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Notwithstanding the shortness of the summer season at high altitudes, the subalpine forests in some parts of the park have suffered severely from fire (fig. 1). The bare white trunks of fire-killed silver and alpine firs bear witness to numerous fires which occurred from time to time before the regulations governing the park went into effect. The little resin pockets in the bark of these trees blaze fiercely for a short time and the heat separates the bark from the trunk. In this way the tree is killed, although the naked trunk is left untouched by fire. The destruction of the alpine forest in this way is often erroneously attributed to disease or to the depredation of insects.
There has been little apparent change in the alpine burns within the last 30 years. Reforestation at high altitudes is extremely slow. The seed production is rather scanty and the ground conditions are not favorable for its reproduction. It will take more than one century for nature to replace the beautiful groves which have been destroyed by the carelessness of the first visitors to the mountain.
At low elevations the forest recovers more rapidly from the effects of fire. Between the subalpine areas and the river valleys there are several large ancient burns which are partly reforested. The most extensive of these tracts is the Muddy Fork burn. It is crossed by the Stevens Canyon Trail from Reflection Lakes through the Ohanopecosh Hot Springs. This burn includes an area of 20 square miles in the park and extends north nearly to the glaciers and south for several miles beyond the park boundary nearly to the main Cowlitz River. The open sunlit spaces and wide outlooks afforded by reforested tracts of this character present a strong contrast to the deep shades and dim vistas of the primitive forest. On the whole they have a cheerful and pleasing appearance, very different from the sad, desolate aspect of the alpine burns which less kindly conditions of climate and exposure have kept from reforestation.
The original forest was fire killed many years before the coming of the white man. A few naked and weather beaten stubs are still standing. Only the larger of the fallen trunks remain, and these are rotten except for a few seasoned and weatherworn shells. The second growth is of all ages, from seedlings to trees 12 to 14 inches in diameter. Vine maple, willow, and mountain ash have sprung up along the streams and the hillsides are covered with huckleberry bushes and a variety of grasses and flowering plants.
Similar old burns are found on the ridge between Huckleberry Creek and White River, in the northeastern part of the park, and on the ridge between Tahoma Creek and Kautz Creek below Indian Henrys Hunting Ground.
The old burns in the middle altitudes of the park occupy regions once frequented by the Klickitat Indians. Every summer parties of hunters and berry pickers from the sagebrush plains crossed the Cascades with their horses. They followed the high divides and open summits of the secondary ridges until they came around to the open parks about Mount Rainier where they turned their horses out to graze and made their summer camp. The women picked huckleberries and the men hunted deer and goats. They made great firs to dry their berries and kindled smudges to protect their horses from flies. It was also their custom to systematically set out fires as they returned. Burning made the country better for the Indians. The fires kept down the brush and made it more accessible. Deer could be more easily seen and tracked and the huckleberry patches spread more widely over the hills.
No considerable part of the lower forests of the park has been burned. The principal danger is from lightning. However, few of the trees struck are ignited and these fires are usually extinguished by the rain. On account of the coolness of the air and its greater humidity the fire danger in the forests on the lower slopes of Mount Rainier seems much less than it is in corresponding situations in the main ranges of the Cascades.
Trees grow more rapidly at low altitudes than at higher and cooler elevations. Under similar conditions some species increase in size faster than others, but the rate of growth depends principally upon environment. The average increase at the stump in the valley land is about 1 inch in 6 years. A Douglas fir growing along the road between the park boundary and Longmire Springs, at the age of 90 to 120 years may have a breast diameter of 20 inches and yield 700 feet of saw timber. But many of the trees of this size may be much older on account of having grown in the shade or under other adverse conditions. The trees between 200 and 300 years of age are often 40 to 50 inches in diameter and may yield an average of from 2,700 to 5,500 board feet. The largest Douglas firs are sometimes over 600 years old and 60 to 100 inches in diameter. Such trees when sound will produce over 8,000 feet of lumber.
The western red cedar has a shorter and more tapering trunk and its volume in board feet is proportionally smaller. A tree 50 inches in diameter and 175 feet high contains about 3,400 board feet.
The size of the trees decrease rapidly at higher elevations. In the subalpine forest the annual growth is very small. At elevations of 6,000 feet the white-park pine requires 200 years to attain a diameter of 10 to 12 inches. The annual rings are so close together that they can not be distinguished without a magnifying glass.
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Thousands Lose Long-Term Jobless Benefits
Posted By Carole Fleck On May 10, 2012 @ 1:57 pm In Work Matters | Comments Disabled
Making house payments and putting food on the table could get much more difficult for some 200,000 chronically unemployed workers [1] around the United States.
On Friday, federal long-term jobless benefits are set to expire in eight states–Texas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, according to the National Employment Law Project. [2]
This comes one month after extended unemployment benefits expired in 15 other states, cutting off hundreds of thousands of long-term unemployed workers.
"This is pretty devastating to people," says Mitchell Hirsch, an advocate at NELP. "There's no other adequate safety program to tide them over until they can find new work."
Hirsch says the average unemployment benefit is just under $300 a week nationwide, "barely enough to keep people afloat in their homes and engaged in a job search."
Congress granted up to 99 weeks of benefits, the longest on record, to help laid-off workers during the recession. But as the federal program winds down, advocates worry that many won't be able to find work in a weak jobs market [3] and may slide into poverty.
Some economists say the loss of extended jobless benefits could hurt the recovery, which has already slowed in recent months, because those many thousands of people will have less money to spend. If demand for goods and services is weak, businesses will be reluctant to hire workers.
There are 3.7 job seekers for every job opening. Of the estimated 8.8 million jobs that were lost during and just after the recession, the economy has regained about 4 million.[4]
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Vintage glass apothecary counter jar that I found at an estate sale over the weekend. The previous owner kept it on his bar filled with drink stirrers. I think this jar would work amazingly in the kitchen or the bath. It is marked: "Amoxil (amoxicillin) These candies resemble the flavor of amoxil. For oral suspension 125mg/5cc. A pleasant tasting fruit flavored oral suspension. Beecham Laboratories Bristol, Tennessee 37620." This piece is in excellent vintage condition with no chips or cracks!9 1/2" tall x 4 3/8" in diameter at the base. Check it out here!
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Vidler on the Roof - 11/20/12 - Photo by Carlos Ortiz
'Vidler on the Roof', 10 foot statue of 83 year old Ed Vidler sitting atop the roof of the Vidler's 5 & 10 store in East Aurora. It was a short visit but fun place for treasure hunting.
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Creative Cakes in Tinley Park IL, was the best. We were married on 9/12/2014. Our Wedding cake was delish & was decorated Vintage Black & White, we had a white cake with Vanilla Bean. We were very happy with them. Very professional. I Would recommend them anyone! Thank you so much for making our day special.
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I fell in love with their cakes instantly. Typically I do not like wedding cake and had this bad stigma that it was dry but creative cakes has the most moist and delicious cake I've ever had! They offer so many flavors and options from cakes to cupcakes.
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We went with cupcakes for our guest and a cake for the head table. And we are usually not big on cake for weddings but we heard back from everyone saying how amazing the cupcakes turned out. I was lucky enough to have a cupcake the next day and they were amazing!
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Our wedding cake was to die for.. Our guest were fighting over leftovers..
Besides them creating our dream cake, they also made it delicious .
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Best cake company by far! We contacted many vendors and Creative Cakes was the most professional, delicious and flexible. They helped stay in budget & designed my dream wedding cake!
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Creative Cakes designed my cake for my wedding and it was better than I could ever imagine. My initial consult was with Frank Leon and she helped me design the cake from a picture I found on pinterest. I was also glad they worked within my budget and I also love their light butter cream cupcakes. Thank you for designing a beautiful cake!
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I wish i could remember the name of the designer that worked with my daughter. because she was amazing. Since my daughter lives near Disney World, she had a Disney themed wedding.
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Our cake looked Beautiful!!! They designed the cake exactly how we wanted it. It was also delicious!! I love that they will send a new cake top for our 1 year anniversary.
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Creative Cakes was fantastic from start to finish. They were extremely helpful in not just helping us pick our design, but in putting together flavors that would work well together. Our cake looked amazing and exactly as we wanted, and it tasted amazing! We had SO many guests comment on how good it was! Will definitely use them for any of our baking needs!
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Really liked creative cakes! Very nice people every time I went there or talked to someone on the phone. Love the fact that we didn't have to save top part of cake because they told us that they would make us a fresh one on our year anniversary :) made my cake exactly how I wanted it. Was really happy with everything. I even bought 3 trays of cookies and pastries on top of our wedding cake because I loved some of the other stuff so much! Awesome place!! :)
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First let's start off with the fact that I got to my initial consultation an hour and a half late...and they still were nice enough to see me and work with me. The consultation itself was amazing. We got to try their different flavors and fillings. They were willing to work with my budget and made the cake we really wanted. It was a snow theme so the cake looked like it was frosted with snow and had snowflakes all over. Anyway I wish I could remember the nice young woman's name who worked with us but I can't :( she was wonderful though. Answered all the questions we had and was sweet and professional the entire time (again despite the fact that was extremely late). The day of the wedding it was raining and traffic was horrible but they still delivered the cake on time with no problems. Oh yea AND they give you an identical top tier to your wedding cake on your 1 year anniversary (you know instead of freezing the top tier because I personally think that's weird) for free! Their white cake and red velvet is amazing. I love this place. End of story.
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The cake was delicious. Everybody talked about their buttercream frosting. Love the cake design.
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This place is great. I gave them a picture off of pinterest of what I wanted my cake to look like and they matched it perfectly! It was very artistic and creative, and did not break the budget! They have a large variety of flavors and the cake is high quality! There were many other places I tried where the cake tasted stale and stiff....however, Creative Cakes tasted fantastic! I highly recommend them!!!!!
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This place is absolutely amazing! The cake was delicious, the initial tasting was a lot of fun and very helpful in choosing the type of cake and mousse to go along with it, and the people were very friendly and accommodating! One taste and you'll be hooked! Thanks again!
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Did you grab the new tour shirt?
Minneapolis' own Howler deliver a muscular, poppy sophomore release 'World of Joy' on March 25. Stream the album in its entirety a week before the release.
Away from the 60s sound, are there any new bands that you've been influenced by?
JG: Oh yeah, I'm influenced all the time. You know I love Palma Violets; I love Parquet Courts and Kurt Vile. I like DIIV; there are just countless bands that I listen to. But I think some of my favourite stuff right now is produced in Minneapolis. Frankie Teardrop, and this other band called Gloss that I'm really into. One of my favourite bands from Minneapolis is called Teenage Moods. And the Palma Violets new stuff has been very influential to me.
Jordan and Ian at Rough Trade, if you missed the Q&A keep an eye on their site for more fun filled "Have you ever.." awkward questions tonight.
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"Businessman" Preview!
Gloc-9 as OPAPP Peace Ambassador
"Sa Habit Baka Sabit" TVC #Tuseran
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Asintado Theme OMV by Gloc-9 feat. Lirah Bermudez
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Takipsilim live with Lirah B. #unanghirit
Gloc-9 bilang Guitarero!
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Magda Acoustic
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Dapat Tama wins in the New York TV Festival!
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Tower Sessions: "Magda"
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"Ang Parokya" feat. Gloc-9 & Frank Magalona
Gloc-9 para sa Booster C One Shot!
Gloc-9 para sa Motortrade!
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"Magda" Director's Cut
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si Gloc sa EB Opening nung Sabado!
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Di Mo Nadinig on PartyP!
may 5 2013, with Jay Durias.
Gloc-9 for the Not In Our School anti-bullying campaign
feat. Zia Quizon.
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"Katulad Ng Iba" Official MV
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"Dapat Tama" sa PartyP!
Hindi Mo Nadinig Official MV!
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directed by J. Pacena II.
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"Kunwari" Official MV!
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directed by Carlo Perlas, Eric Perlas, Boogs San Juan
"Dapat Tama" Official MV!
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"Bakit Hindi" official music video
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15th year celebration sa Party Pilipinas!
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Pambahay Series Episode 2: Silup!
"Sirena" feat. Ebe Dancel at MKNM Album Launch
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"Sirena" Official Music Video
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Gloc-9 at World Poetry Day 2012, in front of the Phil Stock Exchange
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Wolfgang at Gloc-9 sa Coke 100 Years Concert, March 23
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"Akin Lang Naman"
directed by J. Pacena II.
Gloc-9 & Yeng Constantino, Walang Natira, Live
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Gloc-9 & Bamboo, After Party Jam, Toronto Canada
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Lando in Los Angeles
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Gloc-9 sa Alaska
Simpleng Tao – Live at El Rey Theater
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Hari ng Tondo
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Kaninong Anino
directed by Arnold Arre.
directed by J. Pacena II.
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Walang Natira
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Jordanian, Egyptian summit held in Amman
Jordan's King Abdullah II and Egyptian President Muhammad Hosni Mubarak stressed the importance of reviving the peace process and returning to the negotiation table on bases that guarantee rights of the Palestinian people and respect the international legitimacy resolutions.
During the meeting, held on Sunday in Amman, the King and Mubarak affirmed the importance of crystallizing a unified Arab position to support the Palestinian people and guarantee their rights to find a just settlement for the Palestinian issue, which is the core of conflict in the region.
According to Petra, the Jordanian monarch and Mubarak also renewed support to efforts of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and its President Mahmoud Abbas to form a national unity government that shoulders the current stage's responsibility and enables the Palestinian side to be effective and strong partner in the peace process.
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I just think we've hit an inflection point where technology is now so pervasive and so useful that we're past the tipping point. And the world of e-commerce and commerce are now just seamlessly merged, and everything is omnichannel.
Today we don't even know what e-commerce means. They've just come together, the on- and the offline. Now, every merchant, every retailer must have an omnichannel strategy or they won't survive.
Nobody has an electricity department in their company; nobody has an Internet department anymore—although they did a few years ago. I suspect that within 24 months, no one will have a mobile strategy. They'll just have an omnichannel, connected-screens strategy.
I think that in this omnichannel world—imagine, for planning purposes, that everything is for sale in every marketplace, every means, and every channel. We may never get to that world, but it's a useful planning assumption.
July 23: Jenna Wortham outs herself, in BuzzFeed, as a massive fan of Kim Kardashian: Hollywood:
I bought 3 of the $4.99 K packs! It's mostly for the outfits and hairstyles. The good hairstyles all cost so many points! I bought a cute shaggy bob and then I had to get the beige bathing suit thing with the sheer robe to go with it for the Triste launch party at Chateu Nuit. I would say it embarrasses me to admit that, but I've stopped trying to rationalize it.
July 30: Jenna Wortham files "Kim Kardashian, an Unlikely Mobile Video Game Hit" for the NYT:
The game is free to download and play, but it sells in-app purchases for things like additional energy and "K-stars," which can be used to buy special hairstyles, accessories and clothing. Although players don't have to spend money to advance in the game play, they are clearly enticed to indulge on the fancier items available for sale — imitating Ms. Kardashian's own high-spending ways.
August 9: Jenna Wortham files "Living Like the Kardashians, via Smartphone" for the NYT:
The game — which may be downloaded free — encourages players to spend their real-world money on "k-stars," a game currency that enables them to buy extravagant clothing and hairstyles for their avatars in this virtual world.
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The above quotes appear in the New York Times, in an article by Scott Reyburn.
I would like to ask Mr Reyburn, and the NYT: where, exactly, in his book, or elsewhere, does Piketty make these statements?
I have not read all of Piketty's book, and it's hard to prove a negative. But I don't think Piketty ever attempts to quantify global wealth inequality: it's hard enough just to get reliable figures on a national basis. And I'm all but certain that he never extrapolates anything to the point at which the richest 0.1% end up with 50% of the wealth. Neither would he consider such an extrapolation to constitute an "immutable dynamic": after all, his entire final chapter is an explanation of why such dynamics are not immutable.
Reyburn's claims, then, would seem to be narrowly false: Piketty does not say what Reyburn says he says. They're also broadly false: nowhere does Piketty paint some dystopian vision where the upper-middle classes have become "impoverished".
On top of that, Reyburn also violates the NYT's policy of adjusting all prices for inflation. He talks about a Leonardo bought in 1914 for $1.5 million: what's that in today's money? Reyburn never says; he waves only in the direction of an analysis which said that the purchase was a record price, in real terms, in 1961. Has the record been broken in the last 53 years? Maybe if Reyburn did the math, we could work that out!
All in all, this is shoddy stuff from the NYT. Or, is it from the NYT? Officially, the NYT has merged with the IHT, and they're now a unified news organization. In practice however, stories like this still feel as though they're IHT pieces, which wouldn't see the light of day had they gone through editing in NYC. Is a double standard still in place?
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Carlo, a student at the University of Kent, sent me some questions for the thesis he's writing. He said I could blog my answers, so:
1)Has contemporary art become just a commodity? Do buyers see art purchases mainly as an investment?
No; no. At the very highest end (think Warhol, or Richter) contemporary art can sometimes approach the status of a commodity. But the overwhelming majority of contemporary art is not a commodity, nor is it seen as such. And while some buyers see some art (again, we're talking mainly about the richest buyers here, and the most expensive art) as an investment, most buyers do not look at it that way. Despite the fact that many dealers and auction houses are encouraging them to do so.
That said, if you're spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on an art work, you're generally going to want some kind of assurance that it has a decent chance of keeping its value, or even perhaps rising in value. Dealers in large part compete on the degree to which they can convincingly answer that question in the affirmative.
2) About the current health of the market. In 2013 auction sales were down in China (10%) and the UK (over 5%), but in America increased of 14%. In the beginning of 2014 auction sales picked up again, it seems. Christie's evening auction in London, for instance, did 40 millions more than the previous year. Is this a sign the market is doing well? And what about the middle market that is never mentioned in the news? And private sales?
The market is very healthy right now — healthy to the point of feverish, you might say. But most of the market, as always, at least in dollar terms, is at the very top end. You don't hear about the "middle market" because it's never much of a market to begin with. Private sales are the same way: there is a small number of dealers doing very well by selling a small number of extremely expensive artworks. Art isn't a middle-class thing any more, and if you're trying to make money by selling to the middle classes, you're struggling.
3) In an article on your blog "Is the end of the art-market bubble?" you state there is an ongoing bubble. What are the signs which make you think there is one? And is this bubble becoming/will become eventually a speculative one?
Flipping, mainly; it's a bearish, toppish sign. Where there are flippers, there are speculators. And art dealers, of course, have always been speculators. The question is whether the flippers and the speculative dealers have become the marginal price setters. They probably have in Oscar Murillo, but have they in general? I'd say not yet.
4) What role auction houses play in creating this bubble? Are they to blame or other actors of the market for creating it? And does the practice of leverage or "on-credit" purchases help to inflate the prices?
Auction houses love bubbles: that's where they make the big bucks. So they try very hard to get the biggest baubles to sell, and to get the most avaricious buyers to bid up to and beyond their means. If it were entirely up to the auction houses, of course, there would always be bubbles in every asset class. So they can't do it on their own. But they can add fuel to the fire.
5) Do big prices influence the cultural value given to an artwork?
Yes, especially in contemporary art. There are exceptions, but in general if you find an artist getting big prices, that artist is going to have a lot of cultural cachet.
Tom Keene: What is the direct evidence you have that this gentleman changed the technology world with this cryptocurrency?
Leah Goodman: I connected all these dots through. Through forensic research. And forensic research isn't about supporting what you think is true. It's about eliminating what you think a candidate may or may not represent. All you're doing — I want to make this really clear right now — you're eliminating candidates. We cannot eliminate this man at all. And in my confrontation with him, he confirmed his involvement. End of story.
Tom Keene: Is that journalism? Where you're working on a Type 2 construct, where you're pulling away, to "we've eliminated these other people"? But, there could be other people out there that you could do the same action with, right?
Leah Goodman: You could go off on the other way, and say "let's find reasons to support a person". But the best way to do forensic research is to eliminate people, not the other way around. You don't say "I have a conjecture, let me find every way to support it". No.
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I think Kevin Roose is exactly wrong here. Maybe The Epicurean Dealmaker can explain why?
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It's a whether vs what thing, basically. Or, to put it another way, it's a real-world application of Buridan's ass.
In the case of gifts, there are certain occasions (birthdays, weddings, Christmas) which are associated with strong societal pressure to give something. What you give is, in general, much less important than that you give. So it's actually societally OK to give a crappy present: "it's the thought that counts".
Tattoos are more interesting. I've wanted a tattoo for quite a long time, but I've always been paralyzed by indecision about what tattoo to get. It's so permanent, I set the bar extremely high — and end up with nothing, when I'm pretty sure I'd prefer something to nothing. Call it FOFR — fear of future regret — almost the opposite of FOMO.
When I see happily tattooed people, it's obvious that they've made a simple determination — that a tattoo (or a lot of tattoos) is better than no tattoo, and that therefore they should simply go ahead and ink up. That doesn't mean it makes sense to get an ice-cream cone tattooed on your face. But let's remain within the realm of general common sense here, and I'm quite happy that the world's skin is getting more colorful and interesting.
Just as I'm happy that people keep on giving each other gifts at this time of year. The deadweight loss involved notwithstanding.
"Joanna Coles, who runs Cosmo, is a dynamo. She is the future of fashion," he enthused, unprompted. "She's got a pizzazz about her and an edge that is exactly what you need in that business. I'm a big fan."
Bloomberg is less of a fan of youthful, experimental fashion — the city's efforts to aid emerging designers notwithstanding. "You have all these new fashion people that you and I have never heard of, doing things that I don't like. I don't think they are real fashion," he scoffed, proffering his preference for Establishment labels like Oscar de la Renta, Carolina Herrera and Ralph Lauren. "But that's what our parents said about our stuff and what these people will say about the next generation," he allowed philosophically."—The Bloomberg Effect: Fashion and the Mayor - WWD Fashion Features - WWD.com
Michael Wolff has a weird column about Business Insider today. (Near the top, he says that Henry Blodget can be seen "at nearly every industry cocktail party", which is hilariously wrong, Blodget hates going to such things, and almost never does.)
Wolff also back-of-the-envelopes some ad-revenue math:
Blodget recently told the Financial Times that Business Insider's revenue will be "close to" $20 million this year…
Let's assume that "close to" $20 million is more like $17 million and that a few million of that comes from conferences, its low-margin, hard-work new area of business that Business Insider has been recently bragging about. So figure perhaps $14 million from its core advertising base.
BI's 10 million uniques likely yield something near 40 million page views a month, which would be a $3 CPM (cost per thousand views), hardly setting even the abysmally low online CPM world on fire. In fact, comScore tends to undercount by almost half, so it could be more like 20 million uniques with 80 million page views and a CPM across the site of $1.50.
Let's grant Wolff's assumptions, silly as they may be. And let's put to one side that he uses the term CPM (the cost to an advertiser of 1,000 pageviews) when he means RPM (the revenue to a publisher of 1,000 pageviews). The difference, of course, is that you can get more than one ad per page.
In any case, if you have 40 million pageviews per month, that's 480 million pageviews per year. Now, let's say you have advertising revenue of $14 million per year. Then you're getting revenue of $14 million per 480 million pageviews. Divide both numbers by 480,000: that's the same as $29 per thousand pageviews. Not $3. Wolff's off by an order of magnitude.
Similarly, if Business Insider is getting $14 million from 80 million pageviews a month, that works out at an RPM of about $15, not $1.50.
Now I have no idea what Business Insider's revenue or pageview numbers are. But I do know bad arithmetic when I see it. And Wolff's arithmetic reminds me of nothing so much as Mary Meeker's, back in 2007. Except in Wolff's case, of course, it's unreasonably bearish, rather than unreasonably bullish.
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Nick Lemann, the former dean of Columbia Journalism School, has a monster 10,000-word profile of Mary Jo White in the latest New Yorker, which has the most legendary fact checkers in the business. So why does it contain pretty basic errors of fact?
Here's one:
In 2004, the commission permitted the big brokerage houses to take on a much higher level of debt. The firms quickly began borrowing at possibly ruinous levels, which made them feel the effects of the crisis even more acutely.
The first sentence is arguably true, but the second sentence absolutely is not.
Here's another:
"Dark pools," private unregulated markets, enable banks to execute undisclosed trades.
Dark pools are not unregulated. They are very regulated, as anybody who runs one will tell you. And all trades in dark pools are disclosed and recorded, just like trades on any other exchange.
And then there's this doozy:
In 2000, the S.E.C. permitted stocks to be traded in pennies or fractions of pennies, rather than the customary eighths or thirty-seconds of a dollar. That made it easier for traders to make money by placing very large orders for very small variances in the price of a stock.
Nothing trades in fractions of pennies, at least not if it's trading at over a buck a share. And decimalization didn't make it easier for traders to make money, it made it harder for traders to make money.
I'm not sure what to make of all this, except to say that the New Yorker really doesn't get finance. And/or, Lemann gets special dispensation to be a tourist in worlds he doesn't really understand, and that because of his stature, he doesn't get the extra scrutiny that such writers require.
As well as destroying a computer containing one copy of the Snowden files, the paper's editor, Alan Rusbridger, agreed to restrict the newspaper's reporting of the documents.
The Government also demanded that the paper not publish details of how UK telecoms firms, including BT and Vodafone, were secretly collaborating with GCHQ to intercept the vast majority of all internet traffic entering the country."—You can't prevent information from coming out by doing a deal with a single newspaper.
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I am currently in Amsterdam and Sony support was utterly useless.
My vaio hard disk basically died on me, so I had to go out and buy new ones, I bought 2 500GB ones.
As all was ok, I went from striped BIOS to Mirror so one disk mirrors the other.
I then proceeded to perform a clean install of Windows 7 32 bits, installation went well until restart of services.
From that point on I get the message that it can't complete installation.
Upon requesting support from SONY VAIO customer support, they basically told me it would nto work because I changed the Hard disks.
I mean they are same rpms, just 2 times 500GB...
SONY helpdesk basically told me , go buy a new laptop, worst service ever. tbh...
Have tried all kind of things, rebooting, doing reboots using safe mode nothing helps can't get past it, seems like installation is ok , but something is blocking me.
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It sounds to me as if you are trying to install to a RAID1, but that you haven't enabled the RAID controller in your BIOS. Check to see that the RAID controller is enabled. If it is, then there may be a an issue installing to a RAID1, so try this instead to at least see if you can get an installation up and running:
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For better or worse, Hadoop has become synonymous with big data. In just a few years it has gone from a fringe technology to the de facto standard. But is the enterprise buying into a technology whose best day has already passed?
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Don't Breathe A Word by Jennifer McMahon (Harper)
As much as I was engaged and terrified by Dismantled and the New York Times best-selling Promise Not to Tell, lesbian author Jennifer McMahon's latest novel Don't
Breathe A Word is even more impressive.
The characters in Don't Breathe A Word try to make sense of things that don't make sense — whether finding truth in a fable or discovering that your great grandfather may have slept with your aunt and produced a boy who could have kidnapped your sister. Sound complicated? It only gets worse.
The story centers around the disappearance of Lisa, a 12-year-old girl who went missing from her house after telling her brother Sam about a "magical door" that led to a world where she hoped to meet and marry the "King of the Fairies."
The novel opens with Phoebe, a troubled young adult sleeping with her older married boss and trying to figure out her life. On her way back from yet another lonely tryst at a motel, Phoebe stumbles on the scene of Lisa's disappearance and meets a host of characters that will continue to haunt her throughout the story.
Fifteen years later, Phoebe is in a relationship with Sam, Lisa's brother. Sam and his mother do not talk about Lisa and the mystery surrounding her disappearance, but eventually the past creeps into the present and challenges everything Phoebe and Sam thought they knew.
Don't Breathe A Word is an intricately woven, haunting and highly suspenseful page- turner. The perfect beach read.
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Jukebox: Curve mgazine writer (the Lipstick of the popular Lipstick & Dipstick column), Gina Noelle Daggett's debut novel about first love. (Bella Books)
Shaken and Stirred: Joan Opyr's novel about what it means to return home. (Bywater Books)
Harpies' Feast: the second installment of Linda Morganstein's Alexis Pope mystery series tackles teen bullying and suicide. (Regal Crest)


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Thursday, October 2, 2008
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No banking crisis here
By SUE WATSON
With much being said in Washington about the condition of the financial markets, local bankers last week said there is nothing to worry about in the short term.
Steve Gresham, president of the Bank of Holly Springs, explained how most community banks operate in the county and how his bank operates.
"With all the losses and banks having trouble (nationally) we've stayed out of what the other banks have done," he said. "We have no Freddie Mac or Fannie Mae preferred stock."
Bank of Holly Springs keeps most of its lending local and has stayed away from subprime mortages, he said.
"I feel like most of the community banks across the country have done the same," Gresham said. "We stick with basic banking and are a lot more conservative. Even with all the losses across the country being reported, we have remained profitable."
Gresham said some customers want assurance that their savings are safe. He said while FDIC insurance covers individual accounts up to $100,000, a family of four is covered for up to $2 million provided the accounts are structured correctly.
Customers who are not sure about FDIC insurance can check with their banker for a better understanding of how the insurance works, he said.
Tracy Davidson, president of Citizens Bank, said he feels like most local banks operate within the local area. He said only a few people have called to ask questions about the security of their savings and both wanted assurance about FDIC insurance protection on their accounts.
In general, customers are not showing him much anxiety about what is being called a banking crisis in Washington, he said.
"Your local banks operate in the communities they know and with people they know well and know best; I think it is a benefit," Davidson said. "I think that's the advantage of community banking. I think the banks are willing to lend money to qualified borrowers. That's what we do here. Making qualified loans is the key."
That translates into lending to those who have satisfactory credit and income, he said.
"Locally, our credit is sound and we have a good banking environment," Davidson said. "There has been very little change locally as far as loans and extending credit.
"A community bank's loan portfolio reflects the make-up of the community," he said. "If anyone has concerns, if they should talk to their banker, I think they will be vastly pleased. I am surprised we have not had as many calls as expected."
Greg Taylor, president of Merchants & Farmers Bank, said there is much misunderstanding about the financial institution crisis and talk about what is going on in Washington.
"The stories you are reading or hearing about in New York are about investment banks," he said. "Basically, investment banks do not accept deposits. They are a kind of brokerage house and they buy mortgage loans and sell packaged loans in order to generate money. They have to sell off of a package of loans in order to make money to buy other mortgages (loans)."
In order for investment banks to make money they have to be continually selling, he said.
"The way they make money is by charging a fee that they charge for the transaction," Taylor said. "Community banks like us generally do not sell any of our loans. We service all our loans."
"Most community banks cannot afford to have a mortgage department because it is too expensive to operate," he said. "Your ATMs, your checking, your whole system is working fine. Any withdrawal from a savings or checking account or CD is not affected whatsoever."
Taylor said the local economy is doing fine.
"There have been some layoffs, but it is business as usual every day here," he said. "We encourage people to call their banker if they have any questions at all."
Taylor said a few M&F customers have called about interest rates, and friends will ask how the local banks are doing.
But he has not seen any panic, he said.
"I just think everything we are seeing in the news now is being called a bank, but we are all financial institutions of different types and these institutions on the news are a different type of financial institution than community banks," Taylor said.
First State Bank president Jim Crell agreed.
"Many of these problems we are reading about on the national level are not trickling down to the local level here in Marshall County," he said. "Although new home purchases and residential construction starts are declining nationally, locally we are seeing some new construction, and home purchases are picking up slightly. Demand seems to be level, especially in the northern part of the county. We are not feeling the severity of the repercussions other markets are currently experiencing."
Local retail starts have been helping the local economy grow, Crell said. He cited the start-up of some new businesses in the area including a new hair salon and a couple of new restaurant openings, including Goodfella's Bar and Grill in Holly Springs and the Slayden Travel Center which recently opened on Highway 72.
Local efforts are paying off with regard to new businesses in Holly Springs and Marshall County, Crell said, citing the efforts of the Holly Springs Chamber of Commerce under the direction of Amy Heaton and the Holly Springs Tourism Bureau headed by Stephanie Movre. He said local efforts such as these have helped flourish the local economy and have given the local banking industry a boost.
T.J. Vanzant with First State added that the local banks tend to operate conservatively in terms of assuring loans are solid from a banking standpoint.
"We have a responsibility to our shareholders and the community as a whole to ensure they will always have a safe place to deposit their money and conduct any and all financial transactions that may arise," he said.
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Posts by truCido
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Google skids car insurance comparison engine onto rivals' lawn
Think you've hit the nail on the head...there all complaining google might be evil with your information. But I don't think I've ever received any spam or anything as a result of using a google service!?!
Put your telephone number into GoCompare or MoneySupermarket or whatever and you get calls / emails within minutes and then for the next few years!!
Google Drive Issues on Mac
On windows at least it didn't try and synchronise everything...unless I told it to in the setup?
Apple wants to OWN YOUR VERY SOLE
airport security is going to have a lot of fun!!
Mobile scaremongers want warning stickers on EVERYTHING
Warning Oxygen Kills!!!
In my study I found 100% of people who had cancer....had breathed Oxygen!!!
Google offers opt-out from Wi-Fi router location database
So google know there is a wifi point named "uj47dj2n3" on my street, wow lucky them?? If it helps improves the navigation on phones then great.
Not sure what other world dominating things they can do with that, I'm sure Dr Evil didn't need SSID's
Google's Wi-Fi snoop nabbed passwords and emails
RE: how did it get the passwords?
If you read it, it didn't specifically say what sort of passwords. A LOT of websites don't use encryption....even el reg. When you login to el reg to submit your comment your password is sent in plain text over your wi-fi connection and all the way to the el-reg servers. Anyone snooping at any point will see you password in plain text. This is what I assume they are referring to....
As long as google haven't actually used the data and is making sure its wiped from the face of this earth...I'm not bothered tbh!
The World's best World Cup Calendar (maybe)
that's pretty awesome actually!! Bookmarked :D
Google Street View whacked by German prosecutors, Czech data watchdog
RE: You need to hang on a little longer with the others
Thank you!! what I was alluding to, but I'm an "idiot" so didn't say it
hang on a minute...
hang on a minute...Surely the onus is on the person with the unsecured network? If you have an open wifi network you might as well be shouting down the street "I'm just putting my private letters and bank statements in the bin unshredded, come take a look". I'm sorry but I don't think they've done anything wrong, if anything they've helped highlight how many people are using unsecure networks and should steer them in the right direction.
If you leave your wifi network unsecured its your own fault...they haven't done anything that anyone else couldn't do as they walk around the streets with a laptop and a linux build
iPad stuck in US for extra month
not bad!
So if they've sold 500,000 thats at least!!! $249,500,000 so probably nearly the $270,000,000 mark. Not a bad profit, over $100,000,000 if you go by the $260 build price rumours
T-Orange merger approved
RE: Bad news
Orrr it could drive costs down, with T-Mobile and Orange merging systems, RAN, staff etc they will save hundreds of millions, so in theory this will be passed onto the customer?
Orange teases with HTC Desire debut
RE: T-Mobile...
Orange put it on because it actually makes sense...most people aren't that "tech savvy" and a common interface actually makes things easier for a lot of people.
However I do agree that you should be able to disable it and just use the normal software!
Google contradicts self, confirms own Googlephone
re: phone or radio by ac
ROFL 200MHz!!! Do you know how many masts they would need running at 200MHz!?!? Don't be so stupid.
iPhone comes to Tesco
the o2 network seems to struggle enough with there own iphone data, let alone tescos on top!!
Fifth of iPhone users watching porn
RE: If stats are to be believed by adnim
Shame maths isn't that simple eh. What about the people that cross both groups? Let's be honest it's probably all the same guys so it'll probably stick at around the same percentage...prob 40% max ;)
Poor porn protection hurt Firefox 3 uptake
regarding the presentation, common business sense here.....don't use a laptop you use for work for personal usage!?! There are a few more security issues here rather than a porn url popping up.
I personally think its a good feature but then again I don't have things to hide and if I did then I wouldn't bookmark them lol
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The 2015 Duke football recruiting class is shaping up nicely. Since the beginning of June, the Blue Devils have received verbal commitments from two four-star and eight three-star recruits.
Head Coach David Cutcliffe and his staff keep adding to their list of 2015 commitments thanks in part to a successful 2013 campaign in which the Blue Devils went 10-2 and battled Johnny Manziel and his Aggies until the bitter end. That kind of exposure on the national stage is exactly what the football team needs in their quest to erase the phrase "Duke is a basketball school."
Helping the cause are four-star recruits Reno Rosene and Tyler Petite. At 6 foot 7, 340 pounds, Rosene is ranked as Rivals 31st offensive tackle prospect in the nation, while Petite is 13th amongst tight ends. These two highly touted athletes, along with wide receiver Aaron Young, bring the total count of California commits to three.
In fact, these days the trend of players outside of North Carolina choosing Duke is quite popular. Georgia, another hotbed of high school talent, is home to six of Duke's 2015 verbally committed recruits including wide receivers Keyston Fuller and TJ Rahming and defensive ends Marquies Price and Trevon McSwain.
Rounding out the latest batch of three and four star players declaring Duke as their college of choice are dual threat quarterback Keith Washington, linebacker Joel Giles-Harris and wide receiver Flynn Nagel.
Not only are the Blue Devils seeing an influx of out of state players, but the program is proving to be a formidable foe against traditional football powerhouses on the recruiting trail. Rosene and Petite turned down Notre Dame and USC respectively for the privilege of becoming a Blue Devil. That's the kind of progress Duke fans like to hear!
Of course there is plenty of time before signing day, so anything can happen. For now though, 2015 is shaping up to potentially be the year Duke finally finishes with a top 50 recruiting class.
Tags: David Cutcliffe Duke Blue Devils Duke Football Recruiting Reno Rosene Tyler Petite


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|by Jason Steele
This month's Conde Naste Traveler features some articles on the collection of frequent flier miles. They tie the whole thing into the theme of the recent movie Up In The Air. In that article, they get the opinion of Gary Leff, the president of FlyerTalk on how to maximize your earning of miles and points. There is are few people more qualified to hand out advice on frequent flier miles than Gary. That said, let's take a look at his recommendations:
1 Shop at e-tailers that go the extra mile(s). Evreward.com offers lists of loyalty programs and deals affiliated with major sites.
This is good advice on the face of it, but just remember, if you are ing something just for the frequent flier miles you are almost always loosing. This makes sense only if you would have bought the item anyways, and you can't purchase it for significantly less elsewhere. It would also make sense if you are being reimbursed by a third party who doesn't know or doesn't care that the product might be available for slightly less elsewhere.
2 Use branded credit cards. By FlyerTalk consensus, the best all-purpose card is the Starwood Preferred Guest American Express, which earns points that can be applied across dozens of airlines.
Fantastic advice that I have echoed on the blog many times.
3 Earn miles to burn them. "Miles will never be worth more tomorrow than they are today," Leff says. Don't hoard and don't waste them on domestic coach flights. Your goal: international business or first class.
More great advice. Never spend years saving for an award, as the availability will go down while the price in miles or points will go up. Maximize the value of your reward, which will always have a higher cents per mile when redeemed for international business or first class travel.
4 Think alliances, not airlines. Most major carriers allow passengers to book reward tickets on any alliance member. Consider where you want to fly and on which airline when choosing your domestic carrier.
More good stuff. This reminds me of the time I had my parents use their Membership Rewards points to redeem miles on Japan's All Nippon Airlines, for award seats on South African airlines. There is a tangled web out there, but it can be leveraged by those in the know.
5 Be strategic with miles. "Start with one account and concentrate on miles there until you can redeem the reward you want," says Leff. Then sign on with a different alliance for greater coverage.
This is great for regular business travelers, while occasional leisure travelers might only get to focus on one or two programs.
6 The best program in North America is Aeroplan. Air Canada, which participates, has the lowest threshold for elite status, accepts American Express points for reward tickets, and allows for multiple stopovers on a single ticket—you can fly around the world on your way to Hong Kong.
Aeroplan is a Star Alliance carrier, so you might want to consider accruing points on their program when flying other carriers in the alliance such as United, Continental, and US Airways.
7 The best U.S. program is Continental OnePass. Leff gives it high marks for reward tickets, the ease of booking them, and membership in the largest airline alliance.
Enough said.
8 Toughest program: Delta offers very few premium seats at sky-high prices. Next comes United, which tries to block passengers from booking seats on partner airlines in favor of its own.
I have had some real trouble with redeeming Delta awards, and the consensus on FlyerTalk is that the Delta Award booking engine on their web site is broken beyond repair. Only an expensive call to their staff has any chance of finding reasonably "priced" award seats. In fact, just today he tries to find some use for Delta miles in a post on his blog.
9 Your carrier is not your miles bank. You're not stuck earning miles on whomever you happen to be flying; funnel those miles to your preferred account within the same alliance. Don't scatter your miles.
See numbers 4 and 5
10 Once you're addicted to miles, start planning a "mileage run." Mileage runs are multi-layover trips to nowhere, specifically designed to rack up miles. Visit FlyerTalk's forums to learn how to plan your own.
I suppose Conde Naste did not include enough detail due to space requirements, so they just said to see FlyerTalk. The idea behind the "mileage run" is not to accrue miles towards an award seat, as the miles are rarely worth the cost of the ticket. The idea is to earn status by earning qualifying miles. Those "butt in the seat" miles flown are the only way to graduate from being a lowly peon to an exalted member of status, indicated by a plastic card in the color of some rare earth metal. Taking a flight at the end of the year that brings you to your next level of status may earn you first class upgrades and other perks, for the next year, that are worth far more than the price of your ticket.
In Conclusion
A great list with some super advice from a real guru.
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Just switched to time warner cable, internet/phone/tv, last friday, so far just about everynight all 3 services go out and come back on the following afternoon...... the first night it happened i flagged down a time warner truck in my neighborhood and the tech told me they have been having node issues in the area but with in minutes of him showing up everything started working just fine. but later that night it all went down again.... so far it has happened just about everynight. I love the speeds of the internet when it works compared to my verizon dsl i had preivously but mayn i would rather have slow internet connection than none at all.i would call in and the recordings would say there is an outage in my area and i opt to have them call me once it back online....has other people witness this as well or am i alone on this. ??contemplating other options right now.... but definately switching back to directtv for tv service.....thankstitus
From your conversation with the tech, it sounds like TWC is pretty aware of the problem. It also sounds like the automated system detects the outage, so it's probably affecting a good number of people. They'll hopefully fix it soon.I'd be more worried if this was happening just to you, and the issue never happened when the TWC techs came by to look.--AT&T U-Hearse - RIP Unlimited Internet 1995-2011Rethink Billable.
I would just politely ask them for credit for each day until the issue is fixed.
Do your neighbors have the same problems too with their TWC services? I am near your city and noticed slower speeds during peak hours, but don't have cable TV and phone services.
None of my friendly neighbors i talk to have time Warner cable they are all Verizon dsl subscribers. ...Last night was a good night no outages and during peak hours I got 8.0mb down stream according to speedtest.net and reached 20mb around 11pmWe will see what happens in the next few days.Thanks everyone


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Posts by Headstar
11 posts • joined 26 Oct 2007
I am NOT a PC repair man. I will NOT get your iPad working
"Can you take a look at my computer?" they ask
"I charge $125/hour." I reply.
Norwegian diplomats brush up on black metal
I'm not a big fan of Combichrist but I do like bands like VNV Nation and Komor Kommado along with classic acts like 242 and Nitzer Ebb.
Apple showers love on Mac malware protection
"The protection, which many are calling Xprotect..."
These guys' lawyers may have something to say about using that term:
Swedes mash Japanese pop pineapple
I grew up in that neighborhood... I can *SO* picture it now... "eeeey, leeen... whuzz wiff de pineappl...*POP* *CRASH* *OOOOOWWWW*
Oh, it gets better!
Apparently this pinepple freak made a PLAYMOBIL video for his track 'Made in Sweden' See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdLcwOFD2n8
Swedish authorities pull plug on female Elvis
RE: Tax Authority?
The Swedish Tax board is also the overseer of the Swedish Census bureau (folkbokföringen). There is a rule, if you will, that states: "A first name must not be construed as offensive to the public or cause undue distress to the child. Furthermore, it cannot have the distinct characteristics of a last name." (http://www.skatteverket.se/folkbokforing/ovrigt/namn.4.18e1b10334ebe8bc80004083.html)
In other words, the government knows what's best for you and your child.
"For thirty years I have plotted to bring down the party. I am sick in mind and body." - 1984
Japanese woman moves into bloke's closet
..the Playmobil re-enactment?
American auto dealer offers free handguns
Mr. Muller is exactly the type of person that helps propagate the notion of merkins as guntoting jingoistic assholes. May one of the guns he's assisting to peddle end up in a serious crime where it can be traced back to him.
Furthermore, his comments regarding Sen. Obama only goes to prove said senator's point... what a twat.
In Google We Trust: Health docs depo now open to Americans
@ Vernon Lloyd
>> Of course your medical information is not shared within the medical profession whatsoever.......NOT! <<
Medical professionals, here in the US, are are required under HIPAA to not disclose PHI (Patient Health Information) to anyone that is not required to know. There are strict penalties for those who disregard this requirement.
>>Someone out there knows or has access to more personal information about you that you know yourself.<<
In the states, everyone have the right to request one copy of their own medical record per year at no charge. If you need more than one copy within that year, you are only obligated to pay for the cost associated with producting those records for you.
IT angle: If a user, lets say a medical professional, by sheer stupidity, emails an associate about your health status and uses any identifiable information that could be traced back to you, the BOFH of the outfit is required to place a retention hold on that email for at least 10 years.
All in all though, giving Google your PHI is not a very good idea as you essentially give up your rights under HIPAA for good.
w00t voted 'Word of the Year'
'w00t' = We've got r00T. Old *.nix hacking term from the 70's....
IT managers caught in employees' illicit networks
RE: Free the admin password
Unless you are willing to take on the burden of dealing with federal regulations, including, but not limited to, going to "pound-me-in-the-ass" prison for 2 years or more, once that password has been breached (something that will happen within 2 minutes after that password's been released to the luser population).
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