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The unit in which physical parameters are expressed is a fundamental parameter which becomes especially important when data are to be compared, or used outside a specialized field of science — most physicists have never heard of astronomy-specific units.
Special care has been taken to try to use the standard SI units, and to convert if necessary the unit to such standards: for instance, we use the string 0.1nm to express Angströms (Å=10–10m), since the Angström is a non-standard unit. Another example is mW/m2 , the milliwatt per m2, which is identical to the CGS erg/cm2/s unit, which is not used outside our discipline.
Only simple power functions of physical units are accepted, which means that e.g. solMass3/2 (solar mass at a 3/2 power) cannot be a valid unit. Some values are however traditionnally written in a decimal logarithmic scale, and we introduced bracketed units like [solMass] to indicate logM☉ unit, i.e. a value representing solar masses expressed on a logarithmic scale.
The standard adopted here differs from the OGIP ones ( OGIP memo 93-001 about ``Specification of Physical Units within OGIP FITS files" by Ian M. George & Lorella Angelini, August 1993) for the syntax of composite units (operator symbols), and in the usage of math functions (only the square bracketted units, representing the log function is accepted here) and of obsolete CGS units which are not avoided here; the basic symbols however agree.
The numerical factor may include the letter x for the multiplication, as 1.5x10+11 to express the number 1.5×1011
Among several possible expressions of a unit, it is preferable to choose the shortest one; this leads also to prefer the division (/) to the multiplication of the inverse, e.g. prefer km/s to km.s-1.
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(c) — Unitless value (c) % Unitless value, in percent 10–2 (a) a year (also yr) 365.25d = 31.5576×106s (b) A Ampere (a) AU astronomical unit 1.49598×1011m (a) arcmin minute of arc 1/60 ° (a) arcsec second of arc 1/60 arcmin (e) barn barn (cross-section) 10–28 m2 (c) bit binary information unit (computer storage) (c) byte byte (computer storage) 8 bit C Coulomb (electric charge) A⋅s (b) cd Candela (luminous intensity) (c) ct Count (events) D Debye (1/3)×10–29 C⋅m (a) d day 24h = 86.4×103s (a) deg degree of arc (°) π/180 rad (e) eV electron-Volt 1.602177×10–19 J F Farad (electric capacitance) C/V (b) g gram 10–3 kg (a) h hour of time (sideral if appropriate) 3600s H Henry (inductance) Wb/A Hz Hertz (frequency) s–1 J Joule (energy) N⋅m (a) Jy Jansky 10–26 W/m2/Hz (b) K Kelvin lm lumen (luminous flux) cd⋅sr lx lux (illuminance) lm/m2 (b) m metre (a) mag magnitudes (a) mas millisecond of arc (π/6.48)×10–8 rad (a) min minute of time (sideral if appropriate) (b) mol mole N Newton (force) kg⋅m/s2 Ohm (Ω) Ohm (electric resistance) V/A Pa Pascal (pressure) N/m2 (a) pc parsec 3.0857 ×1016m (c) pix pixel (image element) (b) rad radian (angle) (e) Ry Rydberg (energy) (1/2) (2πe2/hc)2mec2 = 13.60583 eV (b) s second of time S Siemens (electric conductance) A/V (c) solLum Solar luminosity 3.826×1026 W (c) solMass Solar mass 1.989×1030 kg (c) solRad Solar radius 6.9599×108 m (c) Sun Unit referring to the Sun (e.g. abundances) sr steradian (solid angle) T Tesla (magnetic field intensity) Wb/m2 V Volts (electric potential) W/A W Watt (power) J/s Wb Weber (magnetic flux) V⋅s (c) yr year (also a) 365.25d = 31.5576×106s
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d deci 10–1 c centi 10–2 m milli 10–3 u micro (µ) 10–6 n nano 10–9 p pico 10–12 f femto 10–15 a atto 10–18 z zepto 10–21 y yocto 10–24
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da deca 10 h hecto 102 k kilo 103 M mega 106 G giga 109 T tera 1012 P peta 1015 E exa 1018 Z zetta 1021 Y yotta 1024
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The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has finally found a Jewish group it likes.
At its annual banquet on Dec. 17, CAIR gave its new "Defender of Liberty" award to Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP).
The Huffington Post ran the original story about this award, continuing its long tradition of running apologias for radical Islamist and Muslim Brotherhood front groups all over the United States as well as promoting virulent anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.
In 2012, the Huffington Post UK even hired Mehdi Hasan, a radical Islamist who has also proposed a one-state solution to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict – one which would lead to the slaughter of the new Jewish minority. He also was once caught on video calling non-Muslims "animals:" Hasan called on Muslims to keep "the moral high ground," adding: "Once we lose the moral high ground we are no different from the rest, of the non-Muslims, from the rest of those human beings who live their lives as animals, bending any rule to fulfill any desire." And he nefariously blamed Israeli influence for the war in Iraq. David Duke would be proud of the Huffington Post.
CAIR's decision to honor a Jewish group may seem odd to those familiar with its anti-Semitism. Hussam Ayloush, the director of CAIR's Southern California chapter, has used the term "zionazi" to describe Israeli Jews. CAIR officials have repeatedly claimed that Jews control U.S. policy. CAIR has even invited a neo-Nazi, William Baker, to speak at several conferences, and attacked those who pointed out Baker's history. CAIR has repeatedly defended the virulently anti-Semitic Muslim Brotherhood cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who has said: "On the hour of judgment, Muslims will fight the Jews and kill them."
Qaradawi has defended suicide bombings and is hostile to Jews, saying: "There should be no dialogue with these people [Israelis] except with swords."
CAIR is vehemently opposed to both the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and to the normalization of relations between Israel and the Palestinians. Despite claims to the contrary, CAIR officials have rejected a two-state solution and justified violence as a means to a legitimate end. "Our preference is peaceful negotiation...but if the peace process is flawed, then resistance is necessary," CAIR co-founder and executive director Nihad Awad said in 2001. Awad addressed a rally outside the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C. in October 2000, at which rallygoers chanted, "Khaibar, Khaibar, Ya Yahud, Jaysh Muhammed Safayood" ("Khaibar, Khaibar, O Jews, the Army of Mohammed is coming for you"), as well as the Hamas slogans, "With our blood and soul we will liberate Palestine," and "with our blood and soul we will sacrifice our life on your behalf, martyr."
Given CAIR's vehemently anti-Semitic background, it is hard to imagine any Jewish group that would be palatable to this "civil rights" organization, but in Jewish Voice for Peace, it found its perfect match: a Jewish group that is adamantly opposed to Israel and eager to retail Palestinian revisionist history and grievance propaganda against Israel. JVP supports Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) actions against Israel, targeting numerous companies for boycotts because they do business with Israel. It also has supported divestment campaigns on college campuses, succeeding in getting divestment resolutions passed at Hampshire College and Evergreen State College, and engaging in failed divestment campaigns at the University of California Berkeley and the University of California San Diego.
JVP's mission statement calls for "an end to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem." Echoing CAIR's criticism of the U.S. alliance with Israel, JVP calls on the U.S. government to "stop supporting repressive policies in Israel and elsewhere." It even applauded former U.S. President Jimmy Carter for meeting with Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal, and called on Israeli officials to meet with Meshaal as well.
Marking its 28th anniversary, Meshaal's organization vowed "to remain faithful to the liberation of Palestine and to keep its weapon directed at the Israeli occupation only."
Meshaal also rejected peace efforts and wondered how "can anyone possibly have an excuse to abandon the path of jihad?"
"The Palestinians have reached the realization that negotiations with the (Israelis) are useless...the so-called peace process is futile. There is no peace. Only the path of Jihad, sacrifice, and blood (will bear fruit),"
So the first Jewish group that CAIR honors is a venomously anti-Israel one that retails propaganda against the Jewish state and ignores the genocidal anti-Semitism of its foes.
The name of the award that CAIR gave to JVP is noteworthy. Neither JVP nor CAIR are interested in defending the liberty of Israelis who build homes on land deemed to be "illegal settlements," or the liberty of Israelis to live in and govern a Jewish state at all. So in what way does CAIR think of JVP as a "Defender of Liberty?" Did it honor JVP for defending the liberty of suicide bombers to murder Israeli civilians? Did it hail JVP for defending the liberty of Palestinians who have passed out candy to celebrate the murders of those civilians? Did it give its new award to JVP for defending the liberty of superannuated and anti-Semitic former Presidents to meet with terror masterminds?
The "Defender of Liberty" award that CAIR gave to Jewish Voice for Peace ought to be regarded as a mark of shame for an organization which claims to represent Jews and work within the Jewish tradition while advocating for policies that would expose the Jews of Israel to greater danger, greater poverty, and greater international opprobrium.
CAIR, JVP, and the Huffington Post, all such staunch promoters of Islamist terrorist front groups, deserve one other.


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i need this program to be get solved plzz help me
Below is the problem that I have to solve in Java I have started the program and it compiles but I got a little lost after that.
create a new java class named MathDemo. Add the main() method to this class
within main(), declare a double called rate and set it equal to 80.00 Print out this variable using the following statement
3) declare another double called pay. Assuming that rate represents hourly pay, compute the weekely pay (assuming a 40 hour work week) and store the result in pay.System.out.println("The vaule of rate is + rate");
4) Print out the value of pay using System.out.println().
5 ) compile and run the program
6)declare a int called bonus and assign it the value of 100.
7)Declare a variable called AnnualPay. Assuming bonus represents a monthly bonus, compute the annual salary and store it in the annualPay variable. Display the output in the following format:
Annual salary is $ (answer hear)
8)save and run the MathDemo program.
9)Change your program so that the hourly rate is an input by the user using the first command line argument. Since command line arguments are string objects you will need to convert the Bstring to an int. use the following statement
rate = Integer.parseInt.(args(0));
This is what i have so far and is comples and runs ok
public class MathDemo { public static void main (String[] args) { double rate = 80.00; System.out.println("The value of rate is " + rate); double pay = pay; } }


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New 3CX VoIP Phone System for Hotels slashes phone bills using VoIP and eliminates PBX maintenance and expansion costs
London, UK – 6 May 09 – 3CX announced today the availability of 3CX Hotel PBX module, which allows Hotels to replace aging and expensive Hotel PBXs from Mitel, Alcatel, Siemens and others with 3CX Phone System for Windows, a modern software based VoIP IP PBX. The 3CX Hotel module adds important hospitality functions such as support for Check IN/OUT, DND, Room status and Wake up calls. It integrates with leading Hotel Software / Property Management Systems."Traditional Hotel PBX vendors have charged a hefty premium for their ability to perform hotel related functions" said Nick Galea, CEO of 3CX. "3CX costs a fraction of a comparable hotel PBX / ISDN telefooncentrale and in addition halves the hotel's phone bill by allowing the use of VoIP gateway"
Hotels can eliminate Lease PaymentsHotels paying high monthly lease payments for their current PBX can drastically reduce their monthly operating cost by replacing it with 3CX voip telefooncentrale . The cost of outright purchase of 3CX is so low that hotels can earn back the investment in just a few months. Coupled with drastic reductions in the phone bill, 3CX can be an important part of reducing operating costs in these times of economic crisis.
Re use analog phones
Existing Analog phones in the rooms can easily be re-used with the use of low cost FXS gateways, further reducing the initial investment cost. Re-using analog phones also means there is no need to re-wire – existing analog phone points can continue to be used. IP Phones can be used only where it matters – for example in reception. Re-using analog phones also helps the environment by reducing unnecessary brown good wastage.Wide range of VoIP Hotel Software/ Property Management Systems supported
3CX Phone System integrates with leading Hotel Software / Property Management Systems via several interfaces, including Legacy PBX emulation, the Fidelio FIAS protocol as well as support for Comtrol's Lodging Link middle ware. Other interfaces are easily implemented and available on request. A subset of supported PMS systems includes Agilysys, Autoclerk, Cenium, Maestro for Northwind, Fidelity Hotel Management Systemm, Micros Opera, Brilliant Hotelsoftware, CMS Hospitality Guestcentrix, ResortSuite, Gracesoft, voip gateways, Hotec Expert Hotelier Suite, Hotel Concept, WebPMS, Atrium INN client server systems, HSS Hotel Software Systems, Innfinity software systems and InnRoad. A complete list is available here.3CX Phone System Hotel module is available immediately and starts at €750/$895. More information on the voip gateway is available here. An example costing to determine ROI can be found here.
About 3CX
3CX is an international developer of telecommunications software, headquartered in Europe with offices in the UK, USA, Germany, Cyprus, Malta, Australia and Hong Kong. It is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner and is backed by an experienced management and development team. Its product, 3CX Phone System for Windows, developed specifically for the SMB (small & medium business) market, has earned Windows Server 2003 Certification for Voip and has received numerous awards, including The Windowsnetworking.com Gold Award, the Communications Solutions 2007 Award, the Windows IT Pro magazine 2008 Editor's Best Award and a Best Buy Award by Computer Shopper Magazine, all in recognition to the company's commitment to innovation and quality. 3CX maintains a global presence with localized information available in various languages. For more information, visit www.3cx.com and the 3CX blog.


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Protect your phone and Android Wear Smartwatch battery from overcharging with THEFT alarm.
This app notifies you when your battery is fully charged. You can also select battery level and many customization.
NOTICE: If you use any task killer app, please add this app to ignore list or white list. Otherwise, application will not work properly.
NOTICE FOR ONEPLUS ABOVE 7.0 USERS: Please go to battery optimizations settings on android settings and uncheck battery optimization for this app to use auto start features.
NOTICE FOR XIAOMI USERS: In the security settings given by Xiaomi default, please include the app for auto start and also include permissions to use auto start features.
This application supports Android Wear Smartwatches!!
Anti theft alarm!!!
Don't worry about having to leave your phone charging unattended! Full Battery & Theft Alarm will sound an alarm when your phone is unplugged or battery fully charge. Useful for when a plug isn't near somewhere to sit so that you can leave your phone and know it will be safe.
Charger alarm!!!
Alerts you with audio and vibration when your phone is fully charged.
Great for when you want a quick charge without checking your phone every minute.
Also great if you don't like leaving your phone plugged in after it's charged.
– Charge history
– Charge time.
– Remaining time to 100%
– Sound and vibration alarm when charger is unplugged. (Anti theft alarm)
– Password security for theft alarm.
– Easy to use user interface
– Status message about application
– Choose custom alarm. You can also choose silent.
– Alarm volume control.
– Vibration option.
– Full battery alarm.
– Start automatically option.
– Enable automatically option.
– Notification bar option.
– Different thief alarm sound option.
– When alert full battery alarm, you can unplug your cable to stop alarm.
– "Do not stop alarm until unplug cable" option.
– Turn off theft alarm if all you need is battery full alarm.
– Extra time feature after fully charged.
– Start auto after reboot.
– Theme option.
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Storage permission: App need this permission for external ringtones, log system and backup/restore settings system.
Location permission: App use this permission only for ad localization.
Contact permission: App's theft alarm password recovery system. App's fills your email address automatically when you are setting theft alarm password. Nothing more.
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Know your dog's location in the field better with The Water Dog collar. Constructed from our durable "1" Ripstop Nylon interior webbing ("Dura-Hide") that is encased in a polyurethane waterproof outer coating, and finished off with solid brass hardware, and adorned with our signature shell adornment, this collar was was designed to withstand even the harshest conditions. Whether it's a day in the field pursuing upland game, a frosty December morning hunting in the flooded timber, or just a walk around town we're confident both you and your four-legged friend will love this new collar. 100% MADE IN USA.
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It is old stock and long out of production. Parts are cast in light grey resin. The casting details are fantastic. Very sharp, crisp and clean parts.
27 long so this is quite big. Also includes a twin Pod cloud car and a little troop transport vehicle. Model is for intermediate and advanced builders with some prior experience with resin kits. Please note, this item is unlighted but pro builders often add their own aftermarket lighting effects. See photos as examples of their work.
The item "Star Wars Giant Studio Scale Rebel Transport Resin Model kit Over Two Feet Long" is in sale since Friday, September 10, 2021. This item is in the category "Toys & Hobbies\Models & Kits\Figures". The seller is "lexfrog" and is located in Lexington, Kentucky.
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Ag Secretary proclaims 'National Farmers Market Week'
Published 10:47 am Tuesday, July 12, 2016
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack signed a proclamation declaring Aug. 7-13 as "National Farmers Market Week." This year marks the 17th annual National Farmers Market Week to honor and celebrate the important role that farmers markets play in local economies.
"Farmers markets are an important part of strong local and regional food systems that connect farmers with new customers and grow rural economies. In many areas, they are also expanding access to fresh, healthy food for people of all income levels," said Secretary Vilsack. "National Farmers Market Week recognizes the growth of these markets and their role in supporting both urban and rural communities."
Throughout the week, USDA officials will celebrate at farmers market locations across the country. On Saturday, Aug. 6, Elanor Starmer, the administrator of USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) — which conducts research, provides technical assistance, and awards grants to support local and regional food systems — will kick off the week visiting a farmers market and wrap up the week at USDA's own farmers market in Washington, D.C., on Friday, Aug. 12.
"Farmers markets are a gathering place where you can buy locally produced food, and at the same time, get to know the farmer and story behind the food you purchase," said Administrator Starmer. "These types of markets improve earning potential for farmers and ranchers, building stronger community ties and access to local foods."
To help farmers market managers across the country promote and celebrate National Farmers Market Week, USDA is sharing online free farmers market related graphics that market managers and others can use to customize posters, emails, websites and other promotional materials. The graphics, along with a short demonstration video, can be found at:www.ams.usda.gov/resources/NFMW
Over the course of the Obama Administration, USDA has invested close to $1 billion in 40,000 local food businesses and infrastructure projects. Farmers markets provide consumers with fresh, affordable, convenient, and healthy products from local producers. With support from USDA, more farmers markets offer customers the opportunity to make purchases with the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; the Women, Infants, and Children Nutrition Program; and the Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Programs.
Supporting farmers markets is a part of the USDA's Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food (KYF2) Initiative, which coordinates the Department's work to develop strong local and regional food systems. USDA is committed to helping farmers, ranchers, and businesses access the growing market for local and regional foods, which was valued at $12 billion in 2014 according to industry estimates. You can also find local and regional supply chain resources on the newly-revamped KYF2 website and use the KYF2 Compass to locate USDA investments in your community.
More information on how USDA investments are connecting producers with consumers and expanding rural economic opportunities is available in Chapter IV of USDA Results on Medium.


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26 Vintage Photos of Cowboys & Cowgirls
By Jill Harness
Ever since the idea of the cowboy entered the public consciousness, people have been fascinated with them. Whether it's the idea of getting to work with animals, the rough & tough image, or the concept of freedom they represent, cowboys have become an integral part of American history and culture. Here are some vintage photos of cowboys that show what day-to-day life really was like for these horse-wrangling icons.
Once again, all photos courtesy of the Library of Congress.
At The Ranch
While a handful of cowboys would work exclusively on cattle drives, most were employed to work at ranches, where their duties were pretty much what you would expect of a ranch hand. A lot of their time was spent protecting and herding the animals they were in charge of, like this cowpoke did back in 1900.
They would feed the animals, like this young man was doing when he was photographed by Russell Lee in 1940.
And, while popular culture tends to pair the cowboy with only cows and horses, they would take care of all manner of farm animal. While in this photo, shot by Russell Lee in 1940, it looks like the rancher is about to end the poor creature's life, he's actually just trimming up the sheep's wool.
On the Range
Pop culture depictions tend to focus on cowboys' lives out on the range, and with good reason – cowboys spent plenty of time sleeping under the stars and braving the wilds. For some ranchers, this merely meant keeping an eye on your herd while they went out to graze, like this wrangler was doing when photographed by Erwin Evans in 1907.
Of course, when it came to the famed cattle drive, things quickly became a lot more active. Still, most of the work involved merely herding the cows forward as seen in this image by John Vachon taken in 1938.
The more difficult job went to those assigned to wrangle up the stranglers and escapists, like this man, photographed by Erwin Evans in 1907, was attempting to do.
On occasion, cowboys would go out looking to capture wild animals that might endanger their herds or that might otherwise affect the day-to-day life at the ranch. Photographer John C. H. Grabill didn't include any notes on what happened to the buffalo captured by these three cowboys in 1889, but hopefully they either let him go or at least used him as a food source. Unfortunately, given that American bison were hunted and killed to near extinction during this period, these outcomes seem unlikely.
Chuck wagons were the traveling cowboys' best friends as they provided their daily meals. Here are a group of wranglers enjoying their dinner some time between 1880 and 1910.
While life on the range was hard work, there was still time for recreation here and there. Here a gang of cowboys enjoy a game of mumble peg, as photographed by Erwin Evans in 1907.
If you've ever wondered how cowboys would ensure their horses wouldn't run away overnight, well, this 1906 picture reveals their secret – a corral made out of rope. Sure some of the men might have a favorite horse that would never wander away from them, but most of the horses would certainly wander off if not tied up or corralled in one place.
Training Horses
Being that a cowboy's main mode of transportation was a horse, it only makes sense that they would spend a lot of time training these wild animals to serve as a form of transportation. Generally, the training process would start by roping a horse and teaching it to walk while roped, so it would get used to being under someone's control. Here a cowboy is trying to start the process on a foal as photographed by Marion Post Walcott in 1941.
The next step would usually involve putting all the riding equipment onto the horse and getting it used to being led around by its halter while equipped with a saddle, stirrups and the rest of the gear. As you can see in this image taken by Erwin Evans in 1907, most of the horses would fight the process every step of the way.
The final and most dangerous step of the process would be "bronco busting," where the rider would actually have to get on the horse and teach it to mellow out and respond to the rider's commands. Here's one cowboy trying to break his horse back in 1904.
Training a horse was (and still is) a lot of work, but in the end, having a well-trained, reliable horse was always worth the effort, as this cowboy would certainly attest to.
Managing Cows
As the name implies, cowboys often dealt with cows. Here you can see how difficult it could be for even two experienced men to get a stubborn calf to cooperate, as evidenced by Russell Lee in 1939.
While branding is a bit controversial in today's society, in the early 1900s it was the only way to prove that a cow was yours. With all the cattle rustlers in the West, it was something that every ranch had to do on a regular basis.
Of course, it wasn't all about getting the cows to bend to your will; sometimes the cowboys were downright kind to their cattle. Russell Lee managed to capture this tender moment between a cowboy and his steer back in 1940.
Performing in Rodeos
As you can see, many cowboys were used to roping and tying calves and riding bucking broncos on a daily basis. That's why it only made sense for cowpokes to get together and test each other's skills, hence the birth of the rodeo (interestingly, the sport began in Spain and Mexico before it came to the U.S.). These three cowboys were trying to get "Unruly Butcher Bob" ready for his performance back in 1910. Here's a tip for any aspiring rodeo performer: if three grown men still can't control a horse, you probably don't want to start your career with that particular creature.
Of course, a great rider can manage to stay on just about any bronco as Mr. O'Donnell proved in his amazing ride on Whirlwind in 1911.
If you've ever been to a rodeo, then you certainly recognize these pens used to help the rider get on the angry creature before the round begins. This particular starting gate was photographed in New Mexico by Russell Lee in 1940.
Bull riding is the one event that grew exclusively from the sport's Latin roots as the practice was originally an offshoot from bull fighting and was not part of a cowboy's daily activities. Even so, the American rodeo quickly adopted the competition, and these days it's one of the most popular rodeo events around. This rider was performing in the Bean Day Rodeo in New Mexico when he was photographed by Russell Lee in 1939.
By the early 1900s, the sport was pretty darn big and performances took place in massive arenas. There were also many people competing. Here are all the participants in a roping contest held in Oklahoma City in 1909. To see the image all in one piece, visit its page at the LOC.
For women, work on the range was rarely an option, but there were still a decent number of women who worked on ranches out West, performing many of the same duties as their male counterparts. Here's one Montana woman dressed for the job in 1909.
Interestingly, while there weren't many women on the range, there were a number of female rodeo stars in the sport's early days. Here is Lucille Mullhall, the first woman to use the term "cowgirl" to describe herself, in 1909.
And here's champion female rider "Kitty Canutt" riding Winnemucca in 1919.
The Pendleton Round-Up held some of the largest all-female competitions in the country, until one rider died in 1929. After that time, female rodeo contests were largely discontinued for the next fifty years. Here are all the female competitors during the golden age of women's rodeo at the Pendleton Round-Up in 1911. To see this picture all in one piece, visit the LOC.
I must admit, writing this article was particularly exciting for me, as I come from a long line of cowboys. In fact, my grandfather, Harry Harness, moved from a ranch in Montana to California where he started an Arabian horse ranch with my grandmother. I'm sure many of you have similar stories or have even participated in activities like these yourselves. If so, share your stories in the comments!


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Daft Punk's path to 'Tron: Legacy' was not an easy one
From: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/
This is Part 2 of Chris Lee's story from his rare interview with Daft Punk. Today, we see how the duo worked on the score for "Tron: Legacy" and whether more soundtracks are in the works. (To read Part 1, click here.)
After a year of reflection in which "Tron: Legacy" director Joseph Kosinski continued to detail his vision for "Tron: Legacy" to them, Daft Punk duo Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter agreed to take the plunge as a means of learning to "widen the palette" of Daft Punk's sound. And in 2008 Disney arranged to have the band mates meet with several of the most successful soundtrack composers working today about potentially collaborating: Hans Zimmer, Harry-Gregson Williams, John Powell and Christophe Beck among them.
Bangalter, 35, said: "They were very generous and very open, sharing a lot of technical advice."
"And warnings," De Homem-Christo, 36, added. "They said, 'You have to make your vision understood. It's not easy. You're serving a movie. You're not just serving the director, you're serving a team of people. It's always about changing and going back.' "
The band ultimately scrapped any collaboration plans. And the task of telling the studio fell to Kosinski, a successful commercial director with no feature film background. "It was considered a huge risk for Disney," Kosinski said. "A director who had never done a feature before and composers who hadn't scored a movie before."
'Electronic sketches'
After the two relocated to Los Angeles, scoring began in earnest in January 2009. Nevermind that "Tron: Legacy" still had no script, only concept drawings to illustrate set pieces and characters. De
Homem-Christo and Bangalter decided that an orchestral score employing subtle electronic cues -- rather than vice versa -- would be most appropriate to "paint that epic quality" the film dictated. So the duo applied the same kind of musical cross-pollination responsible for its gold-certified 1997 debut album "Homework" and commercial breakthrough "Discovery" to recording violin arpeggios, surging horns and roiling timpani.
"In dance music, we've always tried to combine existing genres -- heavy metal and disco or funk, something that contrasts associations," Bangalter said. "[For the film], we liked the idea of a dark influence reminiscent of some electronic scores of the '70s. But at the same time, we wanted the scope of classic Hollywood. To mash up those things that usually exist on opposite ends of the spectrum."
The group hooked up with music arranger and orchestrator Joseph Trapanese, whose job was
to translate Bangalter and De Homem-Christo's ideas into symphonic arrangements. They provided him with "extensive electronic sketches" -- synthesizer approximations of orchestral music and iTunes playlists running the gamut of 20th century film composers that were indicative of the "timeless" vibe they wanted.
"They had this very clear and distinct idea of what the orchestra should sound like," Trapanese said. "They gave me an overall tone to work in. Maybe they couldn't physically transcribe what music for, say, a cello. But they know how a cello sounds and how to translate ideas to it."
Tonally, Bangalter explained: "We thought it was very important that the score not sound like real world music. It could not feel 2010 in any aspect."
In July 2010, Trapanese helped actualize Daft's vision for the score over a five-day recording session with an 85-piece orchestra at London's AIR Lyndhurst studios. "My role was as the interface between the robots and the orchestra," he joked.
For his part, Kosinski says he understands why Daft Punk wanted to diverge from the repetitive, sample-and-synthesizer-based template that has served such epochal dance floor anthems as "One More Time." And he feels the new music fuses electronic and orchestral music in ways that serve the scope and sweep of "Tron: Legacy."
"It was always conceived as a blend," Kosinski said. "What evolved over that first year was the ratio. The original thinking was more electronic music with classical orchestral lines in it. As the process evolved, when they got down to writing the final cues, it became much more orchestral than any of us initially anticipated. I couldn't be happier with how it turned out."
Even in the face of acclaim for the group's new musical direction, though, the influential music review website Pitchfork panned the soundtrack, lamenting the "gloom of blown expectations" and basically calling into question whether Daft Punk had sold its soul to Hollywood.
Bangalter and De Homem-Christo said they have no plans to record another soundtrack anytime soon and hinted at the release of new Daft Punk music: "Making music for a movie is very humbling," Bangalter said. "We've been working on some of our music concurrently." (They declined to specify touring or album release plans.)
With typically Gallic shrugs, the band mates also said they have learned to live with being tarred and feathered as "commercial."
"We like the idea of trying to experiment and do different things we haven't done in the past," said Bangalter. "Our idea of selling out is a different one, though. I imagine it would be finding a successful formula and sticking with it and always doing the same thing. That is not what is exciting to us."
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AB Motoss EV wins the Gold Category Manufacturing Award
October 06: AB MOTOSS Electric Vehicles, who won the Gold Sector manufacturing award in the Grow Care India Awards, an event organized by Grow Care India and held in Dehradun on 01-10-2021 at the Madhuban hotel, which turned out to be a super star-studded affair.
The evening was attended by Uttarakhand's top dignitaries Shri Ganesh Joshi – Minister of Industries (Government of Uttarakhand), Shri Vinay Kumar Ruhela – Vice Chairman of Planning Commission (Government of Uttarakhand), Shri Kumar Ashok Pandey, Head of Disaster Management (Government of Uttar Pradesh) and Shri Bijender Goel – President of Delphic Council of India.
The honored guests who were from India's Top business conglomerates like Aditya Birla Group, Kalpana Water Solutions, Indian Oil and many more were addressed by Shri Vinay Kumar Ruhela, who spoke about how The State Of Uttarakhand has been a centre for Natural Disasters in India and highlighted the recent Disasters in the state like the Forest Fires, The floods and various others that the state has gone through in the near past. He then went further to inform the delegates on how the Current Government of Uttarakhand has built new tunnels, Airports and Helicopter services to make the movement of people and products faster and easier so the people can easily access relief as well as evacuation efforts.
Shri Ganesh Joshi also addressed the delegates and informed them how tourism is a significant drive towards the state's revenue and how the current government has reduced the Airport taxes so that travel to the state becomes easy and affordable, and more tourists are attracted to the beauty of the State.
The awards that were centred around Safety in the workplace, which was in line with how the corporates should create safety measures for their employees in the wake of all the Natural Disasters that may take place, Awards were won in many categories by companies like ONGC, Aditya Birla, NTPC and Godrej.
There was also a short musical performance by Bollywood Actress and singer Kaajal Vashisht who thrilled the audiences with tracks like Ranjha from the movie Shershah and Tujhe Kitne chahne lage hum from the movie Kabir Singh.
The audiences were also treated to display the latest models of Electric Vehicles by AB Motoss EV, with models like the Rays EV, Rapid EV, Vaayu EV, Pride EV – a special three wheeled EV for the specially-abled and a commercial EV called the Laama EV.
On viewing the display of the innovative models, the Honourable Minister Shri Ganesh Joshi stressed the importance of a pollution-free India and the need for companies like AB Motoss EV to set up factories in the state.
Shri Sumit Gautam the CEO gave a small video presentation on the quality and types of vehicles the company is launching in India in the next two months; also on stage with him was Shri Deep Khosla, the COO of the company.
The entire event was a musical and visual extravaganza that was both enjoyable and highly informative. The evening culminated with a scrumptious dinner and photographs, which almost all the guests took with them as a sign of a truly memorable evening.
Information on AB Motoss Electric Vehicles and their entire range can be seen on their website, https://abev.in/Home.html


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Mandy Moore Was 'So Shocked' That This Actor Claimed He Took Her Virginity
Mandy Moore may forgive, but she doesn't forget.
Appearing on The Howard Stern Show on Wednesday (June 6), the pop star-turned-actress opened up about her ex-boyfriend Wilmer Valderrama's braggadocious 2006 claim that he took her virginity when they dated as teens, calling the comments "uncharacteristic."
When the radio host asked her to set the record straight on the rumor, Moore made is clear that "he did not" take her virginity.
"I dated him when I was 16-17," she told Stern. "I love him and I still love him and he's a very good friend and that's why I was so shocked by it. Not only was it a fib, but it was so unlike him, so uncharacteristic. He's dated all the ladies. I met him at a photo shoot for some teen magazine when I was 15. [I had never even] French kissed a boy! He was like my first true boyfriend."
Moore added that she was "bummed" by the actor's cocky statement. "My dad especially was like, 'What? I liked that young man,'" she lamented.
Fortunately, the two have since moved past the awkwardness. As Moore shared, "We're not that close, but we're friendly. We have some mutual friends. He came to my house a couple months ago, he had some friends over. He's a good guy, he really is."
"I remember in the moment he tried to explain it away that he did get caught up and maybe insinuated more than outright said it and I said, 'No, you outright said it,'" she added. "I was like, 'Why would you ever talk about that with anybody and lie about it?' We don't talk about it now."
During an interview with Stern in 2006, Valderrama bragged that he had "snatched" the then-teen pop idol's virginity, claiming that sex with the actress was "really good."


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H.R.7581 | Y | Y | Improving Law Enforcement Officer Safety and Wellness Through Data Act | 24 | 118th | |
H.RES.1210 | Y | Y | Condemning the Biden border crisis and the tremendous burdens law enforcement officers face as a result. | 24 | 118th | |
H.R.7109 | Y | Y | Equal Representation Act | 24 | 118th | |
H.R.2925 | Y | Y | Mining Regulatory Clarity Act of 2024 | 24 | 118th | |
H.R.6192 | Y | Y | Hands Off Our Home Appliances Act | 24 | 118th | |
H.RES.1112 | Y | Y | Denouncing the Biden administration's immigration policies. | 24 | 118th | |
H.R.6090 | N | Y | Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2023 | 24 | 118th | |
H.R.3195 | Y | Y | Superior National Forest Restoration Act | 24 | 118th |
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Set of Three Boxed Tall Hand-Painted Candles - Bongazi Design - Nobunto
This set of three candles, hand-painted by South African artisans, arrives in a recycled cardboard box. Each candle is 9 inches tall by 0.75 inches in diameter.
Meet the Artisans
NOBUNTO is a South African Fair Trade company that creates high quality hand-painted candles, ceramics and handcrafted greeting cards with the utmost attention to detail using mainly African inspired designs. Their mission is, in a region with high unemployment, to alleviate poverty, not only through development of industry but to be socially, ethically, and sustainably responsible. Based in the small village Napier, about 180 km east of Cape Town, NOBUNTO has provided employment to mostly woman of the disadvantaged community and guarantees an income for over 18 families. The unemployment rate in the area is in the region of 50%. The word NOBUNTO comes from the Sotho language, meaning "For the people". |
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Identity Federation¶
Identity and access management requirements are rapidly evolving over the years. Organizations cannot survive with authentication and authorization mechanisms that only span a single boundary of trust. Hence, these organizations often provide and consume services across trust boundaries, which may include partners, subsidiaries, customers or suppliers and may span across multiple buildings, cities, states, countries and even continents. Identity federation and Single Sign On (SSO) come into the picture to provide and consume these services across trust boundaries.
Identity federation and SSO have similarities as well as key differences. Identity federation is a mechanism that allows authentication across different enterprises in different trust domains based on a trust factor. This makes access easy, as users do not have to remember a different set of credentials for every application they use. However, the users have to provide their credentials to each one of the applications separately although the credentials used are the same. On the other hand, SSO enables users to provide their credentials once and obtain access to multiple applications. In SSO, the users are not prompted for their credentials when accessing each application until their session is terminated.
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See Adding and Configuring an Identity Provider for instructions on how to configure an identity provider so that identity federation is possible.


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Austin bombing suspect dead, kills self by detonating bomb in car
Officials say they believe the individual responsible for the recent series of bombings and explosions in Austin is dead.
The identity of the suspect has not been officially released but the Associated Press says that a law enforcement official tells them the suspect was Mark Anthony Conditt, 23.
Manley spoke about what led authorities to the suspect and said that the suspect was originally found in the parking lot of a hotel in Round Rock.
Police say they wanted a peaceful solution but the suspect started driving away and police and SWAT began to pursue him.
Officials say the suspect died after detonating a bomb inside his car as two officers were approaching the vehicle.
One officer suffered minor injuries when the bomb went off and the other officer fired a single shot. The officer who fired the shot has been placed on administrative leave as is protocol in these situations.
Gov. Greg Abbott was interviewed on Good Day Austin and confirmed that the suspect is from Pflugerville and that investigators are interviewing his roommates. The roommates are reportedly not suspects. Abbott says police will also be looking at the suspect's social media for clues.
Austin police believe the suspect that died this morning is responsible for the all the reported explosions but stress that people should remain vigilant as police learn more about the suspect's whereabouts over the last 24 hours. Police say they will also continue to investigate if the suspect worked with any others.
Five explosions kept many people on edge in Austin. That included a heavy response to a Goodwill store in south Austin which ended up being unrelated.
The first incident related to the serial Austin bomber was on March 2. Police responded to an explosion on Haverford Drive in northeast Austin. 39-year-old Anthony House was taken to the hospital where he died. At the time police believed it was an isolated incident.
Then 10 days later on March 12, police responded to an explosion reported at a home on Oldfort Hill Drive off MLK Boulevard in east Austin. That explosion killed 17-year-old Draylen Mason and injured his mother who is expected to be okay.
Hours later on the same day (3/12), another package explosion was reported on Galindo Street near Riverside. A 75-year-old woman was severely injured.
Police say the packages in the above incidents were not left by an official delivery service.
On March 18, another explosion was reported in the Travis Country neighborhood of southwest Austin. In the evening a device that was believed to be activated by a tripwire went off as two victims were walking alongside the road. Both men were in their 20s and were hurt but are expected to be okay.
By now Austin police say they knew they were dealing with a serial bomber and more than 500 federal agents were called in to assist with the investigation.
The most recent incident was a package explosion at a FedEx in Schertz. One person reported ringing in her ears and was treated at the scene in Schertz and released.
The package at the Schertz facility was believed to have originated from a FedEx location in Sunset Valley on Tuesday (3/20). Officials say the package was intended to return back to Austin.
The reward for information relating to the explosions had been increased to more than $100,000.


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Finlandia FPF 810, 8′ x 10′ x 86″ Prefab Sauna
Panel Built Prefabricated Sauna Room 96″ x 120″ x 86″ OD with 4 benches, K12.5G Heater, F-2T Control and FX404
Finlandia Prefab Saunas are complete, freestanding and self-contained rooms engineered with fast and effortless installation in mind. They can be put anywhere you have an open space but the space would need to be a little larger than the actual sauna room size. You must provide a waterproof floor (concrete, tile, or vinyl).
The Finlandia Prefabricated Saunas contain all interior and exterior parts and they can be installed by the homeowner over any hard-surfaced waterproof floor. They are made of framed, insulated panels with Western red cedar interior and standard ruff-sawn Mahogany plywood on exterior. Optional Redwood, Alaskan yellow cedar and Hemlock interior are higher in cost.
The saunas include assembled benches, a K12.5G Heater, stones and heater fence, 2′ door with clear glass, 102 N bucket and liner, a 106/40 dipper, V10 vent, P5511 wall light, 0301K thermometer, 079 headrest(s) and Superdek (optional exterior: 1/2″ x 4″ Cedar at added cost).


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If you were to make a chart of the electricity-consuming devices in a typical home and rank them in order of their hunger for power, the list might look something like this:
Device | consumption | per hour |
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Water pump | ||
Space heater | ||
Hair drier | ||
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Refrigerator | ||
Computer and monitor | ||
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This table assumes that a kilowatt-hour of electricity costs 10 cents, which is an average rate depending on your location.
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If your house has electric heat, then the middle of winter is a time when you are going to use a lot of power. A heat pump might run 10 to 15 hours a day. At $1.50 an hour, that's $15 to $22 per day. Over the course of a month, that's several hundred dollars worth of electricity. The same applies in the summer if you use the air conditioner a lot.
Water heating uses a good bit of power as well. When you take a shower or run a load of clothes in the washer, the electric water heater might run for an hour reheating the water in the tank. That's 40 cents. A typical household can burn several dollars a day heating water. Because we don't normally think of it this way, it is funny to consider that every shower you take costs 40 cents! When you add in the cost of washing and drying the towels (every load of clothes that you run might cost $1 to $2 for washing and drying), plus the soap and shampoo, it can cost nearly a buck to take a shower!
Refrigeration is another big power drain because the refrigerator can easily run for 10 hours a day. That's about $1 per day to keep the milk cold. If you leave the computer or TV on all day, it can add up to $1 per day as well.
Then we get to light bulbs. At 0.6 cents per hour, it doesn't seem like much. However, many fixtures contain two or more bulbs, and it is easy to leave several fixtures on. If 10 bulbs are burning, that's 6 cents an hour. If they burn for six hours a day, that's 36 cents per day for lighting. Multiply that by 30 days in a month, and it's $10 per month for photons.
Using a space heater or an electric blanket to heat a smaller area at night is probably the easiest way to save big on your power bill. Saving hot water is the next easiest.


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Big goals and big projects often require big steps, but being daunted by all that work is normal. You may not have time in the day to get everything you want done, or maybe you have a lot of prep-work to get off to a solid start. Don't get stuck doing nothing because you're afraid you won't do enough, start small and takes steps so incremental you'll never have trouble completing them.
The principle of working in small, easily-completed bites isn't anything new, but when applied to your to-dos it can be a powerful tool. Kaizen, or Japanese for "improvement," is often applied in business (and productivity!) as the concept of continuous, incremental improvement. When it comes to your to-do list, it means do small things incrementally as progress towards your goal—things so small that they're easy and you aren't caught up in hang-ups or excuses for why you're not working. Aditya Ravi Shankar, sharing his experiences after reading a book about Kaizen, explains it like this:
When the task is so small that it seems almost meaningless, the subconscious mind offers almost no resistance to it, since it doesn't consider it a threat, and you find it easy to do.
After a few days of achieving little successes, the subconscious mind starts enjoying the task so much, it automatically starts wanting more. While before one minute of the task seemed like enough, you now find yourself doing the task for longer periods of time – first five minutes, then ten minutes and then eventually hours.
The idea is similar to the way our own Adam Pash gets things done even when he doesn't feel like it, but it goes past getting started. Kaizen is most useful when you're struggling to keep going, or can't think of a next action that isn't a ton of effort. You can even apply it to your chores by cleaning in short bursts or exercising once a week if you have trouble sticking to a routine.
The Kaizen Way - How to Get Past Hesitation, Fear, and Laziness to Achieve Your Goals


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For those who suffer from allergies, exposure to pets, pollen, or dust mites can quickly lead to red, itchy, watery eyes. Although seasonal allergies are notorious for causing eye symptoms, year-round exposure to allergens can be just as problematic. If you develop itchy, red, irritated, puffy, or watery eyes, make an appointment to see your optometrist for diagnosis and treatment recommendations.
What Causes Eye Allergies?
All allergies are caused by an overreaction of the immune system to non-threatening substances. This could be pollen, pet dander, mold spores, feathers, dust mites, perfumes, smoke, or air pollutants. When the mucous membrane covering your eyes comes into contact with one of these allergens, your immune system releases histamine and triggers a response. This causes eyes to become watery, pink or red, itchy, and puffy. You may also experience nasal allergy symptoms.
The First Step: Controlling Allergen Exposure
If you know what triggers your eye allergies, the most important preventative step to take is to limit your exposure. This may mean limiting your time spent outdoors, avoiding homes with pets, switching bed linens to remove feathers or dust mites, or having your home checked for mold. For individuals with seasonal allergies, mid-morning and early evening typically bring the highest pollen counts, so it is smart to stay indoors during those times. Also try to avoid windy days, which can blow pollens and trigger eye allergy symptoms.
Other Tips to Manage Eye Allergy Relief
Many people who suffer from allergies reach for over-the-counter antihistamine medications to manage their symptoms. Although antihistamines often reduce nasal symptoms, the American Optometric Association warns that they can actually increase irritation associated with red, itchy eyes. Antihistamines decrease tear quality and quantity, preventing your body from providing natural eye relief. Instead, ask your eye doctor about prescription medications or eye drops that may be right for you.
Another important step for managing eye allergies is to avoid touching or rubbing your eyes, which can exacerbate symptoms. Cleanse your hands frequently with soap and water, and wash your bed linens and pillow cases in hot water to destroy common allergens.
For contact lens wearers, allergies can be particularly challenging. Wearing contacts may become particularly uncomfortable when you have itchy, irritated eyes. Whenever possible, forego contacts and wear prescription glasses instead. If that is not an option, make sure you replace your contact lenses frequently, and talk to your optometrist about eye drops or single-use lenses.
American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology (2012). Eye allergy treatment.
American Optometric Association (2011). Set your sights on spring allergy relief.


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Sunday, December 25, 2011
Sunday Question for Liberals
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Probably Nancy Pelosi, she deserves something to celebrate quite the comeback during 2011 considering where she was a year ago (disastrous midterms, a challenge for her leadership and general malaise among her caucus etc.) If I could afford it I would want something with that great Mark Twain quote "Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated" on a plaque or something. It would be a funny thing to display in the office. Barring that, some Wire DVDs as I am a huge fan of the show and she and her family are originally from Baltimore (there's even a shot of old Pelosi campaign signs in the opening montage of season 3 I think.)
ReplyDeleteJust a Christmas card to one person I've never met, one Barak Hussein Obama and his family, thanking him for his service, wishing him intelligence and organization among his supporters, and continued unrealistic perceptions and postulates among his enemies.
I've been up and down with the guy politically, yet I do admire his coolness and determination as a person.
And I do believe, that for intelligent and experienced ordinary Americans to do well, individually, in their own struggles, and to do well collectively, in the struggles we will face to ensure our children life & health (stop dreaming of prosperity!) in a healthy sustainable world, that Mr. Obama will also have to do well in his individual and organizational struggles in the coming years ... (even if he exists inside a highly complex civilizational system that needs much reform, and even if he is not able to fulfill our unrealistic expectations for a father figure with perfect policies for every situation).In lieu of giving him a gift, I would rather do Barack Obama a favor and take away his golf clubs. Golfing tends to put once-well rounded people into a macho, rich man cocoon. By removing his clubs, we'd be taking him outside the circle of jerks that so often corrupt our most promising civic leaders. A regulatory prohibition (here, on golfing) would be an appropriate holiday present from a liberal!
ReplyDeleteThe Democratic Governors who have been vetoing the right-to-work, voter-ID, harass-Hispanics, &c., bills emerging from their newly Tea Partying legislatures, while somehow managing to get budgets and redistricting plans and quotidiana passed. I would get Mark Dayton a selection of Coen brothers movies and Bev Perdue college basketball tickets and my own terrific Governor, John Lynch, a share in a CSA. I imagine John Hickenlooper and Brian Schweitzer have had to deal with similar nonsense that I just haven't heard about; I would get Hickenlooper a snazzy new bike helmet and Schweitzer ... um ... a gift certificate to a hunting store?
ReplyDelete- PA PoliticoDecember 26, 2011 at 10:28 AM
I'd like to give Nancy Pelosi the credit she deserves for being one of the great congressional leaders ever; maybe put her on the covers of Time, Newsweek, etc
I'd like to give Philadelphia Mayor Mike Nutter a campaign book in the hopes it inspires him to run for statewide office. I don't think of myself as a liberal, but one person I'd like to buy a Christmas present for is retiring Rep. John Olver (D-MA).
He's not flashy or loud, but he's a pretty darn effective Member and a good example of how you can do things if you work hard and don't care that much about who gets the credit.
He's far too progressive for my personal tastes and probably for most Members of the House, but he learns his issues inside-out and spends his time working those issues among Members, rather than working the public politics.
Now, there's nothing wrong with working the public politics; it's essential to a democracy. But there are plenty of people doing that all the time, and not as many Olvers as there might once have been.
So for Mr. Olver, I'll get a framed topographical map of western Mass, and a new set of cross-country skis. He'll probably have plenty of time on his hands, and global warming hasn't destroyed the Bershire snow yet.- AnonymousDecember 28, 2011 at 11:20 PM
Oddly enough -- Joe Lieberman. without him, no Dem majority in the Senate for long periods since 2006. And more important, without him, no repeal of DADT.


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Wow, that was fun! I got to sit down with three excellent authors and talk about writing and marketing Fantasy books. We covered my philosophy on marketing (i.e. keep it comfy and save the challenge for the writing!), how artwork can help a project come to life and how authors need to go local to sell books.
I've enjoyed Lindsay Buroker's work for a couple of years now, so it was a real honor to be speaking with her. I'm also finding the work of Jeffrey Poole and Joseph Lallo to be a blast, too!
If you write Fantasy or Science Fiction books then this podcast is a must. Tell 'em Ben sent you!
Watch the interview now. Notice how I'm doing a hand puppet show? It went really well! Okay, I'm kidding (maybe…)


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Good Money After Bad
If the world's citizens will not freely lend the Big Three automakers money of their own free will, then Congress is considering using force to make it happen.
Auto industry allies hope to secure
up to $50 billion in federal t loans this month to modernize plants and
help struggling car makers build more fuel-efficient vehicles.Congress returns this coming week from its summer break, and the
auto industry plans an aggressive lobbying campaign for the
low-interest loans.
I wrote earlier on why we should not be afraid to let GM fail. Paul Ingrassia makes this point:
low-interest loans to develop fuel-efficient cars should be made
available to all car companies, not just the Detroit Three. The law
passed by Congress last year is framed to make this highly unlikely.
But if developing fuel-efficient and alternative-energy cars is deemed
worthy of taxpayer subsidies for public-policy purposes, it's just
common sense not to put all our eggs in Detroit's basket.
I would have gone further and said that US automakers are perhaps the last one's one would entrust with limited capital resources to develop such a new technology. What would have happened to the PC revolution had the government circa 1975 limited all the available investment capital for new computing technologies to IBM, DEC, Honeywell, etc.


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Global compliance has long been a cornerstone of good business practice but can still be viewed by some as simply an obligation to be met rather than an opportunity to be capitalised on. That's why we set out to uncover how business leaders approach global compliance, including the attention they devote to it, the returns they expect, the risks they anticipate, and where they focus investment."
Erick Gillier Partner and Global Head of Outsourcing, Mazars
"With scrutiny on business as tight as ever, the findings that most leaders plan on increasing financial and human resources dedicated to compliance should be reassuring for anyone who wants to see good business done well.
Unlocking trust: why global compliance is on the business agenda
This survey, and related study, 'Unlocking trust: why global compliance is on the business agenda' reveal that when compliance is done well it builds investor confidence, increases client and customer trust, and shapes a positive reputation with the outside world. Far more than ticking a box, global compliance is a source of opportunity.
Clear sense of responsibility
With 890 responses from senior compliance professionals in 25 countries, the study shows the clear sense of responsibility that business leaders have towards global compliance and the return on investment they expect to see.
It also provides insight into how business leaders view compliance as getting harder to manage because of increased complexity, fast-changing legislation and the long consequences of Covid-19. To keep up with developments, leaders are planning to boost investment in technology and the skills of their teams.
Key findings
- Good global compliance increases stakeholder trust and confidence: 58% see compliance as an opportunity to create value in the form of trust, confidence, and confidence ultimately bolstering corporate reputation.
- Compliance requirements are expected to become more difficult to meet in the future: 82% are confident they are successfully meeting the requirements now and will continue to do so in the future. However, over half of them (51%) expect compliance to get harder in the next five years. Fast-changing legislation, increased complexity, and Covid-19 are the top three challenges; Brexit is the lowest-ranked challenge.
- Leaders are investing in technology and skills to prepare for the future: 27% plan to increase financial and people resources dedicated to global compliance 'significantly' in the next five years.
Read 'Unlocking trust: why global compliance is on the business agenda' to learn about the opportunities global compliance can create, the challenges ahead, how tax transparency acts as a microcosm for compliance, what business leaders are doing to prepare for the future, and more.


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Texas CASA
A child enters the foster care system because his or her home is no longer safe, and a judge may appoint a committed volunteer to help them. That volunteer is called a Court Appointed Special Advocate®, or CASA. CASA volunteers are screened, highly trained, then appointed by judges to represent and advocate for a child's best interests in the child protection system. CASA volunteers are each assigned to help one child or set of siblings at a time, so they can focus on giving that child or sibling group the individualized advocacy and attention they need. CASA volunteers save taxpayer money and children's futures by helping children find safe, permanent homes as soon as possible.


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Boho Baby Shower Decorations Package - Gender Neutral Dreamcatcher Floral Antlers
Auntie's Jammies
Let these boho theme shower decorations take your next bohemian baby event to the next level!
**These items are Handmade When Ordered; please order at least 3 weeks before your event for timely delivery. Rush orders will incur an additional fee.**
Choose from the following items individually in the drop down menu or order the Package!
The Package: Includes 1 Banner, 18 Thank You Favor Tags with ribbons, 18 Party Straws, and 8 Buffet Food Labels. Items are printed on ivory cream heavy cardstock and embellished with silky hand scrunched ribbons in a mix of coordinating colors.
The Banner - Measures 61" Long x 4.5" Wide depending on wording. Printed on heavy cardstock and each individual card is tied with hand scrunched ribbon bows. Choose from Oh Baby, It's A Girl, It's A Boy, or It's Twins.
The Cupcake Toppers - Measure 1.75" round scallop, attached to a natural wooden pick and embellished with hand scrunched ribbon.
The Cupcake Wrappers - Printed on cardstock. Fits standard size cupcakes. Shipped flat, and can be assembled around your cupcake with a small piece of clear tape.
The Favor Tags - Each measures 2.25" x 1.75" and includes 15" of hand scrunched ribbon looped through the tag for tying to your favors.
The Party Straws - Paper party straws with coordinating tags attached with ribbons.
The Favor Bags - Each white flat bag measures approx 7.75" tall x 6" wide and comes with a silky hand scrunched ribbon for closure; scalloped at the top edge and holes punched so that you can tie the ribbons on after filling with goodies!
The Buffet Label/Place Cards - Blank so you that you can fill in guest's name, table numbers, or food/buffet labels. Each measures approx 3.25" wide x 2.5" tall.
The Floral Centerpiece Picks - Double sided, printed on heavy cardstock, and attached to a 12" bamboo pick. Silky hand scrunched ribbon bows for embellishment. Measures approx. 3.5" x 4.5" x 13" tall. Choose from table numbers or just coordinating images to the banner.
The Mini Sachet Favors - Dainty little ivory organza Lavender Mini Sachets to distribute as favors with coordinating Thank You tags attached with ribbons. Each sachet measures approx 3.5" tall x 3" wide and has a heaping 1/4 cup of premium dried French lavender.