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THE CROSSFIT GAMES SEASON begins with the release of the CrossFit Open 13.1
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MEN/WOMEN - includes Masters Men/Women up to 54 years old
Proceed through the sequence below completing as many reps as possible in 17 minutes of:
40 Burpees
75/45 pound Snatch, 30 reps
30 Burpees
135/75 pound Snatch, 30 reps
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165/100 pound Snatch, 30 reps
10 burpees
210/120 pound Snatch, as many reps as possible
MASTERS MEN/WOMEN - includes Masters Men/Women 55+
Proceed through the sequence below completing as many reps as possible in 17 minutes of:
40 Burpees
45/35 pound Snatch, 30 reps
30 Burpees
75/55 pound Snatch, 30 reps
20 Burpees
100/75 pound Snatch, 30 reps
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120/90 pound Snatch, as many reps as possible
This workout begins from a standing position and with the barbell loaded with the starting weight. In the Burpee, the Athlete will move from flat on the ground to touching an object with both hands that is at least 6 inches above their max reach. In the Snatch, the barbell goes directly from the ground to overhead in one motion without stopping at the shoulders. This can be a muscle Snatch, a power Snatch, a squat Snatch or a split Snatch. A Clean and Jerk is not permitted. Score is total reps completed. In the case of a tie, the Athlete with the faster time to finish their last complete set of Snatches will be ranked higher.
We will be working out with athletes from our sister facilities, Crossfit BWI and Crossfit Syndicate. The energy that will come in joining with BWI and Syndicate will be incredible! We are running the Open WOD's at a special time and place each week. This special time (outside of our usual 8am and 10am class time – which of course will still go on!) will be for the CROSSFIT OPEN REGISTERED ATHLETES ONLY!
Here is how we are running it:
Saturday, March 9th, 12:30pm – Crossfit Annapolis
Saturday, March 16th, 12:30pm- Crossfit BWI
Saturday, March 23rd, 12:30pm- Crossfit Syndicate
Saturday, March 30th, 12:30pm- Crossfit Annapolis
Saturday, April 6th, 12:30pm- Crossfit BWI
After each Open WOD, we will hang out, eat (BYOM), drink (BYOB), socialize and have some community bonding time. We promise it will be a great time!
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MISHAWAKA — Arnold P. Bailey, 84, of Mishawaka, died at 5:25 a.m. Monday, Oct. 29, 2012 in Golden Living Center in Knox.
Arnold was born Feb. 23, 1928 in Englewood, N.J. to the late Clarence and Josephine (Adams) Bailey. Also preceding him in death was a son, Andrew Peter Bailey in 1992.
June 11, 1951 in Wheaton, Ill., Arnold married the former Doris J. Stubbs. Doris died Dec. 28, 2008. Surviving him is a daughter, Ruth Bailey of Knox.
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BREMEN — Harold E. Reed Sr., 88, of Bremen passed away Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012 at home. He was born Dec. 10, 1923 to Emery and Olive (Musser) Reed in Plymouth. Harold married Marjorie Schlemmer Aug. 17, 1947; she preceded him in death Oct. 17, 2001.
Harold graduated from Bremen High School with the class of 1941. He went on to honorably serve his country as part of the United States Army in World War II. Harold worked for NIPSCO for 26 years in construction, in addition to the many times he helped out his friends and family.
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Survivors include her four sons, Berne L. (Holly) Jones, Kooskia, Idaho; Glen E. (Chris) Jones, Rochester; Dale L. (Sherry) Jones, Oxford; and Carl D. "Pete" (Ladeana) Jones, Peru; 13 grandchildren, 20 great-grandchildren, and several stepgrandchildren and great-grandchildren.
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PLYMOUTH — Marion M. Reynard, 76, of Plymouth, for the past 26 years, died of natural causes at 11:35 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012 in Miller's Merry Manor.
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FORFUCKINGEVER and that little witty ass response that you should be listening to rock music
go fuck yourself Black people created that shit too
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I have no respect for you and get the fuck out of life.
I guess that means you can't fully comprehend hip-hop that's about losing your father, such as Atmosphere's song Yesterday, or about overcoming and loosing friends to drug addiction, like Macklemore's song Otherside, or simply loving music and its beauty because it makes you exceptionally happy, such as Eyedea's song Music Music…because you're not white. Obviously skin color has much much much more to do with your perspectives of life then the actual experiences you encounter while living…
As Kendrick Lamar said, "I don't make black music, I don't make white music, I make everyday life music."
And yeah, I admit, I will never understand songs like C.R.E.A.M. as well as young black males struggling to get by in New York back in the 80's, but neither will you. You never lived that, and just because you have the same skin color doesn't mean you can claim you shared their struggle and pain.
That's like me saying, "you can't understand the true pain of the holocaust like I can, since I'm Jewish", but I don't say that because I'm smart enough to realize that's bullshit. Way back in the day I went to a holocaust museum with one of my catholic friends, and halfway through he just broke down. The images hit him much harder than me. He was so shaken we had to leave early, not because he was jewish and fundamentally felt the pain of his relatives, but because he comprehends the pain of all human beings, even if he's not the same genetically or culturally. I have family that survived through the war and some that didn't (my great grandmother got run over by a Nazi tank right in front of my grandfather and his 7 other siblings), but I don't claim to know their pain any better simply because I'm jewish. The only way I could better comprehend their struggle is if I went through a similar ordeal.
And by your racist logic, black people really need to stop claiming they understand Drake's music better than me. What do you have in common with him? He's half black? Well he's also half white, Jewish, and raised by a white family…in Canada! I have much more in common with Drake then any black person ever could claim. Did you ever spend years memorizing scripture for your bar mitzvah like me and Drake? No? Is your mother white? No? Well then I guess you can't exactly relate to the cultural ideals we were raised with or our inherent perceptions of life, nor the challenges we overcame for being jewish and loving hip-hop (there isn't exactly a jewish hip-hop scene jewish people can just jump into). Simply put, due to my genetics and heritage I comprehend Drake's music much better than all black people…or at least by your logic. You're backwards, racist logic.
So once again reverieofb…you, pussyharvest, and the rest of your irrationally hateful Nicki Minaj fan group need to open your eyes to the human experience. Your skin color only defines you if you let it define you. I'm just a human being trying to make it in an impossibly complex world I don't fully understand, what the fuck are you?
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A Diverse Economy
Does Hawaii need one? How should we get it?
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According to Brewbaker, this sort of tax credit can only distort the behavior of investors. He emphasizes this with a parable: "Suppose you and I wanted to set up a company with Bernie Madoff that guaranteed investors would never have to pay state income taxes for as long as they lived, and might, in the process, actually get a return on their investment. We could loot them for millions of dollars and spend it on ourselves. The investors would probably get nothing in return, but they would still be no worse off than if they had given the same amount of money to the state."
Of course, the whole idea of these kinds of tax credits is to change the equation of risk and reward for the investor. Sometimes, the credit is designed to make some desirable kind of investment (clean energy, low-income housing) pencil out, offsetting some of the cost for the investor. Some credits, like 221, effectively shift the risk from the investor to the state. Brewbaker's point is that investors need a true metric of risk and reward — economists call it risk-adjusted returns — in order to act efficiently. "Act 221 isn't just inefficient; it's outright pernicious," he says.
Some See a Broader Problem
Ted Liu, director of the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism, is one of those who don't think capital alone will work. Where Watumull says, "Capital comes first, then, the other pieces of it (education, workforce development, infrastructure) will come along later," Liu believes those other pieces are a big reason there's no capital in the first place. "I don't think it's capital driven," he says. "Capital will go to places where it can be used." The key to diversification, according to people in this camp, is not tax credits for wealthy investors, but an emphasis on things like science, technology, engineering and math education programs; worker training; infrastructure, like wet labs and incubators; and even lifestyle issues such as the arts and cultural festivals. Liu poses the question: "Why isn't the private sector providing the capital now?" The answer, he says, is that "there are better opportunities elsewhere. If we want them to invest here, we have to make those opportunities better here."
This broader view of diversification has currency in surprising places. Among the leadership of Enterprise Honolulu, for example, there seems to be a general agreement that the process will have to be more comprehensive than simply replacing Act 221 or creating a fund of funds. Board member Mark Ritchie likes to use the example of Ireland, a country that, within a generation, went from last in per capita income in the European Union to first. But the so-called Irish Miracle required an extraordinary level of conversation and consensus within the country. There's the rub.
Pono Shim, the kahu and new president of Enterprise Honolulu, says this is the challenge facing Hawaii today. "Can we have a simple, open, honest conversation about who we are, where we are and where are we going? Until that happens, there will be no economic development that's going to span Hawaii's future."
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Outgoing Enterprise Honolulu president Mike Fitzgerald agrees. "Until and unless a new community discussion can take place here among the stakeholders – not just business, not just government, not just unions, not just environmentalists, not just the university, but bring those forces together and have citizens have a stake – this place has marooned itself."
But Fitzgerald remains stubbornly optimistic. "Just think of these challenges facing Hawaii right now: First, I would argue that it's the most vulnerable place on the planet because of imported oil and imported fuel." Hawaii, he says, is also disproportionately impacted by any hiccup in the world economy. "All that said – and those are all challenges – Hawaii has a better set of real assets to deal with these than almost anywhere on the planet: every renewable energy asset, 365 days of growing capacity, clean, blue water for ocean research." Just solving our own problems, in other words, will create a clean, sustainable, diversified economy.
Of course, according to Brewbaker, this all misses the point. Like most economists, he believes diversification is the wrong goal. According to the theory of comparative advantage, specialization is the better plan for a small, open economy like Hawaii. "The idea," Brewbaker says, "is that, through production specialization in an economy's comparative advantage, welfare will be maximized." It's best, he says, to simply trade what you do well for all the cheaper stuff we can import from others. Economically speaking, if Hawaii can't attract venture capital or produce an educated workforce or a modern infrastructure, maybe technology isn't our proper specialization.
"Tourism seems like the obvious choice to me," Brewbaker says.
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HTML5 visualization readiness
Everyone's been bashing Flash lately and holding HTML5 up on a pedestal. This circular graph thing, for example, shows what a combination of HTML5 and CSS3 can do and what features are available in major browsers. That's great and all, but as you can see there are still a lot of holes.
The most glaringly obvious hole is Internet Explorer - which supports practically nothing. This is nothing new. Anyone who's designed a site to work in all browsers knows this. But as much as you hate Internet Explorer, you're not going to block content for some 80 percent of visitors, right?
On top of that, Flash provides richer interaction than HTML5 right now, and it's going to be like that for a while. A lot of the work from the New York Times is in Flash. Stamen Design uses Flash. A lot of great work has come out of Flash - not just cruddy MySpace pages.
Now I'm not saying HTML5 isn't going to be useful. It will be and is in some areas. But in terms of visualization, Flash is still better.
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"But as much as you hate Internet Explorer, you're not going to block content for some 80 percent of visitors, right?"
What percentage of users are you blocking by requiring Flash for your visualizations though? We may wish Apple devices had Flash (or we may not) but that user base will continue to grow – are we going to prevent them from seeing our visualizations as well?
Besides we're quite willing to force the latest version of Flash on visitors despite the fact that if they are running IE6 they are probably on an older slower machine… The answer is rarely that simple :)
If your visualization requires Flash use it, but we should begin thinking long and hard about what it is we need. The default shouldn't be Flash. The default shouldn't be HTML5/CSS.
The default should be whatever produces the most understandable visualization using the least common denominator. In some cases that will be a simple image, no?
Good point! the audience is the king. But you should also take in consideration the development cost. We can't all afford to spend time optimizing for various browsers. Flash gives you a good alternative to that. Would you prefer to give you target audience the best experience or everybody a half-ass one? Simple images may work well in many situations, but for rich data visualizations, you need a better tool.
Agreed audience is king.
One clear area Flash has the advantage is if you are placing large amounts of visualizations on a page (e.g. something like a lot of sparkline graphs). The lack of powerful JS engines in old browsers cause them to choke. But in situations like these we've found alternatives (like using Google Charts to generate sparkgraph images on the fly) to be the easiest and most compatible option.
I'd be interested in hearing what from the features in the graph above are missing that you would consider essential for rich data visualizations.
@Peregrinator – 96% of browser users have flash already, so at worst you block 4% if you require flash…
@Rob My train of thought wasn't that Flash isn't pervasive (we all know it is), but that it is losing some of that ground and isn't always the right choice and certainly shouldn't be the default choice.
Flash once was the default choice for me. I know ActionScript and I know Flex. But more often than not development costs would soar with Flash when we needed to come back to refine those visualizations. The problem was for many visualizations Flash is overkill. Visualizations are supposed to be as simple and informational as possible and much of that can be done with a more open tool that runs on just as many browsers in the intended audience.
Just as an example – it has been reported that the iPhone accounts for 60% of global smartphone web traffic, and the iPod touch makes up more than 95% of all "Mobile Internet Device" traffic. And even on mobile platforms that support Flash you are getting the more limited Flash Lite that has less features and ability to deal with complex massive sets.
We should be seeking ways to make our visualizations work in as many places as possible and choosing (and learning) the appropriate tools and techniques to do so.
Flash is not gone, or even the wrong tool, but it's not always the right tool either. And that goes for all of them.
I agree with you Nathan. Everybody is riding the HTML5 train and forget how long it took for the web to get more standardized. Even now, some of the browsers are still behaving differently, especially the IE family. From what I know, IE9 will still suck and that means we will have to live with this nightmare for many more years. Heck, there are still 8% of web users using IE6 according to w3schools, which tends to give higher statistics for standard browsers.
The good news is that there are a few good JS frameworks available that work similar to Flash and are supported by most browsers. Raphaël is a good example that uses SVG standard to draw vector graphics in a very similar way to Flash.
But I think it will take a few years for HTML5 development tools to catch up with what Flash is right now.
I don't think many people are holding up html5 as a compete replacement for flash just yet especially not on the interactive data viz front. The point is viz developers who want to publish to the web will be better off if html5, particularly , is successful. An open option that benefits all vendors instead of one has greater potential to be ubiquitous and ubiquity is better for content developers.
For highly customized and interactive viz flash is by far the easiest approach today. Fair point but what I'm hearing is not "hmtl5 is better than flash is today" but rather "we can do better and we will all be better off if we actively support new open options like html5."
Plus as has been pointed out the vast majority of basic charts can be done without a lot of trouble using various charting libraries. Even if ie9 holds off on canvas the new svg support will be an improvement in this area.
I don't know how this chart is implemented, but it's awful for at least two reasons:
1) It's terribly slow (FireFox 3.6.3 on Quad 3GHZ w/ 8 GB RAM) – if this is what HTML5 is like, I'll stick with flash (which I despise with a passion).
2) There no way to tell what each "ray" means without laboriously dragging the mouse over each one (and waiting for it up update)… 2001 called and they want their "mystery meat" navigation back!
It's not slow for me, running FF 3.6.3 on a Core 2 Duo box with 4 GB which is not a powerhouse. Perhaps it's your connection or the number of add-ons you have?
there's other choices than flash vs html5+css3.
first a lot of things can be done in plain html and css2, with or without javascript.
then, there are tons of server-side scripts. that's how the web started being interactive.
and there's java. java may have issues but portability is not one of them. and with java comes processing.
now modern javascript libraries often rely on canvas, which is not supported by IE, but some offer the equivalent functions using SVG, in a way which is transparent for the developer.
more recently, zingcharts released a library which can create charts either in modern HTML or in flash, depending on what the client can support.
over 50% of my blog viewers are still using IE, so I'm stuck with IE-compatible visualizations. That's one of the reasons why I use tableau so much, it works with everything from IE to iPhones.
Totally right. There are ton of options available. I just don't think Flash needs to be kicked to the curb like a lot of uninformed people suggest.
I'm one of the creators of this infovizwhatever.
This work has nothing didn't mean to add to the HTML vs Flash debate at all. It's only purpose is to give web developers an idea of how implemented individual features are, so that they can recognize @font-face has 100% support as well as contenteditable, etc. Most people interpreted it differently than its intent, so I'll absorb that as one of its flaws.
On the HTML vs Flash debate, the commenters above like Peregrinator and Vu Nguyen really nail it. Flash of course is nowhere near death and still has many many practical applications. I really enjoy http://html5vsflash.tumblr.com/ which says "On each round there is a HTML5 and a Flash example that share the same topic. There is no winner, because you wouldn't agree anyways.. ;-)"
@Paul – sorry, i wasn't implying that you were uninformed. i was talking towards the people who take your page and say, "hey look, flash sucks" when obviously that's not what you're getting at.
For quantitative analysis, I would argue that you do not need flash to create a compelling interactive visualization. A prime case is Tableau Public that uses HTML, CSS, and Javascript.
I would also argue that the chart "HTML5 & CSS3 Readiness" is a poor display for the data. In my opinion it is an example of visualization cargo cult, not unlike http://flowingdata.com/2010/04/30/cultural-colors-of-emotion-and-character/
I agree with what Stephen Few has to say about these circular heat maps: http://www.perceptualedge.com/articles/visual_business_intelligence/our_fascination_with_all_things_circular.pdf
Last year I would have agreed with you Nathan. In fact, somewhere I'm pretty sure there's a tweet from me about how HTML5 just isn't ready for prime time in infovis. There's the IE issue, of course, and then there's the runtime performance of the browser.
I no longer believe that to be the case, for two reasons.
First, the evidence I've seen is that more and more of our audience is willing to use a browser other than IE to view our work [1]. I've decided that I'm fine with providing graceful degradation to static images for IE users in a general audience. People may either use an alternate browser, or pull out their mobile device and look at the visualization there.
The NYT and Stamen, in my opinion, are operating under different constraints than the average visualization creator. They're dealing with megaperson-scale audiences, and have a lot of money riding on even %1 of their visitors. It's worth it to them to make the necessary tradeoffs (in lack of mobile support, and [IMO] user experience) in order to harness that last bit of audience.
Second, cross-platform toolkits for HTML5 are there and working (mostly) well. I'm not generally impressed with Raphael's capabilities, but dojo's gfx API and Processing.js are fairly easy to use and give me the features I need (particularly SVG font support).
I'm fine with Flash, and will continue to work with it as the circumstances require. However, I believe we've already arrived at the tipping point, where HTML5 is finally a viable platform for mass-audience infovis.
[1] Two possibly relevant datapoints: that Facebook privacy vis I posted last week has gotten quite a lot of unique visitors, and only 14% of them were on IE. By comparison, Many Eyes (which is all Java/Flash) consistently comes in around %30-33 IE. Significant, but nowhere near %80 or even Jerome's %50.
@Matt – For sure. I don't remember the last time I saw a computer that didn't have Firefox installed on it. Personally though, I don't want people to have to switch browsers to see something I do, no matter how much I want even more to tell people to stop using IE. I want it to be one unified experience e.g. when a graphic is coupled with an article.
On [1], I don't know why I said 80%. That's way bloated. It's more like 60%. I wonder though if your 14% says more about the type of people who like to look at standalone graphics or the sites that pointed to your Facebook privacy vis. For example, only 14% of FD visitors use IE.
Flash vs HTML: Designers create, clients pay– but clients don't care about the underlying technology, only the end, visual result.
There is no winner to the Flash vs HTML5 debate unless you get paid by the hour.
Shouldn't we also point out that this chart is full on junk? I am forced to roll my mouse over each spoke (bar?) in order to see its category. Gimme the underlying data, I'll do an equivalent in Tableau that'll be much easier to read.
Oh, what's that? It won't be very bling. Maybe, but the info will be easier to digest.
Oh my goodness, I couldn't agree more.
What is it with the general public and their phobia of graphs? It's come to the point where showing a bar chart will scare away so many people, they have to spiffy it up and make it look like a flower or a sunrise before people will look at it.
I came to that conclusion just by looking at the image at the top of this thread, which means I hadn't even seen that most of the information was missing until you moused over it, or that the slices were "dropped down" instead of having each browser's color float at the appropriate height (as they do in the image).
This graph is a posterchild for artistically pleasing but poorly thought-out graphs everywhere.
This starburst graphic is very attractive, and horribly ineffective.
What's wrong with a table of rows and columns, one row per feature, one column per browser, with the grid consisting of either a check for a feature present in a browser or a blank for a missing feature. Everything is visible from start to finish.
I mean, besides the lack of gratuitous rotational symmetry, interaction, and color.
Oh Jon, you're so 20th century
BTW – Stephen Few's latest newsletter nicely summarises the problems with circular visualisations:
Throwing in my 2 cents…
We are porting an institutional stress testing infovis from Processing, into Processing.JS, then using the canvas import in Silverlight. Pretty easy actually. Although I made my mark in the world with Flash in the late 90s, on this end of the market, it is all Java and Microsoft IDE. Adobe has a pretty solid UI stack, but, they are back filling it with a framework.
If you have the time, you can see what the next versions of IE will be like by testing the Microsoft Pivot Beta. It's a stomping ground for exploring features.
This argument is a little silly to me. If you are doing enterprise infovis, where you are targeting and specing on hardware, the important thing is starting off with something like OpenFrameworks or Processing. That way, moving across platforms is easier. You should be able to build applications in whatever technology stack is required. Each has its benefits and drawbacks.
In the consumer space, its an infovis we are talking about right? There is no barrier to using Flash, in fact, it would be pretty stupid not to use it. Lots of developers, plugins on every machines, user expects they are going to have to load something. Plus, its takes a few seconds to change any physics code we have done in Actionscript into C#.
Please post a solid review :)
This topic hits very (very…) close to home. I build complex, highly interactive infovis stuff for an internal application. Years ago, we started using touch tablets for this stuff – so when the iPad came out, it was an obvious upgrade. Except that it doesn't work for us since everything we've done has been in Flash.
I'm 100% ready to switch to HTML5/CSS/JS (I have no attachment to flash) but those languages are quite simply the wrong tool for the job.
Let's just take one simple example:
Google finance charts: http://www.google.com/finance?q=INDEXDJX:
I've "built" this in HTML5/etc and… good luck. It's a battle to get anything close – it basically doesn't work. (Particularly, the really nice slider/time selector at the bottom, and the very reactive mouse-overs.) There are just too many barriers. (outlandish even: ever try to render text – e.g. a mouseover – in a Canvas element….?)
There's no question that HTML5/etc is completely the wrong tool for that job (further, drop that on an iPad, and when you drag the slider left/right, the PAGE moves left right… HTML5 is definitely not ready for touch).
I'm not suggesting that the google chart *can't* be done in HTML5/etc, but I do believe it's the wrong tool for the job.
At the moment, Flash is the right tool for the job. In Flex, I can recreate that google chart in about half a day from scratch. No extra libraries, no browser specific code.
So, bottom line – I agree – the whole "throw out flash" argument is silly and premature. If we need to replace flash (because Jobs says so), then we need a viable alternative…
Thought I'd throw this in as it seems pertinent to the discussion… discuss :)
From Google IO Conf:
Great discussion so far and one that also hits close to home for me too, being on a team that develops datavis tools. [I'm on the ZingChart team that Jerome mentioned].
I wanted to bring up a point about Flash vs. HTML5 performance, as that's the next step once you get a chart to *work*.. and some of the comments above mention the issues surrounding cross-browser compatibility and speed with HTML5. We've been gathering data on platform/browser/chart type using a side-by-side speed test (http://www.zingchart.com/flash-and-html5-canvas/#speedtest), and will be charting the data soon. I'd be glad to share the data as well if anybody would like to play around and visualize it.
Here's an interesting preliminary observation we're noticing in the results:
There is no unanimous winner. Even on the same browser and computer, graph complexity affects the outcomes. For instance, HTML5 is considerably faster on simpler charts and when there are smaller datasets. As data becomes larger (into the thousands), and/or as shadows, gradients, and more graphical elements are added, HTML5 performance diminishes significantly, whereas Flash remains very fast.
I'll be interested to see which direction this goes and how fast. After Google IO day 1 it looks like there's a ton of power behind HTML5, but Nathan called it: Flash isn't getting "kicked to the curb" like the pulse of the internet may suggest.
Interesting stuff Andrew!
It's seems that the Flash rendering time is much more consistent (probably due to the fact that it is compiled) than the Canvas equivalent. I imagine the variation in Canvas load time has a lot to do with what else the browser is doing at the moment.
A couple questions though. Is the js library you're using for the canvas graph been optimized (especially for large data sets). Also it appears that the canvas element in the '3 series x 1000 data points bar chart' comparison has transparency turned on and the Flash side does not. Also the canvas doesn't appear to be interactive in that example.
When you have massive data presented in the final example (3 series x 1000 data points) do you find that the interactivity shown actually helps comprehension?
@Peregrinator absolutely correct about the browser stress for Canvas…
We're actually not using jQuery or another library; we're acting on raw JSON and using direct DOM and Canvas calls. (jQuery and others had nontrivial overhead that hurt Canvas results)
The appearance of transparency is actually due to the differences in the way Flash and Canvas render graphics (especially when plotting extremes like 1,000 bars in a 350 pixel-wide area). In this test, we wanted to see render times with the same datapoints/settings rather than adjust to the inherent rendering differences between the frameworks.
Not sure what you mean by the interactivity differences on the 3×1000 bar chart. Can you specify? Either way, adding interactivity in the form of animation, tooltips, or otherwise does have a significantly larger effect on Canvas than on Flash. The goal is/was to have the same features and datapoints on each of the side-by-sides.
Last: while we're pretty well-read on Tufte, Few and other relevant datavis authorities, we try not to be biased for or against interactivity, chartjunk and the rest when it comes to comprehension — we try to provide enough colors and brushes to make a masterpiece or a mess depending on the painter :). We are trying to provide some good examples and how-to's on our blog to help bridge the gap between great designers and great developers.
I will say that the *appropriate* use of tooltips, rules, guides and other interactive elements helps walk the line between Tufte-esque simplicity and overdone chartjunk. See the chart gallery on our homepage for a pretty wide range.
For further reading, check out this informative article called GUIMark 2: The rise of HTML5: http://www.craftymind.com/guimark2/ (great rundown of JavaScript vs Flash rendering performance for charting, gaming, text, mobile, etc.)
I love flash stuff ( I remember there in 2002 looking astonished that incredible code in levitated.net )
That said, I think HTML5 / CSS3 / JS will be my choice if I had to teach web design to new people. HTML5 It's open, and It's a standard, and there are lots of examples of its great performance. Check cloudz project ( cloudz.es ) in Chrome, an interactive visualization of delicious feeds.


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1. Introduction
TSM for Virtual Environments ("TSM for VE") is a new HFS service for backing up Virtual Machines that are running in a VMware vSphere infrastructure.
Features of TSM for VE include:
The Service Level Description is available here.
2. Prerequisites
2.1. A suitable "proxy" machine
This can be installed on the vSphere infrastructure that you are planning to back up. The machine needs to be running Windows 7 or 2008R2 and will need at least 2 GB of RAM. You will also need to have version 4 of the .NET Framework installed to run the installer. A suitable version is included in the TSM for VE distribution package.
2.2. Firewall configuration
When setting up TSM for VE on a proxy machine, several ports are used for communication between the proxy machine and the vCenter server or vice-versa. These ports need to be open in any host-based or dedicated firewall between the two machines and are listed in Table 1. Firewall configuration for TSM for VE.
|Source host
|Destination port
|Destination host
|Proxy machine
|vCenter server
|Communication between the proxy machine and the vCenter server.
|Proxy machine
|vCenter server
|Used for NBD (Network Block Disk) transport.
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|Proxy machine
|TSM backup traffic
|vCenter server
|Proxy Machine
|Used for the vCenter plugin.
|If installing vCenter plugin.
2.3. vCenter server and backup user
TSM for VE communicates with a vCenter server to perform VM backups. The user required for this needs some elevated privileges but does not need to be a full administrator. It is recommended that you set up a new vCenter user specifically for TSM backup and restore. To add a new role suitable for backup and restore operations, perform the following steps:
Log into the vCenter server with the vSphere client.
Navigate to
[Home] >
[Roles] and click
Add Role.
Add New Role dialogue box is displayed:
Choose a name for the new role, e.g. "HFS Backup".
Add the following permissions to the role:
Create a new user in your vSphere infrastructure. How you do this depends on your local authentication setup.
Navigate to
[Home] >
[Inventory] >
[VMs and Templates].
Right-click on the vCenter server in the list on the left and choose
Add Permission.... The Assign Permission dialogue box is displayed:
Add.... The Select Users and Groups dialogue is displayed:
Choose the newly created user from the list and click
Choose the HFS backup role created earlier from the Assigned Role drop
down in the
Assign Permissions dialogue box.
Propagate to Child Objects is checked and click
You can check that the permission has been assigned correctly by choosing the
vCenter server from the navigation pane and then choosing the
Permissions tab.
You should see the new permission listed.
3. Installation
Extract the supplied zip file to a suitable location. You will need about 1.5 GB of disk space for the extracted files and substantially more for the installed files.
Navigate to the directory containing the extracted files and run
TSM for VE installer.exe.
Fill in the requested information in the form that is displayed:
If you wish to install the vCenter server plugin, you should check the box for that option and
provide details of an administrative account on the vCenter server. This account is only used
to register the TSM for Virtual Environments vCenter plugin. Hovering over each item on the
form will give more information on that item.
Help takes you to this page.
Once you have filled in the information, click
Install. The installer does several
The installer will take some time to complete. Once it is, you will see a message reminding you of the required firewall holes.
If a reboot is required, the installer will ask you if you want to reboot now or later.
4. Configuration
We have tried to choose reasonable defaults in the configuration file (
C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\baclient\dsm.opt).
However, there are some configuration options that you may want to adjust to suit your setup.
In particular, these are:
This sets the list of VMs that you want to back up. If the proxy machine is a VM on the vCenter server,
you should not back it up via itself so add its name to the
-VM part of
To exclude virtual machines
vm2 and
vm3 from
the backups, give them as the value for
-VM, separated by commas:
DOMAIN.VMFULL all-vm;-VM=vm1,vm2,vm3
Note that if the VM name contains spaces, it should not be surrounded by quotes.
There should also be no spaces between VM names and the commas. This applies to all
DOMAIN.VMFULL options.
To specify explicitly the VMs to backup, use the
VM option. For example
to backup
vm2 and
vm3, use:
DOMAIN.VMFULL vm=vm1,vm2,vm3
VMs can also be specified by vCenter folder, host, host cluster and datastore. To backup specific folders, use:
DOMAIN.VMFULL vmfolder=folder1,folder2,folder3
To backup specific ESX/ESXi hosts, use:
DOMAIN.VMFULL vmhost=host1,host2,host3
To backup specific host clusters, use:
DOMAIN.VMFULL vmhostcluster=cluster1,cluster2,cluster3
To backup specific datastores, use:
DOMAIN.VMFULL vmdatastore=datastore1,datastore2,datastore3
Maximum number of VM backups to perform in parallel per instance of the TSM client.
Maximum number of VM backups to perform in parallel per ESX or ESXi host.
Maximum number of VM backups to perform in parallel per datastore.
The limit options can be used to ensure that parallel VM backups do not put too much load on any one part of your infrastructure. If you have one ESX/ESXi host and one datastore then all the limits on parallel backups should be equal.
5. Backup virtual machines
5.1. Using the TSM client GUI
Launch the TSM client GUI on the proxy machine.
[Actions] >
[Backup VM]. The
Backup Virtual Machine
window is displayed.
Expand the
Virtual Machines item. This displays the ESX/ESXi hosts in the navigation
pane. Expand or click on the ESX/ESXi hosts:
Select virtual machines to backup. Choose
Incremental Forever - Incremental
from the drop down box at the top of the window and click
The task list window displays the progress:
For detailed information, click
5.2. Using the TSM command line
To back up all virtual machines specified in the
DOMAIN.VMFULL option,
start the TSM command line client and run:
tsm> backup vm -mode=IFincr
To back up a specific VM, run:
tsm> backup vm 'vmname' -mode=IFincr
6. Restore virtual machines
6.1. Using the TSM client GUI
Launch the TSM GUI client on the proxy machine.
[Actions] >
[Restore VM]. The
Restore Virtual Machine window is displayed:
Choose a VM in the navigation pane. All the available backups of the VM are
displayed. Choose a backup and click
Restore Destination window is displayed. If you wish to restore
to the original location, you need to make sure that there is not a VM with the same
name in that location. If you are restoring to a new location, specify as much of the
information as necessary. If you specify only a new name the VM will be restored to
the original location with the new name
Restore to start the restore.
6.2. Using the TSM command line
To restore a virtual machine to the same name and location as it was backed up from:
tsm> restore vm 'vm name'
To restore a virtual machine to its original location but with a new name:
tsm> restore vm 'vm name' -vmname='new vm name'
To restore a VM to a new name and new location, specify both the name and location:
tsm> restore vm 'vm name' -vmname='new vm name' -datacenter='data center name' -host='ESXi host name' -datastore='datastore name'
7. Restore individual files
Restoring individual files is achieved by using the
Data Protection for VMware Recovery Agent.
Launch the Recovery Agent from
[Start] >
[All Programs] >
[Tivoli Storage Manager]
[Data Protection for VMware] >
[Data Protection for VMware Recovery Agent]:
7.1. Using iSCSI
The most flexible way to restore individual files is by using the
Recovery Agent to export
a backup as an iSCSI target that the iSCSI initiator on a virtual machine can then mount.
[New Tivoli Storage Manager server...] from the
Tivoli Storage Manager
server drop-down.
Choose the relevant backup by selecting a
Virtual machine,
Snapshot and
Disk under
Select snapshot:
Select mount destination dialogue is displayed:
Figure /hfs/help/images/tsm4ve-recoveryAgentMountDialogISCSImount.png [Recovery Agent select mount destination dialogue (iSCSI).]
Mount as an iSCSI target and set a unique (on the proxy machine)
iSCSI target name and set the appropriate iSCSI initiator name that corresponds to the
virtual machine that will connect to this iSCSI target. Note that port 3260 must be open between the
The iSCSI target will now be listed in the
Mounted Volumes list in the Recovery
Agent. Configure the iSCSI initiator on the appropriate VM to mount the target read-only and copy
the required files to the VM using standard operating system tools. How to do this is beyond the scope of these
instructions as it varies for each operating system.
When the iSCSI target is not needed any longer, unmount it and disconnect the iSCSI initiator from
the target. Select the target in the Recovery Agent and click
Exit the Recovery Agent by clicking
7.2. Using a Windows mount
You can mount an NTFS backup as a drive letter or in an empty NTFS folder.
Follow the steps for setting up iSCSI until you reach the
Select mount destination
Create virtual volume from selected partition.
Select a partition to mount. You should also select
Show only mountable partitions
Mount virtual volume as read only.
Choose either a drive letter or NTFS folder for the partition.
Figure /hfs/help/images/tsm4ve-recoveryAgentMountDialogLocalMount.png [Recovery Agent select mount destination dialogue (local mount).]
Although the above procedure was run on the TSM for VE proxy machine it is possible to install the recovery agent on a VM to perform local mounts. Contact the HFS team if you wish to do this.


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Enter yours BattleTag, choose game server and watch all statistic of your Hero. With this app you can check your or your friends Heroes builds.
This application is free and open-source. It uses Blizzard Diablo 3 API (http://blizzard.github.com/d3-api-docs/).
If you want to help and make this application better visit https://github.com/EmilYo/diabloheroesbrowser.
If you find any error you can write to me or make new issue on https://github.com/EmilYo/diabloheroesbrowser/issues
Friends from battle.net are not avaiable in Diablo 3 API so I couldn't put it in application.
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version 0.9.8.1:
fixed issues from GitHub
version 0.9.8:
added new stats to Detail page
fixed some Issues from GitHub
version 0.9.7:
changed battltag validation
fixed progress level and last mission showing
adding support for paragon level (not in API yet)
version 0.9.6.1:
quickfix of NumberFormatException for some users
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fixed Batteltag capatalize size
reorder tabs in carrer profile
fixed jittering of tooltip webview in skills and items
changed statistic presentation
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Nice graphic and fluidity, displays all the things you find on the website plus detailed stats just like the ingame tab, wich is nice. Requires connection, would be cool to be able to view heroes offline, maybe storing locally the last retrieved info.
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Good app! Can you implement possibility to track XP for all characters?


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Fireside Chat with Mike Macharia, CEO of Seven Seas Technologies | Thursday 27th September 2012 | iHub
We're very pleased to be hosting Mike Macharia, CEO of Seven Seas Technologies, at this month's Fireside Chat. It will take place on Thursday 27th September 2012, from 6:30 – 8:00 pm at the iHub. Register here to attend.
About Mike Macharia
Michael Macharia is a qualified Chartered Accountant /CPA and the Founder and CEO of the Seven Seas Technologies (SST) group, which he founded at the young age of 25years. Michael was also recognized as one of the Top 40 Under 40 Kenyans transforming the country in business.
Michael has attended numerous management development courses all over the world and is also Executive Management Alumni of Strathmore University/IESE Business School – Barcelona, Spain. He is also a member of YPO (Young Presidents Organization, Kenya Chapter).
From humble beginnings SST Group has grown from a tech start-up to a major respected corporate in the African technology arena, and has received several accolades for excellence, performance and growth and has major customers including the region's largest telco, companies, banks and government institutions.
Michael, who is passionate about technology and ways that technology can be used to transform Africa in the way we live, work, play & govern, has overseen the company's expansion to several countries in Africa. Through his organization, Michael has been able to give back to the community through the sponsorship of the Knowledge for Life Initiative, which is a program focused on enabling students understand and get career direction. This initiative then moves to assist the students later to secure jobs and start entrepreneurial careers. K4life mobilizes the SST staff to mentor young students who may not have a supportive environment or family. Today K4Life is evolving to K4LIFE Foundation, focused on being a talent accelerator .
Michael is also an art & architecture enthusiast, and has medium‐term plans of building an African venture capital that will be involved in technology start-up companies that will redefine the African technology market through convergence of relevant technology and society. Michael also serves as the Founding Curator for the Kenya Chapter of the World Economic Forum (WEF), Global Shapers Community .
Michael is married to Consolata Macharia and they have a baby son Leo.
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Seven Seas Technologies is a leading provider of integrated business and technology solutions across Africa in the financial, telecom, real estate and service industries, as well as government, in partnership with Global Technology Industry leaders and collaborative synergies with Domain & Technology centric ecosystem Partners. We deliver business value to customers through a combination of process excellence, quality frameworks and service delivery innovation. Our core motivation is defining Service Excellence in Technology driven business solutions. Today Seven Seas has offices in Kenya, Ethiopia, Zambia and Zimbabwe, and is currently establishing Ghana, Nigeria & Portugal offices, employing over 140 People .
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W: S. Casilla (1-2)
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MILWAUKEE -- For most of the game, it looked as though Buster Posey's first-inning home run was going to be enough.Then the San Francisco Giants found themselves in an extra-inning marathon, finally getting a leadoff home run from backup catcher Hector Sanchez in the 14th inning for a 4-3 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Monday night."You're hoping somebody pops one," Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. "Hector is a good pick to get a pitch. That was what won the game for us tonight, a couple of home runs -- something we've been missing."Posey hit a three-run shot in the first, but San Francisco went the next 12 innings without a run. Sanchez's second homer of the season came off reliever Juan Perez (0-1), breaking a 3-all tie in a game in which both teams struggled on offense."I just looked for a fastball and tried to hit it hard," Sanchez said.Ryan Braun tied it with a two-run homer in the eighth for Milwaukee but left the game because of tightness in his right groin after grounding out to end the 10th. Braun said after the game that the injury was similar to one he had in spring training, but didn't seem overly concerned."It's not as bad as it was then, so it's not too serious," Braun said.It was not clear if Braun would be able to play Tuesday night.Santiago Casilla (1-2) pitched the final two innings for the win. He allowed a single to Taylor Green with two outs in the 14th but got Corey Hart to fly out to end the game.The Brewers had a chance to win in the 12th when Hart walked with two outs. The Giants brought in reliever Javier Lopez, who walked Norichika Aoki. That brought up Nyjer Morgan, who grounded out to end the inning.Madison Bumgarner gave up three runs and five hits in 7 2/3 innings for the Giants, with a season-high 10 strikeouts. Coming in, Bumgarner had allowed only four runs in four career outings against Milwaukee."He's good, man," Braun said. "He's been one of the best pitchers, I think, in the National League since he's been in the big leagues."Bochy was impressed with everything he saw from his pitchers, beginning with Bumgarner."He threw the ball great," Bochy said. "The 'pen stepped up. When you're on the road, you need that. You need it all the time, but you're living on the edge when it's a tie ballgame and you're on the road. Those guys really pitched great. All of them."Brewers manager Ron Roenicke started Hart at first base, a move the team thought about making in the offseason before Hart hurt his knee and missed most of spring training.Milwaukee starter Randy Wolf gave up five hits and three runs in seven innings, with three walks and four strikeouts.Wolf labored early on, throwing 70 pitches in the first three innings. But he settled down after that, allowing only a single in the next four innings.Wolf was coming off a four-inning outing in a May 16 loss at Houston. He gave up seven runs in that game, six earned.The left-hander issued back-to-back walks with one out in the first and Posey made him pay for it by pounding a 2-1 pitch to left for his fifth homer and a 3-0 lead.The Brewers loaded the bases with one out in the second, but Bumgarner got Cesar Izturis to ground into a double play.Bumgarner cruised through the next three innings, allowing only a single, and then got a pair of groundouts to start the sixth before Braun reached on an infield hit. Aramis Ramirez doubled to right field, scoring Braun and cutting the lead to 3-1.Melky Cabrera hit a one-out triple off Brewers reliever Francisco Rodriguez in the seventh, and Rodriguez walked Posey. Brett Pill hit a grounder to third, and Ramirez threw out Cabrera at the plate. Rodriguez then struck out Joaquin Arias to end the inning.Aoki reached in the eighth on a fielding error by shortstop Brandon Crawford -- a fairly routine play that could have ended the inning -- bringing up Braun with two outs. Braun smacked a pitch from Bumgarner to left, tying the game."He was locked in at that time," Bochy said. "I have all the confidence in the world in him. I feel bad for him because he pitched a great game, but he did his job."
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Roenicke rested catcher Jonathan Lucroy even though he had two homers and seven RBIs in Sunday's victory over Minnesota. George Kottaras typically catches when Wolf starts. Lucroy pinch hit in the ninth and flied out to end the inning. ... Giants RHP Matt Cain (3-2, 2.67 ERA) faces RHP Shaun Marcum (2-2, 3.31) in the second game of the series Tuesday. ... Attendance was 31,644.
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Abstract. A key element to developing �spintronic� devices is the ability to electrically inject spin polarized electrons or holes from a magnetic material into an otherwise unpolarized semiconductor. Ideal interfaces are required to minimize spin randomizing scattering at the interface magnetic/semiconductor interface. This talk will emphasize the growth and characterization of epitaxial ferromagnetic Fe1-xCox, Ni2MnGa, Ni2MnIn and Ni2MnGe films grown by molecular beam epitaxy on Ga1-xInxAs. Structural characterization includes in-situ reflection high energy electron diffraction, low energy electron diffraction, scanning tunneling microscopy and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy as well as ex-situ x-ray diffraction, Rutherford backscattering and cross-sectional TEM. The influence of the interface on the structural and magnetic properties will be discussed as well as issues in determining the spin polarized transport across the ferromagnet/semiconductor interface.


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How can developing countries upgrade social capital??
Developing countries experience rapid economic growth. However, at some point, that growth tend to slow. They face a difficulty in dealing with social capitals such as rule of law, corruption, etc. They prevent those countries from further economic growth. So, please give me better ideas ??
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Jul 1 2012: Hi, R H,
I agree with your opinion saying 'no immediate cure. '
It is not an easy task. Distrust in a society make many players pay more money and spend more time.
For example, in the case of rule of law, if The percentage of people who think 'following the rules and laws is not beneficial for them' increase more and more, people in the society spend more money and time to protect their rights. As a result, the whole society spend more texes and make their rules and laws so tight and complicated.
It also make global companies be reluctant to invest...
Jul 1 2012: Yes. Interesting how that works, isn't it? We've replaced outright brutality (in principal) with 'geeky' intellectualism and complication via 'the rule of law', netting the same effects of the former. The Christ is credited with saying : 'The poor will always be with you...'. I'm beginning to think he was right.
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The European crisis gets quietly worse
Edward Hugh has a must-read overview of the euro crisis as it stands right now: not nearly as panicked as when everybody was concentrated on Greece back in May, yet in many ways worse than that.
Greece still seems certain to default sooner or later, and its bonds are trading at levels very near to those seen in May. Spain has improved a bit — but that tiny improvement seems to have been accompanied by a significant rise in complacency on the part of the government, so it's unlikely to last long. And both Ireland and Portugal have deteriorated significantly.
Ireland's debt is trading at worse levels than ever before, its economy is still in recession, and its banking system is a mess; in Portugal, the public deficit is likely to reach 9% of GDP this year, and the country's debt spreads are also looking distressingly similar to Greece circa April 2010.
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Like former US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson before them, Europe's leaders, having armed their bazooka may soon need to fire it…
The EuroArea countries could be likened to a group of 16 Alpine climbers scaling the Matterhorn who find themselves tightly roped together in appalling weather conditions. One of the climbers – Greece – has lost his footing and slipped over the edge of a dangerous precipice. As things stand, the other 15 can easily take the strain of holding him dangling there, however uncomfortable it may be for them, but they cannot quite manage to pull their colleague back up again. So, as the day advances, others, wearied by all the effort required, start themselves to slide.
What's certain is that if you're going to fire your bazooka anyway, it's better to fire it earlier rather than later: the cost of a bailout always rises the longer it's delayed. So why are the ECB's bond purchases dwindling, and why is the much-vaunted European Financial Stability Facility still surrounded by so many questions? Yves Smith quotes the FT's Wolfgang Munchau with some worrying math on that front: essentially, the EFSF won't be able to lend cheap money to struggling countries at all.
In other words, the Eurozone's bazooka might turn out to be even less effective than Paulson's was. And if that's the case, there's no point in throwing good money after bad at all: it might be easier and cheaper just to slice that Alpine rope at a strategic point and sacrifice a weaker member or two for the sake of keeping everybody else safe.
Of course, slicing the rope would be easier if and when one of the peripheral countries actually wanted to do so — to attempt their own competitive devaluation in the global currency war. The stricter that the Germans are about the conditionality attached to new funds, the likelier that's going to become.
In any crisis, there comes a point where it's easier to let things fall apart than it is to keep things together. Given how fractious the European project has always been, and given that the generation of politicians who staked their careers on the European Union has now completely retired from the scene, a breakup would seem to be an inevitability at this point. The only question is when it will happen, and who will go first.
The whole world is being crushed by the China wage of $200 per month. Chinese people should be earning much more by now, but for the distortions of their government.
The only solution is widespread austerity. We shouldn't be so afraid. We won't die from austerity. We are a million miles from the Great Depression in terms of living standards, in a world of cheap and abundant Chinese goods. Food is proportionally far, far cheaper than it was at that time. Austerity in 2010 is eminently tolerable.
Chinese prices will eventially go higher. They have already attained their workforce peak. Facing austerity in a world with less cheap Chinese goods, a probable outcome, will be much harder.
Comparisons with the Great Depression are insane and proof that those making the comparison have no idea how bad the Depression was.
Any deflationary aspects of austerity can be countered by printed money provided directly to common people.
Felix, have you seen Anglo-Irish Bank's interims? They're a horror story. I don't think I've ever seen a worse bank loan book. It's problem that's totally beyond the reach of the Irish government and far too big for the EU to handle. The Irish should immediately call in the IMF.
Felix wrote "Of course, slicing the rope would be easier if and when one of the peripheral countries actually wanted to do so — to attempt their own competitive devaluation in the global currency war. The stricter that the Germans are about the conditionality attached to new funds, the likelier that's going to become."
Nice observation Felix — I think the two obvious candidates are Greece and Italy. Greece because A) they're the worse off fiscally and B) they're populace is least likely to support additional austerity. Italy because if Italy ever wants out, I'm sure Germany would rush to help her leave.
"The only question is when it will happen, and who will go first." Exactly so, as to the when I'm sure it will be before lunch, what I'm not so sure about is if it will be the eurozone or the EU.
What a load of emotional nonsense. You should also distinguish between default as in never ever pay and default as in roll over Bonds into new issues: part of Greece's problem is the very short term nature of much of their debt.
Suggesting Europe is about to crumble is a bit like saying that the US will break up because of the economic failure of places such as Cleveland or Detroit. Suggesting the Euro's unbundling is inevitable is like suggesting the US Dollar is a failing currency because of the amount of US debt held by the Communist Chinese.
I know there are many rumours spread by short sellers from time to time, but I don't expect to see them so well supported by Felix.
Leading with monetary union always looked a bit like leading with one's jaw. Introduction of a common currency should have been nearly the _last_ item on the checklist for the European project–something that seemed obvious and long overdue when they got round to it.
The alpine analogy is picture-perfect: the project confronting the Eurozone today is how to get Greece out of it without wrecking the entire European economy. Greek membership is a terrible deal for the rest of the zone, and it is rapidly becoming clear that it is a terrible deal for Greece as well, which simply can not compete as junior partner to the Bundesbank.
The project after that is working out who really belongs in the Eurozone in the first place, whether there ought to be such a thing at all, and if there shouldn't, whether anything can be done to unwind the whole enterprise.
How about the actual public finances of those Eurozone slackers ? Are they better or worse than they were in May ? And how about the interest rates paid by the rich relatives who bankroll those slackers ? Are the markets disciplining them for supporting the slackers ? Sure they are, they ask them to pay even less than they were paying in May !
Now, markets may not wish to acknowledge the improvements, but then they also failed to acknowledge the serial bubbles of dot.com, stockmarkets and housing while they were inflating. So it would be interesting to see some more evidence apart from the spreads.
I have some reservations as to the competence of Mr Salmon on the matter of politics in the PIGS and Ireland. So, the opinion expressed in the article rests on very little concrete evidence.
Just reporting on the course of the spreads should not be disguised as analysis. One has difficulty seeing the value added.
PS Please correct the reference to Munchau. The name is actually Münchausen.


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AbstractThe (relative) majority rule is a benchmark collective decision norm. This paper provides a simple characterization of the majority rule, for the two-alternative case, that relies on the following property: the choice prescribed by the rule to a group I of individuals must be the one that would be prescribed in at least 50% of the strict subgroups that can be formed in I. This property means if some subgroup is denied the right to participate in the collective decision, the most likely event is that the exclusion of the subgroup will have no effect on the decision.
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Tom December 30, 2013 @ 5:23 PM
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Warmboad Vs ThermalboardHey all
If the bank is willing, I will be building my own house this spring. Of course I want to make good choices that I will not regret for years to come. One of them being to go warmboard or thermalboard. Thermalboard is half the price but twice the pain on installation but can be put in after all the interior rough in is done which is a bonus. So my question is has anyone used thermalboard? If so what kind of difference in water temperatures between them, I know Warmboard is the best possible choice, but if thermalboard gives the same water temps without noise while running then I can afford to get good hardwood floors.
Alan (California Radiant) Forbes December 30, 2013 @ 5:55 PM
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As I remember,Warmboard is best for extracting heat and Thermalboard is not far behind. Engineering tables should be available for both somewhere in their literature.
Noise reduction is accomplished by using the tubing with the quietest oxygen barrier. I seem to remember always using Uponor tubing.Often wrong, never in doubt.
Tom December 30, 2013 @ 7:31 PM
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ChartsAccording to the charts at 20btu per sqft warmboard is 90 and thermalboard is 98 Typically real world numbers and applications make a lot more sense to me. So my second question is has anyone done both and can testify to the numbers?
The noise I speak of is squeaking coming from the thermalboards on the subfloor. I am sure if it's done right its no problem just want to ask first.This post was edited by an admin on December 30, 2013 7:48 PM.
hot rod December 30, 2013 @ 10:03 PM
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type of materialI used another brand of product that was a composite, particle makeup. If you go that route be sure to avoid any applications where it could get wet or damp. Mine blew up where it got wet near an entry door.
Warmboard, is a stout product, you do need to protect it during construction. I installed several WB jobs and chose to install the tube after the walls were up and sheetrocked. It saved wear on the tubing during wintertime construction, but it was a job cleaning out all the grooves.
On the next WB jobs we put thin masonite over the entire floor for protection.
Pros and cons to both products. determine who installs the WB. framing crews balk, unless they know before they bid the job that WB is the subfloor. It does take more time and muscle to put in properly.


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Hair accessories add the finishing touch. The bright colors and dangling beads on these girls' ponytail holders offer eye-catching appeal. For more must-have accessories, shop our selection of girls' jewelry and headbands. In multi.
- Stretchy elastic bands provide a flexible fit.
- Details:
- 36-pack
- Elastic/plastic/metal
- Spot clean
- Colors and/or patterns may vary from product image.
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