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Glenn Smith, with his background in resource management and law, brings a unique perspective to the Northeast Region's Endangered Species Program.
The assistant regional endangered species coordinator, Smith has worked for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for more than 20 years and has been at the Northeast regional office since 1997. He coordinates the Service's regulatory branches under the Endangered Species Act and deals with federal agencies and private entities whose projects impact federally listed species. He also provides support to the region's field offices in implementing listing and delisting actions.
"People I work with in field offices are such professionals and so dedicated," Smith says. "That's my big motivation--to help them simplify how they're doing this on the ground."
Over the past few years, Smith has dedicated much time to the delisting of the West Virginia northern flying squirrel, a species that has made an impressive comeback after its habitat was obliterated by 19th-century industrial logging. The species is a success story of ecology and management, he says.
He divides his work among consulting on section 7 and 10 regulatory issues, collaborating on national teams, and teaching National Conservation Training Center and University of Massachusetts classes.
The mission of the Service is what ties everyone together, he says. "It's not about us. It's not about me. There are no financial motivations. It means something to my kids, my grandkids. It means something to our quality of life."
Smith spends the rest of his time with his two kids and his wife, with whom he's traveled to Peru, hiked the Inca trail, relaxed on the beach, played soccer and enjoyed music.
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On June 28, 2012, shortly after the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama said Americans would be able to keep their health plans if they liked them.
But, as the act reaches full implementation, thousands of people in San Diego County, and many more across the nation, are learning that their individual health plans will expire at the end of the year despite the president's promise.
The health reform law protects only those policies signed before the law passed on March 23, 2010, granting them "grandfathered" status as long as they remain unchanged. There is no requirement that insurance companies keep offering policies issued after that date, and many are deciding not to renew them when they expire.
Faced with the new provision that they cannot exclude patients with pre-existing conditions, and a slew of other new regulations, insurance companies are eliminating most non-grandfathered policies.
About 2 million people in the state now buy coverage on the individual market, according to the California Healthcare Foundation. An additional 26 million get their coverage from their employer, a public agency or Medicare and are not affected.
It is not clear how many have received a policy expiration letter from their insurance company. A Blue Shield of California spokeswoman said the company has sent notices to nearly 10,000 individual customers in San Diego County, and a Health Net representative said "thousands" of its customers in the region were affected. Anthem Blue Cross and Kaiser Permanente, the area's other two large insurers, did not respond to queries Tuesday.
Kaiser told Kaiser Health News that it had sent notices to 160,000 people across the state, which amounts to about half of its individual policy holders.
Mia Campitelli of Blue Shield added that policies are not simply canceled. Policyholders are notified that their current plan will expire, and they will be automatically enrolled in a new plan that complies with the Affordable Care Act, if they take no further action.
"It's important to understand that they're going to be mapped into a comparable plan that is ACA compliant for 2014," Campitelli said.
But that new plan, she added, is not guaranteed to cost the same as the old one.
Pat Johnston, president of the California Association of Health Plans, said that's because insurance requirements change in major ways next year.
For example, starting Jan. 1, 2014, all plans must offer 10 essential health benefits. All must also cover at least 60 percent of a patient's medical bills and none are allowed to deny coverage based on a pre-existing condition. The ACA also requires insurance companies to offer plans based on standardized geographic regions and to charge older Americans premiums that are no more than three times as much as those charged to young adults.
These changes, Johnston said, make today's plans unworkable for insurers.
"The companies must close them down and transfer customers to new policies that meet the new requirements," Johnston said.
While insurers must offer a comparable plan, they don't have to offer it at the same cost, a fact that is very familiar to Walter Niles of La Jolla. Niles, a self-employed biotechnology consultant with a doctorate in neuroscience, said he received a cancellation letter from California Farm Bureau Federation on Sept. 27.
He said he has looked at the plans listed in the state's new health insurance exchange, and at the policies available on the individual market through his insurance broker, and has found that he will have to pay $100 to $150 more a month for coverage.
He said his income is too high for him to qualify for a premium subsidy from the federal government and added that he remembers the president's promise that he would be able to keep his health plan.
"It's actually sad to lose my plan, because I was very happy with it," Niles said.
Johnston, the insurance association president, said there will be people like Niles who will pay more under the Affordable Care Act than they did before because the money for all of the new benefits must come from somewhere.
He said the youngest people in the insurance pool, and those who currently have policies that are skimpier in terms of benefits, are likely to see the largest premium increases if their incomes are too high for them to qualify for a government subsidy.
But there is another oft-missed part of the health law, Johnston noted, that puts a check on the insurance companies' ability to raise rates as high as they want. Called the "medical loss ratio," a section of the act requires insurance companies to spend at least 80 percent (for individual and small-group policies) of the premiums they collect on direct patient care.
Any money that exceeds that threshold must be given back to policyholders in the form of rebates. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced in June that insurance companies must pay $500 million in rebates to consumers based on premiums paid in 2012.

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You may want to stay in for movie night -- this Red Hot is going to satiate your sweet tooth and then some! With an easy-to-use controller, four distinct speeds and a smooth, silky bullet vibe, this waterproof wonder really can't be beat. Add a friendly price and the Good Vibes Exclusive stamp, and you've got the Red Hot Bullet of your dreams!
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Volume: 3; Intensity: 3
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Texture: Smooth
Color: Red
Power Source: 2 AA
Length: 2.5 inches
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The first couple times I used this item it was great but then it developed a short in the cord near the base so that if you don't hold it EXACTLY right it doesn't work at all. It went in the trash. Complete waste of $22 - very disappointing from Good Vibes. I gave it two stars because instead of one because of the strong vibration and smooth finish.
the title says it all. I will never buy this item again. arg.
I absolutely love this little vibrator. Personally, I feel like all I need is a gentle vibration and my biggest complaint about other toys is that the vibrations are too strong. With this toy, I only go up to half power and find that this is enough. It is pretty quiet also, and extremely easy to use. It is small enough to take along on travels, and though I use it often, I find the battery lasts me months at a time.
Good product while it lasts. The wires wear out quickly meaning they tear inside the wire covering that connects to the battery pack and then it becomes useless. This happened very shortly after buying, didnt last long at all. if they could improve it so it didnt do that it would be perfect but I wouldnt recommend anyone wasting their money on this one.
It worked great for about 2 weeks, then the motor inexplicably died on me. (or the buttons malfunctioned) Not worth it.....
This vibe is non-intimidating, which is a plus for people who are new to toys. Since it's also relatively inexpensive, it's a good intro toy, or good for people who just aren't planning on using it very much. I plan on using it when I have sex (I use a strap on), because the remote means that I can just turn it off when I'm done, rather than interrupting sex to fish it out and put it away (I don't like being stimulated after I've cum). To give you an idea of the volume, when it's placed against skin (particularly surrounded by flesh, as if inserted or a person's legs are closed around it), the wearer probably won't really be able to hear it on level one or two. Even at level four, this vibe is a barely-noticeable purr-- you'd only just hear it from across the room. One way to fend off the wire-fraying problem that others mentioned is to put this bullet in a condom or finger cot if you're going to be inserting it. That way you can get it back out without tugging on the wires (or having to stick your fingers in yourself and go fishing).
This is a basic, user-friendly vibe for girls who like an adjustable buzz, but it just doesn't hold up to frequent use. I enjoyed this toy for a mere three months before the wire pulled away from the control base and left me with (a) no functionality, and (b) a mess of exposed wiring. For something that purports to be "bath-friendly," you'd think that keeping the wiring healthy and insulated would be a #1 priority. *ZzzZzzzt* But even aside from the mechanical complaints, the Red Hot was definitely... not. The bullet is overlarge and slippery, which makes it awkward for partner play, and it's also a bit too bulky to just toss in your purse and go. Skip the cheap goods and invest in something with longevity. This is the last time I buy from this manufacturer.
Many toys require bullet vibes. This is no doubt better than the one the toy came with.
This was the first vibrator I owned. It's perfect for a first-time user, since it's easy to control and non-intimidating. The range of the different intensity settings was adequate, though it may not be strong enough for some tastes. It's also fairly quiet. The plastic casing was very smooth, almost silky even, very comfortable. It goes through batteries fairly quickly, but that probably depends on how often it's used.
The major downpoint, as many other people have mentioned, is it's short lifespan. Once the chord connecting to the bullet starts to fray the vibrations become very inconsistent, until eventually it stops working at all. In all I think mine lasted maybe 4 months. But, given the cheap price, that isn't too bad. I wouldn't hesitate to buy another, knowing this in advance.
All in all, a simple, trusty toy that get's the job done...while it lasts, anyway.
I had pretty much given up on vibrators until I found this. The settings are amazing. I'm extremely happy.
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CureDuchenne, a Newport Beach-based nonprofit that funds research into a form of muscular dystrophy, is auctioning off two tickets to Super Bowl XLVII, courtesy of Green Bay Packers linebacker Clay Matthews.
The package, which is valued at $5,000, includes Matthews' two terrace-level tickets to the game Feb. 3, plus four nights at the Best Western French Quarter Landmark Hotel, according to the nonprofit's website.
Duchenne muscular dystrophy affects one in 3,500 boys and is the most common form of muscular dystrophy, the website says. Many victims of the disease do not live past their mid-20s.
The auction closes at 9 a.m. Pacific Time Monday. To bid on the package, go to the auction's charitybuzz.com.
The organization will also host its annual Champions to CureDuchenne gala Feb. 9 at Newport's Balboa Bay Club.
At the event, CureDuchenne will honor former Anaheim Duck and recently hired assistant coach Scott Niedermayer and his wife, Lisa.
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The National Library of Medicine's WISER for Windows 4.5 is now available. This new version of WISER (Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders) fully integrates Chemical Hazards Emergency Medical Management (CHEMM) content and updates the Emergency Response Guidebook (ERG) content to 2012.
Here is a closer look at What's New in this release:
- Full integration of CHEMM content, which includes:
- New hospital provider and preparedness planner profiles, along with a customized home screen for all WISER profiles
- Acute Care Guidelines for six known mass casualty agents/agent classes
- The addition of a wealth of CHEMM reference material
- CHEMM Intelligent Syndromes Tool (CHEMM-IST), a new help identify tool designed to diagnose the type of chemical exposure after a mass casualty incident
- ERG content is now updated to the 2012 release. This includes the full ERG 2012 tool.
WISER for Windows 4.5 can be downloaded directly from the WISER Web site.
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I have said this before: rum sits squarely in my blind spot when it comes to mixing cocktails. I find the category a little overwhelming, I must say. Rums span the globe; you can get good rums from just about every continent except Antarctica. Rums made from sugarcane juice or molasses. Rums aged for many years or very few. Rums from Barbados, Cuba, Panama, Guatemala, Martinique, Mauritius, Mexico. Light rums, amber/gold rums, dark rums, spiced rums, flavored rums, overproof rums. It's … intimidating.
But dayam is it good! I quite enjoy a great martini, a balanced Sidecar, a lovely rye old-fashioned, a good peaty single-malt alone in a glass. But a good sipping rum? I could come around to the notion that there's the pinnacle of drinking. And rum, used wisely in a cocktail, marries well with a range of flavors.
So it's finally time to man up, look rum straight in the face, and stop flinching.
From now until mid or late September, I'll be exploring a month's worth of rum cocktails–a drink a week that I think really exemplifies what rum brings to a cocktail. And to force myself into unfamiliar territory, there won't be a daiquiri, Cuba Libre, or Dark and Stormy in the lot. And I am finally going to begin my exploration of the El Presidente, which Matt "Rumdood" Robold recommended months ago, when I was hoping to start exploring rum cocktails.
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First up, the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club Cocktail. I brought this one up as an idea for rum-running, before I decided on the El Presidente. I think I first encountered this drink when Doug Winship covered it during his Tiki Month, earlier this year. Even though I gave a lot of thought to running through it for the blog, I still managed to forget about it entirely, until I came across it again in Vintage Spirits. Doc Cocktail doesn't have much information about it, but it's apparently an early creation of Trader Vic Bergeron, a pre-Tiki tropical classic. The Royal Bermuda Yacht Club still exists, by the way, but I don't see any cocktails listed on any of its menus, so I don't know whether they still serve this drink.
The recipe, curiously, calls for Barbados rum rather than a Bermudan variety. I'm not sure I understand that. The other interesting ingredient is Falernum. I didn't have the resources to purchase the ingredients to make my own, so I relied on the dusty bottle of John Taylor's Velvet variety.
Royal Bermuda Yacht Club Cocktail
- 2 oz. Barbados rum
- 3/4 oz. fresh lime juice
- 2 dashes Cointreau (I'd use 1/8 to 1/4 oz. for ease of measuring)
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You may remember back in March when we posted the first poster for the upcoming indie film 3,2,1 Frankie Go Boom. Now you may be asking, "Why would I remember a random poster for a small independent film that came out a few months ago?" Well, I personally find that an image of Ron Perlman dressed like woman is something that sticks around in your brain for quite a while. And now you can see what it looks like in action.
Apple has premiered the first trailer for Frankie Go Boom, which is written and directed by Jordan Roberts. Check it out below and see it in HD over at at the source.
The story centers on a young man named Frank Bartlett (Charlie Hunnam) who has spent his entire life being tortured mercilessly by his older brother, Bruce (Chris O'Dowd). When Bruce finally starts getting his life together, Frank begins to think that his time as a victim is over...but then he discovers that Bruce has recorded an embarrassing video of him having sex and has uploaded it to the internet. The film co-stars Lizzy Caplan, Nora Dunn, Whitney Cummings, Ron Perlman, and Chris Noth and will be in theaters on October 12th.


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Misogikan: Dear Inoue Sensei, would you please be so kind to answer some questions for Russian Aikido practitioners?
Misogikan Question (Q.): About when did you begin your practice of Aikido, Sensei?
Hanshi Inoue: I started my Aikido training in 1955.
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Hanshi Inoue: I had not practiced in any other martial arts professionally, however I studied Judo, Kendo and Kyudo as a part of a school curriculum. Then when I was a child I was interested very much in a baseball, in junior high school and in a high school I practiced basketball. I also played role in a drama company as an actor and I won the first prize in a Tokyo children actor's competition. I also studied a little of bit a tap-dancing because during that time in Japan tap-dancing and famous tap-dancers were very popular, and I wanted to make Tap-dancing my career. It was also my dream to become a diplomat, so I studied English in an English school. I also liked singing and was a member of a singing ensemble.


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A little over a year ago, the Highway 35W bridge across the Mississippi River collapsed. I had just gotten home from work and was hanging out in the kitchen with my wife when Fox News started showing footage of the collapse. The first shock was that a bridge had collapsed; the second, that it was here in the Twin Cities; the third, that it was the Mississippi River bridge on Highway 35W, the area's main north-south artery, a bridge we had all driven across countless times.
The relevant government agencies lost no time in letting a contract for a new bridge, and the successful bidders, Flatiron Constructors, FIGG Engineering and Manson Construction, quickly got to work on the project. (Disclosure: Flatiron is a client of my law firm, and we represented them on the bid protest that followed their selection.) The new bridge was scheduled to be completed by Christmas Eve, but it is already finished and open for traffic. Popular Mechanics headlines: "5 Engineering Lessons From the New, Reopened Minnesota Bridge." It's well worth reading; via InstaPundit.
Through my job, I've learned quite a bit about construction. The construction industry is a good example of how steady, incremental gains in knowledge have led to improvement in our standard of living. Thirty years ago, it was routine for major construction projects to be delivered late and over budget. Today, largely because of breakthroughs in project management techniques, that kind of result is relatively rare, and even the most complex projects are routinely delivered on time and on budget.
Vast improvements have also been made in construction materials and techniques. The result is that construction, one of the largest and most basic of industries, is consistently delivering more value with greater reliability and less cost, thereby improving all of our lives. The Popular Mechanics article on the I35 bridge explains some of the technical breakthroughs relating to bridge and road construction.
One more thought: the bridge that collapsed was a 1960s model with, apparently, a flawed design that manifested itself after decades of use. We Twin Cities residents couldn't help noting that a little way up the river from the failed 35W bridge was the Stone Arch Bridge, built in 1883. It is still standing and will be for many years to come.
Let's hope the new bridge lasts anywhere near as long.
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As Hamptons homeowners battle beach erosion, a flurry of construction is touching off bitter disputes over the environment, real estate and class.
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A new study is turning the American dream on its head: Maybe it's not hard work that brings success and money. Maybe it's sheer brainpower.
There were more than 200 sales in the top 15 ZIP Codes for homes priced at $10 million or more in 2012, and the megahome market shows no signs of slowing.
A new yacht launched Friday bumped Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich's yacht – the 536-foot Eclipse – from its number one ranking.
London's blue chip neighborhoods like Belgravia are increasingly owned by rich, and largely absent, foreigners.
The life of a "close protection operator," charged with protecting mega-wealthy clients and giving their families peace of mind.
The long rally in stocks has been the biggest driver of the number of millionaires, which may have already exceeded an all-time record.
The collectibles market grew by 175 percent over the past 10 years – a far better record than U.S. stocks. The biggest surprise? Coins.
Amelia Island's classic car auctions brought less than last year, but Ferrari prices, a closely watched telltale, easily matched expectations.
At an auction of classic Ferraris, collectors will be anxious to see if the skyrocketing prices still have room to run.
Candy king Bruce Weiner is selling off his collection of more than 200 "microcars" for an expected haul of more than $6 million.
With the average price of collectible Ferraris up more than 70 percent, this weekend's auction of vintage GT and GTOs is drawing attention.
More than 1,000 private jets are expected to fly into New Orleans this weekend, just under last year's tally of around 1,100 planes in Indianapolis – one of the biggest ever.
With 82 percent of all directly owned stocks in the United States in the hands of the wealthiest five percent of Americans, the gains from the recent stock market surge will go almost entirely to those who are already rich.


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Evergreen State College is situated in a secluded, forested setting near Olympia, Washington, the state capital. Environmental advocacy and social responsibility are important to its core curriculum of multidisciplinary courses where students study in "concentrations" rather than academic majors, and receive personalized evaluations instead of letter grades. Built in 2004, the Seminar II Building was the first major new structure on campus since the school was founded 33 years earlier in 1971. The building is comprised of five separate but connected learning clusters, totaling 168,000 square feet. Each cluster is organized vertically to house faculty offices, individual student homerooms, seminar rooms, a workshop, a lecture hall and a studio. The siting strategy connects to the forest while maximizing access to daylight, fresh air and views, while the connector spaces link the structures to each other. Eighty percent of the building is naturally ventilated, and a daylight factor of two percent is available in 86 percent of all teaching spaces. Students at this progressive school get their own plot of land to farm while studying there. The large Evergreen Organic Farm annual crop production area comprises 38,000 square feet (3,500 m2), and sells produce during the growing season, or donates it to a local food bank, or it is composted. (Scroll to bottom for additional resources)
This 159,862 square foot building first began to take shape in 2002. The process of designing and building the facility took more than two years and 44.1 million dollars to complete. There were five main areas of focus when Seminar II began design: building ecology, energy efficiency, building format, the materials being used and overall good design. More than ten percent of the building is made of recyclable materials, including fly ash in the concrete walls and structural members, and re-used gymnasium flooring in some of the seminar rooms. Vegetated areas cover almost 40 percent of the rooftops, which create less impervious surfaces and allow rainwater to filter to nearby rivers and streams more naturally. Other features include hydronic heat, automatic shading, low-E glass, and digital controls that contribute to the building being almost 62 percent more energy efficient than other conventional buildings at the time it was built.
Vegetated Roofs on Seminar II
The Evergreen State College Seminar II Building in Olympia, WA was completed in the winter 2004, and it has extensive vegetated roofs on 13 separate roof areas – or 40 percent of the roof surface for a total of 24,000 sq. ft. The green roofs and waterproofing system passed 100 percent of all flood tests and infrared analysis for roof areas that total almost 50,000 sq. ft., including many roof areas that receive heavy foot traffic and were used as work surfaces during construction. Slopes were built at 1.25 percent and most are accessible and open to the public.
• Eighty percent of the building is naturally ventilated.
• A daylight factor of 2percent is available in 86percent of all teaching spaces (only 5 lecture halls do not meet this criterion).
• The average lighting-power density for the building is 0.90 W/ft2. Energy usage is 38.5 kBtu/sf (a 68 percent reduction from 2003 CBECS EUI site energy of 120 kBtu/sf for college level buildings).
• Forty percent of the roof area is vegetated, and a surface stormwater conveyance and detention feature is designed to celebrate rain.
• Every product, including furnishings, was scrutinized for harmful off-gassing.
• Ventilation rates were increased to 30 CFM/person in all mechanically ventilated spaces utilizing an under floor distribution system.
• Naturally ventilated spaces have individual controls utilizing both trickle vents and operable windows.
• Significant effort was made to specify materials and systems both from the region and with recycled content. Thirty-seven percent of all the materials used in the building were manufactured locally (within 500 miles), with 38 percent of those materials being harvested from the region.
• Cork, 100 percent recycled carpet, reclaimed wood and 100 percent recycled rubber were used as flooring finishes in addition to retro-plated concrete.
• Maple flooring was reclaimed from a Recently-demolished local gymnasium, and all wood veneers are from the fast growing NW native alder tree.
• Walls finishes are predominately structural concrete, wood paneling and acoustic panels made from recycled fabric. Gypsum wallboard, paint and color have been kept to a minimum.
• Furniture is constructed of sustainably harvested alder, and upholstery utilizes wool, recycled seat belt strapping and recycled polyester.
• In an online survey conducted by The Center for the Built Environment, Seminar II scored higher in user satisfaction than the average LEED building and far higher than a conventional building.
• The project received Gold LEED certification in 2006.
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text: This morning's post by the always-fertile Grain Edit reminds me that I've wanted to write something in appreciation of Mark Weaver. As with so many things I like, Weaver's work is difficult to classify: design? illustration? art? The term "collage" might do as a formal description, but it's a shabby word to describe Weaver's mysterious inventions, which so successfully bypass both the senses and the intellect and go straight to the mid-brain. His tableaux that simultaneously evoke grange exhibits, Japanese consumer goods, early David Bowie, and recent Wes Anderson — without ever quoting any of them literally — are worth experiencing up close; spend some time with his Make Something Cool Every Day series, and I think you'll leave intriguied, delighted, and inspired. —JH


text: On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 09:45:09AM -0800, Jim Lux's all... > At a first glance, commercial products will have to meet FCC Part 15 > requirements, giving you an upper bound. > There are two issues to worry about: > 1) radiation from the ethernet signals themselves...Shielding may not make > all that much difference, inasmuch as the signals themselves are on twisted > pairs and don't radiate all that much to begin with. > 2) A bigger issue will be EMI from "inside the PC box" coming out on the > surface of the wires. Shielding might(!) help here, but it is a highly > idiosyncratic thing, and highly "workmanship" dependent. Small changes in > how things are assembled can make a big difference. > > What frequencies (ranges, in general) are you concerned about? kHz, MHz, > 100 MHz? > The shielding strategy, and EMI/EMC techniques, vary quite a bit. Is > liberal application of copper foil tape (while testing) a feasible strategy? > > Optical interconnects are readily available, and have zero emissions, and > since they are entirely nonmetallic, can't provide a sneak path for signals > to creep out of the box. I don't know that optical hubs/switches are > available (at a reasonable price...) There's 100 Base-Fx fibre cards out there IIRC - priced them out at one point, looking for solutions to longer distance interconnects between buildings without needing repeaters, worrying about ground loops, differing ground levels and other electrically related problems. I had no worries of EMI, but it fits the bill here as well. Some people may be dumping 100baseFX gear as they move to fibre GBE, or you can always source it new if budget is less of a concern. If you have a real concern with EMI from the entire cluster (and without really good cases, CPUs/mainboards can leak alot more EMI at certain freqs than ethernet), then you could put the whole thing inside a milspec faraday cage if you really needed 0 emissions. :) /kc > > As an alternative, designed specifically for low EMI, there is SpaceWire > (IEEE 1355.2) .. point to point connections(with wormhole routers) at up to > 400 MBps. Double Shielded cables with careful attention to grounding is > part of the spec. It also uses LVDS signalling (greatly reducing radiated > emission). There are standard interface cards with 3 ports available for > PCI bus. They're a bit pricey today (because they use an ASIC designed for > the space industry), but there might be less expensive versions in the > pipeline (or already available). > > > > At 10:24 AM 3/27/2002 -0500, Huntress Gary B NPRI wrote: > >Greetings, > > > >I am drafting a proposal for a small cluster that will be used in a > >tactical military environment (Naval), thus I am bound by some > >environmental issues, particularly in the area of electromagnetic interference. > > > >Right now I don't want to address the whole cluster, but is anyone aware > >of EMI issues specifically related to 100 Base T ethernet? My gut feeling > >is that good quality shielded cables will be the first line of defense, > >however I'm concerned about radiated emission levels at the connectors. > > > >As always, any info is greatly appreciated. > > > > > >Regards, > > > >Gary Huntress > >Code 4113 > >Naval Undersea Warfare Center > >Newport, RI 02841 > >1-800-669-6892 x28990 > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > >To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > >http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > > Jim Lux > Spacecraft Telecommunications Equipment Section > Jet Propulsion Laboratory > 4800 Oak Grove Road, Mail Stop 161-213 > Pasadena CA 91109 > > 818/354-2075, fax 818/393-6875 > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf -- Ken Chase, math at velocet.ca * Velocet Communications Inc. * Toronto, CANADA


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Training course "Parallel Programming of High Performance Systems" @ LRZ
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This course, a collaboration of Erlangen Regional Computing Centre (RRZE) and LRZ, is targeted at students and scientists with interest in programming modern HPC hardware, specifically the large scale parallel computing systems available in Jülich, Stuttgart and Munich.
Each day is comprised of approximately 4 hours of lectures and 3 hours of hands-on sessions.
Day 1
- Introduction to High Performance Computing (Weinberg)
- Secure shell (Brietzke)
- Source code versioning with SVN (Guillen)
- Handling console and GUI based interfaces (Weinberg)
- Building programs with GNU MAKE (Guillen)
Day 2
- Basic parallel programming models: elements of MPI and OpenMP (Weinberg)
- Processor architectures (Hager)
Day 3
Principles of code optimization: unrolling, blocking, dependencies, C++ issues, bandwidth issues, performance projections (Hager)
Basics of software engineering (Guillen)
Advanced MPI programming (Wittmann)
Day 4
- Advanced OpenMP programming (Weinberg)
- Performance Libraries (Weinberg)
- Parallel architectures: multi-core, multi-socket, ccNUMA, cache coherence and affinity, tools for handling memory affinity (Treibig)
- Parallel algorithms: data parallelism, domain decomposition, task parallelism, master-worker, granularity, load balancing, scalability models (Treibig)
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Gold edged up to near a three-week peak on Monday, supported by expectations U.S. monetary policy will remain ultra-loose, while investors also bought the metal as a hedge against a looming U.S. fiscal crisis.
Gold added 0.29 percent to $1,735.86 by 1432 GMT, holding near the three-week high around $1,738 struck on Friday and well above a two-month low around $1,672 hit last week.
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U.S. COMEX gold futures for December were up 0.21 percent at $1,734.60 an ounce.
World shares, with which gold is often correlated, stabilised on Monday after three straight sessions of losses as firmer Chinese data helped to offset concerns about a possible U.S. fiscal crisis and delays to an instalment of Greek aid.
"The gold price is up because of a combination of the outlook for an expansionary U.S. monetary policy and fears over the 'fiscal cliff'," said Eugen Weinberg, global head of commodities research at Germany's Commerzbank in Frankfurt.
"Concerns over inflation in the longer term are a factor," he added.
He said gold prices could rise further and potentially break above a peak near $1,800 an ounce in the next few weeks.
Peter Fertig, a consultant with Quantitative Commodity Research, said a continuing relaxed U.S. monetary policy was underpinning the gold market.
"It is currently the quantitative easing factor that is providing support to gold, because other fundamental factors have been negative," Fertig said.
He argued that a potential positive for gold in coming weeks would be an improvement in the global economy and a resulting rise in stock markets and investors' appetite for risk.
"There is potential for further upside in gold prices, but it crucially depends on how Wall Street will react," he said. "If economic data in coming weeks comes in stronger than expected, we could see a re-test of the early-October highs near $1,800."
A slowdown in China has darkened the prospects for the economy in recent months, but there has been hope in the euro zone's progress in easing its fiscal worries and the prospect of a U.S. recovery next year.
President Barack Obama will meet business, labour and civic leaders this week ahead of talks with Congress on a deal to head off nearly $600 billion worth of tax hikes and spending cuts that could derail the U.S. recovery.
Broker Marex Spectron said in a daily market report, "Recently gold has veered between attempting to be a safe haven and on the flip side reacting in tandem with the euro, other commodities and the stock market.
"Until it conclusively decides what it really is, the range trading will continue."
Gold rallied to $1,795, an 11-month high, on Oct. 5 after the U.S. Federal Reserve pushed ahead with another round of monetary stimulus.
At the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) conference in Hong Kong, the president of the Shanghai Gold Exchange told Reuters the bourse would launch an interbank market early next month that would start with spot contracts and gradually offer forward contracts.
At the same conference, the general director of the People's Bank of China, Xie Duo, said the central bank had not set a time-frame on issuing more gold import licenses to banks but was keen to further open up the market to the international community.
Last week, the global head of metals at consultancy Thomson Reuters GFMS said he expected China's gold demand to grow 1 percent this year to a record of around 860 tonnes, which means the country would overtake India as the world's biggest consumer of gold for the first time on a yearly basis.
Gold prices may hit $2,000 an ounce in 2013 as costs and barriers to production restrict supply, while demand from central banks and Chinese consumers keeps climbing, the world's biggest gold producer said on Monday.
China's leading gold miner, Zijin Mining Group , sees output flat in 2013 after an expected rise of nearly 5 percent this year as falling production at its top mine is offset by growth elsewhere, a company official said on Monday.
Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) has extended the deadline to Wednesday for striking workers at several of its South African mines to accept its latest offer aimed at ending two months of wildcat action.
Spot platinum traded up 0.81 percent to $1,562.49 an ounce. Spot palladium was up 0.84 percent at $608.97 an ounce.
Silver eased 0.15 percent to $32.53 an ounce.


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Monday, March 20, 2017
Trump vs. Obama
Trump will call someone a name while Obama will anonymously source a smear through three levels of staffers, political allies and reporters. Trump called CNN "Fake News" on camera. Obama sourced Operation Rushbo, targeting Rush Limbaugh, through a variety of White House people and left-wing allies. Trump will boot reporters he doesn't like. Obama authorized secretly hacking the emails of a FOX News reporter. Trump had an openly hostile conversation with the Prime Minister of Australia. When Obama wanted to call Netanyahu "chickens__t", he did it by having one of his people anonymously plant it with a reliable media sycophant, The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg, before later having a spokesman disavow it. Poultry ordure doesn't smell any worse than that.
But Obama is very careful to launch dirty attacks without getting any on his hands. The insults are anonymously sourced. The retaliation comes out of the bowels of the bureaucracy. And he only finds out about it from the media. That allows him to retain what he cares about most: his popularity.
Obama and his people like to think that their dishonesty is a superpower. They pat themselves on the back for stabbing everyone else in theirs. Sometimes their smugness over how well they use the media to lie and smear gets out of control. Like the time Obama's Goebbels, Ben Rhodes, boasted to the New York Times about how easy it was to fool everyone about the deal to protect Iran's nuclear program.
After Trump won, it was business as usual.
Obama put on his best imitation of decency while his people went on preparing to undermine Trump at every turn by smearing him, wiretapping him and doing everything possible, legally and illegally, to bring him down. It was the same phony act that he had pulled for eight years, bemoaning the lack of bipartisanship while ruling unilaterally as a dictator, destroying the Constitution while hectoring us about our values, denouncing racism while organizing race riots, complaining about the echo chamber while constructing one and lecturing us on civility while smearing anyone who disagreed.
Trump's killer instinct lies in understanding that hypocrisy conceals weakness. That is what powered him through the primaries and then through an election. His instinct is to grapple directly with a target. That is also the source of his popularity. Meanwhile the source of Obama's popularity is his hollow likability. He's likable only because he is almost always too cowardly to say what he really thinks.
Americans have seen the real Trump: because he is, in his own way, always real. Obama is always unreal. When Trump and Obama have appeared together, Obama seemed less real. He is a brand wrapped in all sorts of images that have nothing to do with who he really is.
Trump has always understood that Obama's bravado was hollow. Obama boasted that he would have defeated Trump. Then he went on to try to do that with attacks from behind the scenes routed through government loyalists and media operatives while pretending that he had nothing to do with any of it.
But Obama and his people had learned nothing from how Trump had won the election. When Trump is attacked, his response is to go directly for the attacker, no matter what the argument is or how it's sourced. Trump doesn't get bogged down in debates or befuddled by media echo chambers that are so totally enveloping that they resemble reality. He just smashes past them to the source of the smear.
That is exactly what he did by calling out Obama's eavesdropping. He bypassed all the layers that Obama had put in place to insulate himself from involvement in the attack, the media echo chamber, the staffers who handed information to the media and the government loyalists who provided the information to the staffers, to strike at the wizard behind the curtain.
And, in doing so, he made a mockery of Obama's bravado.
When Obama boasted that he could have beaten Trump, he meant that he could have done so using the same tactics that worked so well against McCain and Romney. Like most of the media, he had failed to understand that these tactics don't work against Trump because he is a moving target. Trump created his own brand. Unlike most presidential candidates, he doesn't need consultants, and unlike most Republicans, he isn't worried at all about likability. That's why he won an election and still has majority support for his policies, including the most controversial ones, despite poor likability.
Obama is obsessed with being liked. In the media space, effective messaging depends on likability. But Trump upended the same formula that had ruled presidential politics since Nixon vs. Kennedy. Instead he casually tosses likability aside to grapple with opponents, rivals and enemies. Trump won this election by forcing opponent after opponent to either fight him on his own terms or back away.
This includes the media, which has tried to grapple directly with him, with disastrous results.
The Obama machine, a massive propaganda matrix that alternates between lying and gaslighting, is not built to handle Trump. And Obama isn't built to handle Trump either. Obama's hipster transgressiveness made him seem cool when up against Romney or McCain, but everything Trump does embodies real transgressiveness. The machine is built on limiting the freedom of action of Republicans by intimidating them with political correctness and potential smears. But Trump doesn't care about any of that.
Trump is willing to throw everything into an attack. Obama's people build complicated traps that he walks through without thinking twice. Obama plays chess. Trump overturns the board.
Obama's strategy was to create so much chaos that the White House wouldn't be able to get anything done. Instead it would ricochet from scandal to scandal. Similar tactics had proven quite effective in the second terms of Reagan and Bush. But Trump thrives on chaos. Many of his supporters want him to be a disrupter. Chaos translates to effectiveness. The more noise he makes, the more he's changing things.
President Trump has made it clear that in response to these attacks, he will directly challenge Obama. And that breaks down Obama's entire plan of using proxies to do his dirty work while he gives inspiring speeches. Trump will not let Obama get away with attacking him and then hiding behind phony idealism. And he intends to make the Obama machine into the issue in these attacks.
Obama's plan involved a gradual emergence to deliver more sanctimonious lectures about "who we are". It did not involve getting directly into a fight with Trump. But, as his other opponents discovered, Trump doesn't give you a choice.
The favorite quote of Clinton's damage control man Chris Lehane came from Mike Tyson. "Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth." Obama's people like to think that this is what they've done to Republicans, Iran Deal opponents, police officers and even President Trump. But Trump is showing them what the expression really means.
Obama had a plan. Then Trump punched him in the mouth.
The plan to entangle key Trump people in scandals hit a roadblock. Instead the wiretapping accusations have become the issue. And Obama's people have been forced to come out and offer cautious denials.
And Obama and his dirty tricks have been dragged out from behind the curtain.
Trump and Obama are two very different men. Their personalities, as much as their politics, will define this conflict. The media routinely accuses Trump of having totalitarian instincts. But the true totalitarians are men like Obama those who hypocritically use the machinery of government to go after their opponents while pretending to be virtuous. President Trump has always fought his fights directly.
And the battle for America has only begun.
40 comments:
- Daniel Danzi said...
- 20/3/17
- Anonymous said...
Good article. I never could understand why people liked the guy, seen too many guys like him in the locker room after gym class (disgusting), practicing their seduction lines.
- 20/3/17
- Anonymous said...
By the way, even in the 1980s, it was well known that since American agencies were prohibited from domestic spying, the Brits did it for us, and if we needed any info we got it from them. And we did the same for them.
Seems to be just an issue in semantics, "wiretapping" is anachronistic, "eavesdropping" is more accurate. Wiretapping is ancient primitive technology no longer in use for the most part.
- 20/3/17
- Anonymous said...
Brilliant, as usual, Daniel.
Obama gave us a character insight as soon as he had the bust of Winston Churchill removed from the Oval Office, which was wholly unsurprising.
By the end of his 8 year term, it was surprising that he didn't have it replaced with that other odious fascist appeaser, Neville Chamberlain.
- 21/3/17
- dee said...
"And the battle for America has only begun."
The battle for America took a major blow in 2008, when the media coaxed the people into thinking they chose Obama, and then came close to being lost when the same scam was pulled four years later.
Fortunately, enough people noticed the decay and elected a President that is trying to save his country, by battling on several fronts against a well organised and thoroughly indoctrinated minority that controls immense wealth, power, and importantly the easily seduced minds of half the country that still believe they are relevant.
America's slim chance at survival rests on its people waking up to watch the consequences of another continent, Europe, being betrayed by its own leaders; and then deciding that's not what they want.
- 21/3/17
- pixelpattern pixelpattern said...
That was so illuminating; thank you.
- 21/3/17
- Anonymous said...
Very find piece. And very correct. Obama is, indeed, a coward.
- 21/3/17
- Unknown said...
Obama got away with his scams because the media failed to tell the American people what his administration was doing. They haven't made that mistake with President Trump and now Trump's approval rating is 37% ...exactly what they'd hoped for.
If they can't get to Trump they'll get to congress, who needs to pass President Trump's agenda. If the President's numbers are in the tank you can bet these chicken's will run as fast as they can, and waiting in the shadows will be the swamp waiting to come in and put the stopper in the drain.
I'm not counting President Trump out, that is a mistake, I just wish he didn't help the other side so much. The "wiretapping" is getting worse for him by the day. If he has evidence which contradicts Comey's testimony he should show it, otherwise he should shut up and move on. The people need to trust their President, he's not helping on that score.
- 21/3/17
- Anonymous said...
Daniel, you had me at "obama is a coward." A lying, sniveling, back stabbing, two faced coward.
The differences in style between the two men could not be greater. But how many fights can Trump fight simultaneously. No doubt, head to head, Trump would eat obama for breakfast. But obama is a rope-a-dope type fighter. He is not interested in taking a punch and being macho. He would rather by sneaky and stab you in the back. Stabbing you in the back still means that he is the last man standing.
Which is what we have to prevent.
Yesterday's Comey hearing did not go well for Trump. obama is too well layered. Judge Napolitano's sources flaked out and both he and Trump now look silly.
Time to learn from obama and use some pages from his playbook. On the basis that Trump as President can deem a person or entity a threat to national security and order surveillance on them, let the surveillance of obama and soros begin. Order the NSA to turn over all the data that has been collected through obama and soros intercepts. Trump is the President and let him use his awesome power. Then a couple of judicious leaks. After that we will see how well obama can fight a multi front war.
Speaking of warfare, obama's OFA has something like 30,000 cadre located in many, many cities. Who is paying their salaries, office rent, phone bills, electricity? Is it soros? Follow the money.
Up till now it has been a mugging of the Right. Now the Fight begins.
- 21/3/17
- bluecatclub said...
I've read all manner of pro-Trump articles about what the election really means, the defeat of the elite, etc. Yours is the most original and quotable I have encountered. Cheers.
- 21/3/17
- String'n and Strow'n said...
Dead on point. Shared.
- 21/3/17
- Anonymous said...
Another brilliant article to explain what is going on in this country which put a smile on my face. How? You quoted Mike Tyson.
- 21/3/17
- D.D.Mao said...
In your recent article above you attempt to compare the two presidents on the same moral equivalency test that the left has been using for decades with the expectation of putting someone on the defense. "Well if you think Trump did something bad how about Obama.?" Having two narcissistic, ego driven personalities running the country should scare us under normal circumstances. But these are times where tribal politics is determined by emotions like a bunch of high school pre-puberty adolescents. There is nothing presidential about these schoolyard attacks on anyone via it through tweets or subordinates. Not to mention anything that comes out of the White House has serious consequences be it political, financial or foreign policy.
We have so many more pressing issues to discuss than constantly dredging into these unsubstantiated conspiracy theories. Neither Trump nor Obama are "MY" president". The word "MY" signifies possession and not only expects him to look after my needs but is one of the reasons behind this tribalism in America. They are "OUR" president and until we recognize that we will continue electing these incompetent, unprepared empty suit leaders. If you believe lowering your values by joining the "Victim Olympics" with the left is going to going to improve the country then you are sadly mistaken. But by accepting the end justifies the means and electing these two (along with a few others recently )we have already taken the low road. Hopefully history will not compare them on each other but what they accomplished while in office. Some times paranoia keeps you alive and sometimes it keeps you from living.
"Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I'm contradicted."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 21/3/17
- D.D.Mao said...
Thank you Daniel for finally providing proof of "Trump grabbing a pussy" with the picture you enclosed in your above article.
- 21/3/17
- Marilyn Bennett said...
Thank you. That is exactly why I knew Trump was my guy from day one. I am so tired of politicians as they will never tell you what they really think (if they do think) because they always want to walk the fence so they can lean whichever way the wind is blowing at the time. It is so refreshing to have a straight shooter in the White House.
- 21/3/17
- gizmo54 said...
Excellent analysis of the match, Daniel.
- 21/3/17
- Anonymous said...
When I used to write for a couple of blogs, I was in the occasional habit of plagiarising the brilliantly quotable stuff from others – always with attribution, you understand (Well, most of the time). So much of what you wrote today is theft worthy.
"Trump is willing to throw everything into an attack. Obama's people build complicated traps that he walks through without thinking twice. Obama plays chess. Trump overturns the board."
"Obama's plan involved a gradual emergence to deliver more sanctimonious lectures about "who we are". It did not involve getting directly into a fight with Trump. But, as his other opponents discovered, Trump doesn't give you a choice."
It's the greatest compliment I can offer: I wish I'd have thought of it first – the insight is dazzling.
- 21/3/17
- Mari said...
Ditto on the illuminating nature of this article! Brilliant! Obama reminds me of some "mean girls" I knew in high school. Always come out smelling like a rose even though they were behind every nasty thing that happened.
- 21/3/17
- Anonymous said...
Brilliant article portraying the true Obama and his despicable minions.
I came from a communist country and I was able to identify the techniques Obama was using since his campaign in 2008. He was elected by the ignorance and re-elected by the stupidity of misinformed and indoctrinated Americans. Very sad indeed.
- 21/3/17
- Unknown said...
Anonymous, I wish one of you that have lived in one of these Communist countries would write an article on the similarities of government takeover that we are experiencing. I am truly gobsmacked that otherwise intelligent people cannot see where the leftist agenda is leading us. But if it is not obvious after eight years of the odious Obama, I guess personal experience will be their only teacher. God help us.
- 21/3/17
- Anonymous said...
Good article Daniel, but I have yet to see you write anything negative about Trump. Shapiro has his "good Trump, bad Trump" meme. You must have your reservations, and if so, it would bode well for you to spell them out sometime. If not, maybe you aren't the individual I thought you were.
Is it too much to ask for an honest broker in the Whitehouse?
Obama was awful. I didn't vote for Trump either. Just like Obama, I'll watch Trump to see what he does, not what he says or says he'll do. Sometimes it's been okay, other times he's been a train wreck...his own worst enemy.
I think America can do better than this, but will we?
- 21/3/17
- Anonymous said...
- 21/3/17
- Anonymous said...
Obama is indeed a coward, liar, gaslighter. Gaslighter is the most telling; he artfully plans and lies with the arrogant expectation that his inferior opponents will doubt their own senses and minds. He is even more disgusting than the lying Clintons.
I especially love Trump's direct counterattacks for their honesty. I can see Trump is keeping his promises. Trump clears barriers and keeps going. Damn the sourpuss Republican purists who would have preferred a well-mannered loser. I don't expect my every ideological wish to be met, but Trump is the bravest, most noble patriot we've had in my lifetime and I sing his praises.
- 21/3/17
- Barbar Cat said...
Sheesh! Obama...what a slithery!
- 21/3/17
- Anonymous said...
Obama revealed much about his character when he trotted out that totalitarian 2008 campaign poster -- an alien thing that could only be favored by a narcissistic candidate and the legion of personality-cultists that elected him. The Kenyan thereafter gave us political insights when he began his reign by violating more than 200 years of American tradition when he ostentatiously bowed before a monarch (and a terror-sponsoring one into the bargain), and ended it (along with the world at some point) with his barely-concealed efforts to usher in an Iranian nuke. Trump would no doubt love to bask in the same glow that came so readily to Obama. He sure could use some of the insulation from criticism that the Kenyan enjoyed for eight years. However, the appeal of such circumstances isn't enough to prompt the president to alter anything about himself. How impolitic. Whereas fey Obama attacks his enemies indirectly via minions and subterfuge; manly Trump counters criticism with the bull-moose recklessness of TR in high dudgeon. Maybe it's something about he fact that both the Hero of San Juan Hill and the Resident of Mar-E-Lago hail from privileged Long Island backgrounds. Anyway, while Obama is as phony as a computer-generated birth certificate; despite his flaws and -- IMO -- some undesirable policies, to Trump goes the refreshing virtue of being authentically Queens-borough-brusque.
- 21/3/17
- SwanSpirit said...
Everything you wrote is absolutely true. Obama is a coward and a bully. I especially enjoyed the visualization of Trump punching Obama in the mouth. Thanks for that.
- 22/3/17
- M Jordan said...
In short, Trump is aggressive and Obama is passive-aggressive.
In 2017, aggressive wins.
- 22/3/17
- Chip Ahoy said...
Well done, Daniel Greenfield.
- 22/3/17
- John Rawski said...
One thing that everyone keeps forgetting about Obozo is he is not black. He is half white
- 23/3/17
- Dennis Latham said...
It is time for a purge. Never thought I would say that. The Democrats are done. They have been reduced to the status of an insane relative mumbling in the corner of a family gathering. The Republican party is split. It's not about the people at all. It's about money and power and control. Obama is not relevant at all. He should be tried as a traitor and executed for what he has done to America. The media is also becoming a side show just like Hollywood with all their posturing...until they realized no one cares what they think. With Trump at least we have a shot at fixing things.
- 23/3/17
- Paulsoc Cer said...
I really do hope Trump will keep on track. The last couple of weeks I see more and more rotten apples appearing in his security and foreign affair teams. The MacMasters, Pattersons, Ratneys and Lemperts of this world would make fame and fortune in the Obama administration. Is Trump losing his focus? Are his nominees and counselors who surrounded him the wrong pics after all?
- 23/3/17
- Sophie Maele said...
Obama is also a traitor and a pervert. He should always be referred to as The Treasonous Pervert Obama.
- 23/3/17
- Anonymous said...
Great article. Finally It has been clearly said. This is a perfect description of both men
- 23/3/17
- Anonymous said...
Excellent, excellent piece!
- 23/3/17
- Gary Rosen said...
"When Obama wanted to call Netanyahu "chickens__t", he did it by having one of his people anonymously plant it with a reliable media sycophant, The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg, before later having a spokesman disavow it."
The only reason I can't say that was Obama's low point is that there were so many others. I was so disgusted I sent Goldberg an e-mail calling him out. Though I think I called him "toady" instead of "sycophant".
- 24/3/17
- Anonymous said...
- 24/3/17
- yellowbeaver said...
Trump is a man. Obama is a metrosexual. The culture hopefully is shifting with the Trump election.
- 24/3/17
- Anonymous said...
At the risk of tooting my own horn, I called Obama a coward the moment he became a national name after observing his tactics, phraseology and body language.
He was the son of an itinerant, grasping, codependent mother and, despite the book title, he grew up essentially fatherless. Like most kids uprooted frequently and especially kids moving between nations and/or continents, Obama learned the cynical art of ingratiating himself with a special focus on adults, teachers, authority figures, etc. They praised this glib sycophant as bright, promising, etc. and his impressionable peers within earshot bought the hype, giving him an easy shortcut to popularity. Nothing really changed between his Hawaii days, his matriculation in lily-white leftist hothouses on both coasts, and his presidential campaigns.
Sociopaths are as common as swipe cards in DC but Obama is an especially odious kind.
- 24/3/17
- Anonymous said...
Wow, an extremely perceptive writer! Amen to every word said in this article! A ''coward'' who provoked a guy with lots of guts, Trump!
- 25/3/17
- Anonymous said...
So many bullseyes by Greenfield, also Sophie Maele, yellowbeaver and others. Pervert, coward, metrosexual, vile. 2008 and 2012 were years that American voters abandoned rational self and national interest in favor of Insane Affirmative Action Symbolism. We got precisely the revolting poseur we demanded.
Add to Trump's courage an amazing sense of timing. Finally we saw the ruin ahead.
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WASHINGTON — Help is on the way if you"re confused by the maze of sun protection numbers and other claims on sunscreens.
Starting next summer, you can start looking for SPF 15 bottles and tubes with the label "broad spectrum" and feel confident they"re lowering your risk of skin cancer.
Under new rules published Tuesday, sunscreens will have to filter out the most dangerous type of radiation to claim they protect against skin cancer and premature aging. "Broad spectrum" is the new buzzword from the Food and Drug Administration to describe a product that does an acceptable job blocking both ultraviolet B rays and ultraviolet A rays.
If a sunscreen doesn"t protect against both, or the sun protection factor is below 15, then it has to carry a warning: "This product has been shown only to help prevent sunburn, not skin cancer or early skin aging."
The guidelines, which spent more than 30 years in bureaucratic limbo, are designed to help consumers like Paul Woodburn, who says he"s not sure of the difference between UVA and UVB rays and that he judges sunscreen by one factor alone.
"The SPF number is what counts for me," the 55-year-old Indianapolis resident said as he sat next to a public pool. "Beyond the SPF, I don"t think anybody really watches."
The new regulations require that sunscreens be tested for the ability to block the more dangerous UVA rays, which can penetrate glass and pose the greatest risk of skin cancer and wrinkles. FDA currently requires testing only for protection against UVB rays, which primarily cause sunburn but can also cause cancer and other damage. That"s what the familiar SPF measure is based on.
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· Prohibit sunscreen marketing claims such as "waterproof" and "sweatproof," which the agency said "are exaggerations of performance." Water-resistance claims will be allowed, but companies must explain how much time consumers can expect to get the same benefit while swimming or sweating.
· Cap the highest SPF value at 50, unless companies can provide results of further testing that support a higher number.
· Require that manufacturers phase out a four-star system currently used by some companies to rate UVA protection.
In reviewing more than 3,000 comments submitted to the agency, the FDA decided the star system was too confusing. Instead, protection against UVA should be proportional to protection against UVB, which is already measured using SPF.
SPF measures the amount of sun exposure needed to cause sunburn on UV-protected skin versus unprotected skin. The level of exposure varies by geography, time of day and skin complexion.
There is a popular misconception that SPF relates to time of solar exposure. Many consumers believe that if they normally get sunburn in one hour, then an SPF 15 sunscreen allows them to stay in the sun for 15 hours without burning. This isn"t true because SPF is not directly related to length of sun exposure.
The U.S. market for sunscreens has been growing steadily because of worries about cancer and an aging population. It now totals about $900 million annually, according to research firm IBISWorld.
The new rules were decades in the making.
FDA announced its intent to draft sunscreen rules in 1978 and published them in 1999. The agency then delayed finalizing the regulations until it could address concerns from both industry and consumers.
Some consumer advocates complained the agency"s final guidelines did not go far enough.
"FDA"s rule will allow most products on the U.S. market to use the label "broad spectrum sunscreen," even though some will not offer enough protection to assure Americans they can stay in the sun without suffering skin damage from invisible UVA radiation," said David Andrews, senior scientist with the Environmental Working Group.
The FDA is still working on updated guidelines for spray-on products, which use different formulations from other sun-protection solutions.
Many companies have already adopted some of the language. For example, all Coppertone products from Merck & Co."s Schering-Plough unit and Neutrogena Sunblock from Johnson & Johnson boast "broad spectrum UVA and UVB protection."
Most dermatologists recommend a broad spectrum, water-resistant sunscreen of SPF 30 or higher every two hours while outside.