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Wednesday Evening, November 20, 1957. Find Bodies of 4 Victims of Plane Crash MOUNT STERLING. Iowa' (UP) —The bodies of four Chicago suburbanites were discovered Tuesday night in the wreckage of their plane missing since last Sunday. A search party penetrated the rugged, heavily wooded country eight miles south of Mount Sterling when a farmer told authorities he spotted a low-flying plane Sunday night. Authorities identified the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Chiaramonte, Forest Park, 111., Frank's pilot nephew, Charles Chiaramonte, Mclrose Park, and Charles' fiancee, Carol -Schierhorn, also of Forest Park. The light Piper Tri-Pacer. bringing the foursome back irom a •weekend pleasure flight hi ; the Ozarks, was en route to O'Hare Field, Chicago International Airport. Following the farmer's report, a Civil Air Patrol pilot sighted the wreckage just south of ;hp Iiwa- Missouri border and later led the search party to the scene. Indianapolis Man To Face Charges Of Slaying Two GALLATIN, Tenn. (UP) — William Brown, alias Brownd, 44, Indianapolis, was slated to be returned to Indianapolis today to face charges in connection with the slaying of a man and woman last Thursday. Sumner County Sheriff Albert Hackett said Brown waived extradition shortly after he signed a •written confession, in which he admitted that he shot and killed Mrs Britt, 44, and William Smith, 45, Bridgeport, in Mrs. Britt's trailer home just outside Indianapolis. The bodies were found by neighbors Friday. Hackett said thdt Brown in his confession termed Smith a "love rival" for Mrs. Britt's affections. In the confession, Brown said he met Smith and Mrs. Britt in an Indianapolis tavern Thursday and there was a quarrel in which Smith threatened Brown's life, Hackett said. . Hackett quoted Brown as saying he returned to his home and got a 12-gauge shotgun and then went to Mrs. Britt's trailer. When Smith opened the door, he fired the gun twice. Mrs. Britt fell to the muddy ground and Brown said he carried her body into the trailer. Hackett said Brown told him he had not meant to shoot Mrs. Britt because he loved her "better than anyone else in the world." Brown was captured in a room- Ing house here Monday.. Read the Classified Ads like plastic figure on your favorite president. Or even one of your mother-in-law. president. Or even one of your mother-in-law. The museum will feature 14 historical tableaux beginning with Columbus discovering America and ending with the Yalta conference. There also will be a hall of great Americans. Among the great Americans will be ' Hoover, Truman, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford. Dorfman said all the figures are made with a secret vinyl plastic-wax formula "after considerable research." "They even feel alive," he said. 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"These (small) farmers will the prospective financial situation of farmers in 1958 likely will be continue e ° l 1 ^. 6 Difficulty in mak- : , , . ' ing a satisfactory living, to say much the same as in 195,. _ nothing of financial progress, from. department's publication.farming," the department said. | The department, will be adversely af-|of the high rate of expansion of recent years. The department said this caution plus the expectation that farm transfers will continue at the low 1'957 rate will tend to weaken the demand for long-term credit. "The 1958 Agricultural Finance j "More of them will quit farming 1 Outlook" said this is how the farm i for industry in 1958. Many other situation will shape finance next year: A further rise in debt but at &• u small farmers will seek supplemental part - time income from non-farm sources." , The farm pocketbook will con- slower rate than in recent years; ; Unue lo be , d b Ule hi h A relatively low number of de-, ice of items farmers b for hnquent mortgage accounts, and ^ produc t ion and livingi the - de . partment said. Prices of land and farm machinery are expected to an even fewer number of foreclosures; Little increase if any in the amount of financial savings; Generally strong net worth positions for many, mainly because of the higher values oHand and other capital investments. Economists estimated owners' equities in agriculture Jan. l will total $168/.00,000,000, almost 7 per cent above a year earlier, These predictions apply to the big, well-established, heavy land- increase further next year. Property taxes will keep on their upward trend. Interest rates will remain high and may inch up more in 1958. Because of the cost-price squeeze many farmers will continue to feel the need of enlarging their farms and increasing the efficiency of their operations, the department said. Such expansion, however, may be tempered by a cautious owning farmers. The financial position of many small less- •. attitude toward spending and debt. efficient farmers, according to the I This.would represent a slowdown Plan Opening Of Historical Wax Museum .WASHINGTON (UP) — Just about everyone who's anybody will be there: Christopher Columbus, Harry Truman, ' Robert E. Lee, Herbert Hoover. They'll all be part of the new National Historical Waxworks Museum scheduled to open next February in the nation's capital. Moreover, Museum General Manager Earl Dorfman said today the museum plans to make up historical figures on order as a sideline — even unhistorical figures. You too can have a life-size,. life- Censor Snips At Zsa Zsa's Chiffon Dress HOLLYWOOD (UP) — Jittery television censors Tuesday night ordered a last-minute remodeling of a $6,000, flesh-colored chifton, dress blonde Zsa Zsa Gabor planned to wear on George Gobel's coast-to-coast program. The fciery Zsa Zsa objected but submitted as busy seamstresses sewed a hip-to-toe slit so that it was a discrete-knee-to-toe opening and added a ruffle to de-emphsize the actress' dccolletage. "It is a beautiful gown," Z^a Zsa pouted in the wings of the NB.C television stage. "I think it's a very lady-like gown and it's just perfect for a television appearance. Censor John Bushnell didn't agree. He took one look in an on- camera test before going on the air and decided that the near-to-l nothing gown with Zsa Zsa in it • was too much for the nation's liv- : ing rooms. Before the show, Bushnell said that there are, no jrules about how ; much or little a ' performer may j weur on television. ; "A lot depends on how well-! endowed the girl is; And Zsa Zsa! , is blessed with all the charms any i girl could hope for. I'll he right i there to see that the dress isn't i too hot to handle." I In case Zsa Zsa decided to be; stubborn about modling the I creation—wHich she called "my; ;hing dress"—the station planned I io switch to a deft-fingered organ-] st .who had warmed up for a musical emergency. ' "All I can say is that I never got any complaints in Las Vegas," Zsa Zsa said. Decide Operation for Cousy Nor Necessary . WORCESTER. Mass. (UP)—Bob Cousy of the Boston Celtics said today his injured right leg "feels a lot better" and he .hoped to resume workouts within a week. '"I've always had good recuperative powers," Cousy said while resting at his home. "Nature seems to be taking its course! quickly. 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I set out to change the original recipe up just a little and ended up changing it almost completely. Thank you Carol, wherever you are, for being the springboard to my inspiration...
Zucchini Muffins Cleaned Up a Bit
- 1.5 cups All-purpose flour (I use King Arthur)
- 1.5 cups Whole Wheat flour (I use King Arthur)
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp kosher salt
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup raw cane/turbinado sugar
- 1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce
- 2 tbsp lemon juice (fresh is best but....whatever)
- 2 medium zucchini, freshly grated
- 1-2 tbsp ground cinnamon (depending on how much you like cinnamon)
- Pre-heat oven to 350 F. If using muffin tins, either generously grease and flour them or use papers. Even if you use papers I still recommend spraying the insides with some non-stick cooking spray. This version tends to stick (from using applesauce instead of oil)
- Whisk together the dry ingredients: both flours, baking powder and soda, salt and cinnamon
- In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat the eggs on medium speed for 1-2 minutes, then beat in the cane sugar
|Notice the Turbinado sugar is larger and has a brownish tint?
- Next, beat in the applesauce
- Next comes the lemon juice. Normally, I use a wooden juicer for fresh lemons and then strain them using a small mesh seive. I was watching Everday Italian one day and saw Giada just squeeze the lemon and drain it with her hand. I wanted to look cool like Giada and tried it out this time. Well, lets just say I got lemon juice in my eyes and seeds in my batter. Not cool! So, juice at your own risk!
|Definitely doesn't look as cool as Giada doing it
- Next mix in the grated zucchini. I like to use a giant box grater to do mine.
- Lastly, turn the mixer down to low and slowly add the dry ingredients. Spoon about 1/4 cup of batter into each section of the muffin pan.
- Bake for about 20 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the middle of one of the muffins comes out clean.
|Makes about 2 dozen muffins
- As tempting as it is....let cool completely before eating. It sticks to the paper less that way!

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Christopher Dum
My research focuses on social stratification associated with inequality, poverty, homelessness, and the justice system. Specifically, I am interested in how stratified groups form, how they behave, and how society acts with them through public policy and community efforts. In the forthcoming book (Exiled in America: Life on the Margins in a Residential Motel, Columbia University Press) I draw upon a year of ethnographic fieldwork at a welfare motel to explore how motel residents go about their lives in the context of social policy and stigma that pushes them to the margins of society. My current research projects use both qualitative and quantitative methods to examine the social control of registered sex offenders, as well as the homeless.
Teaching and Research Interests:
- Punishment and Inequality
- Corrections and Reentry
- Sanitization of Social Space
- Qualitative Research Methods
Grants and Awards:
Farris Family Innovation Award for, "The Impacts of Inmate Writing on Participants and Society." The project will focus on the products and experiences of an inmate writing group at Lake Erie Correctional Institution. Specifically, studies will examine how participating in this writing group affects inmates and how the writings products that emerge from this group can impact the general public, including Kent State University. The project will receive $8,000 a year for three years, starting with the 2017-2018 academic year.
National Science Foundation Law and Social Sciences Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant: The Consequences of Sex Offender Legislation on Residents and Offenders in a Single Room Occupancy Motel (SES 1323945) Association of Doctoral Programs in Criminology & Criminal Justice Student Research Scholarship American Society of Criminology Graduate Fellowship for Ethnic Minorities
doing sociology
ASA speaks with sociologist Christopher Dum at the 2016 ASA Annual Meeting on August, 2016, in Seattle, WA. Dum talks about what it means to "do sociology," how he uses sociology in his work, highlights of his work in the field, the relevance of sociological work to society, and his advice to students interested in entering the field.
NPR INterveiw
Christopher Dum being interviewed on NPR's Marketplace about his new book.
What happens when a motel becomes home
Kai Ryssdal talks with Christopher Dum about his new book "Exiled in America: Life on the Margins in a Residential Motel"
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With so many dog accessories on the market, it can feel impossible to sort through them all. The best dog accessories for your needs will vary based on what you need them for. We've got you covered with detailed lists for a huge variety of types of dog accessories.
Whether you take your pooch out regularly and want to make sure they're as comfortable as possible or you only take them out once in a while but want them to have some extra gear, these dog car accessories are excellent choices.
If your dog is older or has mobility issues, and you plan to take them on a long car ride with frequent stops, a pet ramp may be a great choice. It allows them to quickly and easily get in and out of the vehicle on their own. Look for the following features as you shop for a pet ramp:
Dog harnesses can be buckled to your seatbelt to ensure your pet is safe. In the event that the worst happens – you get into an accident – your dog will stay in the vehicle where you can immediately attend to any medical needs they may have.
Dog harnesses can also be used in place of collars and leashes. They're especially useful for owners who are trying to teach their dog not to pull when on a lead. There are many types of dog harnesses including:
Small dogs that sit in the backseat often don't have a particularly good view of what's going on around them. That's where pooch booster seats come in. They allow small dogs a higher perch so they can still yet still see everything going on outside and in the front seat.
On the other hand, large dogs have special needs too. They often can't make use of the backseat without laying across it in such a way that it's difficult to travel with others. A seat extender fills in the space between the back of the front seat and the front of the back seat to provide more area for the dog to lie.
Your long haired dog can make quite a mess if they're in the car frequently. Car seat covers are waterproof, stain resistant, and can be washed in your washer and dryer. They're easy to take off and put back on and can make it simple to keep your car clean when traveling with your dog.
What about the dog that loves sticking his head out the window to feel the breeze but is also likely to run off any time you stop? Enter the window cage. It allows your dog to hang out the window but restrains them and provides mesh to keep them from being able to jump out.
For the dog that's on the go, you need plenty of dog travel accessories. You'll have several goals when traveling with your dog: keeping them safe, keeping them secure, and ensuring they're comfortable and having fun. These are the best dog accessories for those needs.
Are you traveling to the beach or another hot spot? If so, you need to make sure your dog is safe from the heat and sun. You want them to have a great time but you don't want them coming home with blistered paws or a sore nose. There are several things to consider:
Sleeping bags are great for a wide range of needs. If you're camping or going on an outdoor adventure then a dog sleeping bag allows your pooch to comfortably curl up when it's time to bed – and it lets you easily keep track of them.
Even if you're staying in a hotel or at a friend's house, a dog sleeping bag provides consistency and comfort for your dog. This is especially useful if your dog is frequently nervous in new surroundings. Let them use their sleeping bag at home so when you take it on the road they'll be comforted by it.
Your dog will need fresh water and food while you're traveling. There are many collapsible bowls on the market that can be stored easily and used for feeding time. There are also water bottles that unfold to provide a water dish in a pinch.
When you want your dog to be ready on the go, a dog carrying purse is a great option. You can tuck your little pooch inside and take them out on the town with you without worrying about them keeping up – or keeping track of their leash. These are especially good in heavily populated areas that can easily spook dogs.
The next time you head to an outdoor concert, picnic, or any other event with tons of people and open fields, grab your camping chair with a built-in pet compartment. It folds up into a bag just like the most popular options but under the seat, there's a zippered pet compartment your dog will be able to see out of.
These hang over the headrest in your car and have spots for holding water bottles, Frisbees, treats, leashes, dog tags, and much more. They're the perfect way to have everything you need when you want to take your pooch on the go – but without the mess.
Senior dogs have special needs and there are special dog accessories to help ensure they are as mobile as possible and have as high a quality of life as possible. Check out these unique dog accessories made specifically for older or less mobile dogs.
Older dogs are susceptible to hip injuries and other mobility issues. Dog lift harnesses are a great way to keep them comfortable and mobile. These harnesses help support your dog's hindquarters or for dogs who aren't capable of supporting their entire weight. They can still get the exercise they need with a little help from you and this harness.
A good orthopedic dog bed offers extra support and is both waterproof and spill resistant. It's more comfortable and supportive for senior dogs than your standard dog bed, takes the pressure off their joints, and the waterproof / spill capabilities are necessary for older incontinent dogs.
You may be familiar with these large, air-filled balls often used by people for yoga but they can help dogs too. Just balance your dog's front end on them to strengthen their hind limb musculature and improve proprioception – both of which help your dog place their feet properly when they're walking.
If your dog is getting up there in years, and you're starting to come to terms with the fact that they won't be around forever, then it's the perfect time to get a dog nose print necklace. The maker takes an imprint of your dog's nose and makes a beautiful silver or gold necklace of it.
Is your dog too old to get around the neighborhood like they used to? If their mobility issues keep them stuck in the yard, consider special wooden fence panels that include a clear globe your dog can look through. They'll wag their tails with glee when they can once again watch the squirrels run and play.
Taking your dogs for hikes, out camping, or for any other outdoor adventure is a ton of fun but you have to have the right dog accessories to ensure everyone enjoys themselves as much as possible. Here are the best accessories for outdoor adventure.
Most people think of dogs shoes as the best dog accessory for cold weather but they're actually very important for the trails too. They provide extra grip, they protect your dog's feet from rocks and other sharp hazards, and they can keep your dog's paws from becoming overheated. Follow these tips to find the right dog shoes:
You want to spend as much time as possible with your pooch while you're out but there's likely to come a time when you need to make sure they're safe and secure while you get some things done. A portable retractable tie up lets you keep them happily restrained without having to worry about them.
Holding your dog's leash while you bike is not the easiest or safest thing. Instead, check out a bicycle leash. They generally have several connection points on the mount, which allows you to switch it either side. Your pooch will be safer and you'll be able to concentrate on the road.
Some folks like to have their dog run alongside them while they're biking but for owners of small dogs, this simply isn't possible. Dog baskets have long been a solution but they don't work for dogs that are likely to bolt. Enter the covered basket which is open enough that your furry friend can see what's going on but is otherwise safe, secure, and closed.
If you plan to take your dog in a boat, whether it's a small canoe or a large yacht, then they should have a life jacket. Too often owners assume that all dogs knew how to swim. The reality is that not all dogs do know how to swim and even those with plenty of experience can get pulled underwater by strong currents.
Dog crates serve several purposes. Whether you use it just for transporting your pooch or it's where they sleep nightly, there are many dog crate accessories that will help them feel safer, more secure, and happier in their crate.
You'll love two things about dog crate cover ups. First, there are hundreds of patterns to choose from so you can find something that isn't an eyesore. Second, they help your pooch calm down and sleep more easily. With privacy and comfort in one package, this is a great choice.
Your dog needs water and food in their crate but it can be challenging to figure out the best way to get it to them without them constantly spilling all over the place. The snap and fit water and food bowls are just what they sound likea bowl that snap into place so you don't have to worry about spills.
There are many options for you in crate pads. If you're looking for something to keep them comfy and cozy you can buy a comforter-like crate pad. On the other hand, if you're worried about accidents and need something to clean you can purchase a no-slip plastic or rubber crate pad.
Does your dog slip through the cracks in your crate? Owners of small dogs have this problem more than you think. Luckily there's a solution: the escape prevention harness. It has a flat rod on the back that that ensures no dog will slip between anything but the largest gaps in a crate.
Dog collars are great ways to express your pet's personality but you can add more to the fun with dog collar accessories. Even if you chose a dog collar from your local drug store and it has no personality, these add-ons will be great additions that provide tons of flair.
Who doesn't love a bow tie on a dog? Make it simple to keep on by buying a bow tie attachment to their collar. They won't even notice it's there but your friends and neighbors will. For the dog who has everything, dog bow ties are a great idea.
For the lady dog that has everything, a dog flower is a lovely choice. You can choose from life-like fake flowers or cartoonish flowers. Pick a bright, pastel color or choose a deep, dark classic red rose. There are simple flowers and flowers covered in glitter and glitz.
Dog tags are necessary for you to feel secure that if your dog were to get away they'd be easier to find. However, the clacking of them against each other can be noisy – especially for families with young children. Dog tag silencers prevent dog tags from making noise but still ensure they're easily visible.
Remember those Best Friends necklaces that used to be so popular? It was a heart split in half and each one of a pair of best friends wore one-half. Now they make similar necklaces – but for owners and their pets. You get one on a necklace to wear around your neck and your pooch wears theirs on their collar.
Just like human activity trackers, a dog monitor can be attached to your pet's collar and will give you all sorts of information about what they're up to. They can track how long and far they walked, how much time they spent playing, and how much time they slept or rested on a given day.
While it looks like a simple collar during the day, the light-up collar has a brilliant light in the front of it. As night approaches just active it at let your dog run ahead of you. They'll illuminate the way and you'll be totally hands-free and out of the dark.
You want to take your dog for a walk as often as possible but issues can make it less than ideal. These dog walking accessories are designed to ensure Fido gets his exercise and that you have a great time taking them out on a daily basis.
You might be shocked to see how many dog walking bags there are on the market. They're waterproof and have numerous pockets for dog treats, dog refuse bags, an extra leash, etc. They're also made to be comfortably worn so you'll be hands-free when walking the dog.
If you have several dogs then you're familiar with how complicated it can be to walk several dogs at once. They can get tangled up in different leashes, you can accidentally let go of one when you're paying attention to anther and so on. A multi-leash has several leashes but just a single handle to keep ahold of.
How many times have you been out to take your dog for a walk when you realized you forgot their refuse bags? The easy way to avoid this is to buy a refuse bag keyring. The bags are tucked tight away but when you need them you can quickly and easily get to them.
Dogs don't want to get wet on their walk any more than you do, yet human umbrellas don't let them out of the rain. Enter the dog umbrella. It looks like a traditional umbrella except instead of the umbrella coming down over the handle it goes in the opposite direction. You hold it toward the ground and it covers your dog and keeps them dry.
From designer dog accessories to handmade options, there are some really unique options out there. Not all of these will be the best dog accessories for every dog but you may just find something unique you'd never thought of before.
Have you ever gotten tired of playing catch with your pooch? You know they want to play for hours but you simply don't have the energy. That's where the automatic ball launcher comes in. You simply add up to a dozen balls and it throws one every minute. Your dog gets exercise and you get a break!
Washing your dog's paws shouldn't be a pain but it can be. You can't always get between their pads as well as you need to and your dog will often wiggle and squirm. A paw washer is a small cup-like object that you simply insert your dog's paws in and then pull out past the brushes. Viola! Clean paws.
You've seen thousands of dog collars in your day but these days you can find every manner of personalized dog collars handmade by individuals or dog collars encrusted with diamonds. For the truly unique dog get a truly unique dog collar.
Do you wish your dog had darker hair? Lighter hair? Or have you always thought your pooch would look great with a streak of bright red, blue, or green hair? Dog hair dye gel is easy to put on and is safe for dogs. It's a great way to glam your dog up and make a statement!
When you have tons of accessories for your dogs, and they include everything from clothing to hats to carriers, you need a doggie dresser. They are just tall enough that if your dog could stand up they'd be able to grab their things from it. If you're serious about making dog accessories a part of your life then this is the ultimate way to organize them.
Anyone who's washed their dog at home knows how messy it can be. As you try to soap them up they'll shake it off – leaving you covered in soap. The dog shower curtain has special holes you can wash them through. Your dog gets squeaky clean and you get to stay high and dry.
Whether your pooch is a long-haired beauty or a short-haired sassy they're missing out if they don't have the latest dog hair accessories. From keeping them well-brushed, clean, and pretty to keeping them outfitted in the latest designer styles, there's a dog hair accessory for every need.
Are you tired of having dog hair everywhere? Do lint brushes not quite work well enough for you? Then a pet lifter sponge may be just what you're looking for. They can remove even the most stubborn dog hair and work great on virtually every type of fabric.
When it comes to dog hair accessories, nothing quite beats a simple dog hair clip. They come in tons of varieties from bows to barrettes and beyond. If your pet isn't already used to having their hair clipped, start with a small, lightweight option and work your way up to more elaborate designs.
When you want to tie your dog's hair up into adorable pigtails or a single ponytail, don't reach for your own hair ties – and don't used standard office rubber bands! Instead, choose dog rubber bands made specifically for the texture of dog hair.
You can use your own brush on your dog but you may find it hurts them and doesn't do a particularly good job. When shopping for the best dog brush, you should look for one that's made specifically for your type of dog. A short haired dog doesn't need a long haired dog brush – and vice versa.
If you want your dog's hair to truly shine there's only one thing to do: buy it a puppy tiara. With every turn, they'll glint and glisten. While you could try to put a child's tiara on your dog, puppy tiaras are made especially for pooches and stay put very well.
As you search for cool dog accessories that will make your pooch as cute as can be, take this guide into consideration. Make your pooch the envy of all the dogs at the dog park with cute dog accessories so adorable everyone who sees them can't help but say, "Aww!"
It's true that dog sweaters are important to keep smaller or shorter-haired dogs warm during the winter but they're also just plain cute. You can find designer dog sweaters or hand-knitted sweaters. Look for an option that's easy to put on and take off. Your dog will look cute as can be!
You may notice that dog shoes and boots are on this list in several sections. That's because they serve so many purposes! They're great for protecting your dog's feet and giving them the traction they need but they're also simply adorable.
Dog sweaters are sweet and precious but dog hoodies are cool and hip – along with adorable. Buy a matching hoodie for you and your dog and always be protected from unexpected rain or snow and look cool doing it.
Dressing your dog up doesn't have to be reserved for Halloween. Pick up a cute duck costume, a costume of your favorite superhero, or any costume you'd like. They can wear it around the house, to the dog park, or on a walk around the neighborhood.
Who says the latest human fad can't also apply to pooches? There are many makers who create these luscious, cozy scarves just for dogs. Not only will your pooch be cute as can be but they'll also stay warmand toasty in cold weather.
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I would like to suggest that all the vocabularies that we learnt in each lesson to be indexed by their first Hiragana and to be listed centrally in the Toolbox so that we can search for these vocabularies in a much simpler way. Currently, if we cannot recall the lesson where we learn from, we have to search for it lesson by lesson.
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Is your remarketing efforts reaching a highly targeted and high quality audience? If you are not getting the return through Facebook remarketing, it is a great sign that the audience strategy is most likely the cause.
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If you hate the early onset of Christmas, which seems to start around September now, the antidote is simple. Start thinking about Super Rugby 2018. I am.
You'll remember 2017, the year where somehow, we lost the title. Although strictly we didn't lose the title; we just didn't win it again. The Crusaders are not the defending champions, but another team trying to win it. Have we got that clear?
So with those semantics to one side, we do know one thing - 2018 is different. There as you will be aware, be 15 teams - no more Perth stopovers for anyone, of course.
The new format - three conferences - will for New Zealand sides probably make little difference to the cut-throat nature of the domestic derbies, although my grasp of the latter stages is that it will see fewer of the ludicrous rankings inflicted upon us under previous four-conference beast.
Regardless, there are a number of games of rugby football to be played between teams of 15, before everyone agrees the Hurricanes are the best, sometime in July 2018. Here is how the draw looks from afar.
It's always important to start well, of course. Doubly so this year, for the draw puts the Canes on the road to South Africa and Buenos Aires in rounds 1 and 2 (actually R2 and R3 thanks to a staggered start). Great to get the serious travel out of the way early, provided both games can be nailed.
While everyone talks about the importance of the conference derbies, I actually think the most critical games not to lose are the out of conference matches. Given the New Zealand dominance, to drop a game, to say, the Rebels, is going to mean having to claw that back against, well, a New Zealand side, where the points won't come easily.
So the two away matches are actually not a soft start but an opportunity to get two problematic fixtures out of the way while the squad is fit and raring to go. But they won't be easy.
Round 4, and its back home for the Crusaders. Aka an early reality check, and it will be interesting how the squad is managed to see that there isn't too much travel exhaustion to deal with. I am not suggesting using a B team in BA; we all know how that's worked out in the past for the Lions.
Then there's a bye. Probably a bit early, but they come when they come.
I won't work through the comp round by round. The second group of games before the next bye has two home derbies (Highlanders and Chiefs), a home hosting of the Sharks, and an away fixture against the mighty Rebels.
From that clutch of matches, you'd hope the Canes can come away with just one loss. Two would be okay, three would be bad.
The first real litmus test will be whether the side can stop the habit of losing the key New Zealand match-ups - I'm looking at you, Saders and Chiefs.
That really kept last year's campaign spluttering.
Looking beyond the second bye, in round 10, and we're now into late April. Doesn't time fly, even if it never lands in Perth anymore.
There's a string of 6 games, a mix of soft home games against poor visiting sides - Sunwolves, Lions and Reds, and three tough derbies away. We should know by then if the 2018 squad is the real deal.
Then comes the June international window, and then the final three games - the Brumbies away, Blues at home, and Chiefs away to round out things.
So it's simple really, isn't it? Let's not hear whinging about the brutal Kiwi conference. The day we hope for a set-up that is easier is the day we start weakening the All Blacks.
With that all sorted, I wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year. Especially in Perth.
Lifelong All Blacks supporter Kev has followed the Hurricanes since they began. Last year his faith in them was rewarded when they won the title – they've missed out in 2017, but he'll be back!


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Financial exclusion is where people do not have access to appropriate financial services and products or the knowledge, skills, confidence and motivation to manage their money effectively.
Financial exclusion costs money. Individuals pay more for everyday transactions; without a bank account it costs more to cash a cheque, pay a bill or pay for goods and services, particularly high cost items such as energy. Credit availability is very limited and very expensive, and individuals often resort to high cost lenders to borrow money.
There is strong evidence to show that financial exclusion affects physical and mental health. One in four readers of "Quids In" magazine had become physically ill due to money worries, whilst nearly half have become anxious and depressed.
Households on a low income have an above average likelihood of financial exclusion. These include
In 2011, Experian produced a report for the Financial Inclusion Task Force which ranked every ward in England on levels of likely financial exclusion. It looked at indicators such as income, financial product holdings, affluence, outstanding borrowings, proportion of disposable income spent on fuel mapped against demographic data such as deprivation indices. It also identified those wards with the greatest requirement for affordable credit.
Derbyshire has 32 wards in the worst category for financial exclusion. Of these 18 are amongst the worst 10% nationally. Gamesley in High Peak and Shirebrook North West in Bolsover are in the worst 1% nationally.


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Longines Swiss Watches recently unveiled its Longines Elegance Scholarship Fund, created for the Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy in West Las Vegas.
The Sept. 4 event at the Tourneau TimeMachine store in New York City featured tennis legend and Longines ambassador Andre Agassi and two students of the Academy, Micah Jones and Brianna Guillory (who recited the school's "Code of Respect," recited each morning by the academy's 600 students). The ongoing fund, began with Longines $200,000 donation, will provide scholarships to the first class of graduating seniors in 2009.
The Academy, an award-winning K-12 public charter school created to transform public education for economically at-risk young people, was began by Agassi in 2001 and is supported by The Andre Agassi Charitable Foundation.
Pictured with the symbolic $200,000 check are (from left) Jennifer Judkins, Longines brand manager; Bianna Guillory; Andre Agassi, and Micah Jones. (Photo by William George Shuster)


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Guide to Garden Buildings
There are various types of buildings that you can buy to put in your garden including sheds, summerhouses, log cabins and children's play houses.
Garden sheds can be made from wood (timber), metal or plastic. Metal sheds are usually made from aluminium or galvanised steel and do not require and maintenance, but rarely have windows and are usually just used for storage.
However, wood sheds come in large variety of shapes, designs and sizes, and can be used as an office, a workshop or a play house depending upon the design. It is easy to attach additional shelves and hooks to wooden shed walls for additional storage (note - some cheap wooden sheds are have very thin walls that would not support shelving, in which case you would need free standing storage units). Some have opening windows and skylights for ventilation - which you will need if you are going to spend any length of time in the shed. Most have an Apex shaped roof for repelling the rain, with the roof lined in roofing felt.
The "Rolls Royce" of sheds is the log cabin. They can be very luxurious, be split level, and kitted out with indoor barbecues (a "kotta" - very popular in Finland), spa pools and saunas. Some people run businesses from them.
Will I need planning permission for my shed?
Our current understanding of the law in England and Wales is that planning permission is not required, provided that the shed is not being erected in a Conservation Area or the garden of a Listed Building. However, the following criteria must also be satisfied:
It should be noted that building regulations state that wooden buildings should be situated more than 2m from the main house.
How do I prepare a suitable base / foundation for the shed?
The base must be on firm, level ground. The best base is one laid in concrete, which will make a firm foundation for the erection of your shed. Alternatively, you can use rows of paving slabs which will also allow you to be able to move the shed in the future. Note that for larger sheds a concrete base is the preferred choice.
Tip: Create an extra concrete area / path at the front of the shed, to provide a clean entrance area to stop you walking mud in, in inclement weather.
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Once a year, treat the outside of the shed with a proprietary wood stain treatment, and keep any metal moving parts (locks and latches) well oiled.
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Rethinking Assessment
To many in higher education they see problems as nails and testing as the only hammer in our kit. Yet we stand at a time where we can re-mediate assessment using new technologies and old definitions of what it means to learn.
I serve on the Tech Fluency (TF) affinity group at Southern Connecticut State College. TF is a tier one competency in our liberal education program (our general ed program but with more hoops and loftier goals). The goal is to ensure all students have the minimum tech skills they will require after college. In our current (permanent) budget crisis we have been asked to review the effectiveness of LEP.
We developed a series of rubrics instructors could use in their classroom. The newly appointed LEP assessment committee decide our approach was "too subjective." They suggested a common task, filling out a spreadsheet was their recommendation, that students could complete in a controlled and supervised environment.
This set me off. I responded (probably with not enough to delay and too much acerbic snark) with some of the following comments.
Objective Assessments are a Hoax
I am not anti-testing. Most of my research revolves around item design and testing. Yet I think what set me off was the belief that some assessments are objective. Those who rely on standard measures ignore the bias inherent in statistical models and deciding as "what counts as learning." They look at rubric scored items as being "too subjective" yet ignore the error variance, the noise in their models. I say bring the noise. It is in outliers where we see interesting methods and learning.
Technology Assessment Lack Ecological Validity
We were asked to create a shared assessment. It's just the task sounds like 1996 wants their Computer Applications textbook back. We have to move beyond, "These kids don't know spreadsheets" as the only critique in our self-assessment. There is so much more in the competencies beyond the basics of Excel.
The idea that you do anything in tech under supervision and sitting alone in a crowded room is the wrong approach to assessment. What we are calling cheating will be required collaboration for anyone doing any thing with tech in any field.
This is why I think a digital credentialing platform is the correct path forward. If you begin by mapping pathways and rubrics similar to ours or better yet even more fine grained criteria we could develop a system where faculty still had the freedom to design (hopefully co-design) a pathway for students.
Students Should Drive Assessment
I think we should involve the students as stakeholders to a much higher degree in any assessment.We do this by helping stduents tell their story. This also shifts responsibility onto them to build the data trails we need.
Purpose of Assessment
I also took issue with the the purpose of our assessment. If the goal is to evaluate the effectiveness of our LEP program then why is our gut reaction to assess each student individually.
Its not that the approach of a learning artifact (the spreadsheet assessment we were asked to develop) is the wrong path in terms of overall measurement.
Let us as faculty assess the individual and let machines surface the patterns at class, school, and system level.
Technological Solutions
I think the Academy long term should push off most system wide assessment onto machines. It's way more effective and correlates so highly with well trained human raters.
If we scored a batch with high inter-rater reliability once, and laser honed the criteria, much of this could be machine scored and credentialed with minimum faculty involvement. Faculty could build whatever assessments they wanted to on top of the task. It really wouldn't matter to LEP assessment.
This isn't fantasy. It's usually $7–10 a user (for the scoring).
Moving Forward
All measurement and all grades are subjective. Yet I think we have a chance to rethink the academy by empowering learners through assessment. Its time to kill the Carnegie Credit hour.
In fact across the state of Connecticut we have been discussing how to seamlessly transfer students between seventeen community colleges and four universities. Plus students would like to receive credit for work that would demonstrate competencies in our Tier One classes. If we really wanted to think about Transfer Articulation we would forget about tracking credit hours and think of each student as an API. If we had the matching criteria, or even a crosswalk of offerings, it would be a matter of plug and playing the assertions built into our credentialing platform.
This would also allow students to apply previous work they completed in high school or outside of school and get credit for meeting the technology fluency competencies. We can use the new endorsement feature in the Badge 2.0 specification so local schools, computer clubs, or even boot camps could vouch for the independence of student work. The learning analytics can help us with our programmatic review and tracking student knowledge growth.
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As some example I threw together a quick prototype that could be using technology fluency and one that could be used in our writing intensive classes (I see very little light between writing and technology)
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The fact that advancing technology is changing the world daily is nothing new. However, how has it impacted real estate? No longer is the real estate business a 9 to 5 deal. Technology has allowed homes to constantly be placed on websites and updates to occur in moments. If you are not using technology, you could be falling behind. When you are looking for an agent, be sure to find someone that is up to date on the latest changes in the market and someone who understands the value of technology.
Technology has increased transparency and speed. Emailing and instant messaging has allowed communication to become instantaneous. Different websites can allow potential buyers such as yourself to search availability and pricing. Real time data on these websites allows everyone in the process (buyers, sellers, agents) to get information on the property any day or time. Buyers can be more informed by compiling online research that they conducted themselves to narrow their buying interests.
While technology has allowed many advancements, it has also allowed communication to primarily be through e-mail, texting, and media. Though useful, also make sure that you have an agent who can communicate face-to-face. Technology can be a tool that an agent can use, but you still want someone that knows more than what is simply found online. An agent that knows the area can best help you to find your dream home while also helping you to decipher the research you found.


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Thursday, February 22, 2018
Margarita Challenge
5 PM, Thursday, Feb. 22, Tropicana Atlantic City will celebrate National Margarita Day with a Margarita Challenge. Bartenders from the Tropicana Atlantic City venues will gather at Olón to shake, blend, our pour their version of the best margarita mix to compete for the Fan Choice and Margarita Challenge titles. The winning bartender(s) will earn more than bragging rights – winning margarita recipes will be added to Bar Olón's cocktail menu. Guests will enjoy complimentary guacamole and chips.
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Before I unveil my plan for energy independence, let me explain what's wrong with everyone else's.
The problem with Americans is not that we're addicted to oil. As soon as oil becomes more trouble than it's worth, we will sensibly stop putting it in our cars. Until then, our problem is that we're addicted to politicians with plans for energy independence, like the Advanced Energy Initiative introduced by President Bush in his budget yesterday.
What exactly is so wrong with burning oil? The best argument is that it contributes to global warming. But so does burning coal and other fossil fuels. The fairest and most efficient way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions would be with a carbon tax on all fossil fuels.
But the advocates for energy independence want to do more than just regulate emissions. Since Jimmy Carter put on his cardigan sweater and declared saving energy "the moral equivalent of war," politicians determined to wean us from imported oil have been hectoring us with bogus arguments:
The well is running dry. Government planners have a long history of overestimating the future cost of oil and underestimating the cost of their pet alternatives -- which is why we keep burning oil. The government should finance basic research, not pick winners and losers. If there's a better alternative to oil in the near future, don't expect it to be glimpsed by the politicians now doling out subsidies to energy corporations and the corn farmers who vote in the Iowa caucuses.
America needs insurance against "oil shocks." Insurance doesn't make sense if the premiums cost more than the disaster. Mandating fuel-economy standards saved gasoline and made Americans a little less vulnerable to a spike in oil prices, but the rules led to smaller cars and an additional 2,000 deaths per year in highway accidents from the mid-1970's to the mid-1990's, according to the National Research Council.
Storing oil in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve was supposed to moderate the economic damage of price spikes, but there's little evidence that it's ever made any appreciable difference, according to a Cato Institute study by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren. They calculate that the reserve has cost taxpayers more per barrel than the oil itself has ever been worth -- even in years when the average price of oil was high, as in 1991 or last year.Continue reading the main story
We must take away the Middle East's "oil weapon." The only real oil weapon is the one that American politicians use to justify energy plans and Middle East adventures. It doesn't matter if our enemies in the Persian Gulf refuse to sell us oil directly. Once they sell it to anyone, it's in the global market and effectively available to us.
The only way to hurt us would be to refuse to sell to anyone, but Middle Eastern countries are far more dependent on oil than we are: their oil revenues constitute a much bigger percentage of their income than their oil represents as a fraction of our imports.
If Osama bin Laden took over Saudi Arabia, why would he want to risk a popular uprising from citizens suddenly cut off from their accustomed cut of the national income? Selling oil makes sense, as bin Laden himself acknowledged when he said in an interview in 1996, "We are not going to drink it."
The United States spent decades propping up the shah of Iran only to see the country fall into the hands of our archenemies, but Iran is still exporting oil -- and it is a lot more reliable producer than Iraq, despite all the money and lives we've spent there. The best guarantee of future oil supplies is the sellers' greed, not our diplomatic and military efforts.
When something finally comes along that's cheaper and more reliable than oil, no national energy plan will be necessary. Capitalists will be ready to sell it to eager American drivers. For now, the best strategy is to buy gasoline and stop worrying that it's sinful or dangerous.
When you hear politicians calling you an addict and warning that you'll be cut off, try my plan for energy independence. It's modeled on the Daily Affirmation of Stuart Smalley, that recovering addict and devotee of 12-step programs (whose creator on "Saturday Night Live," Al Franken, will probably be horrified).
After you fill up your tank, twist the rear-view mirror so you can gaze at yourself. Repeat these words: "I'm good enough, I'm rich enough, and doggone it, people in the Middle East like my money."Continue reading the main story


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7:45-8:30 Pick up at your hotel in the old quarter of Hanoi.
8:30 We start the 75km journey to the Perfume Pagoda, having a comfort break along the way. There'll be an opportunity to buy snacks or even some Vietnamese handicraft products, such as lacquer ware, paintings, embroideries etc.
10:00 Upon arrival, we'll gather our things and board our boats for a thrilling 40 minute sail along the river – a perfect pace to marvel at the beautiful landscapes all around.
11:00 We'll leave the boat and do some hiking up to one of the most unique pagodas inside a cave, Huong Tich, on the mountains summit (2.5km in height). On reaching the cave, many sense the feeling of entering the holy land of Buddhism. You'll also have the incredible views from this high vantage point.
12:30 We'll head back down to enjoy a Vietnamese lunch in a local restaurant nearby.
14:20 After our rest, we'll visit the Thien Tru Pagoda (Celestial Kitchen), known for its exquisite religious architecture and artifacts.
15:00 We'll board the boat to Duc dock and start the return journey to Hanoi.
18:30 Arrive back in Hanoi and drop off at your hotel in the old quarter in Hanoi. Trip ends.
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Exploring Hydrocarbon Depletion
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Johan Norberg wrote his excellent new book Progress for three reasons. First, because something important happened. Second, because no one believes it. And third, because it's dangerous that they don't believe it.
Norberg's book comprehensively documents the myriad ways the state of humanity has vastly improved over the past couple of centuries. Global life expectancy was just 31 years in 1900. Now it has risen to over 71 years. In 1800, no country on earth had a life expectancy greater than 40 years. Now no country has a life expectancy under 40 years. And people aren't just living longer; they're living longer with fewer disabilities.
The World Bank has defined the level of abject poverty at the equivalent of $2 per day. In 1800, when world population was around one billion, 94 percent of our ancestors lived in abject poverty. In 1990, some 37 percent of people still lived below the abject poverty line. Since then, the percentage of people on earth living in abject poverty has fallen below 10 percent.
Global GDP increased as much in the past 30 years as it did in the previous 30,000 years. In 1986, global GDP stood (in inflation-adjusted terms) at $33 trillion. It now exceeds $73 trillion. Thirty years ago, global per capita GDP was $6,600. It is $10,000 today.
Being healthier has gotten cheaper. In 1900, for example, the infant mortality rate in countries with a per capita income of $1,000 was 20 per 100 live births. Today, in a country with exactly the same per capita income, the infant mortality rate is 7 per 100 births. "So even if a country had not experienced any economic growth in a 100 years, infant mortality would have been reduced by two-thirds," he writes. Spillovers in sanitation and medical knowledge help even the very poorest live longer and healthier lives.
We probably live at the most peaceful time in recorded history; your chances of being killed by another human being are far lower than in the past. For example, the annual homicide rate in medieval Europe was 32 people per 100,000. In the late 20th century, that rate dropped to about 1 per 100,000. The death rates of people being killed in wars have also fallen steeply, dropping from 195 people per million in 1950 to 8 per million in 2013.
The environments in which people live, especially as countries become wealthy, have dramatically improved. Thanks for modern farming, the world is approaching peak farmland, which means that millions of acres of land will be reverting to nature over the course of this century. Composite air pollution levels in the U.S. are 63 percent lower than they were in 1980. In a recent talk at the Cato Institute, Norberg presented a graph that showed the global progress made on hunger, poverty, illiteracy, child mortality, and U.S. pollution since 1990:
Norberg also writes intelligently about tradeoffs in the environmental arena. For example, he points out that spending $10 billion to build natural gas electric generation plants could help lift 90 million people out of poverty. Spending the same amount on renewable sources of electricity would help only 20 to 27 million people, leaving more than 60 million still living and dying in poverty.
Norberg also celebrated the progress made on boosting education. In 1800, only 12 percent of adults could read. As late as 1950, the global literacy rate was just 40 percent. It is now 86 percent. The literacy differential between men and women is also shrinking. Among those aged 15 to 24, the international female literacy rate is almost 96 percent of the male rate.
boost global GDP in 2025 by $28 trillion, or 26 percent.Educating women is key to even faster progress. Study after study finds that enabling girls and women to complete secondary education cuts the number of children they bear by between one-third and one-half. Basically, the desired number of children that couples want to have falls as women gain greater control over their fertility and participate in the wage economy outside of the home. A 2015 study by the McKinsey consultancy calculated that if women achieved parity with men in the labor markets, that would
Yet few people in rich countries actually believe all this amazing news. Max Roser, curator of the invaluable Our World In Data website, reports cluelessly depressing data from polls that asked if people think the world is getting better, worse, or neither. Only 6 percent of Americans said the world was getting better. Even fewer Britons, Germans, Australians, and French thought that world is improving.
One reason: People focus on the floods of bad news that clot our 24-hour news channels and social media platforms. Since people are psychologically constituted to focus on the negative, people get the impression that the world is falling apart.
Norberg argues that this incredibly dangerous. "Fear is the health of the state," he asserts. Or as newspaperman H.L. Mencken once observed, "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." Such mistaken beliefs, Norberg warns, actually undermine support for the institutions of liberty that make progress possible.
"All of the progress that has been recorded in this book is the result of hard-working people, scientists, innovators and entrepreneurs with strange, new ideas, and brave individuals who fought for their freedom to do new things in new ways," Norberg concludes. "If progress is to continue, you and I will have to carry the torch."
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Davy on Fri, 14th Oct 2016 7:10 pm
And some here complain about my doom well read this:
"The Pentagon Warns Of Looming Dystopian Future For "Megacities"
"The year is 2030. Forget about the flying cars, robot maids, and moving sidewalks we were promised. They're not happening. But that doesn't mean the future is a total unknown. According to a startling Pentagon video obtained by The Intercept, the future of global cities will be an amalgam of the settings of "Escape from New York" and "Robocop" — with dashes of the "Warriors" and "Divergent" thrown in. It will be a world of Robert Kaplan-esque urban hellscapes — brutal and anarchic supercities filled with gangs of youth-gone-wild, a restive underclass, criminal syndicates, and bands of malicious hackers. At least that's the scenario outlined in "Megacities: Urban Future, the Emerging Complexity," a five-minute video that has been used at the Pentagon's Joint Special Operations University. All that stands between the coming chaos and the good people of Lagos and Dhaka (or maybe even New York City) is the U.S. Army, according to the video, which The Intercept obtained via the Freedom of Information Act."
Me on Fri, 14th Oct 2016 8:51 pm
What bullshit this article and book actually is. Never mind the fact that in "exchange" for this "prosperity" we've absolutely ruined the future habitability of this planet, or that we still have millions living in abject poverty, millions starving every year, species extinctions occuring faster and faster, technology causing all kinds of social conflicts and problems and that the "average age" is all the result of modern science and medicine which in turn is leading to some really horrible untreatable superbugs and that our health is now worse then every with all kinds of horrendous diseases. This sound like a book for cornicopians and capitalistic slaves to drool over. Not for me as I'm neither.
fu on Fri, 14th Oct 2016 8:52 pm
Only fags like this author are enjoying progress since no one will cut their throat for spreading lying propaganda.
Apneaman on Fri, 14th Oct 2016 9:29 pm
Davy, when does the pentagon and entire MIC not warn? They deal in paranoia and that video is nothing but a slick PR piece. What's the point? How about we need a shit load more money to protect those happy few (elite & managers) who will be experiencing all those tech marvels to come. Will keep the ever growing have nots away, just give us the funds. There may be some truth to it, but the intention is self serving and I'll need to see all that fancy new future technology to believe it. 80% of the masses will be living in a poverty stricken urban jungle, but innovation and tech will go exponential. I wonder who will be paying for the R&D when the mega tax base is gone? Most of today's tech roots come courtesy of western tax payers and predominantly America going back to WWII.
Apneaman on Fri, 14th Oct 2016 9:37 pm
Ah yes, to be young and in Pairs – never been a better time.
Sissyfuss on Fri, 14th Oct 2016 9:38 pm
This article has dropped the scales from my eyes. I was blind to how wonderful mans' presence in the world was. More of us living longer, what a blessing! I'm gonna go get me a young wife and start impregnating her immediately. More kids is a surefire way to paradise. Yee Haa!
Apneaman on Fri, 14th Oct 2016 9:39 pm
Global debt balloons to all-time high of $152 trillion, IMF warns
No worries, it will pay itself back. Never better.
Davy on Fri, 14th Oct 2016 9:40 pm
No point just news. Is that illegal beagle?
Davy on Fri, 14th Oct 2016 9:40 pm
"Visualizing America's $18 Trillion Economy (In 3 Stunning Maps)"
"The first map redraws state borders to make seven "mega-states" that each have individual economies the size of major countries."
"The second map compares the economies of metropolitan areas with entire countries."
"The final map builds on this idea, showing that half of America's economic output comes just from a selection of metropolitan areas."
Apneaman on Fri, 14th Oct 2016 9:44 pm
Sea food has never been more abundant and at low low prices.
Are humans causing a sixth mass extinction in the oceans?
Climate change is not the primary driver threatening to render large ocean animals extinct, scientists found.
"Humans are threatening large sea creatures primarily by hunting and fishing them, the researchers found."
""These losses in the ocean are paralleling what humans did to land animals some 50,000 to 10,000 years ago, when we wiped out around half of the big-bodied mammal species on Earth, like mammoths, mastodons, saber-tooth cats and the like," Dr. Barnosky told The Washington Post's Chris Mooney.
The heightened threat to large marine genera is a recent phenomenon, reversing a 500 million-year pattern. The researchers made this discovery by comparing traits of nearly 2,500 extinct marine vertebrates and mollusks alongside others currently in danger of extinction."
Apneaman on Fri, 14th Oct 2016 9:47 pm
You can tell things have never been better by how satisfied so many are.
Americans are losing faith in democracy — and in each other
Apneaman on Fri, 14th Oct 2016 9:55 pm
And the best thing about it is we increased our population and material wealth without any consequences
human extinction by 2100 at all, right kids? Be proud to be a modern, by golly.
A flood disaster in N.C.: Satellite photos before and after Hurricane Matthew
Yes, Climate Change Helped Matthew Produce a Massive Swath of Destruction Extending From Haiti to Southeastern Virginia
"Rising sea levels spurred by global warming is an enabler of worsening coastal flooding during storms. In addition, added atmospheric moisture and ocean heat due to global warming increases peak potential storm intensity."
"Matthew's heavy rains were unarguably pumped up by near record atmospheric moisture levels due to conditions related to climate change. And Matthew's long, strong intensity was fed by all that climate change related heat and moisture. Like Sandy and Katrina, Matthew was a fore-runner to the worse storms that are now on the way."
Apneaman on Fri, 14th Oct 2016 10:20 pm
Technology – never better & green green green.
Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 Recall Is an Environmental Travesty
"Lost in the hype about Samsung permanently pulling the plug on its exploding phone is this: The failure of the Galaxy Note 7 is an environmental tragedy, regardless of what Samsung decides will happen to the 2.5 million devices it manufactured."
"Smartphones are not really recycled."
"There are two main things to consider here: First, though smartphones weigh less than a pound, it was estimated in 2013 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers estimated that it takes roughly 165 pounds of raw mined materials to make the average cell phone, a number that is certainly higher for the Note 7, being both one of the largest and most advanced smartphones phones ever created. Second, much of that mined material is going to be immediately lost."
US bans Samsung Galaxy Note 7 on all flights
You can't take it on any aircraft, even if the phone is turned off.
Jeep burned down by new Samsung Galaxy Note 7:video
Boat on Fri, 14th Oct 2016 11:51 pm
You should already be dead. But because of tech and FF you can live to an advanced age. Fire that computer up and blame away. Explain once again all ways we face eminent collapse.
dooma on Sat, 15th Oct 2016 12:15 am
The author failed to mention that many people can look forward to owning ocean-front property this century, whether they want it or not.
I will give someone $1000 AUD if they show me video proof of calling a soapbox rally in Hati and informing everybody that they have never been better off.
Can I get a kitty started with some other posters contributing?
makati1 on Sat, 15th Oct 2016 1:12 am
Techie junk is not progressing. Nothing new has been discovered in decades. The computer is older (1936) than I am. All they do now is add "new features" most don't even use. But it sells new gadgets to the gullible and the techie freaks. (Are they both the same? ^_^)
As for life extension finds, few since Jonas Salk actually work. The ability to prevent childbirth deaths added most to the human longevity average, but that to is receding into history as more women die in childbirth today in most than in previous decades. The US is sliding down that ladder already.
"In the United States, the maternal death rate averaged 9.1 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births during the years 1979–1986, but then rose rapidly to 14 per 100,000 in 2000 and 17.8 per 100,000 in 2009. In 2013 the rate was 18.5 deaths per 100,000 live births, with some 800 maternal deaths reported." WIKI
That US death rate has nearly doubled in the last 30 years. We seem to be losing the techie war…lol.
dooma on Sat, 15th Oct 2016 1:27 am
It is a war of waste though Mak. We still NEED to update our technical equipment every two years or risk being ridiculed by our peers lol.
I am talking about the younger generation mostly. The young folk is the age group that gets targeted by the advertising agencies for phones, computers and so forth.
GregT on Sat, 15th Oct 2016 2:52 am
"You should already be dead. But because of tech and FF you can live to an advanced age."
When you're dead Boat, it makes no difference whether you lived to age 5, or age 95. Dead is dead.
makati1 on Sat, 15th Oct 2016 3:47 am
dooma, when the SHTF, and all the supposed techie cures and fixes go away, as they will, the death rate will explode and the human longevity will plunge to new lows as the obesity become a real killer and the genes that carry weaknesses regain their power. I see a billion plus gone the first year and mostly in the 1st world where that tech is most predominant and relied on.
makati1 on Sat, 15th Oct 2016 3:58 am
GregT, perhaps the lucky ones are those who die before the SHTF?
Cloggie on Sat, 15th Oct 2016 4:03 am
The article is correct as far as it concerns the presence, certainly for Europe…
…but probably also still for North-America.
Peak Well-Being is here.
(Provided you stay away from party pooper sites like this one)
But if you ask an average westerner about future prospects, many give negative answers.
Davy links to a Pentagon study, painting a very bleak picture about the future of mega-cities. You can trust the Pentagon to shut up about the real reasons for the distopian future, although they know but can't say.
The reason is demographic change. Nice Christian whitey, the devirilised fool equiped with two Other Cheeks, is being replaced by barbarians from the south with zero restriction on breeding, that's why. Go look at Detroit, Baltimore, London, Charleston, Flint, St. Louis, Leicester and the rest of the (mostly Anglo) hell holes. Together with the satanic crowd who owns the US and by proxy the rest of the West since 1945, responsible for the disaster and you have a toxic mix that will destroy us (white posters/readers of this site) all.
The dystopian future the Pentagon is talking about in full display:
Remedy: throw all the articles of faith that emerged since 1968 overboard and promote:
– anti-feminism
– anti third world worshipping, the third world is the enemy and a gigantic threat
– closed borders equiped with armed guards
– anti-leftism
– historic revisionism
– ethnic based communities
– patriarchy
– anti-more economic growth, enough is enough, less is better
– broad survival skills rather than over-specialization
– dump flight self-defeating Christianity
Peak Well-being is now but it is down hill from now on.
Theedrich on Sat, 15th Oct 2016 4:04 am
Hillary: Nuke the planet to avenge the Jews. That is the banshee's threat if her donors' favorite Disneyland is touched. Talking to Jake Tapper on ABC's Good Morning America on 2008 April 22, Hillary told him, "In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them."
Besides "obliterating" 80 million Iranians, that would also ignite World War Three and eliminate all higher life on this planet. How nice. The author of the above piece does indeed have it right: "There's Never Been A Better Time to Be Alive" so that we can all die together in one vast Clintonian planeticide.
Yup. Good planning, Hillary. Stronger together. In the global crematorium you're planning for us.
Cloggie on Sat, 15th Oct 2016 4:06 am
– dump/fight self-defeating Christianity
Davy on Sat, 15th Oct 2016 6:40 am
"Go look at Detroit, Baltimore, London, Charleston, Flint, St. Louis, Leicester and the rest of the (mostly Anglo) hell holes."
Yea, Clog, go look at them. You have never been to any of them but act like an expert. There are hell holes in these cities. In St Louis where I was born and have family it is a nice city except for a few areas. The same can be said for many European cities. St Louis is a big city with a small town attitude. It is not Chicago. Its GDP is 149BIl which is half of your Amsterdam. It has a small portion of north St Louis that is a ghetto. It has some black suburbs like Ferguson that are problematic but the worst of it is a 15 block section of North St Louis. There are many poor areas in Europe especially the periphery I have been to and they are ugly, filthy, and dangerous.
Davy on Sat, 15th Oct 2016 6:55 am
Wow, here is Nobel Peace Prize Obama's last action legacy. A cyber war on Putin oops I mean Russia.
"Obama Tells CIA To Prepare For Cyber War With Russia"
"In what is looking more and more like a season finale of the HBO series "House of Cards" with each passing day, the Obama administration is now literally threatening a cyber war with Russia over allegations it was behind the hacking of Clinton's emails. According to an exclusive NBC report, the Obama administration "is contemplating an unprecedented cyber covert action" (though it's unclear how exactly it's covert if Biden is announcing it to the world via an interview with Chuck Todd) against Russia, in "retaliation for alleged" interference in the American presidential election, and has asked the CIA to draft plans for a "wide-ranging "clandestine" cyber operation designed to harass and "embarrass" the Kremlin leadership."
Cloggie on Sat, 15th Oct 2016 7:21 am
St. Louis East: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XgFPo3uDUo
Baltimore 2015 riots:
Paris 2016 apocalipse:
In 2011 *every* large British city was on fire after the police wacked a criminal darkie:
French no-go areas:
Calais epic Hungarian truck driver rant:
Coming right-wing European response:
Dresden weekly marches (going on for 2 years now; Dresden is almost 100% white)
Massive display of anti-Islamic Polish nationalism:
Head French CIA says civil war in France is immanent.
Hungarians rejecting in referendum with 98% the Soros western migration agenda.
Ukrainian hardcore nationalists with pan-European agenda:
(expect large number of armed East-European freelance fighters to move Westwards when the break-down of the French social order will begin. French fools are still celebrating on July 14 that they killed 1000s of their best people under the guilliotine)
Let's bring it on, the end of progressive egalitarian modernity promoted by the US sanhedrin and move into the multi-polair world order, based on ancient great civilizations: Greco-Roman-Christian, Confucianism, Islam, Buddhism, Shintoism, Shintoism, etc.
joe on Sat, 15th Oct 2016 7:55 am
Im sorry, but Americans are high on prescription drugs most of the time, its no wonder some people think everythings ok. Russia gave its people vodka, Americans get valium and ritalin.
Its all a big scam, we live longer because we pump ourselves full of antibiotics that bugs are growing resistant to and there is more peace because of the UN and nukes (war at all cost is not profitable anymore). As for the environment, I cant see humanity volunteering itself for degrowth without some real catalyst way beyond the war on terror or the mass Rustyria going on right now.
The paris deal will go the way of the rest.
makati1 on Sat, 15th Oct 2016 8:20 am
'There's Never Been A Better Time to Be Alive"
Yes there was, but it was 50 years ago.
Davy on Sat, 15th Oct 2016 8:24 am
Sure Joe, all Americans? Joe, you telling me 330MIL Americans are on drugs? "Americans are high on prescription drugs most of the time" I don't drink or use drugs. Another dumbass European that probably never has been to the US talk like an expert. Joe, please give me the Brit figures which are very closely related I am sure.
Illicit Drug Use* Illicit drug use in the United States has been increasing. In 2013, an estimated 24.6 million Americans aged 12 or older—9.4 percent of the population—had used an illicit drug in the past month.
In the US alone, more than 15 million people abuse prescription drugs. Source: Foundation for a Drug-Free World
In 2005, 6.6% of the US population aged 12 or older, or 16 million people, reported heavy drinking (binge drinking on at least five days of the past thirty days).
penury on Sat, 15th Oct 2016 10:30 am
Well you all can take comfort in the old song "We will all go together when we go", Re-read what Davy wrote,"Obama declares Cyber-War on Russia." It will not stay "Cyber" for very long kids.
Boat on Sat, 15th Oct 2016 10:54 am
makati1 on Sat, 15th Oct 2016 8:20 am
'There's Never Been A Better Time to Be Alive"
Yes there was, but it was 50 years ago.
There is mak, stooped with age, keeping his head down, an ever watchful eye to avoid the piles of human waste. Was this really such a good idea after all he mused. The squeak from one of the wheels of his oxygen tank oddly kept time kept time as he trudged along.
GregT on Sat, 15th Oct 2016 11:31 am
Hillary Clinton should be tried in an international court for crimes against humanity.
Wake up America. Last chance.
GregT on Sat, 15th Oct 2016 11:33 am
"The squeak from one of the wheels of his oxygen tank oddly kept time kept time as he trudged along."
You are one seriously fucked up individual Boat.
yellowcanoe on Sat, 15th Oct 2016 12:36 pm
The writer is correct that the world has gotten a lot better over the last 100 years. It doesn't follow though that this trend will continue given the deterioration of the environment, population growth, climate change, resource limits, etc.
Not A Liberal on Sat, 15th Oct 2016 12:38 pm
Yea there was a better time to be alive, I was there, I was born in 1938. I was raised in Los Angeles, I've seen a major metropolis and prosperous city in two generations turn into an unliveable shithole. Thankfully I was one of the lucky ones who got out early. Yea, when people all had stable 40 hour jobs, union pay, 2 cars, little to no debt, had 3-4 kids, and a loving wife, people were significantly happier.
American optimism is at an all time low and I can see why. The air is poison, the people are poison, the politicians hate Americans and hate laws, and the only true right you still have is guns. But rest assured the elites are working tirelessly to bring in more third world hordes to take your last precious rights away. I have never met a man over 40 who has gone, "Things are better now than they were when I was growing up." They look at the past with nostalgia and the future with deep pessimism. Never been a better time to be dead and not having to see a nation dissolve.
Apneaman on Sat, 15th Oct 2016 2:02 pm
Seems that the fucking retards around here (boat, clogged, et al) have no problem with the very obvious fact that the last 100 years of material & medical prosperity IS coming at the cost of AGW and the 6th mass extinction because of human activity to obtain said goodies. The humans are on the extinction list as one of the most vulnerable. Unlikely to make it out of this century.
No one here denies the advancement courtesy of the human mind. Why do y'all keep repeating the same fucking things over and over? We all know about the goodies since we have them. That is not, nor ever was the issue. The issue is that it was a species ending (yours) suicide project. Also, it doesn't matter how much I personally benefited from being born when I was or that it possibly extended my life span. Why is this considered a defence? Look at the non logic in that non argument. Because you have benefited from modernity, you are not allowed to criticize it? Really? Says who? Where is that written? That is not an argument, that's trying to silence what make you feel very uncomfortable and that you have no real response to. Like you are going to guilt me into not speaking about the consequence? The consequence you want to remain willfully ignorant of. Like I'm obligated to remain silent about the consequences according to some unspoken and unwritten rule because I happened to be born in the time and place (modernity) I was? The reason you keep repeating this lame assed strategy is because you have no good response to the consequences. Admit them and your entire worldview comes crumbling down, so just keep shouting up the benefits – the happy half of the story.
The good ship modernity has hit the berg and is taking on water. It was looking at the berg and full steaming straight towards it the entire time. Thought it was unsinkable. Yet even now, as it sinks further into the sea, some of it's biggest proponents are bragging about how massive and luxurious it is and how all the passengers should be eternally grateful that they got to ride on it……. and be quiet about the lilting.
"Folks back in ye olden times never got to ride on a ship like this – just ignore those deck chairs and passengers sliding towards the rails and over the side and praise it's mightiness".
Better save the women and children first.
Apneaman on Sat, 15th Oct 2016 2:20 pm
Reason (magazine)
"Reason" redirects here. For the concept of reason generally see rationality — which Reason mostly strays away from.
Reason, calling Dubya a socialist.
You gotta spin it to win it
Reason is a libertarian magazine published by the Reason Foundation and formerly edited by Nick "The Jacket" Gillespie, who stepped down and let Matt Welch take over in 2008. Gillespie is now the Editor in Chief of Reason.com and Reason TV. Readers of Reason refer to themselves as "Reasonoids," which is reminiscent enough of Randroid to be unintentionally funny.
Reason tends to do pretty good work on civil liberties, pariticularly in its coverage of drug raids. However, they're bankrolled by the usual suspects, including the Kochtopus and Scaife Foundations, who appreciate the fact that Reason's answers to most problems are "deregulate it" or "privatize it." Reason has a long history, starting in 1968 as a mimeographed newsletter, predating the Kochtopus by several years and was not part of the stable of groups set up by Koch in the late 1970s (though it has received Koch funding since). Regardless, the signal-to-corporate astroturf ratio is much stronger than even libertarian think tanks.
penury on Sat, 15th Oct 2016 2:20 pm
There never was a better time to be alive. "Addenum" If you are a resident of the U.S. and some of the Euro countries. if you are of a species other than human or a human living in countries being destroyed by the exceptional representatives of their sky god,you may not swallow that tripe. Even for most of the pampered and useless U.S. residents it really is as sorry time to be alive, so very few of them actually try it.
Apneaman on Sat, 15th Oct 2016 2:24 pm
Ronald Bailey
Competitive Enterprise Institute, adjunct analyst, Warren T. Brookes Fellow in Environmental Journalism, 1993
CATO Institute, Media Fellow, adjunct scholar
Reason Magazine, science correspondent
Forbes, Science and Technology staff writer
Society of Environmental Journalists
American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
Apneaman on Sat, 15th Oct 2016 2:26 pm
Never a better time……….to be a doomer/realist.
A collapse in Arctic sea ice volume spells disaster for the rest of the planet
Global warming drives a stunning collapse in sea ice volume.
peakyeast on Sat, 15th Oct 2016 2:40 pm
From a Danish viewpoint things has gotten worse continuously since about 1980.
Today it seems like it is accelerating its descent into chaos. The politicians are lying like never before. They cut down on the poorest every single year since about 1980.
All the "efficiency" gains has been used to implement more bureaucracy and less freedom.
In 1980-1990 when I had to pass the "parliament" there were NO security. Actually there were barely even security at the US embassy. Today there is barriers and guards and no-stop zones everywhere.
The government is isolating itself from the people and the police are helping
peakyeast on Sat, 15th Oct 2016 2:51 pm
Funny combination btw.:
Norberg presented a graph that showed the global progress made on hunger, poverty, illiteracy, child mortality, and U.S. pollution since 1990:
World number, World number, World number, World number, US number…
But why?
Davy on Sat, 15th Oct 2016 3:13 pm
Ape man, I thought rationalwiki was a compromised site per some of your earlier comments?
onlooker on Sat, 15th Oct 2016 3:35 pm
Really never been a better time to be alive? I may add never been a better time for dying as lots will be going on. I suppose someone will interpret that a good thing too. Oh wait some have already, namely our rulers as in NWO and Georgia Guide stones
Apneaman on Sat, 15th Oct 2016 5:33 pm
Davy, I never said it was compromised. What I said was it's was started by one or two dudes. Attaching wiki to your blog does not grant it instant authority and legitimacy. Usually that takes priests/economists. The blog is part of the american "skeptic community" many of whom are blinded by their liberal ideology IMO. Much of the information on there is a matter of public record and some is purely opinion and humor. I don't know if that qualifies as compromised. Unlike the Reason.com group Ration Wiki is 100% user-supported. According to their about page "…since 2013, RW has had 700-1,000 monthly editors and 15,000-30,000 monthly edits.[4]" I find them useful for one stop shopping for funding sources and political support so we can find out who really is compromised, although I can pretty much read an article and guess with a 95% degree of accuracy.
Apneaman on Sat, 15th Oct 2016 9:13 pm
The governor of Oklahoma created 'Oilfield Prayer Day' in hopes of saving the state's oil and gas industry
pray the earthquake happens to the other guy
It's Official: Injection of Fracking Wastewater Caused Kansas' Biggest Earthquake
All praise Gee-Bus
DerHundistlos on Sun, 16th Oct 2016 1:42 am
St. Louis is a shadow of what it once was. At one time, St. Louis had a larger population and GDP than Chicago, but beginning in the 1950s there was a massive exodus away from the city. Case in point: Davy. Born in St. Louis now resides many miles outside the St. Louis metro. area. At one time, St. Louis was home to an amazing variety of Fortune 500 companies such as Anheuser Busch, Ralston Purina, International Shoe Company, Missouri Pacific Railroad,Southwestern Bell, General Dynamics, TWA, May Dept. Stores, Pulitzer, A.G. Edwards etc. Now the largest employer in STL is BJC Hospital. This excerpt from St. Louis' paper of record, Post-Dispatch:
"Relative to big metro areas on the coasts, St. Louis has lost ground in recent years. Job growth since the recession has slowed. The city's population growth has stagnated. Downtown St. Louis sits eerily quiet on most days, despite millions of taxpayer dollars spent on upgrades. The per capita income of the St. Louis metro area today has fallen to 77 percent that of metro New York, down from 89 percent in 1979. And while St. Louis' nine Fortune 500 corporate headquarters are a lot for a metro area of 2.8 million people, that's down from 12 in 2000 and (correcting for the way Fortune changed its methodology in 1994) 23 in 1980."
joe on Sun, 16th Oct 2016 8:58 am
Just sayin.
Vodka for russians, pills for Americans, and these two stoned populations powerless to stop their governments doing anything.
fred johnston on Sun, 16th Oct 2016 12:23 pm
If you are an animal, it is the worse time to be alive. We are in a mass destruction of every other life form on earth.