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In the 80s and 90s we lived in the projects. (Thank god we got out). My kids grew up there. Once when I went my son and daughter at the community play ground because it was dinner time. When we were going home I heard there friends talking. "Who's that guy?" "That's their dad. He's home from his job." "Man that's real old school."
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When I was forced into retirement due to health reasons 9 years ago, it drove me nuts sitting at home doing nothing. I started a small business just to keep busy. Didn't make a lot, but I could work around my disability better than an hourly job. If I was unable to make it to the store, sales were covered.
Yes, you'll always have those that refuse to work, and there's not going to be anything to change that. I grew up a welfare kid, and realized that if I wanted anything worth having, I'd have to work for it.
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Not really sure who you are addressing the comment to. Part of it sounds like you disagree, yet part of it you are making my point.
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It's kind of hard to respond to a blanket statement like this. When do people decide that they're better off on the dole than actually working. I'm not talking about the slackers that are refuse all work: I'm talking about the general population. If the very basic needs are not met by working, the only options are charity/government handouts or a criminal career. I'm not sure how familiar you are with Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, but it's standard material not only for psychology classes, but for business classes at the college level. The most basic needs such as food, clothes, shelter, and health. If working can't cover those basic needs, then it's up to the community to pick up the slack of the low prices they pay for the goods and services from that employer. I'm not talking McDonald's or Walmart, but there are several, what you might call, mainstream employers, that shirk on wages. Good example: when we moved here in 2000, I landed a job that, while the pay wasn't great, was a lot better than fast food or service work. It was unskilled labor, and I took it. When I got laid off, (very common in this area anyway) I had a guy offer me a job as a saw operator because I was an experienced sawman that could use a radial arm saw and I still had 99.999% of my fingers. So, what did he want to pay me for 10 years experience? $2 an hour less than I was making unskilled labor. Thanks, but no thanks. I went back to my unskilled labor, although the next job was a dollar an hour less.
Right now, workers are starting out in semi-skilled jobs in this area anywhere from $1 to $3 an hour less than they need to meet the bottom tier of Maslow's Hierarchy. And businesses are crying for employees. Totally the opposite of what it was 8 or 9 years ago.
So, would you work for less than what it costs you to live?
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The flaw in your argument is you are pitching "theory" with "reality." Anyone with basic understanding of these issues agree things like communism and socialism are great in theory, I do to and always have even before your post. But in practicality, they never work. You said, "You haven't observed many people have you?" Yet you replied with your own personal experience followed in this post with "another guy I know." I was expecting some sort of statistics and analysis. Your reply is a logical fallacy.
The flaw of theory vs reality is the misinterpretation of humanity. Humanity by nature is lazy, greedy, and always looking out for #1. For socialism to work, it requires the change in human nature to care about one another, which is unnatural and is a learned trait and pretty much impossible to do if you look at the whole human history and their struggle with morality and ethics. I mean, to be blunt, it is what created holy wars.
When we look at nations like Venezuela and North Korea, you can see socialism is a complete fail. You would argue they're not really socialism b/c you have a top tier elite wealth class and everyone else in a socialist poverty. But that's the point. No one can establish a perfect socialist nation b/c human beings will always follow their nature to look after oneself, to fulfill their greed, and to corrupt, lie, and steal.
Let's not look that far. Let's look at America's socialist, Bernie Sanders. This goon owns 3 houses, wife under investigation for a $10 mil fraud loan, etc... He belongs in an upper wealth class. Do you actually believe he is serious about redistribution of wealth? Do you actually believe he gives a damn about the quality of life of the lower class? Bernie Sanders is looking out for Bernie Sanders and he sold out his supporters for a $600k lakehouse.
Seattle is another fine current example. When the minimum wage was raised, workers cut back their hours. Why? Well first of all, making more means it pushes them into higher tax brackets. Making more also means they no longer qualify for many of the "social" services, welfare programs. So these people are looking for themselves. With a higher pay, they will only work a certain number of hours just enough so they will continue to receive their government benefits. It doesn't work.
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Okay, let's start off with the common misunderstanding that the US is a capitalist nation. Every program ever devised has, in the long run, been to support an ever growing oligarchy. While there are times that the general public benefited from the various "socialist" programs, more often than not, it was the "capitalists" that benefited. The very first social program in place was for the benefit of the corporate owned Crown of England: the postal service. While any person could benefit from sending a letter to their aunt in another colony, it was the business people that profited most from that. It still does. Compare the amount of personal mail you receive at home to the amount of business mail. While most businesses would like to send you their bills via text or email, they still do the USPS. I have never gotten an electric bill delivered by Fed-Ex.
There are other socialist programs, on the national basis, that even our founding fathers had a hand in. Socialized medicine? dates back to 1792 and, while the name changed, it's still going strong. It was put into place to help shipping companies get workers for their ships. Sailing companies could have done it themselves, but didn't want it to hurt their bottom line. And some of the people that voted for it, including the president that signed it in to law also signed the Declaration of Independence.
The socialist programs like SNAP, housing, and Medicaid? How do they benefit the oligarchy? When the draft returns, you'll understand. Can't win a war without strong, healthy bodies to fight it. What good is fielding an army if even the brightest minds can't pass the physical? Same with basic education. The oligarchy wants to win wars. Depending on what they want, they can't do it with the "cannon fodder" of the middle ages.
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You're preaching to the wrong person. I already know USA is an oligarchy and is becoming more each year. However, socialism is not the solution. And again, if you want to go and become a preacher so you can go and tell everyone to love each other and help each other out, I support you 100%.
But fact is what works in America is our check and balance, which in recent times seems like it needs to be tweaked a bit. The reason check and balance work is because it is based on the fundamental truth that human beings are corrupt and needs to be kept accountable. Yes, it needs constant upgrade b/c people abuse loopholes and what not. But that's the point of life, a constant cat and mouse game. It is not a perfect system, but at the very least, it is built upon a solid foundation that recognizes human nature.
Socialism fails from the start b/c the premise is wrong. If you entrust your life to the good will of others, you will constantly be disappointed. Law and order is what keeps civilizations going, not good will. Already plenty of studies showing 3/4 men would **pe if they knew they would get away with it. People behave because they fear the consequence of law, not because they're good.
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Hawaii is another prime example. An unemployed mother of 2 can receive government help in forms of food stamps, cash, and services up to $60k a year. If she decides to work at McD instead, she will no longer qualify for most of those government assistance. She may still get some of it, but not all of it. In total, her salary plus services may only come up to $30-40k a year. Tell me, what is her incentive to work? When she can only make 1/2 as much as she would if she remains unemployed?
Your first comment supports my point. You were forced into early retirement and you found out the "incentives" for not work sucks. You were so eager to go back to work. I never said money, I said incentives. It is good you have personal incentives such as desire of self-fulfillment, purpose, being a part of a society. And since you didn't mention any financial trouble, seems like these are the only incentives you desire for working, correct?
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Let's look at that unemployed mother of two in Hawaii. Let's start with the CATO institute study you quote. (https://lintvkhon.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/the_work_versus_welfare_trade-off_2013_wp.pdf) The $60 annual amount is what a working person would have to earn to be equal to the $49K in welfare benefits because welfare recipients don't pay income tax on their benefits. So why is Hawaii so generous? First is the actual cost of living there. according to the Economic Policy Institute, the cost of living in Hawaii for the family you describe is $69,000 for a modest lifestyle. (use the their budget calculator to check out the cost of living where you live. http://www.epi.org/resources/budget/) I'll assume this even includes a little bit to go into a retirement fund, something welfare recipients, even scrimping as best as they can, are not allowed to have. Correction: they are allowed to have a maximum of $2000 in savings. No stocks, no bonds.
I just find it interesting that you chose the most extreme state in the country to point to. But you are trying to make a point, so extremism is understandable. I went more towards a mid-range area. Interesting, as my state, which has 4.6 times as many residents than Hawaii actually has the same percentage rate of welfare recipients that Hawaii does: 13%. but then, that's why Indiana ranks number 10 on the scale of dependence on federal money while Hawaii ranks 29. But then, where I live, the cost of living is just a bit over 1/3 of Hawaii.
It all boils down to where people live. Who are the people receiving Welfare. About 1/3 or them are native to the Islands, although there is a good size Pacific Rim population. The balance, for the most part, and very important, as they also represent a good amount of welfare recipients, are Americans based at Pearl Harbor.
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I think you got it backwards there. Since they do not get taxed on the $60k welfare, it means you have to get a job which pays $100K as equivalent, (given 60 cents per dollar). Also the standard of living argument is not valid b/c nobody said a mother of 2 who is unemployed deserves to live in a modest lifestyle. This is the same as the young graduate who worked at Yelp and was fired b/c she claims making $30-40k a year was not sustainable living alone in Manhattan and wanted a raise by her boss. As many commentators pointed out, a young graduate with her initial offer shouldn't be living in a single apartment in one of the most luxurious parts of New York, drinking wine every night. She should be living in a cheaper area and probably should get a roommate and earn her way up.
I listed that example b/c it was a well known heated debate a while back. However, if you want to look at stats, California is the #1 welfare state by numbers and #3 welfare state per capita, also ranked #44 in fiscal health in 2016. Why stop there? Bottom 10 worst fiscal states have 9 blue states including New York (#2 welfare state), Massachusetts, etc... many of the more populated and well known liberal blue states.
40 - West Virginia
41 - Maryland
42 - New York
43 - Maine
44 - California
45 - Hawaii
46 - Kentucky
47 - Illinois
48 - New Jersey
49 - Massachusetts
50 - Connecticut
Bonus, 51: Puerto Rico
Source: Mercatus Center - Fiscal Solvency, published June 1, 2016
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No, I just double checked to make sure by going to the CATO Institute report. In 2013, a mother with 2 children receiving full benefits could get as much as $49,175 in a year's time. In comparing that amount to pre-tax income for work, it is the equivalent of $60,590. The key here, though, is full benefits. Many people that are "on welfare" only receive SNAP benefits. Housing allowances? Yes, some do get section 8. With the cost of housing in Hawaii, I'm surprised that most residents there, working or not, don't receive it. The biggest buggaboo of all, and mind you, the CATO institute points this out, is that their initial study was done in 1995, before the Welfare Reform act of 1996 was passed. That program had as it's base, a requirement for recipients to work. "Welfare to Work" was how it was touted. My daughter was on that a few years ago after her old man left town. She left because of all of the government bullshit involved in it, because, to take part in the program, the job types you had to take were restrictive of earnings potential. She was told she'd have to give up her truck driving job and get a factory job: A MAJOR cut in pay in the long run. Now she looks at her income and is glad she did. (she got that from me ;-} ) After taxes and everything, she makes a LOT more per year than if she'd taken the welfare department's advice. Now, she's off welfare, uses family support system (dad and her driving partner's wife) to take care of the kids when she's on the road.
The biggest problem I see with welfare is it's a trap. Unless you go into it with the focus that you want to get off of it as quickly as possible, you get sucked in. The bad part: many are not even aware of there being a better life.
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I didn't really want to go into that whole min wage argument you brought up b/c it is actually a separate argument which has more to do with economy than government/psychology. Basically min wage jobs are not meant to be "careers." They were and had always been "high schooler" jobs for kids to earn extra cash, or college kids to pay their way through college.
The only reason they have become "living wages" is because of the double dip recession since 2008, forcing many college students to get menial jobs b/c they could not find real jobs in their major. It is also attributed to the fact we are saturating the student loan program, so college kids no longer take part time jobs. To further this, it is visible evident majority of say fast food places, the min wage workers are minorities, mostly illegals. These illegals are no unionized and demanding real wages despite the fact they do not pay taxes.
Raising min wage means it raises the min wage of all workers, including bagboys, cashiers, grocery loaders, etc... so McD, Starbucks' workers now have to pay more for food and other basic necessities, and so do their landlords, who will in term raise their rent. So raising the min wage only artificially increase the inflation. It doesn't work. I guess that is why Seattle is trying to implement a state tax, something they have not tried for almost a hundred years.
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I mentioned it in passing, basically blowing it off, as we're talking careers. In fact, you'll notice that the actual instances I referred to were NOT minimum wage jobs. I was discussing factory work. As I pointed out, mind you, 2002, I was making $10 an hour doing general labor in a factory. Unskilled labor. Fresh out of high school labor although college was far behind me. (My ASc doesn't mean squat here) So, when I got laid off, I looked for another job. The job offer I got was from a guy that wanted an experienced saw operator. I had plenty of experience. Much more than he expected. What did he offer me? $2 an hour less than I'd been making for unskilled labor. It's not just Walmart and McDonalds that are low wages, but they are low. I turned him down. Other skilled labor jobs in this area have the same problem: Employers don't want to pay for the experience and skill.
Minimum wage? My daughter's house mate was director of Nursing at a local nursing home. For a certified CNA, somebody that has paid to be trained and certified in the field, she had trouble filling the positions. Why? Because when an applicant discovered how much the nursing home was willing to pay, they turned the job down, flat. Burger King was paying more than that, and threw in a meal as well. Yeah, they had a highly trained staff there.
You are under the mistaken impression of many people about minimum wage: "The minimum wage was never intended to be a 'living wage,' on which one could support oneself let alone a family," opined Lowell Kalapa, President of the Tax Foundation of Hawaii, in an op-ed a few years ago. But that is not what history tells us.
In his 1933 address following the passage of the National Industrial Recovery Act, President Franklin D. Roosevelt noted that "no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country."
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"Employers don't want to pay for the experience and skill. "
Yes, that was the whole problem. College graduates with engineering degrees could not get a job b/c employers rather hire someone with 10 yrs experience at the same entry level price. Downturn of the economy forcing many young grads into menial jobs. However, raising the min wage of these jobs only makes things worse. If anything, it is an acceptance that the economy will not recover and they need to settle for these jobs. I'm pretty sure many of the college graduated Starbucks employees would like a higher salary working as a barista paying off their student loan. But this solution is a temporary solution that will actually worsen the long term economy. It doesn't work and has been proven again and again and again it does not work. If the economy is broken, this economy needs to be fixed, not raising the min wage. This is like how some countries in the past just "print more paper money" when there aren't enough money to go around. The point is not about "money," but about the "value" in which the money represents.
"In his 1933 address following the passage of the National Industrial Recovery Act, President Franklin D. Roosevelt"
Again, you're arguing theory vs reality. I'm not saying min wage job "should" be just for temp jobs and college jobs. If I did word it that way, I've mistaken. I mean that during the time when the economy was good, people do not "have to settle" for min wage jobs. The fact that we have people cramming into the min wage job area is because the downturn of the economy.
You have a patient that is very sick. You can treat the symptoms, but it is only a temporary measure. If you do not diagnose the cause, the illness, then it doesn't really matter how much effort you treat the symptoms, the patient will die. The solution is not trying to make min wage livable or luxurious, the solution is fixing the economy so people do not have to settle for min wage jobs.
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I wasn't aware that we are in an economic downturn today. 10 years ago, yes, but not at this time. Still, with a labor shortage in my area, and I'm not talking skilled professionals like engineers, I'm talking rank and file laborers, the problem still exists. Many of the local employers are still asking for the experience and not wanting to pay for it.
Your comment about everything going up if minimum wage goes up is theory. One reason I chose the above cartoon. It's the same argument that's been used since the minimum wage was set back in 1933. Every time it's raised, what happens is that employees can afford more. They can actually afford to reward themselves for their labor. Reality shows that raising the minimum wage is the best stimulus for the economy. Personally, I'd like to see the minimum wage tied to the cost of living, just like Congress' pay is. Instead, it's been a decade since congress voted to raise the minimum wage, and it took three years to fully implement. If you look at the cost of living index, the same one used to by the government to calculate the COLA increase for Social Security recipients, you'll notice that the Minimum Wage moved to $7.25 an hour in 2009. The COLA for 2009 and 2010 remained at zero. Kinda shows that raising the minimum wage destroys our economy. Still, the minimum wage should be tied to something concrete, such as the COLA.
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Is that similar to when monkeys fly?
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There all also many economic resons it doesn't work aswell, for instance if the government made all beach front property free this wouldn't change the amount of beach front property so it would either have to be divided into unrealistically small plots or the propertys would only be available to people who have connections. The same applies to food. So in other words even with a totally virtuous population socialism still wouldn't work.
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not getting paid is a reason not to work lol silly fascists
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I'm sure Venezuela and North Korea is giving their people a reason to work.
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#SupportTheTroops its better than college lololol
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Not really sure what does that have to do with either your op or my reply, but ok. You might also be interested to know both NK and Venezuela are military fascist nations. In fact, socialism and fascism usually go hand in hand. Can you actually name a socialist nation current or in history past which is not a fascist nation? Not North Korea, Venezuela, and not the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
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NAVAL top brass from South Korea were given a lesson on how the Royal Navy trains its sailors.
Rear Admiral Jeong Sang Youn, Republic of Korea's commander, naval education and training command, was one of the VIPs given a tour of the navy's training hubs, HMS Sultan, in Gosport, and HMS Collingwood, in Fareham.
Joined by Captain Peter Towell and Commodore Andy Cree, assistant chief of staff training, the group enjoyed briefs on the navy's wider training programme.
They were also given tours of the Defence College of Technical Training's Royal Naval Air Engineering and Survival Equipment School and the Defence School of Marine Engineering.
The trip gave the South Korean delegates a chance to understand how the navy runs its training. And while visiting Fareham's HMS Collingwood's Weapon Engineering Training Unit, the VIPs were given a demonstration of the navy's 4.5ins gun, as well as a high ropes display by trainee sailors at the Royal Navy Leadership Academy.
Lieutenant Commander Richard Bicknell said: 'This was an ideal opportunity to demonstrate how we, at the RNLA, deliver world-class training to ensure that the Royal Navy has leaders with the capability and spirit to fight and win in any situation.'


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He laughs and giggles and it is the most magical sound in the ENTIRE world! It makes me smile and laugh and do whatever ridiculous thing that made him laugh over and over again! This particular time it was blowing raspberries on his leg! Apparently he found it quite comical! Usually when he laughs its because I play peek-a-boo with him! We have one of him laughing while playing peek-a-boo and when we the hubby was watching it I heard this awful noise and I was like what is that???? and it turns out that it was me talking/playing peek-a-boo with the babe! I despise the sound of my voice when I hear it over the video camera or something! It sounds as if I have the highest pitched squeakiest voice ever and I personally would not want to spend time with me if that's really how I sound...I just hope and pray that its not how I sound because I sure feel sorry for the people that have to listen to my voice all the time! But enough about me please feast your eyes upon this sweet little child of mine laughing and giggling and I hope it makes your day as fabulous as it made mine!!! :-D
Oh and PS when he saw himself laughing it made him cry! How crazy is that???


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Looking at your horoscope we see that Jupiter which is the 7th house lord is placed in the 12th house which is not good position. 6th lord Saturn and 8th lord Mars aspects the 7th house. Rahu in the 11th house aspects the 7th house of marriage. The 7th house and 7th lord is weak and therefore obstacles in the marital front is indicated.
Remedies that you should do are as under.
1. Keep fast on Thursdays
2. Recite mantra "Om Brim Brihaspathe Namaha" 108 times daily
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Dutch Lighting Brand Interlight joins Gooee's Platinum Innovation Partnership Programme
Interlight is the third lighting manufacturer to sign up to the Gooee Platinum Innovation Partner programme. This IoT development partnership enables Interlight full and priority access to the Gooee platform for non-commercial use, dedicated support, access to Beta hardware and full use of the Gooee's IoT Test Lab for long-term testing.
Gooee, an IoT pioneer and the 'data brain' for building activity, is the first enterprise IoT ecosystem that offers a unique 'full-stack' wireless lighting control, data and analytics platform, to unlock the smart buildings market at scale. Interlight is a division of Jacs. Koopman B.V., a well-established company with a 70-year history in the Dutch Electronics market, and an innovative, leading lighting brand with offices in the Netherlands and Germany.
Neil Salt, MD and co-founder of Gooee says: "the Platinum Innovation Programme was launched to accelerate the integration of customer products with the Gooee IoT platform and enables members to work together with Gooee – as partners – rather than as suppliers and customers, to ensure a comprehensive understanding of each others' requirements and tailoring to those requirements. Gooee's highly specialist teams incorporate IoT technology into partner offerings, providing skill sets and resources that previously never existed in the lighting industry."
Casper Vulling, Owner and CEO of Interlight says: "We have been working with Gooee for three years now and have carefully followed every step of progress they have made. Our products have been tested at Gooee's state-of-the-art Test Lab in St. Petersburg, Fl. for almost one year and we are confident that Gooee and Interlight will successfully launch our Gooee-enabled products in the Dutch building market during the second part of 2018. As a medium-sized company, this programme enables us to take on much larger competing brands and offer the most flexible and agnostic full-stack IoT proposition to our customers, guaranteeing them maximum flexibility."
Salt added: "'Building Intelligence Together' is what Gooee stands for. We are very pleased to welcome Interlight as our third Platinum Innovation Partner in a European market that is becoming increasingly significant for Gooee."
Under the terms of the agreement, both companies are defining a clear set of objectives for a period of 6-12 months. Gooee's specialized Software, Hardware, Cloud, and Applications engineering teams will assist Interlight's dedicated R&D and innovation team to reach the jointly set technology milestones. Both parties will also participate in joint marketing activities.
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Shrub Rose 'Midnight Blue'
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24-36 in. (60-90 cm)
24-36 in. (60-90 cm)
USDA Zone 6a: to -23.3 �C (-10 �F)
USDA Zone 6b: to -20.5 �C (-5 �F)
USDA Zone 7a: to -17.7 �C (0 �F)
USDA Zone 7b: to -14.9 �C (5 �F)
USDA Zone 8a: to -12.2 �C (10 �F)
USDA Zone 8b: to -9.4 �C (15 �F)
USDA Zone 9a: to -6.6 �C (20 �F)
USDA Zone 9b: to -3.8 �C (25 �F)
USDA Zone 10a: to -1.1 �C (30 �F)
USDA Zone 10b: to 1.7 �C (35 �F)
Bloom Color:
Mauve and mauve blend (mb)
Bloom Shape:
Flower Fragrance:
Very Fragrant
Bloom Time:
Late Spring/Early Summer
Blooms repeatedly
Can be trained as a standard or tree form
Patent Information:
Other Details:
Resistant to black spot
Resistant to mildew
Resistant to rust
Pruning Instructions:
Blooms on new wood; prune early to promote new growth
Soil pH requirements:
5.6 to 6.0 (acidic)
6.1 to 6.5 (mildly acidic)
Propagation Methods:
From softwood cuttings
From semi-hardwood cuttings
From hardwood cuttings
By grafting
By budding
Foliage Color:
Bloom Characteristics:
Water Requirements:
Where to Grow:
This plant has been said to grow in the following regions:
, (2 reports)
Auburn, California
Reseda, California
San Jose, California
San Leandro, California
Upland, California
Sherman, Connecticut
Cicero, Illinois
Hampton, Illinois
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Denham Springs, Louisiana
Baltimore, Maryland
Pikesville, Maryland
Las Vegas, Nevada
Medford, New Jersey
Windsor, New York
North Augusta, South Carolina
Maryville, Tennessee
San Antonio, Texas
Montpelier, Vermont
Seattle, Washington
Vancouver, Washingtonshow all
Gardeners' Notes:
On Jun 14, 2015, sredna from Cicero, IL wrote:
I have had this shrub in my Chicago garden for 10 years. The color and flower form are outstanding. But this shrub is the first in my garden to get blackspot (it's June 14th and the first affected leaves showed up last week--even my hybrid teas and English roses have no blackspot as of yet) and always ends the season almost completely defoliated. I started out with 2 shrubs, and one eventually died. Needless to say the one remaining is very much weakened by the yearly defoliation. What was once a 3 by 3 foot shrub is now less than 2 by 2 feet. Nevertheless, the shrub is a consistent bloomer, even at the end of the season with next to no leaves, and no one who sees this rose blooming for the first time fails to be impressed by the flowers.
On Mar 14, 2013, ms1954 from katonah, ny,
This is a rose I bought by mail, from Heirloom Roses. As is usual with their roses, it arrived tiny but healthy. I transplanted it into a pot with about an 8 inch diameter, and put it on my southern exposure deck in Westchester County, NY (Zone 5b/6a). It grew only two or three leaves and then died.
On Oct 2, 2012, Jez_Roth from Las Vegas, NV (Zone 8b) wrote:
A wonderful color, isn't it?
On Aug 8, 2008, WMorgan from Medford, NJ wrote:
Been growing for a month and is very purple, even in 90 degree heat. Repeat bloomer. Can't wait to see it next year.
On Apr 6, 2006, Jamie_Anderson from Wellington,
This rose looks quite similar to the "Burgundy Iceberg" rose.
On Jan 31, 2006, morningstar83 from Montpelier, VT wrote:
I first saw this rose fall 2005 in the Montreal Botanical Garden in Quebec. Beautiful! I took lots of pictures of plant and of the identification signs so I would not forget what it was. Since it seemed quite happy there, I've decided I'm going to order one and try it in Zone 4a Vermont!
On May 7, 2005, Gindee77 from Hampton, IL (Zone 5a) wrote:
This is a great little rose, it's got the fragrance of cloves and is the most amazing color of grapejuice purple! It's a relatively clean plant and is pretty hardy too.


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A gust of wind blew a tarpaulin off a car, exposing damage and leading to the arrest of a city woman in connection with a hit-and-run accident last Friday in which a man was killed, police said.
Deanna Marie Deering, 33, of the 5700 block of Plainfield Ave., was arrested around 6 o'clock last night at the home of her parents in the 3800 block of Woodlea Ave., police said.
Officer Greg Taylor, a traffic investigator, said Ms. Deering was charged with moving violations and failing to stop and render aid in a personal injury accident.


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The Scottish Professional Football League is set to announce that no new action will be taken over the Rangers "big tax case".
Discussions on the controversial topic took place hours after the election of a much-changed SPFL board - including Rangers managing director Stewart Robertson - and one of its members, Hearts chairwoman Ann Budge, confirmed a statement on the outcome would be issued on Wednesday.
Budge spoke about the need to "keep looking forward and doing what's best for Scottish football" and Press Association Sport understands there will be recommendations for the future but no going back on the 2013 ruling of the commission formed by the Scottish Premier League and led by judge Lord Nimmo Smith.
Rangers were fined £250,000 over a failure to disclose documents associated with Employee Benefit Trust (EBT) payments but it was ruled that they had gained no "unfair competitive advantage" and should suffer no sporting sanction.
The SPFL - the body formed by a merger of the leagues later in 2013 - announced earlier this month that it would take time to consider the implications of a Supreme Court ruling that Rangers should have paid tax on about £50million of EBT payments to players and staff during the first decade of the century.
Celtic quickly declared after the unanimous Supreme Court ruling that they expected the football authorities to review the situation but Wednesday appears to be the end of the matter as far as the SPFL is concerned, although legal challenges could come from outside the game's inner circle.
As she left Hampden, Budge said: "We have discussed it at some length. You will get a full explanation on Wednesday.
"A new board has had to look at all of the facts thoroughly. It's a brand new board. I think for us to come out with something now would be quite a big ask."
When asked if a decision had been made, Budge said: "A decision? No, there are recommendations. You will fully understand on Wednesday."
The Hearts owner gave several answers to similar questions on whether the statement would end the matter, qualifying her initial "yes" by admitting it would be "difficult to satisfy everyone".
The latter point was a massive understatement. Groups representing Celtic, Aberdeen and Dundee United fans have called for Rangers to be stripped of titles and trophies won during the EBT years and there has been talk of a crowd-funded legal challenge to the SPL commission's ruling, which was issued before the second of four legal hearings over the case.
The latter two - in the Court of Session and Supreme Court - ruled against Rangers following two tax-tribunal verdicts largely in their favour.
Former Ibrox chairman Sir David Murray admitted in court this year that EBTs had "perhaps" allowed the club the opportunity to sign players they could not otherwise afford.
But outgoing SPFL chairman Ralph Topping had already hinted earlier this month that there was no legal recourse for instigating new action, according to advice sought by the organisation.
In an interview with the Scotsman on July 15, Topping said: "We have gone to the finest solicitor in the land and taken his view, which we were duty bound to do. He has given us what we think is very sound legal advice.
"We wanted to make sure we were ready for any challenges subsequently. And I think we are."
The Scottish Football Association declared its position hours after the Supreme Court ruling on July 5, stating that its unspecified legal advice was that no disciplinary action should be taken "at this time". The SFA quickly dropped an investigation into the big tax case in 2012 when the SPL took the issue on.
It is understood the SPFL has sought advice from several legal sources and lawyers were present at the SPFL board meeting.
The board will have six new members by the start of August with only Budge, SPFL chief executive Neil Doncaster and non-executive director Karyn McCluskey retaining their places when Topping is replaced by Murdoch MacLennan.
Robertson, who was previously on the SPL board during his spell as a Motherwell director, was voted as one of three top-flight representatives along with Budge and Hamilton chairman Les Gray.
Morton chief executive Warren Hawke, Martin Ritchie of Falkirk and Stranraer chairman Iain Dougan were also elected.


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Originally made for a charity auction, this miniature bed is a 12th scale replica of a bed exhibited at the V&A museum. The bed is finished in white gold leaf and Indian silk.
The original, full scale piece of furniture was finished in silver and was made for the Maharaja of Jaiphur in 1922.
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I had some extra time this week to finish my coasters. I've made fabric ones in the past, but I wanted to try paper ones. I have oodles of cute scrapbook paper that I thought would make nice coasters. For these, I chose greens, yellows, and browns -- the main colors in our living room, where these coasters will be put to use.
They were really easy. Just some scrapbook paper, corkboard, Mod Podge, and 1/8" ribbon to go around the edges (I originally painted the edges a matching green paint, but I thought it looked sloppy, so I glued ribbon over the paint instead). The most time-consuming part was getting the ribbon around them. I had to glue one side at a time and let each side dry (and I'm not patient enough to hold the ribbon to the cork, so I had to rig a contraption to hold it for me so I could go do something productive while it dried) before continuing around the corner to the next side.
I finished them off by painting several layers of Mod Podge over the top and sides, to protect the decorative paper from becoming soggy from water rings. Here is one of my coasters at work :) :
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Coasting Along in the Craft Room!
Posted by CeCe at 7:00 AM
Labels: Getting Crafty
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Here is two video's of the weekend running event we had. We hauled around 400 passengers over the weekend ( over the power of the past event we hauled 1700 passengers over four days). We hope to get near that number in September possibly beat it!
WREN crosses the bridge going over the rack railway.
WREN departs dipwood halt with a full train.


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PTA Reflections--Within Reach
Reflections is a National PTA sponsored arts recognition program that encourages artistic expression. The Reflections theme for 2017 – 2018 is Within Reach. Use your imagination to create a film, song, artwork, photograph, or dance routine. You may enter as many times as you like in as many categories as you like. Each entry must be accompanied by an official entry form.
This the last week to submit your original work of art to the annual PTSA RELECTIONS Art Contest. Submissions can be dropped off in the purple bin in the front office. The deadline is Monday, October 2nd at 4 PM. Visit the Georgia PTSA Reflections website for rules and instructions. Please contact Vicki Akins with any questions.
Congratulations to the 2016-17 Reflections Winner - Evan Dangerfield!
Evan Dangerfield won Second Place in Georgia for Music Composition. Evan wrote, performed and produced "Gruvy". Click here to view.
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Dear Grace,
I am in love with this guy who is quite independent. Our homes are anything but close to each other. Although we are friends and have been dating seriously for quite a while, at times he doesn't respond to my calls or text messages. But he calls and talks to me when he is in the mood (or free). I am scared that if I confess my love for him, it might frighten him off. I am not sure if he is ready to commit to me. I really like him but I don't want anyone to play with my feelings. I don't know what to do. Any advice on how I should tackle this strange situation that I find myself in?
– Rebecca Dias, Malad (W)
Dear Rebecca,
While you seem to be frustrated because you feel as though he doesn't respect you, that might not be the case. He may really be busy. However, it's best to have an open discussion about what both of you want from the relationship. Don't confess your so-called love for him just yet. You can decide whether you should tell him about your strong feelings based upon the discussion you have. However, every relationship involves some give and take, and you will have to fight for what you want. That said, don't let anyone play with your feelings. Try and understand why he does this, and it may give you an insight into your partner. If he is stringing you along, cut ties and get on with your life.


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My opinion on The Rez Sisters changed progressively as we continued reading it in class. When we first started the play, I found it difficult to understand, weird, and I wondered why the heck we were studying such a strange play. But as we got more in depth to the storyline it made sense why this play in particular was chosen. The play focuses on many issues that are not usually talked about in class. The main focus of the book is learning about First Nations people (women in particular) and the issues they face on the reserve. Not only did the play teach us about First Nations people, but it was taught in a humorous and enjoyable way. The women in the play have very diverse personalities which keeps it interesting to continue reading. It strikes discussion with others about the material inside. The play also uses a lot of profanity which makes the people in the play seem more realistic and relatable. I really enjoyed that you can find hidden symbols and metaphors repetitively through out the book (if you look hard enough for them). For all of those reasons I enjoyed the play very much.
Before we started reading the play I did not know a lot about First Nations people, but now after I have read it I have a much better idea of the rough conditions they have to deal with in their daily lives.
I think The Rez Sisters is not a play that would be peoples first choice to read when picking out a new book, but after reading you would not regret it. You will learn a lot and gain a new perspective on how First Nations people are treated.


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Henry IV part 1 minimized
Henry Bolingbroke was crowned King Henry IV by his uncle, the duke of York. The year was 1400. He had usurped the crown from his cousin, Richard II. Henry IV became the first of three Lancastrian kings to rule England for about seventy-five years. Bolingbroke's father was John of Gaunt, the duke of Lancaster, Edward III's fourth son.
1. Hotspur, the young son of Northumberland, Northumberland being a major early ally to Henry IV, has captured 10,000 Scottish soldiers, but refuses to release them, infuriating the king. The king's son, Prince Hal to his buddies, helps with plans to rob some travelers. Prince Hal and Hotspur are peers.
2. The prince's friends (including Falstaff) rob the travelers, only to be robbed by Prince Hal and a friend. Hotspur agrees to release his prisoners, except for Douglas. Mortimer, the king's nemesis, is released from a Welsh prison. Prince Hal bails out Falstaff.
3. The king and his son, Prince Harry to the king, have a good father-son conversation. Prince Harry agrees to help lead a force against the Welsh rebels. Hotspur, who has irritated other Welsh rebels, leads (along with Douglas) the Welsh rebels at Shrewsbury.
4. Hotspur's father and Owen Glendower (the Welsh leader) don't make it to Shrewsbury, upset as they are with Hotspur. Hotspur offers up his grievances to the king's aide. The two sides plan to meet in the morning. Hotspur's wife is Mortimer's sister; she being a granddaughter of Edward III's third son, a fact that frightens the king who is a descendent of Edward III's fourth son.
5. During the morning meeting, Prince Harry offers through Hotspur's agent to fight Hotspur one-on-one, winner take all, saving many lives. Hotspur is delivered a different message. The battle begins. By chance, Prince Harry and Hotspur meet. They fight. Hotspur is killed. To be fair, Hotspur was a pretty classy guy. The prince has honored his commitment to his father.


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Well the surf conditions came in right on expectations for our first event this season. Crunchy Point was a glassy 2-3' with the odd bigger set, turning light onshore for the finals. All the competitors got a real treat catching plenty of waves and not many intruders in the water (curtsey of the water safety mean team). I saw some pretty good surfing from everyone but particularly from the group that are, progressing into PSC cadet and state level comps.
I was a bit overwhelmed by the eager hordes of grommies in my first gig as event director and it took the help of the old hands and new volunteers to pull it together and run the day. Too many to name but I thank you all. We had 67 registrations which is fantastic. Congratulations to all that surfed and most important it's all about having fun.
U10 Boys Inside:
- Lucas Hickson
- Cassidy Short
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U10 Boys Outback:
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- Ziggy Strauss
- Saul Taylor
- Jake Pamson
U12 Boys
- Rip Everet
- Charlie Lucas
- Sam De Koning
- Tom Matthews
- Chris Bell
- Jett Dickinson
U14 Boys
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- James Easton
- Luke Franklin
- Nick Ford
- Luke Davies
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U16 Boys
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- Louis McGowan
- Chris Hogg
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- India Lucas
- Erica Fallon, Alice Fallon
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U10 Girls Outside
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U12 Girls
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U14 Girls
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Some of these tips made me say "no duh," but you never know what your kids are thinking. It seems like it would be worth reviewing these safety tips with kids, even though some of them seem obvious.iVillage lists these 10 rules for kids Internet safety:
1. Never give out personal information on the Internet, such as their address, telephone number, the name or location of their school, or their parents' names.
2. Be cautious when developing a website. Children should know never to post a home address, telephone number, or personal photograph on the site. If children wish to have people contact them, they should post an email address.
3. Always inform their parents when they come across anything online that makes them uncomfortable. Parents and children can alert their Internet provider or the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children hot line at 1-800-843-5678.
4. Never, under any circumstances, agree to meet face-to-face someone they have corresponded with online without a parent's permission. If a meeting is arranged, make sure that it takes place in public and that parents always accompany the child.
5. Avoid chat rooms that discuss sex or cults. While these topics may seem interesting at first, they could put a child in danger.
6. Be suspicious of anyone they meet in a chat room who tries to turn them against their family, friends, teachers, or religion.
7. Choose a gender-neutral online name in a chat room to avoid harassment.
8. Never respond to messages or bulletin boards that are sexually obscene, threatening, or make them feel uncomfortable in any way.
9. Never send any personal materials to an online friend, such as an address, telephone number, or photograph, without first informing parents.
10. Always be reminded that the people they meet online may not be who they say they are.
Do your kids get on-line? My four-year-old does. It is a rule not to get on-line without permission, but that doesn't always happen. He doesn't know how to chat or email, but he knows how to get to sproutonline.com and noggin.com.
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Broiler cage : specifically for the production of broiler breeding cages child, in order to overcome the hard bottom of the cage and chest inflammation caused broilers, large good quality steel material made ??of broiler cage group, into the cage until the chicks from feeding slaughterhouse, no sub cage provincial catch chickens trouble, but also to avoid possible adverse reactions chicken .
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STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — A man's trusty horse was not so trusty when it ran away with all his gear Wednesday night.
The 50-year-old California man was hunting on Rabbit Ears Pass. Incident Commander Darrel Levingston said the man had dismounted his horse while hiking.
"When he looked back up, the horse was gone," Levingston said.
When the horse returned to camp without the hunter, the hunter's uncle went to get help.
Levingston said the hunter had all the supplies and survival gear that he needed to spend in the woods.
"He went out prepared," Levingston said. "Just everything was on the horse."
Temperatures were around freezing at higher elevations Wednesday night. The hunter did have his cellphone, and rescuers were able to determine his exact GPS location when he called 911.
Rescuers found him two hours after leaving Steamboat Springs. Levingston said the man was extremely cold but otherwise fine.
To read more of this story go to steamboattoday.com


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Open Source iOS Component For Stylish Pop-In Menus With App-Switcher Inspired Animations
I've mentioned a number of custom menu components most recently a component for great looking scrolling top menus that are shown with a neat folding animation called Persei.
Here's an open source component from Jorge Valbuena called JVMenuPopover that provides a nice overlay menu with a great look, customizable animations, and a nice transition effect.
JVMenuPopoverController is similar to iOS's built-in app switching, and shrinks the main view showing a background image which you can specify then drawing the menu with nice animations.
Here's an image from the readme showing JVMenuPopoverController in action:
You can find JVMenuPopover on Github here.
A nice pop-in menu component.
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Caspa & Rusko Fabric mix
any good?xx
Not unless you like
an entire set of big dumb macho wobblers with no sense of soul or subtelty.
erm. any other opinons>
preferably from those than can spellt "subtelty" correctly. you big dumb macho meathead you...
Yeah, not an entirely accurate summary
It's ok, personally I'd go for one of the Dubstep Allstars mix cds, they're far better than the Casper & Rusko mix.
oh knows.
You PWN me over spelling :-(
Seriously though its not very good. I'd go so far as to say its everything that's going wrong with dubstep today. That is of course if I didn't think 'Spongebob' wasn't awesome in all its silly over the topness.
You'd be better of downloading this blogariddims mix here which is conversely a pretty amazing summation of everything that's still good in the scene.
Check it: http://www.weareie.com/2007/09/blogariddims-26-ben-ufo.html


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Everyone gets an itch on their nose but to have an itch that never goes away, and on a nose that is completely numb, is aggravating. I have been told this is a symptom of MS and the sensation of itching is a phantom one. I can stop the itch by touching my nose [I don't feel it, though]. I think this short circuits the brain. Unless there's something that can be done, you'll always spot me in a crowd with my finger stuck to my nose. Any suggestions?
Neurogenic itching is, well, annoying as you've learned. I would suggest that your doctor give you a trial of the the usual remedies first; this includes gabapentin, pregabaline, and carbamezpine in that order. If this doesn't work your doctor should try a low dose tricyclic next such as nortriptyline. If this doesn't work a trial of 8% intranasal lidocaine spray should help determine if a selective percutaneous Radio-Frequency rhizotomy of the Gasserian ganglion will work.
Good luck
Revere (Rip) Kinkel MD
Professor of Clinical Neurosciences
Director of the Multiple Sclerosis Program
Clinical Neurosciences Director
University of California San Diego


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Pulowski Preservation Shelter
|Pulowski Preservation Shelter
|Fallout 3
The Pulowski Preservation Shelters are a group of small lead lined box's that were created to house one person if a nuclear holocaust ever happened in the United States.
[edit] History
These preservation shelters were provided as a cheap alternative to the Vaults and their locations are scattered around Capital Wasteland. Due to their last-minute nature, anyone who entered a shelter would only be provided with what is on their person, meaning that they would eventually die of starvation.
[edit] Uses in Fallout 3
A majority of the shelters are empty, but two have a special uses in the game. The first is in Paradise Falls, where The Box is used to punish slaves. The second is used in Those!, when Bryan Wilks hides in one while Lone Wanderer finds the source of the fire ants.


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I've just finished reading Hilary Mantel's bestselling, prize-winning Wolf Hall. I'm a little late to the party – it was published in 2009 and the mini series has already screened on BBC 2 – but wow! What a novel. The reign of Henry VIII – and especially his second marriage to Anne Boleyn and the reverberations it caused across Christendom – has always been one of my favourite periods of English history, and Mantel retells it in mesmerising fashion. I was utterly gripped, even though at times the detail became too much even for me (a lover of detail). I can see why William Skidelsky chose it as one of his ten best historical novels in May 2012 (along with my favourite novel, War and Peace, the sublime The Leopard and Pat Barker's extraordinary Regeneration trilogy).
I was always going to read Wolf Hall, but I became especially interested in it when I heard that it was told from the point of view of Thomas Cromwell, whose famous portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger features the most beautiful book of the age: Luca Pacioli's Summa de arithmetica, geometria, proportione et proportionalita. Published in Venice in 1494, Pacioli's Summa was the first mathematical encyclopaedia of Europe and contains his famous double-entry bookkeeping treatise.
Here's a quote from Wolf Hall (from Part Four, II) which not only captures Mantel's Thomas Cromwell, but also seizes the mood of those turbulent times: as Europe shifted from a medieval world in thrall to the Church of Rome to a new era ruled by merchants and money, an age monk and mathematician Luca Pacioli helped to usher into being.
'How can he [Cromwell] explain to him? The world is not run from where he thinks. Not from his border fortresses, not even from Whitehall. The world is run from Antwerp, from Florence, from places he has never imagined; from Lisbon, from where the ships with sails of silk drift west and are burned up in the sun. Not from castle walls, but from counting houses, not by the call of the bugle but by the click of the abacus, not by the grate and click of the mechanism of the gun but by the scrape of the pen on the page of the promissory note that pays for the gun and the gunsmith and the powder and the shot.'
It was of course Luca Pacioli, the so-called Father of Accounting, who sparked my unlikely interest in accounting – and led to my writing not one but two books about its enthralling history: Double Entry and Six Capitals. I'll be talking about accounting – mostly about my new book Six Capitals – in the next few months in Brisbane, Melbourne, New York, Sydney and New Zealand. Here are the details of these events so far:
7 – 9 am, Friday 27 March 2015
Brisbane Writers Festival Literary Breakfast
Customs House, 399 Queen Street, Brisbane
4.30 – 6.30 pm, Thursday 16 April 2015
Swinburne Leadership Dialogue, Swinburne Leadership Institute
Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Melbourne
Wednesday 6 May 2015
Accountants Club of America
11.15 am – 12 pm: meet and greet
12 pm – 2 pm: luncheon and speaker
Club 101, 101 Park Avenue, Corner of 40th and Park Avenue, Lobby Level
Cost: $75
Friday 8 May 2015
New York University
5 – 7 pm: Presentation and roundtable discussion
More details to come
May 2015
Details to come
Wednesday 3 June: Auckland
Thursday 4 June: Wellington
Details to come
I'll be posting details of these events on my events page as they're confirmed, so stay tuned.


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Restoring Reaching to People with High Spinal Cord Injury
Faculty Mentor Eric Schearer
Summary. Functional electrical stimulation neuroprostheses are the most promising means for restoring arm and hand functions to people with paralyzed arms. Due to the complexity in controlling the shoulder and elbow, the most advanced neuroprosthesis for controlling reaching movements relies on frequent tuning by a technical expert. However, constant changes in the strength and stiffness of muscles along with the large number of potential reaching movements do not lend well to a strategy based on frequent expert tuning. The objective of this project is to coordinate electrical stimulation of multiple muscles to evoke reaching movements and to expand and improve upon those reaching movements as a user's muscles and goals change. The central hypothesis is that person-specific models of muscles' responses to electrical stimulation can be learned and used to coordinate muscles to evoke reaching movements and that reaching movements can be improved and expanded with tactile feedback from a nonexpert caregiver.
REU Student Involvement. The student(s) will design, manufacture, and test a wrist-mounted six-axis force sensing device that can be worn by a person with spinal cord injury. A caregiver could communicate corrections in the patient's arm movements by providing tactile feedback at the wrist-mounted sensing device. We have developed preliminary designs from which the student(s) can work. The student will conduct a literature search on similar devices, select, manufacture, and assemble the device's components, create electronic and computing interfaces that read the sensor's outputs, evaluate the device's wearability on human subjects, and evaluate its accuracy.
Health Care and Patient Experience. Students will observe experiments with people with high spinal cord injuries at MetroHealth Old Brooklyn Health Center where Dr. Schearer regularly conducts human subjects experiments as a member of the Bioscientific Staff.
Balance Training in the Community
Faculty Mentor Ann Reinthal
Summary. Balance is necessary for mobility, and independent mobility is a key to participating in numerous life activities. We are developing more effective interventions to improve balance including an inexpensive harness system that allows individuals to move, not only anteriorly and posteriorly, but also laterally. We hypothesize that the harness system will allow for more risk taking and therefore a higher intensity of safe practice than a non-harnessed environment where falls are possible. A critical gap in rehabilitation, however, is that improvements obtained in the clinical setting do not always transfer to an individual's real-life activities. One explanation is that clinic-based activities are not similar enough to those in real life, lacking the necessary task and environmental complexity. The proposed project involves transitioning harnessed balance training from the lab into a community setting, specifically community gardening. This transition requires several necessary adaptations which will be the focus of this student project.
REU Student Involvement. The student(s) will develop inexpensive multidirectional harness system designs for several common community garden layouts (raised beds, high tunnels, etc.) and inexpensive active-assist mechanisms to assist during sit to stand and kneeling to stand. In designing the first component, the student will be introduced to several community garden sites, in particular sites where older adults or individuals with disabilities could potentially garden with the proposed adaptations. For the second component, the student will work both in the lab, first with normal and then balance impaired individuals, to develop a robust design.
Health Care and Patient Experience. This project has direct contact with human research subjects as described above and with Dr. Reinthal, who is a licensed physical therapist.
The Role of Tissue Properties on Simulated Knee Mechanics
Faculty Mentor Jason Halloran
Summary. Healthy knee mechanics are the result of a complex interaction between the involved tissues. Each tissue (e.g. ligaments, cartilage, meniscus, etc.) serves a purpose and has properties that enable ideal load sharing across the joint. Injury, disease and/or aging alter the overall mechanics of the joint, which can result in pain, loss of mobility and eventually, joint replacement or reconstruction. Knee models have offered one means to understand the load sharing pathway for both healthy and diseased states. Yet, whole joint modeling studies typically assume properties based on literature reported values, even when it is known that uncertainty is present. Sources of uncertainty include the ability to accurately measure an individual tissue as well as variability across a population of individuals. Despite the prevalence of knee focused simulation studies, few have quantified the contribution of individual properties on predicted outcomes. A formal study that directly addresses this topic would serve two purposes. First, the effects of common modeling assumptions could be revealed and second, the relative importance of those assumptions could be found. This project will utilize already developed models to set up and use a framework for probabilistic simulation of knee mechanics.
REU Student Involvement. Students will explore the role of ligament reference lengths on resulting computational predictions of knee mechanics. Ligament reference lengths are difficult to measure experimentally, especially in the context of whole joint mechanics, and have particular relevance for ligament reconstruction procedures. With regards to rehabilitation engineering, this topic can be related to clinical success, where physicians directly or indirectly influence the load sharing pathway of the knee during many common interventions. Establishing the effect of relevant parameters will help quantify the consequences of clinical decisions and also provides a venue for undergraduate students to learn about the complexity of these problems.
Health Care and Patient Eexperience. REU participants will witness and document the steps in a joint reconstruction surgery (e.g. a total knee replacement or ligament reconstruction) performed by a collaborating physician at St. Vincent Charity Medical Center in Cleveland.
Laboratory Balance Training
Faculty Mentor Debbie Espy
Summary. Falls are an enormous problem for older adults and adults with disabilities: they risk morbidity and mortality, and even non-injurious falls lead to significant limitations in mobility, independence, and community participation. Evidence shows that balance training can reduce fall risk, and that reactive (being perturbed) training may be more effective that proactive (self- initiated). Proactive training is more typical clinically though because it is perceived as easier and safer. Our research focuses on designing proactive interventions to reduce fall risk. This study involves both testing and training of balance under various conditions: playing challenging, full- body video games on difficult support surfaces (pro-active); being slipped in standing or while walking (reactive). For these activities, participants are in a harness designed to allow freedom of movement to recover their balance independently but which supports their weight and prevents an actual fall if they are not able to recover on their own. A load cell is used to monitor the forces exerted throughout. We will also investigate the impact of the harness on motor learning and the efficacy of the balance training.
REU Student Involvement. The REU student(s) will work on one or more of the following projects. 1) Designing, building, and incorporating a wireless load cell for the gait slip into the current experimental set-up. The current gait slip is limited by the tethered load cell and amplifier. 2) Setting up the instrumentation and writing code to allow online analysis of the load cell signal from the gait, standing, or gaming set ups for in-the-moment decisions about the subjects' use of the harness as they learn the balance tasks. 3) Equipping the proactive harness system with a simple load cell that can alarm or indicate when the participant loads at greater than a certain force, to encourage decreasing reliance on the harness throughout training.
Health Care and Patient Experience. All three of these would involve iterative testing of the set-up with research participants who will be older adults or adults with conditions that put them at greater risk of falling. These studies mimic clinical training settings. The research participants are individuals with conditions that would lead them to receive physical therapy, balance training, and fall risk reduction.
Powered Prosthetic Leg Technology
Faculty Mentor Dan Simon
Summary. The Embedded Control Systems Research Lab develops novel prosthetic leg technology. About two million people in the US are lower-limb amputees, and the number is rapidly expanding because of the increasing prevalence of diabetic vascular disease. Current prosthesis technology does not restore able-bodied gait, and leads to ancillary health problems because of the amputees need to compensate for the technology's shortcomings. Improved prosthetic leg technology will allow amputees to lead longer, more active, more functional, more healthy, and more fulfilling lives. Recent advances in prosthesis control have demonstrated impressive performance, but control depends heavily on user activity. User activity can be inferred with electromyography (EMG), but EMG is invasive and inconvenient. Also, effective prosthesis controllers require state feedback, but state feedback sensors such as load cells are bulky, heavy, expensive, and prone to malfunction. There is thus an urgent need in the prosthetics field to devise novel approaches to user intent recognition and sensorless control for transfemoral prostheses.
REU Student Involvement. The REU student research will build on current NSF-sponsored prosthesis research at CSU and the faculty mentor's expertise in computer intelligence to develop new real-time pattern recognition algorithms to classify user activity, relying only on easily-obtained signals such as joint angles. Preliminary results are promising but the approach requires new advances in sensor fusion. REU students will: (1) conduct literature review on pattern recognition; (2) conduct literature review on prosthesis user intent; (3) become familiar with basic evolutionary algorithms; (3) simulate prosthesis user intent recognition with established pattern recognition algorithms; (4) incorporate evolutionary optimization in pattern recognition algorithms for benchmark problems; (5) implement the preceding results for prosthesis user intent recognition; (6) evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of their new algorithms using prosthesis simulation frameworks currently available at CSU.
Health Care and Patient Experience. The REU student(s) will attend amputee clinics at the Cleveland VA. These clinics, currently held every month at the VA, involve training activities and interactions between prosthetists and amputees. These clinics will provide the student with an appreciation of the importance of user intent, and an appreciation of the prosthesis usability issues that are faced by amputees. The student will be expected to reflect on their experiences at the amputee clinics in a structured way, including thinking about how prosthesis user concerns should inform their user intent research.
Impact Force Sensing for Walking and Running
Faculty Mentor Hanz Richter
Summary. Real-time measurement of ground reaction forces (GRF) associated with walking and running is critical in human kinetics studies and prosthetic and orthotic device design. GRF is typically measured using instrumented treadmills or force plates attached to a specific area of the walking surface. These methods preclude force data collection during free-range, extended movement, and impose limitations on the kinds of surfaces where walking and running take place. The goal of this project is to develop an instrumented shoe to eliminate these constraints. Based on preliminary studies, which involved one undergraduate student, insole-mounted piezoelectric films are a viable sensing technology. These films are highly flexible and self-powered, producing output signals solely on the basis of mechanical energy conversion and harvesting. Processing of raw sensor signals to match actual forces is accomplished by neural networks. The intellectual component of the project is focused neural network design, training and validation. Our experience with undergraduate students suggests that young students can grasp the essential concepts necessary to successfully design, train, and validate neural networks.
REU Student Involvement. Students will select piezoelectric film sensors according to ergonomic, economic and engineering criteria. They will determine the optimal distribution of sensors on the insole and prepare interfacing circuitry. Simultaneously, students will read material and receive instruction on neural networks and computer-aided tools that facilitate network training. Training and validation data collection will be carried out using an instrumented treadmill available in the Parker-Hannifin Human Motion and Control Lab at CSU. Network design and training will then be conducted. Principal component analysis for sensor re-selection, embedded design and wireless data transmission are possible extensions to the project, to be carried out in subsequent summers.
Health Care and Patient Experience. The REU student(s) will attend amputee clinics at the Cleveland VA. These clinics, currently held every month at the VA, involve training activities and interactions between prosthetists and amputees. These clinics will provide the student with an appreciation of the importance of user intent, and an appreciation of the prosthesis usability issues that are faced by amputees. The student will be expected to reflect on their experiences at the amputee clinics in a structured way, including thinking about how prosthesis user concerns should inform their user intent research.
Identification of feedback control in human movement
Faculty Mentor Ton van den Bogert
Summary. One of our research goals is to develop methods for identification and quantification of feedback control in human movement. This is motivated by the need to incorporate human-like control in powered prostheses and exoskeletons, but this also has potential clinical applications such as the diagnosis of neural deficits due to aging or disease.
REU Student Involvement. The goal of this student project will be to quantify reflex gains during walking. This will make use of a computer-controlled treadmill which can produce mechanical perturbations in various directions. The human response will be measured by electromyography (EMG). The student will program the system to apply one of several perturbations multiple times at the same time in the gait cycle. This will be done during a protocol of several minutes, randomly picking from a set of perturbations, so that the perturbations remain unexpected. The analysis will include signal processing to determine the EMG envelope, subtracting the baseline to highlight the reflex responses, and mapping the responses as a function of the gait cycle. This will be done in normal healthy participants. If successful, this will be extended to determine the effect of aging.
Health Care and Patient Experience. The REU student(s) will attend amputee clinics at the Cleveland VA. These clinics, currently held every month at the VA, involve training activities and interactions between prosthetists and amputees. These clinics will provide the student with an appreciation of the importance of user intent, and an appreciation of the prosthesis usability issues that are faced by amputees. The student will be expected to reflect on their experiences at the amputee clinics in a structured way, including thinking about how prosthesis user concerns should inform their user intent research.