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The name Kevin Beaumont may not be familiar to you, but if you're a Linux or Solaris user, he may have just saved you a whole lot of grief.
Recently, Mr. Beaumont discovered a stealthy backdoor malware that has been quietly infecting Linux and Solaris SPARC systems for more than five years. BPFdoor only parses ICMP, UDP and TCP packets checking them for a specific data value and in the case of UDP and TCP packets, also checking for a password.
It can sit quietly on an infected system for an extended period. However, once triggered, it allows the hacker who placed it there complete access to a compromised device. Beaumont found BPDdoor activity on networks all over the world. It was most notably found in South Korea, Hong Kong, India, Vietnam, Myanmar, Turkey and of course, the United States.
He also discovered eleven different speed test servers infected with BPFdoor. Although he was at a loss to explain how those systems may have been compromised since they run on closed-source software.
A different researcher named Craig Rowland issued a comprehensive technical report on BPFdoor and outlined some of its very clever anti-evasion tactics.
The tactics include the fact that it:
- Resides in system memory and deploys anti-forensics action (wipes the process environment, albeit unsuccessfully as it leaves it empty)
- Loads a Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) sniffer allowing it to work in front of any locally running firewalls to see packets
- Modifies 'iptables' rules when receiving a relevant packet to allow attacker communication through the local firewall
- Masquerades the binary under a name like a common Linux system daemon
- Renames and runs itself as /dev/shm/kdmtmpflush
- Changes the date of the binary (time stamping) to October 30, 2008, before deleting it
Thanks to the research of these two individuals, an incredibly stealthy malware strain that specifically targets Linux and Solaris systems has now been exposed to sunlight. Although the malware is well-designed and contains several clever anti-evasion tactics, now that the word is out, IT Security professionals know what to look for and can begin the process of purging it from infected systems. Kudos to both.


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This is an archive of the Treatment Action Campaign's public documents from
December 1998 until October 2008. I created this website because the TAC's
website appears unmaintained and people were concerned that it
was becoming
increasingly hard to find important documents.
The menu items have
been slightly edited and a new stylesheet applied to the site. But none of the
documents have been edited, not even for minor errors. The text appears on this
site as obtained from the Internet Archive.
The period covered by
the archive encompassed the campaign for HIV medicines, the civil disobedience
campaigns, the Competition Commission complaints, the 2008 xenophobic violence
and the PMTCT, Khayelitsha health workers and Matthias Rath court cases.
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Tippmann Tactical Airsoft Mesh Mask
Tippmann Tactical brings a goggle that was influenced by one of the most comfortable goggle systems in the world, the JT Proflex. "Mesh" Airsoft goggle provides superior face protection using unique insert molding technology, giving the player a rigid upper section for maximum eye protection, while offering a sturdy mesh lower giving the optimum protection and breathability. The optically correct Spectra lens offers a 260° field of vision in a fog-free, dual pane construction. Soft ear pieces and a removable visor are also standard on the "Mesh" Airsoft Goggle.
The "Mesh" Airsoft goggle system offers protective mesh bottom skirt on the jaw that has been strategically designed to allow clear voice projection and increased team communication. Mesh lower skirt prevent fogging and increase breath-ability.


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Liboil is a library of simple functions that are optimized for various CPUs. These functions are generally loops implementing simple algorithms, such as converting an array of N integers to floating-point numbers or multiplying and summing an array of N numbers. Such functions are candidates for significant optimization using various techniques, especially by using extended instructions provided by modern CPUs (Altivec, MMX, SSE, etc.).
Many multimedia applications and libraries already do similar things internally. The goal of this project is to consolidate some of the code used by various multimedia projects, and also make optimizations easier to use by a broader range of applications.
As of the liboil-0.3.0 release, I'm actively encouraging other open-source projects to begin using liboil. I'm happy to do much of work converting projects to use liboil, and especially, adding function classes and implementations to liboil that may be needed. Liboil does not require GCC to build, but since it uses GCC-style inline assembly heavily, using GCC is strongly recommended. Versions of GCC prior to 3.2 are known to have problems compiling liboil correctly. GLib-2.0 is recommended to build a few of the examples, but is not required for anything that is installed.
Liboil may be modified and distributed in accordance with a very liberal license commonly referred to as "Two-Clause BSD". This license was chosen to make liboil useful to as many open-source projects as possible, and has the side effect of also allowing liboil to be used by proprietary applications.
Liboil has a number of function classes, which are primarily seen by a developer using the library as actual functions. One such function is:
void oil_tablelookup_u8 (uint8_t *dest, int dstr, uint8_t *src, * int sstr, uint8_t *table, int tablestride, int n);
This function performs a table lookup for each element in the src array, and puts the results in the dest array. In actuality, oil_tablelookup_u8 is currently implemented as a preprocessor macro that generates the correct code to call an indirect function.
Each function class has one or more function implementations, which are real functions that perform the exact same action as defined by the documentation for the function. Each class has one implementation that is the reference implementation. This reference implmentation is used to test the accuracy of other implementations.
Presumably, the non-reference implementations can perform the action faster than the reference implementation. Thus, the liboil initialization code (at runtime) checks each implementation in a class to determine the fastest implementation. Once this is done, the class's indirect function pointer points to the optimal implementation. After this, any calls to the function class (such as oil_tablelookup_u8() described above) will automatically be routed to the fastest implementation.
Implementations can be disabled either at compile time (e.g., assembly code for the wrong architecture) or at run time (e.g., implementation uses unsupported opcodes). This is done automatically. In addition, implementations may be disabled because they do not produce the same results as the reference implementation.
All of the function classes will be API and ABI stable through the lifetime of the 0.3 series. In addition, the 0.4 series will include a compatibility library that will provide the 0.3 ABI. This allows multiple liboil-using libraries to be linked into the same application without regard to using the same liboil ABI. New ABI versions (0.4, 0.5, etc.) are expected no less than 6 months apart. It is planned that all future versions of liboil will support at least two liboil ABI versions in this way.
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Liboil has essentially two separate subprojects: development of the Liboil core (essentially completed), and development of function classes useful to applications. As time and interest permit, I modify applications and libraries to use liboil, create function classes to support those applications, and occasionally write some optimized implementations.
In general, hacking on Liboil does not require knowledge of assembly language. Many implementations are written in C. Some use compiler intrisics that generate assembly for MMX or SSE instructions.
Slides from a presentation given by ds at DesktopCon about Liboil.
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Recreational Data: Data Golf
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I'm still hopeful of working up the idea of recreational data as a popular pastime activity with a regular column somewhere and a stocking filler book each Christmas (?!;-), but haven't had much time to commit to working up some great examples lately:-(
However, here's a neat idea – data golf – as described in a post by Bogumił Kamiński (RGolf) that I found via RBloggers:
There are many code golf sites, even some support R. However, most of them are algorithm oriented. A true RGolf competition should involve transforming a source data frame to some target format data frame.
So the challenge today will be to write a shortest code in R that performs a required data transformation
An example is then given of a data reshaping/transformation problem based on a real data task (wrangling survey data, converting it from a long to a wide format in the smallest amount of R.
Of course, R need not be the only language that can be used to play this game. For the course I'm currently writing, I think I'll pitch data golf as a Python/pandas activity in the section on data shaping. OpenRefine also supports a certain number of reshaping transformations, so that's another possible data golf course(?). As are spreadsheets. And so on…
Hmmm… thinks… pivot table golf?
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Green- Plants for small space
In Green, Jason Chongue explains and simplifies how to curate and look after plants in small urban spaces. He provides a practical and personal guide to creating urban gardens and styling with plants, perfect for a range of environments and climates, inside or out. From balconies, porches, courtyards and small backyards to entryways, offices and living spaces, this 'how to' guide is an approachable resource for gardeners of all types.
Chapters cover understanding your climate, a plant maintenance calendar, curating a range of spaces and appreciating plants in public spaces, as well as quick tips for styling and plant care. Jason also invites 'Plant People' across the globe to provide an insight into how people are inspired by nature. Green is the perfect guide to small-space gardening, beautifully photographed and illustrated, and will help you transform your indoor and outdoor spaces into a lush, healthy oasis in no time.
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Limitations often give rise to great creativity. For instance, pools with automatic covers had to be rectangular at one time. Fencing used to mean that a waterscape couldn't be enjoyed from inside the home. In addition, waterfeatures were cumbersome to work around with a cover of any kind.
However, thanks to innovation and creativity by builders and manufacturers, this is no longer the case. Homeowners now have more options. Black fencing is less conspicuous, and automatic-cover lids can be concealed by covering it with the same material as the deck.
The following projects show how four builders took these ideas to the next level. By allowing the main design concept to dictate materials and layout, they achieve safe, yet elegant, end products.
Ron Coker
Founder, Master Pools by Artistic Pools
This fence wasn't designed to keep children out of the yard. Instead, it was installed to keep people in.
Coker didn't have much room to maneuver. The lot sat on a severe slope, and the home builder had erected a retaining wall. It dipped as far as 32 feet below, so that they could have flat area.
Yet the client wanted a pool large enough for lap swimming and a play area for his grandchildren. The aquascape also needed enough room for a sizable deck. "He wanted as much sitting area as possible," Coker says.
"And, of course, I said to him, 'This is a perfect place to have a vanishing edge,'" he adds. "[The lot] is sitting 100 feet above Lake Lanier. If you look through the trees, you'll see water way in the background."
Coker placed the rectangular vanishing-edge lap pool perpendicular to the home to maximize the existing space. Part of the pool juts in toward the house to add square footage for a play area. Coker raised the spa approximately 18 inches out of the ground to provide extra seating.
To add entertainment space, he brought the deck all the way to the edge of the lot and aligned it with the vanishing edge. He had to make an unusual decision: Place fencing on either side of the vanishing edge. The black wrought iron not only matched an existing fence, but it blended in better with the view. Plus, it fit in with the rest of the property's clean yet classic materials.
Brick veneered the raised spa, while limestone formed the pool coping and lined the spillway. Crews installed a rough-sawn marble on the deck. "It's just simple," Coker says.
Randy Beard
President. Pure Water Pools
Costa Mesa, Calif.
A prominent surgeon and his wife bought a piece of property overlooking the back bay of Newport Beach, Calif. They had three young children. To accommodate their growing family, they built an elegant Cape Cod-style house.
The husband wanted a pool, but his wife argued against it. She was concerned about their children's welfare. In the end, they decided to call Randy Beard, who helped evaluate their situation.
"As a salesperson, you're shooting yourself in the foot if you don't address pool safety. Believe me, it's on the customer's mind," Beard says. He informed the parents about the latest safety features that could be installed on their pool, including an automatic cover, and door and subsurface alarms.
With the wife reassured, Beard embarked on the project. He designed a 16-by-32-foot rectangular, vanishing-edge pool that seems to melt into the horizon. The coping and surrounding raised walls are composed of Pennsylvania bluestone to accentuate the white woodwork of the house. Tiles of silver Idaho quartzite line the water's edge, and the interior finish is a smoke-colored quartz.
Beard used cut pieces of bluestone on the walk-on lid trays to hide where the cover rolls out. Whenever the homeowners need it serviced, they remove the bolts and pick up the stone to access the cover. This construction is expensive, but they believe the resulting aesthetic appeal is worth the cost.
The couple also opted to install door chimes. That way, whenever someone exits into or enters from the pool area, musical notes ring throughout the house. The sound is even heard upstairs. In addition, the pool features a sonar alarm system as another safety layer. It utilizes subsurface sonar technology to detect small children falling into the water, but screens out "false alarms" such as wind, rain or toys.
Next to the pool is a 7-by-7-foot, half-moon spa. The overflow from the vanishing-edge side pours into a vertical trough, or a notch. To prevent accidents in either one, Beard added safety netting to both bodies of water.
He prides himself on the ease of use in all the protective layers in this project. "Good safety involves mechanisms that fit into a child's day-to-day [activities]," Beard says.
Gary Duff
President, Gary Duff Designs
Holbrook, N.Y.
These homeowners wanted protection for their children and pets. So Duff did the seemingly impossible: He used isolation fencing to enhance the waterscape design. He created a solid backyard room feel, while the black wrought-iron product helps frame the view from the home.
To achieve a classic look that complements the architecture, Duff opted for symmetry in line. He placed the rectangular pool perpendicular to the house on axis with the large kitchen windows and front door. This also makes the most use of the area.
"The property was somewhat rectangular, with more depth than width," he says. "We wanted to accentuate that and not split the property in half by running the pool parallel with the back of the house." This left room for a grass play area to the left of the pool.
Duff wanted a focal point at the pool's far end, so he and the clients chose a metallic statue reminiscent of the Venus de Milo. To accentuate the sculpture, Duff added a radius at that end of the pool and downlit it from the trees in back. "At night, when you turn the lights on, it reflects the statue in the pool," he says.
A gazebo sits approximately halfway along the pool's length. The structure's copper roof turns to a patina color over time for an aged look. A gray stain over the exterior complements the bluestone.
The fence layout helps pull the whole scheme together. It encloses the area to create a new room, which is connected to the home with a path of bluestones set in the lawn. Duff thinks black wrought iron makes the most sense.
"Dark colors make things look smaller and less conspicuous," he says. "If that wrought iron were white, it would be prominent and stop your eye from looking through it and appreciating the rest of the landscape." He veneered the fence piers in Danish red brick, then capped them with bluestone. Rather than the same simple bullnose that he used for the coping, he edged it with a fancier ogee cut.
Whereas some people see isolation fencing as a hindrance, Duff was able to enhance his project with it. "It actually added another dimension or other detail to the aesthetics of the project," he says. "It's almost like adding moldings in a house — it just makes it that much more interesting and intriguing."
Joe Donnelly
Owner, Complete Pools
Stilwell, Kan.
These homeowners were looking for a low-cost aquascape that offered moving water and room to play. To protect their children and keep out leaves, they opted for a mesh safety cover. It would do the job and cost less than the automatic version, says Zoe Frank, office manager at Complete Pools.
Donnelly designed the vinyl-lined gunite pool with a raised bond beam. Four sheet waterfalls spill from the wall. The clients requested steps and a swim-out, but they wanted them close to the home. A fan of the Roman-end pool, Donnelly offered an unusual twist by taking two 10-by-5-foot radiuses and putting them on one side. This left two "bump-outs" on the house side of the pool — one contains a set of stairs, the other a bench.
To help maneuver the cover around the waterfeature, Donnelly installed a cable system made by the manufacturer. He drilled holes into the raised wall and placed eyelet screws in each, level with where the cover would rest. The hooks from the cover attach to the eyelets, which can be removed in spring, so they don't detract from the project's appearance.
Donnelly veneered the bond beam with a precast stone. The broom-finished concrete deck and stamped-concrete coping kept the price down.


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What Warren thinks...
With Wall Street in chaos, Fortune naturally went to Omaha looking for wisdom. Warren Buffett talks about the economy, the credit crisis, Bear Stearns, and more.
(Fortune Magazine) -- If Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting, scheduled for May 3 this year, is known as the Woodstock of Capitalism, then perhaps this is the equivalent of Bob Dylan playing a private show in his own house: Some 15 times a year Berkshire CEO Warren Buffett invites a group of business students for an intensive day of learning. The students tour one or two of the company's businesses and then proceed to Berkshire (BRKA, Fortune 500) headquarters in downtown Omaha, where Buffett opens the floor to two hours of questions and answers. Later everyone repairs to one of his favorite restaurants, where he treats them to lunch and root beer floats. Finally, each student gets the chance to pose for a photo with Buffett.
In early April the megabillionaire hosted 150 students from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School (which Buffett attended) and offered Fortune the rare opportunity to sit in as he expounded on everything from the Bear Stearns (BSC, Fortune 500) bailout to the prognosis for the economy to whether he'd rather be CEO of GE (GE, Fortune 500) - or a paperboy. What follows are edited excerpts from his question-and-answer session with the students, his lunchtime chat with the Whartonites over chicken parmigiana at Piccolo Pete's, and an interview with Fortune in his office.
Buffett began by welcoming the students with an array of Coca-Cola products. ("Berkshire owns a little over 8% of Coke, so we get the profit on one out of 12 cans. I don't care whether you drink it, but just open the cans, if you will.") He then plunged into weightier matters:
Before we start in on questions, I would like to tell you about one thing going on recently. It may have some meaning to you if you're still being taught efficient-market theory, which was standard procedure 25 years ago. But we've had a recent illustration of why the theory is misguided. In the past seven or eight or nine weeks, Berkshire has built up a position in auction-rate securities [bonds whose interest rates are periodically reset at auction; for more, see box on page 74] of about $4 billion. And what we have seen there is really quite phenomenal. Every day we get bid lists. The fascinating thing is that on these bid lists, frequently the same credit will appear more than once.
Here's one from yesterday. We bid on this particular issue - this happens to be Citizens Insurance, which is a creature of the state of Florida. It was set up to take care of hurricane insurance, and it's backed by premium taxes, and if they have a big hurricane and the fund becomes inadequate, they raise the premium taxes. There's nothing wrong with the credit. So we bid on three different Citizens securities that day. We got one bid at an 11.33% interest rate. One that we didn't buy went for 9.87%, and one went for 6.0%. It's the same bond, the same time, the same dealer. And a big issue. This is not some little anomaly, as they like to say in academic circles every time they find something that disagrees with their theory.
So wild things happen in the markets. And the markets have not gotten more rational over the years. They've become more followed. But when people panic, when fear takes over, or when greed takes over, people react just as irrationally as they have in the past.
Do you think the U.S. financial markets are losing their competitive edge? And what's the right balance between confidence-inspiring standards and ...
... between regulation and the Wild West? Well, I don't think we're losing our edge. I mean, there are costs to Sarbanes-Oxley, some of which are wasted. But they're not huge relative to the $20 trillion in total market value. I think we've got fabulous capital markets in this country, and they get screwed up often enough to make them even more fabulous. I mean, you don't want a capital market that functions perfectly if you're in my business. People continue to do foolish things no matter what the regulation is, and they always will. There are significant limits to what regulation can accomplish. As a dramatic illustration, take two of the biggest accounting disasters in the past ten years: Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. We're talking billions and billions of dollars of misstatements at both places.
Now, these are two incredibly important institutions. I mean, they accounted for over 40% of the mortgage flow a few years back. Right now I think they're up to 70%. They're quasi-governmental in nature. So the government set up an organization called OFHEO. I'm not sure what all the letters stand for. [Note to Warren: They stand for Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight.] But if you go to OFHEO's website, you'll find that its purpose was to just watch over these two companies. OFHEO had 200 employees. Their job was simply to look at two companies and say, "Are these guys behaving like they're supposed to?" And of course what happened were two of the greatest accounting misstatements in history while these 200 people had their jobs. It's incredible. I mean, two for two!
It's very, very, very hard to regulate people. If I were appointed a new regulator - if you gave me 100 of the smartest people you can imagine to work for me, and every day I got the positions from the biggest institutions, all their derivative positions, all their stock positions and currency positions, I wouldn't be able to tell you how they were doing. It's very, very hard to regulate when you get into very complex instruments where you've got hundreds of counterparties. The counterparty behavior and risk was a big part of why the Treasury and the Fed felt that they had to move in over a weekend at Bear Stearns. And I think they were right to do it, incidentally. Nobody knew what would be unleashed when you had thousands of counterparties with, I read someplace, contracts with a $14 trillion notional value. Those people would have tried to unwind all those contracts if there had been a bankruptcy. What that would have done to the markets, what that would have done to other counterparties in turn - it gets very, very complicated. So regulating is an important part of the system. The efficacy of it is really tough.
At Piccolo Pete's, where he has dined with everyone from Microsoft's Bill Gates to the New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez, Buffett sat at a table with 12 Whartonites and bantered over many topics.
How do you feel about the election?
Way before they both filed, I told Hillary that I would support her if she ran, and I told Barack I would support him if he ran. So I am now a political bigamist. But I feel either would be great. And actually, I feel that if a Republican wins, John McCain would be the one I would prefer. I think we've got three unusually good candidates this time.
They're all moderate in their approach.
Well, the one we don't know for sure about is Barack. On the other hand, he has the chance to be the most transformational too.
I know you had a paper route. Was that your first job?
Well, I worked for my grandfather, which was really tough, in the [family] grocery store. But if you gave me the choice of being CEO of General Electric or IBM or General Motors, you name it, or delivering papers, I would deliver papers. I would. I enjoyed doing that. I can think about what I want to think. I don't have to do anything I don't want to do. It might be wonderful to be head of GE, and Jeff Immelt is a friend of mine. And he's a great guy. But think of all the things he has to do whether he wants to do them or not.
How do you get your ideas?
I just read. I read all day. I mean, we put $500 million in PetroChina. All I did was read the annual report. [Editor's note: Berkshire purchased the shares five years ago and sold them in 2007 for $4 billion.]
What advice would you give to someone who is not a professional investor? Where should they put their money?
Well, if they're not going to be an active investor - and very few should try to do that - then they should just stay with index funds. Any low-cost index fund. And they should buy it over time. They're not going to be able to pick the right price and the right time. What they want to do is avoid the wrong price and wrong stock. You just make sure you own a piece of American business, and you don't buy all at one time.
When Buffett said he was ready to pose for photographs, all 150 students stampeded out of the room within seconds and formed a massive line. For the next half hour, each one took his or her turn with Buffett, often in hammy poses (wrestling for his wallet was a favorite). Then, as he started to leave, a 77-year-old's version of A Hard Day's Night ensued, with a pack of 30 students trailing him to his gold Cadillac. Once free, he drove this Fortune writer back to his office and continued fielding questions.
How does the current turmoil stack up against past crises?
Well, that's hard to say. Every one has so many variables in it. But there's no question that this time there's extreme leveraging and in some cases the extreme prices of residential housing or buyouts. You've got $20 trillion of residential real estate and you've got $11 trillion of mortgages, and a lot of that does not have a problem, but a lot of it does. In 2006 you had $330 billion of cash taken out in mortgage refinancings in the United States. That's a hell of a lot - I mean, we talk about having $150 billion of stimulus now, but that was $330 billion of stimulus. And that's just from prime mortgages. That's not from subprime mortgages. So leveraging up was one hell of a stimulus for the economy.
If that was one hell of a stimulus, do you think the $150 billion government stimulus plan will make an impact?
Well, it's $150 billion more than we'd have otherwise. But it's not like we haven't had stimulus. And then the simultaneous, more or less, LBO boom, which was called private equity this time. The abuses keep coming back - and the terms got terrible and all that. You've got a banking system that's hung up with lots of that. You've got a mortgage industry that's deleveraging, and it's going to be painful.
The scenario you're describing suggests we're a long way from turning a corner.
I think so. I mean, it seems everybody says it'll be short and shallow, but it looks like it's just the opposite. You know, deleveraging by its nature takes a lot of time, a lot of pain. And the consequences kind of roll through in different ways. Now, I don't invest a dime based on macro forecasts, so I don't think people should sell stocks because of that. I also don't think they should buy stocks because of that.
Your OFHEO example implies you're not too optimistic about regulation.
Finance has gotten so complex, with so much interdependency. I argued with Alan Greenspan some about this at [Washington Post chairman] Don Graham's dinner. He would say that you've spread risk throughout the world by all these instruments, and now you didn't have it all concentrated in your banks. But what you've done is you've interconnected the solvency of institutions to a degree that probably nobody anticipated. And it's very hard to evaluate. If Bear Stearns had not had a derivatives book, my guess is the Fed wouldn't have had to do what it did.
Do you find it striking that banks keep looking into their investments and not knowing what they have?
I read a few prospectuses for residential-mortgage-backed securities - mortgages, thousands of mortgages backing them, and then those all tranched into maybe 30 slices. You create a CDO by taking one of the lower tranches of that one and 50 others like it. Now if you're going to understand that CDO, you've got 50-times-300 pages to read, it's 15,000. If you take one of the lower tranches of the CDO and take 50 of those and create a CDO squared, you're now up to 750,000 pages to read to understand one security. I mean, it can't be done. When you start buying tranches of other instruments, nobody knows what the hell they're doing. It's ridiculous. And of course, you took a lower tranche of a mortgage-backed security and did 100 of those and thought you were diversifying risk. Hell, they're all subject to the same thing. I mean, it may be a little different whether they're in California or Nebraska, but the idea that this is uncorrelated risk and therefore you can take the CDO and call the top 50% of it super-senior - it isn't super-senior or anything. It's a bunch of juniors all put together. And the juniors all correlate.
If big financial institutions don't seem to know what's in their portfolios, how will investors ever know when it's safe?
They can't, they can't. They've got to, in effect, try to read the DNA of the people running the companies. But I say that in any large financial organization, the CEO has to be the chief risk officer. I'm the chief risk officer at Berkshire. I think I know my limits in terms of how much I can sort of process. And the worst thing you can have is models and spreadsheets. I mean, at Salomon, they had all these models, and you know, they fell apart.
What should we say to investors now?
The answer is you don't want investors to think that what they read today is important in terms of their investment strategy. Their investment strategy should factor in that (a) if you knew what was going to happen in the economy, you still wouldn't necessarily know what was going to happen in the stock market. And (b) they can't pick stocks that are better than average. Stocks are a good thing to own over time. There's only two things you can do wrong: You can buy the wrong ones, and you can buy or sell them at the wrong time. And the truth is you never need to sell them, basically. But they could buy a cross section of American industry, and if a cross section of American industry doesn't work, certainly trying to pick the little beauties here and there isn't going to work either. Then they just have to worry about getting greedy. You know, I always say you should get greedy when others are fearful and fearful when others are greedy. But that's too much to expect. Of course, you shouldn't get greedy when others get greedy and fearful when others get fearful. At a minimum, try to stay away from that.
By your rule, now seems like a good time to be greedy. People are pretty fearful.
You're right. They are going in that direction. That's why stocks are cheaper. Stocks are a better buy today than they were a year ago. Or three years ago.
But you're still bullish about the U.S. for the long term?
The American economy is going to do fine. But it won't do fine every year and every week and every month. I mean, if you don't believe that, forget about buying stocks anyway. But it stands to reason. I mean, we get more productive every year, you know. It's a positive-sum game, long term. And the only way an investor can get killed is by high fees or by trying to outsmart the market.
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Dr. Richard Ebeling, professor of economics at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, and my longtime friend and colleague, has written an important article, "Business Ethics and The Morality of the Free Market," appearing in the American Institute for Economic Research. Its importance and timeliness is enhanced by so many of America's youth, led by academic hacks, having fallen prey to the siren song of socialism.
In a key section of his article, Ebeling lays out what he calls the ethical principles of free markets. He says: "The hallmark of a truly free market is that all associations and relationships are based on voluntary agreement and mutual consent. Another way of saying this is that in the free market society, people are morally and legally viewed as sovereign individuals possessing rights to their life, liberty, and honestly acquired property, who may not be coerced into any transaction that they do not consider being to their personal betterment and advantage."
Ebeling says that the rules of a free market are simple and easy to understand: "You don't kill, you don't steal, and you don't cheat through fraud or misrepresentation. You can only improve your own position by improving the circumstances of others. Your talents, abilities, and efforts must all be focused on one thing: what will others take in trade from you for the revenues you want to earn as the source of your own income and profits?"
For many people, profit has become a dirty word and as such has generated slogans such as "people before profits." Many believe the pursuit of profits is the source of mankind's troubles. However, it's often the absence of profit motivation that's the true villain. For example, contrast the number of complaints heard about profit-oriented establishments such as computer stores, supermarkets and clothing stores to the complaints that one hears about nonprofit establishments such as the U.S. Post Office, the public education system and departments of motor vehicles. Computer stores, supermarkets and clothing stores face competition and must satisfy customers to earn profits and stay in business. Postal workers, public teachers and department of motor vehicles employees depend on politicians and coercion to get their pay. They stay in business whether customers are satisfied with their services or not.
In a free market society, income is neither taken nor distributed. Income is earned by serving one's fellow man. Say I mow your lawn. When I'm finished, you pay me $50. Then, I go to my grocer and demand, "Give me two pounds of sirloin and a six-pack of beer that my fellow man produced." In effect, the grocer asks: "Williams, what did you do to deserve a claim on what your fellow man produced?" I say, "I served him." The grocer says, "Prove it." That's when I pull out the $50. We might think of dollars as "certificates of performance," proof of serving our fellow man.
Free markets are morally superior to other economic systems. To have a claim on what my fellow man produces, I'm forced to serve him. Contrast that requirement to government handouts, where a politician says to me: "You don't have to get out in that hot sun to mow your fellow man's lawn. Vote for me and I'll take what your fellow man produces and give it to you."
Ebeling says that those deserving condemnation are those who use government coercion to gain at the expense of others. There are thousands of such examples: government subsidies at taxpayers' expense, paying farmers not to grow crops or guaranteeing them a minimum price paid for through tax dollars and higher prices for consumers, regulations that limit entry into various professions and occupations, regulations that limit consumer choice, and corporate handouts and bailouts.
In a word or so, our protest should not be against capitalism. People should protest crony capitalism, where people use the political arena to buy government favors. If millennials and others want to wage war against government favors and crony capitalism, I'm with them 100%. But I'm all too afraid that anti-capitalists just want their share of the government loot.


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The Real Estate Institute of Victoria (REIV) has turned to
maps to present its latest set of property related information. In particular,
the Institute now publishes a weekly update of auction clearance rates and information
on prevailing sales methods by suburb. The information is presented on a Google
map as a thematic overlay.
The Clearance rates by suburb map allows users to view information
about total auctions, number of sales and a percent of successful sales for all
suburbs with more than 20 auctions in 2012. Clearance rates for the suburbs are
then compared to Melbourne-wide clearance rate. Individual suburbs are coloured
based on whether their clearance rate is higher or lower than the average
REIV published also a set of maps that compare historical statistics on auction and private sales for 2010 and 2011. They provide buyers,
sellers and anyone with an interest in the local market with data about the
most popular sales method in each suburb. These maps highlight the fact that
sales by auction are far less prevalent in the outer suburbs than the inner
city. A comparison of the use of
auctions over time highlights the link with the state of the property market.
That is, auctions are more popular when the market is stronger and private
sales increase in popularity when there is a lower level of competition between
The maps are a part of ongoing effort by the Institute to
provide timely, in depth analysis about the state of the property market in Victoria.


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I have a bit of an announcement to make: We've taken Mikko out of his preschool. But that's not what the article's about, so I'll get into all our reasons why another day.
The article at NPN today explores what you can do if you want to accomplish the same things a preschool education does — but in a home-based, non-curricular fashion.
Many people might say that preschool is unnecessary and little children can just learn as they go — and I do in fact believe that's true! However, Sam and I have a tendency to be, um, what's the word? Lazy, that's it. So it's good for us to have some goals in mind to scatter opportunities for learning in our children's path. You can't follow your child's interests if you don't offer anything interesting, right?Read more »
So, with our experience of what Mikko did in preschool, and our unschooling worldview, we can now see how the two mesh. Whether your kids are enrolled in preschool or not, you'll certainly have plenty of time interacting with them in an educational capacity in these preschool years. And whether or not you intend to continue on to traditional schooling, the preschool time is perfect for following your child's lead and being relaxed about learning. Here are our ideas to start out with for this year. Please feel free to add yours in the comments!
- Reading & Writing —
This one's pretty easy, assuming you like to read and write yourself. We'll continue to read books with Mikko, and he loves learning letters. Try some hands-on and fun ways to practice reading and writing:
- Copying Games: Draw a picture and leave space beside it for your little one to copy it. This builds hand-eye coordination and can be a lead-up to writing, or a drawing lesson in itself.
- Magnet Letters: These work great on the fridge, as we all know, but also try arranging them on a …


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Craig Idso
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Craig D. Idso is Chairman, founder and former President of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, a contrarian Arizona-based group funded in part by ExxonMobil. He is the son of its president, Sherwood B. Idso[1], and the brother of its vice president, Keith E. Idso.[2]
Craig Idso is a speaker at the America First Energy Conference to be held on November 9th, 2017. [1]
Craig Idso's degrees:[3]
- B.S. in Geography from Arizona State University
- M.S. in Agronomy from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln
- Ph.D. in Geography from Arizona State University; his thesis was on the amplitude of the difference between winter and summer atmopheric CO2 levels, and his thesis advisor was ASU's global warming skeptic professor Robert C. Balling, Jr.[4].
Contrarian think tanks
Idso is listed as Chairman of CO2Science[3] and Science Advisor to the Science and Public Policy Institute[5].
No academic position
As of 2011, Idso is not affiliated with a university.[4]
Fossil fuel industry employment
Idso was "Director of Environmental Science at Peabody Energy in St. Louis, Missouri".[3]
Professional societies membership
Idso "is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Geophysical Union, American Meteorological Society, Arizona-Nevada Academy of Sciences, Association of American Geographers, Ecological Society of America, and The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi."[3]
(Membership in such societies is often open to anyone who has an interest in the subject, is willing to pay dues, and has some relevant education.)
Research and teaching
Info from CO2Science website bio
"Dr. Idso's current research focus is on carbon sequestration, but he remains actively involved in several other aspects of global and environmental change, including climatology and meteorology, along with their impacts on agriculture. Dr. Idso has published scientific articles on issues related to data quality, the growing season, the seasonal cycle of atmospheric CO2, world food supplies, coral reefs, and urban CO2 concentrations, the latter of which he investigated via a National Science Foundation grant as a faculty researcher in the Office of Climatology at Arizona State University. In addition, he has lectured in Meteorology at Arizona State University, and in Physical Geography at Mesa and Chandler-Gilbert Community Colleges."[3]
Public speaking
Speaking Engagement at 2011 American Legislative Exchange Council Annual Meeting
Idso was a featured speaker at the 2011 American Legislative Exchange Council Annual Meeting, speaking at a Workshop that was to be titled "Warming Up to Climate Change: The Many Benefits of Increased Atmospheric CO2."[6] The title was later changed to "Benefit Analysis of CO2"[7] He was joined in that workshop by two other speakers and fellow climate skeptics, Roger Helmer and Robert Ferguson.[8] The workshop was hosted by ALEC's Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force.[9]
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Articles and Resources
- ↑ President. CO2 Science. Retrieved on 2011-08-12.
- ↑ Vice President. CO2 Science. Retrieved on 2011-08-12.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 "Chairman", Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, accessed April 2008.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Craig Idso, pers. comm to ahaynes, 2011-08-12; Idso says there was no program at ASU that granted specifically climate degrees, so the climate science was within the Geography dept.
- ↑ Personnel. Science and Public Policy Institute. Retrieved on 2011-08-12. "Science Adviser: Craig Idso, Ph. D., - Now serving as Chairman of the Board of Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, CRAIG D. IDSO is the Center's founder and former President."
- ↑ American Legislative Exchange Council, ALEC 2011 Annual Meeting Agenda, online meeting agenda, image archived July 22, 2011
- ↑ American Legislative Exchange Council, ALEC 2011 Annual Meeting Agenda, online meeting agenda, image archived August 3, 2011
- ↑ [American Legislative Exchange Council, 2011 Conference Workshops, conference brochure on file with CMD, August 11, 2011]
- ↑ American Legislative Exchange Council, "Energy, Environment, and Agriculture 2011 Annual Meeting Task Force Meeting," speaker biographies and materials, August 4, 2011, on file with CMD
Related SourceWatch Articles
External Resources
Articles and Presentations by Idso
- Craig Idso,Terry Dunleavy, ""Carbon Dioxide, Global Warming, and Coral Reefs: Prospects for the Future", Presentation to the Heartland Institute's International Conference on Climate Change (2009), March 9, 2009. (PowerPoint)


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A common strategy in the world of hobby robotics is to modify a servo for continuous rotation to use to drive the wheels of a tabletop robot.
On its own, the servo takes power, ground, and a position input and moves the shaft within a range of rotation to match the angle requested on its input wire. It has one or more stops in its gearbox to prevent it from rotating past the end of its range; these need to be removed. It also has a potentiometer as part of its positioning system, which — for the usual modification — needs to be tricked into thinking it's always centered. The modified servo then runs at full speed forward or backward trying to reach a requested position and thinking it has never succeeded in doing so; and the controller requires extra, external rotation sensing if you want to detect what the servo has actually done so far.
I wanted something a little different — PWM H-bridge control of the servo's motor for variable speed forward and backward and access to the potentiometer to detect position (crudely and at low speed) and count wheel rotations (acceptably and at high speed). This is actually an easier modification — but, though I'm surely not the first to do it, I've not run across it before. I started last night.


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Original Gyotaku monoprint Gyo = Fish, Taku = rubbing or impression in Japanese.
Hand printed and hand painted onto handmade paper using a real fish. Using fish from Stevenson's of Newlyn, local fishermen from Mevagissey or the Helford River. The papers are bright and colourful. I give the colours food associated names. Wrasse on lemon, on raspberry, on oyster, on lime, on redcurrant etc. Every piece is hand printed using acrylic paint and then fins, eyes and highlights are painted using gouache. Each Gyotaku is a unique, original artwork.
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The Five Biggest Snubs of the 2018 Oscar Nominees
What's that sound? A pained, agonized cry followed by the smashing boom of a table hitting the floor. Oh, that's just me, engaging in my annual tradition of reacting to the 2018 Oscar nominations snubs.
The nominees were announced this morning (see the full list here), and before I get negative I'll address the positive. There were plenty of wonderful surprises – look at how marvelous the Best Director category is! All the Phantom Thread love! Mudbound cinematographer Rachel Morrison making Oscar history! Yes, there's much to be thrilled about, but there's also a handful omissions to scratch our chins over.
We could easily come up with a long list of snubs – like Jane and Foxtrot missing from the Best Documentary category or I, Tonya's surprising few noms – but we've narrowed down the list to the five biggest snubs:
1. The Florida Project for Best Picture and Director
Sean Baker's The Florida Project received a total of one (1) nomination. Granted, the recognition of Willem Dafoe's magnificent supporting turn (easily one of if not the best performance of his career) is well-deserved, but this movie warranted a lot more. Baker's wondrous, free-wheeling look at childhood is an enthralling, poignant exploration of youthful spirit, with some of the most naturalistic performances I've seen in years. Baker is a magician when it comes to directing non-professional actors, and has an eye for capturing both the beauty and chaos that coexist in the natural rhythms of daily life. The Florida Project deserved a spot in the Best Picture and Best Director categories.
2. Holly Hunter for Best Supporting Actress
Holly Hunter is the type of actress who always makes her characters feel palpably human. That's especially the case with her work in The Big Sick. Panicked and anxious, but resilient and strong on the exterior, Hunter's Beth is desperately trying to hold it together as her daughter lies in a coma, her daughter's ex-boyfriend annoyingly lingers, and her cowering husband (a great Ray Romano) reminds her of past wounds. It's not a flashy performance, but it feels entirely genuine. Her fiery outburst at Kumail Nanjiani's standup set, where she aggressively cusses out a racist troll, is as fantastic as her subtle iciness towards him at the hospital, when she puts her scarf over the empty seat beside her to reject his company.
3. Michael Stuhlbarg for Best Supporting Actor
Timothée Chalamet is easily the standout of Call Me By Your Name, but his co-star, Michael Stuhlbarg, delivers one of the most tender and impassioned portraits of a father that I've ever seen, along with a monologue that will rip you to shreds. His Mr. Perlman is sensitive, pensive, and gentle, a far cry from the type of masculine characters we see in the movies, and years away from the stereotypical father figure in stories about queer love. While I'm at it, I'll also throw in Armie Hammer as a snub. I was half-expecting Stuhlbarg to be absent from the nominee list, but at the very least hoped Hammer would be nominated in his place. Not only is he cast perfectly as a living, breathing Greco-Roman sculpture, but he captures the mysterious allure of Oliver. He flickers between an oozing charm and a stern distance, convincing us just what makes him so titillating and so puzzling to Chalamet's young Elio.
4. Wonder Woman for Anything
Patty Jenkins' Wonder Woman was one of the most entertaining blockbusters of 2017, and one of the most beautiful. Whenever I think of this movie, I recall the orange plumes of smoke against the blue sky, and the shine of Wonder Woman's gold and red suit charging through the grimy battlefield. While comic-book movies don't often have a shot at the Oscars (unless you're Suicide Squad, and real life has become the Twilight Zone), I would've been more than thrilled to see Wonder Woman nominated in some technical categories – Best Costume, Best Production Design, Best Cinematography. And though the director race was crowded this year, I definitely wouldn't have been mad about a Jenkins nomination. As someone who doesn't particularly care for superhero movies, Jenkins' film left me giddy with glee by the end, and anxious for the sequel.
5. James Franco, The Disaster Artist
James Franco has been pegged for a possible Oscar nomination since his pitch-perfect Tommy Wiseau portrayal dropped jaws at the Toronto Film Festival last fall. When I first heard fellow critics raving about it, I kind of couldn't believe it. But when I saw The Disaster Artist, it made perfect sense. Franco is undeniably incredible in the movie. But as much as I consider his performance snubbed, I also recognize the discomfort I feel over even putting him on this list. Just after his Golden Globes win, the Los Angeles Times ran a piece with stories accusing Franco of sexual misconduct and inappropriate behavior. Is his snub a result of those allegations, which came out roughly 48 hours before Academy voting window closed? Or were voters simply not taken by his performance, more inclined to recognize the beloved Denzel Washington instead? It's difficult to know, but I have a feeling it might be the latter. The Academy gave Casey Affleck the Best Actor award last year despite assault allegations, and they still nominated Gary Oldman, who has a reported history of abuse. We've reached a place where it's more complicated than ever to separate art from the artist, if such a separation is possible at all.
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Fresh Fly Boy Entertainment (FFB) is an independent label, media, and management company based in Columbia, South Carolina.
FFB is headed by CEO, Divine The Barber who is a jack of all trades and self-proclaimed "Diddy of the city". Not only is Divine an outlet and resource for hard working talent in his city, he is also a self-taught barber, a trade he mastered while serving time behind bars. Divine served a total of 14 years in prison stemming from 4 separate bids, all of which has made him the man he is today.
After obtaining his GED and serving as the valedictorian of his class, Divine realized that his purpose in life was to serve his community. Music has always served as a teacher for Divine as he always appreciated the deeper messages behind lyrics.
Fresh Fly Boy Entertainment was birthed in 2016 with the principles of quality over quantity and strong work ethics. Each talent in FFB is handpicked and consists of Young I, a lyrically conscious rapper often referred to as FFB's best kept secret, Wolf Gang (Adolph, Mr. A.V., & Dub Freeze), a 3 member rap and production group with intense energy and fun, feel good music, author of urban novel, Indicted, Keisha Monique, and model, Namoi Love.
FFB is a part of the hit Youtube series, Killumbia which has over 150k views per episode and invites locals to display their acting abilities.
All personalities in Fresh Fly Boy Entertainment are authentic and true to their roots of Columbia, South Carolina and put on a show from start to finish during any performance. The label is currently working on their debut collective mixtape, Divine The Barber presents FFB, Volume 1 which is set for release soon with features from Cap 1 and Orlando Brown.
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Portulaca oleracea – better known as the common purslane plant – is a single species in the relatively small portulaca genus, and belongs to the portulacaceae family. These succulent annuals have a large distribution ranging from Australasia, the Middle East and into North Africa; although they have been naturalized in the United States, they are widely considered something of a weed in this area. These plants may be creeping or branching, and consist of stalkless, paddle-shaped leaves that may be opposite or alternating, and bear red, prostrate stems. They also contain tiny, inconspicuous, yellow blossoms which bear five petals, and burst forth from the center of a leaf cluster.
Although they are thought to be weeds in some regions, the attractive purslane plant has long been considered both beneficial and exceptionally tasty. Many explorations have discovered traces of this plant in prehistoric sites; however, some of the first references to it date back to ancient Greece and medieval England. Their history continues on past the Middle Ages and into the Great Depression in the United States, where its pervasive growth and high nutritional value made it a staple food. Today, the purslane plant – which has a tangy flavor when eaten raw, and a peppery taste when cooked – is used in a variety of ways, from salads to toppings, stews to soups and stirfries. The purslane plant is also thought to be exceptionally useful for medicinal remedies. This is not surprising, as they contain a higher dosage of Omega-3 fatty acids than any other leafy vegetable; they also contain potassium, carotenoids and calcium, as well as vitamin A, C and B. In traditional Chinese medicine, these succulents have been used to treat dysentery and urinary tract infections; medieval herbalists considered them to be a "cold" herb which would help to counteract "burning" conditions such as liver and heart diseases; in Greece they were thought be a potent blood purifier, while in Mexico they are said to be useful to those who suffer from diabetes. Purslanes also have a small place in folklore and symbolism. For example, it is one of the seven herbs used in a traditional, ceremonial nanakusa-no-sekku dish; while Pliny the Elder, the Roman naturalist, thought that these herbs were so powerful that they could be used to ward off wickedness.
Although purslanes do not contain any particular symbolism, it is not hard to see them as emblems of sustenance. As a gift, these succulents are unique, and look lovely when placed in decorative pots.


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Registration of Kenyans
Registration is a free service provided by the Kenya Embassy in Berlin for citizens who are visiting or living in Germany, Bulgaria and Romania. Registration allows us to have information about you that can help in case of emergencies or if we need to contact you. It also enables us to build a database for various statistical purposes.
Why should I register
Millions of Kenyans who travel or reside abroad are able to do so without much difficulty. The Kenya embassies and consulates endeavour to maintain contact with the Kenyan population abroad and also assist persons, who are victims of distress, crime, accident, illness, or whose family and friends need to contact them in emergency. When an emergency happens, or if disaster, terrorism or civil unrest strikes during your stay abroad the embassy or consulate can be your source of assistance or information. Consular officers process applications for Kenyan documents, legalise foreign documents for use in Kenya, process and issue passports, and register children born abroad. Although consular officers cannot act as your legal counsel or representative, they can provide contacts of local authorities that can provide assistance. Registration is voluntary and free of charge; it should therefore be a big part of your residence and travel plans.
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The Embassy of Kenya is committed to ensuring that any personal information received pursuant to the registration process, whether in person or otherwise, is safeguarded against unauthorised disclosure. The data that you provide is subject to the provisions of the Official Secrets Act. This means that the information will not be disclosed to any third party unless you have given us written permission to do so, or unless the disclosure is otherwise needed to assist in the evacuation or provision of emergency service, law enforcement, administration purposes or pursuant to court order.


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Welcome to AMCO - American Moistening Company
American Moistening Company, an ISO-9001-2000 certified company, has four divisions; Commercial / Industrial Humidification Control Systems, Water Treatment Systems, Gas Turbine Cooling/Fogging Systems, and the Control Panel Division.
The original AMCO was founded in Providence, RI in 1888 manufacturing conventional air washers utilizing compressed air atomization for the air handling and humidifying needs of the textile industry. The present corporation was formed in 1983. In 1929, the company relocated to North Carolina to follow the movement of the textile industry to the Southeast. In the early years, AMCO served the textile industry with compressed air atomization of water and conventional air washers.
In the 1970's, AMCO entered into new industries. These markets demanded a more economical means of humidifying process air. In response, American Moistening Company developed its direct spray, high-pressure water system... Learn More...
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It may be frigid and snowy outside, but love is in the air! With Valentine's Day just around the corner, my fellow Yorkdale Style Council member Julio and I are sharing our personal love stories with you. And we want you to do the same!
Because here at Yorkdale we are so in love with love, we are excited to announce an amazing giveaway for all the lovebirds out there! Share your love story on Yorkdale.com (comment section of THIS post), and you'll be entered to win TWO $250 Yorkdale gift cards – one for you and one for your love! Sounds good? Don't forget to enter before February 13th!
Nelia and Rob
How we met
Nelia: The way Rob and I met is a little crazy, and really made me believe in destiny (STOP ROLLING YOUR EYES!). Fresh out of university, I turned down an interview with one financial institution as I had already accepted an offer elsewhere. But after a couple of weeks of training, I realized that the type of work they had to offer just wasn't for me, so I called the HR person at the company I turned down, who was very understanding and booked me in for an interview. Rob was the person who interviewed me. It's going to sound crazy, but for me, it was love at first sight…or maybe attraction at first sight, but I just felt that spark. After the interview, I considered asking Rob out and declining the job offer, but at the end of the day, I ended up accepting it and chickening out on the whole "ask him out" thing. Within the first week at my new job, I got transferred out of Rob's team and he was no longer my boss…phew! We became friends and nearly a year after that interview he asked me out, and we've been together ever since. If I hadn't changed my mind about that job, and stayed at the first company, we may have never even met. Feels like it was meant to be.
Nelia: While on vacation in San Francisco, we spent a beautiful day exploring the city. Spring flowers were blooming, the sun was shining and I still remember that feeling of pure joy all day long. We've been together for nearly a year at that point, and during dinner, Rob looked at me and said "I love you"…I was so nervous, I mumbled "ditto" in return, but could obviously tell that it wasn't the answer he was hoping for. Truth is, I've never actually said "I love you" to a boyfriend before Rob, so it felt like a huge deal to me at the time. The next day, as we were getting ready for another day of fun, I finally got up the courage to say "I love you" properly. To this day, "ditto" is the way I tell Rob that I love him too.
Julio and Daniel
How we met
Daniel: Julio and I are a testament to romance in the age of social media. We actually met on Instagram via a mutual friend. I asked him out via Twitter DM. We always laugh when we tell people our story because no one believes us at first!
Julio: We just celebrated our 2 year anniversary on February 1st. Daniel likes to argue that our anniversary is earlier, but February 1st stuck with some encouragement aka my decision.
Instagram Engagement
Daniel: Well, being that I am the biggest hopeless romantic it had to be epic. I planned out the perfect day for Julio to make sure he got the engagement he deserved. I bought his favourite Tiffany's Ring that he had always wanted, brought our photographer down to Toronto. Since we met on Instagram, I decided that I would propose via the platform as well at the first place we ever met in person. So at 11:27am (1 year to the minute from when I first asked him out) via Instagram (how we met), at Dupont Subway Station (the first place we saw each other face to face) I asked him to marry me. And lucky for me, he said yes!
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