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The following is an essay, "Climate Change Is Violence," from Solnit's anthology:
If you're poor, the only way you're likely to injure someone is the old traditional way: artisanal violence, we could call it— by hands, by knife, by club, or maybe modern hands-on violence, by gun or by car.
Climate change is global-scale violence against places and species, as well as against human beings. Once we call it by name, we can start having a real conversation about our priorities and values.
But if you're tremendously wealthy, you can practice industrial-scale violence without any manual labor on your own part. You can, say, build a sweatshop factory that will collapse in Bangladesh and kill more people than any hands-on mass murderer ever did, or you can calculate risk and benefit about putting poisons or unsafe machines into the world, as manufacturers do every day. If you're the leader of a country, you can declare war and kill by the hundreds of thousands or millions. And the nuclear superpowers—the United States and Russia— still hold the option of destroying quite a lot of life on Earth.
So do the carbon barons. But when we talk about violence, we almost always talk about violence from below, not above.
Or so I thought when I received a press release from a climate group announcing that "scientists say there is a direct link between changing climate and an increase in violence." What the scientists actually said, in a not-so-newsworthy article in Nature a few years ago, is that there is higher conflict in the tropics in El Nino years and that perhaps this will scale up to make our age of climate change also an era of civil and international conflict.
The message is that ordinary people will behave badly in an era of intensified climate change. All this makes sense, unless you go back to the premise and note that climate change is itself violence. Extreme, horrific, long-term, widespread violence.
Climate change is anthropogenic— caused by human beings, some much more than others. We know the consequences of that change: the acidification of oceans and decline of many species in them, the slow disappearance of island nations such as the Maldives, increased flooding, drought, crop failure leading to food-price increases and famine, increasingly turbulent weather. (Think Hurricane Sandy and the recent typhoon in the Philippines and heat waves that kill elderly people by the tens of thousands.)
Climate change is violence.
So if we want to talk about violence and climate change, then let's talk about climate change as violence. Rather than worrying about whether ordinary human beings will react turbulently to the destruction of the very means of their survival, let's worry about that destruction— and their survival.
Of course, water failure, crop failure, flooding, and more will lead to mass migration and climate refugees— they already have— and this will lead to conflict. Those conflicts are being set in motion now.
You can regard the Arab Spring, in part, as a climate conflict: the increase in wheat prices was one of the triggers for that series of revolts that changed the face of northernmost Africa and the Middle East. On the one hand, you can say, how nice if those people had not been hungry in the first place. On the other, how can you not say, how great is it that those people stood up against being deprived of sustenance and hope? And then you have to look at the systems that created that hunger— the enormous economic inequalities in places such as Egypt and the brutality used to keep down the people at the lower levels of the social system, as well as the weather.
People revolt when their lives are unbearable. Sometimes material reality creates that unbearableness: droughts, plagues, storms, floods. But food and medical care, health and well-being, access to housing and education— these things are also governed by economic means and government policy. That's what the revolt called Occupy Wall Street was against.
Climate change will increase hunger as food prices rise and food production falters, but we already have widespread hunger on Earth, and much of it is due not to the failures of nature and farmers, but to systems of distribution. Almost 16 million children in the United States now live with hunger, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and that is not because the vast, agriculturally rich United States cannot produce enough to feed all of us. We are a country whose distribution system is itself a kind of violence.
Climate change is not suddenly bringing about an era of equitable distribution. I suspect people will be revolting in the coming future against what they revolted against in the past: the injustices of the system. They should revolt, and we should be glad they do, if not so glad that they need to. (Though one can hope they'll recognize that violence is not necessarily where their power lies.) One of the events prompting the French Revolution was the failure of the 1788 wheat crop, which made bread prices skyrocket and the poor go hungry. The insurance against such events is often thought to be more authoritarianism and more threats against the poor, but that's only an attempt to keep a lid on what's boiling over; the other way to go is to turn down the heat.
The same week during which I received that ill-thought-out press release about climate and violence, Exxon Mobil Corporation issued a policy report. It makes for boring reading, unless you can make the dry language of business into pictures of the consequences of those acts undertaken for profit. Exxon says, "We are confident that none of our hydrocarbon reserves are now or will become 'stranded.' We believe producing these assets is essential to meeting growing energy demand worldwide."
Stranded assets that mean carbon assets— coal, oil, gas still underground—would become worthless if we decided they could not be extracted and burned in the near future. Because scientists say that we need to leave most of the world's known carbon reserves in the ground if we are to go for the milder rather than the more extreme versions of climate change. Under the milder version, countless more people, species, and places will survive. In the best-case scenario, we damage the Earth less. We are currently wrangling about how much to devastate the Earth.
In every arena, we need to look at industrial-scale and systemic violence, not just the hands-on violence of the less powerful. When it comes to climate change, this is particularly true. Exxon has decided to bet that we can't make the corporation keep its reserves in the ground, and the company is reassuring its investors that it will continue to profit off the rapid, violent, and intentional destruction of the Earth.
That's a tired phrase, the destruction of the Earth, but translate it into the face of a starving child and a barren field— and then multiply that a few million times. Or just picture the tiny bivalves: scallops, oysters, Arctic sea snails that can't form shells in acidifying oceans right now. Or another superstorm tearing apart another city. Climate change is global-scale violence against places and species, as well as against human beings. Once we call it by name, we can start having a real conversation about our priorities and values. Because the revolt against brutality begins with a revolt against the language that hides that brutality.
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Yesterday I spent an illuminating hour with the folks behind Wowd, a still-private-beta search upstart that is taking a new approach to, well, just about everything in search as we traditionally understand it.
In a odd coincidence, this morning Venturebeat published a thoughtful piece on how search might shift when more data, in particular social data, is added to the mix.
I point these two links out as a marker of sorts, I've got a much longer piece brewing in me about Wowd's approach to search, and how the Big Guys might respond should an upstart like Wowd get traction. More on that soon. Meanwhile, the Wowd guys posted on Tim and my Websquared paper here.


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Tim Lane's "Spike," Onsmith's "Dispossession by Tornado" and Mack White's "Roadside Hell" named "Notable Comics" in The Best American Comics 2011
The Harvey and Eisner nominated anthology of action, thrills, chills and trangression is back with a third volume! Anything goes in Hotwire, eschewing literary high-mindedness for a pure, gut-wrenching viscerality that you can tune in and rest your brain on after a long day.
Hotwire the third leaps off the page from the get-go with David Sandlin's "Infernal Combustion," about boozing it up in a broke-down caddy, and Tim Lane's bit of freight-hopping grit, "Spike." Underground comics legend Mary Fleener returns with "The Judge," a true tale about her own life fending off thugs… with a .38! Meanwhile, Hotwire Captain Glenn Head spins the biography of German surrealist Hans Bellmer as a down and out Vaudevillian in decadent Weimar Berlin. R. Sikoryak turns in a brand new batch of "Masterpiece Comics", as Dennis the Menace stars as Prince Hamlet! Other creepy delights: Rick Altergott delivers a fable of a child-molesting clown pleasuring himself in the suburbs, while Matti Hagelberg's "Passion of Atte" is a modern-day Dante's Inferno of comics.
There's also more knockout work and crazy visuals by Mark Dean Veca, Johnny (Angry Youth Comix) Ryan, Mats?!, Max Andersson, Sam Henderson, Steve Cerio, Stephane Blanquet, Doug Allen, Michael (Tales Designed to Thrizzle) Kupperman, Danny Hellman, Mack White, David Paleo, Chadwick Whitehead, Onsmith, Karl Wills and Jayr Pulga. Looking for laffs? A psychic jolt? A partner for your next trip? Look no further than… Hotwire!
"Editor Head's third helping of outrageously in-your-face comics ranges the continuum from the proudly offensive and willfully stupid to the genuinely artful." – Gordon Flagg, Booklist
"Hotwire is an anarchic blitz of inspired absurdity that somehow avoids collapsing into nonsense. It preserves the spirit of such earlier underground comic anthologies as Zap and Raw... Hotwire can be crude, even offensive, but it's almost always fun. It also features some amazing artwork blown up to an impressive 12 by 9 inches. ...Hotwire Comics Vol. 3 is about as entertaining as comics get. It also might provoke a thought or three." – Garrett Martin, Boston Herald
Praise for past volumes:
"Now we've seen it, and can confirm: the new Hotwire is in fact good enough to eat..." – Mairead Case
"Hotwire Comics Vol. 2... continues the title's standard for packing as many harshly drawn tales of scumminess, dread, and revenge into one volume as possible. Pieces by Danny Hellman, Ivan Brunetti, Chadwick Whitehead, Johnny Ryan, and a masterwork by Glenn Head make the pages pulse. I'm pretty crazy about the stuff this publisher does..." – Harry Allen
"This book is the very definition of a solid anthology... Its over-sized presentation puts to good use its line-up of talented visual-driven cartoonists."" – The Comics Reporter


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Forget health insurance and retirement funds, 2017 is set to see student loan repayments become the next best employee benefit.
Companies across America woo employees with many attractive perks. These range from comprehensive health insurance to flexible vacation schedules and 401(k) retirement investments. But, in a bid to lure and retain millennials, many firms are turning to a newer benefit: student loan repayment assistance.
Data from the 2015 American Student Assistance survey revealed that 76 percent of respondents admitted a deciding factor in choosing an employer would be whether the firm in question helped them to pay down their student debt. The Society for Human Resource Management says just 4 percent of businesses are using such initiatives. This is expected to rise significantly during the coming year.
Among the firms already offering such support, Fidelity provides employees at, or below, management level up to $2,000 per year towards their loans, with a maximum of $10,000 in total assistance. It is estimated that around 25 percent of Fidelity staff have student debts at the moment. Healthcare firm Aetna offers similar financial assistance, while technology firm Nvidia provides a maximum of $6,000 per year, up to a total of $30,000 in student loan repayment benefits.
With many Americans battling student debt, gaining such a perk through the workplace could be very attractive. This is particularly true for the younger generations who have more debt than ever, making it harder to achieve other goals, such as owning a car or a home. With more and more companies beginning to realize this, it seems that more student debt relief benefits are set to be offered in 2017.
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Remembering a Teacher
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In a way, it is sad that these remarkable women are "stripped" of their identity.ReplyDelete
I suspect that her "real" name wasn't Mary Mercy any more than Mary Patricia's was...but then, I find this death record:
I think they bungled the "birth year" and age at death on the record.
Mary Mercy Flanagan
Death Date: 18 Oct 1912
Death Place: 5522 LaSalla Pl., Chicago, Cook, Illinois
Gender: Female
Race (Standardized): White
Birth Date: 04 Mar 1860
Birthplace: Ill.
Father: James Flanagan
Father's Birthplace: Ireland
Mother: Hanova Hays
Mother's Birthplace: Ireland
Occupation: Teacher in Convent
Cemetery: Calvary Cemetery
Burial Date: 21 Oct 1912Replies
And her mother's first name wasn't Hanova, either. I suspect it was Honora. And "Mary Mercy" may have been born "Ellen."Delete
Yes, I think you are right - such would fit the 1870 US census record.Delete
...has several paragraphs about Mary Mercy Flanagan (some about her last hours) about half way down the page.
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MSQB-W8N Her 1900 US Census record...ReplyDelete
I hit the return key before I finished my previous comment. Notice the US census listing - Rev. Patrick Flannagan is listed a few lines above Mary Mercy Flanagan (but both are spelled Flanigan).ReplyDeleteReplies
YES! I saw that Flanagan! Tantalizing!Delete


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Ray Dalio, founder and co-chief investment officer of the world's largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates, thinks it's likely the euro will survive; however, he does predict a "10 to 15 year managed depression" in Southern Europe. In a worst case scenario, he painted a much darker picture.
"When people get at each other's throat, the rich and the poor and the left and the right and so on, and you have a basic breakdown, that becomes very threatening," Dalio told CNBC in an exclusive interview on "Squawk Box." "For example, Hitler came to power in 1933, which was the depth of the Great Depression, because of the social tension between the factions. So I think it very much is dependent on how the people work this through together and worry about the social elements."
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2004 was quite a year. One thing that grabbed my attention, and may grab yours, is the skyrocketing growth in Bots (PC's that are controlled by hackers using a worm or Trojan with a backdoor), and skyrocketing may be too subtle of a word.
According to Symantec, there has been a 450% increase in virus attacks on Windows machines this year, and the reason for this shocking rise in attacks is the product of hackers using automation to find vulnerable machines. The major component in these automated attacks is the increasingly popular backdoor element that is written into the viruses. This allows the hacker to take control of your PC and use it to his/her bidding, like trying to infect other machines or mass mailing.
Something that is gaining popularity among these ambitious hackers has been to manage all of their captive PC's like one big network. This gives the hacker not only limitless processing power but makes it almost impossible for authorities to track down the culprit. Not to mention malicious acts could be preformed from your PC without your knowledge and possibly even causing you to be accused of ill deeds. In addition to automation being directly responsible for the sharp increase in infected PC's it has also caused a 100% increase in the amount of phishing sites. Which, if you remember, is when a site will spoof a legitimate site in order to trick you into giving up sensitive information such as credit card numbers and account information. Hackers are even renting or selling these annexed networks to other criminals to carry out their illegal acts.
A test done by marketing communications firm Avant-Garde in which they put a number of different systems in a "Honey Pot" situation, with a number of different configurations from XP SP1 and SP2, with and without firewalls, and even other OS's like Mac OS X, and Linux. With a broadband connection the Windows XP SP1 configured machine with no firewall was taken over and controlled in 30 seconds. On average it took about 4 minutes for a hacker to take control of one of these PC's, but the systems with firewalls were for the most part left alone for easier prey.
In order to lower your chances of being infected make sure you have all your software up-to-date, antivirus software installed, and a firewall. One thing to keep in mind is that most firewalls have some sort of log that has the ip address of everything coming into or out of your PC. No one is completely immune to viruses regardless of whatever defensive measures you may have in place, which means you have to watch your step and take responsibility for your own online safety.
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While installing Ubuntu I connected it to my wi-fi network. But as installation finished I couldn't connect to that same network again because Ubuntu doesn't see it. It does still see other networks but not mine. Changing network name did not help nor did connecting to hidden wireless network. Can anyone help me with this problem? I'm sure I'm not alone having this issue but I couldn't find the answer. Thanks in advance!
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Mitt Ron Ad Money Attacking Conservatives – Whats the Mitt-Ron Connection?
By: Maggie Thornton
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In the video below, Mark Levin makes the point that Ron Paul's ads all criticize the only true Conservatives in the race. If Paul is so conservative, as Libertarians claim he is, and he claims he is, why is he spending his money attacking everyone but the moderate – Mitt Romney? See the video below. UPDATE 1-23-12: Maybe the question of what Mitt has offered Paul has been answered. See it below.
Ron Paul at it again, spending a fortune attacking Santorum. He spent a fortune attacking Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann…they're trashing one Conservative candidate after another.
"Has Ron Paul ran any ads or spent a significant amount of money attacking Romney? Don't you find that odd? This connection, this relationship? It's weird. I'll put this question out? What has Romney promised Ron Paul?"
GulagBound has other pertinent questions about the Paul campaign. Because I haven't followed these angles, please read them at GulagBound. They are worth a read.
UPDATE: 1-23-12: Perhaps the DailyCaller is on to something – – Rand Paul as Mitt's VP? – maybe, maybe not:
Now, a Kentucky media outlet, WFPL News, might be offering us a clue
Kentucky's junior senator says it would be an honor to be considered as a possible running mate for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
… After a speech in Louisville today, [Sen. Rand] Paul held that door firmly open, saying he wants to be part of the national debate.
… "I don't know if I can answer that question, but I can say it would be an honor to be considered," he said.
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'Sausages' to Receive Super Bowl Water Cooler Action?
It's unclear whether or not this Bud Light Ability to Talk to Animals spot will make an appearance during the Super Bowl but if it does, there could be a lot of sausage talk at the office the next day. Along with graceful shots of the product, this DDB Chicago-created Bud Light commercial starts off innocuously enough touting the beer's taste. It then suddenly shifts to a man and his dog in the kitchen. Sadly, it seems, Bud Light's ability to give one the power to talk to animals is no more. Sadly, the dog doesn't know this and continues to beg for sausages over and over and over...and over again.
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There's an interesting Haskell package on HackageDB you'd like to try. How do you install it on your system?
- Check whether the package came with your Haskell implementation.
- If your operating system has a packaging system (e.g. most Linux or BSD distributions), check whether it is already packaged there.
- Otherwise, you'll have to build and install the package. By far the easiest way is to use cabal-install to do everything automatically (note to build cabal-install for the first time, you'll need to use the manual method below; Windows users can download a binary () cabal.exe) from here). If you so wish, you can still install packages manually -- see the section below.
Installing packages manually
- First, ensure that all the packages it depends on are installed (by following these instructions recursively).
- Unpack the tar file (yes, this assumes a Unix system; sorry about that (how to unpack a tar file in windows)):
tar xzf PACKAGE-VERSION.tar.gz
- Move into the directory this creates:
cd PACKAGE-VERSION
- In order to install a package globally, perform the following commands (see the Cabal documentation for more details):
runhaskell Setup configure
runhaskell Setup build
sudo runhaskell Setup install
- If instead of installing globally, you just wish to install a package for your normal user account, you could instead use the following
configurecommand, which would register the install in the user-specific database and install binaries and libraries in $HOME/bin, $HOME/lib, and so forth :
runhaskell Setup configure --user --prefix=$HOME
- (Note that in Cabal 1.4 onwards, you may omit the
--prefix=$HOME, since
--prefix=$HOME/.cabalis now implied by
--user. Also note that you can omit
sudoin the install statement if you use this method.)
- You can get more information about any of these commands by adding
--helpafter the command. For example, to see all the options available for the
configurestep, you could use the following command:
runhaskell Setup configure --help
- If you encounter unsatisfied dependencies when you run the configure step, that is when you recurse and first install the missing package.
- If you have more than one Haskell compiler on your system, use the
--with-compileroption for the
configurestep. That will ensure that Cabal uses the correct compiler during the entire installation process. For example:
runhaskell Setup configure --with-compiler=ghc-6.8.2
runhaskell Setup build
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After yesterday's video of a new record for fastest lap around Manhattan, Alex Roy, the former record holder, provided us with this list of 151 moving violations — for 857 theoretical points — he claims he would have received had he been caught in 2001. That's enough to have his license suspended almost 78 times.
There's a reason why the two guys in the Saturn Sky from the record-setting lap video we exclusively showed you yesterday chose to remain anonymous: White-and-blue cars with little lights on top. New York, like other states, records different levels of points for various traffic offenses. Despite the driver of the record-setting Manhattan lap waiting a year before posting the video in order to allow for the statute of limitations to expire on moving violations, and thereby making it out seemingly unscathed, there are serious consequences for drivers if anything goes wrong or you're spotted by the police.
Here's what the New York DMV has to say about it:
Most traffic violations carry violation points. The points will be added to your record using the date the violation occurred, not the date you are found guilty. If your violation points in any 18-month period add up to 11 or more, your license may be revoked or suspended following a hearing.
Just 11 points, eh? In Alex's run, he would have hit that mark in the first two miles of the 24.48 mile lap around New York's phallic central borough.
As you can see in the color-coded chart Roy put together, and provided exclusively to Jalopnik, speeding is the most obvious and most costly ticket (11 points for over 40 mph over the speed limit) but there are some other, more interesting penalties. Drifting or apexing is considered an "improper lane change" and will net the driver three points. Running a red light is also three points for "failure to obey traffic signals."
The most common penalty? Reckless driving, for, well, reckless driving.
Roy, for his part, seems unperturbed by someone grabbing his Manhattan record.
"Records were meant to be broken. Certain feats require something other than a brute force approach, which is what differentiates hooning from stunts," Roy told us. "Passion is merely the beginning. Safety, planning and professionalism get you to the finish.... FYI, I'll be staying off the FDR early weekday mornings!"
Good advice for anyone.
Driver sets new record for fastest lap around Manhattan
When illicit speed racer Alex Roy circled the Island of Manhattan in 2001 he set the known record for fastest time at 27 minutes while reaching speeds of 144 mph over the 24.48 mile distance. For legal reasons, he never released the tape. A new driver's now done it in 26:03. Here's the video. More »
You can keep up with Matt Hardigree, the author of this post, on Twitter. Email him here.


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Plumbing in Splendora, TX 77372
7 Services Provided by Splendora, TX Plumbing Companies Near Me
Professional plumbers from Splendora plumbing companies near me offer an array of services. These Texas plumbing professionals possess a versatile skill set. They maintain, repair, replace, and install the components of a home's water and waste infrastructure.
The services provided by plumbers are important. They help with home improvement and building maintenance. These services are vital for home maintenance too. A home's water and sewer pipe infrastructure allows it to operate as intended if you enjoy the indoor water system.
In the 1940s, half of the American homes didn't have indoor hot water. They didn't have central heating, cooling, and ventilation systems either. The 1950s saw a jump in the number of new homes built. The numbers remain steady thereafter at an average of 10 million. From 2010 to 2019, there was a significant drop.
Nonetheless, by 2010, most homes consisted of an indoor water and waste pipe system, water heater, and municipal sewage service. Homes outside of municipal service have septic systems installed. These homes benefit from the services provided by experienced plumbers.
When a water pipe bursts inside a house, it causes a series of problems. The nearby areas flood and the pipes require a replacement. At this point, the homeowner requires the services of an emergency plumber instead of maintenance and simple repair.
As a homeowner, several responsibilities land on the table. A house requires a series of home maintenance projects annually. Its roof, HVAC unit, and water pipes require cleaning at the least. Thereafter professionals in each specialty repair loose parts, pipe corrosion, or accumulated leaves.
Maintenance is a cost-effective measure that extends the lifespan of sewer pipes, the roof, and the HVAC unit. Once the lifespan of water and sewer pipes expires, the homeowner understands what comes next. They can prepare for the investment a replacement requires.
The following are seven services provided by Montgomery County plumbing companies near me such as Extreme Plumbing & AC.
Water Heater Repair
Plumbers handle all aspects of a home's water heater. They complete a water heater replacement when it's necessary. They will also complete your home's water heater installation
Water heaters are a great convenience, especially in the winter months. The best water heaters last 12 years. How long a water heater lasts depends on the size, use, and maintenance.
Professional hot water heater installation is highly recommended for several reasons. Mostly it prevents frequent water heater repair due to faulty wiring connections. If the gasket is too tight or too loose, the heater requires replacement too.
Over time, a hot water heater develops corrosion and rust. You can spot it on the bottom. If you see brown starting to rise from the bottom, it's a sign that the inside has significant damage. Eventually, the appliance will burst and become unusable. This leads to a complete hot water heater replacement instead of repair.
If you schedule regular maintenance, professionals drain the heater and clean it out. It's an effective method for preventing corrosion and other damage.
Some households find that they need a water heater replacement because their family started to grow. Every home requires the right size heater. If it's too small, it doesn't distribute enough hot water throughout the home. If it's too big, it increases your public utility costs.
Tankless water heaters are no longer a new technology, but all homes haven't started benefiting from them. If your water heater requires significant repair or a complete replacement, ask your local professional plumber about tankless water heater installation.
The tankless version heats water on demand. Many households benefit from the technology.
To find out the water heater replacement cost or new water heater installation cost, contact Extreme Plumbing & AC.
Emergency Plumber Services
Most homeowners experience warning signs before a water pipe emergency occurs. Low water pressure, leaks, clogs, and slow drains are some signs.
Water in the basement, no hot water, burst pipes, and clogged toilets constitute a call to Splendora, TX plumbing companies near me. If waste is backing up into your toilet, drains, or home, call the plumbing professionals promptly.
Waste in a home is a hazard. It puts your household members in a precarious situation. Plus, the longer it sits there, the worse it becomes. Your goal is to fix the infrastructure issue quickly. You also want to schedule professionals to clean up the waste immediately.
If you develop a business relationship with a local plumber, it helps you receive prompt services in an emergency. Some offer plans that move loyal clients to the priority list. Nonetheless, a 24-hour plumber gets you out of a jam.
Additional emergency plumbing services include burst pipe repair, emergency drain cleaning, blocked drain, emergency toilet repair. Plumbing disasters require 24/7 plumber expertise.
After making a call to an emergency local plumber, maintain a cool head on your shoulders. While you wait for the contractor to arrive, turn off the water source. Move furniture and furnishings near the damaged fixtures out of the way.
Give the emergency leak repair plumber enough room to work. Their goal is to complete the job. It takes longer if they must work around the furnishings hanging over the toilet or laundry machines in front of the hot water heater.
Moreover, protect your furniture from the leaking water and sewage waste backing up into the toilet.
Leak Detection
Once the water and sewer pipes begin to leak, they pose a problem. Where the leak comes from isn't always obvious. However, it requires immediate attention. Sewage pipes that receive municipal service last between 50 to 100 years. Orangeburg pipes last 50 years. PVC, concrete, and cast iron pipes last between 75 to 100 years.
Thus they don't require frequent replacement. These pipes don't experience frequent leaks either. Therefore a leak means that something is wrong within the home's infrastructure.
Leak detection is a new process that professional plumbers employ. They use video, television, and fiber equipment to see the inside of water and sewer pipes. The equipment enters the home's pipe cleanout.
Plumbers know the visual clues that signal damage. They can spot corrosion, rust, and broken joints. Once the plumbing contractors understand where the problem is taking place, they put together a plan.
In 2021, a damaged pipe doesn't require excavation. Instead, many plumbers use trenchless no-dig solutions such as pipe bursting and pipe lining.
Detecting a leak catches something small before it becomes an expensive problem.
Drain Cleaning
All pipes benefit from drain cleaning. If you wait to schedule the service after a noticeable clog exists, the plumber will complete more extensive work. In addition, a blocked drain is an inconvenience.
Sewer drains are low-maintenance engineering feats that last several decades. If a homeowner cares for them, they'll rarely experience problems. Caring for drains and pipes involves watching what household members pour down the drains.
Soap causes gunk to build up in the drains and pipes. The worst thing anyone can pour down their drains is grease. Grease also accumulates from soap, shampoo, and detergents. Many times plumber contractors start with a grease trap cleaning. Then they work their way to their other drains and pipes in the home.
Professional plumbers consider the last time the drains received a cleaning. Plus, they take note of any current problems in the drains such as clogs. Plumbers start with an industry-grade snake. Often, that's all it takes to clean the drain and take care of any obstructions.
If they discover serious issues, they discuss them with the homeowner first.
Low Water Pressure
Low water pressure is a sign that something is happening in your home's water pipes. However, you need to figure out the cause. It's not always necessary to bring in a professional plumber immediately.
Where the low water pressure is taking place matters. Sometimes it only happens in one faucet or showerhead. Other times it happens throughout the whole home. When the entire home experiences low water pressure, check with your neighbors.
When an entire block or neighborhood experiences low water pressure, contact the municipal water and sewage provider. Something is impacting the regional pipes that connect to the homes' water pipes.
If the low water pressure occurs to one faucet, it requires replacement. If one home is experiencing low water pressure throughout but not the neighbors, it's an infrastructure issue that requires professional review.
Sump Pump Installation
The purpose of a sump pump is to prevent flooding in a home including water pipe flooding. Many homes that have a basement have a sump pump too. The pump lives under the basement or in the crawl spaces.
Its purpose is to hold and collect water at the home's lowest point. Then it forces it through the drainage system. It has become a handy system for preventing flooding in basements. Since the area remains dry, it also prevents the growth of mold and mildew.
Installing a sump pump is a home improvement project. Thus it raises the property's value. Homeowners like purchasing homes that have self-protection elements. Basements come in handy. Those that receive little use are in danger of flooding and other damage.
Most people use the basement for storage. Their water heater lives there too. If household members will not make their way downstairs very often, take steps to protect it and your home.
Montgomery County plumbing companies near me install sump pumps too. They also maintain and repair them as necessary.
Toilet Repair
In 2021, homeowners expect many major appliances, conveniences, and infrastructure in their houses. The expectations are so mainstream that property owners don't notice them until they stop operating as expected.
An indoor toilet is a major appliance that gets a lot of use. It lives in the bathroom, a high traffic room. Given the waste that it flushes into the regional waste pipes, the toilet must remain in good health.
Common toilet issues include clogs, leaks, and running water. They also vary in severity. Children remain curious. If they reside in a household, it's worth keeping an eye on the bathroom. If they flush something down, it will cause a clog. If it doesn't, that's nice luck.
Once a toilet starts malfunctioning, it requires a professional assessment. After several flushes, the chain that connects the closing flap to the mechanism loosens. It can fall out of its place and cause the water to run.
A homeowner can carefully place the chain back in its place and stop the running water. If the water continues to run or it doesn't flush properly, make an appointment with one of the Splendora, TX plumbing companies near me such as Extreme Plumbing & AC.
The goal is to avoid a sewage backup into the toilet. A backup signals a couple of things. First, the waste isn't going down the waste sewer pipe. Therefore, a clog exists. Next, the waste pushes back up the pipe through the toilet. The waste could contaminate the water flowing into the faucets, bathtubs, and showers.
After noticing sewage back up indoors, call a plumber who handles emergency calls. The waste is a hazard.
Now, if there is a running toilet in the home, it requires attention promptly too. A running toilet is not a hazard, but it's an inconvenience. Since the water continues floating in and out of the toilet, your water bills increase. Plus, it's a waste of natural resources.
A ring on the floor around the toilet signals it's time for a new one even if the current one operates as intended. Toilets last 15 to 20 years. If the toilet reached its intended lifespan, it's time to look into a new toilet installation. A new toilet allows you to benefit from the newest water-saving and efficient technology.
Montgomery County plumbing companies near me provide important services. Extreme Plumbing & AC provides water heater repair, leak detection, and sump pump installation services. To schedule an appointment, call (832) 621-4683. We also answer emergency Splendora, TX plumbing calls. View our services on our website.
Some information about Splendora, TX
Splendora is a town in Montgomery County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,615 at the 2010 census. Splendora was named in reference to the 'splendor of its floral environment.'
In the late 1800s, The Houston, East and West Texas Railway (now the Union Pacific Railroad), at the suggestion of Charles Cox, decided to build a narrow-gauge spur at the location of what is now Splendora. The location was originally known as 'Cox's Switch.' The area slowly grew more populated after W.W. Burrow built a general store in the area in 1883. In 1896, Cox recommended to the town's postmaster, Milton Z. King, that the town's name should be changed. They decided to change the name to Splendora because of the 'splendor of its floral environment.' The town was incorporated in December 1966.
Useful links for Splendora, TX
Map of Splendora, TX
Here are some plumber-related links and associations.
- Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors Association
- Mechanical Contractors Association of America
- American Society of Plumbing Engineers
- International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials
- PlumbingWEB.com


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I don't make New Year's Resolutions. I think it just sets people up to fail, and we all have plenty of failures in our lives without adding more of our own creation.
Instead, I make some general goals for the year, things that are, perhaps, only "would be nice" rather than "must do". I also set goals and targets low enough that they can be reasonably achieved, freeing me to make newer goals.
The annual stock-take is another matter. I just can't keep myself from looking at all that went right in the year and, of course, what didn't. I mean that in the broadest sense, not just about me and my life (though, hey: This is my blog, so here at least it is all about me!).
I won't re-hash the year's news since there are plenty of other places that will do that far better than I could, so I certainly won't re-hash
This year there's not much in my life that disappointed me, and certainly nothing that I think is big enough to call a "failure"—an incomplete success, as the military and politicians like to say, but not a failure. I think that alone makes this outgoing year a pretty good one.
But there's been much to feel good about, too. My friend
I also rate this blog as a positive thing in my year. It's the first real hobby, if that's really the right word, that I've had in many, many years. It's provided me with a writing outlet whenever I want it. Through it, I've encountered some really interesting people, like Adam (This Boy Elroy), or Jeffrey (
A lot of people look down on blogs and blogging as being nothing more than a kind of verbal public masturbation. Sometimes they are. But sometimes, too, they're much more than that, a way to use technology to make human connections that never would have been possible before. I know I've benefited from the journey, and I hope some visitors to this blog have, too.
Happy New Year to you all!


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Via Yahoo! Sports' Big League Stew and the original (as far as I know) source, Roberto from VSIMH, here's the mashup with a happy pixelated ending:
I know that other Dodgers blogs have already posted on this, but (a) it's sweet, (b) I'm a big RBI Baseball fan, and (c) we Sons want to have record of this on our "archive" (the blog) as well. When I looked at this earlier in the week, it had ~600 views; it already has >6600 today. Nice work!


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Platform shared with CUDA in software bundle deal
Computing management software firm shares the load
Grid and cluster computing management software company Platform Computing has inked a distribution agreement with graphics chip maker nVidia. It will see the HPC expert bundle nVidia's CUDA programming environment with its cluster management tools and integrate it into those tools.
The move will allow Platform Computing's Load Sharing Facility (LSF), the backbone of its open and closed source products, to dispatch applications to nVidia's Tesla GPU co-processors much as it dispatches work to regular CPUs inside HPC clusters. These tend to be built using x64 processors with either Gigabit Ethernet or InfiniBand interconnect, except in the most exotic supercomputer labs.
Platform is integrating the CUDA programming environment with two of its products: its open source Platform Cluster Manager and HPC Workgroup Manager, which adds in LSF, a workload management and dispatching tool. Workgroup Manager is a bundle of tools aimed at companies with 32 nodes or fewer and has lower prices than the regular Cluster Manager plus LSF tools. Cluster Manager is distributed for free, but one year of support costs $150 per server node and three years of support costs $300 per node.
HPC Workgroup Manager includes LSF and a one-year support contract for the bundle on a two-socket server node costs $250 and a three-year contract costs $640. There is no incremental charge for the CUDA development kit or support for it.
The CUDA kit that Platform is distributing includes an extended C runtime that allows routines to be dispatched to the 240-core, 1 teraflop Tesla GPUs instead of to central processors. BLAS, FFT, and a number of other math libraries are also added to the kit. It also includes a GPU hardware debugger, profiling tools, and code samples for dozens of popular HPC algorithms.
Platform Workgroup Manager takes the open source cluster manager and adds LSF, its graphical workload management tool, and its own message-passing interface (MPI) clustering protocol stack, which it bought from Scali.
As I explained back in March, when supercomputer maker Penguin Computing launched its own CPU-GPU bundles, nVidia needs to get the CUDA environment supporting C++ and Fortran to make it truly useful for HPC customers. There are some interfaces, so C++ and Fortran applications can tickle the GPUs.
As of the spring, nVidia had shipped over 100 million CUDA-compatible GPUs, although most of them were probably not in supercomputer clusters. The nVidia Tesla GPU co-processors are supported in both Linux and Windows environments.
The LSF tool provisions and monitors workloads running on clusters, and can do so down to the CPU core level on server nodes and down to the GPU level on the co-processors. This is thanks to the integration of the CUDA development kit with the Platform cluster manager products.
Tripp Purvis, vice president of business development at Platform, hints that other co-processors may get some platforms with the cluster management tools, including Advanced Micro Devices' Firestream, Intel's Larrabee, and IBM's Cell chips.
"As these technologies become more commercially available, we will pursue them," says Purvis.
Well, two out of three nVidia GPU alternatives mentioned above are technically available, but they are not exactly going mainstream like the Teslas seem to be doing. And Platform's support could, in fact, drive adoption of these alternatives and help foster a little competition.
AMD's Firestream SDK includes a programming language called Brook+, which is a Firestream-enabled version of the Brook open source C compiler.
IBM's Power-based Cell co-processors (technically known as the PowerXCell 8i chips and running at 3.2 GHz) have been around for a few years now. They are notably deployed on blades alongside of and linked to Opteron blades in the 1.1 petaflops "Roadrunner" supercomputer installed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory. This is the fastest supercomputer in the world, at the moment.
Cray is giving it a run for the money with its own XT5 Opteron clusters. IBM has its own multicore acceleration SDK that is packaged up with the Cell processors, and Platform could integrate this today if it wanted to, much as it has done with nVidia's CUDA. IBM only supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 and Fedora 9 with its Cell SDK, however, which limits its appeal somewhat.
According to a report this week in SemiAccurate, Intel is expected to put the 32-core Larrabee chips into machines as graphics co-processors during the "Haswell" generation of chips in 2012. That's three generations away from the current Nehalem cores used in PCs and servers.
There is also talk that Larrabee will debut early next year in external graphics cards in a 32-core chip rated at around 2 teraflops of single-precision floating point performance, and hence could appear in GPU-based co-processors for HPC workloads.
No money is changing hands between Platform and nVidia. Platform wants to leverage integration to sell its software, and nVidia wants the company to do that to help peddle its GPU co-processors. The HPC resellers and cluster makers obviously need to have their own partnership with nVidia and the Tesla products to be able to support Platforms's integrated CUDA environment. ®


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People think I hate color, which is not true. (What's true is that I love B&W.) However, it does depend what kind of color we are talking about. There are some distinctions I think need to be made that often aren't.
A few personalized idiosyncratic definitions here:
A color picture is a photograph that needs to be in color to work, and that works. One in which the color is pleasing, or interesting, or adds some effect. Usually this means that the photographer is actually sensitive to color, and has actually noticed the colors either before, during, or after taking the shot.
A picture in color is a snapshot in which the photographer has paid no attention to the colors at all; just another miserable annoying approximate ill-seen miss of a camera-generated image that happens to be in color because 99.7% of snapperdigitigizmos happen to capture that way. Often as not the color is off, if not awful, or merely distracting. The salient percept is that the actual colors in the picture are arbitrary and ill- or un-considered, random, haphazard, uncontrolled.
A picture of colors is any result, good or bad, of a photographer on color-crack. Like teenage girls with cute guys around, or heroin addicts, or dogs on the scent of meat, many photographers lose their minds and go all soft and glorpy when they see big patches of bright color. They go from sentient beings capable of seeing and perceiving meaning to just wanting to wallow in all that purple or whatever. Sometimes these can be good pictures. Operative word "sometimes."
Now, I'm being acerbic here (please forgive), flinging language around like monkeys flinging feces, but it's a serious point. Do you see what I mean?
What I'm saying is that sometimes photographers are aware of colors, and use them sensitively; other times we make pictures in color even when the color is arbitrary or jarring or even ugly just because that happens to be the way the devices capture; and finally there's a whole class of photograph where the camera operator is just "after" color—or rather "after just color"—where you get the feeling people will take pictures of pretty colors regardless of how the picture is composed or what it means or even what it's of, with little or no thought for the deeper integrity of the picture as a photograph.
Do you see the distinction? Seems to me that whenever I think I've made a color picture, I should stop for a second and reflect on which of these three kinds it is. I'd probably learn something about it.
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Adrian: "I'm sure you apply the same standards to B&W pictures, i.e. pictures of tones."
Mike replies: I absolutely do.
Ben: "I think there's another element at play too, and that's color palate. Certain palettes can be appealing to some, and others to others. I've disliked Renoir as long as I can remember, because I just really don't care for his palette. It's just never appealed to me. Whereas with Monet, Cezanne, or Pissarro I tend to enjoy the color immensely. There's also a lot of intentionality baked into the categories, thus it seems more a guide for taking rather than looking at photographs. Yet it's an interesting way to look at color pictures, even if I think there's room for a lot more subtlety in there...."
Mike replies: You know whose color palette I really like? Franz Kline's. Oops, showin' me hand, never mind! :-)
Actually, though, Kline had good reason to paint nearly monochromatically. Look at his paintings from the '40s (for instance, "Pennsylvania Landscape" and "Chief Train") and it becomes apparent that the painter had a wretchedly poor sense of color. Ansel Adams's friends said he conspicuously lacked a feel for color as well, often wearing atrocious combinations of clothes that clashed.
Ray Hudson: "Good distinctions. Not sure where this fits in, but I'm often (as a hopeless fanboy of Mark Rothko, et. al.) 'after just color,' and true, don't pay attention to 'what it's of,' 'cause it's 'of' the color. Or would be if I ever get it right. Thoughts?"
Mike replies: I think good art convinces. And thus, you (or rather, your work) could convince viewers, including me.
Moose: "I am reminded of the play Red, about Mark Rothko. As it opens, he is staring, with great concentration, as a painting which is mostly a rectangle of red, and asks with great urgency 'What do you see?'
"Later, he alternates between extremes of frantic activity and inert despair, as he is unable to create the red he is looking for in a painting.
"I have read that smell is the most affective sense, atavistic, in that it goes right to the brain stem (or some such place), where emotion arises separate from thought. For some people, of whom Rothko may be a good, if extreme, example, color itself is powerfully affective and meaningful.
"For such people, color in interaction with itself in subtle variation and in interaction with geometric shape and texture may be capable of expressing the full range of meaning, and experience of meaning which they are interested in expressing and/or experiencing in art.
"It seems to me that you are near the opposite end of that spectrum from someone like Rothko, not colorblind, but relatively blind to the affective aspects of color in itself. Just as monochrome is an abstraction from the nature of the subject that emphasizes some aspects while muting others, emphasis on color is a form of abstraction, with different emphases.
"(As long as you start with some definitions, I'm sticking with monochrome, rather than B&W. A majority of so-called black-and-white images are not, in fact, only shades of gray, but shades of another, generally low-saturation color. Not only toned prints, but the color of papers and imperfections in the color balance of screens make this so.)
"There are certainly some monochrome images that I find to be outstanding art, but I lean far further toward color than do you. I am sometimes overwhelmed, almost swooning, to use an old fashioned term, by a color, most often one occurring in nature. At that moment, the specific form or object which is of that color is of far less importance than the color itself.
"I believe it is this sort of response that leads some artists away from clear form, things which tend to kick off thoughts, toward color, which is more affective. For such people, as with Rothko in the play, a difference in color that may be meaningless to many/most may be more meaningful than the difference between building and bicycle, grandmother and loaf of bread, as subject. There are those for whom a color difference I can't see is monumental.
"I'm not saying that those infatuated with color as primary are right and those, more like you, for whom subject, context and story may be more important, are wrong, or the reverse. I'm saying that both/all are right, and having a preference is only that, only a matter of taste, not any sort of absolute.
...where you get the feeling people will take pictures of pretty colors regardless of how the picture is composed or what it means or even what it's of, with little or no thought for the deeper integrity of the picture as a photograph.
"This is a definition of 'photograph' which makes assumptions, and which limits it more than I would, at least as I understand what you have said.
It is an unstated definition I think more important that the stated ones in your essay. To address only one part of it, '...or what it means or even what it's of...,' there are those, and I am among them, who would argue that a capture of a color alone with a camera is still a photograph.
"Your definitions, and somewhat tongue-in-cheek rant on the subject, are just one of a myriad of legitimate viewpoints on the subject.
"Me? I work most in color, occasionally find an image of mine that works better for me in monochrome, and occasionally abandon form almost entirely, wallowing in color that elevates me.
"There are certainly excellent monochrome images of this subject, but they would not have the emotional impact on me of color, which somehow connects to other times, places and experiences of their beauty and memories of those with whom I experienced them, in ways monochrome would not.
"This is about shape and color alone.
"This moves further toward pure variation in color.
"This goes so far that I've felt compelled to present it with a square of the color alone, because those for whom color is not primary tend to dismiss it as only a square of a single color.
"All of the above are photographic images of real objects."
Mike replies: Interesting and thoughtful, thanks.
I'm just talking about my work in this post, not yours. I'm also not your teacher and have no business judging you. If you accept that spirit, then I really don't see how you can expect your first picture to communicate. The flowers might be beautiful, they might have personal associations, but they can't communicate those associations. I fail to see how the colors can overwhelm the fact that it's just one more flower picture out of 10,000 flower pictures of that species. The meaning you're putting into the color is simply not something that is there in the photograph, I would say.
With the second picture, the opposite holds for me. You're specifically directing my (the viewer's) attention to the colors and how they work near to each other. I would say that photograph works for me, and I suspect it works in just the way you intend it to, although we might have to explore that further to be certain.
You lose me again with the orange square. An online photo can't really "fix" a specific color; you see it one way, I see it subtly differently. I don't mean subjectively, I mean scientifically, as a matter of remote reproduction. Everything on the Web is approximate, diminished, compressed, and uncontrolled in the sense that it has clutter around it. How, for instance, can I see that as orange rather than as orange and black with white lettering?
But beyond that, I can't see how a square of a single color can work as a photograph. Even if there is a faint amount of gradation in it as there is in your orange. It's just a orangeish color. How are you pointing anything out to me, how are you conveying anything, how are you communicating anything? Even if I accept that you feel a certain thrall to specific colors, how can that be Rothko's specific red vs. just some approximate sorta-kinda near reddishness with every other form of interest stripped from it? I can't even know that it's the orange you intend...
...Although you might be right about me; every Ellsworth Kelly I've ever seen has left me completely cold. Nothing in 'em for me. And I recognized in your description of your "swooning" response something similar to what I get from tones—I used to say "tones move me, colors don't"—I feel something visceral and unmediated from tones of gray that isn't there for me with colors. (Rothko on the other hand is almost spiritual—I can stand for long periods in front of his paintings. And I really responded strongly to the recent Matisse Cut-Out show I saw at MoMA, which is very much about color.)
Rod Thompson: "For me the work of Sam Abell (probably my 'trigger' influence back in the day) shows both color used intuitively and moderately, but also intrinsically. I have always responded to color, but must accept confusion as to my own take on color. Mono is the must satisfying to me when done strongly, but misses more often. For me, color or mono an unanswerable question, but I feel its important to take a side as being good at both is near impossible. Life is too short!"
Mike replies: Sam's book Stay This Moment is an important book of color photography for me.


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THE MTGOX BITCOIN exchange in Tokyo filed for bankruptcy protection Friday and its chief executive said 850,000 bitcoins, worth several hundred million dollars, are unaccounted for.
The exchange's CEO Mark Karpeles appeared before Japanese TV news cameras, bowing deeply for several minutes.
He said a weakness in the exchange's systems was behind a massive loss of the virtual currency involving 750,000 bitcoins from users and 100,000 of the company's own bitcoins. That would amount to about $425 million at recent prices.
The online exchange's unplugging earlier this week and accusations it had suffered a catastrophic theft have drawn renewed regulatory attention to a currency created in 2009 as a way to make transactions across borders without third parties such as banks.
"I am sorry for the troubles I have caused all the people," Karpeles said in Japanese at a Tokyo court.
Kyodo News said debts at Mt. Gox totaled more than 6.5 billion yen ($65 million), surpassing its assets. NHK said Mt. Gox
Karpeles had not made a public appearance since troubles surfaced last month. He had earlier said in a web post that he was working to resolve the problems.
The loss is a giant setback to the currency's image because its boosters have promoted bitcoin's cryptography as protecting it from counterfeiting and theft.
Bitcoin proponents say Mt. Gox is an isolated case, caused by the company's technological failures, and the potential of virtual currencies remains great.
Just hours before the bankruptcy filing, Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso had scoffed that a collapse was only inevitable.
"No one recognises them as a real currency," he told reporters. "I expected such a thing to collapse."
Japan's financial regulators have been reluctant to intervene in the Mt. Gox situation, saying they don't have jurisdiction over something that's not a real currency.
They pointed to the Consumer Affairs Agency, which deals with product safety, as one possible place where disgruntled users may go for help.
The agency's minister Masako Mori urged extreme caution about using or investing in bitcoins. The agency has been deluged with calls about bitcoins since earlier this year.
"We're at a loss for how to help them," said Yuko Otsuki, who works in the agency's counseling department.
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Wow, that is a great idea and pretty original. I've never heard this method before. I think it also works if your finances are healthy.
Over lunch the other day, my friend Jessica told me she discovered a new idea to help her save more money on a daily basis. She has always been careless with her spending, so it was awesome to hear that she found a method that works for her. I'm paraphrasing, but this was her basic concept:
I used to try maintaining a positive cash flow on a monthly basis, but money is always tight at the end of the month. These days, I take my monthly take-home pay, deduct all my big expenses like rent, and then divide the remaining amount up by the number of days in the month to get what I call the "daily spend limit." Whenever I want to spend money, I just think of my daily spend limit and try never to go over that. I find that I can easily keep it under the limit most days and by the end of the month, I'm pretty much always ahead.
I'm so happy to hear that Jessica found a way to spend less than she earns, because spending within your means is probably the most important personal finance lesson you can ever learn. But why does this work?
Mathematically, you are essentially trying 30 times harder a month when you try to spend within a daily limit. For example, you might end up spending $1,197 a month if your monthly cash limit is $1,200, but if you spend $39 out of $40 every day, you will only spend $1,170 in 30 days.
Breaking up the large monthly budget into smaller, daily amounts is also easier to visualize and manage. When Jessica was trying to conform to a monthly limit, she usually spent more during the first half of the month and started cutting back during the second half when she got dangerously close to the limit. When she doesn't go way out of control at the beginning, she ends up pacing herself throughout the month.
When she was working with a bigger monthly amount, each small purchase seemed negligible. However, once she deducts the fixed expenses from her income and then divides that number further into a daily limit, a popcorn at the theater seems like a much more wasteful purchase. If Jessica really wants something, she can buy it, of course, but she's more likely to realize that her life is just as great without eating that bag of popcorn. (It's probably unhealthy and bad for her anyway!)
What Jessica did with her budget is basically divide and conquer, breaking up major projects into smaller, more manageable tasks. This may not work for every person out there, and it certainly doesn't address large purchases. But if you are in a rut with your wasteful spending, why not give this a try?
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Wow, that is a great idea and pretty original. I've never heard this method before. I think it also works if your finances are healthy.
This approach would be difficult to manage. You would need a daily running total. On some days you would not spend anything at all. Is that daily allowance forfeit? Of course, if you did strictly stick to the daily spending limit and did not spend on certain days you would be that much further ahead at the end of the month.
I think the article is really for people who overspend impulsively on a daily basis. If you're a longer-term planner, you can handle a longer budgeting timeframe. Maybe a week would work better.
If you're regulating spending daily, then you have to put yourself in a situation where you can save up for the weekend grocery shopping and other expenses.
For those that have trouble saving, my Father-in-law advocates the "pay yourself first" practice- which is: Treat your saving like a bill. You put this money away first as if you are paying one of your normal bills, preferably in an account you don't have "easy" access to (for example, a savings acct w/ no ATM/debit card attached). Then you don't have to worry at the end of the month if you reached your goal, because you reached it to begin with! This can be especially helpful for those whose money "burns a hole in their pocket".
This has been working great for me. I got the idea from the book Wealth Watchers by Alice Wood. It's so simple, I'm amazed I didn't think of it myself.
I been budgeting for the month and was running into the same problems mentioned above. I had just decided to break it up into 2 week chunks, but after reading this, I think I may switch to 1 week at a time. Every day would have worked really well for me when I was single, but I think I'll start with a week now and see where it puts me. Thanks for the timely tip!


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World Dairy Expo is pleased to announce the staff duo that will be driving the largest dairy-focused trade show. Susan Orth has accepted the position of Trade Show Manager and Crystal McNett has been named Trade Show & Project Coordinator.
Susan Orth
Orth has a wealth of experience in the dairy industry. She grew up on her family's dairy and livestock farm, Orthridge Farms, in southwest Wisconsin. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2006 with a double major in Animal Science and Ag Journalism. During college she interned with Wisconsin State Fair, Bader Rutter & Associates and Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin (PDPW). Following graduation, Orth was the Communications Specialist at PDPW. She has been on World Dairy Expo's staff as Sales Specialist since 2009. In her new role, Orth will manage the World Dairy Expo Trade Show, working with the 850+ exhibitors from 28 countries who participate in the show each year. In addition, she will oversee the sponsorships, ensuring Expo's generous sponsors receive recognition and value through Expo. Susan currently serves on the Wisconsin State Fair Dairy Promotion Board, co-chair of the Programming Committee for the Association of Women in Agriculture and as off-campus advisor of the Badger Dairy Club.
Crystal McNett
McNett has been involved in the dairy industry her entire life, having grown up on a dairy and grain farm in southwest Wisconsin. Crystal graduated in 2006 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a double major in Dairy Science and Ag Journalism with Business emphasis. Most recently, Crystal was Sales and Marketing Communications Specialist with Select Sires. Previous to that position, she was Assistant Editor at Agri-View newspaper. In addition, Crystal owns and operates McNett Grain Farms with her father and brother in Belmont, Wis. In her new role, McNett will assist with all aspects of the Expo trade show, including booth sales, sponsorship coordination and on-site event management. McNett joined World Dairy Expo team on April 22 and is based out of the Madison office.
Orth and McNett will also work with World Dairy Expo's for-profit subsidiary, WDE Management, Inc., which provides management services to the North American Intercollegiate Dairy Challenge (NAIDC), Purebred Dairy Cattle Association (PDCA), The Dane County Fair and Wisconsin Rural Opportunities Foundation, Inc. (WROF).
World Dairy Expo is recognized as the largest dairy-focused event in the world. The Expo Trade Show will be featuring the latest dairy management products and technologies. Expo Seminars, Virtual Farm Tours and Dairy Forage Seminars will highlight the newest dairy concepts. More than 2,500 head of North America's finest dairy cattle are expected to travel to Madison to compete. World Dairy Expo's 2013 theme is "Center of the Dairy Universe" and the event will be held October 1 through October 5 at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison, Wisconsin. Visit worlddairyexpo.com for complete show schedule or follow Expo all year long on Facebook at facebook.com/worlddairyexpo.