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The answers to that question explain that a prime field is not necessary for Shamir's scheme, but, rather, that any finite field can be used. However, they don't really address the other part of the question, namely why do we need a finite field at all? Couldn't we just use, say, ordinary integer arithmetic instead?
From at practical point of view, computers couldn't perform real field arithmetic anyway, since it can only represent real values approximately. By using a finite field, you are able to ensure the algorithm will output exact values.
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Henrick HellströmJul 18 '13 at 9:14
For calculating the interpolation polynomial one needs its coefficients to be elements of a field. Sampling random values uniformly from an infinite field is not possible, so you have to take a finite field.
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j.p.Jul 18 '13 at 9:29
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The simplest answer is probably to give an example of information leaked when using Shamir's secret sharing over the integers. Assume that we construct a low degree example, defining $q$ to be a linear polynomial with $q(0)=D$ and $q(1)=a_1$. By interpolation you find that: $$q(x)=(a_1-D)x+D.$$
Assume that you are given the share corresponding to evaluation at $2$, i.e. $q(2)$. You can see that $q(2)=2a_1-D$. Since $a_1$ and $D$ are integers, given this single share, you learn the parity of $D$.
Therefore, the selection of the shares uniformly is not the only security reason. However I didnt understand why you learn something about D's parity. A more helpful example woule be if: $$f(x)=a_1x+D$$ and at 2 users the $$f(1)$$ and $$f(-1)$$ is assigned. Then the two users could easily recover D by adding their shares.
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Herc11Jul 18 '13 at 14:21
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@Herc11: Yes, but two users putting their shares together to recover the secret is part of the specifications (when using a linear polynomial).
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minarJul 18 '13 at 14:28
The reason that a field must be used in Shamir's reconstruction scheme is
that the calculations used in the reconstruction need to divide one "number"
by another, and division is not defined in $\mathbb Z$, the set of integers:
$\frac{m}{n}$ is not necessarily a member of $\mathbb Z$.
So, why not use $\mathbb R$, or $\mathbb Q$ which can be "implemented" in
terms of pairs of integers? The answer again is that computers use
floating-point arithmetic which is not the same as real arithmetic, or
integer arithmetic which is, if we ignore overflow and underflow, effectively
modular arithmetic in $\mathbb Z_{2^m}$ which is not a field but a ring.
A more subtle issue is that the Shamir's scheme implicitly assumes that
a polynomial of degree $n$ with coefficients in a field does not
have more than $n$ roots in the field, which property is not true in rings.
For example, the polynomial $x^2 - 1$ has four roots $\pm 1, \pm 4$
in the ring $\mathbb Z_{15}$ instead of the two $\pm 1$
that it has in a field such as $\mathbb Z_{17} = \mathbb F_{17}$.
As a concrete example of what might happen with integer arithmetic as
implemented on a general-purpose computer, consider
this formula for secret reconstruction
$$s_0 = (-1)^k (x_1x_2x_3\cdots x_k) \sum_{i=1}^k \frac{y_i}{x_i\cdot c_i}$$
taken from another answer of mine.
Here, $s_0$ is the secret that is reconstructed from shares $(x_i,y_i)$
(that is, $y_i = s(x_i)$) and
$$c_i = (x_i-x_1)(x_i-x_2)\cdots(x_i-x_{i-1})(x_i-x_{i+1})\cdots(x_i-x_k).$$
Now consider the case where the $k$ shareholders who have
gathered to reconstruct the secret all happen to have $x_i$ an odd integer.
Then, $c_i$ is an even integer -- in fact, a multiple of $2^{k-1}$ --
and so $\frac{y_i}{x_i\cdot c_i}$ is not necessarily an integer. However, the sum
$s_0$ will work out to be an integer.
With ordinary integer arithmetic on a computer, the fractional parts
of $\frac{y_i}{x_i\cdot c_i}$, if any, will
be lost when the integer division indicated is computed, and thus
$s_0$ will not be computed correctly. This is not to say that one could
not manage this issue
with careful programming that works around the problem, but we also have
to deal with the possibility that the computations might cause overflow
or underflow which also needs to be worked around. In any case, there
can be problems that arise because the polynomials re-constructed
via Lagrange interpolation are not necessarily the same as the ones used to
construct the secret originally. Foe example, both $x^2-1$ and
$(x-1)(x-4) = x^2-5x+4$ have roots $1$ and $4$ in $Z_{15}$. Since
we don't know ahead of time which shares will be available for
reconstruction, we cannot be sure whether we will reconstruct the
correct polynomial in the Lagrange interpolation process.
Thus, whether the secret recovery process will work as claimed
in a ring is an open question. That the process will work in
a field is guaranteed.
Your answer about the roots of $$x^2-1$$ puzzled me. If I ave a set of equations let's say with 3 equations and 3 unknowns, where the knowns and unknown variables are GF elements I cannot be sure that I ll find the right answer?It depends on the irreducible polynomial? I am referring to GF generated by ir. polynomials
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Herc11Jul 19 '13 at 22:18
If the three equations have a unique solution in a field whether it is a prime field (integers modulo a prime $p$) or an extension field (what you seem to be referring to as "GF generated by ir. polynomials), then standard calculations will give the right answer. The choice of irreducible polynomial merely changes the names we give to elements of the extension field and so the answer might "look" different but it is still the same answer: all that has happened is that we are using a different basis to represent the answer.
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Dilip SarwateJul 20 '13 at 2:31
So, It can be solved?i.e If I know that the set is defined in such a way that there is a solution, this solution can be computed? the set had 4 equations does this change anything?If it is a bigger set e.g. 6 eq?Its the same?
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Herc11Jul 20 '13 at 2:33
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$$\begin{align}x+y+z&=1\\2x+2y+2z&=2\\3x+3y+3z&=3\end{align}$$ has multiple solutions but not a unique solution in any field; $$\begin{align}x+y+z&=0\\2x+2y+2z&=1\\3x+3y+3z&=1\end{align}$$ has no solutions in any field because the equations are inconsistent.
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Picture the scene. You have a client who’s so upset with you, she’s taking her business elsewhere. You’ve tried your best to work it out with her, but you just can’t seem to make it right and she’s gone. You’ve never lost a client before. You’re horrified, you go into an emotional tailspin, your self esteem plummets, you feel shame, and you start seeing yourself as a failure. There’s a voice in your head that’s saying something along the lines of, “You’re a loser.” The voice then goes on to document every mistake or instance of bad judgment you’ve ever made.
You may be someone for whom this tailspin can last weeks and weeks, decimating your productivity and making you miserable the whole time. Or perhaps it’s only hours. However much or little productive time you lose to emotional nosedives, it’s more time than you can afford to lose. That’s why it’s essential that you know how to recover quickly from the painful things that can happen in the course of an ordinary workday. Skills that support resilience are enormously important! AND THEY ARE LEARNABLE.
In the case of the departing client, you need to first see if this incident has anything to teach you. Knowing what you know now, would you do anything differently with this client if you had it to do again? Is there something new you would like to implement going forward, to be used with at least some clients? Identify what (if anything) there is to learn from this, implement whatever changes that result from this learning, and MOVE ON. If there’s nothing to be learned from this, just MOVE ON.
For some people, this mental exercise is enough to pull them out of their emotional tailspin and return them to a state of being balanced and grounded. For others, additional work is required to shift the mood.
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Do something physical like:
20 jumping jacks
leave the room
go for a walk — outside is best, but if that’s not a good option, walk wherever you can — inside your building is fine.
Get in touch with something you’re grateful for, and FEEL the gratitude. It doesn’t work to just think it or say it or make a list of the things you’re grateful for. You have to actually FEEL the gratitude.
Don’t engage with the voice inside your head that’s telling you want a failure you are — you can’t quiet that voice by arguing with it. Arguing just makes the blaming voice get louder.
Do something completely distracting or delightful such as: watching cat videos or a Seinfeld episode, or whatever lightens your heart and mind.
Talk to a very trusted friend who knows how to “talk you down” from the place of “I’m such a loser.”
I recommend trying each of these until you find one that works for you. Then use that one relentlessly every time that state of mind occurs. If none of these work, find something that does. You really only need one. And you have to really work it.
The thing to remember is that when this state of mind hits, it feels like the content of it is true and that’s what you have to wrestle to the ground. But really what you need to deal with is the state of mind. So find ways to change that state of mind and get back to being grounded and centered.
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In a previous post I covered the first 3 strategies for navigating a successful career or job change. In this post I will cover the last 3. Here are all 6 of them:
Know this: IT’S NOT A LINEAR PROCESS!
Network, Network, Network!
Be Generous With Self-Acknowledgement and Self-Care
Choose Expansive vs. Limiting Beliefs
Build and Use Support Systems
Stay on the Plus Side
Let’s look at the last three in more detail.
Choose Expansive vs. Limiting Beliefs
We love to be right. We love to see our beliefs proven true. Those of us who think that people are basically good tend to see the world through that filter. Take a good hard look at the beliefs that are your filter. Particularly where they pertain to work, money and opportunity. Do you believe you’re too old to get hired? Or that as a woman, the odds are against you in your profession? If so, then you are stacking the deck against yourself. You actually won’t recognize some of the opportunities out there for you. Instead you’ll be proving that you’re right (in your belief).
How do you change a belief? A belief is a lot like a habit. The first step is to recognize that you have it, and for many of us, this is the hardest part. You can develop awareness of your beliefs by noticing when you’re feeling bad, when you’re feeling good, and when you’re feeling neutral. When you’re feeling either bad or good, stop for a moment and write down what you believe about yourself in that moment. These are your beliefs in that moment. Most of us have a different set of beliefs depending on how we feel. The way to change a belief is not to talk yourself out of it, but rather to replace it with a more constructive one. You’ll need to practice, practice, practice the replacement action — but it really can be done. Over time, the new habit/belief will take hold.
Build and Use Support Systems
Don’t do this alone. Hire a coach, join or form a group, find a success buddy, create a structured arrangement with a friend. Here are the important elements you want in your support structure: you want people who will believe in you and in your quest. And you want something structured, so that there is a routine to the support.
In a structured arrangement with a friend for example, you could set it up so each of you gets a 10-minute check-in to report on what you have accomplished since the last time you spoke. And you need to end with each of you getting clear on what your next steps are for today and until the next time you meet and when you will take those steps.
If you live in a large metropolitan area, it’s possible there are job-seeker support groups that you can visit and see if you like them. In the greater Boston area, there is an organization called WIND, which sponsors regular meetings every other week at three different locations. I was the guest speaker at one of those meetings earlier this month. I recommend WIND meetings to my job-seeking clients who are not currently working. It can be so extremely helpful and validating to look around the room at other smart, capable professionals who are in the same boat. The networking can be very powerful. Someone in the room may know someone at a company you are interested in. Even getting one new idea from the meeting can make a difference for you. Plus, it gets you away from your screen.
Stay on the Plus Side
If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. Then start climbing out.
There will be some days you feel inspired, excited, and pumped. There may be other days you feel discouraged, tired, even depressed. You need to develop a strong witness to these ups and downs: develop a part of you that is able to stand outside the feelings and simply observe. When you can observe your feelings as well as experience them, you have power and options.
When you’re “up,” use the time constructively – this is a great time to take risks, talk with people, or be bold. Leverage this time shamelessly! If you are feeling low, it is critical that you recognize it for what it is – a feeling – and use your skills to get yourself into a more constructive and energetic space. Start developing an inventory of activities and strategies that get you out of these low places. Everyone’s inventory will be a little different. Some people can pull themselves out of a slump by an immediate change of scene: go out for a run in the park or take your laptop to Starbucks. Others get lifted out of discouragement by sharing with friends what’s going on for them and letting the friends help them. And even when you’re feeling low, you can stay in action. It may not be the time to make phone calls, but it can be a great time to do research on the internet, or pick up your suits at the cleaners.
In summary, job and career changes are challenging life events. Take very good care of yourself during this process – don’t take yourself for granted. Let others contribute to your quest in a variety of ways.
If you’re considering hiring a coach to help you with challenges like these, or if there’s a habit you really want to replace with a better one, contact me for an initial consultation at no charge.
Through my own two major career changes, and after coaching many people through successful job and career change, I’ve found six useful strategies for navigating this challenging life passage with self-compassion and patience. Both of these support a successful outcome.
I will cover the first 3 of these strategies in this post, and the last 3 in next month’s post.
First of all, know up front that few people feel skilled at figuring out a career or job change. Most people find the task daunting. If you are someone who is used to feeling on top of your game, be willing to be out of your comfort zone on this one – chances are, this is not your game. And if you are usually a not-too-confident person, know that in this context, you are not alone in feeling unsure of yourself.
These are the first three strategies:
Know this: IT’S NOT A LINEAR PROCESS.
Network, Network, Network!
Be Generous With Self-Acknowledgement and Self-Care.
Now let’s look at each of these in more detail.
Know this: IT’S NOT A LINEAR PROCESS!
You will experience less frustration and waste less time if you accept this and don’t expect your left-brain (your analytic, linear, spreadsheet mind) to figure out the whole thing in advance. You can’t just think your way to a solution. Allow for surprises, serendipitous connections, and intuitive hits. Learn to tolerate the state of not-knowing.
Be very clear on your intention, stay in action, and listen to the feedback. By “listen to the feedback,” I mean observe your results. Notice what’s working and what isn’t. Keep doing what’s working. Stop doing what’s not working — but get some help with it. Try to figure out WHY it’s not working, and fix it if it’s fixable. Some things are not fixable — let them go. And continue with the activities that produce some movement.
Did you ever play the board game Clue? Remember the secret passage from the Kitchen to the Ballroom? In a career process, you never know when or where you’ll find a secret passage!
Network, Network, Network!
Let everyone know what you are up to, and let them know how they can help you. I mean everyone. Not just your closest friends and your siblings, everyone! That means the people you run into, your neighbors, your hairdresser, your colleagues, your doctor, dentist, accountant, attorney, the folks who service your car, and so forth.
Have you ever been able to be helpful to someone who wanted to make a connection of some sort? Have you, for example, ever been able to give someone the name of a great house painter (electrician, accountant, chiropractor) when they asked? It’s an easy and delightful thing to do for another person. Let the people in your life have that opportunity with you. Let them know how they can help you. Is there a company or an industry you wish you knew somebody in so you could talk to them? Ask around.
During my own career exploration that eventually led me to coaching, there was a point at which I wanted to deliver some corporate training on issues pertaining to personal and organizational change. Although I knocked directly on corporate doors, my breakthrough opportunity came from a student in one of the music classes I was teaching at the time. She asked me to do training for her multiple staffs on “Managing Change.” She knew of my interest because I had told the class what I was up to.
Of course, if your exploration needs to be confidential, you’ll need to be discrete in the way that you do it. Do your networking quietly, but do your networking.
Be Generous With Self-Acknowledgement and Self-Care
Two kinds of self-acknowledgement are required during a career or job change process.
First, you must regularly acknowledge yourself for the hard work you are doing. There’s a 4-part cycle that your work is part of:
1. Set a goal.
2. Do the work.
3. Meet the goal.
4. Acknowledge and celebrate. This fourth part is equivalent to a paycheck and a boss saying to you, “Good job. I appreciate the work you’re doing!” Your self-acknowledgement can be simple and sweet. Keep it private — from you to you.
The second kind of self-acknowledgement involves getting very clear on as many of your skills and gifts as you can and taking full ownership of them. You really need to be in full command of what it is you have to offer “out there” in the marketplace. Many people have a hard time owning and claiming their expertise, but it’s essential that you know who you are and what you have to offer – not inflated, not deflated, but accurate.
In addition, extreme self-care is called for, above and beyond the usual level. Career change and job search are hard work, which can be very depleting. You need to keep yourself nourished. Do more of the things that fuel you. Be sure that there are no places where energy is leaking – you need all your energy for this work.
In summary, job and career changes are challenging life events. Take very good care of yourself during this process – don’t take yourself for granted. Let others contribute to your quest in a variety of ways. And whenever possible, enjoy the sheer adventure of it.
If you’re considering hiring a coach to help you with challenges like these, contact me for an initial consultation at no charge.
In next month’s blog post, I’ll discuss the last three of the six strategies.
Regret punishes you in two ways. First, you suffer from feeling the regret, which is usually some form of beating yourself up: “I should’ve (fill in the blank).” But also, while you’re suffering, you’re not fully present to what’s in front of you. That means you’re missing out on opportunities you might otherwise notice and seize: professional opportunities, ways to develop stronger connections with other people, or simply doing your work efficiently and effectively. Instead, you’re locked into a conversation with yourself, in your head, about what you “should have done” (or shouldn’t have done) 20 years ago, or yesterday. You’re simultaneously getting pummeled and getting locked out of enjoying and making the best use of what’s possible for you today.
Here are some thoughts about how to manage regret so that you are not hostage to it.
Awareness. Like other feelings, regret seems to arise randomly, of its own accord. You can’t control that. But the most important thing we can do is to recognize when we are feeling regret. With practice, we can get very good at this. Part of our consciousness is always witnessing our experience. We can learn to tap into that witness so that we can say, “I’m feeling regret right now. I’m sorry I . . . (didn’t tough it out and go to medical school, didn’t realize I was in love with X and make more time for that relationship, said what I said yesterday to my direct report, ate the whole thing, etc).
Action. Once you’re aware of the feeling, you can ask yourself, if there is anything you can DO NOW, in the present and going forward, to address whatever it is you are regretting. If so, TAKE ACTION as soon as you possibly can. For example:
a) If you regret that you consumed half a cheesecake yesterday, you can throw the other half out right now, commit to healthy eating today, join Weight Watchers or get help in some other way.
b) If you regret what you said to your direct report yesterday, you can think through how to clean it up with that person and then do it.
c) If you regret that you didn’t go to medical school 20 years ago, don’t just blow it off as “too late” the way you always do. Think through and understand what’s driving these thoughts. Are you longing to have more science in your life? Looking for a way to have a more stable income? Fascinated with new developments in medical treatment and wish you could be on the front lines? Once you understand your motivations, you can examine what your real options are in the present. You may want to get some help with this. Consulting with a career counselor, career coach, or a friend or colleague who’s capable of objectivity can be extremely helpful. If you regret that you didn’t pursue a love relationship way back when . . . what changes can you make in your life now that can open possibilities for greater love and connection in your present life?
As people are living and working longer, many change careers two or three (or more!) times over the course of their lives. Once you understand what’s driving your feelings, you can take action. I know people who went to law school in their 50s, finished their PhD many years after leaving school, or published their first novel while working as a CPA. People reinvent themselves in realms outside of career too.
Other action. If there’s nothing you can do now toaddress the specific thing you regret, there may be ways you can use the new information about yourself (gleaned from your process in step 2) to inform your choices going forward. Are you hungry to have more art-making in your life even though you’re not going to change careers? Take a sculpting class at an adult ed program somewhere locally, or find a course at a museum school. Some public libraries have free craft-making evenings where you can bring your own project and work alongside other crafters.
If there is no action for you to take, your task is to turn your focus to something else: something in the present that will take your mind off the regret. Many people find that doing something physically engaging is very helpful — go for a run, get to that Zumba class, do yoga in your living room. Going to a movie is another great way to change the state of your mind, and take you out of yourself. What works for you?
Regret is complicated and can be difficult to dislodge. If you find that you are unable to wrestle it to the ground on your own, getting some professional help can be extremely useful, both in reducing your suffering and in making better choices for yourself going forward. Working with a psychologist or psychotherapist can help you unpack the emotional complexity of your regret, if there is any. A career, life, or health coach can help you implement whatever practical changes you want to make, if any.
The most important thing is not succumbing to the double suffering of regret! Help is available, and it doesn’t have to be long term.
Sometimes a client asks for help in developing his or her own coaching skills. One of the skills that’s part of the coaching skills set is acknowledging. By that I mean identifying in specific ways exactly what the people they manage, their colleagues, or their family, friends, and others bring to the table. This is not a blanket, cheesy, “You’re wonderful, and what would we ever do without you?” This is much more powerful, meaningful, and difficult, and it asks a lot from you. It’s also not simply the recognition of the results that people produce, though recognizing results is important too.
But most people, possibly including you, have only a vague idea of the personal qualities (hardworking, personable, upbeat, tenacious, thorough, meticulous, quick, sense of humor) they bring to bear in any part of their lives. Or the skills they bring to table. Do they have the gift of being able to put anyone at ease? Do they remember details from projects they worked on years ago? Are they great problem-solvers? If you, as a manager or colleague or friend, can help someone understand more fully what their particular strengths are, you are contributing meaningfully to their development, empowerment, and well-being. It’s a very constructive thing to do for someone and all it takes is awareness and the time to communicate it.
None of us fully gets what our particular gifts are: dolphins don’t necessarily get what graceful, beautiful swimmers they are. Your teenage son doesn’t know that the profound, big-picture questions he comes up with sometimes blow you out of the water. Your meticulous colleague doesn’t necessarily know that you have come to rely on her ability and willingness to think through a project to its logical implications in all the 55 different ways it could turn out. Your manager may not know how grateful you are for her regular reminders of the bigger picture you are all working toward and the values that support it. It keeps you inspired even from within the day-to-day, on-the-ground work you do. Your spouse might be surprised to hear how much you appreciate his even-keeled, steady disposition day in and day out. Even in your crazy household.
It is a great gift to others to let them know in a granular, nuanced way the details of what you appreciate about them — about how they work, or communicate, or relate. It is also a great gift to yourself, because it immediately puts you into the mindset of appreciation and gratitude, which, according to current research, creates a very happy and lasting brain-state in you, the giver of this gift, as well as in the recipient.
Here’s a way to practice this. Make a list of 5 important people in your life. For each, list a few of their qualities or skills that you benefit from. For each, pick one that you think they just might not be fully aware of. Find a way, in the next 2 weeks, to tell them about it. If it feels awkward, it doesn’t mean it was a mistake to do it — it just means you’re new at this.
And for yourself, what is one quality you think YOU bring to the table that you would (if you could honestly admit it, confidentially) love to be acknowledged for? And by whom?
If you haven’t already seen the movie “Arrival,” with Amy Adams, go see it. It’s a fantastic and wonderful adventure story. And a gorgeous metaphor for what emerging leaders and other challenged professionals go through all the time.
The Amy Adams character, a top-notch linguist, is tapped for a huge, mind-boggling job that catapults her into a realm of personal growth and challenge like no other. In short, aliens have arrived on earth from outer space, and she is heading up the team to figure out how to communicate with them. Though we know she is the best person for the job, we see the immense personal challenge of it. She experiences profound fear. There is opposition to her approach that she has to push back against. She has self doubt. She is isolated. She has experiences unlike anything she’s ever known, and she struggles to understand them. The work requires her to expand and grow intellectually, emotionally, spiritually, in a way that . . . as the audience struggles to keep up, we understand . . . challenges her capacity: can I wrap my mind around this? Can I stretch my mental abilities to grasp what’s going on here? Am I reading this right?
Even as other key characters read the situation differently and threaten to violently shut down her work, she has to muster the strength, courage, and confidence to persevere, hold her own, and stay focused on the work.
This is a brilliant and highly entertaining dramatization of what my clients often experience. My clients are highly capable women and men whose jobs consistently require that they stretch out of their comfort zones, learn new skills, navigate something utterly new to them, while dealing with all manner of feedback, opposition, and setbacks. In a way, this is just how work IS for many people. In “Arrival,” it the project was a time-limited. In real life, it’s ongoing, and therefore very challenging to sustain.
Does this kind of job sound familiar to you? Could you use some support in finding ways to make things more sustainable for you? Here are a few strategies that can make a difference:
Acknowledge and appreciate yourself for your heroism in doing this work. I don’t care if you’re designing shoes or eradicating TB, if your work fits the description above, it’s crucial that you appreciate the heroic effort you are putting in.
Make sure you take really really good care of yourself, whatever that means to you, whatever you can mange.
Make sure you’re working as efficiently as possible. If you’re squandering hours every week due to your own inefficiency, own it and eliminate those leaks of your time, focus, and energy. Optimize how you work so you can leave work behind sometimes and replenish yourself.
Get more help. Delegate more effectively at work. Get more help outside of work. Have no idea how/where to get help? Do a single coaching session with me about this! There are always ways to get help somewhere in your life
This is not an exhaustive list. It’s a scatter of ideas. If you want to do some serious, focused work on how these issues play out in your work, contact me for an initial consult at no charge. Over the course of 3 or 6 months, you can learn how to manage your work in a way that’s more sustainable for you. You don’t want to burn out.
Are you a worrier? Do you sometimes spend time and energy worrying about your finances, your children, your career, world politics, whether someone is mad at you? Worry can either be a highly useful, brilliantly engineered cue to action or a useless, destructive energy drain, an endless loop of wasted, miserable time. The challenge is to decide which it is, on a case-by-case basis, and manage yourself accordingly.
Here is a quick and dirty, 4-step, highly effective way to manage yourself when worry is staring you in the face. .
Learn to recognize when you are worrying.
This takes practice. You may not recognize yourself worrying until you’ve been possessed by a particular worry for days or weeks. But whether you catch yourself in the first minute or the first month, the most important step is recognizing the pattern. You can develop your “witness” over time and become more proficient in noticing when you are worrying.
Determine if something needs to be done.
Ask yourself, “Is the worry a cue to action?”
For example, if you are worried that your toddler will get lead paint poisoning from the lead paint on your windows, there is indeed something that needs to be done. You need to get the lead paint removed from your windows. And keep your child well supervised in the meantime.
If you don’t know whether or not something needs to be done, find out. You need to get more information – THAT’s what needs to happen.
If something needs to be done, get it done as soon as possible.
Often just deciding to take the action can loosen worry’s grip on you. But it’s critical that you follow through – take that action as soon as it is feasible.
Call the state agency that deals with lead paint removal and get the names of contractors who do that kind of work. Get moving with hiring and scheduling a contractor. Call your pediatrician and get advice about how to protect your child during the removal process and follow up on every detail.
If nothing needs to be done, release the worry.
If the lead paint removal is scheduled, your child is adequately supervised, and you’re following all of the pediatrician’s instructions, there is nothing more to be done. Your job in this case is to re-focus your attention elsewhere.
For most people, relinquishing the worry is the hardest part. If you generally let worry run unchecked, you know that it’s a very greedy dynamic that will steal as much of your attention as you let it. Left unchecked, it will reduce your effectiveness and productivity. Some serious boundary-setting with yourself is absolutely required here.
Experiment with the following strategy. In your mind, respond to the worry with something like this: “Thank you for sharing. I appreciate your concern (this is important). But there is nothing more to be done right now, so I’m going to stop thinking about this.” Then get yourself to focus on something else – find something else compelling and engaging to think about. You might line up some contenders in advance. Just about anything that works for you will do.
Sooner or later, the worry will return. Repeat steps 1 through 4 as needed. This is an iterative process. Hang in there!
Here is a short list of some of the worries that my clients and I have learned to deal with more effectively:
Personal finances. My client regularly pictured herself as a bag lady, penniless, homeless, and alone on the street, despite her current (and past) circumstances, which were nothing of the sort. The action that was called for was to develop a strong and detailed financial plan with an expert.
Professional failure. One of my clients worried he was failing in his current job. The solution for him was to acknowledge that he really needed to improve his performance in one particular part of his job, to get training in that arena, and to get better at it. He took responsibility for it and had a good outcome, both on the performance side and on the worry side. Another career-anxious client determined there was no action required. She learned to respond to the angst by listing for herself the ways she was effective in her work generally and specifically and all the ways she was effective today. This activity served to change her state of mind.
Someone is upset with me. Every once in a while I get it into my head that I’ve made some kind of terrible faux pas or exercised terrible judgment and someone I care about (a client, a friend, my son-in-law’s mother) is royally offended, outraged, or angry with me as a result. I’ve learned to muster the courage to go to the person I may have wronged and say, essentially, “I’m concerned that I was inappropriate when I said X to you last week, and I’m so very sorry if I offended you — that was not my intention.” And then to be quiet and listen to their response. 99% of the time, they don’t know what I’m talking about and were not the least bit ruffled by what I said. Every once in a great while, I really DID say something inappropriate and now I have the chance to clean it up. Either way, initiating this conversation results in the worry getting cleared up one way or the other. And at this point in my life, I’m not so reluctant to bring it up, since history has shown me that I’m usually wrong and the person is not upset with me.
Do you need help figuring out whether a worry merits action or how to disarm a stubborn worry-habit? Invest in yourself and get the help you need. Coaching can make a difference. Contact me for an initial meeting at no charge. Get your questions answered, see what it’s like to work with me, and see for yourself if you want to. Most people find the meeting useful, whether or not they decide to work with me.
The Productivity Series:This is the second in a series of posts about productivity strategies for you to consider. I chose these particular tips because implementing them has made a strong positive difference for many of my clients and for me.
Take Credit for Small Steps
Do you take credit for the small steps you take toward your goals? Or do you blow them off as being too little to matter?
Taking credit for incremental steps along the way toward a goal is an essential element in reaching your biggest goals. Here’s why, in the words of psychologist Robert Alter, from his powerful book, How Long Til My Soul Gets it Right:
“The journey of change is like a steep stairway with many steps — each one of them difficult to take — and your legs need strength and spring to climb from one to the other. The strength and spring for the next step come, in part, from the inward acknowledgement, appreciation, congratulation, and celebration you give yourself for the step you just climbed. If after climbing to one step you shrug, smirk, wave it off, or blow it off, not permitting yourself to bask in the light of your own self-praise, it is harder to take the next step.“
My clients often have great resistance to taking credit for their small steps. When it comes to self-acknowledgement, they have kept themselves on a starvation diet for years, until now. Is this true for you too?
But have you ever worked for a manager who never, ever said anything like “Thank you” or “Good work”? How motivating was that for you?
Truly, when you begin to regularly take credit for the small steps along the way, something shifts and opens. Some part of you begins to get nourished, finally. And with that nourishment comes the energy and endurance to go the distance you need to go in order to reach your biggest life-goals.
The “taking credit” I’m talking about here is a private, intimate matter. I’m not suggesting that you take out a full page ad in the New York Times that says, “I led a good meeting!” But I am encouraging you to take a full moment when you’re alone in your car or your office, make real contact with yourself, and say, “I led a good meeting. I thought through how I wanted to facilitate it, I had some good ideas, and I structured the meeting accordingly. I anticipated some of the complicated things that came up, I was prepared for them, and I handled them well enough. Overall, the meeting was successful. Good work!” Once you’re in the self-acknowledgement habit, you can mentally say this to yourself in about 3 nanoseconds.
Developing a habit of acknowledging incremental successes can have as much positive impact on your success as anything else you do. And it doesn’t cost you anything in terms of time, energy, or money! You just have to remember to do it.
I acknowledge you for finding and reading this post. See? It starts right here.
To carry it forward now, try this exercise:
1. Think of ten small steps you took today
2. As you identify each one, say a silent “good work,” “well done,” or “thank you” to yourself.
If it feels foolish to say those things to yourself, remember this not about stroking your needy ego or building your flagging self-esteem, but rather it’s about keeping you motivated and energized for the hard work in front of you.
The Productivity Series:This is the first of several newsletters about productivity strategies. I chose these strategies to highlight because they have made a particularly strong positive difference for many of my clients and for me.
Manage Your Inner Workaholic
Does your job or business sometimes feel like a case study about over-commitment? Was your previous job or business like this as well? Do you dream of someday having a manageable workload? Do you imagine that if you worked for yourself you wouldn’t be working such crazy hours? If you already work for yourself, do you imagine getting out of your business?
Consider for a moment the possibility that it is you who keeps recreating impossible work situations for yourself. Consider the possibility that again and again, you re-create the habitual pattern AND that there may be other choices you could make at any given moment, choices that would increase your productivity.
For many of us with a native tendency to overwork, overdo, and over-commit (my native land), we will continue to recreate the scenario for ourselves until we own our own part in it and stop doing it. It’s not about the work. It’s about how we DO the work, our relationship to the work, and what else we do or don’t have going on in our lives.
I’m not saying there aren’t workaholic organizations.There are. And I’m not saying we aren’t a workaholic culture. We are.
But I’m also saying that if you want to step out of this cycle, you’ll have to address and take responsibility for your own part in the pattern. I have seen people leave intense jobs in organizations in order to create a saner life by working for themselves, only to find themselves eventually working the same crazy hours, under the same level of stress and angst that they had in the job they fled. You can be a workaholic anywhere, even in your own home office. In fact, when you have a home office, you don’t ever have to leave work!
Sometimes the task at hand is to figure out what standard is appropriate to the task. Often, the twin brother of the Inner Workaholic is the Perfectionist, who insists that everything we produce must be absolutely stellar. But one of the hallmarks of very effective people is that they know when to go the distance to produce an A+ outcome, and when it’s a responsible decision to simply go for a B+ result.
I regularly have this conversation with clients and with myself. When do I say, “Enough for today!” even when the tasks aren’t finished? When do I say “This draft is good enough!”? And when do I say, “Hang in. Another couple of [minutes, hours, days] on this will make a big difference!”?
I think the answer is unique to each of us, depending as it does on where we are in our lives, what’s going on in our work, and many other factors. In my work with clients I have learned that it is never just one thing that needs to be examined, and there is rarely a simple answer — if it were simple, it would have been figured out long before the person called me in to help. But I have seen people make big changes that endure, even while continuing to do the same work.
Here’s a possible next step: Take this short survey:
1. Do the people in your life consider you a workaholic?
2. Do you think you work too much, regularly?
3. Do you often feel depleted by your work or resentful that it takes up so much of your life?
4. Are there things that are very important to you that you never get to because of your work?
5. Do you have a lot of perfectionist tendencies??
Did you answer yes to one or more of these questions? If so, you would be wise to look into this more closely. If you want to explore what a coaching approach to this might offer you, contact me to schedule an initial consultation.
Did you answer no to at least 4 questions? If so, then congratulations! You’re doing well on the workaholic scale.
Do you secretly fear that one of these days the people you work with will realize that you’re not really as good at what you do as they currently think you are? Do you suspect that the people you work with already know that you’re not as effective as they once thought? Do you worry that you’re in a higher-level job than you’re really capable of? Does this type of concern sound familiar?
There are many highly effective people who suffer from some form of imposter syndrome. The key word here is “suffer.” If this is regularly causing you pain, stressing you out, or otherwise using up some of your bandwidth, I strongly recommend that you address it head on and get yourself some relief.
Every person’s fraud syndrome is unique, so there is no single one-size-fits-all solution for it. But here are some strategies that seem to apply broadly.
It is the nature of high-level work that you do not always feel completely on top of it. Whether it’s the sheer volume of work you’re managing, the weight of the responsibility, the complexity involved, or the massive replica of it that you keep in your head — if you are working to capacity, you will sometimes feel “in over your head.” Learn to be OKAY with that feeling. It’s part of the landscape you now inhabit.
Trust the sequence of events that led you to doing this work at this level. Think about all the people who believed in you along the way, maybe including teachers from your early years. Think about the hard work you’ve done in your life so far, the personal challenges you’ve come through, and the many things you have learned. It is no accident you are where you are.
Take a look at what your imposter syndrome protects you from. What is the payoff for stressing about this? For some people, it is a distraction from something else that’s going on. I experienced it at full throttle when I was a systems analyst. Stressing about my competence was actually more bearable than the underlying truth I eventually had to confront: I didn’t want to do technical systems work any more — and I had no idea what else I would do. Feeling overwhelmed by all the new software I had to learn was unpleasant, but facing my unknown future was absolutely terrifying. Eventually, I mustered the courage to make a career change. What’s your imposter syndrome protecting you from?
Do you have anxiety about your work performance? If so, ask yourself if that anxiety comes from a dawning realization that you need to learn some new skill or develop expertise in a new area. If so, just bite the bullet and learn the new thing: take a course, get mentored by an expert, muscle through it on your own if that’s your style. Whatever it takes, just do it. Your stress level will decline and you will experience enormous relief. Your imposter syndrome may even disappear for a while!
Remember that you always, always, always have choice. If the stress of being in this field at this level is not sustainable for you at this time in your life, figure out what needs to change, and change it. Take a job at another level, renegotiate your workload, or change fields. I don’t mean to be casual about these kinds of changes — they are huge, difficult, life-changing transitions. But isn’t that perhaps just what is called for? And if you don’t want to leave the field, commit to learning how to do the work in a more sustainable way. You may need help to do this, but trust me, it is much easier to learn how to do your work sustainably than it was to learn how to do your work.
Be sure you have other things in your life to counterbalance the stressors. Find ways to keep your batteries charged.
Get help if you need it. Many people have blind spots in this area, and getting help from a coach, therapist, or mentor can expedite your process enormously.
If you’d like to explore working with me on this, contact me for an initial consult at no charge. During the consult, you can get your questions answered, get a sense of what it would be like to work with me, and we can see if we are a good fit to work together. You will get no pressure from me — you have enough pressure elsewhere in your life.
Hi, I’m Sharon Teitelbaum
I’m a Master Certified Coach who's been coaching since 1995. I do executive and career coaching, specializing in helping professionals and business owners work more effectively and move beyond barriers to their success. I'm all about practical, tactical, real-world solutions you can implement in real time.Learn more » | {
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The REAL Frontrunners To Replace Charlie Hunnam In 'Fifty Shades'!
So we've told you (and shown you) who we think should be considered as replacements for Charlie Hunnam in the role of Christian Grey in Fifty Shades Of Grey, but now The Hollywood Reporter says they have a list of the actual finalists!
Is there any overlap with our list? See which names THR's sources say are close to making the final cut!
Jamie Dornan. The actor who appeared on the first season of Once Upon A Time and now stars in BBC's The Fall isn't a name we've been hearing a lot, but he certainly looks the part! Word is he's a strong contender. (He can contend for a lot of things with us.)
Alexander Skarsgard. What is there to say that hasn't been said about the Viking god?! Though the True Blood star may technically be little old for the part at 37 (we believe Christian's supposed to be about ten years younger), we'd definitely be willing to overlook it. Oh, we'll overlook it. (Added bonus--Skarsgard clearly has no inhibitions when it comes to his body or sexual material.)
Theo James. Underworld star Theo was on the original list of possible contenders and sources say the team behind Fifty Shades are giving that list a second look. Meanwhile, we're looking at his lips.
Christian Cooke. We don't know too much about the British Magic City star, but....
Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that the list of possible replacements includes Jamie Dornan of the U.K. series The Fall and Alexander Skarsgard of True Blood. The studio also is revisiting its initial list of possible contenders, including Theo James and Christian Cooke.
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Over Half Of The Delayed Housing Projects Are In Mumbai, Says Report
New Delhi, November 22: Over half the housing projects that have been delayed by over five years that are likely to reach completion post-2020 are in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), according to a report by PropTiger. These projects are also likely to benefit the most from the Rs 25,000 crore Alternate Investment Fund (AIF) announced by the government. This is because they are more likely to meet the networth-positive and litigation-free conditions set under the AIF.
According to the report that included analysis of 10 prime residential markets of the country, around 1,665 RERA-registered housing projects are delayed by over five years across India and are likely to see completion only after 2020.
Of these, 880 projects constituting of over two lakh units are concentrated in the MMR market, counted as the most expensive property market in India. Hyderabad and Pune follow MMR where 276 and 241 housing projects have been delayed for over five years. A total of 125 projects are delayed across Noida, Greater Noida, and Gurgaon, consisting of over one lakh housing units, the report said.
In terms of units, Hyderabad has one of the lowest scores, at 15,138 delayed homes, in the list of 10 cities. In Pune, over 47,000 housing units delayed for more than half a decade that would reach completion post-2020, data shows.
Mani Rangarajan, Group COO, Elara Technologies, said that liquidity issues could be cited as the single biggest reason behind project delays, a phenomenon that has had an absolutely negative impact on buyer sentiment. “The Rs 25,000-crore lifeline extended by the government in the form of an AIF would change much of that,”he said.
Rangarajan added that housing projects in the MMR are more likely to meet the net-worth-positive and litigation-free conditions set under the AIF, which would mean a large part of the fund could be spent on completing projects in the Mumbai market.
Chennai has the lowest number of delayed projects (24) as well as units (11,679), primarily because the size of housing projects in this property market is comparatively smaller. Typically, builders launch housing projects with 50 units or less in Chennai which could be completed in a shorter time span. The chances of cost overruns in such projects are also low.
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At its core, the study of history reveals choice. New Orleans provides an excellent exercise in the nature of historical inquiry. Why was any city placed in an environment so inhospitable to settlement and why was it so central to this nation's growth? New Orleans was always more than its locality, a national city from the beginning. The history of our nation is one of perpetual conflict between seemingly incompatible options — freedom and order, opportunity and expectation, inclusion and elitism, openness and privilege. We want our citizens and country to grow unfettered but need to insert safeguards. It can be a perilous balance. Placing a city on banks of a river in low lying areas, such as New Orleans, is a literal illustration of this paradox. The shifting ground underneath New Orleans is both a fact and a metaphor for this city.
FRENCH SETTLEMENT
The French, along with the other European powers, extended their settlement of the Western Hemisphere throughout the seventeenth century (Figure 1). They first arrived at the islands of the Caribbean and then extended their interests to the North American continent. The French settled in Canada and then continued southward. By 1700, it was clear that they needed an outpost at mouth of the all important Mississippi River (Figure 2) but there was not a location close enough to the Gulf of Mexico that was not prone to flooding. By using the narrow inlet of Bayou St. John (Figure 3b), the distance between the two bodies of water was made shorter and easier for overland transportation of cargo and canoes. The natural levees along the river provided sufficient drainage and accessibility.
The site of New Orleans was first settled by the Choctaws in 1699, literally an island formed as the portage met the river. The French needed to secure the area for more than just economic reasons. The Spanish wanted to expand their holdings in the Southern portion of the continent, so the French established themselves in New Orleans in 1718 (Figure 2). New Orleans was urban and European from the start. The territory, named Louisiana in honor of the Louis XIV, French king, was a mercantile colony, so the interests of the Crown and landowners merged. The needs of the colony were best served by a large, forced labor system and slavery became integral to its economic success.
In the early years of the city, the terrain determined its growth. Each time the river overflowed, it left sediment on its banks, forming a natural levee that extended back one to two miles. Further away from the banks, softer materials settled, resulting in swamp and sludge. Only the poorest inhabited this area. Land closest to the river was the most desirable in terms of trade, transportation and safety.
Over the next forty years, the natural levee was enhanced and by 1727 a four foot high bulwark stretched along the waterfront. French companies oversaw this construction. By the 1750s, the city covered a 66 block area. The French built a canal to connect Bayou St. John to the natural levee. The initial purpose of this construction was drainage but eventually boats began to unload cargo at the end of the canal. This basin would become the site of waterfront commerce (Figure 3).
By end of Seven Years War in 1763, French power in North America weakened as the British exerted their dominance in the northern areas (Figure 5). King Louis XV gave the Louisiana territory to Spain, ruled by his cousin. By the end of the 18th century, Napoleon rose to power. He was determined to reassert French authority in the Western hemisphere. He planned to use French possessions in the Caribbean (Figure 9) as a base to expand his influence onto the continent west of the Mississippi, still held by Spain. Napoleon negotiated a secret treaty with Spain in 1800 that returned lands in the Louisiana territory to the French. Included under the terms of this treaty was the port city of New Orleans.
The importance of New Orleans to the growing American nation was clear. Residents of the new nation were rapidly populating areas west of the original thirteen colonies (Figure 6). All rivers were vital to the transportation and trade that would enable the young country to thrive. Particularly problematic was the law imposed by the French in 1802 that prohibited the long standing practice of American ships using the port of New Orleans to transfer cargo from the Mississippi to ocean going vessels. President Jefferson did not wish to engage the powerful French army in a military conflict but his political base, farmers in the growing western portion of country, insisted on a resolution.
In 1803 Jefferson gave the French ambassador, Robert Livingston, instructions to purchase the city. Facing his own expansionist problems in Europe, Napoleon offered the entire territory to Jefferson. The American president had some questions regarding the constitutionality of this method of territorial acquisition, but yielded to the higher principal of providing room for an expanded arena that would enable his republican vision of the nation to flourish.
By the terms of the treaty, the United States would pay France 15 million dollars. France, in turn, would receive certain exclusive commercial privileges at the port of New Orleans and the residents of the Louisiana territory would be incorporated into the US with the same rights and privileges as other citizens. Despite its new status as an American city, New Orleans remained foreign in design, culture, and attitude. These sensibilities were reinforced as the port remained an important point of entry for the nations of South America and Europe.
New Orleans was always more than its locality. Both its glories and its troubles frequently began elsewhere. This reality was evident in the problem of and solution to flooding. Much of the overflowing of the Mississippi was not caused in New Orleans but as the result of its location at the basin of the continent's largest drainage system. Despite the origin of the problem, the residents of New Orleans suffered the consequences and had to guard against it. During French and then Spanish rule, the crown paid for these safeguards. In the democratically elected United States, the parish government was responsible for flood protection, a task which they passed onto landowners. The result was a haphazard and inconsistent system. The city of New Orleans also taxed ships that used its waterfront to generate the revenue necessary to help maintain the levee system. The reality was that a larger, more coordinated effort was necessary, but state and federal initiatives were slow in coming.
The United States of the 19th century was a story of expansion. The Mississippi River was more than geographically central in the North American continent. It was also at the core of the growing nation's ability to extend itself. The advent of the steamboat made river travel dominant in the first half of the century. In the decades before the Civil War, New Orleans was the primary trading spot of the seemingly unlimited bounty of the South — rice, sugar, and cotton. The city's population doubled in the first ten years after its acquisition. The Battle of New Orleans, although technically occurring after the end of the War of 1812, had enormous symbolic value as the city was able to withstand the British onslaught and defend American interests.
The city would not fare as well a half century later. Its general status as an economic rather than a political entity, as well as its location, made New Orleans important to both the North and South. By capturing the city, Union forces were able to cut off a major supply portal to the South (Figure 13). Even after the conflict ended, its stagnation during the war had a lasting impact. But New Orleans was already a city vulnerable to competition from railroads and the increasing importance of manufacturing to the nation's wealth. The urban centers of industrialization, especially Chicago and St. Louis, overshadowed the city whose port remained its most vital economic organ.
As the city grew and expanded, settlement patterns were directed towards the natural levee. River frontage was important but scarce, so the result was fan shaped landholdings, with a small section of riverfront. The best land was upriver from the original city (Figure 10), (Figure 12) and populated by wealthy slaveholders. The poorest whites lived in the swamps inland from the riverfront. Racial settlement patterns were typical of the slave south, where there was a close proximity between the servants and their masters. Emancipation did little to change the racial residential realities of New Orleans.
The city grew in concentric circles and all sectors were affected by topography. The two biggest problems were flooding and drainage. The problems of the Mississippi River were literally and figuratively beyond the control of New Orleans, despite efforts to tax both planters and shippers to generate the revenue necessary to erect flood protection walls. By the 1840s, the state of Mississippi created the Office of State Engineer to oversee public works and flood prevention, which meant construction and maintenance of levees. The Federal government assumed authority in 1879 as it established the Mississippi River Commission. River floods were only part of the problem. Lake Pontchartrain (Figure 10) also overflowed with great frequency.
The insufficient gradient of the city led to the other big problem — drainage. Again, a coordinated effort was necessary to address this issue and one that the fragmented city government did not implement. The result was a city literally mired in a disease prone setting that restricted urban settlement to the natural levee. New Orleans did not experience the same problems as other urban areas in terms of tenements and urban squalor. Open canals laden with sewage and decades of using the river as means of garbage disposal took their toll. Clean and safe water was rare. As the nineteenth century came to a close, there were sporadic efforts to address concerns of garbage and sewage removal. Civic leaders attempted to improve public space with parks, plazas, and tree lined boulevards (Figure 16).
The qualities of efficiency, expertise, and broad structural assaults to address long standing underlying problems were markers of the Progressive era of first two decades of twentieth century. The city of New Orleans was in desperate need of this approach. Besides the problems of disease and flooding, the city was crowded and literally sagging beneath its weight in the soft soil of the natural levee. Technological innovation provided the opportunity to drain the swamp lands and open the area between the river and Lake Pontchartrain for development .
The city built an extensive network of pumping stations and canals, although it was an expensive and lengthy process. Swamps in the lowest lying areas were drained and resulted in new residential areas well below sea level. The areas closest to the lakefront were restricted to whites. The new technology accelerated racial segregation in New Orleans, as price, municipal ordinances, and later deed covenants specifically excluded blacks from designated sectors. So while drainage opened new neighborhoods, restriction limited access.
Drainage was only one aspect of urban improvement. Better sewage and water delivery systems were also installed as the city became determined to follow rational engineering principles which necessitated even distribution of services. Inadequacy in one portion of town weakened the entire system but Jim Crow laws prevailed and it took several decades until city services reached all quarters.
New technology was applied to more than residential areas. Locks built in 1909 allowed intercoastal shipping to come through the Mississippi Delta . Innovation plus an appreciation for efficiency had an impact on the port as the government took control of these facilities. Because trade remained so crucial to the city's economic vitality, politicians saw the need for improved administration. In 1923, the city opened the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal that linked the river with the Gulf of Mexico and allowed for deepwater dock space (Figure 16). To build this, engineers cut right through the ninth ward (Figure 12), (Figure 16) and (Figure 17) and isolated the area now knows as the Lower Ninth. Although this neighborhood would eventually be connected by bridges, it was a precursor to the era of social engineering by wrecking ball, contributing to the ongoing debate of the value of urban renewal at the expense of neighborhood ecosystems.
The area around the lake was developed into an airport and residential space. Much of the construction was done as part of the New Deal's Works Progress Administration. The new lakefront was beautiful but public lands were quickly converted to private ownership. Half of the lots were sold by the Levee Board to pay off the bonds that had funded the project. In theory, this land was available to everyone but high prices and discrimination turned it into an exclusive, wealthy, and white enclave.
At first the levee walls were kept low for aesthetic reasons, yet with the draining of the wetlands, the moisture rich peat soils began to dry out and sink. The result was that the northern part of the city was not only below sea level, but below lake level as well (Figure 17). When hurricanes hit, both the river and the lake overflowed. This scenario occurred in 1947. The damage from this storm led to the construction of a fourteen foot flood wall built with the help of the Army Corps of Engineers (Corps). Another problem that occurred was caused by the pace of water accumulation, i.e. the water comes in faster than it can be pumped out.
Changes to New Orleans accelerated in the decades after World War Two. Economic considerations spurred this transformation. Changing shipping methods affected the city's orientation both literally and figuratively. Container shipping became the primary means of commercial water transportation but the Port of New Orleans was not designed to handle this traffic. The choice was either to tear down and rebuild the existing port or build new facilities elsewhere. The latter option was more feasible and the new facilities pulled city development in an eastward direction (Figure 17).
Other economic sectors were developed, particularly in the area of petrochemicals. Those steps taken to accommodate these industries had an enormous impact on the environment. After the war, the federal government underwrote refining capacity in the South, especially along the Mississippi and the Gulf of Mexico. A series of oil and gas canals were built to create shipping shortcuts to the Port of New Orleans, such as MRGO — the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet (Figure 17). These canals not only provided paths for ships, but they also allowed saltwater from the Gulf into the freshwater marshes and forests, destroying wetlands that provided protection for the delta's ecosystem which in turn worked as a natural buffer against hurricane damage.
The shifting economic focus led to necessary changes in residential patterns, greatly assisted by two key pieces of construction. The first was a 22 mile causeway built across Lake Pontchartrain in 1959 (Figure 17). Now residents could live on the northern shore of the lake with no danger of flooding. The second, Interstate 10 (Figure 19), was completed in the 1960s, greatly reducing travel time from outlying areas. These areas provided solid land which facilitated residential growth.
What resulted was an enormous demographic change within the city of New Orleans. Most of those who moved to the suburbs were white. Although the total population of the city would decline over the next few decades, blacks went from being one third of its population to a majority by 1974. The population decline was completely due to the white flight to suburbs that were often not welcoming to blacks.
The city's decreasing tax base led to a decline in services and a general deterioration of such infrastructure elements as roads, transportation, hospitals, and schools. "White flight" left an increasingly black and working class population in the city. The residents of the city remain resilient and neighborhood support is crucial to survival. Always a city where people lived in close physical proximity due to limited waterfront acreage, inhabitants of New Orleans are used to sharing each others joys and sorrow. The destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina has tested this resilience.
Located at the mouth of Mississippi always entailed certain risks for New Orleans but the potential for danger from hurricane and flooding worsened as the 20th century progressed. Drainage allowed the city to expand but not towards high ground as it did in its first two centuries, but towards lower ground surrounded by man made levees. The result was a shallow saucer with its center below sea level. The reality is persistent risk, either from flooding or rainfall.
Again, selection of the original location near the outfall of the continent's largest natural drainage system (Figure 10b) has often forced New Orleans to deal with problems that began elsewhere. The city sank due to the accumulated settlement of silt carried to the Mississippi Delta over thousands of years from a drainage basin that extends halfway across the North American continent. Human behavior has only made things worse. Canals have been built through the Delta, both for deep water navigation and shallow access points for oil and gas rigs (Figure 18d). One third of the nation's oil and one quarter of its natural gas are either produced or transported through of the Gulf of Mexico and marsh canals provide quick access. These incursions also lead to wetland erosion.
There have been many attempts to address these problems, largely through what are termed structural solutions, i.e. building flood walls, levees, and flood gates to provide relief when too much water comes into the system. After a big flood in 1927, it became the task of the Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) to control floods. Because of the river's national importance, this task has been supervised by the federal government. In the forty years since the last great disaster for the city, Hurricane Betsy in 1965, the Corps has been attending to the task although it often found its hands tied by local problems, political infighting and a changing understanding of the nature of the problem. Rather than ask Congress to reconsider the problem and appropriate additional funds, the Corps implemented up to 90% of the original flood prevention plan yet it was inadequate to the task of protecting the city. The Corps' own solution — to build pumps and floodgates along Lake Pontchartrain that would have prevented much of Hurricane Katrina's flooding — was not pursued because of objections from local officials.
There are several problems with the structural approach that the city has embraced. Levees constructed to protect the city from hurricane flooding leave it more vulnerable to flooding from intense rainfalls. The presence of levees and floodwalls creates a false sense of security. They are short term solutions when the real answers lie in the change of how the land is used, i.e. moving away from dangerous areas, often a politically charged option. Before and after Hurricane Katrina, there has been talk of urban renewal that might have led to removal of some residents from the most flood prone areas, but it has been met with a great deal of resistance. Nor will the food or petrochemical industries consider closing the delta canals and allow the crucial work of rebuilding the wetlands to commence. Absent the willingness to make unpleasant choices, New Orleans literally and figuratively sinks into an untenable situation. | {
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Altimeter Group is going to release a research paper on the Career Path of the Corporate Social Strategist, and this is subset data, sign up here to receive the upcoming report. These corporate social strategists (which I’ve segmented as companies with over 1000 employees) responded to find out how they are preparing their companies for social media.
To Respond to a Corporate Wide Culture Shift, Most Form “Hub and Spoke” model.Most companies are currently formed in the hub and spoke formation in order to respond to the corporate wide impacts that social media brings. Secondly, 29% of companies are formed in centralized, a formation used for maintaining control.
Hub and Spoke Provides Centralized Resources to Business Units. Corporations recognize that these technologies have impacted every single customer touchpoint both in and outside of the enterprise. As a result, there’s been a change within a company to respond and social media teams are evolving. Most commonly, companies launch a centralized cross functional group (often known as a Center of Excellence) in order to serve the various business units with a common set of services, templates, software, and knowledge. In the “Hub and Spoke” formation strategic decisions are still often made in corporate in the hub, with some guidance from the business units in the spokes. A majority of the brands I’m working with are in this model, having recently formed their hub they are starting to coordinate and I’m brought in to help formalize the program or convince management.
One Size Does Not Fit All, Each Formation Serves a Different Need. While Hub and Spoke is dominant today by today’s organizations, it’s followed by the centralized model where a single unit maintains consistency over social media efforts. We see this formation in regulated industries such as health care, financial, pharma and some auto manufactures in order to maintain a sense of control in a coordinate fashion. Separately, the Decentralized formation where organic programs spring up are often the sign of a lack of a centralized group, or an open culture we often see in global technology giants
Over Time, Expect Companies to organize in either Dandelion Holistic Formations. Overtime, social media will permeate all areas of the corporation and we should expect that the once centralized groups will slowly fade into the background as an operational status quo. As I track this space over the coming years, expect to see more companies transfer to the Multiple Hub and Spoke, which has been dubbed by Altimeter’s Christine Tran as “Dandelion”. In this phase, decision making about social media programs shifts to the business units and geographies in order to meet the specific needs of those communities. Dependent on a culture of ‘customer service’ some companies may evolve to the holistic formation where thousands of employees are operating in a safe way, much like Zappos and Best Buy’s Twelpforce program.
A company’s identity is among the most critical elements of your company. Considerable time has to be spent on trying to make an identity of a company. As soon as you’ve achieved a marketing plan for your company, the next step is registration. | {
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If you stretch your pecs when you train your lats you'll manage more reps
Strength athletes will get more reps out of their sets if they stretch their muscles between sets. And we're not talking about the muscles you're training, but their antagonists. So when you're training the latissimi dorsi you need to stretch the pectoralis major. Sports scientists at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro write about it in Research in Sports Medicine.
Study
The Brazilians got 10 well-trained strength athletes to train their lats on two occasions by doing seated rows. The subjects did 3 sets using a weight with which they could manage 10 reps. Between sets they rested for two minutes.
On one occasion the subjects did nothing between sets. [Passive recovery] On the other occasion they stretched their pecs before starting the sets, doing the exercise shown below [Antagonist stretching]. The athletes did passive stretching, and held the stretch for 40 seconds.
Results
Via electrodes that they had attached to the subjects' muscles, the Brazilians could see that passive stretching of the pecs increased the electrical activity in the lats and the biceps during the sets. So the muscles were working harder. The stretching had no effect on the electrical activity in the pecs themselves.
The effect of stretching is obvious, and indeed, the subjects completed significantly more reps as a result.
The Brazilians don't know how stretching the pecs strengthens the lats.
Conclusion
"The antagonist stretching applied during the inter-set rest period showed greater repetition performance and agonist muscle activation in the seated row exercise compared with a passive rest period between the three sets", the researchers concluded.
"These results indicated an interesting alternative for coaches and practitioners during resistance training prescription aiming to enhance strength performance and muscle activation in an acute manner."
Best push-ups achieved with hands close together
The push-up may well be the first exercise that humans thought up to make their body stronger. Athletes who train at home can build up a surprising amount of strength with this simple exercise. | {
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Service quality is a very important aspect of the water and sewerage industry. Empirical studies have tended to focus on production costs, without explicitly introducing key dimensions of quality. Using data from the Peruvian water sector (1996–2001), this study examines how the introduction of quality variables affects performance comparisons across utilities. The research presents different specifications of stochastic cost frontier models to illustrate how quality can be incorporated into benchmarking studies.
Service quality is a very important aspect of the water and sewerage industry. Empirical studies have tended to focus on production costs, without explicitly introducing key dimensions of quality. Using data from the Peruvian water sector (1996–2001), this study examines how the introduction of quality variables affects performance comparisons across utilities. The research presents different specifications of stochastic cost frontier models to illustrate how quality can be incorporated into benchmarking studies.
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NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Utilities Policy. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in PUBLICATION, [VOL 13, ISSUE 3, (2005)] DOI 10.1016/j.jup.2005.04.002
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Service quality and prospects for benchmarking: Evidence from the Peru water sector | {
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I am a self-employed woodcutter. What does that mean? I do just about everything involving cutting wood. I take down trees, I cut firewood, I mill logs, provide smoking woods and custom cut wood products. I am a skilled ROUGH woodcutter but lack finish woodworking skills. I am just learning basic woodworking and am always looking to expand. I am here on lumberjocks to beef up my woodworking skills, learn more about the tools of the trade and hopefully find outlets for some of the beautiful Cedar and hardwood lumber boards/slabs I cut. If you're in the Northeastern Mass or Southern NH areas and are looking for Black Walnut, Cherry, Cedar, Hard, Soft, Curly or Spalted Maple let me know! I'm cutting all the time.
-- hswoodcutting, "Catchy sayings are fun but I'm in it for the wood."
I’ve heard pro and con about drying boards and slabs vertically when they’re fresh cut. It makes sense that they might dry faster this way but does anyone have firsthand experience with this? I cut some 8’ long, 2” thick ...
Welcome to Lumber Jocks! This is a great place to get – or give – advice about woodworking on the forums and the project posts are a wonderful source of new ideas. I look forward to seeing your projects and posts.
Hi there,Welcome to LumberJocks… I joined the site myself a little over a year ago and will give you fair warning, this site is VERY ADDICTIVE, VERY EDUCATIONAL, and VERY FUN…. so sit back, enjoy the ride and learn from the other LJ’s as they are a group of extremely talented people that are also very friendly…
Enjoy your time here on LJ and pass the word to any of your woodworking buddies about us…
Wisty
-- New Project = New Tool... it's just the way it is, don't fight it... :) | {
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Air Canada
ABOUT THIS PROJECT
SITUATION
To celebrate its 80th anniversary, Air Canada unveiled a new livery design led by the CEO & Chairman of Winkreative and founder of Wallpaper and Monocle, Tyler Brûlé. Air Canada also unveiled new cabin crew uniforms and wine offerings selected by top Canadian sommelier Veronique Rivest. Magrino worked alongside the Air Canada team to generate press coverage and increased awareness for Canada’s flag carrier in key U.S. markets and target publications.
STRATEGY
Magrino developed a strategic media-relations plan that underscored Canada as a top destination, leveraging Air Canada’s new livery design by Tyler Brûlé as a timely hook. Magrino secured three top-tier journalists to attend the unveiling and launch event in Toronto, and distributed the announcement press release. Following the announcement, Magrino secured several impactful media placements in lifestyle, travel, and business outlets, leveraging Tyler Brûlé and Veronique Rivest for expert commentary. | {
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Woman in serious condition after traffic collision
COLUMBIA — A Columbia woman involved in a two-car collision was listed in serious condition Wednesday morning at University Hospital.
Christy W. Scott, 30, was making a left turn onto Paris Road from Mexico Gravel Road at 5:12 p.m. Tuesday when her vehicle hit a car traveling north on Paris road, according to a press release from the Columbia Police Department.
Scott was listed in serious condition at about 11 a.m., said Kathy Richardson, a spokeswoman for University Hospital. The other driver, Nicole Miller, 23 of Columbia, was not injured, according to the release.
Miller was wearing a seat belt, but police are unsure if Scott was wearing one. | {
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Spy photos and videos suggest that some new Chevrolet Corvette, perhaps the 2018 C7 Corvette ZR1, has a massive rear wing that you could practically eat dinner on. We’ve shared a video of what appears to be this same pack of test mules before, but this one gives a real close-up of the three.
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The video comes from a reader of Indian Autos Blog, who sent it to the website recently. The prototype that could be the new ZR1 came in a pack of three in both a video from earlier in October and in this video, each driving by with different-sized rear wings. According to Indian Autos Blog, the reader who sent this video in caught these prototypes testing in Ann Arbor, Michigan:
Not much is known on a potential ZR1 yet, other than the rumor from Car and Driver that the C7 generation’s “final hurrah will occur at next year’s 2017 NAIAS, when a swan-song mega-power edition debuts, possibly wearing the illustrious ZR1 badge.” And, well, that these test mules sound mean.
Autoblog reported back in May that GM trademarked the ZR1 name again, and the potential 2018 ZR1 would follow a 650-horsepower Corvette Z06. Topping that, where the ZR1 typically falls in the lineup, would mean some insane power. But with that wing, insanity is the only thing we can expect. | {
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Monthly Archives: May 2013
Cara Delevingne has landed another high profile campaign: as the new face of Saint Laurent. The 20-year-old model features in the fashion house’s autumn/winter 2013-14 advertisements alongside musician Cole Smith of band DIIV.
The images were shot by creative director Hedi Slimane and the campaign will be his first autumn/winter campaign since joining the brand in March 2012.
Watch the video above to see the Saint Laurent autumn/winter 2013-14 campaign in full below.
Tilda Swinton has landed a new role, as Karl Lagerfeld’s new muse. She is now the face of the 2012-13 Métiers d’Art Paris-Edinburgh collection, and now pictures from the campaign have been released.
Tilda Swinton is the perfect casting for Karl’s Scottish collection, which was inspired by Mary Queen of Scots. In the campaign she goes back to her Scottish roots, modelling tartan and Highland overcoats in front of medieval tapestries and oil paintings.
Karl said: ‘Tilda perfectly embodies the Paris-Edimbourg collection. She is of course Scottish, but more than that she is a modern woman, a timeless icon of elegance.’
Rihanna’s has filed a case against Topshop, and is currently suing the brand for an apparent $5 million, for using a picture of her face on a T-shirt without her consent.
However, WWD has reports that unlike the U.S., “there is no right of personality” in the U.K., meaning that Topshop’s use of Rihanna’s photo is completely legal — as long as the company purchased it, so if Rihanna wins her case then it would become a landmark verdict.
the tshirt at the centre of the suit
The T-shirt was on sale in Topshop’s UK stores at the end of 2012 and featured an image of Rihanna from the video We Found Love .
Rihanna’s second collection for River Island is about to drop into stores on May 25th.
In a behind-the-scenes video released earlier this week, Rihanna can be seen viewing the collection, which has been designed by Adam Selman under her supervision.
“I made a piece for everybody in my crew, we all have different body types and different tastes,” she says. “Some are braver than others, but, you know, I think like that because that’s how all the women in the world are. We’re all different, we all like different things, we all have different occasions, different moods, different body types.” The collection has been created with her ‘crew’ in mind.
There are jumpers and T-shirts emblazoned with her portrait, tie-dyeand floral prints, and some “sexy” cotton pieces that singer says she’ll “live in”. | {
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Greetings Fellow Sigma Tau Deltans!
Summer is here and we are set to begin “experimenting” with our blog, not to mention we are also looking forward to next year’s convention in New Orleans. The convention will take place February 29 – March 3, 2012. As you may recall, our theme for that convention is “Reawaken,” and the common reader is Natasha Trethewey’s Bellocq’s Ophelia. The planning stages are well underway, and we look forward to seeing many of you there. Convention is such a wonderful experience and a great opportunity to be around fellow, like-minded devotees of English talking shop and being all literary.
Speaking of convention, we asked your newly elected SR’s and ASR’s to write down their experiences from this year’s convention in Pittsburgh. We have collected those stories and would like to start sharing them with you now. This will be the first of many feature presentations on our new blog.
If you have any ideas or suggestions for the blog, we would like to hear from you as well. Please feel free to email them to Jarrod ([email protected]) or me ([email protected]). We will gladly give you positive feedback on your idea. Please keep in mind that this is a blog, and we are looking for “blog-type” postings: “informal write-ups, reviews, personal stories.” Your SR’s and ASR’s have submitted many suggestions, and we will continue to experiment and let your blog transform and grow into a blog we all will want to follow. I think Ralph Waldo Emerson said it best, “Do not be too timid or squeamish in your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better” (Journals, 11 November 1842).
So please sit back, relax, and enjoy the first story from Amy L. Woody, Student Representative for the Eastern Region.
Sincerely,
Corey Hamilton
Student Advisor
From “Beyond Words” to “Reawakening”
Amy L. Woody
Student Representative
Eastern Region
This was my first Sigma Tau Delta International Convention, and it exceeded my expectations in every way. Arriving at the Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown, I was more than pleasantly surprised by the interesting architecture and even more interesting people that Pittsburgh’s Cultural District had to offer. It was the perfect setting for feeling inspired, and Jacqueline Woodson was the perfect opening-night speaker to kick that inspiration into overdrive.
Thursday, I found myself surrounded by the best people that English Departments all over the world have to offer. I spent the morning listening to our Student Leaders give advice about publishing and grant writing. I met more people waiting for the elevator than probably any other time during the conference, and though I was annoyed to be waiting at the time, I would not trade those five-minute elevator conversations for anything. When else do you get to meet people from all over the world who are happy to laugh at your literary jokes or join you in writing a poem about the way you almost got smashed by the elevator doors?
The energy was ever-palpable. Even at my 8:00 a.m. presentation, the students were engaged and interested in the work I had created. It was not a typical educational experience; the people there were so committed to excellence in their craft. Even the “bad poets” read with a commitment unparalleled, that I could not help but want to give something back to them, represent them. I had considered running for Student Representative before I left for the convention, but, it being my first convention, I wanted to see what it was all about first. While there, I realized that I wanted to be more deeply involved with the organization and its people, and thus I decided to run for Student Representative of the Eastern Region.
I was nervous. I wrote and rewrote my speech. But standing up in front of all the students, who in so many ways were just like me, felt more like being at home than running for office. Hearing our former SR, Sean, announce my name was a pivotal moment in not only the convention, but also in my educational career. (A little assuming goes a long way.)
There were more panels and more speakers and more moments to be had on the elevator. Saturday, I attended a panel on graphic narrative and left with a sincere interest in visual literacy. I listened to other members of my chapter present their works, and felt a deeper connection to them as people and academics. Students from the Eastern Region were coming up to me all day Saturday to congratulate me, and I was more than thrilled to have the opportunity to start to get to know the population that I’m honored to be representing. And of course, listening to Dave Eggers speak was not only inspirational, but instantly fruitful. My chapter is already talking about the possibility of a service project involving the Boston branch of 826 National.
Sitting in a shaky sky-bus on the way home, I had visions of New Orleans. I know it’s a year away, but I am enthusiastically looking forward to next year’s “reawakening”! | {
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Starting new conversations
Two foreign language programs take learning to the corridors and cafes around campus
News | Cherie Suonvieri for The Clarion
Spoken language is often best learned through conversation.
In an effort to encourage foreign language conversation outside of the classroom, Bethel’s Department of Modern World Language has established weekly conversations. Both students and faculty members are welcome at these events. Currently, there are two language groups: Spanish and German.
Cafecito, the Spanish conversation group, is led by junior Laura Moeller and two other TAs. “It’s a really cool opportunity to come and practice,” Moeller said.
Level of conversation is based on the student's background. “We tend to feel out where students are at when they come in and try [to work with that],” Moeller said.
Having a conversation may give students an advantage on a practical level because they can receive help with concepts they struggle with in class, but Moeller said that using the language itself is the biggest benefit. “All language teachers would say that, right off the bat, immersion is the best way to acquire a language,” she said.
Cafecito meets on Thursdays at 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. in the Modern World Language office in Townhouse M.
The German conversation group on campus runs in a similar format. “It’s German only, and we have people of all kinds of levels who come to it,” said Michel van der Hoek, adjunct professor in the German Department.
The conversations provide students with an opportunity to speak German outside of the classroom, which often proves to be difficult around town. “It’s not as easy as it is for a Spanish program where you can go to some ministry in the cities and all speak Spanish for a few hours,” van der Hoek said. “We don’t have that for German.”
German students are required to attend several of the conversations as a communicative component of the curriculum. “It’s meant for real, spontaneous communication – helping them to practice,” van der Hoek said. “It’s input and opportunity to create output, maximizing their contact hours with the language.”
German conversations take place at Royal Grounds every Wednesday morning from 11:15 a.m. to 12 p.m. Both groups are hoping to see the attendance of their conversations grow, and they extend the invitation to all speakers – from those who are just beginning to those who are fluent. | {
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Where to Celebrate Pi Day 2018
From a mathematical sense, pi is pretty cool on its own. But Pi Day (Wednesday, 3.14, obviously) is even better—because pi is generally celebrated with pie, and pie is even better than pi. In our book, anyway. Here are a few excuses to grab a slice, whether sweet or savory:
Pi Day Pie-Eating ContestOccidental Square once again hosts a pie-eating contest (courtesy of Dahlia Bakery’s legendary coconut cream pies) from noon to 1 p.m., in which one lucky winner will receive a $25 gift card to Serious Pie. Come hungry and come early: only 10 people may compete.
The Cookie CounterThe quaint vegan bakery and ice creamery will host a special Pi Day Ice Cream Social from 6 to 9 p.m. Look forward to mini pies, pie slices, ice cream pie and pie milkshakes while kicking off a month of rotating pie flavors. 15 percent of the sales during the social will benefit Technology Access Foundation.
Preserve and GatherThough this Greenwood café pie baking competition was Sunday, they’re still celebrating on Wednesday: 3.14 percent of sales Monday through Wednesday will go to Union of Concerned Scientists.
PagliacciFor a cheesier kind of pie, buy two slices of Pagliacci pizza for $3.14. Or if you’re still hungry, buy one 11-inch pizza and get the second 11-inch pizza for $3.14.
PieWhat could be cuter and nerdier than mini pies with pi symbols on them? The sweet and savory Fremont shop will be selling them along with $3.14 pie swag and a “mini mini pie” promotion in conjunction with Alaska Airlines.
Mollusk BrewingThere is beer, there is pizza and then there is Pizzabier. Check out brewmaster Cody Morris’s quirky concoction that honors Pi Day and (hopefully) satiates your beer and pizza needs.
Conor Byrne PubAmateur and professional bakers alike come together to showcase their baking skills and auction off their favorite pies. This Pi(e) Day celebration will also feature a raffle, and all proceeds will benefit The Arc of King County chapter.
Wondering why everyone’s pie favorite A La Mode didn’t make the list? They told us their only plan for the day is to "serve incredible pies to the masses"—we’re guessing they’ll be busy enough without any special promotions. | {
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Friday, June 23, 2017
The Friday 56 is a weekly meme hosted by Freda's Voice where every Friday you pick a book and turn to page 56 or 56%, and select a sentence or a few, as long as it's not a spoiler. For the full rules, visit the the page HERE
Book Beginnings is a weekly meme hosted by Rose City Readerthat asks you to share the first sentence (or so) of the book you're reading.
Colored pencil painter Alyona Nickelsen reveals how to use the medium to push the limits of realistic portraiture...
Colored Pencil Painting Portraits provides straightforward solutions to the problems that artists face in creating lifelike images, and will prime readers on the intricacies of color, texture, shadow, and light as they interplay with the human form. In this truly comprehensive guide packed with step-by-step demonstrations, Nickelsen considers working from photo references versus live models; provides guidance on posing and lighting, as well as planning and composing a work; discusses tools, materials, and revolutionary layering techniques; and offers lessons on capturing gesture and expression and on rendering facial and body features of people of all age groups and skin tones...
Beginnings: "The colored pencils in my studio are amazingly resilient. They have successfully outlasted the many temptations presented by paints, pastels, inks, and other mediums and, umpteen years later, still hold the preferred position on my work table."
56: "In our attempt to match colors in life with colors in art mediums, we are actually searching for pigments with similar properties of light absorption and reflection in a never-ending attempt to create identical color sensations; however, even if we found the perfect color match, that factor is not enough to make a painted apple look like a real one."
Comments: This is one of the books I have for review. It's all about the art of creating portraits with colored pencils, which is a medium I rarely use. The beginning is taken from the introduction instead of the foreword, because honestly I liked what Nickelsen had to say about her preferred medium.
That portrait was done with coloured pencil? Wow...amazing work! I've tried working with coloured pencil and found it tricky to layer colour and blend.Here's my Friday post, Inspiration Pie Have a great weekend :)
That's the same response I had when I first saw Alyona Nickelsen's art. This book does offer a lot of good tips for creating layers and getting the colors to blend. Thanks for stopping by. Have a great weekend! | {
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Officials take swine flu precautions at Md. state fair
4-H members from all over are loading up their animals and heading to the state fair, and with six cases of swine flu reported in Queen Anne's County, Maryland State Fair officials said they aren't taking any chances.
At the Maryland State Fair, Carroll County Sophomore Brittany Lippy unloads her blue butt pig, Mecca. He is the first pig in the swine barn.
"My favorite part of summer is the fair," Lippy said. "I love it."
But this year there a lot of changes at the swine barn. Each of the pens are being sprayed with a bleach solution, and warning signs are posted with safety tips.
Across the nation, 230 human cases of swine flu have been reported. It's a different strain than just a few years ago that's spread through direct contact with pigs.
In Queen Anne's County, six cases were confirmed last week, and fair officials are taking numerous precautions.
"(We've) taken out all the bedding and replacing it all," Assistant State Fair General Manager Andy Cashman said. "We're really prepared for it."
"It's a lot different than other years. They've been strict on them, but this year they're going full throttle, so washing my hands after every time I touch them is very important, and the visitors know that they shouldn't reach into the pen to pet the pigs," Lippy said.
The state fair is taking other precautions as well. For the first time, they are not allowing pigs in the petting zoo.
"At the racing pen, they usually have a picture time and holding of the pigs. They're not going to do that. At the birthing center, we normally let the pigs be touched and get petted after they're born, and that's not going to happen this year, just to be cautious," Cashman said.
Department of Agriculture officials will be monitoring the swine barn around the clock, and animal health inspectors, like Daniel Mast, who work specifically for the fair board, are checking the pigs.
"We're here at the gate checking all the livestock as they come through the gate, checking their health papers to make sure they are current and up to date," Mast said.
But officials said the best defense is hand-washing, and that's while you'll find plenty of soap, water and sanitizers at the barns this year. | {
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Topic: an honest broker
Noah, if you recall, the administration quite candidly announced its intention to “put daylight” between Israel and the U.S. This was under the guise of gaining credibility as an impartial arbitrator, an honest broker, as they say. That, in and of itself, is problematic, given the U.S. historic relationship with the Jewish state. But frankly, even moral equivalence would be an improvement over what we have now. The Obama policy seems to see the U.S. not as an honest broker but an advocate for the Palestinians — taking up their rhetoric, their fractured view of history, and their excuses for failing to recognize the Jewish state.
It will be interesting to see how lawmakers react. The reviews from the weekend have been negative. But this may also become an issue for the campaign. A spokesman for Marco Rubio e-mails me, “Mr. Rubio believes that, by making unilateral demands on the Israeli government regarding settlements, the White House took away Israel’s leverage and has sent a message that America is not as committed to Israel as it once had been.” We’ll see if other candidates and office holders take that view as well. In the public at large and among members of Congress, there is, I would suggest, little stomach for bullying our democratic ally. On this, Obama may find himself with few defenders and many chagrined Democrats trying to figure out why, with so much on their plate, the Obami have decided to pick a fight with an ally so beloved by the American people.
Noah, if you recall, the administration quite candidly announced its intention to “put daylight” between Israel and the U.S. This was under the guise of gaining credibility as an impartial arbitrator, an honest broker, as they say. That, in and of itself, is problematic, given the U.S. historic relationship with the Jewish state. But frankly, even moral equivalence would be an improvement over what we have now. The Obama policy seems to see the U.S. not as an honest broker but an advocate for the Palestinians — taking up their rhetoric, their fractured view of history, and their excuses for failing to recognize the Jewish state.
It will be interesting to see how lawmakers react. The reviews from the weekend have been negative. But this may also become an issue for the campaign. A spokesman for Marco Rubio e-mails me, “Mr. Rubio believes that, by making unilateral demands on the Israeli government regarding settlements, the White House took away Israel’s leverage and has sent a message that America is not as committed to Israel as it once had been.” We’ll see if other candidates and office holders take that view as well. In the public at large and among members of Congress, there is, I would suggest, little stomach for bullying our democratic ally. On this, Obama may find himself with few defenders and many chagrined Democrats trying to figure out why, with so much on their plate, the Obami have decided to pick a fight with an ally so beloved by the American people. | {
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After two hours of deliberations Tuesday night, city commissioners decided they want to take back control of the Convention and Visitors Bureau advisory board.
But the CVB budget, currently $1.2 million, apparently will remain with the Chamber of Commerce.
Only a change in the city’s contract with the Chamber and its CVB arm could alter decision-making authority over how money is spent to promote Manhattan.
There is precedent for the commission having a greater say in the workings of the CVB advisory board – which does not have spending authority on its own. The commission appointed the board until that procedure was changed in 1997.
City manager Ron Fehr said there was no documented reason why the commission stopped appointing the board.
City attorney Bill Raymond said that he thought it had to do with an opinion issued by the Kansas attorney general in 1997 – stating that an advisory board was optional and did not have to be appointed by the commission.
A board created by the commission would be subject to open records and open meetings laws.
Interest by some members of the commission to retake control of the board sparked to life after the CVB gave the Fieldhouse Project a $25,000 grant in June.
The Fieldhouse Project is a local effort to build sports facilities for kids.
According to commissioners, that decision by the CVB was outside its scope of marketing Manhattan to visitors.
However, Chamber president Lyle Butler said the CVB has given other grants to various entities in Manhattan – just not as large as the one given to the Fieldhouse Project.
As a result of the flap over the grant, the commission agreed the advisory board needed to be appointed by the commission to provide more oversight of the CVB.
Commissioners also expressed a desire to have one of their members become a non-voting member of that board.
Commissioners Usha Reddi, Karen McCulloh and Rich Jankovich said that would be sufficient oversight of the CVB.
Mayor John Matta and Commissioner Wynn Butler disagreed. They want the board to be answerable to the commission rather than to the Chamber.
Butler also wanted the meetings to be subject to open records and open meetings laws, in order to keep public perception positive after what he called the “fiasco” with the Fieldhouse Project.
McCulloh eventually agreed to the commission appointing the board, because that was how the city statutes were written – even though a commission has not appointed a board since 1997.
The commissioners also indicated they want to alter the contract with the Chamber and CVB, requiring any grants over a specific amount first be approved by the commission.
However, Matta said that should be part of a separate discussion and not included in the revamping of the advisory board.
Although no official vote was taken during Tuesday’s meeting, the feedback from the commission allows city staff members to modify existing rules governing the board’s function and appointments.
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His attacks on the civilian use of so-called assault weapons raise real questions about his willingness to distort the truth for political purposes. The person nominated to be the nation’s top gun cop shouldn’t use inaccurate descriptions to scare people into supporting gun control.
Mr. Traver is the special agent in charge of the BATFE’s Chicago field division. Therefore, he knows what was covered by the federal assault-weapons ban that sunset in 2004.
But in November 2009, NBC interviewed Traver and reported: “Traver says the power and randomness of the heavy caliber, military-style weapons make them so dangerous not only to people, but to police. They’re so powerful, body armor can’t withstand a hit, and they’re so difficult to control, their bullets often get sprayed beyond the intended targets, striking innocent victims even when they’re in their own homes.”
The list of problems with Mr. Traver’s claims is very long. If he really believes that these weapons fire unacceptably “heavy caliber” bullets, he is going to have to ban virtually all rifles. Small-game rifles — guns designed to kill squirrels and rabbits without destroying too much meat — typically fire .22-caliber bullets, which are only slightly smaller than the .223-caliber bullets fired by the M16 (used by the U.S. military since Vietnam) and the newer M4 carbine (used in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars). Deer-hunting rifles fire rounds that are very similar to those used by the AK-47.
Speaking of M16s, M4s, and AK-47s, Traver is correct when he states that the guns covered by the federal assault-weapons ban were “military-style weapons.” But he fails to note that this really just deals with style — the cosmetics of the guns, not how they actually operate. The guns covered by the ban were not the machine guns actually used by the military, but civilian, semi-automatic versions of those guns. The civilian version of the AK-47 may look like the guns used by militaries around the world, but it is different. It fires essentially the same bullets as deer-hunting rifles at the same rapidity (one bullet per pull of the trigger), and does the same damage.
On penetrating body armor, Mr. Traver leaves out one important detail: Rifles in general are often able to penetrate body armor simply because their bullets travel faster than those fired from handguns. The same can be said for going through the walls of houses. But if he had said that deer-hunting rifles can often penetrate walls and lower-level types of body armor, it is unlikely that his comments would have generated the same fear.
Unfortunately, Mr. Traver has done more than make clearly inaccurate claims about so-called “assault weapons.” He has supported banning .50-caliber rifles, regulations that would force many gun shows to close down, the Chicago handgun ban, and repealing the Tiahrt Amendment, which protects sensitive trace data from being misused in frivolous municipal lawsuits against gun makers. He also worked with the Joyce Foundation, which has funded gun-ban groups such as the Violence Policy Center, on the “Gun Violence Reduction Project.”
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The fact that Mr. Traver uses the same misleading claims as groups such as the Brady Campaign shouldn’t make it too surprising that gun-control groups are applauding his nomination.
Nor is Traver’s nomination very surprising after President Obama appointed two strong anti-self-defense members to the Supreme Court.
But Mr. Traver’s nomination is quite troubling. Making up claims about guns to demonize them is beyond what is acceptable for someone who wants a position in which he will be regulating American gun ownership. | {
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Founded in 1993, Recreation Therapists of Indiana, Inc. (RTI) is a professional organization representing approximately 200 recreational therapists throughout the state of Indiana. RTI is a chapter affiliate of the American Therapeutic Recreation Association (ATRA) which is the largest national association of recreational therapists. RTI is the third largest ATRA chapter affiliate.
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Recreational Therapy services are goal directed interventions that utilize various treatment modalities to promote the independent physical, cognitive, emotional and social functioning of persons disabled as a result of injury or illness, by enhancing current skills and facilitating the establishment of new skills for daily living and community functioning. Targeted recreational therapy interventions assist individuals in coping with the stress of illness and disability and prepare them for managing their disability so they may achieve and maintain optimal levels of independence, productivity, and well being. Depending upon the specific needs of the individual client, quality recreation therapy services may include the provision of recreational opportunity and physical activity (e.g. wheelchair sports, exercise and swimming programs) which allow individuals with disabilities mechanisms to prevent declines in physical, cognitive, social, and emotional health status, and therefore reduce the need for medical services (ATRA).
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An individual who is a graduate of a baccalaureate degree program with a specialization in therapeutic recreation, that includes completion of an internship; and has demonstrated competence to practice as a therapeutic recreation specialist. The National Council for Therapeutic Recreation Certification (NCTRC) provides national certification. Many employers insist on hiring individuals with the professional certification designation, Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist (CTRS). A few states regulate this profession through licensure, certification or regulation of titles.
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The RHI Sports Program and the Indianapolis YMCA is bringing USA Boccia to Indianapolis on Saturday, May 19 from 11- 4. This clinic is designed to teach anyone with a disability how to play. However, it is also designed to teach clinicians how to teach Boccia to their patients. Clinicians will receive a certificate of education for attending. The goal of the clinic is to educate and promote Boccia Ball in Indianapolis. | {
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Given the convenience and potential cost saving of digital delivery for both libraries and users, combined with the power digitization offers to search within texts, why not embrace the digital future now? The issue of preservation is one of the main obstacles.
Speaking from her experience as head of collection care for the British Library, Helen Shenton explains that “the greatest risks to printed material are the environment, wear and tear, security, and custodial neglect.” Facilities such as the Harvard Depository address most of those concerns, although wear and tear is an unavoidable consequence of use. On the digital side, on the other hand, use of the data is one of the best ways of preserving it, because “‘bit rot’ is one of the biggest risks.” A book left on the shelf for a hundred years might be fine, Shenton says, but digital data must be read and checked constantly to ensure their integrity.
For digital preservationists, a prime concern is that data might be kept perfectly secure and complete, but still be unreadable by machines and programs in the future. A New Yorker cover depicting an alien, come to post-apocalyptic Earth, sitting amid the detritus of modern civilization—discarded CDs, tapes, and computers—illustrates the point: the alien is reading a book, the only thing that still “works.” “You have to think about moving the content along as technology changes,” explains Andrea Goethals, digital-preservation and repository-services manager. In order to make this feasible, librarians try to limit the number of file formats they make use of, and store detailed technical metadata with every object so that in 10 years or 100 “it can be rendered again in a usable way.” Every few years, as the programs that created a text file or a PDF become obsolete, librarians must ensure that the contents of those files remain readable by the current generation of computers and software. But opening each file manually in order to save it in a current format is not feasible when there are millions of them. “Because of the enormous amount of digital material we hold, migrating content is done at scale, not one file at a time,” Goethals explains. “We have to be able to do it on a whole class of objects”—all Microsoft Word files, for example. This content management strategy should work, “but because digital preservation is a young science, we don’t have a lot of experience with it yet.”
Objects that begin in an analog format—a book, a recording of a poetry reading, or a piece of music—are easiest to preserve digitally because librarians can choose the optimal file format for long-term access. Material that is born digital—e-mail, for example, which comes in many different, often proprietary, formats—is not so easy to preserve. This is proving a vexing problem for librarians charged with maintaining records of the University’s intellectual life. Harvard archivists, for example, must figure out what to do with the president’s e-mail—both a technical and legal challenge, because of privacy laws governing its handling.
For medical librarians like Isaac Kohane, the lack of case notes from the last 20 years is an equally grave concern. He recalls his excitement, shortly after becoming director of the Countway, at being able to read the notebooks of a surgeon who was about to conduct the first successful cadaveric kidney transplant, for which he later won the Nobel Prize. “You could see the foresight and the hypothesis he had, as he made that leap. So it is stunning to realize that we are in a period of unprecedented lack of documentation of academic output.” Most notes, images, and communications today are stored as e-mail. “I’m worried that, 30 years hence, people will say, ‘Well, what was happening during the great genetics revolution at Harvard University?’ They’ll have no idea.” | {
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Designing for VR
Notes on Blindness: Into Darkness
Here are some highlights about a project I worked on as an Art Director for 1 year: Notes on Blindness: Into Darkness.This project is an adaptation of the book Touching the Rock, the audio diary of John M. Hull discovering “a world beyond sight” published in 1990.
Notes on Blindness, directed by Peter Middleton & James Spinney, 2014
In 2014, John’s testimony was adapted by filmmakers Peter Middleton and James Spinney in the beautiful short film Notes on Blindness.
In April 2015, Arnaud Colinard/AGAT Films & Cie proposed me to work on an immersive 360° version of this story with him and Amaury La Burthe/AudioGaming. The chapters of the experience were already defined, and some choices about the graphic universe were made, my challenge was then to bring it further and I quote “to make a beautiful project which can be exposed in museums like the MoMA” :o
Notes on Blindness: Acoustic Space, Fabien Togman
The artwork by Fabien Togman I received when I began to work on the project.
To define a consistent methodology and approach for the immersive experience and develop it all along the scenes, I focused my work on few important issues:
1/ Point of view
How to define a point of view? What does it mean?
The first thing I done was to read the book of John M. Hull, to understand his experience and discover his daily environment. What struck me first was the contrast between the simplicity of his writing and the strength of his words. There were also tackled issues of a man living with his family and a man exploring the meaning of life: it was like John was at the same time inside and outside his own body.
A 360° subjective point of view, Béatrice Lartigue
The participant of the immersive experience embodies John Hull. He discovers the world from a subjective point of view.
In virtual reality, the world around the viewer is concentric; all vanishing points refer to the viewer’s position. And it’s even more true when your perceptions of this world bring it to life.
A 360° realistic point of view, Béatrice Lartigue
The field of view uses human vision characteristics to remain realistic, but the surrounding environment evolves constantly over time…
2/ Environment
What is the environment of the story?
John knows his daily environment (his study, his house…) but he feels his unknown surroundings to understand it. His senses and perceptions help him to figure out what the space looks like around him: the wind in his hair, the sun on is skin. The sound gives tangible form to his environnement. For example, John explains the fact that the perception of the space around him grows when it’s raining (the sound of a drop on a roof…).
Birmingham, UK, Béatrice Lartigue
The context of the experience reminds Birmingham, its parcs and university, where John Hull worked as an Emeritus Professor of Religious Education.
One of the first important thing was to imagine John’s daily environment, through the listening of his audio testimony. It was interesting to draw each scene of the experience, based on John’s audio descriptions: I had to imagine the space through his own perceptions and words.
Notes on Blindness: Acoustic Space, Béatrice Lartigue
The challenge was to think about the space from a concentric point of view: by keeping it realistic but giving it some relief at the same time.
3/ Statement
How to translate a subjective world: ‘a world beyond sight’? How to unfold it through visual and interaction?
The point of view and the environment are voluntary realistic, but the visual translation of John’s world is more abstract. My first concern was to translate the idea of ‘an intermittent & fragmented world’.
References in Art and Game fields, Béatrice Lartigue
I made some research to explore this idea of light, transcendence and ‘acoustic world’.
I finally designed a world with a strong sensation of depth and the nature in motion.
Looking at the sky, Béatrice Lartigue
Ground, Béatrice Lartigue
The world is drawn with particles. The space is revealed by the wind, the rain or the vibrations of sound through space.
Notes on Blindness: Acoustic Space, Béatrice Lartigue
4/ Narration through space
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FHWA's Office of Asset Management and the DGIT will host a one-time workshop this fall on the Use of Pavement Management System Data to Calibrate M-E Pavement Design. "This workshop is intended to help pavement design engineers and pavement management engineers better understand how data from pavement management systems can be incorporated in the new Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide software," says Myers. The workshop will be held September 20, 2006, in Rocky Hill, Connecticut, and will also be Webcast simultaneously.
Another workshop that will be presented and Webcast in 2006 is Traffic Inputs for M-E Pavement Design Guide. The workshop will share best practices, identify concerns, and develop solutions for the traffic data collection required for successful use of the M-E design guide. ConnDOT will host the workshop and conduct a simultaneous Webcast in Rocky Hill, Connecticut, on September 18, 2006.
For more information on the M-E design guide workshops or to register for a workshop or Webcast, visit www.fhwa.dot.gov/pavement/dgit/index.cfm. Information is also available from FHWA's Design Guide Implementation Team.
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Climatic Inputs for M-E Pavement Design
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August 15, 2006, Phoenix, AZ
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I had my anatomy scan today. The radiologist comes into the waiting room and asks for me. She then proceeds to ask (in front of other patients the waiting room) why I'm having my anatomy scan at 18 weeks rather than 20 weeks? I explained that the doctor said it was OK to get it at 18 weeks. The radiologist caught such an attitude and said its too early and they won't get everything on the US. Then she kept asking if there was a particular reason for doing it earlier. I really felt like my privacy was not being respected and it got me really mad because it was discussed right in the waiting room. Should I call a manager and discuss what happened or let it go?
I had my anatomy scan today. The radiologist comes into the waiting room and asks for me. She then proceeds to ask (in front of other patients the waiting room) why I'm having my anatomy scan at 18 weeks rather than 20 weeks? I explained that the doctor said it was OK to get it at 18 weeks. The radiologist caught such an attitude and said its too early and they won't get everything on the US. Then she kept asking if there was a particular reason for doing it earlier. I really felt like my privacy was not being respected and it got me really mad because it was discussed right in the waiting room. Should I call a manager and discuss what happened or let it go?
I would definitely complain! The week after my scan my dr office asked me if the tech was rude they said other people had complained and the wanted to know how I felt sometimes those techs go all over and dr can request a new one ;)
I would definitely complain! The week after my scan my dr office asked me if the tech was rude they said other people had complained and the wanted to know how I felt sometimes those techs go all over and dr can request a new one ;)
The radiologist might be the owner. I work for three radiologist and believe me when I say that a patient really doesn't have a voice there. What you do need to do is talk to your OB and let him/her know about your experience. Good luck.
The radiologist might be the owner. I work for three radiologist and believe me when I say that a patient really doesn't have a voice there. What you do need to do is talk to your OB and let him/her know about your experience. Good luck.
I would complain. That was a violation of privacy. But just a side note, most standard anatomy scans are done as close to 20 weeks as possible because they want to see the heart developed enough. Depending upon the growth of your baby and the skill of the technician, this may not be possible at 18 weeks. Some techs are sensitive to this which is why they insist on waiting til 20 weeks so as not to have the patient worry when they have to come in for an additional check because the technician wasn't able to see everything that needed to be checked. So while,yes it's possible to get everything they need at an 18 week scan, it's just significantly more likely to have a successful scan at 20 weeks. That's where that perspective comes from.
I would complain. That was a violation of privacy. But just a side note, most standard anatomy scans are done as close to 20 weeks as possible because they want to see the heart developed enough. Depending upon the growth of your baby and the skill of the technician, this may not be possible at 18 weeks. Some techs are sensitive to this which is why they insist on waiting til 20 weeks so as not to have the patient worry when they have to come in for an additional check because the technician wasn't able to see everything that needed to be checked. So while,yes it's possible to get everything they need at an 18 week scan, it's just significantly more likely to have a successful scan at 20 weeks. That's where that perspective comes from.
I'm in the UK and can not believe all of the horror stories I hear when it comes to this and you guys pay through the ass for the service too! Crazy, I'd complain, breach of privacy amongst other things, next time tell her you're not a doctor so stop asking!!
I'm in the UK and can not believe all of the horror stories I hear when it comes to this and you guys pay through the ass for the service too! Crazy, I'd complain, breach of privacy amongst other things, next time tell her you're not a doctor so stop asking!!
Oh, and I forgot to mention that I got mine done at 18 weeks (set up by my OB, not per my request) & they were able to do/look at everything necessary, so I don't understand why they were giving you a hard time.
Oh, and I forgot to mention that I got mine done at 18 weeks (set up by my OB, not per my request) & they were able to do/look at everything necessary, so I don't understand why they were giving you a hard time.
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Name of Offense
Assault in the Third Degree
New York Penal Code
120.00
Offense Level
Class A misdemeanor
Potential Jail Sentence
No minimum up to One Year at Rikers Island
Description of Offense
Assault might commonly be understood as "beating up" somebody, but it can be triggered by intentionally inflicting relatively modest physical injury on someone. In order to make out a crime, in New York, the level of physical injury does have to meet a threshold level, but that level is not enormous. Generally, a defense of self defense or justification is available to someone who otherwise committed the crime of assault, but did so in his own defense or in the defense of another, or in certain cases, in the defense of property.
Potential Settlements for First Arrest
Misdemeanor assault cases in New York City can play out in a wider range of ways than other types of misdemeanor cases. Settlements involving non-criminal resolutions are less predictable. It is for this reason that one of the more likely types of cases to go to trial is probably the assault case. In the absence of a non-criminal offer from the Government, people with no criminal record often feel they have little to lose to by going to trial.
But when settlement is desired, the following sorts of non-criminal resolutions can sometimes be arranged:
(1) ACD, with community service and/or restitution to complaining witness for any medical bills.
(2) Plea to Disorderly Conduct (non-criminal offense) with fine and/or community service and/or restitution to complaining witness for any medical bills.
Note that settlements will typically also involve orders of protection in favor of the complaining witness, meaning that the accused will be required to stay completely away from the complaining witness (if the order of protection is "full") or simply avoid doing bad things to the complaining witness (if the order of protection is "limited").
Complicating Factors (There are many - Assault can be tricky) include:
(1) Severity of injury to the complaining witness
(2) Relationship of the complaining witness to the accused
(3) Domestic Violence context
(4) Lack of Citizenship - Offense involving violence can be a problem for immigration purposes
(5) History of prior violent behavior (regardless of whether resulted in conviction)
(6) Employment
(7) Family Court / Divorce / Custody situation
Practice Comments
Assault cases are treated highly individually and their outcomes will be very much related to the specific facts of the case. A fight at a bar between two brothers at 2 AM where nobody is terribly hurt may not be treated the same, for example, as a case in which a stranger is accused of randomly approaching someone in the street and punching him in the face. In the first example of the two brothers a non criminal resolution is extremely likely. In the second example, a non-criminal resolution may not be so easy to come by.
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Every person under your employ, whether he or she is a simple receptionist or a very experienced manager, looks forward to you recognizing them for their work and appreciating the efforts they put in their jobs for the success of your business. Acknowledging your employees goes a long way in cultivating a culture of gratitude. As long as employees are aware that their hard work is being observed and valued, they will continue working harder without hesitation.
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"Not another attack on French hatred of all things American," I can hear you thinking. Well, maybe, but this one has an amusing part, too.
Three years ago, the Frogs and the Krauts -- er, the French and the Germans -- decided to write a textbook together about the history of the world since 1945. (Hmmmm. 1945. That wouldn't happen to be the year that the U.S. and its allies finally defeated the German Nazi regime after an extremely bloody war, an important part of which involved liberating France from Nazi domination, would it?) So far, so good.
Well, the BBC reports that there was generally little disagreement in writing the text between the Germans and the French. Except for one subject:
The 10 authors did not encounter major difficulties, according to France's Le Figaro newspaper.
Paradoxically it was not World War II which provided the main topic of debate, but the US role in the world since 1945, the newspaper said.
It quoted Guillaume Le Quintrec, co-director of the project, who said "the French found the Germans to be pro-American and the Germans found our viewpoint anti-American".
Heated discussions, in which each word was carefully considered, resulted in a text which both sides judged to be "balanced".
So the French thought the Germans were too pro-American, and the Germans thought the French were too anti-American? No good deed goes unpunished, I guess.
And actually, there was a second subject of disagreement:
Another stumbling block was the German historians' desire for a more critical approach than the French one towards the former people's democracies in Central Europe, Le Figaro reported.
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Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders after stroke,[7] and affects around 50 million people worldwide.[8] It is diagnosed in a person having recurrent, unprovoked seizures. These occur when cortical neurons fire excessively, hypersynchronously, or both, leading to temporary disruption of normal brain function. This might affect, for example, the muscles, the senses, consciousness, or a combination. A seizure can be focal (confined to one part of the brain) or generalised (spread widely throughout the brain and leading to a loss of consciousness). Epilepsy can occur for a variety of reasons; some forms have been classified into epileptic syndromes, most of which begin in childhood. Epilepsy is considered refractory (not yielding to treatment) when two or three anticonvulsant drugs have failed to control it. About 60% of patients achieve control of their epilepsy with the first drug they use, whereas around 30% do not achieve control with drugs. When drugs fail, other options include epilepsy surgery, vagus nerve stimulation, and the ketogenic diet.[7]
Also, the natural sugar in fruit does affect your carbohydrate intake — especially if you eat a lot of fruit. This may temporarily raise your blood sugar or certain blood fats. However, this effect is lessened if you are losing weight. If you have diabetes or any other health conditions or concerns, work with your doctor to adjust the Mayo Clinic Diet for your situation. For example, people with diabetes should aim for more vegetables than fruits, if possible. It's a good idea to snack on vegetables, rather than snacking only on fruit.
Conklin's fasting therapy was adopted by neurologists in mainstream practice. In 1916, a Dr McMurray wrote to the New York Medical Journal claiming to have successfully treated epilepsy patients with a fast, followed by a starch- and sugar-free diet, since 1912. In 1921, prominent endocrinologist Henry Rawle Geyelin reported his experiences to the American Medical Association convention. He had seen Conklin's success first-hand and had attempted to reproduce the results in 36 of his own patients. He achieved similar results despite only having studied the patients for a short time. Further studies in the 1920s indicated that seizures generally returned after the fast. Charles P. Howland, the parent of one of Conklin's successful patients and a wealthy New York corporate lawyer, gave his brother John Elias Howland a gift of $5,000 to study "the ketosis of starvation". As professor of paediatrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital, John E. Howland used the money to fund research undertaken by neurologist Stanley Cobb and his assistant William G. Lennox.[10]
This principle involves eating low-energy-dense foods and can help you lose weight by feeling full on fewer calories. Healthy choices in each of the other food groups in moderate amounts make up the rest of the pyramid — including whole-grain carbohydrates, lean sources of protein such as legumes, fish and low-fat dairy, and heart-healthy unsaturated fats.
Note: Because you'll be excluding some major food groups on the keto diet (grains, many fruits) you should definitely think about taking a multivitamin—especially one that contains folic acid, which helps your body make new cells and is often found in enriched breads, cereals, and other grain products, says Julie Upton, R.D., cofounder of nutrition website Appetite for Health.
There were [no statistical] differences between the low- and high- [meal frequency] groups for adiposity indices, appetite measurements or gut peptides (peptide YY and ghrelin) either before or after the intervention. We conclude that increasing meal frequency does not promote greater body weight loss under the conditions described in the present study.
In the mid-1990s, Hollywood producer Jim Abrahams, whose son's severe epilepsy was effectively controlled by the diet, created the Charlie Foundation to promote it. Publicity included an appearance on NBC's Dateline programme and ...First Do No Harm (1997), a made-for-television film starring Meryl Streep. The foundation sponsored a multicentre research study, the results of which—announced in 1996—marked the beginning of renewed scientific interest in the diet.[1]
In addition, the healthy habits and kinds of foods recommended on the Mayo Clinic Diet — including lots of vegetables, fruits, whole grains, nuts, beans, fish and healthy fats — can further reduce your risk of certain health conditions. The Mayo Clinic Diet is meant to be positive, practical, sustainable and enjoyable, so you can enjoy a happier, healthier life over the long term.
If you think you may have a medical emergency, call your healthcare provider or 911 immediately. Any mention of products or services is not meant as a guarantee, endorsement, or recommendation of the products, services, or companies. Reliance on any information provided is solely at your own risk. Please discuss any options with your healthcare provider.
Many people choose to forgo food from animal sources to varying degrees (e.g. flexitarianism, pescetarianism, vegetarianism, veganism) for health reasons, issues surrounding morality, or to reduce their personal impact on the environment, although some of the public assumptions about which diets have lower impacts are known to be incorrect.[3] Raw foodism is another contemporary trend. These diets may require multivitamin supplements to meet ordinary nutritional needs.
The ketogenic diet is not a benign, holistic, or natural treatment for epilepsy; as with any serious medical therapy, complications may result.[28] These are generally less severe and less frequent than with anticonvulsant medication or surgery.[28] Common but easily treatable short-term side effects include constipation, low-grade acidosis, and hypoglycaemia if an initial fast is undertaken. Raised levels of lipids in the blood affect up to 60% of children[38] and cholesterol levels may increase by around 30%.[28] This can be treated by changes to the fat content of the diet, such as from saturated fats towards polyunsaturated fats, and if persistent, by lowering the ketogenic ratio.[38] Supplements are necessary to counter the dietary deficiency of many micronutrients.[18]
It usually takes three to four days for your body to go into ketosis because you have to use up your body's stores of glucose, i.e., sugar first, Keatley says. Any major diet change can give you some, uh, issues, and Keatley says he often sees patients who complain of IBS-like symptoms and feeling wiped out at the beginning of the diet. (The tiredness happens because you have less access to carbs, which give you quick energy, he explains.)
Probably, and there are a few reasons why the keto diet usually equals weight-loss gold, says Keatley. For starters, people usually reduce their daily caloric intake to about 1,500 calories a day because healthy fats and lean proteins make you feel fuller sooner—and for a longer period of time. And then there’s the fact that it takes more energy to process and burn fat and protein than carbs, so you're burning slightly more calories than you did before. Over time, this can lead to weight loss.
Virtual gastric band uses hypnosis to make the brain think the stomach is smaller than it really is and hence lower the amount of food ingested. This brings as a consequence weight reduction. This method is complemented with psychological treatment for anxiety management and with hypnopedia. Research has been conducted into the use of hypnosis as a weight management alternative.[16][17][18][19] In 1996 a study found that cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) was more effective for weight reduction if reinforced with hypnosis.[17] Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ACT, a mindfulness approach to weight loss, has also in the last few years been demonstrating its usefulness.[20]
When you’re eating the foods that get you there (more on that in a minute), your body can enter a state of ketosis in one to three days, she adds. During the diet, the majority of calories you consume come from fat, with a little protein and very little carbohydrates. Ketosis also happens if you eat a very low-calorie diet — think doctor-supervised, only when medically recommended diets of 600 to 800 total calories.
The fasting periods were often called ‘cleanses’, ‘detoxifications’, or ‘purifications’, but the idea is similar – e.g. to abstain from eating food for a certain period of time, often for health reasons. People imagined that this period of abstinence from food would clear their bodies’ systems of toxins and rejuvenate them. They may have been more correct than they knew.
It is important to understand that weight is entirely a function of input and output. The input is the food you eat and the calories contained therein. The output is your energy output. To lose weight the output needs to be greater than the input. It is that simple. Do not believe any of the diet fads. If you are currently not gaining or losing weight then just burning 300 extra calories per week or eating/drinking 300 calories less per week (2 sodas for example or a small burger) WILL make you lose weight - in this case around 5 pounds of fat per year.
A study with an intent-to-treat prospective design was published in 1998 by a team from the Johns Hopkins Hospital[20] and followed-up by a report published in 2001.[21] As with most studies of the ketogenic diet, no control group (patients who did not receive the treatment) was used. The study enrolled 150 children. After three months, 83% of them were still on the diet, 26% had experienced a good reduction in seizures, 31% had had an excellent reduction, and 3% were seizure-free.[Note 7] At 12 months, 55% were still on the diet, 23% had a good response, 20% had an excellent response, and 7% were seizure-free. Those who had discontinued the diet by this stage did so because it was ineffective, too restrictive, or due to illness, and most of those who remained were benefiting from it. The percentage of those still on the diet at two, three, and four years was 39%, 20%, and 12%, respectively. During this period, the most common reason for discontinuing the diet was because the children had become seizure-free or significantly better. At four years, 16% of the original 150 children had a good reduction in seizure frequency, 14% had an excellent reduction, and 13% were seizure-free, though these figures include many who were no longer on the diet. Those remaining on the diet after this duration were typically not seizure-free, but had had an excellent response.[21][22]
It is important to understand that weight is entirely a function of input and output. The input is the food you eat and the calories contained therein. The output is your energy output. To lose weight the output needs to be greater than the input. It is that simple. Do not believe any of the diet fads. If you are currently not gaining or losing weight then just burning 300 extra calories per week or eating/drinking 300 calories less per week (2 sodas for example or a small burger) WILL make you lose weight - in this case around 5 pounds of fat per year.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Kossoff EH, Zupec-Kania BA, Amark PE, Ballaban-Gil KR, Bergqvist AG, Blackford R, et al. Optimal clinical management of children receiving the ketogenic diet: recommendations of the International Ketogenic Diet Study Group. Epilepsia. 2009 Feb;50(2):304–17. doi:10.1111/j.1528-1167.2008.01765.x. PMID 18823325
A ketogenic diet helps control blood sugar levels. It is excellent for managing type 2 diabetes, sometimes even leading to complete reversal of the disease. This has been proven in studies. It makes perfect sense since keto lowers blood-sugar levels, reduces the need of medications and reduces the potentially negative impact of high insulin levels. | {
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London Coins auction Feb/Mar 2020 - beware Lot 1438 which I believe to be a F763 (more common than F8B) and Lot 1444 which appears to be an F22 with missing top leaf but when you look at pictures from the earlier sale referred to, the top leaf is clearly visible.
I recall one went for ~$15,000 at a Stacks and Bowers auction several years ago, about 2014. I wished I'd bid on the London Coins one from a few years before that which went for ~£1600 hammer. From memory.
Were they making Dreadnoughts then? I think I read that's what the ship is somewhere.
Maybe the same coin that MR sold in his list above.
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I recall one went for ~$15,000 at a Stacks and Bowers auction several years ago, about 2014. I wished I'd bid on the London Coins one from a few years before that which went for ~£1600 hammer. From memory.
Were they making Dreadnoughts then? I think I read that's what the ship is somewhere.
Maybe the same coin that MR sold in his list above.
Sorry! it's not a dreadnought, it's got sails of course. I should have reminded myself. I think the dreadnought's on a later pattern penny.
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This is the Royal Mint's Example Richard RMM 52 , below is the blank side and the Rubber Pattern RMM 74. Also I noticed that your example 8 on the Rare coins is the Example held by the Royal Collection Trust . Terry
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Thanks Terry, that's an interesting site. I've discovered that it holds a 3rd specimen of the QEII pattern penny (122 beads) stating that it was struck on 17 September 1952, backing up the Royal Mint's comments to me when I had my example authenticated.
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Thanks Terry, that's an interesting site. I've discovered that it holds a 3rd specimen of the QEII pattern penny (122 beads) stating that it was struck on 17 September 1952, backing up the Royal Mint's comments to me when I had my example authenticated.
I found that through a search for '1953 penny' and it was the first item. But no mention that there were two earlier patterns - where did you get that information from?
Rather pleased to have obtained a 1918H penny with a fully struck up breastplate and reasonable hair detail. It's very difficult to find specimens with a good strike to both obverse and reverse. This one is otherwise only about EF, with a tiny trace of lustre in the legend, but it's the rest of it which appealed to me. My previous one was not as good, and has been consigned to the oddments drawer.
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I see that the 2 D2 coins went for £1800 - it's probably the first time that this variety has come to market in recognisable form even though they weren't catalogued as such. It will be interesting to see what they sell on for, assuming they were bought for that reason. This sale values them at around £7-900 each.
I see that the 2 D2 coins went for £1800 - it's probably the first time that this variety has come to market in recognisable form even though they weren't catalogued as such. It will be interesting to see what they sell on for, assuming they were bought for that reason. This sale values them at around £7-900 each.
I’m afraid I got those, Richard, I will keep at least one of them. One does not appear to have the die crack on the portrait and I suppose could be an earlier strike from a known die ; the second has a long die crack on the portrait which is in a different position from the others shown on your site so at least three D2 obverse dies. Both have the ‘nipple’ colons. There is also a nice ‘triple F’ ( a well lustred one went in the last DNW for nearly a grand, but usually just £2-300) and a lovely doubled N in penny, and other little repairs of interest. I was underbidder for the V over A and lot 372 with the good F24 and F5 heavy flan and nice F1 amongst others, I was sad to have to give up there (though both my F24’s are better). I won 368 with the N over Z, F1 and a couple of nice letter repairs and more importantly what I think is an F13 ‘ N over upside down N’ in Penny, with a serif bottom right and slightly wedged diagonal as in my F33. There is a die flaw in the vicinity, we’ll see how it looks under the microscope but I am pretty convinced. It would not be a surprising error as I’ve said before.
I don't know who won it, but if I was a betting man, I would think it went to Cardiff, to the guy who has the other three (3)!
It's interesting Bob. Hiram had the two F90's in his collection, the first of which went on 12th February, also at a DNW auction, for less than half the price of the latest one. The first one did have a bit of a ding from obverse to reverse, but otherwise wasn't too bad. At any rate, I wouldn't have thought it was worth just half of today's offering, which is sub fine, but issue free.
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Album of the Week 35-2012: Loudness – 2012
Why there isn’t any European or American label with the balls to release Loudness’ new albums is beyond me. Loudness has been one of Japan’s best bands ever since their inception, but they’ve really been on a roll these last few years. ‘The Everlasting’ was good, ‘King Of Pain’ was great, ‘Eve To Dawn’ was brilliant and ‘2012’ continues this tradition by being even better. In fact, ‘2012’ is to these ears the most successful attempt at combining the classic Loudness sound with the more modern, somewhat Pantera-esque sound they’ve been experimenting with for the last 15 years. As such, ‘2012’ is Loudness’ best album since their self-titled album twenty years ago. Maybe even since 1984’s ‘Disillusion’.
Stylistically, ‘2012’ lies somewhere between modern Power Metal and Thrash-lite (think Death Angel’s classic ‘Act III’ – in fact, Akira Takasaki’s guitar approach vaguely reminisces Rob Cavestany’s on the awesome ‘Behind The Scene’). ‘Eve To Dawn’ already hinted at this, but they’re really digging into the sound that made ‘Law Of The Devil’s Land’ such an amazing album back in 1983, in the sense that the songs on the album are obviously influenced by some western bands (Judas Priest most predominantly), but there are so many unexpected structures, that you’re really listening to a unique work of art. It could be because they’re Japanese, but let’s not forget that Loudness forged this sound for itself: Loudness has always been and still is the standard for heavy music from the east.
‘The Stronger’ is the perfect opener to this album, the palm-mute high-speed riffs of Takasaki and rolling bass drums of Masayuki Suzuki get your blood pumping. This is what made Heavy Metal so amazing in the early eighties and that hasn’t changed to these ears. In fact, Loudness has had a succession of amazing opening tracks (‘Hit The Rails’, ‘King Of Pain’, ‘The Power Of Truth’), but this one might be the best since the reunion of the original lineup around the turn of the century. And there’s more classic Heavy Metal where that came from. ‘Break New Ground’ is a mid tempo stomper reminiscent of Priest, ‘2012 – End Of The Age’ has many exciting tempo feel shifts and a thundering main riff and ‘Bang ‘Em Dead’ is another one of those classic Loudness anthems.
Like on ‘King Of Pain’ and ‘Eve To Dawn’ before it, the second half of ‘2012’ is a bit more experimental. Still instantly recognizable as Loudness, but just taking a different appraoch on things. The two instrumental tracks – the Middle Eastern tinged ‘Spirit From The East’ and the dark outro ‘Out Of The Space’ – are the most obvious examples of this, but there’s also ‘Who The Hell Cares’, arguably the most modern Metal track on here. And there’s the slightly more progressive ‘Memento Mori’, but then again, that one was written by bassist Masayoshi Yamashita, who usually writes the more progressive stuff. Highlighting that half of the album is the Ronnie James Dio tribute ‘The Voice Of Metal’, with its slower tempo that just drags you in mourning mode and a surprisingly slow and heartfelt solo – at least partially – by Takasaki. That clean break with brilliant bass accents around the 2 minute mark is the strongest goosebumps-inducing part on the album.
As always, Loudness is mostly a vehicle for Akira Takasaki’s impressive guitar histrionics. However, it seems like he’s found himself a new sparring partner in Masayuki Suzuki, who replaced the late Munetaka Higuchi after his demise in 2008. Suzuki is a virtuoso when it comes to using double bass drums and he and Takasaki obviously feed off of each other’s energy. ‘2012’ is definitely the first album where they truly utilize Suzuki’s drumming abilities, after getting a glimpse of it in the ridiculous drum intro to ‘King Of Pain’. Also, Masayoshi Yamashita is remarkably present on this album, impressively doubling Takasaki’s riffs in ‘Driving Force’ and giving them a Maiden-ish vibe with it and adding a nice touch to the riff in ‘Who The Hell Cares’ with his popping. Minoru Niihara’s vocals haven’t aged too well generally, but he still has a fairly good range and I like the edge that came to his voice with the years.
It’s really a shame no one in the west wants to release this and instead opt for brainless Metalcore bands. This is clearly better than a good 90 percent of every western release. It’s too bad you’re forced to lay down a lot of money to import this from Japan, but the truth is that it’s worth the money. I’m going to have to put a sort of buyer’s guide for all of you interested in Loudness on this weblog soon. I for one can’t wait for the band to return to Europe for some shows to promote (and sell!) this album.
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In 2013, Ben Stewart resigned as MLA for Westside-Kelowna, so that Christy Clark, right, could seek the seat in a byelection. On Tuesday, Stewart won his old seat in a byelection. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Kelowna Daily Courier-Gary Nylander
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Premier Christy Clark is parachuting into Kelowna, the home of the Bennett political dynasty and the “cradle of free enterprise,” to try to regain a seat in the B.C. legislature.
Citizens’ Services and Open Government Minister Ben Stewart said Wednesday that he is vacating his Westside-Kelowna riding to give Clark a shot at winning in a byelection.
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“I want to ensure the premier has a chance to deliver not just on our vision, but on some of the real things we need to do for British Columbia to make sure we move ahead,” an emotional Stewart said.
Clark led her B.C. Liberal party to a stunning majority victory in the May 14 provincial election, but lost her own seat in Vancouver-Point Grey to the NDP’s David Eby.
Clark said she was humbled by Stewart’s selflessness. “He’s not a man who did it because he needed to be asked, he did it because he has character.”
Westside-Kelowna is seen as a relatively safe seat for the Liberals and a potentially easy win for Clark.
Stewart won re-election with 58.4 per cent of the vote, outpacing his NDP challenger by two votes to one.
The choice to run in the Okanagan Valley is also symbolic for Clark. A previous version of the South Okanagan riding was held by former premier W.A.C. Bennett for more than 20 years, and then by his son Bill Bennett, who was also premier.
Clark repeatedly compared herself to the Bennetts during the election campaign, saying her pursuit of liquefied natural gas jobs and revenue was similar to W.A.C. Bennett’s push to harness the province’s natural resources and aggressively pursue hydroelectric dams.
Her campaign promise to eliminate B.C.’s debt within 15 years and crack down on government spending may also mirror W.A.C. Bennett’s debt-elimination push — he once famously shot a flaming arrow to set ablaze a barge representing B.C.’s debt — and also Bill Bennett’s government restraint program.
“Kelowna is a natural political home for me on the values that I believe in,” said Clark. “This is the cradle of free enterprise. This is a community that has been represented by two premiers before and it’s a community that's been represented by a man of great character for the last four years. Amongst all the offers I received from MLAs, this one felt like the most natural.”
Brad Bennett, the son of Bill and grandson of W.A.C., joined Clark for much of her campaign tour around the province, also linking his family’s political legacy to Clark’s economic vision.
Wednesday’s byelection news conference was held at Quail’s Gate Winery, which Stewart owns and of which Brad Bennett is chairman.
Clark lives in Metro Vancouver, but there is no law saying she must be a resident of the Kelowna riding in order to become MLA. Nonetheless, she said she’ll find a residence in the area.
Stewart, first elected in 2009, hasn’t served long enough to earn an MLA pension. Nor is he eligible for a 15 month “transitional allowance” of his MLA salary because he is resigning. He is, however, quite wealthy through land and business holdings.
The byelection campaign should officially begin within the next week, said Clark. That could mean a mid-July vote, and the potential for Clark to return to the legislature during a planned summer session.
NDP Leader Adrian Dix said his party will select a candidate and fight Clark in the byelection.
B.C. Green Leader Jane Sterk said her party won’t run a candidate, because the premier deserves to be in the legislature.
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Heh.
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I love it when Democrats actually fight
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"Yesterday the vice president was forced to admit what even an eighth-grade student knew: there is no Cheney branch of government. While the vice president's excuses may change, his desire to ignore the rule remains just as strong as ever. The vice president is unwilling to risk that the documents detailing the flawed intelligence or faulty assumptions that led us into the war in Iraq [sic]. He has been held unaccountable for six years, and now he wants to be held unaccountable in the historical record as well...
If his office is not in the executive branch, then there is no executive branch office to fund. And perhaps more importantly, it underscores that the vice president is not above the law, and cannot ignore the rules. The law should follow him, whatever branch of government he chooses to hang his hat in.
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Conservatives
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The U.S. government has committed to spend a record-high $1.1 trillion with companies holding government contracts "plagued by waste, fraud, abuse or mismanagement," according to a new report by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
The report blames the rise in bad spending on a sharp increase in noncompetitive contracting and a general increase in the use of private companies to perform government functions.
An increase in the use of private companies.
You know what's astounding? These guys have actually convinced people that private companies work better and cheaper. Of course, it's just a coincidence that private companies happen to be the politicians' cronies.
One difference between the government doing something and a private company doing something is that a private company has to make a profit, and the government just has to break even. It usually costs LESS, not more.
Another difference if that an action DOES bring in money, it goes to some poor person's healthcare instead of a rich person's pocket.
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Impeach Cheney
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Oooh, this is good. The following was written by Bruce Fein, Reagan's associate deputy Attorney General.
Under Dick Cheney, the office of the vice president has been transformed from a tiny acorn into an unprecedented giant oak. In grasping and exercising presidential powers, Cheney has dulled political accountability and concocted theories for evading the law and Constitution that would have embarrassed King George III.
The most recent invention we know of is the vice president's insistence that an executive order governing the handling of classified information in the executive branch does not reach his office because he also serves as president of the Senate. In other words, the vice president is a unique legislative-executive creature standing above and beyond the Constitution.
The House judiciary committee should commence an impeachment inquiry. As Alexander Hamilton advised in the Federalist Papers, an impeachable offense is a political crime against the nation. Cheney's multiple crimes against the Constitution clearly qualify.
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Subpoenas for subhumans
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June 27 (Bloomberg) -- A Senate panel probing the National Security Agency's domestic wiretapping program issued subpoenas to the White House, Vice President Dick Cheney and the Justice Department for documents showing the Bush administration's legal justification for the secret surveillance.
``This committee has made no fewer than nine formal requests to the Department of Justice and to the White House, seeking information and documents about the authorization of and legal justification for this program,'' Vermont Democrat Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, wrote in letters accompanying the subpoenas.
Those requests were ``rebuffed'' by a ``pattern of evasion and misdirection'' from administration officials, Leahy said.
The panel authorized Leahy to issue subpoenas on the secret surveillance on June 21. The panel is reviewing whether the White House properly developed a legal basis for the classified eavesdropping on the international phone calls and e-mails of suspected terrorist agents that was disclosed in December 2005.
Now watch Cheney claim Executive Privilege, even though he just claimed to not be part of the Executive Branch.
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Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Lugar jumps ship
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"Our course in Iraq has lost contact with our vital national security interests in the Middle East and beyond. Our continuing absorption with military activities in Iraq is limiting our diplomatic assertiveness there and elsewhere in the world."
"The window during which we can continue to employ American troops in Iraqi neighborhoods without damaging our military strength, or our ability to respond to other national security priorities, is closing. The United States military remains the strongest fighting force in the world, but we have to be mindful that it is not indestructible."
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Monday, June 25, 2007
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This just in...
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Dick Cheney is now claiming that the Executive Branch itself is not part of the Executive Branch, his name is not Dick Cheney, and he is not the Vice-President, but the Lord Of All Humanity, and the Third Baseman for the 1899 Cleveland Spiders.
Polls show that 28% of Americans believe him.
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Sunday, June 24, 2007
Maureen Dowd
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A Vice President Without Borders, Bordering on LunacyBy MAUREEN DOWDPublished: June 24, 2007
It’s hard to imagine how Dick Cheney could get more dastardly, unless J. K. Rowling has him knock off Harry Potter next month.
Harry’s cloak of invisibility would be no match for Vice’s culture of invisibility.
I’ve always thought Cheney was way out there — the most Voldemort-like official I’ve run across. But even in my harshest musings about the vice president, I never imagined that he would declare himself not only above the law, not only above the president, but actually his own dark planet — a separate entity from the White House.
I guess a man who can wait 14 hours before he lets it dribble out that he shot his friend in the face has no limit on what he thinks he can keep secret. Still, it’s quite a leap to go from hiding in a secure, undisclosed location in the capital to hiding in a secure, undisclosed location in the Constitution.
Dr. No used to just blow off the public and Congress as he cooked up his shady schemes. Now, in a breathtaking act of arrant arrogance, he’s blowing off his own administration.
Henry Waxman, the California congressman who looks like an accountant and bites like a pit bull, is making the most of Congress’s ability, at long last, to scrutinize Cheney’s chicanery.
On Thursday, Mr. Waxman revealed that after four years of refusing to cooperate with the government unit that oversees classified documents, the vice president tried to shut down the unit rather than comply with the law ensuring that sensitive data is protected. The National Archives appealed to the Justice Department, but who knows how much justice there is at Justice, now that the White House has so blatantly politicized it?
Cheney’s office denied doing anything wrong, but Cheney’s office is also denying it’s an office. Tricky Dick Deuce declared himself exempt from a rule that applies to everyone else in the executive branch, instructing the National Archives that the Office of the Vice President is not an “entity within the executive branch” and therefore is not subject to presidential executive orders.
“It’s absurd, reflecting his view from the first day he got into office that laws don’t apply to him,” Representative Waxman told me. “The irony is, he’s taking the position that he’s not part of the executive branch.”
Ah, if only that were true. Then maybe W. would be able to close Gitmo, which Vice has insisted he not do. And Condi wouldn’t have to worry every night that she’ll wake up to find crazy Dick bombing Iran, whispering to W. that they have to do it before that weak sister Hillary takes over.
“Your decision to exempt your office from the president’s order is problematic because it could place national security secrets at risk,” Mr. Waxman, the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, wrote to Cheney.
Of course, it’s doubtful, now that Vice has done so much to put our national security at risk, that he’ll suddenly listen to reason.
Cheney and Cheney’s Cheney, David Addington, his equally belligerent, ideological and shadowy lawyer and chief of staff, have no shame. After claiming executive privilege to withhold the energy task force names and protect Scooter Libby, they now act outraged that Vice should be seen as part of the executive branch.
Cheney, they argue, is the president of the Senate, so he’s also part of the legislative branch. Vice is casting himself as a constitutional chimera, an extralegal creature with the body of a snake and the head of a sea monster. It’s a new level of gall, to avoid accountability by saying you’re part of a legislative branch that you’ve spent six years trying to weaken.
But gall is the specialty of Addington, who has done his best to give his boss the powers of a king. He was the main author of the White House memo justifying torture of terrorism suspects, and he helped stonewall the 9/11 commission. He led the fights supporting holding terrorism suspects without access to courts and against giving Congress and environmentalists access to information about the energy industry big shots who secretly advised Cheney on energy policy.
Dana Perino, a White House press spokeswoman, had to go out on Friday and defend Cheney’s bizarre contention that he is his own government. “This is an interesting constitutional question that legal scholars can debate,” she said.
I love that Cheney was able to bully Colin Powell, Pentagon generals and George Tenet when drumming up his fake case for war, but when he tried to push around the little guys, the National Archive data collectors — I’m visualizing dedicated “We the People” wonky types with glasses and pocket protectors — they pushed back.
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"Faith got hijacked"
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Somebody finally said it.
And it was Obama.
HARTFORD, Conn. - Sen. Barack Obama told a church convention Saturday that some right-wing evangelical leaders have exploited and politicized religious beliefs in an effort to sow division.
"Somehow, somewhere along the way, faith stopped being used to bring us together and faith started being used to drive us apart," the Democratic presidential candidate said in a 30-minute speech before the national meeting of the United Church of Christ.
"Faith got hijacked, partly because of the so-called leaders of the Christian Right, all too eager to exploit what divides us," the Illinois senator said.
"At every opportunity, they've told evangelical Christians that Democrats disrespect their values and dislike their church, while suggesting to the rest of the country that religious Americans care only about issues like abortion and gay marriage, school prayer and intelligent design," according to an advance copy of his speech.
"There was even a time when the Christian Coalition determined that its number one legislative priority was tax cuts for the rich," Obama said. "I don't know what Bible they're reading, but it doesn't jibe with my version."
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Saturday, June 23, 2007
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Rahm Emmanuel decided to take Cheney at his word, since Cheney claims to not be part of the executive branch.
Washington, D.C. – House Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel issued the following statement regarding his amendment to cut funding for the Office of the Vice President from the bill that funds the executive branch. The legislation – the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill -- will be considered on the floor of the House of Representatives next week.
"The Vice President has a choice to make. If he believes his legal case, his office has no business being funded as part of the executive branch. However, if he demands executive branch funding he cannot ignore executive branch rules. At the very least, the Vice President should be consistent. This amendment will ensure that the Vice President's funding is consistent with his legal arguments. I have worked closely with my colleagues on this amendment and will continue to pursue this measure in the coming days."
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Thursday, June 21, 2007
Un-frigging-believable.
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Vice President Dick Cheney has asserted his office is not a part of the executive branch of the U.S. government, and therefore not bound by a presidential order governing the protection of classified information by government agencies, according to a new letter from Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., to Cheney...
In pointed letters released today by Waxman, ISOO’s Leonard twice questioned Cheney’s office on its assertion it was exempt from the rules. He received no reply, but the vice president later tried to get rid of Leonard’s office entirely, according to Waxman.
Does Cheney actually think that the Vice-President's office is not part of the Executive Branch, but is some fourth branch of Government that isn't mentioned in the Constitution?
And how does that square with bizarre claim of executive privilege regarding his meetings with energy officials?
The illegal immigrant wife of Alex Jimenez (who appears to only be identified as "the wife of Alex Jimenez") will not be deported.
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Why I hate the press
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Number 439 in a series.
As you have no doubt heard, Mike Bloomberg, mayor of New York City, quit the GOP and is now an independent. This has fueled massive speculation that he may run for President.
But what does BLOOMBERG say about running for President?
"I am not a candidate."
"I have said that my intention is to be mayor for the next 925 days ... and that is my intention. I've got the greatest job in the world and I'm going to keep doing it."
When told that they had already conducted a poll showing him third behind Hillary and Giuliani, he said, "I think they're wasting their time."
When asked if there was ANY CIRCUMSTANCE under which he might run for President, he said, "If everybody in the world was dead and I was the only one alive."
So the geniuses in the press corps say he's being just being cagey.
"See? He said 'intention'! Watch that word:'intention.' That leaves the door open! He said he has no INTENTION! He didn't say he WOULDN'T!"
They are actually repeating that codswallop.
Sheesh. How clear does he have to be?
The media try to create their own reality - the reality that will generate the highest ratings. They have a script, and they see their job as repeating the script instead of reporting the news. If Bloomberg ran, they could spill TONS of ink about it, so they are projecting their own ratings-driven wishes onto the rest of us.
And watch: when Bloomberg doesn't run, they'll accuse him of playing games with them by pretending he was going to.
How this for an explanation? Bloomberg left the GOP because he only joined the party to run for mayor in the first place. And now he's leaving because he doesn't need them, and they are a pack of ideologues, war-mongers and freaks, and he doesn't want to be associated with such people. And he has better and more pleasant things to do with his time than attend those stupid, boring political dinners and hang out with Guy Molinari.
Yesterday at the Take Back America Conference, Digby won the Paul Wellstone Citizen Leadership Award which she accepted on behalf of the progressive blogosphere.
Excerpts:
As there has been a lot said recently about the netroots and our influence on the Democratic Party, this is especially rewarding. Let’s just say we’ve ruffled some feathers. We’ve been called everything from “some guy named Vinnie in a bathrobe in an efficiency apartment” to “blogofascists.” Some critics dismiss us as useless elites, the “Metropolitan Opera crowd,” or a noisy Upper West Side cocktail party for the college graduate class. Still others take us to task for our vitriolic, unhinged tone.
The other day, Tim Russert agreed absolutely with his gracious host, the concerned centrist Sean Hannity, that the Democratic Party was being unduly influenced by bloggers, who were dragging the Party kicking and screaming to the Left. Then there is the criticism that we are fascists or Stalinists, demanding that everyone march in lockstep to the edicts of our leadership – generally assumed to be Markos, of Daily Kos, who apparently directs us with secret signals deeply embedded in the code of the Daily Kos website, while we carry on an elaborate ruse of spirited political debate and disagreement in public. We are, in short, something of an enigma. I like to call this phenomenon “Irrational Fear of Hippies.” And this has, in my view, become irrational fear of political passion.
Of all the criticisms I just mentioned, that is one that we are all willing to accept. We are passionate about politics, and in this era of Republican corruption, excess, and failure, that passion sometimes manifests itself as anger. But how can you not be angry? So many institutions have failed us in the last decade that being vitriolic seems the only sane response....
But all of us who blog in the progressive blogosphere have a common goal. It’s the same goal of virtually everyone in this room tonight. We want to begin a new era of progressive politics and take back America. We may argue about tactics and strategy, or the extent to which we are partisans versus ideologues (and believe me, we do), but there is no disagreement among us that the modern conservative movement of Newt and Grover and Karl and Rush has proven to be a dangerous cultural and political cancer on the body politic. You will not find anyone amongst us who believes that the Bush Administration’s executive power grab and flagrant partisan use of the federal government is anything less than an assault on the Constitution. We stand together against the dissolution of habeas corpus and the atrocities of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, and we all agree that Islamic terrorism is a threat, but one which we cannot meet with military power alone. And yes, a vast majority of us were against this mindless invasion of Iraq from the beginning, or at least saw the writing on the wall long before Peggy Noonan discovered that George W. Bush wasn’t the second coming of Winston Churchill.
Sadly, we also all agree that the mainstream media is part of the problem. Democracy suffers when not being held accountable by a vigorous press. During the last decade, there have been three catalyzing events that drove people like me to the Internet, to research, investigate, and write about assaults on democracy itself. In 1998, the political media lost all perspective, and aggressively helped the Republicans pursue a partisan witch-hunt against a democratically-elected president and against the will of the people. The coverage of the presidential election of 2000 was legendary for its bias and sophomoric personality journalism. The press actually joined the Republicans in telling the majority who had voted for Al Gore to get over it. I don’t know about you, but I never got over it. And the third event (I don’t need to tell anyone in this room) was the almost gleeful support of the invasion of Iraq, a journalistic failure of epic proportions. If you had not been sufficiently aroused from your complacency by this time, you never would be.....
And so here we are – the famously vituperative, angry bloggers, standing before you today politely accepting this award as proud, full-fledged inheritors of the great liberal and progressive political traditions of America. On behalf of all of them and netroots activists, and especially on behalf of our dear friend, Steve Gilliard, a fighting liberal of both the old the new schools, I thank you again for inviting us to your party. Our party rages on, 24/7, all over the blogosphere, and we’d love it if all of you would stop by frequently. Thank you.
Thought you'd like to know.
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These people are clowns
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Via TPMmuckraker. Just one more demonstration of how thoroughly incompetent and clueless everything about this administration is. They do NOTHING with any sense, and they don't learn.
From a State Department Press Briefing:
Question: How may Arabic speakers with 3/3 levels of proficiency are currently serving at Embassy Baghdad?
Answer: We currently have ten Foreign Service Officers (including the Ambassador) at Embassy Baghdad at or above the 3 reading / 3 speaking level in Arabic. An additional five personnel at Embassy Baghdad have tested at or above the 3 level in speaking. A 3/3 indicates a general professional fluency level.
The Baghdad Embassy. Out of 1000 employees at the Bagdhad Embassy, TEN can read and speak Arabic fluently. Another 5 can speak it.
SIX YEARS after 9/11, and four years after starting a WAR there. Ten out of a THOUSAND.
Unbelievable.
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Rudy, take two
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You take Sally and I'll take Sue;There ain't no difference between the two.
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) -- South Carolina Treasurer Thomas Ravenel, a former real estate developer who became a rising political star after his election last year, was indicted Tuesday on federal cocaine charges.
Ravenel is also the state chairman for former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign.
If you want an argument that our current immigration laws are insane, arbitrary and foolish, and that is one LARGE reason why they aren't enforced, this is it.
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007
The lawless President
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You know, I have heard the apologia that Bush's signing statements were no big deal, because they just constituted free speech, and he didn't actually DO anything.Well, yes he did.
US agencies disobey 6 laws that president challenged
WASHINGTON -- Federal officials have disobeyed at least six new laws that President Bush challenged in his signing statements, a government study disclosed yesterday. The report provides the first evidence that the government may have acted on claims by Bush that he can set aside laws under his executive powers.
Isn't it time for Congress to stop shrugging its collective shoulders and issue formal impeachment proceedings? With this, the destroyed emails and and Bush admitting to ignoring FISA, there is no doubt that it is warranted.
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Monday, June 18, 2007
Destroyed emails
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War is Peace
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Stabilizing Iraq could take as long as a decade, says the U.S. commander in Baghdad. "In fact, typically, I think historically, counterinsurgency operations have gone at least nine or 10 years," Gen. David Petraeus said Sunday." - AP
We are at war with Eurasia. We have always been at war with Eurasia.
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Sunday, June 17, 2007
Here's something you probably missed.
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Back in 2001, George W. Bush, who believes that American citizens have no right to privacy, signed Executive Order 13233, which seals Presidential Records in perpetuity, so that HE could have privacy for ever and ever, and receive as little scrutiny from the gods of History as possible.
The Order was drafted by then-White-House-Counsel Alberto Gonzales. It was one of the first things Bush did upon taking office, and should have set off alarm bells back then and warned America what sort of lunatic had just taken office, but it didn't.
Most people probably thought that Bush was trying to protect Poppy, whose greasy hands were all over Iran-Contra; but at this point, it's pretty obvious that he was trying to protect himself, since he was planning to do all sort of slimy crap from the moment he took office.
Before Bush signed the order, Presidential Records became public after 12 years. But Bush decided that 12 years wasn't long enough, and FOREVER sounded about right. As things are now, in the United States of America, you can't know what a President did unless he or his heirs approves the release of the information. Forever.
And last week, with very little fanfare, the House overwhelmingly voted to rescind this Stalinist piece of legislation. They passed H.R. 1255 by 333 to 93. Veto proof. That bill says that Executive Order 13233 "shall have no force or effect," and puts the original Presidential Records Act back into effect.
And, although it hasn't been given much play in the news, I think there are few things more likely to cause Bush to throw a temper tantrum than the House and Senate doing away with that idiotic Executive Order. Telling Bush that he doesn't get to make his own rules and that he will be held accountable for his own actions is tailor- made to make the spoiled little boy furious.
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Turning over another rock
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Just one day after a news that an internal audit found that FBI agents abused a Patriot Act power more than 1000 times, a federal judge ordered the agency Friday to begin turning over thousands of pages of documents related to the agency's use of a powerful, but extremely secretive investigative tool that can pry into telephone and internet records.
So - we all know that Bush has spent like a drunken sailor, vetoed NO spending, and exploded the Federal Budget like no other President in the history of the United States.
So - WHAT spending might he finally veto?
The Homeland Security Bill contains budget boosts to hire 3,000 new border security agents and double the amount of air cargo that is screened before being loaded onto passenger planes. It also roughly doubles grants given to localities for mass transit and port security.
Border security, screening cargo, mass transit and ports.
In other words, measures against terrorism that actually make SENSE, as opposed to spending our tax money to start an Iraqi Civil War.
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Friday, June 15, 2007
Et tu, Texas?
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I think the Republicans may be in big trouble.
"Texas hasn't gone Democratic in a presidential race in more than three decades. But the survey shows Republican contender Sen. John McCain essentially tied with Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton among registered voters, with McCain at 36% and Clinton at 35% in a head-to-head contest. Republican Rudy Giuliani and Clinton also are essentially tied, at 32%-31%.
In the poll, nearly two-thirds of Texans said the country was on the wrong track. Four in 10 called the Iraq war the nation's most important problem. One in 10 cited immigration."
That give Bush a bit of a problem - he was was probably hoping to drag things out till the end of his term, and issue the pardon on the way out the door.
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Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Subpoenas
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“Let me be clear: this subpoena is not a request, it is a demand on behalf of the American people for the White House to make available the documents and individuals we are requesting to help us answer the questions that remain,” Conyers said in a press release Wednesday announcing the subpoenas.
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Heh.
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Demonstrating a lack of awareness that even I would not have believed, George W. Bush, while shaking hands in Albania (apparently the only country in the whole wide world that actually likes him) got his watch stolen right off his wrist.
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Government by tantrum
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“They can have their votes of no confidence,” Mr. Bush said, “but it’s not going to make the determination about who serves in my government. This process has been drug out a long time. It’s political.”
"MY" government again.
Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania was among the few Republicans to vote to allow the resolution to proceed to a vote. “There is no confidence in the attorney general on this side of the aisle,” said Mr. Specter, the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee. Even so, he predicted that the push to take the no confidence vote would just increase President Bush’s resolve to stand by the attorney general.
And if the Congress doesn't stop trying to hold him accountable, he is threatening to hold his breath until he turns blue.
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All they care about is politics
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Baghdad, Iraq — The top American military commander for the Middle East has warned Iraq's prime minister in a closed-door conversation that the Iraqi government needs to make tangible political progress by next month to counter the growing tide of opposition to the war in Congress.
And would the Bushies STILL need to make progress if there WASN'T growing political opposition? Or would the lack of progress be just hunkydory if it wasn't causing political problems?
I think we should ask every Republican Presidential Candidate if they agree that the Government is George Bush's.
That would be fun.
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Sunday, June 10, 2007
Draw down?
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Looks to me like the military is admitting that we've failed and have to actually change course:
BAGHDAD -- U.S. military officials here are increasingly envisioning a "post-occupation" troop presence in Iraq that neither maintains current levels nor leads to a complete pullout, but aims for a smaller, longer-term force that would remain in the country for years.
This goal, drawn from recent interviews with more than 20 U.S. military officers and other officials here, including senior commanders, strategists and analysts, remains in the early planning stages. It is based on officials' assessment that a sharp drawdown of troops is likely to begin by the middle of next year, with roughly two-thirds of the current force of 150,000 moving out by late 2008 or early 2009. The questions officials are grappling with are not whether the U.S. presence will be cut, but how quickly, to what level and to what purpose.
I love this part:
One of the guiding principles, according to two officials here, is that the United States should leave Iraq more intelligently than it entered.
Gee, ya think?
I guess that means we're going to start fighting them here, if we aren't fighting them over there.
Actually, this article scares me: it sounds like the military is talking about being realistic as though it was a new idea that just occurred to them.
The following two very widely seen photos were taken by the same photographer, Nick Ut of the AP:
Paris:
Phan Thi Kim Phuc:
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"But I‘ll tell you one thing...terrorism isn‘t explosions and death, terrorism is when you change your society because of those explosions and you become fearful to the point where you shut out immigration, you shut out student exchanges, you shut people out of buildings, you begin to act in an almost fascist manner because you‘re afraid of what might happen to you. That‘s when terrorism becomes real and frighteningly successful. That‘s what I believe, and that‘s why I question the way Giuliani has raised this issue. He raises it as a specter. In a weird way, he helps the bad guys."
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Regime change
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I would do away with the policy of regime change, because what we're saying to everybody in Iran is, "Look, by the way, give up the one thing that keeps us from attacking you, and after that we're going to attack you."
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It's now 1500 days since George W. Bush said "Mission Accomplished."
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"A felony"
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"The President admits that he granted on 45 different occasions authorization for wiretapping without a FISA court warrant - what I call warrantless wiretapping outside the law. This is a felony. This is punishable by five years in jail. There is a prima facie case that they have engaged in a criminal conspiracy." - Congressmen Gerrold Nadler
These hearings should be fun. The mainstream media seems oblivious to them, however. Maybe they'll wake up if the shit starts hitting the fan.
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NY Times Analysis: "With low approval ratings and the race to succeed him well under way, his ability to push his agenda has faded to the point where he can fairly be judged to have entered his lame duck period."
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Friday, June 08, 2007
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I want to see impeachment and jail. But I'm greedy:
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), who has led the investigation into the firing of several U.S. attorneys, announced Friday that a vote of no confidence in Attorney General Alberto Gonzales will be taken in the Senate Monday.
“If all senators who have actually lost confidence in Attorney General Gonzales voted their conscience, this vote would be unanimous,” the senator said.
However, Schumer added that he expects the president to pressure members of his party to vote against the measure.
“We will soon see where people’s loyalties lie,” he said.
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Paris Hilton
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The title will get me some search engine hits, fer sher.
"It is simply no longer possible to ignore the strangeness of our public discourse. I know I'm not alone in feeling that something has gone fundamentally wrong. In 2001, I had hopes it was an aberration when polls showed that three-quarters of Americans believed that Saddam Hussein was responsible for attacking us on September 11. More than five years later, however, nearly half the American people still believes that Saddam was connected to the attack.
"At first I thought the exhaustive, nonstop coverage of the O.J. Simpson trial was just unfortunate excess --- an unwelcome departure from the normal good sense and judgment of our news media. Now we know that it was merely an early example of a new pattern of serial obsession that periodically take over the airwaves for weeks at a time.
"Late in the summer of 2006, American news coverage was saturated with the bizarre false confession of a man who claimed to have been present at the death of JonBenet Ramsey --- the six-year-old beauty queen whose unsolved murder eleven years before was responsible for another long-running obsession. A few months prior to John Mark Karr's arrest in Bangkok, the disappearance of a high school senior in Aruba and the intensive search for her body and her presumed murderer consumed thousands of hours of television coverage. Both cases remain unsolved as of this writing, and neither had any appreciable impact on the fate of the Republic.
"Like JonBenet Ramsey, O.J. has recently been back at the center of another fit of obsessive-compulsive news, when his hypothetical confession wasn't published and his interviews on television wasn't aired. This particular explosion of "news" was truncated only when a former television sitcom star used racist insults in a night club. And before that we focus on the "Runaway Bride" in Georgia. And before that there was the Michael Jackson trial and the Robert Blake trial, the Laci Peterson tragedy and the Chandra Levy tragedy. And of course we can't forget Britney and KFed, and Lindsay and Paris and Nicole, Tom Cruise jumped on Oprah's couch and married Katie Holmes, who gave birth to Suri. And Russell Crowe apparently threw a phone at a hotel concierge.
"In early 2007, the wall-to-wall coverage of Anna Nicole Smith's death, embalming, and funeral plans and the legal wrangling over the paternity and custody of her child and disposition of her estate, served as yet another particularly bizarre example of the new priorities in America's news coverage.
"And while American television watchers were collectively devoting a hundred million hours of their lives each week to these and other similar stories, our nation was in the process of more quietly making what future historians will certainly describe as a series of catastrophically mistaken decisions on issues of war and peace, the global climate and human survival, freedom and barbarity, justice and fairness."
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It's Subpoena Time
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"If Congress is going to get to the bottom of the scandal, it has to get the testimony of Mr. Rove, his aides Scott Jennings and Sara Taylor, Ms. Miers and her deputy, William Kelley.
"The White House has offered to make them available only if they do not take an oath and there is no transcript. Those conditions are a formula for condoning perjury, and they are unacceptable. As for documents, the White House has released piles of useless e-mail messages. But it has reported that key e-mails to and from Mr. Rove were inexplicably destroyed. At the same time, it has argued that e-mails of Mr. Rove’s that were kept on a Republican Party computer system, which may contain critical information, should not be released.
"This noncooperation has gone on long enough. Mr. Leahy should deliver the subpoenas for the five White House officials and make clear that if the administration resists, Congress will use all available means to get the information it needs.
Thursday, June 07, 2007
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Now that Scooter Libby has been convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice, the logical next step is for FOX news to give him his own TV show.
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The GOP has gone totally insane
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"I believe the president is doing the right thing, and I think all we need is some attacks on American soil like we had on 9-11 and the naysayers will come around...." --Arkansas GOP chief Dennis Milligan
Several GOP officials expressed support for Milligan Wednesday.
"Dennis is a new chairman and inexperienced at this point," said Reta Hamilton of Bella Vista, the state party's national committeewoman. "I'm sure he had good intentions with his comment, nothing derogatory either for the veterans or for the country or for President Bush or for anyone else."
Awwww. He's just inexperienced. You need experience to know when not to say what you actually mean in public, I guess. If he was more experienced, he would have known better than to admit that he wants an attack for political reasons.
From the same article, I think the vets sum it up:
"Those of us who fought to defend America won't even dignify Milligan's sick suggestion that Americans should die to justify the political argument for George W. Bush's failed policy in Iraq, other than to say he is a sick man and should step down," Iraq War veteran Jon Soltz, chairman and co-founder of VoteVets.org, said in a news release Wednesday.
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Wednesday, June 06, 2007
JFK
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When U.S. Attorney Roslynn Mauskopf described the alleged terror plot to blow up Kennedy Airport as "one of the most chilling plots imaginable," which might have caused "unthinkable" devastation, one law enforcement official said he cringed.
The plot, he knew, was never operational. The public had never been at risk. And the notion of blowing up the airport, let alone the borough of Queens, by exploding a fuel tank was in all likelihood a technical impossibility.
nd now, with a portrait emerging of alleged mastermind Russell Defreitas as hapless and episodically homeless, and of co-conspirator Abdel Nur as a drug addict, Mauskopf's initial characterizations seem more questionable -- some go so far as to say hyped.
"I think her comments were over the top," said Michael Greenberger, director of the Center for Health and Homeland Security at the University of Maryland. "It was a totally overstated characterization that doesn't comport with the facts."
Greenberger said he has no argument with police pursuing and stopping the alleged plotters.
"I think they were correct to take this seriously," he said. "... But there's a pattern here of Justice Department attorneys overstating what they have. I think they feel under tremendous pressure to vindicate the elaborate counterterrorism structure they've created since 9/11, including the Patriot Act."
Sad, isn't it? They feel the need to overstate the facts (and in the process, scare the crap out of Americans) in order to try vindicating Bush's failure.
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Tuesday, June 05, 2007
Libby: 2 1/2 years
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WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison Tuesday for lying and obstructing the CIA leak investigation — the probe that showed a White House obsessed with criticism of its decision to go to war.
If Bush pardons him, the calls for his impeachment won't just come from Democrats.
And will the press realize that Bush can now no longer refuse to answer questions about it on the grounds that it's "still under investigation"?
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Monday, June 04, 2007
Poor Fox News
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They just can't keep their black people straight.
Here's Josh Marshall:
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Guantamo charges dropped
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Does ANY sane person not recognize that Guantanamo is inimical to everything America is supposed to stand for?
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - Judges in the U.S. war crimes tribunals at Guantanamo dropped all charges against the only two captives facing trial, rulings that could preclude trying any of the 380 prisoners any time soon.
And why do courts keep having to FORCE Bush to do things legally? Why can't he just do things legally without that?
I've said that immigration is one of the few things I agree with Bush about. But Mickey Kaus just nailed him as making deicision the same damned way he made them for Iraq.
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Fuck.
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MOSCOW — In a threat not uttered since the Cold War, Vladimir Putin said that Russia intends to aim its missile systems - potentially nuclear weapons - at targets in Europe in retaliation for the U.S. decision to establish antimissile bases there.
Apparently, Georgie did get a glimpse of this back when he looked into his eyes and got a sense of the man's soul:
"I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy. We had a very good dialogue. I was able to get a sense of his soul; a man deeply committed to his country and the best interests of his country." - George W. Bush, 6/1/01
Is there a list of things somewhere that Bush HASN'T fucked up by touching them? If so, it's must be a damned short list.
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Saturday, June 02, 2007
Ashcroft may testify
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The Senate and House Intelligence Committees are asking former attorney general John Ashcroft to testify about a March 2004 hospital-room confrontation during which he refused to sign off on a continuation of President Bush's warrantless eavesdropping program, according to congressional and administration sources.
The sources, who asked not to identified talking about sensitive matters, said the Senate Intelligence Committee has tentatively scheduled a closed-door hearing for later this month. The panel plans to question Ashcroft, his former chief of staff David Ayres and former deputy attorney general James Comey about a heated dispute with the White House that roiled the Justice Department three years ago. The House committee is also planning a separate closed-door hearing with Ashcroft, according to a spokeswoman for Ashcroft.
The requests for Ashcroft's testimony reflect the mounting frustration on the part of committee leaders in both chambers who feel they have been denied vital information about the wiretapping issue by the Bush administration. Despite having received numerous private briefings from senior administration officials over the last year, members were stunned to learn just how deeply troubled the Justice Department was about aspects of the program -- a glimpse they got only when Comey publicly testified about the program at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last month.
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Good news for once
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Faced with significantly declining contributions from grassroots donors, the Republican National Committee has fired its entire team of telephone solicitors, according to a report in Friday's Washington Times. - Raw Story
Is it my imagination, or is The Republican Party in now made up entirely of corporate robber barons, and the insane?
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British Army General says we lost
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What's sad is that it doesn't matter if everyone in the WORLD says it. Bush is obviously delusional at this point, and will keep it up even if NO ONE agrees with him. That's what people who belong in the asylum do.
A former British army commander has said there was "no way" the war in Iraq could be won and that allied forces should withdraw.
General Sir Michael Rose, a former commander of the UN peace force in Bosnia during the 1990s, said the American and British forces in Iraq were in an impossible situation.
"There is no way we are going to win the war and (we should) withdraw and accept defeat because we are going to lose on a more important level if we don't," he said.
While accepting the allied forces couldn't just "cut and run", Sir Michael said announcing a date for withdrawal would quell the widespread fighting between the Sunnis, Shias and Kurds.
"Give them a date and it is amazing how people and political parties will stop fighting each other and start working towards a peaceful transfer of power," he said.
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Friday, June 01, 2007
Donald Trump
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VAN SUSTEREN: Do you have a single issue that make the most difference to you when you vote next time around?
TRUMP: Yes.
VAN SUSTEREN: Which is?
TRUMP: Get out of Iraq.
VAN SUSTEREN: How soon?
TRUMP: How about yesterday? We shouldn't have been there. We shouldn't have been there. It's ridiculous. We're overseeing a revolution. There's nothing we can do. Our soldiers were incredible. They won the war in one day. That was their job. Win the war. They're not policemen and they're acting as policemen, and they're getting killed acting as policemen. Get out of Iraq, and get out of it now.
VAN SUSTEREN: Were you one of those who thought we never should never gone in or after we went in, at some point you thought, we need to get out.
TRUMP: We never should have gone in.
VAN SUSTEREN: And you thought that from the beginning?
TRUMP: From the beginning.
VAN SUSTEREN: How do we get out? Just walk out at this point?
TRUMP: Just get out. Just get out. Our soldiers won the war. Get out.
VAN SUSTEREN: Why do you think the president won't get out?
TRUMP: He's stubborn -- very stubborn guy.
VAN SUSTEREN: You ever met him?
TRUMP: No, not really. I mean, I've seen him, I've been in rooms -- but not really.
VAN SUSTEREN: So his stubbornness is why.
TRUMP: He's a very stubborn guy and he's got people around him who I think are very poor, whether it's Rumsfeld and whoever. I mean, I could tell you lots of things about the people, but he's got some people around him that are very, very poor. Rumsfeld did a terrible disservice to this country by leading us in. Cheney, I don't know, it's just a very sad situation. But we should be out of Iraq, and be out of Iraq as soon as possible.
Chairman Nadler Announces Hearings Series: “The Constitution in Crisis: The State of Civil Liberties in America”
Kicks Off with June 7 Hearing on NSA Wiretapping Program
...“Most importantly, we will carefully examine this White House’s seeming disregard for the Constitution and the rule of law,” added Rep. Nadler. “Secret, warrantless spying, the erosion of habeas corpus, the sanction of torture, and this Administration’s contempt for the other two branches of government - these issues demand close scrutiny and congressional action.”
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Supporting the troops
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"Q Tony, the Governor of Ohio, Ted Strickland, has written a couple of letters to President Bush, I don't know if you're aware of them, but he's asking for personal assurances from the President that the National Guard troops, before they get deployed to Afghanistan or Iraq, the equipment be there and that the training be adequate before they're sent off.
"MR. SNOW: Okay. I'm not aware of the Governor's letter, but we have always made it clear that nobody goes into combat without sufficient training and equipment, period. Now, a lot of that can be done in theater. It quite often is. But the most important reassurance, not only the forces, but their families need to know, is that if and when they go into combat, they will have the equipment they need, and they will have the training they need."
"A lot of that can be done in the theatre." They won't bother to train them BEFORE they send them. They'll send them into Iraq UNTRAINED and "train" them UNDER FIRE.
The same way they're "training" the Iraqi soldiers, and we see how well THAT'S working.
"Nobody goes into combat without training, but the training can be done in "theatre" - in other words, in combat.
God, these people are such total disgusting weasels that it's hard to imagine how they sleep at night. If they had twelve sides to their mouths, they'd talk out of all twelve. | {
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RBdigital Magazines (formerly Zinio)
Popular digital magazines available to read on your computer, tablet, or smartphone. Titles on demand and never need to be returned.
Initial Setup
If you already have a Zinio account, it will continue to work in the new RBdigital app. You can also log into the app with a OneClickdigital account.
Visit the RBdigital Magazines website.
Click Create New Account. Follow the prompts to create an account.
Using Magazines on your Tablet or Smartphone
If you have the OneClickdigital app installed, simply update the OneClick app in the app store. If not you will need to install the RBdigital app and delete the Zinio for Libraries app.
Follow the Initial Setup instructions above.
Download the RBdigital app from the app store on your device. (The app is still called OneClickdigital in some app stores.)
Open the app. Choose Canada. Input your account details. Click Next.
To find a magazine, tap the + icon in the magazines section or Explore. You can also search by clicking the magnifying glass in the top right corner. Select Magazines, then enter your search terms.
To find out more information, tap the cover. Tap Checkout to checkout the newest issue or View All Issues to find a back issue.
Tap Read. This will automatically begin downloading the magazine. Once the magazine opens, tap the center of the page. A thin blue bar below the magazine image shows the download progress. Ensure the magazine is fully downloaded before disconnecting from Wifi. To exit the magazine, tap the center of the page and tap the X. (To ensure your device's data isn't being used to download magazines, tap the hamburger menu in the top left > Settings > Wi-fi Only. Check to see if your app is set to download titles using Wi-fi only.)
To see all of your checkouts, tap the hamburger menu in the top left corner (three lines). Then tap Checked Out.
Using Magazines on a Computer
Follow the Initial Setup instructions. After registering, browse the RBdigital Magazines website and find a magazine you want to borrow.
Click the cover. The most current issue is displayed at the top of the page. Back issues are below.
Click Checkout.
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Turf Wars Online Mob Codes for iPhone / iPod
Turf Wars Online from MeanFreePath LLC is showing other companies that create stamina games, how things have to be done.
Evolution in games is on the door and Turf Wars knows that. Using the gps of iPhone or the triangulation system from iPod touch you are able to mark your territory and start building your base there.
Gang wars are ready to happen and the winner will be the one who’s got many people on his side. So take some time to register on our site to be able to find many mob codes and become the one who has many friends, crushing your opponents to the ground! | {
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If you’re looking for a new hobby or simply want to explore your musical talent, then learning the guitar is a great place to start. The guitar is a beautiful instrument and is a joy to play. However, learning to play it can be quite challenging and we will now look at a few ways that you can get started.
One of the best ways to start learning to play the guitar is to hire a guitar tutor. There are hundreds of great tutors you can choose from locally, all you need to do is search for them online.
Alternatively, you can ask your friends and family members if they know any good guitar tutors that they can refer you to. You should take your time to talk to as many tutors possible and even try out a sample lesson before hiring them. This will ensure that you choose a tutor that you’re comfortable with so that you stick to regular classes.
Another way to learn to play the guitar is through various online sources. There are many online guitar courses to choose from that offer hundreds and even thousands of video lessons. This is a great solution if you don’t have time to see a tutor since you can practice any time you want. Alternatively, if you don’t want to pay for lessons, there are thousands of free lessons available on YouTube. All it takes is a bit of research and you will be able to learn full songs in a matter of days.
In conclusion, when it comes to learning to play the guitar, what really matters is your determination and work ethic. Once you put in the time and practice at least 30 minutes every day, your guitar playing skills will undoubtedly improve.
Are you thinking about learning the guitar? If you are, ensure that you’re prepared for this challenge. Below, you’ll find the first steps for learning an instrument like the guitar.
Make Sure You Have The Proper Supplies
If you’re going to be learning to play the guitar, you’re going to need more than the instrument itself. You’ll also want to make sure you buy the right accessories. With the right supplies, it’ll be a lot easier for you to master the instrument.
What kinds of supplies should you be buying? A guitar pick is really going to come in handy. You’ll be able to use it as you build calluses on your fingers. A strap is also a good idea. It will help you to hold the guitar effectively. When you’re buying your guitar, you may want to see which accessories they recommend.
Have A Plan
It’s a good idea to have a plan in place before you start the learning process. How often are you going to be practicing each night? Where are you going to take your lessons? Maybe you will you try the top guitar learning website to learn the guitar online. These are the kinds of questions that you should be able to answer.
Tip:
If you don’t have any sort of plan in place, you could wind up abandoning your guitar before you make any real progress. If, however, you do have a plan, you can make sure that you stick to the guitar and learn how to play well.
Find Songs To Practice
Simply mastering the fundamentals of the guitar isn’t going to be enough. People want to learn to play instruments like the guitar because they want to be able to play songs. If you find songs that are beginner friendly, you’ll be able to start learning songs even when you’re still a novice.
Learning to play an instrument can be one of the most rewarding things ever. You will need to invest time and effort into learning before you can master it.
The guitar is one of the most common musical instruments, and you will find it easier to learn once you master the basics. There are a number of tips you can use when learning to play guitar. Some of these tips are:
Learn at your own pace
You should not feel rushed when learning to play the guitar. Go at your own pace and focus on a single technique during the practice lesson. Overwhelming yourself with too many goals will leave you feeling frustrated.
Build your progress in layers, know what you need to be working on and focus on that. Switching between different techniques when learning is the reason why many people hit the brick when learning.
Invest time in both the practical and theory
You need to distinguish between the two before you start learning. Choose a schedule to follow and you will find yourself having an easier time. Theory will lay the foundation while practical is the way to put what you have learned into practice.
Work on your weakest part
The small area you have a problem in when playing guitar can mess up the whole thing. Workout on the section you tend to have the problem with over and over again. Once you do this, you will be feeling much better when playing.
Remain calm
There is no need to show your frustrations when learning. There are times when you will feel like you have not been able to do enough and start doubting yourself, and this is where many people start to become frustrated. Try to remain calm the next time you are in such a situation. | {
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Brandon's 5.5 mile road race in KSO FiveFingers
Here's Brandon running the Tarzan Brown Mystic River Run in his VFF KSOs.
Brandon Marshall (@bmarshallpf on twitter) recently finished his first race running in his KSO FiveFingers. Brandon emailed me to let me know about the race saying, "Love the site! I just wanted to send you a few pictures from a 5.5 mile road race I did in black KSO's this past weekend. It was my first race in them and it was awesome!"
The results for the 2009 Tarzan Brown Mystic River Run have been posted and I ended up finishing the race with a net time of 46:29 at an 8:27 minute mile pace (the results say a pace of 8:34, but that is based on my final time, not my net time.) My time is the first entry on “page 8″ of the results. Not too shabby for my first race in the Vibram Five Fingers I guess! I’m getting pretty comfortable running in the VFF’s now and with longer and longer runs, I’m noticing less pain the next day or so compared to how I used to feel in my Nike’s. Hopefully the same is true after this race!
Well done, Brandon! Glad your recovery time is improving and best of luck on your future races!
About the Author — I founded BirthdayShoes.com in April 2009 on realizing just how much I enjoyed having "free feet" - I mostly wanted to use them for weights, sprints, and plyometrics (I'm not much of a runner!). I'm a Googler by day and minimalist footwear aficionado by night; you can find me 'round Atlanta. If you want to catch up with what I'm doing outside of the site here, follow me on twitter @bdayshoes or @justinno or check out my personal site JustinOwings.com.Justin+ has written 902 articles and 437 comments.
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Thanks for the feature! I just wanted to note that out of the 750 people in the race, there was only one other guy wearing Five Fingers (Sprints) and two people who ran it barefoot. Including me though, that's two more VFF-er and one more barefooter than last year!
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One element of a wedding that can be super hard to not cheese up and even harder to be original is favors. Sometimes they can be an after thought and you’re scrambling but they really shouldn’t. These are your opportunity to say thank you to all your friends and family who, in some cases, spent a lot of time and money coming to attend your wedding. Not only can they be a sign of appreciation but a great finale to your wedding and a nice way to tie up your theme. One thing to remember is donations are always a great favor. Who doesn’t want to leave a great wedding feeling like that also just completed a saintly act? Two birds, one stone, everyone wins. If the donation idea isn’t your route here are some of the more original and fun favors that I have come across on Pinterest lately. | {
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Friday, February 24, 2012
Sparkle Like A Star
During my wedding planning, it came time to pick the wedding cake. I knew exactly what I wanted because my theme was lace with a touch of pearls. When I finally found my cake, something was missing. It needed cake toppers! finally I found the cake topper to go with my perfect cake. It was our initials personalised made with genuine Swarovski elements Crystals and Pearls by Crystal Couture.
My cake was made by The Cake Studio, I was so excited and happy with the cake that they were asking me where did I get my initial cake toppers from?!
Crystal Couture is based in Brisbane, Australia and deliver statewide.
Images by Crystal Couture
Crystal Couture are able to create cake toppers in any font to match the invitations or theme for your special occasion. standard sizes are small, medium and large, however custom sizes can be requested. Crystal Couture recommends the medium size for the majority of 6 inch top tier cakes.
The height of the standard letter sizes are 6cm (small), 8cm (medium) or 10cm (large). The width of each letter will always vary according to font style and letters chosen.
Welcome to my Social Amorè blog, written and edited by me about fashion, beauty, food, celebrities, and all things fabulous. The pictures, views and opinions are expressed on this blog are purely my own, unless otherwise indicated. If you have any questions, would like me to review a product or are interested in advertising, you can contact me at [email protected] | {
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Water Heaters Aurora IL
This page provides relevant content and local businesses that can help with your search for information on Water Heaters. You will find informative articles about Water Heaters, including "Water Heaters". Below you will also find local businesses that may provide the products or services you are looking for. Please scroll down to find the local resources in Aurora, IL that can help answer your questions about Water Heaters.
Water Heaters
Tank-type water heaters are commodity appliances: most run on either electricity or gas. Within both categories, the length of the warranty is a good benchmark for overall quality. Water heaters can last longer than the warranty period, but once you hit that mark it's time to start watching for leaks. You might think it's better to buy the heater with a shorter warranty, particularly if you don't intend to stay in the house for a long period of time. But keep in mind there's a lot of embodied energy in producing a water heater and it's wasteful to buy appliances that wear out prematurely.
How to Choose a Water Heater Water Heater Energy Ratings
Tank heaters are rated based on their energy factor (EF). This is a measure of the unit's overall energy efficiency based on the amount of hot water produced over a typical day. The EF takes into account:
how efficiently the source of energy is converted into hot water how much energy is lost from the tank per hour (the standby loss) cycling losses as water circulates through the water tank and/or inlet and outlet pipes
The higher the EF, the more efficient the heater. Look for a model with an EF of at least 0.60. Electric water heaters generally have higher EF ratings than gas-fired water heaters, but it still costs more to heat the water with electricity than it does with gas.
Sizing a Water Heater
The energy factor is only one consideration in purchasing a water heater. Sizing the heater to the load is also important. Not only do water heaters work better when they are sized properly, but the more they are used the longer they last. When water tends to sit in the tank without being circulated, standby losses are higher and the tank is more likely to corrode.
Note: No matter what kind of water heater you end up installing, lower the set temperature to 120°F to save energy.
Types of Heaters
On-demand Heaters
One-demand or tankless water heaters run only when someone turns on a hot water tap. When water starts flowing through the heater, an electric or gas-fired element is activated and water is heated as it flows through the device. When the tap is shut off, so is the heater.
Advantages of a tankless water heater are:
no standyby losses won't run out of hot water (presuming the heater is sized correctly) can be mounted on a wall or ceiling to free up more floor space
Disadvantages of a tankless water heater are:
more expensive than a tank heater standby losses are not as dramatic when compared to installing a California version of a tank heater unlimited hot water make encourage people to take longer showers
One way to take advantage of tankless heaters is to use them for both domestic hot water and space heating. Because of its compact size, a tankless heater can be placed near the bathroom, reducing the length of plumb runs, and used to heat the space as well as provide hot water.
This page provides relevant content and local businesses that can help with your search for information on Home Remodelers. You will find informative articles about Home Remodelers, including "Signs of a Good Remodeler". Below you will also find local businesses that may provide the products or services you are looking for. Please scroll down to find the local resources in Aurora, IL that can help answer your questions about Home Remodelers. | {
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Buzz:
Crispy Chicken Burger
Prep Time
40 Mins
Cook Time
15 Mins
Serves
2
For your kids all time favorite meal, crispy chicken burger. You can fill lunch boxes, picnic baskets, evening snacks with these crispy and yummy homemade burgers. Children will keep on asking for more. | {
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Dent Smith Trail, notes on a freeze.
"A follow up on Dent Smith trail"
Last year I wrote a brief article on the Dent Smith trail. This botanical hideaway is located in Melbourne Florida, zone 9b. I was lauding praises on the microclimate situation in this location. The winter of 2009-2010 was a precedent setting cold weather event. The uniqueness of this winter revolves around the duration of the event rather than the overall low temperatures. This pictorial will help demonstrate the special nature of this unique and under appreciated jewel of the cultivated palm culture.
Signs of a rough winter on Hyphaene and Bismark.
These Hyophorbe are a testament to the stress' brought about by the 2009-2010 winter
Shame comes to the Dent Smith trail!
This teddy bear (Dypsis leptocheilos) will live to see another growing season
Another view of P. scheferi
Ptychosperma scheferi well within the unique microclimate and thus reasonably insulated from the winter bite
Coccothrinax miraguama
Pinanga sp. doing well despite the trial
Licuala spinosa looking good as well
Astrocaryum mexicanum in a long line of diverse taxa at Dent Smith
"These subtropical species portray a deceptive ease to the success of palm culture on the Space Coast"
This Caryota sp. did not fair well but it may be due to factors other than cold
"A sour note on my expedition"
As I was moving through the park, I came upon this poor Dypsis sp.. Dypsis lovers turn away now. I couldn't believe the deplorable treatment of this palm by whomever dug it out of it's location. This palm had been doing well in it's situation for years and someone for no obvious reason dug this poor palm up and left it to die in the fifteen gallon container. The roots were drying out and were cut too close to the base. I added Spanish moss to the tub and shook my head at the egregious disregard for this plant. Shame on whoever did this and if they are getting paid to "care" for the plants on the property, there is no palm god. I was disgusted and very tempted to just take the palm with me. I refrained and accepted the matter as a malfeasant display of ignorance on behalf of the person responsible.
This Pinanga coronata displays cold damage but not perniscious
The famed oil palms enduring the cold damage
Smaller Elaeis guineensis showing the burn
The Ptychosperma elegans passed through the cold with high marks in my book
These young teddy bears are looking good despite the cold
These young Dictyosperma album made it through the cold in their location quite well
The Atallea on site were touched by the cold but this allenii seemed unscathed | {
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Top Card Linked Offers You Need to Try
The transactional world is linked by using plastic. As in, Credit or Debit card plastic. Sure, Android Pay and Apple Pay have grown in user base, but those who are savvy enough, know that using cards is just easier and widely accepted.
While some cards do, or do not offer perks like Cashback, there’s now a new saving category called Card Linked Offers, that will enable your card to earn additional rewards. Do you want to know more?
How Card Linked Offers Work
What exactly is a Card Linkable app? The app Dosh, for example, will link your card and give you money back for shopping…it’s that simple. It’s a must-have app, and I’m not going to fill your precious time with fluff and other lengthy explanations. It’s an app you should have in your wallet because it’s so darn easy to use. I am not bullshitting you.
Here’s how this Card Linked Offers work:
Sign Up to a Particular App
Link a Credit or Debit Card
Look at the Dashboard
Find Stores with Different Cash Back Rates
If You Shop at One or All of these Stores You Get Advertised Money Back
You Must Use the App-Linked Credit or Debit Card
How to Sign Up for a Card Linked Offer
To sign up properly, you’ll need:
A Valid Email Address
A Real Debit or Credit Card (VISA, AMEX, Mastercard)
Android Device or Apple iOS Device
Please note that once you’ve successfully linked a credit or debit card, you’ll need to use that card that’s connected to the app to receive the cash back!
Dosh is one of the more popular card link apps out there with a wide array of options. From the Dashboard (below screenshot) you’ll see the Cash Back rates of local places…including Mobil!
Yes, you can fill up your gas tank and get money back on top of what you receive from a cash back credit card!!
Dosh also carries Cash Back for Travel reservations, but we’ll admit they aren’t great deals. You might also note they offer Online Cash Back; sadly, we don’t recommend these two parts of the app. You’ll need at least 25 dollars to use PayPal to Cashout. And if you are a business, you’ll be required to fill out proper tax forms for documentation purposes!
Dosh Referral System
You can make a little Dosh money by referring people to the app through your user Dashboard. Lots of Facebook groups try to find out how to cheat Dosh, but in fact, it’s a simple referral system with loads of fraud prevention…our advice is not to try to cheat or hack the Dosh app through Referring fake friends. In most cases, the Dosh app referral reward is just $5, but during peak seasons we’ve seen Dosh raise this to $10.
Make Sure Your Referrals Link Their Credit or Debit Cards to Earn Money!
This app has been recently released and offers a hands-off approach to earning points. Link your primary credit/debit card and earn points when you spend on merchants like Walgreens, Chipotle, or Target (few others). You’ll need to select five merchants you will spend the most with and have only one time to do this! You can still earn points through online merchants and offers. Soon you can redeem points for gift cards at places like Starbucks.
Another fun way to earn more points is to play their game where it’s similar to the game Snake, make one point for each thing you eat with your Snake!
Has Groupon solved it’s the biggest issue of the embarrassment of showing paper coupons to your waiter? For many, Groupon is an excellent gateway for deals and discounts through our local community. There is one major flaw though: Social Conscious of Taking Out a Groupon and Presenting It.
Sure most of us don’t feel wrong handing over a Groupon, but for many, we know that when you offer a Groupon to a server or event, the business itself will lose money doing so.
For many of us, it’s pretty embarrassing to hand out a paper Groupon or even handing our phone to a waiter for them to redeem. It feels dated and kind of irritating.
Coupons have been around for ages now, but Groupons tend to be more significant discounts than a typical coupon cut-out. When you fork over a restaurant based coupon, you may feel wrong in doing so. Well, with Groupon’s newest addition, you can swipe your card and feel like you’ve always have been without any contempt.
How Groupon Plus Works
Before you go looking for Cash Back (Plus) offers you’ll need to do a few things first to make sure you’ll get money back correctly. To do so head to this Groupon Plus Page directly https://www.groupon.com/mylinkeddeals. You’ll likely be prompted to sign up or log in there.
From this page, you’ll need to link a credit card (or debit) to assign cash back to.
MAKE SURE TO USE THIS CARD WHEN YOU PAY AND ACTIVATE GROUPON + DEALS.
Now that you’ve linked card(s) to your account you can start to claim offers at no additional cost (YAY!). Doing this, however, isn’t fully advertised by Groupon yet. In fact, in our trials, we’ve noted that Plus deals aren’t even on the front page yet. This means you are ahead of the game when it comes to saving on restaurant deals!!
Finding Groupon + Cash Back Deals
If you are subscribed to Groupon’s newsletter, there’s a good chance you’ve received some Plus notification, but for many of us, email isn’t always checked. You can find + deals by heading to the regular search page of Groupon. Once you are there in the search bar, enter in “Cash Back.” Oddly enough entering in “Groupon+” or “Plus” won’t get results.
Probably the most ambitious competitor to DOSH would be SPENT. SPENT has a decent selection of 1% cash back places like Netflix, Starbucks, Walgreens, and other popular merchants. This means you don’t have to shop locally to earn cash back, you can earn an additional 1% on your Netflix Subscription. It’s free money for those unwilling to give up that cable cutting service.
Locking In Merchants…
Unlike Drop, you won’t be stuck with a set of merchants you shop at often. And although the rewards aren’t as high, you can still earn in-store cashback on select Gas Stations like
So consider this a nice middle choice to Drop and DOSH since you’ll have even more options to choose from!
Did someone say Chick Fil A??
It should be of note that the Spent App currently does not have an Affiliate or Referral Program.
Remember Sears, the popular mall anchor store? Shop Your Way is owned by them and maybe their last leg of existence. It’s foreseeable that Shop Your Way will eventually become the Sears Online Shopping portal.
If you were a customer at Sear’s or Kmart, you might recall this Loyalty program. The Shop Your Way Loyalty program would allow you to purchase items with points earned through your loyalty (and previous purchases). Now, Shop Your Way has evolved to enable you to earn points from other places like:
Sears (ones that are still around)
Kmart
Burger King
Popeye’s Chicken
Several of Your Local Restaurants
Operating much like the other card link apps, Shop Your Way will link to your card and will give you points for your loyalty to these locations as well! Plus, get points from Online stores like Ace Hardware, AliExpress and several hundred of others!
Shop Your Way’s Major Partner is UBER
It’s no secret that if the app wants to survive, it’ll need some significant value proposition. Enter their exclusive UBER partnership. By connecting to the favorite ride-sharing app, you’ll be able to earn $2 in points for Every Single Ride You Take with UBER. If you live in a city or often travel Shop Your Way has decent value for you.
Redeeming Points
Another one of Shop Your Way’s significant points of interest is their redemption process. This is where you will encounter the full Sear’s catalog of products and services. When you’ve earned a $2 ride on UBER, for example, you’ll be able to redeem the $2 in their storefront, sporting thousands upon thousands of products that may suit your needs. Unfortunately, as of now, there appears to be no way of extracting money directly, so the only way to redeem is to spend more on this catalog.
The famous review website, Yelp, has released new card-linked cash back feature allows you to try out new restaurants while also earning money back. Probably Yelp Cash Back the most underutilized Card Linked App!
It’s as simple as linking your credit or debit card to your purchase at the given Yelp location you about to go to, and you’ll get an advertised cash back amount. Here are the steps you’ll need to do to get Cash Back!
Step One: Link a Card
Head to the Cash Back Card Linking Page:
https://www.yelp.com/rewards/enrolled
Step Two: Find a Place
If the card is successfully linked, you are automatically eligible for Cash Back Places.
Make sure to Filter for Cash Back Places when you search!!!
Step Three: Pay with Linked Card
Let’s say you spend $20 at this Restaurant:
You get $1 back on your statement
Yelp’s Link Card integration makes a ton of sense because most people tend to look for good restaurants nearby and hope for deals elsewhere. With its integration with Card Link technology (from a company called Empyr) you’ll be able to score sweet cash back deals!
Some apps allow you to save on every gallon of gas, and Fuel Rewards is a part of it. There are additional saving options when it comes to the Fuel Rewards program at Shell. Link any credit card (Discover excluded), and you may earn supplementary per gallon savings.
Shop at participating grocery stores
Dine at participating restaurants
Participating hotel and car rentals
Fuel Rewards Online Shopping Portal
Fuel Rewards “Gallons” Back Shopping Portal
Mastercard Bonus
Just by having any Mastercard (Credit Card) you’ll be eligible for an initial bonus of 25c off each gallon!
This popular investing app just announced their automatic cash back function. With this version of a Card Link, you’ll unlock similar offers at dining and shopping places, but when you earn money back, the money can be deposited into your investment account. It’s almost like rewards your finances by dining out!
Not only can you receive funding through local dining, but for other major businesses like Dunkin’, Costco, and even Amazon, Stash’s Stock Back program now offers more ways to get investing cash into your account.
Like Stash, Acorns is now entering the space where you’ll earn a certain amount for shopping in person and online and get money towards your investment accounts. Same idea, but this would be focused on those who are already using the Acorns Investing App.
Acorns Found Money, which is the actual name of the Card Link function, will give you more premium online shopping partners, along with shopping in store at places like Nike Outlet, for example.
There’s also a convienient Chrome Extension tool that will help you find more offers when you are shopping online.
The popular survey website offers a similar function where you can earn additional Swagbucks for shopping and dining nearby. You’ll be required to link the card of your choice to the app, and you should probably do this through a Desktop, but once you’ve done it, you’ll be eligible for extra earning opportunities instantly!
For example, if you shop at an available dining location and they offer 5% in Swagbucks, you’ll get the cash back in the form of Swagbucks. You can start redeeming Swagbucks through PayPal Gift Cards when you reach a plateau of 10,000 points.
One of the major benefits of using Swagbucks Local is that you get a bonus of 500 Swagbucks just for linking a card!
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11: AMEX Offers
American Express sports not only excellent customer service, a slew of fantastic credit cards, and a secure online interface for bill payments, but the modern financial institution offers one of the best value propositions for any credit card holder out there. American Express has offers from Delta, SPG (Marriott now), and other larger companies.
AMEX Offers links potential deals and coupons to your card so that if you spend your card at specific locations and follow the offer, you can receive money back (sometimes AMEX points). For example, recently Rover.com was on there.
If you linked the Rover.com AMEX Offer and spent $75, AMEX would credit you with $25 in statement credit. Yes, it’s pretty instant to get into your account!!
“Add to Card” and earn potential money back!
12: Your Bank!
It’s a possibility that there are card linked offers found online through your bank. Though you wouldn’t find these offers through smaller FDIC insured banks, you are likely to find offers on these banks:
Bank of America
Wells Fargo
Suntrust
All of these bank offers work the same, and you are likely to be enrolled very quickly since you have an applicable debit card inside your pocket already…unless you lost it somewhere. For the above example, you don’t have to do much other than click “Add” and you’ll be eligible for an offer from Carabbas or Shipt.
It comes as no surprise to us that a popular coupon clipping website is getting into this field before it explodes. Coupons.com is well known for their digital coupon cutouts where you can print or save to your phone several in-store redeemable coupons.
Using the Card Link technology, they’ve also entered the field with similar offers to Yelp and Groupon. You can shop and dine locally and get cash back for shopping!
This one is most known for their online shopping rebate portal offers in-store cash back. Although not the largest selection that others carry, EBates focuses on the retail side of things pretty well with offers from many major retailers like BuyBuyBaby for example.
For this one, you’ll need to have an Account with Ebates and simply link a card just like we do with the other apps.
The Freebird Rides app leverages this amazing technology and makes an interesting twist on it. Through the app, you’ll link with UBER. Once you open up the Freebird Rides app, you can earn money by using an UBER to go to specific locations.
This is amazing for businesses that want additional exposure, while great for customers who want to explore their town! It’s a win-win! Try our Freebird Rides Promo Code: EC945 to get $10 for signing up.
Like getting easy rewards? For those unfamiliar with this popular loyalty app, you can earn points by scanning receipts or even walking into a store! You’ll need to download the ShopKick app and proceed to find locations eligible for points (Known as Kicks). You can also hunt for particular products that will reward points as well!
Recently, they’ve introduced their own Linked Card function that adds an additional way to earn “Kicks” when you shop at certain locations.
Shopkick takes all of the neat ways to earn rewards and places them into a single app!
One of the biggest financial institutions has added their own spin on Card Linked opportunities. If you have one of the major credit cards offered by Chase Financial, you’ll have access to the Chase Mobile App. Through this app, you’ll see several card-linked offers.
To earn additional cash back through a card linked offer on Chase, you’ll need to use the Mobile App. It’s the same mobile app where you pay your bills and look at statements. So all you need to do here is:
Have a Chase Card
Head to the Chase Mobile App
Find the “Chase Offers” section
Click once on an any or all offers
Shop at that location using the Card
Get Money Deposited into Your Account Directly!!
Others (we’ll eventually get to)
The list is growing, and it makes good sense as to why. This is exciting technology that bridges the online world to in-store shopping and dining. This could be a game changer and we think it is! Here are some others that have popped up:
Nerdwallet Cash Back
UPromise Dining
JetBlue Dining
Pei
United MileagePlus X
Southwest RapidRewards Dining
Hilton Honors Dining
MOGL
RetailMeNot
HawaiianMiles Marketplace
What is Online to Offline Shopping? (O2O)
Promo codes may become a thing of the past with this new value proposition that is taking the mobile world by storm. These apps and they are growing in quantity, link online apps and shopping to offline shopping. Online to Offline Shopping bridges the gap between online research and rewarding for offline dining and shopping!
Can I Use Multiple Card Linked Apps?
Although you certainly should use multiple apps that save you money, some of these apps actually use the same systems to reward you money. That’s right, these multi-million dollar websites use the same people for this kind of technology. On the other hand, there are only 3 major companies in this space as of now.
Empyr
Rewards Network
Rakuten Linked Card Offers Network
If you happen to use the apps that utilize Rewards Network, for example, you may not get cash back on both apps.
Are You a Franchise Owner or a Business Interested?
Good thing as a blogger it’s our responsibility to dig a bit deeper within these kinds of value propositions. I personally reached out to the company behind much of these app integrations, Empyr, and became a channel partner. In other words, I can help your business get onto Yelp Cash Back or Groupon Cash Back! Benefits of using these card-linked offers:
For over six years Todd has brokered Financial Technology (Fintech) partnerships.Combining his passion for geeky tech stuff and personal finance, Todd's unwavering passion for providing the latest money related apps launched MoneyHax.MoneyHax has been cited on top sources like BuzzFeed, Bustle, Debt.com, and Rockstar Finance. | {
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Rank Reporter finds my pages, but the ranking is different than what I’m seeing when I manually search. Why?
Rank Reporter finds my pages, but the ranking is different than what I’m seeing when I manually search. Why?
Question: When I search for my website manually, the position I find it ranking differently than what Rank Reporter is reporting. Why?
Answer: There are a few possible causes for this:
1) If your website is ranked lower than 30 (for example: 55), then your website ranking can be very volatile. Your position may change very frequently, even between search queries, as the search engine decides where to place your website. These are sometimes called Supplementary Results.
2) Google (and other search engines) tailor search results based on your search history (this is sometimes called “personalized search”). Rank Reporter reports the ranking information as if you were a new searcher looking for your keywords. When manually checking search engine results, use your browser’s “Private Browsing” mode to ensure that you are getting non-biased results.
3) Google uses many data centers around the world, and these data centers are often sightly out of sync with one another. To minimize your search footprint, Rank Reporter automatically distributes your queries to different data centers. If you want Rank Reporter to ONLY show the results using your local data center, disable the “DNS Pooling” feature in Advanced Project Settings.
4) If you are comparing Rank Reporter’s results to those collected by another utility, there may be variation due to the collection method used. Some tools use the Google API to provide ranking information. The Google API is generally out of date and the ranking information provided there doesn’t match the actual search results. Rank Reporter scrapes the actual result pages so that you can accurately find out where your website ranks. You can verify Rank Report’s accuracy yourself by using the “Template Test Tool” located in the Search Engine Editor. | {
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Warwick Manuscript Development Sessions
The Warwick Manuscript Development (WMD) sessions began this week, with ten early career authors who have a single authored manuscript in development discussing their ideas with ten discussants from the UK, northern Europe, Australia, and the U.S.
Featured authors from CSGR include James Brassett, Paul Lewis, and Eleni Tsingou. Authors and discussants are coming from a range of institutions, including Warwick, the Australian National University, the Copenhagen Business School, the University of Copehagen, the University of Manchester, the University of Nottingham, the University of Sheffield, the University of East Anglia, the University of Sydney, Sussex University, and St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia.
Also attending are major British publishers of IPE (International Political Economy) work, including Cambridge University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, and Routledge. The WMD sessions are the first step in an ongoing effort from CSGR to promote research excellence from early-career scholars.
These sessions are not open to the public, but you can find out more about the Warwick Manuscript Development sessions on the CSGR site. | {
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what an interface *is*: e.g., the first ne2k on a system,
or a specific ne2k card and MAC address?
There are signficant reasons to want to support a "reattach" model
which allows the MAC address to change. For instance, consider the
"hot swap" case on a high-availability system, where an interface
fails, is unplugged, and a new card (with a different MAC address) is
hot-plugged in its place.
I don't have any objection to a model which allows this to work, but I
don't think it should be the default behavior, as (a) it's
significantly more complex to support, and (b) is *NOT* wanted in many
cases. Also, the work I'm proposing takes us well along the way to
getting there.
... we can move to a dynamic scheme, with configuration
controlled by a userlevel dameon which can, for example, supply a
user-configured IP address, or run dclient when a given card,
identified by MAC address, is inserted. I know a *lot* of people
who roam this way: move to a new subnet? Pop your card and
reinsert it, and dhclient will automagically get an address on
the new local subnet. We dont have userlevel pccard-event
notification yet, though, sigh.)
IMHO, the relevant event here is *not* reappearance of the hardware,
but rather reappearance of "carrier" on the LAN medium, indicating
that the net's been plugged back in (with the 802.11 cards i'm playing
with, it seems to take multiple seconds to reacquire an access point).
You can simply key off of "loss of carrier"/"reappearance of carrier"
events -- Just plug your network jack in/have your 802.11 card lock in
to the local new AP, and *poof* you reconfigure for the new network.
This works *TODAY* for IPv6 with rtsold; I suspect that backporting
this functionality into dhclient should be straightforward.
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What will you leave behind when you go?
Today's post is about the difference you can make to others through Yes to Life, by setting up a legacy.
It’s a question that many people consider at some time in their life, one that drives many to want to have a positive impact on society in one way or other, to value their friends and family, to pass on their lifetime’s wisdom through writing or some other medium, or a host of other initiatives. Many of
us have a sense of ourselves as part of a continuum that others, particularly our own children, will continue to inhabit after we are gone.
One of the greatest storehouses of potential accumulated by people takes the form of their lifetime’s savings, often, but not always in the form of their home. At the end of life, the necessity of a home or savings may disappear or be only needed in part by others. This creates an opening for doing something amazing with your ‘nest egg’ of life capital.
In order for ‘something amazing’ to be one of the possibilities your life results in for others, a little time needs to be given to considering this now, whilst you have the time and energy to devote to it.
Yes to Life is largely funded by the general public. In this way it is a kind of ‘social service’ where people are looking after others who want to access the benefits of Integrative Medicine (IM) to help them back to health, but who lack the means. As you may already be aware, Yes to Life was the first charity to give this sort of direct help with accessing IM and is still largely the only one. Before this people were on their own, faced with the fact that although there may be answers for them out there, they might be beyond their financial reach. Beneficiaries of our grants scheme and our personal fundraising schemes don’t hold back on letting us know about the difference this has made to them, not only practically, but also psychologically.
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You may be in a position to affect the lives of large numbers of people, providing precious support when at their most vulnerable. By leaving a legacy to Yes to Life you could have a really significant impact on the ability of Yes to Life to provide more support to more people.
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Belfast Metropolitan College has opened an £18m state-of-the-art building in West Belfast which aims to promote enterprise, employability and economic development.
The e3 facility, funded by the Department for Employment and Learning and the International Fund for Ireland, is designed to help enhance the employability skills of its students, stimulate enterprise through business incubation and delivery of innovative business development programmes, and foster enhanced approaches to economic development working closely with community partners.
The multi-million pound 5,000 square metre facility, located within Belfast Met’s Springvale campus, can accommodate up to 500 users on a daily basis. Its facilities include an animation and digital editing suite, TV and radio production studios, business incubation units and zones dedicated to manufacturing technology, catering, SME training and renewable technologies.
Opening the building, Employment Minister Stephen Farry said: “This impressive and highly innovative facility will provide a unique curriculum and learning opportunity for further and higher education and for research and development in North and West Belfast.
“Local companies across Northern Ireland are already reaping the benefits of the further education sector’s expertise, whether it be in prototyping and testing new products or ideas, carrying out training needs analyses, offering incubation facilities or developing bespoke training solutions to improve profitability.”
The Minister also said the campus would help to ensure that the local workforce have the necessary skills to take advantage of the opportunities presented by the new and emerging technology industries.”
Marie-Thérèse McGivern, Principal and Chief Executive of Belfast Metropolitan College, added: “This wonderful state-of-the-art building is poised to play an important role in the social and economic regeneration of North and West Belfast and in the wider economic resurgence of the city as a whole.
“Its completion represents a proud moment in the 100-year history of our College as we continue our long tradition of working collaboratively with business and industry in stimulating enterprise, enhancing the employability of learners and driving economic growth,” she added.
“We are thrilled to be in a position to offer such a wonderful, innovative and unique facility to our students, to the local community, to the business sector and to our many partners from right across both the public and the private sectors. I am certain that e3 will become a focal point for creative collaboration and that it will help support wider business growth and competitiveness.” | {
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Police tracks down a Batmobile on a highway in Finland
The Finnish police noticed a suspicious vehicle on the road. The car being transported on a trailer and proved to be the only Batmobile of it's kind in existence.
The car is made with a Warner Brothers license and is the only version of the early 90's Batman movie car around. The car is made on order and the price is a cool million Euros The car has a fibrecarbon chassis and a full working Chevrolet V8 engine and other gear.
The finnish police posted images of the car as it was being transported on the finnish roads on it's way to an exhibiltion in Moscow. After visiting Russia the car is destined to be transfered to Monaco. The officers begged for a brief test drive of the Dark Knight's ride, but requests were denied. | {
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Forming a second line of plant defense -- capturing disease-resistant DNA
IMAGE: Lead author of study Dr. Matt Clark (left) and Michael Giolai, post-graduate student in the Clark Group, by the PacBio Sequel (next-generation sequencing platform used for study) at EI....
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RenSeq (1) is the method to sequence Resistance (R) genes that confer disease resistance in plants.
Each plant typically carries hundreds of potential R gene sequences, encoding NB-LRR proteins, identified by the presence of specific sequence motifs. R genes are often part of families of closely related sequences.
While shared sequences make it possible to capture the R-genes, it also makes it hard to tell them apart and find the exact gene that enables plants to survive attack. Longer molecules and sequences of DNA allow easier and more accurate genetic analysis to identify variation.
The NB-LRR gene family enables plants to withstand infection from a suite of diseases and form a second line of defence. After a pathogen has managed to invade a plant, it uses 'effector' molecules to weaken a plant's defences - the R gene proteins recognise these 'effector' molecules and signal to the plant to activate defence responses - killing cells around the site of infection in an attempt to stop it spreading.
This constant evolutionary arms race between plants and pathogens, whereby the organisms causing disease in plants are mutating to avoid plant defences, causes the plants to evolve through changes in their own genetic makeup. This is where a huge variety of R genes come into play that are highly similar in structure and DNA sequence.
Researchers at the Earlham Institute (EI), The Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL) and the James Hutton Institute, have found a new way to decipher these large stretches of DNA to discover and annotate pathogen resistance in plants.
Using the PacBio, which can read longer stretches of DNA in their entirety, along with the developed NB-LRR gene workflow 'RenSeq' (Resistance gene enrichment sequencing), the data not only targets R genes, but also the important regulatory regions of DNA - promoters and terminators that signal when to start making a protein and when to stop.
Dr Matt Clark, Head of Technology Development at EI and lead author of the study, said: "Wild relatives of crops contain a huge repertoire of novel genes that could be used to breed more resistant varieties that need less pesticide treatments. When it comes to identifying key genes it can be very difficult for researchers to find the exact resistance gene due to the sheer similarity of their DNA sequences.
"Typical sequencing methods use short reads eg from the Illumina HiSeq, but these are often too short to prise similar genes apart.
"RenSeq diverges from normal DNA sequencing on the PacBio by focussing the sequencing effort on a specific gene family i.e. R-genes. In this study, by optimising multiple steps in the library construction, we can identify the protein-coding sequences and the neighbouring regulatory regions; indeed in many cases we can reconstruct the entire DNA region even if it contains many similar genes which normally are too hard to tell apart. This means we can identify the exact gene that confers resistance to a certain infection, and used in breeding programmes."
Dr Ingo Hein, Principal Investigator at the James Hutton Institute and co-author, added: "R genes can control diverse plant diseases including major threats to global crop production. The ability to capture and sequence long genomic DNA fragments that contain full-length R genes enables the rapid identification of novel, functional resistance genes from wild species. These genes, if introgressed into new cultivars via breeding or alternative routes, could significantly reduce the dependency on pesticides for crop production."
The paper, "Targeted capture and sequencing of gene sized DNA molecules" is published in BioTechniques.
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Working with the researchers, EI's Platform and Pipelines Group migrated the technology for the new genome analysis technique and is available as a service from the EI's National Capability in Genomics, please contact [email protected] more details.
The Earlham Institute (EI) is a world-leading research institute focusing on the development of genomics and computational biology. EI is based within the Norwich Research Park and is one of eight institutes that receive strategic funding from Biotechnology and Biological Science Research Council (BBSRC) - £6.45M in 2015/2016 - as well as support from other research funders. EI operates a National Capability to promote the application of genomics and bioinformatics to advance bioscience research and innovation.
EI offers a state of the art DNA sequencing facility, unique by its operation of multiple complementary technologies for data generation. The Institute is a UK hub for innovative bioinformatics through research, analysis and interpretation of multiple, complex data sets. It hosts one of the largest computing hardware facilities dedicated to life science research in Europe. It is also actively involved in developing novel platforms to provide access to computational tools and processing capacity for multiple academic and industrial users and promoting applications of computational Bioscience. Additionally, the Institute offers a training programme through courses and workshops, and an outreach programme targeting key stakeholders, and wider public audiences through dialogue and science communication activities. http://www.earlham.ac.uk / @EarlhamInst
4) About TSL
The Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL) is a world-leading research centre focusing on making fundamental discoveries about plants and how they interact with microbes. TSL not only provides fundamental biological insights into plant-pathogen interactions, but is also delivering novel, genomics-based, solutions which will significantly reduce losses from major diseases of food crops, especially in developing countries. TSL is an independent charitable company and receives strategic funding from the Gatsby Charitable Foundation with the balance coming from competitive grants and contracts from a range of public and private bodies, including the European Union (EU), Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and commercial and charitable organisations http://www.tsl.ac.uk.
5) About James Hutton Institute
The James Hutton Institute is a world-leading, multi-site scientific organisation encompassing a distinctive range of integrated strengths in land, crop, waters, environmental and socio-economic science. From its sites in Scotland, it undertakes research for the Scottish and UK governments, the EU and other organisations worldwide. The Institute has a staff of nearly 550 and 125 PhD students, and takes its name from the 18th-century Scottish Enlightenment scientist, James Hutton, widely regarded as the founder of geology and agronomist. http://www.hutton.ac.uk
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The internets are abuzz with all sorts of great stuff this week. Let's take a look.
Gerry Conway is one of my favorite writers. I love his Marvel work on Spider-Man and countless others, his Atari Force for DC is an unsung gem, and, more importantly, I think his work as a writer-producer on Law & Order: Criminal Intent gave that show its best episodes. This project with him looks very interesting.
Great news. An old DC book that slipped under the radar is getting collected by Dark Horse. It’s Dan Jolley’s (and Leonard Kirk’s and Robin Riggs’) Bloodhound. Here’s a solid interview with Dan at Robot 6.
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I'm stuffed with the turkey of Thanksgiving, but there's always time to unstuff some of the internets. Let's take a look at things to read between naps.
This has gotten a lot of play, but it’s too funny to not link to: Tom Spurgeon at The Comics Reporter has compiled his list of the 10 Least Powerful People In Comics. Number five made me laugh out loud.
And Spurgeon does it again: I think Howard Cruse is one of the great cartoonists to have emerged from the Underground Comix movement. Spurgeon’s interview with him is an excellent read.
The Dandy, the long-running British comic book for kids, is getting cancelled in December and the line-up for the last issue is spectacular - 75 stories in a 100 page issue. I want one. Oh yes I do! Lew Stringer shares some details.
So if you "enjoy building web and mobile applications using a mix of open source technologies, and enjoy a creative and casual work environment," they'd love to talk to you.
Dark Horse uses Python/Django for their content management and e-commerce web projects and they like to "keep things moving without subjecting everyone to a lot of meetings and heavyweight process."
If you have "deep knowledge of web technology, including client and server-side development and experience with at least one object-oriented language (Python, Java, Ruby, JavaScript, etc.) and a solid grasp of OO concepts" this could be the job for you.
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I’ve been fans of Jan Strnad and Richard Corben for years. They do great work separately, but the times that they’ve teamed up (like say, Mutant World, Jeremy Brood, Arabian Nights) it’s like funnybook magic.
And now they’re back together again, this time for a new mini-series at Dark Horse called Ragemoor.
Here’s what Dark Horse has to say about it:
“Ragemoor! A living castle, nurtured on pagan blood, harborer to deadly monsters! A fortress possessed of its own will and ability to change itself, with the power to add and destroy rooms and to grow without the help of any human hand. Its owner is mad with jealously, its servants aren’t human, and its secret’s horrific!”
That sounds awesome, and I’m looking forward to it.
The first issue goes on sale at the end of March, which means you can pre-order now through your retailer.
Craigslist is like the Match.com of job hunting. Sometimes, you find a partner that’s not too damaged and looks good in the right light, and other times it’s all unemployed fatties still using their yearbook picture for their profile.
You can decide which is which today.
Los Angeles: It may not be the next Captain America or even Cowboys & Aliens, but if you want to be in a super-hero there’s a casting call for The Superluver Project. It’s “a new comic tale of a super-suave superhero and his quest to spread a little love and order around the world.”
Lucas Licensing, that tiny little division of the massive Star Wars empire, is looking for a new Emperor, I mean, Senior Editor.
You'll be "responsible for all aspects of development, editing and approvals for the adult fiction and comics program." Sound great yet?
There's more, of course, by why bother reading when you could be dropping your resume over there Right. This. Second.
Here's some more in case you're not convinced yet: "Creatively develop new storylines for Star Wars fiction/comics to maintain and grow our readership."
Or how about this: "Work with publishers and Publishing team to identify appropriate writers and/or illustrators for each project."
You'll need some education, of course, and at least "5-7 years of publishing experience and 3-5 years as an editor" but that is nothing compared to your nerd cred: "Solid knowledge and demonstrated interest in Lucasfilm brands" and "solid knowledge of SW fiction (expanded universe)."
It’s based on an Italian comic book series created by writer Tiziano Sclavi back in 1986. The series claims nearly 60 million readers worldwide, though almost none of them are in the U.S. The series was reprinted by Dark Horse in 7 volumes between 1999-2002.
The movie is set in New Orleans where Dylan is an investigator of the undead. Brandon Routh from Superman Returns plays Dylan, and the supporting cast includes Taye Diggs and Peter Stormare (so great in Fargo).
So, not a great week for comic book publishers as Tokyopop finally called it quits. If you have a project over there, it's a good time to get a lawyer to look over your contract and see about rights reversion when the publisher goes away without declaring bankruptcy (yet) or getting sold.
Then Dark Horse laid off a bunch of employees, many of them beloved and had been there a long time.
But at least the US Government is stepping in to try to stop Borders executives from looting the stores they’ve already ruined.
Rise: I love the way the new Planet of the Apes comic book from Boom! is looking. The Scoop has a sneak preview of the first issue, on sale April 27.
Victor: Here’s a great interview with writer Don Glut that’s mostly about Frankensten. “Why don't I do a series of Frankenstein novels that would be based on the movies and all of these other things? In each one I would bring in some other character from fiction or whatever. I would create this whole Frankenstein universe.”
Back in the day, one of the comic books that I was peripherally involved with was Scarlet In Gaslight, a Sherlock Holmes & Dracula mini-series. And I'll clarify that right away by saying that I had nothing to do with its creation.
It was created and written by Martin Powell, and illustrated by Seppo Makinen and after it was acquired by Malibu Comics for its Eternity imprint, it was edited by Chris Ulm. My role was limited to reading the issues as the original art came in. Ulm would drop it off on my desk and say, "You gotta read this." I was later the art director for the first collected edition.
Malibu was a creator-owned publisher back in those days, and the rights to Scarlet In Gaslight were held by the creators. In the years since its original publication, Martin has done an excellent job of keeping the collected edition in print. Its last edition is sold out, but the good news is that it's coming back, along with other Martin-based projects.
Beau Smith and Eduardo Barreto make a great comic book team, a kind of one-two punch of writing and art. Of course, you already know this if you've put down some cash for Cobb: Off The Leash (IDW) or their recent graphic novel, Wynonna Earp: The Yeti Wars (also IDW).
They're back at it again with Moonstone Books' latest Captain Action title, Captain Action Winter Special. Beau and Eduardo have teamed up for a Captain Action Classified story called "White Lies."
Beau wrote it, and Eduardo illustrated and colored it. In this 13-page extravaganza, the Captain mixes it up with spies, commies, a Yeti (they make great villains, and Eduardo draws an impressively dangerous one), and a traitorous gal.
As always with Beau and Eduardo, the dialogue pops and the action never lets up. They make Captain Action a real man of action, a James Bondian character who rocks the blue jumpsuit and Captain's hat. There's another story in this issue, too, where Cap meets the Green Hornet (not Seth Rogen). But "come for the Beau/Eduardo, and stay for the GH." | {
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The State of the Dolphin...
In the latest episode
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Engineering Manager of MySQL Replication discusses the new Global Transaction
Identifiers (GTIDs) that are part of the latest MySQL 5.6 Development Release. We are also joined by Chuck Bell who
discusses how the new MySQL HA utilities use GTIDs to create a self-healing
replication topology.
In the podcast, we cover how GTIDs and the HA utilities are implemented, how they are
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Monday, February 28, 2011
21 – Why Some Students Fail to Succeed in Law School
Why Some Students Fail to Succeed in Law School
I often hear from students who are not or who have not “made grades” in law school and who will be or have been academically dismissed. I understand the devastation and the heartbreak that most students feel – and the embarrassment. I was not always the best law student, but I used a lot of what follows, and it worked out pretty well.
For some students, law school is easy. For many students, law school is “doable.” For some students, law school is just not for them. It is not where they should be.
Faced with being academically dismissed, it is difficult to sort through these categories. One’s ego or poor self-perception often will take over and lead to the wrong conclusion. I want to encourage you, if you are in this position, not to, too quickly arrive at a wrong conclusion. Take some time before you judge yourself. Look at your options for the future and prepare to move on. One never knows what the future holds. I believe that things happen for a reason, and that years later, one can see what he has and who he is that is positive – see things that he would never give up now, even IF she could change the past. Sure there is a nagging sense of loss or failure. Most everyone feels that way over something. Don’t let that rule your life.
Maybe you will decide that law school just wasn’t for you, but I believe most students fit in the category that law school was doable, but for whatever reason, “I just didn’t get it done.”
The purpose of this article is not to bemoan what has happened and try to analyze all of that, but rather to catch “I’m not getting it done” before you reach the point of academic dismissal looms in your future or reached the point of no return. For those of you who are too far down that road though, please accept my encouragement to move on in life’s great adventure. There are many alternate pathways to take that will lead to a life well-fulfilled.
Now, for those of you who are early enough in your law school life, let’s try to figure out what to do. If law school is easy for you and/or you are doing well, you can still read on. The following may help you, too.
1.See if you can honestly place yourself in one of my first two of three categories. I don’t think my categories are magical or profound. There are certainly other ways to categorize and there may be a number of steps between my categories that many people can see. What I would like to express to you is that for most people, law school is doable. So, don’t give up. The key is being honest and to set appropriate expectations. Most people don’t ace law school. In fact, in my judgment, law schools who allow many students to ace law school may be “dumbing down.” There is a lot of financial pressure on law schools and law professors to keep students matriculating from IL to 2L to 3L to 4L. There may be social and political pressure as well. I don’t want to castigate those schools. That pressure exists everywhere. I feel it myself, from time to time, though I am fortunate that my law school has never pressured me to raise my grades. Our approach is always “How can we get students to perform better? What can WE do to get students to perform better?” I don’t condone the dumbing down due to financial, social or political pressure. I’m just saying that I understand it and sympathize with it. But, first steps first: Can you conclude that law school is doable or that law school may not be easy, but you are doing well and want to do better? If so, set appropriate and reasonable expectations.
2.Determining appropriate and reasonable expectations is not necessarily establishing how smart you are. Determining appropriate and reasonable expectations is being practical, logical and wise. Do some investigation. Has anyone in the history of your school every received a grade of 100? If so, how often does that happen? If not, you are being impractical, illogical and unwise to expect that you will be the lone exception. If a grade of 100 is given all of the time, personally, I would be skeptical of the school. If it is given sparingly, to the most exceptional students, then you will have to ask yourself “Am I this most exceptional student?” If not, receiving a grade of 100, or at least most grades of 100, is not an appropriate and reasonable expectation. Of course, this line of appropriate/reasonable expectations’ thinking does NOT mean you should not do your very best – you SHOULD do your very best. The point is, if you set appropriate and reasonable expectations and if you exceed those expectations, you can be proud. If you meet those expectations, you can be pleased. Under these circumstances, if you do not meet those appropriate and reasonable expectations, the issue is not that you are stupid. The logical conclusion is that you did not apply yourself well enough or you have not been successful at learning and/or applying the proper techniques and patterns to legal studies. If this is the case, then you can focus on techniques and study habits for improvement.
3.Let’s assume that you have established appropriate and reasonable expectations and you have not met those expectations. If you have followed the first two steps, above, then you will need to work on techniques and study habits. Of course, you may need to go back and modify steps one and/or two and try again. You may need to give yourself a swift kick and quit messing around.
I would like to refer you back to the beginning of my blog under the topic of “Succeeding in Law School.” There are some suggestions there for improving techniques and study habits. If that is confusing, drop me an email and we’ll see what we can work out.
Most students have high aspirations for law school and the career that would follow. I don’t doubt that. Most students, in my opinion, can make it in law school, even if they never come close to the Dean’s List or Law Review. There are many things that get in the way of a legal education. You may have family, social or employment obligations. You may have medical challenges. You may have a whole host of these issues and you may have to make some difficult decisions.
I think you should sit down right now and list all of the obligations and challenges that you have – all of those things that take your time and energy (except don’t put law school on the list and don’t make any judgments – yet). In fact, talk with family and friends and ask them what THEY think are your obligations and challenges. Include all of these things to your list. Then, you should prioritize everything on your list. Take some time with this. Review it every day for a brief time until you are comfortable with the list. If you are having trouble with the list, make a copy of a professional calendar or make one yourself from scratch. Use something that has fifteen minute (or shorter) intervals. Keep track of everything you do. Do that for a week and then you will be able to sit down and see on what it is that you spend your time. You should be able to use that calendar to help form your list.
I used to do this for myself, though I don’t think I have to at this point. I could see very clearly where I was losing valuable time on unimportant matters. I have advised a lot of people over time to do this. They have all told me how valuable was this exercise, and they were amazed at their wasted time.
Don’t confuse rest time or time playing with the kids or talking with your spouse or friends with waste. These things are perfectly valid use of time. On the other hand, some or all of these things may be excessive. For instance, I like watching TV. It allows me to “veg out.” I can shut down my mind for awhile, laugh or think about “who done it.” I like to sleep a little more now days than I used to sleep. But, if my time is limited, these are areas where I can save time. You’ll have to use your best judgment to know where you can save some time. Be careful with this. Kids and spouses can be irrevocably broken if neglected. Watching TV or talking on the phone tends not to hurt people. However, keep in mind “moderation in all things.”
At any rate, once you have determined your priorities from your list, now – not before this – you can place law school in the appropriate spot on your list. Once you have done this, it is time to face the music. The question is, “Based upon my priorities and the time involved for the main priorities, do I realistically have the time to make law school doable?” If so, then “get crackin.” If not, it may be time to bail.
Let me know where I am wrong and why. Let me know what you would add or delete. Perhaps I can use that to further help law students.
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Professor Holden,I enjoyed having you as a 1L Professor. You are a very interesting person, and a great speaker. You always made the live classes interesting, and more Professors could learn from your direct, informative approach to teaching. Thank you for your leadership and inspiration last year. I will always hold you in high regards.All the Best,Joe Ramirez
About half-way through first year, I had to stop and make a complete re-assessment of my goals. I wasn't doing as well as I had hoped. To make matters worse, it was the legal writing part that was driving me to tears. You see, I am an editor/staff writer at a national rural-themed magazine; I outline and write all the time. But legal writing was a horse of a different color, and I didn't have a saddle.
When mid-terms rolled around, I didn't do as well as I or my instructor expected. I was disappointed. I was studying at every available moment, even quit an extraneous writing gig so I wouldn't be distracted. But when it came to legal writing, I was lost. That's when I asked myself whether I wanted to do this or whether I was just romanticizing the idea of law school. Let's face it--when you tell someone you're going to law school, it get's their attention. It's interesting.
After some introspection, I decided that I wanted to study law, period. That's when I got my second wind; my will to master IRAC went into overdrive. My grades improved, and I made the Dean's list.
I think you should expect to struggle in law school. You should also expect to be challenged, a direct, in-your-face challenge: Do you really want to study law, or is it just a romantic fling? I came to the conclusion that I love the study of the law: the history, the drama, all the pieces of the political puzzle before they were put together.
It took me a little more time than most, but I've got this IRAC thing. Now, I go looking for legal essays to write. I see them as puzzles that I can solve.
If you're studying law, and it doesn't move you, maybe it's not your area of interest. There are plenty of other areas just as challenging. One of them may be yours.
Thanks for such a kind comment. Good luck to you in your studies. If you are interested, since I no longer teach at Concord, I do tutoring. Even I you are not interesting, you can pass this information on to fellow students. | {
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Bone Overgrowth in Cats
Hypertrophic Osteopathy in Cats
Though rare in cats, hypertrophic osteopathy can create extreme discomfort and pain in your pet. It refers to an abnormal increase in size of bone due to new bone formation, which may cause swellings at all four limbs and is often confused with arthritis. Hypertrophic osteopathy may also cause lameness due to swelling and pain at joints and bones.
Symptoms and Types
Lethargy
Reluctance to move
Swellings at distal portions of limbs, especially forelimbs
Painful limbs
Edema on limbs
Decreased movement in joints due to swelling
Lameness
Causes
The exact cause of new bone formation is still unknown, but this condition has been seen in association with various diseases, including:
Pneumonia
Heartworm disease
Heart disease
Tumor of urinary bladder
Tumor of liver and prostate gland
Lung tumors metastasizing to the affected areas
Diagnosis
Your veterinarian will take a detailed history, asking you about the duration and frequency of symptoms. He or she will then perform a complete physical examination. Routine laboratory tests including complete blood count, biochemistry profile, and urinalysis will be conducted. The results are usually normal but may vary depending on the underlying disease, if present. X-rays of the bone may reveal new bone formation and help your veterinarian in localizing the disease. He or she may also decide to take bone sample for further evaluation, including investigating for the presence of tumors.
Treatment
Diagnosis of the underlying cause and treating it are major goals for the resolution of the problem. However, as exact etiology is still unknown, finding the underlying cause and treating it is not always possible. Your veterinarian will prescribe painkillers to alleviate pain and drugs to reduce swelling at affected sites. In some cases, surgery may be required to remove the tumor mass.
Living and Management
It is important to follow the guidelines and administer medication at the right dosage and time to maintain quality of life. But even after treatment of the primary cause, clinical symptoms may continue for one to two weeks. Bone(s), meanwhile, may take months to get back to its original shape, even with the correction of the underlying disorder and are not known to be fully reversible. Your cat may feel sore and may need therapy for pain management at home.
If a metastic tumor is the underlying cause of the hypertrophic osteopathy, prognosis is very poor.
prostate gland
The gland around the urethra that secretes the fluid to allow sperm to move about
urinalysis
An in-depth examination of the properties of urine; used to determine the presence or absence of illness
prognosis
The prediction of a disease’s outcome in advance
etiology
The study of the various causes of disease
distal
The furthest distance from the middle or the top of a body
arthritis
A medical condition in which the joints become inflamed and causes a great deal of pain.
lameness
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Getting The Right Help In Running A Popular Team Structure Escape Room Games Tips Website
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‘Granny’ Game Update: What The Teddy Is For, Backyard Walkthrough and Other New Features Explained
The Granny horror game dev, just dropped a brand new update for the game that added more hidden spaces and an extreme play mode. But the most baffling of the changes seem to be new objects in the game that players must use to escape the house of horrors. One object that has been particularly perplexing is the new Teddy Bear. What exactly is this child’s toy used for and where can you find it in the game? We’ve covered these questions and more in our complete walkthrough of the new update posted below. Check it out, and if there’s anything we missed, be sure to share in the comments below and we’ll add it to the post. Meanwhile, if you need a walkthrough of other parts of Granny’s house or steps for beating the game, we’ve got those covered in our other Granny game posts found, here. ‘Granny’ Game Update: What The Teddy Is For, Backyard Walkthrough and Other New Features Explained | {
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loosen the purse strings
To become more liberal with one's expenditures; to increase the availability of money for spending purposes. After having to count my pennies for so long, it's nice to be able to loosen the purse strings a bit!We'd have a much better and more stable product if the boss would loosen the purse strings a little.
Hamilton believed that the inflation rampant in America caused by devaluation of paper currency in the states after the War for Independence could be remedied by creating a bank capable of borrowing money from foreign money creditors and with enough strength and popular support to engender faith and confidence necessary to inspire potential creditors (foreign and domestic) to loosen the purse strings and loan America the money necessary, in Hamilton's opinion, to grow America into a world power.
She says by assembling a board of influential industry types, they hope to loosen the purse strings of the provincial and federal governments into equally sharing costs with Laurentian to fund the $30-million project.
But a Ryan Taylor winner has changed the mood in the Newcastle camp and Pardew is hoping Ashley, who missed the 1-0 win yesterday, will loosen the purse strings to sign strikerModibo Maiga, of Sochaux, and left-back Aly Cissokho, of Lyon.
Newcastle United 2 ALAN Pardew hopes Newcastle United's impressive performance in a 2-2 draw at Chelsea will help persuade owner Mike Ashley to loosen the purse strings ahead of a busy summer in the transfer market.
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Apps: Instagram 4.0, Lytro, Modern Combat 4 1.1 + XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Burbn’s popular photo-sharing app Instagram (free) has added video in version 4.0. The addition will provoke comparisons to Vine, but the two are much different: Instagram video lets users take video clips as long as 15 seconds, and 13 video filters are also available. Videos notably do not loop, as they do in Vine. Cinema, an image stabilization feature, is available for those using the app on an iPhone 4S or 5.
Lytro, maker of the Lytro Light Field Camera, has released a Lytro (free) app for iOS. The company has awakened the camera’s hitherto-unknown Wi-Fi capabilities in order to interact with the app, letting users share photos to Facebook and Twitter. Lytro’s app also lets users save photos as animated GIFs that can be emailed or sent via text. The Lytro Light Field Camera lets users refocus pictures after they’re taken, and allows interactive “living pictures” to be refocused endlessly—a neat technology that our editors felt wasn’t ready for prime time after testing the camera.
Gameloft’s Modern Combat 4 Zero Hour ($7) has added three new maps — Barcelona Train Station, Antarctica Research Facility, and Barcelona Streets — in version 1.1, which is billed as the Meltdown update. Likely to choke when installing over Wi-Fi on an otherwise filled iOS device, the massive update also features a new “demolition” specialization, two new weapons, and two new team multiplayer modes. Signatures can also now be edited to display a clan prefix.
Attracting at least as much attention for its unusually high App Store asking price as its well-known name, XCOM: Enemy Unknown ($20) is a $40 console tactical RPG that just happens to run on iOS devices—mostly. Based on Unreal Engine 3 technology, the sci-fi-influenced XCOM places you in control of squads of soldiers as they confront invading aliens in close-quarter locations scattered throughout the world. You take up to two turns moving each soldier and using weapons to fight the aliens, with everything from isometric perspective maps to gun battles and cinematic sequences presented within a dynamic, highly detailed 3-D engine. Full voice narration and music keep the energy level up as you tap-select safe positions on each battlefield, engage the aliens in stat-based combat, and continue to exchange rounds until only one side is left standing. Post-battle headquarter sequences let you power up individual soldiers, choose from different missions, and learn more about the enemies you’re facing.
While owners of the fourth-generation iPad will find XCOM’s 3-D performance to be respectably comparable to a console or low-end PC gaming experience, frame rates and resolution drop pretty dramatically on lower-end iOS devices; for instance, the iPad mini’s in-game sequences are all still playable, but otherwise impressively complex cinematics and other camera transitions stutter quite a bit. We’ll have to see whether post-release tweaks improve XCOM’s performance, but given that the turn-based action doesn’t require twitch responses, what’s here is good enough for the time being; the interesting levels and strategic challenges are the stars of this show.
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Kind of underplaying the significance of XCOM, aren’t you?
It is, effectively, a current AAA PC/Console game (came out Oct 2012) from a huge publisher (2K) and decades old and world famous development house (Firaxis), and it’s on a single mobile platform, iOS, at half the retail cost of non-mobile platforms with the only cuts being a reduction in eye candy and a few maps.
Frame rate issues or not, borderline stability issues or not, this is HUGE milestone for iOS. I have tried well over a thousand apps, played through hundreds of games on iOS, and some have been extremely good (e.g. Foursaken Media’s titles) but this one leaves everything I’ve played on iOS in the dust.
Yeah, it would be nice to have performance smoothed out some, but I’m playing a current gen PC/Console title on my iPod touch 5G, which is more akin to a 12+ y.o. PC in terms of its capabilities, that shouldn’t be undersold. | {
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a substance added to food or drink to give it a particular flavourorange/vanilla flavouringThis food contains no artificial flavourings.Extra examplesAdd a few drops of vanilla flavouring.This product contains only natural flavourings.We don’t use any artificial flavourings in our products. | {
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Google’s Rubin: No Need for Retail Stores
Despite reports that Google has been eyeing real estate for physical stores, Android chief Andy Rubin says the company really doesn’t need its own retail effort.
A few years ago, consumers needed to touch and feel devices, but these days they can often get the information they need to make a purchase decision by talking to friends and reading reviews.
Plus, he said, the Google hardware effort is still in its infancy. “For Nexus, I don’t think the program is far enough along to think about the necessity of having these things in a retail store,” he said.
As for whether Google as a whole might nonetheless be considering retail stores, “Google has no plans and we have nothing to announce,” he said.
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AllThingsD.com is a Web site devoted to news, analysis and opinion on technology, the Internet and media. But it is different from other sites in this space. It is a fusion of different media styles, different topics, different formats and different sources. Read more » | {
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For years now we have seen people seeking to push the bible into the science classroom. However, the move in recent years to push the religiously based ‘charter school’ system has opened up a new front in the war to erode critical thinking skills. No longer satisfied with pushing the rubbish of Creationism or abstinence only health education, now a new model is out, attacking the foundation of mathematics itself.
The A Beka Book company provides a great deal of the literature for these religious schools. We come to expect dominionists to push for their lies about science and history, but the A Beka Book company produces a whole range of dominionist school textbooks, including a revisionist form of mathematics not based on logic nor reason but instead “mathematics are a creation of God and thus absolute.”
Here is an example, taken from the A Beka Book piece titled “The Christian Approach to Elementary Math” originally published in 1980 and still used in their latest titles:
We are unabashed advocates of traditional math, not only because the students learn something that can be built upon, but also because it accords with our Christian viewpoints on education. Only from a Christian perspective can the basic rationale — the intrinsic reasonableness of traditional elementary math — be seen and appreciated. Traditional math will not succeed unless it is taught with the conviction that something more than arbitrary process derived from arbitrary principles is at work. The elementary student does not need to “understand” 2 + 2 = 4 in order to learn it and use it; he will learn the abstract principles later. But the elementary student does need to see his multiplication tables as part of the truth and order that God has built into reality. From the Christian perspective, 2 + 2 = 4 takes on cosmic significance, as does every fact of mathematics, however particular.
Note they call their Divine Mathematics “traditional math” in order to make it sound acceptable to a particular group of people. They are targeting the easily deceived who then feel that they are trying to restore “tradition.” They even claim that a student does not need to understand 2+2=4, only to accept it as a sign of divinity.*
This is a drive to undermine critical thinking, to set in stone to never question nor understand the foundations. As a result, they become to accept things at face value, hurting their ability to think for themselves. A crowd of sheep, brainwashed by whatever their elders tell them.
Their goal is a generation who are nothing but slaves, who have no idea that they are enslaved in the first place. This is why it was a felony to educate a slave in the south before the civil war, and why a man like Frederick Douglass so terrified those who would form the Confederacy. Now they aim to create a new slave caste, one based on ill education and ignorance.
And they aim to use our tax money to create it.
*Of course, adding two and two does not always mean the result is four, as any mathematician can tell you. For example, if you switch to base 3 math, suddenly 2+2 becomes 11, in base 4 it becomes 10. While an elementary student does not study different base mathematics, they need to understand the math itself, as these different base maths are the foundation of our technologically driven society. The computer that you and I both are sitting in front of at this moment works based on a combination of multiple base maths, base 2, base 8, and base 16. Without understanding the mathematical foundation, by just attributing it to divine providence, you cannot grasp the basics needed to work in the increasingly interconnected world we have today. | {
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This is the first installment in a three part history of early Black Cinema.
To read Part I, covering the independent Race Movie years of the 1910s and '20s, click here
To read Part III, covering the TV Age of the 1950s and '60s, click here
In the silent film era, most roles for minority characters were filled by white actors in make-up. As a result, Asians and blacks began making their own, alternative cinemas. But whereasAsian-American silent film quickly faltered, black silent film flourished and a great number of race movies were cranked out to eager and under-served black filmgoers.
By the 1930s, though yellowface andredface continued to be common practice, blackface began to disappear from the mainstream as Hollywood began efforts to woo the audience it had previously been content to insult. This meant there were many new opportunities for black actors, albeit mainly as musicians, porters, chauffeurs, waiters, hat check girls, maids, bootblacks, convicts, bartenders, bone-through-the-nose Africans or buffoons. Because of the improving but still less-than-satisfying opportunities afforded by Hollywood, many black actors supplemented their Hollywood bit parts with simultaneous careers in race movies.
Kay Nielsen was a Danish illustrator and key figure of the golden age of illustration. His art evinces the influence of ukiyo-e heavy Utagawa Hiroshige as well as Art Nouveau master Aubrey Beardsley. However, his synthesis was his own-- an instantly recognizable, highly ornate, fantastical world of pastels and light.
Nielsen was born March 12th, 1886, in Copenhagen, Denmark. His father was the director of the Royal Danish Theatre. From 1904 till 1916, he studied art in Paris and London. His first professional work was providing the illustrations for In Powder and Crinoline, Fairy Tales Retold by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, first published in 1913. He returned to Denmark in 1917 where he collaborated with Johannes Poulsen in painting stage scenery at the Royal Danish Theatre. After his theater work, he returned to illustrations, providing them for several collections of fairy tales.
In 1936, Nielsen was commissioned to provide stage art for a performance of Max Reinhardt's Everyman at the Hollywood Bowl. In 1938, Poulsen died, and the following year, Nielsen and his wife, Ulla, moved to California, where he found employment at Walt Disney. There he served as art director for the “Night on Bald Mountain” and “Ave Maria” segments of Fantasia.
As vampires are increasingly depicted as little more than be-fanged, neutered teenage emos; the popularity of zombies has risen to the point, according to some sources, that surpasses that of the traditional king of the undead. Zombies are certainly more popular than most of their undead peers, including re-animated skeletons, ghosts, mummies or the Crow.
Although zombies rule right now, their reign may prove short. After all, no individual zombie has risen to the level of familiarity of a Dracula,Frankenstein's monster orMac Tonight. What zombies possess in ability to strike fear into the hearts of living, they lack in the personality department. Their mythology is simple, borrowing from ghouls, vampires and mummies whilst adding few touches of their own. That may be why zombies still don’t have their own musical subculture like vampires do with Goth -- just a handful of musically dissimilar bands like The Zombies, White Zombie, and Fela Kuti and The Cranberries' songs, "Zombie.” Zombies can't be said to have truly arrived in the pantheon of monsters until one appears on General Mills' line of monster-themed cereal.
REAL ZOMBIES
In real life, zombies are entranced or betwitched servants or thralls of a Vodou/Voodoo/Vodunbokor... or, sorcerer. They can be living or dead. In movies, however, zombies have gradually taken on a variety of aspects borrowed from other undead, mainly the aforementioned vampires and ghouls.
A NOTE ABOUT GHOULSGhouls were originally from Arabia and are an evil sort of desert-dwelling, shapeshifting Djinn that eat children and the dead, afterward taking on the meal’s appearance, thus proving the truth behind the old adage, “You are what you eat.” In films, there had been relatively few attempts to depict ghouls. The British film The Ghoul (1933) concerned an undead Egyptologist’s (played by Boris Karloff) attempt to attain immortality and to kill his former servant. It had more in common with the previous year's Boris Karloff vehicle, The Mummy. Other ghoul movies, like The Mad Ghoul (1943), Nobody’s Ghoul (1962), Boy Meets Ghoul (1965), The Ghoul (1975), Ghoul School (1990), Ghoul Panic (2000) and The Ghouls (2003) are unlikely to ring many bells.
Wilshire Park is a small, Midtown neighborhood whose borders are Olympic Blvd on the south, Crenshaw Blvd on the west, WilshireBlvd on the north and Wilton Place on the east. Its desirable, central location and quaint charm has lead to various parties attempting to claim it for their benefit. Some residential realtors have extended the traditional use of the term “Westside” to the neighborhood, hoping to attach that area’s mostly white and affluent connotations to the neighborhood. Commercial interests have occasionally led to it being described as part of neighboring Koreatown, presumably with an eye on extending the bustling commercial center into the quiet neighborhood.
Wilshire Blvd suddenly gets quiet in Wilshire Park
Wilshire Park is almost completely residential. When entering the neighborhood from Koreatown to the east, one notices an almost complete halt in the Hangul signs, BBQ aroma and crowded shopping centers which immediately give way to several nondescript apartments and only a couple of equally nondescript businesses.
An attractive row of typical Wilshire Park homes
The bulk of the neighborhood is made up of a variety of architectural styles including American Craftsman, California Bungalow, Colonial Revival, Dutch Colonial, Mediterranean, Spanish Colonial and Victorian-Craftsman Transitional styles. The first home built in the neighborhood was in 1908 and most of the rest were built between the ‘10s and ‘30s. A number are listed as Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Landmarks.
Aside from a brief fetish for Latin Lovers in the silent era, roles for Hispanics and Latinos in American silent film were few, far between and generally quite minor. In the sound era, images of Hispanics and Latinos in Hollywood began to increase in number, although Latino characters were at first usually portrayed by non-Latinos in brownface whilst real Latinos were frequently used as all-purpose ethnic types. Ramon Novarro and Lupe Velez (as Navaho) in Laughing Boy Leo Carrillo and Duncan Renaldo
1930s-In the first decade of sound, there weren't many roles for Hispanics or Latinos aside from in popular, long-running series like Zorro, The Cisco Kid and The Mexican Spitfire series, the latter a vehicle for Lupe Velez.Pedro Armendáriz mostly starred in Mexican films; when cast in American ones, he invariably had to exaggerate his accent sufficiently. Throughout the '30s and the following decade, Arizona-born Chris Pin-Martin appeared in almost eighty films, invariably as a heavily-accented, broken English-speaking Mexican in small roles and as sidekicks, like Pancho in the Cisco Kid movies and as Gordito in the Zorro series. The Zorro franchise, begun in the 20s, continued to be popular throughout the era.The Cisco Kid series dated back to the teens. In them, unlike with Zorro, Hispanic actors like Leo Carrillo,Duncan Ronaldo and Cesar Romero were usually cast in the lead. Hispanic actress Rita Hayworth (born Margarita Cansino) was initially billed as Rita Cansino in a series of unrelated B-movies. In them, she usually played a variation on the fiery Mexican maiden in need of an honorable Anglo's protection and love. | {
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Close to 100 wounded people, including children, were rushed to hospitals. Among them were several university students who had been travelling in a bus, Hussein said.
A large plume of black smoke rose above the capital, marking one of the deadliest attacks in Mogadishu in recent memory.
There were conflicting reports about the number of casualties. Speaking to Al Jazeera, the adviser to Mogadishu’s mayor said the death toll “is above 90 at the moment”.
“There are many casualties as well so the death toll is expected to rise,” Hodan Ali said, adding that the explosion took place at the Ex-Control junction.
Abdiqadir Abdirahman, director of the Aamin Ambulance service, said 61 people were killed in the attack.
Al Jazeera’s Haru Mutasa said Somali police officers were among the casualties.
“We can expect more injuries and casualties once these numbers are officially tallied,” she said, speaking from Nairobi. “A lot of officials are saying their priority is to try to help those who have been injured, trying to get them to hospitals as quickly as possible and then, of course, count the dead.”
Rescuers carried bodies past the twisted wreckage of a vehicle and a minibus taxi smeared with blood.
Three witnesses told Reuters that a small team of Turkish engineers were present at the time of the blast at the Ex-Control checkpoint, constructing a road from the checkpoint into the city.
A car belonging to the engineers was destroyed instantly in the blast, the witnesses said.
Somali Foreign Minister Ahmed Awad later tweeted that two of the Turkish engineers died in the blast.
Many of the dead were “students with ambition, and hardworking men and women”, he wrote.
Turkey’s foreign ministry confirmed the death of two of its nationals.
‘Scattered dead bodies’
Speaking to reporters at the blast site, Mogadishu Mayor Omar Muhamoud said the government confirmed at least 90 civilians, mostly students, had been injured in the explosion.
“The blast was devastating,” said police officer Ibrahim Mohamed. “I can confirm more than 20 civilians killed, there were many more wounded, but the toll can be higher.”
Sakariye Abdukadir, who was near the area when the car bomb detonated, said the blast “destroyed several of my car windows”.
“All I could see was scattered dead bodies… amid the blast and some of them burned beyond recognition.”
Government authorities have told medical personnel not to disclose figures as they have done in the past, and journalists are forbidden from going to attack sites.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast.
The attack again raises concerns about the readiness of Somali forces to take over responsibility for the country’s security from an African Union force in the coming months.
Somalia has been riven by conflict since 1991, when clan warlords overthrew former leader Siad Barre, then turned on each other. | {
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One way to think about media, courtesy of the 1970s art/activist collective, Ant Farm (Alexis Madrigal).
Today, we released an anthology of this blog's best stories for a variety of ebook platforms. You can download it for free until the end of the year. We selected a few dozen stories that we think showcase what we're trying to do here out of the 1,500 posts we did in 2012.
And let's be honest: we're psyched about this project. I think we've developed distinctive ways of looking at the world. We do a different kind of writing from most of what you see on Techmeme or Google News.
A beautiful way to read our best stories. Plus, the book is free!
Free Download
I wrote an introduction to the book that attempts to explain how we think about technology and thank (some of) the people to whom we owe intellectual debts. It's reprinted here.
Thank you for downloading The Atlantic's Technology Channel anthology for 2012. We're proud of the work in here and hope you find stories that you love. [Note: You should really go download this anthologynow.]
But I have to admit that this project began selfishly.
I wanted to see what we'd done on a daily basis assembled into one (semi-)coherent whole; I wanted to see how, over the course of the year, we'd shared our obsessions with readers and continued to grope toward a new understanding of technology.
That process really began when I launched the Technology Channel at the The Atlantic in 2010. Back then, I knew that I wanted to build a different kind of tech site. I wanted to write things that would last. My friend Robin Sloan, who you see pop up on the site now and again, has a way of talking about this. He says that "stock and flow" is the "master metaphor" for media today. "Flow is the feed. It's the posts and the tweets. It's the stream of daily and sub-daily updates that remind people that you exist," he's written. "Stock is the durable stuff. It's the content you produce that's as interesting in two months (or two years) as it is today. It's what people discover via search. It's what spreads slowly but surely, building fans over time."
To my mind, even the best tech blogs focus on "flow" for both constitutional and corporate reasons. They're fast, fun, smart, argumentative, hyperactive. Some of them do flow very well. And I knew we were not going to beat them at that game. But stock, that was something else. Stock was our game.
Looking at The Atlantic as a brand or an organizing platform or a mission, I see a possibility that verges on a responsibility to do things that resound over time. Resound. Things that keep echoing in your head long after the initial buzzing stops. Things that resonate beyond the news cycle. After all, we're old! Born in 1857 out of the fires of abolitionism, The Atlantic has survived because it's been willing to change just the right amount. It's responded to the demands of the market, but never let them fully hold sway. And in the best of cases, we changed the way our readers thought, challenged our own convictions, and laid down some of the essential reporting in American history. This may all sound like big talk, but we have to own this history, regardless of what the information marketplace looks like right now. Recognizing this history gives us a duty to provide journalism that stands up over time--no matter how it gets consumed.
But how to create stock in a blogging environment? It may sound crazy as a content strategy, but we developed a worldview: habits of mind, ways of researching, types of writing. Then, we used the news to challenge ourselves, to test what we thought we knew about how technology worked. Embedded in many stories in this volume, you can see us going back and forth with ourselves over the biggest issues in technology. How much can humans shape the tools they use? What is the relationship between our minds and the tools we think with, from spreadsheets to drones? What is the potential for manipulating biology? How do communications technologies structure the way ideas spread?
Delve into almost any technological system, and you'll see the complex networks of ideas, people, money, laws, and technical realities that come together to produce what we call Twitter or the cellphone or in vitro fertilization or the gun. This book is an attempt to document our forays into these networks, looking for the important nodes. This is a first-person enterprise, but we couldn't do it alone.
So, I'd like to thank the wide variety of people who have shaped the way we think. These are some of the ideas that we've been trying to synthesize, although obviously not the only ones.
To Jezebel's Lindy West, we owe thanks for this remarkable distillation of the technological condition: "Humanity isn't static--you can't just be okay with all development up until the invention of the sarong, and then declare all post-sarong technology to be 'unnatural,'" she wrote this year. "Sure, cavemen didn't have shoes. Until they invented fucking shoes!"
To Evgeny Morozov, we owe gratitude for the enumeration of the dangers of technocentrism. "Should [we] banish the Internet--and technology--from our account of how the world works?" he asked in October 2011. "Of course not. Material artifacts--and especially the products of their interplay with humans, ideas, and other artifacts--are rarely given the thoughtful attention that they deserve. But the mere presence of such technological artifacts in a given setting does not make that setting reducible to purely technological explanations." As Morozov prodded us consider, if Twitter was used in a revolution, is that a Twitter revolution? If Twitter was used in your most recent relationship, is that a Twitter relationship? Technology may be the problem or the solution, but that shouldn't and can't be our assumption. In fact, one of the most valuable kinds of technology reporting we can do is to show the precise ways that technology did or did not play the roles casually assigned to it.
We are indebted to the historian David Edgerton for providing proof, in The Shock of the Old, that technologies are intricately layered and mashed together. High and low technology mix. Old and new technology mix. The German army had 1.2 million horses in February of 1945. Fax machines are still popular in Japan. The QWERTY keyboard appears on the newest tablet computer. We need simple HVAC technology to make the most-advanced silicon devices. William Gibson's famous quote about the future, "The future is already here--it's just not very evenly distributed," should be seen as the Gibson Corollary to the Faulkner Principle, "The past is never dead. It's not even past."
To Stewart Brand and his buddies like J. Baldwin, we are thankful for cracking open outdated and industrial ways of thinking about technology, allowing themselves to imagine a "soft tech." They asked what it might mean to create technologies that were "alive, resilient, adaptive, maybe even loveable." They did not just say technology was bad, but tried to imagine how tech could be good. And in so doing, they opened up a narrow channel between technological and anti-technological excesses.
From the museum curator Suzanne Fischer and the philosopher Ivan Illich, we found ways of thinking about the importance of technology beyond market value. What if the point of tools is not to increase the efficiency of our world, but its, in Illich's phrase, conviviality? "Tools," he wrote, "foster conviviality to the extent to which they can be easily used, by anybody, as often or as seldom as desired, for the accomplishment of a purpose chosen by the user." Of course, these are ideals to aspire to. Ideals we may not even agree with or find too broad for our taste. But isn't it nice to have some ideals? We need measuring sticks not dominated in dollars.
We owe Matt Novak for his detailed dismantling of our nostalgic visions of the past. His work at Paleofuture lets us imagine decades' worth of solutions to today's still-pressing problems. His point is not that things are the same as they ever were. Because it's the details of these past visions that allow us to see how we've changed, not just technologically, but culturally.
What does all this add up to? A project to place people in the center of the story of technology. People as creators. People as users. People as pieces of cyborg systems. People as citizens. People make new technologies, and then people do novel things with them. But what happens then? That's what keeps us writing, and we hope what keeps you reading.
Thank you,
Alexis C. Madrigal
Oakland, California
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Spotify
Music Magnet by Spotify:Discovering the music that’s all around us
PROJECT BACKGROUND Spotify had been working on a new product designed for small business owners and their staff (in local cafes, restaurants, boutiques, etc), enabling them to better organize and schedule their music playlists. Their theory was that by selecting and tailoring their music this product could not only help them in daily workflow but also become an extension of the business' brand identity itself.
CHALLENGE How can Spotify help small businesses create an experience and brand themselves through the music they play?
RESEARCHWe conducted interviews on both the staff and customer side in various places to test actual engagement with the music being played. What we found was actually contrary to Spotify's assumption.
- In many places, the staff found that it was easier to have one long playlist playing in the background as they were busy doing other daily tasks- Customers in cafes were often too focused on work or chatting with friends to really notice music unless it was very loud or very bad- Both staff and customers were skeptical about interaction with the music (opening up a Pandora's box of conflicting music tastes and genres)
INSIGHTWhile we know music is an important factor to most people, if they don't notice it it cannot become a defining element in a brand's identity. So we changed the brief to instead call attention to the music playing around you and put a business' music taste in the spotlight.
SOLUTION Spotify's Music Magnet is an app that collects every song that's playing around you, whether you hear it or not, from the places you visit throughout your day. Songs are kept in an archive that you can use to later create unique playlists from. By using any combination of filters such as time, place, and location, you can get as creative with your playlists as you want to!
Music Magnet also stores the information on where and when you collected a song, so you can always go back to follow the brands you love and get inspired by the music in all the places you visit. | {
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Frugal Juneau, tips for the visitor
Mendenhall Glacier is in the Tongass National Forest...and has a visitor center operated by the National Forest Service, it cost three dollars a person to visit it during the summer... it's free during the winter, but you may need a snowmobile to get to the glacier.
When we visited on a cruise ship, we took a city bus, that dropped us off about a mile from the entrance to the park... it was a flat walk and we were surprised to see a black bear and her cub pass about 150 feet in front of us... sights like that are priceless.
Taking the bus also allows you to interact with locals who are more than happy to share with visitors stories about their city.
Frugal Juneau...you can't beat the views
Here is the view from the top of the mountain overlooking Juneau's harbor, the young can hike up, but it is pretty steep and the $24 for a daily tram pass is definitely worth it.
Get off the ship, take the tram up... take some wonderful hikes on the top of the mountain... then come back down for lunch on the ship... repeat in the afternoon.
You will have plenty of time to go to the Red Dog saloon...nothing frugal about the price of beer... but you can enjoy listening to the piano player... sawdust floors and all.
Juneau has the usual touristy shops, cheap T-shirts, and a good microbrewery.
We enjoyed watching the fresh fish been brought up the conveyor belt on the dock... it is quite a sight in there usually are several fishing boats in harbor unloading their catch.
Frugal Juneau... accessibility
Although the city of Juneau, is the capital of Alaska it is accessible only by sea and air... there are plenty of cars, but they arrive by ferries.
You'll feel like you're standing by a runway at O'Hare Airport in Chicago, as the seaplanes take off one after another.
They take tourists on sightseeing tours of the area, they fly over the glaciers and the views are spectacular.
Did you know that there are more private pilot's licenses per capita in Alaska than any other state?
Just by walking around the downtown area, or taking the local bus, will give you a flavor of the most unusual state capital that exists in our 50 states...all without breaking the budget. | {
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Discussion
REVIEW: Roberto Passon (50 St/9 Av)
Someone -- and the search function is failing me today, so my apologies for not giving credit where it's due -- pointed me to Roberto Passon when I enquired about a place in Midtown West to host a mid-priced business lunch.
Well, mysterious New York chowhound, thank you -- it was delicious.
Would that we had places in Orange County where one could have a three-course Italian lunch for $13!
I entertained a group of 8 and the food was excellent. I did put a word in the server's ear about time limitation, because one of the 8 had mentioned that a previous lunch there had been slow as molasses uphill in January, but we were in and out in an hour and a quarter (including time for stragglers to show up from Times Square).
A few people had the Caesar salad and pronounced it very good (though nobody wanted the anchovy fillet -- and only a strict sense of decorum kept me from plucking it right off their plates). A few people had the rigatoni with sausage, which had a light cream sauce that actually stuck to the pasta (so many places, it's either lumpy and heavy, or it pools in the bottom in a useless mass).
Me, I had the octopus with white beans, which was astoundingly good -- the octopus was the most tender I've ever eaten, and being part Italian, I have eaten a LOT of octopus. Everybody else was astonished ("you're eating what??") but it disappeared in short order.
For mains, one person had chicken saltimbocca, several of us had planked salmon with garlic spinach and onion confit, and a few others had an Angus steak, all delicious. The salmon was a little greasy -- that's my only complaint.
Desserts -- a tiramisu that looked light and fluffy, a citrus panna cotta that I wish I'd ordered, and a couple of cheesecakes, but most of us had creme brulee that was delicious -- and a very large serving.
We didn't drink (can't drink on the company dime, alas), so the bill for 8 of us, after iced teas and sodas and coffees came to $122 plus tax and tip.
Service was very nice -- as I said, I hinted at the need to be out of the restaurant by 1:30 and they took the hint. Service wasn't rushed, nor did I have to flail around trying to get anyone's attention. The only two minor niggly points I'll raise are that I hate it when staff sit in the dining room and do things like peel vegetables or roll napkins, and our server was a little hard to understand -- a thick Eastern European accent. Since she didn't need to recite any specials, this wasn't so bad.
Oddly -- and if you read my post on the Tristate board about my weekend in Tarrytown, you'll see that this wasn't the only place for this to happen -- the restaurant was absolutely, 100% devoid of other customers until about 1:15, when another table straggled in. I know it was Monday, but it's on a busy corner in Midtown. I just don't get it... the food is good enough on its own to draw people in, and the prix-fixe price for a three-course lunch ought to have the phones ringing off the hook for tables.
So, to the still-anonymous benefactor (FIX THAT SEARCH, ARGH!), thank you -- as they say in Lutheran church newsletters, "a good time was had by all".
I had dinner there tonight, as part of a party of eight. My food was very good - crispy fried calamari with fried zucchini (though the zucchini wasn't quite as crisp). I thought the carbonara was excellent - it's the first time I've ever eaten it in a restaurant, and decided to try it based on the raves from my dining companions who'd had it before. the prices seemed very reasonable to me. And, for what it's worth, Hung of Top Chef was having dinner there.
Tried it last night -- yum! The pasta was cooked a perfect al dente, and mine came with strip bacon and what tasted to me like chunks of guanciale. Not quite Lupa, which is my gold standard, but still delicious. Beet salad was tasty, as well -- an almost identical version to Le Zie's.
Food is VERY similar at Roberto Passon and Le Zie. Many of the same dishes are on both menus with only minor variations. The atmosphere is a bit more hip/upscale at Roberto Passon. Both are typically crowded and lively.
This is one of my favorite neighborhood Italian places to go to (with Lavanga in the EV a close second). Thanks for the review - I think it was spot on. The octopus is one of my favorites there, as is the fettuccini with mushrooms. | {
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U.S. Supreme Court
GEMSCO, INC. v. WALLING, 324
U.S. 244 (1945)
GEMSCO, Inc., et al.
v.
WALLING, Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division, United States Department of Labor.
MARETZO et al.
v.
SAME.
GUISEPPI et al.
v.
SAME.
Nos. 368 to 370.
Argued Dec. 5, 1944.
Decided Feb. 26, 1945.
Messrs. Samuel S. Allan and Seymour D. Altmark, both of New York City, for petitioners.
[324
U.S. 244, 245]
Mr. Archibald Cox, of Washington, D.C., for respondent.
Mr. Justice RUTLEDGE delivered the opinion of the Court.
The issue to be decided in these cases is narrow. It is whether respondent, as Administrator, has authority under Section 8(f) of the Fair Labor Standards Act, 52 Stat. 1060, 29 U.S.C.A. 208(f), to prohibit industrial homework as a necessary means of making effective a minimum wage order for the embroideries industry. The question arises in proceedings brought to review the order pursuant to Section 10, 29 U.S.C.A . 210. The cases were consolidated for hearing in the Circuit Court of Appeals, which sustained the Administrator's action, one judge dissenting. Guiseppi v. Walling, 2 Cir., 144 F.2d 608. Because of the public importance of the question and its importance for purposes of administering the statute, certiorari was granted,
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U.S. 695
, 65 S.Ct. 84, limited to the stated issue.
1
One of the Act's primary objectives was 'a universal minimum wage of 40 cents an hour in each industry
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U.S. 244, 246]
engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce' and to reach this level as rapidly as was 'economically feasible without substantially curtailing employment.' Section 8(a). Accordingly, Section 6, 29 U.S.C.A. 206, established basic minimum statutory wages, to be stepped up from 25 cents an hour to 40 cents generally2 during the seven years from the section's effective date, October 23, 1938. Limited flexibility was provided in accordance with the declared purpose to reach the 40 cent level earlier if 'economically feasible.' Cf. 83 Cong.Rec. 9256. Section 8 empowers the Administrator to convene industry committees which, after investigation, report to him their recommendations concerning minimum wages3 and reasonable classifications. Section 8(a), (b), (c), (d). The Administrator is then required by order to approve and carry into effect the committee's recommendations, after notice to interested persons and opportunity to be heard, if he finds they 'are made in accordance with law, are supported by the evidence ... and ... will carry out the purposes' of the section; otherwise he must disapprove them. Section 8(d).
The Act's scheme is therefore a combination of 'statutory' minimum wages fixed by Section 6 and what may be termed 'committee' wages,4 fixed by order made pursuant
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U.S. 244, 247]
to Section 8. The former prevail in the absence of special administrative action; the latter, when such action has been taken to prescribe for a specific industry a higher level than the generally prevailing statutory floor. The order in this case, entered on approval of the committee's recommendations, after notice and extensive hearings,5 prescribed a minimum wage of 40 cents an hour, an increase
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U.S. 244, 248]
of 2 1/2 cents over the previously prevailing 'committee' rate.
6
Petitioners have not contested this, the primary, term of the order.
In this statutory setting stands Section 8(f), the crucial provision which in material part is as follows:
'(f) Orders issued under this section shall define the industries and classifications therein to which they are to apply, and shall contain such terms and conditions as the Administrator finds necessary to carry out the purposes of such orders, to prevent the circumvention or evasion thereof, and to safeguard the minimum wage rates established therein. No such order shall take effect until after due notice is given ....' (Emphasis added.)
I. The narrow issue turns upon the scope properly to be given the emphasized portions of the section. Respondent says that this authorizes him to take whatever action he finds necessary to prevent circumvention or evasion of the order so that the wage rate it establishes may be safeguarded; and that in this case his findings, amply
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U.S. 244, 249]
sustained by the evidence, show prohibition of industrial homework is necessary to accomplish this end. As applied in this case, he has construed 'necessary' not as meaning 'helpful,' 'consistent,' or 'convenient,'7 but as connoting that the prohibition is absolutely essential to achieve those purposes. He says the wage rate cannot be maintained unless industrial homework is prohibited, with the comparatively minor exceptions the order allows.
8
His findings and indeed his express conclusions therefore necessarily determine that regulation, by measures short of prohibition, cannot accomplish the relevant purposes of the order and of the statute.
9
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U.S. 244, 250]
Petitioners do not dispute the Administrator's findings of fact or that the evidence fully sustains them. Nor indeed do they question his conclusions in any respect except that he has no legal authority to make the prohibition. 10 The petition for certiorari conceded, as does also the brief, that the prohibition was included solely because respondent found 'he could not (otherwise) enforce the minimum wage rate as to the home workers employed in the industry.' The brief states further that petitioners, 'during the entire course of the proceedings, ... challenged only the statutory authority' of the respondent to include the prohibition.
In this sharply chiseled state of the issue, the accuracy of the Administrator's findings and conclusions and the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain them must be taken
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U.S. 244, 251]
not only as true but as conceded, apart from the single question of authority to include the prohibition notwithstanding it is so buttressed in fact.
11
The posture of the case therefore compels acceptance of the Administrator's position that, without the prohibition, the wage rate cannot be maintained, and that circumvention and evasion cannot be prevented.
Furthermore, upon the findings that is true not only with reference to the employees who are themselves homeworkers. It is true also as to all other employees in the industry.
12
According to the best available estimates, the number of homeworkers at peak employment (April 1, 1939, to July 15, 1942) ranged from 8,500 to 12,000, whereas the number of factory workers as of June, 1942, was 18,500. The number of wage earners per factory in 1939 employed in some 1,431 establishments averaged between 12 and 13 workers.
13
Not only therefore is it im-
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U.S. 244, 252]
possible for the Administrator, without the prohibition, to follow the statute's mandate (Section 8(d)) to 'carry into effect' the recommendations of the committee as to 8,500 to 12,000 homeworkers, who generally are part-time pieceworkers.
14
He neither can do so as to factory workers, who generally are full-time workers.
Hence, if the prohibition cannot be made, the floor for the entire industry falls and the right of the homeworkers and the employers to be free from the prohibition destroys the right of the much larger number of factory workers to receive the minimum wage. This is true not merely as a matter of inference from evidence having only prospective and predictive value. It is proved conclusively by the Administrator's experience in attempting by regulatory methods to secure compliance with the previously
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U.S. 244, 253]
prevailing15 lower 'committee' rate.
16
His experience is borne out by that of state and federal authorities prior to the Fair Labor Standards Act.
17
Attempts to maintain
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U.S. 244, 254]
minimum wages by regulating homework have failed generally of their purpose. This failure, after fair trial, is responsible for the Administrator's resort to prohibition in the present order.
The case therefore comes down squarely to whether or not minimum wages may be effectively prescribed and required in this industry. If homework can be prohibited, this is possible. If it cannot, the floor provided by the order cannot be maintained and, further, what is more important, it inevitably follows that no floor, whether of 'statutory' or of 'committee' wages, can be maintained.
18
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U.S. 244, 255]
In this light petitioners' position is, in effect, that the statute cannot be applied to this industry. Their argument is not put in these terms. It comes to that. So do state it is to answer it. The industry is covered by the Act. This is not disputed. The intent of Congress was to provide the authorized minimum wage for each employee so covered. Neither is this questioned. Yet it is said in substance that Congress at the same time intended to deprive the Administrator of the only means available to make its mandate effective. The construction sought would make the statute a dead letter for this industry.
The statute itself thus gives the answer. It does so in two ways, by necessity to avoid self-nullification and by its explicit terms. The necessity should be enough. But the Act's terms reinforce the necessity's teaching. Section 8(d) requires the Administrator to 'carry into effect' the committee's approved recommendations. Section 8(f) commands him to include in the order 'such terms and conditions' as he 'finds necessary to carry out' its purposes. These duties are backed up by other provisions.
19
When command is so explicit and, moreover, is reinforced by necessity in order to make it operative, nothing short of express limitation or abuse of discretion in finding that the necessity exists should undermine the action taken to execute it. When neither such limitation nor such abuse exists, but the necessity is conceded to be well founded in fact, there would seem to be an end of the matter.
II. Petitioners' objections are not procedural. They have not contended that the provision of the order forbidding homework is a definition or classification of the industry
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U.S. 244, 256]
or, either for that reason or any other, must be submitted to the industry committee and made only upon its recommendation. Such a position would have nullified their argument that the statute confers no authority in any case to prohibit homework. The provision is neither a definition nor a classification of an industry. It relates merely to a mode or method of conducting the industry. The statute provides that the committee shall recommend minimum wage rates and reasonable classifications, and that the Administrator, if he disapproves 'such recommendations,' shall refer them either to the committee or to another committee. Section 8(a), (b), (c), ( d). Nothing in the Act requires the Administrator to take the committee's recommendation concerning the terms and conditions found necessary to make their recommendation and the order based on it effective. He must find that the terms and conditions he imposes are necessary for this purpose. He did so in this case, after extended hearing, upon ample evidence and upon findings of necessity not questioned. To say that in such circumstances he can adopt no term or condition which materially alters the industry is only to say Congress did not mean what is said and that the industry cannot be made subject to the statute's regulation. It is also to ignore 'the distinct separation of the functions to be performed by the committee under 8(a), (b), (c), (d), from that to be performed by the Administrator after submission of the committee's report ....' Opp Cotton Mills v. Administrator,
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U.S. 126, 147
, 657 S., 61 S.Ct. 524, 533.
Petitioners' arguments rest chiefly on their views of the legislative history and the character of the prohibition. The latter, they say, is not a 'method of enforcement' but is rather a form of 'experimental social legislation' touching a matter not incidental to the order, but in the nature
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U.S. 244, 257]
of a wholly independent subject beyond the purview of the statute and therefore of the Administrator's power.
This argument is closely interlaced with the contentions drawn from the legislative history and the statute's enforcement provisions, presently to be noted. In so far as it is independent of these, however, it rests on wholly untenable premises. One is that the prohibition is merely an 'enforcement' measure. It is rather primarily preventive in character, intended to aid in making the order effective and to eliminate the need for enforcement. But, in accordance with their 'enforcement' conception, petitioners' larger fallacy is that the Administrator can take no action toward making his order effective which, if taken as a matter of independent legislation not expressly related to the Fair Labor Standards Act's objects, would produce substantially the same social and economic effects, apart from those objects. In this view the Administrator's power is so restricted that he can do nothing if, in addition to making the rate effective and safeguarding it against circumvention, other social and economic consequences would result.
The answer is obvious. Section 8[f], in directing the Administrator to include 'such terms and conditions' as he 'finds necessary to carry out the purposes of such orders,' did not forbid him to take the only measures which would be effective, merely because other consequences necessarily would follow. The language neither states expressly nor implies that he is to do only what will achieve the stated ends and nothing more. The statute does not direct the Administrator to make the rate effective by all necessary means except those which may have other social or economic consequences.
His power, it is true, is not one of social or economic reform, except as that power relates to maintaining authorized minimum wages and the statutory hours of labor.
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U.S. 244, 258]
But the Administrator has not exercised his authority for such an extraneous purpose. He expressly disclaimed any such object.
20
The entire record supports the disclaimer. The whole bearing of the evidence and the findings was toward the effects of homework upon the wage rate and its maintenance, not upon other evils it may generate. Petitioners' argument, not questioning the necessity for the prohibition or the finding that it exists, would accomplish indirectly what direct challenge which they do not attempt would achieve, if successful. Absent the necessity, the Administrator's power would not go to this length. Present that necessity, to deny it, because other effects necessarily but incidentally must follow his action, would be to nullify both his power and the statute. Nothing in the statute, whether of letter or of substance, warrants such a limitation. What is 'incidental,' what 'independent' of stated statutory ends often presents a difficult issue. But that is seldom if ever true when to deny the authority or other feature questioned would nullify the Act by reading out of its purview the only means for making it effective.
21
Homework in this case is not an independent industry. It is conducted largely by the same employers who maintain factory establishments or by 'contractors' who are
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U.S. 244, 259]
in competition with such employers. Homeworkers are an integral part of the single industry. Their labor competes with the labor of factory workers, within the same establishment, between establishments, and between regions where the industry is concentrated. The effects of their competition with factory workers are, as has been shown, to destroy the latters' right as well as their own to have, practically speaking, the benefit of the minimum wage guaranteed by the Act. They represent the smaller fraction of the industry, both in numbers and in working time. Such are the uncontested findings of fact.
22
When all of these facts are taken into account, the case is clearly not an instance of effort to achieve ends beyond or independent of the statutory objects. It rather exhibits but an exercise of the necessary means to accomplish those objects. This is confirmed, further, by the evidence and the findings which show that the prohibition will not eliminate the great majority of homeworkers from the industry; but on the contrary will result only in transfer of the scene of their work from the home to the factory and will do this without undue hardship.
23
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U.S. 244, 260]
For the larger number of workers unable to make the transfer, the exceptions allowed by the order will provide an adequate mode for permitting continuance of work at home.
24
The argument from the legislative history undertakes, in effect, to contradict the terms of Section 8(f) by negative inferences drawn from inconclusive events occurring in the course of consideration of the various and widely differing bills which finally, by compromise and adjustment between the two Houses of Congress, emerged from the conference as the Act. The plain words and meaning of a statute cannot be overcome by a legiselative history which, through strained processes of deduction from events of wholly ambiguous significance, may furnish dubious bases for inference in every direction. This is such a case.
Petitioners' most insistent emphasis is upon two things. One is that the committee in charge of the original Senate bill reported that it was limited to two objectives, the establishment of minimum wages and maximum hours and the prohibition of industrial child labor.
25
The other, that at various stages of consideration the Senate bill contained, in the section ( 9(6)) comparable to what is now Section 8(f), a parenthetical clause which expressly included
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U.S. 244, 261]
homework among other specified practices the Administrator was authorized to restrict or prohibit,26 and this clause was omitted from the final conference draft.
The first objection merely repeats in another guise the argument that homework is an independent subject matter wholly without the statute's purview but bolsters this with the assumption that because oppressive child labor was covered expressly, homework and all other factors affecting maintenance of minimum wages were left entirely untouched, if they produce other evils which independent legislation might reach, merely because they were not also specifically mentioned. The assumption ignores the fact that the child labor provisions are themselves independent prohibitions, not limited to operation in situations where child labor has harmful effects on maintaining the minimum wage rate but working entirely inde-
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U.S. 244, 262]
pendently of such consequences.
27
Those provisions are therefore not merely means of putting into effect and maintaining the wages required by the Act, as is the Administrator's prohibition of homework. The former would apply regardless of any effect upon the wage structure. The latter can apply only when it is clear that such effects require this in order to maintain and safeguard that structure.
This difference is in fact the difference between end and means, made such by the terms of the statute itself. Congress by stating expressly its primary ends does not deny resort to the means necessary to achieve them. Mention of child labor therefore gives no ground to infer, from failure expressly to mention homework, that the latter was not included within the general language which comprehends all necessary means to achieve the Act's primary objects. Exactly the opposite conclusion must be drawn on the record, in view of the Administrator's uncontested findings concerning the effects of homework in producing hidden child labor at substandard wages, thus circumventing the Act in two of its primary objects.
28
These findings therefore give added reason to sustain his conclusion that homework was not put beyond his power to prescribe the means necessary to achieve the purposes of the order and of the Act.
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U.S. 244, 263]
The second objection fares no better. It is mere negative inference drawn from the bare fact that the illustrative parenthetical clause was omitted from the final conference draft which became the Act. Nothing in the committee or conference reports or in the debates indicates a purpose to put homework, or the other practices enumerated at one time or another within the parentheses, beyond the purview of the Act or of the Administrator's power wherever these practices are shown to prevent achievement of the statute's ends.
The answer to the argument microscopically made from the long course of legislative events is obvious. From the beginning the parenthetical clause was but illustrative of the general authority conferred by the provision of which it was a part.
29
It 'grew up through step by step additions, among which 'homework' was one,' 144 F.2d 624, until the parenthetical illustrations threatened to swallow up the general authority. If nothing more had occurred than elimination of the illustrations from a bill otherwise accepted, the change well might be put down, as Judge Hand suggests, 144 F.2d 624, 'to the belief that it was unwise to specify so much, lest the specification be taken as exhaustive.'
However, as he points out, the course of events was quite different, and even more conclusive against the petitioners' view. The section containing the parenthesis began, and continued, as a feature of the Senate bill. This followed an entirely different plan from the one eventually adopted, which was a compromise of Senate and House proposals. The Senate bill placed administration of the Act in the hands of a board, which was by order to fix all minimum wages. In this form, including the parenthetical reference to homework,30 the Senate adopted the bill.
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U.S. 244, 264]
The House Committee to which the measure was referred likewise approved it. But the House itself declined to do so. It adopted a different scheme, substituting statutory wages for wages fixed by order as the Senate bill proposed.
31
There was therefore no need for, and the House bill did not contain, the parenthesis or the general provision of which it formed a part.
When the two bills came to conference, compromise was worked out by writing around the conference table the final measure combining features of both bills. 32 The House provisions for an administrator and for statutory wages were retained. But the latter were modified by providing for 'committee' wages, to be fixed by order of the Administrator, by including the provisions of Section 8, including 8(f), and also of Section 6(a)(3) and (4).
Section 8(f), which originated in the Senate, thus found its way back into the final form of the measure though without the parenthesis. The Conference report (H. Rep. No. 2738, 75th Cong., 3d Sess.) contains no reference to the elision and none appears in the record of the ensuing debate. 83 Cong. Rec. 9158, 9246. The history, accordingly, does not sustain the negative inference petitioners would draw from the omission. The paren-
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U.S. 244, 265]
thesis was inserted in the Senate, without discussion or controversy. It was likewise eliminated without discussion or controversy. So far as appears, it was never separately considered. Not the clause alone or particularly, but the entire bill containing it was rejected by the House.
That rejection is no evidence that this single feature had special significance. Rejection of an entire bill cannot be taken to be a specific rejection of each and every feature, more especially of those later reintroduced in the final draft.
33
The most tenable conclusion is drawn by Judge Hand, that 'the section, which had apparently died with the Senate plan, was lifted out of that setting, and was put into the compromise bill as it had stood originally.' As he says, 'It would indeed be a far cry to infer from that that all the items which by accretion had made their way into the parentheses were in this way excised from the Administrator's powers. Indeed, if so-as he argues-he could not even regulate labels ....' 144 F.2d at page 624.
The amendment to Section 6, relating to homework in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, adopted in 1940.34 and Congress' failure in 1939 and 1940 to adopt an amendment proposed by the Administrator to authorize explicitly prohibition of homework35 cannot operate retroactively, as is urged, to give the statute enacted in 1938 a different meaning from what it then acquired.
36
And petitioners' con-
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U.S. 244, 266]
tentions drawn from the Act's enforcement provisions misconceive their effect.
The idea seems to be twofold, first, that the Administrator has no enforcement functions under this Act; or in any event, that the Act provides no means for enforcing the 'terms and conditions,' including restriction or prohibition of homework, which he may include in his order.
37
The Administrator's function under Section 8[f], though primarily preventive, obviously is related to enforcement. And further, he is expressly granted powers bearing directly to that end. Apart from his investigative authority under Section 11, 29 U.S.C.A. 211, he has power also by express provision of that section to bring suits under Section 17, 29 U.S.C.A. 217, to restrain violations of wage orders.
38
We need not determine whether this includes authority to sue independently to restrain violations of 'terms and conditions' properly included in such an order or to ask for this relief as incidental to enjoining violations of the rate specified. Cf. Hecht Co. v. Bowles,
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U.S. 321, 330
, 64 S.Ct. 587, 592; Ethyl Gasoline Corp. v. United States,
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U.S. 436, 461
, 60 S.Ct. 618, 627;
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U.S. 244, 267]
United States v. Morgan,
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U.S. 183, 194
, 59 S.Ct. 795, 801; Warner & Co. v. Eli Lilly & Co.,
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U.S. 526, 532
, 44 S.Ct. 615, 618. But certainly the absence of such authority cannot be assumed, closely related as it would be to enforcement of the order's primary term. Congress did not include authority to prescibe 'terms and conditions' merely as a preachment. Cf. California Drive-In Restaurant Ass'n v. Clark, 22 Cal.2d 287, 140 P.2d 657, 147 A.L.R. 1028. We do not therefore consider further these assumptions.
Finally, petitioners insist that power to prohibit homework could not have been intended because the authority to prescribe 'terms and conditions' applies only to 'committee,' not to 'statutory' wages and will expire, by the terms of Section 8(e),39 on October 23, 1945, seven years from the effective date of Section 8. This argument involves a medley of assumptions and conclusions, some contrary to the fact, others of doubtful validity. Among them are the ideas: (1) that the power to prescribe 'terms and conditions' applies only to 'committee' wages; (2) that the power to prescribe or maintain such wages expires altogether at the end of the seven years; and (3), upon these hypotheses, that it would be 'absurd to assume that Congress intended that the Administrator could make so disruptive but temporary a regulation as the prohibition of homework would entail.'
The last conclusion might be accepted, if its foundations were solid. But they crumble. In the first place the
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U.S. 244, 268]
authority conferred by Section 8(f) is to be read, not as if it were given as of the date of the order (August, 1943) or the time when it may become effective,40 but as of 1938, when the section took effect. Accordingly, at the minimum, the authority given was to apply over a period of seven years. And these were the most crucial, because the initial, years in the statute's anticipated life. The scope of the power was not cut down because the Administrator chose to try first the less effective, but similarly conferred though less extensive power of regulation.
Beyond this, it is not true that the power either to prescribe 'committee' wages or to include 'terms and conditions' in the order expires altogether at the end of the first seven years. Section 8(e) expressly provides for continuance or issuance of wage orders after that time, whenever the industry committee recommends and the Administrator finds 'by a preponderance of the evidence ... that the continued effectiveness or the issuance of the order, as the case may be, is necessary in order to prevent substantial curtailment of employment in the industry.' And Section 6(a)(3), perhaps also 6(a)(4), expressly contemplates continuance of wage orders issued under Section 8 after the initial seven years. The exact scope of these provisions need not now be determined. It is enough, for present purposes, that they leave some room, and it may be considerable, for the issuance or continued effectiveness of wage orders after October 23, 1945
Finally, it is not necessary in this case to decide whether the power to prescribe 'terms and conditions' applies only to 'committee' wages and not to 'statutory' wages. Strong reasons have been suggested for believing it applies to both.
41
But this case involves only 'committee'
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U.S. 244, 269]
wages. The power to make them effective and to prevent evasion would not be cut down, were it more clear than it is that there is no authority to prescribe 'terms and conditions' for 'statutory' wages or were it true that authority to require 'committee' wages would expire altogether with the initial seven year period. The question whether the authority to prescribe 'terms and conditions' applies to 'statutory' wages may be left for decision when it arises. Uncertain as the answer now is, it cannot give solid ground for inference that the power to prohibit homework was not a necessary means of making effective the minimum wage prescribed by the order.
Petitioners' arguments have been directed chiefly to the power to prohibit. If valid, they would apply equally to the authority to restrict or regulate. They would nullify the Administrator's power to establish or maintain minimum wages in the embroideries industry. They can have no such potency.
The judgments are affirmed.
AFFIRMED.
Mr. Justice FRANKFURTER, concurring.
The Fair Labor Standards Act gives the Administrator charged with its enforcement power to fix wages so that they attain a basic minimum rate. In view of the vast and varied range of situations thus placed under his wage-fixing authority, the Administrator naturally enough was given by Congress the power to issue these wage orders on 'such terms and conditions as the Administrator finds necessary to carry out the purposes of such orders, to prevent the circumvention or evasion thereof, and to safeguard the minimum wage rates established therein.' Section 8(f), 52 Stat. 1060, 1065, 29 U.S.C. with respect to any industry on or after disregard the authority thus given by Congress to deny that the power to fix minimum wages carries with it the subsidiary power to forbid and to prevent evasion of
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U.S. 244, 270]
wages so fixed. In the light of the showing made on this record concerning the embroideries industry for which the Administrator concededly fixed valid wage rates, the measures that the Administrator took through provisions dealing with homework in the embroideries industry were relevant to, and in enforcement of, the subsidiary power granted by Congress to prevent evasion of the rates fixed for that industry.
And so I join in the Court's opinion.
Mr. Justice ROBERTS.
With deference I venture to think that the Court here essays to read into the law what its words, fairly construed, do not import. The Court arrives at that result by forming a judgment as to what Congress probably should have said, and would have said, if it had considered the matter, in order to make the statute what the Court deems a more perfect instrument for attaining the general objective which Congress sought to attain, and then makes the necessary additions to the language Congress has used. The principal, if not the only argument I find in the opinion for reading something into the statute, is that otherwise it cannot be most effectively applied to certain industries unless the industries themselves are made over.
Section 8(f), 29 U.S.C.A. 208(f), provides that the Administrator's orders issued under the section 'shall define the industries ... to which they are to apply.' It is not suggested that the order in question is of this description. That with which the industry committee's investigation dealt was a single industry in which two methods of work were pursued. Obviously it is not a definition of the industry to exclude from it some of those who labor in it.
The section also provides that the Administrator's orders 'shall contain such terms and conditions as the Administrator finds necessary to carry out the purposes of
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U.S. 244, 271]
such orders, to prevent the circumvention or evasion thereof, and to safeguard the minimum wage rates established therein.' The philosophy of the court's opinion can be nothing less than that the Administrator may, if he finds it necessary, rewrite the statute. Suppose he finds that, in a given industry, it is, as he puts it, impossible to enforce the minimum wage provision. May he thereupon issue an order prohibiting the further prosecution of that industry and requiring all those who pursue it to follow some other calling? It may be said that the supposition is, on its face, ridiculous. But is it any more so than what was here accomplished? Forty per cent of the workers in an industry, under pain of otherwise losing their occupation, are compelled to give up what they have done time out of mind, and if they desire to pursue their calling to do so under completely changed economic conditions, not in their homes but in factories which, if they are available at all, may be remote from their homes.
The language of section 8(f) has a reasonable and proper office in the context of the Act. The provisions permitted by that section to be inserted in an order are obviously such as are incidental to administration, such as pertain to keeping records or filing reports; not exhorbitant or excessive so as to amount to a regulation or suppression of an existing and recognized industry.
In my view, one need not go outside the provisions of the Act to be convinced that Congress never intended to grant the Administrator the power he has assumed. If it be thought, however, that the phraseology of section 8(f) is of doubtful import, the legislative history seems to me to demonstrate that Congress purposely, and not by inadvertence, denied the asserted power to the Administrator.
The statute aimed at three things,-the limitation of the hours of work, the fixing of minimum compensation per hour, and the prohibition of child labor. We may elim-
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U.S. 244, 272]
inate from consideration the first and third of these objects, and the statutory provisions implementing them, since we are concerned only with minimum wages. The Act creates a Wage and Hour Division in the Department of Labor and authorizes the appointment of an administrator to be in charge of it, Section 4, 29 U.S.C.A. 204. It requires the appointment of industry committees representing those engaged in any industry, Section 5, 29 U.S.C.A. 205. It requires every employer to pay every employe engaged in commerce, or in the production of goods for commerce, at the rate of not less than twenty-five cents an hour for the first year, not less than thirty cents an hour during the next six years, and not less than forty cents an hour after the expiration of seven years. The Administrator is given no authority to issue any orders concerning these prescribed rates or their application in industry, with the sole exception about to be mentioned.
Provision is made to raise wages above the prescribed minima during the seven year period after the effective date of the Act, without curtailing employment or disrupting the economy of an industry. Section 6 refers the reader to section 8 creating machinery to accomplish this. The latter section provides for the convening of industry committees to which the administrator shall refer the question what minimum wage rate shall be set for the industry. The committee is to investigate conditions in the industry, hold hearings, and recommend the highest minimum wage rates which it determines, having regard to economic and competitive conditions, will not substantially curtail employment.
Upon receiving the committee's recommendation, the Administrator, after an opportunity for hearing, may approve or disapprove the committee's recommendation. If he approves, he shall do so by an order the effect of which is to put into force the recommended wage scale. Such orders are not to continue in force after seven years from the effective date of the statute unless the committee
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U.S. 244, 273]
and the Administrator conclude, and so declare, that it is within the purposes of the Act that the wage fixed by the order shall remain in effect after expiration of that period notwithstanding the requirement of section 6 that all wages shall reach the minimum of forty cents an hour at that time.
Now it is only in enforcement of a committee's report that the Administrator has power to issue an order with respect to wages, and it is in this context that section 8(f) permits him to include in his order 'such terms and conditions' as he 'finds necessary to carry out the purposes' of the order, to prevent circumvention or evasion, and to safeguard the wage rates thereby established.
With respect to the minima fixed by section 6, which apply universally (except where the special procedure authorized by section 8 is invoked), the Administrator has no authority to issue orders such as that issued in this case. He cannot, because he finds it difficult to enforce the Act in an industry, either remake or suppress the industry. The result of the decision is that, in the exceptional case where a special rate of wages is set in advance of the prescribed rate, the Administrator may do what, in the generality of cases, he may not do. This circumstance gave one of the judges below so much trouble that he was willing to hold, in the teeth of section 6, that the Administrator might in all cases make such orders as that here in question. Thus, instead of writing in additional provisions in section 8(f), as does this court, he was prepared to write in a new provision in section 6 to make the Act a complete and logical statute.
We have, then, this situation: With respect to any industry which has not been taken out of the provisions of section 6 by an industry committee's report and an Administrator's order, the Administrator cannot forbid home work. As respects an industry in which wages have been fixed by a committee, the Administrator has these sweep-
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ing and destructive powers. And this, in spite of the fact that the committee is authorized and required to deal with the wages of the industry as a whole, and did so deal with them here. The committee never considered the question of an appropriate wage for the industry, under the conditions which would prevail, after the suppression of a substantial part of it by the Administrator's order. The interpretation now sanctioned of the Administrator's statutory authority to make orders 'to prevent the circumvention or evasion' of the purposes of the Act, as including the power to make over the industry to which a wage order is to apply, thus defeats one of the most fundamental purposes of the Act. By section 8 no wage order is to be promulgated with respect to an industry unless the question of the minimum wage for the industry has been referred by the Administrator to the industry committee, and the conditions in the industry and the appropriate wage for it have been the subjects of investigation and report by the committee. The committee is specifically enjoined to recommend to the Administrator 'the highest minimum wage rates for the industry which it determines, having due regard to the economic and competitive conditions, will not substantially curtail employment in the industry.' And by section 8(d) the Administrator, before he promulgates a wage order, is required to find, after 'taking into consideration the same factors as are required to be considered by the industry committee', that its recommendations will carry out the purpose of section 8. These requirements make it clear that the terms and conditions which section 8 permit the Administrator to attach to his wage orders do not include those which materially alter the conditions of the industry which must be considered and reported upon by the committee. Such requirements are futile if the Administrator, under guise of preventing evasion of a minimum wage order, which the committee has recommended, has power, on promulgating a wage
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order, to change the industry into one which the committee has never investigated. The Administrator's action is in effect a subversion of the committee's report, whereas the Act contemplates a resubmission to the committee in such a case. Opp Cotton Mills v. Administrator,
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, 146-149, 657, 61 S.Ct. 524, 533-535.
Surely, if any such sweeping construction is to be given words having a narrower import, inquiry into the legislative history is of capital importance. That history, instead of being 'wholly ambiguous' and furnishing a 'dubious basis' for conflicting inferences, seems to me to be letter-clear.
The Presidential message urging enactment of this legislation states two objects 'To reduce the lag in the purchasing power of industrial workers' and to put an end to 'the existence of child labor.' Both purposes were to be accomplished 'without creating economic dislocation.'
1
Pursuant to this recommendation, Senate Bill No. 2475 was introduced and a similar bill, H.R. 7200, was introduced in the House. Joint hearings were held by Senate and House committees. Senate Bill No. 2475 was reported to the Senate. Those in charge of it on the floor repeatedly stated that the purpose was to limit the bill strictly to minimum wages, maximum hours, and child labor. There is no question that many experts in the field felt that the prohibition of home work was essential to the accomplishment of the objective of the legislation. In the joint hearings, the Secretary of Labor testified that power should be given to the administrative authority to 'prohibit entirely the use of industrial home work.'
2
In this connection the Secretary also advised that the administrative powers to be granted should be carefully defined by the Congress so that the Act would clearly state
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them.
3
The question of home work was again broached at the hearings at various points. Notwithstanding this, the bill, as reported to the Senate, contained no provision for the prohibition of home work. The measure was debated at length in that body. As it then stood, section 9(6), dealing with administrative orders, which became section 8(f) in the bill as enacted, provided that an order might contain terms and conditions the administrative authority should find necessary to carry out the purposes of the order to prevent circumvention or evasion, or to 'safeguard the fair labor standards therein established.' It will be seen that this language is not materially different in meaning from that finally embodied in section 8(f). An amendment was proposed from the floor to add the words 'including the restriction or prohibition of industrial home work' and was agreed to.
In order to expedite the adoption of the legislation, the House Committee limited its consideration to the bill passed by the Senate and reported it favorably with amendments. Without detailing the House proceedings, it is enough to say that ultimately a bill was presented largely embodying the provisions of Senate Bill No. 2475 but creating an administrator in lieu of a board. Section 9(6), which related to wage orders, contained the same provisions respecting prohibition of home work as the Senate bill.
4
The objections to the Senate bill in the House were such that a new measure was reported establishing fixed minimum wages and maximum hours and granting the Secretary of Labor only the power to declare that a particular industry was 'an industry affecting commerce' and so subject to the Act. It contained no provision for administrative orders. During debate on this proposed
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bill a substitute was presented containing a section relating to wage orders, with provisions respecting home work the same as were contained in the Senate bill as passed and in the substitute theretofore offered to the House. The bill thus offered was rejected and the newly reported House bill was passed. Conferees were appointed amongst whom were the Senator who had first proposed the amendment respecting orders prohibiting home work and two of the Representatives who had presented bills containing similar provisions. The Conference Committee deliberated for a matter of twelve days and evidently gave the most meticulous care to each section of each of the bills before it. It in effect rewrote the measure. The Conference Report shows that the committee adopted the theory of the House bill fixing definite minimum standard wages to step up periodically in the future and also, as respects industry committees and interim orders based on industry committees' reports, adopted the more flexible system embodied in the Senate bill.
It is clear that in redrafting section 8(f), which was section 9(6) of the Senate bill, the conferees consciously and deliberately rejected the clause 'including the restriction or prohibition of industrial home work or of such other acts or practices.' The Conference Report was accepted, the bill passed both houses, and was signed by the President.
The Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor recognized that it had no power to abolish home work. In its First Annual Report, that Division stated (p. 14) that it was treating home workers as employes and not as independent contractors. In the same report (p. 31) the Division went into detail with respect to regulations for record keeping in respect of home work. At page 46, the Division said: 'A difficult problem which has required the use of special inspectors and special techniques is that of industrial homework. It has been necessary to make elaborate and time- consuming investigations at the
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establishment of the employer and in the homes of the workers.' That Division cooperated in the drafting of a bill (H.R. 5435)5 introduced by Representative Norton of the Labor Committee, which provided, inter alia: 'The Administrator shall have power to make, issue, amend, and rescind such regulations and orders as are necessary or appropriate to carry out any of the provisions of this Act. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, such regulations and orders may ... make special provision with respect to, including the restriction of, home work subject to this Act to the extent necessary to safeguard the minimum standards provided in this Act or in any regulation or order issued pursuant thereto,' ... The proposed amendment was debated at length and was defeated. With respect to it Representative Norton said:6
'I am sure that business would be less jittery about this law if the Administrator had the right to define the application of the law. Without this amendment he may not do so and some business has suffered as a result. I believe that he further needs the power to define technical and trade terms used in the act and the power to make special provisions with respect to industrial home work and make special provision for constant- wage plans consistent with section 7 relating to hours of work. Home work has long been a blot on the economic picture of this country, and I regret to say that in some cases employers have resorted to this means of employment to escape the provisions of this law.'
Again she stated to the House:7
'... we are proposing in section 4 of H.R. 5435 to authorize the Administrator to make rules and regulations to carry out any of the provisions of the act. This section
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will also give him the right to define terms used in the act and make special provisions with respect to industrial home work.
'As the act is now written it is extremely doubtful whether the wage and hour standards which it establishes can be enforced as to industrial home workers. Under present practice in industrial home work industries, the Administrator is unable to secure proper records on wages and hours of home workers. Business concerns relying on home work for their labor do not ordinarily deal directly with the home workers but turn over the goods or articles on which the work is to be done to contractors who employ the home workers. If time permitted, I could give you concrete examples of cruelty in this field. Section 4 of the amendments would give the Administrator the necessary authority to cope with this situation.'
In the Annual Report of the Wage and Hour Division for 1940 industrial home work was discussed at page 89 and statements made as to the requirements of record keeping in respect of it.
After the Wage and Hour Act had become law it developed that if the prescribed minimum hourly wages were enforced in Puerto Rico certain industries there, which consisted almost entirely of home work, would be destroyed. It was believed that the only relief which would correct the situation would be to amend the statute to abrogate the fixed minima named in section 6 to provide for an industry committee to fix lower standard wages for industries consisting largely of home workers in the island. Such minima would be recommended by an industry committee and implemented by orders of the Administrator.
8
The amendment was adopted in 1940.
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Far from indicating any thought on the part of Congress or the Division that the Administrator was empowered to ban home work, this legislation, taken in connection with the defeat of H.R. 5435, indicates quite clearly that no one concerned either in the passage or the administration of the law had any notion that the Administrator was authorized to deal with the economic problem involved in home work.
A section of the Wage and Hour Division's report for 1940 contained a discussion of enforcement of the Act with respect to home work, without any suggestion that the Administrator could deal with it by abolishing it. ( p. 89)
In the Report for 1941 the Division, for the first time, suggested that the Administrator had been considering, in connection with wage orders, the question: 'Must homework be abolished as one of the terms and conditions of a wage order in order to safeguard and efectuate enforcement of the order'. (p. 64)
Thus it appears that the Administrator, having failed to obtain explicit authority from Congress, began contemplating the effort to persuade the courts that he had implied authority in the premises.
In the Report for 1942 (p. 19) all that appears is the following:
'The problem of industrial homework has been one of the most important administrative questions since the inception of the Fair Labor Standards Act. For the guidance of the Administrator, the data were presented for the jewelry and knitted outerwear industries, showing conditions of industrial homework, the average earnings of homeworkers, the difficulties of enforcement of minimum wage provisions for homeworkers, and the methods of evasion of minimum wage regulations by workers and employers.'
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Though there was no declaration of a purpose to enter the sort of order now in question, it was, in fact, entered August 21, 1943.
In the Report for 1943, for the first time, Congress was apprised of action being taken (p. 19) thus:
'Enforcement measures established to protect the standards of the Act for factory employees have not been effective in controlling hours and wages of homeworkers. This failure prompted regulation of industrial homework under wage orders in industries in which homework is prevalent. These regulations are designed to protect factory employees against unfair wage competition.
Industrial home work in these industries is restricted to persons who are unable to adjust to factory work because of age or physical or mental disability or who are home-bound because of an invalid in the home and who have been engaged in the particular industry prior to a specified date. This latter requirement may be waived in unusual hardship cases. These restrictions were adopted after searching examination of the subject which included the opinions and convictions of representatives of management and labor. A total of 4,451 applications for industrial homework certificates have been received and 3,701 certificates have been granted.'
But, by that time, this case had been taken to the Circuit Court of Appeals to test the validity of the order here under review.
I would reverse the judgment.
The CHIEF JUSTICE joins in this opinion.
Footnotes
[
Footnote 1
] The petition sought review also on questions of due process and delegation of legislative power. Cf. note 10, infra.
[
Footnote 2
] Section 6(a)(3), cf. also Section 8(e) and text, infra, page 618 of 65 S.Ct., provides for issuance and continuance in effect of wage orders to some extent at least, after the seven year period: 'Sec. 6(a). Every employer shall pay to each of his employees ... (3) after the expiration of seven years ... not less than 40 cents an hour, or the rate (not less than 30 cents an hour) prescribed in the applicable order of the Administrator issued under section 8, whichever is lower ....'
[
Footnote 3
] 'The committee shall recommend to the Administrator the highest minimum wage rates for the industry which it determines, having due regard to economic and competitive conditions, will not substantially curtail employment in the industry.' Section 8(b). Recommendations for classifications are covered by Section 8(c).
[
Footnote 4
] Cf. the concurring opinion of L. Hand, Circuit Judge, 144 F.2d 608, 623. The combination is the result of a compromise, reached in conference, of differences between the Senate and the House as to the structure of the bill. Cf. text infra at note 32.
[
Footnote 5
] The Industry Committee (No. 45) was appointed June 6, 1942, and on June 30 following submitted its unanimous report and recommendations, for the 40 cent rate, to the Administrator. Published notice of public hearing was given September 16. The hearing extended over ten days of the following November. The Administrator broadened its scope to include the question 'what, if any, prohibition, restriction, or regulation of home work in this industry is necessary to carry out the purpose of such order,' etc.
Industry representatives, who appeared, were unanimous, with one exception, in supporting the committee's recommendation, but divided on restricting or prohibition industrial homework. Labor representatives supported both proposals, as did representatives of federal and state agencies, including the Departments of Labor of the United States and of the States of New York and Rhode Island.
Extensive testimony was taken and many exhibits were received in evidence. In many of its aspects the Administrator found the evidence repetitious of that upon which previous findings were based approving the recommendations of an earlier industry committee (No. 15), which resulted in establishing the 37 1/2 cent rate by order effective January 27, 1941. Oral argument was restricted to the question of homework, to which the greater part of the record of 1691 pages relates. The procedure was substantially that which had been followed, upon the same question, in the cases of six other industries. See the Administrator's Findings and Opinion on the minimum wage recommendation of Industry Committee No. 26 for, and industrial home work in, the Jewelry Manufacturing Industry, dated October 16, 1941, and in relation to the Knitted Outerwear Industry ( March 30, 1942), Women's Apparel Industry (July 8, 1942), Gloves and Mittens Industry (August 22, 1942), Button and Buckle Manufacturing Industry (September 19, 1942), and Handkerchief Manufacturing Industry ( January 22, 1943).
[
Footnote 6
] The provision for the 40 cent rate became effective September 20, 1943. The order provided the prohibition of homework should become effective after November 15, 1943. But the date was postponed, successively, until July 26, 1944, when the Circuit Court of Appeals stayed enforcement until this Court should act on the petition for certiorari.
The Administrator found that 'the estimated direct increase in the wage bill resulting from the establishment of a minimum wage rate of 40 cents an hour would be 1.2 per cent in the three main areas and 2.6 per cent in the other areas.' These findings are related to others to the effect that 'almost 90 percent of the embroidery establishments are located in the New York City (including northern New Jersey), Chicago, and Philadelphia metropolitan areas. ...' The Administrator concluded that 'the insignificant rise in operating costs which will result from the recommended minimum will not cause substantial curtailment of employment.' Cf. Section 8(b), (d).
[
Footnote 8
] The exceptions relate to persons obtaining special homework certificates who are 'unable to adjust to factory work because of' age, physical or mental disability or are unable to leave home because their presence is required to care for an invalid; and were engaged in industrial homework in the industry prior to November 2, 1942 (except that this requirement is not to be applied in cases of unusual hardship) or are engaged in such homework under the supervision of a state vocational rehabilitation agency or a sheltered workshop as defined in the Code of Federal Regulations.
[
Footnote 9
] The Administrator's opinion reviews at length the conditions surrounding homework in the industry inevitably tending to produce violation of minimum wage requirements; and the efforts previously made under both state and federal legislation to overcome these tendencies by regulatory measures.
His conclusions, upon the evidence, were in general that both state and federal efforts at regulation had been ineffective; that violations were widespread, of great variety and in great part concealed; and that these were due to factors inherent in the conditions under which industrial homework is performed and impossible to correct by the regulatory measures applied.
The Administrator's review of efforts at regulation, by both state, cf. note 17, infra, and federal authorities prior to the Fair Labor Standards Act, led him to conclude 'that labor conditions in industrial home work are not susceptible to regulation,' and that, according to 'the nearly unanimous viewpoint of Federal and State officials having experience in the administration of labor laws, ... regulation, restriction or prohibition of industrial home work must be on a Nation- wide basis if minimum wage standards are to be preserved and upheld.'
Likewise, '(e)xperience under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 ( to November, 1942) has also indicated that labor conditions in industrial homework in this Industry are not susceptible to regulation that will guarantee that the home worker will be paid the established minimum rate . ... Compliance with the Act has been the exception rather than the rule.' Cf. note 16, infra. Such homework, it is further concluded, 'furnishes as ready means of circumventing or evading the minimum wage order for this Industry' and 'mere regulation ... including regulation of the record-keeping practices of employers or governmental establishment of piece rates will not be adequate to secure enforcement of the minimum wage order for the Embroideries Industry.'
[
Footnote 10
] In the petition for the writ of certiorari the only questions presented were (1) whether the statute authorizes inclusion of the prohibition as a 'term and condition' of the wage order; (2) whether, if so, this delegation of authority is confined by adequate standards; and (3) whether the Fifth Amendment forbids Congress to authorize the prohibition 'solely because of the inability to enforce the minimum wage rate applicable to homeworkers, without regard to the social and economic character of such employment.' Cf. note 1 and text, supra.
[
Footnote 11
] By Section 10, 'The review by the court shall be limited to questions of law, and findings of fact by the Administrator when supported by substantial evidence shall be conclusive.'
[
Footnote 12
] The Administrator's report stated: 'It was testified at the hearing that home work is cheaper in terms of labor costs than factory work and is used by employers to reduce production costs, despite the advantages derived from the direct supervision over production, standardization, and specialization which are possible in the factory. The evidence ... conclusively shows that large proportions of home work employees ... are paid less than the applicable minimum. It is apparent that if some employers are allowed to utilize home workers at subminimum wage scales, other employers compelled to pay a 40-cent minimum will be placed at a competitive disadvantage.'
[
Footnote 13
] The nature of homework, it was said, is such that estimates of the number of homeworkers in this industry are difficult, whereas by contrast employment figures for factory workers may be ascertained with ease and definiteness. The estimates stated are from data submitted by the Economics Branch, Wage and Hour Division, United States Department of Labor. The figures concerning the number of establishments and of factory workers were derived from the Census of Manufacturres.
[
Footnote 14
] According to the report of the Economics Branch, cf. note 13 supra, entitled The Current Status of Home Work in the Embroideries Industry, October, 1942, one of the most important factors affecting earnings of homeworkers is 'the great multiplicity of designs and styles.' Variations are constant and short lived. Piece rates must be determined and applied with every change. Few operations lend themselves to standardization, especially for homework. In one instance, during a period of six months, a 'lace-cutting firm received work requiring the cutting of 300 different designs, each of which had a different piece rate.' The report further states: 'Piece rates for plant workers can readily be checked. ... The setting of piece rates to yield the minimum wage for home workers is a much more complex problem than for plant workers.'
The administrator's opinion states the most common practice in setting piece rates for home operations is by the timing of a sample worker in the factory and the evidence showed this worker may be a very skilled and expierenced one. Of the firms inspected by the Wage and Hour Division June 1, 1939, to July 1, 1942, 'a review of 211 showed that 80, or 37.9 percent, fixed piece rates for home workers upon the basis of arbitrary estimates; 73, or 34.6 percent, based the rates for home workers on time tests of plant sample workers; and only 40, or 19 percent, based the rates for home workers on time tests of some of the home workers themselves.' Cf. also note 16, infra.
[
Footnote 16
] Cf. note 9, supra. The Administrator's report stated: 'The Economics Branch found that even during the boom period from January 27, 1941 to July 1942, 61.2 percent of the home workers in the Industry as a whole were paid less than 37 1/2 cents an hour, in violation of the applicable minimum wage order. It was found that 52.6 percent of the home workers received less than 35 cents an hour; nearly 30 percent less than 25 cents; and 17.4 percent less than 20 cents. Fifteen home workers, or 1. 8 percent of the total number, were paid as little as 10 cents an hour or less. The percentage receiving less than 37 1/2 cents an hour was highest, 90.2 percent, in lace cutting and lowest, 23.3 percent, in crochet beading. Miscellaneous embroidery had 81.3 percent of the home workers receiving less than the wage order minimum, passementerie, 74.1 percent, hand embroidery, 72.6 percent, and Schiffli and Swiss handmachine embroidery, 31.1 percent.'
Much other evidence, including testimony of individual homeworkers and of the Director of the Women's Division, New York Department of Labor, relating to inspections made in 1941 and 1942 involving 1,582 homeworkers, sustained the Administrator's statement, 'The evidence in the record, including the report of the Economics Branch, which showed low subminimum earnings for the bulk of the home workers in this Industry, was not seriously contested at the hearing,' and his further conclusions that, in view of competitive relationships, mere regulation of homework would not be adequate to secure effective enforcement of the order and, likewise, that this could not be had by applying the prohibition to only part of the industry.
[
Footnote 17
] He found specifically that the efforts of New York and New Jersey in prohibiting distributors who operate no shops from distributing homework and in restricting such contractors, though having a beneficial effect, had not 'changed the economic structure of the Industry as presently carried on'; that hidden child labor is a widespread characteristic of the system, discoverable only after extensive investigation presenting an almost insurmountable problem for enforcement agencies, employers and homeworkers themselves; that violations of record keeping regulations by employers and workers are consistent and widespread; and that '(i)n view of the competitive relationship between different types of embroidery, any regulatory, restrictive, or prohibitory order affecting only certain operations would create a competitive disadvantage would the employers engaged in those operations.'
Noting that twelve states had legislated, before 1900, to regulate tenement workshops, the Administrator found that '(e)ffective enforcement was impossible, however, and home work remained a serious problem.' The subsequent period of legislation by a few states 'achieved little effective control prior to 1930.' New state laws, enacted during the 1930's, providing for abolition of homework by administrative order, 'became the only effective statutory approach to a problem generally considered beyond regulation.' Under the National Industrial Recovery Administration, 118 of the 556 codes included homework provisions; and 86 per cent of the 118 prohibited homework. Homework in consequence was greatly reduced, but its volume turned sharply upward when the National Industrial Recovery Act was declared unconstitutional in Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, 1935,
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U.S. 495
, 55 S.Ct. 837, 97 A.L.R. 947.
[
Footnote 18
] No reason is apparent which would make any factor in the homework situation effective to nullify the 40-cent rate that would not apply also to the 37 1/2-cent rate or any other minimum, however fixed, except one placed so low that even homeworkers would seek other kinds of employment or accept idleness in preference. The Administrator made no findings or conclusions concerning this self-evident matter.
[
Footnote 20
] His opinion expressly states: 'This proceeding is not concerned with the question whether home work is desirable or undesirable from a social point of view or as a form of economic organization. It is concerned solely with whether the home work system in the Embroideries Industry furnishes a means of circumventing or evading a wage order putting into effect the minimum wage recommendation of Industry Committee No. 45 so that it is necessary to provide in the wage order for its regulation, restriction or prohibition in order to carry out the purposes of such order and to safeguard the minimum wage rate established therein.'
[
Footnote 22
] Cf. notes 12, 13 and text at notes 14 and 16, supra. Other relevant findings of the Administrator need not be quoted or noted specifically, reference being made to his opinion for them.
[
Footnote 23
] The Administrator's opinion devotes some seventeen pages to review of the evidence in this aspect of the case, including previous experience with ability of both employers and homeworkers to adjust to the prohibition. This experience related to the effects of prohibitions under various state laws and the National Industrial Recovery Act, 48 Stat. 195. With reference to the latter, of 75 firms investigated by the Children's Bureau, Department of Labor, only one discontinued the line of goods on which homeworkers had been employed and of 3,135 homework employees prior to the prohibition, 2,588 or 82 per cent were employed in factories after the prohibition. Similar results were shown in the experience with state laws in New Jersey, New York and Rhode Island.
Petitioners presented contrary evidence, largely statements of individual homeworkers in embroidery that they could not or would not make the transfer, for various reasons, if the prohibition were adopted. The Administrator found some of this evidence unacceptable 'as furnishing a sound basis for predicating their actual conduct when faced with actual prohibition' and concluded that reasonable adjustment could be made to the prohibition both by employees and by the employers.
[
Footnote 24
] Cf. note 8, supra. Because 'relatively few home workers will be eligible to continue home work under this exception,' the Administrator found that 'no threat to the standards of the wage order' would be presented by making it.
[
Footnote 26
] The clause assumed various forms in the course of consideration of the Senate bill. The section comparable to Section 8(f) was 9(6). The original parenthesis, apparently, was inserted in committee in the form, '( including the restriction or prohibition of such acts or practices).' S. Rep. No. 884, 75th Cong., 1st Sess., 8. This was amended on the floor, without debate or record vote, to read, '(including the restriction or prohibition of industrial home work or of such other acts or practices),' thus introducing the first specific reference to homework. 81 Cong.Rec. 7891. The bill passed the Senate with the clause in this form. 81 Cong.Rec. 7957.
The House Committee on Labor approved and reported the Senate bill with this version of the parenthesis, which was retained through many revisions of the bill after it was recommitted. Eventually the clause was expanded in the House Committee to read, '(including the restriction or prohibition of industrial home work or such other acts or practices and such requirements as the keeping of records, labeling, periodic reporting and posting of orders and schedules).' House Confidential Subcommittee Print 'A' of February 18, 1938. The clause disappeared entirely from the House bill when, shortly before passage, that body changed the entire scheme by substituting 'statutory' for 'committee' wages. Cf. H.Rep. No. 2182, 75th Cong., 3d Sess.; cf. also text, infra, at notes 32, 33.
[
Footnote 27
] Cf. Section 12 and Section 3(l). 29 U.S.C.A. 212, 203(l). The latter defines 'oppressive child labor.' The former prohibits producers, manufacturers and dealers to 'ship or deliver for shipment in commerce any goods produced in an establishment situated in the United States in or about which within thirty days prior to the removal of such goods therefrom any oppressive child labor has been employed. ...' See also note 17, supra.
[
Footnote 28
] The Administrator, referring to the prohibition of Section 12, cf. note 27, supra, noted that the employment of children in either factories or homes, in the production of goods for commerce, must be hidden and commented: 'This in itself contributes to the deterioration of minimum wage standards.'
[
Footnote 31
] The House bill also substituted an administrator for the Senate's board. Petitioners argue from the fact that substitution of 'statutory' for 'committee' wages was made because the House objected to the discretionary powers given the board in the Senate bill, H.Rep. No. 2182, 75th Cong., 3d Sess., and because it later rejected substitute bills patterned after the Senate Measure, cf. 83 Cong.Rec. 7389, 7378, 7373, that Congress, in effect, rejected every feature of the bills which the House refused to enact. The non sequitur is apparent. But it may be noted the contention ignores entirely the Senate's part in legislation, as well as the compromise effected in conference between the two bodies and the fact that this reintroduced some of the discretionary features contained in the bills the House rejected.
[
Footnote 36
] It is not altogether clear, from the terms of the proposed amendment, cf. note 35, supra, whether its purpose and effect were to clarify preexisting provisions or to extend the Administrator's authority. The debate, 84 Cong. Rec. 6620-6622, indicates that opposition in the House was due primarily to belief that the amendment, if adopted, would 'take away some of the exemptions that so-called farm people enjoy under the Act.'
[
Footnote 37
] It is said that Section 8(f) does not provide for a hearing with reference to the 'terms and conditions' of a wage order and the failure of the Act to provide expressly for their enforcement, as it does for enforcement of orders issued under Sections 11(c), 12 and 14, indicates 'the statute did not include the prohibition of homework as a 'term and condition' of a wage order.' The argument, it may be noted, applies to all 'terms and conditions.' In effect it urges that all are unenforceable; and therefore none was intended.
[
Footnote 38
] Section 11(a) provides: 'The Administrator ... may investigate ... such facts, conditions, practices, or matters as he may deem necessary or appropriate to determine whether any person has violated any provision of this Act, or which may aid in the enforcement of the provisions of this Act. ... Except as provided in section 12, the Administrator shall bring all actions under section 17 to restrain violations of this Act.' Cf., e.g., Walling v. Helmerich & Payne,
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U.S. 37
, 65 S.Ct. 11; Walling v. A. H. Belo Corp.,
316
U.S. 624
, 62 S.Ct. 1223.
[
Footnote 39
] 'No order issued under this section with respect to any industry prior to the expiration of seven years from the effective date of section 6 shall remain in effect after such expiration, and no order shall be issued under this section with respect to any industry on r after such expiration, unless the industry committee by a preponderance of the evidence before it recommends and the Administrator by a preponderance of the evidence adduced at the hearing finds, that the continued effectiveness or the issuance of the order, as the case may be, is necessary in order to prevent substantial curtailment of employment in the industry.' | {
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Dying at Work in California: 388 Workers Didn’t Come Home
Posted by EHS Today on Apr 28, 2017
Recently released data show 388 workers were killed on the job in California in 2015, more than one per day. This and other findings are included in a report released on Workers Memorial Day by Worksafe.
Recently released data show 388 workers were killed on the job in California in 2015, more than one per day. This and other findings are included in a report released today by Worksafe, an Oakland-based worker health and safety organization, to commemorate Workers Memorial Day 2017, an international day of remembrance for workers who have been killed and injured at work. | {
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Energy efficiency opportunities in the residential sector and their feasibility
December 2012 Publication year: 2012Source:Energy, Volume 48, Issue 1
The objective of this paper is to address the question of what would be the real impact of energy efficiency improvements on the reduction of GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions through the deployment of energy-efficient technologies. We study the cost effectiveness of replacing current appliances with more efficient models, taking into consideration the implicit discount rate observed in people’s purchasing behavior. This is followed by a discussion of why the efficiency gap exists and how large it is. If the world were to successfully implement every negative- or zero-cost measure, the CO 2 abatement potential in the global residential and commercial sector in 2020, on a conservative estimate, would be 1.4 Gt of CO 2 , roughly equivalent to the current CO 2 emissions of India as the world fourth largest emitter. If a longer payback period is allowed, a further 1.2 Gt of opportunities, which almost amount to the current CO 2 emissions of Japan as the world’s fifth largest emitter of CO 2 , could be gained globally at below zero-cost in 2020.
Highlights
► We address the question of what would be the realizable potential of energy efficiency improvements. ► On a conservative estimate, CO 2 abatement potential would be 1.4 Gt in the residential and commercial sector. ► If people behave more rationally, a further 1.2 Gt of opportunities could be gained. | {
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The last few days have brought yet another body blow to the UK’s steel industry as it struggles to remain viable within a changeable global market. This marketplace, for industry in general, will also begin to feel the impact of a rising carbon price and a client base that is demanding more sustainable products. Could this shift in emphasis provide light at the end of the tunnel for the UK’s industrial sector and can it rise to the carbon challenge?
A cross-party group of parliamentarians and external stakeholders met at Westminster last week to discuss UK industry’s vision for tackling its emissions through carbon capture and storage (CCS). This range of technologies provides the means of capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from industrial facilities and power plants for storage in suitable geological sites deep underground.
On the same day we released our report, Achieving a low-carbon society: CCS expertise and opportunity in the UK. Our aim was to highlight the UK’s unique and enviable set of assets, which can deliver a CCS industry, allowing us to meet crucial emissions targets cost-effectively – in line with the international climate agreement reached in Paris – while supporting industry and powering the economy. | {
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The other upcoming event of note is the September 25 combined celebration of the SSSNA's Tenth Anniversary and the lighting of the Monastery garden.
The party begins at 7 p.m. in the parking lot of the St. Paul of the Cross Retreat Center. From there, attendees will walk to the garden and light the scrim.
In other news, board elections will be held during the October 7 annual meeting. Members whose terms are ending are Joe Balaban, Misi Bielich, Bev Boggio, Paul Lorincy, Brad Palmisiano, and Peggy Sullivan.
Ms. Boggio will not be returning after this, her tenth year of service, so her seat is open. The others are seeking reelection.
Anyone interested in a board position should contact a board member for details
In the Elm Street update, Judy Dyda reported that $50,000 in steps repairs had
just been completed.
Consultants were hired for an environmental study of South Side Park. Once filed, funding will be sought for the 64-acre park.
Ms. Dyda also told attendees to tell friends and neighbors to expect to receive an envelope with an invitation to the September 25 event; a survey; a copy of the Good Neighbor Handbook; SSSNA newsletter; StepTrek information; and a cover letter from President Brad Palmisiano.
In the first of the evening's three presentations, Jenny Kohnfelder, manager, Consumer Programs, of the Housing Department of the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh, discussed four types of home improvement loans available through the URA.
The Pittsburgh Home Rehabilitation Program offers a zero percent interest rate to help low-income city homeowners improve their homes.
The URA will provide technical assistance, including a construction advisor to work with the homeowner to finalize a work write-up.
If the homeowner does not have a contractor, the URA will put the job out for bid on their contractor list. The construction advisor will inspect all work, and the homeowner must approve the work prior to the contractor being paid.
Under the Home Emergency Loan Program, eligible city homeowners may receive financing to help with unforeseen emergency conditions that present health and safety hazards to the household.
The URA offers a zero interest rate to correct the condition. The maximum loan amount is $5,000 for single units and $7,000 for two units. The loan term is up to ten years.
The Home Improvement Loan Program offers a 5.99 percent rate to help eligible city homeowners upgrade their homes. Homeowners may borrow up to $15,000, and are permitted to do their own work. Only the cost of materials can be financed.
The URA is an administrator of the new Keystone Renovation and Repair Program, a program of the state Housing Finance Agency.
The income limit is $90,000 per household, and applicants must have a credit score of at least 620.
The interest rate of 6.375 percent to 8.875 percent is based on 10, 15, or 20 year terms.
In the next presentation, Lisa Ceoffe, an urban forester with the city's Dept. of City Planning, said trees in an urban area offer many advantages: reduce landslides; purify the air by absorbing pollutants; increase property values; foster safer neighborhoods; and more.
While the city has about 30,000 street trees, thousands will be removed due to disease, old age, and neglect.
Community groups and nonprofits can apply for trees, as well as maintenance and planting assistance, through the TreeVitalize program.
TreeVitalize is a joint project of the county, city, state Dept. of Conservation and Natural Resources, and the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy. It plans to plant 20,000 new trees in the Pittsburgh region by 2012.
Through TreeVitalize, neighborhoods with certified tree tenders who organize neighborhood tree plantings will be eligible for 10 or more street trees for their communities.
Residents can register for a tree tender course at http://www.PittsburghForest.org . For more information, email [email protected] , or call 412-362-6360.
They can also contact Janice Serra, of the SSSNA, who already took the tree tender class.
The evening's final presentation was by Tiffani Emig of the Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area in Homestead. Its mission is to preserve the steel-related heritage of Southwestern Pennsylvania.
She is curator of collections at their museum.
As part of Pittsburgh 250, the city's celebration of its 250th birthday, the Rivers of Steel sought volunteers earlier this year to take photographs of their neighborhoods in the spirit of "What makes your neighborhood unique?"
Residents were encouraged to take up to 30 photographs of what defines their neighborhoods — the good, bad, ugly, beautiful, humorous, etc.
In all, 44 photographers from 11 neighborhoods participated.
The result is a book containing photographs chosen by a committee that is part of an exhibit on display until Jan. 31, 2009. It can be viewed at the Bost Building, 623 E. Eighth Ave., Homestead.
Besides the photographs, some video-clips of interviews with the photographers can be viewed.
Ms. Emig encouraged attendees "to steal the idea" and produce a similar book of photographs about their own neighborhoods.
The next SSSNA meeting will be on Oct. 7 at 7 p.m. at the St. Paul of the Cross Retreat Center. | {
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That Word Again: Lockdown
A word that’s symbolic of our growing police state mentality is “lockdown.” I saw today on the news that Indiana University is in “lockdown” due to a suspect on the loose with a knife.
You can lockdown a prison. But you can’t lockdown a campus as large as Indiana University in Bloomington. Nor is a college campus a prison. The campus should certainly be alerted to a potentially dangerous situation, but there’s no need to apply prison terminology to the situation.
In so many aspects of our lives, Americans are being told to be afraid. We’re told “to shelter in place,” to huddle scared like so many rabbits, until the proper “locked and loaded” authorities are deployed with their SWAT teams and armored cars.
This lockdown mentality extends to commercials. New TV ads for ADT show parents smiling as they secretly monitor their children at home with cameras linked to their security systems and their personal laptops/iPads. Adults attain a look of blissful contentment as they remotely arm their security systems, knowing that they’re keeping the have-nots out of their “have” communities.
Sorry, I don’t think lockdowns are the answer to danger. And I don’t think turning your home into a prison with gates and perimeter lights and alarms and cameras is the answer to our worries about security.
We don’t need to lockdown our communities and our homes. We need to lockdown our fear. For as Master Po said in Kung Fu, “Fear is the only darkness.” | {
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As security officers stood guard, people lined up outside one of the Shanghai outlets Best Buy closed in February to complain or seek help with customer service.
Eugene Hoshiko, Associated Press
Best Buy may reverse its reversal in China
Article by: SUSAN FEYDER
Star Tribune
September 23, 2011 - 9:00 PM
Seven months after taking the Best Buy brand out of China, the consumer electronics chain is considering bringing it back on a limited scale.
The Richfield-based company said Friday that it is considering reopening a store under the Best Buy banner in Shanghai, though a spokeswoman declined to provide details.
Best Buy Co. Inc. closed all nine of its branded stores in February, saying it might reopen two at an unspecified later date. At the time, the company said it would open 40 to 50 new Five Star Appliance stores in China, bringing the total to about 210 by the end of next year.
Five Star, a major retailer in China, came under the Best Buy umbrella in 2006.
CEO Brian Dunn said the move to close the Best Buy-branded stores was consistent with its strategy of "driving businesses that have earned the right to additional capital while curtailing activities that we believe will not meet our return on investment thresholds."
The news of the possible reopening comes two weeks after Best Buy reported a 30 percent drop in operating profit for its second quarter and net profits that fell short of analysts' estimates. Best Buy's stock has fallen about 30 percent since the start of the year, and earlier this month shares hit a 12-month low of $23.30.
The stock closed Friday at 24.18 a share, down seven cents for the day.
"They have enough to figure out in the United States. They have a great Chinese business in Five Star," Janney Capital Markets analyst David Strasser said in a note to clients. Strasser said he was shocked by news of the reopening, which he said "reeks of poor capital allocation."
A move to reopen in China would come as Best Buy faces hurdles in other overseas markets. The retailer recently said its international same-store sales fell 3.2 percent, with Europe and Canada dragging down both sales and profits.
The problem is especially acute in the United Kingdom, where smartphones make up a large percentage of sales. Best Buy officials have said local carriers recently switched from 18-month contracts to 24-month contracts, depriving the company of upgrade revenue.
Best Buy's struggles in the U.K. have led to speculation that it might pull back from the country. In a report published recently by the Sunday Express, the newspaper said Best Buy is conducting a strategic review of its operations. | {
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OCC’s new Lip Tar Stained Glosses are a thinner, glossier version of their famous Lip Tars. If you felt like Lip Tar was too opaque or heavy, you may like the Stained Glosses. It’s not sheer color as in barely-there color; indeed, it is exactly like stained glass windows where there is strong, noticeable color that you can still see through. There is some translucency to the color, so the natural lip color comes through (but depending on what that is, it may have little to no effect), but you can see that while burgundy in the tube, it applies much pinker. Rhythm Box lasted eight hours well with moderate glossiness for four hours. It did leave behind a lingering stain for another two hours or so.
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Does this have a faint blue sheen or it is just the pigments of the product looking like that? In the lip swatches, it looks like it has a blue iridescence….very pretty either way! It may just be a trick of the light..
Any idea if OCC changed their mind about selling it on their own website (so we can use the pro discount)? It hasn’t appeared there yet and I’ve asked them via Twitter, FB, and email….no response. Pretty sure I saw on your previous posts and other blogs that it was supposed to be sold both at Sephora and OCC (I think website but I guess it could just mean their NYC store). Just curious.
Thanks for replying! Getting an answer or acknowledgement from OCC has been near impossible but I’m guessing they aren’t selling it on their website for now since there is not mention of them even existing! Haven’t seen a press release or anything that said they were Sephora exclusives but if I don’t see them on OCC’s website by next week I guess I’ll bite the bullet and order all of them from Sephora. Just my luck though, as soon as I do it they will show up on their website lol
My guess is they just haven’t launched yet since it seems like Sephora launched early (since the launch date was actually May 23rd)! They were selling them at their booth at a recent makeup show (was it the Makeup Show? I can’t remember) earlier this May!
Yes the were selling them at The Makeup Show NYC this year…wish they would have sold them the month before at IMATS NY since I was there for that one lol. Off topic but I wish either show would expand to Atlanta, Georgia. It amazes me that a city as big and full of MUA’s connected to not only beauty but film & television and they don’t consider Atlanta to be a viable spot for a trade show (but Orlando Florida somehow is!!! lol). At any rate, I’ll try calling OCC again to see if I can get an answer.
The changes to the layout of your blog are amazing, Christine! I love being able to see the dupes at the bottom of the post. Congratulations on having the best beauty blog on the internet by a long shot.
It would have been helpful to include a picture of how the ‘stain’ looked after 2 hours of wear since it’s marketed as a stained gloss. That way we get to see the ‘gloss’ aspect of the product as well as the lingering ‘stain’.
I tried “New Wave” recently, and while I LOOOVE the vibrant reddish pink color and the sheer, glossy finish, I was underwhelmed by its staying power.
I was hoping for a more stained effect, as the name would seem to imply, but on me it seemed to wear only slightly better than a standard gloss.
HOWEVER, Rhythm Box is such a beautiful color that I may “have” to buy it. | {
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Pat Fenlon says Hibs may make Irish signings
DAVID HARDIE
HIBS boss Pat Fenlon has revealed he could return to Ireland to further strengthen his Easter Road squad having mounted a spying trip to watch Irish youngsters there in international action.
Fenlon looked on as the Republic’s Under-19 squad played the Czech Republic and their Under-21s took on Holland earlier this month and admitted he had liked what he had seen.
Recruited by Hibs from Dublin club Bohemians, Fenlon made Sligo Rovers hitman Eoin Doyle his first signing as he began what has been a radical overhaul of the squad he inherited from his predecessor, Colin Calderwood; the changes he has made taking Hibs from second bottom in the SPL to battling for a top-six finish and a place in Europe.
Fenlon used his knowledge of Irish football to bring midfielder Gary Deegan, who had played for him in Dublin, to Edinburgh from Coventry City and gave Bohemians defender Evan McMillan a trial earlier this season.
Now he has revealed he could make further signings from his homeland. He said: “We are looking at one or two younger players in Ireland to try and sign up. It’s a good market. There are a lot of good players around. I definitely saw over the two games of the 19s and 21s that we’ve got some good prospects coming through.”
Meanwhile, Fenlon will be concentrating on ensuring Hibs, currently sitting fourth in the table, secure a top-six finish, something he still sees as “a big ask” given that a mere five points separate second from eighth with the split only a few games away.
He told Ireland’s worldinsport.com: “It’s important from a confidence point-of-view and obviously from a financial point-of-view as you are getting bigger games against the bigger teams.” | {
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