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The first week of September was really about the last two days. Thursday held an important European Central Bank (ECB) monetary policy decision with heightened expectations given ECB President Mario Draghi's remarks this summer to "do whatever it takes" to save the euro. Meanwhile, Friday's employment report was seen as the key for determining whether the Fed would implement QE3 at its September meeting.
Given the pending events, Tradeweb volume over the first two days back from the Labor Day holiday averaged just 75%, but jumped to well above normal on the final two sessions as the ECB and non-farm payroll news sent the markets on a wild ride.
Draghi seemingly delivered on his promise to "do whatever it takes" to save the euro and announced an unlimited bond buying program. This heated up the risk-on trade with the major domestic equity benchmarks surging between 1.8% and 2.0%, while the 10-year note yield soared to 1.673% from below 1.60% at mid-week.
Thursday also held an employment preview through ADP national employment report for August which came in stronger than expected, and led some economists to revise upward their outlook for nonfarm payrolls. The markets, however, were stunned by a 96k print that was well below the 125k consensus with July and June downwardly adjusted by a total of 41k. The 10-year note yield which was at 1.733% before the release plunged to 1.61% afterwards, or over a one point move in price, on expectations that the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) will announce QE3 next week.
A result of both the sell-off and rally was a pickup in mortgage banker selling. Thursday through midday on Friday it totaled over $5 billion versus all of $3.0 billion over Tuesday and Wednesday. Thursday's supply was somewhat difficult to digest though lower prices and wider spreads did draw in opportunistic banks and money managers given the favorable technical outlook for the sector.
On Friday, however, originators could not deliver enough given the stronger QE3 odds and spreads on FNMA 30-year 3.0s and 3.5s were tighter by 1/4 and 1/8 point, respectively, at mid-day versus the curve and swaps.
Outside of the usual focus on production coupons, there were some interesting flows over the course of the holiday-shortened week in other sectors of the mortgage market. One was in the FNMA 5.0 Sep/Oct roll which strengthened to 7+ ticks by Thursday's mark from 2 ticks on Aug. 31 due to shorts.
Also, trading in specifieds was very active with originator cycle bid lists that reportedly totaled around $30 billion. This activity is typical heading into Class A (30-year FNMAs and FHLMC Gold) settlement which is next week, although the amount was quite elevated. Payups, however, held up well despite the supply as demand remained strong for call protected paper.
For the week through Thursday, Tradeweb volume averaged 90%.MBS performance was off to a good start for September with excess return to Treasuries on Barclays MBS Index at +15 basis points through Sept. 6. The 30yr current coupon yield rose to 2.53% from 2.44% at the end of August with the spread to 10-year notes two basis points tighter to 86.
Excitement Continues
Providing a brief distraction earlier in the week for MBS investors as they waited for the FOMC statement will be the prepay news and Class A 48-hour day. The August prepayment reports actually will be out later this afternoon, but markets will only get a brief period to react if speeds are outside of expectations. So this will likely be more of the focus of trading on Monday and will also be an influence on dollar rolls heading into Tuesday's Class A allocations.
The FOMC delivers its policy decision at 12:30 pm on Thursday, followed at 2:00 pm by their Summary of Economic Projections, and then 15 minutes later Chairman Ben Bernanke will hold a press conference. Today's disappointing employment report with adverse back month revisions increased expectations that the Fed will not only extend the low rates time frame to late 2015 from late 2014, but that it will also announce asset purchases that will include MBS.
Credit Suisse analysts said in research this week they expect buying of around $500 to $600 billion over 12-15 months. They calculated this would result in roughly 3/4 to 1 point outperformance on FNMA 3s versus rates and around 1/2 to 3/4 points on FN 3.5s. Barclays Capital's economists think the FOMC's buying will be "open-ended" and consist of both Treasuries and agency MBS. If they decide against an open-ended approach, they expect a stated amount of up to $500 billion extending into the first half of 2013.
The week is not without events from the European Union which could potentially distress or buoy global markets. On tap are a German court ruling on the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), as well as, a Dutch election - both on Sept. 12; a two-day meeting of the euro finance ministers (the Eurogroup) on Sept.14-15, while Spain could possibly make its formal bailout request.


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lolll whenever i visit my xanga, i click on "footprints".
today, i found 2 footprints from "Mozilla – Russian Federation" ?!?!? do i even know anyone in Russia?? hahah. well anyway, if you visit again, hello =)
but that's beside the point. today, i just wanted to gush over my love of music!
or well, i ❤ the voice. realllly enjoyed all of today's performances (last final performances, tomorrow's the grand finale! with performances from the judges, lady a, bieber (whose newish song reminds me a lot of JT, which is weird), hall and oates (don't remember who they are), and flo rida)
couldn't even switch over to my fav spurs (who won today! 4-0 sweeeeep of the jazz!) during commercial breaks, bc i just kept thinking of the artists and songs and performances ::satisfied::
before today, i would've said the final results = 1) juliet (team cee-lo), 2) jermaine (blake), 3) chris (christina), 4) tony (adam). but now i feel like the top three is TIGHT. not that tony's bad, but he's less different than the other three, and between him and jermaine, i'd def go for mr. jermaine paul. his voice is so strong, and he always seems like he's having fun! though he's shown that he has his sentimental side, too. he performed "God gave me you" to thank blake today, and that song, along with Jason Mraz's "I won't give up on you" are my two current fav sappy songs =) if i were the type to plan weddings, they'd def be on my list of songs. but….i'm not, haha. i just realllly like music!
i watch all the music reality shows… except american idol bc it's been on so long. but i guess for any reality show, once you start watching and hearing about contestants' lives and backgrounds, you just get invested in them. sigh, american marketing! *shakes fist* *but not really*
oh back to the voice. i kinda wish katrina had made it to the final 4 instead of tony, but at the same time i kinda get it, her voice is superb, but maybe her performances didn't have enough energy. like chris mann, but less, maybe? i dunno. i was trying to imagine how katrina would've performed tonight. and i saw it as "chris-type", but not as suave. bc she's a girl.. also, i'm sad that christina seems to have a vendetta against tony. i mean, yeah, the press has been playing it up, but you don't have to feed the flames! come on. she couldn't say something nice and stick to it, she had to comment about the derogatory lyrics. and then interrupt adam a bunch. we get it already. and then she had to put tony down (in a sideways comment) while complimenting chris for his thank you song! ugh. but she seems to treat her contestants right, and it makes me happy that chris was really happy about performing w/ her. and that he made her cry with his solo performance of "you raise me up". i like it when celebs show emotion like that, haha. even though it could be fake bc they can act and all. but whatever.
happy about performances! ❤ the voice today =)
oh side note. it feels like i haven't been to work in foreverrrr. half day last friday and training out of office today. feels weird. should sleep now….
may has gone by superfast.


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remember the love letters to my girls?
continued from part 1 and part 2
learning the hard way.
In high school, I was given a personality assessment test, which was supposed to tell me which field of employment would best suit me. It was supposed to help me decide on a major in college. Regardless of what this test said, I was determined there were certain jobs that I would never consider! Funny thing is, the top of my "no, never in this lifetime list" was the exact job my assessment test said I'd be perfect for.
Secretarial/office administration. (surprising, huh? not really, considering i'm an organizational freak)
EEEEK! At that time in my life, secretarial duties just weren't my cup of tea...definitely not something I'd consider doing the rest of my life. After graduating from high school at age 16 (one year early), I decided to do some paper pushing at a local insurance agency. This job definitely confirmed my feelings about secretarial work! Blech!
I wasn't quite ready to hit the college scene and definitely not ready to face the assessment square in the face and accept the results. I was bound and determined to do what I wanted to do--major in Nursing. I enrolled at Columbus State Community College and was on track to finish all prerequisites for their Nursing program. I was accepted to the program the first time I applied, and after one year of prerequisites, I officially entered the nursing program. By this time, daddy and I were married. Despite the perfect driving arrangements daddy and I had taking our only vehicle to work--which was only a block away from each other in downtown Columbus, on the same 8-5, Mon-Fri shift, I felt the best thing was to accept a position at Grant Medical Center. What better way to comprehend all I'm learning in college than to have hands on experience in the workplace?
My schedule became extremely hectic. Now I was working three 12 hr shifts and taking 18 credit hours in college. Working on the med/surg floor at the hospital was a real eye-opener.
Very exhausting mentally, physically and especially emotionally.
I barely had time to catch my breath between work, school and home-life. It quickly took a toll on my health. In the first 4 months of trying to keep up with this schedule, I lost 30 lbs. Then, all the other problems started. While at work, I would often get weak and shaky. No time to rest or even complain since I was dealing with patients who were in much worse shape than myself. A major reality check to call a code blue, clean deep, deep wounds, work in respiratory care, or even prepare the deceased for processing at the morgue. I truly believe the Lord was giving me subtle hints all along my way trying to let me know this wasn't HIS plan for my life. All the while, I was ignoring all the hints.
In total denial, I would convince myself that nothing was wrong. I was in perfect health right? Doing what I always wanted to do. What is wrong with me?
One day I couldn't ignore the symptoms anymore. At work I finally told someone of my symptoms while in the midst of experiencing them. They sat me down and took my blood pressure--it was 140/112 with a pulse of 124. YIKES! They immediately called a code and had 30 doctors rushing to my attention. I remember asking them to call my husband because I felt like I was going to die. I ended up being ordered to bed rest for the weekend.
No problem. A little rest and I'll be all better. Hopefully.
I was up to go to work again Monday morning and I had the same experience. I called the squad and went right back to the hospital. All tests were inconclusive. I replayed this situation several times over the next few weeks. Tests here, tests there. Visit to the cardiologist. Heart Monitoring 24-7 for 30 days.
So, after months of unexplained racing heartbeat and wearing a heart monitor they discovered a heart condition. Supraventricular Tachycardia. Requires surgical repair. After agreeing to the EP study and cardiac ablation, I had the procedure done, only to be told they can't ablate (or burn) the extra circuit to correct the problem with a risk of doing permanent damage with an end result of a pacemaker at 20! Treatment plan: medication, a major lifestyle change and a medical leave of absence for 3 months. At the end of that time, my physician still wouldn't release me back to that position. No more Nursing school for me.
Funny thing is, my first job back to the workforce after all this--a secretarial job at an accounting firm...hahhahhaaa...so glad the Lord has a sense of humor. Yet another unexpected detour. One that took me off the original path that God intended for me, but His loving arms brought me back to the road I needed to be on to go in the right direction.
Another lesson learned.
Life Lesson to Learn:
Learn from my mistakes.
Seek God's face and die to self wants/desires. Daily.
God already knows the course of your life. He has big plans in store for you. Take the time to seek His face and seek His guidance on what you are supposed to do with your life.
(to be continued...)


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Project News for GNU-Darwin Distribution
GNU-Darwin: third yearly report
The current annual report for The GNU-Darwin Distribution
is now available at OSNews.com. Cheers!
The pipes are full ;-}.
2003-11-03 22:18:18 GMT by proclus
GNU listing, FSF bounty program
We have new links at GNU Project, and they have provided a bounty program to help us keep non-free software out of our Distribution.
Some of you may not realize that this has actually been a major hurdle and a long term goal of the Distro. RMS requires that everything be in perfect GPL compliance and in sync with other FSF policies before links can be posted to GNU Project. There haven't been any production-level OS distros listed at GNU for quite a long time. Many have tried and failed, but we made it in spite of the obstacles that we faced. Our website has improved considerably in response to the excellent comments that we received from them. Even more changes may be expected in the future in order to maintain our status as the most free Darwin distro.
It appears that GNU-Darwin is the only installable *nix OS distro that is linked from GNU Project at this time. Hopefully this initiative will provide an example so that we can be joined by many others. As part of the preparation for this initiative, our GPL-compliance and free software status is now quite robust. On the internet side of the Distro, this means that a source code iso image is now available together with our OS installer iso.
The PowerPC version of the OS is on hold until we can develop a version that works without the proprietary drivers. We are now bundling source code discs with all of our hard media offerings, which includes over 7 gigabytes of distfiles for those who order our popular Package DVD-R's. To our knowledge, we have purged every non-free bit. This is all brand new, and a very good deal, IMHO, since we have not increased any of the prices.
It always feels great to do the right thing. As always, many thanks to GNU Project for assisting us in this excellent initiative!
2003-10-15 23:31:45 GMT by proclus
GNU-Darwin 1.1 ppc packages
Packages for GNU-Darwin 1.1 are now available :
including :
Many up-to-date libraries and utilities
Food for your CUPS
Developement tools
Gimp-1.2.5 ...
Use the included g-d-package-install-2a.11
and make sure there is no /usr/local/lib/libgcc.dylib around anymore if you plan to build anything.
You can get everything in all.tar :
tar xf all.tar
pkg_add -f *.tgz
Everything (almost) is also in cvs
Use and enjoy ! (beta : and report bugs)
2003-10-09 06:31:35 GMT by yvesde
new GNU-Darwin iso available
Work on Darwin free version is progressing, and we have a new iso available for x86, which installs free software only. In other words, this disc will not install any of the proprietary binaries that have historically been included with Darwin.
You can also order a hard copy.
Although we have encountered no problems with it, and functionality is not impaired, this should be considered as beta for the present. Anyone who can give this disc a try would be appreciated. You will have all the advantages of using a genuinely free OS, and at the same time help to accelerate our development towards total software freedom for the Distribution and for our users. Thanks!
2003-09-07 21:35:29 GMT by proclus
GNU-Darwin: Darwin Free!
[1]Apple has released version 2.0 of the [2]Apple public source
license (APSL), and [3]GNU Project has [4]officially recognized it as
a free software license. This is great news for Darwin-based free
software projects like [5]The GNU-Darwin Distribution and [6]Fink.
GNU-Darwin has had an [7]ongoing discussion about this development,
and annouced and end to our "[8]Free Darwin Campaign", so long as
Apple avoids DMCA-based legal action.
1. http://www.apple.com/
2. http://www.opensource.apple.com/apsl/
3. http://www.gnu.org/
4. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#apsl2
5. http://www.gnu-darwin.org/
6. http://fink.sourceforge.net/
7. http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=6042
8. http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/19/1310232
2003-08-06 17:23:34 GMT by proclus
Here are some GNU-Darwin News releases going back to the very beginning. More to come.


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The clouds gather as they do every year
The silence breaks, heaven descends
Parched land overflows with joy
Cracks turn rivulets, green shoots up crevices
Tiled roofs cry out in joy , earth freshens the air
Windows sprinkle the rooms, little hearts kick up dirt
All that you forgot rewinds, why no one knows
Rain does not wash away memories!
I hear your smile,I see your song and the long silences
Moments stolen from alert eyes, those fleeting caresses
The songs that we shared, unknown to the watchful crowd
The tears we shared, as our lives crowded out our love
The clouds have gathered, the parched earth waits
But silence descends, only sadness breaks my silence
My mind overflows with hope and prayer
Will this monsoon bring me spring at last?
Santhosh Rajagopal
18th May 2011


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"We feel that our overall commitment to our customers is one of our great advantages."
Boulder, CO (PRWEB) June 19, 2011
GetLisa Information Services has announced that since its move to its new Class-A, state-of-the-art data center in Boulder it has achieved four nines (99.99%) of overall uptime for its carrier customers, setting a new standard for reliability in wireless data services.
"In an increasingly competitive environment, it was important for us to distinguish ourselves from the competition," said George Woodward, CEO of GetLisa Information Services. "Being able to provide this level of uptime in our carrier's data services was our goal in expanding and upgrading our data center, and we've been able to achieve that. Along with our continued focus on our unparalleled customer support, we feel that our overall commitment to our customers is one of our great advantages."
The data center expansion is part of GetLisa's overall GetSmart data services strategy, leveraging its leadership position in several key technology areas (mobile internet platforms, mobile apps, and custom applications for local content) to provide its customers with future-proof solutions to take advantage of the mobile data revolution.


text: Have you heard of Nolcha.com? If not, you have to check it out. It's got tons of great business advice for the young fashion start-up. And, as of tomorrow, I will be a guest blogger there, blogging exclusive content about branding and brand image. I'll post a link and snippet here when my article comes out, very soon. Enjoy!


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LONDON — Granada Group has announced that it is considering a hostile takeover bid for either Carlton Communications or United News & Media.
The move would be an attempt to derail the $6.5 billion merger, which is awaiting regulatory clearance, of its two ITV rivals.
Granada has now requested permission from the Office of Fair Trading to buy either Carlton or United, although it has not said which is the preferred target.
However, sources suggest that Granada has been focusing its attention on United since the merger was announced Nov. 26. A bid for United, whose ITV stations are smaller than Carlton's, would offer fewer regulatory hurdles for Granada.
Dominant trio
Granada, Carlton and United are the three dominant players in the ITV network, the U.K.'s leading commercial web. Granada owns four regional stations, while Carlton and United hold three apiece.
Just seven years ago, the web comprised 16 separate companies, but the progressive relaxation of takeover rules has led to the emergence of the big three.
Current OFT rules prevent one broadcaster from controlling more than 25% of U.K. TV advertising revenues. Any combination of Granada, Carlton or United would breach that limit. But the OFT is in the midst of reviewing the ceiling, and is widely expected to raise it.
Carlton and United preempted this decision by announcing their merger plans. Granada has declared that it will wait until the OFT completes its review. That decision is expected in February.
However, Granada is also pushing for the OFT to refer the Carlton/United merger to the Competition Commission, which could delay matters another six months.
At the forefront
Granada itself has long predicted that ITV would eventually become a single company, and has stated its intention to be at the forefront of this consolidation.
Granada, which also has an extensive hotel and restaurant business, has considerably deeper pockets than its two ITV rivals. Granada's market value is $17 billion, compared with $5.9 billion for Carlton and $6.3 billion for United.
Granada's other big advantage in a hostile bidding war is that its chairman Gerry Robinson and chief exec Charles Allen are much more highly rated by City of London investors than either Carlton chairman Michael Green or United chief exec Clive Hollick.
Also, the terms of the Carlton/United merger placed no premium on either company, making both vulnerable to an aggressive hostile bid. Some analysts are predicting that Euro players such as CLT/Ufa, TF1 and Mediaset may yet enter the fray.
Responding to Granada's announcement, Green said, "Carlton/United consolidates ITV and creates a world-class media business. Granada's statement endorses the logic of our agreed merger. Imitation is the greatest form of flattery."
Perhaps the biggest obstacle facing Granada is the legal restriction, under the Broadcasting Act, that prevents any broadcaster having more than 15% of the U.K. audience. Carlton/United would have 14.9%, but Granada would breach that limit by taking over either company.
In its statement, Granada indicated that "in making any offer, it would be willing to take such action as may be required to comply with the Broadcasting Act" — in other words, by selling off some stations.


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For all that read this Blog! Go back and reread because I just learned how to go back an edit all those mistakes I typed! I just push that publish button without editing! Ha, now I can go back and wipe out those embarrassing mistakes! Just to let you know that the auto write on this computer wrote pastures wife instead of Pastor's wife! What a crack up! I laughed for a good 15 minutes over that one.
Today was blissful!
It was Elder Isufaj's Birthday. The missionaries from Korce came: Whilley and Olsen, Divkovich spelled terribly wrong I will correct it later with my new found edit button, and Elder Holding who is sooo sick that I wanted him to just take a nap the poor dear! Gave him some vitamin C packs and some Sudafed if he wanted to use them.
We had the self reliance experts ( Matt Mathius from France) come today. Woo Hoo! Got to speak French Today!!! It felt so great to feel like I actually could connect to someone speaking another language!! Also, the Albanian Rep from Tirana for Self-Reliance came with him. They were so great. We are now to implement a program that can possibly help to get people jobs here in Pogradec.
I taught two piano lessons, ate cake for a birthday party, danced a traditional Albanian dance with everyone (left foot, right foot--grape vine left foot hop Hey !)
I also taught two English classes today.... Did I tell you how much I love my English students. I really do love them! I could just KISS them all! Oh I actually do Kiss them because that is the Albanian way to say Hello and Goodbye. I am Kissed about .....oh maybe 40 times a day! Hugs and Kisses to all who are reading!
We have somewhat of a handle on the smokey Kitchen.
Lorin and I took a run on the beach this morning and somehow that run just makes EVERYTHING better again. Off to Macedonia tomorrow morning early so got to go!


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Information About Neural Tube Defects Research
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC):
- Spina Bifida Program Overview. (PDF - 341 KB) This document summarizes the work of the CDC's National Spina Bifida Program at the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities.
- Spina Bifida: Research. This webpage contains information about CDC research on spina bifida; links to abstracts for peer-reviewed publications; and other resources, such as data and statistics.
- Folic Acid: Research. This webpage contains information about CDC research on folic acid, including current guidelines, research, and links to abstracts for peer-reviewed publications.
- NIH, Office of Dietary Supplements: Dietary Supplement Fact Sheet: Folate. This webpage provides information on folate, including recommended dietary allowances and food sources.
- U.S. Preventive Services Task Force: Folic Acid to Prevent Neural Tube Defects This site contains links to the latest recommendations on use of folic acid.
- Medical Home Portal: Neural Tube Defects—Treatment & Management. This is a comprehensive guide to treating and managing spina bifida and includes links to many resources, including medical specialists, clinical trials, and substantial documentation.
- American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG): ACOG Practice Recommendations for Neural Tube Defects [Abstract]. Provides recommendations for health care providers on prevention, screening, and in utero treatment of neural tube defects.
- The Spina Bifida Association . Provides resources for health care providers, patients, and their families. Among these resources are the following:
- The Spina Bifida Association: Current Research
- The Spina Bifida Association: Published Research
- The Spina Bifida Association: Spina Bifida Clinics
- The Spina Bifida Association: Spina Bifida Latex List
Please note: Links to organizations and information included on this page do not indicate endorsement from the NICHD, NIH, or HHS.


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Littleton COHome Menu
Leaf & Tire Recycling
2017 Dates (3 days)
Sunday October 29, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Sunday November 5, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Sunday November 12, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The cities of Littleton and Englewood are continuing their annual leaf-recycling program. In the previous twenty four years of the program, 30,000 cubic yards of leaves and 3,337 tires have been recycled.
Volunteers working at the site will accept leaves and tires only. No grass clippings, tree branches or other refuse will be accepted. There is no Littleton or Englewood residency requirement.
Unmounted tires will also be collected for recycling at a cost of $2.00 each. We no longer accept tires on mounted on rims. No oversized tractor or truck tires, please.
This collection site is open for residential recycling and no materials will be accepted from lawn service companies or other commercial ventures. For more information call 303-795-3766.
Mountain States Wood Recyclers, 2300 West Radcliffe Avenue, Sheridan
Directions from the south
Take South Santa Fe Drive (US Highway 85) north to Union Avenue (first traffic signal north of Belleview). Go west and take an immediate right turn onto the Santa Fe frontage road and head north. Turn right at the tee intersection and stay on the frontage road. After 0.2 miles turn left (west on Radcliffe Avenue). Radcliffe Avenue ends after 0.4 miles at Mountain States Wood Recyclers. Call 303-808-9678 if can't find the site.
Directions from the north
Take South Santa Fe Drive (US Highway 85) south to West Oxford Avenue (first traffic signal south of Hampden Avenue). Go west and turn left at the first light onto the Santa Fe frontage road and head south. After 0.4 miles turn right (west on Radcliffe Avenue). Radcliffe Avenue ends after 0.4 miles at Mountain States Wood Recyclers.


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"How stoned am I? Look into my eyes, dude. I mean, man, check it out. This is visionary weed, man. I can see, see the future. I see myself as, whoa, President of the United States, man. How far out is that? Hey, don't bogart that...."
Now I hear all you non-vipers, you 'we don't do no chronic, no how' dope-virgins, all saying, 'Uncle Gerard, how do you know?' I know because I KNOW. And all my fellow vipers, active or in retirement, know the same thing.
The good news here is that, maybe, the Federal Government will get out of the War on Dope and concentrate on crack, coke, and crank. The bad news is that the Federal Government may get into the cultivation and distribution of 'Official' weed. If they do, it will be the methadone of marijuana: You won't get sick. You won't get high. You'll just stay on it."
Obama as The Pusher. That wouldn't be a stretch, given the recent history of Obama, The Pusher of Agenda-Driven Big Government Power and Control.
Vanderleun missed this Steppenwolf classic for his collection of appropriate song lyrics. It's particularly appropriate for seniors, if we're stupid enough to let the currently proposed version of Obamacare live. It's also in the style of Jerimiah Wright, too.
"You know I've smoked a lot of grass
O' Lord, I've popped a lot of pills
But I never touched nothin'
That my spirit could kill
You know, I've seen a lot of people walkin' 'round
With tombstones in their eyes
But the pusher don't care
Ah, if you live or if you die
God damn, The Pusher
God damn, I say The Pusher


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Has Karan Johar put 'Student Of The Year 2' on hold?
Five years completed of the celebrated movie 'Student Of The Year' but still no update about its sequel even after its announcement about a year ago.
The news of the 2012 smash hit 'Student Of the Year' aka 'SOTY's sequel is in the limelight since last year. Film director Karan Johar himself announced the news of making the sequel and confirmed that Tiger Shroff will be playing the male lead and it will be directed by Punit Malhotra. But if latest reports are to be believed, the makers have put the much-awaited sequel on the backburner.
In the last few months, Karan Johar has announced a string of new projects. His upcoming ventures include 'Brahmastra' with Alia Bhatt, Ranbir Kapoor and Amitabh Bachchan. Alia and Ranbir will be sharing the screen for the first time. Another venture of KJo will be 'Kesari' starring Akshay Kumar but now there has been no news coming from Dharma Productions about the making of 'Student Of The Year 2'.
The first installment of SOTY was star-studded with actors like Alia Bhatt, Varun Dhawan and Sidharth Malhotra in the lead but this time only the male lead has been decided for the movie. As far as the female lead of the film is concerned, name of several star kids like Sridevi's daughter Jhanvi Kapoor, Sara Ali Khan, Disha Patani and Ananya Pandey did the rounds, but yet no female lead is finalized for the movie and it has also come to the news that director Punit Malhotra is reworking on the script and it is said that the movie is put on a halt or may be postponed.
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Her gender was also responsible for the hidden, and now largely forgotten, methods through which she expressed and exercised her power. Although by the time of her death in 1900, while nursing Boer prisoners of war in South Africa, she was considered the leading Africanist of her time, as a Victorian woman she was excluded from many of the forums concerned with African affairs. Her informal and behind-the-scenes politicking has lain buried under the greater weight of government reports and public records.
Although bearing the name of Kingsley Mary had neither the education, money nor established class status her literary uncles and cousins enjoyed. Born only four days after Dr George Kingsley married his housekeeper, Mary Bailey in October 1862, Mary's first thirty years were consumed in tending to her sickly mother and acting as secretary to her father's amateur anthropological work.
When both parents died within weeks of each other in 1892, she felt like 'a boy with a new half crown'. Enticed by the tales of travel and adventure in her father's library, and with the intention of collecting 'fish and fetish', she sailed for West Africa, 'the white man's grave'. But alongside the spirits and jars for preserving her specimens packed in her large black waterproof bag, she took her cultural baggage. The Isolation of Mary's early life had forced her onto the companionship of books, and from these she culled an image of the 'Dark Continent' and its exotic 'savage' inhabitants prevalent in both the academic and popular press. So strong were these images, that when the SS Lagos drew towards the West African Coast in August 1893, it all seemed so familiar.
Canoeing down the group rapids and climbing 13,000 foot Mount Cameroon by a route unconquered by any other European brought not only physical but psychological challenges. Her passionate desire to 'penetrate the African mind-forest' made her travel as a trader, living as her African companions and depending entirely upon them for her safety and well-being. In a land where she was first of all white, and only secondly a woman, she found a new kind of freedom which 'took all the colour out of other kinds of living'.
By 1896, after two journeys to West Africa, Mary Kingsley was a celebrity, a regular presence in the daily press and an enormously popular lecturer. Her quest in search of 'fish and fetish' had led her into more far-reaching discoveries, and what she saw and recorded questioned the images she had taken with her. 'One by one I took my old ideas derived from books and thoughts based on imperfect knowledge and weighed them against the real life surrounding me, and found them either worthless or wanting ...the greatest recantation I had to make was my idea of the traders popularly derided as the palm oil ruffians, the European traders in West Africa were mostly single men, some with African wives, caricatured in the British press as debauched and drunken rogues who had reluctantly given up dealing in slaves when 'legitimate trade' offered greater financial inducements. For Mary Kingsley however, they were men she was 'proud to be allowed to call friends and know were fellow-countrymen'.
It was not only her trader friends she believed were maligned. Africans, at the hands of the missionary party - eager 'not to tell you how the country they resided in was but how it was getting towards being what it ought to be' - were portrayed unfairly. Kingsley challenged:
... the stay at home statesmen, who think that Africans are awful savages or silly children - people who can only be dealt with on a reformatory penitentiary line. This view is not mine ... but it is the view of the statesman and the general public and the mission public in African affairs.
Looking for consistency, practicality and humanity to be understood and explained, rather than vices and immorality to be manipulated and eradicated, she argued for a new approach to anthropological study by looking at African societies from the inside out, to 'think in black'. Long before anthropologists had developed the idea of fieldwork, she argued:
...unless you live among the natives you can never get to know them. At first you see nothing but a confused stupidity and crime; but when you get to see - well! ...you see things worth seeing.
Although questioning many of the popular images of Africa, Mary Kingsley was steeped in the racial theories used to justify and support the expansion of British interests in West Africa. She espoused a by now out of fashion polygenesist outlook, believing that Africans and Europeans, as men and women, were essentially rather than evolutionary different. 'I feel certain that a black man is no more an undeveloped white man than a rabbit is an undeveloped hare, and the mental difference between the races is very similar to that between men and women among ourselves'. The fault of the missionary endeavour, she believed, was in trying to Europeanise Africans. Missionary-educated Africans were the curse of the Coast, embracing a secondhand rubbishy white culture rather than traditional African social customs. When writing about her travels, she focused on her contacts with the Fang people of Gabon, 'unadulterated Africans', as she called them, 'in the raw state'.
Her attitude towards women's rights shared this conservative and separatist philosophy. When approached by petitioners for women's admission to the learned societies she brushed aside their entreaties. 'These androgynes I have no time for', she complained. Women and men were different in kind rather than degree, as Africans to Europeans, and these differences should be recognised and encouraged rather than glossed over. While not denying a hierarchy within these differences constructed on racial and sexual lines, she nevertheless argued for areas of specialist knowledge, in line with the popular doctrine of 'separate spheres'. Opposed to the admission of women to societies of travellers, she argued for a separate women's meeting where things could be discussed without the presence of men. 'Women like myself know many things no man can know about the heathen' she told the Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society 'and no doubt men do ditto'. On her return from West Africa in December 1895, her first venture into print was not, as commonly believed, in defence of European traders or 'real Africans' but in response to an article in the Daily Telegraph describing her as a New Woman. Infuriated by this label, she wrote to the Editor denying any such allegiance. 'I did not do anything', she wrote, 'without the assistance of the superior sex' denying the independence she had so desperately sought.
Mary Kingsley's philosophy of separate development of the races and sexes led her into direct opposition to the missionary party and their stress on a common humanity. Her defence of polygamy, domestic slavery and even cannibalism as appropriate social forms in West Africa, shocked the conservative press and quickly brought her notoriety. But with this came a popular platform from which to air her views. Her first book, Travels in West Africa, published in January 1897, was an immediate bestseller. Based on an account of her second journey, its vast amount of new anthropological material established herbs the leading West Africanist of the time. But Mary Kingsley was no longer content with confining herself to the issue of entomology. Soon she was arguing for the recognition of anthropology as a tool of imperialist expansion; to govern the African, she argued, you must first know him. She wrote to the eminent Oxford anthropologist E.B. Teylor:
... I will force upon the politicians the recognition of anthropology if I have to do it with the stake and thumbscrew. Meanwhile the heathen unconsciously keeps on supporting anthropology gallantly, and officialdom says it won't have anything but its old toys - missionaries, stockbrokers, good intentions, ignorance and maxim guns. Well we shall see.
The imperial expansion Mary Kingsley envisioned was of a very different kind to that the new Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain, had in mind. In opposition to his plans for administrative intervention in West Africa and the establishment of the Crown Colony system, supported the missionary parties. Mary Kingsley advocated informal economic imperialism, looking back to a mythical golden era when British interests in West Africa were protected by European traders and fair commerce between African and European flourished. Economic ties under British merchants rather than administrative control under 'pen-pushers and ostrich feathers' was her aim. She argued:
England is the great manufacturing country of the world, and as such requires markets, and requires markets far more than colonies. A colony drains from the mother country, yearly, thousands of the most able and energetic of her children, leaving behind them their aged incapable relations. Whereas the holding of the West African markets drains a few hundred men, only too often for ever; but the trade they carry on and develop enables thousands of men women and children to remain safe in England in comfort and pleasure, owing to the wages and profits arising from the manufacture and export of articles used in that trade.
Only this system - eventually outlined in her 'Alternative Plan' would, she claimed, also benefit Africans, by leaving their cultural and social organisations intact.
Mary Kingsley's means of raising support and realising her plans were limited, for her gender excluded her from the burgeoning number of forums concerned with African affairs. The admission of women to the Royal Geographical Society in 1892 had drawn such fierce opposition that the decision was hastily rescinded. Other societies of travellers were equally hostile to women's participation. Outspoken women's activities were confined to the field of missionary and philanthropic work, but even here public speaking could be frowned upon. For a woman to actively campaign against the missionary endeavour and on behalf of the palm oil ruffians and heathen Africans threatened her feminity in a way less controversial standpoints would not have done. Mary Kingsley's response was to emphasize her ladyhood, almost to the point of caricature, reminding her audience at public lectures that she appeared as their maiden aunt, dressed as a woman far beyond her mid-thirties. She appealed to a close friend to help her in the maintenance of this public persona, 'I implore if you hear it said in Society that I appear on platforms in African native costume, a billy cock hat, and a trade shirt, to contradict it', she wrote, 'honour bright I'd got my best frock on'.
As the corridors of official power were closed to her, she began to exploit unofficial methods and behind-the-scenes networks. Soon earning the name of 'Liverpool's hired assassin' for her pro-trader politics and clandestine ways of operating, in private she asserted pressure on individual politicians, exploited old networks and created new ones, and encouraged new venturers into the political arena. Her political development was inextricably knitted to the ways and means through which she could work. It is this informal, behind-the-scenes, nature of her politics that has often led to an underestimation of her influence in West African affairs.
Mary Kingsley felt bound to defend the European traders, Africans, and her own reputation against the allegations being paraded in the press. The first public debate in which she became involved was over the 'liquor traffic'. In 1895 a combination of factors - humanitarian and commercial - launched the 'liquor traffic' debate into a new phase, to which Kingsley's own efforts would soon be added. The British fear of the domination of the West African spirit trade by Hamburg firms reached a new height. The return to power of Salisbury in June, with the temperance supporter Joseph Chamberlain as his Colonial Secretary, was cited by Colonel Frederick Lugard, commissioner for the hinterland of Nigeria, as giving 'hope to those interested in the question that the time had at last come when effective steps would be taken to deal with this evil'. The language of the 'liquor traffic' debate became the 'demoralisation of the native' and 'the evil trade' versus 'legitimate commerce' - all reminiscent of earlier anti-slavery arguments - rather than profit and administrative control.
Sir John Kirk's enquiry following the 1895 Brass uprising had reopened the debate around the future control of the Niger Delta, and different interests were vying for influence in the area - the Royal Niger Company under the persuasive leadership of Sir George Goldie, the Niger Coast Protectorate government, Liverpool and Manchester trading houses, the Colonial Office, and the missionary bodies. The liquor traffic was, to a large extent a pawn in this contest, a highly emotional issue which could be used to draw public support in the propaganda war.
For Mary Kingsley, the temperance party's argument had two main fallacies. Firstly it painted a picture of an African population easily manipulated and less able to resist the enticements of alcohol than Europeans. Secondly, the curtailment on the importation of trade alcohol to West Africa would inhibit the 'freetrading' practices of the Liverpool merchants, who used it as a form of currency to obtain the palm oil and other raw materials of their trade. The pro-liquor lobby however, had little ability to raise the sympathies of the general public against the appeal of the temperance party's tales of the degradation wrought by 'trade gin'. In Kingsley the pro-liquor party found an advocate who could couch their economic arguments in terms more acceptable to the popular palate. While the leading Liverpool merchant John Holt had earlier complained that the anti-liquor leaders were 'professional agitators and old women', within a few years he would be extremely grateful that someone conforming to this image had come over to nice traders' side.
The debate took place as much in extra-governmental forums as behind the walls of the Colonial Office. Lugard spoke to the Colonial Institute, the letters pages of The Times were dominated by the altercation between West African bishops and Governors, and missionary societies hosted public discussions. The thrashing out of the issue in these unofficial forums allowed Kingsley, excluded from the official arena, to be fully immersed in the centre of the debate.
Mary Kingsley's first attacks on the temperance party were made from her position as an ethnologist, to counter the image of the African as a 'drunken child'. She was drawn into the fray by an article appearing in the Spectator accusing Africans of being 'a people abnormally low, evil, cruel ... It is in Africa that the lowest depth of evil barbarism is reached, and that we find the races with the least of humanity about them except the form . . . they are all degraded'. Kingsley's reply argued for an understanding of African culture:
I do not believe the African to be brutal, degraded, or cruel. I know from wide experience with him that he is often grateful and faithful, and by no means the drunken idiot his so-called friends, the Protestant missionaries, are anxious, as an excuse for their failure in dealing with him, to make out.
Although a reluctant speaker, Kingsley embarked upon a vigorous and exhausting programme which took her throughout the country, from local geographical societies to 'magic lantern at YMCA'. The popular image of an intrepid lady explorer in the jungle which had initially so angered her could draw large crowds who would then receive political statements sugared in tales of African adventure.
While the propaganda war was being fought out in the pages of the press and on the public platform, in private the correspondence between Kingsley and her temperance adversaries was more wordy and considered. 'I am going for this mission party with feminine artfulness, not like a bull at a gate', she told Holt. As Lugard's damning account of the 'witty and amusing Miss Kingsley' appeared in The Nineteenth Century, in private his correspondence with her was a more mutual exchange of information and opinion. And while The Times paid her the ultimate insult and ignored the publication of her book, widely reviewed elsewhere, she met the editors for dinner. In this she hoped to exert private where public access was manner influence denied.
Kingsley was building up a network of contacts throughout the political spectrum, exploiting the social sphere controlled by women. Her first approach to her Liverpool ally Holt was made by writing to his wife who had invited her to attend a meeting of the local Literary and Scientific Society. The wife of the Assistant Under Secretary at the Colonial Office, Reginald Antrobus, provided her with invaluable information and insight into Colonial Office wranglings by spying on her husband's papers. The leading Anglo-Irish social hostess Alice Stopford Green's ability to speak French enabled Kingsley to keep in contact with members of the French embassy in London.
Communications with West Africa were also developed, as Kingsley kept in regular contact with Africans on the Coast and hosted them on their visits to London. 'I have quantities of blacks here', she wrote to Holt - including the leading lawyer Samuel Lewis and Edward Blyden, editor of the Sierra Leone Weekly News.
The value of this diverse network of contacts would prove itself in the 'hut tax' controversy in the Protectorate of Sierra Leone. The British merchants had always opposed a tax on African property accurately predicting that the resulting opposition would disrupt trade. When the first outbreak of resistance to payment occurred in early 1898 their fears were proved founded, but a wavering Colonial Secretary was reluctant to remove a tax in the face of persistent support for its implementation by the Governor of Sierra Leone and allegations by humanitarian pressure groups that clamping down on slavery had caused the rebellion. Realising she had once again to fight opponents who appeared to have humanitarian concerns entirely on their sides Kingsley pleaded for an understanding of Afncans - sympathy for the black man as she put it, 'not emotional but common sense and honour and sympathy appreciation'.
But the sympathy she invoked also recalled earlier arguments with the temperance lobby over their misunderstanding of the African situation. The pro-hut taxers, she believed, suffered from a similar ignorance of African society though a different aspect - not the misrepresenation of the African as a 'drunken child', but of the acre and value of indigenous African legal systems. The hut tax, Kingsley argued, offended African law. 'One of the root principles of African law is that the thing that you pay any one a regular fee for is a thing that is not your own - it is a thing belonging to the person to who you pay the fee'. But behind these initial objections lay her deeper objections to an interventionist policy in West Africa. The real cause of the rebellion was the 'reasonable dislike to being dispossessed alike of power and property in what they regard as their own country'. While publicly sticking to her claim that the tax was the root cause of the disturbances, in private she admitted that it was 'merely the match to a train of gunpowder'. By 'sticking severely to native law' however, other arguments would 'come by and by'.
How can the influence of someone who operated in such a behind-the-scenes and informal way be measured? Her prominent position on African affairs led the Colonial Secretary to write to her at this critical time. But he was reluctant to be seen to countenance the opinion of such a controversial figure. He sought her advice, therefore, as covertly as possible. 'He is horribly frightened of being known to communicate with the witch of Endor', Kingsley told Holt. She responded in kind, marking all her letters to him 'Private' and 'Strictly Confidential' doubly underlined. When Sir David Chalmers was sent out to Freetown as Special Commissioner to investigate the cause of the disturbances, Chamberlain first briefed him on Kingsley's views. Governor Cardew of Sierra Leone paid her frequent visitors on his return to London, and the Acting-Governor Matthew Nathan, sent out in his place, zealously courted her friendship before his departure. His reading on board ship from Liverpool to Sierra Leone was Mary Kingsley's second book, West African Studies. In this manner she was in touch with all those involved in policy-making around the hut tax.
As her political experience grew, her methods of politicking became more sophisticated, subtle and therefore hidden from subsequent history. Not wanting to appear as an one- woman opponent to the hut tax, she encouraged others to commit themselves to print. Using her contacts with leading pressmen such as St Loe Strachey, editor of the Spectator and, Kingsley thought, a 'backstairs to Chamberlain, she introduced young journalists into print, most notably E.D. Morel, correspondent for Pall Mall Gazette. She encouraged Holt to write to the papers, but warned him 'don't for goodness gracious sake let the mention of me occur'. As her contacts grew, she increasingly relied on these methods. 'The truth is Mr Holt', she wrote in 1899, 'every bit of solid good work I have done has been done through a man. I get more and more fond of doing things this way. It leaves me a free hand to fight with'. To St Loe Strachey she wrote, 'In the seclusion of private life, in the gentle course of private friendship, I shall do my best in language worse than you have ever heard from me, to weld my men together and I'll fight to the last shot in my locker against the existing system'. Soon the Colonial Office christened her 'the most dangerous person on the other side'.
Her book, West African Studies, published in early 1899, contained a strong attack on the Crown Colony system. 'The sooner the Crown Colony system is removed from the sphere of practical politics and put under a glass case in the South Kensington Museum, labelled Extinct, the better for everyone', she wrote. She described its system of government as a waste of life and money and a destroyer of African social organisations on which peace and prosperity depended. In its place she drew up an Alternative Plan'. This was innovative firstly, in giving governmental and administrative control to European trading interests in West Africa embodied in a Grand Council who appointed a Governor General of West Africa, and secondly by officially incorporating African opinion - filtered through a council of chiefs - into the administrative network. But although the Alternative Plan' was presented as a new option for British control of West Africa, in fact it looked back to a former era rather than forward to a new one. The informal economic ties which Kingsley hoped would form the basis of British imperialism were central to this plan, as was their implementation by a European trading class. The failure of this scheme would depend not only on the impracticality of re-establishing an informal empire in a time of increasing European intervention in West Africa, but also the reluctance of British trading interests to take on the added responsibilities of government. British traders also wanted a non-trading European administrative class to run West African affairs and protect their markets from European and African rivals.
While on the public platform Kingsley appeared as the professional politician, in private she felt more and more drawn to the Africa she had left behind. While maintaining a professional facade of feminine conformity, in the privacy of her Kensington home she decorated her rooms with souvenirs from her journeys - enormous wooden drums and a yard-high nail fetish - and jangled about in her African bangles. To a childhood friend she wrote of the stresses of her two personalities, the public politician and the private African:
The majority of people I shrink from, I don't like them, I don't understand them and they most distinctly don't understand me . . . I cannot be a bush-man and a drawing-roomer. Would to Allah I was in West Africa now, with a climate that suited me and a people who understood me, and who I could understand.
She longed to return to 'skylark' in West Africa and experience a freedom 'this smug, self-satisfied, sanctimonious, lazy, Times-believing England' could never give.
Her identity with the African had been strong and heartfelt since her return from West Africa. Emotional revelations of this personal sympathy to close friends found more public expression in the use of terms usually reserved for non-European peoples to describe her own experience. Calling herself a savage and a 'member of the tribe of women', she would even describe herself as 'an African'. 'We Africans are not fit for decent society', she told Alice Stopford Green, and to the Indianist Sir Alfred Lyall, she wrote 'I am a firm African'. She compared her beliefs to those of Africans. '1 desire to get on with the utter Bushman', she declared, 'and never sneer or laugh at his native form of religion, a pantheism which I confess is a form of my own religion'.
This identity was also an expression of her own philosophy of polygenesism and separate development. Arguing for the promotion of women's traditional sphere and African traditional life (although not always consistent in the definition of either), she said the African is a feminine race' - misunderstood by a dominant culture. The most candid revelation of these feelings was to Nathan, with whom she was unhappily in love:
I will import to you, in strict confidence, for if it were known it would damage me badly, my opinion on the African. He is not 'half devil and half child', anymore than he is 'our benighted brother' and all that sort of thing. He is a woman . . . I know those nigs because I am a woman, a woman of a masculine race but a woman still.
Kingsley became increasingly dissatisfied with the isolation of her outspoken position, and the lack of support from disunited traders, and complained to Holt of loneliness. She secretly applied to nurse in South Africa, hoping to cover the Boer War for the Morning Post and travel northwards across the Orange River and far away from European settlements to her 'beloved South West Coast'. Letting only a few friends know of her imminent departure, she ended her final lecture at the Imperial Institute with the words 'Fare ye well for I am homeward bound'. On arriving at the Cape at the end of March 1900, the medical conditions horrified her, and soon she was absorbed in the immediate needs of hospital work. All this work here, the stench, the washing, the enemas, the bed pans, the blood, is my world', she wrote to Alice Stopford Green, 'not London Society, politics, that gallery into which I so strangely wandered - into which I don't care a hairpin if I never wander again'. Within two months the typhoid fever that was daily killing four to five of her patients struck Mary, and on June 3rd she died. She was buried at her own request, at sea. Full military and naval honours accompanied the funeral.
Commentators on Mary Kingsley's life and work have often accredited her with laying the political foundations for the introduction of indirect rule in Northern Nigeria. But it is in the informal sector, and not Colonial Office policy making, that we must look for her political legacy. Morel drew upon her inspiration, and continually agitated against Colonial Office politics, later leading the Congo Reform Movement, an informal pressure group relying on press coverage and public speaking in the Kingsley style. Alice Stopford Green, inheritor of Kingsley's behind-the-scenes politicking, formed the African Society in her memory as a forum for the exchange of information between traders, academics and officials involved in West African affairs. John Holt said, 'Miss Kingsley discovered me and made me think'.
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Investor: Apple buys Tesla in the next year and a half
Entrepreneur, one of the investors service by request trips Uber and former general manager of Netscape Jason Calacanis predicted the imminent sale Tesla from Apple. According to him, the American giant computer electronics manufacturer will buy electric cars for 18 months – for $ 75 billion.
As the Siliconrus , in support of his theory Calacanis gave several reasons. First of all, not so long ago in the press rumors of Apple developing its own electric car – its authenticity is indirectly confirmed by eyewitnesses seen on the streets of Concord car Dodge Caravan, rented Apple and equipped with multiple cameras.
Secondly, Elon Musk has publicly stated that to consider mission Tesla performed, it is necessary to wait for the release of the third generation of electric cars. Usually Tesla announces a new car for 24-48 months before its release (Tesla Roadster: announced in July 2006, released in spring 2008; Tesla Model S: announced in June 2008, released in June 2012; Tesla Model X: announced in February 2012 will be released as expected in the third quarter of 2015; Tesla Model 3: Calacanis believes, will be announced in the second quarter of 2015, and released – in 2018).
The investor assumes that Apple will try to redeem manufacturer of electric after Elon Musk announces the third generation car Tesla, but before it will start production.
Jason Calacanis also gives some indications that Tesla could be useful for Apple:
1. In February 2014, Elon Musk announced the construction of the plant Giga-Factory for the production of batteries and accumulators. Apple, says Calacanis, for its production needs a large number of batteries.
2. According to Calacanis, Tim Cook is obsessed with renewable energy – which is why Apple has invested $ 850 million to build a solar power plant in California. Meanwhile, Elon Musk is developing a program of using electric vehicles battery wear (even wear 30% battery makes unsuitable for use in the car and at home so the battery will last a very long time).
3. In the Control Panel Model S in fact, says Calacanis, built a giant iPad. Apple engineers could develop not one useful application for the device.
4. In order to buy a Tesla at a price three times the market capitalization of the manufacturer eletromobiley (this according to Calacanis, would be enough), Apple will need only one annual revenues.
"Apple stores will look damn sexy with electric vehicle in the middle, is not it?"
5. Self-cars from Apple hit the market, according to Calacanis, for 7-10 years. Alliance Apple and Tesla could significantly push the development. And no other manufacturer of electric vehicles will not be able to compete with the Tesla, says entrepreneur.
6. Apple – an organization which corresponds to the Tesla, and will not lose all that for a long time engaged Elon Musk.
7. Another contender for Tesla – Google – can not compete with Apple in any of status or in the design, says Calacanis. Elon Musk will not sell Tesla Google.
8. Once the self-governing cars will get mass distribution, the question arises, what to do in the way of the driver. Jason Calacanis notes that with the right approach App Store could bail out the unprecedented money selling apps for those who have nothing to do on the road.
"Imagine Elon Musk as CEO of Apple. Wow. However, it is unlikely they will be – but as a member of the Board of Directors, I can easily imagine it, "- says the investor.
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Best CB Radio Buyers Guide 2017-2018
A Citizens Band (CB) radio may seem like the most obsolete of technologies when it comes to appearance and aesthetics but it remains a vital device, especially in the trucking industry. Truckers use it to locate service stations, organize blockades, and notify drivers of speed traps.
These days, it is also used by radio hobbyist and those in need of short-range radio communications, such as carpenters, electricians, and plumbers. Practically anyone who needs to communicate between two end points would have a good use for CB radios. This is why it is continuously manufactured and distributed in stores.
There are three types of CB Radios – Mobile, Handheld or Portable, and All-in-Handset CB Radios, each one with their share of pros and cons.
Along with all the brands and manufacturers available, choosing the right one for your needs may be a bit of a challenge. But check out the guide below for a less stressful shopping experience.
- Check out the range capability of a CB radio. An exceptional range capacity should transmit 4 watts of power as required by law.
- Always go for good quality equipment, made of durable plastic or metal. A CB radio made of chrome and comes with power enhancement, optimum sound, and other features is an excellent choice.
- Choose one with a stronger antenna so you can increase the output power.
- A Single Side Band is a great choice if you want to transmit at 12 watts of power instead of just 4.
- Make sure it has weather capabilities so you can get weather updates from local radio stations.
- A CB radio with a backlit display would come really handy at night.
Best CB radio for truckers
Cobra HH 38 WX ST 4-Watt 40-Channel CB Radio
- Dual watch & full-channel scan
- 10 weather channels
- Battery or DC operation
- Built-in microphone
- Includes removable belt clip, wrist strap, high efficiency antenna, 12V cigarette lighter plug, and Operating manual
This particular product has 40 CB channels and 10 Weather Channels, which leaves little doubt of its weather capabilities. It can perform dual watch and full channel scan, with a communication range of up to 4 miles. Up to 90% of the noise is cut off with the radio's SoundTracker system.
Running on both battery and DC, you won't have a problem keeping communication lines open. It is equipped with a high/low power switch that can help reduce power consumption.
The Cobra CB radio comes with a built-in microphone, high-efficiency antenna, 12-volt cigarette lighter plug, belt clip, wrist strap, and an operating manual.
Midland 75-822 40 Channel CB-Way Radio
- Portable CB radio with 40 CB channels, 10 NOAA channels, and 4 Watts of output power
- Power with six AA batteries or included cigarette lighter adapter for mobile use
- Instant access to NOAA Radio, channels 9 and 19; Dual Watch monitors channel 9 and additional channel
- ANL (automatic noise limiter) and squelch control for improving reception and eliminating noise
- One-year manufacturer's warranty
A portable CB radio, use and access of this device are pretty handy. Truckers will be able to use it wherever they are and whenever they want, especially because it supports 40 CB channels and 10 NOAA radio channels. It operates on either six AA batteries or with the use of the cigarette lighter adapter.
Equipped with an automatic noise limiter, noise is eliminated, keeping communication reception clean and clear. It only has 4 watts of output power, which is really what the law requires.
Cobra 29 LX 40-Channel CB Radio with Instant Access 10 NOAA Weather Stations and Selectable 4 Color Display
- Enormous Multi-Color display offers information on all radio functions, can be set to one of four colors, and can be dimmed for night driving
- Instant access and automatic scanning of 10 NOAA Weather Channels, alerts you to severe weather conditions in your area
- Channel Scanning - automatically scans all 40 channels searching for transmissions and stopping when activity is found.
- Radio Check Diagnostic Provides information on critical CB aspects such as battery voltage, RF power and antenna condition.
- PA Capability- Use CB radio as a Public Address System with PA speaker. Receive signals can also be monitored through PA
Bigger with better capabilities, the Cobra 29 LX is an exceptional choice for a CB radio. It automatically scans all 40 channels and 10 NOAA weather channels and then stops when an activity or transmission is discovered. It features a multi-color display and a PA capability.
One feature that needs special attention is the radio check diagnostics, which provides you information about the condition of the antenna, battery voltage, and RF power. Before heading out, you can use this feature to check various parts of their radio and ensure they are all in good working condition.
Other features that make this device definitely worth its price point is clock/alarm, nine-foot microphone cord, adjustable Dynamike feature boost, and talk back control.
Best CB radio for cars
Cobra HH ROAD TRIP Hand Held 40 Channel CB Radio with Mobile Antenna, 10 Weather Channels and Soundtracker Noise Reduction
- Magnet Mount Mobile Antenna included - Allows mobile operation from a car.
- Soundtracker - Cuts noise up to 90%for clearer communication.
- NOAA Weather & Emergency Radio - Be prepared for storms and emergencies with built-in NOAA radio receiver.
- Dual Watch - Monitors two pre-selected channels simultaneously.
- Channel Scan - Scan all 40 CB channels.
Designed for use in cars, the HH ROAD TRIP Hand Held CB radio has a magnet mount mobile antenna that you can move anywhere the magnet will stick. In case, you're looking for a clearer reception, that is. You can scan 40 CB channels and 10 NOAA weather channels with this device, as well as monitor two pre-selected channels at the same time. It is equipped with the SoundTracker that cuts out noise up to 90%.
Cobra 75WXST 40-Channel CB Radio
- 10 NOAA Weather Channels
- Clearer transmissions and less-noisy reception
- Unified design; CB fits in your hand
- An ideal choice when space or mounting options are limited
- 40 CB channels
Featuring a design that easily fits in your hand, using the Cobra 75WXST 40-Channel CB Radio while driving would feel nothing like juggling. It scans 40 CB channels and 10 NOAA weather channels.
It comes with a Remote Mount System for convenient installation on the dashboard. Combined with the radio's compact size, it can fit in any vehicle, even when space is limited.
The SoundTracker system, on the other hand, eliminates noise of up to 90% for a clearer reception. This eliminates the possibility of miscommunication.
An illuminated LCD display that provides a bright and clear output completes this CB radio for cars.
President Johnny III USA 40 Channel CB Radio 12 or 24V!
- Deluxe Super Compact Feature Loaded CB From President!
- 40ch, WX Alert, Automatic Squelch Control!
- Noise Blanker, Roger Beep, Scan RF Gain And More!
- Operates from 12-24Vdc! Multi-Color Selectable Backlit LCD Display!
- Includes Microphone, Power Cord and Mounting Bracket!
One of the best sellers, the President Johnny III USA 40 Channel CB Radio Is very compact in size but is packed with many features, making it suitable for in-car use. It can easily fit next to a car's center console.
It comes with a mounting bracket that allows you to hook the radio up to any optional CB antenna. It operates from 12 or 24V and scans 40 channels. Comes with Automatic Squelch Control, WX Alert, noise blanker, Scan RF Gain, Roger Beep, and Multi-color backlit LCD display.
Best CB radios for a budget
Uniden 40-Channel CB Radio (PRO505XL) PRO505XL
- Public Address (PA) Function: Connect to an external PA speaker for amplified announcements
- Instant Channel 9: Quickly set the radio to emergency/channel 9
- Signal/RF Power Indicator: Check the relative strength of incoming transmissions
- External Speaker Jack: Plug in an external speaker for better sound
- External PA Jack: Allows connection of a PA speaker
A compact CB radio with a huge chunky display, the Uniden PRO505XL may seem underrated. But that's what makes it so budget-friendly. For its affordable price point, it transmits 4 watts of legal output across 40 channels, comes with Squelch control for noise elimination, PA system, and instant channel 9 button.
Midland 1001Lwx Full Featured Cb Radio With Weather Scan Technology
- Midland 1001Lwx Full Featured Cb Radio With Weather Scan Technology
This CB radio uses a dual function RF gain and volume control to fit all the necessary buttons and knob that scan full 40 channels. It comes with a bright display that shows clear signal strength. Unlike most CB radios, it has a local WX channel function that scan frequencies of local weather stations. It also updates you to any weather alerts. For its price point, it is definitely worth the investment, especially because it costs less than $70.
Cobra 29LTD 40-Channel CB Radio
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With an SWR Control, the Cobra 29LTD 40-Channel CB Radio allow you to calibrate the antenna to get the best transmission across all 40 channels. This radio has a full 4-watt RF power output, 9-inch microphone cord, front panel mic connector, and Cobra 40CH CB RF gain.
Unlike other radios with controls, this device has more tactile controls, allowing for easy adjustment under little to no light. But only if you memorize which button belongs where.
Other features include Antenna Warning Indicator, Adjustable Dynamike Boost, Delta Tune, Instant Channel 9, PA Capability, Switchable NB/ANL, and Talk Back.
Final Thoughts
CB radios come in many sizes, features, and capabilities. How you choose one will depend on various factors, including the price. But make sure not to choose entirely on price alone, because something affordable might lack the feature that you need.
Of course, if you are on a budget, make sure the CB radios you're checking out has the must-haves – noise filters, Squelch control, weather capabilities, and an external speaker jack.


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