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I used to have a lot of memberships. Price Club, Costco, Sam's Club, you name it. Living in the suburbs more than 20 miles away from the next major city, it made sense to buy in bulk and save money. As a family with growing teenagers (and many of their friends as regular house guests) plus three big dogs, we went through mountains of supplies in no time. So there seemed nothing wrong with stockpiling everything from toiletries to hardware goods to frozen foods to snacks. Making fewer shopping trips also helped to keep gas expenses down.
Of course, there were added costs for storage, especially for perishable items that needed refrigeration. A larger fridge and an additional freezer in the garage left their mark on the electricity bill, but still, we thought it was worth it.
What began to concern me more, especially as the kids went off to college and our needs for provisions lessened, was that our shopping habits had become so ingrained that we still tried for the "best deals," even if it meant overstocking on items we didn't really need, at least not right away and in such large quantities. Fortunately, we were not "hoarders" by nature and made soon the necessary adjustments. But it became clear to me how seductive the whole concept of "the more you buy, the more you save" really is.
The ability to buy in bulk, as smart as it may be as a strategy for some people and in certain situations, has been shown as a leading contributor to overconsumption that is now all too common in our society. "Overconsumption is as American as apple pie," says a consumer report by Investopedia, a finance and investment advisory group, calling it a source of many negative financial and health consequences.
"More pressing than the financial problem is what increased consumption does to you and your family's health," warns the report. "While using extra shampoo doesn't exactly harm the environment in a way that is immediately noticeable, consuming more mayonnaise, peanut butter, cereal, frozen meals and other popular items available at the bulk stores will almost certainly affect your health in a way that you will be able to see in a full-length mirror."
Dr. Lisa Young, a professor of nutrition at New York University and author of "The Portion Teller", agrees with that assessment. Psychologically, she says, wholesale clubs like Costco compel members to buy more to recoup their membership fees and for the obvious reason of saving money in the long run. It encourages increase in consumption, which may be harmless with items like toilet paper but not a good idea when it comes to food. "The more you buy, the more you eat," she says.
Some would argue that this shouldn't be a foregone conclusion. Why would having a well-stocked refrigerator or pantry make us overeat, just because the food is there? Because it is much harder to judge our consumption volume than our food choices, says Dr. Brian Wansink, a professor of marketing and nutritional science at Cornell University and author of "Mindless Eating – Why We Eat More Than We Think" (Bantam Books 2006). In other words, even if we have the best intentions to eat more healthily, whether we get the servings right is still another matter.
Our consumption volume – how much food we actually eat – depends on many factors other than the need to still our hunger, Wansink argues. Package size, plate shape and a variety of other outside influences like lighting, sounds, social settings and many more environmental components play a significant role in our eating behavior, many of which affect us on a subconscious level.
Especially package and portion sizes can have a considerable impact. Container sizes can influence our consumption of snack foods like chips and popcorn or inedible products like shampoo and detergent. Stockpiled items are typically used up much faster than those in smaller supply. It's just how we relate to the things we have at our disposal.
Can we counteract these trends that seem to be all too human? Sure we can, says Dr. Wansink. What's important is to alter the environment in which detrimental behavior can take place. For some, this can mean to stay away from bulk purchases altogether. For others, solutions can be as simple as repackaging bulk food into single serving containers or plating more modest amounts. As people become increasingly aware of their existing tendencies, they can find ways to work around them until new (and better) habits form.
If you enjoyed this article, you may also be interested in "Weight Management – Not Just a Matter of Self-Control."
Timi Gustafson R.D. is a clinical dietitian and author of the book "The Healthy Diner – How to Eat Right and Still Have Fun"®, which is available on her blog, "Food and Health with Timi Gustafson R.D." (http://www.timigustafson.com), and at amazon.com. You can follow Timi on Twitter and on Facebook.


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Athanasia Leivaditou-Studio Nl Controlled Chaos Office
At Design Interviews
Interview with ATHANASIA LEIVADITOU : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. ATHANASIA LEIVADITOU : An organised complexity, a controlled chaos. Heterogeneous elements- that follow the same rules- are composed in order to create a "controlled chaos". Holistic philosophy and chaos theory. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. ATHANASIA LEIVADITOU : There was the intention to perceive this project through a holistic philosophy and not as endless fragments. The defragmentation and specialization became an object of the technical analysis of the details. All the different functions of the interior (library, lighting, cd storage, shelving, desk,…) are contained into the "white lines". This "white net" unfolds into a neutral grey background. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. ATHANASIA LEIVADITOU : To communicate my work and receive a feedback. .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. ATHANASIA LEIVADITOU : About two weeks. .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. ATHANASIA LEIVADITOU : There is a personal need to integrate influences from other disciplines into architecture. I believe that our world is a composition of chaotic but perfect coincidences and I wanted to express this notion to my design. The concept of a perfectly organized abstraction is abandoned and an "organized complexity" is adopted. .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. ATHANASIA LEIVADITOU : No, it is not used by any other company. .Frank Scott: What made you design this particular type of work?. ATHANASIA LEIVADITOU : I like complexity and plurality in design. But this complexity must have a very clear intention. Otherwise the result will be disorientating and confusing. .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. ATHANASIA LEIVADITOU : My design is an expression of my personal background: education, working experience, contemporary architecture, travelling and even movies and video games. .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. ATHANASIA LEIVADITOU : People who want a different point of view about interior design. .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. ATHANASIA LEIVADITOU : The use of the plasterboard in a sculptural way. .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. ATHANASIA LEIVADITOU : 3D and 2D design softwares. .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. ATHANASIA LEIVADITOU : Chaos and organisation at the same time. .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. ATHANASIA LEIVADITOU : The construction staff was not specialised. .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. ATHANASIA LEIVADITOU : A backlit interactive projector with HB acrylic screen and small momitors are used for presentation reasons. The LED lighting is used in order to create a more "dramatic"/ theatrical ambience. .Frank Scott: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?. ATHANASIA LEIVADITOU : There was no specific research for this project. I expressed principles and concerns from my personal backround. .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. ATHANASIA LEIVADITOU : Most of the challenges were not technical. The challenge was to communicate the design during construction. .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. ATHANASIA LEIVADITOU : The need to communicate my work and receive feedback. .Frank Scott: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?. ATHANASIA LEIVADITOU : To be very consistent to the concept. .
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Just learned of this nifty resource from the NP-Enterprise listserv: a new article called "Social Enterprise and MicroEnterprise: Understanding the Connection" posted at the Aspen Institute's FIELD homepage (a program of the Aspen Institute focused on microenterprise as an anti-poverty strategy). It's a great brief on the basics of social enterprise, social purpose businesses, and micorenterprise.
Also on the homepage are links to a webinar on how microenterprises are using social enterprise to increase sustainability (free registration required, 90 min – unfortunately not able to be downloaded and saved, and I haven't had time to listen to it in full yet) and a recent FIELD forum (their newsletter) focused on social enterprise. Both of these resources include a case study of Mountain BizWorks, a project right here in North Carolina (up in Asheville) that I was previously unaware of. Great reading!


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About NAFC
The National Aerial Firefighting Centre (NAFC) was formed by the Australian States and Territories in July 2003 to provide a cooperative national arrangement for combating bushfires. It achieves this by facilitating the coordination and procurement of a fleet of highly specialised firefighting aircraft that are readily available for use by State and Territory emergency service and land management agencies across Australia.
This national aircraft fleet complements aerial firefighting resources that are arranged directly by the States and Territories. The National Fleet receives funding support from the Australian Government as well as State and Territory Governments.
NAFC also plays a key role in ensuring the sharing of aerial firefighting resources between emergency service and land management agencies throughout Australia, and in the development of national protocols and systems for aerial firefighting.
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UK's Part-Time Intelligence Watchdog Thinks Twice-Yearly Inspection Of Spy Services 'Sufficient'
from the satisfied dept
As Techdirt discussed back in March, oversight of the UK's intelligence services is essentially one person, working part-time, one of whose techniques for establishing whether everything is being conducted according to the rules and the law is to take the word of the heads of the services that it is. The Right Honorable Sir Mark Waller -- for it is him -- has now issued his annual report on the UK's Intelligence Services (pdf). Despite Snowden's revelations of massively-intrusive spying on the entire UK population, and much of the world besides, Waller apparently doesn't feel that he needs to change the way he does things:
When I first took up my role I was concerned that twice yearly inspections and a sample of warrants might not be sufficient. However, taking into account the method of my review as set out in Chapter 2, the robust and rigorous internal compliance tests and assurances, and the culture and ethos of the intelligence services, I am satisfied that it is sufficient.
Here's a sample of his general attitude to the services he is supposed to be watching over:
The same ethos of honesty and integrity run through the service whether at Head Office or overseas. Having interviewed officers posted
to these stations I was satisfied that they had no desire to act otherwise than in accordance with UK law and standards.
Perhaps because of that touching faith in the "honesty and integrity" of the UK's spies, Waller sees no problem with statements such as the following:
I required the Home Office to provide me with a list of every new warrant issued since the last list was produced, and all extant or cancelled warrants, as well as any warrants which may have been refused by the Home Secretary. The list set out the type of operation with notes on each case. The list of warrants issued by the Home Office and the list I received from MI5 corresponded. I was satisfied that both had provided a full and complete list.
He may well have been "satisfied", but how could he know the list was "full and complete"? And how can he exclude the possibility that there were operations carried out illicitly, without warrants? Since they wouldn't be on any list, he would naturally be unable to spot their absence. Despite this pervasive complacency, there are one or two signs that Edward's Snowden's string of revelations have at least raised questions in Waller's mind. For example, there is an entire chapter entitled "Media Allegations", where we read:
I have discussed with all three intelligence services [MI5, MI6 and GCHQ] the impact of the revelations made by Edward Snowden. The heads of each agency clearly set out during the public evidence session before the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) on 7 November 2013 how alerting targets and adversaries to UK capabilities means that it becomes more difficult to acquire the intelligence that this country needs. The agencies provided me with clear evidence to substantiate this. In the interests of national security, I am not in a position to give further detail in my open report.
What's interesting here is that Waller doesn't even try to address the central issues raised by Snowden's leaks concerning massive and disproportionate surveillance by the UK; all he says is that the heads of the services offered evidence that revealing details would make it harder to carry out spying -- possibly true, but irrelevant.
Another tiny sign that even the UK's intelligence watchdog is slightly concerned by what Snowden has told us is the following note in the report:
I have recommended to all the agencies that separate consideration be given to the individual privacy being invaded as part of the test for proportionality. In all cases I want to see this set out separately in the application for these intrusive techniques and to see this wording reflected in the warrants.
Of course, that recommendation is completely toothless: the UK's spy agencies can simply claim that they have "considered" privacy issues before merrily spying on everyone as before.
All-in-all, the Intelligence Services Commissioner's report gives the impression of someone doing their best to provide scrutiny of the UK's spying activities, but hopelessly out of their depth in the digital world. The report is focused on traditional warrants, and on whether they contain errors -- usually minor clerical ones. It ignores the larger question of whether the warrant system is adequate to address things like GCHQ's Tempora program, which is capable of downloading, storing and analyzing huge quantities of the world's Internet traffic, or the recently-revealed interception of all the UK's Google, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube traffic using the legal fiction that these are "external communications".
Moreover, even in the unlikely event that the Right Honorable Sir Mark Waller woke up one day with a burning desire to scrutinize these kinds of activities, it seems unlikely he would be able to do so on the basis of a twice-yearly inspection.
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"Sounds of Silence – Could be Tragic"
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Get into a life saving habit – "Change Your Clock – Change Your Battery".
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Armchair Travel
April 2017
"Everywhere, there were signals that I was in my homeland.
Everywhere, there were signals that I was not."
~ from Doug Mack's
The Not-Quite States of America
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Lisa Dickey
With Russia so much a part of recent news, some may want to know more about the world's largest country. Veteran author Lisa Dickey shines a light on that topic and on the changes to Russia that have occurred during the past two decades, detailing three journeys she took across the vast nation, in 1995 (with an American photographer), 2005 (with another photographer), and 2015 (solo). On each trip, she tried to visit the same people and places, and the result is an in-depth look at Russians (including farmers, small business owners, Jews, and others) that explores everyday life, people's social attitudes, and more.
Bear in the Streets
provides a rich look at an intriguing place.
Havana: A Subtropical Delirium
Mark Kurlansky
Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky, who wrote the bestesellers
, here turns his keen eye to the beloved city he's been visiting for 30 years: Havana, Cuba. In this adoring travelogue/history, Kurlansky shares personal stories and offers details about the 500-year-old Caribbean city's past and present, people, culture, sports, and music, as well as its appearances in art and literature (yes, Hemingway is discussed).
Havana is a complex place, and if you want a talented guide to help you understand this elegant yet downtrodden city, pick up
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When people think about what makes up the United States, they probably think of the 50 states -- but there are other places that are often forgotten (if people know about them at all). Tracing the author's visits to some far-flung U.S. territories, including the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Northern Mariana Islands, this informative, amusing book provides a fascinating look at each place, its role in history, the people who live there, and their ideas about statehood. If you think you know the United States but can't locate the territories on a map, pick this up -- after all, they are part of the country, too!
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Summary and Keywords
The German sinologist and general linguist Georg von der Gabelentz (1840–1893) occupies an interesting place at the intersection of several streams of linguistic scholarship at the end of the 19th century. As Professor of East Asian languages at the University of Leipzig from 1878 to 1889 and then Professor for Sinology and General Linguistics at the University of Berlin from 1889 until his death, Gabelentz was present at some of the main centers of linguistics at the time. He was, however, generally critical of mainstream historical-comparative linguistics as propagated by the neogrammarians, and instead emphasized approaches to language inspired by a line of researchers including Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835), H. Steinthal (1823–1899), and his own father, Hans Conon von der Gabelentz (1807–1874).
Today Gabelentz is chiefly remembered for several theoretical and methodological innovations which continue to play a role in linguistics. Most significant among these are his contributions to cross-linguistic syntactic comparison and typology, grammar-writing, and grammaticalization. His earliest linguistic work emphasized the importance of syntax as a core part of grammar and sought to establish a framework for the cross-linguistic description of word order, as had already been attempted for morphology by other scholars. The importance he attached to syntax was motivated by his engagement with Classical Chinese, a language almost devoid of morphology and highly reliant on syntax. In describing this language in his 1881 Chinesische Grammatik, Gabelentz elaborated and implemented the complementary "analytic" and "synthetic" systems of grammar, an approach to grammar-writing that continues to serve as a point of reference up to the present day. In his summary of contemporary thought on the nature of grammatical change in language, he became one of the first linguists to formulate the principles of grammaticalization in essentially the form that this phenomenon is studied today, although he did not use the current term. One key term of modern linguistics that he did employ, however, is "typology," a term that he in fact coined. Gabelentz's typology was a development on various contemporary strands of thought, including his own comparative syntax, and is widely acknowledged as a direct precursor of the present-day field.
Gabelentz is a significant transitional figure from the 19th to the 20th century. On the one hand, his work seems very modern. Beyond his contributions to grammaticalization avant la lettre and his christening of typology, his conception of language prefigures the structuralist revolution of the early 20th century in important respects. On the other hand, he continues to entertain several preoccupations of the 19th century—in particular the judgment of the relative value of different languages—which were progressively banished from linguistics in the first decades of the 20th century.
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Is there a bigger misnomer in the league than the Minnesota Wild? I mean, there are some odd, nonsensical team names like the Penguins or Ducks (seriously – what's with naming hockey teams after soft, defenseless birds?) but I think "the Wild" is the only completely ironic one of the bunch.
Aside from the very Sasquatch-like Derek Boogaard, there is nothing (and has never been anything) Wild about the Minnesota Wild. They are, in fact, antiseptically un-wild. They are the anti-Wild. The flip. The inverse. The negative. A pocket protector would be a more appropriate symbol for this club I think. A t-square or graphing calculator. Scaled blueprints. Stereo instructions.
This is not necessarily an indictment of their play or style. Part of me admires the fact that Lemaire can keep such a rigid hold over his players. There's something to be said for a coach whose teams always limit scoring chances against while taking so few penalties. On a purely theoretical level, that is to be admired surely.
But if Risebrough insists on keeping Lemaire around and furnishing him with a team full of pluggers, then a name change is in order. The Minnesota bland. The Twin City accountants. Perhaps "the Trappers" would be the shortest bridge between their current monichar and a new, more appropriate one, yes?
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The Return to a Global Economy
If we want to understand the current advance of global capitalism, it is worth remembering that a liberal international economic order has actually arisen twice, both at the end of the nineteenth century and now, at the end of the twentieth. 1 In many ways, the world economy has simply caught up to where it was 100 years ago, prompting prominent economists to question whether the level of international integration is as high now as it was before the interruptions of two world wars and the Great Depression.
In a recent study, economists Michael Bordo, Barry Eichengreen, and Douglas Irwin ask whether globalization today is really different from globalization a century ago. 2 Answering that question can help us determine whether we are living in unprecedented times, whether the nation‐state is becoming obsolete, and whether the new liberal international economic order promises to endure. Indeed, as various observers have noted, the mere fact that the first episode of global capitalism met such a cataclysmic end should force us to reflect on the current features of commercial, financial, and labor integration.
One area in which the world is decidedly less liberal than it was under the Pax Britannica is that of immigration. Although technological advances have made travel far more affordable and convenient than in the nineteenth century when restrictions on immigration were minimal or nonexistent, today hardly a country in the world–certainly not a rich country–does not have an array of labor and immigration regulations. As economist Deepak Lal convincingly explains, such restrictions on the movement of people exist today because citizenship concedes rights to the services provided by the welfare state. 3 Yet even as the welfare state has grown, so have migration flows. From 1965 to 1990, the foreign‐born population rose from 75 million people to 120 million–with flows from poor to rich countries accelerating the most. The number of people emigrating to the United States has grown about ten times since 1945, for example, but as a percentage of the U.S. population immigration still represents only about one‐third of its peak at the turn of the century.4
By contrast world merchandise trade reached its 1913 level by the 1970s.5 Global exports as a percentage of global output stood at about 12 percent in the early 1970s and has since risen to about 18 percent. U.S. exports as a share of the country's economy are only slightly higher today at 8 percent than they were in the late nineteenth century. Including trade in services, however, the U.S. export figure rises to about 11 percent. Indeed, the rise of trade in services such as tourism, finance, insurance, and technical assistance has become far more pronounced today than it was previously. Thus taking into account world exports of both goods and services, global exports rise to about 23 percent of world output today. 6
Two other features distinguish commerce in the new liberal international economic order: the rise of the multinational corporation and the change in the composition of trade. Much trade today involves corporations "slicing up the value chain" and engaging in intra‐industry trade. As a result, manufactured goods are increasingly exported from developing countries to developed countries. That contrasts sharply with the nineteenth century experience when countries on the periphery exported primary goods to rich countries, which exported manufactured goods made primarily in the center countries to the periphery. Bordo and his coauthors note, for example, that 80 percent of U.S. imports from Mexico are manufactured products while 100 years ago that figure was only 10 percent. And although U.S. exports of goods have not increased dramatically as a share of its economy, a much higher percentage of the production of the United States' tradable goods is now exported. 7
Financial Integration
Is the world more financially integrated than it was in the past? A look at net capital flows suggests that the answer is no. The outflow of capital from Great Britain reached 9 percent of its GDP during the Victorian era with similar figures in Germany, France, and the Netherlands. No country today even comes close to those levels of net flows. In the 1990s, the average capital outflow for leading economies was slightly above 2 percent of GDP. 8
Other differences in capital market integration suggest that the world is indeed more globalized than ever. Gross flows of capital, at about $1.5 trillion per day are much larger than at any time in history, and much of that money represents short‐term investment. Investors can today react at a moment's notice to economic and political developments around the world in a market that offers a wide and growing range of international financial instruments. Investors, moreover, are almost equally putting their funds into equity instruments as into debt instruments, which predominated 100 years ago. At that time, international finance concentrated on funding certain sectors, principally railroads and government bonds. 9 Today, with more rapid and perhaps more reliable information about investment opportunities, international funds flow into virtually every sector of countries' economies. In short, although net capital flows are not as large as those of the nineteenth century, gross flows are unprecedented in size, as are the extent and sophistication of capital markets, suggesting that financial integration is greater today than in the first episode of world capitalism.
The Role of Technology and Politics
Has globalization come about because of political or because of technological change? Here again, Bordo and others suggest important differences between the two episodes of world capitalism. During the last century, technological changes clearly led to globalization. By the 1860s the political bases for a liberal international economic order were already in place. Great Britain repealed the Corn Laws and established its presence in China in the 1840s; it conquered India by 1857, and, with France, defeated Russia in the Crimean War by 1856. Contemporaneous and subsequent advances in technology led to a 40 to 50 percent drop in the cost of shipping in the latter part of the nineteenth century and early part of the twentieth. The transatlantic cable was laid in the 1860s; use of railroads and the telegraph proliferated; the Suez Canal was completed in 1869; and the radio telephone linked Europe and North America by 1900. Those and other innovations led to the first rise of world capitalism.
Globalization today has benefited from technological improvements but has been almost entirely due to dramatic political changes. Countries around the world have lowered their trade barriers and opened their economies since the 1980s and especially so since the fall of the Berlin Wall. (That actually contrasts with the nineteenth century experience as nations were actually raising tariffs incrementally as the century wore on.) New technology such as air transport may have helped propel today's globalization, but the role of such change in leading to globalization should not be overstated. On the other hand, technology in the information age may make it more difficult for politicians to reverse the course of world capitalism.
Although globalization is often said to create inequality and economic volatility, historical evidence points, in fact, to economic convergence in living standards among countries that open their economies. Studies have shown tendencies to converge among countries in the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, among U.S. states, and among Japanese prefectures. 10 Significantly, economist Jeffrey Williamson found a decreasing gap in living standards among people living in countries participating in the international economy during both periods of global capitalism. "History offers an unambiguous positive correlation between globalization and convergence. When the pre‐World War I years are examined in detail," Williamson adds, "the correlation turns out to be causal: globalization played the critical role in contributing to convergence." 11
The Financial System
The incidence of financial crises in Asia, Russia, and elsewhere in recent years has also often been treated as novel and as a consequence of globalization. Yet economists have examined the causes of the recent economic turmoil and have formed a consensus that the causes included pegged‐exchange rates, government‐directed credit, protected financial systems, moral hazard at the national and international level, and the lack of transparency in official accounts. Despite that consensus, the crises are used by critics of globalization to advocate moving away from a more market‐based system and toward more interventionism. Thus India is cited as having followed more prudent policies than its East Asian neighbors since its more closed system allowed it to avoid succumbing to the regional financial crisis. The price it has paid for stability, of course, has been enduring poverty. By contrast, Hong Kong has had a volatile economic history but has become one of the wealthiest places on earth. Indeed, even after the financial turmoil, East Asian crisis countries are still eight to 15 times richer than India.
Financial crises also occurred in the first era of world capitalism. One common feature between the two eras is that banking and currency crises occurring at the same time tend to be more common in the periphery, or less‐developed, countries than in the rich countries, where currency but not banking crises are more common. However, under the gold standard of the Victorian age, crises were resolved differently from how they are resolved under the current system of adjustable exchange rates based on fiat money.
One significant difference was that financial rescues 100 years ago were undertaken by the private sector, while today they are official, usually led by the International Monetary Fund. British Foreign Secretary Lord Palmerston summed up the attitude that prevailed for the rest of the century when U.S. states defaulted in the 1840s: "British subjects who buy foreign securities do so at their own risk and must abide the consequences." 12 Largely as a result of that approach, economic recovery was more rapid in crisis countries than it is today and crisis countries then did not experience wealth losses as large as those experienced by crisis countries today. 13
Liberalism from above or Liberalism from below?
The distinct institutional framework under which liberalization is taking place worldwide—including the prominence of supranational governmental organizations like the IMF, the World Bank, the World Trade Organization, and the United Nations, and the prominence of welfare and regulatory states—causes both enemies and proponents of globalization to attribute the market revolution to the efforts of those institutions, and to recommend that further developments be managed by international world bodies.
Yet the evidence indicates that such international organizations have at best been marginal to the globalization process and at worst have caused disruptions or delays along the way. Decades of World Bank and IMF lending to inward‐looking regimes, for example, have certainly slowed the move to world capitalism. 14 Yet countries have unilaterally undertaken economic restructuring, trade and capital account liberalization, and other policy reforms as past policies failed. That is even so of countries that have entered into multilateral free‐trade agreements, like Mexico, which reduced its trade barriers for years before proposing the North American Free Trade Agreement. China, in its bid to join the WTO, is following the same course. Thus while aid agencies are likely to cause more harm than good in the globalization process (lending to Russia, for example), free‐trade agreements such as the WTO are likely to be helpful. However, they serve more to preserve trade liberalization reforms than to promote them. 15
In short, the world economy has evolved as a result of changes coming from the national level rather than changes directed at the international level—what German liberal Wilhelm Röpke called an international order "from within and beneath" rather than the "false internationalism" that characterizes supranational organizations. The danger of the constructivist approach to achieving a liberal economic world order is that it may lead to discretionary and arbitrary use of power. Razeen Sally of the London School of Economics describes those hazards.
Neoliberal institutionalists do not portray international policy coordination in the frame of limiting general rules at the international level that proscribe discretionary government action; rather, they think of it as an apparatus of complicated negotiations on particularistic policies intended to achieve specific results. This is the hallmark not of limited government under the Rule of Law, but of unlimited and discretionary government in an international public policy cartel, avoiding both domestic political accountability and market disciplines. In this context, international regimes are manifestations of government failure transplanted to the international level. Intergovernmental cooperation and international agreements, far removed from public scrutiny and the control of national legislatures and judiciaries, supply extra room for arbitrary activity by politicians and bureaucrats. They exacerbate the malaise of Big Government and political markets within nation‐states. 16
We have already seen some of that dynamic at work. For example, through international forums, rich countries have pressured poor countries to adopt labor and environmental regulations that did not exist in rich countries at a similar stage in their development. Those impositions have come about against the wishes of developing countries and the vast majority of consumers in rich countries.
Examples of arbitrariness and lack of transparency are amply provided by the IMF. For instance, the Fund does not tolerate the current account deficits of its member countries exceeding 4 or 5 percent of GDP even though large deficits are beneficial in many cases. Indeed, Australia, Canada, and Argentina had current account deficits greater than 10 percent for decades before 1913. The process by which the IMF decides the bailout amounts nations receive is also unclear. Why did the IMF put together a $57 billion rescue package for Korea as opposed to, say, a $30 billion package? We may never know the criteria or the rationales used in that case or many others.
In the end, globalization may make such international bureaucracies irrelevant. And efforts to promote international liberalism from above may prove futile. In the meanwhile, we can come to some tentative conclusions. The world has seen global capitalism before; what is unprecedented is not globalization per se, but the extent to which the world is more globalized today than it was 100 years ago. That is especially so in terms of trade and finance. Moreover, no matter how much international agencies would like to take credit for the worldwide market revolution, those changes have emerged at the national level and have not been imposed from above. In that sense, the nation‐state remains quite relevant. But a backlash against global liberalism is in fact more likely to occur if international agencies increasingly manage the world economy to the detriment of what poor countries consider most important, namely, economic growth.
Happily, one of the biggest differences between the two periods of world capitalism—the ideological environment—portends well for the 21st century. At the end of the nineteenth century, the wave of the future was socialism and its variants, which intellectuals considered held great promise for humanity. That belief system helped destroy the first era of globalization. Today, with socialism thoroughly discredited, basic liberal principles are generally accepted. That current climate of opinion does not make continued globalization inevitable, but it removes a major obstacle on the path toward prosperity that the world has recently resumed.
1. Jeffrey Sachs and Andrew Warner, "Economic Reform and the Process of Global Integration," Development Discussion Paper no. 552, Harvard Institute of International Development, September 1996, p. 5.
2. Michael D. Bordo, Barry Eichengreen, and Douglas Irwin, "Is Globalization Today Really Different than Globalization a Hundred Years Ago?" in Brookings Trade Forum 1999, ed. Susan M. Collins and Robert Z. Lawrence (Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 1999), pp. 1–72.
3. Deepak Lal, "The Challenge of Globalization: There Is No Third Way," in Global Fortune: The Stumble and Rise of World Capitalism, ed. Ian Vásquez (Washington: Cato Institute, 2000), p. 29.
4. Julian L. Simon, The Economic Consequences of Immigration (Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, 1999), p. 28.
5. Paul Krugman, "Growing World Trade: Causes and Consequences," Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, vol. 1, 1995, p. 331 and International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook (Washington: IMF, May 1997), p. 112.
6. Economic Report of the President (Washington: Government Printing Office, 2000), pp. 306–7, 422 and International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook (Washington: IMF, May 2000), pp. 203, 232.
7. Bordo et al.
8. World Economic Outlook, May 1997, p. 114.
9. Bordo et al.
10. Sachs and Warner, p. 39 and Kevin H. O'Rourke and Jeffrey G. Williamson, Globalization And History: The Evolution of a Nineteenth‐Century Atlantic Economy (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1999).
11. Jeffrey G. Williamson, "Globalization, Convergence, and History," Journal of Economic History, June 1996, p. 277.
12. Cited in Harold L. Cole, James Dow, and William B. English, "Default, Settlement, and Signalling: Lending Resumption In A Reputational Model of Sovereign Debt," International Economic Review, May 1995, p. 369.
13. Bordo, et al., and Michael Bordo and Anna J. Schwartz, "Measuring Real Economic Effects of Bailouts: Historical Perspectives on How Countries in Financial Distress Have Fared With and Without Bailouts," paper presented at the Carnegie Rochester Conference on Public Policy, November 19–20, 1999.
14. See Doug Bandow and Ian Vásquez, eds., Perpetuating Poverty: The World Bank, the IMF, and the Developing World (Washington: Cato Institute, 1994).
15. Brink Lindsey, "Free Trade From the Bottom Up," Cato Journal 19, no. 3 (Winter 2000): 363.
16. Razeen Sally, Classical Liberalism and International Economic Order: Studies in Theory and Intellectual History (London: Routledge, 1998), pp. 196–97.


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Women's Murder Club is a police procedural drama on ABC based on the James Patterson books. It features a series of women who work together to solve cases. Lindsay Boxer is a Detective Inspector in the San Fransisco PD. Jill Bernhardt is the ADA. Claire Washburn is the medical examiner. Cindy Thomas is a reporter that works with them on police cases.
I haven't read the James Patterson books, but the title is pretty lame. I mean, come on. Women's murder club? WTF! Basically the main characters are all in one aspect of law enforcement, from the police, to the coroner to the DA's office. A new member of the club is part of the media.
When I think of the title of this show, I think about a bunch of women drinking tea and investigating a murder. None of them would be involved in law enforcement, they'd just be interested in murders and solving them, kind of like a babysitter club. OK, maybe not a babysitter club, but you get the idea.


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Tokyo train conductors are always warning riders not to run for trains. Nobody ever said anything about running in trains. Japanese sporting goods maker Asics has "train jacked" a train on the Yamanote loop line, with a 200-meter track running through all 11 cars of the train. How to spot it? Keep an eye out for the train that has photos of Japanese Olympic runner Chisato Fukushima running along the outside.
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Star of Eärendil
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|Star of Eärendil
|"Eärendil and Elwing" by Roger Garland
|Other names
|Gil-Estel (S)
Azrubêl (A)
|Circling the heavens
|Radiant star in the heavens
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|Defeating Ancalagon
The Star of Eärendil was the shining light of the Silmaril that was rescued from Angband by Beren and Lúthien, which their descendant Elwing later gave to Eärendil to be carried into the skies aboard his vessel Vingilot. As it first rose in the West, it was recognised by the Elf-lord Maedhros as the jewel of his father that he had sought for so long, now placed out of his reach beyond the Circles of the World.
It was Eärendil and the light of his star that led the Edain to Númenor in the early Second Age, and at that time the light of the Star was so brilliant that it hid all the other stars in the sky. From its guiding light came the Númenóreans' name for their land, Elenna, meaning "Starwards".
The light of Eärendil's Star played a crucial role much later in history as well. It was light from this star that was gathered in Frodo's phial, his gift from Galadriel, which helped him survive his journey into Mordor. Even today the star still shines — the story of Eärendil and his Silmaril was the Elvish account of the "star" we know today as the planet Venus.
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|Alcarinquë · Borgil · Carnil · Elemmírë · Helluin · Luinil · Lumbar · Morwinyon · Nénar · Star of Eärendil · Til
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|Arien · Moon (Isil, Ithil, Rána) · Sun (Anar, Anor, Vása) · Tilion
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Maulana Wahiduddin Khan is an Islamic spiritual scholar who has adopted peace as the mission of his life. Known for his Gandhian views, he considers non-violence as the only method to achieve success.
CPS International, the Centre for Peace and Spirituality, as is apparent from its name, is an organization, which aims to promote and reinforce the culture of peace through mind-based spirituality.
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Talk every Sunday (Urdu) 10.30 am IST : Facebook LIVE YouTube Channel
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Books Maulana Wahiduddin Khan has made it his mission to present Islamic teachings in the style and language of the post-scientific era. Rediscovering Islam himself from its original sources, he has authored over 200 books on Islam.
CPS Founder Maulana Wahiduddin Khan delivered a talk on 'Islam and the Modern Age' at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, 17 August 2016. The Chief Guest on the occasion...
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CPS is the place where I was introduced to my Creator, where I got to know about the purpose of my life, why I was born and what will happen to me when I will die. It has changed my life and made me a positive person. Navdeep Kapur
Spirit of Islam is a magazine for the discerning individual, who stops to contemplate the myriad multitude of choices available, before deciding on a course of action. It aims at helping individuals discover answers to questions on life.
To give full expression to positive ideas, Maulana Wahiduddin Khan established the Islamic Centre at New Delhi in 1970. Subsequently, in 1976, he launched the voice of the mission, Al-Risala – the monthly magazine.


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The Cubs continue to wind down the spring today as they face the Diamondbacks in Scottsdale at 3:05 PM Central. Jay Jackson takes the ball today, while Jeff Samardzija tuned up for the regular season at Minor League camp. Here's how the Cubs will line up.
2B Barney
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Peugeot 308: France's New Volkswagen Golf Fighter
France cooks up one good-looking VW Golf competitor.
Our French dictionaries suggest otherwise, but trois-cent-huit may very well translate to "Golf." That's because the new Peugeot 308, which just debuted earlier today, is Peugeot's hope at competing against the new seventh-generation Volkswagen Golf range in Europe.
Aesthetically, the 308 is attractive, but doesn't stray far outside Peugeot's design boundaries. The 308 looks like a longer, wider, and more chiseled version of the B-segment 208 hatchback, which went on sale in Europe last year. Peugeot's latest corporate face looks perhaps a little more sultry on the 308, as its grille is wider and less vertical, and its headlamps - complete with de rigeur LED accents - are longer and more dramatic. Swage lines formed by the front fenders and door panels carry through to the end of the car, where they help form the concave tail lamp assemblies.
Inside, the dashboard is an oddly minimalist and geometric affair. Following in the footsteps of the 208, the 308's gauge cluster is placed high in the dashboard, which then sweeps down in an angular fashion to meet a 9.7-inch touchscreen display, set within a large, chromed, hexagonal recess. That display controls climate, audio, and infotainment systems, and also allows the 308 to ditch quite a few physical buttons, resulting in a center stack that boasts only five buttons, a volume knob, and a CD slot. It appears particular attention was paid to trim materials - on this particular car, we see a brushed metallic surround on the center console, chromed accents on the steering wheel, door pulls, and climate vents, and stitched leatherette
Beneath the flashy surface, the new Peugeot 308 rides upon the new EMP2 platform, which Peugeot's corporate partner Citroen will use for its next-generation C4 Picasso. Peugeot says the architecture boasts extensive use of light materials including high-strength steel and magnesium, allowing the new car to shed as much as -- ironically - 308 pounds, the 307.
Sadly, firm details on either the platform or the Peugeot 308's suite of engine options - described by press materials only as "a range of highly efficient petrol and diesel engines" -- are fleeting. Expect that to change come September, as the new Peugeot 308 will formally debut at the 2013 Frankfurt motor show.
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Wow, I am a slacker! All this teaching at school and working through some issues with my children has taken a huge toll on my creativity and blog time. I took these pictures back in October, and decided it was high time to get them uploaded.
My son, The Rock, was working on identifying key names at the time. Now, this child's favorite toys are cowboy and indian plastic figures. He will play for hours with those little plastic men, so I devised a way cool (in his mind) game for piano.
First, we started off with our men. The Rock decided to be the green army man, and placed his guy at the top of the top of the keyboard. I was assigned the blue cowboy, and my guy started out at the bottom of the keyboard.
Then, The Rock drew a card, and moved his man to the appropirate key. I did the same, and we kept going along like that. Our goal was to get our little man to the opposite end of the keyboard first.
My son, of course, won. Funny how I never seem to win a game. You'd think I stacked the deck, or "accidentally" let him have two turns in a row every now and again. Oh, well. 😉
You can make cards with the letter names easily enough, or you can use my Musical Alphabet Cards. You will want to pring up several sets of the cards for this game – I'd suggest at least 5. This game can be modified to include sharps and flats, tones of a particular scale, or whatever you can come up with. Have fun. My son and I sure did.
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Take Shelter
In Take Shelter, Michael Shannon (Boardwalk Empire) plays Curtis, a blue-collar man who works hard to take care of his loving wife and deaf daughter. This tranquil life is shattered when Curtis begins having disturbing dreams about a coming storm.
He writes off the dreams as nightmares, but as the days wear on, the dreams become more real and he becomes incapable of functioning. Confused by these apocalyptic visions, Curtis can't decide whether he's a modern-day prophet or experiencing the early onset of mental illness. With his job at risk, Curtis covers three bases, mortgaging the house, building up a storm shelter and seeing a psychologist at the free clinic.
The genius of films like Take Shelter is that they put you squarely on Curtis' side, even while you doubt his sanity. The film has such a pervasive sense of malaise that you almost hope disaster will strike, just so Curtis can be proven right. As well as a virtuoso performance from Shannon, I enjoyed director Jeff Nichols' (Shotgun Stories) brilliant use of small-budget effects.


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Paul Smith
Stephen Crainey Danny Higginbotham Calum Davenport Olivier Bernard
Ryan Smith David Prutton Nigel Quashie Lee Molyneux
Jonathan Forte Dany N'Guessan
The bad, the very bad, and the ugly.
Not a great team is it? What do they have in common? They are all master strokes by Saints in the fabled January transfer window. I challenge any club to come up with a worse lineup from January signings than that?
If you look at our entire signing history since the January window came about, it is ridiculously unimpressive.
Danny Higgenbotham, David Prutton.
Paul Smith, Stephen Crainey.
Nigel Quashie, Jamie Redknapp, Olivier Bernard, Calum Davenport.
Bartosz Bialkowski, Alexander Ostlund, Jim Brennan.
Lee Molyneux, Ryan Smith.
Jose Fonte, John Otsemobor, Dan Seaborne, Lee Barnard
Jonathan Forte, Richard Chaplow, Dany N'Guessan
Tadanari Lee, Billy Sharp
There are some clear exceptions, Jose Fonte, Dan Seaborne, Lee Barnard, Richard Chaplow and Billy Sharp have all made big contributions, and Tadanari Lee hasn't had much of a chance to show us what he's got, but when John Otsemobor isn't making that eleven it shows just how poor it is.
January is the time when managers might panic buy, and looking at some of those names (Anyone seen a worse professional defender than Calum Davenport?) that must have been the case.
Undoubtedly we will strengthen again this season (though Nigel Adkins has surprised a few by saying there won't be another keeper coming in), but let's hope they are more the calibre of the last few seasons than the early 00's!
More Jose Fonte's, less Olivier Bernard's please.
The players brought in in the summer look to have been pretty solid so far, so let's hope the transfer policy continues in the same vein over the next 30 days. You can make or break your season with the acquisitions you make in this window. More quality needs to come in, but not at the expense of the team spirit and unity. Not an easy job.
No doubt we are in for some of the usual bonkers rumours, but we should remember to be patient.
p.s. If this hasn't depressed you enough, have a butchers at the players that have LEFT us in January transfer windows….. Chris Marsden, Antti Niemi, James Beattie, Theo Walcott…


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Sergeant Stephen Krueger writes from Iraq to Speaker Pelosi with a message that bears on our post "To our readers in Iraq." Sergeant Krueger writes:
How can you even think of pushing forward legislation to set a withdrawal date for US forces from Iraq? Do you know how much you embolden the insurgency here in Iraq? YOU ARE JEAPARDIZING THE LIVES OF US SERVICEMEN AND WOMEN WITH YOUR ACTIONS. You and your fellow Democrats are causing the Al Qaeda supported insurgency to use more catastrophic attacks against us and Iraqi forces. You will see more SVBIED's with chlorine gas, more VBIED's against civilians and security forces every time you and other Democrats open your mouths. You will have to live with yourself and try to sleep at night knowing all the defeatist propaganda you have spewed forth is nothing more than ammunition for Islamic extremist groups around the world and more US deaths. The unsuspecting people who support you know nothing of what goes on over here; you fill their heads with nonsense and talk of pullout to appease them. The only thing that will happen is the establishment of an extremist Islamic state where sharia law is the law of the land and no one is safe.
Sunni Moslems here are coming to our side and joining forces with the government to defeat Al Qaeda(AQI) here in Iraq, but they need our help and they need us to stay. I have spent the last 7 months(3rd tour) in Iraq. I have watched Iraqi citizens pick up weapons and form militias in areas to join forces with Iraqi police/Army. Common citizens who fight and die because we are standing next to them. Not cutting and running or talking of withdrawal. This started after the surge forces the President sent here arrived. We have lost Marines also and it hurts more than you will ever know but we have made a commitment to these people. And I for one will not abandon them and I have of a platoon of Marines who feel the same. I have no control over what happened in 2003 and why we invaded Iraq. That is another discussion, but we are here and they need our help to rid their country of these terrorists. Yes eventually we will leave but we need to do a phased withdrawal without a timeline. At least without a timeline that is published for the world to know. The citizens of Iraq need to see some solidarity in our government, Democrats and Republicans coming together and supporting our President in this war. There is a middle ground here for both parties, you all need to come together and work towards a solution. What we don't need is more theatrics and clashes between the parties. AQI loves to see that it causes them to do more attacks and continue with the murder and intimidation campaign against Iraqi citizens.
Someone needs to step forward and bring the two parties together. Meet and talk about what you all can do and come to an agreement on the war. Like I said before we need a unified front to present to the world on the Iraq war. The Iraqi people need a morale boost, they need to see we are behind them and we will support them and not cut and run. The insurgency needs to see our resolve is strong and we will endure and defeat them. Extremist Islamist terror groups use our perceived weakness against us. They misunderstand our kindness for weakness. Weakness shown to the world brings more recruits to their cause; it causes more civilian deaths and violence.
Please I implore you to not push this agenda. I have watched you on television and you seem to be using this as a steppingstone to further your political career. STOP!!! More is at stake here. Our countries word is on the line, my word to many Iraqi citizens is on the line. Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines lives are at stake. We know the risks and we face them daily. Don't make our mission more difficult.
Gunnery Sgt. Stephen F. Krueger
Platoon Sgt 3rd Recon Bn
It is indeed a sad moment in American history when those who are putting their lives on the line every day have to plead for political responsibility on the home front. Thanks to Bill Bennett's Morning in America producer Seth Leibsohn for forwarding the message to us.
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I have a live class tonight on Live with Prima! I am making this Paper Crown with lots of blingage, flowers and more! These are super fun to make and I can't wait to share it with everyone on the show.
The show will air tonight at 6:30pm PT/ 9:30pm ET and 1:30pm Sydney on 12/30 since they are a day ahead....
And all of the shows are recorded, so if you can't make it to the live broadcast, you can view it later when you have the chance.
Here is the link to the class on Ustream and this is also where you can see the recordings: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/primaflower
Hope to see you there!
xoxo Cari


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Are small businesses benefiting from increased credit availability?
The ability of small businesses to borrow money is key to economic growth, particularly in manufacturing and engineering. Government plans are in place to increase lending to businesses, but it is being questioned whether greater credit availability is actually allowing companies to borrow more.
In early 2011 David Cameron announced Project Merlin, an agreement between the Government and the UK's four biggest banks that committed them to make more credit available in 2011, particularly to small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
This first target seems to have been reached, with David Cameron using his speech to the Confederation of British Industry in November to announce that '£157bn has been lent in the first three quarters of this year, 11% more than expected.'
However, whether this money has reached SMEs and benefitted the UK economy is a different matter. The Prime Minister added in his speech that 'lending to small and medium businesses is up 10% on last year' but there is debate about whether credit is being lent at a rate small businesses can afford.
The figures used by the Prime Minister represent gross lending facility, rather than actual gross lending, essentially the money banks have made available, not the amount they have actually lent. For example the figures include overdraft offers made to businesses, whether they have been used fully or not.
The numbers also hide the cost of borrowing according to Lee Hopley, chief economist at EFF, the Manufacturers' Organisation. In a statement to the Treasury Select Committee he said that Project Merlin had 'only tackled the availability of credit, and not dealt with the prohibitively high price of this credit for businesses.'
Andrew Cave of the Federation of Small Businesses told the committee that the increased availability of credit has not benefitted SMEs. 'A significant number of businesses turned away for finance felt that they were now at a competitive disadvantage' he said, adding that 'These businesses were often successful and were actively looking to grow.'
So while the Government's efforts to increase lending to small businesses seem to have made more credit available, organisations representing SMEs feel that lending conditions are still unfavourable. The Manufacturers' Organisation said, 'a market-driven solution for the availability of credit is required as quickly as possible, and alternatives to bank-lending need to be explored.'
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At first, we would like to apologize for the lengthy pause with the blog updates. Kimmo has been very busy showing our new programmers the game code and we are getting good results. If some of you remember, we used to talk a lot about merging the code base with the SD and HD versions (iPod/iPhone & iPad) back in the day. The new release will finally get the HD version of Minigore up to date. It's been a long time coming and I'm sure many of iPad owners can appreciate this! To clarify, this means every new update we do, will update both SD & HD versions simultaneously!
The newest build has been beta tested and is almost ready for submission.
The new version includes:
-Elder Gore AI partner: Grandma is helping Grandpa out
-Penguin Mob: new squad-based gameplay!
-Emperor Penguin: this bird is tough as nails
-3 more Encyclopedia pages
For the HD version it means the following features in addition to the aforementioned:
Undead Jenny, White Gangster Gore, totems, kills instead of "score", kill multipliers, encyclopedia, hearts as health indicators, all kinds of optimizations, remade snow level, Elder Gores and of course wifi co-op multiplayer! The multiplayer works even between an iPhone and iPad :)
Also, if you haven't seen the Death Rally trailer yet, check it out! It's coming next month and it's looking even better than in this video!


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After an amazing time on the Edge of Algonquin Park in Ontario, we've begun to unpack a lot of things... the most important of which, aren't things, but ideas. The concept map below was drawn by Giulia Forsythe, one of the small group facilitators at this year's event. The sketch reflects the many takeaways identified by participants at our final large group circle at UnPlugd12.
Incidentally, this is not the only awesome image Giulia has created. Beyond her unique ability to represent ideas in doodles, she is also an avid photographer. In fact, one of the images she captured from UnPlug'd 2011 was used as the basis of the postcards being shared by this year's participants. You can imagine my chagrine when I learned that I failed to attribute this photo when creating the postcards. I'll make it up to you somehow Giulia. :)
These images and many other wonderful images by Giulia Forsythe are licensed for use through Creative Commons.


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Howdy there; you're probably here to figure out how to get the Directed Edge recommendations engine plugged into your website. Usually the best place to start is with the API Concepts and to work your way forward from there, but the brave at heart can jump straight to the tutorial or language bindings.
There's a pretty big pile of information here, but don't let it intimidate you. Most web developers that already know a wee bit about databases can get up and going with our system a couple of hours. (And we're working on making it even easier.)
General Information
- Introduction to Recommendations - an introduction to how recommendations work and how they're used in e-commerce.
Web Services API
- API Concepts - General info about how things are stored in the Directed Edge graph database
- XML Format - Documentation for the XML format used with the REST API
- REST API - Documentation of the methods used for communicating with our servers
Web Services Examples
- Web Services Examples - A collection of examples of working with the API using curl
Ruby Bindings
Our Ruby bindings make it possible to ignore all of the business with XML and REST APIs just deal with a good old fashion Ruby classes. It's still probably useful to give a read to API Concepts so that you have an idea of what the classes in the Ruby API correspond to.
- Ruby Bindings on Github
- RDoc API Documentation
- Ruby Bindings for E-Commerce Tutorial - Walk-through and sample implementation for plugging our engine into an online store
Getting the most out of the recommendations on your site
We've got a handful of site-specific parameters that we can tune on our side to shape the recommendations to fit your needs. Want more popular items to show up in the recommendations? Can do. Got a trendy site where people want to discover the latest and greatest that their friends don't know about yet? Again, we're there for you.
At the moment these parameters aren't adjustable by site administrators themselves (but that's in the pipe), but it just takes us a few seconds to tweak things to your whim.
Feel free to drop us a mail if you've got questions on the API or if there's some content that you'd really like to see here.


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51 Supper Club event… photos and newspaper coverage.
Danielle Trembler, Lori Page, Michele Lacovic, Amy Byer Shainman, Jennifer Moreira, Dawn Mazur and Amy Mawhorr.
51 Supper Club at Downtown in the Gardens hosted a fundraiser for FORCE, the only national nonprofit organization devoted to hereditary breast and ovarian cancer. Their mission includes support, education, advocacy, awareness, and research specific to those cancers. Their programs serve anyone with a BRCA mutation or a family history of cancer. More than one million people in the United States carry a BRCA gene mutation or other hereditary factor that puts them at high risk for cancer. Families with inherited mutations have the highest known cancer risks. This community has a critical need for research to develop better treatment, detection, and prevention options. FORCE has created the Hereditary Cancer Research Fund to address this critical need.
As the voice of hereditary cancer, FORCE has unmatched insight into the unmet needs and research priorities of our community. Our input can shape studies of detection, prevention, and treatment of hereditary cancers not addressed by sporadic cancer research.
Report and Photos by Penny Sheltz