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Motion sensor component maker InvenSense (INVN) are up 75 cents, or almost 5%, at $16.45, in late trading after the company this afternoon reported Q2
Revenue in the three months ended in June rose 43%, year over year, to $55.9 million, yielding EPS of 14 cents.
Analysts had been modeling $54.4 million and 12 cents per share.
CEO Behrooz Abdi said it was "a very exciting time for the company" and that "customer design activity and confirmed design wins at customers has never been stronger."
The company will host a conference call with analysts at 4:30 pm, Eastern time, this evening, and you can catch a webcast of it on the company's investor relations Web site.
With its products in multiple mobile devices, InvenSense may be seen as something of a proxy for the smartphone and tablet industries. Northland Capital Markets analyst Tom Sepenzis, reiterating an Outperform rating, wrote in a note to clients this morning that the company probably benefited in the quarter from "solid" sales of the Galaxy S4 phone from Samsung Electronics (005930KS) but weaker sales of BlackBerry (BBRY) handsets. He also said the company can look forward to the roll-out of LG Electronics's (066570KS) "G2" flagship phone this quarter, and possible inclusion in Google (GOOG) forthcoming "X Phone."
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The most sought out answer the Street will be looking for on the earnings call will be if INVN has landed Apple (AAPL) as a new customer, and in what capacity. AAPL currently uses ST Micro (STM) for their sensors, but we believe that INVN is well positioned with its 3 and 6-axis gyros to enter the mix in the Fall. We have refrained from modeling in any future AAPL revenue, providing room for significant upside to our estimates. We don't believe an AAPL win is baked in and any hint by management that INVN captured a spot in the iPhone 5S or lower-cost iPhone should push the stock higher.


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Minnesota residents enrolled in colleges and universities that were closed due to hurricane Katrina and subsequent flooding can qualify for Minnesota's largest financial aid program, according to an announcement by the Minnesota Office of Higher Education. The agency will waive its requirement that eligible students must be pursuing a degree at a Minnesota institution. The policy modification mirrors a similar waiver granted since the disaster by the U.S. Department of Education for federal aid and applies only to students displaced by the recent natural disaster.
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Congrats. I'm not a fan of the coach as a person, and I'm indifferent toward the program, but the style of play is a joy to watch. In fact, it's by far the saving characteristic on any level of football right now. Imagine if Saban were in the NFL and a tinkerbell program like Oregon were playing for titles? That would be unbearable, in conjunction with what the NFL has turned into.
You have to credit Alabama's success with meaner looking numerals on the helmets, and a more aggressive elephant.
I still hate the idea of losing at home and making the title game.
Funny because so many clowns think Oregon could play with Bama. They lost at home this year and failed to win their conference as well.
I told everyone who would listen that Bama was going to steam roll ND. I think they proved last night that they are the best team in the land. Really, there are only a handful of teams even close.
Alabama the past two years got away with a late season home defeat, after other teams collapsed subsequently. Some home and some road. I never doubted Alabama's caliber but I'm disgusted at both the polls and BCS formula for the low level of penalization of a home defeat as opposed to a road loss.
This is a great Alabama run but you can't get too carried away in all time terms, considering two consecutive seasons with a home loss. Anybody who doesn't recognize that is in comical denial. History manages to recognize something like that, absent of empty phrases.
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Charleston, SC
February 16, 2014
These subs are an awesome investment. Hits hard and deep. These will last a long time.
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June 23, 2014
I can't complain. I have a nice amplifier with 400 rms at 2 ohms. It is basically maxed.
It sound goooood. No distortion. Can go higher but it is a little bit overkill.
If you can power it with 400~RMS~ it will sound good. I have a closed box. Nothing special. Have had 4 different 12" subs in them and I can tell this one is here to stay. Never buy used! I learned this the hard way.
The single 12" is a very nice accessory.
That is all.
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Lake Worth, FL
October 11, 2013
Guys.... Two of these and a pioneer gm_d8601 is almost too much! Seriously profound woofer for the buck!
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Escondido, CA
September 18, 2013
For the price you cant beat it. Matched it with the Alpine MRD-M500 amp at 2 ohms in a 1.6 ft^3 vented box and it hits hard! Would definitely recommend to anyone looking for a entry level sub.
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March 27, 2013
Subwoofer hits hard in my crown Victoria. Shipping was fast. Nothing was damaged. I'm going to order another one next week.!!
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Los Angeles, CA
May 27, 2014
I'm happy with this woofer really means the sound I needed for the bass, highly recommended.
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January 27, 2015
low key smooth and accurate but able to catch the ear of the normal person....
25 of 30 found this helpful
September 17, 2014
Recently blew both my 12in subs ts-w1207d4 champion series and I honestly loved them, the sound and everything. But, unfortunately they blew which sucked. So I went on the journey to find 2 new 12in subs to match the power of my old ones. Then I found these with a amazing price and good wattage for peak to match my 2000watt amp. So, these came in and was not disappointed put them in instantly to my box for my 1999 chevy Silverado and damn do they destroy everything. If I crack my windows and turn them on full blast they will start ripping paper. Already pulled over for them but they are amazing for a reasonable price !
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Fresno, CA
April 25, 2014
I needed to add the Lower End to my System. I've never been satisfied with the Deepness of 10" Subs. They're great for Punch, but not as satisfying in the Deepest Bass. When I received the Pioneer 12" my first impression was disappointment. After tapping on the Cone to hear the Free Air Resonance, I didn't think It was going to reach deep enough into the Bass. I also discovered (after I had drilled the Mounting Holes) that the Mounting Holes were not perfectly Symetrically Spaced. Because the Speaker was Upside Down when I drilled the Holes, I had to mount it Upside Down for the Screws and Holes to Line Up. (Hint - Make sure the Speaker is Exactly Positioned as you want it before drilling.) After mounting and hooking up this Sub to a Kicker 300 Watt Amp, I was pleasantly surprised. Not only did it do a fair job of reproducing Deep Bass, it has Punch I never expected. I think there are better subs for the Deepest of Bass, but if you're looking for a Compromise between the sound of a great 12" and that of a great 10", then this is a good fit.
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sequim, WA
May 16, 2013
i had this in the belva ported box from sonic and the fli acid mono block amp 1200 watt. the amp said it was 600watt rms at 2ohm. it was bumping for what it was. i had alot of people ask if it was a 15 or 2 12s. it was prob more the box. i pushed the sub for about 2 months and then sold it. the surround on the sub turned white.... but ppl say it is normal. great dual 4 ohm sub for the money. esp if your on a budget. i got the box amp and sub for less then 215. if you had to get wires less then 250 for a good set up. the install bay 4gauge kit is great. ive used it 2x now. buy it. its super easy to run it down to 2 ohm
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February 14, 2013
Can't go wrong for the price, very nice deep low note. Never had any problems..
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Millersville, MD
January 7, 2015
I bought a combo set consisting of a Sony Xplod sub and amp that put out around 300RMS about a year and a half ago. I found out, for whatever reason, that my sub would not hit hard or at all below freezing. I live in MD, and last winter was a brutal, quiet winter for me. So I decided to upgrade before it got cold this winter. Boy what an improvement! This thing bumps! I was holding off to write the review until temps dropped, and today it was 14 degrees out and hit hard! The construction and build quality feels tough, and the magnet seems very large for the size of the sub, although part of that could be the plastic cover over the magnet. Either way, this 400 watt RMS sub completely destroys my "introductory" sub kit, and was deff a steal.
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March 12, 2013
I recently received this subwoofer and it is incredible! I have it aired to an alpine mrp-m500 class d amp pushing 500 watts at 2 ohms in a sealed box. It is better than anything I have ever heard. Even my friend says it sounds great and he is very picky about car audio. In a sealed box this subwoofer will hit lows cleanly and clearly, the best part is they those lows are still very loud you can feel them vibrating the back of your seat. Even in the front seat. I would strongly recommend this subwoofer to anyone that wants a flawless sounding setup for years.
24 of 29 found this helpful
apache junction, AZ
May 11, 2014
This sub hits realy good for what i paid,not a comp. sub but it still hits very well.Price was right on the money aswell.
24 of 30 found this helpful
December 7, 2013
I've had this sub for over a year now and its still bumping hard. No complaints yet, amazing for the price!
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bakersfield, CA
November 5, 2013
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September 18, 2013
Got 2 hooked up to my 1000 watt Memphis mono block and they slap for the money and ive had them for 6 months now and they make my jaw shake!
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DeLand FL
June 27, 2013
The amp worked fantastic for several months until it stopped working. There was a bad fuse but something took out the amp when it blew the fuse. I thought the amp had safety's built in to stop this kind of thing but they didn't work. We did purchase another amp same one and installed it and so far it works great again. I need to find a place to get the first one repaired if possible.
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Kelso,wa, WA
November 10, 2013
Pro's: sounds great, nice solid hits, plays through the ranges very crisp.
Con's: SHINEY, so it shows little scuff marks easy, and the grill i bought doesn't fit it. :(
i push 600w rms out of my amp, and this sub is rated at 400w rms... It's hanlding it so far, but my amp is known to blow subs APART. We will see how long it holds up...
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new holland, pa
September 22, 2013
Great buy!! I put mine in a custom built ported box, just one at 400 watts rattles the lift gate on my jeep pretty well! I will definitely be buying more from sonic.
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pulaski, VA
July 18, 2013
I have a 309S4 in my wifes car and one im my step daughters car. I had two of the 309D4 in my metro. They really impressed me. Been a LONG time since I have heard a sub this loud with such a good transient response in this price range. I have been into car audio system building for 22 years. I purchased 6 of the newer 310D4 for my Caravan. I have them on an MB Quart ONX1.2000D and they rock! I am going to order two more within the next month and put a wall in my van. Look out windshield!
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Littleton, CO
December 16, 2013
I was expecting a loud system when I was getting two 12's but these things... You can actually hear the bass from a mile away! These get really loud, and wont distort! I really have no complaints, they look good too, and came with 8 screws and foam to seal around it. Got these 50% off for cyber monday, great deal!!
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Monroe, MI
September 17, 2013
These things hit, i have 2 of them with an RE AUDIO DTS1500, then upgraded to a memphis prx1000.1 and they handle every bit of it.
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north aurora, IL
March 10, 2014
I have 2 of this wired to 1ohm and they slam good hard bass for rap or rock it sounds great in the car
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Hot Springs, AR
September 17, 2013
These are the first Pioneer subs I've owned. I've always had another brand but I didn't want to pay that much this time. I have to say I can't tell a difference between the ones I had and these. I would and already have recommend this product.
19 of 23 found this helpful
October 19, 2013
For the price i would definitely recommend this product. They aren't contest winning subs but when put with a decent amp they sound great and pound pretty well especially for the price. I have owned them for about 9 months now and haven't had any problems so far. if you need a good reliable sub for a decent price i would recommend these.
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McKinney, TX
January 20, 2015
This sub has a great sound. Brings in lower frequencies with great clarity. It is air space hungry wanting 1.24 cubic feet but sounds fantastic with 1.02 I could provide. It is highly efficient at 96 DB sensitivity and 2ohm capable if you want to run it solo. Running just one and it will literally shake the hair on your head. Great buy and frat product!!!
18 of 23 found this helpful
January 18, 2015
Bought this to replace my polk audio dxi112. Put this sun in the box with the original mounting spacer from the old one and it sounded terrible.. I got rid of the spacer and installed the sub flush with new screws and this result was phenomenal. This sub kicks really nice and has great lows.. Not too much distortion or cracks.. Highly recommend.
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Schertz, TX
April 6, 2014
Great sub at a great price. This sub sounds great at every level of bass. Hits hard and does not distort at high volumes. Definitely would recommend to a friend.
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Goodrich, MI
September 18, 2013
I previously owned the 309s4's they are the single voice coil 12 in woofers, they pounded every time i turned the car on, pounded like no tomorrow but then one died, so i check out the new line and see the 310s4's and they are about the same price... but i scroll further and see that the dual coils are the same exact price so i went out on a limb and bought them.. something i don't regularly do, and god damn was i impressed!!! the d4's have such deep and clear lows and crisp and clear high's its just unbelievable... i wouldn't look any farther if you want the best bang for your buck... these are on the highest end of quality for the price!!!!
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Riverside, CA
September 17, 2013
Had this sub for about a month and it's freakin loud! Love to get it ported to be louder and lower but pioneer recommended this sub for sealed which is good since I need the space but it's still pretty big. Overall, great sub for the price. Can't wait til I get the pioneer AVH x3500bht put in to enhance the sq.
18 of 23 found this helpful
July 31, 2014
All I can say is WOW! Words can't describe! These TS-W310D4's are UNBELIEVABLE! Freakin LOUD! Excellent LOW's to even a tight punchy bass and everything in between! Installed 2 in a custom 1.5cf per sub sealed box, paired up to a Pioneer GM-D8601 mono amp wired to 1ohm load "SERIOUSLY ALL YOU NEED". I used to be a KICKER only fan as I had the old school L5 12" solo-baric and just wanted to expand & try something new. It CAN'T compare to these subs, especially for the money! I've been in and out of car audio for 25yrs and the only system I can even campare these subs to are the (2) 15 Kicker Comps I had paired to a Coustic 660 amp over 20yrs ago! I'm IMPRESSED beyond measure with these subs and have quickly become a PIONEER fan! If your lookin for an excellent sub at a great price you can't go wrong with the TS-W310D4's!!!! Now I gota re-do and amp up the rest of my system as the bass just drowns out my mids and highs! But thats a good problem to have!
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Weaverville, NC
April 23, 2015
Great sub's! Hits both hard & lows. Only con is the recommended enclosure is for SPL. Add a cubit foot if you want lower bass.
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Tell me what any New Coke Trek characters' motivations were. What's Spock's motivation for condemning cadet Kirk to death? What's Kirk's motivation for working to change the test and then blatantly show off that he's cheating? What's the villain's motivation for... ANYTHING???
Not a ripoff of SW? Villain has a planet-killing spaceship, destroys one of the heroes' home planets before finale of villain's spaceship hunting down heroes' home base. Hero is downtrodden farmboy with no hope of going anywhere and then magically given a leg up by a wise older important man who just happened to know hero's father and of father's death, and keeps coming back to give sage advice to the brash hero. There's the whole Hoth planet aspect. Sulu's switchbladed molucule sword is a total wannabe lightsaber. All the other good guy ships are destroyed except Kirk's. Kirk saves the day by ignoring the plan and instead following the force of his instincts because his father had good and noble instincts. The movie ends on a big medal ceremony.
Anyone seen the TRU Hot Spot? I've found everyone else I wanted (and hate that they're TRU exclusives, since that Megatron is such a shelfwarmer I could get him for $5 at the end of the month if he were at any other store), but no sign of him.
HUGE thanks to Figrin Bran for the MM Alfred tip. Order was placed and should be here in a week. The Bat Signal will be complete...
I found 3 Voyager Ultra Magnuses at a WalMart in a lower income area. It was appropriate for me since with my creative projects costing me a fortune, I am lower income. However, they wanted $32 for a Voyager figure.
I took a good look and might pull the trigger later, but for right now I left him.
I think I CAN use an Ultra Magnus Voyager, but I'm not sure about putting a Prime figure with Generations / Classics figures (Springer Voy) Rodimus (Del).
For me, the above grouping would also require the NOT MADE Galvatron, Cyclonus, and Scourge Voyagers, but that Masterpiece Grimlock (I never bought) might work with the scale for this crowd. Still, I could wait for some kind of Generations / Classics Magnus and I did pay someting like $80-90 for the Titanium (transforming) one and I could just wait until I had $100 for Transformers again, and buy another Titanium.
Chux, I saw (and bought) Hot Spot only once. And that was on Black Friday too.
Tycho, TF Prime Voyager Ultra Magnus is 21.99 at Target, 26.99 at TRU so I'm not sure why it should be 32 at WM? I think he looks great with Springer and Rodimus and TF Animated Arcee. I can take a photo of that group when I open up my Springer. And if we're talking about the same Titanium Magnus, that along with Titanium Soundwave are the worst transformers that I own.
Hot Spot in stock online: http://www.toysrus.com/product/index...uctId=13021878
Burbank Target had the Class I Fleet Republic Attack Dropship last night, I bought it. It's not terrible, but it's so small that it's essentially a coffin for the pilot inside, in flat flight configuration he's lying on his back looking straight up. The drop-backpacks are well-armed and split apart so the non-included figures could just walk away from each other and start shooting. Everything has a decent sculpt, and the vehicle overall cribs its looks from the Republic Gunship. So it's alright but not great, not something collectors should work hard to hunt down, it's just a little support vehicle.
Amazon has several TVC figures from the final wave listed as $3.25 "Add-Ons." I picked up a few Naboo Pilots and Gungan Warriors.


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About Jeff Masters
Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather
By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 4:54 PM GMT on December 18, 2007
Storm Chaser: A Photographer's Journey ($23.10 from Amazon) takes the reader on a spectacular photographic journey through the U.S., documenting four seasons of our beautiful and violent weather. Author Jim Reed makes a business of weather photography, and has spent over 15 years chasing storms and documenting their awesome beauty and violent destructive power. The 191-page book would make a perfect Christmas coffee table book for that weather enthusiast (yourself?) in the family, and has great photos of tornadoes, hurricanes, hailstorms, blizzards, sunsets, and lightning. The book is mostly photos, but there are several riveting stories Reed tells. Most captivating is the story of his encounter with Category 4 Hurricane Charley as it pounded Punta Gorda, Florida in 2004. Reed miscalculated his time needed to get to shelter, and got caught in his vehicle on the road in the eyewall. Luckily, his videotaped farewell for mother and friends done during the height of the storm was not needed, as he was able to find shelter during the 4-minute passage of the eye. Reed also braved Hurricane Katrina from the beach front, and tells an abbreviated version of his dramatic encounter with the hurricane from Gulfport, Mississippi. I also recommend Hurricane Katrina Through the Eyes of Storm Chasers ($14.96 from Amazon) to read the full tale of his Katrina experience.
Storm Chaser: A Photographer's Journey has a few flaws. The quality of the writing is not quite as high as that of my favorite storm chaser book, the now dated 1996 Warren Faidley book, Storm Chaser: In pursuit of untamed skies (no longer in print, but available used). Reed's text doesn't match up with the photos presented on the pages in places, and he makes a number of unwarranted connections between global warming and extreme weather events. For example, he blames the June 22, 2003 fall of volley ball-sized hailstones in Aurora, Kansas on global warming. No single weather event can be attributed to climate change--all we can say is that the probabilities of some extreme weather events have increased. For example, the incidence of extreme precipitation events (the heaviest 1% of rain storms) has increased 20% over the U.S. in recent decades. No scientific papers have been published showing a link between tornadoes or hailstorms and climate change. That quibble aside, I heartily recommend Storm Chaser: A Photographer's Journey. The photos are fantastic. Three and a half stars out of four.
Best weather books published in 2007
Weather Photography:
Storm Chaser: A Photographer's Journey ($23.10 from Amazon).
Climate change:
Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming by Chris Mooney ($17.16 from Amazon). See the realclimate.org review. I'll be posting a review of my own at some point.
General Weather:
Extreme Weather: A Guide and Record Book by Christopher Burt ($17.13 from Amazon). I hope to review this book soon.
Hurricane Almanac by Bryan Norcross ($11.04 from Amazon). See my review of the book.
Storm Warning: the Story of a Killer Tornado by Nancy Mathis ($16.32 from Amazon). See my review of the book.
Jeff Masters
The views of the author are his/her own and do not necessarily represent the position of The Weather Company or its parent, IBM.
Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather


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World-class Mountain Bike Adventure in the Midwest?
Escape Adventures Pioneers New Multi-activity Tour
Las Vegas, Nevada (February 2007) - Escape Adventures has announced a new multi-activity tour that features mountain biking, hiking, caving and canoeing in the heart of the Ozark Mountains. This 5-day all-inclusive trip is suited to all abilities and is offered in two different formats: inn-too-inn or camping.
With departures scheduled for April and November, when temperatures are cooler, the tour operator's "Ozark Adventure" will introduce active travelers to some of the Midwest's finest outdoor activities, including canoeing the Buffalo River - America's first National Wild and Scenic River, caving Blanchard Springs Caverns - dubbed by Life Magazine as "one of the most extraordinary finds of the century," and mountain biking and hiking the new Syllamo Trail, a world class trail consisting of over 50 miles of singletrack trails - all while enjoying the warm hospitality of Mountain View, the folk music capital of the world."
Arkansas is one of the few untapped adventure travel playgrounds in America, and the Ozark Mountains are one of the oldest mountain ranges in the world. The scenery is phenomenal, and the outdoor activities are diverse and easily accessible, which is why we want to introduce others to this amazing resource," explains Jared Fisher, Director of Escape Adventures. "When active travelers think of adventure travel within the U.S., they think of Alaska, the Rockies and Sierras. We aim to change that."
Departures for 2007 are scheduled April 2-6 (camping), April 9-13 (inn-to-inn or camping), and November 5-9 (camping), November 12-16 (inn-to-inn or camping). Detailed itineraries are available from Escape Adventures by calling 800.596.2953, emailing email@example.com, or visiting www.escapeadventures.com.
With offices in Moab, Utah and Las Vegas, Nevada, Escape Adventures has specialized in first-class biking, hiking and multi-sport vacations throughout western North America since 1991.


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Desire - Ozzy Osbourne, No More Tears
Desire - Ozzy Osbourne, No More Tears
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
And that's insane about the sound! You think they would have noticed or something. I do hope the second night at the Bowl was better for you!
I had my SR show last night!!
Got into detroit about 2 hours before the doors opened and got into the pre-sale Livenation ticket line, which was great as they let us in before the huge ticketmaster line that stretched for blocks. It was great though as when we were standing outside, Jonsi came by on his bike, wearing this huge grin when he saw the crowd gathering. He biked within a few inches of us and we all said hello and in his gentle icelandic accent, he said, "hello, hi. hi hi." and waved before continuing biking around downtown. Cool stuff!
Here was the setlist:
Ny Batteri
Við Spilum Endalaust
Hoppípolla -->
Meo Blódnasir
Inní Mér Syngur Vitleysingur
Svo Hljótt
Very eccletic setlist, but also really damned good. I hadn't heard Svefn since 02, so this was huge for me. The band seemed really, I dunno, "raw" tonight, or as raw as an icelandic ambient band can be. Jonsi was all over the stage and I don't even know how many bow's he ripped up. They didn't have the brass or strings with them, which did hurt a few songs a bit. Hopp--> Meo felt a bit empty without the strings towards the end of Hopp and the end of Saeg could have gone either way.
The band did fill in some of the gaps though, using loops, distortion and whatnot. Jonsi did a great number at the end of Saeg on his guitar, which was nice. There was also a great amount of crowd interaction, with the band asking us to sing the background vocals in Meo and to clap and do the background "la la la la" during Gobbl. Plus, they had three members of Parachutes all pounding drums (the name eludes me, but the ones you'd see being used on a battlefield march?) which was awesome.
They had on the wackiest outfits as Jonsi had a black (what appeared to be) boat captain outfit, Orri (drummer) had a crown on, Georgg (bass) had a 1920's suit and hat and Kjarri (keyboards, vocals, guitar, etc, etc) had a sports jacket on. I'm used to seeing them in shirts and jeans, so this was a welcome surprise.
The crowd was really energetic during the interactive parts and lots of cheering. One a-- kept yelling random stuff and I hope great harm comes to him.
Overall, it was a really fantastic show that did not disappoint. SR never cease to amaze me and tonight was no different.
"Woke up at 9.55am. Soon as I woke up, I looked at Suzanne and she looked at me. I said, 'Did I tell you about the immune system?' Suzanne starting laughing, I said, 'it's amazing.' She said, 'Not now.'"
I've been listening to two leaked tracks from Scott Weiland's upcoming solo album like crazy the last few days.
And the album won't be out for two months yet!
I'm really hoping the whole album gets leaked well before that.
[FONT=Book Antiqua]He passes to Moses - He shoots, he scores![/FONT]
Mummy of the raincoat is a gigantic trollop.
Brown Sugar - Rolling Stones. Part of my 4 hour Rolling Stones playlist.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
STYX- Greatest Hits!!!!
They performed a free concert in Ames, IA; for flood relief charity. My brother went and saw them, lucky bastard. His girlfriend in college and him had Mr. Roboto as "their" song. Unfortunately, they did not play it because Dennis DeYoung owned the rights to it. And he took them when he left the band. But, I saw somewhere he was playing with them on June 13, 2008. So I don't know what the deal was.
No matter how I die, even if there is a suicide note; it was murder. Cheers!
I have a Styx greatest hits CD. It had the 95 version of "Lady", which was actually a pretty re-recording that sounded pretty close to the original. A while back iTunes put the complete Wooden Nickel recordings on there, and I downloaded the original version of "Lady". Great tune.
Billy Joel's theme to Bosom Buddies. "I never said you had to... don't get me wrong!... Leave me alone!"
I've been hearing a lot of Fleetwood Mac, so next coupon I get to a store, might have to pick up their greatest hits CD. Wasn't that up there once with the Eagle's one for all-time sellers?
I predict that the upcoming Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi film will include the word "and." Multiple times.
http://www.classicbands.com/bestsellers.html, Fleetwood Mac's Rumours is in the top 10. No mention of the greatest hits. That appears to be just in the U.S. though. This wiki page has worldwide totals. Rumours doesn't rank quite as high there.
Myself, I used to listen to a lot of the early stuff as well as those two. They had many albums with different guitarists/ singers who wrote and played some really cool stuff along with original members Mick Fleetwood and John McVie.
Bob Welch:
Miles Away: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z6jPru9dFc
Peter Green:
Who wrote the original version of Green Manalishi remade by Judas Priest
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Climbing the Savings Mountain
Students discover how saving money can be compared to a mountain climb. The climb can be fast or slow, safe or hazardous, scenic or thrilling. You will find out that there is more than one way to get to the top!
Banking, Borrower, Deflation, Inflation, Interest, Interest Rate, Savers, Savings
- Analyze ways to save money.
- Create financial goals.
- Define the differences between earning no interest, simple interest, and compound interest.
- Predict the effect of inflation on money that has been saved.
Students are sometimes clueless when it comes to saving money. Society sure has shown them how to spend! It is important that our students learn that saving their money not only helps them achieve financial goals, but actually earns them extra money. In this lesson they will learn that there are a variety of ways in which to save, depending on whether they have short-term or long-term goals.
Saving Trail: This is an interactive website where students will participate in an adventure and learn about savings along the way.
Effects of Inflation: This interactive activity teaches students about inflation.
Effects of Inflation
Saving Options: Information for students on CD's and other banking options.
Republic of Saving: A web site that takes the students through different ways to save and different reasons for saving and the online savings quiz.
Buy a Bond, James! A Lesson on U.S. Savings Bonds: Buying a United States Savings Bond is yet another way to save.
When Gas was a Quarter: Inflation and Deflation are the topics of this lesson.
A Penny Saved is a Penny at 4.7%: Earned Interest is the main idea of this lesson.
Banking is INTERESTing: Banking is INTERESTing is another lesson explaining savings.
A good way to start this lesson is to review the importance of goals. Whether it is goals for academic, personal, or financial achievement, goals provide an end point. It's how to get to the end that confuses the students.
Ask students to name two items that they would like to buy. Tell them to pick one item they would like to have soon--within three months--and another item they would like to buy in five years. Ask them how much each item costs. Tell them the amount of money they will need to buy these items is part of their financial goals. Tell them that there are steps they can take to reach their financial goals. One of the most important ways to meet a financial goal is to figure out how to save money. Let them go through the lesson to find out the different ways to save money.
Urge students to use the online dictionary provided to find out what each highlighted word means.
[Note to teacher: It is important that the students click on the strategies on each page that explain more about the subject. The information pop-up pauses a long time before giving more information. Make sure the students come back to the lesson before going to the next page.The embedded pop-ups that the students will explore cover the following issues.]
The online quiz about savings deals with the definitions of interest and inflation, as well as CDs, savings accounts, and checking accounts.
[Note to teacher: The online quiz is based on material found on the Planet Orange website. Prior to students taking the quiz additional instruction could be provided on how daily compounding yields a higher return than annual compounding.]
Do a quick check on the student's financial goals. Did the students remember to outline ways to get to their goals? Are their figures accurate?
[Note to teacher: Some actual or estimated interest rates could be made available to students who may want to do some projections using their knowledge of simple interest.]
Using a savings account or buying a CD is a wise way of saving your money. Simple interest is interest paid on the money that the saver deposits. Compound interest is interest on the money the saver deposits and on the interest that the money has earned. Inflation makes saving money at home for a long-term goal a risky choice.
- Buy a Bond, James!-A Lesson on U.S. Savings Bonds. Buying a United States Savings Bond is yet another way to save.
- When Gas was a Quarter-Inflation and Deflation are the topics of this lesson.
- A Penny Saved is a Penny at 4.7% Earned-Interest is the main idea of this lesson.
- Banking is INTERESTing-Banking is INTERESTing is another lesson explaining savings.
"This is great! The links allow student to construct their knowledge regarding savings and is related to real world situations. Plant Orange provides interactive activities with immediate feedback to students."
"I really like this orange planet. It helps me learn and understand inflation, savings accounts, and certificates of deposit."
"This site is awesome. I really learned everything I needed to. I used to not understand any of this!"
"This is great. It really helps us students understand more clearly than if we just get told. We can play games and read. Awesome!"
"I liked this lesson on banking!"
"The orange planet is really fun and motivates kids to see the learning through to the end. I'm inspired by the interactive activities."


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Human Capital Management: Contacts
Who should I contact if I have questions about the information within the HCM System?
Questions about your Benefits Information including health, dental, vision, flex health spending, accruing vacation and sick time or 403(b) can be directed to the Benefits Department at 368-6781 or email@example.com.
Questions about your Payroll Information including pay period information, cut off dates, W2 information can be directed to the Payroll Department at 368-4290 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Questions about your Personal Information including marital status and/or ethnic group as well as changes to W4 information or your business phone number can be directed to the Records Department at 368-3096 or email@example.com
Questions about Grant Related Salary Distribution or Salary Adjustments can be directed to Robin Trail at 368-4516 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Questions about Non-Grant Related Salary Distribution or Salary Adjustments can be directed to Michele Dodgson at 368-4291 or email@example.com.
Questions about Student Employment can be directed to the Student Employment Office at 368-4533.
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The Baltic region is increasingly popular as a cruise destination, despite the fact it's cooler in the Baltic in summer than in the Mediterranean. For cruising purposes the Baltic includes the Scandinavian countries of Denmark and Sweden, and sometimes Norway as well; Finland; St. Petersburg, Russia; Tallinn, Estonia; and sometimes Gdansk, Poland and Warnemunde, Germany (with access to Berlin).
The cities of Copenhagen, Stockholm and Helsinki serve up a wealth of attractions not the least of which is a wonderful combination of Old World and striking modern design. A full day or overnight in St. Petersburg adds access to the famous Hermitage Museum, palaces of the Czars and Russian ballet. Tallinn and Gdansk both have wonderful, quaint Old Town areas. Some cruises also visit Oslo, and may give you a peek as well at some of Norway's breathtakingly beautiful fjords. There are also cruises that concentrate on coastal Norway.
Longer cruises embark from Amsterdam, Copenhagen or Stockholm and sometimes from Dover or other U.K. ports.
Cruise in the Baltic if you…
Have been anxious to get a taste of Russia. Want to try eating reindeer.
Don't go if you…
Are looking for a warm weather beach vacation. Hate switching currencies (many of the countries are not on the euro).
--Fran Golden is the Experience Cruise expert blogger and a contributing editor of Porthole Magazine. She is the co-author of Frommer's Alaska Cruises and Ports of Call.
Ports in this region:
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- Copenhagen
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A Libertarian View
If this were an essay on economics, it would be the best essay on economics I've read in a year or more.
If this were an essay on social structures, it would be the best essay on social structures I've read on a year or more.
If this were an essay on conservative versus reformer mindsets, it would be the best essay on *that* that I've read in a year or more.
In fact, it was all three of those things, and I'm frankly stunned at how excellently you've made so many points in such a short space.
From the desk of Jane Galt:
A really, really, really long post about gay marriage that does not, in the end, support one side or the other
Unlike most libertarians, I don't have an opinion on gay marriage, and I'm not going to have an opinion no matter how much you bait me. However, I had an interesting discussion last night with another libertarian about it, which devolved into an argument about a certain kind of liberal/libertarian argument about gay marriage that I find really unconvincing.
Social conservatives of a more moderate stripe are essentially saying that marriage is an ancient institution, which has been carefully selected for throughout human history. It is a bedrock of our society; if it is destroyed, we will all be much worse off. (See what happened to the inner cities between 1960 and 1990 if you do not believe this.) For some reason, marriage always and everywhere, in every culture we know about, is between a man and a woman; this seems to be an important feature of the institution. We should not go mucking around and changing this extremely important institution, because if we make a bad change, the institution will fall apart.
A very common response to this is essentially to mock this as ridiculous. "Why on earth would it make any difference to me whether gay people are getting married? Why would that change my behavior as a heterosexual"
To which social conservatives reply that institutions have a number of complex ways in which they fulfill their roles, and one of the very important ways in which the institution of marriage perpetuates itself is by creating a romantic vision of oneself in marriage that is intrinsically tied into expressing one's masculinity or femininity in relation to a person of the opposite sex; stepping into an explicitly gendered role. This may not be true of every single marriage, and indeed undoubtedly it is untrue in some cases. But it is true of the culture-wide institution. By changing the explicitly gendered nature of marriage we might be accidentally cutting away something that turns out to be a crucial underpinning.
To which, again, the other side replies "That's ridiculous! I would never change my willingness to get married based on whether or not gay people were getting married!"
Now, economists hear this sort of argument all the time. "That's ridiculous! I would never start working fewer hours because my taxes went up!" This ignores the fact that you may not be the marginal case. The marginal case may be some consultant who just can't justify sacrificing valuable leisure for a new project when he's only making 60 cents on the dollar. The result will nonetheless be the same: less economic activity. Similarly, you–highly educated, firmly socialized, upper middle class you–may not be the marginal marriage candidate; it may be some high school dropout in Tuscaloosa. That doesn't mean that the institution of marriage won't be weakened in America just the same.
This should not be taken as an endorsement of the idea that gay marriage will weaken the current institution. I can tell a plausible story where it does; I can tell a plausible story where it doesn't. I have no idea which one is true. That is why I have no opinion on gay marriage, and am not planning to develop one. Marriage is a big institution; too big for me to feel I have a successful handle on it.
However, I am bothered by this specific argument, which I have heard over and over from the people I know who favor gay marriage laws. I mean, literally over and over; when they get into arguments, they just repeat it, again and again. "I will get married even if marriage is expanded to include gay people; I cannot imagine anyone up and deciding not to get married because gay people are getting married; therefore, the whole idea is ridiculous and bigoted."
They may well be right. Nonetheless, libertarians should know better. The limits of your imagination are not the limits of reality. Every government programme that libertarians have argued against has been defended at its inception with exactly this argument.
Let me take three major legal innovations, one of them general, two specific to marriage.
The first, the general one, is well known to most hard-core libertarians, but let me reprise it anyway. When the income tax was initially being debated, there was a suggestion to put in a mandatory cap; I believe the level was 10 percent.
Don't be ridiculous, the Senator's colleagues told him. Americans would never allow an income tax rate as high as ten percent. They would revolt! It is an outrage to even suggest it!
Many actually fought the cap on the grounds that it would encourage taxes to grow too high, towards the cap. The American people, they asserted, could be well counted on to keep income taxes in the range of a few percentage points.
Now, I'm not a tax-crazy libertarian; I don't expect you to be horrified that we have income taxes higher than ten percent, as I'm not. But the point is that the Senators were completely right–at that time. However, the existence of the income tax allowed for a slow creep that eroded the American resistance to income taxation. External changes–from the Great Depression, to the technical ability to manage withholding rather than lump payments, also facilitated the rise, but they could not have without a cultural sea change in feelings about taxation. That "ridiculous" cap would have done a much, much better job holding down tax rates than the culture these Senators erroneously relied upon. Changing the law can, and does, change the culture of the thing regulated.
Another example is welfare. To sketch a brief history of welfare, it emerged in the nineteenth century as "Widows and orphans pensions", which were paid by the state to destitute families whose breadwinner had passed away. They were often not available to blacks; they were never available to unwed mothers. Though public services expanded in the first half of the twentieth century, that mentality was very much the same: public services were about supporting unfortunate families, not unwed mothers. Unwed mothers could not, in most cases, obtain welfare; they were not allowed in public housing (which was supposed to be–and was–a way station for young, struggling families on the way to home ownership, not a permanent abode); they were otherwise discriminated against by social services. The help you could expect from society was a home for wayward girls, in which you would give birth and then put the baby up for adoption.
The description of public housing in the fifties is shocking to anyone who's spent any time in modern public housing. Big item on the agenda at the tenant's meeting: housewives, don't shake your dustcloths out of the windows–other wives don't want your dirt in their apartment! Men, if you wear heavy work boots, please don't walk on the lawns until you can change into lighter shoes, as it damages the grass! (Descriptions taken from the invaluable book, The Inheritance, about the transition of the white working class from Democrat to Republican.) Needless to say, if those same housing projects could today find a majority of tenants who reliably dusted, or worked, they would be thrilled.
Public housing was, in short, a place full of functioning families.
Now, in the late fifties, a debate began over whether to extend benefits to the unmarried. It was unfair to stigmatise unwed mothers. Why shouldn't they be able to avail themselves of the benefits available to other citizens? The brutal societal prejudice against illegitimacy was old fashioned, bigoted, irrational.
But if you give unmarried mothers money, said the critics, you will get more unmarried mothers.
Ridiculous, said the proponents of the change. Being an unmarried mother is a brutal, thankless task. What kind of idiot would have a baby out of wedlock just because the state was willing to give her paltry welfare benefits?
People do all sorts of idiotic things, said the critics. If you pay for something, you usually get more of it.
C'mon said the activists. That's just silly. I just can't imagine anyone deciding to get pregnant out of wedlock simply because there are welfare benefits available.
Of course, change didn't happen overnight. But the marginal cases did have children out of wedlock, which made it more acceptable for the next marginal case to do so. Meanwhile, women who wanted to get married essentially found themselves in competition for young men with women who were willing to have sex, and bear children, without forcing the men to take any responsibility. This is a pretty attractive proposition for most young men. So despite the fact that the sixties brought us the biggest advance in birth control ever, illegitimacy exploded. In the early 1960s, a black illegitimacy rate of roughly 25 percent caused Daniel Patrick Moynihan to write a tract warning of a crisis in "the negro family" (a tract for which he was eviscerated by many of those selfsame activists.)
By 1990, that rate was over 70 percent. This, despite the fact that the inner city, where the illegitimacy problem was biggest, only accounts for a fraction of the black population.
But in that inner city, marriage had been destroyed. It had literally ceased to exist in any meaningful way. Possibly one of the most moving moments in Jason de Parle's absolutely wonderful book, American Dream, which follows three welfare mothers through welfare reform, is when he reveals that none of these three women, all in their late thirties, had ever been to a wedding.
Marriage matters. It is better for the kids; it is better for the adults raising those kids; and it is better for the childless people in the communities where those kids and adults live. Marriage reduces poverty, improves kids outcomes in all measurable ways, makes men live longer and both spouses happier. Marriage, it turns out, is an incredibly important institution. It also turns out to be a lot more fragile than we thought back then. It looked, to those extremely smart and well-meaning welfare reformers, practically unshakable; the idea that it could be undone by something as simple as enabling women to have children without husbands, seemed ludicrous. Its cultural underpinnings were far too firm. Why would a woman choose such a hard road? It seemed self-evident that the only unwed mothers claiming benefits would be the ones pushed there by terrible circumstance.
This argument is compelling and logical. I would never become an unwed welfare mother, even if benefits were a great deal higher than they are now. It seems crazy to even suggest that one would bear a child out of wedlock for $567 a month. Indeed, to this day, I find the reformist side much more persuasive than the conservative side, except for one thing, which is that the conservatives turned out to be right. In fact, they turned out to be even more right than they suspected; they were predicting upticks in illegitimacy that were much more modest than what actually occurred–they expected marriage rates to suffer, not collapse.
How did people go so badly wrong? Well, to start with, they fell into the basic fallacy that economists are so well acquainted with: they thought about themselves instead of the marginal case. For another, they completely failed to realize that each additional illegitimate birth would, in effect, slightly destigmatise the next one. They assigned men very little agency, failing to predict that women willing to forgo marriage would essentially become unwelcome competition for women who weren't, and that as the numbers changed, that competition might push the marriage market towards unwelcome outcomes. They failed to foresee the confounding effect that the birth control pill would have on sexual mores.
But I think the core problems are two. The first is that they looked only at individuals, and took institutions as a given. That is, they looked at all the cultural pressure to marry, and assumed that that would be a countervailing force powerful enough to overcome the new financial incentives for out-of-wedlock births. They failed to see the institution as dynamic. It wasn't a simple matter of two forces: cultural pressure to marry, financial freedom not to, arrayed against each other; those forces had a complex interplay, and when you changed one, you changed the other.
The second is that they didn't assign any cultural reason for, or value to, the stigma on illegitimacy. They saw it as an outmoded vestige of a repressive Victorial values system, based on an unnatural fear of sexuality. But the stigma attached to unwed motherhood has quite logical, and important, foundations: having a child without a husband is bad for children, and bad for mothers, and thus bad for the rest of us. So our culture made it very costly for the mother to do. Lower the cost, and you raise the incidence. As an economist would say, incentives matter.
(Now, I am not arguing in favor of stigmatizing unwed mothers the way the Victorians did. I'm just pointing out that the stigma did not exist merely, as many mid-century reformers seem to have believed, because of some dark Freudian excesses on the part of our ancestors.)
But all the reformers saw was the terrible pain–and it was terrible–inflicted on unwed mothers. They saw the terrible unfairness–and it was terribly unfair–of punishing the mother, and not the father. They saw the inherent injustice–and need I add, it was indeed unjust–of treating American citizens differently because of their marital status.
But as G.K. Chesterton points out, people who don't see the use of a social institution are the last people who should be allowed to reform it:
In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away." To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: "If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it."This paradox rests on the most elementary common sense. The gate or fence did not grow there. It was not set up by somnambulists who built it in their sleep. It is highly improbable that it was put there by escaped lunatics who were for some reason loose in the street. Some person had some reason for thinking it would be a good thing for somebody. And until we know what the reason was, we really cannot judge whether the reason was reasonable. It is extremely probable that we have overlooked some whole aspect of the question, if something set up by human beings like ourselves seems to be entirely meaningless and mysterious. There are reformers who get over this difficulty by assuming that all their fathers were fools; but if that be so, we can only say that folly appears to be a hereditary disease. But the truth is that nobody has any business to destroy a social institution until he has really seen it as an historical institution. If he knows how it arose, and what purposes it was supposed to serve, he may really be able to say that they were bad purposes, that they have since become bad purposes, or that they are purposes which are no longer served. But if he simply stares at the thing as a senseless monstrosity that has somehow sprung up in his path, it is he and not the traditionalist who is suffering from an illusion.
Now, of course, this can turn into a sort of precautionary principle that prevents reform from ever happening. That would be bad; all sorts of things need changing all the time, because society and our environment change. But as a matter of principle, it is probably a bad idea to let someone go mucking around with social arrangements, such as the way we treat unwed parenthood, if their idea about that institution is that "it just growed". You don't have to be a rock-ribbed conservative to recognize that there is something of an evolutionary process in society: institutional features are not necessarily the best possible arrangement, but they have been selected for a certain amount of fitness.
It might also be, of course, that the feature is what evolutionary biologists call a spandrel. It's a term taken from architecture; spandrels are the pretty little spaces between vaulted arches. They are not designed for; they are a useless, but pretty, side effect of the physical properties of arches. In evolutionary biology, spandrel is some feature which is not selected for, but appears as a byproduct of other traits that are selected for. Belly buttons are a neat place to put piercings, but they're not there because of that; they're a byproduct of mammalian reproduction.
However, and architect will be happy to tell you that if you try to rip out the spandrel, you might easily bring down the building.
The third example I'll give is of changes to the marriage laws, specifically the radical relaxation of divorce statutes during the twentieth century.
Divorce, in the nineteenth century, was unbelievably hard to get. It took years, was expensive, and required proving that your spouse had abandoned you for an extended period with no financial support; was (if male) not merely discreetly dallying but flagrantly carrying on; or was not just belting you one now and again when you got mouthy, but routinely pummeling you within an inch of your life. After you got divorced, you were a pariah in all but the largest cities. If you were a desperately wronged woman you might change your name, taking your maiden name as your first name and continuing to use your husband's last name to indicate that you expected to continue living as if you were married (i.e. chastely) and expect to have some limited intercourse with your neighbors, though of course you would not be invited to events held in a church, or evening affairs. Financially secure women generally (I am not making this up) moved to Europe; Edith Wharton, who moved to Paris when she got divorced, wrote moving stories about the way divorced women were shunned at home. Men, meanwhile (who were usually the respondents) could expect to see more than half their assets and income settled on their spouse and children.
There were, critics observed, a number of unhappy marriages in which people stuck together. Young people, who shouldn't have gotten married; older people, whose spouses were not physically abusive nor absent, nor flagrantly adulterous, but whose spouse was, for reasons of financial irresponsibility, mental viciousness, or some other major flaw, destroying their life. Why not make divorce easier to get? Rather than requiring people to show that there was an unforgivable, physically visible, cause that the marriage should be dissolved, why not let people who wanted to get divorced agree to do so?
Because if you make divorce easier, said the critics, you will get much more of it, and divorce is bad for society.
That's ridiculous! said the reformers. (Can we sing it all together now?) People stay married because marriage is a bedrock institution of our society, not because of some law! The only people who get divorced will be people who have terrible problems! A few percentage points at most!
Oops. When the law changed, the institution changed. The marginal divorce made the next one easier. Again, the magnitude of the change swamped the dire predictions of the anti-reformist wing; no one could have imagined, in their wildest dreams, a day when half of all marriages ended in divorce.
There were actually two big changes; the first, when divorce laws were amended in most states to make it easier to get a divorce; and the second, when "no fault" divorce allowed one spouse to unilaterally end the marriage. The second change produced another huge surge in the divorce rate, and a nice decline in the incomes of divorced women; it seems advocates had failed to anticipate that removing the leverage of the financially weaker party to hold out for a good settlement would result in men keeping more of their earnings to themselves.
What's more, easy divorce didn't only change the divorce rate; it made drastic changes to the institution of marriage itself. David Brooks makes an argument I find convincing: that the proliferation of the kind of extravagant weddings that used to only be the province of high society (rented venue, extravagant flowers and food, hundreds of guests, a band with dancing, dresses that cost the same as a good used car) is because the event itself doesn't mean nearly as much as it used to, so we have to turn it into a three-ring circus to feel like we're really doing something.
A couple in 1940 (and even more so in 1910) could go to a minister's parlor, or a justice of the peace, and in five minutes totally change their lives. Unless you are a member of certain highly religious subcultures, this is simply no longer true. That is, of course, partly because of the sexual revolution and the emancipation of women; but it is also because you aren't really making a lifetime commitment; you're making a lifetime commitment unless you find something better to do. There is no way, psychologically, to make the latter as big an event as the former, and when you lost that commitment, you lose, on the margin, some willingness to make the marriage work. Again, this doesn't mean I think divorce law should be toughened up; only that changes in law that affect marriage affect the cultural institution, not just the legal practice.
Three laws. Three well-meaning reformers who were genuinely, sincerely incapable of imagining that their changes would wreak such institutional havoc. Three sets of utterly logical and convincing, and wrong arguments about how people would behave after a major change.
So what does this mean? That we shouldn't enact gay marriage because of some sort of social Precautionary Principle
No. I have no such grand advice.
My only request is that people try to be a leeetle more humble about their ability to imagine the subtle results of big policy changes. The argument that gay marriage will not change the institution of marriage because you can't imagine it changing your personal reaction is pretty arrogant. It imagines, first of all, that your behavior is a guide for the behavior of everyone else in society, when in fact, as you may have noticed, all sorts of different people react to all sorts of different things in all sorts of different ways, which is why we have to have elections and stuff. And second, the unwavering belief that the only reason that marriage, always and everywhere, is a male-female institution (I exclude rare ritual behaviors), is just some sort of bizarre historical coincidence, and that you know better, needs examining. If you think you know why marriage is male-female, and why that's either outdated because of all the ways in which reproduction has lately changed, or was a bad reason to start with, then you are in a good place to advocate reform. If you think that marriage is just that way because our ancestors were all a bunch of repressed bastards with dark Freudian complexes that made them homophobic bigots, I'm a little leery of letting you muck around with it.
Is this post going to convince anyone? I doubt it; everyone but me seems to already know all the answers, so why listen to such a hedging, doubting bore? I myself am trying to draw a very fine line between being humble about making big changes to big social institutions, and telling people (which I am not trying to do) that they can't make those changes because other people have been wrong in the past. In the end, our judgment is all we have; everyone will have to rely on their judgment of whether gay marriage is, on net, a good or a bad idea. All I'm asking for is for people to think more deeply than a quick consultation of their imaginations to make that decision. I realize that this probably falls on the side of supporting the anti-gay-marriage forces, and I'm sorry, but I can't help that. This humility is what I want from liberals when approaching market changes; now I'm asking it from my side too, in approaching social ones. I think the approach is consistent, if not exactly popular.
A quick extra note on gay marriage
There are a lot of libertarians who dismiss arguments about gay marriage with the declaration that the state shouldn't be in the business of sanctifying marriage anyway. I don't find that a particularly satisfying argument. It's quite possibly true that in some ideal libertarian state, the government would not be in the business of defining marriages, or would merely enforce whatever creative contracts people chose to draw up. That's a lovely discussion for a libertarian forum. However, we are confronting a major legal change that is actually happening in the country we live in, where marriage is, and will continue to be for the foreseeable future, an institution in which the government is intimately involved. While I'm happy to debate about whether or not the state should define the form of marriage in my libertarian utopia, I don't think that this is necessarily a good guide to the kinds of laws I want to see enacted in America, which in so many, many ways does not look like my utopia.
For example, in my libertarian utopia, there would be no social security. People would save for their own retirements; social insurance would be for people who had something actually unpredictable and unexpected happen to them.If there is anything more predictable than aging, I don't want to run into it.
Does that mean that I would advocate, say, getting rid of Social Security today? Shut down the administration, turn off the check-writing machines, and tell our senior citizens to get a goddamn job?
Don't be ridiculous. People planned their lives around this government assurance; you can't just rip it away and let millions of people starve. You can't just import one aspect of my libertarian utopia–no social security–without the crucial things that underpin it, like a population that knows it's expected to save for its own retirement. Similarly, you can't just import one feature of anarcho-capitalist life–anyone can marry anyone they want–as if all the vast social changes that an anarcho-capitalist or minarchist system would represent, are already there.
Update: A number of libertarians are, as I predicted, making the "Why don't we just privatize marriage?" argument. I don't find that useful in the context of the debate about gay marriage in America, where marriage is simply not going to be privatized in any foreseeable near-term future.
Also, a lot of readers are saying that I'm wrong about marriage always being between a man and a woman, citing polygamy. I have been told this is a "basic factual error."
No, it's not. Polygamous societies do not (at least in any society I have ever heard about) have group marriages. Men with more than one wife have multiple marriages with multiple women, not a single marriage with several wives. In fact, they generally take pains to separate the women, preferably in different houses. Whether or not you allow men to contract for more than one marriage (and for all sorts of reasons, this seems to me to be a bad idea unless you're in an era of permanent war), each marriage remains the union of a man and a woman.
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I feel a great disturbance in the Force.
Star Wars is getting to KISS levels of absurd tie-ins.
Coming soon: YODA TAMPONS!!
I shot these at Comic-Con, they're in the event gallery, but I didn't find them terribly out of sorts with the other merch for the brand. These felt like a natural extension of the pet costume industry, and the toys and whatnot are no worse than any other licensed idea.
My sister and I are actually looking forward to getting at least some of these items for her puppy, Gus. Some of the jackets and things are a little much, but the collars and chew toys are fun.


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Even in the Ocean, Every Rose Has Its Thorn
Posted On June 8, 2012 by Nick Mallos
Mawar is the Malaysian word for rose, but Typhoon Mawar has been nothing but a thorn since we arrived in Yokohama, Japan. Like hurricanes, typhoons form when tropical depressions escalate into cyclones; in the Pacific, these cyclones are called typhoons, while in the Atlantic they are known as hurricanes.
This past weekend, Mawar delivered heavy rain and sustained winds of 110 mph to the Philippines, gusting up to 130 mph and taking the lives of eight Filipinos. We felt peripheral effects of Mawar in Japan as intensifying winds and strong gusts jostled boats and tested the strength of dock lines in the marina.
So far, Mawar has delayed our departure on the Algalita/5 Gyres Japan Tsunami Debris Expedition by almost one week. To say anticipation and angst on board has been high would be an understatement. However, we have not allowed our time on land to be wasted. Continue reading »


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|>> Archive: Salmon & Steelhead Flies Spey flies to mixed wings, new innovations
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As Juro said, hair is more durable than mallard; however, hair has a totally different look and action in the water. I tie and fish a lot of spey flies and low water wets and never use anything as a substitute for the bronze mallard wing. In fact, I never use hair as a wing on a spey fly because the hair acts and looks so different in the water.
I do use Krystal Flash as an underwing on some spey flies that use dyed golden pheasant rump feathers for the wing though. They are very effective if the Krystal Flash is kept sparse (3 oe 4 strands only on #3 or larger flies, 2 or 3 strands on hooks smaller than #3, and two dyed golden pheasant rump feathers stacked on top of each other, sometimes of different colors. Try a royal blue body, silver oval rib, red spey feather hackle, blue dyed mallard flank throat hackle, red Krystal Flash underwing and dyed scarlet golden pheasant rump wing. This is a very good fly when rivers are cold but clear. I tie it on Alec Jackson #3 and #1 1/2.
IMHO some thinner hairs, like squirrel tail, have more action than BM. The shorter the wing (ie a small fly), the less action the hair will have. The sparser the hair wing, the more action it will have. An extremely sparse squirrel tail wing topped with perhaps 6-8 BM fibres to give it a little more visual bulk and 2 strands of crystal flash (hi-tech "horns") has been appearing on more and more of my SH wet flies the last few years.
Still stick to BM, however, for those reliable Lady Carolines that always seem to take up a substantial portion of my fly box.
|Thank's Juro . That is what I am doing with these pattern's . 2 thing's that are going to happen , fish willing of course . Catch a Summer on a Sinktip and a Dry Fly . Thank's for the Info , Fish-head
I use a lot of BM for winging Spey flies, it's not as "durable" in terms of looking the same as it did day one - but it still catches fish just fine even after the previous fish parted the barbs a little. The general impression of a tented wing in the distinct color and barred design still remains even after several steelhead, if one should be so lucky.
For me a Spey fly that has greaselined one good steelhead is as durable as a fly needs to be. Now if the angler is dredging the fly, that's another story. These flies are meant to be fished in the classic manner.
Hair wings or Bronze Mallard
Is Bronze Mallard just as durable as a hair wing fly ? I have seen some low water pattern's that used B.m. instead of Hair . Does it move better , Fish better ? Thank's Fish-head
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Fellas..I was hunting this past saturday with my girlfriend(she's hooked just don't want to admit it) Anyway I was hunting next to a field that had some tall type of cover crop it was probably 2-1/2 feet tall.. I had worked a bird within 80 yds across from us he got in the wood line next to the field and was absolutely hammering back to every call I offered for probably a good 30 min but would not dare to step out into that field. So !! Will they come throgh high vegetation? Either he could see the field and didn't see any thing and just said the heck with it. Or either the vegetation was to tall! this bird was hot he came from about 200yds.
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Photo of the Day: RENA at the Shoot Boxing Weigh-Ins
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Shoot Boxing sensation RENA returns to action over the weekend, as well as a full card of action including the Girl's S-Cup 2011 kicking off. This photo shows why Japan loves RENA and she'll be a star win or lose. [source]