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The Odd Couple – Treasuries and Gold
By Lee Jackson, published December, 2011
The following is an excerpt from Issue XIV of the free weekly financial newsletter The Opportune Time:
Since Issue XIII, global risk assets fell, as the optimism around the most recent European Union (E.U.) summit faded, and policymakers from the Federal Reserve (Fed), the United States (U.S.) central bank, did not hint at further economic stimulus. As we enter the second of the final ten trading sessions of 2011, many assets have work to do if they are to finish the year higher. As of the end of trading yesterday, the Standard and Poor's 500 Index (S&P 500), the most commonly used benchmark for U.S. stock market performance, was down just over 4% year-to-date (YTD). Against the U.S. dollar (USD), the euro (EUR) was down a little more than 2.5% YTD. If a risk-on rally materializes, we could see U.S. stocks, the EUR, and other risk assets, finish the year higher. However, I see no catalysts on the horizon for such a rally, as global leaders appear unlikely to mitigate European debt crisis fears in the near future.
Two assets that have performed well in 2011 are Treasuries, or U.S. government bonds, and GOLD. 10-year Treasuries have returned more than 13% YTD, and gold more than 11% YTD. In general, investors consider gold a hedge against inflation, a phenomenon typically bad for bonds. Bonds oblige their issuer, or the borrower, to pay the lender certain amounts of money over a specific time schedule. If inflation rises, the bond loses value, because the money being repaid loses purchasing power. The reverse also is true. Hence, in theory, bonds perform poorly when gold appreciates. Years like 2011, when benchmark 10-year Treasuries and gold return approximately the same amount, are fairly uncommon. So why did 10-year Treasuries and gold perform so similarly this year?
As I have discussed in the past, arguably the most important driving force of the world economy today is debt deleveraging. Leading up to the financial crisis, consumers, primarily in the West, accumulated unsustainable debts. The debt manifested primarily in the form of mortgages, and the excessive leverage and credit growth in the real estate sector drove housing prices to unsustainable levels. When home prices began their descent, many banks and financial institutions, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Lehman Brothers to name a few, suffered significant losses on their mortgage loans. The losses rendered many firms insolvent, and in some cases, governments guaranteed the obligations of troubled parties. In essence, debt was transferred from the financial institutions exposed to bad mortgages to the governments.
The problem is debt only can dissipate via deleveraging, which is a painful, but I emphasize necessary process. The only ways to clear bad debt from an economy are for borrowers to repay less than they owe (default), and sometimes for borrowers to have a solvent party repay their debt for them (bailout). Please note, for simplicity, I define default to include borrowers inflating away their obligations and using other methods to decrease the value of the money they owe. Of default and bailout, bailout sounds like an easier way to deleverage, because the borrower's friend picks up the tab.
The problem is, as I alluded to before, bailouts only sometimes qualify as deleveraging. Imagine having a friend, who would pay off your credit card whenever you could not afford the bill. How your friend obtains the bailout money is important. If your friend uses cash to pay off your credit card, then your debt is repaid and deleveraging occurs. But, if your friend swipes their credit card to pay your credit card bill, then your debt is repaid, but you effectively have stuck your friend with your original problem. Unfortunately, in the West, relatively few nations log consistent current account surpluses, and governments had few reserves to bail out their economies in 2008. Sovereigns swiped their credit cards, or issued government bonds, to pay off the debts of the financial system. The crisis seemingly abated, because markets viewed governments as more creditworthy or able to manage the debt than banks. In fact, three years ago, most people considered government bonds risk-free assets. But as time passed and obligations grew, debt burdens became too large for some of even the world's most creditworthy borrowers to manage. Iceland, Dubai, Greece, Portugal, Ireland, and you know the rest, all lost control of their debt levels.
As we have witnessed in Europe over the past almost two years, large debt levels crimp economic growth, and efforts to deleverage crimp growth even further. As growth slows, inflation eases, and disinflation often occurs. In some cases, deflation can occur, as the Fed reported happened in short instances in the U.S. following the financial crisis. The tendency toward slower economic growth and disinflation benefits bonds, which usually suffer in inflationary environments. As we saw this year, growth concerns in the U.S. during the summer, and in Europe today, have caused Treasury bond prices to soar.
If gold's tendency is to rise during periods of inflation and to fall during periods of disinflation, why would the yellow metal rally alongside Treasuries this year? In my view, the answer lies in the distinction between price and monetary inflation. Price inflation refers to cost of living increases that result from too much demand and/or too little supply. On the other hand, monetary inflation results when central banks create money, diluting the value of their currency and elevating asset prices. Central banks control the size of the monetary base, or the amount of currency and bank reserves, and thereby influence the extension of credit and the growth of the broader money supply. The monetary base also is known as the M0 money supply, which is the narrowest commonly used measure of the money supply.
As shown in the chart to the left, the U.S. monetary base has ballooned since the financial crisis. The Fed's quantitative easing (QE) programs and its decision to keep the benchmark U.S. short-term interest rate near 0% for the foreseeable future have fueled a record boom in the size of the monetary base. From a historical standpoint, monetary inflation is off the charts. Today, gold, a real asset, serves more as a safe haven from monetary inflation than from price inflation. Because all goods are denominated in currency, monetary inflation affects the values of all goods, especially of real assets. Real assets include raw materials, land, and other items that can be found in nature.
Assuming the aforementioned is true, gold price appreciation roughly should mimic growth in the monetary base. Since the second half of 1999, when the current secular gold bull market began, the U.S. monetary base has multiplied more than 4.5 times. Over the same timeframe, the price of an ounce of gold has more than quintupled from $300* to today's price of about $1,600. So though not exactly correlated, the size of the monetary base and the price of gold have a close relationship.
In summary, Treasuries and gold have been top performing assets this year, because the disinflationary effects of debt deleveraging have been fought by the monetary inflationary effects of central bank stimulus. The former is bullish for U.S. government bonds, and the latter for gold. I am bullish on Treasuries in the near term, because disinflation is taking hold, and I expect inflation to decline for some time. I will discuss my views on Treasuries more in depth in the New Year.
As for my OUTLOOK on gold, I am bearish in the near term, because I do not expect central banks to respond to economic problems with QE and other monetary inflationary policies. Gold already has fallen more than 15% from its all-time high in August, as central banks have refrained from pursuing bold stimulus measures. You can see on the featured chart that the U.S. monetary base has not increased for several months. The Fed has indicated U.S. policymakers are unlikely to ease policy further for the time being. I suspect Fed officials will not launch QE III until spring of next year, unless a shock from the European debt crisis causes inflation to plummet. Similarly, the European Central Bank (ECB) appears unlikely to 'print' money, or create currency, to buy the bonds of overly indebted euro area governments for the time being. In theory, the ECB could cap the borrowing costs of indebted sovereigns by 'printing' unlimited amounts of money. But I am skeptical such a policy would succeed in saving the EUR in practice. In my view, gold is likely to fall further, as central bankers surprise markets with their will to maintain stable monetary bases, despite faltering economic growth.
In the long run, I am bullish on gold, because I believe the disinflationary forces of debt deleveraging eventually will present circumstances, under which central bankers feel comfortable increasing monetary inflation again. As I mentioned earlier, the growth of the monetary base roughly should mimic that of gold's price. $300 times a little more than 4.5 would put a target entry range the yellow metal between $1,350 and $1,425 per ounce. Many technical strategists I have seen are eyeing $1,400, which likely means buyers will step in in mass in the low 1400s. The price at which I buy always is determined by the development of fundamental events. But I imagine if gold falls below $1,500, I will prepare to buy. If gold falls below $1,450, I probably will buy. And if gold falls below $1,400, I may buy aggressively.
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Joy Behar Biography
Born on October 7, 1942, in Brooklyn, New York, Joy Behar gave up her teaching career to pursue her dream of a career in comedy. Working her way up through the ranks of comedy clubs such as Caroline's and Catch a Rising Star, Behar eventually landed a co-hosting spot on the popular talk show The View. She then hosted her own show, The Joy Behar Show (which later became Joy Behar: Say Anything!). In March 2013, Behar announced that she would be leaving The View following the '13 season, after 16 years on the series.
Early Life and Career
Famed comedian and talk show host Joy Behar was born on October 7, 1942, in Brooklyn, New York. After graduating from Queens College and the State University of New York at Stony Brook with a master's degree in English education, Behar began working as a junior high school English teacher in 1968.
After nearly dying from an ectopic pregnancy in 1979, Behar decided to pursue her dream of a career in comedy, quitting her teaching job and getting a receptionist position at Good Morning America in hopes of being discovered.
Comedy Career Begins
In 1980, Behar began performing her comedy routine at various New York City nightclubs. A year later, she and her husband, college professor Joe Behar, divorced; she received custody of the couple's then-10-year-old daughter, Eve. Behar began earning increasingly positive reviews for her routines at such prominent clubs as Caroline's and Catch a Rising Star, and in 1987, she landed her own Lifetime variety series, Way Off Broadway, which ran for only one season.
Behar continued to support herself and her daughter with her comedic work throughout the next decade, touring comedy clubs, appearing in films (notably 1989's Cookie with Peter Falk, Nora Ephron's This is My Life in 1992, and Woody Allen's Manhattan Murder Mystery in 1993) and on television (the 1988 series Baby Boom), and hosting a popular call-in radio show on New York's WABC. She has also appeared on the New York stage, in the off-Broadway hit The Food Chain and as part of the rotating all-star cast of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues.
'The View'
In 1997, Behar won a co-hosting gig on the new ABC daily morning talk show The View, launched by television newswoman Barbara Walters. Three days a week, Behar joined co-hosts Star Jones, Meredith Vieira and Debbie Matenopolous (later replaced by Lisa Ling) for the show's mixture of celebrity interviews and chat sessions; Walters appeared on the other two days.
With its unusual hosting format (five women from varied backgrounds and generations), The View quickly gained popularity among TV viewers and critics, earning several Emmy Award nominations for outstanding daytime talk show. Behar and her co-hosts also earned Emmy nods for outstanding talk show host.
In the spring of 2013, a 70-year-old Behar announced that she would be leaving The View following the '13 season, after 16 years on the legendary series. Behar was the last of the show's original hosts to depart. "I need a different kind of life," she told TV Guide. "I have so many other things to do! I want to write, do stand-up, maybe do Broadway, do acting roles and live my life without this daily regimen. I'm done! It's scary that 16 years have passed."
Other Projects
In 2000, Behar published a non-fiction book, Joy Shtick: or What Is the Existential Vacuum and Does It Come with Attachments?. In October 2001, she launched a monthly advice column, "Tell Me About It," in Good Housekeeping magazine.
In 2009, Behar announced that she would be hosting her own talk show/news program, The Joy Behar Show, in addition to her role on The View. Airing on HLN until 2011, the series was revamped in 2012 as Joy Behar: Say Anything! on Current TV, but was canceled after just one season.
Back to 'The View'
In August 2015 Behar announced her return to The View for its 19th season.
"Just when I thought I was out, they pulled me back in," Behar said in a statement. "Plus, [husband Steve Janowitz] was getting tired of applauding every time I gave my opinion. But I'm happy to be back home. And I'm looking forward to sticking my two cents into the hot topics, especially now that Hillary and the Donald are in the spotlight."
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After a lengthy preseason filled with a number of weekend tournaments, the moment of reckoning has finally arrived for the Cal men's tennis team. The ultimate tournament which the Bears have been gearing up for all fall finally begins on Thursday and lasts through Sunday.
The tournament, the USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships, will take place at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center located in the Queens, New York neighborhood of Flushing.
The Billie Jean King Center is filled with history as it has been home to the US Open since 1978.
The National Indoor contest is the last tournament of the fall season, but more importantly but also features the most competitive field of any tournament thus far. In addition, the team's performance helps determine its spring rank.
In the recent past, the Bears have only been able to secure spots for a total of two players in the National Indoors, but this year Cal will be sending four players. The two doubles teams of senior Nick Andrews and junior Christoffer Konigsfeldt qualified after winning the consolation doubles title at the ITA Men's All American Championships held in Tulsa, Okla. about a month ago.
As predicted by coach Peter Wright, the team of Andrews and Konigsfeldt received one of the top seeds in the tournament. They are the fourth seed, which gives them a first round bye. They will be competing against Johan Backstrom and Jonas Lutjen of Ole Miss on Thursday morning.
Junior Carlos Cueto and sophomore Ben McLachlan qualified for Indoors by winning the doubles title at the ITA Northwest Regional Championships held two weeks ago in Seattle, Wash. The pair earned its berth after defeating a formidable duo from Stanford in an exciting final match that was forced into a tie-breaker. They will face Mississippi State's Louis Cant and Malte Stropp in the first round.
Despite the fact that the first and second rounds are on Thursday, the foursome flew off to New York this past Tuesday so as to not be pressed for time and to allow the players to become adequately acquainted with the indoor courts. Seeing as Cal generally only practices on outdoor courts, the players may need some time to get accustomed to these new conditions — but only a little.
"It takes a little getting used to but it's usually pretty easy to go from playing outside to playing inside because there's no wind inside and there's no sun inside," Wright said. "Playing indoors tends to be faster tennis but it's easier to play in than playing outside."
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MTV today announced that an exclusive sneak peek from Marvel's Captain America: Civil War will debut at the MTV Movie Awards. Star Chris Evans will present the never-before-seen clip during the event.
The MTV Movie Awards ceremony is hosted by Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart, and airs on Sunday, April 10 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Presenters include Evans, Charlize Theron, Chris Hemsworth, Jessica Chastain, Seth Rogen, Zac Efron, Olivia Munn and Gigi Hadid.
Marvel's Captain America: Civil War finds Steve Rogers leading the newly formed team of Avengers in their continued efforts to safeguard humanity. But after another incident involving the Avengers results in collateral damage, political pressure mounts to install a system of accountability, headed by a governing body to oversee and direct the team. The new status quo fractures the Avengers, resulting in two camps—one led by Steve Rogers and his desire for the Avengers to remain free to defend humanity without government interference, and the other following Tony Stark's surprising decision to support government oversight and accountability.
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Thursday, November 03, 2016
Cold Case : Shinjitsu no Tobira Eps 1+2
3 comments:
- praveen said...
Yeah but may be because it's a remake (of "that" American show), the atmosphere looks less like Japanese shows I've come across. (Not that I am complaining though!).
But my main problem is the number of cop/detective shows that are being aired this season. Sniffer (another remake from an Ukrainian TV show) --got Hiroshi Abe and Kagawa Teruyaki but turned out to be bland,
Career (crap),
IQ246 (you know what you have with a title like that) ---better to re-watch Furuhata.
Even the other shows are not interesting ..Rental Saviour!
- 2:27 pm
- iLLy said...
When the 1st episode came out, coincidentally the telly is showing reruns of Cold Case episodes. After a few seconds watching the jap ver, I was like "ah, I've just watched this ep yesterday" and I couldn't continue watching it. And, I felt like it kinda weird using english songs instead of japanese (but perhaps it's just me that feels that way)
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- Akiramike said...
@iLLy: The English songs do feel weird. I guess this show does feel awkwardly not Japanese.
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I didn't manage to get out a post yesterday since things have been crazy lately and I've been dealing with a chronic pain issue. However, I want to repost one of my guests posts that seemed very popular with the first book but was mainly missed this time–the musical playlist for Derwin and Elliot. Also, here are the rest of the links to the blog tour stops, including another guest post where I go into detail about the yokai featured in the world of the Oddities.
June 1 and June 2 tour stops:
OMG Reads (playlist)
Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Words–Guest Post about the yokai
Character Playlist
During my blog tour for the first Oddities book, Murder Once Seen, I included a post about the playlists for Derwin and Elliot and talked about how I use music in my writing. Readers enjoyed the playlists, so I'm doing it again for Book 2, Fraud Twice Felt. In the first book, Derwin and Elliot were separate entities with different tastes in music, so I had a playlist for each, based on music they might like, music that inspired me during the writing, or music that I felt fit the journeys the characters were on.
This time when I started thinking about a playlist, I found I could no longer separate the two boys. They've merged into a couple. Therefore, I have only a single playlist of songs that I think best fit this book and the boys. The songs give clues into the characters, the plot of the book and the feel of the series. I typically don't have the luxury of actually writing to music, but I still listen to music while plotting ideas, often while driving in the car. I love how lyrics can fit in perfectly with a character's situation.
So here's my playlist:
Fraud Twice Felt Playlist
- Best Day of My Life – American Authors
- Addicted to You – Avicii
- I'm Still Standing –Elton John
- Prevent This Tragedy – Alkaline Trio
- Megalomaniac – Incubus
- Respect – Aretha Franklin
- This is War – 30 Seconds to Mars
- Murder City – Green Day
- Demons – Imagine Dragons
- Lay Your Hands on Me – Bon Jovi
- Follow Me – Muse
- Summertime – MCR
I'll leave it to readers to figure out how those songs tie in to the characters and plot of the book—this time I've included a song or two that pertains to secondary characters, particularly the gang leader Roy Yoshiro, who features prominently in the book.
I hope readers enjoy these songs, and I hope they enjoy reading the continued adventures of Derwin and Elliot in Fraud Twice Felt.


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Fiduciary Liability Policy Affords No Coverage for Lawsuit that Did Not Allege Breach of Fiduciary Duty by Insured
The New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, has held that an insurer had no duty to indemnify its insured in connection with a class action lawsuit after determining that the lawsuit did not allege a Wrongful Act as defined in a fiduciary liability policy. Fed. Ins. Co. v. Int'l Bus. Machs. Corp., 2010 WL 4540585 (N .Y . A pp. Div. N ov. 9, 2010). The court accordingly reversed a lower court decision granting summary judgment in favor of the insured on a count of breach of contract against the fiduciary liability insurer.
The insurer issued an excess policy to an insured company that followed form to an underlying fiduciary liability policy. The underlying policy afforded coverage for "all Loss for which the Insured becomes legally obligated to pay on account of any Claim first made against the Insured . . . for a Wrongful A ct." The underlying policy defined "Wrongful Act," in relevant part, as "any breach of the responsibilities, obligations or duties by an Insured which are imposed upon a fiduciary of a Benefit Program by [ERISA] . . . ."
A class action lawsuit was filed against the insured company and its personal pension plan (the Plan) in which the plaintiffs alleged that certain amendments to the Plan violated age discrimination provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). The parties to the class action lawsuit reached a settlement, and the excess insurer sought a declaratory judgment that the insured company and the Plan were not entitled to indemnification for any amounts incurred in connection with the class action lawsuit.
The appellate court agreed with the excess insurer that the class action lawsuit did not allege a breach of fiduciary duty or otherwise allege a Wrongful Act as defined in the underlying fiduciary liability policy because the insured company and the Plan were acting in a settlor capacity, not a fiduciary capacity, when they allegedly violated the age discrimination provisions of ERISA by making amendments to the Plan. The court therefore concluded that the excess insurer was entitled to a judgment that it was not obligated to indemnify the insured company or the Plan for any amounts incurred in connection with the class action lawsuit and held that the insureds' motion for summary judgment on a breach of contract claim in the trial court below should have been denied.


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Guests: Mike Elgan, Lindsey TurrentineIs it illegal for Americans to post drone footage on YouTube? The FAA sent a legal notice to a drone enthusiast named Jayson Hanes, informing him that he was breaking the law. The reason is that, because YouTube is monetized through advertising, any drone footage indicates that the flying of the drone in the first place was a commercial use of drones, which currently requires special permission. For the full episode, go to twit.tv/tnt/1216 Bandwidth for TWiT Bits is provided by Cachefly.


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Our next free online courses
The School's next free online courses will be available in July and September 2016.
The first, produced by School staff and arctec, is titled Preventing the Zika Virus: Understanding and Controlling the Aedes Mosquito. The course considers the science behind the current Zika outbreak to understand how it is spread and can be controlled and launches 4th July 2016. The course is designed for anyone with an interest in learning about Zika virus vector control, and is relevant to those involved with vector control work, NGO employees, students taking a healthcare or science-related degree, postgraduates, and academic staff in aligned disciplines.
The second, Eliminating Trachoma, is the International Centre for Eye Health's second FutureLearn course. It begins 5th September 2016 and will highlight how communities and experts are joining together to end trachoma disease across 51 endemic countries by the year 2020. The course is practical and is for everyone involved, or interested in, delivering health services to eliminate blinding trachoma. It may be of interest to those working in or studying medicine, and will be of special use to those working in neglected tropical diseases (NTD), public health or ophthalmology.
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Over 300 athletes from 21 nations will compete in the Vancouver Sun Harry Jerome Track Classic featuring the 60th Anniversary of the Miracle Mile presented by Northern Gateway on July 10 at Swangard Stadium.
Tickets are $25 finish line and $10 general admission and are available at www.harryjerome.com
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Diane Cummins: Ode to a Hero
One week ago today I ran my 5th Canadian Senior National Championships in Moncton, NB, and claimed my second consecutive title in the 1500m. This was no easy feat: I barely held off a fast-charging Nicole Sifuentes, who kept me honest through every single stride. In the end, only 9 one-hundredths of a second separated us. We both ran 4:10 and change, which is the fastest finish time at a National final that I can remember. Although placement at these Championships didn't impact National Team Qualification this year (both Nicole and I had already been named to this summer's Commonwealth Games team), it was really special running stride for stride with this amazing competitor and comrade, knowing that we will be representing Canada together in Glasgow later this month.
|(Barely) winning the 2014 Canadian National 1500m in Moncton
It is impossible to adequately describe the emotions the accompany crossing the National finish line in front of your friends, family, teammates and supporters, victorious and elated. I have had the fortune and honour of realizing this twice and I have yet to find the words to do justice to this experience. It is even harder to imagine winning a national title 10 TIMES. As far as I know, the only Canadian athlete who can tell you how this feels is my hero of track and field, the ageless and sensational Diane Cummins.
|Proud after winning bronze at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
I grew up watching Diane on tv--in that glorious age of Canadian athletics when track and field meets still warranted live air time--and remember thinking that she was just the best thing since sliced bread. I began as an 800m runner and focused the event for years before finally moving up in distance during university. It made sense that Di, the Canadian 800m record-holder, multiple time medalist on the international stage, and all around awesome gal would be my role model. I idolized this phenomenal competitor who epitomizes athleticism and eloquence. She has always been beautiful to watch, not only for her striking looks and fluid stride, but because she is strength and passion personified. When Diane steps on the track, she exudes a confidence, focus and grace that captures her audience and makes a little piece of you want her to win, even if you have another favourite in the race. Her devastating speed and raw grit are balanced by her poise and sportswomanship; win or lose, thrilled or disappointed, Di is classy, honest, and positive.
|Smiling (as always) after Nationals. I love this woman!
They say you should never meet your heroes, because once those you've idolized take on their human forms they somehow lose an element of their majesty. The opposite was true when I met and quickly befriended Di. Her spirit is, quite simply, infectious. Despite being bubbly, joyous and full of positive and seemingly boundless energy, she somehow remains completely down-to-earth, unassuming, humble, and genuine. At first, I was starstruck; it was hard to believe that the woman whose performances and passion had brought me to tears many times as a teenager and inspired me countless times since could be so REAL, and that she would want to be my friend! But that's just who Di is: what you see is what you get, and you get a whole lot! Over her 15+year career, Diane has inspired hundreds--maybe thousands--more than just myself, and I know that many people reading this will relate. She is a proponent of fair and clean sport, an outspoken advocate for equality and accountability, and just truly wants everyone to do their best and love the journey. I cannot imagine a more perfect athlete for the role of mentor, idol and friend.
Last weekend's Nationals were significant in that they marked the final Canadian Championship that will see Diane Cummins compete. At 40 years young, Di claimed the bronze medal in her ultimate championship race, bringing the stadium to their feet and to tears. My dad stood next to me, tears on his cheeks, appreciating all that this tremendous woman has done for Canadian athletics and for his daughter. Di's retirement denotes the end of an era in track and field, but it needn't be a sad occasion; she has made her mark, and it is indelible. For those who are in the Vancouver area, Di will be racing one last time at the Harry Jerome International Track Classic on Thursday, July 10th at Swangard Stadium. I encourage you to come out and join me in thanking this trailblazer for her enormous contribution to our sport and our lives. Thank you, dearest Di.
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Making huge internet waves today was Arrow Video's surprise unveiling of their October titles, which include two deluxe box sets devoted to the 1960s shock titles of Herschell Gordon Lewis. The more basic of the two items is the aptly titled THE HERSCHELL GORDON LEWIS FEAST, which will collect 14 titles on 17 discs in Blu-ray and DVD, all newly restored in 1080p. The titles included are: BLOOD FEAST, SCUM OF THE EARTH, TWO THOUSAND MANIACS!, MOONSHINE MOUNTAIN, COLOR ME BLOOD RED, SOMETHING WEIRD, THE GRUESOME TWOSOME, A TASTE OF BLOOD, SHE-DEVILS ON WHEELS, JUST FOR THE HELL OF IT, HOW TO MAKE A DOLL, THE WIZARD OF GORE, THE GORE GORE GIRLS, and THIS STUFF'LL KILL YA! Two bonus Blu-ray discs will also thoughtfully provide the option of viewing BLOOD FEAST, SCUM OF THE EARTH, COLOR ME BLOOD RED, A TASTE OF BLOOD and THE WIZARD OF GORE in 1.33:1, while another will provide the documentary HERSCHELL GORDON LEWIS: THE GODFATHER OF GORE. The set will be strictly limited to 2500 units each in the US and UK.
Then there is the heavy artillery, THE SHOCK AND GORE BOX, which will be strictly limited to only 500 units each in the US and UK. It will contain the following exclusive bonus items:
28-page H.G. Lewis "annual" stuffed full with Lewis-themed activities plus archive promotional material
Fully-illustrated 92-page art book featuring the definitive overview of the entire career of H.G. Lewis written by Stephen Thrower, with a brand new foreword by Lewis [Shock and Gore edition exclusive]
160-page paperback of the original Blood Feast novelization, written by Lewis [Shock and Gore edition exclusive]
7" vinyl single featuring select tracks from the Blood Feast score [Shock and Gore edition exclusive]
14 postcards featuring original artwork for all the films included [Shock and Gore edition exclusive]
Individually handmade "super gory" eyeball [Shock and Gore edition exclusive]
Shock and Gore commemorative barf bag [Shock and Gore edition exclusive]
Newly illustrated packaging and books by The Twins of Evil [Shock and Gore edition exclusive]
That Stephen Thrower book is something of a knife-twister, isn't it? Well, you know you want it - and I hope you can afford it. Visit this page to pre-order yours or to check the remaining supply. They are disappearing fast!
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Running out of places to investigate, a group of urban explorers dare into the famous house of Amanda Peterson only to learn that she was not crazy but rather a victim of a demonic creature that hides in the shadows and takes control of the house once the darkness arrive. Their hope for survival relies on Amanda's passed on knowledge of years of being haunted by the demon. They will soon realize that once the demon takes control there's no way to escape.
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Rodents can be a big problem in your home. It is especially true when they enter your attic. The rodents will not only cause damage to your home, but it will also be a health hazard. Thus, you need to handle the problem as soon as possible. It is the only way that you will protect your family. Getting the help of professionals will be of great help in removing the animals that have invaded your attic. It is vital that you choose the attic cleaner who knows how to handle the issue. Here are considerations that you need to look for in an attic cleaning company.
An attic cleaner who has handled the cleaning before is more capable than one who is new to the business. Furthermore, an experienced person will have the necessary equipment t to do the work. Such a person will also know the way to identify the rodents hiding place. Thus, they will provide you with quality service. It is clear that you will get value for your money with an experienced cleaner since they know what they are doing.
You need to take caution when hiring the attic cleaner. Make sure that you check the license. The license not only means that cleaner is serious about his job, but it will also help you trace him in case of anything. You will be sure that they are not only doing the job just for the sake of it. A cleaner with a licensed is serious and akin his business seriously. You can rest easy knowing that the attic cleaner will not disappear before the work is complete.
The insurance coverage is a must have for an attic cleaner. It will protect both him and you in case of an accident. To be on the safe side, ask the attic cleaner to inform the insurance company to send you a copy of their insurance coverage. The company should have the insurance company contact and phone number. You have to make sure that the insurance company is legitimate. There are some companies that will only pay money to get the paperwork to show customers.
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Jazzie B catches up with all the latest news in his favourite paper. Below, left: An 'honoured' Jazzie B stands next to his statue. Below, right: Jazzie joined by, from left, Andrew Turton, Islington Council leader Catherine West and Martin Williams
Gillespie and Drayton Park primary school children
Published: 26 April, 2013
by ANDREW JOHNSON
MUSIC legend Jazzie B settled down with his favourite paper on Tuesday after unveiling a statue to himself outside Finsbury Park bus and tube station.
The co-founder of 1980s chart-toppers Soul II Soul – best known for their hit Back to Life – was one of three Islington residents honoured with a portrait bench by the transport charity Sustrans to mark the beginning of a two-mile cycle route from Finsbury Park to Highbury Fields.
Also honoured were health pioneer Florence Keen and suffragette Edith Garrud. Florence Keen founded the Manor Gardens Centre in 1913 – it celebrates its centenary this year – at a time when one in 10 babies was dying from preventable health issues.
Edith Garrud was renowned for teaching ju jitsu to suffragettes to help them in their battles against the police.
All three were chosen by public vote.
Jazzie, who still performs, told the Tribune that the life-size silhouette statue was both a great honour and also a bit embarrassing.
"I grew up around here," he said. "I used to go to Harvey's record shop, which is over there. I was born up the road, and I still frequent Parry's hairdressers.
"Finsbury Park is my park. I never thought anything like this would happen in a million years. It's a great honour, especially because I'm a Gooner. I come here all the time, but I'll probably try and avoid the statue, but look at it at the same time, and maybe point it out if I'm with someone.
"It's a great example though, for young people, so that they know that you can grow up around here and do something.
"Today is a very special day for me. There have been a fair amount of achievements in the last 30 years, but this crowns them all."
Andrew Turton, who wrote a recent biography of Florence Keen, unveiled her statue. He said that she "wasn't too proud" to wear a sandwhich board outside the Manor Gardens Centre, off Holloway Road, near Archway, to encourage young mothers to drop in.
The family of Edith Garrud were also on hand to unveil their relative's statue. Her great-nephew Martin Williams said: "She was a suffragette
and was able to teach suffragettes how to defend themselves."
The cycle route links Highbury Fields, Gillespie Park and Finsbury Park together. It was paid for by Sustrans and the work was carried out by Islington Council.
After the event, Jazzie visited Gillespie Park where Gillespie and Drayton Park primary school children had created a mural with the artist Sophie Rigg.


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[This excerpt from my book-in-progress seems tragically all too relevant given the latest violence in Gaza.]
After my visit to the Arava Desert, I drove north out of the desiccated rift valley, headed west, dipped into and rose out of the earthen maw of the Rimon Crater, and then continued across the moon prairie of the Negev Desert. On the dusky pink horizon, Israeli tanks kicked up veils of dust. Approaching the coast, disoriented by nightfall, I missed a highway turn-off and unknowingly drove toward one of the gates to the Gaza Strip. Then I spotted a sign. A panicky U-turn corrected my navigational error before the Army checkpoint and the barbed-wire wall that contained the impoverished coastal enclave of Palestinians.
The next morning, I headed out from my room on Kibbutz Urim. A mammoth satellite dish dominated the skyline of a military base near the kibbutz. In the distance, above hemmed-in Gaza, hovered several white balloons, like weather gauges although more likely rigged with high-tech gear to eavesdrop into the Palestinians' communications networks. By the time I reached the outskirts of Sderot, my nerves felt jangly. I was half-expecting a rocket to drop at random on the bingo card of the urban grid of Sderot.
The blue-collar city of 24,000 is like the Cleveland or Detroit of Israel. Sderot might get praised for its heartland values, but it remained the butt of hard-luck jokes from big-city snobs. A nice place to be from, but you wouldn't want to live there. Or visit. Or pass through. The general attitude was summed up in an episode of Arab Labor, the caustic TV comedy described as "Israel's Seinfeld"—except with a sharper bite. In one episode, a Jewish-Israeli photojournalist tries to woo a feisty Palestinian lawyer by promising to follow wherever she might move: "For you, I would live in Nazareth, I would live in Nablus…" He lists Arab cities no Jewish-Israeli would ever venture, except in an Army vehicle, before delivering the punchline: "I would even live in Sderot!" Ouch.
Sderot was established in the 1950s, a kilometre from the Gaza Strip, as a transit camp for Kurdish and Persian Jews, and grew into a "development town," a euphemism for communities hastily erected to house waves of new immigrants: mostly Moroccans in Sderot, followed by Ethiopians and later Russians from the Caucasus. The city remained out of mind for most Israelis until 2001. During the Second Intifada, Palestinian militants fired crude unguided, short-range rockets (known as Qassams, after the military wing of Hamas) at Jewish settlements within Gaza, border kibbutzes and eventually Sderot—more than 2,000 rockets by 2008. A "code red" warning gave residents 15 seconds to sprint to the safety of a bomb shelter. In 2007, the Israeli government gave special privileges to Sderot and nearby kibbutzes and towns within seven kilometres of Gaza—what became known as the "Gaza envelope" or, more cynically, "Qassamland." After Gaza became the international symbol for the plight of the Palestinians, the Jewish side promoted Sderot into the role of civic martyr. When Justin Bieber toured the Holy Land, the Israeli Prime Minister's office tried to rope the Canadian teeny-bop star (and evangelical Christian) into meeting fans from Sderot, a goodwill gesture with a political bent. (Bieber balked.) "What about the children of Sderot?" became a refrain to justify any action by the Israeli Army. In late 2008, after an uptick in rockets, the IDF launched the Cast Lead assault on Gaza and 1,400 Palestinians died. By 2011, the Israeli military had deployed the "Iron Dome" missile-interception system to protect the city, even as the municipal government teetered on the brink of bankruptcy.
Sderot would seem, then, a shaky foundation on which to construct a new utopia. And yet one of the most ambitious attempts to reboot the kibbutz had broken ground amid the city's maze of bomb shelters.
I expected a city under siege. My route through Sderot took me past nondescript scenes of concrete buildings and red-tiled rooftops like dozens of other towns I'd visited in Israel. Shopping malls and apartment blocks. A community college and wide boulevards. Not a bombed-out shell. Not the Stalingrad-by-the-Sea I'd expected from newspaper headlines. Yes, I spotted graffiti-decorated concrete shelters. But that was all. The cobbled sidewalks and tree-shaded crescent of Kibbutz Migvan might have been a suburban lane in Anywhere, USA.
But appearances can be deceiving. This was, I would learn, a city straining under the psychic pressure. Life as a symbol wasn't easy.
I parked the car and met Nomika Zion, one of the founders of Migvan. She showed me her book-filled townhouse and walked me through the kibbutz—a street of similar houses, with a shared building for meals and meetings, an open yard and volleyball net for recreation, and smaller top-floor apartments for younger members. I had to adjust my image of what a kibbutz should look like: no cotton fields, no orchards, no farm equipment, no factories, no country vistas and swimming pools, no barbed wire encircling the grounds. No drunken volunteers. Migvan looked more like one of the "co-housing" developments that were sprouting in progressive European and North American cities: Copenhagen, Berkeley, Vancouver. (The Danish founder of the international co-housing movement had been inspired, in part, by the kibbutz movement.) Migvan took the co-housing model one step further. They didn't just live together and eat together. They kept a common purse, too. Like the first kibbutz, everyone pooled their earnings.
|Nomika Zion, co-founder of Kibbutz Migvan in Sderot
"I grew up in a very political family," said Nomika. Her grandfather, Yaacov Hazan, was a legend in the Labor movement, a founder of Kibbutz Mishmar HaEmek and the Artzi Kibbutz Federation, and an elected M.K. in the first seven Israeli Parliaments. Her grandmother edited a psychology imprint for a publishing house. Her mother worked as a journalist and theatre director; her father was a public figure who career-hopped between socialist politics and avant-garde theatre. Nomika's early years bridged the pastoral idyll in Kibbutz Reshafim, where she'd been born, and her parents' cosmopolitan friends and colleagues in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. "I grew up in the kibbutz but also in bohemia, with actors and writers," she recalled. "I developed social sensitivity at a very early stage."
As a young girl, she saw that kibbutzniks' ideals weren't always reflected in their behaviour. Reshafim was near Beit Shean, a development town, like Sderot, populated with poor Jewish immigrants of Mizrahi origins, from the Arab countries of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. There was little communion between the well-educated, well-connected Ashkenazi members of Kibbutz Reshafim—children of European immigrants—and the dark-skinned arrivals from North Africa.
"The kibbutz surrounds itself with a fence—and that fence becomes a wall. I'm talking about an emotional and mental wall," Nomika told me. "And a profound conflict started to develop between the people from the kibbutz and the people from the development town."
One Shabbat, when she was 10, Nomika invited several Mizrahi girls from Beit Shean to visit the kibbutz. When they arrived, boys from her school threw stones and taunted her guests: "Get out, you dark Moroccans! You Beit Sheanites! We're going to call the police!" The girls ran away, and Nomika never saw them again. Three decades later, she felt haunted by the incident.
"It's an emotional wound in my heart," she said. The pain reminded her that human conflict springs from an ignorance, a lack of human contact, that well-meaning abstractions can't overcome. Later, at her kibbutz high-school, Nomika's peers were all high-achieving students from the same background, cut off from the country's cultural or political diversity. "When people don't meet each other, they start to develop stigmas and stereotypes and prejudices toward each other. And this is what happened to us." Kibbutzniks were locked in an echo chamber, a suburb for socialists, in which they never heard opposing points of view.
"You build your identity in the reality of conflict," observed Nomika, "much better than in a homogenous society where people all come from the same ideological roots, the same background, the same mentality. And we were a very homogenous society."
During a pre-Army year of civil service, Nomika worked with high-school drop-outs. In her second year in the IDF, she taught in the slums of Netanya, a coastal city north of Tel Aviv. "Very violent young people—teenagers," she recalled. The year was 1981. The rancour of a national election split Israel into factions: Labor Party supporters versus the Likudniks, Ashkenazi versus Mizrahi Jews, secular versus religious Israelis, kibbutzes versus development towns. In Netanya, Nomika represented everything the kids from impoverished immigrant families had learned to despise. "I remember so much hostility and hatred and violence toward me—not as Nomika, but as a symbol," she said. "So I realized I had to make a major change in my life and try to create a true dialogue with these young people."
Many of her friends had left the country. Nomika stayed home. She worked briefly as a journalist. She taught in a kibbutz high school. For three years, she worked in the offices of the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement. She convinced parents and school officials to remove kibbutz students from the homogenous high-school system to study for a year instead in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem, among non-kibbutz peers.
"The idea was to expose them to a different reality, different voices. To break the wall that we had built around ourselves," said Nomika. "This was the seed of the urban kibbutz."
That idea, however, took a few years to germinate. She began to talk with friends from college about founding a new social model of living together—neither the lonely crowd of the multicultural city nor the isolated collective of the old kibbutz. Something different. A fusion. An evolution. An urban kibbutz.
"It was only a title. An empty word," she admitted. "We had to build the vision of what it would be about."
One friend brought another. A nucleus coalesced around the notion of a city commune. They met every month and organized cultural evenings and seminars with readings and debates, how to build this new society. Typical hippy-dippy stuff. People came and people left until, as Nomika recalled with a smile, "after two and a half years, we said, 'Okay—it's time to give birth!'"
But to what? And where?
There was an urban kibbutz, in a poor neighbourhood of Jerusalem, named Reishit, founded in 1979 by former members of Nomika's home kibbutz. Reishit had been an inspiration. So her group visited Jerusalem as a possible location. They considered Holon, too, an industrial suburb south of Tel Aviv. Nomika suggested they add Sderot to the short list. Then they debated the options: Where could they do the most good?
They voted. Sderot won. Everyone who didn't like the result left the group. A core of six remained. "Young, very ideological!" Nomika raised her fist and smiled at the memory. "We decided to come here because we wanted to make some tikkun—personal and social tikkun, yes?" She asked if I understood the Hebrew word for "repair" or "heal." "The first goal was to repair the damage and build a new relationship with the people from the kibbutzim and the people from the development towns."
"Sderot today is a multicultural and multi-tribal city," said Nomika. "So what do you think we have in common?"
I didn't know. It wasn't politics obviously. It wasn't religion. It wasn't social status or ethnicity.
"The ultimate answer, of course, is the rockets. Qassams!" Nomika laughed darkly. "External threats always unite people."
Sderot had enough to worry about with its rapidly growing population, its mix of immigrants, its poverty and exclusion from mainstream Israeli life. Then, in 2001, the city added downpours of rockets to its forecast. The Second Palestinian Intifada broke out, more violent then the first, with bus bombings and Qassams and infiltrations. Sderot was the closest, densest urban centre to Gaza. And a target.
"Eight years we were living under Qassams," recalled Nomika. Thousands of rockets and mortars dropped on the streets and buildings of Sderot. The Israeli Army responded with devastating air and ground attacks. Still, the rockets rained down. Even after the Israel's unilateral pullout from Gaza in 2005, the citizens of Sderot felt anxious, depressed, eager to escape. Rates of crime, substance abuse and divorce rose in the city. A 2007 study revealed that half the residents suffered from symptoms of post-traumatic stress; nearly two-thirds admitted they would flee Sderot if they could afford to. A tenth had already abandoned the city. (Other residents with a dark humour posted a banner that read, "I came to Sderot because it enchanted me," punning on Kassum—the Hebrew for "enchant"—and Qassam.) Worst of all for Nomika was the hardening of attitudes toward the Palestinians in Gaza and elsewhere by the citizens of Sderot, even her fellow kibbutzniks. In January 2008, the conflict was at a low point. Upwards of 50 rockets hit the city every day for a month, without respite. The wail of sirens was a soundtrack to daily routines. Citizens kept one foot ready to spring into their personal shelters—a requirement, since the 1980s, in Israel's building code—when they were at home. They kept an eye out for the nearest bomb shelter when they walked the streets.
Like others, Nomika felt helpless under the barrage, without a voice. So she and a fellow Migvan member gathered 20 people from Sderot and nearby communities to discuss their feelings about the situation, how the tit-for-tat reactions between the militants in Gaza and the IDF had only escalated. "They hit, we hit back. Always stronger and stronger. And we were trapped in this vicious violent cycle which never stops." They named their new group Kol Aher, or Other Voice. The members connected with citizens in Gaza who shared their hope. The two sides couldn't meet in person so shared stories via phone and email.
In late December of 2008, the IDF launched Operation Cast Lead. Residents of Sderot cheered as Israeli fighter jets dropped deadly payloads on Gaza. Two families left Migvan for good. "Because the relationships are so close here, it's like cutting an organ from your body," said Nomika. "We didn't know if we were going to survive as a community." Other members would have abandoned Sderot were it not for a loyalty to the disadvantaged populations of Sderot they served. Within the kibbutz, political tensions percolated among friends once united by progressive beliefs.
"The people of Migvan became very extremist," said Nomika, her voice tinged with disappointment. "The war brought a lot of tension to our community. It was better not to talk about it, because to confront other people all the time just leads to a dead end. I can feel the tension today."
Staying quiet didn't come naturally to Nomika, so she wrote an open letter to the government about life as a citizen under siege with a front-row seat to the deadly fireworks of Cast Lead. She acknowledged her own anxiety about the Qassams but argued that changes in her friends and neighbours—in her homeland—scared her more. "I am frightened," she wrote, "we are losing the human ability to see the other side, to feel, to be horrified, to show empathy. With the code word 'Hamas' the media paints for us a picture of a huge and murky demon that has no face, no body, no voice, a million and a half people without a name."
She did not want anyone to believe the war was for her benefit, as a citizen of Sderot. "Not in my name and not for me did you go into this war," ran a line that would become a chorus. "The bloodbath in Gaza is not in my name nor for my security." The newspaper editor who published her letter used that phrase as a headline. Overnight, her cri de coeur, so out of tune with the martial demands for payback from other corners of her country, went viral on the Internet. Her "War Diary from Sderot," as it became known, was translated into more than 20 languages as it jumped from website to website, from nation to nation. Television crews showed up on her doorstep. She did a half-dozen media interviews—every day.
"I started to get so many responses from all over the world and from Israel," she recalled. "People said, 'You are our echo—this is the saner and human voice we are afraid to express because everybody supported the war.'"
She also received threats, accusing her of treason. But the positive reaction affirmed her belief that hope might lead out of the darkness. Her friends in Other Voice offered a forum for views not always welcome on her own kibbutz. On any kibbutz, for that matter.
"This is a very significant group for me because my friends, my so-called leftists, are not leftists any more," said Nomika.
A gardener in Migvan, one of the kibbutz founders, a man who had once been so opposed to serving as a soldier in the West Bank that he went to jail for six weeks as a conscientious objector, had spoken to Nomika about the situation in Gaza. "If they shoot one Qassam," he told Nomika, "we should destroy the whole village."
"What about the women?" she replied. "The children?"
"I don't mind," he said. "Eye for eye, tooth for tooth."
The encounter chilled Nomika. "This is the new game in this region," she told me. "Completely changed. And this is what happens to people. What the Conflict did. It has left a profound mark on their souls."
Nomika Zion remained active in Other Voice, a public spokesperson, in Israel and abroad, against military action as the sole option to keep Gaza in check. In January 2013, the New York Review of Books published a translation of another letter she wrote, addressed to Prime Minister Netanyahu, in protest of yet another military operation against the people of Gaza. "We will continue to raise another voice in the dwindling light, as we wait anxiously for the next bloody round," she promised her country's politicians and an outside world that has grown numb to the endless news cycle of violence in the region.


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Investigations into and adventures with backpacking stoves including solid fuel (e.g. ESBIT), alcohol, gas, "white" gas (Coleman type fuel), wood, and kerosene.
Thursday, January 5, 2012
The State of the Blog
Not that I know how to do this, but I may have to start allowing banner ads or some such on Adventures in Stoving. I've always provided everything free, on my own dime, but I may be forced by circumstances to change things up a bit. I certainly won't charge for content, nor will I personally sell things through my blog (yuck!), but I may allow some banner ads or something like that. The gang here at Adventures in Stoving likes to eat on a regular basis and have a roof over their heads.
I hope you'll be understanding.
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Bummer, Jim. I wish you the best.ReplyDelete
Sorry to hear that. I also wish you the best.ReplyDelete
Hi JimReplyDelete
Banner ads sound like a good idea.
As for selling stoves, it just might be worth a second look - you would have a LOT of people who would buy from you (me included) if you could get a price point in spitting distance of the established retailers (not easy). The other challenge of course is in sorting out the mechanisms of payment, supply and support.
What about some sponsored product reviews (with appropriate disclaimers)?
In any event, good luck with this new phase!
I use google adsense. No shame in my game. This helped on the Appalachian Trail thru hike last year. Let me know if you have any questions. Not that I am an expert. :|ReplyDelete
Hike, Bike, Dale!
Sorry to hear Jim, best wishes for you and your family.ReplyDelete
Sorry to hear, best of luck in finding new employment soon!ReplyDelete
Guys, thanks for all the encouragement. Hopefully I won't have to give up the blog. Don't know where things are going right now.ReplyDelete
G'day Jim. Really sorry to hear about the job loss. I hope you at least get a redundancy payout. Maybe time to migrate downunder :)ReplyDelete
All the best for the future and with the banner adds. I hope they work well for you. In my case they cover the hosting costs and that is about it which works for me.
Take care
Hi, Aushiker,ReplyDelete
Not sure what a redundancy payout is but I didn't get one whatever it is. :( They gave me my final paycheck and said thank you very much.
I'll have to see about the banner ads. Never tried it, but maybe it would help some.
Redundancy maybe more of an Australian/New Zealand thing I guess. Can be payouts worth $100,000 for some employees.ReplyDelete
Sorry to hear the bad news. I hope this is a temporary setback for you.ReplyDelete
It makes absolute sense to firstly get the blog to pay for itself, and if possible turn a profit. There is nothing morally or ethically wrong with that!
Take Care,
Thanks, Geoff. I really wasn't considering it, but now events have changed.ReplyDelete
Sorry to hear that, mate! Hope all works out well in the end.ReplyDelete
Google Text Ad (as in AdWords) could works, and you also could consider signing up at Commission Junction and Avantlink which are affiliate services. I have experimented with some, and found selling banners directly to companies has the best payoff, but is a lot of work. Good luck!
Hi, Hendrik,ReplyDelete
Thanks for that. I was wondering about that very thing (selling banners direct).


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Subject: Re: [ecasound] Setup for Multitrack
From: Kai Vehmanen (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Date: Wed Mar 15 2000 - 12:38:35 EET
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 email@example.com wrote:
> works and sometimes I get "ERROR: [AUDIOIO-OSS] : "unable to open OSS-device to
> O_WRONLY, /dev/dsp0."
> Right now I get that same error message *every* time I try to play a "monitor" track
> and record a track at the same time.
> My stock RedHat 6.1 system only had a /dev/dsp and /dev/dsp1, so I renamed /dev/dsp
> to /dev/dsp1 and made a symbolic link to /dev/dsp0 from /dev/dsp. I don't know if
Hmm, those links weren't necessary. The actual names of the
device-files are not important, as long as they're there. Hmm, looks like your soundcard
doesn't support multi-open. Have you tried using separate devices ...
ecasound -a:mon -i monitor.wav -o /dev/dsp
-a:rec -i /dev/dsp1 -o new-track.wav
> OSS/Free:3.8s2++-971130
> I assume that DUPLEX is good, but it doesn't seem to be working for me. My hardware
> is a Toshiba 490XCDT. Like I said, I can play and record, just not both at the same
> time, so it seems. I am using the stock "free" OSS drivers, should I upgrade? Will
You might want to try ALSA (advanced-linux-sound-architecture). Their
web site is at http://www.alsa-project.org ...
-- Kai Vehmanen <firstname.lastname@example.com> -------- CS, University of Turku, Finland . http://www.wakkanet.fi/ecasound/ - linux multitrack audio processing . http://www.wakkanet.fi/sculpscape/ - ambient-idm-rock-... mp3/ra/wav
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The localized version is already out for Fire Emblem Echoes? Dang, I really need to finish it then. I've been so focused on Monster Hunter that I haven't even found time to play it.
I mean, both games have good content, but if you have to choose between a complete game that gives you free new quests each week vs. an incomplete game that will no doubt "offer" enough paid DLC to buy another copy of the game by the time the DLC ends, you're gonna choose the complete one. It's more worth it too.


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You remember that wonderful movie of 1995. And you surely remember the gang of yore-Woody the cowboy, Buzz Lightyear, Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head, Slinky Dog, Rex, Hamm and the rest of Andy's toys. These were good people-good plastic people.
Well here it is, mirabile dictu: a sequel that eclipses the original. The toys are back with even more hilarious vengeance. The story's twice as inventive as its predecessor. And the vocal talents of Tom Hanks, Tim Allen and others bring even fuller soul to the proceedings than before.
Hanks practically owns the soul of Woody. Allen is amusingly robotic as Buzz Lightyear. And the others are equally full of beans, from Jim Varney's Slinky Dog to Don Rickles' Mr. Potato Head.
Once again, our hearts are kept breathtakingly close to breaking: A toy is only as good-only as alive-as his appreciative owner wants him to be. When that owner gets older, he (or she) puts away childish things. And that tossed toy is a dead toy.
Which is why Woody is devastated when his kid-owner, Andy (John Morris), doesn't bring him along to Cowboy Camp. Is this the end of the relationship?
There's another problem: Woody's arm has been torn at the shoulder. He's broken, useless. So Andy dumps him on the shelf-either to be repaired later or (shudder) tossed into the bargain bin at the next yard sale.
Thanks to a comedy of errors, Woody is tossed into the bargain bin. Gulp! An egg-shaped, evil customer called Al McWhiggin (the voice of none other than Wayne Knight-Newman!) snatches him from the box.
"Not for sale," says Andy's mother (Laurie Metcalf), who realizes Woody must have tumbled into the box by mistake. But there's no stopping McWhiggin, owner of the Tri-County Area's leading toy emporium, who recognizes Woody's true value.
The cowboy, it turns out, is the final piece he needs in a collector's item set from a 1950s TV show called "Woody's Roundup." Al simply steals him, intending to sell him to foreign buyers for bundles of money.
The toys, who have seen the whole shady maneuver from Andy's room, are horrified. What to do? Save Woody, of course. Buzz Lightyear-and friends-to the rescue!
But there's a twist. When Woody finds himself in Al's Toy Barn lair, he meets Stinky Pete the Prospector (Kelsey Grammer) and Jessie (Joan Cusack), Woody's buddies from the "Woody's Roundup" trio, who show him videos of the old 1950s show.
Woody realizes he's a former star, and that Stinky and Jessie were his regular pals. Now he's confused. To which family does he belong? And does he really want rescuing now?
This riveting dilemma is just one of many great features in "Toy Story 2," the screenplay penned by Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Rita Hsiao, Doug Chamberlin and Chris Webb. They create a perfect fusion of genuinely affecting narrative and gut-creasing comedy.
"We're all just a stitch away from here to there," a saddened Wheezy (Joe Ranft) tells Woody, pointing to the yard sale sign outside the toy room window.
And when the toys prepare for their rescue mission, Mrs. Potato Head (Estelle Harris) has these words for her brave husband: "I'm packing your shoes and your angry eyes if you need them."
Of course, the visual animation is the most prominent star. Lasseter's studio of animators has created an awesome series of soon-to-be-classic scenes. At one point, Buzz's five-toy rescue team, including Hamm (John Ratzenberger) and Rex (Wallace Shawn), attempts to traverse a busy highway under an artful cluster of traffic cones. This moving mass of orange causes vehicles to screech and smash into each other, as the toys head toward Al's Toy Barn on the other side. This endeavor is as arduous and nail-biting as any climactic scene from "Mission: Impossible." You're as terrified at the prospect of crunched plastic and crushed Slinky toy as you are convulsed with hysterics.
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Fellow Symba fans, the day when we can zip down to the coffee shop on our Symbas has just gotten much closer. The SYM-USA website has just been updated, and the Symba is now officially part of the line up!
Last I heard, there remains one - just one more hurdle for SYM to jump before the first shipment leaves Taiwan. They won't say exactly when the ship will sail until they are absolutely sure that the way is clear, and I respect them for that. Once I get word, the news will be posted here.


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Boeing announced the arrival of the 787 at the Farnborough International Air Show after the aircraft, ZA003 (flying as BOE787), landed a the Farnborough Field after a nine and a half hour flight. This is the international debut of the 787. Boeing said the crew and test engineers aboard conduct flight test along the way. Here's Boeing's press release:
News Release Issued: July 18, 2010 11:34 AM EDT
Boeing 787 Dreamliner Makes International Debut
FARNBOROUGH, United Kingdom, July 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Boeing (NYSE: BA) 787 Dreamliner made its international debut landing at the Farnborough Airport at 9:09 a.m. (local time) in support of the Farnborough International Airshow that begins Monday.
"It's an honor to showcase the 787 here at the Farnborough Airshow," said Scott Fancher, vice president and general manager of the 787 program, Boeing Commercial Airplanes. "I can't think of a finer stage on which to present this highly anticipated airplane."
This is the first international trip made by a Boeing 787 Dreamliner. The airplane came via nonstop flight to Farnborough, U.K., from Seattle.
"We took advantage of the flying time to conduct some flight testing on the way," Fancher said. "We're taking every opportunity to complete our testing requirements when we fly."
The 787 Dreamliner is built by an international team and will provide airlines around the globe with a new level of efficiency in operations, with a 20 percent reduction in fuel use when compared to similar-sized airplanes. The 787 also brings a new level of passenger comfort to travelers including bigger windows and more personal space as well as an environment designed to help them arrive at their destinations feeling refreshed.
Boeing executives and members of the board of directors, dignitaries from the United States and U.K. and a wide variety of media were on hand to welcome Captains Mike Bryan and Ted Grady as they stepped off the airplane and welcomed visitors aboard. About a dozen people traveled on the airplane to conduct testing during the flight.
Fancher and other Boeing executives will provide a media briefing on the 787 at the airshow's main press chalet at 10 a.m. (local time). The airplane, referred to as ZA003, will depart Tuesday afternoon, July 20.
Saj Ahmad of Fleetbuzzeditorial.com got some nice photos of the 787 at Farnborough
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On The Way to a Unified Communication Framework
Modern data-acquisition systems in particle physics put high demands on data throughput and tight constraints on trigger accuracy and timing resolution. Several CERN experiments, e.g., ATLAS, COMPASS, CMS, or LHCb [1] implement their DAQ systems with separate high-speed links for data, trigger distribution and control. The underlying topology of separate links connecting the front-end to the FPGA stages and the computer farms at the back-end is the same. This split topology already raises the question why there is no unified communication interface that can handle data, trigger, and control via a single link. Such a channel would reduce the amount of separate links, simplify the DAQ topology, reduce the number of error sources, and reduce development time.


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