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For those like me who have only ever known the actor Bradley Cooper from a role in some outrageous comedy (think "The Hangover"), you might be surprised to find, as I did, that Cooper can really act well. I imagine it requires certain skills to act well in over-the-top comedies too, but it's difficult to imagine what sort of finesse and attention to character development is required when the overarching goal of the film is to push-limits and make people laugh. The recent film Silver Linings Playbook, staring Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence (best known as "Katniss" from the film version of The Hunger Games), is an excellent movie. Cooper and Lawrence do something, at least in my opinion, that few actors known for a very narrow type of previous work can do — they succeed in embodying and presenting new, real, and complex characters.
For those who are not familiar with the storyline from the film or the book from which it's based — The Silver Linings Playbook: A Novel by Matthew Quick — it centers on Pat, a former high school substitute teacher, who is released from a mental-health facility in Baltimore to move back with his parents in Philadelphia. As the story goes on, we learn the details of what led to his eight-month hospitalization. A major theme throughout, connected to this hospitalization, is Pat's obsession with reconciling his marriage and getting back together with his wife (I won't say more, for fear of spoiling the movie/book).
We learn that Pat suffers from bipolar disorder and we see him struggle with wanting not to take his medication (often during manic cycles), suffer the pain of delusion and fear, and try to make sense of a life that is, at times, very surreal and scary. Enters, then, a young woman, Tiffany. She is a recent widow and someone who has, without as clear a diagnosis (she self-descriptively says "crazy," others also follow that lead in describing her), her own struggles with depression and other mental-health issues. For some reason, Tiffany seems able to break through Pat's wall of distorted reality, mania, fear, and depression. That's all I'll say about that.
While this film does bear signs of a hollywood movie, there are some genuine moments of complexity and truthfulness that break through the story to elicit something of a reaction from the audience or reader. There is something very real about these characters, at least inasmuch as you can ascertain such reality in two hours.
The sense of reality of the characters in this story — including the slightly neurotic father (Robert De Niro) and tired, but unconditionally loving mother (Jacki Weaver) — was confirmed in my case by the reflection it evoked in me about my first year of ministry with the friars.
Nearly eight-years ago, I entered the Franciscan Order as a postulant, lived in a friary at a parish in the Bronx, and worked three days a week at a housing center the friars operated in midtown Manhattan for formerly homeless, mentally ill people. I remember being a little afraid after receiving that ministry assignment, I had very little experience with actual people with severe mental illness. What I thought I knew, I learned from TV, books, and the movies. There is also a general, if low-grade, fear that seems to haunt our contemporary society with regard to those we label "mentally ill," which both accounts for the general stigmas associated with diagnosed women and men and the uncertainty about what to expect that afflicted me early on.
This fear of "madness" is exactly what the French philosopher Michel Foucault suggests arises to replace more ancient fears of leprosy and the like, and which ultimately leads to the widespread confinement of such diagnosed people — something the movie character Pat knows all about after his eight-month stay in Baltimore.
Although it sounds trite, what I came to realize in New York City was that those labeled "mentally ill" or "crazy" or "mad" or any of the other monikers associated with that social (or medical) status are real people too. They have histories, fears, joys, anxieties, struggles, intelligence, skills, and so on, like everybody else. Aspects of their daily experience are more difficult to negotiate in society than the "average person" (whatever that means). I formed friendships, learned from and came to really admire and appreciate many of these wonderful people. Their lives are difficult and, many times, very sad.
I saw this come through in Silver Linings Playbook in a perceptible way. You see it in the reactions of parents, in family members, in lifelong friends — they are afraid, especially early on, and don't know what to expect from Pat. He has outbursts, can be violent, but we realize that this is something outside of his control, it is an effect of a world that only exists in his personal reality, a world that is difficult to reconcile with the world of others.
The relationship that arises, from an unlikely and initially awkward friendship between Pat and Tiffany, does so imperfectly and (in true novel/hollywood form) romantically, but it reveals that fear is not the right response, love, patience, and understanding are the only way forward.
I hope that this movie has a positive impact on the social perception of mental illness, although I know it's unreasonable to expect a popular film to have any measurable impact. There is, as a fellow friar told me weeks back in encouraging me to see this movie, a story of redemption here. A story of reconciliation, in the literal sense, of bringing together pieces of a life — of lives — broken apart. Not all stories that begin and continue in a similar way end on such a hollywood happy note, but the reality of personhood, dignity, and humanity remains the same no less in the far-too-often sad stories of everyday experiences.


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text: Reactions to EPA's Renewable Fuel Proposal November 15, 2013 08:02 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Sara Schafer Top Producer Editor Email For the past few weeks, there have been rumblings that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had plans to reduce the ethanol mandate, officially known as the Renewable Fuels Standard. The agency's official proposal was released this afternoon. EPA proposed a range of 15 billion to 15.52 billion gallons of renewable fuel in 2014. That range for fuels such as corn-based ethanol and biodiesel compares to a quota in 2007 legislation that called for 18.15 billion gallons. Here are the industry's reactions: Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack: "The Obama Administration remains committed to the production of clean, renewable energy from homegrown sources, and to the businesses that are hard at work to create the next generation of biofuels. It's important to take a long-term approach to the RFS. Clearly, as Governor of Iowa and as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, my support for the RFS has been steady and strong. But I also believe that improved distribution and increased consumer use of renewable fuels are critical to the future of this industry. We are proud of our record to support increased demand for renewable fuels. USDA has invested in the creation of advanced biorefineries across the nation; developed a unique partnership with the U.S. Navy and Department of Energy to create new biofuels for marine and aviation use; and boosted markets for nearly 3,000 U.S. companies that are creating biobased products from homegrown materials. I am pleased that EPA is requesting comments on how we can help the biofuels industry expand the availability of high-ethanol blends, and I hope the industry uses the comment period to provide constructive suggestions." American Farm Bureau Federation: The American Farm Bureau Federation is disappointed in the Environmental Protection Agency's proposed reduction in the amount of ethanol that must be blended into the nation's gasoline supply," says Bob Stallman, President of the American Farm Bureau Federation. "This decision strikes a blow to conventional ethanol production as well as dampens the prospects for advanced biofuels." "The intent of the Renewable Fuels Standard revised in 2007 (RFS2) was to get more renewable fuels into our nation's pipeline and move beyond the E10 fuel blend. Today's announcement from EPA moves us in the opposite direction. This decision has the potential to pull the plug on new technologies and investments that are currently in place and needed to produce advanced biofuels. "The ethanol industry, from farmers to investors and everyone in between, needs stability and certainty." National Corn Growers Association: "This recommendation is ill-advised and should be condemned by all consumers because it is damaging to our tenuous economy and short-sighted regarding the nation's energy future," said NCGA President Martin Barbre. "Agriculture has been a bright spot in a failing U.S. economy, but current corn prices are below the cost of production. EPA's ruling would be devastating for family farmers and the entire rural economy." The Environmental Protection Agency's proposed renewable volume obligations set the annual targets for the utilization of cellulosic, biodiesel, advanced and total renewable fuel within our transportation fuels. The proposed rule caps corn-based (or conventional) ethanol at 13 billion gallons. These proposed volume obligations are a drastic reduction from the mandated RVOs in statute. Today's proposed rule cuts 1.4 billion gallons from the conventional ethanol cap that was set at 14.4 billion gallons. "Ethanol and the RFS have been a great success story. Now, the EPA is sending a terrible message that we no longer have a long-term energy policy for biofuels, which was the original intent of this forward-thinking legislation. The Administration has clearly backed away from their commitment to renewable energy and this proposal blatantly contradicts the President's Climate Action Plan," Barbre said. "The goal of the RFS is to reduce our dependence on imported oil to make our country more energy independent and more secure. It has done that while also revitalizing rural America." American Soybean Association: In response to a Proposed Rule for the 2014 Renewable Fuel Standard Required Volume Obligations (RVO) issued today by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the American Soybean Association expressed concern that the biomass-based diesel levels for 2014 and 2015 would be reduced below the amount actually produced in 2013. The rule, which establishes the amount of biofuels that obligated parties must utilize for 2014 and the amount of biomass-based diesel for 2014 and 2015, proposes a biomass-based diesel RVO of 1.28 billion gallons, less than the amount produced by the industry in 2013. EPA has also proposed to reduce the total advanced biofuels requirement, which also limits the opportunities for biodiesel. "The level set forth in the proposal is unnecessarily low and will stifle the growth and job creation potential demonstrated by the biodiesel industry over the past several years," said Danny Murphy, a soybean, corn and wheat farmer from Canton, Miss., and ASA's president. "Biodiesel, including biodiesel produced from soybean oil, is the most prevalent advanced biofuel currently produced in the United States. Biodiesel is the first and only EPA-designated Advanced Biofuel to reach 1 billion gallons of annual production. The industry has met or exceeded the RFS Biomass-based Diesel volume requirements each year they have been in place." ASA will continue to work with EPA and industry partners to demonstrate the flaws represented by this proposal and looks forward to achieving a final rule that does not hinder the momentum and positive economic benefits generated by biodiesel. "The biodiesel industry is on track to produce at least 1.7 billion gallons of biodiesel in 2013, and can match or surpass that production level in 2014," added Murphy. "By keeping the RVO target at the lower 1.28 billion gallon level, EPA would be limiting an industry that is supporting jobs, providing a valuable market for soybean farmers, and in turn lowering the price for the protein-rich soybean meal used in animal feed." Advanced Ethanol Council: "While only a proposed rule at this point, this is the first time that the Obama Administration has shown any sign of wavering when it comes to implementing the RFS," said Brooke Coleman, Executive Director of the Advanced Ethanol Council (AEC). "EPA is in the right ballpark for cellulosic biofuels, and we are confident that the final number will be the right one for the industry in 2014. But bigger picture issues must be resolved in the final rule because advanced biofuel investors also pay attention to the big picture." The Council pointed to unnecessary reductions to the advanced biofuel pool, unfounded concern about imaginary blend walls, and not enough faith in the mechanics of the RFS program among certain Administration officials as the primary issues that need to be resolved during the comment period. "What we're seeing is the oil industry taking one last run at trying to convince administrators of the RFS to relieve the legal obligation on them to blend more biofuel based on clever arguments meant to disguise the fact that oil companies just don't want to blend more biofuel. The RFS is designed to bust the oil monopoly. It's not going to be easy," added Coleman. U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry: "The so-called blend wall is a crisis manufactured by the oil industry, which is interested in eliminating the competition so they can continue reaping even greater windfall profits. The proposed rule could cost thousands of good paying clean energy jobs and mean less competition at the pump. I urge the administration to take a hard look at how this could seriously set back growth at a crucial time when tremendous progress is being made toward commercial-scale production of advanced biofuels. 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I don't think you are going to be burning much of the "nasty" gas. I would say that the red pump broke for a reason. i.e. - if you try to run that fuel through your carbs, you will ruin them.
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I don't think you are going to be burning much of the "nasty" gas. I would say that the red pump broke for a reason. i.e. - if you try to run that fuel through your carbs, you will ruin them.
OK. That makes more sense. Good luck in draining the tanks.
I believe I resolved the issues with our run about. I changed the ignition coil and it seemed to help a little however the hesitation was still there. I removed the distributor cap and cleaned off a lot of corrosion. After that the boat fired right up and all the hesitation was gone. My rpms were dead solid as well. I didn't take it out for a run as there was no one out to tow me back if I had problems but I was not able to reproduce the problem. I am going to take it out tomorrow for the final test. I plan on pumping the houseboat's tanks tomorrow. I hope it goes smooth.
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I just got the carburetor back from the mechanic. He said that he had to soak it for 2 days to get all the crud out of it. There had been water in it for some time now. I need to address the tanks issue as well as the water running straight onto the carburetor from the engine hatch channel overflowing.
Good deal - you are making progress. My hatch channels also overflow, but luckily do not drip directly on the engines. I don't know why it seems that designing a hatch gutter that works is so difficult.
That is what I am amazed at. The other side of the coin is how do they create the hatch and not realize they overflow right on top of the carburetor. I am going to create a couple more drain holes in the gutter to see if that will help the situation. There are currently two big saucers that on top of the air arrestor that deflect the water from the top of the carb. The bad part is it pools on top of my intake manifold. I need to figure something out to stop that from happening as well.
Put the rebuilt carb on and replaced my metal fuel lines with CG approved fuel lines. I hope tp pump out the bad gas this next week.
Well that took a month. Finally got the tank emptied. I am gonna put in about 10 gallons tomorrow to see if the starboard will run. Interestingly enough the port engine died after idling for about 5 minutes and it looks like it is out of gas. OHB, before I tear up the floor to take off this fuel sender, were these tanks ever tied together? I validated that I pumped the starboard engine's tank but it acts like I emptied both. I know you don't know specifically but is that normal or are they separate for each engine?
I discovered that the tanks aren't tied together. Still about 65 gallons in my port engine tank. So the carb isn't getting any gas. It is either the fuel pump, fuel pickup, or I am going to try and prime the water separator. I am ready to get this boat on the hard and gut it. Just a horrible year. Anyone have any guesses as to what else it could be?


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|2007-11-27, 17:05
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Seeing as the whole show has some unbelievable parts...starting with Lucy herself, she might have lived. But I doubt that, if she survived, then there is still a big problem that is the company. They will keep coming back and I am sure next time they will kill those around her as well.
I belive she died, and in doing so, clensed herself of her past murders. I took that scene as the bullets taking her sins out, sort of a baptism(by fire...lol) that would clense her. She made her peace with Kouta then went to make her ultimate peace with the world. Besides if she lived there would still be the rivalry beteen her and the cousin(Sorry forgot her name, been a long time since I watched)
As for the guns, they were using mainly MP5 which uses the 9mm, and I am guessing they had parabellum rounds(Hollow points, basically causes more damage). Enough of them would kill anyone, and did you see the amount of soldiers firing, it was quite a lot.
Overall her death was sad, but not tragic. She was a murderer, and a psychopath. Sure The other self was sweet, but the killer was always there. She just couldn't live in society, death was probably the best thing for her. She got to say she loved him, got a kiss and got the reassurance he does not totally hate her. It was enough for her to at least die somewhat happy. Then add the orphan girl who was molested and the other horned girl(Again sorry, been a while) who were both saved and got a better life, I say it was a pretty good ending.
The truly sad part for me was the flashbacks, at the moment she gave herself to the killer side. The moment she said I really loved you Kouta, was the gut kicker for me. Had he told the truth about the cousin, but said he was not interested(Wasn't at the time), things might have been different. They could have had a life together...but they didn't. I guess the term for this is what happens...happens.
But that is just my humble opinion.
|2007-11-28, 18:14
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my impression is she's alive..as Nyu or that persona when she was younger (cant remember name, sorry)
no problems with the company since they can only follow the bloodtrace or rely on other diclonius to detect her but they can't since she's lost her horns so isn't a diclonius anymore
|2007-11-29, 03:43
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When'd this thread get so hostile?
Think it's time for a real change of topic, therefore, I'll throw this into the fray:
Think about it.
Diclonious = Mutant... possible connection?
Come on, don't we all want to see Nana in costume?!
Okay, on to a truly serious topic:
Really, am I the only one who thinks Lucy's death (IF it happened) would change anything? Her birth was an anomaly, what's to say it couldn't happen again? Or that she was the only "Queen"?
I'll bet there are a lot more diclonious cases, not just in Japan either. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if things end up like they do in Will Smith's new movie... replacing the vampires with diclonious of course.
(Trying not to think of vampires vs diclonious... attempt failed)
Any other thoughts on post-anime plotlines?
(Ya know, the X-men thing's starting to make a lot more sense... damn fanfiction for poisoning my mind!)
|2007-11-29, 08:15
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|2007-11-29, 10:47
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Actually Lucy was not the anomoly.
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While in the manga Lucy never tells Kouta her feelings, which she regreted, and never kisses him, an equally emotional and more believable event takes place initiated by Kouta. There is no question about her fate and she truely gets to redeem herself, at least as it relates to Kouta.
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|2007-11-29, 14:15
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I should correct you on the fact that I didn't insult anyone other than you only, the only one stupid enough to still argue on this equally stupid and pointless debate. The moment you stopped responding to my attacks that are concerned with the scenario, (i.e. the below quote by me)
Spoiler for me from above:
I took that as you agreeing, 'yes I was stupid, going further is pointless'. If you are still unconvinced we can start from here again, not from where you sidetracked off into this post,
, which attempts to invalidate my points without even trying to address my concerns stated above.
I'm more interested in discussing the characters, themes, etc. behind animes and not the plausibility of the anime. It was fun for a while trolling and provoking angry responses but I guess it does get tiring and bit sad watching one come up with some of the most stupid and imaginative speculations.
EDIT: lol at below. Sad way to avoid questions that one can not answer.
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|2007-12-01, 21:41
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Okay, I'm a complete n00b here so sorry if I offend anyone, but I just got done watching Elfen Lied last night. Now you seem dead on on what you have said. No matter how much I wish it isnt true, you really put it out there that Lucy/Nyu is dead. I'll probably have to rewatch the last episode to actully notice the things you have pointed out. But still there is one more question that lingers in my mind and that is who the person behind the door is? I now we will never know who it is exactly but I would like some peoples opinions. This has probably been discussed so much already but I dont wanna go and search the onehundred pages to find out what other people think. I still wish Lucy wouldnt have died though. T_T
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Here's a speculation I made years ago, and still unchanged. I have yet to meet anyone sharing my opinion, because justifiably, it's bit random and far-fetched, but I myself still prefer it than having to take Lucy as answer.
Hope if that helped ^_^b. Thanks anyway for at least making an opportunity to talk about stuff more interesting and less retarded than trying to answer the question of 'how a girl can not die from being gunned closeshot by a group of trained gunners in a realistic manner'. It's good to know that there is one less ostrich out there, burying his head inside the ground. Yes, he can't see anything so there is nothing to worry about, but I wonder if he realises that his ass is still showing.
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Thats a pretty rock solid theory there but there are a few gap that I see.
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Other than that you have a pretty good theory. (I dont think I need to put that in spoiler qutes but meh). Oh, and thanks for not concidering me an ostrich. ^_^
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I mean, I could argue that the research team somehow developed the diclonius superior, and can go near other inferior diclonius like Nana without her noticing. But as you can see, that's only a speculation, which may lead to pointless debate.
No way near a solid theory I suppose, but that's how I saw the girl behind the silhoutte to be.
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WOW gaguri that's a brilliant theory. Musta taken you ages to think that up! But, as well as what Atsushi said, there's something I gotta say. It seems to me that Lucy doesn't want to continue the Diclonius race.
Course it's just a theory, not saying it's definately what happened. ^_^
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Didn't take me ages to come to the idea (or maybe it did, but it was so long ago I can't remember), but took ages to type all that in a coherent manner, backed up by all the details I could find...it's a simple idea, but quite a far-fetched one without considering the implication and symbols I've mentioned before.
As for Nyu coming back alive...I don't like the idea of Nyu somehow 'waking up' alive in that body (if it's still in one piece) but ok...
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Oh, and I wathced the OVA today, a bit more info on Lucy's background and a bit of comedy involving Nana. lol, a bit of an enlightening episode. And it takes place somewhere between like 10 and 11 or something right?
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But I thought the ones with the 'hands' were all killed or hiding(Nana). Aren't the others just humans with horns? If that is the case, then they can only fight as a human, and can die just as easily.
And if they do have more with 'hands', I would be hard pressed to believe one could survive a tank shell or aviation bomb/missle. While he does run a rich company with many weapons, when the world's militaries finally got involved, they would ultimately be stopped.
Also, not all the Diclonius are cold blooded killers(Nana).
So looking at it from a tactical view, I don't think the Diclonius could take the world. From what is shown, Humans out number them, plus have the ultimate technology if need be. No matter how many 'hands' you have, you are not going to stop a thermonuclear weapon(Though that would be a last resort).
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Heh yeah I love the bits with Nana, especially when she comes home and Nyuu's face! ^_^ By the way TigerII they're called "vectors".
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There's a long list of Goldman Sachs executives who have played critical roles in government and business, from Sidney Weinberg during the World War II years to Hank Paulson's during the 2008 financial crisis.
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1928 was a tough year in Grammy's family. Two children in the family died in separate accidents that summer. One of those children was Grammy's only sister, Carolyn.
Grammy and Carolyn's mother had died in 1927, leaving Grammy's father as a single parent. Single parenting isn't an easy job now; it was at least as hard if not harder back then.
Probably because of the family situation, Grammy and Carolyn spent the summer of 1928 with their grandmother, Susan Emma Prince, in the Boulder Colorado area.
One day that summer, the family was driving through the mountains – possibly in this car – and stopped to stretch legs and take in the view. Carolyn ran across the road to join her Uncle Arthur, and was hit by a car. She was not quite 5 years old.
We don't talk about Carolyn much in the family. Certainly her death was tragic and painful to all involved; however, I think the reason we don't speak of Carolyn is that we never knew her.
We remember you today, Carolyn, 83 years after your left this world.
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What terror and heartache must the grandmother of Carolyn must have felt, especially knowing the mother of the two girls had just died. She must have gone to her grave guilty over this death. Such a tragedy. Thanks for sharing this poignant and sad story. It makes us realize how vigilant we have to be with little children -- and even then, mistakes happen. Welcome to the blogging community. I do a family site too and am fasciated by others stories as well.ReplyDelete
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No but seriously, what are you talking about?
Because who can explain it? Who can explain why they keep trying to convince us he's a proper actor?
Who can explain this description of Runner, Runner from Rope of Silicon?
"20th Century Fox will release the film on September 27, which makes it a possible candidate for the Toronto Film Festival on top of having a chance at some possible Oscar nominations."
Oscar nominations?
In what world would anyone suggest, after seeing this trailer, that an Oscar nomination might be forthcoming?!?!?
Speaking of Oscar, Ben Affleck just won one for Argo. And while he didn't direct Runner, Runner, this will be the first time we see him at the movies since then. This is the follow-up? Makes me wonder whether or not Jennifer Garner asked him to do it as a favour to her best friend Jessica Biel. Because goddamn, why else would he?


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Mother Earth emerged from some sessions that Acid Jazz Record's founder Eddie Piller produced for his long-time friend Bunny in the Summer of 1991, these took the form of a whole load of Bunny's mates turning up and jamming over samples and rhythms put together by him and Eddie. Out of this emerged not only the band's debut album 'Stoned Woman', but also the nucleus of the band. Matt Deighton on guitar and vocals, Chris White on drums, Neil Corcoran on bass, Shauna Greene and Marie Jamille on vocals, with Bunny doing whatever he could. While James Taylor (James Taylor Quartet) played organ and Simon Bartholomew (Brand New Heavies) layed down additional guitar parts. In need of a full time organist and before their debut gig at the Acid Jazz Christmas Party which also saw Acid Jazz signing Jamiroquai perform, Bryn Barklam joined the band.
The first Mother Earth album 'Stoned Woman' appeared in May 1992 and after a slow start it really took off after a page review by Ian McCann in the NME.
The first single that appeared was a version of Santana's 'Hope You're Feeling Better', which was followed early in 1993 by the 'Mr. Freedom' EP. The title track which featured backing vocals from Paul Weller.
Next album 'The People Tree' was a masterpiece featuring contributions from Paul Weller, James Taylor, and soulstress D.C. Lee. The album came housed in a sleeve photographed by legendary rock photographer Gered Mankowitz, and its relative success seemed to lay the door wide open for Mother Earth to break through to stardom.
The third studio album 'You Have Been Watching' was released in 1996. Matt Deighton got married and recorded his debut solo album 'Villager' earlier in the year. It was a much more folk orientated album compared to the bands work. The album received huge critical acclaim, despite Matt being unable to promote it live due to his commitments to the band. Because it had got far better reactions than Mother Earth were getting, and the band felt worried about his commitment. To top this drummer Chris White left and was replaced by 17-year-old José. The band toured on until 1996, and a live album 'The Desired Effect' appeared and the band split shortly afterwards.
Matt Deighton joined Paul Weller's band for his Heavy Soul tour in early 1997 and remained as lead guitarist until late 1999 wqhen he joined Oasis as guitarist whilst Noel Gallagher took a sabbatical from the band.
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I made this little dress for Avery, for Delia's Winter Whites series. Though the series is called "Winter Whites", it includes soft colors and neutrals, so I think this fit the bill. This dress was inspired by a square on a quilt I found at an antique store and fell in love with. I'm not sure how old it is, but a lot of the fabric looks sort of 1930's or 40's.
It's funny how everything old becomes new again. I love the black and white graphic print paired with peach. And it's so on trend right now isn't it? I really wanted to make something with that print so I did my best to recreate it in Illustrator and had it printed though Spoonflower. Mine isn't quite as wonderful as the original, but I think it captures the feeling. I called the dress, "Art Deco Inspired" because I think the geometric shapes and repeating lines on this print look sort of Art Deco, but I'm not sure that's a totally accurate description. But, "Vaguely 30's or 40's Print Inspired Dress" just didn't have the same ring. The style of the dress is definitely more 40's or 50's. I used a New Look (6309) pattern for most of the dress, and then drafted and added the turned up cuff to echo the collar.
I love when people ask me to guest post (although I sadly have to say no a lot because I just can't find time!) because its the only time I ever get any of the sewing projects in my head finished. But I'm a terrible guest-poster! I meant to do a little tutorial for the sleeve cuffs, but just didn't get it done in time.


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Duna and her husband Bruce and family have celebrated
Thanksgiving on Lake Mead since 1999, when they bought
their first houseboat. They currently own a 2006 20 x 75 foot Sumerset houseboat, named "Diamante del Lago.
It sleeps 10 and has a central kitchen that we designed just for occasions like
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Lake Mead is usually nice
weather in November and a welcome break from our busy lives. This year the
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water at 70 degrees. The young ones are known to take advantage of the
smooth, but cold water for wake boarding and wake surfing while the oldsters
are just as happy to admire it from the boat.
Their Thanksgiving feast consisted of grilled salmon,
honey-baked ham, a variety of vegetable dishes, stuffing and pies.
Thanksgiving is usually just immediate family and a friend
or two. This year they had a rather small party - one grandchild, her parents,
two sets of grandparents and two pugs. Their 2-year-old Finley was, of course,
the center of attention. "She loves to help cook, play games, collect rocks or
work tirelessly on sand castles," commented Duna.
They were on the boat for four nights that was spent
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There were a few families arriving at Callville Bay Marina
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I like having cats around. I like seeing them, I enjoy their presence, and I know they take care of a lot of annoying pests that I'd really rather not have to deal with. They are also stinky, messy, and damage my garden... so I'm not a complete cat fan. I just generally fall on the "like" side more than the "dislike".
This spring, while preparing my garden area, the cats became the temporary enemy because they left cat seeds in my garden plot. They also annoyed me recently by using my grafted plum tree as a scratching post. But I have finally started to see their feline faces and take pictures of them in action.
Once you've taken pictures of a creature repeatedly, and dubbed it with a name (even one as boring as "Shed Cat One"), you take a sort of ownership of it. Not a real ownership, just an investment in the life of the creature. And I'm afraid that's started to happen to me.
I've started to put out water for them. I draw the line at food. I will not feed them at all; they aren't mine and I couldn't afford it if I wanted to. But water in the temperatures we tend to get around here? Another reason to put out water is to keep them from using the soaker hoses as their water source, thus hopefully keeping them out of the garden plot. So water, yes. Food, no.
I'd gotten used to the two main shed cats that I've seen around. The Black and White (Shed Cat One) and the Golden (Shed Cat Two). I was beginning to get a little concerned about the cats, because I noticed they are extremely skittish. While SC1 is getting used to me, I can't get within five feet of it without it dashing off. I've surprised SC2 twice by getting close while it was asleep, and it really doesn't like me because of it. I am not sure these cats have owners, which would mean I'm dealing with feral cats. And I have massive issues with feral cats... namely the fact that they tend to make more feral cats...
This morning, my worst fears were proven as probably true. I went out to turn on the watering, and spotted SC1... or at least I thought I did. Then I spotted SC1 again, running in exactly the same spot. I turned in shock, and a moment later, with SC1 still sitting near the shed, the second SC1 came out the other side of the shed. The second SC1 had more black than white, and slightly stubby legs and a shorter tail. I went in to tell hubby-Eric, then watched out the back window... and saw this.
Three Shed Kittens. We have Shed Kittens. And they are darling. They are so cute I want to just eat 'em up. It was all I could do to not go out and try to capture one to snorgle. Shed Cat One was watching over them carefully, monitoring them as they played. And they dove in and out of the space beneath the shed so often it was clear that was almost like home to them.
I want them to live a comfortable life. I don't know if they actually belong to anyone. The fact that this is the first time I've been certain I've seen two of the kittens makes me wonder if they have another home. I don't particularly object to them living in my yard part of the time, but I would really like to know if they are being properly cared for, and if they are properly neutered to keep them from making more kitties (I somehow doubt it).
They are so cute. My heart just about stops when I see them frolicking. I want to go out and join them. And yet they are clearly very skittish and not fond of humans.
I'm not sure what to do. I suppose the first step is to find out if they have owners, which would mean going around to all the houses in the neighborhood and asking if they own these cats. For an Aspie like me, you might as well ask me to jump off a cliff. I called the Humane Society, although I'm not fond of them, to ask for advice. They said they would check them out for $8 each. And if I needed to capture them, they would rent me a trap for $8 a day, with a $50 deposit. Yeah. Right. I haven't got that kind of money now, and while I'd like to make sure the cats are neutered I just cannot afford it.
So, I've got two problems with the shed cats. One: I don't know if they belong to anyone in the neighborhood, and I'm too terrified to go around and ask. Two: If they do turn out to be feral, I can't afford the costs of trapping them and getting them neutered.
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Radiometric dating
See also Counterexamples to an Old Earth.
Radiometric dating is a method of determining the age of an artifact by assuming that on average decay rates have been constant (see below for the flaws in that assumption) and measuring the amount of radioactive decay that has occurred.[1] Radiometric dating is mostly used to determine the age of rocks, though a particular form of radiometric dating—called Radiocarbon dating—can date wood, cloth, skeletons, and other organic material.
Because radiometric dating fails to satisfy standards of testability and falsifiability, claims based on radiometric dating may fail to qualify under the Daubert standard for court-admissible scientific evidence. It is more accurate for shorter time periods (e.g., hundreds of years) during which control variables are less likely to change.
Key implausible assumptions
There are a number of implausible assumptions involved in radiometric dating with respect to long time periods.
Initial quantities
One key assumption is that the initial quantity of the parent element can be determined. With uranium-lead dating, for example, the process assumes the original proportion of uranium in the sample. One assumption that can be made is that all the lead in the sample was once uranium, but if there was lead there to start with, this assumption is not valid, and any date based on that assumption will be incorrect (too old).
In the case of carbon dating, it is not the initial quantity that is important, but the initial ratio of C14 to C12, but the same principle otherwise applies.
Recognizing this problem, scientists try to focus on rocks that do not contain the decay product originally. For example, in uranium-lead dating, they use rocks containing zircon (ZrSiO4), though it can be used on other materials, such as baddeleyite.[2] Zircon and baddeleyite incorporate uranium atoms into their crystalline structure as substitutes for zirconium, but strongly reject lead. Zircon has a very high closure temperature, is very chemically inert, and is resistant to mechanical weathering. For these reasons, if a rock strata contains zircon, running a uranium-lead test on a zircon sample will produce a radiometric dating result that is less dependent on the initial quantity problem.
Rate of decay
Another assumption is that the rate of decay is constant over long periods of time, which is particularly implausible as energy levels changed enormously over time. There is no reason to expect that the rate of decay of a radioactive material is largely constant,[3] and it was almost certainly not constant near the creation or beginning of the universe.[4]
As early as of 1673, John Ray, an English naturalist, reckoned with alternative that "im the primitive times and soon after the Creation the earth suffered far more concussions and mutations in its superficial part than afterward".[5] The process of decay is as follows. Atoms consist of a heavy central core called the nucleus surrounded by clouds of lightweight particles (electrons), called electron shells. The energy locked in the nucleus is enormous, but cannot be released easily. The phenomenon we know as heat is simply the jiggling around of atoms and their components, so in principle a high enough temperature could cause the components of the core to break out. However, the temperature required to do this is in in the millions of degrees, so this cannot be achieved by any natural process that we know about. The second way that a nucleus could be disrupted is by particles striking it. However, the nucleus has a strong positive charge and the electron shells have a strong negative charge. Any incoming negative charge would be deflected by the electron shell and any positive charge that penetrated the electron shells would be deflected by the positive charge of the nucleus itself.
The decay process is as follows.
Particles consist of various subtypes. Those that can decay are mesons and baryons, which include protons and neutrons; although decays can involve other particles such as photons, electrons, positrons, and neutrinos. "Decay" simply refers to a meson or baryon becoming another type of particle, as the number of a certain type of particle goes down or decays as they are converted. This can happen due to one of three forces or "interactions": strong, electromagnetic, and weak, in order of decreasing strength. Historically, these are also known as alpha, gamma, and beta decays, respectively.
"Atomic decays" are due to proton or neutron decays: either weakly, incrementing up or down the table of elements; or strongly, often splitting into smaller elements, one of which is often helium. For example, a neutron-deficient nucleus may decay weakly by converting a proton in a neutron (to conserve its positive electric charge, it ejects a positron, as well as a neutrino to conserve the quantum lepton number); thus the hypothetical atom loses a proton and increments down the table by one element.
A complex set of rules describes the details of particle decays: historically, the finding of which as been a major objective of particle physics. Most are determined experimentally by institutions such as CERN with the Large Hadron Collider. Decays are very random, but for different elements are observed to conform to statistically averaged different lifetimes. If you had an ensemble of identical particles, the probability of finding a given one of them still as they were - with no decay - after some time is given by the mathematical expression
- where
- is the mean lifetime of the particle (when at rest), proportional to its half-life, and
- is the relativistic Lorentz factor of the particle.
This governs what is known as the "decay rate." The rate is unique to different particles and so to different atomic elements. This makes different elements useful for different time scales of dating; an element with too short an average lifetime will have too few particles left to reveal much one way or another of potentially longer time scales. Hence, elements such as potassium, which has an average lifetime of nearly 2 billion years before decaying into argon, are useful for very long time scales, with geological applications such as dating ancient lava flows or Martian rocks. Carbon, on the other hand, with a shorter mean lifetime of over 8000 years, is more useful for dating human artifacts.
Atoms themselves consist of a heavy central core called the nucleus surrounded by arrangements of electron shells, wherein there are different probabilities of precisely locating a certain number of electrons (depending on the element). The energy locked in the nucleus is enormous, but cannot be released easily. One way that a nucleus could be disrupted is by particles striking it. However, the nucleus has a strong positive charge and the electron shells have a strong negative charge. Any incoming negative charge would be deflected by the electron shell and any positive charge that penetrated the electron shells would be deflected by the positive charge of the nucleus itself. This interpretation unfortunately fails to consider observed energetic interactions, including that of the strong force, which is stronger the electromagnetic force.
Outside influences
It is important that the sample not have had any outside influences. One example of this can be found in metamorphic rocks.[6] This does not mean that all rock samples are unreliable, but it is possible to account for a process which throws off the data for metamorphic rocks.
For example, with Uranium-lead dating with the crystallization of magma, this remains a closed system until the uranium decays. As it decays, it disrupts the crystal and allows the lead atom to move. Likewise, heating the rock such as granite forms gneiss or basalt forms schist. This can also disrupt the ratios of lead and uranium in the sample.
In order to calibrate radiometric dating methods, the methods need to be checked for accuracy against items with independently-known dates.
Carbon dating, with its much lower maximum theoretical range, is often used for dating items only hundreds and thousands of years old, so can be calibrated in its lower ranges by comparing results with artifacts who's ages are known from historical records.
Scientists have also attempted to extend the calibration range by comparing results to timber which has its age calculated by dendrochronology, but this has also been questioned because carbon dating is used to assist with working out dendrochronological ages.
Otherwise, calibration consists of comparing results with ages determined by other radiometric dating methods.
However, tests of radiometric dating methods have often shown that they do not agree with known ages of rocks that have been seen to form from volcanic eruptions in recent and historic times, and there are also examples of radiometric dating methods not agreeing with each other.
Young earth creationists therefore claim that radiometric dating methods are not reliable and can therefore not be used to disprove Biblical chronology.
Acceptance and reliability
Although radiometric dating methods are widely quoted by scientists, they are inappropriate for aging the entire universe due to likely variations in decay rates. Scientists insist that Earth is 4.6 billion years old[7] while the Bible (the infallible word of God[8]) suggests that the world to be around 6-10 thousand years old.[9] Because atheists commonly hold the positions of naturalism and uniformitarianism, many atheists are particularly vocal in claiming that the earth is 4.6 billion years old.
C14 dating was being discussed at a symposium on the prehistory of the Nile Valley. A famous American colleague, Professor Brew, briefly summarized a common attitude among archaeologists towards it, as follows:
"If a C14 date supports our theories, we put it in the main text. If it does not entirely contradict them, we put it in a footnote. And if it is completely 'out of date', we just drop it."
Few archaeologists who have concerned themselves with absolute chronology are innocent of having sometimes applied this method...[10]
A geological guidebook published by the Queensland government acknowledges that the dates are not absolute, but must be interpreted:
Also, the relative ages [of the radiometric dating results] must always be consistent with the geological evidence. ... if a contradiction occurs, then the cause of the error needs to be established or the radiometric results are unacceptable[11]
One example of scientists not accepting radiometric dates is that of Mungo Man, a human fossil from New South Wales. When originally found, it was dated by radiocarbon dating at around 30,000 years old. This was later revised to 40,000 years. Another scientist later used other methods to derive a date of 62,000 years. The original discoverer, unconvinced by this result, used a different method again, and again came up with a date of 40,000 years.
The fallibility of dating methods is also illustrated by the fact that dating laboratories are known to improve the likelihood of getting a "correct" date by asking for the expected date of the item. For example, the Sample Record Sheet for the University of Waikato Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory asks for the estimated age, the basis for the estimate, and the maximum and minimum acceptable ages.[12]
Some major methods of radiometric dating
There are several major types of radiometric dating in use:[13][14]
- Radiocarbon dating, also called carbon dating
- Potassium-argon dating
- Uranium-lead dating
- Uranium-thorium
- Rubidium-strontium dating
Explanation by Analogy
No method exists for measuring time, except by measuring it as it is passing. Therefore, the age of an artifact must be calculated.
The basic principle in any dating method is to find a process that is occurring at a measurable rate and which is causing a change, measure the rate of that process, work out what state the artifact was in at the beginning of the process, observe what state it is in now, and to calculate how long the process at the measured rate would need to occur to effect that change.
For example, to work out how long a candle has been burning, the following steps would be needed:
- Measure how long it takes the candle to burn down a given amount.
- Find out how long the candle was when it started burning.
- Measure how long the candle is now.
- Calculate the difference between the two lengths.
- Calculate how long it would need to burn in order to burn that length.
For most radiometric dating methods, one radioactive element changes by a process of nuclear decay into another element (often through a number of intermediate steps). For example, uranium will eventually decay into lead. So to measure how old a specimen containing some uranium and some lead is, the following steps are required:
- Measure the decay rate of uranium.
- Find out how much uranium was in the specimen to start with (this might be done by assuming that all the lead was originally uranium).
- Find out how much uranium is in the specimen now.
- Calculate how much uranium has turned into lead.
- Calculate how long it would take that much uranium to turn into lead, given the measured rate. Calculations involve the well-established function for exponential decay: .
- Lamb, Andrew, Carbon dating into the future 24 March 2007 (Creation Ministries International).
- Faure, G. and Mensing, T., Isotopes: Principles and Applications, Wiley & Sons, 2005.
- Walker, M., Quarternary Dating Methods, Wiley & Sons, 2005.
- Walker, Tas., Radioactive decay rate depends on chemical environment, Journal of Creation 14(1):4–5, April 2000.
- Walker, Tas., The way it really is: little-known facts about radiometric dating, Creation 24(4):20–23, September 2002.
Notes and references
- ↑ Radiometric Time Scale USGS
- ↑ Wingate, M.T.D. (2001). "SHRIMP baddeleyite and zircon ages for an Umkondo dolerite sill, Nyanga Mountains, Eastern Zimbabwe". South African Journal of Geology 104 (1): 13–22. doi:10.2113/104.1.13.
- ↑ At least one example of a change in the rate has been observed in laboratory experiments. See Walker, 2000.
- ↑ Multiple references:
- Sibley, Andrew (August 2013). Variable radioactive decay rates and the changes in solar activity. Creation Ministries International (from the Journal of Creation 27(2):3–4). Retrieved January 4, 2018.
- Wieland, Carl. RATE group reveals exciting breakthroughs!. ''Creation Ministries International. Retrieved January 4, 2018.
- Walker, Tas (April 2000). Radioactive decay rate depends on chemical environment. Creation Ministries International (from the Journal of Creation 14(1):4–5). Retrieved January 4, 2018.
- Woodmorappe, John (August 2001). Billion-fold acceleration of radioactivity demonstrated in laboratory. Creation Ministries International (from the Journal of Creation 15(2):4–6). Retrieved January 4, 2018.
- Thomas, Brian (August 5, 2009). Radioactive Decay Rates Not Stable. Institute for Creation Research. Retrieved January 4, 2018.
- Snelling, Andrew A. (October 1, 2009). Radiometric Dating: Problems with the Assumptions. Answers in Genesis. Retrieved January 4, 2018.
- Knapp, Alex (May 3, 2011). Radioactive Decay Rates May Not Be Constant After All. Forbes. Retrieved January 4, 2018.
- ↑ Rhoda Rappaport (1997). When Geologists Where Historians, 1665-1750. Cornell University Press, 194. ISBN 978-0801-433863.
- ↑ Radiometric Dating Course notes for EENS 211 at Tulane University
- ↑ hypertextbook.com/facts/1997/MollyMoran.shtml
- ↑ http://www.believers.org/believe/bel191.htm
- ↑ http://www.independencebaptist.org/6,000%20year%20old%20earth/6,000_year_old_earth.htm
- ↑ T. Säve-Söderbergh and I. U. Olsson, 'C14 dating and Egyptian chronology', in Radiocarbon Variations and Absolute Chronology, Proceedings of the Twelfth Nobel Symposium, Ingrid U. Olsson (editor), Almqvist & Wiksell, Stockholm, and John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, p. 35, 1970. Quoted in Lamb, 2007.
- ↑ Walker, 2002
- ↑ University of Waikato Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory Sample Record Sheet
- ↑ Walker, 2005
- ↑ Faure and Mensing, 2005
See also
- Essay:Radiometric dating - a non-Creationist Perspective
- Literalist Bible chronology cites examples of radiometric dating results of artifacts which support a literalist dating of Biblical events such as the Exodus in 1577 B.C.


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Lipscomb softball coach Kristin Peck made one of the most productive recruiting trips of her short career signing twins Kellie Sirus and Kristie Sirus to play during the 2007 season for the Lady Bisons.
Kellie is a third baseman and catcher. Kristie is a shortstop and second baseman. They are from Sarasota, Fla. They both play for Sarasota High School.
Kristie has won the Sailor Award for best all-around player as a freshman. She won her team's pitching award as a junior. She is also a three-year varsity letter winner heading into her senior season. Last year she was an honorable mention All-Area player.
Kellie won the team's pitcher award as a freshman. She was named Offensive Player of the Year by her team as a junior. She was honorable mention All-Area in 2003 and 2005.
Both players are 5-foot-8. They both chose Lipscomb for "its Christian environment, strong academics and the opportunity to play Division I softball."
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Living Right on the "Wrong" Side of Town
Since the bottom dropped out of the economy in 2008, my family has gone from affluent suburban living to life below the poverty line, in a shabby house in the "wrong" part of town—with no car. We've given up most luxuries, and sold many of our possessions. We've become admirably "green," as a benefit of paring down to the simplest needs. We have chickens, a vegetable garden, and a front door that is always open and ready to welcome a neighbor. People often comment on how we are living with a softer impact upon the earth. But if I am honest, I have to acknowledge that the most dramatic changes we have made were those that were forced upon us.
There are current circumstances that make poverty easier to weather: The global recession means that people must come up with creative new resources for surviving, and widespread concern about the environment makes simple living admirable.
Not long ago, the thought of going without cable, a car, Internet, and a cool, comfortable home on a hot summer day were unthinkable. As we got rid of these, one by one, we not only survived but actually found glorious benefits hidden in each decision. Our struggles have created stronger, quicker, deeper, and more rewarding bonds with our friends and neighbors. The relationships we now create help us feel more secure in a chaotic world. Our friends are intimately involved with us, and we rely on each other more than we used to.
A Lively 'Hood
Our half-commercial, half-residential neighborhood is charming in a ragged kind of way, with Bill the tattoo guy across the street; the lawyer's office with the Asian pear tree next door; the young couple two doors down who never come over without four cold beers for all of us; Puma (yep) the old hippie with the unused boat, yellow paint dull and faded; and the single woman at the corner who smokes cigarettes on the stoop.
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We share our gardens' harvests with each other and pass lawn tools back and forth. We borrow friends' vehicles on rare occasions, and make group Costco trips. Our household has gotten by with no Internet connection thanks to the generosity of neighbors and their Wifi, and the availability of free-floating signals from the library that we can catch on occasion. It seems, here, that if we raise our hand and say, "I need this. Can you help?"—our community collectively answers, "Yes."
On just one block of residential downtown, we have abundant fruit trees: cherry, apple, pear, Asian pear, orange, almond, apricot, and lemon. When you need rosemary to season your dinner, you wander over to the nearest neighbor who has it growing in front of their house.
The other day, a large family in a minivan parked in front of our house. The doors slid open, and happy, giggling people poured out. They waved at us as we peered through the windows, and began to pick some fruit—not a lot—from our apple and pear trees. It didn't feel like thievery—there was nothing stealthy about it. We opened the front door, greeted them, and offered our extension ladder. The trees belong to all of us.
A Watershed Year, With Few Tears Shed
For us, social resources have proven more valuable to our lives than financial resources. Or rather, when financial resources are less available, social resources fill in the gap in a more rewarding way.
Just being open with our needs has resulted in surprisingly loving connections with those we least expected. Our letter-carrier was reluctant to deliver the foreclosure notice she worried would devastate us, and even suggested we not sign for it. The diner owner sent us on our way after a rare meal out, trusting us to return after our debit card got unexpectedly declined (turns out it was a clerical error, whew.)
Once we took the bus to the supermarket, but found out that the bus we had taken to get there was the last bus running that route, leaving us stranded. There was a moment of regret and frustration with what sometimes feels like a constant barrage of small obstacles—until we realized there were literally half a dozen people who would be able to come scoop us up in an instant, whenever needed.
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I don't mean to overstate the case. What with our landlord's foreclosure crisis, a scary era when we were waiting for biopsy results, and some thefts we've (thankfully, rarely) endured, there have been threats to safety and security coming from every direction. But it is no exaggeration to say that this has been the watershed year of our lives in the best possible of ways. Things and people have fallen away, but what has taken their place is everything we didn't know we needed.
The other day, we built new raised beds in our unused driveway. A truck dumped the delivery of beautiful soil into a black and loamy heap on the sidewalk, and neighbors came over with shovels, advice, cold beers, and spare seedlings. We're all planning for a big harvest trade, maybe a "family" grill-out with all the folks on our ragtag block using the zucchinis soon to come in that over-abundant way that they do. Our backyard chickens have been loud but prolific, and there are plenty of eggs for us all right now.
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Insurance agencies that don't have a good software system in place are missing out on a host of benefits that can make them more productive and profitable. After all, there's a great deal to be done in their offices. In addition to managing policies, serving current clients and seeking new prospects, professionals must make time to analyze the firm's financial activities to better plan for continued growth. Insurance accounting software can help with that.
The right solution should make it easy to perform important accounting functions in one intuitive, integrated system. You shouldn't have to use different vendors for accounts receivable, payroll and budgeting applications. When all your data is in one place, your reporting will be more accurate and faster to obtain.
In this guide, we cover the functionality insurance providers should be aware of when evaluating a new system, as well as best practices for comparing solutions. Potential buyers will also learn the difference between the two main software deployment options available in today's market.
Here's what we'll discuss:
What Is Insurance Accounting Software?
Common Features of Insurance Accounting Software
Benefits of Insurance Accounting Software
Evaluating Insurance Accounting Software
Deployment Options
Insurance accounting systems make it possible for agencies to have a "paperless" office, meaning documentation is stored digitally.
Software is capable of incorporating multiple payers in a policy, policies in multiple currencies and carriers with multiple brands into an organized and accessible information system. It can help target individual information as well; open item features can help insurers match payments to individual charges. The ability to process heavy amounts of data quickly is especially important due to high complexity and volume of data.
It's important to acknowledge that this may not be your first time researching insurance accounting software. In a recent survey of accounting software buyers, we found 58 percent of respondents were hoping to replace or upgrade their current solution.
One of the main signs the time is right for an IT replacement is if you feel like you've outgrown your current setup. When your provider is no longer able to support the amount of data your company has in its files, you should start looking for a system that is able to scale with you as you grow.
In addition to core modules and CRM/billing features like open item accounting and collections control, insurance accounting software may include some of the following:
|Core accounting
|This includes all of the basic functions needed to balance your agency's books, such as general ledger functionality, the ability to track accounts payable (A/P) and accounts receivable (A/R), fixed assets and bank reconciliation.
|Integration with insurance systems
|The most advanced systems will incorporate the accounting with the insurance features and functionality. Even dedicated accounting solutions, however, should integrate with popular solutions like Majesco and StoneRiver.
|Document management
|Insurance companies deal with many different kinds of documents, so it's important to have a system that manages those efficiently. Effective document management for an insurance software program will support cataloguing, template-based document creation, advanced viewing/annotating/archiving, multi-lingual translations and multiple distribution options like email, fax or postal.
|Policy workflow
|Insurance software should be able to follow the customer through the entire process from lead generation and the initial quote through to underwriting and issuing the policy. From there, it needs to support billing/payments, policy changes, amendments, legal changes and direct integration into the claims process.
|Claims processing
|Effective claims management makes for a more accurate and efficient claim workflow process. This feature will include online support to open the claim, irregularities and fraud detection, secure payments, subrogation and other claims-related functionality.
|Audit management
|Insurance accounting software eliminates the paper and the field worker associated with the audit process, managing electronic receipts, audit requests and progress reports faster and more reliably.
Here are some of the benefits insurance companies can capitalize on after implementing accounting software:
Improved productivity. Staff has more time to focus on serving clients and growing the business when they can rely on software to automate daily, time-consuming tasks. This is especially true for first-time software buyers who are switching to a digital system after years of entering data manually. Most systems have developed native mobile apps and enable remote access, which make it easier for employees to submit information and evaluate the business' books remotely.
Greater visibility into company finances. Executives will be able to make more informed decisions for the agency's future when they have a clearer picture of its financial trends. Many systems have robust reporting capabilities that allow executives to drill down on every detail related to cash flow management.
More accurate budgeting. When data is on different systems, it takes a great deal of time and effort to format it and generate budgets. You also run the risk of missing line items while transferring data. Software allows users to automate and consolidate information so they no longer have to update multiple spreadsheets.
The frequent periods of many complex transactions make access to technical support an important feature to consider in order to avoid confusing setbacks. Viewing payment terms and schedules should also be a prominent feature of any software package. Billing and collection process tools are useful as well.
When evaluating these systems, buyers should consider the following:
Potential buyers should also pay special attention to how many training services a vendor provides. You may be impressed with a product's many features during the demo phase of the selection process, only to discover it's extremely difficult to learn how to access those features.
Set yourself up for a smooth implementation by noting the vendor's training resources for your team. These may include online guides, tutorial videos, webinars and classes.
There are two main deployment options for insurance accounting software:
Accounting systems have traditionally been on-premise, but there's recently been a rise in the popularity of cloud-based solutions. That's because they offer remote access and lower upfront costs. The benefit of an on-premise deployment, on the other hand, is that users won't have to pay recurring fees for the software license.
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