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April first was supposed to be the day that Conficker wreaked widespread havoc, but the absence of said havoc doesn't mean that we've seen the end of the problems. Last week, antivirus companies detected that an updated version of the software was being distributed. Over the course of the weekend, the new software got to work, as infected machines began to send out spam and run fake antivirus software which attempts to convince users to pay for its "services." Meanwhile, a teenager in Brooklyn, New York, has been playing cat and mouse with the folks behind the Twitter service, using its handling of malformed URLs and a bit of Javascript to send a mix of spam and taunting messages from random users' accounts.
First, Conficker. According to researchers at Kaspersky Lab, the code that was distributed to the Conficker.c variant performed significant updates to the software that resides on compromised machines. From here on out, until the latest version expires in early May, Conficker will be able to spread as a worm. It's also bringing aboard a new bit of malware, termed Waledac, which can both send spam and harvest personal information. One machine tracked by Kaspersky quickly sent out over 40,000 spam messages in a 12 hour period. If all infected machines were as efficient as this one, the full network is estimated to be able to send out 400 billion spam e-mails in a single day.
Not satisfied with letting its handlers haul in income via spam, Conficker also downloads and launches a fake antivirus app, Spyware Protect 2009. As is typical with this sort of scam, the antivirus program claims to identify multiple problematic files and offers to remove them for the convenient fee of $49.95—credit cards happily accepted. Kaspersky's antivirus blog has pictures of this scamware in action.
To an extent, after a period in which nobody was sure what Conficker might eventually be up to, knowing that the recently formed malware network is (for now, least) little beyond ordinary for-profit malware is probably a bit of a relief. Still, that doesn't mean that the software is completely harmless; the Associated Press is reporting that the University of Utah computer network has been infested, including some machines at its associated hospitals. Although the University says that patient records weren't compromised, the information-harvesting capabilities of the new software puts a premium on eradicating quickly.
Spamming Twitter
As Conficker has evolved from a vague threat to a spam production factory, a Brooklyn, NY based teenager appeared to be taking the opposite tack in his one-man malware campaign against Twitter. On Saturday, messages started appearing that sang the praises of StalkDaily, suggesting it's like Twitter on steroids. Any users that happened to visit the site's home page or browse the profile of the person who sent the tweet would soon find their own account sending out similar messages.
The script itself resides at a site called mikeyylolz.uuuq.com. A news site called BNO news claims that it tracked down one Mikeyy Mooney, a 17 year old who runs StalkDaily. According to Mooney, he crafted the script "out of boredom," intrigued by the prospect of doing something harmless that would make people aware of security holes. Apparently, the spam aspect was secondary. Twitter claims to have acted quickly to eliminate the risk, but it seems to have been very specific about how it crafted its fix. Hours after the spam assault ended, a new round of attacks that sent tweets about Mikeyy went through the system. These appear to use a nearly identical script, but it's hosted at a different site.
This isn't the first time Twitter users have been targeted by a form of malware, and it almost certainly won't be the last. Hopefully, the company will be a bit more thorough with its fixes in the future.


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Scotland Yard is hot on the tails of a handful of Rupert Murdoch's journalists. London-based reporters from the Mirror, Daily Star, and Sun were arrested, two for alleged illegal payments to officials, and one for an alleged criminal breach of privacy.
Being the veteran journo he is, Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson sounded off on the latest in the string of about 50 arrests, joking that he should commit burglary.
Here's his Facebook post:
Half the police are at the Olympics and the other half are busy arresting journalists. I may do some burglary.
Oh Clarkson, you are a card. Keep dazzling us with that wry wit.
There are already more than 300 comments on the post, which Clarkson put up this morning. There are a few begging him not to use James May as a getaway driver (he'd get lost), and a couple advising him not to use a Reliant Robin as a getaway car.
Sound advice.

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The number of vessels passing through the Suez Canal this past March increased by nearly eleven percent compared with the traffic volume during March of last year. While a total of 1088 vessels were recorded in March 2000, the figure rose to 1208 for the period of March 2001.
Of this total, 218 were oil tankers, constituting a rise of 27 percent from last year's 171 tankers passing trough the canal during the month of March. The number of general cargo vessels also increased, by three percent, from 917 in March 2000 to 946 in March 2001.
Revenue from the Suez canal stood at $152.4 million in March 2000, and rose to $162.2 million in March 2001, an increase of six percent, according to the Egyptian Monthly Bulletin.
The total revenues during the period of July 1999 to March 2000 amounted to $1.393 billion, while this figure rose to $1.465 billion over the same period the following year. This trend reflected a five percent increase in revenue.
The total number of non-oil vessels passing through the canal over the period of July 1999 through March 2000 stood at 8,567, and increased to 8,731 over the same period the following year. The number of oil transporting vessels also rose over the course of the year, from 1,595 to 2,034. — (MENA Report)
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Where Lisp Fails: at Turning People into Fungible Cogs.
A favorite conundrum of many Lisp aficionados is why the language appears to languish in disuse. Talk of cultural problems, "the library question" (which usually boils down to nonsensical circular reasoning), too many parentheses, and other absurdities simply dances around the blindingly obvious explanation – one which is able to make sense not only of the obscurity of Lisp, but of many other conceptual breakthroughs (such as reflectivity) which threaten to give developers' minds a "lever to move the whole world."
Employers much prefer that workers be fungible, rather than maximally productive.
Yes, this holds true even at that most beloved megacorporation citadel of angels:
"One of the reasons I stayed at JPL for twelve years was that I was appalled at what the software industry had become. The management world has tried to develop software engineering processes that allow people to be plugged into them like interchangeable components. The "interface specification" for these "components" usually involves a list of tools in which an engineer has received "training." (I really detest the use of the word "training" in relation to professional activities. Training is what you do to dogs. What you should be doing with people is educating them, not training them. There is a big, big difference.) To my mind, the hallmark of the interchangeable component model of software engineers is Java. Without going into too many details, I'll just say that having programmed in Lisp the shortcomings of Java are glaringly obvious, and programming in Java means a life of continual and unremitting pain. So I vowed I would never be a Java programmer, which pretty much shut me out of 90% of all software engineering jobs in the late 90's. This was OK since I was managing to put together a reasonably successful career as a researcher. But after Remote Agent I found myself more and more frustrated, and the opportunity to work at Google just happened to coincide with a local frustration maximum. One of the reasons I decided to go work for Google was that they were not using Java. So of course you can guess what my first assignment was: lead the inaugural Java development at the company… The interchangeable component model of software engineers seemed to work reasonably well there. It's just not a business model in which I wish to be involved, at least not on the component-provider side."
Erann Gat, "Lisping at JPL"
It amazes me just how blindly complacent programmers have been in the face of the ongoing and very successful deskilling of their profession. Instead of rebellion, we see mass Stockholm Syndrome. There is no shortage of pundits ready to bloviate at nauseating length on nearly every – even the most trifling – perceived shortcoming of Lisp [1], other than this one. Once in a very long while, some daring soul will call out the "elephant in the kitchen" openly and directly:
"…in contrast, the C/C++ approach is quite different. It's so damn hard to do anything with tweezers and glue that anything significant you do will be a real achievement. You want to document it. Also you're liable to need help in any C project of significant size; so you're liable to be social and work with others. You need to, just to get somewhere. And all that, from the point of view of an employer, is attractive. Ten people who communicate, document things properly and work together are preferable to one BBM hacking Lisp who can only be replaced by another BBM (if you can find one) in the not unlikely event that he will, at some time, go down without being rebootable."
Mark Tarver, "The Bipolar Lisp Programmer"
I predict that no tool of any kind which too greatly amplifies the productivity of an individual will ever be permitted to most developers. In this they shall follow in the maximally deskilled assembly-line footsteps of their grandparents. "They'll time your every breath." As for the "free software" world, it eagerly opposes industrial dogmas in rhetoric but not at all in practice. No concept shunned by cube farm hells has ever gained real traction among the amateur masses. [2]
[1] Ever wonder why it is customary to speak of the wildly different Common Lisp, Scheme, ZetaLisp, Emacs Lisp, etc. as though they were a single language? I would like to suggest that we start referring to C/C++, Java, Python, etc as ALGOL.
[2] Consider Linux: the poster child of successful free software. It is a knockoff of a 1970s operating system well past its sell-by date. This is because a herd simply cannot innovate, whether for fun or for profit. Every innovative work of mankind has been the product of one – sometimes two, rarely three – minds. And never the work of a herd. No mathematical theorem, no enjoyable novel, no work of art of any importance, have ever been produced by a herd. I fail to see why innovative software ought to play by a different set of rules.
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Oh, you are being sarcastic. Well played, sir.
As for the Lisp as an underused language, I think of it less as an active desire of employers for "fungible" workers versus "maximally productive ones" and more of a path dependency issue.
Think of it analogous to the QWERTY keyboard. The QWERTY keyboard, that you probably use, was specifically designed to slow down the typist at a typewriter so as not to jam the keys. Now we don't have to worry about the keyboard being jammed on a computer, but we still use the QWERTY keyboard, even though there are other layouts that exist. We do it partially bc of a path dependency and also bc now it's too hard to get a critical mass of people to make the switch.
A secondary point, not as important, but a mathematical theorem (The Density Hales-Jewett Theorem) has been produced by a herd. And Gowers, who initiated the effort, is a mathematician with significant cred, having received the Fields Medal in 1998 and now is a prof at Cambridge Univ pure maths dept.
That being said, it doesn't necessitate the rise of "herd" mathematics, but you overestimate the role of the individual genius by saying "Every innovative work of mankind has been the product of one – sometimes two, rarely three – minds." Sure, there were Einsteins, Edisons, Da Vincis, Beethovens, but Jobs and Gates collaborated. Look at the Manhattan Project. And who was responsible for the internet? (Other than Al Gore…;-P It's hard to really generalize to say what is more important. Jeff Koons art sells for millions and he is the name behind the art, yet he employs a workshop of 100 employees to actually paint for him.
lots of professionals share your pain and yet getting across that Lunix is a curse is met with incredulity and brands one as a crank. The original *creators* and *maintainers* of Unix called it dead 20 years ago and they just caused a ripple across the industry by releasing some Linux only software (Go) that doesn't even run on the OS they did after Unix (Plan9).
The entrenchment is depressing. One can see the corpses in the mud all around.
But the question always remains : when I build a new system, what tools should one use. If it has any success, I will need to hire colleagues so one has to decide how expensive those colleagues will be and how easy they are to find. Even though I'm a Plan9 developer "we should use Plan9 for this" is a very tricky suggestion to make. AFAIK there are only 5 other Plan9 programmers in my country, tops. It's not difficult to imagine the same problem in other niches such as Scheme / Lisp.
Should you NOT put in the second end note, this blog post would have been an enjoyable one. However, ho and below, you cannot restrain yourself from exposing your true nature, eh?
I am sick and tired of the "philosophy of ONE", about the whole thing of "ONLY ONE PERSON CAN DO THE JOB because [junk explanation goes here]". About how such and such people are "heroes/heroines" and the rest are lechers on their successes. *sign*
Isn't this why Lisp never succeeds? Because its people keep the stupidity that they somehow rule the world, and anyone who dare butting in their ways are nothing but junks and need to be swept away into the trash can? Yeah right. You know all, right? You can do anything, eh?
To tell you the truth, Lisp is just yet-another-product-well-passed-its-sell-by-date, to quote your remark on Linux. Think about it. Macros now is available in other systems as staged programming (or plain macros as in Perl 6). Memory management has long been copied over and over (if not done better). What's more, people in other languages also invent things that never get back to Lisp, like a sane, auto detected type system, or natural syntax. Sorry, but do you realize that S-expression is primary for the machine, not humans? Plus, people in other languages are way more humble than those LISPers, and they actually encourage cooperation, build up libraries for reusability, so that their languages can be used by everyone. Yeah, the programmers do not need to have super-human skills claimed by LISPers, but so what? You know, Assembler programmers once proclaimed that "real programmers do not use Pascal/Emacs/whatnots." See where they went.
Now, back to your remark, products of ones. Yeah, right. Like Shakespeare was the ONLY one who wrote his plays, right? He used no one else products, right? May you explain to me where English came from? Shakespeare? Yeah, right. His plays reuse patterns and stories that have become cliche even in his time (come on, how many stories about lovers prevented by their parents and committed suicide? Thousands? Millions? My little sister can write one without even thinking, you know). Just because he put them together, mix them up a bit, and signed his name on, they works somehow became "his", and no one else played any roles whatsoever.
Like Newton single-handedly invented Calculus, right? (never mind the whole generation of mathematicians who inspired him). Like von Neumann single-handedly invented the model, right? (oh, Turing machine? It's product of a sick creature and it played no role whatsoever. Mathematic foundation? oh, that's work of those petsy little nerds not worthy of mentioning). Like X invented Y, right? Never mind the cumulative works and experiences by his time that enable his work; nor should we mind people who guide him, inspire him, and help him out along the way. Only the person that the media say to invent the product invent it.
As if you are THAT different from what you accuse.
You need to explain what you mean by some of these things. You're dancing around a real argument, perhaps, but there's no substance behind any of these accusations. For example:
"Plus, people in other languages are way more humble than those LISPers,"
We are more humble than you, nya nya nya!
"and they actually encourage cooperation, build up libraries for reusability, so that their languages can be used by everyone."
Do other languages have more libraries-per-capita or libraries-per-line of code than Lisp? My experience has not been the same. In fact, due to Lisp's lack of mandatory encapsulation (e.g., "private/protected"), I've been able to use Lisp libraries in much more interesting way than the corresponding libraries in any other language.
"Yeah, the programmers do not need to have super-human skills claimed by LISPers, but so what?"
He never claimed "super-human skills" here. In fact, quite the opposite: if it was super-human skill that allowed Lispers to achieve so much, they would not need a more powerful language!
"You know, Assembler programmers once proclaimed that "real programmers do not use Pascal/Emacs/whatnots." See where they went."
Assembly language is near the bottom of the abstraction scale. They got beaten out by Moore's law, when they couldn't be as productive in the face of compilers. Lisp, on the other hand, is near the top of the abstraction scale.
If you want to apply this analogy to 21st-century Lisp, you should talk about how Moore's law today means concurrency, and that 3 of the 4 most popular Lisp dialects (Common Lisp, Scheme, and Emacs Lisp) have no real concurrency story. Of course, most non-Lisp languages don't, either, and Clojure is the fastest growing Lisp dialect (and one of the fastest growing languages overall) so it looks like Lisp is doing OK here.
"[Shakespeare's] plays reuse patterns and stories that have become cliche even in his time (come on, how many stories about lovers prevented by their parents and committed suicide? Thousands? Millions? My little sister can write one without even thinking, you know)."
If they are so numerous, perhaps you could name a few. Wikipedia lists only 7 predecessors for Romeo and Juliet, though many of these don't feature suicides.
And your flippant comment about your sister actually supports his claim: while inspiration can and does come from anywhere and anyone, art comes from an individual. Your sister can write one, but could your sister and 3 of her friends write one? It's telling that while there are many supposed sources for Romeo and Juliet, not a single one was written by more than one author.
I know very well that this post is 4 years old, but the idiocy of its argument is such that I simply cannot resist posting this.
You never understood LISP. Not in the slightest. The principal thing that makes LISP what it is has NEVER been replicated. Anywhere. Not even in Scheme or the disgusting pile of shit that is Clojure. It's not macros, it's not GC, it's not syntax. It's the philosophy of the language and the environment. The fact that every error is recoverable from. That any process can be paused, inspected, it's functions modified and rerun with new definitions. That the operator is wholly in control of the machine. That productivity, understandability and inspectability is the top priority, at all times, no such idiocies such as "debug vs. release builds".
I firmly believe something I realized a while ago: if you think you understand LISP and you don't find yourself hating any other programming "language" (save a few rare, precious exceptions) with a passion, you never understood anything.
I despise the culture that you represent. You are a barbarian horde that in their horryfing ignorance stomped into the ground intellectual achievements of their betters. You plunged computing into a dark age that may last forever.
Oh, and by the way, study the fucking LISP machines. Do not form an opinion based on today's Common Lisps; the Lisps used in the LISP machines outshine them just as much today's Common Lisps outshine whatever language is the current idiotic fad of the "coder community".
You sound like you know what you're talking about. I am passably proficient in Lisp and want to study the LispMs you mentioned in your comment, how do I go about it? Learning from systems like Movitz or something else? Please give me some pointers, I'm one of those "idiots who come along every generation" who wants to make a modern LispOS and make Emacs run on a modern, efficient lisp rather than elisp.
It's not straightforward, but one way to proceed is to get hold of Symbolics Genera (I hear there's a torrent somewhere…) and get it running in a VM – it works perfectly.
There's also Interlisp. Unfortunately, the full software is unavailable, being bound in legal wrangles, but there's a free (legal) version here: http://www2.parc.com/isl/groups/nltt/medley/ And here's a short discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5966328
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This is because a herd simply cannot innovate, whether for fun or for profit. Every innovative work of mankind has been the product of one – sometimes two, rarely three – minds. And never the work of a herd. No mathematical theorem, no enjoyable novel, no work of art of any importance, have ever been produced by a herd. I fail to see why innovative software ought to play by a different set of rules.
Group Mind will never be on the leading edge. Period. You've stated it accurately and I'm inspired that my path to learn Scheme isn't so futile as it sometimes feels! Great article.
This posting seems to be founded on the idea that "maximally productive" implies "difficult to understand and maintain". Do you think this is self-evident?
I expect the very best code to be elegant and understandable. That's an aid to fungibility.
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My goodness. Came here from Daring Fireball for the Apple article (well judged), and was surprised to find my old tutor (Mark, University of Leeds, 1993-6) quoted!
Good stuff.
"Consider Linux: the poster child of successful free software. It is a knockoff of a 1970s operating system well past its sell-by date. This is because a herd simply cannot innovate, whether for fun or for profit. Every innovative work of mankind has been the product of one – sometimes two, rarely three – minds."
I cannot see why an individual working in a collaborative project could not bring innovation into it.
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Someone above wrote: "S-expression is a primary for machines not for humans?"
This is oft-repeated nonsense.
Machines are far better at parsing unambiguous, structured grammars than humans. Any time you make a language more complicated than S-expressions, the machine will be programmed to accept and generate it without too much difficulty, using decades-old techniques.
Unfortunately, it becomes much more difficult for humans.
Computer programming humans work with indentation to determine grammatic structure. We do not memorize some grammar's 113 production rules and apply them algorithmically. We can quite easily be fooled by bad indentation. If we are asked to maintain some badly indented program, we curse and clean it up so that it becomes "readable".
With, s-expressions, indentation rules are very simple and easy to maintain automatically.
Another approach is simply to make indentation the grammar, like Python. But then we lose the flexibility of being able to flatten expressions as we see fit.
S-expressions can be "chunked" arbitrarily between horizontal and vertical space, yet still look good and make sense.
Anyway, Lisp's input language is completely programmable. You can write in Python if you like using the CLPython front end, etc.
Fugible sounds like a good thing. LISPers, spread your mycelium and bind the software world together! ;-D
This is a really long conversation.
You know, not everything is the result of an evil conspiracy. There were a few people who were good at writing Lisp, but not many, and the code was difficult to read. It was also slow, which was a big disadvantage in the 1980s and 1990s when decisions about programming languages were being made.
A big reason why people used Lisp in the early days was because they wanted to create programs that wrote other programs, and thereby bootstrap artificial intelligence. This approach to AI turned out to be a dead end, though. No superhuman AIs came out of Lisp programs generating other Lisp programs.
It's pretty much expected that every functional programming enthusiast hates the "normals" who program in Java, C++, Javascript, and so forth. What I find amusing is that they hate other functional programming enthusiasts who belong to a slightly different tribe even more. Like your rant about how Clojure is impure and must be burned at the stake, or something. Human nature is a bitch, eh?
eh. it doesn't have to be a conspiracy. anything that loosens the ability of employers to control their employees, even if it makes them more productive, will not be put in to practice. EVEN IF you have a study that says it works.
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Nothing significant by a herd…
Interesting since I have recently been wondering where Elon Musk's prediction of AI doom is going to come from.
I guess the herd idea rules out MIT, where I hear they have hundreds of students working on it…
Guess I will look for the smaller setups.
Thanks for the insights.
The reason the unix design is it's relatively simple and well known. and Linux copies it, sure, but the primary reason no non-Unix based FOSS OS is relatively popular is because the FOSS unixes managed to get in early.
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If you;re going to quote Erann/Ron, you should include some of his more recent writing, such as: "at Google … I saw, pretty much
for the first time in my life, people being as productive and more in
other languages as I was in Lisp. What's more, once I got knocked off my
high horse … and actually bothered to really study some of
these other languages I found *myself* suddenly becoming more productive in
other languages than I was in Lisp. For example, my language of choice
for doing Web development now is Python."
Peter, I respectfully find it disingenuous for you to say that someone as intelligent and experienced in Lisp such as yourself or Erran would be less productive in Lisp than others are in Python. I know for a fact that other languages at Google are just plain outlawed if they aren't JavaScript, Go, Python, Java or C++.
The issue appears to be clearly Ideologic/Paradigmatic and not just a question of productivity.
I'm not advocating the use of Lisp in companies large or small. I've moved on myself years ago but none of the reasons had to do with productivity as much as they had to do with systemically entrenched/enforced paradigms about programming in Academia and Industry. Thankfully these paradigms are dying because they just don't work anymore in what is an exponentially competitive world.
Ignoring programmer preference completely, but just as important(maybe even more so) is that platforms and products built on unsafe, slow and insecure languages just don't cut it anymore for users/customers.
Also, there are a number of stable, high-level, performant and secure languages available in 2017 that are easy to grasp that aren't nearly as much of a shift to Lisp. Those who don't embrace these will become irrelevant into the next decade as they struggle to compete with those that do.


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"The Impact of Changes in Second Pension Pillars on Public Finances in Central and Eastern Europe"
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This paper studies the impact of recent changes in second pension pillars of three Central and Eastern European Countries on the deficit and implicit debt of their full pension systems. The paper seeks to answer the following questions: what is the impact on the sustainability of Poland's pension system of the decrease in the pension contribution going to the second pension pillar from 7.3% to 2.3% in 2011; what are the implications of the recent changes on gross replacement rates; does the weakening of the Polish second pension system have a different impact on pension system sustainability than a similar move in a Hungarian-style pension system with a defined-benefit first pillar and how does Estonia's temporary decrease in pension contributions compensated by temporarily higher future rates affect pension sustainability in that country. The simulation results show that in our baseline scenario the Polish move would permanently lower future pension-system debt, chiefly as a result of a cut in replacement rates. But using a combination of pessimistic assumptions including strong population ageing, low real wage growth and a high indexation of existing pension benefits, coupled with bringing in tax expenditures related to the third voluntary pension pillar and an increase in the share of minimum pensions leads to higher pension system deficits and eventually more public debt at a very long horizon. The simulations also suggest that the Hungarian pension reversal reduces deficit and debt only temporarily, mainly because of Hungary's costly defined-benefit first pension pillar: the weakening of the second pillar is tantamount to swapping low current replacement rates (in the defined-contribution second pillar) against high future replacement rates in the defined-benefit first pension pillar. Finally, results show that the Estonian move will increase public debt only very moderately in the long run, even though this result is sensitive to the effective interest rate on public debt.
"How Does Social Security Claiming Respond to Incentives? Considering Husbands' and Wives' Benefits Separately"
FEDS Working Paper No. 2012-19
ALICE HENRIQUES, affiliation not provided to SSRN
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A majority of women receive most of their Social Security benefits based upon their husbands' earnings history, but previous research has shown that husbands' benefit claiming is inconsistent with maximizing lifetime benefits for the couple. However, that research assumes husbands choose their claim age based on all Social Security incentives facing the household. I show that husbands' claiming behavior responds to the actuarial incentives built into their own retired worker benefit formula, but not to the incentives built into the spouse and survivor formulas that determine their wives' benefits. This failure to incorporate his spouses' incentives reduces wives' lifetime benefits. Variation in incentives comes from rule changes to the Social Security benefit calculation in addition to the age difference between spouses and the relative strength of the wife's labor force history. A variety of robustness checks looking at segments of the population predicted to be more responsive to incentives provide similar results to the main specification.
"Political-Economy of Pension Plans: Impact of Institutions, Gender, and Culture"
RAJ AGGARWAL, University of Akron - Department of Finance
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JOHN W. GOODELL, University of Akron - Department of Finance, College of Business Administration
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National pension systems are an important part of financial intermediation and worker welfare in most countries, but how and why do they differ internationally? Controlling for important political, economic and social institutions, we document that international differences in pension progressivity, or how pensions reflect lifetime earnings, are negatively related to masculinity, uncertainty avoidance, individualism, long-term orientation, employment rights, average pension levels, social trust and economic inequality. We also find that pension progressivity is positively related to the economic and societal role of women, the extent of Catholicism; as well as political voice and accountability. These results provide important insights for both public policy and MNC managers.
"The Sensitivity of Proposed Social Security Benefit Formula Changes to Lifetime Earnings Definitions"
Social Security Bulletin 72(2): 1-22
HILARY WALDRON, U.S. Social Security Administration
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Several Social Security proposals have included benefit formula changes that apply to earners above a specified percentage of the combined male and female (unisex) lifetime earnings distribution. The unisex distribution is an average of two disparate groups with large lifetime differences in labor market participation. This study finds that if Social Security's median unisex average indexed monthly earnings (AIME) amount is used to define an earnings threshold below which benefits will be held roughly unreduced, the percentage of fully insured men subject to benefit reductions (70 percent) exceeds the unisex estimate of the population subject to benefit reductions (50 percent) by 20 percentage points. If policymakers wish to adjust future benefits and focus benefit reductions on middle or high primary or full-time wage earners in a household, the male, rather than unisex, AIME would come closer to achieving such a goal.
"The Implications of Marital History Change on Women's Eligibility for Social Security Wife and Widow Benefits, 1990–2009"
Social Security Bulletin 72(2): 23-38, 2012
HOWARD IAMS, U.S. Social Security Administration
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CHRISTOPHER R. TAMBORINI, U.S. Social Security Administration
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Social Security retirement benefits in the United States (US) reflect marital histories and lifetime earnings of current and former married couples. Focusing on the link between marital history and benefit eligibility, this article examines women's marital patterns over the past two decades. Using the 1990 and 2009 Marital History Modules to the Census Bureau's Survey of Income and Program Participation, descriptive/regression analysis reveals substantial changes in women's marital patterns among baby boomers and generation Xers. Those changes have prompted a decline in qualifying marital histories for Social Security spouse and widow benefits. The findings also reveal substantial variation by race/ethnicity. Black women are significantly more likely to be potentially ineligible for a marriage-based benefit than white women, particularly in more recent cohorts. Hispanic women's marriage-based eligibility is between that of black and white women. US-born Hispanic women had higher shares without a qualifying marital history compared with the foreign born.
"The Growth in Social Security Benefits Among the Retirement-Age Population from Increases in the Cap on Covered Earnings"
Social Security Bulletin 72(2): 49-61, 2012
ALAN L. GUSTMAN, Dartmouth College - Department of Economics, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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THOMAS L. STEINMEIER, Texas Tech University - Department of Economics and Geography
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NAHID TABATABAI, Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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Analysts have proposed raising the maximum level of earnings subject to the Social Security payroll tax (the "tax max") to improve long-term Social Security Trust Fund solvency. This article investigates how raising the tax max leads to the "leakage" of portions of the additional revenue into higher benefit payments. Using Health and Retirement Study data matched to Social Security earnings records, we compare historical payroll tax payments and benefit amounts for Early Boomers (born 1948–1953) with tax and benefit simulations had they been subject to the tax max (adjusted for wage growth) faced by cohorts 12 and 24 years older. We find that 43.2 percent of the additional payroll tax revenue attributable to tax max increases affecting Early Boomers relative to taxes paid by the cohort 12 years older leaked into higher benefits. For Early Boomers relative to those 24 years older, we find 53.5 percent leakage.Read more!


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Customer Service Assistant
- Recruiter
- Compass Group UK Ireland
- Location
- London
- Salary
- Up to 10.20 Per Hour
- Posted
- 03 Jul 2018
- Closes
- 31 Jul 2018
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- compass/TP/16802/42479AK
- Contact
- Mrs Ann Kinsella
- Sector
- Foodservice Jobs
- Job Function
- Customer Service
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
The restaurant facility caters for many people, providing excellent food and great service.Main responsibilities
The duties for this role will include, serving customers in a polite and friendly manner, basic food preparation, ensuring kitchen, service and restaurant areas are kept clean, tidy and safe. Other duties will include cashiering, vending and taking an active part in any unit sales promotions.Ideal candidate
- Ability to promote a welcoming environment where our colleagues, clients and customers receive great service
- Polite and friendly
- Good Customer Care skills
- Neat and tidy in appearance
- Awareness of Hygiene standards
- A 'can do' attitude, prepared to help out the rest of the team in a willing and positive manner
- Able to work in a busy environment
- Good command of the English Language
At Restaurant Associates our vision is simple - We believe that great food and great service has the power to transform business success.
At RA we offer a distinctive experience for our clients because of our Associates' attention to the smallest detail, our relationships with the most talented consultant chefs and by sharing the very latest trends and ideas and we proudly boast the best chef, service, recipes and suppliers in the industry.
Our pillars are; brand, people, food, service with innovation underpinning everything we do in all areas of our business.
We are passionate about the power of great food and service on business and its ability to inspire, connect and empower people.


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Sunday, April 24, 2011
A current assessment of New FamilySearch
I note that the home page has changed to eliminate a link to What's New. That link has moved to the links available after signing into the program. Also, the link on the home page to the FamilySearch.org website goes directly to the updated site, leaving the users to find the older site, if they can.
So, where are we with program. First of all, I work with people every week with a broad spectrum of experience and sophistication with both genealogy and computers. New FamilySearch serves its basic function very well. I is a marvelous tool for the new or nearly new genealogist to start recording their information online. In addition, New FamilySearch by and large does what it is supposed to do to allow the members of the LDS Church to submit their family names for Temple ordinance work. The program gets high marks for simplicity, usability and convenience.
There are, of course, limitations in the scope of the present program. One of the avowed goals of the program was to avoid duplication of ordinance submissions. From my perspective, the program has a very limited impact and only mixed success in this regard. There are still people "harvesting" the green arrows and failing to either look for duplicates when the duplicates are obvious. People are also submitting duplicate files and names without checking to see if their submissions are already in the file. So far I haven't seen any reduction in obvious duplicates. However, overall, there may be some impact which is not apparent. I do know of a few people who have mined out the green arrows and have stopped doing duplicate ordinance work.
Is New FamilySearch progressing towards becoming a valuable resource for either storing genealogical information or research into family lines? Again, my personal experience would be that it is neither no better nor no worse than any other online family tree program such as Ancestry.com's Family Trees or MyHeritage.com.
Have any of the problems with the database caused by the original duplication of files been resolved? No. Is there yet a workable way for users to correct blatantly inaccurate information? No. Is there a sensible and usable way to source individual events or facts? No. Is there a way to incorporate media items in the database? No.
Will any of these limitations be resolved in the future? Maybe. But for now, it appears that the program will remain in the status quo for some extended period of time. Will I continue to have people complain to me about the inaccurate and incorrect information in the database. Decidedly yes. Is that a problem? Not really. I think the program is mostly doing what it was intended to do and I am purely guessing, but I would think that revamping the program to help out people like me with 10 to 15 generations or more of family lines, is not a very high priority any more.
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When I trained users recently on NewFamilySearch, I emphasized the main goal for the site: preparing names for temple submission (and reduce duplication of names submitted). For that reason alone, NewFamilySearch will be around for a long time, because it has been an excellent tool to quickly complete that work. It is also an excellent tool for collaborating with cousins who "care" (operative word) about getting the information right.ReplyDelete
If you keep those things in mind, NewFamilySearch will always have a place in this world-wide genealogy community.
James, your sensible perspective should be required reading for those who have hoped or even believed NewFamilySearch had potential for being The Place For Accurate Genealogy. It is, however, both notable and very fortunate for genealogical researchers that LDS is providing other resources that greatly counterbalance the drawbacks of the tree site.ReplyDelete


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Jamika Pessoa
Jamika, 30 (Atlanta, Ga.), a certified personal chef and businesswoman, loves exploring international cuisines in the kitchen. Family, friends, and clients rave about her bold twists on traditional dishes, especially those of her Caribbean heritage. Innovative style, sassy personality, and inspiring tenacity are Jamika's key ingredients to the magic she produces in the kitchen.
Food specialty: Caribbean cuisine
Favorite restaurant: I've been to tons of restaurants, but still have not been "wowed" enough to call one my favorite. Any suggestions? Your treat!
Three foods you can't live without (other than bread or water): Pizza, chocolate chip cookies and milk, wedding cake (I don't care whose wedding it is, I'm going for the cake).
Food you won't go near: Canned tuna, chitterlings, sardines
Weirdest thing you've ever eaten: Cuttlefish
Interests: Fashion, interior design, and traveling
Favorite Food Network chef: Tyler Florence and Paula Deen (I have to support a fellow Southern Belle)!
Favorite shows (doesn't have to be Food Network): The Real Housewives, Tyler Perry's House of Payne, and any reality show on VH1
Favorite food destination: Venice, Italy
Culinary inspirations: My grandmother
Three people, alive or dead, whom you'd like to invite to a dinner party: President Obama, Will Smith, and Oprah
Favorite books: Fabulosity by Kimora Lee Simmons
Favorite movies: Slumdog Millionaire, American Gangster, Little Miss Sunshine
Why do you think you should be the Season 5 Food Network Star? I want to show the world how I do my thing up in the kitchen, and as far as I am concerned I can make anything taste and look fabulous!


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TOKYO, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Japan's new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has indicated he would approve the construction of more nuclear reactors.
That's an about-face from the previous administration, led by the Democratic Party of Japan and Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, who announced in September its goal of zero nuclear power by the end of the 2030s.
So far only two of Japan's 50 reactors have been restarted following shutdowns after the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster.
Abe had said he favored a reconsideration of Japan's nuclear energy policy after his Liberal Democratic Party won the Dec. 16 general election.
Abe, who formed his Cabinet Dec. 27, toured Fukushima Saturday.
The following day, Kyodo News reports, he told a Japanese news program, "The new reactors will be totally different from those at Tepco's Fukushima No. 1 plant that caused the crisis. We will be building them with consent obtained from the Japanese people."
As one of its post-Fukushima measures, Noda's administration banned the building of new nuclear reactors that exist only in the blueprint stage, of which there are nine.
Construction is in progress on three other reactors, which Noda's administration had said could continue.
Separately, Asahi Shimbun reports that the number of Japanese households that have refused benefits – cash given directly to individuals -- for living near nuclear plants has almost doubled since the Fukushima disaster, a trend that the newspaper says reflects increasing opposition "to a system long criticized as paying off citizens to promote nuclear power."
While 14 of the country's prefectures paid $87 million in benefits to 1.03 million households in fiscal 2011, the report says, 171 households had declined the benefits, representing an increase of 80 percent from 2010.
Japan started the system of benefits in fiscal 1981, to seek understanding and cooperation for nuclear power the newspaper says.
Electric utility companies pay the benefits, which are funded by taxes collected as part of electricity bills, on behalf of municipal governments. The amounts paid are based on the power generation capacity of the nuclear power plants) and other factors.
But Shuji Shimizu, a professor of regional finance at Fukushima University, categorized the payments as a blatant example of dispensing favors.
"I think a growing number of people in areas around nuclear power plants are saying 'no' to such a practice by rejecting the benefits," Shimizu said in the Asahi report.
Reports surfaced 10 years ago that utilities had collected names of those who had refused benefits, labeling some as nuclear opponents and provided that information to local governments.


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We haven't yet been able to make a lens powerful enough to spot objects on the far edges of the visible Universe. Fortunately, the Universe itself has provided us with some gravitational lenses that might do the trick. Clusters of galaxies contain enough dark matter for their gravity to distort space significantly, curving it in a way that forms a lens and magnifying more distant objects. The Hubble Space Telescope has now been used to peer into a gravitational lens, and may have spotted the oldest, most distant galaxy yet observed.
Because of the expansion of the Universe, light from distant objects is shifted toward the red end of the spectrum. At great distances, one of the spectral lines that is diagnostic of hydrogen shifts from its normal location in the UV all the way down to the infrared. And picking out hydrogen is rather important. Since the most distant objects are also the oldest, the earliest galaxies in our Universe existed before there had been many heavier elements produced by the first generation of stars—the vast majority of the material around was still hydrogen.
To find an early galaxy, a team called CLASH (Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble) has been searching for galaxy clusters that create nice gravitational lenses. They found one in MACS J1149.6+2223, which they describe as having "a relatively flat mass distribution profile and a large area of high magnification, making it one of the most powerful cosmic lenses known."
Imaging the lensed area in the infrared revealed something intriguing: an object the authors term MACS1149-JD1. The Hubble's IR camera couldn't detect it at wavelengths shorter than 1.2 mircons (the near-infrared). But it did appear in images taken with the hardware on Hubble that goes deepest into the infrared. To confirm there was something there, the astronomers got time on the Spitzer infrared space telescope and confirmed there really was an object at this location.
Red shift is measured in terms of a value called z, and the shifting of the hydrogen spectral lines suggest that MACS1149-JD1 comes in at a z of 9.6, one of the most distant objects detected. Only one other galaxy has ever been spotted at a similar distance, and only a single gamma ray burst came from anywhere near there. Because redshift is proportional to time, the authors were able to calculate an age: 490 million years after the Big Bang. That's under five percent of the age of the Universe itself, and only a few hundred million years after the Universe cooled off enough to allow the formation of the first stars.
To get a better view of the galaxy, the authors used objects that were lensed multiple times to create a map of the mass distribution of the cluster doing the lensing. Working back from there, they were able to estimate that MACS1149-JD1 was magnified by about fifteen times what it would have been otherwise. They estimate its total mass as a bit more than 108 times that of our Sun, and conclude that it's undergoing rapid star formation. MACS1149-JD1 is probably less than 200 million years from its original formation, and is about half the size of current galaxies.
Overall, the paper highlights just how hard it is to spot the earliest objects in our Universe. The Spitzer could tell there was something there, but didn't have great spatial resolution at these wavelengths. The Hubble had good resolution, but it could barely detect MACS1149-JD1 at the right wavelengths. Up until now, this has meant that we can only catch scattered glimpses into the earliest structures of our Universe.
All of that is scheduled to change, assuming that further cost overruns don't doom the James Webb Space Telescope. Intended from the start to track the evolution of the early Universe, the Webb will have a larger primary mirror than the Hubble, while being able to image deep into the infrared.
This paper is currently in peer review, but is available at the arXiv.


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The Cincinnati Bengals didn't look ready for prime time, much less the playoffs, on Thursday night. And it really didn't matter during a 34-13 win over the Philadelphia Eagles.
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Folks who just wake up to see the final score won't realize how misleading that is.
Trailing 13-10 late in the third quarter, the Bengals scored 24 points in a dizzying stretch that lasted just three and a half minutes yet included three lost fumbles by the Eagles. Philadelphia allowed one Cincinnati drive to continue after an unsportsmanlike-conduct penalty for making "disconcerting signals" before a field-goal attempt.
"Disconcerting signals" has been the story of the Eagles' season, but this was a troubling game for the Bengals despite the final score.
Andy Dalton missed a ton of throws and did not handle pressure well, completing less than half of his passes for just 127 yards. The offensive line gave up six sacks and six more quarterback hits. The Bengals also had a number of drops.
The defense certainly played well overall, forcing five turnovers, but this was a fortunate game against a struggling opponent. At one point, the Eagles punted the ball into the back of their own player.
The Bengals, now 8-6, have 10 days to prepare for a massive game against the Pittsburgh Steelers. That matchup should wind up deciding the AFC's No. 6 playoff seed.
The Bengals need to play better than they did Thursday night or they won't win against the Steelers or when they line up against the Baltimore Ravens in Week 17.Follow Gregg Rosenthal on Twitter @greggrosenthal.


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The Chicago 8, an independent film honored by a couple of film festivals (Beverly Hills Film Festival and Atlanta Film Festival) had its LA premiere last night at UCLA Law School auditorium. It is a docudrama of the landmark trial in 1969 in which the federal government charged a group of social activists with conspiracy to incite riot at the previous year's Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The screening, reception at the UCLA Law School, and discussion afterwards were sponsored by the Lawyers Guild and the Veterans Law Society. Arienna Grody of the Lawyers Guild explained that they want to spread the word at the academic level to inspire more progressive lawyers. Copies of the film are available on dvd via their website and hopefully it will soon appear in theaters.
Georja: This is a must see movie. The Chicago 8 is important for its historical significance. Writer, director, producer Pinchas Perry poured through thousands of pages of documents and did an excellent job of forming this 88-minute piece from them. As art, as courtroom drama, it doesn't get much spicier than this tale. Not only are the characters well drawn and engaging but their antics in the courtroom are not to be believed! A judge loses control of the court as a clash of generations and philosophies is played out as political theatre by these brave social activists. They were so strongly anti-war, anti "the man" and so confident that they could overthrow the old order, or at least that they would give their lives trying.
Gerald: In fact, the group of defendants were very loosely associated with each other, if at all in some cases. They were tried as an example to suppress widespread dissent over the ongoing war in Vietnam. These days the U.S. has an all-volunteer military supplemented by private contractors. But back then, any healthy male over the age of 18 could be drafted and sent to fight, with few loopholes. During that conflict, more than 50,000 U.S. troops were killed, and on the order of 20 times that number of Vietnamese military and civilians on both sides lost their lives. The Chicago 8 trial was, by any definition, a circus, a kangaroo court, and contrived political theater. Most of the jail time the defendants got was mainly the result of contempt of court citations by the irate and quarrelsome judge Julius Hoffman (played brilliantly by veteran character actor Philip Baker Hall). Years later, the U.S. Court of Appeals would acknowledge this travesty of justice by reversing Hoffman's rulings and the jury's guilty findings on incitement to riot (there were no findings of guilt on conspiracy counts).
Georja: We get a flavor of the late 60s Yippie revolution, the ardor of the activists, the frustration and fear of the government played out by the judge and government prosecutors. Perry, Israeli born, said when he found out about this trial, he just couldn't believe this happened in America, and he was moved to make this film. Content is outstanding although the film had an overall dark look to it -one would have hoped for some enhanced lighting.
Gerald: This movie is both fascinating drama and an important social document. Many of the "conspirators" have since died, but John Froines, who is currently a professor of environmental chemistry at UCLA, was in the audience. In the Q&A that followed, he commented that there have been several plays and movies based on the trial, but he had high praise for the realism of this one.
Georja: It was a great testimony. Froines rated this version of the trial as the most accurate of all the plays and films that have been made on the topic and he even revealed that he was sobbing throughout. Froines commented that today's protests need more organization and structure. People today often think they can't change anything; back then, they felt that they could and they did end the war.
Gerald: Perry trained as a lawyer and as a filmmaker, and he obviously has a keen sense of both the legal issues and the drama. He explained that a key decision was to focus on the eighth defendant, Bobby Seale (Orlando Jones), the African-American leader of the Black Panther Party. Early in the trial, he decided he did not want to be represented by civil-rights defense attorney William Kunstler (Gary Cole). Judge Hoffman did not permit Seale to defend himself, apparently fearing that he'd use his remarks in court to expound on his radical views. Seale was then understandably furious and then repeatedly disruptive. Most of the contempt citations resulted from outbursts and altercations in which the other defendants came to Bobby's aid. Further into the trial, Seale's case was severed from the proceedings, and the defendants became more commonly known as the "Chicago 7."
Georja: Jones is riveting as Bobby Seale, bound and gagged in the courtroom for insisting on his right to represent himself. Cole is inspiring as the attorney who leads with his heart, and actually breaks down and bawls in the courtroom. Patrick MacKenzie is awesome as Dave Dillinger who tells his daughter about one of his heroes, Mahatma Ghandi, who practiced activism into his 80s. He obviously intends to follow suit and leads with his idealism.
Some of the actors were present. It was especially fun meeting Emmy nominee Mayim Bailik (who plays brainy Amy Farra Fowler on The Big Bang Theory) who played Jerry Rubin's (Danny Masterson) girlfriend, Nancy Kurshan. Bailik was a child actor and took 12 years off to get her education – in neuroscience - at UCLA and was glad to be participating at her alma mater.
Gerald: Watching this movie about a time I lived through, I'm struck by both the similarities and the differences between then and now. We have social unrest because of unpopular wars and related economic problems. But today we have such a more complex media environment. It's difficult to imagine how a sensational court case was covered by just three national evening news organizations and a handful of major metropolitan newspapers. People actually read articles back then! No tweets, no sound bytes, no spin doctors, and less pop-media distraction such as Hollywood celebrity misbehavior grabbing the headlines. Crazy as the times were, it seemed there was a dialogue back then. Now, it's political posturing and sentence fragments, with precious little content.
Georja: The Chicago 8 could encourage activists today and all Americans to remember what our basic rights are and what is worth fighting for. The dedicated actions of the Chicago 8 definitely made a mark on American history, although it seems every new generation must find its own way to hold onto these rights. Blogging, Internet news and facebook definitely help get the messages out and can help build a critical mass. As long as that mass is not distracted by the next new thing first.
Photos copyright Chicago 8
Photos of reception and Mayim Balik by Georja Umano
Georja Umano is an actor and animal advocate.
Gerald Everett Jones is the author of The Rollo Hemphill series of comic novels.


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Joe Wood necesitaba un nuevo diseño de banner publicitario y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 55 diseños de 16 diseñadores freelance.
Suggested title for ball is "Halloween Thriller"
The Lion Quays Waterside Resort (http://www.lionquays.co.uk) is holding a gala ball to raise money for the NSPCC (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children) on Saturday 31st October, 2009.
The theme is Michael Jackson's Thriller and guests must attend wearing a suitable ghoulish costume (Draculas, mummies, witches, brides all welcome).
3 course dinner, disco, raffle, auction and frighteningly good entertainment!
Carriages at 1.00am. Bookings & Information on 01691 684300
The business community (corporate) and high net worth individuals.
Tickets are £40 (£400 per table of 10)
We need an inspirational poster which can be produced as A1, A3 and A4 for magazine advertising.
The poster must communicate all of the key information above, and also feature the NSPCC logo as it is officially endorsed.
The files we will require are:
Print file format - .ai (CMYK)
Web file format - .jpg and layered .psd (RGB)


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This two-page arrangement is from Feast of Favorites, Vol. 4. The book is lap-harp friendly, and suitable for nearly all harps. The book and single songs are also listed in my lap harp section of books.
Your download comes bundled with a free mp3 recording of the song, played on my Blevins harp.
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Boonton Township
Boonton Township
New Jersey
- Population: 4,263
- Size: 8.6 square miles (22.27 km2)
- Established: 1867
- Distance from NYC: 32 miles
- Distance from Philadelphia: 92 miles
- Distance from Newark: 20 miles
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About Boonton Township
Characterized by rustic views of windswept fields and rolling hills which define the pastoral landscapes of the Rockaway Valley, Boonton Township in north-central Morris County is a peaceful community measuring just over eight square miles. The township has put forth a concerted effort to maintain its natural environment even as neighboring municipalities are typified by their expansive commercial and residential development. This dedication to remaining more rural has resulted in Boonton Township becoming one of the most sought-after towns in the county. Its popularity was confirmed by New Jersey Monthly magazine when they named Boonton Township a Top Town, ranking it the 4th best place to live in the state in 2011-12.
Another reason people move to Boonton Township is for their children to attend the highly-rated Mountain Lakes High School, consistently named one of the top public high schools in New Jersey. Not to be confused with the smaller adjacent town of Boonton, Boonton Township reported a population of 4,263 in the 2010 United States Census. Incorporated by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 11, 1867, the township was originally created from portions of Pequannock Township.Back to top
Boonton Township History
Boonton Township's first recorded history began around 1710 when William Penn, the famous Quaker land speculator, acquired over 1,400 acres of woodlands and fields. In 1715, another early settler named James Bollen purchased over 1,500 acres along the Rockaway River. By 1759, the Great Boonton Tract was purchased by David Ogden, Colonial Attorney-General of New Jersey. So when Boonton Township was officially established in 1867, most of William Penn's land and portions of James Bollen's and David Ogden's land holdings fell within its boundaries.
McCaffrey Lane, which now serves as the main entrance to the Tourne County Park, was created in 1767 by Samuel Ogden to haul iron ore from Hibernia's mines to his iron works in Old Boonton. Within this historic region, cannon balls were manufactured for use by the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. This land has the distinction of being the oldest recorded thoroughfare in the area. In 1822, North Main Street was created along the proposed route of the Morris Canal. The Morris Canal and Banking Company was chartered in 1824 with John Scott of Powerville, an important commissioner. Lock numbers 9, 10 and 11 were constructed along Powerville Road. Another reminder of that era is the Powerville Hotel, which is still standing; it was built near Lock Number 11 to accommodate canal and transient trades. The hotel later gained fame as a pre-Civil War Underground Railroad station.
In the late 1920s the township became home to the Aircraft Radio Corporation, which pioneered electronic instrumentation for use in planes. Equipment designed by the Aircraft Radio Corporation was installed in the first fighter squadrons of the Navy, Army and Air Force. In January, 1929 an engineering conference was held at the Flying Field, and the electronic instruments industry dedicated the new Radio Frequency Laboratories at its hangar and flying field. Johanson Manufacturing Corporation was founded in 1945 in the central portion of the township where it serves the radio frequency and microwave industries. Both Radio Frequency Laboratories and Johanson Manufacturing Corporation are still headquartered in Boonton Township.Back to top
Boonton Township Community Life
Numerous aspects of small-town living make up the fabric of community life in Boonton Township. There are a variety of scouting troops for boys and girls, an active historical society, service groups like the Boonton Township Fire Department and Ladies Auxiliary, sporting organizations such as the Tri-Town Mountaineers (Tri-Town refers to the neighboring municipalities of Boonton Township, Mountain Lakes and Boonton Town) and Morris Rubgy Youth Program, as well as the local Lakeland Hills YMCA, and specialty groups like the Rockaway Valley Garden Club.
The Boonton Township Recreation Department sponsors a roster of activities including an Open Gym Night for adult basketball and adult yoga classes at Rockaway Valley School, and The Boonton Township Ladies Town Club, a women's group that meets monthly to socialize, network and perform community service projects in Morris County.
Local shops, restaurants and services are mainly located in Boonton Town, which borders Boonton Township. The Rockaway Townsquare Mall in nearby Rockaway Township offers major department stores, eateries and a multi-screen movie theatre.Back to top
Boonton Township Education
The Rockaway Valley School at 11 Valley Road serves students in kindergarten through grade eight. Pupils here are among the top academic performers in both the region and the state. Co-curricular activities include sports teams that have advanced to the final levels of competition as well as musical and theatrical performances. Among the school's activities are Battle of the Books, Student Council, School Leaders, a Broadcast Club, Podcasting, Forensics, Chorus, Band, Junior Solar Sprints, Geography Bee, Athletics, Visual and Performing Arts and theatrical productions. Additionally, the school has been involved in several philanthropic efforts including fundraisers for local charities like the Interfaith Food Pantry, the Donnie Farrell Scholarship Fund, Operation Jersey Cares and providing for needy families. The district is in the forefront in using technology to enhance instruction. Each classroom has wireless access to the Internet as well as a SMART Board and peripherals for interactive learning.
There is a sending/receiving agreement in place between the Boonton Township Board of Education and Mountain Lakes Board of Education which allows students living in Boonton Township to attend the highly-ranked Mountain Lakes High School in Mountain Lakes. Located at 96 Powerville Road, the high school offers an academically acclaimed college preparatory program with approximately 731 pupils. Students are taught by a faculty of 71 professionals; three hold doctorates; 50 have master's degrees and 18 have bachelor's degrees.
The student body of Mountain Lakes High School possesses a strong commitment toward academic excellence. High achieving, motivated students follow a rigorous college preparatory curriculum resulting in over 90% attending four-year colleges, including the most competitive colleges in the nation. Time and again, Mountain Lakes High School rates favorably among the most competitive public and private schools in New Jersey. New Jersey Monthly magazine ranks Mountain Lakes High School among the highest performing high schools in the state.
However, the success of Mountain Lakes High School students does not lie in their academic accomplishments alone. Over 90% participate in extracurricular activities and community service. Most students are involved in athletics, the arts, drama, music, school government and community service programs. The daily learning environment nurtures the development of a lifelong commitment to academic excellence and achievement.
Mountain Lakes High School offers honors and advanced placement courses in English, social studies, mathematics, science, world languages, computer science, and studio art. In addition to modern languages, the high school also offers advanced studies in Latin.Back to top
Boonton Township TransportationBoonton Township is located several miles from Interstates 287 and 80 and the historic town of Boonton train station on NJ Transit's Montclair-Boonton Line. Lakeland Bus provides service from Boonton town to New York's Port Authority in midtown Manhattan. Travelers on Route 80 are about 25 miles west of the George Washington Bridge. Back to top
Boonton Township Real EstateBoonton Township is well-known for its luxury homes and estate-caliber properties on large lots. Oak Hills and several other neighborhoods near the border of Denville offer more modestly-sized homes. Other popular neighborhoods in Boonton Township include Rock Ridge, Cook's Pond, Sheep Hill, Birchwood, Kincaid Estates, Meadowbrook, Four Corners, Powerville, Mountain Run, Skyridge Estates, Kingsland, Hillcrest, Forest Park, Brookstone, Crestfield Estates, Hawk Hill Estates, Rockaway Valley, and Eagle Canyon Estates. Brae Loch is a condominium and townhome community in Boonton Township. Home shoppers will find a wide variety of home styles and price ranges, including center hall Colonials, custom homes, Victorians, antique homes, ranches, Tudors, contemporary homes and historic homes. Back to top
Boonton Township Parks
Tourne County Park contains 546.9 acres and includes a wildflower trail with nearly 250 species of native plants, a lake, athletic fields, bike and horse trails, gardens, picnic facilities and play areas. The Tourne is the only remaining undeveloped portion of the Great Boonton Tract. It provides opportunities for sledding in the winter, picnics and day camps in the summer, and hiking throughout the year.
Boonton Township Parks include Leonard Park at 15 Valley Road; Griffith Park at 1 North Main Street; Griffith Pond at Kingsland Road and the RVA Fields at 353 Powerville Road.Back to top
Boonton Township Local Attractions
Pyramid Mountain Natural Historic Area features unusual glacial erratics, dramatic rock outcrops, extensive wetlands, waterfalls, and several scenic overlooks with views reaching all the way to the Manhattan skyline. Don't miss Tripod Rock, a 160-ton boulder resting atop three smaller boulders.
The Miller-Kingsland House is the oldest recorded home in Boonton and is listed on the New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places. Expanded over the years, the original Dutch house consisted of one room with a sleeping attic; it was built by Johannes Miller in 1740.Back to top
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Stop the cover-up
The fight between The Examiner Newspaper and the city of Beaumont over records from the night Kendrick Perkins was arrested has little to do with Perkins and everything to do with city attorney Tyrone Cooper's actions to keep the documents secret.
For months, Cooper has fought the newspaper and others to keep videos showing Perkins' arrest from ever being viewed. Why? Most likely because Perkins let loose with a slew of curse words and incendiary remarks before and after he was taken into custody, according to police at the scene.
While the NBA star's actions might not be the best thing for his image, his arrest and the circumstances around it are still public record. And the fact the city wants to make it "go away" is what has brought on the newspaper's fight.
The city has done everything possible to play hide the ball on this issue, including stalling on seeking an opinion from the Texas attorney general until just before a hearing was to be held in district court to expunge Perkins' record. Had the judge granted the expunction at the time, there would have been no need to ask for a ruling to determine if the records were public because they would have been destroyed. It was Cooper's hope that the court would take action before the attorney general, but that wasn't the case.
The Texas attorney general correctly ruled in favor of the newspaper and should be applauded for doing so. The ruling ordered the city to release videos of the arrest and documents involved but the city is fighting. And because the U.S. Postal Service is slow, the newspaper was not notified that it had won the case until the day after Judge Layne Walker signed an order to expunge Perkins' record — an order that does not go into effect for 30 days.
The newspaper's ruling came first and the records should be released. That's why The Examiner sought a temporary restraining order to keep the city from destroying the documents it had requested until the legal matter could be resolved.
While the city may think this fight is about exposing the deeds of an NBA star, the real story is the cover-up by the city attorney's office. That's the story.
If anything should have been learned from Watergate, it's that the cover up is almost always worse than the crime. Should Perkins have his record cleared? Maybe, but the city should also release the records in accordance with the law. In the end, whether the videos and other information are turned over, the public wins because The Examiner has helped shine a light on the back-room deals at city hall.


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Also, there are words (London) where it isn't a 'sound o'. I think this is more of a guideline than a rule.
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Since taking a rather keen interest in Phonetics, I wonder about the "rules" (if there's any) in case of identifying in certain sounds.
As far as identifying the difference between "o" (as in "hot") & "O:" is concerned (as in "water"), I remember while flipping through the pages of some Phonetic based book, it said something like the general rule being if the spelling has "letter o" in it then it gets pronounced with "sound o" but if it hasn't got "letter o" then it gets pronounced with "sound O:".
Bearing this in mind, it made sense in identifying sounds in words like: water, assault, hall, ball, etc. having "sound O:" since the spelling of the word has NOT got letter "o" in it.
However, if that was the case, I wonder why does the word like "cauliflower", "alter", "alternative", "fault" etc. has "sound o" rather than "sound O:".
Any idea about the rules in identifying what sound occurs where ???
Also, there are words (London) where it isn't a 'sound o'. I think this is more of a guideline than a rule.
Well, I wasn't asking THAT naviely though ;) Since "London", "monk", etc. makes sense, having NO confusion at all. However, it's ONLY in "o & O:" sounds that I'm having confusion.Originally Posted by tdol
If the "letter o" has any other sound such as in "monk", etc. I've NO confusion at all, since that's how it is.
Some other sound identification that I need to delve into are words would be "salt" having "o sound" while "sauce" having "O: sound".
Do you reckon, if "al" is followed by "t" could be a reason for having sound "o" rather than "O:" ??? Although that's a long shot, for sure.
-alt does seem a fairly consistent pattern. However, what about 'halter', which I think I have heard with both sounds?
Halter again has "sound o" as in "hot".Originally Posted by tdol


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journaling the growth of a (mite) treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
Wow turned this thread into a chat room.
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Zone 5a, Practicing non-intervention beekeeping
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. - Emerson
What I would do? Let me think.
- I would probably regulate bees as a wild animals. I would grant them rights to swarm and occupy available household. If bees choose the place, landlord must provide decent living conditions for the bees. Landlord has the right for 50% of honey, 100% propolis and wax.
- I would also recognize bees as a national "living monument". Bees worked very hard helping early emigrants to survive. They needs to be acknowledged at Thanksgiving tables.
- We should create a "national bee". Not EHB but American HB, AHB. It is not patriotic to relay on old European emigrants, or even worse - Brazilian ones!
- I think, bee needs to be represented more prominently in official symbols. For instance, official seal of City of Santa Monica contains flying airplanes - I would replace airplanes on bees - it would represent SMs desire to be "green" better than smelly lead-fueled outdated aircraft!
- OK, this is controversial: I would create the Bee-Institute in similar way how NIH established. It supposed to create reasonable policies for the bees and beekeepers. I am not sure how it would work since all other "institutes" are not very efficient... broken...
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An aging and unsightly parking garage located in a prominent section of Chicago's Loop financial district is given a "face-lift" through the appliqué of a new screen comprised of white rubber traffic cones suspended from a stainless steel cable structure. The rubber traffic cones, in various sizes, skin the garage continuously on three sides, creating a textured surface that offers the structure a new visual identity that is low maintenance and environmentally-friendly. Colored lighting inside the garage assists drivers in locating their cars, and offers the garage a soft, glowing street presence at night. Signage is spelled out in black traffic cones strategically inserted into the array.
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Handbook on Responsible Leadership and Governance in Global Business
Jonathan P. Doh, Stephen A. Stumpf
Edward Elgar, Jan 1, 2005 - Business & Economics - 416 pages
'A profoundly important book for scholars and leaders alike that makes a vital timely contribution to the behavioral perspectives on leadership and governance. Doh and Stumpf, along with their world-renowned contributors, apply solidly anchored academic wisdom to offer fresh ideas on restoring faith in the integrity of American enterprise.' - Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Yale School of Management, President and CEO, Chief Executive Leadership Institute and author of Leadership and Governance from the Inside Out Ethics, social responsibility, leadership, governance. These terms are heard in the classroom, in the boardroom, and viewed on the front page of newspapers and magazines. Yet serious attention to the relationships among these concepts is lacking. Although commitments to leadership, ethics, and social responsibility are evident, individuals and companies are falling short in combining these duties into policies and cultures that guide behavior and decisions. the missing element is a broad-based and integrated approach to responsible leadership and governance. This volume provides the leading thinking on these issues and includes a discussion of emerging areas that require future attention.
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If you're a Mac OS X programmer who wants to write Cocoa applications using Ruby, your options are somewhat limited. The RubyCocoa framework allows users to work with Objective-C objects and write Cocoa applications, but the framework suffers from some performance issues.
In order to provide an easier way to write Cocoa applications in Ruby, Apple engineers have been working on a replacement for RubyCocoa called MacRuby. The MacRuby project released a new stable version last week, and is now turning its attention to the next release, the "experimental" branch. According to Zen and the Art of Programming, the future MacRuby 0.5 release is something that Ruby programmers should keep an eye on, since it looks to be substantially faster than the current OS X implementation of Ruby.
So just what is MacRuby, and why is it so fast? Basically, MacRuby takes the current OS X implementation of Ruby, which is based on the Ruby MRI reference implementation, and ports it so that it makes greater use of the Objective-C runtime. The goal of the project is "seamless integration" with Objective-C.
In practice, the modifications mean that Ruby classes and objects are actually Objective-C classes and objects, making it very easy to write Cocoa applications. MacRuby's combination of Ruby and Objective-C also allows it to use Core Foundation and the Objective-C garbage collector. MacRuby also includes a framework called HotCocoa that provides and easier way to interact with the Cocoa API using Ruby code.
One of the other benefits of mixing Ruby and Objective-C is that it speeds things up, which is the goal of the next MacRuby release. A new compiler (LLVM) is being added to the implementation and the MacRuby team is working on the IO system.
Zen and the Art of Programming ran a few benchmarks comparing the MacRuby experimental branch to the existing Ruby implementation, and MacRuby turned out to be an average of three times faster.
Of course, the experimental branch is still in development and may trade some of its speed for compatibility with the Ruby specification, but even so, the upcoming release of MacRuby should be a big improvement for Ruby programmers who use OS X.