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The Admin Crown symbol system:
- Red/Blue Owner
- Gold Admin
- Silver Moderator
Fishing woho!
- The fishing will be real time
- You will have to watch and strike to catch the fish
- Various fish will be able to be caught sold or cooked and eaten.
The Druids new skill (only skill lol) Bind
- Druid = Bind
- Mage = Fireball
- Thief = Dagger Throw
- Warrior = Berserk
Some wintery place threw a wardrobe
Some magnificent place down a rabbit hole
That's it, that's all i wanted to say really, the game is progressing at a level i'm happy with.
I'm getting a lot of programming guidance from a whole ton of people.
Ganing is sticking by me mostly, with Lige constantly helping when things get tough.
MDC has offered his help and Megablaze has helped me overcome a few things, not to mention Falacy helped programme most of the game during my start - though he's become to busy to help me now! :P


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Wow.. a completely ignorant teacher. This clearly demonstrate problem faced by GNU/Linux in class room.
A teacher (from Austin, TX) came to students and confiscated the Linux Live CDs. Next, she wrote an angry email to HeliOS's project founder, Ken Starks:
After confiscating the disks I called a confrence with the student and that is how I came to discover you and your organization. Mr. Starks, I am sure you strongly believe in what you are doing but I cannot either support your efforts or allow them to happen in my classroom. At this point, I am not sure what you are doing is legal. No software is free and spreading that misconception is harmful. These children look up to adults for guidance and discipline. I will research this as time allows and I want to assure you, if you are doing anything illegal, I will pursue charges as the law allows. Mr. Starks, I along with many others tried Linux during college and I assure you, the claims you make are grossly over-stated and hinge on falsehoods. I admire your attempts in getting computers in the hands of disadvantaged people but putting linux on these machines is holding our kids back.
This is a world where Windows runs on virtually every computer and putting on a carnival show for an operating system is not helping these children at all. I am sure if you contacted Microsoft, they would be more than happy to supply you with copies of an older verison of Windows and that way, your computers would actually be of service to those receiving them
Read on ken's reply: Linux – Stop holding our kids back
Perhaps, some one need to educate the teacher and point out that Linux is being used by governments, private & public corporations, and millions of embedded home appliances are powered by Linux.
Update – Dec., 12 2008: This matter is now closed and the student did get back Linux CDs after the class.
Updated for accuracy!

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Several times a week during
the winter Wayne Ashby walks
briskly from the H&S office
and down East Broad Street
to the Athletic Club of
Columbus, an H&S client.
A few minutes later he is
playing the first of several
hard games of squash.
To watch from the gallery
and observe Wayne's speed
and agility in this fastest
of court games is to marvel
at his energy. In fact,
he leaves many men ten years
his junior panting in his
wake. He breathes deeply
and perspires like his
opponents, but the effort
he puts into the game helps
him keep in shape. The
five club championships that
Wayne has won on the squash
courts tell the story.
The partner in charge of the
H&S office in the Ohio
capital city is a man on the
move—and not just in
athletics. He knows
everybody in town, or so it
seems when you walk down
the street with him and see
how many people in downtown
Columbus greet him on a
first-name basis. "Be
involved" is the example he
offers to the younger men
coming up on his staff.
Wayne Ashby is a living
example of the value to a
professional organization of
having an outgoing, warm
personality to go with the
abilities of the seasoned
professional and a
willingness to "be involved."
The success of the Columbus
Office speaks well of his
way of doing business.
When Wayne Ashby merged
his own public accounting
firm with H&S in 1961, the
office had only five people.
As the practice grew since
then, the office had to
expand its quarters in the
Empire Building three times
in nine years, more than
doubling its work load every
three years. In October 1970
the office moved into the
new Midland Building,
renting the entire nineteenth
floor and subletting about a
third of the 10,500 square


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—William Boyce, a collegiate national champion and former assistant coach at Yale, has been named freshman coach for the Harvard heavyweight crew, head coach Harry Parker has announced.
Boyce replaces Bill Manning, who has been promoted to associate head coach and will assist Parker, The Thomas Bolles Head Coach for Harvard Men's Crew, with the varsity program.
Boyce spent the previous two seasons as an assistant coach for the Bulldogs. He coached the freshman eight in 2009-10 and the third and fourth varsity eights in 2010-11, while overseeing domestic and international recruiting during both seasons. His third varsity posted a 4-0 record in dual competition last season.
A 2008 Cornell graduate, Boyce previously served as a coaching intern at his alma mater. He assisted the heavyweight varsity staff and coached the third varsity eight in the fall of 2009 after working with the Big Red lightweight squad the season before. He led the lightweight third varsity eight to a runner-up finish at Eastern Sprints.
At Cornell, Boyce rowed the six seat of the lightweight varsity eight as a senior and won gold at both the Eastern Sprints and IRA National Championships, as the Big Red pulled off a stunning come-from-behind victory in the last 500 meters to claim the national title. The crew went on to reach the quarterfinals of the Temple Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta.
Boyce was named to the All-Ivy League first team in 2008 and won the highly coveted Captains Award at Cornell for "outstanding performance by an oarsman as selected by the captain." He was a three-year varsity letterwinner and graduated with a degree in film. He was also part of the Sprints-winning Cornell lightweight second varsity as a sophomore and the silver-medal lightweight varsity as a junior.


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We just recently noticed that OSVDB was discussed during a podcast called Faceoff started by Jade Robbins and Mark Sanborn. In Episode 5: Scaling to Hit it Big, at about 19:54, they talk about OSVDB for several minutes. They cover the project in general and also review several of the basic features of OSVDB and how someone can use the site. They speak about the search capabilities and even mention that OSVDB has a vulnerbaility from back in 1965. This was submitted by Ryan Russell as part of our oldest vulnerability contest and I can now say Ryan has finally received his OSVDB schwag….. only took a couple years for him to get it! =)
They also explain how in addition to the website that the OSVDB database itself can be downloaded and used as well. To clarify a point they discuss, once you create an account with OSVDB you can download the database as many times as you want. They also spend some time discussing our Watchlist feature which I thought was pretty cool that it was mentioned. For those that are not aware, when you create an account you can then setup two types of Watchlists.
The Vendor/Product Watch list
This watchlist will alert you to vulnerabilities for specific products that you subscribe to. Alerts are generated when a vulnerability is updated to include the product and vendor information. Soon, we may introduce a feature that will enable alerting as soon as the vulnerability is processed through our systems.
The Mailing List Aggregation Watch list
OSVDB allows you to subscribe to roughly 20 vendor advisory mailing lists. The advisory mailings are sent to OSVDB, we process them, and forward them on to you. That way, rather than managing 20 individual advisory subscriptions, you only need to manage one through OSVDB.
Thanks to the guys at Faceoff for their support and it is worth listening to the entire podcast. It did make us laugh a bit as they commented at one point that WordPress has all kinds of vulnerabities. Most of our dedicated readers know the ongoing WordPress issues we had and our eventually move away from it! =)
Thanks also to Ryan Heimbuch for suggesting OSVDB to be reviewed.
OSVDB can also now be followed on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/osvdb


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The forthcoming 21.5-inch Apple iMac all-in-one will not be user upgradeable, according to reports.
Softpedia says that the new iMac's design and construction (apparently the RAM is soldered to the logic board) means that users have no choice but to stick with the amount of memory they select when purchasing the desktop. There is a choice of either 8GB or 16GB.
Previous iMac models have been upgradeable, at least when it comes to RAM. Users can unscrew a small panel, slide out the sticks of memory and replace them with faster modules.
Because buying RAM from a third-party retailer is far cheaper than paying Apple's prices, this has been an understandably popular feature. Happily, it continues with the larger of the new Apple iMacs: the 27-inch model can be configured with 8GB, 16GB or 32GB of RAM at purchase, or user upgraded later.
Apple has been moving towards non user-upgradeable products recently, beginning with the MacBook Air and continuing with the 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display (and most likely the 13-inch model also announced this week). So if you're someone who values the ability to add some extra zip to your computer later in its lifetime, your choices for a Mac are becoming a little more limited than they used to be.
The new Apple iMac models will be available in the UK in December. Prices are yet to be confirmed.
Are you surprised or angry about the 21.5-inch iMac's lack of upgradeability? Let us know your thoughts in the comments box below.


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NH rep pays $695 fine for hitting ducks
January 13, 2014 at 03:40 AM
The Associated Press
NASHUA, N.H. (AP) — A state lawmaker from Nashua has been cited for illegal taking of waterfowl after driving into a group of ducks last month and paid a $695 fine.
Rep. David Campbell, a Democrat, said Friday that the Nashua Police Department issued the violation, which he paid, as well as making a donation for the same amount to the New Hampshire Audubon Society.
Campbell again apologized and asked for forgiveness from anyone he offended and anyone who might judge him solely on the basis of an unfortunate accident.
Campbell said he accidentally ran over the ducks Dec. 23 outside the Crown Plaza Hotel.
A witness who was feeding the ducks called police. Campbell said he reported the accident to the state Fish and Game Department.
Copyright 2014 The Associated Press.


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Archives Posts
XAPGen 0.1 Alpha Release
If you missed the announcement post, go and read that to get the low-down.
XAPGen is a project to provide tools to help automate the generation of XULRunner projects and packaging for distribution.
I now have a first release using Ant, and have done preliminary testing on Windows, Linux, and Mac.
First, you can generate brand-new XULRunner projects just by passing in an app/project name. Then you will have a project that is ready-to-go to package apps for Windows, Linux, and Mac.
Here's what I used on the various platforms to get started:
- Mac OS X: Xcode Tools and you're up and running. You can create packages for all three major platforms
- Linux: Java SDK, and Ant. You can create packages for all three major platforms
- Windows: Cygwin, Java SDK, and Ant. You can create packages for Windows and Linux. (The Mac build relies on some UNIX tools not available in Cygwin)
There are also tasks for each platform: buildAndRunMac, buildAndRunWin, buildAndRunLinux. These will build and immediately run your app and open the Error console for debugging.
So this obviously isn't for the projects building custom XULRunner binaries from the Moz source tree, but rather for devs using XULRunner as-is.
There is a lot of stuff that I would like to do to make this even better. And there are some really cool ways to extend this. Right now I thought I would get a tracer bullet out-the-door first. (One thing I know I want to do soon is optimize the buildAndRun tasks better)
So if you get a chance to play around with this, let me know what you think.
Check out the README file for the details.
Download: XAPGen 0.1a


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Just in case you've been living under a rock for the past couple of days, let me be the last one to let you know that Barnes & Noble is selling a limited edition of the Nook Simple Touch e-reader, today only (November 25th 2001), for only $79, down from the regular $100.
First, I have no affiliation with Barnes & Noble whatsoever. Second, I thought I would post this here because I'm sure many of you are avid readers, just like I am. Fantasy and SF buffs usually are.
Why would you buy this e-reader? If you have an older reader that is not locked into, say, Amazon, this is a good buy. If you don't have an e-reader yet and are thinking about switching to e-books, this is also a good buy. Myself, I had an older reader, a Sony PRS-300 that served me well over the past 2 years. As of late, however, I felt the need for a better reader: a larger screen (the Sony has a 5" screen), faster page turns, screen with better contrast and also a touch interface.
The Nook Simple Touch has all the above: 6" screen that uses the new e-ink Pearl technology (which the latest Kindle also shares), much faster page turns and book loading than my old Sony, a dictionary, a longer lasting battery, WiFi, a responsive touch screen and a microSD slot. Compared to the Sony it does have 2 disadvantages: it is sightly taller and wider (but feels thinner because of the beveled back) and it doesn't have an aluminum face plate like the Sony. The bigger dimensions give it an extra wide bezel which allows you to told it better.
B&N are only offering this special edition for $79 today so if you like the deal, go now and buy it! The one thing that makes it "special" is the fact that it has a white bezel around the edge while the regular version has a black bezel. Otherwise it's identical to the regular Touch reader.
Here's B&N's page for this promo.
Personally I think this was a very good deal. E-reader prices will continue to go down but there are finally several choices under $100 and now's a good a time as any to buy a new reader. Here are some shots I took of my new reader, as well as a comparison to the Sony PRS-300 Pocket Edition.
Patch 1.0.5 commentary
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Who to Watch at Wimbledon
It's June and it's still cloudy in London and that can only mean one thing: tennis at Wimbledon kicks off Monday. So who should you be looking out for at the All England Club? WSJ's Joshua Robinson reports. Photo: Getty Images
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
I ... I ... it's you it's still cloudy wanted to let only mean one thing ... is when will the ... Socorro should you be looking out for over the next two weeks that the only one club ... among them into serious question surrounding defending champion Roger Federer ... the seven time ten team doesn't perform well he could easily slip to ... get ... hit in the world rankings ... in the draw means he could be dropped in a Dow seems to make a full comeback from knee surgery in the quarter finals ... the two have played on grass in that epic final into thousandeight Wishna don't want ... the home crowd meanwhile was pinned its hopes on who else but Andy Murray ... he won Olympic gold appeal when Club last year but lost in the Wimbledon final ... easier inevitably did two weeks when everyone in Britain seems to know that hasn't had a men's singles champion since Fred Perry in nineteen thirty six ... what about a man outside the usual suspects number four seed of the first quarter of the Coca be wide open ... the likes of wondrous and open for a one time US open winner ... report to meet revenue was free on action next ... on one side of things could begin in and with Serena Williams ... in winnings this year's French open the thirty one year-old shows that she could still be every bit as dominant as when she was twenty one ... she's looking at her sixth Wimbledon title ... but while the woman who could stop her is number three seed Maria sharp over ... the person lost to Williams in the final in Paris but could have a relatively untroubled path to the semifinals ... Number four seeded yes the red lines go like her wrote to the senses while ... she's had a quiet year should reach the final last year worse manners actually take a stand off with ... and this time around she would have to face anyone top three in the semifinals ... but really how likely is that the woman will permit a new women's champion


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Ikea kicks off crowdsourcing site with prizes, charity donation, hoopla
Ikea, the Swedish lifestyle megacenter with a store in Centennial, has launched the third year of its "Life Improvement Project" website, where you can upload pictures and the stories of your home projects – and maybe win a gift card.
The idea is that users can browse the projects for ideas for their own homes and share their favorites. For each project submitted, the company makes a $1 donation to Save the Children's national Early Steps for School Success program, up to $50,000.
If you want to know what a huge difference early childhood education makes, a radio piece on "This American Life" gives great insight.


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I guess you guys liked the lesson I did that consisted of two characters from a cartoon series. Today I thought I would draw another famous cartoon couple, and this time they will be from the Disney Collection. You know of Donald and Daisy right? Well, how about a tutorial on "how to draw Mickey and Minnie", step by step. These two characters are some of the main members that Walt Disney started his dream with. I have always been a fan of Minnie Mouse because she always reminded me of a meek, quiet, sensitive mouse that was always eager to give a helping hand. But even though she seemed really sweet, there was also a dark side to the soft toned Minnie. As you know Minnie was Mickey's girlfriend, and one of the things that will set of Minnie's "other side", is the nonsense that Mickey sometimes pulls. Like Daisy Duck, she will become extremely upset if Mickey does something wrong. I think that Mickey sometimes wants to do something bad so that Minnie pays attention to him. No matter how you think of these two Disney stars, there is no denying that when you "draw Mickey and Minnie" as a pair, there is no doubt that they are the sweetest couple around. The fun thing about coloring Minnie Mouse, is the ability to have her wear anything, in any shade there is. I had fun sketching the two main characters of "Mickey's ClubHouse", and I think you will too. I will be back once more so come back, or stay tuned in. Peace peeps, and remember to have some fun!
DragoArt members upload artwork and drawing tutorials! They are also allowed to leave comments on tutorials, profiles, etc. Many more features, as well; it's way better than just being a boring guest! Register Now!


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City Council President Todd Gloria is trying to keep alive a $45 million plan to makeover Balboa Park by asking the City Attorney's Office to provide "legal and legislative options" in response to a court ruling last week blocking the project.
Gloria, whose district includes Balboa Park, issued the memorandum Friday to City Attorney Jan Goldsmith, who has opined that the City Council could offer the project an exemption from the municipal code to allow it to proceed. The letter was made public Monday.
Superior Court Judge Timothy Taylor blocked the project in a Feb. 4 ruling in which he praised the project but said it violated the city law regarding permits for a substantial alteration to a historic resource. The project — championed by Qualcomm co-founder Irwin Jacobs — would create a bypass bridge to remove cars from Plaza de Panama and make it more pedestrian-friendly.
"I continue to support the Plaza de Panama project as approved by the City Council, and am firmly convinced, as Judge Taylor was, that its benefits far outweigh its impacts, even with regard to protecting the park's historical resources," Gloria wrote. "I am also firmly convinced that the city needs to fix the problem with its municipal code, as identified by Judge Taylor, or it may never be able to remove parking and traffic from the plaza."
Bruce Coons, executive director of Save Our Heritage Organisation, which successfully sued to stop the project, said his group would strongly oppose an attempt by the city to pass any amendment to the existing ordinance.
"The ordinance provides important protections to the city's historic resources, and no such resource is more important than Balboa Park," Coons said in a statement Monday. "Such an attempt to 'move the goal posts' after the case is finished and the court has made its order is wrong. Dr. Jacobs has said his plan is dead. We respect his decision and ask the City Council and city attorney to do the same. The existing ordinance was the result of a detailed, public, and well-considered process some years ago that requires alterations to valued historic properties to follow well-established rules that protect them."
In the judge's ruling, he said the city failed to prove a finding of economic hardship as required by the municipal code in approving the project. Such a finding requires that "there is no reasonable beneficial use of a property" absent the project under consideration. The judge said that is obviously not the case because it is currently being used as a parking lot, among other reasons.
Since the ruling, Goldsmith has said the City Council could adopt a project-specific exemption by ordinance, citing as an example the state Legislature's decision with regard to the California Environmental Quality Act for a new football stadium in Los Angeles.
The council is scheduled to discuss its legal options in a Feb. 26 closed session hearing, the first available opportunity.
Mayor Bob Filner, who opposed the project, didn't respond to a request for comment about Gloria's request for legal options. Any proposed change made by the council faces a potential mayoral veto, which would require six council votes to overturn.


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Cristina Kirchner Tries to Starve the Messenger
Cristina Kirchner is attempting to suffocate Argentina's independent media in an effort to keep a positive spotlight on her administration ahead of October midterm elections. WSJ's Americas columnist Mary Anastacia O'Grady reports. Photo: A.P.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... well argentino swelled with pride last week when Cardinal ... Jorge Bertolli overcame the Pope Francis ... but an Argentine newspaper when SARS has reported that not everybody in Argentina was so happy about this new development in here discuss it with me is are America's calm ... columnist Mary Anastasia O'Grady ... Mary ... Hyatt turns out that Tom departed to wear saris newspaper the Argentine government was so ... the folks ... down there who were not altogether true Older Virgo Leo and the compo that well we know that they were unhappy afterwords but what we found out this week was that one into an employer newspaper in Argentina ... I've ... I've found out in reported ... that the Argent high-end diplomatic immunity and Italy ... had band I and II distributing they had written and distributed a document ... designed to slander the Pope ahead of the election they gave it to Cardinal certain Cardinals ... in order to black in his name and and try to block his all action ... all right well what you think that ... Christina character's government would do it right to ... port ... of Bertolli overcoming of while he's been complaining alot about I'm of the poverty and corruption in Argentina and out she tried to certain list all the institutions to get behind her and too good ... to be supportive of her government ... any team did not sign on and he remained a as someone who advocated for the quarter very strongly ... and aam and basically stand up to the abuses that the government ... was engaged and let's talk a little goes Argentine institutions ... this is the independent media in Argentina ... and understand that the other is going to be some big midterm elections this fall there ... in Argentina has run into a spot the difficult economic news lately so Cristina Kirchner has all kind of a lot of ... bad things to deal with that moment right and she doesn't really want them to get out in the news ... I'd probably not very happy about this report from around ... and not very happy about lots of things that the press is reporting on related to the economy there's a very big ... Brazilian mining company that had a six point six billion dollar project mementos that they're pulling out ... I'm that peso in the black market because you know there's an official re there's a black market rate ... meant black market rate is it's really tight in a downward spiral ... and I'm basically people are losing confidence she wasn't ready control that's issues trying to ... silence the independent media and only had state run media ... well no there isn't defended me in Argentina years newspapers television magazines what is she doing to try to ... bring them to toe the line ... while that did the latest thing is that she has instructed the merchants and the largest supermarket chains and those merchants that sell appliances and electronics to stop advertising in the new stake in order to do that ... well she had as they say ... that she has had her one of her ministers ... tell them that they will stop ... and that the merchants are afraid that if they don't comply even on some law ... that they will ... have at undergo tax audits and very rigorous and perhaps a punishing tax audits ... I've that they'll be punished in terms of the import licensing because you can import anything you want Argentina license from the government ... and they might get investigations from the consumer Protection Agency which could put them out of business they could be levied with fines ... are also some things you can do to them so ... they decided they called the newspapers and said we're not in our pockets and then there's this well the government itself as the advertising of places and yes and all that advertising is going to either stay red media or those private companies that ... toe the line of the government ... rival banks Mariano that the new cargo from Argentina's going to be very much in the news that looks like present here there is intent on keeping herself in the news ... thanks so much thank him


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KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) — Rescue teams at Glacier National Park searched in wintery conditions and rugged terrain Sunday for two East Coast hikers reported missing by family members.
Park officials said 50 searchers were looking for 32-year-old Neal Peckens of Virginia and 32-year-old Jason Hiser of Maryland. Hometowns weren't available.
Weather was the biggest challenge facing searchers, who have found 18 inches of snow on the trail at higher elevations and five-foot drifts in some areas, spokeswoman Denise Germann said.
"The area they are working in is very steep and exposed," she said. "It's right along the Continental Divide, and it's very windy."
More rain and possibly snow in higher areas was expected on Sunday, she said. A helicopter dropped off some searchers inside the park early Sunday but Germann said low clouds moved in, preventing aerial searches.
The two were reported missing Friday after failing to catch a flight home from Montana. Their vehicle was found late Friday, and the search started Saturday.
Germann said it's not clear if they were prepared for cold weather, or if they have much experience in the backcountry. Searchers believe the two were hiking and not mountain climbing.
"We believe they are still in the park," she said. "We don't know what clothing or gear they've got."
Officials believe the two started hiking from the North Shore Trailhead at Two Medicine on the east side of the park on Tuesday and planned to return to Two Medicine on Wednesday, and then do some day hikes Thursday.
She said park rangers along with Flathead County Search and Rescue members were taking part in the search. She said some are on foot, some on horses and some searching with dogs.
The National Weather Service predicts mostly cloudy skies with a 50 percent chance of rain on Sunday with highs in the upper 50s to low 60s, dropping to the upper 30s or low 40s overnight. Winds are from the southwest at 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 45 mph.


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National Electricity Market
In this section
In this section
- Future Energy Systems
- Future Power System Security Program - reports and analysis
- Summer operations report 2019-20
- Power system operation
- Ancillary services
- Dispatch information
- Congestion information resource
- Demand response mechanism
- Generator performance standards
- Loss factors and regional boundaries
- Frequency Control Trials
- Optional firm access
- System Security Market Frameworks Review
- System Strength Impact Assessment Guidelines
- Interactive maps and dashboards
- NEM Electricity Demand Forecasts
- Forecasting Accuracy Reporting
- NEM Electricity Statement of Opportunities
- Reliability Standard Implementation Guidelines (RSIG)
- Scenarios, Inputs, Assumptions And Methodologies For Planning And Forecasting
- Integrated System Plan
- National Transmission Network Development Plan
- Victorian transmission network service provider role
- Independent regional planning reports
- Load forecasting in pre-dispatch and STPASA
- Solar and wind energy forecasting
- Transmission Connection Point Forecasting
- Generation information
- South Australian Advisory Functions
- Energy Adequacy Assessment Projection (EAAP)
- Value of Customer Reliability
- Demand Side Participation Information Guidelines
- Power System Frequency Risk Review
- Planning and network regulation
- The National Electricity Market (NEM) incorporates around 40,000 km of transmission lines and cables.
- It supplies about 200 terawatt hours of electricity to businesses and households each year.
- It supplies around 9 million customers.
- It has a total electricity generating capacity of almost 54,421 MW (as at December 2017).
- $16.6 billion was traded in the NEM in the financial year 2016–17.
- Strategic reserves of demand and generation resources of more than 1000 MW for 2017-18.
The NEM commenced operation as wholesale spot market in December 1998. It interconnects five regional market jurisdictions – Queensland, New South Wales (including the Australian Capital Territory), Victoria, South Australia, and Tasmania. Western Australia and the Northern Territory are not connected to the NEM.
The NEM involves wholesale generation that is transported via high voltage transmission lines from generators to large industrial energy users and to local electricity distributors in each region, which deliver it to homes and businesses.
The transport of electricity from generators to consumers is facilitated through a 'pool', or spot market, where the output from all generators is aggregated and scheduled at five-minute intervals to meet demand.
The pool is not a physical thing, but a set of procedures that AEMO manages in line with the National Electricity Law and National Electricity Rules.
The market uses sophisticated systems to send signals to generators instructing them how much energy to produce each five minutes, so production is matched to consumer requirements (spare capacity is kept ready for emergencies), and the current energy price can be calculated.
NEM infrastructure comprises both state and private assets managed by industry participants.
You can learn more in our National Electricity Market (893 KB, pdf) fact sheet.
For more information on the NEM, please contact the Support Hub.


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The Lipscomb Bisons golf team is tied for third after 36-holes Monday in the Fall Kick-Off Invitational hosted by Morehead State University at Wasioto Winds Golf Course in Pineville, Ky.
The Bisons combined for team scores of 292 and 299 for a two-round total of 591. They are tied with Northern Kentucky University which shot rounds of 296 and 295.
Southern Illinois leads the tournament with a team score of 580 (288-292). Host Morehead State is second with a 590 (299-291), one shot ahead of Lipscomb and Northern Kentucky.
Samuel Marcrom is leading the Bisons with a score of 146, with identical rounds of 73. He is tied for eighth overall.
Cory Parkinson is tied for 11th with a score of 147 (72-75). Also in the top 25 is Clint Suggs with a 151 (81-70) who is tied for 25th.
Rounding out the team for the Bisons are Brandon Mundie in a tie for 30th with a 152 (70-82) and Chad Rush in a tie for 45th with a 158 (77-81).
Also in the field for the Fall Kick-Off are Belarmine, John A. Logan, Tennessee-Martin and Walters State.


text: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 New PQRS Discussion Forum Launched APTA recently launched a new Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) discussion forum for members in APTA Communities. Members can find answers to frequently asked questions, post new questions, and share their experiences including best practices for reporting successes in this program. The new discussion board is part of APTA's efforts to increase member resources for this program in anticipation of the upcoming payment adjustments in 2015. The decision by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to use data from the calendar year 2013 reporting period to inform the 2015 payment adjustment for PQRS has prompted many physical therapists who have previously not participated in the program to begin reporting this year. To access the community, go to APTA Communities and click PQRS in the lefthand menu or use the direct link available on the PQRS page. Comments What PQRS questions do we need to fulfill as PTs Posted by Cliff Yun on 2/3/2012 2:03 PM I am just beginning to report this year and am confused about where to begin. Is there a site I can go to to obtain the proper codes? If medicare is not paying for the re-eval code how do we get them to accept our final code for a particular reporting area? Posted by Margaret on 2/14/2012 9:20 AM


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The second of three articles on the History of Trigonometry.
Noticing the regular movement of the Sun and the stars has led to a desire to measure time. This article for teachers and learners looks at the history of man's need to measure things.
This article tells you all about some early ways of measuring as well as methods of measuring tall objects we can still use today. You can even have a go at some yourself!
The first of three articles on the History of Trigonometry. This takes us from the Egyptians to early work on trigonometry in China.
Mathematics has always been a powerful tool for studying, measuring and calculating the movements of the planets, and this article gives several examples.
Calendars were one of the earliest calculating devices developed by civilizations. Find out about the Mayan calendar in this article.
If you would like a new CD you would probably go into a shop and buy one using coins or notes. (You might need to do a bit of saving first!) However, this way of paying for the things you want did. . . .


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mvmarcz wrote:Killbert-Robby wrote:If I remember well, middle of the eye signals the tip of the ear. Just a wee something I heard, throwing it out there.
I'm aware of where the ear sits and the spacing, but thanks
I wasnt saying you didnt, its just since you guys were arguing propotions and so on, I just threw in what little I knew. Dont want you getting the wrong idea.


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I want to make a generic list class for, let's say, storing a graph. For each node (raging from 1 to n) I keep a linked list for it's neighbors. But I don't want to make an array of lists. I want to use the generic class for making a linked list of linked lists. Roughly speaking, I want to obtain something like this: myList< myList<Integer> > Graph. How can I do it?
I will post a part of the code, to be more precise:
class Node<T>{ T key; Node<T> prevNode, nextNode; Node(T val) { key = val; } } class List<T extends Comparable<T>> { Node<T> FirstNode, LastNode; void insert(T val) { ... } void write() { ... } } class myMain { public static void main(String arg[]) { List< something > Graph = new List< something >(); .... } }
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Police catch man on the run
Chris Colomo accused of trying to run over sheriff's deputy
A man convicted of killing an Albuquerque mother while driving drunk is now accused of trying to run over a sheriff's deputy.
Chris Colomo has been on the run from police for months until Wednesday. Andrew Montoya didn't think authorities would ever catch Colomo.
"It's mixed emotions, but I'm just happy that he's behind bars now," Montoya said. "It ain't going to happen to anybody else now."
Colomo pleaded no contest in 2012 to killing Montoya's mother while driving drunk in 2009. His nine-year sentence was suspended with credit for time served.
However, he vanished the day after he first reported to state corrections for probation.
In January, Colomo racked up a domestic violence charge from Albuquerque police. Officials said he also tried to run over a Bernalillo County Sheriff's deputy at Tingley Beach, nearly hitting a family of four.
"He took my mother's life to begin with, then to actually go out and try to run an officer over tells me what kind of person he really is," Montoya said.
Police said they found Colomo on Wednesday. He tried to run from police, but their K9s stopped him. Authorities took him to the hospital for injuries sustained during the apprehension, but police said Colomo tried to escape through the hospital's ceiling.
Raton poice arrested Colomo on several charges, including resisting arrest and escape from custody.
The Bernalillo County District Attorney's Office will bring him back to court for violating his probation in the DWI homicide case.


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The Tommie defense held St. John's to 24 net rushing yards and made four second-half interceptions to help secure Saturday's 43-21 MIAC football road win over their archrival.
A Colllegeville crowd of more than 14,000 watched No. 6-ranked St. Thomas (3-0 overall, 1-0) extend its regular-season victory streak to 27 and its MIAC win streak to 20.
The Johnnies (2-1, 0-1) had a six-game win streak halted and had 60-year head coach John Gagliardi's 600th game at SJU end on a sour note.
The Tommies outscored St. John's 36-7 in the game's final 44:00 to build their first three-game win streak in the series since 1954-57 when they won four in a row. The 43 points are the third most for UST in 81 games of the Tommie-Johnnie series. St. Thomas scored 63 last season at home and 56 on the road in a 1986 victory.
UST scored on a 33-yard TD reception by Dan Noehring on its first play from scrimmage and later returned two interceptions inside the SJU four-yard line to set up touchdowns. One of the those was an 81-yarder returned to the Johnnies' one-yard line by senior Tyler Erstad in the fourth quarter to swing the momentum back to the Tommies.
The Tommies overcame three interceptions and 12 penalties. They gained 405 yards on offense. Ryan Toney rushed for 50 yards had three short touchdown runs. Logan Marks had a career-high six catches.
QB Matt O'Connell rushed for 56 yards and passed for 218 yards. He led UST to scoring drives of 80 and 72 yards in the last 10:00 of the first half. The latter drive was capped by a seven-yard TD pass to Marks with just two seconds left in the first half that put UST ahead 22-14 at halftime.
SJU starting QB Connor Bruns came into the game with an 71-percent completion rate on the season. He threw for 316 yards but completed only 17-of-36. The St. John's offense had gone 10 quarters this season under Bruns without a turnover before he was picked four times in the game's final 24:00.
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Envision Utah's Process
In 1997, Envision Utah began an unprecedented conversation about growth in Utah. The Envision Utah process represents a groundbreaking way for residents to participate in the establishment of a shared vision. The premise of the Envision Utah process is that the public has the right to decide the future, and the entire process is designed to allow the public to choose the path forward. Since Envision Utah's initial visioning effort in the 1990s, communities across Utah have invited Envision Utah to facilitate conversations where citizens can voice their hopes and dreams for their community's future. Envision Utah serves as a neutral facilitator. A diverse group of residents oversees the process to ensure it is transparent and represents the values of citizens.
Envision Utah uses interviews, mapping exercises, surveys and other means to hear from residents and uses that information to present different community scenarios based on the information gathered. Residents react to the scenarios and choose the future that best matches their vision. Based on public input, Envision Utah's voluntary recommendations for achieving that vision respect private property rights and are grounded in the realities of the local market. Local elected officials, along with residents, have the opportunity to implement the public's vision as they best see fit.
Any Envision Utah visioning process is overseen by a group of local stakeholders. This diverse group typically includes public officials from local jurisdictions, development professionals, conservationists, media, and community leaders, among others. The stakeholder group will be witnesses to the process – ensuring that all steps are done in a transparent manner based on sound public input. They will also help ensure that the process represents local values, tests ideas that have some pragmatic grounding, and is communicated in a way that makes sense to residents.
Setting the Stage
1. Stakeholder Involvement
Prior to the official start of the process, staff inform jurisdictions of the anticipated process and seek feedback from local officials. Staff also seek commitments to participate in good faith in the effort. A steering committee will be created representing public officials from local jurisdictions, development professionals, conservationists, media, and community leaders, among others. The steering committee will be witnesses to the process – ensuring that all steps are done in a transparent manner based on sound public input. They will also help ensure that the process represents local values, tests ideas that have some pragmatic grounding, and is communicated in a way that makes sense to residents.
2. Scoping
Based on the interviews and briefings from task 1, a review of past planning efforts, and input from the steering committee, additional detail will be added to the scope of work. This task includes selecting consultants, if necessary, and defining roles and responsibilities.
3. Values Analysis
This task involves an in-depth analysis of what residents value about living in the area. Care is taken to ensure equal demographic representation. This task is important because it helps elected officials and planners understand how growth, transportation and environmental issues can be solved to respond to residents most fundamental values about quality of life. This analysis also helps local leaders communicate the benefits of growth planning more effectively with residents.
4. Coordinate with Jurisdictions
The most effective way to ensure a substantial turnout in a process is to have local jurisdictions personally invite residents, such as through an invitation signed by the mayor. This task coordinates each of the jurisdictions' efforts to invite residents.
5. Establish "Baseline" Scenario
This baseline analysis provides a picture of the area's projected fate if current development trends continue. This acts as the control – helping us to understand the relative advantages and disadvantages of each alternative scenario. The baseline analysis may include: projection of land development, anticipated housing characteristics, air quality, traffic congestion and water consumption. The baseline analysis may also include an estimate of the market demand for various housing types into the future.
6. Public Relations Campaign for Launch
This task entails development of a campaign to inform resident of the consequences of the baseline scenario and a call to get involved in the process. Letters, newspaper and radio advertisements, media coverage, public events, etc., are used to educate the public about pertinent issues and possible consequences. Educating residents is critical for informed public participation in the process.
Public Workshops
1. Public Workshops
During the public workshops, attendees learn of the area's projected future (the Baseline Scenario) and its attendant impacts on transportation, air quality, infrastructure, etc. An educational presentation provides background information on issues to consider. Keypad polling—an interactive wireless survey technology—and on-line polling may be used to gather public input.
Workshop attendees may also engage in a mapping exercise. Through this exercise, groups of approximately ten interested citizens, appointed officials, business owners, and land owners brainstorm their preferred future for the area. Each group uses a map with an air-photo color-coded with information about the area, such as developed land, land uses (commercial, residential, industrial, parks and open space), extent of sensitive lands (e.g., hillsides, floodplains, areas of significant plant life), and key landmarks. On this map, each group negotiates among themselves areas to delineate for growth and for conservation, and they will represent the form they would like growth to take, using chips that represent different types of housing, commercial and mixed-use forms of development, etc. Each table aims to have a microcosm of all the parties interested in the long-term success of the area. Having participants who represent diverse opinions come together to brainstorm a long-term future tends to produce pragmatic yet often innovative solutions.
2. Summarize and Disseminate Results
The workshop mapping results are entered into a GIS system. This enables staff to develop scenarios in a transparent fashion, demonstrating how public responses were incorporated into scenario concepts. This task also involves disseminating through a newsletter the key public ideas gleaned from workshop results. The keypad polling results also shape the development of draft guiding principles as well as give a sense of residents' values towards growth issues.
1. Scenario Development
This task involves the development of scenario maps that project a variety of ideas of how private development, transportation investments and environmental conservation might occur in the future. This task involves a number of opportunities to refine the scenarios using feedback from local planners and the steering committee. Future quality of life is projected for each scenario, such as what will air quality be like?, how much traffic congestion?, how extensive will development be?, or what is the mix of housing that is pictured? These quality-of-life benchmark criteria help residents understand the consequences of the land-use and transportation strategies embodied in each scenario. This approach also allows the public to compare various quality-of-life measures among all scenarios, including the baseline scenario.
2. Evaluation of Scenarios
After alternative scenarios are developed and tested, community meetings are scheduled. Here, the scenarios are evaluated by residents and results are made know to the general community. The community meetings are opportunities to learn which elements within each scenario have the most public support. On-line surveys are another avenue for the public to evaluate the scenarios.


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After Ukraine, Russians brace for repressions
A previous version of this story misidentified lawmaker Alexander Sidyakin.
MOSCOW — Russians are facing a new wave of repressive measures in a Kremlin bid to bolster domestic control after its annexation of Ukraine's breakaway Crimea, say human rights activists.
Several bills proposed by lawmakers here this week seek to prevent the kind of street demonstrations that gripped Ukraine's Kiev earlier this winter, leading to the ouster of Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych.
"I don't want for the streets of Russian cities to turn into Grushevsky Street," lawmaker Alexander Sidyakin posted on Twitter earlier this week, referring to a Kiev street that saw deadly clashes between pro-European demonstrators and police in February.
Sidyakin was one of three lawmakers who introduced a controversial draft bill into Russia's State Duma on March 31 that would increase penalties for violating laws on protest rallies. Under current laws, Russians need permission from city authorities to hold a public demonstration and are forbidden from holding unauthorized rallies.
If passed, the new bill would introduce fines of more than $28,500 for repeat offenders and jail terms of up to five years. In another proposal in the Duma, police would be allowed to use lethal force against civilian protesters.
The drive to stiffen penalties for peaceful protests is directly connected to Russia's policy towards Ukraine, which Moscow claims underwent an illegal, armed coup organized by "fascists," said Tatyana Lokshina, head of the Russian branch of Human Rights Watch.
"Everything that is happening now is going to be motivated by preventing a Euro-Maidan," Lokshina said, referring to the pro-European demonstrations on Kiev's central maidan, or square.
The reverberations are being felt among Russia's own dissidents, six of whom were being tried this week in Moscow for violent clashes between demonstrators and police during a rally in May 2012, on the eve of Vladimir Putin's inauguration for a third term as president.
The protesters were the last of 28 prosecuted for actions during the rally in the last two years. Seven protesters were sentenced to terms of up to four years in prison this week following trials in which the events in Ukraine were brought up in the courtroom.
"I am seeing attempts by (the prosecution and witnesses) to tie us to Maidan," Dmitry Agranovsky, a lawyer for protest leader Leonid Razvozzhayev, who, along with Left Front leader Sergei Udaltsov, faces up to 10 years in prison for organizing the 2012 rally against Putin.
Agranovsky says a Moscow city official called by prosecutors to the witness stand this week compared the 2012 clashes in Moscow to those in Kiev, even though his client supported Russia's annexation of Crimea.
"Maybe (the government is trying to) punish its own people so that others are afraid," Agranovsky said.
Ilya Ponomaryov, an opposition lawmaker from the left-leaning Just Russia party, said the Kremlin is exploiting Russian support for the Crimea takeover to crack down at home.
"There is this patriotic wave, and the authorities are using it to try to wipe out the opposition," said Ponomaryov, the only member of the parliament who voted against the annexation of Crimea.
On Thursday, pro-government lawmaker Irina Yarovaya proposed toughening the penalty for organizing mass unrest from 10 years to 15 years. Lawmakers from Russia's upper house of parliament, the Federation Council, met last week with Putin urging tighter control over street protests.
Putin approved of the move, but warned against excesses, said state media.
"I urge you not to make decisions that would significantly curtail civil rights," Putin was quoted by ITAR-TASS as saying.
Rights activists say the aim appears to be to wipe out the protest movement.
"The first phase of the clampdown was ideological. But the real steps (toward repression) have just begun," said Lokshina. "These initiatives are aimed at suppressing civil rights. If (Sidyakin's) amendments are passed ... they will virtually destroy the possibility of free assembly in Russia."
Anti-Kremlin activists say Moscow is introducing the same restrictions on protests that were passed in January by Yanukovych's government and led to an uproar among the people and Yanukovych's ouster.
"This is exactly what caused the protests in Kiev to get violent in January," Ponomaryov said.
"There is nothing good about this," Ponomaryov added. "Lawmakers are scrambling to show the president how loyal and patriotic they are."


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Does it make you angry when someone of faith tells you they'll pray for you? I find it insulting. Some others do not, though, as some see this as an expression of gratitude.
What do you think?
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It does bother me, but people worry about others in their own way. If you make it known to people that their particular way of worrying about you is wrong, it just makes you an asshole.
If it's after a religious debate in which I've bested them and that's their end argument, I just say, "That's just like masturbating. It might make you feel good, but it doesn't do anything for me".
But in other cases, I just say thank you.
Thank you for that Ken
I consider it false sincerity, there is no altruism involved, what they are saying is "God look at me, I'm praying for this person, I am good"; it's a selfish act not a selfless act.
Usually when people tell me that I can sense from their tone and the context that they mean it more along the lines of 'I want the best for you. I care about you.' It's a very easy way to express concern, support, or love without getting too personal and emotional. This doesn't bother me.
On the other hand, it does irritate me in certain circumstances because it can also be a pretty handy cop-out of actually providing tangible support. Sometimes I feel like saying, "really? you could pray for me...or you could offer to support me in a way that could actually benefit me. Also, it's ok to say, 'hey, that sucks and I wish things were different for you.'"
Mainly I feel awkward when people do this because I have to come up with a response that is appropriate. If they mean well, I usually want to express gratitude but not in a way that legitimizes prayer. It's a bit of a balancing act. I hear this a lot at work, where I am in the atheist closet, so at those times I get a little cranky about having to do extra verbal acrobatics while covering my ass.
RE: "It sometimes feels like a good way to brush me off and not get involved while still wanting to appear concerned about me."
If you don't mind a mixed metaphor, I think you've nailed it in a nutshell.
I find it incredibly arrogant if coming from a complete stranger. I was in the park with my 8 year old son and was approached by a catholic missionary, when I expressed no desire for a conversation and told her I was an atheist she looked at my son sadly and said " But you have such a lovely boy, I will pray for you both".
I thanked her and said " And I will read The God Delusion on your behalf. Thankfully she then left and that was that.
If it is said in a condensing manner then I will reply;
"Wow! It must be amazing to be able to talk to the creator of the universe and know you can get him to do things for you. That he will actually change his plan for the world because you ask him is fascinating. My Christian friend lost his arm so would you mind asking your God to help him regrow it as his own prayers don't seem to work. Thanks very much".
It doesn't bother me. When somebody tells me they'll pray for me, I always respond by thanking them for their concern for me. But I always say it in a manner that makes it clear that I'm thanking THEM, while not expecting anything from their imaginary deity.
My back was realy bad once and a client told me that he would pray for God to heal my back. I said thank you and thought to myself can not wait to get home have a pain killer and a good glass of red wine.That should work faster.
My response would be, "OK, just so I'm clear on what you're saying, you intend to communicate telepathically with an extraterrestrial entity, whom you hope will magically arrange future events of my life so that they will occur in my favor - is that about it?"


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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Addicts in America
Anyone who hasn't worked with addicts doesn't know how charming and persuasive they can be. The addict is the distilled ego focused on a single burning need. All the cleverness and intelligence of the human being, the attributes that we would ordinarily use to work, create, befriend and empathize, become tools for protecting the addiction and the supply.
Addicts are intense because they are among the few people in this world who know exactly what they want. They can be charming, but their routines are mechanical. They retain only enough of their humanity to charm us into giving them more of what they want. It is their only reason for interacting with us. The addict is pure ego and the drug is the only focus of their ego. The addict needs so badly that he or she becomes an incarnation of need. Their humanity is slowly or rapidly burned away leaving behind nothing but the animal need, their outer characteristics consumed by their ego and then their ego consumed by the id.
The girl was no friend or family member of mine. I had seen many like her and as our civilization unwinds into its own night of the soul, there will be many more like her. Having all the advantages of life, she was desperately unhappy and like so much of the modern world that tunes in to Oprah for tips on how to be happy, that browses self-help sections on a desperate quest for happiness, she was still trying to be happy. Her cry was the cry of a country addicted to emptiness and losing its soul.
I do not come to judge or to moralize about how people live their lives. Even the best of us are flawed and even the worst of us have their moments of redemption. Many are addicts of one kind or another, becoming tethered to the thing that assures us happiness, even as it seems to drain us of something vital. Many such addictions can be harmless, but when an addiction becomes unsustainable, then it becomes a death sentence. A death of the soul followed by the death of the body.
While I sat there, trying to ignore the noises, the shrieks of pain, the pleas for help and the mumbles, the Republican Convention was beginning to recede. My fingers tapped out the essay on a 3'5 inch screen that would become, "How to Write About the Republican Convention." Ahead of me lay the Democratic Convention, the addicts convention, the festival of that corner of America that was not so slowly losing its soul.
I did not, I could not anticipate the full insane spectacle of it at the time. No one could have. But I sensed that it would sound a lot like the heroin addict in the bed, shrieking at her parents, changing emotional pitches in a moment from hysteria to sweetness, turning on the momentary charm with the nurses, innocently assuring the staff that she was not a user. And it did. It was a lunatic addict festival with designs by LSD and math by cocaine addicts fresh from Wall Street and social programs from potheads.
All that outrage over Mitt Romney's 47 percent hits home because we are all users. Some of that usage is more legitimate. Some of us are using money that we put in there as insurance and some of us are using money that we didn't. But that's not the real story. The real story is that our social safety net was supposed to be like one of those, "Take a Penny, Leave a Penny" tills that depend on the honor and neighborliness of a community. And we don't have that community. What we have is a fragmented mess of givers and takers who are not the same people.
This isn't about wealth or class. Some of the wealthiest men in this country, like Warren Buffett, are parasites who feed off taxpayer money. Some of the poorest men and women work hard for a living and put back more than they take out.
It's about community. It's about who we are as a country. It's about the America of the people who feel ashamed when they aren't doing their best to work and the America of the people who feel ashamed when they don't take the system for every penny they can. It's about who feels that they owe and who feels that they are owed.
The left talks about community a great deal, but their vision of community is a giant till where everyone is forced to put their money and their bureaucracy decides how many people get to keep what percent of their money and how many get to keep other people's money. There is none of the individual responsibility that makes a community work, only the obligation to follow orders all the time for the greater good. There is no community, only ranks of addicts waiting to be taken care of.
The essence of a community is that its individual members feel a sense of responsibility toward one another. Without that sense of responsibility, we all become takers, tuning in to listen to the latest government announcement to learn how much we can expert to make and how much we will lose. We become experts at wheedling government officials, we all become lobbyists and a lobbyist is a paid representative for someone else's addiction.
It is the ego that defines the addict, that terrible sense of need that becomes the mirror of the self, and for all the talk of community, it is that need and that accompanying fear that the need will be cut off, that defined the Democratic National Convention, with its special pitches to the most addicted groups, promising that unlike the Republicans, we will never cut off your supply. At least not until we start running low and all the apartments of the people with money are broken into and then we'll have to start deciding who gets the good stuff and who gets a death panel.
Liberalism has defined entire groups by their need, their addiction to the supply of government, and taught them to feel an angry entitlement to their welfare checks. It has taught them that they are good people for wanting to take other people's money and that anyone who doesn't want to give them what they want is a bad person. This is addict moralizing, the spectrum of moral behavior in which the only thing that exists is the need and the barriers to meeting that need.
Addiction goes by different names now. Racism is one of them, but there are many names and they all mean the same thing. "I want," the koan of addiction, the incantation that becomes the identity of the addict as the one who needs. "I scream, you scream, we all scream for more, more and more." The rhetoric, the talk of privilege, the academic papers, are only the complex rationalizations of addicts, their mechanical arguments for doing what they want and taking what they want.
This kind of addiction is unsustainable. It is personally unsustainable, it is communally unsustainable and it is nationally unsustainable. A nation where takers begin to outnumber givers cannot endure. It has no future and barely has a present. A nation run by a 'former' cocaine user who is forever tossing out schemes for fixing everything that have all the substance of an addicts' plans to get clean is in deep trouble.
Addicts do not get by on results, they get by on personal charm and schemes. They get by on tricking people into meeting their needs. And that convinces them that, like all criminals, they are very clever. The more suckers they lure in, the more convinced they become that they are unstoppable, that they will go on flying forever beyond the sunset on their drug of choice.
Money is our current drug of choice and like all drugs it appears infinite. We are buying our own debt and selling it back to ourselves and lending ourselves the money to buy our own debt in a spiral that seems beautiful and sensible to an addict, but is a complete disaster to anyone still functioning in the real world.
Obama's solution to all problems is to shoot up more money. Billions, trillions, it doesn't matter because the money is unreal and therefore infinite. It works because we believe in it and he's in office because he convinced people to believe in him. To him, money, like his persona, is an act of faith and all he has to do is convince everyone to go on believing. And if we ever stop believing, then like a certain coyote with his own improbable schemes, we will crash down to the ground.
The addict seeks the unreal state because it makes him happy. It is the real world that depresses him. Enough Americans chose to shoot up Obama and a smaller number are still committed to their hope drug because he makes them happy. And fooling them makes Obama happy. All the money is just a counter that everyone trades back and forth in exchange for happiness. Trillion dollar deficits are how we know we're getting high.
America can have a social safety net, but it has to be one based on the responsibility that we all feel toward one another, not on empty cynical rhetoric about "giving back" to people who feel no sense of responsibility for anyone outside their own group. That's just a nation of enablers propping up a nation of addicts until the addicts outnumber them and the country collapses into one big Detroit. It cannot be based on the empty promises and lies, that sound no different whether they are coming from Obama or a 19-year-old heroin addict. It cannot be based on charm or ignorance of the truth.
Whatever social safety net we have must be communal, it must be open and transparent, and it can only be maintained by a nation of honorable people, by people who feel guilty about taking a penny and feel good about leaving a penny. Anything else is just one more hit.
37 comments:
- Roadmaster said...
We're outnumbered by "addicts" in my neighborhood. Some were already useless piles of human debris 4 years ago but most were not, and have only come to their present station in life through no fault of their own. Regardless, they're all on the take now and looking for more. I have talked to a few of them who realize what the primary factor in their decline - dhimmicrats - and they don't plan to vote for any this cycle, so that's good.
That's my "hope" for the day.
- 25/9/12
- Jackson said...
This is the best single column you have ever written, and you have written many great columns. Congratulations. Thanks. Well done. This will be sent to everyone I know several times between now and election day, it says what needs to be said.
- 25/9/12
- S Richard said...
What kind of safety net do you imagine? Libertarians have mentioned the plans offered by fraternal organizations before the New Deal brought in Social Security, but it's hard to imagine private insurance companies paying on disability claims or annuities for as long as people live today.
- 25/9/12
- Keliata said...
I have to agree with everything Jackson wrote about this column. It is without a doubt your best article, and I've read your blog for years.
Brilliant from start to finish.
- 26/9/12
- john darcy said...
Yet another in a long line of magnificently written essays. How can someone read this powerhouse, and not be enlightened?
- 26/9/12
- Anonymous said...
Frightening in your accuracy and insight. Amazingly frightening - not just the Democrat Convention and what drives Obama, but what can Romney really do?
Not much is my response - radical surgery for a radical cure. Our return from the brink of extinction promises to be even more painful than our possible demise.
Yet, let us rest assured, the Obamabots will be harping in the background; whispering in our ear, if only...if only... This inner voice is the real enemy of the addict. Perhaps severe heartache can cleanse our country from it's foolishness.
- 26/9/12
- meema said...
Is it better to be an addict, completely unaware of imminent desolation, focused only on the drive to satisfy a momentary need, or one who is able to see the destructive forces in play, utterly helpless to do anything other than be a witness? If I had to choose, I'd still rather be the later.
I wonder, do you suppose there were any good thinkers left to ponder the demise of Rome as it declined toward the day it fell to the Visigoths?
- 26/9/12
- Anonymous said...
Wonderful and yet chilling article. You have synthesized the random thoughts and ideas floating around in my head as I take in the latest reported "plans" and "fixes" to our economic woes and then look to see the reality that exists. Ordinary people with good sense and a vision of their place in the world can follow the dots and know that it is simply impossible for those that actually contribute through taxes, government fees, volunteering and charity to give enough to sustain the takers that our government continues to introduce to the equation. How did we get here and how do we get out of here? That is an answer I don't have but I know it will be a painful process.
- 26/9/12
- Anonymous said...
Your commentary explains why Michelle obongo has to continually bring up slavery and all hardships on minorities. This is to justify the jizya/tax on Whites regardless of real justice or really who is to blame for perceived wrongs. I personally blame islam. Lars
- 26/9/12
- Anonymous said...
If the republicans were smart they would say that the drug war is a lost cause and work to decriminalize the federal sentence on drug possession. Get the government out what people do with their bodies. Aren't the neo- cons always preaching about small government. Gary Johnson 2012!
- 26/9/12
- Matt Strictland said...
Very well written and as someone who has been around junkies , you "get" them better than anyone I have read in a long time .
I have to quibble on a point.
A Conservative Society cannot be Economically Liberal as like Social Liberalism such constructions are inherently unstable.
The current fragmentation of society is a much though not entirely a result of industrial civilization, the business class and its disdain for the social good.
The quest for more profits as the only good (money addiction) created a backlash in the form of redistribution and liberalism.
To build social capital people need to be able to stay in one place if they wish live, work, play and die there for generations preferably with not too many newcomers.
For their part businesses need to be balanced between individual gain and the common good. few manage this but its possible.
Fail to do this and you grow the State. State falls apart, we'll future America will not be pleasant.
- 26/9/12
- Tim Taylor said...
Genius. Pure genius. Elegantly articulated and well considered. Count me as a fan.
- 26/9/12
- Tim Taylor said...
Genius. Pure genius. Elegantly articulated and well considered. Count me as a fan.
- 26/9/12
- Expat said...
>>Warren Buffett, are parasites who feed off taxpayer money.
How did Buffett 'feed off taxpayer money'?
- 26/9/12
- American Genie said...
Another masterful piece, Daniel. Thank you.
Without going into great detail I will say that my situation is quite iffy right now with relatives pressuring me to sign up for this or that entitlement program, and not one of them understanding that I have no intention of doing so because it is not the government's job to take care of me. I will not become a ward of the government.
Your essay has given me a new resolve to stay clear of the pushers and enablers.
- 26/9/12
- LP said...
'Parasite'. .
Buffet gives half his income to charity.
Can most people say that?
- 26/9/12
- Bilejones said...
"America can have a social safety net, but it has to be one based on the responsibility that we all feel toward one another"
And that's the reason why the most successful countries with social safety nets are the least diverse.
Sweden, for example has (the last time I looked) a population of over 90% native Swede's with the swarthy Finn being the largest contingent of foreigner.
- 26/9/12
- marekf said...
Other than the Buffet remark (could you please justify it)the article just fully resonates with my thinking and feeling.
- 26/9/12
- Anonymous said...
Expat - Buffet got bailed out by Bush and Obama.
- 26/9/12
- Anonymous said...
Well we can place a lot of the blame on Liberalism and morons elected into public office. For too long we have listened to the bleeding hearts and failed to see that illegal drugs are being used to destroy this country. Every "bag of weed" sold is helping to sponsor Mexican Narco Terrorism, ecery shot of heroin, that helps to fund al-Queda and other groups.
- 26/9/12
- Wayne C Anderson said...
Great article, Daniel. Thanks. It is overwhelming to think that so many of us have been asleep and let the our leadership in this nation pull off this plan to get so much of the population "addicted." My question is, are we awake enough now - soon enough - to turn this boat in the right direction without tossing everything and everyone overboard? I notice that more are coming awake with each day, out of the stupor that we've been in. I have hope - just not Obama's kind... Again, thanks.
- 26/9/12
- expat said...
Bilejones, according to wikpedia "As of 2011, Statistics Sweden reported that around 19.6% or 1.858.000 inhabitants of Sweden had foreign background, defined as born abroad or born in Sweden by two parents born abroad."
While Sweden is doing well in many areas, it does have its problems some of which spell trouble in the near future, like a youth unemployment rate of 25%
To Anonymous and whoever wants to jump in about Buffet - I have no axe to grind here. I'd just like to know the justification, the facts, for saying he fed off of taxpayer money. Something more specific than "was bailed out". I'm asking because I don't know.
- 26/9/12
- cdnbn said...
As a recovering addict, I recognize the dynamics of the condition.
Traditionally, it is understood that the addict needs to "hit bottom", and realize the runaway train they are on, and the reality of the death that will ensue if they continue.
Often, they need to really experience almost dying in order for the reality to break in on them.
And then, to re-establish themselves on a spiritual basis, acknowledging and trying to work with G-d.
Maybe Hashem is bringing us to the brink, because that is what we need.
- 26/9/12
- Daniel Greenfield said...
Buffett needed the TARP bailout more than most. In all, Berkshire Hathaway firms received $95 billion in TARP money. Berkshire held stock in Wells Fargo, Bank of America, American Express, and Goldman Sachs, which received not only TARP money but also Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) backing for their debt, worth a total of $130 billion. All told, TARP-assisted companies constituted a whopping 30 percent of Buffett's publicly disclosed stock portfolio. The folksy outsider with his home-spun investment wisdom, the Houston Chronicle concluded in an April 2009 investigative piece, was "one of the top beneficiaries of the banking bailout."
In the fall of 2010, Buffet wrote a "Thank You, Uncle Sam" op-ed piece in The New York Times, praising the role that the government played in stabilizing markets throughout the crisis. There was no disclaimer or disclosure of how much he personally gained from TARP or the Public-Private Investment Program. He simply endorsed both as good public policy. At the bottom of the article he was identified this way: "Warren E. Buffett is the chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, a diversified holding company."
Again, to be clear, even though Buffett was the one who proposed the public-private partnership, there is absolutely nothing illegal about lobbying for a policy while investing in the companies that stand to gain most if that policy is adopted. But consider this: Had Buffett instead pushed a private investment house to make an acquisition that would benefit certain stocks while quietly buying shares in those same stocks, he would have been vulnerable to charges of insider trading.
Indeed, this is what his lieutenant David Sokol was accused of doing in 2010, landing him in legal hot water. Sokol, who resigned amidst insider trading accusations, apparently bought shares in Lubrizol, a chemical company, and then encouraged his employer, Berkshire Hathaway, to buy a large stake in the company, thereby driving up the price of the stock. All Buffett did differently was use the federal government instead of a private company to boost the fortunes of certain stocks. This is why crony capitalism is so perennially attractive to financiers: It's legal, and it's often more remunerative than the illegal private-sector version might be. Because government officials are dealing with other people's money, they are less likely than a private firm to drive a hard bargain.
- 27/9/12
- Expat said...
Daniel, Thank you for the detailed reply.
- 27/9/12
- Jeanbean14 said...
Fantastic essay! First one I've read, but I'll be back for more!
I'd forward this to my friends and family, but they seem to be too in love with Obama to absorb any truth about him and his "dreams."
Maybe I'll forward it anyway....
Thanks for an excellent read!!! Blew me away!
- 27/9/12
- Anonymous said...
I've read alot of articles and opinion columns today. Yours was the most meaningful one. Excellent writing and analysis of our worsening human condition. God help us all.
- 27/9/12
- cdnbn said...
Another factor in addiction recovery is the central importance of changing to live with an orientation to SERVE others, and abandoning the selfish, self-centered (entitled?) orientation which is at the core of the addicted life.
Certainly could see that pertaining to the national situation.
- 27/9/12
- Anonymous said...
Excellent article. As usual you have far more insight into, well, just about everything, than most of us.
But I am curious. What were you doing in the ER? Do you work there, or were you accompanying a family member, or were you having a heart attack (I sincerely hope not), or what?
- 27/9/12
- Daniel Greenfield said...
I was there with a family member.
- 27/9/12
- marekf said...
Thanks for the detailed reply about Buffet.
- 27/9/12
- Bilejones said...
expat said...
I'd not seen that 2011 report. they must have had a flood on immigrants in the past decade. I looked at it ten years ago as my wife (of Swedish origin) was doing some primitive genealogy. If those numbers are correct I predict great trouble for the Swedish economic model on the next ten to twenty years.
I'm being visitated by a trio of Swedes at the end of October, I'll raise the topic after a couple of sherbets, you get a more accurate reading then.
As for Buffett, This is a bit of a crude rant but largely factually correct
- 27/9/12
- Bilejones said...
Look at this chart:
How to change the population of a country.
Immigration almost doubled up 50,000 a year (in a country of less than 10 mill.)
Emigration up by 25%
The Swedes seemed to have reconciled the irreconcilable for several decades.
No more
- 27/9/12
- Anonymous said...
Excellent piece.
I am 28 years in recovery through the Grace of God and the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, and as to recovery from addiction I speak only from my own experience, nothing to do with AA.
If there were a hypothetical composite American today, I would say he/she is addicted to the "Free stuff". All the pushers in the Oval Office, on "K" Street and in my community will tell me that we can tax and spend our way out of this. As you put it so well,"...just one more hit..."
They are peeing on our heads and telling us it is rain.
I would separate the disease of addiction from the addict, because the you-name-the-drug is in charge of the person when it's being used. So, the Primary relationship the addict has is not with his/her children, spouse, family, community or nation. It is, first and foremost with the drug. Let's call it free money here.
As with the other addictive substances, nationally in this case, the cycle of use needs to be broken. We need to stop putting the s**t in our systems completely.
This is not to say that all social help programs stop. No, some are healthy. Thepeople who benefit from these are like "normal drinkers", they don't abuse, lie cheat,steal and charm to get more or to remain in line for benefits. They walk away from it and get on with their lives.
No attempt to ceasethis abuse will work until and unless the addict has hit bottom, realizes that life as he/she knows it will never be the same should the abuse continue.
Without that "surrender" to reality, personally or nationally, the addict will craft escapes from reality and soon die of the addictive disease.
This is called choosing life over death.
- 2/10/12
- Anonymous said...
People who smoke weed are not addicts. Marijuana is NOT addictive. Someone who tells you otherwise has no clue what they are talking about or they rare just out and out LYING.
- 5/10/12
- Jeremy Janson said...
"The essence of a community is that its individual members feel a sense of responsibility toward one another. Without that sense of responsibility, we all become takers, tuning in to listen to the latest government announcement to learn how much we can expert to make and how much we will lose." No that defines genuine individualism with duty and honor, but duty and honor have been dirty words since World War I. Individualistic societies are in decay because the more romantic aspect of what it means to be an individual has been lost. There was a really great recruiting poster from World War I in Britain that simply showed "Surely you will fight for" and then a picture of Britain, an "and", and a picture of the monarch at that time. Collectivist societies can survive on pure cold-blooded reason, like the serial killers that they frequently become, but individualistic societies must have feeling or they are nothing.
- 31/10/12
- R Johnson said...
Your keen insight into the hopelessness of one who is caught up in the cycle of addiction is remarkable. Fortunately there is hope for all who sincerely seek recovery and for them, a restored future is possible.
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