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US Treasury report slams Germany current a/c surplus - deflationary bias, damages Euro area & world economy http://t.co/lr3g0kHy3R h/t @FTIfo-Prognose zur Leistungsbilanz 2013: Eine gut verkaufte Fahrt in die Hölle (W Muenchau, Spiegel, Jan 15th 2014)
— Prime Economics (@primeeconomics) October 31, 2013
Germany is World Champion in Capital Export (CESIFO Group, Jan 14th 2013)
Fratzscher attackiert Sinn: "Deutschland kein Opfer der Euro-Rettung" (Wirtschaftswoche, Jan 11th 2014)
Why "rebalancing" the German economy is easier said than done (Quartz,Jan 9th 2014)(via @jkaraian)
The German Scapegoat (D Gros, Project Syndicate, Dec 5th 2013)(via @JCSBruegel)
What does the German coalition agreement mean for the eurozone? (ECFR, Nov 29th 2013)(v @ECFR)
"Die Koalition wirft Europas Zukunft weg" (A Posen& R Hancke,Die Zeit, Nov 29th 2013)
Where Did All The German Savings Go? (S Fidler, WSJ, Nov 28th 2013)(via @SonyKapoor)
EU commissioner: Germany won't be sanctioned in surplus probe (Reuters, Nov16th 2013)(v @Forexlive)
Don't blame Germany for the eurozone's travails, blame the euro itself (J Warner,Telegraph, Nov 11th 2013)
Germany's Surplus Isn't the Problem (S Nixon,WSJ, Nov 10th 2013)(via @Simon_Nixon)
The view from Germany (S Wren-Lewis,Mainly Macro, Nov 10th 2013)(via @sjwrenlewis)
Treasury and Krugman Are Wrong About Germany (Melvyn Krauss,Bloomberg,Nov 8 2013)(via @HrReisen)
Deutscher Exportüberschuss: Das Märchen vom Gleichgewicht (FAZ, Nov 8th 2013)(via @WelterPatrick)
Hamish McRae: The Italians and Americans are hardly in a position to lecture Germany on how to run its economy (Independent, Nov 7th 2013)(via @Schuldensuehner)
The German trade surplus may widen with the euro-area recovery (Z Darwas,Bruegel,Nov 7th 2013)
US and Germany trade blows over macro policy, but is Germany's export focus really to blame for the woes of the eurozone? (Open Europe Blog, Nov 6th 2013)(via @LondonerVince)
Blogs review: The deflationary bias of Germany's current account (Cohen-Setton,Bruegel,Nov 6th 2013)(@bruegel_org)
Germany's Imbalances: Don't Weaken our Strengths (T Straubhaar,Transatlantic Academy, Nov 6th 2013) >>
Barroso fordert mehr deutsches Engagement (Tagesspiegel, Nov 5th 2013)(via @AnnaJonky)
Why Germany's Export Machine Is Under Attack (Bloomberg, Nov 5th 2013)(via @crtru)
Germany is a weight o the world (M Wolf, Financial Times (paywall), Nov 5th 2013)
EU opens door to showdown with Germany on trade surplus (Telegraph, Nov 5th 2013)(via @TeleFinance)
Those Depressing Germans (P Krugman, NYTimes, Nov 4th 2013)(via @raluca3000)
Germany Is Being Crushed by Its Export Obsession (A Posen, Peterson Institute, Nov 3rd 2013)
German Surpluses: This Time Is Different (P Krugman, NYTimes, Nov 3rd 2013)(via @NYTimesKrugman)
EU's Barroso urges Germany to act on euro imbalances (Yahoo/Reuters, Nov 3rd 2013)
Europe is a currency saint but an egregious demand sinner (A Evans-Pritchard,Telegraph, Nov 2nd 2013)(via @AmbroseEP)
Germany's Export Obsession Is Dooming Europe to a Depression (The Atlantic, Nov 2nd 2013)
Charlemagne Fawlty Europe (Economist. Nov 2nd 2013)(via @GustavoPiga)
Defending Germany (P Krugman, NYTimes, Nov 2nd 2012)(via @NYTimesKrugman)
Aus der Balance (T Mayer, FAZ, Nov 2nd 2013)
IMF Backs U.S. Treasury in Criticizing German Exports (Bloomberg, Nov 1st 2013)(v @saraeisenFX)
Six Facts About the German Economy (germany.info, Nov 1st 2013)(via @noahbarkin)
The Harm Germany Does (P. Krugman, NYTimes, Nov 1st 2013)(via @shireblogger)
The US Treasury is right about Germany's Eurozone policies: Here is why (Y Varoufakis, Nov 1st 2013)(via @RF_HFC)
Germany rebuffs US criticism of its growth model (BBC, Nov 1st 2013)(via @UNIDO)
Die USA, der deutsche Merkantilismus und die Koalitionsverhandlungen (H Flassbeck, Nov 1st 2013)(via @rkeuper)
A Fiscal Scold, Merkel Softens Tone at Home * (NYTimes, Nov 1st 2013)
It's Not Germany's Fault Europe Is Turning Japanese (WSJ, Oct 31st 2013)(via @CristophLawton)
Berlin Dismisses U.S. Criticism of Economy (WSJ, Oct 31st 2013)(via @WSJmarkets)
America's misplaced lecture to Germany (G. Rachman,FT ($$), Oct 31st 2013)(via @Pa(TtrickBernau)
Schuld sind immer die anderen (Handelsblatt, Oct 31st 2013) (via @blicklog)
Germany rejects U.S. criticism of export reliance (Yahoo/Reuters, Oct 31st 2013)
Analysis: Euro zone current account surplus puts Germany in dock (Yahoo/Reuters, Sept 29th 2013)
Germany Is Not Manipulating the Euro (M Huether, IW cologne)
Exportindustrie: Die Euro-Partner verdienen mit (IW Koeln, May 8th 2013)
Leistungsbilanzen:Investitionsgüter führen zu Überschüssen (IW Koeln, Apr 11th 2013)
Was ist eine Leistungsbilanz? (including: Monatsberichtsaufsatz November 2012,pdf 19 pages) (Bundesbank)
(source (all 4 charts): Thomson/Reuters Datastream)
(3 created by Vincent Flasseur/Reuters -@ReutersFlasseur)
(source: Außenhandelsstatistik (Wiki)
Total current account balance for Germany pic.twitter.com/Vmo9SGNebP
— Fabrizio Goria (@FGoria) November 2, 2013
By 2017, German current acc surplus to shrink from 7% to 4.8%, overtaken by... Spain from -1 to 5.2. Say IMF pic.twitter.com/oj9uNcC32F
— Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) November 7, 2013
Percent of Each Country's Total Exports Consumed by China: pic.twitter.com/hOMkqpuj90
— Michael McDonough (@M_McDonough) November 3, 2013
Gesamtübersicht: Entwicklung des deutschen Außenhandels 2000- 2012 (complete data)(bmelv-statistik.de)
Deutscher Außenhandel (directory of all available data, incl break down per country)(bmelv-statistik.de)
(finfacts.ie, Apr 29th 2013)
World market share of exports (Destatis)
Interactive map: foreign trade surplus/deficit (German,Destatis)
Dutch (EU's 2nd largest exporter) exports of goods strongly EU oriented (CBS.nl)
German exports in August 2013: –5.4% on August 2012 (destatis.de, Oct 8th 2013)
Retail turnover in August 2013: +0.3% in real terms on August 2012 (destatis.de, Sep 30th 2013)
German exports in July 2013: unchanged on July 2012 (destatis.de, Sep 6th 2013)
German exports in June 2013: –2.1% on June 2012 (destatis.de, Aug 8th 2013)
re (lack of) consumer spending
German social insurance system posts big surplus (DW, Apr 12 2013)
While US argues, Germany faces budget surplus (AP, Oct 17th 2013)
German budget surplus jumps in first half of year (BBC, Aug 23rd 2013)
German Health-Care System's Surplus Is Rising, Die Welt Reports (Bloomberg, Jul 5th 2012)
Dickes Polster: Krankenkassen erzielen erneut Milliarden-Überschuss (Spiegel, Aug 30th 2013)
(surplus health insurance as of June 2013: 29bn Euro)
Germany rakes in record tax income (<=2011)(The Local, Jan 27th 2012)
Germany expects record 2012 tax revenues (DW, Oct 31st 2012)
German tax revenues soar amid solid employment (DW, Oct 21st 2013)
re (lack of) consumer spending
German social insurance system posts big surplus (DW, Apr 12 2013)
While US argues, Germany faces budget surplus (AP, Oct 17th 2013)
German budget surplus jumps in first half of year (BBC, Aug 23rd 2013)
German Health-Care System's Surplus Is Rising, Die Welt Reports (Bloomberg, Jul 5th 2012)
Dickes Polster: Krankenkassen erzielen erneut Milliarden-Überschuss (Spiegel, Aug 30th 2013)
(surplus health insurance as of June 2013: 29bn Euro)
Germany rakes in record tax income (<=2011)(The Local, Jan 27th 2012)
Germany expects record 2012 tax revenues (DW, Oct 31st 2012)
German tax revenues soar amid solid employment (DW, Oct 21st 2013)
>>Merkel's conservatives will push for a reduction in Germany's debt level to below 60 percent of GDP within 10 years from the current 81 percent, according to a party document obtained by Reuters on Friday.<<source:Germany may see higher tax revenues, could play role in talks (Reuters, Oct 26th 2013)
re domestic investments
Ailing Infrastructure: Scrimping Threatens Germany's Future (Spiegel, Jun 27th 2013),
but: investment projection renewables Germany 2010-2020: 159,5 bn € (prognos,pdf,ger)
related links
* = Worry about idiocy not inflation (part II) German austerity myth [EZRopinion]
note: Of course the discussion is ongoing and there will be updates once in a while


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The highly anticipated release of 'Andy Skopes – True Chord Redux (VIP) / True Human Emotion' on Utopia Music is finally upon us! Andy Skopes returns to the Jungle after not releasing since 2011, thank goodness he is back, and what a way to return!
Opening with beautiful lush pads, peaceful atmospherics in 'True Chord Redux (VIP), the drums kick in with a knowing nod to the classic days of Goodlooking Records. It is evident by the energy in the breakdown that something special is upon us and with one last breath it drops and we are immersed in a wonderful world filled with soothing bass pressure and rolling snare movement. The drum sequencing on this is mesmerizing! Inspiring to say the least, such detail, restraint and finesse with each hit. I would go so far as to say that this is one of the definitive choppage tunes of our time alongside '9th Hand by Breakage'. The complex layers of atmospherics are just out of this world! Taking the original to the next level while holding true to its themes, this VIP numbs the mind while feeding it with lush movement, vibes and rhythm!
True Human Emotion increases the intensity, Sitar drones, Think Break shuffles and Mentasm stabs build as we pre-empt the drop, with that drop the fire is a light! Smashing distorted Amens, perfectly placed switches smoothly transition the ends of each bar so naturally! Filter swept breaks, flanged rolls cutting through a background of dramatic strings and eastern instruments. The intensity is resolved by a peaceful breakdown, an almost profound moment of realization occurs, like a shift in global consciousness. The second drop keeps this momentum until the final breakdown builds into a rise of suspense, 'We are the God's now' signals a return to darkness. Modern jungle at its finest, taking the classic future sound of Metalheadz in the 90's and bringing it back to the for-ground! I cannot help but feel grateful to hear music like this coming out again, there is nothing like the power felt in the Jungle, and this is one of those moments nothing can compare to!
Andy Skopes sets the bar very high with this release, and it has me very excited to hear what he has in store for us in the future, the question remains whether this sound is still relevant on today's dance floor, but that is not as important as freedom of expression and exposing different sounds to a new generation. Welcome back Andy and massive respect to Utopia Music for putting out one of the finest releases of the year so far! This one will be played many times to come!
Release Date: August 5th

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Here's more from an Obama interview on Chicago Public Radio in 2001.
OBAMA: "Just to take a sort of a realist perspective is that there's a lot of change going on -- on outside of the court, um, that -- that, you know, the judges have to essentially take judicial notice of. I mean, you've got World War II, you've got, uh, uh, um, the doctrines of Nazism that -- that we are fighting against, that start looking uncomfortably similar to what's going on, uh, back here at home."
The man is a sick human being. Perhaps that is an insult to human beings. I for one am shocked, and thats not easy when dealing with leftist scum, but I a sincerely shocked that a man who has the balls to ask Americans to vote for him, would compare America to Nazi Germany.
Where is the outrage? Are Americans so disconnected from their glorious past that they would just lay down and eat such a horrendous label? Come on people!!! Dignity, honor, freedom, sacrifice, thats America! November 4th is set to become the most important date in Amrican history. Make sure its a positive date rather than an infamous one.


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Anthony Joshua and Wladimir Klitschko are set for a massive showdown at Wembley Stadium
Klitschko is aiming to win back the IBF and WBA world heavyweight titles that he lost in 2015 when he was outpointed by Tyson Fury.
In his way stands Anthony Joshua, already IBF champion and Olympic gold medallist, who is aiming to maintain his unbeaten record and rack up his 19th win.
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When is Anthony Joshua v Wladimir Klitschko?
The two heavyweights will get in the ring together on April 29.
It is not the first time the pair will have shared a canvas though – Joshua sparred with Klitschko back in 2014 and is said to have impressed the Ukrainian.
What time will Anthony Joshua v Wladimir Klitschko start?
Gates open for the event at 5.30pm and the first fight is scheduled for 6.30pm.
However, Wembley Stadium is under a 10.50pm curfew and no extension has been announced, meaning Joshua v Klitschko is expected to get under way around 10pm.
Anthony Joshua and Wladimir Klitschko appear to have a great level of respect for each other
Who is fighting on the Anthony Joshua v Wladimir Klitschko undercard?
A number of major British fighters have been confirmed by Eddie Hearn's Matchroom Boxing promotional company to fight before Joshua and Klitschko face off.
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Katie Taylor will look to land her fifth win in the paid ranks since turning professional in November while highly rated former Olympian Lawrence Okolie will be fighting for just the third time.
The majority of opponents have not yet been confirmed though and will emerge in the days approaching the fight.
Scott Quigg v Viorel Simion
Katie Taylor v TBA
Luke Campbell v Darleys Perez
Katie Taylor is one of the main attractions of the Joshua Klitschko undercard
Lawrence Okolie v TBA
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Skip to comments.The Battle for America 2010: Something Stinks in Californias 47th Congressional District
Posted on 10/29/2010 5:06:34 AM PDT by Kaslin
The stench of Washington permeates the West Coast.
California's most hotly contested House race, the contest between seven-term incumbent Democrat Loretta Sanchez and California Republican Assemblyman Van Tran, remains too close to call. The Orange County race made headlines last month when Congresswoman Sanchez claimed on Spanish-only Univision that "the Vietnamese (were) coming" for her seat. You can read my Pajamas Media article on the race as well as an interview with Van Tran here.
Now something smells as bad as trash-truck juice on a Death Valley summer day in California's 47th.
In search of the olfactory offense, I point the reader to a Van Tran mailer masquerading as a fragrance sampler, making its way to the mail boxes of likely voters in Garden Grove, Santa Ana, and Anaheim.
Don't judge this book by its cover; it's no ordinary fragrance sampler:
Note that the mailer says: "Open for a Free Sample Fragrance of: Loretta, The Scent of Washington."
The Loretta fragrance sampler mailer, opened:
Following the command to "scratch here" on the $100 medical mask-donning face of Benjamin Franklin, a constituent is greeted with the pungent odor of trash, garbage, or the just-plain-unidentified-stinky. Designed by former California Republican operative Ryan Clumpner, who now works for Missouri-based Axiom Strategies, the ad strikes a perfect blend between humor and visceral disdain for malodorous Washington corruption.
I can speak for myself to the simple brilliance of the mailer, as this one would have caught my eye and most likely would have evaded the wastebasket fate of dozens of political mailers jamming up my local postal box recently.
Some in the California political chattering class claim a subliminal sexist tone to the mailer, as it depicts a seductive Loretta Sanchez donning a red dress. Assemblyman Van Tran claims such as rubbish, telling Fox News, "Not at all, it basically addresses the corruption, the greed, and the ethics issues she's facing right now."
Sanchez campaign spokeswoman Caroline Hogan told the Orange County Register that the mailer was "in bad taste" and, even worse, "ill-smelling spam." Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez, putting up the political fight of her life against Van Tran, took things further, stating: "We have been here trying to talk about the issues … and he's sending scratch and sniff ad stuff. People are disgusted."
I wonder if she scratched it, much less sniffed it, herself. And for someone who insists she is confident of winning on Tuesday, it seems that Sanchez is walking on eggshells.
Last Friday I visited Van Tran headquarters to film a PJTV interview and profile of the candidate, to be released this week.
The folks in the Van Tran campaign were a pleasant bunch. After meeting them I could sense that they are having fun (easily evidenced by the humorous mailer too), working hard, and ready to win. At the same time, I gathered that they are perfectly able and willing to go back to normal life if the election doesn't go their way on Tuesday.
Central command for Van Tran is set up in a foreclosed Blockbuster building in Garden Grove, a city of 175,000 in northern Orange County. The building was essentially stripped of most things that one would associate with the past life of movie rentals such as shelving and other interior structures. Although the sign had been removed, the outline of the letters B-L-O-C-K-B-U-S-T-E-R were still clearly discernible on the building's stucco exterior.
It was somewhat dirty inside, a proverbial makeshift campaign war room with folding tables set up for walk-in volunteer phone bank folks. Van Tran signs were strewn graciously and haphazardly across the walls, and there was a constant buzz of activity. The accommodations were functional but not flashy.
Van Tran campaign manager George Andrews took me to a back room to discuss recently released polling showing Tran and Sanchez tied. I gazed around the room: among political paraphernalia were burned-out and crusted-over coffee makers, empty pizza boxes, and coffee cans stacked in a corner. On the other side of the room were piles of Van Tran signs and banners — things that no doubt soon found a home on the front lawns of Orange County GOP faithful.
Home base for the Van Tran team is not exactly the portrait of an ascendant campaign featured in a typical Hollywood production or West Wing-esque production. But like the candidate himself, it was real, tangible, and emblematic of the "normal folk" running for office this year, especially tea party candidates from various walks of life.
As I spoke with Van Tran, campaign workers in the building kept about their business but watched the mild-mannered Vietnamese American candidate with obvious respect. As the cameras rolled, they continued their business. When our filmed chat came to a close, he thanked us and then sat down with volunteers across the room.
"Probably making calls for the campaign too," I thought.
It seemed no one working in this race had a job above or below their job title and that's exactly how it should be, when the right people are running for office, surrounded by the right people, for the right reasons.
I highly doubt my experience would have been even remotely similar inside the campaign headquarters of a certain seven-term congresswoman fighting for her own very political survival.
And that's no scratch-and-sniff matter.
Ha! Ha! I'm doubly glad I donated.
That seat is safe. Sanchez is thieving scum. Vote fraud is how she won that seat and vote fraud is how she'll keep it.
Now THAT is truly funny!
Thanks, you made my day. lol
They both need to send packing
Get back home, Loretta.
Something stinks in the WHOLE STATE!
With all the bloody problems CA residents have with the huge level of govt interference in their lives, they are STILL posed to elect BROWN, for God's sake, who just won't go away, and the ODIOUS Boxer for another SIX YEARS. I could care less abt the governorship but cripes, the rest of us have to endure la Boxer and that is just too much to bear.
quote-Get back home, Loretta.-end quote
Sweet Loretta Sanchez thought she was a woman
but she was another man
all the girls around her said she had it comin'
but she gives it while she can
Scratch and Sniff......what a great 'October Surprise".
Does anyone know the turnout of this race. I can't believe we have not discussed it. Maybe it is one of the races that can't announce since it is too close.
It looks like the *itch won :(
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The late 1960's and early 1970's saw a great deal of restlessness among American youth. One of the manifestations of that restlessness was a number of young people who, putting a back-pack on their backs, set out to explore the world. We had a handful of these wanderers find us and find a home away from home at our house in LaPaz. More faces than names come to mind, but Geoff's is one name I can't forget. I've often wondered what happened to those lost souls like Geoff. I wonder if they ever found the object of their search or if these so many years later they are still searching.
Even through his successes as a prophet, even after having heard the voice of Father from heaven at The Baptism it seems John the Baptizer still had some doubt about whether or not Jesus really was the long awaited Messiah. Having heard what Jesus was doing, John, now in prison for angering Herod, sent his question, "Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?"
The reply given by Jesus was to look at the evidence. The blind see and the lame walk, lepers are made clean and the deaf hear, and there are dead risen (Matthew 11:2-15). The evidence that something powerful was at work was clear. Even more, the evidence pointed directly to the fact that Jesus was indeed the One who was to come, the One so anticipated, the anointed One of God, the Messiah himself. There was no one else for whom to look. John's work was finished, and he could in good conscious "rest" from his work.
I wonder how many of us are like either the searching young people who found a bed and meal under our roof or like faithful John who even having been witness found himself in a moment of doubt. How much is the question ours, "Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?"
Jesus pointed John to the evidence. I don't know about you, but John's reality is not mine. I read of the miracles; I even believe they happened; but that kind of signs of power are not part of my experience. That's not to say there have not been plenty of opportunities for God to show that power. To tell the truth, I'm somewhat at a loss to explain why God hasn't shown His power like that in my world. I can make some guesses. I consider that even in Jesus' day not every blind man regained his sight, not every lame walked, not every deaf person heard, not every leper was cleansed, not every dead person was raised from the dead. It might seem that Jesus was selective in the show of His power and that His evidence was shown only when it was necessary. I'm not suggesting God can't do miracles today. I'm not suggesting He doesn't do miracles today.
The reality is that there is evidence greater than that given to John. During this season, while looking ahead to a second Advent we remember the first. The greater sign is in the Word become flesh, incarnate in the womb of a virgin. The greater sign is in a death, a death in which the sinless became sin on our behalf. The greater sign is in the resurrection, not a resurrection like that of Jairu's daughter or that of the son of the widow at Nain or the calling forth of Lazarus. The sign is in The Resurrection, the one that proves the deity of Jesus while it proves His power over sin and death.
The real evidence is not in that some are healed of their physical ailments but in that because of the great sign of Jesus there is healing of the spiritual brokenness that separates us from God. The evidence is in the forgiveness of sin and the new life and new relationship God gives to those who heed the evidence. There is, indeed, good news preached to the poor.


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PhysicsThe fundamental frequency of the G string of a guitar is f=196Hz. The fundamental vibrational mode of the string is described by the standing wavey(t,x)=acos(2πft)sin(πxL)where L=65cm is the length of the string and a=1mm is the amplitude of ...
mathsA group of 5 people are going to meet weekly at the library for 4 weeks. Each week, two people are selected at random to speak. Each person may speak in multiple weeks, but no pair of people will speak together more than once. The probability that there is a person who will ...
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mathsABC is an acute triangle with ∠BCA=35∘. Denote the circumcenter of ABC as O and the orthocenter of ABC as H. If AO=AH, what is the value of ∠ABC(in degrees)?
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TrigonometryEvery point (x,y) on the curve y=log(3x)/log2 is transferred to a new point by the following translation (x′,y′)=(x−m,y−n), where m and n are integers. The set of (x′,y′) form the curve y=log(12x−96)/log2. What is the value of m+n? ...
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math30 + 20/((1*5)*2) since 1*5 = 5 and 5*2 = 10 this become 30 + 20/10 30+2 32
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TrigonometrySuppose N = xyzyx, where x is nonzero but y and z could be any digit. Then there are 9(10^2) = 900 possible palindromes to consider. Recall that a number is divisible by 4 iff its last two digits are divisible by 4. Thus, if N is divisible by 4, then "yx" must be of ...
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GeometryBC is a triangle with ∠BAC=60∘,AB=5 and AC=25. D is a point on the internal angle bisector of ∠BAC such that BD=DC. What is AD^2? It is not stated that D lies on BC. This assumption is not necessarily true.
GeometryABC is a right angled triangle with ∠ABC=90∘ and side lengths AB=24 and BC=7. A semicircle is inscribed in ABC, such that the diameter is on AC and it is tangent to AB and BC. If the radius of the semicircle is an improper fraction of the form a/b, where a and b ...
Number theroyWhat is the 50th smallest positive integer that can be written as the sum of distinct non-negative integer powers of 3?
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TrignometryLet m and M be the minimum and maximum values of the domain of f(x)=sin^−1(x2−35), respectively. What is the value of M−m? sin^-1 is sin inverse
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Idol Group's Survival Skills Evolve "We Even Compose And Write Lyrics" [190510]May 20, 2010
Idol groups seem to be evolving every day. Some of them are honing their talents in the composition and lyrics fields. They are showing off their 'musician' sides by including their compositions in their albums.
The representative of these new composing idols is the group TVXQ. All the members of the group are capable of composing and writing lyrics.
They have released around 20 self-composed songs in Korea and Japan. It is said that they have around 100 unreleased songs that they composed and wrote lyrics for.
Xiah Junsu's solo single <Intoxication>, which is going to be released on the 26th, is also his own composition.
A celebrity representative stated, "The idol group members' active participation when it comes to composing and writing lyrics is connected to their futures. Their actions can be interpreted as an acceptance of the fact that their group activities will not last forever and a fight for survival and self-sufficiency in the future."
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These two days have sort of run together for me. I'm tired and my mind is on my friend. But there were many bright moments. I've met many lovely people at the Ronald McDonald House. What a great set up! Katelin loves it here and so do I. I wish there were places like this for families of disabled children in general. Where everyone understood, a community that spoke the same language and spouted out their every day challenges and everyone nodded or laughed or just simply accepted like it was no big deal. Yesterday, Katelin did her first pretend play while the kids were play cooking. So, of course there were more tears from me.
There are tons of arts and crafts to do, we are never bored, that's for sure, even though the weather has made it so we have not left the building in three days. Next time someone tells you don't bring winter coats to Houston, disregard that bit of advice. Sunday's pictures 🙂
Today (Monday) Santa's here!
Cookie Decorating and Arts and Crafts.
I tried using Katelin's Tobii with her today. She did make some independent choices. The most significant one, I went to the "Feeling" page and asked how she was feeling, was she feeling smart? And she zoomed right in on that icon and said "smart" just like that. I would say that was an improvement on speed, and we haven't really used it since we've come to Texas, so I was really impressed. Other than that, she only wanted to play with the "animal" page and listen to music, but would not make independent choices on the music pages. One new phrase today, she said to a man "You're a cute guy", LOL, ever the flirt! This is the last week of taking the drug/placebo. 😦


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YESH! IT'S FUCKING OUTTTTTT!! Thank heavens for 3N5B for their speedy release and subs in Chinese. You can download it here at Tieba or head over to sekai_hatsukoi community for the link!
Kisa's so cute! Miho's even cuter even though he's on zombie mode.
*cough* My comments…
Right, the only qualms I have is that in the beginning where Ritsu was stalking Takano-san, they had a shot where we got to see the name on the card, and instead of Ritsu using his fake name, Oda Ritsu, it's his real name, Onodera Ritsu. Maybe it's just for that one book or something 'cause at the end, we see another book's card and it's Oda Ritsu there. :D See, I'm picky!!
Other than that, the animation is great. More in-between frames compared to most anime and that's why the movement's smooooth. Hopefully this will be the quality of the whole anime. For the first volume (er, vol 0), it's the story from chapter 2.5 of the manga, their past. The anime's quite loyal to the manga in this episode, hopefully they'll keep that up for the rest of the series.
The colour in the anime is so vibrant and pretty, they didn't cut corners with the background, so it's such a relief! Besides that, they made the effort to simulate some sakura petals for some of the scenes, so it's really pretty even though we don't get body fluids when they were having sex. Only fluids we get to see the glass (biker, however you spell that one) overflowing.
My favourite scene's gotta be their love confession after sex in the library, behind the curtains with all the sakura petals falling into the room. SO PRETTY, SO EMOTIONAL, SO DAMN FUCKING CUTE!!
Ritsu's so cute in the anime! I think the seiyuu (god bless whoever you are) did a great job portraying Ritsu. And Takano-san, kakoii sugiru (TOO COOL).
This episode won't be aired on TV, it's only for the DVD. Does this mean I have to buy the premium version of volume 5?!! That book cost $73 in Yesasia now. Me thinks they hiked up the price and it's double of the price in Japanese yen. GAHHHHH!! Does this mean all past stories will be out in DVD instead of being aired in TV?! What an awesome marketing strategy…


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The questions seem to be those that would take Dorothy L. Sayers herself away from writing mystery stories within about a decade, never to return to them in favor of more scholarly pursuits. Every reader of her detective fiction since then has had good cause to mourn her conclusions, which are not the conclusions she has given to her fictional characters.
This book has for thirty-some years been one of my very favorites. I read it again this week, collecting quotes that made me laugh, or think, or sigh.
"In the glamour of one Gaudy night, one could realize that one was a citizen of no mean city. It might be an old and an old-fashioned city, with inconvenient buildings and narrow streets where the passersby squabbled foolishly about the right of way; but her foundations were set upon the holy hills and her spires touched heaven."
This beautiful little scene of Oxford reminds me of walking among the students and dons and visitors and tourists thronging New College Lane one summer when the vista of the towers was magical and the scent of old things a heady perfume.
"I know what you're thinking—that anybody with proper sensitive feeling would rather scrub floors for a living. But I should scrub floors very badly, and I write detective stories rather well. I don't see why proper feeling should prevent me from doing my proper job."
When Harriet defends herself from an unjust assumption, all women readers identify with her, hoping someday to leave behind all eras when women must fight for the freedom to choose their own destiny. And more immediately, it would be some sort of millennial paradise to escape from these kinds of judgments. And yet, freedom from judgment is not so simple.
"It seems queer to me now to think that once I was a scholar . . ."
A former student at the Gaudy makes a somewhat wistful statement to Harriet—the woman had been such a superior scholar that she could have been a greatly successful academician, or really anything intellectual that she chose. But her choice was to marry a farmer and become a farmer's wife, concerned with the material things of a hard-scrabble existence. She looked twenty years older than Harriet rather than her age, and she no longer enjoyed using her mind as she had before. Harriet felt that she had wasted her gifts. It is very hard to know how to judge another's choices, but this case seems fairly clear that something important was lost.
"Bess of Hardwick's daughter had been a great intellectual, indeed, but something of a holy terror; uncontrollable by her menfolk, undaunted by the Tower, contemptuously silent before the Privy Council, an obstinate recusant, a staunch friend and implacable enemy and a lady with a turn for invective remarkable even in an age when few mouths suffered from mealiness. She seemed, in fact, to be the epitome of every alarming quality which a learned woman is popularly credited with developing."
Harriet Vane contemplates the painted portrait of the 16th century Countess of Shrewsbury, after whom the college was named, and through Harriet's contemplation, the author shows us clearly what a modern woman could still be. If educated women were alarming in the old days, in the modern days alarms should be so common as to be comfortable.
Harriet, at least, does not suffer from mealy-mouth:
". . . you haven't the guts to say No when somebody asks you to be a sport. That tom-fool word has got more people in trouble than all the rest of the dictionary put together. If it's sporting to encourage girls to break rules and drink more than they can carry and get themselves into a mess on your account, then I'd stop being a sport and try being a gentleman."
Thus she scolds an undergraduate, Reggie Pomfret, who tries to sneak a girl, Miss Cattermole, who is fast approaching the dead-drunk stage, back into her college in the middle of the night. As a consequence, Harriet later finds this speech has created complications that reverberate through the novel and incidentally provide strong clues to the solution of the mystery.
This episode is one in a list of uncomfortable, mostly amusing, awkward social situations that Harriet gets into during the course of the novel that further the main and sub-plots. Some of the others are:
- Harriet attends an undergraduate party with Reggie Pomfret, who has a major crush on her that Harriet doesn't at first realize. The hostess of the party doesn't want her there; the hostess's boyfriend doesn't want Reggie there but definitely wants Harriet; Reggie doesn't want to go but doesn't want Harriet to go without him, and Harriet is amused and mischievous all around. At the end of the party when Reggie proposes to Harriet, they are pounced on by a Proctor and Harriet's standing as a Senior Fellow protects young Pomfret from punishment. It is a comic reversal of his hope to become Harriet's protector; it is furthermore a device to show that Harriet needs no literal protector—neither Pomfret nor Lord Peter.
- Harriet is literally run into by Lord Peter's nephew, an undergraduate of Christ Church College, Oxford. Viscount Saint-George knocks all Harriet's parcels out of her arms and scatters her meringues over pavement and plinth. He takes her back to his college kitchens where they replace the meringues and get acquainted.
- Saint-George asks Harriet to lunch, but she finds he has crashed his car over the weekend and is in hospital. This leads to a couple of comic hospital scenes in which Harriet ends up having to write a letter for Saint-George to his uncle Peter.
- The letter to Lord Peter makes Harriet write her own letter to him, which takes her five drafts, to her irritation but to our enlightenment, as it couldn't possibly be that hard if she had not begun finally to care about Peter's feelings.
- Several scenes involving Saint-George visiting Harriet's college, along with Lord Peter, leave Harriet vulnerable to the criticisms, jealousy, and resentment of various members of the college. These scenes either advance the clues to the identity of the college lunatic, or complicate Harriet's developing feelings for Peter. They are always fun to read.
- The final "scene" is truly that—more than awkward, strained, and awful. It is of course the occasion when the culprit is brought into the Senior Common Room. The confrontation goes both ways, and Harriet, at least, becomes physically sick as a result, echoing her earlier scene with Miss Cattermole, to whom The Worst was happening when Harriet was giving Reggie Pomfret a piece of her mind and enjoining him to stop being a sport and start being a gentleman. It becomes Harriet's turn to vomit as the mystery is resolved, leaving her emptied of all the poison in the pen and ready to take up a fresh new page of life. (So to speak.)
More quotes.
"Were you really giving all your mind to it, do you think? Your mind? Were you really being as cautious and exacting about it as you would be about writing a passage of fine prose?"
This is Miss de Vine laying bare Harriet's inner soul, as she does at key times throughout the novel. It is interesting that both Harriet and Peter almost immediately are drawn to her as soon as they meet her. It is because Miss de Vine is the Voice of Truth, and since both our protagonists are devoted to the pursuit of truth, it is inevitable that such a character should become their friend. She is not easy to be around especially for Harriet, but both Harriet and Peter value her very highly.
"I'm very sorry for the person who is somebody else's job; he (or she, of course) ends by devouring or being devoured, either of which is bad for one."
Miss de Vine offers this wisdom to Harriet as a warning. It is a good warning for anybody to heed. Nobody should be so obsessed with another person that they sublimate their personality, desires, and whole life to that person; or that they end up demanding the sacrifice of that person to themselves. That was the entire trouble with Harriet and Philip Boyes—he wanted to devour Harriet and it is fitting that he ended by devouring poison.
"But I know that, if you have put anything in hand, disagreeableness and danger will not turn you back, and God forbid they should."
Peter writes this to Harriet when he learns that she is investigating something "disagreeable and dangerous." It is Peter himself who shows Harriet clearly that he is not about to become her protector, though in subsequent episodes in the novel he is torn somewhat. But he sticks to his wisdom in this course. About which more later.
"The singing voice, stifled long ago by the pressure of the struggle for existence, and throttled into dumbness by that queer, unhappy contact with physical passion, began to stammer a few uncertain notes. Great golden phrases, rising from nothing and leading to nothing, swam up out of her dreaming mind like the huge, sluggish carp in the cool waters of Mercury [a college pond]. One day she climbed up Shotover and sat looking over the spires of the city, deep-down, fathom-drowned, striking from the round bowl of the river-basin, improbably remote and lovely as the towers of Tir-nan-Og beneath the green sea-rollers."
This lyrical passage echoes what is happening in Harriet's mind, and it comes almost exactly halfway through the book, when she has allowed herself to recover just a bit of her youthful outlook, when she has allowed herself to express her first fully empathetic message to Peter, five drafts though it took. As soon as she has opened her mind and heart thus far, she becomes able to express herself in poetic phrases.
"Then, with many false starts and blank feet, returning and filling and erasing painfully as she went, she began to write again, knowing with a deep inner certainty that somehow, after long and bitter wandering, she was once more in her own place."
Here is the full sonnet, the octet written by Harriet and the sestet later by Peter.
Here then at home, by no more storms distrest,
Folding laborious hands we sit, wings furled;
Here in close perfume lies the rose-leaf curled,
Here the sun stands and knows not east nor west,
Here no tide runs; we have come, last and best,
From the wide zone in dizzying circles hurled
To that still centre where the spinning world
Sleeps on its axis, to the heart of rest.
Lay on thy whips, O Love, that we upright,
Poised on the perilous point, in no lax bed
May sleep, as tension at the verberent core
Of music sleeps; for, if thou spare to smite,
Staggering, we stoop, stooping, fall dumb and dead,
And, dying so, sleep our sweet sleep no more.
Harriet has come "home" in herself. I think we all need this: at some point in our lives we need to find within ourselves that which rests and renews our minds, hearts, spirits, or souls. And as Peter points out in the sestet, we can't stay in our state of rest, as a static state is akin to death. Better to use the point of rest to become ready for our next active state. Love, the impetus, in this sense must encompass agape, eros, philia, and all the other kinds of love described by the ancient Greeks.
After that point, the second half of the novel deals with more pointed commentary on the major themes. Harriet, for example, gains in confidence.
"However badly we may assert our own unworthiness, few of us are really offended by hearing the assertion contradicted by a disinterested party."
Harriet is no exception. She may have been battered by the choices she made earlier in her life, and by the accidents attendant on those choices, but now she is ready to recover her full, true personality, and that includes a feeling of well being. She is also ready to be somewhat silly and playful.
"Harriet and the Dean had begun to collect shirt-fronts."
This is one of my favorite silly things. Harriet and Letitia Martin, the Dean of Shrewsbury, took bets on whether the male guests invited to dine in college at the High Table would wear a stiff or a soft formal shirt-front (formal dress for dinner is one of the things that dates the novel). One of the most memorable additions to their collection was the unfortunate Dr. Threep, whose "hard boiled" shirt front emitted a popping sound every time he bent or straightened. Harriet and the Dean "disgraced themselves badly," the author wrote, over the unfortunate timing of the little POPs. I can remember many times in my younger years trying hard to stifle giggles at an inappropriate time and place. Later, one of other dons actually has the nerve to ask Lord Peter Wimsey why the popping happened, and Peter treats the question with great seriousness, to Harriet's and the reader's great mirth.
Another of my favorite things:
"She started up the High, pausing for a few moments to stare into the window of an Antique shop; there was a set of carved ivory chessmen there, for which she had conceived an unreasonable affection."
After this little introduction to a very important step in Harriet's and Peter's relationship (the chess set), Peter makes his first appearance in the case, nearly two-thirds of the way through the novel. And Harriet experiences both harmony and conflict about him.
"She resented the way in which he walked in and out of her mind as if it was his own flat."
"She had often wondered, in a detached kind of way, what it was that Peter valued in her and had apparently valued from that first day when she had stood in the dock and spoken for her own life. Now that she knew, she thought that a more unattractive pair of qualities could seldom have been put forward as an excuse for devotion."
Ha! She doesn't yet appreciate that Peter loves her for her ability to be truthful.
"She went to bed thinking more about another person than about herself. This goes to prove that even minor poetry may have its practical uses."
Harriet needs to think more about Peter than about herself, after five years. She needs to develop her sense of empathy first. That sonnet was the catalyst.
Now back to silliness:
"Lord, teach us to take our hearts and look them in the face, however difficult it may be" – thus speaks an incoherent curate, to the great delight of collectors of such things.
"'Dear me!' said the Dean. 'Abduction of Helen de Vine by Paris and Hector.'
'No, no,' said Miss Pyke. 'Paris was the brother of Hector, not his nephew. I do not think he had any uncles.'"
The dons in the Senior Common Room are at their window watching Lord Peter and his nephew, Lord Saint-George, sauntering around the quad until they meet up with Miss de Vine and take her into the Library building. The dons' joking tone covers the fact that the two aristocrats, one very handsome and the other very striking, are perceived with all their privilege and power, as the heroes of the ancient Greek epic. But because exactness in scholarship is another of the themes of the novel, the one don points out to the other where the metaphor breaks, providing a bit of subtle comedy in doing so.
Peter, meanwhile, having finally been brought onstage, is made to complete his own inner transformation. For five years he has loved Harriet Vane without a return. That's five years of developing a mostly one-sided relationship, and although he has been forced to act in a different way than he has in the past toward any lover, in this case he has to change himself finally for good, from an essentially selfish, taking-privilege-for-granted type of man to one who thinks and acts toward his loved one solely for her good, not his own. The last points he has to give up are interesting ones.
"I object to being tactfully managed by somebody who ought to be my equal."
Peter thinks he would hate such a scenario, and in this context, he provides Harriet with a perspective that allows her to continue to change her mind and heart about him. He shows her that he really does want an equal partner, not someone he might devour or who might devour him. In reality though, in the course of the next novel, Busman's Honeymoon, Peter realizes Harriet is managing him at one point, and far from resenting it, he likes it, and it makes a potentially sticky situation smooth for all concerned. But it is a minor point, not the major characteristic of their relationship.
"That is the art of the charlatan—to induce a confession and present it as the result of deduction."
Thus speaks Peter again. But isn't this exactly what he does as a detective in novel after novel? Make deductions, come up with a solution, and then for lack of hard evidence end up relying on a confession? See the end of this novel. See the end of Busman's Honeymoon. And so on.
"The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it—"
I used to find this true when I wanted to confess something somewhat embarrassing or outrageous to my friends. I would adopt a certain tone of voice that seemed to suggest I was telling a tall tale, and it was very convenient that nobody would ever believe me when I told the exact truth about something I shouldn't have done.
One of the major sacrifices Peter has to make in order to be the man Harriet can trust, is that of his instinct to protect the one he loves. Because he must not interfere with her right to determine what she will or will not do, he offers to teach Harriet some self-defense moves:
"I am very civilly pretending that I don't care what dangers you run. You don't want me to howl at your feet, do you?"
"You're going to make me feel ignorant and helpless. I don't like it."
. . . .
"No gentleman could throttle a lady more impersonally."
"Thank you for the testimonial. Cigarette?"
This scene shows that Peter is willing to do what it takes to honor Harriet's independence, while acknowledging his own concern for her safety as she investigates the problem in the college, which he thinks will be physically dangerous. It shows that Harriet acknowledges Peter's intelligence and experience, and that she trusts him more. It also provides a degree of subtle sexual tension, as the throttling involves physical acrobatics between the pair, and Peter's off-hand remark at the end both echoes his very first proposal scene in the prison when he tells her that he could produce testimonials about his love-making, and the cigarette was then supposed to be the archetypal ending for sex scenes. That he then goes and buys her a dog collar for protection is comic relief indeed.
"Peter—give me the ivory chessmen."
I love that the first purchased gift Harriet accepts from Peter is the dog collar. But when he is bitterly reminded that the first gift was her life, her restored empathetic nature feels quick remorse and she perfectly nails it with this request.
"But my chessmen! I could kill her for that."
How sad that they fall victims to the college lunatic! I felt the same as Harriet. I wanted revenge in the first moments.
"'This kind of thing,' said Peter, as tenor and alto twined themselves in a last companionable cadence, 'is the body and bones of music. Anybody can have the harmony, if they will leave us the counterpoint.'"
This is another metaphor for the relationship envisioned by Peter for himself and Harriet, which is another of the points that convinces Harriet that she will not lose herself with him. As in contrapuntal music, Peter sees each of them having their own melodic line that interacts without depending on creating vertical harmony (or chords). Each line has its own voice, and that's what makes the whole work. Besides the metaphor, I like the literal device of giving Harriet a choral background of motets and madrigals that makes singing with Peter possible.
". . . she had had, from Miss Hillyard, a strangely vivid little picture of Peter, standing at her bedside between night and dawn, quite silent, and twisting the thick strap over and over in his hands."
Didn't I say earlier that Peter lapses in his determination not to interfere with Harriet's right to run herself into danger? This is surely one of those, when she is not strangled because of the dog collar, but she is knocked out in the subsequent fall. But he is silent, ambiguous. Perhaps this is simply Peter owning the risks but feeling the pain.
"Everything that was alive in him lay in the palm of her hand, like a ripe apple."
Harriet realizes that the choice is close upon her.
"If you had really tried, you could have sent him away in five minutes."
The Voice of Truth, Miss de Vine, provides Harriet with the appropriate sounding board for her decision. It has been obvious throughout Strong Poison, Have His Carcase, and this novel that Harriet never did want to send Peter away except temporarily. Miss de Vine continues:
"You needn't be afraid of losing your independence; he will always force it back on you. If you find any kind of repose with him, it can only be the repose of very delicate balance."
Miss de Vine has thus echoed exactly what Harriet and Peter together created in that sonnet.
"Face the facts and state a conclusion. Bring a scholar's mind to the problem and have done with it."
Miss de Vine here shows Harriet how to reconcile the life of the mind with the life of the heart. The scholar's mind can look at the heart and interpret its "facts" and come to a conclusion. It is not only possible, but with Harriet, it is imperative.
"Six centuries of possessiveness, fastened under the yoke of urbanity."
This is what Harriet at last sees in Peter when she looks at him deliberately with the perspective of her colleagues. She had never seen him for who he really was before this time.
"I set out in a lordly manner to offer you heaven and earth. I find that all I have to give you is Oxford—which is yours already."
Peter sums up his five-year courtship and his entire life in this sentence. He has changed from the "lordly manner" to being fastened well and truly under the yoke of his choosing. He cannot give her Oxford, but ironically he helped her find that she had it within herself all the time. Once she has reclaimed that portion of herself, her melodic line is complete, ready to counterpoint with his toward consonance.


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Behold, my head bowed with shame, because I have been well and truly crap. Raych, Debbie, Queen of Memes, Charlotte – any of you remember allegedly winning a book from me way back in December? And subsequently not receiving it?
Books are ordered. They will be on their way at the weekend, unless you've already read them and recycled them, in which case please let me know and I'll figure out what to do instead. As a reminder, here's what you were getting:
Raych – Frenchman's Creek, DDM.
Debbie – A Test of Wills, Charles Todd (you left it to me to decide between that and Julian Barnes)
Emily – Skippy Dies, Paul Murray.
Charlotte – A Place of Greater Safety, Hilary Mantel.


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It's Day 2 of the Bike Days contest, and already yesterday I felt like I have been in Switzerland for a week and it's only been since late Thursday night. Relaxed lifestyle, old architecture, very clean almost every where you look, and amazing Swiss typography that brings back memories from my university days.
Saturday is all about qualifying, I headed down to the contest to post the Day 1 repo before we got started judging the contest at 3. When I arrived Dominik Nekolny was the only rider on the floor, and as usually completely going off, it's really hard to try and update the site whilst wanting to watch Dom ride and go through his practice routine all on board the Deep Blitz frame, Frank Lucas was stoked.


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Obamania in France.
Things have definitely changed for the better between France and the U.S. in the last 5 years, since our two nations got into a major row over Iraq. A new French president has been elected, despite his vocal admiration for the United-States, the war in Iraq has been proved to be a political failure, and there are American elections coming up.
Does it mean that "the average American has enormous fondness for the French people," as Obama said?
Well, the very fact that Obama showed himself with a French president is a sign that perceptions have changed. That would have never happened in the last presidential campaign:
Four years ago, Senator John Kerry spent months fighting back impressions that he appeared too French – even though he wasn't – and conservative commentators used to create a caricature that likely affected his candidacy.
At the same time, and contrary to what happened in Berlin, Obama is not looking to draw crowds in Paris "because he knows his huge popularity in our country could ill serve him with a part the American centrist electorate.", as conservative newspaper Le Figaro wrote.
As usual for Sarkozy, there is no hesitation of show of emotions (which makes a lot of French a bit uncomfortable):
"Obama? He's my buddy," Le Figaro quoted the president as saying before Obama's arrival. "I am the only Frenchman who knows him." (AP)
It is true that Sarkozy met with Obama in 2006, before he was president. But he also met with McCain back then. However, both candidates have had different treatments:
Obama's reception in Paris contrasted with how his rival, Republican John McCain, was received in March. Obama was greeted by a smiling Sarkozy, who returned to Paris for the meeting from another summit. The joint Sarkozy and Obama news conference was held in front of the Elysee Palace; after Sarkozy and McCain met, the senator fielded questions alone from reporters in the courtyard. (LATimes)
Maybe Sarkozy genuinely prefers Obama or he's trying to capitalize on Obama's great popularity among the French.
One thing that must be kept in mind is that actually very few people in France and in the world know anything about Obama's policy. I even suspect that most people don't even want to know much.
All people outside America seem to care about is that he is not G. W Bush for one, that he is young (à la Kennedy) AND that he is black.
Interestingly, Obama's candidacy resonates in the tougher neighborhoods of France where it triggers discussions about France's own political integration of minorities (or lack of thereof). Ironically, it seems it in those neighborhoods that American foreign policy is most strongly condemned that Obama and the American model of integration are most highly regardedIf elected, President Obama may end up being a great disappointment, given how high the expectations are, but he will have accomplished two things: to make people believe in the possibility that there is an American dream somewhere out there, and improve the credibility of American foreign policy in the world, when it comes to justice and fairness.


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It was a great opportunity for us to exchange ideas with others in the pharma and clinical research industry on how to use the digital space to reach out to patients, raise awareness about clinical trials, and increase the possibilities of discovering life-altering medicines.
And, it was also an opportunity for me to debut my Walking Gallery jacket, painted by Regina Holliday. Many people approached me to ask about the jacket. I was honored to be able to share my personal story with them, and talk about the how the Walking Gallery is bringing more patient-focus into healthcare. My jacket and story has a direct tie to clinical research and my work with Lilly COI – if we happen to meet, feel free to ask me about it.
Here are a few highlights from the conference:
Open Communication and the Patient Experience
Patient Advocate Jeri Burtchell kicked off the conference with her moving story of resourcefulness and perseverance in the face of a multiple sclerosis diagnosis.
Hoping to find effective treatments after her diagnosis, Jeri visited a new neurologist and learned about a clinical trial for a new multiple sclerosis drug. After some discussion, he handed her an informed consent document to take home, read and discuss with her family. She recalls the document being nearly half an inch thick.
As she read the document many fears and questions came to mind. So much of the information was unclear or confusing to her. So, like many of us would, she turned to the Internet for help, only to find that there wasn't much help available. When she typed the name of her trial into her search engine her only result was a web page from ClinicalTrials.gov, that appeared to be full of more confusing jargon.
Where was the version of this information that was geared toward the trial participant – the patient?
To illustrate the difference between a participant-friendly consent process and one that's less so, Jeri developed an online, abbreviated informed consent document with a side-by-side comparison of two different perspectives on trial design. She shared the link during her presentations and asked the audience to vote for the one that seemed most appealing.
You can take the test yourself by clicking on the image below. Which option would seem more appealing to you, if you were thinking about joining a clinical trial?
You probably noticed the more patient-centered option (blue) takes several lifestyle considerations–transportation costs, meals, child care, etc.– into account. These are things that often become barriers to participation for many patients. In addition, there is a significant difference in tone between the blue option and the green option. The green option is written in a voice that says "Here's what you have to do for us," whereas the blue option is written in a voice that says "Here's what we can do for you."
There's plenty more to learn from Jeri and her story. Here's a good starting point, and a Lilly COI guest blog post she authored discussing how clinical trials could be improved.
Under-Represented Populations in Clinical Research
Dr. Gerson Peltz from Bristol-Myers Squibb and Sara Luijpers from the Forest Research Institute both gave compelling presentations on the need to reach out to populations who are under-represented in clinical research. Both personalized medicine and a greater understanding of epidemiology show how important it is to be able to include people of all ethnicities, ages, cultures and genders into clinical research. They both shared how we can be more effective in bringing participants to clinical research by leveraging community leaders and integrating clinical trial recruitment efforts into local cultural norms and events.
These presentations reminded us that as we're working to develop new ideas, applications and prototypes, we need to make sure we're not overly focused on a one-size-fits all approach. We'll need to continue developing ideas that are adaptable and flexible, so that they can be easily adjusted to meet the needs of communities with a variety of different needs and cultural expectations.
Moving Forward…
According to CISCRP, only 6 percent of people who suffer from severe, chronic conditions participate in clinical trials. We need to increase that number in order to bring more effective treatments to all types of patients. One of the avenues we've been exploring, is how to improve patients' access to clinical trial information, and how to present that information in a more engaging and comprehensible fashion.
We recently had a little help in this area, through the many talented developers and designers who entered our Clinical Trial Visualization Redesign Challenge. The purpose of the challenge was to not only bring forth more patient-friendly ways to share clinical trial information, but also to serve as a spring board for even more great ideas. All of the designs are available for use in the public through a Creative Commons license, which means that anything you see in the Submissions Gallery can be borrowed and adapted for your own purposes. Whether you're a patient advocate interested in adding clinical trial information to your blog, a software developer, or a study site director looking for creative ways to reach out to patients, you can leverage the designs resulting from the challenge.
The competition ended late last month, and the winners will be announced here on our blog on Nov. 14. We hope you'll check back to see who gets the prizes, and to let us know what you think about the winning submissions!


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The Common Council Software Program, A Redistribution of Democracy
Posted by: William Thien on: February 14, 2014
One of the things I find most disquieting about modern democracy is that it has been very slow to evolve. Elections are still the only method of changing political party affiliated personnel and the system has become to a certain extent antiquated in my opinion.
One of the ideas I included in the first edition of my book titled The Dream Chip was a discussion of a "redistribution of democracy" right down to the very individual. I gave it a name, THE COMMON COUNCIL SOFTWARE PROGRAM.
What the program involves is a redistribution of democracy out of the hands of the elected official and into the hands of the individual voter, segmenting the power of the elected into tiny parts with each part belonging to a voter. Naturally such ideas have many in the political professions concerned, to say the least. No longer would you be voting just for candidates, you would vote on the day-to-day issues of government, government right on up to the federal government. Your elected would have to vote based on the preponderance of your votes on each and every issue. Knowing we have the technological power to do something like that today and have for some time is why I believe our current system of democracy is antiquated.
You would receive an email or a post card and there would also be public notice about issues and you would vote on the issues at home or perhaps a public kiosk instead of letting your elected officials vote on the issues. Your elected officials would then vote based on your choices, not their choices. Their role would become more of a facilitator rather than a politician.
How many times have you voted for someone based on a campaign promise only to have them go back on that promise or to forget about it? Let me tell you something. If you are of voting age, you don't have enough fingers and toes to count how many times that has happened to you.
Where I reside we don't even have the right to vote in a referendum on the ballot during an election. If you ask me, that is archaic considering mass communication today.
But there are drawbacks. Just as today, individuals for example, could be pushed aside by the masses, even when today often the masses can be wrong or easily misled on matters through clever media manipulation. Democracy can be tyrannical, too. Democracy is in fact despotic. Democracy creates minorities.
Is it time we redistribute democracy right down to the individual? Because it can be done and with much less difficulty and cost in my opinion than maintaining the current structure of government. Giving you the power as voters to actually determine the outcome of political decisions would be an incredible enhancement to the current form of democracy. I know certain entrenched elements of our society have fought me on this matter. Some have suggested I've probably showed up on lists as a troublemaker because of my political ideas.
I think such forms of democracy are something to consider. In my opinion, what I describe "is what real modern democracy looks like." What choice do you have now on issues, an email? Think about it.
Copyright © William Thien 2014
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PAUL SIMONLabel: We Are Vinyl
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|PAUL SIMON STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS Limited 180gram Vinyl LP
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Avesta's facilities will be closed for the New Year break from 30 Dec 2017 till 08 Jan 2018. We will resume all operations on 09 Jan 2018. However, we hope to provide periodic e-mail correspondence during the holidays. We wish you a fruitful and prosperous Year 2018!
Laser World of Photonics 2017 in Munich (booth B2.151)
Avesta is participating in the "LASER World of PHOTONICS 2017" (Munich, Germany, 26-29 June 2017) trade show. Feel free to drop by our booth B2.151 to see the TeMa Yb laser system along with the AA-20 autocorrelator and GECON supercontinuum generator. The trade show participation is supported by the Russian Export Center and organized by Expocenter and Russian Laser Association.