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There are so many adventurous reasons to plan a vacation to Kentucky: the Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History, Bluegrass Music Museum, the waterfall-lined Kingdom Come Scenic Parkway, the magnificently thrilling ATV trails of southeastern Kentucky's Black Mountain located in Harlan County and the Mine Portal 31 coal mine tour in Lynch.
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Georgia's Durhamtown Plantation Off-Road Park manifests 150 miles of one-way trails for dirt bikes, ATVs and UTVs, having nine tracks, mud pit, a drag strip, and freestyle park all in one fabulous facility. It's one of the country's most famous privately held riding locations, and it's situated in the central pine forests of the state near Union Point.
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Smack dab in the centre of central Florida, the Ocala National Forest is considered as one of the most famous ATV riding portions in the state, with 35 miles of UTV and ATV routes and trails at Wiregrass, Big Scrub, and Lake Delancy. In an effort to trigger riders to appreciate the sub-tropical views and wildlife, most routes are crafted for slow-speed riding.
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originally posted by: LumenImagoDei
'Hell' is a state of mind where one has separated themselves from the knowledge of God, it is not a place where people are sent to suffer.
Sheol means 'asked for', we as a society are always asking for more, we are consumers who consume anything and everything we can get our hands on. Our current consumerist society is Sheol where people are always asking for more because of the void they feel inside themselves.
Material wealth is the veil that has been pulled over everyone's eyes, our materialistic society teaches that true value lies outside in material things when in realty real wealth comes from within ourselves.
But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death."
"Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life."
And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
I have spent the last two years digging into my KJV to see if the Hell theory holds up or not.
originally posted by: Lazarus Short
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Thank you Rex, that may just be the best post of the thread!
Good job Laz.You have laid out the foundation of the evidence that testifies.However the dilemma of proving there is no eternal punishment of Hell from the scriptures is those that want to believe it will still infer it is in the scriptures yet Yahoshua clearly stated:
"You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me. Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life".
15. The idea of damnation of people to Hell is at least absurd, and possibly blasphemous. See Genesis 1:26-27, 2:7,3:19, Ecclesiastes 12:7.
24. When we dig out mistranslations and peel away misinterpretations, we find that Hell is a 404. With Hell so deconstructed, the Bible and God are both silent on Hell. See Numbers 23:19, John 14:2.
Luke 6:31
Do to others as you would have them do to you.
Luke 6:37
37 'Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned.
Matthew 7:2
For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
Originally posted by khnum
Having seen a black silhouetted angel with sword and shield about 20ft in the air above me Id say hell probably actually does exist.
Originally posted by khnum
As the Buddha suggests 'to exist is to suffer',your already on a hell staffed and managed by what you would expect to find in a hell,its a moot point I am more interested in liberation this lifetime as for any afterlife we will cross that bridge when we come to it.
Originally posted by khnum
Having seen a black silhouetted angel with sword and shield about 20ft in the air above me Id say hell probably actually does exist.
Originally posted by khnum
The world is more than a two choice option and there is more than just the Christian reality,or Muslim,or Jewish or whatver the trick is discriminating between that which has been set up by archons and that that hasnt.


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Information Week writes:
"Microsoft shipped 4.3 million Xbox 360 systems in the three months ended December 31, compared to 4.4 million systems during the same period in 2006."
This article is flamebait. Trying to obviously spark some sort of argument with the PS3 and 360 fans. News is still news, but news on games would be better.
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He probably sold his 360 when Warner Bros made the Blu-ray deal because after that all he's been doing is looking for negitive 360 news, its all he posts.
No games are being released right now that probably has more to do with 360 sales right now although the Halo effect would naturally fade untill the next Halo effects that is.
Possible two more Halo effects comming this year.
((((#1.1)))) that depends on how many of you trolls come in here.
I agree with -TylerDurden - these are shipped numbers MSFT adjusted due to what they thought was needed 2006 they over shipped. lol
I prefer to game on my X360 over my PS3 ANYDAY (because of the much better controller) but seriously - I can't [email protected]#king stand Halo!! The game is crap compared to others out there.
So what, there's a tiny slow down, nothing to worry about, M$ is profiting now, something Fony won't be saying for a long, long, loooooong time!
alan wake, halo 4, halo wars, halo halo halo... Well Ps3 sucks anyways.
halo effect is definetely fading i meant CoD 4 beat them on a most played game on xbox live last week
no really... halo3 hasnt been in a european top 10 since october
Main reason: Halo 3
Can you imagine what sales would have been like w/out the Halo effect? It moved so many consoles. Now I just gotta get those other must have titles... Used Gears, Bioshock and Mass Effect. Is Half.com a good place to get used games?
I was in a gamestop last night and 3 employees were telling a guy in there not to buy a PS3 because ALL 3rd party games run and or look better on the 360. MS made a GAME SYSTEM not a Blue ray palyer that also plays games. Wait until GTA IV comes out and the 360 drops $100 bucks, lets talk numbers then.
Oh I can't wait to talk numbers with you when that happens! Also, people who enjoy GTA games bought them on PS2 and will most likely goto PS3 just because it has all their favorite franchises. I don't see why xbox fans think GTA4 going to 360 will spark a huge "OMG I WUNZ 360z NOWWWW OMGZ!!!!"
Like i said, x360 is slowing down whille the ps3 is on uprise, and we all know about the exclusives coming up.
"Oh noooo....the 360 is failing!!!"
It's a full month after the holidays....EVERY manufacturer sees that much of a drop-off, if not MUCH MORE.
They are comparing Oct, Nov and Dec 2k7 with 360 sales for Oct, Nov and Dec of 2k6. Your after the holidays comment makes no sense at all.
comprehension isn't something you should be talking about this was a shipping adjustment has nothing to do with anything more than MSFT comming to the conclusion they didn't need to ship as many consoles as they shipped too much in 2006.
Doesn't mean demand was less in this case they over shipped in 2006.
If Sony ships lets say 6 million" PS3's this holiday season and sells 3 million to consumers and adjusts their shipping in 2009 holiday season shipping 5 million and selling 4 million Doesn't mean the some future PS3 game effect is fading. lol
Also the shipping number can be the same or less like, in this case and still can be positive for any company even more so if they guessed wrong by over shipping.
I used the term sale. A unit shipped is a sale for MS. MS sold too much in 2k6? I guess they will probably come to the conclusion they sold too many in 2k7 also and the year after that and so on. But hey whatever makes you feel better POS I mean POG.
2.3% is nothing man. 2.3% almost like no effect on drop
One of only a few internally owned IPs. Besides Fable, Perfect Dark, Forza and Viva Pinata I guess. On a side note I liked Kameo but I don't think it sold enough for them to consider a sequel.
2.3% is Sony douche bag flame bait. I hate all of you Sony a-holes!
What the article is highlighting here is not the minute marginal drop, but because it was estimated the 360 do better this holiday with the cheaper cost and better software library. Instead, it did slightly worst than the previous holiday last year not even matching the previous performance; which is obviously a cause for suspicion in why that was. This could be due to many reasons e.g. competition but I'm sure everyone in the industry expected it to do better.
My question is how: With an amazing 2007 getting this holiday result, what will MS need to do to improve on the software-line up to even better that, and thus gain an increase instead of a drop in growth rate for the holiday season.
hmm i can kinda see why this would be news now. if they projected a substantial increase but got a marginal loss. i see
What you, and apparently the "analysts" fail to understand, is that the HALO effect began waaaaay before the holiday season, in a completely different financial 1/4. With preorders in the millions, and a street date of Sept. 25th, the holidays didn't figure to be that much more of a boost to the 360, where HALO was concerned. COD4 was likely a bigger seller for the 360 this X-MAS than HALO 3.
Halo was out in 2006?.
The new consoles finding their place and establishing themselfs caused a split *so to speak* with consumers willing to buy a console.
It was estimated?, PS3 dropped its price three
Anyways back to reality... MSFT simply did not ship as many consoles in 2007 vs 2006 lol shipping adjustments based on what a company thinks is needed at any given time does not mean people are buying any more or any less consoles. Of course if they sell out or not selling then that could effect choice making but still a company can make misstakes on judging how many they need to ship. lol
Always making these grand comments that seem smart but are based from moronic twists to take jabs at MSFT and your little monkey following is aways there to agree with you.
It was a shippment adjustment one that was clearly more realistic when two other consoles entered the market and made even more sense considering the two new consoles would have their 2nd wave of games comming in. Has little to do how many consoles sold to consumers in 2006 vs 2007 in this case.
I wasn't referring to Halo 3 or a specific title at all. My point was that the industry expected Sony and especially Microsoft and Nintendo to show growth in the final fiscal year, with the holiday period a focus. Naturally what the figures show is the opposite; Microsoft sold less this time round.
It's surprising considering the platform is much more appealing, and highly acclaimed, than its ever been. Considering the software package that was exclusive to the 360 in 2007, it'll be interesting to see how Microsoft do in the holiday period of 2008.
Naysayers will say its a sign of decline etc, ignoring total earnings for that year as a whole. However, what can't be ignored is the fact that they did not improve on the holiday period, which is the most important time frame of the industry. I'm sure Microsoft won't be ecstatic with that fact.
of the Xflops failure. It's just a matter of time till PS3 completely takes over. Mark my words. The take over starts Mar.18, when Gran Turismo 5:Prolouge releases.
im a sony fan first but to me, posting this as news is kinda dumb. thats such a tiny difference its almost negligable. a more appropriate story would be the huge amount of %increase sony had
.....Bloodmask posting negative 360 news? *pinches self* im not dreaming?! What the hell? ive fallen into an alternate reality!
You were already in an alternate reality. Now your in an alternate alternate reality.
of the people that purchased halo 3 will buy halo wars. It just doesn't have nearly as much hype as halo 3 did. I agree with f7ss1. Why not just post about how much PS3 is taking ground from the wii and 360? It would be make more sense.
After 2006 holiday there was close to 2.4 million 360's that were shipped and had yet to be sold to consumer.
After 2007 holiday there are close to 1.1 million 360's that have shipped but have yet to be sold to consumer.
Obviously in 2006 MS overshipped, and they didn't want to make that same mistake this year. My feeling is they overshipped 2006 to exceed 10 million sold, since MS reports shipped units as sold units in their earnings release statements.
This has nothing to do with how much they actually sold to consumers over the holiday
4.4 million to 4.3 million oh teh noessssssss
halo 3 definetly was the peak for the 360, editors from sites like ign and gamespot even said that during halo 3's release.
...until halo wars comes out. Actually, GTA is going to boost the 360's sales again...that is, if MS can somehow figure out how to properly market the exclusive dlc.
The price is what is lowering the sales. $349 is still a lot of money for a premium system. The price needs to come down again for sales to grow again. Simple you eventually get to a point where people don't find it worth it at at that price. It is called elasticity of market. Sales will pick again once the price goes down.
Edit: It means that there is a limited market for the console at that price. It becomes more of a wanted item at lower prices. The packed in games convinced some to buy at $349, but it is still to much for the mass market. Why do think Sony and MS keep saying the mass market price point is $199? They have numbers that show this is the optimal price for selling consoles en mass. Sales for all consoles will slow for a while until the prices drop again. Sony may sell better for awhile based on loyalty from the previous generation, but its sales will also slow down soon as $400 is still too expensive for the mass market.
so let me get this right.. a cheaper price point than before, along with 2 packaged games, and the most anticipated game in years that has sole around 7 million units.. equals lower sales than the previous year.. interesting analysis
The premium bundle, with 2 games, is $349, in most places, and the Arcade is $279, w/5 games.
lol.. funny... all of the sudden Sony fanboys don't want to use their theory about sold vs shipped...
The fact that microsoft shipped less consoles than the previous year does not indicate that retail stores sold less xbox 360s... but simply that microsoft shipped less than the previous year... this says nothing about it... it's possible that retailers overstock their inventory before the holiday season to prevent not having any to sell like the previous year causing them to order less during the holiday season...
This says nothing... and the fact that NPD numbers indicate that the xbox 360 sold more consoles than the previous year should be enough to prove that this article is bull... but then again... these Fanboys are stupid and know nothing about business.
Shipped = Sold to retailers
Sold to retailers mean they were bought from M$. They don't see 'more' money if the retailers sell more. The retailers just order more which means more shipped. If they shipped less this holiday season they sold less this holiday season and retailers were not ordering as many as last year.
This isn't rocket science, but spin away my friend, because a dip in the amount of sales is not good after the #1 selling game on the system was launched.
Microsoft makes money for each console bought by a store anyways... they report those numbers because that is what is important to stock holders. The fact that stores are purchasing more Xbox 360s means they are selling regularly...
What difference does it make.
Selling a million units less in 2007 is a pretty big deal. I wonder when Microsoft is going to learn from their competitors and simply release "Hardware Sales Figures" instead of "Hardware Shipment Figures". No wonder their investors are so nervous.
"Not even half
of the people that purchased halo 3 will buy halo wars"
Not even 4 million out of the close to 8 million will buy Halo Wars?, what is MSFT going to do?.
PS3 supporting revenge seeking is whats going on this post its pointless. Its not only ridiculous because the decrease is so small its retarded to post a story over this with a flame title its the fact it just shippment choice that was adjusted and I doubt its because demand of the 360 would be less in the year of Halo vs GOW.. lol
I read the Other new Halo game could be a 3rd person tactical shooter maybe more than half of Halo 3 owners will buy the other Halo game ontop of Halo Wars.
As evident by the fact that nearly 65% of all Xbox 360 hardware sales take place in North America, despite the fact that North America is the second largest videogame market behind Europe.
European sales of the 360 have stagnated.
Japanese sales of the 360 are nonexistent.
Yeah, the 360's monthly sales are still slightly ahead of the PS3 in North America, but globally its getting hammered down into third place. This is really why the need for a price drop on Microsoft's part has become such a hot topic; declining sales across the board, despite an increase in quality software.
haha 360 sucks,red rings of death and pc ports
360 is total @ss
The gaming industry grows thanks to PS3, the non-gaming industry thanks to Wii, and if it wasn't for them, revenues would be down thanks to 360's money pit and decreasing sales.
Are these stats right?. Really is weird if they are correct. Halo3 and lower price point but sold less than the same period the year before?. The positive news for MS then is that the x360 can sell MORE even without Halo3. This means that the x360 can sell more this year which i thought is impossible without Halo FPS. I guess i was wrong then.
At least Micro$hit still has their beloved attach rate!!!
MICROSOFT CAN STOP SELLING BREAKBOX 360'S TOMORROW AND ALL YOU XBOTS WILL STILL SAY IS "We got a record setting attach rates"!!!!!!
Keep your attach rates while Sony gets that money and first place BOTS!!
wow sales fall 2.3% an amount so small i really am surprised. considering the 360 has gained two competing consoles since 2006 i would expect the sales to be down more no?
what a huge difference in sales, i mean, we better write about it because it obviously means the 360 is on it's way to failure...
and the ps3 sales spurt after the emergancy price drop before xmas has slowed as well...
Only one thing matters in making the real money in the gaming business and that is software sales. And thier is no question that the 360 is destroying both the ps3 and wii combined!
2 years out u and xbots still dont understand that xbox 1 sux and the 360 was rushed out to be another wack console. i cant stand xbots when microsoft says jump and all u bots jump like little lemmings.
Halo is the only game keeping the Xbox 360 alive,seriously
Enjoy it while it last guys,the PS3 will take no prisoners 2008 and on;)
360 wont sale more than 45 million when its all said and done. Watch and see.
This is a joke article, 2.3%?? LOL thats a really small number.
Boring when are they gonna announce new games.
Heres hoping for E3 and Gears 2
halo was the rise of the xbox and now it has become the fall.come on over to UT3 on the ps3,we have halo maps to cook on UT3MOD.COM and its free.PLAY B3YOND way B3YOND!
It won't be over until MS decides to stop making games for the 360. A little game called Gears of War 2 will make a huge impact. Not to mention, UT3 will be on 360 soon. Sure it won't have mods, but oh well.
Not to mention all of the heavy hitting games that used to be PS exclusives like DMC, GTA and Resident Evil will help too.
Then there's other big exclusives like Fable 2 and Splinter Cell to look forward too.
To each his own. Enjoy playing your PS3, and many of us will enjoy our 360's.
I agree that 360 sales might suffer now that Halo 3 is in the past, but attributing this to a 2.3% drop in sales is nothing really.
It would be interesting to see how the 360 will do with out the "halo effect" this year.
PS3TRoids better believe that cuz if they don't, they'll end up buying lair again. LOL
ps3rd sold 10 concols in 1 country wene it was released have a look on the internet
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Crawley boxer Ben Jones has earned himself a crack at a major European title.
He has been promised to fight for either the EBU or the WBC European Super featherweight championships.
Jones proved himself by comfortably winning two comeback fights in February.
He beat Slovakian Elemir Rafael and Georgian Giorgi Kulumbegashvili both in the third round recently at two shows in Camden and Harrow.
Jones, 32, said: "This year I've needed to move on. My recent wins have pushed me back to move towards World honours. My life is boxing and I've rediscovered my enjoyment for the sport."
Jones will feature as a top of the bill event at the York Hall in Bethnal Green in East London in July in front of millions of viewers on TV channel Eurosport.
Before that he will be fighting a warm-up bout at Bournemouth on Friday, April 17 and plans to have an after-fight party at a hotel for his fans.
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A little over two years ago, Cynthia Besteman got the diagnosis no one ever wants to hear: breast cancer. She caught it early, and it was treatable, but this didn't leave her feeling exactly "lucky" like everyone said it should. She wanted her diagnosis to make a difference in her life. She turned her diagnosis, and subsequent discovery of substandard beauty products, into a successful and philanthropic business venture. Join us LIVE on Thursday, April 20 at 6pm EST on "The Courage to Change with Lisa Kirchner," where she'll discuss all the ways in which she had to change to make room for her new life.
Originally from Seattle, Cynthia Besteman moved to New York City in 1998 to attend an acting conservatory and never left. After a decade of acting on and off Broadway, she took a job in Real Estate to support her then-husband, who was a director. Successful financially, she was nonetheless not as happy as when she was acting. Her family would hide her phone because she worked constantly.
Then, in 2011, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Her experiences led her to start making a skin care line for women undergoing cancer treatment. "I was in fear of what I was putting on my body and that has now become a company named Violets are Blue," she says. "I took it one step farther and we now donate chemo skin care packages to women being treated at Mount Sinai's Dubin Breast Center. Check out their website and products here.
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October 17, 2007
Thanks and Get Ready to Write with A Hit-Maker!Hi Everybody, Jim Attebery here again. Whew we did it! Here's just one great pic of the goings on in Rio Rico October 4-6. THANKS TO EVERYONE INVOLVED IN THE EXPO!!! You rocked!
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Cape 2 Cape 2015! What a year!! These guys were amazing and have inspired so many JCC Riders to take part in it next year. 220km over 4 days is not a joyride and to just complete this Race is a massive accomplishment, to finish in the top 100 - WOW - and yes, we had 5 them!! Well done Gerrit Coetzee, Nathan Schmiedte, Ralph Herbort, Simon Dec & Stephen Marks!!
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The Benchmark offers a full analysis of how digital learning is used in major European companies: benefits expected by organizations, contributions to business, main target audiences affected in companies, fields of application, types of content used, expectations on Mobile Learning, obstacles encountered, and so on.
Coping with a changing market and maintaining operational performance
Corporate digital learning programs now play an essential role in helping firms adapt to changing markets and new business environments.
For 68% of respondents, digital learning makes it possible to enhance staff agility to cope with unpredictable markets, current transformations (often driven by digital technology), new customer relationship dynamics, the emergence of new competitors and unexpected economic models, etc. Companies are also aware that digital learning provides a rapid response to the regulatory changes they have to comply with. They can quickly train a large number of employees using the relevant digital programs.
Another contribution highlighted in the study relates to operational performance. For 63% of firms, digital learning is a major vector for enhanced staff performance on a day-to-day basis.
Exponential growth of digital learning
Forecasts presented in the 2011 edition of the Benchmark have been confirmed: 37% of companies said they planned to train over 50% of their staff using e-learning by 2013. In 2014, 36% stated that they had indeed done so.
If forecasts for 2017 are similarly confirmed, 66% of firms will have made e-learning programs available to their staff. We can thus predict that 2 out of 3 companies will have trained over 50% of their staff using e-learning by 2017.
To ensure the success of these large-scale programs, the involvement of line managers is seen as essential (up 20% compared with 2011). The manager has to ensure that the chosen training modules respond to the real needs of his team members, providing them with the necessary skills.
A major boost to sales performance
E-learning programs now target a whole range of audiences. Among these programs, whose methods and modalities are constantly expanding, blended learning (94%) and open-access content (84%) remain the most popular options.
Responding as it does to rationalization and cost optimization objectives thanks to its rapid rollout potential, e-learning is an attractive choice for companies at all levels. This is reflected in the increasingly widespread use of digital learning in all fields: core business training (65%), compliance (58%), and management and leadership (52%).
Focusing more specifically on target audiences, we see that sales forces now benefit especially strongly from digital learning programs. E-learning is particularly well-suited to the needs of this group thanks to rapid rollout (vital where product launches are concerned) and the ability to train all sales staff (including new recruits) simultaneously across different locations.
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Clarification on Win7 versions and keys.
I just bought a pc on Ebay. I picked it up tonight.
It has Win 7 Ultimate 32bit on it. He also gave me the disc/product key.
It's a Windows 7 Ultimate Promotional Disc - 32 bit.
It's a dual core pc. I'd like to install 64 bit ultimate on it instead. Is this allowed if I wipe the 32 bit version?
Can I use the same key?
I have a 64bit windows home premium DVD but not an ultimate one. Is it possible to use that DVD or do I need to get a copy of the 64 bit ultimate DVD?
Any assistance would be great.
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Your windows 7 product code will let you install the 32 bit or 64 bit version. The product keys are locked to a certain version, for example a Home Premium key will only let you install Home Premium, it will not let you install Professional or Ultimate. Also your Home Premium DVD is locked to Home Premium. There is a way around that though. If you create an ISO image of your Home Premium DVD you can edit it so it will let you install any version you want. All you do is delete the ei.cfg file from the sources folder and then burn a new disk. This DVD should then give you a menu with Starter, Home Premium, Professional or Ultimate to choose from. The product code has to match the version you select, so you can't cheat and install a higher version than what you paid for. If you have PC's with different versions it's handy to have one DVD to do installs from instead of 2 or 3. I put mine on a USB thumb drive.
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Windows 7 Ultimate x64
The key will work with either 32-bit or 64-bit...however the versions have to be the same. So, you won't be able to use your Home Premium disc with an Ultimate disc I'm afraid.
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Windows 10 Pro (x64)
All you have to do is remove "ei.cfg" from the DVD.
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Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1
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not to thread-jack, but you'd have to delete the ei.cfg for both the 32 and 64 bit discs if you wanted a multi version disc of each type correct? I've yet to do this, but it sounds handy...
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In my opinion the simplest way to do it is the way DeaconFrost described. Create a bootable thumb drive and then delete the ei.cfg file from the sources folder. I use the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool > Microsoft Store: Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool Help . It doesn't get much simpler to use and it comes right from the horses mouth. Once you have your OS on the thumdrive you can delete the ei.cfg file to unlock all the versions.
EDIT: You just deleted the ei.cfg file FROM the sources folder and not the folder itself, right?
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What are the key propositions of the Anthropocene?
The Anthroposcene refers to the world's "geoglogic" ( Erle Ellis 2013) status. This status has been altered by human interaction and quest for enrichment, progress and survival. The self-reliant ecological system is "man's earth" (Gisli et al 2013). Millions of years ago, perfecting the art of craft weapons and fire lead to hunting which doctored the relationship between humans and animals on Earth (Gisli et al 2013).
Three historical periods are significant to the rise of the Anthropocene. With the creative use of fossil fuels as a source of coal, in China during 960-1279, increased combustion of coal to provide energy sources lead to the detrimental atmospheric imbalance in carbon dioxide (Gisli et al 2013). The Industrial Revolution (1800's), elevated human activity and the manufacturing of materials such as plastics, concrete and aluminum which have spiked levels in atmospheric carbon dioxide, nitrogen as well as phosphorus cycles (Waters et al 2016). Lastly, the "Great Acceleration" (Waters et al 2016), birthed during the 20th century, along with the production of coal and the rise of the Industrial Revolution has opened fire on our vulnerable planet in a war where mankind is the leading force.
"Geochemical signatures" (Waters et al 2016) have infected and spread through Earth like a disease. We live in a world that is constantly battling the heightened "global sea levels"(Waters et al 2016) and boom in "erosion caused by deforestation" which bring about the loss of biodiversity of both fauna and flora in rain forests and wetlands. "Extinction rates"(Waters et al 2016) have sky-rocketed and "global temperatures" (Waters et al 2016) have climbed levels to oppressive heat which threaten the continuity of our ecosystem.
What sounds, recorded over two days within the area are constant? Can these dominant sounds be regarded as a soundscape of the Anthropocene?
Every morning in the Klaradyn Tuks residence, I get woken up by the cacophony of the construction site in Hatfield which is dominated by the echo of bulldozers and wrecking balls. The Klaradyn dining hall brims with the sound of clicking cutlery on porcelain plates, heightened chatter of lady students and the clanging of stainless steel kitchen appliances. Crossing the street to the university campus, one can hear the horrendous traffic and occasional broken exhaust sound in the distance. The stamping feet of students scurrying to get to class is at times accompanied by a few lost bird sounds in the Jacaranda trees. Entering the lecturing hall, the heavy drop of bags into the wooden benches and the scratching for stationery and leafing of papers are all sounds that emphasize mans intrusion in Pretoria East.
These dominated sounds can be viewed as a soundscape of the Anthropocene. The world we live in today mirrors the "conversion of natural ecosystems to human-dominated landscapes" (Steffen et al 2011). We, the self-proclaimed rulers of this Earth have invaded the habitats of animals and destroyed the precious vegetation in order to keep up with "both population and economic growth"(Steffen et al 2011). Life, in form of fauna and flora have been muted by "environmental stresses, such as air pollution" [and] fouling waterways"(Steffen et al 2011). Human-everyday-bustle has blockaded access to nature.
"What is it like to listen to birds in the Anthropocene?" (Whitehouse 2015:53), Are most of the bird sounds from a large number of bird species or only a few? How does your answer relate to the dwindling biodiversity evident in the Anthropocene?
According to Whitehouse (2015), calamitous human involvement has hushed the "animal orchestra" (Whitehouse 2015:1) and dunk the world into a sea of silence. Landscapes, should be sanctified with the harmonic sounds of birds and people should take for granted the birds ability to "iconically and indexically ground" (Whitehouse 2015:1) them because when wildlife is silenced, the silence is felt (Whitehouse 2015:1).
Sitting outside for the past few days, closing my eyes and taking everything in, made me realize how difficult it was to barricade the construction, the buzz and turmoil of Urban life. Birds do not sing in choirs anymore. If a bird appears, he sings to the world on a solo stage. These days, finding a single moment where the song of birds are not challenged by the roars of human ambition, is rare. The Anthropocene has vanquished the purity of the bird symphony.
Humans are culpable for the "silence, discord and destruction" (Whitehouse 2015:2) and sending the world into a time machine back to a state where "human and non-human" spheres could coexist without disruption, is impossible. The world is spiraling into a "silent spring"(Whitehouse 2015:2), where new life will no longer be welcomed by the hymns of a volery of birds. "Birds and other wildlife are under threat from everyday human activities" (Whitehouse 2015:3), one minute they appear in abundance and the next "they all disappear" (Whitehouse 2015:3).
How do the interviews, conducted with parents and grandparents, draw attention to the disappearing ecosystems and dwindling biodiversity of our present day? From your own school days to present, can you witness a loss of biodiversity as well as the degradation of ecosystems?
According to Charmaine Jooste (2016), who grew up on her grandmother's plot of land, the vast acreage was covered with peach trees, blue-gum trees and apricot trees where on doves would rest, to sing early morning praises. There were chickens and turkeys roaming the back garden and there was enough room for a chicken coop. Separate from the structured front garden, there was a rose garden, peacocks and guinea-fowl called the plot home and different bird breeds would be seen on the property. Charmaine Jooste (2016) went on to mention, that the plot of land was then later developed into an estate of 100 homes each with a tiny postage stamp of a garden, enclosed by a concrete wall. The once gravel road, shadowed by km's of trees were all chopped down to make way for a tarred main road. The sounds of the once free ranging flocks of birds are now hushed by the sound of ambulances and oncoming traffic. The development has contributed to the loss of biodiversity and the destruction of lush land to provide accommodation.
Mark Kriek (2016), described the plot in Suikerbosrand where he grew up and his parents still lives as the perfect escape from the chaos of the city. The family owns large amounts of cattle that grazes on the well-maintained feeding grass. Goats stroll in between the cattle and chickens are kept in the back shed where their eggs are sold to organic food markets. Melodies coming from the bird life scattered across the forests can be heard all the way from the main house. Recently, the municipality made an offer to purchase the property and utilize it as a mining site for coal. Mark Kriek (2016) made it clear that his parents are reluctant on the auction. However if the home is sold, all the farm animals will be bargained off to neighbouring farms and the non-urban areas, providing shelter to wildlife will be hovered up.
15 years ago, we as a family were able to access the gravel roads, woods and veld for our weekend Saturday runs. The red gravel pathways that we used, was a scenic route with birds, small ponds and an occasional hare crossing our track. Since then, the beautiful landscape has made way for back-to-back concrete estates that has squashed and pushed nature to places unknown.
We are living in the Anthropocene. We might not be aware of the difficulty that lies ahead in the future because, for many, our present seems sane and normal. Waking up to the uproarious sounds of construction, taxis honking and police sirens resounding the neighbourhood, is routine. That is our normal. But imagine all of that was gone, and all we could was the sound of birds, in trees higher that the building we shadow them with. According to Whitehouse (2015), "The Anthropocene has also ushered in a new kind of anthrophony, with the sounds of industry, machinery, combustion engines and electronic amplification". The world we live in today, so different from its purest days, "reduce the quantity of sound but also cause disruption to the relative harmony of the soundscape" (Whitehouse 2015:6) and our human race is to blame from the stress we place on "endangered, or altered biomes" (Whitehouse 2015:6) that have caused the "little organisational structure" to appear.
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Smart Cardio for Strength, Mass & Fat Loss
By: Charles Staley
If you're a typical guy who loves to lift big weights, but considers anything over 3 reps to be "endurance" training, you might not be interested in this article. However, if you can bench press a Buick but get winded when you bend down to tie your shoes, maybe I have an audience.
Look, we all do what we LIKE to do, but only the most successful among us find a way to also do what we NEED to do. If you think you're in the latter category, listen up. I've got a quiver full of fun, challenging, cardio workouts that help you lose fat without losing strength or muscle.
Don't fall into the trap of thinking that cardio will turn you into a wispy, estrogen-soaked shadow of your former self - too many guys use this mindset as an excuse to avoid what they know they should be doing. In fact, the benefits of smart cardio training are too numerous to ignore.
They include:
Think back to the parable of the farmer who discovered a goose who laid golden eggs - after a while, the farmer lost patience, and killed the goose to get all of the eggs all at once. Of course, when he opened the goose, there were no eggs inside. Don't kill the goose (your health) that lays golden eggs (a lifetime of productive workouts).
Now, you might not have terrible endurance capacity now, but after a few decades of cardio avoidance, you will. So don't even go there - you really CAN have it all - impressive muscularity, scary levels of maximum strength, and a healthy heart to boot. Follow along.
Before I introduce you to my favorite cardio tricks, I'd like to share a few general principles that will make your cardiovascular sessions a lot more fun and rewarding:
After all, your heart, lungs, and circulatory system don't know what exercise activity is taking place - but your joint sure do. If you use running for all your cardio workouts for example, your knees and feet take a heavy beating. But if you distribute the workout among 2-3 activities, such as running, swimming, and cycling, you'll be less prone to overuse injury, and you'll have more fun to boot.
Finally, a quality performance is a pain-free performance. If you're experiencing elbow pain during a swim for example, change gears until you determine what's wrong.
Look, if you can't find some fun in your training, you'll never last. So if you hate cardio, you'll need to play some games with yourself to get in the mood. I think the best way to accomplish this is to challenge yourself.
Keep a detailed training journal and record your PR's for everything you do. This adds purpose and excitement to your training.
Try to adopt a "no preparation" attitude toward training. Don't worry what your hair looks like, if it's raining out, if you've got your running shorts on, or if you'll be sweaty while you're at the grocery store afterwards.
People often tell me that they dread the thought of doing cardio, but once they're doing it, it's not so bad. If you can relate, try to minimize the pre-workout gyrations. Just get out and do it.
My Favorite Cardio Training Methods.
The following 8 training methods have a few things in common: They're efficient, fun, challenging, time-efficient, practical, and most of all, they deliver.
Your goal is to jog to a nearby park and then turn around and come back. With the out and back method, your goal is to establish a pace that enables you to complete your return trip in the same time as your out trip. If the return trip takes longer than the out trip, it indicates that you're fatiguing faster than you should be - in other words, you're running beyond your current abilities.
You can even use the out and back method with cardio machines in your gym - if, for example, you plan to use the elliptical trainer for 20 minutes, notice how much work you do in the first 10 minutes (usually this will be displayed as distance, or, alternatively, in watts). Then strive to equal or surpass this workload in the remaining 10 minutes.
The main thing is to record your time, no matter how bad it might be. Then, the next time you go out, simply beat that time. And you will. Gradually, workout by workout, you'll be running more and walking less. And you'll experience a steady stream of PR's to keep your motivation flying.
Once around is 400 meters. The current men's World record is less than 44 seconds, which will soon strike you as un-Godly as you try your hand at this simple but punitive track & field event! So first time out, go VERY easy for the first 200 meters, and then pick up the pace for the final kick if you still have anything left in the tank. Record your time.
After about 4-5 minutes rest, run one more and try to beat your PR. That's it for the first workout. You can run 400's about twice a week, but start small and increase your reps very gradually. After several months, you'll find you can do maybe 5 repeats per workout.
Interestingly, and perhaps surprisingly to some, the Tabata Protocol increases aerobic fitness in addition to its anaerobic benefits. This finding is consistent with my "ladder" paradigm that states that higher intensity training develops a wider spectrum of fitness benefits than lower-intensity exercise.
Clearly, the hallmark of this method is it's time-efficiency, but there is a price to pay in pain and sweat - choose your poison!
First conceived by basketball coach Adolph Rupp in the 1940's, and then later popularized by Bigger Faster Stronger Inc. a few decades later, the dot drill is both a remarkable agility, foot strength, and anaerobic conditioning exercise, as well as a superb and easy-to-administer testing tool.
It is unique in that it creates not only a high level of fatigue, but also a high quality of fatigue- fighters in particular will be able to relate to the feeling of panic that ensues when your heart rate soars to about 120% of age-predicted maximum.
The dot drill is a battery of 5 separate drills, performed in rapid succession, with each drill performed six times in a row before proceeding to the next drill (please refer to the diagram as you read the description).
Dot Drill Schematic
The dot drill features (5), five-inch diameter dots orientated in a pattern similar to the five dots on a pair of dice, expect that the "square" is three feet by two feet. Use a solid surface such as weight room matting, and tie your shoelaces. Tight.
Begin the drill as follows:
1. First drill: Starting position: your left foot is on "A" and your right foot on "B." Hop forward and touch "C" with both feet simultaneously, then continue forward so that your left foot lands on "D" at the same instant your right foot lands on "E." (a total of 2 hops). Now go back to the starting position by reversing what you just did (hopping backward). That's one rep. Repeat for a total of six reps.
2. Second drill: From the starting position, lift your left foot in the air and with right foot only, hop to "C," "E," "D," "C," "A," and back to "B." That's one rep. Repeat for a total of six reps.
3. Third drill: Repeat the last drill but using the left foot only (hop to "C," "E," "D," "C," "A," and back to "B.") That's one rep. Repeat for a total of six reps.
4. Fourth drill: Repeat the last drill but using both feet, keeping the feet together- this looks somewhat like a skiing drill. Repeat for a total of six reps.
5. Fifth drill: This is very similar to drill number one, with a slight variation: When you reach the top of the pattern (left foot on "D" and your right foot on "E."), instead of hopping backward to get back to the starting position, you instead jump-spin and land on the same two dots (only now your left foot will be on "E" and your right foot on "D."), facing the opposite direction.
Then hop forward and touch "C" with both feet simultaneously, then continue forward so that your left foot lands on "B" and your right foot on "A." Lastly, jump-spin again to assume the starting position. That's one rep. Repeat for a total of six reps.
Errors: Subtract .10 seconds for every missed dot from the total time.
Once you've done the drill a few times, you'll notice that you can't help but be competitive once you start. Even if you don't feel terribly motivated, you'll bust a gut trying to get a good time. Or maybe it's just that you want to get it over with. Either way, the dot drill brings out your best (and I'm not referring to your last meal).
Implementing The Dot Drill
The five dots of death (as my athletes refer to it) can be used as a warm-up for a strength training session (one drill will bring your heart rate to 100% and will get you sweating big-time), as anaerobic conditioning, and/or as a fantastic foot and calf strengthening tool.
One precaution however: I suggest never doing more than 4 repetitions of the dot drill on any given day, and not more than 12 dot drills on any given week.
Dot Drill Standards
OK, you've done the dot drill a handful of times and you think you're a stud (or studette) because you finally broke the two minute barrier? According to Bigger Faster Stronger, you'll need to break the 60 second barrier to be considered fast (for a complete listing of the BFS dot drill standards, point your browser to http://www.biggerfasterstronger.com).
You attach the band to one side of the pool, and attach the band to your waist. Attach the band in such a way that you can just barely reach the other side of the pool through an all-out sprint. Once you touch the other end, relax as the band pulls you back. Then repeat for the desired numbers of reps. This is a brutally tough and effective form of anaerobic exercise that delivers the fat loss goods in spades.
Of course, the snatch is one of the two Olympic lifting events, but there are several one-arm variants as well, including the one-arm dumbbell snatch, the kettlebell snatch, and the one-arm barbell snatch. .
All of these lifts create high levels of cardio-respiratory fatigue, in addition to the obvious speed strength and shoulder-function benefits. On top of that, snatches are actually fun!
As you begin to initiate some of these cardio workouts, realize that you're significantly increasing the demands on your body. I strongly suggest cutting back on the volume of your weight training exercises to make way for these new workouts.
The simplest way to do this is to cut your sets in half- in other words, if you normally do 4 sets of 8, cut it back to 2 sets of 8- at least for the first few months. You'll find that this approach will allow you to maintain both your strength and orthopedic health as you begin to address your cardiovascular fitness needs.
Following the suggestions I've presented here, you'll enjoy the health and fat loss benefits of a cardiovascular exercise program, and, who knows, you might even become a "former" cardio hater!
About The Author
Charles Staley is known as the "Secret Weapon" by his Olympic and Professional athletes for his ability to see what other coaches miss. When the elite of the sports world want innovative, "out-of-the-box" solutions in their quest to reach World-class levels of performance, they come to Charles. Learn more about EDT (Staley's proprietary training system) at: www.EDTSecrets.com.


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Our MSc in Strategic Marketing examines the fundamentals of marketing strategy, new technologies and the marketing opportunities they present.
The one-year, full-time programme has a strong emphasis on real-life case studies to give you a true understanding of strategic marketing practice, preparing you for a marketing career in a range of businesses or entrepreneurial ventures.
Drawing on expertise from the marketing faculty in addition to experts in innovation, entrepreneurship and digital business, the programme aims to transform recent graduates into highly trained, highly skilled individuals who understand marketing from a strategic perspective.
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Before the programme begins you will be expected to complete some online pre-study modules, designed to give you a basic knowledge of areas which will be covered by the programme throughout the academic year.
The core modules of the programme start in the autumn term and continue into the spring and summer terms. Each module comprises of 20 hours of lectures and builds on previous experience while introducing new and challenging disciplines. You will examine marketing and strategy fundamentals, explore a range of topics in advanced marketing and strategy and apply this knowledge in the context of established companies and entrepreneurial ventures.
In the summer term, you will take part in a Marketing Consulting Project for a client organisation, allowing you to gain consulting experience and apply knowledge from the taught modules to the solution of a real business issue. You submit your project in early September.
Our graduates are well prepared for jobs in a wide range of industries in the UK, Europe and further afield, with employers including Apple, Google and Universal Music Group.
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Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma are rapidly becoming India's biggest power couple – bringing together the twin religions of cricket and Bollywood. Sadly, their following on social media is much less stable than their relationship seems to be – with people alternately cursing and blessing the duo.
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I've been thinking a lot, recently, about the human being and the penchant to want to eat our cake and still have it. This thought has become more and more pronounced in my head since this latest Republican Party onslaught on our sensitivities and sensibilities concerning how big government and government handouts are the cause of all the problems faced by this country. I've tried, and you don't know how hard, to banish this thought but without success, especially since, it seems, Americans have become more selfish and, as a result, more stupid, and want to enjoy everything that government provides while also not wanting government.
Americans want good roads for their cars to run on and cannot tolerate the shallowest of pot holes on them. We need the traffic moving, our traffic lights working like clock work and the highway police on hand to take care of any problems that might arise. We want good rail tracks for the trains to run on and won't entertain even the minutest of delays. I use the subway and I know what the reaction usually is from myself and my fellow commuters anytime the train is running late. Americans want good security and anytime there's a crime, or the threat of it, we want for the police to appear within seconds and take care of whatever it is.
We love our emergency responders and every time there is an accident, or a fire incident we love for our EMTs and fire fighters to show up within seconds and take care of the situation even before we dial 911. We don't want fallen snow to last two minutes on our roads otherwise the city mayor will hear from us, and we complain to high heavens every time we think the works department has been slow in clearing that annoyance from our government maintained roads.
Whenever we want anything from the city hall, be it our children's birth certificates or our business certificate of incorporation, we always want to get it within seconds of arriving there and we wouldn't tolerate the slightest delay. We want to get to the RMV and have our driver's license waiting for us before we ask for it, or our license plate affixed to our vehicle for us. We want our courts up and running, and taking care of all cases promptly and as quickly as humanly possible.
Americans love our education. We want our schools to be the best in the world and cry to high heavens, demanding for something to be done urgently any time we feel we're not getting the best. We want our kids bussed to and from school, and want them to have the best education that can be provided with the best teaching equipment in the world. We want the best higher education institutions to be available for everybody that wants to attend and, therefore, we demand for the best equipped schools with the best qualified teachers.
We want the best and most equipped libraries and demand it everyday. We want a library branch in each and every one of our neighborhoods which is fully equipped and staffed and we demand the utmost comfort every time we're using it. During winter, we want it adequately heated and in summer we need it well cooled. We want to visit the library any time and be able to find the latest materials waiting for us to use.
We love our safety nets and when we lose our jobs, we want the government to be there for us and pay us jobless benefit until we can get back on our feet. If we eventually are not able to find a job and become homeless, we want the government to help provide us with shelter and allow us stipends to enable us get the necessities needed for everyday living
We also want to have safety nets like medicare and medicaid to fall back on when we reach retirement age and are weak and frail. When we can no longer cater for ourselves, we want the government to take care of us and make sure we can get medical service every time we need it To cut a long story short, we love to have all of our needs taken care of even to the point of our trash taken out for us.
This is a good thing except that we want all of these things without having to pay for it, and possibly without having a government. In other words, we want these services to fall from heaven which might explain our infatuation with small, or no government. This might also explain why nobody wants to pay taxes while expecting to drive on well paved roads and enjoy the other benefits mentioned above.
The truth is that we as a people, like everybody else around the world, actually love "big government" and everything it provides but have been made to hate the idea of it by some self serving people who just want to deceive. Their reasons for this deceit are well documented here http://ohaneze.blogspot.com/2010/12/privatization-and-small-government-what.html and, until we decide to face reality and accept that the phantom idea of small or no government which we're enamored with is not practicable, we will keep running around in confusion, not knowing where we are or where we should be heading.


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According to American folklore, the famously long-legged Abraham Lincoln was once asked: "Abe, how long should a man's legs be?" Lincoln is reported to have answered: "Long enough to reach the ground."
If Abe was still with us, we might want to ask him "How large should a bank be?" This is a perennial worry for community bankers, for whom smallness is an advertised virtue. When do scale economies from growing bigger run out for community banks? And will the pursuit of these savings result in community banks losing touch with their business model and their customers?
At the other end of the industry, this question worries bank policymakers. Do our largest banks need to do trillions of dollars of business to remain on a competitive footing with their international rivals? And if so, are the cost savings captured by this hugeness large enough to justify the systemic risks posed by these banks?
Banking economists (including me, for a time) have been hard at work for several decades estimating complex econometric models of bank scale economies. They still haven't reached a conclusion.
Some researchers argue that even the largest banks have access to scale economies. A recently published study by economists at Clemson University and the St. Louis Fed finds that banks of all sizes — community banks, regional banks, and nationwide banks — can reduce their costs of production by growing larger. Using a different measurement technique, a recent Rutgers University-Philadephia Fed study similarly concludes that U.S. bank holding companies of all sizes have access to increasing scale economies.
But other researchers disagree. A pair of Bank of England economists have recently found that large international banks exhibit constant returns to scale — that is, their costs per unit neither increase nor decrease as they grow larger. And a new study by a team of researchers at Rice University, the Federal Reserve Board and the OCC also finds no evidence of scale economies for the largest 50 U.S. banks.
The stark disagreement among world-class researchers is testimony to the difficulty of their task — trying to capture in numbers the bank production process amid ever-changing technological, regulatory and market conditions. An easier approach is to simply sit back and wait for the marketplace to reveal which banks are too big or too small. This is the so-called "survivor analysis" of Nobel laureate George Stigler, which recognizes that competition will drive inefficient banks — those that are either too small or too large — out of the industry.
In 1980, state and federal regulation protected most banks from out-of-market competition — but as these protections faded away, banks faced increased competitive pressures. By the onset of the financial crisis in 2007, the number of commercial banks with less than $500 million of assets (in today's dollars) fell from over 14,000 to less than 7,000. In contrast, banks with between $500 million and $1 billion increased in number from 422 to 560, while banks with assets greater than $1 billion did not change, remaining constant at about 525 banks.
By the logic of survivor analysis, scale economies are important for small banks with less than $500 million of assets, but relatively unimportant for banks above $1 billion.
Of course, we are mixing apples with oranges by lumping all of the $1 billion-plus banks into the same category. Business models and production processes at the very largest U.S. banking companies are quite different than those at large community banks. So let's take a separate look at the survivability of the largest banks.
During the financial crisis, four of the largest ten U.S. depository institutions, Citibank (C), Bank of America (BAC), Wachovia and Washington Mutual, either failed or had to be bailed out. This 40% failure rate exceeds by far the failure rate in the rest of the industry — as of year-end 2011, only about 6% of smaller banks had failed due to the financial crisis.
This is consistent with something that bank researchers (including me) have been observing for about a decade now: the business models and financial activities of the largest banking companies are simply riskier than those of smaller, more traditional banks. Risk usually means increased costs — the banks' ex ante costs of managing risk, or society's ex post costs of cleaning up the mess. Indeed, capturing these costs of risk in their models is one of the challenges facing scale economy researchers.
So how big should a community bank be? According to both the simple numbers and the complex models, if you have less than $500 million or so in assets — and don't have a special strategic niche — then you can add un-exploited scale savings to your list of challenges.
And how big should we allow large banks to get? There is no consensus among bank researchers that restricting large bank size will either reduce or enhance their cost competitiveness. The ideal policy would replace the expectation of bailouts with the demonstrated ability of regulators to seize and wind-down insolvent banks of all sizes. This would allow successful banks to grow to whatever is truly their most efficient (but un-subsidized) size.
Bob DeYoung is the Capitol Federal Professor in Financial Markets and Institutions at the University of Kansas School of Business. He was previously an FDIC official and senior economist at the Federal Reserve and the OCC.