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SS 50 million
Medicare 50 million
Medicaid 50 million
Welfare 47 million
They are all welfare programs
Not counting unemployment
New lie: The government spends more on welfare than everything else!
Senate Republicans redefine "welfare" to make it sound very expensive
In the context of political discussions, "welfare" traditionally (as in pretty much always) refers specifically to Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or TANF, the federal program that was created in 1996 to replace the Aid to Families With Dependent Children program — also known as "welfare" — that had existed since the New Deal. This is what people refer to when they say "welfare caseloads" and "welfare rolls," and when conservatives accuse Obama of gutting "welfare reform" they are referring to TANF. The federal government spends $16.5 billion a year on TANF and, combined, the states spend another $10 billion.
Most of the federal budget is "defense" and war spending and Medicare, which should be common knowledge but that fact is regularly obscured by right-wingers who claim to be deficit hawks but refuse to cut defense spending and are scared of proposing real reductions to our programs for old people. This is how you get poll results where people think most of what the federal government spends money on is "foreign aid" and public broadcasting.
So this is obviously just an attempt to rebrand "everything else" as "welfare." Salon.com

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The Stinker
Many fungi reproduce by creating fruiting bodies that produce spores, which are later dispersed. Though some fruiting bodies are microscopic, many are large, conspicuous and somewhat bizarre--like this specimen known by the common name of the
starfish stinkhorn
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It has long been the large home as one of the investment component. That is why many are imposing buy a house, though not to live, and it is reasonable to invest.
Investment house has many forms, each of which serves a distinct advantage and handling.
Buy and sell. You buy a house, renovate, and sell. Your profit is derived from the difference between the purchase price and the cost of renovation at the sale price. Greater advantage of course you can get when it turns out the house has sloping price or below the market price, pretty good condition so it does not need or minimal renovation, plus the house is not "problematic". The definition of the problem here is the house that such a position skewers, near the grave, difficult road access, flood, and so on. Well, if you have limited funds for investment houses in the form of buying and selling, home buying troubled avoid speculation. Because, if you have already seen it as a problem, prospective home buyers also think the same. In other words, you have to play it safe, and make measurable speculation.
Contracted. The way that most people do: You've got a home, but want to develop assets in the form of the house. Many factors are decisive in this one business. One is the location. Many people who already have a home but are willing to sign, in order to be closer to the office. Of course, more are forced to sign because they have no home. There is a fundamental difference between the two contracting this, example, in the case of home care. The former tend to be more diligent in taking care of the house, as if it was his house. That's because the rented house occupied regarded as a representation of contracting. Another case contractor to two more indifferent. What is clear, as the owner of the rented, you should perform preventive measures that can be detrimental in the future, for example, installing rechargeable electric, so there is no contractor incident fled the electric bill. Then, always introduce contracting neighbors around.
Boarding house. In the past, businesses boarding house made by retirees whose home is quite large and has many rooms scars of their children. Over time, transformed into a boarding house like an apartment and hotel, which was built specifically for businesses boarding house. The most important of the boarding house business, is, as contracted, is the location. The house is close to the campus, or office, for example, is a plus. And differences in the target market is of course also a difference in the behavior of the service or the service and service users.


text: Joey Hess, le Mon 15 Jan 2007 23:19:03 -0500, a écrit : > Samuel Thibault wrote: > > But there's a laptop task, isn't there a way to have it somehow > > "conflict" with numlockx? > > You think the laptop task is installed on all laptops? I'm sure this is > not the case, for various reasons. > > This point about laptops is enough for me to give up on the idea. numlockx should then be properly advertised another way: in the X section of debian manual, FAQ, or any other official place where people would find it. My point is that very _few_ people know that installing numlockx is just sufficient for having numlock set at bootup, while I guess (maybe that's only a guess, but neither of us can answer, only polling can) that most people would prefer numlock set. Or rather: it's quite difficult for those people that want it do discover that they should just install numlockx, hence documentation. Samuel


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The Five Best Bond Funds for 2014
By Steven Goldberg
What to be cautious of with rising interest rates possibly posing a big obstacle to bond funds
With bonds facing these headwinds, I think investors should keep interest-rate sensitivity relatively low in the fixed-income portion of their portfolios. That means avoiding long-term bond funds and even many high-quality intermediate-term funds. I'd rather take my risks in 2014 owning funds that invest in bonds with lower credit quality.
But keep in mind that if the economy were to slide into recession in 2014, which I view as unlikely, not only would your stock funds be hammered, your lower-quality bond funds would take hits, too. High-quality bonds, by contrast, usually perform well when the economy tanks.
Here are my five favorite funds for 2014, listed in order from lowest to highest risk.
New Income yields 3.2%, and the short-term nature of its holdings will minimize the damage if rates rise. The fund should lose about 2% if rates rise by one percentage point. I don't think you'll find another fund that takes as little risk and pays as generous a yield. Almost 80% of the fund is in bonds rated single-A and higher. The fund's average credit quality is triple-B, the lowest investment-grade rating. More than half the fund's assets are in U.S. government-backed securities. "We're belt-and-suspenders investors," says
Metropolitan West Unconstrained Bond (MWCRX) employs a proven strategy--with one major twist. The fund's three co-managers have also piloted the
The main difference between Unconstrained and Total Return is that the former can short Treasury bonds--that is, bet on Treasuries to decline in price. Unconstrained's current short positions sharply cut the fund's exposure to rising interest rates. The fund would lose only 1.4% in price if yields were to rise one percentage point.
Aside from betting against Treasuries, Unconstrained's holdings are similar to Total Return's. But if the managers are right, Unconstrained will avoid the pain of rising rates. The fund yields 2.1% and charges 0.99% in annual fees.
So far, returns have been excellent. Since Unconstrained's inception in late 2011, the fund has returned an annualized 12.1%--an average of 10.5 percentage points per year more than the Barclays Aggregate index. Another plus: The fund is relatively undiscovered. Assets are a mere
Fuss--the fund's lead manager--and two co-managers believe the yield on ten-year Treasuries will rise to 4.5% to 5% in the next three to five years. "Long-term, high-quality bonds are one of the riskiest investments you can make," says co-manager
Accordingly, the Loomis managers are avoiding high-quality bonds. Indeed, the fund has an average credit quality of just triple-B (firmly in junk bond territory). Moreover, the fund has 10% of its assets in convertible securities, which can behave like stocks. About one-third of its assets are in short-term bonds denominated in foreign currencies, mainly in
TCW Emerging Markets Income N (TGINX) isn't for the faint of heart. Of course, the same could be said for just about all emerging-markets bond funds, which showed in 2013 that they are suitable for only a small part of a typical investor's fixed-income allocation. The group got hammered because of fears of higher interest rates in the U.S. A stronger dollar also hurt investments denominated in foreign currencies.
But in many emerging markets the worst may be over. Countries that are growing at a rapid clip and have low debt levels as a percentage of gross domestic product may well see their currencies and their bonds recover. Unlike most of its peers, which invest almost entirely in dollar-denominated bonds or entirely in bonds issued in currencies of emerging markets, the TCW fund invests in both. It also owns both government bonds and corporates. I think that flexibility will pay off over time. Indeed, over the past five years, the fund returned an annualized 16.1%, putting it in the top 4% of emerging-markets bond funds. TCW, which lost 5.2% in 2013, yields a generous 6.5%. Annual expenses are 1.1%.
When a convertible trades at or near a price at which conversion makes economic sense, it tends to closely track the issuer's stock. Conversely, when a convertible is far below its conversion price, it trades almost entirely as a bond would, independent of movements in the stock's price.
Their fund has been a winner. Over the past ten years, it returned an annualized 7.9%--beating Standard & Poor's 500-stock index by an average of 0.7 percentage point per year. Yet it has been 20% less volatile than the S&P index.
Convertibles are risky. Almost all of them have junk ratings; this fund's average credit rating is double-B. Although Keele, who has been on the fund since 1996, and his co-managers have a terrific record of avoiding defaults, Vanguard Convertible still lost 29.8% in 2008. The S&P 500 plunged 37% that year.
You can only buy the fund directly from Vanguard. But, in my view, it's by far the best fund in its class. Expenses are just 0.52% annually, and the fund yields 2.2%.
How did my 2013 picks do? On average, the funds have returned negative 2.1% so far this year, compared with a loss of 1.6% for the Barclays Aggregate index. Pulling the average down was Pimco Emerging Local Bond D (PLBDX), which tumbled 10.2%. All of my other picks beat the index.
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Many people avoid seeking out help for psychological problems because of the perceived stigma associated with needing mental health care. This may particularly be the case for military service members.

OEF/OIF soldiers face a number of highly stressful situations, including deployment, combat exposure, and reintegration. Given this, it is really not that surprising that OEF/OIF veterans are showing high rates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), alcohol use, anger management problems, physical health problems, and suicide). However, many do not seek out treatment for these difficulties. In fact, one study found that only about half get treatment.

Stigma as a Barrier to Seeking Treatment

According to an article in the American Psychological Association's Monitor on Psychology, a major reason many service members do not seek out treatment is the stigma associated with receiving mental health care. Many service members are worried that disclosing psychological difficulties or seeking out mental health treatment will negatively affect their military careers. However, the consequences of not seeking out treatment can be dire. Untreated psychological difficulties may only get worse and could have a major impact on a soldier's ability to perform in combat or at home when they return from duty.

What Is Being Done to Combat Stigma

The Department of Defense has recognized that stigma is a major problem in the armed forces, and as a result, every branch of the military is taking steps to combat the stigma associated with mental health problems and seeking out treatment.

For example, to limit fear that the report of psychological difficulties will negatively impact security clearance, the Department of Defense no longer requires people to report if they have sought out mental health care for combat-related reasons. In addition, high-ranking military personnel is sharing their experiences with PTSD and the treatment they received. The Department of Defense is also attempting to convey that the experience of stress as a result of combat-related experiences is normal.

Finally, the Department of Defense launched an anti-stigma campaign called the Real Warriors Campaign. This campaign is designed to promote resilience, recovery, and support for returning service members, veterans, and their families.

Getting Help

If you are a returning service member in need of mental health services, it is important to go to your local VA for help. Services are available. You can also find useful information on getting help at the websites of the National Center for PTSD and Anxiety Disorder Association of America. If you need to find a psychiatrist, visit UCompare Healthcare to locate one in your area.

Sources:

Dingfelder, S. F. (2009). War on stigma. Monitor on Psychology, 40, 53-55.

Erbes, C., Westermeyer, J., Engdahl, B., & Johnsen, E. (2007). Post-traumatic stress disorder and service utilization in a sample of service members from Iraq and Afghanistan. Military Medicine, 172, 359-363.

Hoge, C.W., Castro, C.A., Messer, S.C., McGurk, D., Cotting, D.I., & Koffman, R.L. (2004). Combat duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, mental health problems, and barriers to care. New England Journal of Medicine, 351, 13-22.

Jakupcak, M., Conybeare, D., Phelps, L., Hunt, S., Holmes, H.A., Felker, B., Klevens, M., & McFall, M.E. (2007). Anger, hostility, and aggression among Iraq and Afghanistan War veterans reporting PTSD and subthreshold PTSD. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 20, 945-954.

Jakupcak, M., Luterek, J., Hunt, S., Conbeare, D., & McFall, M. (2008). Posttraumatic stress and its relationship to physical health functioning in a sample of Iraq and Afghanistan War veterans seeking postdeployment VA health care. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 196, 425-428.


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A COLLECTION of 13 gene defects can be used to identify men most at risk from life-threatening prostate cancer, scientists have shown.
The discovery raises the prospect of screening men for the first time to single out those predisposed to developing aggressive and potentially deadly tumours.
Scientists tested blood samples from 191 British men with prostate cancer who had at least three relatives affected by the disease.
Fourteen carried "loss of function" mutations in their DNA that completely stopped a gene working. Having any one of these flaws dramatically boosted the chances of developing invasive, spreading prostate cancer.
In future, men could be tested for the variants in the same way that women are currently screened for breast cancer genes, the researchers believe. This would herald a revolution in prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment.
Professor Ros Eeles, from London's Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, said: "Our study shows the potential benefit of putting prostate cancer on a par with cancers such as breast cancer when it comes to genetic testing. Although ours was a small, first-stage study, we proved that testing for known cancer mutations can pick out men who are destined to have a more aggressive form of prostate cancer.
"We already have the technical capabilities to assess men for multiple mutations at once, so all that remains is for us to do further work to prove that picking up dangerous mutations early can save lives.
Women with a strong family history of breast cancer are routinely tested for BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene defects, both of which greatly increase their chances of developing the disease.
But the picture is much more complicated for prostate cancer, which seems to be linked to a multiplicity of different genetic mutations.
Currently there is no way of screening men who might be at risk from ferocious "tiger" prostate cancers that could cut short their lives.
An effective screening test would make it possible to step in early and treat men with developing dangerous cancers before they progress too far.
Despite big advances in treatment, around 11,000 of the 40,000 men diagnosed with prostate cancer each year in the UK die from the disease.


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Saturday, 7 April 2012
Brits To Pay $3 Billlions To Be Spied Upon On Web, Emails, Texts
UK taxpayers will have to pay billions of dollars to have their web surfing, email exchange, text messaging, and even Skype calls, monitored. In addition to the hefty price-tag, innocent Brits risk being misidentified as terrorists.
The shocking data comes ahead of the plan announcement in the Queen's speech, which is scheduled for May. Meanwhile, the Home Office, Britain's interior ministry, said ministers were preparing to legislate "as soon as parliamentary time allows".
More than $3 billion over the first decade alone is the extraordinary sum the British taxpayer will have to pay to be legally spied upon, reports the Daily Mail. In addition, annual running costs of roughly $320 million – $610 a minute – to store the data gathered from private communication.
Moreover, the above figures are based on 2009 estimates, which means the actual price, if it were estimated now, would be higher still.
British security agencies are pushing for a law, which would allow police to gain access to who you call, what sites you surf and how you play video games.
The government wants details about text messages, phone calls, email, visited websites, Facebook and Twitter exchanges and even online game chats.
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Gov. Bill Haslam's tort reform legislation cleared its first legislative hurdle Wednesday, winning approval from the House Judiciary Subcommittee by voice vote.
The bill caps jury awards and imposes other new restrictions on lawsuits for injuries and deaths caused by negligence or wrongful actions.
It wouldn't limit compensatory damages in lawsuits, including medical expenses and loss of pay or earning capacity. But it would place a $750,000 cap on most so-called noneconomic damages — such as physical and emotional pain and suffering, mental anguish, emotional distress, loss of companionship, humiliation and loss of enjoyment of life.
The administration agreed to amend the bill Wednesday to raise the cap to $1 million for certain catastrophic cases — spinal cord injuries, amputations, severe burns and the death of a parent leaving young children. The amendment also lifts the cap for wrongdoers who are committing felonies or who are drunk.
The bill also would limit punitive damages, which are intended to punish wrongdoers, to twice the amount of compensatory damages or $500,000, whichever is greater.
Republicans pushed the proposal through the subcommittee without much discussion. Lawmakers heard from both sides during hearings over the past two weeks. The bill now goes to the full House Judiciary Committee as early as next week. It has yet to advance in the Senate.
Haslam contends tort reform will create jobs by making the state's business climate more predictable. Businesses backing the bill claim it would add 122,422 jobs and $16 billion in output to the state's economy over the next decade.
The bill is titled the "Tennessee Civil Justice Act of 2011." But Mary Mancini of the trial lawyer-funded group Tennessee Citizen Action said, "It should be called the "Miscarriage of Justice Act of 2011. I don't know how any legislator can look into the eyes of a victim's family member and tell them how much they think their loved ones' lives are worth."
"It's common knowledge that damage awards act as a deterrent and make large corporations think twice about repeating egregious acts that lead to abuse, neglect and death," Mancini added. "This bill takes
away the right of victims to have their day in court and the right of juries to hold accountable any responsible parties."
Moonglow1: ok this will create jobs. Quantify that statement. How exactly will jobs be created. What types of jobs will be created. What salary range will these jobs be paying. About 122, 000 jobs over the next decade? How many jobs next year or the year after? One job? Two jobs? I have an idea. Publish the names of the legislators who voted for this insane bill. Vote them out of office. If they are business owners who would directly benefit from this legislation boycott them. And isn't it something? If you lose a child, your child's death is worth only $1 mil. How can these mean legislators put a cap on something so terrible only to save the corporations money. You know $1 mil for a catastrophic case is pennies on the dollar to a large corporation. Your life is worth nothing to these theo-nut Tea Party people in power who certainly are not fighting for the interests of the middle class. This is what happens when 1 percent of the people own 40 percent of the wealth. Stop them now Recall efforts now.
I now know why Haslam wanted to be governor. He has changed or trying to change every law so that his businesses can reap in the profits. When will TN wake up. The people of TN will be the losers for many years to come.
This good legislation will let compensation go to those with serious injuries - promptly - rather than to the lawyers. Accidents and human error are a fact of life. When catastrophic injuries occur, those responsible will know how much they owe for the unquantifiable "pain and suffering" damages: $750K or $1 million, not a trivial sum. Those responsible can go ahead and pay this, AND further agree to pay for medical expenses, lost income, and other economic losses (which are NOT capped), so that there is less need for a trial and years of litigation, and less need to pay a lawyer a third of the recovery. It allows life to move forward as well as possible for those involved - on both sides. It removes much of the uncertainty, which is a good thing for everyone - except the lawyers.
Moonglow, how much is a "child's death worth"?? $1 million isn't enough, nor is $5 million, nor is $100 million, etc. That's the problem. Money can't replace the child; it doesn't equate. $1 million is a reasonable amount, and lets everyone move forward with life as well as possible.
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Moonglow, how much is a "child's death worth"?? $1 million isn't enough, nor is $5 million, nor is $100 million, etc. That's the problem. Money can't replace the child; it doesn't equate. $1 million is a reasonable amount,}
Well, since you made that determination, is there anything else that should be brought before you relating to the loss of others? I mean, really, do we even need the courts anymore? Why don't we just assign a number to the hard cost, add the million, and just be done with the whole situation. companies can just add that sum to the cost of doing business, relax any standards, rules and regulations and just have at it thanks for showing us what idiots we have now running our once great state.
Moonglow1: I am positive you are following the Transocean news. Remember them. The BP gulf catastrophe where 12 people died. Well Transocean paid their executives bonuses for their excellent "safety" record this year. Apparently the BP oil catastrophe was excluded from their safety statistics. Well now because of adverse publicity about the high dollar bonuses for these executives the money will now go to the families of those who died so tragically. So you tell me? Should companies get away with this behavior.


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Research Question 3: At what time of day are most juvenile multiple offender property offenses committed?
Click here to download SPSS code
The following code creates the variables necessary to answer the research question and creates a table. When using this code, be sure to insert the path and the file name of the data file to be used, as well as the name of the file to be saved. If you need any assistance working with the syntax provided, please contact us. NOTE: If you ran the syntax for Research Question 1 or 2 and saved the data file, you need only run the syntax to produce the output; the variables have already been created.
The assumptions for the following example of code are:
|Defining the Variables
This first section of programming creates new variables to answer the research question. The new variables are needed for identifying the offender composition (single, multiple) of incidents, the age categories (adult, juvenile) of the offenders, and the types of offenses committed.
GET FILE = 'Directory:\Path\Incident-level flat file.sav'.
COMPUTE type_inc = 0.
IF (off_cnt = 1)type_inc = 1.
IF (off_cnt gt 1)type_inc = 2.
VALUE LABELS type_inc
1 'Single Offender'
2 'Multiple Offenders'.
MISSING VALUES type_inc (0).
|This COMPUTE creates a grouping variable called INDEX from the most serious offense in the incident variable. The most serious offense in the incident variable was derived from the victim offense(s) in the "Creating" step when the AGGREGATE command was executed. In the RECODE, INDEX is assigned a numeric value from 1 to 7, corresponding to the FBI Part I Index offenses. In this example, arson is not included as a Part I Index offense. Non-index offenses are set to value '8'. The second RECODE groups the recoded index values into the variable MSOFFGP. The most serious offense group values are person, property, and other. Value labels are also assigned.
COMPUTE index = msioff.
RECODE index (90 = 1)(110 = 2)(120 = 3)
(130 = 4)(140 = 5)(160 thru 167 = 6)(150 = 7)
(else = 8).
VALUE LABELS index 1 'Murder and Nonnegligent Manslaughter'
2 'Forcible Rape' 3 'Robbery' 4 'Aggravated Assault' 5 'Burglary'
6 'Larceny' 7 'Motor Vehicle Theft' 8 'All Other Offenses'.
RECODE index (1 thru 4 = 1)(5 thru 7 =2)(else = 3)into msoffgp.
VALUE LABELS msoffgp 1 'Person Offenses' 2 'Property Offenses'
3 'Other Offenses'.
|These IF statements create a new variable to capture whether the incident was an adult-only incident or one that included at least one juvenile. Whereas an adult incident is composed only of adults, a juvenile incident can include one or more adults but must have at least one juvenile offender aged 10 to 17. Variable and value labels are assigned.
IF (offadult ge 1 and off1017 = 0)juv_off = 0.
IF (off1017 ge 1)juv_off = 1.
VARIABLE LABELS juv_off 'Incident involved a juvenile offender'.
VALUE LABELS juv_off 1 'Juvenile offender(s)' 0 'Adult offender(s)'.
|Producing the Output
The TEMPORARY followed by the SELECT IF chooses records if the offense group is 2 (property crime) and incident hour is greater than zero (military time). The GRAPH command defines the chart layout. A review of the data shows a spike at hour zero (midnight). This might indicate that agencies are using zero to report missing data for time of incident.
SELECT IF (msoffgp = 2 and inc_hr gt 0).
/line(simple)=pct by inc_hr
/title 'Peak Time of Day for Juvenile Multiple Offender'
'Property Offense Incidents'.
|This output produces the following graph:
SAVE OUTFILE ='Directory:\Path\Incident-level flat file.sav'.


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ALBANY, N.Y. — Vito Lopez may have resigned his seat in the
Assembly, but the fallout from his alleged misdeeds continues.
Lawsuits filed Thursday by two of his former female staffers
who accuse the disgraced assembly Democrat and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver of
working together to cover up Lopez's history of unwanted sexual advances — allowing
it to continue. The two women are also suing the Assembly itself in state
"Some people think they're above the law, when actually
at the end of the day, no one is above the law," said Damien Creer of the
"I'm never surprised too much when there's something
going on in this town," said Willie More.
Maybe not surprised, especially when you consider these
allegations first surfaced in August when Silver announced that an assembly
ethics committee had found credible evidence that Lopez had sexually harassed
both women who've now filed the lawsuits. They're seeking unspecified damages but
in the end its taxpayers that will be paying for much of the legal fees along
with any settlements. It left some downright angry.
"It's a waste of time of the citizens that work hard
for this state, live in this state that have to pay money for misconduct. I
don't think it's right," said Emory Faucette.


text: This Week: Kevin gets ready for the Oscars by not even talking about them much until the last segments. In the mean time, he takes a look at some teasers and trailers before reviewing the new films Get Out, Collide, Rock Dog, Bitter Harvest and You're Killing Me Susana. Later in the show, he takes a look at the Big Six categories of the Oscars, giving his personal picks to win. Then he wraps things up with some box office and the Home Cinema Round-Up!


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Did we ever tell you that we are planning to bus all the way down to the southern most tip of Argentina? I have seen some of the most amazing sights just starting out the window. The bus to Bogota changed how we viewed transportation.
Plastered to the window I couldn't stop snapping. As we headed out of Medellin to Bogota, I saw the most stunning landscapes I had seen in quite a while. They literally took my breath away. The clouds were at my fingertips. The mountains were high, full of life, and lush.
Enjoy the simplicity and wonder of the windy roads of the Andes.


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A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released early today finds that 55% of respondents oppose the Afghan war, while 43% support it.30% say they opposed it from the start, while 25% voiced initial support in 2001, but have since changed their opinion.
Seemingly contrary to these results, 59% of the same respondents indicated that they approve of Obama's plan to send an additional 30,000 American troops into Afghanistan.
Additional results indicate that 2/3 of respondents believe neither side is winning the conflict; white respondents are split in their favor of the conflict, while 70% of black respondents oppose the war.


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Eric Schmidt uses a BlackBerry. Why? He likes the keyboard, he says.
They deserve each other.
Written by Jim Dalrymple
Eric Schmidt uses a BlackBerry. Why? He likes the keyboard, he says.
They deserve each other.
Not the same, but when Steve first got back to Apple he used either a PC or a NeXT box. In fairness, he hadn't yet made the Mac his own yet.
Of course he used a PC running NeXT, OpenStep, whatever. Apple bought NeXT for it, and it was the future of Mac OS. Why would he roll back to the stable version of Mac OS when his company (and he) was acquired for what he was already using?
Eric Schmidt has been with Google since 2001.
And somewhere, one of BlackBerry's twelve CEOs is horrified they've just released the keyboardless Z10.
Haha! They did a keyboard one too though so Schmidt should be fine. 😀
I vehemently disagree with this notion: "What's more, he thinks that Apple's iPad mini – the "small tablet" format that Google and Amazon have both made popular through their Nexus and Kindle Fire offerings – is "too small" compared to the large-format iPad."
I think the mini is the best tablet on the market.
i also raised a brow at that — the mini's ratio is quite different from google & amazon's 7″ displays, is it not? not the same format. more, those two have barely sold any units, so if anybody has popularized the sub-10″ format tablet, it's again apple.
Yeah, they are definitely different by at least an inch or close to it.
Well, they meant the Nexus 7/Kindle made it popular (not by Apple sales standards of course; maybe combined but not likely then either, lol) prior to the mini launch. Apple, as is the latest norm, took the popularity to new heights.
This gave me a good chuckle.
Then again: Why use a Blackberry when he could have the R&D department give him one of the original Blackberry clone Android phones?
I would bet that his real reason is that BlackBerry, as a platform, is much more secure. Default Android is just bad for that. Even Samsung is having to do a lot of proprietary programming on top of Android just to try to market to business.
All Google execs probably use a blackberry for work related business. They don't want to be hacked and have all of Google's dirty accounting and reporting secrets exposed do they?
Is the information Schmidt is passing through BBM really secure from the former RIM?
Yes. They don't have access to it. It's encrypted on their network.


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In the new issue of Rolling Stone , Conan O'Brien's college housemate, the Rev. Paul O'Brien (no relation), talks at length with Mark Binelli about his longtime friend. The two lived in the same dorm? — Mather House? — at Harvard, along with future NBC President Jeff Zucker, who orchestrated Conan's exit from The Tonight Show before being fired himself.
Video: Behind the scenes at Conan's RS cover shoot
"We grew very close," Paul said. "We did go often to the same church in college and at home. He stood out for people who met him as unusually quick-witted and very hardworking? — and also quite straightlaced when it comes to how he lived his life. He was the guy who never did drugs. I don't even remember if he drank, but he was a seriously funny guy and a serious guy, as well. The stories he tells of him being a geek, he's lampooning himself to a certain extent, but they're all basically true. In the world [where] we grew up, saying you want to be a comedy writer is not what you did."
Paul added: "I would not have known in college that he was as interested in performing as he was, but he recognized that gift, and he worked really, really hard after college to learn performance skills."
Paul reconnected with Conan when they ran into each other at a Christmas midnight mass, and earlier this year, Paul caught up with Conan during his national tour. "It was obviously very therapeutic that he was able to process what happened to him in front of thousands of people every night," Paul said. "I've never seen him that high-energy. While that was all going down, the situation was a total surprise. The character of some of the people with whom he was dealing was disgusting, and he was taking so seriously, 'What's the right thing to do?'
"So my concern obviously was that he try to figure out the right thing to do here morally and ethically, and also that he make a decision true to himself. There was plenty of room for him to be really damaged by this. When he had this array of choices, at one point I thought, because of his very strange? — to me? — attachment to the franchise of The Tonight Show, I thought he might make a decision to continue the show that would compromise his ideals. And when he decided to say goodbye, I was proud of his integrity and intelligence.
"He's freed from a corporate situation that set him up for failure. The last months have proved to him that he could be as free as he wants to be. I don't think he was watering down his comedy for a particular franchise? — but if there's any possibility of that, it's gone. Is he in a better place as a comic entertainer than he was a year ago, when he was hosting The Tonight Show? Without a doubt."
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The YOFA jhe Sessions do not fit neatly into the categories of "energy healing" or "remote healing." Since my training and experience of decades has charged my hands and my consciousness for what the world likes to call healing, I use those words so that if you are looking for what I am doing, you can find me.
But I prefer to call what I do YOFA jhe Sessions. It just makes more sense.
- These sessions are based on the system I call YOFA® (I teach this in the book Rooted in the Infinite).
- They promote jhe (joyful harmonious expressiveness)
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The wonderful thing about the winter solstice is the supremacy of light over darkness.
I do not mean this spiritually; I mean this literally. Midwinter descends into its nadir in the days prior to the celebration of Yule. It is a universal human desire to feel the sun on our faces; nothing creates a stronger desire for warmth than the chill of winter, which we feel most strongly around the darkest, longest days of the year.
In response to this need, numerous mid-winter celebrations sprang up across the darkest parts of the world, including places as far-flung from the expected Celtic and Norse countries as Japan and Viet Nam.
Like rivers flowing to the sea, many traditions have converged together to celebrate one day of the year, which those in the West typically (but reductively) think of as Christmas. Christmas, however, is only one of many mid-winter celebrations anticipating the resurgence of the sun.
The common thread that connects these traditions is the desire to banish the cold winter nights, hoping for spring to reemerge. To this end, most cultures evolved a worship of light, which meant candles, burning the 'jul,' or yule log, and large bonfires.
Most of these traditions, which, at one time, meant animal and/or human sacrifice, were incorporated and made less bloody by Christianity as it spread its influence. We have therefore inherited an amalgam of beliefs and behaviors, which is why we often have no idea why we do what we do (go to church and notice the pagan yule tree standing next to the altar, for example).
The traditions that most of us celebrate in the Northern climes involve some form of Germanic paganism, for example. We usually sit down to a groaning table of food while burning a yule log in the fireplace (or, we used to; now that fireplaces are increasingly out of fashion, this happens less and less often, sadly).
Yule or Yule-tide ("Yule-time") is a winter festival that was initially celebrated by the historical Germanic people as a pagan religious festival, though it was later absorbed into, and equated with, the Christian festival of Christmas. The festival was originally celebrated from late December to early January on a date determined by the lunar Germanic calendar. The festival was placed on December 25 when the Christian calendar (Julian calendar) was adopted.
Terms with an etymological equivalent to "Yule" are still used in the Nordic Countries for the Christian Christmas, but also for other religious holidays of the season. In modern times this has gradually led to a more secular tradition under the same name as Christmas. Yule is also used to a lesser extent in English-speaking countries to refer to Christmas. Customs such as the Yule log, Yule goat, Yule boar, Yule singing, and others stem from Yule. In modern times, Yule is observed as a cultural festival and also with religious rites by some Christians and by some Neopagans.
Although nowadays many people like to reach back to the Greeks and Romans for the inception of what have become celebrations at Christmas-time, in fact, those of us in the West celebrate more like Pagan Germanic tribes than the Greeks or the Romans. Roman Saturnalia, held in the weeks prior to December 23rd, deriving from Greek Kronia, the festival of Kronos, which became Roman Saturnus, or Saturn (Satan, once Christians got their hands on him) holds less sway over our imaginations now than the yule log or the 'Christmas' tree, brought in from the cold forest and bedecked with candles.
I don't think you want to engage in this practice on Christmas day, for example:
In the Aegean civilizations, the exclusively female midwinter ritual, Lenaea or Lenaia, was the Festival of the Wild Women. In the forest, a man or bull representing the god Dionysus was torn to pieces and eaten by Maenads. Later in the ritual a baby, representing Dionysus reborn, was presented. Lenaion, the first month of the Delian calendar, derived its name from the festival's name. By classical times, the human sacrifice had been replaced by that of a goat, and the women's role had changed to that of funeral mourners and observers of the birth.
Wine miracles were performed by the priests, in which priests would seal water or juice in a room overnight and the next day they would have turned into wine. The miracle was said to have been performed by Dionysus and the Lenaians. By the 5th century BC the ritual had become a Gamelion festival for theatrical competitions, often held in Athens in the Lenaion theater. The festival influenced the ancient Roman Brumalia.
And I doubt this has much influence in your household:
Originally celebrated by the ancient Greeks as Kronia, the festival of Cronus, Saturnalia was the feast at which the Romans commemorated the dedication of the temple of Saturn, which originally took place on 17 December, but expanded to a whole week, up to 23 December. A large and important public festival in Rome, it involved the conventional sacrifices, a couch set in front of the temple of Saturn and the untying of the ropes that bound the statue of Saturn during the rest of the year. Besides the public rites there were a series of holidays and customs celebrated privately.
The celebrations included a school holiday, the making and giving of small presents (saturnalia et sigillaricia) and a special market (sigillaria). Gambling was allowed for all, even slaves during this period. The toga was not worn, but rather the synthesis, i.e., colorful, informal "dinner clothes" and the pileus (freedman's hat) was worn by everyone. Slaves were exempt from punishment, and treated their masters with disrespect.
The slaves celebrated a banquet before, with, or served by the masters. Saturnalia became one of the most popular Roman festivals which led to more tomfoolery, marked chiefly by having masters and slaves ostensibly switch places, temporarily reversing the social order. In Greek and Cypriot folklore it was believed that children born during the festival were in danger of turning into Kallikantzaroi which come out of the Earth after the solstice to cause trouble for mortals. Some would leave colanders on their doorsteps to distract them until the sun returned.
This seems like a nice ritual, although, as with most traditions at mid-winter, there is a dark overtone, a fear of ghosts and spirits who must be banished along with the night:
Early Germans (c.500–1000) considered the Norse goddess, Hertha or Bertha to be the goddess of light, domesticity and the home. They baked yeast cakes shaped like shoes, which were called Hertha's slippers, and filled with gifts. "During the Winter Solstice houses were decked with fir and evergreens to welcome her coming. When the family and serfs were gathered to dine, a great altar of flat stones was erected and here a fire of fir boughs was laid.
Hertha descended through the smoke, guiding those who were wise in saga lore to foretell the fortunes of those persons at the feast." There are also darker versions of Perchta which terrorize children along with Krampus. Many cities had practices of dramatizing the gods as characters roaming the streets. These traditions have continued in the rural regions of the Alps, and various similar traditions, such as Wren day, survived in the Celtic nations until recently. This is commonly used in Holland.
Wren Day looks like this, by the way:
For an unknown period, Lá an Dreoilín or Wren day has been celebrated in Ireland, the Isle of Man and Wales on December 26. Crowds of people, called wrenboys, take to the roads in various parts of Ireland, dressed in motley clothing, wearing masks or straw suits and accompanied by musicians supposedly in remembrance of the festival that was celebrated by the Druids. Previously the practice involved the killing of a wren, and singing songs while carrying the bird from house to house, stopping in for food and merriment.
Speaking of animals at mid-winter, one of the more interesting conflations of Santa Claus with animals involves the Swedish tradition of Jultomte (Father Christmas) being borne by a goat.
Its origins might go as far back as pre-Christian days, when the Norse god Thor rode the sky in a chariot drawn by two goats. During the 19th century the goats' role shifted towards becoming the giver of Christmas gifts, in Finland as well as the rest of Scandinavia, with one of the men in the family dressing up as the Yule Goat. The goat was replaced by jultomte or julenisse (Father Christmas/Santa Claus) at the end of the century. Nowadays, all that remains of this tradition is the construction of the Yule Goat, made of straw.
The Yule goat, seen in the larger picture below in its city of creation, Gävle, Sweden, is usually burned down long before Christmas. This year, however, the citizens of Gävle are coming together to prevent the destruction of their Christmas symbol.
Related Articles
- "The Pagan Roots Of Christmas" and related posts (belowthebeltway.com)
- Yule Celebrations: Light the Fire! (wildmoonevents.wordpress.com)
- Make your own Yule Log (wildmoonevents.wordpress.com)
- Yule is coming! (cauldronandbroom.wordpress.com)
- How the "War on Christmas" Made Me a Pagan (thenortherngrove.wordpress.com)
- Welcome, winter holiday season 2013! (coolyule.wordpress.com)


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- 08-03-2009, 03:18 AM #1Member
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You have several options, depending on what the destination server will allow you to do. If you want to transfer them to an image server, that server probably has standard methods for that sort of thing. I doubt the administrator of the other system will allow you to put a program on their server, or that the network administrator will allow you to pass through any firewalls, so start with the various administrators.
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Thanks for the reply. I am using Jcifs and UNC authentication to write over to the filenet.
can you pls post me some sample code for tht.
thanks in adv
I figured you'd say something like that. I just googled JCIFS and UNC authentication, as I had no idea at all what they were. So you are using Windows network shares. In my lowly opinion, I would avoid writing code to do something that the OS can do. Depending on the client, you may be able to map a drive letter or what not to the server. Then you can just use File. If you have to code, look at the JCIFS documentation and API, and google for tutorials. I assume JCIFS will provide UNC authentication support.
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Empty Wheel, Pachacutec and Christy of Firedoglake have been doing a great job of live-blogging this morning's jury selection in the Scooter Libby trial.
The magic number of needed jurors is 36, so that the Government can have 8 peremptory challenges and the defense 12. This will leave 16 jurors, 12 regulars and 4 alternates.
The jury pool has been directed to return at 3:00 pm. At that time, each side will exercise their peremptory challenges. Since no reasons for the strikes need be given, it will take each side just a few moments to regroup after hearing the other side's challenge and the whole process should take well under an hour. Then we will have a jury. Opening arguments begin tomorrow. My thoughts on openings in the case are here.
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Roundabout Theatre Company's new production of Donald Margulies' Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Dinner With Friends, opened off-Broadway last night at the Laura Pels Theatre. The play, featuring Jeremy Shamos, Marin Hinkle, Heather Burns, and Darren Pettie, explores what happens when the friendship of two couples begins to veer in opposing directions following the announcement of an imminent divorce. Pam MacKinnon directs.
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As Lost fever grips the nation, there's a sinking feeling among fans that it's almost over. Ditto goes for the ensemble cast, a relative group of unknowns who have become some of the business' biggest stars. Actress Yunjim Kim, who plays Sun on the ABC hit, feels it too.
In person, Kim isn't really at all like Sun, who we've seen in two flavors: as a sheltered wife of a dominating Asian man and a down-to-business, driven woman who will stop at nothing to achieve her goal. In real life, Kim falls somewhere in between: confident yet graciously accommodating. Over a fancy juice concoction (her) and a beer (me), we chatted about Sun's origins and what little Kim can say about Season 6.
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Yunjin Kim: Right now, we're just trying to finish the day. I'm very involved in this particular episode we're working on right now [editor's note: they were filming episode 13]. All of us, the crew the cast, we come to work and try to do the best we can under the circumstances we have, go home, get some rest, and do it all over again the next day.
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It'll probably start around two weeks to [the end of shooting]. We're all going to have separate end dates for actors, we'll probably have a big party afterward, but on that day, when it's "Martini Time" for Yunjin forever, I'll be bawling. It better be an emotional scene, because I'm going to keep on crying.
Sun arguably had the greatest transformation of all the characters. Which have you enjoyed playing more, the demure Sun or the proactive Sun?
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What was the audition process like? Did they ask you to read as Sun from Season 1 or as the Sun we know now?
Actually when I went in to read for them, Sun wasn't even in the pilot. After the meeting—I was very flattered—they created Sun. They already had 12 characters, but they decided to add another character. J.J. [Abrams] thought, "Wouldn't it be interesting to have a character who didn't speak English, but that was a lie. But who is she going to talk to?" So they created Jin, and that's how that character came about. It was the biggest compliment.
There's so little the cast of Lost is allowed to say about Season 6, but I'll ask anyway. What's in store for Sun?
You are going to see a different side to Sun, and how she relates to... how do I say it? She's... hmmm... she still has the same intentions, she's there to find Jin on the island. But then there's a different storyline. We had flash-forwards and flashbacks, now we have flash-something else, and in this storyline, I have a very different relationship with Jin.
Who is Sun's biggest antagonist now? Is it still Benjamin Linus?
I think we're okay now. [laughs] I think there is a bigger element... a bigger HUGE element that we will find out about.
When did you learn Sun would be more than just the subservient Korean wife?
I was very concerned about the type of character I was going to play. I signed on knowing they were going to create [a certain] character, but when I finally got the pilot script, I said, "Wait a minute, she's such a stereotypical character and that's not how it was described to me." So I got on the phone with J.J. right away. I was very concerned, especially having a career back in Korea and coming to America, I wasn't going to represent an Asian woman in a wrong light. That's not going to happen in my life. J.J. said, "I know, I know. Don't worry about it, we're doing it on purpose. We're pulling you back so far so you can go forward. Trust me, you're going to be a very different woman by the end." And he kept his promise. All the characters are that way, they're stereotypical in some way—the good doctor, the drug addict, the criminal—but they will become a three-dimensional character that hopefully everyone will fall in love with. But I trusted J.J., and I'm glad I did.
One of the things I love about Lost is the diversity of the cast.
It means everything to me. I know when I was growing up in New York, whenever I turned on the television, I never saw a face that looked like me. Whenever there was an Asian person on television, it would be a huge event, me calling to my older sister "There's an Asian person on television!" It was unheard of back then. Now, after Lost, it just happened with all these other shows—Grey's Anatomy, FlashForward, Heroes. It's not unusual to see an Asian American on television anymore. That was never the case before Lost. I'm not saying Lost made it happen, but timing-wise, it was Lost in 2004, then Grey's Anatomy in 2005. We're looking at a different blend of what America wants to see and accepting what America is all about. Diversity.
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Let be a primal linear programming problem with the objective function and polyhedron as its feasible region. A corner point, or extreme point of is a vertex of .
Corner Point Theorem. If has an optimal solution , then there is a corner point of such that . If another corner point also satisfies , then . If is a third corner point such that , then .
Note that the line segment and triangle mentioned above are necessarily subsets of .
A cousin of the above theorem is the following:
Theorem. If has an optimal solution occurring at an interior point of an edge (or a face ) on the boundary of the feasible region , then (or ). In fact, if the solution occurs at an interior point of , then the solution is satisfied by all points of : . In other words, the objective function is constant on .
On way to visualize the above theorems is to simplify them into the case when the objective function is a line on the " plane" and the feasible region is a line segment on the -axis. It is easy to see now that the maximum (or minimum) of occurs at either or . If the optimal value occurs either at both end points, or at an interior point , then is a horizontal line segment on .
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