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by Swami Krishnananda
The methods employed in philosophical reasonings and enquiries include the basic presuppositions of scientific approach in general; but over and above these methods, philosophical processes endeavour to discover ways of considering and knowing the facts implied in the phenomena of experience. Before entering into a detailed discussion of the proper methods of philosophy, we will do well to remember the principles laid down by the philosopher Descartes. In his Discourse on Method, Descartes gives an outline of the procedure he followed in philosophical enquiry: "The first of these was to accept nothing as true which I did not clearly recognise to be so; that is to say, carefully to avoid precipitation and prejudice in judgments, and to accept in them nothing more than was presented to my mind so clearly and distinctly that I could have no occasion to doubt it. The second was to divide up each of the difficulties which I examined into as many parts as possible, and as seemed requisite in order that it might be resolved in the best manner possible. The third was to carry on my reflections in due order, commencing with objects that were the most simple and easy to understand, in order to rise little by little, or by degrees, to knowledge of the more complex, assuming an order, even if a fictitious one, among those which do not follow a natural sequence relatively to one another. The last was in all cases to make enumerations so complete and reviews so general that I should be certain of having omitted nothing."
The true philosophic method should not be lopsided, should not be biased to any particular or special dogma, but comprehend within itself the processes of reflection and speculation and at the same time be able to reconcile the deductive and the inductive methods of reasoning. The philosophy of the Absolute rises above particulars to greater and greater universals, basing itself on facts of observation and experience by the method of induction and gradual generalisation of truths, without missing even a single link in the chain of logic and argumentation, reflection and contemplation, until it reaches the highest generalisation of the Absolute Truth; and then by the deductive method comes down to interpret and explain the facts of experience in the light of the nature of this Truth. This is a great example of the most satisfactory method of philosophical enquiry.
Philosophy being the way of the knowledge of Truth, its method must be in agreement with the nature of Truth. In philosophy and religion the end always determines the nature of the means. What we know is not entirely different in nature from the essential constitution of the means by which we know it. The immediate objects of our experience here are the entities of the physical universe, and the means of our knowledge of them are our senses which, too, partake of physical characteristics. Hence the method that philosophy employs in its approach to Truth is much dependent upon what conception we have of philosophy and of the nature of the goal of philosophy. Our goal may be matter, mind or Spirit, and accordingly we may become either materialists, idealists or mystics. Our instrument of knowledge may be the senses, understanding, reason or intuition. And our theories of knowledge may lead us to be empiricists, rationalists, transcendentalists, absolute idealists or spiritual intuitionists. All these theories resort mainly to two processes; contemplation of what is considered to be indubitable and real, and a searching analysis and critical study of empirical experience, including all the methods and conclusions of science. The former helps us to a greater knowledge of the goal of philosophy, and the latter to a disavowal of false values and vindication of the methods and fundamental principles of philosophy. The theories of knowledge and reality generally subject the existing ones to a critical investigation as to their nature and contents and found strong systems of thought after protracted contemplation on the possible nature of reality.
Philosophy is said to have begun with wonder. The marvel of creation evokes the admiration of man, and its mysteriousness excites his wonder; and this wonder naturally leads to a serious enquiry into the nature of things, for man is not content to rest in a state of awe based on ignorance and is curious to know the truth behind the enthralling wonder of the world. He investigates, speculates, argues and discusses, and comes to a settled opinion of the nature of things in this wonderful world. This becomes his philosophy. Modern man, however, seems to have stepped into the region of philosophy through doubt and sceptical thinking. Man commenced doubting the validity of authority and dogma no less than that of accepted traditional beliefs. Descartes started with doubting everything, even the validity of thought itself. Later, Kant, too, followed the critical method of enquiry in philosophy. Bradley was of the opinion that the chief need of philosophy is "a sceptical study of first principles." However, he adds: "By scepticism is not meant doubt about or disbelief in some tenet or tenets. I understand by it an attempt to become aware and to doubt all preconceptions."
The technique of doubt in philosophical pursuits has however, the danger of the possibility of falling into a hopeless maze of rank scepticism, with no ground left even for the sceptic to stand on, or into agnosticism, which is a smug way of coolly forgetting the basic significations of the sceptical outlook and speciously arguing that nothing definite can be known in reality. Scepticism as a principle to be followed at the commencement of the application methods in philosophy is really praiseworthy, for, all philosophy, as above said, begins in wonder and doubt. A secret and irresistible urge to know that which presents itself as something extending beyond the scope of human knowledge and a simultaneous dissatisfaction with the surface view of things is the foundation of all enterprise in philosophy. Though philosophy may begin in doubt, it should not end in doubt; for, then, the very purpose of philosophy would be defeated. If the sceptic is left to confine himself to his position of universal doubt and disbelief, he becomes guilty of dogmatism. When he tries to free himself from dogmatism, he cuts the ground from under his own feet. This is the fate of the sceptical approach, which overreaches itself and stultifies its own purpose. Only an acute and sincere thinker like Descartes could detect this error in entertaining universal doubt and come to the wise conclusion that the existence of the doubter himself cannot be doubted. His philosophy began with doubt but ended in absolute certainty regarding the nature of reality. Scepticism as a method of philosophy has value only when it is aware of its limitations and scope, and not when it tries to assume a metaphysical status.
Agnosticism is easily the consequence of the thoroughgoing sceptical outlook, and it reaches the conclusion that the reality of things cannot be known, for almost the same reasons as those advanced by the sceptic. Knowledge of reality is impossible, inasmuch as we have no means of knowing it. It may appear that the agnostic position is in some way better than the findings of the sceptic, as the sceptic disposes of all questions by disbelief outright, due to his conviction of there being no possibility of arriving at any certainty regarding anything, while the agnostic only denies the chance of our having any knowledge of it. But the theory as a whole is, obviously, untenable. "Its essential defect is that it is based on the unconscious assumption that man is somehow an alien in the very world which gave him birth and in whose bosom he lives and moves and has his being, that he is doomed to look at the universe through the medium of forms and categories of thought, which are, so to speak, mental spectacles of foreign manufacture" (D. M. Edwards: The Philosophy of Religion p. 185). "To say that reality is such that our knowledge cannot reach it, is a claim to know reality; to urge that our knowledge is of a kind which must fail to transcend appearance, itself implies that transcendence. For, if we had no idea of a beyond, we should assuredly not know how to talk about failure or success. And the test, by which we distinguish them, must obviously be some acquaintance with the nature of the goal" (F. H. Bradley: Appearance and Reality, p. 1). Agnosticism as a method fails, because to assert that we know only appearance and cannot know any reality beyond it, we must already possess some knowledge of reality, which alone could possibly enable us to have any knowledge of the distinction between appearance and reality.
Empiricism as a method of philosophy is mainly confined to sense-experience. It urges that all knowledge obtained by the senses is of what is already existent outside themselves and that reason has its function in carefully judging the nature of the perceptive material provided to it by the senses. The laws of reason, according to empiricism, are copies of and controlled by knowledge which is a posteriori. No a priori knowledge in the sense of what rationalism contends to be present in reason is ever possible. Rational concepts are by-products of the experiential material. The source of knowledge is sense-experience and not mind or reason. The method of acquiring knowledge is inductive. Ideas are reducible to sensations. Knowledge cannot be gained by merely finding that the opposite, which is inconceivable, as rationalism holds, and truth cannot be established by the fact that to deny it implies, somehow, its reaffirmation. A priori knowledge independent of sense-experience is inconceivable. There are, therefore, no universal and necessary self-evident truths that are adumbrated by rationalism. So goes the bold empiricism.
The defect of empiricism lies in the fact that the senses are untrustworthy as means of right knowledge. Sense-percepts have being or reality only in relation to the constitutions of the respective senses, and never independently. Minus the characteristics of the senses, our empirical percepts are nothing, which is equal to saying that we know, in an objective way, only what is already contained in the very nature of the senses subjectively. This is certainly not a reliable or valid knowledge of reality. The background of the sense-percepts ever remain unknown to us, and the attitude which we develop towards the things in themselves that lie beyond the reach of the senses is naturally one of doubt. It only means that we have to become sheer sceptics with regard to the nature of reality. In the West, Locke's empiricism naturally paved the way for Hume's scepticism. The sceptic's attitude has a very harmful reaction on the progress of philosophy, for, if we are to carry scepticism to its logical limits, there can never be any such thing as universal and necessary truths, and all that we know would be, at least on the suppositions of Hume, mere fragmentary and disconnected shreds of events, which would convey no meaning at all, due to lack of causal relation and necessary connection among themselves. Doubt and disbelief of every settled opinion is not only non practicable but is detrimental to the very position of the doubter himself, for, a systematic doubter who seriously pursues his method without deceiving himself has to doubt his own judgments, in order that he may avoid the charge of peremptoriness in his search for truth. This, however, he cannot do. What he really does is to doubt all other positions except his own! A dogmatic adherence to one's own convictions where other views are possible is not the characteristic of a true philosophic method. To know that we do not know implies the acceptance of some criterion of certainty, some knowledge which we already possess without any trace of doubt. Truth, goodness and beauty lose their meaning and value when unconditional doubt sweeps into our hearts. Life becomes an empty affair, with no intelligible aim before it. Empiricism is the precursor of scepticism, and as a method of enquiry into the nature of Truth, it is incomplete and fallible.
The mathematical method of rationalism takes reason to be the sole means of acquiring philosophical knowledge. According to it, the objective universe is known, arranged and controlled by the a priori laws of reason. The universe is an expression of the innate rational nature of the knowing subject. The criterion of truth is not sensory but intellectual, rational and deductive. The mathematical methods of deduction are most suited to a proper philosophy. Knowledge is gained when the opposite of what is inconceivable is discovered. Truth can be established by the fact that to deny it implies its reaffirmation in one way or another. True knowledge is a priori and is independent of sense-experience. This knowledge is self-evident, and so it implies universal and necessary truths. But even rationalism taken exclusively cannot escape the charge of being non-critical in regard to its own position. How can the rationalist be sure that what he knows through his rational powers is uncontradicted knowledge? What one thinks to be a self-evident truth need not necessarily be so. There is nothing, whatsoever, to prove that the principles that the rationalist logically deduces from his a priori premises really correspond to the actual characteristics of the world of experience. The geometrical method of reasoning may be very pleasing to the philosopher, but it need not carry with it the stamp of universal validity. The self-evident nature of the truths discovered independently by rationalism has been called in question. Many of the so-called self-evident truths turn out to be private to their owners and do not enjoy universal acceptance. Even in regard to the principles of logic and the laws of thought, there is no universal agreement. The rationalist is certain about the ability of reason to give him uncontradictable knowledge. He forgets, however, that reason cannot be taken as an infallible instrument of knowledge and that its only function is the critical examination, verification and judgment of the knowledge that we obtain through the senses. Direct or immediate knowledge is given to us relatively in sense-perception, and absolutely in intuitional revelation, but not in reason. Reason has a purely negative value and is not a positive means of knowledge. The senses and intuition provide us with knowledge which reason cannot contradict, though it can criticise and judge them. There are certain facts, of course, which we cannot know through the senses; but this does not mean that reason can know them. It is only in spiritual intuition that they are realised. Unless the innate ideas of the rationalist are equated with the infallible revelations of intuition, they cannot carry much weight in the light of an experience which presents itself before us as having the value of reality. If what is called a self-evident truth is confined to reason alone, its validity is capable of being doubted. Only when it is taken to mean a spiritual realisation of Reality does its truth rise above the realms of doubt and criticism.


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Oscars best dressed: the pale and interesting edit
Perfect for spring, pale pinks, fresh whites and subtle lilacs and mauves were favourite choices for actresses at the Oscars last night. We won't go on about who won what (everybody knows!) so instead we've rounded up some favourite frocks worn by attendees of the awards and various glamorous parties going on as Hollywood gives itself its annual pat on the back.
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Traits to Look for in Growth Stocks
by Robert Bartolo
Robert Bartolo manages the T. Rowe Price Growth Stock fund (PRGFX), the oldest growth stock mutual fund in the United States. We spoke about what he looks for in a growth stock.
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Charles Rotblut (CR): As a portfolio manager, how do you define what constitutes a growth stock?
Robert Bartolo (RB): In terms of the objective for the T. Rowe Price Growth Stock fund (PRGFX), we basically look for bottom-line growth. In most cases that's earnings per share (EPS), but in some cases it is free cash flow per share. Bottom-line growth of at least 10% is the "definition," per se. Top-line growth is also very important to me as a growth investor, because at the end of the day, there are only so many ways a company can increase its margins—buy back stock and do different things. If a company wants to sustain really good bottom-line growth for a long period of time, it has to have a good, or at least a decent, top line.
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Paul Embrechts
Paul Embrechts is Professor of Mathematics at the ETH Zurich specialising in actuarial mathematics and quantitative risk management. Previous academic positions include the Universities of Leuven, Limburg and London (Imperial College). Dr. Embrechts has held visiting professorships at the University of Strasbourg, ESSEC Paris, the Scuola Normale in Pisa (Cattedra Galileiana), the London School of Economics (Centennial Professor of Finance), the University of Vienna, Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne), the National University of Singapore and has an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Waterloo. He is an Elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Actuary-SAA, Honorary Fellow of the Institute and the Faculty of Actuaries, Corresponding Member of the Italian Institute of Actuaries, Member Honoris Causa of the Belgian Institute of Actuaries and is on the editorial board of numerous scientific journals. He belongs to various national and international research and academic advisory committees. He co-authored the influential books "Modelling of Extremal Events for Insurance and Finance", Springer, 1997 and "Quantitative Risk Management: Concepts, Techniques and Tools", Princeton UP, 2005. Dr. Embrechts consults on issues in quantitative risk management for financial institutions, insurance companies and international regulatory authorities. For full details of his CV, see ◦Paul Embrechts
The current financial crisis, also referred to as the subprime or credit crisis, is without doubt the most serious banking crisis for 80 years.
How could it come so far? Catchwords one reads about in the press are: greed, leverage, regulatory arbitrage, opaqueness, securitisation,
complexity, rating agencies, LCFI (Large Complex Financial Institutions), CDSs (Credit Default Swaps), CDOs (Collateralized Debt Obligations), political shortsightedness, regulatory arbitrage, human factor, complex networks, accounting defficiencies, ..., indeed a labyrinth of products and institutions.
In this talk I will try to explain where some of the main issues lie and what measures are to be taken to make the world financial system more robust. One fact we definitely have to accept is that it always has given economic crises or bubbles, and indeed such crises will reoccur. We can only hope that the future impact will be less harmful.
This talk is partly based on the article: "The devil is in the tails: actuarial mathematics and the subprime mortgage crisis. ASTIN Bulletin, 2010, to appear." See also www.math.ethz.ch/~embrechts/
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US Airways and American Airlines on Thursday touted the benefits of their plan to merge, which will create the nation's largest airline, with its second-largest hub in Charlotte.
US Airways CEO Doug Parker, who has pushed for a merger since American entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2011, will become the new company's CEO and one of its directors. Tom Horton, chief executive of American Airlines' parent company AMR Corp., will serve as the company's chairman for about a year, and Parker will become chairman upon his resignation. The airlines expect the merger to close in the third quarter this year.
"I've known Doug as a colleague and friend for more than 25 years, and as many of you know, he's a first-rate leader," Horton told analysts Thursday morning. He had initially tried to fend off Parker attempts at a merger, but started merger talks last year after Parker won the support of American's unions and many creditors.
The combined carrier will keep the American Airlines name, and will be headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. Charlotte Douglas International Airport, which is US Airways' largest hub, will see more American Airlines takeoffs and landings than any airport except Dallas/Fort Worth.
Parker and other executives have said Charlotte's airport will continue as a hub. But the merger ushers in what's likely to be years of uncertainty for Charlotte as the new carrier works to combine its routes and eliminate overlapping flights.
(See the merger website, www.newamericanarriving.com, here.)
Parker and Horton talked up the numbers of the combined airline during a conference call with analysts early Thursday. The combined company will have 250 international routes - none of which overlap - 900 domestic routes, only 12 of which do. The new company will offer US Airways flyers 130 new American Airlines-served cities while offering American flyers 62 new US Airways-served cities. Their combined frequent flyer program will have more than 100 million members.
Horton said the airline plans to keep its existing hubs. "We recognize as market conditions change here, there will be some changes," he said. "It's going to be built on the notion that we're going to maintain and build on our previous hubs."
Early Thursday, employee groups were lining up in support of the merger, but noting that they expect to reap some of the rewards.
"US Airways Flight Attendants have been instrumental in the overall success of our airline. Our hard work and sacrifices have helped turn US Airways into the thriving airline it is today," said the union representing US Airways flight attentdants, the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, in an early morning message. "As full partners in the world's largest airline, we expect meaningful participation in its benefits."
Parker said in a letter to employees that he doesn't expect large job cuts. "Unlike other transactions that are premised on excessive cost cuts, this merger is about the opportunities to grow revenues, which will also create more opportunities for employees as the combined airline flies more people to more places," he wrote.
Gary Hummel, president of the U.S. Airline Pilots Association union, said US Airways pilots are looking forward to the opportunity to start with a clean slate after a merger, following years of labor unrest at US Airways. "This is a new day – and we need to look to the future, not the past. We believe it (the merger) presents an opportunity for a more stable industry as well as a more stable career for our pilots. Our pilots will do all we can to insure the success of The New American Airlines," said Hummel, in a statement.
The merger caps off a decade of airline bankruptcies and intense industry consolidation that already has swallowed airline brands such as Continental, Northwest and AirTran. If the merger is approved by American's bankruptcy judge and federal antitrust regulators, the domestic air travel market will be split among four major carriers, down from eight just five years ago. Analysts expect this to be the last major airline combination for the foreseeable future.
US Airways stockholders will get 28 percent of the combined company's equity, while American Airlines creditors will get 72 percent. The merger is structured as an all-stock deal, and will create a company with a value of more than $10 billion. The new company's board of directors will include Parker, Horton, two directors appointed by AMR and three by US Airways, and five directors appointed by AMR's creditors.
American Airlines was the largest domestic airline as recently as the middle of the last decade. Wracked by billions of dollars worth of losses, the company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2011.
American will now reclaim its No. 1 spot, but only by combining with US Airways, the smallest of the five major carriers.
Ahead lie months and years of reworking and consolidating routes and integrating complex airline systems ranging from baggage handling to reservations to flight dispatching. Fares could go up and service to some markets could be lost – or expanded – as the airline combines its networks of routes.
The merged airline also faces the task of combining work groups that have, in some cases, been waging years of bitter internal disputes and struggles with management.
Charlotte's future
Analysts at Fitch Ratings said Wednesday that the merger is an area of concern for hub airports, including Charlotte Douglas.
"As seen in recent mergers, some hub airports will likely be strengthened through industry consolidation while others are weakened," they wrote. "While geographic location and separation helps support a rationale for hubs, it is still fair to ask whether maintaining as many as six hub airports at the same level of operations will be necessary to maintain an efficient single network."
Parker has said the merger will bring more flights to Charlotte.
Any changes the new airline makes at Charlotte Douglas could have a big impact on the city. The hub airport is considered one of the region's biggest economic engines, accounting for more than $12.5 billion a year worth of economic impacts and some 60,000 jobs, both those at the airport and those in some way dependent on air service.
US Airways operates more than 600 daily flights from Charlotte Douglas, almost 90 percent of Charlotte's daily flights. The company also has more than 7,100 US Airways employees and a crew training center based at the airport.
Last week, Charlotte Douglas aviation director Jerry Orr told the airport's advisory committee he thinks being a hub for a major merged airline will mean greater opportunity for rapid growth and more international flights.
"Overnight, US Airways would have the opportunity here to add international service," he said.
But Adie Tomer, a researcher with the Brookings Institution, believes Charlotte has a lot to be worried about. Of the major airline hubs, he said Charlotte has by far the highest percentage of connecting travelers just passing through the airport on their way to somewhere else. As a smaller city, Charlotte's local traffic accounts for less than a quarter of the airport's passengers.
"Charlotte is easily the place most reliant on transferring passengers," said Tomer. "It is the only major metro area in the country where over half of the passengers are not local."
A shift in traffic patterns years down the road could leave Charlotte with fewer flights if the new company decides it makes more sense to connect passengers somewhere else. European nonstop flights could shift to JFK International Airport in New York or to Philadelphia International Airport, and Latin American and Caribbean flights could move to Miami International Airport, for example.
Airport expansion under way
The airport has about $1 billion worth of expansion work planned or under way, including a new parking deck and a planned 12,000-foot runway. Most of the work will be paid for with airport bonds, backed by revenue Charlotte Douglas generates from fees the airlines pay to use the airport.
Other former airline hubs offer cautionary tales about what can happen after a merger. Pittsburgh, a former US Airways hub, lost hundreds of flights after the airline's merger with America West and a shift to other hubs. St. Louis, a former TWA hub, lost hundreds of flights after American acquired TWA in 2001.
And Cincinnati lost about half of its daily flights after Delta's merger with Northwest, as Delta made deeper and deeper cuts. That contributed to Chiquita Brand International's decision to leave the city and move to Charlotte, with more direct flights.
Still, most analysts say Charlotte will likely be safe as a hub. It does have some advantages that those other diminished hubs did not. They were already in decline, with flights being cut at the time of their mergers, while the number of US Airways flights is still growing at Charlotte Douglas, up 15 percent since 2008. Other advantages include its location in the Southeast as an alternative hub to Delta's operation in Atlanta and low operating costs.
"Charlotte and Miami blanket the Delta mega hub in Atlanta," said travel industry analyst Henry Harteveldt. "I think it will pose a very credible challenge to Delta."
Aviation consultant Robert Mann agreed. "Charlotte works very well," he said. "It's a very efficient operation. … I have no doubt it would continue to be a big spot on the network."
The full impact of a merger on Charlotte likely won't be known for years to come, Tomer said: "It's never snap-of-the-fingers, one year later everything's changed."
Impact on travelers
Fares are almost certain to go up. But how much is an open question.
A combination will reduce the number of competitors, which would suggest higher fares are in the offing. But US Airways and American have comparatively little overlap.
"The merger will result in the loss of one airline brand name, but the net to the consumer will not be some octopus-like monopoly choking fares upward," wrote aviation consultant Mike Boyd, discussing the lack of extensive overlapping routes.
Rick Seaney, the CEO of consumer website FareCompare.com, disagreed with Boyd. "A merger guarantees the two airlines will never compete in the future and competition is the main driver of cheaper airline ticket prices," he wrote in a research note.
Most industry analysts agree one of the main reasons airlines faced a string of bankruptcies was because many had overextended themselves, expanding to gain market share at the expense of profitability. Having fewer competitors has led to "capacity discipline," the industry's term for adding fewer seats. That gives airlines more pricing power, since there's less supply in the marketplace, and has helped the industry return to profitability.
Frequent fliers could see some benefits, analysts say, as the larger airline would have more combined routes and destinations to offer. Travelers' existing miles would be honored in the new airline. In past mergers, fully combining frequent flier programs has taken months or years.
Challenges ahead
It will be months, at minimum, before the airlines combine operations. Regulators still must give the merger their blessing, and could order the combined company to divest some of its routes to preserve competition.
And since American remains in Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, a federal judge must sign off on the company's merger plan so it can exit bankruptcy.
Even once the merger gets all required approvals, fliers won't notice a difference immediately. The carriers will likely continue operating separately for more than a year while the companies work to integrate their operations and eventually apply for a single operating certificate from the FAA.
The airlines' various systems will have to be combined, including everything from customer service to baggage handling, reservations to maintenance.
The scale of getting more than 100,000 workers used to different systems on the same page, in an operation as intricate as an airline, has created problems in past mergers.
US Airways caught heat in 2007, when it merged its reservation system with America West. Computer glitches led to long lines, angry passengers, and months of sub-par performance.
Such problems frequently dry up some of the financial benefits promised from a merger, at least until after they're resolved. United Continental, two years into its own mega-merger, saw its profits cut in half last year as its on-time arrivals tanked, complaints rose, and its reservation system failed twice.
Another thorny area the merged carrier will have to deal with is labor, as US Airways and American work to integrate their unions. That's been a stumbling block for US Airways, which hasn't been able to forge unified contracts for its pilots and flight attendants unions since the 2005 merger with America West.
Flight attendants and pilots from America West and US Airways still fly separately, with different work rules and pay rates. US Airways' pilots union, the U.S. Airline Pilots Association, also has had bitter infighting over pilot seniority, which the union and company have been unable to resolve since the merger.
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Leader: The world cannot afford a defeat for Barack Obama
A Romney victory would greatly increase the chances of war with Iran, embolden the most reactionary elements in Israel and further accelerate climate change.
By New Statesman Published 31 October 2012If Barack Obama has fallen short of the expectations of many of his supporters, it is partly because they were so high to begin with. During his election campaign in 2008, Mr Obama spoke lyrically of "hope" and "change" and promised a new era of post-partisan politics. His unique status as his country's first black president encouraged the sense that the limits of the possible had been redefined. Liberals embraced him as the man who would close Guantanamo Bay, bring peace to the Middle East and slow "the rise of the oceans".
But Mr Obama did not reckon on the recalcitrance of a Republican opposition that has sought to undermine his presidency at every turn, or the intransigence of leaders such as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Binyamin Netanyahu. Four years on from his election, Guantanamo Bay remains open, the Middle East peace process has collapsed and the oceans have continued to rise. Yet, if the initial adulation for him was excessive, then so, too, is much of the subsequent disdain.
Mr Obama entered office in more difficult circumstances than any US president since Franklin D Roosevelt. The economy was in the deepest recession in 70 years and losing jobs at a rate of 750,000 a month; the automobile industry appeared destined for bankruptcy; the US was embroiled in a ruinous and unjust war in Iraq. It was, as we said at the time of his election, "the in-box from hell". In view of this inheritance, he has performed creditably.
Early in his presidency, he acted to prevent another Great Depression by introducing a fiscal stimulus of $787bn, a mixture of tax cuts, infrastructure projects and increased unemployment benefits. Republican claims that the stimulus was "a failure" are entirely unsupported by evidence. A study by Mark Zandi, a former economic adviser to John McCain, and Alan Blinder, a former vice-chairman of the Federal Reserve, concluded that the policy had created or saved 2.7 million jobs and added 3.4 per cent to US GDP. The US economy has now grown for 13 consecutive quarters, a record that compares favourably with that of the austerity-fixated UK. A more appropriate criticism of the stimulus is that it was too small – yet it is doubtful that a bigger package would have passed Congress, and the final bill, 50 per cent larger in real terms than the entire New Deal, stands as a considerable achievement.
Similarly successful, as Nicky Woolf reports on page 18, was the government-led bailout of Chrysler and General Motors, an intervention dogmatically opposed by the Republicans. "Let Detroit go bankrupt," declared Mr Obama's opponent Mitt Romney in November 2008. Should he fail to win Ohio, a state that no Republican has ever won the presidency without carrying, that could be his epitaph.
It is in the sphere of foreign policy that Mr Obama has disappointed. While fulfilling his pledge to withdraw all US troops from Iraq, he has vastly expanded the use of predator drones in Pakistan, a form of warfare that is neither just nor efficacious. In the Middle East, he has been consistently outmanoeuvred by Mr Netanyahu, who, in violation of international law, has continued the expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Yet any temptation to suggest that the world can afford a defeat for Mr Obama is dispelled by the prospect of a Romney presidency. A victory for the Republican candidate, who, as Mehdi Hasan writes on page 38, has surrounded himself with Bush-era neoconservatives, would greatly increase the chances of war with Iran, embolden the most reactionary elements in Israel and further accelerate climate change.
On the domestic level, Mr Romney's pledge to reduce government spending by a fifth would likely plunge the US into a double-dip recession, while his plans to cut taxes for the rich and slash spending on Medicaid, food stamps, housing subsidies and job training would result in a marked redistribution of wealth from the poorest to the richest. Mr Obama's health-care reform act – his single greatest domestic achievement – would be repealed and Roe v Wade, the Supreme Court judgment that established the legal right to abortion, would be overturned. Let no one claim that there is nothing to choose between the candidates.
Mr Obama stands in a noble liberal tradition that supports an active state as a precondition for individual flourishing. His opponent, by contrast, stands for a shrivelled public realm in which the market rules all and the poor are treated with contempt. In order that the former vision may triumph, Mr Obama must be returned as president on 6 November and Mr Romney decisively rejected.
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should be 5+2-0 = +7 TRILLION not billion. But you knew that.
Now, 5 days before the election, it's all last minute spin and MSM hype. Obama will, and for one reason. Fear of Romney, and for good reason. He'll win both the popular and electoral vote. If someone contests the results, I wonder what the Obama and Romney Campaign Derivative Indexes will say about that (yes, some people will bet on literally anything)?
Will Obama's "positive change" ever happen? No. Why? Because it's going to be another term of gridlock. This means the Usual Two Party Response (it's not us. Blame The Other Side for everything). Will the States go off The Fiscal Cliff in January with massive budget cuts? Yes. SInce both sides only understand money and power, losing both could be just the wakeup call they need.
So much wrong in so little space! Where to start????
Obama did NOT face the worst economic situation since Roosevelt. By virtually all economic measures, Reagan faced a worse economy after Carter. Higher unemployment, sky-high inflation, gas lines, etc.
Republican "recalcitrance" had nothing to do with his failure. Recall please he had 2 years of filibuster proof majorities in Congress. Instead of spending time on productive endeavors, he pissed it away jamming a prohibitively expensive and growth killing healthcare bill down the throats of American citizens (even now more unpopular than at passage) and "financial reform" (Dodd-Frank) which is keeping some $2 trillion on the sidelines.
No one with a brain and a calculator thinks the stimulus was a success. Sorry, it just wasn't. It was basically a payoff to political cronies. Virtually no infrastructure projects were completed much less "shovel ready". The vast majority of "saved" jobs were public employees to pay off the unions. Growth has been below "break even" in all thirteen quarters and is lower now than last year and lower last year than the year before. Things are NOT getting better. Liberal polices just don't work. Look at California, Illinois, New York. Compare to Texas, Indiana, and now even NJ, Ohio, and Wisconsin now that they are run by Republicans. It's crystal clear.
Your contention that the auto bailout was successful merely illustrates your economic illiteracy. "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt" was the NYT headline, not Romney's. Your remarks indicate that you never read his op-ed which advocated a managed bankruptcy wherein private equity would have stepped in after the process with gov't loan guarantees. Romney's way would have allowed both GM and Chrysler to jettison non-competitive wage rates, work rules and pension liabilities and Chrysler to remain an American company instead of being owned by Fiat. Instead, Obama illegally bypassed the secured creditors insuring that no private equity would come forward after the bankruptcy to invest in the companies and they remain saddled with legacy costs which make them about $2000/vehicle more expensive than competitors similar models. Additionally, only UNION companies were saved. Delphi would not agree that Obama handled this well.
Finally your contention that allowing people to keep more of the money they earn vs giving it to the government to mis-spend which would lead to another recession or redistribution to the wealthy is just stupid leftist drivel. The historical evidence is clear, just the opposite would happen. While the repeal of Obamacare is likely, it would be a huge economic boon to the country and would be replaced by something rational. Finally, if you think Roe v Wade has ANY chance of being repealed in today's environment, I have to ask how your unicorn farm is doing.
I have to agree with Brad Head, you lost me at "A".
That was not because I read your opinion piece with a closed mind, I don't do that, I strive to give everyone's opinions serious consideration and in this case after reading through to the end and thinking critically about your premise I have to go back to "A" and tell you that nothing beyond that matters.
Mr. Obama really appears to be a potentially great person to have as a neighbor and also appears to be a very conscientious parent and I confess I would really like to sit down with him and get to know him better. Unfortunately though my impression is that he is a narcissist and he probably will never either realize he is or make any efforts to overcome that flaw and it is a major flaw that has led him time and again to disastrous outcomes. He believes he's a great negotiator and the truth is he's a lousy negotiator. He thinks he's very effective and has a laser focus on the most important issues facing the world and is THE one single person who can solve them.
Unfortunately, he is like many employees that I've had over the years and had to let go after giving them all of the support and freedom to succeed that one could possibly give them.
Mr. Obama is unconsciously incompetent.
When a person is afflicted with narcissism and is unconsciously incompetent the very sad truth is they are also totally useless at those things they are trying to achieve and the only hope for success for them is to redirect their efforts to a career as a writer of very esoteric and obtuse theories to entertain the people who believe they have the solutions to every problem for the world and that those of us who actually do things useful to others and who do solve important problems in incremental steps simply because of the disasters that come with the Obama-style of solutions are poor souls who need their help.
Newsflash! We know a loser when we see one and although we give them chances to redeem themselves and demonstrate their wisdom, they fail and we have to let them go. It's time to let Mr. Obama go. We have to let him know that he has failed, he is on written notice that unless he quickly turns things around that we will terminate him shortly and that his last day working for us will be January 20, 2012 and we will take his keys to the office and ask him to clear out his desk and dresser by Noon so that we can start orienting the new employee.
Whenever anyone espouses the individual, any One person, is a savior for us all, run.
And whenever anyone says My vote should be made for the betterment of the World, as opposed to what's in the best interest of America, it's their admission that the vote for the world Isn't in the best interest of America.
Thanks for all the back-up guys... better late than never...
The world needs an obama win like I need a wolverine tearing at my groin. "Progressives" are learning disabled, at the very least; and evil as often as not. Noted "progressives": Stalin, Lenin, Castro, Mao, Hitler, Guavera, Amin, Mugabe, Chavez, Pol Pot, Obama. Yep, we need more of their ilk for sure.
Four more years of unabashed self-absorption? You gotta be kidding! Oh! And you do recall the fate of poor Narcissus? Heaven forbid that the One might take us all with him... as have most of history's great narcissistic leaders.
Four more years of unabashed self-absorption? You gotta be kidding! Oh! And you do recall the fate of poor Narcissus? Heaven forbid that the One might take us all with him... as have most of history's great narcissistic leaders.
Interestingly, a couple of articles in Der Spiegel and The Guardian of late run directly counter to the premise of this particular article. In specific, they note that on the global stage, Obama is considered a weak horse by our enemies, and an ally that cannot be depended upon by our friends.
It remains to be seen how Romney would perform in the foreign policy arena, but we have 4 years of Obama in charge to look back upon, 4 years which have seen allies snubbed and enemies emboldened. Hypotheses about increased chances of war with Iran are just that; hypotheses. However, I would note that the longer Iran is allowed to pursue its nuclear weapons programme, the greater a chance of war. . .regardless of who is President.
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Nortel raises stakes with open IP
But rival Cisco hasn't flinched
Nortel Networks rolled out what it calls 'New World' routing and IP software in New York on Monday, with hopes that a wide variety of servers, PCs, consumer gizmos, set-top boxes and processors will soon become Internet compatible under their Open IP Environment. The software, currently licensed to over 75 companies, features …
Business 11 Nov 1999, 09:26
Women to dominate the Net
Latest research gives profile of typical female surfer
Women would prefer to ditch their microwave ovens than be parted from the Internet, according to a survey by women's portal Women.com. In fact, women love the Net so much 70 per cent of those surveyed said they couldn't imagine life without it. The research also discovered that the average woman online is more likely to be …
Business 11 Nov 1999, 10:24
South African channel giant sees massive profit growth
Another bumper year for acquisitive Datatec
Datatec saw profits rise 159 per cent thanks to "staying nimble" and an aggressive acquisition strategy. The South African group posted profit of R196 million (£19.6 million), on sales of R5.6 billion (£561 billion), compared to R2.6 billion (£260 billion). More than 90 per cent of the technology and services company's profit …
Business 11 Nov 1999, 10:24
Online shopping is big
Even bigger than everyone thought
Web shoppers will spend between $12 billion and $15 billion (£700 million to £900 million) over Christmas according to Ernst & Young - almost double previous estimates, and at least treble the amount spent last year. Two-thirds of the 1,200 US consumers surveyed said they expected to do at least 10 per cent of their Christmas …
Business 11 Nov 1999, 10:25
BT spreads wings with $200m JV
Sets sights on international Web markets
BT is to form a £123 million ($200 million) joint venture with Web directory outfit, LookSmart, as part of a deal to provide portal services and exploit emerging markets in Europe and the Far East. The deal will build on BT's base of more than 31 million Internet and wireless customers, and LookSmart's Web navigation directories …
Business 11 Nov 1999, 10:26
Millennial round-up: bug fever begins
It'll all be fine, oh no it won't, oh yes it will
Bill Clinton isn't worried, nor are fund managers, so why is the US building a £25 million disaster bunker and pulling its diplomats out of countries prone to the millennium bug infestation? Like the passengers on a troubled plane we are constantly (too frequently?) being reassured that the millennium bug won't strike. Bill …
Business 11 Nov 1999, 10:27
No surrender: Gates draws a line in the sand
MS on Trial Agreed settlement unlikely - Microsoft unshiftable on key areas
Bill Gates yesterday claimed that Microsoft was "willing to go a long way to address the government's concerns," and then effectively ruled out a negotiated settlement by declaring Microsoft unshiftable on two key points. Speaking to a Microsoft shareholder meeting about the current antitrust trial situation, Gates stressed that …
Business 11 Nov 1999, 10:43
The price of empire: MS' $14bn acquisition spree
New report follows a 20 year audit trail
In 20 years Microsoft has spent more than $14 billion on more than 140 acquisitions and investments, according to an investigation of SEC filings, corporate documents and industry sources conducted by G2 Computer Intelligence. The resulting report, The Microsoft Empire: Roots and All, considers the question of whether Microsoft …
Business 11 Nov 1999, 11:17
Red Hat preps ecommerce oriented Linux upgrade
Ads Java, journaling file system, Motif and better database support
Red Hat yesterday announced - or rather Oracle announced on its behalf - that the next release of Red Hat Linux will integrate support for Java support, provide a journaling file system and add the Motif GUI. The Oracle connection comes from the two companies' plan to promote Oracle 8i on Linux. The notoriously anti-Microsoft …
Business 11 Nov 1999, 12:11
Transmeta to come out of hiding next January
And with a notebook-oriented CPU, c't reckons
Transmeta will launch its first processor on 19 January 2000, according to Germany's c't magazine, and not at Comdex next week after all. The terse c't report claims the chip is codenamed Crusoe because it's aimed at the notebook market. In other words, we're talking about a low-power chip, which while nonetheless welcome does …
Business 11 Nov 1999, 12:27
Teacher's Net porn conviction upheld
You can look but don't touch
A school teacher's four-month sentence for downloading child porn from the Internet has been upheld by the Court of Appeal, setting a legal precedent. The sentence had previously been quashed on appeal but the judges ruled that downloading or printing indecent material constituted an offence. Jonathan Bowden said he was not …
Business 11 Nov 1999, 12:54
BT's Bonfield: No free local calls
Net users need a range of tariffs, it seems
BT's CEO, Sir Peter Bonfield, today ruled out any plans to introduce "free" local calls in Britain saying that "there's no such thing as a free lunch". Interviewed on BBC TV this morning, he said BT wanted to create a range of different pricing models to suit the needs of different Net users. His comments came on the day BT …
Business 11 Nov 1999, 12:56
US outlaws cybersquatting
Ban to be enforced through little-known Satellite Viewers Bill
Cybersquatting looks almost certain to be banned following the passing by the US House of Representatives of a Satellite Viewers Bill which had attached to it a cybersquatting bill. This bill is unrelated to one that was bogged down in a House-Senate conference, although the terms are very similar. Where a trademark is infringed …
Business 11 Nov 1999, 14:28
MSNBC blunders over poll position
Netscape, Mac users barred from 'future of Microsoft' vote. Curious, no?
Polls conducted on the Internet are prone to being invaded by afficionados who wish their view to prevail. There are, of course, other ways to give an incorrect picture of sentiment, such as miscounting the voting, or -- as has just happened -- having a bug that does not allow certain categories of voters to express a view. As …
Business 11 Nov 1999, 14:34
Windows2000.com owner sells domain to Microsoft
Kerstein gets bob.com, 'other considerations' in return
Windows 2000 was an unexpected name for NT 5, as is seen from Microsoft's failure to check whether the trademark Windows2000 and the domain Windows2000.com might just have been previously claimed before it barged in. As it turned out, the domain was being used, and not by a cybersquatter but by Bob Kerstein of Falls Church, …
Business 11 Nov 1999, 14:39
Opening Windows IV: Is the relevant market a dying market?
Special Report Like Microsoft says, the judge's problem will probably go away anyway
It's important that Microsoft's biggest rivals don't want to compete with Microsoft directly in the client space, because this fact is of deep significance to what the judge sees the problem as being. Prior to getting on to the juicy bits detailing sundry Microsoft hoodlumisms Judge Jackson's findings of fact define a relevant …
Business 11 Nov 1999, 15:06
Opening Windows III: Would promoting OEMs fix it?
Special Report But how do you decide which OEMs, and what they're allowed to do?
As far as Windows is concerned the needs of the OEM PC makers are pretty narrow, but promoting the OEMs as part of a solution might still attract Judge Jackson. No major PC OEM is going to want to licence a version of Windows built by a rival OEM, but if enough of them had the right to tailor their own versions it would make an …
Business 11 Nov 1999, 15:13
Opening Windows II: DR-Dos and IBM could have been contenders
Special Report But that was then, not now...
In 1995-96 a forced unbundling of OS and GUI, together with some form of source licence, would have been welcome to Novell, because it could then have continued development of DR-DOS as a desktop OS in the Intel space. Instead of this, the DR-DOS team have moved the OS into the low-resource and embedded arena. DR-DOS still …
Business 11 Nov 1999, 15:15
If the judge opened Windows source, who'd come?
Special Report Nobody much is interested in fixing his MS problem, these days
The government's current position in the Microsoft antitrust case is that any settlement, whether imposed or negotiated, will have to address all of the problems identified by Judge Jackson in his findings of fact last week. Probably the central problem, as far as the judge is concerned, is the monopoly he says Microsoft holds …
Business 11 Nov 1999, 15:17
Virgin shakes up mobile market with One2One deal
Claims to offer simplified tariff structure
Virgin is promising to cut mobile phone bills by a third with the launch of non-contract phones from Virgin Mobile. Speaking at today's launch in London, Richard Branson said the company would offer a simple, one-tariff system without contracts. This applies to pay-as-you-go and billed customers. Virgin Mobile, a joint venture …
Business 11 Nov 1999, 15:26
Compaq targets Web-dazed corporates with iPaq
Stick an 'i' on the front, tell punters its got Net access, sell buckloads. Sorted
Compaq's iPaq may not share the iMac's colourful casing, but the principles behind are exactly the same: provide a cheap, task-specific (in this case, Internet access) PC in an attempt to save the vendor's bacon. It certainly appears to have worked for Apple, but will it work for Compaq? The key to the iPaq is not its iMac- …
Business 11 Nov 1999, 16:05
BT's knockers reject flat-rate plans
AOL, Energis, hit out at new tariff
BT's sparkling bid to slash the cost of dial-up Net access to service providers is rapidly losing its lustre. Energis, the telco behind Freeserve, claims that BT has not come clean about the true cost of the new service to ISPs. Not only will there be extra charges over and above what BT has already published, Energis claims BT …
Business 11 Nov 1999, 16:10
Buy booze online
At last! You can only take so many CDs and books
Call it Anglicising the Web, a recognition of UK culture or just plain old commonsense, but the Web is starting to become really useful with the launch of two online off-licences. One, by high-street store Oddbins, has been set up to cash in on a champagne frenzy for the New Year. Going for your classy consumer, the site offers …
Business 11 Nov 1999, 16:14
Lord Chancellor's department goes to ground over banned Web site
Own goal leaves legal eagles' feathers ruffled
The Web site closed down after its ISP had been warned by the Lord Chancellor's department of its "offensive" material has proliferated on the Internet following media attention. The site, run by James Hulbert, accused five judges of acting corruptly. Following the site's removal, however, several parties, including Hulbert, …
Business 11 Nov 1999, 16:39
08004u scuppered by 22,000 unauthorised users
Plans to give every user their own 0800 number
Scottish ISP, 08004u, shut down its 0800 access service last night after being overwhelmed by 22,000 Net users who gained unauthorised access to the unmetered service. It appears details of how to gain access to the service while bypassing the £49.99 a month were circulated on newsgroups giving some Net the opportunity to run …
Business 11 Nov 1999, 17:07
Register channel hits MyNetscape
Read our headlines in your MyNetscape homepage
If you're a MyNetscape user, you can now view Register headlines by adding our channel to your MyNetscape homepage. Simply click on the ADD REGISTER CHANNEL link below and your browser will automatically install The Register's channel for immediate viewing. If you don't have a MyNetcenter homepage, you'll be asked to set one up …
Business 11 Nov 1999, 17:15
Radio Shack to push broadband MSN
Five year deal with giant of electrical retailing
Microsoft has struck a five-year deal with Tandy's retail outlets in the US to push high speed Web access. The software vendor will start a "store within a store" in up to 7000 Radio Shack shops in the US. It will use Radio Shack's 25,000 staff to demonstrate and sign customers up to its MSN dial-up or broadband access. …
Business 11 Nov 1999, 17:47
Expedia IPO suggests there's gold in an MS break-up
Go figure - if you can sell one bit for this much, how long can you keep the stockholders from wanting more?
Microsoft's Expedia IPO closed at $53 yesterday, up from the $14 offer price which had been hiked from the original $10 to $12. It marks a rally in IPOs and shows underlying strength in the travel sector in particular. At the close, the gain was 277 per cent, but at one point, it reached 471 per cent. Microsoft sold just 15 per …
Business 11 Nov 1999, 19:50
Bill speaks on integration, lawyering and Linux
Stuff from the shareholders' meeting you probably didn't read elsewhere...
When he was talking to shareholders yesterday Bill Gates didn't just deal with the trial. Remember this is probably the most favourable audience he could ever had (so long as the stock price stays up), so they get to ask serious questions, and they get answers that are a cut above your average press conference. That process …
Business 11 Nov 1999, 19:56
No hooplah to Intel Rambus performance, analyst claims
Intel beleaguered on all fronts (Part 1)
A semiconductor analyst has written a piece about Rambus and synchronous DRAM which appears to damn the former and praise the latter. Bert McComas, over at InQuest, has posted a lengthy piece comparing the performance between DDR (double data rate) memory and Rambus. According to McComas, there is no perceptible performance …
Business 11 Nov 1999, 23:00
Merced, Pentium patents threatened in $8 billion suit
Intel beleaguered on all fronts (Part 2)
Techsearch LLC, which earlier this year threatened Intel with all sorts of dire consequences, seems to have won the first round in its legal fight against the chip giant. The patent in question relates to technology first designed by a firm called International Meta, which was originally under the wing of Apple. International …
Business 11 Nov 1999, 23:12
AMD confirms 750 Athlon a go-go, mentions Register in despatches
Intel beleaguered on all fronts (Part 3)
A conference call between analysts and chip firm Advanced Micro Devices has confirmed that a 750MHz Athlon is close to the starting gate. AMD told the analysts that it had managed to produce a 750MHz Athlon ahead of all expectations, but also said that the average selling price of its flash memory had suffered degradation. Top …
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- n. A small, often round piece of material, such as glass, plastic, or wood, that is pierced for stringing or threading.
- n. A necklace made of such pieces.
- n. Roman Catholic Church A rosary.
- n. Obsolete A prayer. Often used in the plural.
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- n. A drop of moisture: beads of sweat.
- n. A bubble of gas in a liquid.
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- n. Prayer; a prayer; specifically, a prayer of the list or bead-roll, read at public church-services by the preacher before his sermon, or by the curate (see bead-roll): usually in the plural. Hence, in this sense, to bid (one's) beads, to say (one's) prayers. See phrases below.
- n. One of the little balls, of wood, cocoanut-shell, pearl, glass, jewels, or other material, strung in a prescribed order, which form the chaplet or rosary in use in the devotions of Roman Catholics, Buddhists, etc., to keep count of the number of prayers said. See pair of beads, below.
- n. Anything resembling a rosary-bead, strung with others for ornament, as in necklaces or beadwork: as, glass, amber, metal, coral, or other beads.
- n. Any small globular, cylindrical, or annular body, as the small projecting piece of metal at the end of a gun-barrel used as a sight, a drop of liquid, etc.
- n. One of the circular markings of certain diatoms.
- n. The bubble or mass of bubbles rising to the top or resting on the surface of a liquid when shaken or decanted: as, the bead of wines or spirits.
- n. A glass globule for trying the strength of alcoholic spirits. Beads are numbered according to their specific gravities, and the strength of the spirit is denominated by the number of that one which remains suspended in it, and neither sinks to the bottom nor floats on the surface. Beads, in determining the strength of spirits, are now for the most part superseded by the hydrometer.
- n. In mineralogy, in the blowpipe examination of minerals, a globule of borax or other flux which is supported on a platinum wire, and in which the substance under examination is dissolved in the blowpipe flame.
- n. In arch. and joinery, a small convex molding, in section a semicircle or greater than a semicircle; properly, a plain molding, but often synonymous with astragal, which is better reserved for a small convex molding cut into the form of string of beads. The bead is a very frequent ornament, used to mark a junction or a separation, as between the shaft and the capital of a column, to dress an angle, etc. It is much used in woodwork of all kinds, from carpenters' work to the finest kinds of joinery and cabinet-work. Among joiners the bead is variously introduced; as: bead and butt (fig. 1), framed work in which the panel is flush with the framing and has a bead run on two edges in the direction of the grain only, while the ends are left plain;
- n. In bookbinding, shoemaking, etc., any cord-like prominence, as the roll on the head-band of a book, the seam of a shoe, etc.
- n. that is, "set of beads" (), a rosary; now, specifically, a chaplet of five decades, that is, a third part of the rosary. A chaplet or pair of beads, as thus restricted, is the form in common use under the name of the beads. The large beads between the decades were formerly called gaudies (see gaud, gaudy); each separate bead, or grain, as it is now termed, Tyndale calls a stone.
- n. literally, to offer (one's) prayers; hence the later equivalent phrases to say or recite (one's) beads, now with reference, as literally in the phrase to tell (one's) beads, to counting off prayers by means of the beads on the rosary. The phrases to count and to number (one's) beads are merely literary.
- To ornament with beads; raise beads upon.
- n. In weaving, a roughness of yarn due to fraying by friction or rubbing.
- n. A small round object
- n. A ridge, band, or molding.
- n. A knowledge sufficient to direct one's activities to a purpose.
- v. intransitive To form into a bead.
- v. transitive To apply beads to.
- v. transitive To form into a bead.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete A prayer.
- n. A little perforated ball, to be strung on a thread, and worn for ornament; or used in a rosary for counting prayers, as by Roman Catholics and Mohammedans, whence the phrases to tell beads, to be at one's beads, to bid beads, etc., meaning, to be at prayer.
- n. Any small globular body.
- n. A bubble in spirits.
- n. A drop of sweat or other liquid.
- n. A small knob of metal on a firearm, used for taking aim (whence the expression
to draw a bead , for, to take aim). - n. (Arch.) A small molding of rounded surface, the section being usually an arc of a circle. It may be continuous, or broken into short embossments.
- n. (Chem.) A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color test for several mineral earths and oxides, as of iron, manganese, etc., before the blowpipe
- v. To ornament with beads or beading.
- v. To form beadlike bubbles.
WordNet 3.0
- v. form into beads, as of water or sweat, for example
- v. decorate by sewing beads onto
- v. string together like beads
- n. a shape that is spherical and small
- n. a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture
- n. a small ball with a hole through the middle
- From Old English ġebed, from Proto-Germanic. Cognate with Dutch bede, German Gebet. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English bede, rosary bead, prayer, from Old English bed, bedu, gebed, prayer; see gwhedh- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
"Also, if you're using a shotgun with a plain bead, holding on the head completely obstructs your view of the bird."
"Del, I don't know what kind of maidens you are used to kissing but a 3.5 inch turkey load tends to leave a "hickey" on my shoulder after each smooch ... even when that orange bead is held on the base of old Tom's warty neck!"
"If the bead is on the mark whatever it is, is down."
"Matching beads on my boobs with the chin bead as an accessory."
"The P350 put its pellets right where I pointed it, although the large orange bead is bigger than I would choose for accurate turkey shooting."
"A dab of fluorescent-red model enamel over a standard front bead is an inexpensive option."
"On one of them I noticed that the strings were of wire, and having had some experience in bead work, I said I thought they would break."
"Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself, instead of sitting indoors at a little round table, while a sweet-voiced teacher suggests that he build a stone wall with his wooden blocks, or make a rainbow out of strips of colored paper, or plant straw trees in bead flower-pots."
"The grip comes from the edge - or "bead" - of the tire interlocking with the edge of the rim."
"The last one, called bead treatment, detailed the making and implantation of antibiotic-soaked clay pellets that would have to be made by the vet because they're not commercially available."
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n. The bubble or mass of bubbles rising to the top or resting on the surface of a liquid when shaken or decanted: as, the bead of wines or spirits. Century Dictionary -
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(n). In moonshining, a term for bubbles that form on the surface of shaken whiskey by which the alcoholic content is estimated. -
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Keys to the Highway
The Mark Kaye Band comes to town from the Mission District via Menlo Park.
Thursday, November 24, 2005
The pop funk group the Mark Kaye Band has played all over the Bay Area—everywhere from the Last Day Saloon, a popular San Francisco venue since 1973, to Blush, a new 6,000 square foot dance club in Burlingame with lots of creative lighting. Mark Kaye and the boys have also brought their brand of poppy funk to swank joints like San Francisco's Club Rouge, an opulent nightclub where bartenders are called mixologists.
But the band's biggest Bay Area claim to fame is that they often play the Oakland Raiders pre-game parties at the Oakland Hilton on Saturday nights. There, Raiders fans dressed in black and silver hit the dance floor between shouting the name of their favorite football team over and over again.
"It is way out of hand," bandleader Mark Kaye says of the Hilton gig. "The dance floor gets a little crazy with clothes on."
While many funk groups are content to perform the old school hits from the '70s, Kaye's group has a secret weapon in their arsenal: original tunes. With four CDs in the can and one more coming this February, the group's originals are processed pop and funk numbers that at certain times recall Stevie Wonders' music from the '80s. Their latest, titled What Would Love Do?, features soft rock ballads like "To Love is to Let Go" and the funkier "Shake It Up," which has throwaway lyrics like "I wanna thrill ya, I wanna for real ya" over clavinet beeps and blips.
Kaye admits that the songs take a slightly different shape in a live setting. "It's funkier live," he says. "We approach it with a real improvisational approach."
Also onstage, the band is unafraid to dip a bit into the '70s classic funk catalogue, playing tunes by the Ohio Players and Kool & the Gang. "We funk 'em up pretty good," Kaye says of his band's renditions.
Kaye, a multi-instrumentalist who plays a handful of keyboards, including a keyboard/guitar hybrid called a "keytar" (see below), lived and played music in places like Oahu and San Francisco's Mission District before moving to Menlo Park a few years ago. "There's only one way out of the Mission District: music, prison or a coffin," Kaye says of his former neighborhood.
With his band performing regularly all over the Bay Area, it is clear which option Kaye has chosen.
There might be some of you readers out there wondering what the heck Mark Kaye has strapped around his neck in the adjoining picture. You might be thinking that it is a deluxe version of the popular '80s toy from Mattel called the Magical Musical Thing.
Well folks, it's not. What Mr. Kaye is playing is a "keytar," a synthesizer shaped like a guitar. It has also been called a belly synth, a guiboard and a strap-on—though the encyclopedia Web site Wikipedia cautions that when using the last term one must add the words keyboard to differentiate the instrument from the sex toy of the same name.
Why would a musician choose to play a keytar instead of a standard keyboard? Well, I don't have a degree in musicology, but I would venture a guess that the keytar allows keyboard players to feel like a guitar player, which some folks see as the classic rock 'n' roll figure. What a keytar definitely does is free up the keyboard player to indulge in truly "rock" moments like playing his instrument while sliding across the stage on his knees.
Since Steve Masakowski introduced the keytar to the world in 1978, many semi-popular musicians have embraced the instrument. Jan Hammer, the composer of Miami Vice's theme song, played a keytar. And Thomas Dolby, the guy who did that cool '80s song "She Blinded Me with Science," was known to wield the instrument from time to time.
In 1995, the keytar experienced a brief resurgence in popularity after soft rocker John Tesh played the instrument while covering Black Sabbath's "The Wizard" on The Late Show with Conan O'Brien. Bloggers continue to gush about the incident on the Internet almost 10 years after that fateful evening.
These days, a handful of bands like The Doodlebops and the Sump Pumps—along with Mark Kaye—are attempting to bring the keytar back from the brink of obscurity.
Let's hope their efforts are successful.
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What is anaphylaxis?
Anaphylaxis, also called anaphylactic shock, is a severe and sometimes life-threatening reaction to an allergen (the items that your child is allergic to are called allergens). It is a medical emergency, in most cases. The reaction to the allergen can occur seconds to as long as an hour after the exposure. It is necessary to have come in contact with the allergen at a previous time for sensitization to occur.What causes anaphylaxis?
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Two Hard Drive Manufactures For Big Profits
Chad is a member of The Motley Fool Blog Network -- entries represent the personal opinion of the blogger and are not formally edited.
After constantly hearing about how flooding overseas is causing hard drive shortages, I wondered, is there opportunity here? The crisis of today can be the opportunity of tomorrow. It seems history is repeating itself with two hard drive manufacturers I've found. No matter what you think of the PC industry and the future of storage, these two companies are cheap. The two companies I'm referring to are Seagate Technology (NASDAQ: STX) and Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC).
I understand that both companies face some supply issues short term, but these won't last forever. In addition, even with the huge push towards tablets and smartphones there are millions of standard hard drives being sold. In particular, as more music, pictures, and video become digital there is a need to store all of this somewhere. Larger sized external hard drives have become more cost effective as a backup solution. Since Seagate and Western Digital are two of the biggest players in the game, let's see just how cheap these stocks have become.
Name |
Price |
P/E on '12 Earnings |
Growth Expected |
Yield |
Seagate |
$26.64 |
4.33 |
24.51% |
0.18 |
3.75% |
Western Digital |
$38.44 |
6.71 |
11.60% |
0.58 |
0.00% |
As you can see the market isn't giving much credit to the analysts that follow either company. Many times companies that sell at this cheap of a PEG ratio have underlying problems. Let's check a few other metrics for each company, and see where they have been and how they have been doing.
Name |
Previous Earnings per Share (EPS) Growth |
Avg. Earnings Beat |
Avg. Cash Flow per Dollar of Assets |
Seagate |
-3.02% |
9.12% |
0.0136 |
Western Digital |
13.23% |
37.00% |
0.0291 |
(Avg. Cash Flow = (Operating Cash Flow last 4 quarters – Capital Expenditures last 4 quarters) / 4) Average Cash Flow / Total Assets = Avg. Cash Flow per Dollar of Assets)
Previous EPS Growth
We can see Seagate has shown declining earnings in the past few years. This could be cause for concern because analysts are expecting over 24% growth going forward. This is a classic turnaround story. Analysts are expecting the company to not only recover from its past issues, but show significant growth going forward. Where Western Digital is concerned, their past growth of 13.23% makes their future growth expectation of 11.60% very reasonable.
Average Earnings Beat
Both companies have been beating analyst estimates by a decent margin. Seagate has beaten estimates 3 of the last 4 quarters by an average of 9.12%. Western Digital has beaten estimates 3 of the last 4 quarters by an average of 37%.
Avg. Cash Flow per Dollar of Assets
This is a good comparison tool for two companies in the same industry. The company that generates more free cash flow per dollar of assets is the more efficient operator. We can see that Seagate generates average quarterly free cash flow of just over 1 cent of per $1 of assets. Western Digital on the other hand generates average quarterly free cash flow of nearly 3 cents per $1 of assets.
All of these numbers are a starting point for further research. Both companies appear attractively priced if analyst estimates can be believed. Each company has been beating previous earnings estimates. Seagate is more of a turnaround play. Western Digital is more of a middle of the road growing company. If Seagate is able to meet estimates going forward this should be closer to a $150 stock. With a PEG of 1 and a growth rate above 24% that would not be unreasonable. I believe that analysts are probably being a little too generous, but even if they are off by 50% the stock could be worth $75. Where Western Digital is concerned the company looks undervalued, but not as dramatically as Seagate. Western Digital with a PEG of 1 would sell for about $65.
These two companies in the same industry, are potentially undervalued by 181%+ (Seagate) and 69% (Western Digital). I believe both will outperform the market over the next few years. I'm making my CAPSCall with a thumbs-up on both today. Check into each company, and see whether you might want to save some of their stock for your portfolio.
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St. George Bank really loves its customers. Newly appointed Saatchi and Saatchi set out to demonstrate this with a rebrand.
Nothing says rebrand like a little kid playing pretend. Because there's a little dragon in all of us.
Oscar Mayer Lunchables - Treehouse standoff - (2012) :90 (USA)
"...yeah, dude, srsly..."
Oh sure, it's the grand idea paired with the true to war-movie form storytelling, and there's brilliance in the kid casting, but none of this would be if it hadn't been for a client who agreed to do something.. you know.. for the kids. Offspring just watched this ad over and over again. She wants an epic treehouse. Wants. Escape Pod says it was pure childish joy to shoot this ad.
OH WAIT here comes the smallprint:
Famous Footwear - Back to School / Make today famous (2010) :30 (USA)
Check out the behind the scenes on how this ad was made.
Laura Ashley - Sasha / spec - (2010) (UK)
The concept behind the acclaimed spec spot Sasha was a daring one: capture in less than two minutes the imaginative and mischievous life of one joyful little girl. LA-based jumP Editor Nick Lofting sifted through several hours of footage to gather a few key moments, expressions, bits of dialogue, and impishness, transforming what could have been a short sketch into a deep, gentle narrative that leaves viewers feeling both connected with Sasha and inspired to imagine the rest of her life.
So, how does one go about illustrating the inner life of an unusually creative child? Working with @radical.media Director Brett Froomer - whose notable career is highlighted by memorable commercial campaigns for brands such as Citgo, US Army, Kodak, Prudential and PDFA as well as five successful personal studies, Lofting pored over hours of play and interviews with Sasha, her parents, and her two sisters.
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Two jaw-dropping spots for the 2010 Newport Beach Film Festival were recently created by ad agency RPA and the standout Tool of North America duo of Director Erich Joiner and two-time Academy Award®-winning DP Robert Richardson (Inglourious Basterds, Shutter Island, Kill Bill: Vol. 1 & 2). Also recruited was Lost Planet Editor Hank Corwin (Natural Born Killers, JFK).
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Puma celebrates football and Africa, see the tie-ins at head to www.pumafootball.com or facebook.com/pumafootball.
A celebration of true football. For Africa. For Football. For the insane love of the game we possess that unites us beyond borders. Bringing Football back to its roots. Because love is football.
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