking culture, findings from that small stretch of English road are equally applicable to American highways.
Subtle issues
This recent study in Pharmacoepidemiolgy and Drug Safety suggests that long term warfarin use leads to more aggressive cancer (as opposed to never users). However, the same authors have shown that warfarin reduces the incidence of prostate cancer in this population.
Is it not just as likely that the warfarin use is more effective versus less agressive cancers as a mildly anti-cancer agent?
I'm curious as to why this interpretation of the data was not pursued
Monday, April 5, 2010
The Long Goodbye -- the networks are taking a long damned time to die
Yesterday I posted a link to Clay Shirky's essay comparing the big media empires to societies like the Roman Empire that collapsed under the weight of their own complexity. I commented that I doubted his conclusions. Here's one of the reasons why.
Back in the early Nineties, when I was still picking up some extra money as a freelance writer, I did a long feature on the surprising vitality of broadcast television in Northwest Arkansas. The vitality was surprising because broadcast television had been under a death watch for more than a decade.
These ominous prognoses had started started sometime in the mid to late Seventies, prompted by the arrival of home video and the rise of cable and satellite-based cable stations. By the beginning of the Eighties, most observers agreed that the outlook was dire. At least one columnist predicted that one of the networks (his guess was NBC) would be gone by the end of the decade. (The columnist obviously didn't have a lot of faith in that Tartikoff kid the network had just hired.)
By 1990 there were exactly twice as many networks as the columnist had predicted and one more than anyone had expected. What happened? Entertainment executives had been trying to launch a fourth network since DuMont went dark in 1956. Why was an industry facing an explosion of new competition suddenly able to support a major new player?
What industry watchers were overlooking was that broadcast stations fell into two distinct groups: VHF and UHF. For the VHF stations, cable really was a threat to a virtual monopoly. it marginally improved their picture quality but it brought in numerous new channels. UHF stations, however, had poor picture quality and low range. As businesses, they were only viable in large, heavily populated areas (and then only marginally). With cable, though, a channel 39 could compete on an equal footing with a channel 2.
This was what made Fox and later the CW viable businesses.
But to me the most remarkable thing about this story is the way the standard narrative has changed so little over the decades. For more than thirty years, there has been a steady stream of stories about reduced schedules, mergers, and deaths of networks and with the exception of the creation of the CW, every single one of them has been incorrect. Over three decades of wrong.
Just to put this in perspective, ABC, the last of the big three, started broadcasting in 1948. That was also about that the other networks started moving past the experimental stage. If we pick that as our starting point, network television has spent more than half of its life under a prognosis of imminent death. During that time the number of networks has gone from three to four to five (and might have been six if not not for some disastrous strategic errors by the heads of WB and UPN) and CBS, the network that reacted the least to the changes in the market (sticking mainly with sitcoms and hour dramas and keeping a very small web presence) is arguably the healthiest of the bunch.
Of course, this could all change in the next year or so. There is no reason to assume the current networks are any more immortal than DuMont was. All the same, we've been told since the late Seventies that this section of the sky is just about to fall. Perhaps it's time to question Mr. Little's credibility.
All others things being equal
Regression analysis is often interpreted as being the effect of changing one variable while holding all other factors constant. Sadly, when working with complex human behaviors, like in nutritional epidemiology, factors rarely stay constant. A change in one parameter can shift other parameters making inference difficult. A very good example of this was reviewed by Travis Saunders of Obesity Panacea.
Now obviously randomized experiments allow an estimate of the average causal effect of an intervention but they are expensive to run and these types of research questions raise grave issues of equiposie and adherence in the design of these experiments!
Decline and Fall of the Media Empires?
Clay Shirky has a post up comparing the current state of the big media companies to the declining days of the Romans, the Lowlands Maya, the inhabitants of Chaco canyon. I think he gets a lot wrong (hell, I think he gets most of it wrong), but he gets it wrong in a really interesting way.
Give it a look:
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Just afore the years run out for this
enticing as always you'll be
rare to the world, your heart really is
aloft; thine state-praise thee!
How the world changed upon your lost
at mine state 'twas so oblivious
pretty lucky ain't no loss
past to aback was no previous
yes! Never united the world so apart
But smiles aren't to be forfieted
Days and more days, life's yet to start
'twas satisfied no long unriqquited.
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02:09 PM ET
4 years ago
On Capitol Hill, Obama's new economic measures confront reality
President Obama has proposed additional infrastructure spending.
President Obama has proposed additional infrastructure spending.
Washington (CNN) - Top Democratic and Republican leadership aides on Capitol Hill say President Barack Obama's two new economic proposals have virtually no chance of passing Congress before the midterm elections, even before he has formally announced them.
Obama is expected to unveil a plan Monday in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to push at least $50 billion into infrastructure spending. In Cleveland, Ohio, on Wednesday, he will tout the increase and extension of a business tax credit for research and development. The White House says both proposals will be paid for, in part, by closing tax loopholes for oil and gas companies.
Doubtful that either will pass in the near future, Democrats and Republicans are blaming each other.
"After failing to deliver on their economic promises for more than 18 months, the administration wants to do it again - this time with higher taxes to pay for even more new spending," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, said in a written statement Monday.
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1. usualone
The negativity is appauling. Even before the President is off the bench, people defeat him. No matter what he says, people are going to kill his ideas. He has to look and be stronger than Jimmy Carter was. President Carter was a decent man (he brokered the peace between Egypt and Israel and that should count for something) but he was manipulated by too many and appeared weak. That is why Reagan stood a chance. All Democrats should back this President because we know what the other choice will be. The President can tweek his ideas; with the other side in power we go back to an even bigger divide in this country. And we know who those who represent the Republican Party support these days....only their own pocketbooks. Selfish folk they are. Some should look at those who used to be Republicans to learn how their party used to be.
September 6, 2010 02:19 pm at 2:19 pm |
2. awaitingliberalizationbyCNN
The infrastructure stuff might work, if they drop the union coddling prevailing wage crap that runs up the cost and ruins so many of these projects, but with this union toady running the country there isn't much chance of that, also please not that he is going to make sure our gas prices rise to pay for them. After all of the other crap he has gotten passed that has increased our taxes and fees, why is he now all of the sudden getting interested in jobs? He has ignored them since he has been in office.
September 6, 2010 02:21 pm at 2:21 pm |
3. KO
The do-nothing Republicans pledging once again to do nothing. Why anyone would want to put these bozos (who helped cause many of our economic problems) back in charge is completely beyond me.
September 6, 2010 02:24 pm at 2:24 pm |
4. Albo58
As usual, this President and his drones have come up with the grand plan of throwing our money at a problem and hoping that there will be a change! After the fiasco of the Stimulus bill which only stimulated political paybacks and the deep pockets of Union leadership, this clown thinks he can get away with it again...what a clueless, arrogant buffoon!
5. jim
So after all the months of doing nothing on the economy Obama comes out with this so called small business plan that is financed by raising taxes on oil and gas companies.Typical democratic policies that have come to represent their policies over the times they have held power.(tax and spend).Obama's "dunce" needs to be removed.
September 6, 2010 02:28 pm at 2:28 pm |
6. ryan
The sad thing is, what he's already done isn't even being talked about enough. They are paying for Obamacare by changing the way we use IRS 1099 forms. Look it up. They snuck huge changes to our taxes in to the rediculous health care bill. CNN please report on the form 1099 changes.
September 6, 2010 02:34 pm at 2:34 pm |
7. Hammerer
This is the guy that ridiculed McCain's knowledge on the economy during the 2008 campaign.
He not only does not have a clue but his appointees are worse. So far the economic strategy has been a disaster and the new scheme will only make it worse.
Without the party of "No" America would be in financial bankruptcy.
September 6, 2010 02:39 pm at 2:39 pm |
8. motorboat
With the way republicans are saying no to every bill and measure brought up by Obama to try and undo all the harm that had been done by the previous administration; Iraq war, aphganistan war, financial crisis, job crisis, etc. Maybe we should just tax registered republicans for these problems. That way our kids would not have to pay back the debt we have to endure because of their ignorance.
September 6, 2010 02:40 pm at 2:40 pm |
9. Limbaugh is a liberal
When republicans propose it, they're called tax cuts. When Obama proposes tax credits they're called 'wasteful spending?' But then again, even if Obama gave in to republican proposals 100%, they would still vote it down. Such is the hypocritic party of NO.
10. BigE
Mr. McConnel the tax cuts have not expired yet. Did the still in place tax cuts create jobs? Give us, the so called little people, the money so we can spend it to get the economy going.
September 6, 2010 02:47 pm at 2:47 pm |
11. Republicans gone wild!!
12. Anonymous
To recover from the damage done to this country by the Bush administration and his "yes man" Republican congress will take generations. President Obama or any other president cannot accomplish such a task in a few years, but we have to start somewhere, and our only hope is with with President Obama and a Democratic congress
13. Marry
President Obama and his administration at least try very hard to make the economy start up again. And they do that with a lot more success as the GOP that just sits there and does not even blink an eye when their candidates say thinks like: It is not their job to try to set conditions so that jobs can be created. They see it as their job to make sure the special interests make more profits on the backs of the middle class and the poor.
So I would never vote against my very own interests and send more Republicans to Washington. They have proven in the past that they are for “ME first” instead of “We (the people) first” and they will not work differently in the future.
The GOP is very good at being bad for the American people and the Democrats are very bad at being good.
September 6, 2010 02:57 pm at 2:57 pm |
14. Jason
I love how the GOP cries wolf, i.e. higher taxes, with every single announcement the President makes...yet, I've seen my taxes go down...and I've yet to see a single piece of evidence to show me exactly where my taxes have, or will, go up. All I hear is the fear.
15. mother and sister of soldiers
tax and spend...when will OBama learn this strategy fails? has the man have no understanding of economics and what creates jobs? Stop expecting corporations to foot your bill and you may restore their confidence whereby seeing job creation. Until then, you loose and this country continues to spiral down. We cannot afford your big debt or big government.
September 6, 2010 02:59 pm at 2:59 pm |
16. johnrj08
Hey, Mitch, that "failure to deliver" couldn't be because you've orchestrated the most unprecedented obstructionism in the history of the republic, could it?
September 6, 2010 03:09 pm at 3:09 pm |
17. motorboat
With the way republicans are saying no to every bill and measure brought up by Obama to try and undo all the harm that had been done by the previous administration; Iraq war, aphganistan war, financial crisis, job crisis, health bill, etc. Maybe we should just tax registered republicans for these problems
September 6, 2010 03:11 pm at 3:11 pm |
18. motorboat
With the way the party of no is voting on every bill and measure brought up by Obama to try and undo all the harm that had been done by the previous administration; Iraq war, aphganistan war, financial crisis, job crisis, health bill, etc. Maybe we should just tax registered republicans for these problems.
September 6, 2010 03:14 pm at 3:14 pm |
19. floridian
The words are "follow the money". Take a look at the fine print in the legistlation and I bet you will find words to the effect that the infrastructure $$ can only be spent for union labor. Another payback being called an economic stimulus - like the previous $$ spent to save all those teachers' jobs. Why does he continue to try to pull the wool over our eyes? Why can't he be honest and up front? Why does he have to travel to Wisconsin to lie?
September 6, 2010 03:15 pm at 3:15 pm |
20. andy
People get the government they deserve... and right now with the stupidity of the American people at all time and the unprecedented level of GOP brainwashed middle class we deserve another 8 years of Bush, GOP and Tea Party. Let's all go back 200 years..
September 6, 2010 03:18 pm at 3:18 pm |
21. barry
Poor President Obama. Look what the American people have done to him. It is not his fault. He is doing everything he can. People need to understand it's their fault unemployment is 9.6%and the deficit has exploded. They voted him in and knew he had no experience. This is a little more responsibility than a community organizer. He usually got his advice from the big labor unions and as usual he followed their advice and gave them a trillion dollars. This is not the Potus fault. He just had a dream. It's the American peoples fault because they elected him. Poor President Obama.
September 6, 2010 03:22 pm at 3:22 pm |
22. LMC
Failing to deliver? With the Republicans trying to thwart the President at every turn, it is obvious that the Republicans want failure! Top Republicans have said they are proud of obstructing the government and would like to obstruct it more. The Republicans don't care one whit about the people–they want failure so that they have a better chance of coming back into power. They care more about power than they do the people of America. If this is your idea of a good party, than by all means keep supporting it. Just remember that this is the party that brought you the recession! Does anyone honestly believe that any other leader would have had more success by now? Our economy was based on lies and excess. Do we really want to travel back to that?
September 6, 2010 03:24 pm at 3:24 pm |
23. MatthewDetroit
The Joker spent a trillion dollars and it did not help.
He USED the excuse that it would be for roads and Infrastructure which was a LIE.
Now he claims he needs 50 billion more for roads and airports. LIE.
The AMOUNTS of money are SO high that NO ONE can actually track where the money is going.
They also spent it to study Hookers in Brazil.....
Take the trillion the US Citizens already gave you and use that for roads. Stop spending money on EVERYTHING else.
24. Da Professor
Sad comment - The Republicans will NOT pass any legislation that will improve employment prior to the election in November. That would improve the Dems chances for reelection and dampen the chances for Repub election.
The Republicans are TOTALLY focused on being elected and the hell with unemployed Americans. As usual, the arrogant, self serving, hypocritical Republicans and Tea Party fools are disinterested in anything that would improve the lives of Americans if it would give Obama and the Dems a win.
September 6, 2010 03:26 pm at 3:26 pm |
25. Marvin
The Republicans were fine with $3 trillion wasted in Iraq and $900 billion wasted on Bush's tax cuts for the rich but they aren't willing to OK $50 billion for our building the infrastructure of our own country? Just more disgusting politics from the Republicans. They put their politics ahead of the country every single time.
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Rolling Stone Journalist Matt Taibbi. (photo: HBO)
Rolling Stone Journalist Matt Taibbi. (photo: HBO)
'Bailout': Barofsky's Adventures in Groupthink City
By Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
07 February 13
Geithner thought, then answered:
Remember that making the world better begins with responsible action.
- The RSN Team
+15 # Patbilla1 2013-02-07 10:12
"Asleep-on-the- job twits" That about says it all!
+32 # maddave 2013-02-07 10:32
You are surprised, maybe, over your awakening to the fact that that power and the powerful are their own reasons for being, and nothing - not you, not me, not the better good of the Nation - is more important?
They don't care what we are thinking. . .or worse. . .they tell us what to think, and most of us obey.
With the plutocratic disdain of a pack of well-fed Serengeti lions napping under a solitary shade tree, Washington Inner-circle (and inner-circle and wanabees) - view We The People just as the lions survey the other animals on the Plain . . . The (antelopes) and We (The People) comprise their next meals.
Generally, in the minds Corporate America and our Government, common people economic expendables: inexpensive commodities to be used up, thrown away and, if need be, cheaply and easily replaced.
+25 # lindyb 2013-02-07 10:39
It's what comes of putting lobbyists and industry insiders in charge of oversight. The are all about not getting caught and protecting the industry, not US citizens. It's the fox in charge of the hen house.
+29 # beeyl 2013-02-07 11:17
Somehow, words like "narcissism" and "hubris" don't quite capture the scale of ugly arrogant solipsism it takes to speak Geithner's words with a straight face. God, what a douche!
+4 # AndreM5 2013-02-07 13:20
Since it worked so well before, he was probably trying to quote GWB who was asked the same question.
+16 # coberly 2013-02-07 11:29
I would only add that the behavior and attitudes described were fully evident at my places of employment. I think bureaucratic-th ink is a standard human coping strategy for keeping your job and advancing your career.. in any bureaucracy.
the only cure, i think, is honesty from above. or occasionally an intermediate level boss who is not so interested in advancement that he does not try to run a sane shop at his own level. either of those is extremely rare.
+33 # elmont 2013-02-07 11:40
Imagine how different our knowledge of the world would be were it not for Matt. Love his stuff.
+18 # James Marcus 2013-02-07 12:07
All understandable:
Everyone has.... a 'Hand-In-The-Ti ll'.
"Keep quiet. Go along, to get along, and you'll get your share of The Booty" (extorted funds).
Make Noise (or Blow the Whistle!), and 'You'll get yours', in Quite Another Way (and your family is in danger, too!)
Mafia Style!
+14 # noitall 2013-02-07 12:25
Matt, you should get some profit kick-back from Barofsky because you sure sold "Bailout" to me! You're right, a valuable account that adds credence to what most of us suspect about that cesspool that is our Nation's Capitol. I've just started watching "House of Cards", a TV series about the D.C. chess match where the People's 'win' comes WAY DOWN on the priority list of those regal giants (in their own minds) that are our political leaders. Perfect account, Matt, I loved it! Everyone who makes the pilgrimage to D.C. should read this, put those smooth folks that they will be dealing with into perspective (thereby raising one's own stature and conficence) and move forward with accomplishing your mission for YOUR people without becoming infected by the blight that is D.C. politics.
+12 # MainStreetMentor 2013-02-07 12:33
Within every elected, good-intentione d, new official, there comes a confrontation with the “turning-point” : i.e.; Their original “what-must-be-d one” attitude meets “this-is-the-wa y-things-are-do ne-in-governmen t” established policy/procedur e. If the latter does not elicit compliance from the new official, both their effectiveness and their tenure are doomed to live a short political life. Until an entire GROUP of newly elected, singleness-of-p urpose, officials arrive at any given body of government – and strictly due to their collective numbers – will any possibility of change EVER be afforded to the level of governance to which they were elected.
0 # wrknight 2013-02-11 13:22
You argue eloquently for single term limits.
+1 # Rahn 2013-02-07 13:30
With the UCC filings of the One Peoples Public Trust, which have foreclosed on the corporations posing as government, we no longer live by their leave. The Guardian has stepped up to the plate. How about you Matt.http://gua 3/01/in-the-mon ey-federal-rese rve-world-banks -foreclosed-on/
+12 # angelfish 2013-02-07 14:30
God Bless Matt Taibbi! He deserves the medal of Freedom for his work and diligence in keeping us informed. NO ONE does it better! Thanks, Matt!
0 # RobertMStahl 2013-02-08 17:58
Does anyone see how gold is so propagandized with puts on the derivative market to make enough gold underground disappear at such low prices, continents could cave in as the wealth is transferred to China, if you get my drift about the US Treasury and how all nation-states are liquidity traps unaware of what a difference really makes. Lauren Lyster tells it like it is, And, today, more of the same defeat of the price of gold..
0 # stoher9 2013-02-16 16:16
Say What???
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Comment: Supply & demand (Score 1) 281
by Ichijo (#48187603) Attached to: An Algorithm to End the Lines for Ice at Burning Man
The existence of a queue means that people are willing to pay more for the product. So why not let them? Raise the price as the queue gets longer, and lower the price as the queue gets shorter. This stabilizes and even lets you control the length of the queue.
They should do the same at ballparks on game day. Instead of charging a fixed rate for parking, charge to go through the gate according to the number of cars waiting to get in or out. If you get there really early, you could get in practically for free, and if you tailgate after the game, you can get out practically for free. With shorter queues and a greater ability to save money, everybody wins!
Robot SmackDowns Wants To Bring Robot Death Matches To an Arena Near You 80
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Comment: Re:Prison population (Score 4, Interesting) 407
by Ichijo (#48171747) Attached to: As Prison Population Sinks, Jails Are a Steal
Felonies are also ridiculously easy to get. In the '80s, if two people were caught racing in their cars, it would be a $111 fine. Now, here in Texas, that is a felony.
Rather than a prison sentence followed by automatic eligibility to be re-licensed to be a hazard on the streets again, I think a far more appropriate punishment would be to permanently revoke the person's license until he or she can prove, through a battery of physical and psychological tests, that he or she is no longer a hazard on the road. (This is what they do in Germany.)
But in the USA, for some reason it seems to be considered more humane to make someone a felon and lock them away than to ban them from driving.
Great for private prison profit margins... all paid for on the US taxpayers nickel.
This is why the goals of prisons need to be aligned better with the goals of society. Instead of putting someone away for x years, if private prisons bid against each other on a fixed price to rehabilitate each prisoner, coupled with penalties each time a released prisoner re-offends, private prisons would do their best to rehabilitate each prisoner as quickly, completely, and inexpensively as possible. Isn't this what we all really want?
Comment: Re:Let me get this right (Score 1) 832
by Ichijo (#48165031) Attached to: Bill Gates: Piketty's Attack on Income Inequality Is Right
no housing allowed in the industrial zone
That's a silly law. It should be the other way around: no industry allowed in the residential zone.
Would you like to explain how those zones "keep the poor and minorities out of middle-class and wealthy neighborhoods"?
When you force every house to have parking (which people too poor to own cars don't need), you drive up the cost of housing and drive out the poor from the neighborhood.
You also drive out the poor with limits on dwelling units per acre, minimum liveable square footage, and prohibitions against granny flats, dorms, and boarding houses.
Comment: Re:Let me get this right (Score 1) 832
by Ichijo (#48164279) Attached to: Bill Gates: Piketty's Attack on Income Inequality Is Right
No, it's the victims and the rest of society who seek revenge (called "retribution" by lawyer types) who create the need for imprisonment.
Because the main purpose of prisons is revenge and not rehabilitation, prisoners benefit very little from prisons. And because our society decided that people should pay for things in proportion to the benefit they receive from them, it stands to reason that prisoners should not pay for their own incarceration.
Comment: Re:Let me get this right (Score 2) 832
by Ichijo (#48161695) Attached to: Bill Gates: Piketty's Attack on Income Inequality Is Right
Middle and lower income households absorb the greatest percentage of social programs, so why shouldn't they be the ones that contribute the most to them?
That's like asking prisoners to pay for their imprisonment. Remember, the purpose of the zoning code is to keep the poor and minorities out of middle-class and wealthy neighborhoods, and that in turn restricts economic mobility, keeping the poor dependent on social programs for their livelihood. For example, the market would build more affordable housing if it weren't prevented from building it.
(Side note: this is similar to the way motorists support separated bicycling infrastructure, in order to get bicyclists out of their way. And then they complain that bicyclists aren't paying their fair share for those separated facilities.)
So I think the people who actually want those social programs (the wealthy) that keep the poor poor should be the ones to pay for them.
Posted by samzenpus
from the and-stay-out dept.
Comment: Re:Article ignores variability (Score 1) 608
by Ichijo (#48136947) Attached to: Wind Power Is Cheaper Than Coal, Leaked Report Shows
...when wind varies you need to have other types of power (such as natural gas) ready to pick up the slack.
You're half correct. If you'll recall your demand curve from Econ 101, when demand exceeds supply, there are two ways to reach an equilibrium. Your suggestion, increase supply, is one of those ways. The other, of course, is to reduce demand, as eBay does to prevent too many people from winning the same auction.
Snapchat Says Users Were Victimized By Their Use of Third-Party Apps 90
Posted by Soulskill
from the illusion-of-impermanence dept.
Lucas123 writes: Reports that the servers of photo messaging site Snapchat were hacked are being denied by the company, which is now is saying its users were instead victimized by their use of third-party apps to send and receive Snaps. Hackers on 4chan have said broke into the site and they're preparing to release 200,000 photos or videos in their own database that will be searchable by Snapchatter name. According to one report, the third-party Snapchat client app enabled access for years to the data that was supposed have been deleted. The hackers have said they have a 13GB photo library. For its part, Snapchat in a statement reiterated its Terms of Use Policy, that "expressly prohibits" third-party app use "because they compromise our users' security."
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We have a cassandra cluster of 3 nodes. yesterday I stopped one of the node and started it again today. Surprisingly now I have the different ring for the new node. why it is showing as different ring and there are no error messages in the logs.
ring 1: nodetool status
ring 2: nodetool status
When I see the logs of ring 1 both the nodes shows the same message:
WARN [WRITE-/] 2013-11-05 14:04:51,221 SSLFactory.java (line 139) Filtering out TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA as it isnt supported by the socket
Ring 2:
It has no errors
Both the cluster names are same and both are in the same network and all the three nodes are seed nodes. Any help would be appreciated.
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Just a guess, but this may be related to How to remove a node from gossip in cassandra, in that you may have a ring that is a bad state.
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How can I change the first visible item in a list view (I searched a method such as setFirstVisiblePosition) ?
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Have a look at this question.
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How did you solved that? I wanna scroll the clicked expandableItem to the first visible position of the list. – Derzu May 23 '12 at 22:46
Returns the position within the adapter's data set for the first item displayed on screen. Once you have the position, you can alter the item at that position in your adapter.
Presume my Adapter is binding a String[] to a ListView. I can use getFirstVisiblePosition() method on the listview instance, which will return the index/position of the first visible item, I can then change my String item at the "index"th position and alter the list.
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I do not understood your explanation. I wanna scroll the clicked expandableItem to the first visible position of the expandableList. Did you know how to do that? – Derzu May 23 '12 at 22:49
you can use setSelection(index) so the display will jump to the index you want
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How to increase the volume for an avi file
What is the simplest way I can amplify the audio in a video file (.avi, .mpg, .flv, etc)?
I transfer these videos and watch them on a portable device (cellphone). Sometimes their audio level is so low that it is barely audible, even when the volume of the player (in the portable device) is turned to the maximum.
(I am using Windows.)
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marked as duplicate by slhck Sep 16 '12 at 8:36
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You'll need to do this in following steps.
4. Save the result as a wave file.
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JT Ready's Last Rant: Before The Massacre, The Neo-Nazi Border Vigilante Named Names
On Wednesday, authorities said Ready walked into a house in a suburb east of Phoenix and opened fire, killing four people, including his girlfriend and a toddler, before killing himself.
Far from disabusing anyone of the idea he was bigot, Ready's email was filled with invectives about Jews and immigrants. But it detailed the politicians and events he said helped him find his way to extremism over the years.
"I was not born with a Klan robe on," he wrote. "Contrary to popular belief, my mother did not Sieg Heil! a bottle into my chubby cherub face with Nazi zeal. I was actually raised pretty liberal and in a democrat home with multiculturalism all around us. Zionists even. But all was not right in Disneyland."
The same lengthy rant he sent by email was also published in a corner of the website Ready maintained for his militia-style border watch group, which he called the U.S. Border Guard. That website disappeared this week following his death. The only thing left was a message that said the site had been "suspended indefinitely out of respect for the family and friends of the deceased."
In light of these events, TPM is publishing some of the emails key excerpts, which either show his connections with mainstream politicians in Arizona or else demonstrate his awareness that he and his group were being watched by law enforcement.
Some of the events he described in the email have not been independently verified. Others, like his relationship with former state Sen. Russell Pearce, are well documented. Be warned, some of the text below is filled with language that may be offensive. The email was also written in an unusual style with certain internet URLs written in the middle of sentences rather than included as links. Those URLs have been removed for clarity.
Ready was often on the fringes of Arizona politics and aspired to someday hold elected office. Here, he named the people who helped him with those ambitions, including a religious and political fundraiser.
I became the fastest promoted CS3 within Jay Mount's conservative fundraising power wagon MDS. I started my own charity "Manna for Mesa" and fed hordes of homeless. I worked tirelessly in Mormon charitable endeavors. Still, friends and neighbors considered me an opinion molder and prodded me into local politics. From President of the Mesa Community College Republican's Club, to shadowing elected officials such as former Speaker of the House Jeff Groscost who took me under their wing, to working my way up the food chain in the state republican party with Senator Russell Pearce, I had an innate knack for delivering powerful speeches, winning debates, and delivering one line knock out blows to political rivals. I became a precinct committeeman, precinct captain, county delegate, state delegate, and national delegate alternate as well as making a strong show in a city council race where I came in ahead of a well-funded Latina activist in a largely Hispanic district.
Ready claimed, even beyond his politics, his extremism was mentored by then-state Sen. Russell Pearce.
He boasted that his militia-style group, called the U.S. Border Guard, which patrolled the desert between Phoenix and Tucson looking for undocumented immigrants, had never been in trouble with the law.
Ready described his fellow neo-Nazi Jeffery Harbin, who was caught transporting homemade bombs for an operation on the border in 2011 and later sentenced to two years in prison, as a "patriot and a hero."
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"Their Royal Highnesses Are Unharmed" -- But British Politics Are Getting More Interesting
If Only The King Knew: British Protesters Egg Charles and Camilla's Limo
I continue to be impressed with the capacity of what George W. Bush used to refer to as "Old Europe" to fight for a vision of the world where all of us are not being used to generate profit for someone. Like Hannah Arendt, I continue to be suspicious of violence as a political tactic: all movements that choose violence, she argued at the height of United States antiwar protest, are fascist, whether they originate on the right or the left. I did not appreciate that at the time I first considered this idea in the 1970s, and I do now.
And yet, I wonder: what is wrong with us in the United States that we just sit around and wait for the newest attack on our rights as citizens? Why do we continue to insist on improvements in education, while politicians cut the $hit our of education budgets in the name of "middle class tax cuts" (by which, what they really mean is fighting wars on behalf of the oil and gas industry?) Why do we continue to believe, as a society, that at some point the medical, pharmaceutical and insurance industries are going to realize that they have enough money and suddenly they will treat us right? And why do we continue to entrust everything that matters -- education, health care, politics itself -- to the rich?
Most particularly, what is wrong with students that they are so suckered by the debt industrial complex that they will continue to take out massive loans for education that we, as a society, ought to be giving them for free? Only in California have there been system-wide protests of privatization, while public school parents and their children -- who are most dramatically affected by privatization -- go from charter school to charter school to see which corporate executive can best prepare their kid for a standardized test?
Go Brits; go French.
Jessica W. said...
There's another approach in California. It's not a global solution and perhaps too local, but here it is. Massive fundraising by parents (and many still and formerly corporate Moms, with a smattering of Dads)in the form of auctions and walkathons to support art, teacher aides in the school etc. And it's not ALL 'in my backyard.' At every auction, a more in need school is selected and donations to their top project are collected. Plus weekends of community service painting, cleaning, and planting at the more urban and challenged of our city schools. It's not protest, it's not in Sacramento, but it is politics of a kind, and it is engagement and local. I was in London for some of Thatcher and her opposition and I agree w/ your post. But I had to light a candle for our inadequate but still helpful/hopeful efforts in Oakland.
Tom Elrod said...
What's wrong is the fact that students think this is the status quo, the way things are and the way they always will be. They don't realize there is an alternative because they've been sold a line about education as little more than job training, and they are all looking forward to a few years from now when they'll be rich and content.
In a few years, when they are out of school and realize such things are lies, it will be too late.
Anonymous said...
Violence against property /= violence against human beings.
Daniel Goldberg said...
I had similar thoughts in watching the events in Britain yesterday. I remarked to my partner, whether they win or lose -- and I had no illusions about how the vote was going to go -- it is so heartening to see thousands of people engaging in a vibrant (ok, sometimes too vibrant) public debate regarding the meaning and value of education.
The protesters understood exactly what was at stake, win or lose. IMO, they saw that what was at stake was the very definition of the university, its purpose, and the values that shape a particular manifestation of higher education in a culture (including, of course, cost structure). In short, they seemed to either cognitive or intuitively perceive the circumstance as a critical flashpoint in the great Aristotelian question (what kind of people do we want to be?).
I lament the apparent fact that there seems not to be a critical mass of people in the US willing to engage in answering that question as it relates to universities and education with even a modicum of the passion and fervor I perceived on display in Britain yesterday.
So yes, very much, Go Brits.
Anonymous said...
TR, seems to me that if our congress passed a law tripling university tuition at one fell swoop you might see some American kids out demonstrating too. I think a major impetus of the Vietnam-era student protests was an aversion to being drafted.
Ellie said...
I also am constantly astounded by contemporary Americans' passivity in the face of injustice. Tous dans la rue!
Krazy Kitty said...
On the one hand, I am appalled at the lack of reactivity of American students. The UC fees hike has been protested, but in what felt to me a half-hearted manner, especially outside of Berkeley.
On the other hand, I'm French. I went to my first marches with my mom as a kid. When I recently told my grandma I was walking with the protests against the reform of the pension system, she said "I hope it's true and you don't say that to make me happy". So protesting is kind of ingrained in me.
Moreover, it's probably easier to protest a new change (e.g. sudden increase in fees) rather than a system that's already been in place for as long as you can remember. Not that you shouldn't question said system, of course, but it's not nearly as easy.
And last but not least, I understand that students don't feel compelled to protest when writing messages in chalk on the ground can get them arrested. Well, maybe they should feel more compelled to protest because this is so blatantly unfair...
Alan Allport said...
I'm curious: in what sense was the multi-millionaire's son who spent part of the day hanging from the Cenotaph whooping with delight "engaging in a vibrant public debate"? Could someone explain to me what exactly was heartening about this?
Natalia said...
One thing that's perhaps been less remarked is the public statements of support for their students by UK professors. Those students feel that they are defending their universities against a government policy. In contrast, student protesters here (I'm in California) are made out to be--and are received by admin as--protests against the university, which is of course the level at which fees are being raised and course offerings gutted. I highly recommend Rei Terada's recent post on the failure of universities to come to the defense of their students, in many cases criminalizing protesters who are, after all, agitating for something that administration claims to want.
LouMac said...
Alan Allport: There's nothing to "explain". This is a red herring. So one spoiled rich boy misbehaves; it says precisely nothing about the overall meaning or motivation of the protests. Trying to dismiss a social movement by pointing to the exceptional behaviour of one individual is silly.
Alan Allport said...
Au contraire; there's a good deal to explain. I agree that Gilmour's squalid story is not in itself particularly important (though in a pathetic twist, he turns out to be reading history at Girton). But the march broke down into disorder on Thursday because students themselves decided to abandon the route pre-agreed with police. There's no dispute about this: one of the NCAFC organizers has admitted it - but apparently it was OK because it was a "radical but good-natured" decision. Radical, you see! Never mind about public safety - the important thing is to épater le bourgeois. Why not, then, swing from a war memorial?
The protest organizers have done untold damage to their cause in this display of petulant adolescence. Prior to the march, about 70 per cent of the public were judged to be sympathetic to their cause. I wonder what that figure would be today. The Guardian makes a good point:
"Perhaps, 40 years from now, this week's demos will be the subject of nostalgic documentaries and writings, as those of 1968 have recently been. But it is worth remembering something else from that earlier period. The political victors of 1968 were Richard Nixon, Georges Pompidou, Leonid Brezhnev and Edward Heath, leaders of the right. The public dislikes violence, rightly so. And the public chooses the government. Be careful what you wish for."
Those grinning stupidly at the events of last week from the safe distance of 3,000 miles might want to think about that.
accordionsandlace said...
If we're going to wring our hands about the violence coming out of these protests, perhaps we should turn out attention to the police very nearly beating students to death; why does this receive so much less attention than a smashed window of a limo?
Mark Kille said...
That is not all charter schools. See, for example, St. Vrain Community Montessori School ( and Compass Montessori School ( in Colorado, Hilltown Cooperative Charter Public School ( in Massachusetts, or Trillium Charter School ( in Oregon. As a member of the founding group for SVCMS, I can say that a desire to avoid the standardized test fetish was one of our primary motivations.
Whether creating a parallel public school system is the correct response to the corporatization of American public education is an open question, of course. But charter schools offer as much opportunity as danger.
Kate Lowe said...
Have you read Naomi Klein's "Shock Doctrine"? It offers an interesting interpretation of the last forty years--the systematic campaign by Milton Friedman and his ilk to dismantle government in the name of "freedom." His strategy of economic shock and terror was used in South America, Asia, Russia, Poland, Great Britain, and now the United States. Shock (or the incredible passivity of the people in the face of flagrant abuses of power and the erosion of basic freedoms) will eventually wear off, but it takes time. | http://tenured-radical.blogspot.com/2010/12/their-royal-highnesses-are-unharmed-but.html | dclm-gs1-485485528 | false | false | {
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animal sounds, made visible by bell's translator
frequency modulation series
print from a reader recorder tape
3/4 inch stick of pentolite exploding
electron diffraction record
a school of herring passing under a brown moon
max ernst - 1965
ocean, drawing - piet mondrian - 1909
second diagram of evolution (notebook b)
charles darwin - 1837
detail from the original diagram of evolution
origin of the species
charles darwin - ca. 1857
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Questions and Answers – German Retreat
June 15, 2013. 85-minute dharma talk given by Thich Nhat Hanh from the European Institute of Applied Buddhism in Waldbrol, Germany. The talk is given in English with simultaneous translation into German. This is the fourth dharma talk, a session of questions and answers, of the German Retreat on the theme Are You Sure?
1. Who are we if we are not our feelings, body, perceptions, or consciousness? What is left?
2. Is it okay to suffer and feel for my son who was paralyzed in an accident?
3. What makes a man a man and what makes a woman a woman? Is it important to know the distinction? What should we teach our children?
4. If there is no thinker then how can there be a doer?
5. How do work with feelings of pain, guilt, and shame?
6. I want to reconcile, how can I call my father if he’s dead?
7. How can you help someone who is suffering from violent emotions, especially if they can’t see it themselves?
Nirvana and Samsara
December 27, 2012. Dharma talk given by Thich Nhat Hanh from Upper Hamlet at Plum Village. The sangha is in the 90-day Rains Retreat (Winter Retreat) and this is the the fifteenth dharma talk of the retreat with the theme Are You The Soulmate of the Buddha? The talk was originally given in French and this is the English translation.
What does it mean to have a spiritual dimension in our life? Why is it important for daily life?
The Four Noble Truths and the path in the second versus the path in the fourth. Two paths to choose. To well being or to ill being. We in Plum Village look at these two paths with the eyes of Interbeing.
What creates suffering? How do we take care of our suffering? The path leading to awakening. How and how much time does it take to reach enlightenment? Enlightenment is available in every moment. There is no way to enlightenment, enlightenment is the way. This is the teaching of Interbeing.
Love and reconciliation. What is nirvana? Is nirvana possible? What is the relationship to samsara?
The Buddha taught the Three Dharma Seals.
1. All formations are impermanent.
2. All things are without self.
3. Nirvana
What is the Fourth Mindfulness Training?
What is a bodhissatva? Mother Earth is a great bodhissatva.
“Oh my happiness”
Creating Freshness and Beauty
The Real Kung Fu
February 19, 2012. 58-minute dharma talk from Upper Hamlet in Plum Village, France. The sangha is in the 2011-2012 Winter Retreat. The talk is given in Vietnamese with English translation. A French translation is also available. This is the last dharma talk for the Winter Retreat.
We recognize the great happiness associated with spending three months together in practice. We also know people can practice at home and participate by listening online to the talks. This retreat goes all the way back to the time of the Buddha. If Thay is still in good health, maybe we extend to four months next year.
We can find joy and happiness with sitting, walking, eating. Every step and every breath is like a jewel. A jewel found in your heart. This is real kung fu – the regular, daily practice, training. The time for sitting is a time for training. Train to touch the joy. Our duty is to practice together, even if we have difficulties and suffering. We try to heal these together, even if it deep down in our store conciousness. The worldly way is to dig down and pull out this suffering and destroy in order to be healed. Sometime we can practice differently – we can lullaby them as sleeping seeds; we don’t need to pull them out. We can water with the beautiful things of life. Thay shares his great suffering of being exciled from his homeland and how he transformed. Slowly Thay learned to feel at home wherever he is – everywhere is my homeland.
Story of a lay practitioner asking Thay if he has any dream to complete before he dies? Thay does not desire anything – everything already exists right here now. When Thay was a young monk he had a dream of a fourfold sangha that could practice together. Thay continues sharing stories of being in Vietnam during the war and reconciliation.
The Buddha is the Sitting Itself
We begin with a short guided meditation.
Buddha is breathing. Buddha is sitting.
I enjoy the breathing. I enjoy the sitting.
Buddha is the breathing. Buddha is the sitting.
I am the breathing. I am the sitting.
There is only the breathing. There is only the sitting.
The River of Body and Mind
The third concentration, aimlessness, everything is already here.
Embracing Emotions with Non-Violence
Our Nature is Non-Local
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UbuntuME stands for Ubuntu Muslim Edition. Ubuntu Muslim Edition is a free, open source operating system based on the popular Ubuntu Linux.
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What is Ubuntu?
Ubuntu is a popular Linux distribution, designed with the intent of overthrowing Microsoft Windows as the world's most widely-used operating system.
The distro is composed entirely of open source components, which have been heavily modified for easy of use and migration for users familiar with Microsoft Windows, take a look here. The name Ubuntu is derived from the Zulu word for humanity, which has been incorporated into South African culture as “humanity towards others”.
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Why a "Muslim Edition"?
Ubuntu is a great distro, easy to use for a novice user, with the most-used Office, Internet, Graphics and Video applications already installed but we think that for Muslim users it would be great to have “out of the box” Islamic software and tools installed as well.
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Abebe Hailu, Special to The Informer | 2/28/2014, 5 p.m.
Adwa Affected America
The unexpected victory at Adwa spurred the birth of a Pan-African solidarity that was evident in America. The African-American Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois was a major spokesman for freedom for Black Africans. He also edited the "Crisis" magazine, the voice for the NAACP. He devoted a whole chapter of his book, "The World and Africa," to a history of Ethiopia as a state, while promulgating Ethiopia as an idea of global African unity.
In 1936 there were some so-called black riots in Harlem. These were really just demonstrations against the treatment of Ethiopia by the Western powers. No property damage or casualties were declared. John Hope Franklin wrote a book, "From Slavery to Freedom," that helped Black Americans to become more worldly in their politics. African-American communities adopted the words "Ethiopia" or "Abyssinia" to rename their churches to push the idea of black global unity.
"… Ethiopia shall stretch forth her hands …"
The victory at Adwa helped produce a new phase of Pan-Africanism. It planted the seed of unity and cooperation of blacks throughout the world. It helped to break the yoke of colonialism in a united way. The African-American abolitionist, Frederick Douglass, summed up the forces unleashed by the victory at Adwa, and could have used his famous quote to fit the Ethiopian struggle: "It's better to die free, than live as a slave." | http://washingtoninformer.com/news/2014/feb/28/hailu-battle-adwa-changed-ethiopia-and-world/?page=2 | dclm-gs1-485835528 | false | false | {
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