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Today we have a plethora of companies reporting earnings and are moving through the 1st Quarter earnings season at a rapid pace. Thus far, earnings have been far from exciting and have made the previous 2013 forward earnings estimates laughable.
The only way we get to the proposed valuations is through multiple expansion which is simply going to require the Federal Reserve to continue to pump $85 billion into Treasury's and MBS securities each month. I am confident they will comply.
There are a few analysts out there who are discussing the potential bubble forming in equities and other risk assets as Bernanke's plan is working to the extent that asset prices are rising. However, even fewer analysts are pointing out that both retail and institutional money is constantly chasing yield at this point.
Simply take a look at the 2013 price action in high yield dividend paying stocks, high yield bonds, preferred stocks, and master limited partnerships. It is safe to say that a bubble has formed not just in equities, but in various fixed investments as well. Consider the following chart of the S&P 500 Index (SPX) shown as the dotted trendline and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) shown as the solid black line.
Obviously from looking at the chart above, JNJ has outperformed the S&P 500 Index year to date. Has JNJ suddenly become a growth giant? Is it all about earnings growth and/or forward earnings potential or anticipated growth?
Or is the rally in JNJ really about the fact that Johnson & Johnson has a long history of paying strong, rising dividends. I am sure there are plenty of sell side analysts who will tell you that JNJ is going to $100 / share in the future for a variety of macro or quantitative reasons.
The sell-side analysts will tell you the economy is strengthening or that large cap multinational companies are seeing strengthening fundamentals and earnings growth. They are called the sell-side for a reason; they want to sell you stock.
Furthermore, my favorite recent discussion is about future earnings projections and the new strength that we are going to see in earnings. The following chart was posted at www.zerohedge.com and originally came from Standard & Poors. The chart below illustrates the trailing 12 month operating earnings per share of S&P 500 companies.
Based on the above data, how is the stock market fundamentally sound when earnings are collapsing? I guess the Federal Reserve is going to print profits for the S&P 500 companies. Actually earnings are irrelevant when central banks all over the world including the Federal Reserve are juicing the markets with a sea of liquidity and where multiple expansion trumps real earnings or value.
Furthermore, these same central banks are openly purchasing equities and allocating sizable portions of their balance sheets to stocks. Several central banks around the world have more than 10% of their reserves allocated to stocks at this point in time. The world is long risk and money is still flowing into bonds at the same time. Simply look at the recent price action in Treasury's for the past few weeks or note the strength in municipal bonds in aggregate since mid-March.
This brings me to my final point. For the past several years, bonds and stocks in the United States have rallied together. U.S. treasuries and domestic equities have been trending higher for more than three years as shown below. The S&P 500 is shown as the dotted line and the 30 Year Treasury Bond Price Index is the black solid line.
It is without question that both the S&P 500 Index and the 30 Year Treasury Bond have been trending higher for the past 3 years overall. Both underlying assets have produced strong gains during the same period of time. Now this brings me to my final question for readers to ponder. If both the S&P 500 Index and the 30 Year Treasury Bond can rally together, what happens if they selloff together?
The answer to that question is the real problem. Many sell-side analysts and economists ignore the bubble that the Federal Reserve has created in equity valuations. The bubble continues to be fueled by the monstrous liquidity injections that they have conducted beginning with the original quantitative easing. However, what is even less acknowledged by the sell-side is the massive artificial bullish valuations that have been created in the bond market.
Long dated treasuries are being purchased by the Federal Reserve to artificially hold down interest rates. This ongoing practice is causing a separate bubble to form in fixed income investments. So now we have a bubble in equities and long-dated treasuries forming and the sell-side continues to trumpet that higher prices are likely. Ultimately the sell-side may be right in short to intermediate time frame, but the end game has a finality that few want to consider.
When these bubbles finally pop as all excessively valued assets do, the result is going to devastate financial markets. It may be in 6 months or it may be in 10 years, but history will not be thwarted. The central banks can try to outsmart history, but they will ultimately fail.
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At 4pm on 30 November, a trumpet fanfare from the tower marks the official opening of Chemnitz's Christmas market.Then, at 2pm on 01 Dec, the grand miners' parade ushers in the festive season. The city centre is turned into a Christmas world of the Erzgebirge with 230 stalls, amongst which a five-story Christmas pyramid rotates and musical performances entertain you from the stage. Dive into times long past at the medieval market and the cloister market in the Innere Klosterstraße with period dressed craftsmen and tradesmen. Delicious pigs roast over open fires in the mystic atmosphere and old-fashioned swings and crafts are offered as in times gone by. On display at Lichtenstein Palace are 140 Nativity scenes from 33 countries and four continents. Experience another side of Chemnitz at Christmas through a romantic guide of the town hall or towers.
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The victim told police that two men approached him. One of the suspects told the victim that he had a gun and demanded money. Police said the other man, an accomplice to the crime, stood silent.
The victim gave up his cash and the criminals fled on foot, according to the report.
Police described the robber as a stocky-built black man about 5 feet 6 inches tall with dreadlocks pulled back behind his head. He was wearing dark clothing with white cursive lettering on the back and bright white sneakers, according to the report.
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Read it and weep, Packers fans–this just came down from the NFL:
The Packers just released this statement:
The Packers have been informed by the National Football League about the suspension of DE Johnny Jolly. Executive Vice President, General Manager and Director of Football Operations Ted Thompson issued the following statement:
"Johnny is a good player that loves everything about the game of football. We appreciate the contributions he has made to the Packers the past four seasons. His focus and priorities now lie elsewhere – our thoughts are with him during this difficult personal time."
As this is a league matter, the team will have no further comment.
Interesting punishment. He did some bad stuff it appears (though most of us don't know the extent of it) – but this is a big-time punishment. TT/MM clearly had a sense for this when shifting Pickett to DE and naming Raji the starting NT. And, in the draft, we added depth to the line at least. I wonder if this will get Mike Neal on the field sooner – which may not be a bad thing.
One thing I will miss about Jolly is his Paul Pressey-like arms. He batted down a ton of balls. From a mental/frustration standpoint for a QB, I think having a ball batted down can really take its toll. Jolly was seriously good at doing this. But overall, I don't think he can't be replaced. It may in fact be a quality opportunity for a young guy to step up.


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Thanks for a great 2011 and we would love to see you all in 2012. This year is gonna be set up much like last year but with limited access to the pool, an ice cream social,FREE ice, and biscuits and gravy on Saturday morning. If you are new to the contest we encourage you to ask some past contestants, fire us an email or give us a call. Pictures of our 2011 contest will be posted soon. Our contest is located in a very large park which allows all sites to be located on grass, water and electric included, check-in extremely close. Indoor restrooms and showers are located in the air-conditioned Community Building where check in will be. This is a fun and relaxing yet competitive contest with Dennis and Linda Polson as reps with certified KCBS judges.
Entry fee for this years KCBS 4 meat divisions will be $150 with a max of 48 contestants. Profits made from the cookoff will go towards recreational and educational opportunities for Allen County 4-H and FFA youth. This years prize money includes $3500 in payouts with trophies or ribbons through tenth place. Select Prize Money tab at top of page to view more information on prizes.
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Vegetable stew with herby dumplings
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- Vegetarian
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal391
- fat14g
- saturates7g
- carbs57g
- sugars16g
- fibre8g
- protein10g
- salt0.83g
- 1 tbsp olive oil
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- 350g shallot, peeled
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- 2 leeks, thickly sliced
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- ½ swede, chopped into chunks
A member of the cabbage family, the swede is often confused with the turnip, though they look…
- 2 parsnips, quartered
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- 350g Chantenay carrot
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- 175g pearl barley
- 225ml white wine
- 1l vegetable stock
- 1 bay leaf
- 3 sprigs thyme
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- small bunch parsley, finely chopped
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- 100g self-raising flour
- 50g unsalted butter
- 50g mature cheddar cheese, grated
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- 2 tsp finely chopped fresh rosemary
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- 1 tsp fresh thyme leaves
Heat oil in a large casserole dish. Add shallots and cook for 5-6 mins until starting to soften and brown. Add leeks for 2 mins, then stir in swede, parsnips and carrots.
Pour in barley and wine, cook until wine has reduced by half. Add stock, bay, thyme, parsley and seasoning. Cover pan, bring to the boil, then simmer for 45 mins until barley and veg are tender. Stir occasionally to stop it catching.
Meanwhile, make the dumplings. Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Rub flour and butter together to form breadcrumbs. Add remaining ingredients and mix well. Sprinkle over 2 tbsp water, mix to form a soft dough. Divide into six and roll into balls. Dot on top of stew and transfer to oven. Cook, uncovered, for 20-25 mins until dumplings are golden.


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Last week I posted about how I turned the coat closet in our tiny apartment into a linen closet. The next day I was supposed to blog about what we did with all of our coats... and that quickly turned into a DIY apartment mudroom. I put it on hold so that I could finish writing the tutorials, last week was too insane for any changes... and it's ready today! This post is about the left side of our door and tomorrow you'll see the right side.
John and I have a lot of coats. And by "John and I" ... I mean "I" ... over 20. Most of which are trenches, if we're being totally honest, but a lot of them are related to winter because we live in Michigan where it's frigid. Since you can't hear my tone as I type... that last sentence was intended to be full of disdain.
We decided to store the coats two ways. The out of season coats are in the spare closet located in our muse room and the in-season go on our coat rack by the door.
We bought this coat rack at IKEA for $29.99. If you haven't figured it out yet, it seems like everything in our home was either upcycled or came from IKEA...
It's FULL of storage for coats as well as hats, scarves, totes and umbrellas. I'd be ashamed to tell you how much has been piled on that baby at once. I'm kind of thinking some of our coats are going to find their way to goodwill after this post.
Coats? solved.
The other item (and the DIY) is a paperwork organizer. It's awesome for incoming and outgoing mail as well as sorting. Once I open the mail I can either throw it away or place it in a slot to be filed (this is also where I quickly dump receipts from my purse and other important things for later storage) or it can go in a "to do" section.
I bought this little guy a few weeks ago while hanging out with my friend, Brittani. I brought it home and quickly realized it's super DIY-able. Too late now. I'll tell YOU how though. It really is AWESOME for storing everything that previously got piled on top of our dining room table in a massive, imposing and very intimidating heap. The best part is, when it's organized like that I can actually SEE the paperwork that needs to be filed, completed or sent away. It's encouraging me to do things in a timely manner, because 'the heap' isn't swallowing my projects into a black hole never to be seen again.
If you want to make your own ...
(1) Bookshelf it. Either convert an old little one or buy one second hand.
(2) Enclose it. Get some wood boards (as long as the space in your shelf and about 6 inches tall) & paint them to match your shelf. Use wood glue to attach them into the shelving, putting them flush against the bottoms of the shelves.
(3) Detail it. Add little labels for your shelving, you can get these at any craft store or make your own. Use modpodge to attach them if you make your own.
So obviously this is a part one. Tomorrow I'll show you the OTHER side of the door, for a complete picture of the apartment mudroom.
I had an awesome weekend, fulfilling a life-long dream of mine. I'll blog about it later this week. I hope yours was splendid as well! All the best, and as always, thanks for reading!


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...the best writers left their websites for jobs with established media companies; established media companies asked these writers—along with many who really shouldn't be in these jobs—to make content sound blog-ish; cross-site discourse fell off, with the power to shape a conversation aggregated among sites from which so much content now flows down a hierarchy; memes and traffic-generation schemes quickly eroded what had once been innovative ideas; a shared conversational tone predominated, suggesting that certain content was supposed to sound certain ways; a once open and growing system became a series of echo chambers as writers and readers congregated in various places where they could feel good about participating with each other. Websites have grown incredibly stale as a result, and most with passable content have lost differentiating elements.
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How To: Prune Spring-Flowering Shrubs
Often, landscape crews are sent out to prune all the shrubs in a landscape. The result: All the shrubs are pruned the same regardless of their growth and flowering habits. The timing of pruning can affect how and how much a plant blooms. Deciduous shrubs are divided into several categories depending upon whether they bloom on old wood (one year or older), new wood (current season), both old and new or whether the flowers are insignificant and are not affected by when they are pruned. Shrubs that bloom on old wood have buds that are formed in summer or early fall. These buds are carried over the winter and, if they survive without winter injury, bloom the following spring. Many spring-flowering shrubs, such as lilac, forsythia, pyracantha, mock orange, chokeberry, deutzia, beautybush, azaleas and rhododendrons, viburnum, flowering almond, weigela, winter daphne and some hydrangeas, bloom on old wood. To insure next year's color show, prune with the following in mind:
Identify your blooming shrubs and research whether the buds are formed on new wood, old wood or both. The above list of plants represent only a portion of spring-bloomers in our landscapes.
Hydrangeas are a class unto themselves. The following bloom on old wood: Hydrangea macrophylla (includes Hortensias and Lacecaps) and H. quercifolia. New-wood bloomers include H. paniculata and H. arborescens.
Determine if pruning is needed. For instance, azaleas and rhododendrons will tolerate pruning but, generally, pruning is required only to remove dead or unruly branches.
Look for diseased or dead branches and remove these at the base of the injury. This will allow you to more clearly see the shape of the shrub and determine the number of healthy branches that you can remove and still maintain the integrity of the shrub.
In general, plants produce more flowers on young, vigorous shoots. On multistem shrubs, remove ¼ of the oldest branches at ground level. Not only will this provide more energy (and blooms) on the younger shoots, it will also encourage more young shoots to develop.
Time your pruning to occur no later than 6 to 8 weeks after bloom. This will allow you the shape the plant and control the size, and the plant will have time to produce more vigorous stems on which to form flower buds for next year.
Flowering shrubs that are "hedged out" will eventually decline in number of blooms, and the remaining blooms will occur sporadically on the plant. The hedging process reduces the amount of young, vigorous shoots and, if performed late enough, simply removes the flower buds. To reclaim "hedged out" spring flowering shrubs, remove ¼ of the oldest branches, spaced equally throughout the shrub. This will allow light into the plant, and buds will form more uniformly around it. Allow new growth to develop beyond the hedge height. Repeat the process for 2 to 3 years. Eventually, the shrub will become more freeform and floriferous.
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Adobe has announced two new Adobe Flash Platform open source initiatives for developers. The Open Source Media Framework (OSMF), part of the project previously code named Strobe, lets developers build media players optimized for the Adobe Flash Platform. The Text Layout Framework (TLF) will help developers bring sophisticated typography capabilities to Web applications. Both OSMF and TLF are freely available as open source software, helping content owners extend their online media efforts as they look to create new business opportunities and monetization strategies for publishing on the Web.
"Adobe is committed to providing core Flash Platform technologies to the community as open source," said Dave McAllister, director of standards and open source at Adobe. "By releasing OSMF and TLF as open source, we are helping facilitate the creation and sharing of best practices for media players and rich text-based Web application development."
OSMF provides standard functionality along with plug-ins from third parties so content providers have the flexibility to adapt monetization strategies to specific content and the needs of their audiences. OSMF includes an API for partners to build plug-ins for value-add services. OSMF source code and pluggable software components are available immediately under the Mozilla Public License and available at www.OpenSourceMediaFramework.com.
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The latest A510FXXS5CRE9 Android 7.0 Nougat firmware for Galaxy A5 2016 SM-A510F now available for download. This new firmware comes with latest security patch (May) by Samsung. Apart from improving device security A510FXXS5CRE9 Android 7.0 Nougat firmware also improve overall performance of Galaxy A5 2016 SM-A510F. Latest XXS5CRE9 Android 7.0 Nougat official firmware update can be installed on Galaxy A5 2016 SM-A510F via OTA or KIES.
Apart from these two official process, you can also update your Galaxy A5 2016 SM-A510F to A510FXXS5CRE9 Android 7.0 Nougat stock firmware by downloading it and flashing it manually. A step by step installation guide is available below. Remember, you can only flash this firmware through Odin, don't try flashing using custom recovery such as CWM recovery or TWRP recovery. Continue reading this guide to learn how to flash A510FXXS5CRE9 Android 7.0 Nougat firmware on Galaxy A5 2016 SM-A510F.
How to root A510FXXS5CRE9 Android 7.0 Nougat firmware
Root A510FXXS5CRE9 Android 7.0 Nougat firmware for Galaxy A5 2016 SM-A510F
Warning: This tutorial is only for Galaxy A5 2016 SM-A510F. Don't try this guide on any other Android device. Also, we are not responsible for any damage caused due to the instruction given on this page. Try this at your own risk. However, it is very unlikely that your device will be damaged if you follow all the instructions as it is which are mentioned in procedure.
Pre Requisites:
Though official firmware restores all existing data but we recommend to back up your data first before proceeding to avoid any uncomfortable situation such as bootloop fix.
1. Backup your device data. You can follow our ultimate backup guide.
2. Make sure your device has at least 60% battery power. You can install an app like Battery Percentage on your Android device to check it easily.
3. You already have USB Driver Installed for Galaxy A5 2016 SM-A510F in your PC. [Download USB Drivers]
4. Make sure USB Debugging is enabled otherwise you won't able to transfer file between PC and Galaxy A5 2016 SM-A510F. [Guide].
How To Update Galaxy A5 2016 SM-A510F via OTA
- First of all, make sure you have a stable internet connection (Wi-Fi or data network) on your device.
- Now, go to Android app drawer and then select Settings.
- Then locate About Device and tap on it.
- Next select Software update from About device screen.
- Then tap on Update option.
- You should see an update, press OK to download and install. (Remember, download using 3G or network data will incur additional charges to your phone bill!)
- Soon your device will reboot to complete the installation process.
If you see "The latest update have already been installed" message while checking update then your device yet to receive an OTA update. Check back within few days or jump to next procedure.
How To Update Galaxy A5 2016 SM-A510F via Kies
- Make sure you have stable internet connection on your computer.
- Now download and install Samsung Kies on your computer.
- Turn on your device (if it off) and then connect it to a computer with USB cable.
- Run Samsung Kies and wait for it to detect your device.
- You should see a New Firmware Upgrade is available at Samsung Kies home screen.
- Press the Firmware Upgrade button to proceed.
- Follow on-screen instruction and soon you will see your device running upgrade and reboot automatically. Once done, you can disconnect your device from a computer.
Again! If you see "This is the latest firmware" in Samsung Kies, then your device yet to receive the latest update on Kies. Its good time to go for manual update instruction that located below.
[Note: Don't flash below firmware in carrier locked devices. For carrier locked device you can contact us for a firmware download link.]
[Resumable and Torrent link will only be added when available from trusted source]
A510FXXS5CRE9 Android 7.0 Nougat Firmware Downloads
[Please Note: After flashing this firmware you will lost any installed custom ROM including LineageOS 15.1, AICP, AOKP, Beanstalk, Bliss ROM, Candy5, MoKee, Chroma, Resurrection Remix, Dirty Unicorns, Omni ROM, Slim6, Vanir, Pac-Man and Paranoid Android.]
How To Install A510FXXS5CRE9 Android 7.0 Nougat On Galaxy A5 2016 SM-A510F Manually
- Download Odin3 v3.12.3.
- Extract Firmware zip file that you downloaded earlier from above link, you will get a .tar.md5 file and some other files (optional).
- Extract Odin zip file and you will get Odin3 v3.12.3 along with few other files.
- Power off your Android device. Wait 5-6 seconds for vibration to confirm complete switch off.
- Now, put the Galaxy A5 2016 SM-A510F in Download Mode by pressing and holding down the Home & Volume Down button together while pressing the Power button. A warning screen will come up; press Volume Up button to enter Download Mode.
- Now run Odin3 v3.12.3 (see Step 3) as an Administrator because Admin privileges is required to complete the process smoothly (only applicable Windows Vista and higher).
- Now connect your device to your PC using USB cable. An "Added!!" message will appear in Odin's message box. If you don't get the same then you should try another USB port (try USB port located in back in your desktop PC). If that too doesn't work then you should reinstall the driver. If you successfully see the "Added!!" message in Odin then you are ready to go in next step. You should also see COM port with a number in Yellow if you successfully added your device.
- Click the AP Button, and select that .tar.md5 file that you get in Step 2.
- In Odin window, make sure only Auto Reboot and F. Reset Time checkboxes are selected.
- Double check everything that we mentioned in Step 8 & Step 9 above. Now, once satisfied hit the START button to begin the flashing process.
- Once flashing completed, your Galaxy A5 2016 SM-A510F will restart and soon you will see a PASS message with green background in the left-most box at the very top of the Odin. You can now unplug the USB cable to disconnect your device from computer.
Congrats! You just updated your Galaxy A5 2016 SM-A510F to Android 7.0 Nougat firmware. Go to Settings > About device to verify this firmware update.
Fix Boot Loop Issue On Galaxy A5 2016 SM-A510F
If Galaxy A5 2016 SM-A510F stuck at booting animation for more than 10 minutes after Step 11 then follow below instructions:
- Go to recovery mode. To do so, press and hold the Volume Up, Home and Power buttons together.
- Now perform Wipe data/Factory Reset and Wipe Cache Partition task before selecting reboot system now function. In recovery mode use Volume keys to navigate between options and Power key to select the option.
Please note, performing wiping task will erase your device internal memory data and not external SD card data.
That's it! Let us know about your latest Android 7.0 Nougat experience.


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text: Over on Guanabee, writer Gabriel Caro has created something called "The International Fuckability Hierarchy Index: Latin Countries." Basically, where you're from dictates how much you get laid, and Caro has created a useful bar graph (as seen here) in which penises illustrate Spain's superior allure over Guatemala, for instance. Plus! "If your country's name has an ñ add 5 points; if your country has hosted, participated in, or applauded terrorist activity, subtract 5 points; add 5 points if Pablo Neruda ever lived in your country; if Che Guevara visited your country in one of his "reconnaissance" trips, do nothing but ponder the significance of it all; if your country is an island, subtract 3 points." The index also name drops Shakira, Benicio Del Toro, Daddy Yankee and, uh, Hugo Chavez. It's not right, but it's okay. [Guanabee]


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Nick Montfort and Andrew Stern have published the text of their very interesting speech given at the Electronic Literature Organization "Visionary Landscapes" conference; the subject is ELIZA, the 1966 parody of a Rogerian therapist — more correctly, it's where the next ELIZA-like program (in terms of influence) is going to come from and what it may look like. It's an interesting piece, coming from the perspective of "bigger and flashier is not always better":
We begin by assuming that computation and literary art are inherently very powerful. That is, we assume it is not essential to have recourse to networked communication, massive knowledge bases, or even graphics capabilities to develop a provocative, affecting project that inquires about important issues. In thinking about a such a project, we are seeking an antidote to today's ever larger and complex computer applications - sixty-hour game quests within expansive virtual worlds, mashups of intricate Web technologies, and massively feature-bloated operating systems. A small yet powerful and surprising computer program would be both pleasurable and provocative because of its simplicity and clean concept. So we simply assume, rather than trying to prove, that while more elaborate systems may be interesting in some ways, a new system on the scale of Eliza can still have the sort of broad impact today that Weizenbaum's computer character did more than forty years ago. Given that, we ask, what specific qualities would this system have?
It's worth a read through if you're interested in this sort of stuff (there's a nice, concise discussion of other systems that have had a big impact, from Tetris to SimCity to Google); Mark Marino has already posted a response.
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An ancient exile returning to Milford Haven after an absence of 60 or 70 years would not recognise the Dock area.
Where the basin was once crowded with trawlers at the peak of the hake fishing boom, it is now packed with yachts, cruisers and motor boats and the wharves and fishing industry buildings have been transformed into quayside shops, boutiques, salons, studios, cafes, art galleries and restaurants.
The half mile long fishmarket, which once echoed to the clamour of wooden kits, metal barrels, chugging trucks and the screams of scavenging seagulls, has vanished and the marina is relatively peaceful.
Haybale-sized chunks of ice no longer rumble overhead like transparent roller-coaster cars from the ice-factory to the fish market where the hectic labour of unloading and packing the catch created such a din. Now the only noises are the lapping of wavelets round the yachts, the wind symphony of a hundred rigging wires slapping the hollow metal masts.
At its peak over 3,000 people worked in the shanty town of offices, stores and workshops spread around the basin. It had its own post office, first aid centre, cafe, smokehouses, fishmeal factory, chandlers and smithy and the regular fish trains drew in alongside the fishmarket, passing under the bridge now overlooked by the Torch Theatre.
Now the marina accommodates 328 marina occupied by an astonishing variety of sailing and motor yachts and cruisers, from luxury craft worth hundreds of thousands to humble dinghies, motor, sailing and rowing boats.
The shops neatly slotted into the imposing quayside buildings offer a wide range of goods and services from ladies fashion to lingerie, gifts, refreshments, hair salons, furniture, toys and there are a few popular restaurants and cafes. The fare in these establishments includes much local produce, especially fresh fish caught locally or landed by foreign boats.
The views of the harbour attract a lot of visitors, with glimpses of berthed trawlers and supertankers, the passing Irish ferry and the to-ing and fro-ing of fishing boats, for Milford Haven still hangs on to what is left of its fishing industry, once one of the UK's major ports.
The Museum is a fascinating mirror of the port's and the town's past, and overlooking from Hamilton Terrace is The Lord Nelson Hotel, a reminder that the great man once visited the town and praised its deep water harbour as the finest in the world bar Trincomalee.
The marina development includes a complex of stylish marine apartments. The boatyard seems constantly busy repairing, maintaining and restoring yachts and keel boats which can often be seen moving between the yard and the slipway on the cradle of a huge transporter.
Across the basin is The Phoenix Bowl, a 10 pin bowling centre, which also has a discovery centre for children and a popular indoor play area with facilities for birthday parties in which youngsters can let their hair down in a safe environment and enjoy simple party fare.


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A woman is overcome with emotion as she looks at damage by looters to a gas station in San Fernando, Buenos Aires province, Argentina, on Dec. 21.
Reuters reports: Two people were killed in Argentina on Friday as looters broke into supermarkets in several cities, stirring memories of the country's devastating economic crisis 11 years ago.
Police fired teargas and rubber bullets to stop dozens of stone-throwing youths from looting a supermarket owned by French retailer Carrefour near the capital, a day after the unrest erupted in the Patagonian ski resort of Bariloche.
Government officials condemned the violence and sent 400 military police to the southern city, where raiders stormed a supermarket owned by the local unit of Wal-Mart and made off with flat-screen televisions and other goods.
The violence spread to the central city of Rosario, where two people were killed, and to the northern province of Chaco. About 250 people were arrested in total in four different provinces and police battled to avert fresh incidents in the urban sprawl that encircles Buenos Aires. Full Story
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A security guard holding a hockey stick grabs looter at a gas station on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Friday, Dec. 21, 2012.
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Police open fire at people who tried to loot a supermarket in San Fernando on the outskirts of Buenos Aires on Dec. 21.
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People who tried to loot a supermarket throw stones at police in San Fernando on the outskirts of Buenos Aires on Dec. 21.
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Proposed tip Please edit this page to improve it, or add your comments below (do not use the discussion page).
It might be nice to use helptags to jump around non-help files:
// my_program.c ... // Important code! See |somewhere_else| ... // *somewhere_else* ...
Ctrl-] should follow the
|tag_reference| to the
*tag_location* just like it does when browsing Vim's help.
The problemEdit
:helptags only runs on
.txt files. Two workarounds are:
- Create symlinks to txt files in
- Set
filetype=helpand use an external program to generate the tags
But if you are already using exuberant-ctags or taglist.vim, we can just create a new tag type "htag".
This must be done once for each file-type we want it to work on. Here is what I did for
.java files:
Add to
After regenerating the tags,
Ctrl-] should now work within that project.
If you use the taglist plugin and you want to see these tags listed, add to
" Defaults from taglist.vim /_java_ with our h:htag type added. let tlist_java_settings = 'java;p:package;c:class;i:interface;' . \ 'f:field;m:method;h:htag'
The simple pattern given above will be too general in many languages, for example it would find tags in:
x = y*4*foo*bar. We could ask it to look for a whitespace either before or after it.
The words you use for your new htags should be unique, or will overlap with existing tags for functions, etc. I suggest using a different naming convention. For example, in Java use non-camelcase with '
Tags will not jump directly into Vim help, unless you include help files in your ctags regeneration.
It would be nice to enable it for all filetypes automatically, rather than an an entry (or two) for every filetype we use.


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My sister needs updated information so that she can print this out and distribute to her friends, some of whom she finds have followed my blog for some time!
I have never felt as if I am talking to people in Victoria, and it is a bit of surprise to find that a few locals at least are reading my pages.
Thank you.
So here we are:
The Heritage House Author's Celebration on Thursday November 17 is being held at the Maritime Museum of British Columbia, at 28 Bastion Square, in downtown Victoria. The evening begins at 5:30 pm. and goes on to 9:00, and I am the last speaker -- there will be twelve authors in all presenting their short five minute talk. But it will be fun (I've attended their author's celebration before), and there are breaks for "nibble, sip and mingle." In addition, the venue is stunning. My long distance cousin, who was a lawyer, tells me this is the old courthouse where the man who operated the elevator (the oldest elevator in Victoria, I understand) used to greet everyone by their first name.
But, for this event, you must RSVP to firstname.lastname@example.com or phone 250-360-0829, to get in the door. This is not a drop-in event; and its quite a dressy event, too. Leave your ragged blue jeans at home and dress up a bit. They will be selling everyone's book at this event, so you can do lots of Christmas shopping here! We also hope to have A.C. Anderson's 1867 map of British Columbia displayed at this event -- not the original of course, but a copy.
I will be speaking in front of the Victoria Historical Society on November 24th at 7pm. The meeting is held at the James Bay New Horizons Centre. There will be a short meeting and a tea break before the talk begins, and I will be speaking for about 3/4 hour afterward. As the historical society pays rent on the room, it might be nice if a few of you volunteer to pay a $5.00 fee to go toward the group's expenses (non-members are allowed one free meeting before they pay, but..). I will also have books to sell there, and will sign any books that you have already purchased and bring in to the meeting -- if you want to go to that extreme.
The Pathfinder Book Launch will be held at Crown Bookstore on Thursday December 1, 6:30 pm. to 8 pm. The bookstore's address is 514 Government Street, and the Heritage House it is in stands immediately behind the Parliament Buildings and just around the corner from Crown Publishers. You can do some of your Christmas shopping there, too. I think this is quite a casual event and you can talk to me rather than sit and listen to me talk all the time.
Pick up the January edition of Senior Living; I have done an interview for that magazine.
In January I will be speaking at the Blue Moose Cafe in Hope, on January 19th at 7pm. Books will be available at the event, but I want residents to remember that if they want a book immediately they can purchase it at the Hope Visitor Centre and Museum Complex (Destination Hope) at 919 Water Avenue.
The above event is being put on by the Hope Mountain Group, at www.hopemountain.org. These people, who come from Burnaby, Hope, Princeton, Tulameen and elsewhere, have been restoring the brigade trails over the Coquihalla for years and now have a great deal of information to share. If you're a hiker, Hope is a great place to start a good hike!!
In February I am booked to speak in front of the Historical Maps Society of British Columbia in Vancouver. It is a private group and so I do not think you can attend unless you are a member. I think they will enjoy pouring over A.C.'s maps and hopefully will be able to give me leads on the possible location of maps I have been unable to find -- and there are some of those.
That's it so far. I think I am going to be a little busy for a while.
Copies of The Pathfinder will be shipped out in a week or so, so get excited.
I certainly am eager to see my new book!!!
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Update on dates of events
Posted by Nancy Marguerite Anderson at 1:58 PM
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No one other than VHS and the historical map society has asked (and Hope Mountain). When the book is published and advertised in BC History Magazine, they may book me for next year. Almost certainly I will be in the Okanagan somewhere next year. Most historical societies book their speakers over the summer so they can advertise their speakers in the fall.ReplyDelete
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What's the best way for me to indulge my twin passions of drinking and anything baseball related before the season starts?
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Thank you for putting the ball on the tee, Shaun!
Indeed, drinking and baseball go together like politicians and gibberish, and we here at RSBS are no exception. In fact, if it weren't for this liberating combination of US American pastimes, there would be no Bleacher Bums, no Pirates fans (how could they survive?), no Miguel Cabrera.
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MOST IMPORTANTLY, in the "optional code" box, make sure to enter code "REDS". For each participant using that code, the good folks at Guinness are going to donate $1 to our charity of choice, the Baseball Tomorrow Fund and its Chicago chapter. That's right. Your commitment to having a good (and responsible) time translates to more balls, bats, gloves and other baseball equipment for Chicago's youth.
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So if you haven't done it yet, go do it! Then sit back, crack open a tall can of Guinness and smile knowing you did something good.
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ZURICH (Reuters) - Credit Suisse CSGN.VX boss Brady Dougan has outmaneuvered an internal rival with his recent revamp of the Swiss bank and management shake-up but is still on borrowed time, senior banking sources say.
Dougan might have played his last hand with an overhaul that strengthens the investment bank where the American made his career before taking over as chief executive in 2007 while also promoting two more executives to join the race to succeed him.
"The latest reorganization shows clearly that Dougan remains under immense pressure," a former high-ranking Credit Suisse banker says. "He will be replaced as soon as a suitable successor is found."
The Credit Suisse reorganization contrasts with hometown rival UBS UBSN.VX, which is abandoning most fixed-income activities in favor of its flagship private bank as tough Swiss capital rules begin eating into investment banking profits.
Instead, Dougan, who has long defended the unit he used to head from calls for a dramatic scaleback, announced a raft of measures that confirm his desire to keep Credit Suisse at the top table of investment banking.
In an affirmation of his commitment to the fixed income business that UBS is shrinking, Dougan promoted French debt banker Gael de Boissard as investment bank co-head alongside American Eric Varvel, who will also run the Asia-Pacific region.
The asset management business will be integrated into the private banking unit and its American head Robert Shafir appointed co-head alongside private banking boss Hans-Ulrich Meister.
Meister originally pushed for the asset management integration to strengthen his own unit, but Dougan outfoxed him by stalling the move and making his ally Shafir joint head, according to several sources close to the bank.
The private bank that caters to the financial needs of the wealthy had only just engineered a merger of Swiss retail and private banking arms to cut costs but is the "net loser" of the shake up, sources close to the bank said.
"They have been relegated to a supporting role and Meister's effectively been demoted," by having to accept a co-head for the unit he ran alone, a former senior Credit Suisse executive said.
The one Swiss banker among the four division heads, Meister had made no secret within Credit Suisse of his ambitions for Dougan's job. But Americans and investment bankers have gained in influence with the overhaul, deepening a cultural tug-of-war between Credit Suisse's U.S.-focused investment bank and its less risky and more traditional Swiss-based private bank.
Dougan won praise for steering Credit Suisse through the financial crisis without resorting to a government bailout like UBS but has been criticized for squandering that advantage, drawing an unusual call from the Swiss central bank earlier this year to urgently bolster capital.
He has also drawn fire in Switzerland for spending much of his time in New York and failing to learn German but cemented his position when he marshaled support from key shareholders for a package of measures to boost capital by 15.3 billion Swiss francs in response to the central bank rebuke.
Credit Suisse's stock is little moved on the year at 22.05 Swiss francs - lagging a 20 percent rise in the European bank index .SX7P and a jump of 30 percent for UBS shares - albeit it up a third from a trough of 15.97 francs hit in August.
"Management is under pressure to deliver," said JPMorgan & Chase analyst Kian Abouhossein.
He says 2013 is a "make or break" year for Dougan, in which the CEO must cut costs and scale back capital-intensive areas of fixed income such as foreign exchange and commodities.
While Dougan has bought some time with the revamp, his future is still uncertain despite recent public backing by Chairman Urs Rohner, according to sources close to the bank.
Privately, Rohner has been more openly critical, two sources said: "Rohner would've replaced Dougan already had there been a suitable alternative," said one person familiar with Rohner's thinking.
Though the move raises the profile of Shafir and de Boissard, the four co-heads are considered either too inexperienced or not well enough connected in the Swiss financial establishment, and will need time to prove themselves.
"I don't think any of them are suited or will ultimately get Dougan's job, but Rohner has to signal he is thinking seriously about succession," the top former Credit Suisse banker said.
A Credit Suisse spokesman said Meister, Shafir, Varvel and de Boissard all declined to comment for this story.
Dougan managed to outmaneuver Meister in part because the private banking head has not covered himself in glory since taking over the unit last year, according to a senior banker at Credit Suisse.
Meister is perceived as botching the integration of 250-year-old independent boutique Clariden Leu as well as Eurom, an information technology harmonization effort.
Though Meister, a corporate banker who rose through the ranks in a 24-year career at UBS before jumping ship in 2008, has the crucial Swiss connections needed to succeed in Zurich, he lacks experience in international financial centers such as New York, where Dougan, Shafir and Varvel made their mark.
That is still Dougan's trump card: Rohner noted recently that he is one of the most experienced CEOs in the industry.
Rohner and Dougan, once rivals for the CEO job, have now settled into a "marriage of convenience," according to the person familiar with Rohner's thinking.
A lawyer who made his name as head of German media group Pro Sieben and general counsel of Credit Suisse before taking over as chairman last year, Rohner weighed a slew of alternatives including what one person familiar with the matter described as "the unthinkable": a UBS-style winding down of fixed income.
But Dougan ultimately convinced Rohner not to take the axe to the investment bank because the chairman was reluctant to make a bolder move, the person close to Rohner said.
"For all his intelligence and acumen, Rohner finds decision-making difficult and hasn't shown himself to be a visionary thinker," that person said.
Rohner and Dougan also declined to comment to Reuters.
Though Credit Suisse executives reject the comparison, a key to the bank's future lies in UBS's decision to abandon capital-heavy areas of fixed income, a move which has ratcheted up the pressure on European rivals including Barclays (BARC.L) to make similar moves.
"The fact that Credit Suisse constantly references UBS says it all: they're not coming at this from a position of strength at all," the former Credit Suisse executive said.
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Walking on thin ice
By Henry Lamb
President Bush took a calculated risk when he went to the U.N. Security Council seeking support to end the threat of Saddam Hussein's use of weapons of mass destruction. He had to know that engagement of the U.N. would mean delay after delay. He had to know that his political opponents would use the time to mount a vigorous campaign to discredit him, and his objective.
The world-wide anti-war protests last weekend demonstrate just how quickly the anti-Bush crowd can finance and mobilize demonstrations. They can only get more boisterous as time passes. Rest assured, the protests are not the spontaneous outpouring of ordinary citizens; they are the carefully choreographed dance of the anti-capitalism, anti-America, anti-Bush, anti-freedom folks, funded by huge foundations that have their own agenda.
STARC (Students Transforming And Resisting Corporations), organized students from 200 campuses to march on Washington to protest the war. Their money comes from the Youth Empowerment Center. YEC's money comes from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, and the Surdna Foundation, and others. STARC is now recruiting college students to attend an eight-week "activists" school this summer, to become more effective campus organizers for the "broader student movement for social justice."
Anti-war protesters only compound Bush's problems. Russia, France, and China are already talking publicly about giving Iraq more time, even before the January 27th report from the chief inspectors. The Security Council is not about eliminating the threat posed by Saddam; it is about delay and debate, debate and delay. Remember Rwanda? Hundreds of thousands of people died while the U.N. debated and did nothing. Remember Bosnia? NATO acted while the U.N. debated.
The U.N. will not, indeed, cannot, protect the United States. Nor should it.
Despite the whining of the anti-war, anti-America crowd, and despite the empty verbosity of Russia, France, and China, President Bush, alone, has the sole responsibility of protecting the citizens of the United States. By yielding to the cries for diplomacy from the international community, and allowing the United Nations to re-enter the U.S.-Iraq controversy, Mr. Bush chose a path toward an ever-thinning layer of ice.
Continuation on this path will be, in effect, yielding our sovereignty to the United Nations, allowing an external political power to dictate our foreign policy - and our future. What's worse, Saddam will continue his cat-and-mouse games until the perfect moment of opportunity to inflict maximum damage on the U.S. or its allies. Then, it will be too late. The whiners, and the so-called international statesmen will be the first to criticize the U.S. for allowing the tragedy to happen.
It is decision time.
Saddam responded to U.N. Resolution 1441 with a rehash of previous reports that all reviewers condemn as a failure to comply. A cache of unreported missiles has been explained as an "accounting error," by Scott Ritter, former U.N. inspector and Saddam apologist. The 2,000-pages of detailed information about development of nuclear weapons, found in the Scientist's home, produced only protests of invasion of privacy, and threats to sue the inspectors.
For 12 years, Saddam Hussein has played the U.N., and the U.S., like
a fiddle, exporting his propaganda, financial support for Palestinian
terrorists, and who knows what else, to wherever it will damage Americans.
Even while the U.N. has been practicing its delaying tactics, President Bush has been tightening the noose around Saddam's neck. Bush told the U.N. that its failure to act against Iraq would relegate the institution to irrelevancy, along the same road on which the League of Nations crashed.
Bush gave the U.N. its chance to step up to what it claims to be its responsibility - to keep peace in the world. The U.N. prefers to keep the peace by appeasing Saddam, in hopes that he will not invade his neighbors again, or use chemical weapons on his own citizens again.
The best hope for peace is to eliminate the threat presented by Saddam. Then the world will know he will not invade Kuwait or Iran or any other nations. Nor will he fill the warheads in the "accounting error," with chemicals not declared in his report to the U.N., and launch them toward Israel, or Saudi Arabia, or U.S. forces.
Regardless of his bluster, it is Saddam Hussein who is walking on thin ice; not President Bush.
Lamb is the executive vice president of the Environmental
Conservation Organization, and chairman of Sovereignty
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BAR ḲAPPARA (Aramaic; Hebrew, "Ben ha-Ḳappar"):(Redirected from SIMEON BAR ḲAPPARA.)
Palestinian scholar of the beginning of the third century, occupying an intermediate position between tanna and amora. His real and complete name was Eleazar (there seems to be no ground for the form "Eliezer") ben Eleazar ha-Ḳappar. This is the form appearing in the tannaite sources, Tosefta (Beẓah i. 7; Ḥullin vi. 3) and Sifre (Num. 42, ed. Friedmann, p. 12b): the usual Talmudic form, "Bar Ḳappara," and the frequent appellation, "Eleazar ha-Ḳappar Berabbi" (see Berebi), are abbreviations of this.His Academy at Cæsarea.
Like nearly all those who occupied the intermediate positions between tannaim and amoraim (called "semi-tannaim" for convenience' sake), Bar Ḳappara was a pupil of Judah I. ha-Nasi; but he seems to have counted among his teachers, in addition, R. Nathan the Babylonian (Midr. Teh. xii. 4, ed. Buber; other editions and MSS. read "Jonathan") and R. Jeremiah ben Eleazar, probably identical with the Jeremiah mentioned in the Mekilta and Sifre (Pesiḳ. xxvii. 172b; Tan., Aḥare Mot, vi. [ed. Buber, vii.]; and parallel passages cited by Buber). The strained relations between Bar Ḳappara and the patriarchal house, of which mention will shortly be made, induced him to withdraw to the south of Palestine. Bar Ḳappara set up his academy at Cæsarea (concerning
Of more interest than his contemporaries' recognition of his greatness as a halakist and a humanitarian, are the many characteristic utterances of his that mark him as a phenomenal personality in his day. Some examples may be given. He said: "He who can calculate the solstices and movements of the planets [that is, understands astronomy] and fails to pay attention to these things, to him may be applied the verse [Isa. v. 12] 'They regard not the works of the Lord, nor the operation of his hands" (Shab. 75a). This statement about the duty of studying astronomy and physics gains in significance if placed in juxtaposition with Bar Ḳappara's totally different opinion in regard to the study of the Torah. According to him, if a Jew read only two portions from the Torah daily—one in the morning and one in the evening—he fulfils the precept to meditate in God's law by day and night (Ps. i. 2; Midr. Teh. ad loc.). Bar Ḳappara not only admired natural science, proscribed though it was by most Jews of the time, who considered it "Greek learning," but he also appreciated the Hellenic love of the beautiful; and probably he was the sole Palestinian who judged the literary activity of the Alexandrian Jews favorably. A truly liberal exposition of his on Gen. ix. 27 was: "The words of the Torah shall be recited in the speech of Japheth [Greek] in the tents of Shem" (in the synagogues and schools) (Gen. R. xxxvi. 8).
Bar Ḳappara's respect for the exact sciences was equaled by his aversion for metaphysical speculation, which just at his time flourished in the form of Gnosis among Jews and Christians. Referring to Deut. iv. 32, "Ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee," Bar Ḳappara says, "Seek to know only of those days that followed the Creation; but seek not to know what went before" (Gen. R. i. 10), meaning to say that the world and the history of man in the world provide sufficient matter for the mind's employment without subtle investigations into hidden mysteries.
Highly characteristic of Bar Ḳappara's conception of life and its ideals is his opinion concerning self-abnegation: "The Scriptures [Num. vi. 11] say: 'The priest shall . . . make an atonement for him [the Nazarite] for that he sinned by the soul'" [A. V. "dead"; Hebrew text, "nefesh," means also "soul"]. By what soul did he sin? He denied himself wine. Now, if the Nazarite who denied himself wine only is called a sinner, how much more is he a sinner who has denied himself everything?" (B. Ḳ. 91b; Ta'anit 11a and parallels; compare Rab's similar saying in Yer. Ḳid., end; see Abba Arika). It required not a little courage and self-confidence to declare asceticism sinful at a time when fasting and abstemiousness of all kinds were held to be the greatest virtues.The Patriarchal House.
A comparison of this view of Bar Ḳappara concerning abstinence with Rabbi's declaration before his death that he had not experienced the slightest sensual gratification in his life (Ket. 104a), reveals the striking contrast in the conceptions of the two men. This difference was true no less in regard to the affairs of daily life than to matters of the intellect. No greater dissimilarity is possible than was presented by the majestic repose and princely grandeur of Rabbi, and the poetic abandon and gay address of Bar Ḳappara. Since Rabbi's mere presence sufficed to put a check upon Bar Ḳappara, it is possible that a breach between the two men might not have come to pass had their personal relations alone been concerned. But the members of the patriarch's family, especially Simon, his son, and Ben Elasah, his son-in-law, rich but unlettered (Ned. 51a), were frequently subjected to Bar Ḳappara's biting satire. A somewhat irreverent remark about Rabbi, which he let slip in Simon's presence, was reported by Simon to Rabbi, who informed Bar Ḳappara of his firm resolve never to grant him ordination (M. Ḳ. 16a).
According to the Yerushalmi, however, the final rupture was induced by the following incident: During a gathering at Rabbi's house Bar Ḳappara remarked to Rabbi's unlearned son-in-law that it was conspicuous in him to maintain complete silence while all others present were asking Rabbi for opinions on subjects of learning. Ben Elasah was at a loss as to what question to put to his father-in-law, but Bar Ḳappara prompting him by whispers in his ear, he propounded to Rabbi the following riddle:
"High from Heav'n her eye looks down; Constant strife excites her frown; Winged beings shun her sight; She puts youth to instant flight; The aged, too, her aspect scout; Oh! oh! the fugitive cries out. And by her snares whoe'er is lured Shall never more from sin be cured!"
When Rabbi turned round after hearing the riddle of his son-in-law, he discovered Bar Ḳappara smiling, and exclaimed: "I do not recognize you, old one!" (meaning also, "I do not recognize you as an elder, a sage!"). Bar Ḳappara now understood that he would never receive ordination (Yer. M. Ḳ. iii. 81c).His Poetry.
What the riddle really signifies is not known, despite many attempts to explain it. The most probable view is the one taken by Abraham Krochmal that Bar Ḳappara intended it as a criticism of Rabbi's unrelenting severity toward young and old. The verseis extremely valuable as a specimen of Neo-Hebraic poetry in Talmudic times; its few lines furnish, perhaps, the sole testimony to the activity of the Jews of that time in secular poetry. Its language is classic, but not slavishly so; forceful and pure, yet easy and flowing. It is a curious coincidence that the one other specimen of Bar Ḳappara's poetry which has been preserved in the sources should be the eloquent words in which he proclaimed Rabbi's death to the assembled people of Sepphoris. They are: "Brethren of the house of Jedaiah [an epithet of the inhabitants of Sepphoris], harken unto me! Mortals and angels have long been wrestling for the possession of the holy tablets of the Law; the angels have conquered. They have captured the tablets" (Yer. Kil. ix. 32b; Yer. Ket. xii. 35a; Bab. Ket. 104a; Eccl. R. vii. 11, ix. 10, with many variants of the text, which is here given according to Eccl. R. l.c.). Bar Ḳappara's presence in Sepphoris at Rabbi's death shows that, despite Rabbi's unjust attitude toward him, he duly appreciated his great obligations to his teacher; and there is no cause to doubt the sincerity of his grief for Rabbi's death.Mishnah of Bar Ḳappara.
Bar Ḳappara was especially known to the Amoraim as the author of a Mishnah called the Mishnah of Bar Ḳappara (Pesiḳ. xv. 122a; Yer. Hor. iii. 48c; and many other places). This Mishnah compilation has not been preserved, and probably at the final redaction of the Talmud it was no longer extant (Meïri, in commentary on Abot, ed. Wilna, p. 14, does not mention the fact of having had such a Mishnah collection [thus Schorr, "He-Ḥaluẓ," i. 44, and A. Krochmal, ib. iii. 118], but a Baraita cited in Bar Ḳappara's name in the Talmud). Nevertheless, the numerous passages from his Mishnah that found their way into the Talmud suffice for judgment upon its character.
Meïri (l.c.) quite correctly designates it as a supplement to the Mishnah of Rabbi, intended chiefly to explain it, and, on rare occasions, to give differing opinions (see Baraita). Bar Ḳappara's Mishnah also presented variants to Rabbi's Mishnah, and later on became occasionally so interwoven in the text of the latter that doubt arose whether the Mishnah in question belonged to the one or to the other (Yer. Pes. x. 37d). The Mishnah of Bar Ḳappara was also used by the redactor of the Tosefta, who derived many decisions from it (for instances, see Weiss, "Dor Dor we-Dorshaw," ii. 219). Whether Bar Ḳappara's Mishnah ever reached Babylonia has not been definitely ascertained, the one passage in the Babli referring to it having originated with Simon b. Laḳish, a Palestinian (B. B. 154b). [Compare also Is. Halevy, "Dorot ha-Rishonim," ii. 123-125, who, without sufficient reason, denies the existence of Bar Ḳappara's Mishnah.]His Knowledge of Fables.
Bar Ḳappara is the last one in Talmudic times who is stated to have had knowledge of fables. The Midrash (Lev. R. xxviii. 2) relates that because Rabbi did not invite Bar Ḳappara to the wedding of his son, Bar Ḳappara revenged himself in the following way: At the feast which Rabbi subsequently gave in Bar Ḳappara's honor, the latter told a vast number of fox fables—300, it is reported—and the guests left the food untouched in order to listen to him.
- Bacher, Agada der Tannaiten, ii. 503-520 (for other passages in the same, see the Index);
- Brüll, Mebo ha-Mishnah, i. 244, 289-292;
- Frankel, Darke ha-Mishnah, p. 313;
- idem, Mebo, 20a et seq., 71a;
- Grätz, Gesch. der Juden, 4th ed., iv. 198, 199, 211;
- Hamburger, Supplement to R. B. T. pp. 36-38;
- Kohan, in Ha-Asif, iii. 330-333 (Kohan here first pointed out the identity of Bar Ḳappara with Eleazar ben Eleazar ha-Ḳappar);
- Abraham Krochmal, in He-Ḥaluẓ, ii. 84;
- Rapoport, in Literaturblatt des Orients, i. 38, 39;
- Reifmann, Pesher Dabar;
- Weiss, Dor Dor we-Dorshaw, ii. 191, 219.


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Heavy Smokers Cut Back the Most When Cigarette Taxes Rise
People with 2-pack-a-day habit cut back 35 percent compared with 15 percent for pack-a-day smokers.
TUESDAY, Dec. 4, 2012 (HealthDay News) — Boosting cigarettes taxes may cause heavy smokers to cut back more than lighter smokers, researchers have found.
The finding is surprising because it's long been believed that heavy smokers would be most resistant to cigarette price increases, said Patricia Cavazos-Rehg, a research assistant professor of psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
She and her team looked at data from more than 7,000 smokers who were initially asked how much they smoked and then asked the same question three years later.
"On average, everyone was smoking a little less" at the three-year follow-up, Cavazos-Rehg said in a university news release. "But when we factored in price changes from tax increases, we found that the heaviest smokers responded to price increases by cutting back the most."
At the start of the study, the typical smoker averaged 16 cigarettes a day. That fell to 14 per day after three years. During that time, the average price for a pack of cigarettes increased from $3.96 in 2001 to $4.41 in 2004. Most of that increase came from state taxes.
Heavy smokers — with a habit of more than 40 cigarettes, or two packs a day — would have been expected to reduce their consumption by 11 cigarettes a day even without a price hike. In states where cigarette taxes rose by at least 35 percent, however, heavy smokers reduced their consumption by an average of 14 cigarettes per day.
While the heaviest smokers cut back their cigarette consumption by an average of 35 percent in response to higher taxes, smokers with a habit of 20 cigarettes, or one pack per day, cut their consumption by only 15 percent, the investigators found.
No other factors — such as smoke-free policies — were as influential on smoking habits as price, according to the study published online recently in the journal Tobacco Control.
But while higher taxes may prompt smokers to cut back, it would be better if they stopped smoking altogether, Cavazos-Rehg noted.
"We don't know whether there's any health benefit if they continue to smoke, even if they are smoking less. However, if reducing helps an individual to quit eventually, then the health advantage becomes clear," she said.
While the study found an association between higher cigarette taxes and reductions in cigarettes smoked, it did not prove a cause-and-effect relationship.


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Jackie Bartley of the Hope College English faculty is the author of "Ordinary Time," a collection of poems published recently by Spire Press Inc. of New York City.
The collection has been published as the winner of an annual competition sponsored by Spire Press Inc. for collections of poetry.
"Jackie Bartley's 'Ordinary Time' is a collection of extraordinary poems: each one shimmering in metaphoric richness; each one unwavering in its quiet sense of truth," author Linda Nemec Foster has written. "There are no casual observations in Bartley's universe where every single event is infused with wonder and grace - whether it occurs in an exotic village in Bolivia or the familiar landscape of a Midwest plain."
Bartley, an adjunct assistant professor of English, has previously published six books of poems, from "Bloodroot" in 2002 through "Women Fresh from Water" in 2005. Her work has appeared in "Artful Dodge," "Hayden's Ferry Review," "Sulphur River Literary Review," "Tar River Poetry," "West Branch" and many other journals.
Four of her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She received awards for summer poetry residencies from the Ragdale Foundation in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2005.
A member of the Hope faculty since 1989, Bartley earned a B.S. from Clarion University in Pennsylvania and an MFA in creative writing from Western Michigan University. Her degrees from Clarion are in biology and medical technology, and she worked as a medical technologist for 15 years before she began writing poetry.


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January 02, 2014
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A state appeals court panel recently upheld a man's conviction for the Easter Sunday 2009 murders of two men on Skid Row, including an innocent bystander who had worked on the movie "The Soloist." The three-justice panel from California's 2nd District Court of Appeal rejected the defense's contention that the judge erred in Richard Luna's trial by not instructing jurors on voluntary and involuntary manslaughter. Luna was convicted in the April 12, 2009, killing of Kevin Cohen, 49, who was struck by a stray bullet about a week before he was set to walk the red carpet at a movie premiere of "The Soloist" — an event that was later dedicated to him.
Luna was also convicted of first-degree murder for the killing of Tommie Hayes at a hotel at Stanford Avenue and East Seventh Street in downtown Los Angeles.
"Here, defendant effectively concedes (as he must) that the evidence proved that he killed Hayes, his intended target, in a fusillade of bullets with premeditated intent to kill, and that one stray bullet killed Cohen, an unintended target. Thus, defendant's premeditated intent to kill Hayes 'transferred to' Cohen, the unintended victim, making defendant guilty of premeditated first-degree murder in that killing," the appellate court panel found in its 13-page ruling.
A state appellate court panel is set to hear arguments in 2014 in the case of co-defendant Lamont Ward, who was also convicted of the murders. Authorities said shortly after Luna and Ward were arrested that Hayes — described by police as a rival drug dealer to Ward — appeared to have been the only target and that Cohen seemed to have been an unplanned victim. Hayes was shot eight times and Cohen once, apparently by a stray bullet.
"Ward quarterbacked the whole thing," Deputy District Attorney Dan Akemon said after the two were convicted.
"He hired Luna."
Luna was paid $700 for the hit, according to the prosecutor. Both men were sentenced last year to life in prison without the possibility of parole.


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Evil Dead in 60 Seconds [Virgin Fake Film Festival via Nerdcore]