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We are embarking once again into that time of the year when reporters around the world become entranced and enthralled with that orgy of consumerism that defines Christmas in America. Soon we will be tracking the ups and downs of holiday sales with a zeal that is unmatched by any other regular economic event. Weary reporters – those who clearly disappointed their editors at some point during the year – will be dispatched to local big box stores across the nation to record the lines forming in anticipation of 5am openings on the fabled Black Friday. We will be bombarded with hundreds if not thousands of conflicting reports regarding the amount and patterns of holiday shopping, leaving overworked and underpaid analysts awash in data as they desperately try to quantify, once and for all, the "true" state of consumer spending – and thus by extension, the true state of the economy – in America.
Oooo, how I have come to loathe this exercise. And yet, here I am again, fretting over the financial state of US households in between checking off items on the Thanksgiving shopping list. It is like a car wreck – you don't want to watch, but you can't take your eyes off it.
Car wreck is something of an appropriate comparison. Recently I have begun using charts of this sort to depict the current economic environment:
Not fancy econometrics, I know – most of my audiences are not interested in unit root tests. The point, obviously, is that even as activity creeps upward, the gap between the past and current trajectory of consumer spending is likely still widening. Much, much faster growth is necessary to close that gap. And households as of yet are seeing nothing to convince them their fortunes are set to change, that some Christmas miracle awaits. To be sure, Bloomberg trumpeted today's data:
Confidence among U.S. consumers unexpectedly rose in November as a brightening outlook masked growing concern over joblessness.
How much did the outlook brighten? The story continues:
The Conference Board's confidence index increased to 49.5 from 48.7 the prior month. The New York-based Conference Board's index, which focuses on the labor market and purchase plans, averaged 58 in 2008 and 103.4 in 2007.
Not much brighter. Indeed, Economix more accurately reports the dismal mood of consumers, noting:
Over the last 30 years, the index has averaged about 95. In November, it was 49.5, up from 48.7 the previous month.
Yes, for three decades the Conference Board measure of confidence has averaged nearly twice current levels. This tells us something about the strength of consumer spending. Using the parallel measure from the University of Michigan:
Real year over year growth in the 1% range is not going to bring households back to trend anytime soon. To be sure, given the dependence of household on debt financed spending, it is arguably correct that past trends were unsustainable, that the only possible outcome from this mess was a permanent shock to the level of household spending. That, however, is likely cold comfort to the millions of Americans – those not employed by Goldman Sachs (GS), of course – who are just now realizing that their standard of living has shifted permanently lower. Lacking sufficient income gains and the ability to use debt to cover up their relative poverty, households are not seeing a path to a brighter future. And they will increasingly look for someone to blame. No wonder the knives are sharpening for Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. They are the public faces for an Administration that now owns this economy.
And where are policymakers as we slog through the final month of 2009? The Administration is poised to do virtually nothing:
The White House is lukewarm about proposals by congressional Democrats to introduce broad legislation to create jobs, instead favoring targeted measures that would be less likely to inflate the deficit, administration officials said.
There is as yet no agreement within the White House or in Congress on how to try to curb the U.S. jobless rate. But the differences in opinion suggest that rifts could emerge among Democrats as they wrestle with how to beat back the highest unemployment rate in a generation.
…Hamstrung by the nation's $1.4 trillion deficit and his pledge not to raise taxes on middle-class Americans, Mr. Obama is keen to avoid any measures suggestive of a second, big-ticket stimulus.
Indeed, the failure of the Administration to take bold moves early in the year now cripples it in any attempt to take bold action now. Apparently, the best we can expect now is a "Cash for Caulkers" program that will dribble money into the economy, ensuring that we do little if any better than limp along.
Likewise, monetary policymakers too are caught in the headlights. As has already been widely noted, the minutes of the most recent FOMC meeting reiterated the Fed's eagerness to reverse, not extend, policy:
…Overall, many participants viewed the risks to their inflation outlooks over the next few quarters as being roughly balanced. Some saw the risks as tilted to the downside in the near term, reflecting the quite elevated level of economic slack and the possibility that inflation expectations could begin to decline in response to the low level of actual inflation. But others felt that risks were tilted to the upside over a longer horizon, because of the possibility that inflation expectations could rise as a result of the public's concerns about extraordinary monetary policy stimulus and large federal budget deficits. Moreover, these participants noted that banks might seek to reduce appreciably their excess reserves as the economy improves by purchasing securities or by easing credit standards and expanding their lending substantially. Such a development, if not offset by Federal Reserve actions, could give additional impetus to spending and, potentially, to actual and expected inflation. To keep inflation expectations anchored, all participants agreed that it was important for policy to be responsive to changes in the economic outlook and for the Federal Reserve to continue to clearly communicate its ability and intent to begin withdrawing monetary policy accommodation at the appropriate time and pace.
Read that carefully and realize this: An apparently not insignificant portion of the FOMC believes that there is a terrible risk that banks loosen their credit standards and increase lending at a time when, even if the economy posts expected gain, unemployment remains at unacceptably high levels. Silly me, I thought increased lending was the whole point of the exercise to lower interest and expand the balance sheet. That whole credit channel thing. If not to expand lending during a credit crunch, then what else are they expecting?
I am in shock that this sentence made it into the minutes. One can only conclude that a significant portion of policymakers are simply clueless. Or, more disconcerting, they have lost all faith in the ability of financial institutions to channel capital into activities with any hope of financial returns. Has the Fed now embraced the view that they manage the economy through little else then fueling and extinguishing bubbles?
At this juncture, only St. Louis Fed President James Bullard is signaling a willingness to at least keep the option of ongoing balance sheet expansion alive:
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard wants the Fed to continue to buy mortgage-backed securities beyond the March 2010 cutoff to give policy makers more flexibility as they seek to shepherd the economy toward recovery.
"I have advocated to keep the asset-purchase program open but at a very low level, and wait and see what happens, and as information comes in about the economy we can adjust that program while the federal-funds rate remains at zero," Mr. Bullard told Dow Jones Newswires in an interview Sunday. He said "no decision has been made" about the program's fate.
Mr. Bullard will be a voting member on the interest-rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee in 2010. In its statement after the November FOMC meeting, the central bank reiterated that it will continue to monitor its asset-purchase programs "in light of the evolving economic outlook and conditions in financial markets."
Maybe if unemployment continues to rise Bullard's vote will matter next year. Maybe.
Considering what all this means in light of Black Friday, I tend to think Phil Izzo at the Wall Street Journal is on the right path:
New reports Monday didn't paint an encouraging picture. The Conference Board released a survey of spending intentions that showed U.S. households expect to spend an average of $390 this season, down 7% from estimates of $418 last year. That number is especially distressing because consumers were unusually pessimistic last year as the financial crisis went into full swing just as holiday shopping was getting underway.
"Job losses and uncertainty about the future are making for a very frugal shopper. Retailers will need to be quite creative to entice consumers to spend, both in stores and online this holiday season," said Lynn Franco, director of the Conference Board Consumer Research Center.
A separate report from retail-tracking firm NPD Group indicated consumers may not be flocking to the mall for Black Friday. Just 32% of respondents said that they expect to begin their holiday shopping on Thanksgiving weekend or earlier.
Still, more broadly, whether sales gain 2% or 4% this holiday season may have great influence on the animal spirits that govern equity markets, I doubt it would alter much what should be our overall assessment of the economy: Economic activity is now increasing, something for which we should all be thankful this weekend. The alternative would be very unpleasant. But that growth should not lull us into policy complacency with regards to the very real economic stress felt across the nation. By all forecasts, it simply falls far short of what is necessary to restore confidence among households. 2.8% just won't cut it.
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In 1898, a man bought a book for his 16-year-old nephew. "Many happy retoins [sic]. Uncle Spud," he wrote on a blank page at the front.
The book: H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds, then just out in America from Harper & Brothers. The ripping tale of a Martian attack that set the mold for them all, it's almost more striking to a reader today for its turn-of-the-century detail: carriage-horse accidents, urgent telegrams, news only via newspapers. Toward the end of the novel, the narrator gets ahold of a first post-attack copy of the Daily Mail: "I learned nothing fresh except that already in one week the examination of the Martian mechanisms had yielded astonishing results. Among other things, the article assured me what I did not believe at the time, that the 'Secret of Flying' was discovered."
This was, of course, science fiction. But it was also prophetic. Uncle Spud's teenage nephew — who stamped his name on the first page of the novel and read it religiously once a year — would himself go on to discover many secrets of flying. That nephew was Robert Hutchings Goddard, inventor of the liquid-fuel rocket.
Goddard died in 1945. In the mid-1950s, a journalist named Milton Lehman began work on the rocket pioneer's biography, This High Man, published in 1963 by Farrar, Straus. A few months before publication, Lehman received a gift from Esther Goddard, Robert's widow. It was her husband's beloved copy of The War of the Worlds. "For Milton Lehman, with gratitude," she wrote, underneath the inscription from Uncle Spud.
Lehman noted the passage about the discovery of the Secret of Flying. "RHG?" he penciled eagerly in the margin. And, on the same frontispiece page where Spud and Esther had left their marks, he noted: "see p. 287 291!" In his own book, he mentions that at 50, Goddard wrote to the elderly Wells, thanking him for his inspiration. Wells wrote back: "Thank you for your fine letter. It's the sort of greeting one appreciates from people like you."
Lehman died in 1966, and the book passed to his own widow, also a writer and an editor. She lived till the age of 93. In March of this year, she died, and The War of the Worlds was packed into boxes with her other books. Weeks later, as her grandchildren sat on the floor sorting through them, they found it. They read the words from Uncle Spud and Robert and Esther and Milton, and realized what it was. Or, I should say, we realized what it was. I am one of those grandchildren, and the book sits on the table in front of me.
What happens to our books when we die? Many books disappear before we do, of course; they fall apart, or we put them out on the stoop for scavengers. A book like this one, however — a text that is still read and reprinted, that has played a notable role in the 20th-century imagination, and then a copy of the text that played an especially interesting role — is likely to be passed down carefully as long as we can preserve and recognize it. Like the Bibles some families use to record their histories, it traces a chain of readers through time.
The Harvard English professor Leah Price, in her recent book How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain, mentions that often the very condition of a book changing hands is death: "One measure of the value that readers attach to books (as opposed to, say, newspapers) is that they enter circulation only against the owners' will." This is particularly true of "association copies," the collector's term for books signed by the author to a significant person, or books owned and perhaps annotated by someone of note, which can become a kind of talisman: "Borrowing the logic of the saint's relic, association copies invest the object with value borrowed from the identities of its human users. And like the saint, the previous owner must be dead."
Whenever serious readers die, their heirs face the task of dispersing their books. But few of us like to think about what will happen to our own libraries. Will our children value our books (and will they have shelf space for them)? Will they be bought by a serious research library, or draw bids at Christie's? Not unless we are famous, or they are first editions. Perhaps they will re-enter circulation at a used bookstore, sold for pennies and resold for a few dollars: it's pleasant to imagine them released back into the sea of books, to be caught afresh by a new reader. Of course, this may be something of a fantasy; even New York's Strand, with its "18 miles of books," turns down many offerings these days. (They did accept the huge annotated collection of novelist David Markson after his death in 2010, however, and the treasure hunt for his books sparked a fascinating discussion among his fans.)
As Price's book suggests, the question of what to do with books that outlive their owners has only been a common problem since the mid-19th century, when the steam-powered press and the advent of cheap paper caused a vast expansion of the book market. Before that, few families would have had the problem of a surfeit of books. Now, though, we may be reaching the end of the 150-year-old print boom, and with it a transformation in the way we have shared books, reader after reader and life after life.
In the age of the e-book, the paper book faces two possible and antithetical fates. It may become something to be discarded, as with the books that libraries scan and cannibalize. (In the introduction to another book, Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books, Price mentions the severed book spines that hang on the wall at Google, "like taxidermists' trophies.") Alternatively, it may become a special object to be preserved and traded. My grandfather's copy of War of the Worlds obviously falls into the second category — but very few of the millions of books published since the mid-19th century are ones you'd want to own. If Amazon has a "long tail" of obscure but occasionally purchased titles, the tail that goes back 150 years is near endless and thin as thread.
Meanwhile, the kind of "serial" book sharing (as Price describes it) that occurs over time is giving way to simultaneous, "synchronous" sharing. With the Kindle, you can see what thousands of other Kindle readers are highlighting in the book you're reading — a fairly astonishing innovation. But the passage of books from hand to hand, gathering inscriptions along the way, is not part of the e-book economy. Will your grandchild inherit your Kindle books? No one knows, but given password protection and the speed at which data becomes obsolete, that seems highly unlikely.
Still, as far as posterity goes, the e-book system has some genuine superiorities over the old economy. Annotations exist in the cloud, so if your house burns down they are preserved. Your marginalia is accessible to more than just someone who holds the volume itself — biographers of the future will surely appreciate not having to count on a generous widow bequeathing them their subject's reading copy. With e-books, there's no need to fight over a single physical library copy; no trees need be cut down; unsold books need not be pulped; you don't need to lug books from apartment to apartment; pages will never be dotted with mildew.
But what do we lose as we bid farewell to what may turn out to have been a brief period in which common people owned physical books? I think of my own already excessive book collection, with its books that I have loved and worked on (as an editor and translator) and received as presents. Though I hope someone in the generation after mine will love living with them too, it doesn't really matter to me: I won't be there to see it.
But when I think of sorting through the boxes of my grandmother's books — even the ones we couldn't keep, or didn't want — and what we found there, I am grateful not to have been handed her Amazon password instead. Among all the gifts of the electronic age, one of the most paradoxical might be to illuminate something we are beginning to trade away: the particular history, visible and invisible, that can be passed down through the vessel of an old book, inscribed by the hands and the minds of readers who are gone.
Amanda Katz is a commentator for NPR Books and the deputy editor of the Boston Globe Ideas section. You can follow her on Twitter @katzish.
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The term "ultra-sensitive skin" might carry some odd connotations, as though scientists were trying to replicate the feeling of a patch of sunburned skin. However, when materials scientists hear that term, it's an ultimate goal, a chance to improve the industrial world, and the lives of a great many disabled people, as well. Scientists have been making enormous breakthroughs in the control and mechanical abilities of prosthetic limbs, creating hands that can grasp and brain-machine interfaces that can receive and interpret ever-more nuanced input. However, once the beautifully articulated hand reaches out and perfectly grasps a glass of liquid in response to a thought from its owner, how hard should that owner grip down? Is the tea within iced, or scalding? The ability to give information to artificial limbs has far outstripped the ability of those limbs to give information to the user.
Researchers from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have found that by incorporating gold nanoparticles into a substrate made of polyethylene terephthalate (PET), the plastic used in bottles of soft drinks, they were able to make an ultra-sensitive film that could help put an end to that disparity. The gold-polyester nanomaterial changes conductivity as it is bent, providing an extremely sensitive measure of physical force. The films were shown to sense pressures between tens of milligrams and tens of grams -- that's ten times more sensitive than the most sensitive current sensors for artificial skin. And even better, the film maintained its sensory resolution after many "bending cycles." Unlike many useful materials that can only really be used under laboratory conditions, this film can operate at very low voltages, meaning that it could be manufactured cheaply and actually be useful in real-world situations.
In technical terms, the sensors are monolayer-capped gold nanoparticles (MCNPs) which use radial organic ligands for protection and physical anchoring. In non-technical terms, as laid out by lead researcher Hossam Haick, they are "flowers, where the center of the flower is the gold or metal nanoparticle and the petals are the monolayer of organic ligands that generally protect it." Either way, it's a major breakthrough. (Read: Will we ever have Iron-Man exoskeletons?)Though only in an addendum to the main touch-focused body of the paper, the researchers do mention that by relying on the "superior characteristics" of these MCNPs they were able to make a prototype that could also sense temperature and humidity. The temperature resolution was also impressive, down to 1 degree Celsius with an error of just 5% -- could the average human boast such fidelity? They achieved similar numbers for humidity, with an accuracy of 1% relative humidity and 9% error. Science fiction has long foretold artificial senses that outstrip natural ones, and this has very real potential in that direction.
Assuming that the wearer won't be constantly glancing up at a touch, temperature, and humidity readout on their Google Glasses, the major stumbling block will be interpretation of the signals by the brain. But with enough practice and calibration, and enough work to reverse-engineer the brain's signaling, artificial skin could give amputees better temperature-sensitivity than they had before. At that point, these technologies could be attractive even to those without disabilities, making them augmentations rather than prosthetics. That's the level of fidelity we're facing, these days. (See: A bionic prosthetic eye that speaks the language of your brain.)
Of course, this technology has applications outside of prosthetics, like highly sensitive and inexpensive stress detection for bridges, but artificial or augmented senses are certainly the most interesting. It does raise a question, however: Why go through all the effort of perfectly emulating natural human senses? When it's all just digital information translated for the benefit of the brain, why not pursue sensing technologies that exceed the human capability -- like temperature-sensing at range. Imagine feeling the heat of an object from across the room.
These sensing technologies are amazing, but might they just be a stop-gap that tides us over until we're ready to progress beyond?
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Shots were fired at an Atlanta middle school, this afternoon, several news outlets are reporting. The Associated Press quotes an Atlanta fire official saying that a 14-year-old had been shot at Price Middle School.
WSBTV reports that one teacher was injured and the condition of the teen is not known.
Quoting its local affiliate, Fox News reports that two people are in custody.
The Atlanta Journal Constitution says:
"Channel 2's Tom Jones said students have been taken into an auditorium and are not being released at this time.
"An AJC reporter at the scene said the area has been cordoned off by police and concerned parents are waiting outside.
"Police helicopters are overhead."
As is the case with all these incidents, there is a lot of confusion, so expect the reporting to change. We'll keep watching developments and bring them to you on this page, so make sure to refresh.
Update at 5:53 p.m. ET. Children, Parents Reunited:
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that students and parets have been reunited after the incident.
Update at 4:02 p.m. ET. Suspect In Custody:
The AP reports:
"Police: Atlanta school shooting suspect in custody, wounded student 'alert, conscious.'"
Update at 3:59 p.m. ET. Live Coverage:
Via Reuters' ProducerMatthew, here's live coverage from WXIA.
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A review of the LPIC process.
As the Linux community has grown from the world of the hobbyist to include professional administrators, the infrastructure of the community and marketplace has evolved to support this rapid growth. We now have numerous Linux periodicals, reference books, web sites and significant corporate involvement. In recent months, the idea of a certification process to quantify the skills of system administrators has also become quite popular in the Linux community. Numerous information technology companies such as Sun, Cisco, Novell and Microsoft have had popular certification programs for their own particular product lines for some time.
Several current certification programs try to gauge the skill level of Linux system administrators via testing. The more well-known programs include Red Hat's RHCE, Sair's GNU/Linux Certification and Linux Professional Institute's LPIC.
Recently I took the first-level Linux Professional Institute Certification exam (101). The following is a brief overview of the program and also a review of my experience with the exam and preparation materials.
My background is varied, but I have been working with UNIX systems in some limited form for about seven years, first doing data conversions and later working with database applications. I have been using Linux for about three and a half years. Primarily a Red Hat and Mandrake user, I have lately begun to fiddle with the Debian distribution in my spare time. Once an ardent user of RPM (Red Hat's package manager), I now see the beauty of Debian's apt-get commands. For more important programs, I tend to compile from source rather than using packages. But I don't compile and install every single released kernel; in fact, before the stable 2.4 kernel arrived, I hadn't compiled a kernel in months. For me, Linux is about the freedom and flexibility I find in using and developing Linux applications daily, not loading the latest development kernel to look for bugs (though many people do this, and Linux is better for their efforts).
In my current job, I do a mix of programming (Perl for CGI, DBI and shell scripting), system administration and implementation. As the webmaster of the northern Virginia Linux Users' Group and Tux.Org, I get to dig into topics such as Apache web server configuration and DNS. At home, I once had a Linux box with 380 days of uptime and currently use Linux for all of my day-to-day work. This includes reading e-mail, writing code, compiling programs—pretty much everything. I have a small network there with a gateway machine and six machines behind it. In summary, I am comfortable with most basic administration topics.
My motivation in taking the certification test was two-fold. I hoped to quantify my Linux knowledge, which was gained with little formal training. Plus, the certification would surely make a nice addition to my résumé.
I chose the Linux Professional Institute Certification program over the other options because of its apparent vendor and distribution neutrality. The Linux Professional Institute has support and input from a wide array of sources. These include Caldera, IBM, Linuxcare, Silicon Graphics, SuSE, Hewlett-Packard and VA Linux Systems, among others. The LPI advisory council of over fifty members reads like a roll call of the well-known members of the community.
The LPI certification process consists of three levels, each requiring successful completion of two tests. Each level has a numeric designation for its tests, 101, 102, 201, 202 and so on.
LPI outlines a body of knowledge with specific skills at each certification level. For example, according to the LPI web site, to be successful with a Level 1 exam, you should be able to complete the following tasks: work from the UNIX command line; perform easy maintenance tasks such as helping users, adding users to a larger system, backing up, restoring, shutting down and rebooting; install and configure a work station (including X) and connect it to the LAN or a standalone PC via modem to the Internet.
As such, the Level 1 detailed objectives list addresses the technology behind these tasks and the mechanics of performing them. For example, part of the detailed objective for setting up the X Window System reads:
Obj 1: Install and Configure XFree86—Verify that the video card and monitor are supported by an X server, install the correct X server, configure the X server, install an X font server, install required fonts for X (may require a manual edit of /etc/X11/XF86Config in the Files section), customize and tune X for video card and monitor.
Commands: XF86Setup, xf86config.
Files: /etc/X11/XF86Config, .xresources.
The full set of detailed objectives appears quite comprehensive and representative of the Linux tasks a system administrator might face on the job. The structure of the material on the LPIC web site was logical and straightforward. It provided a good system for easily reviewing a small chunk of related materials, rather than requiring great effort to pick out the relevant material.
At the time I began this process, there were two LPIC preparation books available. I purchased both, mostly to get a feel for the format of the tests and to use as a concise list of topics to be reviewed. These books were General Linux 1 Exam Prep, published by the Coriolis Group and LPIC Prep Kit 101, published by Que.
The Coriolis book ($49.99 US) had good content for reviewing administration topics, and I even learned some neat things by reading it. The book provides a review of the topics in both the 101 and 102 exams, so I only had to read half of it for this first exam. Each chapter reviews its topics thoroughly and provides a practice test at the end. However, the practice tests are full of errors, typographical and otherwise. For example, in a question that has possible answers of A, B, C or D, the answer key states that the answer is 10. I got the feeling this book was really rushed to market. The accompanying CD-ROM of practice tests has a clunky and amateurish feel. I checked the Coriolis web site for an errata page for this book but did not find one.
The Que book ($39.99 US) has clear, concise content, but the CD-ROM of practice tests is a technical abomination. For example, while taking a practice test, if you need to review or change a previous answer and then move forward to continue the test, the program falls into a nasty little loop. The same question is presented to you repeatedly, while the test program still expects the answers to the questions that should be there. The only solution is to kill the test program and start over. It was frustrating, to say the least.
Working around these technical hurdles, I did the practice tests twice, a few weeks apart, and noted my errors. I restudied the areas where my knowledge was weakest, read applicable man pages and tried out unfamiliar commands and tools.
Besides studying for the exam itself, I had to make an appointment at a local testing center and pay the required fee. Each of the six LPIC exams costs $100 US. The LPIC exams are administered through VUE (Virtual University Enterprises), which also administers numerous other certifications exams.
To register, I used the VUE web site to set up a VUE login and password. The web site has a nice interface for choosing a nearby testing center and making an appointment for the exam. I paid the $100 fee by credit card and received an exam appointment confirmation and payment receipt a few hours later via e-mail—all very simple and straightforward.
Having registered and paid the fee, I arrived on the assigned date to take my exam. I was given 90 minutes to complete a computer-based selection of 60 questions. The format of the questions included a mix of multiple-choice, "choose all answers that apply" and short answer fill-in-the-blank.
The 60 questions, apparently chosen at random, did not allow me to be tested evenly (or at all in some areas) on the many facets of administering a Linux system. I do not remember seeing a single question on how to back up a system. A certain number of questions from every section in the LPI "detailed objectives" would have been more accurate in testing my overall knowledge, even if it made the exam longer.
I felt the exam questions placed too much emphasis on knowing arcane and often little-used options for many system commands, though this may be the result of my particular type of experience. In my exam, there were numerous questions on text filters and the use of sed and regular expressions. In all honesty, I have yet to create a regular expression in my work without a couple of passes to get it exactly right.
The testing software (Windows-based) provided a comment mechanism, so I commented on many of the questions heavily, critiquing confusing wording and undefined scope. In general, I found the test questions confusing and, in many cases, downright misleading—something I cannot completely attribute to a lack of knowledge on my part. I hope others commented on the questions and that the comments made their way back to LPI for consideration.
Finally, I did not receive a grade when I completed the test. The attendant at the testing center handed me a page that told me the exam was in beta testing, and results would be mailed to me in 6 to 12 weeks. LPIC eventually scored the exam and mailed me the score four months after the test date. I did pass the exam, with a score of 540 on a scale of 200-800.
My knowledge is not where it could be, and I continue to learn every day. But, the exams still need considerable improvement to be considered a fair assessment of an administrator's skills. I believe the work is actively underway at LPI to improve the certification exams. Even with the minor difficulties, this certification program is still my choice over the others, mostly due to the wide support and vendor neutrality of the program.
Computerized testing doesn't allow one the luxury of fiddling with the options to obtain an exact result (like regular expressions) and thus was not a good mechanism for testing some areas of system administration, where bizarre and varied problems are encountered daily. Other exams may have a more practical approach in challenging you to fix a broken system within an allotted time period.
In summary, taking the LPIC exams can be a good personal assessment of system administrator knowledge even though quantifying that via a computerized exam may not be entirely perfect. Plus, I feel that certifications, along with strong and relevant experience cannot hurt your chances in our competitive world. I recently registered for the 102 exam to be taken soon.


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Power. Deep down, isn't that what we all want? Power over others, power to induce them to do our bidding, power to get what we want when we want it. Even better, psychic power, so one can control people with the mind, without resistance or resentment. (Just what I want for my birthday, in case you were wondering.) That is the promise of this book.
Its author, Frank Rudolph Young, says he is a master of yoga: whatever the truth of that claim it is apparent he is not a master of understatement. The blurb on the rear cover tells us, for example, that this book will demonstrate:
... how you fascinate others with your thoughts, entrance them with your grace of movement, increase your muscle power up to 10 times with your mind alone, arouse intense desire in the opposite sex by your mere presence...
Because Cyclomancy is magic you may achieve any result you desire with it...
Personally, if I could "arouse intense desire in the opposite sex by [my] mere presence" I wouldn't worry about my waistline. That aside, Cyclomancy is so impressive in its scope that some might be sceptical about the reality of Young's claims, but he sets all such doubts aside by presenting some impeccable credentials:
Frank Rudolph Young's granduncle was a long-lived Yogi in far-away India. For 40 years, Mr Young's father investigated the secrets of psychic power in the West Indies and in Central and South America. Mr. Young himself spent 30 years investigating the scientific laws behind Cyclomancy. Since 1955 he has taught these findings to thousands of followers throughout the world.
There you are then. Grand-nephew of a "Yogi in far-away India" (India, Tennessee, I'm guessing) and son of a psychic investigator. It must all be true, surely.
Sometimes promises made on the exterior of a book are belied by its content, having been composed by some unscrupulous hack rather than its author. However in this case the tone of wild overstatement is continued throughout, and in fact the content of the book is even more insane than its blurb suggests. The following short extract comes from a chapter titled, wonderfully, How to Use the Astounding Power of Your Brain Horns and Put It Under Psychic Power Control:
Exercise 1. How To Tranquilize Highly Wrought-Up People with Infrared Ray Projections. Vince Laplante has suffered serious blows through poor investments, business reverses or a shocking discovery about the state of his health. The moment you lay eyes on him, use the Psychic Arc to bring twice the amount of heat to your body surface. Think of the juicy steak to warm up your skin, then draw this heat quickly from all over you and pack it into two narrow, short hot rods in your Brain Horns so that they actually burn your eyes a little. Deliver, now, a psychic command rocket behind the hot rods, with the following command, "Vince, you'll win out! Just be a little patient! You'll win out!" (That prevents your conscious mind from analyzing the advice and reasoning whether it is realistic or not. Just forget your logic and let your psychic power command straight to behind the hot rods, carrying with it all its confident power).
I doubt that the idea of thinking about a "juicy steak" in order to warm oneself up is part of conventional Yogic teaching, which is strictly vegetarian, but to be able to send infra red rays from one's eyes would certainly be useful, especially when the TV remote has disappeared down the back of the sofa. ("Just forget your logic", indeed.) And as proof that Young's weird way with imagery is not confined to confusing references to "hot rods", here's another even more bizarre example:
Exercise. How to Establish Mutual Rapport Fast Between You and Anyone. You run into Martin on the street, in the office, at a social gathering, in your house, or his, the golf course or anywhere else. Instantly visualize his torso, from head to thighs, as secreting within it a profusion of acetylcholine at every Nerve Gap. Or you can just visualize his torso and at the same time think strongly of a juicy steak or of something else that you relish eating. Maintain that thought or vision clearly for two seconds.
This mental picture will automatically be telepathized into Martin's mind. It will be a picture of a painless torso, for acetylcholine is secreted by your loving nerves, and those are nerves of pleasure, not pain.
Martin's conscious mind will subsequently ignore any pain sensations from his Sensations Recording Center which originated in his torso or which are caused by it reflexly, like a stomach headache. So he feels better immediately and subconsciously associates you with that feeling. He is left eager to meet you or associate with again. You have created mutual rapport between you two ... fast.
To encourage people to fantasise about the torsos of those they meet, bathed in secretions, seems frankly dangerous. I've seen American Beauty, you know. "Mutual rapport" may not be exactly what you create ... fast.
To write like this, one must have a very warped sense of humour, or none. To help you decide, here's some more of Young's strange advice:
If you visit ill and crabby Teddy, improve his frame of mind with the tender touch.
When you go to bed, do the Zembla to retard old age.
When you lie there, win back a vacillating romantic partner, or wife or husband, with the Psychic Antidrom.
Arouse your marital partner incredibly with the Human Lamp.
And, oh yes, "make all these attainments permanent with the Psychic Mold". (Maybe later, when my Brain Horns are rested. Gosh, I've overdone the Zembla again.)


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In just six years, ACT UP, New York, a broad and unlikely coalition of activists from all races, genders, sexualities, and backgrounds, changed the world. Armed with rancor, desperation, intelligence, and creativity, it took on the AIDS crisis with an indefatigable, ingenious, and multifaceted attack on the corporations, institutions, governments, and individuals who stood in the way of AIDS treatment for all. They stormed the FDA and NIH in Washington, DC, and started needle exchange programs in New York; they took over Grand Central Terminal and fought to change the legal definition of AIDS to include women; they transformed the American insurance industry, weaponized art and advertising to push their agenda, and battled, and beat, The New York Times, the Catholic Church, and the pharmaceutical industry. Their activism, in its complex and intersectional power, transformed the lives of people with AIDS and the bigoted society that had abandoned them.
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Spotted Coralroot (Corallorhiza maculata var. maculata)
Spotted coralroot orchid growing in the coastal forest on Fidalgo Island. These beautifully spotted terrestrials are found across North America in northern forests from the Pacific Northwest to Newfoundland. Like most coralroots, they are often found on the forest floor in areas devoid of other low-growth/forest floor vegetation. I usually find them by habitat-type, as they seem to grow best in places where a bit of sunlight reaches a permanently dark forest floor, and can be spectacular when a beam of light penetrates the darkness to reveal this beautiful orchid standing tall. Because it lacks chlorophyll, the leaves of this plant do not use photosynthesis to create its own food, but unusually the ovaries of the flower can, in very small amounts. The main source of nutrients is like that of many other non-green plants (called myco-heterotrophs) - they parasitize the vegetative part of underground fungi, in this case - the mushroom family Russulaceae.
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Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - Effective 2 December 2021, Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, will transfer all Russian operations to the new state-of-the-art International Terminal C at Moscow Sheremetyevo Alexander S. Pushkin International Airport (SVO). The first departure to SVO will take place on the 13th anniversary of Etihad's first direct service to Moscow in December 2008.
The move to SVO will be enhanced by daily Etihad services between Abu Dhabi and Moscow. Flights depart Abu Dhabi at 9.35am each day, with the return service departing Moscow at 3.50 pm.
Etihad's service changes will be complemented by the launch of a broader partnership with Russia's national airline group, Aeroflot - Russian Airlines (Aeroflot). Aeroflot will launch its first ever services to Abu Dhabi, the UAE capital, three times weekly from 13 November.
In conjunction with both carriers operating between Moscow and the UAE capital, and subject to any necessary regulatory approvals, Etihad and Aeroflot have agreed to enhance their interline agreement, launch codeshare services across their respective networks, and explore other areas of cooperation to enhance guest benefits, such as frequent flyer reciprocity and premium customer handling. The carriers will also explore opportunities to cooperate in operational areas by leveraging each group's capabilities and strengths.
Alex Featherstone, Vice President Network Planning and Alliances, Etihad Airways, said: "We are proud to announce Etihad will be moving to Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport, and broadening our relationship with the national carrier, Aeroflot. Since launching flights between Moscow and Abu Dhabi 13 years ago, we have experienced huge growth in Russia's tourism and aviation markets, and enjoyed strong demand from business and leisure travellers, as well as cargo, assisted by direct services, codeshare and the Reciprocal Visa-Free Travel Agreement between the two nations implemented in February 2019. The move also further reinforces our commitment to the Russia market, and our intention to offer our Russian guests easier access to the world-class leisure attractions and events, cultural sites, hotels and resorts, beaches, and great winter weather that Abu Dhabi has to offer."
The daily flights will be operated by with a mix of widebody and narrowbody aircraft, including the technologically advanced Boeing 787 Dreamliner, featuring the airline's innovative, award-winning cabin designs and products, complemented by its acclaimed service and hospitality.
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Sheremetyevo Airport is among the top 5 airport hubs in Europe and the largest Russian airport in terms of passenger and cargo traffic. In 2020, the airport served 19.8 million passengers.
The airport opened a third runway in January 2021, and today, the airport can serve up to 110 million passengers annually across its six terminals
Terminal C is Russia's most modern terminal, combining the highest level of technology and modern architecture and design in a Russian constructivist style. It is connected to domestic Terminal B under one roof, allowing transfer passengers to move between terminals through the transit area in minimal time, which allows for faster connections and baggage services.
Modern constructivist media installations introduce passengers to Russia as a country with a rich historical and cultural heritage. The interior features art objects and decorative wall panels dedicated to the history and heroes of Russian aviation, and the information boards feature logos with the portrait of poet Alexander Pushkin.
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I know I've been a bit of a blogging nomad for the past year, thanks for sticking with me! My new digs- an Offical Autodesk Blog- are finally ready, so I will be posting over there a minimum of 3X per week from this point forward. Civil 3D Rocks will stay here as a repository for the old reference material.
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Since the launch of the Euro, there has always been a question about the benefits that Germany could enjoy of sharing a currency with other countries. While for the other countries (the "periphery") the benefits in terms of credibility and stability of a strong currency were obvious, for Germany the benefits were simply the additional trade integration that the Euro would produce. Some believed that this benefit was too small to compensate for the potential risk of being part of a club with riskier countries. The current crisis has provided arguments for those who believed that Germany should have never been part of the Euro.
There is, however, a different perspective of the first 12 years of the Euro when looking at the performance of the German economy. During those years Germany managed to engineer a reduction to its relative labor costs that paid off in terms of increasing exports, a large surplus in the current account and faster GDP growth. A model that some see today as an example for others to follow. As Paul Krugman has pointed out several times, this model cannot work for everyone, not all countries can run current account surpluses!
In his most recent article Paul Krugman argues that the current German model needed the Euro to work. Germany had tried to keep labor costs under control in the past but without success. The launch of the Euro locked the exchange rate and sent capital flows to the periphery producing inflation in those countries. Even if German inflation was still positive (so no painful disinflation), there was an inflation gap with others, one that allowed Germany to be more competitive as the periphery became less competitive.
Quoting from Krugman's article:
"Or to put it differently: Germany believes that its successful adjustment was the result of its own virtue, but in reality it was successful in large part because of an inflationary boom in the rest of Europe. And here's the thing: the Germans are now demanding that the European periphery replicate its achievement (and actually surpass it, because the required adjustment is much bigger) without providing a comparably favorable environment — they're demanding that Spain and others do what they never did, which is deflate their way to competitiveness."
The corollary of this argument is that Germany benefited from the Euro in a way that was not expected at the time when it was launched: by allowing an increase in competitiveness relative to the other Euro members.
I agree with this argument but I think that there is part of the story that is missing. Not all other members of the Euro area had high inflation. Let's compare Germany to France.
Since the launch of the Euro unit labor costs in France increased faster than in Germany. By the way, France resembles many of the other "periphery" countries in terms of unit labor costs, as I have discussed earlier. Here is the early chart.
But France did not lose competitiveness through higher inflation. Prices in France and Germany behaved in a similar way, there was no inflation gap.
So in the comparison between France and Germany the story above does not seem to work, adjustment did not come from inflation in other countries but by the relative control of wages in Germany (relative, of course, to changes in labor productivity and all of this relative to French wages). But here is where I the Euro could still have played a role: when Germany had its own currency, it was very difficult to engineer a "competitive devaluation". Reductions in wages or prices could easily be compensated by a stronger currency (the German Mark). This might run contrary to our intuition that competitive devaluations are easier with flexible exchange rates. For a country very committed to keep inflation low and a strong currency, it is difficult to deliver a competitive devaluation through monetary policy. But once the exchange rate is fixed, a combination of control on labor costs and the inflation that was generated in some of the periphery countries finally allowed Germany to produce a reduction in unit labor costs and growth via expansion of exports. And that is how Germany benefited from the Euro.
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Harvest Aid Options in Soybean
Harvest Aid Options in Soybean
Blake Edwards, Tom Eubank, Jason Bond and Trent Irby
As soybean harvest gets into full swing, harvest aids are often applied to desiccate weeds and expedite harvest. While weeds can create problems for harvest equipment, many producers see the benefit of a harvest aid in creating a more rapid and efficient harvest in the absence of weeds. Soybean plants can reach physiological maturity but still have an excess of green stems and leaves. By removing this "green matterâ€, the combine can operate at higher speeds and more effectively thresh the soybean and move it into the hopper instead of out the rear. Another, and possibly more important, advantage is earliness of harvest. A harvest aid may allow a producer to get into the field several days sooner than allowing the plant to senesce naturally. With the threat of hurricanes always looming this time of year, two or three days might mean the difference between harvesting the crop or not.
While there are several viable options for soybean defoliation/desiccation, label restrictions for certain products can often delay harvest due to the pre-harvest interval (PHI). For example, the PHI of Gramoxone SL in soybean is 15 days after application. Sharpen has received a supplemental label as a soybean harvest aid/desiccant and allows up to 2 oz/A to be applied three days prior to harvest. Aim is another option which also has a three day PHI. Although both Aim and Sharpen permit harvesting within three days of application, it may take longer to reach optimal defoliation/desiccation of soybean depending on environmental conditions and soybean maturity at the time of application.
A recent study was conducted at the Delta Research and Extension Center to evaluate soybean defoliation/desiccation with commercially-available products. Treatments included Sharpen at 1.5 oz/A plus 1% v/v methylated seed oil (MSO) or Sharpen at 1.5 and 2 oz/A plus 1% v/v crop oil concentrate (COC). These treatments were compared to industry standard of 16 oz/A Gramoxone SL plus 0.25% nonionic surfactant (NIS). Aim at 1.5 oz/A plus COC was also included. Treatments were applied when approximately 65% of soybean pods were yellow to brown in color. Visual ratings of soybean defoliation/desiccation were taken at 3, 5, 7, and 10 days after application. Average air temperature was 81 F with high humidity and no precipitation.
Gramoxone SL provided the greatest desiccation of soybean 3 and 5 days after application at 63 and 88% defoliation, respectively (see Harvest Aid Graph). Sharpen applied at 1.5 oz/A plus MSO provided 94% defoliation and was comparable to Gramoxone SL at 7 days after application. When Sharpen was applied with COC only the highest rate of 2 oz/A was comparable to Sharpen plus MSO at 7 days after application. It is important to note that the use of Sharpen with COC as an adjuvant is not currently labeled as a harvest aid. Aim, while excellent as a weed desiccant in other studies, was not as effective at defoliating/desiccating soybean plants and provided only 78% defoliation 10 days after application.
This data suggests that Sharpen at 1.5 oz/A plus MSO provides similar defoliation/desiccation to Gramoxone SL 7 days after application and could be an alternative to Gramoxone SL as a soybean harvest aid. While the Sharpen label permits harvest within three days of application, this study and others suggest that as many as 7 days may be required for optimal results.
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Since I prefer to do to my own vehicle maintenance, I compiled a list of the required parts and a general overview of the transmission fluid change process.
Transmission Model: 0B5 7-speed dual clutch, DL501 high torque variant
Applications: used in various Audi and VW vehicles, including the Audi S4, S5, S6, S7 and the European versions of the A4 and A5
Maintenance Interval: 35,000 miles for first change; 40,000 miles for all subsequent changes
Audi/VW Transmission Fluid Spec / Part Number: G 052 529 A2
Fluid Capacity: 7 liters
Filters and Gaskets (need to be replaced every time):
Transmission Filter – Internal: Part Number B 532 542 9E (must remove transmission oil pan cover to access this filter)
Transmission Filter – External: Part Number B 532 533 0A
Transmission Filter Gasket: Part Number WHT003379
Transmission Oil Pan Gasket: 0B5321371E
Transmission External Filter Cap: 0B5.325.240.C
Optional Parts – Probably Don't Need to Replace:
Transmission Drain/Fill Plug (M22x1.5): WHT005282
Sealing Washer (22×27): N0138275
- Remove Side Fill Plug (to make sure you can access it – be sure you can refill before your drain)
- Remove bottom drain plug from transmission pan, drain fluid
- Remove pan
- Replace plastic filter assembly inside pan
- If there are magnets in the pan to pick up loose metal, clean them of all metal
- Reinstall pan, use new pan gasket
- Reinstall drain plug
- Remove old external filter, install new external filter
- Run fill tubing up through engine compartment, fill transmission with fluid until it overflows from the fill hole – car must be level
- Install fill plug
- Start engine, drive, and shift through all gears to distribute the transmission fluid; keep driving until the transmission fluid is up to operating temperature (38 degrees C)
- Optionally, if you have the Ross-Tech VAG-COM VCDS software and adapter, go to Select Control Module->02 – Automatic Transmission-> Advanced Measuring Values->Transmission fluid temperature and make sure it reaches at least 38 degrees C
- Remove fill plug, top-off fluid level, reinstall fill plug


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Richard Broadberry's Web Site
Who Is Richard Broadberry?
Richard Broadberry has spent many years in Taiwan and Mainland China working in the field of Transfusion Medicine as a Biomedical Scientist. He has published almost 100 articles in that field. In addition, he is co-author of several books detailing how the ancient Chinese worshiped the same God as the ancient Hebrew people. He is married to Maggie and they are proud parents of three beautiful adopted Chinese daughters.
Mr. Broadberry is a Trustee of CSM (Creation Science Movement), Portsmouth UK. CSM, originally the Evolution Protest Movement, is the oldest Creation Organization in the world. Mr. Broadberry has written "EVOLUTION IN THE BIBLE: The rise of the Theory of Evolution predicted by the Apostle Peter" October 16, 2017, 7:30 pm Richard Broadberry
"God's Promise to the Chinese"
Lecture was in Chinese
PART OF "Richard Broadberry's testimony of God's leading in his life"
For more of the story, click HERE. For the PowerPoint in Chinese, click HERE.
October 17, 2017, 7:30 pm Richard Broadberry
"God's Promise to the Chinese"
Lecture was in English
PART OF "Richard Broadberry's testimony of God's leading in his life" One morning, while in Taiwan and in the process of preparing for the publication of his first book with Dr. Ethel Nelson, Richard stayed at home in bed due to a very bad cold and sore throat. Suddenly God spoke to him and said: 'I want you to go to the National Palace Museum and find an Oracle Bone expert'. Instantly his nose stopped running and his sore throat was healed. He arose from his bed, completely healed, and walked to the National Palace Museum. He asked the receptionist if there was an oracle bone expert there and she told him to wait a moment. A few minutes later he was introduced to Mr. Chang Guang Yuan, an oracle bone expert. Richard showed him the manuscript for the first book that was being prepared for publication. Expecting him to laugh at the idea that the ancient Chinese writing contained the truths recorded in Genesis, Richard was surprised when Mr. Chang said: 'No one knows for certain who invented the ancient Chinese writing so there is no reason why foreigners can't have their theories about the origins of the Chinese characters. However, in your manuscript you are not analyzing the most ancient forms of the Chinese writing. You need to analyze 'Oracle Bone Characters'! For more of the story, click HERE. For the PowerPoint in English, click HERE.
For the Amazing Details, Click HERE.
For his curriculum vitae Click HERE.
October 22, 2017, 1:30PM - 2:45PM Richard Broadberry
"God's Promise to the Chinese"
At West Metro Chinese Church For Video in Chinese from West Metro Chinese Church Talk, click HERE.
For another Richard Broadberry Website, click HERE.
China and the Bible
By Richard Broadberry You might possibly be thinking "what possible connection can there be between China and the Bible!" However, you will be surprised to find that China is mentioned in the ancient Hebrew scriptures. Although there is no specific mention of England, France or the USA in the Bible, if we examine an ancient prophecy from Isaiah chapter 49 verse 12 (about 700BC), we do discover a mention of China: In context, this prophecy appears to refer to the return of exiled Israel from the nations of the world. The "north" probably refers chiefly to Russian Jews and the "west" to American and European Jews. But while "north" and "west" are general terms, "Sinim" is a specific term, thought by many scholars to be China. The "Strongest Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible" explains Sinim as "Chinese?". In fact the nouns "Sinology" or "Sinologist" use the same root word "Sin" meaning China. Isaiah thus prophesied that one day Israel"s exiles would return from China back to their own land. Other Christians have interpreted the above scripture to imply "Christians" rather than "Jews" meaning that many Chinese would come to believe in God. Maybe both interpretations are correct. However, regardless of how you interpret Isaiah"s prophecy, one important fact is that China (Sinim) is mentioned in the Bible! For a longer article, in English, click HERE.
For the article in Simplified Character Chinese, click HERE. For the article in Traditional Character Chinese, click HERE. Reprinted with permission from: Creation Science Movement PO Box 888, Portsmouth PO6 2YD, UK http://www.csm.org.uk; info{at}csm.org.uk; 02392 293988 Pamphlet 387, August 2012 by Richard Broadberry For another Chinese Tract, click HERE.
For a printable/downloadable copy of the out of print book God's Promise to the Chinese in Chinese, click HERE. (Now reformatted in larger view) Note it is 33 MB
For a smaller 24MB version, Click HERE. For a new Chinese-English Version, Oracle Bones Speak Click HERE For DVDs of his talks in Chinese and English, contact TCCSA by e-mailing Dave Johnson and ask for "God's Promise to the Chinese" Mandarin Version or "Chinese and the Bible" English Version.
For a video of Richard's 2008 talk in Mandarin Chinese "Gods Promise to the Chinese" click HERE.
God's Promise to the Chinese
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INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENT The ABS causes of death collection includes all deaths that occurred and were registered in Australia, including deaths of persons whose usual residence is overseas. Deaths of Australian residents that occurred outside Australia may be registered by individual Registrars, but are not included in ABS deaths or causes of death statistics.
Data in the Causes of Death collection include demographic items as well as Causes of Death information, which is coded according to the International Classification of Diseases (ICD). The ICD is the international standard classification for epidemiological purposes and is designed to promote international comparability in the collection, processing, classification, and presentation of cause of death statistics. The classification is used to classify diseases and causes of disease or injury as recorded on many types of medical records as well as death records. The ICD has been revised periodically to incorporate changes in the medical field. The 10th revision of ICD (ICD-10) is used for the 2011 data. TIMELINESS Causes of Death data and Causes of Death, Doctor Certified Deaths are published annually, following the publication of Deaths, Australia (ABS cat 3302.0) in November of each year. There is a focus on fitness for purpose when causes of death statistics are released. To meet user requirements for accurate causes of death data it is necessary to obtain information from other administrative sources before all information for the reference period is available (e.g. information from finalisation of coronial proceedings to code an accurate cause of death). A balance therefore needs to be maintained between accuracy (completeness) of data and timeliness. ABS provides the data in a timely manner, ensuring that all coding possible can be undertaken with accuracy prior to publication. In addition, to address the issues which arise through the publication of causes of death data for open coroners cases, these data are now subject to a revisions process. This process enables the use of additional information relating to coroner certified deaths either 12 or 24 months after initial processing. See Explanatory Notes 29-33 and Technical Notes, Causes of Death Revisions, 2006 in Causes of Death, Australia, 2010 (cat. no. 3303.0) and Causes of Death Revisions, 2009 and 2010 in this publication, for further information on the revision process. ACCURACY Non-sample errors are most likely to influence accuracy in datasets which constitute a complete census of the population, such as the Causes of Death collection. Non-sample error arises from inaccuracies in collecting, recording and processing the data. The most significant of these errors are: mis-reported data items; deficiencies in coverage; incomplete records; and processing errors. Every effort is made to minimise non-sample error by working closely with data providers, running quality checks throughout the data processing cycle, training of processing staff, and efficient data processing procedures. The ABS has implemented a new revisions process that applies to all coroner certified deaths registered after 1 January 2006. This is a change from previous years where all ABS processing of causes of death data for a particular reference period was finalised approximately 13 months after the end of the reference period. The revisions process enables the use of additional information relating to coroner certified deaths as it becomes available over time, resulting in increased specificity of the assigned ICD-10 codes. See Explanatory Notes 29-33 and Technical Notes, Causes of Death Revisions, 2006 in Causes of Death, Australia, 2010 (cat. no. 3303.0) and Causes of Death Revisions, 2009 and 2010 in this publication, for further information on the revision process. COHERENCE Use of the supporting documentation released with the statistics is important for assessing coherence within the dataset and when comparing the statistics with data from other sources. Changing business rules over time and/or across data sources can affect consistency and hence interpretability of statistical output. The Explanatory Notes in each issue contains information pertinent to this particular release which may impact on comparison over time. This publication provides additional information on statistics impacted by the revision process. The technical note in this issue contains information pertinent to coroner certified deaths affected by the revision process. Document Selection These documents will be presented in a new window. |


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There was a time when men were kind,
And their voices were soft,
And their words inviting.
There was a time when love was blind,
And the world was a song,
And the song was exciting.
There was a time when it all went wrong
I dreamed a dream in time gone by,
When hope was high and life, worth living.
I dreamed that love would never die,
I dreamed that God would be forgiving.
Then I was young and unafraid,
And dreams were made and used and wasted.
There was no ransom to be paid,
No song unsung, no wine, untasted.
But the tigers come at night,
With their voices soft as thunder,
As they tear your hope apart,
And they turn your dream to shame.
He slept a summer by my side,
He filled my days with endless wonder...
He took my childhood in his stride,
But he was gone when autumn came!
And still I dream he'll come to me,
That we will live the years together,
But there are dreams that cannot be,
And there are storms we cannot weather!
I had a dream my life would be
So different from this hell I'm living,
So different now from what it seemed
Now life has killed the dream I dreamed


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