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So I'm still trying out other RSS reader options. Netvibes would be great if it consistently pulled in my feeds. I'm holding off judgment for right now since I'm sure they're swamped and weren't prepared for the deluge of new users. I'm also trying out Feedly, which pulls in feeds as quickly as Google Reader BUT I've only used it on the phone. Currently the app pulls in the feeds via Google Reader, though they say the site will switch over to their own replicated RSS feed grabber once Google Reader closes permanently.
I'm glad I'm not alone in still caring about blogs. I like Twitter and Facebook, and they definitely fill a niche. But blogs fill a very different niche, one where I like to spend the bulk of my online time.
More than one person wrote to ask if the closing of Google Reader would affect producing the Friday Blog Roundup. Hells no. There will still be a Roundup week after week after week. It's not going anywhere.
I knew this was going to be a fairly stressful week, workwise, so on Tuesday, I picked up the kids from school and drove toward the city in order to restock my stash of Canfield's Diet Chocolate Fudge soda. There is one store in the area that still sells it, a place I've nicknamed "Island of Forgotten 1980s Food." I'm not sure if they are selling food that has been there since the 1980s or food that is still being manufactured and yet no other store has carried it since the 1980s, but I figure that either possibility is fine when it comes to diet soda. That stuff doesn't rot, right?
So we drove about a half hour under the pretense that we were picking up other things at the store because who wants to admit aloud that they're driving that far for chocolate soda? Still, when we entered, the twins said, "so we should probably get the big cart so you have space for all your soda." And then I pretended again that we were there for things other than soda. And they repeated that we should get the big cart for all my soda.
We entered the soda aisle and it was CRAMMED FULL of Dr. Brown's. Dr. Brown's were EVERYWHERE. It looked like a virus. There were six-packs of Dr. Brown's cherry soda on top of the Diet Cokes. And there were big bottles of Dr. Brown's root beer blotting out the Orange Crush. Everywhere you turned, tucked into every crevice of the aisle, choking out all other soda, were three billion extra bottles and cans of Dr. Brown's. Listen, I like Dr. Brown's as much as the next woman, but you couldn't see any other drink due to the Dr. Brown's that was choking out the beverage selection.
I started taking apart the aisle, pulling out the Dr. Brown's to see if my soda was hidden behind the towering wall of cream soda cans. (I swear, the six-packs were multiplying while we were there, building a soda wall as if we were in Minecraft.) But the store was completely out of Canfield's Diet Chocolate Fudge. And when I asked an employee about it, she told me that maybe I wanted to try something from the Dr. Brown's selections instead. They must be popular, the woman told me, because there were so many of them. This was right before she was crushed by a swelling wave of Cel-ray.
If I am cranky, it is because I am without my soda.
Because someone over-ordered Dr. Brown's and now they don't have room for my drink.
We didn't need the big cart.
What food/candy/drink do you miss most from the 1980s? I bet you that this store carries it.
And now the blogs…
But first, second helpings of the posts that appeared in the open comment thread last week. In order to read the description before clicking over, please return to the open thread:
- "Infertility Junk Bingo" (The Smartness)
- "I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar" (A Separate Life)
- "Let's Make a Documentary" (Silent Sorority)
- "The 10K Surrogate Abortion Scandal and the Angles Missed by the News" (The Smartness)
- "Talking to Children in Our Family about Adoption Part 1: The Booklet" (Funny Little Pollywogs)
- "A Story that Begged Me to Write It Down" (Stirrup Queens) — thank you, St. Elsewhere!
- "Tired" (Project Progeny)
- "Forgiving the World" (Lavender Luz)
- "The Heart of Life is Good" (One Thousand Single Days)
- "Our Eulogies to Ree" (Jump Over the Rainbow – It Won't Rain Forever)
Okay, now my choices this week.
Torthúil has a post looking forward to this upcoming year. Her workplace asks her to fill out an intention form for the next year, and her post explores the far-reaching side effects of infertility. She admits, "I want to be a parent and I'm willing to take on ART and its risks, and whatever else the journey might bring. I'm not going to change my mind about that. But still, when it comes down to actually saying that my professional life is no longer priority number one, I feel some discord." It's a situation I know a lot of people in the community have struggled with; how to balance family building with all the other parts of life affected by the schedule and emotional drain of treatments or adoption.
An Unwanted Path has a beautiful post about a baby she lost four years ago. She writes, "Whenever I mention my losses, it happens. People tell me to move on, remind me how lucky I am, or they ignore my mention, or worse — they get silent as if to say, "You're not over that yet?" No. I'm not over that yet." It is a post about balancing the idea of life continuing on without forgetting the past.
A Woman My Age has a very moving post about the process of losing her mother. I cried when I read, "I'm back to that space when she first had a stroke and the first thing on my mind in the morning was her and the last thought I had before going to sleep was her." She captured this familiar thought so perfectly, that bookending. It's a really important read.
Lastly, The Great Big IF sums up her current state in one word: sad. It begins: "I am surrounded by good news and other people's hope. It should wash over me like a contagion and I should revel in the fact that new life is being celebrated everywhere I turn. Except that I am not in the mood to celebrate. Not anymore." It contains the vivid image of her 50-pound heart, the simple truth of sadness.
The roundup to the Roundup: Still trying out Google Reader replacement options. What food/drink/candy do you miss from the 1980s? And lots of great posts to read. So what did you find this week? Please use a permalink to the blog post (written between March 8th and March 15th) and not the blog's main url. Not understanding why I'm asking you what you found this week? Read the original open thread post here.
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- 1 Katie { 03.15.13 at 8:48 am }
I've heard good things about Feedly. I'm going to play around with a few options over the weekend and see what I find. I agree that Twitter and Facebook aren't enough (and I also agree with your comment on my post that they move too fast – I miss a lot that way, too). I'm glad that there are some of us left who love blogs!
- 2 Kate (Bee In The Bonnet) { 03.15.13 at 10:02 am }
Cel-Ray! I LOVE, I mean, LOVELOVELOVE Cel-Ray soda. Our local fancy store used to carry it by the can, but they quit. I feel your love-of-obscure-soda pain. At least I have the chance of finding mine on occasion in a more mainstream store. I can't say I've ever even heard about chocolate fudge soda in a can, much less DIET chocolate fudge soda. Best of luck with finding your Soda Grail.
- 3 Jendeis { 03.15.13 at 10:29 am }
My guess is that they were stocking up on the Dr. Brown's for Pesach purposes. I'd kill for some cream soda, man.
- 4 Adrienne { 03.15.13 at 11:26 am }
I so miss Crystal Pepsi for when I was young. I remember it being so much better than regular Pepsi.
- 5 Sharon { 03.15.13 at 12:15 pm }
I'm still so angry about google reader being discontinued. I have yet to find a suitable substitute. I tried Feedly on my iPhone a while back, and I didn't like, and I started setting up Netvibes a few days ago and initially didn't like it either. 🙁
- 6 a { 03.15.13 at 12:17 pm }
I'm mostly just mad that M&M/Mars made the Mars bar into Snickers almond. Why can't it have its own name?
- 7 nonsequiturchica { 03.15.13 at 12:42 pm }
I really miss Sunsations candy. It's like Spree, but tropical flavor. I have been searching for it FOREVER so if you do find it let me know!!
- 8 Amanda { 03.15.13 at 1:02 pm }
Erika at Something Beautiful wrote a beautiful guest post about how infertility changed/ruined/delayed Plan A and how she's coming to see her current life be redeemed.
Here's the link to Erika:
Here's the link to the guest post:
- 9 Shelby { 03.15.13 at 11:53 pm }
Hmmm…I love myself some overly processed, overly dyed food, but quite honestly, except for girl scout cookies, my mom limited my intake of any glorious 'junk' when I was a kid, so I missed the 80's food completely. The definition of neglect, no?
Thanks for the roundup shootout. It feels nice to be in this community at a time like this. 🙂
- 10 Tiara { 03.17.13 at 8:05 am }
I am still in denial about Google Reader closing down…hoping the petition I signed will save it, those things work, right?!!
Wait, Chocolate Fudge Soda?!!? Why have I never heard of this before?!!? You guys have the best stuff in the US! Aside from ketchup chips, we're pretty boring up here. But celery flavoured pop? That sounds gross!!
- 11 Elizabeth { 03.18.13 at 11:51 am }
Lessons from an Infertile Social Worker (aka Becky) had a lovely post, really Creme de la Creme worthy, about the significance of roses for her in the context of her struggle to achieve motherhood:
- 12 Siochana { 03.18.13 at 11:03 pm }
Hahaha. Laughing at your post about the hunt for pop. Although I grew up in the 80s, it was in a junk food free household. There was no pop or candy at home. Ever. I am not exaggerating. I am also very thankful to my parents, because in the long run I think my junk food free childhood was one of the best things they ever did for me. I have no craving for any of the stuff as an adult, though I don't mind if I drink/eat it occasionally. (We did have cookies/cake/ice cream growing up so we were not totally ascetic and deprived, for the record.)
The only time we were allowed to have pop was at the ballet or opera during intermission. I think it was a bribe so that we would attend these high culture events and not misbehave. (My parents didn't believe in babysitters. Anywhere they wanted to go, we went too.) I always had orange crush at intermission. I'll still drink orange crush at the ballet or opera or theatre (if I'm not drinking wine).
We were also allowed to have a box of Glossettes (peanuts) during the show, although it was against the theatre rules. Also a bribe? We were supposed to eat it quietly but of course I emptied my entire box on the floor at least once.
My other favourite junk food memory is from my cousin's wedding. After the ceremony and banquet we were hanging out at her house. The grown ups were all upstairs getting drunk. The kids were downstairs drinking pop. OMG there were crates and crates of pop and there were no rules about how much you could drink. I drank and drank and drank and felt the most person in the world.
Thanks for the shout out to Torthúil. I was away for the weekend (and offline) and when I came back there were all these comments on my blog! I had no idea how nice that would feel. When I went away Torthúil was an island, and now it's part of an archipelago. Looking forward to checking out the blogs of all the people who left a comment.
- 13 Alicia { 03.19.13 at 5:41 pm }
Jessah's post – Isolation. http://www.dreamingofdimples.com/2013/03/isolation.html?m=1
- 14 Battynurse { 03.20.13 at 8:56 pm }
Candy I miss is Willy Wonkas Oompa Loompas. They were like peanut butter m&ms only better.


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On December 24, 1910, the Sousa Band embarked on a world tour. Although not the first group to travel around the world, the publicity generated was immense (although the financial rewards were only modest). Sousa's reputation, marches and recordings preceded him; he and the band were welcomed as conquering heroes at every port.
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It is arguably the most famous march in the world and it's certainly one of the best! It is recognized by the U.S. government as the official march of the United States (U.S. Code, Title 36, Section 304). It has original lyrics by Sousa and some other words you may have learned as a child that are definitely NOT by Sousa ("Be Kind To Your Web-Footed Friends"). With crashing cymbals, bombastic brass and chirping piccolos, "The Stars and Stripes Forever!" gets millions of people on their feet, clapping and cheering every year.
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Searching for Sousa music on Amazon.com will give you a list of over 500 CD's - many of questionable quality. Just so you don't get burned - here's my top 10 list of the top Sousa recordings available today. If you have other suggestions, please let me know!
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Review: Just short of 1000MHz
The new addition to the Radeon family is called HD 4890 and it is AMD's fastest single-GPU card at the moment. This card will let AMD catch up with the Geforce GTX 260 SP216, and it scores up to 10% better results than the HD 4870 1GB. Since these two cards are not any different specification-wise, the improved scores are a direct result of HD 4890's higher clocks. It runs at 850MHz, which is 100MHz more compared to HD 4870's 750MHz. GDDR5 got a boost as well and instead of 3600MHz now runs at 3900MHz.
The new card's GPU is codenamed RV790 and it packs 959 million transistors. These two graphics cards, the HD 4870 and HD 4850 use the RV770 GPU, and it's only the clocks that set them apart. We're currently unaware of anything that's changed for the RV790 besides optimization and increased clock speeds. There are still 800 stream processors in 10 SIMD clusters, and the 40 texture units and 16 ROPs have been left unchanged as well.
The card's PCB however, went through some design changes, mostly to regulate additional power requirements, as HD 4890's higher clocks require more juice to run.
Just like the RV770, the RV790 GPU is built in 55nm and offers 2.5 times more stream processors and texture units than the previous, HD 3800 generation. Additionally, you might remember that the HD 3800 generation lacked in antialiasing performance, and RV770 managed to fix that. With its higher clocks, HD 4890 has a processing power of 1360 GigaFLOPS, whereas the HD 4870 had 1200 GigaFLOPS.
The new card comes with surprising overclocking capabilities, enabling AMD to push the reference clock threshold to 850MHz, so we're already hearing about partner card designs running at 900MHz. The story about good overclocking is true indeed, as GPU clocks can easily be pushed over 950MHz (1000+ MHz in certain cases), and the memory to over 1100MHz (4400MHz effectively). Overclocking Radeon HD 4870 cards was usually limited to the GPU 850MHz mark, which to HD 4890 is nothing but mere reference clocks, and it proves that AMD did a good job in optimizing the core. Although AMD touts the 1000+MHz core capabilities, we still advise you to be careful as overclocking of course isn't covered by the warranty.
Note that Radeon HD 4890 starts at €215.
We'll be seeing reference HD 4890 cards with 1GB of GDDR5 memory at 975MHz (3900MHz effectively), but many partners will opt on either 2GB or 512MB of memory on their cards. Sapphire announced Toxic HD 4890 with Vapor-X technology, and we'll soon see some water cooled cards which will utilize the RV790's overclocking potential to the max.
The memory interface is still 256-bit, but thanks to high GDDR5 clocks it has a bandwidth of 124.8GB/s.
Note that GDDR5 memory offers double the bandwidth of identically clocked GDDR3 memory. This means that 512-bit GDDR3 offers the same bandwidth as the 256-bit GDDR5, provided they run at same speeds.
Compared to the GTX 260, where 448-bit GDDR3 memory runs at 999MHz and offers a bandwidth of 111.9GB/s, the HD 4870 with its 256-bit GDDR5 memory clocked at 900MHz offering a 115GB/s bandwidth whereas the HD 4890 clocked at 975MHz scores a bandwidth of 124.8GB/s. Such high bandwidth is of course a direct result of the GDDR5's speed, which on the HD 4890 runs at 3900MHz.
The cooler looks the same like on the HD 4870 card, but the area underneath the hood went through some design changes. The cooler design stayed the same, but it uses more copper than before, resulting in temperatures lower than on the HD 4870. Now we have three copper heatpipes going from the copper base to the heatsink whereas the HD 4870 uses two copper heatpipes.
Still, the "new" cooler is not significantly heavier as it uses one 8mm and two 6mm pipes, whereas the HD 4870's cooling uses two thicker, 8mm pipes. Dissipation surface is still the same.
The fan is still the same, NTK Technologies' CF1275-B30H-C004 DC12V 1.0A, and you can see it on the picture below.
The card is quiet in 2D mode, and while you can hear it in 3D mode, the sound is still not uncomfortably loud and your gaming audio will easily mask it. On the other hand, overclocking to more than 960MHz requires the fan to run at maximum rpm, which has proven to be too loud and your ears definitely won't like that.
Only a careful observer will notice the difference between the HD 4870 and HD 4890, as an inexperienced eye will surely miss the differences on the back of the card.
The first picture shows the HD 4890 followed by the HD 4870. Notice the part around the green sticker, where the changes are most evident.
The power components have either been altered or replaced with new ones, and this card proudly boasts lower 2D consumption than its predecessor the HD 4870.
HD 4890's maximum consumption is 190W, whereas the HD 4870 consumes 160W. Both cards require two 6-pin power cables. AMD still keeps the memory frequency at a maximum in 2D mode, which negaitvely impacts power consumption.
The good thing about the cooling is that it pushes the air outside of the case, thus surely making life easier for the rest of the in-case components. The fan is located towards the end and blows air trough the aluminum heatsink and towards the air outlets on the I/O panel.
RV790 offers 7.1 audio as well, courtesy of Realtek HD Audio processor which is integrated directly into the GPU silicone. There's no need for additional cables, unlike Nvidia's offerings where you'll be using a SPDIF cable to bring the audio to the card if you want to send both video and audio to your HDTV device via one cable. This card provides HDMI via the provided DVI-to-HDMI dongle and the I/O panel features two dual-link DVI outs as well as S-Video out. UVD 2 video decoding engine will also provide benefits such as options dual-stream decoding and dynamic contrast enhancement.
Both cards on our test come with reference cooling so the only difference is the sticker and the clocks. We'll show you HIS Turbo card, which is overclocked to 900MHz, and Sapphire's card running on reference 850MHz.
Since we've received both cards without packaging, we'll only show you the rendered pictures.
The following photos show what Sapphire's got in store, and although their card runs at reference clocks, the company has already announced the Toxic version with Vapor-X cooling.
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Today we can see how the HD 4890 fares against the HD 4870, but also against the GTX 260. We included one of the fastest GTX 260 cards into our charts, Gainward's GTX 260 GLH (650 GPU / 1100MHz memory), and in many tests it was faster than AMD's new card, but the GHL is also pricier.
3D Mark06 sees the Sapphire snatching a nice start by beating the HD 4870 1GB by about 7% and the GTX 260 by 3%. HIS' overclocked card does a better job, but neither it nor Sapphire managed to beat Gainward's GLH card.
3DMark Vantage reports the HD 4890 1GB to be faster than the HD 4870 1GB by 10-13% in average. Gainward's GLH is constantly on top, beating both HIS' overclocked and Sapphire's card at extreme settings by 8% and 4% respectively.
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FarCry 2 is a game you could easily consider being a card-rapist, but nevertheless the HD4890 fares great. It leaves the GTX 260 Core 216 in the dust at every single resolution, the highest advantage being at 1920x1200 where the GTX 260 Core 216 loses by as much as 20%.
Gainward's overclocked GTX 260 GLH however has proven to be a tough cookie and the cards ended up exchanging lead positions, but note that Gainward's card usually came out on top in 4xAA and Game AF scenarios. HIS' card could be considered the winner in this test, as it kept its lead or parity with Gainward in all the tests but 1680x1050 4xAA Game AF and 2560x1600 4xAA Game AF.
It seems like Left 4 Dead has developed a taste for AMD's cards, as it beats the reference GTX 260 Core216 card at all the resolutions. We also see it beating Gainward's GLH card up until the high 2560x1600 resolution.
HD 4890 is faster than the GTX 260 Core216 by 10-20% in average and it seems like ATI has hit a jackpot. HIS' card outran its non-overclocked sibling by 1-4% in average.
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Power Consumption
Although AMD has reduced idle power consumption, the GTX 260 is still more power efficient. As we already said, the fact that the HD 4890 keeps its memory clocked at 975MHz at all times is partly to blame. The GPU, on the other hand, drops from 850MHz to 240MHz.
AMD was mentioning the card being capable of an overclock to as much as 1000+MHz, but our cards couldn't manage that.
Unfortunately, we only had enough time to push Sapphire's card to stable 960MHz core and 1100MHz memory, but you can read more on our overclocking in our following review, where we'll include results scored by XFX HD 4890 900M XXX, which runs at 900MHz for the core.
Overclocking the core to 960MHz and the memory to 1100MHz (4400MHz effective), increases the lead to 17 percent.
The new Radeon HD 4890 looks much like its older brother the HD 4870, but it runs faster and consumes less power in idle mode. It's surprisingly good in overclocking but even without it it still runs 100MHz faster than the HD 4870. The memory on the reference cards runs at 975MHz (3900MHz effectively) but it stays at same clocks in idle mode, which can't be good for consumption. Still, AMD managed to get the HD 4890 to consume less in idle mode, to 60W according to the spec.
The card packs 1024MB of GDDR5 memory, helping it in scoring good results at higher resolutions. We've measured more than 12% higher results compared to the HD 4870 1GB card, but the price premium you'll have to pay for the 12% better performance might not be adequate for everyone. Namely, the card costs €60 more than the HD 4870, but if the price gets any lower then this should be considered as a great gaming card. You have to have in mind that price will go down with the time, and as GTX 275 will be a fearsome competition we are sure that this will happen sooner, rather than later.
Its overclocking potential is something that should definitely be utilized, and although this card packs a fine share of potential, you should be careful as it of course isn't covered by the warranty. Close to 1000MHz should be possible but you can definitely expect 900+. If you are ATI man and you want the fastest single card, this is an answer to your prayers and if you care about the price, there is plenty of cheaper one to chose from.


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Quinta Do Vallado White Blend Douro 2008
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In the heart of the Douro region, a few miles from the historical centre of Régua, Quinta do Vallado spreads along both banks of the Corgo River, right where it meets the Douro. With references dating back to 1716, the Quinta belonged to the legendary D. Antónia Adelaide Ferreira and has remained in the family ever since. It is now in its sixth generation. The wonderful Douro white is a blend of Rabigato, Verdelho, Viosinho and Arinto grapes produced from the winery's new vineyards. It shows a brilliant citrus green, offering floral and ripe fruit aromas with a touch of melon. Dry fruits follow through to the palate, producing a full, well balanced flavour. Serve chilled with a variety of appetisers, fat fish and white meats.
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Tiger Woods' girlfriend Lindsey Vonn 'very good friends' with ex-wife Elin Nordegren
Tiger Woods' Olympian girlfriend Lindsey Vonn has struck up a close friendship with his ex-wife Elin Nordegren, it has been revealed.
In what is undoubtedly one of the entertainment world's most unlikely of friendships, his Swedish model ex, - whom he divorced after it was revealed he had cheated with at least 24 different women - is BFFs with his new girlfriend.
Woods has been dating Olympic gold medalist Vonn since March 2013.
Elin originally wanted to get to know the skier because she would be spending time with their children Sam (six) and Charlie (five).
"After meeting her, she found she actually liked her," an insider told Us Weekly.
"You'd think it would be weird, but Elin loves Lindsey and they talk all the time.
"Elin likes that Lindsey is a strong woman."
"Lindsey is really good for Tiger. She's strong, opinionated, and keeps him in line."
"Elin found that they are very similar and have a lot in common. They laugh and talk like they have been girlfriends forever."
Nordegren has just moved into a Palm Beach mansion worth an estimated $20m after receiving an incredible $100m from her 2010 divorce settlement with the world's former number one golfer.
She has kept her romantic life under wraps, she was last linked to billionaire coal magnate Chris Cline.


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Joke has had a profound influence on my development, both as a person and as a professional. I know there are many people like me around world. She invested in the planet and in its people. A truly great person has left us, but a part of her is anchored firmly within us and in heaps of happy memories. I hope she's climbing mountains in heaven with Herman.
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I have learnt with deep sorrow the passing away of Ms. Joke Walker-Hunter, UNFCCC Executive Secretary on 14th October 2005 in Bonn (Germany). During her stewardship of the UNFCCC since 1st May 2002, Ms. Hunter provided valuable direction to the international climate change movement. We vividly recall her close involvement with COP-8 in New Delhi in 2002. Kindly convey our sympathies and condolence to her family.
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My memories of Joke date from the mid 1980's when we worked together in the Dutch Ministry of Housing, Physical Planning and the Environment. From the moment we met, she and her husband, Herman, took great pains not only in making me feel at home in The Netherlands but also in the Dutch language -- no easy task! Though our paths diverted, we kept in touch over the years during which I learned that I could always count on her generous help and sage advice (meestal in het Nederlands!) whenever I needed it. Dus, vandag, lieve Joke, wil ik, en jouw moedertal, zeggen hoe zeer ik jou missen maar nooit vergeten.
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In my dealings with Joke whilst she was at the OECD I found her a person of real integrity and intelligence combined with a dry sense of humour and honest humility. She will be sadly missed by colleagues around the world and my sincere condolences go out to her family.
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My heart and thoughts are with Joke's family and friends at the Climate Change Secretariat as they prepare the event to honour her many lifelong accomplishments. May we work together to continue her tireless and visionary efforts to bring about meaningful international cooperation to protect the global climate and enable sustainable development.
-Jan Corfee-Morlot, OECD, Paris
This is a very sad news. I met Joke many years ago when she was working at the UNCSD. She was kind, normal - simply a very good person
-Christophe Bourillon
Rest in Peace in the Bossom of our Lord. Those who knew you physically while you were 'here' have said a lot about you, and those of us who had not the opportunity to meet with you can only draw inspirations from such comments. It is not the number of years spent that is important BUT how well you used your life to IMPART your generation-Joke was sure, one of those that affected this world positively.
-FOR NURSES ACROSS THE BORDERS and People of-NIEGRIA-Pastor Peters OMORAGBON-Executive President/CEO
I join many others in expressing my deepest condolences on the passing of Ms Waller-Hunter. I will remember Joke's humor and skilful leadership the most, and as our sadness turns into fond remembrance of her life, we will forever be inspired by her courage and positive outlook on life. Her leadership in matters of climate change will continue to inspire many of us from developing nations as we strive to achieve sustainability. God bless her and rest in peace.
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DANVILLE – City officials plan to apply for a state grant soon to help with the renovation of Carver Park.
Local leaders asked the public in February for ideas, suggestions and volunteers to help steer the park's future. An independent redesign committee has since formed and meets every two weeks.
"We're kind of brainstorming," said Parks Superintendent Steve Lane.
Lane will submit the committee's final design to the state as part of the city's application for a grant that could help offset the cost of new playground equipment, parking lots, nature trails and recreation fields.
Applications for the grant open May 1 and end July 1, Lane said.
The former site of a 130-unit public housing complex, Carver Park is more than 9 acres and includes picnic areas, a playground, a softball field, a tennis court and two basketball courts.
The park can be expanded to 28 acres if the city acquires adjacent land owned by Danville Housing Authority. Danville High School, eight churches and three other housing authority complexes are located near to the park.
Victor Calloway, director of Laura Lee Fellowship House, has encouraged kids to offer their input on what Carver Park should look like, bringing them along as he attends the design committee meetings.
"I think we're getting some good ideas out there," Calloway said.
Renovating the tennis court for more than one use, such as a volleyball court and a paddle tennis court, or designing a football field that also can be used as a soccer field have been suggestions to save money, Calloway said.
The softball field could be expanded for use by Danville High School and a putting course could be used to introduce golf into the area, he said.
But these are just ideas, Calloway said.
"We're trying to make the park as versatile as possible so everybody can use the park," he said.
While the design committee is still its early stages, a second independent committee is still being formed.
This committee will focus on a proposed cultural celebration center that Mayor Scott Eisenhauer announced earlier this year. The cultural center will be in Carver Park and memorialize the contributions and history of the city's black leaders.
Project Chairman Les Brown said volunteers are still needed for the committee, but the committee will not meet until after Brown leaves his post as city treasurer. Brown chose not to run for reelection this year. Elected officers are to be sworn in May 15.
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Samina Tazayyen Yousuf Azeemi, . (2007) A Quantitative Study On Chromotherapy. Doctoral thesis, University Of Balochistan, Quetta.
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We suggest a new phenomenon of charge quantization, .i.e., hQ due to absorption of photon energies in water molecules. When water molecules absorb photon energies at different wavelengths in the visible region, they become charged. We infer that the absorbed photon energies in water molecules are the manifest of quantum mechanical behavior i.e., the quantum mechanical dipole moment leads to the phenomena of charge quantization. Coagulated water molecules produce a geometrical shape .i.e., pentagon, hexagon, hectagon and nonagon with molecules having same frequency of any visible range radiation (colour). These geometrical structures in charged(chromotized) water influences the migration rate of the ions, salts, etc. within intra macromolecular cells. According to the doctrine of chromotherapy visible range electromagnetic radiations (colours) generate electrical impulses and magnetic currents or field of energy that are prime activators of the biochemical and hormonal processes in the human body. We have successfully developed recursive relationship for Fractional Quantum states and associated energy eigen values, thus providing a scientific ground for chromotherapy. It proves the conjecture as well as it provides scientific evidence to the phenomenon of charge quantization as theoretical values are in agreement with the experimental results. We obtained an energy eigen function for Fractional Quantum energy states and with normalization of eigen functions, achieved the probability density for the existence of fractional quantum states for hydrochromotherapy. Energy in the form of charge quantization& is absorbed in fractional discrete states. We also studied the effect of absorption (in vitro) of visible range radiations within the enzyme solutions including glucose oxidase, lipase, cholesterol oxidase + esterase and super oxide dismutase in order to confirm the changes produced in human body after chromotherapy. Results revealed that each enzyme responded to different wavelengths, to lower their activation energies, thereby increasing its activity, .i.e., glucose oxidase to 464nm (purple color), cholesterol esterase + oxidase and lipase to 400 nm (violet color) and super oxide dismutase responded to 644 nm (red colour). We presented a case history of cutaneous leishmaniasis treated with chromotherapy. This seems to be an effective and new method of treatment using only visible range radiations of different wavelengths with no apparent side-effects. Red colour therapy may be used as the alternative treatment for curing the ulcers of cutaneous Leishmaniasis. The wavelength-dependency of chromotherapy effects on cutaneous leishmaniasis parasite reproductivity and growth was investigated.Chromotherapy uses visible range radiations to improve healing; however its effects on parasite are not well understood. Leishmania Tropica was irradiated using seven (7) different wavelengths of visible region. Optical density was observed, which showed that red colour (644nm) wavelength inhibited the reproduction of parasite while other colour wavelengths also affected the growth of parasite.
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I've gotten a couple of request for this, so here goes. Please forgive any mistakes or oversights.
The point here is to write a simple add-on that will alert the player when they are at sixty rage or more so that they know when they can use Savage Defense.
To do this we will build a full screen panel, with a transparent texture that will pulse when the correct conditions are met and be hidden otherwise.
This project will consist of three files, plus a custom texture if you want one.
First, create a folder in your Interface\AddOns directory off of the World of Warcraft install directory. Name this folder "SavageAlert" or whatever you wish to name this add-on (we will take it as read that the name will be SavageAlert going forward, substitute your own name if you wish).
Then, within the new folder, create a file named "SavageAlert.toc". This file defines the add-on. Open this file in the text editor of your choice, and enter the following.
The above code defines some basic information about the add-on, including its name and what other files it will use. In this case, only one other file is defined "SavageAlert.xml".Code:## Interface: 50400 ## Title : Savage Alert |cff3BB9FFVersion|cff3BB9FF 1.0 ## Notes: To alert when Savage Defense can be used. ## Author: My Name ## eMail: [email protected] ## URL: http://www.wowwiki.com/ ## Version: 1.0 ## DefaultState: enabled ## SavedVariablesPerCharacter: SA_ENABLED SavageAlert.xml
Create a new text file in the SavageAlert directory named "SavageAlert.xml". This will define the interface for the add-on. Open the file in your text editor, and enter the following.
Since there really is no interface to this add-on, the XML is fairly simple. All it does is setup a LUA file, which will contain the actual code and setup two events that will trigger when the add-on loads and when any other defined event is triggered.Code:<Ui xmlns="http://www.blizzard.com/wow/ui/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.blizzard.com/wow/ui/"> <Script file="SavageAlert.lua"/> <Frame name="SavageAlertCore"> <Scripts> <OnLoad function="SavageAlert_OnLoad"/> <OnEvent function="SavageAlert_OnEvent"/> </Scripts> </Frame> </Ui>
Now create the SavageAlert.lua file and open it in your text editor. Enter the following at the start of the file.
This sets up the full screen image that will flash when rage is at the desired level. This is contained in a frame referred to simply as "f". The image being used is one of the ones built into the game named "OutofControl". If you want to use a custom image, change the SetTexture call to something like the following (in this case to use a texture stored in the SavageAlert folder).Code:-- Rage flash frame local f = CreateFrame("Frame","rageFrame",WorldFrame); f:SetFrameStrata("BACKGROUND"); f:SetClampedToScreen(true) f:SetAllPoints(UIParent) local t = f:CreateTexture(nil,"BACKGROUND"); t:SetTexture("Interface\\FullScreenTextures\\LowHealth"); t:SetAlpha(0.5); t:SetBlendMode("ADD"); t:SetVertexColor(1, 0.1, 0.1); t:SetAllPoints(frame); f.texture = t; f:SetPoint("CENTER",0,0); f:Hide();
Next enter the following, directly after the previously entered code.Code:t:SetTexture("Interface\\AddOns\\SavageAlert\\rage.tga");
This sets up a variable "SA_ENABLE" that will be used to allow the user to turn the add-on off from inside the game. This setting will be saved between game sessions. In addition it sets up the "on load" function that will be run when the add-on is loaded (when a character enters the game).Code:SA_ENABLED = "on"; function SavageAlert_OnLoad(self) self:RegisterEvent("ADDON_LOADED"); self:RegisterEvent("UNIT_POWER"); DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage('Savage Alert Loaded.'); SlashCmdList["SA"] = SA_SlashCommand; SLASH_SA1 = "/savagealert"; SLASH_SA2 = "/sa"; end
The "on load" function registers two events, ADDON_LOADED and UNIT_POWER. It is the later, UNIT_POWER that we are the most interested in as it is what will be called when the player gains or loses rage, mana, runic power, etc.
Lastly, the method sets up two slash commands that will be used to manipulate the add-on settings.
Now enter the following.
This code sets up the SavageAlert_OnEvent function, that is called whenever a registered event happens. This code will make the frame we defined flash when the user is at 60 rage or more and stop flashing when they are at less then 60 rage or if they do not have a rage bar (such as when in caster or cat forms).Code:function SavageAlert_OnEvent(self, event, ...) if (event=="UNIT_POWER") then if(UnitPowerType("player")==1 and SA_ENABLED=="on") then if(UnitPower("player")>=60) then UIFrameFlash(f, 0.5, 0.5, -1); else if (UIFrameIsFlashing(f)) then UIFrameFlashStop(f); end end else if (UIFrameIsFlashing(f)) then UIFrameFlashStop(f); end end end end
Enter one last section of code.
This will look for the slash commands we setup and let the user toggle the add-on on and off.Code:function SA_SlashCommand(Msg) local msg, sub_msg = SA_GetCmd(Msg); if(msg=="off") then SA_ENABLED = "on"; DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage('|cff00ff00 Savage Defense alerts on |r'); end if(msg=="on") then SA_ENABLED = "off"; DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage('|cff00ff00 Savage Defense alerts off |r'); end end function SA_GetCmd(msg) if msg then local a,b,c=strfind(msg, "(%S+)"); --contiguous string of non-space characters if a then return c, strsub(msg, b+2); else return ""; end end end
--Please let me know if you find any problems with the above example, hard to be sure everything made it in as intended.


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Are You Experienced?
As I write this, the Star Trek Experience is set to close forever in just over a week from now. Fortunately, I had the opportunity to experience the Star Trek Experience just prior to it's closing.
After 11 years, the Star Trek Experience is coming to an end. From what I had overheard while in Las Vegas within the Experience by someone who is said to be one of the managers there, the decision has more to do with the Hilton hotel where it is hosted than anything else. With a new film on it's way out in less than a year, set to revitalize Star Trek fandom, with a huge Star Trek convention taking place just the weekend prior to my visit with 70 Star Trek guests, with lines to get into Quark's Bar and Restaurant every night, with the Experience "rides" themselves filled to capacity, it's hard to understand why they want to close it. It seems like the audience and the attendance is there. At first, I thought perhaps it was busy because like myself, there were many others in the hotel attending the New Media Expo which is mainly attended by tech geeks, myself included, of which many are crossover science fiction geeks, again, myself included. Perhaps, but there are shows in Vegas all the time. It's a destination town to say the least. Admittedly, with the cancellation of Star Trek: Enterprise and with the new reboot of Star Trek in the forthcoming film being pushed back from a Christmas 2008 release to a May 2009 release, perhaps there is a dip in fandom at the moment. Many have argued that perhaps Star Trek needs to go away for while so it could return strong. Along the same lines as Doctor Who and Battlestar Galactica to site two recent examples of successful returning series.
The Star Trek Experience consists of various components. Some of which are free for all visitors, while others require you purchase admission (or what they call tickets to their "rides"). The "rides" consist of two shows (a better word than "rides" in my opinion). One is the Klingon Experience and the other is the more recent addition, the Borg Encounter (in "4D"). I initially was hoping to podcast right from the Experience, but as for the "rides" or shows themselves, all recording devices, including cameras are prohibited. It's a real shame too, just to get some photos while standing on the full size replica of the Bridge of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D would have been fantastic. As implied earlier, these "rides" are more theater than an amusement ride. The actors participating in them seem as if they have played the part perhaps more times than they care to recall and knowing that it was all coming to an end in just a couple of weeks probably were factors in many of them just going through the motions. Yet having said that, there's only so much they could do with their parts. After all, these are not full length Star Trek television episode stories we are talking about.
While some of the 3D... err.. 4D effects of the Borg Encounter were impressive, I believe that the original Klingon Encounter ranks a little higher even if it may be a little dated now. Hey, nothing really beats standing on the Bridge of the Enterprise as you do with the Klingon Encounter. This show seems to give you a little more overall its experience as opposed to the Borg show.
Admittance to the shows (at this time, one ticket purchase is good for both shows over a 24 hour period) also gives you access to see the museum part of the experience. Various props, models, costumes, and timelines of the various incarnations of Star Trek were on display to see and enjoy. All except for the often forgotten Star Trek Animated Series. I would had thought that a few animation cells on display could at least represent this series. Unless I missed something, which is very possible as my time was limited and I pretty much had to rush through much of the displays in the museum section. Knowing that, I tried to photograph as much as I could so I could study and inspect it later. I didn't have time to fuss with a tripod, and knowing that using a flash could result in just big bright reflections on the display glass or plexiglass (or was it transparent aluminum?), which meant some came out a bit blurrier than I had hoped.
Overall, the whole Experience is grand. I am speaking as a lifelong Star Trek fan, so your mileage may vary. The huge models of the starships hanging above, were quite impressive in themselves. While not full scale, they wouldn't fit in the hotel if they were, they were still huge and very impressive (I do apologize for overusing that word). Included are the starship Enterprise "A" if you will, the film version of the Enterprise as well as the "D" version from Star Trek: The Next Generation, Voyager, and a Klingon Bird of Prey (which was somewhat hidden in the darkness, but it's cloaking device was not engaged, and the keen eye will catch it).
These ships hung and were visible as you enter the "rides" and museum as well as hanging above the restaurant area of Quark's Bar and Restaurant. Although I did visit the bar and restaurant more than once, I never got to sit in the area that were under the massive starships. As I said, the establishment was always busy the times I had been there.
Lurking on the ground were the Gorn that seemed to acting as a bouncer as it was guarding the entrance to the bar area of Quark's. On the other end there was Nancy... Ahh... Nancy Crater. Well, not exactly, but the shape-shifting salt sucking creature that had at one time taken the form of Nancy Carter in the first aired Star Trek episode, The Man Trap. These were very imposing and awesome figures, but even more interesting were the various actors walking the area mingling with the crowd as Klingons, Andorians, Borg, classic Star Fleet personal (there was a woman dressed in short mini-shirt similar to Uhura of the original series), among other iconic figures from Trek among the crowd interacting with them in character.
Finally, of course there were the gift shops. Filled with various Star Trek goodies. From communicator replicas to teddy bears dressed as the Borg (that or they were just plush bears into SNM). I figured I would stop in the shop on my way out so I wouldn't have to carry an extra item with me (I was there with my laptop in my backpack and camera gear in another bag at my side -- I was already feeling weighted down). Unfortunately, in my rush to checkout of the hotel to catch my flight back home, I never made it back to shop, so I came away alas empty handed.
Even with the Gorn and "Nancy" there and the sole woman dressed in a classic uniform, I felt that the original series were underserved here. Even still, I am glad I got to see it before it closed.
Star Trek was not limited to the confines of the Experience only while in Las Vegas. The connecting casino area which one has to walk through to get to the Experience was in a space port theme. You can find Star Trek slot machines in the hotel (as well as even a small cluster of Star Wars ones too). There was even a Star Trek themed video short being played at the Vegas airport demonstrating how to get through the airport security screening process.
It's a shame that the Experience is coming to an end, what is even more shameful is the thought of so much of it is going to be junked. I am sure that the items in the museum will go back to Paramount studios... but all the other elements I was informed will be disassembled and destroyed. I would sure love to have that Bridge replica... What of those huge starships hanging above? I did see an empty case which had a note on it stating it was sold. It leads me to believe that they had auctioned some items off already. Perhaps the fate of the rest of the items will be sold off via an auction of some kind? There was a wall of posted notes (just like the fence surrounding ground zero in NYC after September 11, 2001) on a wall in the Experience. People who were married there, and others that wanted to post something about how they feel about this special place now that it is closing posted notes of what it meant for them.
No one seems to know what will be taking its place. Or if they do, they are not talking. One rumor in which I overhead a manger there stating was that the latest was that it would be replaced with a "Michael Jackson Experience" -- What?


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I was amused by the word you used in your recent headline to describe the actions by "constituents" at a town hall with Cory Gardner - "chided." No, it was more that the screamers stole his, and …
I was amused by the word you used in your recent headline to describe the actions by "constituents" at a town hall with Cory Gardner - "chided." No, it was more that the screamers stole his, and very many of his real contituents' FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS TO FREE SPEECH! No wonder he seldom appears. If I had to face a SHRIEKING MOB - excuse my caps - I would appear much less frequently than he does. I congratulate his courage in standing up, and good for those who outwaited the spoiled brats who were shouting and disturbing a peaceful conversation. What has happened to civil discourse? Is there such a thing?
Read the First Amendment, people, and let us start there. Or read and apply the column by Michael Norton in the same issue and take his wisdom, kindness and openness to someone else's ideas to the next town hall meeting.
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Healthcare is a critical issue for many Americans, some would even say it is a matter of life and death. Senator Gardner's appointment to a key senate group to write new healthcare legislation means that he has a key role to play, or at least should have a key role.
We were told during the 2016 campaigns that the Affordable Care Act would be repealed and replaced by a program that would improve services and lower costs. Candidate Trump also mentioned that monthly premiums should not exceed $60. After gaining our support and collecting our votes, we see now that people in my age group (61-64) are going to be charged up to five times more for the less coverage, with additional premiums for pre-existing conditions.
Senator Gardner's refusal to address the disconnect between promises and delivery of services is frustrating. How much more uncertainty and disengagement are we to take before we raise our voices to express displeasure with our elected officials? How long must we wait for promised solutions? At what point do we take actions to rid ourselves of a government based on lies?


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Daily Topic for April 13, 2011
This is one of the ironies of church history. Though the people who lived in Antioch (modern day Turkey) at the time of Paul's ministry were mainly Greeks, the church there was the central point for sending missionaries. Through the centuries, the Greek Christian people who lived in the area were replaced by the Muslim people we now call the Turks. With Islam as their banner and the Ottoman Empire as their political center, the Turks became a very powerful Muslim nation until they lost their empire after World War I. Today, the Turks are unreached wherever they live.
Pray that Paris will soon become an "Antioch" from which Turkish people can be reached with the gospel and sent out to the world.
by PD
A large majority of the 500,000 Turkish immigrants in France are Muslims. Most of them live in or near Paris. This is evident by the number of Turkish immigrant Islamic associations and mosques that have been built in and around the City of Lights.
Turkey, once considered to be a secular nation, has recently seen an increase in Islamic influence both on its domestic policies and laws and in foreign policy. Turkey, once a staunch ally of Israel, now seems to be sympathetic towards her enemies.
This change in the policies of their homeland has had a strong influence on the Turkish people that have migrated to Europe. Many of them now take their religion more seriously and believe that Islam is the only true religion. Christian groups have reported that, "There are about 3,000 Bible-based churches in France." None of them are known to be reaching out to the Turkish community in Paris.
Due to language difficulties, Turkish youth have had a difficult time adjusting to France's education system; however, recent reports show some improvement. Poor education and an inability to speak French have kept many Turks in low-paying unskilled jobs. The younger generation is only beginning to advance.Learn more at joshuaproject.net
Pray that many believers will reach out in friendship to these Turkish immigrants. Pray that Turkish community leaders will embrace Jesus as lord of their lives, opening doors for other Turks to embrace Him as well.
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The Collapse of Demographic Determinism
Touching on each of the three writers reveals more about the critic than the writers. This critic is fed up with the Body Boomers talking about themselves, particularly since this is the second to last Presidential election which will be about the Baby Boom, the next one will be as well. He's also tired of an idea that can be called "demographic determinism." That is, ones fortunes are largely about clashes of people born at the right moment or right time.
However selling demographic determinism is at a fever pitch right now, precisely because the great synchronizing events of that created the Body Boom generation are breaking up. The reason for this quick literary survey is was motivated in no small part because the three writers show one of the first break up moments of the body boom: 1967-1972. This was the moment which divided the body boom into early and late: those who were not part of it, whose friends did not go to Vietnam, who were not on college campuses, who were not blindsided by the force of the late 1960's as a cultural moment – the time when sound went Stereo, and Television went Color, and Cinema went realist – parse differently from those who were there, or were rocked by it in their formative intellectual moment.
The three authors are part of the people cut off on the island of the Body Boom, they morally parse as Boomers, but they do not culturally parse as boomers, because by the time they had reached their formative intellectual moment, after Watergate, the ground had shifted underneath them, Pop and Post-Modernism were the establishment, and the era of limited possibility was dawning. America, and Europe, were treading to conservative ground.
However, as an Xer, they are all Body Boomers, in that their obsessions with the personal is political thesis, mark them as being people who are still grappling with the Post-Modern and Pop problems. The Post-Modern problem is the problem of abundance, and particularly abundance of information. In an era without canon, without a scarce source of knowledge, how is knowledge anchored? The answer, which marks the pop era, is the game itself. The game. The game. The game. That's Jacques. But it is also Milton, who posits that control of the money supply itself is enough to guide the economy.
The fight then becomes about the game itself, what is allowable, what is not, and what modes of combat are allowed. This is not an Xer obsession, in that for us, games are frames, and largely given, one can only shop for the game one likes the best. The "Democratic Spirit" of Wallace, is really the play in the sandbox of the body boom: the game, itself, is elementary school, where there are too few teachers, and too many children. X grows up differently, there are too many institutions, and too few people.
This island, which cries "can't we all just get along?" is part of the body boomer continent, and it has one most influential resident: President Barack Obama.
On the other side, however, there is another major dividing line: the boomers who got out before 2008, when they could sell their economic home, the one in the high earning area, for peak price, and move to bonds – and those that did not. This divide is particularly apparent when you look at net wealth cohorts: people above this divide have seen their net wealths, on median, climb. Those below it have, as a group, taken the second largest hit to net wealth in Post-War history.
The non-demographic divide of the baby boom is visible in every Presidential electoral map: the conservative part, the part that helped make "The Ballad of the Green Berets" the number one song of 1967, and the metropolitian technocratic part, which is not all that liberal economically, but is liberal socially.
The power of demographic determinism has, in fact, peaked, and it looks better precisely because almost all of it is in the rear view mirror, and because we are faced in politics with a three way divide. The silents want a depression to make their money more powerful: money having higher buying power is deflation, and the cult of deflationism is rampant among them. The body boomers, particularly those on the back half, need to tax the millenials to make it out. That is what the ACA, aka the health care act is: taxing the millenials to pay for the late body boomers to get to medicare. It isn't universal health care, unless passing a law requiring everyone to buy a house is universal home ownership. The third part is the millenial/X mass. The Republicans, being the party of the silents, need the Xers, if nothing else to run for office. Look at the Tea Party candidates, like Ryan. They are Xers.
This cluster makes up Generation #fail, a group of three generations in order that are focused on their fortunes, as generations, without the smallest scrap of forward thinking. If you look at it, the Xers should not be in favor of conservative policies: they are a small cohort, and after a short period of discomfort, will be able to ride the millennium generation all the way to the grave. The late Boomers shouldn't be engaging in crass generational warfare, precisely because very soon the American population pyramid will normalize, and as Millennials become family people, they will be seen as a plague of locusts. The silents, with a self-image as the abused and forgotten generation, should not be collapsing the economy precisely when they are about to be completely dependent on living on its surplus.
If you don't see the divide, let me lay a simple chart for you, of Presidential and Vice Presidential Candidates.
John Kerry: December 11, 1943
William Jefferson Clinton: August 19, 1946
George W. Bush: July 6, 1946
Albert Gore: March 31, 1948
Mitt Romney: March 12, 1947
Dan Quayle: February 4, 1947
That's right, for 16 years America was under two Presidents that were born 44 days apart, and the Republicans are now running a man who is less than a year younger than the two of them.
Let's take the silents:
Jack Kemp: July 13, 1935
Dick Cheney: January 30, 1941
Joe Lieberman: February 24, 1942
Two of these, are close to the gang of 6, Kerry being closer to the cluster around Dick, than around Bill.
Finally, ignoring GI Generation Dole, and Bush I:
John Edwards: June 10, 1953
Barack Obama: August 4, 1961
Sarah Palin: February 11, 1964
Paul Ryan: January 29, 1970
That's correct, the cohort born in the 1950's will not elect a US President in all likelihood, as electoral power has already shifted past them, they had only one person even nominated for either slot, the now disgraced John Edwards. Only one person from the 1930's was even nominated for either top spot. The early silents will be virtually shut out of the Presidential game. A 13 year period supplied 10 of 13 individuals nominated for the highest office since 1992, and two years saw 5 that governed for 16 years. But likely, they have one more chance, 2016 might see one last late boomer, or 1950's member. That's the pinnacle of demographic determinism.
The Three Body Boomer Presidents: Clinton, Bush II, Obama, have a long gap between them. For all that we talk about Boomers, much of the generation will not have a member nominated for President or Vice-President, where as 6 of the late silents, early boomers will have been nominated. This is the past that shows the power of demographic determinism, but not in the way one might loosely first expect: instead of having a great wave of boomerocracy, we have some fairly particular blocks which are not generationally determined. Cheney, the most powerful Vice-President in American history, to the point where he was often referred to as "the Prime Minister," was closer to George W Bush in age, than his successor, and was not a boomer.
But this is illusory and starts to break down on examination, the reason there are these clusters is not accidental, nor a product of waves. Look at the cluster of Boomer candidates, mixed in with late silents. These are not large cohorts, and not the result of a wave of people coming to consciousness under peer leaders, these are the results of pivots in society, events such as World War II, which are not demographic determinism, producing people who are in a position to take the new economic or social territory. Hence some of the smallest cohorts: because by 1961 the boom is sliding down, and Palin is on the cusp of the bust, as well as the 1940's births, dominated a half-generation of Presidential nominees in America. Note how after this tight pivot, there is a wide scatter to either side. We have in two Presidential elections seen more demographic variety than was the focus of four before.
More over, by taking people into school at the same time, giving them a lock step education, rights and responsibilities at certain times, 16, 18, 21, 22, 25, 63, 65, we are inserting synchronizations to drive, drink, die in war, retire. It is not that the world is governed by a demographic clock, though this is not to discount demographics, but that we govern the world by it.
Now what does this have to do with three late boomer authors?
The three picked each other: they are peers and competitors, clustered not because there is some magical moment in the late 1950's and early 1960's births, but who competed at the same times in their lives, were of the same age working the same general niches. They knew each other because they were born close in age, and thus create an artificial outline of a moment that wasn't. They made themselves part of the same moment, by talking about each other. In the same way, Clinton and Gore were peer competitors, as were Reagan and George W. Bush, as were Dole and George W. Bush. They weren't in place because of an inevitable demographic moment, they bound themselves together and cleared the space around them first.
To say, then, that Wallace, Franzen, and Ellis come from some special moment is like noticing that the team ahead at the end of regulation time in a game tends to be declared the winner. We set the clock, it did not set us. This will get more ragged over time. This essay, and myriad others, are synchronized by an event, the publication of a biography, and that by an event, a suicide. These are not demographic realities, but individual ones.
So what is left here? Having spent a good deal of time using a generational lens, the essay is now undercutting it. Wallace's upbringing, Franzen's upbringing, are, in the long term, details. The food fight driven by their need to make a living now. 50 years from now, these factors splay. Franzen and Ellis are both still writing, they may well be remembered for a book they have not even started yet. Wallace is done, but he finished himself.
Soon we will be stripped of the demographic synchronization that has ruled mindsets for 70 some years as the Second World War, and to a large extent, the first half of the 20th century struggle against totalitarianism, ended. Much of the present synchronization is by another artificial set of numbers: when we let people retire. The ACA is created by the existence of virtually universal care at a certain point, and chaotic anti-care below it. These aren't signals in the life cycle of a fly, but our own decisions to draw lines.
Wallace's personal problems will, in the end, throw a sidelight on his work, but we will read Infinite Jest against that background for its own virtuosity, based on the correspondences to that time. There will always people willing to sell their souls for their addictions, as in Less than Zero. While a particular moment may have moved the author to write it, empty consumption wasn't invented in California in the 1970's.
In the end, as tempting as demographic determinism is, because the Body Boomers are the most craven and tiresome generation since at least Louis XVI, the reality in policy is that these demographic moves are counter-productive. The Xer alliance with the silents will destroy them, because the Xers need a bubbly boom economy now in the last 20 years of their working life, because they have no savings. The Boomers have already fatally wounded themselves, by consciously bending their own children over the table and raping them of their youths.
In the end, the full life cycle most work, and robbing one part of it to pay others, is a dead end. We won't see this, because the Silents and Boomers have been fighting a generational war for 60 years, and will never stop, because it is what they have become. Their dysfunctional relationship will continue to dominate politics, until the oil runs out, a number that is not set by graduation, matriculation, or celebration, but by the remorseless logic of a wider world whose generations are not linearly related to our own.
America is about to hit the wider world, and find out that our generational divides, like our racial ones, are parochial nonsense.


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These actions have contributed to a 5.5 percent decrease ($20.1 billion) in the US goods trade deficit with China. The deficit stood at $347 billion in 2016.
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