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A Skillet, a Spatula, and a Dream
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I decided to try to organize my "yarn stash corner" so I can actually see what I have. This would be quite helpful in preventing me from going to my LYS, the Sheep & Wool Festival, and the Wool Arts Tour and buying the same thing I bought the previous year.
First, I had to measure the space in the corner. Since it's under a sloping ceiling, that made it a little more difficult. But I used a tape measure and did the best I could.
I bought five pink stackable plastic milk crates, figuring I could do a column of two and another of three. I could put them open-side out so I could see the contents.
I should have taken a picture of the corner as it was, but I was so excited to get going, I forgot. Just imagine a towering pile of plastic and paper bags, containing goodies not seen since the dark ages.
I did, however, take a picture of all the "keeper" things I pulled out and put on the bed. Unfortunately, it came out blurry. But it'll give you an idea of all the loose skeins of yarn, books, needles, unfinished projects, unSTARTED projects, and knitting bags that were stuffed in that corner.
I also pulled our four bags of yarn scrap odds and ends, a huge pile of old magazines, and a decorative bird's nest. Hmm.
By that point, I was thoroughly weak and exhausted, so I took a lunch break. Who knew it would be such a tough job? I think I burned off at least three hundred calories.
After the nutrition hit my system, I returned and started organizing, which involved storing yarn by weight, swearing, stacking started projects, threatening the milk crates when they made suspicious creaks, and a lot of eye-rolling.
And at last, everything was in place. It's still crowded and not easy to see everything, but it's a vast improvement. What do you think?
I've learned that I have enough lace yarn, virtually all in pink, purple or blue, to make shawls for the entire Radio City Rockettes. My favorites seem to be Cherry Tree Hill yarn, and Ball and Skein yarn, based on how many skeins of each I have.
I have enough sock yarn for three or four pairs of socks, which sounds about right. And a few skeins of various sport and worsted weight yarn.
And I also have about ten unstarted or unfinished projects. I'll certainly never run out of things to do.
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IRS Apologizes for Improper Scrutiny of Conservative Groups
The Internal Revenue Service inappropriately flagged conservative political groups for additional reviews during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax exempt status. John McKinnon reports on the News Hub.
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Have You Heard About… Love Finds You in Sugarcreek, Ohio
… the mysterious stranger in Sugarcreek, Ohio? In Love Finds You in Sugarcreek, Ohio, by Serena Miller, Joe Matthews has been accused of murdering his wife in L.A. He and his little boy, Bobby, are on the run and show up in Sugarcreek looking for a temporary place to stay. Rachel Troyer, who is half Amish and half Englisch, is the local cop. She is very protective of her three elderly Amish aunts who run the small inn where Joe and his son seek shelter. Being a good cop, Rachel is very suspicious of Joe as he won't give her any information on who he really is and why he is in Sugarcreek. He looks and acts too refined to be just a homeless drifter as he proclaims.
The aunts adore Joe and hire him as a handyman until he can get enough money to get back on the road, much to the dismay of Rachel. It isn't until over halfway through the book that you learn who Joe really is, which keeps the suspense high as Rachel starts to fall in love with Joe. When Joe's father and brother turn up and a suspicious fire burns down the inn, you'll be glued to your seat. The twists and turns in this book will keep you hooked to the very end as you laugh, cry and know that there is a happy ending that will surprise everyone.
Sugarcreek, Ohio, also known as "the Little Switzerland of Ohio," is about an hour's drive south of Akron, Ohio. Several places mentioned in the book really do exist, and I can highly recommend Beachey's Country Chalet Restaurant. The food is to die for, but being in Amish country it is not open on Sunday.
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05.04.08 Fast BreaksPosted by rtmsf on May 4th, 2008
Weekend kibbles n' bits…
- Bruce Pearl booted UT guard Ramar Smith and forward Duke Crews off the team, reportedly for failing drug tests.
- New Hoosier head man Tom Crean refused to allow Armon Bassett and Jamarcus Ellis back onto the team, while kicking DeAndre Thomas off the squad as well. This all occurred one day after the bizarre transfer of Eli Holman, leaving Indiana with only seven scholarship players for 2008-09.
- Missisippi State's Ben Hansbrough (little bro of Psycho-T) will transfer to Notre Dame next year, ostensibly because he didn't like the MSU offense.
- Speaking of impact transfers, Georgetown's Vernon Macklin will end up at Florida.
- Ohio State's Kosta Koufos is one-and-done – he signed with an agent.
- Coaching News – Bob Huggins got a raise ($1.5M) and an 11-year extension at WVU – guess he impressed them this year, eh? Their former coach, John Beilein, made the first payment on the $1.5M he owes WVU for breaking his contract last year when he left for Michigan. In a similar vein, former Ohio St. coach Jim O'Brien was paid $2.74M in back pay for being fired by the university even though he admitted to cheating. And Wazzu's Tony Bennett got an extension through 2015 and a $200K raise, totaling his annual compensation to $1M per year (but no increase in his buyout clause).
- Next year's Thanksgiving-week Old Spice Classic will include Tennessee, Michigan St., Gonzaga, Maryland, Georgetown, Oklahoma St., Siena and Wichita St. In other words, loaded.
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The difference in Olympic basketball is that if someone gets hurt it's generally in the summer. The NBA isn't playing there is time to heal plus by and large since the Olympics allowed the top NBA players to participate the U.S. has fielded very, very good teams. Not guys out of the D-League.
Olympic hockey there is a risk yes but the top nations are sending their best teams so I accept that.
Have no opinion on the World Cup since I don't follow or care about soccer.
The WBC has no tradition, no history and was a forced idea by Proud to be Your Bud Selig. It's also played at a time when the individual players need to be in camp playing for what really matters, the 162 game regular season in MLB.
That is exactly why owners would never allow the season to close down to allow the top players to play in the Olympics when they still had baseball. What matters is the regular season---not worth getting a guy hurt for a staged exhibition. Owners wouldn't forgo the money from lost games and didn't want to risk injury. They compromised with Bud on this but I know from speaking with some folks in the front office that they don't particularly like the idea.
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In a few hours I will make my way to Fiumicino to catch the first of three flights back home. First is a flight from Rome to Amsterdam, then the long 12-hour flight to LA, and then another quick flight up to Monterey. It has been a good and productive trip, but it will be wonderful to be home again!
The meetings here concerning our international study institute on the diaconate have gone very well. The University of St. John Lateran (the "Lateranum") has emerged as a key player in our planning, and we laid out a three-year summer program of courses. This means that a person has choices: for those able and interested in doing so, a person could come to Rome for three summers and complete a Master's Degree awarded by the Lateranum. Alternatively, a person could simply come for a single course purely out of personal interest, or, still again, could take a course or two which would provide transfer credit to another graduate degree being taken elsewhere. For example, if a person were working on a Master's degree or Ph.D. at a university in the United States, 1 or 2 of the Institute's courses could be applied to the course work for that degree, since our courses are fully accredited as well. Finally, a student who is enrolled in a university at which one of our faculty members is on staff, the course in Rome can be taken for credit at the faculty member's "home" institution as well. For example, I could teach a course for the Institute in Rome, but a student from Santa Clara University could receive credit from Santa Clara for the course.
The academic prerequisites for the Institute program will be a baccalaureate degree, preferably in Theology or a related discipline. The Roman and Vatican officials are quite insistent that the Institute be a place for graduate level work, and this really is the point of the Institute as well. Courses are open to all qualified persons (and not only deacons) who are interested in study and research on the diaconate, and this cuts a wide swath: from history and archaeology, to biblical exegesis and the patristics, to ecclesiology, systematics, moral, spiritual and liturgical theology, to canon law.
Not all courses will be taught every summer. Instead, there is a three-year plan of study: the first summer will be devoted to scripture and the patristics; the second summer to theology, and the third summer to pastoral-ministerial topics.
We even agreed on a name of the Institute. It will be known as the "Studium Internazionale sul Diaconato San Lorenzo": the "Saint Lawrence International Institute on the Diaconate"
Once I get home, I'll be working on developing some English language materials on all of this, and we're putting together a web site that will link everyone together as well. So stay tuned!
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Arrivederci, Roma; Welcome, USA!
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Thanks, Bill. This excites me greatly. I look forward to learning more and becoming a student, especially now that I finished with my M.A.! Working on my thesis only whetted my appetite.ReplyDelete
I am very interested in learing more about this institute once information becomes available. I have my BA in general theology and earned MA in pastoral theology in 2007.ReplyDelete
Very exciting. I just finished my MA in pastoral theology about a year ago. Soon I'll be looking for continuing education for my chaplaincy certification with the NACC. The diaconate has not been restored in my home diocese, but I'm very interested in learning even more about the diaconate as I feel called to discern it as a vocation. Keep me posted.ReplyDelete
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Etsy Finds: Eco-Friendly Christmas Stockings
Each of these Christmas stockings had a previous life, from the sail on a boat to a woolen sweater or a plastic bottle…
There's a little something for everyone in these Etsy shops, whether you're looking for whimsical or elegant, brightly colored or subdued. Be sure to click on the links to see more stocking designs in each shop.
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1 Christmas Stockings made from wool sweaters and blankets, $15-18 from pogoshop
2 Holiday Stockings made from sail boat sails, $46-48 from reiter8
3 Stockings made from EcoSpun felt (recycled plastic bottles), $18-22 from rikrak
4 Holiday Stockings made from coffee bean bags, $15-18 from thebeehivery
5 Christmas Stockings made from reclaimed and vintage fabrics, $30 from Tuuni
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EU Parliament Member Asks EU Commission What It Will Do If Italy Approves One Strike Copyright Law
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Via the press it has come to my attention that the Italian Parliament is currently considering a draft law by which internet users can be disconnected and blacklisted if they have been accused on an intellectual property infringement. The accusation does not necessarily need to originate from the rights holder of the work in question.While it will be interesting to see how the EU Commission responds, just the fact that such questions are being asked should hopefully generate some attention to this awful proposal.
The draft law as it is proposed, violates several EU laws and principles, including:
- Article 1(3a) of the telecoms package, amending the Framework Directive 2002/21/EC,
- Article 6 ECHR concerning a fair trail
- Article 10 ECHR concerning the freedom to seek, receive and impart information,
- The principles of necessity and proportionality, and,
- Depending on implementation, the exemptions of intermediary liability in E-Commerce Directive 2000/31/EC,
Does the Commission agree the Italian proposal is in violation with EU laws and principles? If not, why not? What concrete action will the Commission undertake to put a halt to measures being implemented by Member States by which citizens may be disconnected from the internet?


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Steak Frites – Vermont to Shanghai
The good homie, Jack Moore, has been throwing art shows back in Vermont for a while now under the moniker Steak Frites. He used to live out here in Shanghai a couple years back and has been back visiting us for the last month or so. The dude's been getting busy while out here, doing board graphics, displaying paintings at Push Fest and surfing couches like the seasoned pro he is.
This Friday at FLY Streetwear, we have a Steak Frites pop-up event with work from 50, Bilal, Jack Moore, JMART, Ryan Nimmo and Sally Zou. I'll be premiering my Official Tissue year-end remix video as well. The video will be a bunch of footage you've already seen, re-chopped & re-screwed, plus some new unseen clips and b-sides.
KRZA will be there playing music while you responsibly sip free beers from Vedett.
It's all going down this Friday, December 16th at FLY Streetwear – 704 Changle Lu, near Fumin Lu 长乐路704号, 近富民路.
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Documentary Film on MXIBS to Debut on Campus• February 2, 2007 Share:
Why does the Malcolm X Institute of Black Studies exist on the campus of a small, liberal arts college in Crawfordsville, Ind. One graduate has used his film-making skills to address that question.
Jo Throckmorton '87, president of Blue Ace Media in Bloomington, has directed a documentary film titled "A Legacy of Hope." The film will have its world premiere 12:30 p.m., February 17 on the Wabash College campus as part of MXI Alumni Weekend activities.
Other public screenings will take place later in the month of February.
Throckmorton will introduce the film and be available for questions and answers following the film's showing.
Throckmorton began filming in the spring of 2005 after gaining the support of Horace Turner, then the MXIBS director, and then college president Andy Ford. The film is a story of the creation, early challenges and continuing relevance of a cultural center devoted to black studies on a campus composed primarily of white students.
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Asian stock markets have made hefty gains this year despite global economic uncertainty, but in the weeks ahead, analysts warn against volatility and a possible pull-back in equities if the U.S. is unable to avert the "fiscal cliff" – a series of tax hikes and spending cuts that could tip the world's largest economy into recession.
This year, Japan's Nikkei 225 and Hong Kong's Hang Seng have both jumped nearly 23 percent, and Australia's S&P/ASX 200 has climbed about 15 percent. Gains in Southeast Asia have been equally impressive, with Singapore's Straits Times Index advancing about 21 percent, the Stock Exchange of Thailand Index 36 percent and the Philippine Stock Exchange Index 33 percent.
However, all that could change and there could be a rocky start to 2013 if the U.S. Congress does not reach a deal over the "cliff" by December 31, which would trigger $600 billion in tax hikes and spending cuts on the first day of the new year, analysts said.
"If we go over the 'fiscal cliff' and all these Americans wake up on Wednesday morning and go off to work and their pay packets are lower than they were last week because their taxes have all gone up, that's going to hit the economy pretty hard," said Stephen Halmarick, head of investment market research with Colonial First State Global Asset Management in Sydney.
"If the U.S. economy is going to be flat lining or even worse, in recession, I think you will see quite a pullback in Asian markets, perhaps in the order of 5 percent, maybe even higher," Halmarick told CNBC Asia's "Squawk Box" on Monday.
(Read more: Asia's Booming Equities Starting to Lose Their Shine)
U.S. markets, which fell about 1 percent on Friday because of concerns over the "cliff", would also be hit, he said. The key to markets' performance next year is the economic recovery in the U.S. and he hopes that the 2-2.5 percent pace that the country is on track to grow at remains intact.
However, after a day of talks that were expected to yield some sort of compromise on the so-called "fiscal cliff," Senate leaders called off any further votes until Monday morning, just hours before the deadline. The Senate will meet again on New Year's Eve at 11 am eastern time, the last full day before the "cliff" takes effect.
(Read more: No Fiscal Deal, Senate to Return for Dramatic New Year's Eve)
"The next 28 hours is going to be quite harrowing. There's more than a 50 percent chance that we are going over the 'fiscal cliff'," said PK Basu, managing director and head of Asia research and economics with Maybank Kim Eng in Singapore. "But the U.S. political system has an ability to reach last-minute deals, so 27 hours and 59 minutes from now, we will get something done."
Basu adds that the temporary deal will likely focus on tax rates going up for those earning either $250,000 and above or $400,000 and above a year, which Republicans have been reluctant to agree to.
(Read more: In Obama's Plan to Tax Rich, $250,000 Figure May Mislead)
But we will see some compromise from the Democrats in terms of spending cuts. This will at least buy both sides some time to then negotiate a more comprehensive deal in January and February, he said.
Until a full agreement is reached, markets will remain volatile, as indicated by in the Chicago Board Options Exchange's Volatility Index, or VIX, a widely used measure of market risk.
The so-called fear gauge or VIX jumped to its highest level since mid-June last Friday.
Most investors are not hopeful that a full deal can be reached by December 31, said Ray Attrill, co-head of forex strategy with National Australia Bank in Sydney.
"If you look at that jump that we saw in the VIX on Friday, that's certainly the way some people have chosen to position into year end," Attrill said.
"And if we do get a little bit of euphoria that we at least avoided the "fiscal cliff" with some kind of a deal that's patched together over the next couple of days, any rally is going to be very short-lived," he added.


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Sticky Institute is a Melbourne based specialist zine shop, situated in Degraves Street Subway under Flinders Street.
Sticky is run by volunteers and is open six days a week. The artist space boasts its own typewriter pool, guillotine for revolutions, badge machines, long armed staplers and questionable music. With over 50 new zines and indie publications a month, Sticky is the only specialist zine shop and artist space of its kind globally. It is also known for its online shrine to Chester Carlson, extensive zineopedia, and for hosting the spectacular Festival of the Photocopier in February of each year, and the mischievous International Literature Conspiracy Week held by the Federation of Independent Thought.
The institute accepts all zines on consignment with a simple submission process and take only 20% commission.
P.O. Box 310
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Victoria 8009
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- Sticky website, which also includes a handy Australian 'zine directory and cultural dictionary'
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- Future Melbourne: artist run spaces / artist run initiatives: Sticky and Melbourne's zine culture By Eloise Peace, co-coordinator of Sticky, August 2007, commissioned by the City of Melbourne.


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Eugene wrote:Same here, PTO driven on the one I own.farmallcub49 wrote:The rotary brooms were run of the PTO, at least mine is.
Mine is too.
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Eugene wrote:Same here, PTO driven on the one I own.farmallcub49 wrote:The rotary brooms were run of the PTO, at least mine is.
ad356 wrote:is that snowblower in the video something that was produced by IH or was it something that someone custom built?
Rudi wrote:As far as Danco manuals/brochures/spec sheets, I have been searching for at least 8 years. Those things are as scarce as hen's teeth. But if I find one I can guarantee that I am going to get it .. that's for sure
ad356 wrote:why were they not more popular, you think that they would sell well.
I guess I am going to have to break this up into 3 or 4 posts as there is a fair amount of information here. This first pic is from my Father-in-law. This is the snowblower setup he build way back when.. and mounted it on the Putt-Putt. Pic was taken in February 1964.
This one is of the very same blower, but on wooden skids.. you will notice the rooster tail..
This one was taken in either 1959 or 1960.. a few years before the conversion.
Dad has been telling me about this conversion of his for almost 27 years now.. and it is one of the primary motivations behind my Cub SnowBlower project as well. Not being as mechanically adept as Dad (he built the Putt-Putt and it's brother Lil' Red from scratch using old car/truck parts etc.), it takes me a lot longer to figure things out.
It is because of the pics above that I believe that a Cub will be more than enough motive power for a self-powered snowblower mounted on the front, as you can clearly see that the Putt-Putt has a self-powered blower on the front of it as well. And the old Briggs & Stratton was only a 6hp model. I have always believed that Ellie could do the job, no matter what the ground speed is... as long as conditons determine the proper throttle.
Hope you like the pics. I wish the family still had that snowblower.. not sure where it got to...
Cub's = farm tractors. Iowa snow belt farm kid. Really didn't need a snow blower on the farm. Besides that, folks could not afford a non income producing machine that would only get used a few hours a year.ad356 wrote:why were they not more popular, you think that they would sell well.
Eugene wrote:No need to remove all the snow from the farm house and barn lot. Only needed a path to the farm building and to get the car out to the road.
eHow The History of Snowblowers wrote:The First Push Snowblower
Lawn-care company Toro introduced the first domestic push-type snowblower in 1951, followed by Ariens in 1961 and Simplicity in 1962. The early machines were rather small, with an engine of only three to four horsepower.
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For decades the Turkish-Israeli alliance has been one of the defining relationships of the Middle East.
This month it broke down, shifting the ground of regional politics and economy.
Inflamed by a UN report on the Gaza Flotilla confrontation, Prime Minister Recep Tayyep Erdogan suspended military ties with Israel, kicked out the Israeli ambassador, and pushed the UN vote for a Palestinian state in a speech to the Arab League.
His rhetoric – comparing Israel to a 'spoiled child' – resonated in the Arab street and with his own Islamist voter base in Turkey.
Analyst Taufiq Rahim says it is a strategic gamble: Erdogan is betting that he can cut loose an ally in Israel, cultivate friends in the Arab world, and maintain the benefits of his ties to the West.
As a net effect, Turkey projects greater influence in the region.
'Erdogan is on his empire complex,' Rahim told Bloomberg Television.' He's creating an existential rift with Israel and using that currency to curry favour with a large part of the Middle East.' That favour helps open new markets, diversifying Turkey's map of trade and investment.
As an economic slowdown engulfs the West, Turkey is turning to the Arab world for more of its economic growth. Erdogan's visit to Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya last week – the 'Arab Spring' tour – was a masterstroke in the politics of business.
Nearly three hundred Turkish businessmen joined his delegation, signing deals on the spot worth hundreds of millions of dollars. At stake in Libya alone: $15 billion dollars in unfinished contracts, some from projects between Turkish companies and the Qaddafi regime.
Today, Erdogan is moving to woo the new Libya, cheering the revolution and praying with the crowds in martyr's square. That helps Turkish companies move to the fore, smoothing over old deals and angling for the projected $200 billion in infrastructure spending to rebuild Libya over a decade.
Politics, religion, and business have been intertwined in Erdogan's Turkey, and they all point toward greater Arab-Turkish integration. Erdogan's Islamist sensibilities favour a closer connection with the Muslim world, his supporters are warm to the anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian stance, and both have helped Turkish companies find fertile markets in places like Iraq, Egypt, Syria, and Saudi Arabia.
That's a sharp shift from just a decade ago, slicing through the Arab-Turkish tension left over from the Ottoman empire. Across the Middle East and North Africa trade reached $30 billion last year, surging sixfold since Erdogan's party took power in 2002. In contrast, trade between Turkey and Israel was $2.7 billion in the first seven months of this year, according to government figures.
But the strategic calculus is harder to crunch. 'Turkey has quite a bit to lose here,' said Jonathan Schanzer, analyst in Washington. 'NATO is looking sideways at it right now, wondering whether it's a reliable partner. And you have the U.S. questioning its alliance.'
Schanzer says Turkey's shift is a lose-lose-lose – bad for Israel's security, bad for Turkey's long term strategy, and disastrous for U.S. interests in the Middle East.
Some Israeli companies have already lost from the diplomatic row. Elbit Systems, suppliers of military equipment to Turkey, saw its stock price fall 5% after Erdogan suspended military ties (though that tracked overall losses on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange).
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If, like me, you tend to get glued to your TV or computer screen when extreme weather strikes, then you know that 2011 was a very active year with respect to natural disasters. 2011 has distinguished itself as the third most active year on record for hurricanes, and set the record on billion dollar weather disasters in the United States.
Climate scientists warn us that with increasing global temperatures wet places will get wetter, dry places will get drier and storms could get much more intense. This translates into more droughts, wildfires, floods, hurricanes and tornadoes. Good times. Science skeptics aside, there's no denying that lately we've been experiencing that increased intensity.
The year was filled with headlines about "historic snow packs," "record-setting high temperatures" and "historic droughts." In news report after news report, someone affected by a recent wildfire or flood was quoted as saying, "I've never seen it like this before." As early as June, NOAA scientists were calling 2011 "one of the most extreme years on record."
In the 1990s, there was an average 46 federal disasters declared annually; last year, there were 81 ; this year there were 98.
According to the National Academy of Sciences, "Climate change is occurring, is very likely caused primarily by the emission of greenhouse gases from human activities, and poses significant risks for a range of human and natural systems." According to Climate Communication, "All weather events are now influenced by climate change because all weather now develops in a different environment than before...climate change has shifted the odds and changed the natural limits, making certain types of extreme weather more frequent and more intense."
One entity that is particularly impacted by all the crazy weather (and the lack of future predictability) is the insurance industry, and you'd better believe the industry is embracing the concept of climate change. Check out this Market Watch story to see a sampling of quotes about climate change from major insurance companies. They are all reading the (scientific) writing on the wall and drawing the same conclusions: climate change is not a hoax, it's real and it's going to cost everyone a lot of money.
A March 2008 study by Ernst & Young lists climate change as the number one risk to the insurance industry, describing climate change as "long-term, far-reaching and with significant impact on the industry." So, how does the industry interpret "significant impact"? According to Peter Hoppe, head of Munich Re's corporate climate center, "If we [the industry] know the risk, then climate change is no problem for our business model." By "no problem" they, of course, mean that they will be passing that risk on to customers in the form of raised rates, exclusions on coverage or outright denial of coverage.
Take Alabama, a state ravaged by devastating tornadoes last spring. Rates have risen in the state by as much as eight or nine percent this year; however, those rates were already on the rise before the April 27 tornado outbreak that devastated Montgomery. That's because home insurance rates aren't set to recoup losses from damage caused by current disasters but are set to cover predicted future losses, and the models that incorporate climate change are predicting big increases in future losses.
A 2007 Environmental Defense Fund report found that, after Hurricane Katrina, homeowners insurance rates increased nationally between 20-100 percent. In some states rates doubled, tripled or more. In Florida, the situation has been labeled "The Insurance Crisis" and the state legislature now regularly considers measures that would produce a friendlier business climate for insurance companies (of course, making it more expensive and exclusive for property owners). Yikes!
Recent weather-related natural disasters have driven home the point that insurance companies don't cover flood damage. Homeowners seeking flood insurance must turn to the National Flood Insurance Program, part of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), for flood insurance. In order to qualify for this insurance you have to live in a flood zone in a community that participates in the program.
While this may seem like a sure bet for coverage in flood-related disasters, FEMA constantly juggles the needs of past and current disasters and the funding isn't always there. This past year, a budget shortfall threatened to shut down disaster recovery projects in numerous states throughout the country. This will become increasingly troublesome as people who live in flood-prone areas face continual flood threats and turn to the government to bail them out, and especially when people brazenly tempt the fates by building homes in areas that are almost sure to flood (Dakota Dunes, anyone?).
Unfortunately, the insurance industry is finding new ways to manage their business model by widening exclusions. Some companies have stopped covering mold damage because of the explosive growth in this type of damage. Guess what increased precipitation and humidity brings with it? That's right – increased mold damage.
Insurance companies have also started excluding coverage for damage from windstorms, and by "windstorms" they mean hurricanes, tornadoes and hailstorms (and how many of us don't live in an area prone to windstorms?). If you live in large swaths of the United States you may find yourself having to purchase separate windstorm coverage that could more than double the cost of homeowners insurance. I think they call that a "gotcha."
Some insurance companies have stopped providing coverage altogether in areas most affected by climate change. In 2007 Allstate said that climate change had prompted it to cancel or not renew policies in many Gulf Coast states. Soon after, State Farm and Farmer's followed suit, and now some coverage is denied or limited even in the mid-Atlantic and northeastern states (who knew Vermont could get hurricane damage?).
Time to rethink buying that cute little beach bungalow.
Whether or not you believe in climate change doesn't really matter where insurance is concerned because insurance companies sure do believe, and that belief could impact your ability to insure your investment. You buy insurance to protect against disasters that could threaten your investment. Insurance companies write policies that are, in the long run, designed to make them money. It's idealistic to think that they are there through thick and thin – like a good neighbor! – but ultimately, companies don't think twice about passing the costs of climate change on to you, or if you become too much of a risk, dropping you altogether. As you buy a new home or look for new coverage, these are just a few of the things you'll need to consider.
Just a little something to ponder as you watch the 24/7 disaster news feed and contemplate your own risk.


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In a nutshell, progress has been quite good. We may not be at par with the other language versions, but we've nearly hit the 50 mark and the future's looking bright. The basic interface has been translated, but some of the system messages are still in English.
Our main page was redesigned in April to meet wikitravel standards. It now has a full-fledged Travel News Section (hi:विकिट्रैवल:समाचार) and Discover Section hi:विकिट्रैवल:क्या आपको मालूम है
Hi's still not "useful" per se, but some articles like hi:भारत and hi:परिवाहन have basic info, albeit minimal.
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Main Page
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The isIn template has been created, but the problem is that an underscore has to be used instead of a spacebar. There's a debate regarding the usage of the quickbar. Most article templates have been translated, only the "National Park" template is left. We still haven't been able to come up with a suitable word for "Cope" :(
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I once read a scientific article on black holes that started of on the observation that, since a hole is the absence of anything and black is invisible in space, a black hole is in fact an invisible nothing – so what the heck are we talking about? Well, almost the same can be said about NULL in databases.
Let's first take a look at what NULL is supposed to be. Here is the definition of NULL from the SQL-2003 standard:
null value: A special value that is used to indicate the absence of any data value.
This definition differs significantly from some common misconceptions about NULL:
· NULL is not the same as the numeric value 0, even though they are pronounced the same in some languages (like Dutch or German).
· NULL is also not the same as the string value '' (also known as the empty string), even though many Oracle developers would like to believe so. However, they can't be blamed for this as this is completely Larry Ellison's fault.
· NULL is definitely not the same as either of the date values January 1st 1753, January 1st 1900, or December 31st 9999, even though there might be valid (performance related) reasons to use either of those values as a magic value instead of NULL in a specific situation.
· Moving to the more controversial stuff, NULL does not mean "not applicable". Of course, a NULL in a table is often a result of the attribute not being applicable for a specific occurrence of the entity stored in the table (e.g., a column "birthday" in a customer table that stores details of businesses as well as humans) – but in other columns and other tables, or even in another row of the same table, there might be a completely different reason for the data being missing (absent)!
· And saving the best (read: most controversial) for the last, NULL is also definitely not meant to signify "unknown". Again, a NULL in a table might result from the value being unknown at data entry time (e.g., when we forget to ask a customer for his or her birthday), but there might be other reasons as well. Unfortunately, many text books insist on explaining the behaviour of NULL in expressions by describing NULL as unknown, rather than missing or absent, causing this misconception about NULL to be the most widespread and the hardest to combat.
Allow me to dwell some more on this whole unknown/not applicable thing, as it's able to confuse even highly-appraised scientists – as is aptly demonstrated in "Much Ado About Nothing", an exchange between Dr. E.F. Codd and C.J. Date about NULL, in which Date gets Codd to agree that there should be more than one kind of NULL. The fact that both Codd and Date apparently missed, is that the examples used in their debate failed to meet the basic rules of normalization! Moving back to the birthday example to illustrate this, it is true that NULL in this column can have different causes – but that doesn't change the meaning of this NULL, which is limited to "the birthday for this particular customer is not in the database". If the business doesn't care why a birthday is missing, then the fact that there might be different causes doesn't have any consequences on the database. If, on the other hand, the business does case about the reason that a birthday is missing, then this reason should of course be modeled and stored in the database – but not in the same column as the birthday! "Birthday" is one attribute and "Reason birthday is missing" is a different attribute – heck, they even have completely disjunctive domains! The fact that these attributes are mutually exclusive doesn't warrant violating first normal form by stuffing these two attributes in a single column! In this case, a proper design for a SQL Server table would look like this:
CREATE TABLE Customers
(CustomerID int NOT NULL,
Birthday datetime NULL,
ReasonNoBirthday int NULL,
— Other columns,
CONSTRAINT PK_Customers PRIMARY KEY (CustomerID),
— Time part for birthday has to be midnight
CONSTRAINT CK_Birthday CHECK
— Birthday mutually exclusive with ReasonNoBirthday
CONSTRAINT CK_ReasonNoBirthday CHECK
((Birthday IS NULL AND ReasonNoBirthday IS NOT NULL)
OR (Birthday IS NOT NULL AND ReasonNoBirthday IS NULL))
Things get more complex when nullable columns are used in expressions and predicates. In a procedural language, this wouldn't have been a problem – if a procedural program fails to find the information it needs, it enters a conditional branch to handle this situation, as defined by the programmer. In a declarative, set-based language such as SQL, this was not possible. The alternatives were either to have the SQL developer add conditional expressions for each nullable column in a query to handle missing data, or to define a decent default behavior in SQL for missing data so that developers only have to write explicit conditional expressions if they need to override the default behavior.
The default NULL handling in expressions is very much based on how humans would handle similar situations. For instance, stop and think a moment what you would reply if I asked you to calculate my age, and to mimic database behavior, I'd also constrain your answer to be within the domain of integer values. You'd probably first ask me for my birthday. But if I refuse to specify my birthday, you would be unable to answer the question – so you wouldn't answer it at all. And this is exactly what a database does – if any value to be used in an expression is missing (NULL) , there won't be any result of the expression; in other words, the result is missing (NULL) as well. This is known as the rule of NULL propagation: any expression in SQL returns NULL if any of its input arguments is NULL (with the notable exception of a few functions that are specifically conceived for NULL handling). And that is a second similarity between NULL and a black hole: the gravity of a black hole pulls in everything that gets too close, causing it to "disappear" in the hole, and the rule of NULL propagation causes any expression that has a NULL in it to have no result, as if the other input values disappear as well.
Just to confuse matters more, default handling of NULL in a predicate is different. There is a valid reason for this, though. First of all, expressions are supposed to return a value that adheres to the rule of a datatype, but "Hey dude, I can't answer that" is obviously not a valid value in any numeric, date, time, or datetime domain. It would of course be valid in a domain for character strings, but you can't just overload what might already be a valid "regular" value with a special meaning. NULL however is valid, in any domain. So there really was no other choice but to return NULL if input data for an expression is missing. The reason that predicates can't be handled the same way, is that a predicate is typically used in a WHERE expression, so there has to be a result for each row – even if some input data is missing, the DBMS still has to decide whether or not to include the row in the output. This problem was also solved by mimicking what humans would do. Suppose I'd ask you to tell me whether I am older than thirty-five. This time, I won't restrict your answer to any domain, but I do force you to give an answer. And of course, I still refuse to disclose my date of birth. So, since you obviously can't say "yes" or "no" without having a 50% chance of being wrong, what will your answer be? Probably some more or less polite variation of "bugger off, dude, how am I supposed to know that if you don't disclose your birthday?" Translated back to database terms, you answer would not be true or false, but unknown. Not unknown because some input data is unknown (as some text books write), but unknown because some input data is missing.
This choice solves the problem, since we are now able to evaluate each predicate in a WHERE clause for each row, with the result being either true (row is included), false (row is omitted), or unknown (in which case the row is omitted as well). In a future post, I will cover how this affects logical expressions that involve AND, OR, or NOT to modify predicates, and how unknown is sometimes treated the same as false, yet other times treated the same as true, depending on the context of the predicate.
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I find this a very interesting discussion of NULL. Well done. I especially like pointing out the difference between "Birthday" and "Why Birthday is missing" as being separate attributes. That being said, I'm not sure I agree. I'm still chewing on this, but I love angle you've taken (catchy title too 🙂 ).
Talking about Birthdays, here is something interesting: Birthday paradox
In probability theory, the birthday paradox states that in a group of 23 (or more) randomly chosen people, there is more than 50% probability that some pair of them will have the same birthday. For 57 or more people, the probability is more than 99%
Actually the chewing is more overall – I would agree with the separation of attributes. After chewing on it (resulting in very little sleep and dreams about playing poker with Codd, Date and Larry Ellison – we ended up throwing Ellison out of the game), I believe I have my finger on what gave me pause. It results in me babbling significantly to explain, so I'm going to respond fully in separate post.
I still really, really your discussion of things. You took theory and moved it to real world very nicely.
Hi James,
Next time you find yourself in a poker game with Codd, Date, and Ellison, throw them all and keep their chips for yourself.
I'm really looking forward to your post. Maybe I ought to say that I'm sorry for making you lose sleep, but fact is, I am not – it's always a good thing to get people to think!
Hugo, your Customers table certainly isn't in 2NF.
A functional dependecy x -> y over r must satisfy that x = y forall tuples in r – not the case if the table contains nulls. (For example see "Theory of R. DB." (Maier) p42 for the formal definitions and some important consequences).
Normalization of optional attributes can be done by decomposition. Fairly obviously, the Birthday and ReasonNoBirthday attributes belong in separate tables since they refer to different entities – "Customer with birthday" and "Customer without birthday".
Hi David,
Thanks for your comments. However, I don't think I can agree. I had to do some googling in order to find formal definitions for 2NF, since I am used to working with a modeling method that skips normalisation and takes the model straight into 5NF. I found some contradicting ways to formulate the requirements for 2NF, but no real disagreements.
I'll go with the definition on Wikipedia: "a 1NF table is in 2NF if and only if, given any candidate key and any attribute that is not a constituent of a candidate key, the non-key attribute depends upon the whole of the candidate key rather than just a part of it".
I did not google for a definition of functional dependency, since I know that Y is functionally dependent on X if for any given value of X, there is at most one value of Y.
By this definition of functional dependency, both Birthday and ReasonNoBirthday are definitely functional dependent on CustomerID, since for each CustomerID, there will be either exacly one Birthday or none at all (NULL), and exactly one ReasonNoBirthday or none at all (NULL).
The Customers table has one candidate key: CustomerID. It has two non-key columns: Birthday and ReasonNoBirthday. Both are functionally dependent on the candidate key, ergo the table is in second normal form.
Unless I am really being led astray as to the 2NF definition or as to the definition of functional dependency, but I'm sure you'll tell me if I am!
Hey Hugo,
I think you are making excellent points, I loved your post! Just wanted to note that I think that Birthday is functionally dependent on both CustomerID and ReasonNoBirthday . If ReasonNoBirthday is not null, then Birthday must be NULL. In some cases ReasonNoBirthday is also functionally dependent on both CustomerID and Birthday – it is when you must specify ReasonNoBirthday when you omit Birthday. However, I think in some cases you can omit both Birthday and ReasonNoBirthday – it depends on your business rules. What do you think?
Hi Alex,
Birthday would be functionally dependent on both CustomerID and ReasonNoBirthday if you have to specify both before you can tell for sure what (if any) the birthday is. That is clearly not the case – given a CustomerID, I can tell you without a trace of a doubt (assuming I trust the contents of my DB) whether a birthday is stored for this customer and what it is.
An example of functional dependency on more than one attribute would be the AmountOrdered being dependant on the combination of OrderID and OrderLineNo. If you only know the OrderID, you can't tell me the AmountOrdered (unless you're lucky and it's a one-line order), and neither can you tell me the AmountOrdered if I supply OrderLineNo but not OrderID. You really need both before you can tell me the AmountOrdered.
Sure, there is a relationship between Birthday and ReasonNoBirthday (as captured in the CHECK constraint), but it's not a relationship of functional dependancy.
The quote "any expression in SQL returns NULL if any of its input arguments is NULL (with the notable exception of a few functions that are specifically conceived for NULL handling)." appears a bit misleading? AFAIK sum, min, max, and other statistical functions were Not "specifically conceived for NULL handling": Consider SELECT
SUM(NUMERIC_SCALE) AS SumIsNullInsensitive
,STDEV(NUMERIC_SCALE) AS STDEVIsNullInsensitive
,MIN(NUMERIC_SCALE) AS MinIsNullInsensitive
,Max(NUMERIC_SCALE) AS MaxIsNullInsensitive
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.columns
Suggested reading – http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/databaseid/
Hi "sql",
You make a fair point. I admit that I forgot to include aggregate functions in my post.
Since aggregate functions are quite simple, I won't write a seperate post on them. Their treatment of NULLs is very simple – they just dsiregard them. So if you have a table with three rows, with values 10, 90, and NULL in an integer column, then the results of MIN(column), MAX(column), SUM(column), AVG(column), and COUNT(column) will be 10, 90, 100, 50, and 2 – just as if the row with the NULL value doesn't exist at all.
If the elimitanion of NULL values results in no rows being left, COUNT(..) will return 0 and all other aggregate functions will return NULL (just as when they are run on an empty table).
The fourth (and final) part of this series about NULL is now available at http://sqlblog.com/blogs/hugo_kornelis/archive/2007/09/30/what-if-null-if-null-is-null-null-null-is-null.aspx.
Returning to the Dates of Birth – I've taken to seperating Day, Month and Year into seperate fields in SQL Server instead of treating Date Of Birth as a Date. Why ? My analysis has shown that in most systems containing public or customer data that a higher than expected proportion of people are being recorded as being born on the 1st of any specific month (5-10% more than statistically probable, depending on the type of system). Unless its absolutely required otherwise I've got into the habit of making this three nullable fields – this means that when someone simply gives their age, (or possibly guesses at their own date of birth – common for those that have no cerain birth record) we can record without forced inaccuracy, exactly the information given. A simple calculated field will give an implied date of birth if neccessary, but it prevents the operator being forced to enter inaccurate data just because the data type demands it.


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