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Fr. Frank Pavone
National Director, Priests for Life
One of the most common questions I receive is, "What happens to aborted babies? Do they go to heaven? Should we pray for them?"
Pope John Paul II, in The Gospel of Life, speaks directly to those who have had abortions, and tells them, "To the same Father and to his mercy you can with sure hope entrust your child" (n. 99).
The child, in other words, continues to live, and the mother continues to care for that child by "entrusting" him or her to the Father. God takes care of the children he has created, including those who have been killed. Therefore, we entrust these children to Him "with sure hope."
This "hope" means that we acknowledge that God wants everyone to be saved. He saves different people in different ways. The ordinary way of salvation is through the sacrament of Baptism, which gives us the new life that is necessary for reaching heaven. If a person, however, is prevented, through no fault of their own, from receiving the sacrament, that does not mean that God cannot give them that new life by different means. How, precisely, he does this, we do not know. He has not given us the answer to every question. But he has assured us - and in fact he commands us - that we are to trust in his mercy, and entrust each other, including aborted children, to his mercy.
The International Theological Commission, which is an advisory panel to the Vatican, issued a document in April of 2007 entitled "The Hope of Salvation for Infants Who Die Without Being Baptized," and Pope Benedict XVI authorized its publication. This document emphasized the "grounds for hope that unbaptized infants who die will be saved and enjoy the beatific vision." The document recalled Christ's special love for "the little ones," and acknowledged that the question of what happens to unbaptized infants is intensified in an age when so many die from abortion. In fact, the document pointed out the solidarity with Christ among infant victims of violence, born and unborn, who like the holy innocents killed by King Herod are endangered by the "fear or selfishness of others."
Having made these points, however, the document adds, "We emphasize that these are reasons for prayerful hope, rather than grounds for sure knowledge."
So then, we should hope and pray.
The month of November, dedicated to all the faithful departed, is an excellent time to intensify our prayers for all children who have been aborted. In fact, just as we request a Mass to be offered for a deceased relative by name, we can likewise request a Mass to be offered when that deceased relative is a child killed by abortion. Many of these children have been given names, and their names can be given when the Mass is requested, without having to say that they died from abortion.
"Lord, give eternal rest to all aborted children, and grant that they may run and play in the playgrounds of heaven."
This column can be found online at
Fr. Frank's columns can be heard via podcast. See www.priestsforlife.org/podcast for more details.Fr.. Frank's columns can be listened to in MP3 format at www.priestsforlife.org/columns/columns2007/index.htm
"In Cordibus Jesu et Mariae"


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Excitement, fun and high adventure is just down the road! Come to Maple Dell Scout Camp this summer and discover the incredibly fun new activities and new merit badges added this year! In the past we've added something new to our program each year, but we've really outdone ourselves this time! Already announced is the […]
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Jef Peeters necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 35 diseños de 9 diseñadores freelance.
As an educational publisher, Van In educations offers to their customers integrated digital exercises and lessons. The output generated by the authoring tools should be revised. We ask you to design three different exercise screens and two lesson screens.
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As an educational publisher, Van In educations offers to their customers integrated digital exercises and lessons. The output generated by the authoring tools should be revised. We ask you to design four different exercise screens and two lesson screens.
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Drench: Cubehead
Guy needs some beverage before managing to put order in his messed up head because, even though they've found that 20 moves are enough to sold the Rubik's cube, you still have to find them…
The spot has been directed by Ulf Johansson and produced by Philippa Smith at Smith & Jones Films. Director of photography: Stephen Keith-Roach.
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15 Minute Recipe: Flank Steak with Spicy Lemon Sauce
Here's a quick mid-week recipe to help you clear hump day. It's from Cooking Light magazine, which quietly but certainly gets better every month — while so many other food magazines flail and spin to stand out.
Pair it with a salad and a glass of pinot noir.
Flank Steak with Spicy Lemon Sauce
Recipe from the May issue of Cooking Light magazine (click here to subscribe). Makes four servings.
1 flank steak (1 pound), trimmed
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
Cooking spray
1/4 cup reduced-fat sour cream
3 tablespoons prepared horseradish
1 tablespoon canola mayonnaise
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
1/2 teaspoon grated lemon rind
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
2 tablespoons chopped fresh chives
1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley
Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Sprinkle both sides of steak with salt and pepper. Coat pan with cooking spray. Add steak to pan; cook 5 minutes on each side or until desired degree of doneness. Place steak on a cutting board; let stand 5 minutes. Cut steak diagonally across grain into thin slices.
While steak cooks, combine sour cream and next 5 ingredients (through juice) in a small bowl, stirring with a whisk. Stir in chives and parsley. Serve sour cream mixture with steak.
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Calories 224, Fat 11.4g (sat fat 4g), Protein 25.8g, Carb 3.3g, Fiber 0.6g, Chol 44mg, Iron 1.9mg, Sodium 459mg, Calcium 60mg.


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|Computer gamers around the world have been eagerly exploring the new game Spore, recently released by the team that created other hits including The Sims. In the new game, players watch life develop and evolve -- from single-celled organisms to starfaring civilizations. In this segment, we'll talk about Spore and its model of the evolutionary process. How close is the game to the way evolution really works -- and what were its designers' goals in creating Spore? We'll be talking with Will Wright, the game's creator, and an evolutionary biologist who has played the game.


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LearnTheGuitar needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 54 designs submitted by 31 freelance designers.
We would like a logo designed for our guitar reviews website that fits in with the blue colour scheme and that would ideally look good in white for printed literature.
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The site has been going from strength to strength recently and we thought it was about time we had a proper logo. So we have decided to open up a competition for designing a new LearnTheGuitarNow.com logo.
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Access upper cabinets with a library ladder: The top hooks onto and slides along a satin nickel rail, while its wheeled feet roll on the floor. When not in use, as shown, left, the ladder becomes a decorative wall hanging.
Connect Rooms
To link adjoining spaces, enlist shared flooring and millwork. Here, 8"-square limestone tiles, set in a diamond pattern, point the way from the kitchen to the eating area. American cherry moldings echo kitchen cabinetry.
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A beverage center (refrigerator, freezer drawers, and storage for wine and glassware) opposite the island allows guests to serve themselves, sip, and socialize—and never be in the cook's way.


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These were made by Estey who also made Magnatones - it doesn't have the "true Vibrato" circuit but it is still a nice little Vibro Champ alternative.
Looking for a Vintage guitar or amp? Trying to find a fair selling price for your vintage guitar? Just enjoy looking at cool, funky, unusual guitars? Well this is the blog for you. I AM NOT SELLING THESE ITEMS and you cannot contact sellers via the comments section of this blog. You must click thru to the original Craigslist postings. Do not post comments here asking to buy the item! LOOK AT THE DATE ON THE POSTING! Most of these items are no longer for sale. - Jim C.


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304 Stainless Steel Filter Fan Unit FFU With ULPA Air Filter Class 100 - 10000
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Arvest Bank announced in early April the beginning of its eighth annual 1 Million Meals initiative, which challenges bank associates, customers and community members to fight hunger in the more than 120 communities the bank serves by providing meals to those in need.
Today, the bank announced the campaign has exceeded one million meals, reaching the goal with more than three weeks remaining in the campaign. A total of 1,002,353 meals have been raised.
Arvest branches throughout Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma have been participating in the 1 Million Meals initiative by collecting nonperishable food items and monetary donations. These efforts will continue through June 2, with the donations given to the local communities Arvest serves later in the month.
Every dollar raised through 1 Million Meals provides the equivalent of five meals for local, hungry families.
For more information about 1 Million Meals, visit arvest.com/millionmeals.
Submitted questions will be answered by an Arvest banker and may appear on the Arvest Blog.
All Arvest banks are Equal Housing Lenders and Member FDIC.
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Double-Ended Cone Wrench
These cone wrenches are designed for the home mechanic or occasional user. They're made of thin steel and are nickel plated and heat treated for long use. Available in four popular sizes from 13mm to 18mm. Their small size makes them ideal to carry along for quick repairs.
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Niyc Pidgeon Series: Happiness and Success
We often think we will be happy in the future when we have achieved a certain goal, reached a certain income level, or experienced a certain level of success.
In actual fact, to be successful, you need to experience happiness first.
Flipping the traditional logic on its head might seem counter intuitive, or it may be something that you have heard before, but never really believed.
But happiness is something that is proven in the science of Positive Psychology to be fundamental to your success.
You can see in the image below, exactly why happy people are more successful, (and make more money too).
Attaching your happiness to your success or to a certain income level, really limits you in how much joy you are able to experience in your life, and you end up putting off for another day, positive shifts that you could be experiencing right now.
Paying attention to your happiness will pay dividends in more ways than one;
Happy People Tend to Be Healthy People
Stress is so detrimental to your health, and by finding your happy, you are able to increase your wellbeing and lower your stress levels, which helps you to get more done. You will feel more energized and able to work on your business, knowing that you are an excellent role model for the products and lifestyle you are promoting and sharing.
Happy People Are Peak Performers
Being happy is contagious – it allows you to be more productive, make better decisions, which in turn means you are likely to perform better.
Introducing things like systems and procedures can help boost your performance, but not as much as boosting your happiness.
So the next time you're looking to be better at what you do – focus on doing the things that you love. When you focus on being happier, you open yourself up to learning so much more.
Happy People Are Solution Focused
Instead of worrying and focusing on what's wrong, happy people choose to focus on what is going right, and take a strengths based approach to life and business.
Happy people complain less, have a broader mindset, and are able to come up with more creative solutions for problems. This means that you are able to tackle adversities or set backs more easily, and develop the resiience to keep on going.
Happy People Invest In Themselves
You know as a Forever Business Owner that there is so much value in investing in yourself in order to grow yourself and your business. You are provided with a wealth of trainings inspiration, and recognition through the company that you can dive in to to support your growth.
You might notice that when you don't feel great, or you're in a bit of a funk, you are less inclined to want to show up for yourself and your learning – but when you do you feel so much better as a result.
Investing in yourself is always going to move you along the path of success.
Happy People Are More Optimistic
Glass half empty or glass half full? This question is so common it's almost a cliché now, but it's very much grounded in science.
Being optimistic is known to create more success, help you reach your goals more quickly, and even help you live longer! (Around 7 extra healthy years, to be precise)
If you're happier, you're more likely to be an optimist, and to choose to view things with a sense of hope and anticipation for something good. So remember when you get asked that question about your glass… that the answer is, "it's full, and abundantly full and overflowing!"
Happy People Are More Productive
When you're in a good mood you get more done. Fact. Of. Life. You know from last week's article that positive emotions help switch on your brain and mean you don't see your activities as being such a chore.
By choosing to enhance your happy every day, you boost your motivation and make progress through that accomplishment list.
So, if you needed any more reason to focus on your happiness, I just gave you six!
Make sure to do something to make yourself and those around you smile today.
With Gratitude,
Positive Psychologist MSc BSc CTTLS IPPA
Global Success Coach
Hay House Author
About Niyc Pidgeon
Niyc is a Positive Psychologist MSc and Global Success Coach, on a mission to help a million people change their lives using positive psychology by the year 2020.
Niyc is from the UK, where she recently won Young Entrepreneur of the Year, and is currently living in Los Angeles and travelling the world speaking, coaching, and helping people to overcome self doubt and burnout, and live their lives of joy, personal power, and unstoppable success.
Niyc has already coached hundreds of FBO's for success, and her 30 Day Happiness Guide, Now Is Your Chance is available for pre-order on Amazon globally now, published with Hay House.
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Alex Fallstrom notched Harvard's first goal of the game and extended his points streak to four games Saturday (Gil Talbot).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Harvard men's hockey team finished with 23 shots compared to Cornell's 40, but the Crimson made its shots count in a 2-2 final against the Big Red Saturday at Bright Hockey Center. Harvard (7-15-3, 4-12-2 ECAC) is now undefeated in its last four games while the tie moves Cornell to 9-13-3 and 5-10-3 in ECAC action.
Marshall Everson scored for the fifth time in the last three games, putting the Crimson ahead for an eight-minute stretch in the second period. Kyle Criscuolo logged his third straight game with an assist, and now has five in the last three contests. Criscuolo and Everson have now combined for three of the last four Crimson tallies.
Entering the third period with a 19-13 shots deficit, the Crimson survived a barrage from the Big Red, as Raphael Girard turned away all 19 shots he faced in the final period and two more in the overtime stanza. Harvard's best chance at the game-winner came late in the third period when Tommy O'Regan slid a pass across the ice to a streaking Luke Greiner on a three-on-two, but Cornell goalie Andy Iles denied Greiner's attempt. Cornell held the momentum throughout the overtime period, and the Crimson did well to keep the Big Red off the board and preserve the 2-2 final.
The crowd was electric to start the game and the pace of the game matched the patrons' energy. Cornell came out with a bit more fire than the hosts, sending three shots on net before the Crimson could manage one of its own. The early pressure from the Big Red paid off, as the guests jumped on the board just 2:03 into the game. Jacob MacDonald controlled an attempted Crimson clear and ripped a shot from the left point that Greg Miller tipped past Girard.
The teams traded power plays through the middle of the period, but both squads passed the penalty kill test, leaving the score 1-0 in Cornell's favor. The Big Red's second penalty would prove costly, however, as the Crimson evened the score just 26 seconds before the first buzzer. Luke Greiner gained control of the puck near the left corner in the Cornell zone, brought it out a bit and put a back-handed attempt on net. Andy Iles made the save, but Alex Fallstrom worked hard for the rebound and steered it home for his sixth score of the season.
Fallstrom's goal was his second is as many games, and extended his points streak to four games, his longest of the season and second-longest on the team this year.
Harvard's penalty kill was put to the test early in the second when Brendan Rempel was sent to the box for a slashing call 1:56 into the frame. The Crimson defenses buckled down once again, allowing just one shot to reach Girard, keeping the score knotted at 1-1. A big mistake by the Big Red just past the eight minute mark led to Harvard's second goal. A Cornell defenseman carrying the puck out of his own zone, slipped before he could reach the blueline. Criscuolo was there to strip him of the puck and dish to Everson, who guided the puck past Iles for his fifth tally in the last three games.
Just over eight minutes later, Cornell leveled the score thanks to a solid string of passing that ended with Nick D'Agostino blasting a shot past Girard from the top of the right faceoff circle. Cornell held a significant edge in shots (19-13) and faceoffs (31-19) after two, but the score stood tied at 2-2.
Harvard will make its final regular-season road trip next weekend when it travels north to take on St. Lawrence Friday and Clarkson Saturday.


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DC Comics is going back to the starting point in September, renumbering its entire lineup of DC Universe titles with No. 1 and retooling nearly all of its major characters, including Superman, Wonder Woman and Batman.
At the same time, the company, which has been publishing comics for 76 years, also said it would start selling digital copies of its printed ongoing superhero titles through apps and a website the same day they're released in comic shops, a move dubbed by the industry as day-and-date sales. That will affect the company's superhero titles.
That means DC is joining a movement already embraced by Archie Comics, which began same-day digital and print sales in April, along with other smaller publishers.
DC's rival, Marvel Comics, has not yet implemented such a move but has routinely held more market share every year since 2002, based on sales statistics from Diamond Comic Distributors.
USA Today reported that DC's move will start with the first issue of "Justice League" No. 1 in September, which will reunite the classic lineup of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Aquaman and Green Lantern.
The newspaper reported that 52 issues, all starting at No. 1, will be released starting at the end of the summer. "Justice League" is the first and will be written by DC's chief creative officer Geoff Johns and illustrated by co-publisher Jim Lee, the first time the pair have collaborated together, the company said.
Lee has also designed the costumes of more than 50 characters, the paper reported.
In a note to direct-market retailers, Bob Wayne, senior vice president for sales, said by rebooting the superhero titles and moving to day-and-date digital sales, DC was positioning itself to let readers experience characters in a new light.
"We have taken great care in maintaining continuity where most important, but fans will see a new approach to our storytelling," he said in the letter. "Some of the characters will have new origins, while others will undergo minor changes. Our characters are always being updated; however, this is the first time all of our characters will be presented in a new way all at once."
It remains to be seen if the renumbering will affect such long-published titles like Action Comics, which reached No. 900 this year, and Detective Comics, which is at No. 877.
Some of DC's titles are already available digitally through apps and in March it joined Comixology's Digital Storefront Affiliate program, which lets shops sell digital comics along with printed copies.
The move comes after the conclusion of the company's epic "Flashpoint" mini-series, also penned by Johns, that has changed the face of the DC Universe and made some well-known characters into different versions of their normal, and entrenched, personalities.


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Walking for Farm Animals
This weekend, Aimee and I are taking part in the Walk for Farm Animals 2008 to raise money for Farm Sanctuary, a national non-profit that works to end cruelty to farm and food animals through rescue, education, and advocacy. It's a great organization that, to me, is way more palatable than more confrontational organizations such as PETA.
We hope you'll support us by donating $5-10 (or more) via our FirstGiving page (a secure way to send directly to Farm Sanctuary, and they'll mail you a tax-deductible receipt).
We visited Farm Sanctuary's California farm in Orland last weekend (they have one on NY, too). We stayed in the farm's guest cabin and were able to spend a lot of time with all the animals (Aimee discovered I'm something of a turkey whisperer). It was fun to see them in action and we had a chance to volunteer a little by preparing food and feeding many of the animals and brushing the goats.
Aimee posted a set of photos (ad 2 vids) from our time at Farm Sanctuary on Flickr.
Also, if you vote in California, please join us in supporting Prop 2 (sponsored by Farm Sanctuary) with a "Yes" vote in November.
Prop 2 is a modest measure that would allow farm and food animals the ability to stand up, stretch and turn around. Through the reduction of these inhumane caging/crating practices (most commonly used by factory farms) will improve the health and safety of our food, support family farmers, and reduce the environmental degradation caused by these unnecessary practices. The NY Times has endorsed Prop 2 in a thoughtful and straightforward article.
We hope you enjoy our pictures and hope you'll consider helping us raise money for this important organization.
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Paul and Liz (the Earthlings) are astronomers and astro-photographers, with a selection of telescopes, cameras and tracking devices which are used interchangeably to produce the images which you will see on this site. We live in England and have a pretty busy life. Liz is a practicing reflexologist - IIR, AoR, ART and a qualified Nutritional Therapist - dip. NT (CNNT). Paul is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (FRAS), Chairman of the local Parish Council and sings in a choir. However, we try to spend as much time as we can under the clear skies of southern Spain where we have built an observatory. This site also contains a lot of technical information about astronomy. You can access some of it here. Enjoy your stay, and please feel free to ask us questions.
Please use the various links on our site to visit the many places to which you can go - and Liz and I do hope you enjoy your stay
|Messier 51 in the constellation of Canes Venatici. This super double galaxy is actually quite close to the last star in the handle of the Big Dipper and in this image you can see quite well the bridge joining the two galaxies together. This image was taken at our Spanish observatory in June 2007 and we were helped to process the data by our friend and fine astronomer, Jay McNeil. You can also browse this Full Resolution Image (2.0Mb). For information on the Earthlings please see: Earthlings Information
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Firearms and parts manufactured by Palmetto State Armory are backed by our Full Lifetime Warranty. Our PSA manufactured firearms and parts are warranted to be free from defects in materials and craftsmanship for the serviceable lifetime of the firearm or part. The liability of Palmetto State Armory under this warranty shall be limited solely to the obligation to repair the defect or replace the firearm/part at its discretion, and to pay transportation and insurance charges for return of the firearm to the owner for a rightful warranty claim. This warranty is transferable for the serviceable lifetime of the firearm or part. Modification of firearm will void this warranty. This warranty does not cover ordinary wear and tear or any damage resulting from careless handling, neglect, repairs or adjustments, improper, substandard, reloaded or defective ammunition, corrosion, or other unreasonable use of the firearm or part.
To initiate a Warranty claim, call Palmetto State Armory Customer Service at (803) 724-6950, Monday through Friday, 9am - 6pm EST. Customer service will issue an RMA number to allow for the return of the firearm. Warranty claims must have this RMA filled out, and included in the box with the firearm or part. The firearm or part concerned must be shipped using the prepaid label our representative emails to you. Palmetto State Armory will pay shipping and insurance charges for the return of a firearm or part to its owner or FFL, if the related claim is a proper claim for warranty work. If Palmetto State Armory is unable to fix the original serial number, a new one will be sent out, but must go to an FFL for transfer back to the customer. Another background check will be completed at the time of transfer. Palmetto State Armory is not responsible for transfer fees at the FFL.
Under no circumstances shall Palmetto State Armory be responsible for incidental or consequential damages with respect to economic loss or injury to property, whether as a result of express or implied warranty, negligence or otherwise. Some states do not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitation may not apply to you. Palmetto State Armory will not be responsible for the results of ordinary wear and tear, careless handling, neglect, unauthorized repairs or adjustments, improper, substandard, reloaded or defective ammunition, corrosion, or unreasonable use. This warranty gives you legal rights, and you may also have other rights which vary from State to State.Please click here to download and print a Repair Request Form
Purchasing Protocol
All payments are processed immediately upon placement of order. It is the responsibility of the customer to know and be in compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws related to selling, transferring, possessing, transporting, or using a firearm, magazine, and ammunition in the locality in which the customer resides.
Palmetto State Armory reserves the right to cancel any order, at any time, for any reason.
Order Cancellation Policy
Orders placed with Palmetto State Armory may be cancelled by the customer prior to the item having shipped. All cancellation requests must be made through the Customer Service Department at 803-724-6950, Monday through Friday, 9am - 6pm EST. You MUST provide the order number when contacting Customer Service via phone or email.
If the item/package has shipped, the order may not be cancelled and the customer must follow all rules applicable to returns. Please note that the return of the item/package will be made at the customer's expense.
Cancelled orders may not be reversed. All cancellations are final.
All sales of firearms, loaded ammunition and clothing are FINAL, and returns, refunds or exchanges are NOT ACCEPTED. Orders shipped to a FFL are FINAL UPON SHIPMENT. Once a firearm is shipped to the FFL, Palmetto State Armory will not accept a return or exchange under any circumstances. If a defect is discovered by the customer after shipment, the customer must contact the firearm manufacturer directly for replacement or repair.
Palmetto State Armory charges a restocking fee and an amount equal to the original shipping costs for any final orders cancelled via debit or credit card chargeback after shipment to the FFL. By placing an online order with Palmetto State Armory, the customer agrees to pay all restocking and shipping fees associated with any order that is cancelled via debit or credit card chargeback following shipment to the FFL. CUSTOMER FURTHER AUTHORIZES AND CONSENTS TO PALMETTO STATE ARMORY CHARGING THE AFOREMENTIONED FEES TO THE DEBIT OR CREDIT CARD USED TO PLACE THE ORIGINAL ONLINE ORDER.
Palmetto State Armory reserves the right to dispute any bank or credit card chargebacks. Palmetto State Armory reserves the right to refuse all future orders placed by any customer that cancels an order via debit or credit card chargeback following shipment.
All exchanges must be returned and received by the returns department prior to a replacement being shipped out.
If the purchased item(s) is defective or damaged upon receipt, or if the customer is not satisfied with a purchased item(s) and wishes to return it for a refund or replacement, the customer may return the item(s) to Palmetto State Armory WITHIN 30 DAYS of the date of receipt of delivery of the purchased item. If a defect in an optic is discovered by the customer, the customer must contact the manufacturer directly for replacement or repair.
All returns MUST INCLUDE a completed Return Merchandise Form with the returned item in order for Palmetto State Armory to process the request, issue a refund, or replace the item. The Customer MUST call Customer Service to obtain a Return Merchandise Authorization (RMA) number BEFORE returning any item.
Please click here to download and print a Return Merchandise Form
All returned items must be in the same condition as when they were shipped by Palmetto State Armory and must be returned in original packaging. The customer will be assessed a re-stocking fee up to 25% of the product sales price, at the discretion of Palmetto State Armory, if the item is not returned in resalable condition.
If the customer fails to include a Return Merchandise Form with the returned item(s), or if the Return Merchandise Form is incomplete, Palmetto State Armory will NOT process a refund or replacement for the item(s) and the package will be returned to thecustomer.
Amending Orders
No amendments to orders can take place once an order is placed.
If the order has not shipped, the customer can call our Customer Service Department, at 803-724-6950, Monday through Friday, 9am - 6pm EST to cancel the order. The customer will then need to complete a new order.
Shipping Times
Typically, you can expect your order to ship within 5 business days. During the holiday and peak seasons shipping times will vary due to the high order volume. We do work very hard to get your order out to you, and apologize if there is a delay with it. Let our Customer Service Department know if your order has passed the above ship time, and they will have your order sent to our Shipping Department to investigate the reason for the delay.
Please note that upper receivers may take up to 15 business days to ship out.
P.O. Box Shipments/Restrictions
PSA abides by all Federal Regulations regarding hazardous material shipped through United States Postal Service. A hazardous material is any article or substance designated by the U.S. Department of Transportation as being capable of posing an unreasonable risk to health, safety, or property during transportation. This includes, but is not limited to:
- Minor Blast/Minor Projection Hazard — Ammunition
- Oxidizing Substances — Batteries
- Flammable Solids — Black Powder
- Flammable and combustible liquid — Cleaners, oil, and aerosol cans
If you wish to order any hazardous material, you must provide a physical address for shipment through UPS.
Magazine Ordering Restrictions
Palmetto State Armory abides by all state regulations regarding the sale of high capacity magazines. We DO NOT ship high-capacity magazines with firearms to the states listed below. We WILL NOT replace high capacity magazines with state compliant magazines. We DO NOT offer refunds in place of the magazines.
It is the customer's responsibility for understanding state laws regarding magazine capacities. Customers ordering magazines that are illegal to own in their state will have their orders cancelled and will be charged a 5% restocking fee.STATES WITH APPLIED MAGAZINE RESTRICTIONS
- California — No magazines greater than 10 rounds
- Colorado — No magazines greater than 15 rounds, effective July 1st, 2013
- Boulder — No magazines greater than 10 rounds
- Connecticut — 10 Rounds and less with a valid permit.
- Hawaii — No magazines greater than 10 rounds
- Illinois (North Chicago) — No magazines greater than 16 rounds
- Aurora, Skokie, Chicago, Evanston — No magazines greater than 15 rounds
- Highland Park, Cook County, Dolton, Homewood, Deerfield — No magazines greater than 10 rounds
- Deerfield — No shotgun magazines over 5 rounds
- Indiana (South Bend) — No magazines greater than 15 rounds
- Maryland — No magazines greater than 10 rounds October 1st, 2013
- Massachusetts — No sales. PSA will not ship ANY items to the state of Massachusetts.
- New York — No magazines greater than 10 rounds
- New Jersey — No magazines greater than 15 rounds
- Vermont — No magazines over 10 rounds will be shipped as of April 13, 2018. No pistol magazines over 15 rounds effective immediately.
- Washington D.C. — No Sales.PSA will not ship ANY items to the District of Columbia.
PSA will not ship high capacity magazines for CA customers to a High Capacity Magazine Dealer. High Capacity Magazine Dealers in CA may place orders with PSA directly.
- Law enforcement officers must provide both their credentials and a letterhead signed by their department's superior officer stating that the magazine will either be used in the execution of the L.E.O.'s duties, or off duty. PSA only recognizes City Police Officers, County Sheriff Deputies, and State Police (including Highway Patrol) as L.E.O.'s.
- Some of the states listed above may not have L.E.O. exemptions. Please contact us BEFORE placing your order.
Ammunition Ordering Restrictions
Palmetto State Armory abides by all state regulations regarding the sale of ammunition.
- You agree and accept all policies described in our Terms of Use.
- You are at least 21 years of age (for handgun ammunition) or 18 years of age (for rifle ammunition).
- By purchasing ammunition, you are not violating any local, state, or federal laws.
- You have not been convicted of any felony, a misdemeanor of domestic abuse, and you are not chemically dependent.
- You have no legal restraint that would prohibit you from possessing, ordering, owning, or transferring ammunition.
- You have never been committed to any mental institution, or been adjudicated as mentally defective. You will not sell ammunition to any minor.
- You cannot have ammunition shipped to a post office box.
- You do not live in a state, city, or county that prohibits you from owning, purchasing, or transferring ammunition.
- Customers who order ammunition in states prohibiting the order of ammunition will have their orders cancelled and a 5% restocking fee will be charged.
- California — No Sales to the cities of Los Angeles, Oakland, Sacramento, San Francisco, or Avalon.
- Connecticut — No sales without a valid permit.
- Alaska — No Sales. Ammunition must be shipped to a freight forwarder.
- Hawaii — No Sales. Ammunition must be shipped to a freight forwarder.
- Illinois — No sales to the city of Chicago or Cook County. All other Illinois residents must email us a copy of their FOID card in addition to their State ID. Ammunition must ship to an address on one of these ID's.
- Massachusetts — No sales. PSA will not ship ANY items to the state of Massachusetts.
- Maryland — No Sales to the City of Annapolis and Montgomery County
- New York — No Sales to New York City, or its five Burroughs. Starting January 1st, 2014 all ammunition must be sent to a FFL.
- New Jersey — When ordering ammunition commonly used in a handgun/to be used in a handgun, email us a copy of your Firearms ID. We must ship to the address on the FID.
- Puerto Rico —No Sales. Ammunition must be shipped to a freight forwarder.
- Washington D.C. — No sales. PSA will not ship ANY items to the District of Columbia.
This is not a comprehensive list, but is meant as a guide. It is in no way meant to include all laws and restrictions across the United States. Please contact the authorities in your area for any possible restrictions.
Other Ordering Restrictions
- Alaska — No tannerite sales.
- Hawaii — No magazines greater than 10 rounds. No AR or AK pistol sales.
- Maryland — No tannerite sales.
- Massachusetts — No sales.
- Minnesota — The following firearms are prohibited in the state of Minnesota: GSG Rimfire pistols, Walther Rimfire Pistols, Cobra, Phoenix Arms, and Heritage Arms.
- Vermont — No magazines over 10 rounds will be shipped as of April 13, 2018. No pistol magazines over 15 rounds effective immediately.
- Washington D.C. — No sales.
California Notice
Due to recent changes in California state law, Palmetto State Armory will no longer be able to ship so called "assault weapons" to the state of California. This would include all Palmetto State Armory AR-15 complete lowers, AR-15 complete rifles, and all Palmetto State Armory AK-47 rifles. This would also include other makes and models of these same firearm platforms manufactured by other companies. Example: Colt AR-15 rifle.
As of the 1st of July 2019, all ammunition orders must be shipped to a California DOJ Approved FFL. It is the customer's responsibility for understanding state laws regarding ammunition. Customers ordering ammunition that they are not allowed to own in their state will be charged a 25% restocking fee.
No ammunition sales to the cities of Los Angeles, Oakland, Sacramento, San Francisco, or Avalon.
Deerfield, Illinois Notice
Deerfield, Illinois has recently passed a ban on large capacity magazines and so called "assault weapons". Every citizen in Deerfield has until June 13, 2018 to remove, destroy, or sell the firearms described in this Ordinance (O-18-06). Due to the nature of the ordinance, Palmetto State Armory will no longer ship magazines or firearms after June 1, 2018 if it falls within these categories. This would include AR rifles, completed receivers, or stripped receivers and all AK rifles. This would include other makes and models of these same firearm platform manufactured by other companies. Example: Colt AR-15 rifle. This will also include any AR or AK parts and pieces (i.e. AR rifle kit, build kit, or parts kit) Any magazines over 10 rounds for a pistol or rifle or shotgun magazines cannot be over 5 rounds will not be shipped.
Other Terms & Conditions
Palmetto State Armory makes it a priority to provide accurate and up-to-date product information and specifications for items listed for sale on this website; however, errors and changes in circumstance do occur. ALL INFORMATION IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL PALMETTO STATE ARMORY BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES RESULTING FROM ANY USE OR PERFORMANCE OF OR CONTENT ERRORS OR OMISSIONS IN THE INFORMATION, EVEN IF NOTIFIED IN ADVANCE OF THE POTENTIAL FOR SUCH DAMAGES. All users of the information agree that access to any use of the information is subject to these Terms and Conditions and all applicable laws, and such access and use is at the user's own risk.
Palmetto State Armory reserves the right to edit, change, or clarify descriptions at any time to correct errors in product listings or reflect changes in circumstance. In the event of inaccuracies in the description of an item, we reserve the right to remove the conflicting information once notified. We make no warranty on the accuracy of a product listing when a conflict in the product information is present. Photos are provided for general identification purposes only and may show optional or additional pieces for illustration purposes. Please refer to the product description for details.
Palmetto State Armory is not responsible for website performance in any particular browser or in the inability for a user to use the website due to, but not limited to, internet connection issues, outages, coding issues, or compatibility.
"GLOCK" is a federally registered trademark of GLOCK, Inc. and is one of many trademarks owned by GLOCK, Inc. or GLOCK Ges.mbH. Neither Palmetto State Armory, nor this site are affiliated in any manner with, or otherwise endorsed by, GLOCK, Inc. or GLOCK Ges.mbH. The use of "GLOCK" on this page is merely to advertise the sale of GLOCK pistols, parts, or components. For genuine GLOCK, Inc. and GLOCK Ges.mbH products and parts visit www.glock.com.
Legal Disputes
These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by the laws of the State of South Carolina. By placing an online order with Palmetto State Armory, customer hereby: (i) submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the federal or state courts located in Lexington or Richland Counties, South Carolina, in any litigation, suit, action or proceeding arising out of, or relating to, the order or these Terms and Conditions; (ii) knowingly, voluntarily, and irrevocably consents to the personal jurisdiction and venue of said court; and (iii) waives any right to dismiss or transfer it may have based on improper venue or forum nonconveniens to the conduct of any proceeding in said court.
By placing an order through this website, customer agrees to HOLD HARMLESS AND INDEMNIFY Palmetto State Armory for any and all costs, damages, or expenses (including reasonable attorney and other professional fees and disbursements) arising from any claim, cause of action, or legal dispute of any kind arising from or relating to the transaction or Palmetto State Armory's enforcement of these Terms and Conditions.
If any provision of these Terms and Conditions shall to any extent be held invalid or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, then: (a) the remainder of the Terms and Conditions shall not be affected, and every remaining provision of the Terms and Conditions shall be valid and binding to the fullest extent permitted by law, and (b) a suitable and equitable provision shall be substituted for such invalid and unenforceable provision in order to carry out, so far as may be valid and enforceable, the intent and purpose of such invalid or unenforceable provision.


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Bath Rugby have announced second-row Stuart Hooper as their new captain for the 2011/12 season.
The former Leeds Carnegie captain joined the West Country side in 2008 and in that time has become an integral member of the squad. Hooper is Bath's fifth different captain in five seasons, following in the footsteps of Saracens' Steve Borthwick, a joint captaincy between Michael Lipman and Alex Crockett in 2008-09, Michael Claassens in 2009-10 and Luke Watson, who took the post for the 2010-11 season.
Hooper, who has made 87 appearances for Bath, admitted it was a "huge honour" to be asked to captain the side. "I am very excited for the coming season, and with the squad we have here now and everything is pointing towards a successful future for Bath Rugby," Hooper said. "We know that there is a lot of hard work to be done first though, and I am looking forward to getting on with training hard, fighting for my place in a very competitive squad, and leading the boys into the new season."
Bath's director of rugby Sir Ian McGeechan was delighted with the new appointment and claimed Hooper was a "natural leader." "He has very strong leadership qualities, which have been and will continue to be a huge asset to the club," McGeechan said. "He is a very strong communicator, a hugely dedicated professional and, most importantly, has the total respect of all the players."
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then-futuristic political drama
series produced by the
in the late 1970s.
The series is set in a
future in which Britain is under the grip of the
Home Office
's Department of Public Control (PCD), a tyrannically
bureaucracy riding roughshod over the population's
civil liberties
Edward Woodward
plays Jim Kyle, a journalist on the last independent newspaper called
The Star
, who turns renegade and begins to fight the PCD covertly. The officials of the PCD, in turn, try to provide proof of Kyle's subversive activities.
Exposition in this series was mainly performed by facts occasionally dropped into dialogue requiring the viewer to piece together the basic scenario.
This state of affairs was precipitated by a critical financial collapse (possibly an irrecoverable national
) in the early 1980s, triggering a de facto state of emergency, cancelling the General Election and causing the economy (and imports) to drastically contract forcing stringent rationing of housing, goods and services. These are distributed according to a person's status in society as determined (and constantly reviewed) by the PCD on behalf of the government, which is union-dominated and socialistic in nature. As a consequence, the higher-status individuals appear to be civil servants and union leaders. An exception to this is import/export agents, which appear to be immune to state control due to their importance to the remnants of the economy. The House of Lords has been abolished and turned into an exclusive dining club. State ownership of businesses appears to be near-total and taxation of wealth and income appears to be very high. The ruling monarch is male, but their identity is never made clear. The currency is the Anglodollar which appears to have little value overseas due to the poor quality of British exports. The armed forces have been run down to the extent that they are little more than an internal security force. This is made clear in one episode where the RAF is described as consisting of little more than a few dozen counter-insurgency helicopters.
Although running the bureaucratic dictatorship, the state appears to shy away from explicit political violence, preferring to set up psychiatric pseudo-hospitals called 'Adult Rehabilitation Centres' which employ electro-convulsive treatments to 'cure' dissidents. Ordinary criminals found guilty of traditional and new economic and social crimes are prevented from clogging up the prison system by having short sentences during which they are force-fed 'misery pills', which induce severe depression during their incarceration. Despite this, fatalities and injuries do occur due to the PCD's lack of democratic accountability but these are misreported or ignored by the state-controlled press and television or are suppressed by the print unions on the last independent newspaper in the UK. The state can also declare a person to be a 'non-citizen' which denies them any entitlement whatsoever to consumer goods, accommodation or food. Labour is controlled by a mandatory closed shop in every workplace. For at least part of the series, the country is on a three-day working week, presumably to conserve energy or to promote full employment through
job sharing
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Emigration is a key problem with a steady 'Brain Drain' countered by PCD Emigration officers who try to watch every port and airfield. Despite this, professional and skilled labour is fast disappearing from the country in a similar manner to East Germany before the Berlin Wall. This is a neat reversal of the immigration controversies of the mid-to late 1970s in the UK.
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also stars
Robert Lang
Barbara Kellerman
John Savident
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Tony Doyle
Clive Swift
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Pollinators are a necessity for ecosystems around the globe. Including innumerable species of insects and birds, bats and other small mammals, and even some reptiles, pollinators play a vital role in plant reproduction by performing the essential job of transferring pollen from anther to stigma. Pollinators assist in the propagation and diversification of plants. They improve seed set in produce and are crucial for the creation of the seed banks that feed bird and beasts alike. They are also essential for an estimated two-thirds of the crops that we grow. Without them, the world as we know it would not exist. Despite these facts, we have allowed their populations to decline to alarmingly low levels.


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Rodney Brooks, iRobot co-founder and Chairman and CTO of Rethink Robotics, was recently featured in the MIT News Office — following the selection by Technology Review of Rethink Robotics as one of 50 Disruptive Companies 2013. Founded by Brooks in 2008, Rethink Robotics is stocking manufacturers with easily taught assembly-line capable robots that can work safely alongside humans.
Read more in the Aug. 8 MIT News Office article by Rob Matheson titled "Professor emeritus Rodney Brooks refines the sequel to iRobot. Rodney Brooks' startup, Rethink Robotics, is producing robots that can adapt to manufacturing tasks and the factory environment," also posted below.
Professor emeritus Rodney Brooks gained fame in the 1990s for co-founding iRobot, an MIT spinoff that brought the world the Roomba and other innovative, helpful robots. He's since moved on to robots that are bigger, but no less revolutionary.
Brooks' newest startup, Rethink Robotics, headquartered in Boston, is producing robots that can work safely in factories alongside humans and demonstrate "common sense," adapting to their tasks and environment.
Rethink's first commercial model, Baxter, released in January, is a human-sized, two-armed robot that can be programmed to learn repetitive production tasks: material handling, testing and sorting, light assembly, and packing and unpacking. Any worker, tech-savvy or not, can program Baxter by moving the robot's arms — demonstrating the desired tasks and locations — and pressing buttons on a control panel.
The robot's "face" — eyes and eyebrows displayed on an LCD screen — indicates its status and where its attention is focused. Sensors on the robot's "head" allow it to recognize when people are nearby, and sensors on its joints allow it to reduce the force of impact should it detect a collision — valuable, and novel, safety features.
"Baxter changes its movements to accommodate the world. That's a revolution in robots for manufacturing by itself," says Brooks, a former director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab and now Rethink's chief technology officer. "And the fact that it's aware of people and safe to be around people is another revolution in the manufacturing environment."
As importantly, Brooks says, Baxter is built from parts manufactured in the United States. (Rethink's Boston office works on quality assurance and software development, releasing new software to expand Baxter's capabilities every few months.) The product's domestic roots are contributing to the company's popularity, Brooks says: "Our customers have a lot of emotional investment in that."
Hundreds of Baxters have sold nationwide, and the robot has been praised for its safety and affordability, among other things. Technology Review listed Baxter as one of 10 breakthrough technologies of 2013; Time named the robot a top invention of 2012. Rethink itself — named to Technology Review's most recent list of "disruptive companies" — has raised more than $62 million in funding.
Making U.S. manufacturing more attractive
A Baxter-type robot first appealed to Brooks as a means of helping America compete with low-cost overseas labor and making its factories competitive globally. "I decided maybe I could do something with robots to make manufacturing more attractive in the United States," he says.
Five years of prototyping and field research at U.S. factories followed Rethink's 2008 founding. This field experience led Brooks and his colleagues to jettison many features, such as a speech interface (because factories are noisy) and touchscreens (because workers commonly wear gloves). "It's all this obvious little stuff that, as an academic, doesn't register when you're starting to commercialize something like this. So you have to go into the field to find it out," Brooks says.
Once it had the design, Rethink began reducing Baxter's development costs by replacing costly mechanical components with computation. Advanced software allows the robot to rectify mechanical irregularities, such as troubles with gears. And features like cameras help the robot detect objects without requiring precision accuracy.
But the robot is designed with some impressive hardware. One key feature (which allows the robot to sense and soften collisions) was invented and patented at MIT: Baxter's arms contain a mechanism called a series elastic actuator that was invented by Gill Pratt, a former MIT faculty member, and Matt Williamson, Brooks' former PhD student.
Traditional actuators involve a motor driving a gearbox, which in turn drives a joint. All are rigidly attached to one another, making a device fast and accurate, but rendering it unable to sense force, which can be dangerous. Elastic actuators, on the other hand, are spring-based and allow the device to sense force — slowing when a human touches it — as well as absorbing friction and shocks.
Williamson now directs Rethink's technology development. A number of other Rethink employees hail from MIT, as well as from Northeastern and Tufts universities, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and other institutions in and around Boston — which Brooks calls "the world's epicenter for robotics."
"You can't have a robotics company in Boston without employing people from MIT," he says.
Brooks, who left MIT in 2008, adds that the Institute's entrepreneurial ecosystem has grown dramatically since he co-founded iRobot with then-graduate students Helen Greiner '89, SM '90 and Colin Angle '89, SM '91. "It has a lot for students," he says. "Everyone's doing something with entrepreneurship there now."
A tool for factories, and the lab
While Baxter has received its share of praise, some media coverage has asked whether the robot could eventually take jobs from humans. But Brooks sees Baxter as a tool, comparing the robot to another useful invention, the electric drill.
"Electric drills increase the productivity of workers, but do they take jobs away? I view Baxter as a tool — like the electric drill — that increases productivity," he says. "Baxter is not technology separate from average workers; it's a tool for factory workers."
For instance, Baxter may help aging factory workers do their jobs more efficiently. But humans still do better at tasks like quality assurance or small assembly, Brooks says.
In May, Rethink began selling a Baxter Research Robot. It's exactly the same, mechanically and electronically, as the manufacturing robot, but is geared toward research tasks — which Brooks hopes may lead to research advances.
"I don't know what the research will be," he says. "All I know is once the tools are there, and are cheap enough that lots of universities can have them, there will be major innovation. I think that's worthwhile for the world."


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Friday, September 30, 2011
The Fetish of Rationality
As Aldred points out, however, this just isn't how people work. One of the problems is that more choice means more thinking and struggling to decide what to do. As a result, adding more options often has the effect of inhibiting people from choosing anything. In one study he cites, doctors were presented with the case history of a man suffering from osteoarthritis and asked if they would A. refer him to a specialist or B. prescribe a new experimental medicine. Other doctors were presented with the same choice, except they could choose between two experimental medicines. Doctors in the second group made twice as many referrals to a specialist, apparently shying away from the psychological burden of having to deal with the extra choice between medicines.
I'm sure everyone can think of similar examples from their own lives in which too much choice becomes annihilating. Several years ago my wife and I were traveling in Nevada and stopped in for an ice cream at a place offering 200+ flavours and a variety of extra toppings, etc. There were an astronomical number of potential combinations. After thinking for ten minutes, and letting lots of people pass by us in the line, I finally just ordered a mint chocolate chip cone -- to end the suffering, as it were. My wife decided it was all too overwhelming and in the end didn't want anything! If there had only been vanilla and chocolate we'd have ordered in 5 seconds and been very happy with the result.
In discussing this problem of choice, Aldred refers to a beautiful paper I read a few years ago by economist John Conlisk entitled Why Bounded Rationality? The paper gives many reasons why economic theory would be greatly improved if it modeled individuals as having finite rather than infinite mental capacities. But one of the things he considers is a paradoxical contradiction at the very heart of the notion of rational behaviour. A rational person facing any problem will work out the optimal way to solve that problem. However, there are costs associated with deliberation and calculation. The optimal solution to the ice cream choice problem isn't to stand in the shop for 6 years while calculating how to maximize expected utility over all the possible choices. Faced with a difficult problem, therefore, a rational person first has to solve another problem -- for how long should I deliberate before it becomes advantageous to just take a guess?
This is a preliminary problem -- call is P1 -- which has to be solved before the real deliberation over the choice can begin. But, Conlisk pointed out, P1 is itself a difficult problem and a rational individual doesn't want to waste lots of resources thinking about that one too long either. Hence, before working on P1, the rational person first has to decide what is the optimal amount of time to spend on solving P1. This is another problem P2, which is also hard. Of course, it never ends. Take rationality to it's logical conclusion and it ends up destroying itself -- it's simply an inconsistent idea.
Anyone who is not an economist might be quite amazed by Conlisk's paper. It's a great read, but it will dawn on the reader that in a sane world it simply wouldn't be necessary. It's arguing for the obvious and is only required because economic theory has made such a fetish of rationality. The assumption of rationality may in some cases have made it possible to prove theorems by turning the consideration of human behaviour into a mathematical problem. But it has tied the hands of economic theorists in a thousand ways.
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Kahneman on rationality (and more)...ReplyDelete
Is there such a creature as "rational man"?ReplyDelete
Mircea Eliade, in his 1957 work, The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion, had his doubts: "In short, the majority of men 'without religion' still hold to pseudo religions and degenerated mythologies. There is nothing surprising in this, for, as we saw, profane man is the descendant of homo religiosus and he cannot wipe out his own history – that is, the behavior of his religious ancestors which has made him what he is today. This is all the more true because a great part of his existence is fed by impulses that come to him from the depths of his being, from the zone that has been called the 'unconscious.' A purely rational man is an abstraction; he is never found in real life. Every human being is made up at once of his conscious activity and his irrational experiences." (Chp. 4, § "Sacred and Profane in the Modern World.").
F.A. Hayek, in The Constitution of Liberty, concurred: "All rational thought moves within a non-rational framework of beliefs and institutions" (Chp. 12).
The individual can neither be purely rational, nor purely irrational.
Good overall points, IMHO. However, I think critiques like this about rationality in economics miss the point. The rationality assumed in economics is concerned with general trends; generally people pursue pleasure, not pain (according to their own utility functions), they prefer more money to less (an expanded budget constraint leaves them on a higher indifference curve, thus better off), they have consistent preferences (when they're in the mood for chocolate, they're not going to choose vanilla). Correspondingly, firms have the goal of profit maximization - they produce products that somebody will want to buy or they go out of business. Taking the rationality assumption to its "umpteenth" iteration is really quite irrational in itself. A consumer knows that spending 6 years to calculate the mathematically optimal choice of ice-cream is irrational. An economist accordingly knows the same thing. And although assumptions are required for modelling economic scenarios (micro or macro), I seriously doubt that any serious economist would make assumptions that infer such irrationality. :).ReplyDelete
@Relja - You learned your economic theories well, but the assumptions underlying them are not a foregone conclusion. Consider pleasure and pain in more detail (from the paper The Dignity of Humanity, on Scribd at http://www.scribd.com/doc/22328155/The-Dignity-of-Humanity), which wraps back to the discussion of rationality:ReplyDelete
"Utilitarianism itself proposed a very simplistic outlook on decision making. If human endeavor was indeed so simple as to break down between pleasure an pain, we could indeed appreciate the possibilities for this decision-making calculus. But human endeavor is far more complicated. Mill dismissed human emotions such as sympathy, love or fear as simply "collateral associations" to pleasure and pain. Yet we implicitly understand a richer meaning behind these emotions and while there is some association maintained with pleasure and pain, sorting the human experience into two tidy categories rings hollow; any such attempt demeans human experience. The very fact that we have developed an intricate typology of human emotions proves to be no accident of history. This intricacy, in fact, points to the complexity of what it means to be human. The complexity weighs in against any binary usefulness that Utilitarians claim for pleasure and pain...
"Furthermore, human emotions such as "hope" and "fear" do not readily fall into the categories of pleasure and pain, unless we rely on theoretical circumnavigation to achieve our ends and if we must, then the exercise quickly becomes futile. Puzzling indeed is reading Mill's understanding of the importance of hopes and fears in Utilitarianism and in On Liberty: "Every function superadded to those already exercised by the government," Mill writes in the latter essay, "causes its influence over hopes and fears to be more widely diffused and converts, more and more, the active and ambitious part of the public into hangers-on of the government...." Mill treads upon the terrain of hopes and fears, and yet fails to recognize the importance of this hallowed ground when he defends Utilitarianism...
"Since Utilitarianism diminishes the range of human emotions – such as "passion" or "empathy," "anger" or "love" – as being merely "collateral associations," the fullness of human experience is not brought to bear on decision making. And rest assured, without these human emotions "irrationally" affecting our decision making, we humans would be far poorer for the experience. In fact, there would be little to distinguish us from automatons. As Laurence Sterne observed in Tristram Shandy: "Need I be told, dear Yorick, as I was by you, in Le Fever's funeral sermon, That so soft and gentle a creature, born to love, to mercy, and kindness, as man is, was not shaped for this?––But why did you not add, Yorick,––if not by NATURE––that he is so by NECESSITY?" (Vol. VI, Chp. 32)."
"The theory of rational behavior is usually presented as a study of the principles upon which a rational man would act. This Rational Man is unlike you or me in that he makes no errors in arithmetic or logic in attempting to achieve his clearly defined objectives. He is like you and me, on the other hand, in that he is neither omnipotent nor omniscient. He must make decisions, such as the selection of a portfolio, in the face of uncertainty. Since his information is limited, he may take less than perfect actions. Since his powers are limited, his achievements may fall short of the best conceivable. Every action, however, is perfectly thought out; every risk is perfectly calculated.ReplyDelete
The Rational Man, like the unicorn, does not exist. An attempt to see general principles by which he would act, however, can be suggestive for our own actions.
Another interpretation can be given to the theory of rational behavior. Rather than visualizing a Rational Man we can visualize a Perfect Computing Machine with unlimited speed and capacity. This computing machine instantly processes all available information to determine a portfolio for us. The study of rational behavior may be viewed as an enquiry into the principles by which we would have this Perfect Computing Machine proceed.
The Perfect Computing Machine, like the unicorn and the rational man, does not exist. Limitations of speed and storage will always constitute a practical as well as theoretical restriction. Reflection on what we would ask of such a machine, however, can provide a perspective on what we should ask of our real machines.
The theory of rational behavior is not a substitute for human judgement. There is no theory by which we could dispense with human beings if we had a sufficiently large and fast computer. The study of rational behavior has produced only general principles to be kept in mind as guides. Even the significance of some of these principles is subject to controversy. The value of the study of rational behavior is that it supplies us with a new viewpoint on problems of criteria - a viewpoint to be added to common sense to serve as a basis of good judgment."
Harry Markowitz (1959), p. 206-7. http://cowles.econ.yale.edu/P/cm/m16/m16-10.pdf
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Sofia Coppola was just 8 years old when she first came to the Cannes Film Festival. Her father, Francis Ford Coppola, was there to premiere a work-in-progress cut of a film he had spent years wrestling with: "Apocalypse Now."
"I have nice memories of Cannes," Coppola said in an interview Thursday on the roof of the Palais, the festival center. "I remember coming here as a kid and then my first movie, 'Virgin Suicides,' had our first screening ever here. I feel like my career started here."
Growing up in such surroundings, one would think, would have heavily informed Coppola's latest film, "The Bling Ring," a deadpan drama about celebrity-obsessed teenagers in Los Angeles who break into the homes of Paris Hilton and other stars. But Coppola says the movie world she grew up in isn't the same as today's star-crazed culture.
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"I definitely noticed that people would act different around my dad. It was just part of my growing up," Coppola says. "This world feels unfamiliar to me, this kind of reality-star, tabloid culture."
"The Bling Ring," which opened Cannes' Un Certain Regard section Thursday, is Coppola's third film in a row that deals heavily with the famous. Following her "Marie Antoinette" (her modern-styled take on the French royal) was 2010's "Somewhere," a minimalist drama about a renowned actor and his 11-year-old daughter.
"The Bling Ring" is based on a true story, recounted in a Vanity Fair article, about high-schoolers who, after seeing online when certain stars are expected at a premiere or other event, take the opportunity to steal designer bags, shoes and clothes from their homes, lingering to pretend to live in celebrity opulence.
There's wry irony in premiering such a film at Cannes, the decadent French Riviera resort town of high-end boutiques and luxury hotels.
"It seems like the perfect setting for 'The Bling Ring' when you see people walking around in their heels," says Coppola, who favors a less flashy style. "It's a glamorous place, so it feels appropriate."
Coppola cast mainly newcomers in the lead roles (Israel Broussard, Katie Chang, Claire Julien), with the notable exception of "Harry Potter" star Emma Watson, who assumes a thick Valley Girl accent for her character. Watson praised Coppola for her easy calm; Chang noted her gentle openness with actors.
"The Bling Ring," which will be released in the U.S. on June 14, has already drawn comparisons to the recent, day-glo debauchery of Harmony Korine's "Spring Breakers." The differences between the two films are many, but both feature the thrill of young, attractive girls breaking bad for the sake of glorious superficiality. (The movies also share a new distributor, A24 Films.)
Though Coppola hasn't seen "Spring Breakers," she says, "I can understand that there's this sort of trash culture aspect that's in the air."
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Hype Builds for Smartphone, but It Isn't an Apple Device
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When a Samsung Electronics Co. 005930.SE +0.75% executive showed off a new chip at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week, he created a flurry of news coverage for a completely different product—the company's next top-of-the-line smartphone.
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Gadget bloggers are passing around invites for an upcoming press event and speculating about new chips and bigger screen. iPhone? No, this time, the hype is for Samsung. George Stahl reports on Markets Hub. Photo: AP.
For about four months, gadget bloggers along with tech writers at South Korean newspapers have tried to uncover the details of Samsung's next high-end smartphone, likely to be called Galaxy S IV after consecutively numbered versions over the past three years.
They have suggested it will have a bigger screen, thinner case, come with a pen, have no buttons and, of course, have a faster chip to run it, as well as better battery life. Some reports back in November suggested the new phone would have an unbreakable screen, and others have said it would be waterproof.
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While its product releases haven't sparked nearly the kind of fervor seen at Apple's iPhone launch events, Samsung is proving to be a formidable challenger at the top of the mobile-device market.
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Anchored by improvements in the Android software, Samsung made the phone's screen larger than the iPhone, enhanced its resolution and used a plastic case to reduce its weight compared with earlier versions. The Galaxy S III, however, is still slightly heavier and thicker than the iPhone 5.
Samsung executives have declined to answer questions about the upcoming version—not even when the phone will emerge, though observers believe the company will keep with past practice and roll out the new model in April or May.
"We are going to share the details of the product launch once it's finally ready and confirmed," the company said in a statement.
Samsung earlier this week said it had shipped more than 100 million Galaxy S smartphones since the first one was revealed in 2010. That amount includes 40 million each for the S II and S III models.
While such phones comprise the high end of Samsung's product lineup, about half of its smartphone sales are less powerful and less expensive models.
A year ago, speculation for Galaxy S III turned feverish in January, ahead of a European tech trade show in February where Samsung was expected to unveil that new model. Instead, it unveiled the device at a news conference in London in May. That month, the phone hit European and Middle Eastern markets and then more broadly to other countries including the U.S. by July.
"There's definitely more attention this time," said Brian Klug, smartphones editor atAnandtech.com, a U.S.-based gadget site. "With each Galaxy S, there's been more."
His site reported earlier this week that the new phone would have a 4.99-inch screen, up from the 4.8-inch screen of the current Galaxy S III, and will display full, high-definition video. Samsung asked the site to remove a photo taken at CES last week that showed the rising sizes of its phone displays, Mr. Klug said. Samsung declined to comment on why it asked for the removal.
At the trade show, Samsung's president of mobile chips, Stephen Woo, revealed a new design for cellphone processors that has eight processing cores, four powerful ones and four that are less powerful for simpler tasks. The less-powerful cores take charge during routine functions, consuming less power and extending battery life.
The revelation led many tech journalists to speculate that the chip, called the Octa, will be at the heart of the Galaxy S IV phone.
"Samsung makes its own components so whenever those guys say something about a new product, the question arises, is that going to be in the next Galaxy?" said Gareth Beavis, an editor at Techradar.com, a U.K.-based site. "It's quite easy to make that jump."
But all the hype is a double-edged sword for Samsung. While it shows the company is approaching the Apple-like status its executives have craved, it also creates the risk that customers will postpone purchases of Samsung phones in the next few months while they wait for Galaxy S IV.
Apple executives have acknowledged this phenomenon in the past year regarding its products. "Our weekly iPhone sales continue to be impacted by rumors and speculation regarding new products," said Apple Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer on the company's third-quarter conference call in July ahead of the iPhone 5 release.
Apple sold 26 million iPhones in that quarter, down from 35.1 million in the prior three months.
Apple CEO Tim Cook repeated this sentiment amid a slowdown in iPad sales in the fourth quarter. "It's clear that customers delay purchases of tablets due to new product rumors," he said in October.
Rumors could also tee up expectations that Samsung, which popularized bigger screens in smartphones with the Galaxy S III, will have more innovative tricks up its sleeve.
Samsung, as one of many Android phone makers, doesn't have the level of customer loyalty that Apple does.
"It does need to keep up the level of innovation," Mr. Beavis said. "I think it's still the underdog."


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Destiny wrote:I tired using my Acratech Ball Head but it really is quicker to capture by hand.. My Ball Head is great since I can swing it to portrait and landscape very quickly.. I can keep the tightness on stiff so its not so floppy.. It has its use for sure..
spherorama wrote:I bought a 500 mm zeiss teletessar for a Hasselblad and with an adaptor for Nikon works well on my D800. No vignetting at all because I only use the very center part of the lens. I found it on ebay for 380 euros. The weight is no problem for the epic pro.
Destiny wrote:oh I sooooo want a Hasselbald camera, partially the H5D-200MS,
Destiny wrote:but $$$$$ .... I was so happy a few weeks a go to test a Hasselbald out at my girl friends boss studio.. At first I was so confused at the absolute beautiful quality.. "How could this be" The image totally blew me away..
rolly1 wrote:Hi all ,does my 50 mm f2 Nikkor lens of my Nikormat ftn rate in this Hi end lens conversation Ha Ha, Has every body upgraded there D800 firmware to 1.1 not much change but may as well ,Still have not seen the 150 to 600 Tamron yet and still mixed reports cheers rolly1
rolly1 wrote:hi Destiny its not hard, you find it on Nikon web site , down load it to a folder on your computer , Run it in the folder , you should come up with a D800_ 0110.bin file you save that to your cf card not in a folder via a card reader , Stick the cf card in camera and , go to set up menu, firmware version it should have update added hit yes don't turn power of until finished cheers rolly1 p.s. (they have instruction on web site) but that's it in a nut shell or take it to your local shop
Destiny wrote:emmm.. This Firmware is 2013... From the Nikon website... Surely this is not it..
spherorama wrote:Hi Klaus,
good thing that I never dumped my Hasselblad gear. I used the 150mm Hasselblad lens also with success on the D800. I still have my Sinar optical bank equipment and have a handmade adaptor for my digital Nikons. This beats all tilt/shift lenses in the studio.
All the best
klausesser wrote:Destiny wrote:emmm.. This Firmware is 2013... From the Nikon website... Surely this is not it..
Didn´t you receive an e-mail from Nikon providing the download-link?
P.S.: this is what Google shows: https://nikoneurope-de.custhelp.com/app ... list/c/648
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