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Meanwhile, back at the blog . . .
First things first: I hate being a statistic (I'm truly sorry, Mr. President). But as of a few Fridays ago, I have become a minuscule uptick — or at least, in a very infinitesimally small way, preventing a downturn — in the U.S. unemployment rate. In short, the Santa Cruz Sentinel laid me off after 11 years of editing, which capped a 37-year run in various media, mostly in newspapers.
But never mind. Let's just leave this at "unemployment sucks," and move on, shall we?
I bring this up to explain my absence. What I have been doing — NSA take note and pass this on to the Labor Department — is looking for work and hatching some other diabolical schemes, not the least of which is reviving the Lindependence Project to do more events this year. Film at 11.
Now with more free time than I can eat, I can do things like write this blog once again on a regular basis. With this additional time when I'm not looking for work (hello, California Employment Development Department), I also have time to squirrel around with some hardware and software in the home lab which, as you may recall, is dubbed The Jungle Room.
Elvis fans can explain that one to you.
Anyway, while cleaning the house the other day, I found a IBM ThinkPad T60 in a box, partially disassembled, and needing a hard drive. More cleaning later, I found a hard drive for it — such is life in Casa Cafiero, because where people find change between the cushions of their couch, I usually find things like a 1 GB laptop memory chip (don't laugh, that really happened).
In my backpack, I had a Fedora 20 disk from SCALE 12X so I assembled the T60 and after some wailing and gnashing of teeth with the newly found hard drive (I love GParted to death — honest. And I will name the rest of my children GParted, if it ever comes to that), I installed the Fedora 20 "Desktop Edition."
Translation: "Desktop Edition" means GNOME. It has always been a mystery why they didn't just call it Fedora $NUMBER GNOME, but they don't. It's Desktop Edition, wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more. I've written about the current GNOME desktop before — in each case, I believe I hated it — but I thought I'd give it another try.
The jury has reached a verdict, your honor: It's still not for me.
I'm not doing a swan dive onto the dogpile currently burying GNOME in the wake of its recent financial problems. On the contrary: If I can say something positive about it, setting up the desktop the way you want it seems to be easier than it was when I originally tried it years ago. Also, this may be damning by faint praise, but at least GNOME 3.x doesn't call Amazon saying, "Hey, here's Larry's data" (and I think that's because, well, "erm . . ." they don't have root, and I trust them moreso than the U-laden distro).
So I'll be changing this back to something with real, honest-to-$DIETY icons and a desktop environment, which will bring me to KDE or Xfce. Also, I think I'm going to start using Fedora again a little more regularly.
It's good to be back.
This blog, and all other blogs by Larry the Free Software Guy, Larry the CrunchBang Guy, Fosstafarian, Larry the Korora Guy, and Larry Cafiero, are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs CC BY-NC-ND license. In short, this license allows others to download this work and share it with others as long as they credit me as the author, but others can't change it in any way or use it commercially.
(Larry Cafiero is one of the founders of the Lindependence Project and develops business software at Redwood Digital Research, a consultancy that provides FOSS solutions in the small business and home office environment.)
Passing it along
Last week, one of my news colleagues posted on social media that her laptop had died, and her two boys were in need (so said their Silicon Valley school) of more than just the cheap tablet she had bought recently at a local big-box electronics store.
About the same time I read of her situation, I had been working on a ThinkPad T30 with a misbehaving wireless card — no, "misbehaving" is too kind, as it was definitely on strike — and I thought it might be a good idea to pass along this old guy, adding an old-school PCMCIA wireless card, so the boys would have something to use for the upcoming school year.
Calls were made, thanks were given, and my colleague — a columnist who works from home "over the hill" in San Jose — will pick up the T30 on Wednesday.
This old T30 was once my "road warrior" before I got the ThinkPad T60 that now fills this role. I think of the T30 in the same way that Neil Young thinks of his instrument when he sings "This Old Guitar" — "This old guitar ain't mine to keep / It's mine to play for a while" — and while the T30 may not be ideal for a couple of kids going back to grade school this month, it'll do until something better comes along.
So I added memory I had lying around, wiped the drive and set out for a distro that I think would be good for them. Knowing they have used Windows before and are used to icons and drop-down menus, I counted out both Unity and GNOME desktop environments right off the bat. Also, while splitting hairs here, I also passed up CrunchBang, which is Debian under the Openbox window manager, despite the fact I think beginners would easily adapt to it.
I'd like them to have a good Linux experience right off the bat, so I thought a lot about what to install on the T30.
I finally decided on, wait for it, Fedora 19 Xfce.
Why? A couple of reasons right off the bat: First, I get that I'm quite possibly the only person on the entire planet that acutally doesn't think that Fedora is solely a "bleeding edge distro only for the most brilliant and cutting-edge Linux users" — I firmly believe that anyone with a few IQ points to rub together, to say nothing of bright kids, can use it. Second, as I mentioned earlier, I wanted to give the boys something with icons and menus; in other words, something that was not entirely foreign to them.
Choosing a desktop environment was not easy. Though I only have it on one machine in the lab, I like KDE and all the great developments KDE brings to FOSS. But I am way more familiar with Xfce and have used it more often; my second distro back in 2006 was the Dapper Drake version of Xubuntu. So it's a matter of convenience: If anything goes wrong, I'd be able to help quickly. I also installed Flash — Fedora doesn't come with it natively, to their free-software credit, but it's necessary especially in a school setting until Gnash is up to speed — a necessary evil maybe, but still necessary. So it's there.
So on Wednesday, the cat's out of the bag: They get Schrodinger's Cat with the Xfce desktop on a T30 with a collection of stickers on it that rivals any NASCAR racer. They'll get the SELinux lecture upon my handing it over to them, and a few tips about how to handle the the flashing light of the Automatic Bug Reporting Tool.
I'm also going to give them a copy of "Snake Wrangling for Kids" with the hope that maybe one of them will like Python enough to start fiddling with it.
Let's see how this goes.
This blog, and all other blogs by Larry the Free Software Guy, Larry the CrunchBang Guy and Larry Cafiero, are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs CC BY-NC-ND license. In short, this license allows others to download this work and share it with others as long as they credit me as the author, but others can't change it in any way or use it commercially.
(Larry Cafiero is one of the founders of the Lindependence Project and develops business software at Redwood Digital Research, a consultancy that provides FOSS solutions in the small business and home office environment.)
VSIDO: Sid for Human Beings
Terry Ganus is a man on a mission — a vast one.
True to Free/Open Source Software paradigm — where if you find you can make something better, you make it so (in FOSS circles, that's reduced to three words: "scratching an itch") — the long-time CrunchBang forum moderator and CrunchBang user created a new distro taking the experience he's garnered over the years working within the wider Debian community.
VSIDO, Terry's distro, can clearly be declared "Mission Accomplished."
The genesis of the VSIDO project is twofold: When CrunchBang lead developer Philip Newborough stopped offering Xfce support in CrunchBang, Terry went to work to make a Debian-based distro with the Xfce desktop; more importantly, however, Terry wanted to erase the stigma of Debian Sid as some sort of distro black magic that only the most experienced users can succesfully navigate.
I'll let him explain. "My main goal with VSIDO is to show that a Debian Sid distro can be fun, powerful and does not break. I am sure you have heard that Debian is being pushed to remove the ridiculous label/moniker 'unstable' from the Sid name to something more responsible like 'rolling' . . . [and] I also have detailed what and why I did it here in this thread on the [VSIDO] forum (entitled, 'What is VSIDO? Why Should I care?')."
VSIDO started out as an Xfce-only distro, "but I got a lot of encouragement to include OpenBox because I had managed to make it look good and not just a bland shell," Terry explained. "I know this rubs most of the minimalists fans at CrunchBang (and other places) wrong, but I did want to showcase a different view of OpenBox."
A third option in window management — Fluxbox — is also offered with VSIDO. Terry explains: "Fluxbox became a part of it once I discovered Fluxbox, and honestly if I had known about Fluxbox before I ever used Xfce, I would have never used Xfce. It is that good. There are also very limited distros out there that use Xfce or Fluxbox, so they are both great fits."
The program choices in VSIDO — one of the things that make the distro both unique and appealing — were just a list of what applications that Terry, as a power user, had used for years to make his desktop a powerful utility instead of just a work space. From a wide range of experiences with the programs included in VSIDO, Terry says that he has "gathered what 'just works,' not just for me, but for everyone else I have encouraged to use them."
The list is filled with programs you already know, punctuated by some you — or, at least, I — may not have heard of.
For advanced users, tools like bleachbit, Disk-Manager, kernel-remover, debian apt protection tools, build essentials and a selection of debian power tools are standard features in VSIDO. For the beginner, everything for connection, multimedia, music, aliases, system panels, tint2 launcher panels and ease of use is standard. SpaceFM is the default file manager, though Thunar 1.6 with tabs is also installed. UMPlayer handles the media play.
What's more, all of the programs used, like ceni for network management, might be new to some users, but given the fact that they've been tested for some time by Terry and others, it makes their addition to the mix.
Giving VSIDO a test drive
Those who regularly read this blog know I've mentioned this before: I don't consider any review that is based on running a distro from a live CD/DVD/USB a legitimate review. It's akin to sticking your finger in a bowl of cake batter, tasting it and telling us how great the cake is when it isn't even baked yet.
That said — and bear in mind this is not a review as much as it is a test drive — VSIDO is an outstanding distro running from the USB drive that, if running the live version is any indication, is a solid new Debian-based distro.
VSIDO comes up quickly and provides easy navigation for those who have previously used the Xfce desktop environment. The Conky default in the upper left provides those who wish to monitor their systems an oustanding display of information. From the look of the desktop envirnoment — Xfce by default — it is very easily customizable and much of what you want is at your fingertips with a mere right-click anywhere on the desktop.
I threw a lot at the distro and was not disappointed — monitoring the memory use, the Debian-based distro handled everything with aplomb, never going over 500 MB in memory use (it should be noted that VSIDO is very lightweight in and of itself, coming up at around 170 MB of memory at the start).
The only possible stumbling block, albeit minor, for new users is working with unfamiliar programs. For example, I tripped over ceni since I had never seen it before, and while I picked it up pretty easily, it might be intimidating to some newer users.
The best way to determine whether VSIDO is right for you, of course, is to give it your own test drive.
Despite the fact that Terry is both active in his own distro while continuing to participate in the CrunchBang community, there are misconceptions that somehow VSIDO is a derivative or a descendant of CrunchBang. It's not. Their sole relationship is that they are both Debian-based distros, despite the fact many CrunchBang users are lending a hand in VSIDO (and, conversely, vice-versa).
"I truly admire corenominal (Philip Newborough) for what he did with CrunchBang and if it were not for my passion for Sid and all it's strengths, I would have never looked at VSIDO as an alternative," Terry said. "My 'following' of smxi, tint2, xfce4, conky and lua for 18 music apps, netinstall scripts and of course GMB fans, all encouraged me to take that knowledge and experience to another level and VSIDO was born.
"More than anything to me, it is important that a user has fun, has the tools, has a vision and a strong community to rely on."
Having used VSIDO for several days, albeit booting from the USB drive, it's evident that Terry has taken Sid and made it the basis for a workable, and enjoyable, distro for everyone — beginner and seasoned user alike. If I had a second 64-bit machine to run it on (I only have one in an arsenal of 32-bit hardware, and VSIDO only comes in 64-bit), I wouldn't hesitate to install it for a more in-depth look.
I will continue to use CrunchBang as my primary distro. Yet seeing and saluting the similarities between both the CrunchBang and VSIDO methods of augmenting a distro with a knowledgeable and helpful community — again, to both distros' credit, there are many crossover personnel in both forums — I would gladly urge those who are curious to give VSIDO a try and would recommend folks who have an affinity for the Xfce desktop to use VSIDO.
This blog, and all other blogs by Larry the Free Software Guy, Larry the CrunchBang Guy and Larry Cafiero, are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs CC BY-NC-ND license. In short, this license allows others to download this work and share it with others as long as they credit me as the author, but others can't change it in any way or use it commercially.
(Larry Cafiero is one of the founders of the Lindependence Project and develops business software in his individual consultancy that provides FOSS solutions in the small business and home office environment.)
He likes it! Hey Linus!
Now to separate the get-off-my-lawners from those who need to get off the lawn . . .
Those who get the reference in the blog's title can read on; those who don't — and it's generational, trust me — can watch here.
A few days ago on Google+, reported on later in a Muktware blog post, Linus Torvalds talked about his recent foray with KDE. Generally, he likes it, though his praise — stop me if you've heard this before — is still tempered by the things he finds he doesn't like.
He likes the ability to configure things (who doesn't?), despite the "odd and distracting default behavior" (behavior that, of course, can be changed). But then he goes on to give KDE a test run by fiddling with the desktop widgets.
According to the Muktware blog, Linus continues: "As a result, right now my terminal and web browser buttons look like a drunken fratboy has been messing with my desktop. I suspect I'll turn them back to their boring upright position (because that's how I roll – boring), but for now I'm mildly amused by the sheer whimsicality of it all."
First things first: There are thousands, possibly millions, who "roll" a lot more boring than Linus, but let's put that aside. What's important is that, like when he tried Xfce, it gives those who are developing desktop environments a few minutes with the creator, for better or worse. Further, and more importantly, Linus' example also shows that we don't have to stick with one desktop/program/software forever.
In other words, from time to time, change is good.
This blog, and all other blogs by Larry the Free Software Guy, Larry the CrunchBang Guy and Larry Cafiero, are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs CC BY-NC-ND license. In short, this license allows others to download this work and share it with others as long as they credit me as the author, but others can't change it in any way or use it commercially.
(Larry Cafiero is one of the founders of the Lindependence Project and develops business software at Redwood Digital Research, a consultancy that provides FOSS solutions in the small business and home office environment.)
Stop the presses
It consistently awes me, sometimes to tears, to see how consistently wrong some Free/Open Source Software commentators are about things like the current state of the desktop. To hear some of them tell it, it's a hand-wringing, brow-furrowing situation in which the fate of the entire paradigm rests in the delicate balance.
Let me explain this in simple terms: It's not. If anything, it's an invitation to a front-row seat to witness digital Darwinism at its finest.
So stop acting like this is a crisis. It's not.
Unity is a dog — it's a textbook case of incredibly bad judgment by The Mark to make a cookie-cutter, all-in-one user interface across a wide range of different hardware. But that's all it is. Is it the death knell of the desktop? Hardly. It's not even the death knell of Ubuntu.
The same with GNOME 3: Arguably a bad move, but not one that is forcing GNOME to fold up the tents and go the way of the Studebaker or the hula hoop.
KDE thriving? In my opinion, it is. That's a good thing, and they have weathered some bad times recently to come out stronger and with a good product for those so inclined to use it.
Xfce making progress at GNOME's expense? Tough if you're a GNOME guy or gal, but not bad in the grand scheme of things. Xfce has always been a good desktop environment which is finally getting the recognition it deserves — it will be interesting to see how they take advantage of this (and good luck, guys and gals).
There is even more attention now toward window managers like Openbox and Fluxbox, as the current desktop environment "crisis" ushers in a sort of renaissance for window managers that gives users a new look at a facet of Linux that is not often discussed.
The bottom line is that's what it's all about: choice. Choice is good. Having choices is a virtue, not a vice. It's simple: Get that and you get FOSS.
[Note to the Linux Foundation: You may think that firstname.lastname@example.com works, but I'm still getting bouncing e-mails across a wide variety of machines using various e-mail programs on FOSS and non-FOSS platforms. Tell you what: I'll just print out my blog from yesterday and mail it to you. Watch your mailbox.]
(Larry Cafiero is one of the founders of the Lindependence Project and develops business software at Redwood Digital Research, a consultancy that provides FOSS solutions in the small business and home office environment.)
United for Unity alternatives
I love Brussels sprouts, and I'm blessed with the ability to eat fields of them in one sitting. Some people hate them to the point of legislating against them.
Some people crave eggplant. I would rather eat dirt and will only eat eggplant at gunpoint, which of course makes for some interesting dinners at my household. But I digress . . . .
Having said this, allow me a Captain Obvious moment to say that folks have different tastes, likes and dislikes, which in the final analysis boils down to a subjective smorgasbord of opinion rather than any resemblance to objective fist-bearing, knuckle-bashing fact.
I loathe Unity with a heat of a nova, but some people absolutely love it to the ends of the earth. And that's great, but it's not for everyone. What about those Ubuntu users who don't like Unity because it's a brain-numbing, unintuitive desktop environment that's has a my-way-or-highway range of tweakability (or do I overstate it?), or what about an Ubuntu user who can't use it because they're using older hardware?
What's an Ubuntero to do?
Use another distro is always an option — I'm beating Fedora's Juan Rodriguez to the punch here (touche, Nushio!) — but if you're truly a dyed-in-the-wool, adjective-before-animal-loving Linux user, you have Ubuntu options that don't include Unity, and for this many of us are truly thankful.
In my order of preference, they're:
Xubuntu: Ubuntu with the Xfce desktop environment is probably my favorite 'buntu; it was my first Ubuntu distro several years ago, and you never forget your first distro. Or maybe you do. But anyway, I have always had an affinity for Xfce's smaller footprint, especially since I am usually using hardware that is not — how can I put this tactfully? — the latest model. My sincere hope is that with GNOME fumbling away much of its user base with GNOME 3, Xfce can pick up users and developers. But of all the 'buntus, Xubuntu is probably the best of the pack in performance. Of course, if you have hardware old enough (in computer years) to occasionally scream out, "Get off my lawn," then Xubuntu is ideal if you have to use Ubuntu.
Kubuntu: I have an interesting story that I always tell when the issue of KDE and Kubuntu come up. Years ago, the principal at my daughter's school was inspired so much by using Kubuntu that she wanted to convert the computers at the school to the distro. She didn't succeed — a lot of inside baseball was at play there — but if a woman just introduced to FOSS and Linux is that inspired by a distro, then it's speaks volumes on its behalf. I have a love/indifference relationship with KDE — on the odd-numbered Fedora relases, I use the KDE version and I'm generally happy with the 4.x version of KDE, even though I probably only scratch the proverbial surface on the desktop environment's abilities (the even-numbered Fedoras? Now, Xfce, but previously it was GNOME until I was unable to use GNOME 3 due to hardware restrictions).
But wait, there's more:
Lubuntu: OK, Lubunteros, don't flame me. To be honest, I've never tried LXDE. I've seen it, it looks nice, everyone I talk to who uses it loves it, but the reason I have had neither the chance nor the inclination to use it is because the Xfce desktop environment seems to be my go-to DE when it comes to hardware with, um, limitations (yeah, that's it, limitations). If anyone would like to give me a compelling reason to try it, I will.
One more thing: A few years ago, there used to be a fledgling distro on the runway called Fluxbuntu, which had the Fluxbox window manager atop Ubuntu. I used it briefly when I had a larger computer lab and loved it, and while it looks like they're still going, they're probably going to need a little help there, if you're so inclined.
(Larry Cafiero is one of the founders of the Lindependence Project and has just started developing software in his new home office. Watch this space.)
Moving on
OK, it's crunch time. At the end of the week, you should be in Columbus, Ohio, at Ohio Linux Fest — if you're going to a Linux show before the year's out, make it this one. This is the last big show on the North American continent until SCALE in January. At OLF, Bradley Kuhn and Cathy Malmrose are keynoting — along with Jon "maddog" Hall — so you'll not want to miss that (especially Cathy — Go ZaReason!).
KDE's Aaron Seigo, "a shift-key-challenged KDE hacker," wrote an interesting blog item this week where he outlines where KDE is going with Plasma Active. While the blog item itself may not be terribly earth-shattering, the significance of a member of the KDE project leadership taking the time to outline where things are going, so there are no surprises down the line, is significant.
Most telling and reassuring, at least to me, is this paragraph: " . . . [W]e do not believe in the 'one interface that runs on both your desktop and your tablet'. We believe in code reuse, in component-reuse (and, where beneficial, drop-in-replacement), compatibility and interoperability; but we also believe that a tablet interface and a desktop interface are not, and should not, be the same thing. The use cases and form factors are just too different."
He adds later: "So those who are concerned that we're going to do something nasty to the desktop interface: breath easy."
Amen to that, Aaron. Thanks for bringing that up and I'm breathing easier as a result.
"Hue and cry" is something at which various Linux and FOSS communities excel. When we find something going amiss, usually a controversy of biblical proportions ensues, where the end of the whole Linux/FOSS paradigm — not to mention yet another delay in the Year of the Linux Desktop — is inevitable unless said problem/redirection/error is fixed, and fixed now.
But while wailing and gnashing of teeth is a hallmark of Linux and FOSS communities, so is the ability to overcome these missteps and improve the programs, or if improving is impossible, forking the program to make a new one. Think LibreOffice, which was trapped by Oracle before being released into the Apache wild. Or this: Not that it's a fork per se, but my Fedora colleague and friend, Juan Rodriguez — who wanted GNOME 2.32 on his Fedora 15 — stated his displeasure of GNOME 3, but rather than harping on it, he went to work and created the BlueBubble respin of Fedora which has the older GNOME desktop atop Fedora 15.
So amid the upheaval of desktop environments, we have a precedent to look at with KDE having gone through this before. Fortunately for GNOME, KDE's experience serves as a cautionary tale. KDE seems to have ridden out the rough spots after their release of version 4, though there are some that are just not going to be happy with anything other than their KDE 3.x, and they aren't shy about saying so.
Arguably, GNOME has stepped in a steaming pile with GNOME 3, and it would bode well for them to take a page from KDE's playbook here and recover in the same manner. Frankly, I'm expecting GNOME to get over this rough patch, circled as they seem to be by angry users (and ex-users) with torches and pitchforks. The folks at GNOME could learn something from Aaron's blog item about not making one desktop fit all, but I digress.
Meanwhile, back at the point of this blog . . . the point of this blog today is to remind those KDE users who are constantly picking on KDE because 4.x is not 3.5, as well as to the army of GNOME 3 enemies throughout the shire mercilessly beating up on GNOME, to heed these words: Stop already — we get it.
For better or worse, or for good or evil, both KDE 4.x and GNOME 3 are here. The barn door is open and the horses are in the pasture. The toothpaste is out of the tube.
Get over it and move on.
While I remember the "false start" that accompanied KDE 4.0 and the problems and complaints that KDE users made at its release, I don't know the situation first hand because I was an intermittent KDE user at the time. I've clearly warmed up to the KDE 4.x series and, to be honest, I don't get what all the hubbub was about, since KDE 4.6 works pretty well on my Fedora 15 laptop.
I understand the animosity toward GNOME 3 — I can't use it (I have old hardware), and I consider the "fallback mode" the digital equivalent of sitting in the back of the bus. On the few occasions I have had to use it on newer hardware, I want to like it, but I just can't — it's an interface that doesn't seem to belong to the laptop or desktop.
However, that's all I'm going to say about it, except that I hope GNOME 3.x will fix some of the problems I have with it, making it usable for me. If not, I won't use it. That plain, that simple. As an aside, I am warming up to Xfce quite well on the whole, so I may be splitting my time between KDE and Xfce from here on in.
But I don't plan to bludgeon GNOME every time it comes up in a forum or an on-line discussion, because beating dead horses gets you nowhere.
So the choice is yours: You can keep harping on this great injustice, picking at the scab so the unkind cut doesn't heal, or you can move on by either accepting the way things are or adapting them to what suits you, as Juan did with BlueBubble.
This blog, and all other blogs by Larry the Free Software Guy and Larry Cafiero, are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs CC BY-NC-ND license. In short, this license allows others to download this work and share it with others as long as they credit me as the author, but others can't change it in any way or use it commercially.
(Larry Cafiero is one of the founders of the Lindependence Project and has just started developing software in his new home office. Watch this space.)


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Quantitative easing
Quantitative Easing is the controversial use of gimmicks by the Federal Reserve to try to encourage economic growth during a recession. It consists of buying up longer-term bonds in an indirect effort to lower medium and long-term interest rates. So, the Federal Reserve shifts its portfolio of assets from overnight and short term loans to holding more long-term bonds.
It is an economic monetary policy in which the total money supply is increased by the Federal Reserve buying government Treasury bonds. The goal is to encourage private bank to lend more and help reduce the effects of an economic recession. Quantitative easing was first used by Japan in 2000 to fight a deflationary economy. The 2010 and 2011 actions of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is to buy U.S. government bonds, with borrowed money, to help ease America's declining financial statistics. By creating more dollars out of thin air, the dollar becomes devalued with the existing money supply versus other currencies. This policy of creating additional money to give to banks so that they lend more is highly questionable. The banks were largely responsible for the Great Recession and the increased money for banks have failed to produce the desired effect even after the Central Bank's $1.7 trillion purchase. The short term gains are minimal and in the long term, this will eventually lead to higher prices and inflation or even hyper-inflation.[1]
For example, in response to a weakening economy likely due to liberal policies by the Obama Administration, the Federal Reserve announced on September 13, 2012 that:[2]
| The Fed initially disappointed some investors on Thursday when it said it would buy $40 billion of mortgage-backed securities each month. That is far less than the $75 billion a month it bought in its second round of bond-buying, or the more than $100 billion monthly tab for its first round.
But this time, the Fed has promised that "if the outlook for the labor market does not improve substantially," it won't stop buying and could ramp up its spending further.
In general, the Federal Reserve tries to stimulate the economy by lowering short-term interest rates. However, when short-term interest rates are lowered to zero, the Federal Reserve turns to other less frequently used actions to with a goal of stimulating the economy. The Federal Reserve calls these "quantitative easing." Basically, these involve the Federal Reserve purchasing longer-term bonds to lower the medium and long-term interest rates.
There is no free lunch, so "quantitative easing" is always at someone's expense. In general, although the some individuals in the economy may benefit from quantitative easing, the people who rely on bond interest income are harmed by their reduced income. On the whole, however, quantitative easing harms the economy as it reduces predictability. Instead of the market determining the value and quantity of money, it is the determined by the caprice of the Federal Reserve Chairman who may act in a very unwise manner unconstrained by market forces and guided by antiquated economic liberal theories such as Keynesian economics. In addition, quantitative easing is not equitable in its policy and unjustly enriches the wealthier members of society.[3] For example, the elderly who wish to receive income from low risk bonds and bank deposits are hurt by arbitrary and artificial measures to lower interest rates dictated by unelected elitist bankers rather than market forces.[4]
Michael Snyder wrote concerning Ben Bernanke:
|You can't accuse Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke of not living up to his nickname. Back in 2002, Bernanke delivered a speech entitled "Deflation: Making Sure 'It' Doesn't Happen Here" in which he referenced a statement by economist Milton Friedman about fighting deflation by dropping money from a helicopter. Well, it might be time for a new nickname for Bernanke because what he did today was a lot more than drop money from a helicopter. Today the Federal Reserve announced that QE3 will begin on Friday, but it is going to be much different from QE1 and QE2. Both of those rounds of quantitative easing were of limited duration. This time, the quantitative easing is going to be open-ended. The Fed is going to buy 40 billion dollars worth of mortgage-backed securities per month until they have decided that the economy is in good enough shape to stop. For those that get confused by terms like "quantitative easing" and "mortgage-backed securities", what the Federal Reserve is essentially saying is this: "We're going to print a bunch of money and buy stuff for as long as we feel it is necessary." In addition, the Federal Reserve has promised to keep interest rates at ultra-low levels all the way through mid-2015. The course that the Federal Reserve has set us on is utter insanity. Ben Bernanke can rain money down on us all he wants, but it is not going to do much at all to help the real economy. However, it will definitely hasten the destruction of the U.S. dollar.[5]
Unjust enrichment of banking class
Hedge fund manager Mark Spitznagel argues in the Wall Street Journal:
| Ludwig von Mises and his students demonstrated how an increase in money supply is beneficial to those who get it first and is detrimental to those who get it last. Monetary inflation is a process, not a static effect...
The Fed doesn't expand the money supply by uniformly dropping cash from helicopters over the hapless masses. Rather, it directs capital transfers to the largest banks (whether by overpaying them for their financial assets or by lending to them on the cheap), minimizes their borrowing costs, and lowers their reserve requirements. All of these actions result in immediate handouts to the financial elite first, with the hope that they will subsequently unleash this fresh capital onto the unsuspecting markets, raising demand and prices wherever they do."[6]
Destruction of capital for investment and a cause of malinvestments
In May 2012 Chris Ferreira wrote:
| When the majority of people are depositing their savings into banks and contributing to a high savings rate for their country, this creates an environment of higher levels of cash reserves in banks: in other words, a nation of savers creates a situation where banks have enough capital to lend for new business ventures. As part of normal supply and demand characteristics in a free-market, lower interest rates will be adjusted to loan out this extra savings in deposits. In this case, interest rates fall in order to provide incentives to loan out money. In turn, the investment horizon for this capital is longer term and is primarily used to finance capital projects ("high orders") and away from producing consumer goods ("low orders"). When all the excess savings in the bank are loaned out, the banks are operating at their minimum reserve requirements; interest rates then naturally increase to account for the shortage of savings in deposits, since the excess supply of money has been exhausted though loans...
If, however, central banks intervene in the market to suppress interest rates to pump an artificial stimulus into the markets, this provides the illusion to entrepreneurs that there is real excess savings in banks that would supposedly account for a longer term vision and increase of demand for capital goods.
This is a fallacy. Entrepreneurs in this scenario are lead into making malinvestments, for when the suppressed interest rates are allowed to increase to their normal levels, the malinvestments fail. The longer the suppression of interest rates, the more malinvestments are created and the more systemic damage it will create in any given economy when interest rates return to normal (and corrections are inevitable).
Construction and real estate are two of the main beneficiaries of capital good investments when interest rates are low. The inverse applies for high interest rates, as more capital is spent on a shorter-term vision on consumer goods and away from capital goods.[7]
See also
- National debt: Federal Reserve System's Ponzi scheme of Quantitative easing-Debt monetization devaluation of Fiat currency through Money supply-Treasury bills bought mostly by China and Japan
- Obamanomics: Obamunism Economic planning of the Obama administration fiscal policy, Obama administration monetary policy, Obamacare, Federal funding via Crony capitalism (Obama donor list), Deficit spending, Similarities between Communism, Nazism and liberalism, Obamageddon
- John Maynard Keynes' liberal Keynesian economics of Barack Obama
- Ludwig von Mises' conservative libertarian Austrian economics and Fiscal conservatism-Conservative economic policies of Ron Paul
- Economic collapse: Inflation, Agflation, Deflation, Stagflation, Hyperinflation, Panic of 1907, Panic of 1893, Panic of 1837
- Stock market crash (Stock market crash of 1929) leading to Bank runs and Great Depression (Economic depression)
- Economic bubbles: The Coming Derivatives bubble, Real estate bubble (Subprime loans, Bailout, Obama administration corporate bailouts), Dot com bubble (Tulip mania)
- Financial Crisis of 2008 leading to Recession of 2008 (Recession), Economic stimulus, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Recovery Summer 2010
- ↑ Higher Inflation Is On The Way, Forbes.com, February 22, 2011
- ↑ http://www.cnbc.com/id/49036260
- ↑ Does Quantitative Easing Benefit the 99% or the 1%?
- ↑ Effects of low interest rates
- ↑ QE3: Helicopter Ben Bernanke Unleashes An All-Out Attack On The U.S. Dollar
- ↑ Does Quantitative Easing Benefit the 99% or the 1%?
- ↑ Effects of low interest rates

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|what about cobra? sounds a good fit for u
|thanks for fast response. Yup, I know what X means however from where I live there is not much choice of NS boards and there is no heritage X left only regular one. I' ve had SL few years ago and it was fun but for now I'm looking for something different. I was also wondering if I need wide board. From your reply I assume I do so there is unfortunately (or not) only proto in X version. So an availability of the board made choice for me. Thanks for help!
Here are my thoughts
First off, just to make sure you know, the "X" means wide in both of these models. I have size 11.5 and i love riding a wide board, and would recommend that to you as well. I think your on the right track for length. So the choice becomes either the Heritage X 159 (the x does not come in 58) Or the Proto CTX 158.
Now that i am positive we are on the same page on that detail lets decide on the board. For what kind of riding it sounds like you are interested in, both of these boards will preform very well. However they are still each their own board. I own the Proto CTX 158, however i think for you the Heritage X might make the better choice. And here's why i'm leaning this way.
When charging through crud the Heritage is going to plow through with a bit more confidence. When riding pow the Heritage will also float slightly better due to being slightly directional. It will also feel more stable in high speed carves.
You might be asking what is the Proto better at? Riding switch, especially in pow is going to be easier on the Proto, being a true twin. Butters/presses are also easier. I also like the slightly tighter turning radius that is possible with a slightly softer board, and i mean very slightly here, but that just might make the difference between hitting that tree, and a close call. These are the things that made me choose the proto.
As a wrap-up unless you really want to get into riding switch and more park, the Heritage X will be (in my opinion) the better board for your riding preferences. And will still not let you down in the park by any means. However i would like to add, have you heard of the Never Summer Legacy? It is the wide version of the SL, and is in between the Heritage and Proto in most respects. That does come in a 158. And honestly that might be the best choice of all... But any of these three will do you great for your all mountain all condition board.
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I want to ask for an advice with choosing board and its size. My types are: ns heritage 158 or ns proto ctx 158. My riding style was mainly freeride, powder, and a little jibs. Now I want to learn more freestyle riding with not forgetting about fr. so let's say it will be 60 % fr 40% fs. Which board would be better? I'm 6'1", 170lbs, 11-shoe size. What is your opinion?
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I have external device streaming data at fixed sample rate and my GNU Radio source block for this device, which feeds flow graph containing some hardware sink operating at same sample rate (e.g. audio sink). My source-device and that sink-device (e.g. soundcard on PC) aren't synchronized, i.e. they clocked from different sources. So I need to do some kind of auto-resampling to eliminate buffer over/under-runs. (Please correct me, if I use wrong terminology. I'm novice and just trying to specify common DSP task, which I'm sure exists.)
The first trouble is that I don't know how to make my block adopt to existing sample rate in graph. GNU Radio scheduler asks my block to produce too large chunks of samples which leads to quick underrun of my block's internal buffer (even 500ms pre-buffering is not enough!). Actually there are no failure, taken data just being moved to somewhere between my block and sink (and everything works well when source and sink are synchronous, I checked). But(!) my block loses prebuffered level which deviations I expected to use as reference for corrections. Hungry scheduler eats all data in buffer. Moreover, his extra attempts leads to extra CPU usage - this is the second trouble. I experimented with inserting thread 'sleep's in work() function and it solves issue but breaks data flow (audio device reports underruns, more or less frequent depending on sleep interval).
Please, advice on solution. I would appreciate for just pointing me to right direction.
Oops, seems I'm misunderstanded scheduler behavior. Since each block works in its separate thread, I just need do blocking in work() function and adjust max number of output items in my source block ? But there are still problem with input data jitter. How much time work() function is allowed to block for ?
After several days of hard work I figured out what's wrong, and finally realized how this task should be solved properly. I generalized it in such way, that it could solve similar problems experienced by anyone who connecting multiple hardware clocked blocks in single graph (aka, "The two-clock problem", as named here: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnuradio/2010-05/msg00117.html).
My solution introduces interface enhancement for sources and sinks and, as such, requires modification of existing blocks in GNU Radio source tree. So I would like to get feedback from maintainers before I start to prepare my contribution.
Basic idea is simple:
1. Source/sink estimates its current buffer level and buffer size each work() invocation and reports values outside via asynchronous message interface.
2. Special block inserted between source and sink receives messages from them, joins values in single pseudo-buffer, filters jitter and implements control loop: calculates deviation from 50% and corrects samples stream by adding duplicated samples or removing samples depending on deviation sign.
- It works automatically and doesn't depend on clocks skew value, sample rate and other resampling blocks in graph.
- It doesn't depend on (unknown) intermediate buffers underlying in OS or buffers between blocks, they affect only stream start-up performance, and this can be tuned via block configuration. For example, my virtual machine adds "invisible" ~250ms audio buffer/latency (actually it can be seen from large difference between ALSA buffer size value and value returned by snd_pcm_delay()).
- Special block may be tuned (or implemented as different blocks) to adapt for various clock skew profiles, jitter profiles, etc.
- Unlike timestamp-based solutions it robust and flexible enough to support various sources and sinks.
- It distorts signal heavily at large skew between clocks.
I wonder why nobody did it already.
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Hi Artem,
your citing that thread of 2010 clearly shows you still didn't get the
problem. Point being: If your source has a different speed than your
sink, you'll need resampling in Software. This has nothing to do with
synchronizing. I won't further elaborate on this.
On 13.12.2013 09:24, Artem Pisarenko wrote:
> I wonder why nobody did it already. Please, comment on.
Because: GNU Radio is still a sample based software radio framework.
You don't want added or removed samples. As a GR user, you can safely
assume that two samples are always 1/f_sample apart. That is the way
meaningful DSP becomes possible. I don't see any usefulness in your
If there are two streams of different sampling clocks to be
synchronized, chances are high you want to have rational resampling
rather than padding/dropping. The latter just wreaks havoc on every
aspect of the signal. Don't do it unless you care for the matching
number of samples in two streams more than for the signal represented.
If your two sampling clocks diverge over time, well that's a hardware
problem that can hardly be solved in software if the error exceeds the
size of default buffers. With usable hardware, this should not happen.
Blocks shouldn't care for their own buffer "fill"; that's the job of
the runtime and GR does this fairly well, to be honest. Your Virtual
machine audio related problem is hardly a proof of shortcomings of
this concept.
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Hi Marcus,
I don't understand what I said wrong again ? This is exactly what my proposal is - resampling. I know, that problem is in hardware. And I know that ideal solution is synchronization (again, in hardware, of course). My proposal is just alternative cheap solution for those cases, when synchronization is not possbile (for whatever reasons).
You misunderstanded me again. I talked about hardware I/O buffers. I mentioned GR buffers only because they are part of total buffers chain from source hardware to sink hardware and, as such, they affect data propagation. But my solution doesn't rely on them in any way.
My proposal just solves classic problem, when source and sink have same sample rate nominally (e.g. 48000) but actual rates are varying (e.g. 47999 vs 48001) due to temperature ranges and drifting. If your source and sink have totally different rates then, of course, you should use rational resampler available in standard blocks collection of gnu radio, but additionally you may insert my block which will finally make speeds match precisely. (Of course, it's not strictly true, but I hope you understand what I mean.)
Why don't I want add/remove samples ? Any resampler actually does it.
Final purpose of this solution is just eliminate buffer over/under-runs when streaming data between non-synchronized hardware. If you like watch disturbing 'aU'/'aO'/'uU'/'uO' output in console (btw, it streamed to stderr, so it considered to be errors) and found my proposal useless, I have nothing to say here. In my case there are large latency, so I have additional bonus to console output: streaming interruption for a long duration in order to prebuffer and restore streaming.
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> Blocks shouldn't care for their own buffer "fill"; that's the job of
> the runtime and GR does this fairly well, to be honest. Your Virtual
> machine audio related problem is hardly a proof of shortcomings of
> this concept.
I don't agree with this.
Blocks should be able to monitor the buffer level to act in consequence.
A real world example :
- RF front end gets samples
- Demod process to compressed audio frames
- Sends to codec to convert to audio
- Sends to audio card for playback
Now in this system you have two physical unrelated clock source; The
RF sampler and your audio card.
All the samplerate relationship in the flow graph would be adjusted
for their nominal speed but of course they won't be in perfect sync.
Now if your audio card is a bit faster, it will run out of samples
from time to time. It might replay automatically the last one and you
might not hear it.
But if your audio card is a bit slow, the buffer in front of it will
slowly fill up and you'll have a rising latency (and finally drop
samples when it fills up).
Now a real world vocoder I'm working with right now deals with this
problem by having variable length audio frames. When I get one frame
of encoded audio, I can ask the codec to generate between 19.5 ms to
20.5 ms of audio (for a nominal 20ms frame) and it's of course much
better than dropping/repeating samples blindly.
But to be able to use this, the codec block needs to be able to
monitor the output buffer level so it can try to maintain it at a good
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Hi Sylvain,
Ok, I see the point here and I agree that it would be nice if a block
was notified of a "filling output buffer chain" in advance. (you
could, however, use the noutput_items parameter or nitems_written()
together with some system clock to get an idea of what is being consumed)
However, you explained the problem very nicely: Your hardware does
something strange, e.g. repeating samples, when it goes too slow/fast.
The only way to actually account for that is the monitoring of the
sink sampling clocks relative to the source sampling clock. However,
that's something you can't do in software, you need some hardware
feedback to give you a reasonably exact estimate of the frequency
offset, since you don't see the output of your hardware sink (usually).
For different soundcards there might (and might not) exist some method
to find out how fast a playback buffer got used up; this is very
hardware-dependent and not easily unified in software, especially
since in this case timing offsets in the order of microseconds are
relevant and if your feedback mechanism incorporates context switches,
async messaging and computation, you won't be getting reliable results.
Basically: If your hardware is "bad" by means of drifting/wrong
clocks, and you can't monitor your output, you'll be having a bad day.
This is an inherent problem of SDR, I reckon, and from my point of
view the only solution would be constraining hardware clocks of sinks
and sources using a common master clock (that's what most SDR
peripherals do, therefore), or monitoring the sink output using the
same source clock (which is just another incarnation of controlling
the sink clock using the source clock).
In software architectures like GR that rely on "large" buffers to
enable normal operating systems to run the SDR, I guess you will have
a hard time figuring out actual clock deviations just by measuring
buffer filling; there's just so much more than just the sink clock
going astray that could happen which will make things look like
latency was building up. Again: Using GR you usually try to ignore the
fact that computation may (and will) take different amounts of time at
different points in time, even for the same block, and rely on the
scheduler to call the linked blocks' work()s with fitting parameters.
Measuring the amount of data that passes through software buffers
won't therefore help you much when measuring the sampling speed of a
hardware sink, or only on very large time scales.
On 13.12.2013 11:48, Sylvain Munaut wrote:
> Hi,
>> Blocks shouldn't care for their own buffer "fill"; that's the job
>> of the runtime and GR does this fairly well, to be honest. Your
>> Virtual machine audio related problem is hardly a proof of
>> shortcomings of this concept.
> I don't agree with this.
> Blocks should be able to monitor the buffer level to act in
> consequence.
> A real world example : - RF front end gets samples - Demod process
> to compressed audio frames - Sends to codec to convert to audio -
> Sends to audio card for playback
> Now in this system you have two physical unrelated clock source;
> The RF sampler and your audio card. All the samplerate relationship
> in the flow graph would be adjusted for their nominal speed but of
> course they won't be in perfect sync.
> Now if your audio card is a bit faster, it will run out of samples
> from time to time. It might replay automatically the last one and
> you might not hear it. But if your audio card is a bit slow, the
> buffer in front of it will slowly fill up and you'll have a rising
> latency (and finally drop samples when it fills up).
> Now a real world vocoder I'm working with right now deals with
> this problem by having variable length audio frames. When I get one
> frame of encoded audio, I can ask the codec to generate between
> 19.5 ms to 20.5 ms of audio (for a nominal 20ms frame) and it's of
> course much better than dropping/repeating samples blindly.
> But to be able to use this, the codec block needs to be able to
> monitor the output buffer level so it can try to maintain it at a
> good level.
> Cheers,
> Sylvain
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Hi Marcus,
Everything you said I'm already thought about during last days and finally came to conclusion, that buffer estimation model is the only reliable (it solves issue directly by its nature) and universal one (many drivers provide required functions in their API). Since it involves control loop (i.e. have feedback), it will compensate all factors you mentioned on large time scales. Of course, its parameters should be tuned to given system to maintain it in stable state, at least. No matter, how many intermediate buffers exists between hardware source endpoint and hardware sink endpoint (including GR scheduler ones) and how they handled by system. All of them linked in one chain. Ideally we should combine all of them in single one large buffer and estimate its filling to get almost precise results (influenced by jitter only). In practice, software API allows estimate only some of them, but this is not problem. It just adds unknown offset of "buffer fallthrough" appearing at start-up (after source block prebuffered 50% and started streaming). Control loop will detect sudden underrun and will start injecting additional samples in data stream. Finally these "unknown" buffers will be filled up and system achieve stable state (finish of start-up phase). How long it will take ? Depends on these buffers sizes and filter coefficient of control loop algorithm. It's also possible to tune it with user-defined parameters (filter coefficient and "buffer offset") to get fastest start-up at given system.
Agree, but it's not critical now. Since these corrections expected to be infrequent, they will not break signal very much. (In audio signal they even aren't audible to human ear.) I'm going to get system to work first, leaving tunings at very end.
I've completed my contribution. It modifies several GNU Radio in-tree packages.
As described here: http://gnuradio.4.n7.nabble.com/how-to-implement-auto-correction-of-sample-rate-in-flow-graph-tp45268p45337.html with difference about correction method (see result).
- sources and sinks interface enchancement, they provide output of their current buffer measurements (consists of relative buffer filling and maybe some other metadata) via asynchronous message port "sync_out".
- addition of special resampler block, it accepts messages at its "sync_in" port and performs auto-correction of resampler ratio. Block configuration is well-defined, operation is indpendent of graph structure, hardware, data stream dynamic and jitter, etc.
Due to lack of my knowledge in some areas and disappointing gnu radio limitations, I wasn't able to make it properly and resulted in limited implementation. Also I've used fractional resampler block as base for design, so correction performed properly (instead of "blind" adding/deleting samples, as supposed to be initially). Implementation has bad performance characteristics and obscure configuration (some parameters are determined experimentally), but it works.
I modified audio sink block from gr-audio (only alsa implementation) as example of hardware block implementing required interface.
See attached GRC graph as an example of usage. It implements audio loopback and therefore doesn't introduce real sample rate skew, it just shows how it works.
No critics about design accepted. (I asked for help beforehand, nobody advised.)
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|it isnt the sailing part that would make me nervous. I wouldnt want MY 14 year old wandering around the port of a strange city. There are bad people out there and you are likely to spend more time on land than at sea. Street smarts is what that takes and it doesnt really matter how good a sailor you are.
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Iporcano .. If I remember my sociology, we studied why some tribes fight, and some don't, etc, and I remember that those tribes that lived in very harsh conditions didn't have much time for war, as they were just trying to survive.
The relationship here is monetary. Young Laura is well off, she has a yacht, and didn't she just take $5,000 from the bank and run off to an island? Another teen, living in a city apartment, single mom, hardly getting by can't even dream of sailing around the world. Yet, the teen who has the least would soon adapt to the lifestyle of the teen with the most very quickly.
What I wonder; if both sailed around the world, when each told about their adventure, would both see the same world? I doubt it. My guess; the teen who was poor, growing up in a difficult situation, would see the foolishness of the trip, and may not even complete it. The rich teen, who has little in the way of true life experience, would finish the trip and tell everyone how great it was. The reply would be "so what". To better understand this, read Bernard Moitessier (10 April 1925 Hanoi, Vietnam – 16 June 1994 near Paris, France) was a renowned French yachtsman and author of books about his voyages and sailing.
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bloodhunter .. you the man. very well thought out posting.
what would be really funny :: this laura girl goes around the
world and she is making her big arrival, and then this other
sailboat come along ... some kid about 12, calls over "hey,
is that the main channel, I just arrived from sailing around the
world and I am pooped"..
Can't participate in this poll because the alternatives don't relate to each other. If it had been sailing experience and even then ...
What I don't like is that this is a competition to see who can be the youngest to solo around the world. If the kids really want to sail around the world -- solo or in groups -- that's fine with me so long as they don't endanger others. Let them just sail off quietly and get it done or not. However, that's not what's happening.
I just wonder how much of this is the desire to make the sail and how much is the desire to set a record and become famous. Also how much is it the influence of the parents -- an before you say no way, think on those morons who sent their kid up in a home-made balloon so they could have a better shot at getting on a reality show.
And where does it stop -- 12, 10 , 8... I could see a totally automated boat with a really well-designed expert system being operated by an 8-year-old who is good at video games. With luck he or she could make it around the world.
As for government interference. Well the Coast Guard folk can keep a boat in port if they think it can't handle the weather. But even so it seems that only in the Laura Dekker case did the government interfere. But what do you expect them to do? This case has had wide publicity. If the government didn't act and something went wrong, they would be crucified. So they took the safe way out.
As for teenagers adapting more easily than adults, I'm not at all sure that's true. I don't feel like searching the web for facts and figures, but from raising teenagers I really wonder. We raised five children, three boys and two girls --all of whom are now adults , married with successful careers -- and as teenagers, none of them handled major changes at all well. It may be that young people don't have the base of life knowledge -- the been there, done that -- to fall back on when facing change. Or may be our kids were just an exception.
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One limiting factor is mental strength. And usually most kids under the range of 16 to 19 do not have the mental strength for such an arduous task of sailing around the world.
The reason I have an age range there is because everyone matures differently.
Kids under 16 are still on the process of personality definition. Put them with such an arduous task, that includes being alone for so many time under difficult circumstances and it can have disastrous effects on his personality, for the rest of their lifes.
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When I was 17, if someone gave me a sailboat to sail around the world, I would
instead sail to the next port, load up with my friends, and plenty of beer, and it would be P A R T Y .. !!! Who the heck wants to sail around the world, at 17 I wanted to P A R T Y .. and maybe get very lucky. If the same fool gave me a sailboat at 18,19,20,21,22, .... I would still sail to the next port and P A R T Y !! Spring Break !! On a sailboat !!
Not the gummits decision
First off, I truly believe that 13 is waaaay too young to be attempting a solo round the world trip. I also believe that parents who would let a 13 yo undertake such a trip are not being very good parents. But even more than I believe these things, I do not believe it is the gummits job to interfere.
|21 or an emancipated minor, that way their parents can't be charged with a crime....unless they've got some sort'a captain's lisence. Got'a be 16 to solo flght, or drive a car.
|My Nephew is 17 Grew up on his dads motor boat and has been sailing the past 2 years with me. My wife on the other hand is 35 and only goes out from June-August. She goes out to get a tan so we only sail with the head sail. If you where to put them out in the middle of no where by them selves I would bet on the kid.
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The tendons connect muscle to bone and often connect near a joint. Tendinopathy is an injury to the tendon, causing pain, inflammation, and limited movement. Tendinopathy may be:
- Tendinosis—tiny tears in the tendon with no significant inflammation (more common)
- Tendonitis—inflammation of the tendon (less common)
There are several tendons in the shoulder. They are attached to muscles of the rotator cuff and the biceps muscle of the arm.
Tendinopathy is generally caused by overuse of a muscle and tendon. Over time, the strain on the tendon causes the structure of the tendon to change.
Shoulder tendons are overused most often with:
- Repeated reaching overhead
- Repeated throwing
Shoulder tendinopathy may also be caused by:
- Inflammatory disease in the shoulder, such as arthritis
- Trauma to the shoulder
- Fall on outstretched arms
- Normal wear and tear associated with age
Risk Factors
Shoulder tendinopathy is more common in people 30 years and older. Other factors that may increase your chance of shoulder tendinopathy include:
Always using the arm in an overhead position or throwing motion, as in:
- Tennis or other racquet sports
- Swimming
- Baseball
- Certain jobs, such as overhead assembly work, butchering, or using an overhead pressing machine
Symptoms develop gradually over time. Pain usually slowly increases with use.
Tendinopathy may cause:
- Pain (a dull ache) in the shoulder and upper arm
- Pain at night, especially when sleeping on the injured side
- Pain when trying to reach for a back zipper or pocket
- Pain with overhead use of the arm
- Shoulder weakness, usually due to pain with effort
- Shoulder stiffness with some loss of motion
You will be asked about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done. Your doctor will check tender areas. Your shoulder range of motion, and muscle strength will also be checked.
Imaging tests used to evaluate your shoulder and surrounding structures may include:
Arthroscopy is done with an instrument with a long tube and miniature camera on the end. Repairs or corrections can be made while the doctor evaluates the shoulder joint.
Bursitis can cause similar pain symptoms. Your doctor may inject an anesthetic medication. If the pain goes away, it may suggest bursitis not tendinopathy.
Tendinopathy and the associated pain may take months to resolve. It can be frustrating, but it is important to follow through with recommended treatment. Treatments include:
Rest, Ice, Heat
Avoid activities that cause shoulder pain.
Use an ice pack to help control pain and swelling, It may help during the first 24-48 hours after injury or after exercise. Protect your skin by placing a towel between the ice pack and your skin
After a few days, heat may help decrease stiffness. Check with a doctor or therapist before using heat the first time. Protect your skin by placing a towel between the heat source and your skin.
Shoulder tendinopathy can be treated with:
- Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)
- Topical pain medications that are applied to the skin
Persistent or severe pain may need further treatment. Your doctor may inject a steroid into the area. It can temporarily relieve pain. However, frequent injections can damage the tendon.
Rehabilitation will help you regain strength and range of motion in your shoulder. It will also help you prevent future injuries. Rehabilitation may include:
- Physical therapy to strengthen muscles that control the shoulder
- Exercises to maintain normal range of motion
- Exercises for specific muscles that are used in sports or job activities
- Gradual return to sports and work
- Learning how to modify activities to prevent re-injury
Severe injuries may require surgery to repair the tendon. The type of surgery will depend on the specific injuries.
To help reduce your chance of shoulder tendinopathy:
- Do regular resistance exercises to strengthen the muscles.
- Use proper athletic training methods.
- Do not increase exercise duration or intensity more than 10% per week.
- Avoid overusing your arm in an overhead position.
- Alter job duties to avoid overhead activity.
- Do not ignore or try to work through shoulder pain.
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Controversy continues over Senator John McCain's comment last week that since America was founded on "Christian principles…I prefer someone who I know who has a solid grounding in my faith." The American Jewish Congress blasted the senator by commenting, "to argue that America is a Christian nation, or that persons of a particular faith not seek high offices, puts the very character of our nation at stake." Of course, McCain's defenders like Senator Joe Lieberman, an Orthodox Jew, claimed McCain does not have a "bigoted bone in his body." Although, McCain has not completely rejected what he previously stated, he now thinks qualified people should run for the presidency.
Joe Lieberman is probably right that McCain doesn't have a bigoted bone in his body, but it's his mind, not his body that is speaking. John McCain wants to be president and he will say or do anything in order to attain that goal. He has spent the past two years pandering to every nut case on the religious right in his quest for votes. He has groveled before people he denounced a few years back for their bigotry, but now discovers they are wonderful Americans. Americans accept that any politician says things for votes, but McCain's remarks go beyond the pale of decency and honor.


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RBA, the answer is Candlestick Park.
I'd rather listen to Kelch read the phone book than suffer through Thom Brennaman's attempt to make every instance on the field the most important event since the discovery of manned space flight. -westofyou
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There goes the no-hitter.
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Blanco grounds out to 3rd. 4-0 Reds after 5.
66 pitches for Arroyo through 5.
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MATTHEWS, N.C. - A 34-year-old North Carolina House member has given birth to a second child while serving in office.
Democratic Rep. Tricia Cotham of Mecklenburg County gave birth to son, Ryan Francis Meek, on Friday.
In 2010, Cotham welcomed her first son, Elliot Matthew Meek. That birth happened just days before Cotham won her third legislative term.
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2011: Started all 12 games at sam linebacker position for the Blazers and finished with 66 total tackles to rank fourth among UAB defenders ... had 40 solo stops ... also registered three tackles for loss (-16 yards) and one sack (-13) ... set school records for most fumble recoveries in a season (5) and also in one game (4 vs. East Carolina) ... also had a sack and a tackle for loss against the Pirates ... recorded a season-high nine tackles against Tulsa ... had seven tackles -- all solos -- to go along with a fumble recovery in UAB's win over Southern Miss ... had six tackles in back-to-back games to open the season against Florida and Tulane ... also added a forced fumble against the Green Wave.
2010: Appeared in nine games and started two (vs. UTEP and Mississippi State) ... finished season with 16 total tackles (8 solos/8 assists) ... recorded 1.5 tackles for loss (vs. UTEP and Mississippi State) ... posted season-high four tackles in final game vs. Rice ... also contributed three tackles vs. Florida Atlantic and Tennessee.
2009: Saw action as a true freshman in 11 games, starting three in row (Florida Atlantic, Memphis and East Carolina) late in the season ... saw playing time at linebacker and on kickoff team ... finished the year with 16 total tackles, including seven solo stops ... recorded 2.5 tackles for loss ... registered season-best three tackles against Marshall and UTEP.
High School: Played for head coach Tom Causey at Demopolis High ... selected to the Class 5A All-State Team by the Alabama Sports Writers Association following his senior season in 2008 ... managed 87 total tackles with four sacks and three fumble recoveries ... named his team's defensive MVP ... selected Demopolis Times Player of the Week after returning two interceptions for touchdowns in a game against Wilcox-Central ... set a season-high with 15 tackles in a game against Selma ... helped Demopolis to an 8-5 record in 2008.
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I have never owned a Hi-Power, but have heard excellent stuff. I found 2, new, for $425 each. Tell me good and bad about the pistol.
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I have never owned a Hi-Power, but have heard excellent stuff. I found 2, new, for $425 each. Tell me good and bad about the pistol.
I have never shot one but they are suppose to be very good guns. I usually hear people have less reliability issues with them compared to 1911s. If you want one then I think it would be a damn good buy!
I have owned several and it is one of my favorite 9mm pistols. To me they have the best ergonomics of any of the high capacity nines. The only bad thing about them, to me is the stock trigger pull is usually lousy, but it is not hard to cure. If it is an FN Hi-Power for $425 new, don't pass it up.
If you want some expert advise on the HP line of pistols go to this site and read up on them. Mr Camp will answer all your questions for you.
I've shot a couple. I really like the way they feel and handle. It's one of those classic handguns that everyone should probably have in their collection. Browning's a genius, what more can we say??
If it is an FN HP that is a good price. If it is a Belgium Browning, that's a steal!
Just stay away from the Charles Daly or the FEG's. Both of those are hit or miss as far as functional problems. The quality is sub-standard. I've own two of these clones. One was OK, the other was a POS.
A Belgium BHP is your best gun. They will be marked," Made in Belgium/Assembled in Portugal".
The FN versions are good guns also.
Get a BHP. You won't regret it.
I've owned three Belgium HP's. The one I have now is a Belgium HP Hard Chrome.
It is my most accurate semi-auto.
Ditto what every else said - you won't be sorry if you buy it. It will probably become one of your favorites.
The Hi-Power is a great gun. The short grip length isn't great for me as a range run and I would have to put on an extended safety, but they are reliable and easy to shoot with very good accuracy. That sounds like a very good price as well.


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Market for J. Hairston heating up
Infielders have been the hottest commodity in the early stages of the free-agency period.
Now it's Jerry Hairston's turn.
The Dodgers, Brewers and Giants are among the clubs showing interest in Hairston, major league sources say.
Hairston, 35, spent last season with the Nationals and Brewers, posting a .727 OPS in 376 plate appearances, then going 15 for 39 (.385) with four walks and six doubles for the Brewers in the postseason.
He plays second base, shortstop and third, as well as all three outfield positions, and each of the interested teams likely would use him in some type of super-utility role.
Six free-agent infielders — Aaron Hill, Clint Barmes, Mark Ellis, Jamey Carroll, Willie Bloomquist and John McDonald — have signed two-year contracts this offseason.
The money in those deals ranged from $3 million for McDonald to $11 million for Hill. Hairston, who was on a one-year, $2 million contract last season, likely will get a significant raise.
The Brewers have made Hairston a one-year offer, one source said, but might prefer to invest in a full-time free-agent shortstop such as Jose Reyes or Jimmy Rollins rather than make Hairston part of their solution at the position.
Hairston could protect the Giants both at second and short; second baseman Freddy Sanchez is coming off surgery on his right shoulder and shortstop Brandon Crawford is unproven.
The Dodgers likely would play Hairston all over the field. They signed the oft-injured Ellis to play second and plan to use the inexperienced Dee Gordon at short. Hairston also could see time in their outfield.
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|I've blogged previously about some of IBM's work in the public cloud and specifically on our partnership with Amazon to deliver IBM offerings on the Amazon EC2 cloud. Mostly on this blog I've been focused on IBM WebSphere offerings on the Amazon cloud, but coming up on October 1st, you'll get a chance to hear about and see the full breadth of IBM software offerings available on the Amazon EC2 cloud. Better than simply hearing and seeing, by attending the virtual developer's day, you'll get access to try out some of this software absolutely free!
|By leveraging IBM software on Amazon EC2, users can very quickly benefit from the advantages of a cloud computing approach to IT. Instead of focusing valuable time and resource on installing, updating, and otherwise maintaining software, users can simply activate instances of the IBM software of their choosing on Amazon's infrastructure. Besides delivering this rapid approach to getting up and going, users can also leverage cloud computing techniques to quickly and dynamically scale up and down their entire application infrastructure. This ability to dynamically scale up and down means your end-users will always enjoy a satisfactory experience when accessing your applications on the cloud.
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Necklace & Jewelry Organization
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Loved it the first time and still do. I need to do something like this, the drawer thing is just not working!!ReplyDelete
Thanks for the inspiration. I totally need to do this! I see a project in my future!ReplyDelete
I'd like to make an appt. for you to fly to nashville and you do my necklaces this weekend. I'll buy lunch =) xoxo shelReplyDelete
This is a great idea and even better - it looks great too! My "real estate" for storing stuff is pretty limited at the moment, but this inspires me to try to think of a better way to keep my jewelry so that I actually see it, so I will wear it more!ReplyDelete
Beautiful! This reminds me that I need to re-organize my jewelry armoire!ReplyDelete
A fabulous idea. I always find myself fighting with my necklaces as they get tangled with each other. you have inspired me!!ReplyDelete
that looks organized and pretty :) on the side note, i'll be taking anything you're giving away!! yay!!!ReplyDelete
So gorgeous, girl. I have run out of room so I think I need to do something like this. I spy a familiar bracelet ;) Have a great weekend.ReplyDelete
Oh it looks great! Love your jewelry too!ReplyDelete
Love this! I especially love the little bowls to hold the bangles!ReplyDelete
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IT's nice when it is out so you can see what you have. Great organization!ReplyDelete
I like this because it's easy to switch out the paper. :) There are so many options for jewelry storage these days, I like your option. http://seven-one-six.blogspot.comReplyDelete
This is such a great way to organize jewelry. It looks so pretty Megan. Mine is in a couple drawers and I tend to reach for the same earrings, bracelet and necklace all the time. You've inspired me to find a place to organize like you have. It's fun to switch out what we're wearing. Love your jewelry....especially that turquoise beaded necklace and pretty wrapped bracelet. Enjoy your weekend!ReplyDelete
I did something similar this past summer and I'm loving how it works for me. You can see what I did here: http://organized31.blogspot.com/2012/09/organizing-necklaces.html.ReplyDelete
How lovely! The display looks so bright and fun. I need to do something like this for my jewelry -- it's always getting tangled, and I hate not being able to see everything, all out in front of me! :-) Happy Friday!ReplyDelete
Oh my gosh, Megan!!!! I love it!!! It's absolutely beautiful! I'm a longtime follower, so this has me doing a happy dance because I did something so similar just a couple months ago!! Check out my own version: http://www.livelovediy.com/2012/09/diy-corkboard-jewelry-organizer.htmlReplyDelete
Well done, I love it!! ~ Virginia @ LiveLoveDIY.com
Love the board idea with the necklaces, I really need something like that. Jewelry organization is my nemesis, thanks for the great ideas!ReplyDelete
Such a great idea! I am totally looking for a new solution in my closet! Thanks!ReplyDelete
I keep all of my jewelry out on display in my closet too! It's not only easy to reach and nicely organized but it makes me closet feel pretty ;) Love the foam board idea!ReplyDelete


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No way to answer for either of you. The reason is that hand size and perceived recoil are different for everyone. I'm batting .500 for picking guns for my wife. The first was a S&W 432 PD (which she fondled at the local candy store first) that she likes to shoot. The second (I, the all-knowing king of all things gunish) picked without her input...WRONG! It was a Kahr P9. Great gun, she just didn't care for the trigger or recoil.
Our next venture is for her to shoot first, then buy. That's what I suggest you do. Both of you need to go to the shops and hold as many as you can just to get a feel for each one. Once you've narrowed it down, go to a local range and rent them or ask around to see if friends have any of the ones you are considering.
Finally, and this is the hard part for me, shut up and let her pick. If she doesn't like everything about it she won't shoot it and you've wasted time and money and shown her you don't value her opinion.


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