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- Workers in right-to-work states make more. When adjusting for cost of living, workers in right-to-work states have 4.1 percent higher per-capita personal incomes than workers in non-right-to-work states.
- Right-to-work makes unions stronger. In 2012 union membership in non-right-to-work states fell by 396,000. In contrast union membership is right-to-work states grew by 39,000 (not including Indiana or Michigan.) This is because in right-to-work states workers have a choice, and unions must prove their worth in order to keep membership.
- Right-to-work offers in-state opportunities for young workers. Between 2000 and 2011, right-to-work states have seen an increase of 11.3 percent in the number of residents between the ages of 25-34, according to the Census Bureau. Non-right-to-work states, over that same period of time, have seen an increase of only 0.6 percent.
- Right-to-work means lower unemployment. It's easier to find a job in a right-to-work state —the unemployment rate is a full percentage point lower than in forced-unionization states, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Between 2001 and 2011, right-to-work states added 1.7 million jobs while forced-unionism states lost 2.1 million jobs. Further, the vast majority of jobs created since the great recession ended have been in states with a right-to-work law. Since June of 2009 household employment growth in right-to-work states was two and a half times as much as non-right-to-work states; 4.4 percent compared to just 1.7 percent.
- In December 2012, unemployment in right-to-work states was 7.1 percent, but in non-right-to-work states it was 8.1 percent, and nationally was 7.8 percent.
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Video surveillance system stolen from Farmington ski area
FARMINGTON, Maine (AP) � Farmington police are investigating the theft of a $600 video surveillance system from a community ski area.
A Titcomb Mountain employee called police just after 2 a.m. Sunday after arriving for work and finding the back door open. The employee was unable to tell if the door was left open or if someone had broken in. The system was taken from the main office.
Manager Karleen Andrews tells the Morning Sentinel (http://bit.ly/V2EWtD ) the organization has little money to spare and will have a hard time replacing the equipment.
Titcomb Mountain is community-based ski area owned and operated by the Farmington Ski Club. The staff and volunteers run children's programming, including lessons for 300 to 400 children every year. About 300 families buy season passes.
The theft remains under investigation.
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Venezuela Could Allow DEA Agents to Visit
Relations between the United States and Venezuela have been strained ever since President Hugo Chávez took office in 1999.
However, in what could be seen as a thaw in the icy relations between the two countries, Venezuela is weighing a U.S. government request to let a high-level DEA official visit the South American country.
Venezuelan Ambassador to the Organization of American States Roy Chaderton told The Associated Press on Friday that his country's main consideration is ensuring mutual respect between the countries.
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Chávez scaled back co-operation with the Drug Enforcement Administration in 2005, accusing its agents of espionage, an accusation the DEA denied. U.S. officials have expressed hopes of improved counter-drug co-operation.
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AAFP EMR Survey Offers Food For Thought
Anne Zieger is veteran healthcare consultant and analyst with 20 years of industry experience. Zieger formerly served as editor-in-chief of FierceHealthcare.com and her commentaries have appeared in dozens of international business publications, including Forbes, Business Week and Information Week. She has also contributed content to hundreds of healthcare and health IT organizations, including several Fortune 500 companies. Contact her at @ziegerhealth on Twitter or visit her site at Zieger Healthcare.
Even the authors admit that the following study has got flaws, given that respondents weren't randomly selected and some vendors screened out by its design. Nonetheless, new EMR satisfaction research by the American Academy of Family Practice gives us some interesting stats to consider.
The study, which was published in the November/December issue of its Family Practice Management journal, draws on 3,088 responses from AAFP members, who responded to a series of questions regarding which EMRs they used and how comfortable they were with those EMRs. Respondents reported using a total of 160 named EMRs, but the study dropped 129 which were used by 12 or fewer practices in an effort to simplify the results, leaving 31 systems for analysis.
The systems with the strongest satisfaction ratings, ranging from roughly 80 percent too over 50 percent, were Praxis, HealthConnect, MEDENT, Amazing Charts and SOAPware. eMDs, Practice Fusion, Point and Click EHR, EpicCare Ambulatory and Vista CPRS followed closely, with scores clustered around 50 percent.
Not too surprisingly, EMRs that were ranked easy to use were largely the same ones which got high satisfaction ratings. Topping that list was Point and Click EHR at nearly 80 percent, followed by Amazing Charts, Practice Fusion, Praxis, SOAPware, Aprima, MEDENT,eMDs, HealthConnect, Vista CPRS, with Care360 EHR rounding out the bottom of the top 10 at roughly 47 percent.
The only surprise the authors highlighted came in response to a question asking which EMRs helped doctors see more patients or go home earlier than they could with paper charts. In that case, Praxis stood out, with doctors who agreed hitting about 80 percent. The number who agreed for the next on the list, SOAPware, fell immediately to just over 40 percent, with the other players falling even lower on the scale.
Even with its deliberate statistical laxity — authors described their intent as being more of an "advice from colleagues" format — this certainly offers some stats to chew on. In particular, I'd love to know what Praxis is doing right. After all, when it comes right down to it, productivity is king.


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the l:i\vn to her beaux her boots are thin and neat she is vain about her feet it is sftid . she amputates her r's but her eyes arc like the stars overhead on a balcony at night vv».h a fleecy cloud of white round her hair ; her grace ah who cou paint she would fascinate a saint i deihwe tis a matter of regret she'd a liil of a coquet whom i sing on her crue path she noes with a half a dozen beaux on her string but let that all pass by and her maiden moments fry dew im pearled when she marries on my life slje will make the dearest wife in the world i — montgomery ala advertiser — ■>■— » needs of the nation written for the blatimorc sun article iv having somewhat lengthily discuss ed the injustice inequalities and dan gerous tendencies of tariff taxation even under the most favorable and vvell-gnarded conditions we will now examine what is said in its favor the pretensions made for it arc mos re markable they frequently do not stop at the absurd but approach the miraculous it-elf it one-half that is claimed for it be true there should be no excuse for poverty or suffering on earth for than is no nation so low in civilization and intelligein p but its statesmen could enact high a-iff laws or prohibit altogether any trade with foreigners and that in the opinion of protectionists is the secret of the whole process of national wealth and j what a cruel and in justifiable thin | we did when we sent a ileet of war ships to open by force tie exclusive policy of japan to the commerce of the i world she was merely imitating our own policy in giving her o n nianu f.ii t ires a home market and trving t get rich by trading with ea;h other what arctheclaimspnt forth by the friends of protection let me men tion a few with the understanding that nobody h permitted to laugh | they say first that i encourages our ! infant manufactures that without it thev could nor compete with the pau per labor of europe that it raisfs tin prices of labor that it raises the price of the farmers product that it lowes t-he prices of manufactured products that it raise revenues by taxing the foreigner who brings in the goods that it keeps our money at ho:nc ami maintains the balance of trade in nui tavor whilst it does ail this they j:iy at the same time it is no tax at all and that the tariff duty does not enter into the price of the articl on which it is imposed it is mere pretense oi taxation a kind of commercial fiction ir man of straw like john doe and kichard roe and the confession o lessee entry and ouster in the old tction of ejectment by which the for eigner is ejected from our market and made to pay taxes out of his own pock et whilst our own people obtain a judgment of th court that they shall buy every thing cheap and sell everything dear after so many grave political economists and alleged states men have asserted these things in be half of protection what right has any nan to laugh at the claims of the most pretentious patent medicine ever idvertised i don't believe i ever saw one which professed that it could kill a man and restore him to life by swallow ing for one and rubbing outwardly foi the other purpose vet a greater tiling than this is claimed for protection it reduces trices to the couisumer and and it increases prices to the producer it orotects the manufacturer becati.se the duty added^to cost of the article enables him to compete with the foreigner but as the duty is not added to the cost of the home-made article the con sumer pays no more than he would if there was no duty at all and in fact he gets the article cheaper let me illustrate it costs in england twenty cents to make a yard of flannel where labor is cheap and wool is free in america where labor is higher and wool is taxed tift-ysixpercent it costs thirty cents to make a yard of the same flannel the american manufacturer says lie can't compete and the english man is bound to undersell and drive him out of business this is undoubt ed iv true for simple arithmetic proves it very well a duty of fifty per cent is then placed on the english man's flannel this enables the ameri can to turn the tables on his rival and undersell him how so simply be cause the duty of ten cents a yard be ing added to the foreign article makes it cost thirtv cents also whilst cost of transportation raises it above the cost of the home article so far nobody disputes the plain arithmetic of the case but after the consumer has paid m in v millions of dollars not for flannel but to support the home manu facturer in a losing contest heiit last gits tired of being taxed for another man's pocket and proposes to remove soaie ci it then the figures vhkh we have known and trusted from child hood bfgin to he 1 he consumer is told that be is altogether mistaken that he is not taxed at all that tht duty i.-s not added to tlie price of flannel and assures him in proof.of it that he never bought flannels so cheap before nay sometimes when his blood is up he will go so far as to say that he mak es flannels chesiper than the english man and he can beat him at his own game any day now any man in ln senses will say that there is a lie some where in this statement there i bouud to be either the manufacture lies when he says the tiriff duty in while or in part is not added to tin price or he lies when he s ivs he ca i't compete without the duty that is without something which is not-exis tent in my opinion both assertions are destitute of due exactitude to use the languageof a spanish diplomat my observation has been that in mat ters touching the tariffand their protife under it the reputation of prote f manufacturers is tumh the same as that of shacknasty jim of whom his eulogist wrote that his reverent e for tlie truth was so great that he never uttered it or went near if or interfer ed w tli it in any way whatever how in the tax protect home products un less it increases the price how raw it increase the price unless it is added m whole or in part to the erst an:l if thev can make goods as cheap as the foreigner why can't thev compete with him and what is the necessity of re taining the duty when pushed to the wall on this point they say the duty keeps out the foreigner and giv es them the entire home market bui what benefit to them is the homo mar ket unless they are making money b supplying it and if thev do make money and still nuke cheaper goods than the foreigner the question then recurs with redoubled force why keep np the duty it is too plain for argu ment the price of dome-tic goods i enhanced by a duty on the foreign and enhanced at the expense of the con sumer common sense and common honesty can make nothing else out oi it thai protection encourages our man ufacturers is undoubtedly true but it so happens that there are two sides to that proposition as there are almost to ill others man himself is bilateral and it seeni : to be a law of nature as well so also in moral world a self opinionated old chnp of my acquaint ance was once brought to what was supposed to be his death-bed and in preparation for the long jonrnfv tin preacher w.i-i culled in my friend s.ii'l the ghostly counselor before you an hope for mercy and forgiveness you must idmit that you area poor miserable sinner and there is no g tod in you do you confess that well parson he replied i do in a genera rt'nv but there's a heap to h said on the otlnr side of thai question if a body had time xo there is very much to be said on the other me of the propo sition that a tariff encourages our own manufacturers when men deal with each other if one makes money by the trade ii must be at the expense of the other if one gains tin 1 other loses it is true 1 hat in exchanging one article for another not unhvqueiitlv both sides are benefited but that is different from t sale if a is compelled by law to pay fi ten cents a yard more than the normal price of flannel i can well see how b is benefited to the amount o ten cents but i can't see for ihe life of me when as benefit comes in b is undoubtedly encouraged to the ex tent of ten cents and it seems to me that a must just as sure be discour aged t ) the same extent - that is al ways supposing that a has common sense if he were a natural born as he might when the whole protection theory was explained to him fed monstrously hoped up by the loss of his money so the duty of two dollars per thousand is a great encouragement co men engaged in the cutting and sawing of lumber but to the same ex tent it i a discouragement to the poor man who i.s about to build i house to shelter his wife and children the same may be said of window-glass crockery iron and steel rails woolen clothing and all the rest of it if the tax laid on these things encourages the men who receive it and doesn t cor respondingly discourage the men who pay it then it can only be so on flu principle that it is more blessed to give than to receive an excellent precept in morals but of doubtful application in political economy i take it to be a self-evident propo sition that where there is abnormal gain there must be a corresponding loss sometrhere if one man in a comma n tv gets rifch in such a way the people around hiill are poorer by just that amount if one section gets rich in like manner it must do so ordinarily by absorbing that much of the wealth i)f other sections when trade is left fee it is not necessarily so the nat ural laws of political economy which are a beautiful system of compensa tions checks and balances tend to equalize the gains and losses of human intercourse but where the law inter feres and b taxation confers unnatu ral gains on o.ie i inevitably imposes in unnatural loss on another the laws of economy will not rjjjht this wrong bv reparation to the taxed man though thev may avensre their violation and do by injuries cf equa esteut to th wrongdoer j failing to show how these thing can be done by protection howthe*tax can enter into the question when nr-e 1 ed to keep the foreigner out and ob ligingly disappear when the consume is recjuir d to pay and then reappeai ifrain in tlie treasury like n limbei jimmy or a jumping jack in a magic box or how a duty levied to proteci manufacturers is nol a tux imposed o one class to enrich another failing ut terly to explain in detail these contra dictory and impossible things the ad vocates of the theory fall back on tjen eralitie trusting to the inability or indisposition of the common mind to distinguish between cause and effect with this aim they constantly present the public attention with a series of the most delightful pictures of local prosperity they will tell us that in a certain place there was i stream of water flowing idly to the sea the coun try was rude and poor the inhabitants few and in poveity and ignorance one tine day a wandering capitalist comes along in search of nn investment for his money he sees this stream a id immediately perceives its power to turn machinery he conceives the idea of making blankets but he can't make them as cheap as thev are made abroad he purchases the site and water power for a song s to con gress and gets a tax of 75 per cent placed on all foreign blankets builds his mills and goes to work as if by magic the whole scene i changed stately buildings arise on the banks of that neglected stream the lonely forest gives place to the workingman's white cottages the stony soil is converted into smiling gardens and orchards idleness disappears and the factory bell calls busy men and women to profitable toil every day in the week and church b?lfs stimmoi to worship on sunday education intelligence and comfort prevail with all the hlrsted incidents of prosperity this is enchanting and in many cases it is true well isn't it a convincing nrgument for protection it is an argument an overwhelming one for the existence of manufactures but not for protection where does it ill come f.-om from the profits made by manufacturing those blankets where do those profits come from prom f'i 1 y o:i foreign blankets which enables him to put nearly all the tax on his blanket who pays that rax 1 - every man who buys a blanket every farmer in this broad land every plow boy wagoner ditcher blacksmith in sh rt even man who sleeps under a blanket high and low rich and poor tin pampered lord of tlie mansion and the shivering widow in the cottage all pay a tax over and above the actuul cost of blankets to produce this scene of beauty and prosperity it is a pros pect oi loveliness tainted for the thoughtful man by the fonl streaks of injus i v and robbery under the forms of law it fias all keen paid for by pinching discomforl and self-denial in every homo in tlv land practically what difference is there between thai tariff act and the giving of that man ufacturer a b maty nn every blanket in m de equal to the difference l tween iu cost and the c'>st of the foreign ones pr.ictically is not that tariff law jusi the mine tiring if the amount collected under it could be exactly es timated is if if had road thus be it enacted c that one million dollars or s.i much thereof as may be necessa ry is herebv appropriated out of iinv monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated to pay john smith for operating a blanket factory at fall river a^iss for two years from the 30th of june is . to the 30th of june is -, and selling said blankets at the market price of the world in the one case the government would collect the tax from the people and pay it over to john smith in the other the government authorizes john smith to collect it for himself and by the law keeps all outsiders from interfering with him the only practical differ ence i can see between them is in favor of the direct appropriation from tlie treasury in the first place the amount is limited whilst under the tariff smith collects all he can without limit in the next place the people would know just what was done with their money and could not be confus ed and deceived as to the real objects of the taxation then if they saw fit ro be bled to enrich private persons they would suffer with their eves open the next paper ill deal with the pictures of general prosperity which it is alleged the tariff has produced z b vajfce e3:cue by st bernard do^s it is only within the last few days th t particulars have been published in the swiss papers of a brave rescue ef fected on the mount st bernard on the night of the last sunday in novem ber while a violent snow storm va in progress.grund the manager of tht hospice noticed that his own special log that was alone with him in hi room bee irae very restless and mad simis to him to no out he took the i intern an 1 fog horn and went out on the mountain the dog leading him in a very short time he heard a c il and groaning and helped bv the dog dug out of the snow an it.i'i tn whom he carried on his lack into the hospice the rescued mm stated that bwfathe two brothers and another italian al journeyirg home with him over the -,,..- hu buried in the i 1 "^- he had i shecl on to obtain hsln but had eeu overpowered by the storm grand started and went out again thi second search was more tetliona i t ; led him farther away but at la*t tin barking of the dog announced a . i - eovery h was the italian strangei who v a now sared ami carried nn t thp h spice a thud time grand and 115 dog sallied out into the tempest htij after a quarter of an hour's search found the others near where the becoi d man had been discovered they were quite buried under the the snow and almost insensible he took the most feeble on his shoulders and with diffi enlty conducted the others to the hos pice it vnow past mid.n ght.and ha loilsorae task had occupied grand over four hours in a blinding snow-storm london t me :. country courtship the flot spring news had its med itative powers aroused by the story of uncle zack's courtship wiiici george naylor is running inthe con way tribune being reminded of a somewhat similar courtship the news tells this story briefly ca follows the story is credited to au arkan | sawyer residing in clarke county calling upon his lady love his extreme j bashful ness precluded all utterance save from the heart this state of affairs was mutal so the two simply sat and looked and loved all the while inching up closer together finally he broke the spell by the ejaculation u s pose we buss shyly came the answer without looking up don't keer'f we do they proceeded o buss after which another lo:ig silence prevailed wine tin chairs kept slowly gravitat i h toward each other finally the ' speh was again broken when be said l s'pose we marry in the same manner she responded don't keer'f we do this ended the courtship and the i we uing so ji followed courtesy in command a certain lientenant-colonel r-.iv 1 air j v/as noted for his profanity bai i one dav he m t with a deserved n uik . , gen custer was with him when b rode up to a sergeant of the guard iii ', his regiment ami swearing at bin furiously ordered him to attend to 1 matter that had been neglected tli j man folded hia arms and stood t bay : looking the officer squurel 1 iu the eje do you hear in .■': " siid the colonel : with another oath why don't yon do as i tell you when i receive a proper order 1 shall obey said the sol ier firmly the articles of war forbid yon n ad dress me ih tiie language you hav used gen custer laughed with a keen ap i preciation i>f the state of affairs he's got you there he said to hi ■subordinate the colonel at once changed his bearing and apologized with i ven | manly frankness sergeant said he von are right snd i apologize 1 should n<-t hav addressed ou as i din then he gave his orrlerder the man touched his cap respectfully and turn ed aw.iy to fufili the command tin colonel moreovpr had risen many de ! grees in the estimation of his soldier noble woman the late lady brassey when on lier deathbed with that thoughtful large heartelness which was one of herchnr acteristics made a special request to tli ■hon may belle brassey her eldest laughter who is soon to be married that her trousseau should be entrusted to the donegal industrial fund in dublin ireland for the benefit of the irish workers and to show the interest lady brassey had always felt in that undertaking her wishes are being fulfilled mid the trousseau now in course of preparation will consist wholly of iri^h handiwork things she never will acknowledge there are a dozen things yon can never ijet •<■l»wly to plead guilty of be she old or young that she laces tight that her shoes are too small that she is tired at a ball that it takes her very long to dress t nit she li s kept you waiting that she blushed when you men tioned a particular gentleman's name that sh'3 says what she doe-n't mean tiiat she id fond of scandal that she ever flirted tint she never kept a secret not long since mr joseph bnidfield tnnounced through the xeirs awl 1 n-rrv that he had forsaken the false jods of radicalism to v.'n e unhol hrine he had strayed from the true fold of democracy and was a demo crat a^rain in principle and purpose ind more recently mr a dula,chair man of the lepiiblicitn executive c idi nitteeof caldwell county has through he columns f the lenoir topic tx ore-sl'd himself as no longer able to ihide so-called r^puwicanism but as finding himself on the contrary in perfect accord with the democratic partv ." they have set good examples now is the accepted time return ve wandering inner home ' — aezcs hndcbserrcr farm and fireside — growing mim:ih ue*l more f.....i in proportion to uir w ighl than tho<«e that are full grown spinach is nnc of the early grrens aii applic.iti.tn ..{ a ven iiu dianura will hasten them au.l ji i largvr crop - tli e \\ h • i . n.-f.l th iiii-wy i rliilbl i a trill i ■u'i i '• i trj balhiu uie iifli.'.-l part iiwn pint nf vii..-._<-->r . ■■> .: ii!ii-i j livt ceittv worth t tuq».-n title - gohle i pud mn ■mix well quarter of i i-vi i . , :'.. n rea<1 crambo eugur ml ii civ mined meat ami the i n quantity n orange nnr lualadc . . ! iino i _•_' u • ir iit » a well bntt n 1 !<!•■'. n i ii kin i •• it;.l a half i v.j ,\. - win n lrong ilnvor such i .. . 11 i,l u ;.:|,,, a it btt much impr<»vrd i inning them !<> boil iu r.>i u ii.-r t iii-uiii this fmm v kettle of boiling wntcr i soon is it conies n . -. id <,- • . - i'uo ontv w:ii la r iiuiii bearing apple iit lit:»!:liy yigonnn n frnii ful w by giving th.:n full p x4o.4«inn t the laiut i r i i cuuivatiuri and supply ing n i'.iivi i.-nt t]u.tniuy of manure t keep up •:. • fcrtilitj t the iu>il tbi oegli i '•> keep those iv<jtiiivmcnt is the m.tin emi t the pruinatnre l>-.:iy oi many f our old oi hank — the cii5t oman :<-;!»'<!\ forthe black kiiot or blight ■>•■'. i!'.un irves is t.-k cut if hit k fasl . ■i;>;<mir i:..t b«rn it thn i l.i'i.'i i.>ii i iii i i!w:iv tatis factorr \ y:»:ik ertiit-grower re port tb:il jviinlinj the ih«e.ised i>ot n-i i*..u i - th v i]>,m-:ir v itti hn i oil has beoi a uu v i inventive i;i liis it h-ri.-iw . ■■. iz . .'.' ■. tl»e very besl > iii - for i spr t put t be limb into t •<•■--••! i>f rery hoi nrate-r immediately th^n i«l i !«..:!- miy vratei as it . ivrti tho jwrt imai»-rse»l f«»r twenty biiniitei or ':'.!:. pain ik.-i.l -. thci i*p\aj v tight iinl:ijje and ":■'!< r .■-; sjonje limth the joint ran '■■• use«l in txn we honr if ihm'—t -. silicate fr sotlinni ilressin-r sausage rills 11:\kc puff pa te ro!l out to an ci^htl.ioi ■;. i h i ui k ness '.!;• i i i ■• \- nes rt;!i liv t he i:i i i bonixl barn sau ag :.. . i .. y .«'. ik in small rolls and pla e ow ■•! • . nar i of pastry wt »!>■ndgea mid brinjj them togotlier wvik v i ? r • beaten v\iii:o of i c r . l.i r»i • and brown if pjnperh made ;.'. j . very ilainl \". — liara i:..l pwlai k k>a1 theyellsi i of two e»g3 into a little molted butlei about tw • irinr s i ii t onio thia slict-s f eookc«l h;inj dip i item in if bnit«-r \ ii h or pan nnd 1 • in it t layer of r**l«l bniled and sli p«1 • t .!..-• sprinkle thi-m with l salt ; ■l .- i '.'.'■(».• ■. - ■: ham nnotln r of potai - ■. ti 1 lh dish be full linisjiinpr with the p*>t:itoe pour ovor this hall :» pinl of cream stand ihe dish in fhe i<\-n and k.ikj quickly — in . ' ■!■■' i i watch i he pigs doir to k..i-.f health ar.tl ronxqaantlj rrol.li oi ic.-r tin 1 )■■1 r f r i pi n nnn of earth pruvitli'il this is f n kind that will not become loo dusty if ■; - i . :; . >> !••• x>culi;>ri sensitive to dust or rather sinco they have tin-it iii s'fii-i f»ftc cr ■;■. i !■-. rto the around tiii t v.i other ilom«*stu animal they inhale moru * i . ; ~ t than any other it i very injui i ■': to i hei iullk ••■mgl iiiilucuza • ■• tl necup '.'■• i •• ' !■; limn unchanged i i fruii i ■•■■: disea . even llu e irtli ivhi<:h ptirititn all thing wui itai'll h in f.nil .,: ;..-: :. nv.i ti i;i!::ti i r>f ihn skin 11 ._:- teem to be peculiarly — - , i — i » i . - in their skith and the mutrous moaibninm lining all the internal cavities 1'hev sutler from a lack of fl»»anlii and no nniiuil will show i : - ■'!:■i - in the toilet and de;id i'luic iii ihe hair where:i<i i i that i in goo«l thrift w ; • i very soon z f uiiii:i~i;ikiiii vid«':ii-u of ii ill t hi clean soft liri^lit ti>jii':'.r:iiiee of his hair ami bristles a above stated nil earth floor i tb best ivi-ry way but this hould not b«r allowed to imjc u bo r i to ■>:.•;! ux<v--ii r i!i!-t iii !" ti .| ttltp a n pr • ducc a - miii rrrk n condition in tiia in r i!--i i iiv productive oi colds nil i'oujjh a li'ir of r!i ■■nr<xhl i tigainst tin lirm objection it docs not tend excessively to lui i have budded ii >_'> on i layer of irth thrown on a ii r lit nard hour a foot or 60 ab •■> •• the jjroun !. mid ilii u ill pre vent'luiijiii .-'. but i objectionable en account of tho propensity f rati to liur r in i k ii uul uu ringed ii g.i aro cxcecdin^lj ilestrm ivc to t lx>.ird !!.»•... even precaution nlould 1 adopteal to ext:iud th ■-• iclinii vermin their • liit : mining an«l si|iicitiiu disturb ho^s not i little tu say nothing of the thievci i they f»er|)etr ite 1 have even suspected them of devouring cry yotu lii if i wero about !" build i boj pen now aft \ • n of experience siiou'.il try ■' least mi i ompai f n i "' it with i brick o st floor laid ii r lr in cemen . is a foundation fur tho layer of earth for thfiin to r»'.-»t in ihi juv i :,: :!>■■f«ml an ; i ■damp !!•• - that ••• • till i - by capillary ■■..!■• uod and it j '. uu : c it ii the farmer ill carefully » at ii itisp s ami completely renovate their straw once a week si :!■■■•/■' . i ly a"ith safety ii : f >;■nesting othet ■■:- ■o with ti ltious toward iiiv 4 wine i never could bear i in min 1 to chuugo their building hi : ■: -;:•'. hardly anj thing mo ■i clous to theni !;.:...;.:■.;•-■in jr p . >. wls .:. . • -...;...;...>
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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) —BB&T Corp. and government-owned Ally Financial failed final Federal Reserve stress test results released Thursday.
At the same time the central bank gave passing grades to J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and Goldman Sachs & Co. but required them to resubmit their share distribution plans to the central bank by the end of the third quarter citing "weaknesses" in their capital plans.
The stress tests were set up by the Fed to find out if 18 of the largest financial institutions can withstand a deep recession.
Specifically, the test, designed to assess whether a bank's reserves were adequate to withstand another crisis like the credit crunch of 2008, showed that Ally, the former GMAC, held 1.52% in capital set aside under a measure called Tier 1 common capital ratio, a ratio of below the 5% regulatory minimum threshold.
BB&T's BBT, -0.78% capital was above regulatory thresholds but its dividend and stock buyback plan was rejected based on an qualitative assessment of its capital planning process.
The Federal Reserve did not explain what specifically was the problem at BB&T. However, it noted that on March 4, BB&T disclosed it had reevaluated its process for calculating risk-weighted assets and came to the conclusion that "certain adjustments" related to "unfunded lending commitments" were required to conform with regulatory guidance.
The results differ from initial stress test results released last week because they are forward looking, taking into account each institution's dividend and stock buyback plans over the next 12 months. This makes them more important than last week's results, which focused on an average of each bank's last four quarters of dividends.
The Fed said J.P. Morgan JPM, -0.82% and Goldman GS, -1.79% can provide the dividend and stock buyback payouts they requested, but they must resubmit their plans to the central bank in six months for an additional regulatory review.
A senior Fed official declined to comment on specific issues at J.P. Morgan, Goldman or BB&T. However, he said that J.P. Morgan and Goldman had weaknesses in their capital plans or capital planning processes that were significant enough to require "immediate action." He said that the issues at Goldman were somewhat different from J.P. Morgan.
The Fed official said generally, banks must be able to project losses and revenues for particular categories of assets in the stressful scenario, as well as how their capital would be impacted at each stage of the stress period. Speaking generally, he said that if there is a problem with a particular firm's loss estimate, for example, that should be addressed sooner rather than waiting to see whether they get it right in next year's stress tests.
This is the first year the Fed has sought early re-submissions of capital plans for any institution.
The 14 other financial institutions, including Bank of America Corp. BAC, +0.33% , Citigroup Inc. C, -1.34% , SunTrust Banks STI, -1.68% , Fifth Third Bancorp FITB, -2.47% and Regions RF, -2.25% , passed the test and are permitted to distribute their capital and only must resubmit plans in one year for 2014 stress tests.
American Express AXP, -0.94% initially had its capital distribution plans rejected but the firm was approved after it resubmitted a less ambitious proposal. Specifically, American Express initially had a 4.97% stressed ratio for its Tier 1 common ratio, slightly below the 5% regulatory minimum.
However, after American Express submitted an adjusted capital distribution plan, the Fed approved its capital plans. The company's adjusted capital plan put it at 6.4%, well above the 5% minimum regulatory capital threshold.
In the test, banks and the Fed considered a hypothetical nine-quarter scenario with an unemployment rate of roughly 12% -- up from 7.7% in February. Banks were also required to evaluate how their capital buffers would withstand real GDP declining by around 5% and a situation where equity prices would fall by more than 50% over the course of the recession.
The test results projected losses, revenue and net income for the institutions undergoing stress tests, as well as a wide variety of loan losses including mortgages and commercial real estate. One category looked at trading and counter-party losses, which were a key contributor to the financial crisis of 2008.


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I've posted before about the pain I feel when my son (now 5 weeks old) latches on. I saw a lactation consultant about a week and a half ago for help with his latch, and I was able to replicate her suggestions during the consultation. Since then, though, I have a really hard time getting him to latch properly at home. He is getting enough milk -- gaining weight well and having lots of poopy and wet diapers -- but it's still painful when he latches on. Sometimes it subsides after 30 seconds or so, but sometimes it just continues. I can't seem to get him to open wide like the LC showed me -- I've even read a bunch of articles and watched a couple of videos on latch-on and still can't get it.
I usually just do the "cross cradle" hold. I tried the "laid-back" position today, thinking that might help, but it actually hurt a little more (and I can't see his latch in that position).
I feel like I should have the latch/positioning down by now and not sure what else I can do. Any advice is appreciated!


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Monday, 03 May 2010 07:02 AM
A top government banking regulator wants Senate Democrats to let banks keep most of their business in complex — and profitable — securities known as derivatives.
A sweeping overhaul of banking regulations pending in the Senate would require banks to spin off their derivatives business.
Sheila Bair, the chairwoman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., said that provision could shift the creation of derivatives contracts outside the reach of regulators.
"If all derivatives market-making activities were moved outside of bank holding companies, most of the activity would no doubt continue, but in less regulated and more highly leveraged venues," Bair wrote in a letter to Senate Banking Committee chairman Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., and Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark.
A copy of the letter was obtained by the Associated Press.
The derivatives measure, pushed by Lincoln, would require banks to set up separate subsidiaries, with their own source of capital, to run what has been a highly profitable derivatives business. Derivatives are the exotic speculative and risk-hedging instruments blamed for helping plunge Wall Street into a near meltdown in 2008.
The Obama administration has also indicated it does not support the provision. The FDIC is at least the second bank overseer to oppose the ban. Federal Reserve officials, in a letter to senators, also have called on the Senate to remove the spin-off requirement.
Dodd agreed to keep that restriction after negotiating with Lincoln last weekend. The decision stunned the bank industry, which immediately mobilized to get it removed.
But even if that provision is ultimately removed, there is bipartisan support for restricting banks from trading in derivatives with their own accounts for purely speculative purposes.
Indeed, in her three-page letter, Bair said that neither banks nor bank holding companies should engage in speculative derivatives trading. But she said banks have a legitimate need of derivatives to help them hedge against interest rate fluctuations.
Moreover, she said, banks "play an essential role" creating markets for commercial firms that enter into derivatives contracts to manage their risks.
The value of derivatives depends on the price of some underlying asset. Corn futures and stock options are examples of some of the simpler derivative products.
Bair said that even if banks created subsidiaries for their derivatives business, those entities would be outside the FDIC's scrutiny. "We do not have the same comprehensive backup authority over the affiliates of banks as we do with the banks themselves," she wrote.
Representatives from Dodd's and Lincoln's offices were not immediately available to comment.
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Today is strawberry preserve making day. The strawberries were beautiful at the farmers market, so I impulse bought a flat of them. I think that I am going to make two batches. The first one is a basic recipe but the other is pretty fancy sounding, Strawberry Preserves with Black Pepper and Balsamic Vinegar. I am really looking forward to having some homemade jams around, because it has been a while since I've done any preserving.
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PowerColor ATI Radeon X1550 Review
Like some people, I still remember my first purchase from ebay, a Voodoo 1 series 8MB video card. It was also the first video card I bought with my own money. After a few weeks, I received the package; I was so excited. As it turned out, the early cards did not run the graphics for the OS, so it needed a jumper that would let it kick in when playing a video game. I bought mine used and it never came with a jumper, so I had to switch it back and forth manually anytime I played a game, unlike the PowerColor ATI Radeon X1550 I will be reviewing today.
You would think something like swapping cables over and over would irritate me. Nope, I was happier then ever being able to play all of my favorite games like Tribes, Warcraft 2, and Starcraft at awesome resolutions and amazing graphics. Looking back, this seems laughable as games and graphics cards have come a long way and are leaps and bounds ahead of their meager beginnings. With cards out there like the Geforce 8xxx series and the ATI X2xxx series, gaming has become a truly intimate experience. But what about those who can't shell out this kind of money for upgrades? Is there anything out there for them? The PowerColor ATI Radeon X1550 may be the answer. At a drastically reduced price in comparison to the high end cards, can it stand up to today's games enough to be an option for the casual gamers with shallow pockets? Let's find out.
Closer Look:
The packaging for the ATI Radeon X1550 Video Card is pretty standard. It has the standard sexy gaming chic on the front, a short explanation of the product, and the certified logos from ATI and Windows. I would have to say that if I walked by it on a shelf at a PC store, I probably wouldn't give it another look. There are no bells and whistles on this box. The packaging also doesn't boast of some bonus game you probably won't play but will buy it anyway because it's free, like most card do these days. The back of the package has the specs from the front listed in different languages and the side has your system requirements.
The package contains a manual, a driver disc, and the Radeon X1550 wrapped in static resistant material. Everything you need to install the X1550.
After taking the PowerColor ATI Radeon X1550 out from the static bag, we can get a clearer picture of its quality. When looking at the X1550, we see that it doesn't need an extra power connector for it to function, which means less power consumption. We can also see that there is no Crossfire internal inter-connector, so this is a stand-alone gaming card. The fan and heatsink seem small in comparison to high end cards, but this GPU is not as powerful, therefore doesn't heat up as much.
This X1550 does support both DVI and VGA, which is nice for those with older CRTs and LCDs as they wont need to buy a DVI to VGA converter unless they want to run dual monitors.


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StatiC Compiler, DSP demo bundle released
A compiler supporting both traditional sequential programming and Finite State Machines methodologies.
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StatiC Compiler, DSP demo bundle released
A compiler supporting both traditional sequential programming and Finite State Machines methodologies.
MiniPod TankBot article to appear in DDJ.
StatiC, a new dual-methodology compiler for embedded / robotics systems, is now in beta testing.
Completed MiniPod TankBot - Budget Robotics' TankBot Servo, fitted with sonar turret. Controlled by NMI's MiniPod, using Small C programming language.
Currently working on an autonomous tracked-bot (Budget Robotics Tankbot Servo), with scanning (servo-mounted) sonar.
v2.0 of the Assembler (DSP56800) now available - free for Academic use. See http://petegray.newmicros.com
Small C homepage moved to http://petegray.newmicros.com
Added code examples for reading a variety of sensors (IR, Sonar, etc) and multithreading examples. See homepage.
Finished assembling Lynxmotion's L5 robot arm, and can now control it from my PC using Small C and the IsoPod.
Ported the Small C cross-compiler and Assembler (for the IsoPod - based on the DSP56F805) to Linux.
Also ported Motorola's JTAG flash loader to Linux.
Extended Assembler capabilities to include the entire 56800 series.
Added preliminary support for interrupts to the cross- compiler.
2012 Top 10 Robot Christmas Gift Ideas
DARPA Robotics Challenge Kick Off
2012 ASABE Robot Contest Photos
Interview with David L. Heiserman
David Anderson on Subsumption Robots
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Raspberry Pi Interview with Eben Upton
2012 VEX Robotics World Championship
Giant Dallas Robot Cited as Best Public Art
There's More Than One Way to Skin a Robot
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This is weird, wild, wonderful. Dino Buzzati was a luminary of the Italian avant-garde around the middle of the last century. His writing started out as straightforward realism but moved toward Gogol and Kafka. Near the end of his life he created "Poem Strip," a graphic novel that was way ahead of the curve and retold the Orpheus story, set in Swinging '60s Milan. The images are surreal, sexy and frightening, and the text (translated here for the first time into English by Marina Harss, with lettering by Rich Tommaso) is both compelling and poetic. There are shades of Fellini, shades of Dickens, shades of the great Italian horror director Mario Bava. A beautiful book.
Richard Milward: "Ten Storey Love Song" (Harper Perennial)
Take a deep breath. This 286-page second novel from a cool and already much acclaimed young British writer is written in a single paragraph, starting (in the case of the American edition) on the cover of the book itself. The hero is Bobby, an aspiring artist in the contemporary post-industrial north of England. Bobby lives in a dingy 1960s-built tower block (hence the title) and his typical breakfast is: "Two crushed ecstasy pills, one slice of toast (butter optional)." He's devoted to his girlfriend, and muse, and spends a lot of time in his local pub, "where all manner of beatniks and meatheads and drinkers and thinkers smash it into themselves." Everything spins out of control when Bobby's work is discovered by an art dealer from London and he heads south. Milward's work, fresh and bouncing with chemical-induced energy, has been described by the London Times as the youthful offspring of J.D. Salinger and Arctic Monkeys -- nice idea! Kerouac is another obvious influence, not to mention Irvine Welsh. There's some suggestion too of Joyce Cary's classic "The Horse's Mouth," especially in the heady and unexpected optimism of the writing.
Lore Segal: "Lucinella" (Melville House)
Segal hasn't published much in a literary career that now spans almost 40 years, but everything she's written is of enormous distinction -- Pulitzer-nominated, frequent appearances in the New Yorker, etc. All of which might tend to belie what dizzy, shameless fun "Lucinella" -- first published in 1976 and now reprinted as part of Melville House's elegant novella series -- actually is. The novel looks at New York literary life in a way that is scathing yet sweet. Here's a passage from the opening scene, at the Yaddo writer's colony: "On my left, that's Meyers, putting brown sugar on his porridge. (You've read his latest, which won the Pulitzer five years ago -- all about his fear that he is going crazy.) Across from us sits Betterwheatling, the English critic." Betterwheatling! The story visits three stages of its heroine's career, following her in and out of the loop. The construction is clever, the style delicious.
Pierre Bayard: "How To Talk About Books You Haven't Read"; "Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong" (Bloomsbury)
Here are two irresistible titles from a literary professor who could come only from France. Bayard argues that books are fixed objects that come alive only when read, and, since each reader is an individual, every reading is subtly, or maybe radically, different. Even not reading a book of which you've heard and think you nonetheless need to know about is valid. He gets into the social value of book-chat, as applied to works that many of us will have to put up our hands and admit we never got through -- James Joyce's "Ulysses," for instance. All this is done with a sly wit that tells us Bayard, in fact, absolutely loves literature and knows a lot about it: "Sherlock Homes Was Wrong" is a valentine to, and radical reinterpretation of, "The Hound of the Baskervilles." An extremely close reading has been involved; and "How To Talk About Books You Haven't Read" swiftly engages, enlightens and enthralls -- it's a book you'll want to talk about, and indeed read.
Philip Gourevitch (ed): "The Paris Review Interviews" (Picador)
Here's the latest yearly addition to the snazzy Picador repackaging of the Paris Review archive. "Narratives are very important nowadays in writing books. I don't care about theories. I don't care about vocabulary. What is important is whether the narrative is good or not. We have a new kind of folklore, as a result of this Internet world. It's a kind of metaphor," says Haruki Murakami in the interview he gave the magazine in 2004. "It's hard to write haiku. I write long silly Indian poems," said Jack Kerouac in 1968; and here's V.S. Naipaul in 1998: "People turn to writers, who are there to guide them, to provoke them, to stimulate them. I think there will be a lot of writing in India now. The situation will draw it out." The interviews, presented chronologically, present a changing view of what writers think they're up to as well as autobiography and the usual invaluable fund of inspiration advice. Also featured: Paul Auster, Maya Angelou, Orhan Pamuk, Philip Roth, Ezra Pound, among others.
J.M.G. Le Clezio: "The Mexican Dream" ( University of Chicago)
LeClezio won the Nobel Prize last year, and lots of people wondered why. This book, a work of nonfiction about the tragic results of the coming together of two worlds, gives a clue. It's Spain and Mexico, in the 1500s: "It was that language, sometimes mocking, sometimes threatening, which Cortes used to inspire his men, and it was the language of a dice player which he used to trick, frighten, or divert the strength of his Indian adversaries. . . . He loved them, he said, and he came on behalf of a great king who lived beyond the seas. . . . But beneath those loving words . . . were lurking domination, plundering, and slavery." LeClezio gets at the two colliding cultures by examining their respective dreams and fantasies, their world-views as proposed by language. It's rich, a precisely written and yet mysterious book, about Amerindian culture and Mexico itself, "where essential passions are more visible and where the mark of the ancient history of man is more easily perceived."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: "The Yellow Wall-Paper, Herland, and Selected Writings" (Penguin)
Pressed into marriage in 1884, Charlotte Perkins Gilman became pregnant and sank into a deep depression. She had the baby and went through various rest cures while her husband forbade her from doing what she really wanted to do -- work. Eight years later, she transmuted this experience into "The Yellow Wall-Paper," now standard in anthologies and still one of the greatest American stories, a horror story, almost like Poe, except narrated by the victim and written by an early feminist. "The color is repellent, almost revolting, a smoldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight," is how the narrator describes the wallpaper in the room where she's effectively kept prisoner, and we feel her madness and dread. Other stories here, such as "The Giant Wisteria" and "The Rocking Chair," further demonstrate how Gilman recycled the Gothic to her purpose. Also included: a generous selection of her poetry, and the entire text of "Herland," a Utopian vision of a society run by women. "Herland" is sly and sprightly, a brilliant piece of thinking in fiction, and a testament to Gilman's own powers of survival.
Heinrich Boll: "The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum" (Penguin)
Boll won the Nobel Prize in 1972 and, unlike LeClezio (above), was already a major figure in world literature. That's because, in part, his fiction was always right on the social money. "The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum" is cast in the form of a police report made after a murder. It's a procedural, in effect, telling the story of how a young German woman is destroyed by the press, portrayed as evil by a journalist who jumps on the bandwagon of her association with a murder suspect. Boll wrote this brief, explosive novel with the Baader-Meinhof terror group fresh in his mind. But, as Kurt Andersen points out in his introduction to this new edition, the story applies to the post- 9/11 world too. Boll's way of telling -- he dances around events in the language of officialese -- provide the novel with its ironic power.
H.G. Adler: "The Journey" (Modern Library)
H.G. Adler lost 18 members of his family in the Holocaust and he survived the camps only through chance. After World War II, he fled to London, fathered a son and published many books and articles dealing in one way or another with his experience. He was admired by Elias Canetti and W.G. Sebald, yet died in 1998 in almost complete obscurity. Peter Filkins' translation of Adler's extraordinary 1962 novel "The Journey" suggests that the world might not have been ready for him -- not so much a question of Adler's message, as his means. The style of "The Journey" is more suggestive of James Joyce or Robert Musil than Primo Levi. It circles and slides, seeking to convey how it might be for a consciousness to go through what Adler did. Here, for instance, the book's voice slips into the mind of a Nazi (they're referred to, ironically of course, as "heroes") speaking to his victims: "Like little children, everything has to be done for you, though you arrive at the dinner table without uttering the slightest thank you. Nothing can be expected from you but the slightest smell." The condescension is there, the arrogance, the rotten self-justification -- yes, you think, a Nazi would actually talk and think that way. Adler shows the haze of evil, yet penetrates it. "The Journey" is endlessly sad and brave and haunting.
"The Qur'an: A New Translation" by Tarif Khalidi (Penguin)
Khalidi's predecessor in the Penguin Classics -- N.J. Dawood's version, published in 1956 and reprinted innumerable times -- was long a source of discomfort for Muslims and scholars of Islam. Dawood's translation, for instance, helped spread the misconception that Muslim paradise is full of female virgins for the benefit of God-fearing males, even though the Qur'an denies the possibility of carnal pleasure in paradise. Khalidi corrects that, and numerous other distortions, to get closer to how Muslims appreciate their holy text. He catches the harsh desert majesty of the original too: "Every soul shall taste death. You shall certainly be paid your wages in full on the Day of Resurrection. Whoever has been dragged away from the Fire and made to enter the Garden has indeed won out. And this present life is but the rapture of delusion."
Rayner is the author of many books, including "A Bright and Guilty Place." Paperback Writers appears at www.latimes.com/books.


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"Quoting an inside source, the German economic newspaper, 'Handelsblatt' reports that staff at IBM have been given ten days to change to Symphony, IBM's in-house Lotus software. The use of Microsoft Office will in future require managerial approval. With immediate affect, the Open Document Format (ODF) will rule at IBM with the file ending .doc soon belonging to the past... IBM's management have obviously decided to practice what they preach. 330,000 IBM workers already use Symphony, reports the newspaper. The motive for the migration appears not to be the saving of license fees, and according to an IBM press officer, the move is a clear statement in appreciation of open source standards."


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Rory McIlroy has joined Nike, and he will be paid accordingly.
Nike officially announced its partnership with the 23-year-old McIlroy on Monday in Abu Dhabi, saying the world's No. 1-ranked golfer has signed a multiyear deal with the company and that the Nike Swoosh will be on his clubs, balls, footwear, glove, apparel, headwear and accessories. McIroy had the Swoosh logo all over his apparel on Monday.
Financial terms of the deal were not released, but multiple media outlets have reported that it is worth between $200 million to $250 million over 10 years. A deal that pays him $250 million would be the most lucrative endorsement deal ever for a golfer.
"I've always associated Nike with the best," McIlroy said at the announcement. "Growing up, whether it was golf, tennis, football, the best athletes were with Nike. I've watched Tiger Woods make history with Nike, and Roger Federer, and Rafael Nadal. Now I want to create my own history with Nike.
McIlroy and Tiger Woods, another Nike-sponsored golfer, will make their season debuts this week at the Abu Dhabi Championship.
McIlroy's first TV spot will be released Wednesday. A clip of that spot was shown on Monday, and it features McIlroy and Woods trading verbal shots as well as golf shots with Nike's new driver.


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Jina! I like your point of view. In terms of "maintaining momentum" I think this is your strongest point.
I think this is in some ways like "Flow" which is the sweet spot in which you are challenged "just enough" with something but not enough so that you give up. like for some people learning say CSS, they encounter roadblocks or situations that challenge them, but they find solutions in short enough intervals that they are totally emerged in building their site. Much like a little kid with legos.
Thanks for your insight Jina!


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