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Everton FC produced a late rally to score twice in three minutes and maintain their remarkable 11-year unbeaten record against Sunderland.
Black Cats winger Adam Johnson scored his first goal for the club on the stroke of half-time and for a long time it looked like giving his side their first league win over the Toffees in 16 matches.
However, Marouane Fellaini and Nikica Jelavic swung the game decisively in Everton FC's favour with goals in quick succession in the last 15 minutes to ensure manager David Moyes' 400th Premier League match ended in victory.
It also kept the Toffees in the top four as they stretched their current good run in 2012 to just one defeat in 20 league games.
Sunderland, who have not won away since February, must have thought their luck was about to change against their bogey side after Johnson's strike.
Not only was it his first goal since joining from Manchester City for £10million in August it was the team's first in eight hours 54 minutes of football in all competitions.
He became only the second Black Cats player to score this season, with Steven Fletcher (five) the only other as Newcastle striker Demba Ba's own goal had contributed to the paltry tally of six in nine previous matches.
Going into the weekend Everton were second only to defending champions Manchester City in terms of shots on target but they struggled to live up to that billing as it was Sunderland who posed all the early threats.
Jelavic, who had not scored for more than a month after grabbing four in five games, had an early shout for penalty turned down after John O'Shea's challenge before the visitors had two chances to take the lead.
Stephane Sessegnon shrugged off Seamus Coleman but should have done better as he closed in on goal but keeper Tim Howard, watched by United States coach Jurgen Klinsmann, saved.
Fletcher came even closer when he beat the American with an angled shot from a similar position only to see the ball roll past the far post.
Everton's response saw the lively Kevin Mirallas have a shot blocked by Danny Rose and Steven Pienaar denied by Simon Mignolet before the Toffees were dealt a blow when the former was forced off with a hamstring injury and had to be replaced by Steven Naismith.
The hosts had got themselves back into the game by this point and the sight of Phil Neville shooting from distance, forcing Mignolet to palm away, highlighted the confidence running currently through the team.
However, with virtually the last kick of the half Johnson struck with a neat volley.
Sebastian Larsson's corner was only half headed clear by Jelavic and when Craig Gardner curled a cross towards the far side of the penalty area the England international pounced.
Johnson also found himself in the right position early in the second half as he cleared John Heitinga's header off the line.
Substitute Apostolos Vellios, in his first appearance of the season after replacing Neville, headed at Mignolet but within minutes were ahead.
Leon Osman, named in an England squad for the first time this week at the age of 31, and Fellaini played a big part in both.
In the 76th minute Osman slid the ball through to his midfield colleague on the edge of the penalty area and the Belgium international turned before firing a low shot through a crowd of players, across Mignolet and into the far corner.
The same two players then combined again - Fellaini's cheeky backheel going through O'Shea's legs - to allow Jelavic to clip home a first-time shot and clinch a sixth successive Premier League home win against Sunderland.


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At one time, an estimated 30 to 75 million buffalo roamed over about one third of North America. The term Buffalo is a misnomer; the official name for the breed is the "American Bison." The true buffalo is a native of Africa and Asia, a dangerous animal in the wild, without the broad hump over the shoulders that is covered with a dense mat of shaggy hair, or the long beard under the chin. However, our preference for using the word Buffalo results perhaps from the lore of the American West and mythologies from the American Indian culture. It is believed that buffalo, or bison, crossed over a land bridge that once connected the Asian and North American continents. Through the centuries buffalo slowly moved southward, eventually reaching as far south as Mexico and as far east as the Atlantic Coast, extending south to Florida. But the largest herds were found on the plains and prairies from the Rocky Mountains east to the Mississippi River. "The moving multitude...darkened the whole plains," wrote Lewis and Clark, who encountered a herd at South Dakota's White River in 1806.
By 1800, the small buffalo herds east of the Mississippi River were gone. Buffalo may have been killed to protect livestock and farmlands in that region. With westward expansion of the American frontier, systematic reduction of the plains herds began around 1830, when buffalo hunting became the chief industry of the plains. Organized groups of hunters killed buffalo for hides and meat, often killing up to 250 buffalo a day. The construction of the railroads across the plains caused further depletion of buffalo populations. Hunting from train windows was advertised widely and passengers shot them as the buffalo raced beside the trains. By 1883 both the northern and the southern herds had been destroyed. Less than 300 wild animals remained in the U.S. and Canada by the turn of the century out of the millions that once lived there. Conservation of the buffalo came slowly. In May 1894, Congress enacted a law making buffalo hunting in Yellowstone National Park illegal. Eight years later, money was appropriated to purchase 21 buffalo from private herds to build up the Yellowstone herd. With adequate protection, this herd has steadily increased until it numbers almost 4,000 animals today. Many other private herds have boosted the buffalo's overall population over the years as well. While the present herds, numbering about 200,000 buffalo in all, are not as large as the great herds that once ranged the North American continent, they are large enough to ensure the continued well-being of the American buffalo for generations to come. Also bison as a livestock breed is growing in popularity in the western United States and Canada, which further insures the preservation of the line. The National Bison Association states that there is a growing demand for bison beef. Bison beef is leaner than cattle beef, and lower in cholesterol. Unlike cattle, bison tend to be kept on the ranches throughout their lives instead of being sent to feed lots. Also, there is a demand for bison that are totally grass-fed. It is possible that much of the wholesale slaughter of buffalo in the 1800's was an attempt to take away the livelihood and well-being of Native Americans, who depended on the buffalo's meat and hides for their survival, and who also revered the animal as having special spiritual and healing powers, making the buffalo an important part of their culture. The birth of a white buffalo calf is seen by many Native Americans as the most significant of prophetic signs. In 1933 a white buffalo calf was born in Colorado, and in 1994 another one, named Miracle, was born in Janesville, Wisconsin, on the ranch of Dave and Valerie Heider. Thousands of people of many different faiths have visited Miracle, testifying that her birth is a call for all races to come together to heal the earth and solve our mutual problems. News of the calf's birth spread quickly through the Native American community because its birth fulfilled a two thousand year old prophecy of northern Plains Indians. Legend has it that two thousand years ago a young woman, who first appeared in the shape of a white buffalo, gave the ancestors of the Lakota Indian Nation a sacred pipe and sacred ceremonies, and made them guardians of the Black Hills. The holy woman told the people about the value of the buffalo. Before leaving, she also prophesied that one day she would return to purify the world, bringing back spiritual balance and harmony. The prophecy held that the birth of a white buffalo calf would be a sign that her return was at hand. Many believe that the buffalo calf, Miracle, born August 20, 1994 symbolizes the coming together of humanity into a oneness of heart, mind, and spirit. Once on the brink of extinction, this magnificent creature we call the Buffalo lives on as one of the most powerful symbols of the American West.

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Monday, July 06, 2015 | Contact: Bob Curran Jr. (212) 521-5326 |
ABR Launches Fourth Digital Video of Series Promoting the 350th Anniversary of Horse Racing | |
America's Best Racing (ABR), a multi-media fan development and awareness-building platform created and funded by The Jockey Club, today released the fourth video of a four-part series of digital video ads filmed and produced by ABR Films at historic Keeneland (Lexington, Ky.) celebrating the 350th anniversary of the birth of horse racing in America. Episode 4 can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEZ9C2cH-ZQ. In 1665, the construction of the Newmarket course in Salisbury, N.Y., a section of what is now known as the Hempstead Plains of Long Island, N.Y., was established. The rest, as they say, is history. America's history. The digital video campaign will use the hashtag, #Celebrating350. Stay tuned to AmericasBestRacing.net for all the latest updates, news, blogs, photos, gambling insights, and party tips on the sport and lifestyle as the focus turns toward summer racing and the road to the Breeders' Cup at Keeneland (Oct. 30-31). What other significant events occurred in 1665? Episode 1 can be viewed here: http://youtu.be/Wdn6hTt3zxw. Episode 2 can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raiqu059ETk. Episode 3 can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU-iWiUQiVQ. |


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Montana -- big sky, clean politics
It's too bad American electoral races aren't as transparent as NASCAR races. Tattooed across NASCAR drivers' jumpsuits and over every square inch of their cars are the logos of the companies sponsoring the teams, underwriting the costs, paying their salaries. Everyone can see who the drivers represent and who is footing the bill.
But two years after the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision, no one can identify the wizards behind the curtain pouring massive amounts of money into our state and federal campaigns.
Montana hasn't gone along quietly.
A 1906 editorial in a Montana newspaper read, "The greatest living issue confronting us today is whether the corporations shall control the people or the people shall control the corporations."
It was the era of the "copper kings," who bribed state legislators and controlled state resources. In 1912, Montana voters passed a citizen initiative, the Corrupt Practices Act, that banned direct corporate expenditures in elections for state offices. Since then, Montana's elections have been reasonable in cost and among the fairest in the country. We also have one of the highest rates of voter turnout.
Now Montana is fighting to keep control of its state elections. A Washington-based group, American Tradition Partnership, brandishing the Citizens United decision, challenged the 1912 Corrupt Practices Act in Montana courts and filed two other lawsuits challenging all of our core campaign finance and disclosure rules. It is seeking to systematically dismantle our campaign finance laws and turn back the clock to the days when corporate interests controlled our government and our courts.
The Montana Supreme Court, however, upheld the 1912 law. Now that decision is before theU.S. Supreme Court; it may summarily decide against the state Supreme Court, or it may agree to hold a hearing on the case, which could bring changes to the Citizens United decision.
I'm proud to lead Montana and 22 other states (some red, some blue) — and to be joined by Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) — in the fight to defend Montana's century-old corporate expenditure law before theU.S. Supreme Court. I believe states should have the right to be the masters of their own elections. The integrity of our system and the voices of Montanans, whatever their political views, are too important to be drowned out by modern-day copper kings.
In Montana, no one, including out-of-state corporate executives, has been excluded from spending money — or "speaking — in our elections. Any individual can contribute. All we require is that they use their own money, not corporate money that belongs to shareholders, and that they disclose who they are. And we limit every contribution — for most races the maximum works out to a few hundred dollars, and for the governor's race, a little more than $1,000.
The American Tradition Partnership lawsuits, if successful, would make it possible for corporations and individuals in some cases to spend and contribute unlimited amounts, with no disclosure. A winning state Senate race now costs a candidate an average of $17,000. It would be easy, and relatively inexpensive, for spending of the kind unleashed by Citizens United to make our political process unrecognizable.
For a century in Montana, winning an election for state office has meant going door to door and meeting face to face with everyday voters: democracy at its best. Our legislators are true citizen-legislators; they aren't amassing war chests, and they are accessible to all citizens, not just to moneyed interests.
I look forward to continuing to defend the way Montanans have chosen to elect our state public servants. If the Supreme Court takes Montana's case, I hope it will be the vehicle for the court to reconsider its Citizens United decision and return sanity — and transparency — to all elections in this country.
Steve Bullock is Montana's attorney general.
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Why we've chosen NTT DATA Business Solutions:
- A trusted, global SAP partner capable of leading the entire implementation
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- Extensive experience providing best practice methods for integrating on-premise and cloud HCM
Without a trusted partner like itelligence*, it would have taken us far longer to achieve implementation success. itelligence* kept us focused on the end result and led with best practices throughout the project.
Cindy Omann, HRMS Manager, MTS Systems Corporation
Measurement. Accuracy. Certainty. These concepts allow engineers in research, product development and manufacturing to turn mere ideas into tangible, working results. MTS Systems Corporation is dedicated to making this transformation faster, easier and more successful.
Since 1966, MTS Systems Corporation has worked side-by-side with engineers in a wide range of industries to solve complex challenges. Today, Their high-performance testing and sensing solutions are deployed around the world, enabling precise control of forces and motions as well as real-time feedback that optimizes performance.
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- Disparate systems supporting talent management processes
- No integration between on-premise and cloud HCM solutions
- HR data reporting lacked a holistic global enterprise view
- Global training needed to be simplified and consolidated
- Single, integrated hybrid solution providing global collaboration, insight and reporting
- Increased HRIS operational efficiencies
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MTS deploys SuccessFactors to view, plan and leverage talent globally
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In 2013 it was clear MTS needed a unified talent management solution that would be able to connect HR processes supported through multiple systems and also seamlessly integrate with the organization's SAP ERP HCM (SAP HCM) on-premise solution. This technology decision was viewed as critical to supporting MTS' top business objectives, which included creating a single repository for the business to review talent across the global organization, creating a "ready now" leadership pipeline, and meeting future organizational growth. MTS chose to deploy the SuccessFactors Talent Management suite to build a hybrid, best-of-breed solution for HR and talent needs, with NTT DATA Business Solutions leading the company through this dynamic HR transformation.
Addressing Global Talent and Business Requirements
Through the benefits provided by its cloud-based SuccessFactors platform, MTS now has a single, integrated solution that aligns the company's business strategy and global workforce. MTS simplified its global training operations by consolidating multiple systems into one easy-to-use SuccessFactors Learning Management solution (LMS), benefitting 80 percent of all employees. By leveraging LMS, MTS is now able to track training compliance and ISO International Standards. Authorized users can easily see which employees have completed required trainings and verify, for example, that Board of Directors members and external partners have comple Similarly, the company has shifted from using a standalone performance management system and handling compensation through cumbersome spreadsheets in favor of SuccessFactors Compensation solution and Performance & Goals, which was bolstered with eight language packs to support MTS' global team. With SuccessFactors Recruiting Execution, MTS now executes full-cycle recruiting processes. Requisitions are created and approved globally through a single, integrated system, further supporting global alignment as well as streamlining recruiting and onboarding processes.
According to Omann, employees in all locations benefit from access to the same tools. Managers across all MTS locations now use an intuitive dashboard to review up-to-date org charts, performance and business reports. Most importantly, the solution supports their mobile workforce enabling anytime, anywhere access to information.
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Having already realized many benefits from its cloud-based SuccessFactors solutions, MTS is looking ahead to address future needs such as integrating strong analytics, succession management, career development and planning, plus updates to the existing solutions. "SuccessFactors met our business needs in the various areas of talent management and gave us the ability to utilize one suite of tools," said Omann. "From a partner perspective, we continue to leverage NTT DATA Business Solutions as our trusted advisor because they care about our objectives and strive to assist us in transcending our business goals."
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[Image by ScanLAB Projects for The New York Times Magazine].
Understanding how driverless cars see the world also means understanding how they mis-see things: the duplications, glitches, and scanning errors that, precisely because of their deviation from human perception, suggest new ways of interacting with and experiencing the built environment.
Stepping into or through the scanners of autonomous vehicles in order to look back at the world from their perspective is the premise of a short feature I've written for this weekend's edition of The New York Times Magazine.
For a new series of urban images, Matt Shaw and Will Trossell of ScanLAB Projects tuned, tweaked, and augmented a LiDAR unit—one of the many tools used by self-driving vehicles to navigate—and turned it instead into something of an artistic device for experimentally representing urban space.
The resulting shots show the streets, bridges, and landmarks of London transformed through glitches into "a landscape of aging monuments and ornate buildings, but also one haunted by duplications and digital ghosts":
The city's double-decker buses, scanned over and over again, become time-stretched into featureless mega-structures blocking whole streets at a time. Other buildings seem to repeat and stutter, a riot of Houses of Parliament jostling shoulder to shoulder with themselves in the distance. Workers setting out for a lunchtime stroll become spectral silhouettes popping up as aberrations on the edge of the image. Glass towers unravel into the sky like smoke. Trossell calls these "mad machine hallucinations," as if he and Shaw had woken up some sort of Frankenstein's monster asleep inside the automotive industry's most advanced imaging technology.
Along the way I had the pleasure of speaking to Illah Nourbakhsh, a professor of robotics at Carnegie Mellon and the author of Robot Futures, a book I previously featured here on the blog back in 2013. Nourbakhsh is impressively adept at generating potential narrative scenarios—speculative accidents, we might call them—in which technology might fail or be compromised, and his take on the various perceptual risks or interpretive short-comings posed by autonomous vehicle technology was fascinating.
[Image by ScanLAB Projects for The New York Times Magazine].
Alas, only one example from our long conversation made it into the final article, but it is worth repeating. Nourbakhsh used "the metaphor of the perfect storm to describe an event so strange that no amount of programming or image-recognition technology can be expected to understand it":
Imagine someone wearing a T-shirt with a STOP sign printed on it, he told me. "If they're outside walking, and the sun is at just the right glare level, and there's a mirrored truck stopped next to you, and the sun bounces off that truck and hits the guy so that you can't see his face anymore—well, now your car just sees a stop sign. The chances of all that happening are diminishingly small—it's very, very unlikely—but the problem is we will have millions of these cars. The very unlikely will happen all the time."
The most interesting takeaway from this sort of scenario, however, is not that the technology is inherently flawed or limited, but that these momentary mirages and optical illusions are not, in fact, ephemeral: in a very straightforward, functional sense, they become a physical feature of the urban landscape because they exert spatial influences on the machines that (mis-)perceive them.
Nourbakhsh's STOP sign might not "actually" be there—but it is actually there if it causes a self-driving car to stop.
Immaterial effects of machine vision become digitally material landmarks in the city, affecting traffic and influencing how machines safely operate. But, crucially, these are landmarks that remain invisible to human beings—and it is ScanLAB's ultimate representational goal here to explore what it means to visualize them.
While, in the piece, I compare ScanLAB's work to the heyday of European Romanticism—that ScanLAB are, in effect, documenting an encounter with sublime and inhuman landscapes that, here, are not remote mountain peaks but the engineered products of computation—writer Asher Kohn suggested on Twitter that, rather, it should be considered "Italian futurism made real," with sweeping scenes of streets and buildings unraveling into space like digital smoke. It's a great comparison, and worth developing at greater length.
For now, check out the full piece over at The New York Times Magazine: "The Dream Life of Driverless Cars."


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Outdated egg!
This is an egg for CHICKEN 3, the unsupported old release. You're almost certainly looking for the CHICKEN 4 version of this egg, if it exists.
If it does not exist, there may be equivalent functionality provided by another egg; have a look at the egg index. Otherwise, please consider porting this egg to the current version of CHICKEN.
Simple bindings for PostgreSQL's C-api.
Original author: Johannes Grødem
Please do not mail to Johannes directly as he no longer develops this egg.
Current maintainer: Peter Bex
Thanks to
- Felix L. Winkelmann
- Alex Shinn
- Ed Watkeys
- Taylor Campbell
This extension provides an interface to the PostgreSQL relational database.
Connection functions
[procedure] (pg:connect CONNECTION-SPEC)Opens a connection to the database given in CONNECTION-SPEC, which should be an alist with entries consisting of a symbol and a value. The symbols should be connection keywords recognized by PostgreSQL's connection function. See the PostgreSQL documentation for these. At the time of writing, they are host, hostaddr, port, dbname, user, password, connect_timeout, options, sslmode, service.
The return value is a connection-object.
Also note that while these bindings use the non-blocking interface to connect to PostgreSQL, if you specify a hostname (using the host-keyword), the function might not be able to yield because the resolver will block.
[procedure] (pg:close CONNECTION)Closes the given CONNECTION.
[procedure] (pg:reset CONNECTION)Resets, that is, reopens the connection with the same connection-specs as was given when opening the original CONNECTION.
[procedure] (pg:connection? OBJECT)Returns true if OBJECT is a PostgreSQL connection-object.
Query functions
For each of the query functions, the query string is a string of one or more queries to PostgreSQL. If more than one query is given (separated by semicolons), the tuples are provided as if a single query has been executed. This means that the tuples you get will possibly not be of the same length. Tuples are given as vectors.
The values in the tuples are converted to a suitable Scheme representation, if it is supported. See Conversion.
For queries that don't return tuples, but which return the number of tuples affected instead, this number is given instead of a vector.
Remember that your QUERY-string might need to be escaped.
[procedure] (pg:query-fold-left QUERY CONNECTION FOLD-FUNCTION . SEEDS)Run FOLD-FUNCTION on each tuple or tuple count returned by the query (or queries) specified by QUERY until all tuples or tuple counts have been read, in left to right order, or until the FOLD-FUNCTION returns #f as its first return value. (See the source code for pg:query-tuples for an example of how to use this function, and also SRFI-44.)
[procedure] (pg:query-for-each PROC QUERY CONNECTION)Runs the QUERY on PostgreSQL CONNECTION, and then maps PROC over each tuple returned by the query, if any. The procedure should take one parameter, in which it is given a tuple. Returns nothing.
[procedure] (pg:query-tuples QUERY CONNECTION)Returns a list of tuples produced by the database on CONNECTION as a reply to QUERY. See also pg:query-for-each.
[procedure] (pg:sql-null-object? OBJECT)Returns true if OBJECT is an SQL NULL-value. Typically used to check if an element in a tuple is NULL.
Query functions
[procedure] (pg:escape-string [CONNECTION] STRING)Quotes special characters in STRING which are otherwise interpreted by the SQL parser. The CONNECTION is optional, but recommended. Not specifying the connection is deprecated. It results in a call to PQescapeString, which is not guaranteed to give a correct response. Specifying the connection results in a call to PQescapeStringConn, which checks the server's character encoding and other settings.
In future versions of this library, not specifying the connection will be an error.
[constant] (sql-null-object)Represents SQL NULL values.
Error handling
condition: postgresql
A condition of kind (exn postgresql) is signaled when an error occurs. The postgresql component of this condition contains several properties. Unless otherwise noted, these properties may not be present, in which case they have the value #f.
- severity
- One of the symbols error, fatal, panic, warning, notice, debug, info, log. Always present.
- error-class
- a symbol representating a Postgresql error class.
- error-code
- A symbol representing a Postgresql error code. See the Postgresql documentation for a description of error codes and error classes. They are mapped in an obvious way to Scheme symbols. See source for details.
- message-detail
- A secondary (to the usual exn message property) message with extra detail about the problem.
- message-hint
- A string with a suggestion about what to do about the problem.
- statement-position
- An integer indicating an error cursor position as an index into the original statement string. The first character has index 1, and positions are measured in characters, not bytes.
- context
- An indication of the context in which the error occurred. Presently this includes a call stack traceback of active PL functions. The trace is one entry per line, most recent first.
- source-file
- The file name of the Postgresql source-code location where the error was reported.
- source-line
- A string containing the line number of the Postgresql source-code location where the error was reported.
- source-function
- The name of the source-code function reporting the error.
Type information is read from the database the first time you connect to it. Note that ISO-style dates are assumed, so please set PostgreSQL up to use this. Here is an overview of how the mapping is done currently:
PostgreSQL type | Scheme type |
TEXT | string |
BYTEA | string |
CHAR | char |
BPCHAR | char |
BOOL | boolean |
INT8 | fixnum or inexact
INT4 | fixnum or inexact
INT2 | fixnum |
FLOAT8 | inexact |
FLOAT4 | inexact |
ABSTIME | unsupported
RELTIME | unsupported
DATE | vector #(year month date) |
TIME | vector #(hour minute second microsecond) |
TIMESTAMP | vector #(year month date hour minute second microsecond) |
TIMESTAMPTZ | vector #(year month date hour minute second microsecond timezone) |
INTERVAL | unsupported
NUMERIC | fixnum or inexact
OID | fixnum or inexact
1. This means you will get a fixnum if the number is small enough, and a floating point number otherwise. If it's too large to be represented as a floating point number, an error is signaled.
2. These are just returned as text for now.
(let ([conn (pg:connect '((dbname . "johs")))])
(lambda (tuple)
(do [(i 0 (+ i 1))]
[(= i (vector-length tuple))]
(let ([element (vector-ref tuple i)])
(format #t "~15S" (if (pg:sql-null-object? element)
"SELECT * FROM foo LIMIT 5"
(pg:close conn))
- trunk - Add PQescapeStringConn functionality to pg:escape-string. Fixed weird compilation issue with SRFI-69 by removing it from USES list.
- 2.0.12 - added pg:named-tuples parameter [Contributed by Graham Fawcett]
- 2.0.11 - added syntax-case requirements to .meta file [Thanks to Michele Simionato]
- 2.0.10 - adapted to new easyffi usage [Thanks to rreal]
- 2.0.9 - Yet more improvements to error reporting
- 2.0.8 - More detailed error information, export pg:sql-null-object
- 2.0.7 - Added missing error-function [Thanks to Reed Sheridan]
- 2.0.6 - Removed dependency on format [Thanks to Reed Sheridan]
- 2.0.5 - Some bugfixes and pq:escape-string by Reed Sheridan; adapted to SRFI-69 hash-tables
- 2.0.4 - Changed usage of hygienic macros in setup script
- 2.0.3 - Bugfixes.
- 2.0.0 - Interface improvements. (Backward-incompatible.)
- 1.2.1 - Non-blocking queries.
- 1.2.0 - Optimizations, minor fixes and cleanups.
Copyright (C) 2004 Johannes Grødem <firstname.lastname@example.com> Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, is permitted. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.


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I wanted to make the perfect, classic, dress for Audrey's first birthday to have her portrait taken in and I think this is really it! This "Molly" Jaeger pattern is so beautiful. I actually bought the #225 (Scarves & More) booklet for the "Polly" pattern (little knit tank dress) but then saw this and added it to my mental list to do.
I love the single button in back, and the rich texture in the skirt. Looks like cabling but it's a bunch of yarn-overs and knits together.
I used a mercenized cotton yarn in a light taupe and matching satin ribbon. I had to undo my work a few times on the first side of this project but it got easier. I'm sure there are many mistakes but luckily the pattern obscures them!
My husband, David, took the above shot of Audrey as she accidentally tumbled down the hill. It is so perfectly summer and childhood and my little girl all at once. I love it. It's so beautiful. I plan to have Audrey's one year portrait taken in this dress, but really can't imagine getting a shot better than this:
This was the most ambitious knitting project I've tackled to date and it has really given my confidence a boost! I can't believe I pulled it off and I can't wait to do more.


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Too Guilty to Fly, Too Innocent to Charge?
By Faisal Kutty
As the Canadian government forges ahead with its cleverly named Passenger Protect Program, the timing could not be better to seriously reconsider what is for all intents and purposes a no-fly list.
The attention to the issue of watch lists generated by the struggles of Maher Arar (the Canadian citizen detained by Americans and shipped off to torture and interrogation in Syria) to clear his name should make us all sit back and reflect. There are many lessons to be learned from the Canadian government's recent apology and financial settlement with Arar for its role in his "extraordinary rendition.â€
One of these lessons is that hasty and ill considered national security initiatives which are essentially aimed at managing perceptions more than they are in really addressing legitimate and manageable security concerns are not harmless. In fact, they cause disproportionate harm in return for very minor gains in terms of intelligence and law enforcement. The innocent and unintended victims of such initiatives are real human beings with lives, rights and dignity. When not properly designed to address the negative impacts such initiatives can significantly disrupt and even destroy lives.
Another lesson from the Arar saga is that religious and racial profiling, no matter how vigorously it is denied, is too often the reality for a growing number in Canada's Muslim and Arab communities at least in the national security context. In fact, this was confirmed by none other than the Department of Justice in a report leaked a couple of years ago.
A number of other men of Muslim/Arab heritage have made similar allegations as Arar. Three of them will get their own less comprehensive inquiries. One of the common denominators of each of their stories is the fact that they were placed on one kind of watch list or the other.
The proliferation of government watch lists is a troubling development in the "war on terrorism.†The challenges of such lists include differences of opinion on who's actually a security threat, consolidating information across agencies by making the computer systems communicate the with one another. In fact, Canada's Auditor General Sheila Fraser found in 2004 that watch-lists used to screen visa applicants, refugee claimants and travelers seeking to enter Canada were in disarray because of inaccuracies and shoddy updating.
And now we have another list to worry about.
As we consider the need to improve our intelligence and law enforcement systems, we must have an open and informed dialogue about what measures truly make us safer while ensuring that our fundamental values, liberties and rights are not sacrificed. The proper forum for such a debate is our legislature. Bypassing this vital and necessary debate – as was done with the Passenger Protect Program — is irresponsible and cavalier particularly given the findings of Justice Dennis O'Connor in the Arar Inquiry, the Canadian track record with watch lists to date as well as the experience with such lists south of the border. The information sharing protocols and mechanisms which were criticized by Justice O'Connor have not been improved, yet the government continues with the no-fly initiative which mandates that we share – and even merge and consolidate — information with foreign entities and agencies, which may have less scruples in listing and targeting innocent people on flimsy grounds.
Making lengthy watch lists based on subjective and political criteria and then giving the power to add and remove names to agencies that have a vested interest in the national security agenda is akin to asking the fox to guard the hen house. Such lists – which will inevitably fill up very quickly with "false positivesâ€, political dissidents, and those whom our friends and neighbours subjectively designate as threats – will not make us any safer or interrupt any terrorists, if the U.S. experience is any indication. To make matters worse, real terrorists may not even be placed on the list for fear of tipping them off. According to the U.S. homeland security department, known terrorists are not placed on the list for fear that they would know they are being watched. Even this new "made-in-Canada†list will be shaped by the U.S. and other nations' lists as they cross-fertilize pursuant to intelligence agreements, the Smart Border Declaration and the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP), both of which call for increased cooperation and information sharing.
How can such a list provide anything more than a false sense of security while leaving it rife for blacklisting innocent people as well as racial and religious profiling? Indeed, Canadians should be asking the government how an individual can be too dangerous to fly, yet be free to roam the streets and plot terror.
The no-fly list threatens liberty, equality and mobility rights guaranteed in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Moreover, it leaves little practical recourse to get off the list.
The experience of some individuals who are already encountering difficulties in flying within Canada without even having a list of our own does not give one much confidence. The extraterritorial application of U.S. watch lists is already impacting on Canadians – how will Canadians fare once Transport Canada introduces its own official list and over time it becomes increasingly shaped by other nations' intelligence, criteria and practices?
As the CATO Institute's Jim Harper pointed out, the unilateral process is alien to our legal system:
"Rather than watch-listing, people who are genuinely suspected of being criminals or terrorists should be sought, captured, charged, tried, and, if convicted, sentenced. Watch-listing allows law enforcement to be very active and intrusive without actually doing what it takes to protect against crime and terrorist acts. … watch listing and identification checking [are] like posting a most-wanted list at a post office and then waiting for criminals to come to the post office.â€
Anti-terrorist watch lists may serve a very limited useful function, such as separating individuals deserving of increased investigative attention, but they will never be complete or be totally accurate. They should not, however, be the basis for serious restrictions on liberty such as the denial of transportation or violations of privacy or other rights without the benefit of due process and the principles of fundamental justice. They may have a limited role in designating who to investigate further or watch so long as there is no deprivation of rights or privacy violations and provided that they are compiled pursuant to due process of law and without resort to subjective criteria or racial/religious profiling.
In raising her voice against the no-fly list, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Jennifer Stoddart, said the list "represents a serious incursion into the rights of travelers in Canada, rights of privacy and rights of freedom of movement.†To this I would add, increasing likelihood of racial and religious profiling, silencing dissent and persecuting unpopular religious and political views.
Transport Canada must not be given a carte blanche to deprive Canadians of our liberty, mobility, equality and privacy rights, even though aviation security has now become a legitimate national security concern. The government's appeal to national security should not exempt it from due process, principles of fundamental justice, accountability, transparency, oversight and a full Parliamentary debate.
The system envisaged by Passenger Protect is wholly inadequate, as it will be over inclusive, with high likelihood of false positives, pose a serious potential for racial profiling, and completely lack any meaningful redress mechanism or process.
Perhaps, what is needed is not this list, but better investigative and intelligence work to gather evidence so that those who are real threats are charged and kept off the streets, not just flights.
Faisal Kutty is a Toronto lawyer, writer and doctoral candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University. He serves as vice chair and counsel to the Canadian Council on American Islamic Relations and filed submissions against the Canadian no-fly list on behalf of more than two dozen organizations from across the country. The submission entitled "Canada's Passenger Protect Program: Too Guilty to Fly, Too Innocent to Charge?†is available at www.caircan.ca. His articles are archived at www.faisalkutty.com.


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There is probably no subject on earth concerning which more misinformation is purveyed and more misunderstandings circulated than Chinese characters (漢字, Chinese hanzi, Japanese kanji, Korean hanja) or sinograms.
--Victor Mair
from the foreword to Ideogram, by J. Marshall Unger
Most of what most people think they know about Chinese -- especially when it comes to Chinese characters -- is wrong. This website is aimed at contributing to a better understanding of the Chinese languages and how romanization can be used to write languages traditionally associated with Chinese characters (such as Japanese, Korean, and especially Mandarin Chinese).
Through the generosity of many authors and publishers, this site offers an extensive selection of readings related to how Chinese characters do (and don't!) work, how romanization has been regarded, how the Chinese languages differ, how regarding Chinese characters as "ideograms" or "ideographs" is incorrect, and related topics.
For most people, the first title to acquire is probably The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy, by John DeFrancis. This book has done more than any other to dispel misunderstandings about Chinese, especially those concerning Chinese characters, including the Ideographic Myth, the Universality Myth, the Emulatability Myth, the Monosyllabic Myth, the Indispensability Myth, and the Successfulness Myth. I very much hope many of this site's visitors will seek out and read this work and indeed all of the books on the list of recommended readings.


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Room (2015), Lenny Abrahamson's film based on Donoghue's screenplay adapted from her novel, stars Brie Larson as Ma (Joy), Jacob Tremblay as Jack, Sean Bridgers as Old Nick, Joan Allen as Joy's mother Nancy, Tom McCamus as Nancy's husband Leo, and William H. Macy as Joy's father Robert.
It was nominated for four Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actress (a win for Brie Larson), Best Director and Best Picture. It won audience awards at eight festivals and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay and won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Dramatic Role. Room was also honoured with nine Candys (Canadian Screen Awards), seven IFTAs (Irish Film and Television Academy Awards), the British Independent Film Award for Best International Film, Best Canadian Film at Vancouver International Film Festival, an Amerian Film Institute top ten award and a MIND Media Award.
Emma Donoghue won the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay, the Evening Standard Film Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, the Irish Film and Television Award for Best Screenplay, the Canadian Film and Television Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, the Austin Film Critics' Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, the Indiana Film Journalists Association Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, the Nevada Film Critics Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (tied with Drew Goddard for The Martian), the Southeastern Film Critics Association Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, the Eda Award for Best Woman Screenwriter, the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards for Best Screenplay in a Canadian Film, and the Washington DC Area Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay, as well as being nominated for an Oscar, a Golden Globe and a Bafta.
Barry Monahan, The Films of Lenny Abrahamson: a Filmmaking of Philosophy (London: Bloomsbury, 2018), ch. 6.
Tatjana Bijelić, 'Mother-child Bonding and Spatial Androgyny in the Film Adaptation of Emma Donoghue's Novel Room,' in Istrazivanja: Casopis Fakulteta Humanistickih Nauka 12 (2017), 115-129.
G. J. Veldhuijzen, 'Faithfully Adapting a Child's Voice for the Screen: A Critical Analysis of Narrative Strategies in the Film Adaptations of Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close and Emma Donoghue's Room,' MA thesis (Utrecht, 2017).
'Emma Donoghue on how she wrote the screenplay for Room,' The Guardian, 15 January 2016, http://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jan/15/emma-donoghue-room-screenplay
Shanee Edwards, 'Room author Emma Donoghue reveals biggest film vs. book differences,' 12 October 2016, http://www.sheknows.com/entertainment/articles/1096769/room-author-interview-emma-donoghue-book-vs-movie
Anne Thompson, '10 Ways the Golden Globe-Nominated 'Room' Filmmakers Wrote Their Own Script', 20 November 2015, http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/10-ways-the-room-filmmakers-wrote-their-own-script-for-an-oscar-contender-20151120
'Emma Donoghue on finding the right director for her best-selling 'Room',' August 17 2015, http://www.indiewire.com/article/emma-donoghue-on-finding-the-right-director-for-her-best-selling-room-20150817
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Eight pec-shocking tactics Eight pec-shocking tactics The old standards such as the music of Frank Sinatra, Bob Marley and Ray Charles never really go out of style. They're timeless and, thus, they keep getting rediscovered by new generations. Likewise, when it comes to chest training, most of today's bodybuilders rely on the same old standards as their iron forefathers: flat and incline presses, dips, flat and incline flyes, three or four exercises per workout, typically eight to 10 reps per set. The classics still hold up, but your chest can grow accustomed to variations on the same routine. When it grows accustomed, it stops growing. The following eight approaches are riffs off the standards, but come up with completely new mixes designed to break you out of routine routines and pump up your pecs.
When utilizing the Weider Pre-Exhaustion Training Principle, an isolation exercise (which directly stresses one muscle) is performed before a compound exercise (which directly stresses more than one muscle), so that the muscle targeted with the isolation lift gives out first during the compound exercise. That means the muscle giving out has been trained to exhaustion, which in turn triggers optimum growth. Front deltoids and triceps usually do much of the work in a chest press, but if you do flyes before presses, your pecs will give out before your delts or triceps. 'Re-exhausting' is most effective if you superset the exercises, immediately following each set of flyes with a set of presses.
Supersetting bench presses and dumbbell pullovers was one of Arnold Schwarzenegger's favorite techniques. The combination of a constricting movement (bench presses) and a stretching movement (pullovers) creates a tremendous upper-body pump. In addition, it's a very convenient superset, because after finishing a set of bench presses, you can quickly rotate 90 degrees and begin pullovers on the same bench.
Not everyone relies too much on presses. In fact, many hardgainers overemphasize isolation exercises, such as flyes and cable crossovers. Chris Cook is certainly not a hardgainer, but chest is his slowest-growing bodypart. This year, he experienced his best-ever chest growth by dropping all flyes and machine work and focusing only on free-weight basics: bench presses, incline presses, decline presses and dips. All-press workouts may induce a similar growth spurt in your stubborn chest.
Most trainers tend to do presses and flyes flat much of the time. Try cutting the flat from your routine by replacing flat work with incline and decline presses and flyes. This will allow you to fully compartmentalize your chest into upper and lower sections and to focus more intensely on each area. Additionally, if flat presses are hard on your shoulders or elbows, you may find that angling the bench up or down is less straining. One excellent method for boosting intensity is to continue a set with a lighter weight each time you reach failure. An entire workout of descending sets is guaranteed to catch complacent muscles by surprise. If someone can strip plates for you, you can use a barbell fit with smaller plates (such as two 25s and two 10s per side instead of a 45 and a 25 per side). Then re-rack each time you reach failure and have your spotter pull a plate off each side. If no helping hands are available, stick with machines and simply set the pin at progressively lighter weights.
The high/low principle alternates a series of low-rep sets with a series of high-rep sets. This combination works both fast- and slow-twitch muscle fibers, and it maximizes both strength and blood volume.
The most common problem with chest routines is an overemphasis on bench presses. You might not think there's much opportunity for variety in your pec workouts, but there are a lot of ways to perform presses and flyes. If you train in a gym with several types of pressing machines, try them all. The following four underutilized exercises can be performed in almost any gym. Add one or two to your routine, or try our routine of all four.
Pullover and press In the category of everything old is new again, this was an exercise staple in the pre-Arnold era, but virtually forgotten today. Start each rep with a barbell pullover, and then bench press the bar, thus working your pectorals together with your lats and serratus.
Smith machine stop presses This is a favorite of trainer Charles Glass. Set the supports so the Smith machine bar reaches its lowest point approximately six inches from your chest. Then, during each rep of flat, incline or decline presses, let the bar come to a dead stop on the supports for one second before pressing. In this way, you remove momentum from the lift and force your pecs to work harder at raising the weight out of the lowest position.
One-arm pec-deck flyes It's not practical to train your left and right pecs unilaterally with free weights, but you can with a machine. Using a pec-deck machine, alternate all the reps of a set for your left side with all the reps of a set for your right side. .Low cable crossovers Instead of performing your cable crossovers with handles set in high positions, try switching them to the lowest positions. Keeping your arms nearly straight, pull the cables up so they meet at chin level. This focuses more stress on your lower and middle chest.
THE NEW MIX| If you're stuck in a rut, have the courage to try something new. Whether you use the routines and suggestions here for a jump-start or for an extended period of high-octane workouts, they can provide the right mix for pectacular new growth.
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[This is a wonderful meditation during times of distress, agony, and difficulty]
PERSECUTION and PERSEVERANCE
By John Janaro
Lord Jesus,
I am struck dumb,
inside and outside.
My heart is shrouded by this misery;
my eyes, which look upon your holy
are stricken, assaulted by the light,
aching red, longing to be shut
beneath their lids.
I have no voice
except an inner cry,
a mute, distressed animal whimper
that cannot even summon itself to ask
for mercy.
My fingers drift
away from my hands,
and the tokens of your love
are beyond their reach.
How do I pray?
O Lord, where is the longing of my
Jesus, Mercy,
hear the struggle of breath;
Jesus, Mercy,
hear the scream inside
the shaken contours of this skull,
with brain pierced
by some fiery blade.
O God, Love!
Hear the endless noise,
the pounding,
the howling of skin and nerve,
muscle and joint:
this cacophony of pain
that groans all through the place
where I once felt that I had a body.
Jesus, Mercy, forgive me.
Jesus, Love.
Jesus, I offer.
I long for these to be my words to
but lips are speechless quiver,
and thought and heart are frozen in
Prayer is ice that does not flow.
Prayer is a voice of distant memory;
it feels like a still corpse
beneath my soul's total turmoil.
In the end there is nothing
but the hollowness that holds a thing
called me
wanting you.
I want you, Jesus.
[John Janaro is the author of Never Give Up: My Life and God's Mercy]


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Glutathione, the antiaging secret
Have you ever heard of glutathione (pronounced; gloota-thigh-own)? Neither has almost anyone else. Many researchers say it's probably the most important substance we require to stay healthy. Many go as far to say it's the secret to prevent aging. So where's Oprah, and the rest of the media? A quick search of the term "glutathione" on PubMed.gov reveals 94,117 scholarly articles, reviews and abstracts.
Present in every cell of our body, glutathione levels just might be one of the best biochemical markers there is; the higher your glutathione levels are the healthier you will be. Glutathione deficiency is found in almost all patients with extreme illnesses, e.g., cancer, heart disease, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's, arthritis, liver disease, diabetes and more. In fact, researchers are concluding glutathione deficiency may play a role in patients with schizophrenia. In cerebrospinal fluid of drug-free schizophrenic patients, a significant decrease in the level of total glutathione was observed as compared to controls. EJN
Glutathione's importance to a properly functioning immune system has been shown in many studies. According to Dr. Gustavo Bounous, "The limiting factor for the proper activity and multiplication of our lymphocytes (white blood cells) is the availability of glutathione".
Every day our bodies are exposed to stress, pollution, infection, drugs (illicit or licit) and alcohol, poor diet, infections and injury, which drain our bodies of glutathione; this depletion leaves our bodies susceptible to high levels of oxidative stress, which leads to aging, disease and eventual death. I predict that concern about glutathione levels will eventually be on par with other preventative health issues.
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What's the computer doing? It's just sitting there.-Wes
I don't know. Give it a minute.
(A minute passes.)
Screw this. I'm logging off and starting over again.
"Log Off!"
What the...? *Sigh*
Thursday, May 06, 2010
Good Morning, Doctor
8 comments:
- Dani said...
Ugh... I have actually had that happen. Some days you just can't win :(
- Thu May 06, 09:47:00 PM CDT
- Angela said...
CTL + ALT +Delete = your best friend when dealing with stupid hospital computers...
and if all else fails?
Hold the power button down till it restarts!!
Jaxs - Thu May 06, 11:25:00 PM CDT
- Andrew_M_Garland said...
Application designers find it difficult to believe that you would want to leave their application, especially when you just started it. But, the same code that is displaying the progess meter could offer the choice to leave, and do it immediately. In fact, they went to the trouble of blocking your attempt to leave by logging off of Windows.
They don't understand that you will like the application more if you have more control over it. - Fri May 07, 12:04:00 AM CDT
- The Happy Hospitalist said...
I once had a problem trying to log into my EMR. Every computer told me there was an error. I called IT and told them to fix it.
They told me I had to call them and give them the IP address of the computer for every computer that wasn't working.
I think I'll just not use the EMR. - Fri May 07, 10:57:00 AM CDT
- Jay said...
For about the last year, I've been carrying around my own MacBook Air and doing all of my EMR (EPIC on Citrix) on the hospital wi-fi network.
It's worked out great. I virtually never have system crashes. I never have to look around for a computer. I can work wherever I want, and I spend less time logging on and off.
This laptop only weighs about 3 pounds and comes out of suspend ready to go within a few seconds after I open it up. I've got a couple of charger stashed around places I work, so battery life isn't an issue.
There's been some interest in running citrix on an iPad or iPhone. Right now our version isn't compatible with the app available. I'm told we'll have a solution this fall. It's gonna be hard to beat the Air though without a physical keyboard.
Jay - Fri May 07, 04:01:00 PM CDT
i can't get epic to run on mac for some reason. if i could, i would be like jay.
- Fri May 07, 08:19:00 PM CDT
- Jay said...
Anon: I can't get Citrix to run on Safari, but it works fine in Firefox and Chrome. If you haven't tried this yet, give it a go.
I suspect your IT department is like ours and doesn't really support Apple. I'm pretty much on my own.
Jay - Fri May 07, 10:24:00 PM CDT
- DocInKY said...
Try CTL-ALT-Del to open task manager. From there, in the applications tab kill the app. If that does not work, go to the processes tab and kill the app there by ending the process. Most apps will have a process image name that make sense to ID it, as opposed to microsoft processes ;(
Beats the power off reboot... - Sat May 08, 06:32:00 PM CDT


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Your life insurance agent will stop returning your calls when you stop buying policies.
Note: this was an epinions piece I wrote about my experiences with Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance (NML) after having policies for nearly two decades.
For more information on insurance in general, see my entry "Are You Over-Insured?"
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When I was 29 I bought a $100,000 whole life policy from NML for about $100 a month. I figured it was a good adjunct to my investment portfolio and a good way of spreading risk.
For the first 10 years of my relationship with NML things went swimmingly. My agent contacted me every year and even offered to do free financial analysis on my investment portfolios (NML and others). This was useful information in retirement planning.
He also kept trying to sell me policies. I bought a term life policy from NML and a few years later, he suggested I convert part of it to an Adjustable Whole Life Policy, which I did. I was making more money and figured this was yet another good investment vehicle.
A few years after that, I converted the remainder into a variable whole life policy. As you may have read, there is come controversy regarding these polices from around that time period.
Over the years, the policies have done OK and as a way of diversifying your portfolio, a whole life policy is not a bad idea - but not a good idea as a SOLE investment.
I would recommend a simple whole life policy if you get one, for about $100,000. I would not recommend the adjustable and variable products. I did not feel these were explained to me sufficiently at the time or since. Moreover, I feel that the primary motivation for the agent to recommend these policies was commissions. From what I read on the web, agents are basically salesmen, and they are on a 100% commission basis, so they SELL.
When I started my own business, he sold me a disability policy. I also set up a SEP plan through his office (although it is not a NML product from what I can tell, but it is hard to tell).
Then he tried to sell me a nursing home policy for $500 a month. It simply wasn't affordable, and I told him no thanks on more than one occasion. Finally I put my foot down and said I could not afford to buy any more life insurance products.
A weird thing started happening then. He would have his wife call me to arrange an "annual policy review" weeks in advance. I would have to arrange a phone call for a specific time and date, as though he was the Queen of England. I think this was a cheap psychological plot to make me feel that he was important and I was dirt.
Anyway, when this call would occur, it would quickly devolve into another pitch for nursing home insurance. Gone were the days when he would do financial analysis of my portfolio for me. It was like he stopped caring - all he wanted to do was sell, sell, sell, and if I wasn't buying, well I was no use to him.
With the economic downturn, I started reviewing my policies which by now were a major cash flow burden every month. All my policies were set to use dividends to buy more insurance, which was good for him, but didn't really help me. When I asked him to apply dividends to reduce premiums, he said it could only be done on the anniversary date of the policy or that it was a bad idea. I kept pushing, pushing, pushing, to get this changed, and he fought me every inch of the way.
Finally, I contacted the home office. The people there were fairly helpful and suggested a number of options, including converting policies to "Paid up" status, meaning that no further premiums would be needed. At this point, I was horribly over-insured and it was a good idea, at least for two of the policies.
The policies are old enough that money invested increases in value I still pay the premiums on the original whole life policy, but apply dividends to reduce premiums. The policy is almost self-funding at this point. The adjustable and variable policies I converted to paid up whole life policies.
I also discovered that it is possible to have the dividends on the polices paid out to you every year as CASH. Again, they don't make this information readily available and discourage you from doing it. And again, you are told that you need to make the request on the "anniversary" of the policy, (is that a window or what?).
So I made the request the other day, filling out the correct forms and sending them in. This morning, I found a sizable deposit in my bank account. For some reason, they liquidated one of my polices, cancelled my insurance and deposited the whole sum in my bank account.
I called the main office and they agreed it was a mistake on their part. "Just send the money back" they said, not realizing what a hassle this is for me to do - to fix their mistake. The agent on the phone who made the mistake said she'd look into it, but would be out of the office for the next few days.
It seems that no one takes responsibility there, and after reading some of the comments here from people trying to cash out on deceased loved one's policies, I am a bit scared.
BTW, NML monitors the Internet for negative comments about the company and has actually sued people who say negative things about the company. There was a website NMLCOMPLAINTS which NML was successful in getting shut down. They claimed it was a scam to extort money from the company. There does not seem to be any information on the web other than NML's position on the matter, which is a bit chilling.
There are several postings here that are so cheer-leading that they would appear to be from agents or agents of the company. Sorry, but ordinary consumers don't write reviews like the ones I have read here. I cannot believe they are spontaneous endorsements from anyone but NML. Again, this is sort of chilling and makes me wonder if they are trying to groom their image - and if so, if perhaps they are hiding something. I have a gut feeling on this, and my gut usually is right about these sort of things.
Have my policies done well? Well, for the first decade, they were all worth less than what you pay into them. This is normal for most life insurance. Many people bail out at this point and take a huge loss. After 20 years, there is some investment value now, but it takes a long time. And it is not guaranteed. As I noted, a small whole life policy is not a bad idea. Buying a number of policies is probably not a good idea for the average middle to upper-middle-class American.
Also, they recently decreased the dividend rate. They said this was done because of the economy, which is plausible. I noticed an article on-line, though, that in December of 2008, they were caught up on the Lehman Bros. debacle, as guarantors of some funds. I thought this was an odd "investment" for a life insurance company to be in. I wonder what else they are invested in?
What I am REALLY disappointed in is the lack of real financial advice from the Northwestern FINANCIAL NETWORK - advice other than "buy another policy please". As I noted above, when I started with NML, they provided a lot of free investment counseling for policyholders (who are also owners of the company, as it is a mutual company). I felt that NML was providing some good overall financial advice. I feel less so in the last 5 years.
I am not sure whether I am doing the right thing with my policies in this economy. I am not sure whether I should maintain them, cash them in, or what. I am not sure what to do with them when I retire - borrow against them, covert them to annuities, cash them out, or what?
When I ask my agent I get no advice. When I ask the people at the home office, I sometimes get options (not all agents seem to know all the features of their products) but no advice. No one seems able to say "well, for someone in your position, we would recommend doing X".
In other words, I want someone on MY SIDE helping me out here, not just a company selling me products and then providing lackluster service when I stop buying.
With all the problems in the financial sector in recent years, I am beginning to worry about the insurance sector. We also have four policies with State Farm (also now a "financial network" or "bank" or something).
If these companies go belly up, what happens to my money? It is not insured, of course.
Again, there seems to be a lot of cheer-leading on the Internet for NML, but little in the way of real data. I am not sure ratings agencies are worth anything anymore (they all said Enron was a good buy, right?).
Maybe the person at NML who "cashed out" my policy and put the money in my bank account was trying to tell me something - take the money and run before it is too late!
Maybe. I am starting to wonder.
Again, my advice to any young person starting out is that a small whole life policy that is affordable might not be a bad idea - pick a simple policy with a premium you can afford. This should be after you have a TERM LIFE policy to cover your family, should you die.
Then, stop buying. Remember that the agent is not your friend or your buddy, nor does he have your best interests at heart. He is on 100% commission and often gets a big chunk of that first year's premiums (sometimes more than 100% for variable products).
Frankly, I am skeptical that any "financial counselor" who is also selling financial products can be trusted at all. In our 401(k) era, I wonder how most people, who are not sophisticated with investments, figure all this stuff out.
Supposedly Highly rated
Claims to have lot of money
rate of return WAS good
Great service initially
Agents interested only in selling
Poor customer service from agents and phone
mistakenly canceled policy
The Bottom Line:
Put your money in your 401(k) first.
Buy a term policy next.
Then, if you have extra cash, consider a small whole life policy.
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UPDATE: Read this thread from a former NMFN agent as to his experience with the company. It explains a lot of what went through with my agent and why he stopped returning my calls, once I stopped buying policies or providing him with referrals.
Selling life insurance to college students? I'll bet 90% of them stop paying on the policies within a year - that's free money to NMFN.
I am more than disappointed after reading this....


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From their early days hundreds of years ago to their prevalence on the big screen in the 1970s to their dominance in the UFC, it's clear that martial arts have always been popular. Mostly developed as a self-defense tool encompassing mental strength, martial arts are practiced by millions of people throughout the world. And although most originated in Asia, they're hugely popular in North America. That said, here are our top 10 martial arts, judged by the level of esteem attached to each by active martial artists.


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The Cross of Redemption, James Baldwin's uncollected prose. So absorbing I woke up thinking about it this morning, showered and shaved, and stepped back into the shower. ("You're wet. You showered," was my first non-Baldwin thought of the day.) —Lorin Stein
"The First Tycoon of Teen," Tom Wolfe's 1964 profile of pop wunderkind Phil Spector—"the first millionaire businessman to rise up out of the teen-age netherworld." At 23, Spector had already produced "Zip-a-dee-doo-dah," "He's a Rebel," "Be My Baby," "Da Do Ron Ron," "Then He Kissed Me," "Uptown," and "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin." "I get a little angry when people say it's bad music," Spector tells Wolfe. "It has limited chord changes, and people are always saying the words are banal and why doesn't anybody write lyrics like Cole Porter anymore, but we don't have presidents like Lincoln anymore either." —David Wallace-Wells
A recent poem from The New Yorker called, "On the Inevitable Decline Into Mediocrity of the Popular Musician Who Attains a Comfortable Middle Age." It goes: "O Sting, where is thy death?" —Daisy Atterbury
In the midst of a renewed discussion about female writers and their relationship with the literary establishment, This Recording re-published a piece written by Margaret Atwood in 1976 entitled "On Being A 'Woman Writer.'" Atwood is clear, calm, thorough and undeniably relevant: it wasn't until I got to the bottom of the essay that I realized the piece was over thirty years old. —Miranda Popkey
Elif Batuman's astounding "Get A Real Degree" in the London Review of Books, which begins as an focused inquiry into the MFA program microculture but expands outward and outward and outward again, until the entire horizon of post-Quixote literature has been pulled into view. —D. W.-W.
I recently watched The Red Stuff, a documentary about the Soviet Union's race to space. It's bizarre to see Russian astronauts, especially those now past their prime and overweight, surrounded by Russian space memorabilia. But what I wanna know? Space ice cream. Do the Russians now sell it at their science museums like we do? Also recently viewed: IMAX: Hubble 3D, about the last flight to the Hubble Space Telescope. The images of earth are so beautiful that I cried. —Thessaly La Force
A mesmerizing essay in The Nation on Javier Marías and his Your Face Tomorrow trilogy by the man I'm beginning to think is the best critic writing today, William Deresiewicz. "Marías's Europeanness is of the autumnal variety, much in evidence in recent decades, the product of a ripened civilization that feels itself equipped for nothing but the harvest," Deresiewicz writes. "Reflection in James or Proust," he continues, "isn't a commentary on the story; it is essential to the story. It hugs the plot like a lining of a coat. It exposes character, develops relationships, shapes action. It gives utterance to feeling and direction to choice. It evolves, as the protagonists themselves evolve. But reflection in Your Face Tomorrow rarely does any of those things; it simply sits alone in its study, watching the plot go by." —D. W.-W.
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Bass fishing has become one of the most popular sports around. The publicity around bass fishing is part of why it has become very popular. Most people also have lots of fun and excitement fishing them. And the number one bass fishing aficionados are the Americans.
Even some TV shows around United States concentrate their topics on bass fishing. Learning about bass fishing is enjoyable, and you can hire a guide to help you catch fish. They can as well teach you about catching them. You will even develop your own ideas about bass behavior, based on your own observation.
Bass are no longer treated as a food fish by the majority of anglers. When they catch basses, they released it as soon as it is caught. In contests and competitions, anglers are penalized seriously for dead fish, in most cases dead fish are not weighed. Fish turned in for weighing are immediately released or placed in tanks and treated for stress and injury to their slime coats, then released back into the water.
And since they do not already treat bass as a food fish; they make an enjoying sport out of it. Others had created a bass fishing game online which can be bought or downloaded for free.
Here are two tough bass fishing games that can be bought via the internet:
1. Bass Masters Classic: Tournament Edition – this online internet game is available for person whose age is from 6 and above. This features 3-D creation of 4 U.S. lakes and a practice lake of most anglers, multiple play modes, selectable difficulty levels, and a tutorial. The price of this online game ranges from $7.95-8.00.
2. SEGA Bass Fishing – this is also available for those who are from ages 6 and above. This is suitable for Window 95 and 98.
Now, if you want a free downloadable bass fishing games online, listed below are the games that you need.
• Pro Bass Fishing
Engross yourself in a fishing quest alive with splashing fish, jumping frogs, dancing water bugs, rippling water, bouncing rod tips and the largest, toughest fighting bass ever created on a computer. The fishing expeditions are endless when you choose the lake, the hot spot, the species, and even the weather.
• Super Bass Fishing Screensaver 2.1
This game displays 40 lanker remarkable photos of bass fishing at its best! You will view a heart throbbing strikes by lanker bass, scenic settings, extreme close ups and more! The images of this game contain high color order and are best seen using a graphics card capable of millions of colors.
• Moving Images Bass Fishing #1
The game features outstanding images of lanker bass-awesome strikes and other bass fishing related topics! Some images move around your screen at the same time. You can also arrange the number of images moving.
• Bass Fishing Scenes 2.0
Bass Fishing Scenes features images of lanker bass, remarkable strikes and scenic fishing locations. This also has exciting images for the freshwater fisherman.
• Fishing Calendar 1.42
This shows the calendar format of the best fishing days of month and best time of day based on columnar tables. This can be helpful for you players so you will know when the time to fish which basses is.
• Ugly Bass Utilities
This is a game that allows sportsman/players to view topographic or other user maps and use them to specific Latitude and Longitude. This also allows marking landmarks and locations with symbols and storing information on each point.
Some of these programs are shareware, which meaning is that you only get limited use or there is a time limit on the usage to play for these games online. So, when you are already online, play the bass fishing and play it like there is no tomorrow.
Bass fishing game online is amusing, a challenge that can be shared in a tournaments. There is lots of plugging about it but people fish for bass for a wide variety of reasons. And people play for bass fishing game for great experience. If you have never play the bass fishing game online, what's the wait! Release those urges for Bass fishing with a bass fishing game online.
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3And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. 4In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. 5For we do not proclaim ourselves; we proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord and ourselves as your slaves for Jesus sake. 6For it is the God who said, Let light shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
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An innovative bracelet could help to stop the spread of Covid-19 - how it works
A new wristband made in the UK, called Nudge, aims to help stop the spread of Covid-19 by training its wearers not to touch their face.
For many of us, face touching is something we do without realising - according to a 2015 study, students that were being observed touched their face 23 times per hour.
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According to its website, Nudge "recognises typical gestures moving your hand towards your face, and provides a subtle vibrating alert when it detects these moments," which stops wearers from absentmindedly touching their face.
The company describes the bracelet as a "training device." When worn for a few hours a day over three to four weeks, wearers should allegedly notice a big difference in their face touching habits.
Over time, if you notice you've begun touching your face more, Nudge says "you can pop [the wristband] back on again for a few training sessions."
On the technical side of things, the bracelet has a battery life of up to two days, can work on either wrist and is splash resistant.
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When someone who has Covid-19 exhales, coughs or sneezes, they release droplets of infected fluid, the World Health Organisation (WHO) explains, and most of these droplets land on nearby surfaces and objects, like desks, tables and telephones.
"People could catch Covid-19 by touching contaminated surfaces or objects - and then touching their eyes, nose or mouse," WHO states.
You can also catch the virus if you are standing near an infected person and breathing in these droplets.
So, by being alerted and more aware of when you touch your face, the spread of the virus could be slowed, as fewer people touch their eyes, noses and mouths.
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Hide AdOne of the reasons face masks and coverings help slow the spread of the Covid-19 virus is because they make it more difficult for the wearer to touch their nose and mouth.
Where can I buy one?
You can buy a wristband from the Nudge website here.
You can purchase the bracelet in a range of colours, like black, grey, red, blue and pink. Currently, it's only available in one size, which the website states "fits most adult wrists."
Included in the box is the wristband, a removable enclosure with USB charging port, a USB charging cable (wall plug not included) and user manual.
Each wristband costs £49.99, with an additional cost of £3.85 for shipping - so £53.84 altogether.
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The wristband was invented by public health expert, Luisa Zettinig, who first came up with the idea at the start of lockdown earlier this year.
Zettinig said that the idea was inspired after seeing the situations her relatives found themselves in, including her 88 year old grandmother in a care home in Scotland, and her father who is undergoing chemotherapy for a brain tumor.
She said, "Although the message is out there, that it isn't a good thing to be touching your face, changing our behaviour is difficult.
"The challenge was to come up with a highly advanced piece of technology, but at the same time make it very easy to use, affordable and accessible to everybody.
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Hide Ad"There is no need to go through any complicated calibration process - you simply switch Nudge on, put it on your wrist and you are ready to go.
"We've taught it to recognise over 1,000 hand and arm gestures, so it will know where your hand is in reaction to your face, or if you're just waving at your neighbour.
"We think it could really help those at-risk but also those who have no choice but to carry on with some sense of normality and can't avoid shopping or public transport, or those who work in a customer facing role where some contact with other people can't be avoided.
"Whichever hand you wear it on, you can easily turn it off if you have your hands around your face, say if you're eating or brushing your teeth.
"I had a very personal reason for coming up with the idea as I really wanted to make a difference, and one of the first people to get one of the devices will be my own father."


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