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How Much Does Doyle Paroline Owe?
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Monday, April 2, 2018
Maple Syrup Season 2018 and a Taste Test
We didn't do maple syrup last year because Romie and I both went to Mexico to see the monarch butterflies as they overwintered there. That trip hit right smack in the middle of sap collecting, so we decided to just not do it. Oh, how we missed that wonderful homemade maple syrup!
I went to Mexico again this year, once again in the middle of sap collecting, but Romie was home, so he gathered it while I climbed a few mountains. I have to thank our daughter, Kara, for her help after I got home, because after one day to recover and repack, Romie and I both went to Florida for a week to visit my aunt and uncle. It truly takes a family to make this stuff.
This year, though we didn't keep track of how many gallons of sap we collected from our silver maple trees, we ended up with about three quarts of syrup. We would have had a little bit more (maybe a cup or so), had I not burned one small batch to a crisp. I blame Romie for this a teeny tiny bit, because we only had a small amount of sap, and he talked me into boiling it against my better judgement.
When you boil sap, it's always better to do a large batch at one time, because when it gets right down to the last few minutes of boiling, the sap can either turn to sugar or burn. Just. Like. That. With a larger batch, you have more play with it. I'm not sure why that is, but it just is. I didn't forget it, I just needed to check it in a few minutes rather than ten. Lesson learned!
This year, I used a hydrometer part of the time, for testing when the sap was of the right consistency for syrup. You pour the sap into a cylinder and then float the hydrometer in it. It's marked with red lines, and you want your sap to be thick enough for the surface of the sap to fall between the red lines. After a few seasons of doing this, I think it's just as easy to eyeball it.
Every year I make this, there are always a few who say to me, "Please keep some back for me." I cringe when I hear that, because there's no way we could do that for everyone who asks. We can't even do it for a few, since it takes about 40 gallons of sap to make a gallon of syrup. With that ratio, you can see how much sap it takes to make a small amount and just how time consuming making syrup is. There's a reason it costs so much when you buy it in the store.
I'm kind of like fellow blogger Karen Bertelsen (The Art of Doing Stuff) when it comes to this. When someone asks her for some of her maple syrup when she's done making it, she answers, "Sure!" and then promptly forgets. She does put a couple of small bottles back just in case she needs to reward someone for doing her an extraordinary favor. And I'm not entirely selfish. A few of our bottles make their way to new homes, too.
This year I splurged and purchased special bottles for our maple syrup.
You can buy them here.
Back to this year's syrup making. The season always takes me by surprise. It starts just about the time I've had it with winter and am dreaming of crocus and daffodils and spring peepers. But I don't think I've ever gotten the spiles put into the maples early enough to get absolutely all the sap we could get.
When the maple buds look like this, maple syrup is drawing to a close.
The sap starts running towards the end of winter, when the temperatures are below freezing at night and above freezing during the day. There are a lot of days like that between the end of January and when the maple trees start budding out. That's when the sap stops flowing, or at least stops being clear (instead of cloudy or dark). This year, we began collecting sap on February 9th and collected the last of it on March 21st.
A taste test
I haven't purchased real maple syrup since we started making our own, but this year, I heard about a brand that has gotten rave reviews and came to light as a result of being on Shark Tank. Parker's Maple Syrup didn't get the deal on the show, but it still helped the company just by being on the show. I bought some because I wanted to see how ours tasted in comparison.
The tin of Parker's arrived last week and when I tasted it, I sort of cringed. It wasn't cheap and I didn't like it. I bought the Grade A Robust, which is essentially the same grade as ours. But ours had a pure and strong maple syrup taste, without the smoky, somewhat burnt taste to it. Parker's had somewhat the same taste as Kirkland brand maple syrup I purchased from Costco a few years ago. I just don't like that scorched taste.
Our maple syrup is on the left.
I may have mentioned before that I'm a supertaster. This means, among other things, that I detect bitterness more than the average person. My tastebuds have receptors that many people's don't. My husband didn't think it tasted burnt at all. Okay, good, honey. You can have the Parker's then, and I'll just stick with ours, if you don't mind.
We also did a taste test with maple syrup made by the brother of our son-in-law. The semi-blind taste test involved five different syrups: Mrs. Butterworth's Syrup (not real maple syrup), ours, the brother's, a local commercial producer's, and Parker's. Seven people tasted the five syrups and the results were incredibly varied. Three of the seven preferred our syrup over the others, and more than half rated Parker's the worst, even worse than Mrs. Butterworth's.
Do you have a favorite maple syrup brand? I've not found any that I like as much as ours. ❤
Lisa Greenbow said...
I know it is a lot of work but what fun to have your own maple syrup.
Margaret said...
Boy, I wish our maple trees were old enough! Well, I don't have a favourite brand although I do stick to local syrup - and "pancake syrup", either the Mrs. or the Aunt, has never crossed our threshold ;)
RobinL said...
This was quite interesting to me, even though I no longer eat sweets. All I knew was that the sap runs in late winter! I fully understand not being able to share your special treat. I have issues like that with helping others with their gardening. My back problems only allow me to work a limited time in my own garden, so I just can’t add anyone else’s garden to my chores.
Christa said...
Wow, that takes a lot of effort and patience! But how wonderful it is to have your own maple syrup!
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Srila Gaurakisora Dasa Babaji Maharaja
The Disappearance Day of Shrila Gaura-kishora dasa Babaji Maharaja
We cannot touch Shrila Gaura-kishora dasa Babaji Maharaja’s renounced lifestyle and high standard of bhajana, but we can at least accept and follow whatever lower principles that he established for us and practised in his own life. After making sufficient spiritual progress, we may be able to accept the higher things, but we should not desire to follow them in our present condition. Who can possibly follow his extreme renunciation, such as eating the clay of the Yamuna and Radha-kunda and remaining completely dependent on Bhagavan? He felt that if he lived in a mandira many people would come and disrupt his bhajana, so instead he lived in a latrine. People would come seeking his blessings for the purpose of attaining some material benefit, but he considered the stench of the latrine to be preferable to the stench of those people’s words. For us this is impossible, even for one minute. Therefore a kanishtha-adhikari will not easily be able to understand the life of this great uttama-bhagavata Vaishnava. The higher things have been prohibited for us, but we should accept from his life whatever will be favourable for progress in the madhyama-adhikari stage.
As long as we have not attained the mercy of Shri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Nityananda Prabhu and Navadvipa-dhama, we will not be able to enter into Vraja. Therefore most of our previous acaryas who were performing bhajana in Vrindavana left there and went to Navadvipa to attain prema. Only after submerging themselves in the Ganga of Mahaprabhu’s prema in Navadvipa did they return to Vrindavana to drown in the ocean of krishna-prema. First they performed the bhajana of Gauracandra, and from that what did they attain? The prema of the amorous pastimes of Shri Radha and Krishna. Therefore, in the beginning Gaura-kishora dasa Babaji Maharaja performed bhajana in Vrindavana at Surya-kunda, Radha-kunda, Nandagrama, Varshana and many other places; but in his heart came the feeling that, “The type of prema that I desire is not being attained here.” He was performing kirtana with great prema, calling out “Radha, Radha! Where have You gone? Protect my life because I will die without You! Radha, Radha!” Although he cried out with extreme vipralambha-bhava, he felt that his yearning was not being fully satisfied, so he left Vrindavana and went to Navadvipa. There, to avoid having to come in contact with worldly people, he lived in a latrine. He was such a mahatma that he didn’t even construct himself a hut.
Once, the aristocratic landholder of Kasima Bazar was organising a conference of all the prominent Vaishnavas, and he approached Babaji Maharaja to request him to preside over this conference. He said, “Babaji Maharaja, I am organising a conference of Vaishnavas, and everyone desires that you be the president of this assembly. Being merciful, please give sukriti to us by accepting this entreaty, and I will take you there and bring you back in my own car.”
Babaji Maharaja asked him, “For what purpose are you organising this conference? What is the necessity of doing it?”
The man replied, “It is for the preaching of vaishnava-dharma, so people will hear talks describing Bhagavan and be inspired to take up bhajana.”
Then Babaji Maharaja said, “Alright, then you do one thing: first you do bhajana and forget about others. Leave your home, wife and children, and come to me. I will furnish you with a pair of kaupinas and then you do bhajana. First make your own life meaningful, and then worry about others. Otherwise your conference will only be for your own self-aggrandisement, and there will be no benefit in it for others anyway. First you should come to me and do bhajana for some time; then you should organise your conference.” Hearing this strong answer from Babaji Maharaja, the man was rendered speechless and went away.
Another time, one man went to Babaji Maharaja and said, “Babaji Maharaja, please be merciful to me! Please be merciful to me!” Again and again he said it. Babaji Maharaja became a little annoyed and said, “You want mercy? Then here – take mercy!” and he handed the man a pair of kaupinas. What is the purport of giving the man a pair of kaupinas? When a guru gives sannyasa to someone, what does he give him? A pair of kaupinas and the mantra. Then that person will at once become renounced, leave all worldly attachments and fully apply his body, mind and words to the service of Krishna. If the guru gives this to someone, what greater mercy could there be? “Here – take mercy!” Hearing this from Babaji Maharaja, that man became frightened, ran away and never returned.
On another occasion a young boy from a wealthy family ran away from home and came to Babaji Maharaja. He said to Babaji Maharaja, “I want to stay with you and just do bhajana.” Babaji Maharaja did not reply, so the boy began staying with him. He would bring water for Babaji Maharaja and do other services for him also, and he began telling the people, “I am a disciple of Babaji Maharaja.” But in reality Babaji Maharaja had no disciples other than Prabhupada. This boy stayed with Babaji Maharaja for some time but didn’t attain what he expected, so he thought, “I should return to material life.” Many people go to live in a matha, stay for one or two months, and then return to material life, get married and become busy in household duties. Some men leave renounced life even after ten or twenty years, but only because they desired to attain the same things as worldly people: kanaka (wealth), kamini (women) and pratishtha (prestige). They apparently leave their homes to engage in bhajana, but they are really only interested in material gain. Feeling that he had attained nothing by staying with Babaji Maharaja, the boy left and after about two weeks returned to Babaji Maharaja with a beautiful young girl from a wealthy family whom he had married. He offered pranama to Babaji Maharaja and said, “Babaji Maharaja, I have entered the samsara, the material world. Bhaktivinoda Thakura has written in his Gitavali: ‘krishnera samsara kara chadi’ anacara – we should give up our offences and perform bhajana as family men.’ Therefore I have collected a krishna-dasi. Please be merciful to her and to me also so we can engage in bhajana and have a successful material life as well.”
Babaji Maharaja replied, “You have done so well! I am so pleased! You have collected one krishna-dasi? Then you should do one thing: you should offer puja to this krishna-dasi. Every day you should cook an offering for her and offer her pranama and some flowers saying, ‘You are a krishna-dasi and very dear to Shri Krishna.’ But beware: don’t try to enjoy her, otherwise everything will be destroyed for you and you will descend into hell! Beware – don’t try to enjoy her!”
Hearing this, the boy was astonished and was rendered speechless. Frightened, he called his “krishna-dasi” and quickly left. Was deceiving Babaji Maharaja an easy thing? It was not possible to deceive him.
Babaji Maharaja vowed that he would never accept any disciples, but it was Prabhupada’s resolution that, “If I accept a guru, it will be him only.” Prabhupada wrote in his Gaudiya Patrika, “At that time I was very proud. I was thinking that there was no scholar equal to me, that there was no tattva-jnani equal to me, no speaker equal to me and no philosopher equal to me. This paramahamsa Vaishnava, Gaura-kishora dasa Babaji Maharaja, understood this; so he ignored my requests for initiation. Three or four times he told me that he would not accept disciples. He said, ‘What? You are the son of Bhaktivinoda Thakura! You took birth in such a high family that you are worshipful to me! You are such a big scholar, your appearance is so beautiful and you possess all good qualities; so what is the necessity of you becoming my disciple?’ In this way he pulverised my pride. People said that he was illiterate, but he possessed all real knowledge and was a jagad-guru.”
Three or four times Babaji Maharaja ignored him, but Prabhupada had vowed that he would accept initiation only from Babaji Maharaja. In the end he was performing severe austerities to attain Babaji Maharaja as his guru, and seeing that his son’s face was withered as if he would die, Bhaktivinoda Thakura requested Babaji Maharaja, “Please be kind to him.” After this, Babaji Maharaja finally accepted Prabhupada as his only disciple.
Bhaktivinoda Thakura’s ashrama was situated on the banks of the Ganga, and upon hearing “Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare” being chanted very loudly, Bhaktivinoda Thakura would know that Babaji Maharaja was coming. He would chant so loudly that his voice could be heard across the Ganga, and upon arrival at the ashrama, he would hear Shrimad-Bhagavatam and other krishna-katha from Bhaktivinoda Thakura. Babaji Maharaja didn’t associate with other babajis very much. Generally he would only wear a langoti and nothing more, but one day he begged a good quality dhoti, a kurta, a walking stick and a nice turban from someone. Wearing these, he went to Bhaktivinoda Thakura’s ashrama, and upon seeing him, Bhaktivinoda Thakura thought, “See how Babaji Maharaja’s appearance has changed! He has taken the ordinary dress of a grihastha. He is wearing nice clothes now and is carrying a walking stick like a landlord. What has happened to him?”
Babaji Maharaja offered pranama and sat down, and Bhaktivinoda Thakura asked him, “Babaji Maharaja, today I see that your appearance is of a different type. Why is this?”
Babaji Maharaja replied, “These days there are so many babajis, and many of them are such hooligans that if one even mentions their names it will be sinful. They are engaged in such misconduct that a grihastha is thousands of times superior to them. In the name of parakiya-bhajana they engage in mundane activities and they will all go to hell for it. When a babaji obtains some rasagullas or any good quality foodstuff, he should just offer it to a cow. Babajis should not go to any festival, but people invite them and off they go to these festivals simply to enjoy a good meal. Feeding the dogs of the dhama is more beneficial than feeding them. Therefore I think that I shouldn’t remain a babaji. I will wear the cloth of a grihastha, and then people will not look upon me as one of these babajis.”
Bhaktivinoda Thakura said, “You have spoken correctly.” At that time the misconduct of these babajis was so widespread that people hated to even hear the good Vaishnava name, so there was a necessity for a great personality who could preach the pure prema-dharma of Shri Caitanya Mahaprabhu in the world. Then came such a great personality, Shrila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Prabhupada. He preached sankirtana in such a way that in no time the world opinion had changed, and scholars, gentlemen and everyone began to accept vaishnava-dharma. If there had been no Gaura-kishora dasa Babaji, then there would have been no Prabhupada. And if there had been no Prabhupada, then the pure prema of Mahaprabhu would not be preached all around the world as it is now. Therefore the original great personality was our father’s father’s father, our great grandfather, Gaura-kishora dasa Babaji. Today with great pride we declare that he was the guru of our parama-guru, and it is our supreme good fortune that he came to this world.
According to our qualification we will follow the instructions for bhajana and renunciation that he gave, and those who sincerely follow them will be offering the real pushpanjali to his feet. Otherwise, if we don’t offer this real pushpanjali, then we will be just like those people that he sent away. We should not desire to have material pleasures and at the same time beg for mercy as they did. For really achieving his mercy, we should offer this genuine pushpanjali to his feet, follow his instructions in a pure manner, and then we may be able to enter into real bhajana. He is never far away from us; he is with us at all times, and he will certainly bestow his plentiful mercy upon us. Calling out his name, our guruji would cry and say, “He took all of my hardships away.” Similarly he will remove all of our hardships so we will be able to perform bhajana, and to really engage in bhajana there must be no other desire whatsoever in our hearts. But if we leave sadhu-sanga, all will be lost. Therefore, remaining in the association of devotees we will perform bhajana and always remember the ideal that Gaura-kishora dasa Babaji Maharaja showed in his life. Then our lives will be meaningful, and from our bhajana we will get the real benefit. So today we offer a prayer to his feet that he will always be merciful to all of us.
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? Erickson
Religion: not determined yet
Name: ? Erickson
Classification: supporting character supporting character
Publisher(s): Marvel
First Appearance: Marvel Double-Shot #1 (Jan. 2003): "Dear Thor..."
Creators: Marlan Harris, Kia Asamiya
Number of Appearances: 1
Ally: Elise Erickson
Location: Muncie, Indiana, USA
Gender: male
Note: Elise Erickson's brother
When Elise Erickson was a child, her family went on a vacation to New York City. While there, a monster attacked a bridge they were crossing. The super-hero (and Norse/Teutonic deity) Thor saved them and other drivers on the bridge. Elise wrote a letter to Thor, recounting this experience. She mentioned her brother when she said: "My brother's favorite hero used to be Daredevil but now it's you (we didn't see Daredevil.)"
Marvel Double-Shot #1 (Jan. 2003): "Dear Thor..." (mentioned)
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Ideally, we’d eat organic all the time, as organically produced foods contain no harmful chemicals, plus they are more nutritionally dense. However, lack of availability and higher costs can prevent us from eating a 100% organic diet. The good news is we don’t have to be 100% organic to avoid cancer, heart disease, stomach problems, fatigue, or toxic symptoms like brain fog or lack of motivation or stamina. The Environmental Working Group (EWG) released their list of the most chemically-laden produce, which they nick named “The Dirty Dozen.”
The point of the list is to help people identify which foods are likely to be the most toxic and to encourage people to buy the organic versions of those items. Please look at the list and determine which foods you routinely eat are on the list. For these items, it would be wise to purchase organic produce. The list is as follows:
1. Strawberries
2. Apples
3. Nectarines
4. Peaches
5. Celery
6. Grapes
7. Cherries
8. Spinach
9. Tomatoes
10. Sweet Bell Peppers
11. Cherry Tomatoes
12. Cucumbers
Dirty Dozen
To give you some context, more than 98% of strawberries, peaches, nectarines, and apples tested positive for at least one pesticide residue. Also, EWG reported the average potato had more pesticides by weight than any other produce. The group also reportedly said that while hot peppers and leafy greens like kale and collard greens didn’t meet the criteria to be ranked on the list, toxic insecticides were found on some of the samples.
The EWG also lists “The Clean 15,” which are those items that have no pesticide residue. Therefore, buying organic would be overkill. Save money on The Clean 15 and apply that savings to investing in the organic versions of the The Dirty Dozen. Which fruits and vegetables made the Clean Fifteen, you ask? Take a look:
1. Avocado
2. Sweet corn
3. Pineapples
4. Cabbage
5. Sweet peas (frozen)
6. Onions
7. Asparagus
8. Mangoes
9. Papayas
10. Kiwi
11. Eggplant
12. Honeydew melon
13. Grapefruit
14. Cantaloupe
15. Cauliflower
Please Remember Dr. Tim does suggest anything that he does not do himself!
In addition, I am reading a book called The Great Cardio Myth by Craig Ballantyne and would like to share information that might shock you. There are many things we live our life by that are false. The most dangerous things are not the ones we don’t know to be true; they’re the things we think we believe are true that are actually false. Here are the four biggest myths about exercise.
MYTH: Exercising at a low or moderate intensity, at a continuous pace, will deliver the best fat loss and aerobic endurance benefits.
FACT: Varying your intensity is often a more effective way to get results. Think peaks and valleys, if you were looking at a cardio machine monitor, rather than a steady level of intensity.
MYTH: There’s nothing wrong with watching TV or reading while getting your daily exercise in.
FACT: Multitasking can foster low exertion and poor form. Low focus and low exertion are two reasons cardio, especially when done on a machine, fails to deliver benefits.
MYTH: A person needs to exercise for at least twenty minutes before fat burning kicks in.
FACT: The fat-burning zone idea is misleading, and studies have proven that people can lose fat with as little as four minutes of high-intensity exercise per week.
MYTH: When it comes to exercise and results, more is better.
FACT: When it comes to exercise for fat loss, better is actually better. Quality matters more for results than quantity.
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News Courts
Saturday 30 August 2014
‘Lovely fluffy side’ won the day in long ordeal
Brooks’s genius lies in her likeability, which helped a jury stifle its envy of the rich
Ruth Dudley Edwards
Published 29/06/2014 | 02:30
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Mostly, I'm a fan of juries. They sit, day in, day out, in a wooden box, their lives disrupted, castigated if they nod off during the boring bits, told to keep their mouths shut even with their nearest and dearest, and these days given horrible warnings against trying to find out a bit more on the internet.
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Oh, yes, and they have to listen to lawyers who are paid more per hour than they make on jury service in a week. They try to be fair, even if sometimes, as with Rebekah Brooks - the former CEO of News
International who was on trial with six ex-colleagues on phone hacking and other charges - they have to stifle understandable envy of the rich. If you're on the poverty line, it must be quite hard to forgive someone for flying to Venice for lunch.
Having delivered their verdicts last week, I expect some of them fled to their computers to see how the world viewed their finding Brooks and four others not guilty. If amid all the verbiage they read that Jonathan Laidlaw QC is rumoured to have been given a retainer of half-a-million quid for taking on Brooks's defence, and that the legal costs are estimated to have run to somewhere in the region of £50m (€62m), they might well have looked at their meagre earnings for eight months in court and uttered a few expletives.
Andy Coulson - who resigned from his editorship of the News of the World in 2007 when his royal editor, Clive Goodman, was found guilty of phone-hacking and who subsequently became David Cameron's communications guru - did not have his legal bills paid for by Murdoch. He had to fund his costs by selling his house. Old Rup paid the legal bill for the five still in his employ when they were charged. And he hired the best lawyers on the block.
I hope the jury are at ease with their decisions. Having followed the case closely, I thought it was open-and-shut and they were spot-on. The Guardian - which broke the hacking story years ago - was clearly distraught at the verdict, but its editor and minions hate Brooks almost as much as they
hate Murdoch and they were guilty of wishful thinking. While Murdoch's papers led triumphantly with pictures of Brooks
and the not-guilty verdict, The Guardian's headline was "Coulson: the criminal who had Cameron's confidence".
In truth, there was plenty of evidence to sink Coulson and none to incriminate Brooks. And in her 13 days of tough questioning she was convincing as an obsessive workaholic with exceptional talent who had paid an enormous price for her success, including being misogynistically loathed as a "wicked witch".
"If what you saw was a mask," Laidlaw told the jury, "Mrs Brooks must be a witch with truly supernatural powers. No human mask could withstand that amount of scrutiny without cracking."
Brooks - an only child whose father absconded early on - was so determined to be a journalist that she started making the tea and
running errands at
the local paper when she was 14. Even then she was manipulative. She could always get people to do what she wanted, even if they didn't like her, said a friend from her teens.
"She's got her lovely fluffy side and her angry side."
It was that combination of people-pleasing and ruthlessness that saw her rise from being a secretary on the News of the World when she was 20 to being its editor at 31, by which time she had become an honorary member of Murdoch's family. She wasn't a looker, but she was attractive and she cultivated a huge mass of red hair to make herself memorable. She liked fun too, marrying two loveable scamps who were also useful: the actor Ross Kemp was close to New Labour and Charlie Brooks was a friend of Cameron's.
The lovely fluffy side was in evidence throughout her long court ordeal. Old Bailey staff adored the woman who learned all their names and treated them as friends.
It's no surprise that she became close to the powerful, for Brooks understands that everyone needs to be liked and to believe they're being liked for themselves: she has a genius for intimacy. She had no interest in politics, just in power, but her magic was to make the powerful and their spouses feel she truly cared about them. In her heyday she was probably the most influential woman in the United Kingdom.
What now for the "Titan Temptress"? For what it's worth, my guess is she and Murdoch are discussing that very question. She hasn't gone away, you know. @ruthde
Sunday Independent
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Sunday, August 23, 2015
I'm F****** Tired of Being Healthy
-Let me start off this blog post by saying this.....I woke up this morning pissed off. This entire post is a tantrum/ pity party. I fully admit that and am giving you fair warning. Proceed with caution or hop off because this is a full on bitch fest. Also, I would like to note that I am not referring to any specific diet or lifestyle here whether it be Low Carb, Paleo, IIFYM or whatever it may be. This post is touching on what I hope are universal feelings of burn out that can come with any healthy lifestyle-
I'm tired of being healthy. I really am. Today was my only day of the week that I had a full "day off" from working out. I have been working out 6 days a week, some days harder than others but I have some sort of plan every day except for Sunday....and man had I been looking forward to it! The second I did my last overhead press with a weight yesterday I practically shrieked with glee. There is just something about knowing I had Sunday "off" that made me so happy. And then I woke up this morning.....
I woke up hungry for one.....starving actually. And being that I don't buy convenience food there isn't a real quick fix to that. There aren't Eggo waffles in my freezer, cereal in my pantry, or bread to toast up quickly. If I want breakfast that means cooking it. Waah waah? I know....cry me a river right? But sometimes it just hits you harder than other times that from now on all things food just require more effort than they ever used to. The convenience factor is gone. Granted, convenience food has created the epidemic we're facing of bad health....but today was just one of those days that it stuck out to me more.
Then I remembered that I needed to prep food for the week to make sure I didn't make any bad decisions and had food ready at hand when I get home from work. Two hours of food prep later I'm even more pissed off now. So much for a day off! All I did was swap exercise for even more time spent and a bigger mess to clean up. From there the bitterness just snowballed. I got on the scale and after weeks of hard work I'm just not seeing the results I want. All these feelings I have are a lot easier to deal with when you are seeing results, but become nearly impossible to shrug off when the progress just isn't tangible.
I am struggling now with all things weight and health more than I have in a very long time. Just over a year ago I wrote a blog post titled My Weightloss Journey Pt. 1: How I Became a Fatty in The First Place I never got around to writing Part 2 which was supposed to be about how I lost the weight because promptly after writing I fell off the wagon I had been on for over 3 years. In just about a year I've put on a solid 15lbs. This time around it has been so hard for me to get my shit together. The cheats were closer together and lasted a little longer each time. Even with the awareness of everything I was doing wrong I was still bitter about it. My eating "bad" still seemed pretty damn healthy compared to all the people around me who don't seem to be gaining or giving crap about what they stuff in their face. I didn't eat meal after meal of shit. I still ate healthy meals about 70% of the time.
I honestly get pissed off and sad sometimes that it takes SOOOOO much hard work for me to maintain my body.....even if it's still never been a thin one! I hate that some people can just eat and not have to think about it 24/7 the way I do. I know damn well that a skinny body doesn't equal a healthy one...because it doesn't. And as much as I HONESTLY do want to be healthy....let's be real here. Health is not what we see. We don't see the clogged arteries or the off the chart blood sugar.....we see the thunder thighs and the double chins. That being said is why I feel so jealous of the people who seemingly get to eat whatever they want without the instant weight gain.
I was texting my sister about it all morning. We have spent most of this journey together. (saying journey is so lame isn't it?? hahaha) Losing together and usually gaining together too. We both came to the realization that we are bored and tired. Bored with the food, bored with with the routine, and tired of feeling like we HAVE TO...."or else"!! For me "or else" means one cheat meal can lead to a 4lb weight gain of bloat that takes a week to take off. Work out or else you aren't doing everything you possibly can. It all just seems like a lot of pressure sometimes.
And feeling like I HAVE TO do something is a surefire way to make me to hate it. So many days I resent that I HAVE TO work out and then it leaves me no time to do anything I want to. Between working out, working full time, maintaining a household, trying to cook healthy meals and stay two steps ahead I feel like I have no time for myself anymore. The kicker is that I'm doing allllll those things for myself, but because I don't enjoy them anymore it becomes just another demand on my time that I resent. I feel like I am constantly having to choose things I need to or should do over things I want to do. I know what you're thinking...."Shut up! It's called being an don't get everything you want" And that's most DEFINITELY true.....but damn. Some days it's just hard.
I think I'm having an even harder time this go around because the weight isn't coming off as easy as it used to. I used to be able to eat Low Carb Mon- Fri and do a few days of yoga and be fine. I could eat off plan all weekend long and start back again Monday morning without any significant gain. Even if I wasn't losing at least I wasn't gaining.
Nowwa days I can climb stair wells, swim laps, hit 10k steps a day, do yoga, and lift weights and still not see the same results. That alone can be incredibly discouraging. I'm just tired. Tired of all the work it takes day in and day out. The meal prep, the exercise, and the constant battles in my mind.
The internal battles are exhausting. One battle for example is social settings. Now I'm already enough of a anti social recluse as it when I do venture out and socialize like a normal human being I sure as hell better enjoy it! Instead they usually turn into a battle within myself. Trying to find that balance between enjoying the moment and being carefree and obsessing over all things food.
Today for example, we planned to meet up with my inlaws for dinner. All I had on the brain was some effing fried shrimp and french fries. I already had that craving all week anyway and it was an option at the restaurant we went to. What did I get instead? A salad. And not even the salad I wanted because they took my favorite one off the menu (go figure right?!) I got a salmon Cesar salad. It was good and all.....but I left not feeling fully satisfied. It took everything in me not to order the damn fried food! In fact I starred at my mother inlaws uneaten french fries like Indiana Jones did at the Golden Idol
Even worse than restaurant settings are house parties/gatherings. Seriously..... just shoot me now. They are torture for me. TORTURE!!! At least in restaurants you have the option of ordering your own healthy food. It would take effort and complete awareness to order something bad. And you aren't exactly eating off everyone else' plate (unless of course you're Helen Keller) As long as you stay strong until you place that order and hand over that're in the clear! But at house gatherings.....forget it! I have even come equipped with my own food and snacks and still not been able to resist the temptation. There's just something about a smorgasbord out for everyone to enjoy that is so much harder to pass up. Just a few weeks ago I had this exact scenario happen. I came with snacks and such....but ended up eating at least 4 slices of pizza before the night was over along with gobs of chips and queso. I went home feeling like shit both mentally and physically.....but it was SOOOO hard to resist. Social gatherings are the death of me. And the start of football season has me in a panic. Not only because The Boys Sundays are spoken for for the foreseeable future....but because of all the gatherings that come along with it. Oh the horror!!! I can just see the potato chips latching onto my thighs now. And for the few times (seriously it's like 3 times total in my whole life) that I have stayed completely good and on track for a gathering....I hate being "That girl" that's standing there not eating the food. I just don't like it. I know it's more a thing in my head than anything else. I don't think people really care that much about what I am or am not eating.....but I don't like showing up and only sticking to the veggie platter. It feels so ridiculous to me. But I'm sure I'm just over thinking it (as I do most everything in this lifetime)
Another battle is my upcoming vacation. I fully intend on eating like a pig. Not only because that's just what you do on vacation....but because all of us that are going are foodies. The Boy and I both work in the food industry and my sister and brother in-law are just foodies anyway. Part of the fun to me of exploring a new place is seeing it through the food. I'm certainly not going to give that up.....but again it's a never ending stress in my head. I want so badly to just be able to turn it off and enjoy and explore.....but I know instead I will be thinking about the consequences I will face when I get back to reality. There is never the ability to shut it off completely. Even if I say "I don't care" or "F*** it!" I don't really mean really just means I'll deal with it later. There is no escaping it. I genuinely fear not being able to completely enjoy myself because I am so caught up on what I just ate.....or if I choose not to eat it I'll be stuck on what I missed out on because I was obsessing about my weight. It's really a lose lose situation.
Complete subject change here.......
I (and I'm sure most of you do too) follow people with my same goal lifestyle on social media. I sometimes get caught up in how they seem to stick to it all so easily. Some days it seems like it's all arm flexing, ab shots, and healthy meals. And then I remind my self of this.....
It has to be true....right? All those posts that are like...."I love my chia seed "blah blah blah" soooo much I don't even miss the bad foods"
Really I just want to yell BULLSHIT!! Ok.....if they really do feel that way then kudos to them. That's really is. But I really wish more people would say ...."Ya know I got a salmon salad and it was ok but GOD DAMN I really wanted fried shrimp and it was hard as hell"
Now that's what I want to read. We need to stop letting each other believe the choice to be healthy is easy.....because it usually isn't. Or at least it isn't for me. I have always said it is so incredibly hard and never ending. So my goal from now on is to be as real as possible....because as the say....#thestruggleisreal
In closing this bitch fest I dared to call a blog post I want to say this......a healthy lifestyle is hard. Some days it's harder than others. Some days it is all consuming....other days it feels more natural and easy. Ultimately though it is a series of choices you have to make day in and day out multiple times a day. And sometimes those dozens of choices get to be exhausting and you get burnt out. Some days are like my day today where you are pissed at the world for it. I might wake up tomorrow and feel completely different. I might be motivated and eager to work out and not feel deprived. Maybe tomorrow that same salmon salad will be never know. That is the roller coaster of trying to live a healthy lifestyle
End rant.
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In a previous post on launch and reentry, I referenced Reaction Engines and their revolutionary SABRE (Synergistic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine) technology. This engine represents the closest we’ve come to developing true reusable space access. This week, it got a little closer. British aerospace mammoth, BAE Systems, invested $31.8M into Reaction Engines for a 20% stake in the company. That such a large company would make such an investment, speaks volumes about the viability of what Reaction Engines has accomplished – and plans to accomplish with its revolutionary space plane design: Skylon.
Why is their technology so revolutionary?
shuttleexternaltankFirst, let’s talk about what it takes to get to orbit. Primarily it’s energy, energy in the form of thrust. The thrust comes from burning fuel. Sound simple? It is actually. Since the earliest days of rocketry this basic principle has shot countless items into the sky and space. However, to burn fuel, you need to have oxygen, and this is where one of the primary problems comes into play. In all orbital craft to date, oxygen has been carried along with the fuel for the rockets and engines. For the Space Shuttle, it was carried in the forward section of the massive external tank. The image to the left outlines the portion of the tank utilized for liquid oxygen. While it is smaller in size to the hydrogen tank behind it, remember that oxygen is about sixteen times heavier than hydrogen. That “smaller” area carries up to 143,351 gallons at a weight of 1,361,936 pounds! By contrast, the liquid hydrogen tank carries 385,265 gallons and weighs in at a svelte 227,641 pounds. Considering the Space Shuttle weighed in at only 243,200 pounds (empty, including tank), you can see that the oxygen represents the lion’s share of the weight required to take a spacecraft to orbit.
What if most of that oxygen went away? Or, more appropriately, what if it came from somewhere else like the atmosphere? There are a couple problems with this. First, the atmosphere essentially stops before you get into orbit. So you can’t take an air breathing engine all the way up. That’s a fairly easy solve. Reaction Engines does it by using air for oxygen to go as high as possible, then begins to switch over to an internal tank of liquid oxygen to take the final step.
The second problem is far more complex: heat. The same air that allows you to save all that weight by pulling it in from outside, also generates a lot of heat when a spacecraft goes through it to reach the speeds necessary to take it to orbit. What’s the problem? It can’t be nearly the heat of reentry, can it? The issue doesn’t have to do with protecting the spacecraft, the issue has to do with the temperature of the air entering the engine. On the Skylon spacecraft pictured at the top of the story, that temperature is more than 1,800 degrees F (1,000 C) .
Reaction Engines’ secret sauce is that they’ve come up with a super cooler to dramatically lower the temperature of the incoming air so the engines can operate efficiently. This allows Skylon to take off like a plane, using outside air to burn fuel, and get to very high speeds while still in the atmosphere, lessening the internal fuel/oxygen burden to get to the speed necessary take it to orbit.
Today, all spacecraft launch vertically. This requires a lot of thrust to overcome Earth’s gravity and carry the launch vehicle to escape velocity. That much thrust requires a lot of what is called “specific impulse.” In short, that represents how efficient an engine is for how much fuel it burns. Like a muscle car burns a lot of fuel so it can accelerate quickly, rockets burn a ton of fuel to take off vertically. But take that muscle car and turn it into a Prius. It takes 9.5 seconds to get from 0-60, but it also gets north of 50 mpg vs. a Dodge Charger’s 16. By taking off like a plane and using the lift provided by the atmosphere, Skylon gets to orbit more like a Prius and less like a Charger. This allows it to use (and thus carry) less fuel.
shuttleexternaltank2By only carrying the lower amount fuel (and a little bit of oxygen) internally, Skylon avoids having to carry, and later discard, a massive external tank like the Space Shuttle used. All of this points to a much lower cost to operate. By Reaction’s estimate, the cost per pound of payload will be an order of magnitude (roughly 10x) cheaper than current methods of launching things into space.
Reaction estimates that an unmanned, fully reusable launch vehicle can be in operation in 10-15 years and a passenger vehicle within two decades. Hopefully both the investment and partnership of BAE can speed that along.
Photo credits: Reaction Engines, NASA (Space Shuttle images) and United Launch Alliance (Atlas rocket)
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Five Visions Of the Spirit Of Christmas and Haunted Stories
Whenever someone says, “The spirit of Christmas,” my imagination goes into overdrive. What would this spirit look and act like?
Here’s five from my imagination.
1) She appears in the sky mounted on a huge white steed. The flow of her wavy blue hair touches the cloud beneath her. Her white gown looks crisp and without a wrinkle. She wears a red, green, and gold crown with diamonds winking from it on every side. As they flick on and off, forgiveness, happiness, and joy is released to those seeking a new beginning.
2) A burly brown man built like a smooth-skinned grizzly. His face is plump and stern, but kindness lives beneath his demeanor. He must appear that way to rule over his helper spirits who materialize and uses a long pointer finger to pierce the heart of those having a desire to correct past mistakes, vowing not to repeat them, and courageously move their life forward.
3) Standing on the untouched white snow of Alaska, a creature that look like a massive elk, totally red with incredibly wide antlers covered in rich algae. The antlers reach upward and then peaked at the top, twist together, and cradles a monstrous diamond in the center. It doesn’t move for the entire season but holds within the diamond, the wishes, and prayers from all of us in the hope of a peaceful world.
4) It looks like a child, innocent and free, covering itself only with a golden light. It skips tumble and weaves through the countryside of nations, watching, listening, and laughing at the silly and foolish thoughts of man. The purity of this child-like creature is what causes the magical change to blanket Earth.
5) No identifiable form at all, just a glow of silky soft light covering the globe with kindness that sinks deeply into the hearts of men. Most will reject this incomparable spirit and thus remain unchanged; the few that receive it will experience closure to troubled and unanswered questions.
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breach Saltos de línea: breach
Pronunciación: /briːtʃ/
Definición de breach en inglés:
1An act of breaking or failing to observe a law, agreement, or code of conduct: a breach of confidence [mass noun]: I sued for breach of contract
Más ejemplos en oraciones
• It says his actions were not in breach of the code of conduct, but he should have been advised by a planning officer and a note kept of the discussion and then circulated.
• This kind of moonlighting is in breach of the code of conduct of the civil service, according to a report by the government service commission.
• In the month before her death she had given a patient an injection when she was not qualified to do so, in breach of the nursing code of conduct and hospital policy.
contravention, violation, breaking, non-observance, infringement, transgression, neglect, dereliction;
failure to observe, non-compliance with;
Law infraction, delict
1.1A break in relations: a widening breach between government and Church
Más ejemplos en oraciones
• But once the tanks had rolled over the tents of the hunger strikers and once the bodies had been removed and the blood washed away, what was left was a breach between party and people that would never heal.
• And he should tell the Cuban leader that his revolution won't be won until the breach between Cuba and the USA is mended.
rift, gulf, chasm, division, difference, schism, disunion, estrangement, alienation, discord, dissension, disaffection;
separation, split, break, break-up, parting, parting of the ways, severance, rupture;
quarrel, falling-out
British informalbust-up
2A gap in a wall, barrier, or defence, especially one made by an attacking army: a breach in the mountain wall
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• The CASEVAC used the breach made by the sappers to get the vehicles on the OBJ.
• To prevent such an assault, defenders were forced to attack the siege engines or their operators to prevent a breach in their fortifications.
• The soldiers gave chase as their attack was shifted to the breach in the city wall.
break, rupture, split, crack, fracture, rent, rift;
opening, gap, hole, fissure, cleft, aperture
[with object] Volver al principio
1Make a gap in and break through (a wall, barrier, or defence): the river breached its bank
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• For the first fortnight the Turks assaulted the land defences, breaching the outer walls, but could still not get inside.
• Last year's floods in Gowdall led to over 100 properties being flooded after a barrier bank was breached by the River Aire.
• That includes bringing back the 10-acre lake built in the 1740s, but drained in 1922 when the dam wall was breached.
break (through), burst (through), rupture, force itself through, split
1.1Break or fail to observe (a law, agreement, or code of conduct): these outside bodies are bootlegging albums and breaching copyright
Más ejemplos en oraciones
• A councillor who tried to hit a protester at a public meeting breached a code of conduct but will not face disciplinary action, an investigation found yesterday.
• But the Board has decided not to refer the matter to an Ethical Standards Officer for investigation as it has ruled that the comments had not breached its code of conduct.
• This worship is bred out of either greed of knowledge and favours or the fear of having breached some code of conduct, and sometimes out of respect for having found the answer.
break, contravene, violate, fail to comply with, infringe, transgress against;
defy, disobey, flout, fly in the face of;
Law infract
2 [no object] (Of a whale) rise and break through the surface of the water: we saw whales breaching in the distance
Más ejemplos en oraciones
• Glass structures fascinate me, and I'd like to work with that someday, to create a dolphin leaping out of the water or a whale breaching, something like that.
• Where would we be as a nation without bald eagles soaring over the Chesapeake Bay, wolves howling from the backcountry of Yellowstone or gray whales breaching from Pacific waters?
• Barely fifty yards from the boat a Humped Back Whale breached, rising over thirty feet out of the water before twisting and falling back into the sea with an amazing crash.
breach of the peace
British Public disturbance, or an act considered likely to cause one: a man was convicted of causing a breach of the peace during the demonstration
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• Despite the lack of defense, the tribunal condemned the accused to death for culpable homicide unlawful assembly and breach of the peace.
• One of the most important offences is that of behaving in a manner likely to cause a breach of the peace at common law.
• They were held on charges ranging from being drunk and disorderly, breach of the peace and public order offences.
breach of promise
The action of breaking a sworn assurance to do something, formerly especially to marry someone: Anastasia cherishes the recollection of having won an action for breach of promise
Más ejemplos en oraciones
• Would an action for damages for breach of promise of marriage be within this?
• But in litigation over breach of promise for payment of damages, it was possible that she might claim to have been engaged to a more promising man.
• The decision suggests that a legal remedy for a breach of promise by a politician, while not impossible, is very difficult to achieve.
step into the breach
Replace someone who is suddenly unable to do a job or task: I can’t think of anyone who could step into the breach should I become ill
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• Others argue that it is extremely unlikely that the Scottish Executive or Westminster would suddenly step into the breach and come to the rescue with a potful of cash.
• He suggested that if the Rivers Agency did not have the manpower to complete the task then the Council would be more than happy to step into the breach.
• Perhaps now that society doesn't reward the maternal instinct in the way it once did there is a gap to fill and men, newly emasculated, are stepping into the breach.
Palabras que riman con breach
beach, beech, beseech, bleach, breech, each, impeach, leach, leech, outreach, peach, pleach, preach, reach, screech, speech, teach
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Mitt Romney Made $22 Million In 2010, Paid Only $3 Million in Taxes
Now that Mitt Romney has a good shot at becoming the next President of the United States, it seems time to give his tax returns a good read.
After all, Mitt Romney is an unusual Presidential candidate, in that he is totally loaded. (Not just rich--loaded).
And unlike some loaded people who run for office, Mitt Romney isn't just living off of a massive stash of cash he made long ago. Yes, Mitt Romney has a massive stash--most estimates put it in the neighborhood of $250 million--but he's also hauling in more year after year after year.
When Mitt Romney's tax returns were first released during the primaries, everyone focused on the top and bottom lines: How much money Mitt Romney made--and how little (on a percentage basis) he paid in taxes.
In the accompanying interview, my colleague Aaron Task and I discuss Romney's effective tax rate when it was released in January with for former investment banker Bill Cohan.
And those are indeed the first numbers that leap off the Romney tax return. So, in case you haven't seen these numbers, we've included them below.
(Romney's return, incidentally, looks just like any other tax return, except that it's 232 pages long. And also the numbers are huge.)
And before we jump into the numbers, one observation/question:
Romney's private-equity firm, Bain Capital, was extraordinarily successful, no doubt about it. But the amount of money Romney made running the firm appears huge even in light of that success, especially when you consider that he was only there for 15 years. Given that Romney may well become President of the United States, it would be helpful to know exactly how Romney made all this money, year by year, deal by deal.
We'll be reading Mitt Romney's tax return for a while. We'll toss out interesting nuggets as we find them. In the meantime, here are the top and bottom lines:
The top line: $21.7 million of income
The bottom line: $3 million of tax
Now, $3 million is a lot of taxes.
$3 million, in fact, is more tax than most people will pay in their entire lives.
But it's also only 14% of what Mitt Romney made in 2010.
And you can understand why some people wonder how it is, exactly, that Mitt Romney pays such a low tax rate--and where and how he has stashed all of his money.
More to come as we read on...
Where Is Mitt Romney Secretly Hiding His Money?
Mitt Romney Got A $1.6 Million Tax Refund Last Year
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Astronomers Discover a New Kind of Galaxy in the Early Universe
Newly Discovered Fast-Growing Galaxies Could Solve Cosmic Riddle
Figure 1: Artist’s impression of a quasar and neighboring merging galaxy. The galaxies observed by Decarli and collaborators are so distant that no detailed images are possible at present. This combination of images of nearby counterparts gives an impression of how they might look in more detail.
A team of astronomers has discovered a new kind of galaxy in the early universe, less than a billion years after the Big Bang. These galaxies are forming stars more than a hundred times faster than our own Milky Way. The discovery could explain an earlier finding: a population of surprisingly massive galaxies at a time 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, which would require such hyper-productive precursors to grow their hundreds of billions of stars. The observations also show what appears to be the earliest image of galaxies merging.
When a group of astronomers discovered unusually massive galaxies in the early universe a few years ago, the sheer size of these galaxies, with hundreds of billions of stars, posed a puzzle. The galaxies are so distant, we see them as they were a mere 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, when the universe was about 10% its present age. How were they able to form so many stars, in such a comparatively short time?
Now, this discovery led by Roberto Decarli from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy is pointing to a possible solution to the mystery: a population of hyper-productive galaxies in the very early universe, at a time less than a billion years after the Big Bang.
Roberto Decarli says: “We were looking for something different: for star formation activity in the host galaxies of quasars. But what we found, in four separate cases, were neighboring galaxies that were forming stars at a furious pace, producing a hundred solar masses’ worth of new stars per year.” Quasars constitute a brief phase of galaxy evolution, powered by the infall of matter onto a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy.
Fabian Walter, leader of the observation program using the ALMA observatory in Chile that led to the discovery, says: “Very likely it is not a coincidence to find these productive galaxies close to bright quasars. Quasars are thought to form in regions of the universe where the large-scale density of matter is much higher than average. Those same conditions should also be conducive to galaxies forming new stars at a greatly increased rate.”
Whether or not these newly discovered galaxies can indeed be the precursors of their more massive, later kin, and thus solve the cosmic puzzle, will depend on how common they are in the universe. That is a question for follow-up observations planned by Decarli and his colleagues.
The ALMA observations also showed what appears to be the earliest known example of two galaxies undergoing a merger. In addition to forming new stars, mergers are another major mechanism of galaxy growth – and the new observations provide the first direct evidence that such mergers have been taking place even at the earliest stages of galaxy evolution, less than a billion years after the Big Bang.
The results, by a group of astronomers led by Roberto Decarli of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, have been published in the 25 May issue of the journal Nature.
Publication: R. Decarli, et al., “Rapidly star-forming galaxies adjacent to quasars at redshifts exceeding 6,” Nature 545, 457–461 (25 May 2017) doi:10.1038/nature22358
Source: Max Planck Institute
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1. russ woodling | May 28, 2017 at 8:24 am | Reply
good reading
2. How do they know when the so called big bang occurred? And Hawkins said there was NOTHING before the big bang…so what created the bang then. And what created that and fo on and so on etc. etc. etc. Until you reach the fact something or Someone created it. (God)
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Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, GCON
Is it possible for the former Vice President of Nigeria to own such colossal shares in such a company, oooo yes it is possible. Especially being a private citizen if he has the wherewithal/resources then by law, nothing stops him from acquiring the shares.
So does he own such colossal numbers of shares, whose value would be staggering to say the least? That we cannot readily tell you for sure, but the rumour is rife that he does and the only 2 people that can ascertain that for sure, are the former vice-president himself and or OANDO PLC.
But beyond any iota of doubt, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, is a man of extraordinary and colossal means. Forget totally that part where his name is not listed in any Forbes rich list or Fortune networth list. In fact how many of the stupendously wealthty or rich Nigerians are listed on that so called list?
More after the break.
We can tell you for sure that, in the sacred cloud of those who are sure fire men and women of "Timber and Caliber", those whose liquidity would shake all comers, that his position on the list and at the top echelon is not in doubt at all. Even many of the avowed super rich on the list, genuflect in deference to this gentle but very mighty man of great influence.
His is not something that just began recently or today. The gentleman par excellence, a former Deputy Director, which is likely an equivalent a of Deputy-Controller General now, has always been very very liquid, long before he joined politics.
Has at the early 1980s/1990s before joining the political fray in the old Gongola state, which later became Adamawa State, where he ran for the Governorship election. In his first missionary journey he lost, and then 2nd time he won, before he was now upgraded by virtue of the influence he had and the platform he controlled, which made him the right candidate to be selected as the Vice Presidential candidate to the then retired General, Chief Olusegun Aremu Obasanjo; as at that time Alhaji Atiku Abubakar was already very very liquid.
The Waziri of the Adamawa, which is the highest cheiftaincy title in Adamawa State, that was bestowed on him as he was upgraded to that title, and his son made the Turaki his old title recently, is an undoubted man of great means.
He started making good money since the early 70s when he started investing heavily into properties of which he is said to have a colossal portfolio now, which he built over several years spanning decades.
From that time on, he began to reinvest into other things, which made him have his fingers in many lucrative pies.
In the early 80s he and a partner invested heavily in an oil servicing and logistics outfit which later grew to become "Intels", which has become an extraordinary brand and investment today with very extensive tentacles in and outside Nigeria, employing people in their several thousands. We hear Intels controls some of the major ports in Nigeria.
Another well known investment of the very quiet man is his school, known as "American University of Nigeria, Yola, Adamawa State" known as (AUN, Yola) for short. There's probably no other private tertiary institution in Nigeria, that can compare with this school, in terms of manpower, resources, infrastructure, facilities and what have you.
It offers American style higher education programs in undergraduate, graduate and professional levels Nigeria. It's like America was uprooted and brought and planted in Nigeria.
The above are just the known investments of the beloved Waziri, what about the ones not known publicly or not in the public purview?
So when the rumours became rife, that he is the highest singular shareholder at OANDO PLC, a top oil and gas company, where Wale Tinubu is the GMD/CEO we were curious to know what the real deal was.
Wale, the GMD of OANDO PLC, is a nephew of the Governor Emeritus of Lagos State, in the person of the great Jagaban of Borgu, the ASIWAJU of Lagos himself, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who is a top chieftain of the ruling in Nigeria, APC. Alhaji Atiku Abubakar is also one of the founding members and a top shot in the APC too.
So until the truth is ascertained as a fact, it is just mere rumours for the birds as at now.
But what we can state for a fact is that, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar can afford to be what the rumour claims, if he wants to.
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By , January 9, 2014
Northern Opportunities is pleased to announce the completion of the articulation of its Partnership. This report has endeavoured to capture our partnership’s evolution and structure as well as achievements and challenges over the past ten years. It is hoped that this will assist other areas of the province in developing a collaboration model in their region to benefit students, parents, employers and communities.
We would like to thank Sage Transitions of Kelowna for their work in the articulation of our partnership as well as all who participated in interviews.
Additionally, we wish to acknowledge and thank the Northern Development Initiative Trust for the visionary spirit in which they promoted and supported us to complete this process. Without their financial support this project would not have been possible.
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Northern Opportunities – Supporting Personalized Learning Options
Careers can begin while still in high school: Students in Northeastern B.C. are being given that opportunity.
With a view ‘beyond bricks and mortar’ this collaboration of industry, education and government, is supporting students to be ‘Trained in the North’ so that they can “Stay in the North’.
Career Pathways may begin in a number of different ways, including work experience and apprenticeships as well as through university transfer courses.
Dual Credit Programs available at local Northern Lights College campuses are making it possible for secondary students to begin post secondary pursuits while still in high school.
Why should students apply? Whats in it for me? How is this program different from ‘regular’ high school?
What’s in it for Parents? How can Northern Opportunities help my teen?
Employers: How can Northern Opportunities benefit my company? How can I access a skilled workforce?
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I wish to restrict the creation of a class (SpokeSite) to people with the "Add Spoke Site" permission, and in turn only provide that permission to people in the 'Super-manager' Role.
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I've got it *working* by cheating, and using the private __app attribute of the ProductContext. Is there a better way for python Products to alter the Zope installation (add Roles, create Folders, etc.) during installation?
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Guy Loses Valentine’s Day Money Betting On Broncos, Tells Girlfriend ‘Peyton Let You Down’
Hey, priorities.
Peyton Manning is taking much criticism tonight for Denver’s hapless showing against the Seahawks, and much of it is deserved I suppose. I’m thinking that Cooper Manning could have kept the score closer.
But here’s one critic who should keep his mouth buttoned. Dude’s gambit is so ballsy, so misguided and so humorous that we had to show it to you. Is his girl really buying this? My guess is, if they’re married, his stuff is out on the front lawn as you read this. If they’re not, they won ‘t be anytime soon. (Full message here).
But then again, they say that there’s someone for everyone. Do they make cheap Valentine’s Day cards for very gullible chicks?
Also, my God — nine emoticons? Turn in your man card.
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Question: Is Everyone Rich In Dubai?
What are people from Dubai called?
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30 billionairesAccording to a Wealth-X and UBS report, Dubai is home to more than 30 billionaires, by far the most of any Middle Eastern city. 2 But a more recent and comprehensive list from Forbes only lists seven Dubai residents in the world’s billionaire club as of year-end 2018.
Who is the richest Arab?
What city has most billionaires?
New York City1. New York City is the world’s only city with more than 100 billionaires, according to Wealth-X.
How rich is the average person in Dubai?
The average person living in the UAE has net assets of approximately US$99,000 (wealth per capita). This is well above the worldwide average. There are approximately 88,700 HNWIs living in the UAE, each with net assets of US$1 million or more.
Is Dubai the richest city in the world?
How can I make money fast in Dubai?
Is Kuwait richer than Dubai?
Kuwait is richer and has more oil reserves than the UAE.
How is everyone so rich in Dubai?
Almost everyone knows about Dubai and its vast expanse of riches. … Most people think that Dubai became rich due to it being a part of the Gulf, the oil well of the world, but the major part of around a $100 billion revenue of the state comes from prosperous areas like real estate, airlines and ports.
Is anyone poor in Dubai?
Who owns Dubai?
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al MaktoumIts majority shares are owned by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Ruler of the Emirate of Dubai, and the primary founder of Dubai Inc.. Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed al-Maktoum has been appointed as chairman by Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum.
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Why Collins?????
Discussion in 'Tennessee Titans and NFL Talk' started by rayzor2004, Aug 28, 2006.
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1. rayzor2004
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Since when is bringing another 5-7step, drop back, immobile quarterback to the Titans a good idea, the guy has almost as many interceptions as Touchdowns. Do we really need another quarterback, correct me if I'm wrong but don't we need recievers that can catch the ball?!?!?!?!? and a Running game, how bout bringing in more help for our O Line??? And maybe a new Defensive coordinator?? Not only will we not establish the run this year, but we will not be able to stop the run either, god help us if Albert gets hurt.
2. rcarie
rcarie Tac Head
Mar 4, 2004
Casue Neil O'Donnell is retired!!!
3. rayzor2004
rayzor2004 Guest
Well, so should Collins, if we're rebuilding, lets start w/ Reese and Fisher
4. Slackmaster
Slackmaster Starter
Nov 26, 2003
Because there are idiots running the show.
No one with a lick of sense would sign Kerry Collins.
No one with a clue would want him.
This is really the move that marks the end of the Titan's season before it starts.
This is proof that there will not be rational decision making at all this season.
5. Broken Record
Broken Record Biscuit Eater Staff
Jun 6, 2002
I agree with your post, but I'd like it better if you mentioned some alternatives. Who would you like us to sign?
6. ShoTym
ShoTym Rookie of the Year
May 8, 2006
I haven't been able to keep up with Titan training camp a whole bunch. Are they disappointed in Volek or Vince? Why would they make this move and who gets cut as a result?
7. Banshee2
Banshee2 Guest
More importantly, why the move for a QB? Why not some DL help? IMO, that's the spot that needs the most attention.
This can't be good for Billy's confidence.
8. ZELL22
ZELL22 Starter
Jul 27, 2006
Here's a quick and dirty answer. The FO caught a case of the "Oh ****, boy are we in trouble". Our O-Line is in need of some fine tunning(understatement I know, but trying to remain positive). There really isn't anyone available who they believe would shore up the line immediately. Therefore, they have just cause to believe that cotton body Billy V. will not make it past week four (no seriously does he even workout?!?) This in essence is proof to me that they intend on sticking to NOT allowing VY to start this season, so solutuion,...... bring in another punching bag to get beat up on, instead of risking our QB of the future. We will be in the Top 5 draft pick for sure next year, and that pick will be an O-Lineman. The Swamy has spoken.
9. Hoffa
Hoffa Not Family?Then freak you you freakin' freak
Jun 28, 2003
Collins is a 12 step QB.
10. Gene the PIG
Gene the PIG I'm Winning The Future
Mar 19, 2006
Answer: ANYONE is better than Billy Volek.
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undersoil heating
Discussion in 'Aquascaping' started by peter, 10 Sep 2007.
1. peter
peter Newly Registered
Iwill be setting up a high tec tank using the denerle duomat comfort with summer setting and night time reduction used older model with good results but meet with great scepticism from the experts My own observations shows it to work Even amano uses it in some setups so why is so out of favours your thought please
2. CJ Castle
CJ Castle Newly Registered
The impact that a substrate heater has on plant growth is fairly minimal... Lots of Aquascapers get amazing results without using this piece of equipment and therefore, people just don't think it's needed.
3. beeky
beeky Member
Chippenham, Wiltshire
Many people have had great results with using undersoil heating, but just as many seem to have had great results without it. I don't know if there have been any publicised experiments to compare with/without.
4. George Farmer
George Farmer Founder Staff Member
I've used them and not used them.
I didn't notice any difference. If there were any difference, it didn't justify the cost and the ugly cable running up the tank.
Amano doesn't use them anymore. ADA would sell them otherwise... ;)
I honestly don't think any "modern" enthusiast uses them anymore, not that I know...
They are useful in cold room I understand.
You should ask Tom Barr on the Barr Report. http://www.barrreport.com.
5. Dave Spencer
Dave Spencer Member
N. Wales
I have one in my 120l tank. I ran it for long periods whilst I had a jungle of stems growing, and then switched it off to see what happened. Personally, I can`t see that it made any difference whatsoever. A waste of £30 or whatever it cost me, IMHO.
6. zig
zig Member
Dublin Ireland
Hi Peter
How did you observe it made a difference?
7. zig
zig Member
Dublin Ireland
bump :)
8. TDI-line
TDI-line Member
Yaxley, Peterborough
I'm running the Dennerle system, with two 75 watt heating cables connected to the duomat evo. Nice piece of kit for controlling all aspects of heating.
But it's early days yet to see how it affects plant growth.
9. Graeme Edwards
Graeme Edwards Founder Staff Member
Wirral/Chester Cheshire.
For me, I could grow any plant with out the added cost of an under soil heater. It just isnt worth the cost of purchase and running costs. A waste of money and time IMO.
10. Matt Holbrook-Bull
Matt Holbrook-Bull Founder
Dorset, UK
In the early days of planting, an under-soil heating system does show some benefits.. the same techniques are used in terrestrial propagation widely throughout the horticultural industry.
however, I question the use after the first few weeks of planting. Once the root systems are established in terrestrial systems, heat actually can impair top growth, as it forces the plant to put more energy into the root system.
The other factor that needs to be considered, is that our aim in aquatic planting, has to be to recreate the biotope most preferred by the plants, therefore, its natural environment. We spend huge amounts of time fiddling with factors such as KH, PH, ferts in the water column etc. In a natural system, the substrate would actually be COOLER than the water column by a fractional amount.. surely by heating the substrate on a permanent basis will be providing an UN-favourable parameter, as any plant simply wouldn't be evolved to handle this?
Its an interesting subject though, and yes Peter, one that sets experts off against each other very regularly! :wideyed: What we need, is someone to do fully controlled tests on the method, same waters, same substrates, same species of plants, one not heated, one fully heated, one heated for the first 2 weeks or so. Would be interesting to see, and highly desirable to put it to bed.
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Agile Antechinus
The Agile Antechinus (Antechinus agilis), is a species of small carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae. It is found in wet or moist forest in the southeastern corner of Australia. The species is widely abundant, although it has been reduced in areas due to forest clearing, the instigation of plantations, harvesting, controlled burning and the introduction of the Cat and the Red Fox.. Despite these threats, there is no indication that the species is at all threatened.
The Agile Antechinus is nearly indistinguishable from the Brown Antechinus, but it is slightly smaller and its fur has a more grayish tinge. It feeds mostly on invertebrates, including beetles, spiders and cockroaches, but may also devour small lizards and soft berries. The species has been known to enter torpor in response to shortages of food.
Like all antechinuses, the Agile Antechinus has a short and violent breeding season, after which the males all die. The females give birth after a 27-day gestation. Groups of up to 20 have been known to nest together.
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Do you think all interracial porn is inherently racist?
I read a couple article where White female porn stars are told if they won’t shoot with a Black guy they’ll be seen as racist. And then some of them have agents that say if they do they’ll get paid less afterwards. Do you think all interracial porn is inherently racist? That seems racist from both directions, like people aren’t allowed to have preferences, and also who cares what people think if they do it?
The other side of it is the fact that when’s the last time you saw a Black guy in porn that wasn’t hung? I’ve been with more than a few Black girls in my life who have said it is a myth, that the ones out there with huge cocks are the unicorns, just like with every race. So the industry creates a distorted image of what all Black guys are like, the same way they screw over all the Asian men with the ones they pick for those movies. They almost always pick Asian men with smaller penises, which again, on average is a myth. Like how they seem to show all Black women have huge asses: they don’t, that all Latinas are curvy: they’re not, and all White women are automatically part-time Lesbians, apparently. And, again, I know plenty of girls who will tell you their motto is “strictly dickly”.
I feel like aside from the obvious ways porn distorts sexuality, it’s also a little insidious how racist it is whether it’s trying to be or not.
And for those of you who think I must be jealous or something, I’m not. I do fine with what I have. I have never had any complaints from women, except that it’s too big. So, I really wouldn’t want to go bigger, I just think it’s a distorted view of sexuality, and women, who claim it’s men that are obsessed with size, seem to be obsessed with thing like size, hence driving part of this.
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Thursday, September 19, 2013
Political Flesh VI: Teaching Trayvon Martin con’t.
By Therí A. Pickens
This is part of a blog series related to Therí Pickens’s forthcoming book.
How exactly does one teach a lesson on Trayvon Martin? The emotive difficulty requires one kind of preparation, the intellectual rigor another. I sought to keep the dignity of Martin and avoid the sensationalism associated with merely covering a "current event" in an English class. I took several steps to prepare my class intellectually and emotionally for the discussion.
[Related: Political Flesh V: Teaching Trayvon Martin]
First, it is important to note that this in an introductory course (100 level) designed to expose students to the tradition of African American Literature. It used to be one course for the whole of the tradition, but now I have made it two courses: 1600 - 1910, and 1910 - present. This is the second half of the course which seeks to provide an expansive view of Black literary engagement. The particular focus of this semester is love and politics. As I explained to the students on the first day, when all else fails, you can return the questions about the depiction of love (agape, phileo, eros) or questions about the attention to politics (gender, government, sexual, etc). Telling them the main questions driving the course was step one in our preparation. Since everything we planned to discuss could be subordinated under a specific and named intellectual rubric, I made clear to them that our discussions may coincidental, but they would never be accidental.
Second, I set the specific tone for Grimke's Rachel by giving some intellectual context for the play. Using Koritha Mitchell's Living with Lynching and Soyica Diggs Colbert's The African American Theatrical Body, I explained that they were reading part of a Black drama tradition that sought to revise existing narratives regarding Black domestic life and prosperity. To my mind, Mitchell and Diggs Colbert's work brings to bear the intellectual force of other top notch scholars who invest time and energy into unpacking these ideas. Students at Bates tend to have a healthy sense of intellectual respect and humility when they confront intellectual tradition. Moreover, this allowed them to begin th a sense that there were parameters to the discussion, a place from which they could begin.
I deliberately started off the class with an open ended question, along the lines of "What do you want to talk about?" They began to discuss their opinions of Rachel as a character and a few scenes in which Rachel confronts her suitor. This lead us to a rather rousing set of comments about gender politics. We made it clear that John, the suitor, may or may not be a sexist, but we till had to account for the age dynamic and gender politics in his interaction with Rachel. Here, we made a distinction between interpreting and judging, analysis that opens up and analysis that shuts down conversation. That was during our Tuesday discussion. At the end f that class, I stopped us a 5 minutes before the end to lay out the conversation for the next class including that we would broach the topic of Trayvon Martin. For me, this was the opportunity to do emotional prep work. For the intrepid among them, it was also a chance to look up the reference.
Since they did not go toward the subject on their own, I steered the conversation toward lynching. We examined the interplay of aesthetics and politics. How does the memory recitation function within the play? How does that scene rely on or disrupt intimacy? This was very volatile subject matter. How do the choices in stage direction, positioning, and dialogue engage lynching? How does Rachel's weeping at the denouement of the play strike you as a theater-goer? As a possible director?
I kept the focus on the play as art as well as (indirect) political engagement. The students came up with really excellent ideas about how aesthetics and politics intertwine. As is apropos of most lit students - be they dilettantes or experts - they were a bit flummoxed by fact that they were dealing with drama. I chalk that up to a lack of exposure generally, and an emphasis on specific kinds of putatively contiguous narratives in lit pedagogy specifically.
Before opening up the discussion on Martin, I anchored my rationale for bringing it up in the architecture of the course. I reiterated out that the course had been split into two parts so that we could have wider discussions. I also pointed out hat we have a tendency to view some pieces of literature as circumscribed to their times and analyze them within those constraints. As I said in another post, Rachel is now because there are many Rachels now.
When I opened up the discussion, only the three Black men in the class spoke. They articulated a range of reactions from disappointment, to surprise, to fear. This I think was significant for everyone to hear because it gave clear indication of the wide range of human reaction. It was a very James Baldwin moment for me, as his work captures what was palpable to me in that moment: the complexity of available responses to human beauty and ugliness.
Yet, I was not satisfied. I told them that I noticed that only the Black men spoke. I reminded them that everyone has a stake in this conversation. We are all implicated because this is the world we will accept or change. One student, who has had me before, piped up saying that the situation demonstrates how we have to do the work of being together because otherwise we remain siloed. Otherwise, she implied, we believe someone in a hoodie, carrying candy and a beverage, is dangerous. Otherwise, I add, we leave unexamined the necessity of weaponizing a sidewalk when staring down the barrel of a bully's gun.
I regret that the bell rang during this conversation. (Yes, we have bells.) But, as I remind my students (perhaps ad nauseum), my class is very much an extended dinner party. We will most certainly return to these ideas again.
Therí A. Pickens is an assistant professor of English at Bates College and a contributing writer for the Cultural Front.
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Koritha Mitchell said...
So important, Professor Pickens! Much strikes me here, especially because I've seen you teach, but I'll highlight just one moment. You say, "We are all implicated because this is the world we will accept or change." Yes, yes, yes! Suddenly, this feels to me like one way to understand the links between aesthetics and politics. We know the world through language, and cultural production certainly shapes our experience of the world. Now, what are we going to do with that knowledge and with the contours of that experience? Also, are we going to avoid cultural productions that show us what we don't want to know? I'll keep thinking on this. Thank you for the prompt.
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More Schiavo
The invective of the radical right, which calls Michael Schiavo the devil, and a murderer, an abuser, an unfit spouse, a spendthrift, neglectful, exploitative, and a monster. The only thing they haven't yet figured out is to label him the antichrist. Methinks they dost protest too much. Did you know that Florida courts appointed a guardian ad litem for her, and that he reluctantly concluded that she has no consciousness at all? And the videos that everyone's seen are very misleading.
"She clearly does not consistently respond to her mother,'' the judge wrote in 2002 after hearing from five doctors with divided opinions. ``The court finds that based on the credible evidence, cognitive function would manifest itself in a constant response to stimuli.''
And the supposed "experts" who have drafted affidavits for Terri's parents & operation rescue are either not experts qualified to opine on this particular issue, or conveniently fail to give any opinion at all.
The conclusion the court came to is that, based on medical testimony and Terri’s CAT scan, her cerebral cortex has basically turned to liquid. The cerebral cortex is the seat of all our higher brain functions. Without a cerebral cortex, it is impossible for a human being to experience thought, emotions, consciousness, pain, pleasure, or anything at all; nor, barring a miracle, is it possible for a patient lacking a cerebral cortex to recover.
In any event, Findlaw has links to all of the primary sources for this story. Most significant of which is the Florida Court's 2003 decision. Read it. They're the only ones that matter in this case. All of the posturing and libel by the National Review, Weekly Standard, Worldnetdaily, CNS News, Rush Limbaugh, Newsmax, etc. means nothing. Where the parents and husband cannot agree on what Terri would have wanted, Florida law requires that a trial judge make a decision that the clear and convincing evidence shows Terri herself would have made. (Clear and convincing evidence is something more than a simple preponderance, and something less than "reasonable doubt.") The courts have had a fair and open hearing on this. All sides were presented and heard. Terri herself had a guardian ad litem to protect her interests, based on the unfounded allegation that her husband had nefarious motives. The federal government has taken Terri Schiavo's choice to die with dignity away from her. They can do the same to you. The federal government has ordered that a plastic tube be shoved into Terri Schiavo to keep her alive pending the outcome of a redundant and unnecessary federal court action. They can do the same to you. The federal government has injected itself into a deeply personal and private issue, mostly thanks to the politicization of the matter by Terri's parents. If politically expedient, they'll do the same to you, too.
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Payment Express has supported the growing e-commerce and in-store trends in New Zealand by being the first e-commerce gateway and the local acquirer to support China UnionPay. This is Chinese consumers payment method of choice. Payment Express has also developed a proprietary bank to bank payment solution called ‘Account2Account’ that allows customers without a credit or debit card to make online payments to businesses in New Zealand and Australia. Payment Express provides a consolidation of multiple payment services allowing businesses to deal with a single company for all their payment needs. This helps eliminate cost centres, fail points and provides merchants with a reliable and scalable solution that helps their business grow. “We are the most widely integrated solution allowing merchants to integrate store and online and also use the same store solutions in overseas markets. For example, we’ve assisted multiple NZ businesses with their expansion into the USA and beyond,” explained Daniel Favier from Payment Express.
Andy Cullen is a software developer and founder of Payment Express. He developed various payment-related products in the late 1990’s. As an employee and contractor, Cullen developed software to solve problems for large corporates. With retailers adopting Windows PCs at that time, the inspiration was to take the bespoke systems and integration that only large retailers could afford and make a ‘shrink wrap’ product that benefits all retailers.
Their long-term goal is to invest in new payment technology, and markets as current technologies become commoditised. “More specifically to see the wholly owned USA division become recognised as the premier payments integration provider in that market,” said Favier.
The future of payment is always changing, especially with tech solutions such as Apple Pay, Android Pay, Samsung Pay and so on. All of which are reliant on the traditional credit card model, so it is unlikely they will entirely replace credit cards in their current state. However, the future does lie in mobile wallets. “So whether the transaction model moves to blockchain technology or continues with the current credit/debit links, Payment Express will be at the forefront of the industry, driving connectivity in NZ and abroad.”
Payment Express provides a unique unified commerce solution which allows businesses to view their customers across channels. By being able to tokenise cards in-store, merchants can recognise those cardholders when they shop online through a Payment Express gateway or at different store locations in NZ or around the world.
For more information, visit www.paymentexpress.co.nz.
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Routines and Calendars allow parents to manage screen-time, determining when their children can access the internet, taking into consideration their changing academic, sporting and social schedules. The four different access periods (Play, School, Study, Sleep) which make up the routine can be customised for each child, based on their calendar.
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Pop pundit Paul Gambaccini today praised Geordie star Sting's longevity in the music business.
But the broadcasting legend said he feared there were too few upcoming stars of the same calibre for long-term success in the industry.
The radio and TV host made a whistlestop visit to Newcastle to promote the 25th Brit Awards. He is sponsor MasterCard's music spokesman.
"I have great respect for Sting. He loves music. He is in a class of his own. He has a musical standing you rarely see in the industry these days and is someone who is really concerned about his music," said Mr Gambaccini, as he spoke to the Chronicle in Newcastle's Apartment luxe-bar.
"I've watched Sting since before the Police even had a hit. I remember being in A&M Records in London. They were having a serious meeting about how the Police's first record, Can't Stand Losing You, had flopped. Derek Green, of A&M, told them: "I never want to hear you criticise The Carpenters. It is the money we made off them we're using to promote you". I always remember that.
"And I was backstage in a club in New York a little while after with Sting and he told me his mother now knew that he and the Police were OK, as she had heard their record on my programme! I can usually feel if someone had that certain It about them.
"It is indefinable, intangible, qualities - charisma, talent and attitude. And Sting had attitude. He was good and he knew he was good. But you have to be realistic and he worked hard, all the Police worked hard.
"I was with them in New Orleans in 1984 at the time of their Synchronicity album and you could just tell the group wasn't going to be around for much longer."
Mr Gambaccini, 55, who listens to dozens of new CDs every week and claims he has a mental i-pod, said he felt the media was too concerned with image these days than with songwriting and making good records, and also blamed the short-sightedness of some radio stations for not giving enough time to burgeoning talent - and to old records.
"We're in this trendy bar and in the time we've been here, we've heard Santana, which is certainly older than the demographic target for this place, and I find that encouraging. And then it is followed by a St Germain track. It shows people want diversity."
As for the 25th Brits Awards show on February 9, Mr Gambaccini believes the night will belong to Franz Ferdinand.
"But I hope Jamie Cullum gets something. He is someone who does have elusive It," he added.
Don't miss tomorrow's What's On Friday for your chance to win a VIP trip to the Brits. And the Brits MasterCard Mini Cooper roadshow will be at Gateshead's MetroCentre on Saturday, when MasterCard holders can win the motor plus tickets to the awards show.
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Tuesday, November 08, 2011
If you forgot that it's Election Day, maybe this'll serve as a reminder of what's at stake
-- Jamie Raskin (attributed)
(Found as a result of Googling, thanks to @rightwingwatch, who appear(s) to be live-tweeting this debate, starting around here.)
[Added] If you forgot where you're supposed to go, check Vote411.org's Polling Place Finder.
Ocean said...
I just voted. Phew!
Brendan said...
Why do you phew? Was it exhausting?
Ocean said...
No, I phewed because I wasn't sure I was going to have enough time in between errands to make it.
Pushing those buttons wasn't effortless either. ;)
Brendan said...
You think you had it hard? We didn't have any fancy buttons at my polling place. I had to color in tiny circles.
Ocean said...
With toddler type crayons and after walking ten miles under pouring rain?
Poor Brendan. ;)
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Guess who’s going to be paying for the Payroll-Tax Cut… That’s right, you are!!! Well, that is if you own a home in the United States.
You see, for the Democrat-led Senate and the Obama administration to pay for this ridiculous 2 month band-aid payroll-tax extension they’ve decided to tax Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac. Seems like a perfect fix right? Get the GSE’s to pay for our payroll-tax holiday… but as is life, it’s not that cut and dry. Since Fannie & Freddie don’t issue mortgage instruments it will be the home mortgage lenders who are responsible for paying this tax. Every business owner, and most Americans (not residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.) realize that nothing in this world is free, someone always pays, and that someone is usually you and me — this case is no different.
Congress and the Obama administration are turning to an unlikely source to pay for the proposed extension of the payroll-tax cut: mortgage-finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
The revenue source proposed by both Senate Democrats and House Republicans would boost fees that Fannie and Freddie collect from lenders. But that is raising hackles in the real-estate industry. Builders, Realtors and lenders say it would amount to a tax that would be passed on to mortgage borrowers.
Fannie and Freddie don’t issue mortgages, but instead buy them from lenders. They bundle those loans into securities that are sold to investors, and promise to make investors whole if the loans default. To cover any defaults, Fannie and Freddie charge “guarantee” fees to lenders when they buy the loans.
Anyone that thinks these mortgage lenders are going to pay said taxes out of their profit, and not pass them down to their customers, is simply living in fantasy-land.
But make no mistake, the banks will pass this increased fee on to borrowers in the form of higher interest rates on mortgages. In essence, it’s a conduit for the home buyer to pay the bank to pay Fannie and Freddie to pay the Treasury to pay for the tax credit. Only in Washington…
As if that in and of itself wasn’t bad enough it looks to most experts that in-so-doing this tax will also, inadvertently or on purpose, back-door a government takeover of Fannie and Freddie through “pay for”
Concern: GSE “pay-for” in payroll tax cut extension bill – raises $30-40bn by making Fannie and Freddie Mac charge higher G-fees and send the extra revenue directly to the Treasury (i.e. a direct tax, even if the bill doesn’t call it that)
Problem: This ties Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to the US government budget for up to 40 years (10 years of higher fees charged on mortgages that run up to 30 years beyond that) to cover just two months of payroll tax cut extension. (Senate: covers whole 2 months planned; House: covers part of 1 year planned)
Big picture implications not appreciated:
1. Republicans say they want to fix mortgage finance and end the “GSE model” where gains are privatized and losses are dumped on taxpayers. This prevents that from happening, as Congress will not restructure the entities if it has to “undo” a direct source of revenue.
2. In fact, this goes in the other direction – Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac become part of the government – they are nationalized – as the taxpayer will be on the hook for future losses as the companies can’t generate reserves to cover losses when mortgage borrowers default.
3. This guts the conservatorship now in place, taking value away from the enterprises that belongs to the various stakeholders. The largest stakeholder is the US government as holder of the senior preferred stock.
4. Sets bad precedent – this is like Congress taking money out of the FDIC deposit insurance fund to cover other expenses and not losses to bank depositors.
5. If Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac become arms of the government as a result of this tax, there is a risk they could be consolidated on the government’s balance sheet and their debt could blow the debt ceiling.
Conclusion: To us it makes sense to reform and re-privatize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac so they lose their government sponsorship and the taxpayer gets paid back. You don’t have to agree with this conclusion now, but if this provision goes into effect it prevents that from happening for a very long time.
Raising the “G-fee” by itself is not a bad thing, as it lets the market work, lets credit reserves build up to insulate taxpayers from harm, and brings private capital back into the mortgage market, but this is not the right way to do so.
Ties Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into the appropriations process for the full 10-year period of the required offset, limiting Congress’ future ability to restructure and resolve the entities:
1. Congress will not restructure the entities if it has to “undo” a direct source of revenue; in past experience, tax increases become permanent fixtures of the fiscal landscape
2. Effectively perpetuates the conservatorship, draining financial resources from the entities and making it less likely the government will get paid back its invested capital
3. Increases “left pocket to right pocket” accounting game where the government is forced to buy new senior preferred stock to pay dividends on previously invested capital
4. Keeps the housing market in limbo as important sources of mortgage finance would be left un-restructured and in government hands
-Steve Foley
Cross Posted from The Minority Report
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Warnings: This fic contains material that may not be appropriate for children under the legal age of consent. Also, some material may not be enjoyable for certain readers who do not approve of homosexual relationships. There will be sexual content, considered NC-17 material, and also mentions of pedophilia-oriented sexual abuse. This work of fiction will also include sex scenes between an adult male and a minor who is above the age of fifteen. Any suggestion of sexual behavior with a minor under the age of fifteen will not be written in detail or portrayed as erotically pleasing.
A/N: Damn this thing has a lot of fucking warnings... The idea for this hit me pretty hard today and I just had to write it.
"All things truly wicked start from innocence."
-Ernest Hemingway
I don't know his name. I never really do. Sometimes, they tell me to call them Daddy, but usually it's Sir, or Master. In front of other people, it's always just Dad, but they don't tend to let me out with other people.
According to my birth certificate, my name is Sasuke Uchiha. I have a mother, Mikoto Uchiha, and a father, Fugaku Uchiha. That's all fine and swell, especially because Fugaku Uchiha is the most famous actor in this beautiful country of Japan, and Mikoto is his supermodel wife.
I have no memory of them aside from their pictures in magazines, and even those are hard to come by.
Sometimes, I wonder if the media even knows that their favorite celebrities have a son. I highly doubt it. I was in the Hopeful Souls Orphanage for the first six months of my life. Or at least that's what my papers say. After that, I was adopted by a nice couple that told me to call them Auntie and Uncle. I lived with them for nearly six years, but they ran into financial trouble just before my sixth birthday.
That's when I met my first Daddy. I asked him if he had adopted me, like my Auntie and Uncle, but he said no – that he had chosen me, and being chosen was a lot more special than being adopted. He told me that just any little kid can get adopted if they stick in the "system" long enough, but that to be chosen you had to be beautiful. He said that I was a "real little beauty" and that the first time he saw me he knew I was worth more than his whole bank account, but could be bought for less.
My first Daddy settled Auntie and Uncle's financial trouble in exchange for me, and I guess I'm glad he did so, at least for their sake. Daddy liked cameras, and he had them in every room. He had one in the bathroom, that looked rather imposing. It was always aimed at my boy-parts, and it took me several tries to be able to pee without blushing.
At night, he would let one of the other boys, or sometimes a man, come in and touch me all sorts of weird places. He would let them put their boy things in my mouth, and spank me if I gagged. Even getting spanked had to be on video, and you have no idea how humiliating that is. Can you imagine that? Getting in trouble for something you can't even help and having no idea how many thousands of people watched you get punished for it? It's horrid.
Child Protective Services got hold of one of those videos when I was exactly seven and a half. I asked the nice lady which one they saw, and I told her that I hoped it wasn't one of the peeing ones, cus those are just gross. She never answered my questions. She just held me and cried on me, until I couldn't help but cry right back on her, even though I'm sure neither of us really knew what was wrong.
Next, I had a Mom and Pop. Mom and Pop were paid each month to look after me, so they didn't run into any of those financial issues that Auntie and Uncle had to endure. Mom explained that this was because I was no longer in the orphanage system, I was now in something called foster care – so instead of people having to pay to have me, now they got paid to have me.
Mom seemed to like me a lot. For the first time, I was in school, and I met lots of little boys and girls my age with similar interests. I was quickly accepted by many of the students throughout the upper school as well as my elementary class, and I got special permission to join the swim team even though I was too young.
One day, while I was changing out of my trunks, I saw two older boys doing the same. They were comparing themselves in the mirror, and one was teasing the other for having a smaller boy thing than he did. The one with the smaller thing insisted that his could grow a full three inches more if it was hard, and somehow their friendly competition turned into both of them wanking in order to compare properly.
It reminded me of my first Daddy, and I couldn't help but creep out of my hiding space and get a better look. I sort of missed the feeling of a man's meat down my throat. It was an easy way to get attention, I guess. Usually they would stroke my cheeks and my hair while I was sucking it for them, so it was a fun way to be touched. Especially by the ones who wanted to kiss me afterwords.
When I asked the older boys if I could suck their things, only one of them agreed. The other one was rather disgusted by the idea, and quickly exited the locker-room.
What I didn't realize, was that the uninterested boy was not satisfied by simply not receiving oral pleasure – he had to go so far as to ruin it for us. He called a teacher into the locker room and we got caught.
The boy who I was sucking is now a registered pedophile, which I think is rather unfair, but the judge didn't care one way or the other what I thought. Mom and Pop didn't want me after that.
I went to a group home for a while, and bounced around a few families. It's all the same, really, now that I've "grown into my features,"
A man comes in with a woman claiming to be his wife. We get home and I never see her again. Sometimes they want sex the first night. Sometimes they try to ease me into it. I'll be eleven years old in July, and I haven't gone a single month without being fucked since I was eight.
But I'm sick of it. My body isn't just some rental car for men of all shapes and sizes to climb in and out of as they see fit. So I've run away from my newest "Master", and as I'm explaining this whole situation to the woman who calls herself my social worker, the only thing she seems to be interested in is the name of my last legal parent or guardian.
But like I said, I don't know his name. I never really do.
"Fuck... oh... oh... oh just a little harder... harder!"
Madara sighed at the sounds coming from his house as he opened up the front door to let himself in. He cleared his throat carefully and ignored the scene on his living room sofa for the time being, as there were more pressing issues at hand.
"I hope I'm not interrupting anything," He said in monotone, kicking his shoes off and hanging up his keys by the door.
He was completely ignored by both of the men on the couch, as he watched one of them – his lover, impale himself repeatedly on what had often been described as "sixteen glorious years of cock" in such a way that encouraged the idea that these two men had never fucked before, and would never be able to fuck again. Which was, on both counts, highly untrue.
"Okay, actually now I'd like to be interrupting something..." His words were wasted on naught but moan-filled air.
Rolling his eyes, Madara stepped to the kitchen of his home, glaring angrily at the package of Top Ramen Instant Noodles that his partner had clearly intended to prepare for dinner. Bad enough what the meal plan was – lazy bastard couldn't even be bothered to cook the junk in the first place.
Dismissing the instant ramen, Madara got started shredding some cheese for broccoli casserole, and mentally considered what he should serve as protein and starch. He heard a high keening moan in the living room just as he started washing some chicken legs, and pointedly ignored the sound of two people joining him in his dinner-making. One of them was especially difficult to ignore – due to the fact that he had latched himself to Madara's back, and was insistently lapping at Madara's neck.
"Don't be mean, Mada... We were only having a little fun..." His lover muttered, nipping playfully at his ear. "You know I love you most..."
"Izuna, this is the third time this week that I've come home to find you in a compromising position with Itachi." Madara said, turning to his younger brother and crossing his arms. It was hard enough being in love with one of your relatives – especially in America – and especially if it was a gay relationship. On top of that, he now had to deal with his insatiable younger nephew sneaking into their bed for reasons other than nightmares.
What could he possibly tell the kid? Sleeping with your uncles is wrong? So is sleeping with your brother. Your uncle Izuna is already in a committed relationship? Then why does Izuna spread his legs oh-so-very-willingly?
It was a lose-lose argument, and he had already given up on having it with either of them. If they wanted to fuck, then so be it, but the foyer was a bit too conspicuous.
"I can hear you two from outside before I open the door. What if I was someone else? We adopted Itachi, Izuna. If he gets taken from us he goes to the foster care system, and don't think that it's really that much better here than it was back in Japan. He's lucky to be adopted by relatives, don't put him in a situation where he gets taken from us, okay?"
Izuna nodded shamefully, and gloomily walked upstairs to acquire some pants. Itachi was already re-dressed, and he shrugged in response to Madara's concern.
"It's not like anyone actually comes here anyway,"
Of course, because the world works in beautifully ironic ways, the doorbell chose that exact moment to ring.
Madara instructed Itachi to turn the oven off in two minutes, then went to get it.
"Yes?" He asked, opening the door to admit a young woman who looked to be in her late forties.
"Mr. Madara Uchiha?" She questioned, looking down at a clipboard and not at his face.
With a slight frown, Madara confirmed his name, and escorted her to the sitting room.
"Roughly eleven years ago, the Japanese government received custody of a young boy named Sasuke Uchiha," She explained, "He's the son of Mikoto and Fugaku Uchiha, and we here in America have recently been made aware of the fact that you've legally adopted his elder brother, Itachi." At this point, she peered up over her glasses, looking for another confirmation. Madara nodded slowly.
"Since being entered in the adoptive and foster care system, Sasuke Uchiha has gone through several … unfit, homes," She grimaced as she looked down at her clipboard, and Madara could only imagine what 'unfit' might mean for a little boy with good looks in the Japanese foster care system. He shivered uncomfortably at the thought.
"His social worker has recently spoken to his biological father – your brother – about any relatives that might be willing to take in Sasuke, because at this point, so many people have become aware of his … unfortunate upbringing … in Japan, that it's highly unlikely for him to find a stable family. It would be hard enough for an eleven year old boy to find a decent home even if he didn't have Sasuke's, er- reputation."
Madara raised an eyebrow. An eleven year old with a "reputation" and this kind of life story could really only mean one thing: Kiddie Porn. Without even knowing his nephew, Madara felt his nails digging into his palms in anger for the treatment the poor child had undoubtedly received.
"Give me whatever paperwork I have to sign, and have him here as soon as possible." Madara said, without needing another single word of persuasion. This was his nephew, his own flesh and blood just as much as Itachi was. Of course he'd take him. What else would he possibly do?
After much talk with Sasuke's Japanese social worker, and his new American one, it was decided that he could move in within the next week, but first – Madara needed to discuss this with the family he already had. Which was how he ended up having a little pow-wow with Izuna and Itachi on he and Izuna's bed
"Okay, what's up?" Izuna asked, only half paying attention to the other two men in the room as he carefully applied polish to his nails in a color that he identified as 'flesh' although any regular human being would call it pink.
"I've agreed to adopt another child," Madara said in a very straightforward manor.
Izuna ceased his fingernail painting and gaped openly at his brother. "You what?" He hissed, bringing Madara back to the day he'd announced his plan to adopt Itachi.
"As it turns out, Mikoto and Fugaku had another son, who has been enduring a lot of hardship in Japan and needs a stable place to live."
That calmed Izuna some. He absolutely adored Itachi, so the fact that another child made up almost entirely of the same DNA was coming didn't upset him as much as some stranger's kid would have.
"I have a brother?" Itachi asked, smiling lightly in that quiet way of his.
"Yes, he's eleven years old and his name is Sasuke."
"Wow," Itachi whispered, looking rather speechless but happy.
"Eleven?" Izuna whined, pouting in a way that Madara thought was somehow obnoxious and delectable at the same time, "What the hell can we do with an eleven year old?"
"Absolutely nothing. That's why this talk is so important," Madara said coldly. "It is very, very likely that Sasuke has been sexually abused by most – if not all – of the people he's lived with so far. You cannot begin to understand how imperative it is that he not be pushed into anything sexual with yet another parental figure in his life." Madara looked very deliberately at Izuna as he spoke. "Even if he comes on to you," He said carefully, "You have to kindly tell him that you are not open to being his sexual partner."
"Why?" Itachi asked out of sheer curiosity.
"Because it's important for him to learn how to have healthy relationships. It's important for him to understand that not everyone who wants him around wants him for his body."
Itachi nodded, always quick to understand things the first time they were explained. "What makes you think he might come on to Uncle Izuna?"
"I expect him to seek sexuality from both me and Izuna, actually. He's used to men agreeing to take care of him because they want to have sex with him, so naturally the only way he knows to show appreciation for someone is through sexual favors." Madara clarified.
"I bet he gives a lovely blow job..."
"Izuna!" Madara scolded, frowning at his brother.
"Hey, I'm not saying that I'll ever know for sure – but I bet he does."
I don't think I've ever been in a car this nice before. When the glasses lady picked me up from the airport, she said we still have a long way to drive, but I've decided not to mind because her car is so comfortable. Besides, she says we're almost there.
I'm not sure exactly where "there" is, but from what I've been told, I'll be staying with two of my uncles and my brother. That's pretty interesting, I guess, but only because I didn't know that I had any family. I wonder what my uncles want me for. Probably the same thing everyone else does, but maybe that won't be so bad.
I've been staying for a long while at that group home lately, and the boys there are fun and all, but most of the ones who wanna fool around are my age or younger. The older ones all seem interested in girls, and the men in charge of stuff don't seem open to sleeping around with us kids. I saw one of them do a double take when he saw me though, so I'd bet that he's at least had a good wank or two over some kids and come across one of my videos. It wouldn't surprise me, they seem to be everywhere.
My first thought when we step out of the really nice car, is that my uncles have a house that's even nicer than the car. Miss Glasses walks me up to the front door and rings the bell, then looks down at her clipboard as someone comes to answer it.
It's a boy, a few years older than I. He looks at me, and I look at him, and then he smiles at me and pulls me in for this super tight hug, and somehow I know in my soul that he's my brother. It's a weird feeling, just being able to know that you have a connection with someone that's deeper than anything else you've ever comprehended. I find my head filled with incredulous thoughts about how the blood running through my veins is near identical to his. We have the same mother and father who didn't want us, and now we have the same uncles who do.
That's the weird thing about family. There's so much that you have in common already from the moment you're born that it's hard to imagine not knowing everything else about each other. How could I be wrapped up in this boys arms and not even know his favorite color when I already know a great deal of his life story by default?
He tugs me into his – our – living room and lets me sit next to him, lacing our fingers together, as if he's afraid that if he lets go of me I'll disappear.
"You must be Itachi," The glasses lady says, looking at her clipboard as if it would answer her question rather than the boy sitting across from her.
"Yes, I am," Itachi responds, even though he's looking at me, not the lady. Maybe looking at someone while you're talking to them is rude in America.
"My uncle Madara should be down in just a minute," Itachi says to her, just in time for another man to be heard coming down the stairs and into the living room with us.
The couch that Itachi and I are sitting on smells like sex. I wonder if the lady is choosing to ignore that, or if maybe I'm the only one who's so familiar with the scent. It's not strong, no. Not that "Just got done fucking" smell. But it's a deeper one, a lingering that stays for a long long time when you get semen on the same object repeatedly. It's the way my sheets always smell, no matter where I go, and I'm somewhat comforted by it against my will.
The man who's just come into the living room seems to radiate kindness with his every movement, and again I get that strange clinging in my chest that tells me we're connected beyond repair. Family. It's kind of cool. He speaks softly to the lady for a little while and then she shakes everyone's hand and leaves.
"Itachi, could you go wake Izuna and tell him that Sasuke is here, please?" My uncle Madara asks, and with a nod my brother's gone.
"Do I have to sit on your lap now?" I haven't been with many families that have other people living full time with us, but I'm used to the man of the house getting excuses to get us alone when we do live with other people.
"No," Madara responded softly, and I can't help but wonder what I've said that's already upset him enough for him to sound so sad.
"Well... can I?" I find myself asking, uncomfortable with his distance. The farther they are from you, the less you expect it when their hands start groping.
"It would probably be best if you didn't, Sasuke." Madara answered with a little frown. It looked like he was genuinely confused about whether or not I should be allowed to sit on his lap, but that thought was quickly perished as my other uncle entered the room and placed himself there instead.
"Who's been fucking on this couch?" I asked curiously, earning a giggle from my newest discovered relative, Izuna.
"That would be me, deary." The man confirmed with a proud grin, "How could you tell?"
I shrugged. "It smells cum and Lysol,"
There was an awkward silence after that, in which everyone seemed to be pretending not to smell the couch. Then, just as suddenly as the first time, Itachi was hugging me again.
"I'm gonna take care of you now," He whispered into my hair, "I know neither of us have really had a brother before, but I'll try my best if you try yours."
Madara looked skeptical about our close contact but said nothing, even as my new brother lightly kissed my forehead.
"Everything's gonna be okay, Otouto," Itachi said, sounding very sure of himself.
I liked being called that. Otouto. I'd heard boys calling their little brother's that back home a lot, but it had never really applied to me. I'd been called a lot of things by a lot of people, but never that.
I hugged my brother back fiercely and for the first time in my life allowed myself to think that perhaps, everything really would be okay.
A/N: I hope you liked this first chapter. Honestly, I'm not sure when I'll update this again, because I have so many other things in progress. It depends on how much people like it, so if you DO like it, please tell me so, or else I won't know to work on it :/
I love you for reading,
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With the busy lives we all lead these days it is easy to lose our grounding and not be fully present in our body. When we are in a grounded and solid place we can deal with the ups and downs in our lives more easily but when we are not they may take their toll emotionally and physically on us, perhaps draining our energy or leading to stress and poor health. Often we are drawn consciously and subconsciously to people who are grounded and present as we are sharing their energy for the time we are with them and that often feels good.
For anyone doing healing work of any kind, being grounded acts as our protection and we can only do the best for others when we are in a grounded and peaceful place ourselves. Therefore, this becomes part of our daily routine just as brushing our teeth or eating breakfast is. Being grounded is something everyone can benefit from, taking time to connect to the earth each and every day whatever our daily schedules include will allow us to reap positive rewards from being more in our physical bodies and being fully aware of the present moment.
Simple Grounding Exercise
If you have a garden, spend a few minutes each morning before you go to work or when you get home or both standing outside and really connecting with the earth beneath your feet, you can imagine roots growing down from the soles of your feet anchoring you and nourishing you with earth energy. Take some slow deep breathes and feel the present moment. Alternatively, you can do this in your home, just imagine or visualise your feet touching the earth beneath you rather than your floor.
Tree Meditation
Another way to ground yourself is to sit or stand and again feel your feet firmly on the floor, take several slow deep breathes and imagine you are a tree, close your eyes and visualise your favourite tree or one that comes to mind easily. Now imagine you are one with that tree, I usually imagine I am an oak tree as I feel a strong connection to the oak. Visualise the bark on your trunk, see your leaves and imagine how they feel, their vibrant colour, sense your roots growing deep into the earth below you. Feel your strength knowing that although your leaves and branches may move in the breeze you have a solid presence and are flexible while being connected deeply to the earth energy. Stay in this energy for five minute or as long as you feel comfortable. When you have finished take some slow deep breathes and wiggle your toes and slowly open your eyes. Have a glass of water.
Everyday Grounding
Simply by walking your dog, walking in nature, being in the park with your children, spending time gardening, any other outdoor activity where you are able to feel your connection to the earth helps increase your connection to nature and the energy of the earth. Intention is a powerful thing and when we intend to have a deeper connection to the earth it immediately becomes possible.
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Beauty in You
Hey, everyone! I’m sharing with you some beauty tips, health tips, and other tips. I hope you enjoy!
Using Coconut Oil:
Coconut oil is excellent for dental health. After brushing teeth with your regular toothpaste, put coconut oil on the toothbrush, and brush your gums and teeth. This will feel awesome. It leaves your teeth feeling smooth and freshens your breath. The toothpaste that I use is Auromère.
You can spread coconut oil on your bread or waffle before putting it in the toaster too.
Using Something to Keep Your Hair Out of Your Face:
I prefer headbands or bobby pins but you can use hairstyles, hats, clips, scrunchies, and more depending on your hair length. I suggest if you want to grow out your hair that you use bobby pins or headbands.
Putting Something on Your Eyes To Protect Your Eyes From Sunlight:
Select 100% UV protection sunglasses. You can get a design on your sunglasses that you like best. For example, flower sunglasses, summer sunglasses, fairy sunglasses, or princess sunglasses are all some suggestions.
The Food You Eat:
Healthy foods like organic fruit, organic vegetables, protein, healthy oils, water, and whole grains are mostly what I eat. If you want candy, get organic candy with no artificial colors, additives, preservatives, or high fructose corn syrup. If you want cookies, get organic cookies. If you want cake, make a homemade cake with organic ingredients and if you want chips, find organic chips at Whole Foods or Trader Joe’s or wherever you shop.
I suggest exercising once a week when you are just beginning exercising. Once you’ve gotten good at doing exercising once a week, do twice a week to make it a bit challenging. Repeat this until you’re doing it, 7 days a week.
Try using beginner yoga, wall sits, air cycle, windshield wipers with your feet. After that, you can try harder yoga and so on. You can use dancing, gymnastics, and walking to help you get stronger and flexible. You can try weight lifting but take it easy with weight lifting.
Paint Nails:
If you are going to use nail polish, try using Mineral Fusion or Zoya nail polish or any brand without harsh ingredients. If you can, leave your toes, hands, or both unpainted or put just a clear polish on your toes, hands, or both to make them look glossy.
Use Aveda shampoo and conditioner (or other brands with natural ingredients as what we use on our hair travels into our body) on your hair when you wash it. If you prefer every other bath/shower day to wash your hair, go for it. Camilla does it for me once a week.
I bathe with Whole Food’s scented soap most of the time. If I run out of scented soap, I use Dove’s unscented soap.
The Drinks You Drink:
I suggest drinking just plain spring water if you can. Better yet, to begin the day with squeezing half a lime or lemon in your water. This will help wake up the water. If you don’t like to drink water, try drinking juice at least once a day. Be sure to get fresh squeezed juice or fresh pressed juice. Stay away from juices that are made from concentrate.
Depending on your body, you might want to find out how many cups of drinks your body might want. For me, I drink 2 cups of water and 1 cup of juice. It’s still okay to drink something when you’re thirsty unless it’s wine, coffee, or any drink that makes you hyper.
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Do I Need A Camera With Optical Zoom Here?
There are fixed cameras with optical zoom, the contractor is advising us to purchase this camera instead of manual varifocal/zoom lens, he is stating that the benefit of this feature it is not affected by vibration and it does not require re alignment of the lens focal length after installation (which will enhance the operational procedure and require less frequent access to the site) as it will be done remotely. Is this correct ? I have asked several manufacturer and they advised me that this is correct however it is not needed for 10 to 15 years in door camera cases and this feature is a must for outdoor cameras mounted on poles…
My case is that the cameras are ceiling mounted on semi-outdoor/indoor area “soffit”.
Accepting this will increase the number of cameras hugely, as I am looking for a camera that shall have a wide angle of view (in the range of 107 degrees), I appreciate your expert opinion and advise.
Also I appreciate if you can assist me in finding an IP camera that is Wide Dynamic range with motorized verifocal lens and wide angle (not less than 107 degrees).
There are 3 categories relevant here:
• manually adjustment of focus
• automatic adjustment of focus but no optical zoom
• automatic adjustment of focus AND optical zoom
If you want the focus to be automatically adjusted, you can get a camera that does so and not pay for optical zoom.
Stepping back, though, the issue with vibration will be primarily about the image shaking (as the whole camera moves) rather than simply it getting out of focus.
Stepping back further, do you have a preferred camera choice right now? What have you been looking at?
I fetched an Axis P-3353 not long back that's a real trooper, I think its got almost everything you want, (the angle only goes as wide as 105, not 107), as for the price though, ouch, it'l take the mustard off the hotdog as we say round here...
107 degrees will be the most difficult specification to meet in a motorized zoom camera (or even just an auto-focus camera). Most camera in this class will have lenses in the 3-12mm range and will give an H FOV of 80 degrees or so. The Axis camera that Jim mentions above with its 2.5mm @ F1.2 would meet your requirements almost perfectly (and maybe price doesn't matter so much when the offering is so unique! :-) )
Hikvision seems to be making good cameras, we started using them a lot last September and have good luck with them, they have this DS-2CD7254FWD-EIZ(H)(S), 2.7 ~ 9 mm @F1.6, angle of view: 101° ~ 30.4° (not quite 107) I have not used this particular model but I have used the bullet version that has very similar specifications DS-2CD8254FWD-EIZ. I dont know how true their claims are to 120 dB WDR but it seems to preform well. Price point is reasonable too.
Both Axis and Hikvision are good options, either way your customer would probably be happy with them.
Long and short of it is, a camera with auto back-focus should suffice, since it will address the "expected" need to tweak focus from time to time, while zoom really isn't something you'll need to alter on an ongoing basis. It's a feature that's built into the camera body, so you then have an option of which lens to use to get the view you want, rather than something that's part of the lens and thus usually means a combined camera/lens unit.
The catch is, you do have to make sure it can be triggered remotely... which SHOULDN'T be an issue with most IP cameras, although with an analog camera it would require a separate RS-485 connection. There may actually be a few older IP cameras floating around that only support control via RS-485 as well, so it's best to be sure in advance, because that's not something you want to learn AFTER everything is purchased ad installed.
It's not clear whether the expected problem with vibration is image shake, or the idea that focus may drift because of it... if the zoom, focus and backfocus are properly locked down on a standard varifocal lens, there should be no change due to vibration. If image stability is the concern, none of these particular options (remote zoom, remote focus, ABF) do anything to address vibration or camera shake. For that you need some form of image stabilization, which is a whole other realm.
camera with auto back-focus...
If a camera just says its got 'auto-focus' that means adjust focal length at the lens, I reckon. And auto back-focus would adjust the distance of the lens to the sensor, right? So is auto back-focus a continual auto-focus or like a one touch thing? Isn't just remote back-focus enough?
With allowances for marketing types' penchant for making things up on the fly...
You are correct, auto-focus typically involves moving the focus ring of the lens itself, while auto-backfocus adjusts the lens/sensor distance by moving the sensor (or less commonly, the lens mount). The former is a function of the lens, the latter a function of the camera.
In almost all cases, an AF lens is controlled by the camera, and in almost all cases with CCTV, that means the lens and camera are an integrated unit, which potentially limits your lens options to those specifically designed for - and sold with - the camera. I've seen a very few lenses that had remote-controllable zoom and focus independent of the camera, but those merely had connections to power the motors and required some sort of driver to interface with RS-485, AF, etc. You could use something like that and just run wires to the lens to send it the power to adjust via switches or something... seems like a lot of screwing around though, and your selection of lenses would be extremely narrow.
Since ABF moves the sensor even without a lens attached, you can typically use any suitable lens on the camera, which gives you the option to use whatever is best for your purpose. For extreme wide angles, Theia makes some really nice (if somewhat spendy) C/CS-mount lenses.
You're also correct, JUST remote backfocus would probably do the trick... however, I haven't seen any cameras that had motor-driven backfocus that didn't have ABF. I've used manual remote focus on some cameras and it's a nightmare to work with - you'll spend more time trying to get it right than you would just putting a ladder up to the camera.
In most cases with CCTV, both AF and ABF are one-shot triggered by something else, be it a change in zoom, switching the IR cut filter, or a manual signal of some kind. I seem to recall a couple cameras that had a continual AF mode, but I'm not sure what the value of that would be in most CCTV installations, as something passing close to the camera (flying creature of some kind, for example) could conceivable trigger the AF to re-adjust, thereby throwing the rest of the scene out of focus for a short period... or even indefinitely if the camera doesn't "think" to re-focus afterward.
Great explanation! One thing I don't get though is what do you mean by 'manual remote focus' being a nightmare? Is it because of latency issues or something? Why would it be harder than going up the ladder?
The ones I've done manual control of the focus on generally give you two or three options of "steps", of how fine the control is - large steps get you close to the setting you want, small steps to fine-tune. Problem is, it usually take a lot of click-click-click back and forth to get that fine tuning done, and there's always a lag between clicking, and seeing the results... not "harder" as such, but it can be very time-consuming and frustrating, especially if you have to do it on more than a couple cameras.
When you have that ability to start with, autofocus should be a given. I've only seen one camera that had remote-controllable focus that DIDN'T also have autofocus, though...
From your experience, is it true that over time of first installing the camera, the camera focal length will change and will need re adjustment for indoor and semi indoor environment ? If yes,
1- is the optical remote zoom is the correct choice to minimize the site activity of the operation and Maintinance team ?
2- can this be solved with auto focus, like a box equipped with dc iris lens or dome cameras ?
3- after how many years this will happen, once a year or once in 10 years ?
I know you are askin' for Matt's opine, but if you don't mind me taking a whack at it too, just so I can compare with, and see if Matt done learn me a lick...
1. No, optical remote zoom is not neccesary to minimize on-site support. Remote back-focus preferably with auto back focus is enuff to make up for any drift.
2. Yes, if you mean autofocus thru the lens, that should also work just fine, though I don't believe that just because a lens has dc auto iris it has autofocus also. However it is more flexible to choose ABF because you are not tied to specific lens options.
3. A long time... I'm least sure about this one, but I can say I've seen cameras stay in-focus for 5 plus years. I was gonna say that rubber o-rings might deform slightly over time as they dry, and depending on the daily temp changes you might get some warping of the metal c ring threads, and that glass technically being a liquid and all and gravity being what it is, that the thick middle of the lens might creep down a bit, but I don't really know, so I won't. ;)
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busted: america's war on marijuana
FRONTLINE INTERVIEW WITH MARK KLEIMAN regarding the D.A.R.E. program. Kleiman is professor at the School of Public Policy and Social Research, University of California, L.A. He recently joined a group of scientists, drug experts and public officials in proposing a new middle-of-the-road approach to America's drug policy. Interview conducted in the winter of 1997-98. Click here for the full interview with Kleiman
What about D.A.R.E.?
D.A.R.E. is a wonderful tool for police-community relations, particularly, in poor neighborhoods. Getting poor kids to meet a police officer, and getting a police officer to meet poor kids, on a civil, friendly basis, is a wonderful thing to do. Police officers love it, and police departments love it, and neighborhoods love it, and kids love it and parents love it and everybody loves it.
What D.A.R.E. is not, is a complete drug prevention program. In fact, the evaluations have been pretty, uniformly discouraging. It's very hard to see any evidence that kids who go through D.A.R.E. are better off in terms of their marijuana use, alcohol use, nicotine use, in middle school, than the non-D.A.R.E. kids. One study just came out suggesting there may be some delayed sleeper effect on the use of harder drugs--cocaine, heroin, inhalants. That may be true. You want to see if that can be replicated.
So I think D.A.R.E. is a fine thing to do. I don't think D.A.R.E. is an adequate thing to do in place of doing real drug education. I think we need a much more comprehensive program and those programs are expensive--the ones that work. I think there's a good argument for focusing less on drugs and doing more education at younger ages. You don't really talk to second graders about drugs, but you can talk to second graders about the problem of impulsiveness. You can talk to second graders about their health, as something that they want to maintain, and about a class of health-risk behaviors, that threaten it.
So if you can get them in the mind-set of being good stewards of their own bodies, then, later you can start talking about the details, about illicit drugs, about alcohol, about nicotine, about sex, about inadequate exercise, about bad eating habits, about all of the other things that are bad for you. But, I think, given the lack of evidence that we really know how to deliver effective drug education, I think we're going to start delivering a broader health risk message younger, and see if that works.
There are good pilot programs, there are training programs you could do for grade school teachers, intervening, not around drug use, but around problem behavior, on kids who act out in class. And that kids whose teachers have had that training are much less likely to start smoking when they hit the sixth grade, than, kids whose teachers haven't had that training.
Now if that's true, if you can replicate that experimentally, and here's the harder problem, if you can replicate it at scale. If you can get it done by first-grade teachers around the country, then you can maybe have a big impact.
We need to make drug education less an ideological effort and more [of] a practical effort. Right now, any drug education program that delivers strong anti-drug messages is perfectly satisfactory to people who insist on anti-drug education.
In fact, what you find from the media partnerships ads is they have very little impact on the behavior of drug users. They strengthen the anti-drug attitudes of non-users. Well, if you think about it, who designs them? Who gets them on TV? Who pays for them? Who evaluates them? People who have strong anti-drug attitudes! And so you can have a phenomenon of preaching very successfully to the choir and missing the sinners.
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Tourists stranded in dangling cable car overnight in the Alps
An EC-135 helicopter operated by the French Societe’ Civile hovers, Friday, Sept. 9, 2016, near three cars of the Panoramic Mont Blanc cable car where tourists were trapped after it stalled around 4 p.m. (1400 GMT) on Thursday, when its cables reportedly tangled. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
CHAMONIX, France — Dozens of tourists, including three children, were rescued Friday after being trapped overnight in cable cars dangling above the slopes of Mont Blanc in the Alps.
Their return to land ended an extraordinarily complex and vertiginous rescue effort over two days amid the spectacular but dangerous landscape of Western Europe’s tallest mountains.
The last passengers were brought down Friday morning, after emergency workers managed to untangle cables that had jammed Thursday, according to the mayor of the French town of Chamonix.
With the cables now straightened, the cable cars were able to resume their journey Friday, at very slow speeds and under close surveillance, and delivered the passengers to the nearest ground stations, Mayor Eric Fournier said. The passengers were then flown by helicopter to Chamonix and the Italian town of Courmayeur.
The ordeal began Thursday afternoon, when cables on the Panoramic Mont Blanc cable car service got twisted, trapping 110 people in a string of cars at 3,800 metres altitude.
French and Italian helicopters flew in rescuers who dropped down on cables onto the tops of the cars, and lifted out passengers one by one.
“The extent of this rescue operation is simply unbelievable,” said Col. Frederic Labrunye, commander of the provincial gendarmerie group of Haute-Savoie. “By the volume of people to rescue – we rarely rescue 110 people at the same time in high mountain – and by the environment in which it happens … in the heart of one of the largest glaciers in Europe, over a distance of five kilometres of cable with 36 cabins.”
Helicopters had to carefully fly over the cables, which is risky itself, then lower a rescuer onto an area “not larger than a table,” strap on passengers one by one and extract them, he said, describing it as “air surgery.”
Then fog descended and darkness started to fall, and authorities called off the helicopter rescue.
So they switched to “Plan B,” Fournier said.
Mountain guides identified the cable cars closest to the ground, and used climbing ropes to carry passengers to the surface of the glacier below, one by one.
From there, rescuers brought the passengers by foot to the nearest mountain station.
Fournier said 65 people were rescued overall Thursday, and another 12 were brought down overnight using “Plan B.”
The remaining 33 people were in cable cars too high off the ground, so they stayed overnight. They included a seven-year-old and nine-year-old from Korea and a 10-year-old Italian child.
“They didn’t get a lot of sleep, it was a strange experience, but they were warm under blankets and with their families,” Fournier said.
Five rescuers stayed overnight in the cable cars and provided blankets, food and water to help weather the chilly mountain night-time conditions.
Kathy Cook, a tourist from Michigan who was carried down to the ground by a rescuer after almost 10 hours aloft, called it “really quite an experience.”
“The helicopter rescue failed because the fog moved in, so we had to just wait and then they decided they could belay us safely to the ground, and we walked up the glacier to the hut,” she said upon arrival in Courmayeur.
The cable car, which offers spectacular up-close views of Western Europe’s tallest mountains and deep valleys below, connects the Aiguille de Midi peak in France, at 3,842 metres (12,605 feet), to Pointe Helbronner in Italy, at 3,462 metres (11,358 feet).
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Friday, June 28, 2013
Weekend Update::: Bling Cleaning
Photo: By me of my rings
Speaking of bling, I get a lot of questions about how to keep rings/jewelry clean. It's very simple to keep your pieces in great shape, and takes very little product-wise or much time to maintain that showroom glitter. If you're ever worried that your ring is suddenly not sparkling like it once was, or your studs look duller than before, it's probably time to give them a little TLC. And what better time to do it than over a weekend?
The biggest, and most important, "rule" I would share, which is a major factor of keeping them super clean, is to not wear them constantly. It's really best not to wear, rings especially, while cooking, cleaning the house, sleeping, showering, etc. Waiting until you're done doing your hair and makeup and getting dressed will prevent a film of hair product or any makeup from sticking in there as well. It's also a good idea to clean them well before you take them off for the day so gunk doesn't have a chance to "stick".
I know, especially with newly engaged and newly married girls, it's hard to want to remove the ring and put it back in the ring box at night or when you are doing work with your hands, but to preserve the safety of the ring, it's really good to do so. Obviously you both got it insured right away (right? if not, do it now!) so any damage or losses should be covered, but why tempt fate or speed up the process of wear or tear.
Most nights when I am removing my rings for the day, I wash my hands with dish soap and warm water, rinse really well, and then dry them with a paper towel, sometimes even with a quick blast of the cool shot on the hair dryer that I never otherwise use. I use Method dish soap and Target's paper towels, just because I've found those work really well. Afterwards, I take another dry paper towel, get a little 91% rubbing alcohol on it, and wipe down the rings one last time and then put them away in their respective boxes. A (probably-weird) little thing I do with the paper towel that works to get the bottom of my stone dry is to take a corner of the dry paper towel and twist it so it looks like the image below, and then kind of "poke it" between the prongs and wipe the bottom of the stone, if it's open enough in the setting to do so. It makes a difference, since drying it well keeps less gunk from accumulating.
Is this weird? If so, thank my naturally gifted anal-retentiveness.
Diamonds have a natural affinity for grease and it's very easy for them to get grimy, so the best cleaners are those that cut through oil. I almost always recommend dish soap or Mr. Clean, either of which is diluted well with warm-hot water, the temperature depending on what your skin can tolerate, because you want to handle them without burning yourself. I am also a big fan of Sparkle Sparkle spray, which comes in a Gold version and a Platinum version, and a JewelJet steamer, which I use very frequently as well, but none of which are a necessary product. Dish soap and water is just fine. If the rings or earrings, assuming they are gold, white gold or platinum and diamonds anyway, are particularly dirty, a good long soak in the aforementioned solution of dish soap or Mr. Clean and water will do a great deal to break down any built on grease, food, skin, whatever. In a super-pinch, 91% rubbing alcohol on a paper towel or q-tip will work as a surface cleaner.
You'll notice I don't mention Windex or ammonia. Those are ok for platinum rings, and I use them on mine in a pinch as well. They are not, however, as ok for white gold as they quickly wear down the rhodium plating often found on white gold rings, many of which are a gold + nickel alloy that is more of a creamy yellow without the plating. Just keep that in mind before you use them regularly on your rings, especially if you're concerned about needing them frequently re-plated, or as it's often called, "dipped."
Just a few of my cleaning supplies
Another great tool to have around is a baby toothbrush or similar, however if you have a micropave or channel set ring, you have to brush very gingerly to prevent the bristles from getting between stones or under prongs in such a way that a stone could get loose. In the Sparkle Sparkle "starter kit", which I linked above for each metal, two little brushes are included. One of those brushes looks like a teeny tiny little q-tip, as you can see in this image above, the little pink brush. That brush is ideal for such a ring as there are no bristles.
Besides the above brush options, there's a another good one especially for stones set in solitaire settings, and one many people have already, as this product is often given by jewelers: the little brush in the Connoisseur's jar cleaner, which you can get at Target and CVS if you don't already have it. I often tell people to buy the jar cleaner (the "delicate" variant), dump the solution out, and keep the rinsed out jar, tray and brush. You can use the jar and tray for soaking with warm water and dish soap, and the brush for cleaning your main diamond(s) on your engagement ring, pendant or stud earrings. Again, be careful and gentle, you don't want any bristles to get under prongs and cause issues.
Also, it's a good idea to clean over the bathroom sink, with a towel down on the floor below you (softer than a hard tile floor!), and a couple folded paper towels over the drain hole. If possible, partially close the drain as well. That way if anything is dropped from being slippery or loosened, it's not lost down the drain or bouncing across the floor in the bathroom.
:::Sidebar regarding ultrasonic cleaners:::
I personally own one, and I also never use it, in part because I own a channel set wedding band and have owned micropave in the past, neither of which are particularly safe in an ultrasonic. I have found that regular hand-cleaning and soaking, and the occasional steaming, works better than any ultrasonic, even most professional heated units (which I own.)
:::One last thought:::
If you discover while cleaning that a stone looks "off" or you're feeling movement or hearing a rattle, immediately rinse (over a cup or dish to be safe) and dry, and put the item away until you can get it checked by a professional. In some cases, a stone may have been held in place by the gunk surrounding it, and a good cleaning identified the issue. Wearing a ring or earring with a loose stone is just asking for a loss, and sometimes your jewelry insurance does not cover such losses. If you are going in for a checkup every 6-12 months like a good owner would be anyway, a good jeweler will catch those issues at that time (assuming you haven't had a good "whack" in the meantime), and a good deep clean and hopefully polishing is usually included in that checkup. Oh, how I love a fresh polishing job!
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REWARD OFFERED: Camping Gear Found in Ex-Cop's Truck; Manhunt Enters Fourth Day
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - LA authorities offer $1 million reward for information leading to arrest of fugitive ex-cop.
BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. (AP) - Authorities say camping gear was found along with weapons inside the burned-out truck belonging to Christopher Dorner, the former Los Angeles police officer suspected in three killings who is the subject of a manhunt in Southern California's snow-covered mountains.
Los Angeles police Sgt. Rudy Lopez said Sunday that the truck was so charred that investigators couldn't be more specific about the nature of its contents.
Authorities planned a 1 p.m. news conference to announce a reward for information leading to the arrest of 33-year-old fugitive.
Chief Charlie Beck has ordered a review of the 2007 disciplinary case that led to Dorner's dismissal.
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A little here, a little there
Orlando Diary
Shopping at a grocery a grocery store is a wonderful teaching experience, and today was no example. I had to make a morning run to a local Publix to pick up a few items for breakfast. While I was in the citrus juice section I naturally gravitated towards Tropicana, the "quality" brand.
Tropicana does taste pretty good. But this time, for whatever reason, I paid attention to the printing at the very bottom of the juice carton.
Tropican in the isle, pushed forwardDetail of bottom of Trpicana container
Figure 1Figure 2
When you walk into to a well-maintained grocery store such as Publix, you'll find all products are neatly arranged, lined up in rows together, on their respective shelves. Orange just in two quart containers is no exception. Being square, it's very easy to dress them up by pulling them tightly against the front lip of the shelf edge (figure 1). Note that the lowest 1/4 inch or so of the bottom of the carton is cut off from view (figure 2).
Bottom of Tropicana container pushed backDetail of bottom of Tropicana container
Figure 3Figure 4
You don't appreciate what's happening until you push the carton back less than an inch (figure 3), and you happen to look down and read the bottom edge of the carton (figure 4). That's when you realize it's not two quarts of Florida sunshine in that Tropicana carton (64 fl oz), but 1.8 quarts, or 59 fl oz. Tropicana decided to add to their profitability by putting 5 less ounces in each carton. And there's no size difference between a Tropicana carton and a carton that has two full quarts, such as Florida Natural Premium or Publix's on in-store brand (both currently sell for $2.99/carton).
But what makes this all a little more conspiratorial is that the text that lets you know this is printed in light gray, in small text, and in such a location that it's covered when pushed up against the shelf's retaining edge. Maybe Tropicana didn't mean to have their cartons printed this way, but I find it interesting that Florida Natural Premium, for example, has a larger font, in black, and visible when lined up on the shelf the same way.
This isn't the first time a major company has tried to pull a fast one like this. Similar acts started around 2008 when the economy really started to take a nose dive. Sixteen ounce containers with just 15 (or less), bags of snack food (like potato chips) with more air than content, and other lowering of content while keeping the containers the same size were just another way to stealthily raise prices; keep the front price the same while lowering the quantity in the container. This type of deception goes back millennia to dishonest tradesmen who would hollow a little gold out of coins that passed through their hands, or add filler to cargo to keep more for themselves. In this day, it's just a cynical corporate decision of splitting a price increase; you wind up paying more for less. And that leaves a bad taste in my mouth, no matter how good the orange juice is.
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Ain’t Misbehavin’: #23, Serenity
Director: Joss Whedon
Cast: Nathan Fillion, Summer Glau, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk, Morena Baccarin, Adam Baldwin, Jewel Staite, Sean Maher, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Ron Glass, David Krumholtz, Michael Hitchcock
Introduction Plot Summary Impressions Wrap-up
My rating: Class F (4/7, relatively hot yellow-white star). Not being a huge fan of Joss Whedon (though not particularly opposed to him, either) and never having watched the series Firefly, I was surprised at how much—at least at first glance—I liked this movie. Unfortunately, its flaws, which mostly revolve around the dialogue and some significant plot issues, show up after a little thought, though for the most part the ride is sufficiently fast and furious that it may take a little while for you to realize what’s wrong with the movie.
So Joss Whedon is really hot right now, what with the success of The Avengers movie (already the third highest grossing film of all time) and all that. And he’s had a degree of commercial success on television (Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel come to mind), where he’s also developed legions of rabid fans. Serenity is, however, based on the television series Firefly (2002), which was something of a disappointment to the Fox television network—Fox cancelled the show after airing only eleven episodes (out of a total of fourteen, one of which was the two hour pilot). In spite of strong fan response, the show never really bounced back or found another network. DVD sales, however, were strong, moving over 500,000 units in the first year alone. In 2011, The Science Channel ran all fourteen episodes in the intended order (a departure from Fox’s presentation).
Whedon reportedly really, really loved Firefly, and he was committed to bringing it back in some form. He finally managed to convince Universal Studios that he could make the film for under $40 million and do it in fifty days (instead of the normal eighty days of shooting for modern movies), and his original script came in at 190 pages, attempting to cover all of the plot points raised in the first fourteen episodes. At Universal’s direction, he cut back the plot and was successful in filming in less than eighty days.
The television series represented a fusion of space opera with the western, a concept which Whedon essentially invented. One of Whedon’s other goals was to show “regular people,” as opposed to the movers and the shakers. Put another way, the show is about the “nobodies” who “get squished by policy.” Or as Whedon stated, the show is about the kind of people that the shiny white gleaming Enterprise would pass right by….
Unfortunately for Whedon and his ensemble cast, and despite strong critical response and high anticipation, the film only opened at #2 at the box office and spent only two weeks in the top ten, ultimately grossing $25.5 million. When all was said and done, the movie almost broke even. Critical response was generally very positive, though there were exceptions.
Plot (Contains Spoilers)
Setup: Mankind has spread to the stars, or at least an extra-solar system, with some thirty planetary bodies which have been terraformed. The central planets, or the Alliance—a fusion of United States and Chinese elements—waged a war for control of the outer planetary bodies, and won. In the wake of that war, Captain Malcolm “Mal” Reynolds (Nathan Fillion) of the firefly-class starship Serenity assembles a motley crew and ekes out a precarious existence trying to make enough to live on without drawing the attention, and ire, of the Alliance. As it turns out, both Reynolds and his second-in-command Zoe Alleyne Washburne (Gina Torres) fought on the side of the losers in the civil war, and are survivors of the Battle of Serenity Valley.
That’s not all that’s going on, though. Simon Tam (Sean Maher), a surgeon, is aboard and pays for his passage with medical services; he’s accompanied by his sister River (Summer Glau). Unbeknownst to any of the other members of the crew, Simon broke River, a powerful psychic, out of a secret Alliance facility where she was conditioned to fight and to serve the Alliance. And not even Simon and River know that the Alliance has sent an Operative, a man with no name and no recorded history, to recover her. Simon intends to safeguard his sister at all costs, but Mal insists that the sister—he’s aware of her psychic gifts as a “reader,” will come in handy on what amounts to a corporate payroll snatch. Simon opposes this use of his sister, but is helpless to stop it.
And so the stage is set….
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Short summary: I’m going to be rather careful here, so you’ll get a few spoilers—but not many, as the central mysteries of the film (the Reavers and River Tam) tie together in an unexpected manner. Instead, I’ll point out that Mal’s raid, intended to capture a corporate payroll, is disrupted by the approach of the dreaded Reavers. River senses their approach, and our plucky heroes flee the scene. Of course the Reavers chase them, and of course they successfully evade the Reavers, but the conflict between Mal and Simon comes to a head and Simon declares that he will take his sister off Serenity after she’s gotten her share of the bounty for the raid.
Unfortunately, things don’t quite work out as intended. When Mal and Jayne Cobb (Adam Baldwin) go to get the bounty, something strange happens to River: upon viewing a television commercial, she goes blank-faced, and then attacks every individual in the room. She injures and kills everyone in sight in a surprising balletic dance of death, including injuring Jayne severely, and is stopped from shooting Mal only by her brother’s appearance. Speaking the “safe words” taught him by the people who helped him infiltrate the facility where River was held and conditioned, he forces her into sleep.
As a result, River and Simon wind up staying on the ship, and the quest to find out what’s going on winds up involving the entire crew.
The visual effects in Serenity are pretty impressive, and become more impressive when you realize that Whedon did them all on a budget. The movie lacks traditional space battles, instead focusing on human-scale violence (for the most part), but even so, Whedon achieved an incredible look and feel for the movie especially given how little money he had to work with. CGI, for example, was right out in that early chase scene in which the Reavers, in a hovercraft-style vehicle which might have been spaceworthy, chase the crew of the Serenity who are on a “mule,” some kind of hovercraft which serves them for hauling goods and people about. That scene was accomplished by putting a dummy mule vehicle on a crane arm, which they then filmed driving down Templin Highway in California.
No matter how you slice it, though, the look and feel of Serenity is nothing short of amazing, and the special effects are wonderful.
The music, scored by David Newman (he has a rather famous cousin named Randy) and performed by the Hollywood Studio Symphony, is pretty good. It is evocative of Aaron Copeland’s Appalachian Spring, Billy the Kidd, and Rodeo, quintessentially American symphonic music which captures a pioneer spirit and the vast scale of space while remaining warmly human. The music, I’m told, is not as quirky as that of the series, and it also tracks modern cinema’s bombastic action cues, but it also features an eclectic mix of of acoustic guitar, banjo, flute, percussion, and full symphony orchestra. All in all, Serenity is backed by an effective score.
The perfomances are, by and large, at least adequate, and in some cases considerably more than that. Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres and Adam Baldwin all shine in their respective roles as Mal, Zoe and Jayne, people capable of considerable violence—although they are all, also, people with more going on upstairs than they are inclined to let on. Sean Maher’s Simon Tam is a very different kind of character, but he convincingly displays a touching naivete and an abiding and overriding love for his sister and is one of the movie’s standouts. Every actor, it seems, gets their chance to lift the bushel and show off their light just a little bit, and it’s always in a way that’s consistent with the characters. Jewel Staite’s Kaylee Frye gets some wonderfully angry moments, while Alan Tudyk’s Wash Washburne displays competence as a pilot and glee at the idea that a little girl beat up one of his macho crewmates. Morena Baccarin’s Inara Serra shows her moral fiber and is one of the only people aboard who dares to criticize Mal. Summer Glau, in some ways, has less to work with than the others in spite of her character’s ferocity and psychic power, but she gets in a good line or two and is the character around which all the others move. I would be remiss if I didn’t mention Chiwetel Ejiofor’s performance as the Operative, as he is—unlike the crew and passengers of the Serenity—a serene man who genuinely believes in what he’s doing, which is to hunt down and kill River Tam before she can do harm to the Alliance. Two other names, by the way, stand out—actors Sarah Paulson and Tamara Taylor. Both have small roles but absolutely dominate the screen during their performances, and are actors I always seem to notice.
Structurally, there’s something wrong with the plot and the pacing, though I’m having a hard time putting my finger on it. Ultimately, the movie feels like two episodes of a television show, each an hour or so long. In addition, the mystery of River Tam, and what she might know, is all so ambiguous and nebulous a motive for the rest of the characters that it feels somehow forced. Don’t get me wrong—there’s a good story there, and Whedon’s meticulous plot construction feeds that mystery, along with vital clues, at every step of the way. Still, somehow the development feels episodic rather than flowing to a natural conclusion.
There is a major plothole, too, though the explanation for it requires a look at the plot itself…
———– BEGIN SPOILERS ———-
What happened on Miranda, which was nothing less than the death of an entire planet full of people, and within the last ten years or so, was covered up by the highest officials in the Alliance. I find it difficult to believe that an entire planet full of people could die with so little notice that our characters have trouble even remembering that Miranda was a planet. Add to that that the mysterious Reavers hang out near Miranda, and every conspiracy theorist in the universe, never mind investigative journalists and government watchgroups, would begin to ask some tough questions. To put it another way, the revelation of the central mystery—that the government accidentally killed an entire planet full of people and created a group of subhuman raiders who eat people alive, which group now threatens the other planets near Miranda—depends on a frankly incredible and unbelievable fact: that no one realizes that something went wrong on Miranda that was abnormal. Most people don’t even remember Miranda at all.
Willing suspension of disbelief can only go so far, Mr. Whedon, and I’m afraid that here you’ve pushed past that particular boundary.
———- END SPOILERS ———-
Another problem with Serenity is the somewhat sophomoric creation of tension. In one scene, Simon asks his sister if she’s okay with leaving Serenity and the crew behind—he’s worried, but wants to keep his sister happy, too. She replies that “it isn’t safe,” and he turns away. After at least a full second, and long after Simon has turned and cannot hear her, she continues “…for them.” That’s the kind of overly theatrical touch that always bothers me. The only reason to put something like that into a scene is to convey information directly to the audience without showing it to the characters, and for some reason that always bothers me.
One other thing about Serenity bothers me to no end, and that’s Whedon’s trademark “witty dialogue.” It’s supposed to be funny and flip, but to me, it undercuts the seriousness of the story. It is probably significant that as the movie progresses, and more and more information comes to light, fewer and fewer jokes get cracked. Still, consider the opening sequence of the film, in which the following occurs:
Wash: This landing is going to get pretty interesting.
Mal: Define interesting.
Wash: Oh God, oh God, oh God, we’re all going to die?
Mal (over the ship’s intercom): This is the captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence…so we may experience some slight turbulence and then explode.
Seconds later, after Mal has left the cockpit…
Jayne: We’re gonna explode? I don’t wanna explode…
If that’s your idea of snappy, witty and comic dialog, then Serenity is your kind of movie. If it’s not…well, either have a high tolerance for it, or watch something else.
Am I sorry I watched Serenity? Absolutely not. It’s a flawed movie, certainly, but it’s visually stimulating, well scored and rather well acted, and it keeps moving at a breakneck pace almost as soon as the exposition is done. In fact, it moves so fast and so smoothly that the movie’s flaws weren’t evident to me at first blush. That’s something of a compliment, by the way. Whedon plays absolutely fair, too, giving the viewer all the clues available to his characters (and then some, actually), to the horrific secret underlying (and driving) the story. I suspect that to fans of the television series, the completion of the main character arcs is also deeply satisfying.
Fortunately for me, the witty banter ends before it becomes too cloying, and the speed of events really hides the few plot holes and poorly conceived scenes. Don’t get me wrong—this is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a bad movie, and it’s a great deal of fun. If you can contrive to catch it, it’s worth a look.
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gallery3 Asian Movies Gallery - Confessions <a href=";>plot, cast and crew</a> <b>Kokuhaku</b>, 2010, Japan, <br /> Genre: <b>Drama</b> <br /> Original title: 告白<br /> Plot: Moriguchi Yuko is a dedicated teacher at a junior high school. When her 4 year old daughter was found drowned in the school’s swimming pool her life comes crashing down. Eventually Moriguchi suspects two of her own students to have been responsible for her daughter's and it wasn't an accident, but cruel murder. She comes to a decision to leave the school. But before, Yuko makes an shocking confession to her class – she tells them that she has an elaborate &hellip;...<br /> <a href=";>plot, cast and crew of Confessions movie</a> en-us
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Astral templar and sylph scientists abroad are tasked with keeping the sylph’s scavenged moonstone and technology safe at virtually any cost. Though the Celestial Heritage Conservatory’s research laboratory has worked for decades to replicate the processes and properties of the objects and materials found, the headway can only be described as insufficient.
Until and unless substantial progress is made, Llyri’s most valuable resources—as perhaps is its lifespan—are finite.
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Keith Davey
Keith Davey’s Ten Commandments of Canadian Liberalism
1. Revere the leader.
2. Remember a leader is never cooked until people start to laugh at him.
3. Stay on the road to reform; keep left of centre.
4. Hang together.
5. Build a poll organization worthy of the name.
6. Lead to your strengths in campaigns; to your weakness in conventions.
7. Never negotiate through fear; never fear to negotiate.
8. Remember that in politics, perception is reality.
9. Recruit new, bright, young people.
10. Avoid public humour, but laugh a lot in private.
Just think at one time Liberals followed these rules… and won elections.
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Sunday, April 24, 2016
24-Apr-16: What the fate of a pre-teen Arab girl says about the grip terror has on her society
Dima Al-Wawi: Tried and failed to kill Jews and now doomed to life
as a jihadist role-model [Image Source]
Many hundreds, maybe more, of news reports and Tweets today celebrate the release today of a twelve year-old girl, arrested and imprisoned by the Israeli authorities to a term of four and a half months.
When she was arrested on February 9, 2016, all the news reports we saw agreed [for instance Al Araby and Times of Israel] that the child was 16. That was shocking enough for us to include her in a post here on our blog ["09-Feb-16: The unthinkable things Palestinian Arab society wants for and from its children"] in which numerous other children of about that age had been intercepted trying to murder Jews.
This girl child is free again today. The relevant authorities here in Israel agreed to shorten her sentence by six weeks for reasons no one is talking about
The general flavor of today's reports and Tweets is captured by headlines like these:
We have written before about the exceptionally ugly process underway in which children are encouraged and incited to get involved in acts of terror against Israelis by the PA, Hamas and Palestinian Arab society. Not for nothing, we see these people as being in the grip of a death cult.
There's no Arabic-language messsage today (as far as we can tell after searching around) that fails to sound a note of triumph. This rather sad-faced twelve year old girl is going to be paraded around as a hero whether she wants it or not.
It does not have to be that way. After all, this child is more than just a prisoner who was freed. She pulled a knife on a couple of Israelis and tried to kill them. That's not a legal statement but a straight-forward observation of what happened. It's captured on video. She formed the intention, to the extent a child can, to murder.
To be clear about this, it's not only Palestinian Arab children who kill or try to kill. Sometimes - though not so often - it's because they really, really want to. Sometimes it's because people older and more powerful than them require that they do it. Civilized society has views on what that means and what we ought to do about it.
For instance, the phenomenally-well-funded Human Rights Watch have this on their"Children's rights" page:
A symbol whether she wants to be or not [Reuters]
Millions of children... are forced to serve as soldiers in armed conflict... Young and immature, they are often easily exploited. In many cases, they are abused by the very individuals responsible for their care. We are working to help protect children around the world, so they can grow into adults.
And even when forced in the most violent way into joining the ranks of the jihadist terrorists, child victims - like thousands of Nigerian children [see "Boko Haram escapees find life at home can be filled with distrust, rejection", AP, today] - arouse mixed feelings, unjustifiably most of us would say, in their own community.
But that's not how Palestinian Arab society views children and terrorism.
We have noted before that, since they use the term "easily exploited", the people who run HRW are surely enraged by what's being done to Palestinian Arab children by the religious, educational and political leaders of their communities. But if they are, and if they know what has been done by her own society to this Al-Wawi girl and to hordes of others as young as she, we're surely not seeing any sign of it. Again we ask: If anyone knows of HRW condemnation of the fostering among Palestinian Arab children of martyrdom/murder as supreme values, please click here to enlighten us.
Some months ago, we quoted here [20-Oct-15: Children and what a soulless society can do to them] the words of an acclaimed leader of oppressed people:
"There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children." - Nelson Mandela 1918-2013, addressing the launch of the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund, Pretoria, South Africa, May 8, 1995 [source]
In the hands of her father today: a future foretold [Telegraph UK]
1 comment:
Dan Livni said...
What a death cult Palestinian leaders are.
Abbas and the entire Palestinian political and ideological leadership, which is 99% rejectionist. Mainstream Palestinian values are rejectionist. They want the Jews gone and they say it everyday. They brag about terrorizing and murdering Israelis.
Just look how many streets the Palestinian Arabs have named for terrorists who murdered Israeli civilians.
The Palestinians have a GNP of terrorism and is banking on the left and Europeans to continually press Israel into the corner of capitulation
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[Python-ideas] Yield-From: GeneratorExit?
Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Mar 22 10:26:08 CET 2009
I'm having trouble making up my mind how GeneratorExit
should be handled.
My feeling is that GeneratorExit is a peculiarity of
generators that other kinds of iterators shouldn't have
to know about. So, if you close() a generator, that
shouldn't imply throwing GeneratorExit into the
subiterator -- rather, the subiterator should simply
be dropped and then the delegating generator finalized
as usual.
If the subiterator happens to be another generator,
dropping the last reference to it will cause it to
be closed, in which case it will raise its own
GeneratorExit. Other kinds of iterators can finalize
themselves however they see fit, and don't need to
pretend they're generators and understand
For consistency, this implies that a GeneratorExit
explicitly thrown in using throw() shouldn't be
forwarded to the subiterator either, even if it has
a throw() method.
To do otherwise would require making a distinction that
can't be expressed in the Python expansion. Also, it
seems elegant to preserve the property that if g is a
generator then g.close() and g.throw(GeneratorExit) are
exactly equivalent.
What do people think about this?
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Quantum Gravity
Quantum gravity is concerned with unifying Einstein's general theory of relativity with quantum theory into a single theoretical framework. At Perimeter Institute, researchers are actively pursuing a number of approaches to this problem including loop quantum gravity, spin foam models, asymptotic safety, emergent gravity, string theory, and causal set theory. We are also particularly interested in experimental implications of these different proposals. As the aim is a unification of the laws of physics into a single theory, the search for quantum gravity overlaps with other areas such as cosmology, particle physics and the foundations of quantum theory.
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tagSci-Fi & FantasyPitted Revenge
Pitted Revenge
Far, far away in the less traveled parts of the woods, lived a naughty little pixie called Bluebelle. Bluebelle would fill her days gathering flowers, dancing with her many friends and of course, with mischief. She was a seductive little thing, with bright red hair, smooth creamy skin and eyes a shade of green that rivaled the costliest emeralds in the King's coffers. Being quite the social butterfly, when she heard of the summer ball scheduled for that weekend, she set about preparing herself for it with great zeal.
The first thing she decided that she needed for the ball was a new gown. Not one for the passé, she desired something not only flattering, but trendy. After careful deliberation, she decided on a delicate silver dress she had seen in town that would flatter her pretty wings and glint nicely against her rambling curls. She made her way to town and upon entering the shop, with lowered lashes and her head cocked to one side, she approached the shopkeeper.
"Kind Sir," she purred, "Pray tell, how much is that gown in the window?"
The shopkeeper, a handsome elf looked up from his newspaper to see a provocatively attired Bluebelle. Her breasts sat atop his counter, spilling out of her tight corset. He peered over his reading glasses at her. Noticing that she was bursting at the seams, his eyes lingered over her bosom for a spell before he answered.
"One shilling," A faint smile played across his lips.
"I'll take it!" Bluebelle bubbled.
Bluebelle reached for her purse and then carelessly let it slip from her grasp. She swiftly bent to pick it up, allowing a breast to tumble clumsily from its restraint. Pretending not to notice, she fished for the shilling in her purse as her tit enjoyed its new freedom. The shopkeeper flushed red, carrying on her charade. A leisurely search finally uncovered the shilling and Bluebelle handed it to the shopkeeper. He extended his arm to receive it. As he did, she grabbed his hand and planted it firmly upon her breast.
The shilling clattered to the ground forgotten.
The shopkeeper could not believe his good fortune. He groped her eagerly, kneading her chest until he popped out the other tit. With an exceedingly hard cock between his legs, he closed the shutters of his shop and lifted her onto his counter.
He laid Bluebelle on her back, climbed atop her and nestled his insistent cock between her soft, inviting breasts. Grabbing one in each hand, he shoved them together and rubbed himself in between. Bluebelle licked the head of his cock every time it emerged from her cleavage.
The elf was delirious with bliss.
After a while, he climbed off to throw her legs apart. Raising her skirts, he saw that she was bare underneath. Her pink, plump pussy glistened with fragrant moisture and inflamed, the elf proceeded to prod her with thin long fingers.
He quickly bent to lick it.
Bluebelle's pussy was as delectable, as it was aromatic. Taken aback by her marvelous flavour, the elf spread her vulva wide and tongued her hungrily until she dripped with sap. He made a meal of it, lapping enthusiastically, until her wetness smeared his cheeks and chin. When Bluebelle moaned and thrashed about under him, he took his cue and extracted his long, thin cock from his britches.
It took the better part of a minute, but eventually the elf was able to fully penetrate her exceedingly tight, sticky pussy. As the shopkeeper eased his cock in and out of her, it got tighter still. He groaned and grunted wildly at first, the pleasure being immense, but then struggled to maintain his well-paced strokes. Soon he was unable to move at all.
When he was reduced to a wiggle, Bluebelle wrapped her legs around him and squeezed tighter still until she came with a heated moan, squirming around on the elf's cock. Nectar coursed down her thighs and puddled in her shoes. When she caught her breath, she released her legs and pushed the elf to the ground. She sped from the store with her gown and a pair of shoes that she had had her eye on for weeks. By the time the elf had managed to struggle to his feet, all that remained was a trail of sticky footsteps that led to the loudly banging door.
The shopkeeper was very, very angry indeed, having been left so prematurely with a raging cock and no release in sight. In frustration, he kicked the shilling away as he stared down the road, watching Bluebelle disappear hurriedly around the corner.
Bluebelle, delighted with herself and her newly acquired items, hurried back to her home in the woods, laughing all the way. Inside her cottage, she stripped off her plain blue dress and tossed it aside. She tried on her new shoes and slipped the gown over her head.
"Simply splendid!" she said, delighted with her outfit.
Bluebelle twirled before her mirror admiring herself. She fluffed her hair and pouted at her reflection, turning to look at herself over her shoulder.
Bluebelle liked what she saw and she fluttered her wings and wiggled her rump. She lifted her gown over her hips and grasping her ankles, she bent down to admire her reflection through her open legs. Never one to wear undergarments, she studied her shaven pussy. The juicy pink lips gaped open, still moist from her encounter. Bluebelle spread her ass cheeks with both hands. First, she winked her asshole at herself, pushing it open and then closing it tight. Then she did the same with her pussy, fluttering the fleshy labia like her pretty gossamer wings.
Bluebelle was indeed a very capable pixie and she was extremely proud of her talents. Not wanting to crumple her gown, she straightened and carefully slipped it over her head and hung it in her closet.
The evening of the ball finally arrived and Bluebelle had spent the entire day pampering herself in preparation. Completely manicured, pedicured and cleanly shaven, she put on her most delicate pair of stockings and garters. She riffled through her chest of drawers until she found her tightest red corset. With great effort, she fastened it, then put on her gown and shoes and brushed her hair. When all was in place, she made her way to the waiting carriage.
In her typical flirtaceous way, she had made asked a palace footman called Charlie to transport her to the ball. Charlie was a vibrant young pixie, who had long admired Bluebelle from afar. Desperately wanting to impress her and perchance to sample her ample wares, he had quickly offered to borrow one of the palace carriages for the evening. Amidst a flowery declaration of love, he had informed her that a pixie of her standing should be transported to the ball in style befitting a princess. When Charlie arrived at the agreed hour, Bluebelle hopped inside the carriage and they sped away to the ball.
They arrived by late evening. As Bluebelle alighted the carriage exposing a little more leg than she perhaps needed to, Charlie looked at her expectantly. They had spent the journey engaged in double entendres punctuated by smoldering stares. Not wanting to disturb her hair, nor dress, Bluebelle thought quickly to put their tryst off for another time. But Charlie was insistent. Seeing that he had risked his position to secure the carriage, and noticing the hard cock imprinted in his britches, she relented, feeling some dampness of her own.
Clutching his hand, Bluebelle led Charlie to the dimly lit side of the carriage and fell to her knees. She undid his lacings and allowed his undergarments to fall to his feet. Cramming his ample cock into her mouth, Bluebelle sucked him slowly at first and then with great vigour, rolling his balls between her fingers.
Charlie grunted his pleasure and lunged so deeply into her mouth that her head bobbed furiously up and down with his exertions. A stifled cry escaped him when her lips closed around the root of his cock.
Not wanting to be late and growing increasingly aroused, Bluebelle did not pleasure Charlie's cock for long. She rose to her feet and raised one leg so that it rested high upon the carriage.
Leaning over as best she could, she sprawled across it and pulled up her gown to expose her rosy, pink bottom. She spread her lips wide, and bearing down, squeezed a few drops of syrupy nectar from her glistening hole.
With a wink, she beckoned Charlie in.
Obliging, with mouth agape, he quickly kneeled between her thighs.
Charlie spread her lips wider still and allowed her delicious sap to drip onto his tongue. He swallowed hungrily and licked at her clit a few times before inserting two fingers to pry her open fully. Unobstructed, her juices flowed freely.
Charlie uncoiled his long pixie tongue inside her as far as he could. He swished his tongue around her walls and beat it hard against her sweet spot, fishing out as much of her nectar as he could. Bluebelle opened her legs wide and rotated her hips across his tongue. When the pleasure grew increasingly intense, Bluebelle squatted onto Charlie's face. Her pussy pulsed upon his tongue, drawing it into her and feeling this, he stroked his tumescent cock hard and fast in preparation to storm her sticky wetness.
Bluebelle was moaning wildly by the time Charlie decided it was time to mount her. He attempted to pull himself away, but her pussy would not release his tongue. With his face pressed tightly into her crotch, poor Charlie struggled and gasped for air. As her pleasure increased, she grew tighter and tighter still. His thrashing only whipped his tongue deliciously about Bluebelle's pussy sending her higher and higher until she finally exploded in piercing wails.
With Charlie's tongue still in a vice like grip, Bluebelle's pussy pulsed squirt after squirt of thick, warm nectar into Charlie's open mouth. He spluttered as he struggled, swallowing the deluge as best he could, so as to avoid meeting an untimely end. The rest overflowed, oozing over his face and neck and soaking his tunic. He looked a quite a sight. Great gobs of yellow syrup hung in his hair and off his ears like bizarre chandelier earrings.
Immediately satisfied and now late for the ball, Charlie was forgotten and Bluebelle shoved him roughly away. A stunned, speechless Charlie tumbled to the ground. Drenched, he laid awash in Bluebelle's puddle, as she casually stepped over him and made her way inside to the ball. Charlie was enraged. Before he could rise to pursue her, however, she had disappeared into the great hall.
Bluebelle reveled in the evening, although she spent a great part of it evading the many lovers she had left wanting. When she encountered the baker, she crouched and darted through the dancers, disappearing into the crowd. The baker had been a memorable conquest. After she had saucily seduced him and ridden him to her satisfaction, Bluebelle had abruptly left him in a billowing cloud of flour, beating a hasty retreat and sending pans of batter flying as she went. The cobbler had suffered a similar fate. After fixing her shoes and thrusting his cock wildly between her arches, he was left three strokes short of orgasm. Indeed, her castoffs bitterly learnt why her name was so fitting. She was a minx of a belle with a penchant for leaving her lovers painfully blue.
Bluebelle's disgruntled lovers having traded their tales of woe together had devised a scheme to bring about her demise. When they happened upon each other at the soiree, they threw their plan into action. Bluebelle, blissfully unaware of their conspiracy, flitted about coquettishly, seeking yet another to lure between her thighs. As the evening wore to a close, she unwittingly fell into the arms of a dashing conspirator, who had as yet, only aspired to experience her charms.
Upon seeing her, he quickly enticed her away to the stables. There, he maneuvered her breasts from her gown and sampled her nipples until they became hard and flushed red. When Bluebelle sighed and fed her breasts into his mouth, the conspirator inched his fingers beneath her skirts and worked them into her pussy. There he played until his thick fingers squelched in and out of her, smearing her wetness to her asshole and cheeks.
Soon enough, Bluebelle begged to be taken. The conspirator tugged her gown and corset from her body, leaving her naked but for her stockings and shoes.
Bluebelle heaved expectantly.
Her anticipation soon turned to horror when he suddenly threw her across his knee.
He retrieved a cherry pit from his pocket and wedged it between her labia.
Restraining her with one firm arm, the other rose high above his head, and then fell hard upon her ass leaving an angry red imprint. With a contemptuous tone, he informed her that she was an overindulgent little cocktease and that the pit he had lodged within her would remain so fixed until she had satisfied every last one she had left wanting.
Bluebelle was stunned.
Before she had a chance to protest, he clamped a collar about her neck, wound the leash tightly around his hand and spanked her hard and fast, knocking the breath from her body.
Bluebelle grew quickly enraged and fought wildly to escape. So great was her struggle, that she and the conspirator were soon engulfed in a swelling cloud of Pixie dust. The conspirator was relentless, however smacking her hard until her buttocks quivered into crimson with each slap of his hand. She twisted trying to wrench herself free and pulsed her pussy in an effort to dislodge the obstruction.
The conspirator only paddled her faster, deliberately lowering his strokes so that they brushed her pussy with each pass of his hand.
Bluebelle flapped her labia erratically at first to eject the pit, but soon, the fluttering arose from the delicious slaps that rippled through her loins. When her rage surged into a reluctant desire, she ground her slick vulva into each sweeping pass of the conspirator's hand.
He kept her leash short and tight so that she was forced to look into his dark, punishing eyes.
Unwilling to fully yield, Bluebelle whimpered her pleasure until his fingers suddenly plunged knuckle deep into her ass. A deep moan escaped her lips and she eased herself onto his probing fingers, moving her hips in time with their thrusts until she cried aloud for his cock.
Seeming to comply with her request, the conspirator paused and withdrew his fingers.
Bluebelle panted, looking up at him expectantly.
He leaned towards her, smiling, as if about to draw her into a tender kiss. She opened her mouth expectantly and closed her eyes. Her eyes flew open as cold, wet fingers forced their way into her mouth, smearing her lips and cheeks with her own juices. The conspirator laughed cruel taunts into her ear. He took to probing her ass again, repeatedly building her desire and then stopping short of release, until tears of frustration rolled down her cheeks.
When the conspirator's cock pained with hardness, he brought Bluebelle to her feet, with a yank of her chain. Before she could fully straighten, he pushed her to her knees, worked his cock around her stickiness and made his way into her ass. Bluebelle grunted from the sweet pleasure of impending release. The conspirator eased himself deeper until completely embedded and then ravaged her vengefully, amidst her relenting squeals of delight.
He did not last long.
Moments later, he withdrew and whipped her buttocks with cascades of hot cum. The rivulets pooled around the cherry pit before trickling off the end of her pendulous clit onto her inner thighs and knees.
Feeling the conspirator's fluid heat and knowing full well that she had been left behind for the first time in all her sexual escapades, Bluebelle nonetheless strained furiously to cum but could not. She screamed her protests into the hardened ears of the conspirator who only paused to tuck himself away as he offered a wry grin.
Mission accomplished, the conspirator vanished almost as quickly as he had made his appearance, leaving Bluebelle frustrated and terribly bitter.
It was a long walk home that night and a restless sleep ensued. At dawn, she drew out her mirror and sat upon it. She fiddled with the pit, poked at it and tried to squeeze it loose until she worked herself into a frenzy of desire. No matter how she tried, she could not orgasm, nor would the pit budge.
Having learnt her lesson Bluebelle decided to make amends. She immediately ventured into town with a heavy, swollen pussy and set about draining every cock she had failed to make cum.
Townsfolk queued from sunrise to sunset before a red-kneed Bluebelle as she sucked her mouth numb. The entire time, she rubbed herself vigorously, trying to secure a release that continually evaded her.
Some were selfish, ignoring her pleas for release; they gripped her collar and fucked her face until their cum pelted against the back of her throat.
Others took great pains to tease her into a wild frenzy; they took turns at her mouth and her ass until they finally spilled over and laced her holes with cum that ran out and smeared her face and thighs, leaving her just short of ecstacy.
It was at sunset that the final ejaculation came.
It was Charlie's.
Charlie had watched the proceedings all day and had resolved to be Bluebelle's very last.
With a sheepish grin, Bluebelle gently took Charlie's cock into her mouth and tenderly sucked him through affectionate caresses. She cupped his balls the way he liked and when he stiffened as though about to cum, she wholeheartedly took his entire length into her mouth.
Bluebelle satisfied Charlie this time. On her knees, before the entire town, she deep-throated his cock until he flooded creamy cum into the pit of her stomach.
Bluebelle held fast onto Charlie's cock and sweetly kissed away the small beads that had escaped her lips. With one last swallow into a bellyful of cum, the pit plunked out of her.
Bluebelle was relieved and unreservedly happy. She and Charlie watched as the townsfolk walked away. When they were all gone, Charlie took a kinder, more considerate Bluebelle by the hand and together they disappeared into the forest where they lived happily ever after.
As for the cherry pit, it grew into an enormous tree where it fell. Each year, it bore a crop of magic cherries that were picked and safeguarded by that mysterious conspirator whose job it was to punish naughty little pixies like Bluebelle.
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Why Accreditation Matters for Patient Support Providers
By Lash Group |
An executive Q&A on why accreditation is crucial for successful manufacturer-sponsored support programs.
Executive Q&A
Accreditation Matters
The quality of clinical support offered by a patient support program can be a critical differentiator when it comes to improving adherence. Dawn Herren, Vice President of Clinical Services at Lash Group, shares what accreditation means for manufacturer-sponsored support programs and the patients they serve.
Q: In the healthcare delivery world, what is accreditation?
A: An accreditation is a transparent and comprehensive evaluation of an organization’s systems, processes and performance conducted by an impartial external organization. The external organization awards accreditation after ensuring rigorous criteria, consistent with national standards, has been met.
Q: What is URAC?
A: Founded in 1990, the Utilization Review Accreditation Commission (URAC) is the independent leader in promoting healthcare quality through accreditation, certification and measurement. URAC is a nonprofit organization developing evidence-based measures and standards through inclusive engagement with a range of stakeholders committed to improving the quality of healthcare. URAC's portfolio of accreditation and certification programs spans the healthcare industry, addressing healthcare management, healthcare operations, health plans, pharmacies, telehealth providers, physician practices and more. URAC accreditation is a symbol of excellence for organizations to showcase their validated commitment to quality and accountability.
Q: Why should a support program provider seek URAC’s Core Accreditation?
A: Lash Group sought accreditation for our Clinical Services and Adherence programs to demonstrate our commitment to a high-quality standard and continuous service improvement that benefits our manufacturer clients, patients and providers. Accreditation is a mark of quality that differentiates our adherence services for the clinical expertise and excellence of our support program team members.
quickly and effectively respond to the health concerns of their patients. It also confirms that support programs adhere to defined thresholds for telephone performance, such as average speed of answer by a live person, average abandonment rate and callbacks to patients.
Q: What is the process for accreditation? How long does it take?
A: Accreditation is renewed every three years and was most recently re-achieved in 2017.
Preparing for Lash Group’s initial accreditation in 2014 took more than 18 months, and our Clinical Services team worked very hard to align with URAC standards. URAC accreditation requires applicants to submit policies, procedures and other organizational information that is followed by a review. Once an application is received by URAC, a primary reviewer is assigned and coordinates all aspects of the review until a decision on accreditation has been determined.
URAC’s accreditation process enables learning and compliance with nationally recognized healthcare standards and supports improvements and innovation in healthcare management and delivery. URAC also offers educational content, including workshops, webinars, articles, issue briefs, videos and white papers.
From standardizing new processes and procedures to establishing metrics, our Lash Group and AmerisourceBergen partners spent a tremendous amount of time and effort developing and documenting work standards.
Q: How does the accreditation benefit manufacturers and patients?
A: URAC accreditation is a symbol of a support program provider’s dedication to delivering quality, continuous improvement and value to the manufacturers and patients it serves. The accreditation process has provided and continues to provide outside expert evaluation of the quality and safety of care and services the clinical team provides across all clinical services. Through accreditation, a support program provider demonstrates a continued commitment to quality service delivery and client goals.
Q: How does the URAC accreditation impact a support program provider?
A: A support program’s clinical team must be diligent in remaining in a constant state of readiness to demonstrate adherence to URAC Core standards. All team members are involved in the URAC process and are responsible for achieving quality within the scope of their role. The most committed support program partners continue to conduct annual internal audits for each department involved in the accreditation to ensure audit-readiness at any time. URAC may initiate an audit, without notice, anytime.
URAC accreditation creates a quality framework that is scalable across support program offerings and teams. For Lash Group, the URAC accreditation helps us to create a culture of excellence based in continuous process improvement. As accreditation requirements are modified to reflect current best practices in our field, it enables support program providers like Lash Group to stay on top of changing practices.
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I'm trying to send an ether from a contract to EOA.I'm following this tutorial, however it returned the error, "invalid address"
invalid address
However, at the geth console, I've got the following information. Could you tell me how to solve the problem?
The Contract
contract token { mapping (address => uint) public coinBalanceOf; function token() {} function sendCoin(address receiver, uint amount) returns(bool sufficient) { } }
contract Crowdsale {
address public beneficiary;
uint public fundingGoal; uint public amountRaised; uint public deadline; uint public price;
token public tokenReward;
Funder[] public funders;
/* data structure to hold information about campaign contributors */
struct Funder {
address addr;
uint amount;
/* at initialization, setup the owner */
function Crowdsale(address _beneficiary, uint _fundingGoal, uint _duration, uint _price, token _reward) {
beneficiary = _beneficiary;
fundingGoal = _fundingGoal;
deadline = now + _duration * 1 minutes;
price = _price;
tokenReward = token(_reward);
/* The function without name is the default function that is called whenever anyone sends funds to a contract */
function () {
uint amount = msg.value;
funders[funders.length++] = Funder({addr: msg.sender, amount: amount});
amountRaised += amount;
tokenReward.sendCoin(msg.sender, amount / price);
FundTransfer(msg.sender, amount, true);
modifier afterDeadline() { if (now >= deadline) _ }
/* checks if the goal or time limit has been reached and ends the campaign */
function checkGoalReached() afterDeadline {
if (amountRaised >= fundingGoal){
FundTransfer(beneficiary, amountRaised, false);
} else {
FundTransfer(0, 11, false);
for (uint i = 0; i < funders.length; ++i) {
FundTransfer(funders[i].addr, funders[i].amount, false);
Sounds like you haven't set the "sender/from" account. Try web3.eth.defaultAccount = web3.eth.accounts[0]. (The account will also need to be unlocked.)
Related: Why does mist throw 'Uncaught invalid address'?
Your Answer
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Catalyst Gold
Biotin, Vitamin B7 is a vital part of a healthy metabolism, creating enzymes, supporting and strengthening the skin, hair, nails, nerves, and the digestive tract. Biotin is used by the body to metabolize carbohydrates, fats, and amino acids. The word biotin comes from the ancient Greek word "biotos," which means "life" or "sustenance."*
Calcium occurs in nature as limestone, chalk, marble, dolomite, aragonite, or calcite. It needed by the body to maintain healthy bones, muscles, nervous system, and heart. Calcium Carbonate can be helpful in relieving intermittent, infrequent heartburn and indigestion. Calcium was an element well known by the ancient Romans, but the study of Calcium for various metabolic processes in the body only began in the 19th century.*
Magnesium Citrate is one of the most important minerals supporting the bones, the body's energy production, overall glucose balance, relaxation, and muscle function. Magnesium Citrate is essential for cardiovascular health and known for its calming effect. Citrate is easily digested and better absorbed than other forms of magnesium, which also supports regular bowel movement. The word Magnesium comes from Magnesia, a city in Greece where large deposits of magnesium carbonate were discovered in ancient times.*
Selenium plays a key role in the body's detoxification system. It works together with iodine to keep thyroid function strong and consistent. Selenium's antioxidant properties regenerate vitamins E and C, thereby decreasing the aging of the skin. Selenium also has positive antiviral effects, and it is essential for successful male and female fertility and reproduction. Selenium (in Greek means "Moon") was discovered in 1817 by Jöns Jacob Berzelius.*
Spirulina is a natural algae, contains vitamins B-1, B-2, B-3, B-6, B-9, vitamin C, vitamin D, vitamin A and vitamin E. It is an excellent source of potassium, calcium, chromium, copper, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, selenium, sodium, and zinc. Spirulina is also incredibly high in Omega 3's, iron and in calcium with over 26 times the calcium in milk. It has a net protein utilization rate of between 55-65% aiding digestion and weight loss, also helping to ease anxiety or depression. It was first noted by Hernando Cortez and his Spanish Conquistadors in 1519 after observing the special algae being eaten at the tables of the Aztecs during his visit in Lake Texcoco.*
Chlorella is a single-celled algae which contains the highest amount of chlorophyll of any known plant. It is thought to boost the immune system and help fight infection. It has been used to treat constipation, fibromyalgia, high blood pressure and high cholesterol. In Japan, it is traditionally used as a treatment for duodenal ulcers, gastritis, hypertension, diabetes, hypoglycemia, asthma, and constipation. More than 20 vitamins and minerals are found in chlorella, including iron, calcium, potassium, magnesium, phosphorous, pro-vitamin A, vitamins C, B1, B2, B2, B5, B6, B12, E and K, biotin, inositol, folic acid, plus vitamins C, E and K. In addition it also contains 60% protein and 18 different amino acids. Chlorella emerged over 2 billion years ago but wasn't discovered until the 19th Century.*
L-Glutamine supports detoxification, wound healing, boosts strength and has an important role in repairing the skeletal muscles. It also supports the improvement of fat reduction and the building of lean muscle. L-Glutamine helps to level out the alkaline acid balances and diminishes lactic acid. This amazing gut healing amino acid helps stop sugar and alcohol cravings by helping the body to suppress insulin and thereby stabilizing blood sugar levels.*
Also known as the Amazon's Viagra, Acai Berries are extremely high in Omega 9 as well as in anthocyanins, a form of antioxidants associated with the ability to lower cholesterol levels in the bloodstream. Acai is one of the planet's highest sources of antioxidants, extremely rich in Vitamin C as well as in Vitamin E, fiber, protein, calcium, magnesium, potassium, and zinc. Acai may aid to combat fatigue and exhaustion and suppresses inflammation. It helps to slow down the aging process and supports weight loss by boosting both metabolism and energy levels. Acai has been a dietary staple of the Amazon River's region's people since before recorded history.*
Dandelion helps detoxify the liver, can also improve skin and eye problems. It aids the body's natural immune response, and considered to be a reliable detoxifying agent. The leaf contains potassium and can alleviate bloating by removing excess fluid from the system, it acts as a diuretic and increases urine output. The use of dandelion was first recorded in writing in the Tang Materia Medica (659 B.C.E.) and then later noted by Arab physicians in the 10th century.*
Eleuthero Root – Siberian Ginseng is a superior adaptogen best known to improve performance. It was traditionally used to prevent colds and flu and increase energy, longevity, and vitality. Eleuthero helps to enjoy sustained energy, strengthens the memory, helps the body adapt to stress and makes stress response more efficient. Unlike many other invigorating plants, Eleuthero also shows value as a sleep aid. Siberian Ginseng may be useful as a preventive measure during cold and flu season. Eleuthero was discovered in China over 200 years ago. Russian scientist started to study the herb after it was brought into space by Soviet astronauts. In the 1960's Soviet scientists made their Eleuthero research classified; information about eleuthero became a closely guarded Soviet state secret.*
Camu Camu is the highest known source of natural vitamin C (contains well over 10x the vitamin C concentration of oranges), also loaded with amino acids, trace minerals, vitamin B3 and potassium. Camu camu has been considered in the treatment of diabetes, it’s been shown to help improve muscle function and may fight inflammation. This "super-berry" also received the title "nature's antidepressant" by maintaining emotional stability and enhancing mood. *
Astragalus helps protect the body against various stresses, including physical, mental, or emotional stress. It is known to lower blood sugar levels and blood pressure. Taking Astragalus might help prevent colds and seasonal allergy symptoms by supporting mucous membranes and epithelial cells in the respiratory tract. Astragalus has been researched for its cardioprotective, anti-inflammatory, and longevity effects; helping to restore the activity of a suppressed immune system. The plant is one of the oldest used medicinally, dating to about 200 BCE in China.*
Mangosteen "The Queen of Fruits", is an excellent source of vitamin C it also contains a good amount of minerals like copper, manganese and magnesium and B-complex vitamins such as thiamin, niacin, and folates. Xanthones – a powerful antioxidant found almost exclusively in mangosteen – have properties that fight pain, allergies, infections, skin disorders, and fatigue while supporting intestinal health. Mangosteen is a natural and effective antihistamine.*
Grape Seed Extract may assist in the treatment of conditions such as high cholesterol, atherosclerosis, high blood pressure, poor circulation and nerve damage. It also exhibits anti-inflammatory, anti-allergic, anti-cancerous and anti-microbial activity. These little seeds are known to strengthen the arteries and offer strong antioxidant protection for the heart. First and foremost grape seed extract is known for its anti-aging properties, as one of the most powerful antioxidants fighting free radicals and slowing down the aging process through protecting the skin's elasticity and collagen production. Vitis vinifera, the first recorded mention of a key ingredient in grape seed extract was in 1534 in the mission logs of Jacques Cartier.*
Turmeric has long been used as a powerful anti-inflammatory herb in both the Chinese and Indian medicine. Turmeric’s curcumin is a bioactive substance that fights inflammation at the molecular level. Curcumin's anti-inflammatory effects have been shown to be comparable to the potent drugs hydrocortisone as well as over-the-counter anti-inflammatory pills such as Motrin. Turmeric may increase detoxification systems in addition to its anti-oxidant properties. Laboratory experiments have shown curcumin could prevent tumors from forming. Turmeric is native to Indonesia and southern India, where it has been harvested for more than 5,000 years.*
Flax seeds may help improve digestion, clear up the skin, lower cholesterol, reduce sugar cravings, balance hormones and promote weight loss. Flax Seeds contain both the soluble and insoluble fibers and Omega-3 essential fatty acids that have been shown to have heart-healthy effects. Flax seeds are high in magnesium, and brain-boosting vitamin B1. Alpha-linolenic acid a substance found in flaxseed and flaxseed oil may benefit people with heart disease. The ALA in flax can help protect the lining of the digestive tract and maintain GI health. Back in the 8th century, King Charlemagne passed laws requiring people to consume flax seeds for its health benefits.*
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>> If new stronger US sanctions hit Russia's oil sector, then ultimately some of that cost may bounce back onto Western oil companies, big names such as BP and Royal Dutch Shell. It's because BP, Shell, and others are all customers of Russia's national oil company, Rosneft, right across the street from the Kremlin.
And according to industry sources, Rosneft now wants certain insurance if their sales get disrupted. Reuters' Dmitry Zhdannikov in Moscow broke the story.>> It's looking very, very strange, we've never seen it before. So what's effectively happening is that Rosneft is telling its big oil buyers that if they fail to buy oil from Rosneft because of new US or any other sanctions, those companies will have to pay penalties to Rosneft.
Well, that's unheard of in the oil industry. It's like a kid telling his father he wants a protection to continue getting sweets and candies even if their mom decides that his behavior is unacceptable. So it comes as no surprise that buyers are resisting. It means that if BP, or Shell, or any other big oil company cannot buy a cargo from Rosneft, it may have to pay 70, $80 million, because this is how a cargo oil costs these days, according to market prices.
>> It's not clear exactly what new terms Rosneft wants. Neither Rosneft nor any of its Western clients responded to our questions. Rosneft is already under some sanctions, but the big threat is if Washington puts it on what's called a special designated nationals list. When a Russian aluminium company was put on that list, for example, it ground to a halt.
>> This is a completely different game. When you are put on an SDN list, effectively that means that you are being put on the same list together with Mexican drug dealers or North Korean generals. So any Western companies will really struggle to do business with you, and that's what makes Rosneft so scared.
>> United States imported 142 million barrels of Russian petroleum products last year, according to US government data.
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"Whenever, Wherever" is the debut English-language single for Latin music artist Shakira. Taken off of her first English-language album Laundry Service it was released in late 2001. She also recorded a Spanish-language version of the song titled "Suerte". It was the best-selling song of 2001. The video won the 2002 Latin Grammy Award for "Best Short Form Music Video". The song was written by Shakira and Gloria Estafan.
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AI Finland 2020: Finland’s own Silicon Valley could drive future AI - Business Tampere Magazine
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AI Finland 2020: Finland’s own Silicon Valley could drive future AI
Paneelikeskustelu AI Finland -tapahtumassa. Viisi miestä istuu tuoleilla.
Kuva: Mirella Mellonmaa / Business Tampere
As long as we keep developing our special expertise and focus on the fields where we truly excel, Finland will continue to be one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence. In order to succeed, we also need widespread collaboration. These were two aspects that all speakers at the very first AI Finland event concurred with.
The AI Finland 2020 virtual conference, organized on 30 September 2020 by Business Finland, Business Tampere and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment of Finland, brought together businesses and AI researchers. With over 800 participants from over 50 countries listening to the presentations, the event was a major success. Next year, the event will be hosted by the City of Espoo.
Practical examples make AI application easier
Alexander Törnroth, Head of Finland’s Artificial Intelligence Accelerator, presented the newly-published ‘State of AI in Finland’ report at the event. According to the report, many companies feel unsure about the practical applications of AI. Events such as AI Finland 2020 play a crucial role in showcasing practical examples of AI use and allowing easy networking between involved parties.
Chief Digital Officer Juha Latvala from Insta gave advice on how to get to a running start with data utilization. He reminded the audience that the process resembles a marathon rather than a quick sprint. You have to take a systematic approach and focus on practical steps instead of chasing castles in the sky.
In his keynote, Tero Ojanperä, Chairman of the Board at Silo.AI, presented several examples of why organizations should utilize AI and how the technology improves people’s everyday lives. For instance, AI can be used to identify individual medical treatment paths for patients, predict peaks in energy consumption, cut down CO2 emissions and improve water purification processes.
“During the past couple of years, we have witnessed a major leap in the ways that major Finnish corporations have started to apply technology and artificial intelligence. While there is also plenty of potential in the small and medium enterprise sector, I feel a bit worried about whether SME companies are adopting these new possibilities quickly enough,” Ojanperä noted.
He also encouraged platform thinking in business operations. Platforms promote interaction between various stakeholders while the company itself is able to build up useful data.
”In the consumer front, supply and demand have been successfully connected in new, innovative ways in many industries. Companies like Amazon and Airbnb are prime examples of this. In the B2B space, we are just picking up speed. Companies can benefit from more actively combining artificial intelligence and best practices introduced by the platform economy.”
Students set to extend AI’s footprint and impact
The panel discussion at AI Finland 2020 focused on the cooperation between businesses and higher education, a field in which the Tampere region flourishes. The latest know-how must quickly flow from the academia to companies.
”While Europe conducts high-quality AI research, many experts go and work for US-based companies. Boosting interaction between companies, the public sector and the research community could be our ace in the hole in the fight for top talent. We could be the next Silicon Valley. It’s a daring idea, but our ambitions must be set high,” said Professor Petri Myllymäki from the University of Helsinki.
”The best way to transfer knowledge from research to business, and vice versa, is through people. Even more important than our skilled professors are the thousands of students that inject the latest information to companies after their graduation,” commented Heikki Huttunen, Associate Professor at Tampere University.
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On the 25th of April 2015 Nepal was shaken by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake that killed some 8700 people and displaced hundreds of thousands. Some 8 million people were affected by the tremor. Seventeen days later an aftershock measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale further damaged already weakened buildings, further setting back aid and assistance.
While Kathmandu Valley was worst effected, farmland and resources were also heavily damaged, with the quake also causing carnage in some parts of nearby Bangladesh, India and China.
Unfortunately, as at the time of undertaking this project, many people were still yet to receive any serious monetary or structural assistance from the government or overseas aid, forcing many to rebuild their homes themselves by hand. This has been attributed to mismanagement by government and difficulties moving materials over rough and damaged ground. Non-Governmental Organisation reconstruction efforts were barred in Nepal during this time, and were not allowed to operate until April of 2016, a year after the initial destruction. As at August of 2016, just 275, 000 of 600, 000 claims had been fulfilled by the government aid program.
Many thousands of people had to live for months in tents provided by the UN and China Aid programs. One such area where people still lived in temporary housing was in Bhaktapur within Kathmandu Valley.
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A ridiculous double standard
With the UK about to legalize same sex marriage once again the spotlight is shining rather harshly on the outdated opinions of our Prime Minister and the Opposition Leader. Our Prime Minister is an athiest, unmarried woman living in a defacto relationship, working in a role that 40 years ago would have been almost impossible due to society’s attitudes toward gender roles. Our Opposition Leader is a religious conservative with a reputation for being less than progressive and rather dismissive of women.
One thing that all Australian leaders have had in common for decades is that we will almost blindly follow leaders of the U.K. and the U.S. in just about any endeavour, but especially into war. If anyone from Britain or America suggests that they need do go and bomb a country for whatever reason we are sending our troops in by the thousands within seconds. So why is it that our leaders, when asked about the U.K’s overwhelming vote in support of marriage equality overnight (400 to 175) they replied that what the British do is their own business and in no way changes their opinions on what is being done here? It’s a devastatingly disappointing double standard on the part of Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott. The only thing the two of them ever agree on is that gay people should be kept as lesser citizens in the eye of the Australian government.
As far as I can tell, at our last election the result was only decided (after days of negotiations) by independent members aligning themselves with Julia’s Labor Party to form a majority, so she is so beholden to independents and conservative groups like the Australian Christian Lobby to maintain her position that she will go with the conservative (minority) opinion of the Australian public. Tony is a religious conservative so when he wins the election in September (almost guaranteed) he sure as hell isn’t going to change the status quo so it looks like Australia is left to languish in conservative obscurity on the global stage for years to come.
2 Responses to “A ridiculous double standard”
1. 1 michael
if tony abbott gets in knowing him not only would he against same sex marriage he would make homosexuality illegal again!!!
2. 2 Chris
Pretty much my thoughts exactly. Best case scenario in my head is that he somehow allows a conscience vote in the lead up to the election. Having said that, if he wins a majority it still likely won’t pass with both parties allowing a conscience vote.
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This page is (intended to grow into) a list of concepts that are related to categorism itself or to the understanding of categorism. This list does not include those concepts that are primarily facets, foci or abstractions of categorism, as these concepts are listed on those pages.
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Seeing the Homeless in a New Light
Bryan ROctober 11th, 2007
By: Bryan R
Book Review: Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives of Homeless Women (non-fiction), Author: Elliot Liebow, 1993
It's curious how often insight follows hardship. Elliot Liebow’s own insightful look into the lives of homeless women came during his period of hardship after being diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. Instead of spending his remaining days on the 12th floor of a government office building, he retired on disability after 20 years as an anthropologist. Despite a dire prognosis, he felt well and began volunteering at a homeless women’s shelter. While there, his anthropologic background kicked in; he started to explore the lives of the women and attempted to understand their outlook. The product of his efforts, “Tell Them Who I Am”, isn’t an academic paper peppered with sociological jargon but rather an empathetic account of “how these women remained human in the face of inhuman conditions”.
“Tell Them Who I Am” began with the author’s own frustrations of succinctly describing the women who frequent the shelter. Liebow consistently faced discoveries incongruent with many common conceptions about homeless. One outstanding example was of a woman who had worked for over 20 years yet never earned enough income to transition out of homelessness! The final straw that resulted in homelessness was unique for each woman. Explanations ranged from mental disabilities such learning disabilities, mental retardation, etc. to financial shocks too great to bear when living paycheck-to-paycheck such as roommates moving away, divorce, or job loss. A few of the women simply couldn’t tolerate their abusive households and decided the streets were less stressful (such as Martha whose father expected her to accept his persistent sexual assault or Grace whose stepmother forced her to have an abortion as a condition for staying at home).
Liebow frequently focuses on a few key concepts that surface repeatedly throughout his chapters covering topics such as employment, social services, family/relationships, and religion. On several occasions, Liebow implores the reader to understand that many of the womens' struggles, such as depression or alcoholism, are no different from our own; the major difference is that the challenges thrown down by homelessness amplify any personal vice or imperfection. "People are not homeless because they are physically disabled, mentally ill, abusers of alcohol or other drugs, or unemployed. However destructive and relevant these conditions may be, they do not explain homelessness; most physically disabled people, most mentally ill people, most alcoholics and drug addicts, and most unemployed persons do have places to live. … [therefore] The cause of homelessness is seen as situational rather than something that inheres in the individual.”
Drugs, craziness, and laziness are all frequently cited as causes of homelessness. Even Liebow observed that “[some of the shelter staff] believed that homeless people are generally undeserving freeloaders expect for the real life women they had come to know personally.” Liebow’s work suggests that these generalizations are often simplistic at best, and baseless at worst.
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The Big Fix: Inside Job and Immoral Collusion
The Big Fix: Inside Job and Immoral Collusion
The Big Fix: Inside Job and Immoral Collusion
Given the systemic corruption around us, it's for good reason that confidence in our fiscal leaders is at an all time low.
December 10 th 2010
When foxes guard the chickens, the chickens get noticeably nervous.
Such is the thesis of Craig Ferguson's documentary film, Inside Job (view trailer), on the 2008 financial collapse. He claims that there was a systemic collusion between government regulators, private rating agencies (Moody and Standard & Poor's), Ivy League academics, and Wall Street firms. It amounted to a consensual fraud. It was a system motivated by greed and designed to make profit for a few, even when it failed for the many.
Most Americans are not economists and know little about derivatives, collateralized debt obligations, credit default swaps, or synthetic collateralized debt obligations. Few Americans are conversant about the reasons the G20 nations are scolding President Obama and Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke for financial easing.
What we do understand is that America's financial system is broken, and that those who broke it made huge amounts of money in the process. What we do understand is that few have been held accountable for the chaos wrought on the global economy. Confidence in our fiscal leaders—whether the policy wonks in Washington or the corporate tycoons in New York—is at an all time low.
There are good reasons for the ongoing distrust. Those in Washington charged to fix the problem remain closely allied with those in New York and London who caused it. (Washington's policies were also a causative factor.) In many cases, the fixers are the very architects of the system that collapsed. In addition, little has changed either in personnel or regulations since the crisis. The bailouts have only shifted the burden of mismanagement from corporate to government balance sheets, crippling the financial future of coming generations with a deficit equal to about a $150,000 debt obligation for every American. There may have been a political and economic rationale for the bailouts to avert a total financial meltdown, but the short-term benefits have only delayed the long-term costs—we have leveraged America's economic future.
Most Americans feel the consequences of the global recession as unemployment, even while its causes remain shrouded in financial mysteries beyond their grasp. On a global scale, the irresponsible actions of the financial service industry have slipped 50 million people back into poverty. The poor always pay the greatest price.
This was not an inevitable crisis. It was a crash caused by pilot error. The unchecked excesses of Wall Street executives, the unjustifiable executive compensation and bonus packages, and the reckless risk-taking with other people's money are a sobering tale of moral decay and civic disregard.
This is the story told in the documentary film Inside Job. It is a sobering tale of head-in-the-sand investments and bogus insurance coupled with inflated egos. It is a story of self-interest run amuck. Only a small dose of common sense would have mitigated much of the crisis. But common sense is in short supply.
In a complex crisis of this nature, it is both difficult and somewhat unfair to cherry-pick a single villain. Governmental policies and regulators were just as guilty as Wall Street investors and bank executives. It was a perfect storm of myopic thinking and expansive greed. The guys who wrecked the train cannot get the train back on the track. The same knaves are involved, and amazingly, they are still at it. This is not meaningful reform.
What makes Inside Job especially chilling is that so little has been done to correct the causes that led to the crisis. Many expect it to happen again, but with even greater devastation the next time. If there is a case study of America's moral and cultural weakness, this is it. The ongoing fragility of our financial markets both at home and abroad is sure evidence that America is a civilization in decline. The populous remain largely ignorant and the politicians indolent. It is a system perfectly designed for the results that it produced. Nothing has been fixed. America's financial house remains in disarray and the ripples from our irresponsible choices are bouncing around the global markets like a pinball-style wrecking ball. At the same time, Washington's partisan paralysis is marked by high-octane rhetoric with few tangible results.
What is particularly poignant in those interviewed in Inside Job is their continued defence of the actions taken and the failure to acknowledge obvious conflicts of interest and degrading lapses in moral judgment. Business integrity is central to the success of democracy. But corrupted business is a life-threatening cancer to our civic soul.
One can be strongly pro-business without feeling the need to justify the culture of corruption that led to our fiscal collapse. Corporate capitalism has come increasingly under fire. And yet it is not capitalism per se that is at fault, but the prostituted version currently in play. As Mark Twain once said about France, "The French are very agreeable, though you don't want to ally with them in war and they are usually run by prostitutes." Ours is a prostituted form of capitalism.
If capitalism is going to survive as a vibrant means of wealth creation and as an agent of shalom, then it will need to address the systemic corruption that lies at the heart of this story. Some may complain of the leftward shift to state capitalism, but such complaints can only be justified if one first faces squarely the self-inflicted wounds caused by corporate capitalism practiced without conscience. Another financial collapse will happen again, unless these moral causes are given the attention that they deserve. An ongoing fiscal culture of nihilism will exact a high price if left unchecked. There are no easy solutions. But candour about the causes of this crisis is long overdue. The film Inside Job is a good place to start a national conversation.
The general audience reaction to the film has been anger, betrayal, helplessness, ignorance, and revenge. It is well past time to mount a constructive response. Inside Job is an imaginative first step.
John Seel
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"Long before it's in the papers"
June 01, 2013
Scientists use robots to replicate ant colony behavior
April 1, 2013
Courtesy of Public Library of Science
and World Science staff
Scientists say they have replicated the behavior of a moving ant colony using little robots.
The researchers aimed to learn how ants orient themselves in the mazelike pathways along the ground surface from their nest to various food sources. These trails often feature a tree-like system of branching points and can extend as far as a quarter of a kilometer (almost a sixth of a mile) for some ant species.
Robot ants pursue a light trail. (Courtesy of S. Garnier et al)
The research revealed ants don’t need great smarts to find efficient pathways, and it also “points toward possible improvements for the design of man-made transportation networks,” wrote the scientists. They described their research in a paper online March 28 in the journal PLoS Computational Biology.
The work focused on how Argentine ants behave and coordinate themselves in symmetrical and asymmetrical pathways. Real ants do this by leaving trails of chemicals, called pheromones.
The researchers, at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and the Research Center on Animal Cognition in Toulouse, France, reproduced the activity with a swarm of sugar cube-sized robots. The experiment was set up so that a video projector would light up the ground along the path just followed by each robot. This process created luminous trails mimicking “pheromone” trails. Other robots could detect the trails using two light sensors mimicking ants’ antennae.
At the outset, where branches of the maze had no light trail, the robots adopted an “exploratory behavior” modeled on the regular insect movement pattern of moving randomly but in the same general direction. This led the robots to choose the path that deviated least from their trajectory at each branching point of the network. If the robots detected a light trail, they would turn to follow that path.
It turned out they didn’t need to be programmed to identify and compute the geometry of the branch points, the scientists said. The machines managed to navigate the maze using only the light trail and the programmed directional random walk, which directed them to the more direct route between their starting area and a target area on the edge of the maze.
Argentine ants have poor eyesight and move too quickly to make a calculated decision about their direction, the researchers noted. So the fact that the robots managed to orient themselves in the maze the way real ants do suggests these insects don’t need a complex cognitive process to navigate efficiently, they added.
“This research suggests that efficient navigation and foraging can be achieved with minimal cognitive abilities in ants,” said lead author Simon Garnier of the New Jersey Institute. “It also shows that the geometry of transport networks plays a critical role in the flow of information and material in ant as well as in human societies.”
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Scientists say they have replicated the behaviour of a moving ant colony using little robots. The researchers aimed to learn how ants orient themselves in the mazelike pathways along the ground surface from their nest to various food sources. These trails often feature a tree-like system of branch points and can extend as far as a quarter of a kilometer (almost a sixth of a mile) for some ant species. The research “points toward possible improvements for the design of man-made transport ation networks,” wrote the scientists, describing their research in the journal PLoS Comput ational Biology. The work focused on how Argentine ants behave and coordinate themselves in symmetrical and asymmetrical pathways. Real ants do this by leaving trails of chemicals, called pheromones. The researchers, at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and the Research Centre on Animal Cognition in Toulouse, France, reproduced the activ ity with a swarm of sugar cube-sized robots. The experi ment was set up so that a video projector would light up the ground along the path just followed by each robot. This process created luminous trails mimicking “pheromone” trails. Other robots could detect the trails using two light sensors mimicking ants’ antennae. At the outset, where branches of the maze had no light trail, the robots adopted an “exploratory behaviour” modelled on the regular insect movement pattern of moving random ly but in the same general direction. This led the robots to choose the path that deviated least from their trajectory at each branching point of the network. If the robots detected a light trail, they would turn to follow that path. It turned out they didn’t need to be programmed to identify and compute the geometry of the branchings, the scientists said. The machines managed to navigate the maze using on ly the light trail and the programmed directional random walk, which directed them to the more direct route between their starting area and a target area on the periphery of the maze. Individual Argentine ants have poor eyesight and move too quick ly to make a calculated decision about their direction, the researchers noted. So the fact that the robots managed to orient themselves in the maze the way real ants do suggests these insects don’t need a complex cognitive process to navigate efficiently, they added. “This research suggests that efficient navig ation and foraging can be achieved with minimal cognitive abil ities in ants,” said lead author Simon Garnier of the New Jersey Institute. “It also shows that the geometry of transport networks plays a critical role in the flow of inform ation and material in ant as well as in human societies.”
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A Cute New Imaging Technique Named Compressive Imaging
Posted on 2006-10-17 as a part of the Photonics Spotlight (available as e-mail newsletter!)
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Abstract: This article describes a new imaging technique, which is based on a cute method and appears to be substantial practical advantages. It uses a digital micromirror device (DMD) and a single-pixel detector. The images are directly obtained in a somehow compressed format.
Dr. Rüdiger Paschotta
The latest Physics News Update (see the reference above) points to very interesting new research on a new imaging technique, suitable e.g. for remote cameras. Here, light from an object is reflected from a digital micromirror device (DMD), and part of the reflected light hits a single photodiode or other photodetector. The measured light intensity is now recorded for thousands of different pseudorandom binary patterns of the micromirrors, where each mirror either reflects light or is an “off” position. A computer can later reconstruct an image from these data. Anyone being familiar with Fourier optics may immediately have at least some vague idea how that might work, but I won't try to explain this here.
The method doesn't only look cute, it is also potentially very useful. First of all, it requires only a single-pixel detector, which enormously expands the range of usable photodetectors. Second, it requires fairly little memory in the device; several thousand bytes are enough for images which hundreds of thousands of pixels, since the image information is automatically obtained in a somehow compressed form. This compression also facilitates data transmission e.g. with a wireless connection. The computational burden for reconstructing the image may not be a severe problem, since this job can be done offline. The camera itself can be very simple. Overall, the method could be very efficient compared to the traditional way of recording a full image, compressing it locally with corresponding hardware and software in the camera (using e.g. a JPEG algorithm), sending it, and decompressing it again in the computer.
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Women and Pornography
Only Words
by Catherine A. MacKinnon
Harvard University Press, 152 pp., $14.95
People once defended free speech to protect the rights of firebrands attacking government, or dissenters resisting an established church, or radicals campaigning for unpopular political causes. Free speech was plainly worth fighting for, and it still is in many parts of the world where these rights hardly exist. But in America now, free-speech partisans find themselves defending mainly racists shouting “nigger” or Nazis carrying swastikas or—most often—men looking at pictures of naked women with their legs spread open.
Conservatives have fought to outlaw pornography in the United States for a long time: for decades the Supreme Court has tried, though without much success, to define a limited category of “obscenity” that the Constitution allows to be banned. But the campaign for outlawing all forms of pornography has been given new and fiercer form, in recent years, by the feminist movement. It might seem odd that feminists have devoted such energy to that campaign: other issues, including abortion and the fight for women’s equality in employment and politics, seem so much more important. No doubt mass culture is in various ways an obstacle to sexual equality, but the most popular forms of that culture—the view of women presented in soap operas and commercials, for example—are much greater obstacles to that equality than the dirty films watched by a small minority.
But feminists’ concentration on pornography nevertheless seems easy to explain. Pornographic photographs, films, and videos are the starkest possible expression of the idea feminists most loathe: that women exist principally to provide sexual service to men. Advertisements, soap operas, and popular fiction may actually do more to spread that idea in our culture, but pornography is the rawest, most explicit symbol of it. Like swastikas and burning crosses, pornography is deeply offensive in itself, whether or not it causes any other injustice or harm. It is also particularly vulnerable politically: the religious right supports feminists on this issue, though on few others, so feminists have a much greater chance to win political campaigns for censorship than any of the other campaigns they fight.
And pornography seems vulnerable on principle as well. The conventional explanation of why freedom of speech is important is Mill’s theory that truth is most likely to emerge from a “marketplace” of ideas freely exchanged and debated. But most pornography makes no contribution at all to political or intellectual debate: it is preposterous to think that we are more likely to reach truth about anything at all because pornographic videos are available. So liberals defending a right to pornography find themselves triply on the defensive: their view is politically weak, deeply offensive to many women, and intellectually doubtful. Why, then, should we defend pornography? Why should we care if people can no longer watch films of people copulating for the camera, or of women being whipped and enjoying it? What would we lose, except a repellent industry?
Professor Catherine MacKinnon’s new book of three short essays, Only Words, offers a sharp …
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Scientists Discover That Life Can Form in the Vacuum of Outer Space
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(ANTIMEDIA) — The origin of life on Earth is one of the great mysteries human civilization must unravel. It goes right to the heart of the most baffling cosmic conundrum — what is life, why does it form, and what is its role in a seemingly violent, random universe?
A new study by a team of scientists may render the mystery even more vexing, as recent tests have shown it is possible for the molecular ingredients for life to form in space. The experiment opens the door for theoretically considering that life on Earth originated within the vacuum of space itself. It also has exciting ramifications for how we look at asteroids and comets, including the ancient interstellar asteroid ‘Oumuamua, which was recently determined to have a carbon-rich coating.
Researchers from the University of Sherbrooke in Quebec, Canada, conducted the experiment using thin films of ice containing methane and/or oxygen that were subjected to low-energy electron (LEE) radiation in high-vacuum conditions. LEEs were used because they have been known to trigger chemical reactions.
Sure enough, the research team found direct and indirect evidence suggesting that life is able to form and flourish in the same conditions found in space. The new study, published in the Journal of Chemical Physics, found evidence for small organic molecules like acetic acid, formaldehyde, and methanol, which form the building blocks of life.
The finding is important because it goes a long way toward confirming that organic molecules don’t have to originate from another star system or planet but could actually form in space itself. This widens the scope of the panspermia theory, which holds that microbial life on Earth may have originated elsewhere in the galaxy — or another galaxy — and hitched a ride through deep space via meteorites or asteroids to arrive on our planet.
The incredibly bizarre interstellar asteroid named ‘Oumuamua, which was revealed to the public last month, can now be considered a potential incubator for life. According to researchers studying the object’s reflected light, ‘Oumuamua has a 16-inch layer of carbon-rich goo coating its exterior, which explains why the asteroid is not spewing water vapor and leaving a trail of detritus behind it.
News of ‘Oumuamua has conjured images from Arthur C. Clarke’s Rendezvous with Rama, which is about an anomalous object entering the solar system. The object, in Clarke’s novel, is first mistaken for an asteroid and then revealed to be an enormous artificial craft. Several nations dispatch astronauts and discover that Rama was created by a technologically advanced alien race that terraformed the interior of the asteroid into an artificial world. The origin and purpose of Rama remain a mystery.
While ‘Oumuamua is far more likely to have an interior of rock, ice, and dust than an artificial environment, the University of Sherbrooke researchers’ latest discovery suggests it is possible the asteroid’s exterior contains microbial life. Currently, scientists are scurrying to gather as much observational data from ‘Oumuamua as they can before it leaves the solar system.
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(The SkyWalker Comics mythos)
Rebecca was a member of S.T.A.R.S., a police special forces unit in Raccoon City.
Early lifeEdit
As a young girl, Rebecca went with her family camping in the Arc Lei Mountains. During this trip, her mother and younger sister were infected with a virus and transformed into zombies. Her father killed both of them and shot himself.[1]
Train investigationEdit
As a young adult, Rebecca successfully joined the S.T.A.R.S. Bravo Team. Still a rookie officer during S.T.A.R.S.' investigation of the mountains, she was ordered to avoid any conflict while exploring a train with Joe and John. Finding herself in a laboratory, she realised the train was being used by Umbrella for research. Soon after, Joe and John got caught up in a gun fight, and a group of uninfected guinea pigs escaped their cells. In the confusion, one of the men, Tom, punched her straight in the stomach to get her out of the way of the door. Another detainee, Billy, stayed behind to check on Rebecca.[2]
When the men were ambushed by Umbrella, Tom destroyed much of the train carriage in a suicide bombing. With Billy injured by the blast, Rebecca used her medic skills to treat him. Immediately after waking up, Billy shot a zombie about to attack Rebecca from behind. Agreeing to explore the train together, they were soon after confronted by mutant rats in the train's bar, and following that a giant scorpion.[2] After Billy was thrown around by the creature, Rebecca fired at some alcoholic bottles to cover the scorpion; Billy symbiotically knew to light the alcohol with a candle. Unable to kill it with the fire, the two led the scorpion to the end of the carriage, where they set off a gas tank to explode, decoupling the carriage and leaving the creature behind.[3]
The explosion caused Rebecca to fall off the edge of the train, but Billy saved her from dropping to the tracks. She then handcuffed the man, but her inexperience led her to damage his arm and she had to nurse it in one of the cabins. Billy began experiencing a violent headache and physically attacked Rebecca; luckily, she was able to bring him back from his PTSD delusions. With more zombies left on the train, they realised the cabin was no longer safe and tried to escape via a hatch. Billy was unable to follow her, and tried to commit suicide while zombies bit him. Rebecca meanwhile ran into her zombified teammate, Joe, just before he was torn to shreds by a Hunter B.O.W.[3]
1. biohazard 0, VOL.3
2. 2.0 2.1 biohazard 0, VOL.1
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While we were developing this project, we found a complete product that did much the same thing, the BBQ Guru from HomeBBQ.com. It’s no longer available on their site, but you can see what it was using the Wayback Machine.
Our initial plan for the project used a PC, simplifying the software by making a highly capable platform available for processing and display. A laptop would be convenient to take outdoors, and could use a plug-in probe and fan. PC-interfaced thermometers are available, so the remaining electronics design work would be what’s needed to drive the fan. We thought a while about using an expensive laptop where it was likely to fall or get spilled on, though, and decided a standalone controller with its own embedded processor was a better idea.
We wanted a sensor that we could use as either an ambient air temperature probe within the smoker or as a meat probe, looking forward to other projects in which we’d extend the calibrated range of measurements beyond the 210–240F range. We happen to have a wireless barbeque thermometer with an appropriate probe (see Table 8-2), so we designed our circuits around it. We’ve also seen probes as part of oven thermometers and other equipment at Bed Bath and Beyond, and at Super Target, so look around.
Table 8-2
Temperature Probe
Pal Products
Nu-Temp model NU-701
Simple Wireless BBQ Thermometer
The probe (Figure 8-8) is a negative temperature coefficient (NTC) thermistor encased appropriately for food use and with a high-temperature cable.
Figure 8-8
Table 8-1 records our measurements using this probe. We used the sigma-delta analog-to-digital converter (ADC) capability of the Javelin Stamp processor to read the probe, connecting them together in the circuit shown in Figure 8-9. The probe itself is in series with a 10K Ohm resistor, as in Figure 8-4; the junction of the two is the measurement point for the ADC. The sigma delta converter works by summing the two voltages fed to the integrating capacitor in Figure 8-9. One voltage is the output of the resistive divider formed by the thermistor and fixed resistor; the other is the direct 0 or 5-volt output of a pin on the Javelin Stamp. The software in the Javelin Stamp modulates the pulses on that output pin to cause the input pin, connected directly to the integrating capacitor, to settle at the 2.5 volt logic threshold.
Figure 8-9
Temperature probe measurement
The result of the sigma delta ADC software processing is a count from 0 to 255, corresponding to the duty cycle on the output pin. A value of zero corresponds to zero volts from the divider; a value of 255 corresponds to 5 volts. Continued…
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Monday, May 2, 2011
For Ohio voter rolls, a birthday surprise
By Associate Professor Justin Levitt
But that's not what the public heard.
Well, almost.
Unfortunately, not one Ohio headline I've seen about the Secretary's report actually got the news right.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer: "Thousands of dead on Ohio voter rolls, report shows."
No, it didn't.
The Toledo Blade: "Ohio elections chief says health records show thousands of 'active' voters are dead."
No, he didn't.
The Cincinnati Enquirer: "Hamilton County leads state -- in dead voters."
No, it doesn't. (Or at least, the study that is the basis for the article says no such thing.)
These are just a few examples from a few of Ohio's bigger papers. But around the state, the story was the same: the Secretary of State had found 18,460 dead people on the registration list. Except that's not what the Secretary found.
To his credit, Secretary Husted was far more measured in his own report's release. He explained that he'd matched the names and birthdates of more than 8 million voters on the registration rolls to the records of individuals listed by the health department as having passed away. He found 18,460 matches. And he asked county officials to investigate further before removing the voters in question from the list, which is exactly the right response.
Let's assume that the health department's records are accurate. Why not jump immediately to the "Delete" key? In a word: math.
Matching names and birthdays runs headlong into a problem straight from Statistics 101. Next time you're in a large group of friends, write everyone's birthday down on a piece of paper. With just 23 people at your party, chances are better than 50 percent that two of them share the same birthday (month and day). With 50 people, it's almost a lock.
Adding the year to the mix, you need more people in the room -- but still far fewer than most expect. With about 180 people at the party, chances are better than 50 percent that two of them were born on exactly the same date. 460 people makes it 99 percent certain.
What this means is that in any big pool, it's pretty likely that people will share the same date of birth. All you need are 460 Anne Millers, or 460 Thomas Smiths, or 460 Maria Johnsons. And there are more than enough Millers, Smiths, and Johnsons in the Buckeye State. You'd make money betting that there were plenty of different people with the same names and dates of birth at any given Ohio State game. Now expand the pool to the 8 million registered voters in the whole state.
There is a real probability of identifying the wrong person, many times over, with matches like these. Matching on names and birthdates isn't, on its own, enough information to act -- which is why a federal bill has tried to require the same caution seen in Secretary Husted's approach. Election officials who instead rush to judgment on the basis of a match alone may find that they've delivered their constituents a very unpleasant birthday surprise.
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Exhaust Gas Chiller
Thermax have also supplied chillers to a district Cooling plant in Barcelona. A direct exhaust gas chiller, driven by the exhaust gas from a battery of three gas engines of 3.3 MWe each, delivers 5 MW of cooling. The jacket water from the engines is combined to drive a single 3.5 MW hot water chiller.
The licensing Authority in UK use Thermax direct Exhaust gas chiller to generate chilled water to take away heat from the license printing machines and also for air-conditioning the new office building. The exhaust gas heat and the low temperature jacket water from a 1.2MWe gas engine, drives the chiller. The overall system efficiency of the plant is over 90%.
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Crypto Depository Receipts: New Take on an Old Solution Can Drastically Change Equity Ownership & Issuance
A CDR is a new idea in the crypto space with the potential to upend global financial markets and dramatically reduce the costs incurred in the existing system of transfers and settlements.
Equity and debt markets are unquestionably among the most popular and long-established markets worldwide. However, they still suffer from a number of significant drawbacks and inefficiencies, including high transaction costs (brokerage fees or expenses related to liquidity) and administrative expenses, slow settlement through the process of traditional equity ownership (from exchange delays to registration), and lots of cumbersome paperwork.
A familiar solution with a new twist
To address these challenges, a team of crypto evangelists and career bankers, led by CDRX Chief Executive Officer, David Ward, have come up with an innovative idea, leveraging blockchain technology to issue Crypto Depository Receipts (CDRs), which will fundamentally change equity ownership.
CDRs are essentially the crypto equivalent of American Depository Receipts (ADRs), which are certified negotiable instruments issued by a US bank (or an equivalent entity), representing a certain number of shares in a foreign company that can be traded on US exchanges. Similarly, CDRs are securitized instruments but issued on the blockchain, which mimics the traditional central share register historically used to record all data on equity ownership. The difference is that blockchain is a global immutable distributed ledger offering lower costs, faster transaction speeds, and enhanced security. Most notably, however, the use of CDRs will allow fractional ownership of stock, opening up equity ownership to a whole new class of retail investors.
CDRX is ahead of the curve
CDRX ( is developing a platform which will allow the conversion of shares, bonds, and derivatives into securitized tokens backed by underlying securities on a one-to-one basis. After their launch, CDRs can be further traded on CDRX’s own exchange solution or between other parties.
Importantly, this solution will be applicable not only to existing equities but it will also allow companies to issue new equities directly as tokens, a procedure CDRX defines as “native issuance.”
Taking the best of both worlds
CDRs feature all the benefits of conventional equity ownership and issuance without the drawbacks and can thus make life much easier for both investors and issuers. Apart from leveraging the high speed, transparency, and immutability of blockchain, they will help to reduce costs significantly. For instance, there will no longer be a need to conduct regular meetings of shareholders, pay numerous accountants, or maintain a share register. Many routine corporate actions can be eliminated or automated. Since CDRs are issued on the blockchain, smart contracts embedded in them will enable the automated distribution of dividends and permit online voting, drastically reducing the current costs associated with these actions (which run into millions of dollars).
Besides, investors and issuers will be exempt from burdensome broker execution costs and fees since no intermediaries will be required to perform and settle transactions. Finally, CDRs will allow fractional ownership of many assets that would otherwise be too expensive for small investors.
“In creating our CDR product, we have sat with investors, issuers, and regulators to address their frustrations with traditional markets. We are at the forefront of these developments, and unlike other securitized token models, direct participation from issuers is not required. Our approach leverages a proven route to securitization which, following regulatory approval, allows immediate conversion of the entire market,” CDRX CEO, David Ward said.
A dedicated exchange for crypto derivatives
Apart from its CDR product, the global team of experts at CDRX is in the process of launching an exchange for listing and trading securitized and non-securitized crypto-instruments. The plan is to have the platform online in closed beta for the fourth quarter of 2018.
CDRX plans to start with a non-securitized token-to-token trading platform, which is a reputable model that does not require regulatory approval. Further down the line, the company will expand it to include securitized tokens and token-to-fiat currencies. Overall, CDRX aims to create a marketplace where coins, tokens, and CDRs can be freely traded 24/7 and provide its users with global liquidity and high speed.
Regulation to be embraced, not avoided
Last but not the least, CDRX places particular emphasis on regulatory compliance. To achieve this, the company is already in discussions with well-regarded regulators worldwide, to be fully prepared for its regulatory obligations. This is especially important given the CDR product and its securitised nature. It is CDRX’s hope that with early compliance, a deeper partnership can be forged with the regulators - it aims to be the bellwether in this respect.
Security tokens are generally regarded as a more traditional investment tool that gives holders certain legal ownership rights (eg. to company shares). Therefore, they are usually subject to the strict government regulations applicable to securities. For this reason, CDRX has prioritized full compliance and is confident that their solution will serve as a constructive intermediary step to encourage regulators to approve more progressive developments in the future.
CDRX is currently open to private investors, while a public sale will be announced in the future. You can learn more about the project on their official website and join their Telegram channel for regular updates.
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3rd's the Turd
Is that how you spell turd? Remember "first the worst, second the best...?"
C needed her computer back. So I returned it on Tuesday. I suffered from the delusion that I had tax TOTALLY under control and didn't need to study that hard for it. So, I spent the first of the available two study days, running, working at about half-pace, and relaxing. Reality returned with only 1.25 days left. I'm now coming down from about 40 hours of frenzy. I went from believing I had tax under my belt to freaking out. For the first time this set of finals, I worked into the wee hours on the morning before an exam.
It didn't help that the computer gods continue to conspire against me. I did all of my charts/outlining on my desktop, in Windows, since formatting issues force me to be a traitor. The night before the exam at 9 pm, it blue-screened. [insert various curses at Bill Gates and windows here, although in fairness, it was a video driver error]. I spent the rest of the time before the final even more frenzied:
1. trying to recreate and recall several of the smaller charts that seemed to disappear with the BSOD.
2. cutting and pasting my charts into the blank pages of the code
3. installing the stupid exam software on my 3rd laptop (my new baby) for this finals period.
4. realizing I didn't have a USB floppy drive
5. finally going to sleep
6. getting up after about 4 hours of sleep
7. studying some more and making notes on the pages when I found more missing bits lost to the computer
8. going to Fry's to buy a USB floppy drive
9. booting my laptop in my car, in the parking lot of fry's and installing the floppy driver to make sure the hardware would work.
10. commuting to school
11. registering the exam software on-line, because it wouldn't let me do it 'til I had a floppy drive.
12. going to the mexican joint and repeatedly reassuring the adorable burrito-making-dude, that no, I wasn't his novia, but no, it wasn't because he was feo.
Anyhow, Tax is finished. I didn't really calm down 'til the exam began. Given my lack of sleep (since I never slept more than 4 hours before any exam in college) and the fact that there were problems with numbers and I had my trusty HP calculator, it felt like an engineering exam. Which was good. My adrenaline levels had been much too high for the day and half prior to the exam--can't be good for my heart (great for staying awake though...).
So now, I'm on the home stretch, and honestly, exhausted. There was NO CHANCE of motivating myself to take a run this AM. And possibly no need since the point is to be physically exhausted at the end of each study day, and boy, am I ever...
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Elite: Dangerous. Buffed Fer-de-Lance
In 1.5 update Fer-de-Lance got some serious love: class 6 power plant instead of class 5, improved heat dissipation and better pitch and roll rate.
Elite Dangerous
After the buff Fe-de-Lance pitches better, it can handle many power hungry weapons like Rail Guns, Plasma Accelerators and still have enough power for best Shield Boosters and Shield Cell banks.
Because of better heat dissipation you can use Fer-de-Lance more effective for silent running, if that's your aim.
Is Fer-de-Lance too good? Everyone must decide for himself, I would say that power plant addition is overkill because it doesn't feel like combat ship anymore (apart from silly jump range) but more like multi purpose ship, top speed and pitching speed is one of the best in the game for all big ships, best shields after big three ships (Anaconda, Imperial Cutter and Federal Corvette), reasonable armor, 6 utility mounts also is best after the big three, however, internal compartments are a limiting factor - there are not enough of those. We will see a lot of Fer-de-Lance now flying in Player vs Player encounters, much more than before.
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Saturday, August 22, 2009
Compassion and its Consequences
I'm struggling with this.
It's been dominating my thoughts since I heard of it, and I can't stop turning it over in my head.
As I said to my friend in the comments to my last post, I think Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill's release on compassionate grounds of the terminally ill Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi was a good act. It's a brazen act of compassion, one that demands attention.
And I do think there's a difference between compassion and forgiveness. Al-Megrahi hasn't been forgiven, and he won't be. He was returned home in spite of his crimes, not because the slate had been washed clean.
But in practical terms, does it matter? 270 people are dead because of him. They didn't get mercy. Soon, Al-Megrahi will be dead of cancer. Scotland has given him shown him mercy as to where he dies, but no one can change when.
I distrust the concept of "victim's rights," as it is normally applied. It seems to me, in a just society, that the people directly hurt by a crime are the very last people who should decide the punishment. Justice doesn't bring catharsis like revenge does.
But eight years in prison for 270 deaths? Is that justice? I don't think there's any stretch of the imagination that could say that it is. But I wonder: What if the cancer claimed him two days ago? What if he spent the same amount of time in prison, but died there? It's still eight years, but no one would be saying justice wasn't served.
And I think that's the nut of it. On the one side is the good act of letting a sick man return home to die. On the other side is justice -- the need to mete out a proper punishment for his horrible crime.
I think that's why I can't stop thinking about this. Life's not fair, of course -- it's so true it's a cliche. But usually, when justice fails, it falls victim to selfishness, greed, or even expediency. It's a rare thing, I think, to see goodness and justice at odds... and even rarer to see goodness win out.
So which is better, justice or goodness? Which should we strive for, fairness or mercy? As it stands, I'm no closer to finding an answer to that than when I started this essay. But two days ago, before this bold act, I wasn't truly aware of the question.
chrisready said...
I think an argument can be made that there is no contradiction in the matter. He was given justice and then shown compassion by his adjudicators. If anything, this demonstrates that the victim (e.g., Western society) can be better than the perpetrator of the crime
Rob S. said...
I dunno, Chris. I'd like to think that; I hope it's true. But I still think there's a tension there.
I remember a writing class I was in a few years ago. One of the guest speakers gave us this advice: "Don't make your hero choose between good and evil. There's no tension there if he's a good person; it's an easy choice to make. Instead, make him choose between good and good."
bastard central said...
i thought about this for a sec and i realized that this reminded me of a discussion on racial politics i was having with another white guy at a wedding when we were prompty dressed down by an african american guest who was incredulous that two white guys were discussing the nature of racism in america without asking him about it.
that said, i decided to google how some of the victim's families may feel about this.
the point is this.
this isn't about good choosing good over good. and this isn't about western society being better than the perpetrator of the crime.
it's about 270 sets of parents losing their children because some maniac or maniacs successfully blew up a plane and the allegeded orchestrator got put away for it. and for a moment, 270 sets of parents felt they had something that resembled justice.
and now they don't have it.
some goofball did the statistics on this and calculated that this man did 11.11 days time for each victim he was responsible for the death of. 13 minutes if you count his incarceration in 1999.
just saying.
bastard central said...
and there's this item too.
scroll past the whole "boycott britain" part and right to the part where good may have chosen britain's business interests.
Rob S. said...
Of course they're outraged. They have every right to be.
But this decision wasn't about them. And I hope it wasn't about proving some sort of moral superiority. And if, as that article suggests, it's about some sort of economic quid pro quo, that's disgusting.
I thought about doing that math myself when I heard. But if he'd lived another three months in prison and then died, he'd have spent something like 11.3 days for each victim. Would that be better?
Obviously, this was a decision that is causing a lot of innocent people pain, and reopening old wounds. I'm amazed that someone felt so strongly for compassion for a mass murderer to act on it, despite all the valid arguments against it. But I remain convinced that mercy and compassion are among the best impulses of human nature. If this act was indeed motivated by those impulses, I believe it was a good one.
If, however, there are truly other forces at work, it taints the gesture. As a practical matter, it hardly matters. But as a moral one, it only works if the motivation is pure; otherwise it is a travesty.
bastard central said...
if he did serve until his death in prison, at least these people wouldn't have to watch him have a heroes welcome on tv. perhaps at the very least, a heroes funeral but he would have died inside and that may be it's own justice. while it isn't much in the grand scheme it would have been better for the victim's families.
the more i read, the more i think the motivaions were indeed economic. and that is disgusting.
but wait, there's more. coming soon to englewood, nj
Rob S. said...
I was talking with Greg about this this morning, and he summed it up nicely, I thought, calling it, "The least considerate act of compassion ever."
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Excellent New Reviews of "Cognitive Infiltration"
Although many people read the reviews of new books at Amazon.com, it's likely that most people stop reading reviews of a book after it has been out for a few months. But sometimes some of the best reviews have appeared late. I have here reposted three excellent recent reviews of David Ray Griffin’s “Cognitive Infiltration: An Obama Appointee’s Plan to Undermine the 9/11 Conspiracy Theory.”
A Case for the High Court, January 14, 2011
By Rev. Dr. Ronald David
Cass Sunstein is a highly regarded, pedigreed constitutional scholar and lawyer. He graduated from Harvard Law School magna cum laude, clerked for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, and taught at arguably two of America's most prestigious law schools, the University of Chicago and Harvard. Mr. Sunstein is now the Adminisrator in the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) for President Barak Obama.
Regrettably, Sunstein is as well the author of an essay that may besmudge his vaunted reputation, "Conspiracy Theories: Causes and Cures." That essay the subject of David Ray Griffin's book, Cognitive Infiltration: An Obama Appointee's Plan to undermine the 9/11 Conspiracy Theory (Northampton, Massachusetts: Olive Branch Press, 2011).
I ask the reader to imagine that Sunstein the esteemed jurist is the US Solicitor General rather than Administrator of OIRA. As Solicitor his task is "to supervise and conduct government litigation in the United States Supreme Court." Imagine further that Sunstein brings before the Court a case--The US Government versus 911Truth.org. The basis for prosecution is outlined in the aforementioned "Conspiracy Theories."
Imagine as well that the attorney for the defense is David Ray Griffin. In Cognitive Infiltration Griffin diligently and relentlessly dismantles Sunstein's case, bit-by-bit, thesis-by-thesis. Among other things, it appears that Sunstein has not even examined the "evidence," i.e., claims made by 911Truth.org that the government's conspiracy theory fails miserably to account for the events of September 11, 2001. Rather, Sunstein defines those claims as "conspiracy theories" in a dismissive, pejorative sense. He then proceeds to consider the means by which the authors of such theories might be stopped and/or their audience "inoculated" against hearing or believing them. It is as if Sunstein presumes guilt and seeks remedy before trial.
With each thesis Griffin does consider the possibility that beyond a superficial (or exoteric) reading of Sunstein's case, a deeper (esoteric) meaning is intended. That is, Sunstein may actually recognize that among his readers will be those who are sufficiently astute as to realize that the theory advanced by 911Truth.org far better accounts for all of the available evidence than does the government's theory. I can think of no other explanation for Sunstein's shamefully shallow argument.
Griffin's rebuttal is trenchant and airtight. I concur with his conclusion that, "if the government had to defend its [own] account of 9/11 in a court of law, it would not have a winnable case." A case against 911Truth.org would be weaker still.
Forget the names and reputations of the protagonists. Read Cognitive Infiltration as a legal debate between two anonymous lawyers. Weigh the evidence. I have no doubt that you would be persuaded as I am that given a fair and honest hearing the outcome would favor 911Truth.org. My conviction regarding the likely judicial findings is tempered only by the current composition of the High Court, particularly Justices Roberts, Alito, Thomas, and Scalia. Still, the evidence is too compelling--Griffin and 911Truth.org prevails. The government fails.
Deconstruction of a Fascist Proposal to Destroy the 9/11 Truth Movement, November 29, 2010
By Dennis P. McMahon (Brooklyn, NY) (REAL NAME)
David Ray Griffin's "Cognitive Infiltration" is a devastating deconstruction of Cass R. Sunstein's shocking and dangerous proposal to have the U.S. government illegally infiltrate and destroy the 9/11 Truth Movement. Sunstein--a Harvard Law Graduate, President Obama's choice to head the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, and once described by Elena Kagan (now a Supreme Court Justice) as "the preeminent scholar of our time"--is unmasked by Griffin and shown to be a fascist automaton, eager to openly do the bidding of the enforcers of the official 9/11 myth that is used to justify the government's perpetual wars in the Middle East, and the ongoing suppression of civil liberties at home. Especially horrifying is that Sunstein is now in a position to help implement the very unconstitutional policies he so eagerly espoused. "Cognitive Infiltration" provides an intelligent and measured response to the twisted madness of Sunstein, who as a result of offering his frightening proposal, has revealed himself to be unworthy of holding public office.
In an analysis of the ten theses that form the basis of the Obama appointee's proposal to eradicate 9/11 Truth, Griffin distinguishes between two levels of meaning in Sunstein's essay: the exoteric (surface) and the esoteric (hidden). The esoteric interpretations portray Sunstein in such a favorable light that readers may wonder if Griffin is being serious in his praise or not. The answer is provided in the Conclusion of "Cognitive Infiltration."
Early on in "Cognitive Infiltration," to counter Sunstein's thesis that conspiracy theories in the U.S. are usually both unjustified and false, Griffin provides excellent summaries of no less than seventeen so-called "conspiracy theories" involving the U.S. government that in time proved to be true, including: numerous U.S. overthrows of legitimate governments around the world (Iran, Guatemala, Indonesia, Chile, Panama, Haiti, etc.); the manufactured Gulf of Tonkin incident (which Lyndon Johnson used as a pretext for escalating the Vietnam War); the FBI's illegal counter-intelligence program (COINTELPRO) which targeted Martin Luther King and the anti-Vietnam War Movement (and which seems to have served as a model for Sunstein's plan to target the 9/11 Truth Movement); Operation Mockingbird, involving CIA infiltration and (ongoing) control of the U.S. "free press;" and the "Deadly Lie at Ground Zero (2001)" initiated by the Bush-Cheney White House which ordered the EPA to tell the public that the air around NYC's World Trade Center following the 9/11 attacks was safe to breathe, even though test results indicated that the air was highly toxic. Trusting their government, 40,000 rescue and clean-up workers dutifully returned to work, unaware of the lies and the danger. As Griffin documents, 60-70% of these Ground Zero workers have come down with various debilitating illnesses, including cancer, and many have already died.
While analyzing Sunstein's primary claim--that those who hold to any unofficial 9/11 conspiracy theory do so because they suffer from `informational isolation' and a `crippled epistemology'--Griffin exposes the absurdity of Sunstein's theory by focusing on the intellectual leadership of the 9/11 Truth Movement, and their impressive credentials. In so doing, Griffin effectively demonstrates that it is Sunstein who is informationally isolated and possessed by a crippled epistemology, as a result of not having done his 9/11 homework.
Similarly, Griffin shows that Sunstein's charge that the 9/11 Truth Movement's evidence is weak or nonexistent would be more appropriately leveled at proponents of the official 9/11 conspiracy theory. In refuting this Sunstein allegation, Griffin includes a masterful overview of the existing evidence which proves, beyond any reasonable doubt, that the government has lied about what really happened on 9/11.
In a draft of his essay published on the internet, Sunstein, an old friend of Obama, let slip that the government enlisted the editors of Popular Mechanics to serve as the government's `independent experts' on 9/11, Griffin reports. Thus, Sunstein's "proposal" may have sprung from an inner-circle knowledge that the 9/11 Truth Movement is already being cognitively infiltrated (which would come as no surprise to many 9/11 Truthers who suspect that there already are trolls, provocateurs, and "limited hangouts" on the internet). In this light, Sunstein's essay can be seen more as a clandestine attempt to legitimize the government's cognitive infiltration that is already taking place.
Whatever the motivations for Sunstein's fascist proposal, the number of 9/11 Truth converts continues to grow, Griffin notes. If the call for illegal infiltration of the 9/11 Truth Movement is the best plan that can be devised by this "pre-eminent legal scholar," Griffin asks, tongue in cheek, might it not be time for the defenders of the official 9/11 conspiracy theory "to throw in the towel?" Synchronistically, just prior to this writing, two mainstream media personalities--Geraldo Rivera and Judge Andrew Napolitano, both on Fox no less--have begun challenging the government's official conspiracy theory, while admitting that the 9/11 Truth Movement could be right in saying that 9/11 was an inside job.
Time will tell how much 9/11 Truth will be allowed to enter the mainstream, and where exactly that will lead. Whatever the extent and direction, Sunstein will have unwittingly contributed to the effort by writing an essay that "has provided such an excellent foil for [Griffin's] laying out of the current nature of the 9/11 Truth Movement, along with the extent and quality of its evidence," as the literary leader of the 9/11 Truth Movement acknowledges at the end of "Cognitive Infiltration," a truly brilliant work.
Sly and Dry, January 5, 2011
By Allan Weisbecker (Montauk, NY) (REAL NAME)
For those who are already 'awake' this book is a must, if only for DRG's sly, dry wit in lampooning Obama's communication consigliere, Cass Sunstein. Reading the book I found myself in a constant grin and nod mod, with a frequent chuckle and maybe once per chapter an outright belly laugh. Although it's gotten to the point where satirizing the deep state's shenanigans is difficult -- they do such a good job themselves - DRG pulls it off brilliantly. (Having read all his books, it was refreshing to find a sense of humor underlying his dedication to the truth cause.)
Under the humor, of course, is The Horror: Our president not only chose Sunstein as a close advisor, but apparently PAYS ATTENTION to him. We in a heapa trouble, folks.
Those who are new to looking into the truth behind 9/11 (plus a Big ETC), by all means get this book but I strongly urge you to start with one of DRG's earlier works, either The 9/11 Commission Report, Omissions and Distortions or Debunking 9/11 Debunking. The latter works especially well if you tend to believe (or are subjected to) such crud as 'Popular Mechanics explained that.'
Not now, but down the historical road a piece, if civilization as we know it does survive, DRG will be perceived as a national treasure. Read him and learn.
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There are many resident lion prides in the Maasai Mara that occupy the same territory for several generations, often lasting many decades. Female offspring provide continuity and are the permanent members of the group. The adult males tend to be more transient and will gain their hierarchical positions by chasing out their predecessors. Nighttime in the Maasai Mara is filled with the deep roaring males, warning other males to stay away from their territory. The lion does not always live up to its reputation as the king of hunters, and is an inveterate scavenger always on the lookout for other predators' kills. Hunting is usually initiated by the females of the pride, in the early morning, late afternoon and even at night. They stalk cautiously to within a few paces of the animal, make a fast dash and pull the victim down. The prey is killed either by a bite through the neck or by clamping down on the muzzle until it suffocates.
Even though there is no apparent communication between the lionesses, it is common in the Maasai Mara to see several females hunt together with military precision; diversions, pincer movements and a final assault carried out with an incredible accuracy.
As the lion eptiomises power and majesty, so the leopard stands for grace and cunning. Often regarded as a shy, nocturnal animal, sightings of leopard in the Maasai Mara can occur even in the middle of the day and last for several minutes.
Leopards prefer wooded savannahs and rocky outcrops, and in the Maasai Mara they are most likely to be encountered resting in a tree. They have remarkable vision, exceptional hearing and a good sense of smell. A skilled climber, they often drop on their unsuspecting prey from above, followied by a strike with claws extended then a bite to the next or back of the head while paws embrace the body.
They prey on many mammal species particularly antelopes, and have a particular liking for baboons - often we hear baboons barking suddenly in the middle of the night. They have incredible strength and are able to carry a kill high into a tree to hide it from other predators. Adult leopards lead a solitary existence, only coming together during periods of mating.
Although not as muscular as the leopard, the cheetah is built for sheer speed and is the world's fastest land mammal and has been timed at 110 kilometres per hour. The Maasai Mara is one of the best places in the world to see a cheetah, and they often seek a vantge point on a fallen tree, termite mound or even car bonnet, to look out across the savannah for their next prey.
The cheetah's method of hunting is peculiar to the species as it is built for speed and hunts by stalking close to its prey and then racing after it, bringing it down before seizing it by the throat and suffocating it. Being a sprinter it cannot maintain great pace for long, and if it has not caught its victim within 100 metres or so it will give up the chase.
When the hunt is over, the cheetah lies with heavy flanks for up to half an hour before recovering to feed. This makes it very vulnerable to hyaenas, jackals and even vultures who are keen to snatch the kill. Cheetahs have a very precarious existence in the Mara and are often chased away from a kill, we therefore urge visitors not to approach them when they are feeding and especially not when they are hunting.
What should I do if a cheetah hops on top of my vehicle?
Stop the engine and do not move the vehicle until the cheetah gets off. Keep quiet and do not agitate the animal. What kind of behavior is classified as animal harassment?Shouting, clapping, cheering, standing on top of your car roof, getting out of vehicle, driving up to animals closer than 25 meters, chasing/following animals, and driving fast near animals are all classified as animal harassment.
What happens when we harass animals?
When vehicles or humans harass animals their normal behavior is interfered with (ie: hunting, mating, nursing, crossing, etc). Cheetahs are especially vulnerable to such interference.
What can I do when I find an orphaned baby animal?
Most mothers return to their young so it is best not interfere with them. You must not pick them up as handling of babies will transfer your human scent which can cause the mother to reject her young. If you are certain that the mother has not returned to the baby by dawn, inform the rangers of the animal’s location.
When do you see baby animals in the Mara Triangle?
All year-around breeders include: lions, leopard, cheetah, hyena, elephant (peak March-April),rhino, impala, buffalo, baboon, vervet monkey, Seasonal breeders include: bat-eared fox (July, Aug), jackal (July, Aug), topi (Oct), warthog (Oct), wildebeest (Feb-in Serengeti), eland (Sept, Oct).
What can I do when we find an injured or dead animal?
Only report the whereabouts of the injured animal to the rangers when the injury is suspected to be human induced (snares, spears, arrows, etc). The same applies to dead animals – unless it is a lion, cheetah, rhino, leopard or elephant.
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Scalable OpenFlow Solutions: Between PowerPoint and Production
The Shipping SDN, NFV, OpenFlow, Network Virtualization Products and Services page on SDN Central lists dozens of SDN products, from switches to controllers and applications. I’m positive all of them work great in PowerPoint, most of them work well in lab environments, but do they also work in large-scale production deployments?
If you’re a regular reader of my blog, you probably know all about OpenFlow scalability challenges, for everyone else I included a section on OpenFlow scalability in free Real Life OpenFlow-based SDN Use Cases webinar (we have just a few places left - register here).
1. Can OpenFlow do stateless ? I think you can specify, well basically statically configured routing by a controller, right ?
Otherwise it might happen eventually if enough network vendors pour money into it, but it doesn't make a lot of sense to me because of all the state.
1. Those products that I'd place closer to "works in production" than "works in PowerPoint" are usually stateless, but that's not enough. You also need end-to-end paths (think virtual circuits), you can't update per-hop forwarding entries fast enough on topology changes.
2. Virtual circuit reminds me of TCP and also sounds like tunnel to me, like MPLS or overlay.
Maybe I'm blind, but where does OpenFlow in switch hardware fit in to this picture ? I don't think it does.
I'm sorry, but things that scale like TCP have the smarts at either end and not in the middle.
There is just routing in the middle.
I think can see how you might want to have OpenFlow at the Hypervisor, in a virtual switch. Especially if
your gonna have network functions virtualization.
Seems to me like that really is all most people need.
(sorry for a possible double comment, looked like it didn't go through first time ?)
2. Will the recording for the webinar be available for free afterwards? (It doesn't really fit my class schedule)
1. As always, registered attendees get the raw recording the next day, edited recording is made public within a few weeks.
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Well, this is embarrassing...
Date November 30, 2012
I found out today that I have been configuring Apache wrong for a while. How long?
Around 15 years.
Everyone who has configured Apache has probably done work with the <VirtualHost> declaration. You know how it usually looks:
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost myserver.whatever.com:80>
# apache stuff goes here
But that's wrong. It'll work, of course, but it's wrong.
Continuing, if you have multiple sites, and you were devoted to doing it wrong (or at least, never bothering to really grok the documentation), you'd do this:
NameVirtualHost myhost.mydomain.com:80
NameVirtualHost myotherhost.mydomain.com:80
# and maybe we'll get fancy with some https
NameVirtualHost securehost.mydomain.com:443
<VirtualHost myhost.mydomain.com:80>
ServerName myhost.mydomain.com
# Other Stuff
<VirtualHost myotherhost.mydomain.com:80>
ServerName myotherhost.mydomain.com
# Other Stuff
<VirtualHost securehost.mydomain.com:443>
# ServerName securehost.mydomain.com
SSLEngine On
# Other SSL stuff here
# Other domain stuff here
Yeah, that's wrong too. When you do it, you get these niggling little errors:
[warn] NameVirtualHost myotherhost.mydomain.com:80 has no VirtualHosts
[warn] NameVirtualHost securehost.mydomain.com:443 has no VirtualHosts
...but it works. So you're like, "that's weird. well, it works, I'll figure it out later", but you never do.
Well today, I did. And I learned something. And I'm going to tell you.
See, my misunderstanding was all in the "NameVirtualHost" line. I thought, because it's called "NameVirtualHost", it wanted the name of a virtual host. Call me crazy.
Instead, what that ACTUALLY does is point to an IP address that Apache is going to listen on. It's just that by putting the domain name, it looks it up, and comes up with the IP address.
So if myhost.mydomain.com has a DNS record (or a host file entry) of, then these two lines are equivalent:
NameVirtualHost myhost.mydomain.com:80
...and that's why it always works. Up above, when you wanted to enable ssl, you were like, "I've already go a web server; let's make this happen!", so you just added a CNAME (or maybe another A record) for securehost that matched the IP of myhost, and went on your merry way.
The other symptom of this problem, apart from the "has no VirtualHosts" error, is whenever you have multiple SSL-enabled sites on the same IP address. The way https works is that the browser connects to port 443, magic happens when the certificates are exchanged, and then your web browser is like, "it would be a shame to waste this secure tunnel. How about you give me securehost.mydomain.com?".
If you have "othersecurehost.mydomain.com", too, then you might see the problem. The certificate has already been exchanged by the time the server figures out what site the client wants...and the way it works in the apache config is that the first virtualhost encountered take precedence, so your browser might WANT othersecurehost, but the certificate it gets will be for securehost.
This sort of things will be obvious if you administer multiple externally-visited https-enabled sites, because you'll get certificate warnings all over the place. But 99% of what I work with has been building https-enabled internal sites where I just never, as a rule, bothered to spin up a good reliable certificate service and sign my own stuff, so I was always USED to certificate errors.
The site that finally helped me figure out what was going on is Apache Common Misconfigurations. And incidentally, there has been an extension to the SSL standard that allows multiple SSL-enabled sites to be hosted on the same IP address. Not every browser supports it (for those of you who still cater to IE6 users, you would now have even more sympathy from me, if that were possible), but if you have a reasonable expectation that your visitors' web browsers were written after the Bush administration, then you should be OK.
So anyway, today I'm happy to admit my blinding ignorance if you will accept for it an offering of knowledge. I apologize for going this long without investigating that one weird little error that didn't seem to be causing problems. I'll try not to let it happen again. Too often.
• http://peelman.us Nick
NameVirtualHost should win the award for worst Apache directive name ever. I'm sure that on some level, it makes sense. But for almost every common use case, it does not.
• http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com Matt Simmons
Nick: Completely agreed. I'm sure that at some point 15 years ago or so, I looked at a sample config, said, "oh, that's obvious", and never looked back.
• Derek
I'm not sure the first example (*:80) is actually *wrong*. It may be doing something more than you specifically want (setting up NameVirtualHost on all interfaces on port 80), but that's not inherently *wrong*.
• http://peelman.us Nick
@Derek: the problem isn't with the NameVirtualHost directive, its with the VirtualHost directive below it. NVH and VH directives should match. If you use *:80 in the NVH directive, you should use *:80 in the VH directive. You provide the FQDN in the ServerName directive inside the VH block.
OH, and Matt, you're captcha is killing me.
• Derek
Nick: Ah, yeah that I can see.
• Joe
So if I am reading this correctly, I should be configuring my server's IP address in the Apache configuration instead of using * in NameVirtualHost? That seems counter-intuitive, in that now if I clone the server, I have to take additional steps to tell software (Apache) about the new IP for the cloned server instead of just setting up the new IP on the network interface at the OS layer?
From an enterprise sys admin management perspective, this adds complexity to an otherwise simple task. Or am I missing something here (fully acknowledging that I haven't read common misconfigurations link yet)?
• Derek
You could just do, as Nick says, always use *:80 everywhere. That would be syntactically valid.
• Joe
Derek: That's what I thought (and what I currently do today across my server farms), but was getting the sense from this article that while it technically works, it's not the "right way" of configuring virtual hosts.
I just think that software should be IP agnostic wherever possible (meaning it's the OS responsibility to handle that). There are situations where you may have multiple interfaces or IPs and you want a service only listening on one of them, in which case you usually have to make the software aware of IPs to know which ones to bind to or use a firewall/iptables.
• http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com Matt Simmons
Joe: As long as you want every VirtualHost to be appearing on every IP address, then yes, *:80 works everywhere.
And Nick: the math thing? Yeah...but it has all but stopped spam completely. I think I get one spam comment every few months or so, whereas I was getting deluged by it.
• http://buckinghaminquirer.blogspot.com Ryan Miller
Heh, yeah, this bites everybody, sooner or later, and if you use mod_vhost_alias things just get that much worse. Counter-intuitive isn't even the word for apache config files, but of course it does everything and it's pretty reliable, so we keep using it.
But I hope people in general get more comfortable with PKI, because internal HTTPS without certs isn't that great, either, when you think of all the ways that somebody on your LAN can spoof ARP, muck with MAC addresses, and all sorts of other ways to MitM you if they want to listen to your traffic. And of course, if you don't care if internal users are listening, then why use HTTPS, just make your sites digest auth to keep your passwords locked up and don't worry about it.
• http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com Matt Simmons
Ryan: The biggest problem with a CA that I've seen is the administration of all the existing ones suck.
I don't know why there isn't a much better interface than command line openssl or Microsoft's CA snap-in. Maybe there is and I'm missing it. Do you know of anything?
• R. Denison
So here's a potential use case for the NameVirtualHost directive "as-is". Assume a server with multiple networks and network IP addresses, eg SAN, MGMT, and SVC, in the local hosts definition you might include the following: mgmt-net-if mgmt-net-if.subdomain.domain.example san-net-if san-net-if.subdomain.domain.example svc-net-if svc-net-if.subdomain.domain.example
And the httpd.conf file snippet as follows:
NameVirtualHost svc-net-if:80
ServerName vhost1.domain.example
Might be marginally useful for a stand-alone configuration, but I believe it makes having a single httpd.conf more self documenting, and that it can be pushed out with no modification possible with the trade-off of having to mange the hosts file, or using dynamic DNS / DHCP in the server environment.
Caveat Emptor: the org I work for currently does one-offs like there's no tomorrow, so this resides in the realm of theory, but...
• Andrew
Most people know about 'apache2ctl configtest' but not many people seem to know of 'apache2ctl -S'. This shows how Apache is parsing the virtual host config and is really useful.
• http://buckinghaminquirer.blogspot.com Ryan Miller
Matt: I use easy-rsa from the openvpn package; there's also TinyCA and a couple of other reasonable GUI frontends that don't require any grand server setup themselves. Pretty much anything is better than openssl cli or the snap-in, which are not only slow to use but also make it really easy to make mistakes. Whatever you do, don't use cacert as so many people erroneously suggest--major security flaw.
Andrew: sheer genius, and proof that on any given day you can learn something new about Apache that will rock your world, no matter how many years you've been using it.
• http://peelman.us Nick
@Andrew: Agreed with Ryan. That is one of those damned commands/flags I wouldn't find myself in a million years, but as soon as somebody shows it to me, it turns that particular aspect of my world on end. Thanks!
• http://satanspanda.com Matt
I actually learned this exact same lesson.... 2 weeks ago. TBH it didn't make sense to me why doing things the way i did them resulted in (not) an error didn't make sense till i read this. thanks for the post
• graham
I think its better to use hostnames inatead of ip addresses in your config. This way, if you move your servers to different ip addresses - setup to production for example - you dont need to reconfigure apache. Just change the dns it looks at - which you have to do anyway - and all is good.
• Nathan
The biggest hurdle with SNI right now is Windows XP doesn't support it on any browser even the more recent ones, and unfortunately there is still a lot of XP out there.
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Story is everywhere
There’s no story in text books!
Yes, there is.
Reach out and tell me: What’s your story?
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The Drive (a short story)
“Are we there, yet?”
The phrase that irritated me for the thousand times a week it bore into the back of my head now haunts me.
It had taken forever for me to convince the boys to leave their seat belts alone, to keep their hands from compressing the buttons that stood between confinement and filial battle. And more than once, I found myself wishing that rather than cross their laps, the belts crossed their mouths, stilling the staccato tarantella that skipped across my brain.
Silently, I would curse my husband for wanting children so close in age; built-in playmates, he would argue as though siblings were naturally adept at civility and sharing. Never marry someone who was an only child, I would remind myself; too many delusions of a happy peaceful family to dispel.
“Are we there, yet?”
The words and whine a cattle prod to my ear drums, my head involuntarily snapping to one side, threatening to glance off the door frame, the open window insufficient to drown the drone from the back seat.
“Are we—“
“Has the car stopped moving?” I’d shout at the rear-view mirror as though it was the source of my agony rather than simply a reflection of what I’d left behind.
For a second—a glorious second—the car would go silent, but the silence was an illusion, a prelude to crises yet to come. Inquisitive urges not quelled so much as turned aside, as unsatisfied attention-seeking demanded to be slaked.
“Mo-o-om!” came the high-pitched cry.
“I’m not doing anything,” its wounded echo, pre-emptorially defending actions yet unchallenged.
“Enough,” I charged, confronting the miniature offenders with turned head.
The light was green, or at least that’s what the report said, as though the colour protected me from my guilt any better than it protected my car from the panel van approaching from the left; as though an absence of fault even approximates an absence of self-loathing anguish.
The car was a write-off, and after six months of my husband’s words telling me it wasn’t my fault while his eyes told another story, so was my marriage.
And now, sitting here in my wheelchair, all I can think of is “Are we there, yet?”
Trench – A short story (Part One)
Ass over tea kettle, Francis plunged into the trench, its existence in the darkness signalled by nothing but a lack of anything, his fall broken by ice-crusted water and gelatinous mud.
Spewing the filthy frigid water from his mouth, Francis tried to regain his footing, his body too cold, his mind too much in shock, to tell if anything was broken. Every movement, however, was a mired mess as the cloying mud that perpetually threatened to steal his boots worked in concert with the glass-sharp ice to hold him down.
Francis wasn’t a weak or timid lad by any estimation having learned some hard truths about life while fighting to survive in a Welsh orphanage before finally relocating to a rural town outside of Ottawa in Canada. He knew what it was to toil in the fields, to be completely responsible for your own welfare, to stay alive. But this, this was stupid.
How could a month of running around a farmer’s field in full pack have prepared him for this? Better to have him run up the Ottawa River in full flood that teach him to worry about gopher holes and broken ankles.
This wasn’t the France he had read about. The France of Dumas and Monet. This was some sort of crazed underworld that only the cold and wet prevented him from calling Hell. Perhaps this was Canadian Hell, he thought as he tossed his gun to the side of the trench.
Using his knife to clutch the dirt, he slowly achingly pulled himself from the muck. His hand struck a fragment of barbed wire that used to sit atop the trench wall. A barb pierced his skin but he actually found the pain refreshing as this was the first thing that had broken through the numbing cold. The wire also gave him a bit more leverage.
Francis scooped a seat out of the mud wall and rested. He was uncomfortable. He was miserable. But he was out of the water and out of the line of fire.
The night was overcast—he couldn’t remember the last time he’d seen the sun—and was illuminated sporadically by the distant blast of artillery. A thunderstorm that perpetually threatened but never actually rained.
As he chewed on a piece of meat that he had found in an abandoned farmhouse—it could be cow tongue or boot tongue for all the flavour it had—he smiled at how blasé he’d become about artillery bombardment in six short months.
The noise used to terrify him as he’d watch the ambulance corps bring the still-breathing remnants of soldiers from the front. He remembered several times feeling the sudden warmth of his own urine as he moved from trench to trench in his first days in battle. He quickly learned it was possible to be proud and experience wrenching fear at the same time.
Now, he was completely fatalistic about his chances. His hope was that should he come under bombardment, it be swift. This was not to say he was suicidal, however. Francis very much wanted to live.
More a feeling than anything concrete, Francis turned rapidly toward a sound in the darkness, knowing there was only a 50-50 chance his rifle would fire if called upon.
It was a low noise, the sound of something being tugged in the darkness. Short bursts of sound followed by silence. The sound neither receded nor approached, however. Whatever was being moved and by whom, the going was hard. That and they hadn’t noticed him.
Keeping as still as he could, Francis craned his sight into the shadows, focusing as hard as he could when the distant flashes gave him a moment of light. The noise continued its ebb and flow, unphased by the chaos around it.
Just as he thought his eyes would leave his head for the strain, he caught a furtive movement. On the next distant explosion, it was clear he was watching a rat. For its size, it could easily have been a raccoon, but its scraggly state and focused snout clearly suggested a rat.
With rabies running rampant throughout the front, Francis would normally have steered clear of the animal or tried to shoo it off. These were anything but normal times.
Slowly moving from his perch, Francis slid down the trench wall to the mud’s edge, creeping slowly toward the rat, rifle barrel firmly in hand. A couple times, the rat froze as though ready to run, but then resumed its activity as the artillery covered Francis’s approach.
In a fluid motion, the rat’s skull crunched under the butt of Francis’s rifle. Death swooped in so quickly, the rat never flinched or made a sound.
Grabbing its tail, Francis flicked the rat into a puddle, immersing it to drown any fleas, knowing in his heart that he was more likely to give fleas to the rat than the other way around. He then raised his prize into the air, letting the muddy water drip for a moment, as he pulled his knife back out.
Life on the farm paid off handsomely, as within minutes, he had successfully gutted the rat, throwing the offal as far as he could to avoid unwelcome family members. He had also peeled back the skin to reveal what he knew to be pink protein-laden meat.
Between the wet and the lack of fuel, a fire was out of the question, but Francis had his lighter, which he used to char segments of the rat before he bit into the flesh. The flashes of warmth and juicy flesh revived his spirit somewhat.
As he roasted his fifth piece, however, his eyes focused beyond the burning flesh and fire to take in what the rat had been tugging at.
Through the muck and mire, Francis stared at the toothy grin of a German soldier, drowned in a muddy avalanche of a collapsing trench wall. The soldier’s bottom lip was flayed while the left top lip was completely missing. No wonder the rat had struggled to bring its find home.
Francis stared at the death mask for a moment, before shifting his gaze to the rat remnants in his hand. As though scalded, he threw the rat down the trench and doubled forward, fisting the mud at his feet.
His back arched violently several times as he convulsed a wretching wail, but his starving body refused to release its cannibalistic gains. Instead, from deep within came a mournful cry that rose in volume and violence until it seemed he might turn inside-out.
Part Two in the next post.
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The Shoe – a short story
“What do you think?”
William always asked the obvious questions.
Joanne scrutinized William as she formulated her response.
“I meant, what if it—“
“I know what you meant,” Joanne snapped.
That was good enough for William.
It was all too much for Joanne.
This must be where William learned that annoying habit.
On the man’s other foot was…nothing.
Final Exam
“You said something, Miss Pepper.”
Based on my true story
As I wrote yesterday in “Write what you…No!”, I wanted to talk about a variant of writing on a topic in which you have expertise: the true story.
Now let me start off by saying that I have never written anything directly lifted from a true story—at least never attempted to fictionalize one—but I have spent the better part of two years listening to people try to do same, and it seems to me the effort is fraught with pitfalls.
(Ironically, however, I am about to start a project with someone that will be based on his true story, so let’s see if my attitudes change once I’m on the inside.)
The biggest challenge I have seen is that many novice writers forget that they need to tell a story. On the surface, that may sound ridiculous. It is a story. I know. I was there. The problem it seems is that a lot of writers try to chronicle the actual events that occurred rather than try to tell a story. That is a history, not a story.
It’s like sharing a joke with someone and having a third party enter asking what’s so funny. When you think about it, you realize the joke itself is not the funny part and you respond “You had to be there.”
The same holds true for the true story. With rare exceptions, while experiencing the actual events, you experienced emotions and actions that are just too difficult to translate into a narrative. And without your context, the audience loses something.
Likewise, you may be leaving out critical facts that are obvious or second-nature to you but elude us. When this happens, characters do not feel fully developed or plot points don’t seem connected, because we don’t instinctively see the link.
And ironically, despite what I just said, novice writers working on such stories tend to want to stick to the facts as they know it to the detriment of any sense of story…they refuse to fictionalize their story beyond changing names, settings and the odd plot point because to do more would be to remove the truth of their experiences.
Let me give an example.
A friend of mine was trying to develop a screenplay about a family coping with young adult son with a psychological disability, and the young man’s attempts to find his personal space. It was very well written, but at least in its initial stages, it felt like there were plot and motivational holes throughout the manuscript. As we discussed it in class, we learned that this was effectively a fictionalization of the writer’s family.
In her manuscript, the protagonist—the young man—was largely shut down from his family and even they largely repressed their feelings with each other as a coping mechanism. As an audience member, this made it difficult to get into the characters and rather than feel empathy or any form of connection with the protagonist, he just pissed many of us off. We hadn’t lived the experience the writer had, so we couldn’t see her story the way she did.
Try as we would to get the writer to see our dilemma, she was equally adamant that to make the protagonist any other way would make him unrealistic given his condition; a defensible position within limits. She couldn’t let go of enough of the truth to develop a story.
The story must come first if you ever hope to engage an audience. Even fact-laden documentaries and news items focus on a story or narrative. Without that, you are reading a dictionary or encyclopedia entry.
The truth or reality of your personal experiences are vitally important, but only in so much as they are used to bolster or support the story you are trying to tell. It is almost impossible to successfully do it the other way around.
(Image used without permission, and that’s my true story.)
The word was “lemon”
A short piece written at a local Flash Fiction show.
That old beater my dad kept in the barn hadn’t run in all the years that I could remember, but it made a hell of a playground for the kids in the neighbourhood.
One day, it was the Batmobile, screaming out of the Batcave as the Caped Crusader and his gender-neutral sidekick were off to feel all funny down there at the sight of a leather-clad Catwoman.
Other times, it was Sir Francis Drake’s Golden Hind, plying the English Channel looking for Spanish galleons or sliding on the breeze through the Caribbean, searching for buccaneer plunder.
But most of the time, it was just my dad’s old beater, sitting there year after year, slowly filling up with mouse droppings or owl scat.
I remember one summer—I was about six—when my dad and grandfather tried to get the old car running. I learned a whole new language that summer, although it was about four years later before I found out that motherfuckingsonofabitchdickwadcrankbitch wasn’t one word.
That was the summer that we found out that cats like to crawl under the hood of a car and nap on the motor. You wouldn’t think it would be hard to get cat fur out of a fan belt, but you’d be wrong. Mom never really liked Mr. Wiggles anyway.
That was also the summer that dad went away. Whenever I would ask my mom about it, she would just cry, and my grandmother would try to distract me with cookies. So now, not only do I not know what happened to my father, but I am also a 300-pound diabetic.
Maybe that’s why I kept the car, as a reminder of the man I never got to know. Mom just shakes her head and my wife wonders why I don’t get rid of that old lemon. I dunno. Maybe they’re right.
All I know is that sometimes I’ll go out late at night to sit in the car and if I’m really still, I can still hear the sounds of the wind rippling in the sails and the sailors pulling on the rigging. You know, I never noticed how much my dad looks like Sir Francis Drake.
Drake protects the shores of Toronto from marauding pirates
Drake protects the shores of Toronto from marauding pirates
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Disaster Recovery Extra: 10 hidden perils of DR planning
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7. The backups don't work.
Sometimes the root of a DR problem is much simpler. There are some companies that have DR plans with realistic RTOs and RPOs, but if their backup system didn't work just prior to the disaster, the DR plan won't work. Many backup systems are either partially or completely broken. Even a good backup success rate of 95% means that 5% of the data center isn't backed up on any given night. And very few companies know what data constitutes that 5%. It could be a random number of systems on a particular night, which might not be so bad. But it could be the same systems failing every night. It's amazing how many companies don't track consecutive failures in their backup system. Even more inexcusable is the number of backup software packages that don't track this vital information.
A core problem that causes many backup system failures is how the backups are managed. The person responsible for this job is rated on the success of the backup system. While this might sound like a good idea, it usually puts undue pressure on a junior staffer. The result is that many backup people try to hide the number of backup failures from management. They think if they tell anyone how bad the backups are, they'll be fired or lose their bonus. They're sure that the backups will be better tomorrow, next week or next month, and that they'll be able to fix the backups before anybody notices how bad the situation really is.
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solution to both of these problems is commercial data-protection management software. These products provide information about backups that's not easily accessible, starting with a report that lists consecutive failures. Some of the products also help you to better understand the reasons behind the failures, so you can fix the core problem instead of continually repairing the symptom. Finally, these products remove the backup system administrator's ability to hide failures. There are no more secrets about the backup process when even the business owners can open a Web browser and see how the company's backups are performing.
8. The DR plan isn't tested.
Many companies have a DR plan, and it may have realistic requirements that are technically possible. However, because testing a DR plan is extremely time-consuming and costly, they aren't usually tested often enough (which is at least twice a year).
Think about how much a data center changes in a year. It's only when you test your DR plan that you find the chinks in its armor. A brand-new application, for example, may not have been included in the plan; your documentation may match the version of the software that you stopped using three months ago; or you upgraded your servers, but the hot site didn't upgrade as well. The only way to find out these things is to test the DR plan.
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The Butchers Bill in recent conflicts.
Discussion in 'Military History and Militaria' started by Issi, Dec 16, 2012.
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1. I've just been reading 'The Falklands War' by Martin Middlebrook, and came across these statistics in the final chapter.
'Operation Corporate had cost the lives of 255 members of the British Forces........Comparing these deaths with other conflicts in which Britain has been involved since the Second World War, they are not as high as Korea (537 deaths), Malaya (525 deaths) and Northern Ireland (352 deaths up to the end of the Falklands war but the Falklands deaths are more than were suffered in any of the Palestine, Cyprus, Indonesia, Aden or Oman conflicts.
The number of men wounded in the Falklands was 777.'
I was quite surprised at the numbers in Korea, although there's never much written about that war, I expected to find that there would have been many more casualties.
Interesting book by the way.
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2. Comparisons seem a bit pointless given the differences in the intensity of the conflicts listed.
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3. Intensity, duration, and numbers committed to combat might be more relevant.
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4. Middlebrook needs to check his figures - British Army deaths in NI were almost 700 by the end of 1982.
And don't forget that the 1000+ casualties during the Falklands War occurred in a matter of weeks, not the periods of years that other campaigns have lasted.
Just out of curiosity - does anyone know how many personnel (all three servcies) were in the Task Force during Op Corporate? I have never seen any figures for the number of troops etc sent south.
5. I believe around 8500, but not checked
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6. Interesting thread and thanks to the OP for posting it but I've got to ask Issi where on earth is he getting his stats since some of them are blatently wrong . Absolutely no offence meant to the veterans of the Falklands War or any other conflict but these figures don't add up
Palestine 1945-47 I was under the impression that after the ceasefire by the Irgun ended with the second world war something like 347 British military personel were killed policing Palestine
All the figures I've seen for Korea such as the Max Hastings book give a figure close to 700 but figures are widely conflicted Wikipedia states 1,078 dead where as this website
Roll of Honour: The Korean War 1950 to 1953
states 1,139
The figures might conflict with those confirmed KIA which would account for 537 and doesn't count those missing presumed dead , died of wounds later , died in captivity and killed in accidents
Likewise Northern Ireland . To date 502 British servicemen from mainland Britain have been killed by terrorist activity
CAIN: Sutton Index of Deaths
but I remember reading , can't where that another 289 military personel died in non terrorist activity like accidents etc in the province . Add almost 200 UDR and that makes up a lot of servicemen .
7. Farrer-Hockley wrote a very good book on the Korean war. I think it was called 'The edge of the sword' He was Adjutant of the Glos Regt at the time of the war. A very good read!
The impact of the Op Corporate casualties were that they were over such a very short period. While places like Malaya went on for some 12 years or so.
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8. Everyone forgets about the Cyprus Emergency. 371 killed in under 5 years, 1955 to 1959. That said, its nothing compared to the decades of misery endured by all Cypriots.
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10. Again no offence to Afghan veterans since I've never seen a two way firing range but can you give us a link to that source Chris . I remember seeing a documentary on D Day where it is stated that some British infantry battalions had casaulties of 150 % ie the whole battalion was killed wounded or captured and 50 per cent of their replacements suffered the same fate during the battle of Normandy
11. I concur! The book by FH describes korean the conflict from a participants viewpoint, and also his capture and subsequent treatment by the Chinese - as well as his escape. I met FH in Hohne back in the 60's - I say met him, I was standing to attention on parade as he inspected the sqn / regt whichever and he glanced at me as he went by.
12. Another good book in regards to Korea ' Fortune Favours the Brave The Hook Korea 1953' author A.J. Barker published by Leo Cooper ISBN o 85052 108 4.
Written from the perspective of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment.
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13. I think that this is just another example of Bollocks being put around about Afghan and Iraq.
It seemed to start around the time of Telic 4, when people started making comparisons with the amount of ammunition expended by 1 PWRR in Al Amara and the Korean War. Since then there have been a spate of utterly spurious claims comparing modern conflicts with what went before.
The worst that I have seen is in the book Operation Snake Bite, in which the author states that 52 x operations to re take MSQ (Herrick-7) was the biggest undertaken by the Army since D- day in 1944.
I would add that I spent a good deal of T-4 and H-8 crapping myself and dont blame it all on the D&V, but to propagate these myths does none of us any favours.
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14. The heaviest casualty rate in the current Afghan campaign that I'm aware of was C Coy 2 PARA operating out of FOB Gib circa 2008. They sustained a casualty rate of 1 in 3. As bad as that may sound, I believe only three were KIA's. No doubt survival rate would have been lower if it wasn't for modern equipment and a slick CASEVAC chain, something not available to the troops in Normandy who were sustaining 1 in 3 casualty rates and worse as a regular occurrence.
It's tempting to measure the intensity of particular actions by the amount of casualties sustained. However I'll echo the sentiment that it's hopeless to make accurate comparisons between different campaigns spanning generations.
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Grambling State University is home to the acclaimed Mighty Tiger Marching Band. It’s also where the legendary Eddie Robinson became the first college football coach to record 400 wins. Catch the history of the university and its traditions at the Alumni Hall of Fame Galleries of Distinction, located throughout campus.
Located in Lincoln Parish, the Grambling community emerged in the 1870s as an enclave of independent African American property owners, and eventually became the first all-black municipality in Louisiana. The university opened in 1905 as an agricultural and industrial school, and eventually blossomed into an accredited institute of higher learning. The Charles Adams House, home of the founder and first president, is incredibly important due to Adams’ long association with the university.
Coach Eddie Robinson
But Grambling is perhaps best known for the long and storied career of head football coach Eddie Robinson, one of the most respected and beloved coaches in American history, and one of only two to roll up over 400 victories. Coach Robinson spent his entire career, from 1941 to 1997, at Grambling, and sent over 200 players into the National Football League, including four Hall of Famers. Equally as respected off the field as on it, Robinson molded several generations of young African American men who would go on to make their marks in professional careers, and serve as leaders in the struggle for equal rights. A small gallery located on campus serves as a temporary tribute to “Coach Rob,” while the Eddie Robinson Museum is in the process of a major fundraising campaign and renovation.
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Tag Archives: water
The Fertile Banks of the St. Lawrence
14 Aug
25 May
We are thoroughly enjoying our well deserved rest. Ah, a lazy Okanagan day: tasting wine, treating ourselves to fancy meals, taking in the sunshine and being inspired by the scenery.
So today we’re on our wine tour (de sustainability). Our favourite vineyard, both for the wines and the welcoming hosts, is Ruby Blues. They are a small winery that uses only their own locally grown grapes. The host talked about the advantages of running a smaller operation: you have the luxury to use only your own grapes, which gives you complete knowledge and control of how the grapes are grown. This leads to decisions that prioritize quality over quantity and the production can be more easily adapted to the current season.
Yesteday, we has a great couchsurf with Jarrett, who works for the Forestry department. One of the cool parts of his job is to intentionally set fire to the brush and undergrowth in the forest. This is called a ‘controlled burn.’ It lowers the fire hazard and risk of pine beetle infestation. The biggest challenge with these is to reconcile the need for a controlled burn with people’s concerns about the smoke.
Jarrett also had some interesting job-related stories to share. One time he found out where their bottled water comes from: Bridesville. His crew needed water to extinguish a local forest fire, and they were instructed to grab water from “the spring,” which was in Bridesville, apparently a run-down little town with not much to say for their water source’s cleanliness standards. Lessons learned?! Drink tap water, duh! Considering the regulations for our tap water quality (which do not exist in the bottled water business), the chances are your tap water is just as or even more clean than your bottled water.
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Manchester, NH
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A money order can be used as a vehicle to send money exterior the nation. Present a valid piece of government-issued photo ID for all Money Orders of $3,000CAD or extra (together with fees and exchange, if relevant). You may pay by financial institution transfer or by card. Getting the money: If you happen to obtain a money order, you possibly can money it or deposit it just like a examine. Legitimate postal money orders have a woven security thread printed with the letters USPS.†They also function a watermark of Benjamin Franklin’s portrait that’s only seen when the paper is held as much as the sunshine.
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An answer that helps you send your money to an account within the Czech Republic. The United States Postal Service (USPS), nonetheless, offers an internet money order inquiry service that allows consumers to input the money order quantity and get an update on its status. You may even want to provide identification irrespective of the place you’re cashing your money order. It’s often issued by a bank or publish office (because they are affiliated with the federal system), but you will get them from different places.
You may additionally decide up a money order at the customer-service counter. Money orders are a great way to ship an alternative to money that by no means expires. The price of using a money order can vary from $1 to $5 per test. Charges, procedures, and the places of international money switch agents can be found on the website or by calling 800-325-6000. Any cost charged to cash your money order will come out of the entire amount of the money order.
Use Money international to switch money or a cheque to a recipient overseas who does not have a postal or bank account. When it’s good to pay a invoice, or ship money and checks aren’t accepted, a money order stands out as the resolution. Money Orders are a money solely transaction. Whether or not you are shopping for or selling one thing, a money order is perhaps your best option (or your solely possibility) for cost. Mail Box Center gives this trusted various to checks.
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Money orders are a fairly inexpensive alternate fee choice and still popular. It is necessary to notice that typically cashing a money order at a bank can only get you a partial quantity.
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'Pink Star' diamond fetches record price at Geneva auction
A diamond known as the "Pink Star" has sold for a record 68 million Swiss francs (roughly 61 million euros) at an auction in Geneva. It was the highest price ever paid for a gemstone at auction, Sotherby's reported.
The oval-shaped "Pink Star" diamond fetched a record $83 million after an intense five-minute bidding race at an auction in Geneva on Wednesday night, Sotherby's said.
The flawless 59.60-carat pink diamond far exceeded expectations, having been given a pre-sale estimate of $60 million.
"It surpassed our estimate. It's a large amount of money in itself but I don't think this stone has a price," said David Bennett, chairman of Sotheby's jewellery division in Europe and the Middle East.
The bidding in the Geneva hotel, which was conducted in Swiss francs, started at 48 million francs ($52 million) and worked its way upwards million-by-million. The final sale price was 76.325 million Swiss francs, or $83.425 million, including commission fees.
Up to 150 people in the auction room broke into applause when Bennett brought down the hammer and the theme tune from the movie the "Pink Panther" was played as a tongue-in-cheek gesture.
The man who made the winning bid told reporters that he was buying it on behalf of an anonymous person whom he represented.
The diamond was the star lot at the Sotherby's semi-annual jewellery sale in Geneva.
It took Steinmetz Diamonds two years to facet the jewel from a 132.5-carat rough diamond. It was first shown publicly in May 2003 as the "Steinmetz Pink," then sold privately for the first time in 2007 when it was renamed "The Pink Star."
The previous record was held by the 24.78 carat "Graff Pink" diamond. It sold for $46.2 million, including commission, at a Sotherby's auction in 2010.
The sale comes a day after the largest orange diamond ever sold at auction went for $35.5 million at a Christie's auction.
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+ HOME - Orthodox Catechism WOMEN IN THE CHURCH - Orthodox Catechism
Throughout the entire history of the Church only men have been permitted to serve as priests and bishops. This is not a tradition that merely stems from the inequality between men and women in the ancient world. From the very beginning priesthood has been a service of spiritual fatherhood. A woman can be a mother, wife or daughter, but she cannot be a father. And while motherhood is not inferior to fatherhood, its mission, service and vocation are different. Only a child knows what distinguishes fatherhood from motherhood even though he cannot express it in words. The difference between spiritual fatherhood, and any other form of service is known to every Christian who has a spiritual father. The Orthodox Church takes a negative view of the recent introduction of women priesthood in some Protestant communities. This is not simply because Orthodoxy is traditional and conservative, neither does Orthodoxy wish to denigrate women or consider them lower than men. It is because Orthodoxy, taking fatherhood in the Church very seriously, does not want it to vanish by entrusting to women a service alien to them. Within the Church’s organism every member carries out particular functions and is irreplaceable. There is no substitute for fatherhood and if the Church were to lose it she would be deprived of her integrity and fullness by becoming a family without a father or an organism without all of its necessary members.
It is in this sense that we can understand the Christian attitude toward marriage and the role of the woman in the family. The Christian family is a ‘small church’ created in the image of Christ’s Church. According to apostolic teaching, it is the husband, not the wife, who is the head of the family. However, the headship of the man does not entail inequality. The power of the man is the same power of love as Christ’s power in the Church: ‘As the Church is subject to Christ, so let wives also be subject in everything to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the Church and gave Himself up for her... Let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects the husband’ (Eph 5:24-25; 33). The headship of the husband is his readiness to sacrifice himself in the same way as Christ loves the Church. As head of the family the husband must love and respect his wife: ‘Likewise you husbands, live considerately with your wives, bestowing honor on the woman as the weaker sex, since you are joint heirs of the grace of life’ (1 Peter 3:7). It is not inequality, but a harmonious unity that retains different functions which should exist in both family and the Church. For if the family is a domestic Church, then the Church is a large family.
The fatherhood of the priest is not limited by his function as head and guide of the community. In fact, leadership of the community is sometimes entrusted to a woman. For example, Orthodox convents are always under the guidance of an abbess who directs not only the nuns but also the priests who serve the convent. In the convents of the Byzantine era there were female elders who had the right to hear the nuns’ confessions. Even the sacrament of Baptism in special circumstances can be carried out validly and legally by a woman, for example, if the candidate is on the verge of death and there is no priest at hand.
However, there are no instances in Church history when women served the Liturgy or ordained priests, as now is the case in some Protestant communities. The priest celebrating the Eucharist symbolizes Christ, God who has become man, a male. The Church attaches great importance to liturgical symbolism: in the Orthodox understanding of symbolism, between the symbol and the reality there is a direct interdependence so that, should the symbol be changed, there is a change of the reality which stands behind it.
There were, however, in the early Church deaconesses with a wide range of obligations. For example, they helped the bishop perform the sacrament of Baptism and took part in the celebration of the Eucharist. The question of whether to restore the institution of deaconesses is now open for discussion in the entire Orthodox Church. It can be answered positively by a Pan-Orthodox Council, if such a Council would ever be convened. In actual fact, many important and irreplaceable services within the Church akin to those of deaconesses in the early Church are carried out by women today: they bake the bread for the Eucharist, read and sing in church and quite often direct the choir.
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Spellbound Trip to Harry Potter World Paston’s A level Media and BTEC Creative Media students returned spellbound from their recent trip to the Harry Potter studios in Watford. Butter beer was drunk, Bertie Bott’s every flavoured beans were devoured and Buckbeak the magical hippogriff bowed and bewildered us with mind blowing animatronics. The trip helped the students to see the vast amount of creativity and planning that goes into making a big blockbuster film and the studios offered an amazing insight into how the film industry works. Not only were we able to see many of the sets, props, costumes and characters that appeared in the Harry Potter films but also view presentations and listen to members of the crew, who were on hand to explain the intricacies, complexities and problems that occurred when trying to create a magical world in these films. Many students came back with a deeper understanding of how films are made to create a seamless experience for the audiences who watch them, they are excited to try out some new techniques on the next practical projects they undertake.
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37 Thoughts I Had While Taking a 'Yoga for Better Sex' Workshop
One writer endured the awkwardness so you wouldn't have to.
It's Valentine's Day, and I'm at a yoga for better sex workshop. Alone. I'm pretty sure that makes me a masochist, even though the topic of the evening is pleasure. But I'll do anything for a good story, and going to a "yoga for better sex" workshop followed by a beginner's guide to Thai massage seems like a pretty safe bet. New York City-based yoga instructors Shira Atkins and Justin Ritchie hosted the event at 305 Fitness, a local studio. Here, 37 thoughts I had while on my (very lonely) yoga mat:
1. I'm the only single person here. This is going to be interesting...
2. The instructors are talking about how sex shouldn't be taboo—it should be open and joyful. I agree!
3. Now they're talking about how similar sex and yoga are. I'm trying to focus, but I'm also thinking about the major boyfriend points all of the men here must be getting right now.
4. I can't decide if it's cool and sexy that the room is currently filled with a dim red light...or if that makes this experience even more awkward.
5. The instructors are explaining how sex and yoga "occupy the same space" and are both about using the body for greater pleasure. Makes sense.
6. Now I'm being encouraged to sync up my breath with my partner during sex. I'm intrigued by the idea, but I feel like if I tried it, my boyfriend would ask me why I'm breathing weird.
7. The instructors are explaining how important flexibility—not just of the body, but also of the mind—are in sex. (You know, so you can be open to trying new things.) I stop myself from giggling, but other people in the class don't.
8. We're told that merging together "stamina, determination, and power" is important in both yoga and sex. Yoga and sex have so many parallels—we get it. Can we start the routine now?
9. "Activate where necessary, but relax where possible," says Ritchie. Okay, that's kind of a cool concept to think about for yoga and sex. I take back my earlier thought about starting the series already.
10. Annnnd now we're starting!
11. I'm trying to breathe into my lower back, but I'm not really sure I know what that means.
12. Ritchie touches my lower back and says "perfect." Score!
13. Ritchie tells everyone not to be a hero and to stop worry about doing a pose (or position for that matter) "right"—to do what feels good instead of what we think we're "supposed" to do. But I still want to know: Am I doing this pose right?
14. "Let the feeling lead you," says Ritchie. The part of me that falls for cheesy mantras eats this up.
15. The partner poses are beginning. Oh, boy...what is going to happen here?
16. The instructors ask if anyone is on their own. As if going stag weren't embarrassing enough, I am forced to raise my hand in front of everyone.
17. After demoing the partner stretches, Atkins comes over to my mat and does them with me. While I feel a little uncomfortable getting up-close-and-personal with a complete stranger, the poses also feel good, so I keep telling myself to relax.
18. Ritchie tells everyone to face their partner, hold hands, and—without using any words—thank them. Atkins proceeds to stare deeply into my eyes, and I can't believe how enthusiastically she's smiling at me. I can only look at her for a second and smile meekly before looking down at the floor—the eye contact is intense and kind of terrifying.
19. I look back into Atkins' eyes. Yup, she's still looking at me.
20. Are we ever going to move on from this? I respect that Atkins is so comfortable with intimacy and am even a little jealous of it, but I'm not there yet.
21. Finally, Ritchie and Atkins say we're going to move on to the Thai massage portion of the class. They demo the first pair of massage techniques, which involve having one partner on his or her back on the floor and the other partner pressing their palms into their shins and thighs, until they reach the other person's hip bones. Immediately, I panic at the thought of having Atkins, as sweet as she is, touch me in this way.
22. Atkins heads over to me, and I tell her that I'll stick around but she doesn't have to do the massage moves with me. "Are you sure?" she asks. "It feels really good." Oh, yes, I'm sure.
23. She tells me to let her know if I see anything in particular I want to try. Thanks, but no thanks.
24. I sit on my mat alone while the people around me touch their partners tentatively. They look so uncomfortable.
25. "Keep breathing deep, and keep sending your partner breath," says one of the instructors. Again, not totally on-board with this sharing breath thing.
26. "Sometimes allowing this kind of receiving as the partner who's lying down right now can be the hardest part," says Ritchie. Which is why I'm not doing it right now...
27. There's so much giggling happening right now.
28. Ritchie comes up to me and asks if I want Atkins to try the massage with me. Nope, I'm good, I assure him.
29. "The more you can put yourself into each touch, the more you can share your intention love list, whatever it is." That is such a yoga teacher thing to say.
30. The next set of massage tips involve one partner lying on their back while the other massages their shoulders, neck, and scalp. "Yesss," says one woman. Not going to lie, I'm a little jealous that everyone's about to receive a head rub—but I'm also not about to invite Atkins back to my mat.
31. "One of the things we hope to convey in tonight's class is [that] way more than technique, communication is important," says Ritchie. I assume that my refusal to even trying the massage means I'm failing at the whole openness and communication thing.
32. "Don't have any judgments about what feels good or not good for them, but instead let the lines of communication open, and keep them open." In theory, I love this. In practice, again, failing.
33. "Are you comfortable?" someone in the room asks their partner. That's cute. I'm definitely going to have to treat myself to some frozen yogurt after this.
34. The instructors are totally cuddling at the front of the room. How did it not occur to me until this moment that they're probably dating?
35. "It's a tradition in Thai massage for the giver to thank the receiver because of how open you need to be and how vulnerable it is," says Ritchie. Too vulnerable for me today.
36. Pretty sure those are kissing sounds happening around me. WHY DID I COME TO THIS ALONE?
37. Annnd that's a wrap! I love how open and honest about sex Ritchie and Atkins are, but I'm not sure I'm on their level. Oh, well. Frozen yogurt, here I come!
All GIFs courtesy of giphy.com.
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Directions, they are not everyone's cup of tea; that's my philosophy! If you've listened over the years you probably know that every so often I get a little lost at times; it's that whole getting old and becoming senile syndrome. At least that's what I say, but other people tell me that it's nothing new and I've been a little dazed and confused for years. I get more than just a little flack from everyone here at the station for everything from my parking skills to always being lost, thus they have inspired me to start taking pictures during my adventures. When I find myself in a conundrum I just send them a photo to a friend and say HELP! They are nice enough to lend a hand but honestly I think they are getting a little tired of the constant nagging so I'm asking for your backup. Remember that old song by The Police, Sending Out An SOS, well yeah it's pretty much my theme song.
Each week I'm going to put up a picture from one of my aimless wanderings to see if you can identify where in the heck I am at! Just put your guesses in the facebook comments section below and next week I'll reveal the location I found myself in along with another clue to where I am lost.
This Week's Clues
I got advice on how to 'trailer train' my two yearling horses. "Just put feed in the trailer so that they get used to going in there to eat". What a marvelous plan... EXCEPT ...that when the sweet feed and alfalfa were gone, they started eating the trailer. They'd pulled off the lights and shredded the wires before I caught on ...and they'd still be eating the horse trailer now, likely down to the tires...oh right, they'd probably eat those , too.
SO, with no tail lights I drive on the back gravel roads to avoid the fuzz, I'm a lawbreaker, a rebel as I head south from Windsor then west toward Murdock's Trailers.
I do fine til I get to I-25. I go through that hole, or do I go north to 402 or south to that big yellow building??? That's when I had to pull over and call BFF Cintia...fortunately she works across the road from THIS SPOT. Do you know where I am?
This Week's Answer: The Johnson's Corner Chapel
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NaNoWriMo: the lessons learnt
Here they are in no particular order:
i) recognise when you're too tired to write. Often I'd know because suddenly I found I was writing nonsense. The next day I'd turn on the computer, and the last sentence would be about my children, or about characters that weren't in this particular storyline. The sentence would have no bearing whatsoever on what I was writing.
ii) deadlines are the best motivators ever. There's no way I would've ever thought I could write 15,000 words in two days. My best ever total before was about 4650 in a day. Now I know I can do more -- I can ask more of myself.
iii) when on a big deadline, don't take time off in the middle -- or you might find you have to write 15,000 words in two days! (There's something about the aftermath of a writing retreat...)
iv) when trying to write lots, don't try to do it all in one session. Seems obvious, right? But it was something I'd never thought consciously about before. My 4650 (or thereabouts) was one sitting. That was how I did it. Now I'll think more about blocking out my day to include more than one session.
v) you don't have to follow your own process. I usually read over and edit the previous day's work, and this is how I started NaNo, but by the end I didn't feel I had the time to do this, booted up the computer and read over the last para or so, just to pick up where I was (and to delete that totally irrelevant sentence).
vi) you can work on more than one project at a time. At least I can. I never thought I could. A novel is such a big project that I love to immerse myself in it. Think of it and nothing else. For months on end. No short stories when I'm novelling. This month though, I did a scene of the group novel we're writing for writers' group (contemporary novel cf to fantasy NaNo) and a chapter and a half of my other novel. My NaNo novel was book 2, so I was in the same world with some of the same characters, but still a different headspace.
vii) make hay while the sun shines and all of that. I could've got ahead on NaNo in the early days when I was at the island, but instead I worked on my first novel. Still, being under pressure at the end and letting the writing consume my days meant I got more done.
viii) I really don't like writing on my laptop. The motor vibrates under my left wrist, and very quickly my wrist starts to itch and burn (not literally burn). This time I stuck teatowels between my wrist and the laptop, but could still feel it. Give me my desktop and WordPerfect any time.
I'm sure there's more so I may do a follow-up post later, depending of whether I can think of anything else.
Sherryl said...
Ah yes, all good points, and the one about "don't do it all in one session" is one of the things I got out of it.
Just leave the computer running and come back to the writing when you have half an hour or an hour. That way you still get lots done but don't sink into word exhaustion.
You now come up on my Nano buddies' page as WINNER!
Tracey said...
You know, I do often do that, but this is more about deliberately scheduling two or more sessions in a day. Not just letting it happen by accident (or interruption), but making it happen, planning for it. You probably do it anyway...
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The Unbearable Bleakness of the New York State Lottery Commercials
Here I was, happily watching a bunch of steroidally enormous, freezing cold men beat each other into Alzheimers, when they cut to a word from one of our local sponsors, and the New York State Lotto reminded me of despair:
In the ad, we see an African-American woman, walking entirely alone in a giant, gaudy, possibly computer-generated Garden. When she first appears, she is only an insignificant peg moving down one side of the garden’s eerie geometry. But then the camera swoops down and confronts her, just as she is frozen by a thought. The woman’s internal monologue speaks to us, as we watch her sit slowly on a white stone bench:
“Isn’t it weird that pizzas are round but the boxes are square…and their slices are triangles,” she thinks.
As we pan above the woman’s face to view an isolated fountain, God asks us:
“What will you think about, when you don’t need to think about money? Play the game with the New York Lottery because hey, you never know?”
This ad imagines viewers who are in such precarious financial circumstances, they can’t remember having thoughts that weren’t about money. It tells those viewers that, even though they know the chances of winning are infinitesimally small, it’s still worth the $2.50 just to buy the remote possibility that one day maybe, just maybe, they’ll be able to stroll completely alone through opulent greenery, free to listen to the voice of their deepest selves, free to find out there’s no one down there but a moronic child grasping at trivial patterns.
In another version, we watch a man driving alone down an empty highway in a luxury car, thinking to himself: “If you tore out the last page in a mystery book, would that make it a better mystery?”
If the mystery is: What would your interior life be like if you weren’t constantly overwhelmed by economic anxiety?… this commercial suggests that’s a mystery best left unsolved.
The New York State Lotto imagines our dream reality to be one where we are free from material need, and all other human beings, a reality where, warmly surrounded by symbols of our social status, we may endlessly puzzle over our minds’ benign nonsense.
It’s only as terrifying as it is true.
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Creating a Feeding Station for Livestock Guardian Dogs
Before we got pigs, we just had a bowl of food out for the dogs free choice. Those days were so innocent, so pure, so carefree. Then came the pigs. <cue ominous music>
Now, I’ve had all kinds of livestock for most of my life, but nothing prepared me for life with pigs. They are an entirely different animal altogether. I remember the first time we were moving two of our little sweet adorable piglets out of one pen and into another. Everything was going great, they were following a bucket of grain and we were thrilled with our success. Then they quit coming. I looked back to see those two sweet little angels ravenously devouring a whole chicken we’d fed the dogs, bones crunching in their mouths as they contentedly snorted and chewed. Whoa.
The good news is they are highly food motivated and easy to do whatever you want with as long as you bring food. The bad news is they are highly food motivated and must. eat. everything. Our previously good natured dogs had to learn quickly to fend off the aggressors if they hoped to get any food scraps and their calm, placid mealtimes turned into snarls and scarfing. Something had to be done.
Enter the feeding station. We’d heard about jump gates and how well they work for transitioning between pens, allowing LGDs to go here and there to protect everything without letting the critters they protect have access to other pastures. Why not use one of those to create a safe place for the dogs to eat?
Since we often feed whole carcasses and cuts of meat, we needed a place that was big enough for the dogs to spread out and eat comfortably. It also needed to be close by for ease of access but in an area where they aren’t going to have interference from their invisible fence. This area happened to be along a line without the invisible fence because it goes into the yard so they only have one short side to stay away from the fence.
This feeding station is about 8’x16′, or one full cattle panel and one half cattle panel. The 2x4s are to sturdy up the hole we cut and provide structure for the opening. The adult dogs can jump through, though it takes a bit for them to learn how. Interestingly, the escape artist dog who can climb straight up field fence was the most reluctant to go through the jump gate. Once they know how, they jump easily and unhesitatingly through. The puppies you see in the photo are still small enough to fit through the cattle panel, but would have needed separate accommodations for a few months until they get big enough to jump through.
The feeder in this station is a 25-pound Little Giant galvanized feeder, one I highly recommend if you’re feeding kibble. We’d feed about once a week for the two adult dogs. I love low maintenance solutions like this – this feeder is one of the things I miss most about switching to homemade dog food. Now we feed twice a day and that’s a whole lot more trips out there than we used to make. Worth it, but it sure was nice to feed once a week.
Here’s our first try at a jump gate feeder. It worked great for feeding only kibble but was far too small for allowing multiple dogs to eat raw food. This one also had a tin roof so it doubled as a shelter, a great option if you’re limited on space. It also tripled as a really cute baby containment system, with leaks. 😀
Out of about 30 adult Nigerians that have passed by these gates, 2 figured out how to get through to eat dog food. Those 2 found new homes. One chicken also figured it out, so it needed to be hung up off the ground and out of reach of greedy chickens. Also, we ran 3 standard size spring lambs last year and 2 of those figured out how to get in and eat dog food. They were already destined for a different ending. Now that we’re feeding homemade dog food it gets eaten quickly enough to not be an issue, but it’s definitely something to keep in mind if you’re building your own.
This feeding station has been a lifesaver for us. The pigs can snort and shove all they want, but they can’t get in and mess with the dogs…or eat all their food. For a total cost of under $50, it is well worth the peace of mind!
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Top 5 Most Popular Foods in Cebu
Cebu Popular Foods
There is countless food that can only be found in the city of Cebu. Cebu has been known for being unique in their food preparations. Their foods have some ingredients so strange that a typical food enthusiast would wonder why they were there in the first place. This is what makes the Cebu food so special, the distinctness of the recipe itself. There are so many of them but I can only give you the top five most popular foods in Cebu. Here they are:
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Inasal or Lechon
Inasal is a Cebuano term for Lechon. It can be Inasal na Manok or Inasal na Baboy (Lechon Manok or Baboy), Roasted Chicken or Roasted Swine. But the most popular and the most delicious food in Cebu is the Inasal na Baboy (Lechon Baboy). Cebu is the only place in the Philippines where you can find the most delectable Lechon. If you taste the Cebu Lechon you would wonder how it is cooked and what makes it so yummy and so different from the other Lechon in the Philippines. Well, I guess you have to ask a Cebuano Lechon expert about that. Or you can always search the Net about how to make the Cebu Lechon.
Siomai sa Tisa
Siomai is originated in China. When this food was introduced in Cebu, it had become one of the favorites of the Cebuanos as well as local and foreign visitors. Actually it isn't just called Siomai anymore in Cebu but Siomai sa Tisa. Siomai sa Tisa was originated in Tisa, a barangay in Labangon, Cebu City. This food is almost the signature food of Cebu. Best eaten along with puso or hanging rice, rice wrapped in coconut leaves.
This delicacy is the Cebuano version of Chicharon Bulaklak. Ginabut is an intestine of a swine deeply fried. Ginabuts are sold in street corners of Cebu with a cariton (cart). There are also vendors who peddle Ginabuts to some areas in Cebu. Although this food is high in cholesterol, it is so crunchy and yummy, perfect for an instant meal in anytime of the day.
This Chinese-influenced food is the favorite food of a typical Cebuano. And it has now become the favorite of many visitors in Cebu. People in different social status in different walks of life like to eat Ngohiong, not only because it is appetizing but also because you can never enjoy the moment when you're in Cebu if you don't eat Ngohiong.
This unique delicacy is made of fish, particularly the Stingray fish or Pagi. This is mixed with coconut milk and some special ingredients. This food can be found in the some street sidewalks in Cebu like Jones St. or Osmena Boulevard and in Lapu-Lapu City. This food in Cebu is beast eaten immediately right after it's cooked.
Nonoy Avellanosa is a former musician who has branched out his interest in creative writing and the World Wide Web. He currently writes fiction and works as a copywriter, web developer, and does SEO and Social Media Marketing. He's been flying from Davao to Cebu and vice versa. You can check his blog here: A journey to two great worlds.
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Santa Fe New Mexican
Meredith McGehee is Executive Director of Issue One in Washington DC. They recently released a report called The Price of Power, which lays out the reality that our elected officials have to pay to be on congressional committees. The more prestigious the committee, the more the member of congress has to pay. Chairmanships cost even more. How much?
Transportation and Infrastructure Committee: $400,000
Ways and Means Committee: $1.2 million
House Majority leader: $10 million
Speaker of the House: $20 million
It’s a problem, because members of congress are spending huge amount of their time raising money at call centers — dialing for dollars — instead of representing their constituents.
This is just one of the issues that Issue One is focused on. Others include transparency, disclosure, participation in elections, corruption, and enforcement of existing laws.
Listen to Meredith McGehee here.
Mary-Charlotte Domandi: You have for many years been looking at issues of corruption, disclosure, transparency, and ethical issues in our country’s political system. I’d like to ask you first of all, what is corruption and how has the legal definition of corruption changed over the years.
Meredith McGehee: Well corruption in some ways depends on the eye of the beholder. But there are some legal standards that have long held here in the United States. And I want to note that when you talk about corruption it’s all, it’s not just real corruption in the sense of a dollar given and a vote bought or action taken. For a democracy it’s also the appearance of corruption because at the heart of a democracy is that you have to have faith in the system and that the public officials that you elect are going to operate in the public good. So corruption has been defined legally as obviously bribery, illegal gratuities, but it’s also been defined in a much broader sense, that when the court, the Supreme Court, has looked at things like campaign contributions, they’ve allowed limits on the amount of money that any individual or any entity can give directly to a candidate based on concerns about corruption and the appearance of corruption. So it covers a fairly broad territory of those kinds of interactions.
MCD: It’s funny that distinction corruption and the appearance of corruption. Is there ever a case where the appearance of corruption doesn’t actually have corruption behind it?
MM: Well you know it’s one of these things where as long as you’re not stupid enough often to write an e-mail that says here I’m going to give you this campaign contribution, vote this way. You know if you have evidence of that you can prove kind of this quid pro quo corruption. The problem with politics is that many times much of what is done is—not only in politics I would say, even in business—with a wink and a nod. But the reason that the appearance of corruption is an important standard in government and government ethics and particularly for democracy is this question of public faith in our elected leaders. And when that begins to erode the basic foundation that people agree to that majority rules, that votes count, that elected officials are supposed to represent their constituents—all of these are traditions that are at the base of a strong and vibrant democracy.
MCD: Everybody talks about Citizens United but there is another decision, McCutcheon vs. SEC and also McDonald versus the United States that actually have affected these definitions of corruption. Can you talk about those.
MM: Well, I would go back actually to another decision back in the 1970s Buckley v. Valeo to start this path. And the reason I talk about that decision is that that was really the first time where the court began to go down the path of equating money with speech. And while there were some shades of difference about the ability to give money or spend money and what degree that was in fact speech, they didn’t say that there was an equality between or in fact the same between the two. But they started going down this path. So the ability to spend money was saying the same as your First Amendment speech rights, which was a troubling kind of equation, I think, in terms of democracy. When you talk about these other cases now, whether it’s McCutcheon, whether it’s Citizens United, we’re now in territory where the majority of the Supreme Court has pretty much taken the position that the ability to spend money is equated to your free speech rights. Now there have been justices that have looked at this and said no, that’s not the way it should be. Justice Stevens for example said, No, money is property and the ability to spend the money is ability to do something with your property. It doesn’t mean the government can’t tell you not to do it, but it has a very different way of looking at your ability to either give or spend money in a political system versus the ability to stand on the street corner at any moment and say whatever you want. So the question here is, and the courts as I say were really split right down the political divide, is money about the size of the megaphone, which is the property question, or is money the absolute exercise of free speech rights. And that is the kind of differential between the 5-4 majority that is in the court as we speak.
MCD: These cases also have some bearing on whether corruption is defined as a wink or a nod, or here I will give you this money if you give me that vote.
MM: Well I think the McDonald case that you raised, this is the one with the former governor of Virginia who took all kinds of gifts from someone who wanted him to take actions as governor. In that case he was convicted in the lower courts of violating the federal statutes on honest services and these bribes. When this got to the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court threw out the conviction on the basis that there was never a dollar given with an explicit agreement for a specific action taken by the governor. Most people looked at that and said this is kind of corruption personified. He’s getting a Rolex watch. He’s getting the caterer for the wedding, his daughter’s weddingm paid for by this guy, and this same individual who’s giving them all these gifts is wanting him to bring the Virginia state bureaucracy into his office to listen to him about this product that he had. So we looked at that and said look this is obviously a bribe this is obviously a violation of the law. The Supreme Court majority looked at that and said, Well there is never an explicit promise for a particular action just bringing people into your office and meeting with them is not a violation of the law. And they threw out the conviction. Now that is a very cramped reading I think of what most people would expect about what is corruption and the appearance of corruption. One of the things complicated that case was that the state of Virginia itself and the state laws had no limits on the gifts that a public official, a state official, could take. So there was never an ability to say here you violated the state law about accepting gifts. So in a sense what face the prosecution here was they had to jump all the way up to a federal statute to prove explicit bribery, quid pro quo, and in the end even though a jury convicted the guy, the former governor the Supreme Court threw it out. That really sets a very disturbing precedent.
MCD: And it also does exactly what you’re saying a moment ago which is undermines faith in our elected officials because, I mean, any person with any basic sense looking at that and the Rolex, the caterer, and so on is going to say, come on.
MM: It’s a “reasonable person” standard, and that’s really I think where the majority of the court at this point, is very concerned with, as I called it, this cramped reading of the law, because they were looking for this… what was the official act, and was a meeting in the governor’s office an official act. And they got very kind of caught up in those distinctions and lost the big picture of a reasonable person looking at this. And I would note that why this is so important is that what makes a democracy is not just the rule of law. Obviously that’s a critical component, but if you look at the difference between the United States and the vast majority of countries around the world you can go look at their constitutions in those other countries, you can go look at their laws, and actually they’re going to look very pretty. I know, I’ve had a lot of colleagues and friends over the years who have gone to places like, oh, Belarus or other places and help them draft either their constitution or these laws. But you look at many of these countries and see that they’re no where near a democracy or certainly not one that is considered a vibrant, healthy democracy. And that’s because the people don’t have faith in their leaders. It’s because the traditions that make a democracy actually work are really the key element of making the difference between a banana republic, that may have good laws on the books that don’t work, and a democracy that is healthy and functioning. It is one of the reasons why any time politicians go out and start throwing out the traditions… you want to find that balance between, when do we really want some change—change is good—and when do we worry that the traditions of democratic norms are being significantly disrupted. So that’s a very hard balance, and I think it’s what many people forget which is democracy is very fragile. And I think certainly anybody post-World War II seems to have forgotten that. I would note that the World War II generation because they fought in World War II because they felt that the democratic norms were being challenged—they got that I think a lot more than than the subsequent generations.
MCD: So in terms of these questions of corruption, can we trust our elected officials and so on, I mean we’re not in a good period right now, I think many citizens of the United States would agree. Do we need more and better laws or do we need to enforce the existing laws?
MM: Well, the biggest challenge I think we face right now is convincing most Americans that in fact there are solutions. You know there are many years where we could talk about what the problems were, particularly in the role the role that money is playing in elections, or the role of ethics in government, and we would spend a lot of time trying to describe the problem. Let me tell you, we don’t need to do that anymore. The American people know it. They know it in their gut they know it. And it’s reflected in the polls. When congressional approval levels fall to single digits or in very low teens. When the Supreme Court falls way below traditional polling levels of favorability. We know that we’re in a very different situation than we were maybe even 10 years ago. Even with Watergate, there was faith in some of the institutions like the courts et cetera. But I think the main thing for people to realize is there are solutions, and that as much as the system feels and is dysfunctional, there are a number of things that can be done. Yes, it would help to change some of the laws. There’s no doubt about that. We need better enforcement for example of election laws. We have an agency that is totally gridlocked and dysfunctional, the Federal Election Commission. So we certainly need to change the structure of that. But more than anything I think the American people need to feel like solutions are possible. And it’s going to take bipartisan efforts on a range of issues. There’s no one magic bullet. There are people I know that think oh if we could just pass public financing everything would be solved. Well I think that would be a great thing to do. But I will assure you, not everything would be solved. There’s other issues here that arise. The transparency issues are key. The ability for people who are watching these ads on TV that are run by these outside groups like Americans who love America—who the heck are they? We need to have much more transparency about the donors behind those ads. We need to have a Congress that functions better. We just put out at Issue One this new report, The Price of Power. And this is showing how to be a committee chairperson, you basically have to spend most of your time dialing for dollars. There are basically a committee tax on whether or not you want to be the chair of a committee. These decisions about who are going to be the most powerful people in our government are not being decided on merit. They’re being decided on who is willing to go. And as Zach Wamp would say, the former representative from Chattanooga, a very conservative Republican, who are those people that are willing to prostitute themselves to go out and raise money from from all these interests that Congress actually regulates? There are ways to fix this. It’s going to take the American people demanding it; it’s going to take bipartisan support; and it’s going to take some really good efforts to try and figure out how we get this thing moving. Right now we’re at a standstill.
MCD: Let’s talk about the report. The price of power. I read the whole thing from beginning to end including the appendices and everything. I mean, it is shocking. Basically the gist of it is that in order for members of Congress to obtain leadership positions like chairman of committee they have to pay their party. And the more prestigious the committee the more they pay. Tell us about this.
MM: One of my best anecdotes of how this works is, and we start the report with this anecdote, is the story of Virginia Foxx. She represents parts of Virginia, and there was for many months a suite set up at the Republican headquarters and it had her name on it. She had been the Republican secretary of the Republican conference there in the house and was recently rewarded with one of the chairmanships of the House Education and the Workforce Committee. The reason she had her name on that suite was because she was known for putting in the most call time. And this call time was rewarded with a position in the party leadership and with a powerful committee position. Whether or not she was the right person for the job, whether or not she deserved it on merit—those were really not much of a consideration. Does it mean if you raise the most money that you’ll automatically get the job? But if you don’t raise the money for the party and pay this tax there’s absolutely no way that you will get to be a committee chairman, and the committee chairmen in Congress are incredibly important. They determine what bills move forward. They determine how the votes her are really kind of taken. And so this is the way Congress works, through these committees. The notion that the smartest, best, most knowledgeable members are not being given a chance to be the chairman of these committees should upset every American. This committee tax is not being imposed by the public; it’s being imposed by a private entity to say you, have to pay the party before you’ll even be considered. Most people would think that was a shakedown. And it is a shakedown. That’s one of the reasons we wanted to write the report. The members of Congress themselves need the freedom to lead, and they’re trapped as much in this system as I think the American people are affected by this system, so that’s one of the reasons we wanted to shine the light on this selling of the committee chairmanships. It is not the way that Congress should work.
MCD: Well and when you think about what a Congress person’s day is like, they have to spend so much of their time fundraising, and they can’t do that in their offices because that’s not legal. So they go to these essentially telemarketing centers. They call donors hours and hours every single day and that’s to raise money for their re-election campaigns ,which are extremely expensive. I have this number four billion dollars was spent for the House and Senate races combined. That’s, if you do the math, an average of eighty five million dollars per candidate per election cycle. And that’s—I mean you could break it down to the hour or to the week. It’s crazy. That’s just for reelection. That doesn’t count paying the party money for these chairmanships.
MM: And I think what happened here is, if you go up on the Hill and talk to the leadership—not that they really want to talk about this—what you’ll often hear is, well we just want people to be loyal to the party. This is about party loyalty. This isn’t committee tax. It’s just showing that you’re part of the team. And you know that’s the way they justify it in their own minds that we have an opponent who’s raising this money. So we have to raise this money. So if you’re a good team player you’re going to go out and many times of course hit up the interests that have matters pending before your committee. I mean that’s really where it goes. But let’s, as you say, let’s go back and think about this. The best estimate right now of the amount of time the average member of Congress spends dialing for dollars in this little pretty awful tacky little suite over at the committee headquarters is about 30 hours a week. That means usually in the afternoons they go, they do their committees, they do their fundraiser at lunch, they do one in the breakfast meeting, they have one at night, they go for a chunk of the afternoon, and they start making these calls. And the lists they’re given often are from the interests of the committee they serve on. So if you’re on the financial services committee, for example, they oversee banking. So of course the list that you’re given is a bunch of banking interests.
Now if you talk to the rank and file members they hate this system. They are complaining all the time, Republicans and Democrats. And let’s be very clear. This happens on the Republican side. It happens on the Democratic side. And it really is this notion of nuclear money race. That’s what’s going on. Nobody is willing to step up and stop it. Now we do have rank and file members that say this is not what I came here for. Some of our former members on the reformers caucus that has more than 180 former members of Congress that have joined Issue One’s reformers caucus are speaking out on this because in some cases they left Congress because of this system. I talked to a former representative, Mr. Hanna, who was from New York, a very successful businessman, as a capstone to his career he decided to run for Congress and was elected. He was there six years. And he said this was supposed to be my capstone of my career. I wanted to give back to my community. I got to Congress, and all my time there, I never had a chance to serve on a conference committee. I never even saw a conference committee. This is where you’re supposed to resolve differences between bills. I never got to offer a substantive amendment. And in fact most of the times I was told how to vote on a substantive amendment.
MCD: By whom?
MM: By the leadership. He said, after six years I thought all they really wanted me to do, because I was a successful business person, is dial for dollars.
MCD: And so that whole system, I mean, it’s a setup for corruption. Even if people go in there with the greatest earnest public service mentality in the world.
MM: It is and you know I know a lot of people focus on legalized bribery. That’s what they call the current system. I actually think a more accurate depiction of what’s going on is legalized extortion. Meaning that the members feel extorted in the sense of, I have to give to the party committee I have to go raise money because if I don’t I’m not going to move up in the leadership. The business people, particularly the donor class ,definitely feel extorted. They feel like, if if I don’t give in this system then they’re going to come and pass something that’s going to hurt my business. And if you talk to businessmen, they hate the system probably worse than anybody because they are seen as … you know it’s the old line about why do you rob banks. Well that’s where the money is. The business folks are really the ones that are most caught in this trap because they are being constantly pounded to fork over money, and they have a real sense that if they do not then Congress is going to come back and do something that’s going to hurt their business. There’s no innocent player in this because members of Congress have the power to stop this system. But they look at it and say, OK well if I stop on the Republican side the Democrats are going to raise all the money, and the Democrats, well if we stop the Republicans are going to raise all the money. But you know you elect people to be your representative in Congress because you expect they have some degree of courage, some notion of public service. And part of what voters need to be demanding now of their elected representatives is to show that courage, to be the one that stands up and says, this system is so broken. We have so much dysfunction. I expect you as my member of Congress to be a leader and fixing it. I understand the cost it could be. I understand your leadership won’t like it, but we’re willing to stand with you if you stand up against the system. And I will tell you, Issue One is finding some members like that on both sides of the aisle.
MCD: And as you said, this problem is both Democratic and Republican, and even the whole issue of selling chairmanships and basically making members of Congress pay for chairmanships of the committees—that’s both sides of the aisle.
MM: That’s both sides of the aisle. Right.
MCD: And what I was thinking about this, I mean people, wealthy people, business leaders, are always talking about not wanting to pay taxes. But this is kind of, it’s a funny kind of a tax, you could you could think of it that way. I mean instead of paying taxes through proper channels to fund government, they’re paying to these telemarketer Congress people in order to have influence among legislatures.
MM: Absolutely it is a big it is a donor tax. There are obviously many donors who give for ideological reasons. That’s one question. But the majority of the money sloshing around in our system right now particularly at the federal level is really a tax on donors and the people that feel like if they don’t fork over, their interests are going to be ignored. You know this notion is never that there’s a dollar given in a vote bought. I know there’s often people that want to characterize it that way. That is a fundamental misunderstanding of the way both politics works and the system works. What a dollar given does is get you the face time. It gets your issue up on the radar screen and it gets you that time and attention from a powerful public official to hear your concerns. For most Americans they feel vastly unheard. And they are. It is an absolute truth that it’s almost impossible to get the concerns of most Americans heard, and so they feel that way. The problem is they turn off from system. They go from cynical or skeptical to totally apathetic. This notion that you can have freedom from politics is a very dangerous notion for a democracy. There are many people all over the world who wish they could have freedom from politics and they cannot. They live in war infested, corruption infested countries. And the challenge here for Americans is to be able to say if you want the system to change you have to be a part of demanding that change and demanding that courage from your members. But right now there are very few rewards for a member of Congress for example to buck the system. Why should they do that? They go home, they’re not rewarded because it’s you know either the wingnuts on the right or the left that are making the most noise. This notion that you are going to be rewarded if you step up against the system, against all this money that is in the system—it really is a very tough sell for many members of Congress.
MCD: And yet you hear the citizenry on the right and the left decrying money in politics, crony capitalism, and all that kind of thing. I mean one would think that if there were laws introduced and a campaign, a kind of citizen campaign to pass laws that would get rid of or mitigate the system that you just talked about, everybody would be calling their congressperson and say Please pass that bill.
MM: Well I would note there are some people have been speaking about out on this issue. For example there’s a congressperson from eastern Colorado, very conservative Republican, named Ken Buck. He just wrote a book in his sophomore year called Drain the Swamp. And he says, I’ve just been here a very short time and I’m appalled at the way the system is working, and so appalled that he’s willing to go out and write a book about how bad the system is. Now, is he going to get rewarded by his leadership for having blown the whistle on this? No he’s not. But I will tell you there are other people that are willing to step up. I’ve been having conversations with both Republicans and Democrats. For example there’s a Republican and Democrat, Mr. Kilmer from Washington, Democrat, and a Republican from Ohio, Mr. Renacci. They’ve put together a bipartisan bill to fix the Federal Election Commission, to say there should be a cop on the beat. They’ve been able to go out and find five other Republicans and five other Democrats. And I will note on that bill you have someone that is very liberal, for example Jared Polis who represents Boulder, one of the more liberal Democrats, and Congressman Ken Buck, one of the most conservative Freedom Caucus member—all on the same bill. Because they say whether you like the laws or not, the law should be enforced. We have people like Mr. Gallagher, a very young Republican, the youngest member of Congress, from Greenbay. He got to Congress and said, wait a minute this is not what I have in mind about my service. He’s a former Marine and he is joining with Kathleen Rice, a Democratic former prosecutor from Long Island. And they are beginning to talk about what are some of the solutions that we join together to start building out in Congress
So the good news here is that there are members that are willing to step up and take some of the heat that’s going to come from their leadership. I would note that when Mr. Renacci went on the bill in the last Congress when it was just a small, just he and Mr. Kilmer, he got a call from then Speaker Boehner saying, what the heck are you doing going on a bill on the Federal Election Commission with a Democrat. And he got heat for doing that. And you know good on him that he turned around and said, You know I believe in law enforcement what can I tell you. I’m staying on the bill. The other co-sponsor I would note at that point was Mr. Barletta, a Republican from Pennsylvania, who’s a Trump supporter. So part of what Issue One is trying to focus on and part of what we would want your listeners to know is that there are things that can be done. I’m not going to tell you we’re here in New Mexico that we can pass the whole enchilada. That’s not going to happen. And that’s really not the way that legislation works. What we need to start focusing on is where are the areas of common ground where reasonable people, where members of Congress who don’t like the system, can come together and say we’re going to start making these kinds of changes. One of the reasons, in The Price of Power we focused on is what is the solution to this committee tax that’s being imposed on members. Well you can pass a rule in the House to say that contributions to an outside entity like the parties cannot be a factor in deciding these committee chairmanships because the committees are organized and the rules for them are within House rules. So there are things that can be done and that’s what I want your listeners to think about more, and rather than just get mad, focus on the solutions.
MCD: Let’s talk for a moment about the FEC, the Federal Election Commission. That is a body that your colleague Trevor Potter served on in the 1990s. Three Democrats, three Republicans. It used to work. It doesn’t work now. What happened and what kind of solutions are you looking at?
MM: Well I actually often call the FEC the “failure to enforce commission.” But it’s in some ways the most successful agency in Washington because it does exactly what it was designed to do, which is nothing. The first proposal to establish an agency that would enforce election laws came from former Senator Scott, a Republican from Pennsylvania, minority leader, and he proposed a five member commission, which is just like every other commission and the executive branch. The Securities and Exchange Commission. The Federal Communications Commission. Federal Trade Commission. All these very powerful agencies on the executive branch have five members. When that idea went over to the House side, that was back in the days when the Democrats had very tight control of the house, Mr. Hayes of Ohio said I don’t want this agency to be looking over my shoulder, and insisted that it be neutered to be a three and three agency because he knew it would have no power. And so it was set up from the get go to be as weak as possible. What’s happened since that time is that the ideological divide within the commission in many ways reflects the ideological divide in Congress. If you wanted to enforce the law, it should be treated the same as almost every other agency. And I’m serious about that—if you look at all the agencies in the executive branch, of which there are hundreds, there are only four minor agencies that are not set up with a five member majority. And those agencies, if you look in the Congress, there’s one place where you can go to see a three three split between Republicans and Democrats. That is another committee that’s designed to do nothing, that’s the House Ethics Committee, which is one of the most ineffectual, weak committees that exists in Congress. The FEC should enforce the law. If you don’t like the law, change the law. That is a notion we’re able to talk to both Republicans and Democrats about.
MCD: And so when you have five members it’s weighted to party?
MM: Well the way this is set up is that you would have the ability to have, as you now, have two Republicans, two Democrats, and then you would have a longer term chair, as the Constitution provides, appointed by the president. And that way you would have, just like now the president appoints the head of the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the president is empowered to appoint the chair of those agencies. This bill would go into effect in 2020. You want an agency that is in fact reflective of the elections. At the same time you want to ensure that one of the checks on these agencies is the understanding that if the other party comes into power, they get to put in their majority, and then that majority also then can make policy. So it does need to be responsive to the election. I think one of the mistakes here is this notion that elections should not have impact. We want in our system for policies to change and reflect which party came out on top. If you don’t like what they’re doing you change it. That’s accountability. That’s the way the system should work.
MCD: Twenty nine, I think, states have restrictions on giving and receiving campaign contributions during the legislative session for their federal elected officials. Does that mean that these people aren’t dialing for dollars?
MM: No, those those restrictions that exist in the states are for state legislators. They do not apply to their federal legislators. Now one of the ideas that we’ve been talking with members about, again Republicans and Democrats, is to say that when your house is in session, meaning the House of Representatives or if you’re a senator the Senate, is it when your house is in session you should not be able to go solicit campaign contributions. Now of course that would mean basically from let’s say eight or nine o’clock in the morning to 6 o’clock members of Congress would not be able to solicit contributions. After six o’clock they could go to their fundraisers, they could do the fund raising solicitations that they want to do. But as I describe it when I go up there and talk to members, it’s this notion of saying to your constituents, while you’re working, I’m working for you. The problem right now is that members of Congress don’t yet feel that their constituents care enough to be able to take a step to do something like that. So we’re talking to a number of members about what are some of the ways that you can at least begin. It’s a huge battleship and you don’t change that battleship overnight but you have to start making these changes so that the turn can happen. And this is one way they could do that, to get them out of this business at 4 o’clock in the afternoon—which used to be, by the way, the time when there was the basketball game, and what you knew up on the hill was at four o’clock if you couldn’t find a senator or a House member, they were probably in the gym playing basketball. But that was a good thing in that it was both Republicans and Democrats playing basketball. Now you go there and there’s nobody in the gym at four o’clock because they’re all over at call time.
MCD: Right. Which means not only that they’re not associating with one anothe—which is good because the formation of relationships is healthy—it also means that they’re not getting their exercise—
MM: And they’re not talking to each other and—you know part of politics is that politics can turn tribal very easily. And we see that all over the world. When politics turns too tribal, violence erupts. And that is, as I say, this is a very delicate balance. And what we’ve seen over the last several years, and I would think from my perspective having been in Washington since 1980s, that this kind of trend toward tribalism really got worse with Newt Gingrich and the response of him on the Democratic side. But the tribalism is dangerous because it starts to have politicians not see each other as fellow human beings but as the other side. And I think when we all sit down and realize that while we may have political differences, when you really sit down and talk to people there are many areas as Americans we actually agree upon if you can take out some of the what I call the Three Gs: Gays, Guns, and God. And those are used repeatedly by politicians to polarize the electorate. It is a very sure propaganda tool to make sure that the moment people start to come together and find common ground you find these issues where there are deep divisions and a lack of consensus within the society. I like to focus a lot more on where we have agreement as Americans. And on this Memorial Day where we are celebrating the many people who have given their lives for their country, nobody asked them at that moment, Were you a Republican or a Democrat They asked, Are you an American. And that’s what we losing with the tribalism, the political tribalism, and that’s one of the things we have to get back to.
MCD: I often wonder about if you took the extreme amount of money that’s in politics right now out and changed the rules in ways that you’re saying so that Congress people for example are working instead of fundraising during their workday day and so on—what would we be arguing about?
MM: Oh I don’t think the arguments stop. I think what you would find—
MCD: No, I’m not saying they’d stop—
MM: Right, they don’t they will stop and I don’t want them to stop. This is part of a healthy democracy. You want the debate, you want the discussion. I think two things would be very clear that would happen. Part of this dysfunction would drop away where you could say we actually will get something done. You know we’re now in a stage where it’s almost impossible for Congress particularly to actually pass anything meaningful. And if they do particularly on a partisan basis you can’t hold it. I’ll take Obamacare as a perfect example, passed with Democratic votes. Well here we are, there’s an effort to undo it. It’s not that you want bipartisanship because you believe bipartisanship is necessarily good or that you want to hold hands and sing Kumbaya. You do it because that’s where you find the consensus of the American people. And without more ability to talk about the issues and not have that thumb on the scale that the money comes in—that’s what happens in the system is that the money in politics right now is putting a thumb on the scale. The other is and you really go back… I’m not saying I feel sorry for members of Congress but they need the freedom to lead. And right now there is caught up in the system as the American people are. So they need a system where it is rewarded when you decide, I’m going to do what’s best for what I think is best for my constituency versus a consideration of, wow if I do this all the money’s going to come in from the outside, it’s going to overwhelm me and I’m going to lose my job because I’ve angered some special interests that has tons and tons of money.
MCD: In order to build that movement that you’re talking about and get the buy-in both from members of Congress—so that bills can be written and and they’ll get the votes—and then the people out here making their calls to Congress all the time as they do and as they’re doing more often than ever now… how do you do that…that’s what Issue One is working on, is building these kinds of campaigns?
MM: What we’re working on is really trying to build out this area where solutions live, to show that there are areas, as much as there’s this polarization, that when you start and talk to both Republicans and Democrats whether on the Hill or around the country, that there has to be a lot more discussion and concentration on this common ground, these areas where there is actually some agreement. And so that’s what we’re focusing on. And part of what I’m trying to do and Issue One is trying to do is go back to the American people who I think are so disaffected, right or left right. People are very disaffected and the polls show this. It is within our power to try and make these changes. Democracy is not about a destination as you say it is about the process. But if people, average people, don’t feel like there are any solutions and they turn off then there will not be solutions. It will only get worse and yes it can get worse. But it can get better. And that’s part of what Issue One is trying to really focus on is, there are many organizations out there that want to rile you up and get you mad, and that’s fine. If you want to get mad, getting mad is better than being apathetic. But if you aren’t focused on saying what do we do to solve the problems what are the things that we can agree upon. Let’s focus on those areas then you’re really not going to start to address these problems. And that’s where Issue One is really the sweet spot. Well talk to Republicans, we’ll talk to Democrats. We’ll talk to whomever wants to be a part of the solution. And to say we’re going to help you work and find those solutions and that’s what we’re doing with The Price of Power. Here’s a problem, we can help you with a solution. We’re doing that whether the issue is transparency, whether the issue is trying to resurrect meaningful political parties and not just have these laundromats that pass around big dollar money from very wealthy people. How do you change the incentives so candidates will actually go talk to average Americans and not spend all their time kissing the ring of some powerful millionaire billionaire. But those things are not going to happen unless we start really focusing on this common ground.
MCD: So many groups are talking about getting money out of politics. You guys aren’t talking about getting money out of politics, exactly … how do you see it?
MM: Right. This is not about getting money out of politics. The issue here is how do you get more Americans involved and how do you make sure that our leaders have the ability to make good decisions. Let me give you the stat that I think is astounding. One half of one percent of all Americans give $200 or more to a federal candidate. So just think about that one half of one percent of all Americans give even $200 or more. That means not just ninety nine percent but far more than 99 percent of all Americans don’t even play in the system, and then they wonder, I wonder why my elected representative doesn’t listen to me. Well part of what has to happen here is you’ve got to change all those incentives. You’ve got to change incentives for candidates to pursue that individual money. You’ve got to change the incentives for individuals to feel like if I give my hard-earned money to some politician it’s for a good reason, what is the incentive for me to give. If you don’t look at the system in terms of a political economy and a marketplace, then you’re going to have solutions that don’t work because the reality is you got to change incentives for the candidates, for the parties, and for the donors. That’s part of what we’re working on. Look, if we could say instead of one half of 1 percent, 10 percent, 20 percent and that meant more money and politics, I’m all for it.
MCD: But you’re talking about smaller donations from more people.
MM: Yes the problem here is the source of the money in our political system. It’s from a very small number of people and a very small number of special interests. You know there’s an old saying, he who pays the piper calls the tune. That is probably the best description of the system we have at the moment. The people that are paying for politics, this one half of one percent, are calling the tune. And the only way that’s going to change is if you start changing the system so that individual Americans have some incentive to give, I think one of the best ways to do that is through a tax rebate or a tax credit. And I think we can get bipartisan support for that. We need to have parties that are no longer just about giving huge amounts to the leadership and help them dole it out. What about having an account where the parties can say if you give, let’s say, $100 to this account we’ll be able to spin unlimited coordinated expenditures with our candidates but only from the small dollar money. That’s going to give parties an incentive to go ask for that small dollar money, and that’s going to give individuals like people out here in New Mexico a sense that being part of a party is not just about these few men, mostly men, in Washington who pull the strings, but political parties should be about individuals getting together who have like-minded views, share ideology, want to support candidates. And that’s what a party is. It’s not about some structure in Washington. Unfortunately the parties have shriveled up because they have forgotten that’s what parties are supposed to be about.
MCD: How do you see voter participation besides voting and being a donor, even if it’s a small donor. I mean it seems like it’s not just about money.
MM: Well unfortunately right now it is just mostly about money, because getting the message out, getting on TV, being able to buy all the social media want—this is what resonates in people’s ears. Obviously we have a very large slice of Americans who did not vote in the last election. That’s a great problem. And then my view of course is if you don’t vote you have no right to complain. So all of your people out there that may be complaining about what’s going on and they didn’t vote, my view is shut up because you didn’t participate. But the power of organizing … yes you should vote, yes you should find candidates that you want to donate to, yes the party should find candidates that actually have interesting, good ideas. And the power of organizing is to be able to say in addition to all those things, we want to have a robust debate about what will work. That’s how you start to get people engaged. And as I say every time this kind of power structure is threatened one of the things they want to do is distract people with the issues that are well-known to divide the American electorate. And it’s almost like they hold up the little shiny object and say, Look over here!
They they try and focus on these issues that are on which we all know there’s no consensus. Part of the sophistication if you will of the American people is to be able to say wait a minute we know there’s no consensus on some of these issues but rather than trying get too focused on that, let’s talk about all these other issues where we think there are solutions and things that can be done. But the power structure that is currently doing very well, thank you very much, is not going to give up this power lightly. They’re not going to just sit on the sidelines while people organize or people go and say to their members of Congress what are you doing to be a part of it. They’re going to fight back. And this is why having the American people be much more engaged and much less apathetic is absolutely the right antidote here.
MCD: So hang on a second. Help me think this through. The current system which is, some people call it legalized bribery or legalized extortion, the citizens hate it. The members hate. Donors don’t really like it. Who likes it? How does it stay in place if almost everybody hates it? Who’s winning?
MM: Well I think you can see pretty clearly who’s winning by just looking at what’s happening in the numbers. You know, what’s that old saying, Follow the money. Those who who are succeeding in the system, and the ones who are succeeding in the system are those who play this donor game because they know they are going to get in the door, they’re going to get their concerns heard. If you look in The Price of Power report, you begin to see who’s playing that successfully. So if you’re in the financial services industry you’re giving millions of dollars to the people that are on the committees and the people that are on the committees, the representatives, are getting to stay in power. So the moneyed interests that have the ability to play the game, play the game very well. And if you look at everything from our policies and banking, you look at our policies and health care, this is not about progressive versus conservative. This is not about that kind of ideological divide. This is saying the interests that are willing to participate in the system and play it successfully are the ones who are able to keep their foothold in the system. This is not a Republican problem or a Democratic problem or a conservative problem or a liberal problem. This is an American problem. And it’s our own concept of how we think our system should work. People right now that play in the system are the winners all the rest of us who are sitting on the outside are the losers. And that doesn’t matter if you’re a Republican or a Democrat.
MCD: And the biggest losers are the ones I guess who have the least money. And when you think about not only middle class and poor people but also wildlife and rivers and things like that.
MM: Well yes as I say I think one of the reasons that you find a lot of frustration even on the Republican conservative side is it they feel… I remember talking to a Republican member of Congress, very conservative, who was very concerned about the size of the federal government. Big government. This was the concern. And yet he was very supportive of these efforts because he said you know one of the things that drives big government is the money in politics system. Everybody has their hooks in the government. Every time there’s an effort to cut back where the federal government is playing a role, they jump to the fore. And so he was looking at me, wanting to change the system from a very conservative viewpoin—that the federal government had grown way too big, and whether it’s talking about the defense industry and all the the defense procurement of weapons that the Pentagon says it doesn’t need and yet still is being told they have to buy, programs where they felt like it’s a very efficient use of public dollars. So if you look at this problem from more of that perspective what you begin to see is that no one is feeling well served by the current system, either from the right or the left. And the more people want to polarize this discussion into an ideological, Oh if you are concerned about this you must be a progressive, or you must do if you’re not concerned you must be a conservative…that is a key way of going back again to the third rail of politics that don’t get people focused on solutions. They get them focused on polarization. So the minute that happens you know you’re getting close right. The hope here is that we can get through this noise and have people kind of have some awareness if you will that they’re being played, that the minute we start to kind of make some progress, the bigger the fight the more you know you’re closer to the to the real core of the issue.
MCD: So let’s say somebody is listening right now and says, OK I get it. I’m on board. I want to help change the system, not necessarily get money out of politics because it’s never going out of politics but make it a fairer system, make it a more transparent system, and by transparency we mean the citizens get to see what people are doing, where the money is going, how decisions are being made. What can this listener do right now?
MM: Well there are actually a number of things. Obviously I would encourage any of your listeners to go to the Issue One website, look at all the stuff that is going on in terms of policy proposals. The reformers caucus. I would urge every listener when there’s an election you obviously vote. But I would also urge listeners to get very involved in their local political parties whichever party it is Republican or Democrat. The only way you have power and any kind of system in any society is if you organize. You know there’s the old Margaret Mead quote about don’t ever doubt the power of one small group of people to affect what happens, in fact it’s the only thing that ever has changed the world. It’s a little bit of a paraphrase there, but the way you begin to make change is first you organize with like-minded people. You hold your elected representatives accountable. If there is a town hall meeting and your representative is showing up, people need to be there because accountability is really the beginning. And if your representative doesn’t show up you should be making noise because this is what a representative does. This is supposed to be representing you. You should find organizations on the right or the left that you support that are putting forth an agenda. But the main thing here is this notion that just voting is enough. Unfortunately in this day and age it is not enough. If you’re not organizing, if you’re not joining with like-minded people to force your elected representatives to be accountable to you, then you are not going to be heard.
MCD: Meredith McGee is Executive Director of Issue One in Washington D.C. They’re on the web at Thank you so much for being with us.
MM: Thank you for the discussion.
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