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Myth Of Gentrification
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The conclusions of gentrification has shifted in recent years, whether it stands for its moral or corrupt. In the course text from the Sharon Zukin’s article, “Naked City: The City That Lost Its Soul”, argues that gentrification is often detrimental to low income/longtime residents, destruction and the end of old authentic neighborhoods. Zukin argues, based on the facts on white-collar men and women have taken up all space, development of new residents and creating a cultural/economic barrier between rich and poor, young and old. Vice Versa, according to recent studies and new formulas of gentrification, it is an effective urban planning strategy because it minimizes the growth of slums, prevents crime and causes growth in the economy. Therefore,…show more content…
On the contrary, it was documented that low-income people were being forced out of a neighborhood whose rents and housing prices were high did not mean that gentrification itself was causing the displacement of the poor. It was noted that poor people often move away from non-gentrifying neighborhoods too instead of moving into one. John Buntin’s article “The Myth of Gentrification”, economist Terra McKinnish from University of Colorado in 2010 has found that “gentrification created neighborhoods that were attractive to minority households, particularly households with children or elderly homeowners. They found no evidence of displacement or harm. While most of the income gains in these neighborhoods went to white college graduates under the age of 40 (the archetypical gentrifiers), black high school graduates also saw their incomes rise. They also were more likely to stay put. In short, black households with high school degrees seemed to benefit from gentrification” (Buntin). Buntin clearly proves and explains that gentrification is for a good cause because it is contributing to our youngsters; college graduates and that gentrification are created for the present population that is seeking resident there. He explains how low-income people are tend to be black and the high-income people are the whites. Therefore, he argues how black high school graduates (low-income people) saw their income rise and they were likely to stay put because of the benefits that they were receiving such as more job opportunities and improved schools. In addition, from the article, economist found no evidence that poor people moved out of gentrifying neighborhood. Many of us assume that gentrification causes the low-income people for instance the black to move out because the high-income whites have moved in. Moreover, this is not the case because as mentioned from the article “The Myth of Gentrification” there is no evidence or harm found against gentrification so I strongly state that we
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By Thomas Goldsmith
That’s the way North Carolina health-care professionals want the state’s health care system and broader community to consider and support fellow residents with conditions that endanger their lives and lifespans.
The Task Force on Serious Illness Care recommended improving end-of-life care and planning as important needs that call for more attention. The group, convened by the North Carolina Institute of Medicine, also dealt with broader gaps in North Carolina’s coverage and practice. A major thrust was to ensure that legal and medical tools that come at the end of life are in place for seriously ill people.
These are patients who don’t always get optimal treatment in North Carolina, according to the task force. The IOM partnered with the Duke Endowment, and also received support from the state AARP, the NC Health Care Facilities Association, the Association for Home & Hospice Care of North Carolina and the Carolinas Center.
The 60-plus members of the Task Force on Serious Illness Care say it’s time to develop a “system and culture” to create a better quality of life for people living with serious illness, as well as their caregivers and communities. The recommendation of the task force first appeared in a revised report in June and are getting a continued push by the North Carolina Serious Illness Coalition.
The task force report describes a seriously ill person as someone whose death within a year would not surprise an involved professional, such as a physician or nurse.
“Part of the reason that we wanted to keep that definition is that a lot of our conversations and recommendations deal with things like advanced care planning and end-of-life care,” said Michelle Ries, associate director of the NCIOM. “These are conversations that healthcare providers as well as legal providers, legal professionals and financial professionals need to have with their patients and their clients.
“Those are conversations that we wanted to make sure were being had throughout the trajectory of an illness, not at a time when a patient or family would be really taken by surprise by that conversation.”
Virus changes everything
Forming in 2019, the group completed its planned work and reported by its January deadline.
Then, the novel coronavirus and resulting pandemic began its reign of terror right on the heels of the initial report. Players from all sectors suddenly faced new medical and logistical challenges as well as major stresses on patients, caregivers and public and private health care systems.
North Carolina Health News recently interviewed three principals of this evolving effort on separate occasions. Some of their responses, lightly edited, form a Q&A below on how the group addressed problems and how it continues as a coalition to address issues sometimes lacking a high public profile.
Responding to questions were Catherine Sevier, state AARP president; Ries, associate director, North Carolina Institute of Medicine; and Dr. Laura Patel, chief medical officer, Transitions LifeCare, an organization offering hospice and palliative care services in the Triangle area and beyond.
NCHN: What kinds of patients regarded as seriously ill, as opposed to those who may be quite sick, but aren’t necessarily near death?
SEVIER (AARP): Let’s say some were smokers. They developed heart disease, and they might have diabetes alongside that heart disease, and they’re sick.
But they’re not imminently likely to die. And then something happens. They catch a bad cold or their condition worsens a bit just as they age in, and things get out of control and then they’d be really sick.
Catherine Sevier, President of the NC AARP
NCHN: How would clinicians change treatments for a patient who enters this stage?
SEVIER: We act differently once we’re seeing that person take that turn. We overload different resources. “Not being surprised that they die in a year” really is an indicator that they need more care than they traditionally have gotten, and we want the system to intervene aggressively.
NCHN: How did the organizers address the topics that touch the lives of so many people across North Carolina?
PATEL (Transitions LifeCare): What they did was bring together a really large, diverse group of folks from a lot of different areas. I think it was definitely an evolution, with a lot of focus on education and information at the beginning and then really trying to get to an understanding of what was needed in the state and getting to specific recommendations.”
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NCHN: How did the pandemic change families’ ability to make decisions about documents like the DNR (do not resuscitate order), the MOST form (Medical Orders for Scope of Treatment), and health care powers of attorney
PATEL: Some patients were in a weeks-long process of being ill in different locations and the family literally hadn’t been able to see them until the patient was on his last day in the hospital.
It was so incredibly difficult for families to make decisions and to be able to come to terms with those decisions. We are going to see a lot of complicated grief from that. And it’s been just an extremely trying time for everybody.
Dr. Laura Patel, Transitions Lifecare
NCHN: Especially given the onset of COVID-19, what kind of implications does the task force’s work have for people who wouldn’t typically be considered at death’s door?
RIES (NCIOM): A lot of the individuals and families that it’s aimed toward are older, over 60, but these are also conversations that can and should be had earlier in life. When you’re starting that planning for our retirement when you’re 25, they say, “Start a 401K.”
Yeah, but also maybe, fill out your advance care documents. A lot of the conversation that we had was about normalizing that conversation.
NCHN: What are the key goals of this task force and continuing work?
SEVIER: We need work in the advanced care planning to make it easy for people to make their wishes known, but still protect their privacy and their legal documents. We need assistance with telehealth and broadband, because without broadband, you can’t do virtual visitation.
Those two areas need attention and the third one is legislation around caregivers and respite care that people need when they’re taking care of someone that is seriously ill.
NCHN: What ground-level changes in statute or regulations did the task force suggest?
RIES: There are a couple of recommendations around changing the witness and notary requirements for advanced care planning documents because we heard from several providers about caregiver representatives as well about families that really faced logistical barriers in meeting those requirements for two unrelated witnesses and a notary. That’s especially true for individuals who might not have as many financial or other sorts of resources.”
Michelle Ries, Project Director and Research Associate at the North Carolina Institute of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
More changes ahead
NCHN: What are some of the existing gaps in the system that have grown more glaring during the pandemic?
RIES: If you have somebody who’s facing a serious illness, and has several providers, the patient will need access not only to telehealth but also a system that’s more interoperable. What we’re seeing both with telehealth and the interoperability questions is that our state needs more robust broadband services in rural communities.
We had recommendations on that as well because if you’re going to expand telehealth, you have to be able to connect people and connect providers and patients. So there has to be continued investment in that as well.
NCHN: Can you give me an example of the importance of interoperability, of being able to communicate medical and technical information between parties working on different systems?
PATEL: If you can’t see information in real time, when you need it, and that information also can’t be communicated back to the patient and the family, it’s not helpful. And a lot of our [electronic medical records] have been designed more to meet billing requirements than actually to communicate.
What do you mean, “serious”?
The NC Task Force offers definitions and perspective on the term of art “serious illness”:
“Serious illness occurs when chronic or acute health conditions become serious enough to affect a person’s general health and functioning, and the illness is potentially life-threatening. For individuals with serious illness, it is possible that the effectiveness of curative treatment will decrease, and the focus of care may shift toward comfort.
“Throughout the work of theTask Force on Serious Illness Care, the task force used the above definition of ‘serious illness,’ as well as the additional context that the task force scope was defined by individuals for whom a health care provider would not be surprised if they were to die in the next year.”
— NC Task Force on Serious Illness
Disclosure: Both the Duke Endowment and the AARP are NC Health News sponsors. NCHN sponsors are not given input into editorial choices, even though sometimes their representatives may be interviewed for stories.
Thomas Goldsmith
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The term rekt derives from the word "wrecked." In general, rekt is a slang used to define something that got completely destroyed or a person that experienced a catastrophic failure. However, the term may carry different meanings depending on the context.
In the world of blockchain and cryptocurrencies, rekt is used to describe a severe financial loss, caused by a bad trade or investment. To illustrate, let’s suppose Alice is trading on margin and opens a big leveraged long position. If the market goes down and she gets liquidated, we may say "Alice got rekt." So, rekt is often used to describe someone that got liquidated after losing a high-leveraged trade.
The slang may also describe an asset that lost too much of its value or a market that dropped significantly (e.g., "this coin is rekt," or "the market is rekt"). Taking another example, imagine that Bob made a heavy investment on a cryptocurrency token through an ICO. But when the token finally hit the market, they were trading at a much lower price than Bob paid during the ICO crowd sale. In such a scenario, we may say that the token got rekt, which resulted in Bob and all bagholders getting rekt as well.
Within the online gaming community, the term rekt is usually describing a player (or team) that was defeated in an embarrassing or silly way. Or someone that is losing very badly in a competition. But, the oldest use of the slang is perhaps the one originally found in British English, where rekt was used when referring to a person that got too drunk or messed up.
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post_talone420 9 points10 points 5 months ago
So the Arkansas police are allowed to make public statements for their citizens to follow, under the guise of it being for their own safety, literally saying, "you have a right to be safe!" And when a citizen practices the very same thing, stated in that statement, they're put into harms way for it? Are you daft?
SrbijaJeRusija -3 points-2 points 5 months ago
When did I ever make such a statement? I only talked about the law. She broke the law. The police put out a misleading statement, and the officer did an unjustified PIT maneuver. That still makes the title of this post false, as per the law, she should have stopped immediately.
Bergeron83 2 points3 points 5 months ago
You, not a lawyer, thinking your interpretation of the law is better than the guidance given by the police. Smh
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Glowing Garden
The open space in front of San Jose Repertory Theatre at the Paseo De San Antonio Walk has always been underused. It is at a great location surrounded by a flower shop, Starbucks, Camera 12, Whispers Cafe, transit stops, and several other cafes, shops, and restaurants. However, there is only one long curb seating that normally does not generate any social activities/interactions in the area. "Glowing Garden" is an easy but awesome placemaking that will encourage people to linger as well as create a safer environment downtown using eco-friendly glowing light materials. The project includes a terrarium coffee table decorated with glowing pebbles/stones and plants inside, garden chairs around the table, and distributed glowing star stickers on the floor around the table and chairs. All glowing materials will be activated by natural sunlight during the day and the powder contained within them will produce a radiant that glows over several hours in the dark. The "Glowing Garden" will look totally different transforming from a normal garden during daytime into a glowing garden at nighttime!
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Lucifer is a name frequently given to the Devil in Christian belief. This usage as a reference to a fallen angel stems from a particular interpretation of Isaiah 14:3-20,a passage that speaks of someone who is given the name of "Day Star" or "Morning Star" (in Latin, Lucifer) as fallen from heaven.
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Didn't he blame injury and underpayment reports on union spies last time?
surprised more people dont call this shit out
I hope one of his rockets explodes and melts his body into goop.
can't you see how much this upsets him you commie bastard?
peak liberalism
Protestantism was a mistake.
Oh boo fucking hoo, how about you actually try and do some of the jobs on the production line and see how you like it instead you shit for brains.
Jesus fucking Christ i thought i had it bad but this is a new level of faggotry holy fuck
They do the same shit where i work, except most of the shit they give us shit about is beyond our control and is mostly problems caused by the management.
Analysis: Colbert is really desperate to regain the attention he got when he pissed off Bush face to face at that dinner
We need the workers to take over the factory.
This article is pretty depressing tbqh.
From I've gathered, your average redditor still continue to suck his dick on /r/news and /r/futurology because "dude factory work is hard for everybody, this article is biased lmao".
And they all ignore this part :
Of course, they do, they hope all their astroturfing will pay, and that the nerdy engineers regularly browsing HackerNews and reddit will take a loan in the near future to buy one of their cars.
Also, that "dude I slept on the floor, I know how hard it is lmao" part is ridiculous. I did the same thing the last weekend to go party with my friends, come on, just shut the fuck up.
I'm glad to not be a burger at least. Factory work can be very hard where I live but not that exhausting. Respect for those of you who work in such shitty conditions.
Everyone knows Musk chews up employees and spits them out when he's done. I've never seen a comment to the contrary.
Shut up, commie. Working long hours doing high level planning and delegation is as taxing as solving engineering problems or working on a line.
I used to believe this as well, but then I actually started working in a factory.
Dystopia is the future for workers.
All your life force and energy is for the sake of pleasure for liberal and conservative (though they won't admit it in court) lifestylists
fuckin' hell…he should be put on a Mcdonald's restaurant on the frying potatoes station everyday, receiving the same sallary others do.
After some months he would start looking at the world in a different way.
Yeah, I guess that why I routinely hear stories of CEOs having chronic back pain and spinal cord injuries from their work.
I can't tell satire from reality anymore, pls let me out of this nightmare
you clearly never worked a minute in a factory
So why the fuck are they working for him. Why don't they change job or start their own?
But that would be violent. You're not violent are you?
I would rather see him and his Bay Area friends losing most of their fortune in a sudden dotcom bubble 2.0 tbqh.
Correction: You and your friends will lose their fortunes to bailout silicon valley like the banks were in 2008. Have fun working until you're 95 :^)
I've been seeing a lot of the same response on half /g/ "just start your own company if you're not happy" "create your own alternative retard" over telecoms fucking people over. I have to ask, with what fucking money and expertise?
Another reminder that California is a Feudal society. Not far from this plant was the Ghost Ship fire, caused by a greedy landlord who didn't maintain the building. Also, that kid was executed at Fruitvale Station by a BART cop. Not to mention the rampant gentrification that is driving workers to greater acts of desperation Remember this the next time someone talks about California or the Bay Area as a left wing utopia.
(The work going on in Richmond is good progress though)
what a novel idea, it's not like you're describing 90% of the DEMOCRATIC FUCKING PARTY
"Yeah I mean the comune driven factories of soviet russia(not tru communism btw) was so much better than the modern cappitalist driven ones" - leftypol
what did you think
no, seriously. he's basically black science man with a budget.
If everyone who self-identified as such were thrown into a big pot of boiling oil the world would be a better place.
The East Bay is where the factories are but they are also one of the most socialist parts of the country, the East Bay DSA meets at a library of Marxism. The Richmond city council (where Chevron is headquartered and has their main refinery) has a number of young left-liberal (aka American Socialists) in their city council working to provide a safe place for workers to live. It's San Francisco and San Jose that have the techies and the rich live mostly in Marin with some in Berkeley.
I think if you want to live on the West Coast and be part of a socialist movement in the USA then the bay area is the best place for you. It's way cheaper to live in the Central Valley or north of Sacramento but the cost to your well-being is pretty high although you do have access to some beautiful countryside (you need to drive to it if you live in the CV).
"We're losing money, so why would we cut corners to try to lose less money? Checkmate, commies. Anyway, we're cutting corners so you don't lose your job so be grateful."
"He was dead when I got here, officer. Besides, he had it coming."
lol so apparenty talking how much you wanna build a rocket for rich people to go to mars in reddit AMAs isn't profitable?
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Riezler on the situation of the world
Kurt Riezler (1882-1955) may or may not have been read by McLuhan or Bohm. But even if they did not, his 1940 Physics and Reality is important to consider in the context of their work in multiple perspectives.
Riezler’s short book is a consideration in the name of Aristotle of modern physics. Both for the sake of the dire situation of the world (not only on account of the then raging WW2) and for the sake of physics itself, Riezler recommended a return to the Greeks and to the notion (particularly developed by Aristotle) of the implication of possibility with actuality — or, in Bohm’s terms, of the implicate with the explicate order. Indeed, in the course of the book, Riezler raised a series of issues which are close to those found in McLuhan and Bohm and which, therefore, may be considered as additional jigsaw pieces for comparison to theirs. Further, Riezler had been close to Heidegger before emigrating to the US so that his work served to introduce little appreciated aspects of Heidegger’s thought without weighting them with Heidegger’s name or with the further complications of Heidegger’s difficult texts. Further yet, by applying Aristotle and Heidegger to modern physics, Riezler placed them in a context outside of philosophy where verification or falsification might be possible in a way, or ways, that are impossible within it.
Riezler’s analysis of the contemporary world closely matched those of McLuhan and Bohm:1
You are caught in a maze, snared by habits and trapped by methods from which you cannot free yourselves. (…) You have the most ingenious instruments, you use the most efficient methods, you know the most astounding laws. Your ships, automobiles, airplanes, and radios unite the globe and connect events. Your catapults pull down cities and upturn stones from the bottoms of your fields. You endow your rulers with superior technical means that choke all possibilities of opposition. (…) The most intense of all your experiences is your desire for knowledge; [but] in vain do I look for the place of this experience in your scheme of the Universe. There is no place [for it]. This, not your successes, is what astonishes me most. This experience has not and cannot have a place in your scheme. You have shut yourselves off from Nature. The further you penetrate into what you call nature the more elusive you become to yourselves. What, by Zeus, have you been doing? (…) You have opened between your comprehension of yourselves and your knowledge of Nature a chasm that engulfs in darkness your common being. You realize it. In all the splendor of your inventions this is your secret grief and the scandal of your science. (…) I must confess a tinge of admiration in my horror. This world [of yours], however, is merely the world of your anonymous observer: a world of [instrumental] pointer readings. (…) It is bleak and barren and lacks sun despite its lucidity. (…) I have been wondering how you are able to live in this world without freezing. (…) Your science is a mirror inadequate to the object to be reflected. There is something to which it is and must be blind. You are not able even to name this something, let alone detach it from the qualities of the mirror and separate the object from its reflection. (…) In this mirror neither everything that is can appear nor can everything appear as it is. The mirror both fails to reflect and distorts. This is its nature. In the image you cannot separate the qualities of the thing reflected from those of the mirror. You cannot know what is omitted and what distorted. Your mirror has begotten the image with the thing. You cannot distinguish the qualities of the [thing] parent in the [image] child. This inadequacy of the mirror to reflect the thing has led you up to now to conclude that the mirror must be ·transformed. From Newton to Einstein you have done this successfully. Now [today with quantum mechanics] there seems to be a limit beyond which you cannot go. (…) By the wonder of the harmony between calculation and observation Nature has led you astray from the reality you are yourselves into a net of concepts, in which you yourselves are futile, your weal and woes dumb, your experience a paper of ciphers you are neither able nor willing to read: World and Being are disconnected. You have no way of understanding the nature of yourselves in the light of Nature outside yourselves, no way of comprehending Nature as one and the same in ruling yourselves and in ruling the myriads of beings. Thus you feel homeless and isolated wherever you are. Amid your vast knowledge you miss the very knowledge you were born to desire. (…) You deal with abstractions, no longer with physical things. (…) Again and again just that in which the realness of reality resides will elude you. It must. (…) Here you are blocked, fenced in by your own procedure. (…) Your cosmos is a void. Reality has evaporated into numbers (…) into the void of bodiless abstractions. (…) When rulers of another breed run the enormous machines of your states and use your discoveries as means for their ends, and everywhere thought is banished into secret societies, you may one day be disposed to ask my question and ponder my answer [as proferred in this book].2
1. As well as those of Innis and Havelock.
2. Physics and Reality: pages 3, 3, 4, 4, 14, 14, 14, 28, 35, 61, 105, 105, 112, 115, 117.
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Creating The Universal Roman
Rome had long struggled to cope with the drain on finances as its riches were robbed whilst being transported to Rome. Rome’s Senate could never agree on a means to resolve the problem: provide the conquered with a Roman identity to induce respect, honesty and loyalty. Offering people membership of Rome.
Only those born of or in Rome, with family names could be called Roman. An associate identity could be conferred so in Britain there existed the Roman Britanni, in Germany the Roman Saxoni and so on. But it was not enough and worse still, it had no significance in Rome where admission was denied.
In one dramatic development Constantine used a religion to make membership of, identity with and reverence to Rome universally applicable. Through this religion and a church Rome would be brought to the people. A universal Roman identity became available and the literal translation of the (Greek) word Catholic is universal.
Constructing this identity, church and faith to Rome’s end had begun and Rome was saved.
Constantine himself, despite being visited personally by Jesus and receiving the confirmation of the messianic prophecy being fulfilled with the acceptance that only one God exists, only converted to Christianity on his deathbed. Though historians claim his delay in baptism was because he desired baptism in the River Jordan where Jesus, along with reputedly innumerable other would be the messiah Christ, was baptised. However others claim he continued to worship Sol, the sun God, until just before his death. Ends
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1. Yes Constantine worshipped the Sun God, but was his name not Apollo in Rome’s multi God culture?
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What if
What if you had all the money in the world? All the love. The fame. Power. Besides getting a penis extension and a face tattoo, what else would you do?
Most of us have the same usual crap bucket: Travel the world, cure a disease, and tell everyone how to live their lives. You can expand the list until it bursts into a confetti of recycled desires and until you have variations of the same question:
What if you are unhappy?
Most unhappiness is living your reality to reach a hypothetical state and realizing it’s not what you wanted when you get there. But there’s a realization even worse.
Knowing you didn’t need all that much to do what you have always wanted to do.
Yeah, bungee jumping, wine-tasting, and making out in an airplane lavatory takes like six hours and 600 bucks, combined, and much like reading that book you now want to write, they all involve vomit.
The treadmill trope about routine-induced boredom is not so much about being bored. It’s about the illusion that you are getting closer to what you want. And what you want is another treadmill. Your life’s hardship is that you need a vacation to get away from your humdrum comfort. It’s why you always get back right before the vacation turns boring.
You preserve your wants inside the cold storage of success. Your desires are not things you want as much as things you have to want to make it look like you know what you are doing with your life. How small is it? You know what I am talking about.
Renunciation (n): To have your desires be so thoroughly obliterated, not because you can finally do anything you want, but because you can finally see none of this is what you wanted.
The hypothetical question about having everything is less about everything you can do once you have it all, and more about all the things you are not doing, now.
The question you need to confront is not in the end.
What if you are happy?
It’s in the beginning.
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1. The recent pixar movie Soul is based on similar theme. its disappointing. including this essay. seriously? is that all we geniuses have got? “live in the moment” “all the things you are not doing now”!
where disappoint ends, frustration and anxiety starts. the anxiety is that no answer other than this is a plausible explanation/conclusion. the anxiety of realizing its just a treadmill. btw thanks for that analogy. though i too end up with same thing, I am eagerly looking for some alternate plausible explanation. even not sure why.
I wrote something inline with this last weekend (the later part), the metaphor is in continuation so had to add the initial part: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V0P8jXA61NinsDMeUXZPh8MFLeuRyEF6mvqs-Xy2qu0/edit?usp=sharing
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skin and sin
I found a suspicious thingie on my skin and went to the dermatologist, who decided it absolutely had to be removed because my insurance company would pay for it.
(It’s totally benign. The pamphlet I was given pretty much stated it had to be benign. But payment was forthcoming, so off it came.)
The dermatologist took out a spray can of liquid nitrogen and sprayed the spot, and that was the end of the treatment. She told me that it would form a scab, and when the scab came off, the thingie would be gone too.
Since I’m not in the habit of TMI on this weblog and since it’s not going to kill me, you’re wondering why I bothered telling you, and it’s because I had a Thought.
A long time ago, I came up with what I call “core theory.” The idea is that an action or a decision changes you only inasmuch as it penetrates to the core of you. So, for example, cutting someone off in traffic might not penetrate very deeply into your core, but driving recklessly would bespeak a casualness about others’ lives that would penetrate deeply. Grabbing an extra napkin at Wendy’s wouldn’t go to the core of you, but stealing from a neighbor would.
Evangalicals claim that Catholics get all strange about sin by diving them into “venial” and “mortal,” but the Bible does distinguish between sin that kills the soul and sin that just makes it filthy. Of course all sin is offensive before God, but it’s understood that not all sin is of the same calibre. Killing a bug isn’t the same as killing your brother.
By the same token, virtues can either be on the surface or go all the way to your core. That’s why a widow giving two copper coins was singled out by Jesus as giving “everything she had” whereas the rich giving much more weren’t recognized. Gifts given from the heart mean more than gifts given thoughtlessly.
The dermatologist explained to me about this skin thingie, how it didn’t go deep in my skin and therefore could just get frozen off. Another thingie apparently went deeper, and that needed to be cut out; I needed to be numbed for that. In fact, it seems that dermatologists classify skin thingies in part by how deep they go.
Eventually the scab did come off: I hadn’t thought to look at the thing in a few days, and when I did, it just fell off, and the skin beneath was pink and smooth. I really thought, looking at it, if only the sins came off my soul the same way.
And maybe they do: maybe the ones that don’t penetrate to the core, the venial or non-killing kinds of sins, do come off that easily in the light of God, the blood of the Lamb. Maybe once we see what’s really worthwhile, we let go of those things as easily as a scab we don’t need any longer, and what’s left beneath is new and pink and healthy.
The challenge, therefore, is to keep the bad stuff confined to the surface, and let the good stuff go all the way to your core.
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That’s a really nice analogy! I like it!
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~Chinatown, Chicago
~71 year old Asian man
Alphonso Joyner fired more than 20 times at Woom Sing Tse as he walked down a sidewalk a few blocks from his home Tuesday afternoon, Murphy told Judge Maryam Ahmad. A man accused of gunning down a 71-year-old grandfather in Chinatown appeared in court Thursday as prosecutors said they had no clue why he opened fire, other than “sometimes individuals just do evil things.”
71 year grandfather shot multiple times and murdered walking to get the newspaper
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Faith in the Future
Todd Black |
We operate from "Timeless Principles and Practices for Long-Term Success". These are the philosophical underpinnings of long-term success in the achievement of our goals so we can live our Ideal Lives. This is a part of the mindset of success in building a financial plan and a portfolio that is a servant of that plan.
This month, I'm focusing on Principle Number One: Faith in the Future.
The motto of this Principle is:
"I can't know exactly HOW it's going to turn our all right; I just know that it's GOING to turn out all right."
This isn't a "Pollyana" attitude or naiveté, although I can understand why one might think so. I'm not trivializing the potential dangers of the extreme measures that have been taken to navigate the pandemic.
I'm a student of history and economics. I recognize the depth and scope of the complexities that we're dealing with in the global economy. We haven't been through these exact circumstances before, but we've seen similar circumstances, and even worse circumstances, and global economic growth has resumed.
In the course of our lifetimes, we've seen the post-World War II economic boom as a global middle class grew out of the destruction and chaos of the decimation of Europe and Asia. We've been through the Cold War, the violent social upheaval of the 1960's, the stagflation of the 1970's, the boom of the 1980's, the crash of 1987, the Asian meltdown of 1997, the dot-com bubble of 2002, the Great Recession of 2007-2009 and the brief bear market of 2020. During each of these times, the magnitude of the headwinds that we had to overcome were significant..
Admittedly, our current situation is different than those challenges. But I believe, as do most Wall Street analysts and the money managers that I interact with, that once we get through the policies that we've inflicted on the global economy to contain the pandemic, that life will get back to normal and economic growth will resume.
I had the privilege of knowing people that were in the ruins of Europe on V-E Day. After experiencing the horrors of that epoch of history, which none of them thought they would survive, they were in a hurry to get back to living their lives and making a better life for their children and grandchildren. It led to the biggest economic boom in the history of mankind. They didn't foresee the technological innovations that were to lead where we are now, although they were a part of it, in their own way. They just got up every morning and went to work. That desire to provide, and continued innovation is going to continue.
People all over the world want to get back to work to provide for their families. This pandemic will end and life will resume. The path to that resumption in prosperity might not be evident to us now, but it will happen. There's always a worst-case scenario and a best-case scenario. Statistically, it generally falls somewhere in the middle.
All we can do is make smart choices and focus on our personal economy. We can't control anything else.
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The Allan Holdsworth Interview, Part Four
Continued from Part Three
What’s the status of the crowd funding project for Tales from the Vault?
Tales From The Vault turned into a bit of a disaster, actually. There were some older tracks that I’d done before with Ernest and Joel but I never finished; I was going to finish them for the pledge campaign, but basically the money ran out. Compared to other people I don’t produce albums very quickly. So I ended up not using some of those tunes; it wasn’t financially possible for me to do it.
Tell me about the new album you have in the works.
For the very newest album with Virgil Donati, Jimmy Haslip and Jimmy Johnson, I basically did it on the computer. And I had a hard time with that, because I’m not very savvy with computers. I use the computer in a very limited manner; I use it like an old-fashioned tape machine: Play, forward, fast forward and rewind. That’s about as much as I know!
The record is for Steve Vai’s Favored Nations label. It’s been very energetic, and I’ve been inspired to write tunes for the band. It will get finished before the end of this year, because I’ve decided I wasn’t going to be doing any touring – or very limited touring – because I’m too old. I don’t enjoy it anymore. I like playing, but I don’t like the traveling part; I don’t like airplanes, and I don’t like going through security.
Part of the reason it was so long between records is that I’ve moved three or four times in that period. And each time we had to pull the studio apart and rebuild it somewhere else. So I didn’t have anywhere to work, really. Combine that with being on the road, and I never seemed to have the time to do it. That’s why I decided to take some time off to work on these recordings. The down-side of that is trying to survive: when I’m working on a record, I’m not making any money.
Other than using computers instead of two-inch tape, how would you say that your approach to making albums has changed over the years?
It’s basically changed by default, just by the way people do things. Before – in the old days – people would rent a really nice studio for a few days, and we could play everything more or less together. And if we had to overdub something, that was fine. Then we’d spend a few days or a week or so mixing it, and then Bob’s your uncle.
But now people just send files over the internet, and more often than not, you’re not in the same room, or at least not at the same time. The technology forced a change; that’s why so many studios went out of business.
Do you think something’s been lost with the demise of the old way of doing things?
Yeah, you always lose something. But you gain things, too. It’s possible to make very high quality digital recordings if you use very high sample frequencies like 96kHz or above.
Still, anybody who’s worked on a really great analog two inch tape machine in a studio knows that you can’t do that on a little digital recorder. It’s blatantly obvious, but nobody cares. They’re playing it all over their iPhone!
I have to ask about the box set’s title. It doesn’t sound like something that you would do, to call them up and say, “Hey, here’s what I’d like you to call it.”
I was absolutely horrified when I saw the box set. I never saw the actual cover until it was already in production. I went ballistic: “You can’t say that on the front of an album, ‘The Man Who Changed Guitar Forever!’” I would like if you could explain to your readers that I didn’t know about that. When I saw the title, I went, “Aaahhh!”
The guys know me; they know my personality. You know, it’s not something I’d say: “Here I come, king of men.” I heard it was just going to be called The Allan Holdsworth Album Collection. It was too late to shake the tree. Some of the material suffered from the amount of time since the masters were made, and I know that the record company had spent a lot of money on remastering. In the end, I just said, “Well, it’s my own fault; I should have asked them to show me exactly what they were doing.” It was just unexpected, that’s all.
They did a great job on everything else. It’s a limited edition; the box will go away, and eventually there will just be individual albums.
You’ve been a musician most of your life, and a recording artist for nearly 50 years. Was there a point in your career when you thought to yourself, “I’ve made it”?
No, I never thought of it like that. Like a lot of musicians, I was just trying to survive, but survive doing something that I really enjoyed as opposed to it turning into a day job. So I got the pleasure from that, and I could continue to learn.
And that never stops. I’ve known a long time ago that I’ll never really know very much about music, no matter how long I live. That’s just how it is: when you get over one milestone, there’s another one bigger than the last one.
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Lexington Christian Academy
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Sited on a beautiful, 30-acre campus, Lexington Christian Academy is an independent, faith-based, college preparatory school.
the project team successfully navigated a difficult development process - one that addressed significant neighborhood concerns and technical challenges. expanded the building footprint and improved parking availability, landscaping, lighting, and drainage facilities.
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L. Neil Smith's
Number 340, October 9, 2005
Tenth Anniversary Edition, Part 2
Anybody But George?
Anybody But Hillary?
by L. Neil Smith
Attribute to The Libertarian Enterprise
At the same time, it never undoes whatever its predecessor did to us.
Once we've had enough of them, we turn to somebody from the Old Regime to save us, but not only do we end up stuck with what was done to us the first two times around, we now have to spend all our time and energy fighting off even bigger and "better" enchroachments on our lives and freedom, because the Old Regime thinks it has some kind of mandate.
Meet the new boss, as Pete Townshend warned us, same as the old boss.
I've described the American political process myself as a system of ratchets, cranking ever tighter around our necks. The "pawl"—the little part that flips up readily enough when the noose is tightening, but drops into place and blocks any possible reversal—is the false idea we have that one half of the system is better or worse than the other.
There is a lingering notion among many libertarians, for example, arising, I think, from the movement's origin and early history, that Republicans are somehow better—have more regard for personal and economic freedom—than Democrats. Not even the blatant excesses and insanities of the past five years seem to be enough to convince them otherwise.
Such individuals appear to come in three categories:
The first are falsely self-proclaimed libertarians, mostly within the Libertarian Party structure, who have convinced themselves that George Bush's war in the middle east—and the destruction of the Bill of Rights it's being used as an excuse to carry out—is a good idea;
Organized Objectivists—pardon me, students of Objectivism—who are so enamored of the Israeli Totalitarian State they'll gladly suffer any violation of their own established principles to support it;
And libertarians who think they're being clever by embedding themselves within the Republican Party in the pathetically foolish belief that they can somehow steer the GOP, instead of being steered, themselves, further and further away from everything it means to be libertarian.
These are all known entities,of course, which real libertarians have learned to deal with or ignore. The new danger is libertarians who, because of their utter loathing for George Bush, are beginning to invest their hopes in Democrats and others on the Left who happen to share that loathing with them for the moment, and basically nothing else.
This is as big a mistake as allying ourselves with Republicans. To demonstrate that, I have composed a list of questions libertarians ought to be asking of the Left before they leap into unholy political matrimony. Me, I'm addressing these questions to the Woman with One Eyebrow herself, but you should try them out on any Democrat that you know.
Who knows—the treachery and hypocrisy they reveal may even turn a few of them, with genuine concerns about this war and the police state it has spawned, toward our side of the (Zero Initiation of) Force. But remember, any excuses they make—or that you feel inclined to make for them—put you in the same category as the apologists for Republicans.
Okay, here we go:
1. Senator Clinton, if you're elected President of the United States, Will you end the US occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan and withdraw our troops from the more than 160 nations where they're currently stationed?
2. Will you repeal, nullify, or otherwise dispose of the vile Patriot Act and abolish the Orwellian-sounding Department of Homeland Security?
3. Will you put an end to the fascistic "no-fly" list, open it to public scrutiny, ensure its victims are properly compensated and those who have enforced it are punished, and generally restore freedom to transportation?
4. Will you take immediate and effective action to demilitarize the police, remove the military presence from civilian life, enforce the much-abused Posse Comitatus, and put an end to the oppressive police state atmosphere that has settled over America like blanket of killer smog?
5. Will you shut down illegal concentrations camps like Guantanamo, and put a permanent and total end to the torture being practiced there?
6. Will you effectively prosecute George Bush, John Ashcroft, Dick Cheney, and their many cronies and co-conspirators, for their crimes against the American people, the people of the world, and the Bill of Rights?
7. Will you continue the suicidal policies of the last 60 years, or do what actually needs to be done to eliminate the threat of terrorism—principally, remove our interference in the lives and business of others?
The first time I saw Hillary Clinton, I remarked to my wife, "That woman has the smell of the deathcamps on her." Bitter experience leads me to expect that the answers to all of my questions will be "No", which brings to another question, one that I address to the people of America:
Why has it always seemed to come down to a choice for Americans—a false choice, at that—between Democratic socialism and Republican fascism?
Or Democratic fascism and Republican socialism?
Especially when there's so little effective difference between the two?
Especially when a genuine choice—between unencumbered liberty and every variety of oppression, right, left, and center—is never offered?
Who benefits from that?
It certainly isn't America.
It certainly isn't us.
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Now, ok, i'll ask a question. Is your goal really weight hurt? Unless you attempt to create a weight class for wrestling or some other sport with weight classes, you might imagine that your ultimate goal is weight loss, however it really really will not be. You are trying to lose that flubbery stuff attached to a body called FAT. Correct?
Hopefully it isn't you. By now, you've read for this many different diets by name a person can can choose from. Atkins Diet, the Zone Diet, the Scarsdale diet, to name a few. All of the diets have merit.
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Birthday Horoscope March 27th
Birthday Horoscope March 27th
If your Birthday is March 27th and your Zodiac Sign is Aries
Birthday Horoscope for those who were born on March 27th under the Zodiac sign Aries
March 27th Persona Profile
People born specifically on the 27th of March are envisaged as sensitive yet brave and unusually for an Aries seem to let their heart dictate their head. This particular day's ruling astrological planet is Mars, the same celestial body that rules over all ram temperaments. If you have this birthday a bold outer conceals a soft sweet inner, so you are mostly realistic and blunt but loving and very hard to fool. Your tenaciousness directs you to go your own way, make decisions impulsively and have diverse tastes. It can also cause you to get occasionally preoccupied with impractical ideas and come across as a little bossy. Despite this you are really helpful, understanding, supportive and warm natured underneath. You are quick to learn and have an intuitive sense of social trends and fashion that gives you a modern outlook. Individuals with a March the twenty seventh birthday usually support humanitarian views and loathe any form of injustice.
March 27th Work and Finances
Work is of considerable importance to a person born on the twenty seventh of March due to your highly motivated hunger for success. You are likely to be drawn toward professional careers with long term prospects and the opportunity of promotions. Any occupation that generates a strong feeling of accomplishment will appeal to you. Financial stability is frequently equally as important when choosing a job. You are skillful at managing your finances and responsible when it comes to paying your fair share. A keen eye for a bargain is usually the only thing that will encourage you to overspend.
March 27th Personal Relationships
As an Aries, the person born on the twenty seventh day of March is untypically not in a hurry to settle down to a committed relationship. In spite of this unimportance for a loving personal relationship you are usually enthusiastic, passionate and emotionally sentimental concerning romance. You are a mix of a private homebody who enjoys quiet and a fun loving mingler with a love of loud exciting atmospheres. A caring individual whose heart definitely rules their body and mind, you may not be overly affectionate but you regard togetherness highly and are intensely loyal. With a soul mate your high sex drive and few inhibitions make you playful and confident yet gentle in the bedroom. You are best suited to a partner that has a similar libido and appreciates your need to retain a bit of indendence and be occasionally uncompromising.
March 27th Health
Occasional lapses in health experienced by those born on March 27th are every now and then a consequence of inattention to your general well being. You seem to put equal vigor and endurance into everything you do and expect your body to just cope. Your mental clarity and levels of concentration could be the areas that suffer most from fatigue, evoking bluntness and moody stubborn moments. One aspect of healthiness you rarely ignore is what you eat. People born on this day often have healthy appetites for natural nutritious foods and many are top notch cooks who are adventurous in the kitchen.
March 27th Strengths and Weaknesses
Your main strengths of character are possibly within the levelheaded sensitivity and self reliance you possess. This buoyant spirit and realism alongside your receptiveness assist you in more often than not keeping on top of things. Recognizable personality weaknesses for those born on March 27th are your tendencies to be once in a while forgetful or self neglectful. Another negative trait worth mentioning is your proneness to act in a disagreeable or pushy manner. This comportment personates more commonly if you overtax yourself by trying to do too much at once and not resting for long enough.
March 27th Dreams and Goals
Being born on the 27th of March bestows you with lots of motivation to achieve meaningful things for yourself and others. You may have big aspirations but they are not usually unrealistic and so you remain quite hopeful in your expectations. Your hard working approach and optimism spur you on and keep you focused on personalized targets. In your dreams you are likely to wish for the chance to travel and see a bit of the world and maybe do something positive for those less fortunate. While dreaming you can have some great sparks of inspiration that could prove useful in attaining goals.
March 27th Birthday Luck and Significance
As you were born on the twenty seventh day of the month the two and the seven in your birth date amount to a Root number of Nine. This numerical reference to your birthday has the special keyword 'Seeker' highlighting both the impulsiveness and sense of fairness you have. In Tarot the 9th card in the Major Arcana, the Hermit, is closely associated with your birthday. This signifies your fondness of home and requirement for tranquility and privacy. The luckiest gemstone for March the twenty seventh birthdays is the Bloodstone, wear it for improved finances and enhanced memory and alertness.
March 27th Horoscope Summation
The basic Aries personality traits and inclinations are presumed to be astrologically influenced by the planet Mars. The actual day you were born on, the twenty seventh of March is believed also governed by Mars's cosmic power. This amplified planetary influence determines the little differences that deviate from the typical description of your zodiac sign. The touch of softness in your disposition counteracts the difficult to deceive toughness resulting in you making reasonable judgments. Your sensitiveness is sensible and along with your independence inspires you to be fairly open-minded and a good close friend. Your occasional hastiness and tendency for preoccupation should diminish as you mature. A few final thoughts for people born on March the 27th is to realize that you are not indestructible and that learning to compromise is not to be seen as a weakness.
March Birthday Horoscope
Comments: Birthday Horoscope March 27th
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Dawn 2018-08-08 13:46:32
So accurate! so many enthusiastic and positive 27/3 people 😃
Adina 2018-02-08 14:06:19
Everything was so true we have the Best Birthday Thank God. 😃 😎 🙂 😉 😄
mercy 2017-03-19 10:07:27
gosh...this is exactly me 🤔
Daniel Rico 2017-01-12 13:58:51
Wow! This is somewhat me, I was more interested in the comments tho, especially where someone first mentioned the number 27 being significant! I've always said that! Also I've noticed quite a few of my good friends are born on the 27th or different months of course. Rock on! 27! 😨
ChrisTopher SAnd 2016-08-25 07:55:04
1989 March 27 here.
Spectacular- amazing is how I classify.
mouli 2016-08-22 00:28:29
Fella....! I knew who I same as aforesaid.bang the world all March 27ths
Debbie 2016-07-19 12:37:41
WOW!this is great,I kept on denying dah I was reading abt me,I can't do dah anymore,I believe all of it,Am so blessed along side with everyone on d 03.27 list
Jeerry 2016-06-27 23:04:35
This Is so Amazing #TeamAries
Valy 2016-06-09 05:58:41
Wow so true
Shaunda 2016-04-03 03:12:40
Match 27th the number 9 was told to me before yass good ppl
Daniel 2016-03-11 07:20:40
Tank God am aries born on 27 march i love aries we are the ram that takes everypart...we are blessed,nd we are bloodstone...diamond
Avabore 2016-01-17 04:22:46
Is it not great to know that, "the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world" which is the ignorance of the world at the vernal equinox is actually "Aries the Ram"
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LessOriginal 2015-12-10 11:29:38
I always knew March 27th was a golden day Aries literally are the best!!!
Question: am I the only one with the obsession for odd numbers? Specifically 3,5,7 & 9?
Jess 2016-12-12 08:10:34
Nope! I always see the numbers 2, 3, 5, 7, 9 and they have had a huge significance in my life 🙂
Jane P 2016-03-25 09:57:06
Wow! Those are my numbers too. 27th sure is good for some of us
Rissy_27 2015-10-22 22:12:23
Someone tell me how this happened already?? A clean ......
karz 2015-10-03 11:07:46
Yes this is me. We are beautiful loyal sensitive beings.we make the most of our lives. And have strong magnetism and great qualities. Very original and unique. Lucky us to have 27th as our birthday.
razzy 2015-09-30 11:34:50
Without you having the time , country,and year of birth I find it your accuracy quite surprising, I would say 85% of this fits me.
Kevin Frost 2015-08-22 22:17:34
SOOOOO we should all get together! some how meet up, I bet all of us would have a f***ing blast!
DevineLove 2015-08-05 23:32:34
Thanks 4 this,almost true except the Godly part. We love GOD and we are Jesus fricks...yap!
If u are 03.27 please u really need Christ it will complete u in all area.
Katherine 2015-05-27 13:19:00
March people! 🙂
dancinggal 2015-05-23 00:50:30
I stumbled on this and kept reading to find something that wasn't accurate....Didn't happen. 100% Yaa for March 27th!!!
oat 2015-05-18 07:27:10
hehe very true and hello all from 27th Marchwish u the best in life
Anju chatterjee 2015-05-09 22:39:47
Its true I'm just like that 100%matchedwith me yuppy
moxie 2015-04-28 17:39:55
I agree. I will try wearing the bloodstone.
Connie 2015-03-27 18:12:26
You are 100% right. We are the best.
ariya bambusch 2015-03-27 11:55:03
I think it was a hundred percent accurat
Monica 2015-03-26 05:52:45
Yea I would say 50 percent is me.
Baraniko Eromanga 2015-03-17 18:08:42
It like 90% of me. It teaches me alot of myself. Thanks for your effort in trying to analyse each dates.
maria 2014-12-28 12:37:27
It is indeed and nothing but me! Sooo true!
Brian 2014-10-09 19:39:13
This is me- 100% from beginning to end!
Avabore Bosomo 2014-09-23 19:07:12
This is a totally accurate description of me, I am almost speechless.
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Why is uTorrent so much slower compared to Transmission?
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with the same system (Max OS X 10.5.8) and same connection, Transmission can usually download at max speed at around 150KB/s while uTorrent 0.9.2 is always stuck at around 20KB/s for the same torrents.
My connection is a residential LAN so it has no UPnP and I can't set port forward, but then it's the same for Transmission and it can download much faster. I wonder if Transmission has some better technique in downloading from behind firewalls and routers than uTorrent?
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well, I HIGHLY doubt it's just chance, since I've observed this behavior for more than a dozen torrents already. For example, I just start a torrent in Transmission, wait for 5 minutes, and it goes to 150KB/s, and wait another ten minutes, it stays at around 150KB/s. And I exit Transmission, start the same torrent in uTorrent, wait for five minutes, it stays at 20KB/s, wait another ten minutes, still 20KB/s, wait an hour, 20KB/s. Quit uTorrent, start Transmissin again, and within a couple minutes it goes to 150KB/s again.
I suspect it has something to do with my connection, as it's behind a router and there's no UPnP nor port forwarding. Maybe uTorrent and Transmission have different NAT traversal techniques? Anyway uTorrent is quite consistently slower than Transmission for those same torrents around the same time periods, so it's a bit hard to think it's just pure chance.
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I'm not new to torrents or utorrent on the mac but truth to tell the beta version 9.2 just plain sux when compared to transmission for speed, in my case it's usually around 20k down while transmission can achieve 500k on the same torrent.
However on the alpha release speed is approximately the same if not a fraction better than Transmission. So if you'r having speed issues try Transmission or the new alpha version of utorrent.
and no I don't want to know how to set up my firewall or router this is a application issue not a network issue.
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I honestly can't tell the difference because for me utorrent (0.9.3) and (0.9.3) and transmission top out at 4.7 mb/s (wired). Then again this might just be for me but I have already optimized my router for both apps forwarding the ports etc. I prefer utorrent over transmission because demonoid isn't "friendly" with transmission anymore and utorrent has a greek letter in it.
a greek letter in your app name? Now that's a grade A winner
btw using 10.5.8
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µTorrent > Transmission.
Transmission is a weird client with lots of weird UI decisions and it's slower than µT. They have too many issues and each upgrade breaks something. As soon as µTorrent became stable, I switched and never looked back. µTorrent devs are a much nicer bunch of people than Transmission devs.
Protip: Option + m = µ
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Not for me.
U is way faster than T.
I prefer the GUI on T but quite honestly all I want is the files leeched and seeded at max speed, so I can live with the lack of single file download (although I haven't read the Manual yet so it maybe possible but not intuitively from the available Open dialog...) and other niceties.
Since the latest beta T takes an age to connect and then is slow - even deleting every T item and then installing the old 1.76 or 1.76+ its still a problem. So I gave up. I won't use the user forum there as I had a serious issue with one of the developers, so I refuse to give feedback (and its gone down hill without me!!!!!!!)
I don't know enough about BT and ports and all that jazz, I just want an app that runs fast and U is doing that for me at present.
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RESOLVCONF(8) NetBSD System Manager's Manual RESOLVCONF(8)
resolvconf -- a framework for managing multiple DNS configurations
resolvconf -I resolvconf [-m metric] [-p] [-x] -a interface[.protocol] <file resolvconf [-f] -d interface[.protocol] resolvconf [-x] -il pattern resolvconf -u resolvconf --version
resolvconf manages resolv.conf(5) files from multiple sources, such as DHCP and VPN clients. Traditionally, the host runs just one client and that updates /etc/resolv.conf. More modern systems frequently have wired and wireless interfaces and there is no guarantee both are on the same network. With the advent of VPN and other types of networking daemons, many things now contend for the contents of /etc/resolv.conf. resolvconf solves this by letting the daemon send their resolv.conf(5) file to resolvconf via stdin(4) with the argument -a interface[.protocol] instead of the filesystem. resolvconf then updates /etc/resolv.conf as it thinks best. When a local resolver other than libc is installed, such as dnsmasq(8) or named(8), then resolvconf will supply files that the resolver should be configured to include. resolvconf assumes it has a job to do. In some situations resolvconf needs to act as a deterrent to writing to /etc/resolv.conf. Where this file cannot be made immutable or you just need to toggle this behaviour, resolvconf can be disabled by adding resolvconf=NO to resolvconf.conf(5). resolvconf can mark an interfaces resolv.conf as private. This means that the name servers listed in that resolv.conf are only used for queries against the domain/search listed in the same file. This only works when a local resolver other than libc is installed. See resolvconf.conf(5) for how to configure resolvconf to use a local name server and how to remove the private marking. resolvconf can mark an interfaces resolv.conf as exclusive. Only the latest exclusive interface is used for processing, otherwise all are. When an interface goes down, it should then call resolvconf with -d interface.* arguments to delete the resolv.conf file(s) for all the protocols on the interface. Here are some options for the above commands:- -f Ignore non existent interfaces. Only really useful for deleting interfaces. -m metric Set the metric of the interface when adding it, default of 0. Lower metrics take precedence. This affects the default order of interfaces when listed. -p Marks the interface resolv.conf as private. -x Mark the interface resolv.conf as exclusive when adding, otherwise only use the latest exclusive interface. resolvconf has some more commands for general usage:- -i pattern List the interfaces and protocols, optionally matching pattern, we have resolv.conf files for. -l pattern List the resolv.conf files we have. If pattern is specified then we list the files for the interfaces and protocols that match it. -u Force resolvconf to update all its subscribers. resolvconf does not update the subscribers when adding a resolv.conf that matches what it already has for that interface. --version Echo the resolvconf version to stdout. resolvconf also has some commands designed to be used by it's subscribers and system startup:- -I Initialise the state directory /var/run/resolvconf. This only needs to be called if the initial system boot sequence does not automatically clean it out; for example the state directory is moved somewhere other than /var/run. If used, it should only be called once as early in the system boot sequence as possible and before resolvconf is used to add interfaces. -R Echo the command used to restart a service. -r service If the service is running then restart it. If the service does not exist or is not running then zero is returned, oth- erwise the result of restarting the service. -v Echo variables DOMAINS, SEARCH and NAMESERVERS so that the subscriber can configure the resolver easily. -V Same as -v except that only the information configured in resolvconf.conf(5) is set.
For resolvconf to work effectively, it has to process the resolv.confs for the interfaces in the correct order. resolvconf first processes interfaces from the interface_order list, then interfaces without a metic and that match the dynamic_order list, then interfaces with a metric in order and finally the rest in the operating systems lexical order. See resolvconf.conf(5) for details on these lists.
Here are some suggested protocol tags to use for each resolv.conf file registered on an interface:- dhcp Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. Initial versions of resolvconf did not recommend a protocol tag be appended to the interface name. When the protocol is absent, it is assumed to be the DHCP protocol. ppp Point-to-Point Protocol. ra IPv6 Router Advertisement. dhcp6 Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, version 6.
If a subscriber has the executable bit then it is executed otherwise it is assumed to be a shell script and sourced into the current environment in a subshell. This is done so that subscribers can remain fast, but are also not limited to the shell language. Portable subscribers should not use anything outside of /bin and /sbin because /usr and others may not be available when booting. Also, it would be unwise to assume any shell specific features.
IF_METRIC If the -m option is not present then we use IF_METRIC for the metric. IF_PRIVATE Marks the interface resolv.conf as private. IF_EXCLUSIVE Marks the interface resolv.conf as exclusive.
/etc/resolv.conf.bak Backup file of the original resolv.conf. /etc/resolvconf.conf Configuration file for resolvconf. /libexec/resolvconf Directory of subscribers which are run every time resolvconf adds, deletes or updates. /libexec/resolvconf/libc.d Directory of subscribers which are run after the libc subscriber is run. /var/run/resolvconf State directory for resolvconf.
resolver(3), stdin(4), resolv.conf(5), resolvconf.conf(5)
This implementation of resolvconf is called openresolv and is fully com- mand line compatible with Debian's resolvconf, as written by Thomas Hood.
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Please report them to resolvconf does not validate any of the files given to it. When running a local resolver other than libc, you will need to configure it to include files that resolvconf will generate. You should consult resolvconf.conf(5) for instructions on how to configure your resolver. NetBSD 9.1 November 29, 2016 NetBSD 9.1
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The amazing work of activists across college campuses has opened up a long overdue conversation about consent and intimate training in schools.
During the time that is same horrifying rapes at high schools in Steubenville, Maryville, and Texas are becoming nationwide news stories. STD outbreaks are taking place at schools where there's no sex ed. Survivors and advocates are motivating sex that is comprehensive being a approach to combat the sexual violence that is often ignored and normalized inside our culture.
Some time ago, two Democratic senators introduced a bill, the train Safe Relationships Act of 2015, that could make it mandatory to include curriculum about permission, emotional security, and dating and domestic violence in sex training programs at general public middle and high schools. Businesses such as Partners in Sex Education in Boston, Massachusetts are usually bringing comprehensive and sex that is progressive to a lot of public schools into the town. Educators, numerous with backgrounds in queer justice and impairment justice, host workshops that show permission, communication, contraception, and healthier relationships at various middle and schools that are high.
Ontario, Canada has used a program that is new middle and high schools that will show same-sex relationships, sex identities that go beyond the binary, sexually transmitted conditions, and masturbation — among other subjects. Despite arranged hits by conservative parents, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne spoke in support of the curriculum using the badass response that angered parents " will have to consent to disagree."This is an exciting and essential time for intercourse education and consent advocacy globally, so let's take a look at added urban centers and countries where sex education is changing for the higher:
1. New Zealand
Towards the end of April, government wellness officials announced a plan to boost youths' intimate and health that is reproductive brand New Zealand not just by increasing usage of training for teenagers, but by educating community leaders about dilemmas faced by the country's younger population. Nancy Pego interracialpeoplemeet com reviews, the adolescent wellness system coordinator for Solomon Islands Ministry of Health, says the topic of youth sex is " . a little sensitive and painful within our country." Pego hopes that once older and respected community members read about the increasing price of unplanned pregnancy and STD transmissions among youth, they are going to understand the necessity for comprehensive intercourse education, and encourage teenage access to contraceptives and health information that is reproductive. The government is funding initiatives that are such Solomon Islands, Tonga, Samoa, Vanuatu, and Kiribati — elements of New Zealand where sex ed is especially lacking. Pego additionally states that the Ministry of Health is planning to develop youth relaxation facilities that offer intimate and reproductive health solutions in rural areas so that teens in those communities may have increased access to medical and academic resources.
2. England
This season, the non-public, personal, and wellness Education Association (PSHE Association), as a part of the Call to End Violence Against Women and Girls, has instituted a training system to teach sexual permission to students who are only 11! This program arrived to fruition, as the PSHE Association described, at a "crucial time." Any office for National Statistics (ONS) reports that, in 2014, over "7,000 sexual assaults against young ones aged 13 or more youthful, and more than 4,000 rapes of children under 16" were recorded by police — a piece that is horrific of. While, unsurprisingly, the program is attracting debate, instructors who possess used it within their curriculum embrace its power to educate young students about consent and healthy relationships in a safe space inside an world that is unsafe. As Phil Ward, mind instructor of Heston Community class, claims, " We must provide opportunities for young adults to think about exactly what consent means, because they're likely to face experiences in their everyday lives which may involve assault that is sexual also rape." PSHE defines consent in a relationship that is healthy an understanding that really must be straight asked for, and which can be "withdrawn at any time." The consent lessons for 11-year-olds include workouts such as telling a classmate to avoid going they feel their personal space is being invaded, and discussing who should ask for consent during an encounter wherein personal space is invaded (the person initiating the contact) towards them once. Participation within the PSHE system for 11-16 12 months old students is maybe not mandatory for schools, but we could only hope that more schools will register and follow the program within their curriculum. It is currently obvious essential it is for young children to learn that they've been permitted to state no. As a young student that is 12-year-old Ayesha said after a concept, "If a complete stranger walks your decision and does one thing that you don't like, I do believe you ought to have the self- confidence to tell him or her 'No.' Saying 'No' does not mean you're being rude. this means you do not like anyone to be entering your personal room."
3. Brand New Orleans, Louisiana
Some New Orleans politicians are describing the problems of teenage maternity and STD transmission as "out of control," and community that is many are talking about it as a crisis. To fight the upsetting state of teenage reproductive and health that is sexual Democratic State Representatives in New Orleans are currently proposing "a bill that would mandate sex education for public school students in grades seven to 12" within the Orleans Parish school region. On 29, the House Education Committee voted 8-6 to pass the bill through the House panel april. While all general public schools in brand New Orleans now have the possibility of teaching sex ed, it's not a requirement and that's just what home Bill 359 is trying to alter. The outcome of lacking training about safe sex are painfully apparent, as State Rep. Patricia Smith, D-Baton Rouge mentioned hearing some teenage girls discuss consuming Mountain Dew soda being a solution to stop pregnancies.
The option to teach sex ed to students from third grade to sixth grade if the bill becomes law, parental rights will still allow parents to remove their kids from the lessons, but the bill will also grant public schools. a bill that is similar voted down a year ago, and there is still much opposition to HB 359, especially from Christian businesses that don't want youth to know about contraceptives. Because that's exercised therefore well. If the bill is successful (FINGERS CROSSED!), comprehensive intercourse ed is mandatory starting in the 2017-18 school year.
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When I was pregnant, my girlfriends passed down all kinds of baby sleeping books to me. The 'No Cry, No Pain, Easy Breezy, Ferberize Your Baby Until They Konk Out" books. I thought those books were a crock of bull.
Babies sleep, that's basically what they do. They eat, poop, cry and sleep. They don't call it "Sleep Like a Baby" for nothing (or so I thought).
I can hear you laughing at me because obviously, I was wrong.
I began sleep training my son when he was a bit over five months old. I had no choice. He was still waking every two hours at night and his daily naps lasted for only thirty-five minutes. The boy did not know how to sleep! I was being driven over the edge. "It will all be fantastic once I sleep train him," I said to myself.
I can hear some of you laughing at me again.
It was fantastic…for him. He became a different baby with a little R & R. The problem was that even though he was sleeping through the night, I was not.
My schedule was completely out of whack. Months of running on steam with a newborn, along with the last couple months of pregnancy, when I barely slept because I couldn't get comfortable or was peeing every hour due to my bambino resting on my bladder (more like kicking it) just added to the problem. I dragged myself for quite a while until I got sick.
I started to work with a holistic health practitioner once I was diagnosed with adrenal fatigue and a thyroid condition. One of the first things she asked me was, "What is your bedtime routine?" I began to tell her about bath time, reading books, rocking and singing songs. She interrupted me. She had no interest in my son's routine, she wanted to know what I did before I went to bed.
My son's nighttime routine had been carefully laid out, timed and tweaked.
What did I do before bed? Clean or work on a client project or watch HGTV or write until I can't keep my eyes open and then stumble into bed, many times in the same clothes I wore all day. Pitiful right?
It was suggested that I create my very own bedtime routine to ensure successful sleep. It didn't have to be dramatic or take hours. It's all about preparing your body and mind for rest.
There are a couple of things that are non-negotiable.
1. Establish a bedtime and stick with it. Consistency begets sleep.
2. No TV or computer for at least 1 hour before your bedtime.
The Routine
Here's the thing, no two will look the same. You have to do what's best for you. Some people take a warm bath before bed because that relaxes them. I only take baths (in Epsom salt) when I'm achy. Some people drink tea or warm milk. Not my thing either.
There's a bit of trial and error in this process so figure out what works best for you. Try to keep it simple (no more than 5 steps) so that you can easily accomplish it every night.
Get My Butt To Sleep Things:
1. Talk a bit to my husband (who always stays up later) about non stressful topics - So no politics, money issues or common core math discussions allowed.
2. Nighttime beautifying - Brush my teeth, wash my face, facial creams and lotions, magic anti-aging potions of the moment.
3. Put on PJ's - This was a biggie for me.
4. Get into bed and read - Pre-baby I always read in bed and it helped relax me. I got out of the habit once my son arrived, but now I'm back on track.
5. Reiki (my woo woo thing) - is all about balance so I find this is the icing on cake when it comes to drifting off to la la land. Within ten minutes of starting I'm out cold.
It will take some time and consistency for this to work but I can honestly say that within two weeks of embarking on the "Great Bedtime Routine Journey" my sleep began to improve. I now drift off much quicker and stay in a deep sleep longer.
I've fallen off the wagon a few times. It happens (even with our kid's sleep habits) around the holidays and summer break. Once you've established your routine, it's easy to slide back into the groove.
Take some time and create a relaxing bedtime routine for yourself. You deserve it. Sweet dreams await you.
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Alison · Jan. 20, 2007 that i have all my implements of ease to work with, i have made my "to do list" for today,,
1. i am going to wash my hair and myself so visitors do not run from here screaming (otherwise i wouldn't waste the energy because i have other things i want to do today too) i should have done it yesterday, but i didn't, sigh. never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
2. I AM GOING TO CLEAN THE HOUSE...and everyone can just suck it up and be quiet because i am sending julie (if she doesn't read this before she comes and phone in sick) to the laundrymat to catch up on the laundry. if they don't get that dryer part in here pretty darn quick and fix that thing, i am going to scream! (it takes forever for that dryer to dry)
3. i am going to stare and ponder at that laundry area all day during my travels til i figure out a way to get up there so i can keep caught up and not get behind again. it really bugs me and it smells and i am sick of it already. so why don't they make washing and drying machines portable anyway?
4. i am a nurse and i will follow my own slightly converted nursing rules and get my foot up periodically during the day.
5. and i am going to spend a couple of hours with the big guys (just not on the couch, i will do their floor and talk to them instead.
the best thing that happened yesterday was the arrival of my personal pooper scooper AND a bunch of infant sized hats to cover my six day frozen toes...ohhhh, they feel so good when they are warm!
the donkeys have already heard me banging around in here so now i can hear them screaming hello...tomorrow i am going to get out to that barn so i can see them all but that is about tomorrow and this is about today.
ok,,,wish me luck on the washing me part...geez, what a waste of time.
I'm glad you are home. Did anyone take pictures of your homecoming? I bet it was mayhem when the dogs and cats saw you, and hopefully Jean will have a camera with her to get some shots of you and the barn guys.
So Carol,
Are you all scrubbed clean and fresh as a daisy? You are a hilarious "patient", that's for sure!
Thank you for continuing to write as on days like today, I sure need a glimmer of hope that there are animals in the world that are as loved and cared for as the ones at Saints. The rest of the world at large is not doing so well and today I am just saddened by the things I have seen.
the laundrymat on a Saturday morning is Theee place to be in Misson! I tell you! what excitment you all missed! Machines shloshing and spinning with the occasional kerthunk! whee! and! and!! oh the scent of wet clothes and soap! intoxicating! We can't forget the people! you wouldn't believe the people that come to the Mission laundrymat on a Saturday morning! I'm a bettin the only thing better would be the Mission Laundrymat on a Saturday evening! ooh my!! Anyone want to come next time? ;)
You darn well better let me be the one to take you out to the barn tomorrow (which means either in the morning or evening as I'll be gone in the afternoon) 'cuz I didn't get to see your homecoming with the dogs and I SO want to see Tunie's reaction!!!!! So if you let anyone else take you out there I will go on strike and then you will have no-one to fetch and carry and go shopping for you - so there! (Okay, I'm just kidding, but I'd really, really, really like to be there to see what Tunie does!)
Gosh Carol....just heard of your "accident" Sure hope you mend quickly before all them critters get scared off by the occasional strange sounds from the house !!
Mend fast, your critters need you !
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How Does The Taliban Victory Look To An Afghan Who Fought Alongside The U.S.?
How does the Taliban victory look to an Afghan who fought alongside the United States? This morning we reached a man who did. For his safety, we call him only Mohammed because he is living in Kabul. He's a longtime Air Force colonel. He was in his country's military academy back in 1979, just as Afghanistan's four decades of war began, and he saw it all before he retired in 2019. For many years, Mohammed served beside U.S. forces despite his doubts about the government they supported.
MOHAMMED: I thought there was a really big mistake - mistake was that the United States of America, they trusted the people who shouldn't be trusted because they were former mafia, drug smuggler, human trafficking. They steal money, and they just think about their self, not the making of government and making the nation. And I told every American who I talked with - I told them the problem in Afghanistan is the same like Vietnam, like in the South Vietnam government. I studied history. The main problem in the Vietnam was the South Vietnam corrupt government - of Americans. And the same was in Afghanistan. I told that this corrupt government will be a big problem. Everything will be waste in the end, the sacrifice of the American, the spending of the taxpayer money, everything. It will be just wasted in the end, and it became true. Today, I am witness of it.
INSKEEP: U.S. officials have said a number of times that they believed there were 300,000 Afghan troops and police and other armed forces, but there were some analysts who said it wasn't nearly that many people, that there were fewer soldiers while their commanders collected the pay of the soldiers who didn't exist. Do you believe there were 300,000 people fighting for the defense of Afghanistan at the end?
MOHAMMED: So in the papers, it was true. In the paper...
INSKEEP: On paper.
MOHAMMED: Yeah, yeah, in the paper. In the reality, maybe, it was not true. But the main point is that the leadership - the leadership is more important than the subordinate because the willingness comes from the leadership. The hope is given to the subordinates from the leadership. And also, that trust to the future, it comes from the leadership. It seems like to inject it to the personnel - when the leadership has no trust, no belief in the future or the future of the structure of the government, it is not possible to enforce or to expect subordinate to fight in the way in which we wish. So in Afghanistan, it's happened, like, the same way. When the subordinates saw that the leadership is busy with so many other things, there is no expectation from subordinate to fight.
INSKEEP: Given all you've said, were you surprised when the Taliban won so quickly in recent days?
MOHAMMED: It's more than surprise, more than surprise, because when I heard the province - my province is surrounded, I was surprised. When I heard that the Kabul corps gave up the fighting, it was surprise to me.
INSKEEP: The entire army corps did give up, yes.
MOHAMMED: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because the commander of the corps and the leadership of the government and some ministers, they did deal with the Taliban.
INSKEEP: They did deals. They cut deals for themselves, you're saying.
MOHAMMED: Yeah, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
INSKEEP: Is your family safe?
MOHAMMED: Thank God, yes.
INSKEEP: Some people have been rushing to the airport trying to get out. Have you been?
MOHAMMED: No. Because I know that without official documents, it will be not possible.
INSKEEP: What do you plan to do?
MOHAMMED: I can't say something about my plan because when you have no possibility to do something, what can you - plan something?
INSKEEP: There's nothing you can do. That's what you're telling me.
INSKEEP: I suppose you have the experience of living under the Taliban. You survived it then.
MOHAMMED: See; to stay survive, it is one thing. To live like a human being, it is another. I hope you got my point.
MOHAMMED: To stay survive, it is one thing, yes?
MOHAMMED: To have a life, it is another thing.
INSKEEP: What do you fear?
MOHAMMED: All of my children are educated. I have daughters, sons. And I just consider about their future so they will have opportunity to go work or not.
INSKEEP: Do you think people who are educated will be targets?
MOHAMMED: I'm not sure. I don't - I can't say that because it is not possible to kill the whole nation. It never happens, to kill the whole nation.
MOHAMMED: It is not possible.
INSKEEP: Do you think Afghanistan is any better for the last 20 years that the United States forces were there?
MOHAMMED: Oh, yes, it was better, and our expectation was to be much better because the amount of the wealth of - and the money which came to Afghanistan in the past, it could - to change Afghanistan completely to a different country. But because of the corrupt government and corrupt people, we lost that opportunity the past 20 years. That is thousands of thousands of - maybe million girls went to the schools. They had opportunity to go to university, schools and other things. They were social, active, and they were active in every part of the social life, and it was a lot of changing.
INSKEEP: What hope do you have for the future?
MOHAMMED: If - see; in the reality, the hope never works. The reality is different. But if we come to the hope, I hope a better Afghanistan for my children and for others - the young generation to have a good Afghanistan. But hope is hope. It's always - not become true. The hopes always stay just hope.
INSKEEP: Colonel, thank you very much for taking the time.
MOHAMMED: Thank you, too.
INSKEEP: And good luck to you. Be safe.
MOHAMMED: Bye-bye.
INSKEEP: Mohammed is a retired Afghan Air Force colonel who is in Kabul.
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The Skill of Running for Field Sport Performance
Running is a foundation skill for many field sports, but it is a skill that is seldom learned and often neglected. At the Sports Surgery Clinic, we see many GAA players, who present themselves with injuries that stem from running with poor biomechanics.
With some running re-education, involving changes to running technique supported by running drills and a strength and conditioning programme; we see patients achieve a successful outcome. As well as becoming injury-free, we help patients improve their performance by becoming better athletes.
Players in full stride
The inefficient movement comes with a high metabolic cost and early onset of fatigue. How often do we see players work rate drop or succumb to cramping in the final ten minutes of a game? It also comes with high injury risk.
Many Strength and conditioning coaches rightly urge caution against loading resistance upon players who display poor functional movement. But how many coaches are as cautious about loading volume and intensity on players who display poor running mechanics?
Player fatigued
Many injuries occur simply due to biomechanical overload. Weak or inhibited muscles not doing the job they are supposed to do cause load to be transferred elsewhere.
Common overloaded areas include the shins, anterior knee, calf muscles and Achilles tendon, hamstring, lumbar spine and groin. A forward lean from the hips, landing with the foot too far in front of the body and poor control during single-leg support; are common features.
Some acute injuries such as an ACL rupture or ankle sprain can occur due to neuromuscular fatigue enhanced by inefficient movement.
There is no one proper way to run, but there are some broad biomechanical principles that can optimize speed, power, efficiency, as well as minimize the risk of injury.
Every time we hit the ground force is applied. The output or force generated when we push off the ground must be close to the force applied. Any deficit is known as ‘energy leakage’.
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We must think of the muscles and tendons in our legs as a series of springs supported by a stable trunk. When we hit the ground these springs absorb the force and quickly recoil to develop an elastic energy response. In order to optimize this ‘spring stiffness’ and elastic energy response, certain body positions and alignment must be in place this.
Landing with a downward foot plant close to the body’s centre of mass, with the shin vertical to the ground; allows optimal elastic energy to be applied.
Maintaining a neutral ankle position (avoiding excessive dorsiflexion) and a slightly flexed knee and neutral torso position during mid-stance allows the elastic energy to be stored. An extended hip, knee and ankle when pushing off the ground, allows optimal force to be developed to propel the body forward.
The role of strength and conditioning has become more widespread in recent years to develop strength, power and for injury rehabilitation. But how much emphasis is placed on ensuring optimal technical transfer into running mechanics?
And when a player is rehabilitating from a biomechanical overload injury, does the S&C coach and physio look at making improvements to their running gait to reduce risk of reoccurrence?
Many coaches and players fall into the habit of a ‘gym-only’ approach as well as the on-field work, but perhaps neglecting the missing link of the technical transfer.
There are many running drills that if correctly implemented, can help improve running mechanics to make a faster, more efficient, robust and less injury-prone athlete. The drills need to be done with a purpose and in a timely and sequenced manner where an optimal transfer can be achieved.
Having completed a strength and conditioning session on the previous day and some mobility and pre-activation during the warm-up will ensure the body is in a more ready state to achieve good transfer from the drills. Some external cues and analogies can be very beneficial for motor learning of a new skill or movement pattern.
Changing running mechanics and maintaining those changes can be challenging and requires time. But by implementing drills, progressing them and adding variation will challenge the body to accept these new changes and make the movement robust and easier to sustain particularly under pressure and fatigue.
Once good ‘straight-line’ running has been achieved, multi-direction and multi-planar running drills can then be implemented to prepare for the game-specific demands of gaelic football and hurling. Improving running technique can not only reduce the risk of injury or injury re-occurrence but can also improve performance. This can only result in a ‘win-win’ outcome for player, coach and medical team.
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Purpose: activates ankle plantar-flexion.
Purpose: acceleration mechanics and horizontal force.
Purpose: posture, single leg control and swing leg foot carriage.
Purpose: neuromuscular control and leg stiffness
Purpose: landing mechanics and to reverse over-striding
Purpose: foot placement and to shorten ground contact time.
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This platform uses artificial intelligence to deliver specialized advertising on the internet
Vox arrives in Colombia to fight. (photo: Alternate Sector)
The pandemic has been with us for almost two years now and has definitely made radical changes in many aspects, both personally and at work. In this context, the disease of the coronavirus has brought businesses a desire to prioritize and increase digital marketing budgets to attract larger audiences and profitability. However, the congestion of digital advertising campaigns, even sometimes misleading, it has led users to see this type of increasingly invasive and irrelevant advertising.
That is why VOX is being released, a technology for digital advertising campaigns belonging to the European digital agency Performance. As a result, the media can provide additional, non-intrusive advertising space. Additionally, advertisers can deliver relevant content and increase their impression share.
The data: according to a study carried out this year by Blockthrough, By the end of 2020, the use of ad blocking increased 10% (527 million total users) on mobile devices and 8% (257 million total users) on computers.
Block advertising. (photo: Snsmarketing)
Block advertising. (photo: Snsmarketing)
VOX is then posed as a solution for advertisers, publishers and especially users. “By thinking about your needs, we have a creative ad that the audience doesn’t want to close and that generates a CTR (click-through rates) 10 times higher than programmatic ads. We are talking about the revolution of the much sought return on investment ”, indicates Maria Dulnikiewicz, CEO of Performante.
Its objective is to shape the history of the brand, apply it and thus predict the future.
What is VOX and how does it work
VOX is an algorithm that scans the images and text of articles to deliver contextual advertising in its entirety. In a nutshell, This algorithm relates the content of interest to visitors to a given page. The result is a non-intrusive animated ad that appears over the main image.
“With VOX, brands can present their creativity in a premium format that does not irritate or annoy users by being irrelevant or covering the content that really interests them, but is completely adapted to the context of the article and does not alter the experience of reading and viewing. At the same time, it protects your security because VOX does not require any cookie data ”, Explain Daniela Torres, director of Performante for Latin America.
Trends in digital advertising. (photo: Appetizr Marketing)
Trends in digital advertising. (photo: Appetizr Marketing)
Possible benefits
Between the benefits for digital media and publishers There is the ability to monetize spaces where they are not currently generating income without neglecting the location of their pages due to out of sync VOX code.
Algorithmic delivery of content-related ads enables media to ensure a better user experience.
“For our Artificial Intelligence it is not relevant what the user searched previously or what their subsequent searches will be, but what they are interested in finding at the time of reading the article,” said the company.
In this way, it prevents ads from appearing in a context of controversy or violence, giving brands full control over their advertising, which is not possible with other digital solutions. Here’s how it works in each area:
For end users:
– It will not invade the privacy of any user.
For editorial media:
– Allows you to monetize spaces that are not currently used to generate income, such as content images.
– You can provide premium ad space.
For brands:
– Pay only for visits. The VOX code is asynchronous and displays when the page is fully loaded, ensuring that the person has already viewed it.
– The number of clicks per impression of VOX is ten times higher than traditional banners and has a closing rate of less than 1%.
– The algorithm works without cookies.
In Latin America, VOX is in Colombia, Peru and Mexico.
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Henley Royal Regatta 2022: The insider's guide
Everything you need to know about the most famous regatta in the world
Henley Royal Regatta 2022 The insider's guide
A five-day regatta with hundreds of boats rowing up and down the Thames, watched by banks of spectators. Here are a few things to keep in mind as the festivities commence.
DATE 28 June - 3 July
LOCATION Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire
IN A NUTSHELL Founded in 1839, it's the best-known regatta in existence - a series of rowing races on the river. There will be crews competing for the final time as a school or university team, as well as Olympic hopefuls with their eyes set on Paris 2024.
BEST VANTAGE POINT From the Stewards' Enclosure. You don't, confusingly, need to be any sort of steward, but you do have to be a member or a member's guest (FYI, the waiting list to be a member is over 10 years). Tuck into your picnic first in Butler's Field before heading to the Stewards' and making 'a trip to the competitors' enclosure or the committee lawn, if you're lucky enough,' says one Henley veteran. If hospitality is more your thing, there's the beautiful Fawley Meadows, which is putting on a splendid bash alongside excellent food and drink.
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WHAT TO WEAR Inside the Stewards' Enclosure there's a strict dress code - a lounge suit or jacket with flannels and a tie or cravat for boys, dresses and skirts (hemlines beneath the knee) or a suit for ladies. Straw hats are optional - but customary. The Regatta Enclosure has a more relaxed 'smart casual' dress code. Anything goes on the banks, but check with individual hospitality areas for varying degrees of smartness...
WHO YOU MIGHT SEE The Princess Royal, Prince Michael of Kent, Sir Steve Redgrave
GLOSSARY Crab = when the oar becomes caught in the water at the moment of extraction and the blade handle strikes the athlete. Cox box = A small electronic device that aids the coxswain by amplifying his/her voice.
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How Having Health Insurance Can Protect Your Health
Keep Your Health in Check
Having health insurance makes it easier for you to keep your health in check. In addition to feeling good and knowing that you're likely healthy, going to the doctor regularly helps medical professionals keep an eye on your vitals and other details it makes sure that you're well. If you don't go to the doctor regularly, you'll just be guessing about your health.
Find Issues Faster
Having medical insurance can also make it possible for you to find serious health issues faster. This is a good preventive way to make sure that health concerns don't go undetected. Your doctor will be alerted if any warning signs or something is present and this can very well save your life.
Get Care As Often as Necessary
Many people who don't have health insurance fear going to a provider. That's because they worry about the medical bills that they may get because medical costs are high without insurance. The good news is there are many insurance plans that cover a lot the medical costs. Having insurance can allow you to get the care that you need as often as necessary, without worrying about the financial impact of seeing a doctor or going to the ER.
Get the Medicine That You Need
Many people need to take at least one prescription regularly. Often times, these medicines can be life-saving and can help individuals stay healthy. Most health insurance plans include prescription drug coverage. Having health insurance can allow you to get the medicine that you need without fearing the total cost that you will need to pay.
These are some of the reasons why having health insurance can protect your health. If you're currently without health insurance, it can greatly impact your health and wellness. Now is a good time to take a look at health plans available in your area so that you can get the medical care that you deserve.
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A typical deceptive campaign is disguising harmful threats as legitimate security programs in order to steal money from inexperienced victims. AntiMalware is a particularly short-named version of this campaign, with clones with names such as Active Security and Total Security. AntiMalware uses an interface that is very similar to the Windows Defender and legitimate Microsoft security programs, to make the victim believe that AntiMalware is a legitimate anti-malware application. Observing AntiMalware's design, you will quickly spot authentic-looking Windows and Microsoft Security Essentials logos as well as a layout that may seem familiar to most users of legitimate Microsoft Security products. It is important to understand that AntiMalware is a fraud with absolutely no anti-malware capabilities. If you find that your computer is displaying notifications from AntiMalware, you will need to use a reliable, real anti-malware program to remove AntiMalware from your computer.
AntiMalware belongs to a family of rogue security programs that attempt to mislead the user they are legitimate anti-malware applications. These infections affect computers running Microsoft Windows operating system, and most of them have the characteristics of a Trojan-type of malware. The typical behavior of threats like AntiMalware is to pretend they are performing an anti-virus scan on the user's computer, and subsequently to display a long list of infections they have supposedly detected on that PC. Then, the malware would start bombarding the user with fake security alerts and pop-up windows, eventually asking him or her to purchase the full version of AntiMalware in order to have all these non-existent infections removed from the PC.
The truth is, however, that AntiMalware, or any of its variants, cannot detect any malware as these malicious apps do not have a real anti-malware scanner. Therefore, all displayed scan results are completely fake, and buying any of the offered products will most likely results in the user's computer being actually infected with some real and dangerous malware threats. Infections like AntiMalware exploit a well known deceptive technique to trick naive PC users into buying the bogus security tools, and that includes using names, logos, and interface that strongly resemble those of legitimate Microsoft security products, like Microsoft Security Essentials and Windows Defender. The layout of the windows and alerts that AntiMalware displays also look familiar and authentic to many Windows users, which makes such malware campaigns particularly successful.
Fake anti-virus programs like AntiMalware can have many variants, all with the same functionalities, behavior, and strategy. Researchers warn that these malicious apps can be endlessly "re-skinned" and "rebranded," meaning that the cybercriminals can use the same source code to develop new clones which have different names, appearances, and interfaces but are able to perform the same actions. Some aliases of threats detected as part of the AntiMalware campaign include Trojan.FakeAV, Artemis!7BB7211CD996, Trojan:Win32FakeCog, CoreGuard Antivirus 2009, AntiVirus, Dr.Guard, Malware Defense, Digital Protection, AntiMalware, Your Protection, Data Protection, Protection Center, Defense Center, Anvi Antivirus, Paladin Antivirus, User Protection, Protection Center, RogueAntiSpyware.WindowsAntivirusPro, FraudTool.Win32.RogueSecurity, Packed.Win32.TDSS.aa, and many others.
The Infection's Typical Routine and Distribution Channels
Rogue security programs like AntiMalware follow a typical routine that includes several steps. First, the malware needs to sneak into the target PC, usually with the help of another Trojan capable of exploiting vulnerabilities in Java or Flash. After the malware is installed, it makes changes to the Windows registry in order to ensure its persistence and launch upon every boot. Then, AntiMalware-like threats start to flood the user with fake security warnings, system tray balloons, and deceptive scan results. These malicious processes slow the performance of the infected computer or even crash it down completely, which, in turn, again serves the malware's effort to convince the user that the strange behavior is due to the presence of malware on his or her PC. Finally, the rogue program will suggest the user to purchase the "full version" of the program to have the computer all cleaned up.
Rogue anti-malware applications like AntiMalware can land on a PC through various different channels, however, that happens mostly when users visit websites with embedded malicious scripts or downloads software from unsafe sources. Spam email campaigns that contain attachments carrying the malware, or links leading to compromised pages on the Internet, are another distribution channel. Spammed links and files can also be found on online forums and blogs, whereas malicious advertisements, hacked software, movies or music, and infected torrents on file-sharing networks can carry the malicious payloads as well. Researchers have estimated that the largest part of the rogue anti-malware programs get distributed through affiliate programs where the vendor recruits affiliates for the task of spreading the malicious apps in exchange for some part of the revenues.
Technical Details
The changes made by AntiMalware to the Windows registry ensure that the malicious tool runs automatically upon system start-up, while the Windows Settings are altered to allow the malware to display its misleading error and security messages, to block specific applications, and to connect to the Internet. Technical details about the AntiMalware rogue security program, in this case, identified as Win32/FakeCog, show that it creates a subkey and its associated entries in the Windows registry:
In subkey: HKLM\SOFTWARE\AntiMalware
Sets value: "SecStatus_3"
With data: "dword:00000001"
Sets value: "Settings_0"
With data: "dword:00000000"
Sets value: "SecStatus_4"
With data: "dword:00000001"
Sets value: "SecStatus_5"
With data: "dword:00000001"
Sets value: "swver"
With data: "1.0"
Sets value: "dbver"
With data: "1.0"
Sets value: "FD"
With data: "dword:00000000"
Sets value: "GUID"
With data: "455366164553576845534928"
Sets value: "dbsigns"
With data: "61473"
Sets value: "InfectedFiles"
With data: "C:\WINDOWS\System32\olecli.dll,C:\WINDOWS\System32\scrrun.dll,C:\WINDOWS\System32\stclient.dll,C:\WINDOWS\System32\url.dll,C:\WINDOWS\System32\winhttp.dll,C:\WINDOWS\System32\oobe\dtsgnup.htm,C:\WINDOWS\System32\Drivers\cdaudio.sys,C:\WINDOWS\System32\Drivers\sonydcam.sys,C:\Program Files\outlook Express\wab.exe,"
Sets value: "Infected"
With data: "dword:00000009"
It is also known that Win32/FakeCog leaves two components in the %TEMP% folder. The first component creates a .dll file with a variable name in the same directory. That file is then injected into the corresponding Windows Explorer process, ensuring this way that the malware keeps running on the infected computer. The second component displays a dialog box that looks like it belongs to Windows Security Center and then drops a file with a double-named extension (which can look like asdf.tmp.exe, for example) in that same folder. This last file attempts to disable and remove any legit security products found on the computer, installing at the same time the rogue program.
The malware also creates shortcuts on the desktop, again using names and logos of legitimate Windows anti-virus tools, for example, "Defense Center Support", or "Defense Center". Win32/FakeCog then displays false scan results and fake security alerts, pretending to be Windows Security Center and attempting to convince the user to purchase the full version of the malicious program. To make all transactions seem safe, the malware puts the logos of well-known payment companies like Mastercard and Visa to the bottom left corner of the displayed windows. It also constantly shows system tray balloons and dialog boxes "informing" the user that various dangerous threats like rootkits and Trojans have been detected on the computer, trying again to draw the attention of the victim and to convince it to upgrade the currently installed demo version of the rogue software to the complete and paid version.
Win32/FakeCog is also capable of connecting to malicious websites and downloading additional files from them. These encrypted files could contain dangerous data as well as other types of malware. Some variants of the rogue security software also have another functionality - to disable Windows Task Manager. This happens through modifications in the registry:
In subkey: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
Sets value: "DisableTaskMgr"
With data: "1"
In subkey: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system
Sets value: "DisableTaskMgr"
With data: "1"
How to Protect Against Rogue Security Software like AntiMalware
The most important thing that users should do in order to avoid the infection with AntiMalware and similar threats is to avoid suspicious websites that could contain malicious scripts, not to download and install files from untrusted sources, and not to open e-mail attachments from unknown senders. The use of an Internet browser with strong security settings could also protect against such rogue security programs, yet the purchase of a reputable anti-malware application is the safest method of protection against these dangerous infections. The removal of AntiMalware and its variants is also tricky, so inexperienced PC users are advised to use a reliable professional removal tool.
Regardless of Its Name, AntiMalware is Actually a Threat
AntiMalware is a typical iteration of the rogue security software deceptive strategy. This is a well-known online tactic that is designed to prey on inexperienced computer users that frequent unsafe websites. The AntiMalware strategy has several steps, all of which are typical of this kind of infection:
1. First, AntiMalware is installed on the victim's computer, usually with the help of another Trojan. Typical sources of an AntiMalware infection may include unsafe advertisements that exploit security vulnerabilities in Java or Flash, fake video codecs on pornographic video websites and fake versions of popular files on file sharing networks.
2. Once installed, AntiMalware makes changes to the Windows registry that allow AntiMalware to run automatically upon start-up. AntiMalware also alters your computer's settings so that AntiMalware will have the capacity to display error messages, system notifications and security alerts, as well as being able to connect to the Internet, block specific applications and crash your computer unexpectedly.
3. Once the victim's computer is restarted, AntiMalware will use its new-found power over that computer in order to make the victim believe that a threat has been detected. AntiMalware will do this by displaying a fake scan of the victim's computer, pestering the victim with constant fake security alerts and causing the victim's computer to behave erratically, crash frequently, run slowly and become unstable.
4. AntiMalware will then pretend to offer a solution to the problems AntiMalware itself caused. However, first the victim will have to pay for a fake 'full version' of AntiMalware.
15 security vendors flagged this file as malicious.
Anti-Virus Software Detection
Symantec Trojan.FakeAV
Panda Suspicious file
McAfee+Artemis Artemis!7BB7211CD996
F-Secure Suspicious:W32/Riskware!Online
Sophos Sus/UnkPacker
Sunbelt FraudTool.Win32.RogueSecurity (v)
Sophos Mal/FakeAV-BP
NOD32 a variant of Win32/Kryptik.BFC
Microsoft Trojan:Win32/FakeCog
McAfee-GW-Edition Trojan.PCK.Tdss.AA.636
McAfee+Artemis Artemis!6B53DC5751F6
Kaspersky Packed.Win32.TDSS.aa
Ikarus Packed.Win32.Tdss
AntiVir TR/PCK.Tdss.AA.636
SpyHunter Detects & Remove AntiMalware
AntiMalware Video
Tip: Turn your sound ON and watch the video in Full Screen mode.
AntiMalware Screenshots
File System Details
AntiMalware creates the following file(s):
# File Name MD5 Detections
1. antimalware[1].exe 5c69d34ec162f045228eb5cb316ff8c9 0
2. antimalware.exe a15d8b2aba915c9d01ece6aed792a7e8 0
3. antimalware.exe 4689058a0d017dc865f4969e8f4d3892 0
4. antimalware.exe 7bb7211cd99636a6c43f212b807de8f2 0
5. AntiMalware.exe b7f355a106a75ad266ac85ef00e6faa3 0
alberto mirofsky Reply
no puedo ingresar a facebook me dice que esta infectada la compu con MALWERE
tengo un virus malware, no puedo ingresar probe todos los medios y sigue peor, hace mas de una semana... solicito ayuda, no complicacion----no puedo ingresar a facebook.. no quiero perder la cuente
Gabrielle da Silva Reply
não consigo entrar mais no meu facebook por causa desse virus, gostaria de saber como remove-lo?
jerold wiegand Reply
re did my hard drive now I want to reinstall all softwaer from safe cart
Mi computadora esta muy lenta por virus
trabalho em casa e estou com problemas deste virus
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Digital Nugget: Are rising rates positive or negative for the crypto market?
Rising interest rates positive or negative for the crypto market
The crypto market has exhibited close negative correlation with interest rate expectations over the last couple of months with a narrative taking hold that rising interest rates are bearish for crypto. However, the fundamental justification for this narrative is weak.
Not in line with historic precedent
The first point to consider is that historically crypto has correlated positively with interest rate expectations. As the chart shows, an increase in the 10-year US Treasury yields coincided with a rise in the price of bitcoin (BTC) until November 2021, when the relationship reversed.
Rising interest rates positive or negative for the crypto market
When the crypto market was dominated by retail investors, macroeconomic factors had little impact on the direction of the market, and there was no observable correlation with interest rates and bond yields. The institutionalisation of crypto can be dated back to roughly 2020, and we can see that during this period and until November 2021, bitcoin traded broadly in line with 10-year yields. This indicated that institutional investors regarded bitcoin an inflation hedge.
In November 2021, the narrative suddenly changed to inflation being a risk to crypto. The question: is an inflationary, rising interest rate environment bullish or bearish for crypto?
What is the rationale for the narrative “rising rates are bad for crypto” and what merit do these explanations have?
The explanations for why rising rates should affect cryptocurrencies negatively do not really hold up. We look into the reasons why:
“Higher-yielding currencies attract investment flows away from lower-yielding currencies. Therefore, higher fiat interest rates will drive fund flows from cryptocurrencies into fiat.”
Real interest rates (nominal interest minus inflation) are currently strongly negative with the last CPI print at 7.5 percent (which arguably understates actual inflation), and current Fed funds rate at 0.25 percent. With a 1.25 to 1.75 percent tightening expected this year and inflation expected to remain at 6 percent, real negative rates would increase from minus 7.25 percent to about minus 4.5 percent at best. It is possible that a slightly higher current income may influence some investors, but fixed income assets at negative real interest rates are value destroying.
In addition, rising bond yields mean a bear market in bonds, and until and unless inflation falls significantly (which is not expected over the next year), bond yields have a long way to rise before positive real yields are in sight.
“Non-interest bearing assets (such as gold but also cryptocurrencies) do badly in a high or rising-interest-rate environment.”
Aside from the fact that many cryptocurrencies now offer income in the form of staking yields, the above has only held true for gold in the case of high real interest rates. It mostly has to do with the fact that high real rates usually signify a stable macroeconomic and monetary environment, reducing the demand for safe haven assets.
Rising nominal interest rates have not been associated with bear markets in gold.
Disinflationary assets such as gold (or cryptocurrencies) have been used primarily as stores of value and de facto hedges against macroeconomic instability. The price of safe haven assets strongly correlates with the perceived stability of the financial system. The gold price rallied during the 1930s, the “stagflationary” 1970s, and since the 2000s, as the macro stresses have become increasingly apparent. Since the start of the current crisis in March 2020, bitcoin has taken over from gold as the primary destination of safe haven asset flows.
The Fed losing control of the inflation narrative over the past year is one sign of the instability in the system. The Fed first claimed inflation would not exceed the targeted 2 percent, then that it would but only slightly, then that it is running much higher, but this is only transitory. Finally, they have admitted that inflation is high, not just transitory, and they need to adjust policy accordingly. Other signs of instability include the unprecedented increase in the money supply over the last two years, unsustainable levels of government and private sector debt and increasing geopolitical tensions. These are precisely the scenarios when investors should, and do, turn to safe haven assets.
“Assets whose value is based on growth and cashflows far in the future do badly in a rising interest rate environment because the discount rate used to value those cashflows is higher.”
Although this may apply to decentralised applications (such as DeFi) built on blockchain platforms as these projects can earn revenues in a similar way to companies, it seldom applies to cryptocurrencies.
Cryptocurrencies are valued in part as currencies (based on the size of the economy they support and their velocity), in part as stores of value (akin to precious metals), and in part as a transaction fee economy that derives its value from the applications building on it. Valuing cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin typically is not done on the basis of forecasting future cashflows and discounting them.
“In a rising interest rate environment, the price of riskier (more volatile) assets falls because investors retreat into less-volatile assets.”
Risk-off behaviour is common when risk perception is elevated, although perception of the environmental risk may not equate to an actual rise in risk as measured by volatility. (Increased volatility in risk assets is associated more often with a flat or inverted yield curve than with rising interest rates, and the US dollar yield curve has been flattening since March 2021.)
Additionally, while fixed income assets are less risky (less volatile), in an environment of inflation and rising rates, they experience price declines, while assets with underlying growth trends offset the value erosion from inflation.
A kneejerk risk-off reaction tends to evolve over time into a more nuanced assessment of the risks and opportunities.
Interest rates are not the only market driver
The crypto market is supported by the very strong growth in user adoption and a proliferation of applications building on the blockchain. Some of this growth comes from decentralised projects taking market share from traditional corporations.
Against a backdrop of historically extremely stretched valuations for equities, credit and bonds (i.e. negative real yields), the crypto asset class stands out with a strong underlying growth trend, as the new economy takes market share from the old economy.
Meanwhile, crypto has the beginnings of its own interest rate market, where rates are set by market forces not by central banks.
Will crypto continue to trade down as rates rise?
While this narrative has dominated over the last couple of months, the fundamentals mostly do not justify it. Narratives that take hold have a self-fulfilling aspect with market participants reacting because they expect others to react. However, over time reality always asserts itself.
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Avoiding IRS Underpayment Penalties
Article Highlights:
• Pay-as-You-Earn System
• Safe Harbor Payments
• Situations Triggering Underpayments
• True Safe Harbors
• Payroll withholding for employees;
• Pension withholding for retirees; and
When a taxpayer fails to prepay a safe harbor (minimum) amount, they can be subject to the underpayment penalty. This nondeductible interest penalty is higher than what might be earned from a bank. The penalty is applied quarterly, so making a fourth-quarter estimated payment only reduces the fourth-quarter penalty. However, withholding is treated as paid ratably throughout the year, so increasing withholding at the end of the year can reduce the penalties for the earlier quarters. This can be accomplished with cooperative employers or by taking an unqualified distribution from a pension plan, which will be subject to 20% withholding, and then returning the gross amount of the distribution to the plan within the 60-day statutory rollover limit (but check with this office before using the latter strategy).
Federal law and most states have so-called safe harbor rules, meaning if you comply with the rules, you won’t be penalized. There are two Federal safe harbor amounts that apply when the payments are made evenly throughout the year.
2. The second safe harbor—and the one taxpayers rely on most often—is based on your tax in the immediately preceding tax year. If your current year’s payments equal or exceed 100% of the amount of your prior year’s tax, you can escape a penalty, regardless of the amount of tax you may owe when you file your current year’s return. If your prior year’s adjusted gross income was more than $150,000 ($75,000 if you file married separate status), then your payments for the current year must be 110% of the prior year’s tax to meet the safe harbor amount.
Where taxpayers get into trouble is when their income goes up or their withholding goes down for the current year versus the prior year. Examples are having a substantial increase in income, such as when investments are cashed in, thereby increasing income but without any corresponding withholding or estimated payments. Another frequently encountered situation is when a taxpayer retires and their payroll income is replaced with pension and Social Security income without adequate withholding. Taxpayers who don’t recognize these types of situations often find themselves substantially underpaid and subject to the underpayment penalty when tax time comes around.
The bottom line is that 100% (or 110% for upper-income taxpayers) of your prior year’s total tax is the only true safe harbor because it is based on the prior year’s tax (a known amount), whereas the 90% of the current year’s tax amount is a variable based on the income for the current year, and often that amount isn’t determined until it is too late to adjust the prepayment amounts.
That being said, there are times when using the 100%/110% safe harbor method doesn’t make a lot of financial sense. For example, let’s say that in the prior year, you had a large one-time payment of income that boosted up your tax to $25,000, which is $10,000 more than you normally pay. You know that you won’t have that extra income in the current year. Rather than rely on the 100%/110% of prior tax safe harbor, where you’d be prepaying $10,000 more than your current year’s tax is likely to be, it may be appropriate to use the 90% current-year tax safe harbor, determined by making a projection of your current year tax, and as the year goes along, monitoring your income and the tax paid in to be sure you are on track to reach the 90% goal.
Please contact this office promptly if you have a substantial increase in income, so that withholding or estimated tax payments can be adjusted to avoid a penalty.
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Ageism: Explained
Ageism is the most widespread form of discrimination in the UK.
It will likely impact us all at some point, particularly as we get older. In this short film, the Centre for Ageing Better explores what ageism looks like, and the impact it has on our lives.
Why we need a new UN Convention to fight ageism
Nena Georgantzi, from AGE Platform Europe, is explaining the arguments in favour of a new internaitonal convention on older persons' rights in a video produced as part of the work of the EU-funded programme COST IS1402 on ageism.
Follow this link for more videos on ageism produced by COST IS1402
Integrated care - Why is it important? (2017)
This short video by the World Health Organisation explains the importance of integrated care to maintain older people's physical and cognitive fonctions.
Chronic Diseases: Everyone's Business (Sept 2015)
This video, released by the European Joint Action CHRODIS,features how chronic diseases are everyone's business and how this European Joint Action addresses their burden in Europe. Nearly 1 in 4 Europeans suffer from a longstanding problem which restricts their daily activities. There are answers all across Europe that can reduce the burden of chronic diseases, by better using the existing knowledge and good practices on effective, efficient and holistic ways to manage chronic diseases.
Researching Age-Friendly Cities - Manchester (2015)
This 15-minute film presents the projects 'Developing age-friendly cities' of the Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing. The project is based on the involvement of older people as co-researchers in order to develop a better understanding of what older people think is important to make their cities age-friendly and so have a clearer and deeper knowledge of how an age-friendly city community can be developed.
Meet the normals - Adventures in Universal design
A video from the National Disability Authority of Ireland features what Design for All/ Universal Design process is, taking the example of a bus shelter.
An Introduction to Digital Accessibility (2015)
Everyone is different: video on digital accessibility (2015)
This video, produced by UX Mastery in partnership with Accessibility Bytes to mark the International Accessibility Day on 21st May 2015, uses drawings to provide an introduction to accessibility for creators of digital experiences:
Age UK video to promote human rights for older people abused in care settings (2015)
The film tells the story of Charles, who ends his - so far fulfulling - life in a care home, where he is ignored, dressed in someone else's clothes and the staff don't even know his name. Enhanced human rights can help challenge degrading or abusive treatment and provide a framework for dignified ageing.
Hello Brain project videos provide easy-to-understand scientific information about brain health
Two short videos in EN, FR and DE have been created as part of the EU-funded project Hello Brain, in which AGE is a partner: How does my brain work? and How do I keep it healthy?
European Year of Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations (EY2012)
This short film encapsulates the achievements of the European Year 2012 for active ageing and solidarity between generations, which mobilised thousands of people all across the European Union:
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Wednesday, February 2, 2011
A Wednesday Wander - Nuggets From God
Today let's wander over to Nuggets from God with Debi (my mama!). Please stop by her blog and give her some love!
Author of Nuggets from God, Debi Baker, is a woman after the heart of God. She is a children's pastor in her church and a blogger. Debi has been married to her husband, Jim, for thirty-four years and they have four adult children (and three children-in-law) and eight grandchildren. On a sunny day, you can find her riding behind her husband on their Gold Wing motorcycle enjoying God's creation in a new and different way.
Just a quick 'thank you' to Jenifer for allowing me to guest post on her blog today. I appreciate the opportunity to share what God has laid on my heart with your readers.
I get laryngitis every year, well, except for last year...I have had it every year for at least the last 15 years! Now, this isn't just laryngitis...when I get this, I don't speak for sometimes up to 10 weeks! That's a L - O - N - G time, especially for a children's pastor. I am fortunate, however. Jenifer's husband, my son-in-law, whom I love dearly and consider as a son and not a son-in-law, is one of my partners in ministry. While he doesn't work in Kidz Klub on a regular basis, he is always there when I need him. And, for 4 weeks now, he has had to step up to the plate and preach and run our services. Thank you, Jeremy!
Last Sunday, he was preaching to the kids about the incomprehensibility of God. Wow, that's a long word. The definition of incomprehensible is: impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible; limitless; not limited or capable of being limited. Ok, we all know that God is limitless. We all know that it's not for us to understand His ways. But, as Jeremy was preaching this message something really hit me! He was reading the Scripture - Isaiah 40:12-31 - and verse 15 says, "15 Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are regarded as dust on the scales; he weighs the islands as though they were fine dust." When he finished reading the text, he took an eye dropper and a large glass. He dropped one drop of water into the glass. Now, one drop of water in a large glass is really like NO water in the glass. It really doesn't even get the bottom of the glass wet! He explained to the kids that God is like the water (not the drop, but the whole of water) and we are like the glass. He said that God is so big and so powerful and so loving and we humans only use a drop of what God has to offer! Think about it...if we would use all the power that God has; if we would love with all the love that God, oh, my...what could we accomplish for the Kingdom? Think about it like this...if you were in the desert and were dying of thirst...a 'drop' of water might be a welcome thing BUT how much more would you welcome an entire glass of water? That's how it is with God...we do ok with a drop of Him here and there BUT how much greater would we be if we had more than just a drop or two?
That demonstration affected me so much. I had never thought of it like that, but it is so true...we say we love with a Godly love, but do we really? We say that we have the power of God, but do we...when was the last time you saw someone healed of anything? We say that we know God is big, but do we really know how big He is? No...we can imagine...but we cannot possibly know how big He really is. The word was incomprehensible. It's a big was a tough sermon to preach...yet, it affected me greatly.
God is all-powerful and so much bigger than we are! We are just a drop in the proverbial bucket. With God we can be and do so much more than we can alone. If we would only tap in to the greatness of God. If we would only 'fill up' our glass with Him and all that He is. The last verse of the chapter is so refreshing and uplifting: "31But those who trust the LORD will find new strength. They will be strong like eagles soaring upward on wings; they will walk and run without getting tired."
I hope that you have been touched by this as I was. Think on the incomprehensibility of God...tap into a part of Him that until now you have only imagined. Let's do something major for the Kingdom.
Walking the walk, talking the talk!
1. Jenifer, you had a wonderful guest today.
Debi, this was an amazing topic. You have set my mind into gear. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we all did exactly what Jeremy said and you, tap into all that God has. A children's pastor has their work cut out for them, the parents and the children's pastor has to make sure they know what they are talking about and also make sure the kids understand what they are saying, no if's and but's about it. It is wonderful to see some of the work the children's pastor goes through. I have always said an adult needs to set in on a children's church to hear the message and see what is going on. Thanks for sharing this. Blessings to you.
2. Thank you for sharing. Great to see the abundance of God's blessing has been shared from one generation to the next. Peace!
3. What a great illustration! God is so amazing, so loving, so powerful, and yet we only understand such a small part of Him. Why are we content with just a drop when He longs to give us the whole glass? Great post, thanks Debi & Jenifer!
4. What a wonderful demonstration and lesson for the children! I find quite a bit to inspire me in Isaiah, and that example fits beautifully with the verse. Thank you for sharing that with us!
Have a Blessed Day!
5. What a great analogy with the water! I am so visual, those things really help me wrap my brain around things! I really liked this "God is so big and so powerful and so loving and we humans only use a drop of what God has to offer." So true. I need to tap into the fullness of His power He freely gives to me!:)
6. Great illustration! What a blessing to have such a wonderful son in law to step-in and step-up for you in time of need!
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Raj Goyle is co-CEO of Bodhala, a leading legal technology company based in New York City and Ann Arbor focused on data analytics and legal procurement. Co-founded with a fellow Harvard Law graduate, Bodhala helps large and small in-house legal departments, saving companies significant time and money through the creation of a competitive, transparent legal marketplace. Goyle, who received his undergraduate degree from Duke University, served two terms in the Kansas House of Representatives after working as a policy analyst and civil rights attorney. He serves on the boards of Hunger Free America, the American India Foundation, Everyartist.me, Issue One and chairs the State Innovation Exchange. Goyle lives in New York with his wife Monica Arora, a partner at Proskauer. They have two daughters.
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Individual Statement Examples | 2021 Guide
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The Passing of American Exceptionalism: How We Became Like All the Other Nations
Yes, once upon a time there really was an American exceptionalism. America was a light unto the world. This exceptionalism was a long way from perfect, of course (looking for perfection in a mass of humans is silly), but it was legitimate and substantial.
Alas, that was long ago. People who say that American exceptionalism still exists don’t understand what it was. They may not have bad intentions, but they have strayed badly from real meanings.
(Others promote the idea simply to whip up support. Telling people to praise themselves is always a big seller.)
Exceptional Means “Not Like the Others”
A Bible passage that has always stuck in my mind is found in I Samuel, Chapter 8. In it, the Israelites, then living in a tribal anarchy, go to Samuel the prophet and tell him to appoint a king for them. Samuel warns them profusely not to ask this (“Your king will take your children away, take your crops, you’ll cry out for relief,” and so on), but they wouldn’t listen. “No!” they said, “We will have a king over us and be like the other nations.”
In other words, they threw away their exceptionalism and became like everyone else.
This is what happened to the United States—it became just like Britain and France and Germany. It became like all the nations ‘round about. And that’s the precise opposite of “exceptional.”
Thinking about this directly and not through the rose-colored lenses of flattering political mythologies, we see this:
• The Dutch and the Brits created central banking, and the US followed right along.
• The French came up with the will of the people being embodied in national assemblies, and the US followed right along.
• The Germans created social welfare, and the US followed right along.
• They tax income; we tax income.
• They regulate private commerce; we regulate private commerce.
• They claim control of communications; the US guv claims control of communications.
• They built massive armies and conducted foreign wars; the US did the same and now exceeds them all.
We could, of course, extend this list for many pages. Any difference between the US and the rest of the “developed nations” is now minimal.
Americans like to claim people like Patrick Henry and Sam Adams as their great founders, but those are just stories—what those men believed no longer matters in American life… nor does the founding philosophy of John Locke.
The US is just like the nations ‘round about—and that, by definition, means that it is not exceptional.
It Was Exceptional at the Beginning
As I say, once upon a time, America was exceptional. It was wildly different from the other nations. The uppity American commoners claimed that their rights were above kings and parliaments. The other nations said that they were spitting on both tradition and order, and that they were crazy.
Here’s how Thomas Jefferson saw the fruits of his revolution:
In Jefferson’s time, Americans faced no direct taxation (income tax, sales tax, etc.) and no armies of bureaucrats. That changed a long time ago, however, and Americans are now saddled just like everyone else… and saddled far worse than they would have been under the old English system.
George Washington said this in his farewell address:
[N]othing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded …
Nowadays, we have almost nothing but the above. In fact, entangling alliances are looked to as the essential guarantor of safety.
So we have exactly the opposite of exceptionalism, and precisely the opposite of what George Washington wanted.
What Washington and the others believed was that the United States would be different—that it would be a haven for actual freedom in the world. Here’s Washington again:
And here’s Sam Adams, writing in 1770:
[T]his little part of the world—a land, until recently happy in its obscurity—the asylum, to which patriots were accustomed to make their peaceful retreat.
I could go on, but I think the case has been made. These men were creating something separate, something apart, something radically different than the usual machinery of government… something that has been fully lost.
How It Happened
American exceptionalism failed steadily. Some of the key moments were these:
1790: Alexander Hamilton’s bank and his ripoff of the revolutionary war soldiers. I’ll go through the details some other time, but Hamilton trashed the monetary system prescribed in the Constitution (honestly minted silver and gold) and replaced it with a massively manipulable bank. He sold this plan by corrupting a great number of congressmen, enriching them through a massive ripoff of Revolutionary War soldiers. It was a large, dirty, criminal affair.
1798: The Alien and Sedition Acts. In the name of national security, the Federalists, under Hamilton’s influence, gave the president power to deport anyone he wished (after he first branded them as “dangerous”) and restricted any speech that criticized the government.
Because of these laws and other political manipulations, the election of 1800—in which Thomas Jefferson was elected—was called a “second American revolution.” (One of Jefferson’s first acts as president was to pardon people still in jail from the Sedition Act.) To illustrate the depth of this change, here’s what Alexander Hamilton said during the election:
If Mr. Pinckney [Jefferson’s opponent] is not elected, a revolution will be the consequence, and within four years I will lose my head or be the leader of a triumphant army.
1850-1865: I’m not going to go through details on the Civil War, but it’s crucial to understand that all three branches of the US federal government supported slavery until the end of the war. Furthermore, slavery ended peacefully for England, France, and the rest of the world. Only in the US was there a dreadful war… a war that eliminated differences between the US and the other nations.
1898: The Spanish-American War. Again, we have no space for details, but this is when the US went Big Military.
1913: Whatever life the old republic had left was strangled in 1913. The ban on direct taxation was removed, the power of the states to control Washington, DC was handed to political parties, and the dollar was handed to a bankers’ cartel.
Bringing Democracy to the World?
It’s very odd to hear people try to tie American exceptionalism to “bringing democracy to the world,” since that was no part of the American difference at all. Some of the founders used “democratic” in a descriptive sense, but they were all crystal clear that they were building a republic, not a democracy. For example, here’s John Adams on the subject:
And does no one remember that World War I was fought to “make the world safe for democracy”? It didn’t work out too well.
And how’s democracy doing in Cuba, or Iraq, or Afghanistan?
Once, but Not Now
Paul Rosenberg
This article was originally published by Casey Research.
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Fear The Statist Who Wants Your Guns
posted on October 19, 2015
Back when I was working at NRA’s national headquarters, I would occasionally see cars in the D.C. area that had “Shame On The NRA” bumper stickers on them. I made sport out of doing whatever necessary in traffic to drive up alongside to get a good gander at the vehicle owner. There might have been a few violations of civil traffic laws in the process, but the risk was well worth the reward.
Without fail, the operators of these vehicles looked impossibly meek. They were attempting to hide from the dangerous and unknown world around them. They hoped that if they just shuffled along through life unnoticed, they would make it day-to-day. They always crouched over their wheels with their eyes barely visible above the dash. It was oh so predictable. The meat-eater gene had been bred out of these folks to be sure. I would get a good laugh each and every time. In some twisted way, I miss those days.
I’m fairly certain one of those people I laughed at back then was Fred Hiatt, the editorial page editor of the Washington Post. He certainly looks like he couldn’t fight his way out of a wet paper bag. Like the rest of the meek, he’s an avowed statist. He needs something big and beyond his control to protect him, and there are few things that fit this bill better than the state. The more power it has, and the less the fellow citizens around him have, the better off he believes he is. The balance of power between the government and the people is a zero sum game, after all. He needs something big and beyond his control to protect him, and there are few things that fit this bill better than the state.
Fred wrote a piece in his paper earlier this month that calls for “prohibition,” a “mass buyback” and ultimately a “gun-free society.” There is hardly any way to better illustrate the detachment from reality that he and all of those who share his perverted politics suffer from. They are sure that the drug dealers, gang bangers, rapists, robbers and murderers will simply give up their guns. Those criminals would become dental hygienists, dog groomers, chefs and other contributing members of society if only a comprehensive gun ban could be imposed. They are certain that, unlike the trade of every other forbidden item in human history, there will be no black market for guns if they are prohibited.
Being the good statist that he is, Hiatt explains how he wants law enforcers and the military to have an absolute monopoly on the possession of firearms and the use of force. He says it sounds “logical” and “safe.” He’s not worried about the weak and the infirm. They’ll be dominated by the strong and the evil in all instances, as they will not be able to avail themselves of the most efficient means of defense.
He’s not concerned that eliminating the predators’ fear of being harmed during their next planned attack will only embolden them. This is why the thugs in England regularly kick the front door off of its hinges while the family is present during home invasions. In America, burglars go to great lengths to try to ensure no one is home. They know they otherwise stand a good chance of being shot. Hiatt would like to change this.
Mass “buyback?” What is this? How could any supposedly educated person use this term with a straight face? How can government officials or anyone else buy back an item they never owned in the first place? This is a euphemism for confiscation, and I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt by assuming that he knows it.
He and his ilk are the ones who have always ridiculed the NRA by saying it consists of a bunch of paranoid “black helicopter” watchers who think the government is coming for their guns. They smugly claim the NRA is populated with irrational alarmists who claim that the slightest infringement on the right to keep and bear arms will ultimately result in confiscation. Like too many in the current administration, they are followers of Saul Alinsky and his Rules for Radicals. Rule #5 specifies, “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” They use this one well.
So, after all of these tired claims that the government isn’t really going to try to take anyone’s guns, Hiatt is encouraging the government to take everyone’s guns. Remember, this guy isn’t some crackpot from a local paper in some suburb of Bridgeport, Conn. I mean, he’s obviously a crackpot, but he is one of the top crackpots at one of the top three newspapers of record in the United States of America. He really is making an impassioned case—however out of touch with reality—for total confiscation.
I do have to chuckle a little when he writes, “Societies change, populations evolve.” He wrote this while talking about how Australia was a “pioneer nation” too and how all of the Australians passively handed over their firearms during the enormous government confiscation of 1996. Well, without going into too much detail, our countries’ histories are actually a little different. It doesn’t surprise me that Fred would know more about the histories of utopias like China, the old Soviet Union and Laos better than he would his own country, but he might want to refer back to this article of mine to get a taste for how things really might go down here if he gets his way. How can government officials or anyone else buy back an item they never owned in the first place?
He says he “believes” that gun control policies like mandatory trigger locks, closing the so-called “gun show loophole” and gun rationing work to reduce crime. Like most of his buddies, what they believe is the only thing that matters. Scientific evidence be damned; this is all about emotion. It shouldn’t faze them that government study after government study shows that there is not a single shred of scientific evidence indicating any of the gun controllers’ policies do anything to reduce violence. Maybe these guys are spending their lives auditioning for a cameo role as a walker on The Walking Dead
Hiatt ignorantly claims that the U.S. Supreme Court misread the Constitution when it ruled in Heller that the Second Amendment protects an individual’s right. In his dream world, the “right of the people” really means the “right of law enforcement and military personnel.” He says the Court has “corrected itself” before and should do it once again. Of course, this is one of the reasons why the next presidential election is so critically important. It’s likely that the next president will appoint a minimum of three new justices to the Court.
At least he does recognize that there is a legitimate method of amending the Constitution that was devised by the brilliant founders of our country. He does this when he talks about the repeal of the Second Amendment. Unsurprisingly, this legitimate route to change comes only after he does all in his power to pick the statist route of having the courts perform mental gymnastics to “interpret” our individual liberties into oblivion.
Hiatt’s blissful ignorance is sort of difficult to criticize. If he were a kid, it would be cute. He talks about how public opinion could shift to support his ultimate desire to secure what he thinks would be a “gun-free society.” One small problem that those of us who are actually informed know he may face is that public opinion is decidedly favoring individual freedom these days, and there is no end in sight for this trend. Support for gun rights is growing, and we’re not talking about only arming military and police here.
Back in 1995 when Sen. Dianne Feinstein said, “Mr. and Mrs. America, turn ‘em all in,” many on her side of the debate panicked and claimed she wasn’t really talking about confiscation. No, she really was. She was just a little ahead of her time. The others are coming, including Mr. Hiatt.
The gun-banners are apparently done playing what he calls the “incremental approach.” Get ready for the battle. “Gun confiscation” and “strict prohibition” were forbidden speech in the gun control movement up until now. They have decided on a new approach. It will make all of the interim policy steps seem that much more modest. We should ensure our fellow Americans remain informed and are not fooled.
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• Camara Kelly
The Importance of Black-Owned Businesses
Updated: Nov 22, 2020
I initially thought that writing a piece about the importance of black-owned businesses would be easy. As I sat down to write and got my laptop ready, the scenery was hitting, and everything was ready to go. As the cursor began blinking, I realized that I actually did not know why it was important to support black-owned businesses.
As much as I had read about race inequality in the past months, I still had no clue as to why choosing one store over another was integral to black success. I began researching and found that the black dollar is powerful.
In this world, especially in this country, the dollar is king. You simply can not survive without it, let alone succeed. The road to financial success and stability is paved by ownership. This is why the promising of the forty-acres and a mule to freed slaves was so significant, and when that promise was broken and reparations for slavery were never received, many black families struggled tremendously.
Through segregation, Jim Crow, and the War on Crime, this country has thrown everything at black people and people of color to deter them from achieving financial stability. But even so, many have found a way to establish businesses and grant themselves the financial freedom that they have been denied.
The story of success in the face of hardship is a good enough reason to support black-owned businesses. But there is even more significance behind black business. Minorities have been held back from financial success, so that they can be forced to remain in oppression.
Black people are this country’s largest consumers, and if we allocated half of our spending back into our own communities, then we could push for more representation in government, fair housing, and better living conditions. The black dollar is powerful, if we use it wisely.
Choosing to endorse a black-owned company instead of a white-owned company, allows the black dollar to stay in the black community. This helps to keep our power away from companies that do not represent us nor support us.
Not all white-owned companies are actively supporting racism and white supremacy. However, the chances of those companies having black faces in positions of leadership are extremely slim.
Although a company might not be blatantly racist, it can still support racist narratives, and it can still contribute to the negative image of black people and people of color. Allocating spending towards black-owned businesses, forces these white-owned companies to face their own internal, structural biases and to give more people of color opportunities.
Black-owned businesses and companies are more likely to hire other black people and people of color in positions of power. They are also more likely to appropriately represent the people that they are targeting. This not only gives jobs to black people, but also allows black businesses to be in charge of the way black people are perceived in the business’s sphere of influence.
Representation matters. Posing black people and other people of color as intelligent, beautiful, and multi-faceted human beings has a profound impact on the black community. Black-owned businesses are more likely to portray black people as people and not tokens, criminals, animals, or fantasies. Keeping the black dollar circulating in the black community upsets the racial hierarchy and demands that black people be represented often and appropriately.
I can honestly say that I support black-owned businesses, and I know why they are important. The pride that washes over me when I think of my people going from being owned to owning is insurmountable.
Keeping the black dollar in the black community magnifies the voices of black people, forces non-POC owned companies to face their racism, and destabilizes the racial hierarchy. My black life, my black voice, and my black dollar matters, and there are companies out there making sure that those facts are evident. So, go support a black-owned business today.
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Formulating an urban transport policy: choosing between options
As the developing world rapidly urbanizes, the demands on transport systems also grow often at a faster pace than the population. Given the above tendency, an effective and coordinated approach to urban transport requires that sound policies be put into place. Such policies enunciate the direction that a government wants to take; they lay the basic framework for downstream planning as well as project identification and prioritization. This document policy lays out the guiding principles for more detailed downstream planning. The objective of this guideline is to improve mobility, environmental quality, universal access, safety, and energy security of any urban transport policy. This guidebook is intended to be a practical support for formulating urban transport policies at the national, provincial, and local levels. To this end, it highlights some of the important issues that arise when creating an urban transport policy.
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The other day my husband wanted to have an early dinner because he wanted to play badminton in the evening. I went downstairs to use the microwave oven (I am sorry but I cannot remember what I was using the microwave oven for now!). Anyway, I was using the microwave oven and the maid had put the rice into the rice cooker to cook. After I finished with the microwave, I stood there and unplugged the rice cooker instead of the microwave and then I went upstairs.
A moment later, I went downstairs to cook the dishes and the maid told me that she found the wires for the rice cooker unplugged so she had plug it back on but this delayed the cooking time for the rice and hubby was in a hurry. The maid was also not sure how the plug came to be unplugged. She thought that she had forgotten to plug it. lol.
Only after she mentioned it to me, then, only then, did I realise that I had stood there for a while unplugging the wrong plug! Haiyoh! Luckily she found it and plug it back on otherwise, no rice for hubby.
Quite often I would start to do something then forget what it is I want to do. More often, I would start to say something then forget what it was I wanted to say mid sentence. You say, terrible or not?
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How to Use Social Media Trends to Grow Your Business
By | source:Here Aug 27th, 2021
Social media isn’t just a distraction from your business opportunities– it’s a chance to grow them. This infographic details six current social media trends that will impact the business world.
While the social media landscape is constantly evolving, professionals must stay on top of the trends in order to maximize the amazing resources that social networking sites can be.
Have you ever sent a snapchat to your grandma? Ten years ago I would have chuckled at the idea, but now Mimi has an Iphone and uses the same apps that I do. People 55 and up are getting more social media savvy everyday. This means that social media strategies need to stray from their traditional goal of appealing to teens and young adults, and diversify to portray the interests of all people. In order to maximize your money, you have to think not just about how you use social media, but how other groups of people use it as well.
So, maybe instead of telling your employees to get off of their phones, you could benefit by asking them which apps they’re on, and how they use them. The ever-growing world of social media won’t slow down for anyone, but you can grow with it if you pay attention to the trends.
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Body Changes
Most cancer treatments will cause changes to your body, and it is natural for a patient to experience a sense of grief. This is normal, and it is healthy to grieve. At the same time, it’s important to remember that your experience with cancer can make you stronger. The new perspective often comes with increased wisdom and understanding. It’s unlikely you will always feel positive, but you can try to address challenges with a positive attitude.
For example, if your skin has changed due to radiation treatments, ask your provider about skin care products. You may also find it helpful to talk with other patients who may have experienced the same issues.
Often adjusting to reconstructive surgery or a prosthesis, also called a breast form, can be difficult. Remember that you are still the same person that you were before your cancer, and any outward scars do not change who you are.
Another way to stay positive and address changes in your appearance is to look for new ways to enhance your appearance. Treat yourself to a new haircut or color, try some new makeup techniques, or shop for some new clothes.
Seeking support from a breast cancer support group can make a huge difference in your attitude about your body and your appearance. You are not alone, and talking to others who have had similar experiences can be very comforting.
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Argumentative Essay: Cigarette Smoking Should Be Banned
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There are many people who know that smoking cigarette is not good for their body. Cigarette holds many chemical substances such as cadmium, butane, acetic acid, methane, ammonia, arsenic, methanol, nicotine, hexamine, stearic acid, and carbon monoxide. All those substances are not suitable for people to consume. So smoking cigarette should be banned in every country because it gives many harmful effects to the smoker, family members or friends, and wastes the ingredients. First, cigarette destroys the smoker by making them sick and weak. Mostly, we can see that people who are smoking cigarette are not fat and strong. Smoking can cause many diseases for example lung cancer, high blood pressure, heart diseases, and diabetes. Their skin is rough, and they will look older than their ages. Smoking gives them bad breath and their teeth will fall out by the time they get old. If they have to work or meeting, they need to find a place to smoke alone and try to stay away from others. Soon he or she will have no friends left but only the cigarette. Moreover, smoking reduces smoker’s life.
According to Lindsay P. claims that a pack of cigarette could reduce their life expectancy 28 minutes. As you smoke, you will leave your family and your love one. More than that, smokers will spend all the money to buy the drug which they cannot live without. Also, they need to spend on the medicines and treatment too. Second, smoking is not affecting only the smoker but also the people around them such as family members and friends. If you smoke around them, the smoke will give unpleasant smell to them and they will become the second-hand smoke. Even though, you go out every time that you smoke but the smell of the smoke still on your clothes or body. It disturbs others by your body’s smell. Both direct smoke and second-hand smoke can face with the same risk of getting many diseases. Furthermore, the children in that family can follow their parents to smoke the cigarette when they grow up. It is important for elder to show a good model for the younger generation what they should do and what they should not. Third, creating the cigarette is a big waste of the ingredients. When factories or industrials want to make the cigarettes, they need a lot of ingredients to combine. Instead of using them in the right way, they use it in the wrong way which has no advantage at all. Besides, it can kill them one day in the future.
The use of cigarettes is only for smoking and give many disasters. If smoking cigarette is banned, the company will not be able to create so much more. All the ingredients left could use to produce many useful things such as lighters fluid, batteries, or candles for people to use it when they need. Some people might disagree that smoking should not be banned because it can help people reduce stress. When people are in a lot of pressures, smoking cigarette can help them to release all the pressure through the air. However, smoking is not the only way or a most effective way to reduce stress. In fact, Jeanette M. has shown many ways to reduce stress without using cigarette such as meditation or communication. In addition, cigarette produces smoke which fade into the air, so it will pollute the environment around you too. If the amount of fresh air decreases, people will not be able to live longer because there is no fresh to breathe for daily survive. In conclusion, smoking cigarette should be banned due to three bad effects on smoker, family members or friends, waste the ingredients and pollute the environment. The governments in every country should not allow any factories to produce cigarette as a starter of this mission because if there is no cigarette, there will be no smoker and that will make people healthier and stronger.
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Bookshot #147: Anything But Silent
Shortly after K was diagnosed with apraxia, I think both the Missus and I did some digging to find books,
resources, anything about apraxia so we could understand what it was and how people deal with it, and more importantly, what the prognosis might actually look like. Anything But Silent made the list very early on, but we never actually ran it down and purchased the damn thing until recently. (Well, really until I found out about and it was on there for a cheaper price than Amazon and I figured for that price, we may as well finally get this book and find out what it was all about.)
Written by Kathy Hennessy and her daughter Kate (with one chapter by her son Andy as well), Anything But Silent is a chronicle of their family's journey through apraxia of speech. At 154 pages, this is a quick read- and Kathy and Kate alternate chapters, so you can get the perspective of a parent and of a child who grew up with apraxia of speech. The writing style is very personal: this isn't some dry or dusty dome and both Hennessys are open and honest about their experiences both good and bad along the way.
Kathy Hennessy had not one, but two kids diagnosed with apraxia. The fact that she took that diagnosis and turned it into a lifetime of effective (and I'm assuming still ongoing) advocacy is incredible. Apraxia is... a lot. I don't know how the Missus took our initial diagnosis for K, but I remember taking him in for an assessment and just watching the assessment, and then finally, the SLP asked me if he had ever been diagnosed with apraxia and honestly, my first reaction was one of relief. It had a name. It felt like vindication for both the Missus and me that we had kept pushing, kept insisting that something was up with K and he wasn't responding to the speech therapy we had him, and "it" had a name.
I can deal with names. Names mean that there's information somewhere about it and that means I can read and figure out what we're looking at. The relief soon gave way to fear once we learned what we're looking at but now, it's just incredible the amount of progress that K has made. So I could identify with her feelings about the initial diagnosis and the amount of speech therapy she went too and the struggles with a family that might not be as supportive as they could. (In general, K is blessed with a supportive family in a way that it doesn't appear Hennessy was.)
Once again, I find myself so thankful that both the Missus and I work where we do- because the struggles that Hennesy describes with insurance sound positively nightmarish.
While the perspective of a parent was something I could identify with, it's the chapters featuring Kate and (the solitary one) Andy are the ones that- I don't want to say cheered me up, because I don't think that's quite the right word- but they were comforting chapters. It reinforces the idea that although there are days where it doesn't seem like it, there is, with a metric fuck ton of speech therapy, light at the end of the tunnel. Both of them are doing great, by all accounts and their apraxia is considered resolved. That squares with our own experience with K-- so much progress and he's talking so, so much- you just know that he's going to get there. It's not longer a question of 'if' to me, it's a question of 'when.'
Overall, a short little book demands a short little review- because really, there's not much more I can say about it. If you've got a kid or know someone with apraxia and want to understand it a bit more by delving into the ins and outs of speech disorders, this is an excellent volume to start with. I can highly recommend it. My Grade: **** out of ****
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In this post let us see a sample of how to productionize the model we get from the H2O. The goal of this post is to develop a simple H2O based predictive model, convert it into a Plain Old Java Object (POJO), compile it along with other Java packages, and package the compiled class files into a deployable JAR file so that it can readily be deployed onto any Java-based application servers. This model will accept the input data set in the form of a CSV file and return the predicted output in CSV format.
For this example, I am using the “GBM_Airlines_Classification” flow from the examples of H2O’s flow dashboard. If you are unaware of how to use H2O’s FLow please go through the previous post in the series.
Follow the flow by running each cell until you get to the last cell to getModel.
Step 1: Download POJO object to the local system(Downloads folder).
Step 2: Download model pieces in a new terminal window. Note that H2O must still be running in terminal window #1:
$ mkdir experiment
$ cd experiment
$ mv ~/Downloads/ .
$ curl http://localhost:54321/3/h2o-genmodel.jar > h2o-genmodel.jar
Step 3: Create your main program in terminal window #2 by creating a new file called
with the following contents:
import hex.genmodel.easy.RowData;
import hex.genmodel.easy.EasyPredictModelWrapper;
import hex.genmodel.easy.prediction.*;
public class main {
private static String modelClassName = "gbm_pojo_test";
hex.genmodel.GenModel rawModel;
rawModel = (hex.genmodel.GenModel) Class.forName(modelClassName).newInstance();
EasyPredictModelWrapper model = new EasyPredictModelWrapper(rawModel);
RowData row = new RowData();
row.put("Year", "1987");
row.put("Month", "10");
row.put("DayofMonth", "14");
row.put("DayOfWeek", "3");
row.put("CRSDepTime", "730");
row.put("UniqueCarrier", "PS");
row.put("Origin", "SAN");
row.put("Dest", "SFO");
BinomialModelPrediction p = model.predictBinomial(row);
System.out.println("Label (aka prediction) is flight departure delayed: " + p.label);
System.out.print("Class probabilities: ");
for (int i = 0; i < p.classProbabilities.length; i++) {
if (i > 0) {
Step 4: Compile the POJO in terminal window 2.
$ javac -cp h2o-genmodel.jar -J-Xmx2g -J-XX:MaxPermSize=128m
Step 5: Run the POJO in terminal window 2.
For Linux and OS X users:
$ java -cp .:h2o-genmodel.jar main
For Windows users:
$ java -cp .;h2o-genmodel.jar main
Label (aka prediction) is flight departure delayed: YES
Class probabilities: 0.4319916897116479,0.5680083102883521
This post is one of the ways to use POJO file in production. Think of it as a java object and all nuances that apply for any Java object will apply for this as well.
Hoping these series on H2O would give you enough information and clear picture to get you started.
H2O appears to be a powerful tool at anyone’s tech stack, especially when dealing with tons of data without GPU’s. Also, it would be a cool tech to know of, that will make you stand out from your peers.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has signed a 3 trillion won ($2.25 billion) contract with a Russian state-run nuclear energy company to provide components and construct turbine buildings for Egypt’s first nuclear power plant, officials said Thursday.
The South Koreans hailed the deal as a triumph for their nuclear power industry, although it made for awkward optics as their American allies push an economic pressure campaign to isolate Russia over its war on Ukraine.
South Korean officials said the United States was consulted in advance about the deal and that the technologies being supplied by Seoul for the project would not clash with international sanctions against Russia.
According to South Korea’s presidential office and trade ministry, the state-run Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power was subcontracted by Russia’s Atomstroyexport to provide certain materials and equipment and construct turbine buildings and other structures at the plant being built in Dabaa. The Mediterranean coastal town is about 130 kilometers (80 miles) northwest of Cairo.
Atomstroyexport, also called ASE, is a subsidiary of Rosatom, a state-owned Russian nuclear conglomerate. The company has a contract with Egypt to deliver four 1,200 megawatt reactors through 2030. Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power’s part of project is from 2023 to 2029.
A senior aide of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said the negotiations were slowed by “unexpected variables,” mainly Russia’s war on Ukraine and the U.S.-led sanctions campaign against Moscow over its aggression.
Choi Sang-mok, Yoon’s senior secretary for economic affairs, said South Korea provided an explanation to the United States in advance about its plans to participate in the Dabaa project and that the allies will maintain close consultation as the work proceeds. As part of U.S.-led sanctions against Moscow, South Korea has ended transactions with Russia’s central bank and sovereign wealth funds and banned exports of strategic materials to Russia.
Neither Choi nor officials from South Korea’s trade ministry elaborated on how the crisis in Ukraine and the sanctions on Moscow affected the negotiations between Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power and ASE.
Choi stressed that South Korea’s involvement in the project would not clash with international sanctions against Russia.
“Any kind of issue can be met by various uncertainties, but those have all been resolved as of now, and that’s why we were able to finalize the agreement,” he said.
Yoon’s office expressed hope that South Korea’s participation in the Dabaa project would help the country gain a foothold in future nuclear projects across Africa and also improve its chances to export to countries such as the Czech Republic, Poland and Saudi Arabia.
Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power had been engaging in negotiations with ASE as the preferred bidder for the turbine-related project since December, before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in late February.
Go Myong-hyun, a senior analyst at Seoul’s Asan Institute for Policy Studies, said the deal wouldn’t have been possible without an export approval by the United States as the components provided by Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power likely include U.S.-originated technology.
Current sanctions against Moscow also do not include specific restrictions related to nuclear energy and the Biden administration would have no interest in disrupting a crucial project for Egypt, which it sees as a key partner in the region, Go said.
While South Korea’s involvement in the Dabaa project wouldn’t immediately be a problem between the allies if the Americans signed off on it, things could change depending on how Russia’s war on Ukraine goes and whether Washington expands its export controls against Moscow, Go said.
Yoon’s office said the Dabaa project is South Korea’s biggest export of nuclear power technology since 2009, when a South Korean-led consortium won a $20 billion contract to build nuclear power reactors in the United Arab Emirates.
Yoon, a conservative who took office in May, has pledged to boost South Korean exports of nuclear power technology, which he says were dented under the policies of his liberal predecessor, Moon Jae-in, who sought to reduce the country’s domestic dependence on nuclear energy.
Yoon in a statement on Facebook said the deal reaffirms South Korea’s “advanced technology and safeness and strong supply chains” in the nuclear power industry. His government has set a goal of exporting 10 nuclear power reactors by 2030.
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1. Getting to meet some of the competitors may be tough because they'll be preparing, but there will many wrestling celebrities in the stands or coaching and they will probably be very approachable.
2. Protests handle in sports all the time. George Brett and the pine tar bat sound familiar? Royals had to fly to NY just to play an inning. Every year at nationals there are several protests. As a matter of fact, they have a protest committee in place before the start of the tournament for the sole purpose that just in case there is a protest they are equipped to handle one. Every sport has protest procedures in place, and the fact that very rarely are games/matches overturned means that it was fairly obvious in an unbiased, neutral observer's eyes, that a bad decision was made in the match.
3. Some of my most memorable going back to 1999: Dake /Taylor because of the names attached to it. So much anticipation, plus enough action to make it a good match. Caldwell/Metcalf : There was no way I saw Caldwell beating the crap out of Metcalf Ness finish was unbelievable Coleman pin just electrified the crowd Rohn/Lambrecht - (biggest turn of events, plus I was sitting in OU section a few rows above Lambrecht's dad. UC Davis kid who just kept getting the tilts.
4. Most of you commenting have no idea what you are talking about. Here is the rule: >>>The request will be granted if a certified medical doctor’s note is provided within the appropriate timeframe. In the case of a delayed Final Wrestle-Off, the National Coach and athletes involved shall determine the date, time, and place for the Final Wrestle-Off. If consensus cannot be reached, the Greco-Roman Sport Committee shall make this determination.<<<< All the rules state is the athlete will be granted to delay the Final X if he has a Certified Dr's note. Kyle was not ready to compete due to an injury. It was completely legal and within the rules. The athletes and National Coach will determine the date. No where does it say the Final Wrestle-off will be held the 1st day he is allowed to compete. They apparently decided the date, and no one on this board knows how they came to that conclusion (including me). Also, no where in the rules does it say he cannot compete between Final X and the Final Wrestle-off. If anyone on this board can find that rule, then please post it.
5. If either Dake, Nashon, or Yianni make the Olympic team it will be a great year to be a Cornell fan, regardless of how the team does. I didn't even mention US Open runner-up Honis or Vito. The fact that we are discussing multiple Cornellians potentially making the Olympic team is a great thing in my mind.
6. Great time to be a Cornell wrestling alum. I knew Cornell could be good but to be having this conversation about multiple Cornell wrestlers is unbelievable.
7. Cael, because of his lack of support for national duals. He has stonewalled anything that is remotely good for the sport as a whole.
8. Oklahoma wrestling is down from the past. OSU is still getting the same # of top dogs, but the difference is the quantity is no longer there. I grew up in Oklahoma, wrestling in high school in late 80's and for Cornell in the early 90's,, OSU had lots of Oklahoma guys, OU had several, but then Notre Dame had 3 or so starters, MN had Nix, Clemson had a couple, Nebraska, Army had a couple. My school, Cornell had 4 NCAA qualifiers from OK one year. Now, you rarely see any Oklahoma wrestlers at NCAA's from any school other than OSU. OSU generally has gotten the top Oklahoma natives, and OU got the second tier. Now, the second tier isn't nearly as good.
9. NCAA eligibility doesn't start until he/she starts school full time. So the "grayshirt" term is for an athlete who doesn't start full-time for a year after high school while he/she trains somewhere. Basketball players do this at Academies or Prep Schools. As for the Ivy League, there is technically no such thing as a redshirt, at least you cannot do it just because you don't want to compete that year. However after 4 years, you can apply for an extra year of eligibility if you can prove you couldn't compete one year due to an injury. I believe this is fairly easy to prove, but I don't know who actually makes a decision on this. The reason Ivy League athletes take a year off is because, unlike at other schools, a Graduate student cannot compete at an Ivy League school. So if you normally would graduate in 8 semesters of classes, the only way you can compete your 5th year is if you take a year, or at least semester, off from school.
10. I have an October birthday and started Kindergarten when I was 4 because in OK at that time, the cutoff was November 1. My daughter has an October Birthday and now in KS, the cutoff is Sept or August, so she started Kindergarten when she was a 5. I started college when I was 17. My freshman year, I wrestled a 5th year senior who was probably close to 5 years older than me. It makes a difference. I didn't redshirt, but had I done so, and started Kindergarten a year later, I think those two years could have made a difference and there is a better chance I would have been all-American. But who knows? I made big strides from Freshman to Sophomore year which age alone would not have done, but rather the experience of wrestling my freshman year helped in my development. But that's just the way it is. I have read things that a lot of the great athletes were on the older end of the spectrum for their given sports. Ex: Gretzky's birthday falls in such a way that he was one of the older ones. Gretzky was obvious a great athlete and probably would have been great at any sport, but being a little older probably allowed him to excel at hockey first given him confidence at that particular sport. That being said, I believe we are nitpicking here. Whether Lee or Yianni won nationals as a young freshman or as an old freshman is still impressive.
11. I think it's a great idea. I think a Dual meet championship can draw in the team fan who wouldn't otherwise watch wrestling. I wrestled at Cornell, and grew up a Sooner fan. If Cornell lacrosse or ice hockey is playing in the NCAA tournament I watch it, otherwise I don't care. I am a golfer and watch PGA a fair amount, but rarely watch college golf. When OU was in the NCAA finals as a team, I followed it on my phone when I was on vacation and watched it on the golf channel. I watched the team event but not the individual event. I have a college friend of mine who will not turn in and watch the NCAA wrestling tournament, but I think would watch a dual meet if they were in it. Why? he doesn't want to watch 4 hours of wrestling to watch 1-4 Cornell wrestlers. I think he would tune in to watch Cornell. I, on the other hand, will watch both. You could use any school here as an example. As for why the NCAA would sponsor 2 championships. If it makes them money they will. Right now, Wrestling is one of about 3-4 sports which the NCAA makes money on the tournament. (football is not one since it has no ncaa tournament.) If they can secure a good tv sponsor, then the NCAA will ok it. I'm guessing all of the current viewers of the individual championships will continue to watch, plus you'll bring in the sports fan who has a college affiliation. Those are my two cents worth.
12. The reason you don't see the best athletes the best coaches in a lot of other sports is the money. Great football players have long careers, and make a lot of money and they don't need the money from coaching. Cael was still in his prime and stopped wrestling to become a college head coach. Would Tom Brady be an excellent coach? Most certainly!!! But there was ZERO chance of him quitting the NFL after his first super bowl to coach at Michigan. When he's done, he will not become a head coach. He'll retire, enjoy the good life, live off his football earnings the rest of his life. And if he needs extra money he'll do a commercial or sign autographs somewhere. Wrestling is different. John Smith, Tom Brands, Cael Sanderson, etc. didn't make enough money in their career to last 10 years, so they have to coach to make a good living. Listen to the wisdom of Jack Nicklaus sometime and you'll realize he could have been an excellent golf coach. You don't have to be the greatest athlete in your sport to be the greatest coach but it's possible, we just never find out in the money sports.
13. I actually like the current system, other than it is hard to explain to someone. Is it perfect? No. But no system will ever be perfect. It rewards a good year. Let's say you have Wrestler A who beats Wrestler B 4 times during the regular season. Wrestler A gets the flu during the conference tournament and loses to Wrestler B. B finishes high enough to get an automatic qualifier and A does not. I say Wrestler A deserves the spot, and he'll probably get it through the wild card since he is mostly highly ranked. Well, Wrestler B will also gets rewarded by having a good tournament. The guy that gets left out is the 30-33 ranked guy, who is borderline deserving and performed only average during the regular season and only average during his qualifier. We have rewarded the guy who performed well during the season, the guy who performed well in the qualifier and didn't reward the guy who was average at both. Also, one of the complaints of the past is that coaches didn't care about duals, often times sitting guys. It still happens, but not as much. The more a guy wrestles, the better chance he has in securing an automatic bid by increasing his RPI. Under the old season, qualifiers were based on the last 3 years. How fair was that. If you were a wrestler, you would be at a disadvantage at a conference that was getting better. Under some proposals, a regional systems means you are at a disadvantage wrestling in a tough region, which varies by weight. Under this system, EVERYONE is at equal standing at the beginning of the year. Now, the season is important. The qualifier is important. And we have the best chance of getting the top 33 in the nation fight it out to be an all-American.
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Does anyone know about the coke and mentos expirement?!
Question: Does anyone know about the coke and mentos expirement?
im trying to do that to show preschool kids a science experiment but i was wondering what exactly do i do? what liter of coke should i buy? does it matter? and do i dump the whole mentos bag into the coke bottle? help and please/thanks :)
Buy a 2 litter bottle of Diet Coke and a roll of Mentos. You can use any soda but room temperature Diet Coke for some reason is the best performer.
Find a big open area to launch your Mentos Coke Rocket. Don’t do it indoors. Trust me.
Slide the paper cover off the Mentos (leave the foil wrapper on) and slip the roll into the bottle.
Quickly cap the bottle and shake it.
Gently unscrew the cap, just a little, until you start to hear fizzing.
Throw it down and cover your face!
It has to be Diet Coke, and the more you drop in, the more it will rocket., but you only get one chance, so try to drop as many in simultaneously as possible.
Can't. you don't understand the physics so you can't even build a rudimentary replicant of a working model.
Buy a 2 liter bottle of coke(or any soda) and drop one or two mentos in the bottle.(at least that's what I did).
Good luck
2 Liter Bottle+Diet Coke+ALL of the Mentos=Maximum Explosion! Have fun and good luck!
Tried it!
I hear diet Coke is best. It may also be better to crush up the Mentos.
I believe it works best with a 2 liter coke and you only use one mento.
Diet soda works the best.
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Dividend Stocks: Here’s an Important Metric You Should Know!
Hello, Fellow/Future Investor!
Some people may be under the impression that if they find a stock that pays a very high dividend, their work is done. They can just buy it and live happily ever after collecting “hefty dividends”.
However, approaching dividend stock purchases in such a manner can be a big mistake.
Before I explain why, here’s what you should know: The “Dividend Yield” is another name for the interest payments a company would pay YOU simply for owning their stock. Payments are typically issued quarterly (every 3 months).
Here is an example of where to find the Dividend Yield for a particular company and what the data looks like. I grabbed the screenshot from Yahoo Finance:
The % you see (2.47%) is the yield (or the “interest payment”) paid to shareholders (people that own that stock). The dollar amount you see ($5.44) is the same information, just in dollar terms.
And so, people that own shares of this stock get $5.44 per share over the course of a year.
Now that we have that clear, keep this in mind:
A high dividend yield should never be your sole determining factor when researching dividend paying stocks.
The truth of the matter is, there are several factors an investor should look into when researching a prospective investment that pays a dividend.
One of those important factors is the company’s Dividend Payout Ratio.
The Dividend Payout Ratio (also known as ‘DPR’ or ‘Payout Ratio’), is simply a metric that tells you what is the percentage of profits a company is paying out in dividends to their shareholders.
Ideally, dividend payments come from the profits a company generates – what is left over after all expenses are taken care of.
A company can choose to keep those extra funds and invest them back into the business and/or they can compensate shareholders in the form of dividend payments.
Here’s an example:
The image below shows the dividend-data information for a specific company. The circled number tells us the Payout Ratio is 54.82%.
Real Example:
Here’s what the number means:
A Payout Ratio of 54.82% means the company pays out 54.82% of its profits in the form of dividends and keeps 45.18% (100-54.82=45.18) inside the company in order to invest in projects, products, or services that can help the company remain strong and competitive.
Now, let’s look at another example:
Let’s say you are looking into the dividend payout ratio of a different company. You notice that their ratio is at 110%.
A Dividend Payout ratio that is OVER 100% means that the company is likely incurring debt in order to pay dividends.
If you really like the company, you’ll need to take your research a couple of steps further. You’ll need to investigate if the debt is manageable and if the company is financially healthy to pay it off.
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Finding out that information can help you analyze whether or not the dividend payments are sustainable or whether they’ll stop paying them at some point in the future.
This situation would be a red flag worth looking further into before buying the stock for the purpose of dividend payments.
Now, you may be wondering what percentage would be considered ‘reasonable’ for a Dividend Payout Ratio. Generally speaking, a ratio of about 70% or lower is considered a healthy ballpark by most stock analysts.
However, it is also important to note that you may notice that older, more mature businesses may have ratios in the ballpark of 80% or higher in some cases.
This is usually normal. Think about it – an older, more established company doesn’t have to invest a lot of money in growth and development so, they get to pay out more to investors.
With that said, remember that every company is different and you have to take a very close look at the business as a whole when you are examining Payout Ratios.
And this is it for today’s post! As a mini homework assignment, I challenge you to find the dividend payout ratio of a company you might be interested in and let me know what that is in the comments.
Take it one step further and tell me what you can conclude from the number that you see in your research.
Have a fantastic week! Cheers to profits.
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Make money; sue America
Short on cash? Want to sue someone but do not have a reason? Hit the history books and call your lawyer.
Some lawmakers believe that slave descendents should be given permission to sue local governments. Assemblyman Roger Green is at the forefront of this brigade, and he has actor Danny Glover as spokesperson.
The Daily News reports that, “The Black, Puerto Rican and Hispanic Legislative Caucus introduced legislation that would require the state to apologize for allowing slavery and set up a commission to decide how much money to award descendants of slave in compensation.”
Green calls slavery a “crime against humanity,” and I wholeheartedly agree that it was. Slavery was monstrous and there is no denying that.
He wants the state to apologize, which is acceptable. The United States has repeatedly expressed its regrets for slavery.
To some, though, that is not enough. Apparently, compensation for descendants will erase the mistake, and money in their pockets will appease their ancestor’s suffering.
Neither Democrats nor Republicans are jumping to enact this law, and Green has acknowledged that he faces great trouble in getting this law passed.
America has forgiven Germany and Japan of the early 1940s, so why should American citizens still hate their own nation? We are talking about a centuries-old mistake. I am trying to remain sensitive on this issue, because I am not an African American.
However, I do not understand how a compensation awarded to descendants will relieve the mistake.
German survivors who were incarcerated in their country’s concentration camps receive small sums from the government. One survivor gets a monthly check for $140.
This individual was personally affected by Germany’s horrible error, and even he is not receiving much from his government.
Descendants of slaves were not physically affected by slavery; therefore, they should not receive compensation.
The sale of human beings is disgusting, but what is done is done. The proverbial hatchet has been uncovered, but the hole needs to be dug deeper to bury it for good.
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Background: Semen quality impairment is a serious consequence of testicular torsion–detorsion. Adequate germ-cell mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation plays a crucial role in male fertility. Changes in cellular oxidative phosphorylation in testicular tissues after testicular torsion–detorsion remain unclear. Objectives: This study investigated whether testicular torsion–detorsion induces alternations of mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation in testicular tissues. Materials and Methods: BALB/c male mice were divided into a Sham group and a testicular torsion–detorsion group. At the end of the procedure, the mice were euthanized, and their bilateral testicles were removed. Mitochondria morphology was evaluated through transmission electron microscopy. The cellular respiratory functions of germ cells were evaluated using a Seahorse analyzer assay. The proteome profiles in testicular tissues were analyzed using liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry. The differences in the expression levels of each component in the oxidative phosphorylation were revealed using Ingenuity Pathways Analysis. Results: Inner mitochondrial membrane disruption was found in ipsilateral twisted testicular mitochondria in the torsion–detorsion group but not in contralateral untwisted testes. The cellular respiratory function in germ cells was significantly decreased after testicular torsion–detorsion in ipsilateral twisted testes but not in contralateral untwisted testes. Liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry analysis of ipsilateral twisted testicular tissue revealed that mitochondrial proteins were differentially expressed after testicular torsion–detorsion. Testicular torsion–detorsion induced downregulation of oxidative phosphorylation and revealed alternations of specific proteins in the oxidative phosphorylation complexes. Discussion and Conclusion: Testicular torsion–detorsion produced mitochondria injury and dysregulation of mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation in ipsilateral twisted testes. Different protein expressions were identified in the mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation complexes with testicular torsion–detorsion; new therapeutic targets may be identified to restore the oxidative phosphorylation function of germ cells.
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ASJC Scopus subject areas
• 內分泌學、糖尿病和代謝
• 生殖醫學
• 內分泌
• 泌尿科學
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Delete your chats right now 😨
Why? How? and really?
Chit Chat
We are in Kalyug now, where anyone gets offended easily by a small message/image. They do not see the context, nor the person saying it. Its just the false EGO and intolerance that makes them easy target of anger and hatred.
Just for your own safety and for the safety of other person, you should delete all the chats regularly. You don’t know what can bring you both to situations where some few messages can harm you both. So I urge you to clear all the chats of Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, Text, Instagram or any platform that you share with me and with others too. If there is something really important in that chat like document or photos or videos , take that backup somewhere else and clean the chat right away.
Koi Dekh Raha Hai
1. So, now a days, the governments are monitoring chats of people, chat groups, and many other reasons. That seems nothing harmful to you but you might have a contact in your phone that is suspicious. That can really trigger things against you. You might not be involved in anything but still you are under surveillance. Any word of yours against government can be a weapon against you. So with the consent of other person , clean the chats right now.
Delete Chats
2. With One of your friends you shared some secrets , with your bf/gf you shared some secrets , with bffs you shared your political views , but all these relations don’t last long, right? The information you shared can be used against you. Some screenshots you shared might contain sensitive content, not from your perspective but from others it could be disastrous. So ask your friend, your bff, your bf/gf , to clean all the chats , screenshots from all the medium. No issues if delete for everyone isn’t available at the moment on your chats, if you both clean your chats and that backup is synced so google drive then there won’t be any history of that thing ever.
Identity at risk
3. Your phone is the most personal thing you hold. You do not even give access to your data to parents, partners, so imagine how sensitive your phone is and how would you feel if someone is peeking into your chats. Your thoughts, your views, your imagination, what you’ll type next is all being predicted. All the locations you go daily, all the people you talk you are already known to AI. What ever you type is being fed to Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning algorithms to predict the nature of human beings, so that they can manipulate your choices. So try to do as less conversation on non encrypted chat applications and clear it regularly.
Human Rights
4. In these harsh times if you speak anything against government then that is considered as a crime. ( ) , ( ) , ( ) . So whom to trust in these situations. Its better to remove all the possible traces of your words socially and do not post anything right now until this pandemic ends. A question to ask where is freedom of speech ( ) ? (The norms on limiting freedom of expression mean that public debate may not be completely suppressed even in times of emergency : Wikipedia)
Keeping Chat is Harmful
How? Most private chats are in Whatsapp so considering that
1. Clean history from both side.
2. Do not allow backups as google drive chats are not secure
3. Clean whatsapp chats from : Settings -> Chats -> Chat history -> Clear all chats -> CLEAR MESSAGE (check both media and starred box too)
4. Clean whatsapp message : Settings -> Chats -> Chat history -> Delete all chats
5. Clean whatsapp chats : Settings -> Data and storage -> Storage usage -> select any chat and free up space (check all boxes while deleting)
6. Delete and relogin account
Keep things in mind
Do not cling to things you don’t even see daily. Delete everything that doesn’t matter. I know you don’t see that image which you have from 2 years in your phone in old chat with a friend. If it is important then back it up and clean all the other stuffs. That’ll save some memory and worries.
Your data is being monitored.
You do not have ownership to your data.
Anyone can file complaint against you if they do not agree with your views.
Anyone can defame you.
Have a safe Online presence
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Farmer-led Earthquake Recovery Effort in Haiti
For the last eight years the Smallholder Farmers Alliance (SFA) has been working with approximately 1,000 farm families in southern Haiti to improve their yields and incomes using an innovative agroforestry model. Centered around the rural community of Laborde, just 5 miles north of the hard-hit city of Les Cayes, these families also felt the full impact of Saturday’s 7.2-magnitude earthquake. Although not yet widely reported, rural areas in this region suffered extensive damage to homes and farm buildings; large numbers of people were injured and are completely without medical services of any kind. And based on the experience of Hurricane Mathew in 2016, post disaster support does not usually extend much beyond city limits.
The advantage the SFA farmers have is that they are well organized and more successful than many in the region. As a result, within hours of the earthquake the SFA Laborde farm leaders were going farm to farm to assess the damage and find out what each family needs in order to cope with their situation.
We are partnering with the Raising Haiti Foundation in supporting this truly extraordinary group of Haitian farmers to not only recover from this disaster, but to come out stronger and able to expand their efforts to transform agriculture in the area. But we can’t do it on our own and so we invite you to join us by making a donation today!
The farmer members of SFA Laborde, working with our regional agronomist Abel Dorvilne, have put together the following two-part operation that your donation will support:
EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE: 1) TENTS, because so many homes were destroyed or damaged and many people are sleeping in the open in the midst of heavy rains; 2) FOOD, because markets have been disrupted, particularly for food like rice that comes from outside the immediate area; 3) MEDICAL CARE, because there is no medical facility in the immediate area and injured farmers and their families need help; and 4) WATER, because the water in local wells and other natural sources has turned red as a result of the earthquake, and so either bottled water or water treatment solutions are needed.
RECOVERY ASSISTANCE: 1) SEED, to replace what was lost in the earthquake and to increase the SFA’s seed bank program to include more farmers in the area, 2) PUMPS, so that irrigation can be expanded and yields improved, 3) LIVESTOCK, to replace animals lost in the earthquake and to increase the impact of the SFA goat program, and 4) FRUIT TREES, so that the existing SFA nurseries can replace lost trees and have a higher output of breadfruit, coconuts, mangoes and avocados.
We would like to introduce you to one of the SFA Laborde farmers who is making this request.
Marie Denise Dorvilier (shown above in front of her damaged house) is 58 years old and lives with her family of nine on a one-acre farm near the small village of Fond des Freres, not far from Laborde. She became a member of the SFA last year.
“I was home with my children when the earthquake happened,” said Marie yesterday, “and our house was shaken apart. We ran outside. But three of my kids were hurt by the falling walls.” She went on to explain that when a farm building also collapsed, she lost a season’s worth of beans. Several goats were in a pen connected to the building and escaped.
When asked if she had a message for people who might want to help, Marie said, “To everyone I say thank you for thinking about us. From my heart I say thank you and God bless you.”
The SFA is mounting a second operation in Les Cayes that is led by local university student Elysee Kerly. We know him because he is studying forestry and has visited SFA Laborde. Elysee has enlisted four others to form a “fixer” team to provide accurate information and basic logistical support for NGOs and others who are coming to the city to offer emergency services.
Destruction of farm buildings in Laborde following the earthquake (above). Pre-earthquake photo of SFA farmer members working together to create a tree nursery in Laborde (below).
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Momentum is a mighty force that drives basketball and several people will agree with that. When the drive is within you, everything will go your way. Most of the teams have experienced at some point that most shots attempted did go thru the basketball goal. There are passes that are sharp and accurate. The execution of their shots was seamless and the points just keep accumulating on the scoreboard. These are wonderful things to watch and witness.
But lately, Jazz hasn’t been performing at their usual standards. They seem to have lost control of their momentum. There were several games wherein they played very slowly, then they fell behind and then tried to scramble back on their feet. They would have totally failed if not for the return of their momentum. Jazz fans are so used to seeing this powerful force during the early start of this season and it brought the team victory every time. The fans are praying that the momentum will be retained until the end of the season.
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Favourite reads and life in writing!
Fan-fictions may be an unconventional way to begin this new blogging scheme but I find that people jump onto the negative bandwagon far too quickly when it comes to this topic. While my experiences in both original and fan-made fiction are not as vast as some others, I do see this lack of diverse knowledge behind what fan-fictions are to people and why it is still a fairly popular medium in entertainment.
If you do not already know, fan-fictions are transformative creative pieces either inspired by or contain characters from a TV show, movie or book. Fan-fictions also involve fictional characterisations inspired by celebrities mostly by their name and physical features depending on the genre or universe.
Transforming plot & character decisions
Raise your hand if you watch Game of Thrones and liked how the final season ended?
If you did not raise your hand then it is highly understandable (if you did, that’s okay too).
Fan-fiction writers will generally take this disapproval to the next level and attempt to transform their favourite pieces to the way they like it. Due to a little thing called fair use in copyright law, fans are now allowed to be inspired by their favourite entertainment sources and change them around for free so long as it is a transformation (and not a direct copy which would never make sense anyway).
Training in Writing
Sometimes you just want to get your writing out there in the open. No hassle, no extra worry, just write, edit, post and engage. If you are a writer and part of a fandom you love then this is usually only a step towards what you want.
Another reason why a lot of people might start with fan-fictions is because it almost provides you with a base or a template depending on how much you are using from your particular source.
This is especially true with celebrity fan-fiction writers. The usual stereotypical view of a celebrity fan-fiction is that they are grammatically incorrect pieces with embarrassing scene structures possibly made by a stalker who has nothing else to do with their lives. Or you just think of After (The book seems well-written but the fact that out of all the fan-fictions in the world, this was chosen says a lot about the clear stereotype created by mainstream media for fan-fiction writing).
I have seen novel-length stories filled with deeply thought out themes, intricate character development, suspenseful plot building and even a personal taste to the work that some mainstream novels do not always have. I also understand why they might not because there is a high chance publishers bring their own input into stories sometimes so it may not always be a raw piece from the author.
If you look deep within instead of just the surface, you would be surprised to find a lot of aspiring writers simply trying to train themselves in their craft before going onto serious publishing (sometimes both at the same time). At the end of the day, all of it is considered creative writing.
Have you seen a TV show/movie/book and wondered ‘what would it be like if x and y ended up together’ or ‘what would it be like if x was evil’?
Once again fan-fictions are the first source readers can go to if they are ever curious. Especially if it is a big fandom, it would be easy to find these themes just by writing down a few keywords.
Harry Potter is a big example. From evil Harry to what Draco and Hermione would be like together, the HP fandom has curated one magnificent collection of fan-fictions.
A TV show example can be Teen Wolf. I have heard fans sometimes prefer the fan-fictions over the show itself. Which by my experiences in watching the show is not that surprising even if I have not read the fan-fictions. Another TV show example should be no stranger to anyone: Supernatural. Destiel. You do not have to be an avid fan-fiction reader to at least hear of this ship name being dropped every now and then.
Celebrity fan-fictions work in a similar way except there is a much larger world to explore here. If you dive deeper into the world of celebrity fan-fictions (aside from low quality concert photo covers in Wattpad with the bright purple title ‘My Brother’s Tattoo Artist’), you will find that a significant portion of writers only use the celebrity’s name and some notable physical features.
Since the world is so open, readers manage to find their favourite celebrities inspiring all these quirky, interesting characters like faeries, vampires, sirens, seelies and many more. The reason why this is more appealing than just simply just reading a fantasy or sci-fi book is due to the familiarity of the celebrity as the character.
Haven’t you ever watched a film simply because you liked the actor in it? The concept is no different from a reader wanting to see their favourite celebrity in a mafia alternate universe.
Think of this scenario:
You go to McDonalds, have a meal and unfortunately end up getting a bad stomachache. At that very moment you would probably hate the very idea of food. Except food is good, you simply chose the wrong kind that made your bowels despise you.
Stories work in an oddly similar way (not just fan-fictions). Just because you have had a few bad experiences or you have only heard of bad experiences does not mean fan-fictions in general are bad or cringe-worthy.
There are some stories that are bad and cringe-worthy but nothing good ever comes from assuming the worst when you have not experienced the best. Which may take some time but if you love stories and are willing to look then it should not be a problem.
All in all, the stigma simply has to do the lack of proper knowledge and presentation of what fan-fictions are. Additionally, people tend to express hatred towards something that they never tried to fully understand in the first place which is something that cannot be helped unfortunately.
Of course, we also need to consider that a person could have spent a large portion of their time diving into fan-fictions both as a reader and writer but found themselves in a toxic environment which ruined their view on the entire concept. This is understandable. Which is why this post is not directed towards this particular collection of people but to those who try to judge far too quickly for their own credibility.
Fan-fictions are fun! That was the whole point of the post in all honesty. If you find the right ones, the stories are always so raw and direct. There is no sense of cloudiness or even censorship but simply an author’s thoughts channelled onto a previously blank canvas.
This is not to say that original fiction cannot do the same thing as well but it can be deeply buried in the depths of all the popular ones for the general public.
On a final note, stories are meant for people to enjoy and their preferences are most likely extremely personal to them which needs to be respected. Being a fan-fiction writer or starting out as one does not make you any less of a writer nor does enjoying fan-fictions make you any less of a book worm.
Keep enjoying your favourite stories and happy writing!
– Ashley.
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Yemen shows America the door
Washington became preoccupied with Iraq, but missed Yemen
The George Bush administration is experiencing rather hard times these days: the anti-terrorist coalition is falling to pieces because of the issue of Iraq, but the Pentagon’s military machine is already working at its full capacity and can't be stopped in a moment. Money for a war against Iraq ($200 billion) has already been appropriated and should be spent. In addition, the soldiers and equipment necessary for the offensive have been already been delivered to the region, to Qatar in particular.
Iraq has upset all the plans of Washington once again when it agreed to allow international inspectors into the country. Now, the only thing left is to strive for new UN resolutions on Iraq, which is currently Washington’s main objective. George Bush doesn’t think Baghdad’s official permission to allow military inspections is a serious step. An American version of the resolution will be submitted to Congress for consideration today, as American officials say that not much time is left. It is not clear how things will change in Congress after the November 5th elections. As of now, the US president has managed to enlist the support of several senators; he even claims that republicans and democrats will be working together. The text of a resolution on Iraq will be strict.
US Secretary of DefenseDonald Rumsfeld attempted to persuade Congress of the necessity to launch a war against Iraq. In his words, Washington can avoid a war with Iraq only if Saddam Hussein suddenly quits his post and leaves the country together with his family or if the Iraqi people overthrow the leader.
Washington became preoccupied with Iraq, but missed Yemen. The country was originally mentioned on the US State Department's list of countries that harbor al-Qaeda terrorists. Besides Yemen, Sudan, Libya, and some other countries were also on the list. Americans planned special operations to search for terrorists and their bases in Yemen. The Saudi newspaper Ash-Shark al-Ausat reports that about 800 US special forces, including the Marine Corps and Delta Force are already at the Djibouti military base waiting for further instructions concerning an anti-terrorist operation in Yemen.
However, there will be no instructions, as Yemen has prohibited the USA from launching any anti-terrorist operations on its territory, Vice-Speaker of the Yemen parliament Naji Al told al-Jazeera television Thursday. He said that direct military interference in Yemeni internal affairs would have serious consequences. He also added that Yemen has enough power to detain people who are breaking the law and won't allow other countries to launch operations that may damage its domestic security. As the situation around Iraq is still vague, the last statement has become a telling blow against America’s interests in the region. If the little country of Yemen showed mighty Americathe door, others won’t be afraid to as well.
Dmitry Chirkin PRAVDA.Ru
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Answer: Yes. You can do an Associate Debt Settlement in Fairfield Idaho.
This is a legal process that has a lot of advantages. By having your Camas County-based third-party (friend, relative, or professional) negotiate with your Fairfield creditors (banks, credit unions, hard money lenders, payday loan companies, title loan companies, etc.) you are removing most of the stress involved with the debt relief process.
Answer: Yes. You can get a Tidy Debt Relief in Fairfield Idaho.
The way it works is this:
You pay off ALL your Camas County-based creditors (e.g. - utility bills, overdue rent, local telephone company, Fairfield-based department stores, small businesses, pay day loan companies, title loan companies, friends, relatives, used car dealerships, etc.) with the one main secured or unsecured credit form you chose above.
3) By paying off (hopefully all) of your local Fairfield creditors with the money from your single creditor you’re stopping almost all of the collection agency phone calls. One creditor to deal with.
When you are at the stage where you’ve paid off all your local Fairfield creditors with the money from your one nationwide creditor we recommend you carry out an Associate Debt Settlement (see the F.A.Q. above).
Answer: No. You can’t go to jail for having unpaid debt in Fairfield Idaho.
However, depending on your special circumstances, if you don’t pay child support, tax arrears, or court fines, there is a very slight possibility of doing a little jail time in Fairfield or somewhere in Idaho. This is only in rare cases of egregious default.
Answer: Yes. You can choose to ignore debt collection agencies in Fairfield Idaho but you shouldn’t!
You should never ignore any snail mail, emails, texts, or phone calls from any creditor (National or Fairfield-based) because you DON’T want them to go to court and get a judgement against you. Don’t let it go that far.
If you get notices from any Fairfield Idaho-based collection agency acting on behalf of a national creditor, respond ASAP. Get in front of it and start a negotiation if you can.
We know it’s stressful dealing with creditors so consider getting an associate to deal with your national and/or Fairfield-based creditors. See the What is Associate Debt Settlement and can I get one in Fairfield ID? FAQ above.
Answer: No. Debt collection representatives calling Fairfield Idaho residents on their phones must do so between the hours of 8:00 AM and 9:00 PM. The only exception is if you give them permission to call you any time.
Answer: Debt collection representatives communicating with Fairfield Idaho residents CANNOT:
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Your Fairfield-based community banks are generally easier to deal with when compared to any of the National Bank Branches with physical addresses in Fairfield. But keep in mind that your community banks are “FOR-PROFIT” companies, just like the National banks such as JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, U.S. Bank, PNC Bank, TD Bank, or Capital One.
Your best bet when applying for a debt consolidation loan is usually with a NOT-FOR-PROFIT Fairfield Idaho-based Credit Union. Even better…a Fairfield-based Credit Union that you’re already a member of.
Answer: No. There is no Freedom Debt Relief office located in or near Fairfield Idaho that you can visit for walk in service.
Answer: No. There is no National Debt Relief office located in or near Fairfield Idaho for walk in service.
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Our job at LDS is to find you a debt solution, and provide you with local Fairfield services. We would be remiss if we didn’t include the above offices for making appointments. One of the best things you can do when struggling with debt or money problems is get some professional, and unbiased advice.
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Because some macro packages can break on that we also provide \type {\eTeXgluestretchorder} and \type {\eTeXglueshrinkorder} which report values compatible with \ETEX. The (new) \type {fi} value is reported as \type {-1} (so when used in an \type {\ifcase} test that value makes one end up in the \type {\else}). \stopitem \stopitemize \stopsubsection \startsubsection[title=Changes from \PDFTEX\ 1.40] \topicindex {\PDFTEX} Because we want to produce \PDF\ the most natural starting point was the popular \PDFTEX\ program. We inherit the stable features, dropped most of the experimental code and promoted some functionality to core \LUATEX\ functionality which in turn triggered renaming primitives. For compatibility reasons we still refer to \type {\pdf...} commands but \LUATEX\ has a different backend interface. Instead of these primitives there are three interfacing primitives: \lpr {pdfextension}, \lpr {pdfvariable} and \lpr {pdffeedback} that take keywords and optional further arguments (below we will still use the \tex {pdf} prefix names as reference). This way we can extend the features when needed but don't need to adapt the core engine. The front- and backend are decoupled as much as possible. \startitemize \startitem The (experimental) support for snap nodes has been removed, because it is much more natural to build this functionality on top of node processing and attributes. The associated primitives that are gone are: \orm {pdfsnaprefpoint}, \orm {pdfsnapy}, and \orm {pdfsnapycomp}. \stopitem \startitem The (experimental) support for specialized spacing around nodes has also been removed. The associated primitives that are gone are: \orm {pdfadjustinterwordglue}, \orm {pdfprependkern}, and \orm {pdfappendkern}, as well as the five supporting primitives \orm {knbscode}, \orm {stbscode}, \orm {shbscode}, \orm {knbccode}, and \orm {knaccode}. \stopitem \startitem A number of \quote {\PDFTEX\ primitives} have been removed as they can be implemented using \LUA: \orm {pdfelapsedtime}, \orm {pdfescapehex}, \orm {pdfescapename}, \orm {pdfescapestring}, \orm {pdffiledump}, \orm {pdffilemoddate}, \orm {pdffilesize}, \orm {pdfforcepagebox}, \orm {pdflastmatch}, \orm {pdfmatch}, \orm {pdfmdfivesum}, \orm {pdfmovechars}, \orm {pdfoptionalwaysusepdfpagebox}, \orm {pdfoptionpdfinclusionerrorlevel}, \orm {pdfresettimer}, \orm {pdfshellescape}, \orm {pdfstrcmp} and \orm {pdfunescapehex}. \stopitem \startitem The version related primitives \orm {pdftexbanner}, \orm {pdftexversion} and \orm {pdftexrevision} are no longer present as there is no longer a relationship with \PDFTEX\ development. \stopitem \startitem The experimental snapper mechanism has been removed and therefore also the primitives \orm {pdfignoreddimen}, \orm {pdffirstlineheight}, \orm {pdfeachlineheight}, \orm {pdfeachlinedepth} and \orm {pdflastlinedepth}. \stopitem \startitem The experimental primitives \lpr {primitive}, \lpr {ifprimitive}, \lpr {ifabsnum} and \lpr {ifabsdim} are promoted to core primitives. The \type {\pdf*} prefixed originals are not available. \stopitem \startitem Because \LUATEX\ has a different subsystem for managing images, more diversion from its ancestor happened in the meantime. We don't adapt to changes in \PDFTEX. \stopitem \startitem Two extra token lists are provided, \orm {pdfxformresources} and \orm {pdfxformattr}, as an alternative to \orm {pdfxform} keywords. \stopitem \startitem Image specifications also support \type {visiblefilename}, \type {userpassword} and \type {ownerpassword}. The password options are only relevant for encrypted \PDF\ files. \stopitem \startitem The current version of \LUATEX\ no longer replaces and|/|or merges fonts in embedded \PDF\ files with fonts of the enveloping \PDF\ document. This regression may be temporary, depending on how the rewritten font backend will look like. \stopitem \startitem The primitives \orm {pdfpagewidth} and \orm {pdfpageheight} have been removed because \lpr {pagewidth} and \lpr {pageheight} have that purpose. \stopitem \startitem The primitives \orm {pdfnormaldeviate}, \orm {pdfuniformdeviate}, \orm {pdfsetrandomseed} and \orm {pdfrandomseed} have been promoted to core primitives without \type {pdf} prefix so the original commands are no longer recognized. \stopitem \startitem The primitives \lpr {ifincsname}, \lpr {expanded} and \lpr {quitvmode} are now core primitives. \stopitem \startitem As the hz and protrusion mechanism are part of the core the related primitives \lpr {lpcode}, \lpr {rpcode}, \lpr {efcode}, \lpr {leftmarginkern}, \lpr {rightmarginkern} are promoted to core primitives. The two commands \lpr {protrudechars} and \lpr {adjustspacing} replace their prefixed with \type {\pdf} originals. \stopitem \startitem The hz optimization code has been partially redone so that we no longer need to create extra font instances. The front- and backend have been decoupled and more efficient (\PDF) code is generated. \stopitem \startitem When \lpr {adjustspacing} has value~2, hz optimization will be applied to glyphs and kerns. When the value is~3, only glyphs will be treated. A value smaller than~2 disables this feature. With value of 1, font expansion is applied after \TEX's normal paragraph breaking routines have broken the paragraph into lines. In this case, line breaks are identical to standard \TEX\ behavior (as with \PDFTEX). \stopitem \startitem The \lpr {tagcode} primitive is promoted to core primitive. \stopitem \startitem The \lpr {letterspacefont} feature is now part of the core but will not be changed (improved). We just provide it for legacy use. \stopitem \startitem The \orm {pdfnoligatures} primitive is now \lpr {ignoreligaturesinfont}. \stopitem \startitem The \orm {pdfcopyfont} primitive is now \lpr {copyfont}. \stopitem \startitem The \orm {pdffontexpand} primitive is now \lpr {expandglyphsinfont}. \stopitem \startitem Because position tracking is also available in \DVI\ mode the \lpr {savepos}, \lpr {lastxpos} and \lpr {lastypos} commands now replace their \type {pdf} prefixed originals. \stopitem \startitem The introspective primitives \type {\pdflastximagecolordepth} and \type {\pdfximagebbox} have been removed. One can use external applications to determine these properties or use the built|-|in \type {img} library. \stopitem \startitem The initializers \orm {pdfoutput} has been replaced by \lpr {outputmode} and \orm {pdfdraftmode} is now \lpr {draftmode}. \stopitem \startitem The pixel multiplier dimension \orm {pdfpxdimen} lost its prefix and is now called \lpr {pxdimen}. \stopitem \startitem An extra \orm {pdfimageaddfilename} option has been added that can be used to block writing the filename to the \PDF\ file. \stopitem \startitem The primitive \orm {pdftracingfonts} is now \lpr {tracingfonts} as it doesn't relate to the backend. \stopitem \startitem The experimental primitive \orm {pdfinsertht} is kept as \lpr {insertht}. \stopitem \startitem There is some more control over what metadata goes into the \PDF\ file. \stopitem \startitem The promotion of primitives to core primitives as well as the separation of font- and backend means that the initialization namespace \type {pdftex} is gone. \stopitem \stopitemize One change involves the so called xforms and ximages. In \PDFTEX\ these are implemented as so called whatsits. But contrary to other whatsits they have dimensions that need to be taken into account when for instance calculating optimal line breaks. In \LUATEX\ these are now promoted to a special type of rule nodes, which simplifies code that needs those dimensions. Another reason for promotion is that these are useful concepts. Backends can provide the ability to use content that has been rendered in several places, and images are also common. As already mentioned in \in {section} [sec:imagedandforms], we now have: \starttabulate[|l|l|] \DB \LUATEX \BC \PDFTEX \NC \NR \TB \NC \lpr {saveboxresource} \NC \orm {pdfxform} \NC \NR \NC \lpr {saveimageresource} \NC \orm {pdfximage} \NC \NR \NC \lpr {useboxresource} \NC \orm {pdfrefxform} \NC \NR \NC \lpr {useimageresource} \NC \orm {pdfrefximage} \NC \NR \NC \lpr {lastsavedboxresourceindex} \NC \orm {pdflastxform} \NC \NR \NC \lpr {lastsavedimageresourceindex} \NC \orm {pdflastximage} \NC \NR \NC \lpr {lastsavedimageresourcepages} \NC \orm {pdflastximagepages} \NC \NR \LL \stoptabulate There are a few \lpr {pdffeedback} features that relate to this but these are typical backend specific ones. The index that gets returned is to be considered as \quote {just a number} and although it still has the same meaning (object related) as before, you should not depend on that. The protrusion detection mechanism is enhanced a bit to enable a bit more complex situations. When protrusion characters are identified some nodes are skipped: \startitemize[packed,columns,two] \startitem zero glue \stopitem \startitem penalties \stopitem \startitem empty discretionaries \stopitem \startitem normal zero kerns \stopitem \startitem rules with zero dimensions \stopitem \startitem math nodes with a surround of zero \stopitem \startitem dir nodes \stopitem \startitem empty horizontal lists \stopitem \startitem local par nodes \stopitem \startitem inserts, marks and adjusts \stopitem \startitem boundaries \stopitem \startitem whatsits \stopitem \stopitemize Because this can not be enough, you can also use a protrusion boundary node to make the next node being ignored. When the value is~1 or~3, the next node will be ignored in the test when locating a left boundary condition. When the value is~2 or~3, the previous node will be ignored when locating a right boundary condition (the search goes from right to left). This permits protrusion combined with for instance content moved into the margin: \starttyping \protrusionboundary1\llap{!\quad}«Who needs protrusion?» \stoptyping \stopsubsection \startsubsection[title=Changes from \ALEPH\ RC4] \topicindex {\ALEPH} Because we wanted proper directional typesetting the \ALEPH\ mechanisms looked most attractive. These are rather close to the ones provided by \OMEGA, so what we say next applies to both these programs. \startitemize \startitem The extended 16-bit math primitives (\orm {omathcode} etc.) have been removed. \stopitem \startitem The \OCP\ processing has been removed completely and as a consequence, the following primitives have been removed: \orm {ocp}, \orm {externalocp}, \orm {ocplist}, \orm {pushocplist}, \orm {popocplist}, \orm {clearocplists}, \orm {addbeforeocplist}, \orm {addafterocplist}, \orm {removebeforeocplist}, \orm {removeafterocplist} and \orm {ocptracelevel}. \stopitem \startitem \LUATEX\ only understands 4~of the 16~direction specifiers of \ALEPH: \type {TLT} (latin), \type {TRT} (arabic), \type {RTT} (cjk), \type {LTL} (mongolian). All other direction specifiers generate an error. In addition to a keyword driven model we also provide an integer driven one. \stopitem \startitem The input translations from \ALEPH\ are not implemented, the related primitives are not available: \orm {DefaultInputMode}, \orm {noDefaultInputMode}, \orm {noInputMode}, \orm {InputMode}, \orm {DefaultOutputMode}, \orm {noDefaultOutputMode}, \orm {noOutputMode}, \orm {OutputMode}, \orm {DefaultInputTranslation}, \orm {noDefaultInputTranslation}, \orm {noInputTranslation}, \orm {InputTranslation}, \orm {DefaultOutputTranslation}, \orm {noDefaultOutputTranslation}, \orm {noOutputTranslation} and \orm {OutputTranslation}. \stopitem \startitem Several bugs have been fixed and confusing implementation details have been sorted out. \stopitem \startitem The scanner for direction specifications now allows an optional space after the direction is completely parsed. \stopitem \startitem The \type {^^} notation has been extended: after \type {^^^^} four hexadecimal characters are expected and after \type {^^^^^^} six hexadecimal characters have to be given. The original \TEX\ interpretation is still valid for the \type {^^} case but the four and six variants do no backtracking, i.e.\ when they are not followed by the right number of hexadecimal digits they issue an error message. Because \type{^^^} is a normal \TEX\ case, we don't support the odd number of \type {^^^^^} either. \stopitem \startitem Glues {\it immediately after} direction change commands are not legal breakpoints. \stopitem \startitem Several mechanisms that need to be right|-|to|-|left aware have been improved. For instance placement of formula numbers. \stopitem \startitem The page dimension related primitives \lpr {pagewidth} and \lpr {pageheight} have been promoted to core primitives. The \prm {hoffset} and \prm {voffset} primitives have been fixed. \stopitem \startitem The primitives \type {\charwd}, \type {\charht}, \type {\chardp} and \type {\charit} have been removed as we have the \ETEX\ variants \type {\fontchar*}. \stopitem \startitem The two dimension registers \lpr {pagerightoffset} and \lpr {pagebottomoffset} are now core primitives. \stopitem \startitem The direction related primitives \lpr {pagedir}, \lpr {bodydir}, \lpr {pardir}, \lpr {textdir}, \lpr {mathdir} and \lpr {boxdir} are now core primitives. \stopitem \startitem The promotion of primitives to core primitives as well as removing of all others means that the initialization namespace \type {aleph} that early versions of \LUATEX\ provided is gone. \stopitem \stopitemize The above let's itself summarize as: we took the 32 bit aspects and much of the directional mechanisms and merged it into the \PDFTEX\ code base as starting point for further development. Then we simplified directionality, fixed it and opened it up. \stopsubsection \startsubsection[title=Changes from anywhere] The \type {\partokenname} and \type {\partokencontext} primitives are taken from the \PDFTEX\ change file posted on the implementers list. They are explained in the \PDFTEX\ manual and are classified as \ETEX\ extensions. \stopsubsection \startsubsection[title=Changes from standard \WEBC] \topicindex {\WEBC} The compilation framework is \WEBC\ and we keep using that but without the \PASCAL\ to \CCODE\ step. This framework also provides some common features that deal with reading bytes from files and locating files in \TDS. This is what we do different: \startitemize \startitem There is no mltex support. \stopitem \startitem There is no enctex support. \stopitem \startitem The following encoding related command line switches are silently ignored, even in non|-|\LUA\ mode: \type {-8bit}, \type {-translate-file}, \type {-mltex}, \type {-enc} and \type {-etex}. \stopitem \startitem The \prm {openout} whatsits are not written to the log file. \stopitem \startitem Some of the so|-|called \WEBC\ extensions are hard to set up in non|-|\KPSE\ mode because \type {texmf.cnf} is not read: \type {shell-escape} is off (but that is not a problem because of \LUA's \type {os.execute}), and the paranoia checks on \type {openin} and \type {openout} do not happen. However, it is easy for a \LUA\ script to do this itself by overloading \type {io.open} and alike. \stopitem \startitem The \quote{E} option does not do anything useful. \stopitem \stopitemize \stopsubsection \stopsection \startsection[reference=backendprimitives,title=The backend primitives] \startsubsection[title={Less primitives}] \topicindex {backend} \topicindex {\PDF+backend} In a previous section we mentioned that some \PDFTEX\ primitives were removed and others promoted to core \LUATEX\ primitives. That is only part of the story. In order to separate the backend specific primitives in de code these commands are now replaced by only a few. In traditional \TEX\ we only had the \DVI\ backend but now we have two: \DVI\ and \PDF. Additional functionality is implemented as \quote {extensions} in \TEX\ speak. By separating more strickly we are able to keep the core (frontend) clean and stable and isolate these extensions. If for some reason an extra backend option is needed, it can be implemented without touching the core. The three \PDF\ backend related primitives are: \starttyping \pdfextension command [specification] \pdfvariable name \pdffeedback name \stoptyping An extension triggers further parsing, depending on the command given. A variable is a (kind of) register and can be read and written, while a feedback is reporting something (as it comes from the backend it's normally a sequence of tokens). \stopsubsection \startsubsection[title={\lpr{pdfextension}, \lpr {pdfvariable} and \lpr {pdffeedback}},reference=sec:pdfextensions] In order for \LUATEX\ to be more than just \TEX\ you need to enable primitives. That has already been the case right from the start. If you want the traditional \PDFTEX\ primitives (for as far their functionality is still around) you now can do this: \starttyping \protected\def\pdfliteral {\pdfextension literal} \protected\def\pdfcolorstack {\pdfextension colorstack} \protected\def\pdfsetmatrix {\pdfextension setmatrix} \protected\def\pdfsave {\pdfextension save\relax} \protected\def\pdfrestore {\pdfextension restore\relax} \protected\def\pdfobj {\pdfextension obj } \protected\def\pdfrefobj {\pdfextension refobj } \protected\def\pdfannot {\pdfextension annot } \protected\def\pdfstartlink {\pdfextension startlink } \protected\def\pdfendlink {\pdfextension endlink\relax} \protected\def\pdfoutline {\pdfextension outline } \protected\def\pdfdest {\pdfextension dest } \protected\def\pdfthread {\pdfextension thread } \protected\def\pdfstartthread {\pdfextension startthread } \protected\def\pdfendthread {\pdfextension endthread\relax} \protected\def\pdfinfo {\pdfextension info } \protected\def\pdfcatalog {\pdfextension catalog } \protected\def\pdfnames {\pdfextension names } \protected\def\pdfincludechars {\pdfextension includechars } \protected\def\pdffontattr {\pdfextension fontattr } \protected\def\pdfmapfile {\pdfextension mapfile } \protected\def\pdfmapline {\pdfextension mapline } \protected\def\pdftrailer {\pdfextension trailer } \protected\def\pdfglyphtounicode {\pdfextension glyphtounicode } \protected\def\pdfrunninglinkoff {\pdfextension linkstate 1 } \protected\def\pdfrunninglinkon {\pdfextension linkstate 0 } \stoptyping The introspective primitives can be defined as: \starttyping \def\pdftexversion {\numexpr\pdffeedback version\relax} \def\pdftexrevision {\pdffeedback revision} \def\pdflastlink {\numexpr\pdffeedback lastlink\relax} \def\pdfretval {\numexpr\pdffeedback retval\relax} \def\pdflastobj {\numexpr\pdffeedback lastobj\relax} \def\pdflastannot {\numexpr\pdffeedback lastannot\relax} \def\pdfxformname {\numexpr\pdffeedback xformname\relax} \def\pdfcreationdate {\pdffeedback creationdate} \def\pdffontname {\numexpr\pdffeedback fontname\relax} \def\pdffontobjnum {\numexpr\pdffeedback fontobjnum\relax} \def\pdffontsize {\dimexpr\pdffeedback fontsize\relax} \def\pdfpageref {\numexpr\pdffeedback pageref\relax} \def\pdfcolorstackinit {\pdffeedback colorstackinit} \stoptyping The configuration related registers have become: \starttyping \edef\pdfcompresslevel {\pdfvariable compresslevel} \edef\pdfobjcompresslevel {\pdfvariable objcompresslevel} \edef\pdfrecompress {\pdfvariable recompress} \edef\pdfdecimaldigits {\pdfvariable decimaldigits} \edef\pdfgamma {\pdfvariable gamma} \edef\pdfimageresolution {\pdfvariable imageresolution} \edef\pdfimageapplygamma {\pdfvariable imageapplygamma} \edef\pdfimagegamma {\pdfvariable imagegamma} \edef\pdfimagehicolor {\pdfvariable imagehicolor} \edef\pdfimageaddfilename {\pdfvariable imageaddfilename} \edef\pdfpkresolution {\pdfvariable pkresolution} \edef\pdfpkfixeddpi {\pdfvariable pkfixeddpi} \edef\pdfinclusioncopyfonts {\pdfvariable inclusioncopyfonts} \edef\pdfinclusionerrorlevel {\pdfvariable inclusionerrorlevel} \edef\pdfignoreunknownimages {\pdfvariable ignoreunknownimages} \edef\pdfgentounicode {\pdfvariable gentounicode} \edef\pdfomitcidset {\pdfvariable omitcidset} \edef\pdfomitcharset {\pdfvariable omitcharset} \edef\pdfpagebox {\pdfvariable pagebox} \edef\pdfminorversion {\pdfvariable minorversion} \edef\pdfuniqueresname {\pdfvariable uniqueresname} \edef\pdfhorigin {\pdfvariable horigin} \edef\pdfvorigin {\pdfvariable vorigin} \edef\pdflinkmargin {\pdfvariable linkmargin} \edef\pdfdestmargin {\pdfvariable destmargin} \edef\pdfthreadmargin {\pdfvariable threadmargin} \edef\pdfxformmargin {\pdfvariable xformmargin} \edef\pdfpagesattr {\pdfvariable pagesattr} \edef\pdfpageattr {\pdfvariable pageattr} \edef\pdfpageresources {\pdfvariable pageresources} \edef\pdfxformattr {\pdfvariable xformattr} \edef\pdfxformresources {\pdfvariable xformresources} \edef\pdfpkmode {\pdfvariable pkmode} \edef\pdfsuppressoptionalinfo {\pdfvariable suppressoptionalinfo } \edef\pdftrailerid {\pdfvariable trailerid } \stoptyping The variables are internal ones, so they are anonymous. When you ask for the meaning of a few previously defined ones: \starttyping \meaning\pdfhorigin \meaning\pdfcompresslevel \meaning\pdfpageattr \stoptyping you will get: \starttyping macro:->[internal backend dimension] macro:->[internal backend integer] macro:->[internal backend tokenlist] \stoptyping The \prm {edef} can also be a \prm {def} but it's a bit more efficient to expand the lookup related register beforehand. The backend is derived from \PDFTEX\ so the same syntax applies. However, the \type {outline} command accepts a \type {objnum} followed by a number. No checking takes place so when this is used it had better be a valid (flushed) object. In order to be (more or less) compatible with \PDFTEX\ we also support the option to suppress some info but we do so via a bitset: \starttyping \pdfvariable suppressoptionalinfo \numexpr 0 + 1 % PTEX.FullBanner + 2 % PTEX.FileName + 4 % PTEX.PageNumber + 8 % PTEX.InfoDict + 16 % Creator + 32 % CreationDate + 64 % ModDate + 128 % Producer + 256 % Trapped + 512 % ID \relax \stoptyping In addition you can overload the trailer id, but we don't do any checking on validity, so you have to pass a valid array. The following is like the ones normally generated by the engine. You even need to include the brackets here! \starttyping \pdfvariable trailerid {[ ]} \stoptyping Although we started from a merge of \PDFTEX\ and \ALEPH, by now the code base as well as functionality has diverted from those parents. Here we show the options that can be passed to the extensions. \starttexsyntax \pdfextension literal [ direct | page | raw ] { tokens } \stoptexsyntax \starttexsyntax \pdfextension dest num integer | name { tokens }!crlf [ fitbh | fitbv | fitb | fith| fitv | fit | fitr | xyz [ zoom ] \stoptexsyntax \starttexsyntax \pdfextension annot reserveobjnum | useobjnum { tokens } \stoptexsyntax \starttexsyntax \pdfextension save \stoptexsyntax \starttexsyntax \pdfextension restore \stoptexsyntax \starttexsyntax \pdfextension setmatrix { tokens } \stoptexsyntax \starttexsyntax [ \immediate ] \pdfextension obj reserveobjnum \stoptexsyntax \starttexsyntax [ \immediate ] \pdfextension obj [ useobjnum ] [ uncompressed ] [ stream [ attr { tokens } ] ] [ file ] { tokens } \stoptexsyntax \starttexsyntax \pdfextension refobj \stoptexsyntax \starttexsyntax \pdfextension colorstack set { tokens } | push { tokens } | pop | current \stoptexsyntax \starttexsyntax \pdfextension startlink [ attr { tokens } ] user { tokens } | goto | thread [ file { tokens } ] [ page { tokens } | name { tokens } | num integer ] [ newwindow | nonewwindow ] \stoptexsyntax \starttexsyntax \pdfextension endlink \stoptexsyntax \starttexsyntax \pdfextension startthread num | name { tokens } \stoptexsyntax \starttexsyntax \pdfextension endthread \stoptexsyntax \starttexsyntax \pdfextension thread num | name { tokens } \stoptexsyntax \starttexsyntax \pdfextension outline [ attr { tokens } ] [ useobjnum ] [ count ] { tokens } \stoptexsyntax \starttexsyntax \pdfextension glyphtounicode { tokens } { tokens } \stoptexsyntax \starttexsyntax \pdfextension catalog { tokens } [ openaction user { tokens } | goto | thread [ file { tokens } ] [ page { tokens } | name { tokens } | num ] [ newwindow | nonewwindow ] ] \stoptexsyntax \starttexsyntax \pdfextension fontattr {tokens} \stoptexsyntax \starttexsyntax \pdfextension mapfile {tokens} \stoptexsyntax \starttexsyntax \pdfextension mapline {tokens} \stoptexsyntax \starttexsyntax \pdfextension includechars {tokens} \stoptexsyntax \starttexsyntax \pdfextension info {tokens} \stoptexsyntax \starttexsyntax \pdfextension names {tokens} \stoptexsyntax \starttexsyntax \pdfextension trailer {tokens} \stoptexsyntax \stopsubsection \startsubsection[title={Defaults}] The engine sets the following defaults. \starttyping \pdfcompresslevel 9 \pdfobjcompresslevel 1 % used: (0,9) \pdfrecompress 0 % mostly for debugging \pdfdecimaldigits 4 % used: (3,6) \pdfgamma 1000 \pdfimageresolution 71 \pdfimageapplygamma 0 \pdfimagegamma 2200 \pdfimagehicolor 1 \pdfimageaddfilename 1 \pdfpkresolution 72 \pdfpkfixeddpi 0 \pdfinclusioncopyfonts 0 \pdfinclusionerrorlevel 0 \pdfignoreunknownimages 0 \pdfgentounicode 0 \pdfomitcidset 0 \pdfomitcharset 0 \pdfpagebox 0 \pdfminorversion 4 \pdfuniqueresname 0 \pdfhorigin 1in \pdfvorigin 1in \pdflinkmargin 0pt \pdfdestmargin 0pt \pdfthreadmargin 0pt \pdfxformmargin 0pt \stoptyping \stopsubsection \startsubsection[title={Backward compatibility}] If you also want some backward compatibility, you can add: \starttyping \let\pdfpagewidth \pagewidth \let\pdfpageheight \pageheight \let\pdfadjustspacing \adjustspacing \let\pdfprotrudechars \protrudechars \let\pdfnoligatures \ignoreligaturesinfont \let\pdffontexpand \expandglyphsinfont \let\pdfcopyfont \copyfont \let\pdfxform \saveboxresource \let\pdflastxform \lastsavedboxresourceindex \let\pdfrefxform \useboxresource \let\pdfximage \saveimageresource \let\pdflastximage \lastsavedimageresourceindex \let\pdflastximagepages\lastsavedimageresourcepages \let\pdfrefximage \useimageresource \let\pdfsavepos \savepos \let\pdflastxpos \lastxpos \let\pdflastypos \lastypos \let\pdfoutput \outputmode \let\pdfdraftmode \draftmode \let\pdfpxdimen \pxdimen \let\pdfinsertht \insertht \let\pdfnormaldeviate \normaldeviate \let\pdfuniformdeviate \uniformdeviate \let\pdfsetrandomseed \setrandomseed \let\pdfrandomseed \randomseed \let\pdfprimitive \primitive \let\ifpdfprimitive \ifprimitive \let\ifpdfabsnum \ifabsnum \let\ifpdfabsdim \ifabsdim \stoptyping And even: \starttyping \newdimen\pdfeachlineheight \newdimen\pdfeachlinedepth \newdimen\pdflastlinedepth \newdimen\pdffirstlineheight \newdimen\pdfignoreddimen \stoptyping \stopsubsection \stopsection \startsection[title=Directions] \topicindex {\OMEGA} \topicindex {\ALEPH} \topicindex {directions} \startsubsection[title={Four directions}] The directional model in \LUATEX\ is inherited from \OMEGA|/|\ALEPH\ but we tried to improve it a bit. At some point we played with recovery of modes but that was disabled later on when we found that it interfered with nested directions. That itself had as side effect that the node list was no longer balanced with respect to directional nodes which in turn can give side effects when a series of dir changes happens without grouping. When extending the \PDF\ backend to support directions some inconsistencies were found and as a result we decided to support only the four models that make sense \type {TLT} (latin), \type {TRT} (arabic), \type {RTT} (cjk) and \type {LTL} (mongolian). \stopsubsection \startsubsection[title={How it works}] The approach is that we again make the list balanced but try to avoid some side effects. What happens is quite intuitive if we forget about spaces (turned into glue) but even there what happens makes sense if you look at it in detail. However that logic makes in|-|group switching kind of useless when no proper nested grouping is used: switching from right to left several times nested, results in spacing ending up after each other due to nested mirroring. Of course a sane macro package will manage this for the user but here we are discussing the low level dir injection. This is what happens: \starttyping \textdir TRT nur {\textdir TLT run \textdir TRT NUR} nur \stoptyping This becomes stepwise: \startnarrower \starttyping injected: [+TRT]nur {[+TLT]run [+TRT]NUR} nur balanced: [+TRT]nur {[+TLT]run [-TLT][+TRT]NUR[-TRT]} nur[-TRT] result : run {RUNrun } run \stoptyping \stopnarrower And this: \starttyping \textdir TRT nur {nur \textdir TLT run \textdir TRT NUR} nur \stoptyping becomes: \startnarrower \starttyping injected: [+TRT]nur {nur [+TLT]run [+TRT]NUR} nur balanced: [+TRT]nur {nur [+TLT]run [-TLT][+TRT]NUR[-TRT]} nur[-TRT] result : run {run RUNrun } run \stoptyping \stopnarrower Now, in the following examples watch where we put the braces: \startbuffer \textdir TRT nur {{\textdir TLT run} {\textdir TRT NUR}} nur \stopbuffer \typebuffer This becomes: \startnarrower \getbuffer \stopnarrower Compare this to: \startbuffer \textdir TRT nur {{\textdir TLT run }{\textdir TRT NUR}} nur \stopbuffer \typebuffer Which renders as: \startnarrower \getbuffer \stopnarrower So how do we deal with the next? \startbuffer \def\ltr{\textdir TLT\relax} \def\rtl{\textdir TRT\relax} run {\rtl nur {\ltr run \rtl NUR \ltr run \rtl NUR} nur} run {\ltr run {\rtl nur \ltr RUN \rtl nur \ltr RUN} run} \stopbuffer \typebuffer It gets typeset as: \startnarrower \startlines \getbuffer \stoplines \stopnarrower We could define the two helpers to look back, pick up a skip, remove it and inject it after the dir node. But that way we loose the subtype information that for some applications can be handy to be kept as|-|is. This is why we now have a variant of \lpr {textdir} which injects the balanced node before the skip. Instead of the previous definition we can use: \startbuffer[def] \def\ltr{\linedir TLT\relax} \def\rtl{\linedir TRT\relax} \stopbuffer \typebuffer[def] and this time: \startbuffer[txt] run {\rtl nur {\ltr run \rtl NUR \ltr run \rtl NUR} nur} run {\ltr run {\rtl nur \ltr RUN \rtl nur \ltr RUN} run} \stopbuffer \typebuffer[txt] comes out as a properly spaced: \startnarrower \startlines \getbuffer[def,txt] \stoplines \stopnarrower Anything more complex that this, like combination of skips and penalties, or kerns, should be handled in the input or macro package because there is no way we can predict the expected behaviour. In fact, the \lpr {linedir} is just a convenience extra which could also have been implemented using node list parsing. Directions are complicated by the fact that they often need to work over groups so a separate grouping related stack is used. A side effect is that there can be paragraphs with only a local par node followed by direction synchronization nodes. Paragraphs like that are seen as empty paragraphs and therefore ignored. Because \type {\noindent} doesn't inject anything but a \type {\indent} injects an box, paragraphs with only an indent and directions are handles as paragraphs with content. \stopsubsection \startsubsection[title={Controlling glue with \lpr {breakafterdirmode}}] Glue after a dir node is ignored in the linebreak decision but you can bypass that by setting \lpr {breakafterdirmode} to~\type {1}. The following table shows the difference. Watch your spaces. \def\ShowSome#1{% \BC \type{#1} \NC \breakafterdirmode\zerocount\hsize\zeropoint#1 \NC \NC \breakafterdirmode\plusone\hsize\zeropoint#1 \NC \NC \NR } \starttabulate[|l|Tp(1pt)|w(5em)|Tp(1pt)|w(5em)|] \DB \BC \type{0} \NC \BC \type{1} \NC \NC \NR \TB \ShowSome{pre {\textdir TLT xxx} post} \ShowSome{pre {\textdir TLT xxx }post} \ShowSome{pre{ \textdir TLT xxx} post} \ShowSome{pre{ \textdir TLT xxx }post} \ShowSome{pre { \textdir TLT xxx } post} \ShowSome{pre {\textdir TLT\relax\space xxx} post} \LL \stoptabulate \stopsubsection \startsubsection[title={Controling parshapes with \lpr {shapemode}}] Another adaptation to the \ALEPH\ directional model is control over shapes driven by \prm {hangindent} and \prm {parshape}. This is controlled by a new parameter \lpr {shapemode}: \starttabulate[|c|l|l|] \DB value \BC \prm {hangindent} \BC \prm {parshape} \NC \NR \TB \BC \type{0} \NC normal \NC normal \NC \NR \BC \type{1} \NC mirrored \NC normal \NC \NR \BC \type{2} \NC normal \NC mirrored \NC \NR \BC \type{3} \NC mirrored \NC mirrored \NC \NR \LL \stoptabulate The value is reset to zero (like \prm {hangindent} and \prm {parshape}) after the paragraph is done with. You can use negative values to prevent this. In \in {figure} [fig:shapemode] a few examples are given. \startplacefigure[reference=fig:shapemode,title={The effect of \type {shapemode}.}] \startcombination[2*3] {\ruledvbox \bgroup \setuptolerance[verytolerant] \hsize .45\textwidth \switchtobodyfont[6pt] \pardir TLT \textdir TLT \hangindent 40pt \hangafter -3 \leftskip10pt \input tufte \par \egroup} {TLT: hangindent} {\ruledvbox \bgroup \setuptolerance[verytolerant] \hsize .45\textwidth \switchtobodyfont[6pt] \pardir TLT \textdir TLT \parshape 4 0pt .8\hsize 10pt .8\hsize 20pt .8\hsize 0pt \hsize \input tufte \par \egroup} {TLT: parshape} {\ruledvbox \bgroup \setuptolerance[verytolerant] \hsize .45\textwidth \switchtobodyfont[6pt] \pardir TRT \textdir TRT \hangindent 40pt \hangafter -3 \leftskip10pt \input tufte \par \egroup} {TRT: hangindent mode 0} {\ruledvbox \bgroup \setuptolerance[verytolerant] \hsize .45\textwidth \switchtobodyfont[6pt] \pardir TRT \textdir TRT \parshape 4 0pt .8\hsize 10pt .8\hsize 20pt .8\hsize 0pt \hsize \input tufte \par \egroup} {TRT: parshape mode 0} {\ruledvbox \bgroup \setuptolerance[verytolerant] \hsize .45\textwidth \switchtobodyfont[6pt] \shapemode=3 \pardir TRT \textdir TRT \hangindent 40pt \hangafter -3 \leftskip10pt \input tufte \par \egroup} {TRT: hangindent mode 1 & 3} {\ruledvbox \bgroup \setuptolerance[verytolerant] \hsize .45\textwidth \switchtobodyfont[6pt] \shapemode=3 \pardir TRT \textdir TRT \parshape 4 0pt .8\hsize 10pt .8\hsize 20pt .8\hsize 0pt \hsize \input tufte \par \egroup} {TRT: parshape mode 2 & 3} \stopcombination \stopplacefigure \stopsubsection \startsubsection[title={Symbols or numbers}] Internally the implementation is different from \ALEPH. First of all we use no whatsits but dedicated nodes, but also we have only 4 directions that are mapped onto 4 numbers. A text direction node can mark the start or end of a sequence of nodes, and therefore has two states. At the \TEX\ end we don't see these states because \TEX\ itself will add proper end state nodes if needed. The symbolic names \type {TLT}, \type {TRT}, etc.\ originate in \OMEGA. In \LUATEX\ we also have a number based model which sometimes makes more sense. \starttabulate[|c|l|l|] \DB value \BC equivalent \NC \NR \TB \BC \type {0} \NC TLT \NC \NR \BC \type {1} \NC TRT \NC \NR \BC \type {2} \NC LTL \NC \NR \BC \type {3} \NC RTT \NC \NR \LL \stoptabulate We support the \OMEGA\ primitives \orm {textdir}, \orm {pardir}, \orm {pagedir}, \orm {pardir} and \orm {mathdir}. These accept three character keywords. The primitives that set the direction by number are: \lpr {textdirection}, \lpr {pardirection}, \lpr {pagedirection} and \lpr {bodydirection} and \lpr {mathdirection}. When specifying a direction for a box you can use \type {bdir} instead of \type {dir}. \stopsubsection \stopsection \startsection[title=Implementation notes] \startsubsection[title=Memory allocation] \topicindex {memory} The single internal memory heap that traditional \TEX\ used for tokens and nodes is split into two separate arrays. Each of these will grow dynamically when needed. The \type {texmf.cnf} settings related to main memory are no longer used (these are: \type {main_memory}, \type {mem_bot}, \type {extra_mem_top} and \type {extra_mem_bot}). \quote {Out of main memory} errors can still occur, but the limiting factor is now the amount of RAM in your system, not a predefined limit. Also, the memory (de)allocation routines for nodes are completely rewritten. The relevant code now lives in the C file \type {texnode.c}, and basically uses a dozen or so \quote {avail} lists instead of a doubly|-|linked model. An extra function layer is added so that the code can ask for nodes by type instead of directly requisitioning a certain amount of memory words. Because of the split into two arrays and the resulting differences in the data structures, some of the macros have been duplicated. For instance, there are now \type {vlink} and \type {vinfo} as well as \type {token_link} and \type {token_info}. All access to the variable memory array is now hidden behind a macro called \type {vmem}. We mention this because using the \TEX book as reference is still quite valid but not for memory related details. Another significant detail is that we have double linked node lists and that most nodes carry more data. The input line buffer and pool size are now also reallocated when needed, and the \type {texmf.cnf} settings \type {buf_size} and \type {pool_size} are silently ignored. \stopsubsection \startsubsection[title=Sparse arrays] The \prm {mathcode}, \prm {delcode}, \prm {catcode}, \prm {sfcode}, \prm {lccode} and \prm {uccode} (and the new \lpr {hjcode}) tables are now sparse arrays that are implemented in~\CCODE. They are no longer part of the \TEX\ \quote {equivalence table} and because each had 1.1 million entries with a few memory words each, this makes a major difference in memory usage. Performance is not really hurt by this. The \prm {catcode}, \prm {sfcode}, \prm {lccode}, \prm {uccode} and \lpr {hjcode} assignments don't show up when using the \ETEX\ tracing routines \prm {tracingassigns} and \prm {tracingrestores} but we don't see that as a real limitation. A side|-|effect of the current implementation is that \prm {global} is now more expensive in terms of processing than non|-|global assignments but not many users will notice that. The glyph ids within a font are also managed by means of a sparse array as glyph ids can go up to index $2^{21}-1$ but these are never accessed directly so again users will not notice this. \stopsubsection \startsubsection[title=Simple single|-|character csnames] \topicindex {csnames} Single|-|character commands are no longer treated specially in the internals, they are stored in the hash just like the multiletter csnames. The code that displays control sequences explicitly checks if the length is one when it has to decide whether or not to add a trailing space. Active characters are internally implemented as a special type of multi|-|letter control sequences that uses a prefix that is otherwise impossible to obtain. \stopsubsection \startsubsection[title=The compressed format file] \topicindex {format} The format is passed through \type {zlib}, allowing it to shrink to roughly half of the size it would have had in uncompressed form. This takes a bit more \CPU\ cycles but much less disk \IO, so it should still be faster. We use a level~3 compression which we found to be the optimal trade|-|off between filesize and decompression speed. \stopsubsection \startsubsection[title=Binary file reading] \topicindex {files+binary} All of the internal code is changed in such a way that if one of the \type {read_xxx_file} callbacks is not set, then the file is read by a \CCODE\ function using basically the same convention as the callback: a single read into a buffer big enough to hold the entire file contents. While this uses more memory than the previous code (that mostly used \type {getc} calls), it can be quite a bit faster (depending on your \IO\ subsystem). \stopsubsection \startsubsection[title=Tabs and spaces] \topicindex {space} \topicindex {newline} We conform to the way other \TEX\ engines handle trailing tabs and spaces. For decades trailing tabs and spaces (before a newline) were removed from the input but this behaviour was changed in September 2017 to only handle spaces. We are aware that this can introduce compatibility issues in existing workflows but because we don't want too many differences with upstream \TEXLIVE\ we just follow up on that patch (which is a functional one and not really a fix). It is up to macro packages maintainers to deal with possible compatibility issues and in \LUATEX\ they can do so via the callbacks that deal with reading from files. The previous behaviour was a known side effect and (as that kind of input normally comes from generated sources) it was normally dealt with by adding a comment token to the line in case the spaces and|/|or tabs were intentional and to be kept. We are aware of the fact that this contradicts some of our other choices but consistency with other engines and the fact that in \KPSE\ mode a common file \IO\ layer is used can have a side effect of breaking compatibility. We still stick to our view that at the log level we can (and might be) more incompatible. We already expose some more details. \stopsubsection \stopsection \stopchapter \stopcomponent
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Will High Oil Prices Derail the Global Economy?
Scotiabank is out with a good research report on the impact of surging crude prices on the global economy. In particular, the report states that the effects are being dramatically underestimated by market participants. This is despite the last time crude went parabolic back in 2008, which led to a worldwide recession. The reason the global economy is so susceptible to higher oil prices is because consumers are facing a combination of rapidly rising oil and food prices, creating a double whammy, which automatically decreases available discretionary income. It is estimated that increased food and oil prices have cost consumers an extra $225 billion (compared to late 2008 levels). Furthermore, US households are severely budget constrained. thanks to high unemployment (U-6 16%), no wage growth, and little to no home equity, which has been the traditional cash cushion of the American consumer. Without access to home equity, consumers are less able to whether the impact of increasing oil prices, even for a short period of time. This dynamic will have a severe impact on consumer spending, hence depressing economic growth in an economy, which is still reliant on government life support.
One last thing I need to address. Some analysts and financial pundits have declared that rising oil is actually deflationary. At first glance, I thought this was some kind of bad joke from the likes of Fed-payroll operatives like Steve Leisman on CNBC. But as it turns out, a few serious commentators like Ambrose Evans-Pritchard have argued that same thesis, arguing that rising oil causes central banks to react, which in turn slows the economy resulting in deflation. The idea that rising oil prices leads to deflation is a concept so stupid and misguided that it must have originated from the Federal Reserve Board! After all, in the mind of our dear leader Zimbabwe Ben, anytime asset prices fall it means deflation, which requires more money printing. SP 500 futures down 0.4% pre-market must give Bernanke and Co. a real scare as this is the deflationary spiral coming around the corner to kill us all! Don’t buy into this garbage from the same simpletons who told you in 2007-2008 that the US economy was “sound” and that sub-prime was “contained.” Inflation results from an increase in the money supply and has nothing to do with consumer prices. An increase in money supply (through money printing and excessive credit creation) pushes up prices as there is more money chasing the same amount of goods and services. Take a look at the chart below of M2 (best measure of the money supply since M3 was discontinued) and tell me if it is contracting (deflation). Not a chance with the Fed printing trillions of dollars.
Here is the report regarding oil:
The Potential Oil Impact On Growth Is Being Under-Estimated
5 reasons why the impact of higher oil prices on GDP growth is likely to be greater than the oft-cited lower bound of estimates.
The backdrop against which an oil price shock is occurring is not as severe as it was in 2008-09 when global deleveraging was commencing as jobs were being rapidly destroyed. But the effects of an oil shock on the economy are likely to be greater than the long-run average estimated effects for five key reasons that we explore.
Indeed, the conventional view that oil would have to rise much further for a long period of time before theeconomy incurs painful effects understates downside risks.
1. Uncertain Growth Effects
First, those long-run effects of a spike in oil prices on growth are highly uncertain as estimates vary widely. At the low end of the estimates, every $10 rise in oil prices tends to shave 0.2-0.3% off US GDP growth. Since WTI oil has risen by US$40 a barrel since early 2009, this estimated effect would shave GDP growth by about one percentage point lower than it would be otherwise.
Half of that shock has arrived since September, thereby concentrating much of the effect on a shorter interval. Indeed, higher oil prices since last Fall chop a half point off US GDP growth, and thus largely offset the possible positive impact of President Obama’s stimulus extension — assuming that US consumers would spend such stimulus to begin with (versus hoarding it), which we doubted.
But studies have shown that the magnitude, lag and duration of the impact of an oil price shock on the real economy is dependent on a number of factors, including the duration (temporary vs. permanent), nature (demand- vs supply-side) and origin (domestic vs. exogenous) of the shock, the type of economy (developed vs. developing, oil-importing vs. oil-producing) and the state of the economy at the time of the shock. For instance, OECD and ECB research tends to argue that the three-year effect of a $10 rise in oil prices involves a cumulative hit to US GDP of about 1%, and less for other countries.
Thus, the $40 rise in oil prices since 2009 would involve a 4% cumulative hit to US GDP over three years. Increasingly more research — particularly in the post 2007-era — focuses on the nature of the shock [1] [2] [3].
While findings agree that higher oil prices due to supply shocks could have a large, adverse impact on global growth, conclusions vary on the effect of the demand shocks. Some believe that they have had limited influence on real GDP [4], while others suggest a more persistent hit [5].
Part of the explanation might be embedded in the dual causality that exists between oil demand and economic cycles [6], but the acuteness of the response also depends on whether the demand shock is domestic or exogenous [7] — particularly in the case of the United States and China — whether the study looks at the short- or long-term impact on the economy in question as well as the size of the shock (1% vs. 10%). Finally, it is worth paying attention to the time period examined by the study, since sensitivity of GDP to oil price shocks seems to have decreased over time [8] [9]. With economies adopting more transparent and credible monetary policies, becoming less reliant on oil in both manufacturing and consumption and reducing real wage rigidity the pass-through effect of oil price shocks to import, producer and consumer prices has diminished over time — particularly since the 1990s — reducing their second-round effect on the real economy.
Due to the factors discussed above, the magnitude — and sometimes even direction — of the impact depends on individual countries and scenarios studied. The negative impact seems to be the biggest on the United States and the smallest on Canada, although oil price shocks seem to contribute positively to Norway’s and Japan’s economies. Digging below the aggregate impact on real GDP, findings suggest that the negative effect of oil price shocks is relatively bigger on household spending and business investment [12] [13], and that their respective price elasticities are likely to get larger with time [14].
2. A Coincidental Oil And Food Shock
Second, historically, oil shocks often occurred in isolation of other consumer-oriented commodity price shocks, until recent years. As chart 2 demonstrates, global household budgets are being strained by the twin oil and food price shocks. In chart 2, we have indexed the trade-weighted UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s index of 55 food prices to the start of 1990, and done likewise for WTI oil. For instance, the early 1990s spike that more than tripled oil prices occurred while global food prices were flat. Indeed, for much of the period until the mid-2000s, food was dirt cheap to much of the world, and prices were going nowhere. Since 2003, however, this index of food prices has risen by a whopping 120%. Growth in emerging market demand for food as tastes broaden out with income growth, rich-world environmental policies oriented toward diverting crop production toward bio-fuel production, financial speculation that treats some commodities and alternative investments interchangeably in increasingly liquid markets, and global government actions toward blocking grain exports and stockpiling food have all combined to drive food prices to record high levels in recent years. If ever there were a time to resurrect the Doha round of global trade talks, developments in recent years offer a compelling case of the need to strike to the heart of trade distortions across developed and developing countries alike.
The combined largely non-discretionary spending categories that are focused on food and energy spending compete for share of wallet against discretionary spending. What American consumers are spending on food and energy as a share of their incomes is not far off 2008 levels. Americans are now spending an extra $225 billion on food and energy now versus after prices had collapsed by late 2008. Food and energy spending had peaked at US$1.497 trillion in 2008Q2, sat just $36 billion below that level as at the end of 2010 and is likely higher now. As a share of incomes, food and energy spending now sits at 12.6% versus the 13.5% peak in mid-2008. This share has risen by taking away over one-and-a-half percentage points of income since the 2009 trough in oil prices.
3. Household Budget Constraints
Third, historical growth sensitivities to oil prices assume historical levels of access to credit and income growth that are unlikely to apply today following a global banking crisis that still leaves credit much tighter than prerecession conditions. This is still a credit-constrained environment marked by trivial job and income growth.
Without stronger income growth or credit to back into, a commodity shock still crowds out discretionary spending and, in our opinion, is disinflationary for much of the rest of the consumer basket — a key argument we advanced in 2008. This crowding-out effect on discretionary spending is likely to raise the estimated impact of higher energy prices on growth — we just don’t know by how much. But the greater the commodity shock, the even greater likelihood that US consumers will save rather than spend stimulus. If they spend it, it’s likely to cover here-today and gone-tomorrow consumption of essentials, while other spending categories suffer.
This is why we doubt the line of reasoning that says an oil price shock must be long lasting in order to negatively impact consumer spending in a material manner. Historically, consumers backed into home equity or credit or income growth to smooth out fluctuations. Now, however, household budget constraints are so tight that the cumulative impact of repeated shocks to household finances — even if short lived — is likely to have a seriously destabilizing impact on consumers and businesses.
4. Limited Impact From Higher Production Levels
The fourth key reason why the actual impact on growth is likely to be materially greater than the lower bound of estimates on the historical effects concerns whether Saudi Arabia and other producers can react swiftly to bring more supply into the market, and thus contain further price upsides. Just because they have more spare capacity to draw upon now than they did when oil prices were high in 2008 doesn’t necessarily mean they will be able to contain upward pressure on prices. Supply-side price elasticities are stickier than this assumption of an automatic reaction implies, and a game theoretic approach to changing quotas within OPEC and across non-OPEC producers makes it unclear whether enough other producers would follow suit — or even contravene possible actions by Saudi Arabia. Further, commodities are notorious for overshooting short-run supply and demand dynamics, and concern over instability in the Middle East would not be swept away by simply raising oil production levels. We simply don’t know what kind of regimes will ultimately dominate the region, but the early signs from countries like Egypt’s military government are not encouraging by way of musing over opening the Gaza border, allowing Iranian naval ships to pass through the Suez canal for the first time in years on their way to Syria and off the coast of Israel, among other moves more radical than generally permitted under the Mubarak regime. One must be extraordinarily cognizant of the potential for developments across the Middle East to unfold in potentially much more destabilizing ways than is thus far apparent — the risk premium in oil will therefore reflect this uncertainty.
5. The Policy Response
How policy makers react to the surge in commodity prices is also key. This is a generalized commodity shock that is focused upon consumers that risks policy responses that could further aggravate the risks. An example is talk of raising rates at central banks like the ECB, just as they did in the midst of the last commodity shock in 2008 when its main refi rate rose to 4.25% in July of 2008 on frankly legitimate fears of a commodity shock sparking rising wage demands, but also on what turned out to be the eve of the severe deterioration in markets and the economy. The policy response to a relative price shock that risks demand destruction may well be materially different from the policy response to generalized inflation pressures.
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Blacksburgia webisode 23: Toastmasters
Blacksburgia webisode 23:
Frankie has become involved in Toastmasters, wherein people get together for lunch and practice making speeches as a form of self improvement and building communication skills. On “invite-a-friend” day, Frankie invites the young cadet whom he and Bridget saved from being stuck in a perpetual marching loop. Because it’s lunch in town with a bunch of adults, the cadet doesn’t think to wear his uniform. However, the dean of the ROTC program is there. Luckily, the dean does not recognize the young man without his uniform, as he does not recognize any cadet without their uniform. But when Frankie introduces the cadet to the dinner club, the dean realizes that he is out of uniform and places him on probation.
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Innovate’s annoying email login
I’ve always really enjoyed the accessible, open and innovative publishing of, um, well, Innovate (and The Technology Source) but this dumb login-for-article system they’ve got in place is not only annoying… but also very bad for business.
Put simply, research and writing without avenues for publication, discussion and, in essence, an audience is sadly pretty much useless… it has no impact.
Innovate doesn’t seem to have any commercial model, runs no ads and asks for no fees. So WHY ON EARTH do they restrict access to full -text articles to users with email addys? It:
-Deters probably half your potential readership
-Removes most of your search engine value
-Detracts enormously from your blogger buzz (and this is *very* important, and becoming moreso)
-Ties you unpleasantly to email
So what’s up Innovate??? Why do you force me here? I’d understand (a bit) if you had an ad market to be served through login… but you don’t.
So, please scrap the login, pretty please!
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Reactivating Computers
Periodically, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 check the hardware configuration of the computer on which the operating system is installed. If the operating system detects that the hardware is substantially different, reactivation is required. The actual weighting factors and threshold values vary, because these values must keep pace with the constantly evolving computer hardware market. In general, computers that use MAK activation use the same reactivation rules as retail activation. KMS clients focus more on hard disk changes to determine the need for reactivation.
Client activations are valid for 180 days. This period is called the activation validity interval. To remain activated, KMS clients must renew their activation by connecting to the KMS host at least once every 180 days. By default, KMS client computers attempt to renew their activation every seven days. After a client’s activation is renewed, the activation validity interval begins again.
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Late Lunch
**, Nick Eatman answered a few that didn't make the air.
Nick: You're right, the offense seems to work more efficiently with no-huddle and at the end of halves, but it's not something you can always do. If you have a three-and-out, your defense is right back on the field again and probably not as effective. Now there is a big difference between hurry-up and no-huddle. The Cowboys use the no-huddle a lot, but it doesn't mean it's a fast-break tempo. I think the no-huddle is something we're seeing a lot more in the NFL and keeps the quarterback more in charge of the personnel and the play-calling.
Nick: I think the jury is definitely out on him, whether it's just to be a backup to Romo or even a potential starter one day. The question is where do you get this backup QB? I'd say maybe the middle rounds once again like you did with McGee, but this time get a guy that doesn't need to completely rework his mechanics and is maybe someone who ran more of a pro-style offense.
Nick: That's a tough question. With guys out there like Laurent Robinson, Abram Elam, Anthony Spencer, Keith Brooking, Mat McBriar and Bradie James to name a few, it'll be an interesting offseason. I think Spencer is the key player in this equation. While he hasn't been as productive as you'd like from a first-round pick, he might be better than anything else you can get. Remember, you have to decide on him long before the draft rolls around. Robinson and McBriar will probably be targeted to return, but they might want to test their market value as well.
Nick: Can't disagree with you there. Hudson Houck said last week the "running game coordinator" was just a title and he had no different duties last year. I'm not sure what Jimmy Robinson does as the "assistant head coach" either. I think that's the way it goes sometimes in the league. It's good for coaches to have these titles when they're going for other jobs and maybe it's a way to justify the fact that Callahan turned down an offer to remain the Jets' offensive line coach.
Nick: Not sure there is one good answer here. It's not really broken in a lot of areas, but there are tons of cracks. I think the way it gets fixed more than any other is through the draft. This team just hasn't been as fortunate in landing mid-round players to come in and start. I know it's not easy to get a fifth-round pick to start, but yes, it happens. For the most part, the Cowboys have struggled to get consistent help through the draft, including 2009 when they had 12 picks and don't have a real starter to show for it.
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Financial Planning for Overseas Filipino Workers
Venus Zoleta
Venus Zoleta
Last updated March 01, 2018
Financial Planning for Overseas Filipino Workers
Working overseas is a goal for many Filipinos. In 2015, the number of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) was estimated at 2.4 million while remittances reached USD 22 billion in November 2015. The primary reason Filipinos aim to work abroad is the higher pay which enables them to provide a better life for their families, whether in the Philippines or abroad. For OFWs working in developed countries such as the USA, the UAE, and Singapore to name a few, they are earning in stronger currencies which allow them to buy (and save) more pesos.
However, a 2011 study done by Social Enterprise Development Partnerships Inc. shows alarming results. One out of ten OFWs remains financially broke while 80% return to the Philippines without savings. Despite their higher earning power, why are they moving back to their home country without any savings or investments?
It’s not how much you earn; it’s how much you save. Financial planning is not only about increasing your income. It’s multi-faceted and comprised of different factors. To help you out below is a guide for financial planning for overseas Filipino workers:
Don’t be blinded by the X amount of dollars you’re being offered. It may seem like a treasure chest when you convert it into pesos, but it may be insufficient abroad. There’s a reason why more developed countries pay higher wages; it’s because the cost of living is much higher in these places. A lunch out can cost twice or thrice what you would pay for in the Philippines. In Hong Kong, a box-like, studio-type apartment can amount to Php 50,000 per month – and that’s not in the city centers even.
Things to do:
• Research beforehand how much you expect to spend on essentials such as rent, groceries, transportation, etc. This will give you an idea if the salary you’re being offered is sufficient.
• If you’re a star performer, don’t be afraid to negotiate for a higher salary if you know you deserve it.
• If your employment contract and time permits, you can look for freelancing jobs such as being a nanny or tutor on the weekends.
Budgets are lifesavers. They can be used as a guide to keep you updated on whether you’re overspending on certain categories. It’s one thing to have a vague definition of how much you spend on rent, shopping, food, etc., but it’s another thing to have it clearly written down and tallied up. You may think that a Php 300 lunch out is not much but that adds up to Php 6,600 a month (22 days) just on lunch. By having a budget, you’ll build a stronger willpower to say ‘no’ to extra expenses.
Things to do:
• Download an expense tracking app such as Expense Manager, You Need a Budget, or Mint. You can categorize your expenses for a more detailed overview.
• Build the habit of inputting your expenses on a daily basis. There are days you may forget or feel lazy to track your expenses, so it’s important to build the habit so it becomes natural.
• After three months of tracking expenses, go over the app. Now that you have 3 months’ worth of data, you can create a budget plan that is realistic to your spending patterns.
Remittances are a major part of a person’s budget, but it needs to be separated from ‘Budgeting’ because it deserves its own section. Some OFWs send almost half (or more) of their incomes to their families in the Philippines. It’s natural to want to provide them with the best, but you don’t want to come home only to find out that the money you’ve been sending back to build a house was used to buy material things that are bad investments.
Things to do:
• Know the monthly expenses of your household. That’s how much you should remit.
• Don’t remit more than your monthly budget unless it’s for emergencies (e.g. medical). Tuition fees are not emergency expenses because they should be budgeted beforehand.
• Find the remittance center that offers the best rates. You can find this out by talking to your fellow OFWs who have been in the country longer than you have.
As mentioned above, it’s not how much you earn but it’s how much you save. OFWs may suddenly be blinded by their higher salaries. For those living in a foreign country, it’s somewhat like another chance at the single life. This means not having to talk to one’s partner for that new pair of shoes or buying a round (or more) of drinks.
Depending on how big or small your family is, you’re not the only one dependent on your income. Even if you’re single and have no responsibilities, you’re future you is still dependent on your income. Working, be it overseas or locally, is not forever, and retirement is a matter of ‘when’ not ‘if’. This means that you must maximize working overseas by earning and saving as much as you can.
Things to do:
• Write down your financial goals, be it buying a house or retiring permanently in the Philippines.
• Now that you have concrete goals, you know how much or the percentage of your salary you would need to save to reach your goals. Your budget has to have a category for savings.
• The moment you receive your salary, deposit your money into your savings account from your payroll account. Then, you can spend what is left. As legendary investor Warren Buffet said, “Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving[1].”
It’s tempting to forego insurance. You’re earning in a foreign currency, and you want to make the most of it, not use it to pay for health insurance you don’t see yourself using. However, insurance is important because it serves as a barrier of protection. As mentioned above, the cost of living in developed countries is more expensive than in the Philippines, so if you get into an accident, you’ll shell out much more than you would have if you were back home. This is the reason why OFWs who live in neighboring countries such as Hong Kong and Singapore fly back to the Philippines for medical and/or dental services. It’s cheaper to fly back and have a check-up or a dental operation in the Philippines. It’s tempting not to spend on insurance, but you may end up spending more without one.
Things to do:
• If your employer doesn’t provide medical insurance, you have to get one for yourself. Research and compare different policies and providers.
• Before you work overseas and if you have dependents, you should’ve had applied for life insurance already. OFWs are mostly the breadwinners of their families, so it’s best to provide their dependents from life’s risk through insurance.
• Apply for non-life insurance, such as car and home insurance, if you have the following assets. In the event that you need to have your car repaired or your home renovated without insurance, you’ll end up spending more than your annual premium.
When it comes to investments, real estate is the favorite of Filipinos. Some OFWs even buy real estate without ever checking out the property first. Magic words such as ’15 minutes to the CBD’ or ‘Right beside the expressway’ are music to OFW ears; however, without first checking out the property, they learn that ’15 minutes to the CBD’ becomes ‘1.5 hours due to traffic’ and ‘Right beside the expressway’ means having to go through a two-lane side road before reaching said expressway. Real estate is a good investment – only if you do your research. With real estate, there are multiple ways to earn an income, be it through renting, flipping, and long-term investing. However, real estate isn’t the only investment; there are bonds, stocks, and investment funds such as UITFs and mutual funds to consider.
Things to do:
• Never invest in something you do not know. Before you invest in real estate, stocks, or what have you, educate yourself first. You can read books, watch webinars, and attend investment conferences and seminars.
• Invest money you can afford to lose. Since investments aren’t guaranteed, don’t invest the only money you have left in the hopes of an easy way out of financial difficulty. Investments are meant to be long-term and not quick-fix solutions.
• Know the reason why you are investing. It just can’t be because you want to earn money. Why do you want to earn more money? Is it because you’re saving up for a house? Is it because you want to save for retirement? Or you just want to beat inflation? Knowing your ‘why’ will enlighten you on where you should invest your money.
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OFWs are considered modern-day heroes. They sacrifice spending time with their families to be able to provide a better life. Behind the pictures and the social media posts lie the truth – that being an OFW isn’t easy. OFWs move their lives to settle into a country they know little about; it’s a whole new culture, language, and a whole new set of traditions and people. For those challenges, OFWs benefit from the trade-off of earning a lot, and the best thing to do is to maximize their earning capacity. This means saving and investing what they earn, so when the time comes, they can go back home to the Philippines, wealthy both in finances and experiences.
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Home Dead by Daylight Forums Discussions General Discussions
unluckycombounluckycombo Member Posts: 582
Decided to wait a little bit before putting this together, since I wanted to let my thoughts settle a little.
But honestly, I'm very disappointed with the anniversary announcements we have recieved, and I think that it sorta ended up being the nail in the coffin for any sort of residule hope I had in this game.
I'm totally fine with us getting an original chapter for Anniversary. And I think that some of the changes we're supposed to be getting are great. Things like adjustments to how we recieve perks and how the Prestidge system functions to reduce the absolutely insane grind of this game are great, and I'm happy to see things like that come to the game, just like I'm happy that we're getting the Dating Sim.
What I'm not happy about though, and the entire reason why I'm not really happy with the Anniversary as a whole is the mention of changing Meta Perks.
Now don't get me wrong, I've been playing this game since Legion's release. The meta is absolutely stale, and has been for years. Survivor Meta has barely changed for a long time, and the Killer Meta has primarily been focused on whatever is best at slowing down the game for a long time. The build I ran back when I started playing as Survivor is still insanely strong, and I'm not opposed to the meta finally getting changed.
However, the issue comes with the General Perk that's coming in the new Chapter with The Dredge.
The anti-Boon perk makes me absolutely concerned, as it's another perk that's just a band-aid fix for something else in the game. And that's what a lot of Meta Perks in this game sort of boil down to- perks that fix core gameplay issues.
For example, Corrupt Intervention is a super popular perk for Killer, and I think it's also a very fair Killer perk. And, for many Killers that have slow early games or need set-up (Plague, Hag, Trapper, Myers- honestly, there are quite a few Killers like this.) in order to actually have a chance to play the game. And, in return, it's a perk that only lasts for a short period of time before it ends up being a dead perk slot.
On the flp side, perks like DS or BT are super popular for Survivor. Why? Because they fix core issues of the game which doesn't feel good to play against, and they feel necessary. Camping and Tunneling. Survivors can't do anything about it, it feels awful to play against, and it feels like those perks are the only slight deterrents to it. And it's not something that the Killers can entirely be blamed for- as, it's something that's in the game, is not actively punished, and is a strategy that makes their games fifty thousand times easier.
So it absolutely disappoints me that in the same stream there were discussions of shaking up the meta, they introduce a chapter with another perk that is merely a band-aid fix to a different issue in the game.
In my humble opinion, if the meta is going to be changed, it can't be done without addressing the issue that is why those perks are being ran in the first place. Core Gameplay issues need to be addressed- because treating a symptom isn't going to solve the issue. And I'm not saying it's an easy task or anything, or that they're not going to do this, but considering we got that anti-Boon perk instead of CoH (The only truely problematic Boon.) getting deleted and Mikeala getting a new Boon perk instead, I don't have any semblance of high hopes.
I think it's a shame to watch all of this happen to a game I've loved so much over the years. It'll be great if I'm wrong in how this seems to be going, but I'm not going to be touching the game again for a while at this rate.
I'm curious as well if anyone else also feels that way, or if I'm the only one- since I've barely seen anyone talk about the livestream myself, as I've been out of the DBD loop.
• GoshJoshGoshJosh Member Posts: 4,839
“Small” baseline adjustments. And this still doesn’t address why killers are getting the first new general perk ever, since the game’s release, to address boons. A perk that will be dead weight if survivors don’t even bring a boon perk.
• TiufalTiufal Member Posts: 1,252
1. Shattered Hope isn't a band aid fix at all. Killer wanted counters to boons,even though 3of4 are pretty bad, and they got a counter. It's pathetic that killers always want more than they even should get.
2. They already stated that they "know" why perks are used and that there are gameplay changes according to that coming with the overhaul.
3. All you do is guessing on something that's not even communicated.
• GoshJoshGoshJosh Member Posts: 4,839
• ImpalpableImpalpable Member Posts: 152
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Well if it motivates you in any way, the company is currently hiring some new game designers for dbd in the field of gameplay balance, i would say fresh wind in this direction isnt a bad sign as well.
• sizzlingmario4sizzlingmario4 Member Posts: 3,324
They have said they will be making baseline adjustments to go with the perk changes.
You’re absolutely correct about Shattered Hope though. It’s a bandaid for a bigger issue, although I would argue the core design of boons is inherently flawed, not just coh. Coh is just the biggest offender because it’s by far the most powerful boon perk.
• BranBran Member Posts: 1,709
I'm glad I'm no longer the only person who has bashed the stream.
Yeah, they DO need to address the actual gameplay
• unluckycombounluckycombo Member Posts: 582
I mean, I kinda feel like it was communicated though with the Anniversary. Not to say that the Devs might not surprise us in the future, but I genuinely cannot see how this isn't a bandaid fix. Shattered Hope isn't a fix to Boons, even if it's something that people have been asking for. (Honestly, idk why people even pushed so hard for a perk like it in the first place. I've never thought it was what was needed to counter Boons.) I just find it hard to believe that we're going to be getting any sort of major gameplay shifts here in the future that address why these Meta Perks are being ran while changing them, when in the same stream we recieve a perk that seems like another bandaid to try to fix Boons. I would have believed it more if we had seen major baseline changes to Boons instead of recieving a perk which doesn't really fix a major issue a lot of Killers face versus Boons, particularly those like CoH.
I only disagree that Boons overall have a flawed design because I can see in running the other Boon perks where they can be fair- since the other Boon perks at least require the Killer and Survivor to be in the radius to get value out of them majority of the time, giving Killers both an opportunity to destroy the Blessing while knowing Survivors can waste a good chunk of time if they decide to just continuously reboon. I just hate that CoH can be put in a corner of the Map where the Killer has no chance of going, only to get free value all game.
(I will definitely agree though that even weaker Boons are problematic due to some Totem spawns. A lot of Totem spawns straight up were not made with Boons in mind, and I definitely agree that if they re-work CoH, they should also adjust those spawns to make it more fair for Killer.)
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The Truth
Less Pain, Less Bleeding and
quicker to heal.
Sometimes the old ways are the best ways and Tebori is one example of that. Many people perceive tebori to be more a painful and a slower tattooing process compared to modern machines but the opposite is actually true. Hand poke work in the tebori style is much less painful, causes less bleeding and is less traumatic to the skin than machines and the tattoos done in this fashion tend to heal quicker and with less scabbing.
The History of Tebori
A Rich Japanese Tradition
Tebori has a rich history and tradition in Japan and up until the last 40 years or so all tattooing was done by hand in Japan, from bodysuit to small one-point flower and much of it still is. Most of the traditional artists today in Japan still make all their tattoos by hand when it comes to colouring and black shading while utilising modern machines for making clean solid lines. While there are a few dedicated artisans that also create their lines by hand it is not often seen and seems to be a dying art unfortunately.
The Japanese tradition of hand poke tebori tattooing is associated with the Japanese craft of woodblock carving and woodblock printing as craftsmen of both tattooing and carving are called ‘Horishi’, or carvers. Tebori means to ‘hand carve’, the skin being tattooed not unlike a wood block in preparation for making a print. Accordingly it is thought that many woodblock printmakers and carvers from the old Edo Japanese were also tattoo artists in their spare time as the skill sets required for both had a lot of overlap, Kuniyoshi being a prime example of a famous Edo era artist thought to have been a horishi.
While it has been said that more fine details can be achieved by well accomplished tattoo artists with machines, this isn’t necessarily true, with time and patience anything that can be done by machine can be accomplished by hand, and tebori offers a much more saturated colour look in the skin, a very different and unique feel of the artwork compared to machine work and it has true to tradition authenticity, also the time required for hand made tattooing is comparable to a machine when performed by a skilled tebori tattoo artist.
Horisumi has been trained in Japan by Japanese tebori master Horikashi and has brought the secrets of tebori needle making, hand poke horimono and traditional mindset, artistic composition and skills back to Australia where he practices the craft at Authentink Studio on a daily basis. Horisumi shades and colours all of his work by tebori and creates outlines by machine which he finds to be the ideal compromise between tradition and modernity.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is tebori tattoo?
The traditional Japanese method of hand tattooing using a slender bamboo or metal tool with a needle grouping attached to the tip. The tattoo is made by rhythmically working the ink into the skin by using a gentle poking technique depending on whether lines, color or shading is being performed.
Does tebori hurt more than using a standard tattoo machine?
Most people say tebori hurts much less than a tattoo machine and is far less intense of a feeling despite looking more painful. The quiet nature of this style along with less skin trauma creates a relaxing tattoo experience and a great tattoo.
What are the benefits of a tebori tattoo?
With less pain comes less mental and physical straining, overall one feels relaxed after a tebori tattoo session, even a longer one that would normally leave you feeling drained and exhausted. The method of working by hand creates less skin trauma, less bleeding and less inflammation, causing the tattoo to heal faster and better and allowing the ink appear brighter due to minimal scarring or scabbing. The colours also heal richer and brighter because more ink is put in the skin and stays there during the process because of the lack of bleeding, in addition tebori needles are thicker than standard tattoo needles and allow more ink to saturate the skin with less effort thereby producing a more vibrant tattoo.
Does a tebori tattoo take longer or cost more than using a standard tattoo machine?
This is the question we get asked the most, yes, tebori tattoos can take longer depending on what is being tattooed, but not always. As an example a large simple tattoo being coloured in by hand, like a peony flower, can in fact be done quicker than a tattoo machine by a skilled artist but if it contains smaller details and tighter design areas they can be slower going when using the hand poke method, it really depends on the design, the skin, and the artist.
Backgrounds and background shading is slower by hand to be sure, as perfecting beautiful gradients from solid black to a soft light grey with hand ground sumi ink takes time and years of skill, alas the finished product, a shimmering cascade of dark and light silver greys is something to behold and cannot be reproduced by machine . The time difference between tebori and machine is akin to having a something made entirely by hand and the raw beauty and pride that brings or created in part by a machine, whether that’s worth the price difference is up to you, the client and it is definitely something to consider.
Will a tebori tattoo last longer than a regular tattoo?
All tattoos when done properly by a skilled artist using high quality supplies, that are healed correctly and kept out of the sun should last the lifetime of the wearer. The point of difference of a tebori tattoo done by a skilled artist is thus; the colours for starters, richer, more vibrant, deeper and more raw looking. Because the method of tebori tattooing the colour involves less bleeding and a thicker needle this allows much more ink to be put under the skin and keeping it there. The technique of tebori inserts the pigments into and under the skin in one motion, much more efficient than a tattoo machine which simply pokes the ink into skin, the difference is very noticeable and I dare say the longevity of the tebori tattoo colour will be brighter and more vibrant for longer.
What is a tebori hybrid tattoo?
This method of a so-called ‘tebori hybrid tattoo’ is when the tattoo outlines are done by machine for speed and precision whilst the colours and shading are done by tebori hand methd. This is the preferred style for most traditional artists around the world including Japan. It allows the clean and crisp lines that a tattoo machine can achieve, along with speed, to be wedded to the tradition, beauty and vibrancy of tebori hand tattooing, the perfect mix of old and new. Some traditional tattoo artists, including Horisumi, will tattoo the lines by hand on request in the understanding that it does take longer.
Is tebori the traditional Japanese way of getting a tattoo?
Yes, tebori is the original and traditional method of Japanese tattooing that dates back to the 17th century in Japan, it is a secretive and mysterious world of tattooing that has its own rituals and is not easy to penetrate, publicly available information about tebori tattooing is minimal and there is no way to learn without doing an apprenticeship under a master. It is still practiced today by craftsman in Japan and a few other countries.
Who in Australia does tebori tattooing?
Horisumi Kian Forreal is the leading practitioner of tebori tattoo in Australia as of this writing in 2020. There may be other tattoo artists in Australia that perform tebori as a part-time artistic pursuit but Horisumi is the only Japanese trained and traditionally named tattoo artist in Australia that works solely by hand full-time in Japanese style. Horisumi can be found at Authentink Studio in Sydney, Australia.
Premium Quality
Tebori Pigments, inks and materials
The pigments, inks and materials that Horisumi uses are all imported from overseas and are mixed by hand in his colour lab creating his signature tattoo ink colours and tones. The rich blacks and shades of black that Horisumi uses are all made from premium sumi sticks imported from Japan, and are ground and mixed by hand as well.
The imported high grade Japanese steel needles that are utilised to make the highly specialised Tebori hand poke tools are single use and disposable. All of his equipment, supplies, needles, ink and tools are of the highest quality, have been tried and tested for generations by Japanese tattoo masters and are solely utilised for his work, no expense or effort has been spared.
Horisumi tebori method is handmade everything;
• Single use handmade needles for each client
• Imported black Sumi sticks from Japan that is ground daily in the studio and has been used in tattooing for 300 years
• Stainless steel tools that are autoclaved after each use or single use bamboo tebori sticks
• All colours are hand mixed and created in the studio by Horisumi using safe pigments and natural ingredients that don’t contain any acrylics,resins, heavy metals or toxins.
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Students in our country are the hope for our country having a future, and that is why the rising suicide rates among students is a cause for concern. The teenage years is the most crucial time in a student’s life, as this is an impressionable age when any incident can have a huge impact on a child’s psyche.
Harsh treatment in class can be common or extremely humiliating depending from person to person, and it has often pushed some students over the line.
1. 10-year-old Ashrita from Karimabad, Telangana
Died of cramps and complications in the body after being made to kneel down for two hours.
Representational image | Source: India TV News
In July 2015, a class V student Ashrita failed to complete her homework, and invited the ire of her teacher. She was made to kneel down for hours and her tender body developed cramps stopping blood flow to her limbs. She fainted in the class and had to be hospitalised. Ashrita succumbed to resulting complications few days later, as reported by The Times Of India .
2. Six year old Sahil from Ludhiana, Punjab
Died after being thrashed by teacher for vomiting in class because he was not feeling well.
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In March 2015, this student of LKG school in Ludhiana went to school unwell and ended up vomiting in class. Instead of understanding the situation, the teacher showed insensitivity by scolding and thrashing the child who was already sick. The Indian Express reported that he was rushed to a hospital by his parents but was declared dead the following day.
3. J Priyanka (16) and Sonali Gupta (15) from Bangalore
Committed suicide by jumping into a tank, after being repeatedly pressurised and slammed by teachers.
The girls were studying in ninth standard at the Mary Immaculate English School. They decided to take the step after being reprimanded regarding their academic performance, as reported by The Hindu . But this was not a one off incident as Priyanka’s mother mentioned the girls being insulted in parent-teacher meetings as well. The incident came to light when a watchman discovered their abandoned bags near the tank.
4. 10-year-old Madrassa student tied by chain in Hyderabad
The Madrassa student was discovered by locals, tied to a chain outside the premises.
The student claimed that he used to run away from the madrassa out of fear of a beating from the teacher with a stick. To punish him for running away, the teacher chained him outside the class. DNA reported that him along with two other boys was rescued from the madrassa.
5. 16-year-old Dilkhush Saharia from Jaipur
Committed suicide after being repeatedly beaten by teacher and humiliated in front of the class.
The class X student was at a crucial stage in his career when he was beaten up badly by his teacher for not completing his homework on time. The teacher went on to say “why don’t you die?’ in front of the class, as Dilkhush wrote in his suicide note. Unable to cope with the repeated insults, Dilkhush took his life. The teacher was later arrested and booked for abetment to suicide, as reported by NDTV.
6. 20-year-old R Velmurugan from Chennai
Took his life after being chided by classmates and humiliated by staff member.
The 20-year-old was doing a one year catering course at an institute when he asked a female student to vacate his seat allotted to him for a practical exam. In the argument that followed his fellow students insulted him and a staff member asked him to get out of the class, instead of helping. Unable to bear the humiliation, Velmurugan attempted suicide by setting himself on fire and succumbed to his injuries in the hospital, as reported by The Hindu.
7. 16-year-old Prakash Chauhan from Banaskantha,Gujarat
Hanged himself in his house after being confined in school and thrashed by four teachers.
The class X student was accused of damaging a camera which belonged to the school, by four of his teachers. The teachers took matters in their own hands and confined Prakash in school premises before thrashing him severely. This left the student in a traumatised state and he later hanged himself in his house. Mid-Day reported that , a case of abetment for suicide was registered against all four.
8. 15-year-old girl from West Bengal
Hanged herself after being publicly humiliated by female teacher over alleged affair with male teacher.
The class IX student was pulled up in class by a female teacher, who accused her of having an affair with a male teacher. The girl reported the humiliation meted out to her by the teacher, to higher authorities. The school authorities also blamed the girl adding to her woes, and she finally consumed phenyl and hanged herself in her house, as reported by India TV News . She was rushed to a local hospital where she was declared brought dead.
9. 14-year-old Pinky from Jaipur
Killed herself after teacher joined her classmates in teasing her and passed it off as “a minor incident”.
Pinky, A class IX student from Jaipur was fed up of being teased by her classmates by a certain nickname. When she complained to her teacher, the teacher himself scolded her and joined the children in humiliating the girl. She complained to her principal who didn’t pay attention and parents who were convinced by teachers that this was a minor incident. Frustrated at being ignored, Pinky hanged herself from a cieling fan in her house. A suicide note was later discovered in her bag, as reported by Daily Bhaskar.
10. Six-year-old from Hyderabad
Left traumatised after being forced by teacher, to drink his own urine as punishment.
The six year old was accused by his teacher of urinating in a tumbler and forced to drink the urine. When the boy resisted the teacher got other students to hold him down and forced the urine down his throat. The incident created an outrage, following which the school was de-recognised, as reported by The Times Of India.
It is saddening to see that teachers who are expected to be sensitive about handling children, are often found to be ignorant of the implications of their actions on tender minds.
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David Samuda of Leman Street
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London merchant, of 19 Leman Street Goodman Fields.
1. Will of David Samuda merchant of [Leman Street, Goodman Fields] St Mary Whitechapel proved 19/07/1804. He left his brother Jacob £2000, his son Benjamin £3000 and his daughter Esther an annuity of £500 p.a. His main heir was another son, also named David.
2. In 1798 Jacob Israel Bernal and David Samuda of Leman Street executed an indenture by which Bernal 'confirmed' to Samuda 124 enslaved people. The indenture settled a dispute that had its origin in an advance by Leman of £5000 and then further sums to Ab. Tavares in 1772 on a pen named as Friendship.
1. PROB 11/1412/83.
2. Caribbeana Vol. III p. 25.
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Father → Son
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Saturday, 28 March 2009
more sea monster tales
In the absence of any glaring news items so far today decided to do a sea monster sighting blog.
A man serving as navigator on RAF Shackleton aircraft in 1957, flying missions over Europe and much of South America claims to have seen a sea monster . The official job of the Shackleton was to search for submarines and relay the positions back to base. One of the tell-tale signs they used to look for from above was a dark shape underwater, which could often be a shark or whale or other creature, but sometimes they would find a submarine near to the surface. On one occasion, having seen something, they flew down to investigate, and as they flew by , every crew member on board saw the same thing – the neck and head of a large sea creature protruding from the surface. The nearest thing they could think of at the time was a plesiosaur. They were all in agreement but of course the pilot on the way home forbade them absolutely from talking about it; if they had done so they would all have been in serious trouble. A report on the incident has appeared in The Fortean times, in more detail than here.
We have had our own UK sea monsters over the years. Falmouth Bay is an oft reported sea monster hot spot.
A hundred years ago, a long-necked monster was caught by fishermen in Gerrans Bay. Fifty years later, a Mr. Reece and a Mr. Gilbert, trawling three miles south of Falmouth netted a large creature. It was twenty feet long, with an eight foot tail, a 'beaked' head, scaly legs, and a broad back covered with 'matted brown hair'. Marine Biologists of the day were unable to identify the beast.
So Long necked Pinniped anyone? More likely explanation than plesiosaur.Plesiosaurs would have to have survived en masse to still be a few around today.Seals however exist in many forms and even Leopard seals have been seen inland. Keep watching the seas maybe evidence will turn up soon,
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[18] The Journey
Nature, Source of Life
From land sustainability, to water sustainability. After Yandina, the road through the Sunshine Coast Hinterland continues with the town of Wappa Wappa, a visit to the Wappa Wappa Dam, a hike in the subtropical rainforest, and some swimming in waterfalls. Nature after all, is the source of life in various ways.
Wappa Wappa
The Wappa Wappa Dam is one of the several drink water supply dams of the Sunshine coast. At the moment, and due to the rain of the last days and weeks, the dam is at 100% of its potential, which means that it contains 4,694 ML of water!
The catchment area spreads out over 69.70km², and was completed in 1963.
A colourful mural along the walled dam area shows several school children holding each other’s hands. They are actually self-portraits of some children out of the surrounding area, who painted the mural as part of a project to honour and respect the water supply of the community.
The Wappa Wappa Dam (c) Finfinnews
Water is a natural resource;
finite, and fragile
Learning the story of the water, from spring over river, from dam to ocean, helps them to understand that water is a natural resource, finite, and fragile, like any other; and how we have to take care of it, and never take it for granted.
The Wappa Wappa Dam (c) Finfinnews
The Wappa Wappa Dam (c) Finfinnews
Mapleton Falls
The journey continues towards Mapleton where I’d like to see a natural waterfall after the artificial dam. The scenery on the road is astonishing, it makes me forget that I’m so close to the coastline.
Only fresh green hills, houses spread over the landscape, as lost snowflakes, rather than planned urbanised centres. I feel back in New Zealand, or for the Europeans in Switzerland.
The hills, the heights, it takes me miles and miles away from the flat coastline just around the corner. The air is fresher, cooler, and feels even more oxygenated. I open the windows; the smell of soil and greenery fills my longs. I switch of the radio and let the sounds of the forest set the tone.
Make space for that what is real and what really matters: nature.
The Wompoo circuit walk around the Mapleton Falls is short but refreshing, this is the subtropic rainforest. Totally different than where I was living, totally different that the Northern Tropics of Queensland, even though we are still in Queensland.
Step by step during this day I feel reconnecting with nature, let the pragmatic and the artificial out of my system, and make space for that what is real and really matters: nature.
Serenity Falls
The real reconnection with nature comes later on when we go to the Serenity Falls in Buderim. A short but steep hike brings us down to the source of the water, where a natural shower rinses my body and soul. Fresh water by all its means wakes me up, and awakens my connection with nature.
This is where it is eventually all about, and what would solve so many problems. The problem of waste and plastic, of food waste and failed crops, of health and wealth. Nature is the source of everything; the solution rather than the problem.
Although nature is so close to us, however with the walls we’ve build around us, we’ve built walls between us and our essence, the real source of life.
Therefore, days like today, from the farmer’s market, over the potable water dam, to the hikes and the waterfalls, today is all about reconnecting with nature, the real source of everything.
The sunset announces the end of the day like only nature can give the last call, the last shout.
Reconnecting with nature can as well be sitting in an outside bar, on the grass, drinking ginger beer instead of artificial softdrinks, listening to live music, while watching the ducks float on the lake. The sunset announcing the end of the day, like only nature can give that last call, the last shout. Cheers to Nature!
Nature is the Source of everything. (c)finfinnews
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Using millet to clarify butter is a great way, this way you get most of the benefit the millet can offer. Millet have source of protein, dietary fiber, several B vitamins and numerous dietary minerals, especially manganese. If you can’t get hold of millet replace it with any source of whole grain.
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How to make Youtube Shorts Longer than 15 Seconds
Do you want to make a YouTube short longer than 15 seconds? You go to the best location! YouTube brief is a platform where short, up-and-down-fired videos are given more attention. Though, you are allowed to simply 15 secs. You can make your shorts longer than this. So, how to make a YouTube short longer than 15 seconds? Maintain reading this blog site to discover.
For how long can you make your YouTube brief?
YouTube shorts permit your shorts to be as long as one minute. This is enough time for informing a short story or showcasing your content. This limitation resembles TikTok as well as Insta reels. Guarantee your recordings and also material fit within this 60-second limit. A 15-second video clip may be as well short for some people.
If you desire to inform a unified tale to your target market or desire to share a recipe, there’s a great chance that you will only be able to pack it some within 15 seconds. That’s why you must fully use these one minute.
Exactly how to make a YouTube short longer than 15 seconds: Step-by-step overview
You can choose whether you want to keep the shorts for 15 seconds or longer than that. Right here are some guidelines on exactly how you can do that:
1. Check in to your YouTube application.
2. Now, touch develop to start recording your short YouTube video.
3. Now, if you desire your YouTube brief video to be longer than fifteen secs, you can touch 15 over the record switch. This will let you record your video clip for as much as 60 seconds.
4. To begin tape-recording, hold the capture switch.
5. Once you are done recording, touch the capture switch again to quit taping.
3 Reasons Marketers Must Focus On YouTube Shorts
From TikTok to Instagram, short video clips continue trending across social networks. However, if you’re currently using TikTok and Instagram for short-form video clips and YouTube for long-form video clips, do you require to develop short-form video clips for YouTube, as well?
Although YouTube Shorts is the latest of the significant short-form video clip applications, fantastic videos are already the most preferred. Since June 2022, YouTube Shorts has tallied more than 1.5 billion users each month and logs an average of 30 billion views daily.
While still impressive, TikTok logged simply 1 billion monthly individuals in the platform’s latest report. If you want your brand name to be where users are, YouTube Shorts is an apparent selection.
Let’s check out a few reasons brands need to think about focusing on YouTube Shorts, especially now that it’s so quick and straightforward to produce them.
YouTube Shorts Increase YouTube Channel Growth
Posting appealing long-form web content regularly can be extremely valuable for network development and various other objectives. As even more individuals take in YouTube shorts, it’s crucial to understand how long-form and short-form videos contribute to your channel’s development.
According to YouTube execs, shorts are excellent for introducing your brand name to a new audience, which makes them a vital element of the consumer trip. When you concentrate on both lengthy and temporary content, you’re likely to see optimal YouTube target market development and retention.
YouTube Shorts Improve Discoverability for Your Private Long-Form Videos
YouTube lately announced that audiences who enjoy your network’s shorts would start to see your long-form videos in their suggested videos.
And given that imported shorts consist of links to the initial video, they can also help drive traffic from the YouTube homepage to long-form material. That implies utilizing YouTube’s new Shorts development tool has the prospective to bring in brand-new short- and long-form video clip customers.
YouTube Shorts Optimize the Value of Your Network’s Long-Form Video clip Content.
Excellent web content takes some time and sources to develop, specifically when it pertains to long-form videos. If you’re using separated operations to produce short- and long-form material or releasing various content to both feeds, you might be doing your channel an injustice.
YouTube’s new option for turning videos into shorts is more than a time-saving tool. It likewise allows you to repurpose resource-heavy material so you can remove much more worth from long-form video clips without doing a lot of additional jobs. Given that this brand-new device helps any one of your long-form videos, it could be fantastic for resurfacing older material that’s still evergreen.
4 Ways to Use Imported YouTube Shorts
How can you add this device to your short-form video clip material strategy? Allow’s to look at some use cases for imported YouTube shorts.
Develop Teasers for Long-Form Video
Want to urge subscribers to view a long-form video? By importing it right into YouTube Shorts, you can share a brief fragment to pique your target market’s interest. Given that you can produce text overlays throughout the editing procedure, you can include added context developed to drive traffic to the initial video clip.
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Does your team publish a lot of densely stuffed instructional web content? With this device, you can quickly turn intricate long-form content into bite-sized shorts. Because you can develop numerous shorts from the same initial material, a solitary video can supply a lot of material for your Shorts feed.
Give Updates
Do you need to upgrade a feature or standard you pointed out in a long-form video? Instead of spending quality time and resources on an entirely new video, you can share a fast upgrade in a short, consisting of a snippet of the original video clip for context.
Display Evergreen Web Content
Intend to display one of your channel’s most prominent long-form videos? With YouTube’s new Shorts development tool, you can drive much more.
A YouTube short video clip should be at most 60 seconds. With that being said, that’s how you can make it longer.
YouTube brief is a system where short, vertically shot videos are offered much more attention. YouTube shorts enable your shorts to be as long as 60 secs. Now, if you want your YouTube short video to be longer than fifteen seconds, you can tap 15 above the record switch. YouTube’s brand-new option for turning video clips into shorts is more than a time-saving tool. By importing it right into YouTube Shorts, you can share a short fragment to ignite your audience’s interest rate.
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English Grammar Online … the fun way to learn English!
Auxiliary Verbs
Exercise 4
Complete each sentence with the correct auxiliary verb.
1. The train just arrived.
2. you understand?
3. They been learning English for two years.
4. you heard that?
5. My uncle not eat fish.
6. I not live here.
7. anybody rung up for me?
8. She not play the piano.
9. How we get there?
10. Where he live?
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"A perfectly silly, genius idea" -- David Letterman
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Sports Guys!
St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony LaRussa
Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III
NFL Network personality Rich Eisen
Yes! Looks like CelebriGum just putted a three-pointer!
1. Nothing but net!! Or whatever it is they kick the puck through.
2. I'd call it a slam dunk scrum-down.
3. Sc-o-o-o-o-o-re!!
4. Must be hell working there with the Stengel brothers sports freaks and of course DL himself.
5. There's room for all types. I'm not the only writer who doesn't pay much attention to sports.
6. Good to know I'm not alone!
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Report: U.S. addiction to building new roads eating up money needed for maintenance
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States spend as much building new roads as they do repairing them
How can more spending mean worse results? Thanks to American transportation policy, it’s a reality painfully understood by millions of drivers, who commute on a deteriorating network of roads right as local and state transit agencies spend increasing sums of money on new highways.
Repair Priorities 2019,” a report released today by Transportation for America and Taxpayers for Common Sense, found that between 2009 and 2017, the percentage of U.S. roads in “poor condition” increased from 14 to 20 percent, while 37 states saw the percentage of their roads in poor condition increase from 2009 to 2017.
It’s typically assumed that a lack of funding for basic repairs causes this problem. But according to Repair Priorities, its as much about choices than budget shortfalls. States simply neglect basic repair in favor of expanding roadways: In the last two long-term transportation reauthorizations, states were given increased flexibility to spend federal dollars. Despite long-standing complaints about potholes, crumbling roads, and unfixed highways, they spent as much building new roads as repairing new ones, spending $120 billion on expansion from 2009 to 2014.
Not only does the expansion mean starving transit systems of money for more efficient ways of getting around, such as mass transit, but by adding more and more roadways, state spending priorities inevitably lead to more induced demand, and even more roadway maintenance obligations ignored during the next asphalt expansion. Every new lane-mile of road costs approximately $24,000 per year to preserve in a state of good repair, according to the report.
“Whether during debate over an infrastructure bill or the long-term reauthorization looming next year, the rhetoric I hear over and over again from Capitol Hill and the White House about the need to invest more money in transportation is all about ‘repairing our crumbling roads and bridges,’” said Beth Osborne, director of Transportation for America, in a statement. “But our spending priorities rarely match this oft-repeated rhetoric.”
A wide highway with five lanes of cars stuck in traffic. Shutterstock
Building enough roadway to criss-cross the country 83 times
The vicious cycle of expansion, and the growing burden of maintaining our roadways, has become a significant financial drain, according to the report, which analyzes data from the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) “Highway Statistics Series.” Between 2009 and 2017, the nation built enough new lane miles to criss-cross the width of the U.S. 83 times, new roads that require $5 billion a year extra to keep in good condition.
According to Repair Priorities, the U.S. would need to spend $231 billion per year, for six years, to keep existing roadways in acceptable condition, all while bringing the backlog of roads in poor condition into good repair. That may seem doable. But that amount is more than double what the nation spent on capital expenditures for highways across every level of government in 2015, $105.4 billion.
In addition, Repair Priorities found a rural/urban divide in road investment. Even though rural roads are used by less drivers and typically are in better shape, they still receive roughly the same amount of annual repair funding, $10.7 billion on average, as urban roadways. Urban areas contain approximately 80 percent of the population, yet don’t receive an equivalent share of the overall budget.
Shouldn’t better spending practices come before Infrastructure Week?
There has been increased movement at the federal level for a new infusion of infrastructure spending ever since Trump was elected President. But no grand bargain has been seriously proposed, debated, and voted upon. If your budget represents your politics, then the administration has just added to the road-building frenzy, from stating in the party’s 2016 platform that they hoped to phase out funding for transit to replacing the Obama-era TIGER program with BUILD, a transportation grant program that’s swapped a focus on placemaking and alternative transit for more roads.
Since the Democrats took control of the House of Representatives, there’s been increased talk of an infrastructure compromise. Oregon Rep. Peter DeFazio, the new chairman of the House’s transportation and infrastructure committee, has said he wanted to plan during the first six months of the new Congress, and told Curbed that now is the tim to make wise investments, or pay the price.
“If we don’t make these investments, we’re going to become more carbon-intensive, in terms of transportation, and have the potential for economic catastrophe when something like the tunnels under the Hudson River go down,” he said. “I’m going to approach it from a very hard-hearted way: Boy, you’re stupid if you don’t make these investments.”
Repair Priorities suggests that any planned infrastructure investments should be seen through the light of maintenance and long-term costs. The report lays out four main guideposts for more wise stewardship of our transportation system, and better use of federal money.
In short Congress should guarantee “measurable outcomes” for taxpayers with any new funding. That would include requiring that states repair their existing systems before expanding, requiring project sponsors to demonstrate that they can afford to maintain new roadway capacity projects before they break ground, and tracking progress and require that FHWA publish results. These policies would advance a maintenance-first mindset, and perhaps, when the full cost of widening expressways and maintaining larger roads becomes more of a factor in policy decisions, make alternatives more financially desirable.
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Black Eyed Peas Songs: How Many Number Ones Did the Black Eyed Peas Have?
Black Eyed Peas Songs
American rappers,, and Taboo, along with vocalist J. Rey Soul, form the musical trio known as Black Eyed Peas. Fergie, who had taken Kim Hill’s position in the group’s lineup in 2002 before being succeeded by Soul in 2018, was a member of the group when it was at the pinnacle of its fame in the 2000s.
After beginning as an alternative hip-hop group, they decided to transform themselves into a pop-rap act in order to increase their chances of commercial success. [4] Even though the band was established in Los Angeles in 1995, it wasn’t until 2003, when they released their third album, Elephunk, that they began to see significant success in terms of record sales.
The Black Eyed Peas had their first major success with the single “Where Is the Love?” from the album Elephunk, which was released in 2003. The song topped the charts in thirteen different countries, including the United Kingdom, where it remained at the top spot for seven weeks and went on to become the best-selling single in Britain in 2003.
The group’s fourth studio album, titled Monkey Business, achieved even greater levels of success across the globe and was eventually certified three times platinum in the United States. With their singles “Boom Boom Pow” and “I Gotta Feeling,” which topped the chart for an unprecedented 26 consecutive weeks, the group became one of only 11 artists to have simultaneously held the number-one and number-two spots on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2009. In addition, the group is one of only 11 artists to have ever achieved this feat.
1. “Don’t Phunk With My Heart” (Monkey Business, 2005)
2. “Boom Boom Pow” (The E.N.D., 2009)
3. “The Time (Dirty Bit)” (The Beginning, 2010)
4. “Pump It” (Monkey Business, 2005)
10. “My Humps” (Monkey Business, 2005)
How Many Number Ones Did the Black Eyed Peas Have?
The Black Eyed Peas are a four-member American hip-hop trio that features will., ap, Fergie, and Taboo. They have had five number-one songs in the United States, including Where Is The Love, Boom Boom Pow, and I Gotta Feeling.
Has Shakira Joined Black Eyed Peas?
Back in the year 2020, Shakira collaborated with Black Eyed Peas on their latest single, titled “Girl Like Me,” which was a song that paid homage to Latina women.
Who is the Most Successful Black Eyed Peas?
According to Celebrity Net Worth, comes out on top with a net worth of $70 million, which puts him well ahead of his competitors. Although all of the current and past members of Black Eyed Peas have achieved a great deal of success, it would appear that is currently in the driver’s seat.
When Was the Black Eyed Peas Last Song?
The song “Ritmo (Bad Boys for Life)” was released by the group on October 11, 2019, and it is taken from the soundtrack for the movie Bad Boys for Life (2020). The song made its debut on the US Billboard Hot 100 at position number 100. It was the Black Eyed Peas’ 17th inclusion in the Hot 100 chart, and it was their first since “Don’t Stop the Party” in 2011.
Are the Black Eyed Peas Still Together?
The successful dance-pop trio has been on a break for the past four years, but they are about to make their comeback WITHOUT their starring lady. We’ve all found ourselves singing along to some of their huge successes, but the Black Eyed Peas are about to have a dramatic shake up of their line-up, after reports that they’ve landed a new member to replace Fergie in the group. This news has caused us to sing along to some of their biggest singles.
What is the Black Eyed Peas famous for?
The Black Eyed Peas are a band from the United States that play a variety of genres, including hip hop, dance, and pop music. The Black-Eyed Peas are considered pioneers of the underground hip-hop scene that emerged in the 1990s., also known as William James Adams, Jr., is a rapper best known for his work with the group Atban Klann. However, the group eventually broke up.
Who Created Black Eyed Peas?
When William Adams ( and Allan Pineda ( ap) were both in the eighth grade in Los Angeles in 1988, they met and began rapping and performing together around the city. This was the beginning of the Black Eyed Peas.
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Owl as an Exotic Pet: How to Take Care of Owl
how to take care of owl
Owl is considered as one of the pets that are quite difficult to keep. Because, these birds are easily to stress and die. If you have no experience of keeping a pet, we wouldn’t recommend you to choose owl as your starting pack! Well, at least before you read below tips…
1. Pick a Young Owl
If you want to have owl as your pet, it is better to pick a young owl instead of the full-grown owl. This is because a young owl is easier to be trained or tamed. In addition, the food is that needed is not that vary (you can give insect food such as crickets).
2. Set up a Perching Spot
The next thing you need to do if you want to keep an owl is by setting up a perching spot. Most of the keeper will put their bird inside an iron cage and put a perching spot inside it.
Owl will get stressed easily if you put them inside a small iron cage.
Instead of locking them inside a cage, you can set up a perching spot, and lock their legs to the perching stick. By doing this, they will be far less stressful for them!
However, if you still insist to use cage as your owl’s exhibit, choose a big and wide one (recommended to choose 50x than their size).
Perches can be made using natural wood twigs with an ideal and comfortable shape. Usually, owls that are not tamed yet, their legs are still need to be tied to a perch so they don’t fly away.
3. Handle it Frequently
The next step to take care of your owl, is by taming them! In order to tame them, you need to build a relationship with your owl by handle it more often.
You can gently pat and touch their head and pay attention of their reaction. If they’re seems to not comfortable at first, don’t rush it! Take a short break and slowly build connection with them.
By handling them more frequent, your owl can quickly get a long and recognize you as the keeper. As the result, they’re much easier to be tamed!
Read: 10 Things to Consider Before Getting a Pet
4. Set Up a Shade Spot For Your Owl
Owl is a type of nocturnal animal. In their habitat, they active only at night, even when looking for prey. So, if the sun is high and feels hot, put your owl in the shade.
5. Calm
When you are all taking care of your owl, especially during the taming process, you all need to be able to stay calm. Because, if you’re panic, they can sense it and they will be panic as well. As a result, there is a chance that they will stress and reduce their hunger.
When you just own them recently, it is normal to have fear of being bitten or scratched by your own owl. To overcome this fear, you could buy some gloves and use it when handling them.
6. Do Not Forget to Turn Off The Lights!
If you keep an owl at home, you should not disturb its activities by turning on bright lights. So, you should turn off the lights that are near the owl until it’s all dark. Owl’s vision are very sharp even though it is pitch black.
7. Proper Feeding
Well, the most important way to care for owls here is in the matter of providing the right and nutritious type of food. Although owls are a type of carnivorous bird, owl should not be fed carelessly. You are still obliged to pay attention to the protein content and nutrition of the food.
For the type of plop type of owl food, you can feed crickets or small fish. However, it is different with other types of owls. They will need a type of food in the form of white mice, small fish. However, you should avoid giving processed or packaged meat.
This is because processed or packaged feed contains preservatives or chemical substances which can undoubtedly damage the owl’s health. Thus, all of you have to provide fresh and alive feed. For the gift, you can all place it in a container that is easily accessible by the bird or feed it.
Likewise for the problem of giving drinking water, you can put it in a place that is easy for owls to reach. Give in a disciplined and regular way.
8. Treat Them As Your Buddy
The next way to care for an owl is to think of it as your best friend. Not everyone can keep it well. Thus, you all have to really pay attention to the pattern of care. If you have taken care of it properly, your owl will not run away from you even though they are not being laced.
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The Rohingya: Genocide in the Modern Era?
By Kate Akkaya
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Ethnically and religiously distinct from the majority population, the Rohingya people in Myanmar face state-sponsored discrimination, and mounting evidence of serious human rights abuses, according to numerous recent reports. Increasingly urgent reports – including from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, the International State Crime Initiative and Yale Law School – argue that this state-sponsored violence rises to the level of genocide. While the term “genocide” is often wielded in relation to a range of mass atrocities, it is a specifically defined crime under international law. Does the evidence in the case of the Rohingya support the claims of genocide? And perhaps more importantly, if the evidence points to genocide, what actions can or should be taken by the government of Myanmar, or the international community more generally?
Genocide under international law
The definition of genocide can be found in the 1948 Genocide Convention, which refers to “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group,” with enumerated acts including killings, causing of serious bodily harm, preventing births in the group, and “[d]eliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part”[Art. 2]. We can thus establish three core elements: i) prohibited violent acts; ii) made against a specific protected group; iii) done with specific intent to destroy the group, in whole or in part. This post will examine each of these elements in turn in the case of the Rohingya, and then turn to the question of investigation and prosecution.
Do the violent acts against the Rohingya fit the definition of genocide?
The Genocide Convention sets out five specific prohibited categories of violence, any of which may amount to genocide:
In the context of Myanmar, extensive resources exist detailing numerous acts of violence that would fall under the above categories. The most grievous crimes include the massacre of Rohingya by security forces in 2012, the use of killing squads and state-organized riots, the intolerable condition of camps for displaced persons (which likely amounts to deliberate infliction of conditions calculated to bring about destruction of the group), and mass arrests, raids, torture, and rape of Rohingya by security forces. Furthermore, official policies limiting the ability of the Rohingya to marry, prohibiting non-married individuals from cohabitating, forcing Rohingya to use birth control, and the imposition of a two-child policy that applies only to Rohingya couples are a clear attempts by the state to limit and prevent births in the group. While the state has denied all allegations of abuse, discrimination, and genocide, it is important to note that under the Genocide convention, each act may be committed outright or by omission, meaning that failure to prevent or stop such acts would also fulfill these criteria.
Are the Rohingya an enumerated protected group?
Turning to the second element of genocide under the Convention, any attack set out above would need to be committed against either a national, ethnical, racial or religious group. In this case, the government of Myanmar has consistently refused to acknowledge the existence of the Rohingya as an ethnic group, but has generally classified them as Bengalis or simply illegal immigrants. While there has been some immigration from Bangladesh into the Rakhine province over the past hundred years, both with and without state approval, the Rohingya people have had a recorded presence in the Rakhine state since the late 18th century. They have continuously self-identified as a unique ethnic group, and have a distinct linguistic, cultural, and religious identity. While unique culture, history, and self-identification is generally sufficient to prove ethnic identity under the Genocide Convention, the behavior of the state towards the specific group may also be considered, and provides evidence toward both the classification of the group and the proof of state intent to commit acts amounting to genocide.
Furthermore, Myanmar’s government has clearly distinguished between the Rohingya and other ethnicities though extensive policies and public statements, including a memorable senior diplomat’s letter to the media in 2009 that included statements comparing the Rohingya to ogres, and claiming that, “[i]n reality, Rohingya are neither Myanmar people nor Myanmar’s ethnic group.” Counter intuitively, state officials’ identification of the Rohingya as a non-native ethnic group may be seen as evidence of a pervasive understanding of the Rohingya as a distinct group of people, albeit a persecuted one.
Is there evidence of intent to destroy the Rohingya, in whole or in part?
Turning to the third element, intent to commit genocide is an essential aspect to any determination relating to the possible commission of genocide, yet is also extremely difficult to prove. Due to the inherent challenges and ambiguity of state intent, the search for evidence of intent is often the defining feature of a genocide investigation, rather than evidence of mass atrocities, which alone are not sufficient to prove the existence of genocide. The challenge for establishing intent is simply that, understandably, few modern regimes keep explicit records of their intent to destroy a group of people.
In light of the general lack of conclusive, “smoking gun” evidence, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has held that intent “may be inferred from a number of facts and circumstances, such as the general context, the perpetration of other culpable acts systematically directed against the same group, the scale of atrocities committed, the systematic targeting of victims on account of their membership of a particular group, or the repetition of destructive and discriminatory acts” [Prosecutor v. Jelisic, paragraph 47]. While a formal inquiry would be necessary to conclusively determine the facts and circumstances necessary to prove intent, the public actions and statements of government officials, prejudicial laws, and active enforcement of discriminatory policies including disenfranchisement, displacement, and enforced statelessness are only some examples of the compelling allegations that may provide evidence of the Myanmar government’s deliberate intent to commit genocide. Without a thorough investigation by an impartial commission, however, the allegations cannot be substantiated and no further action may be taken.
Investigation and Prosecution
As outlined above, the recent reports raise serious concerns regarding the existence of genocide in Myanmar. What, then, would it take to trigger domestic or international investigation or prosecution?
On the question of investigation, there is no single evidentiary standard for the creation of a commission of inquiry into suspected war crimes, including genocide. However, the UN, normally through the Secretary General’s office or the Human Rights Council, may decide whether or not to establish such commissions on an ad hoc basis. If a neutral and impartial commission can establish credible evidence relating to genocide, its findings could serve as a strong foundation for eventual prosecution.
With or without a commission of inquiry, however, what steps are available to punish those responsible? It is important to note that the Genocide Convention establishes clear obligation of all states to prosecute: perpetrators of genocide “shall be punished, whether they are constitutionally responsible rulers, public officials or private individuals”[Art. 4].
In terms of individual criminal responsibility, one legal option would be international prosecution at the International Criminal Court (ICC). The Rome Statute grants the ICC jurisdiction over genocide, using the same definition as the Genocide Convention. However, the Court may only exercise jurisdiction if:
The accused is a national of a State Party or a State otherwise accepting the jurisdiction of the Court; The crime took place on the territory of a State Party or a State otherwise accepting the jurisdiction of the Court; or The United Nations Security Council has referred the situation to the Prosecutor, irrespective of the nationality of the accused or the location of the crime. Myanmar is not State Party to the Rome Statute, nor has it otherwise accepted the jurisdiction of the Court. Without this jurisdiction, it is possible for the UN Security Council to refer a situation to the ICC, as occurred in Libya in 2011, though this requires political consensus which is often difficult to achieve within the Council. China, for example, maintains a strategic interest in Myanmar that may cause it to veto any proposed referral.
Short of international prosecution at the ICC, United States courts could provide an avenue for domestic legal action in the form of a civil suit under the US Alien Tort statute (ATS), which has previously been used to prosecute human rights violations that occurred outside of the US. Successful ATS cases, however, are notoriously complex, expensive, and rare; among other requirements, the defendant must be a former foreign government official responsible for the human rights violation, and must be served while in the United States. Despite these onerous conditions, a coalition of Muslim groups is currently pursuing an ATS case against Myanmar’s former President Thein Sein in New York state court. As ATS cases are civil suits, the coalition may only seek compensatory and punitive damages, and even if the plaintiffs win the case, the damages will be awarded only if the defendant has sufficient assets in the United States that may be seized by the court. Ultimately, the pursuit of an ATS case appears to be more useful as a tool to generate publicity and political will, rather than to bring about justice for the victims. Moreover, domestic prosecution of course remains a possibility in other states.
Ways forward
The presidential elections on November 8 seem, at the time of this writing, to be a cause for hope. Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has worked for decades to improve democracy and human rights in Myanmar, and her party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), won a significant parliamentary majority. If the United Nations heeds the call for an inquiry into the allegations of genocide against the Rohingya people, it would fall to Suu Kyi and the NLD to fully cooperate with the investigation, cease violations of international law, including discriminatory and possible genocidal acts, resolve the conflict, and make restitution with the Rohingya people. This is a tall order for any new leader, let alone one in a country as fractiously partisan as Myanmar; Suu Kyi has thus far remained noticeably silent on the issue of the Rohingya. Encouragement of and cooperation with a commission of inquiry into the case of the Rohingya could be a first step towards reform and restitution, and Suu Kyi’s broad support as evidenced by the recent elections presents a unique opportunity for a change in state policy. It is crucial to keep the spotlight of international attention and diplomatic pressure directly on the government of Myanmar in order to force policy change and stop what very likely amounts to grave violations of human rights, if not outright genocide, of the Rohingya people.
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Professor Stephen Hawking warns us we may destroy earth •
Professor Stephen Hawking said we need to work together to tackle the many issues humans are causing our planet, including artificial intelligence.
Professor Stephen Hawking warns us we may destroy earth
Yesterday in The Guardian newspaper Professor Stephen Hawking said we need to work together to tackle the many issues humans have caused our planet. In the article, Hawking spoke out against climate change and threats to employment through AI and robot automation. He believes that we now have technology which could be capable of destroying our planet, and he wishes to warn us of the problems we may soon face.
Professor Hawking deeply believes that we are living in what could potentially be the most dangerous time for the human race. He states that overpopulation, climate change and diseases are only some of the factors threatening us with extinction – the technology we have created to automate our industrial processes should prompt us to “retrain” for a new world where robots can do everyday jobs.
The famous physicist has previously spoken of his concerns that robots could wipe out humanity and believes that a mass exodus from Earth is our only chance of survival. Earlier this year he stated, “I believe that life on Earth is at an ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as a sudden nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus, or other dangers. I think the human race has no future if it doesn’t go to space.” Speaking on BBC Radio 4 in January 2016 as part of the annual Reith Lecture series, he expressed similar concerns.
In July, Professor Stephen Hawking and Tesla Motors founder Elon Musk led 1,000 robotics experts in an open letter warning that “autonomous weapons will become the Kalashnikovs of tomorrow.”
In 2015, Elon Musk said, “The probable life span of human civilization is much greater if we’re a multi-planet species as opposed to a single-planet species. If we’re a single planet species, then eventually there will be some extinction event.” Musk hopes to remedy this situation with his company SpaceX, that plans to send humans into space soon.
Earlier in 2016, Professor Hawking said that creating AI “would be the biggest event in human history, unfortunately, it might also be the last.” He does also see the benefits of this technology in the fight against war, disease and poverty, stating, “Looking further ahead, there are no fundamental limits to what can be achieved. There is no physical law precluding particles from being organised in ways that perform even more advanced computations than the arrangements of particles in human brains.”
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Apple, Amazon, and Disney are interested in acquiring EA
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EA, after a series of disappointing events (we’re looking at you, Battlefield 2042), has reportedly put itself up for sale. The company is known for their aggressive microtransaction schemes and continuous acquisition of smaller gaming studios, many of which developed a franchise of community-beloved games like Command and Conquer, Battlefield, Need For Speed, Plants vs Zombies, Mass Effect, and others.
The company is interested in either a merger or a total buyout and several companies have eyed to purchase the company, including two of the biggest names in the tech business Apple and Amazon, as well as the world’s largest media conglomerate Disney.
It also appears that Comcast is also interested in a merger with the game publisher. According to a news article from Puck, Brian Roberts, the owner of NBC-Universal which in turn owns Comcast, said that the two companies have been proposing a merger where Comcast would be a major shareholder. “The general terms of the proposal, which lawyers and bankers for both sides negotiated for several weeks, would have seen the Roberts family take majority control of the combined entity,” it writes. “Although it also claims that deal was refused in the last few weeks due to “disagreements over price and structure”.
If you could recall, big companies buying major video game publishers have been a strangely huge trend lately, with the biggest news of Microsoft acquiring Activision-Blizzard as well as Sony’s acquisition of Bungie, the developer of Destiny. EA constitute a huge library of games so if a company buys them, then their gaming portfolio would have a drastic increase.
Ubisoft, a major competitor to EA, is also planning to sell itself because that’s how it is now.
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What’s Your Favorite Scary Movie?: Scream (1996)
What’s your favorite scary movie?
*Spolier Alert*
So I really loved this movie. I have to say that I was originally disappointed in Wes Craven as Nightmare on Elm Streettotally tanked. This film was by far, much better. One of the coolest things about this film is that it is a parody of horror films, while still being its own horror film.
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However, it quickly turns serious as the caller threatens Casey that he is going to kill her and her boyfriend, Steve.
“Phone Voice: Name the killer in Friday the 13th.
Casey: Jason! Jason! Jason!
Phone Voice: I’m sorry. That’s the wrong answer!
Phone Voice: Afraid not. No way.
Casey: [Weeping] You tricked me.
And thus the body count begins…
The next day, the town Woodsboro is just ravaged by reporters who are eager to find out more about this murder, especially since it occurred almost exactly a year after their little town experienced a murder just as gruesome. The murder of Maureen Prescott by Cotton Weary.
As to be expected she is having a really hard time with the anniversary of her mother’s death. When she hears about the murders and sees the reporters crawling all over town and school, the memories of the past year come flooding back.
One of her other big issues is her boyfriend Billy Loomis.
Okay, I just have to go off on a tangent here: Billy is sooooooooooooo creepy looking. When I first saw this I was like he is toooootally the killer. I mean LOOK AT HIM! He has killer written alllll over him. Those eyes, they are super frightening. And the way he talks? He tells Sidney that he was watching Silence of the Lambs and that made him think of her and want to come over and get ”together”. What a freak!
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To top off the already bad day, Sidney’s father has to go out of town, leaving Sidney all alone in a big house.
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Yep, gonna make When a Stranger Calls references all night.
Sidney makes plans to meet up with Tatum and stay at her place, but falls asleep at home when Tatum is late picking her up. While Sidney is waiting she gets a phone call from the killer who starts harassing her. And she stupidly calls throughout the house trying to find him.
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Soon the killer comes in her house and she has to run away from him and try to get the police there before she is victim #3. Billy shows up, climbing through her window saving her; that is until Sidney sees that he has a cellphone and freaks out, having the police cart him away.
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Sidney spends the night at Tatum’s house and the next day is completely crazy. Billy was released as they had nothing to hold him on. And they still are unable to find her father as he never checked into his hotel. Plus Gale Weathers, a reporter who has been harassing her for a over year, is back and won’t let up.
Gale: That’s right.
Sidney Prescott: So how’s the book?
Gale: Oh it’ll be out later this year.
Sidney Prescott: Oh, I’ll look for it.
Gale: I’ll send you a copy.
[Sidney turns around a punches Gale in the face]”
Also at the school we have a little Wes Craven easter egg, as he plays the janitor and dresses in a Freddy Krueger sweater.
The principal (Henry Winkler) decides to suspend school until further notice as it is just too risky for the students. After they all have left, he finds himself joining the body count as well, victim #3.
The death of the principal was actually added to the film late into production. Bob Weinstein noticed there were 30 pgs in the script where no one was murdered and they decided that they needed another victim.
Meanwhile downstairs Tatum goes off to the garage to get more beer and is attacked by the killer. This garage scene is the only weak link in the film. First of all when Tatum walks over to the garage door and it almost closes on her, that would never happen. My dad is a contractor and I remember when I was a kid I thought the garage would close on me too; however, they design garage doors specfically to not do that. In fact, they have a certain radius that if someone was to walk within that circle the door would stop. And come on she IS IN A FREAKIN’ GARAGE!!! Do you know how many weapons there are in that thing? She passes over a hoe, rake, and a shovel! You see all kinds of tools throughout their fight too. She could easly find something to attack him and win. Although I do have to give props to Wes for allowing Tatum to to put up such a great fight.
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Victim #4
1. You will not survive if you have sex
2. You will not survive if you do drugs or drinks
4. Everyone is a suspect
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One of the best scenes is the scene is when a drunk Randy is watching Halloween and telling Jamie Lee Curtis’ character to turn around while the killer is behind him (Randy). He constantly repeats, “Jamie, turn around. Turn around, Jamie!” as the killer is slowly creeping up behind him.
So Kenny and Dewey fall victim to his knife.
Victim #8
Victim #5 & 6
After Sidney and Billy are done having sex and have changed back into their clothes the killer charges in and stabs Billy (#7), while Sidney manages to run away and finds Tatum’s body.
As she continues running she runs in the path of Gale who was fleeing the killer in her van. Gale swerves to miss Sidney and crashes, getting knocked out. Sidney goes back to the house, taking the gun from the dying Dewey. She runs into Randy and Stu and is unsure who is the killer. She then runs into a wounded Billy and gives him the gun. Billy immediately shoots Randy (#8) and stands up.
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Corn Syrup
Billy: Corn Syrup, just like in the real movies.
Yep, the whole time Billy and Stu have been the killers. From Sidney’s mom (the real first victim) to everyone else.
Stu: No.
Yep, and not only that, but the two planned the whole thing out so that her father would take the blame, making it look like he had a mental breakdown on the anniversary of his wife’s death and started killing people. They kidnapped her father and brought him out of hiding for their final act. Billy and Stu planned that original attack on Sidney (when Billy was arrested) to make any second arrest look false and questionable.
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Sidney and her father have disappeared.
“Stu: S***…
Billy: What?
Stu: Oh, s***.
Yep, just like they say in Dial M for Murder, you can never plan the perfect murder. What sounds good on paper can never transfer to real life, because in real life there are just too many things that can go wrong.
Tony Wendice: Oh? Why not?
[the phone rings]
Stu: Should I let the machine get it?
Billy: [answers it] Hello?
Sidney Prescott: Are you alone in the house?
[Stu is slowly collapsing to the floor]
Stu: Hello?
Stu: Peer pressure. I’m far too sensitive.
In the end Gale, Sidney, Dewey, Mr. Prescott, and Randy survive (only 5 victims).
This film really brought back the slasher genre, as after this slasher remakes and slasher film numbers escalated. It also brought up the debate on whether or not violence in movies affected people and caused them to become more violent? The most important thing is that this film increased was the use of caller ID and made such phone harassment much harder to do. Although not for me.
I also realized that just like in The Cable Guy, I’m only a few steps away from the crazy.
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Total War: 3 Kingdoms Is A Huge Hit In China
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Its main and secondary schools are excellent and at times fantastic nonetheless, the universities do not make very first-rate research, and they are lagging behind these in the United States. America is the incumbent superpower the world belongs to it. It has the biggest armed forces and the most considerable industrial complicated try this site. In any case, it is for Moscow a slow method where its trench soldiers have to move a step at a time. In the meantime, to sustain this long course, Russia ought to drastically reform its economy and increase small and medium enterprises, strengthen its social and judicial system, and take power from the big state boyars.
Through the Zhou dynasty, a woman’s style is offered to her when she becomes marriageable, at the age of 15, and it is revealed to no a single else but her future husband’s family members. This thought did not catch on, and it wasn’t until the revival of Neo-Confucianism a couple of centuries right after the Three Kingdoms period that a woman’s name is needed to be entirely hidden from the public realm. Nevertheless, since it was not regarded as correct to address or refer to a woman straight by name, and couple of females had biographies of any sort written on them, not a lot of women’s names got recorded in the history books. Most often they are referred merely by their surname and their social status—furen ‘lady’ for a married lady of respectable standing, gongzhu ‘princess’ for the daughter of a ruler, etc.
Inventive Assembly happily indulged with creative license when it came to specific abilities and combat styles. “Particularly, we use a lot of Wuershan movies,” says Stewart. When asked if the history ever interrupts gameplay suggestions, Stewart and Starr alternatively identified the opposite. “One of the stunning issues about 3 Kingdoms is that it met a lot of our design and style ambitions,” says Starr.
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Aristocrats hereditary, as effectively as recruitment and recommendation of talented people today, military achievements, and so on. Was a exceptional instance, who promoted all the kingdoms that he had served. Wars in this period usually lasted for months or years, in which tens of thousands of people learn the facts here now today were involved. In Part 4, the history of Daoism is explored as properly as its major characters, Laozi and Zhuangzi.
High posts at court and in the bureaucracy increasingly went to members of this narrow elite, and they ensured that the interests of the good landowners had been effectively served. In 581, even so, a Northern Zhou common, Yang Jian, seized power and founded the Sui dynasty. He completed the conquest of the south, and so reunified China.
Nioh developer Team Ninja is working on a new action game based on the epic Chinese saga, Romance of the 3 Kingdoms. We are functioning difficult to bring you the greatest oldschool classic games that you can play on line. Particularly, it is primarily based on the 14th century novelization of the events also identified as the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, regarded a single of China’s most crucial pieces of literature. In paper book, I have study 3 complete English translations of ROTK, of which a single translation has been lost several years ago. I personal 5 editions of Brewitt-Taylor , and three Roberts’ editions .
Cao Cao sets about playing off Yuan Shu, Lü Bu and Xuande against every other. Xuande refuses to kill Lü Bu when ordered to, but Cao Cao manages to set him against Yuan Shu. Although Xuande is away fighting, Zhang Fei’s drunkenness leads to Lü Bu taking the city and capturing Xuande’s wives. Xuande is passed more than for promotion soon after the war, then ultimately promoted only to subsequently be demoted once again, prompting the short-tempered Zhang Fei to whip the government inspector who brings the news. All this is a outcome of the corruption at court due to the dominant faction of Ten Eunuchs.
Zhong Hui passed by a mountain, and saw a scary vision there. When he asked his soldiers what mountain that was, the reply was that was where the tomb of Zhuge Liang was. Zhong Hui bowed down to the mountain and continued his journey. When they camped for the evening, Zhong Hui had a dream of Zhuge Liang telling him that Shu was gone, and he wanted Zhong Hui to be nice to the men and women of Shu. Zhong Hui respected Zhuge Liang and did so, many cities surrendered with no a fight. When Jiang Wei was retreating on the way, Wei Yan was dissatisfied, thinking they could conveniently continue pursuing Sima Yi’s retreating forces.
Total War franchise, which has covered historical periods as properly as fantasy settings. In between non-aggression pacts and alliances there are coalitions, unions that act as a step along the path to confederation with out becoming guarantees of friendship forever. They let for additional see this website than two members as well, so my Confederation to Defeat the Barbarians has new faction leaders lining up to join it on the typical. A turning point in history that marked the last try to reunite the Han, and the starting of a time of bloodshed for the Chinese.
The Han dynasty had been ruling China given that 206 BCE as its most profitable dynasty but. Still, by the 2nd century CE, the emperors have been facing troubled occasions. The central government, dominated by a secretive Inner Court with access to it strictly controlled by the scheming court eunuchs, was ever-much more remote from the affairs of the each day men and women in the provinces. Rebellions had currently popped up in the 140s CE when they had been dealt with by sending officials to bribe regional strongmen. No longer commanding an army of significance, the emperor could do tiny a lot more.
The battle ended in a tie, soon after fighting more than a hundred bouts. Zhuge Liang then told Zhang Lu that they would cease attacking if Ma Chao came back. Nevertheless, Ma Chao did not listen and continued fighting ZHang Fei the next day.
Past titles would have you recall launch day woes and optimization troubles. Cao Cao gathers a faction, like the fierce warrior Xiahou Dun. At the similar time, he raises eighteen lords against Dong Zhuo. Yuan Shao takes command of this uneasy coalition Xuande, Zhang Fei and Lord Guan join it, in the service of Gongsun Zan. Sun Jian, hero of the war of the Yellow Turbans, tries to clear the pass – but Yuan Shao’s brother, Yuan Shu, does not trust him he denies Sun Jian sources and Dong Zhou’s general drives him back. In the subsequent battle, all three heroes take on the mighty Lü Bu, who escapes.
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