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Web exclusive: default dangers
Now featured on the homepage, Charles R. Morris on what could happen should the U.S. default on its debt:
What is most scary about the possibility that Congress will fail to authorize an increase in the national debt limit is that no one really knows what the consequences might be. But it is not alarmism to fear that such a step could trigger a global recession....
The most immediate impact of a default will be on countries—from the Middle East to East Asia—that currently hold trillions in surplus dollar balances. They will suffer major losses, which will accelerate the move toward trading in other currencies, something long-bruited by countries that resent America's financial dominance. The United States will be punished as its own cost of borrowing rises substantially, and possibly permanently....
The effect on world trade could be catastrophic, as buyers and sellers attempt to reprice cargoes in midstream. When Jamie Dimon, head of JPMorgan Chase, said that a default "would ripple through the global economy in ways that you can't possibly understand," he really meant it.
Though the House did nothing yesterday to address the crisis, the Senate could review and announce a deal today that would fund the government through January 15 (at the levels reflecting the cuts enacted in March) and raise the debt ceiling through February. Sen. John McCain says that, as he predicted, Republicans have lost a battle they never could have won, and Sen. Lindsey Graham says Republicans "really did go too far."
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This is the quality of thinking—or lack thereof—that has afflicted many GOP conservatives from the beginning of this budget showdown. They picked a goal they couldn't achieve in trying to defund ObamaCare from one House of Congress, and then they picked a means they couldn't sustain politically by pursuing a long government shutdown and threatening to blow through the debt limit.
Jonathan Strong at The Corner has an insider's account, quoting a senior GOP aide--"It's all over. We'll take the Senate deal"--and passing this along:
The Christian rite accompanying legislative chaos [Tuesday] was Florida representative Steve Southerland's rendition of "Amazing Grace" — "all three verses," said Representative Michael Burgess (Texas) afterwards in amazement. But Southerland is an undertaker by trade, and the song is normally sung at funerals. It's hard not to see [Tuesday's] failure as the death of the House GOP's role, in at least this standoff.
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There was NEVER a real, even possibility that the US would default on its debt. The markets understood that and there was hardly a blip. More Washington melodrama. But there was some real news underneath this cacophony..
I did hear something interesting on the radio though in the drive to work. It was from and economist (no idea if he is left or right) who said that the markets are pleased that he debt ceiling will be raised, that there will be a new fed chair who will print more money, and that credit will flow. I am no economist but i just do not see how this can possibly a sustainable course of action.
To allow that to continue is what American should be outraged by and not the theatrics of the moment. These isseus relative to the fed just printing money, endless raising of debt, and invisible money should be the takeaway messages from the whole thing and not the whole cataloguing of winners and losers, heroes and villains, demons and angels, etc. etc.
As you state George, you are not an economist. What is disturbing are your nuances. All your emphasis is on the partisan side. That says something. When you come out on one side of any issue despite feeble protests that you are objective.
Has there actually been any default? Has that even happened? Did the markets even react? Look at reality. Look at what you tangibly see. It simply did not happen. Hysteria over nothing.And nothing that was ever going to happen realistically in the first place.
But this economist DID say that the markets liked more debt, the fed printing more money, and more credit. Apparently, that too, is reality.
I don't see what is partisan about cold, hard facts.
Of course that was simply one economist expressing an opinion. I think I'd like to hear/read more before defining what he said as cold, hard facts.
The deficit has been coming down recently, though there are certainly long-term concerns. Few want to see the debt continue to rise but the differences in how to reduce the debt are profound. One group absolutely rules out any increased taxes. And if the increasing debt is the problem most of us think it is, we should not be ruling out any and all tax increases for all times. A better approach might be a blend of reduced spending and increased revenues.
The market dropped when Cyrus threaten default.. factor that in your so called calculation.
The total US stocks amount to $60 trillion. If it dropped 10% that would be $6 trillion wiped off pension funds , 401k and private portfolios. Watch the majority of GOP congress persons to vote tonight to wipe $6 trillion off everyones books. they will lose thank God..
In a game of chicken on a highway, the decision-making comes down to the last half second, when miscalculation and adrenaline sometimes overwhelm rationality. George D has a rosier view than I have of the good sense and sound judgment of humans under stress. And the source of his confidence is that infallible indicator, the stock market. Well, okay then.
Without any default, these games are eroding our reputation as the rock-solid, responsible banker to the world, which itself is a hugely valuable asset. And we are rendering ridiculous the claim that our form of government should be a model for all.


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Maker Faire 2010 HHA
Mitch is setting up a huge Hardware Hacking Area (HHA) again this year at the 2010 Maker Faire! The Maker Faire is at the San Mateo County Fair Grounds, on Saturday May 22 and Sunday May 23.
Anyone and everyone can volunteer! No experience necessary!
We will be teaching zillions of people how to make cool things, and teaching everyone how to solder! We need lots of volunteers to help out. It's tons of fun, and for doing a 4-hour shift, you get in to the entire Maker Faire for free (all weekend)!
Here are the shifts available to help out at the huge Hardware Hacking Area for the Maker Faire.
Please edit this page to fill your name into a time slot that is not already taken. (All time slots are 4 hours.) After you fill in your name, please email me.
Volunteer Sign-up
After adding your name to your time slot, please email me (maltman23 AT hotmail DOT com) as soon as you can with the following information:
1) The name (first and last) you want to give to the Maker Faire people when you arrive for your free "credentials" (as they're calling the passes for volunteers). 2) The 4-hour shift you want.
If all time-slots are full, please email me.
Saturday, 22-May:
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|Matt Holland, Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson
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|Aaron Falk, KT Falk
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|12:30pm to 4:30pm
|Jason Snell
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|Michael Toren
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|España Sheriff
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|Crystal Allen
|4:30pm to 8:30pm
|Robert Stone
Sunday, 23-May:
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|9:30am to 1:30pm
|Jason Abele, Prakash Jalan
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|11:30am to 3:30pm
|Steve Camuti, your name here
|12:30pm to 4:30pm
|your name here
|1:30pm to 5:30pm
|Todd Anderson
HHA Volunteer Info
The Hardware Hacking Area is lots of fun! No soldering experience necessary. I'll show you everything you need to know.
We'll be teaching zillions of people to make cool things, and we'll be demonstrating Brain Machines to everyone (which attracts a huge, enthusiastic, curious crowd to the area!).
The Faire is open to the public between 10am and 8pm on Saturday, and between 10am and 6pm on Sunday. We'll be hopping the whole time, with 54 solder stations happening at once!
Getting to the Faire and the HHA
The San Francisco Maker Faire is in the San Mateo County Fair Grounds. Please consider getting to the Faire by means other than by car. Last year there was an all-day traffic jam (both Saturday and Sunda) on 101, which made it take hours (yes, plural) to get past the Faire exit. From the Caltrain Hilsdale Station it is only about a few hundred yards walk north to the San Mateo County Fair Grounds. Here is a map: Hilsdale Station
Once at the Fair Grounds, look for the registration tent. Give your name to the friendly person there, and say you're helping with Mitch's Hardware Hacking Area in the Maker Shed, and they will give you the credentials. Keep in mind that registration may take awhile if there is a line.
Please show up at the Hardware Hacking Area a few minutes before your shift starts.
The Hardware Hacking Area should be easy to find once you get into the building that is being called the Maker Shed, which is a very, very large building. The Hardware Hacking Area will be one large corner of it.
If you have any problems at all, or any questions, please give me a call on my cell phone: 415-377-5993
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Danny E. McCown, 58, of Lincoln, died April 16, 2013 in Lincoln. He was born on Nov. 30, 1954 in Nebraska City to Warren and Kathleen (Chappell) McCown.
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He was preceded in death by his parents.
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Ken and Phyllis Cole celebrate their 50th Wedding Anniversary a little early, with a family trip to Branson, Missouri in July. They all had a great time, which included attending The Prise is Right Show, Dolly Parton's Dixie Stampede and The Sons of the Pioneers show. Several in the group took helicopter rides, raced on the Go-carts, toured the Hollywood Wax Museum, played miniature golf, rode the Ducks, and of course, shopped.
The first evening together, following The Price is Right, the entire family celebrated their anniversary around the pool with cake, refreshments, cards and gifts.
Ken and Phyllis were married on Sunday, August 11, 1963 in the First Church of God, in Dodge City, Kansas and were able to attend church there last Sunday, August 11, 2013, exactly 50 years later.
Ken is a retired insurance agent and farmer, and Phyllis is a retired nurse. They have spent the last 46 years in Hodgeman County.
Ken and Phyllis were honored to be able to celebrate this special event with their children, Jeff and Michelle Cole, Mike and Stephanie Ochs, Mike Cole and friend George Llorenz.
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Anything more than 2.1 is really a waste, you know? How many ears can one person grow?
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This looks like a solid deal!
i have a hard time with this 300watt business.....i doubt its anything close to that for the price....lets bring back reality...RMS
No reviews anywhere and you'll just save $10 or so, it sounds a little sketchy.
They absolutely will put out 300 watts... when lightning strikes them!
Now Only $37.95 and not listed on VM website..
Now Only $37.95 and not listed on VM website..
I found them listed on the VM website.
no reviews for this specific product, and on Amazon other VMA speakers get mediocre reviews.
I have a tv with broken speakers that I can't afford to replace for another couple months. I've been looking for cheap speakers in the hopes of getting maybe not excellent sound, but just some sound out of the TV. These might be okay for that purpose at this price.
Was just looking at these on amazon. $25 isn't so much for even a mediocre pair of computer speakers
I would recommend the low end speakers from Logitech or Cyber Accoustic or Altec Lansing ones...at least you knowwww what youre getting....low budget speakers or better yet if money is an issue (ive done this( you will be amazed at what you will find at your local thrift stores
The price of these speakers is very reasonable (without having heard them) the problem is that by implying that they crank out 300 Watts , they are implying these speakers are a LOT more of a value than they are actually are.....In the olden days there was a a standard called RMS, for whatever reason it was abandonned and manufacturers have their own standards , thus OVERINFLATED specs of "power". to sell their product
In reality they are probably 5 to 20 Watts (total) of power. If they were really 300 watts , the cabinets would be made of Pecan or Oak etc .not press woord or plastic.
@starmanbackwards: oooh yeah, i realize that. and 300 watts would be more than I ever need. im no perfectionist, all I need is something other than my headset to play music. something, preferably, that gives me longer away range than my headset :)
It might be possible they consume 300 watts
This really seems to be not so good. Honestly I like the Price but I cant find a single place that backs this up to be good enough. If someone can prove it worth, I'm all for it.
I found a couple of reviews on the 5.1 500W for $90. Those reviews were surprisingly very positive.
@obamasucks: You have to use the code above to get the sale price.
These are compared to very good speakers that are similarly priced. I'm in for a set.
The site is a google trusted store with 1 5 star review on the speakers.
mine were over nighted, just got them. i'll let you guys know how they are.
I'll be interested to see how you like the speakers. I might have bought them but I had nothing to go on other than 2 reviews that I could find on the internet.


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On some of the Day[9] daily streams Shaun mentions a tool that allows him to open replays without the need to login (or maybe while the client is already open).
Right now if I click on a replay file while the game is not running I have to login. Otherwise, if the game is running already, nothing happens.
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On. Oct. 18, Bill Clinton made an appearance on behalf of Barack Obama at Indian Creek High School. It was reported that there were in attendance around 1,000 people. I was very disappointed in hearing that because of the destruction he inflicted on the U.S. steel industry. Because of him, we no longer have steel companies like LTV, Bethlehem and Wheeling-Pittsburgh, because of his inactions, bankruptcies, mergers and closings affected 70 mills. Clinton did to the steel industry what Obama is doing to coal.
There are approximately 204 electric coal-fired powered plants that are set to close due in large part to regulations issued by the Obama EPA (American Coalition for Clean Coal). Democratic candidates and their minions are not concerned about this and, as a matter of fact, state that Obama has helped increase coal in the U.S., yet none of them will site a place where this information can be found.
Another problem that is growing is Democratic candidates' association with unions and union leaderships. Leaders from SEIU, UAW and the AFL-CIO were present at the Democratic convention and stood in support of Obama. As union leaders, they know the financial and job-related problems that industry members are facing, yet they are still in bed with them. Like victims of abuse, they keep going back to their abuser. The president of the United Mineworkers, Cecil Roberts, has no problem supporting and doing speeches for Democratic candidates, but he tells the miners that he represents, in this election he has no opinion and has decided to sit this election out. By the way, did I mention that approximately 204 coal-fired plants are set to close?
The fact is that coal powered plants produce approximately 48 percent to 50 percent of our electricity. The Obama administration has been pushing for green energy. The green energy that is in use in the United States is about 1 percent solar (wiki.answer.com). For wind, that number is 1 percent (chacah.com). As consumers this is just unacceptable.
The owners (employers) of these coal mines are supplying livelihoods to thousands of families and affordable energy to consumers. If politicians were really interested in their constituents they would be standing with the owners, because the last time I looked you need an employer to be an employee. The politicians who are in support of employers are Republicans.
Did I mention that approximately 204 coal-fired plants are set to close?
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I want to know how to calculate how much muscle mass one has as opposed actually body fat.
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When we interview Get Fit Guy, Ben Greenfield for the blog, he mentioned a an ultrasound device which he describes more in his podcast (around the 45-minute mark) with the creator of the BodyMetrix.
Intelamterix makes a product called BodyMetrix that can accurately scan your body fat percentage and track your fat loss and muscle gain. The way the BodyMetrix works is by using ultrasound waves to penetrate the tissue and detect the reflections that occur at different tissues boundaries (such as between fat and bone and bone and muscle). Taking measurements at multiple points of the body can give you and accurate percentage of body fat.
Compared to other methods, the BodyMetrix:
The product's faq states:
There are two versions of the BodyMetrix, Personal and Pro. It is quite costly ($495 for the Personal version) and even more so for the Pro version ($1895).
The software itself tracks measurements and can generate reports. Screenshots of measurements and trend from the software (taken from IntelaMetrix's website):
Short answer is that you can't. You can calculate body fat%, unfortunately the amount of mass that is not fat is composed of things that do vary such as water weight, amount of undigested food, etc. Considering even the difficulty in just measuring body fat, you will do good just to keep track of that.
Assuming you keep your diet consistent, you can keep track of weekly changes in lean mass to get an idea of which way things are changing.
A less sophisticated way is to take flexible tape measurements of all your major muscles that you want to track. When things are growing in the right proportions, you are doing well. If not, you'll either need to change your training or your diet.
A low dollar scale on Amazon is the Omron HBF-306C.
I don't work for Amazon, so if you can find it somewhere else I will not be hurt. ;)
Body fat measurement scales work well enough for your purposes. I've used one for years.
However, I suggest you set yourself up a protocol so that you are consistently measuring. I do it every week, on a Tuesday to allow a day after my last long run on a Sunday. I do it in the morning, before breakfast but after I've used the toilet.
I write the results down in a little notebook and use it to tell me where I am in terms of muscle and fat.


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Compton Scattering essentially states that when a photon of a given wavelength hits an electron the energy level of the electron changes and the photon has its wavelength changed. This seems to be implying that it is the same photon that is reflected outwards. Do we know it is the same photon of a changed wavelength, or is it possible that the original photon merely pushed a 2nd photon out of the electron? (This would mean the original photon is not changing wavelength, that is meerly absorbed).
It is my understanding that we cannot tell which of the two scenarios takes place, moreover, it does not matter, as photons having the same characteristics (such as momentum, energy, and polarization) are indistinguishable.
It is conventional to describe the out-going photon as a "different" particle. Basically because photons have only one independent property: their wavenumber ($\vec{k}$) and that is how we label them. Further as they experience no time there is not opportunity for them to change it.
This is consistent with quantum field theory where a process like this will be written with a destruction operator on the in-coming wavenumber and a creation operator on the out-going wavenumber.
A more detailed explanation of the interaction with QED The photon is absorbed by the electron, the electron is excited, the electron decays, a new photon is emitted. There is some finite, non-zero time between the absorption and emission of the photons. The process is illustrated in the following Feynman diagram from here:


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A friend of mine is worried that changing the font of the
<h1> tag will cause Google to penalize it (or not assign as much weight to it). He described a situation where small
<h1> text could be used to fake the important keywords on a page. I assured him that this was silly, but he insists on hard reference. Could anyone link me to something written by Google?
A friend of mine is worried that changing the font of the
Of course a header in another font face or size has no less weight. What your friend was describing is that Google will sort out headings, which try to get a better rank for keywords, that are not actually visible to the user.
That means, Google will penalize pages that try to show different content to search engines as to the user. A font size of 1px is only one possibility, you could as well use a black font on a black background. If your page changes the font, but remains visible to the user, that should be no problem.
I missed the point of providing a link to a Google article, so the article Hidden text and links of the Google Webmasters page should be helpful I think.
@Glycan - You're not going to find something from Google that says: "changed fonts for
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text: Franz Erhard Walther was born in 1939 in Fulda, Germany. In 1957, he enrolled in the Werkkunstschule Offenbach, where he first exhibited his work. In 1959 he transferred to the Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Frankfurt am Main (Städelschule), studying there until his expulsion in 1961. From 1962 to 1964, Walther attended the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he became acquainted with Joseph Beuys and befriended fellow students Gerhard Richter, Imi Knoebel, and Blinky Palermo. Walther remained in Düsseldorf until 1967, when he moved to New York, residing there until 1973. Since then, Walther has exhibited extensively worldwide. He demonstrated 1. Werksatz in a four-month presentation at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1969 and 1970, and his work was included in the landmark 1969 exhibition "When Attitudes Become Form" at Kunsthalle Bern. He participated in Documentas 5 (1972), 6 (1977), 7 (1982), and 8 (1987), and has had solo shows at Secession, Vienna (1989); Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (1993); and FRAC Bretagne, Rennes, France (1999). Walther's work is on permanent view at the Hamburger Kunsthalle; Kunstmuseum Bonn; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart; and Mamco, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, where a major retrospective of his work was mounted in 2010. He was a full professor at the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg from 1971 until 2009, where he taught Martin Kippenberger, John Bock, Jonathan Meese, among others. Dia's exhibition marks Walther's first solo museum show in the United States since 1990.


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I am totally new in linux/ubuntu I am trying to setup lamp on my OS, however I've installed apache , php , mysql by following commands:
sudo apt-get install apache2
sudo apt-get install php5
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5
sudo apt-get install mysql-server libapache2-mod-auth-mysql php5-mysql
sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin
everything works fine except that i totally cannot log into MySQL(which leads to phpmyadmin failure login) getting the errors :
#1045 Cannot log in to the MySQL server
Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)
I googled the problem and also I have tried to reinstall all installed components, but the same result came up!
in windows i usually modified the content of mysql configure file but in ubuntu nothing is as same as windows!:)
can anybody help me on this, really need to setup lampp :-S
thanks in advanced


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Orange Marmalade Muffins
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Type: Desserts and Baked Goods
Type: Desserts and Baked Goods
Pecans and orange marmalade are a taste delight in these hearty muffins.
Serves: 12 muffins
- 1 1/4 cups whole wheat pastry flour or unbleached flour
- 1 cup oat bran or wheat bran
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 3/4 cup skim or low-fat milk
- 1/2 cup orange marmalade
- 1/4 cup reduced-fat margarine or light butter, melted
- 2 egg whites, lightly beaten
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup chopped toasted pecans or 3/4 cup fresh or frozen (unthawed) blueberries (optional)
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- Place the flour, bran, sugar, and baking powder in a large bowl, and stir to mix well. Set aside.
- Place the milk, marmalade, margarine or butter, egg whites, and vanilla extract in a small bowl, and stir to mix well. Add the milk mixture to the flour mixture, and stir just until the dry ingredients are moistened. Fold in the pecans or blueberries, if desired.
- Coat the bottoms only of muffin cups with nonstick cooking spray, and fill three-fourths full with the batter. Bake at 350°F for about 15 minutes, or just until a wooden toothpick inserted in the center of a muffin comes out clean. Be careful not to overbake.
- Remove the muffin tins from the oven, and allow to sit for 5 minutes before removing the muffins. Serve warm or at room temperature, refrigerating any leftovers not eaten within 24 hours.
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According to multiple online dictionaries, bejesus is a quite common mild expletive used to express surprise and/or dismay and is derived from by Jesus. But what does it mean? The phrase "you scared the by Jesus out of me" doesn't seem to make much more sense than the derivative expression.
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It simply means the thing was scary enough to cause you to speak that oath.
Compare "scare the crap out of", which means the thing was scary enough to cause you to defecate.
The oath by Jesus itself is already in print by 1863:
But using be for by in dialect speech is earlier (1848):
The single word bejasus appears in 1882:
The earliest example of "bejesus out of" I could find is from 1932:
Note the variant spelling in the quotation above. The spellings bejesus and bejeezus both first show up in 1932; bejaysus late in the same decade. The slightly more euphemistic "bejeebers out of" is much more recent; it first shows up in a letter to Time Magazine in 1973.
The etymology of the word reads:
As the OP has noted, the word appears to be an ameliorated version of the exclamation, "By Jesus!", and appears to have been a preferred expletive of the Irish.
Here's an excerpt from Gas House McGinty, a novel by James Thomas Farrell (1933):
One can extrapolate that the word, through extensive use, took on a life of its own as an oath, shedding its "By Jesus" roots. This eventually led to its current use as seen in this 1937 excerpt from To Quito and Back by Ben Hecht:
Wiktionary's definition of bejesus states:
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Is Woot doing something for black Friday?
What will Woot do differently if anything for Black Friday?
woot off?
Any ideas?
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Hope so! Anything to help spend my money!
I don't think they work on Fridays. Something to do with their workers collective bargaining agreement.
Based on some of the past few write-ups, it doesn't appear they work any of the other days of the week.
@coreyking: I wish someone had told me I don't work Fridays. Here I've been doing it all along...
@inkycatz: Guess you better read the fine print or start hanging out with the cool people to know...or attend more staff meetings.
@mtm2: They told me the meetings were on Fridays :(
@curtisuxor: I wonder what http://www.woot.com/blog/tagged/office-manager Katherine Tull-Potts, BA has to say about the collective bargaining agreement.
@inkycatz: just don't go to the xmas party on the 9th green at nine...
@slacker44: Lol @ my html fail!
@slacker44: your speaking woot forums [url]...[/url]
We speak deals [deals] (url) - no space
@eviloverlord333: Oops! Better send me back down to a white triangle!
I would expect the usual from them, which lately seems to have become nothing special. :(
We've never done much for Black Friday. We're more of a Cyber Monday kinda joint.
On Cyber Monday everyone will receive a free Bird Or Cranberry with every $500 spent on any woot site. Or maybe not! It's always a surprise with the woot crew!
@llandar: Is that a hint? Will there be monkeys?
More importantly, what happened to Brown Tuesday?
@inkycatz: Stop listening to "them"...they will always lead you astray.
Woot will offer deals, just like every other Friday.
I'm standing outside the woot door ready to be first in line next friday.
The staff has been giving me strange looks as they arrive for work. Like they've never seen a black friday line or something.


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To the editor:
The Hancock County smoking ban issue is being talked about throughout and it's worth repeating time and again that smoke kills - it does. Like a rose is a rose, a fact is a fact, and it's a proven fact that smoking and secondhand smoke causes deadly cancer.
I don't know why the leaders of some of our veteran clubs and the Mountaineer Casino, Racetrack and Resort are threatening the people of Hancock County that a smoking ban would cause a great economic disaster and the very first thing they would do is to discontinue their charity toward the needy and school kids, no less.
That's really a shameful signal to give our younger generation that we need to kill ourselves with smoke to survive economically. Remember, 24 counties in West Virginia and all of Ohio are doing very well without, here's smoke in your face -why can't we?
Smoking ban or not, gamblers will gamble, drinkers will drink and, sadly, smokers will continue to smoke, so those particular businesses will continue to sell - the sky is not falling.
I'd really like to see this issue go to a vote and give all the citizens a voice on cleaning up our county or not.
Until a smoker quits that filthy habit he or she doesn't know how badly the stink is - I found out after I quit.
Just think about it - what's more important, health or wealth.
How can we tell our children that smoking's a no-no and advertise throughout the county that the no2ban.com is a must.
Come on, smokers, drinkers, gamblers - if you must, go ahead, do your thing, but, don't kill the rest of us while you're doing it.
Let's clean up our county and enjoy a smokeless meal, cool beer or cheering that favorite nag at the track.
Love thy neighbor, will you?
John Flara
New Cumberland


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I'm not very familiar with this whole Getting Things Done thing, but I believe this is where context and lists are very important. I was wondering what the difference between the two were. It seems to me they're exactly the same. I could say, make a list for "Work," or make a context for "@Work", but the substance of the two would be identical. The only difference would be an "@" sign.
Could someone clarify this for me? Otherwise, it just seems like a lot of bologna to me.


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Denison's purpose is to inspire and educate its students to become autonomous thinkers, discerning moral agents and active citizens of a democratic society.Curriculum | Courses | Academic Calendar
Denison sees art as a bridge to all other areas of study and research. Our art program emphasizes art-making as a means to think about not only oneself, but one's relationship to the world of ideas from multiple perspectives.
With a digital library of more than 20,000 visual resources, the Art History Department has organized access to art across centuries and civilizations around the globe.
The Cinema House has faculty and staff offices, a student lounge, screening room, production equipment, a Steenbeck flatbed editing room and MacPro media stations.
The Dance Department facilities are located in the Doane Dance Building, the Mulberry House MIX Lab and the new Knapp Performance Lab. They are designed to encourage collaboration and interdisciplinarity.
Denison has a truly impressive list of musical ensembles—Brass, Wind, Chamber, Bluegrass, Jazz, Orchestra, Concert Choir, Singer's Theater, Latin, String, Trumpet, Flute, Guitar—the list goes on!
Renovated in 2009, the highly functional and inspiring Bryan Arts Center is the size of some small art schools and offers personal studio space for every studio art major in their senior year.
The department has a fully equipped scene shop adjacent to the stage; a second shop used for welding and additional construction; and a separate electrics shop that houses an inventory of more than 175 lighting instruments.


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Paying more at the pump isn't just taking a toll on Cindy Lawrence's wallet; it's coming out of her register as well.
Lawrence, "It's definitely an expense, and added expense it's something that we don't pass on to our customers. It comes out of our profit."
Some weeks aren't as bad as others. Lawrence says, "It varies from day to day. Sometimes we may fill up at the gas pump twice a week. And sometimes especially during the holidays, it's a lot more than that. And it gets expensive. I mean if someone calls and there's a delivery to make, we're gonna make the delivery.
She says that filling up the tank on her delivery truck costs close to $40.
Lawrence says, "I don't really know if there's anything anyone can do. I mean you have to go to the gas pump, and you have to pay that price no matter what. You have not control over that."
And they want to keep the cost to their customers as low as they can.
Lawrence says, "The majority of our business is phone calls. So they can call us; they're not out any gas to come here."
But with a business that relies on delivering, she says there's not much she can do.


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I leave in just 10 days to go to Afghanistan with CURE International. Today is the last day to send your knitted hats, visit here to find out more.
Send your knitted items to this address:
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PO Box 199
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I will be taking these knitted caps with me....
Thanks to these lovely ladies and you for taking the time to knit for these children in need.
A new study says that Westerners may soon have to become accustomed to eating different foods. One suggestion is Pan fried Crickets! Got me to wondering... What's the most unusual thing that you have ever eaten??? Share with me here, Facebook or Twitter. Pan-fried crickets: The food of the future? TODAY
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Against Medical Advice: A True Story
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- Brief Synopsis:
- One morning when he was almost five years old, Cory Friedman woke up with the uncontrollable urge to shake his head. From that day forward his life became an agony of irrepressible tics and involuntary utterances.
- Long Synopsis:
- One morning when he was almost five years old, Cory Friedman woke up with the uncontrollable urge to shake his head. From that day forward his life became an agony of irrepressible tics and involuntary utterances. Cory embarked on a thirteen-year odyssey of medication upon medication, treatment upon treatment - a constantly changing regimen that left him and his family feeling like guinea pigs in an out-of-control experiment. It soon became unclear which tics were symptoms of his condition and which were side effects of the countless combinations of drugs. The only certainty was that it kept getting worse. Simply put: Cory Friedman's life was a living hell. Subjected to debilitating treatments and continuous ridicule, Cory became devastatingly aware of how he appeared to others. With the love of his family and the support of a few steadfast teachers and medical professionals, he fought for his very life, and you will cheer his amazing successes. Against Medical Advice is the true story of Cory's battle for survival in the face of extraordinary difficulties and a sometimes maddening medical establishment. Written by James Patterson and Cory's father, Hal, with the relentless pace of a Patterson thriller, this is a heartrending story of one family's courage, determination, and ultimate triumph.
- Book Quality:
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- 297 Pages
- 9780316024754
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- 12/11/08
- Copyright Date:
- 2008
- Copyrighted By:
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- Medicine, Psychology, Biographies and Memoirs, Disability-Related, Health, Mind and Body, Nonfiction
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Reviews of Against Medical Advice: A True Story (2 reviews)
Reviewer: Nathalie Brossard
Against Medical Advice is a term used in a situation where a patient checks himself out of a hospital in non-conformance to the advice of his doctor. The patient usually needs to sign a form that limits the liability of the hospital in question. The book begins with the protagonist, Cory Friedman taking the step of being discharged from a psychiatric facility against the advice of his doctor. The atmosphere of the institution and the feelings of Cory and his parents are captured vividly. The book then goes into flashback and we learn of Corry's struggle with Tourette's syndrome. The timing is handled well and we move into the present without any abrupt changes. Cory's symptoms started appearing when he was 5. For the next 13 years, he battled Tourette's syndrome. He never really gave up despite of almost setting his house on fire, enduring taunting at school etc., and the family stuck together until he finally conquered it. The book is disturbing especially as it outlines how little doctors know about how to treat such conditions. There were times when Cory felt that he was a labret. I shared those feelings with him as I read his account. The truly interesting bit is that Cory's cure does not come with any fancy medicine but with a determination to do better and pull himself out of the rut that the cocktail of medicines he was taking had gotten him into. Written by Pranav Lal.
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This is a really good book. I would reccomend this book to anybody who likes James Patterson.


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Is it possible to disable Gmail's default behaviour of hiding what it thinks is quoted text and always have the whole body of every message visible?
As far as I can tell, this feature is not available.
Proving the absence of something can be a challenge, but in this case I'm relying on a sampling of discussions of this subject in the Gmail Product Forums where no solution is proposed, and Google Support is totally quiet. Not posting all links here, but some include:


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I would like to create pixel art graphics for an iPhone game on my mac, and I'm wondering what are some good programs I should look into.
I think the main features you're after are:
Based on that criteria, there's a few tools that can do it. Pixen is awesome, and worth investigating:
I'd also highly recommend Photoshop, predominately using the Pencil Tool — it does exactly what you're after, letting you paint non-antialiased pixels easily. It also has some other tools that might be handy, like posterisation.
Acorn would be my second option on the Mac. It has a pencil tool that's similar to Photoshop, as well as nearest neighbour scaling (if you need it). It's also far cheaper and available on the Mac App Store, if that's a concern.
Both Photoshop and Acorn have the full list of features above.
When evaluating graphics software for pixel art this is the kind of tools I'm looking for:
The most well known software that is also great for pixel art is Photoshop.
If you don't have access to it and are looking for the next best alternative, look at GIMP. I've been happily using it on Macs since around 2010 and it has everything you need for pixel art. Best of all, it's free and open source!
Here's a tutorial I made about setting up GIMP for pixel art that should come useful:
When comparing Photoshop vs Gimp on pixel art grounds the capabilities are 99% leveled out. You really need to go into details to find some differences:
But these are really minor points that don't matter that much. You'll be able to create any pixel art you desire in both.
PikoPixel is a free pixel-art editor.
Take a look at Sketch. It has made big strides toward being your next favorite UI tool.
It's vector based but supports raster export. It supports a pixel preview mode similar to Illustrator but I think it does a better job with the vector to pixel output conversion overall.
There are so many good software to work around.
If you can afford adobe you should go for Photoshop and fireworks they both works awesome for pixels.
You can check these links also they are dedicated to complete game pixel work...
There is always a free alternative Paint.NET. It is essentially MSPaint but with great many tools borrowed from PS and other image editing applications.
It has an option to use Anti-Aliased or Pixeled edges.
I always have it since it's light weight and has some good options, that other programs either don't have and/or are difficult to execute.
ASESPRITE is good, in my opinion. The free version is quite capable, and it has a pixel-arty feel, but if you can spare $10, the full version is very good
I love using PyxelEdit, it gives me everything I need without the size and weight of PhotoShop. Among the great features are: animation, spritesheet export, tileset importing, layers... check it out here.
The Price is small and it runs on any system that supports Adobe Air. There is an older (free) version for testing.
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This year marks the 5th Anniversary of the Historic Triangle Conference on Crimes Against Women. As in the past, this training on August 22-23 focuses on the multi-disciplinary approach to crimes against women, so there will be sessions on sexual assault, domestic violence, and stalking designed for law enforcement, advocates, attorneys, probation and parole, nurses/medical personnel, counselors/mental health professionals, military advocates and staff, as well as other allied professionals from a number of other related fields. There will be two major tracks this year - 1) issues affecting military families and military victims and 2) issues facing women ages 18-25. There will be "mini-tracks" on sexual assault, investigating/prosecuting crimes against women, understanding lethality in domestic violence, working with offenders, and assisting immigrant victims. Law enforcement in-service credits and attorney MCLEs are in process. Registration information is $100 for the 2-day training and is available online [1]. Conference brochure, including session information, is available online.
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Leadership North County
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- It's where you will connect with the exceptional minds and talents of other leaders
- It's where you will experience new perspectives and contemplate future possibilities
- It's where you and your colleagues will create innovative ideas to benefit the entire region


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I am a PhD student, and I have found that writing down my ideas and thoughts helps me discover new ideas which fascinate me. Such ideas would be difficult to generate just by thinking. Unfortunately, many times I feel lazy to jot down my ideas. The reason for this might me that I don't have any systematic workflow to record my ideas. So how should I maintain, record and manage my ideas without feeling it to be an overhead?
I found mind maps effective to record categorical ideas, but it won't help me much in the idea generation process unlike actual writing down in full sentences. Recently, I found Writemonkey software which allowed me to record my ideas in a distraction-free environment, so how can I make sure that I actually use it in the first place?
To summarize, my main question would be:
How can I ensure that I write as much as possible and incorporate daily writing in my routine considering the fact I cringe writing on paper and prefer my laptop only?


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The question on everyone's mind in relation to the Warren County Academic and Aquatics Center is ... will it stay open?
"We have not, not found it. But then again, we haven't sealed a deal. We're working very, very hard to make something happen within the final hours." said Executive Director of Warren County Parks, Chris Kummer.
Like other agencies in Warren County, budget cuts are causing tough decisions to be made at the parks department. Ones that could end people's jobs.
"The part time staff of the guards, they will be let go. Hopefully they'll be able to draw unemployment or find jobs rather quickly." stated David Jones, who is the Pool Manager at the aquatic center.
With trim operations at the parks department, there isn't a lot of room to cut fat.
"You pay $.04 a day from a parks and recreation standpoint. It equates out to $15.40 a year." added Kummer.
Jones loves working at the pool and would be more than sad to have to change jobs.
"Here I get to watch people enjoy themselves and watch them heal. I get to build relationships with kids that are two, three, and four years old, all the way up to senior citizens. It's been a truly rewarding experience. It's one of the few jobs I've had where I like getting up and coming to work everyday." said Jones.
Though a deal hasn't been secured, the fight is certainly not over.
"We're going to work right up to 8:59 tomorrow morning and we're going to try and have some kind of deal brokered. We will all know that if it doesn't happen, we have put every piece of effort that our department has, that the individuals working for me have to make it happen." said Kummer.
If a deal is made in less than 24 hours, it would be nothing short of a miracle. The fate of the pool will be decided tomorrow morning in Warren County Fiscal Court at 9 A.M., where many supporters of the facility are expected to be in attendance.


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A former U.S. Postal Service contract route driver has been sentenced to 33 months in federal prison and three years of supervised release for mail theft and drug charges.
U.S. District Judge Joseph H. McKinley Jr., handed down the sentence for 32-year-old Joshua Wayne Salsman of Hardin County. Salsman pleaded guilty to six charges on Oct. 25. Salsman admitted to stealing greeting cards from the mail and stole prescription drugs from a mail route originating at the Louisville Veterans Administration Hospital from January through April 2012.
He was arrested July 5 after an investigation into multiple mailed letters containing gift cards and prescription drugs that had gone missing.


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I have a project which is hosted on Google Code. How can I find out how many people and who checked out my project?
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As ssokolow mentions, Google doesn't currently provide any direct stats for SVN: http://code.google.com/p/support/issues/detail?id=231.
However, comments for Google pages do suggest that you can use Google Analytics within projects to track views and downloads:
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If you mean "checked out" in the CVS/Subversion/Mercurial/Git/etc. sense, then you can't.
For the "who", checkouts are, by nature, anonymous unless the user explicitly chooses to request more privileges.
As for the "how many", I'm not 100% certain on this, but if Google doesn't provide a clearly-obvious way to check how many checkout/clone/whatever requests were made to the repository, you probably can't. It's the kind of UI they'd have to custom build, so I think they'd want to show it off.
(It also wouldn't be reliable, because the only piece of information they'd have is the requesting party's IP address, and ISPs tend assign dynamic IP addresses... which means Google wouldn't be sure whether two different IPs from the same provider are the same person or different people)
If you mean "checked out" as in "Browsed around the project's website to take a look", I remember hearing that you can tie your Google Code projects into your Google Analytics account. (However, I prefer GitHub, so I don't have direct experience with it)
It is not the primary goal of open source code hosting to track who or how many have checked out your code. You can offer your support and they will ask you. You can open an irc room e.g. on freenode and idle there and spread the word and they will come to talk with you. You will hear from the people who fork and improve your code.
If you fel the need to "control" in some way what happens to your code, maybe you don't want to open source it?
Another way would be to use github to host your code, so you can see who forks your code there. Github uses git, not SVN. It is still possible to keep the project page on google code but link to the github page for code hosting, many projects do that.
There's a "Star" feature. It says people have starred it, but doesn't give any insight into who those people are.
For a Google code project, this can be very useful. For example, if j...@ibm.com starred it, then it would shed some light on the audience, which is hardly an invasion of privacy, since they clicked the "Like" button.
Google Analytics are great BTW. Top notch! Although that's much bigger picture than simply knowing individually who +1'd or Starred it.


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WACO (December 18, 2012)—Retired Department of Public Safety Sgt. W.H. "Pete" Peterson was sworn in Tuesday in Waco as a new McLennan County justice of the peace.
McLennan County Commissioners voted unanimously on Dec. 11 to name Peterson to succeed retiring Pct. 1 Pl. 2 Justice of the Peace Billy Martin.
Peterson unsuccessfully challenged Pct. 1 Pl. 1 Justice of the Peace Kristi DeCluitt in the Republican primary earlier this year.
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I am by no means an expert, but here is what I do.I'm sure I could use some pointers as far as settings in Pano2VR go. Primarily, what "numbers" do you use to make a nice, crisp, full-screen interactive pano? How big is your equirectangular image prior to conversion? Any suggested settings for Pano2VR?
I keep the panorama at full resolution and 100% detail all the way through the process until the very end. You need to sharpen the image in Photoshop as part of your workflow. Using my Nikon D300, my Sigma 8mm lens gives me a 8000x4000 image (40 megs). My Nikon 10.5 yields an image 11000x5500(70 megs).
In Pano2VR I use a cube face of 2000 and an image quality of 80. The final .swf file size is usually under 5 megs. I leave all the other settings alone. I also disable all zooming 99% of the time. Zooming in only gets you a pixelated image and USUALLY does not add anything to the panorama.
The lower the image quality setting, the smaller the final file size and the quicker it will load. Play with it until you get a setting you are comfortable with. With internet speeds increasing all the time, there will be a day (soon, I hope) that we can post our panoramas at 100% quality.
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Hi, I am looking for examples of non-discrete valuation rings. Could you help me? Thanks
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I suggest having a look to Bosch, Güntze and Remmert's "Non-archimedean analysis: a systematic approach to rigid analytic geometry" (1984)
They cover quite a lot of things about valuations and norms.
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Outcome of Fiscal Year 1430/1431 (2009)
The Ministry of Finance projects actual revenue to be SR 505 ($134.67) billion in 2009 and actual expenditure to be SR 550 ($146.67) billion, resulting in an actual deficit of SR 45 ($12) billion. Increases in actual over budgeted expenditures in 2009 reflect increases in expenditures on projects in the Two Holy Mosques and other Mashair, food and welfare subsidies, transfer of temporary to permanent employment, and increases in student enrollments in universities as well as scholarships abroad program.
Public debt is estimated to decline from SR 237.0 ($63.2) billion at the end of 2008 to SR 225 billion ($60 billion) at the end of 2009, although as a percentage of GDP, it will increase from 13.3 percent at the end of 2008 to 16 percent at the end of 2009 because of the decline in nominal GDP in 2009. The public debt is totally domestic.
The National Budget for 1431/1432 (2010)
The 2010 national budget will continue to focus on enhancing economic development and improving investment environment that supports strong and balanced economic growth. This year's budget includes SR 260 billion ($69.33 billion) for investment projects, a 16 percent increase over 2009 budget, an increase of about 16 percent over the last year's budget, which was the largest historically, and about three times the level in 2005, the first year in the current 8th Development Plan. The budget gives high emphasis to projects that ensure sustainable and balanced development as well as job creation. Specifically, the focus continues to be on education, health, social and security services, municipal services, water and sewage services, and roads and highways. Moreover, the budget attaches a particular importance to projects related to research and development (R&D) as well as science and technology projects and the e-government.
The main highlights of the 2010 budget are:
1. Total revenues for fiscal year 2010 are projected at SR 470 billion ($125.3 billion).
2. Government expenditures for fiscal year 2010 are budgeted at SR 540 billion ($144 billion).
3. Fiscal deficit for 2010 is projected at SR 70 billion ($18.7 billion).
Appropriations for the main development and public service sectors for 1431/1432 (2010) are as follows:
1. Education and Training:
a. Total expenditure amounts to SR 137.6 billion ($36.7 billion), representing more than 25 percent of FY 2010 appropriations and an increase of 13 percent over FY 2009 appropriation.
b. Continued implementation of King Abdullah Initiative for Education Development amounting to SR 9.0 billion ($2.4 billion) through the Education Development Holding Company owned by the Public Investment Fund (PIF)
New projects include 1200 new schools (in addition to 3112 schools currently under construction and more than 770 schools completed in FY 2009) and rehabilitation of 2000 existing school buildings.
For higher education, the new budget includes appropriations for the construction of four new campuses for the newly established universities. Furthermore, scholarship abroad program will continue next year, with focus on technical trainers.
2. Health and Social Affairs:
a. Total expenditure amounts to SR 61.2 billion ($16.3 billion), an increase of 17 percent over FY 2009 appropriation.
b. Projects include new primary care centers throughout the Kingdom, 92 new hospitals with a capacity of 17,150 beds.
c. For social services, the new budget includes appropriation to build sport clubs, social centers, social welfare and labor offices. In addition, it includes further support for poverty reduction programs.
3. Municipality Services:
a. Total expenditure amounts to SR 21.7 billion ($5.8 billion), an increase of 15 percent over FY 2009 appropriation.
b. New projects include inter-city roads, intersections and bridges, and road lights. It also includes sanitary and other environment-related projects.
4. Transportation and Telecommunication:
a. Total expenditure amounts to SR 23.9 billion ($6.4 billion), an increase of 24 percent over FY 2009 appropriation.
b. New projects include roads totaling 6,400 kilometers (km) to be added to 35,000 km of roads currently under construction, ports, airports, railroads development, and new postal services.
5. Water, Agriculture, and Infrastructure Sector:
a. Total expenditure amounts to SR 46.0 billion ($12.3 billion), an increase of 30 percent over FY 2009 appropriation.
b. Appropriations for new projects include enhancing water sources, dams and wells, as well as improving water and sewage networks. There are also allocations for new water desalination plants and upgrading existing ones. Moreover, these appropriations include new projects will be undertaken in the two industrial cities of Jubail and Yanbu to attract domestic and foreign investments.
6. Specialized Credit Development Institutions and Government Financing Programs:
Specialized government development funds and banks will continue to provide loans to the industrial and agriculture sectors, which should help in creating jobs and enhancing growth prospects.
It is projected that SR 48.3 billion ($12.9 billion) will be disbursed by Government Specialized Credit Institutions (Real Estate Development Fund, Saudi Industrial Development Fund, Saudi Credit and Saving Bank, Agriculture Development Fund, Public Investment Fund, and Government Lending Program) in 2010. The total value of loans provided by these institutions since their inceptions amounts to more than SR 388.4 billion ($103.6 billion).
Economic Developments in 2009
1 - Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
According to the Central Department of Statistics and information, GDP is estimated in 2009 to be SR 1,384.4 billion ($369.2 billion) in current prices, reflecting a contraction of about 22.0 percent compared to 2008. Non-oil GDP is estimated to grow by 5.5 percent. This growth is mainly attributed to the government stimulus program. Private sector is estimated to grow by 2.85 percent in current prices in 2009.
In real terms, overall GDP is estimated to grow by 0.15 percent. However, non-oil GDP is estimated to grow by 3.0 percent, with government sector growing by 4.00 percent and private sector by 2.54 percent in 2009. All components of the GDP recorded positive growth in 2009, except the oil sector. In particular, the industrial sector is estimated to grow by 2.20 percent; construction sector by 3.90 percent; electricity, gas, and water sector by 3.35 percent; transport and communication sector by 6.00 percent; wholesale, retail, restaurants, and hotels by 2.00 percent; and finance, insurance and real estate by 1.80 in constant prices. In addition, private sector contribution to GDP is projected to be 47.80 percent in constant prices.
2 - General Price Level
Inflation, as measured by the cost of living index, is estimated at 4.40 percent in 2009, while the non-oil GDP deflator showed an increase of 2.40 percent.
3 - Foreign Trade and Balance of Payment
The Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA) estimates the total value of exports of goods and services at SR 691.6 billion ($184.4 billion) in 2009, representing a contraction of about 41.0 percent compared to 2008. Non-oil exports of goods are estimated at SR 101.8 billion ($27.1 billion), reflecting a decline of 16.4 percent and representing 15.0 percent of total goods exported.
Total imports of goods are estimated at SR 301.3 billion ($80.4 billion) in 2009, representing a decline of 21.0 percent compared to 2008.
According to SAMA preliminary data, trade balance is estimated to record a surplus of SR 390.3 billion ($104.1 billion) in 2009, a decline of 50.9 percent compared to last year, as a result of the decline in oil price and quantity as well as non oil exports.
Current account is estimated to record a surplus amounting to SR 76.7 ($20.5) billion in 2009 compared to SR 496.2 billion ($132.3 billion) in 2008, a decline of 84.5 percent.
4 - Money and Banking
The broad money supply during the first ten months of FY 2009 grew by 8.0 percent. Bank deposits recorded a growth rate of 8.2 percent during the first ten months of 2009 and total banks claims on public and private sectors declined by 5.7 percent. Banks' capital and reserves increased by 24.1 percent reaching SR 163.6 billion ($43.63 billion).
5 - Capital Market
The Capital Market Authority (CMA) continued its efforts to develop the bonds market and improve the transparency, fairness, and investors' protection.
On deepening the financial market and providing more investment opportunities, the CMA has approved 10 IPOs totaling about SR 26.6 billion ($7.1 billion) It has licensed 24 mutual funds and 14 new brokerage and portfolio management firms, increasing the number of licensed firms to 124.
6 - Other Developments
a. The 2009 Article IV Consultation of the IMF with Saudi Arabia concluded that the prospect of Saudi Arabia's economy is positive and the performance of non-oil sector will remain strong.
b. Standard and Poor's (S&P) Ratings maintained Saudi Arabia sovereign rating at (AA-).
c. The IFC 2010 Report on Ease of Doing Business ranked Saudi Arabia at 13 among 183 countries, up from rank 15 in 2009 Report.
d. New fiscal, institutional, and structural reforms have been introduced in 2009. These included restructuring of Agriculture Development Fund, the creation of the National Committee for Clean energy Development, National Plan for Nuclear and Radiation Emergency, Tax Incentives for Investment in Some Geographical Areas, By-Laws for non-profit Technical and Vocational Training, and rules for dealing with national employees in sectors slated for privatization, among others.


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I just realized I forgot to toot my own horn and celebrate the 2nd anniversary of the Vegan Dad blog on September 8. Go back and look at my first month of posting. Yikes.
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Happy 2nd Anniversary
Posted by Vegan Dad at 10:21 PM
18 comments:
- Oraphan said...
Happy 2nd Anniversary, Vegan Dad! You have such an amazing blog which is full of inspiration, great pics and recipes! I LOVE your blog:)
- October 10, 2009 at 11:27 PM
- Vegetation said...
Happy Blogaversary!!!
- October 11, 2009 at 1:28 AM
- Stacy said...
Wow, congrats. How have you managed to fit so much awesomeness into just two years?
I've been using this blog as a source of inspiration for just about a year now. Can't wait to see what you'll bring in the next year.
- October 11, 2009 at 1:54 AM
- VeganLisa said...
Congratulations on two fantastic years of sharing amazing recipes and promoting compassionate choices. Happy Thanksgiving!
- October 11, 2009 at 6:48 AM
- Sarah said...
Happy Anniversary!
- October 11, 2009 at 7:01 AM
- Lindsay said...
Congrats! I'm celebrating my 1st year next month, and I have learned so much from your blog!! Keep inspiring! :)
- October 11, 2009 at 8:53 AM
- annaballew said...
VeganDad - Happy Blogiversary!!! I've been reading for a while now and we love your recipes. Thanks!
- October 11, 2009 at 10:02 AM
- tofuparty said...
Happy 2nd anniversary!
- October 11, 2009 at 11:03 AM
- Carla said...
congrats! I really love your blog! xo
- October 11, 2009 at 6:30 PM
- Niki said...
Congrats Vegan Dad! Yours was one of the first vegan blogs I got into - easy and delicious recipes and great pics. I love your little stories to relate it to your family also.
And only last night I made your Mac N Cheese again - oh how I love it.
- October 11, 2009 at 6:47 PM
- DJ said...
Happy Anniversary! Is it only two years? seems like you've always been here sharing your awesome,family-friendly recipes with us!
- October 11, 2009 at 6:50 PM
- Mrs Shew said...
Congratulations! I've just recently found your blog but visit daily now to get inspirations.
- October 11, 2009 at 9:04 PM
- Karen said...
Congrats! Now I must know,What did you cook for Thanksgiving?
- October 12, 2009 at 3:11 PM
- Angie Eats Peace said...
Happy anniversary! I definitely appreciate your blog.
- October 12, 2009 at 8:41 PM
- Rhea Parsons Riker said...
Congratulations on the success of your blog, your book and most importantly, the example you set for your children. You are very inspiring!! Wishing you many, many more years of success!!
- October 14, 2009 at 1:52 PM
- Neta said...
Congratulations! Your blog is great, I love it.
- October 16, 2009 at 3:37 AM
- Dorian Gray said...
Happy Blog Birthday from Germany!
You rock!
- October 18, 2009 at 2:03 PM
- The Woman said...
Happy blogoversary! You're awesome!
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In a time of deadly crisis, Linden alone has the power to save her people.
The faeries of the Oak are in danger of extinction, and their only hope for survival rests in fifteen-year-old Linden. Armed with the last of her people's magic, she travels bravely into the modern human world. Along the way she makes a reluctant ally—a human boy named Timothy.
Soon Linden and Timothy discover a danger much worse than the Oakenfolk's loss of magic: a potent evil that threatens to enslave faeries and humans alike. In a fevered, desperate chase across the country, Tim and Linden must risk their lives to seek an ancient power before it's too late to save everyone they love.
R. J. Anderson has artfully crafted a world of stunning magic, thrilling adventure, and delicate beauty, where the key to the future is in an unexpected, forbidden friendship.
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R. J. Anderson was born in Uganda, raised in Ontario, schooled in New Jersey, and has spent much of her life dreaming of other worlds entirely. At the age of twelve she borrowed her parents' electric typewriter and began hammering out her first fantasy novel. Now married and a mother of three, Rebecca reads to her children the classic works of fantasy and science fiction that enlivened her own childhood, and she tries to bring a similar sense of humor, adventure, and timeless wonder to her own work. She is also the author of Wayfarer, Arrow, and the teen psychological thriller Ultraviolet.
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What are the sources for the Jewish law or "Halacha"? Is there any priority among these sources? In common practice, when a law is described, is the citation given form the main sources or derived codified books? (Please consider explaining any Jewish/Hebrew terms.)
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G-d gave all the laws to Moses, and he passed it on to his students orally until the time of R' Yehudah, who wrote everything down in the mishnah in a concise way (Gitin 60a). We accept everything written there, since it came from G-d Himself. However, by that time, disputes had already risen over things that had to do with logic (which we are expected to apply to other cases when relevant), but not over the tradition itself (Tosafos Yom Tov, Avos 1:4). At around the same time, baraysos (laws not included in the mishnah) were written by contemporaries of R' Yehudah (e.g. Tosefta by R' Chiya). (See also this.)
R' Yehudah had three students, Rav, Shmuel, and R' Yochanan (Introduction to Mishneh Torah). Rav and Shmuel moved to Babylonia, and are therefore major authorities in the Talmud Bavli, while R' Yochanan moved to Israel, and became an authority for the Talmud Yerushalmi (these are both commentaries on the mishnah). However, they didn't actually write these Talmuds, but rather their students did. It turned out that the Yerushalmi was completed before the Bavli. Therefore, we assume that the ones who put everything in the Bavli saw everything in the Yerushalmi, so if the Bavli disagrees, we assume the Bavli disagrees even though it saw the Yerushalmi, so it must have had a good reason for disagreeing. However, if the Yerushalmi is not in doubt and the Bavli is in doubt, we follow the Yerushalmi. This is the explanation that I heard. See also Sdei Chemed Klalei HaPoskim 2:1.
Also, there was the Zohar, written by R' Shimon bar Yochai, but we follow the Bavli over Zohar (Mishnah Brurah 25:42 in the name of the Kneses HaGedolah; see also these sources). We also follow Yerushalmi over Zohar (see this answer). We follow Tosefta over Yerushalmi as well (see Sdei Chemed Klalei HaPoskim 2:5; the Pri Chadash quoted there disagrees). There were other works (e.g. Sifra, Sifri, etc.), but I won't cover them all.
Afterwards, disputes arose in the intent of those Talmuds themselves. There rose up many works of law in order to clarify which opinions in the Talmuds we follow, etc. There were many works (e.g. Bahag), but the Rif's commentary was the first most accepted original work to explain the law. After him rose the Rambam, who most of the time followed the Rif (Migdal Oz in many places). The Rosh also wrote a commentary. These three works were the ones that formed the basis for most of the laws of the Tur (the son of the Rosh).
The two people who wrote the first commentary on the Tur were the Beis Yosef (R' Yosef Karo) and the Darkei Moshe (R' Moshe Isserless), who explained (and sometimes disputed) the decisions of the Tur. But after all their comments, it ended up being that it took a lot of work to find the practical halachah. Therefore, the Beis Yosef wrote the Shulchan Aruch ("set table"), arranged like the order of the Tur, which only contained the practical halachah, its source being the corresponding chapter in the Tur, from which anyone could see how the law developed.
After the Shulchan Aruch, new commentaries came up to explain it and dispute it, so now the most common work to find the halachah is the Shulchan Aruch and its commentaries.
(As a side note, these commentaries which disputed their predecessors didn't dispute the authority of the Talmuds; they either found a case in the Talmuds which they brought as proof against a different case, or made rulings based on logic.)
Traditional Judaism regards the oral law as the primary means of interpreting the written law - i.e. the Pentateuch and the rest of the Old Testament. The oral law is a combination of specific laws which the Tradition says were transmitted by God to Moses at Sinai and a code of various methods of exegesis by which to derive laws from the Bible.
This second aspect is where disagreement mainly begins; since these new laws are being filtered through human reasoning, sometimes one person says one thing should be derived and another says something else. This level of disagreement is commonplace in the Mishna and Talmud, which are basically compendiums of the Oral law and the arguments which developed it. [You might also find a disagreement here and there about whether or not a particular tradition is accurate, though this isn't as common.]
Halacha as it is today is basically the final word of the Talmud on the subject. We accept the Talmud's word as to what is or isn't a valid derivation or law and we generally do not attempt new derivations from Scripture; rather we fully submit to the authority of the Talmud. Disagreements today are of a different sort - they are disagreements about how to apply Talmudic law to the endless amount of cases not specifically talked about in the Talmud. Also, there are sometimes disagreements about what the conclusion of Talmud was; in places where it may be ambiguous.
To answer your questions:
A final note: Many times when talking about Halacha someone will cite the Shulchan Aruch or other earlier opinions. It isn't that the Shulchan Aruch is on the level of the Talmud; it is really just R. Yosef Karo's opinion of how to rule on practically every matter that existed in his day. However, it has been accepted by the Jewish community for the last few hundred years as the basic code of Jewish law, and so while theoretically it is acceptable to disagree with its rulings, doing so is usually seen as a very strong departure from precedent. The same is true with regard to Rema's glosses on the Shulchan Aruch, for Jews of Ashkenazic descent. For this reason you will often hear people simply citing these and similar works without tracing all the way back to the Talmud, as these works generally give a good indication of normative Halacha which itself ultimately traces back through the entire process.


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