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5 Turncoats Who Changed the Tide of History
#2. Igor Gouzenko
The Man:
A Russian spy stationed in Canada.
Changed Everything By:
Starting the freaking Cold War.
Via Rebelblackdot.blogspot.com
Not the jolliest-looking chap, is he?
Wait, What?
Igor Gouzenko was a Soviet secret message decoder stationed in Canada, of all places. And he was stationed there immediately following WWII, before anyone actually figured out that the wartime friendship between the West and the Soviets wasn't exactly rock solid.
Through Igor's hands passed thousands of secret messages that showed the Soviets were spying on Western governments to steal nuclear secrets -- poor form for a best friend who tag-teamed Hitler out of Europe. And when the Soviets got ready to bring their comrade back home, presumably so his mind wouldn't be clouded by the evils of hockey and maple syrup, Gouzenko freaked out. He turned himself in to Canadian authorities, hoping for a chance to give his family a good life sans communism.
Unfortunately for him, nobody believed his story.
Via Rebelblackdot.blogspot.com
But he looks so trustworthy and sane.
The government and the press all figured he was nuts. Nobody dreamed that the friendly Soviet "Nazi-Whooping" Union would dog a bro like that. This understandably scared Gouzenko, because by now the USSR knew what he was up to, and his life quickly turned into the plot of a Jason Bourne movie.
Luckily, he managed to convince the authorities before he could become the victim of an unfortunate "accident." The Canadian Mounties took him into protection while they tried to figure out how to best break it to the government that quiet, polite Canada was about to become embroiled in a major, possibly nuclear international incident. When the news finally made its way to Prime Minister Mackenzie King, the PM had a really bad morning.
King's first reaction was to sweep the whole thing under the carpet, slap Stalin on the back and say no harm done. But the media got hold of the story and ran with it, exposing to the world that the Soviets had an elaborate espionage program in Canada, America and Britain. Even amid the growing media pressure and the outrage coming out of the United States, King was in a hurry to pussy out, and wrote to Uncle Joe begging the USSR to forgive him for busting the spy ring, saying, "The measures taken against spies in Canada were not and are not directed against the Soviet Union and Generalissimo Stalin."
"Are we still cool, bro?"
The whole debacle became known to history as the "Gouzenko Affair" and is generally seen as the start of the Cold War. Gouzenko himself had to wear a disguise for the rest of his life to protect himself, not only from Soviet agents, but from regular people who were quite happy not having the threat of nuclear apocalypse hanging over their heads for the most part of a century.
Interestingly, the beginning of the end of the Cold War would come decades later, thanks to yet another defector ...
#1. Oleg Gordievsky
The Man:
A Soviet spy tasked with collecting intel from the British and sending it back to Mother Russia.
Changed Everything By:
Preventing a goddamned nuclear war.
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He did it by winning a good old-fashioned arm wrestling match with Reagan.
Wait, What?
Oleg Gordievsky was a KGB agent who lost faith in the Soviet experiment sometime in the '60s, and he contacted British intelligence agency MI6 to find out if they might be interested in making friends. So while Oleg was stationed at the British Soviet embassy with the task of smuggling secrets back to the motherland, he was spending his free time filtering secrets in the other direction. It seems only fair.
Then in 1983, NATO started a routine war game called Able Archer 83. War games, if you remember your '80s movies, were that thing where nuclear powers test out what they would do if the other nuclear powers got frisky. The only problem was that relations between the powers were so icy that the U.S. couldn't exactly give the USSR a quick text letting them know it was all a game. And it didn't help matters that by 1983, the Soviets were as paranoid as shit, specifically believing that a nuclear attack from the West would come under the guise of one of these war exercises.
Dude, Monopoly is not a war game.
The only person who knew both that Able Archer was a harmless drill and that the Soviets were about to kill everyone because of it was Oleg Gordievsky. His role as a double agent put him in a unique position to know what was going on with both sides. He thus managed to let the West know that the Soviets had their hands on the big red button. Until then, NATO didn't have a clue that the exercises were even making Russia nervous, let alone bringing the world as close to nuclear war as the Cuban Missile Crisis.
It's almost entirely because of Gordievsky's arbitration that the U.S. finally understood that the USSR was genuinely afraid of a nuclear strike, and their trash-talking wasn't just a case of one-dimensional supervillainy. That revelation is what pushed the Americans toward peace talks -- as former President Ronald Reagan said in his autobiography, "...I was even more anxious to get a top Soviet leader in a room alone and try to convince him we had no designs on the Soviet Union and Russians had nothing to fear from us." Yep, sometimes the only thing standing between the world and utter destruction is one guy willing to sell out his comrades.
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Not a hat. Those are his eyebrows.
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Scott's tax tour targets local revenues
Gov. Rick Scott is on a "listening tour" to gather input about potential tax cuts he may propose when the Legislature reconvenes next March. But the list of cuts he has identified during tour stops so far would disproportionately come from local government revenues, not the state, and force further belt-tightening for cities and counties still reeling from falling property tax revenues and staff cuts. Worse, the biggest headwinds facing Floridians are a stubborn jobless rate and persistent wage stagnation, not taxes. Tax cuts being pondered won't produce either jobs or higher wages or will simply fatten the bottom lines of existing businesses, most of them out of state.
Three of the taxes getting the most attention are property taxes, sales taxes and franchise fees. Florida's constitution prohibits the state from levying property taxes, so any cuts would have to be Tallahassee-mandated cuts foisted on strapped localities. The Legislature has already handcuffed local governments with millage rate restrictions and further muddied an already overly complex tax system with its inscrutable roll-back rates.
Sales tax holidays are popular, but offer negligible benefits — $34.7 million in sales tax savings in 2013, of which $6.4 million came out of local revenue — while merely shifting consumer spending from one period to another. According to the Tax Foundation, a non-partisan tax research group, any employment bump associated with tax holidays would be by definition short-term. The savings consumers do realize during tax holidays is meager and deceiving. A University of West Florida study found that retail prices rose during tax holidays, biting into consumer savings and syphoning up to 20 percent of those "savings" into retailers' pockets, the vast majority of which are operated by out-of-state corporations.
Franchise fees and services taxes are naturally frustrating to residents because businesses that must pay the fees or taxes — cable providers, telephone companies, power and water utilities, etc. — invariably pass on the cost to their customers. The Legislature already took away the ability of local governments to impose franchise fees on cable companies under the guise of fostering competition in the industry. (Forgive the snark, but have you enjoyed the array of cable TV choices in Polk County since the state took over franchising authority in 2007?)
Franchise fees remains a significant part of local government revenues. For example, Punta Gorda received $4.1 million in revenue from electric, gas, bottled water and communication fees and taxes in 2012-2013. If Gov. Scott wanted to give residents a tax break without taking it out of local governments' bank account, how about a law prohibiting companies from passing through these levies to their customers? Even if franchise fee relief does pass the Legislature, we're skeptical consumers would see a dollar for dollar reduction, while local governments would be forced to recoup the losses through property taxes or cuts services, infrastructure investment and more jobs.
It would be a far better use of Scott's time to return to Tallahassee and convene a commission to find a way to reform Florida's broken tax structure, so that our economic and political system isn't intractably linked to special interest lobbying, election year pandering and the business cycle. It costs money to run a state. When political opportunists stop trying to paint all government as an unnecessary evil and realize it is simply us collectively governing ourselves, we can divide up the costs equitably and focus on making government better.
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Has Hell frozen over? Are Pigs flying? DailySteals customers READ this!
See my topic on problems with Daily Steals-
Jump to the end to see how it turned out! It seems they hired a "Customer Retention Manager" and BOY did she come through for ME! In short, they promised to refund my two purchases that were defective, claimed to have stopped dealing with that specific supplier, and promised to overhaul their shipping department so that packaging will improve. On top of that, they gave me a coupon good for money off a future purchase! It seems they are finally taking customer service seriously! I created this thread to give them a fair shake, since the old post may not be seen by all who read it originally!
If you've had a bad experience with DailySteals.com, I urge you to contact her. Maybe she can help you out as well! What have you got to lose?
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Cool. Lets see how long it will hold up that good.
It's very hard for a company that already has made me frustrated to come out clean again in my books.
Glad you had a good experience (finally)! But you might want to see if the mods can remove the actual amount of the coupon code... Now Emma is going to have a torrent of "I had a bad experience, where is my coupon?" emails, which is only going to hinder her ability to resolve issues.
But you still have to use the coupon on their site, where chances are you're going to get more defective items and have to go through all this all over again :/ I wish Dailysteals would just fix the real issue of upping their quality control and stop making false promises.
@luvche21: Agreed. Burned too many times, it's tough to rebuild that trust.
Did Woot do something?
You make a good point! I replied in my email response to her that I would use the coupon as a test to see how things go. I look at it as a way to try them out again for free. Now I just need to wait until something comes up close to that amount. Bear in mind I was out $210 at one point, so the coupon amount may be based on that.
By the same token, I hope she IS flooded with emails from some of the others who lost money, and we'll see how dedicated they are to "customer retention!"
As far as trying them again, as long as they keep their word and make me whole, I'll try again. If I were to have another bad experience, I would definitely not be done with them!
@caffeine_dude: "Did Woot do something?" Aside from removing some of my negative comments from their deals...
Seriously though, there was a mod in the original thread who was going to look into whether or not DS should be banned from posting deals. Don't know if they actually made contact.
I'll be the first to admit I was wrong, (if it ever happens!) I'll bitch to everyone I can, but if they make me happy, I'll make sure to let everyone know that as well!
I have been very sceptical, about the whole apocalypse thing, but after this I am not so sure. I beleive this was mentioned in the Mayan prophecy.
Glad you got satisfaction.
@tcayer: 'there was a mod in the original thread who was going to look into whether or not DS should be banned from posting deals'
Maybe woot made them see things there way.
I guess I'm one of the lucky ones who has only had positive experiences with dailysteals. Although, I've always been slightly skeptical after reading about them constantly having issues.
@pickypickypicky: There are people making apocalypse jokes like there's no tomorrow! Maybe DS thinks the end is near, and they all want to go with clear conscienses.
@thebopster: "There are people making apocalypse jokes like there's no tomorrow!"
Heh heh heh...
Well, they were as good as their word! I received my refund! Like I said, I'm willing to admit if I waswrong, and they seem to be trying, so I won't rule out buying from them again. The coupon they gave me gives me a chance to do so without risk and see if they've improved their process!
Glad to give credit where it's due!
*Update to the Update:
Finally found some stuff I liked. I ordered $108.90 worth of stuff and used my coupon code! Got it all for less than $10. 1st item delivered already! The others still say "Open" on the site! Maybe they are trying to improve their reputation!


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Received this in a text from a Chinese friend. I want to say that "了" here is not part of the verb phrase but instead just an emphatic particle, same as if you said something like "我最怕蜘蛛了"。Then again, that's not something I would ever think to produce, it just sounds more normal that way to me. Does anyone have a more authoritative answer?
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In a phrase with this construct:
了 serves as a modal article (rather than tense particle) to express emphasis and is optional.
Reference: http://cdmd.cnki.com.cn/Article/CDMD-10475-1012379314.htm
"我最怕蜘蛛了" totally equals "我最怕蜘蛛" from the perspective of grammar and meaning. "了", which is similar to "喔", "吧" and "呀", is an auxiliary word that can be omitted because it doen't have any meaning, but it's very weird to omit it in some situations. Unfortunately, even native speakers can't tell you the exact rule of when to use this auxiliary word.
Generally speaking, you should use it when you are speaking and omit it when you are writing. Basing on the same logic, you should use it when you are writing someone's talk. for instance, you should write
rather than
However, please remember that it's "general speaking". I am sorry that it's very hard to tell you the exact rule.
As I native speaker, I would say that "了" is mainly used to help with expressing an emotion.
where "了" helps express affinity toward someone. Sometimes "了" is also used to express the 'donenness' of an action.
where "了" helps express perfect tense.


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Monday, March 01, 2010
Why I Am A Trader
In trading we learn to master ourselves, even as we hone skills.
Trading teaches us to identify and pursue opportunity in the face of uncertainty.
Trading requires us to understand and respect risk, but not become paralyzed by it.
Trading pushes us to seek situations that offer more reward than loss, to stick with what is rewarding and exit what is not.
Trading requires that we be prepared and disciplined, that we continually learn and relearn.
Trading teaches us that there are times to be aggressive, to go after our convictions with confidence; it also teaches us the value of prudence and protecting what we have;
Trading calls on us to be patient--and to be decisive; to believe in ourselves--and to be ever aware of our vulnerabilities;
Trading prods us to be more than who we are by being more of who we are when we're at our best.
8 comments:
- jaime said...
Dr. Breet. Precisaly today is one of those days...when you ask why. You just made my day. Regards
- positiontrader said...
Great read Dr.
If I might take the liberty of adding a few points from my own perspective.
I love the challenge of taking part in an activity(I wish I could call it profession!) that offers new challenges everyday. Each and every day is different. No doubt experience helps but no amount of experience could have prepared one for 2007-08. Each and every tick is different.Each day you gotta be ready to face the unexpected.
I love the fact that I am trying to succeed and do well at something in which over 90% of the people fail.
I have learned to love (emphasis on have learned) the fact that market is always right. No matter how convinced I am of being right, I have learned to bow to the markets. Trading teaches us to be humble.
I know that the slightest mistake can bring me down. And the chances of these mistakes occurring are most when we are overconfident. Trading teaches us never to get complacent and how to keep ourselves grounded when we feel on top of the world.
And lastly, trading teaches us so much about ourselves. In my over one and a half years of experience in short term trading, I have learned not only about my risk appetite, but also about how I react to different life situations.
Sorry for the long comment but I just couldn't help it once I got started :).
Take care and Good Luck!
- Radek Dobias said...
I just wrote to a good friend last night:
"Ultimately, it's not about money but about being faithful to what one is to the best of one's ability. It's a CALLING for me."
- Michele said...
Reading this makes me feel like the Karate Kid to your Pat Morita. "Wax on, wax off!"
Many valuable lessons here.
- Soberba Insônia said...
Trading has really turned my life upside down. As I´ve mentioned before, I come from creation area, and my life has been always unruled.
So I can say my life has really changed.
Plus, trading has dug deep into several psychologicals aspects of my early life that reflects everyday when I´m about to make a decision in life as well.
And I have a lot to brush up.
As absurd as it may sound, I no longer trade regarding money ( I mean, of course it´s about money, because mistakes cost you money and vice-versa).
But I mean the dream of becoming a millionaire or make good fortune. It´s not my thing.
But It´s my legimitic discovery that Trading has become my own Martial Art School For Life, where I am The Director, The Teacher and The Student.
And I feel fine.
- nqtraderjay said...
Everything I do is a personal challenge. Trading is one of those ultimate kinds of challenges, like marathon training. It quantifies my functionality for me. And so, I can't fudge on my progress, like all the other thing's I've done.
If I need to make a change to enhance my trading ability, I have to do it right and completely and not the way I've done stuff in the past.
It basically is a no nonsense judge that won't take any of my usual bs, so this challenge is the one that gets me to really change.
Like you said, in Psych of Trading, it is easy to initiate a change, but sustaining it is the challenge. I can try to do what I need to do once. Creating a new habit is hard. Growing up for me is hard.
Accepting my responsibilities in life is hard. Doing homework and falling asleep over studying books on trading is hard. Making lists of what I need to do is easy, placing checkmarks on those lists bc i completed it is hard. Staying up late at night because I am actually absorbing what I am studying, knowing that I will not be able to trade tomorrow, and then doing what I need to do that next day and not trading bc I know that I am not in the correct state of mind is hard. But the end of the day when I see I didn't abuse my account is a good reward, because many times I wished that I had made that decision to stick to my rule. I could go on. I had to unscrew my head for 18 months and rescrew it back on right, and your work helped me do mine. - J
- Bryan said...
A really interesting read, thanks. It's intriging that such a potentially toxic pursuit like trading can also provide great benefits. There is no doubt that my trading/ investing endevours have spilled over into the rest of my life and I think on the whole in a positive way. Focus, mental disposition and patience are all greatly improved. I do notice, though, that I drive a car very slowly these days (that is unless I see an empty piece of motorway which looks like a good risk reward situation).
- Curtis said...
There is only one reason to be a trade, ask yourself this question:
Are you exceptionally good at predicting or profiting from market moves?
Given the overwhelming evidence that trading profitably is difficult then nothing else makes sense.
I am not a trader --yet-- but I am very good at predicting market.
The basis must be made on your empirical record and not any dreams or fantasies. The only reason to trade is to make a profit.


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So, there are numerous species of animals who use parthenogenesis, but to my knowledge the reproduction is clonal. That is, the offspring are identical to the mother. Are there any documented cases where a female goes through meiosis one to produce varied cells that are now diploid and these cells do not go through meiosis two, but rather develop in to a diploid organism? It would seem an effective reproductive strategy in that it generates genetic variation without a mate (at least more-so than strict asexual reproduction). Is my logic flawed in some way?
In automixy the meiotic cells give rise to diploid offsprings. This can happen by diploidization of the haploid cell (
I don't know of any case where there is fusion of similar gametes to form a diploid cell. It is difficult for two ova to fuse in natural conditions because the vitelline membrane has to be dissolved. Experimentally a haploid ES-cell can be fused to ovum to form a progeny. Haploid ES cells undergo diploidization and when injected in blastocyst, can develop properly (Ref). In fact haploid androgenic-ES cell line had been made in this study by injecting sperm into an enucleated oocyte. These androgenic-haploid cell lines can be fused to ovum to give rise to viable offsprings.
Also see this question. Similar topic


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I am much interested in physics. I have been caught up with one serious question related to speed of light. Hearing about Large Hadron Collider (LHC), it is said that protons in there are accelerated to almost the speed of light, i.e., $3\times10^8$ metre per second. One can be sure that the length in which the above experiment is conducted cannot exceed even $50~\text{km}$. (LHC at CERN is a $27$-kilometer ring buried deep below the countryside on the outskirts of Geneva, Switzerland.) So how can they achieve almost the speed of light in such a small place? Also, out of curiosity, I would like to know what instrument they use for measuring that speed?
You might want to read this article that describes how the protons are accelerated.
The LHC uses eight 2MV RF cavities. Assume that the electron gets the full benefit of this (it doesn't - see below) so the energy of a circulating proton increases by 16MV with each circuit. The protons complete about 11,000 circuits per second, so their energy increases by about 0.18TeV per second and it would take about 40 seconds to accelerate to the full design energy of 7TeV.
It actually takes a lot longer than this (about 20 minutes according to the article I linked). The 2MV is the maximum field strength in the RF cavities, but the protons don't feel the full 2MV for their whole passage through the cavity.
A little while ago I answered a question about RF cavities, Accelerating electrons via microwaves, and you might find this interesting.
They use extremely powerful magnets in order to accelerate the particles to enormous speeds. Because the particles have such small masses, it is possible to provide enough energy to get the particles to these speeds with current technology. In 2012, the LHC could operate at 4 TeV, which is enough energy to accelerate very light particles (such as protons) to immense speeds.
I am not 100% sure on how they measure speeds of particles, but I am guessing that there aren't instruments that could directly measure velocity. Instead, they use mathematics in order to determine how fast the particles are going. By knowing the energy put into a particle and its mass, it is possible to derive the velocity.


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Someone told me that showing your IP address in a URL (like hxxp://188.8.131.52/default.html) is easier to hack. Is that true? I could trace any domain name and get its IP number as well.
Easier to hack? No. Easier to DoS? Potentially. Using an IP address instead of a host name with a DNS entry means you're giving up a layer of routing flexibility that can be very beneficial.
For example, if malware targets your IP address in a DoS attack, if you're using a domain name, you switch the IP address of the site and in the DNS record, and the attack is over without your users knowing the difference. If your users are making requests directly to your IP, however, that isn't an option. You're tied to that IP unless you want to inconvenience (and possibly lose) your users along the way.
Typically if your site is accessible as
This opens up DNS rebinding attacks, where an attacker circumvents Same-Origin-Policy by switching the IP address of a hostname between their own server and yours, and cookie attacks where they point
Quite how much of a risk those are depends on the design and purpose of your application. It's most likely to be exploitable on non-public applications, where you have implicit authorisation based on private IP address range or SSO (Windows auth et al); in that case an application might produce sensitive data without user interaction, and that data could become visible to such an attacker.
Without knowing that, the safest route is to put limitations on what the
But you could certainly come up with a custom check that permitted only an IP address and not any other hostname, if you really wanted - so no, it's not the IP address that's a problem in itself.
And/or just use HTTPS, which offers more watertight assurance that you're hitting the right server.
Contrary to the other answers, I consider that using ip-addresses instead of hostnames is bad practice for a number of reasons. Most notably:
It can't be a security concern because everyone can find out the domain IP address.
Using the IP address instead of the domain is not a security bad practice, as an attacker could get it trivially.
A simple terminal command like
Giving your [web site's] address one way or the other doesn't make it any more "hackable" then it already might be.
Along with the good reasons that bobince mentioned, there is also that you cannot create a properly trusted SSL/TLS certificate for a site that doesn't use a DNS domain name. Thus making all browsers trying to connect to your HTTPS:// version of your IP addressed site complain that they cannot trust it.


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What can you expect when you don't actually have a plan of your own.
The Wisconsin recall campaign: as negative as it gets
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"The advertising aired by Democrats and their allies was 99% negative"
What can you expect when you don't actually have a plan of your own.Hide replies
As always, your comments are right on Mr. Jindal.
89 percent is much better, fool
The ads are like the ones on Saturday Night Live, they're super funny, I love it.
You mean the GOP actually has a plan for addressing the state's problems, or is this just the lie given when attempts to break state unions needed to be excused?
pplr...you mean like balancing the budget?
pplr1...maybe you missed the last eight months, but yes, the GOP is moving forward with their plan for addressing the problems that Governor Doyle left us...the "breaking the unions" thing was just a little bonus. :)
Meaning it may have brought no value for the state's economy but they figured it would serve them politically and was worth it to the GOP.
Are they running out of ways to create problems so they will finally have to address state issues?
Its a change for the positive though not exactly the best way to reach it....
If Walkers plan was to reduce state spending, why did he increase spending?
So what is the Republican plan for Wisconsin? So far it's concealed carry, increased spending for businesses, less spending for tax payers, disenfranchisement of voters, and the privatization of government.
And continued spending leaving the taxing to others.
Exactly what spending has he increased?
You have poor sentence structure, but they don't teach that in grad school, do they?
"increased spending for business", please elaborate...
Let's see- how about a $700,000 increase in lawyer fees for starters.
$700k in lawyer fees, Oneday?
Same as Doyle, not increased. NEXT...
Governor Walker promised a two year budget of $59 billion, $4 billion less than the previous budget of Governor Doyle. Instead he passed a budget of $66 billion without funding for the additional expenditures.
Well Chucksa,
The plan was...and is...to balance the budget. Period. And it is done.
Does everyone forget that the Wisconsin Constitution requires a balanced budget? Article VIII Section 5. Doyle balanced the budget every year he was in office. So the fact that Governor Walker balanced the budget is no surprise, he is required to do so, just like every other governor. The difference is how they balanced it - Walker did it by cutting the take home pay of working class public employees - middle class people making $25-$100G. The classic divide and conquer pitting private middle class folks against public middle class. He cut taxes for corporations. Doyle raised taxes, but not on working class folk - the big ticket items were increased taxes on the top %1 income earners, capital gains, oil companies, and cigarettes.
Chucksa, does someone really need to answer your silly question?
So Doyle passed a $63 billion budget. Walker increased that budget to $66 billion. Why the $3 billion increase? Doyle wasn't able to erase the deficit left by Tommy Thompson and Scott McCallum. Walker is attempting to get rid of the entire deficit all at once during a lousy economy. Put the blame proportionately where it belongs.
Former Republican Governor Tommy Thompson left a $3.2 Billion deficit when he resigned to go to Washington. The deficit would have increased more with Scott McCallum, but he sold off 25 years of payments won in a lawsuit against cigarette makers. So When McCallum left, the deficit was $3.2 Billion. Democrat Doyle was able to get the deficit down to $2.5 Billion partway through his term with tax increases. The economy worsened, and Doyle used the stimulus money to keep his departing deficit at $3.6 Billion. Other state governors, both Democrat and Republican, used the stimulus money to decrease their shortfalls. In summary, Doyle added $400,000 to the deficit left by Tommy Thompson and Scott McCallum.
Polish loves to blame Governor Doyle for the national recession - but it doesn't make much sense.
Most of the state budgets were hurt when millions of people lost their jobs at the end of the Bush Adminstration.
DI2- why try to explain basic economics to a Teaboat Barnacle? You think they'll give up their $.50 per post to admit they're wrong and walk away?
Dem....2012 - you do live in a vacuum. Yesterday you posted some silly crap. Today you follow with more ignorance. But let me try to help. The story is about the negative ads, not the Bill. So let me ask, your side drove this recall. Your side started the negative ads. I thought your side had all these cool positive ideas, hance the recall. Today you finger point. claiming most of ths state budget was due to millions of peole who lost their jobs. Tell us please, how Doyle decide to run a budget spending more than he had coming in creating a deficiet? This against the Wisconsin constitution. Help us understand how Walker now balanced his budget and this then deserves negative ads.
"The advertising aired by Democrats and their allies was 99% negative. The advertising aired by Republicans and their allies was 89% negative. The attacks were in some case policy-based and in some cases highly personal. " Seems that the negative ads were close to even for both parties, but it is typical of you to persecute the democrats for running negative ads, while championing the republicans for doing exactly the same thing ! ! !
Even Bill O'Reilly would call that spin ! ! !
LOL It only took about three minutes to find an "Its Bush's fault" post.
I don't blame Doyle for the national recession. I blame Obama. :)
Just think how life was BEFORE Walker. DIVIDER NOT A UNITER!
According to the Wall Street Journal Bush has the worst record of any US President for job creation since records first started being kept in 1939. Only 3 million jobs were created under Bush. Compare this to Clinton where 23 million jobs were created. When Obama took office the economy was losing 750,000 jobs per month thanks to the terrible policies of Bush and the GOP. Fortunately, Obama and his administration have managed to turn this around and jobs are being created and not lost. Is the economy where we all would like it to be? Not yet but it is much better than when Obama took office. And this is no thanks to the GOP who have done NOTHING to help create jobs and led the country to the brink of default.
gopack123, with an unemployment rate hovering around 5% for the vast majority of Bush's 8 years, job creation was rightfully not a priority. It was a priority when Obama took office supported by huge Dem majorities in both houses. What did the Dems do? They passed Obamacare and introduced more uncertainty into job creation.
"You mean the GOP actually has a plan for addressing the state's problems, or is this just the lie given when attempts to break state unions needed to be excused?"
The state's problems HAVE been addressed...communities and schools all over Wisconsin are finding themselves with budget surplus's when following the GOP plan. Those communistities that aren't following the plan - well, they're still in a hole and digging deeper.
They're going to egghead themselves into oblivion...
Thugocracy -- excellent point. Article after article has show budget surpluses in school districts. Walker's plan was to enact financial responsibility... and its working. School districts are making the necessary moves to see said surpluses (whether you agree with the moves is another discussion).
Also, did anyone notice that none of the adds mentioned collective bargaining? It is crazy that I couldn't stop hearing about it until there was an election on the line -- where did it go?!?! Perhaps people have started to realize the true function of a union and collective bargaining toward a bottom dollar. It was certainly easy to "bargain collectively" when the state was willing to print money as a result..
Mr. Jindal... Just because a group has a plan, that does not mean it is a good plan. What Scott Walker (the man some call governor) and his minions offered was not a good plan. Its ultimate goal, coordinated among Republican governors at a now-infamous conference, will fail, and its purported goal cannot succeed their way--the way of contentious blindsiding.
Thank God it's over........we hope!Hide replies
Nope, there is still Walker to go.
It would have been over already but one of the people who most deserves to face a recall election over all of this (he was in the center of it) cannot be made to face one until next year.
In the meantime this is something of a break though.
Trumpka is waiting to see the % of WI gov't employees who will voluntarily pay their dues. If less than 70% do so, no recall.
I'm guessing not.
It isn't over.
Elections will continue to be bought and paid for with special interest money (on both sides).
The Republican Supreme Court ruled (in Citizens vs. United) that unlimited annonymous donations are allowed in our democracy.
Money is pouring into campaigns and special interest groups (on both sides) leading to a barrage of attack ads (on both sides).
Are we proud of our democracy?
Democrats want to reduce the influence of money in elections. Republicans have been designening and protecting this "auction" some people still refer to as a democracy.
Welcome to corporate America. This is a government no longer for the people but has been bought and paid for by corporations.
Amen, brother.
What else could the dems have campaigned on.
"We want to raise your taxes so we can continue to give into the outlandish demands of the public unions"
"If you care about your children, join us in giving more money to WEAC"
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How about 'We recognize that Wisconsin's financial issues are the responsibility of more than just public employees, so how about we make this shared sacrifice truly shared"
Many of us in the private sector have done just that. I for one, have taken a significant cut in pay and work in the private sector. Time for the public employees to share in the sacrifice like so many of us working (and looking for work) in the private sector. PS - I don't have a pension
That would have been fine, however the democrats had plenty of time to address the state's financial issues while they were in control of the government, but didn't do it. Quite the opposite, actually.
They know that, the republicans know it and the voters know it -- which is a big part of the reason they got trounced in November -- so negative campaigning (whining about the republicans) was really the only option they had in the recalls.
You mean neither Democrats nor Republicans (running back to the time of Tommy) fixed the budget problems.
No, I don't mean that. Ancient history means nothing, and in the world of politics, anything more than one adminstration removed is bordering on ancient history.
Furthermore, while budget issues have been accumulating over the past couple decades, they've really only come onto the high-profile forefront in recent years as the economy imploded, the housing market collapsed and government revenues have gone down.
The problem the democrats are having on both a state and federal level is rooted largely in the mind-numbingly stupid notion they would continue to be able to sell borrow & spend business-as-usual without having to change their approach and aggressively address spending/deficit/debt-related issues, but moderates & independents are smarter than that and aren't buying what the democrats are selling.
Hence, the major butt-whooping in November.
Why are you wasting your time telling me? Call up Mark Miller or something.
His alternative plan for balancing the budget was to cut $40MM from Badgercare and have Walker identify another $70MM in additional cuts.
It sounds like the Democrats could really use your ideas.
I agree. Everyone with a pension plan and/or benefit plan paid for by Wisconsin taxpayers should share in the sacrifice. Good idea. :)
Cool. When will the employees at Oshkosh Truck be contributing? Or the contractors on all of the road projects? Or the contractors working on building state buildings?
Come to think of it, social security is a benefit plan paid for by Wisconsin taxpayers. They probably should contribute too.
Just following your 'logic' PH......
Lots to attack- easy picking in two Senate seats and the two Fab 14 retained their seat. One step at a time.
Uh, the goal was to for Dems to take the Senate (although still not sure what good that would do in the end).
Yet, they did not.
Idea – maybe this is something Democrats can start campaigning on
Jeffrey A. Joerres (Manpower), David R. Lumley (Spectrum Brands Holding, Inc), J. Joel Quadracci (Quad/Graphics Inc), Mark Furlong (Marshall & Ilsley Corp), Phillip B. Flynn (Associated Banc Corp.), Glen Tellock (Manitowoc Co), Curt S. Culver (MGIC Investment Corp), Kimberly Schaefer (Great Wolf Resorts Inc), Frederick A. Robertson (Tomo Therapy), Thomas A. Burke (Modine Manufacturing Inc.), Michael T. Crowley, Jr. (Bank Mutual Corp)
Combined Compensation in 2009 $36,099,039
Average Compensation in 2009 $3,281,731
Combined Compensation in 2010 $66,675,452
Average Compensation in 2010 $6,061,405
Combined Increase in Compensation from 2009 to 2010 $30,576,413
Average Increase in Compensation from 2009 to 2010 $2,779,674
Combined 2010 Losses of their Companies $1,731,816,000
Average 2010 Losses of their Companies $157,437,818
Summary: These eleven CEOs of Wisconsin publically traded corporations "led" companies that lost a combined total of over $1.7 billion in 2010 (approximately $160 million per CEO). For their "performance" they received a combined total of increased compensation of $30.5 million (approximately $2.8 million per CEO). These increases were on top of their existing combined compensation of $36.1 million (approximately $3.3 million per CEO).
These corporate leaders received an 85% raise during one of the most economically challenged times for losing an amount of money equal to approximately 58% of the budget deficit that led to all of the political turmoil that has taken place throughout the past year in the state Wisconsin.
The difference being that they are privately owned, their responsibility is to the stockholders, not the public. Non of the companies were bailed out with taxpayer funds. You have a great point, but don't buy their stock, make sure your mutual funds do not own any of the companies and do not patronize these companies if you have these concerns. If I do not own any of the company stock I have nothing to say.
The governments take almost 50% of every dollar as soon as I earn it, 25% federal, 15.3% SE, 6.5% state = 46.8% plus sales tax when I spend it.
People need to understand this difference.
Bruce pearl----Excellent comment!
Pearl - YOU ARE SO DEAD ON CORRECT!!! I worked with two of these elitists "Business Leaders" and both are happy to collect money that was never earned. Like Steve Miller sang - TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN!!
So what you're saying is that liberals like yourself who subscribe to socialist ideologies ought to be appointed as Capitalism Police who go around and decide whether or not CEO's of private companies "deserve" their paychecks. And if and when it is inevitably determined that they do not "deserve" said paychecks, they... what? Give you the money? Give the money to public unions who then can turn-around and launder it into the Democrats coffers? Why do you liberals think that money should be taken away from some and given to those who weren't smart or ambitious enough to make something ou of their lives? If you don't like the American way of life, or are too lazy or inept to pursue the American dream, you are perfectly welcome to visit the Russian or Venezuelan or North Korean consulate and apply for citizenship in one of those utopic countries. Otherwise, if you don't like how much CEO's or private businesses make I would suggest don' buy their product.
BrucePearl, you spew of jealousy as you change the subject. Tell su how your sides negative ads addressed this issue? A little relgion can help you get over dwelling on others.
Which union talking points sheet did that tripe come from?
Tell us - do you have tax bills for all of those guys that show what they have paid in taxes as opposed to the average POS union thug? How about as compared to the near 50% who don't pay any taxes at all?
I wonder what the percentage is of teachers who don't own homes so they don't get skr3wed by the property taxes they so covet...
Big Jim, I'm confused. Your comments indicate you think George Bush is a Democrat.
George Bush was the only president in modern history to reduce taxes during a time of war (the Bush tax cuts). Other presidents increased taxes to pay for their wars.
The non-funding of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars (costing $3.7 to $4.1 trillion dollars) is the main reason for the financial mess the country is in. We are still borrowing money to fight these wars.
We have to borrow money a lot of money to pay for these wars, and we also pay interest on that money. So for every dollar we all pay for taxes, 40 cents gets skimmed of the top for interest payments. Remember, when George Bush took office, we had a budget surplus.
Can you admit that my 3 previous paragraphs are factually accurate?
The reckless spending took place while George Bush was President.
Your comments clearly blame the Democrats for the out of control spending. But based on your logic of your earlier reply, you are confused if you think George Bush was a Democrat.
NO shakenANDstirred, what Bruce Pearl is saying is that you rightwingers continue to whine about fiscal responsibility in public, while in the background you give tax breaks to Corporations, who create ZERO jobs and line the pockets of their CEOs and their stockholders with taxpayer money!
The public sector unions, should and did concede to pay more, why shouldn't the Corporations ?
Bruce Pearl and other dems: I as a conservative agree that the "pay-for-nonperformance" deals that the CEOs are getting are indeed way out of line. However, what can we do about it? We can boycott their products and/or services. Getting on a message board and whining about it will get you nowhere. Also, what percentage of WI's population represents CEOs? Is that your proposed solution to balance the budget? To go after CEOs? Seriously??
dude-corporations are people just like Romney said the other day and the moron libs couldn't comprehend . Most all of us own a piece in the form of an investment . If Ceos make too much its the fault of the stockholders who employ them, you and me
Studly, I already made several attempts to make that point, and the libs either cannot comprehend it or they're in denial. Whatever the case, it always falls on deaf ears.
Dude, Giving tax cuts to the corporations is a necessary evil. They provide jobs to people like me who pay taxes. Without those tax dollars, there would be no public sector. In summary, the public workers live and work here because I (along with other private sector employees) live and work here. The "corporations" are the hand that feeds.
Grown people have to realize that life isn't fair.
Please explain to me how giving tax cuts to corporations is necessary, when CEOs and stockholders are pocketing millions instead of re-investing and creating jobs? Because that"s what they tell you, that they are a necessary evil, so just fess up ? If they were creating jobs and the economy was going strong, I would agree with you, but WE ARE BROKE, remember? Isn't that the Republican mantra!
Dude, The shareholders of corporations (like most of us) are a HUGE influence impacting actions that corporations take to make the bottom line so they can deliver on their earnings expectations. It has nothing to do with partisanship. If you want to be a philanthropist and invest in a company that is bleeding in it's financials, no one is stopping you. Tax breaks to corporations make for an industry-friendly environment which creates jobs. It's simple Economics 101.
I've been involved in big business for many years and I can tell you that there's no such thing as a "jobs fairy". We can go ahead and tax the corporations. Then we'll wave bye bye as they relocate overseas.
I don't like it either but grown ups need to realize that sometimes life isn't fair. We need to make the best of what we have.
I'd like to see the 5% positive ads; I don't remember any of those.
The thing most people miss is that negative ads can be good. This article does nothing to advance that notion.
When are these knuckelhead left extreme idiots going to realize that WI taxpayers are sick of paying for their pensions and the rest of their lavish compensation? Lefties are truly nuts!
It stimulated the Wisconsin economy.Hide replies
Most of the money flowed into the monopoly media companies.
The cable box (three "news" channels, three "music" channels, etc...) will soon be replaced by the online world (thousands of news channels from around the world).
The online format will allow the advertsing money to be more spread out compared to the few channels and companies in a cable line-up.
I really don't want that type of negative advertising on my sites though.
Thank you public unions for forcing the citizens of WI to continue voting endlessly until you get your way. Let's recall everyone doing the job they were elected to do and toss millions of our taxdollars down the drain when we have a 3 billion dollar deficit. Elected officials need to be held accountable (to the public unions!). Thank you thank you thank you....ooops, I mean SHAME SHAME SHAME.Hide replies
Again the use of the word force. First it was unions forcing contracts when there was a board elected by the people that also agreed to it.
Now somehow they are forcing recalls. How exactly? I mean a pen on a sheet of paper isn't exactly a show of force, so how are they forcing recalls?
Is this a trick question? Lets see. organized labor collects signatures from organized labor supporters, forces a recall election, hoping their much smaller group can overturn previous election by much larger voting public.....this isn't that hard Just Fishing.
As opposed to the Republican Party of WI, who paid an out-of-state group to collect recall signatures against Democratic incumbents? Were they "forcing" recall elections, GB?
And just who are on these elected boards? Former teachers and union lackeys that will vote how the union wants because the uinon pays their freight. (to run for office). Somebody needs to remind the School Boards they represent the taxpayers not the union.
It was the REPUBLICANS who first initiated the RECALLS!! Get your facts straight!
And note that zero Democrats were recalled vs. two Republicans.
More to come including the recall of Walker, the most divisive and incompetent governor ever. Don't forget the jobs report for July that showed over 12,000 jobs lost.
Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck started the negativity and were very successful in raising the hysteria level in a lot of their watchers and listeners. This was successfully adopted into the mainstream political ads and is now a popular means of trashing the political opponent without really solving the real problems of everyday Americans.Hide replies
This is a patently absurd comment, but hey, go with it.
Please explain why?
"Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck started the negativity........"
Have you ever watched the Ed Schulz show?...and if you haven't you need to before you make such ABSURD comments!
And can we not forget one of the worst offenders of them all ... Keith Olbermann and his nightly "Worst Person in the World."
Charmless, to the last.
And can we not forget one of the worst offenders of them all ... Keith Olbermann and his nightly "Worst Person in the World."
Charmless, to the last.
What the liberals want is for the silent majority to stay silent and let them do what ever they want. Thank you Rush and Glenn for waking us up.
What the liberals want is for the silent majority to stay silent and let them do what ever they want. Thank you Rush and Glenn for waking us up.
I love how We Are "Wisconsin", the out of state public employee union PAC, nearly outspent the rest of the other top 9 combined.Hide replies
Excellent comment!
No, if you add up the numbers the chart shows each party (or their backers) spent about the same.
The only difference is was that spending consolidated or not.
Let..me..speak...more....slowly....the top out of state PAC, called, hilariously...WE...ARE....WISCONSIN....spent ....more.....than....the .....other .....top.....nine......combined.....
We Are Wisconsin PAC has GAB ID 0501500 and has an address of 6333 W. Bluemound Road, Milwaukee WI 53213 (from the Campaign Finance Information System at http://cfis.wi.gov/). What's this "out of state" business?
Just more out-of-state lies, by the out-of-intelligence right wingers !
Duh, what a ridiculous comment by GBworks. We are Wisconsin is a Wisconsin organization with offices in Milwaukee!
Not to mention, that after all this spending, the legislation wouldn't have been altered if the Democrats took control of the state senate (http://eng.am/nWvjZP).
Given this reckless spending, it's really no wonder that many union members have felt as if unions haven't had their best interests at heart (http://eng.am/olIZmZ), and that 1 in 5 members would choose to end all unions (http://eng.am/pQO0cp).
So what's the big news here? Obama and his gestpo gynps sent in $10MM which included not only negative ads about GOP candidates, but because they were trailing in most polls, the Dumacrats made up lies out of the blue (i.e. Darling had anything to do with Mediscare? Ha!) Tlak about scaing Granma and Grandpa! Democrats and union bullies, we can count on you to provide the best, most irrational smear tactics and vicious attacks than any other parties in this nations history. The good people of WI finally recognize dog sheet when they see and smell it now!Hide replies
If you are going to talk about lies, make sure you also talk about Republican lies. For example, can we phone Reince Priebus and ask him how much the unions spent?
He included the under the table money to his totals
Whether Priebus lied or had his facts wrong has nothing to do with policy decisions made by democrats that have crippled this state for decades. You lefties always bring up irrelevant topics that have little or anything to do with reality. Either that or just resorting to name-calling. Grow up kiddies. Who cares what was spent, man! Get with the program dummy. Defend your policies, if you can! That what matters. Not obscure number games that don't mean sh*t.
How about $7,000,000 million to remove tape from the capital walls.
$7,000,000,000,000 is a lot of money?
$7,000,000,000,000? Really?
LOL!! That's almost half of the national deficit.
Where did you come up with that...Sykes or Belling tell you that?
Billy, if you're talking about my and cprudi's posts, disregard. It's obviously over your head. But keep playing the Sykes / Belling card (BTW, not all conservatives like Belling).
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Consider a function $f(x,y)$ of two variables $x$ and $y$. Let us consider a point $(a,b)$ in $\mathbb{R}^2$. Now the limit of the function as $(x,y)$ tends to $(a,b)$ is said to be existing if and only if it has the same value for each and every path through which $(x,y)$ approaches $(a,b)$. Now suppose we are required to prove that a given value $L$ is the limit of the function $f$ as $(x,y)$ tends to $(a,b)$. So is it sufficient to prove that the limit of the function is $L$ whenever $(x,y)$ approaches $(a,b)$ through any of the straight lines passing through $(a,b)$, as any other path can be broken up into several smaller straight line segments?
Please consider the function $f \colon \mathbb{R}^2 \to \mathbb{R}$ defined by $$ f(x,y)= \begin{cases} 1 &\text{if $y=x^2$ and $(x,y) \neq (0,0)$}\\ 0 &\text{otherwise.} \end{cases} $$ Does your idea apply?
Your suggestion is not correct. Consider the function defined by $$f(x,y)={x^2y\over x^4+y^2}, \qquad (x,y)\neq (0,0)$$ A straight line through $(0,0)$ is either given by $x=0$ or by $y=ax$ for some $a$. In either case, $f(x,y)\to 0$ when $(x,y)\to(0,0)$ along the straight line.
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Dominion is a great game for lunch. It's the only strategy game I can think of with a playtime under a half hour. We can often get through two rounds during lunch at my office.
This is another card game that's really simple to set up. I find that I play better when I'm not fully paying attention - always a consideration when food is involved. It theoretically supports as many people as you want (the wiki page says 2-6, but I've played many games with more). You should be able to complete somewhere between 0 and 12 games in a one-hour lunch.
So where i work we are between 5 and 8 depending on the days to play every lunchtime for around 1h. For now my impression are (Roughly sorted from best to worse but including only the good ones) :
It's one of the first game we played and still a hit in our group. There is a good level of strategy, medium amount of chance and great level of interaction between players.
One of the problem we had was the total time of the game that could vary a lot if you have players taking a long time to choose a character (There is a lot of strategy in this choice as if you are too greedy and so predictible you will either end dead or without any gold). We solved it by imposing a fixed 45s time to select a character.
The game need at least 5 players to begin being really fun.
The Werewolves of Miller's Hollow
Always a big hit, it's easy to play, need nearly nothing (The cards could be contained in a pocket) each round is fast and being dead is as fun as being alive as you could see how good liars the others are... There is a big amount of strategy, small amound of randomness and very hight amount of interaction between players.
The only problem of this game is that the number of players required for it to be fun is 8 and it require a non playing game master so our group is not often big enough to play it.
Kaker Laken Poker
We play it nearly every day after another game when we have time. It's a pure bluff, small amount of randomness, small amount of strategy, good amount of player interaction game.
It could be played in 10-15min without problems even with 7 players (Even if the box say 6 max)
The rule that there is one losser and all the others win make it really interesting as every one try to attack the player that is losing, making him lose more xD
One of the game we play the most even with it's problems as all players in our group like it and it became the default solution when game choice is too complex (due to one or two players refusing to play some other games this day)
The game is fun with lot of interaction between players, lot of randomness, and a moderate amount of strategy.
The big problem of bang is it's randomness making some games very fast (Sherif with 4 life points near billy the kid with 4 bangs in hand being against him) and others very long. Also one player could die really fast and watch the other continue to play for a long time, witch is not fun at all.
Regarding the time to play on lunchtime you absolutely must get one of the extensions adding the one special rule per turn cards (Fistfull of cards or High Noon). As the number of extension cards is selected at start and the last one is fatal really fast for everyone it put an upper value to the number of turns possible. 8 cards for a 45min game with 6 players is a good bet for example. (6 players being one of the configuration that work the best)
The link to boardgamegeek.com on the title point to the bullet that contain everything you may need.
We currently played with only one green card authorized as otherwise it allow someone to protect himself too much and remove claus the saint from the game as it take too much time to play.
Except for one of our player that doesn't have any immagination this game is really great and a lot of fun especially if you know the players you play with as you will tailor what you say for some of them to get the hint and others to miss it. Sometimes it work and sometimes you discover that everyone read the news yesterday and go your hint or that they all know the nearly unknow actor that you named...
The game is fast enough to play on lunchtime (The number of points or number of turns to win could be chosen depending on available play time), the maximum number of players is 6 (Playing with 3 or 4 players could be done but it is really less interesting, it should be limited to 5 or 6 players).
There is a small amount of randomness, moderate amount of reflection and no direct interaction between players outside of the narator/non-narator separation.
The box is uselessly big but could be discarded as a simple paper or a white-board is better to count points anyway.
Fun, easy to play, pretty fast (as the array of cards is fixed, the time don't really depends on the number of player and stay around 20 minutes) playeable up to 10 players. It's a great game for lunchtime.
The game have a high amount of randomness and player interaction and small amount of strategy for miners / great amount of strategy for saboteurs.
We always play without a random amount of saboteurs as getting only one nearly assure that he will lose.
If the number of player is limited to 4 or 5 it could be played in 1h (more and it's too long) and the game is really fun with lot of interaction between players (Playing a +10 levels to a monster the other player used all it's bonus to be able to kill is allways so much fun) a good amount of randomness and a little bit of strategy.
Some of our players don't like this game as the rules are not really well defined sometimes and lot of cards change them. It's also the only game where some editions explain that cheating is authorized (There is a rule for what happens to you if someone notice) and that if there is a debate the player owning the box decide the outcome :D
Ivanhoe / Camelot
The game is simple but there is finally a good amount of strategy as well as randomness and there are a moderate amount of player interactions. It's pretty fast so it could be played multiple times in one hour. The game is great at 4 players.
Good game of bluff and guess-who-i-am with a small amount of randomness, big amount of strategy and moderate amount of interaction between players. It could be played up to 8 players according to the box but more is ok. The rounds are very fast to play and you could do as many as you want.
Games for two players follow we don't play them as often so i separate them. It's good to have them to be able to split the group.
Basically an alternative to magic. Very strategic and interesting but should be limited to 2 players for lunchtime games as more players is too long, getting well over 1h.
Mr. Jack Pocket
Really great nearly pure reflection game for two players. The game is small to transport and could be played in 30min without problem (The time depends a lot on the reflection time of each player, as with chess a time limit for reflection is sometime usefull)
Magic: The Gathering
My co-workers and I regularly play Magic over our lunch break. Setup time is minimal, and the game scales well from 2-6 players.
With 4-6 players, we often have time for two games; with 2-3 players, three or four games.
Having 10 people play at once might make the game run too long, though. In that case, I'd recommend splitting everyone up into two groups of 5.
Race For The Galaxy
This is the default game for our group when under time constraints. It's very complex for it's play time (20-45) minutes, often making you feel like you've played a game twice its actual length. As such, it's also very rewarding. Plus, there are multiple expansions if you wish to explore the game further, and they still keep the play time to under an hour. The expansions also let the expand the number of players from 4 to eventually 6. Because of the simultaneous turn mechanic, the game time is not usually lengthened by adding more players. Just be warned that the first (learning) game will take much longer. Our first game almost 2 hours, the very next game was 20 minutes.
7 Wonders
Though there's a bit of setup it's still reasonably quick, and you get a lot of meaty gameplay in 30-45 minutes. It's designed for 3-7 players and has a very solid 2-player variant included (2-player takes longer than 3-7, be forewarned).
It's dead simple to set up and easy to learn. I worked in a office where we regularly had two games going every day. Anyone was welcome to play, just sit down and deal. We usually could play two full games (to 10 points) in a one-hour lunch break.
As a bonus (having just now skimmed the wikipedia page), there are apparently variations for 6 or 8 players if you need to support more people.
We have started playing Carcassonne during our lunch breaks. Generally lasts about 40-50 minutes including set up and tear down.
My coworkers and I would get great mileage off our Cribbage set during lunch breaks. An average game would last us 35 minutes or so.
We've played a lot of Wizard, the card game. A full game (one card up to ten, then back down again) is sometimes a little too long, but its easy to shorten.
It's for two players only, but most games only take 30 mins or so and the rules can easily be picked up in 5 minutes.
If we go with the 'lunch' theme, although it only scales to 8 people with the expansion pack is the card game Lunch Money.
It might be too simple for an experienced group, but Apples to Apples is great for lunch breaks, particularly as you can add / remove people as needed.
It's dead simple, so it's easy to get new people involved, and the only real requirement is to have ~4 people. I've played it with groups as large as 9 before ... 10 shouldn't be a problem.
The only problem I've run into with the games is that at my current place of work, there's a fair number of people who didn't grow up in the U.S. and aren't native english speakers, so some of the cultural references (mostly people) are difficult for them.
I got beaten to recommending 7 Wonders, which certainly fits your needs (7 players, ~40 minutes), so consider this a +1.
If you like Dominion, consider AEG's Thunderstone. Deck-building, with a dungeon-delving theme.
Steve Jackson Games' Zombie Dice and Cthulhu Dice are decent for large groups. Of the two, I prefer Zombie Dice, as it has a bit more decision-making and agency.
...while we're on dice games, there's Roll Through The Ages It's only up to 4 players, but it plays in an hour or less and conveys an enjoyable civ-building experience.
If you're okay with print-and play games, I made two that might fit the bill: Office Gossip ( http://www.invisible-city.com/play/435/office-politics ) is a Werewolf-style game that doesn't need a player to sit out and be the narrator – everyone gets to play. Uncontrolled Squid ( http://www.invisible-city.com/play/211/uncontrolled-squid ) is a team-based contested bidding game – all you need are standard Poker decks (1 per four players).
Edit: One more suggestion – Prolix from Z-Man Games is a word game for 1 to 5 players that plays quickly, is very portable, and is quite fun. The premise: Think of a word that uses as many of the (ten?) letters on the scoring board.
I used to enjoy The Queen's Necklace BGG. It provides an interesting and variable play experience in about 45 minutes. You can play it online to try it out, too. Check the Days of Wonder site. I think there's a link from the BGG page.
Quarriors is coming out this wednesday and it's a short "deck" building game, except dice are used. It's very portable which is an added bonus.
For Sale
Just played for the first time last week. If you have experienced board gamers, it probably wouldn't be something you play every day, but a game only takes about 15 minutes, and as soon as it's over, players are usually eager to play another.
It's an auction game that is themed on buying and selling real estate. Players start with money that's used to bid on houses of varying values (with art ranging from doghouses to mansions). After the houses have been purchased, players then enter a second round of bidding for more money, and bid with their purchased houses from the first round.
We had mix of experienced gamers and newbies, and it was just as well received by both. 3-6 players.
Blokus is an outstanding game that's also very easy to track down, as it's available in most big-box stores. Each player gets an assortment of Tetris-like pieces in a single color, and must place one per turn if they can. Each piece placed must touch at least one piece of that color - but only at the corners. That's pretty much it for the rules, but this is a tense experience with quite a bit of depth and no randomness.
The biggest downside is that it's very clearly designed to be a 4 player game (though I'm told that there are a couple of 2-player variants that are worthwhile). I haven't played it, but I've been told that Blokus Trigon works well for 3 players.
We've played Bang, Citadels, and Race for the Galaxy during our lunch break. Bang has the plus/minus of having people get removed from the game before the game ends.
How about Are You the Traitor? No setup to speak of, socially dynamic, and the play is rapid paced and doesn't require careful tracking of past events/actions/state (a plus when people are distracted by food).
For two players, we have played Dominion - with and without an expansion. We have also played some of the Gipf project games, although they are only two player and both people will need to stay focused to finish the game. Short setup time and quick teardown mean most of the time can be spent playing.
Other options are more "traditional" games - I saw Euchre recommended. Shanghai/Hollywood rummy (or any of the rummies) can be played usually in under an hour, and because they have "hands", you can play over a few days if necessary. Also, since it is just shuffling to setup, it is a quick setup. :)
Treehouse - quick, pretty much as many players as you want, setup is easy, take down is easy. Not presently available from the manufacturer (Looney Labs) because they are changing their packaging, but you can probably still find sets in local game stores, or wait a bit for their new packaging.
There's a new game from a new company that might fit the bill, except it's only for 4 players. The game is called Launch Pad, and the company Stratus Games.
Launch pad is a simple quick strategy game that involves building rockets, and preventing others from building them. It's a lot of fun.
As for a game that would involve so many people, well, Bang is probably your best bet, and that's a really quick game. It works best with a lot of people, although it does have the disadvantage of having some people sit around with nothing to do for some time, as there are players eliminated early on in the game.
We usually did settlers of catan at the last place I worked at, although our group was limited up to six people. Always good for quickly killing off an hour.
Starfire, played as a tactical game, is fast and pretty good for multiple players. Some prep needs be done outside play, namely ship sheets, but with experienced players, a fleet battle can be played in under an hour with a dozen ships on a side or more.
I've played a roughly 30-ship per side battle in 35 minutes before, tho' both I and the other player had counters bagged before hand, and fleets done up and printed out before hand.
Man To Man and The Fantasy Trip's Melee and Wizard
The GURPS combat system was released as a board game, entitled Man to Man. It's pretty fast playing, and very tactical.
Likewise, SJ's prior RPG, the Fantasy Trip, was released as two board games and a roleplaying expansion. The board games, entitled Melee and Wizard, sold quite well. Both are extremely tactical, and some copies keep surfacing in new or like new condition regularly. A later revision, Dragons of Underearth, was a board game with full RPG-style character generation, but limited skill and spell selections.
It's very possible with either to play out a multiplayer game in 30-45 minutes.
Full Thrust
With 1 ship per player, Full Thrust plays VERY quickly. It's a miniatures game of space combat. The Babylon 5 version used 12-sided counters; there is no reason one can't make similar ones for the canon FT races. I've played multi-sided battles with novice players in 30-45 minutes, to conclusion.
Note that the rules are available in PDF for free from the GZG website; the link is to the downloads page.
If you can find the Chameleon Eclectic Babylon Project EarthForce Source Book, it includes a Babylon-5 themed version of the rules.
If you've ever got just one other player or split into a group of 2, Memoir '44 is a great game. It's a WWII-themed game that's scenario-based, with 16 coming in the box and more available on the publisher's website (you can also create your own, if you're feeling ambitious). Not all of the scenarios are balanced between the Axis and the Allies, but the publisher's site has win/loss percentages for each scenario based on logged plays, so I've been using that data as a handicap to balance the matches when my experience doesn't match my opponents.
Setup looks intimidating, but I played my first game, including setup and rules explanation, in about 45 minutes. There are also rules to play on two teams with up to 8 people if you've got expansions and/or two copies of the base game; I haven't tried this, but I've read that it takes more than an hour, so that might not work for a lunch thing.
Coloretto is probably the best short game I've ever played - most games should take no more than 15 minutes to play. It's a card game in which you're trying to collect cards in different color groups. The more cards you have in any given color, the more points that group is worth at the end of the game - but only 3 colors (chosen at the end) count as positive points, and any other groups count as negative points. It's very simple to play and is the only game I've played I'd recommend without hesitation to anyone who has never played a "hobby" board game before.
The same designer later released Zooloretto, which is a board game adaptation that adds a little bit of complexity and playing time (though still straightforward and would still be appropriate for lunchtime board games) that I think is equally good. I'd probably always recommend Coloretto first, since it's cheaper, faster to play and more portable, but if you like Coloretto and/or want something with a little bit more depth to it, Zooloretto is also worth checking out.
I'll join Josh in recommending Magic the Gathering, and I did used to play that over lunch.
Also, while only for 2 players, a 13x13 Go game is normally well under a half hour if everyone maintains a decent play rate.


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After two weeks of bottle conditioning at about 55-60°F (13-16°C), my beer is still a bit flat. I put a few in the fridge and after 2 days, they tasted just as flat. At this point, what should I do? Find a warmer location? Just be patient and wait another week? Put 'em in the fridge or leave 'em out? I'm still not clear on what part refrigeration plays in bottle conditioning.
Yeast work better at warmer temps, and at this point you want the yeast to ferment the priming and carb your beer. That means you should keep the beer around 70-75°F (21-24°C) while you're trying to carb it. Once it's carbed, putting it in the fridge will not only aid the dissolution of CO2 into the beer, but will also retard staling. At this point, your best bet is to keep the beer at room temp and be patient.
Try increasing your room temp for a about a week and then fridge overnight. If that doesn't help then it's back to the drawing board I'm afraid.
CO₂ solubility is a function of temperature. If you can force carbonate, temperature and pressure can be varied in relation to each other to obtain a particular level of carbonation (generally expressed in the number of volumes of CO₂ dissolved into the beer).
When you bottle-prime, you've added a fixed amount of sugar, which means a fixed amount of CO₂. Temperature will only vary how readily it stays dissolved. If cold and you open with a "pop", then when heated you'll get a "POP". But the temperature won't change how much CO₂ present overall. If it's not carbed warm, it'll be perceived as even less carbed cold.
Please detail your priming/bottle conditioning process. What style of beer? How long in primary? What was the FG? What was your bottling process? How much priming sugar? How did you introduce the priming sugar?
A high gravity beer (high ABV) can take more than a month to carbonate at 70 degrees and if you let it get too cold it may never get to where you want it


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The measure also contains its original provision to require the annual financial reports to be displayed online.
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TORONTO - City resident and local artist Jeremy Troski has been hard at work, readying his newest venture - the Main Street Gallery.
The gallery, which is next to the Main Street Museum at 212 Main St., in the historic building known as the Daniels Building, is set to open from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Nov. 26.
The gallery is just the latest in a series of artistic projects for Troski, who also is co-owner of American Hooligan, a clothing company that sells high quality T-shirts and other apparel worldwide - including high profile celebrities and rock bands. The gallery is a labor of love for Troski, who, with his twin brother Josh, personally installed its elegant bamboo flooring and renovated the interior. The Troskis plan on exhibiting an eclectic selection of art along with clothing from the American Hooligan line, as well as making the museum the world headquarters for the company.
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A NEW BEGINING — Toronto residents Josh Troski, left, and Jeremy Troski are gearing up to open the Main Street Gallery in Toronto from 7 p.m to 10 p.m. Nov. 26. The brothers also will use the gallery at 212 Main St. as their headquarters for American Hooligan apparel. - Contributed
A NEW BEGINING — Toronto residents Josh Troski, left, and Jeremy Troski are gearing up to open the Main Street Gallery in Toronto from 7 p.m to 10 p.m. Nov. 26. The brothers also will use the gallery at 212 Main St. as their headquarters for American Hooligan apparel. - Contributed
"It's taken me about two months to remodel the place," said Jeremy. "I've done everything. I even created the counter."
Troski, who wants to exhibit art in the gallery created by himself and other Ohio Valley artists, said he knows the gallery itself will not be a big moneymaker, but he wanted a place to showcase arts and bring the manufacturing of the silk-screened apparel back to Toronto.
"It's going to include the arts and skilled craftsmen," he said. "It will be a place to showcase stuff all year round. Basically, it was something I was looking for myself. It's not going to be a big moneymaker. It's a place where we can have events."
Troski has been designing apparel in Toronto and having the clothing line manufactured in California, selling it on the Internet or boutique shops. The business is co-owned by his brother Josh, A.J. Hunt and Sleepy Brown.
"This will basically be the headquarters for American Hooligan," said Troski. "We'll be printing all our clothing here, also. We'll be offering custom screen-printing services here for anyone. That will include brochures, restaurant menus, T-shirts-anything."
Troski said American Hooligan clothing has developed a reputation for creating high quality, original prints that are edgy and comfortable.
"Our screen-printing is entirely custom designs here," he said, adding he handles all the apparel designing. "Every shirt we have is made of the highest quality (fabrics). That's one of the reasons they are selling so well, the very high quality."
Troski said some of the famous names spotted wearing his American Hooligan gear include basketball-great Shaquille O'Neal, members of the popular hip-hop group Outkast and the cast of the hit cable TV series "The Walking Dead."
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For information, go to www.americanhooligan.com or call (740) 537-3451.


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- we have an issue where certain facets have >10 options and can have N options
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If you've ever stepped into an instance or raid, made an attempt on a boss, died, released and tried to renter the instance or the bosses room whole the battle still rages, you will know what I am talking about.
Quick note: do not release! Never release until the last party member is dead AND the call is made to release and run.
If you release you most likely won't be allowed into the instance or the bosses room. If you aren't in the instance (even as a corpse) when the boss goes down, you just lost all loot, emblems and credit for the kill.
If you can't get in, you may as well watch and cry. Better yet, watch and learn as I did while watching a Heigan fail… I learned, danced and got the achievement next time around.
If you release before the call is made you may cost your party/raid 10 minutes while they wait for you if there is a rezzer safe and ready to go.
Mmmm so much for a quick note…
Anyway, back on topic…
I would love a key to the bosses room. One that let's me reenter the battle. I don't particularly like sitting idle, especially when I die in the 1st 5 seconds to some random screw up. I want to get back in there and help out.
Time for Fun!
One of my most hated, yet strangely most loved boss fights was in Shadow Lab.
Yes that nutso boss that would get you to turn against your friends every 30 seconds. The one that you would wear your worst gear to so you didn't oneshot the Mage (yeah me). You know the one… Blackheart the Inciter.
You see this boss had a very itchy aggro trigger finger. He would reset aggro after each fun session and anything from healing, restoring mana through to picking your nose would give you aggro.
This was a nightmare, because more often than not you would blow your mana and health while mind controlled.
So this mechanic was absolute fail right… Right? Wrong!
Ping Pong
We soon learned that one of the easiest ways to beat this boss was to play boss ping pong.
More often than not I died early, so usually I would be the paddle at the other end. When I died, I would run into the instance, stop and wait.
When time for fun finished, I would sit down and eat…. Mmm health… Mmm mana… Mmmm aggro!
He would come running through the instance with one thing on his mind… Stomp the Gnome.
When I could see the whites of his eyes, I would call out and my part mates would start healing and mana regen.
Boss stops, turns around and runs back to the now fully healed and mana'd party, with me hotly on his heels.
There were occasions where we saved the day when there was only one player left alive… He would reset because we would tease him by repopping in the Lab.
I dare say this is considered more exploit than creative use of game mechanics, but, ummm, whatever…
It was worth running back
Now the whole point of this is I loved feeling useful, even when I died so early. I knew that as long as I got back to the instance quickly, I was getting a shot at the loot and I might make a difference.
I got real lucky in a VH instance recently when we lost 2 players right off the bat on the last boss. They broke the cardinal rule and ran back, but couldn't get in again.
Why was I lucky?
Because the two items I had been grinding VH for both dropped… and the only other clothy was waiting at the front door.
His loss, my gain.
Didn't stop me feeling bad for him… Afterall, I died too… In fact the absentee priest rezzer me… But I didn't release, so I got the loot and he didn't get the chance (and there was nothing I could do to change that).
So give us a boss room key. I'm happy if you have to earn it, maybe defeat the boss 10 times…
Give me a key to Sapp's room, make it tied to the Fall of Naxx. That way those of us that always seem to call it a night while staring at Sapp get a chance at that end-raid gear… Will I ever get the chance for KT's head token, before extended raid lockouts?
Go on Blizz… You know everyone likes to back door mobs…
If nothing else, get KT to come to us everytime we kill his cat!
Gnomer and Out!
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