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After spending the night with Jerry, Alexis went to work, only to find her office filled with bouquets of flowers from her nefarious lover. At least, she's pretty sure they are from him. As she's looking for a card, Nikolas comes by to ask for her help in going against the mayor on the free clinic. Seeing that she isn't paying as much attention to him as she is her flowers, he finds the card and reads it. He then goes into a lecture about how bad it is for her to be involved with Jerry Jax. She knows, and is just exasperated about her conflicting emotions. One the one hand, it's been quite a while since she's had anyone in her bed and she sees the good side of Jerry most of the time; on the other, she also knows that he is a cold killer.
When Diane comes by, this line of conversation continues, though Diane is now kind of happy that Alexis has no room to complain about her dating Max anymore. The two friends agree to support each other's love lives. Then, Jerry shows up to see if his flowers got the desired reaction. Alexis protests the flowers and everything he did, but Jerry shuts her up with a kiss, which Ric ends up walking in on. Conversation then goes the way of why Jerry shouldn't be anywhere near Alexis or her kids. Jerry bows out of the discussion and Ric continues on with Alexis after his departure. Ric brings Alexis' fears about Jerry to the surface again and warns her what could happen if she continues her relationship with Jerry. Jax also stops by Alexis' office later to find out that she's slept with his brother. When Jerry finally returns, Jax punches Jerry, I assume to defend Alexis' honor.
These scenes with Alexis are so fun. Nancy Lee Grahn has really breathed life into this character over the years. I remember the days when she first came to town and tried to hide her identity as a Cassadine, which is why this lighter side of Alexis is so refreshing. She's an amazingly strong character, but seeing her conflicted about her love life in such a playful way is just a really cool change from the seriousness that is so often attached to her role.
When the site for an important Crimson photo shoot falls through at the last minute, Kate sets up shop in the Metro Court lobby, with Maxie and Lulu in tow. The two assistants are running around trying to make sure everything is going right for the model, photographer, and of course their boss, when Carly walks in demanding to know what's going on. After learning that Kate took over the lobby without permission, she tells Kate and everyone associated with the shoot to get out. Kate counters by saying that the shoot was so last minute, that she couldn't wait for Jax or Carly to return the messages she left and had to make a decision. Also, the photos would be great publicity for the hotel.
Carly didn't care how Kate spun it, she wanted everyone out. Then Jax showed up and was caught between the women: his wife with the grudge against Kate, and his business partner who had overstepped a bit. As Jax tried to explain both sides to the women, Carly accuses Kate of setting up the shoot as a way to get to Jax and the two start taking personal shots at each other. Finally Jax tells Kate that she shouldn't be discussing his and Carly's personal life, and tells Carly to let the shoot continue.
While the drama unfolds with Carly, Jax, and Kate, Lulu starts taking bets on who is going to win. Maxie protests, saying Lulu is a traitor to Kate for betting against her. The two continue their personal/professional battle with each other until Maxie send Lulu to pick up proofs from the photography lab. Lulu takes the opportunity to play hooky with Johnny and take him to the Quartermaine boat house for some aquatic fun.
Maxie finds out what's up when Tracy shows up at the shoot to tell Carly to keep Lulu away from Johnny and they're at the boat house as they speak. Instead of getting mad to find out Lulu ditched work, Maxie throws on a two-piece and heads to the Quartermaines' to crash the couple's good time.
The more this story unfolds, the more I am not liking Lulu as a character. I know she's young and impetuous, but this self-involvement streak that she has and the way she flies off the handle at the littlest provocation is wearing on me – much like Epiphany's constant presence around Robin is wearing on her.
Robin and Patrick scheme to get Epiphany out of the house long enough for the couple to have a visit and maybe some food. Epiphany has already chased Dr. Daddy away from phoning Robin for consultations or personal conversations. But the couple will not be deterred. Patrick calls Epiphany and sends her on a wild goose chase for faulty meds at the hospital. He then stops orders in Chinese for him and Robin. Epiphany catches them together and tells them that they should've been straight with her. Robin had been feeling guilty about lying to Epiphany and apologized for the ruse. She also said that it's her pregnancy and her house and her uncle did not have the right to make these kinds of decisions.
Mac caught wind of what was going on and headed to Robin's place to make sure Patrick wasn't there. Robin stashed Dr. Daddy in the closet while she assured her uncle she'd be fine and she didn't want to move back in with him. She also said that she wants Patrick to take care of her. When he protested and started berating Patrick, Dr. Daddy came out of the closet to answer the charges Mac made against him. Patrick's declarations of love and commitment touched Robin, but incensed Mac. Patrick ended up in handcuffs with Mac leading him to the PCPD. So much for no stress for Robin, but thankfully, there seems to be a purpose to this storyline as Patrick and Robin get closer.
Ric dropped by Sonny's for a visit and told him that he admired his brother's decision to leave the mob behind. This olive branch was not received well by Sonny, who jumped on Ric's association with the Zacharras. Ric reminded Sonny that he only worked for Anthony as a way to bring down his father. Though Sonny didn't want to hear anything Ric had to say, Ric reiterated that he thinks Sonny made the right decision and that he wishes his brother well. Later, Trevor shows up to poke Sonny about the same thing, only saying that he knows that Sonny will fail. Trevor talks about how Sonny's addiction to power will bring him back into the mob and when that happens, he'll need Trevor.
After waking up in the wilds of Mexico and discussing the future of their relationship, Sam and Lucky were more solid than ever. The two decided that they definitely had a future together as they headed back to the bar where they got arrested. The bartender wasn't happy to see them, but they were soon gone after a quick check to see if Luke had been there. A note from Spencer Sr. that said their mission was accomplished told them that the jewels were in the right hands, and the two rode off into the sunset for an extended journey back to Port Charles.
Once back home, Sam told Lucky about speaking with Elizabeth about seeing the boys and how well the conversation went. She also confessed about her fears that she'd return to her possessive ways, and because Lucky was such a great dad, where she fit into his life. Lucky reassured Sam that they would work it out and he was looking forward to the days ahead.
At the penthouse, Claudia and Spinelli were getting on Jason's nerves, and it looked very much on purpose on Claudia's end. Spinelli, in true Jackal fashion, kept blaming himself for the whole mess and tortured himself by looking up symptoms and effects of the disease. Claudia became bored and tried to get Spinelli and Jason to shoot some pool with her. Spinelli took her up on her offer, which irritated Jason all the more since the two were flirty and loud. On his way upstairs to get away from both of his "guests," Jason passes out, likely because he's come down with the mysterious disease for which they're under quarantine.
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George Baker
"Ross (Robinson) is insane! Once, when we were recording here, he threw a potted plant at me. It exploded on the wall over my head and the dirt went in my mouth. It was awesome."
Joey Jordison
"That's something [director of pitching development] Dewey [Robinson] and the staff have really worked on in the last year or so, [improving] his mound presence. Not only him, but all the other pitchers in the organization. But that's really stood out."
Ricky Bennett
"I'm pretty excited about (Robinson). He's a good kid who works hard and has a lot of potential."
Dan Hinds
"Early is James Brown, Little Richard and Smokey Robinson rolled into one."
Harry Bryce
"The baby is fine, the only problem is that he looks like Edward G. Robinson."
Woody Allen
"When you're a great finisher, you'll become popular. Joe Louis was a great finisher. So was Ray Robinson. Ray Leonard. They got a man in trouble and they threw everything they had at him. Bring him down."
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Day Two of the Mind and Life XX Conference in Zurich
April 11th 2010
Zurich, Switzerland, April 10th, 2010 - The second day of the Mind and Life XX Conference - Altruism and Compassion in Economic Systems - with His Holiness the Dalai Lama was held in Zurich today. Below is a summary of the day's events courtesy of the organizers of the event, Mind and Life Institute (www.mindandlife.org)
Session 3
"What are the recent most important findings from economic research which help us to understand how cooperation, how decision-making and pro-social behavior work?" This is how Gert Scobel of 3sat opened the introduction to Session 3 on Day 2. Lord Richard Layard of the London School of Economics, after discussing different situations where competition or cooperation would be more appropriate, talked about how increased wealth does not correlate with increased happiness. Many people are stuck in a world of 'social comparisons,' where status is more important than being economically comfortable. He emphasized that while wealth is increasing, mental health is on the decline; and to combat this he introduced the Movement for Happiness to try to both increase happiness and reduce misery in the world. The Dalai Lama agreed to support the movement – "But don't expect money!"
Later His Holiness remarked, "The G7, the G20, none of these groups are focused on happiness. We need more cooperation based on trust, on respect, on love. 'I need you.' We must base our interactions on that idea. 'I want happiness, and I need you. We need they. You must first extend your hand to others; you cannot wait for people to come to you for cooperation. This is most important."
"What does altruism do for us?" Ernst Fehr asked as he returned to the stage. Public goods, as he defined, can be consumed by all members of a group, regardless of whether they contribute to them. Democratic liberty, the environment, etc. – these are examples of public goods. There is an undersupply of public goods in the world if people act selfishly. "Why do people start out acting altruistically, especially in these trust experiment games you perform?" asked His Holiness. "Many people start out very optimistic about others, but after witnessing selfishness in others, their altruism diminishes to the point where it almost ceases to exist," replied Ernst. How can we solve this problem? Altruistic sanctioning of non-cooperation – the ability to punish those who act selfishly and harm others. Once it is introduced into the arena, cooperation immediately soars and becomes almost universal.
Session 4
Antoinette Hunziker-Ebneter, CEO of Forma Futura Invest Inc., declared the we, all of us, are responsible for our economic system, and the problems that arise out of it. Do we want to create a better system, with more sustainable outcomes, with more focus on people's good, rather than materialism and selfishness? People are starting to question investment strategies to find stocks that coincide with their personal worldview. We are seeing a shift from a desire for quantity to quality, from pure profit to profit with a purpose. Intangible benefits need more prominence such as health, freedom of choice, etc. Revolution, rather than evolution, is necessary, as time is not in our favor to wait for the sustainable financial system to organically arise. Part of the solution is to invest in the companies that support our endgoal of compassion and altruism.
"I think human intelligence can and should be applied to working on solutions like this," remarked His Holiness. "Material development can only grow so far, so there should eventually be a sense of contentment with where we end up. However, mental development should never be content."
Arthur Vayloyan, of Credit Suisse, asked, "What can a bank do to help reduce poverty in the world?" Microfinance (not just microcredit) is part of the solution; it is defined as providing all basic, classical financial services for the poor. From his team's beginning, investing in very small projects such as a woman in Cambodia who started with a loan of $13, Credit Suisse and other institutions have helped bring the size of microfinance to current global investments of about $45 billion. But aid alone, especially from governments and NGOS, will not do the job; throwing money at a problem without a very clear strategy will only pollute the problem. No one believed that this sort of venture would work. Arthur quoted Nelson Mandela – "It always seems impossible until it is done."
Sanjit "Bunker" Roy conveyed his inspiring personal story with his time. After an expensive education, he was inspired to abandon the prospects of a well-to-do life upon visiting a poor village for the first time. He started the Barefoot College, an institution built by the poor, staffed by the poor, and dedicated to the education of the poor. No one with formal education is allowed. The policy is to visit destitute villages around the world, searching for people to train to become solar engineers. Only women are allowed. "Because we have found men are untrainable." Bunker asked if His Holiness agreed with this conclusion. "Yes," he said. "I am a lost cause." Grandmothers, in particular, are ideal for this. At the Barefoot College, they are taught by sign language and by example how to build, repair, and maintain solar panels. "With solar panels, the Indian women we train are so precise, not like normal Indian women. They are not always so precise." His Holiness joked, "Also Tibetan women!" After they are ready, they return to the village and install units around their village, at the cost of $2 per month. This has allowed the solar electrification of 600 villages in India alone.
"Real transformation comes from villages and projects like this. Change must come from the bottom," His Holiness mused. Responding to a question about how this will affect migration to urban areas, Bunker said, "Develop the quality of life in villages, and this will prevent people from moving away to the cities."
Matthieu Ricard finished the session with a brief few comments about humanitarian work. It is growing everywhere, especially on small scale projects. Non-government organizations can tease altruistic cooperation out of the groups and cultures they touch. They should confederate to continue and increase this very important work.


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FYI - The '07 has different threads than the '06.
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Why/how would you see an increase in oil pressure by adding a restriction? :confused: Did you mean decrease? I'd be surprised if the bearings aren't now seeing less pressure due to the -8AN lines. If you search around forums with people that open track or road race their cars a lot you will find that -10AN is generally considered the minimum size you want to use. My Mustang's setup is -10AN, and the setup I'm putting on my Subaru (a little 2.5L engine, with 2/3 the oil system capacity of our LS motors and a lot shorter distance for oil to travel) is also -10AN. I strongly encourage you to reconsider the -8AN lines - I really thinking you're increasing the risk of bearing damage.
Actually, I guess that would be one thing I didn't concur with on crankedupforit's post. There's really no reason to use stainless steel. Aluminum brackets will work just fine and weigh less, which is a good thing when you're mounting something way out on the nose of the car.
Roger that. What brand is the cooler?
I couldn't remember if it was '06 or '07 when they changed, and I was too lazy to go find the oil filter thread in which that was just discussed last week. :p
Yeah, I meant decrease. :thepan: I stare at the oil pressure all the time and the pressure did not change more than a couple psi. My pressure at idle is still in the low 30's and it's in the 70's at high rpms. Maybe I don't notice much because my pump has had work done to it? I'd still feel safe if it were down to low 20's at idle. I'll call the tech support of the manufacturer tomorrow. They have -8AN fittings on the cooler itself. I wonder if the plates in it will flow enough to support the -10AN fittings and hose. If the cooler will support it, I have no problem switching to a -10AN setup.
I didn't follow that thread. I only know because I looked in the filter book at Autozone and saw the '06 one first and bought that one. I figured it had to be the same as both are LS2's. Luckily I had another car to return to the store after I couldn't get the filter on!!!
The change to metric threads was in 2007. 04-06 were the same.
I guess aluminum would be OK but that depends on the design of the bracket. You could wind up using a thinner guage in SS. SS is more durable. The down side is that you can't fart around bending it to much to make it fit if it is not dimensioned just right. Weight...mehh.....only a few ounces more. Probably fit and design is more important than material anyway. Cool thread BTW.
PS Setrab has some nice brackets and they are aluminum. I heard their coolers are good as well.
It could be that your pump is the difference - those numbers sound fine. It would be interesting to hear what Derale has to say.
Here's a bit of info from an oil cooler discussion over on corner-carvers.com: "It's not about the volume of oil in the system, but about flow. Because of greater cross sectional area and reduced parasitic wall drag, an AN10 line will flow more than 60% more fluid than an AN8 line for an equal length and pressure." That's a pretty significant improvement.
Just aheads up for anyone who might be interested in this piece. Nice Mocal item that incorporated a sandwich plate and built in thermostat for LS engines so you can run your 10AN lines straight to an oil cooler from the oil filter mount. I had a chance to get a look at one while my car was up on the lift. Unfortunately this thing will never fit a V with headers. Save the $175. Lingenfelter or Katech have a plate but you'll have to buy an inline thermostat. A setup like that will cost you $175 to $200. Just thought I'd pass that along.
Just to be sure I understand, you're saying that a conventional sandwich plate style oil cooler take-off won't work, right? Like this style?
Or are you saying that with headers installed, this LS-specific Mocal adaptor won't work?
Looking back, I see you had previously linked to the LS-specific adapter in another thread, so I'm assuming that's what you're talking about. The installed pics on the site you linked to show how far it sticks out, which I'm guessing is the problem.
Yes that's right. the LS Mocal plate was to big to fit with headers. The spin on sandwich plates with the built in thermostat require remote oil filter which is a pain in the ass, so the LS Mocal looked good at first. I wound up with the Lingenfelter plate and the Mocal inline thermostat. I was trying to get away from the inline thermostat because you need a place to mount it and it carries some oil in the lines when it is closed.
Here is the thermostat
http://www.speedflowshop.co.uk/mocal...tors-147-c.asp It's a UK site but you can find these all over.
Here is the plate
I have these items but will not mount them until next week. MVP track day is comiing up at Autobahn. I'll let you know how they work.
I'm not sure I follow you there. Mocal makes sandwich plates with the t-stat built in, like I linked before, and the filter just sits below the sandwich plate. I just figured that style wouldn't fit into the somewhat restricted space we have because the t-stat portion of the sandwich plate protrudes out from the body of the plate.
Not only that but it adds to the cost of doing all this. An extra $30-40 since you have to buy 2 separate parts, and then another $30-40 extra because you have to buy 4 additional AN fittings.


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Monday, December 15, 2008
Suburbia--NOT resilient, but with potential
One point I wanted to raise (and that was brought up in comments at The Oil Drum) regarding my "Resilient Suburbia Series": I'm not claiming that suburbia, at present, is resilient or sustainble. Far from it. Rather, my argument is that the current dispersion in suburbia, of land ownership, of population density, etc., provides a lattice structure on top of which it is possible to build a truly resilient, sustainable society. This society may not look anything like today's suburbia--the reason why today's suburbia is relevant in this context is that it provides a suitable foundation for such a development, whereas urban areas (and their equally unsustainable present form) do not (or, at least not to the same extent).
Monday, December 08, 2008
A Resilient Suburbia 4: Accounting for the Value of Decentralization
This series has been considering the role of suburbia in a post-peak future. One necessary, though generally ignored, element of any analysis of suburbia is a consideration of the value of decentralization per se. The decentralized mode of suburbia presents problems (greater energy requirements for transportation), and advantages (greater potential for individual self-sufficiency), but what about the economics and politics of decentralization itself?
This post will argue that, when measured from the perspective of the median participant, decentralization offers a superior structure for both economic and political organization, a structure that may prove far more sustainable in a post-peak world than our current, centralized, hierarchal patterns of organization. Suburbia, not as a model for material consumption, but as a legal and social lattice of decentralized and more uniformly distributed production land ownership, has the potential to serve as the foundation for just such a pioneering adaptation—a Resilient Suburbia.
There are many efficiencies gained through centralization and specialization (of both place and activity, or, as Jaques Ellul termed it, "technic"). These two principles combine to lay the foundation for most of "classical" economic theory. These efficiencies, however, also produce externalities—side effects that are generally unrecognized and unaccounted for when weighing the value gained by centralization and specialization. I've termed these "anti-economies."
When weighing civilizational choices, it is also important to considering the dueling perspective of the median vs. the mean. A policy that grows overall wealth in an economy (raising the mean wealth) does not necessarily increase the wealth of most people within that economy (which is best measured by the median wealth). Is an overall richer society comprised of one super wealthy Tiger Woods and 100 destitute peasants preferable to an overall poorer society comprised primarily of a "middle class" at some level of wealth above destitute peasantry? How do we weight the value—from the perspective of economics, politics, sociology, sustainability, etc.—of equality of distribution versus overall wealth distributed? This is a question that is critical to any consideration of the value of decentralization, and represents a lens through which we must view the relative value of suburbia and its alternatives, their present failures, and future potential.
While, to some extent, the economics and politics of centralization cannot be separated, there are clear economic benefits to centralization and specialization. Great cities from New York and London in the present to the Hanseatic free cities or Phoenician trading bases of the past demonstrate this in spades.
If the economic advantages of urbanization are so clear-cut, what are its economic disadvantages? First, as an expression of hierarchy, a boundary analysis of cities must include their constituent hinterland—the region that produces the raw materials for urban production and consumes the services and products produced in the urban core. In our increasingly globalized world, this hinterland is also global—for example, the Vietnamese factory worker churning out products designed by the downtown LA design firm and financed by New York banks, or the peasant farmer's income impacted by the cheap, subsidized grains produced on industrial farms and exported through the ports of major US cities. (Which comes first: the masses of urban poor dependent on government and aid organizations or the flight of farmers from small plots where they cannot compete with subsidized western agricultural exports?) In addition, peer-polity competition for control and coordination of this hinterland makes the hierarchal model of urbanization fundamentally growth-driven, and therefore unsustainable. Cities are peer-polities, competing with each other to coordinate and control the economic activity of the largest possible share of a limited hinterland. If one city were to focus on a sustainable, no-growth approach to this game, it would be out-competed by others more concerned with near-term growth and intensification. This is natural selection among polities. Cities, by virtue of their necessary participation in the global peer-polity "eco-system," are forced to adopt unsustainable practices—or they are out-competed in the game for near-term survival by those who do. Where a superficial sustainability-consciousness exists, its effects are generally limited to token measures within the city's political jurisdiction, rather than the relevant and vastly larger economic reach to its effective hinterland.
It is also important to consider the "success" of urbanization through the mean/median lens. Urbanization, and the industry, trade, and centralization of economic activity that it supports, certainly increases the mean wealth within its bounds, but what does it do to the median wealth? Further, if the requisite hinterland is included within the bounds of our analysis, does urbanization even increase the mean wealth within that boundary, or does it simply affect an increasing concentration of wealth? These are the structural disadvantages of the urban form. Do they outweigh its advantages? We simply don't have the data to answer that question definitively. What we do know is that, especially within American and European cities, the environmental damages and marginalization of the "hinterland" population largely falls outside our borders, onto the fragile ecosystems and massive poverty of the second and third worlds. This civilizational accounting failure represents a massive subsidy to urbanization—perhaps the greatest subsidy in history, and one that is incredibly damaging and short-sighted.
No matter how energy-efficient cities may be (especially when compared to presently extant alternatives like suburbia), they are most fundamentally the manifestation of hierarchal structures engaged in peer-polity competition—a mode of human organization that, I believe, is at its core the root of humanity's unsustainability (because it drives our demand for growth) and it is, itself, undesirable (because it emphasizes the mean at the expense of the median, marginalizing the vast majority of participants).
Not only are there distinct, structural disadvantages to the urban model, but there are also nascent advantages of decentralized, non-hierarchal organization. The potential for distributed manufacturing is one example. The potential, and advantages of decentralized innovation is another. 2000 small farmers each trying to develop a better system will develop and evaluate more theories than a single, equivalently-sized industrial farm, and the dispersed effort will also develop more locally-appropriate solutions. The advantage of decentralized innovation is particularly apparent in military innovation—the decentralized innovation laboratory of insurgents in Iraq, for example, has equaled or bettered the worlds single largest, centralized R&D facility (the US military-industrial complex), despite dramatic differences in funding, personnel, education, and other resources. Localized self-sufficiency and increased liberation from the peer-polity competition additionally frees innovators to focus on producing quality of life for the median, rather than intensifying the empire of the mean. The mindset of the 20th century was that physical aggregation was necessary for the hierarchal coordination of complex economic activities. The mindset of the 21st century may be that physical distribution excels, and is even preferable, when pursuing non-hierarchal, open source, and emergent coordination of complex economic activity.
There seems to be a nearly endless stream of skeptics who claim that physical proximity (e.g. the city) is necessary for the kind of complex economic activity that underlies our quality of life. Usually, in my opinion, these theories rely on an outdated or misinformed understanding of economic coordination. These doubters seem broadly unfamiliar with advances in open-source, distributed manufacturing; of platform-driven systems; of the potential for tying vernacular resource bases into global networks of open-source innovation. They usually focus on the services and amenities that cities can provide to the privileged few, while ignoring at great moral hazard the concomitant impact of these structures on the vast majority of its citizens—those that live beyond political borders but well within the economic hinterlands. Others point to the opportunities for interaction in urban areas—while it is certainly possible to see and interact face-to-face with more people in an urban setting on a constant basis, the attractiveness (or horror) of this situation seems far more closely tied to individual personalities and psychological adaptation than to any fundamental economic advantage of cities. Both evolutionary psychology and modern commerce suggest that cities may actually be counter-productive in these functions.
Dunbar's number, for example, shows that human interaction functions best with group sizes of roughly 150--the norm in our ontogeny, and something that does not depend on the human density of cities. Additionally, cities may be liabilities when considering the theory of weak networks--the notion that the most powerful way to leverage humans' limited capacity to form connections is to form several very strong, very close connections, and then several extremely distant and weaker connections. Cities present an environment more susceptible to tight-group isolation (though they don't force such an arrangement), whereas the reliance by more distributed settlement on fairs (historically) and the internet (in modernity) may actually tend toward more powerful structure to coordinate economic activity.
This is not meant as a dispositive proof of the superior economic potential of distributed systems, but rather as food for thought—we tend to assume without questioning that cities are necessary and desirable for economic functioning, all the while ignoring significant evidence that this may be the result of little more than inertia. When readers wish to discuss a complex niche topic with other interested parties—a classic analogue for economic coordination—they are generally better served by a highly distributed virtual community (such as The Oil Drum) than by the kind of permanently physically collocated group one would find in a city. My guess is that even a well-connected individual in a "flagship city" like New York would be hard pressed to find the quality of discussion on a topic such as Peak Oil equal to what exists daily on this site. This same advantage spreads from agriculture to Medicine, to military theory--just one anecdote: go to the physical epicenters of military theory, such as the Army War College or one of the service academies, and you will fail miserably to find face-to-face discussions of the caliber you can find daily at John Robb's blog between people from all over the world.
Additionally, highly centralized and specialized economic structures tend to require a great degree of "middle men" to effectively coordinate complex economic activity on a large scale. As a result, a huge majority of "workers" are not actually performing "end production," but rather are performing some kind of coordination, command, or control activity. This is generally referred to as "Span of Control"—on the simplest level, one person can only effectively command so many subordinates. Historically, militaries have settled on a span of control of 5 (only 3 of which are operational). This leads to massive "middle management" in large-scale organizations. A similar effect exists in economics—while a massive dairy farm may reap significant economies of scale, it also tends to involve large behind-the-scenes forces performing management, compliance, legal, finance, marketing, transportation, human resources, and other non-milk-producing functions. Open source networks of innovation have the potential to fundamentally replace this mode of economic coordination in a manner that eliminates the need for this middle-management. Every producer a part-time innovator/theorist, and every innovator/theorist a producer. This might sound like a hippy fantasy-world to some, but it is happening right now from commodity coordination by individual peasant farmers in Africa (via cheap, disposable cell phones) to a revolution in insurgent tactics in Asia. Ask yourself, do you actually make anything? Do you even know anyone who actually makes anything? Or do you and most of your associates engage in one of these "coordinating" functions? If this is the "efficiency" of our current, city-centric economic structure, it looks more like a target of historic opportunity to me.
Finally, the same structural tendencies of our economic systems have dramatic effects on our political systems and the course of our civilization. Centralization and specialization are the opposites of self-sufficiency and independence. When we centralize production of something we require, as individuals or communities we become dependent on the system that provides continuing access. We've been so indoctrinated to the benefits (and hidden from the externalities) of these interlacing networks of dependency that we rarely realize the degree to which we have ceded our own potential for sovereignty. The implications are striking
Monday, December 01, 2008
Rainwater Farming
As an appropriate follow-up to last week's post on creating suburban self-sufficiency, take a look at this interesting post from Brad Lancaster about farming with runoff rainwater in Tucson.
I'll wrap up my series on Resilient Suburbia next Monday with a post on the economic and political merits of decentralization.
I'll wrap up my series on Resilient Suburbia next Monday with a post on the economic and political merits of decentralization.
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Personnel: Edward Simon (piano); Brian Blade (drums).
Audio Mixer: Tom Lazarus.
Recording information: Jazz Standard, New York (12/18/2010-12/19/2010).
Photographer: Daniel Boccato.
Recorded in 2010, this live album features pianist Edward Simon's trio live in concert at the Jazz Standard in New York City. Joining Simon is bassist John Patitucci and drummer Brian Blade. This is expansive, sophisticated jazz that makes room for swinging post-bop and songs influenced by Simon's native Venezuela. ~ Matt Collar


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They've already conquered the small screen, the silver screen and the airwaves, and now some of our favorite stars are making moves to dominate the next frontier -- the Internet. Whether they launched new websites, social media accounts, or Internet exclusives, Britney Spears, Victoria Beckham, Madonna and more proved to be more Web savvy than we possibly could've imagined. But which star is the top Web sensation?
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Nov. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Abtech Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: ABHD) ("AbTech"), a developer and manufacturer of patented innovative environmental technologies addressing issues of water pollution and contamination, today announced that it has been invited to present at the upcoming 5th annual LD MICRO conference on Wednesday, December 5, 2012, at 10:00 a.m. (PT) at the Luxe Sunset Bel Air, Los Angeles, California. AbTech will be available during the day for one-on-one meetings.
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A housewife takes a lover during the day, while her husband is at work. Unbeknownst to her, her 9 year old son was hiding in the closet. Her husband came home unexpectedly, so she hid her lover in the closet. The boy now has company. Boy: "Dark in here." Man: "Yes it is." Boy: "I have a baseball." Man: "That's nice." Boy: "Want to buy it?" Man: "No, thanks." Boy: "My dad's outside." Man: "OK, how much?" Boy: "$250." In the next few weeks, it happens again that the boy and the mom's lover are in the closet together. Boy: "Dark in here." Man: "Yes, it is." Boy: "I have a baseball glove." Man: "How much?" Boy: "$750." Man: "Fine." A few days later, the father says to the boy, "Grab your glove. Let's go outside and toss the baseball." The boy says, "I can't, sold them." The father asks, "How much did you sell them for?" The son says, "$1,000." The father says, "That's terrible to overcharge your friends like that. That is way more than those two things cost. I'm going to take you to church and make you confess." They go to church and the father alerts the priest, and makes the little boy sit in the confession booth and closes the door. The boy says, "Dark! in here." The priest says, "Don't start that shit again."
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Embat-Mediterranean villa with sea views
Storlek125 m²
Våning Nr.2
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Adress | Carrer des Pla de Mar, 07579 Colònia de Sant Pere, Spanien |
Typ av bostad | Hus |
Fastighetens ID | 3JK7P3FP |
Bekräftelsefrekvens | 95% |
Svarstid | Inom några timmar |
Kalender uppdaterad | I dag |
With a size of 125 m2, it is ideal for families or small groups of friends who want to spend their holidays next to the beach. There are 3 bedrooms in total, one with a double bed and 2 with single beds and all of them count with air conditioning systems, perfect for hot summer nights. During the winter season you won't get cold because the house counts with central heating.
Take your own piece of paradise! Start your day with a large breakfast on the terrace and enjoy the privacy of this idyllic setting, protected by bushes and with magnificent views over the ocean. The terrace measures 20m2 and is furnished with a table and a chill-out zone with rattan furniture. Pass your day relaxing by the pool on one of the 4 sun loungers, enjoying the fantastic sea views. The pool has a size of 5 meters x 3 meters; the garden with a size of 15m2 counts with synthetic turf.
The Mediterranean flair continues in the interiors. The tastefully decorated living / dining room offer a quiet corner to read a book, surfing the internet, watch television or take a nap. The open-plan kitchen counts with everything you may need for preparing your feasts: a toaster, coffee machine, electric oven, vitro ceramic hob, cutlery, kitchen appliances, dishwasher and a fridge. Of course there is also a washing machine, an iron and ironing board. There is no private parking, but you could park for free in close to the house on the side roads.
The property is located in the urbanization of S'Estanyol. a few minutes driving by car to Colònia St. Pere. The old fishing village offers you a few good restaurants, a tiny supermarket, a bank, a bakery and a small yacht club. Stroll down the sea promenade, watch the sailing boats and try our excellent wines and dishes in one of the restaurants. In the zone you will find lots of beaches, the most of them natural areas. Lots of bays and beaches for every taste and mood are waiting to be explored: Caló dels Ermitans, Cala Toró, Na Clara, Cales de Betlem, Cala Mitjan, Cala Torta, S'Aigua Dolça are just a few beaches (rocky and sandy) in the zone.
Note: We cannot accept guests under 25 years unless they are accompanied by their parents. We need copies of the passports of all guests in order to accept the booking.
Sand beach (S'Estanyol): 350 m
Rock beach (S'Estanyol): 20 m
Restaurants (Colònia St. Pere): 1.5 km
Supermarket: 1.5 km
Pharmacy: 2 km
Airport: 73.3 km
Train station: 32.6 km
Bus station: 1.6 km
Changeover day is Saturday during the whole year.Check-in: 4 pm
Check-out: 10 am
Very late check-in (from 24 pm) has an extra cost of 50 €
Pets are not allowed.
The holding of events is forbidden.
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Check-in efter | 16:00 |
Check-in före | Enligt arrangemang |
Utcheckning före | 10:00 |
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We stayed at the Can Pastilla for one week in May this year. The apartment is very well located near to the airport and very good proximity eg. to the capital Palma. Views from apartments balcony are stunning and we really enjoyed sitting there in the eavnings. We would of appreciated beach towels, information about busses and where to empty trashes. There was no wifi, I think it should be a standrd these days. Overall very pleasant stay.
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We were five persons and stayed for one week.
This apartment is located in a calm environment. Additional big points were that you can park your car nearby, the grocery is just around the corner (2 minutes to walk), the app. is clean and a big kitchen with all the needed utensils is provided.If you'd like to rent a bike there is also a big bike rental shop nearby.
In the end, we like to thank you for the good service before and during our stay as well!
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Dear Anna,
we loved our stay in your beautiful villa! We felt immediately at home. You were so kind to show us the entire house when we arrived to early. We will definately return some time when we have the opportunity. The ambiance was so cosy and the facilities where fantastic as well as the view.......stunning! Thank you so much for everything. Goodluck in the future. With kind regards family Bemelmans, family Esseling and family Willems from the Netherlands.
Nice local neighbours, tremendous view and comfortable terrace, tasteful modern furniture. Sea and snorkel area just a view steps ahead. We can absolutely recommend it.
A very nice, big house in the old town. With arches from 1771! We enjoyed it very much.
The house is great. You have enough room, beautiful pool and everything is clean. Two minor issues: 1. The owner can only speak Spanish, so that can be difficult. 2. The bed in one of the rooms was clearly at the end of his life.
The service from 'Charming Islands' was perfect. They are 24hours available and the service is good and swift.
We had a great vacation.
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During a traditional eye exam, an eye doctor dilates your eyes with special eyedrops and then checks your retinas for abnormalities using tools such as an ophthalmoscope — a lighted magnifying instrument. During a laser retina scan, such as Optomap, your eyes may or may not be dilated. A laser scans your eyes and then produces digital images of your retinas. The images can be studied to check for abnormalities and saved in your medical record to compare the condition of your retinas from year to year.
Although laser retina scans can detect some retinal abnormalities, the scans have limitations. For example, laser retina scans might not detect problems on the outside edges of the retinas, where serious problems can occur.
If you choose to have a laser retina scan, make sure it's a complement to — not a substitute for — a traditional eye exam. A traditional exam is especially important if you're at high risk of retinal conditions. You might also consider what the procedure costs and whether it's covered by your medical insurance.
Dennis Robertson, M.D.
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MobileIron today announced that its mobile device management (MDM) tool now supports the new OS X Mountain Lion operating system for Macs, released on Wednesday. The company cited fast adoption of Macs in business as the reason it moved out of its mobile-only roots (iOS, Android, and some lesser-used mobile OSes). "Forrester Research forecasts that enterprises will spend $19 billion on the Mac and iPad in 2012, with that number increasing to $28 billion in 2013," MobileIron noted.
The management capabilities MobileIron offers IT for OS X Mountain Lion are minimum passcode and password requirements, Wi-Fi and VPN configurations, authentication certificates (for users, apps, and devices), email configuration, remote lock and wipe, and removal of enterprise provisioning information when retiring Macs. Although OS X Server provides these same capabilities for Macs and iOS devices, it requires that IT have a separate server than what is used for managing other devices and doesn't provide as much management capability as available in an MDM tool such as MobileIron's.
[ For tips and tools for managing an enterprise Mac fleet, download InfoWorld's free "Business Mac" Deep Dive PDF special report today. | See InfoWorld's slideshow tour of OS X Mountain Lion's top 25 features and test your Apple smarts with our Apple IQ test: Round 2. | Keep up with key Apple technologies with the Technology: Apple newsletter. ]
MobileIron is not the only company to support both Macs and mobile devices for security management, but it is the first major MDM vendor to do. Symantec's Altiris and Centrify's Centrify Suite, for example, have recently added Mac and iOS support to their Windows-oriented client management tools, a response to the fact that businesses increasingly are supporting endpoint diversity rather than insisting on a Windows monoculture.
And MobileIron earlier this year developed APIs to let Microsoft System Center 2012 manage mobile devices through MobileIron's server, so Windows admins could manage mobile devices through the familiar System Center console.
That follows a trend of expanding System Center beyond Microsoft's Windows focus led by Quest Software, which offers both OS X and mobile (iOS and Android) add-ons to System Center. (Dell agreed to buy Quest earlier this month, bulking up its system management portfolio, which also includes Kace.) Symantec recently bought Odyssey Software for its System Center add-on for iOS and Android, but it does not support OS X. Meraki offers an MDM tool that can also manage Macs and Windows PCs if you install a client on them.
Apple too has increasingly moved to make OS X more enterprise-friendly, following the strategy used in iOS to make the iPhone and iPad trusted devices in most businesses. For example, OS X Mountain Lion has exposed its FileVault whole-disk encryption capability to third-party management tools, so companies can now manage Mac encryption through a central tool, rather than manually configure each Mac. Last year's Mac operating system, OS X Lion, added support for XML-based configuration profiles similar to those used in iOS that let third-party tools, as well as OS X Server, manage Mac settings over the air. This year's OS X Mountain Lion also adds support for FIPS 140-2 security, required by many government agencies and high-security businesses.
This article, "MDM moves beyond mobile devices into Macs," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Follow the latest developments in business technology news and get a digest of the key stories each day in the InfoWorld Daily newsletter. For the latest developments in business technology news, follow InfoWorld.com on Twitter.
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those boots are nice how much are they?
not buying but these look like the brown pair that some people were interested in a while back..
oh man, the colour on those is incredible.
I don't even like side zips but I want them.
9/10 condition navy blue stark for 150?
price is good but what makes it only a 9 out of 10, condition wise? that 1 point may differ from seller to buyer....
Why is that even a question you need to ask, it's a black pair of jeans
First pair is dope, retrosuperfuture right?
too good to be true, I think the site selling them wasn't legit.


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With the launch of our new Snow Shop, we've been investigating the louder side of snow sports lately—from the innovation of '80s extreme skier Scot Schmidt to the bravado of gold-medal boarder Shaun White.
This week, we chose to take a more cerebral approach by highlighting Vancouver, Canada, outdoor brand Arc'teryx. In fitting with the lofty allegory behind the brand's prehistoric namesake (Archaeopteryx lithographica, the first reptile to develop feathers for flight, "freeing itself from the constraints of the horizontal world"), Arc'teryx's latest video series, A Skier's Journey, uses obscure ski destinations as a context in which to explore nature, culture, and the human condition. The end result is a thought-provoking, heartwarming, visually incapacitating treatise on what it means to play in the snow.
Watch the bite-size trailer version above—and if you're ready to settle in, heat up some cocoa and get comfortable for the full episodes below. Once you're done, learn more about Arc'teryx's technical achievements, charitable efforts…and get inspired (while sweating bullets) watching three guys who are "climbers first, disabled second."
[Videos courtesy of Arc'teryx and Gore-Tex. Individuals featured do not endorse Nordstrom.]


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Ex-GOP House Candidate Indicted On Sex, Kidnapping Charges
The Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's office told WEWS that the charges stem from an incident in Cleveland on Aug. 1, 2009, when a woman was getting her car repaired at one of Ganley's dealerships.
The woman filed a civil suit in the fall, when Ganley was running against Rep. Betty Sutton (D-OH). The civil suit alleged that the woman, a married mother of four described in the suit as "a conservative Republican and a fervent believer in Christian Family Values, an ardent supporter of Right to Life, and a dedicated opponent of abortion," met Ganley at a Tea Party rally in Cleveland in July. On later dates, the two later discussed her working for his campaign. On August 1, according to the civil suit, the woman brought her van to Ganley's dealership for some repair work, and then met with Ganley in his office. There, Ganley allegedly told her he wanted to have "fun" with her, and take her to a condo he owned and parade her around on a leash in front of his friends. Ganley then allegedly approached her, kissed her, groped her, stuck his hand down her pants and tried to pull her into a bathroom.
"We've cooperated with law enforcement and supplied information, and frankly we're surprised that the decision was made to proceed with the indictment," Ganley attorney Brent Buckley told the Plain Dealer. "In the end, Tom Ganley refused to write a check to buy silence here. It was not a financial decision, it was an integrity point of view for Mr. Ganley and it was a check he couldn't write."
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Lookin' for love in all the wrong places is all about the journey.
It may be a hopeful sentiment for those who haven't found that special someone, especially now that another Valentine's Day has come and gone.
But if nature is any reflection of humanity, lonely souls still searching for love should take a lesson from one Sonoran pronghorn antelope.
Antelope released around the state
The antelope has been tracked by state officials for years as part of a program designed to repopulate herds in the wild. This particular creature, however, took much longer than usual -- and traveled much farther -- to hook up with a herd.
Yet, the buck finally found one.
Jim Paxon, information-branch chief for the Arizona Game and Fish Department, said this antelope is a subspecies of the pronghorn antelope and native only to southwestern Arizona and to Mexico, with a larger population south of the border.
The animal, known to biologists simply as 851, was being kept in a breeding pen near Ajo as part of the Sonoran Pronghorn Recovery Plan. He was released at age 2 in February 2008.
At about that age, antelope in captivity are ready to be released into the wild, Paxon said.
So, he was fitted with a GPS collar and ear tag and set free. The lone buck was expected to quickly search out a herd of does for protection and to continue the species. But it turns out it took 851 a bit longer than most antelope of his species to find a herd.
Wildlife specialist John Hervert said the bucks released from breeding pens in this program begin looking for other Sonoran pronghorns immediately and travel varying distances before finding a herd.
But 851, he said, went farther south than any of the others and has been the only antelope in the program to mix with a herd in Mexico.
This young buck traveled more than 200 miles in three months before finding his herd. Hervert said the animals usually find other pronghorns long before going that far.
"He was kind of unlucky and kept making all the wrong moves," Hervert said. "He was on the periphery where pronghorns naturally occur, just going around the wild herds without knowing it."
Paxon said 10 years ago, there were 21 of this species of antelope living in the United States. Now there are about 100 in the wild and 65 in breeding pens waiting to fawn in March.
"What a success story this is," Paxon said. "It shows that restoration is working."
Game and Fish has tracked antelope for decades, but Paxon said this is an epic journey for an antelope.
The buck traveled numerous times across Arizona 85, as well as Mexico's Highway 2 and a tough-to-penetrate U.S.-Mexican border, he said. At one point in the journey, 851 scaled almost 4,000 feet to the top of the volcanic Pinacate Peaks in Mexico.
"I look at him as an adventurer," Paxon said. "He wasn't gong to be satisfied until he found his herd."
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Aight, I never thought it would come down to this, but i'm about to call time on my more than 11 years as Wu fan(atic).
I've been around places like wu-corp ever since i knew how to use the internet, many people know me, a lot of ya'll newbies don't. I've been around since forever. Wutangworld and all that, that was the shit back then...
But now a days I rarely listen to the wu, and matter fact i pretty much dont give a fuck about anybody but Gza, Ghost and Rae. I still like those 3, especially Gza, he'll be my favorite forever. My interest has been declining slowly over the past 2 years, but lately i found myself not really giving a fuck. I rarely even post anymore...
The main reason is the music, i'm just not feeling the wu as i once did, every album they drop just seems like something you've heard before, and even though they might be good i just loose interest so fast.
And it's crazy really cous ive tried to convince myself that the new meth, masta and ins are dope, but i just never listen to them...
and I really feel like i got no more to say.
i've not bought a wu album since Fishscale, and that was the first in a long damn time...
The only wu albums i've been feeling in the past years are fishscale, grandmasters and no said date, and that's it. i fucking love grandmasters though.
It's kind of sad to feel that you've lost interest in the crew which has been such major part of my life until now, especially in my teen years the wu was a major part of life, and i bought every single album they dropped.
I'm still a fan of some of the wu-fam, but way too many of them has become garbage, but all the rappers in Killarmy, Sunz Of Man and a few others like La The Dark, Shyheim and others are still dope...
Now a days im more in to shit like, Boot Camp, Cali Agents, Cormega, AZ, Nas etc.
I've recieved a couple private messages from a few of those who i've known on here for years, i havn't answered you, but i felt i had to explain my disappearing.
Peace to everybody,
now i'll still drop by every now and then, to see what's up, but im so busy these days it's gonna a rare thing...
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On Monday, 11 July from 3:00 p.m. through Wednesday, 13 July until 5:00 p.m. (USA Mountain Time), NSIDC data distribution, services, and Web site will be unavailable to accommodate a major upgrade to our data center. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you. Need to talk to us? You can always contact our friendly User Services Office at email@example.com or + 1 303.492.6199.
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The NASA IceBridge GPS L1B Time-Tagged Real-Time Position and Attitude Solution (IPUTN1B) data set contains elevation, roll, pitch, and heading measurements over Antarctica using the Ashtech GG24 GPS+ receiver and the Systron and Donner MMQ-50 Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU). The data were collected by scientists working on the Investigating the Cryospheric Evolution of the Central Antarctic Plate (ICECAP) project, which is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) with additional support from NASA Operation IceBridge. The data are stored in ASCII text format and are available via FTP for periodic, ongoing campaigns from 18 November 2010 to the present.
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Naomi Timperley shares her top tips for using Twitter successfully.
If William Shakespeare were around today I'm sure this would be one of his quotes!
My love affair with Twitter began about two years ago when I started using it to promote events for Baby Loves Disco (@blduk). It was love at first tweet for me as I connected with other like minded businesses and people and found I had a voice in a way that had not been previously possible. I then started tweeting as myself (@naomitimperley) to build my profile, which I have done very successfully.
Twitter can be a fantastic tool to get your message across about your business, keeping an eye on the competition, networking, customer service, industry news and so much more. I launched a business (@enterpriselabuk @yenterpriselive) with two people that I met on Twitter and we have built up our profile for the business very rapidly by using Twitter!
Here are my top tips for making it work for you:
- If you're new to Twitter – observe first
- Look up your competition and see what they are tweeting
- Don't be an 'egg' – make sure you have a profile picture or logo
- Have a compelling bio and a website link (or Linkedin profile if you don't have a website).
- Follow strategically – people you know, networking contacts, other related businesses, the competition, industry related media, industry peers, related bloggers.
- Join in conversations.
- Use appropriate hastags (#)
- Use # for events/seminars/training
- If someone mentions you do respond to them
- If someone retweets (RT) you, thank them
- Listen to what other people have to say.
- If your company is doing the tweets make sure the employee you choose to do it is the most passionate about the business – don't assume it's the youngest person in the office!
- If someone complains about your business respond to it publicly – this is a good sign of customer service.
- Welcome new followers.
- Become a guru of what you do online – tweet information that is going to be of interest to your followers
- DON'T JUST SELL SELL SELL! It's about building up relationships first and then the sales will come!
For more tips, you can read this brilliant guide to Twitter from @smartahq
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The Old Codger has returned after a hiatus of two years. Keeping up a blog is tough work for an old man who prefers the leisure's of life - such as Tiger Beer, Jack Daniel's and chasing young women - as opposed to regimen. The return of the Old Codger has been literally demanded by many who are fascinated by China in general - as well as those who have discovered Nantong, Jiangsu and are now working here.
Who is the Old Codger? In a few words, he is an old white dude who can't dance or sing to save himself, much less get free drinks or food. He is cranky and opinionated, more likely inclined to express crass opinions than to share the love with positive reinforcement. He is from an era when shoddy work was simply thrown back in your face; when jobs were given to the best qualified people - or the best bull shitters - and you had to produce or get fired. He is from an era where there was pride tempered by shame. A time when people were ashamed to be 25 pounds overweight; ashamed if you were pregnant and not married; or on welfare. This was an era where every kid had a "Tiger Mom" who would kick your ass and demand you succeeded in everything that you did, and a "Wolf Dad" who would make sure you understood the concept of "no pain - no gain." It is an era that some of us old codgers call the "good old days." Life, as we knew it, seems to have disappeared in an abyss of political correctness.
The Old Codger has worked hard to have and express his opinions and to do what he wants to in life. He doesn't have to "keep up with the times" and follow the herd. He is unable to defend the world for the direction that it is going; but will certainly try to defend much of where it has been.
The Old Codger retired in 2002 at the age of 50 and promptly moved to Thailand. In 2007 he packed up again and moved to China, simply on a whim, and the lure of a part time job at a University. No old man in his right mind would pass up an opportunity to work around a couple, three thousand beautiful young girls! Life, after all, is made up of fantasies, and being able to live a fantasy is one of life's greatest rewards.
Reality set in quickly. China is nothing like the "propaganda" that the Western media, and your teachers spewed on a regular basis. Today, thousands of foreigners from around the world have made China their new, and often final home. In many ways, living in China is like stepping back in time 50 years, despite the fact that China is modern and trying to catch up with the rest of the world in many areas. One thing is obvious: Chinese culture and traditions are much stronger than any modernization efforts that the country may undertake.
For the Old Codger, China and Nantong are ideal places to live and work. Opportunities abound. Nantong is a large city, but still small enough to get around in and enjoy life. Shanghai is close by if you want the thrill, hustle, and both the benefits and pains of a big city.
When the Old Codger first arrived in China, he started publishing Letters From China. While that section has not been active for awhile, it is in the process of being revived. New letters will be posted on the Old Codger's Musings and Commentary Blog since blogs are more popular these days, as well as in the Letters Section.
As you peruse this web site, please remember that it is a continual work in progress and largely devoid of political correctness. This is all about China and life through the eyes of an Old Codger who is enjoying life to its fullest. If you want to come to China to visit - you are more than welcome. Just make a sincere and honest effort to leave it exactly the way that you found it and don't try to change anything. Those of us that live here like things just the way that they are.
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Future Tar Heel Tywon Lawson earned MVP honors by leading his USA basketball squad to the title at the 19th annual World Juniors Tournament in France this past week. Lawson posted 27 points and 9 assists in the championship game victory over Turkey on Sunday to cap a sensational five-game stretch. (Inside Carolina)
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