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Anyone who lives in Wyoming will tell you that it is a wonderful state. What is it that makes the state so great? Wyoming offers a different kind of lifestyle. Sure, if you own Wyoming ranch real estate you undoubtedly know how to work hard, but you also know how to play hard. Beautiful scenery and stunning seasons offer countless recreation opportunities in your own backyard, including:
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Tim Hopper came to my attention through John D. Cook our first interviewee for Profile in Computational Imagination. I asked John to recommend someone that he knows and respects as having computational imagination, he nominated Tim. Tim's professional interests range from the History of Mathematics to Operations Research, Data Science and developing software for start-ups. Read on to find out more about Tim, his professional pathway and his strong views on distributed software development teams.
M: Imagine a classroom full of bright and inquisitive college students about to decide on their college major. As succinctly as possible describe to them the domain that you work in.
T: I currently build tools for data analysis. I write software that will do complex calculations to help analysts and engineers find hidden structure in data. For example, feed a bunch of documents into my software, and it will summarize the topics found across those documents.
M: What still interests, even excites you about your chosen domain?
T: One thing I love about my field is that there are an endless supply of things to learn. Godel proved that there is essentially no end to mathematics! We can always come up with new systems and find new proofs. Between undergrad and graduate school, I had five semesters of linear algebra alone, but there is so much more linear algebra I haven't seen yet. For someone with a naturally curious personality, that's a fun place to be. On the software side, there are constantly new developments: new languages, new libraries and new tools for helping development. But even if I only programmed in a single language for the rest of my life, I think I'd be learning to program until the day I die.
M: What kinds of problems do you solve?
T: At one level, I solve the problem of translating statistics research papers into algorithms and algorithms into code. This starts by carefully understanding notation and equations in the papers; that sometimes requires filling in tedious mathematical details. At another level, I solve lots of routing software engineering-related problems: tracking down bugs, structuring code, designing API, serializing data, setting compiler flags, writing helpful unit tests, etc.
M: What are the most gratifying outcomes from work that you have done?
T: I recently started testing code that I have been developing for three months. After many math and engineering challenges, I was able to run the algorithm on a dataset and detect meaningful latent structure! Especially after spending so much time in the weeds (e.g. finding off-by-one errors and trying to optimize loops), it's exciting to pass in some data and see sensible results pop out.
M: Did you realize early on that you wanted to focus on this domain? What attracted you? If not, how did you get turned in this direction?
T: No. My path to where I am today has been roundabout. I started college thinking I wanted to be a physics professor; I didn't really know what that meant, but I knew I liked physics in college. I left college knowing I didn't want to be a computer programmer and was planning to be a math historian! I was admitted into the History of Mathematics PhD program at the University of Virginia.
My first semester at UVA was mostly pure math classes (abstract algebra, point-set topology, and measure theory). Although I intended to focus my research on the development of applied mathematics in the 20th century, my highly theoretical coursework made me second guess my intention of becoming an academic; I was itching to do something that wasn't entirely cerebral. After a notable quarter life crisis, I decided to leave UVA and entered a PhD program in Operations Research at the North Carolina State University.
I had discovered operations research as a discipline while browsing PhD programs as an undergrad. Since I've always been interested in efficiency and mathematics, I was excited to find out that there was a field that combined the two so intimately! Operations research seemed like a great way to combine my love for math with my urge to do something more than solve textbook abstract algebra problems.
I started my OR PhD program in the fall of 2010. At the same time, "data science" was exploding as a discipline. At the end of my first semester, I read Drew Conway's AMA on data science and was fascinated by the new applications of math and computation to real life problems and new ways to use algorithms to make better decisions.
Because my graduate program was multi-disciplinary, I was about to focus my coursework on topics relevant to this field of data science: machine learning, graphical models, algorithms, stochastic processes, linear algebra, etc. At the same time, I found a renewed interest in programming and was teaching myself R and Python.
In the summer of 2011, I was an R&D intern on the algorithms team at Kiva Systems in Boston. Working there firmed up my growing desire to use math and computation to solve real world problems. The next summer (after two years at NCSU), my PhD adviser decided to move to Michigan. I decided to cut my losses, get a masters degree, and find a job in industry.
M: What were some key milestones along the journey to where you are today professionally?
T: Though I had taken some computer science classes in college, I wasn't particularly interested in computer programming other than as a tool to help me do calculations in math and physics classes. The summer after my junior year of college, I was accepted to a math REU at Rochester Institute of Technology. When I met my summer research adviser, the first question he asked me was how I was at programming!
M: Cost-per-Observation is trending toward zero creating "Big data." However, this trend is unevenly distributed. What data is still missing or too expensive in your field? Put another way, what would you like to be able to measure that you currently don't?
T: Though not in my own field, I wish it were cheaper to collect data about the more mundane things in everyday life. I dream about the kinds of tools that could be built around data like "exactly what food is in my pantry/fridge".
M: What does your tool chain look like?
T: Currently, I spend most of my time with my 15" Retina MBP. When I'm at home, I connect it to dual 27" displays. Outside of my home, I often use my iPad as a second display with Duet. When I'm doing development, I spend most of my time in Sublime Text 3(with _lots_ of customizations and packages), iTerm2, IPython Notebooks, and GitHub.
I'm thankful that I don't work directly with cloud servers at the moment, although my work relies on a number of cloud services. We do continuous integration with Travis CI, store all our code on Github, release code on Anaconda.org communicate over Slack and Google Hangouts.
M: Do you build your own custom software? [none, some, all] - If some or all, what drives your need to do custom software development?
T: In some sense, all I do is build custom software. At the same time, all the software I build relies on tons of libraries written by others.
I have a bad habit of writing hacky scripts to take care of mundane tasks. For example, I have an always-on computer at home that watches for certain files to change on Dropbox and takes action accordingly. Tools like this are sometimes very useful, but can often be a time sink as I maintain and debug them.
M: What recent advancements in tools, if any, do you have high hopes for?
T: I'm excited by all the tools that are making it easier and easier for software teams to work in a distributed fashion. I think we already can take Github, Slack, Google Hangouts, and Trello for granted, but I'm excited about how they're making physical location less of an issue for collaboration. I'm confident we're in the early years of tools like this; I suspect they'll keep getting better and better.
M: The Silicon Valley start-up scene seems strongly focused on in-person teams all sitting in the same open office room - so despite being the source of tools that you mention that enable distributed teams they largely don't do distributed development. Tell me more about your experiences with distributed software development teams. Why should we care about distributed teams and the technology that supports them?
T: Three years ago, I thought remote work wouldn't interest me any time soon. I started to be open to the possiblity when working at a large company that was partially distributed. I ended up functioning like a remote employee: 95% of my interactions with colleagues were virtual or on the phone. I decided that if I could do that from an office, I could do it just as well at home.
After that, I joined Parse.ly where the entire product team is distributed. Andrew Montalenti, the CTO at Parse.ly, spends a lot of time thinking about how to make distributed teams work well; he recently wrote that they view "a distributed team is an asset, not a problem to be managed". At Parse.ly, our code was kept and reviewed on Github. We used Flowdock for realtime team communication, Yammer for daily updates from each team member, Floobits for pair programming, Google Hangouts for 1–1 and group meetings, and Trello for managing projects.
As you hear about the tools we used for distributed work, you realize these are the exactly same tools being used by co-located teams in 2015!. Of course, collocated teams rely on collocated meetings, hallway interactions, and looking over one shoulders. However, I would guess that most teams in the software space are doing a huge amount of communication through their keyboards and in the cloud (even when those messages end up at the desk next to them). With the right commitments and strategies from management, many teams could operate in a remote model and be no less effective (or no less ineffective, as it may be).
Working at Parse.ly confirmed my interest in remote working; after Parse.ly, I moved to another (though much smaller) distributed team. I love it. I love the flexibility it grants me. I love the time and stress saved by not commuting. I love having great coffee as I start work in the morning. I love the quiet work environment. I love my work not dictating where I live. I love not living in Silicon Valley.
At this point, I have a hard time imagining sitting in an office five (or more) days a week. Moreover, I have a hard time understanding how others deal with the constant barrage of distractions. Several years after leaving my last "office" job, I vividly remember day after day of frustration with Constant Throat Clearer and Annoying Laugher and Incessant Talker. I've sat near similar folks in every office I've been in, and I haven't even been in an open floor plan office! I have considered the possibility that I am just Excessively Irritable Guy, but I sincerely don't know how people do mentally taxing work (like software development and data science) in a room with constant audible distractions. Despite Joel Splosky's warnings most physical offices seem to have these distractions.
(I won't even go into memories of terrible food in the cafeteria, horrific coffee in the break room and the HVAC system that I had zero control over, etc.)
I routinely hear two responses when I tell people I work from remotely. First, people think it sounds lonely or feel like they'd go stir crazy working from. This is possible! Personally, I overcome it by being slightly more disciplined to interact with friends during the week; for example, I try to meet up with friends for lunch or breakfast regularly. At the same time, it is important to note that remote worked doesn't have to mean home work. The only physical tool I need to work is my laptop. I routinely work half days from local coffee shops and cafes, sometimes with remote working friends. I also take advantage of my flexibility and travel to visit friends for a week and work while I am there.
The second response is that people don't understand how a remote team can effectively communicate. I have already mentioned that many teams in the software field are using the exact same communications technologies that distributed teams use. Much of their communication is already going through the cloud. People also forget how dysfunctional communication is among many co-located teams. Petty disagreements keep key players from talking. Office politics keep team A from sharing with team B. Lazy managers avoid stopping by to talk with their reports and vice versa. Sure, distributed teams have communications challenges, but every team has communications challenges. The plethora of tools for synchronous communication in 2015 has greatly reduced the communications challenges distinct to distributed teams.
M: If you are daydreaming about the next wave of tools for distributed teams what is on your wish list?
T: I really do think the the tools available to distributed teams today are quite good. Perhaps I'm not imaginative enough, but I rarely feel like the tools available to me are inadequate for distributed teams in particular.
Unfortunately, one of the weakest tools for distributed teams is still video chat. Google Hangouts are an extraordinary improvement over what we had just 5 years ago, but they remain the cause of much frustration for distributed teams (with login issues, call dropouts, wonky controls, etc). Hopefully we will get something with the simplicity and reliability of Facetime that works for groups. Having direct integration with Slack and other chat tools would be even better! Google may be getting there incrementally.
I would also love to see tools that make it easier to share sketches and handwriting among groups. For example, I would love to be able to use my iPad as a whiteboard in group chat. Similarly, I'm looking forward to easier tools for remote pair programming (and otherwise sharing code). There are a number of pair programming solutions, but they're often difficult to get running. I am eager to see what the future brings for collaboration in Jupyter notebooks. Of course Google Docs-style collaborative editing of notebooks would be awesome, but I'd love to see things like presenter mode where a host could walk a (remote) group through a notebook without just screen-sharing.
I'm encouraged about the success and explosion of Slack as a communications tool. We will see a lot of improvements in that space, I'm sure. There are opportunities to build intelligent tools on top of these mediums. For example, Slack could auto-summarize the discussion that has been had since you were last logged on. Similarly, it could do some sort of discrimination algorithm to automatically tag/highlight/breakout the various conversations happening in a channel.
More than technological transformations, I am eager to see managerial transformations that will make distributed teams more viable going forward.
M: Looking around your domain what has surprised you during the past couple of years?
T: The rapid rise of deep learning and the return of neural networks. When I was studying reinforcement learning in grad school only a few years ago (2010-2012), neural networks were largely regarded as a novelty of the past. When I started hearing about deep learning towards the end, I tried to find papers about deep learning for reinforcement learning; I only came across a class project done by Stanford students. Only three years later, I regularly see papers coming out on the topic.
M: What book or books do you find yourself turning to repeatedly?
T: A huge proportion of the questions that I have day-to-day are answered by StackOverflow. I have recently gotten rid of most of my printed technical books since I typically find myself Googling questions instead of thumbing through books to find answers.
M: What blogs, if any, do you follow?
T: I've actively been decreasing the number of blogs I subscribe to. John Cook's blog is the only one in the realm of data and software that I read faithfully. These days, I'm most likely to read a blog post if I see it tweeted by a number of people I respect.
M: What websites do you frequent to stay current professionally?
T: Twitter! It would be hard to overestimate the value of following a bunch of smart, technical people over the last 5 years. Twitter keeps me apprised to what tools people are using, what things people are reading, what conferences people are attending. It gives me the opportunity to quickly bounce ideas off some of the brightest minds I know. I often end up at other websites related to my profession, but I almost always find them from Twitter.
M: Many thanks to Tim for sharing his professional path and perspectives.


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As the nine other members of the Colonial Athletic Association converge on the North Charleston Coliseum for this weekend's conference tournament, the hosting College of Charleston men's basketball team look to extend their season-ending four game win streak.
"It's very important to go in with momentum," said junior guard Cameron Johnson. "During the tournament, anyone can win. It's good that we have a mental edge heading into the conference tournament."
Earning the second seed in the tournament with a 14-4 record against CAA opponents, the Cougars will receive a first round bye in the ten-team field.
Charleston's first game will be Saturday (March 4, 6 p.m.) against the winner of the game between James Madison University and Drexel University (March 3, 8:30 p.m.). The Cougars notched a perfect record against James Madison and Drexel this season, with a double digit average margin of victory in four regular season match ups.
Charleston's 23 wins this season mark the most for the program since the 2008-09 season.
Ever focused, head coach Earl Grant recognizes that the goal still lies ahead of the Cougars.
"Our goal is to win the championship," Grant said. "We have an opportunity to do that. We wanted to get a high seed. Now, we will go into the tournament and play on Saturday [March 4] at 6 p.m. I'm just proud of our players. They put a lot of effort to get to this point, especially considering where we were."
As most of the campus community prepares for a week off over spring break, the men's basketball team have the most important tests of the season ahead, with an opportunity to end the program's 17 year NCAA Tournament drought within city limits.
Looking for more coverage on the Cougars? Be sure to check out CisternYard's tournament preview from the latest issue of The Yard, Meriting the madness, in addition to past stories on Jarrell Brantley, Joe Chealey and senior walk-on Erik Goldbach.


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There needs to be a wider vision for the proposed slots parlor on Russell Street. Moving the Preakness to a new world-class facility in the Camden-Carroll industrial park would reinforce the slots parlor opposite Russell Street and feed off the success of Camden Yards.
Also, adjacent to the site is the mouth of the Gwynns Falls that empties into Ridgley's Cove. This presents an opportunity to restore a natural landscape feature and demonstrate Baltimore's leadership in environment and recycling. It would create more activity, jobs and revenue than a mere box building and parking lot like the one in Perryville.
Brian Kelly, Baltimore
The writer is an architect at John Milner Associates in Alexandria, Va., who is currently working on the restoration of Camden Station and the Warehouse at Camden Yards for the Maryland Stadium Authority.


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If you need to start up a conveyance process which simply means the process of transferring the title of ownership of your property to someone else, you will first of all need a good solicitor. In the past, people spent a lot of time and money calling and visiting solicitors from different firms just to find out about the range of services that they offer and the amount that they charge. However, today, this is no longer necessary and the conveyancing process has become much easier. All of this can now be done online.
The online conveyancing process is not much different than the normal conveyancing process. It is however more effective, more efficient, quicker and cheaper. People no longer have to waste time just in find out what conveyancing services are offered by solicitors and what their charges are. These can easily be obtained through a Google search.
This is in essence the first step in the online conveyancing process. Doing the research that is needed in order to find a good solicitor. You need to make sure that you choose one that is experienced and that is transparent about their costs. Once you have made your chose, then you need to make sure that you provide the solicitor with all relevant information on your conveyancing process. It is however of absolute importance that whatever information you supply your solicitor is, that that information is accurate.
You will then be provided with related documentation from the solicitor. You must make sure that all documents are carefully read and understood. If you do not understand a document sent to you by your solicitor, you must not agree to it and you certainly must not sign it. It is important that you get a clear understanding of what the document is saying.
You will then need to fill in the necessary conveyancing forms after which your solicitor will then prepare the contracts. Once you and the other party are fully in agreement on the contract, the sales can be completed and your property can be transferred to someone else. You must make sure that you received a copy of the final contract for reference.


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By Boris Shusteff
"One single act of compulsion is better for both sides than perpetual friction." (Israel Zangwill).
On September 20, 1998 the Israeli daily Maariv published the results of a survey conducted among Israeli Jews. One of the questions was formulated in the following way: "Do you agree with deporting all the Arabs in the West Bank and Gaza if Israel does not pay a diplomatic price for that?" 65% of respondents answered "Yes," 26% said "No" and 9% did not give their opinion. Nevertheless, it is not the fear of diplomatic complications that is the main reason why Israel does not loudly advocate the transfer of Arabs out of Eretz Yisrael. The real issue lies within the moral sphere, in which the opinion is virtually unanimous - transfer is immoral and therefore cannot be used to solve political problems.
Perhaps if this idea of transfer is taken out of the context of real life and considered in the vacuum of a perfect world, it could be seen this way. However, due to the extremely explosive relationships between Israel and her Arab neighbors and the almost biological hatred that Arabs feel towards the Jews, the transfer of Arabs from Eretz Yisrael (which includes Israel, Judea, Samaria and Gaza) is significantly better than the current situation from a moral standpoint. Let us look carefully at the moral issues involved. From the outset it must of course be said that transfer is certainly an extremely painful and devastating event. A large group of people must be uprooted from their homes, relocated to a new place and forced to start their lives anew, nostalgically recalling their previous "homeland". But this terrible experience must be measured against a much grater calamity. It must be weighed against unending enmity, half a dozen wars, hundreds of thousands of deaths, uncountable numbers of maimed and wounded people, the non-stop suffering of millions of people, festering hatred in people's hearts, and the constant threat of a regional war, which could very well turn into a World War.
It is not the purpose here to discuss who has the greater right to Eretz Yisrael (or Palestine, as it is called by non-Jews). The Jews will always be convinced that their claim to Eretz Yisrael is irrefutable. By the same token, the Arabs will never stop saying that their connection with Palestine is ages old. For the sake of argument, we will use the position stated in 1945 by the Reverend James Parkes.
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"So far as rights are concerned, both Jews and Arabs have unchallengeable cases... therefore one would have to give way to the other... From the standpoint of need it seems to me clear that the decision lies in favor of the Jews" - the Arabs having "lands stretching from the Atlantic to Iran" (1).
It is this point, that "one would have to give way to the other," which is the foundation of the necessity for transfer. However, first we must take a brief look at the history of the conflict. Two groups of people claim the same territory. Since the beginning of the controversy in 1917 (if we take the Balfour Declaration and the British Mandate as the starting point), one of the claimants - the Jews - has always been ready to share the territory. The other claimants - the Arabs - have remained adamantly against recognizing any Jewish rights to the territory and even now reject the historical link between the Jews and Eretz Yisrael. In 1922, with the separation of Transjordan, the Jews were forbidden to settle on almost 77% of the disputed territory, while Arab settlement went unrestricted. By 1993, the year the infamous Oslo process began, the Arab state of Jordan occupied those 77%, while Israel, the Jewish state, huddled on 18% of the original British Mandate land, with the remaining 5% of the territory still in dispute, though, technically, under very reluctant Israeli control. Unable to squeeze Israel out from the land that the Jewish state obtained in 1948 (after withstanding the bloody assault of seven Arab states at once), the Arabs never relinquished the hope of conquering the land from the Jews. After losing additional territory in 1967 and 1973 and failing to defeat Israel militarily, they are now trying regain the land through a diplomatic process. Well aware that the world community will not support blatant efforts to completely eliminate Israel, the Arabs now devote their activity to first obtaining the disputed and unallocated 5% of the lands of the former British Mandate.
They demand the lands historically known as Judea, Samaria and Gaza for the creation of yet another Arab state. Over fifty years of Israel's existence have seen immutable Arab hostility toward the Jewish state. On several occasions Israel's military might forced the Arabs to accept Israel's presence in the Middle East, but time and again the undying hope of expelling the Jews from Eretz Yisrael prodded them to initiate another military confrontation. And in order to further their unscrupulous purposes, the Arab leaders have continually and shamelessly exploited the unfortunate fate of their brethren - the Palestinian Arabs - who have been caught between the anvil of the Jews' millennia old inextinguishable attachment to Eretz Yisrael and the hammer of the Arab leaders' hatred toward the Jews.
Who are the Palestinian Arabs? Majority of them are the descendants of those Arabs who flocked to Palestine from other Arab countries in the beginning of the 19th century, hoping to obtain employment and better living standards where the Jews were beginning to reclaim and develop Eretz Yisrael. Today these Palestinian Arabs either languish in refugee camps in various Arab countries or live in misery and the worst of conditions in Arafatland. Daily and nightly they are fed by their leaders the fairy tale of "returning to their homes in Palestine." To this day they remain the fuel that is constantly being added by Arab leaders to the fire of the Arab-Jewish conflict. What is most regrettable in this situation is that the world community, unable to suppress its own anti-Semitism, instead of helping to resolve the conflict, only helps to tie this Gordian knot tighter.
Israel's existence has unequivocally proven one thing: the Jews and the Arabs cannot live together on land that both claim is theirs. If the Arabs were not under the constant ill influence of their leaders,perhaps this coexistence might be possible. But since it is impossible to remove this influence, there is no other solution except transfer.
Already in 1937 Arab enmity towards the Jews was apparent to the authors of the Peel Commission Report, which stated in its 22nd chapter that, "the existence of Jews in the Arab State and Arabs in the Jewish State would clearly constitute 'the most serious hindrance to the smooth and successful operation of Partition' " (1). Therefore the authors of the Report were advocating transfer, stating, "If Partition is to be effective in promoting a final settlement it must mean more than drawing a frontier and establishing two States. Sooner or later there should be a transfer of land, and as far as possible, an exchange of population."(1).
It is no secret that the Arab attitude towards the Jews has not changed since 1937, and has even became worse in some cases. It is enough to quote only one absolutely outrageous result of a recent survey in order to understand the magnitude of the Arab hatred towards the Jews. The Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR) in Ramallah and the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem conducted this poll among Palestinian Arabs during the week of December 19-24, 2001. They found that "69% of Palestinians would not view as an act of terrorism the future use of chemical and biological weapons against Israel by Palestinians, but when committed by Israel 93% of Palestinians would define it as terror." 01/22/02
1. Rabbi Dr. Chaim Simons. "A Historical Survey of Proposals to Transfer Arabs from Palestine 1895 - 1947." http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/7854/transf1.html
Boris Shusteff is an engineer. He is also a research associate with the Freeman Center for Strategic Studies.


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Everyone's weighed in by now on Capital in the 21st Century. Unlike most of these people, I've actually had time to read the thing (a happy side-effect of two weeks bedrest following surgery. I'm fine now, thanks for asking).
I'm not going to review it - you'll have read plentyofthosealready. Oh ok then, in a sentence: the analysis is excellent, the conclusions are highly plausible, even if based on tenuous evidence; the recommendations are too left wing even for cloud cuckoo land.
But with a year to go until the General Election, what impact - if any - will the work of M Piketty have on British politics?
Well, the message that inequality matters, and that it may well be a defining issue of our political age, is likely to resonate beyond the Westminster village. It is admittedly unlikely that many of the swing voters of Hendon or Harlow have read Capital (it is a little dry in places). But the subtle shift in the political and media narrative that is already evident will sit easily with many voters' current angst about the nascent economic recovery and the country's political direction.
For a discontented electorate, convinced in large part that the country is being run for some faceless 'other' - whether it's the fat-cat capitalists, the immigrant hordes, or the greedy MPs themselves - the story of inequality is an easy one to swallow.
So this will be helpful to Labour, and is likely to embolden Ed Miliband to pursue his core vote, 35% strategy of bashing the fat cats and the Tories (one and the same, in Labour's narrative) and driving the angry hordes to the polls to kick out the Government.
Last week's attack on the rental sector was a very direct appropriation of Piketty's thesis, kicking the owners of capital ("rentiers" is in fact one of Piketty's go-to bits of jargon) to help the worse off in society. It was a pretty smart piece of policy, albeit that you're never going to solve the housing crisis without massive liberalisation of planning laws and building on the green belt (which I still think could be a huge vote-winner for Labour).
But what is next? A wholesale transfer of capital from the wealthy to the people through nationalisation of infrastructure assets is unlikely, but there are other areas at the margins where Ed's team are actively considering significant market intervention in the interests of redistribution (or 'solving the cost of living crisis', as Labour's tired mantra has it). Rail and telecoms, among others, may be next.
And with Janan Ganesh echoing David Brooks' stateside call for the Conservatives to introduce a counter-intuitive property tax in the FT, it's not just Labour who are feeling the Piketty effect. This move is unlikely in itself - David Cameron is in no mood to face down his backbenchers, the Telegraph and UKIP on another policy area in the months leading up to an election. But it certainly raises questions for the other parties as to how they deal with the emerging narrative of inequality in a political context. Businesses are likely to remain nervously on the back foot to see what emerges from Westminster in the months ahead.
So bravo, Monsieur Piketty, not just for a fine work of economic analysis, but also for shaking up Britain's rather stolid political narratives. Chapeau!


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The city is watching each week for what Ivan Webb is going to do. 283 yards rushing and 2 TD's for the stand out senior RB for the Stallions. 2000 yards now is a lock along with breaking the rushing record set last year by SHUKC Offensive POY Neil Ruff. Check him out against Sumner Academy.


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Last month, Mercy-USA distributed food baskets in Syria near Aleppo at a makeshift camp and our field team leader met little five-year-old Boushra. She asked if we could help her find her mother. When asked who was caring for her, she said, "my Mama, but she's really my Grandma." When asked what happened she said, "I don't know but I remember there were many planes in the sky, strange sounds, fire and dust everywhere. I was so scared."
She told us after that day she never found her mother, "They said she died. I don't know what this means. I want to go to her; can you help me, please?" While she spoke like someone much older than five, it was clear she is too young to understand the meaning of her circumstances. As we helped her grandmother with a food basket that day this little darling told us she had learned Surat Al Akhlas and recited it for us here…


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Many gamers are after a good gaming PC build for under $600, which is a reasonable budget that can get you a very decent gaming machine.
In this article we'll provide you with the parts list that will construct a formidable gaming PC which has been custom-optimized for the $600 price range.
Every part has been selected to get you the optimal bang-for-buck in terms of graphics quality and chug-free processing.
If you're interested in this gaming build, be sure to read our commentary on the individual parts and why we think each of these is a good fit in this build.
We'll also touch on optional extras, expected performance of this PC (including which games you should be able to comfortably run), and also give a run-down on the upgradability of the recommended hardware, so you're all set for now as well as the future.
We really feel this particular build beats most gaming PC builds under $600, which often tend to sacrifice a good processor for graphics card (at the loss of game speed) but judge for yourself – without any further ado, here is our $600 gaming PC build:
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Graphics Card
Obviously one of the most important parts in terms of performance for a gaming system is the Graphics card. We've picked the MSI GTX 960 2GD5T OC edition for this build. MSI have kitted this version out with their own cooling system as well as a slight factory overclock.
One of the CPU's most important jobs in a gaming machine is to send instructions to the graphics card in a timely fashion! Well, we may have oversimplified that a bit.. but rest-assured that this 3.2GHz, Quad-core Intel i5-6500 CPU has got what it takes. These are a fantastic processor and make a great addition to our gaming build.
This is a quad core CPU based on the latest Skylake architecture with a base speed of 3.2GHz and an Intel Turbo Boost speed of 3.6Ghz. The higher clock speed and 4 cores means this CPU is more than capable of serving the requests of modern games. These i5 processors are widely used by system builders for their performance and value for money.
The motherboard we've gone with in this build only supports DDR4 RAM, so we've gone with the Corsair Vengence 1x8GB stick. The benefit of DDR4 is that you'll get similar performance to DDR3 RAM but with a slightly lower power consumption, which also means less heat inside your case. DDR4 also offers a higher clock speed for a comparatively lower price.
While the latency and speed of memory is not particularly important in a gaming build, it's still nice to have some quality RAM installed. Installing a single 8GB stick instead of two 4GB sticks means you have room to install more memory later if you ever find you need it.
Again, this Motherboard is another one of our popular choices. The Gigabyte GA-H110M-A board is reliable, has a solid feature set and is excellent value.
This motherboard provides the basic connectivity you'll need to support all of your components in this build and also has a super easy to use UEFI BIOS. In fact, it has two which means you have a backup BIOS if anything goes wrong with the first.
Hard Drive
With the budget in mind, we've gone for a 1TB Western Digital Blue SATA hard disk. These Western Digital Blues have basically become the standard choice for system builders everywhere and with good reason.
While these speeds are no where near a modern SSD, the impact to in-game performance is minimal. See our Hard Drive section for more information on this!
Power supply
Finally, to power all of your gear we've included an EVGA 500W power supply. This offers plenty of power for your new system with enough capacity to support future additions and other extras.
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Optional Extras
In our budget builds we typically don't include optical drives – e.g. DVD / BluRay drives. These days, many people install their operating system (usually Windows) via a USB drive and games via digital download (e.g. Steam). We have a guide up in our blog here showing how. If you'd rather use an optical drive or just find them handy to have we've included an option below which will suit most builds.
Blu-Ray – LG Electronics 14x Internal BDXL Blu-Ray Burner
DVD – Lite-On 24X SATA Internal DVD+/-RW Drive
Case Fans – Cooler Master SickleFlow 120
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The importance of proper communications for planned events, such as upgrades, is a given to us in business process support. Communicating with your key users in the business is a pleasant responsibility when the system is up and running and the message is a happy one, such as new and eagerly anticipated functionality, but when things go wrong, finding the happy medium between too much information and not enough can be tricky. I was reminded of this challenge yesterday, when I received an alert on one of my development servers. The email message from the system monitoring certainly looked official and precise, and it included all the essential identifying information about the name and location of the server. Then I read further, trying to find what exactly was going on with my system, and I found this key message:
Status: Bad
Well, now, there you have it. Bad. Hmm. What was I supposed to do about that? No additional information was provided. Threshold level? Blank. Current level? Blank.
I shared the message with an SAP Mentor, adding a sarcastic comment, "I just hate it when these server support geeks use all of that technical jargon."
One of the first things they teach journalism students is that the first paragraph of a news report should include the 4 Ws: Who, What, When, and Where, in terms the reader is likely to understand. Details can follow in subsequent paragraphs, including the Why of editorial commentary, but someone reading only one paragraph needs to be able to come away with the gist of what happened. It is a technique I try to keep in mind whenever I communicate with my key users, and I suggest that it is particularly important when communicating system problems. An overly technical explanation can lose the reader in jargon and minutiae, but a message with insufficient detail can be just as frustrating.
When I inquired with the server support, they could not tell me any more about what was going on with my server. I could still log in and use the system, and the services were running as expected. I shrugged off the message and went back to work, and I've heard nothing further. The nightly scheduled jobs ran successfully.
Later I showed the alert to my manager, and we had a good laugh over the alert messaging at this support level. I jokingly suggested that, if we wanted an alert that was actionable, we probably needed to upgrade from that "tin" service level to the higher priced "platinum," high availability support.
For me, the incident drove home the importance of communicating what the users need to know, in terms they understand so that they can respond appropriately, at neither too detailed nor too high level, using neither too much jargon nor vague statements that result in frustration rather than understanding and appropriate action.


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PRESIDENT John Magufuli yesterday advised clerics to shun mixing politics and religion, insisting that by so doing they were likely to make the nation lose its direction. The President said it was high time for religious leaders to avoid using spokespersons who were purely not clerics, to avoid confusing their followers.
"If there are matters concerning religion, it is good when Sheikhs, Mufti, Bishops, Priests and Pastors, among others, to speak than using spokespersons who cannot differentiate between politics and religion,'' he said.
Dr Magufuli was speaking in Dar es Salaam when he visited the modern and biggest mosque in Kinondoni municipality to inspect the progress of its construction. The mosque, which is expected to be the biggest in East and Central Africa, is being constructed under the sponsorship of King Mohammed VI of Morocco.
When he visited the country in October 2016, Dr Magufuli asked the Moroccan King to help in the construction of the biggest mosque for the Muslim Council of Tanzania, BAKWATA, and a football pitch in the country's capital city, Dodoma.
On the sidelines of his State visit to Tanzania, King Mohammed VI pledged to build a mosque and an ultra modern soccer stadium in Dodoma. President Magufuli told local media, back then, that King Mohammed VI had agreed to build what would be Tanzania's biggest stadium, and an ultra modern stadium in the city of Dodoma.
During that time, Dr Magufuli said, "It will cost between 80 and 100 million US dollars." "I had a tete-a-tete with thevisiting King and I asked him if he can help build a stadium in Dodoma and a mosque in Dar es Salaam… He said yes," Dr Magufuli said when he addressed residents who camped at the mosque yesterday.
Also, during his visit, the Moroccan leader launched the construction works of that mosque in Dar es Salaam which the sovereign named "The Mohammed VI Mosque." The area of this religious and cultural landmark is 7,400 square meters; it includes a prayer room that accommodates more than 8,000 worshipers, an archeology library, a conference hall, administrative facilities, a parking lot, a super market and green spaces.
According to the contractor, Khalid Kijongo the construction work is expected to be completed in April next year. Yesterday, Dr Magufuli who was flanked by the Ambassador of Morocco in Dar es Salaam, Mufti Sheikh Abubakar Zubeir bin Ally and Dar es Salaam Regional Commissioner, Paul Makonda, contributed 10m/- which he said would be spent on the purchase of 265 bags of cement to complement the construction work.
The President was happy with the progress of the construction work and paid tribute to Mufti, commending him for proper supervision of the construction. He said he would be happy if the Moroccan King would come to inaugurate the mosque after its completion.
He reiterated that his government would continue working with all religious leaders, their followers and the pagans as the country had no religion except its people.


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Prime Minister Narendra Modi today met the leaders of Sri Lanka's main Tamil party TNA and discussed bilateral issues.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today met the leaders of Sri Lanka's main Tamil party TNA and discussed bilateral issues.The Tamil National Alliance delegation led by main opposition leader R Sampanthan met Prime Minister Modi at the Colombo airport before he left for home after wrapping up his two-day Sri Lanka visit.In the meeting, TNA leaders discussed issues of mutual interest to India and Sri Lanka, the party sources said.According to TNA sources, Prime Minister Modi commended the Tamil party for its role in the current political context in the island nation when constitutional reform process is being envisaged.
The TNA expressed their dissatisfaction on the slow progress of the constitution-making process.The northern hardline Tamil chief minister who represents the TNA was not a part of the delegation.Party sources said C V Wigneswaran who also represents TNA had not been invited to take part. The northern chief minister was present at President Maithripala Sirisena's dinner hosted last night in Modi's honour.The hardline Tamils find fault in the TNA leadership's conciliatory stance vis-a-vis the government on key issues facing Tamils.
Earleir, Modi addressed thousands of Tamils at a rally in Dickoya town in thetea growing Central Province of Sri Lanka.Modi said Sinhala and Tamil communities in Sri Lanka should strengthen unity and harmony as he assured India's full support to the steps taken by Colombo to improve the living conditions of minority Tamils in the country.
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The annual Lord Mayor's Appeal Golf Day took place on Monday 17th July at Burhill Golf Club in Surrey, organised by the Worshipful Company of Horners. The event was a sell-out with 25 teams primarily from livery companies taking part.
The day began with breakfast in the stunning clubhouse followed by a shotgun start at 9am. Teams enjoyed the glorious summer day on the immaculate course and afterwards were joined by the Lord Mayor for a refreshing glass of Pimms on the terrace before heading upstairs for a sumtuous 3-course lunch. After lunch the Lord Mayor spoke briefly and presented prizes for winning teams and individuals as well as the runner ups. Over the course of the day there was also a silent auction and a raffle with some fantastic prizes on offer, all kindly donated.
The Lord Mayor's Appeal would like to express their sincere thank yous to the organising Committee - Colin Richards, Jack Bunyer, Colin Freedman, Keith Baker, Steve Bradbury and David Williams - as well as everyone who took part, donated prizes or supported the event in another way.


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2003-04: Finished third in the 1650 against Lehigh with at time of 17:35.21 ... had two fifth place finishes against Army, one in the 200 breast (2:21.57) and one in the 1650 free (17:57.42) ... earned a spot on the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll. 2002-03: Selected to the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll ... swam a personal best in the 100 breaststroke in 1:04.82 at the Potomac Relays. 2001-2002: Named to the 2002 Patriot League Academic Honor Roll with a spring semester GPA of 3.56 ... recorded top 100 breast time at PL Championships (1:04.49) ... finished best 1650 free time at PL Championships (16.58.04). High School: Finished in top 16 at D.C. Metro Championships ... was in National Forensics League ... interested in photography. Personal: Born Sept. 20, 1983 the son of Ilona Linnoila ... has three siblings, Juuso, Jenny and Robert ... majoring in broadcast journalism and law and society.


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Archive for the 'Expression' Category
Feeling Good
I came across this today: http://www.mastermarf.com/2009/04/uncomfortable-rock.html and I thought it would be best if I came out with a feels good blog. Cause today feels good, and thats just the good truth of it. I'm sitting in the living room, got some Gnarles Barkley cranking, and I just turned up the sub. Life is good. […]
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Charlotte Gainsbourg
So, I just recently read a SPIN article on Charlotte Gainsbourg, and instantly got on my horse to go get her albums. Apparently she just did her first ever live show in USA I think? I'm listening to it now, and I'm a fan. She rocks with electronics just enough to make it funky, and […]
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Amon Tobin
I just want it to be known, that Amon Tobin is a brilliant musician and should be revered by all. He constructs the grooviest tunes and simply blows my socks off when I'm in the mood. From the video footage, He seems like a stand up fellow. Easy going, and groovy. who wouldnt want to […]
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Madeleine Peyroux Tonight
Tonight is a Madeleine Peyroux night tonight. http://www.madeleinepeyroux.com/ She totally rocks my soul inside and out. You should listen to her with maybe a glass of wine and a few cigarettes. I'd love to hear if anybody has any other music of the same style to share with me.
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High Altitude Poetry
Just cruised by the SFU Library here, and found the FALL edition of High Altitude Poetry out. Little quaint sized booklet filled with some good works. Check them out at http://www.sfu.ca/~hapoetry/hap24.html. For some more great writing, some poetry involved, another great group of guys that are putting out some good stuff are the writers at […]
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If you are arrested on an assault charge, it typically means that you either struck someone or threatened to harm someone even if you did not physically strike that person.
And things get even more serious if you are charged with aggravated assault, because that means you either tried to injure that person, did injure that person, or caused injury with a deadly weapon.
But in some instances, you may be able to claim self-defense against an assault charge, which could change the way your case is prosecuted and defended.
How To Prove Self-Defense In An Assault Case
The self-defense standard is often used in cases in which someone was killed and the person who is accused of that killing claims that they were in fear of their life and reacted accordingly.
In most states, the standard for self-defense includes:
- Someone threatened to harm you or to use force against you
- You believed that someone was trying to harm you based on a reasonable assumption
- You did not initiate or provoke the incident between you and the other person
- You did not have a reasonable means of retreating from or escaping the confrontation
So for example, let's say you walked out of a movie theater and a stranger ran at you and punched you for no reason. You punched that stranger back, which gave you enough time to run to your car and leave the scene.
In that scenario, you could argue self-defense against an assault charge.
The Limits of Self-Defense In An Assault Case
However, self-defense has some limitations, the biggest of which is that the force you use to defend yourself has to be reasonable and within the boundaries of the force used against you.
So in other words, using the example above, you couldn't grab a baseball bat and beat the person who punched you, because that would constitute the use of unreasonable force to defend yourself.
Another limitation is that if your reasonable force stopped the violent act, you cannot continue to use that force if the other person is subdued. In other words, you must have taken the opportunity to retreat after the situation had de-escalated
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If you've been arrested on an assault charge, you will need an experienced criminal attorney to determine if you have been properly charged, or if the circumstances of the crime fall under a lesser charge. The team at the McDaniel Group has spent years protecting the rights of its clients. We believe in mounting an aggressive defense against criminal charges, and our investigative resources can help unearth evidence that could benefit you in a trial. Please call us at 202-331-0793 for a free legal consultation.
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Ferdiye and Dasori tell the tale of how Hayriye Hanim hid Besart under her skirt the whole way up the mountains as they left Rahovec, Kosovo at gun point. Later the conversation weers towards politics and the future of Kosovo. At that point Suriyete gets lost in tought while watching the snow fall outside. The Kindergarten/Collective refugee center, Kukes
"The children make any strange space home," says Hayriye Hanim as she sits with her new neighbours from the "kindergarten", a 2 story building that was converted into a refugee shelter a few months ago by aid agencies in Kukes, Albania.
Gani Romayi is a strong man, bright and positive. He says he has the fighter in him. A full supporter of KLA, he says under different conditions he would be fighting in Kosovo. But he is the oldest living male member of his family. So he has to stay and take care of the women and children. When asked about his home back in Kosovo and the rest of his family, he turns solemn and sad. He says he has no news of them. Last they were seen was in Gjakova, one of the heavily hit places by the Yugoslav army.
Drita is another aggressive supporter of the KLA. She likes being the center of attention. Her parents say she always was headstrong. But following the days long track over the mountains to Tropoje, and the immadiate transfer of the entire family to the refugee shelter in Kukes, her attitute towards strangers became a lot more open and insistent. Her hero is the unnamed KLA soldier who guided them through Kosovo. The hotel, Kukes.
Suriyete is barely a year old. But in her condition her first birthday is no celebration. If she doesn't get an operation soon on her fingers, she will stay disabled for the rest of her life. Suriyete was on schedule for an operation in Kosovo. But then the family's house was razed and all of what the Kuhala's have, been looted. Muskele Kuhala took her newborn daughter and with the rest of her family sought refuge in the mountains. They later found shelter as refugees in Bajram Curri. Now with no means to get Suriyete an operation they can only tell her story. Bajram Curri, Albania.


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Alfa Romeo GT Blackline III
From Alfa Romeo press: The Alfa GT model offers an original style, rich in exciting features and performances. It represents an innovative conception of sporty style, into which comfort and elegance also converge. The best example of this stylistic equilibrium is the model on display in the Geneva showroom: the Special "Blackline III" range, fitted with the powerful 1.9 JTDM with 170 CV and the front self-locking Torsen® (called Q2) system.
The greatest change in this new Alfa GT model is the adoption of a 1.9 JTDM propulsion, which supplies a maximum power of 170 CV (125 kW) at 3.750 rpm and a maximum torque coupling of 330 Nm (33,6 Kgm) at 2.000 rpm, which allows a top speed of 100 km/h in 8,2 seconds. A powerful and progressive engine, which will be available as of next June, and can also be fitted with a anti-particulate filter (DPF).
It's worth noting, that placed on the tunnel is a Sport button, with which you can vary the mapping of the accelerator pedal. You can chose between a more touristy mapping or a sportier one: the latter improves the car's response and renders the drive more exciting.
So much power, therefore, is confirmed by the external design which stands out due to the compact aggressive styling. The car is embellished with aesthetic touches like the 18" alloy wheels, the double chromed exhaust, and the satined effect for mirrors, grills and whiskers. Even in the interior the Alfa GT Serie Speciale "Blackline III" reveals a sporty charisma, as shown by the sporty pedals in aluminium and the serigraphed kick-panel. Furthermore, the black tones characterize the black leather seats with a central perforated insert and Alfa Romeo logo on the headrest, as well as the steering wheel and display panel in leather.
In addition, the model on display is differentiated by the front self-locking Torsen® (called Q2) system, which has all the merits of front-wheel traction, such as heightening the driving ease and pleasure and guaranteeing the advantages typical of an integrated traction. In detail, the system is mated to JTDM with 170 CV, so benefiting of the excellent weight/power ratio, thanks to the use of Common Rail technology. The benefit is also due to the predominant role that diesel motorizations have taken on in the field of sport engines. The "Q2" system combines perfectly the torque specifications and power of the 1.9 JTDM increasing yet further the already excellent performance levels of a vehicle with a normal differential.
This is how it works. The "Q2" system is based on a limited slip differential, the mechanical Torsen type. In particular, this differential has the job of permanently distributing torque between the front wheels in a dynamic manner, depending on the driving conditions and road surface. Mated to the exclusive front wishbone suspension, the system allow a particularly efficient tuning of the vehicle.


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NEW YORK -- As unpleasant and painful as it may be, loss is a major part of any individual's life. Regardless of age, race, creed, and other such factors, each and every single person on Earth experiences the loss of a dear one during his or her lifetime. However, learning to move on and to enjoy life is an inner journey which unfolds naturally if one allows time to do its job.
In his book, "Gabby, Angel of God: Guardian and Messenger," Greg Sandora offers an alternative to suffering in isolation: an angel interferes. This supernatural romance novel tells the story of Bo, a young man who after losing his wife is left alone with two children to raise, confused, and grieving. Gabby is an angel whom Bo meets by chance. She tries to help him identify his feelings and then to put order in his thoughts, but their journey becomes a thrilling adventure in which they are confronted with various evils.
"Gabby, Angel of God: Guardian and Messenger" skillfully combines together several genres, creating an original worth-reading book. The novel focuses on themes such as friendship, loss, love, faith, charity, and hope, and aims at sending a moral message to all of its readers. For a review of "Gabby, Angel of God," please visit the following link:
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Company: Chinook Capital Advisors
Industry: Investment Banking
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Will Mentor: Undergrad Students
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Chinook Capital Advisors, a local leading M&A advisory firm, was co-founded by John O'Dore and Ed Kirk to serve the needs of Pacific Northwest business owners. We focus on lower-middle market businesses valued from $5m to $25m, or generally with revenues of $5m to $50m. We have extensive experience across a broad range of industries including: - Manufacturing - Distribution - Aerospace & Defense - Business Services - Technology - Healthcare Products & Services - Consumer Products & Retail - Food & Beverage Our team consists of professionals who were born and raised in the Northwest with family roots throughout Washington, Oregon and Idaho. We understand the opportunities the region presents. We offer a combined 60 years of experience that includes backgrounds in business ownership, investment banking, corporate development, operations, tax, legal, engineering, and commercial real estate which allows us to serve the owners of family- and privately-held companies throughout the Northwest. Our clients depend on us to lead them through successful business transitions, primarily full company sale and recapitalization events. We also provide other trusted advisor roles, including advisory board leadership, valuation services, and transaction planning and preparation services for business owners – often years in advance of a transition.
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1990 - 1994: Security Pacific Bank / Bank of America, Hong Kong 1994 - 1996: Merrill Lynch, Hong Kong
1996 - 2010: Credit Suisse, Hong Kong and Singapore
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To Vaccinate or not...
I am curious about what some of you do or think about this subject. You can leave an anonymous response if you want to because I know that this is a very touchy subject. But, I wonder if you are choosing not to vaccinate because of Autism or other reasons. I have been doing some research on the web and through books and have my own thoughts on vaccinations. I am curious not only as a parent but as a teacher of little ones also.
Please let me know or if you have some good websites one way or the other!
Sunday, February 22, 2009
To Vaccinate or not...
Posted by The Stanford Family at 6:50 PM
7 comments:
- Chey-Anne Smart said...
I've never thought about not doing it until recently. You should read Jenny McCarthy's book, Mother Warriors. It was very interesting and a great book. I think I'm too scared not to vaccinate, but I do think there are some problems with some children. I wish that I wouldn't have had Slade get the chicken pox one-I think he should have just gotten the chicken pox like us. And I will not be giving Finley the new Gardisil one that they give older girls-scary! But I do think that some diseases are showing up again for the lack of vaccinating these days. Let me know what you find-it has been on my mind lately,too. Knowledge is Power.
- February 22, 2009 at 7:42 PM
- Denae said...
I haven't read Mother Warriors, but I read Louder Than Words in one day after seeing Jenny McCarthy on a few of the talk shows talking about it. Something she said on The View made a lot of sense to me - she said that she didn't think that vaccinations cause autism in general but that it can set off autism in kids that have other factors that would make them more prone to autism. In the book, she said she knew there was something not quite right about her son when he was 5-months-old because he didn't smile.
With that said, I cannot imagine not vaccinating my child if everything else about him seems normal. If I already noticed that something was "off" about him, I may reconsider. But even then, I honestly believe that I would rather my child have autism than a life threatening disease.
- February 22, 2009 at 9:30 PM
- Monica said...
Hey, it is a tough decision. I do the what if, what if she gets mmr or some other thing and didn't get over it. Knowing I could have prevented it would be a horrible feeling. I have just put it in God's hands and make the best decisions I can. Also, with my "dr" degree, ha ha, I think that those with problems were there before and came out in most cases as just bad timing. Or maybe I just say that to make myself feel better. Any who, hope all is well and have a great week!
- February 23, 2009 at 6:46 PM
- Anonymous said...
Jenny McCarthys book is a B grade Hollywood thriller! Vaccines are one of mankind's greatest scientific achievements. This year alone, vaccines prevented 14 million infections, $40 billion in medical costs, and most importantly, 33,000 deaths.
McCarthy told Oprah that her son was a normal toddler, until he received his Measles, Mumps, and Rubella vaccine (at 15 months of age). Soon after-boom-the soul's gone from his eyes. Yet, she contradicts herself in her book: "My friends' babies all cracked a smile way before Evan did...he was almost five months old." Which is it? Was he normal until his MMR vaccine or were some of the signs missed before he got that shot?
McCarthy also contends that mercury in vaccines caused damage to her son's gut and immune system, leading to autism. Yet the mercury preservative McCarthy assails was removed from the childhood vaccination series in 2001. Her son, Evan, was born in 2002.
It's hard to trust McCarthy's medical degree from the University of Google-she comments about the Hepatitis C vaccine that wreaked havoc on a friend's child. An inconvenient truth: there is no Hepatitis C vaccine.
Here is a story from an actual Doctor on the chicken pox
itchy skin lesions. Tonight, she had taken a turn for the worse. Her fever shot up to 106 and she became confused, lethargic . . . she was unresponsive and limp in her mother's arms.
The ER doctors suspected that her open sores allowed Strep bacteria to get under her skin and rage through her bloodstream. And now, she was in "multiple system organ failure"- every square inch of her body was shutting down all at once.
IV's were placed into her veins to start fluids, antibiotics, and medications to stabilize her heart and blood pressure. She was placed on a ventilator machine to breathe. Then she was brought to the Intensive Care Unit.
By the time I met my patient, she had tubes coming out of every opening and weeping skin lesions all over her body. I was used to blood and gore, but it was hard to look at her and not cry. Imagine how her parents felt when they saw their once beautiful little girl in this grotesque state, struggling to survive.
My attending physician told me to grab dinner. This child would need me for the rest of the night.
I returned to the ICU to find that my patient had gone into cardiac arrest and died.
I watched, helplessly, as the nurses placed the little girl into a body bag...
Fast forward five months: the first chickenpox vaccine was approved. That day, I vowed never to let a child on my watch suffer from a disease that was preventable by vaccination.
-After reading this do you still wish you had not gotten the chicken pox vaccine.
-Erin Hill
- February 28, 2009 at 1:44 PM
- Kelli said...
I would highly reccomend Dr. Sear's Vaccine Book. He is pro-vaccine, but at a much different schedule than what is forced upon us often. There is some concern to the high doses of aluminum that can be in the combo shots given to little babies. Also, we have decided to not use those vaccines that are derived from aborted fetuses (including the chicken pox vaccine).
- March 5, 2009 at 5:56 AM
- Chey-Anne Smart said...
Wow, I didn't know that stating my opinion about a book or a chicken pox immunization would offend other readers. My children are up to date on all of their shots. I am pro-vaccine. But I do think that it is my duty as a parent to explore all options for my children's well-being. If I didn't ask questions about the safety of immunizations, then I wouldn't be doing my job as a parent. I read books and articles on both sides of the immunization debate. Obviously some people are very passionate about their opinion. No, I would never let my child go without an MMR vaccination. But, yes, I've honestly worried about the chicken pox vaccine. Is it so bad to question? I think that ultimately everyone wants their child to be as healthy as possible. If that means asking lots of questions, so be it. If that means reading lots of different books, then I will. I now see firsthand on how touchy this subject can be.
- March 18, 2009 at 4:59 PM
- Janet said...
Mine are vaxed & on schedule!!! I'm too scared not to. Being an historian...I've read what Polio and other diseases have done to kiddos and adults in the past...and I want to do my part in keeping that from hapening again! Good question!!
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A recent survey conducted by the University of Dalhousie found that 8.5% of British Columbians are vegetarians, making it the highest number of all the provinces—no surprise there then. With plant-based diets becoming the norm in Vancouver, exceptional vegetarian and vegan-friendly restaurants have earned themselves a spot in the city's mainstream culinary scene.
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