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If anyone has read the about me section they will know that I picked up the Great Simpleton tag when I took a job with a client because they were NYSE listed and I had taken a senior position in a controversial subsidiary. Whilst I didn't expect to say anything untoward I felt that if I did and it was taken out of context it could have had some serious consequences both for the company and for me contractually. Prior to taking the tag I had always used my real name when commenting on blogs and the BBC Radio 5 discussion boards where I was a frequent contributor. Its now a year since I left that job and whilst the subsidiary is still controversial it is no longer listed on NYSE (Sarbanes Oxley sorted that one out).
Furthermore, we completed a house purchase in Dorset in late June and will be moving there in a couple of weeks, once some work has been completed. We had always intended to retire there and having been made redundant and taking a year off it seemed a good time to start looking. The wind of fate blew kind and we found the ideal place within 3 months and on our second visit.
I say the wind of fate because we were looking for something very specific and expected it to take a couple of years. Instead we were passing through on our way to a friends birthday party in Devon and dropped in to a small town outside the area we were looking but knew it did carry some properties in the area of interest. I went off in one direction to register with estate agents whilst The Great Wiseone went off in the other. When I eventually found her she was in rapt conversation with a young estate agent. It turned out that when she explained what we were looking for the young lad said we had described his dad's house and furthermore he had just put it on the market. Incredibly it turned out to be in the village where we had stayed on our last unsuccessful house hunting visit and right in the middle of the area of greatest interest.
After a couple of phone calls he arranged with his sister and the office with which the property was registered for us to view the next morning. A quick change of accommodation found us back in the pub 75 yards from the property. We viewed it on Friday morning and knew straight away it was exactly what we wanted, made an offer Saturday afternoon and the offer was accepted on the Monday morning. There have been a few extensions which required a footpath to be moved so the purchase was a bit slow and took 3 months.
To add to our luck even further when we got round to putting our house on the market after Exchange we had 10 days of glorious weather. Three families were very interested and one has now managed to sell their own house and get a mortgage offer. So it looks like we won't be the proud owners of two houses for too long.
When the stars line up like that you just know that the right decisions have been made.
I've no idea what I will do with myself work wise when we have moved but I'll worry about that in the winter. I can't quite retire and live the lifestyle I want, golf, sailing, photography and the occasional holiday are quite expensive, so I will be looking for some work or perhaps to buy or set up a small business. What I do know is that I won't be going back to the corporate tread mill and will have more control of my own time, like I did before taking my last job. In the meantime The Great Wiseone now has proper studio in the garden and can concentrate on her career.
So with all that going on it seems an appropriate time to lay the Great Simpleton to rest. I will continues to read blogs and comment, but using my real name of Simon or probably SimonF if there are too many Simons. I also intend to start blogging again once settled in, probably in autumn and have picked a name and started preparations. It already looks like the Big Society is going to provide lots of frustrations and contradictions and the socialists haven't gone away.
I will report the new blog here, but until then may the bars are always open to you, as we said in the army.
David Cameron has said he will fly the flag of St George over No 10 during the football World Cup in South Africa.
This really is gesture politics of the lowest kind, and we haven't even got an election looming! Don't get me wrong, I'll be following England although there won't be any flags flying my house or car.
But not only is Cameron stooping low he is also showing his ignorance of the Welsh, Scots and Northern Irish when it comes to the England football (and just about evry other) sports team):
No matter what part of the UK people came from, he said he hoped they would be shouting "come on England".
All this will do is add to the victim culture of the Anybody But England and encourage them to increase the size of the chips on their shoulders and push more into the grouping.
When my father had a pub he used to say there was two subjects he wouldn't get involved in – politics and religion, as you could never win those arguments. English politicians should learn that there is one subject they should steer clear of, English national sports teams; they are on a hiding to nothing when it comes to the Celtic fringes.
So Labour's finally got round to deciding who can be a contender for the leadership position. I'm sure the membership will be ecstatic with the choices they have been given. A true reflection of the the working class background of the party that will inspire the working class to believe that the party will understand their concerns and help to deliver their aspirations.
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Hat Tip: Mark Wadsworth who had something similar a couple of weeks ago.
We've just had the compulsory EU energy survey done on the house. The results were fairly predictable, more loft insulation and change of light bulbs.
We could "typically" make and annual saving of £34 by increasing the loft insulation to 270mm. A quick google for some prices and fag packet calculation shows a cost of around £150 if I do the job myself, a 5 year payback. This doesn't take in to account the cost of me going to buy the stuff or the extra generated CO2 in that journey*.
The only problem with this typical saving is that I'm not convinced. When it snowed heavily last winter the snow on my roof thawed at about the same rate as the snow in the garden, which, to my simple mind, shows that the current insulation is fairly effective.
I could also save £45 a year if I replace all the lights with those low energy light bulbs. Well that is being forced on us and will have to happen over time, but I refuse to destroy the value of the existing bulbs and replace them with those damned things that make it impossible to read comfortably any sooner than I have to so I'm not going to bother working out a payback period.
Under the measures that cost over £500 I am told that if I replace my boiler I could typically save £39 per year. So even if I could get a boiler that meets this threshold of £500 that is a 13 year payback, but a new boilerof the size we need is going to cost over £1000 so we are now looking at a 26 year payback. Anyone want to bet that the new boiler will last that long before some new EU edict means it needs changing? Even if it lasts mechanically, which I doubt.
But there's more. Our current boiler was installed in 2004 and cost c.£1,200. Lets say it has a life of 15 years that means it cost us about £80 a year in capital costs and as it still has about 9 years of life left that means it still has an economic value of around £560. So to make a saving of £39** a year I would have to destroy over £500 worth value in the existing boiler and find another £1200, including removing the old one and installing the new one, to buy a new one. You shouldn't need a to do Economics 101 to figure that one out.
Next, I can save £37 if I install solar water heating. A quick google shows I can expect to pay between £1,500 and £3,000, a payback of 40 years at best and 80 years at worst. At 53 I'm unlikely to see those benefits.
Finally, if I install 2.5kWp of photovoltaic panels I can save £172 per year. Another google consultation shows that a 3.15Kw system costs £13,000. I can't be bothered doing more detailed research so lets be generous a say that the 2.5Kw system costs £10,000 (2.5/3.15*£13000, but it doesn't work like that) which would give me a payback of 60 years. Just as well the system comes with a life expectancy of 40 years then! Our son (who doesn't want to be referred to as the sprog so I need a new name) might just live long enough to get that benefit.
And if I do all of this I can improve my CO2 rating from E48 to D61, or E52 if I am such a bad citizen and enemy of Gaia that I don't install solar water heating and power. Apparently this will cut my CO2 emission from 6.6 tonnes per year to 6 tonnes but it doesn't say what impact this will have on improving Gaia's health or reducing global warming, my guess is the square root of sod all.
Well, I'm really glad that I was forced to part with £75 plus VAT to be told all that and they left me to carry out my on cost benefit analysis. Just think, if I hadn't paid for that survey I could have bought 12 bottles of my favourite white wine and still had some change. So I suppose that's the health fascists ans as well as eco-fascists placated.
*Two and a half years of that payback will pay for the report!
**What's the betting this is at the top end of the guesstimate as well?
I was thinking about the upcoming debate about whether we should replace our First Past The Post voting system with Alternative Vote as a sop to the LibDems' desire for PR (and yes I do know that it isn't PR, but in the minds of many it will be and what's more it will be referred to as PR in the debates) and got to thinking why do we have to impose from on high the way each constituency chooses its representative? Once we've agreed the number of MPs in Parliament this determines the size of each constituency, boundaries can then be drawn, we already have an independent commission* to do this, and constituencies could decide how they select their MP.
Ah, you say, how would constituencies decide on their preferred voting system? My first thoughts, and I'm open to suggestions, is some form of electoral college to be formed from all the mayors in the constituency? They could then decide whether or not to go for FPTP or AV or any other voting system for single member constituencies. The college could even decide whether or not political parties have to hold open primaries, which is a way of ensuring some contest in constituencies where a single party has a strong majority, like here where the Conservative got over 50% at the last election. This would also have the benefit of ensuring that parties don't use safe seats to get cronies elected against the wishes of the local party.
But that wouldn't suit the PR purists as it doesn't provide the opportunity for multi-member constituencies which, they will claim, provide a better representation of the vote and is closer to true PR. Personally I'm against any break with the single representative for a constituency and if we must have some form of true PR would prefer the Scottish system with top up lists, but being a libertarian I am happy to see some diversity. In the system I propose there is nothing to stop a few constituencies banding together and pooling their representatives. Kernow, which has 6 MPs, could, for example, decide to have a County wide multi-member PR vote, all that is needed is for the colleges to vote that way.
Work in progress but it would certainly get people involved.
*OK, so they are open to political interference but its a start.
I was listening to a R5L discussion on house prices a couple of nights ago and one of panel kept shouting "supply and demand" to back his prediction that house prices are going to crash. Apparently demand has dried up so much that the only way to get the market moving is a classic drop in prices to the point where demand is once again generated.
This got me wondering whether or not the housing market follows classic supply Vs demand curves and my recent experiences lead me to conclude that they don't.
A factory or other business owner just looks at the bottom line. If they start to make a loss because sales are falling they just drop the price to a level that stimulates demand, if that level is below cost for too long then there isn't a business and its time to go off an do something else. Conversely, demand rises and start to outstrip supply so prices can be increased, producing healthier profit margins – and encouraging competition to enter and increase supply, reducing prices again. All classic schoolboy economics which should, in theory, apply to house prices. The problem is that in classic economics pricing and other decisions decision are made dispassionately, or rationally as economists are wont to say, whereas people have a deep emotional attachment to their house and what it is worth and they don't often have to sell to stay in business. This encourages them to react irrationally when it comes to selling.
We are in a position to see this first hand as we have just exchanged contracts on a place in in Dorset. We went to see it again yesterday and discuss some work and other things with the sellers (he's a builder and doing some alterations before we move in). When we got home we got a lovely email from them saying how pleased they are that their home is going to such a nice couple (/blush). I've heard similar stories from other people and whether or not it would lead to someone pulling out of a sale if the didn't like the purchases is unlikely, it does show the emotional attachment people have to their homes.
The other example is something I've seen from a fellow blogger and which I have just done myself, and that is refuse to drop the price below a certain level. When discussing putting our current house on the market with the estate agent I told him that if we don't sell by a certain date and with a minimum price we'll take the house off the market and rent it out. We don't have a mortgage to pay off so that isn't a driver. Is this rational? No, but I have an expectation of value and rents are quite high round here so I would be willing to take a longer view, something our widget manufacturer can't do.
Yes, I know that if the land around me suddenly received planning permission and scores of similar houses came on the market I would never get my asking price, but that's not going to happen. Hell will freeze over first, this is hallowed green belt and the NIMBYs round here will be in Parliament Square with [pitchforks and hempen rope should that be proposed.
I've been getting in to photography over the winter spending a lot of time understanding all the theory about focal lengths, apertures, shutter speeds, ISO, depth of field, hyper focal distances and all the rest of the technical side. Its been quite interesting but more so when put in to practice.
I've had a few successes which I might put up but many failure. Most of the failures were caused by forgetting to change something like the aperture and ending up over exposing. Most of these can be recovered by shooting in RAW format and using programmes like Adobe Lightroom. Just occasionally, though, the failed picture just works.
I read a magazine article on photographing animals that all you can do with cats is follow them round and hope to get a good shot. I was following our female cat, Sadie, one day and she wasn't having any of it. One thing you must do with portraits is focus on the eyes so I set the auto focus on my 70-300mm lens and pointed. Unfortunately because I had to be quick I missed the eyes. The other setting meant that I had a very shallow depth of field and this was the result:
Reminded me of my single days as a youngish soldier Germany. This was just about every other record played in discos, night clubs and bars. I quite liked it as well although the English version didn't quite work:
Before going on to claim that perhaps we shouldn't be subsiding university courses with tax payers' finest either through loans or direct grants, I should declare an interest. The Sprog has now decided that he wants to go to University. He will be 24 when the course starts in September and as a mature student qualifies for full grants and loans.
We all benefit from the education of children up to a certain age and level. It could be argued that having a population that is numerate and literate is a public good, not in the strict economic sense, but that we all benefit from our children having the basics that allow them to go on and become fully functioning members of society. We can argue at what age we should stop providing a subsidy for schools but I would argue that benefit should stop when the education becomes specific career training to which the recipient of the education is the major beneficiary.
I started thinking along these lines last year and was reminded of it a couple of weeks ago when this story* first started to be discussed:
Almost a quarter of a million people applying for university this year are going to miss out on a place, university leaders are forecasting.
Spending cuts have reduced extra university places at a time when there has been a huge surge in demand.
Last year and then a couple of weeks ago, I have met some young men (well young by my standards, in their late 20s and early 30s) who are all airline pilots. They paid to get their licences privately rather than go to university. This meant they raised the funds themselves as loans and are paying back the loans at commercial rates. The cost training to be a pilot is around £50k, although sponsorships from the airlines may be available for some.
So, we can read in to this that where highly skilled people are needed training is available at a cost that reflects the long term benefits of gaining the qualification and working in those jobs, funding is available to pay for that training, the jobs pay enough to cover the cost of that training and everyone is relatively happy. A market has duly formed and we can be sure that we are getting supply and demand matched, all without the need of tax payer subsidies. Furthermore, we can be quite sure that taxes aren't being used to pay for oversupply of pilots, undercutting salaries and proving an indirect subsidy to airlines.
This got me wondering what other industries could be left to the market rather than requiring tax payer subsidies to prime them:
Health – doctors are extremely well paid, albeit at the tax payers expense, so why do we also subsidise their training? Especially as there is no guarantee that the doctors and nurses will stay in the NHS. Of course the argument of many is that we should make doctors, dentists and other health professionals work in the NHS as aprt of their traing costs. This is a form of slavery and anyway, once we have changed the way we deliver health care a real market will develop and there will be enough doctors and nurses to balance supply and demand.
Law – do we really need to provide tax payer subsidies to pay for more lawyers and solicitors? Let the market decide how many we need and their true worth. I appreciate that we may pay more for legal aid but that will be more than covered with the savings in education .
Teachers – another job for life qualification. Schools vouchers will help but why do we need to subsidise teacher training
We could keep going through all the courses that universities provide and make the same arguments. Let those who want to do the course pay their own way, let a market develop and we will soon find the true value of all those courses and lecturers.
The left would put up lots of arguments against this sort of measure, especially the affect on the poor. As we have seen in the USA and even at the university the Sprog is going to attend, there are plenty of bursaries available from many sources. I would be willing to have a bet that if the state got out of the way we would see a growth in local and national charities dedicated to supporting poor people through university, especially if this is matched by vouchers and, dare I say it, for profit schools.
I'll probbaly return to this subject now I've started as it opens up a whole different world of the way we do things.
*Yes,I know that this BBC story is only a few days prior to my post but the subject has been widely discussed for weeks


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Rihanna tops Justin Bieber in YouTube popularity
Los Angeles, CA, United States (4E) – Singer Rihanna appears to have beaten pop sensation Justin Bieber with regards to popularity in YouTube, with her 77 videos gathering millions of views more than Bieber's 79 videos.
As of Tuesday, Rihanna's 77 videos have a total of around 3.78 billion views, having two million views more than all of Bieber's videos' total view count.
What's more is that Rihanna's official YouTube channel has over 8.73 million subscribers, almost a hundred percent more than Bieber's 4.9 million.
Is the young Canadian star's popularity on the downward slope? On Facebook, Bieber's official page has over 72.3 million likes while Bieber's page has gathered around 54.3 million.
The "Beauty and the Beat" singer, however, still holds a better stature on Twitter, having over 40.6 million followers, against Rihanna's 30 million followers.
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Madison, Wi (WSAU) The Wisconsin Woodchucks lost a see-saw battle with the Madison Mallards Friday night 7-6 in 10 innings. the Mallards had a 3-0 lead after three innings but the Woodchcuks tied it with three unearned runs in the 4th. The Chucks tooka 5-4 lead into the 9th inning but Madison came up with 2 in the 9th and the winning run in the 10th. Chris Licon took the loss for Wisconsin. Chris Amezquita had his second home run of the season. The game marked the start of the secon half of the Northwoods League season. The Woodchucks host Madison tonight at Athletic Park.
Other Northwoods league action from Friday
Waterloo 4 Wisconsin Rapids 2
Eau Claire 9 Green Bay 0
La Crosse 9 Battle Creek 3
Rochester 6 Thunder Bay 3
Alexandria 4 Duluth 2
Brainerd 5 St. Cloud 4
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Coping With Sleep Loss After Chemotherapy
Sleep disturbances are common in people who have cancer—especially those undergoing chemotherapy—which makes a challenging situation even more difficult. Chemotherapy and other treatments cause side effects, such as pain, itching, fever, and hot flashes that make sleep difficult.
Cancer patients usually complain they can't fall or stay asleep and have an erratic sleep-wake cycle. Breast cancer patients in particular often struggle with sleep loss. Women cite sleeping problems among their most distressing symptoms during chemotherapy.
We all have a master internal biological clock (circadian clock) that regulates our body's rhythms throughout the day, such as temperature, hormone levels, and our sleep-wake cycle. During chemotherapy, the powerful medications can knock your circadian sleep rhythms out of sync. The first round of chemotherapy is especially disruptive, but the longer you undergo chemotherapy, the more difficult it becomes to regulate your internal clock. Furthermore, disruptions to circadian rhythms may even contribute to cancer development.
Overcome Chemotherapy Related Sleep-Loss
Sleep is crucial, especially when you are fighting cancer or other illnesses. Here are some ways to combat chemotherapy-induced sleep loss.
Start by talking to your physician. Managing side effects, including sleep loss, is part of cancer treatment, so tell your doctor if you are not sleeping. If appropriate, your physician may prescribe a sleeping aid.
Create an environment conducive to sleeping. For example, use comfortable bedding and make sure your bedroom is dark when you go to bed. Limit your bed to two activities: sleep and intimacy. Don't watch TV or play on your computer.
Avoid heavy, spicy, or sugary foods, alcohol, and caffeine, especially at night. Try eating a high-protein snack two hours before going to bed.
Don't exercise too close to bedtime. Exercise is certainly important, but it's best to finish at least two hours before you plan to sleep.
Develop good sleep habits. Go to bed and wake the same time every day. Train your body that it's time for sleep with regular bedtime routines, such as drinking a cup of herbal tea or brushing your teeth. Whatever rituals or steps you take before going bed, do them consistently.
Explore complementary and alternative treatments. Acupuncture is widely used to help manage the side effects of chemotherapy. Not only does it reduce cancer-related pain and help you sleep, it reduces stress and boosts your immune system, which enhances your body's ability to handle the stresses of chemotherapy.
National Cancer Institute. "Chemotherapy and You." Web. 29 June 2007. http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/chemotherapy-and-you/page7
National Cancer Institute. "Pain Control." Web. March 2008.
National Cancer Institute. "Sleep Disorders." Web. 8 January 2010.
National Institutes of Health. National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. "An Interview With Xiaoming Tian, L.Ac., C.M.D." Web. Feb 2010. http://nccam.nih.gov/news/newsletter/2010_february/interview.htm
University of Utah Health Care. "Chemotherapy Linked to Sleep-Wake Cycle Disruptions." Web. 1 September 2009. http://healthcare.utah.edu/womenshealth/healthlibrary/doc.php?type=6&id=630424
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a matching grant of costly policy information, political intelligence, and labor to the enterprises of strategically selected legislators.
Ezra summarizes
In other words, lobbyists act like a volunteer, and highly skilled, army for politicians who already agree with them…Perhaps you are a legislator interested both in reforming the nation's drug laws and in cutting taxes on large corporations. If you focus your time on tax cuts for large corporations, you'll get an enormous amount of money, aid, and attention from lobbyists. If you spend your time on drug policy, you'll be ignored and your campaign will be underfunded.
Time is tight. I get why legislators spend this valuable resource - time – on issues where they can get credit (in the press, with their constituents and political donors, etc.).
I'd like to share a few personal recollections of a legislator who spent a lot of time on an important issue: Representative Donald Payne of New Jersey. Sadly, Congressman Payne passed away two mornings ago, but before he left us he made an impact on Sudan's human rights crises.
Most Americans won't have heard of him. He wasn't an eloquent speaker. He didn't seek the spotlight. In fact, I got the sense that he quite liked to stay away from it. He never appeared in a hurry – remarkable for the average American, let alone a member of Congress. We met on a dozen or so occasions and he recognized me, but never knew my name. He didn't try to fudge it; he reintroduced himself sincerely and thanked me. At least once I witnessed him repeatedly move to the back of the speaking line so that his busy colleagues could speak-and-run.
Donald Payne put in the time. He waited. He listened. He read. He traveled. He waited some more. He spoke to everyone and anyone about the plight of people in Sudan.
In 2007, my organization was trying to encourage governors to sign off on state legislation to divest public pension funds of certain companies doing business in Sudan. We convinced a number of members of Congress to write a letter to all the governors and then hold a press conference.
In my haste, I made a big mistake: I didn't get any press to the press conference! The only people at the press conference were high school students doing a class project on Sudan. Two of the other members of Congress bailed and another was (rightfully) furious. Representative Payne neither bailed nor was he furious. He did not abbreviate his remarks. After he spoke, he spent more than 30 minutes talking about Sudan with the high school students from northern Virginia (remember, he represented New Jersey).
I remain deeply impressed by this man's grace, but I'm also torn about whether or not I would have done the same. After all, there are a lot of important things to do and talking to 9th graders about Sudan doesn't seem like the best use of time (…even if your goal is to ease suffering there). But, I don't think Congressman Payne thought that way. In these 9th graders, I think he saw people who might come to share his passion. He saw an opportunity, not a burden.
At the beginning of 2005 I was part of a group of college students who were outraged that the US government was not doing more to stop genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan. We thought a big lobby day would attract students from across the country to come to DC and inspire action from the nation's leaders. None of us were particularly knowledgeable about how to actually pull off such an event. We talked to more than a dozen congressional offices from both parties. They were universally nice, but none paid much attention (with the exception of Senator Brownback). Congressman Payne and his staff embraced us and our idea for a lobby day. They helped us pull together all the details and recruit other legislators to speak. They coached us through each step along the way.
Recall Ezra's description I cited earlier: "lobbyists act like a volunteer, and highly skilled, army for politicians." In this case, it was reversed! The politician was helping the amateur lobbyists. Scruffy, inexperienced college students walked into his office and he saw opportunity. Maybe helping us wasn't the best use of time for a small, overworked staff, but the experience hooked me. After that event, I determined I wanted to do this work full-time. I spent the next six years of my life working on Sudan.
During my time at Genocide Intervention Network (now United to End Genocide), I came to believe that in order to "win" on our issues – preventing and stopping large-scale, deliberate violence against civilians – part of what we had to do was get sympathetic members of Congress to do more. We had to make it in their political interest to go beyond "I condemn X happening in Y place" resolutions.
The organization devoted a ton of time and money to teaching activists how to recruit prominent local supporters and use the local press. We were willing to criticize members for not doing enough. We graded them on their efforts - from A to F - and published the scorecard for all their constituents to see.
The strategy worked well in some instances. I'm inclined to write, "but all those members who were persuaded to be marginally more engaged were not half as important as Congressman Payne." I don't think that's the right way to put it though. I think its more accurate to say that without Representative Payne there might not have been a productive outlet for the marginally increased energies of the other members. He was the rudder and the sails and the captain. They were the wind.
I was once at an all-day event on Sudan with Congressman Payne. It was in his district. President Obama's Special Envoy Scott Gration was there as well. A local university had spent a lot of time and money putting on this conference. In all, maybe 3 dozen locals showed up at some point during the day. Point being – if he was out to win votes, this was not a way to spend his time. I highly doubt that his work on Sudan furthered his political interests at all.
Reflecting on Congressman Payne's example makes me want to ask a second question. Not just, "how do we get members of Congress to co-sponsor this piece of potentially controversial legislation?" But also, "how do we get a Congressman to devote his career and decades of his life to our cause?"
I know professional advocates ask the first question… do they ask the second? Not in my experience. Maybe we're too short-term oriented. Maybe its too much an art and we're more comfortable with science. Maybe we discount the relative impact a single, deeply committed member of Congress can make. Maybe we believe it's not within our power to create or instill that sort of commitment.
Did Congressman Payne's passion and all that time translate into results for Sudanese? I believe it did. There are others who believe that the Congress, led by Congressman Payne, was too tough with the Government of Sudan and not tough enough with the various rebel groups (one of which is now the ruling party of the new Republic of South Sudan). They would say he was too willing to reach for a stick and not willing enough to extend a carrot.
There's no doubt that he felt a palpable disgust for the Government of Sudan. On moral grounds, he himself refused to meet with the President and other high-level officials. But I don't think this blinded him or prevented him from supporting US negotiations with the regime. At least three times that I can remember, his top public ask of the executive branch was the appointment of a Presidential Envoy to lead diplomacy. And he supported the Comprehensive Peace Agreement between Southern rebels and the Government of Sudan, even though one can argue that it entrenched the ruling party and certainly failed to address the horrible ongoing violence in Darfur.
I think the way to think about his more bellicose proposals – including, most notoriously, American bombing of Sudanese military installations – is that he did not always trust the State Department, which by and large determines US policy with respect to Sudan. More specifically, I don't think he always trusted the rotating high-level officials who were brought in to find (speedy) diplomatic solutions. He was not alone. Many believe that diplomats adopt the perspective of the more sophisticated government interlocutors and downplay the claims of the disorganized and unsophisticated rebel groups. In their hurry to get a deal done within limited time windows – which is their job – diplomats can give too much or not get enough in return. Sometimes they are so captured by the process that they fail to see the bigger picture.
Boiled down to its essence, the story of Sudan's major violent crises is about a rational and ruthless ruling clique clinging to power (and various groups – armed and otherwise – testing it and competing with each other). To keep power, the regime will do most anything. It deliberately uses force against civilians, but it will also compromise. It will expel its "spiritual leader" and it will sign an agreement with its hated enemy. But it will also arm murderous militias and deny myriad civil and human rights. Payne did not stand in the way of compromise with the regime when he believed it could alleviate suffering, but my view is that he also didn't think that the compromises reflected anything more than the regime's present cost-benefit calculations. That's why he had to stay on the issue day after day, year after year, decade after decade. No one move – diplomatic agreement or punitive action – would be decisive. Remain ever vigilant. Don't expect game-changers. It's a long, nasty chess match.
When I first encountered Congressman Payne the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) had just ended the 20 year civil war between Southern rebels and the government in Khartoum. According to Hilde Johnson, a key Norwegian diplomat, both the Southern rebels and the international officials felt they could not include Darfur in the "comprehensive" negotiations for fear of sinking the very delicate talks. These are the really tough calls that international leaders face. In hindsight I don't know that I would have made a different decision. However, its clear to me that the focus on the CPA negotiations and the exclusion of Darfur from the talks proved massively costly in terms of lives lost in Darfur. Khartoum saw that as long as the international focus was on ending the civil war, it could pursue a scorched earth policy in Darfur without international consequences. (What were the regime's motivations? To send a message to people around the country – don't expect to get the deal the Southern rebels will get. If you challenge us – as rebels in Darfur did – we will deal mercilessly with you and your families).
When officials make or go along with decisions that result in these sorts of huge human costs, even if they are the right decisions, I think they have a responsibility to subsequently address them as best they can. So many individuals who were part of the CPA process never turned their attention to Darfur. Congressman Payne did. Two months after the signing of the agreement he introduced a bill that sent a strong message to Khartoum and eventually led to US leadership at the UN on the issue of Darfur.
Through his persistent advocacy – the activist groups were just getting started and provided only marginal help – the Darfur Genocide Accountability Act gained almost 150 co-sponsors in the beginning of 2005. The Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, at the insistence of the State Department, prevented the bill from coming before the committee. That's because the legislation included capital market sanctions – which would have forced most foreign publicly traded companies to decide between listing on the New York Stock Exchange and operating in Sudan – and authorized the President to use military force to stop the killing in Darfur. Keep in mind – Secretary of State Colin Powell had just been in Khartoum to shake hands with Sudan's Vice President on a job well done (regarding the peace agreement). And less than two months later the Congress wants to send planes over Darfur and inspire a mass exit of international companies from Sudan! You can see how this proposal would have horrified many who had just devoted years of their lives to ending the civil war and didn't want to see all that come undone. But Congressman Payne was trying to re-balance US policy. He wasn't satisfied by past "victories."
Remain ever vigilant. Don't expect game-changers. It's a long, nasty chess match.
Ultimately, he had to compromise with Chairman Hyde and the State Department. The authorization of force and the capital market sanctions were dropped, but it was agreed that the US would take a leading role on Darfur at the UN Security Council.
There's a robust debate about why violence in Darfur declined. I believe part of the explanation is that the regime's calculations changed. Now that the CPA was completed, the international community could really come to grips with addressing the crisis in Darfur. As Rebecca Hamilton writes, for better or worse the US led that effort. And, in my opinion, no one was more important in making sure it did than Congressman Payne. I believe his quick and forceful pivot at the beginning of 2005 changed the regime's calculations and gradually eased the violence.
There are many other things to say - his whole-of-Sudan approach anticipated the challenges of 2010 and 2011 - but this post is already long.
Finally, I'll just say what I probably said to him a dozen times in passing…
Thank you, Congressman. Thank you for the time.


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I've been all cooped up and seemingly fine with my uneventful agenda lately but sometimes like now, I feel like I am rotting my youth away and I should get out there and take this chance to meet this new person and get the chance to show someone what I'm like. So I gave in for a Tuesday night date since it keeps not working out on the weekend as a plan. Anyways, I feel like I keep forgetting about it because he just texted me to remind me and check in on me haha jk, UM - should I write this down somewhere?
Either way I feel like this should prove good for me even if nothing comes out of it but a good night of food and company.
I am eating my second dinner and its 10pm. BAD AIDA BADDDD AIDAAAA.
I have not seen this movie in a long time and have not seen it while working in my cubicle for the past two years. When things are more relevant they tend to be even more funny.
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Only during recession..
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Strictness of Leniency Programs and Cartels of Asymmetric Firms
AbstractThis paper studies the effects of leniency programs on the behavior of firms participating in illegal cartel agreements.The main contribution of the paper is that we consider asymmetric firms.In general, firms differ in size and operate in several different markets.In our model, they form a cartel in one market only.This asymmetry results in additional costs in case of disclosure of the cartel, which are caused by an asymmetric reduction of the sales in other markets due to a negative reputation effect.This modeling framework can also be applied to the case of international cartels, where firms are subject to different punishment procedures according to the laws of their countries, or in situations where following an application for leniency firms are subject to costs other than the fine itself and where these costs depend on individual characteristics of the firm.Moreover, following the rules of existing Leniency Programs, we analyze the effects of the strictness of the Leniency Programs, which reflects the likelihood of getting complete exemption from the fine even in case many firms self-report simultaneously.Our main results are that, first, leniency programs work better for small (less diversified) companies, in the sense that a lower rate of law enforcement is needed in order to induce self-reporting by less diversified firms.At the same time, big (more diversified) firms are less likely to start a cartel in the first place given the possibility of self-reporting in the future.Second, the more cartelized the economy, the less strict the rules of leniency programs should be.
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Pretty rough looking photos. The groupies say "oh it's not her !". Then who is it on a beach with William ? And looks like Waity ? LOL !!!! Of course it's Waity Katie.
Maybe Jecca ?!, but she doesn't look like Waity. And that didn't stop Willy from visiting Jecca without Waity. I WONDER WHAT THEY DID WHEN THEY WERE ALONE AND WAITY WASN'T THERE ?! LOL
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Half of these don't even look like her. They are probably impersonators.
Says you. Unable and unwilling to admit that Kate looks like a mess in most of them, LOL. Yes, she's a MESS.


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Working in front of the camera today :) / Hoy trabajando enfrente de la cámara :) (at Independence Studio)
Last night @ The LA Cinema Festival of Hollywood! Congrats to everyone who was a part of the production for BRAKES! (at The Whitefire Theater)
And that's a wrap! Last day of shooting 'Englishman in LA'! So pleased to have worked with such a brilliant cast & crew! Thank you, thank you! @cameronmoir @axemefink @joannakiss @e_l_stang @cassclark (at Venice, CA)
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Update: Nie Nie is Out of Her Coma
Here are the latest developments on mom blogger Stephanie Nielson of the Nie Nie Dialogues.
For months now, we've been engrossed in the story of mom blogger Stephanie Nielson, mother of four, who was in a plane crash with her husband back in August. She was in a medically-induced coma for over two months while she underwent countless skin graft surgeries for her burns, which cover over 80% of her body.
Stephanie came out of her coma last week, and is even sitting up and talking. She has not been able to see her children yet, but doctors say she is "out of the woods." Read about her sister's latest visit with Stephanie here. (Warning: Break out the Kleenex.) Meanwhile, her husband Christian, who was burned on over 30% of his body, has been released from the burn center and is in outpatient rehabilitation therapy. Their children continue to live with Stephanie's sister Courtney, who is a blogger in our momlogic network.
Fundraising efforts continue for the couple. Their medical bills are expected to reach into the millions. Find out how you can help here.
Check out this tribute to Stephanie and her amazing family:
We will keep following this story and bringing you updates as we get them. Stephanie, you are always in our thoughts, and we are pulling for you!
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"I remember when I was coaching down at Florida, we would always lose kids in recruiting battles to Clemson. I would tell my coaches that we shouldn't be losing kids to Clemson. Charlie Strong responded 'coach have you ever actually been to Clemson?' I hadn't but I'll tell you what, I've been here now and I get it. This is an exceptional, special place."
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Services will be 10:30 a.m. Friday at Trinity United Methodist Church in Gollaher Chapel with Dr. Theresa Mason officiating. Burial will be in Westlawn Memorial Park Cemetery with military honors provided by United States Army and the Grand Island Veterans' Honor Guard.
Visitation will be from 5-7 p.m. Thursday at All Faiths Funeral Home.
Gilbert was born August 23, 1930 at Horace, NE, to Elmer and Elsie (Meyer) Sautter.
The family eventually settled on a farm near Scotia. Gilbert graduated from Scotia High School in 1948.
He entered the United States Army on February 29, 1952, serving during the Korean War and was honorably discharged February 19, 1954.
Gilbert and Faith Peterson were united in marriage on November 1, 1952 in Scotia. Upon Gilbert's discharge from service, the couple farmed near Scotia for 12 years, moving to Grand Island in 1966. Gilbert began working when the Sperry New Holland plant opened in 1965, retiring 25 years later in 1990. He was a member of Trinity United Methodist Church.
He enjoyed fishing, collecting airplanes, banks and farm toys. He was an avid Husker fan. Gilbert worked hard his entire life, passing on to his children his work ethic, the importance of a good education and love of family.
Survivors include his devoted wife of 61 years, Faith; son and daughter-in-law, Dennis and Terri Sautter of Grand Island; daughter and son-in-law, Helen and Kevin Kirkland of Fallon, NV; and sisters and brother-in-law, Lucille Hermsmeyer of Greeley, NE and Lauradel and Duane Carson of Ord.
Those also left to cherish his memory include five grandchildren, Tara, Kory and Kylie Kirkland and Darrick (Amy) Sautter and Daniell (Daniel) Garlick; and two great-granddaughters, Avery Kirkland and Susannah Garlick.
He was preceded in death by his parents; two infant sons, Charles and Robert; and two brothers, Dean Sautter and Kenneth Sautter.
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Captain Wettlaufer graduated from Colorado State University with a Bachelor of Science in Micro biology. He received his commission through Aviation Officer Candidate School, was winged in March 1988.
After completing A-6 Intruder Fleet Replacement Squadron training with Attack Squadron (VA) 42 in April 1989, Captain Wettlaufer conducted operational flying tours in the intruder with VA-85, and in the FA-18 Hornet during two assignments with Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 195, including a tour as commanding officer. These tours included combat deployments embarked aboard USS America (CV 66), USS Independence (CV 62) and USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63). While assigned to the Strike Aircraft Test Directorate, He conducted various A-6, FA-18, and T-45 flight test projects. He also served as test pilot and instructor at the Empire Test Pilots School on exchange with the British Royal Navy. While in the UK, he flew numerous aircraft including the Jaguar, Hawk, Hunter and Tucano. He also completed initial Joint Strike Fighter (F-35) flight control system evaluation trials in the VAAC Harrier aboard HMS Invincible (R05).
While ashore, Captain Wettlaufer served on the Operations staff for Commander U.S. SECOND Fleet, as a CNO Strategic Studies Group Associate Fellow, and in the Office of the Secretary of Defense as a policy analyst for the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Policy where he was country Director for the United Kingdom, France, Canada and the Baltic States.
He completed Navy Nuclear Power Training and was assigned as Executive Officer in USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) where he completed a SEVENTH Fleet deployment, Planned Incremental Availability and pre-deployment training phases.
Recently Captain Wettlaufer commanded USS Denver (LPD 9), Home-ported in Sasebo, Japan. Denver deployed throughout 7th Fleet with Amphibious Squadron ELEVEN and the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit including Exercises FOAL EAGLE and BALIKATAN.
He assumed command of USS John C. Stennis on 26 July 2013.
Captain Wettlaufer holds a Master of Science in Aviation Systems from the University of Tennessee and a Master of Arts in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College.
Captain Wettlaufers decorations include Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medals, Air Medals (three individual and three strike/flight awards), and other personal, unit, campaign, and service ribbons. He has accumulated over 3700 flight hours in 48 aircraft and more than 800 carrier arrested landings.


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