text:
Is there a strategy or saying / quotation (chasidish, chazal, etc.) that addresses what to do if there are some aveiros that one is not ready to give up on but wants to feel good about doing the other mitzvos? Sometimes these aveiros become big in my mind and I can't concentrate on doing the other things. I guess it feels like "all or nothing" and I feel like it would be better to not be frum at all. How to fight this?
Sign up
- Anybody can ask a question
- Anybody can answer
- The best answers are voted up and rise to the top
Here's one I know of.
In the last mishnah of Yoma, R' Akiva says that "just as a mikvah purifies the impure, so does Hashem purify Israel." The Lubavitcher Rebbe zt"l points out that the phrase "the impure" seems to be unnecessary; of course, those are the ones who'd be using a mikvah in the first place.
And he explains: in halachah, a person can be tamei (impure) in various ways (for example, he might have come into contact with a corpse, and also with a dead animal's carcass, and also by being a metzora, etc.). Only some of these are purifiable via the mikvah; others require other procedures. Nevertheless, the mikvah is indeed effective in purifying this person from certain kinds of impurity.
In the same way, then, he explains, R' Akiva means to say that Hashem is willing to act as a mikvah in this sense. Even if a person is not yet ready to do teshuvah for all of his or her misdeeds, Hashem will accept that person's teshuvah for what he or she is ready for, and forgive those - so that now they can start psyching themselves up to do teshuvah for the next thing, and onward.
I recommend that you take a look at the works of R' Dr. Abraham J. Twerski. He's a rabbi with a very strong Chasidic heritage, a major psychiatrist, and a prolific author. Self-esteem is a very big theme in his books. I haven't read it, but one title that looks like it's aimed very close to the issue you're describing is Angels Don't Leave Footprints: Discovering What's Right with Yourself.
No person is completely free of sin (Kohelet 7:20). This does not prevent anyone from doing Teshuva, at least for those sins he's ready to abandon.
Humans are referred to as "mehalchim/moving", as opposed to angels, who are referred to as "omdim/standing". Angels' spiritual level is frozen and cannot be altered. By contrast, humans are never standing still; rather, a human being is always moving, either upwards or downwards. God expects humans to strive to always move upwards; where exactly you are on the ladder is secondary.
Rabbi Dan Segal explained a verse in tehillim "זדים הליצני עד מאד מתורתך לא נטיתי": sins I have committed intentionally pressured me, but I haven't strayed from your Torah. King David was tormented by personal failings but didn't let them deter him from Hashem's service. There is a well-known Chassidishe saying that the Yetzer Hara isn't after getting you to sin as much as getting you to feel depressed about it afterwards.
Advice which has worked for many people (including myself): Instead of obsessing over the here and now, formulate a 12-month (or 5-year) plan in which you take upon yourself teeny little baby steps that move you away from a particular practice you wish to drop. Every move is a victory and should be celebrated. Eventually, with God's help, you'll get to where you need to be.
Mishlei states:
Who can say they are free of sin? (loosely translated)
Man by definition is imperfect and will sin. No one is perfect. No one is without sin. We live in a society were a premium is placed on accomplishment, goals and how people view us. The key is to be involved in the process of developing oneself, full well realizing that we may never be perfect. The process is what is more important.
In fact Chazal say that
Man must recognize and acknowledge he is a sinner. We must be honest with ourselves. Honesty is probably one of the most difficult things to do. I applaud you for being honest with yourself about what you can do and what you can't do.
The third point I would like to make is regarding that overwhelming feeling you have regarding your sins We have a part of us that let's us know we are doing something we may consider wrong. This is our conscience. Our feeling of guilt, fear and shame. We often have a view of ourselves. We imagine we "ought" to be one way. When we don't measure up we feel pangs of guilt. However, our guilt is really just an emotional response that is based on our image of what we imagine to be correct. This image is often formed and influenced by our parents, friends, society. If we lived in a different society we may feel guilty about some other issue. (For example a member of a cannibal tribe may feel guilty leaving over a limb). The guilt can be a tool or an alarm telling you to think about what you are doing. But you can't let it rule you. You need to evaluate with your mind and determine if the decision you are making is the best decision. The Torah's view is not an all or nothing approach. So, although one may feel guilty about only keeping part of the mitzvot, they must intellectually realize this is the best approach for true growth and development. Our society is a christian society that emphasizes sin is evil and promotes a guilt, fear and shame attitude. However, according to Torah חט really translated better as one missed the mark. It is true one may miss the mark in one area, but they certainly can make progress in other areas of their life.
I applaud your pursuit of the truth and the path to development. Keep up the great work!
For more answers, see:
R' Mordechai Becher; R' Moshe Newman. After the return: maintaining good family relations and adjusting to your new lifestyle—a practical halachic guide for the newly observant. Chapter 1: "Evolution or revolution?"
(Please note: The book was written for ba'alei teshuvah. Page 9 warns that many of the rulings in the book are forbidden for non-ba'alei teshuvah to follow.)
this is a tough one, because my experience is that people with this attitude NEVER get out of this mentality.
sounds to me like you need to hang on a few years until you have more maturity, and at some point you'll need to make that decision of which side you're on.
Because, really, you can't play games with Gd.
my $0.02


text:
I have three daughters, aged 5, 7 and 9. I teach them to love and to respect, to be kind and to be good friends, but what they come across at school is people insulting, bullying and hurting their feelings. Am I teaching them a wrong approach to life?
You're teaching them how to be good people, and that always rocks (because doesn't it seem that sometimes there's a deficit of good people around?). But you also need to make sure that they know their own worth, and that being kind and nice to others is NOT a license for others to treat them poorly.
We teach our kids sympathy and empathy for others, and to stand up for those who are being mistreated. But we also teach our kids that they do NOT have to be nice to someone who is not nice to them. Instead, we have given our children permission to ignore or not be nice to those who mistreat them. They don't get to ESCALATE, but they do get to say things like "I don't care what you say about me, I don't care what you think," things like that.
When I was a kid, they told us to be the bully's friend, that the bully had a bad home life and just needed a friend. It never worked for me. What worked for me, and so far works for my kids, is standing up to the bullies. It is not my 5-yr-old's responsibility to fix another child's home life.
A few weeks ago, the bullies targeted my 5-yr-old and her best friend. The best friend punched one in the stomach when he poked her in the eye, and mine mooned them in the cafeteria when they went after her. Not the response I would've chosen, and we have since come up with some verbal retorts to use instead, but it was effective. Those kids have not said one mean thing, or done one mean thing, to either child since.
You're not wrong
What you're teaching them is great, but you must also give them the skills to understand that other people may not be as loving, kind or respectful as they are and that they'll need to be able to interact with those people.
No matter what you teach your children, some other family somewhere is going to teach their children differently and this may clash when your children meet. You can't always be there to mediate, so all you can do is empower your children to best handle any situation they may find themselves in.
On a separate note, bullying is always bad and should be reported as appropriate.
The sad reality is that most people are ill-bred, low-life scum loaded with vices and neurotic tendencies. Your job is to (A) keep your children away from their influence, and (B) teach them to have disregard for such people. The struggle to ennoble oneself is a lifelong pursuit best begun in infancy.
The proper strategy for effecting this is to inform the child of the cause of the defects in the other children. For example, in the case of a bully, usually it is because the bully is being bullied and belittled at home by their parents, or perhaps a jealous older sibling. The proper defense is to find out who at home is the source of the problem and then alienating the child from the oppressor.
For example, lets imagine the bully is Billy and we find out that Billy's dad is a drunken longshoreman who is always beating the crap out of Billy, so he is bullying other children as a result. We then have our child go to Billy and say, "Billy, your dad beats you up because he doesn't like it that you are smarter than him and one day you will have a much better job than his lousy job." If your child is successful in alienating Billy from his father using comments such as this, then all problems with bullying from him will go away.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Is $5 All You Can Ship permanent?
"$5 All You Can Ship
For a limited time, one $5 charge covers standard shipping on all your Woot orders within the same calendar day!
You heard us right. After you pay the initial $5 standard shipping charge on your first Woot order of the day, everything else you buy before midnight Central time gets free standard shipping.
That goes for any order, of any size, from any site in the Wootosphere. Buy from Woot, then grab a new tee at Shirt.Woot. Shop for the kids at Kids.Woot and yourself at Home.Woot. One $5 charge ships it all.
But All You Can Ship won't last long. We're not in the habit of leaving money on the table, so grab it while you can!"
I started wondering whether they could even stop the all you can ship when I saw this deal. You save $2 overall and there would be no way anyone would spend the $5 shipping just for that. Even if you buy 3, you'd save $1 maybe. I almost think all you can ship has to be permanent.
10 Answers answer
We can only hope and keep our fingers crossed.
+1 for the question, thought I doubt they'll say "Yes." Nothing is permanent except Sharpie ink.
Yes, until we decide to end it.
Permanent? Don't know. My thought on the 1 day combined $5 shipping: It was initiated to encourage multiple purchases in 1 day because they have SO many choices/sites now. Including the 'Plus' deals. Also, I think they felt it would help us buy a ton of items during woot-offs.
Don't know about others, but I'm finding it difficult to buy 1 item - let alone more than 1. It has not been an incentive for me. Bought nothing from the woot-off. Then again, maybe some are using this perk for Holiday shopping...
And then there's Amazon w/Free Super Saver Shipping w/a $25 purchase. Key words: Free & $25. Now that might be enticing.
what i would wonder about is how combined shipping could/should evolve at woot.
with some inventory planning and several weeks lead time on the deals they will be running, they could ensure each site is shipping from a common warehouse - and box them together.. while i'm not a "save the world" type, it does seem wasteful to have something small like an eye-fi ship in a big old box by itself, and something else arrives the same day from woot in a box that would have fit both items.
For a few months each year, my job transitions over to asset management for loaned and rented equipment, and though the planning was a mess at first, we've been able to streamline the process based on trends, and reduce our shipping costs by more than half.
Woot has one big advantage over the general cache of amazon fulfillment centers - because of the nature of "one item a day" sales - you can predict what will be selling/shipping on what days with 100% accuracy.
@goatcrapp: I bought two K-nex sets (one Mario and one Luigi) and a knife all within minutes of each other and was surprised they were shipped in 3 separate boxes.
I can kind of understand the knife being in its own box, but can't for the life of me imagine why 2 items from the same "woot plus" deal couldn't be boxed together.
If you click on the "learn more" link for it, the last paragraph:
"But All You Can Ship won't last long. We're not in the habit of leaving money on the table, so grab it while you can!"
So there may be some finality to it.
@rustybender: similar experience here.. last time the eye fi's were up, i ordered 2. After telling my brother about it and what it does, he wanted one, so i ordered another, just a few moments later. Surely being pulled from the same overall pool of eye fi packages, they still got shipped in 2 separate packages. I get order numbers and autogeneration, etc... BUT, there are asset management systems out there that impose a bit of logic on such things, and allow combining after the fact.
My guess is it will remain until the "losing money but gaining more sales" model starts to shift in the negative position.
Since Woot ships using multiple methods and does not combine shipping, the only hope for it to stay is to buy multiple items in one day, everyday. After all, Woot has monkeys to feed and that does not come cheap. You don't want to steal from monkeys do you?
Just wondering how often are there 2 or more things at the same time on the woot sites that you want? I've been on Woot for a while now, and only a handful of times found something I ordered.


text:
No events available.
License v. Sale of Copies of Software and Other Digital Works: A Comparative Look at EU and US Copyright Law
Speakers: Robert Clarida more...
© Copyright 2016, The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York.
For questions or comments, please contact the web administrators.
435 West 116 Street, New York, NY 10027 — 212-854-2640


text:
Lewis Klahr Retrospective
Collage animator Lewis Klahr, the 2009–10 Wexner Center Residency Award recipient in media arts and a prize winner at the 2010 Rotterdam Film Festival, is the subject of a month-long retrospective in May.
Called "the reigning proponent of cut and paste" by the Village Voice's J. Hoberman, Klahr uses images from advertising, comic books, and other ephemeral talismans of American commerce and popular culture to investigate our national dreamscape. You'll see his most celebrated pieces, along with rarely seen treasures, and since Klahr often seems to look at his subjects through the lens of Hollywood genres like film noir and melodrama, we've asked him to pair his own works with some of the feature films that have influenced and inspired him.
Klahr visits to start off the series on May 1. Wednesday Morning Two A.M., one of the films supported by his residency that he'll introduce and screen that evening, was just announced as one of the three shorts to win a Tiger Award at this year's Rotterdam Film Festival. Here's what the jury citation says about the film: "An intimate and poetic study of the darkness of love and the beauty of texture—Wednesday Morning Two A.M. combines figurative realism with pure abstraction to remind us of the value of the small and the handmade."
This retrospective is made possible with support from the Wexner Center Residency Award program.
Attending this event? Let your friends know and
href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=199574862650">RSVP on
May 1
Her Fragrant Emulsion
(1987) 11.5 mins.
In Her Fragrant Emulsion, Klahr immolates himself in the androgynous presence of the marginalized actress, nitro-burning funny-car diva Mimsy Farmer (Hot Rods to Hell, Riot on Sunset Strip)... He glues onto clear film leader tiny sliced strips and celluloid shrapnel bits of her Mimsiness clawed and gorged out of the 1969 shot-in-Italy hippie-noir feature Road to Salina. The images in Fragrant Emulsion barrage the viewer exclusively with elusive and erotic glimpses of this somewhat
Sebergian former star of what can now be wistfully called skin flicks. The 8mm
textures and enervated color of the serrated images rip open a piñata of sad
-Guy Maddin, Village Voice
Daylight Moon
(2002) 13 mins.
There are things I could say about Daylight Moon but very few I want to before someone sees it. But I will say this: of all the films I've made using collage to muck around in the past, this one gets the closest to what I'm after. -Lewis Klahr
False Aging
(2008) 14.5 mins.
It's hard to believe that False Aging clocks in at under 15 minutes, given how powerfully it evokes passing decades punctuated by muffled eruptions of longing and regret. A button revolves around a clock-and the world moves with it. Klahr shares Joseph Cornell's alchemical genius, but his collaged reveries cast deeper shadows and offer little magical protection from death and disappointment. -Kristin M. Jones, Film Comment, Top Ten Films of 2008
Wednesday Morning Two AM
(2009) 6.5 mins.
This is the first completed film of a new series entitled "Couplets." These will generally, but not exclusively, organize themselves around the pairing of various pop songs and, just as in these song lyrics, the theme of love. -Lewis Klahr
An intimate and poetic study of the darkness of love and the beauty of
texture-Wednesday Morning Two AM combines figurative realism with pure abstraction to remind us of the value of the small and the handmade. -International Film Festival Rotterdam short film Tiger Award jury statement
Read the entire href="http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/professionals/programme/sections-and-events-2010/shorts/interview-lewis-klahr/">International Film Festival Rotterdam interview.
Nimbus Smile (2009) 8.5 mins.
Nimbus Seeds (2009) 8.5 mins.
Cumulonimbus (2010) 9 mins.
In this grouping of three related videos on the subject of romantic triangles, Klahr expands his explorations of memory, love, repetition, narrative, and loss in surprising new ways until the films build into complex emotional and artistic
experiences. His about inter-film montage (the interconnected relationship of
different films to each other) reach their fullest expression with these new works.
(2009) 22 mins.
One of Klahr's longest film and one of his most straightforward narrative
melodramas, Lethe conjures up the full emotional spectrum and storytelling potential of a film by Vincente Minnelli or Douglas Sirk even though the only sets and actors are cut out pieces of paper brought to life by Klahr's imagination and storytelling abilities. Without sacrificing his signature forms of poetic abstraction and uncanny imagery, Klahr tells a tale ripped out a pulp novel. An older scientist devises a way to win the love of a beautiful younger woman and the film deals with the psychic fallout of this relationship upon the woman.
May 6
Engram Sepals (Melodramas 1944-2000)
(1994) 8 mins.
Included in both the 1995 Whitney Biennial and New York Film Festival. Purchased by the Museum of Modern Art for their permanent collection.
Altair offers a cutout animation version of color noir. The images were culled from six late '40s issues of Cosmopolitan magazine and set to an almost four-minute section of Stravinsky's "Firebird" (looped twice) to create a sinister, perfumed world. As in my 1988 visit to this genre, In the Month of Crickets, the narrative is highly smudged leaving legible only the larger signposts of the female protagonist's story. The viewer is encouraged to speculate on the nature and details of the woman's battle with large, malevolent societal forces and her descent into an alcoholic swoon. However I feel it is important to add that what interested me in making this film was very little of what is described above but instead a fascination with the color blue and some intangible association it has for me with the late 1940s. -Lewis Klahr
Engram Sepals
(2000) 6 mins.
The dead body remembers. The Tibetan book of the dead meets film noir. An elliptical narrative of adultery and corporate espionage set to a score by Morton Feldman. -Lewis Klahr
Elsa Kirk
(1999) 5 mins.
In the mid 1990's I unearthed three photographic contact sheets of three different women in a thrift store in the East Village. Only one was named and dated - Elsa Kirk, Feb 22 '63 - but all looked like they were from the same photographer and time period. There were 12 images per sheet of these Models/Actresses and I found myself quite moved by the strong sense of aspiration in their poses; a poignant blend of fiction and reality. At first, I was unable to translate these images into collage animation. So instead, I began making xerox enlargements of the sheets which I turned into a series of flat collages. Eventually these became storyboards for the films and led to the hieroglyphic montage style of the completed work - an approach that I had intuited when first attracted to the potential of cutouts two decades ago, but had never been able to capture on film. -Lewis Klahr
Pony Glass
(1997) 14.5 mins.
Pony Glass is the story of comic book character Jimmy Olsen's secret life. In this 15-minute cutout animation Superman's pal embarks on his most adult adventure ever as he navigates the treacherous shoals of early '60s romance trying to resolve a sexual identity crisis of epic proportions. A three-act melodrama - each act has its own song - filmed in my signature collage style that "unmasks" our collective iconic inheritance as Americans while significantly expanding the notion of what a music video can do. -Lewis Klahr
(1999) 23 mins.
A three act countercultural coming of age melodrama. Told from a generational rather than individual's point of view. Beginning with appropriated student, super 8 footage of a 1970's alternative high school and finishing with footage I shot a month after college graduation of my brother's hippie wedding, Govinda charts a path from innocence to too much experience. -Lewis Klahr
Downs Are Feminine
(1994) 9 mins.
Lewis Klahr's Downs Are Feminine unveils a kind of rainy day, indoor, peaceable kingdom of desultory and idyllic debauchery, masturbatory reveries and
hermaphroditic transformations. Klahr's oneric collages graft '70s porn of pallid stubbly flesh flagrantly onto Good Housekeeping/Architectural Digest decor (varicolored crab-orchard stone foyers, modacrylic sunbursts, jalousie windows and orientalist metal scrollwork), interior states where characters despoil themselves in Quaalude interludes of dreamy couplings. In this out-of-touch realm, touching is intelligence gathering for a carnal knowledge that will never attain its platonic ideal. The whole atmosphere is pervaded with euphoria, a hopelessness without despair, a contentment beyond longing. - Mark McElhatten, New York Film Festival
A Failed Cardigan Maneuver
(1999) 15 mins.
Children in a garden of outsized fruit dream of food and love, then grow up to have unhappy office love affairs in the glamorous Manhattan of the late 1950's. -J. Hoberman, Village Voice
Rohauer Collection Foundation
American Airlines/American Eagle
Greater Columbus Arts Council
Columbus Foundation
Nationwide Foundation
Ohio Arts Council


text:
Agriculture - Machinery
Animals & Pets - Alpacas
Animals & Pets - Dogs
Animals & Pets - Services & Supplies
Arts & Crafts - Native
Building Supplies
Animals & Pets - Alpacas
Animals & Pets - Dogs
Animals & Pets - Services & Supplies
Arts & Crafts - Native
Building Supplies
Computers - Dealers
Construction - General Services
Events - Entertainment
Golf Clubs
Construction - General Services
Events - Entertainment
Golf Clubs
Agriculture - MachineryVallance Equipment and Rental Ltd.
Vallance Equipment Ltd.
Animals & Pets - AlpacasHeronview Alpacas
Renovation Blog Menu Skip to content ABOUT US Contact Us Search for: 3 Top Renovation Tips December 5, 2012 Kitchen Admin1 As exciting as it is to knock down your walls, you may want to consider ...
Animals & Pets - DogsBasenji Files Index
The Basenji: everything you ever wanted to know about this barkless sighthound from Africa can be found in this, the world's largest online 'Basenji Reference Library'.
Heronview Leonbergers, Ontario Leonberger breeder raising Leonbergers Naturaly Leonberger puppies in Ontario Leonberger breeders in Ontario leonberger
Animals & Pets - Services & SuppliesMonster Minder Dog Walking & Pet Sitting New!
Monster Minder is a highly recommended Dog Walking & Pet Sitting Service.Founded by a retired Police Officer with lots of Training and Experience!Fully Accredited, Bonded and Insured.
Nature Calls Pet Service
Our main services include Pet Waste Removal, Dog Walking and Pet Home Care, Puppy Visits.We also offer Pet Food Delivery for clients who order any of the preceding services from us. We work with you ...
Arts & Crafts - NativeDon Chase, Canadian Native Artist
Canadian Native Artist - Don Chase , Native Art, Paintings, Sculptures, Paper cast
Building SuppliesBrooklin Concrete Products Limited
Armtec now offers retail products for contractors and homeowners, including landscaping products, patio stones, patio steps, retaining walls and garden walls.
Computers - DealersSkyview Electronics Inc.
Skyview Electronics, Computer Sales, Computer Repairs, HDTV Antennas, Security Cameras, Cell Phone Boosters, Installation, Sales and Service in Brooklin ( Whitby ) Ontario.
Construction - General ServicesWooden It Be Nice
Custom woodworking, designed and built to meet the needs of each client. This allows you to have exactly what you're looking for by incorporating your own ideas, without compromising style or taste. We're located in Brooklin, Ontario.
Events - EntertainmentBrooklin Spring Fair
Golf ClubsLyndebrook Golf Course
Lyndebrook Golf Course's NEW web site. Find everything you need to know about golfing at Lyndebrook: green fees, tee times, booking, location and more. /
LandscapingRed Rose Landscaping
Landscaping Services for Whitby Oshawa Courtice Bowmanville Port Perry Brooklin
MachineryAeroex International Inc.
Aeroex International is a manufacturer of industrial oil mist separators for the metalworking industry. Reduce your oil mist emissions and solve your plants' environmental problems.
MapsBrooklin Road Map
Brooklin map - with major streets and highways - Canada
Martial ArtsBrooklin Wado-Kai Karate
At Brooklin Wado-Kai we teach traditional Karate. Originally developed as an unarmed form of self-defense from the internationally influenced arts of Okinawa, karate is a complete martial arts system.
Organizations & associationsOptimist Club of Brooklin
Optimist Club of Brooklin, Ontario Central Ontario District Chartered September 28, 1987 President: Annette Cowan (06/11) | Secretary: Shari Steffler (08/11) | Treasurer: Brian Wick (00/11) ...
PaintballCamp X Paintball Fields
Durham Region's Best Outdoor Paintball Adventure! Low Prices, Great Times!
RLD Games Limited
Brooklin (Whitby) Ontario - Outdoor Paintball since 1982.
Professional OrganizersHowson Home Organizers.com
We're Cleaning Green, providing environmentally friendly cleaning services for your office/house cleaning needs in Durham Region, Aurora & Newmarket areas.
Real EstateSharon Quested - Coldwell Banker
Looking for a home? Need to sell a home? Know someone out of area looking to buy or sell, I can help with all these options. I work out of Durham Region, (Brooklin ON) and am available 24/7. Please ...
Religion - BaptistRenaissance Baptist Church of Brooklin
Renaissance Baptist Church of Brooklin is a new church plant in Whitby, Ontario, featuring contemporary worship, children's ministries, small groups, and a Christ first attitude.
Shopping - Children & YouthKids Juke Box Toronto - Childrens Music
Video ProductionSuperSam Digital Media - Professional DVD Film Transfer And Video Production
High Quality Video Transfers, Digital Video Editing And DVDConversion Editing And Authoring At An Unbeatable Price
Weddings - PhotographersDouglas Foulds Studios
Fabulous wedding photography and timeless portraiture, beautifully presented in hand-made custom-designed books, gallery wraps and fine art prints.


text:
What is the set of all functions from $\{0, 1\}$ to $\mathbb{N}$ equinumerous to? I have figured out the question when it's the other way around, but I am not making any progress here. The worst thing is, I don't know how to think of such problems, and even when it was functions from $\mathbb{N}$ to $\{0, 1\}$, I would have never gotten it myself without help. When I think about this I think of the following: it's a function, so one thing can't be sent to two+ things, but two things can be sent to the same thing. So at least, we are mapping both 0 and 1 to the same element, and at most we are mapping it to two different elements. But that doesn't really give me anything... Thanks!
$|\{\text{functions } \{0,1\} \to \mathbb{N} \}|= |\mathbb{N}^{\{0,1\}}|= |\mathbb{N}^2|$
Indeed, if you are thinking of $\mathbb{N}^2$ as the set of ordered pairs of natural numbers, then the function
$\varphi: \{\text{functions } \{0,1\} \to \mathbb{N} \} \to \mathbb{N}^2$ defined as $\varphi(f)= (f(0),f(1))$
is a bijection.
It is an injection: if $f\not=g$, then $f(0)\not=g(0)$ or $f(1)\not=g(1)$, hence $\varphi(f)\not= \varphi(g)$.
It is a surjection: given $(m,n)\in \mathbb{N}^2$, define $f:\{0,1\} \to \mathbb{N}$ as $f(0)=m$, $f(1)=n$. Then $\varphi(f)=(m,n)$.
In fact, for some intuition, think that what this bijection is saying is that a function $\{0,1\}\to \mathbb{N}$ is completely determined by a couple of natural numbers. Who could they be but $f(0)$ and $f(1)$? :)
So, now I claim that $|\mathbb{N}^2|=|\mathbb{N}|$. Indeed, it is the cartesian product of two countable sets, and the cartesian product of a finite number of countable sets is countable, hence the set of functions $\{0,1\} \to \mathbb{N}$ is countable, i.e. it is equinumerous to $\mathbb{N}$.
You comment you can't use cardinal arithmetic: a more constructive proof would be to exhibit a bijection. See this question: How does one get the formula for this bijection from $\mathbb{N}\times\mathbb{N}$ onto $\mathbb{N}$? which attacks the problem of showing that $|\mathbb{N}\times \mathbb{N}|=|\mathbb{N}|$ more directly.
ADDED: An obvious generalization of the above leads to the fact that, for $n\in \mathbb{N}$, $|\{\text{functions } \{0,\dots,n-1\} \to \mathbb{N}\}| = |\mathbb{N}^n|$. Having this in mind, now forget you ever defined $\mathbb{N}^k$ for any $k\in \mathbb{N}$. Let's have a different approach.
Let $I$ be any given set. Define $\mathbb{N}^I$ as $$\mathbb{N}^I := \{\text{functions } I \to \mathbb{N}\}$$
This is the usual notation for the set of functions from $I$ to $\mathbb{N}$.
Now, in set theory (Zermelo-Fraenkel), the number $k\in \mathbb{N}$ is defined as the set $\{0,\dots,k-1\}$. So what if we take $I=\{0,\dots,k-1\}$? We have that $$\mathbb{N}^k=\mathbb{N}^{\{0,\dots,k-1\}} = \{\text{functions } \{0,\dots,k-1\} \to \mathbb{N}\}$$
In particular, with $k=2$, we obtain that $\mathbb{N}^2=\{\text{functions } \{0,1\} \to \mathbb{N} \}= \{\text{functions } 2 \to \mathbb{N}\}$. Now the above proof shows that our new $\mathbb{N}^2$ is equinumerous to the set of ordered pairs of natural numbers. This is nice. Why?
Well, first observe that equinumerous sets are indistinguishable from the point of view of set theory (in fancy words: bijections are isomorphisms in Set). So if two sets are equinumerous, there is no harm done with taking any of them as the definition of the set.
Then, observe that this definition is in much bigger generality. We have defined $\mathbb{N}^I$ for any set $I$. With our previous definition, we could only extend the generality for any finite set $I$, namely defining $\mathbb{N}^I$ as the set of $|I|$-uples of natural numbers: this definition makes no sense a priori for infinite $I$.
A final observation: in this final addendum, $\mathbb{N}$ can be taken to be any set, of course.
The set of functions from $\{0,1\}$ to $\mathbb N$ (denoted by $A$ from here on end) can be seen as the set of all ordered pairs in $\mathbb N\times\mathbb N$.
Let us prove that:
All in all we have the mapping is a bijection, so it is enough to understand what is the size of $\mathbb N\times\mathbb N$.
The cardinality of this collection is indeed $\aleph_0$. There are two common ways to show that:
HINT $\rm\quad\ \ |Maps(\{0,1\},\mathbb N)| \le |\mathbb N|\ $ since $\rm\ f\:\mapsto\: 2^{\:f(0)}\ 3^{\:f(1)}\ $ is injective (one-to-one).
Reversely $\rm\:|Maps(\{0,1\},\mathbb N)| \ge |\mathbb N|\:$ as it includes the $\rm\:|\mathbb N|\:$ constant maps $\rm\:f_{\:n}\:$ mapping$\rm\ 0,1\:$ to $\rm\:n\:.$
Let $f$ be a function from $\{0,1\}$ to $\mathbb{N}$. Then $f$ is uniquely determined by its values at $0$ and $1$. $f(0)$ can be any natural number, and so can $f(1)$. So this corresponds to $\mathbb{N}^2$. Another way to say this is that the map $f \rightarrow (f(0),f(1))$ is a bijection from the set of all functions from $\{0,1\} $ to $\mathbb{N}$ to $\mathbb{N}^2$.


text:
I'm using the Sidebar Login script by Mike Jolley, I would like to add a class of "clearfix" to the element tag. I have been unable to find a solution to this so far.
I'd also like to understand any solution given, so if you would like to briefly explain how the function works I'd be very grateful.


text:
Practical Welding Today®September/October 2006
Practical Welding Today® was created to fill a void in the industry for hands-on information, real-world applications, and down-to-earth advice for welders. No other welding magazine fills the need for this kind of practical information. Subscriptions are free to qualified welding professionals in North America.
More Info Subscribe Free
November 3, 2014
Q: Which process, filler rod, and shielding gas work best for welding aluminized steel? A: Aluminized steel resists fire, heat, corrosion, and oxidation. It's used in many applications, such as weather shielding and exhaust systems. Steel is hot-dipped in an aluminum solution, which provides...
October 3, 2006
Reliable and consistent weld inspection is a significant part of any weld quality assurance program. One type of weld inspection used over the last several decades employs ultrasonics.
October 3, 2006
Q: Which filler wire is best for welding 6061-T6 aluminum, 5356 or 4043?A: Both are acceptable for welding 6061-T6, but each has advantages and disadvantages depending on the application.An aluminum alloy containing 5 percent magnesium, 5356 generally is stronger and more ductile than 4043. But...
October 3, 2006
The subject of oxyfuel safety is vast and would take volumes to cover completely. In fact, most large companies involved in oxyfuel cutting and welding publish their own procedural guidelines for employees to follow.
September 12, 2006
Once you know some basic information about the equipment on the front of your GTAW torch, you can get the right parts for your application and start improving your welding performance.
September 12, 2006
A good design doesn't guarantee challenge-free fabrication in the bridge industry, as one fabricator found out. Despite material availability obstacles, stringent welding requirements, and massive pipe cutting needs, Stinger Welding and the design team it worked with pulled off a winning pipe bridge design in six months.


text:
Week of October 28th, 2012
1) Follow this blog or subscribe via email. See upper right hand corner of blog to do so.
2) Leave a comment under one or all posts this week for maximum chances. See HERE if you don't know how to leave a comment.
Sunday, April 3, 2011
and the winner of the Cake Machine is....
Wow--I can't believe you're giving away a Cricut Cake. Really nice prize!
Congratulations, Winnie! Please contact us with your address details and we will have Provo Craft ship this straight out to you. You have two weeks to claim your prize!
Have a great rest of your Sunday!
Be sure and check out Joy's and Melanie's personal blogs for more creative goodness at Obsessed with Scrapbooking and Courtney Lane Designs! Have a great day!
Subscribe to Everyday Cricut to learn more about ways to use the Cricut in your cardmaking and scrapbooking!
41 comments:
- TropicalWon said...
Congratulations Winnie!!! Have fun with it!! I'm excited about the cricut cartridges they are ones on my list!! Thanks for the oppourtunity to win!! Amanda
Amanda.peterman at gmail dot com
- April 3, 2011 at 9:02 AM
- Cyndi S said...
Congratulations Winnie, you lucky gal. Those cake cartridges would be wonderful to play with. Thanks for the chance.
cstephenson at q dot com
- April 3, 2011 at 9:52 AM
- Manhattan Mandie said...
Congrats, Winnie!!!!!!!!!!
- April 3, 2011 at 9:54 AM
- Wendy said...
Congratulations to the winner!
Wendy T.
- April 3, 2011 at 9:56 AM
- Tiffany said...
Congrats Winnie! I have just recently discovered that Cricut Cake Carts. could be used in my expression. Definitely going to start checking them all out!
- April 3, 2011 at 9:57 AM
Congratulations!! Enjoy all your yummy new creations!! :)
- April 3, 2011 at 10:14 AM
Would love to try the cake cart. on my scrapbook layouts.
- April 3, 2011 at 10:29 AM
- motherloves3 said...
Congratulations Winnie! Lucky you - enjoy. I would love the cartridges that are being given away. Thanks
- April 3, 2011 at 10:54 AM
- Nati Tristan said...
Congratulations!!!!!! Enjoy it! That's a fantabulous win! Thanks for all the wonderful prizes!
- April 3, 2011 at 11:01 AM
- Sharon said...
Congrats Winnie, You lucky girl!
Sharon G.
- April 3, 2011 at 11:10 AM
- Luria said...
Congrats on your win.
- April 3, 2011 at 11:37 AM
Congratulations to the winner! Enjoy!!
- April 3, 2011 at 1:36 PM
- DebJoAl said...
Winnie, You are one lucky gal! Have fun decorating goodies!
- April 3, 2011 at 2:36 PM
- Toothfairy said...
Congratulations on winning the Cricut Cake. Im excited about the new giveaway! Thanks sooooo much for the opportunity!
- April 3, 2011 at 2:50 PM
- Teresa - in the Middle Side of Life said...
Congratulations to Winnie! How exciting and lucky you!!!
I'd love to win the cake cartridge. I would love to play with those because I make a lot of cards. Please, random number generator, pick me!!! LOL!
- April 3, 2011 at 3:08 PM
- Holly Hudspeth said...
Congrats to Winnie the winner!
- April 3, 2011 at 3:58 PM
- Sarah said...
Congratulations Winnie! What a great prize!
- April 3, 2011 at 4:12 PM
Congratulations Winnie! That is just awesome!
woodwindpapers at shaw dot ca
- April 3, 2011 at 4:42 PM
- Jenny V. said...
Congrats WInnie! Lucky you, have fun with the Cricut cake. Better luck next time for me.
- April 3, 2011 at 5:12 PM
- Scattychick said...
Congratulations I hope you enjoy your new toy :)
- April 3, 2011 at 5:18 PM
- Briannasmom said...
Congrats Winnie!! those carts have some wonderful images on them so versatile!!
- April 3, 2011 at 6:56 PM
- Denise said...
Congratulations Winnie!!!! How very cool for you!! Thanks for all the wonderful giveaways gals. I'm psyched that you are giving away two cake cartridges!! I don't have any MS carts and I'd love to make a paper cake :) Thanks for the chance to win!
- April 3, 2011 at 7:36 PM
- angie said...
Congratulations Winnie!! What an awesome prize! The cake cartridges are my favorite for scrapbooking layouts as well.
- April 3, 2011 at 8:09 PM
- gardener said...
Would love to win the cake carts. I have a few and these would be a perfect fit into my cart library.
Thanks for the chance to win.
- April 3, 2011 at 8:19 PM
- Denise-Scrapmouse said...
Congrats to the winner! Have fun baking.
- April 3, 2011 at 9:09 PM
- Percilla G said...
Wow how exciting. My daughter just purchased one and loves it. I am sure you will as well Winnie
- April 3, 2011 at 9:13 PM
- heavenlysparkles said...
Congratulations, Winnie! Let your light shine through that incredible gift! :o)
Thank you for the opportunity to win such incredible blessings so often. I've had my Expression less than a week and my brain is at constant warp speed with incessant planning! Now I have MS cake images to ponder... :o)
Love and blessings! :o)
- April 3, 2011 at 9:30 PM
- Scott & Ann said...
I have an "idea" request/design challenge. I save everything when cutting with my Cricut. I save the pieces from a cut-for example, the centers of letters: a, o, d, the negatives of cuts, the triangle shapes from the spokes of wheels, etc. I would LOVE to see some designs using these normally thrown away/leftover pieces from cuts. Would also love to see how many different things can be made from or just using circle punches. Thank you!
- April 3, 2011 at 9:50 PM
- Ryansmaama said...
Congratulations to the winner.--Ryansmaama
- April 3, 2011 at 10:09 PM
- Lisa said...
Congratulations Winnie!! Have lots of fun with your new toy :)
- April 3, 2011 at 10:13 PM
- NikkiMo said...
Yay!! Congrats! I'm jealous. :-)
- April 3, 2011 at 10:29 PM
- kristyscraps said...
Congrats to the winner...it was all in the name!
- April 3, 2011 at 10:44 PM
- Brendi said...
What a way to start the week - winning! Congrats Winnie!
- April 4, 2011 at 8:14 AM
- Kelsey :) said...
Congrats!!! Enjoy it!
- April 4, 2011 at 10:02 AM
- AShu93 said...
Congrats to Winnie! What a great prize.
- April 4, 2011 at 10:32 AM
- Cheryl H. said...
Congratulations on the Cake machine. You lucky girl!
- April 4, 2011 at 7:54 PM
- Cookie78 said...
Congrats Winnie on your Cricut cake!
- April 5, 2011 at 11:01 PM
- Texas Stamper said...
Congratulations to the winner. Have fun with your new toy!
- April 6, 2011 at 7:33 AM
- Tamara said...
Yay! Congrats! What an awesome prize to win!
sweetheartcopper at msn dot com
- April 8, 2011 at 5:09 PM
- Scrapbooking Beginner said...
Congrats Winnie!
- April 10, 2011 at 12:58 AM
- Savannah O'Gwynn said...
Congrats to the winner! You will have SOOOOOOO much fun with your new toy!!
- April 10, 2011 at 1:10 PM


text:
WHEELING - On a night where the Weirton Madonna athletic program won its fourth straight Ohio Valley Athletic Conference Class 1A overall championship, the night belonged to St. Clairsville football coach Brett McLean.
He won the top coaching prize the OVAC awards during Monday's annual Banquet of Champions at WesBanco Arena.
After guiding the Red Devils to a 14-1 record and trip to the school's only appearance in the Division IV state champion game, McLean was voted the recipient of the Bill Van Horne OVAC Coach of the Year.
"I hadn't given this much thought, but this is a huge honor," McLean said. "I sincerely appreciate the recognition, but I am a humble guy. We had kids who took us to a new level and I am proud to be at St. Clairsville with those types of kids that are participating for us."
The Blue Dons, Steubenville Catholic Central (2A), Linlsy (3A), St. Clairsville (4A) and Morgantown (5A) were the overall class champions.
All of the championship winning teams picked up their pennants and more than $26,000 worth of scholarships were presented.
Madonna won championships in golf, volleyball and football.
The Crusaders collected titles in boys soccer, volleyball, baseball and softball.
St. Clairsville won six team championships, including football.
The Red Devils went on as memorable season as any Ohio Valley team had ever experienced. They entered the season with a tremendously high level of expectations as most of the spring was spent by McLean dealing with college coaches coming through St. C. to take a look at either Dan Monteroso, Michael Ferns or one of the other high profile players the Red Devils boasted.
"I had an old coach tell me once that to get to the (state) finals in Ohio, 'you have to have talent, talent, talent and more talent,'" McLean said. "He wasn't lying, either. It was a tough pre-season, but our kids just continued to go about their business and didn't get caught up in anything."
McLean and his quality coaching staff, however, was able to find a happy medium and get everyone's attention each and every week.
St. Clairsville was never challenged outside of trailing Wheeling Park at halftime in the season opener last August.
"We knew we had some special talent and they just had to mature, grow and they did," McLean said. "The entire group handled the expectations well. We stayed healthy, which is a huge key, and we took it week by week."
The Red Devils steamrolled everyone that got in their path for 12 straight weeks before having to get past Johnstown-Monroe in the regional championship game and Creston Norwayne in the state semifinals.
The St. C. magic carpet ride came to an end on the final day of November when the Red Devils fell, 46-36, to Clarksville Clinton-Massie in the title game.
"We'll never forget this group or this season," McLean said. "We just want to soak up the moment and enjoy it as much as we can. There's going to come a time when we might look back at it as the 'glory days.'"
Unfortunately for McLean and St. Clairsville, Monday night's award and presentation of their OVAC Class 4A championship banner officially closes the book on the 2012 season.
"I don't ever want to close the chapter on this season," McLean said. "I hope it's instilled a lot in our program and I think it's made our kids hungry to continue to be successful. We'll never forget the 2012 season."
McLean was also quick to congratulate the four other finalists, which included Kim Clifford (St. Clairsville basketball), Mike Blackburn (Steubenville wrestling), Dan Liedtke (Fort Frye girls basketball) and Ed West (John Marshall softball).
"Coach Clifford is a mentor to me and I work hand-in-hand with him almost every day," McLean said. "Two of his sons (Ryan and Justin) have worked with me and his third son (Kurt) played for me."
Also receiving a high level of thanks and praise from McLean was his coaching staff.
"I think my coaching coaching staff is underrated by some, but I certainly don't do that at all," McLean said. "They do a ton of things for me and sacrifice day in and day out and I can't ask for anything more from them."


text:
Seattle Parks and Recreation Jesús Aguirre, Superintendent
|Centers & Pools
|Reservations & Permits
|Projects & Planning
|A - Z Index
Golden Gardens Park Vegetation Management Plan
Parks General Information:(206)684-4075
The Golden Gardens Vegetation Management Plan addresses the forest resource of Golden Gardens Park. This includes both the forested hillside east of the Burlington Northern Railroad and also areas along the beach that contain trees and associated vegetation. The plan provides Seattle Parks and Recreation staff and allied citizens long-term goals and intermediate (20 year) objectives for managing the park's vegetation. The plan is based on related planning documents, including the Seattle Parks COMPLAN, the Urban Wildlife and Habitat Management Plan, and the Seattle Parks and Recreation Tree Policy. It extracts long-term goals from these sources and develops related objectives based on the condition of the forest resource, historical context, ecological trends, and the potential of the community and management resources.
*Note: To view a PDF, you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader. Download it for free at www.adobe.com.
Updated May 2, 2007
|Home | Partnerships | Park Board | Volunteer | FAQ | Parkways | Facebook | @SeattleParks | Flickr


text:
Without treatment, an ulcer may form. The ulcer may be painful. You also may have swollen and achy legs.
If the wound becomes infected, the infection may cause an odor, and pus may drain from the wound. The area around the wound also may be more tender and red.
Call your doctor when you first notice the signs of a venous skin ulcer, because you may be able to prevent the ulcer from forming. If an ulcer has formed, get treatment right away, because new and smaller ulcers tend to heal faster than larger ones.
How are venous skin ulcers diagnosed?
Your doctor will diagnose venous skin ulcers by asking questions about your health and looking at your legs. Your doctor may also use duplex Doppler ultrasound to find out what is causing the ulcer. This test shows how well blood is moving through the lower leg.
Your doctor may use other tests to check for problems related to venous skin ulcers or to recheck the ulcer if it does not heal within a few weeks after the start of treatment.
How are they treated?
The first step involves improving blood circulation. To do this, you can:
- Lift your legs above the level of your heart as often as possible. For example, lie down and then prop up your legs with pillows.
- Wear compression stockings or bandages. These help prevent blood from pooling in your legs.
- Walk daily. Walking helps your blood circulation.
To help your ulcer heal, your doctor may also remove dead tissue from the wound (debridement).
After your ulcer has healed, continue to wear compression stockings. Take them off only when you bathe and sleep. Compression therapy helps your blood circulate and helps prevent other ulcers from forming.
If your ulcer doesn't heal within a few months, your doctor may advise other treatment, such as:
- Medicine to speed healing or get rid of an infection (antibiotics).
- Skin grafting, which may be needed for deep or hard-to-heal ulcers.
- Vein surgery, which may keep ulcers from coming back.


text:
1952, 1953, 1954 Chevy Two-Doors - TrifectaWritten by on May 1, 2009 Contributors: Randy Lorentzen Three Cousins' Early '50s Chevrolets
This is a story of coincidences, really. But it's also an interesting comparison of a trio of '50s rodded Chevys that are quite similar--yet different. The fact that they are owned by three cousins, and that they happen to be '52, '53, and '54 Chevy two-door post models, is coincidental.
The story goes back to what we might call the third coming of this magazine, when it reappeared after a long hiatus in December 1988. I was the new editor, and our direct competition was Street Rodder, which at the time had a cutoff year of 1948 for subject matter. So, given the more inclusive title of R&C, my intention was not only to feature '50s cars of the custom persuasion, but also to strongly push the building of '50s cars as rods, because they were extremely plentiful, affordable, easy to work on, and exactly what a lot of us drove to high school.
But at that time--it's kind of scary to think it was more than 20 years ago--there was very little available in the aftermarket for these cars, especially in the way of suspension, brakes, steering, engine/trans mounts, cooling systems, and so on. So R&C did three things. First we ran several articles like "Best Buys in '50s Cars," "How To Buy a '50s Car," and so on, showing prime examples. We also had artists sketch cool ways to rod (or customize) them, and I vouched that I would promote and publicize any kits or components the aftermarket would develop for these cars. To do this, I figured what we needed was a '50s project car to illustrate all of the above.
Unfortunately, I still had my grandfather's fat '48 Chevy four-door (among other things) in my garage and didn't need another project of my own. But it turned out my cousin David Ganahl had his grandparents' car sitting in his mom's garage. It was a clean, one-owner, '53 Chevy two-door that my friends and I wished we could have got when we were in high school. David inherited it, drove it for a while, and then let it sit. He was very amenable to having the magazine (i.e., me) "fix it up."
So Project Shoebox Chevy debuted in the August '89 issue, and it became the guinea pig for a whole gamut of how-to stories ranging from the now-ubiquitous Mustang II suspension and 350/350 combo to everything from media blasting, metalworking, custom paint/rubout to electric wipers and hidden trunk latches. This car's construction was fully covered in 20 articles, finally ending with a color feature in the November '93 issue. David and his wife Amy have been driving it ever since.
A further coincidence is that all three of these Chevys were "born" right here in R&C. After finishing Dave's '53 and having given my daily-driver '60 VW to my son, Bill, who had just turned 16, I realized that I needed a new project and that I should follow my own advice. So we ran an article in the May '94 issue titled "The Big Deal," in which I went shopping and found 30 '50s cars within a $3,500 price range, and bought a one-owner, no-rust, perfectly straight '52 Chevy, with original pink slip, plates, and owner's manual, for $1,500. In that article I also showed a couple photos of a very clean and complete '54 Chevy, noting that my "cousin-in-law Bob bought it for $1,700." Bob Walker is married to my first cousin, Vicky. I passed on the '54 because it had little dents all over it and the asking price was originally higher. But it turned out (coincidence) that Bob knew the owner and snatched it at a better price. He had a 305 TBI driveline out of a Trans Am to install and gave me the 235, three-speed, and necessary extras like the clutch and shift linkage to install in my Powerglide-equipped '52.
One of the reasons I got the Chevy in the first place was because I had plenty of Chevy six goodies, and my intention was to build an economical daily-driver with a mildly hopped-up six and the original driveline, much like I would have built in high school. With the 3.54:1 '52 rear, the rebuilt '54 engine (with two carbs, headers, and Isky cam), and trans and the stock front suspension lowered with Fat Man dropped spindles, I did just that for several years. Some Posies springs lowered the back; I put the American five-spokes on it that I couldn't afford as a kid, made my own set of scavenger pipes (we used to call them "cheaters"), and had Dave Gade upholster the inside with lots of white tuck-and-roll with green piping--something else I'd always wanted. I had already chosen a new Lincoln dark metallic/pearl green color for it, but somehow the paintjob kept getting put off. Surprisingly, the dingy original green lacquer buffed up nicely, and I had Stan Betz color-match it to spot in where I molded off some chrome. If you're a longtime R&C reader, you might remember articles in the July '94 and February and November '95 issues showing these modifications as I turned the car into my daily-driver. It ran great, was quite comfortable, got well over 25 mpg, and also got plenty of thumbs-up on the freeway for about 10,000 miles.
But there were a couple of problems. The '49-54 Chevy suspension/steering/brakes were a great improvement over the '48-earlier Knee-Action type, but something (asbestos?) got taken out of brake shoe relinings, and stopping was iffy with the rebuilt stock brakes. Also, with the car on such a rake, the long lower A-arms tended to hit on the ground in big dips on the freeway (not good). And, finally, they also took something out of the rope-type rear main seals for the '54 six, and I blew out six trying to remedy it before giving up. By that time (latter '90s), Heidt's had a weld-in Economy M-II suspension kit, complete with rack-and-pinion, dropped spindles, and 11-inch GM brakes. And Master Power Brakes had an under-the-floor Corvette power brake/pedal assembly. I had these installed by Frantic Fred Badberg, along with a low-mile '60s 283 sitting in another Street Rods Forever club member's garage, along with a free Turbo 350 I had rebuilt locally and a similarly priced early Nova 10-bolt rear. After rebuilding the engine and adding matched Edelbrock Performer cam, manifold, and carb, along with long-legged 2.73 rear gears, this combination is surprisingly peppy, yet still gets 25+ mpg. In fact, I recently had Fred add a semi-hidden Vintage Air system (my first-ever car with A/C!), which didn't hurt mileage but really helped on a summer trip to Phoenix.
Of course, all this time I was too busy using the car to stop and paint it, even though it was supposed to be the prime subject of a How To Paint Your Car book I was writing. Then I had a substantial setback when the hood flew up on the freeway, wrinkling much of the never-bent frontend and busting out the windshield. This precipitated a teardown of the car, some home-brewed metal straightening with a bottle-jack and 2x4s (and help from my intrepid wife, Anna), and finally a glossy coat of Lincoln Dark Jewel Green basecoat/clearcoat, inside and out, sprayed and rubbed out in my garage. See, that's the problem with the build-it-as-you-drive rod construction program. It takes a while, especially if you have unplanned setbacks.
While I had to drive mine as I worked on it, Bob knew his '54 would be a longer-term garage project. Having the aforementioned 305/700-R4 wrecking yard combo ready to install, he got a Heidt's bare crossmember, which he welded in himself, and went to the wrecking yard to get actual Mustang II A-arms, spindles, springs, steering, etc., along with GM brake discs and calipers. Bob also fabricated his own motor mounts, modified the stock K-member for a trans mount as well as his own concoction of a Mustang dual master cylinder and Corvette dual diaphragm power booster and custom under-floor pedal. Bob also used an early Nova 10-bolt rear (3.08 ratio), but had it narrowed inch with custom Mark Williams axles to fit the 8-inch early Americans in the narrow fenderwells. (I had the backs of my and David's wheels trimmed about inch by Eric Vaughn for clearance.) Bob did all of this, with his trusty Lincoln wire welder in his home garage, in about six months. But then this project stalled as he and Vicky bought a new house and got busy raising two very active teenage daughters.
So it took both of us, for different reasons, 14 years to finish these cars. Coincidence. And David's was started five years before that. But this yields some interesting comparisons. When we launched Dave's Project '53, we used an RB's Obsolete bolt-in crossmember kit (being about the only available) and got all the components, including brakes and strut rods, from a Mustang II at a wrecking yard. No under-floor power brakes were available, so we used a bolt-in non-power Corvette unit from ECI, but this provided marginal stopping until we swapped on Heidt's dropped spindles with 11-inch GM brakes. That's what's still in the car now, and the braking is less than optimum. Plus, with the front sitting so low, the brackets for the strut rods will hit the ground if David isn't careful on bumpy roads. Knowing this, I opted for Heidt's fabricated A-arms for my car, which eliminate the strut rods. Still, the M-II crossmember kissed the pavement a few times before I raised the front 1 inch with new, slightly stiffer springs.
When Bob first installed his M-II front, he also used the stock strut rods. But, seeing several improvements over the years, he recently opted for a Total Cost Involved retrofit lower A-arm setup using Firestone airbags instead of springs, eliminating the struts. But there's a twist. Bob's true daily-driver is a Peterbilt, so he knows how airbags work as suspension. (And, if you own your own big rig, it helps if you have the tools and talents to maintain it.) So there is no pump or tank in his '54; Bob plumbed his system with two air lines running to the rear, fitted with Schrader valves, which he can fill with a regular air hose and tire gauge. This makes the front ride fully adjustable, but he sets it where it looks and rides best and leaves it. He similarly added air shocks to the Posies rear springs so he can raise the back a bit when he has extra passengers.
A further comparison of these cars is that they are all garage-built. Since David's was a project to promote new products, it has a lot of aftermarket components. But I still did the majority of the work on it in my garage. Of course I built my own car in the same garage, doing a few things more than once. But Bob is even craftier and meticulous. That's another reason his took so long. He not only fabricated his own firewall, fender panels, fan shroud, etc., but he also wired the car, built the brakes and suspension, and so on. Further, he did things like adding or subtracting strips of metal to the hood edges to make it fit perfectly and spent similar time making the doors and trunk fit and latch. He doesn't do his own paint (he did the bodywork), but he made the painter respray the car three times before he got the right fine metallic in the Audi silver/pearl and got all parts to match. Even though it's totally built to drive, Bob's car is stunning in fit and finish.
Finally, it's no coincidence that Dave's and my cars look similar, since I built both. But the fact that Bob's is nearly identical in year, body style, stance, and wheel/tire choice is true coincidence. Dave and Bob are both a decade younger than I, so it's not an age thing. The only big differences in these cars are the exterior colors and the upholstery treatment. The fact that mine has a 283, Bob's has a 305, and Dave's is a 350 is simply interesting. They all run and drive very similarly. In fact, the biggest similarity among these three is that they were built to drive.
But that leaves one big question: are these rods or customs? The answer, of course, is yes and no. They're definitely not throw-back, tail-dragger customs with wide whites, lakes pipes, spots, and skirts. The mag wheels, big 'n' little blackwalls, slight rake, tachs, and floorshifts give them hot rod flavor. But all three have custom touches like dechroming, peaked hoods, custom taillights, a recessed license, a Frenched antenna, modified grilles, and so on.
They might not look as cool as their bagged and slammed brethren at the weekend cruise or show, and I'd lower mine some more if it didn't hit the ground. But I think all three of these boxy Chevys look pretty darn good, just like they would have in the high school parking lot 20, 30, or 40 years ago.
Rod & Custom Feature Car
Pat Ganahl
Glendale, California
1952 Chevrolet
This 283 was supposed to go in a Deuce in the '60s that never got built. Besides the Corvette valve covers and shaved rams' horn manifolds, I installed an Edelbrock Performer cam, manifold, carb, and even aluminum water pump combination, which really work well. The stock distributor has a Pertronix module. The wheels are new American Torque Thrust Ds, polished by Sihilling.
Body & Paint
I was going to weld and peak my hood, but decided a bull-nose strip made from two originals was simpler and nearly as effective. The no-name, no-teeth grille is made of '51 and '52 pieces. The one-piece windshield is '50 Olds. Besides nosing and decking, the only trim removed was DeLuxe script from the rear fenders. Restoring all the stainless took some work, but I like its art deco look. All bodywork, paint, and rubout was done in my garage.
I was originally going to upholster this car in tan glove leather, which would have given a totally different look. But I always wanted a car with all white tuck-and-roll, especially the headliner with contrasting piping. Upholsterer Dave Gade agreed. We looked all over for '50s loop-pile green carpet, but had to settle for cut-pile with white binding. I retained the stock ducts for fresh air, which works great but recently broke down, and installed a full A/C-heat system, which works even better. I rebuilt the stock gauges and converted them to 12-volt, restored the stock steering wheel and column, and hid the A/C controls and one vent behind the speaker grille. The shifter is a Lokar, and Anna gave me the Moon tach for Christmas.
Rod & Custom Feature Car
Dave Ganahl
Corona, California
1953 Chevrolet
Dave's 350 was essentially a "crate" TRW motor with a hotter cam, a full Edelbrock dual quad setup, modified Billet Specialties air cleaners and valve covers, coated Sanderson cast-iron headers, and Street and Performance brackets and pulleys for the shiny accessories. The trans is a B&M Turbo 350. Everything under the hood is painted peach pearl, with polished stainless or gold cad fasteners. The wheels are new American Torque Thrust Ds, polished by Sihilling.
Body & Paint
The hood was peaked by Birdman, who cut a piece out of a spare fender and hammer-welded it in, making the hood one piece. The bumpers are shaved, four extra teeth are added to the grille, and brush-finish was used on much of the chrome and stainless for subtle contrast. Given all the Tangelo Pearl cars lately, we'd say this Peach Pearl mixed by Stan Betz was ahead of its time. We put '54 taillights with Butch's custom lenses and I recessed the rear plate and made a hidden trunk latch. We also recessed the custom-made stainless pencil tip exhausts into the shaved bumper.
Dave Gade, of Corona, upholstered the '53 in gray mohair and Wilton carpet, and the dash and other trim is painted gray metallic. An ididit column and LeCarra wheel match, and Rod-Tech custom-machined the panel for Moon gauges as a prototype. The floor shift is a B&M cut down, with a pearl and gray custom knob. Vintage Air and power wipers reside under the dash, and a remote stereo and amp mount under the seat.
Rod & Custom Feature Car
Bob Walker
Claremont, California
1954 Chevrolet
The Throttle Body Injected 305 and 700-R4 came from a low-mile '89 Trans Am. All Bob did was rebuild the heads and add coated Sanderson headers. Accessories are black powdercoated. Bob also reworked the firewall, inner fenders, and mounts for the Mattson radiator and fans. Bob narrowed an early Nova 10-bolt rearend inch to fit the wheels, requiring custom Mark Williams axles. It rolls on polished '60s straight-spoke American wheels, 7s in front and 8 rears.
Body & Paint
Bob had a pro shop weld a peak in his hood, but did the rest of the bodywork himself, including shaving the nose, deck, and the rocker moldings. The beautiful color is '99 Audi Arrow Silver, mixed with fine metallic and a touch of pearl. The undersides of the hood and trunk are painted and finished like the outside. Bob's '54 has four extra grille teeth, a '49 guard over the rear plate, and custom taillight lenses.
Manny's Custom Interiors in San Bernardino sculpted gray leather and suede over the stock seats and installed a one-piece leather headliner. It's not only comfortable, it smells really good! All three cars retain stock seats. The steering wheel was custom-made by one of Bob's friends. It mounts on an ididit column. VDO gauges mount in a Rod-Tech panel. And Bob not only wired the car with a Ron Francis system, but also installed the Air-Tique A/C himself. The trunk is also upholstered and holds components of the 1,100-watt stereo system Bob built from Pioneer, Infinity, and Rockford-Fosgate components.


text:
HOME CBS Appalachian State Mountaineers Gear Appalachian State Mountaineers Hats (27 items) Product ID: 868312
Main Content
If it was socially acceptable, you'd be down on the field shouting orders to your Mountaineers and pushing them towards another victory. Instead, get the same look that your favorite Mountaineers athletes are sporting on the sidelines with this On-Field Gametek II fitted hat by The Game! It features an embroidered Mountaineers logo on the crown, the conference name on the back and breathable Gametek II fabric, offering the ultimate in comfort and cool Appalachian State style. Don't get overlooked in the stands this season; this hat will assure that you stand out in proper Appalachian State fashion.
- Contrast color under bill
- Fitted
- Gametek hat featuring patented Q-MAX fabric for rapid absorption, swift dispersion, fast drying, breathability and comfort
- Imported
- Officially licensed Mountaineers on-field cap
- Quality embroidery
- Six panels with eyelets
- Structured fit
- 100% Polyester fabric
- Imported
- Brand: The Game
Mountaineers Customers also liked:
Special event items are produced by manufacturers only after the outcome of a game or event. These are advanced sale items and will ship immediately after they are received in our warehouse.
Manufacturer direct items are shipped directly from the manufacturer. These items are not available for international or expedited shipping.
Customized items can be personalized with options such as your name, your favorite number, and/or designs. Some options may be limited by league rules.


text:
Area golfers are aware how difficult a course the Highlands near Hutchinson is. The Pratt High School golf team, along with 11 other schools, took on the treacherous layout on Monday in a meet hosted by Nickerson.
Maize South won the event with a top-4-men score of 307; Pratt High was well back in the pack with 426.
Scores for the Greenbacks were Navarre Strapp 105; Spencer Sullivan 105; Alec Hampton 106; Tyler Skaggs 110; Skylar Stalcup 112 and Hunter Walker 112. None finished in the top ten, which is what it took to medal at this meet.
PHS head coach Andy Kisner said, "The Highlands is a difficult course. It's always a challenge for an inexperienced team or anyone who is not accurate off the tee."
"In addition," Kisner continued, "the greens had recently been aerated and were not easy to putt."
Kisner was, however, encouraged by the improvement made by his returning players who played the Highlands last year. Skaggs improved 2 strokes from last year, Hampton took off 18 strokes and Sullivan shaved a whopping 29 strokes from his score last year. It is apparent that progress is being made by the Frog golfers.
On Friday at 3 p.m., the Greenback linksters will travel to Lake Anthony to make up the previously postponed High Chaparral meet. Kisner said, "It should be a course more suited to our level of play at this time."
Follow Pratt sports on twotter @NeilD_Tribune
Location, ST | website.com


text:
Academic Calendar
1. What type of financial aid does SGTC offer?
SGTC offers the HOPE Grant, HOPE Scholarship, Federal Pell Grant, Federal Work Study and FSEOG.
2. What is the difference between HOPE Grant and HOPE Scholarship?
Georgia residents who are attending a Georgia public technical college to earn a certificate or diploma are eligible for HOPE Grant regardless of high school graduation date.
HOPE Scholarship is for Georgia residents who are attending a Georgia public technical college to earn an associate's degree. To qualify the student must be a 1993 or later graduate of a Georgia high school and have a cumulative "B" average at the time of graduation (3.0 for college prep; 3.2 in technical curriculum track). The student must maintain the "B" average at each checkpoint.
3. Can I complete my FAFSA application for the Pell Grant on-line?
Yes, you can go to www.fafsa.ed.gov to complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. You will need income tax returns (1040, 1040A etc.) for you and/or your parents, W-2's and any other income information for the previous year. SGTC Financial Aid office has a Resource Lab available for students to apply on-line.
4. What is SGTC's school code?
Our school code is 005617. This school code is needed when you complete the FAFSA application on-line.
5. Does SGTC offer student loans?
No, South Georgia Tech does not participate in any Title IV loan programs.
6. Am I eligible for Pell if I am accepted as Learning Support?
No, because Federal regulations require a student to be fully accepted into an eligible program of study before receiving the Pell grant. Students must be accepted into their program of study as Provisional or Regular to be eligible.
7. How often do I need to apply for financial aid?
You apply one time a year for the Federal Pell Grant. We ask you to re-apply starting in February of each year once income tax returns have been completed. The financial aid year is from July 1 – June 30 of the following year. Everyone must re-apply for the Pell Grant before Fall semester no matter when you first apply.
The HOPE Grant/Scholarship is a one-time only application and does not have to be updated.
8. Do I have to use my parent's income information on my FAFSA application if I live on my own and support myself?
If all of the questions in Section 2 (Student Dependency Status) of the FAFSA application are answered "NO", students MUST provide parents' income information.
9. How much money do I have to make to qualify for Pell Grant?
The income limits vary from student to student. Eligibility is based on several factors including the number of family members, number in college and family income. This is how the EFC (Expected Family Contribution) is determined.
10. Do I have to attend full time to receive financial aid?
No, you can take one class and receive financial aid. However, the amount of Pell Grant you receive each semester is based on your enrollment.
11. What time of the semester are Pell checks given out to students?
Pell checks are disbursed at the end of the 4th week of class. The Business Office prepares the checks and notify instructors and students when the refund checks are ready to be mailed. Other batches occur during the semester.
12. Do I need to make an appointment to come into the Financial Aid Office for assistance?
No, our office is open 8:00 – 4:30 Monday – Thursday and 8:00 – 4:00 on Friday. We can also be reached at 229-931-2319 or 1-800-928-0283. The Cordele Campus is 229-271-4043


text:
I have been following the progress of the ubuntu-touch, mostly via blog posts, and YouTube(am loving every video of it). But, as far as i can tell, popular apps like WhatsApp, Viber, etc... are yet to be ported to the ubuntu-touch.
Apps like whosthere(WhatsApp replacement) has been discontinued.
Question: How can I dual-boot android with the ubuntu-touch.
Note: I'm using samsung galaxy s2 as my main phone.


text:
Irving Penn
American, 1917–2009
Picasso at La Californie, Cannes, France, 1957, printed 1973
Platinum-palladium print, edition 32/45
49.6 x 49.6 cm (image); 63.3 x 55.6 cm (paper); 66.1 x 55.6 cm (mount)
Typed label, verso: "PICASSO [underlined] / Photograph by Irving Penn / Copyright © 1960 by Irving Penn / Not to be reproduced without written / permission of The Conde Nast Publications Inc. / and the copyright owner."; inscribed verso: "1114 [in a circle]"; inscribed verso: "Wiggins-Teague Paper on Aluminum / Multiple coating and Printing / 1 [in a circle] Platinum / 2 [in a circle] Platinum-palladium / Print made 1973"; signed verso: "Irving Penn [in a circle]"; inscribed verso: "32/45"; stamped verso: "Hand-coated by the photographer"; stamped and inscribed verso: "In addition to 45 prints of this / image in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed, silver prints not exceeding 30 may exist."; stamped verso: "Deacidified."
Restricted gift of Mrs. Leigh B. Block, 1977.908
View enlargement
Email to a friend
Print this page
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, "Irving Penn, A Career in Photography," November 22, 1997–February 1, 1998; traveled to St. Petersburg, Russia, State Hermitage Museum, March 1–May 16, 1998; Hamburg, Germany, Deichtorhallen, June 18–September 6, 1998; Munich, Germany, Müchner Stadtmuseum, October 6, 1998–February 21, 1999; San Francisco, California, Friends of Photography/Ansel Adams Center for Photography, November 11, 1999–January 23, 2000; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 25–June 4, 2000; Paris, France, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, September 13–November 5, 2000. (Colin Westerbeck)
Publication History
Penn, Irving. 1960. "Moments Preserved." Simon and Schuster. p. 39. (other print of this image)
Bunker, George R. 1972. "Alexey Brodovitch and His Influences." Exh. cat. Philadelphia College of Art/Consolidated/Drake Press. p. 12. (other print of this image)
Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Turin. 1975. "I platini di Irving Penn: 25 anni di fotografia." Exh. cat. Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna/Ages Arti Grafiche. p. 31. (other print of this image)
Varnedoe, Kirk. 1976. "Modern Portraits: the Self and Others." Exh. cat. Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University/Wildenstein Gallery. p. 125, fig. 92. (other print of this image)
Marlborough Gallery, New York. 1977. "Irving Penn: Photographs in Platinum Metals, Images 1947–1975." Exh. cat. Marlborough Gallery. n.pag., cat. 71. (other print of this image)
Museum Ludwig. 1984. "Sammlung Gruber: Photographie des 20. Jarhunderts." Exh. cat. Museum Ludwig. p. 343. (other print of this image)
Penn, Irving. 1991. "Passage: A Work Record." Knopf. p. 131. (other print of this image)
Photology. 1992. "Irving Penn: People in Passage." Photology. p. 27. (other print of this image)
Westerbeck, Colin. 1997. "Irving Penn: A Career in Photography." Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago/Bulfinch Press. p. 114, cat. 87, pl. 64.
Greenough, Sarah. 2005. "Irving Penn: Platinum Prints." Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art/Yale University Press. pl. 37. (other print of this image)
Keaney, Magdalene. 2010. "Irving Penn Portraits." Exh. cat. National Portrait Gallery, London. p. 49, pl. 17. (other print of this image/variant in gelatin silver)
Ownership History
Marlborough Gallery, New York [then the artist's representative], by September 1977; sold to the Art Institute, 1977.


text:
Dressing for Pregnancy: Top 10 Maternity Clothes Tips
9 of 11
Exercise Clothes
On casual days, go ahead and reach for your stretchy yoga pants, cozy zip-up hoodies, broken-in sports bras, and stretchy, breathable tank tops as maternity clothes. No one said you have to be as put together as usual throughout your pregnancy. Sometimes you just need a comfy Sunday to veg out and avoid constricting clothing.
Next: Your Partner's Clothes


text:
"Fashion For Good is a wonderful opportunity for students and faculty from around the world to get together with the fashion industry and try to promote good citizenship, inclusion, and moral values."
Wilma King and a friend thought up the idea for Fashion For Good one afternoon while sitting in her driveway.
"We got excited about it. We didn't know that it what ever get so big."
Next week King and students from Kentucky and Italy will meet up for Fashion for Good week in Italy.
"We'll be working with homeless perhaps or hungry or whatever they want us do, is what we'll do."
King says she has a hard time not getting star struck with the impressive designers helping out with Fashion For Good.
"Anna Fendi is going to be on a panel with us in Rome. We have the former head designer for Armani who is now in business for himself. We have Cosmo Gucci."
A leader with the design house, Alta Roma, is already doing his part to include others in society with fashion.
"One wonderful thing he has done is to work with women in prison and utilize their skills in fashion somehow."
King hopes the trip becomes an annual event that can teach respect and human dignity to all involved.
There are 11 students from Kentucky going on the trip with King. Most of them are public relations majors. While in Italy they will also get the chance to work at the Fashion Institute of Technology. They will also visit "The Last Supper" painting and other historic sites in Rome.
For more information on Fashion For Good click:


text:
Vintage Mexican S/S Hinged Bangle Bracelet Inlaid w/Bakelite
Product Details
A fantastic vintage Mexican sterling and Bakelite bracelet from the 1980's! This wide hinged bangle has a wonderful, bold look and is made of sterling silver. Inlaid in the front of the piece are 3 circles of gorgeous Bakelite which has deep hues of brown, red, and orange. The sterling bracelet is hinged and clasps on the side and graduates in width and thickness. There is a safety clasp on the side and the inside is stamped "TP-04", "MEXICO", and "925". This bracelet would rest nicely on an average size wrist and makes a bold statement when worn!
Measurement: The width of the bracelet graduates in size measuring 1" at the widest and 5/8" at the thinnest and graduates in depth ranging from slightly less than 1/4" to slightly less than 1/2". The inside opening (where your wrist would rest) measures approximately 2 1/8" wide and 2 1/4" tall.
Condition: The overall condition of this bracelet is excellent. Besides normal surface wear, there is no apparent damage to the sterling or to any of the inlaid circles of Bakelite. The clasp is snug and secure and the hinge in good working condition.


text:
The Growth Deficit
A modest first-quarter rebound, but not enough to lift the middle class.
The U.S. economy hit a new milestone in the first quarter of 2013: Annual output of goods and services eclipsed $16 trillion. The 2.5% growth pace in GDP through March seems like a wild night on the town after the 0.4% slog at the end of 2012.
That's the good news. The bad news is that this recovery is still half the pace of the normal expansion. The Joint Economic Committee reports that if the economy had grown at the typical pace coming out of recession, at this stage GDP would be closer to $17.4 trillion. This $1.4 trillion growth deficit is roughly the size of the combined annual production of Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania in 2011.
Related Video
Consumer spending drove about 90% of the GDP growth in the quarter with an assist from a long-delayed but robust housing recovery (12.6% in the last quarter on top of 12.1% growth in 2012). One disappointment was the humdrum 2.1% pace of business spending on plant, machinery and computers. Business spending is one of the best predictors of future hiring and wage increases, so this suggests continued tough times for workers ahead.
The national income data, also released on Friday, explain a lot about the initial impact of the tax increases that hit in January. By the middle of last year, the White House made it known that it would insist on letting the Bush era tax cuts on dividends, capital gains and personal income rise for individuals earning more than $200,000. The health-care law also raised payroll taxes by another 0.9% on higher income earners, on top of the two-percentage-point increase that hit all wage earners.
The result seems to have been one of the largest shifts in the timing of income in American history. From the third to the fourth quarter of 2012, personal income soared by $262 billion despite anemic 0.4% GDP growth. Then in the first three months of 2013 incomes fell $109 billion.
Some of the first quarter's decline in personal income (about $30 billion) was due to the expiration of the payroll tax holiday in January. But individuals and businesses clearly accelerated income into 2012 to evade the higher tax rates arriving in 2013.
This effect is evident in reported dividend income. That figure rose to $862 billion in 2012's fourth quarter as many corporations cut special dividends at the end of the year to pay the expiring 15% dividend tax rate. In the first three months of this year, dividends fell to $740 billion even as the tax rate rose to 23.8%. Those who claim that taxes don't affect behavior should explain that one.
The dividend and personal income windfall from late last year may partly explain the healthy increase in consumer spending in January and February despite the big payroll-tax increase. Consumer spending wasn't as robust in March, and the longer-term worry is that higher tax rates on business and investment income will dampen economic activity and funding for new enterprises.
It's been 15 quarters since the economy hit its recession trough in June 2009. The growth rate (on an annual basis) has since averaged 2.1%, or half the 4.4% average rate of the past nine recoveries. The Reagan expansion averaged 5.3% through the same 15 quarters, according to the Joint Economic Committee. The current expansion's subpar growth performance explains why unemployment remains so stubbornly high and median household incomes after inflation are nearly $3,000 below where they were when the recession ended.
The White House was quick to blame the spending sequester for deterring faster growth. Chief White House economist Alan Krueger warned that the sequester's "arbitrary and unnecessary cuts to government services will be a headwind in the months to come, and will cut key investments in the nation's future competitiveness."
The reality is that government spending did decline by 4.1% in the quarter, and this shaved 0.8% off a GDP calculation that counts government spending as a plus no matter what it is spent on. But 75% of those federal cuts were in defense, which the White House wants to cut. When defense spending fell during the 1990s, GDP still rose at a faster pace because private growth was so much stronger.
What we are experiencing now is not some "austerity" shock but a slow downward adjustment in government spending to a still high 22.7% of GDP from the unprecedented high of President's Obama's first term average of 24%. Those spending levels weren't sustainable, unless you want to send federal debt as a share of GDP even higher than the 76.6% it is expected to reach this year.
We are now in year five of what has been one of the great experiments in Keynesian economic policy. We were told that if Congress would spend $830 billion more temporarily, and the Federal Reserve would unleash monetary policy, a recovery would begin and rapid growth would resume. Larry Summers, Alan Krueger, Jared Bernstein and their allies on Wall Street got their policy wishes. Their economy has delivered mediocre growth and declining middle-class incomes—though we will concede that the wealthy have done well as the stock market has recovered.
So now the same Keynesians say the spending blowout wasn't large or long enough, taxes still aren't high enough, and monetary policy hasn't been easy enough. What this economy really needs is a statute of limitations on intellectual denial.


text:
I am not a writer (yet!), but I have been working in the computer field for over 10 years and would love to put in some time volunteering my services as a subject matter expert (SME) for programming and computer related story components. Is there a central place that such SMEs can peddle their knowledge? Is anyone in need here?
Short answer:
For better or for worse, writers that need fact checking generally do their own research (or ask a friend). This may have to do with the fact that writers don't like "outsiders" meddling in the creative process.
But...people who have access to a unique cultural context or deep understanding in a specific area of knowledge often have compelling and insightful perspectives to volunteer.
Don't wait for others to come to you, find your literary voice and produce your narrative!
I seem to be repeating myself a lot, but I would recommend creating an account at CritiqueCircle. This is a web site where people volunteer to read each other's work and offer feedback and critiques on the story as well as the writing in general. Your expertise might be handy for some writers, and this would be a good place for you to let people know about it. You can also take advantage of the site to find other folks who can read your work and help you out as you develop your story. The site is free and they offer a number of handy tools to help writers.
I'll have to agree with the simple, "No," regarding the existence of a one-stop experts forum for consulting work, but depending on how well rounded your skills are across some specific disciplines there are a few very satisfying ways you might be able to volunteer your services. I'm only going to mention two here for the sake of brevity.
Become an alpha or beta reader for someone you respect. It can be both enjoyable and rewarding to be a reader for a good writer. The other way I have in mind might be outside the scope of what you have in mind, but if you want to become a writer yourself there are few better ways than to become a writer's personal assistant. It's probably not given as much attention as it should be, but many writers at the very top of the food chain use one or more research assistants. Obviously, this is a much harder situation to get yourself into, but much like young photographers who find a mentor and simply follow them around incessantly until they let you work for them, this or an equally persistent approach may be what it takes to get you that edge into the writing industry. It probably sound obnoxious, and it is, but sometimes a writer's got to do what a writer's got to do.


text:
What we do
PHA provides complete integrated Digital and Social networking PR solutions. We conceptualise and strategise. We design, build, host, maintain and we optimise, seed and measure.
We deliver engaging, integrated digital campaigns, design and build websites and microsites. We plan, create, manage and engage with Social communities, produce viral and promo videos and establish blogger outreach programmes.
Whatever the digital platform or channel, our in-house Creative Strategy teams work with you, helping you to tell your story, turning your online audience from viewers into participants.
Get in touch
We have expertise in
Social Networks
Our in house Creative Strategy and social media experts plan, design, launch and maintain complete social networking solutions, including Community Engagement, Content creation and daily Management solutions across multiple social channels.
We develop bespoke integrated campaigns, create engaging content, from branded messaging or topical content, through to video or Infographics; all delivered as weekly content plans. We establish and engage with Key Influencers, integrate Blogger outreach, and monitor and engage with your audience on a daily basis, constantly evaluating trends to maximise online brand reach.
Websites & Microsites
We conceptualise, design and develop fully responsive sites, from holding pages and micro sites through comprehensive, scalable website solutions.
Working with our experienced In-house Creative Designers, our Creative Strategy teams project manage from start to launch, including UX wire frames, technical specifications and cross platform testing. We provide secure hosting, on-going content management and analytics. We develop future proofed Content Management Systems, and all of our sites are designed to be fully responsive, providing a seamless user experience whatever the platform.
Viral & Promo videos
Our Creative Producers and in-house production teams provide a range of moving image video solutions, from promotional show-reels, viral videos and video podcasts through to motion graphics, stop motion videos and photography.
We plan and storyboard, creating either fully optimized video projects or integrated campaigns, all designed to engage and create impact as well as increasing your online brand presence.
Creative & Digital Services
Along with one off social campaigns, we also provide a range of individual services, from channel strategies and key Influencer mapping through to Blogger Engagement, sentiment and brand monitoring, SEO strategies and Digital consultancy.
We design and create complimentary digital channels, from E-Newsletters through to HTML newsletters, helping you tell your stories across multiple channels, ensuring your brand cuts through the digital noise.
Our Case Studies
Who we work with
Brand Alley
Red Driving School
King of Soho Gin
Dormeo Octaspring
Jacqueline Gold
Fabrice Muamba
Vin X
David Gold
Goals Soccer centres
We've got a really great team handling our social media content.
We've worked with PHA for the past year, and their enthusiasm and dedication to the brand has been second to none. Their day to day implementation is efficient and consistent and managed by a friendly team


text:
Please enter a maximum of 5 recipients. Use ; to separate more than one email address.
The proposed PDH facility would primarily use the propane recovered at Williams' existing fractionation facility in Redwater, Alberta, and convert it into polymer-grade propylene, a petrochemical feedstock used in plastics manufacturing. Financial details were not disclosed.
Fluor was awarded a contract by Williams to provide
preliminary engineering services for a proposed propane
dehydrogenation (PDH) project near Redwater, Alberta,
Canada, the companies announced on Thursday.
Fluor said it booked the contract in the fourth quarter of
2012 for an undisclosed value.
The proposed PDH facility would primarily use the propane
recovered at Williams existing fractionation facility in
Redwater, Alberta, and convert it into polymer-grade propylene,
a petrochemical feedstock used in plastics
Fluor is pleased to have been selected by Williams to
provide preliminary engineering services for what would be
Canadas first propane dehydrogenation facility,
said Peter Oosterveer, president of Fluors energy and
chemicals group.
We are encouraged by the opportunities that the expansion of the Canadian oil sands
provides for the chemicals industry in North America.
Fluors offices in Calgary, Alberta, and Greenville,
South Carolina, will be responsible for the design services
along with support from the companys office in New Delhi,
All comments are subject to editorial review.
All fields are compulsory.
Nassereddin Eftekhar
Congt. to Fluor! A quite encouraging news! Landing first Canadian PDH plant in Alberta and hence more to come from the marvelous Canadian Oil Sands!
Sign-up for the Free Daily HP Enewsletter!
A searchable database of project activity in the global hydrocarbon processing industry
Engineers and designers are highly skilled individuals. Forcing them to enter design changes using tables, forms and spreadsheets is unproductive and uneconomical, and it increases the likelihood of human error—this is the way that most instrumentation software systems currently work. For too long, software vendors have denied engineers and designers the simple practicality of a graphical visual engineering interface with "drag and drop" capability and inbuilt intelligence, ensuring changes are automatically replicated into all the associated data and databases.
Is 2016 the peak for US gasoline demand?
Too soon to tell
July 2016


text:
Sure, hes an excitable guy.
Sure, he loves to complain.
But Regis Philbin loves life . . . and with the wildly unpredictable one hes led so far, who wouldnt? After five decades in show businessand nearly 17,000 unforgettable hours on televisionhe has a lifetimes worth of stories to share.
In this entertaining memoir, the irrepressible Reegeconsummate talk-show host, man-about-town, loving husband, father, and yes, obsessive sports fanlooks back at his years in show business. How I Got This Way is filled with stories of lessons learnedand elbows rubbedwith extraordinary, and often unsuspecting, teachers: David Letterman; Donald Trump; George Clooney; Howard Stern; Jack Nicholson; legendary Notre Dame coaches Frank Leahy, Ara Parseghian, and Lou Holtz; and, of course, longtime cohosts Kathie Lee Gifford and Kelly Pippa Ripa; as well as his own lovely wife, Joyto name just a few.
Whether hes revealing what really drove him bonkers on the set of Seinfeld, how he survived the first known bomb scare on live TV, what Jack Nicholson said about his beautiful leading ladies during their guys night out together, or poignant memories of his last moments with his idol and dear friend, Jack Paar, Regis packs every page with his signature heart, wit, dynamic energy, and gratitude for everything life has brought him.
About the Author
Regis Philbin has been entertaining television audiences for more than fifty years, in daytime reigning as a beloved morning-show host, in nighttime as an Über game-show host, and also as a fixture on national and local late-night shows. He is most widely known for Live! With Regis and Kathie Lee and its subsequent incarnation Live! With Regis and Kelly; Who Wants to Be a Millionaire; Million Dollar Password; and the first season of Americas Got Talent. Regis is the proud recipient of five Emmy Awards, including a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, a Broadcasting & Cable Lifetime Achievement Award, the Walter Camp Distinguished American Award at Yale University, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2006 Regis was inducted into both the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame and the Television Academys Hall of Fame. Regis lives in New York and Connecticut with his lovely wife, Joy.
Praise For…
Essential for all popular collections.
-Library Journal
Others have come and gone, but the breezy Philbin is still here. What you see on TV is what you get in this book. Fans will love it.
-Kirkus Reviews