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2018: Florida Discovery (8400)
10 days from Orlando to Orlando
Join Cosmos on this sun-soaked tour around Florida, including the state's east and west coasts and the Florida Keys. Your tour begins and ends in Orlando with overnights also in Cocoa Beach, Miami Beach, Key West, Fort Myers, and Clearwater Beach. Along the way, stroll on the white-sand beaches, enjoy gorgeous sunsets, and feel the sun drain away tension as you sit back, relax, and let Cosmos handle the details and the driving! On this Florida tour, you'll spend time in St. Augustine, the oldest city in the United States. You'll also visit Cape Canaveral and the Kennedy Space Center, where you'll learn about America's space program during your NASA tour. In Fort Myers, visit the winter homes of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford. As good friends, they had winter homes next to each other, including 20 acres of botanical gardens. Your time in Miami Beach includes an excursion to South Beach, where you can explore the beaches and meander through art galleries. A highlight of this tour is the ride you'll take on an airboat through the swamplands in the Everglades, the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States. Keep an eye out for sleepy alligators basking on the banks of the waterways. But that's not all?also enjoy the drive to picturesque Key West, which crosses over 42 bridges. In Key West, you'll have plenty of free time to explore the town. Be sure to capture the beautiful sunset! Finally, you'll enjoy free time in Clearwater Beach, one of Florida's most popular resort cities. Relax on the sugar-white sands and take advantage of warm-weather activities.Gorgeous beaches, interesting experiences, and striking scenery...this Florida tour designed for value-minded travelers has it all!
ORLANDO Courtyard by Marriott Lake Buena Vista at Vista Center (F)COCOA BEACH Best Western Ocean Beach Hotel & Suites (MF)MIAMI BEACH Hilton Garden Inn Miami South Beach (F)KEY WEST Fairfield Inn & Suites (ST)FORT MYERS Best Western Airport Inn (MF)CLEARWATER BEACH Quality Hotel Beach Resort (ST)
ORLANDO Courtyard by Marriott Lake Buena Vista at Vista Center (F)COCOA BEACH Best Western Ocean Beach Hotel & Suites (MF)MIAMI BEACH Hilton Garden Inn Miami South Beach (F)KEY WEST Fairfield Inn & Suites (ST)FORT MYERS Best Western Airport Inn (MF)CLEARWATER BEACH Quality Hotel Beach Resort (ST)
Call 586-468-7828 for more information or to book today! Mention code 13996348
- Tour Operator
- Cosmos
- Offer
- Offer valid through 9/30/2018
- Duration
- 10 Days
- Escorted
- Escorted - Yes
|Day 1
|Welcome to Orlando! Your Tour Director is on hand late this afternoon to answer any questions.
|Day 2
|Cocoa Beach
|This morning, head to picturesque St. Augustine, the oldest European city in the U.S., explored by Juan Ponce de Leon in his search for the legendary Fountain of Youth. Free time to explore on your own. Perhaps visit the Oldest House in the U.S. or the 17th-century Castillo de San Marcos National Monument. End the day with a walk on sandy Cocoa Beach.
|Day 3
|Cape Canaveral and the KENNEDY SPACE CENTER are the hub of America's space operations. Enjoy a NASA tour for insight into the achievements of America's space program. Afterward, head south to Miami Beach. (B)
|Day 4
|Miami Beach
|This morning, you have the option to choose a Miami city sightseeing tour that highlights famous Ocean Drive, South Beach, and Little Havana. If you prefer, spend the day in the highly sought-after South Beach, exploring the beaches or meandering through art galleries, boutiques, restaurants, and enjoying the Florida sun. Your Tour Director will have other suggestions for spending your time.
|Day 5
|Key West
|This morning, we head south to the Overseas Highway, crossing 42 bridges through the Florida Keys to picturesque Key West, the southernmost town in the continental U.S.
|Day 6
|Key West
|Sit back and relax on the world-famous CONCH TOUR TRAIN. During your 90-minute journey, the train will loop through Old Town Key West before making three stops-one being Southernmost Point, situated less than 90 miles north of Cuba. Be sure to sample the delicious Caribbean cuisine for which this semi-tropical paradise is so famous. (CB)
|Day 7
|Fort Myers
|Head back to the mainland to the subtropical wilderness of the EVERGLADES. Board your AIRBOAT for a thrilling sightseeing ride through the extensive swamplands. Sleepy alligators basking on the banks of the waterways are a common sight. Overnight in Fort Myers. (CB)
|Day 8
|Clearwater Beach
|Visit famous inventor THOMAS EDISON'S WINTER HOME & LABORATORY. Step through the always-open 'Friendship Gate' to visit HENRY FORD'S WINTER HOME. Don't miss the enormous banyan tree in the garden.
|Day 9
|Clearwater Beach
|A full day to relax on the sugar-white sands of Clearwater Beach.
|Day 10
|This morning, the motorcoach continues to the Courtyard Lake Buena Vista for tour members extending their stay in Orlando. Continue on to Orlando International Airport, where the tour ends for guests with homebound flights. Please schedule flights after Noon.
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Gratuities for Tour Director and driver are available for pre-purchase.Prices are per person, based on double room occupancy.Single Room Supplement:$680 to $950Triple Room Reduction per person:$170 to $250Additional accommodations before or after your tour may be available.
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The purchase of any travel services offered by Globus, constitutes a contractual arrangement between you (the Traveler) and Globus, and represents your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions. Please ensure that you read carefully and understand the Terms & Conditions prior to booking. These Terms & Conditions cover Deposit & Final Payment information, Air-Inclusive Deposits & Final Payment, Revisions & Revision Fees, Air Arrangements, Participation, Travelers Who Need Special Assistance, Young Travelers, Smoking, Price Policy, Visas and Passports, Hotels & Accommodations, Baggage Allowance, Travel Documents, Not Included in the Land Price, Refunds, Service Inquires After the Vacation, Holidays, Safety, Photos & Pictures, Optional Excursions, and Responsibility.
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The New Shul will hold a Chanukah celebration in the fountain at Washington Sq. Park at 7 p.m. Fri. Dec. 10. Participants may join in creating a public light sculpture and taking part in the poetry, song and prayer led by Rabbi Niels Goldstein, Ellen Gould and the New Shul congregation. Dancing to the music of Raquy and The Cavemen, and eating Ratners blintzes will be part of the activities.
Following the event, a Chanukah dinner will be held at Judson Church. Tickets are $10, children under 13 admitted free. For reservations or more information, phone. 212-284-6773.
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08 May, 2015
Quotable Friday (44)
With the General Election less than a week away and Princess Charlotte born on the same day, Ruth Rendell's death passed with less attention in the media than it might have done. In a similar way, the deaths of writers CS Lewis and Aldous Huxley went almost unremarked at the time occurring as they did on the day President Kennedy was shot. I shall leave those two for another week. For now, here is a rather simple and lovely view of marriage from Ruth Rendell:
"Maybe being married is talking to oneself, with one's other self listening."
And I also loved this take on having an ally in the world - I think it applies to spouses and best friends alike:
"There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one."
Perhaps neither of those quotations are typical of a crime writer, but they were the ones I liked best!
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Yarra Energy Foundation Launched
Posted in Models by Kate Archdeacon on April 21st, 2011
From "The Yarra Energy Foundation launches with energy smart public housing 'revolution' and unique web hub":
The Yarra Energy Foundation, an independent non-profit organisation set up by the Yarra City Council, to make the municipality carbon-neutral by 2020, [launched on April 14] at the Richmond Public Housing Estate, announcing its first project – the High- Rise Revolution. The project, a roadmap for permanently reducing residents' electricity usage at the Richmond, Fitzroy and Collingwood public housing high-rise estates, will make living in these estates cheaper and reduce overall carbon pollution.
Alex Fearnside, Yarra Energy Foundation (YEF) CEO said: "More than 8,000 people live in these estates and over the years small steps have been taken to make them energy efficient. However this project is about identifying a big step – a revolution – that will not only help residents but also contribute to the Yarra Energy Foundation's target of carbon neutrality by 2020".
Yarra Mayor Alison Clarke said she was particularly pleased that public housing was the first project for the new Foundation, which had been set up to make the Council's ambitious target of carbon-neutrality by 2020 a reality. "Soon after the election of the current Council we realised we did not have the resources or expertise to hit that target in time and needed help to get there. We knew a community-minded organisation with a sole focus on delivering local sustainable outcomes was needed," Cr Clarke said. The Council has already provided $600,000 to set up YEF and intends to double it over the next two years. "In under a decade, the City of Yarra will be truly carbon neutral. Our focus is on projects that can expand and deliver benefits to the community and business." Mr Fearnside said.
In another first, the Yarra Energy Foundation is using the Thinking Daily network, on the Quango platform, as the basis for its website – a world first. Quango enables organisations to rapidly form communities around their core mission because visitors are both content creators and commentators. It seamlessly links with the most popular social media sites; and unlike comments on newspapers or blogs, fully visible to search engines. "Our website is like a public forum, a wiki, a website and social media combined. It's a like borderless online gathering dedicated to enabling zero-carbon communities here in Yarra and worldwide," Mr Fearnside said.
The High-Rise Revolution project is supported by the Victorian Government Sustainability Fund, managed by Sustainability Victoria.


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Free Software
Histogram is a simple histogram creation tool.
- Create histograms with up to 1000 data points
- Choose from 1 to 100 bins and let Histogram calculate the appropriate bin width, or specify a bin width and Histogram will calculate the number of bins necessary.
- Overlay Gaussian function on the histogram.
- Export histogram to a Bitmap or JPEG image file.
- Import/Export data from/to ASCII file.
- Many new customization abilities added.
JagFit is a free plotting/fitting program that was designed for our teaching laboratories.
- Linear Fits
- Polynomial Fits.
- Plots include error bars. (User input or estimated)
- Fit parameters given with uncertainties. χ2also returned.
- Save graph to a bitmap or JPEG image.
- Export data table to ASCII file.
- Enter up to 200 Data Points.
- Add/Delete columns to the data table.
- Select which columns to use for plotting and which to use for error bars.
- Results of using the function utility can now be put in any column you choose.
- Exponential and Power Law fits.
- Semi-Log and Log-Log plots.
- Fit only a selection of rows in your data table. Useful for excluding a 'bad data point' from your fit.
MEchHeat is a tool for calculating the temperature of a thermistor based on resistance using the Steinhart-Hart equation.
- Uses the temperature vs. resistance data furnished by PASCO scientific for use with the thermistor embedded in the aluminum cylinder of PASCO's "Mechanical Equivalent of Heat" apparatus.
- MEchHeat was developed for use with PASCO Scientific's "Mechanical Equivalent of Heat" apparatus, but it can be used with any thermistor provided the user supplies the data file for calibration.
Plot Digitizer
Plot Digitizer is a useful program for extracting data from a linear, semi-log, or log-log plot.
- A zoom window aides you in clicking on precisely the point you are interested in.
- Automatically corrects for the rotation of the image you're analyzing as well as the non-orthogonality of the axes.
- Any 3 non-collinear points can be used for calibration. (Calibration points do not need to be on the axes.)
- Save your progress at any time in a "project" file.
- Label the calibration points you have selected. (Labels can be toggled on and off.)
- Label the points you're digitizing on the calibrated image. (Labels can be toggled on and off.)
- Export the calibrated image (showing the point labels) to a bmp or jpeg file.
- Export data to an ASCII, an MS Excel or an MS Word file
- Download "How Plot Digitizer Works" (PDF)
All of the software described on this page is completely free to download. It was developed by faculty in the Department of Physics at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, AL.


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Present: Leslie Murtha, Jeris Cassel (recorder), Ryoko Toyama,
Olin, Addie Tallau, Emily Fabiano, Joe Consoli, Stephanie Bartz,
Lourdes Vazquez, Rebecca Gardner, Jackie Mardikian, Linda Langschied,
Pat Piermatti, Kevin Mulcahy, Tom Glynn, Mary Fetzer (Chair), Francoise
Puniello, Benjamin Beede, Myoung Wilson, Penny Page, Howard Dess, Ron
Jantz, Lonnie Johnson, Ellen Gilbert, Ryan Womack, Brian Hancock,
Margaret Wieszczek, Marty Kesselman
Approval of minutes
Minutes of July were approved without change.
Welcome was given to Tom Glynn (Alex), Lonnie Johnson (SCC), Karen Wenk
(LSM), and Margaret Wieszczek (Alex). Kayo Denda, Women Studies
Librarian, will begin on October 2.
General Announcements
Fetzer noted that within the year, we have been reminded of the
fragility of life with the passing of Stan Nash, Ilona Caparros, and
Halina Rusak. The faculty observed a few moments of silence in
remembrance of colleagues. The wake and funeral services arrangements
for Halina on Friday, September 15 and Saturday, September 16 and
Arrangements for the memorial service for Ilona on September 27 in
Kirkpatrick Chapel were announced. Joe Consoli announced that he will
be going to Florida to place flowers in the location of Ilona's ashes.
Marianne Gaunt will be attending the November NBLF meeting. Several
agenda items and demos have been suggested for future meetings.
Report of Associate Director Francoise Puniello
The Kilmer Library roof is finished. Due to rain and other factors, the
Douglass roof is taking longer to complete. Work at LSM is to begin
soon, including the removal of the chillers located in the parking lot.
She will be meeting with the architects regarding more office space and
the HVAC system at the Annex.
Training for WindowEyes, sponsored with a grant from the State Library
is scheduled for October. There will be four sessions in New Brunswick
on different days and different weeks. The disabilities coordinators in
each building will be trained in the use of WindowEyes: Addie Tallau,
LSM; Thelma Tate, Alexander; Susan Peters, Douglass; and Emily Carey,
Report of Director Ryoko Toyama
In the September 12 Cabinet meeting, Marianne Gaunt encouraged library
faculty and staff to send individual thank-you letters to President
Lawrence regarding the additional funding of one million dollars ($100,
000 for permanent addition and the remaining for one time expenditure)
to the libraries.
There are three on-going searches: Art Librarian (Joe Consoli,
Ferris Olin, Tod Marder), Life Sciences Librarian (Rebecca Gardner,
chair; Howard Dess, Helen Hoffman, Jackie Mardikian); Digital Resources
Librarian for the Sciences (Howard Dess, chair; Ellen Calhoun, Ron
Jantz, Pat Piermatti).
The NBL Information Services Steering Group is serving as an exploratory
committee for three non-subject positions. Joe Consoli, chair; Fernanda
Perrone, and Lourdes Vazquez are serving as the World History Librarian
Exploratory Committee. The position description developed by Joe Consoli
was distributed and was suggested as a possible model to follow for future
descriptions. Brief discussion ensued on whether the position should be advertised as an
extended search since it is the third time around for the position and
yet the position description has been changed.
Exploratory committees are to be appointed in October for the
Music/Performing Arts Librarian and for the Art and Humanities position
with special focus on Digital/Medial literacy.
A task force will be appointed in December for the Head, Collection
Services Librarian position vacated by Mary Page and for which Gracemary
Smulewitz is serving in an acting capacity.
All of the positions mentioned above are currently tenure track.
are being filled by temporary librarians while others are being kept open.
Discussion of Kilmer Vision Document
Francoise Puniello led the discussion of the Kilmer vision document,
"Kilmer Library: A Collaborative Learning Center". She distributed an
executive summary which began with the first paragraph on page three of
the document, highlighting Kilmer as a laboratory for teaching and
learning and a collaboratory for faculty, staff, and students.
Puniello emphasized the collaboration with others (e.g., providing an
undergraduate drop-in center with the LRC) and enriching the environment
of Kilmer with seminar room/classroom, flexible spaces, collaborative
spaces, Internet café , and fee-based small business center.
Fetzer commented on the report being concrete and clear. Questions and
comments ensued on the need for extra staff, who would run the food
service, fee-based service., and the need for the inclusion of a
research lab for instruction. The inclusion of a statement on extra
staff in the document was demanded by the teaching faculty on the vision
committee. They were concerned that the current quality of public
services not be diminished. Their concern also resulted in the inclusion of the
maintenance of a traditional reference service center in the document.
The food service will not be operated by the libraries. Several
commented on the need to think of wireless technology for Kilmer.
Concerns were expressed regarding the fee-based service to
corporations---fee-based operations do not make money, need to think
beyond serving just business community, and issues of licensing
agreements need to be investigated.
Further suggestions and recommendations included: collaborate with the
CIIT plans, look at the University of Michigan fee-based service, don't
use SCC IHLs as a model but rather Princeton's student center and new
music library, and don't start with old technology. General concerns
were expressed, mainly of the document being building-based, the
duplication of technology centers, the need for adequate and equal
instructional facilities at all locations.
The vision document will be put on the NBL web.
Update of "Putting the User at the Center" Conference Planning
Jeris Cassel announced that the majority of the individual LUAU surveys
were returned. She thanked the faculty for returning the surveys
promptly and for filling in with comments. The GAUGE survey has been
given to NBISSG. NBCG selected not to fill out as a group-only two have
been returned from individuals from the group.
GAUGE is to serve as a self-analysis instrument for the group and also
to help the conference planners to identify issues for the conference.
Other groups will also be given the GAUGE to fill out.
Call for Volunteers for the Art Library
Joe Consoli asked for volunteers to serve three-hour reference shifts
beginning November 1. Reference service is to be available 10 a.m.-4
p.m. four days a week.
Other Announcements
Myoung Wilson asked that when the position descriptions for the three
non-subject positions are distributed that the faculty give comments
before the positions are advertised rather than after the fact. NBISSG
is serving as the exploratory committee
(Myoung, chair; Jeris Cassel/Penny Page, vice-chairs; Ellen Gilbert; Pat
Piermatti; Ron Jantz; Marty Kesselman; and Lisa Vecchioli.
The general NB faculty meeting was adjourned. Ryoko asked for
tenured faculty to stay for a brief meeting.
Submitted by Jeris Cassel


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Gravepastor Shadow Priest
Name: Patrick
Age: 27
Location: Nor Cal (Napa/Tahoe depending on season)
CPU specs: CPU: i5 2.7GHZ
RAM: 8gb
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 640
Runs Wow in raids just fine for me.
Speedtest.net link: http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4250882148
Posted from my house in Tahoe (Internet is not as good here as in the Bay)
Armory link (please be logged out in your raiding gear and spec):
Had to use Mr. Robot since for some reason my character is not showing up on armory
Screenshot of raiding UI (in combat, list any addons that are not currently visible):
It's only trash but it show's you everything in Combat environment
Please provide a detailed list of your raiding experience (earliest to most recent). Specify if certain encounters were done on another character and provide an armory link should that apply to you:
What is your previous raiding experience? Please be as detailed as possible.
I played catch up all the way through BC so my raiding really did not get started tell Wrath
Wrath I was able to down everything that is listed while it was current content. (played enhance shaman/ mage)
NAXX 10 and 25
Ulduar 25
ToC 25
ToGC 25
During Cata I completed every Tier normal and heroic on my warlock on Akama (Toomanydotz)
During Mop I took a break pretty much the entire xpac. I came back in the middle of SoO and was able to get 8/14 heroic/Mythic in a 10m guild which was constantly replacing and gearing a healer.
Highmaul 7/7 Heroic, 2/7 Mythic
BRF 10/10N, 10/10H, no mythic expo yet.
List your previous guilds (earliest to most recent), and why they did not work out for you (please be as detailed as you can be):
Blizzard of the Coast- Good Group of people, but it was mu first guild and I was looking for something a little more progressive at the time.
Scurvy Crew- Another great grip of people. If my CPU never died on me I would of stayed with them for as long as they stay together.
Warpath- I made some great friends there and people who I still PvP with from time to time. But making friends in a guild does not mean everything. An officer had an issue with me and to this day still don't know why and honestly could care less. I am blunt and tell it how it is. I think some people had issues with that and found my self leaving.
Acquired Taste- Joined you all on my warlock after a few weeks of ya'll killing Heroic Madness. when the 25m Riad team Fell apart I kinda went along with the trend. When I had logged back on about a year later I found my self guild less and server transferred.
Casual Gamers Anzol-Nerub- Happened to join a guild as a pug during SoO when I started playing again on my spriest. It was a progression night for them, first starting Heroic and we ended up killing 2 bosses in the first 2 hours. I was in a no name guild quit and joined them. Another grip a friends who I still talk to but when WoD came out a few of the players were not getting the new expansion so it was guild hunting again.
Reload Illidan- I had heard from a friend on Illidan that Reload was a good grip of people and that I should try and join them when I cam back to playing since they were about as far as I had gotten pugging on burning legion at the time. I joined them and things were great tell Heroic Blackhand. Some people did not take kindly to being sat because they were underperforming, and in turn guild quit.
What goals do you hope to obtain with Acquired Taste and why do you think you'd be a suitable recruit for us?
Aquired Taste kills bosses!! Period!! Look at what you guys were able to do in Wrath and Cata. Your a progressive raiding guild that gets things done efficiently. I am not sure were you all stand on server progression, but I know one thing. You were server 1st for a very long time and I would like to be able to be apart of that, or help bring AT back to those ranks!
I feel I would be a great raider for you guys, because I take the time out to do my own theory crafting, and if I am ever having issues I go above and beyond to figure out why and what I can do to fix them.
We want to get to know our future recruits, so tell us a bit about yourself!
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Why Science won't save us
Last week one of the three main French trotskist group – Worker's Struggle – published an editorial denouncing "degrowth" as "reactionary". I am no fan of French style degrowth. Most of the time, it is hardly more than a revolutionary mythology repackaged as ecology and in my humble opinion, anybody telling that the best way to solve today's society's problems is to destroy it entirely is better off the farthest away possible from any real power. Yet the red hard-liners' reaction is interesting because it highlights one of the industrial world's most pervasive delusion : the faith in science as an all-powerful mean to manipulate reality.
Workers' Struggle's argument is twofold. First they say the decreasing economic activity is unacceptable because it will destroy industrial jobs and reduce general prosperity. This is indeed the whole point but since all those industrial jobs depend upon a clearly unsustainable system, which will collapse no matter what we do, it is probably a better idea to tell people to prepare for the inevitable. The writer probably realized this, so he added there was nothing to fear from the Limits to Growth because technological and scientific progress will lift them (once the evil capitalists will have been overthrown, of course, but since this particular group is called Worker's Struggle, this was to be expected.)
Worker's Struggle is a marginal group, but the faith into the all-powerfulness of science is not, especially among the various political, economical and cultural elites which set the policies of this country. One owes to the truth to say that Reverend Malthus' predictions were ill-timed and that science played a major role in making sure of that. This led most people – including some who should have known better – to consider science as a kind of working magics.
Nothing could be farther from the truth. Science, and its offspring technology, is definitely not some kind of mystical product of human creativity and intellect. It is, to paraphrase Joseph Tainter, an investment into problem solving complexity. It has proved quite a good investment and it certainly beats other popular choices such as erecting giant anthropomorphic statues but it has its limits.
Saying that scientific and technological research is an investment means that pouring resources into it is roughly the same thing as buying, say, a new mechanical saw for your sawmill. You spend money – or some other kind of resource – and get capital in return. With some luck this capital proves to be productive and enables you to get more money to invest. Of course, sometimes you miscalculate and end up with nothing but bills, but that's not the real problem.
The real problem is, of course, Reverend Malthus' law of decreasing return. It is relatively easy to raise massively one's productivity by investing into easy solutions, but that works only so far. Afterwards, however, making further progress becomes increasingly harder and costlier, so you must steadily increase your investments lest you see the pace of your advance slow down to a grinding halt.
Tainter and Huebner have shown that this applies to science as well as to car plants or sawmills. No matter how we measure it, the productivity of science is decreasing since at least the beginning of the XXth century. At that times it was quite possible – and fairly common – for a lone man to make major discoveries in his basement workshop. That is what Thomas Edison or Albert Einstein did. This possibility still exists in marginal domains – for instance the deciphering of dead languages – but everywhere else, including in computer sciences, it has essentially vanished. Science today is done in teams, with very costly equipments in never funded enough institutions.
Another problem comes from the fact all capital needs maintenance, and it is as true for the immaterial capital that are science and technology as for a tractor plant. Mastery of science and technology is not innate. It must be taught again with each passing generation, lest it becomes lost as did fire making did among Sentinelese. As our body of knowledge grew so did the need for a very complex – and very costly specialized education system. Moreover, this education system is subject to the law of diminishing returns. It is relatively easy to alphabetize a population, but going farther becomes harder and costlier as the general level of education rises.
So far we have compensated by pouring ever more resource in our scientific and educational system, and managed to continue advancing … at the price of having more scientists and teachers alive today than during the whole rest of human history. This was possible only because fossil fuels enabled us to produce very large surplus and keep them, and their support institutions, well funded enough to remain productive.
The situation will change as we slide down the far side of the Hubbert curve. In fact, it already has begun to change. As the amount of net energy available to our civilization decreases, the quantity invested into science and technology will decrease too. Whole programs will be quietly put on hold as scarce resources are focused on the keeping afloat of the "essential" ones. The pace of progress will slow down then stop. It may even go backward, as costly technologies are abandoned the way civilian supersonic flight was after the Concord disaster.
Resource scarcity is also likely to affect the education system. I don't think schools will be closed down, or that children will quietly drop out, before quite a long time, at least in European countries. What will happen is that the quality of the teaching will go down as funds grow scarce and affluent people migrate toward private schools.
Irrelevant – or seemingly irrelevant – technologies will cease being taught and will be forgotten or kept frozen in libraries. This, of course, will harm our ability to exploit efficiently the resource we are left. The productivity of the society will decrease, which will cause the funds alloted to research and education to decrease further.
Those who follows the peak oil debate will have recognized the basic mechanism of John Michael Greer's catabolic collapse – and rightly so for science is every bit as subject to it as the rest of our civilization's immaterial capital. And of course counting on science to stop a process of which the decline of science is an integral part is an exercise in futility.
In Dark Age Britain the rulers of what had been a highly urbanized and literate society could not have signed their names to save their life. In late bronze age Greece, the very idea of writing was lost with the collapse of the palatial economy. The only question worth asking about technology and science in the age of the energy descent is how much of it will we lose ?
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Social Change in Soviet Central Asia
SOVIET CENTRAL ASIA 1917-40, The Macmillan Company of India Limited, Delhi, 1979, pp IX+255, Rs 60.
THE SOVIET CENTRAL ASIA has always been the subject of debate, controversy, admiration and sometimes neglect of scholars on the Soviet Union depending on their particular persuasion on ideological matters. The present study provides a very clear and cogent account of economic and social development of that part of the Soviet Union which used to be known before the Revolution as ^Turkestan", now comprising the Soviet Asian republics of Uzhbekistan, Kirghizia, Turkmenistan and Tadzikistan.
An account of the socio-economic conditions and cultural atmosphere in Turkestan in the pre-Revolution days is the point of departure of the study. The author has been able to prove his contention that the annexation of the vast area of Turkestan by the Russian empire was necessitated by the impossibility of ^vertical expansion" of the Russian bourgeoisie because of certain inherent weaknesses, including very low level of technology. Therefore, a horizontal expansion became the first item in the agenda for opening up new markets for the absorption of goods of Russian capitalists. Railroads and other means of communication] were opened to remove the physical isolation of the new area from the centre of the empire. The linking of the Fergana valley, the rich cotton growing area with Central Russia occupied foremost econ-mic importance. Thus, in this period the seeds of capitalism in agriculture were implanted in Turkestan and the money economy replaced the traditional exchange economy (p 13). In spite of production for market in agriculture, the Beiys, or the landlords, completely dominated the relations of production and also the condi-


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500. Fine. Thank you very much. Mr Latif, is
it the same for you?
(Mr Latif) Yes, absolutely.
501. Thank you very much. Having read your evidence,
since we are focussing very much on accountability, it strikes
me that one can identify three levels and this fits in very much
with the papers that you have put in. There is what you might
call the low level, which is transparency, of requiring information
to be in the public domain. The second level is that of answerability
or, if you like, of scrutiny where there are bodies which can
actually put questions to regulators and require answers. The
third level is essentially that of challenge where there are other
bodies which can overturn a decision of the regulator. The material
you have put in fits in with those three levels but where there
is a particularly common element in the two submissions is in
that third layer, that challenge, because you both stress problems
in terms of the appeal mechanism. Particularly on the Electricity
Association side you make recommendations dealing with scrutiny
and transparency. If I could start with the appeals process. Both
organisations invite us to subscribe to the principle that there
should be reform of the appeals process, you need a swifter and
more effective appeals process. If the Committee signed up to
the principle what form would the actual appeals mechanism take?
In other words, how would you translate the principle into practice?
(Dr Golby) If I could start and then hand over to
my colleague. I think there are two specific levels here. One
is an appeals process relating to the competition element of the
role of Ofgem and the other and quite separate one relates to
the regulatory element of that process. Maybe, Roger, I could
ask you to pick up those two separate areas.
(Mr Barnard) Thank you, yes. I think one has to answer
that question by reference first of all to the sort of patchwork
quilt or in less respectful terms the ragbag of review/appeals
mechanisms which are currently available in the regulatory field
generally, and when we are talking this afternoon we are talking
specifically about Ofgem for most of the time but so much overlaps
anyway with other areas of regulatory activity. You have got a
de facto form of appeal by way of the triggering of references
to the Competition Commission when the regulator brings forward
licence modification proposals that the licence holder or holders
do not wish to accept. You have then got in most of the statutes
a rather attenuated form of judicial review in relation to enforcement
procedures and financial penalty proceedings. You have got full
blown rights of appeal on the merits to the Competition Appeal
Tribunal where the regulators (in this case Ofgem) are exercising
their jurisdiction or functions under the Competition Act or the
Enterprise Act. Last of all, you have got good old traditional
judicial review, the historically renowned way of keeping, if
I can put it this way, the bureaucracy in check. There is no apparent
logic to this patchwork quilt and I think one has to look at it
in those terms and ask how, if one were starting from a bare sheet
of paper again, would one want to structure appeals mechanisms
in relation to decisions which are of enormous importance to licensees,
to the economy, to society generally and to the environment. I
think both industries that are appearing before you this afternoon
would probably say the answer ought to be something like this.
First of all, where a licensee is dissatisfied or cannot accept
a price control review proposal from his regulator, then the existing
route of triggering references to the Competition Commission is
probably the best and most satisfactory means that you are going
to find of getting a balanced judgment on what is essentially
a complex economic decision. I think we would then go on to say
that in relation to all other types of decisions by regulatorsand
they might be decisions in relation to the grant of a licence,
decisions as to licence modifications, decisions as to enforcement
orders or financial penaltiesthere should be rights of
appeal by the licensee to a new animal called a RAT, a Regulatory
Appeals Tribunal, which would span appeals mechanisms and rights
of appeal in all those industries listed in the Competition Act
as sectoral regulators. The advantage of that would be of course
that one might expect a sensible and consistent body of case law
to emerge quite rapidly in response to appeals to a body like
that. Then last of all, let us not disturb the existing rights
of appeal against regulatory decisions to the Competition Appeal
Tribunal in relation to regulators' jurisdiction under the Competition
(Mr Latif) I have to say we agree with that. We have
had this discussion before internally in terms of our two organisations
and I cannot really add much more to that than Roger has already
actually said.
502. Fine. The point you are making is that
although you are particularly concerned with Ofgem this would
have general applicability in terms of regulated industries?
(Dr Golby) Absolutely, yes.
Chairman: Thank you
very much.
503. I wonder if I could just ask both the chairman
and the president a rather general question. I am not quite clear
what the impact is in regulation terms of representative industry
associations. On the one hand, there is the danger that your members
might have very strong grievances but either leave you to press
their case as an association or they fail simply to make their
case even to you because they feel that you will no doubt do the
necessary. On the other hand, your relationship with the regulator
could act as a rather bland filter between the coalface of the
industry and the regulators. So do you think that your members'
grievances are properly heard and understood by the regulators
and do you think they are justified in most casesyou might
like to give us some examplesor do you think that you have
a danger of, not dumbing them down but muffling them slightly?
(Dr Golby) Let me attempt to answer that
first. The Electricity Association is a very broad church covering
most of the companies in the sector. One of the issues we have
recognised recently is the possibility of dumbing down, that we
produce the lowest common denominator view to take to the regulator.
As a result of that we decided some months ago to actually split
the Electricity Association into three new bodies, one being a
body that represented the generation part of the industry which
has very specific issues in its own right, the second representing
the infrastructure or the networks activity of the industry, both
the electricity networks and also the grid operation of the gas
industry, which has quite specific issues in its own right, and
of course both of those networks are regulated monopolies and
therefore they are quite specific. Then thirdly an association
representing the retailing activity, the selling activity of the
industry, again both electricity and gas. So we have seen a convergence
of electricity and gas and a divergence of the activities into
those three broad categories, which I believe fairly well mirrors
the operation of Ofgem in terms of what it choose to regulate
and what it chooses to allow to operate in the free competitive
market. That is how we are responding to that dumbing down challenge
and you are correct that there has been a number of occasions
where individual companies have wished to dissociate themselves
from a particular stance taken by the Electricity Association.
We believe that the way I have described is the way forward to
deal with that, with strong associations but with companies able
to individually represent themselves, of course, as they have
every right to with the regulator on a particular issue.
(Mr Latif) I think that is the same for the Gas Forum.
As you have probably seen from our response, the majority of our
members agree with us but a few chose not to actually come on
board, but we would reflect both views. I think it is incumbent
upon us as a representative of the industry to reflect the various
views there are in the industry. As you quite rightly say, if
you do go to the lowest common denominator you do not really get
any meaningful responses back. So what we allow is for our members
to express themselves and where we would agree unanimously that
becomes a very powerful communication tool but where we do not
we actually reflect the actual balance of views. So people can
judge which way they wish to actually go through with.
504. I was going to pick up on the very point
you have made because, as you have indicated in the addendum,
there is a number of your members who felt that an appeals mechanism
along the lines indicated would actually slow up the process and
my introduce uncertainty, but I take it from your submissions
that the majority of your members actually feel quite strongly
than an appeals mechanism of the sort you propose is actually
(Mr Latif) Yes.
Chairman: Thank you very much.
505. I would just like to press that point first
of all, my Lord Chairman, the fact that two very large companies,
British Gas and ExxonMobil, both feel that the downside of appeal
outweighs the benefits of appeal. I am not absolutely clear from
your statement whether there are grounds for saying that British
Gas feels the same as ExxonMobil. It seems in both cases to arrive
at uncertainty being a problem in the case of British Gas because
delays would lead to uncertainty. You talk about the incremental
regulatory uncertainty introduced by such processes. Does that
mean something different from delays? What is the problem?
(Mr Latif) As I say, my Lord Chairman,
I have to ask those companies to actually represent themselves
in that view. We did not really actually go down to the level
of depth of their uncertainty of our proposal in that respect
but there is this view that it does bring undue delay to the process
and also it brings uncertainty. The words, I think, probably mirror
the same effect. I think they do mean uncertainty rather than
anything else.
506. So trying to understand your dissenting
minority, their concern is that they would prefer to have the
certainty of decisions which they may or may not like than the
longer drawn out process of appeal, which may or may not result
in a decision that they like?
(Mr Latif) I think that is their argument, yes.
507. I see. May I ask a supplementary. Just
moving on from that, let us assume that the appeal decision which
the majority of your members in both cases are in favour of. Let
us assume there was a decent appeal mechanism in place. In the
opinion of both bodies what would the implications of that be
for the theme of this Committee, which is accountability? Would
the presence of a proper appeals mechanism have the net effect
of obviating or reducing the need for parliamentary and other
(Mr Barnard) I think the answer, my Lord, and I suppose
you would expect me to say this as a lawyer, is that in the end
legal accountability is probably the only form of legal accountability
which really matters to licensees who are on the receiving end
of the jurisdiction of a regulator. It is an addition, a long-stop
addition to increased political accountability, increased financial
accountability and possibly increased public accountability, although
that is a very elusive concept in our administrative system. It
enables licensees to walk tall in relation to their regulator
in a way that they cannot do at the moment.
(Mr Latif) Yes. I think also in terms of accountability
you have to have the Regulatory Impact Assessment to be a part
of the actual accountability process. We believe the appeals process
is the ability to be accountable. With these two in combination
hopefully what will happen is that the actual companies will feel
that the solution which is being arrived at has had the full participation
of the members who are actually going to be impacted at the front
end rather than at the end bit, where it comes to a solution and
people will need to actually then start worrying about how they
are going to implement it and what the consequences are. If you
do the Regulatory Impact assessment at the front end you will
find that people will then be able to assess on merit what the
actual proposal is and the regulator becomes more accountable.
It actually does its homework and produces evidence so that the
members who are going to be affected by that change can actually
either challenge the evidence or take it on board and say there
is a greater benefit to having that change thrust upon them.
(Miss Love) My Lord Chairman, in terms of the two
members you have spoken about, British Gas and Exxon, in particular
talking about regulatory impact assessments when we do not actually
know what the framework is going to be for appeals, I think that
is maybe where the uncertainty in terms of committing to this
proposal is. If we could actually see what it might look like
then we would be able to give a more informed judgment. As Mr
Latif said, if we had Regulatory Impact Assessments we are hoping
to keep appeals to a minimum by going through that process. I
think that would give you a greater commitment from British Gas
and Exxon.
(Mr Barnard) One has to bear in mind also, I think,
my Lord Chairman, the remarkably unlitigious nature of these two
great industries thus far. One has to work inside these industries
to know the extraordinary lengths to which directors will go to
avoid legal confrontation with their regulators. It may be circular.
One of the reasons for that may be the lack of credible appeals
mechanisms. But I come back to my earlier point: if licensed industries
cannot challenge their regulator in an appropriate forum with
equality of arms then they are always the subjects of regulation;
they are not equal partners in the process with the regulator.
Chairman: Thank you.
508. Would you like to say a bit more about
the Regulatory Impact Assessmentshow you see them developing,
what objectives you would like to see them having, what impact
you think they might have?
(Mr Latif) I think it is wider than economics
and they need to take the social aspect, the environmental aspect
into it. I have to say that the FSA and the telecoms model, I
think, requires them to do a wider assessment. We had a situation
within the gas arena where shorter balancing periods were suggested
and we went through a process where this was thrust as a way forward
for the regulator to make the balancing more efficient. We went
through years, I think, of uncertainty on this process. At the
end it was the industry itself then which actually had to pay
for an independent assessment to be carried out, which basically
made the idea economically unsound. So if we had the basics of
regulatory assessment across the economic, environmental and social
then I think that would be a good framework.
(Miss Love) I think ultimately in terms of our concerns
if the Regulatory Impact Assessment was carried out from day one
individual companies could understand what costs of capital, etcetera,
they might have to employ to actually endure this proposal and
it would give us a better opportunity to understand what we would
have to pass on to customers and obviously a justification for
that cost. Again, as I said earlier on, that would hopefully reduce
the number of appeals because it would be obvious to parties involved
in the process as to why the proposal was going ahead.
(Mr Latif) Just on the actual balancing, in the study
that was carried out the actual cost to the industry would have
been between 1 billion and £3.5 billion and that is a substantial
amount of money that would have had to have been recovered by
the end consumer really. So that assessment was not carried out
in the initial stages.
509. In a way the economic assessment can be
more quantifiable and less judgmental in a sense than the social
and environment.
(Mr Latif) I agree.
510. So where would you think the greater impact
would come?
(Mr Latif) We are torn between the fact that the Government
then requires the environmental type ofI think there is
a balancing act there which needs to be legislated for, I think,
but there is a tendencyand I will let Paul talk about thatthe
green issues have come to the fore but when you do assessments
currently it will be just on the economics.
511. One view which has been expressed is that
indeed the role of the regulator should concentrate on the economic
impact and the competition impact and that the social and environmental
considerations are more for the Government to deal with in other
ways. I do not know if you would agree on that.
(Mr Latif) Yes.
(Dr Golby) If I could pick up that point, my Lord.
I think it needs to be one or the other. I think where we are
at the moment is most unsatisfactory, with an economic regulator,
with environmental and other guidance given by the Secretary of
State because that almost creates a double jeopardy situation.
So I think this needs to be enshrined, maybe through primary legislation,
to change the remit but a very clear framework for regulatory
impact assessments so that we clearly know, frankly, where we
are coming from.
(Mr Barnard) My Lord Chairman, every regulated industry
is in favour of impact assessments, like motherhood and apple
pie. One needs to be careful how they are structured. We of course
welcome the Government's proposal to give them statutory backing
but I think we would say that the present form of the obligation
in the Communications Bill currently before your Lordships' House
is most unsatisfactory. If you are going to lay duties on regulating
authorities to run proper meaningful impact assessments you need
to specify quite tightly what those assessments are going to apply
to. In Ofgem's case I guess they ought to apply to those things
that are picked out in what is known as Ofgem's forward work plan.
I use those words because they are embodied in statute already
in the Electricity and Gas Acts. It is there that you see the
plethora of regulatory projects going forward, none of which have
been subject to meaningful or indeed any impact assessment. You
need an obligation which specifies in quite tight terms what sort
of costs and benefits an RIA should assess, including the cost
of doing nothing. You need an obligation which requires the regulator
to publish an initial impact assessment and then when he publishes
his final impact assessment an obligation to say how it differs
from the initial one backed up by a fair and accurate summary
of the representations he received in response to the initial
one. The regulators of course will say that all this is impossible,
it is far too prescriptive. I would merely point out that the
Department of Trade and Industry's own RIA in respect of the better
electricity trading and transmission arrangements, which presumably
Ofgem had a large hand, alongside the DTI, in producing, fulfils
exactly that sort of prescriptive model that I have just outlined.
So it can be done; do not let them tell you that it cannot.
512. And it can be embodied in statute?
(Mr Barnard) Yes, indeed. We have actually
give the DTI some illustrative drafting of how that might be achieved,
if you would like to see it.
Chairman: That would be very helpful.
513. I probably misheard, Mr Barnard, but did
I understand that RAT would be an addition to the pack, as it
were, rather than a substitution for any of the existing route?
(Mr Barnard) Regrettably, I suppose,
yes, it would be an addition to the existing array of statutory
514. That would scarcely simplify matters, would
(Mr Barnard) It depends what sort of simplification
one is looking for. I painted earlier a picture of a patchwork
quilt of rather inconsistent provisions for appeals, or more properly
reviews or scrutinies that have been built up historically over
ten to fifteen years of privatisation. They are complex. There
is a complex variety of routes. It seems to me to quite considerably
simplify things to say price control to the Competition Commission,
everything else that a regulator does under his sectoral statute
to a new Regulatory Appeal Tribunal, and everything that he does
under competition law, as now, to the Competition Appeal Tribunal.
515. Thank you. We have been looking and referring
to guidance as well as the means by which Ministers effect what
goes into the regulatory field and the lack of control, as you
may see it, over this or influence. I do see that Section 14 of
the Utilities Act 2000, which put a new section into the 1989
Act, does provide in fact for the draft of any guidance proposed
to be issued under this section to be laid before each House of
Parliament. Parliament then has the opportunity to consider and
reject it if it wants to, or to consider it and let it through
or simply to ignore it. Has there been any activity of significance
in this field to your knowledge?
(Mr Barnard) I think the Secretary of State issued
draft guidance shortly after the commencement of the Utilities
Act provisions, which amended both the electricity and gas legislation,
and only recently has crystallised that into final guidance.
516. November last year, to be precise.
(Mr Barnard) Yes, indeed. It is, one might say, extremely
innocuous stuff actually and I understand that there are pressures
within government, perhaps from departments other than the DTI,
to toughen it up
517. What I was really intending to ask was
whether you regard this potential area of activity as an area
in which you could exercise some influence?
(Mr Barnard) I suppose it depends really on what position
you take in the great debate as to whether Ofgem should be a purely
economic regulator or a regulator who is also subject to explicit
social and environmental responsibilities. If it is to be the
latter then I think one would want as a licensed industry to have
some quite considerable influence on the form and contents of
that guidance. With no disrespect to your Lordships' House or
to the other House either, there is a feeling generally outside
Parliament that procedures for passing and turning into law statutory
instruments or other kinds of secondary legislation, whether under
negative or affirmative procedures, do not offer a lot of protection
to those on the receiving end.
518. The difference between negative and affirmative
is that affirmative procedure requires the instrument to be considered
by Parliament and the negative only gets considered if parliamentarians
think it should be. This falls into the latter and I wondered
whether in fact you regarded that as a mechanism which you could
use to bring the parliamentary interest into your area of activity?
As regards the other place, in which I am no expert, it requires
a constituent to approach a Member in order to get his interest,
I would think, and the same is true in this House. I just wondered
if this was a route which you considered fruitful. From what you
have said so far I think you regard it as a dead end perhaps?
(Mr Barnard) You took the words out of my mouth, my
Lord. It is very difficult for citizens, industries, and others
outside Parliament to modify the procedures or to modify the contents
of secondary legislation. The sheer volume of secondary legislation
which is made by Ministers is impossible to keep up with and parliamentary
scrutiny, with all due respect, must be perfunctory; I do not
see how it can be otherwise. Therefore, guidance to regulators
which is made under those sorts of procedures is not a framework
within which the industries can hope to contribute much by way
of influence, control or challenge.
519. The basic problem is the neither House
can amend secondary legislation.
(Mr Barnard) Indeed.
(Dr Golby) That is correct. I think, my Lord, I will
go back to an earlier answer that I think any change in remit
here in terms of social, environmental obligations really, I believe,
needs primary legislation to determine the remit properly as opposed
to secondary legislation for the reasons we have just been discussing.


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I woke up this morning at 7:08am. Actually, I woke up 15 minutes earlier than that, but I have the bedroom clock set ahead, so those are the numbers I saw. I got up a few minutes later, and just a few minutes before the alarm was set to go off.
Remy made a diarrhea, which is good, because it was his first bowel movement in several days. He appears to have an enlarged colon, to go along with his abnormally small liver, and the x-rays last week showed that he's kind of impacted right now. Now, in addition to taking a syringe full of Clavamox, he also gets a syringe full of a laxative. He starts drooling when he sees the syringe.
I woke up with my shoulder aching, and my back knotted up even more the closer I got to work. With a major fundraiser coming up plus subscription renewals beginning soon, plus all the usual stuff, it's just an extra stressful time. One person was taking a vacation day and another was out sick, so it was pretty quiet. I did get a little bit accomplished, but not as much as I'd like.
We were hoping we'd see signs that Remy went to the bathroom more, but nothing in the boxes was soft, so he probably didn't go any more. Tim and I will both feel better, I'm sure, when he's cleaned out and hopefully back to normal.
After doing the evening medicating, feeding, my shower, calling mom, I finally had a chance to sit down. Then I found problems with our email service online. I've got to find a new service. My husband says use Gmail because it's got unlimited online storage, which is what I need, but I figure if I'm paying someone to host my domain and provide me with "unlimited" email, which should that mean unlimited email addresses but a cap on how many messages I can have in my box. So I ended up spending time trying to make sure that the mail I already had downloaded won't disappear like the last time I tried to download anything. I hope I have it set up now. I lost a lot of irreplaceable messages from friends and my late father when Thunderbird "synched" with webmail and deleted everything that I had downloaded. Stupid me, I didn't think I had to keep it online AND offline. I thought the point was to be able to download the mail to keep it.
Dealing with all that (and the memory of what I lost and my anger that I had set everything up to download the mail so that we could change ISPs, and it turned out to be for nothing because my husband renewed the hosting package anyway) has only made me more tense.
Then I started trying to check my current mail and enter my sweeps for today. And now, look at the time, it's already tomorrow. Like sands and all that. My day.


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At Newport, Megan Perry scored two goals to lead the Warriors past the Raiders from Sabattus.
Kalee Kershner and Lacey Kent-Webber posted the other two goals for 8-1-2 Nokomis, and Emalie Bailey and Sierra Fortin registered assists. Anna MacKenzie and Brynn Cardozo combined for two saves on five shots.
For 3-2-2 Oak Hill, Desiree Johns made five saves on 12 shots.


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Thanksgiving Day is the official kick-off of the holiday season. It's actually cold now, and the stores can legitimately play Christmas carols, even though they have been for weeks. During the holidays, people make it a point to be more charitable to and mindful of those less fortunate. Hunger is an especially popular cause during this season. Kelly Clarkson sang in front of two giant Salvation Army shields during halftime the Dallas Cowboys' Thanksgiving Day Game against the New York Jets. The library where I work even conducted a creative canned food drive last week: bring in cans and we'll erase your fines. I found a website which is the perfect marriage of my being somewhat of a logophile and my desire to help those less fortunate:http://freerice.com
For each correctly answered vocabulary question, the site's advertisers purchase 10 grains of rice to be distributed by the United Nations. Impress your friends with your brilliant vocabulary and help stop world hunger. Now that's fun. I'm going to go play now.


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Critics are saying that a new ad from Democratic Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis' campaign for governor goes too far in its attack against her opponent, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott (R), who is disabled.
Talking Points Memo reported on the ad, which debuted Friday and opens with a shot of a wheelchair.
"A tree fell on Greg Abbott. He sued and got millions," says a narrator's voice. "Since then he spent his career working against other victims."
The ad goes on to say that in his time as the highest legal official in Texas, "Abbott argued a woman whose leg was amputated was not disabled because she had an artificial limb. He ruled against a rape victim who sued a corporation for failing to do a background check on a sexual predator. He sided with a hospital that failed to stop a dangerous surgeon who paralyzed patients."
"Greg Abbott," the ad concludes. "He's not for you."
The Abbott campaign reacted furiously.
"It is challenging to find language strong enough to condemn Sen. Davis's disgusting television ad, which represents a historic low for someone seeking to represent Texas," said Abbott spokeswoman Amelia Chasse to the Dallas Morning News. "Sen. Davis' ad shows a disturbing lack of judgment from a desperate politician, and completely disqualifies her from seeking higher office in Texas."
Davis campaign spokeswoman said in a statement, "This ad focuses on the fact that Greg Abbott rightly sought justice for himself, following a horrible accident. And then spent his career denying that same justice to other victims, like when he said an amputee shouldn't be considered disabled because she had an artificial limb."
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Years ago I lived a traditional suburban life - the "American Dream."
I was a:
- Wife
- Mother
- College Graduate
- Home Owner
- Church Member
- 401K Retirement Contributor
And for a few years, I was fine with this pre-scripted life. This "one-size fits all" formula.
Act 1
But it wasn't long before I discovered that the one-size did not fit me. I read ahead in the script and didn't like how it ended. I took a closer look at the reality of my roles:
- Wife. Spending time with my husband for only a few hours each evening and most weekends.
- Mother. Watching the neighborhood mothers playing taxi-driver getting their kids to school/playdates/practices/games. Dreading the day that I would have to do the same.
- College Educated. Two degrees and twelve years to pay off the debt from getting them.
- Home Owner. Actually a 30-year mortgage owner with little true equity.
- Church Member. Worship service attendee. Sunday school teacher. MOPS leader. Women's group leader. Bible study facilitator. All at the same time. Where was Jesus in that?
- 401K Retirement Contributor: Until 9/11, when the company downsized and Mike lost his corporate job.
I became discontented. And depressed. I wanted to wake up from this American Dream.
Act 2
And I did wake up. It just took several years.
I re-wrote the script. I became:
- The CFO for Mike's new business.
- A teacher for my now homeschooled kids.
- A Christ-follower after we left the mega-church.
- A millionaire after we paid off all debt but the mortgage. Okay, not really. But, less in debt.
Act 3
In 2010 we decided to leave suburbia to see what else was out there. What we found was a life that went completely off-script. The perfect fit. A chance to re-define our American Dream. And ourselves.
- I am still a wife, riding the ups and down of life with my best friend and business partner.
- I am still a homeschooling mother, although my role has shifted from full-out teacher to facilitator.
- I'm a self-led learner - now starting (another) business, assisting my children to become adults, redefining who I am.
- I'm a host - welcoming people into my home with ease, without running around to clean or stressing about what to feed them.
- I'm a relationship-driven follower of Christ - trading church attendance for seeking Jesus in relationships with people that God brings into my life.
- A life-long worker with no plans to retire.
Continuing to live my life. Unscripted.
[Calmly, purposefully, and without looking back, makes her way through the house and out the doors.]


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SF9 debuts with shocking "Fanfare" music video
The boys of SF9 are officially idols!
Today, FNC Entertainment completely took K-Pop fans by surprise with their first male dance group's edgy and raw sound in "Fanfare". In their debut music video, SF9 are the ultimate bad boys on the outside, but sweethearts to the core. They seem to be on the run while they write graffiti on walls and sit in detention. Nonetheless, the boys are hungry for their fans adoration, and their fresh dance moves prove it.
Watch them dance their way into K-Pop fans' hearts through the video below:
I'm in love with SF9 and their choreography! This debut proves they have such a bright future in the industry. Fellow boy groups like EXO and BTS move over because SF9 is very stiff competition. Their debut mini album Feeling Sensation hit stores today.
What do you think of the Click Your Heart stars' debut?
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if anyone sees a flaw in this logic, let me know. i didn't exactly spend a whole lot of time thinking about this before i wrote it
"Alice laughed: "There's no use trying," she said; "one can't believe impossible things."
"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
- Alice In Wonderland.
1/1825 is not exactly poor odds. If the odds of hitting a jackpot were 1/1825 i'd be playing the lottery every day! Obviously the odds are the same for any given date between 1999 and 2004, and 9/11/01 was the lucky winner.
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But Neo would learn this fact and actually bring down the veil once and for all (and not die). What they find is the real "real" world was a natural paradise...humans now transform into a heightened state of Spiritual Awareness...etc, etc, etc...
After an on-again, off-again review process that finally culminated with full State Department approval last year, the US government has finally issued its first passports containing RFID chips.
Government officials have said that the use of the RFID chip allows passports to be scanned and cross-referenced with security databases more easily, while privacy advocates have argued they'll make it easier for identity thieves and terrorists to extract information -- especially after a security firm successfully demonstrated that they were able to crack the encryption used on prototype Dutch RFID passports.
Despite such concerns, the new passports are scheduled to be rolled out nationally in October.
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Originally posted by Agit8dChop
kind of ironic,
its the day american liberty expired.
Because we're all obviously in concentration camps right now.
Maybe some people should think before they post.
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Was that from the scene where the secret government guys wanted his cooperation in apprehending the terrorists, and when Neo told them that he was not afraid of the Gestapo crap, and he knew his rights, they took away his freedom of speech and implanted him with a microchip


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Ralph McInerny
"I picked this book up during a spare hour—and hours later have scarcely been able to get back to anything else. This is a charming, bittersweet, witty, evocative, even romantic reminiscence of a wonderful life, teeming with children, penury, wild trips to Europe, sudden (and immense) success in writing (after many, many rejections), the love of a good woman—and her common sense, besides—and an incisive record of an amazing stretch of years from the Depression and World War II through Vatican Council II, and on into our own new century. Be prepared to weep a little, and laugh a little—it ought to be a movie. McInerny's masterpiece!" — Michael Novak, George Frederick Jewett Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
"Here is a memoir that is more than a chronicle of a full life lived within a Catholic intellectual milieu. With unique literary skills and the wisdom of seventy-five years, McInerny enlivens and interprets the major intellectual events of his time, delving into the past to understand the present. The result is the kind of book that future historians of culture will regard as a primary source. Modest and unassuming, McInerny fails to do justice to his own role in the intellectual life of the Church, a role as important as that of Chesterton and Belloc in a previous generation." — Jude P. Dougherty, Dean Emeritus, School of Philosophy, The Catholic University of America
With I Alone Have Escaped to Tell You, Ralph McInerny—distinguished scholar, mystery writer, editor, publisher, and family man—delivers a thoroughly engaging memoir. In the course of his recollections, McInerny describes his childhood in Minnesota; his grammar school and seminary education, with his decision to leave the path toward ordination; his marriage to his beloved Connie and their active family life and travels; and his life as a fiction writer. We learn of his career as a Catholic professor of philosophy at Notre Dame, his views on the Catholic Church, his experiences as an editor and publisher of Catholic magazines and reviews, his involvement with the International Catholic University, and his thoughts on other Catholic writers. Part homage to his academic home for the last half century and part appreciation of the many significant friendships he has fostered over his life, McInerny's reminiscences beautifully convey his lively interest in the world and his gift for friendship and collegiality.
Written in his characteristically elegant style, by turns charming, poignant, humorous, and revealing, I Alone Have Escaped to Tell You will delight McInerny's many devoted readers.
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"What makes Mr. McInerny's autobiography worth reading . . . are all his other careers. A professor at Notre Dame for 50 years, he has published academic works from his 1961 Logic of Analogy to his 1990 Handbook for Peeping Thomists, making him the nation's most prominent scholar of medieval philosophy. Along the way, Mr. McInerny was a leader in the movement that turned Catholics into vital intellectual figures for modern conservatism." — The Wall Street Journal
"McInerny relives a world very familiar to a generation of educated Catholics who found rational and emotional support for every social and moral challenge that life in America presented. He is the Catholic Huck Finn, guided through an adventurous intellectual life by the clear and unfailing light of reason as presented so clearly by the philosophy that supports his faith." — American Catholic Studies
"McInerny describes his studies in philosophy and provides a lucid explanation for lay people of how modern philosophers have lost their way. He discusses the great work done by Vatican II and how it has, in some sense, lost its way by an emphasis on the 'spirit' ignoring the texts themselves. . . This book is recommended to all readers, especially those interested in the paths taken by Vatican II and modern philosophy." — Catholic Library World
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Best Late Night Dining
Ever find yourself stumbling home at 3 a.m. with a sudden enormous appetite? What do you do? Where do you go? Now, I'm not talking about wanting a salad or grilled fish – because that's never what we crave during our finest hour. What you want is something that'll take you several hours to burn off on the elliptical the next day! We're talking: fried, greasy, cheesy… and oh-so-good!
In the wee hours of the morning, the best thing to chow down during the beginning stages of a hangover is comfort food. journeyPod has searched high and low… we've scoured the streets, interviewed the drinkers, and thought long n' hard about great midnight hot spots. After arduous research (hey… we had to put ourselves in your shoes), we've come up with the ultimate guide to late night dining! Check it out here:
Top foods to devour after a late night of drinking: Fish n' Chips (England)
Gyro (Greece)
Poutin (Canada)
Churros con Chocolate (Spain)
Pit Beef (Maryland)
Pommes Frites (Germany, New York)
Slice of Pizza (New York)
Best places to visit for a late night chow:
Blue Ribbon (New York): The Bromberg brothers have managed to win the hearts (or rather, stomachs) of every New Yorker in search of the perfect pastry, sandwich or culinary delight. Opened till 4 a.m. Monday through Sunday, the bakery has become known as a chef's after- hour hangout. Choose from Blue Ribbon Bakery in Manhattan, Blue Ribbon Restaurant in Manhattan and Brooklyn, as well as their two Sushi restaurants also located downtown and in Brooklyn.
Harajuku Elephant Café (Tokyo): You're bound to wake up when you find yourself walking through these doors, as the wait staff greets you with a loud shout and clap. The restaurant is always hoppin' and the crowd enjoys traditional dishes like Pad Thai and unique plates like the Thai pizza.
L'Express (New York): Located on Park Avenue South, this French bistro feeds the city that never sleeps 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Specialties include Quiche Lorraine and Steak Frites. L'Express is always crowded and serves as a great night bar sitting spot if you can't seem to get shut eye.
South Street Diner (Boston): Formerly the Blue Diner, South Street is also "The place for college students to start their "Spring Break Tour" according to Rolling Stone Magazine. The famous hot spot has served as a backdrop for many movies in the 80's and 90's including "House Guest" with Steve Martin. Late nighters are often found sharing the pupu platter filled with with Mozzarella sticks, Spinach Pies, Buffalo Wings, and many more great choices.
Pub Saint Germain (Paris): One of France's biggest pubs also serves as a local late night dining experience in Paris. It's open 24 hours with an excellent beer selection (for those not quite done with drinking). Prices are reasonable and the Fish n' Chips will leave you well satisfied.
Bully's (San Diego): Home of San Diego's finest Prime Rib, at Bully's guests enjoy Alaskan King Crab legs and Filet Mignon till the early hours of the morning. End the night in style and impress your date with a meal fit for a King (or Queen) at this Southern Cali hot spot.
Big Pink (Miami): With a slogan like "Real Food for Real People, Really"- who can resist the temptation? The cuisine here combines comfort food with a gourmet twist as guests enjoy buckets of Sweet Potato Fries and Buffalo Shrimp. Big Pink also offers a great selection of delivery items (for those of you who cant get out of the house).
Les Givral's Vietnamese (Houston): A great alternative to typical diner food, guests consume vermicelli and rice dishes, Spring Rolls and other Vietnamese specialties till early hours of morning. Fight the hangover with vitamins from one of their fresh fruit juices. Staff is extremely kind and attentive.
Versailles (Miami): Down in South Beach, places tend to stay open a little later… and Versailles is no exception to this list. Serving scrumptious Cuban delights to both tourists and locals, this is a great place to mingle as the night dies down.
Bar Italia (London): Clubbers and bar-hoppers agree that this little Italian eatery is the best part of their night out in Soho. Open 24 hours on Fridays and Saturdays, guests sip on cappuccino to get them ready for work (after an all-nighter) and dish on delicious Bruschetta topped with fresh mozzarella and basil.
Jerry's Famous Deli (Los Angeles and Miami): Whether its Hummus you crave or a Pastrami Sandwich- the variety of options at Jerry's is hard to beat. The place is crawling with celebrities like Justin Timberlake, Cameron Diaz, Jonny Knoxville, Lindsey Lohan, Evangaline Lilly, Courtney Cox, David Arquette and many more.
Gray's Papapaya Hot Dog (New York): The epitomy of what a New York hot dog should taste like. Top it will chili, onions, mustard or anything your heart desires. We guarantee you will never taste a hot dog this good!
Yacht Club (Atlanta): Located in the artsy area of Little 5 Points, this late night spot serves the best Brunswick Stew in the southeast. One bowl of this delicious stew can cure the worst hangover!


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Earthing and earth stakes.
New Zealand uses a "Multiple Earthed Neutral" (MEN) system. This system requires the main Neutral to be earthed at the main switchboard of each installation (home or building).
The earth is required to provide safety to appliances used in the home. When these appliances are faulty they will may short out to the steel casing. If the steel casing is not earthed it can potentially electrocute the next person to pick it up.
The main earth connects to the incoming neutral of the mains cable and then, by a large green wire, to an earth stake or earth electrode.
The Earth Stake or Electrode is a steel or copper pole driven into the ground and is accessible outside your home. The green cable connects to this via a brass clamp which is often covered over by a plastic in-ground lid. The wire will also have a copper or plastic "Earthing Conductor Do Not Disconnect" sign on it, it is important that this is present.
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