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Economic growth in the resource-rich Brazil continues to remain under pressure due to a combination of a credit crunch, rising interest rates and weakening demand.
Sales on credit terms
95.6% of the survey respondents in Brazil reported having offered trade credit terms in either their domestic or international B2B transactions over the past year. This is the highest percentage of respondents citing the use of this business practice across the countries surveyed in the Americas (Canada, Mexico and the US).
Consistent with the survey pattern, Brazilian respondents appear to be markedly more inclined to sell on credit to B2B customers domestically than abroad. Domestically, credit-based sales averaged 49.8% of the total value of the sales to B2B customers in the country (average for the Americas is 49.3% and for Europe 44.3%).
In contrast, respondents' foreign sales made on credit averaged 36.5% of the total value of their exports (average for the Americas 40.1% and for Europe 37.9%). The discrepancy between the domestic and the foreign proportions of credit sales in Brazil is the largest of the countries surveyed. This suggests that on average, respondents have the least uniform perception of payment default risks arising from domestic and foreign trade.
Over the past year, the average proportion of sales on credit to domestic and foreign B2B customers transacted on credit in Brazil dropped slightly, by an average of nearly 3 percentage points, which is lower than the average 5.7 percentage point drop recorded in the Americas. This is the slightest drop in the value of B2B credit-based sales of all the countries surveyed in the Americas, which suggests a notably lower propensity of Brazilian respondents to use payment methods other than trade credit in B2B transactions compared to other countries surveyed.
Average payment term
Domestic B2B customers of respondents in Brazil are given payment terms (averaging 32 days) which are slightly shorter than those extended to customers abroad (averaging 35 days). This characteristic, which is shared with Mexico, is the opposite of what was observed in the US and Canada.
The average payment terms in Brazil are well above the average term for the Americas, which is 28 days for both domestic and foreign B2B customers. Compared to the same survey period one year ago, the domestic average payment term in Brazil appears to be slightly longer (by an average of three days). Similarly, payment terms extended to foreign B2B customers increased since last year, and is currently averages five days longer than last year.
Overdue B2B invoices
Economic growth in the resource-rich Brazil has continued to remain under pressure due to a number of factors ranging from declining competitiveness, weakening demand from China and falling commodity prices. As a result, Brazil is likely to see a deterioration of its insolvency environment this year, as financial conditions tighten and the economy contracts.
The warning signs are already there, as 95% of the survey respondents in Brazil reported having experienced invoice late payment from their B2B customers (respondents in the Americas 94.7 and in Europe: 92.8%). This is the second highest percentage of respondents reporting this experience across the countries surveyed, after Mexico. In terms of frequency, late payment from domestic B2B customers occurred almost as often as that from customers abroad.
By value, on average, 43.8% of the total value of domestic B2B invoices in Brazil remained unpaid after the due date (the average for the Americas is 46.1% and for Europe is 40.1%). This percentage is close to that recorded in the US (46.6%), is notably lower than that in Mexico (54.2%) and markedly higher than that in Canada (36.9%). Over the past two years, the levels of overdue domestic payments in Brazil increased by around 14 percentage points. This is in line with the upward trend observed in the Americas, where an increase averaging around 13 percentage points was observed.
44.3% of the average total value of foreign B2B receivables went past due. This proportion, which is almost the same as in Canada, and notably lower than in Mexico and the US, is below the 49.1% average for the Americas (average for Europe: 35.1%). Over the past two years, the rate of foreign overdue payments in Brazil increased significantly, peaking at a nearly 14 percentage points difference from the level recorded in 2013. However, this sits below the average increase for the survey overall (19.6 percentage points).
Although nearly three-fifths of the overdue invoices in Brazil were paid within one month after the due date, the proportion of long outstanding receivables (unpaid after 90 days overdue) appeared quite sizeable. 11.7% of the total value of the domestic, and 14.2% of the total value of the foreign B2B invoices was reported to be still outstanding after 90 days past due (averages for the Americas: 12.2% domestic and 16% foreign. Europe: 7.6% domestic and 7% foreign).
This is reflected in the Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) figure posted by Brazilian respondents, which averages 29 days and is the second longest figure across the countries surveyed after Mexico. However it does not appear to differ significantly from the survey average.
Average payment delay
In Brazil, domestic B2B customers make their past due payments, on average, not later than one month after the due date. Foreign past due invoices are paid by customers almost within the same time frame (an average of 32 days past due). Both figures are in line with the survey averages. This means that B2B suppliers in Brazil receive payment on domestic B2B invoices around 60 days after invoicing, and on foreign invoices after about 67 days .
Last year, there was a marked decrease in both the average domestic and foreign payment delay figure in Brazil, followed by an increase this year, which brought the rate of domestic and foreign late payment to levels higher than in 2013.
Carrying past due receivables implies financial and administrative costs, which may have a significant impact on cash flow and profit levels. Consistent with the survey pattern, most of the respondents in Brazil (23.9%, versus 20.3% for the Americas) reported that cost containment is the biggest challenge to business profitability this year.
Above the survey average is also the percentage of Brazilian respondents (19% versus 16.1% for the Americas) who are finding maintaining adequate cash flow levels challenging this year. This would suggest that respondents in Brazil anticipate increasing insolvency levels this year.
Key payment delay factors
The majority of respondents in Brazil (four in nine) indicated that late payment from domestic B2B customers is mainly due to liquidity issues. This quite sizeable percentage, which points again to the country's challenging economic conditions, is slightly below the 46.4% average recorded in the Americas. Well above the 23.6% survey average is the 30.2% percentage of Brazilian respondents stating that inefficiencies of the banking system is the primary reason for late payment on domestic B2B sales.
At the same time, inefficiencies of the banking system are reported to be most often the reason for payment delay from B2B customers abroad (32% of respondents, versus 37.2% for the region). Nearly one third of the respondents stated that late payment of foreign B2B invoices is most frequently attributable to the customer's liquidity constraints, and to the use of trade credit by the customers as a means of alternatively financing their business operations.
Uncollectable accounts
The proportion of B2B receivables, reported by Brazilian respondents as uncollectable averages 2.5% of the total credit sales value in the country. This is almost in line with the survey average of 2.2%. Consistent with the survey pattern, domestic write-offs outweigh foreign ones. This may be explained by the relatively lower volume of foreign credit-based transactions than domestic ones across the countries surveyed. Domestic and foreign uncollectable B2B receivables are primarily reported from the construction, consumer durables, electronics and business services sectors.
For most of the respondents in Brazil (51.2%) compared to 54.6% in the Americas, B2B receivables were mainly due to the customer being bankrupt or out of business. Failure of collection attempts were reported by fewer respondents in Brazil (35.5%) than in the Americas (37.2%). This may explain why respondents in Brazil (8.8%) appear to be much less concerned about collections of outstanding invoices than their peers in the Americas (12.1%).
The aging of the trade debt, as well as the circumstance that the customer could no longer be located, were the most frequent reasons for receivables to be uncollectable according to nearly one third of the respondents in Brazil.
For more insights into the B2B receivables collections practices in Brazil, please see the Global Collections Review by Atradius Collections (free download after registration), available from 29 September 2015 on atradiuscollections.com
Payment practices by industry
Survey respondents in Brazil reported granting trade credit terms mainly to B2B customers belonging to the chemicals, construction, consumer durables, metals, business services and services sectors. The longest payment terms, averaging 38 days from the invoice date, are given to domestic B2B customers in the metals sector and to foreign customers in the services sector (36 days)
Domestic and foreign B2B customers in the construction sector generate the highest levels of overdue payments (around 57%). Domestic payment delays are below the survey average only in the services sector. This is the case for foreign payment delays in the food sector.
Liquidity constraints was the most often reported reason for domestic payment delays in the chemicals sector (three in five respondents). Conversely, domestic buyers in the consumer durables sector (36% of respondents) delay invoice payment most often due to inefficiencies of the banking system. This, along with claimed liquidity issues and the use of trade credit as an alternative means of financing, are the most often reported reasons for late payment on foreign invoices in the services sector.
Around one in five respondents in Brazil said that they do not expect any change in the payment behaviour of either domestic or foreign B2B customers over the coming 12 months, Nearly one third of the respondents anticipate a worsening, particularly in the construction and consumer durables sectors, and just over two in five respondents envisage an improvement in B2B customers' payment patterns specifically in the domestic transport sector.
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The UN refugee agency has launched a global campaign to promote action against statelessness, a scourge for millions of people worldwide. Nationality might seem like a universal birthright, but it is estimated that up to 12 million people around the world are struggling to get along without it.
The stateless may also not be able to own property, open bank accounts, get married legally, or register the birth of a child. Some face long periods of detention because they cannot prove their identity or domicile, UNHCR said in a press release.
"These people are in desperate need of help because they live in a nightmarish legal limbo," High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres said in a message to launch the campaign, which comes ahead of the 50th anniversary on Tuesday of the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.
Statelessness has a variety of causes. Some populations were excluded from citizenship at the time of independence from colonial rule. Others fall victim to mass denationalization. In some countries, women cannot confer nationality on their children. Sometimes, because of discrimination, legislation fails to guarantee citizenship for certain ethnic groups.
The problem is global. Under its statelessness mandate, UNHCR is advising stateless people on their rights and assisting them in acquiring citizenship.It is also raising awareness about the international legal definition while improving its own methods for gathering data on stateless populations.
Read more on the UNHCR website…
"I am stateless."
Railya Abulkhanova, 36, was born and raised in a family of five in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan and was studying in Russia when the Soviet Union collapsed, leaving her citizenship in question.
The Brussels based United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe - UNRIC provides information on UN activities to the countries of the region. It also provides liaison with institutions of the European Union in the field of information. Its outreach activities extend to all segments of society and joint campaigns, projects and events are organized with partners including the EU, governments, the media, NGOs, schools and local authorities.
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Grease is the word on Glee when the Fox musical returns with new episodes on Thursday, Nov. 8 (9/8c on Fox).
In the episode, titled "The Role You Were Born to Play," McKinley High's attempted production of the beloved musical brings back one new face — The Glee Project Season 2 winner Blake Jenner — as well as some very familiar faces, namely graduates Mike (Harry Shum Jr.) and Mercedes (Amber Riley).
Glee does Grease! Check out the latest photos
But what are Mike and Mercedes doing back in Lima? Will Mercedes run into ex-boyfriend Sam (Chord Overstreet) while she's back in town? And who is newbie Ryder (Jenner) sharing screen time with? Check out the photos here.
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By night Catherine's Vincent Brooks climbs the teetering towers of his nightmares. By day he's an average guy in a long-term relationship with a woman that wants him to commit.
While Catherine is a horror / suspense game, at its core is a story that's been told countless times across many forms of media. Girl wants boy to commit, boy isn't sure, boy meets new girl, who turns out to be some strange parasitic dream vampire or something. Same old, same old. I'd be more excited about its release next month if that sort of stuff didn't happen to me all the time.


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Our Company works with industry groups to ensure that its products and services meet or exceed industry standards with respect to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ("HIPAA"). Our Company's products and services are specifically designed to include features that help our customers comply with HIPAA. Our Company uses a relational database that employs a secure login process requiring a user name and password.
Our Company supports role-based access. That is, users are assigned to groups, each with certain access rights, which may include the ability to edit and add data or may limit access to data. When a user adds or modifies data within the database, a record is made that includes which data were changed, the user ID, and the date and time the changes were made. This establishes an audit trail that can be examined by authorized system administrators.
Our Company's products incorporate the standard codes required by the HIPAA transaction standards for use in Audiology and Hearing Aid Dispensing, including the related subsets of the International Classification of Diseases, 9th Edition, Clinical Modification (ICD9-CM) and Current Procedural Terminology, 4th Edition (CPT-4).
Our Company utilizes a relational database that ensures all access is through a secure login process requiring a user name and password. Our Company supports role-based access. Within Our Company, users are assigned to groups and these groups in turn are assigned access rights, which may include the ability to edit and add data or may limit access to data. When a user adds or modifies data within the database, a record is made of what data was changed, the user and the time at which the data was changed establishing an audit trail that can be examined by authorized system administrators.
Customer Support
Our Company's product support staff will work with customers to help implement Our Company's products in a HIPAA compliant environment. All remote access to customer patient information by Our Company product support staff will be made using a fully encrypted protocol.
Business Associate
HIPAA requires health care providers to enter into "business associate" contracts with certain businesses to which they disclose patient health information. These business associate contracts generally require the recipients of such information to use appropriate safeguards to protect the patient health information they receive. To perform certain service and support functions, Our Company personnel may need access to patient health information maintained by its customers. As a result, Our Company may be considered a "business associate" of customers to whom it provides such services. Our Company will be providing its customers with a new standard business associate agreement that complies with HIPAA requirements.
Our Company's new business associate contract will generally assure its customers that the company will use patient information obtained from them to provide services and support only and will safeguard that information from misuse. The agreement will be effective on March 15, 2012 the current compliance date for the HIPAA privacy regulations, or any later adopted compliance date.
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Christmas Shortbread Wreaths
Total TimePrep: 30 min. + chilling Bake: 20 min. + cooling
Makes2 dozen (2 wreaths)
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup cornstarch
- 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
- 3/4 cup butter, softened
- Red and green sprinkles
- In a bowl, combine the flour, cornstarch and sugar. Blend in butter with a wooden spoon until dough is smooth. Form into two balls. Chill for 30 minutes or until firm.
- On a floured surface, roll one ball into a 9-in. circle; transfer to a greased baking sheet. Cut out center with a small round cookie cutter. If desired, scallop outer and inner edges of wreath with the edge of a cookie cutter or a knife.
- Cut wreath into 12 wedges. Separate wedges, leaving 1/8 in. between. Decorate outer and inner edges with sprinkles. Repeat with remaining dough.
- Bake at 300° for 18-22 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool for 5 minutes.
- Recut wreath into wedges. Remove to a wire rack to cool completely. To serve, arrange as a wreath on a large flat serving plate.
Nutrition Facts2 each: 178 calories, 11g fat (7g saturated fat), 31mg cholesterol, 116mg sodium, 18g carbohydrate (5g sugars, 0 fiber), 1g protein.
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We love the flavor of these cookies. I have used Christmas cookies cutter to cut out these with the same delicious results
Nov 10, 2012
Glad to find this recipe again! Lost it.
Jul 2, 2012
Made it into a sunflower for summer. Brown center and yellow petals. Cut out cookie same as for wreath but kept the center for center of flower.
Dec 29, 2011
Dough was very sticky; had to add more powdered sugar and flour. Make sure the surface that you roll it out on is powdered really well, or they stick a lot. Also, I would chill them longer than a half hour. Once they are workable, they really do look nice though. Make sure you space the pieces just so they're not touching, so that when they bake they connect. It looks better when you just cut them out again after baking. Also, don't wait until they're completely cool to cut them, just give them a minute or two to set. Overall these are very pretty though, and they taste good too!
Dec 11, 2010
I've made this cookie several years in a row when it first appeared in the TOH magazine. Somehow I lost it and am so glad to find it here. Great presentation and makes two so one to share and one to keep.
Sep 14, 2009
I tried this recipe when it first came out on the cover of one of the Christmas issues a few years ago. I love how it looks, but I failed miserably putting it together. I remember when I cut out the wedges, the lifter pulled the dough, and I had a hard time getting them transferred to the cookie sheet off the lifter, so the shapes were deformed. How can you get them to transfer to a cookie sheet without messing up the shape? Would it be easier to put a piece of parchment on the sheet and roll out the dough there, cut the shapes and pull off the excess dough? Also, my sprinkles melted during cooking, so the colours bled into the dough. It was awful. Any suggestions on how to make this wreath look perfect? I would try it again if I was sure I would be successful.
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Report: Braley holds big fundraising lead over others
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Bruce Braley continues to hold a substantial fundraising lead over the Republicans vying to oppose him in the general election.
Financial reports due to the federal government Friday show that Braley raised slightly more than $4 million in 2013 and ended the year with $2.6 million in cash.
The congressman from Waterloo is the only Democrat running for the seat being vacated by Sen. Tom Harkin. At least six Republicans are seeking the nomination in 2014.
Among them, State Sen. Joni Ernst raised more than $450,000 in 2013, and was left with about $290,000 in the bank. Wealthy businessman Mark Jacobs reported raising $410,000.
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The Lavaman Waikoloa run is a 10 kilometer run that is one of triathlons most scenic.
The run starts with a lava field run, then on fast street sections and then a tour through the Hilton Waikoloa Village resort grounds. The run finishes with epic one mile single track beach trail to the sandy beach finish line.
- Bikers must rack bike before run.
- Relay exchange for runners is at bike.
- You must have wear shirt or singlet during run (chest must be covered)
- Race number must be worn during run - race number must be in front and attached to shirt or race belt.
- Aid Station will be every mile for a total of six.
- Water, Fluid Replacement and an energy gels will be at aid stations.
- Please throw away trash at aid-stations
- Porta-Johns will be available throughout run course. You must use restrooms.
- No nudity!
- Be aware of Hotel Guests, when running through Hilton.
- A portion of the run course is run on the ancient Kings Trail - it is very narrow - Please use caution
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So this one came over a few minutes ago from a company called The Physicians Exchange, for a phone answering service.
I think they need to get a better website address.....
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A Blog detailing the insanity of my medical practice and the stupidity of everyday life.
ya think so, I think it's cheeky!
and think about it....they send this to you, you see the website..think it's a poor choice of webaddress...and then you post it here...for other dr.'s nurses etc to read...great marketing scheme these guys got going huh?
I work for a company part time called "The Camel Towing Co." They are an animal entertainment company...they give camel rides to kids at events and also do live nativity plays around Christmas....think that name's a coincidence? As a woman, you just got to love wearing your work shirt that says right across your chest..."Camel Towing".... :)
"Good Morning, Dover Auto Sales, Ben speaking...
Perhaps the company was started by Christine Jorgensen?
BTW, I met her once...in high school of all places.
That is excellent.
Would've never guessed of reaching to that demographic. Imagine the gold mine they're making, all those confused doctors.
Camel Towing...bwahahahaha!
Maybe they offer something on the side. :P
Reminds me of the poor town of Scunthorpe, in England... their town's website kept getting blocked by filtering software.
Are sex changes in doctors different in other groups? Didn't know. Maybe it's because of all the giant...well, you know. I think we've all met a few of them.
I once saw a delivery truck emblazoned with "No one can beat our meat." Catchy, but I'm vegetarian. ;-)
Oooooooooh! I've met Ben Dover and his wife Eileen!!! Seriously, I hope the physicians drop their s...
This is almost as fun as one of the greatest poorly named web sites of all time... Good ol' Pen Island. The website still exists. Dr. Grumpy, wouldn't you love to have some Custom pens from Penisland.net? C'mon... ya know you want to. Hell, you could always look for a Therapist with Therapistfinder.com
One wonders sometimes, if the people who make up these web dresses actually read them before purchasing them...
Many years ago, I used to work as a temp in a large office building. The poor girl tasked with staffing the podium at the main entrance was also a temp, and not the sharpest tool in the shed. The secretaries in the office pods near where I worked used to pull Bart Simpson-style pranks on her.
They'd call her up, and ask her to page someone over the building's overhead speakers. I'd be sitting at my desk and hear, "Would Sal Manella please report to the conference room? Sal Manella?"
Then there'd be a burst of giggling from around the corner.
Good times.
Made you look twice, and all of us.
I like that second to last paragraph:
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The simple tab navigation, single window interface and condensed toolbars keep important features always at your fingertips. Internal relational databases track clients, customers, vendors, product catalog, worksheets, jobs, invoices, recurring items, payments, installment plans, scanned documents and more. Advanced features include multiple business sets, auto enter preferences, multiple currencies, 2 or 3 decimal point precision, sequential invoice numbering, customizable tax fields, customizable invoice header & footer, labor timer, labor calculator, parts markup calculator, integrated scanned document management and contextual help system. Print options for invoices, receipts and installment plans include classic, top stub or bottom stub layouts with addressing aligned for standard window envelopes. Totals and report printouts include invoices paid, due, suspended, by date range, client, job or agent plus worksheets, product catalog items, vendors, clients, customers and attached scanned documents.
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A Pain in the Person
At what point will we say "enough"?
To illustrate what a negative externality is, it helps to get literal about it. So let's start with horse shit—specifically, the Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894. That was the year a Times of London reporter guessed that the city's streets would be buried under nine feet of manure within 50 years. In the Pulitzer-winning Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (Oxford: 1998), Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace say horses deposited 2.5 million pounds of manure and 60,000 gallons of urine on 250 miles of city streets, every day. By 1900, possibly the peak year for horse-drawn transport, New York was served by 100,000 horses producing 1,200 metric tons of manure, daily. About half that much was collected daily and hauled, by horse, to Barren Island, off the coast of Brooklyn. The rest accumulated, bred flies, smelled to heaven and spread disease—all negative externalities. Add to those the costs of breeding, raising and feeding horses with hay grown on farms in nearby countryside and hauled—also by horse—to stables in cities.
But the positive internalities of the horse-drawn system outweighed the negative internal and external ones. Civilized city life required horse-drawn transport, so citizens put up with the bad stuff, as they always do. And, there were positive externalities as well. Cruelty to horses drove Henry Burgh to found the ASPCA in 1866. Horse poop and landfill expanded Barren Island until it eventually became part of Brooklyn. In 1930, it was paved with tarmac and runways to become New York's first major airport: Floyd Bennett Field. Today, it's a park by the same name.
But, the most positive outcome of horse-drawn transport was that it legitimized gas-powered mechanical transportation: cars and trucks. These too would produce negative externalities along with many positive ones. But let's not go there, because we know them all well. Instead, let's look at negative externalities we put up with today in the digital realm, starting with advertising.
Traditional advertising—the kind that runs on TV, radio and in print—wastes no more time, space and electricity than it takes to generate it. Although it does waste a substantial sum of all three, those all have physical limitations. The same is not true of advertising on-line, where virtual space is virtually infinite, and pollution by wasted messages is entirely ignored by those who create it. All they care about are "exposures" and "click-throughs". If an ad doesn't get read, it doesn't matter to the producers, because the costs of the waste are mostly external: borne by others. Last December, Fred Wilson gave a speech in which he fingered "data leakage" and "pollution" as a Major Issue (starting around 23 minutes in). This could be a turning point (Fred's an influential guy). Or, it could just be sign of the times that we'll ignore for another few years or decades.
We also suffer many negative externalities from the login/password convention, which is as stale today as horse-drawn carriages were in 1910. If you're Example.com, all you care about are the logins and passwords you require of your users—not the dozens or hundreds of logins and passwords the user has to remember, somehow. Right now, I'm in the early stages of changing many hundreds of logins and passwords on up to four different browsers, on several different computers, plus those on my phones and tablets. This is a huge project, slowed by a de-motivating sense of futility, plus a resentment about not coming up with something better. True, a variety of password managers are available to me, and I'm busy kicking their tires as well, but each of those brings its own set of vulnerabilities, chief among which is dependency itself: I become their vassal too.
I see the larger problem as centralization: a box so huge that we can hardly think outside of it, much less develop solutions out there. When Target Stores got hacked, and more than 110 million credit cards needed to be replaced, almost nobody (far as I know) looked at the sum costs of the security breach to the individual credit-card holders, much less at the need to come up with alternative approaches that would present bad guys with smaller surfaces to attack. Instead, all we got was hand-wringing and promises by feudal lords and their suppliers to build better castles, most of which consist of silo'd "loyalty" programs and other coercive systems for keeping their serfs—customers and users—trapped inside. Even every app, it seems, is a little castle of its own, and there are now more than a billion of those, both for iOS and Android.
The Internet was designed to solve this problem, starting in 1962. That was when Paul Baran came up with a network model designed to avoid the vulnerabilities inherent in the only kind of networks anybody knew at the time. Those were centralized ones, such as we got from phone companies and TV networks. Baran's new model was what he called distributed, and he illustrated it with the graphic shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1. Centralized, Decentralized and Distributed Networks
Every node on a distributed network would be independent. And, although a node or a link might be vulnerable, it would not bring down the whole network if it failed. Such a network would be a heterarchical, a virtue I unpacked here in April 2014. The Internet we have today is actually both decentralized and distributed, but at least it gives us a platform for creating distributed solutions to the problems of centralization. Linus and thousands of collaborators have used that platform to create and continuously improve Linux for 24 years, all operating independently. Yet, we also find Linux inside nearly every big centralized system on the Net—Twitter, for example. Because Twitter is centralized, it's easy for a government to shut it down. That's what happened in Turkey, back in March. But, that's beside the main point I want to make here, which is that distributed networks are composed of the same individuals that centralized systems burden with negative externalities, which those systems either rationalize or ignore.
In May 2014, the top European court ruled in favor of an individual's "right to be forgotten", and against Google, which produces an infinitude of search results, including many that some people would rather have the world forget. While the implications of the ruling were hotly debated, lost in the midst was the fact that Google's manners toward individuals often have been terrible. One example is StreetView, which provides the world with pictures of everybody's homes and businesses. This freaked out a lot of people, and in some cases, freaked out whole countries. Another is Google Glass, which has many fine uses, but also suggests that the wearer is recording others without permission. Google's lame manners in those cases are made possible by centralized systems that ignore or rationalize negative consequences to individuals.
At some point, outsourcing negative externalities to individuals is going to become a burden too high for those individuals to bear, and a tipping point will be reached. When that happens, we'll start to see some forward motion toward creating the distributed individual-first solutions that Paul Baran first drew for us more than a half century ago.


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WATFORD CITY, N.D. — When Brent Sanford graduated high school nearly 25 years ago, his tiny prairie town seemed to be withering away. Storefronts were shuttered, senior classes shrinking, families packing up and moving out. He joined the exodus.
But he kept looking for a way to return. He followed his town's struggles from afar, getting updates from his father and subscribing to the local weekly newspaper. He'd read about plans to lure businesses to Watford City, but the results were discouraging. "It was sad to see," Sanford says. "They were trying to get things to happen ... but you couldn't force people to live here. There had to be a draw. There had to be a reason."
Watford City now has a reason: Billions of dollars of oil in the shale beneath the ground.
This town suddenly finds itself at the epicenter of the Bakken oil boom. A tidal wave of oil money has erased the dusty, forlorn crossroads that once stood here and replaced it with a bustling community. As Watford City marks its 100th anniversary this year, it stands astride a county where more than 8 million barrels of oil — nearly 300,000 a day — were pumped out of the shale in February. McKenzie County is the top oil producer in the state.
Oil already has transformed the landscape. Construction cranes tower in the sky. Houses and hotels are proliferating. Trucks rumble along Highway 85, creating bumper-to-bumper traffic. Tongues of flame flare from new wells. Help wanted notices beckon from billboards and roadside signs. And the free-flowing cash has drawn investors from as far away as China and France.
"I don't know how else to say it, but it's mindboggling to see," says Sanford, now Watford City's mayor. "It seems very surreal most of the time. We don't have a choice but to keep up with it and try to stay ahead of it. ... It's like all those chances we were looking for in the mid '90s and early 2000s just hit us with a fire hose."
The Bakken bump — as it's often called — has pumped new life and new opportunities into long-fading hamlets, such as Grenora, where temporary new homes have popped up and oil rigs whiz by at all hours. It's too soon to know how much these towns will benefit and for how long. But probably no place illustrates the possibilities and growing pains better than Watford City.
"I've been around long enough to see both sides," says Gene Veeder, McKenzie County's economic development director. "The economic boom is fantastic. But the effort that it's taken to deal with it is extraordinary. How do you build a city that's grown this fast in such a short period of time? How do you come up with a financial plan to do justice to the people moving here?"
It's a question he never could have imagined during those desperate days when he scrambled to find tenants for 14 empty storefronts along Main Street. Back then, Veeder touted Watford City's tranquility, cheap housing and low-cost labor — all gone now. But there were few takers.
"Fifteen years ago we couldn't get people to look this way," he says. "Now everyone is looking ... and we need to find a way to serve them."
Town officials are trying: They've expanded the sewer and water systems for a mushrooming population that could reach 17,000 by 2017 — 10 times the 2010 census. They've offered subsidized housing to essential public workers, such as police officers and teachers, who can't afford soaring housing costs: Monthly rent for a two-bedroom apartment has spiked from $500 to $2,000 or more in the last three years.
They've hired extra police to deal with rising numbers of calls and increasing crime.
And they've issued building permits at a record pace. By fall, there will be another 2,000 apartment units and 300 to 400 homes (many folks now live in campers or "man camps," dormitory-like settings). A new high school, community center and hospital are planned.
By the end of 2014 there will be nine hotels. Not long ago, there was just one, and a seasonal motel.
Four churches also plan to expand, says Jeff Ruggles, pastor of CrossPoint Church, whose congregation has tripled since he arrived five years ago. His church will break ground this summer on an addition that will house a sanctuary, indoor playground and what he calls a "mancave" to compete with the local bars — a hangout with a casual, friendly atmosphere, but without alcohol.
In the past two years, he says, he's seen people struggle with financial problems, marriage troubles and the stresses of living in campers, working 90-hour weeks. "I sit down and deal with people hurting and broken in ways that I've never seen before," he says.
It's not just new arrivals feeling the strain. Some longtime residents— especially elderly folks — who relished the peace and quiet of the past have left town, tired of traffic and long lines.
"You'll see much more enthusiasm from someone who has moved here in the last five years than someone who has been here 40 years," Veeder explains.
Luke Allen, who moved here last summer to start his dental practice, finds the pioneer spirit exhilarating.
"It has the same buzz that big cities have. It has the energy but it comes from a different source — the industry and the work," says Allen, 35, a former rock guitarist. "No matter what hour of the day or day of the week, I can see the semis rolling. ... It's exciting to me. I can just feel it in the air. ... It's like that show 'Deadwood,' a bunch of guys in the Wild West, but it's people driving cars instead of riding horses."
Allen says his practice is thriving — he sees 15 to 20 patients daily — and others are prospering, too, including a couple who quickly found jobs, together bringing in more than $100,000 a year. "They went from a home in a tent to a camper to sharing a home to now having their own place," he says. "Where else can you do that?"
He worries, though, about housing costs when his wife joins him this summer. But "it's worth it," he says. "We're in a historic time. To come up and be part of that is kind of cool, I think."
A generation ago, Sanford — whose grandfather was mayor and father a city council member — had different worries. When he left for college, the town had few job prospects for young people. At his 10-year high school reunion, he says, only three members of his 68-member class had remained in Watford City.
"When your community is aging, it seems like there's a pretty good idea of what the end game is ... The last person that dies shuts the door," he says. Sanford lived in Fargo, Phoenix and Denver, then returned in 2004 — before the boom — to take over the Ford dealership co-owned by his father, who'd decided to retire.
Gene Veeder left during the early 1980s when the family ranch could no longer support two generations. He returned 15 years later when his father became ill. He now lives on the land his Norwegian grandfather homesteaded a century ago — photos of those pioneering days are featured in the county's history museum. And his three daughters have all moved back in recent years. .
Like many others, Veeder remembers how the oil boom of the 1980s — there also was one in the 1950s — fizzled rapidly. "There's that fear that still runs through the fabric of the community — that it will happen again. It's still the ghost in the corner that's looking at us all the time saying, 'Are you doing the right thing?'"
History won't repeat itself, says Dean Bangsund, a research scientist at North Dakota State University who has studied the Bakken. "I don't think we're going to have that door slammed shut like it was in the 1980s. It went from boon to bust in 18 months. It was painful."
The boom is much bigger this time. Experts say Bakken wells will last 25 -to-30 years.
"This one seems like it's never going to quit," says a smiling Gordon Levang, who at 95 has been in Watford City for almost its entire history. He has a home in town and a farm outside, where wells are being drilled, he says. All in all, he considers himself lucky. It'll be nice, he says "to have something to pass on to your kids."
The mayor says the new housing, businesses and public buildings will give Watford City a foundation so it can diversify into agricultural and energy manufacturing once the oil slows. "We couldn't even begin to attract that type of activity here in the sleepy little town we were," he says.
Jessie Veeder — one of Gene Veeder's daughters — vividly remembers her childhood when she'd ride her bike down dusty back roads and not see a car or stand atop the hill and not see a light.
No more. She's still adjusting to the trade-off.
"You can't have it both ways — you can't have this real booming industry, all this economic growth and all this prosperity without having some repercussions," she says. "Sometimes it's tough having people driving, digging and changing things. ... You put it in perspective. It's business. It just feels like it's going so fast. The growth in the industry didn't trickle in, it came roaring down the road."
Jessie Veeder's husband works in the oil fields. She blogs about her love of open space and her pride at living in the place her great-grandfather called home.
She sings and writes songs, too, including one about the revival of Watford City. It's called "Boomtown," and the last verse pays homage to those younger folks who've returned to their roots. It goes:
'Jimmy's moved back home
He's helping dad cut hay
Pumps in the morning
But he gets home by five
We almost lost him there
Now he's more alive
God bless the sound
Sharon Cohen, a Chicago-based national writer, can be reached at email@example.com.
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Bristol Palin said she didn't think twice before waltzing into "Dancing with the Stars," though she's barely danced in her life.
In an appearance Friday on NBC's "Tonight Show with Jay Leno," the 19-year-old daughter of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says she learned about the invitation through a text message and signed within a week to appear on the new season starting Sept. 20.
Leno asked if she had gone to her high school prom. Palin replied "No, I was pregnant!"
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When you join SoSZ you pick a username by which you are recognized as you participate in the forum. As you spend time here people become more and more familiar with your username, and eventually even the more unusual of choices becomes what people expect.
In the past we used to allow members to change their username by request. Members then started doing it too frequently—as part of a trend or theme—and we decided to regulate it to monthly intervals. Still, even for the regulars, it became very odd to see familiar faces changing with new usernames. Now, after this grand experiment, it has come to an end.
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A spelling, grammar, or formatting correction needs to be made. You are being mixed up with another member that has a similar name. An unexpected meaning found behind it makes you uncomfortable. In many cases we will be willing to change it to your real name. When you wish to have a username change please post in this thread and detail your reason for the name change. If an administrator feels it is acceptable your name will be changed and a new post will be made in this thread (so expect that next time you come to log in). If an administrator feels it is unacceptable you will be denied. If questions are in order (which may include actual feedback from the administrator) you might log in later to find that waiting for you rather than an actual name change.
I know this might come as a little bit of a surprise to members after we've been allowing it for two years now, but the reality of the situation is that we were one of the precious few large forums that ever allowed it in the first place. We've just come to the conclusion that it is more disruptive than productive, and also that there are better things the administration team could be doing than hearing complaints about how late a name-change is (or even changing the name in the first place). Remember folks; there is no rush. If you are going to request a final name-change be certain to think it through carefully. Don't settle for anything short of what seems perfect to you—the sort of name you would want to use to represent yourself in multiple places on the Internet.
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The dairy industry seems to spend a lot of money convincing people that we need -- and must drink -- milk, especially on how important calcium is for strong bones, weight loss, and recently, muscle recovery.
Just this past week, a study released at the American College of Sports Medicine's (ACSM) 57th Annual Meeting in Baltimore showed that chocolate milk might be a "worthwhile post-exercise recovery beverage."
But is chocolate milk really as good for muscle recovery as they say?
Back in 2006, researchers compared the effectiveness of Gatorade, chocolate milk, and a sports drink (carbs and protein combination matching chocolate milk) on nine male cyclists. The cyclists who drank the chocolate milk were able to bike significantly longer than those who drank the sports drink, but about the same as the Gatorade.
Last year, an ACMS chocolate milk study conducted on 13 male college soccer players compared a high-carbohydrate recovery beverage to a beverage with the same amount of calories to chocolate milk. According to the study, "chocolate milk drinkers had significantly lower levels of creatine kinase -- an indicator of muscle damage -- compared to when they drank the carbohydrate beverage. There were no differences between the two beverages in soccer-specific performance tests, subjective ratings of muscle soreness, mental and physical fatigue and other measures of muscle strength."
There are several important aspects to understand about muscle recovery: "First and foremost, active individuals must ensure they are meeting their total energy intake needs in order to promote muscle recovery. Next, they need to appropriately time consumption of adequate amounts of fluids and electrolytes, carbohydrate for replenishing glycogen storage, and high-quality protein for repairing and rebuilding muscle protein," says Dr. Jackie Maurer Abbot a Registered Dietitian and Board Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics.
Research from the University of Texas demonstrated that simply having carbohydrates are not enough. Amino acids are also critical to help with muscle recovery. Amino acids serve as the building blocks that our muscles use to repair damage that occurs with exercise and to support muscle growth (aka muscle hypertrophy). In fact, as little as 6 grams of essential amino acids (amino acids that must be obtained from diet, animal proteins and soy protein contain all 9 essential amino acids) can aid the recovery process, says Maurer Abbot. And there is one specific amino acid that researchers have identified as potentially mediating greater maintenance of muscle mass – Leucine -- which plays a key role in building new muscle protein.
Is chocolate milk a good source of Leucine? Yes, it is a decent source. One cup of chocolate milk has 778 mg of Leucine.
The bottom line: The unique combination of carbohydrates and protein, and the fact that fat-free chocolate milk is also a liquid (as opposed to simply having yogurt), makes it a contender as a muscle recovery drink. From a weight-loss perspective, you should skip the fat-free chocolate milk and have a plain, Greek yogurt (80 calories for 5 ounces).
Important: The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and not Everyday Health.


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As exhibition games go, this one is the most important for the Miami Dolphins.
Not only is the game on a national stage, but Thursday night's preseason game against Tampa Bay is the dry run, the dress rehearsal for how this team will play when the regular season gets here in a few weeks.
A win isn't exactly critical. But how the first-team offense and defense looks against the Bucs starters in their two-plus quarters of work will be telling.
The rebuilding Buccaneers don't exactly scare anyone from a talent standpoint, but it'll be interesting to learn if the Dolphins do after three preseason games. I suspect Tony Sparano's shooting for a 4-0 record to inject a little bit more confidence into his squad.
Here are my seven points to watch for....
1. Which offense line will the Dolphins get this season. Is it the group that struggled to create running lanes (3.2 yards per carry) against Jacksonville. Or the one that dominated Carolina at the line of scrimmage, tallying 141 yards and a touchdown? Maybe Jon Beason's knee injury padded those Carolina yards. This game will tell us.
2. Which one of the contenders for the starting spot opposite Ted Ginn Jr. will separate himself. Can Davone Bess dismiss his bout with the dropsies? Will Greg Camarillo play fast like a starter, or will he look like a receiver nine months into rehabbing an ACL tear? And can rookie Brian Hartline digest enough of the offense to earn the coaching staff's trust.
3. Can the defensive line continue it's two game dominance against the run. Outside of DeAngelo Williams' spectacular 25-yard touchdown run the front line has been extremely stingy. Opponents are averaging 3.5 yards per carry against the Dolphins, and most of that's coming against the scrubs late in the game.
4. The Dolphins are consistently putting opposing quarterback on the ground, regularly applying pressure that's getting the defense off the field. But since the two sacks Cameron Wake has been robbed of can't be factored in (it's preseason for the refs too) the Dolphins have only produced two total sacks in two games. That means Joey Porter and company (hello Jason Taylor) need to apply the heat to the Buccaneers.
5. The special teams unit needs to clean up its act. Last weeks poor tackling and undisciplined play led to a 58-yard punt return and a turnover on a fumbled punt, which led to a touchdown. The Dolphins also need to settle in on a primary kickoff and punt returner and it would be nice to see what Ginn has to offer in year three. He really wants to be this team's primary returner but the coaches don't like his tentative style. Maybe this will be his chance to prove he's a changed man.
6. Has rookie cornerback Sean Smith lost any momentum after having to sit out last Saturday's game with an illness. Or is he ready to lock down that starting spot opposite Will Allen with another impressive performance? Vontae Davis closed some ground on Smith last week, but can the 2009 first-round pick continue to play a clean game, avoiding penalties. Could he show enough to challenge Nate Jones for the starting nickel back spot?
7. Which fringe guy will do enough to improve his standing with the team, possibly putting himself in position to make the 53-man roster. Lex Hilliard's strong early showing has helped his cause, but who will be next?
Can Jason Allen finally put it all together as a cornerback? Will Brandon London make a wow catches that convince the coaches they need six receivers? How much pressure can Lionel Dotson, Quentin Moses and Erik Walden apply to Tampa Bay's quarterbacks?
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Novel Idea
This story appears in the July 2002 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »
What: Personalized romance
Who: J.S. Fletcher and Kathy Newbern of YourNovel.com
Where: Raleigh, North Carolina
When: Started in 1992
Who knew regular people could star as protagonists in romance novels? Upon hearing a friend's passing comment about the idea, writers J.S. Fletcher, 52, and Kathy Newbern, 46, decided it would make a great business. After purchasing a computer and a printer, the two launched YourNovel.com and immediately set out to write their first customized romance novel.
Initially, the partners used simple search and replace commands, but today they use a custom-made software program to personalize each book. Since 1992, they've written 10 novels together under the pen name Fletcher Newbern; customers can choose either wild (steamy scenes) or mild (hugging and kissing) versions. They've even released a book written by the winner of their romance novel contest.
Customers who log on to the Web site simply fill out a questionnaire, which gathers such data as names of characters (real or imagined--the most popular bachelor is George Clooney) and romantic setting of choice (such as exotic Caribbean islands, cruise ships and North Carolina lodges). The order is then sent to an outsourced printer; the personalized book, featuring a full-color cover and professional binding, is shipped and received in a matter of days.
Last year alone, the company sold 6,000 copies. And although sales were $300,000 in 2001, the payoff for Fletcher and Newbern has been more than just financial--they got married two years after launching the business.
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What: Fresh-baked cookies
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Who: Geoff Auslen and Andrew Koven of Geoff and Drew's Incredible Cookies
Where: Boston
When: Started in 2001
When Geoff Auslen, 35, and Andrew Koven, 33, went into business together by purchasing the assets of an existing bakery, making cookies was only part of their vision. Intent on leaving a lasting impression with customers, the longtime friends added delivery services--to Boston-area dorm rooms, homes and offices--to the mix.
Available until midnight on weekdays and 1 a.m. on weekends, the cookie delivery service, which doles out fresh-baked cookies in six flavors, has been a hit with customers, especially college students. In an effort to boost growth even further, Auslen and Koven have since expanded the business to include cakes, pastries and brownies as well as corporate sales of gift baskets and tins and catering services for corporate parties and events. To date, success has been sweet: 2002 sales are estimated to hit $500,000.
Auslen and Koven say they plan to build the business one recipe at a time. "We're not out to beat the world just yet; we're out to make good cookies," Koven explains. Next up: adding a few new cookie flavors to the menu.
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Police find pot, other drugs in Beloit home
BELOIT, Wis. — Two men were arrested after a drug investigation and search of a home in Beloit, according to the Rock County Sheriff's Office.
The FBI assisted local law enforcement in the execution of a search warrant Monday at 1102 Sixth St.
Deputies said the two men in the home were taken into custody. Demetrious D. Broadwater, 43 and LaShawn D. Figgins, 42, both of Beloit, were arrested on suspicion of maintaining a drug house, possession with intent to deliver marijuana within 1,000 feet of a school, possession of a schedule II drug and possession of drug paraphernalia. Figgins was also arrested on suspicion of a probation violation.
Officers found 136 grams of marijuana, 20 acetaminophen and codeine tablets, drug paraphernalia and $650 in cash in the home, according to deputies.


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Clarence Thomas' legal time machine zooms to 1789//
Don't let the U.S. Supreme Court's very contemporary cases on gene patenting and same-sex marriage fool you: At least one justice is still living in the 18th century and doesn't care who knows it.
Justice Clarence Thomas followed his astonishingly consistent originalism in Alleyne v. U.S., joined by the court's four liberals -- and none of its conservatives -- in holding that a fact that increases a defendant's mandatory minimum sentence must be found true by the jury, not by the judge alone.
Just a few minutes earlier, however, it was announced that Thomas had provided the deciding vote in Salinas v. Texas, arguing that a defendant's exercising the right to remain silent can be used by the prosecutor to argue to the jury that silence is evidence of guilt.
From a policy perspective, these two opinions, one liberal and one conservative, make no sense. The only way to reconcile them is to enter the mind of Justice Thomas, in which the court's job is to bring us back to the nation's founding and damn the consequences.
Thomas's opinion on what facts must be submitted to the jury derives from a series of opinions he has written over the past 15 years, all of which amount to a concerted historical attack on the way modern legislatures and judges handle criminal punishment. In the good old days, the English common law defined a limited set of felonies, and they all had the same punishment: death. Like the Islamic Shariah, the Jewish Halakha and many other early legal systems, the common law wasn't so much bloodthirsty as designed to operate in an environment with little formal police enforcement. Capital punishment was counterbalanced by a low likelihood of detection -- kind of like harsh sentences for insider trading.
But human beings who administered these old legal systems were capable of being humane, and they developed procedural tricks to avoid executing everybody. In common law, the check on extreme punishments was the jury, which could engage in what was called "pious perjury" -- a kind of jury nullification where the jurymen (always men) would pretend, for example, that the value of the object stolen was less than the minimum required to make the crime a felony punishable by death. For Thomas, the principle that the jury is the escape hatch against harsh punishment specified by the law has become the touchstone of criminal justice.
Today, however, it is lawmakers who try to let the punishment fit the crime, as Gilbert & Sullivan's "The Mikado" so memorably put it in the era of sentencing reform. Hence measures such as minimum- and maximum-sentence laws. And, it stands to reason, if sentencing is a specialized and precise function, it should be done by a trained government official with experience and expertise: in other words, a judge.
Thomas rejects this view -- not because he's especially concerned about defendants, but because he is exquisitely sensitive to William Blackstone's description of the jury as "the palladium of our liberties."
If you doubt my claim that Thomas has no special solicitude for vulnerable defendants, look no further than his rather extreme concurrence in the self-incrimination case, Salinas v. Texas. Genovevo Salinas, the defendant, was brought to the police station for photographs and questioning, supposedly to clear him in a murder case. He answered the police's questions in the interview room until they asked him whether his shotgun at home would match the shells at the scene. That shut him up. At his trial, the prosecutor told the jury that an innocent man wouldn't have remained silent: He would have said "What are you talking about? I didn't do that. I wasn't there."
Wait, you say, isn't that exactly what the prosecutor can't say if you really have the right to remain silent? What kind of right is it if exercising it will be used to make you look guilty? Which, in fact, is just what Justice Stephen Breyer and the other liberals asked in their dissent.
Yet Justice Samuel Alito -- writing for plurality that included Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Anthony Kennedy -- said that because Salinas was there voluntarily and wasn't in custody, he had to say the magic words, "I invoke my right to remain silent under the Fifth Amendment." Because he didn't, his words could be used against him.
There is something a little impractical about this holding. After all, we read suspects their Miranda rights because we figure they don't always know to invoke them. Yet for Justice Thomas, even that apparent contradiction didn't go far enough.
Writing a separate, decisive concurrence joined by Scalia, Thomas took the opportunity to re-express his view that the right not to be compelled to be a witness against yourself doesn't include the right for the jury not to be told that your silence is evidence of guilt -- ever. (Never mind that the Supreme Court has explicitly interpreted the self-incrimination right that way since 1965.)
At the founding, Justice Thomas noted, defendants were encouraged to make unsworn statements defending themselves, and their failure to do so could be mentioned at trial. Of course, he didn't mention that at the time, defendants were also generally prohibited from testifying on their own behalf, lest they endanger their souls by perjury.
If criminal justice, or the rest of our constitutional system, were actually turned back 225 years or so, the results would be so unfamiliar as to seem bizarrely un-American. Originalism is valuable because it reminds us that there are certain core values that we as a people have preserved throughout our history -- not because we should stop using zippers and go back to a world of buttons.
That said, I have to admit that there is something inspiring about a justice who takes a principle to its logical end out of a sincerely held commitment, even if it makes him look ridiculous. So long as there aren't four others who agree with him consistently.


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So I preface this report with the fact that I've run trails once before. I really enjoyed that trail run and felt really good after it. That was a 10 mile out and back. The Malibu Creek Trail run was one giant loop. I don't really do to well on looped runs but I figured what the heck, and I got conned into the race by Billy. I was lucky enough to be able to stay with Sara, and we went out dinner with some friends before the race at C & O Cocina, and they had amazing food!
At dinner, remind me never to wear that vest again. Thanks.
Here's the elevation chart. Yea, possibly should have looked at this before the race.
Onto the race. Sara and I woke up early and ready to go. I just didn't have the worlds best feeling about my knee but I knew I would hopefully be able to tough it out. I liked the last trail run. I was excited to run 15 miles, a new race distance pr for me. We drove to Malibu Creek and it was freezing. We had checked the weather beforehand and it said it would be 45 degrees. When we got there it was 33. That's a pretty big difference! I actually walked over to the race check in wearing my blanket that I slept with the night before wrapped around me. I got a few funny looks but I'm not a cold weather lover unless I'm prepared for it.
Hi, I'd like to check in to get annihilated now. Thanks.
Then I went back to the car to put down my blanket and get my bottle and everything, and yup, as I'm walking back I totally missed the start. Cool. I would have normally FLIPPED out, but I was like whatever, I'm going to take my time and make sure I'm prepared and then take off. I finally left the starting area around 5 minutes later. I quickly caught up to the last of the packs and I was SUPER annoyed. There were random people yehawing? I was already dead at mile 3 and I had 12 more to go. My love for trail running was slowly dying. I climbed a few hills and on the first downhills my knee immediately was killing me. I knew it wasn't smart to push myself and just figured I would run when I could and walk/jog when I couldn't.
This was the start. I missed it. See that mountain in the background? Pretty sure we climbed it.
It was then when I met up with Yolanda, which I will go into more tomorrow, she was so inspiring and I can't wait to tell you all about her!!
It was pretty, but I don't know about worth it.
Another totally funny part of the race. We were running along and some guy told us to follow up to the road. Now this was a busy road and we had to hike up a little mini hill to get to the top and travel down the road, I felt like the race directors wouldn't have us run down this road, but I followed him because he seemed to know what he was doing and I didn't know the route. WELL I MISSED THIS RIVER because of him! How funny and GREAT… I would have flipped. So yup, this race I technically cheated as well. Well again I was told that this was the path but seriously, how funny.
The hills, yup, no joke here. This one wasn't even that bad at all.
So I slugged along, the hills were BRUTAL. I have NEVER experienced something like this before. They kept coming and coming and coming I would think that the next one would be the last, but no it wasn't. It was like you got to the top and then you could see the next path you were about to travel. Hard-freaking-core. Then as it always happens, what goes up must come down. Yikes. So the downhills were pretty hard for the knee but it held up, but the toes are a little hurt from being squashed into the front of my shoes, especially with two already beat up toenails. I hopefully salvaged them last night and this morning and they are looking okay. I'm in a wedding this weekend and my feet look like those of an ogre. Cool fashion statement.
Back to the race. I continued to slug along. I asked someone how much farther and they said about 3.5 more miles according to their garmin. I realized that my nike plus just stinks it's pretty much worthless. After I found out how much farther I thought okay, YOU CAN DO THIS. My whole body was aching. My quads were killing me from so much hill work, my toes and feet hurt and I was positive that I was getting a huge blister on my heel, but I thought it's only a 5k more. We were running on a pretty flat surface and I was fighting to finish the race, when I fell. I just twisted my ankle and went down. It was a straight down awkward slow motion fall. I think a weird incomprehensible sound flew out of my mouth and I oddly heard the thud as I fell. I just was like wow, this was just the icing on the cake. The women in front of me and the guy behind me were immediately asking if I was okay and I totally was, I walked off my ankle and almost started laugh crying. It was a weird, weird feeling. I tried my hardest to slow jog the remaining 3 miles and re-met up with Sara and she encouraged me, it was nice to see a friendly face. Then FINALLY after three hours and forty minutes of running, hiking, jogging and PURE TORTURE I finished.
Things I learned from this race:
1. I need to stop listening to Billy and allowing him to con me into races
2. I NEED hill work
3. It's okay to be slow. It's more than okay to walk.
4. Clip your toenails SUPER short before any type of running activity
5. An elevation change of almost 3,000 feet may not be the best idea to climb
6. It's okay to get your BUTT KICKED every now and then
7. Sometimes, it's okay to be happy with just finishing the race
I did enjoy the race, I learned a lot about a totally different type of running and I have SO much respect for trail runners now. It was a trying experience to say the least. Today my butt is KILLING ME, and so is my lower back. Tonight I'll be doing some hardcore stretching while relaxing since it's thankfully a rest day for me.
I think that this post goes to show that what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger. Thank you Malibu Creek 25k for bringing me out of my comfort zone and just kicking me when I'm down.
PS: Thanks to Billy who ran with a camera and stole all his pictures from his site. :)


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Six hundred miles from the nearest ocean, eastern Missouri isn't an obvious choice for scuba diving. But the rural hamlet of Bonne Terre offers world-class diving just the same – in a former lead mine 60 miles due south of St. Louis. From the 1860s until 1961, the Bonne Terre Mine became the largest lead mine in the world, yielding millions of tons of lead ore. After it shuttered, a billion gallons of groundwater flooded the 80-square-mile labyrinth, creating the world's largest man-made underground lake and turning the former mine into the ultimate underwater playground – a cross between cavern and wreck diving, with eerie tunnels crusty with antiquated equipment hidden in the shadows.
More than 50 charted trails are in the mine, threading narrow tunnels littered with old magazines, rock drills, and half-filled ore carts that still sit where the miners dropped them 50 years ago, like the last vestiges of a working man's Atlantis. The most popular paths are overhung with stadium lighting, which illuminates the water's 150 feet of visibility. Wetsuits are highly recommended – the water stays a brisk 60 degrees year-round. To avoid getting lost in this industrial-size ant farm, certified divers must go in the water with guides from the on-site dive center [packages from $210; 2dive.com], which is open on weekends and provides gear and scuba classes, as well as accommodations in a historic railroad depot restored as a bed-and-breakfast.
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Obama: Hope and Change for IT?By Dennis McCafferty Print
How will Barack Obama's administration affect IT spending in the trenches, where technology decision makers are dealing with strapped budgets and a shaky economy?
President Barack Obama's official campaign Web site is a model of how 21st century technology tools can boost a candidate's popularity, building significant buzz via blogs, IM applications and e-merchandising. And Obama's campaign wasn't confined to his own site either, because he chose to expand his presence on social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, Eons and BlackPlanet. His images and words also constantly popped up at outlets such as Flickr, Digg and YouTube.
All these efforts made Obama an accessible, immediate and appealing figure to both younger voters and older ones who regularly connect to the Internet. Ultimately, they energized his campaign and helped secure a decisive victory for the nation's first African-American president.
Certainly, Obama enters the White House with a reputation as one of the most—if not the most—tech-savvy chief executives ever. For starters, he's created the position of a federal chief technology officer to oversee the future of information technology for government agencies.
But how will his administration affect IT spending in the trenches — where technology purchase decision makers in midsize and large organizations must deal with strapped budgets and a shaky economic environment? Baseline recently spoke with experts and executives who are on the front lines in dealing with the new administration's impact on IT spending. Here's what they had to say:
It's a good news/bad news scenario. IT purchase decision makers can find both heartening and disheartening news in a recent forecast from INPUT, a Reston, Va.-based market research firm. The good news: Obama's economic recovery plan will seek to open up the credit market by broadening deposit assurances for banks and guaranteeing loans.
The bad news: Obama's projected policies could have the effect of adding $281 billion to the federal deficit, INPUT reports, and he'll seek to close corporate tax loopholes. "There will still be opportunities to spend on IT in 2009 and beyond," says Deniece Peterson, a principal analyst with INPUT. "But that spending will need to be much more focused and tied to enabling priorities.
Money will be tighter, and there will be more gates to cross in the decision-making process. Those trying to justify a major IT purchase will be asked more than ever what the impact of the purchase will be and how it ties into the overall mission. What are the short-term and long-term effects of buying or not buying it?"
In other words, it will all come down to figuring out which technologies are considered must-haves. Those defined as nice to have rather than must-haves — such as Web 2.0 — may see a potential dip in demand.
All eyes are on security and privacy. IT security obviously remains a high-profile area of concern. The Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency, a bipartisan effort on the part of computer security experts, has recommended that Obama set up a high-level post to increase IT security and counter cybercrime, citing intrusions within the computer systems at the Departments of Defense, State, Homeland Security and Commerce.
With the White House and Congress dominated by the Democratic party, privacy is emerging as an equally prominent issue. In a recent survey of industry executive members of the Washington, D.C.-based Centre for Information Policy Leadership, 90.9 percent predicted that an Obama administration would address issues of privacy and information security.
More than seven in 10 members believe Congress will enact major privacy legislation, and more than six in 10 feel a better approach is needed to enhance the privacy and security of personal information.
Will IT jobs stay here? Another IT area in which the new administration could have an impact would be by increasing barriers to the offshoring of IT and other services. Obama's campaign promises included ending tax breaks for firms that move jobs out of the country and awarding tax credits to firms that increase their ratio of U.S. to non-U.S. employees, notes Sean O'Dowd, senior analyst at Financial Insights, a market research company owned by Framingham, Mass.-based IDC.
Still, any meaningful change in this area will take years, not months, even if Obama moves quickly. "You won't see an immediate spike," O'Dowd says. "You'll see more of a slow progression. If the economy continues in a downward slide for the first year of the new administration, companies will be too involved with cost-cutting to put too much focus on this. Besides, if the economy remains in trouble, Obama will have far more critical issues to focus on than outsourcing."
Adding more green to IT. Information technology investments that reduce energy should also get a boost in the new administration, as Obama's New Energy for America will seek a $150 billion investment over 10 years to encourage development of technologies that reduce energy.
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, servers and data centers consume $4.5 billion worth of energy annually, which is equivalent to the energy used by 5.8 million U.S. households.
Server virtualization and consolidation has emerged as Topic A on the green front among IT purchase decision makers, as the technology can significantly reduce energy consumption and costs. San Antonio-based Rackspace, a Web hosting company, is already reducing its own energy costs via virtualization and consolidation.
"We're doing this primarily because the environment is in a very dangerous state right now," says John Engates, CTO, "but we have self-serving reasons as well. We save on energy costs, and that puts us in a better financial situation."
Complying with new realities. The new administration — backed by a Democratic majority in Congress — is expected to push for greater regulation of businesses, so IT managers will likely see an increase in options with regard to compliance IT tools. Compliance enhancement, information security, risk management, database auditing and other related software tools should also be in greater demand.
Will progress be hampered by economic realities? Innovation in IT enterprise solutions could increase, as Obama supports making the R&D tax credit permanent and reforming the U.S. Patent system to encourage more innovation in technology. "Obama supports a number of positions like these that are encouraging," says Tom Berquist, executive vice president and CFO at Redwood City, Calif.-based Ingres, an information management company.
"He supports Internet neutrality—meaning he wants to keep the Internet open—and he wants to put broadband in every American consumer's home," adds Berquist, who is a former software industry analyst at Citigroup and Goldman Sachs. "Obama wants to double funding for basic research over the next 10 years to help the technology and science industries. He also wants to increase protection for American intellectual property in the United States and abroad, particularly in China."
That said, as other experts and IT decision makers contend, the staggering economic meltdown and credit crisis of the second half of 2008 will serve as the inevitable elephant in the room—a potential roadblock to anything productive that the new administration will attempt that could enhance IT spending.
"Obama is going to have to dig the country out of a recession, which will focus his attention on consumers and away from businesses over the next two years," Berquist predicts. "His proposed increase in the capital gains tax rate will hurt stock ownership on the margin and make it more difficult for startup tech companies to get funded. "The [administration's proposed] increase in taxes for high-income earners will make them less likely to take risks. And building new technology companies is all about taking risks."
Though these technology challenges seem daunting, keep in mind that no U.S. president ever achieved greatness without leading the country during turbulent times. Many think Barack Obama will be able to do just that by overcoming our current economic crisis—and benefiting the IT industry in the process.
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MUSKEGON, Mich. (AP) - Ice during winter months on Lake Michigan shouldn't block potential wind turbine farms in the water, according to a researcher studying the issue.
The initial conclusion is from University of Michigan marine engineer Dale G. Karr, based upon his work for the U.S. Department of Energy studying Great Lakes ice and its impact on wind turbine towers, The Muskegon Chronicle reported (http://bit.ly/19Yo2wG ).
"I have not found ice to be a show stopper," Karr said.
Karr discussed his work Monday at Grand Valley State University's Michigan Alternative and Renewable Energy Center in Muskegon. Karr's research has looked at several models of the effects of ice on Great Lakes turbines, including pressure on turbine platforms.
"Ice is a major issue, if not the major issue, for wind energy on the Great Lakes," Karr said. "The answer will start to emerge next spring when we will determine the designs and costs."
Land-based power generation using wind has been on the rise in Michigan, including along Lake Michigan. Offshore wind production would be about three times the cost of onshore wind farms, said Arn Boezaart, director of the Michigan Alternative and Renewable Energy Center.


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