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Skip to comments.Conspiracy theory about over sampling in polls.
Posted on 11/05/2012 8:03:57 AM PST by Usagi_yo
Well, now that I have your attention ---
After seeing Townhall's headliner this morning:
Final CNN Poll: Deadlocked at 49, Despite D+11 Sample
I started thinking why over sample Dems? Does the 11 mean 11% or just 11 more Dems?
What's the justification for over sampling anyway? GOP and DEM ranks aren't so disproportionate (Conservative and Liberals are). Is it to normalize an election where more Democrats are expected to be voting (ground game stuff)?
Do they adjust for oversampling or does over sampling just happen?
Could it be that there is a tacit agreement in place between media and the FCC to portrait the race as even and so in order to represent it as close, they would have to over sample Dems to make it so?
The polls have been odd. Tit for Tat results, every poll that gives Obama an edge, a competing poll gives it to Romney, or closes the gap.
I've wondered how the heck Romney can surge in Pen, Wis, Mich, Minn. while not surging in Ohio? It seems almost impossible.
They got me biting my nails even though I think it's Romney by a ton of EC votes.
The pollsters do this to get air time on the MSM TV stations. If they don't the MSM will never mention their polls!
I think it is a mixture of things. There's an incentive for media to portray a close race (money). Some in media are lazy and using the last election's model. In some cases (as in hyper ridiculous +8 or higher) I believe the media are trying to keep Obama afloat because they fear a down ticket disaster for Democrats if Obama isn't seen as competitive.
We'll see tomorrow I guess. I've been concerned about the arm-chair criticism about polling as from several people I know who are in the business, a lot of what hasn't been accounted for is voter registration efforts that many polling firms have been accounting for. I don't think we should rest on our laurels tomorrow. Get as many people to go with you as possible to vote. Don't assume that we have this in the bag due to what seems like manipulated numbers.
They factor in the dem GOTV efforts, which actually are"how successful" will dems be at massive voter fraud?
I believe America wants Romney, but if we really wanted him that bad we would have to be successful in stopping fraud...or else...engage in it ourselves enough to overtake them.
I pray we win tomorrow, but I also think the tightening is because the dems are cheating on a large enough scale in swing states to win the election.
I believe this is the reason people are saying Romney will win the popular vote handily, but will lose the electoral college. The dems know the states they have to cheat big time in, and they are doing that as we speak.
It's worse than you can imagine. The famous "+11" poll by CNN means predicts 41% of voters will be Democrats, 30% will be Republicans. IN other words, a given voter is 37% (11/30) more likely to be a Democrat than a Republican!!!
Public polling is increasingly problematic due to sampling and modeling issues such as low response rates, call screening, and the so-called "shy Tory effect" in which conservative voters decline to reveal their preferences. Partisan breakdowns are especially dodgy because some pollsters like Rasmussen adjust their top line results for partisanship, while others do not. In addition, events and campaign operations change voter preferences. Most pollsters will declare themselves vindicated if the election is close enough to be within the margin of error.
When Romney wins tomorrow, there are two things I can't wait to watch.
1. Tingles reaction
2. Pollsters excuses.
Pollsters call land-line phones, for the most part. I hear about 1/3 of the country no longer has a land-line. That in itself is a major problem. Then there are people, like myself, who would lie to a pollster. I despise polls, and people who do them.
I think that JournOlist never went away. The reporters involved were trying to change the world and thought that Obama would be so good for everybody that nobody would care that they helped Obama. Because of that they were sloppy and were caught. Then they went underground and grew bigger because more reporters and other groups wanted to be part of it and "on the team" JournOlist became bigger and more powerful.
Acorn was exposed and is a shell of its former self. But, Acorn only existed with other people's money. Once their funding was cut, so did its operation. Proof that Acorn has faded is the lower Dem registration efforts.
JournOlist didn't cost any money. It was exposed but not affected financially. JournOlist controls the message. JournOlist controls the presidential debates. JournOlist controls which pollsters get hired by democrats and which pollsters get on TV. JournOlist picks the winners and losers among pollsters. Pollsters no longer need to be close to be respected and make money, they just need to do what JournOlist wants them to do.
Many freepers have said that this election may expose the media and end their monopoly. It will take more than that. A Romney win will make them go harder left and they will fight Romney even harder than they fought Bush. If Romney succeeds and stands up to the media, unlike Bush, then the media will go nuts, lose power, and be replaced. Just like Dan Rather and that one journOlist guy that used to be on ESPN and then on MSNBC. I can never remember his name.
If Romney is polling +5% on election day, an extra 5% of Dem voters will stay home and state and local races suffer.
Clearly I'm in no position to say that the polls showing the race to be razor-thin are accurate or not; but a thought occurs to me.
If, in fact, things are developing to give Romney a decisive election night victory, I can't help but wonder if pollsters who might be so inclined are intentionally skewing their polls, via over-sampling and/or loaded questions, so as to create a "reasonable cause" justification for mounting legal challenges to the results. Some would go so far as to say they're setting the stage for civil unrest due to a created perception of the election having been stolen; however, if they have that anticipation, I suspect that it's merely icing on their litigious cake.
There are a lot of people who agree with you on pollsters. Most hang up on our calls. Some of those who do talk will lie or at least play with their answers. Since republicans are usually more likely to hang up, although by how much is variable, that leaves us with a natural D bias. The question is how to correct for that bias, if at all. Tomorrow we'll find out how close each system came to the truth despite the problems. BTW, pollsters do a significant amount of good despite our flaws, or do you regret knowing that Romney could afford to more resources out of NC and into other states?
The truth is, like me, most Republicans don't participate in polls.
I generally hang up on them.
So, it seems reasonable to expect an oversampling of Dems.
Duzz 'dat meen dat duh obammer fone fokes dunt git pooled???
"do you regret knowing that Romney could afford to more resources out of NC and into other states?"
I'll tell you what I regret. Since polls got to be so politically popular, it seems candidates no longer publicly believe in anything. They believe what the polls tell them they SHOULD be believing in.
I admit, I'm a bit jaded and long for simpler times, that may never have existed. What's a guy to do? :)
I think he wanders Central Park now eyeing little girls with bad intent.
I think it was Kenneth, as in what's the frequency, Kenneth?
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Israel's best known and most publicised contribution to disaster relief was the despatch of the IDF, medical staff and equipment to Haiti after its shattering earthquake in 2010. Photo by Joe Shalmoni shows Dr. Ofer Merin in Haiti. The headline to the article with this photo was Israel's Haitian Tent Hospital Boosts IDF Image
The Zionization of Disaster Relief
By Richard Silverstein, Tikun Olam
January 19, 2010
Didn't know there was anything particularly Zionist about providing disaster relief? You learn something new every day. This is a story of exploiting the suffering of poor, defenseless Haitians on behalf of Israeli triumphalism.
Sol Salbe translated an eye-opening column from Yediot by an Israeli doctor who was an integral member of all Israeli international disaster response teams until recently. Then he made the mistake of writing a mildly critical statement about Israeli disaster relief efforts. As a result, he was relieved of his obligation for further IDF service and further participation in the disaster relief program. The op ed is so revealing (and not yet available online in English) I'm going to quote large sections. An explanatory note–at Israel's Haiti field hospital, they delivered what the Israeli PR flacks called "the first baby since the earthquake." The medical staff urged the woman to name her baby "Israel" and she was only to eager to oblige. Another Israeli PR coup!
Public Relations instead of saving lives
Sending portable toilets to Haiti would have been a better option, but this does not provide good photo opportunities. Israeli missions to disaster areas in the past have shown that such activity was in vain.
By Yoel Donchin, Yediot
I received my final exemption from the army after I published an article which said that the State of Israel acts like the proverbial Boy Scout, who insists on doing a good deed daily and helping an old lady cross the road even against her will. How ungrateful of me to publish such a column when I had participated in almost all the rescue missions to overseas disaster areas! Suddenly I am no longer suitable to take part in such heroic endeavours. But in light of the experience I gained in such missions…we have wasted our effort.
Generally speaking, we start preparing for such a mission within hours of the announcement of a natural disaster. Most often the Israeli mission team is the first one to land in the area. Like those who climb Mount Everest, it plants its flag on the highest peak available, announcing to all and sundry that the site has been conquered. And in order to ensure that the public is aware of this sporting achievement, the mission is accompanied by media representatives, photographers, an IDF spokesman's office squad and others.
I understood the purpose perfectly when the head of one of the delegations to a disaster zone was asked whether oxygen tanks and a number of doctors could be removed to make room for another TV network's representatives with their equipment. (With unusual courage, the delegation head refused!)
The lesson learnt from the activities of those missions is that when there is a natural disaster, or when thousands of people are expelled from their homes by force, as happened in Kosovo, survivors may benefit from international assistance only if it responds to the region's specific needs. Also assistance must be coordinated among the various aid agencies.
The competitive race to a disaster zone imposes a huge strain on the local health and administration authorities. Airports are clogged by transport planes unloading a lot of unnecessary but bulky equipment. Doctors and rescue organisations seek ways to utilise single carriageway roads and in fact they are a burden. The correct way to help is to send a small advance force to gauge the dimensions of the disaster…
Would they still call that child Israel?
Three components are crucial: shelter, water and food — these things are crucial in order to save the largest number of people. Water purification equipment, tents, basic food rations are needed. But they do lack the desired dramatic effect. If we went down that track we would miss out on seeing that child who was born with the assistance of our physicians. Most certainly, the excited mother wouldn't give her child (who knows if he will ever reach a ripe old age?) the name Israel or that of the obstetrician or nurse. (Would he get citizenship because he was born in Israeli territory? There would be many opposed to that.) The drama is indeed classy, but its necessity is doubtful.
It being Israel, our current force contains a Kashrut supervisor, security personnel and more.
In the present disaster, which is of a more massive scale than anything we have encountered to date, the need is not so much for a field hospital but field, ie portable, toilets. There is more of a need for digging equipment to dig graves and sewage pipes.
A country which wants to provide humanitarian aid without concern for its media image should send whatever is required by the victims, and not whatever it wants to deliver. But would the evening news show the commander of the Israeli mission at the compound with 500 chemical toilets? Unlikely. It is much more media savvy to show an Israeli hospital, replete with stars of David and of course the dedicated doctors and nurses, dressed in their snazzy uniforms with an Israeli flag on the lapel.
…It is quite likely that financial assistance commensurate with Israel's resources would be preferable to the enormous expense and complicated logistics involved in the maintenance of a medical unit in the field…
But apparently a minute of TV coverage is much more important…and in fact Israel is using disasters as [military] field training in rescue and medical care. After a fortnight, the mission will reportedly return to Israel. To be truly effective a field hospital needs to remain for two or three months, but that's a condition that Israel cannot meet.
…It is only in the Israeli aid compound in Haiti that large signs carrying the donor country's name hang for all to see.
Prof. Yoel Donchin is the director of the Patient Safety Unit at the Hadassah Medical Centre in Jerusalem.
Translated by Sol Salbe, who directs the Middle East News Service for the Australian Jewish Democratic Society.
If after reading this you're feeling either slightly soiled or angry, I urge you to perform a truly constructive, selfless act in reply to Israel's self-promotional puffery. Make a gift to American Jewish World Service or Doctors Without Borders, who are each doing acts of mercy without thought of benefit to themselves or any narrow political movement. In fact, DWB's flights of precious, desperately needed medical supplies have been repeatedly turned away by American forces controlling incoming air traffic, in favor of military equipment deemed needed for the occupation which seems to be taking shape there.
Somehow Israeli field hospitals and all their support equipment manage to get through this bottleneck. Could it be? Nah, I didn't think so.
Israel ranks low in international giving
A philanthropy expert says citizens could actually legitimize the state of Israel as a part of the world family by giving more to support other people.
By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times
June 08, 2013
JERUSALEM — Israeli doctors were among the first to set up emergency hospitals in Haiti after its devastating 2010 earthquake. Israel also swiftly dispatched water-purification experts to Japan following the 2011 tsunami and trauma experts to Boston after the recent marathon bombings.
Yet despite such high-profile disaster assistance, Israel ranks near the bottom among leading free-market economies in providing foreign aid to developing nations.
Along with Mexico and Chile, Israel gives the least as a percentage of gross national income among members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Israel gives one-tenth of the U.N.'s target rate, lagging behind Turkey, Poland, Slovakia and even Greece during its debt crisis, according to OECD data.
On an individual basis, Israelis are also less likely to send donations abroad compared with citizens of most European countries and the U.S., according to a study by Hebrew University's Center for the Study of Philanthropy in Israel. Over the last decade, 0.1% of individual charitable funds raised in Israel went to international relief, compared with 48% in Belgium, 13% in Italy and 5% in the U.S.
In an interview Wednesday in Jerusalem, Hillel Schmid, head of the center, told The [LA] Times that Israelis can and should give more if they want to be accepted as global citizens.
Q: Why don't Israelis give more internationally?
A: Israelis in general are not so generous in giving, internationally and even inside Israel. People are suspicious about giving money. There's an anti-philanthropist feeling. Even though Israel was built by philanthropists, today surveys show that Israelis think philanthropies are self-interested, political and wasteful.
And though Israelis see themselves as part of the larger world, they see themselves as beneficiaries, not contributors. Israelis are a little bit selfish in this way. We've been educated through the years to expect that money will be imported from the Jewry in the rest of the world, like New York and Los Angeles.
Is it surprising that Israelis don't give more considering the emphasis on charity in Judaism and Israel's roots as a socialist state?
There's a proverb, "The poor come first." It means you should take care of your own people first before giving money to others and running overseas. It would be strange for an Israeli to send money to Africa when they feel there are still so many projects here.
So do Israelis give a lot of money domestically?
No. Individual philanthropy inside Israel — for things like social programs, education, art, culture — is less than 0.7% of the GDP. In the U.S., it's about 2.5%. Though Israel is not socialist anymore, people still think it's the role of the government to provide these things, not philanthropy. They feel, "We pay taxes. We serve in the army. Why should we give more?"
Total philanthropy in Israel is $5.5 billion a year, but much of that money originates from (foreign sources). We are the biggest importer of philanthropy money in the world. Ten years ago, 72% of Israel's philanthropy came from overseas. Today it's about 62%.
Is the problem that Israelis simply can't afford it?
No. For several years the government has been declaring almost every day how strong the economy is. But the wealth of Israel is not reflected in the giving. They can afford to give much more. There was a recent report that there are 500 multimillionaires in Israel and several billionaires. Look at people like [American billionaires Bill] Gates and [Warren] Buffett and others who are giving their assets to generous foundations. You don't find an Israeli who is giving away his capital like that to help a hospital in South Africa.
Yet internationally, the Israeli government was more much aggressive about giving in past decades. When it was still a developing nation itself in the 1950s and 1960s, Israel's track record for providing technical assistance and sending doctors or agriculture experts to Africa rivaled larger developed nations. What changed?
First, we don't have political relations anymore with most of the countries in Africa.
True. And it was their decision to take part in the Arab boycott, so you can't blame Israel for that.
Right. But back then, aid was seen as a government interest. Not anymore. The government today has no policy about philanthropy. But I think it should because Israel is not in good shape in terms of legitimacy, the Palestinian territories and all this stuff. You've seen the polls that rank Israel fourth as the most-hated country after Iran, Pakistan and North Korea. Philanthropy abroad is not only for ideological and humanitarian reasons, but there is some self-interest as well.
Does that really work? Israel showered Africa with assistance in the hopes that it could forge diplomatic relationships, yet those countries still boycotted Israel.
I think it does. We are isolated in the world. We can actually legitimize the state of Israel as a part of the world family by giving more to support other people. But we need to develop a culture of giving. Education should start in elementary school. The Israeli rate for volunteerism is not very high, except in wars and disasters. And the government needs to do more to encourage philanthropy, such as providing better tax benefits.
Is there any sense of national shame that Israel ranks so low in this area?
A: We don't want to be last in terms of poverty or education, or to rank lower than Turkey or Greece in those areas. But I don't think if you ask someone on the street, that they would say it bothers them that we don't give more.
2010 figures: the first number is the amount given in overseas development aid in US $million; the second is the percentage that figure represents of gross national income. Lowest first.
Below average
Israel 140.55, 0.07%
Poland 377.89, 0.08%
Slovakia 73.71, 0.09%
Hungary 112.62, 0.09%
Estonia 18.29, 0.10%
Czech Rep 223.61, 0.12%
Korea,S 1,167.74, 0.12%
Turkey 966.82, 0.13%
Slovenia 63.09, 0.13%
Italy 3,110.87, 0.15%
Greece 500.03, 0.17%
Japan 11,045.22, 0.20%
G7 countries 88,843.96 0.28%
Iceland 28.62, 0.28%
Portugal 648.10, 0.29%
Above average
Austria 1,198.94, 0.32%
Australia 3,848.91, 0.32%
Canada 5,131.84, 0.33%
Germany 12,723.05, 0.38%
Switzerland 2,295.22, 0.41%
Spain 5,916.5, 0.43%
Non-G7 countries 39,884.38 0.49%
France 12,915.62, 0.50%
Ireland 895.15, 0.53%
Belgium 3,000.23, 0.64%
Netherland 6,350.60, 0.81%
Denmark 2,866.63, 0.90%
Sweden 4,526.62,, 0.97%
Luxembourg 399.20, 1.09%
Norway 4,582.23, 1.10%
Average TOTAL 128,728.34 0.32%
The IDF contribution to the typhoon disaster in the Philippines is receiving coverage almost identical to that which Israeli media gave to Haiti, including the proud naming of a baby boy 'Israel'. The only difference is that it's first propagated by tweets.
Commands to help the needy
There are innumerable commands in the Jewish tradition, in the Torah and in the larger Hebrew bible to help the needy, for example this from Job:
16 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
17 Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
19 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
20 If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
22 Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.


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Last week we told you about the wounded soldier who can now operate bionic fingers on a prosthetic hand. Thought that was cool? Check out Tyler Schilling's newest body part.
Iraq war veteran Sgt. Juan Arredondo, 27, operates his mechanical hand with what's left of his forearm muscles. But Harborview Medical Center is going a step further with Schilling — actually rewiring the nerves in a guy who lost his arm above the elbow so he move his hand with his mind.
P-I reporter Carol Smith wrote the gripping account of the procedure, which along with Arredondo's headline-grabbing hand represents something of a medical breakthrough in prosthetics research and technology. Smith tells the Big Blog:
From the "iron glove" of the second century B.C. to the computerized knee of this one, advances in materials and technology have pushed the science of prosthetics forward. But the concept of redesigning the body itself — retooling its neural circuitry so to speak — is a quantum leap forward for amputees.
Although still in its infancy, the applications for this type of mind-machine connection are mind-boggling — they could lead to "thought-controlled exo-skeletons" that operate like personal armored tanks for soldiers, or devices that could help spinal-cord injured patients regain mobility. It's exciting that Seattle is at the forefront of some of this research.
Patients here are benefiting from the pioneering efforts of doctors in Chicago, and in particular from the efforts of a patient named Jesse Sullivan, a lineman who lost both his arms at the shoulder when he was nearly electrocuted. Read about Jesse's amazing progress here.
Schilling's arm isn't as articulated as Arredondo's bionic hand. But one day it could be. Here's how Schilling's surgeon, Dr. Doug Smith, tells it to Smith:
"In general the first application for the bionic arm is for individuals with amputation in the forearm who still have some of the muscle that makes your normal hand work. My understanding of this first-generation advanced hand takes advantage of those muscles left in the forearm that normally work with the correct brain thoughts.
"What Tyler had, is to rewire the nerves so that some upper arm muscle now works with "hand control" brain thoughts. As the new hand technology improves to the next level, Tyler's added muscle control will certainly make him a better candidate than another above elbow amputee who never had the upper arm nerve transfers."


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United - That Bellamy Rumour!
Is he telling the truth or is it pure fiction?
That loveable Welsh rogue, Craig Bellamy, has come out with a remarkable claim.
Bellamy, currently on loan at the Championship side, Cardiff City, reckons that his move to the Welsh side pushed through because Manchester United were showing a keen desire to lure him away from City to Old Trafford.
Or as Craig puts it,
"Someone else came in from above Tottenham which would have caused quite a few stirs."
"If I`d said I wanted to go there for one minute, my life in Manchester would have been really tough. It would`ve been a miracle had it come off."
"I tried to work out whether to hold out for that one or go home."
"But because of the other club`s interest, City panicked and pushed through the Cardiff thing through."
Interestingly, Manchester united have denied any interest in Craig Bellamy and also, if he was thinking about a move to Old Trafford then does this pour a little cold water on his outrageous claim that he always had a dream to play for Cardiff, his boyhood team?
Mind you, any confrontations between Sir Alex Ferguson and Bellamy would have been real box office material!
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Despite my misuse of the term in this post, I don't frequently participate in "memes". But this one from Jason seems like a good one. Basically, I selected adjectives describing my personality traits, and now you will select them too, and we can compare the overlap or lack thereof. Without further ado, here's the more-or-less positive list, and here is the mostly negative list. Please take the time to fill it out if you know me, as the number of synonyms requires a large sample size to get any useful aggregation of results...
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Scoble asks Why don't you use a memetracker?. Check out the comments, as I agree with most of the answers. Summary: not enough new stuff, not a useful format, and, finally, why would I?
What would a useful "Memetracker" look like? First, it will have to integrate with my feed-reader/aggregator (do we have a single agreed upon name for this yet?) data. That way you can exclude the stuff I already know about. Plus you could tailor it to be interesting to me. Bloglines could pull this off, as could any other aggregator that centrally stores feed-reading data. Or, if attention or some other feed-reading-data-sharing mechanism were available, it could be done by a third party.
Second, it would be provided primarily as another feed. Not having to go out to another website and hitting refresh over-and-over is exactly the reason we love RSS and Atom so much.
So, what I'd want is an Atom feed of new items that I have neither read yet, nor have I read anything that linked to it yet. I want to see a summary of the main content, and possibly some links to the most interesting commentary on the item. An algorithm to determine interestingness like Flickr does would be the killer feature. A combination of popularity and making sure it includes some significant commentary instead of just being a another quote-and-link would be a good starting point. And, of course, I want "interestingness" to be somewhat based on what I already read, so that I can get more Java and less Microsoft, more economics and constitutional law and less party politics, and soccer and basketball, instead of just technology and politics.
Google is starting to integrate its Google Talk application with Gmail. Right now it's just the ability to centrally store your chat logs, but it promises web-based chat to come. I'm excited!
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Today brings us the official trailer for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1. Obviously… I'm not the demographic for this film. But it has a huge following so I'd be an idiot for not at least mentioning the release. Ummm… in this trailer we get a glimpse of the wedding AND the wedding night of Edward and Bella. Sigh. I think I'll just ..for once…let this trailer speak for itself… before I say something snarky and negative.
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 is scheduled for release on November 18, 2011. The film stars Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Dakota Fanning, Ashley Greene, Nikki Reed, and Maggie Grace. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 is directed by Bill Condon.
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Bella and Edward, plus those they love, must deal with the chain of consequences brought on by a marriage, honeymoon, and the tumultuous birth of a child… which brings an unforeseen and shocking development for Jacob Black.
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I've recently asked a bunch of friends to write down a sentence to see how their handwriting was like because Damn! with technology, it's kinda a rare occurance anyway. So what was the result? Really illegible handwriting! Its interesting to know that studies have shown that you can actually lose writing as a skill if you don't practice it enough. So is it really fair to say that you can tell how a person's personality is like through their handwriting when it hasn't been use because it becoming obsolete?
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2013-07-25 21:11:20
Looks like you just woke up and tried writing down what you dreamt about.
Ah, that personalty/handwriting thing is crap, like reading palms and head-bumps. There might be some small truths to it all, but any past definitions just wouldn't translate well into the 21st century, I'm sure....
I agree with it being more like fluff science but it makes for a great party trick! I do palm reading all the time but its more like reading the gullibity of the person haha
2013-07-27 08:06:53
My handwriting hit third grade level and never improved from there.
thank god for personalised fonts!
2013-07-28 05:50:55
Yeah, but I guess the old ways still hold, if it weren't for fate and cancerific chemicals in our lives :\
Ever try one of those handwriting, fortune telling machines, for a quarter or 50 cent? Had one down at the Jersey shore, was animatronic and all, just like that early Tom Hanks flick.... results were bunk tho
Nah, have nvr seen one of those only the love machine ones. All I got was cold fish
2013-07-28 20:20:06
Oh, you mean the one where you squeeze a handle, the lights go up and you get a little card, purporting to tell you how randy you are.... guess it's meant for couples.
I used to work at a big arcade not that long ago. Used to love the punching-bag meter-thing.... Used to embarrass bigger guys by beating their score :) Was hard work keeping that place going, so I was rather fit then.
2013-08-09 09:29:23
Man this really hit home for me
Since leaving high school I rarely write anything, i memorize or type and shit does it show
I'm actually embarrassed when I need to sign something, maybe I should practice... just seems like a waste with how infrequent I need the skill
try online courses in penmanship, its kinda outdated but it gives interesting advice :)


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Enjoy this lively, quick video that will walk you through the six types of tea. Plus, a few tisanes too!
Watch it in full-screen mode to get the total, awesomeness effect from the types of tea video. Have fun!
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Camellia Sinensis: Gwydion Williams
Puer Tea: Teajournaling
Rooibos: Akuppa
Yerba Mate: Juan Pablo Olmo
Fruit Tea: Moonlightbulb
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Cassie Scot: ParaNormal Detective
by Christine Amsden
Cover Artist: Ural Akyuz
Review by Gayle Surrette
Twilight Times Books Trade Paperback ISBN/ITEM#: 9781606192757
Date: 01 June 2013
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Cassie Scot doesn't want much, just a chance to be good at something. She believes she'll be a reasonably good detective working on normal cases. As the only unmagical child in a family of powerful sorcerers, living in a town where sorcerers feel the laws don't apply to them, she didn't work out as a police officer. So her business cards say she's a 'Normal Detective' though she spends most of her time explaining that she doesn't take magic-related cases.
She jumped at the chance to serve a subpoena on Belinda Hewitt, a gifted herbalist and expert potion maker. Belinda was reasonable, and it was just delivering the envelope of papers -- no magic involved. Problem was Belinda wasn't around and, while she waited, Evan Blackwood drove up also looking for his cousin, Nancy Hastings. Together Evan and Cassie discover Nancy's body in Belinda's home.
This is not only a mystery, but also a paranormal romance, as Cassie and Evan ends up assisting each other to find the murderer. Evan is a very advanced sorcerer and Cassie needs him since she has no magical ability. Her family hates the Blackwood family, won't explain why, and insists she have nothing to do with Evan. However Evan was one of her very few friends in school until they got to high school.
In fact, her family is considering disavowing her so that they can have another child which may have magic abilities and thus complete the number that should magically protect the family as a whole. Imagine their surprise when she learns of this plan and packs up and leaves the family home.
It's against this backdrop of personal and family problems that Cassie must find ways to deal with a killer who may be a proficient magical user while no longer having her family members as backup or assistance. She also has to deal with the emotional upset of her younger siblings, who feel she's abandoned them.
Yet she perseveres, using what she knows of the rules of bargaining, favors, and debt to track down the killer and see to it that justice is done. A lot hinges on how Cassie will adapt to her changing situation and to coming to grips with how other people live and afford food, clothing, a roof over their heads, and all the other daily cost of living that she'd never had to deal with -- think high school graduate out in the world for the first time and without parents to pick up the tab.
The world with magic in it, and alongside those who are unaware of its existence, is handled well with a few twists and provisos. The murder mystery and its solution is not that easy to see coming or to solve without some background in the world created for this series, but the details do get explained eventually and readers should be able to figure out who the killer is, although the reason will be surprising -- or mostly surprising depending on how closely you read the sprinkling of clues.
Cassie often seems like a spoiled brat, but then you have to take her in the context of the world in which she lives. Even so, she's striving to see that justice is done regardless of the importance of the person committing the crime.
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Maybe I'm missing something- or maybe two things. OpenSSH "tunnels" are app-level things, and have nothing to do with the tun interface.
You're right that the most common use of ssh for tunnels are for individual ports, but OpenSSH also has the ability to set up a point-to-point tunnel. You can read more about it here:
http://bodhizazen.net/Tutorials/VPN-Over-SSH and here: http://blog.brixandersen.dk/?p=47It works well and lets me get real IPv6 wherever I go, plus in some places I route using real public IPs which can be used to present services, do NAT, et cetera.
And ideally, the routing table should be untouched as well. This requires either apps that have flexible connection settings (most do) or the use of a tcpwrapper/netcat kind of program.
The creation of tun0 (or tun whatever number) doesn't touch the routing table, but making tun0 useful does. I just want to do ssh -w0:0 as a non-root user and worry about the rest later.
If this is not what you want at all, and you're talking about what I think you might be, then OpenVPN is the solution :)
Hmmm... Looks interesting. I'll have to play with it. Thanks, John


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Everywhere you look around, there is an Android smart phone today. Thanks to the open nature of Android we have a lot of manufacturers of Android phones and some of them have made owning a smart phone very affordable. So as the Android phones pour down like rain, one question that gets asked very often is what to do when you just buy an Android phone. So here is a guide that would tell you everything you must do while buying your Android smart phone as well as steps you must follow to set up your Android phone.
While Purchasing Your Android Phone:
Just when you are purchasing an Android smart phone make sure you do the following things.
1) Buy the phone from a well known and trusted retailer. A lot of cases have come in the past where people have been sold faulty or fake smart phones. So avoid picking phones from an unknown place in hope of saving some money. Also, if ordering online, use only trusted websites or the Company website whose device you are purchasing.
2) Make sure the product is sealed. It is something we overlook at times, but never buy an Android or for that matter any device which does not have a proper seal.
3) Check fro IMEI Number and ask for the bill. A lot of retailers are prepared to sell phones without a bill for slightly cheaper rates. Do not fall into the trap and ask for the bill, and make sure you note the IMEI on the phone bill.
4) Make sure you check the accessories before you leave the shop. Some retailers may notoriously pick away the Bluetooth headset or even replace the standard charger or battery with some other hardware, so beware of that before you switch your Android phone on.
So once you have made sure you have your hardware set, it's time to power on your Android device.
Setting Up Your Android For The First Time:
1) Switch your Android on after plugging the battery in, in case the battery is portable. If the phone does not switch on make sure to connect the device with your charger and to a power source.
2) Let the phone boot up to the welcome screen, usually it may take a while for the phone to boot up for the first time, so stay patient and do not pull the battery out or play with the power switch.
3) Most Android devices when booted for the first time would ask for your Account details such as Gmail Id and in some cases other accounts like Twitter or DropBox. Go ahead and input the accounts you wish to configure your device with. You may have to connect your device to a Wi-Fi network so the device can validate your account credentials. You can also skip this step in case you do not have an active data connection and activate your accounts later.
4) If you have entered your Google account details, you must sync your mail, calenders and contacts to your device. Maks sure Sync is on, so that this step can be done automatically.
5) Update your applications by opening Google play store. It is possible that some of the applications installed on your device may have been updated by the developers, so go ahead and update them.
6) Next step is to set up your widgets. You can check out other widgets in your device by either long pressing your home screen and selecting from there or from the application menu. We though warn you that some of these widgets can be really power sucking so make sure that you have set the right refresh rates for widgets like weather widgets etc.
7) Check your device for updates. Plenty of times there are updates available for devices. These could be minor updates or an OS update like going from Gingerbread to ICS or from ICS to Jellybean. This can be done by simply going to settings, and from there selecting Device information and checking for update there.
8) Once you are done having the latest goodies on board, you are free to download applications to your device. Head over to the play store and search for the applications that you must download. Some of the applications you might want to try out are: Chrome, Whatsapp, Adobe Reader, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Tune In Radio, Astro File Manager, Play Music. You may also want to download an alternate launcher to change the way your device looks. We recommend Nova Launcher, Go Launcher, Apex Launcher, Smart Launcher or ADW Launcher.
9) You can also set a different wallpaper for your device and that would give a personal look to your device.
Once you do all that you are set to enjoy the goodness of Android. However, if you want to go a step further you can go ahead and root your device and play around with custom ROM or change the clock speed of your device to get an even more customized device. We would not be covering rooting in this article as the procedure is different for every device.
So this was our guide to owning and starting with an Android device. Do let us know your views on it in the section below or tweet in to us at @Blogtechnika or @Techverarp.


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If there were any remaining doubts about Taylor Swift being both country and pop's reigning personality they were ended last night when she captured country music's biggest award at the 43rd annual CMA Awards show, Entertainer of the Year.
Besides becoming the first woman in 10 years to get this honor (seventh overall), Swift also became the youngest artist (19) to ever win the award by the 6,000-plus members of the Country Music Association.
Entertainer of the Year was just one among four awards Swift captured during a dominant evening that also saw her win Album of the Year for "Fearless," Female Vocalist of the Year and Music Video for "Love Story." Swift was so overcome at winning the evening's biggest award that she took a moment to compose herself before calling her entire band to the stage and also thanking her fans, especially "the ones who come to the shows with the special shirts they've made." She also saluted country radio for "taking a chance on my songs and playing some things that were different."
The show was broadcast live from the Sommet Center on WKRN-2, with Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood serving as co-hosts. It also aired over satellite radio on "The Highway" (Ch. 16) while various bloggers and others on Facebook provided their own commentary throughout the evening.
Besides opening the show, the recent Swift/Kanye West situation was referenced a couple of times. Paisley and Underwood took their own shot at West in a duet. Then later Little Jimmy Dickens strolled on stage and said "Now Brad Paisley, you had a nice video, but Taylor Swift had the best video of all time," a routine that Paisley suggested to ABC months ago. Finally, Swift thanked all her competitors "for staying in their seats and not coming up on stage."
Swift's victories set the tone on a night when other newcomers and emerging stars took plenty of awards. Darius Rucker, once the focal point and lead singer of the top-selling rock band Hootie & the Blowfish, capped a triumphant switch to country by winning the Best New Artist award. He thanked country for "welcoming a pop singer into their ranks."
Lady Antebellum won both Group of the Year and Single of the Year for "I Run to You," while Jamey Johnson's "In Color" won Song of the Year. Sugarland again took Duo of the Year, while Paisley won his third consecutive Male Vocalist of the Year and shared Musical Event of the Year with Keith Urban.
ABC also used the evening to springboard promos for a host of things, from touting their revived programming success this season (currently edging out Fox for No. 2 overall behind CBS and challenging them for No. 1 in the 18-49 demographic), while also showing through some of its ads the expanded appeal country has for advertisers in such areas as video games and HDTV.
In addition, a number of veteran country stars from Barbara Mandrell, one of the new inductees into the Country Hall of Fame, to Reba McEntire, who admitted earlier in the week she voted for Swift in the Entertainer of the Year contest, took time either on TV or radio to compliment the current crop of new and contemporary country stars.
"There's more talent out there now than ever," Mandrell said. Her attitude exemplified the feeling of celebration personified by Swift's historic performance at the 43rd CMA Awards.
I thought she did a good job on Saturday Night Live. She obviously remembered the Ashley Simpson 'song-and-dance' debacle and sang her own material live. Even though it showed the weaknesses in her vocal ability, it was a passable and authentic performance.
I missed the CMA's but I'm sure she was hooked up to all the pro-tools gadgets for that one, a fact of life in the industry for many 'artists' these days. She seems like a nice person and I wish her continued success.
A nice little girl this Taylor Swift but it sure says a lot about how weak the talent really is in country music.
If it's about the voice, we should have shot
Bob Dylan a long time ago.
She's an artist and a hellava song writer.
You can tell that she's NOT hooked up to any pro tools
gadgets. She's not even over using reverb off the house
sound system, which is what most would do.


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What is the worst thing you've written, how did you learn or know it was bad, and what did you learn from it?
I wrote a fantasy trilogy, each book 125K words, on a Brother electric typewriter back in the early 80s. It may be dreck, but may be salvageable. Only problem is, it is hard copy only….There are magic people, dragons, wars, horses…all to hide the sorrow of three miscarriages. It worked.
Why did you start writing and when did you decide to go professional?
I started writing because I had to write. I've written nearly every day since I was 15. I tried to go pro in 1973 when I lost my teaching
job. Finally made it in 2006. How's that for persistence?
Do you write in more than one genre? Which ones and which do you like the best?
I write romance, women's fiction and fantasy. I really like mysteries, but I am not good with crimes. I'd make a terrible crook. Women's fiction is probably best for me.
Do you read other author's books when you're writing? If so, do you read the same genre or something different?
Sometimes I read other's books, most of the time when I am writing, I only read research material. During breaks in writing, I read anything I can get my hands on. I enjoy "funny" stories most.
What is the most difficult part of the entire writing process for you? Queries, pitches, editing..etc.
Easiest part is the writing. Hardest part is selling myself. I love signing my books, though. That's the coolest part of all.
If you could have the same type of career as any author currently publishing who would it be and why?
Anybody who writes one book a year and gets paid for it would be my ideal. Who does that? Anybody we know?
Author's Biography: Irene Peterson has lived in a make believe world almost her entire life. She hails from Central Jersey where all the pools are above ground and all the front doors come from Home Depot. She is currently working on getting her kids out of university and a story about Long Beach Island during the week before the end of WWII.
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BarroMetrics Views: Purpose in Trading
With trading, as with most things in life, many apparent contradictions and disagreements are resolved at the 'purpose and assumptions levels'. Our achievements happen when we:
- define the purpose of an action (consciously or unconsciously),
- plan the action (consciously or unconsciously),
- review the results,
- note the gap between the results we desire (i.e. our purpose) and
- adjust our actions next time to account for gap.
- once our actions bring about the result we desire, we integrate them into our psyche so that they become habitual and finally
- we continue to monitor the results to ensure our actions are continuing to bring the results we desire.
We fail to achieve when one or more of the steps is missing – usually the 'noting of the gap' and 'adjusting our action'.
In simple matters, we tend to take the steps unconsciously; in complex matters like trading, we need to apply conscious thought and the actions we take over time integrate the conscious with the unconscious i.e. we integrate our reason with emotion.
Trading is a complex matter. So if we want to improve, we need to take the steps consciously. However, our brain's response to change i.e. for taking a new action that suggests an unknown result is the same as that as when experiencing pain. As a result, we often prefer to stay with 'the known' and its adverse results rather than take new actions that may lead to the results we want.
But in trading, as with other areas in life, to achieve what we want requires we do what is required in spite of the difficulties we encounter.


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