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‘Absolute excellence’ at work is our credo at designcreed.
We exhibit our creative potential skills and through our work. Our every task is a challenge, which inspires us to draw out our best, interpreting your requirements and presenting them with perfection.
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It’s been a little damp of late and riding in the rain is never the most enjoyable.
In London – there are a lot of potholes. With thousands of people driving over its roads everyday and hundreds of buses warping the road surfaces, cycling in the rain in London can be unpleasant. These road ravines fill up will litres of filthy rainwater, drenching the feet, legs and often back of any unsuspecting/unobservant cyclist.
Yesterday I got fairly soggy commuting. My top half stayed bone dry thanks to my new waterproof (courtesy of Decathlon‘s sale) but my face, legs, feet and rucksack were sodden. Granted, I need to replace my long-absent mudguards and that would help immensely but the entire scenario was unaided by 2 secondary factors: the bloke in the green trousers and the road conditions.
Said bloke rode at a series of variable speeds making it completely impossible to predict or remain at a constant safe distance behind him. Riding with headphones on probably made him blissfully unaware and most likely accounted for some of his last-minute swerving required to avoid bike-van collision. On top of this he rode, without mudguards, through every single puddle and pothole well, intermittently spraying my unfortunate self with surprising accuracy.
Now, this cannot have been a pleasant ride for him. His grass green attire was coated in murky rainwater all up the insides of his legs. Needless to say it was not a joyous experience for me either. Please, if you’re going to ride in the rain, be aware of who you’re splashing. No-one likes being drenched by an inconsiderate bus pulling up in a puddle and cyclists don’t need any more of a spray-down than they’re already getting.
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09:15:02: @rockeye What a cute boy! I'm going to try to repopulate my new SD card with new kitty pics today.
10:09:01: @rockeye I should say so!
11:41:54: Leftovers for lunch - saag prawns and paneer tikka!
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CHECK BACK AT THIS POST, AS I WILL BE ADDING TO IT.
THE NEXT BIG THING seems to be some kind of web chain mail project to reach out to folks about writing projects. I was contacted by Phill Berrie about this and I’m thrilled to try it out.
It will be the third in a series. FIrst book was NIGHTWORLD. Second book was VAMPIRES OF NIGHTWORLD.
All the questions posed by the first two books will be answered.
This book will be much different than if I had written it in the 80’s for Del Rey Books, although I am using an outline I wrote back then. I’ve thought about this final book a lot and I’ve come up with some amazing new ideas.
Here’s a picture of my son Bernie in England.
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My twin sisters were about two or three years old in this picture, which means that I was around nine or ten.
I loved my baby sisters more than anything. Loved being their “big sissy.” For almost seven years I was a lonely only child. From the time I learned how to pray, my number one prayer was asking God to send me a sister or brother. When my mom had twin girls after years of not being able to have a baby due to endometriosis, I thought my prayers had done that. And I believed that God loved me so much, He sent me not just one baby sister, but two!
Our mother ended up having a total of seven children, including me. The youngest was born when I was almost eighteen. I don’t think my prayers caused all of that, lol.
This picture was sent to me about a month ago by my dad’s half sister. My “half aunt” is almost exactly my age. She was born two days after me. Julie (not her real name) and I saw each other a lot when we were very young. But when we were twelve and my parents divorced, we lost touch.
Phone calls were long distance and email did not exist back then. During the past four weeks, my late father’s half sister and I have had an amazing conversation through email. She isn’t the same little girl that I knew in the late 1950s and early to mid 1960s, not at all!
Looking forward to hearing about it. God bless!
What a treasure to have this new, budding relationship!
I, too, can’t wait to hear more / the rest of your story. How wonderful that must be, getting back in touch with someone special to you after so many years.
You are beginning to tell a nice new story but I can’t help but think that the three of you young girls look so normal and like you came from a well adjusted household. Hard to believe the 3 of you, plus the others not yet born, were victims of gassing. I do believe it though.
There were a lot of hard to believe things that happened in my childhood home, Ruby. After I posted this picture earlier today, I got to thinking that the title I chose for this post, about GOOD childhood memories, was perhaps a poor choice for a title. Because I remember so many horrific things that happened during this time — and before this time — and after.
But the good part of my childhood was the way that my prayers were answered and my baby sisters, and later my little brothers, were born. I loved them so much. I felt like they were my own babies. That’s why I was smiling so big. And those are truly wonderful memories.
Dear Marie, thank so much for understanding.
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The problem of sudden or unintended acceleration has been around for over ten years now, mostly associated with Jeeps. But, recently another of Toyota’s problems. Since about 2006, most vehicles have been equipped with something called an event data recorder (EDR) or a crash data recorder (CDR), otherwise known as a “blackbox”. These devices are programmed to record certain events just prior to and during a crash event. In order to access the recorded data, special equipment must be used. It is understood that the readers that are used are commercially available but, only from a limited source and are very expensive. It should also be noted that manufacturer’s dealers do not have these instruments (or at least are not publicly advertised). Vehicle manufacturers want to be able to control the data in case it reveals a defect within their vehicle. As a result, if an EDR or CDR is to be read, it has to be removed from the vehicle and sent to the manufacturer unless an individual party with access to a reader can be located. If the problem of sudden acceleration is to be properly addressed, manufacturers have to come clean. If there is a problem with a vehicle, the manufacturer should take over the problem, fix it and stop trying to hide it in order to keep from being sued. The problem has been around long enough that all American manufacturers are aware of it. So much so that a little research will produce articles about GM, Ford and Chrysler making their own deals to have data recorders made and programmed for their vehicles. There are those that feel that the problem is the result of driver error. That is, driver’s inadvertenly step on the accelerator instead of the brake pedal or step on both pedals at the same time. If this is what is happening, then how is that driver’s are confusing the pedals? Have manufacturer’s compacted the floor space so much that pedal location is confusing drivers? If so, isn’t this a manufacturing defect that should be addressed by the manufacturers?
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A mitral heart valve annuloplasty ring having a posterior bow that conforms to an abnormal posterior aspect of the mitral annulus. The ring may be generally oval having a major axis and a minor axis, wherein the posterior bow may be centered along the minor axis or offset in a posterior section. The ring may be substantially planar, or may include upward bows on either side of the posterior bow. The ring may include a ring body surrounded by a suture-permeable fabric sheath formed of a plurality of concentric ring elements or bands. The posterior bow is stiff enough to withstand deformation once implanted and subjected to normal physiologic stresses. A method of repairing an abnormal mitral heart valve annulus having a depressed posterior aspect includes providing a ring with a posterior bow and implanting the ring to support the annulus without unduly stressing the attachment sutures.
The present application is a continuation-in-part of Ser. No. 10/192,516, filed Jul. 8, 2002, now U.S. Pat No. 6,858,039 , which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
The present invention relates generally to medical devices, specifically to an annuloplasty ring and related procedure for surgically reconstructing the mitral valve annulus of a patient's heart. More specifically, this invention relates to a mitral valve repair device and corresponding technique that conforms to an abnormal annulus in the pathology encountered with functional mitral regurgitation having a posterior aspect depressed below the anterior aspect.
In the anatomy of the human heart, the left atrium receives oxygenated blood from the lungs through the pulmonary vein. The mitral valve separates the left atrium from the left ventricle. During diastole, as the contraction triggered by the sinoatrial node progresses through the atria, oxygenated blood passes through the mitral valve into the left ventricle. In this phase, the aortic valve leading into the ascending aorta closes, allowing the left ventricle to fill with blood. A similar flow of venous blood occurs from the right atrium through the pulmonary valve to the right ventricle. Once the ventricles are full, they contract during the systolic phase and pump blood out of the heart. During systole, the mitral valve closes and the aortic valve opens, thus preventing blood from regurgitating into the left atrium and forcing blood into the aorta, and from there throughout the body. Because of the high pressures associated with the left ventricle during systole, proper functioning of the mitral valve to prevent blood from flowing back through the system is extremely important.
The various anatomical components of the left ventricle LV and mitral valve MV are depicted in FIG. 1 as seen in vertical cross-section along an anterior-posterior plane. The mitral annulus MA comprises a fibrous ring encircling the orifice between the left atrium LA and the left ventricle LV. The average human mitral annular cross-sectional area is 5-11 cm2. The anterior aspect of the mitral annulus MA forms a part of the “cardiac skeleton” and includes left and right fibrous trigones, LT and RT. FIG. 3 illustrates the mitral valve from the left atrium as exposed during surgery. The mitral valve is a bicuspid valve having a posterior leaflet PL that cooperates with an anterior leaflet AL. The left trigone LT and right trigone RT are indicated at the junction points of the anterior leaflet AL and posterior leaflet PL. These junction points are also known as commissures between the leaflets. The posterior aspect of the mitral annulus MA, in contrast to the anterior aspect, consists mainly of muscular tissue of the outer wall of the heart.
With reference again to FIG. 1, a pair of papillary muscles P1 and P2 attach to the lower portion of the interior wall of the left ventricle LV. Chordae tendineae CT extend between and link the papillary muscles P1 and P2 and free edges of the anterior and posterior leaflets AL and PL. The chordae tendineae are string-like in appearance and are sometimes referred to as “heart strings.” Although not shown in the drawing, chordae tendoneae CT extend between each of the papillary muscles P1 and P2 and both leaflets. Contraction of the papillary muscles P1 and P2 pulls the chordae tendoneae CT, which in turn pulls the leaflets open, and when the muscles relax the chordae tendonae become slack, allowing the leaflets to come together or “coapt.” As seen in FIG. 1, the leaflets coapt along a substantial surface area in the normal functioning heart, with the free edges of the leaflets mutually bending toward the left ventricle LV.
As seen in FIG. 1, and for purpose of discussion, the mitral annulus MA of a normal, healthy heart lies generally in a datum plane 20 defined perpendicular to the average blood flow direction 22 through the mitral valve MV. Although a typical mitral annulus MA may be three-dimensional, the datum plane 20 is representative of the relative positions of the anterior and posterior sides of the annulus.
In many developed countries, congestive heart failure is a leading cause of hospitalization and death, and its incidence is increasing. When imperfections in the mitral valve allows blood to flow backward into the left atrium, known as secondary mitral regurgitation, the left ventricle must pump progressively harder to circulate blood throughout the body, which in turn promotes congestive heart failure. Heart transplantation is considered a standard treatment for select patients with severe congestive heart failure and end-stage heart disease, but only a small number of donor hearts are available and there are severe surgical risks for weaker patients. Accordingly, alternative medical and surgical strategies are evolving to treat such conditions.
One typical cause of mitral regurgitation is malformation of the mitral annulus MA along the more flexible posterior aspect of the annulus. As seen in FIG. 2, some patients experience a depression h of the posterior aspect of the annulus caused by dilation of the left ventricle LV. Dilation of the left ventricle LV is a symptom associated with mitral regurgitation in patients with iopathic dilated cardiomyopathy or ischemic cardiomyopathy, and in patients with long-standing valvular regurgitation from other etiologies such as myxomatous disease, endocarditis, congenital defects, or rheumatic valvular disease. FIG. 3 illustrates the subsequent loss of coaptation between the posterior and anterior leaflets AL and PL from this posterior aspect depression, as seen from above.
As seen in FIG. 2, dilation of the left ventricle LV generally increases the distance between the papillary muscles P1 and P2 and the mitral annulus MA. This in turn increases the tension in the chordae tendonae CT. The droop or depression of the posterior aspect of the annulus below the datum plane 20 by the distance h in combination with the increased tension in the chordae reduces the ability of the leaflets to come together during systole.
Various interventions have been used to alter the size of the regurgitant orifice area. Annuloplasty rings have been developed in various shapes and configurations over the years to correct mitral regurgitation and other conditions which reduce the functioning of the valve. For example, Carpentier, et al. in U.S. Pat. No. 4,055,861 disclosed two semi-rigid supports for heart valves, one of which being closed (or D-shaped) and the other being open (or C-shaped). In the closed configuration, the ring is generally symmetric about an anterior-posterior plane, and has a convex posterior side and a generally straight anterior side. U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,104,407, 5,201,880, and 5,607,471 all disclose closed annuloplasty rings that are bowed slightly upward on their anterior side. Because the anterior aspect of the mitral annulus MA is fibrous and thus relatively inflexible (at least in comparison to the posterior aspect), the upward curve in the anterior side of each ring conforms that ring more closely to the anatomical contour of the mitral annulus, and thus reduces undue deformation of the annulus.
In general, conventional annuloplasty rings are intended to restore the original configuration of the mitral annulus MA, or in other words bring the annulus as close as possible back to the datum plane 20 as seen in FIG. 1. When correcting a condition as seen in FIG. 2, high stresses are created in the sutures connecting the annuloplasty ring to posterior aspect of the annulus because the ring “pulls” the annulus upward. The stresses sometimes result in the dehiscence or separation of the ring from the annulus at this location because the sutures pull through the tissue.
It should be noted here that correction of the aortic annulus requires a much different ring than with a mitral annulus. For example, U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,258,021 and 6,231,602 disclose sinusoidal or so-called “scalloped” annuloplasty rings that follow the up-and-down shape of the three cusp aortic annulus. Such rings would not be suitable for correcting a mitral valve deficiency.
While good results in the treatment of congestive heart failure and mitral regurgitation have been obtained in the preliminary applications of the above-described methods and apparatuses, it is believed that these results can be significantly improved. Specifically, it would be desirable to produce a mitral annuloplasty ring that can reduce stresses associated with the implantation of conventional rings.
The present invention provides an annuloplasty ring for implantation in a mitral valve annulus that has a pathologic condition such that the posterior aspect thereof droops downward abnormally. The annuloplasty ring includes a rounded ring body having an anterior section and a posterior section. The ring body is oriented about a central flow axis that defines an upward direction and a downward direction, the downward direction corresponding to the direction of blood flow through the mitral valve annulus. The posterior section the ring body bows downward out of a plane perpendicular to the central flow axis.
The ring body may bow downward between about 2-15 mm from one end thereof to a lowest point, and desirably bows downward between about 4-8 mm from one end thereof to a lowest point. The bow in the ring body may or may not be centered in the posterior section. Preferably, the ring body is made of a malleable material such that the bow in the ring body may be manually reshaped. Desirably, the ring body is made of a semi-rigid material that will retain its posterior bow in opposition to the stresses that will be imparted by muscles of the heart throughout each beating cycle. The ring body may be substantially planar except in the posterior section, or an anterior section of the ring body may bow upward from one end thereof to a lowest point.
In plan view, as seen along the flow axis, the ring body preferably defines an oval shape with a major axis perpendicular to a minor axis, the minor axis bisecting both the anterior and posterior sections. Further, the bow in the posterior section may begin at symmetric locations across the minor axis that are spaced from the major axis around the ring body by an angle θ of between about 0-45°, more preferably about 30°.
The ring body may further include two upward bows on either side of the downward bow on the posterior section, and wherein downward bow may be between about 2-15 mm. In one embodiment, the ring body comprises a plurality of ring elements concentrically disposed. A polymer strip in between each ring element may be provided. Optionally, the ring elements comprise bands that have a substantially larger height in the flow axis dimension than in the dimension perpendicular to the flow axis. Further, the ring elements may have varying heights so that the ring body is more flexible in the posterior section than around the remainder of the ring body.
Another aspect of the present invention is a method of repairing a mitral heart valve annulus that has a posterior aspect that is depressed downward along the blood flow axis relative to an anterior aspect. The method includes implanting an annuloplasty ring having an anterior section sized to fit the anterior aspect of the annulus and a posterior section sized to the posterior aspect, wherein the ring posterior section bows downward parallel to the central axis relative to the anterior section. The annuloplasty ring may be malleable and the surgeon adjusts the bow in the posterior section manually.
Another aspect of the invention is a method of repairing a mitral heart valve annulus that has a posterior aspect, an anterior aspect, and a blood flow axis. The method includes inspecting the shape of the mitral annulus and selecting a three-dimensional annuloplasty ring based on the shape of the mitral annulus. The selected annuloplasty ring has an anterior section and a posterior section generally arranged around a central axis. The central axis defines an upward direction and a downward direction, wherein the ring posterior section bows downward out of a plane perpendicular to the central axis. The method includes implanting the annuloplasty ring so that the ring posterior section attaches to the posterior aspect of the mitral valve annulus and the posterior section bows in the blood flow direction.
FIGS. 11A-11B are plan and front views of an asymmetric annuloplasty ring of the present invention having a posterior P1 bow.
The attached figures illustrate several exemplary embodiments of the annuloplasty ring of the present invention, which can be described as being continuous and having an anterior side, a posterior side and right and left sides. All of the sides are generally curvilinear with no specific demarcations to indicate abrupt transitions therebetween. Rather, smooth transitional sections between the adjacent sides provide curvilinear connections that give the ring a generally rounded (e.g., oval) configuration.
An exemplary annuloplasty ring 30 of the present invention is shown in FIG. 4 implanted around a mitral annulus MA. As described above, the mitral annulus has an anterior leaflet AL and a posterior leaflet PL. When the ring 30 is implanted, the leaflets are brought closer together and supported so that they meet at a coaptation surface 32. The ring 30 thus corrects the problem of functional mitral regurgitation.
The ring 30 has an oval or somewhat D-shaped configuration with a relatively straight anterior section 34 opposite a curved posterior section 36. A pair of trigone or commissure markers 38 a, 38 b generally delimit the anterior side 34, while a pair of opposed side sections 40 a, 40 b extend between each of these markers and the posterior section 36. A plurality of knotted suture loops 42 are typically used to secure the ring 30 to the mitral annulus MA, although other fasteners such as staples, fibrin glue, or the like may be used.
In the pathological conditions for which the annuloplasty ring 30 is best suited, the posterior aspect of the mitral annulus is depressed relative to the anterior aspect, as is illustrated in FIG. 2. In the view of FIG. 4, the posterior aspect will be depressed into the page relative to the anterior aspect. The annuloplasty ring 30 of the present invention has a shaped posterior section 36 that generally follows the modified shape of the mitral annulus MA. In other words, the posterior section 36 is bowed into the page relative to the anterior section 34. When secured in place with sutures 42, for example, the ring 30 supports the mitral annulus MA in its modified shape, rather than trying to revert the annulus back to the original substantially planar configuration. At the same time, the ring 30 desirably constricts the orifice circumference defined by the annulus so as to bring the anterior leaflet AL and posterior leaflet PL closer together. Because the ring 30 does not pull the posterior aspect of the mitral annulus MA upward from its modified position, high stresses are not set up in the attachment sutures 42 and thus there is less potential for dehiscence.
FIGS. 5 and 6 illustrate the exemplary annuloplasty ring 30 in perspective above a mitral annulus that is depressed on its posterior side. The bow of the ring 30 in its posterior section 36 is seen best in FIG. 6 mimicking the depression of the posterior aspect of the mitral annulus MA in the pathology encountered with functional mitral regurgitation.
The exemplary annuloplasty ring 30 of FIGS. 4-6 is shown in more detail in FIGS. 7A-7C. The ring 30 is shown complete with a fabric covering. For purpose of orientation, FIG. 7A illustrates orthogonal axes wherein the X- and Y-axes generally define the datum plane 20 as mentioned above with respect to FIGS. 1 and 2. The X-axis extends across the ring 30 from one side 40 a to the opposite side 40 b at the point of maximum dimension. The X-axis thus defines a major axis of the ring 30. The Y-axis defines a plane of symmetry for the ring 30 extending between a midpoint of the anterior side 34 to a midpoint of the posterior section 36. The Y-axis also defines a minor axis for the ring 30.
As with many conventional rings, the ratio of the minor axis dimension to the major axis dimension is desirably about 3:4. This size ratio is the “classic” shape of the mitral annulus, and may be the best configuration of the annuloplasty ring 30. However, it is contemplated that other shapes that have smaller minor axis-to-major axis ratios may actually increase leaflet coaptation. Although not geometrically precise, the non-circular ring configuration may be considered oval, elliptical or D-shaped. It should be noted that the present invention could also take the form of a discontinuous ring that has a C-shape, for example. The break in such a ring may be in the anterior section, and the posterior section is continuous and exhibits the downward bow as explained.
The Z-axis in FIG. 7B lies along of the axis of blood flow through the ring 30 when implanted, and it will be understood that the positive Z direction is the “upward” direction, the negative Z direction is the “downward” direction, and the ring 30 is designed to be implanted in a mitral annulus such that blood will flow in the downward direction.
Several points are noted around the ring 30 to help describe the posterior bow. These points, and the ones shown in FIGS. 8A-8B, are imaginary center points through the cross-section of the ring 30. Two points A are symmetrically located on either side of the Y-axis at an angular distance θ from the X-axis. The midpoint of the posterior section 36 is denoted B. The ring 30 has a posterior bow such that the point B is at the lowest elevation along the Z-axis. The magnitude of this posterior bow is indicated by the dimension Z1 in FIG. 7C. The points A on either side of the posterior section 36 represent the location where the posterior bow begins. That is, except for the posterior section, the ring 30 is preferably substantially planar. However, the anterior section 34 can optionally be bowed upward by a distance of between about 2-4 mm (0.08-0.16 inches), as in certain rings of the prior art. In the latter example, the posterior section 36 bows downward in the Z-direction relative to the elevation of the trigone markers 38 a, 38 b.
Various possible configurations for the ring 30 as seen in FIGS. 7A-7C are contemplated, with the dimension Z1 and the angle θ varying between ranges determined by the overall size of the mitral annulus, the extent of anatomical droop of the posterior aspect, and various other factors including surgeon preference. Nevertheless, certain ranges are believed suitable to support and correct a majority of the patients exhibiting the particular anatomical irregularity as described herein. The downward bow or posterior bow preferably extends along a majority of the posterior section 36 between the points A, which points are between 0 and 45° from the X-axis (θ). More preferably, the points A are between 20-40°, and more particularly about 30° from the X-axis. The magnitude of bow Z1 may be between about 2-15 mm (0.08-0.59 inches), and more typically is between about 4-8 mm (0.16-0.31 inches), depending on the size of the ring.
Although the ring 30 is shown in FIGS. 7A-7C as symmetric about the Y-axis, it does not necessarily have to be so. For example, the point B may be displaced from the Y-axis such that the downward bow is not centered in the posterior section 36. An asymmetric ring is shown and described below with reference to FIGS. 9A and 9B.
FIGS. 8A-8C illustrate an alternative annuloplasty ring 50 of the present invention that has both upward and downward bows. Again, the ring 50 is shown complete with a fabric covering. The ring 50 includes an anterior section 52, a posterior section 54, and a pair of side sections (not numbered) therebetween. The ring 50 is generally planar on the anterior section 52 and shaped on the posterior section 54. The points A symmetrically disposed across the Y-axis again denote the locations on each side where the ring 50 begins to curve out of a plane. In this embodiment, the ring curves upward in the Z-direction from the points A, as best seen in FIG. 8B, to high points C, and then dips downward to the midpoint B of the posterior section 54. The downward bow of the ring between points A and B is shown in FIG. 8C as the dimension Z2, which has a magnitude similar to that given for Z1 in FIG. 7C. The upward curve may be selected so as to better match the patient's annulus shape. Furthermore, the anterior section 52 may be upwardly bowed by a distance of between about 2-4 mm (0.08-0.16 inches).
Various permutations of the ring 50 shown in FIGS. 8A-8C are contemplated, with the dimensions being altered based on numerous factors. In an exemplary embodiment, the points A are desirably disposed an angular distance α from the X-axis of between about 0-15°, and more desirably between about 5-10°. The points C of maximum height of the ring 50 are preferably spaced an angular distance β from the X-axis of between about 15-45°, and more preferably between about 25-35°. The lowest point B of the ring 50 may be bowed along the Z-axis as in the embodiment of FIGS. 7A-7C, so that, as indicated FIG. 8C, Z2 is desirably between about 2-15 mm (0.08-0.59 inches), and more typically is between about 4-8 mm (0.16-0.31 inches), depending on the size of the ring. Therefore, the total height of the ring 50 is at least 2 mm, and may be greater than 15 mm.
FIGS. 9A and 9B show an inner ring body 60 for use in an annuloplasty ring of the present invention. The ring body 60 has a posterior bow 62 that is offset from the center of a posterior section 64. In the illustrated embodiment, the bow 62 is offset toward the posterio-medial side (to the right) by about 20% of the entire major axis width of the ring body 60. Another way to state the offset is that, in plan view, the bow 62 is centered at a clock position, with 12:00 being centered in the anterior side. In that sense, the bow 62 is centered between 3:00 and 6:00, and more preferably is centered at about 5:00. The axial bow Z3 is shown and may vary from about 2.0 mm (0.08 inches) to about 4.0 mm (0.16 inches), and more preferably from about 3.0 mm (0.12 inches) to about 3.8 mm (0.15 inches), depending on ring size. In addition, the ring body 60 has an anterior section 66 that is upwardly bowed by a distance of between about 2-4 mm (0.08-0.16 inches).
The inner ring body 60 demonstrates an asymmetric ring that conforms to patients that have a posterior annular bow that is displaced from the midline. It is believed that most patients have such a malformed anatomy resulting from the pathologic conditions described herein. However, posterior bows that are centered or even offset to the left have been observed. Therefore, one configuration of ring that is embodied in the present invention is one that is pre-shaped with a posterior bow in the middle or to the right, and that is malleable so that the bow can be exaggerated or diminished by the surgeon after examination of the precise shape of the patient's annulus. Further, in such a convertible ring the bow can even be displaced, from the right to the left, for example. Although the material of the ring permits manual deformation, it would be stiff enough to withstand further deformation once implanted and subjected to normal physiologic stresses.
The ring preferably includes an inner ring body and an outer sewing sheath that permits the ring body to be sutured into the mitral annulus. The sewing sheath should be sufficiently porous and/or flexible to permit sutures to be passed therethrough. One exemplary construction is to enclose the inner ring body in a tubular sheath of suture-permeable material, such as silicone, which is then covered with a fabric tube, such as polyethyl terapthalate.
As opposed to flexible annuloplasty rings that are designed simply to reduce the circumference of the mitral annulus, the annuloplasty ring of the present invention must be semi-rigid. It must retain its posterior bow in opposition to the stresses that will be imparted by muscles of the heart throughout each beating cycle. For example, the ring body may be made from materials such as Elgiloy (a cobalt-nickel alloy), titanium, or Nitinol (a nickel-titanium alloy).
FIG. 10 illustrates one exemplary construction of the inner body of the annuloplasty rings of the present invention that utilizes multiple flat bands of Elgiloy in a composite structure. Specifically, there are four bands 70 a, 70 b, 70 c, and 70 d from the outside to the inside. The four bands are concentrically disposed in the shape of the ring. Each band is a flat strip of material having a width of between about 1.4-2.0 mm (0.056-0.078 inches). In one embodiment, the bands 70 overlap in the anterior section 72 of the ring body and are fastened together by, for example, spot welding at multiple points. The width of each strip may also be greater in the anterior section 72 than in a posterior section 74, which means that the ring body is more flexible in the posterior section than in any other section. Although not shown, a plurality of strips of protective film is used in between each band 70, and on the outer face of the outer band 70 a. The strips may be a polymer such as Mylar. The strips help reduce rubbing between the bands 70 and also deflect suture needles from the outer band 70 a and thus prevent scratching thereto.
A still further alternative annuloplasty ring 80 is shown in FIGS. 11A-11B with a fabric covering. As before, FIG. 11A illustrates orthogonal axes wherein the X- and Y-axes generally define the datum plane 20 as mentioned above with respect to FIGS. 1 and 2. The X-axis extends across the ring 80 from one side 82 a to the opposite side 82 b at the point of maximum dimension. The X-axis thus defines a major axis of the ring 80. The Y-axis extends between a midpoint of an anterior side 84 to a midpoint of a posterior side 86 and defines a minor axis for the ring 80. The posterior side 86 extends around the lower portion as seen in FIG. 1A between a pair of trigone markers 88 a, 88 b.
The Z-axis in FIG. 11B lies along of the axis of blood flow through the ring 80 when implanted, and it will be understood that the positive Z direction is the “upward” direction, the negative Z direction is the “downward” direction, and the ring 80 is designed to be implanted in a mitral annulus such that blood will flow in the downward direction. An outline of the annuloplasty ring 80 in plan view is superimposed on the elevational view of FIG. 1B for a better understanding of the shape.
As seen in plan view of FIG. 11A, the ring 80 has an asymmetric shape on its posterior side 86. For purposes of illustration, the posterior side 86 may be divided into sections P1, P2, and P3 as shown. The native posterior leaflet is divided into three scallops in sequence starting from the anterolateral trigone and continuing in a counterclockwise direction to the opposite trigone, and the ring sections P1, P2, P3, generally correspond to these scallops. The asymmetry in the ring 80 is manifested by an extended Y-axis dimension in the P2-P3 area, while the P1 area is preferably more conventionally shaped.
Points are noted around the ring 80 to help describe one preferred embodiment of a posterior bow 90. As in the earlier illustrations, these points are imaginary center points through the cross-section of the ring 80. Two points A represent the locations where the posterior bow 90 begins and ends. In the illustrated embodiment, the ring 80 has a posterior bow 90 that is offset toward the P1 section, and bridges the P1-P2 sections. Alternatively, the posterior bow 90 may be located entirely or substantially within the P1 section. Except for the downward bow 90, the ring 80 is preferably substantially planar, although the aforementioned upward curves as in FIGS. 8A-8C on either side of the posterior bow may be included. Also, the anterior section 84 can optionally be bowed upward, such as, for example, by a distance of between about 2-4 mm (0.08-0.16 inches), as in certain rings of the prior art. In the latter example, the posterior section 86 bows downward in the Z-direction relative to the elevation of the trigone markers 88 a, 88 b. The annuloplasty ring 80 is particularly useful for repairing pathologies associated with ischemic cardiomyopathy and anterior infarct.
It will also be readily apparent that supporting the mitral valve annulus with the present annuloplasty ring will maintain the posterior leaflet depressed below the anterior leaflet, and thus the area of coaptation therebetween will be different than in a healthy valve. This is required by the pathology of the ventricle with displacement of the papillary muscles and posterior leaflet. However, those of skill in the art will recognize that this slight realignment of the leaflets is acceptable because of the surplus area of the leaflets available for coaptation, and because the realignment will be offset by other changes to the shape of the annulus that should over time improve coaptation of the two leaflets and therefore decrease regurgitation.
It will also be appreciated by those of skill in the relevant art that various modifications or changes may be made to the examples and embodiments of the invention described in this provisional application, without departing from the intended spirit and scope of the invention. In this regard, the particular embodiments of the invention described herein are to be understood as examples of the broader inventive concept disclosed in this application.
wherein in the posterior section the ring body bows downward out of a plane perpendicular to the central flow axis, and wherein the downward bow is substantially centered in the posterior section and exhibits smooth curvilinear transitions to adjacent ring body sections.
2. The annuloplasty ring of claim 1, wherein, in the posterior section, the ring body bows downward between about 4-8 mm as measured along the flow axis from a point around the ring body at which the downward bow begins to a lowest point of the downward bow.
3. The annuloplasty ring of claim 1, wherein the ring body is made of a malleable material such that the bow in the ring body may be manually reshaped.
4. The annuloplasty ring of claim 1, wherein the ring body is made of a semi-rigid material that will retain its posterior bow in opposition to the stresses that will be imparted by muscles of the heart throughout each beating cycle.
5. The annuloplasty ring of claim 1, wherein in plan view as seen along the flow axis of the ring body generally defines an oval shape with a major axis perpendicular to a minor axis, wherein the minor axis bisects both the anterior and posterior sections, and wherein the bow in the posterior section begins at symmetric locations across the minor axis that are spaced from the major axis around the ring body by an angle θ of between about 0-45°.
6. The annuloplasty ring of claim 1, wherein the ring body further includes two upward bows on either side of the downward bow in the posterior section.
7. The annuloplasty ring of claim 6, wherein the ring body bows downward between about 2-15 mm as measured along the flow axis from a point around the ring body at which either of the upward bows begins to a lowest point of the downward bow.
8. The annuloplasty ring of claim 6, wherein in plan view as seen along the flow axis of the ring body generally defines an oval shape with a major axis perpendicular to a minor axis, wherein the minor axis bisects both the anterior and posterior sections, and wherein the upward bow begins at symmetric locations across the minor axis that are spaced from the major axis around the ring body by an angle α of between about 0-15°.
9. The annuloplasty ring of claim 1, wherein the ring body comprises a plurality of ring elements concentrically disposed.
wherein the ring body further includes two upward bows on either side of the downward bow in the posterior section.
11. The annuloplasty ring of claim 10, wherein the ring body bows downward between about 4-8 mm.
12. The annuloplasty ring of claim 10, wherein, in the posterior section, the ring body bows downward between about 2-15 mm as measured along the flow axis from a point around the ring body at which either of the upward bows begins to a lowest point of the downward bow.
13. The annuloplasty ring of claim 10, wherein the ring body is made of a malleable material such that the bows in the ring body may be manually reshaped.
14. The annuloplasty ring of claim 10, wherein the ring body is made of a semi-rigid material that will retain its posterior bow in opposition to the stresses that will be imparted by muscles of the heart throughout each beating cycle.
15. The annuloplasty ring of claim 10, wherein the ring body comprises a plurality of ring elements concentrically disposed.
16. The annuloplasty ring of claim 10, wherein the downward bow in the ring body is wholly located within the P1 section.
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Looking for a Post-Apocalypse story about a guy who ended up in a slit home in the Carolina's. He met up with another survivor of the flu and taught himself to fly small airplanes to look for others. Thanks.
Sounds a lot like Frank's Post-Apoc World series. Especially the "Preservation and Protection" stories written by radio_guy.
No, but that is on my to read list now. Thank you.
It could be https://storiesonline.net/s/45354/it-started-this-way by Old one eye.
Volentrin has several stories dealing with a world wide plague, I just do not remember if any deal with an airplane. Been too many years since I read them. Then again, maybe it is time to.
I don't remember a lot of the story, just that the guy was one of the lucky few male survivors, lucked into an amazing property, and was learning to fly. He wasn't exactly alone, though, he had an ever-growing harem with him.
Try Super flu by dirty copper.
Checked them all. Still not the one that I was looking for.
We need more imfo to help, what is a slit house.The story I suggested is the only one I can think of learning to fly from scratch,unless it is time travel.
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Keep in mind that chinchillas are not hamsters or gerbils.
and have a pet that you only deal with for one year or so.
because it seems easier than a dog or cat, you will want to reconsider.
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MEDICAL CARE: These little guys require trips to the vet on occasion. Don't bet on having a chinchilla-knowledged vet in your area.
TEETH: Generally chinchillas don't bite out of malice, BUT, they can ruin furniture. The teeth grow like hamsters' or gerbils' teeth, (growth of up to two to three times the length of the animals body per year) and require a lot of care because of this. Bad teeth can and will kill a chinchilla.
SPACE: Do you have sufficient space for a chinchilla cage? Do you have room for him/her to run? A single chin cage should be at least 2 feet long X 2 feet wide. Still, this is a bit on the snug side. If you have a cage this small plan on letting your chin run outside the cage more often.
ODD GROOMING: Ever had a dust bath? Ever been in a room after a dust bath took place? Chinchillas require dust baths on a regular basis to absorb oil from their fur.
FOOD: Currently there is a bit of a debate regarding what to feed chinchillas. Some people argue that Rabbit Pellets are fine for chinchillas. I, and several others, disagree. Chinchillas should be fed Chinchilla Pellets. There are several brands on the market: Purina, Sunseed, Heinold, KayTee, etc. Supplements are necessary too: Vitamin C (vital for tooth maintenance), Calcium (available in Calf Manna or Doe Manna). Another dietary staple is hay, NOT the heavy hay or straw used for livestock, but Timothy Hay (preferable) or Alfalfa Hay (also a good source of Calcium). Try Oxbow Hay Company.
NOCTURNAL!: Chinchillas are nocturnal; this cannot be changed. They bounce, bark, squeal, and rattle cages when you are asleep.
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Great article, and much needed. Thanks for outlining this frame. Trump even gives his book a title that epitomizes strict father mentality, I see.
Interesting. But this all falls apart when one realises that a large percentage of those professing strict morality are themselves morally corrupt.
And, of course, one hears the same argument from the ‘other side’ – ie that “a large percentage of those professing a progressive morality” are morally corrupt in some sense. You hear this from the ‘strict father’ evangelicals a lot, for example. See the section above on ‘Erosion of values’ and ‘moral purity’.
Given that, in both cases, we’re talking of groups/classes containing tens of millions of people, it’d be interesting to see how “a large percentage” could be seen as “morally corrupt”. I wonder how you’d define “morally corrupt”? Do you think that a “large percentage” of the millions of “ordinary people” who voted for Brexit are “morally corrupt”?
If by “corrupt” you simply refer to something you find distasteful, then it’d perhaps make sense. But if you imply something else – ie criminal or objectively ‘evil’ in some way, then it’d make absolutely no sense at all to assert that millions of people with certain views are “morally corrupt”. And it certainly wouldn’t cause all the reasoning in my blog post above to “fall apart”. Quite the contrary.
I don’t actually think it had that much mass appeal in the US. It remains true that 3 million fewer people voted for Trump. It’s also true that Trump had close to a 60% disapproval rating on election day. More people voted for Hillary Clinton than Trump, and I think lots of people that voted for Trump (enough to swing the outcome) did so not because he or his ideas were so appealing to them, but because the alternative was so unappealing to them. The “hard-right alternative” has *too much* mass appeal, sure, but not enough to win on its own.
When people are sick of the status quo and want change, they’re going to get it one way or the other. The status quo in the US for the last eight years has basically been the centrist left. And on so many issues for decades before that the status quo has alternated within a narrow consensus from centrist-left to centrist-right. When people decide that consensus has failed and has no answers going forward, the only place left to go for change is either to the (hard) right or the (hard) left.
Trump offered voters one of those choices. The Democrats declined to do so, instead going with a stay-the-course message, and carried by a messenger with almost equally low approval ratings as Trump.
In my wording, “mass appeal of a specifically hard-right alternative”, I would include the spectrum from raving fascist Trump supporters to those who were just ‘comfortable’ enough with the idea of Trump as president to vote for him. That accounts for a large proportion of the over 60 million Americans who voted for Trump.
The notion of being comfortable enough with Trump and his ideas/views to cast a vote for him to be the most powerful person on earth says something about the voter’s views beyond dissatisfaction with the status quo. That’s what I’m addressing here (as I don’t think it’s addressed anywhere else – at least not in the way I do above).
There’s validity to both perspectives, but the “revolt against the status quo” is the one I already see everywhere, from nearly every commentator I read – even though I don’t think it has any more empirical support (poll, surveys etc) than the values-based-‘appeal’ one – a point I made in a previous post. And of course it’s not either/or – I’m offering a relatively unexplored (but to my mind crucial) interpretation of what’s happening.
And where does one draw the line? How much worse than Trump would a candidate have to be before we stopped saying he or she won because of a revolt against the status quo, leaving it at that, without looking into the question of “mass appeal” (ie among “ordinary”, non-“elite” people) of authoritarian-right/strict-conservative views, etc?
I appreciate your persistence with this, Brian. I suspect it’ll take years for Lakoff’s ideas to permeate with any real understanding into the mainstream. Frankly, nothing creeps me out more than seeing the lefties and rightwingers repeating the same line about “the ordinary people” finally having had enough of establishment elites, as if that explains everything. It’s a simple-minded view that benefited Farage and Trump, who were only too eager to use this line from the start. On both Brexit and Trump, studies show that voting followed people’s values to a greater extend than whether they were hard hit economically. Voting patterns correlated more with views about capital punishment and immigration, for example.
Maybe the left has been repeating Occupy’s “99% vs 1%” meme for so long that it’s in denial over the fact that a large percentage of the “99%” have very, very conservative views, regardless of how well or how badly they are doing in their own lives.
Also, many people take for granted that a lot of Trump’s support resulted from hatred of Hillary Clinton. But this confuses cause and effect – much of the ferocious hatred of Hillary Clinton seems to have originated way back with the “tough guy” right, that whole propaganda campaign to paint her as some unspeakably unamerican feminist witch that’s been going on for over two decades.
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While the discussions about pseudonym use on Google+ continues on, there’s a different front that opened up in mid-August: Science Blogs, which is the home of a huge number of top science blogs, has decided to end psuedonymnous blogging.
I have just been informed that ScienceBlogs will no longer be hosting anonymous or pseudonymous bloggers. In case you are interested, despite extensive communication from many of us as to why we blog under pseudonyms, I have not been given any rationale or reason for this move. Particularly, no rationale or reason that responds to the many valid points raised by the pseudonymous folks.
These things aren’t just theoretical. HIV denier Andrew Maniotis showed up, unannounced, at my work office one day a few years ago. The recently-arrested “David Mabus” showed up at an atheist convention.
I know who DrugMonkey is [in the sense of knowing his pseudonymous persona] and I know that he has to be as responsible for everything he writes under that name as I am responsible for what I write as Maggie Koerth-Baker. The difference is that writing is my profession. It’s not his. Instead, he has to balance the needs of a profession in laboratory science with the needs of a writing hobby.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged blogging, pseudonymity, science on 2011/09/02 by Mary.
That’s too bad about the policy change. I wonder how many bloggers Science Blogs will be losing as those wishing to keep their pseudonyms move to other hosts.
There’s quite a bit of speculation over there that Nat Geo only ever really wanted the domain name, and seems determined to essentially reboot the brand entirely.
Bah. As a former Sb blogger who left after PepsiGate, I hope NatGeo crashes and burns for doing this to friends of mine.
NatGeo might also wish to consider that this is the first time in my life I’ve ever had anything negative to say about NatGeo.
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I have for years tried to follow the concept the we are all responsible for ourselves, that what we create with our minds is ours to do with as we see fit. I believe that we as a people are entitled to real property rights, as a basic human right.
It seems Canadians have lost sight of some fundamental points in allowing our governments to dictate the exact opposite.
It is a time for us to revisit Rand and her thoughts!
I found this article on the net and found it most thought provoking and have decided that I should share it with you.
Ayn Rand is in the news. Over the past year there have been more and more references to her views in the media, and a large number of these have been positive or at least respectful. Sales of her books, though always strong, have increased in pace as well. No doubt, this attention is due to a heightening sense by many that the fundamental changes promised by the Obama administration are turning the United States into a European-style social democracy in which active state intervention in the economy will be more the rule than the exception. Whether this will indeed be the case and whether such a development would be anything more than the inevitable result of over a century’s worth of state intervention (brought about as much by Republicans as Democrats) are matters for debate. But what is clear is that the thought of Ayn Rand is becoming more prominent.
At one level, the increased attention given to Rand’s views seems to be due to how aptly her account of the destruction of capitalism in Atlas Shrugged captures what has been happening in reality. Here we find the description of how government and certain businesses work together to create a political/legal order that favors certain groups at the expense of others, destroys economic growth and enterprise, and makes an ever-increasing number of citizens dependent on government for their livelihoods. In a word, we have a story about how government working with business and labor creates a fascist economic, political, and legal order.
The purpose of government is the protection and implementation of the basic individual rights of life, liberty, and property. These ethical principles define, sanction, and provide the foundation for liberty as the paramount value for the political/legal order. The sole legitimate purpose of the state is the protection of liberty, and if the state pursues any other ends, then it debases its legitimacy.
Individual rights are the linchpin of Rand’s political philosophy, and it is in terms of this concept that she understands capitalism. It provides the ethical ideal by which to measure political orders and economies. The United States has from its inception fallen short of this ideal, but it has more closely approximated it than any other political/legal order. Thus, many Americans have a sense that their country is now explicitly rejecting this ethical ideal for another. So, this is certainly part of the explanation for the resurgence of Rand.
This does not seem to be sufficient, however. The classical liberal tradition is full of references to individual rights and their importance for politics and the economics. One has only to think of the works of Frédéric Bastiat, particularly The Law, to find a view of government’s function and a commitment to laissez faire capitalism that is equivalent to Rand’s. Moreover, Bastiat’s wit and writing style certainly make him as accessible as Rand. So, again, why Rand?
The next part of the answer seems to be this: It is for Rand both right and a right for individuals to live for their own sakes. The moral standard to be followed is for each individual to live as full and as complete a human life as possible. Each individual human being is an end in him- or herself and has no higher moral purpose. One is certainly not merely a means to the ends of others. This is what Rand meant by speaking of the virtue of “selfishness.” Her purpose in using a term that is normally thought of as a vice to describe her fundamental virtue was to indicate just how profound a paradigm shift is needed in order to defend liberty. The right to liberty will not long exist in a culture that sees the pursuit of happiness (and by “happiness” she meant something more like human flourishing than merely pleasure) as either unworthy or simply amoral. Fundamentally, when it comes to culture and the institutions that constitute a social system, homo moralis is what mattered for Rand, not homo economicus.
Rand’s point was not, however, merely a matter of sociology of knowledge. She argued not only that moral knowledge is in fact possible but that such knowledge is found by an understanding of what human beings are—that is, by an appeal to human nature. She thus sought to make a deep and profound philosophical claim about the nature of ethics and to link her advocacy of the ideal of liberty to this claim. Individual rights are natural rights. Indeed, Rand can be understood in most general terms as basing her advocacy of natural rights in natural law, if by the latter one understands “law” as meaning the measure and human nature as providing the measure that is the law. So, what one finds in Rand is (despite her atheism) an echo of an older ethical tradition whose basic note is that human nature grounds the moral order. This echo rings true, in many ways, to Americans who find themselves lost in the seemingly contradictory norms of political correctness and ethical relativism and who increasingly fear a culture (and politics) of nihilism.
Yet the relevance of Rand does not end here, because it is not merely the existence of a moral order that human beings desire, but something even larger—namely, the existence of an order that is open to human reason, achievement, and flourishing. Rand held that reality is intelligible and that there is nothing in principle which prevents human beings from knowing it. Moreover, not only can we know reality, we can also use our knowledge to control nature so as to fulfill our needs and achieve our goals. This world is not a “vale of tears,” but a place in which humans can triumph over poverty, disease, and ignorance. It is a place where human happiness is possible. There may be no other writer who so fully conveys the sense of triumph that is possible for human life. For Rand, Prometheus is unbound. It is in this regard that Rand has a drawing power that may be the most profound of all.
Rand can be viewed as seeking to provide the philosophical foundations for the ideas expressed in this poem.
Despite the power of Rand’s views, they can leave the critical reader in a quandary. I believe the reason for this was expressed well by Professor John Hospers. He once described Rand’s philosophical style as being like the broad brush strokes of a painter but without the tiny strokes that make the painting complete. In other words, Rand’s thought lacks the attention to details, counter-examples, and context that are the hallmarks of the philosopher’s task. As a result, she leaves many lacunae in her views and room for various interpretations of her basic positions. Given the increased interest in Rand’s views, as well as her uncompromising defense of liberty, it might be worthwhile, then, to state some questions about Rand’s philosophy that critical readers might wish to ponder. I will list six sets of questions. It is my hope that these can be used as the basis for discussion.
What is Rand’s justification for individual rights? Does it succeed? What is the function of the concept of rights? Is it rooted in human flourishing? If so, how? Is it a human virtue? Is it a deontological (duty) concept, or is it a different type of ethical norm? Does Rand have a single justification for rights? If Rand does not have an adequate argument, does she suggest paths that might be developed? Or, is there no hope in this regard, and if so, is there any way to justify individual rights?
Is Rand’s account of capitalism accurate? Is it true to the work-a-day reality that people confront? In terms similar to those used by Howard Roark in The Fountainhead, do most people have customers in order to create, or do they create in order to have customers? Does it matter? Does capitalism require a moral backdrop to work, to be understood, to be defended? Are individual rights the only moral concept required? What are the differences between Rand’s vision of capitalism and that of Smith’s, Mises’s, or Hayek’s? Does homo moralis really trump homo economicus?
Does Rand succeed in showing that there is moral knowledge? Does she succeed in showing that human nature is its foundation? Does she provide a way to derive what is valuable from what is and thus avoid the so-called naturalistic fallacy? Is she committed to some version of naturalistic teleology (for example, that life is the ultimate end) and is this defensible? Or, is Rand also committed to the idea that all morality rests on a pre-moral choice to live, and if so, has she really shown that our knowledge of what is can provide guidance as to what we ought to do?
The subtitle of The Virtue of Selfishness is “A New Concept of Egoism.” Does Rand provide a new concept? Is it egoism? In Atlas Shrugged, the standard of moral value is “Man’s Life,” and in The Virtue of Selfishness, it is “man’s survival qua man.” Are these the same? Are all the goods and virtues that are involved in living “qua man” merely instrumental values, or are some valuable in themselves? How are such goods and virtues to be understood? What is the place, if any, for the friendship and charity in Rand’s ethics? Is it really true that what is objectively good and right for one individual cannot as a matter of principle ever conflict with what is objectively good and right for another individual? Does Rand fully appreciate the role of individuality when it comes to making moral determinations, and why is there no discussion of the intellectual virtue of practical wisdom? What is the role, if any, of the contingent and the particular in determining what one ought to do? Is there no place for moral pluralism? Is Rand’s ethical individualism really a form of atomism, or does she have a place for sociality in her account of the moral life? How do Rand’s ethical views compare to those of Aristotle, Aquinas, Hobbes, Smith, Kant, and Nietzsche?
Is the idea of human nature defensible? In general, can one be realistic about the nature of anything, or does one have to be more pragmatic when it comes to how the world is conceptually divided? Is Rand’s account of human nature defensible? Does her account of human volition stand up? Does Rand always maintain a clear distinction between the “concept of X” and “X,” or does she sometimes fall into a rationalism that conflates the tools of human reason with reality?
Is Rand’s view of religion accurate? Is there no place for the transcendent in human life, and is faith in God simply a form of irrationalism? Has natural theology truly been dismissed from the realm of rational discussion? What is the proper object of religious worship? Is there no place for tragedy in a realistic account of the world? Is philosophy as close to reality as Rand seems to think?
As said, I offer these questions as the basis for discussion. I make no pretense that they are exhaustive, but they are the sorts of questions regarding Rand that I have thought about for years. This should be enough to get the ball rolling, so to speak.
Before I close these remarks, I want to note what my colleague, Douglas J. Den Uyl, has observed regarding Rand’s view of the connection between philosophy and reality.
As philosophers have known since antiquity, what moves the world may not map exactly onto the rarified and subtle nuances of thought suitable to philosophical truth. This asymmetry is, for the most part, denied by Rand. But the truth is that it manifests itself either by issuing in a state of persistent pessimism about the world around one, or in a small but deep sense of “tragedy” that the path from philosophic principle to practical action is a long, twisted, and obstacle ridden one with no smoother alternative. I, for one, find the “tragic” path more conducive to the enjoyment of living, but its danger is a pessimism (or equally problematic, an enthusiasm) that comes from trying to obliterate the distance between philosophy and life.
I think that Rand lost sight at times (both in her work and life) of the distance between thought and reality. I think this causes her no end of troubles on certain occasions (for example, when she attempted to provide an account of an “objective” theory of the moral good in “What is Capitalism?” in Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal), but I do not think that it is an overwhelming problem. The answer is to be found in observing the appropriate mean: we are not cut off from reality; happiness is possible. But the road we travel is not easy and nothing is guaranteed. We must always keep in mind the distance between thought and reality if we are to triumph.
Not only do I think these observations are important for individuals in facing the challenges of their lives, but also for all who seek to defend liberty. We live in a most trying time, and we are called upon to discover what is true and defend it with all of our abilities. The truth behind liberty will ultimately prevail, but this may not happen in our lifetimes. Even if we were to succeed in our defense of liberty, nothing would be guaranteed. Our work would need to continue. Such is the human condition. So, if there is any single reason for why Rand’s views should be worthy of the attention they are currently receiving, it is this: philosophical principles matter, and persons and cultures that ignore them do so at their peril. This is the basis for the continued appeal of Atlas Shrugged, for there she pointed out more vividly than anyone else in our time what happens when the right principles are subverted and the wrong ones take their place.
I have over these years worked not only with such philosophers as Hospers and Den Uyl, but also Tibor Machan, Eric Mack, Fred Miller, Aeon Skoble, and many others, and so I think I can say fairly that there has been much philosophical progress in developing, expanding, and improving upon the insights of Rand. Moreover, there has been the creation of the Ayn Rand Society, which has been meeting at the American Philosophical Association for more than twenty years, as well as the Journal of Ayn Rand Studies (edited by Chris Sciabarra), which is devoted to a careful and no holds barred analysis of her thought. Rand’s thought thus is part of the current intellectual scene, and so it is altogether proper to assess her views at this time. I say this not because I see Rand as the ending point for discussion but as a starting point. Finally, it is possible to advance liberty and defend individual rights in a manner different from Rand’s, as the works of Robert Nozick, Loren Lomasky, Jan Narveson, and David Schmidtz attest, and thus there is nothing in this proposed discussion that should be taken to deny the importance of their works.
Two final matters: “My Creed” was written by Dean Alfange, and I would like to thank Will Wilkinson and Cato for this opportunity as well as Douglas Den Uyl, Aeon Skoble, and Roger Bissell for their helpful suggestions.
The Monkeys are Running the Zoo!
Forest Gump is well known for the saying “Stupid id as Stupid does!
Certain members of Bruce County Council and Administration certainly fill this bill!
Let ‘s think for a minute from the perspective Economic Development in the County of Bruce….
Council is telling all small to medium investors, that if you have an innovative idea to develop and invest in, you should go somewhere else to develop it. They do not want you to come to Bruce County, because if you do invest and develop you idea in this county, they will provide funding for your competition to compete with you.
Now I am not saying that the Members of Council will will do this intentionally, but a decision can only be made with good information. Council relies on the information that is provided by Administration. The Administration (Simple serpents) are paid with tax dollars, in most cases overpaid, to have meetings and decide when their next meeting is being held. They are so busy having meetings that they have not time to get their jobs done. When they truly succeed at this they have proven that it take two people to do their job and are allowed to hire consultants to lighten their work load. After a time of this the Politicians are told that it would be cheaper to hire more staff and then the original Simple serpents are promoted to supervisors, who have meeting with their assistants to decide when their next meetings are and the process continues.
The Politicians come up with new ideas that may actually help their communities, the first thing they do is go to their CAO who calls a meeting with the department heads to discuss the new idea. The Department heads call meeting with their departments to dicuss the plan, and they decide that they should have a joint meeting with the all the departments to review the idea. The departments meet and decide they should have a Consultant review the plan and report back with a feasibility study. So the department heads have a meeting to discuss and review the recomendation of the Departmental meeting and decide to take the idea of a Consultant to the Committee as a Whole who vote to approve the idea of the consultant and recommend it to Council. The CAO then puts it on the agenda for the next Council meeting who vote on it and approve the idea of a Consultant.
The CAO then sends tha approval to the Department heads who have a meeting and decided to have a general meeting of staff to review Councils decision and look for input. They then have a department head meeting to review the input of the general staff meeting and decide to appoint a committee to find a consultant and qualify him. The committee has a meeting to review and qualify the Consultant and make a recomendation to implement a plan to review and qualify a consultant, prepare a report to the department heads who in turn have a meeting to discuss the committee’s plan of attack. They then send memos to the staff announcing the plan and have a departmental meeting to approve the plan which gives rise to have a Department head meeting to approve the plan on the recomendation of input from the departments subject to an RFP.
The Committee then prepares an RFP and calls a meeting of the department heads to approve the RFP document, who in turn has a staff meeting for input as to content and form. After several meetings to decide on the the exact content and form they send it to the department heads to have a meeting with the committee to review the final draft which then gets published.
After Publishing the RFP they receive several proposals. The Committee reviews the proposals and calls a meeting of the Departmental heads with a list of recommended proposals (usually done by drawing the names out of a hat) the department heads get a new hat and draw the winning bid and send the recommendation to the committee as a whole who after being informed of the extensive review conducted by staff, who then approve it for recommendation to Council who vote on it approve it and the CAO sends the approval to the department heads who have a meeting to discuss when to have a meeting to speak with and instruct the Consultant.
The Consultant is instructed as to what is wanted, he prepares his report which is reviewed by the Department heads, who review it with their departments who have meeting to make input and recommendations to the department heads who make in conjuction with the consultant a recommendation and presentation to council who votes to accept the report which recommends a RFP to be prepared to proceed with the project.
In the mean time the CAO and the CFO decide this is taking too much time and choose their first cousins uncle’s nephew’s first born male related by marriage or divorce what ever the case may be, (because he is an unemployed drunk) to be hired as project manager.
The Project manager then has a meeting with the department heads to discuss the go forward plan, which includes a general meeting with staff for input and so it goes.
Now the CFO and CAO decide that although hit would be a great idea to give the contract to a local, they should give it to a large Publicly traded company, because then they don’t have to worry about it any more and the locals are to small and under funded any way. So they then call a meeting of the department heads and tell them that they have reviewed the file and recommend that they speak to their departments for comments and do to process an RFP to that end because they are running out of time and could lose their funding. They all have their meeting and recommend that they hire a Consultant to review their decision and the cycle continues.
After all is said and done they recommend to Council to approve their choice or face litigation. They then vote on it approve it and are instructed not to talk about it as they could be sued. The staff then tell anyone who asks that they must file applications under the freedom of information act to get any answers but their request would be refused on the County level and they will have to go to the Province to apply and the moment they do that Staff and departments heads are informed that its is under litigation and can’t be discussed.
Who is lying to who???
Bruce County council awarded the Broadband grant of $1,000,000 to Bell Aliant, to deploy Cellular internet, which they were doing anyway over the local internet companies that deployed internet over the last 10 years when Bell laughed at the county because the The market was to small.
The County of Bruce applied for and achieved approval for funding to service four areas of the County that met this qualification, according to their submission to the Province.
The areas were outlined in general as Sauble Beach Area, Walkerton Area, Colpoy’s Bay area and Red Bay Area.
On January 26, 2009, members of Council along with Administration were advised that in fact that the areas listed were already serviced with a minimum of five service providers and they were urged that going forward, it would be wise to work with existing Service Providers to develop a plan to reutilize existing infrastructure to better service these proposed areas as apposed to wasting tax dollars and reinventing the wheel.
As apposed to a common sense approach, the IT Staff placed adds in the paper advertising that thegovernment was going to fund Broadband and surprise there got responses from the most densely populated areas of the County wanting free internet and used this an indication of a lacking in service. They failed to ask if they had access service available .
My first question is that I ask you consider is : Who is misleading to who?
Is the Province fooling to the People and misusing tax dollars or is the County fooling to the Province in order to get the funding for a project they may not entirely need?
On January 28, 2009, each member of Council and Administration were advised that in respect to the areas recommended for serviceunder the program, showing the capacity of the local service providers.
The only response received was to be advised by Administration that a response to the Request for Expression of Interest should be submitted, failing which there would be no input at all.
Reluctantly a submission was madeby some proponents, so as to keep a place at the table so to speak.
On August 8, 2009 an RFP from the County was sent out directing proponents to direct questions solely to Graham Barrie, IT department head.
On August 10, 2009 each member of Council and Administration andconcerns regarding the local companies once again were submitted.
On September 4, 2009 Mr. Barrie was written a request for a list of County Assets pursuant to Schedule 3 of the RFP.
Mr. Barrie on September 16, 2009, advised the material was forthcoming.
At this point I would like to advise that the proponents did receive the requested material on Saturday, one week before the RFP submissions were due eight months after the Request for interest was published by the county.
Mr. Barrie was unavailable for questions with respect to the RFP albeit all were instructed in the RFP to direct all inquiries to Mr. Barrie.
On September 23, 2009 each member of Council advising of concerns regarding the in availability of Mr. Barrie’s and his absence and requested an extensions for filing as a result of the unavailability Bruce County’sAdministrations key contact, Mr. Barrie. This request was not granted .
Mr. Harris of Administration was contacted to further the request for an extension of time with respect to the RFP and was denied an extension to which each member of Council was written and advised accordingly.
In frustration the proponents contacted the Ministers office in Toronto and advised of the problems associated with obtaining an extension and low and behold the next day an extension was granted.
Subsequent to filing submissions Administration was written to request if there were to be interviews by the committee as allowed by the RFP Schedule on October 9, 2009.
A response on October 9, 2009 advised, that there was no need for interviews.
Now this project was for the distribution of up to one million dollars of Provincial Public money to provide service to areas without service. The RFP required significant detail which in turn required substantial engineering and costing. the largest submission consisted of approximately 650 pages of technical material, but yet no one had any questions.
It should be noted that no qualifications for the consultant were submitted nor any history of the Consultant.
Our research showed that the Consultant possesses no wireless background and no engineering skills related to the wireless industry.
Does this sound like a fair and open process yet??
Was he short staffed and as a result hired a consultant or did he have the staff and the consultant just a waste of money? Was the decision made before or after the consultant was hired? I was under the impression that Council made decisions or amI misinformed?
If the decision was made after careful review then I challenge the review as 650 pages without any questions certainly leaves doubt as to the competence and integrity of the reviewer.
Regardless of the answers, I find it interesting that the IT Department refuses to share any information relating to the RFP, the process or any documents associated with same without an application under the Freedom of Information Act. When queried about the process I was advised that an application would have to be made, which would be refused on the County level and I was free to go to the Province and apply.
What is being hidden? Why is this process shrouded in secrecy?
The incompetence of those handling the RFP, is clearly indicated by the fact that the RFP was sent out to everyone in the industry, while it was made clear that no one could make submissions if they had not file a letter of interest. When challenged the RFP was quickly with drawn and reissued to those parties that submitted a letter of interest.
Further to the point with respect to submissions, I find it interesting that Administration had to contact proponents by phone requesting their address to return the RFP deposit cheques, when in the 650 page submission there are 125 pages showing their address.
How well was the submission reviewed if at all?
The County was asked to delay implementing By Law 4524 by a committee consisting of a Council member Members, members of the Public and individuals involved in the industry review the RFP’s submitted and the procedure followed.
Inconsistencies, if any, and the performance of individuals involved could be reviewed.
On December 3, 2009, the CAO warned Council before it voted on a motion for delay put forward by Mayor Gilbert, that the County could be sued if they delayed.
Council was advised not to coment as litigation was pending.
It looks like a reasonable request to me.
But if it looks like a duck and smells like crap it usually is.
Email Council and tell them what you think! Their email addresses are at the Bruce County Web Page.
I would believe by now that some of you would have had an opportunity to read the article entitled “ Councilor King’s actions no surprise to council” in the Wiarton Echo dated January 5, 2010, and signed by what I will refer to as the “Council six pack”.
Before I comment on the contents of this letter I would like to draw your attention to an unusual occurrence. The day this edition of the Echo “hit the street” was January 5, 2010, the same date as TSBP Councils Committee of the Whole meeting. This meeting commenced at 9:00 a.m. before I had an opportunity to read the Echo article in its entirety. As soon as Mayor Gilbert opened the meeting, Councilor Harron requested a Motion be added to the agenda and dealt with before any other business. On Majority Vote this of course was allowed. Councilor Harron then read from a prepared Motion and the body language from the “six pack” of Council indicated to me they knew the contents of this Motion. This Motion was a “GAG ORDER”, taking away our rights to present anything to the press, that was negative, (in the opinion of the Majority of Council), it stopped us from having the right to report any misconduct on the part of the Council to the Ontario Ombudsman and forbid us to complain to the Ontario Municipal Board. These last two items were added to the Motion by Councilor Dan Kerr. The only discussion was from myself, I asked for a Recorded Vote and I advised the “six pack” that this was a Democracy and was Canada not Cuba and we had freedom of speech. I further advised them I would not be restricted in reporting to the Public what was happening in Open Sessions of Council and in Closed Sessions of Council where I believe the Public should be aware Closed Sessions were being used to cover up wrong doing. A recorded vote was had, with Councilor Wunderlich not in attendance, and the six members of Council who had just signed a letter and had entered it into the Newspaper condemning Mayor Gilbert and myself voted in favour of this Motion. Mayor Gilbert and myself voted against this Motion. I believe the voters should know what has taken place and I intend regardless of the Motion and whatever penalties the MOB attempt to inflict upon me to inform the Public of any procedures that I believe the Voters should be made aware of.
Now I would like to respond to the letter of January 5th, 2010. I do not intend to bore you with challenging the letter line by line however, I am prepared to do that if anyone wishes to contact me at 519-422-0039 or at cfnpa@bmts.com. Although this letter is signed by the “six pack”, I am aware from confidential information and phrasing in the letter that this letter was created by the artistic hand of Councilor Kerr as he allowed his imagination and creative juices to flow.
At the beginning of his letter Councilor Kerr suggests is was undemocratic for Mayor Gilbert and I to return to the Council Chamber to fulfill our duties to the Voters . I suggest to do otherwise would have cost the Ratepayers a burden of debt that could well have ruined the Town. Councilor Kerr also credit’s the Mayor and I with killing the Pipeline Project, however, as many of you will recall after Councilor Kerr handed around his note the group he was with left the Council Chamber and the meeting could not be continued. Approximately one month later Council voted to kill the Pipeline Project, these Councilors included the ones who walked out, that night. We will never know if they just came to their senses of if Public pressure, such as the Political Cartoon, stating, “Yee Gads the Mayor is Back” or comments on the street such as, “Little Bo Peep is leading her sheep”, caused the change of heart. Councilor Kerr claims he does not know where I got my information as to the $84,000,000 cost for the Pipelines and then he goes into some large equation which baffles everyone but Councilor Kerr. I take this opportunity to draw your attention to the Owen Sound Sun Times edition of January 6, 2010. This is the paper with the front page news with the Mayor and her husband, Ernie Farrow, going to Haiti on a Mission Trip, to assist the orphans. Directly below that article is an article by Reporter Scott Dunn, in which he states the cost of the Pipeline and sewer project was estimated at $100,000,000, and he states it has ballooned well beyond the $80,000,000 expectation. So I suggest Councilor Kerr that you take your argument as to the cost of the Pipeline to Scott Dunn Reporter for the Sun Times.
I am pleased to note Councilor Kerr credit’s the Mayor and myself for planning to install a small sewer system in the core of Sauble Beach, however although I would love to take the credit, Councilor Kerr knows very well that this sewer system was voted in and approved by a Majority Vote at Council. What he does fail to say is that Mayor Gilbert is directly responsible for assisting us to receive a Grant of well over $6,000,000 from the Provincial and Federal Governments to assist with the cost. This of course she did before Council took her office away, and has reduced her to working at her kitchen table, at home, (way to go, “six pack”).
Councilor Kerr refers to my expenses in which an error was made, (and he admits it was an error) and I charged by mistake mileage from home to the Town Hall the night I returned home from Toronto. By way of explanation and not excuse my wife makes out my mileage sheets and I sign them. I did not catch the error on mileage nor did the accounting department at the Town Hall. However thank goodness for citizens who do check on us and Mr. Turner found my error. I found it necessary to apologize to Jim both privately and in Public because I did not believe him until he showed me the error. I of course have paid back the monies and I again apologize for my error. Councilor Kerr refers to some other, and I quote, “numerous expense figures that were overstated”, and this information is incorrect, and no other money was received wrongly by me, even though my wife and I were followed and shadowed by a Councilor for over a month attempting I assume to catch me putting in false mileage. I believe Councilor Harron will recall I telephoned her at home to inquire if she knew why this particular Councilor was following me? She replied she did not and in fairness to Councilor Harron I believe that is true.
In regards to Secret Meetings, I believe the huddle in the back corner of the local coffee shop that many of our voters have noticed speaks for itself, and that Councilor Kerr may well be right that meetings such as the signing of the letter in the Echo by all six of the Councilors was probably done in private. Councilor Kerr knows full well that I have never joined them for coffee and discussion except twice when they came and sat at the table my wife and I were already sitting at. There was one occasion when my wife and I were sitting near them that they began to discuss amongst themselves confidential information that had just been discussed in Closed Session. My wife and I moved to another table out of earshot. Councilor Kerr states, that the term “terminated without cause” as it applies to the recent firing of our previous CAO, refers to a legal term and I stand corrected he is right, it really means in layman terms, we could not find a reason to fire you, so we are just letting you go, goodbye and here is a great big hunk of money.
I am not even going to discuss the thousands of dollars this Council paid to selected members of staff and I am not going to discuss the crude way in which Councilor Kerr refers to our outside workers and their union.
Councilor Kerr refers to the “delicious” meals he and certain members of Council served up at breakfast and lunches and he states, who wouldn’t want a delicious meal served by their boss? Well come on Dan we are running a business not a restaurant and this story about them eating breakfast on a fifteen minute work break starting at 8:30 a.m. is ridiculous. It is less than a month ago you yourself questioned the acting CAO about why staff were getting an hour for lunch and only being deducted half and hour for lunch and she advised us they take both their work breaks of fifteen minutes and applied them to their lunch hour, and you argued those work breaks were not intended by staff to extend their lunch hour but were meant to be used to refresh themselves in the middle of the morning and afternoon. Now we can’t have it both ways can we?
I am not even going to comment on your ridiculous attempt to show Mayor Gilbert is a Bully, but I do want to say, that I have sat in Council while you have berated her, embarrassed her, humiliated her, and refused to recognized her as our leader. I can only say I am glad to see an election on the horizon, that will put an end to Mob Rule.
I hesitate to go where I am going next but, I do note at the beginning of the letter you wrote on behalf of all the “six pack” that you accused me of telling a fairytale, so I am going to write about a happening. Until recently I was Council’s representative on the Bruce Peninsula Tourism Committee and as such I sat as a Director. You, Councilor Kerr came to me in late Spring and asked me to support a Motion that the BPTC donate $5,000 to the Fishing Derby. This seemed like a worthwhile project and I agreed to support that. I attended in Tobermory for the next meeting of the BPTC and when your Motion was brought forward I voted in favor of it. Unfortunately the Motion failed, and it lost by a three to two vote. Both myself and a member from Wiarton supported your Motion.
c) I am still waiting for an apology for you dragging my name through the mud, humiliating me at meeting where the public was present, using information that was inaccurate and not checked out by yourself, and lying to me about who supplied you with this information.
Councilor Kerr I have spent over thirty years as a Police Officer a great deal of that time with the rank of Detective, six years as the President of Gardiner Investigations Limited, a Private Investigation firm in Toronto, and five years as a Law Clerk/Investigator with a large Civil Litigation Law Firm also in Toronto. During that time I have conducted hundreds upon hundreds of investigations and interviews and what I have found is a liar is worse than a thief. A thief will only take material things, while a liar will rob you of your reputation and your position in a Community.
Councilor Kerr, I am still waiting for that apology.
Over the years of my careers I have spent a lot of travelling to third world countries.
One of most difficult countries to work in was Haiti. The politics there was and is very difficult as different factions had their own agendas and those agendas did not necessarily reflect the true needs of the locals.
I recall a point where associates and I were attempting to deliver used clothing to the rural areas’, only to have the containers retained in a government warehouse and never ever delivered.
Now today Mayor Gwen Gilbert, you know the lady in Wiarton that according to some, ” can’t get along with anybody” or “only thinks of herself”, is in Haiti delivering services and medical attention to local Haitian orphans.
South Bruce Peninsula Mayor Gwen Gilbert is headed to Haiti for the next couple of weeks to do volunteer work at an orphanage.
Gilbert and her husband Ernie Farrow were to leave today. They are part of a team of 50 members of the Sauble Christian Fellowship Church and friends who will assist the Mission of Hope, an organization that operates a school, church and orphanage and provides medical help to several hundred Haitian orphans. The mission is near the town of Aubry, northwest of the capital, Port au Prince.
“The United Nations soldiers are located down the road from us so we feel pretty safe and also our compound has armed guards 24 hours a day, so we don’t have to worry,” said Gilbert.
The Sauble church group is the first of three teams that will volunteer at the Mission of Hope over the next six weeks. Churches in Kitchener and Niagara Falls are also taking part.
Gilbert expects to accompany medical teams on their visits to neighbouring communities in the mountains near the orphanage.
“They set up little clinics there and people come there or bring their sick children . . . I’m not experienced in that, but I hope to help out in whatever way I’m needed,” she said.
The rest of the time she’ll help at the orphanage, which was home to 26 orphans when the couple went there for the first time two years ago. The number has tripled since then.
“Remember there were a lot of hurricanes right in the area where we were working in the past couple of years and now there are a lot more kids without parents . . . it’s a devastated country. It’s difficult because they have such little hope but that’s why we go to help out and maybe give them hope for the future,” Gilbert said in an interview from her home in Wiarton.
Volunteer work is a Gilbert family tradition. In 1995 she worked on a project that helped 3,000 children and their families who lived at a municipal dump in Guatemala City, Guatemala.
“That was their home. They were families and couldn’t afford to live anywhere else. Even though they live at the dump they still have to pay rent and taxes just for the right to live there,” said Gilbert.
Her daughter volunteered in Costa Rica and Guatemala. One of her sons spent about a year in the Philippines on a mission ship and another son has been to Mexico and England.
Thumbs up to Gwen Gilbert and her significant other for making the world a better place!
Perhaps the Council of South Bruce should take a lesson from the people of Haiti and learn to capitalize on the efforts of Gwen Gilbert as opposed to whining like a bunch of spoiled brats.
Or maybe we should follow the example of Haiti and place armed guards in Council Chambers to force the “Whining Brats” to perform!
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Everyday more and more I realize that it’s not about me. I sometimes ask God to give me more of a global perspective because I get caught up in what I know and I act like that’s absolute reality. The world is not attached to my feet. I’m just a blip on it.
So when I am surprised at things sometimes, I feel like I shouldn’t be. Things and people exist beyond me.
The most recent example is this weekend. I am in Indiana for my cousin’s wedding. These cousins grew up homeschooled, in pentecostal churches, never watching TV. They are the sweetest, kindest hearted, and most innocent people I know.
Our parents are siblings and have lived completely different lives, as have we. We all love Jesus so much and have committed to living our lives for him. But we could not be more different! How did I turn out so worldly? Why do things that shock them do nothing for me? Why have I justified some situations that they are appalled at?
I’m sorry, I don’t feel like this blog is very coherent, but my point is this: I wish I would guard my heart more. I wish I would hold myself to a higher standard of purity. Because I am not pure. I don’t know why I called this blog Pure…ish. It should be called Not Pure. There are good people out there. I am not one of them. Not even 50.1% good.
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+ 106 i. Sarah Jane Speak, born 1828-1829 in Lee Co., VA.
108 iii. Samuel Patton Jr. Speak, born 1832-1833.
Lee, Co., VA; died December 27, 1919.
+ 111 vi. Elizabeth Speak, born Abt 1840 in Lee Co., VA.
112 vii. Margaret Speak. She married Unknown Wyrick.
113 i. George W. Ball, born November 20, 1835.
114 ii. William Ball, born March 23, 1837.
February 19, 1941 in Hockett-Tate Cem. Washington Co, VA.
He married (1) Lizzie Henderson. He married (2) Sally Hockett.
115 i. Mary Farris. She married Bill Helton.
116 ii. William Farris. He married Ellie Hudson.
117 i. Blanch Farris. She married Windem Roberts.
118 ii. Vick Farris. She married Joe Crabtree.
119 iii. Bess Farris. She married Berry Tate.
+ 120 i. John Sanders Farris.
+ 121 ii. Robert Farris.
Caldoria Counts December 25, 1892.
Co, VA; died July 20, 1969.
Co, VA; died February 28, 1990.
Co, VA; died April 25, 1995 in Washington Co, VA.
1971 in Bristol, VA. He married (1) Adeline Quillan.
He married (2) Elizabeth Madison Preston May 19, 1919.
Co, VA; died September 25, 1992.
died February 13, 1986 in Abingdon, VA.
131 i. Myrtle Crosswhite. She married Jerry Kessler.
Rachel Lucinda Helton January 23, 1906.
+ 132 i. Ernest H. Farris, born March 01, 1907.
+ 133 ii. Lizzie Mae Farris, born December 11, 1908.
+ 134 iii. Fred William Farris, born June 19, 1911.
Abt 1841. She married Henry C. Maxwell January 26, 1860.
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I had no idea that visiting a Moroccan shop on one cold day in March, would manifest into me actually visiting the country. It was a random Saturday that babyboo and I were hanging out in D.C. and we came across a Tibet shop. Literally across the way was the Moroccan shop. So we journeyed on over and immersed ourselves in this shop. We found some of the most awesome artifacts that I did not expect to see in there. Morocco is North Africa and many of the inhabitants are Arab. The artifacts that we saw in the store were far from Arabic, they looked more like West African tribal objects. Then I had to remind myself that many inhabitants of parts of Africa these days were invaders and not the true people of the land. I’ll leave it at that.
Let’s fast forward to about May when my cousin Bianca and I began planning for our trip to Abidjan, CÔte d’Ivoire. While looking for flights we noticed that most of them stopped in Morocco before going to Abidjan. Most times layovers are a thorn in my side, but depending on where the layover is, it can be a chance to visit another location for free. We figured if we were going to have a layover, why not make the most of it? So, when we booked our ticket, we originally set up our flight to have a layover in Casablanca, Morocco for 15 hours. Basically a day trip. Eventually, that turned into a more grand idea because as we were researching, we saw more and more things that attracted our eye. It became clear that we wanted to spend more time in Morocco than a day. The original plan was to be in CÔte d’Ivoire for 2 1/2 weeks, so we had the days to spare.
We started creating our itinerary and thinking about the multiple cities that we wanted to visit in Morocco. On the list were Marrakesh, Fez, and Chefchaouen. These were the cities that we found buzzing on social media and in many of the blogs we read.
(in Morocco) a riad is a large traditional house built around a central courtyard, often converted into a hotel. “Riads are generally small, personally run “boutique hotels” or B&B’s with small staff who look after guests personally. They generally have less than 10 rooms. By nature, they are multi-level in design, built around an open courtyard with trees/ plants and a water feature (small pool or fountain, or both) and usually have a rooftop terrace. They are made to offer peace, calm and tranquility amidst the havoc of the city. A real escape.” Not only that but riads are pretty affordable. Our Riad, called DAR TEN was in the heart of the Souks(markets) which can be really noisy. However, it was super peaceful and calm in our space. To REALLY experience Marrakesh, stay at a riad in the medina. Forget about the closed-off hotels.
We really enjoyed our days in Marrakesh. We spent a lot of our time exploring the city and watching the people during their day to day. Sitting near Mosque Koutoubia where you can hang out in the plaza and the square, gave us a glimpse of the culture. I really loved how they would congregate around the mosque. The women and children were out hanging in the Plaza and the men were often times working nearby.
Fez was our stop to get to Chefchaouen. So we were only in Fez overnight. We got there around 11:30 pm, went to our Air BnB, got up the next day to head to Chef, returned back to the Air BnB in Fez that evening, and then flew out to CÔte d’Ivoire the next morning. As you can see, we only saw Fez in the evening and didn’t get to explore at all. I don’t think we missed much though. From what I’ve been told, it is much like Marrakesh.
Listen. I’ve been to many cities but this one right here! To see this blue city was well worth the ride! Chef is the blue pearl of Morocco and a must-see for many travelers. Not only can you capture great photos, but the scenery from the Rif Mountains is breathtaking. All of the homes and shops are blue and give an almost magical feel. Add this blutiful city to your list! Chef was just a day trip from Fez. We took a bus which is like an equivalent to our Greyhound, and the ride was about 4 hours there and 4 hours back. We paid no more than 17 bucks round trip. The best thing to do is book your tickets online prior to leaving the states. The CTM bus fills up pretty fast and you wouldn’t want to miss out.
The centers for shopping are called Souks. The shops are delightful and can make you want to purchase everything. They are always super busy, and can go one of two ways. Either you can have a great experience with them or a terrible experience. These are small vendors that sell a lot of the same items so they are in heavy competition. When they see you coming it can feel that they are being a bit aggressive in trying to get you to their shop. Ladies, kind of prepare for the aggression, but still draw those boundaries so that you don’t feel any pressure. We kind of noticed that the men were a little more aggressive with us than they were with women that were accompanied by men. Once you see something that you are interested in, you can bargain the price. Don’t get overcharged because you are a foreigner. Nonetheless, while it can be slightly stressful, it is a part of the Moroccan experience.
For any further questions, feel free to drop a comment in the “comment section”.
I can’t wait for you to visit Morocco!!!!
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2019-04-25T07:59:55Z
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https://carmelanin.wordpress.com/2018/07/27/carmi-and-bibis-moroccan-experience/
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Blodeuwedd is the Welsh Goddess of spring created from flowers!
Blodeuwedd was punished for her sins by being transformed into the night-bird, the owl, though She kept her name--in Welsh, blodeuwedd, meaning "Flower-face", is a name for the owl.
She represents temporary beauty and the bright blooming that must come full circle through death: She is the promise of autumn visible in spring.
Blodeuwedd was the Flower Maiden, made by men, for a man, in “the image of their own desires, feelings and ideas about what a Lover should be.
Nine buds of plant and tree.
Thank you for your endless support and love! ♥️ Yours truly, Plum!
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https://www.suicidegirls.com/members/plum/blog/3110696/new-set-blodeuwedd-meaning/
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Our client in the Mission District of San Francisco hired us on to redo her 400 sq foot apartment and requested that all materials be reused or custom made from reclaimed wood and hardware. Aaron Kllc of The Happy Collective created this beautiful table out of discarded wood and broken furniture pieces. We found these 2 Hans Wegner dining chairs and pottery at the local flea market.
Wow. We were just featured in Freshome for our makeover of Myke Reill’y Upper Castro Cottage in San Francisco!
Our handmade pillows and sculptures are so universal in theme, they practically SCREAM happiness and enlightenment.
We’re now selling on Etsy!
This cool interlocking coffee table is two tables in one. They can be arranged in any pattern that pleases you! It was inspired by the darker and heavier redwood burl tables from the 20th century. We sculpted it out of FSC certified mahogany. The legs are mid-century inspired steel with cute round feet. We make custom furniture with different kinds of wood. Currently we’re filling out our line of Eames inspired plywood furniture. Stay tuned!
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https://thehappycollectiveblogdotcom.wordpress.com/category/furniture/
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the comic's comic: Interview: Anjelah Johnson is a good Christian girl who got big in comedy by going viral. Now what?
I knew our interview would be running late because you said on Twitter @anjelahjohnson you were out on a hike. How much do you use Twitter for fun and how much to build your fan base as a comedian? "I haven't really thought about that, what's my purpose. I love that I can express myself in the moment...sometimes you drive down the street and see something crazy and want to call somebody, but it's not really worth a phone call. This way you can send an immediate call to everybody. You can get a kick out of it, or not, but nobody was bothered by a phone call with it. I can say, hey, watch me on the Lopez Tonight show. It's fun. It's a really useful tool for what I do."
How old were you when you first thought of comedy as a career? "24, I guess. It was just like five years ago that I started doing comedy. Even in the beginning I didn't think of it as a career. I thought of it as something fun and something I was good at -- oh, wait a minute, this could actually be a career." You began with an improv class, first, right? "I took an improv class at my church. Every Tuesday night they do a creative arts function at the church, acting classes, singing, art, everything...I know I had some friends in the class. I don't even know what prompted me to go in that direction. They had the acting class. I was in that, and then they said we have an improv class, OK, I'll try that."
Only two years into doing stand-up, you had two bits go huge on YouTube. What's your perspective now on the joys and pitfalls of having your routines become so well-known? Do you feel you have to do "Bon Qui Qui" and "Nail Salon" still at every show? "I think it's all a joy, first of all. Now that I have my Comedy Central (special) and people have seen my material...most of the people who come have come because they've seen that material on the Internet. It's like seeing your favorite band and they don't sing that song that you've been playing in your car all the time. The reaction that I get is very rewarding. But I do get exhausted of just the joke itself, and yet, if I retire it and don't do it, people start shouting out at the end of the show. I just have to be grateful now. It's gotten to the point where I do the nail salon bit and people start shouting out "Bon Qui Qui" during the middle of it. I think, do you want me to do all of my bits at the same time? I totally get it, but it's frustrating. I think it'll just come to a point where the bulk of my material is so fresh and new that they're not thinking about the old stuff. They're just, oh, this is great, this is great. I'm definitely not there yet. I definitely take my time and live my life and the stories that I tell are personal to my life. I want to tell them my way and not just spit them out...also a fear of failure. If I say it now, sometimes I'll get afraid if it doesn't get a great response right away and say won't tell it again, but then I'll thnk it's new and I need to work on it. The pressure of writing new material to measure up to 'nail salon' and 'bon qui qui'...you just have to do it. That's definitely a struggle for me."
What was that gig like? "Even in the interviews they're screaming like crazy. I noticed that and knew going in, I had to cut my material in half, because most of the time was going to be taken up by cheering and applause. Just even setting up my joke, cheering for the Raiders, there are no questions being asked in that set because you're just asking for trouble, so I just got straight to the point...but as soon as you're saying Oakland Raiders, you're asking for someone's opinion. They were excited, which is great. Because they were on your side already."
As a devout Christian working in comedy clubs, do you ever feel like you're a "good girl" surrounded by quintessential "bad boys" trying to tempt you to the dark side? "I guess it's wherever my focus is at the time, if I'm just looking to hang out and have fun, it's easier to be tempted by the men that I'm surrounded with. But if I'm thinking of pursuing a serious relationship, then it's less of a temptation, because I know there are those moments that I am tempted. Even if I have the good girl logo on me. I'm definitely not perfect by any means. For me personally, I don't have that with my fans or fan base. I think it's different for a girl going out there. I'm not even thinking of hooking up with a fan after a show. I surround myself with other comedians that I know and trust, they're not going to hit on me, they're a good friend. I love to work with Nate Bargatze. He's a lovely comedian and funny human being, I know he's married and loves his wife. I know there's no temptation in that. It really just depends on how focused I am in the moment."
So many great comics get their start with Comedy Time....Check out Anjelah and others at Comedytime.tv!
She may be a good Christian girl, but she's a hot Christian girl.
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2019-04-23T02:06:17Z
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https://thecomicscomic.typepad.com/thecomicscomic/2010/05/interview-anjelah-johnson-is-a-good-christian-girl-who-got-big-in-comedy-by-going-viral-now-what.html
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Created for all skin types, this vegan moisturizer protects the skin’s barrier and keeps skin hydrated daily by increasing the skin’s ability to retain moisture and stay UVA/UVB-protected in summer and winter.
The causes of premature skin aging in 90% of cases are the sun rays. It takes only 20 minutes to stay in the sun to harm the skin. Under the exposure to UV rays free radicals multiply in the body rapidly, leading to the skin cells damage and consequently accelerating the ageing processes.
VISION vegan Skincare Day cream comes in two options: Summer and Winter. We all know that our skin needs are not the same in summer and in winter. In winter we need more oily products, since we don’t sweat as much and therefore have less moisture on our skin, while the summer heat asks for lighter and softer textures, which do not leave a greasy feeling.
VISION vegan Skincare Day cream is perfect for skin protection against UV radiation. It contains the best active ingredients with the key protective factor SPF30 (Summer) or SPF20 (Winter) against UV rays.
Every morning apply gently with fingertips to carefully cleansed face, neck and décolleté skin. Avoid eye area. Use over VISION Skincare Anti Aging Serum for best results. Discontinue usage if any irritation occurs.
Ingredients (SPF20): Aqua, Helianthus annuus seed oil, Ethylhexyl methoxycinnamate, Glycerin, Butylene glycol cocoate, Homosalate, Butyl methoxydibenzoylmethane, Ethylhexyl triazone, Dimethicone, Glyceryl stearate, Cetyl alcohol, Ethylhexyl methoxycrylene, Saponaria pumila callus culture extract (PhytoCellTec™ nunatak®), Palmitoyl tripeptide-1, Acetyl hexapeptide-8 · Palmitoyl, tetrapeptide-7 (Bio-peptide complex), Nicotiana benthamiana, hexapeptide-40 sh-oligopeptide-1 (EGF), Lecithin, PEG-75 stearate,·Phenoxyethanol, Sodium polyacrylate, Isomalt, Xanthan gum, Steareth-20, Chlorphenesin, Ceteth-20, Parfum, Tocopherol, Squalene, Beta-sitosterol, Butylene glycol, Carbomer, Caprylyl glycol, Polysorbate 20, Phosphate buffered saline, Limonene.
Ingredients (SPF30): Aqua, Ethylhexyl methoxycinnamate, Homosalate, Butyl methoxydibenzoylmethane, Glycerin, Ethylhexyl triazone, Dimethicone, Butylene glycol cocoate, Glyceryl stearate, Cetyl alcohol, Ethylhexyl methoxycrylene, Saponaria pumila callus culture extract (PhytoCellTec™ nunatak®), Lecithin, Acetyl hexapeptide-8, Palmitoyl tripeptide-1, Palmitoyl tetrapeptide-7 (Bio-peptide complex), Nicotiana benthamiana hexapeptide-40 sh-oligopeptide-1 (EGF), Isomalt, PEG-75 stearate, Xanthan gum, Phenoxyethanol, Sodium polyacrylate, Steareth-20, Chlorphenesin, Ceteth-20, Parfum, Butylene glycol, Carbomer, Caprylyl glycol, Polysorbate 20, Phosphate buffered saline, Limonene.
Intensive hydrating vegan anti-ageing cream to not only help reduce eye puffiness and dark circles, but also regenerate skin’s appearance to diminish fine lines and wrinkles.
VISION vegan Skincare Eye Cream is made with Persian silk tree extract combined with Darutoside Ⓡ that has strong anti-inflammatory, anti-ageing properties, as well as tightens skin pores.
Persian silk tree extract improves respiration, ridding the skin of toxic glycogen’s, increasing cellular energy and reducing the formation of pigments, a known source of wrinkles, and dull, sagging skin.
Acting as a barrier, it protects collagen and elastin, reducing the signs of skin fatigue –under eye bags, dark circles, drawn facial features, and a dull complex. It helps to leave the skin looking refreshed and youthful.
Every day apply small amount under eye, smooth gently with fingertips from outer corner to inner corner and from outer corner to hairline, before applying face moisturiser. For best results, use with all other Vision Skincare Anti Aging products. Discontinue usage if any irritation occurs.
Ingredients: Aqua, Helianthus annuus seed oil, Glycerin, Dimethicone, Albizia julibrissin bark extract (Silk tree), Saponaria pumila callus culture extract (PhytoCellTec™ nunatak®), Lecithin, Darutoside, Acetyl hexapeptide-8, Palmitoyl tripeptide-1, Palmitoyl tetrapeptide-7 (Bio-peptide complex), Nicotiana benthamiana hexapeptide-40 sh-oligopeptide-1 (EGF), Glyceryl stearate, Cetyl alcohol, Sodium polyacrylate, PEG-75 stearate, Isomalt, Xanthan gum, Chlorphenesin, Steareth-20, Parfum, Ceteth-20, Tocopherol, Sodium benzoate, Squalene, Betasitosterol, Butylene glycol, Carbomer, Caprylyl glycol, Phenoxyethanol, Polysorbate 20, Phosphate buffered saline.
VISION vegan Skincare powerful serum intensely diminishes visible signs of ageing, bringing new life to your tired stressed skin.
The unique formula with potent IL10 Growth factor has strong anti-inflammatory properties to fight skin imperfection and inflammation. It significantly improves signs of photo-ageing, including lines and wrinkles, enlarged pores, loss of firmness, uneven pigment, dullness, and rough texture.
Every day apply gently with fingertips to carefully cleansed face, neck and bust skin. Avoid eye area. For the best results use with VISION vegan Skincare Anti Aging line moisturizers. Discontinue usage if any irritation occurs.
Ingredients: Aqua, Caprylic/Capric triglyceride, Coco-caprylate, Glycerin, Lauroyl lysine, Saponaria pumila callus culture extract (PhytoCellTec™ nunatak®), Lecithin, Palmitoyl tripeptide-1 (Bio-peptide), Palmitoyl tetrapeptide-7 (Bio-peptide), Nicotiana benthamiana hexapeptide-40 sh-polypeptide-6 (IL10), Acetyl hexapeptide-8 (Bio-peptide), Nicotiana benthamiana hexapeptide-40 sh-oligopeptide-1 (EGF), Xanthan gum, Phenoxyethanol, Sucrose laurate, Isomalt, Chlorphenesin, Parfum, Phospholipids, Tocopherol, Helianthus annuus seed oil, Butylene glycol, Carbomer, Caprylyl glycol, Polysorbate 20, TRIS buffered saline, Phosphate buffered saline, Limonene.
This super luxurious vegan night cream harnesses the hydrating, regenerating, and detoxifying action nourishing and repairing your skin for radiant and velvety smooth look.
During the night, our bodies lose a lot of water, so using a good moisturizer will ensure you that your skin does not get too dehydrated throughout the night.
Vegan Night cream is made with Swiss glacier water obtained from the centuries-old glaciers in Swiss Alps in a height of 3658 m. This water passed the natural purification processes and is full of many useful trace elements. Glacial water is encapsulated in liposomes, which form the spheres of compressed pure H2O.
Water content in different layers of the skin decreases from deeper layers to the surface, from 80% to 13% in the outer layer. Night cream with encapsulated in liposomes water penetrate deeply into the inner layers of the skin and produce a long lasting moisturising effect.
Every evening apply gently with fingertips to carefully cleansed face, neck and décolleté skin. Avoid eye area. Use over VISION Skincare Anti Aging Serum for best results. Discontinue usage if any irritation occurs.
Ingredients: Aqua, Glycerin, Saponaria pumila callus culture extract (PhytoCellTec™ nunatak®), Lecithin, Palmitoyl tripeptide-1 (Bio-peptide), Palmitoyl tetrapeptide-7 (Bio-peptide), Nicotiana benthamiana hexapeptide-40 sh-oligopeptide-1 (EGF), Acetyl hexapeptide-8 (Bio-peptide), Phenoxyethanol, Xanthan gum, Isomalt, Phosphate buffered saline, Chlorphenesin, PEG-40 Hydrogenated castor oil, Chondrus crispus powder, Parfum, Butylene glycol, Citric acid, Carbomer, Caprylyl glycol, Sodium benzoate, Polysorbate 20, CI 42090.
VISION vegan Skincare Face mask is created with encapsulated Vitamin C. Vitamin C is dissolved in water, which decreases its lipid absorption in surface skin layers. Liposomes help Vitamin C to penetrate into the deepest layers of the skin. Liposome encapsulated Vitamin C is twice more efficient protecting the skin from radical damage. It is absorbed into the skin when massaging and does not lose its stability in the process.
Apply twice a week to cleansed skin. Apply an even layer that covers your face, neck and décolleté, avoiding the eye contour area. Massage until capsules of Vitamin C are absorbed and mask will change colour. Leave on for 15 minutes. Then rinse off with warm water. For best results, use with Vision Skincare serum, cream, and eye products. Discontinue usage if any irritation occurs.
Ingredients: Aqua, Helianthus annuus seed oil, Glyceryl stearate, Glycerin, Zea mays starch, Kaolin, Glyceryl stearate citrate, CI 77891, Acetyl hexapeptide-8 (Bio-peptide), Isomalt, Saponaria pumila callus culture extract (PhytoCellTec™ nunatak®), Chondrus crispus extract, Palmitoyl tripeptide-1 (Bio-peptide), Palmitoyl tetrapeptide-7 (Bio-peptide), Nicotiana benthamiana hexapeptide-40 sh-oligopeptide-1 (EGF), Butylene glycol, Lecithin, Magnesium ascorbyl phosphate, Sodium cocoyl glutamate, Phenoxyethanol, Xanthan gum, CI 77492, Chlorphenesin, Acrylate/Ammonium methacrylate copolymer, CI 77491, Isopropyl myristate, Parfum, Cellulose acetate, Triethyl citrate, Propylene glycol stearate, Magnesium stearate, Tocopherol, Sodium citrate, Squalene, Beta-sitosterol, Caprylyl glycol, Carbomer, Polysorbate 20, Phosphate buffered saline.
This is the link Online Shop where you can order the vegan skincare products on your own.
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https://visionbeauty.wordpress.com/despre/1st-best-vision-skincare/
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The revolution will not be televised. The phrase has been paraphrased many times. It has become routine, and almost safe. And it took on new meaning in popular conversation when the Arab spring erupted in Egypt and Tunisia, and the revolution really was on television — as well as You-Tube, Facebook and Twitter.
Gil Scott Heron invented that phrase. It is the title for an angry and sardonic poem, written in the heat of youthful rebellion. Oversimplifying, the poem tells the listener not to look to mainstream sources for the social revolution they seek. It will not be found in the slogans and routines of the existing media structures (the full text of the poem is at the end of this post).
The phrase surfaced again last week upon the news that Scott-Heron passed away. I do not know have anything profound to say about his passing. Yet, I did notice something odd about how the Internet has changed my memory of Gil Scott Heron. That is the basis for this post. Scott-Heron’s passing illustrates it.
To wit, the rise of the Internet has not changed death. Death is still not for the living. The Internet has changed one thing about death, however. It has changed the way the dead are remembered by the living.
Many governments today, especially outside the US, are considering making large subsidies for broadband. Some governments, such as South Korea’s, have already done so, making next-generation broadband widely available.
In the US, debates about subsidizing broadband touch two sets of overlapping issues. One set considers the benefits and costs of an expensive action: building wire-line broadband in low-density areas. A second set considers stretching the frontier for broadband far beyond its present capabilities to enable next-generation Internet applications (typically video).
In the US today, those favoring building ahead of demand are the most dissatisfied, as are those who want to subsidize rural broadband. This column considers the economic origins behind that dissatisfaction.
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The experiment of ultrasonic treatment of roll casting aluminum strip on plane twin-roll cast-roller with double-heads ultrasonic tools was carried out, and the metallographic structure of the roll casting aluminum strip treated by ultrasonic was studied. The results show that ultrasonic treatment can refine the grain of the roll casting aluminum strips and make the structure of the strips more homogeneous. The effect is the best when the power of ultrasonic is 300 W and the incident angle of the guide rod is 45°. The mechanism of acoustic cavitations and acoustic flow on grain refinement was also discussed. The heat effect of intensity ultrasonic was studied. The present problems during ultrasonic roll casting process, such as the imperfect cooling system, the inaccurate calculation of ultrasonic energy, and the shape and position of the guide rod to be improved were pointed out.
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2019-04-19T05:19:19Z
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https://aluminumstrip.wordpress.com/2017/05/04/effects-of-ultrasonic-treatment-on-structure-of-roll-casting-aluminum-strip/
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Crystal Stilts played mind melting psych post-punk fuzz at JB’s in Philly on April 15th. The quintet out of BK is comprised of the talents of Brad Hargett on vocals, JB Townsend on guitar, Kyle Forester on keyboard, Andy Adler on bass, and Keegan Cooke on drums. After great buzz in 2008, the band took a hiatus and returned full force in 2011 with the LP In Love With Oblivion. Taking many cues from 60’s psych rock, Crystal Stilts maintains a fresh edge and tantalizing sound that makes the hair stand up on the back of your neck.
Cloud Nothings is Dylan Baldi, Joe Boyer, TJ Duke, and Jayson Gerycz and was the brainchild of the most former. Originating in Ohio, the group has risen meteorically since it’s humble beginnings in 2009. With three high-quality albums produced since 2010, a best new music citation from Pitchfork this year, and a bevy of catchy singles under their belts, Cloud Nothings shows no sign of slowing down.
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2019-04-21T18:25:09Z
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https://livephillyconcerts.wordpress.com/tag/johnny-brendas/page/2/
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White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett says President Obama has dramatically changed how the U.S. is seen.
Washington (CNN) -- The White House rejected criticism Sunday that President Obama has not delivered on his promise of "change" during his first year in office.
White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett said the president has brought about "enormous change."
"I think what we've seen is a dramatic difference in terms of how the United States is perceived around the world," Jarrett told NBC's "Meet the Press," on the final Sunday before the president's State of the Union address.
Obama's travels have established relationships with world leaders that "lay a foundation for keeping America safe and making us a partner around the world," she added.
Jarrett also credited the president with having "pulled back the economy from the brink of disaster."
"That's an enormous amount of change when you consider where we were a year ago right on the brink," she said. "And he's adding discipline in government to try to get control over our fiscal house. So I think that we've seen enormous change."
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, on the same program, countered that "if you look at the first year of this administration, we haven't made much progress." He complained about the deficit in the president's budget and the health care reform package that Republicans oppose.
But McConnell, R-Kentucky, was also on the defensive about the GOP, which critics have been calling "the party of no."
Asked to characterize the performance of his own party this year, McConnell said, "What we did is try to operate on principle. The president decided to go hard left. That's why he doesn't have many of my members [supporting his agenda]. If he chooses to govern in the middle, he will have broader support."
Jarrett insisted the president never wavered from his promised bipartisan approach.
Discussing his health care initiative, Jarrett said Obama "has sat down with the leadership and members of the Republican Party, both the House and the Senate. In fact, bills in both the House and the Senate contain provisions that were suggested by the Republican Party -- so nothing's changed about the president's approach."
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http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/24/obama.change/index.html
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On any given day, the people you seek to lead may or may not hear, understand, believe, remember, or appreciate what you have to say. Nevertheless, you must speak your truth, and you must speak it often.
On any given day, the people you seek to lead will always notice, observe and remember what you do and how you do it. Never forget that people are always watching you. They are constantly comparing what you do and what you neglect or decline to do with what you say and what you said. That's accountability, and you like accountability.
Finally, on any given day, the people you seek to lead are determining for themselves whether to follow your lead. The decision is theirs and theirs alone. It is not yours. It will rest largely on whether they regard you as a person of noble purpose and integrity, as a person of principle, intellect, competence, high standards, and wisdom, and as a person who has their own best interests in mind and at heart.
So speak up, and speak up often, about what matters most, and then be your own first follower. To show the way, you must first go the way, for leading is all about following first.
© Copyright 2015 Arceil Leadership Ltd. All rights reserved.
Think back to the last time you took the family out for a casual dinner. When it came to dessert, chances are the waiters didn't just bring you a simple printed menu.
More likely, they either described the choices in colorful language or, even more likely, brought a dessert cart to show you (and especially your kids) what you could order.
That wasn't by whim or accident. It was deliberate and carefully planned. By describing or illustrating the selections, the restaurant was expanding your possible options and, in the process, making it much more likely you would order that $9 slice of double-chocolate fudge cake.
The same goes for buying a new car. The salesperson is likely to put you behind the wheel and let you take it for a spin. In a few minutes you will have felt what it would be like to own and drive it.
The late Steve Jobs used to tell anyone who would listen, "You have to show people what's possible."
Jobs, a masterful marketer, knew that, unless they saw what it could do, people would never buy an iPad. It wasn't something they could even think about, because it was unlike anything they had ever used.
Further, he knew you had to talk to people in terms they could understand. It was one thing to tell people an iPod had so-many megabytes. It was something else entirely to tell them they could have 1,000 songs in their pocket.
Leadership is like that. It's a lot about Show and Tell. You have to show people what's possible, and you have to tell them about it in words and phrases they will understand and remember.
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Modest in beauty; Innocent of lifes matter, A lie or promise?
Page Flutter's prompt today is 'daily intention' : Rise with the ambition to try again. or Daily struggle - win each daily battle. Or hubby- Getaway ready; masks on, banks quiet. or Finished work early; straight to pub!
Prompt: Flourish Struggled with this one today. Still thinking of something to better my attempt so far.. Nurture with love; children will thrive.
Page Flutters prompt today is 'brainstorm' : Creativity strikes like lighting - seize it. Or Storms eye: calm amongst external chaos. Or A spark is all that's needed. Which do you prefer?
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Should simplicity be a primary goal of tax reform?
I was at a housewarming party last Saturday and talked to quite a few people I didn't know. One was an economics professor at a regional school. Naturally, economists and tax professors gravitate towards talk about the economy and tax policies, so it isn't surprising that our talk got there fairly quickly. I will add that his views were not too surprising, either: he suggested that corporate inversions and other forms of corporate tax planning and abusive transactions would disappear if only we made the tax code "simpler." Not surprisingly, that is the issue I hear most insistently from many of the economists that I talk to-- especially those who have bought into Milt Friedman's free marketarianism: they suggest that the entire problem of the tax code--or the problem of the unprecedentedly low percentage of GDP we raise from corporate taxes in particular--could be solved if only we made the tax code simpler.
One thing they don't seem to realize is that the neoliberal approach has led to corporations treating their employees as just another number to be crunched for the benefit of the bottom line, their obligation to community and people as just another PR element, and their obligation to pay a fair share of their income to support the many levels of legal stability and benefits that they receive from government --including the benefits from basic research supported by government funding--as just another expense to get rid of in any way possible. If the statutory rate is 35% even though the ACTUAL EFFECTIVE RATE is near zero for 75% of corporations and no higher than 20-26% for many corporations, they will still argue that the statutory rate should be 25%. If it is lowered to 25% (and the effective rate for almost all corporations is near zero with a few paying around 10%), they will argue for a statutory rate of 10%. And so on.
The argument from simplicity is, these days, mostly another example of class warfare being waged on behalf of the wealthy, corporatist elite against ordinary American workers. And Congress today--controlled as it is by a majority in both the Senate and House that is generally much farther right than the nation's people--tends to use the complexity of the tax code exactly in that way--as a flagwaver to fool ordinary Americans into thinking that the corporatist, wealth-favoring tax changes the right wants to enact are "reforms" that will aid economic growth and ordinary Americans.
See, for example, the Joint Economic Committee (JEC)'s hearings today (April 20, 2016) on the topic of tax code complexity (and note the presupposition about complexity and the "taxing" problems in the wording of the title): Is Our Complex Code Too Taxing on the Economy? The title alone tells a lot about the JEC's implicit bias against taxes and against "complexity". But if anyone thinks this was likely to be a useful discussion of complexity, just look at the first three speakers. Only Jared Bernstein comes from a Center that has recognized some of the fairness issues that most of the push for "simplicity" pushes under the rug.
Art Laffer, Mr. RightWing TaxCut Spokesperson personified and the person who has made a reputation (and I bet great wealth) out of arguing that tax cuts pay for themselves after drawing a graph on a dinner napkin and proclaiming it to be a theoretically supportable description of how human behavior responds to tax rates, testifies about "The Economic Burden Caused by Tax Code Complexity (written in 2011 but presented in 2016 anyway--if it's propaganda, ya don't need to update?).
A lot of these numbers about the "cost" of complexity are speculative, one-sided in that they overlook the huge costs of a simple tax code that permits enormous sums to be lost through tax evasion, and based on theoretical assumptions far removed from actual experience to project trillions of economic gain essentially from reducing the tax rates on corporations and the wealthy. Consider one of the "complaints" in the Laffer 'study'--the requirement that businesses file forms reflecting business-to-business payments in excess of $600. It is clear that many small businesses evade taxes by using cash outlays where possible for those kinds of transactions. Reporting has proven to be an efficient way to capture those kinds of tax evasion. The same kinds of complaints are registered, of course, whenever any reporting requirement is created, whether it be an employer withholding and reporting requirement or a business reporting requirement. In a digitalized business world, creating and filing appropriate reports can increasingly be automated and almost costless. Compliance costs without such reporting are much greater because they require people and audit time at the business and at the IRS enforcement end. Those issues are disregarded entirely by Laffer.
Laffer also claims that "the more complex a tax system is, the higher the compliance costs will be." It is not clear that such a statement is empirically true. Note that he claims to be talking about "the tax system." It is worth noting that an entire system may have simple areas and complex areas, and complexity tends to reside in specific areas in which there are highly technical issues that require a complex system of rules to arrive at a reasonable answer or where Congress has acted rather hastily to add 'bolt-ons' to the tax system rather than systematically working through how provisions should work. Could the code benefit from a 1986-style revamping to remove the bolt-ons and re-integrate the system? Yes. Should that revamping be based on a "let's "simplify everything and make the taxes of the rich and powerful even less" philosophy? NO. Our current system is more complicated than it needs to be, but at the same time, not as complicated as it needs to be to prevent many of the tax avoidance schemes that tax planners dream up. Once a system of rules is in place and operative, it is not necessarily true that there will be higher compliance costs, even if there are changes every few years in the specifics of how the system works to address new issues.
Laffer also states as fact that IRS administration costs are higher when the tax code itself is more complex. However, a "simpler" tax code that nonetheless intended to capture a share of the profits to fund government could well result in much higher administration costs, as it would require considerably more agency interpretive rulings and interaction with taxpayers and audit/enforcement actions to prevent sham transactions designed around "simple" language. It makes you wonder, of course, if by "simpler" Laffer doesn't really mean--one that collects less tax, period, by having fewer brackets and lower rates. That sounds simpler to the unknowing and naive, but ask any tax professor and he or shee will tell you that determining the income to which the tax applies is the complex part, not the rates. What that kind of "simplicity" does is disguise from ordinary Americans yet another tax break for the wealthy as a move for a "better" tax system "because" it is "simpler".
Note that Laffer also talks about the "teams of accountants" and others that businesses track and measure taxes, as though they could all be done without if only we had a "simpler" tax system. Fact is, even without taxes, those teams of accountants would be part of the business world, because for most businesses, much of their business information and their tax information goes hand in hand.
So while Laffer claims to want a "fair" tax system, what he means by simple would be a tax system that shifts the burden from rich to poor even more than we already do and that eliminates the critical use of the tax system as one of the few levers that can operate to reduce the gaping inequality that has resulted from decades of tax cuts primarily benefiting the rich. So while I claim that the costs of complexity are mostly problematic if they fall on the poor or near poor, Laffer values the cost to the rich as much higher, because he looks at time used to comply (of course, that will be hired time) and the wealth of the rich to conclude that the burden is greater because their time is more valuable. He complains that the top pay more and pay proportionately more than the bottom, but of course that is exactly what a system designed around ability to pay will do: since the marginal utility of the last dollar is less to a wealthy man, one should tax them proportionately more than one should tax a poor man who perhaps already cannot satisfy the necessities of life using every one of his dollars.
For my earlier analysis of the Laffer Curve, see, e.g.The Laffer Curve Part II (March 2008) and other posts linked therein.
Scott Hodge, the President of the Tax Foundation, a right wing organization that calls itself nonpartisan and wants to be considered a "think tank" (it is a propaganda tank) that drums up an annual piece about "tax freedom day" full of specious arguments to bolster ordinary Americans views that taxes are too high about how long a typical worker works to pay his taxes.
I'm not surprised that he starts his testimony with the increasingly meaningless statement that the Code was 409 thousand words in length in 1955 and now is 2.4 million words in length. OF COURSE the code is longer in 2016 than it was in 1955 when it was still an embryonic text. It took a while for Congress to realize the lengths to which wealthy taxpayers and corporations would go to invent pathways through loopholes in the code to avoid taxes, and then to put the appropriate blockade up.
There is of course the same thing about billions of hours spent complying with tax requirements, coupled with costs estimates claiming this is all "wasted" effort. Think about that. Complying with our tax obligations is actually a privilege of citizenship, and at least a good part of the compliance "burden" is something we should be proud to do as a way to pay our fair share. This constant talk of tax compliance as though it is inherently evil also misses the point that the tax accountants and return preparers and legal advisers (especially of course for the more sophisticated and wealthy taxpayers amongst us) are also people who are earning a living by helping their fellow citizens navigate one of their citizenship duties. This is not "wasted" per se; much of this effort adds to GDP and is a viable part of a complex economy. You wouldn't guess that from reading Hodge.
Hodge also wants to eliminate the phaseouts on some of the tax expenditures that limit their benefit to high income taxpayers (not terribly complicated to do--tax software calculates it automatically) and claims giving rich people that money will result in .1% GDP growth. This is, quite simply, pie in the sky made-up numbers, which any economist can do by tweaking their hypothesis to get the results they want.
Now Hodge is right about one of the individual items he mentions--the Earned Income Tax Credit phases out in a "jerky" way that is especially hard on low income workers. Many Americans in or near poverty don't claim the EITC, and others make errors claiming it. This is the kind of complexity that should be reduced, and it is even possible that a uniform phase-out rate--at a much higher income level than currently used or than recommended by Hodge--would be a good solution to that complexity.
Hodge goes on to claim that we should not eliminate itemized deductions (i.e., they are quite valuable for the upper class), but that we should instead lower every single tax rate by 10%! I heartily disagree. Most people should use and do use the standard deduction--around 70% of taxpayers. The only people who generally take itemized deductions are those with complex real-life economic situations (rental properties, business investments, unusually hefty medical expenses, or significant charitable contributions perhaps) and most of those are from the upper end of the income distribution. Further, the operation of the Alternative Minimum Tax was designed to counter, in part, the ability of affluent taxpayers to amass quite a few itemized deductions (charitable contributions that are in many way quid pro quos for those taxpayers whose name is in bold letters over the building they funded or in the bulletin of the opera they made possible, etc.): the AMT's effectiveness has been undercut by Congressional responsiveness to lobbying from higher income taxpayers but does still act to ensure that those who aren't in the richest group pay a more reasonable share of taxes than otherwise (It theoretically doesn't apply to the wealthiest taxpayers because their regular tax rates should be above the rate for the AMT). For more information on the AMT, see the series I wrote earlier on this blog, at the following post (and the links to earlier Parts therein): What Should Congress Do About the AMT (Part 5). It might be reasonable to say that the standard deduction should be increased to ensure that we are ensuring a sustainable living allowance for lower-income workers (which is the reason the standard deduction and personal exemption are in the code). But we should not reduce "each rate" by 10% and thus provide a significant benefit to wealthier taxpayers. That is most certainly not a reasonable "simplification" solution.
Of course, Hodge argues for elimination of the estate and gift tax, claiming that eliminating estate and gift taxes would raise GDP by 0.8 percent and create 159,000 new jobs while repeating the mantra that the estate tax makes it "harder to pass family businesses and farms to the next generation." This is hogwash, put simply. The estate tax as currently set is a ridiculous subsidy for wealthy families: coupled with the low rate of tax on capital gains and the step-up in basis at death, it allows them to live off the income of their wealth during their lives at low tax rates (zero if the Republicans like Paul Ryan have their way); pass their estate to their heirs with very little tax due (more than 10 million dollar exemption for a couple, and all kinds of planning schemes to get around taxes on the rest); and give their heirs a step up in basis so that they will never pay tax on the appreciation on the estate from the deceased person's lifetime. In other words, these arguments support an almost tax-free existence for the wealthy who already have hogged an unfair share of the gains from workers' productivity. The claims that benefiting the wealthy in this way will result in better economic growth and trickle down to the middle and lower class are, quite simply, unfounded and unsubstantiable. These ideas will simply aggravate the already grievous inequality in this country that has one in four children going to bed hungry at night while do-nothing heirs inherit enormous wealth, privilege and the hubris that goes with it.
Oh, and of course he repeats the statement that "the U.S. has the highest corporate income tax". that is misleading, since while it has a high statutory tax rate, it does NOT college anywhere near that tax rate. three quarters of U.S. corporations pay ZERO tax. Many of the rest pay very little tax. Very few pay a rate of tax that is significantly higher than our industrialized peers. The claim that GDP would be boosted 2.3% by eliminating the corporate tax, or that wages would increase by 1.9% or that 443,000 jobs would be created are pure salesmanship. When workers increase productivity and corporate profits grow, their wages have not grown. That money has gone into the corporate manager/shareholder pockets instead. Any tax cut would likely be viewed as just more gravy for the already rich owners and managers.
I could make similar counter arguments to every one of the "reforms" Hodge promotes: corporate integration is just another tax cut for the mainly upper income distribution elite who are the managers and shareholders of corporations. It makes no sense at all in the current economic context of this country.
Not surprisingly, Hodge pushes the ridiculous consumption tax plans from Republicans like Ben Carson --a regressive "flat" tax that would favor wealth and put the tax burden on workers by exempting taxes on capital gains, dividend and interest (the kinds of income wealthy people live off), Marco Rubio, and Ted Cruz. All of these plans shift the burden of taxation to the middle and lower classes (from capital to labor) while protecting the wealth of wealthy people.
Of course they would have a Joseph Grossbauer, CEO of small business and spokesperson on behalf of the National Federation of Independent Business, to claim the taxing requirements for small businesses of making determinations based on tax rules. Note that he complains at least as much about the frequency of changes to tax provisions--That is not an element of the tax system itself but a result of the way that Congress has grafted on policy that should be handled by spending into the tax system, in part as a way to fool the public about what it is doing, when it enacts one tax expenditure after another in favor of one corporatist interest after another. And while I don't doubt that some of these complaints about complexity are real, I do doubt the time claimed spent complying and the difficulty claimed for regular determinations about depreciation, employee status, and other items. Note, for example, that the reason for the confusion of what "counts" as real property for tax purposes lies with business owners who push for various tax expenditure provisions in their favor, which result in increased categories that must be examined to determine appropriate classification! If business owners and their lobbyists would focus more on doing the right thing and less on wringing the last theoretically (aggressively speaking) possible penny out of their potential tax liabilities, tax time wouldn't be as "taxing" as they claim.
Jared Bernstein, also speaking Jared Bernstein Testimony Meeting the Goals of the Federal Tax System April 20, 2016 , is a more respectable figure represent the nonpartisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, which has tended to be less partisan and more in the center to center. Bernstein notes that the idea that simplicity is a matter of rates or brackets is itself misleading.
"Complexity has nothing to do with the number of tax brackets and rates. If taxable income were easy to define, it wouldn't matter how many rates existed in the code; all taxpayers would have to do is look up their liabilities in a table or online calculator."
"What makes our system so complex are the exemptions, deductions, other tax subsidies, and privileges for one type of income, industry, or activity over another. On the corporate side, these include “transfer pricing” opportunities (the ability to book income in low-tax countries and deductible expenses in high-tax countries), deferral of foreign earnings, inversions, and the many other loopholes that explain why the effective corporate rate is at least 10 percentage points below the top statutory rate (about 25 percent versus 35 percent). To be clear, not all subsidies in the tax code are poorly targeted and inefficient. Research shows the Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit, for example, encourage work and prevent millions of people from falling into or deeper into poverty, and children in families receiving the tax credits do better in school, are likelier to attend college, and can be expected to earn more as adults. But well-targeted, effective subsidies like the EITC and CTC are unfortunately more the exception than the rule."
Needless to say (for anyone who has read much of this blog in the past), I don't agree with the JEC and Laffer/Tax Foundation's simplistic approach to tax reform of pushing for a "simpler" tax system based on fewer brackets, fewer and lower rates, exemptions of income mostly earned by the wealthy, and correspondingly less progressivity.
The taxpayers for whom a simpler tax code does make sense are the poor and the nearly poor. They usually have much less access to sophisticated tools for tracking their income and expenses and while they often have less income and most or all of it is wage compensation from which taxes are withheld, they need easily understandable rules without "gotcha" complexities that they can apply straightforwardly. Note that many of the poor and nearly poor in this country are also "unbanked"--meaning they don't have enough assets to maintain bank accounts or pay the fees on accounts with low balances, and they even have trouble cashing checks when they are paid with checks. They should be taking advantage of various provisions put in the code to help ensure that every American is able to provide for necessities--things like the Earned Income Tax Credit, and various other credits for child care and education expenses, etc. Simplicity counts here, because simpler provisions help to ensure that those in or near poverty are more able to take advantage of all the provisions that have been put in the code for their benefit.
But the people who do not need a simpler tax code are those at the top of the income distribution and, generally speaking, corporations and businesses. Simplicity is one of the ideas flogged by those on the right who want to eliminate corporate taxes (a benefit primarily for shareholders, which consist primarily of the wealthy and wealthier elites), eliminate estate taxes (which would give an even greater windfall to those who inherit through no merit but merely luck of birth and add even more to the worrisome growth of inequality), or legislate a complete exclusion from tax for capital gains (which would give an even greater windfall to those who live off inherited investments or even off investments that started with some personal effort, compared to those who live off the sweat of their brows, while providing the "simplest" returns (zero taxation) to those who need it the least in order to survive and contribute to the economy). The fact is that the wealthy are well able to make their way through the tax code with sophisticated advisers, seeking every loophole those sophisticated advisers can find. The simpler you make the code, the more loopholes you create. The more you cut funding for the IRS and tax enforcement generally, the harder you make it for the government to discover the loopholes or catch those who exploit them on audit. The reason the tax provisions of most concern to big businesses and those with international investments and those with multiple types of investments (CDOs, hedge funds, private equity, partnerships of one kind or another, S Corporations, etc.) are complex is that new, detailed, specific language has to be developed to counter the loophole exploitation by those who apply hyperliteralism and avoid contextual meaning and purpose of the laws in order to have an arguable defense for a tax planning transaction designed to exploit loopholes.
It must cover, in one way or another, all human and enterprise activities that could in any way involve the exchange of valuable goods or money for the benefit or one or more persons.
It must take into account that the more sophisticated, powerful, and monied a taxpayer is the more likely that taxpayer has resources sufficient to game the system by exploiting any verbal loophole and, as evident by historical trends, will be likely to do so if the penalty is sufficiently light and the reward sufficiently great.
It must respond when a loophole is exploited by closing the loophole.
It must do so in a way that permits the voluntary compliance system to function as well as can be given resources available.
It must make fairness--based on a principled view of what that means, such as ability to pay and benefits received--a key linchpin of the way the tax system works. Progressivity and reduction of complexity for the poor and near poor should be high priorities. Transparency and reduction of redistributive subsidies for the rich should be significant attributes of a reformed tax code.
Of course, for years our tax system has also been burdened by the partisan obstructionism that considers it silly to think "Tea Party" or "progressive" might be indicators that a group applying for tax exempt status actually intends to engage in political activity and similar right-wing witch-hunts that affect morale at the Treasury and IRS among employees struggling to handle an ever-expanding job function.
eliminate all of those tax expenditure provisions that have been in the code for decades that provide harmful subsidies to "old" fossil fuel energy (oil, gas and coal) that contribute significantly to global warming.
[T]he extensive set of legal subsidies to individuals or businesses through exemptions, deductions, and other tax subsidies, generally referred to as tax expenditures, cut federal income tax revenue by over $1.2 trillion last year — more than the cost of Social Security or the combined cost of Medicare and Medicaid. Moreover, as shown in the figure below, these tax breaks disproportionately benefit higher-income households, often wastefully subsidizing behavior that would occur anyway.
Senators Baucus and Hatch, the Chair and ranking minority member of the Senate Finance Committee, respectively, launched a bid for completing a Code reform before Baucus leaves office with a letter to Senators telling them that they should get their bids in within the month for any tax expenditures they want to preserve. See Letter from Baucus and Hatch (June 27, 2013).
At first glance, this doesn't sound like a terrible idea. There are, indeed, too many tax breaks in the Code for huge estates, owners of capital, Big Oil, Big Pharma, "Non-Profit" hospitals, and corporate executives' deferred pay. Wiping them away and then thinking through things fresh might be a part of a process for real tax reform that makes sense.
But it isn't clear that this duo can possibly carve a better system this way. They have both already bought into the idea that the US has to "lower rates" to let Big Business be "competitive", an idea that ignores business reality and sets Congress up for a series of lobbying "auctions" (this tax break for that campaign contribution) [hat tip Evelyn Brody ]. They are both therefore part of the avid group of Big Business supporters who want to cut taxes, not raise revenues to deal with infrastructure needs, safety net needs, climate change, and the many other challenges that face a nation that has spent 40 years in the thrall of bankrupt Chicago School market theories that support winner-take-all systems. Both have touted the idea that taxes should be "simpler''--as though having language that two-year-olds could read would be a reasonable way to ensure that the most sophisticated legal minds hired by the wealthiest Americans don't scam the system! Remember that most of the complications in the Code are there to do two things--to provide special tax subsidies lobbied for heavily by Big Business (with a few for ordinary folk) and to prevent sophisticated (rich) taxpayers from ripping off the system as much as possible.
Worse, these two have both already made it clear that the group they really want to hit are those who benefit from Social Security and Medicare expenditures--their goal isn't to make our social safety net sustainable through the centuries, but to cut holes in it so that the money can leak out in tax rate cuts to line the pockets of the wealthy heirs, the overpaid CEOs, and the banksters that caused the worst economic recession since the Great Depression, at great personal cost to millions of ordinary Americans who have lost their jobs, their homes, and their prospects for the future because of it.
Not surprisingly, their letter to fellow Senators starts with their claim that the current Code is "broken" "riddled with exclusions, deductions, and credits", with the result that "[t]he complexity, inefficiency and unfairness of the tax code are acting as a brake on our economy."
Now, there are problems with the Code, that I won't deny. But this litany of evils is just what the lobbyists for the corporate and wealthy ordered--it buys into the attempt by free marketarian/Chicago School economists to paint taxes as evil, as sources of anticompetitiveness, as such dragging anchors on businesses and entrepreneurs that it holds back the economy and "forces" Big Business to offshore its work to cheaper labor elsewhere. And it sets the stage for an outcome that removes anti-abuse provisions and decimates progressivity in favor of the "identity theory" notion of fairness--that you have to have a flat rate that treats everybdoy the same to be fair.
Why is the identity theory of fairness absurd? Because it ignores context. It is like saying an Ant is as big as an Elephant, by ignoring the relativeness of size which is essential to the notion of bigness/smallness. In other words, we can't talk about "fair" without some idea of the scale on which fair is to be measured. And saying that "taxing everybody at the same flat rate" is inherently "fair" (as the right-wing proponents of a flat national sales tax tend to do) misses the point of what fairness is all about!
Then Baucus and Hatch turn to their concept of the "blank slate" and the appeal for senators to name their favorite tax expenditures (ie, their favorite pet interest groups).
We need your ideas and partnership to get tax reform over the finish line. In order to make sure that we end up with a simpler, more efficient and fairer tax code, we believe it is important to start with a "blank slate"—that is, a tax code without all of the special provisions in the form of exclusions, deductions and credits and other preferences that some refer to as "tax expenditures. This blank slate is not, of course, the end product, nor the end of the discussion. Some of the special provisions serve important objectives. Indeed, we both believe that some existing tax expenditures should be preserved in some form. But the tax code is also littered with preferences for special interests. To make sure that we clear out all the unproductive provisions and simplify in tax reform, we plan to operate from an assumption that all special provisions are out unless there is clear evidence that they: (1) help grow the economy, (2) make the tax code fairer, or (3) effectively promote other important policy objectives.
Of course, this "blank slate" approach is a call to arms for all lobbyists, who have already begun aiming their impressive resources at their selected targets. See Politico, Tax Lobbyists Spring Into Action .
But beyond that, note what it says about the provisions--it will keep those that encourage economic growth, increase fairness, or promote other policy objectives. We already know what lobbyists say about all of the provisions that they favor for Big Business and Big Money--that if you don't give favorable tax provisions to all those wonderful (purported) job creators, the economy will crash. And we already know who will use the "make the code fairer" arguments to support their views--it will be the right-wingers who want to eliminate social safety net provisions from the Code. They have lots of money from the Koch brothers and other right-wing wealthy individuals and institutions and lots of paid "scholars" like Cato, and Heritage and all the others to push their views. Tell me--just who is going to lobby for the real concept of fairness in the Code--like (i) getting rid of the preference for capital over labor, (ii) getting rid of tax favorable treatment for any deferred payment or pension plans that are available only to the top managers of firms, (iii) instituting a decent estate tax that begins to eat into the oligarchic dynasties that we've allowed to be created by such limp excuses for estate taxation (including not only much higher rates with more rate brackets, but also elimination of most of the gimmicks using trusts and partnerships and purported discounts; or (iv) creating a much more discriminating rate structure for the income tax that recognizes differences of income in magnitudes as they exist today , with rates for brackets that include half a mil to a mil, a mil to several mil, several mil to 20 mil, 20 mil to 80 mil, 80 mil to 150 mil....and on to the two billion mark? And who is going to make the pitch that we have to raise more revenues in order to meet the needs of the aging baby boomer population as they retire with savings decimated by the Great Recession, homes lost to the lack of banking oversight, and facing significant increases in medical care costs?
It's pretty clear that neither Baucus nor Hatch has any desire to deal with real fairness issues, since that would require INCREASING THE PROGRESSIVITY OF THE CODE. Note what they say to their fellow senators about the task ahead.
The blank slate approach would allow significant deficit reduction or rate reduction, while maintaining the current level of progressivity. The amount of rate reduction would of course depend on how much revenue was reserved for deficit reduction, if any, and from which income groups.
This phraseology reveals perhaps more than they wanted to reveal--first, that they are not even contemplating increasing progressivity, in spite of the past 40 years of reductions in progressive features. And second, they really aren't planning to use elimination of tax expenditures to raise more revenues to make up for the absurd Bush tax cuts that they both helped put into place--note that they say the rate reduction will depend on whether any money is reserved for deficit reduction, providing a pretty strong indicator that there will be no revenues used for government and all the "reforms" would go to another foolish round of tax cuts.
Kitty Richards at ThinkProgress has some similar concerns about this "blank slate" announcement. See Richard, Why we should be wary of 'blank slate' tax reform, ThinkProgress (June 27, 2013). First, using the analysis done for the Simpson-Bowles "zero" plan (which was actually more protective of the lowest income than Baucus-Hatch have declared themselves to be), it would be very difficult to maintain progressivity (much less increase it as I have suggested is required) if base reduction is used to lower rates, since those who benefit most from lowering rates are the taxpayers with the most income.
The Tax Policy Center estimated the effects of the plan and found that it would have disproportionately increased taxes paid by low-income and middle-class families, not even taking into account the expiration of the Bush tax cuts for taxpayers making more than $400,000 per year legislated in last year’s “fiscal cliff” deal. If you compare average federal tax rates under the zero plan and under current law, the zero plan looks even worse – it would actually cut taxes for the top one percent by 10 percent, while more than doubling tax rates for the poor and increasing taxes on the middle class substantially.
Second, she adds, the Baucus-Hatch letter "treats decisions about revenue as an afterthought." Yet revenue-raising is THE PRIMARY REASON WE HAVE TAXES.
Congress should not be engaging in protracted tax reform negotiations that ignore the fundamental problem with our tax code: It does not raise sufficient revenue to fund the operations of government at appropriate levels in a sustainable way.
If Baucus and Hatch are interested in reforming tax expenditures, they should start by scaling back the biggest giveaways to corporations and the rich and devoting that revenue to repealing the sequester, not reducing tax rates for these same corporations and wealthy individuals.
Richards is right on in her critique. We need to recognize the commitments we have to institutions and people, from infrastructure needs like roads and airports to wildfire prevention to climate change action to NIH and other support for basic scientific research on which rests most of the "entrepreneurial" innovations that the self-appointed meritocracy credits itself with. That requires money, and money requires either printing more of it or more taxes. More taxes from the wealthiest corporations and individuals also serves a secondary objective of increasing expanding opportunity and countering, to some small degree, the tendency for most government programs to function as upwards-redistribution paradigms that shift more and more resources to an oligarchic upper crust.
So I cannot think this Baucus-Hatch initiative augers well for the country. I wish Baucus had used his imminent retirement to step back and consider what his legacy could be for a better world, rather than continuing to lie in bed with the lobbyists of the corporate elite. What we need to do first is very simple--get rid of the multiple giveaways to big corporations, revamp the estate tax to make it heftier, and eliminate the many tax expenditures that are mainly for the wealthy (deductions of mortgage interest on second homes, deferred compensation schemes, etc.
The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday on an IRS effort to police the misuse of REITs. See A.D. Pruitt & Amos Sharma, IRS Puts Brakes on Corporate Push to Capture Real-Estate Tax Break, Wall St. J. (June 7-8, 2013), at B1.
A REIT is a "real estate investment trust", a special-status entity created by Congress in sections 856 -859 of the Internal Revenue Code to provide a way for ordinary retail investors to share in a big investment in real estate that would be impossible for them to do individually. REITS avoid the corporate tax so long as they distribute most of their income as dividends to shareholders.
The Journal story notes that private prison operator Corrections Corp of America has already completed conversion to REIT status. Now a flock of corporations operating various businesses that one wouldn't ordinarily think were intended to be covered by the REIT exception to corporate taxation are applying for REIT status--including Iron Mountain Inc. (document storage operator), Lamar Advertising Co. (outdoor billboards), Equinix Inc. (data-center operator), and Penn National Gaming Inc. (casino operator). CBS submitted a letter ruling request for its outdoor advertising division's bid for REIT status and an IPO, a move that would save it $145 million in 2014 taxes (and more in later years), according to Davenport Research, as reported in the Journal.
In addition to the distribution requirement, REITs avoid corporate taxation only if they satisfy a complex set of eligibility requirements, including the following gross income and asset requirements.
The first gross income requirement mandates that at least 95% of a REIT's gross income must come from dividends; interest; real property rents; gains from property sales; income or gain from foreclosure property; abatements and refunds of real property taxes; amounts received as consideration for entering into agreements to make loans secured by mortgages on real property or to purchase or lease real property;gain from disposition of a real estate asset (other than prohibited transactions).
The first asset test requires that at least 75% of the total assets of a REIT be represented by real estate, cash and cash items (including receivables) and government securities.
The second asset test requires that (i) no more than 25% of the assets represent other securities; (ii) no more than 25% of the total assets be represented by securities of taxable REIT subsidiaries; and (iii) except for those taxable REIT subsidiary securities (I) no more than 5% represent securities of any one issuer; (II) the assets do not include more than 10% of the voting power of any one issuer and (III) the assets do not include more than 10% of the value of any one issuer.
A special rule permits "timber REITs" for logging businesses where more than 50% of the assets are used in a timbering business. And there are many more details to the rules than briefly outlined here.
(2) that the real estate (and logging) businesses undoubtedly lobbied hard to get this kind of break for their property businesses--a break that isn't ordinarily available for corporations that run grocery stores or distribution businesses or manufacturing businesses.
Aside: Real estate developers/owners/leasers are--like Big Oil and other natural resource extractive industries--businesses that exploit natural assets. For reasons likely dating back to the very different circumstances at our founding when people tended to think of America as a vast frontier with almost unlimited resources which required incentives to get people to development them (and of course at the same time overlooking the Native Americans who were already there and using those resources quite differently), Congress has historically lavished largesse in the form of tax expenditure subsidies on businesses that exploit land and minerals and other natural assets.
So why would a prison operator like Corrections Corp of America or a casino operator like Penn National Gaming Inc. that have active business income from operating prisons and casinos be eligible for the REIT break if REIT status is supposed to be for landlords that get rent income? It all depends on whether the business can successfully define its income as "lease" income from real estate (with incidental service income) rather than business income from providing services or running businesses(that take place on physical properties owned or leased by the companies). The IRS has actually been rather flexible in its application of the REIT rules to date, considering cell phone towers "real property" for this purpose, etc. As the journal notes, "some analysts argue that some companies are stretching the definition of landlord." But "stretching definitions" is the key to the tax minimization game, and tax lawyers, accounting firms, and others will keep doing it unless Congress or the IRS narrows the definition (or eliminates the issue entirely).
It seems quite appropriate that the IRS has launched a review "to define what type of companies can qualify as real-estate firms" for this purpose. Even more appropriate is the House Ways and Means Committee's review of the wisdom of providing this preferential tax expenditure for any industry, even if they really are landlords. The SEC has already noted that companies that hold lots of interests in real estate mortgage investment conduits (REMICs) might better be treated as mutual funds rather than REITs, for the safety of the financial system. Id. Rethinking REITs could lead to better securities regulation policy and better tax policy. Elimination of this tax subsidy --which amounts to tax favoritism for these real estate companies, casino and prison operators, and outdoor space advertising businesses--would be the fair thing to do.
The latest "golden fleece" award for a corporate subsidy: just another way to "rig the game for 'the haves'"
Back when William Proxmire was a senator and the Senate sometimes actually tried to deal with facts rather than convenient or mythological fictions, Proximre created something he called The Golden Fleece Award to highlight instances of wasteful government spending.
Now, let it be said early on that waste is rather like beauty--its recognition rests in the eye of the beholder. The Tea Party neocons see waste in most funding for science, whereas most intellectuals, academics and others see that as investment in the future--especially exploratory, speculative science testing the fringes of theory--which serves the public good. Similarly, most of the "deficit hawk" crowd see waste in government safety net programs, or programs that might (if the conditions now were to last for 75 years) create a large obligation in the future, but don't see waste in military expenditures or 100 years of subsidies for multinational giants like Big Oil and Big Pharma. Furthermore, the "starve the beast" crowd want to maintain most of the programs that give the plutocracy a powerful edge in the socio-economic world that tax so directly influences, while wanting to eliminate or substantially reduce most of the programs that barely offer some opportunity to the peasants whose productivity is usually the source of the economic gains of the plutocrats.
ASIDE: remember that the deficit hawk crowd overlaps a good deal with the "starve the beast" crowd, which overlaps as well with the "starve the poor" crowd. The deficit hawk crowd thinks deficits are awful when Democratic programs create them (but generally didn't squawk at the upwardly redistributionist tax cut programs of the Bush years, or the constantly creeping upwards military-industrial subsidies, etc.). The "starve the beast" crowd thinks most government programs that serve the public good rather than paving the way for the rich to get richer are bad. And the "starve the poor" crowd condemn all except the most meager social justice and safety net programs on the grounds that they are paternalistic and keep "the 47%" from exercising personal responsibility. Generally speaking, all of the above tend to disfavor downwardly redistributionist programs as "socialism" but favor upwardly redistributionist programs as "investments in the future" or "just plain fair" or "job creating" or traditional (and on and on).
That said, pointing out programs on which considerable money is spent without a showing of likelihood of success at a reasonably beneficial goal is often worthwhile.
The Golden Fleece awards have been carried forward by Taxpayers for Common Sense, a 501(c)(3) organization that protrays itself as a "non-partisan budget watchdog serving as an independent voice for American taxpayers [with a] mission ... to achieve a government that spends taxpayer dollars responsibly and operates within its means." It's goal is to "increase transparency, expose and eliminate wasteful and corrupts subsidies, earmarks, and corporate welfare, and hold decision makers accountable." (from emailed release about the Golden Fleece award).
The yawning gap between rich and poor has been growing since the 1970s and reached a 90-year peak in 2007, just before the financial crisis. The Great Recession narrowed the gap a bit, but now, once again, the richest Americans are vacuuming up what wealth is out there, a trend that Mr. [Emmanuel Saez, UC Berkeley economist] expects to continue.
Skewing income toward the upper, upper class hurts our economy because the rich tend to sit on their money--unlike lower-and middle-income people. ... .[M]ore fundamentally, it cuts against everything our country and my party stand for. government's role shouldn't be to rig the game in favor of 'the haves' but to make sure 'the have-nots' are given a fair shot.
So the Golden Fleece target is worth considering. They picked "Department of Energy for Federal Spending on Small MOdular Reactors." This is the nuclear-reactor-in-every-basement idea, for which another half billion dollars (in addition to $100 million already provided) in corporate welfare is planned. The corporations, not the federal government, will own the R&D and licensing rights. The government is, in other words, getting fleeced.
The federal government is in the process of wasting more than half a billion dollars to pay large, profitable companies for what should be their own expenses for research & development (R&D) and licensing related to “small modular reactors” (SMRs), which would be about a third of the size or less of today’s large nuclear reactors.
This kind of tax expenditure subsidy for major corporations is just another example of corporatism in action in today's economy, often as part of a tax code that is rigged to favor the rich, from the preferential treatment of capital gains to the preferential treatment of fund managers' "carried interest" compensation income; from the subsidies provided for hugely profitable industries like oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, IT and real estate, to the subsidies provided to the rich through charitable contribution deductions for amounts they never invested. It is a part of the growth of plutocracy and inequality, as big corporations, their managers and owners garner most of the productivity gains and use their lobbying prowess to ensure that they also garner incredible amounts of unnecessary financial support from the federal government through direct subsidies (Agribusiness payments to corporate farmers) or tax expenditure subsidies (percentage depletion allowance and "domestic manufacturing deduction" and R&D credit and active financing exception and the allowance of offshore captive reinsurance companies, etc.). All this amounts to redistribution upwards to the wealthy and the multinational corporations that they mostly own--amounts funded by ordinary taxpayers.
More on the Threat to Social Security and Medicare from the so-called "Fiscal Cliff"
In several posts recently I have discussed the harmful demands the right is engaging in related to the so-called "fiscal cliff" created by the original Bush tax cuts (set to sunset en masse), the artificial debt ceiling (used by the GOP to exact promises of spending cuts during a recession along with extension of unneeded tax cuts for the rich), and the ill-conceived notion that the U.S. military should continue to be funded at dangerously high levels that (i) ensure that the military-industrial complex will find a war or quasi-war in which to engage their newest toys while (ii) sucking resources from public infrastructure projects and education that are vitally needed to sustain our economy. See, e.g., The GOP's extortion demands: cut Social Security or we'll shoot; If the Dems got backbone; Is it a fiscal cliff or merely a bump in the road; We face an 'austerity crisis' not a 'fiscal cliff.
At least the national media and a slew of bloggers are beginning to provide some background information to ordinary Americans on just what is driving the national discussion of "fiscal cliffs" and "austerity" demands. See, e.g., Richard Rubin & Heidi Przybyla, Tax Pledges Confound Math as Obama Seeks Deal with Republicans, Bloomberg.com (Nov. 16, 2012) (noting that "The $607 billion fiscal cliff is the combination of tax increases and spending cuts that will take effect in January if Congress doesn’t act" and characterizing the positions of the parties as follows: "Republicans want to extend expiring tax cuts for all income levels and are demanding an overhaul in 2013 of entitlement programs and the tax code" while "Obama wants $1.6 trillion in higher taxes for top earners over the next decade, achieved through a combination of limits on breaks and higher tax rates on ordinary income, capital gains, dividends and estates"); Jackie Calmes, Demystifying the Fiscal Impasse that is Vexing Washington, New York Times (Nov. 16, 2012), at A19 (the online article is dated Nov. 15).
An emergency unemployment-compensation program is expiring, which would save $26 billion but end payments to millions of Americans who remain jobless and have exhausted state tax benefits.
It is surely accurate that our still-weak economy would do better if we do not hit it too hard with decreases in government spending--especially decreases to government spending that supports the most vulnerable amongst us who need unemployment support in order to provide the basic necessities. Similarly, it is surely true that some of the Bush tax cuts and the Obama payroll tax reduction are still vitally important to those in the lower 60% or so of the income distribution because of the slow growth in the economy. We will want to find some resolution to the situation that accommodates the need to avoid a harmful austerity approach.
So the Times' explanation of the components of the so-called "fiscal cliff" is okay. And it is reasonable in noting that the situation is currently "vexing" to Washington. Similarly, the Bloomberg article succinctly characterizes the clear poles of the Democratic and Republican positions--a Democratic insistence on higher taxes paid by the rich, and a Republican insistence on so-called "tax reform" and spending cuts, aimed in particular at the earned benefit and safety net programs of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
B. A Grand Bargain or a Devil's Bargain--How the Heck Did Social Security Even Get In the Picture?
Where the Times article fails is in its discussion of the "reasons" for excessive worry about the "fiscal cliff" (if one can really call the GOP recalcitrance to immediately pass an extension of at least a good portion of the Bush tax cuts for individual taxpayers in the true middle class any form of reason).
The Times article asserts that the "main disagreement" between Dems and Republicans is merely the question of extending the Bush tax rates for the top 2 percent of taxpayers. That is a considerable understatement, one that results in part from the way the media reduces complex issues to easily retained soundbites, in that it ignores the considerable disagreement about whether and to what extent there should be any changes at all to the various earned benefit programs.
The article author appears to operate on an unstated assumption that because President Obama seemed ready to trade off changes in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid benefits for higher taxes on the very richest of the rich in August of 2011, he will still enter into such a "Grand Bargain" to avoid the so-called "fiscal cliff." Progressives hope, at least, that Obama will not fall prey to those same conclusions: Obama is now in a position of considerable leverage, and he must recognize that he cannot allow the Democrats to be extorted into a Devil's Bargain to reduce Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare benefits in exchange for the pittance of slightly higher taxes on the upper crust.
The article goes even further astray at the end with its label of a "two-part deal" as the "best-case outcome". It claims that "[m]any budget experts and economists are hoping for a two-part deal. The first part would extend many of the tax cuts and repeal the automatic spending cuts to avert the changes scheduled after Jan. 1. But it would be contingent on the second part: a framework for reducing projected long-term deficits by overhauling both the tax code--to raise revenues--and entitlement programs--chiefly Medicare and Medicaid, whose rising costs in an aging population are unsustainable." Id.
Of course, here the "many" is simply put out there without any context, so one can't challenge the statement as accurate or inaccurate. The right-wing has a stable of market fundamentalist economists who want to see earned benefit programs reduced, and there are certainly the Blue-Dog Dems and a number of others (like the Bowles Simpson group) who go along with that with little questioning of the ultimate negative impact on quality of life and decency of those determinations. Overall, there is considerable parroting of the right-wing rhetoric that suggests that these vitally important programs have to be overhauled, rather than recognizing that it is the factors that lead to ever-increasing costs for medical care in the United States that must be addressed. And it mistakenly suggests that there is a consensus in that regard. This is a perfect example of the way today's journalists buy into the rhetoric that is promoted (at great expense) without questioning the fundamental presuppositions underlying it. In fact, the sequester deal did not touch Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid because there was no consensus that these programs should be reduced. And the election results demonstrate that there is no consensus now that these program benefits must be reduced, though there is likely a consensus that health care costs in this country are increasing well beyond what is reasonable. It is absolutely critical that the distinction be made.
So let's take these issues into consideration here.
C. Thinking about the two key components of the so-called "fiscal cliff"--tax cuts and spending cuts.
The right has, not unexpectedly, argued that not extending all of the tax cuts--including those that amount to significant dollars for the wealthiest upper crust--will create a dire situation since, the right argues, the wealthy are the "job creators". There is no empirical evidence supporting the idea that tax cuts for the upper crust do anything to create jobs: most jobs are created by small businesses, and those with incomes above $250,000 make up only about 3% of small businesses.
Others argue that the uncertainty of letting the Bush tax cuts expire on December 31 is itself a dire blow to the economy. But in the same breath, the media and most members of the Democratic and Republican parties acknowledge that they do not disagree on the need to extend the tax cuts for the middle income group at this time--the Democrats because they recognize that the tax cuts are still needed at a time of continuing slow growth out of the Great Recession caused by the profligate regulatory and tax policies of the Bush years, and the GOP because they recognize that they have no opportunity for an electoral majority if they continue to ignore the middle class.
Thus, savvy political advisers note that allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire and then enacting judiciously selected tax cuts targeted at the middle class (perhaps similar to the Bush tax cuts for the lower income groups or perhaps more carefully selected and without the many corporate tax giveaways) are fairly sure things, so that the arguments from uncertainty reduce to the same-old right-wing scare tactics.
Some conclude that neither side wants the sequester, with its domestic spending cuts and military cost-cutting, to go into place. This, too, may be incorrect and overly simplistic.
Many progressives recognized that we have a substantial imbalance in spending, in which we neglect public infrastructure (roads, bridges, public transportation especially rail and inter-and intra-city rail) and human capital development (funding for public education and for basic research) while pushing money at the military-industrial complex. The latter step merely encourages the military to find ways to use the military investment it makes--i.e., more money essentially fosters war-mongering simply by providing plenty of the tools to carry it out through exorbitant expenditures on the military. Letting the sequester take place is probably the only way that our dysfunctional Congress--with far-right-wing/Tea Party dominance in the House and the minority-control rule through the filibuster in the Senate--will be able to undo the disastrous emphasis on military spending above everything else that began with Reaganomics.
Accordingly, a better course might be to let the sequester take hold, too, and then selectively undo cuts that jeopardize sound government--such as cuts to research, centers for disease control, public transportation, public infrastructure, education, and funding of public pension obligations. Surely the right recognizes that Americans are not happy when lax regulation results in deaths from medical care because Congress was lobbied out of regulating compounding pharmacies or deaths from bridge collapse because Congress refused to spend sufficiently on upgrading our antique transportation infrastructure or continually falling behind in research on Alzheimers and cancer and the many other modern afflictions because Congress has been so stingy with federal funds supporting basic research at our research universities.
OF course, we know from the election that today's GOP sees no problem with cuts to various domestic programs that the Dems (and many ordinary Americans) hold dear--the right's admitted goal since Reagan has been to reduce the size of government, on the ill-founded belief in market fundamentalism that private markets can do everything better.
But we have years of evidence that disproves that belief, and progressives must start publicizing the absurdity of the right's claims about market fundamentalism and the right's denials about basic scientific theory. Climate change is real, and investments will be required to protect our great cities. Social Security is not bankrupt, and there is no reason that it cannot continue for years (even indefinitely) without reducing benefits. Markets like medical care simply don't work without governmental intervention because Big Pharma, Big Insurance, and Big Med (especially for-profit hospitals, nursing homes but also too highly compensated doctors combined with too lowly compensated aides and other assistants) exercise near-monolithic control of access and pricing, rendering the health care "market" dysfunctional, and government intervention will be required to create health-care delivery systems that serve the people.
The following provides some of the factual evidence for the importance of government intervention in the medical care market--European and Canadian health care, which are generally forms of government single-payer or single-payer/single-provider care, and Medicare, which is a form of government single-payer care, are both considerably less costly and substantially more universal in coverage than the standard, private market U.S. medical care model. See, e.g., the OECD's comparative statistics on medical care provision in the US compared to OECD countries and Canada, available here (see statistical spreadsheet here).
The U.S. medical care market's high costs are attributable to a variety of factors, but perhaps the most significant is the potential for "rent" profits to Big Med, Big Pharm, and Big Insurance.
Note that the right's "reaganomics" rhetoric has been that we have to reduce the size of government by cutting government costs specifically for the social justice programs that serve a majority of our citizens, particularly in their old age. The right's most important priority for reductions in government services, that is, are reductions to the earned benefit programs that it calls "entitlements" (a term that it does not extend to the various tax expenditures that provide all kinds of gravy for the upper crust and multinational corporations like Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Banks, etc.). The right wants to reduce the deficit on the hides of the poor, the elderly and those who have little besides Social Security and Medicare for retirement (because of their reasonable reliance on their availability to buffer the viscisitudes of private markets in their old age). So the right proposes either privatizing ("voucherizing" Medicare; "optionalizing" Social Security) or shifting programs to the States (where reductions in Medicaid funding for the poor can be hidden more easily) and/or reducing benefits by increasing the age for eligibility and decreasing potential payments. In other words, the right treats a problem caused by the unduly high costs of a wacky, quasi-monopolistic, market-based medical care system as best solved not by bringing the costs down the way every other civilized peer nation has done, but instead by preventing the majority of Americans from having access to decent medical care if they are poor or old and dying or physically handicapped or otherwise unable to afford private insurance.
After all, as Robert Reich argues, the "fiscal cliff" and "looming budget deficits" aren't the worst of our problems.
The central problem of our economy is widening inequality. It's reducing the purchasing power of the vast middle class on which job growth depends, and turning the economy into a speculative casino for multimillionaires and billionaires. It's also undermining our ability to turn the economy around, as those millionaires and billionaires subsidize politicians who refuse to raise taxes on the wealthy and seek to cut spending critical to the middle class and the poor. Robert Reich, Stop income inequality!, Salon.com (Nov. 15, 2012) (formatting changed).
The more I think about this, the more I am convinced that, as Kenneth Thomas says, Democrats Should Just Sit Back and Ride Over the Fiscal Cliff (in a post at Middle Class Political Economist, republished on BusinessInsider.com, here).
[The fiscal cliff] is the combination of spending cuts and tax increases set to take place on January 1 based on several different laws. Estimates of the consequences run as high as $800 billion next year, or 5.2% of the country's $15.29 trillion gross domestic product in 2011. Yes, that would mean a recession, with obvious consequences for the middle class. But this is only true if we did nothing after January 1, and that's not going to happen. Id.
The Congressional Research Service recently released a report by Jane Gravelle and Tom Hungerford on The Challenge of Individual Income Tax Reform: An Economic Analysis of Tax Base Broadening (Mar. 12, 2012). Tax Base Broadening is the proposal often put forward by those who say we can and should lower rates across the board (also reducing progressivity by limiting the number of rate brackets to two or three) and pay for it by removing some of the tax expenditures and subsidies in the tax system, such as the home mortgage loan interest deduction or certain health benefit provisions.
IHere's an excerpt from the summary of the report.
the administrative burdens on taxpayers and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Lastly, many tax expenditures are popular among taxpayers and voters. Each one of these issues presents challenges to broadening the tax base, which could be difficult to overcome.
[T]ax expenditures are divided into seven major categories: saving, business investment, consumption, owner-occupied housing (which is a combination of an investment choice and a consumption choice), labor supply, government programs (which in many cases would have no behavioral effects but are simply income transfers), and a category termed structural (which provides benefits based on family circumstances rather than affecting behavior).
two percentage point reduction for each bracket).
The conclusion of the report seems realistic given the current dysfunctionality of Congress--it would be highly unlikely that core reforms could be made to raise sufficient revenues to support a large rate reduction, though some elimination of problematic tax expenditures would be a good move towards reducing our structural budget deficits. Let's eliminate the long-term subsidies for the extractive industries that have given subsidized profits for oil and gas barons and get rid of other provisions that haven't served the purpose claimed for them, like the research & experimentation credit (any business can deduct real research expenses; the credit is just a way to cut corporate taxes for heavily lobbying industries like Big Pharma, IT and others). But let's acknowledge that the current right-wing fad idea to reduce tax rates even more and pretend to pay for it with uny base broadening isn't going to work.
I find base broadening proposals for tax policy reform amiss for three other important reasons.
First, we already collect less tax as a percent of GDP than historically; thus,we need to raise more tax revenue rather than maintain revenue neutrality with the current too-low tax system, especially by increasing the take from corporate taxes (the 'tax shelter problem') and by reducing the ability of service partners to game the system (the 'carried interest' problem).
Second, most ideas for base broadening and rate lowering end up resulting in more rate lowering than base broadening, because the lobbyists get to work immediately on reinstating the provisions that have been eliminated to broaden the base while simultaneously arguing that letting the rates go back up would be a growth-killing tax increase. Accordingly, base broadening won't work unless there is a firm will to maintain a broader base and take the political flack that the lobbyists will release. This Congress isn't anywhere near having that kind of will, and if it does, it is more likely to reduce important social programs (Medicare, health care, education, etc.) and leave the notoriously inefficient subsidies for oil and gas, Big Pharma and other lobby-hard favorites in place.
Third, much of the assumptions about tax efficiency are questionable--we actually understand the interactive effects of the tax system very poorly, and don't know when a tax change will affect a person's decisions to work, not work, spend, not spend, or otherwise respond to the tax change. So it is more likely that ideology will drive the decisions, rather than an unbiased approach founded on reasonable research to determine which provisions really work to do what they were claimed to be enacted to accomplish. And given the current lopsided representation of right-wingers in Congress (compared to the population at large), that means that right-wing rhetoric rather than considered policy determinations will likely drive any "base broadening" tax reform that does take place.
Fourth, many of those who argue for base broadening may be planning to use this as one more way to reduce or eliminate spending on important safety net provisions like Medicare, Social Security, unemployment compensation and others.
So my preferred reform involves a few simple ideas: 1) let the Bush tax cuts expire as they are slated to do; 2) reinstate the estate tax at the 2001 rates, except with a $2 million exemption that is indexed to inflation; and 3) eliminate the preferential rate for capital gains and all of the provisions in the Code that deal with capital gains rates; and then 4) wait a while till the system is back in better balance and do tax the right way--ask what we want our government to spend money on, figure out how much money that will take to do it, and then set the tax system so that it collects the right amount of money.
The 1934 economic rebound was widely shared, with strong income gains for the vast majority, the bottom 90 percent.
In 2010, we saw the opposite as the vast majority lost ground. National income gained overall in 2010, but all of the gains were among the top 10 percent. Even within those 15.6 million households, the gains were extraordinarily concentrated among the super-rich, the top one percent of the top one percent.
So while the Great Depression acted as a leveler, the cascading impact of tax and other fiscal policies that are extraordinarily favorable to the rich was little influenced by the Great Recession. Here're the two telling graphs from the article.
Saez and Piketty show that the vast majority’s average adjusted gross income, of which wages are just a part, was $29,840 in 2010. That was down $127 from 2009 and down $4,842 from 2000.
Most shocking? The average income of the vast majority of taxpayers in 2010 was just a smidgen more than the $29,448 average way back in 1966.
At the top, the super-rich saw their 2010 average income grow by $4.2 million over 2009 to $23.8 million. Compared to 1966 their income was up on average by $18.7 million per taxpayer.
The graphic illustration shows just how much the inequality we see today is from the richest of the rich getting an indecent proportion of income growth.
Is this a problem that needs fixing? Yes, it clearly is. We have long recognized the importance of a society where everyone takes part and everyone has at least the minimum essentials for a decent life and a chance for improvement.
A society where a very few "elite" at the top garner all the benefits of the system and more and more of the income for themselves is not a sustainable society--the top becomes predatory, willing to take gains no matter what the cost to everyone else. It is the kind of attitude that many who are familiar with Wall Street banks have criticized as endemic to Wall Street culture--and one that was revealed even more starkly by the resignation from Goldman of a star banker who publicly criticized the current culture at Goldman that believes in profits for the firm at the sacrifice of the good of the customer. See Greg Smith, Why I am Leaving Goldman Sachs, New York Times Op-Ed (Mar. 14, 2012). Shareholders obviously agree with Smith that the "profit for the firm above care of the client" mentality is wrong. See Christine Harper, Goldman Roiled by OpEd Loses 2.2 Billion for Shareholders, Bloomberg (Mar. 15, 2012).
If we want the kind of society that gives everyone a chance to have a decent education, we have to quit running down public schools and diverting public monies to support private religious schools. Hold schools accountable, but quit the wasteful focus on testing and assessment. Do a little assessment and a lot more teaching.
If we want a more equal society, then we have to change our tax laws so that they don't favor the rich over everybody else. Reduce the interest deduction, so that leveraged buyouts aren't a way to take a stable working company, make a huge profit by borrowing, and then dump it (either in bankruptcy or out of it, but nonetheless yoked with the debt that got the private equity firm rich). Get rid of provisions that are primarily beneficial to the wealthy--reinstate a hefty estate tax, eliminate the preferential rate on capital gains, reinstate the phase out of deductions at high income levels, increase the top income tax rate (let the Bush tax cuts lapse in toto or at least for the top earners), phase out the accelerated depreciation schedules, bonus depreciation and expensing provisions, and otherwise return our tax system to a saner progressive model that can support the important basic research at universities and basic public infrastructure development that are the real keys to economic growth.
The right has bamboozled the public with its tiresome but endless class warfare rhetoric pushing corporatist policies that claim that tax cuts for wealthy corporations and wealthy individuals are the way to boost growth and help the majority of Americans have good jobs and decent wages. It's a lie. The way to do that is by moving to a more progressive tax system and providing more government funding for basic research (NIH, NSF, etc.) and for public infrastructure (mass transportation, rails throughout America and its inner cities, urban development).
One of the worrisome results of the 2010 mid-term elections is the increasingly radical fringe that is now installed in the House (and in state houses and in some Senate seats). Witness the possible head of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Shimkus of Illinois (Republican), who has asserted that it's a waste of time and effort to worry about global warming, because he happens to believe that God has promised not to flood Earth and so it just won't happen. See Stromberg, In the GOP's House, God Won't Allow Global Warming?, Washington Post, PostPartisan (Nov. 12 2010). (This is like the wishful thinking that the biggest oil spill in history hasn't really done any harm to the oceans--ignoring, of course, our inability to measure the impact in most cases, our ignorance of the long-term effect of the dispersant chemicals used, and our willful blindness to existing problems on beachers, in marshes and in the warmer waters near the mainland.) Instead, Shimkus and his ilk will likely try to use the House's investigative powers to put a stop to sound regulatory advances at the Environmental Protection Agency and other departments.
Whether we like it or not, our technical solutions are competing in a morality play scripted by interest groups and mama grizzlies who in 25 words or less conflate small government and something they imagine to be "free markets" with individual liberty, a key justice principle. Most sound techocratic solutions are difficult to convey, must less motivate, in 25 words or less (and the motivation is often moral as well as technical: more for most, more for less, prices as reliable signals of marginal social cost, reducing unemployment, increasing inflation to discourage saving and stimulate spending ... you get the idea). But the larger problem, I think, is that allegedly "amoral" economists view the moral sequelae of sound economic policy, such as banksters' gains (at taxpayer expense), as "side issues" that are irrelevant to restoring the economy, while some of "we the people" view it as one of the most important issues. We end up with....the Tea Party (or, at least, with a large portion of the population who are extremely resentful and angry at being unemployed and underwater while the economy romps upward at least for those whom we bailed out). Technocratic Solutions and Moral Dilemmas (the preceding, by the way, is just a very small excerpt of an interesting piece on the problem with what I have called "mathaholic" economics and the failures of the Chicago School's approach to setting policy based on a theory so infused with unrealistic assumptions that the policy prescriptions amount to suggesting that Alice drink a counter-potion to undo her shrinking in size and fall through the rabbit hole).
And then there are the right-wingers arguing for a full austerity budget in the US, which supports, primarily, the idea of cutting Social Security and Medicare benefits while letting military costs continue to rise unabated and for reducing corporate taxes so that Big Business (read--U.S. multinationals) can "compete" more successfully globally without the "burden" of US taxes. See my earlier post on the Peterson-Pew "deficit crisis" mentality and the Bowles-Simpson commission. And then look at Robert Samuelson, How to Avoid Japan's Economic Mistakes, Washington Post (Nov. 15, 2010). Samuelson asserts that the time for stimulus is long past and the only thing to do is to get the private sector going. He claims to base this urgent assertion on Japan's experience, when it continued to borrow to fund public spending, but overall growth has been anemic. He asserts Japan's problem is two fold: 1) a "dual economy" where robust exports had to make up for anemic domestic consumption, an economic model which folded with the yen's appreciation in the 1980s and 2) an aging, declining population with low wages and insecure jobs.
His prescription of course, is the same old right-wing prescription--less regulation, more support for big business to remove "uncertainties" (which has become a euphemism for lowering taxes/helping US MNEs to "compete").
So Japan's economy is trapped: A high yen penalizes exports; low births and sclerotic firms hurt domestic growth. The lesson for us is that massive budget deficits and cheap credit are at best necessary stopgaps. They're narcotics whose effects soon fade. They can't correct underlying economic deficiencies. It's time to move on from the debate over "stimulus."
Economic success ultimately depends on private firms. The American economy is more resilient and flexible than Japan's. But that's a low standard. Neither the White House nor Congress seems to understand that growing regulatory burdens and policy uncertainties undermine business confidence and the willingness to expand. Unless that changes, our mediocre recovery may mimic Japan's.
Samuelson conveniently skips over three important things--two a big difference between the US and Japan, and the other a similarity. First, Japan had a historically high savings rate and, though that has gone down with Japan's economic decline, it meant that Japan didn't have the kind of domestic spending pattern that could sustain a low-export economy for any length of time. So making interest rates low didn't help, and government spending couldn't be sufficient to overcome. Second, the US has already embarked on various "quantitative easing" solutions that should have a positive impact--the loosening of the money supply will provide more money floating through the economy, allowing private and public job creation to take place more easily.
Third, both countries share the stagnation of middle class wages--and what is worse in the US is that we have at the same time huge increases in inequalities as the "investor/manager class" continues to reap all the rewards of the economic system and be favored by the tax system so that it reaps most of the subsidies provided that way as well (the huge part of the benefit of the extra large housing mortgage interest deduction is enjoyed by the wealthiest Americans, who itemize and who have sufficiently large and numerous homes to easily use the full deductible interest limitation of $1.1 million combined acquisition and home equity loans; the benefit for various manager-level retirement plans is enjoyed primarily by the rich; etc.). Until that problem is resolved, it will be unlikely that the US will recover the kind of broad-based growth that provides a sustainable economic environment and quality of life for all.
The reason all of this is worrisome, of course, is that the two-party system (with the avid assistance of the Tea Partiers) is heading towards unanimity on the biggest problem facing us at this time, and their answer is the wrong one, one that fails to understand the long-term damage to the economy of rampant increases in inequality along with stagnation or worse for the middle class.
The problem is the corporatist agenda--"Big Business" using its money and power to write the laws to suit it, and the owners and managers of Big Business using their money and power to ensure that all of the rewards of the economic process go to the top, while programs intended to buffer the ill winds that blow for the middle class and low income Americans are decimated. (An agenda made all the more easy because of the right-wing-dominated Supreme Court's recent decisions, including Citizens United.) Money has become the be all and end all of politics, and Big Businesses--especially the big financial institutions-- generally have the money to buy the politicians and the laws that they like. Courts and legislatures favor business over individuals.
[Obama largely] insists on continuing Bush's policies, or insufficiently curbing them. It is policies that serve the rich that are destroying us; these are policies that are traditionally identified with the Republicans, but in recent decades, the Democrats have learned to bow and scrape for big money from the lobbyists and either party is as abjectly servile to the wealthy as the other.
[T]hose managing [Palin] as a media creation are using her to push the perceived center further to the right than it already is, which will allow real candidates for the Republican nomination to recycle the radical orthodoxies of the far right and still seem "moderate." Candidates for the Democratic nomination will be required to similarly hew further right, so as not to seem like the "socialists" or "communists" they have already been labeled by the rightwing lunatic fringe.
There is no reason to expect that tax cuts for the wealthiest 20% of the country will do anything to support job creation for the rest of us or to help stem the tide of the recession. But the GOP will push for tax cuts for their primary constituents no matter what the cost. There is no reason to think that changing our tax system to assist US multinationals in grabbing a larger market share in Asia or Africa in the name of "competitiveness" will do anything to help ordinary Americans in the middle class here at home. But both parties will continue the disastrous mix of tax cuts for corporations and policies that pull back on anti-trust and make unionization more difficult in the name of helping companies compete. Obama and the mostly spineless Dems who don't ever stand up for their purported policy positions--whether in contesting the appointment to the Supreme Court of radical rightwingers like Alito and Roberts or in battling with the GOP for a public option in health care reform or in fighting to preserve a highly progressive income and estate tax--will likely just roll over and play dead while the wingnuts on the right move our country more and more into the radical right of the Bircher Society, Clausen, and Milt Friedman's radical "free market" agenda that socializes losses and privatizes gains.
Congress seems incapable of setting aside electioneering rhetoric and talking straight about taxes and deficits. The GOP claims that it thinks deficits are bad things while at the same time it proposes no spending cuts (except to important safety net programs) and does propose further tax cuts.
Just a bit of background on tax cut rationales and deficits.
Back in the old days of the Bush regime, the tax cutters tended to claim that tax cuts would create jobs and raise (not lower) government revenues. They didn't. The Bush administration had anemic job growth, certainly seeing no boost from the humongous tax cuts enacted in 2001, 2003, and 2004 (and smaller cuts throughout the term). And we have enough experience with tax cut programs from Reagan to Bush I to Bush II to see that revenues do not miraculously go up when the taxing provisions that are intended to raise revenues are cut back. Sometimes there are a few localized effects--such as increased selling of capital stocks to take advantage of a new and lower rate because it is expected that higher rates will have to be enacted later. But tax cuts cut revenues.
Further, in spite of the GOP attempt to label the Dems as the tax-and-spend party, the GOP turned out to be the tax-cut-and spend-anyway party. Government grew under Bush, even while revenues shrank. The war in Iraq, for example, resulted in huge expansions of military and defense costs, and the homeland security apparatus, much of it intrusive of our private liberty and ineffective at dealing with terrorists, piled on additional government bureaucracy and costs.
If you cut revenues without finding appropriate government programs to cut, then you will increase government borrowing and increase government deficits.
Now, deficit increases make sense sometimes. When the economy is in a slump, it means that private spending is down, so government spending is needed to move it out of the slump. A deficit that is caused by increased government spending that helps the economy by restoring jobs and getting the economy moving again is a deficit that will be reduced as the economy grows, people with jobs pay taxes, and government spending that was used to supplement inadequate private spending can be cut back. Infrastructure spending provides that kind of a stimulus--building systems that will last for years now, to create jobs and stimulate the economy serves the public interest now and for the long term. See, e.g., Laurence Seidman, Reducing Future Deficits While Stimulating Today's Economy, 7 Economists' Voice Art. 2 (Sept. 2010).
But the deficit created by the Bush tax cuts doesn't make sense. It is based on "trickle down" economics--the view that if the rich get richer, everybody else will do well too. But that hasn't been the case. Since 1980, the rich have gotten immensely richer, but most Americans have hit stagnation, with real wages not sharing at all in the productivity gains that have made corporate managers multimillionaires. The productivity gains, that is, have gone to the people at the top, and the people at the top have horded them, supporting tax policies that give themselves huge tax cuts.
Tax cuts--especially for the wealthiest people and corproations--do not make sense. That money is as likely to be invested overseas as in the US, and overseas it does nothing but contribute to the job drain. Corporations purchasing new equipment wiht the 100% expensing may buy that equipment from China or India or Korea--again, pushing jobs overseas and doing nothing to stimulate the local economy, but costing the government the tax expenditure that could have been used for public infrastructure projects instead.
And now to the current situation as the "Senate G.O.P. Digs In to Keep Tax Cuts"
The income tax provisions passed during the Bush regime were almost all temporary provisions--they were passed with a sunseting provision so that they expire at the end of 2010, and the law as it was prior to the Bush administration retakes its place as the applicable law. The question now is whether new laws should be enacted along the same lines.
When the Bush cuts were enacted, the arguments were that tax cuts would lead to more revenues (they didn't), that there was a surplus to return to the people (there wasn't--by the time the GOP Congress enacted the 2001 tax cuts, there was already a deficit), and that the tax cuts would stimulate the economy so that it would grow really fast and create large numbers of new jobs (it didn't--job growth was anemic).
Remember, folks, there was no huge public outcry for new tax cuts when the Bush regime passed the 2001 cuts. And the cuts were made temporary BECAUSE of the huge cost of extending them for more than ten years, which would have made the deficit creation impact too obvious. This was policy pushed by the right, not by the public. Does the fact that the teapartiers are now part of the anti-government, anti-tax hollering mean that people really want to retain the super-low taxes of the Bush period no matter what? I doubt it. Remember those teapartiers who want the government to stay away from their Medicare and Social Security? How about Center for Disease Control--would anyone want there to be no federal vaccine programs for highly contagious diseases? How about National Science Foundation--would people want basic scientific research to cease in the US, so that all our brightest young minds would go to China or India for education and work, leaving us with no innovation? How about emergency response funding--do we not want the Federal Government to be able to send people, supplies and support to Katrina-type events? What about keeping the food supply safe? the water supply? medicines? All of these things are "we the people" acting to do things that need to be done through the Federal Government.
John Boehner, the House Minority Leader and generally not a very astute person to trust with developing tax policy, had actually admitted to some rational thinking on the expiring Bush tax cuts last Sunday on Face the Nation. He acknowledged that he could support a new tax cut for the middle class, even if the wealthy didn't get one. Daniel, Boehner says he'd support a middle-class tax cut, YahooNews.com (Sept. 12, 2010). Of course, he resorted to the old "class warfare" attack--according to the GOP, anybody who doesn't give a tax cut to the rich every time they give some kind of break to the poor is engaging in class warfare.
Aside on "class warfare": But of course, the GOP has supported numerous tax breaks that are primarily for the rich--or only available to the top 40% of taxpayers--and never admit that is class warfare. e.g., the deduction for home mortgage interest on mortgages up to a million dollars, which is available only to those who itemize --about 30% of taxpayers, and of those 30%, is of the most benefit to the richest minority who pay higher rates and thus get a larger deduction, or the exclusion for municipal bond interest, which is used by the wealthiest taxpayers who have most of the financial assets, etc.
Progressives would argue that class warfare is represented by the corporatist agenda that extracts all productivity gains for managers and owners and leaves workers without even the pension promises that were made when workers accepted lower wages for higher pension benefits, or the policies that make it extraordinarily hard for workers to form a union, which would give them some semblance of equality of bargaining power with the concentrated power of megalithic multinational corporations, or the "globalization" policies that lead to free trade agreements that impose no protections for our own workers or our environment, etc.
The reasonableness represented by Boehner's concession lasted all of a microsecond. Boehner's deputy, the House Republican whip, got out the word on Monday that the Republicans would only be content with a bill that enacted new tax cuts for the wealthiest as well as the most vulnerable--anything else, he says, is a "nonstarter." And Mitch McConnell, the Senate Republican leader, proposed legislation for new tax cuts that would be the same as the Bush tax cuts for everybody. See Herszenhorn, Senate G.O.P. Digs In to Keep Tax Cuts, NY Times, Sept. 13, 2010.
The cost of enacting new tax cuts that provide the same revenue reductions as the Bush tax cuts will be enormous. It will cost $700 billion over ten years for the new tax cuts for the wealthy and a total of $4 trillion over ten years to extend all of the Bush tax cuts.
McConnell's argument is that it would hurt economic growth and job creation to tax the ultra wealthy now. But that's a sham argument. The wealthy are likely to save, not spend, any extra monies from a new tax cut. Or invest it overseas. Or just buy some more stock on the secondary market--making a bank or another wealthy person even wealthier. They aren't likely to start a new company or directly invest in a new startup just because they get a little more spare change from a tax cut. They'd either be doing that already or not doing it at all. And McConnell, as the Times piece notes, isn't offering either specific spending cuts that won't hurt the economy nor other sources of revenue to make up for the additional $700 billion needed to give these multimillionaires another tax break in addition to all of the breaks targeting the wealthy already in the Code.
What about McConnell's argument that the Obama regime has spent the last two years putting the government in charge of everything? Note he included student loans. Just a reminder about the FACTS about the student loan issue. We used to have a direct loan program. It actually made money for the government. But due to funny accounting procedures that were used for such loans, the books didn't look like the loans were making money for the government. That's because they were counted as "pure" expenditures, and not as loans that included an obligation for the borrower to pay the money back to the government with interest. So they made money, but looked like they didn't make money. The GOP seized on this, and under Reagan changed the program to a "guaranteed loan" program. The same universities would do the work, but the banks would get a significantly larger interest rate than the government had gotten for acting as a middleman but bearing no losses. In other words, the GOP privatized the loan program, ensuring banks a "cut" of profits, and providing for the government to pay the banks for any losses they might incur--privatization of gains, socialization of losses. There was less money to lend, since the banks were getting the interest income and paid by the government if there were losses. The government was losing money instead of making money. But it LOOKED LIKE the government was smaller. And the GOP bragged about its new privatized loan program. As years went on, people argued for a return to the direct loan program. This was especially true when banks managed to get students to consolidate old loans and retain their higher subsidized rate even when they were supposed to reset the rate to a lower rate. So Clinton inaugurated a small direct loan program. And we have moved from there forward, saving the government money and providing students with a cheaper loan program. The only losers in the direct loan program are the banks who no longer get their "entitlement" "welfare" handout from the government. And McConnell condemns the Dem for that change, hoping that Americans will be gullible enough to be fooled into thinking that the direct loan program represents an awful invasion into private commerce, instead of a reasonable and wise use of government funds to provide students the opportunity to have a college education.
By the way, Lieberman is, as usual, supporting the GOP platform on taxes with a statement that "the more money we leave in private hands, the quicker our economic recovery will be." When private spending has declined, that statement is not only likely wrong, it misses the fact that without government spending there is likely to be no recovery.
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Every year Christmas brings joy and happiness to our home. It also brings an over abundance of toys when added to the ones you already have usually leaving little space for the little ones to enjoy their new toys. So we explained to the kids that in order for “Santa” to bring them new toys that they needed to make room for them. At first the kids weren’t thrilled with the idea of getting rid of their toys but we explained to them that at the end they would be proud of helping others. We started with 5 boxes. We started by writing Broken, Donate, Missing pieces, Outgrown and Favorite on the boxes. This helped us as we went along to stay focused and organized. We went through the toys and started by throwing away any toys that had gotten broken through out the year and were unable to be played with or used for other projects. As we went along anytime they found one of their toys that they constantly play with they got to put it in their Favorite box. Then we moved on to any toys that were missing pieces. Usually even if toys are missing pieces they can be used for other things such as arts and crafts, school projects or sometimes someone has the pieces that are missing and are looking for them. Next we go through any toys that the kids have outgrown. These got into the box but are only there for a little while until we go through them again to see what toys can be put away until younger siblings can enjoy them or if there is no younger sibling we put them in our Donate box. Preschools and Day cares can give your kids toys that they have outgrown a great new home and will be enjoyed by many other children. There are many resources out there today such as Craigslist.org and Freecycle.org that allow you to post your “unwanted” items. Many times our kids outgrown their toys before they even look used. There are a lot of kids who would love and appreciate to get second-hand toys for presents and give new homes to out grown toys. When all of the toys are gone through we let the kids know how proud we are of them. And explain to them that Santa will be doing a toy pick up on December 1st. All of the toys that the kids are donating are left out at night for “Santa” to come pick up and drop off for other kids to enjoy on Christmas. The kids feel like special Santa elves and their favorite part is knowing that they will be putting smiles on other kids faces on Christmas.
Get some really cool pumpkin carving patterns. October is coming up and so are pumpkins. Make sure yours are the coolest on the block!
Have a Pre-Halloween Costume Swap Party!
We all know that Halloween Costumes can get expensive and most of the time are only used once. Here is a fun way to have a “Greener” Halloween and get everyone into the Halloween spirit. Host a Pre-Halloween Costume Swap Party Get your friends together to swap old costumes, accessories, and share ideas on homemade costumes. This is great for groups or playgroups.
Pick a date early in October. Try for 3-4 weeks before Halloween. This gives enough time if costumes need adjustments or if you are making a homemade costume enough time to be ready.
Set a place. Pick a place that has room and be sure to have lots of mirrors! everyone will want to see how they look. Don’t forget to ask your PTO to be involved. They love to help and organize projects and save parents money!
Don’t forget the invitations! If your party is for kids and you have a playgroup get them involved! Kids love being hands on especially with craft projects.
Take pictures. This is a great way to see before and after transformations.
Have everyone make their favorite Halloween Treat! This will also help with ideas for everyone’s menu for their Halloween Parties. Have them write the recipe down to share with others.
Play your favorite spooky Halloween music. Or for younger kids your their favorite funny Halloween music.
Have everyone bring their old costumes and/or accessories that no longer fit of have. Exchange costumes for a “New” costume that fits. Make sure everyone tries on their costume to make sure it is a perfect fit, plus you can help each other with ideas on how to perfect costumes.
Don’t forget to meet up on Halloween so everyone can see your finished master pieces!
Still have costumes that don’t fit or have no use, donate them to your local schools or daycare centers! They use them for props or dress up bins! Or you can reuse them when decorating your house for Halloween decorations.
1. Cut open the bag and remove the bottom, so the bag looks like a large rectangular sheet of paper.
2. Place your book in the center of the paper.
3. Fold the top of the paper down over the book and make a crease.
4. Fold the bottom of the paper up over the book and make a crease.
6. Fold along the creases, so you have a strip of paper the height of the book.
7. Place the book back on the center of the paper, on top of the folded paper.
8. Fold the left side of the paper over the front of the book and make the left and right ends of the paper even.
9. Fold the overlap over the front cover of the book. Slide the cover into the slot the paper folds have made. Repeat for back cover.
10. If it fits snugly, you’re done! If it’s a little loose, trim it down so it fits or tighten it with a few pieces of tape.
Let your kids personalize their newly covered book with their own drawings, stickers, magazine cutouts (a fun way to recycle old magazines you are done reading) their favorite snack or food wrappers. You can even let them decorate it with their favorite Summer vacation pitures!
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FHA 203k Loans: What You Need to Know!
Whether you’re actively searching for a new place to call home or simply entertaining the idea of moving to a new location, you more than likely have a dream home in mind. However, if your dreams are out of line with your budget, getting into that dream home may seem next to impossible. But for those willing to do a little work, your dream home can be well within reach, thanks in large part to an FHA 203k loan.
Designed for people who want to buy a home that needs renovations or major upgrades, the FHA 203k loan program allows one to borrow the purchase price of the home, plus receive money for renovations, all with the convenience of a single loan and closing.
While most mortgage financing plans provide only permanent financing where the lender will only close on the loan and release the mortgage if the condition and value of the property provide adequate loan security, if you’re talking about purchasing a home as-is, the money probably won’t be coming to you until the improvements are made. But that’s not the case with a 203k loan.
FHA 203k loans are designated for houses that are damaged or sorely in need of rehabilitation. The loan covers not only the cost of the property, but also the cost of necessary home repairs. It’s especially beneficial to those who cannot afford a finished home and are willing to take on a fixer-upper.
According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the 203k loan program is an excellent means for lenders to demonstrate their commitment to lending in lower-income communities and to help meet their responsibilities under the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA).
There are two types of FHA 203k loans: regular and streamlined. Regular 203k loans are for homes that need structural repairs, and streamlined loans are for those that need non-structural repairs.
The extent of the rehabilitation may range from relatively minor work (starting at $5,000) to major reconstruction on the home’s structure. Categories for work allowed include modernization and improvements to the home’s function, elimination of health and safety hazards, adding or replacing roofing, gutters, and downspouts, enhancing accessibility for a disabled person, making energy conservation improvements and changes that improve appearance and eliminate obsolescence.
Repairs can include numerous items, such as plumbing, roofing, room additions, providing disability access, adding new siding, site grading or even kitchen remodeling.
When a 203k loan closes, a repair escrow account is set up and renovation can begin. Repairs must start within 30 days of closing and be completed within six months.
To be eligible for the FHA 203k mortgage program, homes must be owner-occupied, must be only 1-4 units and must be at least one year old. New homes are not considered.
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1- Gym rats that fit in an extra session at lunch. While I admire the dedication, what do you do with your hair? How do you have time to shower? Do you not feel gross the rest of the afternoon? How does this work??
2- Shoppers who must buy the outfit as displayed on the mannequin. Where’s the creativity? The personal touch? Aren’t you afraid you’ll run into someone dressed the exact same way as you? The horror!
3- Moviegoers who feel the need to talk during a film. It’s not okay and everyone hates you.
4- Parents who give in to tantrums and expect that to fix the problem. Congratulations, you just won 17 more years of brattiness. Was that extra toy really worth it?
5- Worrywarts who torture themselves with coulda, woulda, shoulda. It’s over. If you can’t change what happened, you might as well accept it and get on with your bad self. Next!
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The strange white tower stood higher then anything else in town. Whilst it was being built, people stared in wonder then thought if the alarm would truly work.
The mayor held an opening ceremony but that was a flop. Who would want to celebrate the turning on of a machine that was so experimentally? Especially, when there was so much danger in the streets.
Gradually, a month later, people’s minds were beginning to change. It had been weeks since the last reported zombie entering town had been shot. So maybe, the high pitched alarm was keeping them all away after all?
(Inspired by; https://rochellewisoff.com/2018/10/17/19-october-2018/ with thanks).
Scary stuff, what if you live outside the alarm zone. I live five miles from a High Security Prison and we have an alarm system, tested every last Thursday of the month. so your story is not so far away from the truth.
That sounds even scarier to me!
I am so glad we don’t have to worry about zombies… yet.
The twist in the last paragraph turns the story around to something dark and scary. Nicely done.
May be it was. Would anyone ever know?
The Spinnaker Tower as a zombie deterrent! That’s an imaginative response to the prompt!
Thanks 🙂 I’m having a horror Halloween theme to my stories this month.
I think we have a zombie alarm where I live because I haven’t seen any for ages.
It seems to be working then.
Great turnaround at the end. Very unexpected.
Well, I wasn’t thinking zombies! Good ending.
Hopefully it’s kept them away but where has it driven them to?
I don’t like to think. haha. I’ve never liked zombies.
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I’d like to add that the two sets in questions are pretty different works from the very beginning – one was for experimental dancefloor which we do at our AUX by do/nothing at ARMA17 (the one published here), and the other (the “techno” one) was, well, for the techno room :). Same thing with Milton Bradley’s whose party mix we published also, but he decided not to publish the techno one.
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[GUIDE]-Flash the HTC EVO 4G to Boost Mobile Talk, Text, Data, 3G all Working!
1) You legally own the Evo device being flashed and the donor device.
2) Both devices have clean MEIDs (meaning the service provider has not cancelled service to the phone for any other reason than customer request).
3) You will transfer the sticker from one device to the other to ensure that the Evo has the correct MEID. A heat gun or hair dryer will make this easy.
4) You will not sell your donor phone.
Doing anything other than the four criteria above is illegal and any discussion about it will be removed.
Okay I am new to the community and You all helped me a lot in the forums time to give back. Ive done this to get my phone working on boost mobile.and every bit of info helps. i got the HTC Evo 4g on chop suey 9.2.7 kernel and mikg rom 2.59 overclocked to 1190 performance.
this is a compilation of everything you need to flash to boost mobile. reason im doing this cause when i started it was hard as hell and i didnt know jack.
This guide is provided as general information only; I am not responsible for what you do with it. If you end up with a broken phone and /or suspended account that’s your problem not mine.
Start out by installing all programs and activating you donor phone before you proceed. Now plug you donor phone into your provided usb cable and check the Device Manager for your Phones Com Port Number. Open Cdma Workshop and select the Com port you phone is connected to. Click connect and then Read. You should see yourphones information displayed on the left. “If you’re using a rant as a donor phone it will display your SPC so skip round 1 & 2”.Click on the memory tab, under memory/Eeprom put start Address: 0363:0000 leave the size at 65536 bytes, now click read. The Sanyo Incognito sometimes can be very difficult to read the memory, keep trying it will work. You can try to turn off the phone on and off a few times and see if that helps.
Now install and open up Win Hex, open the memory file you just saved, click on specialist- Gather Text; Recognize text by “6” uncheck everything expect for ” Numbers” press “OK”, save the file anywhere you like. You should end up with a .txt document with 1 or more 6 digit numbers; one of them is the SPC for your phone, write it or them down.
Stay in CDMA Workshop, and click the NAM Tab. Click “Read” this will display all your phones information inside of “NAM 1” Save the filename as NAM 1 and do the same for NAM 2.
Close Cdma Workshop. Open Service Programming and enter your Donor phones SPC. Click Read and navigate to the “MIP” Tab, we need your Donor phones NAI. Click on Profile 1 and copy down your “NAI” and everything circled in the provided pictures.
Close Service Programming and open up QXDM. In the command input windows type. Password 01f2030f5f678ff9 hit enter. Requestnvitemread ds_mip_ss_user_prof . This will find your Ha Shared and AAA Passwords for profile 0.
*Note Rant users this method will work for retrieving the shared password and AAA password, Open up QXDM and enter “ Password” 01f2030f5f678ff9” then First retrieve Profile 0 password by typing “Requestnvitemread ds_mip_ss_user_prof” retrieve your password by scrolling down to your HA Shared which should be “736563726574” For your AAA Provisioning password open up Nvitem 466 and read your 32 digit password after the “10”, save and return back to Qxdm, Enter “Requestnvitemread ds_mip_ss_user_prof 1” for Profile 1, once again you HA Shared will be “736563726574” scroll down for your AAA Password. This password will be 6 digits long.
Save all information in a notepad and label each Profile and save the passwords for both..
Now if you made it this far then keep going your almost there. Now start out by downloading the AUTOROOT W/2.15.00.11.19 file. It’s almost 400 mb in size and will take some time to download depending on your internet connection. Once the download is complete extract it to a folder on your desktop and open the Auto Root Folder. Navigate to menu/settings/applications/development and turn on usb debugging, make sure you have a SD card in your Evo and double click AutoRoot.bat. This will guide you through the root process (don’t disconnect your phone let it root your phone and install the correct rom your Evo needs to complete the meid/esn write. Once this is complete you should be on the correct radio you can check this by going to menu/settings/about phone and software information tab. It should read 2.15.00.11.19 under baseband ver.
Now heres your 2 options that you have in order to find your Hidden Meid and Esn locations.
Downgrade your Rom to the 2.15.00.09.01 radio available for download here when the download is complete. Extract the File and Run the .exe file and follow the on screen instructions, make sure you have your Evo in usb debugging mode by going to menu/settings/development. Once this application is done you will be on the 2.15.00.09.01 baseband and will have different meid & esn locations. Follow the instructions for this baseband below and you should find most of your locations.
Follow this guide down below and use the memory locations for 2.15.00.11.19. This method can be a little harder and you might have to scan for your meid & esn locations but there hidden and can be found.
CHOOSE ONLY 1 OPTION BEFORE YOU PROCEED!!!!!!!!!!
Round 6: You need to dial ##3424# (DIAG Mode) you should now have a COM port listed under you device manager settings. Next we need to find your SPC code for the Evo 4G, but this is alot easier! Open CDMA Workshop, I suppose you already opened the “Device Manager” and know the COM port for your Evo, select the COM port -connect- read and your should see your phone information on the left. Now go to the “security” tab, Password (16 digits) delete all the FFFFFFFF’s and type 01F2030F5F678FF9 then send. You should now see your SPC code magically appearing inside the SPC box, write it down. Next go to the “Memory” tab, NV Items and write the 4 NV Items we saved from your donor phone earlier.465, 466, 1192, and 1194. Do the same with the files for the Samsung Rant.
Navigate to the “NAM” TAB and Write the Nam 1 and Nam 2 Files we saved earlier. If done correctly it should display your donor’s phone number and other information.
*NOTE EITHER OPTION WILL WORK IF YOU DOWNGRADE IT WILL BE EASIER!!!!!!!
*Note if you can’t find all locations use the information below to find your missing meid or esn. They hide it can be tricky finding it but it’s not bad.
Scanning for you “ESN” is simple. Open up cdma Workshop, connect and send spc. Under the ESN tab click read and click the drop down bar and select “Universal Ram Method” then click Write and Scan for addresses. Input “00FA-00FF on the 1st scan on the second scan search 0108-01D7. Examples can be found below.
size 99999999, leave work with eeprom unchecked then click on the read button below it. (This will read all memory between 00fa and 00ff.It will stop when it hits the unreadable area but that’s ok. Save the file like scan1.bin.
you add 00FA0000 + 2B710 which gives you FCB710 which is actually 00FC:B710 you just add the 00’s in front. (You can load up windows calculator and add the offset and location together to give you the area to search for in Memory in Qxdm.
Now open QPST Service Programming, select your Evo and press OK. Once connected, Read from Phone and enter you Evo SPC code we got earlier. Navigate to the M.IP tab.
Rev Tunnel Preferred: Checked now with both passwords hit ok.
Make the active user “0” and Write to phone the Evo will now reboot. When it comes back enjoy 3g. Now for mms dial ##3282#, and enter the SPC code. Tap on advanced and scroll down to you see the URL mms.sprintpcs.com. Change the URL to http://mm.myboostmobile.com.
Congrats you have now converted your Evo 4g to boost mobile. I want to thank everyone for the information I received and the various guides. Without you none of this wouldn’t have been possible.
how do you scan meid locations with cdma workshop 2.7 thats all i want to know ?
This guide is provided as general information only; I am not responsible for what you do with it. If you end up with a broken phone and /or suspended account IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY.
Rooted EVO 3D (Root files in guide) THIS IS OPTIONAL YOU CAN ROOT THE PHONE BEFORE OR AFTER THE PROCEDURE IT DOESN’T MATTER!
Start out by installing all programs and activating you donor phone before you proceed. Now plug you donor phone into your provided usb cable and check the Device Manager for your Phones Com Port Number. Open Cdma Workshop and select the Com port you phone is connected to. Click connect and then Read. You should see your phones information displayed on the left. “If you’re using a rant as a donor phone it will display your SPC so skip round 1 & 2”.Click on the memory tab, under memory/Eeprom put start Address: 0363:0000 leave the size at 65536 bytes, now click read. The Sanyo Incognito sometimes can be very difficult to read the memory, keep trying it will work. You can try to turn off the phone on and off a few times and see if that helps.
*Note Rant users this method will work for retrieving the shared password and AAA password, Open up QXDM and enter “ Password” 01f2030f5f678ff9” then First retrieve Profile 0 password by typing “Requestnvitemread ds_mip_ss_user_prof” retrieve your password by scrolling down to your HA Shared which should be “736563726574” For your AAA Provisioning password open up Nvitem 466 and read your 32 digit password after the “10”, save and return back to Qxdm, Enter “Requestnvitemread ds_mip_ss_user_prof 1” for Profile 1, once again you HA Shared will be “736563726574” scroll down for your AAA Password. This password will be 6 digits long. Follow the pictures below.
Save all information in a notepad and label each Profile and save the passwords for both.
You are now done with your donor phone. Turn off or put it on airplane mode, whatever you do don’t ever have the phone on at the same time.
Rooting the phone: all the information and steps are on this YouTube video (How to Root HTC Evo 3D! – YouTube) or you can keep following the guide with instructions and pictures, your choice.
This guide is for Windows-based computers only.
Before we begin, check the software number on your phone by going to Settings->About Phone->Software Information.
If your software number is 2.08.651.2 or LATER go to round 5B to begin the rooting process if not stay in round 5A.
First, connect your Evo 3D to your computer via a micro USB cable and put your phone into USB Debugging mode under Settings->Applications->Development.
Next, download the rootevo3d.zip file (which contains everything you need) and unzip it to the root directory of your hard disk such as c:\rootevo3d.
Install the Evo 3D drivers in this folder by running “HTCDriver3.0.0.007.exe”. Please install these drivers even if you have installed drivers before otherwise the rooting method will not work!
When the drivers are installed, you can verify under Device Manager that there’s My HTC under Android USB Devices.
to find the serial number of your Evo 3D.
If you get something like HT168HX09557, that’s your serial number, write it down on a notepad as we will need it later.
Next, we are going to find the HBOOT version number of your Evo 3D. Take the batteries out then reboot your phone into bootloader mode by holding down both Volume Down and the Power Button.
Mine says “1.40.0000″, make a note of this as we will need it later and reboot your Evo 3D.
Next, goto this site Revolutionary and get your beta code by putting in the serial number and choosing the HBOOT.
Save this beta key/code as we will need to enter it later.
Enter your beta key you got earlier here when it asks you and your Evo 3D will start rooting!
It should reboot your Evo 3D a couple times and you will see “S-OFF”!
When it’s done rooting, it will ask you to download recovery and install it, just hit Y.
If that all went successfully, congrats, your phone’s bootloader is unlocked now and you have ClockworkMod Recovery installed. The only thing left to do is install SuperUser app.
Choose “Bootloader” and hit the Power Button.
Choose “Recovery” and hit the Power Button, this will get you into ClockworkMod Recovery.
Once in ClockworkMod Recovery, choose “mounts and storage” and hit the Power button.
Choose “mount USB storage” and hit the Power button. This will put your Evo 3D into disk drive mode without having you to reboot your phone.
Go to your computer and copy over the su-2.3.6.3-efgh-signed.zip file to the SD card of your Evo 3D.
Unmount your Evo 3D in ClockworkMod Recovery then choose “install zip from sdcard” from main menu.
Choose “choose zip from sdcard” and hit the Power button.
Choose “su-2.3.6.3-efgh-signed.zip” and hit the Power button.
It should install the Superuser app. For those of you who’ve temp-rooted or perma-temp rooted, you might get installation abort error like me but just ignore it as that’s because you already have Superuser app installed.
Reboot your Evo 3D and it should activate your phone (again).
When everything comes back up, you should see that Superuser app is installed and you can run rooted apps!
If you rooted your Evo 3D, don’t forget to thank the guys over at Revolutionary.io who made it all happen!
Installing Recovery failed, what do I do?
See how to install ClockworkMod Recovery manually. How to Install ClockworkMod Recovery Manually on HTC Evo 3D! | HTC Evo 4G Hacks!
Does rooting erase my apps and contacts?
No, this rooting method doesn’t erase any of your apps and contacts, just don’t do factory wipe like some “others” are saying, follow our guide.
My camera is not working after rooting!
Try rebooting your phone a couple times, sometimes right after rooting, some apps might be a bit buggy but couple reboots will fix it all.
What does rooting Evo 3D give me?
You can get cool stuff like free wifi tethering, USB tethering, ability to backup/restore ROMs, and also install new ROMs. Most ROMs also give you easily double-battery life over stock with minimal bloatware so there’s nothing to lose but everything to gain.
Can I brick my Evo 3D while rooting?
That’s hard to do if you follow all of our directions carefully. And there’s always a way to unbrick Evo 3D so no, there’s not really a way to brick your phone.
Does this method work on Evo 4G or other phones?
No, this rooting method is ONLY for Evo 3D, please DO NOT TRY on other phones and that could brick your phone.
Rooting the phone: all the information and steps are on this YouTube video (How to Root Evo 3D! [2.08.651.2 and Later] [HTC Unlock Method] | HTC Evo 4G Hacks!) or you can keep following the guide with instructions and pictures, your choice.
*Note – This method of rooting currently doesn’t allow you to flash new kernels (so no overclocking) but you can flash new ROMs. If you haven’t done OTA update to HBOOT 1.50, please follow the method outlined here instead.
This new rooting method from HTC works on software version 2.08.651.2 and later using HTC’s unlock method. You can also do it on all platforms including Windows, Linux, and Mac.
Your software number should be 2.08.651.2 or LATER. If not, go do the software update under Settings->System Updates->HTC software update and start over.
For Mac users, please replace “fastboot” with “./fastboot-mac” in the instructions below.
For Linux users, please replace “fastboot” with “./fastboot-linux” in the instructions below.
Step 1. Download rootevo3dnew.zip file and unzip to root folder of your hard disk or desktop.
Step 2. Put your Evo 3D in fastboot mode by first going to Settings->Power and make sure “Fast boot” is checked off.
Step 3. Turn off your phone then power up by holding down Power Button and Volume Down button.
Step 4. Hit Power again to enter Fastboot.
Step 5. Connect your Evo 3D to your computer, your phone should say “Fastboot USB”.
Step 6. For Windows, install the HTC drivers HTCDriver3.0.0.007.exe in the zip file. For Linux and Mac you don’t need to install drivers.
Step 7. Open up a command prompt in Windows by typing “cmd” under Start->Search and for Linux and Mac, open up a terminal.
if you unzipped to your desktop.
or where you unzipped the files to.
You should get a bunch of code. If you don’t, you have an older OTA, go do the software update under Settings->System Updates->HTC software update and start over.
Step 10. Now, copy everything starting with <<<< Identifier Token Start >>>> and ending with <<<<< Identifier Token End >>>>> .
*Note – In Windows, when you copy, sometimes it adds a white space to the beginning, if you get errors, try copying the token to Notepad then getting rid of spaces before pasting it to HTC’s site.
Step 11. Go to HTCDev.com and sign up as a user. Then goto Unlock Bootloader->Get Started->Begin Unlock Bootloader. Agree to the legal terms, proceed all the way to Step 10 and paste the token you just copied.
Step 12. If you get errors, try the Notepad tip above, otherwise you should be getting a file called Unlock_code.bin as an attachment in your e-mail.
Download this file off your e-mail then copy the file over to the rootevo3dnew directory.
Step 14. Go to your phone and hit the Volume Up button and then Power button to unlock bootloader.
Step 15. If you got this far, congratulations, your Evo 3D’s bootloader has been unlocked!!!
Step 16. Your phone will reboot.
Step 17. Put your Evo 3D in fastboot mode by first going to Settings->Power and make sure “Fast boot” is checked off. (Again, yes).
Turn off your phone then power up by holding down Power Button and Volume Down button.
Hit Power again to enter Fastboot.
Step 19. Go back to your phone and choose Bootloader then hit the Power Button.
Then choose Recovery then hit the Power Button.
Step 20. When you get Revolutionary CWM blue menus, go to “mounts and storage” using your Volume buttons and hit the Power button.
Step 21. Go to your computer and copy over su-2.3.6.3-efgh-signed.zip to your Evo 3D.
Step 22. Go back to your phone and hit Power button to get out of USB mode. Then choose “+++++Go Back+++++” and hit the Power button.
Then choose “install zip from sdcard” and hit the Power button.
Then choose “choose zip from sdcard” and hit the Power button.
Then choose su-2.3.6.3-efgh-signed.zip and hit the Power button.
Choose “Yes” and hit the Power button.
Step 23. Reboot and enjoy root!
After rooting my Evo 3D using HTC Unlock method, I still get S-ON?
It doesn’t matter, the HTC Unlock method gives you a fully unlocked bootloader, the S-ON is meaningless once you unlock as you can install recovery and ROMs.
Can you still flash custom kernels?
Yes, you can still flash custom kernels but you need to launch ClockworkMod Recovery from Fastboot. I recommend you use this method for flashing any kind of ROMs too.
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Follow these steps in exact order.
2. Put the phone in USB debugging mode by going to settings/ applications/ development and check in where it says USB debugging, also it is helpful to check stay awake so you can see the phone processes while working.
3. Go to phone and dial ##3424# to access Diagnostics mode the computer will need the appropriate drivers to continue, once installed move on to the next step.
5. Open your device manager from the control panel, and locate your com ports, expand the com port section and you will see the port for HTC DIAGNOSTICS.
6. Open QPST Configuration and add the new port for the HTC, then close configuration.
7. Open EFS Explorer from the start menu under QPST and make sure the phone is showing up then, Enter the SPC code and press OK.
9. After making the new folder locate abd.exe from the android sdk install folder and press: start, run and type cmd then press enter you will get a command prompt window that opens up navigate to the android sdk directory and type; adb reboot, the phone should then reboot if you’ve done as you were supposed to.
10. After the phone reboots read it again with QPST EFS Explorer which still should be opened, you will notice that the red no access circle has been removed from the nvm directory so expand it and go to the num directory, locate file 0 and drag it from EFS to your desktop and file 1943 the same way.
11. Open HxD and then open up the 0 file on the desktop it should be your ESN. Zero it all out and then save it, do the same for the MEID in 1943.
12. Back to EFS and right click in the area and click Copy Item File from PC…, then select the new saved files one at time, it will write the and confirm it.
13. Go back to the adb command prompt and type adb reboot again, after reboot read the phone once again then with EFS and delete the (open sesame door) folder.
14. Reboot the phone one last time with adb reboot in the command prompt, when the phone reboots it’s done, dial ##786# to make sure there all zeros.
After zeroing all MEID and ESN locations, Reboot your Evo and Dial ##786 to make sure the MEID and ESN is all zeros. *Note if you reboot and your Meid and or ESN is still not zeros then you missed a file somewhere in memory and have to go back to step 6 and rewrite every file again.. This can be a frustrating step and not an easy one by any means but if you keep looking you will find it.
You are now done close QXDM.
Congrats you have now converted your Evo 3D to boost mobile.
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or Blue, or Green, or Hazel.
The point is – do you know the color of eyes of the person you were last speaking face-to-face with? I do: Brown. Okay, that was easy because both HP and BP have brown eyes. The person before that had green eyes.
I have noticed over the last few years that I can recall (almost every time) the conversation I had with someone if I can recall the color of their eyes. Usually if I cannot tell you the color I cannot tell you the whole conversation – – or sometimes even part of it.
Often I want to close my eyes and ask the person I am speaking with to tell me what color eyes I have. I bet most of them cannot. They can, on the other hand, tell me what is above me, behind me, and beside me. Hmm, can they tell me what we were talking about?
You my brown-eyed girl. – – Or was that blue?
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Friday June 22, 2007 the Gypsy Pie Society (GPS) gathered on Ludington and 8th street at the 8th Street CoffeeHouse in Escanaba to share poetry and photography.
Arriving early, I took some dinner down to the waterfront and discovered Ludington Park. Off work at 3pm, I made the trip early, stopping along the way to gather items for the camping trip this weekend. I had a migraine by the time I stopped for dinner. Regardless I walked in the wind and sun and drank in the park, marina, kids and dogs, people putting together thier pontoon boat, seagulls, wild roses. I got to the coffeeshop 30 minutes early and decided there was not a single poem I wanted to read.
So I enjoyed the company, Tamara, Ann, Mark, Becky, Micheal all had things to share. It had been two months since we gathered in Munising. Personally, with commitments, I had stuggled to create new poetry. But I suceeded in finishing the website and starting this blog. I picked up freelance work doing webdesign. I went on a trip to the west end of the peninsula: Paulding Lights, Bond Falls, Sylvania Wilderness, Black River Gorge, Antonios.
Once I shifted to the floor, tossed off my sandals, removed my jewlery, and lounged I was able to ease the headache some and enjoy the company I was in. Mark is an amzing photographer. Ann had wonderful black and whites that she will be printing on copper. Mike is working on his next poem, from the mother’s point of view–Fall. Tamara is working on a Gypsy inspired poem. I shared my signature poem on request. And work I hope to approach this weekend while camping.
Our next GPS gathering will be in Houghton August 30th.
I am posting this unedited as I leave for Big Bay and a campsite near the shore of lake Independance.
They called it the strongest storm front to move though the Marquette, Michgian area in years. I was so awestruck I did not pick-up my cellphone to take shots. I did not grab my digital camera. The hail came down so hard it was a white-out. Water rushed down Baraga Avenue in front of the Marquette Food Co-op where I was doing my Particating Owner Shift. The water fast and deep was at least a foot deep if not more. Hail the size of golfballs. I watched the face of farmers and friends and I wanted to cry.
I rushed home as soon as the storm passed. Windows open. My garden shredded by hail. A Hosta plant four feet in circumference mere shreds. The Tomatoes plants a single stalk. Bark had been stripped from tender cherry trees. The hot peppers beaten to small pieces, now laying on the ground.
Neighbors had damage to thier Japanese model cars. My Grand Am made of harder steel okay. The fascia and siding on neighbors houses damage. Windows broken. Screens torn. Roof shingles peeling. The streets lined with green leaves looked surreal.
My daughter called to make sure I had not been caught ouside in the storm. I called Mike who came home from work. We called family to see how they had faired.
Mike took some digital photos and I will post some soon.
Still, today I am in awe of the damage to the gardens.
Parking at Wetmore landing, I am greeted by the cool of the woodland and blooming thimbleberry plants. I know my destination, the rocks of the lakeshore big granite bemoths smoothed by time, waves, and sand. This year the water levels are low and I can manage walking out to a new sitting spot with only cuffing my jeans. I balance two journals, my sandals, a small white bag from Third Street Bagel, and a 160z coffee. It is 9am, water calm as glass, 70 degrees and slightly humid. The sun glares of the water and a haze is on the horizon. I want to skinny dip but I hear the voices of men on the wooded trail that circles this landing.
Stretching in the sun, my back adjusts to the curve of the stone. My eyelids, closed, reflect shimmering waves of light the same as the glistening water. Songbirds sing a morning song in the nearby woods. I can hear work at the power plant and a few cars passing on the highway. Water laps granite and I decide to brave the waters. I slip from my jeans and slide down the salt and pepper granite to where the green seaweed forms a slimy coat to the rock. I am up to my waist before the full alarm of my body registers that Lake Superior is still hypothermic cold. I scramble for an easy way up onto solid rock. Needles. Pain. I cannot find a handhold to boost myself from the waters and I have to expose myself to the shore in order to climb up.
No one is around so I let the heat of the rock and sun dry my body before slipping into my blue jeans again. A butterfly flits up to my face and beats his wings against my neck and shoulder. I feel shiny and electric. This place urges me to let loose and I am happy to listen to my senses.
I walk out pink and red granite standing as far out int the great lake as I can for Tai Chi and Qigong practice. Cloud Hands. Parting the Clouds. Silk Reeling. I have soft gaze not focused but aware. A family is on the shore enjoying the beach. Golden Retriever. A mom and dad, small boy of not yet two. Returning to my journals everything is vivid. Fluorescent green pollen left behind by higher waves has left new temporary coloring on this pink granite. Under the water, crevices of rock look deep red. I kneel and notice grains of clear quartz the size of rock salt granules.
Back on the woodland path under towering oak and red pine I return to my car. A spider’s web sticky silk clings to my face and hair. Gravel under my bare feet is uncomfortable but I do not stop to put on sandals. A mosquito buzzes my ear and I think what distraction am I to these insects?
Sitting at the coffee house, I find myself jealous of throw pillows. In the wide sunny window, red-heart suckers hang by ribbons and I realize like this dressed-up sofa I’ve been window dressing, trying on the dreams of others. Wearing silk and taffeta listening to my rustlings as I skirt responsibility. When will I be happy with writer and poet?
In the late afternoon, my office tucked under the roof becomes too hot. Web design becomes tedious when I am hot so I called my daughter and asked her if she would like to replant her palm.
When Ceiri moved out “Palm” baked for a while in the tiny closed room–just off the too hot office. I brought Palm downstairs weeks ago and began misting with a tiny spray bottle trying to nurse him back to health. One-by-one, I cut off a frond until there were only three left. And I wasn’t sure if he’d be better off with them all axed.
Ceiri has been busy readying the nursery for Liam Thomas Connors. Her first son. My first Grand Boy.Palm waited patiently. And today we both made time for Him. New pot. New Soil. A graying grandma to be and a young pregnant woman, together, repotted, watered, and misted.
We gossiped and caught up on family news. A short hot afternoon was too soon over. I drove my daughter and Palm home. Watched Liam kick. And listened to my daughter explain how hard it is getting to breathe.
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This book is one of those books that was designed from the outset to be marketed as a “remainder”, those less expensive books that you find on the budget tables of bookstores. It’s a handy source of wine information, but its great virtue, and the reason that I’m specifically recommending it this morning, is the copious amount of photos of actual bottles that illustrate the various winemaking regions. Using top producers as visual examples, you’ll get a look at the labels of many great producers and the bottles that hold their product. There are plenty of labels in lieu of bottles as well as the usual panoply of vineyard and “behind the scenes” shots.
Visually, this is real blessing for any dedicated wine enthusiast and is worth digging around for. As of this posting, Amazon.com has about 15 copies in both new and used condition, and they range in price from .99 to $21.95.
If you want a visual tour of the great bottles of the world, this is your round-trip ticket.
A confession – I’m a sucker for a topographic map. Perhaps this is a remnant of my backpacking days or my time in the military.
So I’m a sucker for this book, especially since I love wine as well.
Johnson and Robinson are leading wine writers and so, they are perfect for fleshing out the details behind the maps.
And these maps! Some are detailed non-topographic but coded for vineyards, forests, etc. Some have terrain features like hills and mountains airbrushed in. And some offer the detail of a USGS topographic map. Regardless of what type of map they use, there’s detail down to some of the smallest settlements and clearly defined vineyard areas.
You also get detail soil analysis as well as climatic issues that impact the region. You get details on plantings and there are copious photographs that flesh out the life behind the bottle.
This book should be part of any reasonable wine library, as it’s a valuable research tool.
This is a book that you might have to dig for. It’s a mostly European-distributed book from the series Bernard Ginestet’s Guide to the Vineyards of France. It was translated by John Meredith and has a foreword by Nicholas Faith, who points out that, Unfortunately, the French edition went to press before Bernard could discuss the biggest single revolution in the history of the great sweet wines of the bands of the Ciron: the way in which the technique of cryo-extraction has swept the vineyard, even such vineyards as Chateau d’Yquem, in the past few years.
Other than that topic, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better discussion of the wine history of the region as well as a rundown of the chateaux of Sauternes, down to a discussion of the soil composition . Most get at least a cursory examination, some very extensive discussions, and at the very least, a listing of the various statistics and whether or not they allow visits.
There’s a great map of the region, color-coded according to soil type. The photo on the cover shows a typical bunch of grapes which clearly shows the contrast between “healthy” grapes and the raisinesque botytris-attacked “raisins”. There is a comprehensive discussion about botrytis and Ginestet would seem to hope that the popular term “noble rot” disappear from the lexicon. In fact, he points out that this isn’t what we normally would call “rot”, as it doesn’t attack dead tissue but living, healthy grapes. The grapes end up getting picked in two different categories of decrepitude, shrivelled and dessicated. This necessitates constant pickings, and the price of the product is a reflection of this reality.
You get a detailed report on the meteorology of the region as you would expect from a book covering a French region, as dependent on terroir as they are.
The language is what you expect from translated French, lugubrious and academic. It achieves this without becoming treacly or haughty. There are copious photographs, which give you a sense of the culture of the region. There are even 5 “savory dishes” recipes from regional chefs in French; recipes that utilize Sauternes in the dish.
I don’t recommend this book for people only getting into wine. This is for the intermediate wine enthusiast or better. It’s not that it’s above the head of a beginner, it just goes into more detail about a small but significant region of French wine, a region that the beginner might not even encounter, as most restaurants don’t even offer a Sauternes on their wine list. Additionally, it’s not a common book and might be difficult to find at a decent price (I was lucky enough to find mine for $3.00 – would I have piad $20 for it? Probably not, although for a wine expert it would be worth the price).
German wine has a bad rap among some of the wine-drinking public. “Too sweet”, they moan. “I don’t like dessert wines”, others declare.
In a lot of ways, Germany only has itself to blame. Thanks to the popular brands like Blue Nun and Liebfraumilch, German wines were known as cheap sweet white wines popular with unsophisticated young people and lovers of white zinfandel. Because of the high yield of Riesling and Müller-Thurgau, they were able to put those two brands in every cheap liquor store’s reach-in cooler.
But in the 80s, they started to turn this around. And the Mosel region was typical of this German resurrection. Even though they weren’t guilty of the above two wines, they recognized that the easy large yields of Riesling-based wines, coupled with the use of Müller-Thurgau and Elbing, diluted the great character that could be achieved in the region. As the wine-drinking public became more sophisticated and discerning in the 80s, this allowed the Mosel wine community to be able to justify pulling up Müller-Thurgau vines and replant with Riesling,while simultaneously thinning the existing vines to cut down the huge yields, all with the aim of increasing quality. Having several of the most recognizable vineyards in history help Mosel hit its stride with the increasingly sophisticated wine public.
Vintners also started to produce Trocken (dry) styles as well as reducing the sweetness and trying to preserve the natural acidity that Riesling exhibits. They were also given a big shot in the arm by the incredible three years of ’88, 89, and 90.
Today’sMosels have become far more consistent in their quality, although there are still some that pander to the old style of big, sweet and flabby. You don’t have to buy a Trocken style to get something that works well with food. If the acidity is there and the sweetness backed-off a hair, you can enjoy a Mosel with many dishes. It especially works well with shellfish. It also works well with cheese selections, creamy soups, glazed foods like ham or carrots, Asian foods with spiciness like Thai, Indian, Vietnamese, and certain Chinese dishes.
Mexican food works somewhat well if you decide that you want to drink wine instead of beer or tequila, and salads but i find that the food is generally a little too heavy for Riesling to work well.
Obviously most fish dishes work well, although I prefer to pair it with lighter, flakier white fish like grouper, halibut and sea bass, leaving such darker, steakier fish as tuna and salmon to pinot noir and chardonnay. This is just a personal preference though – Riesling works just fine with those fish. Fruit sauces and fruits incorporated in dishes work well, especially when you pair a Riesling with a certain fruit flavor like apple or peach with its corresponding fruit. I tend to avoid using anything less than a Beerenauslese with desserts. Some people like using Auslese with desserts, I’m just not one of those, unless I’m having berries. I just think that there are better choices.
Avoid heavy meat dishes with rich veal stock-based sauces, but feel free to pair with grilled meats.
I actually like to drink Mosels by themselves. If they have sufficient acidity, they can be very refreshing, especially in the spring and fall.
In the next installment, we’ll list some specific wines to look for.
I hope that these short essays give you the push to dig deeper into the world of wine. Obviously, they are only thumbnail sketches. And, don’t forget, if you’re just getting into waiting tables, or you’ve been in the business for years, your income can depend on how well you can describe and sell the wines that are available to you.
Wine has been cultivated in Germany since the Romans left outposts of their advancing armies and created settlements in the Mosel River, Rhine River and Eifel Mountains region. As the vineyards of Germany are about the most northerly of the world’s vineyards, the varieties of grapes that can be commercially grown for wine are limited. This is also the reason why all of the regions are based on rivers, which act as moderating influences, adding humidity, reflected heat and helping to create a variety of micro-climates. There are 13 official wine regions (Anbaugebeit) of which 6 are consider primary, Nahe, Rheingau, Pfalz (formerly known as Rheinpflalz), Mittlerhein (Middle Rhein), Rheinhessen and Mosel. The other 7 are considered “minor regions” (with the possible exception of Baden, which is, by volume, the third largest wine producing region in Germany), unless of course you’re a fan of those wines or you actually live there. The thing is, those of us in the Northern Hemisphere will rarely, if ever, see any product from those regions.
The Anbaugebeit is then divided into different Bereich, or districts.
The next official division down from Bereich is Grosslage, which is roughly similar to the French appellation (although Bereich could also be called similar as well, with Grosslage being an even smaller sub-region such as a town name) , followed by Einzellage (single vineyard) of which there are approximately 500, less than a fifth of which are of any real significance.
While there are a few examples of red wine, the predominate grape grown in Germany is white.
During this month, we are going to concentrate on each wine-growing region (Anbaugebiete) in Germany, starting with the Mosel-Saar-Ruwer region, named for the three rivers that provide the slopes and banks for growing.
The Mosel, known by the French as the Moselle is a river that runs north from the Vosges Mountains in southeastern France, forming the border between Germany and Luxembourg and finally emptying into the Rhine River at Koblenz.
Here you’ll find such famous vineyard names as Doctor, Sonnenuhr, Himmelreich and Würzgarten. But don’t be fooled – a vineyard designation doesn’t necessarily mean that all grapes from that vineyard have the exact same characteristics or quality, as micro-climate is extremely important in German viticulture.
While other varieties such as Müller-Thurgau and Grauburgunder are grown in the region, it’s Riesling that’s king of the mountain.
In the next installment, we’ll talk about the characteristics of Riesling. Since Riesling is the predominate grape in all of the major regions in Germany, we’ll discuss it globally, i.e. we’ll address the main characteristics and then discuss the differening characteristics of Riesling in the varied regions, so we don’t have to repeat ourselves as we survey the various regions.
Germany’s wine classification is pretty straightforward, as you might expect from a society that prizes order. And yet, it can be a little confusing to the neophyte, especially if someone is acquainted with the German language. For instance, how is it that a Trockenbeerenauslese is sweeter than a Spätlese? (I’ll explain this in a minute) Doesn’t Trocken mean dry in German? How is an Auslese sweeter than a Spätlese, because, doesn’t Spät indicate “late” and shouldn’t a “late harvest” wine be sweeter than something that’s not indicated as “late”?
Well, you’ll just have to put all that aside. The easiest way to remember how to think of the sweetness of German wines is to remember this sequence which is listed from less sweet to more sweet – Kabinett, Spätlese (late harvest), Auslese (select harvest), Beerenauslese (select berry harvest), Trockenbeerenauslese (select dried berry harvest), Eiswein (harvest of semi-frozen berries, i.e. “ice wine”).
We don’t really need to know very much about the official categories Tafelwine (table wine) and Landwine (country wine), because we rarely see these wines outside of Germany (and perhaps its immediate neighbors). Most of the wine that we see in the Western Hemisphere is Qualitätswein. This is divided into Qualitätswein bestimmer Anbaugebete (Q.b.A), quality wine from defined regions, and Qualitätswein mit Prädikat (Q.m.P) or more simply, Prädikatswein, wine with distinction.
The first listing of Kabinett, etc. are considered “distinctions” of Qualitätswein. The difference between Q.b.A and Q.m.P. is that Q.b.A is allowed to have additional sugar added (usually from reserved unfermented grape juice). This sort of practice of adding additional sugar was abused in the 70s by wines claiming to be Prädikatswein and this diluted the German brand to the point where the Germans cracked down on the practice of letting wines claiming to be “the best” adding extra sugar. Doing so would drop the classification down a rung (like a British football team being relegated to a lower league).
…Beerenausleses and above are always the latest of the harvest. This is the only way to get to the Oechsle levels required of wines above Auslese. Beerenauslese is basically “overripe” grapes that the “noble rot” Botrytis has started to attack. This concentrates the juice and makes it sweeter than normal. And now, as promised, we explain the Trocken (German for dry) in Trockenbeerenauslese. Trocken as used here refers to the state of the grape, not the sweetness of the wine. At this stage of harvest, the grape is almost entirely shriveled up, looking a lot like a raisin. so dry refers to the fact that there’s very little juice in the grape, which explains the very high price paid for the product. The last ‘distinction” and the sweetest, is Eiswine, the last grapes allowed to be harvested, grapes that are frozen on the vine. These wines are the most prized and are the equivalent to a great sauterne.
Confusing the issue even more is the presence of Trocken and Halbtrocken wines. These wines are fermented in a way that keeps the residual sugar lower than their brethren. Therefore, they are done in a dry or half dry style. They are still going to be slightly sweeter than a dry California chardonnay though.
There is also a way of indicating quality by capsule length or color, but this is a convention used by specific regions and/or Weingute and have no significance from a “classification” standpoint. There are also some famed vineyards like Doctor or the above pictured Ürziger Würzgarten. Discussing these, as well as regions, grape varieties (no, not all German wines are Rieslings, or even whites), specific vintages, or producers is beyond the scope of this post. Perhaps we’ll tackle them separately in future posts.
Should you always choose a Q.m.P over a Q.b.A? Not necessarily. There are some really fine wines in the latter category and they are good values. You should generally pay less for them than for Q.m.Ps though. BTW, I believe that Q.m.P is being phased out in favor of Prädikatswein, so, you might not be seeing the longer term any more.
This is a very misunderstood concept (as is Italian wine in general). I recently overheard it said that they were cabernets and cabernet blends, at which point another said, “No they are Italian varietals of very high quality” and the conversation touched on the “fact” that they were anything but sangiovese and that’s what made them “Super Tuscan”. All of this was both right and wrong.
Super Tuscan is a marketing term attributed to Robert Parker back in the 70s after several Tuscan vintners brokered the concept of rule-breaking in the late 60s. Their original idea was to bring a Bordeaux sensibility to Tuscany, using some of the famed Bordeaux blending grapes to add additional body and structure to sangiovese and other grapes used in famed Tuscan products and to try to expand the rather staid idea of what great Italian wine should be. At the time, the DOC (the Denominazione di Origine Controllata) and DOCG (the Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita) laid out the structure of classification of Italy’s better wines, much like the French system of AOC (Appellation d’Origine Contrôlée).
The grandaddy of all Super Tuscans is Tignanello, first bottled by Antinori in 1977. It introduced Cabernet Sauvignon as a blending grape, which excluded it from both of the previously stated categories (it couldn’t be called Chianti or Chianti Classico, for example). Because it didn’t fall into the specified parameters of the upscale classifications, it was relegated to the vino da taviola (table wine) category. Although it had been preceded by his relatives’ famous wine Sassicaia by a full 8 years, the Incisa della Rocchetta family usually doesn’t get the credit for creating the Super Tuscan category with Sassicaia. That seems to fall to Pieto Antinori, whose Tignanello’s addition of approximately 20% Cabernet Sauvignon to Sangiovese seemed to set the Italian world alight. Perhaps Sassicaia, with the 80% Cabernet was just too exotic and pricey to be revolutionary. Tignanello came in at a much lower price point and was closer to what most people thought of as “Tuscan” because it had a much lower percentage of outside grapes.
In any case, this was all fortunate in several ways. First of all, these vino da taviolas that weren’t just “inferior” versions of better wines or “wines that the peasants drank” became a source of interest because they were actually more expensive than the standard “classified” wines and were more full-bodied and exotic. So, Super Tuscan came to be a nickname that separated these from what most people knew as table wines. It also caused a new classification to be created, so that it could be included in a category elevated it past mere “table wine” category (does one really call a $200 bottle of wine “table wine”)? This new category was called IGT (Indicazione Geografica Tipica) and is found as a subset of vino da taviola. It basically allows a previously non-standard wine to be promoted as having the same strict standards found in the other two categories.
You generally don’t find the words Super Tuscan as a branding feature on the label. Sometimes you might find the importer using that term in the English back label. This is a category that you simply have to know about. It’s a fair bet that if the wine is listed as Tuscan or from Tuscany and it isn’t a “Chianti” of some sort or a Brunello or Barolo (the latter of which is actually from Piemonte but is sometimes confused with Tuscan), even if it’s 100% Sangiovese, it’s a Super Tuscan. This is something that you almost need to know by brand name, or be told by your wine rep or your Keeper of the Wine List person.
Tignanello, Sassicaia, San Martino, Fontalloro, Il Bosco, Vigorello (sometimes called the very first super Tuscan), Centine and Cortaccio.
This is only a smattering of the great names in Super Tuscans. It’s time to do your due diligence and hit the research road. I do hope that I’ve given you enough to give a concise answer to a guest who either asks, “Do you have any Super Tuscans” or “What does “Super Tuscan” mean”?
So, yesterday as I was typing my rambling tribute to my chef’s knife, unbeknownst to me, my DVR was recording a show on PBS whose title I found intriguing while breezing through the program guide – Gourmet’s Diary of a Foodie. And this morning I got around to watching it. In an amazing bit of syncronicity, there were two segments on Japanese knives and the theme of the show was about an appreciation for the less-than-modern aspects of the culinary world. There was a segment on alambic pot stills in Napa, a bit on “heirloom” locally grown vegetables in Paris, a pottery maker in Italy who still collects his own clay from the mountainsides. And, lo and behold, an actual segment on the mortar and pestle, a subject of one my earliest posts!
As it turns out, it’s not a new show. It’s in its 3rd season. I guess it’s new to this market. My local PBS station seems to be starting with the first season and the episode that I saw was The Hungry Luddite (episode 5). In looking at some of the shows, it looks like a permanent add to my “record every episode” list on my DVR.
The show is produced by the two people who produce No Reservations and has much of the same aesthetic.
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With three cameras to test, you need also three cameramen, as we wanted to do as many parallel shots as possible in order to be able to compare the shots directly. So we did the test with Andreas Gockel, myself, and Daniel Erb, who had gained already valuable experiences on HDV during one of his movies and he also kindly brought his HDV camera to the test. Because we wanted to also test the sound recording, Stefan Gilsing, our sound engineer and editor, took part. The most important thing during a test is careful documentation, so we decided to make a chart of the most important settings. In the cellar of 25p we made our charts for the sharpening and sensitivity test. Three camera models obviously also meant three menubars, and so we spent some time making sure that we had set all cameras to factory settings. We had problems with the small Sony HVR-A1E, a 1-Chip HDV camera, because this camera uses a touch screen monitor. We wanted to know if it is possible to use this small and cheap camera as a second unit during our project. Normally you don´t photograph grey cards and abstract samples in tests, and so we went outside the cellar into the daylight, and for the field recordings we selected a nearby traffic light crossing in the Prenzlauer Berg area. The first part of our test was the comparison Sony-HVR-Z1E + Movietube with the JVC GY-HD100. With the Movietube we could use the Movietube ST model held on the shoulder, with a Sony black-and-white viewfinder. At present the Movietube functions with the cameras which have fixed lenses (Panasonic and Sony), but doesn't fit on the JVC camera which has a interchangeable lens. The adjustment of the camera using the Movietube is not completely simple and requires a little exercise and patience. The English operating instructions helped us to solve our initial problems. After the preparation we stood with our two camera systems at the crossing: on one hand side the well designed JVC, which handles like a Digibeta; and on the other side the Movietube system with the Sony HDV and an extra Sony viewfinder. This was much more like a film camera system than a video one. We turned over some different shots with both cameras parallel and then - because we had only a Sony-Z1 available, the same shots with just the naked Sony without Movietube. One thing we wanted to find out with our test: how we can produce a picture with our video systems that comes close to looking like film. Critics of this approach normally answer: film is film and video is video and if you want a film aesthetic, you have to do it on film and not try to copy this on video. In some points these people are surely right, because for example the appearance of the film grain in the shots can perhaps be imitated but never reached completely by a computer algorithm inside your post-production unit.
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Here are some forms to use and look at when doing your risk management.
The ones to look at for guidance are called samples, the ones to use and fill in are called blanks.
Risk can be grouped into LEMONS - you can count lemons as you are journeying! Three lemons and you are putting yourself at serious risk.
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But if they did i believe they would have died sooner. DDHL is an intense keyboard mashing one level game. It’s quite entertaining though and was created on the Unity platform. Just don’t blame me when you break your keyboard.
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QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Facebook has blocked the page of former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa in what the firebrand leader is lambasting as part of a "brutal persecution."
When asked about the page's removal, a Facebook spokesperson said the social media company prohibits users from sharing private personal information like financial records that may "compromise the identity of people using our platform."
Correa has been posting information online about an offshore bank account allegedly used by the brother of Ecuador's current president, Lenin Moreno, to stash millions.
Moreno is Correa's ex-ally-turned-nemesis and has not been directly tied to the account.
On Twitter, Correa said his page's removal was "another show of desperation" over what he and others are dubbing the "INA Papers" scandal.
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Welcome to another week of new music! With no further ado, here’s what you can get your hands on this week…!
Badbadnotgood has teamed up with Ghostface Killah again to produce an entire album together, “Sour Soul“, following their collaborative success on 2014 single “Six Degrees”. This hotly anticipated album does not disappoint – with a mix of styles, attitudes and influences, this was bound to be something deemed pretty special. Ghostface delivers his urgent, unrelenting rhymes alongside hazy jazz/hip hop music to create a futuristic vibe. They’re in tune with each other, and this provides a most pleasurable listening experience.
Next up is someone whose music is a bit of a departure for me. Suzanne Sundfør‘s vocals bring to mind a mix between Kate Bush, Madonna and Stevie Nicks, and she couples that voice with modern electro-pop. Her new album, “Ten Love Songs” is so close to being a mainstream commercial product, but is somehow quite distant at the same time. Sundfør has chosen a difficult genre, inasmuch as it’s been tried and tested, but her unique touch will hopefully set her apart from those who are doing the same as we’ve heard before.
Ambient folk electronica. That’s how I’d describe Snow Ghosts. They’re on the verge of releasing their second album within 18 months, “A Wrecking“, and my goodness it is great. Strong, rousing, haunting vocals enhance dark, intimate, noisy, bizarre, droning, intriguing, beautiful music.
19 year old French-Cuban twins who go by the name of Ibeyi are scarily in tune with each other. No wonder they’ve decided to display their musical prowess in public! I’m going to let their music do the talking, as I occasionally do, but will just say I hope they keep up this momentum – it could be easy for such young people to lose the plot a bit. I’ve got a feeling these girls have it pretty sussed, though! Ones to watch, for sure. Check out their debut eponymous album here.
Lastly this week, I give to you S. Carey with his absolutely sublime EP, “Supermoon“. I am frequently drawn to piano music. When it’s intense and beautiful like this, it makes me feel indescribably emotional. There is no superflousness here. Every note means something. I can feel Carey’s heart and soul showing itself through his music. I like to ensure I make time in my world for people who have that ability.
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Last week I shared My favorites of 2017, and now I want to talk about books I am excited to read in 2018. 2017 was a great reading year for me and I hope 2018 will be the same.
Its described as Anastasia in SPAAAACEEEEEE! Her words not mine. I was a huge fan of Geekerella and I want to see what she could do with a Sci Fi.
I loved both An Ember in the Ashes and A Torch Against the Night. Also how A Torch Against the Night ended made me very excited to read the next book, also the wait is just killing me right now.
Why do most of my favorite book series always has long waits in between books. I loved the first two books and I am very excited to read this series.
A sequel to the Gentlemen’s Guide to Vice and Virtue, one of my favorite books of 2017. This time Felicity tells her story and I already loved her character and want to see how she does especially with piracy in the title.
Another sequel to one of favorties of 2017. The way the book ended I wanted to see where the characters go, and just judging by the premise it could be even better.
Zombies and the Civil War, of course I am excited for this book. I also would love to read more diverse books.
Vicious was one my favorite books of 2016, and learning that a sequel was going to happen made me excited.
Those are some of the books I am very excited to read in 2018. I know there’s a ton of other books coming out in 2018, and I may read them. What books are you excited to read in 2018? Let me know in comments below.
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As is often the case with Barbara Kingsolver’s novels, it took more time than I preferred to get hooked into Flight Behavior. But once engrossed, my persistence was proven worthwhile. Unlike her other novels, however, this one’s first chapter turned me off because it read like a steamy romance, something I was not expecting from a Kingsolver book. Luckily, the married protagonist’s early infatuation with a local boy is only a vehicle to push the story, rather than the substance of it.
In modern day Feathertown, Tennessee, Dellarobia Turnbow takes to the wooded hills behind her farm for a rendezvous with a local younger man, consumed with thoughts of leaving her husband and the gossip such a betrayal would generate in her small town. Though Dellarobia is mother to two beloved children, her potential for happiness is curbed by a lackluster marriage, the loss of her parents, and an endless string of almost-affairs. Despite the fervency of her selfish thoughts on this particular day, the outside world begins to force its way into Dellarobia’s consciousness as she notices strange clusters of dark matter hanging from tree limbs. Looking to the opposite hillside, the far off trees appear bathed in brilliant orange flame, causing her to abandon her plans for a lover’s tryst. This marks both the end of the first chapter and, fortunately, Kingsolver’s attempts at harlequin romance.
The inexplicable sight she witnessed soon becomes of crucial importance when Dellarobia’s father-in-law, Bear Turnbow, makes plans to log the hillside in a desperate attempt to pay off his ballooning debts. Dellarobia urges her husband Cub to take a look at the land before allowing his father to sell it off, alarmed by the mysterious sights she recently witnessed there but reluctant to voice the details for fear of giving her near betrayal away. When the whole family takes to the woods, encouraged by Cub’s conviction that Dellarobia’s advice was an act of God, they find the trees covered butterflies, millions of winged creatures colored in bold Halloween orange and black.
As news of the phenomenon of monarch butterflies settling in rural Feathertown spreads, scientists, activists, and members of the media alike head South in droves. Kingsolver verges on the romantic again when biologist Ovid Byron sets up shop in the Turnbow’s backyard – his deep knowledge of these butterflies and his generousity incite some significant swooning in Dellarobia. Byron teaches not only Dellarobia but also her budding-scientist son, Preston, about the butterflies and what their recently altered migratory patterns mean.
Under the veil of small town and family politics, Kingsolver fleshes out vast issues of global warming, social class, religion, and politics. The arrival of monarchs in Feathertown harks of a swiftly changing climate, however many of Feathertown’s locals routinely close their ears at the words “global warming.” Others, Dellarobia included, see such beauty in the monarchs, rendering it impossible for them to comprehend how such a spectacle of nature is actually a sign of sickness. While the significance of the changing migratory patterns of the monarchs is lost on many Feathertown residents, the changes it sets in motion for Dellarobia, from earning her own income to meeting like-minded people to discovering a passion for learning, become the source of conflict closer to home. Her interest in the butterflies becomes official with Dr. Byron hires Dellarobia as a research assistance, heightening tensions with Cub’s family who have long worried that Cub’s wife considered herself too good for their simple son and further dividing the loveless couple.
Though she never strays from Dellarobia’s side, Kingsolver’s relationship to her characters is remarkably tenuous. The stubborn ways of Dellarobia’s in-laws, their resistance to accept scientific fact, their inclination to profit off the havoc of nature by charging admission to monarch-seeking visitors all feel quite antagonistic under Kingsolver’s pen. But as we become party to the nuances of Feathertown and Turnbow politics, Kingsolver’s attitude toward the locals turns more sympathetic. This is made quite plain when an environmental activist corners Dellarobia with his schpeal about changes she can make in her daily life to reduce her negative environmental impact. Stricken by poverty, the lifestyle suggested by this green-minded man is one which Dellarobia and the vast majority of Turnbowians are already forced to adopt – reducing flying, buying secondhand clothing, eating less meat, repairing instead of replacing broken machines and household goods. The coldness of Dellarobia’s mother Hester reads as pure evil at first, but reveals itself as a product of protective instincts more than malice. And despite the frigidity of Dellarobia and Cub’s marriage, Kingsolver’s loyalty to Dellarobia does not prevent her from highlighting Cub’s virtues and kindnesses. Though she at times paints Dellarobia’s family and neighbors as too simple, stubborn or thoughtless, Kingsolver also recognizes the integrity of their way of life as well as the motivations behind their ways of thinking and being. It’s almost as though Kingsolver created characters in such a way that readers, and maybe even the author herself, would be challenged to develop simplistic, black and white attitudes toward them.
Though not exactly subtle, Kingsolver raises important and ultimately unavoidable questions through this elegant work of fiction. When Dr. Byron explains to Dellarobia the way in which these monarchs are a warning flag for the future of humanity, it is hard for readers to separate the worry Dellarobia feels for her children from that readers would hold for the young people in their own lives, facing a bleak future at the hand of environmental ruin. Kingsolver’s representation of Feathertown’s residents mirrors some of the widely-held attitudes toward Southerners and conservatives, but also challenges many of the associated stereotypes such that readers cannot help but consider their own private prejudices. In fact, Kingsolver challenges many of our preconceived notions about others in Flight Behavior. She encourages non-judgment and seeing things for more than what they at first appear to be by exploring the break down of us versus them mentalities. And her suggestion that such tiny things as the butterflies, their patterns and behaviors, could mean so much for the larger world is a deeply appreciated ode to mindfulness. By posing such heavy issues for consideration under the guise of (sort of) science fiction, Kingsolver makes it impossible for her readers to avoid thinking about these urgent problems.
There are certainly a few flaws I could site in Flight Behavior, including certain story lines left unexplored and others introduced for seemingly little reason. I imagine that over time, however, these things which felt like hiccups in Kingsolver’s brilliance will reveal themselves as totally minute or laced with meanings beyond my original comprehension. Either way, Flight Behavior was a beautifully written examination of the workings of nature, people and their differences, and how to understand both. And it’s another one to add to Kingsolver’s quite noteworthy collection.
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Among the items needed for a child to excel on the field is a healthy “sporting relationship” with his or her parents. That is, the dynamic created around the child’s sport – how parent and child interact before games, during games, and after games – is important. The fact is parents heavily influence their child’s self-esteem, particularly at a young age. And a healthy self-esteem can increase athletic enjoyment, dedication to training, determination on the field, and ultimately boost performance. The ways in which parents interact with their child, then, can make or break them as athletes.
A child with a strong sense of self-esteem will feel worthy and valuable, regardless of the outcome of today’s game. “I’m still a good person, even though today wasn’t my day.” This child will know that he is NOT his performance – a loss on the field doesn’t mean I’m a failure of a human being – and will still retain confidence in his ability to be successful in the future.
Under optimal conditions, one’s self-esteem should be built by acknowledging all of one’s abilities and competencies – one’s collective accomplishments and value – to form a solid foundation. And yet, one of the most dangerous (and frighteningly common) things an athlete, particularly a young one, can do is base the entirety of his self-esteem on the successful accomplishment of THIS match or THIS practice. “If I do well today, that means I’m a good player and a good person. If not, I’m a failure through and through.” Young athletes won’t come out and say this directly, but when they view sports in this manner, it is precisely how they feel. Imagine the inherent pressure that accompanies this approach to sports.
Self-esteem surely would not be such a pervasively discussed topic if it weren’t so critically important to us. But it is. So important, in fact, that we find novel ways of protecting it. For instance, if I am engaged in an activity that matters to me – a baseball player playing in his league’s championship game, a soccer player trying out for an elite travel team, a cheerleader competing in a national tournament – and I’m doing poorly, it can be tempting for me to make excuses. I may blame someone else. I may feign an injury or illness. I may simply give up, and stop putting in effort. It’s a highly self-protective mechanism: if I have someone or something to blame for my poor performance, then the fault never lies with me, and my self-esteem never takes a hit. I simply put my shield up and deflect responsibility onto my annoying opponent, or crazy parents, or nagging knee pain. And while this doesn’t justify the behavior, we as parents must appreciate the purpose behind it and subsequently learn how to handle such situations.
Below are five ideas that may help parents build a strong sporting relationship and foster the development of healthy self-esteem within their children.
1. Poker chips – Educator and speaker Richard Lavoie remarks that to enhance our children’s self-esteem, we must give them as many proverbial poker chips as possible. Highlight their accomplishments, point out positives, note their competencies. In other words, be a talent scout: that’s not to say we must falsely or inaccurately inflate our child’s ego, but we must work hard to identify the stuff they’re good at.
2. Know your role – The role of the youth sport parent is to encourage, support, and offer reminders based on the coach’s instruction in preparation for playing. The coaches should coach, and the parents should parent. A young person needs this kind of role clarity. When a parent begins to adopt the language and posture of the coach, it may become confusing or frustrating for the child. Every youth athlete should be afforded the luxury of having clear, honest, direct expectations of the roles of his parents and the roles of his coach.
3. Offer the right support – Researchers recently asked successful college athletes what their parents said that made them feel great and brought them joy when they played sports. The six words they most want to hear their parents say: “I love to watch you play.” Completely devoid of ego-inflating feedback (“You’re the best! You’re an all-star!”), and discouraging instructional feedback (“Why didn’t you turn your hips while swinging?” or “Here’s what you should really be working on for next game”).
4. Align your behaviors with your values – A person who claims that eating healthily is important to him while clutching a bagful of Skittles is not aligning his behaviors (unhealthy eating) with his values (eating well is important). Youth sports parents fall victim to this, too. Most parents insist that winning is not a top priority in their child’s sports participation. Rather, working hard and adopting a positive attitude are likely of greater priority. It seems head-scratching when the poor performance of a child, who is clearly working hard and trying to stay positive, is met with disappointed gestures or frantic instructional declarations from his parent…the same parent who claims that winning isn’t all that important! We must align our actions and feedback as parents around the successful accomplishment of what we claim are the important areas. When, in a child’s eyes, parental love and approval depend strictly on the adequacy of performance (“The better I play, the more love I’ll get”) sports are bound to be stressful.
5. Understand how your presence affects your child’s performance – Does it tend to make them play better? Worse? No affect at all? The only way to reveal this is through an open, honest, direct conversation with your children. If how you are treating your child on the field during competition, no matter how well-intentioned, is steering them away from a successful path, something has to change. Again, even if your intentions are good, if it doesn’t work for your child, it doesn’t work.
Hey Greg, great blog! Keep it up and I hope lots of parents read it! It made me think about how I spoke to Luca as a child athlete. He took losses hard because he was competitive and because everyone wants to win of course. He is no longer playing football or baseball at Wesleyan but I think he is happier and more relaxed as a result.
Thanks, Amy, so wonderful to hear from you! Wishing Luca the best as he separates from his college athlete self, sounds like a healthy change. Please send him my best, and I hope you all are well.
This is a great read – more parents need to read this…. Keep up the good posts!
I read a study that looked at thousands of college athletes. That was the #1 thing they wanted to hear from their parents. All they want to know is that you are proud of them no matter what, no matter what the final score was.
Hi, greg! You have a very awesome article. I might share this one to my friends who are athletes, too. Also to parents for proper guidance of sporting relationship like what you have mentioned. Good job!
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This year my nieces happened to come over on Father’s Day so we had a ready to go theme. They decorated frames for their Dad. I gave them homemade lockets with my Dad’s photo.
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Peaches. At first Parker ate them without any problems. Now he gags, spits them out and wants nothing to do with them.
We like pears much better.
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Well, we are finally getting the webpage back up and operating! Keep checking back for new pictures and updated information!
Here Mom and I were relaxing while visiting with Jack and Sharon Wood in their Motorhome while in Florida.
Check these links below to see pictures of our adventures!
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to 2002 Winter Olympics cross-country skiers.
This category is for cross-country skiers who competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States.
Pages in category "Cross-country skiers at the 2002 Winter Olympics"
This page was last edited on 31 October 2018, at 02:38 (UTC).
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It’s been a hectic couple of weeks here at Digital 2.0. We’ve moved into a bigger and somewhat shinier office space and it’s taking longer to make tea for everyone, which can only mean one thing! Children of the 80s have won the ‘Geek Factor’ competition and now the real work begins on developing the game so you lovely people are a step closer to having a go. So far we have a mini game called ‘Fruit Catcher’ that everyone in the office is hopelessly addicted to, with a bit of healthy internal competition to see who can get the highest score! There is nothing funnier than a grown adult yelling ‘I need a green apple!’ at a computer screen. Well, ok, there are probably plenty of funnier things out there but you get the idea. Hopefully this has whetted your appetites for the launch of the game at the end of October, if not these screen shots should grab your attention!
The ‘Fruit Catcher’ mini game we’re all hopelessly addicted to. Catch as many red fruit as possible and green fruit for time bonuses, but make sure you avoid those insects!
Or add us on facebook, we go by the name Reinventing Learning for Digital Play.
This entry was posted in WeForest Game and tagged environment, reforestation, social games, trees, WeForest. Bookmark the permalink.
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This entry was posted on August 14, 2011 at 9:47 am and is filed under Fun, Sporting fanaticism. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
I think I am right in saying that Germany has outperformed England in every World Cup since 1966 and every European Championship with the exception of 2000 and 2004.
But here’s the rub. Remember the 4-1 drubbing at the last World Cup? How many of the German team would (on playing record) have got into the England side? Because I think the answer is very close to zero.
1) Actually, everyone forgets the 1968 European Championships: England came third, Germany didn’t qualify. Otherwise, Patrick is correct.
2) The 4-1: the German manager was paid ONE THIRD of the wages his England counterpart received. Expectations in Germany were quite modest: last 8 was considered a fair target. England’s expectations were outsized.
Ambition is fine, a delusional belief that just turning up and screaming “BELIEVE” is a substitute for preparation, skills and tactics is not.
My view is that the approach taken by the ECB in most of the past 10 years and of the RFU from about 1997-2003 would, if applied by the FA, have produced a lot better results than the shambles we’ve seen.
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My father Terrel and mother Charlotte Taylor and son Jacob.
I believe Jesus Christ has given my father and my son the Spiritual Gift of Generosity. Don’t know how it skipped a generation, but I see the same qualities in my dad and son and I attribute this extraordinary generosity to the Holy Spirit. I’ve grown up seeing my dad give away cars to missionaries, jobs to the homeless and destitute, allow people to live in his rental properties, and even in my parents’ home. Now I’m watching Jacob grow up with this same kind of bent toward giving away what he has to others generously. Like my dad, he manages his money and gives it away when needs arise. After the earthquake in Haiti, with no prompting from me or Jill, Jacob gave money to Red Cross for relief efforts. He regularly shows willingness to give freely, and I believe God will continue to use him and this gift. In a recent sermon on Spiritual Gifts I addressed the children and their Spiritual Gifts, assuring them that God’s Spirit blows where it wants, and if he wants to gift you before baptism, he can come upon and gift anyone he very wells wants to.
I believe Jesus Christ gave my friend Terry Smith has the Spiritual Gift of Encouraging. This is a seriously needed gift in a world where people find themselves in messes constantly.
If I found myself lying on the ground and had committed the worst sin I’d ever done, I would like to see one of a couple people looking down at me while I lay on the ground: Jesus or Terry Smith.
That’s how important this gift of encouraging is. Encouraging is the gift of taking someone like the woman at the well who was not truly living and give her living water. Encouraging is the gift of meeting a sinner where he is and saying, “Where are your accusers? Go and leave your life of sin.” When an encourager like Terry says this, you leave feeling that you have not been judged but loved. Loved with unconditional love that is a picture of what God’s love is and does in us all.
I want to invite you to come see me at the Kibo Group display at the Tulsa Soul-Winning Workshop Thursday, 2 pm. I’ll be signing books and hosting another author who will be signing as well, Phil Smith.
Phil Smith is author of the phenomenal book, The Poor Will Be Glad. The book is a call for Christians to stop living so luxuriously and give our wealth to the poor. Since 2002 Phil has been focusing on doing good works that God has prepared in advance for him to do, according to Ephesians 2:8-10. He has been president of two large companies but now spends his time as a philanthropist and proponent for micro-loans. He also wrote a book called A Billion Bootstraps. He believes some of the charity that’s done abroad does more harm than good and we ought to focus on job creation, business development, and micro-loans, among other things. I would like to introduce you to him.
Come out and see us at 2 pm, Thursday, March 24, 2010. That’s 16 years to the day when we landed in Entebbe, Uganda.
Others I want you to meet at the Kibo display are Terri Taylor, my sister who lived and worked in Uganda and is an enthusiastic supporter of women in Uganda. She will be offering Ugandan beads for sale and will also have my book, High Places, for purchase. All proceeds go to Kibo Group.
I want you also to meet a guest from Uganda who will be at the workshop: Roy Mwesigwa. Roy was our first language helper and cultural informant and friend in Uganda. We have known him for 16 years and we love and respect Roy very much and so glad he’s coming to see us. We’d love for you to meet him.
Gene Rogers and Bob Schweikhard paint handicap parking spots in the parking lot at Green Country Event Center, our Garnett Church of Christ meeting place.
My friend Gene Rogers has the gift of service. Bob Schweikhard, a long-time servant at Garnett Church of Christ, has been mentoring Gene for the last year. They’ve done tons of projects together and get a lot done both around the Green Country Event Center facility, for church members, and neighbors. I truly believe Christ has gifted these two men with the Spiritual Gift of Service.
Listening to Dan Threlkeld who says the snow storm is weakening. We’re going to stick with worship at 10 am at Garnett. But classes canceled to give more time for warm up, arrival and prep of sidewalks. Worship only at 10 am is the call right now as of Saturday night. No classes at 9 am.
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Fans of the golden scones, crusty sour baguettes and delicate, savory pizza from Arizmendi bakery can now save themselves a trip to Oakland's busy Lakeshore Avenue. The venerable collective, which also operates the Cheese Board in Berkeley and another Arizmendi shop in San Francisco, has opened a store in Emeryville.
The newest addition to the Arizmendi family, on San Pablo Avenue near the Oaks Card Club, is similar to its cousins but with its own twist to suit the new clientele, location and personalities of the worker-owners.
In addition to the standard array of muffins, scones and bread, it offers a few tantalizing pizza recipes not in rotation at the other shops, such as smoked mozzarella, ratatouille and fresh basil; wild mushroom, goat cheese and porcini oil; zucchini, sweet onion, chili, queso fresco and cilantro pesto; and a customer favorite, curry apple, walnut and beet. It also serves one familiar to all Arizmendi/Cheese Board pizza fans, who must number in the tens of thousands: caramelized onions, ricotta cheese and basil-spinach pesto.
As a bonus, 80 to 90 percent of the ingredients used at the new Arizmendi are organic, said worker-owner Linda Kallenberger. They also try to use seasonal products and work with farmers' markets, bartering bread for local produce.
But like the other bakeries, the newest Arizmendi operates as its own separate collective under the umbrella of the Development and Service Cooperative, which oversees all the bakeries. Each store is owned by the workers and decisions are made democratically, usually by consensus. At the new Arizmendi, there are nine worker-owners and four trainees, who will work there for six months and then have the option of buying in to the business for $5,000, if they pass muster with the other workers.
Although each store is run independently, customers can rest assured the baked goods are stamped with the collective's trademark: the bread is made from the same sourdough starter that's been used at the Cheese Board for decades.
"When we got our bucket of starter, it felt very special," Kallenberger said.
The move to San Pablo Avenue is a departure from the collective's other stores, which are in neighborhoods with heavy foot traffic. In Emeryville, Arizmendi is surrounded by sprawling parking lots and mega chain stores such as Home Depot and Pak'n Save.
The collective didn't plan on expanding into chain store central -- it was invited.
Neighbors around that stretch of San Pablo started complaining to the city about the proliferation of chain stores, and told the city council they want more small, independent businesses like Arizmendi, said Kallenberger.
So the city council took them at their word and invited Arizmendi to set up shop, with the help of a $350,000 grant. About a year later, Arizmendi was born.
"The neighborhood people really appreciate us," said Kallenberger. "They really want us to succeed. And business is starting to pick up."
With cars whizzing by at 30 mph and very few pedestrians, it's been tough getting started, Kallenberger said. Matters weren't helped when the potted trees out front were stolen. But with Pixar around the corner, dozens of businesses on Hollis and Park streets and new housing in the neighborhood, the lunch business is catching on.
"It's improving," she said. "The people around here are great. I think it'll be fine."
The new Arizmendi is located at 4301 San Pablo Ave., Emeryville. Pizzas run $15 for a whole pie, $8 for half (both available as half-baked pies) and $2 per slice. Phone: (510) 547-0550. Hours: Tuesday - Friday 7 a.m.-7 p.m., Saturday 8 a.m.-7 p.m., and Sunday 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Crabby cooks: Chefs are known to be a bit crabby sometimes, but a few of the East Bay's finest will show exactly how crabby they can be in the annual Crabby Chef Competition in the Spenger's parking lot on Oct. 26.
In the "Iron Chef"-type contest, chefs will have 20 minutes to create a crab dish. A panel of judges will pick a winner. The event is free, but proceeds from the food booths will go to the Berkeley Historical Society.
The event will be from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., with the contest at 2 p.m.
Food booths will offer cooked crab, crab cakes, clam chowder and other seafood choices. Beer and wine will also be for sale.
Spenger's Fresh Fish Grotto, The Dead Fish and Walnut Creek Yacht Club.
Spenger's is at 1919 Fourth St., Berkeley. Call (510) 845-7771 for more information.
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https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Arizmendi-bakery-collective-rises-in-Emeryville-2583403.php
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Very excited to reveal the cover of A Good Wife. Do you like it? I love it!
What’s really nice is Smashwords allows you to download the first 15% for free, and with luck Amazon should let you read a few pages.
Congratulations! Love the cover. Hope I will be able to add it to my reading list.
The cover is stunning! Congratulations on the new book – will definitely go check it out!
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2019-04-21T06:10:28Z
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https://cleohorton.wordpress.com/2015/08/19/a-good-wife-reveal/
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1 week ago April 16, 2019 in accidents, Bulli Railway Station, Uncategorized.
Official handing over the Bulli Railway Station keys to the Black Diamond Heritage Centre, September 23 1990. From left: Lana Chilby (near door), Rita Roberts (Black Diamond Heritage Centre life member), Bulli Station Master, Tom Mumford and Sharon Crawford on the eastern or downside platform. Photo: Mick Roberts Collection.
October 9, 2018 in Bulli Railway Station, Uncategorized.
August 27, 2018 in Bulli Railway Station.
April 29, 2015 in Bulli Coal Mine Disaster, Bulli Railway Station, pubs, tourism.
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https://lookingbackwithmickroberts.wordpress.com/category/bulli-railway-station/
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Aljoscha Roch joins the Departments of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, and MSU’s Fraunhofer USA Center for Coatings and Diamond Technologies as assistant professor.
He is an international expert in 3D printing technology and material development for printing processes. He is working with Fraunhofer USA in East Lansing, Mich., to build up printing competencies in 3D printing technology and flexible printing processes with an aerosol printer.
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https://research.msu.edu/3d-printing-innovator-joins-msu/
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in order to slay snake-headed Medusa.
gifts of myrrh, flowers and olive oil.
but with the tectonic plates of the earth.
like seeds. My back would bear wings.
who might tell me to heed blind men.
I could use the stars as stepping stones.
the unfortunate, in an effort to end hate.
straight from the head of Zeus.
them one by one into enlightenment.
SOURCE: This poem has been accepted for publication by Kind of a Hurricane Press and is forthcoming in an anthology entitled Reflections.
IMAGE: “Pallas Athena” by Gustav Klimt (1898).
NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: In 2014 I began an effort to raise money for a local food pantry by canvassing people I knew to challenge me to write a poem based on a word or a theme. Various people donated money for that effort. This particular poem was written in response to the word “enlightenment.” I also was listening to a CD of Ovid’s Metamorphosis at the time, hence the Greek mythology.
Caroline Johnson has two poetry chapbooks, Where the Street Ends and My Mother’s Artwork. In 2012 she won First Place in the Chicago Tribune’s Printers Row Poetry Contest, and is a Pushcart Prize nominee. She has published poetry in Lunch Ticket, Red Paint Hill Journal, Encore, Chicago Tribune, Uproot, The Quotable, Rambunctious Review, Kind of a Hurricane Press, Blast Furnace, Origins Journal, Naugatuck River Review, and others. She has led workshops for veterans and other poets on such topics as Poetry and Spirituality, Speculative Poetry, and Writing About Chicago. She is currently seeking a publisher for her full-length poetry manuscript on caregiving.
PHOTO: The author enjoys looking for ideas for poetry and enlightenment. Her all-female book club is entitled “Goddesses.” Photo taken in San Miguel, Mexico (January 2016).
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I’ll do a playlist about all the new song that pop out on the 100 chart. I’ll also giv my impression about it for the sake of not wasting time with dull song and stuff, and also becausee I want to.
Anyway, there’s one thin I realize : There’s many “different” Melon Chart (there’s even one only for OST, gosh). I realize I’m using the total one, that means it’s OST songs with “regular” ones. You’ve surely seen by now that I don’t really like OST song. That said, it happened here and there, in my life, that I actually liked a few. And I feel that, for the sake of mmmm, I don’t know, but like I prefer knowing what’s trending in Korea, and I mean ALL of the song that are trending. I’ll put a little OST next to those song now though.
That’s said, I’ll do only the “regular” one on my French website (that I didn’t updated for a long while – that said, you’ll be able to check out the list if you want to since the artist and the name of the song aren’t tranlasted in French) and I’ll do both for the Newbies section.
One other thing : I realize the suggestions change everyday. Now I don’t have time to check the chart everyday and I didn’t find a section on the website where they put all the suggestion together, so I’ll just put the one I see when I check the chart.
89. F-Ve Dolls – Can You Love Me?
My impression about the two first song is here; about Ailee’s and A.T’s song here.
Street Life is good too. I wasn’t expecting anything since it comes from a Music Show with new talent, but I really enjoyed the jazzy feel of it. The girl’s voice is really pretty.
The Sweden Laundry song is not that great, but the band is interesting. I’ve checked out some other songs they made, it’s really good and different.
Bizniz’ Get It Wet is good. Took me some time to like it though since it’s a bit “upbeat agressive” somehow.
Curious, from What Women Want, is not that great, but I wanted to say that the aquarium in MV is SOOO awesome.
Takers’ Troublemakers is good, the MV is coming out soon so it might go up the chart a bit at that time. The two last song are good too, but not outstanding.
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A Moot Court is a competition for legal educational purposes. The Ben Telders International Law Moot Court, named after the famous Dutch expert on International Law "Ben Telders", revolves around a ficti case in Public International Law. It is separated into a written memorials stage and an oral pleadings stage. During the written memorials stage, the students prepare a memorial on behalf of the applicant and the respondent, based on a fictitious case.
The oral pleadings stage consists of pleading the case in front of judges during simulated trial rounds against other teams from various universities. First the students need to pass the regional round in Germany, and afterwards, if the team wins the regional round, it will then compete in the semi-final/final rounds in The Hague, Netherlands against students from all over Europe. The final will be held in the Great Hall of Justice in the Peace Palace in The Hague. The preparation for the oral rounds includes video analysis and intensive lan-guage training. The students will thereby improve their language skills and improve their confidence in presenting. In order to achieve this purpose many pleadings will be held in front of professors, lawyers and practitioners.
During the complete competition the participating students will be coached by the Institute of Air and Space Law/ Chair for Public Interna-tional Law, European Law and International Economic Law.
Then send your application to the Institute of Air and Space Law including a cover letter, curriculum vitae, evidence of your English skills and your interests in Public International Law and any other relevant information. In depth knowledge of Public International law is not necessary.
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The Polymoog is a polyphonic analog synthesizer that was manufactured by Moog Music from 1975 to 1980. The Polymoog was based on divide-down oscillator technology similar to electronic organs and string synthesizers of the time.
The name Polymoog can refer either to the original Polymoog Synthesizer (model 203a) released in 1975, or the largely preset Polymoog Keyboard (model 280a) released in 1978.
The Polymoog has a 71-note weighted Pratt & Reed touch-sensitive keyboard divided into three sections with a volume slider for each. It also has a three-band resonant graphic equalizer section, which can be changed to a low/bandpass/high-pass filter. The Moog-designed 24 dB filter section allows modulation modulated from its own envelopes, low frequency oscillation and sample and hold circuit. Ranks and waveforms of all notes are also adjustable combining waveforms, octaves, tunings, and their own independent LFO rates and amounts. The user can adjust the instrument's sounds, and it offers presets named "strings", "piano", "organ", "harpsichord", "funk", "clav", "vibes", and "brass". Presets were factory created as physical circuit cards and may be modified for live performance using Var(iation) buttons, triggering a red dot next to the preset number in the display.
The design of the Polymoog is a hybrid of the electronic organ and the synthesizer using divide-down technology, much like other string synthesizers of the time. Unlike later 1970s polyphonic synthesizers, such as the Yamaha CS-80 and Sequential Circuits Prophet-5, the Polymoog cannot create each voice from individual oscillators and filters, or store sounds programmed by the user. Although criticized for its limited programmability, high purchase price of $5295 and reliability issues, the Polymoog Synthesizer was popular with musicians of the period, and its unlimited polyphony was considered revolutionary upon its initial release.
The Polymoog Keyboard 280a is a stripped-down version of the original 1975 Polymoog. The two are similar in appearance, sharing the same case and keyboard. The right-hand control panel is absent, while the left-hand panel has only a few sliders, giving the user less control over the sounds. The Polymoog Keyboard features more presets than its predecessor: "vox humana", "string 1", "string 2", "electric piano", "piano", "honky tonky", "clav", "harpsi", "brass", "chorus brass", "pipe organ", "rock organ", "vibes", and "funk". Control over these presets is limited to octave balance, envelope attack, and LFO modulation depth and rate. The lower two octaves may also be split off to play a separate bass tone, with some control over this tone allowed via a dedicated bass filter. Filter control of the main preset sounds is not user adjustable other than via an external controller. The Polymoog Keyboard was less expensive than its predecessor, being priced at $3995 in 1979. The best known of the presets on the Polymoog Keyboard is "Vox Humana", which was not present on the original Polymoog. This preset forms the basis of the electronic string sound in the work of Gary Numan.
An optional foot operated controller known as the Polypedal (model 285a), with control voltage jacks, interfaces with the back panel. It allows the user to switch between single and multiple triggering of envelopes, and controls for pitch, filter, and sustain.
Gary Numan was one of the Polymoog's most recognizable users. The electronic string sound featured prominently on the track "Cars" and most of the album The Pleasure Principle became his signature sound in the late 1970s and early 1980s. A Polymoog is shown in his music video for "Cars" as well as in live performances on Top Of The Pops and The Old Grey Whistle Test.
A Polymoog provided the backing lead to Cliff Richard's 1979 hit "We Don't Talk Anymore". The Polymoog features prominently in the accompanying music video.
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As this is being republished later in the year in the SF Masterworks series, I thought that I’d review it just now. Make myself seem up to the minute, y’know? Although… “up to the minute” might be stretching it, given the books original publication in 1975.
The Female Man is explicitly a feminist science fiction novel. It uses the device of four (loosely speaking, they differ in time) parallel worlds to explore gender roles by challenging each of the main characters from each of these pre-conceptions of femininity.
The four worlds are: Joanna’s world, which would have been roughly contemporary with the readers in 1970; Jeannine’s world where the Great Depression had never ended; Janet’s world (or Whileaway), a futuristic utopia, where all men were killed in a plague, which, despite having access to high-technology (not least the ability to reproduce by merging ovum), is largely agrarian. The environmental concerns expressed here reminded me a little of some of the backdrops to Ursula LeGuin’s work (and, of course, LeGuin often foregrounds sociological themes herself). Finally, theres is Jael’s world, where a civil war between men and women, literally a battle of the sexes, has been raging for 40 years.
Writing this out, I realise that all of this could sound didactic, cold or humourless. I don’t think it is, although I have plenty of sympathy with the author. If you’re the type who, on hearing the word “feminist” immediately shouts “man-haters” (if you’re clever, “misandry”), or makes a witticism about dungarees, then you aren’t likely to enjoy this. However, even if you don’t agree with her politics, but are willing to examine your own beliefs, Russ has written and interesting and, importantly, stylish novel.
“MC: When the-ah-the plague you spoke of killed the men on Wileaway, weren’t they missed? Weren’t families broken up? Didn’t the whole pattern of life change?
How do the women of Whileaway do their hair?
You couldn’t imagine such a vacuous question being asked of a woman from a parallel future nowadays, could you?
Joanna’s world, most clearly a representation of ours, sees Joanna attempting to free herself from the constraints of being a woman at this time. She wants to be taken seriously a person and not forced to conform to what other people think she should be, not to submit to male dominance. This is where the title The Female Man comes from. She wants to redefine herself so that she is respected on her own terms.
Jael, in the novel, is less driven by emotion than the other three main characters, as she comes from a world with a literal war of the sexes, she has become hardened and it is her who engineered the four women meeting.
Beyond the wide understanding of the history of SF that I think this novel has, it has many other literary allusions, an obvious one being John Stewart Mill, further (and I confess that I had to look this one up, not being overly familiar with the Bible), the name “Jael” itself, is a reference to Yael in the bible, also a female assassin.
The other thing to note about The Female Man is that, while it is blazing with righteous anger, it does actually have (an admittedly prickly) sense of humour. I sometimes wonder if, when describing such things as being “humourless,” what they mean is that it’s not a humour that they share, or one that offends or challenges them too much.
The obvious question to ask when you finish reading one of this books is: “is it a masterwork?” In the case of The Female Man I think, yes, it is. It features challenging (if arguably out-dated, though not to say worthless, naturally 21st century feminism is grounded in this stuff) ideas and, in the context of its time, would certainly have turned heads. Also, it has plenty of SFnal ideas. The multiverse and the question of how time-travel paradoxes (which would be necessary to get Janet Evason to visit the US in the late 1960s/early 1970s) is explored early on, for example. The answer being given that there would be no paradox as if you were to go backwards in time, the future you would return to wouldn’t be your own. It would be one which already featured any alterations you made, while your original time-stream would still exist. The four parallel worlds also necessitate a non-conventional narrative style. The points of view in the novel jump around which do ask a little from the reader. This helps to keep the work fresher than a simpler structure perhaps would. It also, in places, utilises a stream of consciousness style of narrative – this perhaps won’t appeal to all but, again, I think it does help sustain interest in the novel.
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Are you kidding? The talk-show circuit would be all over them like a rash, desperate to other them as bull dykes and reassert “traditional” femininity in the face of this alarming outside influence. If they were lucky, they’d be a freak show; if they were unlucky, they’d be considered a threat right away and put under military supervision “for their own protection”. We’re in a better place than the seventies with respect to equality among genders, but don’t kid yourself that we’re as egalitarian as we like to imagine ourselves to be.
But, hell yes, in my own cack-handed way that was the point I was attempting to make. You’re right – whilst there are some barriers that have been removed, reading this novel is actually a pretty depressing experience when you consider how little some things have changed. When I see/read some things the phrase “complicit in your own oppression” springs to mind.
For that very reason, I really hope that this novel finds a new readership come republication in November.
Yeah, that jumped out at me too. I immediately thought about how America’s first lady Michelle Obama, despite having a degree from Harvard Law School, is always asked about: hairstyles, clothes, and children.
The sarcasm didn’t jump out at me there. But yes, good review! Glad you liked the book.
Indeed! It’s an excellent novel, has a lot to recommend it. I’m glad it’s getting republished – I have to confess that I only became aware of it from, of all places, a pull-out in the Guardian a couple of years ago (IIRC Michael Moorcock recommended it). I think it still has a lot to say, and not only that, it’s an interesting read, with some nice Joycean stream of consciousness going on (OK, I’ve just finished read A Portrait of the Artists as a Young Man).
Haha…I thought about making that paragraph a bit longer to include an example (much like your Michelle Obama one – that’d be perfect to illustrate the point, actually, on several levels). But I think it’s probably best if I let the comments here deal with my failure!
Yeah I was wondering last night why Ty wasnt the first point off the bench. If you have J.R. Smith, Birdman, and Lawson coming in the game to change the pace, it would be something to see. A fast pace, high energy squad wh2;o8#17&s game would complement each other would definitely change the game. Karl must really not trust Ty or like old guards who look bad against everyone in the league. Hold on, that thought process sounds kinda familiar.
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In geometry, a set of points in space are coplanar if there exists a geometric plane that contains them all. For example, three points are always coplanar, and if the points are distinct and non-collinear, the plane they determine is unique. However, a set of four or more distinct points will, in general, not lie in a single plane.
Two lines in three-dimensional space are coplanar if there is a plane that includes them both. This occurs if the lines are parallel, or if they intersect each other. Two lines that are not coplanar are called skew lines.
Distance geometry provides a solution technique for the problem of determining whether a set of points is coplanar, knowing only the distances between them.
denotes the unit vector in the direction of a. That is, the vector projections of c on a and c on b add to give the original c.
Since three or fewer points are always coplanar, the problem of determining when a set of points are coplanar is generally of interest only when there are at least four points involved. In the case that there are exactly four points, several ad hoc methods can be employed, but a general method that works for any number of points uses vector methods and the property that a plane is determined by two linearly independent vectors.
is of rank 2 or less.
is of rank 2 or less, the four points are coplanar.
In the special case of a plane that contains the origin, the property can be simplified in the following way: A set of k points and the origin are coplanar if and only if the matrix of the coordinates of the k points is of rank 2 or less.
A skew polygon is a polygon whose vertices are not coplanar. Such a polygon must have at least four vertices; there are no skew triangles.
A polyhedron that has positive volume has vertices that are not all coplanar.
Weisstein, Eric W. "Coplanar". MathWorld.
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– Includes a survey of statelessness in the Americas generally.
IDMC’s Global Overview 2012 reports that “Colombia is the country with the largest population of IDPs, with estimates from the government and civil society ranging from 4.9-5.5 million.” For more, read the individual country profile.
– Project is now in its third phase; see recent financing report.
– Comment on event held in Amman that explored concepts of humanitarian action.
– Overview of a simulation undertaken to assess UNRWA policy options.
– An Executive Summary in English is provided on pp. 15-21.
– Collection of “publications from 1st international conference for students at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Latvia,” Riga, 15-17 March 2012; scroll to p. 26 for a/m paper.
– See also related speech by UNHCR’s Director of the Regional Bureau for Africa.
– Country factsheets are available for Algeria, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia.
– See also related speech.
– I posted a link earlier to the final report for this project but neglected to mention that National Reports are also available; follow the link to access them from the list on the left.
– Particularly relevant ones are “Dublin” Cases and Interim Measures.
– See also related AP story.
– Mix of articles, with several on Palestinian refugees in Syria. Individual articles can be accessed here.
– Note: A link to the text of the HC’s remarks to the UN Security Council was originally included, but now seems to have been removed.
– Includes link to text of AHC’s speech to the UN Human Rights Council.
– See also related press release.
– Conference materials include a speech by the Vice President of the Conseil d’État; a speech by the President of the Conseil National des Barreaux; and a keynote address by UNHCR’s Director of International Protection at a roundtable on social group.
– Scroll to p. 15.
– Re-issued version of this May 2012 report.
– See related news story.
– Discusses the findings reported in “Just Tell Us What Happened to You: Autobiographical Memory and Seeking Asylum,” Applied Cognitive Psychology, vol. 26, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 2012).
– See also text of El Kott judgment and UNHCR’s oral intervention.
– Highlights portraits from UNHCR’s Instagram feed.
– See also related IRIN news story and RI blog post.
– Scroll to p. 55.
New Publication on the Middle East, esp. Syria.
– Photos of African refugees in Yemen.
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Tools -> Import – you can read our full guide on importing here.
You will select the WordPress Importer from this page. Select “Run Importer”.
Choose the file you just saved and select “Upload File and Import”.
Check the box next to ‘Download and import file attachments’. It will fetch images from your Weebly website into your WordPress.com media library.
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During the closing years of the civil war, northern troops stationed in the south who smoked pipe tobacco grew fond of a mild variety of American tobacco called bright. This local tobacco was processed by John Ruffin Green at Durhams Station, North Carolina. Green shredded his tobacco for pipe smoking and sold it in small muslin, cloth bags with a picture of a Bull on the side of it.
At the end of the war the soldiers went home and J. Green began receiving letters from them requesting more of his tobacco. The market grew, and Bull Durham tobacco, with an aggressive advertising campaign, quickly became a recognized national product. It was reputed to be the largest tobacco processing manufacture in the world, employing over a thousand people in a single building.
At the same time, farther west, in another small Carolina town called Winston were two other tobacco manufactures. They produced chewing tobacco. Chewing tobacco was popular and sold in plugs.
A plug is a rectangular block of pressed tobacco, a few inches square and about one-quarter of an inch thick. It was a size such that the plug could be carried in a pocket, and pieces could be bitten off to chew.
Pleasant Henderson was selling almost a million pounds of plug tobacco a year. The plugs had names such as Missing Link, Mans Pride, and Bugle Boy. Henderson became rich on tobacco sales, then sold his company; lock, stock, and barrel, to the other Winston tobacco company owned by J.R. Reynolds. The fact that Bull Durham had cornered the market for smoking tobacco may have influenced his decision.
Pleasant Henderson now invested his fortune in a new business. His new company manufactured mens underwear; long johns, shorts, and later knit socks. Pleasant Hendersons full name is found in his advertisement slogan, Gentleman Prefer Hanes. Pleasant Henderson Hanes turned his tobacco fortune into an underwear fortune.
As far as known there is no health hazard from wearing underwear and there is no record of anyone smoking underwear. What about that.
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Santa will be making a stop at the Cultural Arts Center very soon and you can visit him!
Late and non-resident registration is open from today through Dec. 8 for Breakfast and a Visit with Santa, which takes place Dec. 17. The annual family friendly event allows attendees to enjoy a breakfast, cookie decorating, holiday carols, a Buster Balloon show and a special treat from Santa.
Seating is limited and all children 10 years of age and younger must be accompanied by a paid adult. There will be no walk-up registration on the day of the event. The event takes place from 9 a.m. to noon, with breakfast being served until 9:30 a.m. Tickets are $20.
Walk-in and phone-in registration will take place at the Community Services registration office at 3031 Torrance Blvd from Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The offices are closed every other Friday.
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Business Consultants || Management Consultants Roles & Contributions To Make India Business Leader As global Business Equations Are changing and world is looking towards India For All prospects. Previous To This, On global Level There was dominance of MNC’s but due to changing dynamics, opportunities are coming to Asian leaders like china India etc.This We looks as an junction & Transition Point where several Global Business dynamics may take totally U Turn.In such a situation The Roles of Strategic Business Consultants or Strategic Management Consultants Role becomes more vital & Torch Bearers For Industry.
However there are several calling name for business consultants. Some May call Then Management Consultant Some May Call Them Corporate Consultants Or Some May Call Strategy Consultants.We Have to look with new glass about emerging scopes ,Roles & Responsibilities for Business Consultants Or Management Consultants.
A Details Analytics is presented here that how Business Consultants / Management Consultants / Corporate Consultants may become instrumentals For 360 Degree Strategic Strengthening Of Business practices & quality, Business efficiency & Global Expansion Of Indian Business Firms.
Time Has Come when Indian business community have to take initiative to expand their business not merely On Pan India Level But On Global Level. Most Of The Indian Companies are still Have Encircled & Limited vision to lead Business Only In India. India Inc Now have to flex their muscle to lead global business communities and have to expand their operation Across world.Let’s See The emerging roles of Consulting Professionals For Shaping India’s Business Vision.
A Business Consultants Or Management Consultants is an expert personality of his strategic domain who carries the advance level understanding micro business dynamics along with innovative capabilities. A Business Consultants / Management Consultants or Corporate Consultants Are step ahead and ever ready to Provide Effective Strategic Solutions Not Only For Routine Business Challenges but also For Unseen And Never Faced Emerging Future Challenges.
What Does Business Consultants Can Contribute / Do?
In emerging & Rapidly Changing Global Business Environment, Business Consultants Play Lead Role to Study, Predict Future Strategic Business Dynamics and guiding Corporates to manage challenges in Advance. Here The Role Of Business Consultants / Management Consultants / Corporate Consultants are quite different from routine employees. Where A Routine employee is mostly engaged with performing routine job in same manner, A Consultants fight as a research scientist to solve unknown business problems.
How A Business Consultant Brings Changes?
In Research Studies Related with Indian Corporates, The fact has been concluded that Most of Management Is deeply engaged to manage the day to day business process in same old manner where there is very less scope for innovation, new thinking .It is clear that making an edge over other business houses will not be possible without innovations, Innovative business ideas and innovative, new, more developed, modified business strategies & process. Remember when Nokia was market leader, Samsung mobile created an edge by its innovation in technology, marketing & Business Strategy, Market offering, services etc. etc.It has been observed that India Inc Corporates are more engaged on Routine Business maintenance Tasks hence less focus on developmental business task.Here Business Consultants, Management Consultants Or Consulting Firms plays role of torch bearer who focus on future course of action, its strategic execution and deploying such a business strategy so their competitors becomes surprised. It Is Clear That A True Consultants Emphasis on Innovative solutions which are related with developmental activities to take an advantage over others. While normally employees get engaged in executing routine maintenance task. IN Fact a Mini Consulting Office with Corporate Office plays role of In vitro or In situ Business Dynamics Research Lab depending the Project Nature Assigned to Business Consultants Or Management Consultants.It Is Clear That A True Consultants Manages most complex business situations in effective way which increases Efficiency of Business Systems by delivery Expected Results with Minimum wastage Of Resources.
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Identifying Effective Business Consultants Or Management Consultants in today’s Mushroom Growth Is Still A Challenge. It Is not necessary That Only Big claiming one may be effective Business Consultants. It has been observed that Big Business Consulting Firms Fails to provide effective solutions. A good business consultants always focus on invisible micro dynamics, cause and effect, process and steps involved in systems, micro info of each steps, risk involves them .i.e. a complete scientific knowledge just rather than futuristic promises.Point to remember that discussing on big market data etc. is no worth for a successful consultant’s becoz these data are available everywhere but how to utilize these data, its procedure is more important. Example The same market data is utilized by every company, but only few companies shows excellence because their understanding about business process, its executions is better than others. So Before hiring any consulting firms, don’t get impressed only with figures, data, communications & Presentation skills etc. All These outer Lairing skills may be a marketing trap. It is advised while initial interaction with any consultants encourage a thought based strategic discussion and try to find out that how much layers of problems may be penetrated by consultant. Remember deeper layer penetrations means deeper understanding of your business problems and only such a business consultants may be effective for your business Challenges. Don’t Be marketing myopic while hiring a good consultant.
Indian Traditions thinks that having permanent employees are more important but in foreign countries there is equal emphasis of hiring consulting services in parallel of Regular employees.However Both have it’s own pros and cons .It is advised that a perfect blend of both is necessary for organic growth of Business Houses because both have it’s own usp and contributing capabilities. Most of leading Mnc are from Western Countries,Japan etc reason behind that these countries corporate culture equally nurture both employee domain and consulting domain. It has been observed that successful companies equally take services of consulting firms with services of regular employees. In India Still Only 5% Firms Encourage Consulting Services.Undoubtedly, Organizations who want to show excellence, must avail consulting services. Undoubtedly Hiring a consultants may be additional expense but in long terms it pay widely.
Remember, Expectation from consultants is as change agent. Change in itself required dedication and continuous efforts on day to day basis. For a Total Churn Out, organizations should opt for full time consulting services while for any minor task a part time consulting may be preferred.
Once A Business Consultants, Management Consultants or corporate consultants are hired after careful evaluation, Provide Freedom to analyses your business problems and taking their decisions. Cooperate during execution of strategies based on advice of hired consultant. Try to implement the process as it is advised becoz results depends on executions. Be patients for visible results. Remember for every process there are completion time, incubation period is must for maturity. No one can deliver baby before nine months. In Most cases, Process are not completed hence results are not up to mark even consulting advices were best. So we can conclude that business consulting services may contribute for speedy growth of business as catalyst. In Fact Growing India Inc. needs some such catalyst to meets its demands, to bring its global vision & Mission true. In the age of technology when business environment has turned into micro complex by nature, tuning with environment is necessary not merely for survival but for business excellence too. And these goals can be achieved when a, integrated regular developmental as well well innovative approach is available with India Inc.
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The first thing you want to do is to examine the interior walls for the areas with water spots.
Now that you have found the areas affected by seepage, the next step is to identify the cause of the seepage. Is it a leaking water tank or a burst plumbing line? Outflow in the water supply pipes or poor waterproofing of the floor slabs?
Besides faulty internal plumbing and water tank leakage, accumulation of rain water and underground water (after heavy rainfall) can also cause water to seep through the walls and ceilings.
Poor quality render and plaster or inappropriately applied plaster on the outer walls also lay the groundwork for seepage.
Furthermore, if you find it difficult to determine the possible reason behind those seeping walls, seek professional assistance. There are many leakage detection companies and service providers out there that specialize in water leak detection in and serve both residential and commercial properties. Hiring a reliable professional will save your time and prevent potential damage that could incur due to untreated leaks and seepage.
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If your walls use water permeable paints, apply exterior waterproofing coats on the exterior walls as well as the roof to block rain water and moisture from seeping through.
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One of the stranger polarizing issues I’ve come across in the game community is silent protagonists. Some people love them and think they add to the immersion. The player is not forced into a character’s dialogue choices, and they can feel more like they are the character due to the silence. Other people hate them. They often view it as a developer being lazy, and they also believe that it makes a character very flat since they have no real personality without dialogue to convey it.
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Twice before on this blog I have discussed having transparent mechanics in games being a good thing. The first time I addressed GUIs and how they functioned in Subnautica. In the second post, I addressed the use of enemy waves in Dragon Age II. Today, I would like to revisit this topic with a different series and specific topic nuance: leveling in Tales of Xillia and Tales of Xillia 2.
Web design can be hard. Whether you’re creating a site for a comic, a store, or just a portfolio of sorts, they all offer different sorts of challenges. This is often the case regardless of how you make the site (in other words, whether you use a website builder or code it from scratch). Choices of font, layout, and the likes all come into play throughout the process, and it is inevitably a trial that tests both a creator’s aesthetic abilities as well as their ability to write, organize, and beyond.
Now, I certainly wouldn’t consider myself an expert web-designer (if that wasn’t obvious). There are a lot of things I don’t understand, such as common SEO practices, logo design, and graphic theming to name a few. However, I have dabbled enough to feel confident in naming things you shouldn’t do. As such, I would like to give you three tips today for what not to do when designing a website.
These tips are more for absolute beginners, so if you know a bit about web design this probably isn’t the article for you. Without further ado, let’s begin.
As someone who is a big fan of Subnautica, I often keep up with updates to the game, usually via various Youtubers who cover the game extensively. Without spoiling too much, a huge portion of the end game is in development right now (when this article was written anyway). Since it’s a key story point, it’s being tweaked to be as impactful as possible. Animations, voice acting, textures, and tons of other aspects keep being overhauled to present the most satisfying moment that could be achieved. However, in some of the more recent updates, one additive that added a ton of impact caught my eye: the sound effects.
Sound effects are one of those aspects of creative media that often get overlooked. Whether the sound effects are audio or implied to with words, they make a huge difference despite being minor additives. Unfortunately, in numerous indie industries, they can often be underused. While certainly you run the risk of oversaturating a piece with sound effects, they are still an essential that should never be neglected. To hammer in this point, let us examine why the sound effects make a difference in two industries: gaming and comics.
Warning: Spoilers ahead for Dragon Age: Inquisition (specifically the Hinterlands).
The week before last I analyzed side quests and how you could make them more compelling than the generic fetch quests one might see in a grind-like MMORPG. At the heart of the matter, I illustrated three ways one could make them interesting, namely: having side quests add to the story, having side quests with worthwhile loot, or having side quests with an enormous gameplay challenge. In regards to story, I discussed certain aspects in Dragon Age II and how some of its side quests vastly change outcome of the story. However, today I would like to expound on this point some more, and also tackle fetch quests which I didn’t talk about fully in that post.
Warning: Spoilers ahead for Dragon Age II and Kingdom Hearts.
Anyone who has played any sort of mission/quest based game is familiar with side quests. They’re those pesky optional quests that the player can choose to complete or not. Some are simple, such as delivering a package to the NPC in the next town. Some are challenging, like cave diving for a treasure. Then there’s also the invariably hard and cruel ones that have you defeat some optional boss that takes every ounce of your being to defeat. In either case, side quests come in a variety of flavors and vastly help to buffer the gameplay time.
However, not all side quests were created equal. In fact, some can be outright snore fests. Take, for instance, pretty much any optional quest in an MMORPG. In general, these fall into one of a few categories: kill a certain number of creatures, collect certain ingredients/items, or deliver something to an NPC. MMORPGs are very formulaic when it comes to this matter. While these side quests do earn you experience points (exp) and virtual money, they have little else to offer the player. They are, essentially, what makes a lot of MMORPGs grind-fests as it were. Single player games can often be guilty of the same thing, especially for the RPG genre in general.
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Paula Can you Help Me Choose a Purse?
I would like your assistance in assessing purse sizes. I know you have all the dimensions written down on your website, I am a very visual person and my brain is getting boggled comparing the numbers. You have hands on experience with the bags.
Will you name a couple of bags that are the largest overall, while being narrowest at the base? I do not care for a purse that sticks out from my body a great deal and a 6″ base it too much for me. It is hard to choose a purse without being able to put it on so to speak. It has to “fit”/carry in a way that I like and be comfortable.
I so love the look of the vintage Dooney’s and am looking to purchase one eventually.
Really the best way to find what would work for you is to go to a dept store and find a bag that is the perfect size for you and measure it. It is hard for me to know what is comfortable for you as far as fit and carry.
But here is a style that is large, roomy and 3” deep, you can also carry it with a handle.
And if you really want big, we have totes and briefcases !!
Thank-you Paula! This information is very helpful. I think the shoulder satchel would be the best fit for me. Are the handles actually long enough to wear the purse on the shoulder with the purse tucked under the arm? The handle drop measurement on your website lists 6″. That may be to short for carrying it like that??
I just got out 3 of the shoulder satchels and yes they all measure a 6” drop from the inside top of the handle to the zipper. I am a 5’7” average sized woman wearing summer clothes and the bag slips on my shoulder fine and tucks under my arm. However for a larger person or with winter clothes, it might be less quick and easy to slip on and off but it would be secure once it got there !!
That’s what Dooney & Bourke designed these to be – that’s why the handles on the Shoulder Satchels are longer than their normal satchels which are intended to be carried by hand.
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Bali Kintamani Tour is the best tour package in bali to visit Kintamani with breathtaking view of an active volcano and lake batur. Bali Kintamani Tour will visit places of interest in Bali like Watching Barong Dance performance, Celuk Village for Silver art, Batuan Village for Painting art, Batuan temple, Lunch at Kintamani at local restaurant with view volcano of mount batur and lake batur from distance, Visit Gunung Kawi temple, Visit Tirta empul temple and visit Goa Gajah Temple, after that back to your hotel. Enjoy Bali Kintamani Tour packages with our balinese guide and driver during your holiday in Bali and below is a short description about the place of interest you will visit during Bali Kintamani Tour.
Probably the most well known dance, it is also another story telling dance, narrating the fight between good and evil. This dance is the classic example of Balinese way of acting out mythology, resulting in myth and history being blended into one reality. Balinese dances are famous all over the world and the Balinese themselves take them very seriously.
Is the famous village in Bali as a tourist destination cause of the local residents is very proactive and full of innovation to the gold and silver crafting. Most of them are Balinese professional, artistic and skillful of design development related to the silver and gold crafting. The productions of gold and silver at this village have penetrated to the local and international market.
Ubud have experienced remarkable evolution. Traditionally another means of expressing religious and mythological ideas, paintings of Ubud have been subjected to a number of influences, including deep interaction with Western painters who came and lived in Bali. Ubud became the center of arts, welcoming into its heart renowned artists such as Bonnet, Spies, Blanco, Snel, et., many of whom came and never could leave bali.
Is a name of countryside located in the hill and the beautiful panorama surround it. We can see beautiful panorama from Kintamani to overview the active volcano of Batur Mount and wide Lake of Batur in a valley. It is situated in the plateau area with cool weather surround it. When we stand up at Kintamani, we will be able to see the rural area which is close to the lake.
Located in Tampaksiring village. This collection of candi is beautifully situated in a river valley surrounded by rice fields and jungle. This has been one of our favorite day trips for years. Gunung Kawi Temple is a collection of ten candi, created to evoke the appearance of temple fronts and designed to provide residence for the souls of ancient kings. The candi are hewn into the valley walls on both sides of the Pekerisan River.
Is an ancient omission in the form of a cave with the high value of art and history. Goa Gajah is one of tourist destinations in Bali that is visited by a lot of tourists every day. In this place, we will find other ancient omissions like ancient stone idol, douche, temple and others. It owns beautiful relief with a form of face turning around to the left side Read More.
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RE: The tariff classification of Christmas articles from China.
In your letter dated November 6, 1998, on behalf of your client Cardinal, Inc., you requested a tariff classification ruling.
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I ate them all up.
He was so proud of this little couplet that I had to give him the extra raisin.
Last night, I took An to her first professional theatrical performance in America - the national tour of Twelve Angry Men starring Richard Thomas ("Goodnight, John boy!") and George Wendt ("Hey Sammy, how 'bout another beer?"), which was followed by a short lecture on the jury system by some local attorneys and a federal judge.
Before the show, Patrick and I took An out to dinner at a sushi restaurant called Haiku. An had never tried sushi before, so we ordered a sampling of nigiri sushi and rolled sushi, which she ate like a pro and demonstrated a high tolerance for wasabi.
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Logan gets sick to his stomach the same way that I do: an elongated period of belabored moaning, humming and screaming; followed by a moderate period of complete silence; followed by a brief period of rapid expulsion.
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The music of birds singing is unmatched.
How wonderful it is to have a husband who can make me laugh, even when I'm exhausted--especially when I'm exhausted.
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How are your patients finding you? In the distant past a dental practice could get by with referrals from existing patients and good signage. To be competitive today a dental practice needs a good website and a plan for keeping that website high in the search engine rankings.
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It occurred to the biologist Stephen Jay Gould while he was in Vatican City that there are two forms of authority (if not knowledge) and that these two forms are derived from “the magisterium of science” and “the magisterium of religion” and that the two magisteria do not overlap. At the time of this formulation Gould was in Rome, accompanied by Carl Sagan, the sceptical astronomer, who had a deep “sense of wonder.” They were there to participate in a scientific conference. Sagan derided Gould for his suggestion (or concession) there is any knowledge in religion, knowledge at any rate that resembles the “real” knowledge that results from the work of scientists, that produces measurable results, and that can be falsified. Gould was miffed and wrote an essay about the disagreement.
Aleister Crowley practised ritual magic the way Dorothy Clutterbuck practised the ceremonial magic of wicca. The Great Beast used to call what he did “magick,” and I seem to recall that he defined this practice as “causing change to occur in conformity with Will.” Crowley conformed to the image of the Black Magician. The White Witch may be seen in the person of Clutterbuck, who inspired Gerald Gardner, who gave much of the characteristic form and feel to the contemporary practice of Wicca, which is at home with the subtle forces of the natural and supernatural worlds. Both Crowley and Clutterbuck worked in “imaginal” realms.
These ideas and notions were rattling around in my brain (or mind) when I began to read “The Anthropology of Magic,” which is a serious contribution to both anthropology and magic written Dr. Susan Greenwood, who is Visiting Senior Research Fellow of the University of Sussex, Brighton, England. She is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at a seminar to be held at Girton College, Cambridge, England. It takes place on May 13, 2010, and the title of the session is “Legitimate Forms of Knowledge?” (I imagine that the question mark is important in her address.) So Dr. Greenwood is a scholar. She is also a practitioner of magic.
First, a note of “disambiguation.” Susan Greenwood is not to be confused with her near-namesake, Susan Greenfield. The former is an anthropologist; the latter is Baroness Greenfield, an Oxford scholar and a biomedical writer of considerable ability and media-savvy and the author of numerous works, including The Human Mind Explained, and other popular and not-so-popular texts. The two Susans are very able people, but the Baroness does not profess to be a magician.
The Anthropology of Magic, written by the scholar who professes to read tarot cards and to practice the healing arts, is a big book in that it is an oversize trade paperback that measures 6 inches by 9.5 inches. It is only viii + 164 pages long but the type is quite small so there are many sentences. It was issued in soft and hard-cover editions in 2009 by Berg Publishers, an academic house based in Oxford that publishes books and journals in a great variety of fields with a specialty in modern design. Its website lists and describes its serious publications, including the present one.
I imagine Dr. Greenwood to be a fine lecturer because she is a fine writer. I am tempted to say that for an anthropologist she writes with great clarity. Her sentences are crystal clear and the diagrams that she has added to the text to display contrasts between scientific and non-scientific modes of thought are ideal for PowerPoint presentations. She is one anthropologist who is interested in communicating with a public that is academic though not limited to fellow anthropologists or magicians. In this regard she reminds me of Susan Blackmore, who in her shift from espousing parapsychology to embracing scepticism has never ceased to be a psychologist and a scientist.
Like Dr. Blackmore, Dr. Greenwood is an enthusiast and a participant who is willing to advance atypical views. But the two academics are unalike in that Dr. Blackmore works as an experimental psychologist and follows the trail of the evidence (or lack of it), whereas Dr. Greenwood is a theorist and not a scientist who is concerned with finding a place in intellectual discourse for what is regarded as the irrational. Dr. Greenwood is arguing a case, and she argues well, but after a while the reader – this reader anyway – begins to feel that he is being led to face a series of foregone conclusions.
In the next paragraphs, I will summarize the contents of Dr. Greenwood’s book and thereafter offer an evaluation of her approach. Now I will begin with the Table of Contents which neatly outlines the subject – which I take to be how an anthropologist argues that we could look at magic as a source of knowledge, and if knowledge is a form of power, then as a source of power too.
So much for the arrangement of the contents of the book. I will now try to abridge the author’s Introduction, introducing some of my own impressions along the way, but downplaying to some extent the author’s great strength: her knowledge of and respect for the theories and insights of the great anthropologists of the past and the present. She argues that the discipline has always had to deal with the subject of magic and that the approaches that anthropologists have taken in the past have told their readers more about themselves and their societies than about the theory and practice of magic itself. As well, it seems, the conception of the nature magic has changed with the times.
There are two main problems: the “ultimate irrationality of magic” and its “inferiority … when compared to science.” Nevertheless magic lies “at the heart of anthropology” because of “the issues it raises in relation to human experience.” If it lies at the “heart” of anthropology, it lies at the “heart” of men and women too. We seem to be creatures who are able to respond to the world both magically and scientifically.
The author writes, “The time has come to propose another understanding of magic, and it is the aim of this book to examine magic as an aspect of human consciousness.” She is prepared to show how it affects “everyday conceptions of reality” and how it can be “an analytical category as well as a valuable source of knowledge.” Perhaps I am taking this further than the author does when I suggest that to her magic offers a way of knowing about ourselves in the world through the imagination, a way of knowledge that augments the way we generally know the world of matter through measurement.
“When I first started my doctoral research in the 1990s, I made the decision to study magic from the inside, as a practitioner of magic as well as an anthropologist. I wanted to discover what could be learnt through direct experience.” She explored the ramifications of this approach in her two previous books, both published by Berg: “Magic, Witchcraft and the Otherworld” (2000) and “The Nature of Magic” (2005).
She writes, “The approach taken here focuses on _magical consciousness_, a term that I use to describe a mythopoetic, expanded aspect of awareness that can potentially be experienced by everyone …. ” Despite the importance of this mode of knowledge, magic has been marginalized in what she calls our “Western rationalist culture.” The writings of Tylor, Kroeber, Freud, Durkheim, and others are mentioned to demonstrate how magic has been dismissed as deluded, dangerous, deceitful, or dumb.
Many people feel (at times anyway) blessed, but anyone who is able to bless is a magician. It would seem the poets are there with the magicians.
A consideration of the truths or insights that come to us through the medium of poetry is offered through a brief but relevant discussion of Donne’s poem “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning.” Yet only one page is devoted to the nature of consciousness itself, despite the advances recorded in the 1990s by neurologists and philosophers into the mind / brain division in the field of “consciousness studies.” I guess these are not subjects regularly discussed by anthropologists, nor should we expect them in a book about the “anthropology” of magic.
Some subjects do not yield their secrets to logic and this is one of them, so with relief she switches into a visionary mode. She begins one paragraph, “I remembered a dream I had had previously in which I was climbing down a deep tunnel in the middle of the earth …. ” The dream continues and it involves a loss of skin, a round space, swimming in water, narrow tunnels, bones being picked by a large crow, etc. This is a fertile field for a Freud or a Jung!
I have maintained a daily dream diary for the last five years, so I can attest that one’s dreams are significant to the dreamer but seldom meaningful to anyone else. These motifs in the dream world may or may not be relevant to the waking world. She concludes, “This experience had a profound effect on me,” and I do not doubt her, but was it an “imaginal experience” as she suggests? Not in Corbin’s meaning of that word. A dream is an experience, but it is the experience of an illusion, and no special effects necessarily issue from it. Are any such illusory experiences meaningful and significant? I doubt it but the subject may be debated and Dr. Greenwood does debate it well.
Psychology is not much to the fore. I read Tanya Luhrmann’s Persuasions of the Witch’s Craft when it appeared in 1989, but in the intervening years, I have found little reason to recall its argument. Luhrmann found magic or Wicca to be rich in psychological insight, period. Dr. Greenfield finds it to be rich in many other fields as well.
The great anthropologist Frazer is given his due, limitations and all, for he was the Darwin in his field. One upon a time, à la Frazer, there was magic which gave way to religion which gave way to science. Given the paradigm shift proposed in these pages, it seems science may now yield to religion and religion to magic. Perhaps “paradigm shift” is the wrong phrase to use here, for there are no references in the text to Kuhn and his theory of just such a shift.
So much for the Introduction. If I continued to try to paraphrase and comment in such detail on the balance of the book, I would produce a tedious review too long to be read in a single sitting, and I would do the author’s thesis less than justice. Instead, I propose to do something unusual and allow the author to make her major points in her own words. I will do so by quoting the four paragraphs that the author has written to outline her argument section by section. These are well handled.
I should add that the book includes extensive source notes and an index. There is no general bibliography but there are short bibliographies for “further reading.” There is no section called Conclusion, but I soon came to the conclusion that none is required for what the author would have to say in any final section is a foregone conclusion.
Dr. Greenwood is appreciative of the anthropologists of the past who devoted their lives to fieldwork. I imagine she regards her own experiences and the effects they have caused in magical circles as a form of fieldwork. She sees the great anthropologists’ insights into shamans and magical journeys as transferrable to today’s witches and their imaginative encounters. In this undertaking, she wins on points because she is what the French describe as “parti pris.” She knows where she stands and that is where she is heading. The reader is not taken on a journey so much as allowed to explore the intellectual ground already claimed. So her study does not add to human knowledge but it does examine some of our preconceptions of the nature of that knowledge.
There is a short but interesting section devoted to the relationship between mythos and logos. I wish it were longer and that it took into account the conception of that connection in the analysis of Northrop Frye who found the relationship to be one of “interpenetration.” But to do so would have required Dr. Greenwood to enter into the woods of the archetypal world of Nemi that is more frequented by literary critics and analytical psychologists than by anthropologists and ethnologists. As well, the author spends some time with phenomenology, she never really exorcizes its demon of subjectivity, even misspelling that word on page 141.
Yet I find “The Anthropology of Magic” to be an eye-opener of a book, not so much because of what or how it argues, but more because of the position for which it argues: the postmodern notion which is rapidly gaining ground that it is not necessary to believe in anything.
Near the end of the book she writes, “Whilst participating in a magical aspect of consciousness, the question of belief is irrelevant: belief is not a necessary condition to communicate with an inspirited world.” What works, works. William James’s contribution to the notion of multiple consciousnesses – not just to multiple layers of consciousness – is acknowledged, and as a pragmatist he would have agreed. So would Niels Bohr with his horseshoe.
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I’m slowly making my way towards my 2018 goal of 100 books! I have read 57 books for the year (I am 20 books behind schedule, but shhhh) which is pretty awesome but I have to keep pushing through.
This book has been on my TBR for a while so when I saw it at my library I decided to finally pick it up. It really fell short of my expectations and I will most likely not read the next book in the series (Review).
I do enjoy thrillers, especially historical thrillers. Especially historical thrillers set during WWII. This is my second Robert Harris book and I will be looking at reading some more of his work.
I love these books and having a book with a little more focus on Nico always sits well with me. I don’t really have to write more about these books as I just adore them.
I had previously read Hawkeye V Deadpool and I really enjoyed the the art style and the humour. I ended up getting this out of the library and was so excited to experience the story of Clint Barton from the beginning.
I ended up binging both series in a weekend and cannot believe I did not watch it beforehand. I love the story, the characters are just perfectly written (I adore Chidi so much) and every episode has such a great plot twist.
I am really into American politics at the moment and some of my favourite Podcast hosts recommended it. Sometimes I have to pause it as some of the scenarios and character decisions just annoy me so much, but overall I think it is an entertaining show.
I have been listening to BTS pretty much exclusively this month (I know, I know). I have also been listening to Pod Save America and The Daily to keep up to date with recent affairs.
Let me know what books you guys read this month and any recommendations for books, shows, movies or music to listen too.
I cant wait weeks between episodes!!!!
You read so many books! That’s so awesome! Me on the other hand is still reading something I started reading a few months ago, LoL. I’m currently still reading the sequel to You by Caroline Kepnes. It’s just as crazy as the first book in that series, LoL.
Omg, isn’t The Good Place like the best! I truly didn’t see that Season One twist coming, and the show in its third season continues to still manage to surprise me every week.
I love Veep also! Can’t wait for the new season to start. Although, bummed that it’s the last season. It’s such a perfectly great series.
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Xenophobia? Weasel Word of WallStreet’s Cultural Marxism to Destroy Christendom?
Why do they let them in? Why DID they let them in. So many years ago! Because the pedofile politicans, blackmailed by Mossad & CIA, are doing the Bankers’ bidding. And what is that? Destroy Europe as national entities to fit better into their One World Disorder!
And so Merkel, and Hollande, Cameron, and all the others, supported the official version of 9-11, which was done by the Rockefellers, Mossad, and the CIA, to blame the Arabs, to blame the Muslims, and to take down 5-6 countries that were against Islamic radicals. Why?
Why didn’t they support their own puppet Sadam Hussein of Iraq whom they installed there? Because they need a religious World War III. The Bankers want a war to destroy the three main monotheistic religions, so they can install their New World Order One World Religion, a melange mix of watered down creeds ruled by New Agers like that Jesuit Bergoglio in Rome, and their Lucifer, Stan the Devil!
Well let me tell you. Normal Muslims, in those countries attacked for years by Israeli forces from America, UK, and France, their puppets, are and were rather normal people that are not radicalised, as the ‘Mooslims’ that were imported by the Marxist regimes of Europe to destroy Christian and European culture! Like, for example the “Mooselim Brotherhood”, since the 1930-ies, Wahabbi and Shi-ite Mooselims have been set up, recruited, trained against each other by the Secret agencies like Mossad, MI5, MI6, french secret service, etc. Khomeieni was sitting on ice for decennia in France until he came in handy to overthrow the Shah!
Also in order to create their religious World War III, they need to divide the world religiously to conquer it in the long run. And so don’t obey them and become a Muslim hater. We are supposed to love our ngeihbour and our enemy even! Not to hate them! Jesus said, LOVE your enemy!
And I tell you most Muslims were not our enemy, but now after the West has destroyed their men, woemen, and children, and homes, and towns, and cities, and infrastructures, and more, they are beginning to wake up and hate the West. Can hardly blame them. Can you! So don’t be stupid voicing your opposition to Muslims.
Please be smarter than that, as a wise Child of God, and realise the game the Devil is trying to pull all of us into. Hate the warmongers! No matter what their religion is. Evangelical warmongers or Jihadi warmongers. What is the difference? Both are murderers. Like Hillary and Hagee and John McCain! And you want to support the troops? God help you! Jesus never said that! And guess what. In a few years time, they are going to do the same thing to Christians, to Christianity, to radicalise them, to make them dangerous in the eyes of John Doe and John Smith, who don’t know any better, and therefore it behooves Christians to be aware of that trend.
So you don’t think that the Mossad, the CIA, and MI5 and MI6, and the French cannot infiltrate Christian groups and churches and radicalise them? Perhaps not most of the Christians. But I tell you there will always be some who will fall for the radical violent style like this Norwegian nut Brevik who called himself a Christian and killed some 70 Marxist youths in Norway!
So they are going to have a hard time to transform the majority of Christians into violent radicals, because of the nature of Jesus and the nature of His faith and teachings. But there are always some idiots who just don’t read the Word and don’t pray! And guess what…the same happened to the dumb Mooslims!
And who set them up to it? Or in some cases gave them the weapons, and backpacks, and gave them a role to play,as in the London bombings? And they weren’t even on the train that exploded from under the floor!, because they missed that one? Right, the Bankers security services. The CIA-Mossad, — who was in town that day — the MI6 MI5 and they staged the whole thing, and framed these nice innocent Moslim fellows as patsies. For what? For the greater good of the New World Order!
And they did the same in 9-11! There were some muslim patsies staged and set up and framed, and they were impersonated by pork eeating, whore-mongering Mossad agents, and 9 of the eleven socalled hijackers were still alive after they supposedly had flown into the WTC towers and Shanksville. But the media didn’t want to talk about that! And thus the sordid song of state terror goes on.
And now it is 2016 322 March 22, and they knew who did it in Paris, and he was known to the French security forces, but they never nabbed him! Why? Because they were going to need him, to stage and set up a false flag attack that now has cost the lives of 35 innocent people, like the 3000 innocent people in the WTC and the planes. They need these patsies, to carry it out, or to be in the right position, to be blown up and to be blamed as patsies always are! Why?
And what can we do? Not much anymore. Because the majority of the public is so propagandised that they believe that it is all only planned and organised by the Mooslims, where as it was produced, directed, and stagemanaged by the Bankers secret services. And now it is coming to the point that if you say that in some countries’, the police will visit your home and take you away, as they did in Communist Russia for the bankers.
But it is very important that God’s people are awake and have their lights burning. Not only spiritual and their lamps full of oil, but wide awake and not ignorant of the Devil’s devices, as the Word tells us. Because YOU wouldn’t want to run the wrong direction like some wildebeest under a terrorising helicopter to the reservation. Would you? You don’t want to take up guns, you don’t want to go the wrong thing. Why?
Because Jesus warned us 2000 years ago, that the deception would become so strong, that “IF IT WERE POSSIBLE. the very elect themselves would be deceived.” Do you want to deceived? Or do you want to be saved when Jesus comes? That is the real question.
Well, if all the Christians would stop listening and watching the IDIOT BOX, and stopped reading the gutter press, the Daily Mordor, etc. then we would be getting somewhere. BUT I haven’t seen it yet, not in the majority of Christians.
My goodness, most American Evangelicals are so deceived by the Zionists that they support genocidal Israelis because they are the chosen people? They support Israel’s wars. Why! Jesus never told us to support wars or warmongers, or believe they are chosen by God? Much less to fight them in countries where we have no business whatsoever! What were you smoking! I think I know! False doctrine poison spouted by false Zionist teachers like Hagee and Pat Robertson, and their other Pharisee ilk.
And so we are all freaked out now, because the police is coming for everybody, even the innocent majority, because “either you are with them, or you are with the terrorists!” Well I am neither with them, nor with the terrorists. I am with Jesus. How about you! And I love my neighbour as myself, even normal Muslims. I lived in muslim countries long enough to know and realise they are no problem, and I never had any trouble. Now things have changed, thanks to the Western Powers that Shouldn’t BE!
The Wahabi trouble-makers are the ones that lived in Europe a long time and were radicalised by Mossad agents who spoke perfect Arabic and could quote the Koran! And now they are inviting as many as they can into Europe and lose track of half of them, and even give them weapons, and train them! For what? For genocide, my friend! Christian genocide, coming during the imminent Crash!
So don’t be an idiot like blackmailed Hollande, Merkel, and Cameron, and all other shady politicans who are playing along with this sordid game of blame. PRAY! BE CONVERTED, call out to the Lord and ask Him to save you, your family, and your country, because they are on their way to total servitude total slavery to these Luciferians. But we are on our way to the promised land! And try to witness to those Mooselims! And the Muslims too! We are not afraid of them? We love them! Be saved, be enlightened, be on the Lord’s side. he is coming soon. Hold onto your crown! Receive Jesus today! The Wedding is called and is near. Don’t be left outside. He loves you!
MS Media lied to us eversince Pearl Harbour, JFK murder, & about 9-11. And you’re not FAKE MEDIA? WATCH 911 VDO!
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This world is full of duality. There is happiness and then there is distress. There is winter and there summer. There is prosperity and there adversity. We must have experienced all these in our life in different capacity. Similarly we also have an experience of Morning and Evening each day.
So I hope you all know which is sunrise and which is sunset, right! Yesterday I have clicked some of the pics and now you all have to do is to guess, was it evening or morning? 😀 Have a guess at least!!!
Author AbhayPosted on February 3, 2019 February 3, 2019 Categories UncategorizedTags Duality, Morning, Nature, Photography39 Comments on Guess What?
So when social media got flooded with the Video in which Rahul Baba seen as saying “This morning I got up at night…”, I thought what have forced him to say this unusual (you may even call it illogical J) sentence. I did not reach to any conclusion, though I have some inkling that he might be referring to the time period what we call as “Brahma Muhrat”, or the time period of early dawn.
Today morning when I woke up (not at night 😉 ) and went for morning walk I tried to capture the nature through my phone.
So, I am continuing from where I have left it yesterday, as some event prompted me to write it again. If you haven’t read, and willing to do so, you can check it out @ भोर की खोज..
Today also I woke up early. It was dark outside. But a hope was there that sun will emerge soon out of this darkness. I prepared myself for the morning walk. At 05:00 hrs I left home. Outside, season was tantalizing as usual in Feb. Cold breeze was blowing. Aroma of mango flowers (we call it Manjari in Hindi), conspicuous in this month, were enchanting.
I plugged in my ear phones and played the same Song (Bhajan) which I have mentioned in my last blog भोर की खोज... The volume was at maximum. Contemplating on each words of the song and appreciating the classical music of India and the way Pt. Bhim Sen Joshi has sung, I was marching towards the river.
It was still dark yet the street lights were glowing. Some other people were also strolling on the street. I was completely observed in the song then suddenly someone hold my hand. I experienced how fast our mind could be. Before I could turn back, numerous bizarre thought came. Who it could be?
A ghost!!!! Oh it’s Valentine Day, how can I forget the atmosphere which has been created since past week for 14th February, especially on WP. Someone hold my hand in the very morning. Thought, Saint Valentine must be very kind on me.
But when I turned around, all my imaginations were shattered in seconds :P. I saw an old man in his 50s. His face was frightened. I asked “चचा !! क्या हुआ ??” (Uncle! What happened?) He was telling something, but since the music was playing at maximum volume, I couldn’t hear him. I plugged out my ear phone. Then heard asynchronous and horrific sound of woof.. woof.. woof.. Nearly 5-6 stray dogs were behind him. He said, “साले ! कुत्ते पीछे हैं ” (Dogs are behind me). I said “वो तो देख रहा हूँ , आप घबराओ मत, मेरे पीछे आ जाओ ” (That I am seeing, don’t panic just stay behind me). Then I stayed calm and scarred the dog by pretending to throw pebbles at them, when there was no stones around. Somehow dogs got scarred and ran away.
I smiled at uncle and ask jokingly, “क्या चचा!!! वैलेंटाइन डे के दिन आज मैं ही मिला था सुबह सुबह हाथ पकड़ने को 🙂“(Uncle! on this valentine day you only found me to hold hand ) . As it turned out, uncle was more humorous, he replied “बेटा , खैर मनाओ बजरंग दल से हूँ मैं , जान नहीं बचायी होती तो वैलेंटाइन डे के दिन, दिन भर तुम्हारे पीछे अपने आदमियों को छोड़ता ” (Son! you are lucky, I am from Bajrang Dal, if you haven’t saved my life today, then for taking the name of Valentine, I would have sent my men to have a watch on you for the entire day). I said jokingly, “ये पराक्रम कुत्तो पर क्यों नहीं दिखाया” (Why don’t you displayed your valor to the dogs). He replied more wittingly, “कुत्ते थोड़े ही न वैलेंटाइन डे मानते हैं ” (Dogs never celebrate Valentine Day).
आज कल के भागा दौड़ी वाले समय में मुझे संदेह है कि बहुत कम व्यक्ति होंगे जो रोज सूर्योदय देखते हैं. खासकर युवा वर्ग की नींद तो सूर्योदय के बाद ही खुलती है, ऐसा मैं मानता हूँ. पर मैं यह नहीं कह रहा कि सभी युवा सूर्योदय के बाद ही उठते हैं .
आज सुबह सुबह का अनुभव आप सब से साझा कर रहा हूँ. वैसे तो बसंत का मौषम ही बड़ा सुहावना होता है. सुबह में तो कुछ और ही ज़्यादा. जब ठंडी ठंडी पवन शरीर को छूती है, आम के मंज़र की खुशबु से मन प्रशन्न हो जाता है, कोयल की कुहू, और जब आप उसके स्वर की नक़ल करो तो उसका लगातार दुहराना, मन को मोहित कर जाता है.
तो आज जब मैं उठा तो सोचा कि कुछ टहल लिया जाये. अभी सूरज निकला नहीं थी तो वातावरण में अँधेरा व्यप्त था. मुझे नदी, तालाब या झील का तट बहुत अच्छा लगता है. और एक नदी घर के कुछ ही दूरी पर है तो उधर हो चला. साथ में फ़ोन और ईयरफ़ोन भी ले लिया. मेरे म्यूजिक प्लेयर में कुछ गीत थे, पर रिलायंस जिओ ने एक काम अच्छा किया है की डेटा की अब चिंता नहीं करनी पड़ती है और आप गाना ऑनलाइन सुन सकते हो. जितनी मर्जी उतनी.
तो सोचा की आप सब तक भी पहुंचा दूं. हो सकता है आप में से कइयों ने सुनी होगी, और यदि नहीं सुनी तो आप जरूर सुनियेगा. हो सके तो सुबह सुबह सूर्योदय से पहले, खुले में, ईयरफ़ोन लगा के, तेज स्वर में.
मैं इस भजन का transcript भी ब्लॉग पर शेयर कर रहा हूँ जिससे बोल समझने में आसानी होगी.
Author AbhayPosted on February 13, 2017 February 14, 2017 Categories Hindi Poem, UncategorizedTags Basant, Bhakti Song, Bhim Sen Joshi, Classical, Classical Bhajan, culture, Indian Classical Music, Krishna, Krishna Bhajan, Life, Lifestyle, Morning, Religion14 Comments on भोर की खोज..
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Last night I posted my Pledge of Allegiance to Video Game Studies, part of a graduate seminar I’m taking on Feminism and Colorblindness in the Disciplines. Here is the counterpart to the assignment: a Declaration of Independence. Once I thought through some of the things that the discipline asks of me as a scholar, I needed to break down the aspects of that methodology that might produce problematic readings and to declare my independence from those tactics. I’m really digging the notion of strategic disloyalty that this class encourages us to think through. Can’t wait to see what the other assignments are.
This one is slightly more serious in tone than the last, but there’s still a bit of snark to it. Once again, it comes from a place of caring, a place that has now matured thanks to these thoughtful experiments. We’ve done a lot of reading about disciplinary methodologies and critiques thereof, so the context might not be the same for other people, but I highly recommend giving this exercise a go as a way to evaluate your position with respect to the norms of your discipline.
When in the Course of scholarly events it becomes necessary for one Critic to question the political trends which have alienated her from a community of peers, and to assume among the powers of the academy, the separate and (un)equal feminist station to which the Laws of Anti-Oppression impel her, a decent respect to the opinions of other game studies academics requires that she should declare the causes which impel her to the separation.
I hold these truths to be self-evident, that academic discourse is not immune to the workings of oppression, that the conventions of our discipline conceal methodologies complicit with the silencing of anti-oppression discourse. –That to maintain a posture of insecurity with respect to our place in the academy, our relationship to industry, and the object of our study encourages us to unnecessarily exclude useful critical concepts, to tone down much-needed criticism of industry practice, and to praise problematic texts while understating their unsavory qualities. –That to ignore or downplay evidence of the harmful effects of video games also undermines the argument that they have the power to make positive changes in the world.
I find it suspect that the foremothers of the discipline have been all but ejected on the grounds that they committed “interpretive violence” on game texts and replaced by forefathers who substituted the study of machine and process for that of culture. While these two are not mutually exclusive, what “culture” means for critics in the discipline leads them to miss important questions about the Orientalist narratives imported from Indiana Jones into video game culture via Pitfall in favor of lauding the auteur programming culture that turned the constraints of the Atari VCS into aesthetically distinctive software. I find it similarly suspect to lure students and the public into the fold by avoiding talking about political topics like racism and sexism in order not to scare them away or provoke the ire of trolls; if these issues are not a part of the conversation now, at what point will gamers and game studies academics be ready to talk about them?
I am disappointed that when we were given the opportunity to build a new discipline from the ground up, we did not take advantage of the decades of feminist, critical race, and queer critique that had sought to teach the disciplines – all of them – the dangers of thinking in terms of an abstract liberal humanist (white heterosexual male) subject. I would like to see more game studies academics coming together more visibly over issues of oppression – and to do so in a way that combines our discipline’s interest in hardware and procedurality with critically informed close readings of cultural texts. The medium does have characteristics that make it unlike books or film or other things that academia has tackled before, and feminist, queer, and antiracist critiques coming from “the outside” may not take all of these things into account. That makes it the responsibility of trained game studies academics to look into these issues.
I declare my independence as a game studies academic to think through the oppressive regimes of our discipline and objects of study. Though it is taboo to point outside of our own to a model of what this kind of work should look like, I would like to submit the work of Wendy Chun as an example. I will be following her lead, thinking about how her methodology can be adapted to video games, and hope that others will follow suit.
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Charfeddine, M. A., Bloch, J.-F., and Mangin, P. (2019). "Mercury porosimetry and x-ray microtomography for 3-dimensional characterization of multilayered paper: Nanofibrillated cellulose, thermomechanical pulp, and a layered structure involving both," BioRes. 14(2), 2642-2650.
Mercury intrusion porosimetry (MIP) is an inexpensive and common technique to characterize porous structures like paper. One major limitation of MIP is the lack of information about the arrangement of pores in the structure, information that is particularly relevant for multilayer structures such as thickness-structured paper. In this article, results from Synchrotron X-ray 3D microtomography are combined with MIP data to provide in-depth and improved information about the structures.
Mercury intrusion porosimetry (MIP) is a common technique for the analysis of the structure of porous materials (Johnson et al. 1999), which allows the characterization of a wide range of pore sizes from the microscale (500 µm) up to the nanoscale (3 nm). The technique provides structural parameters such as porosity, pore volumes, pore size distribution, density, and specific surface (Giesche 2006). Moura et al. (2005) showed that MIP is suitable to detect structural differences in paper structures. Bloch and Kedadi (2001) established that the MIP technique is efficient also to characterize the structure of a porous medium displaying porosity gradients, such as a paper. MIP has been widely used to characterize the structure of coated paper with micro- or nanofibrillated cellulose (MNFC) (Hamada et al. 2010; Ridgway and Gane 2013; Dimic-Misic et al. 2014). However, MIP cannot provide information about the pore shapes or about the spatial pore distribution in the paper structure. To overcome such shortcoming, MIP measurements are usually coupled with scanning electron images (SEM) to link observed variations in the MIP curves to the SEM pictures of pore shape and diameter in the paper structure (Yamauchi 2007; Zauer et al. 2014). Similar research has also been carried out for other materials, such as cement (Abell et al. 1999). Some shortcomings of the comparison of the mercury intrusion and 2D analysis have been described; for example, complementary experimental characterizations such as SEM have been used (Munch and Holzer 2008). Simulations of the evolution of the capillary pressure on a paper were presented (Hyväluoma et al.2007) based on microtomography. This simulation aspect is not the scope of our work, rather our study is dedicated to the characterization of multilayered papers.
High-resolution Synchrotron X-ray 3D microtomography (SµT) has shown its capacity to analyze the paper structure (Rolland du Roscoat et al. 2005; Holmstad et al. 2006). Besides the visualization of the internal structure of the paper, various structural parameters such as porosity, specific surface area, and anisotropy are obtained by further image treatment. In addition, SµT can provide the spatial pore and filler distribution in the paper structure (Rolland du Roscoat et al. 2012). Paper-based composites were also studied successfully (Considine et al.2010). Recently, SµT was used to characterize the z-structured paper by the layered addition of the MNFC (Charfeddine et al. 2016).
The MNFC was supplied by Omya International AG (Oftringen, Switzerland). It was obtained from a mix of bleached eucalyptus pulp with ground calcium carbonate (Hydrocarb®50, Omya) in the ratio of 80% cellulose and 20% mineral, which are combined during the manufacture of the MNFC. The mixture at a consistency of 2.72% was heated to 96 °C before being pumped, for a total of three passes, through a pilot scale homogenizer (LPN 500 from GEA Niro Soavi). The pressure drop was fixed at 600 bars. The obtained MNFC has a diameter ranging from 20 nm (nano-part) to 15 µm (micro-part) and a length of up to 1 mm. For papermaking, the MNFC suspension was diluted to a concentration of 0.1 wt% fibrils. In order to understand the effects of the MNFC layer inclusion, the z-structures were obtained considering two positions in depth, namely the top and middle of the sheet. The basis weight of the MNFC layers was varied from 2 to 20 g·m-2. The total basis weight of the z-structured sheets for all sheets was 60 g·m-2, indicating no measurable loss of MNFC. A 100% TMP sheet, also at 60 g·m-2, and a 100% MNFC sheet at 40 g·m-2 served as references. After wet formation, the sheets were pressed at 2, 3, and 4 bars between two blotting papers before drying at 105 °C for 10 min.
The technique proved to be efficient constituting a well-performing tool to identify MNFC location in the paper structure. Furthermore, 3D tomography porosity profiles in the paper thickness confirmed the retention of MNFC in the paper structure and the creation of the targeted layered structures. Nevertheless, the access to SµT measurements is limited due to the high cost and up-to-date technology needed. Thus, the aim of the present article is to pair results from SµT with results from MIP to improve overall MIP data analysis, and also to improve the structural characterization of such paper structures.
The paper samples used were a 100% TMP sheet (the reference) with a basis weight of 60 g·m-2 and 100% MNFC film with a 40 g·m-2 basis weight. The third sample is a z-structured paper obtained by the addition of an MNFC film in the middle of to the TMP sheet to constitute a layered structure. A MNFC layer of 6 g·m-2 is added in the middle of thickness of the paper during sheet formation. The final basis weight of the z-structured paper is kept constant at 60 g·m-2. All paper samples are made at laboratory scale using the Dynamic Sheet Former (DSF). Further details about the raw materials and the papermaking condition can be found in (Charfeddine et al. 2016).
where γ is the surface tension and θ is the contact angle of mercury with the material to be tested. Φ is the mean equivalent pore diameter and P is the applied pressure.
where ε is the porosity and Φ is the pore diameter.
The 3D images were obtained in the ID19 beamline of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facilities (ESRF) located in Grenoble (France). A pixel size of 0.65 µm was selected to lead to a field of view of 1.4 × 1.4 × paper thickness (e) mm3. The sample, fixed on a rotating stage, was irradiated by the X-ray beam. The transmitted beam was recorded using a high-resolution camera. A detailed description of the experimental set-up can be found in (Rolland du Roscoat et al. 2005; Charfeddine et al. 2016).
where Φ is the mean pore diameter of the paper, Sv is the specific surface of the paper, and ε is the global paper porosity.
Figure 1 shows typical pore volume curves obtained from MIP. The difference between the 100% TMP sheet and the 100% MNFC film curves reflects the difference in the sample structure. MNFC film has a low cumulative pore volume of 0.4 cm3g-1 when compared to the reference TMP sheet at 1.5 cm3g-1. Such a low pore volume is expected, since many studies already reported the capacity of MNFC to form a dense structure with low porosity (Brodin et al. 2014). Furthermore, the difference in the structure between the TMP sheet and the MNFC film can be easily appreciated in the differential pores volume curves. We consider that the single peak at 1 µm in the MNFC curve represents the average porosity between the MNFC fibrils. However, the TMP curve presents two peaks: a peak at 8 µm and a second one at 3 µm. According to Zauer et al. (2014), the pores ranging from 10 nm to 5 µm are considered as microvoids in the paper structure. They include the pointed end of lumens, pit apertures, and membrane voids. Thus, the peak at 8 to 9 µm represents the voids between the TMP fibers and the peak at 3 µm is related to the lumen fiber volume accessible from the fiber wall pits, as explained by Moura and Figueiredo (2002). The addition of the MNFC layer to the TMP sheet reduced the total pore volume of the z-structured paper down to 1.29 cm3g-1. It is notable that the MNFC addition does not impact the pores with a diameter above 10 µm as showed in the Fig. 1(a). The differential pore curve of the z-structured paper points out a great decrease in the volume of pores with 8 µm diameter, from 2.1 cm3g-1 in the TMP sheet down to 1.3 cm3g-1in the z-layered structure. However, the pore volume of the pores around 1 µm in diameter does not show any difference when compared to the TMP sheet.
The values of porosity, specific surface, and mean pore diameter obtained from the MIP curves are presented in Table 1. As expected, the TMP sheet presented the highest porosity (76.3%) while the MNFC film presents the lowest porosity (55.3%). This last porosity value was higher than the one measured by González et al. (2014) due to the presence of the calcium carbonate filler in the MNFC suspension. As expected, the z-structured paper had a slightly lower porosity than the TMP sheet (74.5%). The specific surface values reveal the capacity of the MNFC film to develop a high specific surface (4.68 µm-1) with a low mean pore diameter (0.47 µm). The addition of an MNFC layer of 6 gm-2 increased significantly the paper specific surface from 1.08 µm-1 for the TMP sheet to 3.01 µm-1 for the z-structured paper. The reduction of the porosity and the increase of the specific surface of the z-structured paper lead to the significant decrease of the mean pore diameter of the paper, 0.99 µm compared to 2.83 µm for the TMP sheet.
The MIP curves clearly demonstrate the change in the z-structured paper structure from the TMP sheet to the z-layered sheet, which confirms the retention of the MNFC layer in TMP sheet. However, these results do not provide any information about the MNFC layer position in the paper thickness. Furthermore, MIP results give only global information about the structure, i.e. they do not allow to characterize the spatial structural difference between the surface structure and the paper bulk structure.
The SµT method enabled the characterization of the internal 3D paper structure. The 3D sample views presented in Fig. 2 show the differences between the TMP sheet and the MNFC film structure. In fact, the TMP sheet (Fig. 2a) displayed oriented thick fibers interwoven with fines. These fibers were oriented in the machine direction. The MNFC film (Fig. 2b) presented a denser structure with few small pores compared to the TMP sheet. MNFC fibrils appeared to be randomly oriented in the film structure. Obviously, the z-structured paper showed a similar TMP sheet surface structure, since the MNFC layer was added between two TMP layers (Fig. 2c). The paper section illustrates that the expected three-layer paper structure was indeed obtained: a shiny thin MNFC layer sandwiched between two TMP layers (Fig. 2d).
From the 3D images, the calculated porosity and specific surface are presented in Table 2. As for the MIP results, the TMP sheet showed the highest porosity (71%), while the MNFC film presented the lowest porosity (40%). The addition of the MNFC layer reduced the z-structured paper porosity to 63%. The values of the porosity were lower than that obtained from MIP results. The difference can be explained by: (i) some mercury occlusion effect can be formed at the sample surface at low pressure, as explained by Ridgway and Gane (2003). When the pressure is increased, the occlusion is filled with mercury and is considered as paper porosity; (ii) some Post-it® adhesive used to fix the sample during the tomography measurement remains stuck to the sample and is considered as part of the sample structure in the 3D images. Considering the low Post-it® porosity, a lower overall porosity is obtained.
Besides previous general information about the difference in porosity between the different samples, 3D images offer the possibility to get additional information about the local variation of the porosity in the thickness of a given sample. The 100% TMP sheet and the 100% MNFC film porosity profiles along the paper thickness are presented in Fig. 3, which shows the expected typical profile shape of a monolayer paper structure (Rolland du Roscoat et al. 2008). The porosity decreased from the top surface to a constant plateau value of porosity, and it increased again upon reaching the bottom surface. Indeed, the plateau corresponded to the sheet bulk, whereas the varying parts were related to the top and bottom surface porosity, which in the present work is named ‘3D roughness’.
The porosity profile of the z-structured paper was quite different. It presented a non-constant porosity region in the middle of the bulk zone (at the same location of the former plateau) corresponding to the location of the MNFC layer in the paper thickness. The porosity profile of the z-structured paper, with a lower porosity towards the middle of the sheet, confirms the retention of the MNFC layer at the targeted middle position of the paper thickness.
The porosity profiles in the thickness of the paper indicate that the global paper porosity is made up of two porosity regions: (i) the bulk porosity, which is almost constant, and (ii) the surface porosity, which increases at the surfaces of papers.
Considering such additional information, MIP results analysis can be improved to detect the bulk and surface porosity.
To separate the surface and the bulk structures, the diameters of 10 and 3 µm were chosen as references for samples containing TMP fibers and only MNFC fibrils, respectively. The structural parameters were then recalculated from the MIP curves for the surface and the bulk structures. The results presented in Table 3 indicate, as expected, that most of the paper porosity originates from the bulk porosity. The surface porosity appears to be constant for the two papers. However, the bulk has a high developed specific surface when compared to the paper surface, leading to a reduced mean pore diameter in the bulk.
To validate such mathematical differentiation between the bulk and the surface structures, the bulk structure parameters were measured from the 3D tomography images. Results show that the bulk porosity values are very similar, almost the same, as the ones calculated by the improved MIP data analysis (Table 3).
Mercury intrusion porosimetry (MIP) is frequently used to characterize paper structure, but it only provides structural information, such as porosity or specific surface of the whole sheet, without the capability to differentiate between surface and bulk parameters. MIP does not provide any information about pores distribution in the paper structure. To overcome such limitations, 3D Synchrotron X-ray microtomography images were used to characterize both surface and bulk structures.
3D tomography images showed the presence of three zones in the porosity profile among the paper thickness. The zone of almost constant porosity positioned in the middle of the thickness represents the bulk porosity of the paper, and two zones of higher porosity. These last two regions correspond to boundary layers (roughness) positioned at each surface of the sheet. From the results of the 3D tomography, MIP data were then divided in two parts using either 3 or 10 µm as the limit pore diameter value (depending on the sample composition) between the bulk and the surface. Pore diameters higher than 3 or 10 µm were considered to characterize the surface structure, in contrast to the bulk structure. The bulk porosity, calculated from MIP data, was found to be very similar to the bulk porosity measured from the 3D X-ray images, confirming the validity of the new approach.
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Article submitted: February 2, 2017; Peer review completed: March 26, 2017; Revised version received and accepted: January 10, 2019; Published: February 13, 2019.
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Feds take over mortgage lender IndyMac. FDIC will seek buyer. May become most expensive bank collapse ever.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- In what could turn out to be the most expensive bank failure ever, troubled mortgage lender IndyMac Bank was taken over by federal regulators on Friday.
The operations of the Pasadena, Calif.-based bank - once one of the nation's largest home lenders - were shut down at 3 p.m. by the Office of Thrift Supervision and transferred to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
According to the FDIC, 10,000 IndyMac customers could lose as much as $500 million in uninsured deposits. The agency says the failure will cost the Deposit Insurance Fund between $4 billion and $8 billion, based on preliminary estimates.
"It's possible this will be the most costly bank failure in history, but it's too soon to say," FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair said in a conference call late Friday night. The failure could also affect premiums paid by all banks for deposit insurance, she added.
IndyMac, with assets of $32.01 billion and deposits of $19.06 billion, is the fifth bank to fail this year. Between 2005 and 2007, only three banks failed. And in the past 15 years, the FDIC has taken over 127 banks with combined assets of $22 billion, according to FDIC records.
"There will be increased failures, but it will be within range of what we can handle," Bair said. "People should not worry."
IndyMac marks the largest bank collapse since 1984, when Continental Illinois, which had $40 billion in assets, failed, according to FDIC records. The two most expensive failures were in 1988: American Savings and Loan Association in California ($5.4 billion) and involved First Republic Bank in Texas ($4 billion).
What now for IndyMac customers?
Bair said that the FDIC will try to sell IndyMac as a complete entity within 90 days.
When a bank shuts down, traditional bank accounts are insured to at least $100,000. Some accounts such as annuities and mutual funds are not insured at all. Individual Retirement Account funds are insured to $250,000.
Customers with uninsured deposits will get at least half that money back, and they could get more back, depending on what the FDIC gets when it sells the bank, said Bair.
IndyMac customers will have their funds transferred to a new entity - IndyMac Federal FSB - controlled by the FDIC. They will have uninterrupted customer service and access to their funds by ATM, debit cards and checks.
However, customers will have no access to online and phone banking services this weekend, according to the FDIC. Service will resume on Monday. Loan customers were advised to continue making loan payments as usual.
For additional information, the FDIC has established a toll-free number for customers of IndyMac Federal Bank, FSB. The toll-free number is 1-866-806-5919 and will operate today from 3:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. (PDT), and then daily from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. thereafter, except Sunday, July 13, when the hours will be 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Customers also may visit the FDIC's Web site at http://www.fdic.gov/bank/individual/failed/IndyMac.html for further information.
IndyMac specialized in loans it had long argued were of minimal risk: low documentation loans to residential mortgage borrowers.
On Tuesday, IndyMac - which had 33 branches - announced that it was firing 53% of its workforce and exiting its retail and wholesale lending units. Last year, the lender was ranked 11th in residential mortgage origination, according to trade publication Inside Mortgage Finance.
More importantly, IndyMac also disclosed that regulators no longer considered it "well capitalized." As a result, since Tuesday, the bank wasn't able to accept brokered deposits, or short-term investments in large dollar amounts from brokers seeking the highest return on certificates of deposit.
IndyMac lost $184.2 million in the first quarter and announced on Monday that it was expecting a wider loss for the second quarter. It lost $614 million last year stemming from its focus on the Alt-A mortgage sector, where it originates loans to borrowers who fall between prime (or conforming) and sub-prime on the credit spectrum. The lender's chief executive, Michael Perry, had long argued that it was being unfairly punished given its relatively paltry exposure to sub-prime mortgages.
Rising Alt-A and prime mortgage delinquencies likely were enough indication for investors that the housing crisis had moved beyond the weakest borrowers. Even worse, with the securitization markets in collapse, IndyMac had no way to get new loans off its books. As it turned out, IndyMac was a leader in loans requiring little income and asset documentation, a category that has had disastrous levels of delinquencies at other troubled lenders. What loans the bank had made recently were to borrowers with well-documented assets and income, but those are sharply less profitable with respect to fees and interest income.
IndyMac, in its filing on Monday, said it would focus on its reverse mortgage business, retail branch network and mortgage servicing operations. But the growth restrictions placed on IndyMac by regulators and the banks and brokerages it did business with, as well as the sharply higher borrowing costs, placed the profitability of even its non-mortgage-related banking efforts in doubt.
Even efforts to prop up the bank hurt it. Last month, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., wrote a series of letters to regulators in Washington and California asking them to take steps to prevent the bank's "likely collapse." In response, about $100 million in customer deposits has been withdrawn from the bank, according to one of its filings.
-Fortune writer Roddy Boyd contributed to this report.
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I have to play around with row 3 as some of the titles have more words and the search is looking for only three fields.
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I was thinking about it today on the way to the doctors. My brother Dylan's 13th birthday is on Saturday and I'm so proud of him. I have another half-brother I am not proud of. I have two half-sisters I adore (one is still a BB!) and one I...well sometimes I want to kick her hard so she could maybe glean some sense from it. Because wow.
That's a lot of siblings. Because I didn't grow up with them, I always look at Thomas and his 4 brothers and sisters and think, "wow your family is huge". I have one more sibling than he does. Which is just a little strange to think about. My Mam has five kids, just like Lavinia. Only, UNLIKE Lavinia, she wasn't the most incredible mother know to man. Meaning I didn't see her for like ten years after I turned 5. She's better now. But that's why sometimes I forget.
I'm glad though. I want a big family after so long of having no one but me. Which brings me to the next point.
I had an ultrasound today. I'm having twins.
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Unbelievable result last week jagging the Quaddie at Randwick so I have to go there again this week ,even though I would have liked to solely concentrate on one race mainly, as I did last week on the Doncaster. Instead I tried to put more time into the last four races and will mention a couple of others at reasonable value. I’ll probably take all the ones in Bold in the Quaddie but have a preference for the ones not in Italics. Just singling out the one in the last leg to cut the cost down a bit.
R7 Queen Elizabeth- Hardly likely that we are going to see anything but a fairytale finish for WINX and you only have to look at the Doncaster Quinella last week to realise that she is in another dimension to these, and is likely to be peaking for this race. I had to take the Japanese horse KLUGER in the Winx out market @ $11 after he ran pretty much as well as I expected last week. He was very fresh in the mounting yard before the race and that suggests to me he will strip fitter for this. I did mention last week he is a big strapping horse, and his last two wins in Japan were when he weighed less than 520kg. No idea what he weighed in at last week, but you’d think he would have trimmed down a bit. He has won at the trip so I’m hopeful he can run second. I will also take him in the first leg of the Quad with the champion mare. He’s Eminent, Happy Clapper and Hartnell have to be added to Quinellas, Tri’s and First 4’s obviously and perhaps the former is the one that Winx will have to run run down in the straight.The latter is not really at his best at 2000m but the gear change is interesting (might settle better) and he loves this track. Hartnell just keeps on producing the goods and the Doncaster wasn’t run to suit last week. Quick backup for him a bit of a question mark.
R8 (Sydney Cup) You have to put the favourite DUBHE in all your multis here I feel. He was very strong at the end of two miles in Dubai and there is enough in that form to suggest he will be competitive here. He beat the third horse Jukebox Jive home a mile there and although it appear past it’s best it did have good form behind the likes of Marmelo and Stradivarius (top class European stayer) early in it’s career. The time was good enough to win a 3200m here and he has a very light weight. However there is very little value in his price now. I think the NZ mare GLORY DAYS is great value @ $20 or so. Rarely do you see a mare come from last to win two consecutive staying races in a row and she should relish Randwick given that. The first of those wins was at 2400m and she was dying late in the piece. I personally would not have picked her to win a 2 mile Auckland Cup after that but she did it with ease on a very heavy track sustaining a long run from the rear. Her wide barrier is irrelative and Corey Brown aboard is probably a bonus given his two mile record and recent form. She is also 2/2 on right handed tracks which have been those last two starts. SOUND could be the big improver on a dry track. He looked as though he would do something in the straight last start but just couldn’t pick up on the heavy ground. His best form is on better surfaces, and he has a two mile win (on protest) in Germany over a horse called Nearly Caught who would probably rate as one of the top 5 two mile horses in Europe off his last win. He has drawn a bit wide today which doesn’t augur confidence but if he gets an economical run he could be the surprise packet. MIDTERM is going to be in the race for a long way and might run the 3200m going off his last win at 2400m. The Williams owned horses often do win the Sydney and Adelaide Cups when they are in form and at these sort of odds. Breeding suggest he might struggle though. And the other NZer RONDINELLA intrigues me on that score too. On breeding you would think 2400m would see her out, but she just keeps finding the line, suggesting she will run this trip out. She was maybe ridden a bit too aggressively last start, and in the prior race in NZ she got knocked around before the turn and did incredibly well to run a place in the end. Quite a few other chances here including Gallic Chieftain but you can’t pick them all.
Race 9 (Coolmore Legacy)- I think this is the trickiest of the four races and could easily be leaving the winner out. Interestingly the last two winners have been three year olds coming off below par efforts at 2000m. Bizarrely 4 of the last 6 winners have started with the letter A. Two of them go around here.
R10 Most people will have SPRIGHT on top here but I’m taking her on a bit with her record at Randwick, and the fact that WINTER BRIDE held her off safely the last time they met here. The latter is the horse they all have to beat with her winning strike rate and fresh record. The draw could be the difference between a win and a loss for her depending on how the track plays. The best value could well be EGYPTIAN SYMBOL though. She is also a bomb fresh and all her recent below par runs have been on very wet tracks. Her last two wins have been on dry ground and she has the ideal type of barrier here and a stablemate who might set up the pace she might need (Irithea). She is way over the price she should be @ $16 as is SIREN’S FURY who staged an amazing effort to win last start. She is probably a better mare on Heavy ground but she is also capable on the dry. The track will have some give anyway. Notably she has beaten Spright the two times they have met albeit on wet tracks which don’t suit that mare. Still more chances in this but can’t mention them all. ELLICAZOOM maybe better a little fresher?
In the Oaks I have to be with the value horse ARISTIA who is the only filly to have won at the trip. Drier ground will suit and the other two favourites VERRY ELEEGANT and FRANKELY AWESOME will be giving her a big start in all likelihood. The distance is a slight query for both of them with the latter probably peaking on her run late last start.
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– running the Manitoba 1/2 marathon and beating my best time. I did my best training for the full marathon and although I was unable to run the full I’m glad I went through the training program and did my best.
– reaching my fitness goals of doing a strict unassisted pull up and squatting my body weight. Those were 2 things I never thought I’d be able to do.
I definitely have a lot to focus and work on for 2014 and I haven’t decided yet what my goals are but as soon as I do I’ll update you all.
Now that the holidays are over I’m looking forward to having a more regular schedule. Actually looking forward to meal planning and cooking. We ate out so much over the holidays. I need to eat better!
It’s been a few weeks since I did a Five Things Friday. Today I want to do a Five Things Friday post related to Crossfit.
I’ve now been doing Crossfit for 4 months. The past few weeks I have only been making it to 3 classes/week, but I’m really hoping to make it back to 4-5 classes/week. I no longer feel the anxiety and nervousness I used to feel before each class. I do get a little nervous when I see back squats listed in the WOD but I’m sure that will ease in time.
I can now do 6 pull/chin ups in a row. Ultimate goal would be 10 in a row, so I’m half way there. I do have a muscle-up goal, but we’re not allowed to go on the rings until we meet the pre-requisite of doing 20 perfect form push ups.
The past couple months, I had my coworker join me at Sublime crossfit. Unfortunately she had to cancel her membership 😦 It was so great to go to classes with her and to be able to talk to her about crossfit every now and then at work. We’ve been coworkers/friends for a long time now so it was nice to have her there with me. Every now and then our coach Kyle would try to get us to compete against each other, but I’m not big into competing with others, I’m always focused on competing against myself.
The next couple weeks will involve fitness testing as part of our WODs. The coaches want to check how individuals have progressed since joining, how strong we’ve all gotten. I’m nervous! I don’t think I will hit any new PRs, but I’ll definitely give it a try. I am excited to see how strong I’ve gotten overall.
Then following the 2 weeks of fitness testing, that’s where I have to make a big decision. Remain in foundation or move into building.. where I will start learning Olympic lifting. EEK! I really want to do olympic lifting but I know there’s so much technique involved, it makes me nervous. Although the coaches have been so good at reassuring me that I’ll be starting with the very basics and there’s no expectation that I would be doing heavy olympic lifts from the start.
There will also be a discussion next Saturday to see how many individuals at our box are serious about competing. I’m definitely interested, don’t think I’m close to being in a position to compete, but I’ll be joining the discussion to find out more details. Can’t wait!!
I’ve also found that in terms of goals, they’ve changed quite a bit. Overall goals are to get stronger and remain healthy, but I haven’t had any thoughts lately of needing to lose weight or of the way my body looks. Lately it’s all been about getting stronger, goals of exceeding my last PR, adding more weight, getting faster. I love how my focus is feeling strong and healthy. I still want to eat cleaner, but I’m not as stressed about it right now.
No better time than now..
Since I’m currently locked out of the house.
I completely forgot my parents had a doctors appointment this afternoon. So I left work early and realize that no one is at the house and the storm door in the front is also locked so I can’t even use my keys to get in. And so here I am waiting patiently for my parents and the kids to return. I’m glad that weather wise the sun is shining and there’s not a single rain cloud the sky thank goodness because I wouldn’t be very happy if I had to sit on the doorstep in the rain getting wet.
4. More meal prep and eating a packed lunch.
I think that’s about it for now. I don’t want to take on too much too soon although I know that these minor changes should be fairly easy to make. So we’ll see how things go and I’ll make sure to report on my progress and take regular pictures. Oh and one other thing that I want to focus on is just cutting back on my sugar intake in general. I still don’t think I’m having a lot of sugar but I’m sure the little sugary snacks I have been enjoying add up the end of the day.
For the past few days I’ve started thinking about my next goal. And one thing comes to mind is really working hard towards defining my abs and maybe even sport a 6-pack. And I know that this will take more focus and determination with keeping my meals clean. This just seems like TOO big of a goal, perhaps even bigger than my pull up goal. I know I have a good foundation and starting point with my clean eating, I just need to be consistent. Wish me luck.
I’ll start off by taking a picture of my starting point tomorrow.
Goal date: September 7th – the day I turn 34!
First unassisted wide grip pullup.
Woo hoo! Didn’t try a 2nd rep though. Wish I had a picture, felt embarassed to ask.
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We hereby translate and reprint a statement by our comrades from the Frente Comunista dos Trabalhdores (Brazil) regarding the escalating threats for a new coup by the counter-revolution. The statement was published on the 21st of March, prior to the recent arrest of Lula. Translated by PK, edited by GK – for avantgarde.
For a united front of the entire Left against the coup plotters, on the streets, in the elections, in the places of work, study and housing! Now!
A day after the carnival, the Army, the Globo TV channel and the Temer government escalated military intervention in the country’s second most important state, as anprelude for the imposition of a new regime in the country. One month after the start of the intervention, a popular parliamentarian was executed, in a public street in the center of the city, with four shots in the face. Nobody should be fooled by the stories about a “robbery”. This was a message from the coup leaders to the Left.Their goal is to terrorize those who take a stand against the military intervention, to which the city council is also opposed. The following week and in broad daylight, armed fascist militias threatened Lula, the top leader of the masses and favorite candidate of the population, who is about to be arrested by the regime.
PT and PSOL continue to keep a sectarian stance while being attacked by the same front of right-wing enemies. With the military intervention underway and fascists taking advantage, the Left is not building the necessary united front, believing that somehow it will benefit from the elections.
If the coup regime decide to go ahead with the elections, they will use them to camouflage the militarization of social control. At the same time they try to stifle the struggle against the re-enslavement of labor and to cover up theirdirty deeds with media manipulation, as Globo has been doing now with the murder of Marielle, pushing «against violence and for more intervention» (although, to confuse, it was announced that the military would withdraw from VilaKennedy). The elections will manipulate the leftist electoral body enough, so that nobody goes to the second round. At best, they will try to stage something equivalent to the second round of the French elections between the right (Macron) and the extreme right (Marine Le Pen) in 2017. In other words, if elections do take place, if there is no new parliamentary or military coup… Boulos, Marina and Ciro and the PT candidate will annul one another, dividing left-wing political capital and allowing the Right and the extreme Right to go to the second round.
The result of these elections could be the legitimation of the next ruler who will formally get rid of the coup plotters. The successor of Temer will have the task of imposing all the approved slaveholding counter-reforms plus the gutting of social security, continuing the policy of expropriation and national neo-colonization imposed by imperialism and finance capital.
However, what we should be concerned about at the moment is not the legitimizing elections of the coup, but state terrorism and the growing para-state, the nationalization of military intervention against the population and the selective execution of the popular leaders, such as Marielle, and the arrest of Lula and the almost 50 assassinations of leaders of the social struggle since the impeachment. Those who do not know how to defend their democratic rights, their historical achievements and their own lives will not be alive to defend new conquests.
The Left is happy to form formal united fronts in manifestos of unity between its organizations, but with no real base in the streets, let alone in the elections;at a time when the political situation reminds us of the climate of that film «Z» by CostaGavras. Only this is not simply a movie. Greece has gone through 7 years of military dictatorship.
For the end of the military intervention in Rio!
Against Lula’s arrest and in defense of his right to run as a candidate!
For a united front of the entire Left against the coup plotters, on the streets, in the ELECTIONS, in the places of work, study and housing, now!
For self-defense committees of social militants, trade union movement, working-class organizations, youth and popular movement, popular Brazilian fronts and people without fear, to prevent new Marielles, to prevent the hatching of the egg of the fascist counterrevolution, to prevent the consolidation of the new dictatorship!
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Ahoy! The past 2 weeks have been all about getting things ready to go outside in a couple months. There’s been a lot of planting going on with a whole range of veggies and other edible plants in order to give them a head start on the growing season.
I’m particularly interested in growing enough leaf vegetables to stop needing to buy salad from the shops. Hopefully it will end up saving me money, but I’m also hoping to reduce my garbage output. Growing my own salad will hopefully dramatically reduce the amount of packaging I go through once everything gets going. I’ve purchased a whole bunch of lettuce seeds, but again I am on a budget of trying to spend as little as I can on all this. So I’ve been looking for other ways to grow veg.
Fortunately a way presented itself in the form of additional waste reduction. I always chop off the very tops of radishes, beets, and carrots before using them in salads or cooking. For years I just tossed these away, but now I can put them to better use and use them to create some fast salad leaves. All it takes is to put a layer of gravel in a tray, and then fill it with water just to the top of the gravel, then sit the tops on top. Keep the tray topped up with water and after a few days new leaves will start to grow.
Now that they’ve started to grow some new leaves, I’ve potted them up in a window box to see if I can get them to properly root and continue producing leaves. Updates on the status of this experiment in coming weeks.
Beets, radishes, and carrot are all swollen tap roots. These are the initial leading root put out by a seed down into the ground. From this initial root smaller ones grow out sideways. In many plants these stringy/fibrous roots turn into the main root system, but in carrots, beets, and other similar plants the tap root continues to grow and swell. Unfortunately, once you cut the carrot or beet, the taproot won’t re-grow. So planting these tops won’t get you a new carrot, but they should put out new feeder roots and grow new leaves from their crowns.
The reason this works well for these plants is that the tap root acts a nutrient warehouse, storing chemical energy made by photosynthesis in the form of sugars and starches. This is why root vegetables are often sweet (beets and carrots) or starchy (salsify). Normally the plants use the stored nutrients to send up new leaves in the spring. Breaking down starches into sugars, and then metabolizing the sugars. They can also use this store to send up new leaves when they are removed. This is why dandelions (another potential salad crop) can be so difficult to get rid of. Any bit of tap root will send up new shoots to replace the one you’ve pulled out.
Potential root veg to get salad leaves from are: carrot, radish, beet, salsify, turnips, and swede (rutabaga).
Don’t try this with parsnips as their leaves contain chemicals which can burn your skin.
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Book Club meets Tuesday. I’m looking forward to it. We’ve read close to 200 books together since I started it in 1998. At the time, friends asked how I did it. I had no special knowledge — had just belonged to one for years and enjoyed it thoroughly. When it disbanded, I decided to start my own. I put up notices on the bulletin board where our exercise class was held, invited friends, and voila. All these years later, we still meet.
first was “Lady Chatterley’s Lover”, banned by the Catholic Church in the Quebec of my youth. Naturally as a result, I’d always wanted to read it and was delighted when our fledgling group agreed to do so. This book was not only banned in Quebec, but in both England and the U.S. as well until long after D. H. Lawrence’s death.
Reading about the court case reminded us of “Madam Bovary”, Flaubert’s meticulous novel about another adulteress, which also lead to censure and charges of immorality. It was interesting to reread this book with more maturity, and discuss it on the heals of Lady Chatterley.
Then, deciding on a contemporary work, we chose Joy Kogawa’s “Obason”, about B.C.’s Japanese residents and their unfortunate plight during world war two. I already had a copy on my bookshelf. (I’m no big spender, but I do have a problem resisting books.) Kogawa’s prose is so beautifully crafted, I reread paragraphs over just for the joy of it.
The discussion of Obason triggered thoughts of the British and Africa, and it was suggested we next read Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness”. Conrad is considered one of the great modern English prose stylists, yet English was his (get this) fourth language. The book is tightly constructed, a short novel and you could read it in an evening. It is based on Conrad’s own experiences working on the Congo River in 1890. It gives an unsettling view of the time, place and people. And, knowing English was not his first language, I felt compelled to keep a dictionary at my side to look up words I didn’t know, although English IS my first.
Don Quixote had sat on my bookshelf for years. I’d started it more than a few times and given up, so when Joan suggested we attempt it as our next book, I was thrilled. It is somewhat intimidating size-wise, (my copy has over 800 pages) and none of us completed it in one month. Nonetheless, entranced and considering it a truly important work (it has entered our culture and our language) we were determined to finish it. I’ve been grateful ever since.
No authentic image exists of Miguel de Cervantes, but “Don Quixote” has been enjoyed for ages.
Here’s my favorite paragraph. Use it next time you’re really furious. Quixote is angry at his squire, Sancho.
Note: Tony, in Australia, is a treasured long-distance member of our book club. I email him what we are reading each month and often, both he and his wife Barbara read along with us. He emails back his thoughts on the current book, and I share them with the group because he’s clever and always astute and interesting.
You can be in our club too. Just let me know you are interested, and I’ll send you an email about what we are reading as well. And no, there are no rules….
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