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Southfield, Michigan — Credit Acceptance Corporation (NASDAQ: CACC) (referred to as the "Company", "Credit Acceptance", "we", "our", or "us") announced today that on December 27, 2012, we extended the date on which our $325.0 million revolving secured warehouse facility will cease to revolve from June 17, 2014 to December 27, 2015. The interest rate on borrowings under the facility has been decreased from the commercial paper rate plus 2.75% to the commercial paper rate plus 2.0%. There were no other material changes to the terms of the facility.
As of December 27, 2012, we had $81.3 million outstanding under the facility.
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Since 1972, Credit Acceptance has offered automobile dealers financing programs that enable them to sell vehicles to consumers, regardless of their credit history. Our financing programs are offered through a nationwide network of automobile dealers who benefit from sales of vehicles to consumers who otherwise could not obtain financing; from repeat and referral sales generated by these same customers; and from sales to customers responding to advertisements for our product, but who actually end up qualifying for traditional financing.
Without our financing programs, consumers are often unable to purchase a vehicle or they purchase an unreliable one. Further, as we report to the three national credit reporting agencies, an important ancillary benefit of our programs is that we provide a significant number of our consumers with an opportunity to improve their lives by improving their credit score and move on to more traditional sources of financing. Credit Acceptance is publicly traded on the NASDAQ under the symbol CACC. For more information, visit creditacceptance.com.


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Pharrell Williams Gushes About Miley Cyrus' 'Wrecking Ball' + New Image [VIDEO]
Miley Cyrus is stoked to be working with Pharrell, and it seems like the feeling is mutual. The superproducer not only defended Cyrus' arguably disastrous 2013 MTV VMAs performance, but also revealed that the video for her next single, 'Wrecking Ball,' will make audiences melt.
"It's awesome. It's got everyone paying attention," Pharrell said of the tongue-heavy, twerktastic set.
"What she did on stage was a slice of her character. A slick of her character," Pharrell explained. "And, to be honest, what other 20-year-old gets to party on stage and gets to do what she wants to do? After all those years of just sort of being dictated to, right? But then, when you hear this album, you guys are gonna be like, 'Oh damn, we thought we knew.'"
But don't expect a repeat of all that for 'Wrecking Ball.'
Williams revealed, "Her video [for her second single, Wrecking Ball] is beautiful and incredibly, like, charming, and you see all of her poise, and then you're going to realize how much of a triple threat she is."
Does that mean her dance moves have improved? Gosh, we hope so!

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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – A former Florida State football player was involved in a scuffle with his girlfriend hours before he fatally shot one man and injured another, according to an arrest affidavit released Thursday.
Travis Rudolph, 25, was ordered to remain in jail during a first appearance hearing in West Palm Beach on Thursday morning. He's charged with one count of first-degree murder and three counts of attempted first-degree murder.
Deputies detailed the shooting in an affidavit released by the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office. Investigators said Rudolph's girlfriend told them she called a male friend following the scuffle Wednesday. The friend and three other men then went to Rudolph's home, where a fight broke out, the affidavit said. A witness told investigators that Rudolph ran after the men and shot at them with a rifle after they got back in their car and began to drive away.
Deputies found a man dead inside the vehicle and an injured man outside the car. Authorities arrested Rudolph a short time later.
The case now goes to a grand jury. Judge Charles Burton on Thursday forbade Rudolph from contacting any of the victims or their families. Rudolph told the judge he intends to hire an attorney.
Rudolph was Florida State's leading receiver in 2015 and 2016. He left the team early to enter the NFL draft in 2017. He eventually signed with the New York Giants and then the Miami Dolphins. He also spent time with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League. The team released him Wednesday.
He gained national attention in 2016 when a video of him eating lunch with an autistic student during a team visit at a Tallahassee middle school went viral. Rudolph's father died a year later after a gun accidentally discharged at a West Palm Beach strip club.


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Clueless Man Claims Territory in North Sudan to Make Daughter Princess
A story ran in the Washington Post yesterday that is equal parts cringeworthy and baffling. A Virginia man, out of the desire to prove to his children that he'd "go to the ends of the earth to make their wishes and dreams come true," claimed land along the Sudanese border to fulfill his daughter's wish to become a princess.
The story starts like this:
Jeremiah Heaton was playing with his daughter in their Abingdon, Va., home last winter when she asked whether she could be a real princess.
Most parents would then say, "No, you cant. It's just now how things work." Not Heaton. He—for some reason—said yes, okay. Sure, we'll figure it out.
"As a parent you sometimes go down paths you never thought you would," Heaton said.
Like the endless aisles of a Toys "R" Us when you said you wouldn't step into that store ever again. But when Heaton says "paths you never thought you would," he means something entirely different.
Within months, Heaton was journeying through the desolate southern stretches of Egypt and into an unclaimed 800-square-mile patch of arid desert. There, on June 16 — Emily's seventh birthday — he planted a blue flag with four stars and a crown on a rocky hill. The area, a sandy expanse sitting along the Sudanese border, morphed from what locals call Bir Tawil into what Heaton and his family call the "Kingdom of North Sudan."
Nothing to see here—just a man getting some land to give to his daughter. In Africa.
In order for Heaton's "kingdom" to be internationally recognized, he will need a few more things besides a handmade flag (which his children designed): "legal recognition from neighboring countries, the United Nations or other groups to have actual political control of the land," Sheila Carapico, a professor of political science and international studies told the Bristol Herald Courier last week.
Heaton, however, is confident that all will go well with his declaration of sovereignty in an African nation which is not his home and has never been his home.
Heaton, who ran for Congress out of Virginia's 9th district in 2012 and lost, plans to reach out to the African Union for assistance in formally establishing the Kingdom of North Sudan and said that he is confident they will welcome him. Representatives from the Egyptian and Sudanese embassies in Washington did not respond to requests for comment Saturday.
According to Heaton's assessment of the pesky politics in founding his new kingdom, he believes love will conquer all.
"I founded the nation in love for my daughter," Heaton said.
Heaton's journey hasn't been without its complications, though. His initial worry was that he was entering into "a toxic environment." Hm.
Heaton's daughter Emily has requested the kingdom be turned into agricultural production center, which Heaton is certain is the first step in solidifying a positive relationship between the sovereignly declared Kingdom of North Sudan and the Sudanese and Egyptian people.
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In 1863, traveling down the Atlantic seaboard, crossing the Isthmus of Panama on a burro, and sailing up the Pacific coast was a grueling four-month passage. Yet for Thomas Kay, a young English weaver, it was a dream come true. An old hand at sea voyages, he had already crossed the Atlantic years earlier to work at east coast textile mills. With skills honed, he was now headed to an area with ideal conditions for raising sheep and producing wool. A place with moderate weather and plentiful water – America's newest state, Oregon.
Kay helped organize Oregon's second woolen mill in Brownsville, where he oversaw the weaving operation. Soon he was made a superintendent of the company. In 1889, Thomas Kay opened his own mill in Salem, Oregon. From these humble beginnings rose a dyed-in-the-wool American success story.
Thomas Kay's eldest daughter, Fannie, learned the mill business and ably assisted her father in mill operation and management. When she married retail merchant C.P. Bishop, a complementary combination of merchandising and manufacturing expertise emerged – a solid foundation for what was to become Pendleton Woolen Mills.
This dual textile-retail heritage was passed on to the three Bishop sons, Clarence, Roy and Chauncey. In 1909, with family and town backing, the Bishop sons started up an idle mill in Pendleton, Oregon.
A major railhead serving the Columbia Plateau, the town of Pendleton was a wool shipping center for sheep growers of the region. The mill, originally built in 1893, began as a wool scouring plant, which washed the raw wool before shipping. Due to increased freight tariffs on the shipment of scoured wool, the business soon became unprofitable.
In 1895, the scouring plant was enlarged and converted into a woolen mill which made bed blankets and robes for Native Americans. This venture also failed and the mill went idle. In 1909, the Bishops reopened the facility and constructed a new, more efficient mill building with aid of a local bond issue. In September of that year, the first products emerged from the new finishing department and the tradition of Pendleton Woolen Mills began.
The production of Indian blankets resumed as the Bishops applied intuitive business concepts for quality products and distinctive styling. A study of the color and design preferences of local and Southwest Native Americans resulted in vivid colors and intricate patterns. Trade expanded from the Nez Perce nation near Pendleton to the Navajo, Hopi and Zuni nations. These Pendleton blankets were used as basic wearing apparel and as a standard of value for trading and credit among Native Americans. The blankets also became prized for ceremonial use. Under the direction of the Bishop family, Pendleton expanded into other areas of woolen manufacturing. In 1912, the addition of a weaving mill in Washougal, Washington, broadened its capability for fabric variety, including suitings.
Wool shirts for men were largely utility items in the early 20th century. Drab in design and color, they were worn for warmth and protection from the elements by those who worked outdoors. Clarence Morton (C.M.) Bishop had a vision for wool shirts in vivid colors and intricate patterns. The production of woolen shirting material was a natural extension of the mill's capabilities. In 1924, the legendary Pendleton virgin wool men's shirt was born. By 1929, Pendleton was making a full line of men's virgin wool sportswear.
The untimely death of his brother, Chauncey, in 1927 left C.M. Bishop with full responsibility for the management of Pendleton Woolen Mills. (Chauncey's sons continued with the company until Robert died in 1974 and Charles Kay in 1986.) Roy Bishop had moved on to own and manage the Oregon Worsted Company in 1918. With his parent's support, Clarence was now the guiding force of this growing enterprise.
A new thread was woven into the Pendleton corporate cloth in 1949 – womenswear manufacturing. Market research identified a need and an opportunity for branded virgin wool classic sportswear for women. Nevertheless, no one could have predicted the enormous success of a single garment introduced with the Pendleton womenswear line that year. The 49er jacket gained instant popularity. Its simple, casual styling and intrinsic value were a perfect match for the emerging suburban lifestyle of postwar America. As the apparel division thrived, Pendleton responded to consumer need for non-wool garments to complement its fine woolens coordinated within the fall and winter lines. Yet brand loyal customers wanted the same classic Pendleton look for all seasons. In 1972, Pendleton became a year-around sportswear resource, introducing distinctively styled, non-wool menswear and womenswear for spring and summer wear.
Historically, Pendleton products were distributed through selected department and specialty stores. The 1980's saw Pendleton apply its considerable retail experience to building a retail division that encompassed both company and privately owned specialty stores. These stores offered consumers a full selection of Pendleton products and provided greater access to Pendleton products across the country. The thread had now come full circle, for this direct involvement in the retail sector harkened back to C.P. Bishop's original clothing store in Salem, Oregon.
Pendleton has thrived under the direction of the Bishop family. Today the company owns and operates 7 facilities, manages 75 Pendleton retail stores and publishes apparel and home direct mail catalogs. For many years, Clarence's sons, C.M. Bishop, Jr. (Mort) and Broughton (Brot) Bishop, acted as co-executive officers.
Today, their sons have assumed management roles in the company. C.M. Bishop III is president and John and Charles are vice presidents. Another son, Peter, is manager of the Catalog/Internet Division. This family thread has continued to produce Pendleton leadership with a legacy of hands-on management for six generations — warranted to be a Pendleton since 1863.


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Google has upgraded the ability to post comments and respond to them in its Docs office productivity applications, making the feature more dynamic and more integrated with e-mail.
The goal is to make it easier, faster and more effective for workgroups to collaboratively comment on documents, said Scott Johnston , Group Product Manager for Google Docs and Google Sites.
"Great documents come from great discussions," he said.
Until now, Docs users have been able to post comments in text fields on documents and add footnotes, but the new Discussions feature creates interactive threads that are tightly embedded with the documents but not part of them. Comments made on discussion threads are time-stamped and its authors clearly identified with profile pictures.
In addition, users can be notified about discussions and participate in them via e-mail. Users have the option of "muting" these e-mail notifications The Discussions feature also has a button to declare a thread as resolved and hide it from the view of active discussions.
The new Discussions functionality will become available over the coming days to users of the stand-alone Docs applications, as well as to people who use it as part of the broader Google Apps hosted collaboration and communication suite and whose domains have been set to receive upgrades as soon as they're ready.
A caveat is that Discussions will not be available for Docs files already created, only new ones.
Docs, which is Web hosted, competes against on-premise productivity suites like Microsoft Office and Web-hosted suites like Microsoft Office Web Apps.
Docs is free in its stand-alone version, as well as in all Google Apps versions, except Apps for Business, which costs US$50 per user per year and also includes several other components like Gmail, Calendar, Sites and Talk.


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Rwanda's Gen. Paul Kagame. Exiled opposition blames him for Karegeya's death
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South African police believe Patrick Karegeya an exiled Rwanda opposition leader and former chief of external intelligence may have been lynched with a rope found in the Johannesburg hotel room where his body was discovered yesterday.
Police also found a bloodied towel in the same hotel room's safe where the rope was discovered, according to media accounts.
Police report that Karegeya had checked into the Michelangelo Hotel in the posh Sandown neighborhood on December 29.
"Preliminary investigations revealed that his neck was swollen….A towel with blood and a rope were found in the hotel room safe," South African Police told Bloomberg news.
Rwandan opposition leaders outside the country accused the Rwanda regime of being behind the killing.
Karegeya's associates report that he was supposed to attend a meeting at the hotel with a Rwandan. He might have been lured into the hotel. He had been living in South Africa for six years according to media accounts.
Karegeya is an alley of former Rwanda chief of military staff Gen. Kayumba Nyamwasa who is also exiled in South Africa and survived two assassination attempts in June, 2010. Gen. Nyamwasa, who like Karegeya also had a falling out with Rwanda's ruler blames Gen. Paul Kagame for the botched attempt during which he was shot and wounded as he pulled into his residence in a car. Nyamwasa struggled with the gun man for the gun which later jammed before more shots could be fired. Later, while in a hospital being treated, there was another attempt on his life.
The Kagame regime denied being behind the Nyamwasa assassination bid.
Opponents to Rwandan President Paul Kagame "aren't safe in South Africa and any other place in the world," Nyamwasa told Bloomberg, after the death of Karegeya.
Three Rwandans and three Tanzanians are being tried in a South African court for the 2010 attempted assassination of Nyamwasa, who has also alleged that Gen. Kagame himself ordered the 1994 shooting down of the plane that carried then Rwanda president Juvenal Habyarimana.
Kagame knew the assassination would spark the massacres of Tutsis which would then gain him the moral high ground to militarily seize power exclusively, his critics contend. At the time of the killing Kagame's RPF had concluded a power-sharing deal with Habyarimana.
Karegeya and Nyamwasa are both members and founders of the Rwanda National Congress, an organization that includes both Hutu and Tutsi opponents of the Kagame regime; the blame the Rwanda ruler for creating a dictatorship that is determined to physically liquidate all political opponents.
In recent months the Kagame regime has been under intense international pressure due to its support for the M23 army, which was blamed for war crimes in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In December 2012 U.S. President Barack Obama telephoned Kagame to tell him to withdraw M23 from Congo.
M23 was ultimately defeated in November 2012 by Congo's army with support of a UN Intervention army comprising mostly soldiers from South Africa, Tanzania, and Malawi.


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Modified Chrysler, Dodge, Fiat, Jeep, Ram Vehicles Revealed Ahead Of SEMA Show
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Chrysler Group plans to show off 24 of its new vehicles modified by in-house parts company Mopar at the upcoming Specialty Equipment Market Association show in Las Vegas. The company chose to highlight eight of those tricked-out models ahead of the show's start of October 30. Almost all of the components shown on these cars are available for customers to purchase from the Mopar parts catalog.
Chrysler previously teased five of these vehicles, but has now released full information on each of them. The first entry is the Jeep Wrangler Sand Trooper, which is designed to show the possibilities for building a hardcore version of the Jeep Wrangler. The tan colored Jeep benefits from an engine swap that replaces the stock 3.6-liter V-6 with a 375-hp 5.7-liter Hemi V-8, along with special portal axles that help add five more inches of ground clearance, and giant 42-inch off-roading tires on matte-black wheels. New skid plates, Fox Shox suspension components, rock rails, a powered winch, and unique off-roading bumpers help provide more capability for when leaving paved roads. The interior benefits from Katzkin leather seats, a CB radio, and a backup camera.
The Dodge Charger Juiced is pitched as a modern interpretation of old-school street rods, and so its engine bay has been filled with an 8.0-liter V-10 crate engine from the Dodge Viper, producing 650 hp and 600 lb-ft of torque. It's linked to the six-speed manual transmission from a Dodge Challenger SRT8 and sends its power to the 20-inch rear wheels. Other performance updates include a Mopar exhaust, intake, and lowering kit. The outside wears copper paint, a new hood with a functional air intake, and a black-trimmed crosshair grille.
The Jeep Grand Cherokee Half And Half is supposed to demonstration how drastically Mopar parts can transform a Chrysler Group vehicle. The SUV is divided in half by a zipper graphic and a real zipper pull: one side is a stock Grand Cherokee Laredo, while the other side has been transformed with aftermarket parts. Those include 20-inch chrome wheels; a chrome grille insert, mirrors, side steps, and foglight housings; a trailer hitch; tow hooks; a roof rack; and a luggage rack. The interior is likewise divided in two, with the modified half featuring Katzkin leather, all-weather mats, sportier pedals, and new doorsill plates.
Mopar also showed off a tweaked version of the 2013 SRT Viper, with mild updates like a satin finish carbon-fiber engine X-brace, an aluminum and carbon fiber engine cover, and an aluminum oil-filler cap. Unique carbon-fiber aerodynamic parts, stiffer Mopar coil springs, 20-inch Track Pack wheels, a tow hook, and front LED fog lights further improve the car's appearance and performance. The final upgrades include a billet aluminum shifter and interior trim pieces, black Katzkin leather with yellow accents, and a special video camera mount for owners who want to document their track-day experiences.
On a calmer note, the Chrysler 300 Luxury is designed to make the company's flagship sedan even more luxurious. It benefits from True Blue Pearl paint, 20-inch satin wheels, black brake calipers, a sportier final-drive ratio, and coilover suspension components for sportier handling. Inside is Mopar's favorite Katzkin leather, along with special carpeted floor mats with Chrysler 300 logos, illuminated doorsill plates, and new pedals.
The Fiat 500 Beach Cruiser concept is perhaps the most interesting of Chrysler's SEMA concepts. Designed to pay homage to the West Coast car modification scene, the Fiat 500C's body has been widened by a foot thanks to massively flared fenders. The fenders conceal red aluminum wheels with shiny aluminum centers, which wouldn't look out of place on a classic post-war-era Fiat Cinquecento. On top is a chrome-and-teak wood roof rack carrying surfboards, while the cabin scores a white ball shift knob, wood floor mats, red-and-white seats, and a hula-girl toy on the dashboard. Under the sheetmetal are a new exhaust and strut-tower brace.
Remember the old Viper-powered Dodge Ram SRT-10? Well, the new Urban Ram concept pays homage to that muscle truck with a 6.4-liter Hemi V-8 engine, 22-inch black wheels, a hood with dual air scoops, SRT brake rotors and suspension components, a blue racing stripe, and a fiberglass tonneau cover.
Finally, the Dodge Dart Carbon Fire demonstrates how tuners could upgrade the company's newest compact sedan. The car wears a prototype carbon-fiber hood and rear spoiler, as well as new 19-inch wheels, a unique gloss-black front fascia, new mirrors, tinted head- and taillights, Katzkin leather seats, and silver brake calipers.
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Trump sends mixed messages to China on trade war
BIARRITZ, France (AP) - Injecting fresh uncertainty at a time of global economic jitters, President Donald Trump sent mixed messages Sunday on the U.S.-China trade war as leaders at a global summit pushed the unpredictable American president to ease frictions over tariffs and cooperate on other geopolitical challenges.
Trump's head-snapping comments at the Group of Seven summit about his escalating trade fight with China - first expressing regret, then amping up tariff threats - represented just the latest manifestation of the hazards of the president's go-it-alone mantra. Allies fault his turbulent trade agenda for contributing to a global economic slowdown.
Despite Trump's insistence that reports of U.S. tensions with allies are overblown, fissures between the U.S. and six of the world's other advanced economies were apparent on trade policy, Russia and Iran as the leaders gathered at a picturesque French beach resort.
Two days after the U.S. and China traded a fresh round of retaliatory tariffs and Trump threatened to force U.S. businesses to cut ties with China, the president appeared to harbor qualms about the trade war, which has sent financial markets tumbling.
Asked during a meeting with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson if he had any second thoughts about escalating the trade conflict, Trump told reporters, "Yeah. For sure."
He added, "I have second thoughts about everything."
Hours later, the White House backpedaled. Press secretary Stephanie Grisham issued a statement saying the press had "greatly misinterpreted" Trump's comments. She said the president only responded "in the affirmative - because he regrets not raising the tariffs higher."
White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow, who was in the room when Trump spoke and was later interviewed by CBS' "Face the Nation," offered his own explanation.
Kudlow claimed Trump "didn't quite hear the question" although reporters asked the president three times whether he had any second thoughts about ramping up the trade war and he responded three times.
At first, Trump's admission appeared to mark a rare moment of self-reflection by the famously hardnosed leader. The subsequent explanation fits a pattern of Trump recoiling from statements he believes suggest weakness.
Earlier this month, Trump backed off on a threat to place even tougher tariffs on Chinese imports as aides fretted about their impact on the holiday shopping season and growing fears of a recession in the U.S.
Trump had hoped to use the summit to rally other leaders to do more to stimulate their economies, as fears rise of a potential slowdown in the U.S. before he stands for reelection in November 2020.
Johnson, for his part, praised Trump for America's economic performance - but chided the U.S. leader for his unbending China policy.
"Just to register a faint sheep-like note of our view on the trade war," he told Trump. "We're in favor of trade peace."
Trump said he had "no plans right now" to follow through on his threat of an emergency declaration, but he insisted he would be within his rights to use a 1977 law designed to target rogue regimes, terrorists and drug traffickers as the newest weapon in the clash between the world's two largest economies
"If I want, I could declare a national emergency," Trump said. He cited China's theft of intellectual property and the large U.S. trade deficit with China, saying "in many ways that's an emergency."
For all of that, Trump disputed reports of friction with other G-7 leaders, saying he has been "treated beautifully" since he arrived.
The cracks started to emerge moments later after the French government said the leaders had agreed at a Saturday dinner that French President Emanuel Macron would deliver a message to Iran on behalf of the group.
Trump denied he had signed off on any such message.
"No, I haven't discussed that," he told reporters during a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Administration officials said Trump was noncommittal when the leaders discussed the subject of a message to Iran during a conversation about Iran's nuclear program.
For several months, Macron has assumed a lead role in trying to save the 2015 nuclear accord, which has been unraveling since Trump pulled the U.S. out of the agreement. The French went even further Sunday, inviting Iranian Foreign Minister Jawad Zarif to Biarritz in a bid to open talks meant on lowering tensions.
Trump curtly told reporters he had "no comment" on Zarif's presence. Officials said the White House was not aware in advance of the invitation to Zarif - a further indication of Trump's diminished role.
Trump also faced opposition from European leaders over his stated desire to find a way to re-admit Russia to the G-7 before next year's meeting of the world leaders, which will be held in the United States. Russian President Vladimir Putin was expelled from the former G-7 in 2015 following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
And, sitting feet away from Abe, Trump declined to forcefully condemn North Korea's flouting of international sanctions with a recent burst of short-range ballistic missile tests, calling them "much more standard" missiles. Abe views them as a critical security threat.
Trump told reporters: "We're in the world of missiles, folks, whether you like it or not."
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In preparing for the SQLPeople event, I thought about the role, motivation, and techniques of a "knowledge worker" in today's society.
I found Peter Drucker at the library. Drucker lived from 1909 to 2005 and was one of the original writers about management. He was a student of how people live and interact, and he thought deeply about the huge social change of the rise of the modern corporation. Starting his first job with quill and paper, Drucker lived through the era of computing and technology, and studied, wrote, and talked through it all.
You are not interchangeable
Drucker wrote about specialized knowledge workers. He saw that as our labor force becomes more specialized, workers no longer have identical capabilities. Years of training and experience are required for jobs in many different fields. Proficiency with technology is becoming an entry requirement for almost all labor in the western world.
In technology, and working with data management and software development, the breadth of technologies available is creating a highly individualized workforce. A worker can have breadth across different products, working with open source and proprietary platforms.
Or a worker can specialize on a suite of products, focussing in on data storage, processing, and optimization, or business intelligence. Expertise can be gained in operating systems, storage subsystems, or hardware. Schema design, access methods, techniques for scaling up or scaling out, data redundancy and business continuity— it goes on.
The good news is: if you work with data, you are not interchangeable.
In fact, if your'e working with data you have a huge amount of power. You're in a field which is highly mobile and desired by multiple types of corporations. You can span different industries, and your skills can adapt and change over time.
You must be ready for change
Today, you can work for a company on another continent– and companies in your country can hire workers from other continents. Although workers are not interchangeable, workers are more mobile, and relocation is no longer required.
This introduces fluidity and change into the workplace. As the corporation has grown and evolved, the relationship of workers to the corporation is changing– workers no longer expect to work for a single corporation for most of their adult life.
Instead, we need to do our best work for our company, and also simultaneously expand our reach with technology. Change will be initiated by either your employer or yourself: in many ways it does not matter. What is important is if you have the resources, and confidence, to adapt quickly.
Learning by doing
In 2003, Drucker predicted that education would change, and we would come to view the two most important periods of education in people's lives as the early childhood period, and the adult period.
Although Aristotle viewed knowledge as being separated from action, in the Ethics he mentions that
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them, e.g. men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too, we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
In technology, we find that learning is similar to these things– you may learn foundational skills in the classroom, but you learn to build large scale data repositories by building them. You learn to scale up a high traffic website by building it– depending on where you start from and where you're going, you may build it several times. We learn a huge amount from experience, and we are constaintly expanding our experience and refining our opinions.
This is related to courage. It takes courage to suggest a significant change or a redesign, to explore a new area, to start a new venture.
See also: Jeff Atwood on Quantity Trumping Quality.
The commonality I see between Aristotle and Drucker lies in decisions.
Building software and managing data requires a constant stream of decisions. No single decision is irreversible, but many decisions are very time consuming and difficult to change later. We have a responsibility to make decisions well and to act well in our teams, but at times we are required to make decisions quickly.
Making good decisions– acting well as a technologist– requires practice.
What inspires me: the field of opportunity
The field of opportunity in technology is now global.
Step back from your daily life for a moment. Read about what life was like 100 years ago, 300 years ago, or farther.
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Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Are You Sitting Down?
Well, I knew some of the Dearborns would be departing today, but I never expected ALL of them to be leaving. Our kittens usually trickle out the door, but not this time. I'm kind of in shock about it. And you probably are too.
I guess they were just in a hurry to get out the door to make room for the next batch. They knew we would be auctioning off the naming rights for those kittens, and would need to get started on that soon because we'll be ending the fundraiser in just ten days.
I was thinking it sure would be nice if we cleared $40 squillion today. They would be so proud to know they raised so much during their time with us. Only $689 and we're there. I bet we can do it!!
And when we do,, I'll share with you a little party we had on the telethon set before they started leaving.
Here's a peek at the little gold medal ceremony we had this afternoon.
OH, dear little Dearborns. You're going to be missed. Sigh. Thank you for coming into our lives. I feel so lucky to have known you. xoxo
To make a donation in honor of our dear departing Dearborns, please visit our FUNdraising page!
Thank you. xoxoxoxoxoxoox
47 comments:
- CherieJuly 13, 2011 at 4:30 PM
Oh no, oh no. Tell us their stories - where are they going? Anyone together? Phoebe, come back. Please.ReplyDelete
Wow... thanks for your time, kittehs! So happy/sorry to see you leave so quickly!ReplyDelete
Holy cow, that was fast!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 13, 2011 at 4:34 PM
Blink. Wait what? All five? At once? Story story story.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 13, 2011 at 4:36 PM
I miss sheldon already.ReplyDelete
It's been a joy to know them - however short the time... I hope they will bring much joy to their new peeps!ReplyDelete
Bittersweet, as always.ReplyDelete
You five were marvelous fundraisers... the next litter has a lot to live up to!
Ah, Dearborns, we hardly knew ye. *sniff*ReplyDelete
- JasonInIllinoisJuly 13, 2011 at 4:53 PM
So soon. But it's great to know they've been adopted quickly. I wish them long and happy lives in their new homes.ReplyDelete
Y'know, I say this with every itty bitty family, but this group really had their paws wrapped around my heart. I am BEYOND happy that this little foundlings are off to their new families, but my eyes are leaking all the same. :) Kisses all around!!!ReplyDelete
- Renee & KathrynJuly 13, 2011 at 4:59 PM
My daughter and I only found you blog a few weeks ago and as the Dearborns were our first batch of itty bitty's that we have followed, I feel a sense of loss. Please tell us where they are going!ReplyDelete
Adorable portrait! Looking at those sweet faces, it's no surprise to me that they were all adopted so quickly:-)ReplyDelete
What sweet, little innocent faces. I can't believe they are old enough already.ReplyDelete
Oh noes!!! Dear little Dearborns - have wonderful lives! You've certainly enriched mine, "by just your being you!" (thanks Mr. Rogers!)ReplyDelete
Oh gosh, you're going to make me cry!ReplyDelete
And I'm sitting in the middle of an airport!
I so loved getting to know this little family.
Good luck (not so) little ones! Have a fantastic time settling in to your new lives. We'll miss you very much.
Noooooooooooooo! I think this was my favorite batch ever (oh, who am I kidding... I say that every freaking time). Maybe because there was so much more of them because of the fundraiser. I love them and wish them all long, healthy and happy lives in their forever homes.ReplyDelete
look at how far they've come from the crusty little kittens :-) with poo issues! Love to see them grow big and strong, and into families where they will be loved beyond their wildest dreams!!! Goodbye Dearborns >^..^< !!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 13, 2011 at 5:05 PM
Oh so soon?? But will the new itties be up to the task right away? Can Kisses come help again in the interim?? Love and happiness to the Dearborns and their lucky new families!!ReplyDelete
- burnttoastJuly 13, 2011 at 5:08 PM
Gee, I am going to miss them. Did you have to run a Dearborn lottery to get them placed? I think half the world wanted them!! A good thing for kitties.ReplyDelete
Wait, they didn't even get snipped yet, did they? Isn't that a bit unusual? What gives?ReplyDelete
Ack! Kitties! Come back! We need your stories!ReplyDelete
Who'll man the phones?!
Big lump in my throat. I had become so fond of ALL of them! I hope you will fill us in as to their new homes - I hope some of them went together - they seemed especially bonded to each other. I am SO going to miss the Dearborns!ReplyDelete
Yes, their departure tales will be told. Wasn't so quick, either. They moved in on May 29th, so it was actually a pretty long stay.ReplyDelete
Changmi, they were snipped.
- Tabby Girl in TexasJuly 13, 2011 at 6:14 PM
Congratulations Laurie and Bean for another beautiful litter well-raised, healthy and sent off to their furrever homes happily ever after!ReplyDelete
OMG already??? Didn't they just arrive?ReplyDelete
So beautiful! You would have to get a pair...color complimenting.... :)ReplyDelete
Nonononononononononononono. :(ReplyDelete
I know it's necessary, but I loved Sheldon and Pearla the mostest.
Whoever is adopting Sheldon had best send a lot of photo updates. His adoring fans demand it. I <3 Sheldon 4ever!ReplyDelete
- WaheedaJuly 13, 2011 at 6:47 PM
It feels like a short stay but I know they were with us for longer because of how itty bitty they were to begin with.ReplyDelete
But but but I wasn't ready still!
Can't wait to hear your stories kitties.
ALL of them??? The same day??? Oh my, I'm glad I was sitting down when I read that. Your house must be feeling SO empty right now! I trust the next litter is available so you can bring them home quick to start the naming rights auctions?ReplyDelete
Sheldon was supposed to come live with ME, though! My Emily is a very cranky and grumpy kitty, and Sheldon seemed like the perfect addition, a young cranky and grumpy kitty to compliment her aging grumpiness and crankiness! Ah well, I know he went someplace completely perfect. The universe has never let one of your kitties down yet, and I can't see it starting with adorable little Sheldon!
It's always sad when kitties depart but I'm nevertheless tickled to see them with their spectacular new necklaces with the enormous golden charms.ReplyDelete
Already?? Sigh. They look so grown up in their new collars!ReplyDelete
- TeughcatsJuly 13, 2011 at 7:53 PM
Wow. I wasn't ready for that, didn't even realize they had been snipped already. Laurie, I hope you and Craig and Bean are doing well. I would think it must be so very hard to say goodbye, even though the universe does send perfect owners. Thank you for sharing the Dearborns with us!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 13, 2011 at 8:00 PM
Wish I had the $$ to give them the going away gift they deserve. They did a great job on the phones and I think we got so used to them being here because they were here so long. They were the purfect litter for the Fundraiser. and I miss them too already and have that leaky eye problem now too. Fair winds and following seas little ones....ReplyDelete
The Dearborns were my my first litter to follow, I shall miss their antics & sweetness but I know there will be more precious ones to take their places. Thank you for all you do for the kittehs.ReplyDelete
These lovlies were around for so long, I got extra-attached to them! Wonderful that they all found homes - I can't wait to hear where they're going!ReplyDelete
Bye-bye, sweet Dearborns -- I loved every one of you, and it was a joy to get to know you all! I know you are all with your purrfect furever families and are happy as can be, but I'll miss you! :(ReplyDelete
Oh!!! Well I'm not gonna lie, I just sat down and had a good little cry... I just couldn't help it!! I love all the litters, but these babies were just so so special -- starting with their rescue story and the thankfully temporary missing-ness of sweet Phoebe, right on through to their outstanding work on the fundraising set. And was there ever a more lovely/awesome IBKC-er than Geraldine?! No -- except for Marla, Pearla and Phoebe! And sweet Sheldon with the belly made for biscuits! Oh dear(borns) indeed... thanks for sharing the beginning of their journey with us, Laurie!! Now I must go hug the stuffing out of my own furry purry (17.5 years old and still going strong!!) :)ReplyDelete
Oh no! I feel like crying. I've become addicted to this group. I can't believe they are gone! I guess I have to try to keep it together and feel confident they have gone to some lovely forever homes. Man, I loved this Dearborn bunch! I could not get enough of them. Thanks again and I will be donating to the cause again before this fundraiser is over. Oh...and the Bean on the van - that is soooo awesome. She's a gorgeous doll!ReplyDelete
- oceansJuly 13, 2011 at 9:29 PM
Heh. They look like little soldiers all trained and prepped for their mission to spread cuteness far and wide!ReplyDelete
They were all great, but I'll really miss Pearla and Phoebe :)
- AnonymousJuly 13, 2011 at 9:40 PM
Oh, gosh, I'm going to miss Sheldon tremendously. He has the most expressive little cat face ever. It's true, the fundraiser litters are extra-special.ReplyDelete
O my Dearborns!ReplyDelete
You are going away from us, but going on an incredible adventure!
I hope your families take pity on us and send your Aunt Charlene some photographs as you become growed up!
Oh gosh, we've passed 40 squillion! I'm up too late working, and I popped in for a kitten break -- and there it was in living color, $40,018.38! This means we'll get to see pics of the kitten party on the set, right? I just hope they're nicer to the set than last year's silly bunch of fluff!ReplyDelete
Oh my goodness, such a shock. Hope they are all going to wonderful homes. Will miss seeing there adventures. Lots of hugs.ReplyDelete
Woo hoo 40 squillion! Even though we are from Canada these are kitties of the world being helped. Both my Mina and Gus were shelter kitties. But I do have one lament ... who took my Pearla?!?! Waaaahhhh.ReplyDelete
But just so you know Laurie ... there is no cat that can surpass the beautiful, incomparable, fabulous, kitten loving BEAN!! Kudos on a job well done!ReplyDelete
Lucky families to be receiving them. I hope some went together. That is always nice for them. Hugs, Deb=^..^=x4ReplyDelete


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On Tuesday afternoon in Olympia, Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee announced that he will unilaterally impose a moratorium on death penalties during his tenure in office.
On legal grounds, Washington state's constitution and statutes give the governor the power to grant temporary reprieves from capital punishment to death row inmates, often referred to as stays of execution. It does not mean that the next governor could not step into office and remove the reprieves.
On political grounds, Inslee has acted to step around the Legislature, brush aside the courts and substitute his own version of morality for that of jurists who reviewed the facts in each case and came to the conclusion that the just punishment for some horrible crimes was to deprive the guilty person of their life.
Inslee's decision was reinforced by Washington's top government lawman, State Attorney General Bob Ferguson, who said, "(T)he governor has the authority to hit the 'pause' button for executions in Washington."
Ferguson's remote control analogy seems too cute for a grim subject, but it is accurate. Inslee's single-minded act freezes the process of delivering justice to nine death row inmates and for their 16 victims and the victims' families. If there is any emotional closure for those families that comes from seeing the evil that was done to their loved ones punished, that resolution is now further from reach.
In announcing his edict, Inslee made clear that he believes giving nine men who were found guilty of brutally and viciously raping and murdering women and children a reprieve from execution is correcting an inequality.
Inslee' rationalization is a smokescreen of faux pragmatism — citing the reversal rate of convictions, cost of prosecution and length of time to execution — in advance of his main charge in which the governor tilts at philosophical windmills with his suggestion that the lack of deterrent value in capital punishment is also justification for discontinuing its use.
On the first three points, the governor is factually accurate but draws the wrong conclusion. The cost of death penalty cases is high and the legal challenges to make a conviction stick and see a sentence delivered are rigorous, but that is by design. Though Inslee views the process as flawed, in fact it is accomplishing what it should by making it next to impossible for the state to execute an individual before eliminating all shreds of doubt that such action is appropriate in light of their crime.
On his last and probably most heartfelt point, however, Inslee gives the people of Washington a peek into his political philosophy. By claiming that the lack of evidence that the death penalty serves as an effective deterrent (a dubious assertion on its face), he shows us that he has a severely underdeveloped notion of the function a criminal justice system plays in a civil society.
Criminal sentences may be valuable as a deterrent, but for a society that wishes to be based on the rule of law, it is vital that we are able to punish those who transgress our shared morals and values. (We seem to have so few shared morals left, but defining murder as evil is certainly one.) Deterrence is a welcome by-product of our transaction with the convicted criminal if that occurs, but it is the effect the act of punishment has to reinforce legitimacy and cement our social contract that is so critical.
And the social contract of our representative democracy desperately needs mending.
Earlier this year, Inslee himself vowed to enact sweeping carbon tax rules by executive order. President Barack Obama's use of executive orders to amend key provisions of the enacted Obamacare law without a vote by Congress is under scrutiny from Republicans as well as the not-at-all conservative editors of The Washington Post. In Virginia, Democratic Attorney General Mark Herring has publicly stated he will not defend state law that defines marriage as only legal between a man and a woman. Those are just the examples that leap to mind.
Inslee said that he hoped his unilateral decision would bring Washington state into "a growing national conversation about capital punishment." But national conversations in a democratic society begin with the people, build consensus and end with government action. Inslee's autocratic act is a perversion of that process and a continuation of a trend that, regardless of which party seizes the reins of power, must be reversed.
Bryan Myrick is the editor of the NW Daily Marker, where a version of this commentary originally appeared.
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Fact Sheet: G-8 Summit -- Preventing the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction
"We will work closely with our coalition to deny terrorists and their state sponsors the materials, technology, and expertise to make and deliver weapons of mass destruction."
President George W. Bush
January 29, 2002
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G-8 Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction: President Bush and his G-8 colleagues agreed today to launch a major new effort to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction to terrorists or those who support them. Under the ?G-8 Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Material of Mass Destruction,? the United States, the G-7 and the European Commission have agreed to raise up to $20 billion for projects pertaining to disarmament, nonproliferation, counterterrorism and nuclear safety, over the next ten years. The United States intends to provide half of the total funding.
The focus of the Global Partnership will initially be on projects in Russia. The initiative will also be open to other states, including other former Soviet states. G-8 members have agreed on basic guidelines for implementing the initiative. The G-8 will establish a senior-level mechanism to coordinate Partnership activities, including monitoring progress and considering project priorities and opportunities.
The Global Partnership will initiate new bilateral and multilateral projects, and enhance existing ones. Donor governments may choose a range of financing options, including exchanges of a portion of Russia's Soviet-era debt for Partnership projects. Only funds disbursed after today's announcement will be included in the Partnership. The G-8 has invited others to join in this endeavor.
G-8 Nonproliferation Principles: The President and his G-8 colleagues also today adopted a set of Principles to prevent terrorists or those who harbor them from acquiring or developing nuclear, chemical, radiological and biological weapons, missiles, and related materials, equipment and technology. The G-8 Leaders call on all states to commit to these Principles.
U.S. Nonproliferation Assistance: The G-8 Global Partnership builds on, and expands, a decade of cooperation between the United States and former Soviet states to reduce and prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, starting with the Cooperative Threat Reduction (Nunn-Lugar) program in FY1992. From FY1992 to FY2002, the United States allocated approximately $7 billion for this purpose. In the President's FY2003 budget request, he has proposed about $1 billion in nonproliferation and, threat reduction assistance to former Soviet states ? the highest single-year request ever made for these projects.
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Albatrosses are birds that few of us ever get to see or fully appreciate. They avoid the mainland, nesting on remote islands, and foraging in the open ocean. We certainly don't find them in the Salish Sea. A Puget Sounder's best bet is to head out to the Washington coast, jump on a boat (Westport has a great pelagic birding charter) and ride the waves for a few dozen miles out to sea. Once out of sight of land, you may be in sight of albatrosses.
These unique birds are build for long trips at sea, soaring so efficiently that their hearts beat about the same when they're soaring for hundreds or thousands of miles as when they're resting. And these are big birds! Wingspans of North Pacific albatross are between 6 and 7′.
Ironically, the wings that makes them soaring superstars also makes them pretty poor flapping fliers. Relatively stiff wings aren't very effective when winds that are essential to their flight are calm. While we sit out a storm, albatrosses sit out the calm, floating on the sea's surface until the wind picks up.
Amid the devastating human tragedy of Japan's recent earthquake and tsunami, albatrosses and other island nesting birds in the Pacific have also faced challenges. I thank John Williams of Still Hope Productions for turning me onto Midway Atoll wildlife biologist Pete Leary's blog. In a March 12, 2011 posting Pete shared experiences and dramatic images of the tsunami displaced birds he and many others rescued from debris, mud and open water. It's amazing that the birds captured in his images were the survivors, some buried with only their head above the debris. Unfortunately, Pete suggested 10's of thousands of albatross chicks were washed out to sea.
Albatross species, most of which are considered threatened, face a number of other, more chronic threats.
- Albatrosses see an easy meal as bait in longline fisheries sinks slowly behind a boat. The result is 10's of thousands of albatross bycatch deaths each year. Washington Sea Grant staff and others are working with longline fisheries to reduce seabird bycatch. Just distracting birds until the bait sinks below their diving depth can reduce seabird contact with the bait by 70%.
- Invasive rats and cats prey easily on eggs and chicks and may attack adults. These birds evolved to breed on islands without terrestrial mammals and lack the necessary defenses. Invasive plants and overgrazing have impacted habitat for some species.
- Plastic garbage is a problem of deepening concern. Plastic debris is now a prominent component of the oceans' surface water. Mistaking these materials for food, albatrosses pack their gizzard and stomach with the undigestible plastic, creating blockages or reducing the space that should be taken up by food. They also regurgitate plastics for their own chicks, likely causing the chicks to feel full and increasing physiological stress. Steps to reduce plastic consumption and increase proper disposal are worth taking.
When even the emperors of the air are unable to avoid the crushing force of runaway water, the consequences of a tsunami for those held firm by gravity become all the more sobering. My heart and hopes for recovery go out to all. JEff
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(CNN) -- The vice presidential candidates are taking some time off the trail this week to prepare for their highly anticipated debate Thursday.
Appearing with John McCain on Monday, Gov. Sarah Palin said she was looking forward to debating Sen. Joe Biden.
"So I guess it's my turn now, and I do look forward to Thursday night. ... I'm looking forward to meeting him, too. I never met him, but I've been hearing about his Senate speeches since I was in, like, second grade," she joked at a rally in Columbus, Ohio.
The Republican Alaska governor has generally shied away from attacking Biden directly, although she did use the "second grade" remark in an interview with Fox News two weeks ago.
Palin added that she thinks the Delaware Democrat is a "great debater." Watch what Palin says about the debate »
Going into a debate, campaigns try to lower expectations for their candidate while raising expectations for their opponent.
Biden's campaign has been trying to play up Palin's debate skills in the lead-up to the debate.
"She's very skilled, and she'll be well-prepared," David Axelrod, Barack Obama's chief strategist, said Sunday night as he flew with Biden back to Delaware to help him get ready.
"As you saw at the convention, she can be very good. So, I think it would be foolish to assume that this isn't going to be a really challenging debate. We're preparing for that, on that assumption."
Taking it one step further, Biden spokesman David Wade later added, "He's going in here to debate a leviathan of forensics, who has debated five times, and she's undefeated."
Axelrod said that at the end of the day, the choice voters make is between the candidates at the top of the ticket and not the vice presidential candidates.
However, he said vice presidential nominees have a harder time preparing because they need to defend not only their own positions, but also those of their running mate, and they also have to know where both candidates on the opposing ticket stand.
Biden on Monday was preparing for the debate in his home state of Delaware. Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm flew with Biden from Michigan to Delaware on Sunday to play Palin in mock debates in the coming days.
In an interview Thursday, she said, "I want to beat him up a little bit, so he does well."
There is only one vice presidential debate, while there are three for the presidential candidates.
The debate offers voters one of the first unfiltered opportunities to hear Palin speak about the issues.
With the exception of a handful of television interviews, Palin has mostly stuck to campaign speeches during her first month on the campaign trail.
Biden is a far more experienced debater, and he scored well in the Democratic presidential debates before the primary season.
He has earned a reputation for impetuous and brutally honest remarks during his decades-long tenure in the Senate.
Biden has done nearly 100 interviews since being picked as Obama's running mate August 23.
Palin, on the other hand, has talked much less with reporters. Last week, she did her third interview with a national television network and held her first media availability with her traveling reporters.
Following the rally in Ohio, Palin headed McCain's ranch near Sedona, Arizona, for what a top aide calls "debate camp."
The aide, who's part of the team prepping Palin, tells CNN they decided to take her to debate camp there because it is an "invigorating and enjoyable place to prepare for Thursday."
The aide said, "John McCain himself came up with the idea after thinking it would be great before his next debate."
Palin has already spent four days hunkered down in a Philadelphia hotel for debate prep with advisers.
CNN's Dana Bash, Peter Hamby and Alexander Marquardt contributed to this report.
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The integrated Enhanced Speedstep is able to downclock the core dynamically as low as 800 MHz to save power (in idle mode).
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UC Davis Pepper Spray Cop Is Now a Meme
Oh man, did you see that cop casually pepper spraying those kids at UC Davis? Horrible! Thankfully we live in the Internet Age, where every news event, no matter how dire, is instantly transformed into an amusing meme.
People are going crazy for this one, which is not surprising given the number of memes spewed out by Occupy fans. Pepper Spray Cop John Pike isn't even the first cop to become a meme thanks to Occupy Wall Street: Remember "Hipster Cop" Rick Lee?
Here are some of the better examples of what's officially (?) known as the Casually Pepper Spray Everything Cop Meme, based on the original iconic photo by Louise Macabitas.
Update: Here's a whole Tumblr dedicated to it, of course.
[Pepper-spraying Seurat image via Washington Post]
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Capital of Andorra
Andorra l. a. Vella is the capital of the Principality of Andorra, and is found high inside the east Pyrenees
among France and Spain. it is also the name of the ward that includes the capital. Wikipedia
2. Encamp
Delve in is one of the wards of Andorra, arranged on the Valira d'Orient stream. it's miles also the call of the guideline city in the ward. unmistakable settlements incorporate Vila, El Pas de los angeles Casa,
3. Pas de los angeles Casa
city in Andorra El Pas de l. a. Casa is a ski cabin, city, and mountain move inside the Encamp ward of Andorra, duplicity on the edge with France. Wikipedia
upward push: 6,824′
put: 6.564 mi²
climate: 18°F (- 8°C), Wind N at 19 mph (31 km/h), eighty three% Humidity
people: 2,996 (2012)
4. Meritxell
Meritxellis a city in Andorra, arranged inside the place of Canillo in the north of the nation near the French edge. Our female of Meritxell is the supporter heavenly individual of Andorra.
Anyós is a city in Andorra, arranged inside the range of los angeles Massana and 1 km from the town of l. a. Massana.
6. L. A. Cortinada
town in Andorra
los angeles Cortinada is a town in Andorra, arranged among the towns of Arans and Ansalonga in the place of Ordino. Wikipedia
atmosphere: 28°F (- 2°C), Wind N at 21 mph (34 km/h), 84% Humidity group time: Wednesday nine:15 AM
masses: 883 (2012)
area: Ordino
Vallnord is a ski/snowboard hotel in the Pyrenees mountains in the country of Andorra, near the edge with Spain at Tor,
8.Santa Coloma
Santa Coloma d'Andorra or rapid Santa Coloma is an Andorran city inside the district of Andorra los angeles Vella, situated close to the Gran Valira flow and two or three km a long way from the capital, Andorra l. a. Vella. Wikipedia
best: three,182′
atmosphere: 36°F (2°C), Wind N at 20 mph (32 km/h), 76% Humidity
Caldea is a spa motel in Escaldes-Engordany, Andorra. finished in 1994, it has 18 stories. At 6,000m² it's far Europe's greatest spa,additionally, at eighty meters in stature, it's far Andorra's tallest building. Wikipedia
Ordino is the most extreme northerly ward in the Principality of Andorra. it's for the greatest part the standard domain of Valira del Nord or Valira d'Ordino course valley. Ordino is moreover the call of the guideline city of the district. Wikipedia
upward push: 4,259′
put: 34.seventy five mi²
Address: Parc de los angeles Mola, 10, AD700 Escaldes-Engordany, Andorra
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Andorra is a tiny, independent principality situated between France and Spain in the Pyrenees mountains. It's known for its ski resorts and a tax-haven status that encourages duty-free shopping. Capital Andorra la Vella has boutiques and jewelers on Meritxell Avenue and several shopping centers. The old quarter, Barri Antic, houses Romanesque Santa Coloma Church, with a circular bell tower.
#1. Andorra la Vella
Andorra la Vella is the capital of Andorra, in the Pyrenees mountains between France and Spain. It's known as a duty-free retail hub, with shops lining Meritxell Avenue. The 12th-century Sant Esteve church has baroque altarpieces. Former parliamentary seat Casa de la Vall, dating to 1580, features 16th- and 17th-century murals. The nearby area of Vallnord has resorts with trails for winter sports, plus a bike park.
#2. El Pas de la Casa
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#3. Soldeu
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#4. Canillo
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#5. Arinsal
Arinsal is a village in Andorra, set at an altitude of between 1550 and 2560 metres, close to the border with Spain at Tor, Pallars.
#6. El Tarter
El Tarter is a village in Andorra, located in the parish of Canillo.
#7. Les Escaldes
Les Escaldes or briefly Escaldes is an urban area in Escaldes-Engordany parish, Andorra. It is located near the nation's capital, Andorra la Vella.
#8. Grau Roig
Grau Roig is a sector of the Grandvalira ski resort in Andorra, located in the parish of Encamp. It includes alpine skiing and cross-country skiing tracks. It is the only sector in Grandvalira which does not have a populated settlement.
#9. Meritxell
Meritxell is a village in Andorra, located in the parish of Canillo in the north of the country near the French border. Our Lady of Meritxell is the patron saint of Andorra.
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I just bought a home carbonator. Is there any danger to drinking carbonated water instead of still water? Some Web articles state that carbonated water does not flush toxins like still water -- that it causes kidney stones because it is harder to digest and that it leaches calcium from the bones.
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I'm glad you asked this question as I'm addicted to my home carbonator and I find that I drink much more water, particularly with meals, than I used to.
In addition, using a home carbonator is better for the environment as it saves on those plastic bottles that we see almost everywhere these days.
Regarding the health aspect, I could find no research suggesting that carbonated water would not flush toxins as effectively as plain water. With regards to leaching calcium from the bones or increased kidney stone formation (which is probably theoretically due to increased calcium loss in the urine rather than digestion difficulty), again there is no clinical evidence that this occurs.
A 2006 study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that carbonated colas were associated with slightly decreased bone density in older women, but other noncola carbonated beverages were not.
Carbonated water is created (or exists naturally) by dissolving carbon dioxide (CO2) in water. This creates carbonic acid, which is more acidic than regular water (it falls somewhere in the range of apple and orange juice) but is much less acidic than the stomach.
It is important to understand that the human body maintains pH equilibrium on a constant basis and will not be affected by water consumption.
Some concern exists regarding tooth enamel erosion due to the increased acidity, but a 2001 study in the Journal of Oral Rehabilitation showed that while sparkling mineral waters showed slightly greater erosive potential than still waters, the potential was considered low and was of the order of 100 times less than soft drinks.
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Some of the most valuable assets in private ownership such as holiday homes, second (or third or fourth) cars, boats, motorhomes and horses are also unfortunately often an insane waste of resources. Many owners have great difficulty using them often enough to keep them in good condition. They finally sell them because the time, cost and hassle of maintaining them are greater than the joy of owning them. But if you love sailing, riding, flying etc, nothing beats the pleasure of owning your own boat, horse or aircraft. However it's just as much fun if you share it with a few people, in fact it's usually more fun.
I've learnt many things over the five years of running yours2share, but it still surprises me that the list of items for discussion when a sharing arrangement is created varies little with the asset: it could be a house or a horse. The potential partners in a private syndicate need to discuss and agree every aspect at the beginning and whatever they agree should be written into the contract. This discussion and negotiation is a critical aspect of the sharing process. The potential partners learn whether than can discuss and agree issues with each other, whether they are suitably like-minded and whether they have compatible requirements. If they are unhappy about any of these three factors, they should politely make their excuses and leave. No-one has to share these non-essential items.
Taking shared ownership of horse and house as the example, these issues include:
- Who owns what? Is it a 50/50 split? Or four equal quarter shares? Horses for competition are often owned by an investor and a trainer/rider with the trainer having only (say) a 20% share. Is the asset owned via a company?
- How to end the arrangement (exit strategy). For both horses (competitive) and houses, a common answer is to agree a date in the future when it will be sold. If the owners arrive at that date and all want to continue, they simply amend the contract to a future date. This also gives everyone a clear idea of when they can withdraw their equity. There are several other related issues to be agreed such as valuation, inheritance and forced sales.
- Meetings and management: the more owners, the more important this is. It can be relatively flexible up to four or five owners, but it's good to agree the date of an annual meeting and the items that will always be on the agenda. With many owners, agreeing the management process at the ourset is essential and it is worth considering employing someone to manage the sharing arrangement.
- The costs and how they are divided: this could be according to the ownership split but there are often other factors.
- What happens if one sharer damages the house or injures the horse? Work out who pays for what in various scenarios bearing in mind the insurance requirements, policy and costs.
- Are there any qualifications that the sharer must have? How do you prove that they are a competent rider, pilot, skipper, driver? Property is one of few major asset types that doesn't generally require competency to be proved. However if the property requires major renovation and the partners intend to do this themselves, it would be wise to ensure that everyone has the requisite skills, equal willingness to do it, and works at the same quality level.
- Who can use it? For a house this could be just the sharer, their immediate family, friends, acquaintances, strangers, will it be rented out? For competition horses, there may be several trainers and jockeys/riders. For leisure/hacking horses, it is usually only the sharers.
- How are you going to agree the fittings and fixtures? If you have to furnish a house, you need to have similar taste, and decide how to you are going to choose every item. Taste isn't such an issue for horses, but the owners may decide to buy a horse box for transporting to competition.
- Handover: what has to be done at the beginning and end of a sharers period of use and what is done by others. For houses it is often wise to have a cleaner/housekeeper come in between sharers. For horses, particularly leisure use, picking up poo and grooming are often tasks done by each sharer, but can be provided by the stable yard.
These are just a taste of the main sharing issues to be discussed: you can find a fuller version here.
I know that some people who are struggling to live on low incomes may consider sharing holiday homes or motor yachts a bit frivolous. But I think it is worth encouraging everyone at all levels of society to share more.
- The more middle income families share things, the more mainstream and accepted sharing becomes.
- People aspire to enjoy and own these "toys": sharing is an enjoyable and responsible way of achieving this.
- As more and more people share, the environmental and social benefits are substantial. The impact of fewer second homes and fewer boats has some major advantages. In the UK, where land is limited, the high number of second home owners, and thus the high cost of housing in some areas, has caused real friction with people who want to live there permanently. Worldwide there is a shortage of marina space, and yet building new marinas is often very damaging to the marine environment.
- Sharing encourages owners to buy better quality items, which last longer and are often more pleasurable to use.
But most of all, we all benefit if people come together to create communities around these assets. Every time I speak to people in well run private syndicates I'm told that their fellow owners are a wonderful group of people: it's the community aspect and shared responsibility that people value the most.


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