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Benjamin Franklin's genius gave him no rest. A discontented man finds no easy chair. On April 4, 1757, he left Philadelphia by carriage, and reached New York just four days later, ready to sail for London. But one delay piled upon another, like so much ragged paper jamming a printing press, and he found himself stuck for more than two months. In all his fifty-one years, he could barely remember having "spent Time so uselessly." (From childhood, Franklin, the son of a chandler, had toiled from dawn to dusk only to squander the tallow "reading the greatest Part of the Night.") Waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough. He had some business to attend to—he wrote a new will, and more letters than other men write in a lifetime—but it was scarcely enough. "This tedious State of Uncertainty and long Waiting, has almost worn out my Patience," he wrote to his wife, asking her to send along a pair of spectacles he had left behind. What signifies your Patience, if you can't find it when you want it. He didn't board until June 5th, and then the confounded ship lay anchored at Sandy Hook for two weeks. In his cabin, maybe even before the ship finally sailed on June 20th, he at last found something to do: he set about stringing together proverbs taken from twenty-five years of his "Poor Richard's Almanack."
Franklin finished his little essay at sea, on July 7, 1757. When he reached England, he sent it back on the first westbound vessel. It was published as the Preface to "Poor Richard Improved, 1758," although it was soon reprinted, in at least a hundred and forty-five editions and six languages even before the eighteenth century was over, usually with the title "The Way to Wealth." "It long ago passed from literature into the general human speech," Carl Van Doren wrote in 1938, in an extraordinarily elegant biography of Franklin. This year marks the two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of "The Way to Wealth," among the most famous pieces of American writing ever, and one of the most willfully misunderstood. A lay sermon about how industry begets riches (No Gains, without Pains), "The Way to Wealth" has been taken for Benjamin Franklin's—and even America's—creed, and there's a line or two of truth in that, but not a whole page. "The Way to Wealth" is also a parody, stitched and bound between the covers of a sham.
In 1767, when Franklin was sixty-one, long since famous the world over for his experiments with electricity but years before he signed the Declaration of Independence, the Treaty of Paris, and the Constitution, his sister asked him for a copy of "all the Political pieces" he had ever written. "I could as easily make a Collection for you of all the past Parings of my Nails," he answered. Today, more than a half century after the editors of "The Papers of Benjamin Franklin" started collecting those parings—not just Franklin's published writings but his thousands of letters, ledgers, notebooks, and unpublished essays—they're still not finished, and not for lack of trying. (Thirty-eight of a projected forty-seven volumes of Franklin's Papers have been published.) If you wou'd not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing. Very few people have written more than Benjamin Franklin, and you would be hard pressed to think of anyone who has done more. And yet he remains as woefully misunderstood as his "Way to Wealth." Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly.
Franklin, who had a rule for everything, had a rule for writing: "No Piece can properly be called good, and well written, which is void of any Tendency to benefit the Reader, either by improving his Virtue or his Knowledge." But he roped himself to this and so many other masts only because he found himself so cast about by "the Force of perpetual Temptations." He is a Governor that governs his Passions, and he a Servant that serves them. He carried with him a little book in which he kept track, day by day, of whether he had lived according to thirteen virtues, including Silence, which he hoped to cultivate "to break a Habit I was getting into of Prattling, Punning and Joking." What made Franklin great was how nobly he strived for perfection; what makes him almost impossibly interesting is how far short he fell of it.
The vast bulk of Franklin's writing, and especially of his political pieces, is sober, stirring, and grave, as the occasion, and the times, all too often demanded. But he was also a sucker for a good joke, or, really, even a lousy one. He loved hoaxes and counterfeits and had the sort of fondness for puns that, if he hadn't been so charming, would have been called a weakness. As it was, his enemies damned his "trivial mirth." John Adams, who resented him, conceded, "He had wit at will," and "talents for irony, allegory, and fable," but characterized his humor as "infantine simplicity." Franklin's best satires are relentlessly scathing social and political commentary attacking tyranny, injustice, ignorance, and, at the end of his life, slavery. Yet reading his letters you get the sense that he couldn't always govern his wit, as when, striving to collect himself, he began a new paragraph, "But to be serious."
When Franklin was sixteen, and in the fourth year of a miserable apprenticeship to his brother James, a Boston printer, because their father had no money to send any of the six surviving Franklin sons to college (there were also seven daughters), he pulled off his first notable stunt. Disguising his handwriting, he wrote an essay under the pen name Silence Dogood, and slipped it under the printing-house door. James, who, like many masters, beat his apprentice, had no idea that his pest of a little brother was the author, and printed not only that first essay but thirteen more, in his newspaper. As the sharp-tongued Widow Dogood, the well-drubbed Ben offered "a few gentle Reproofs on those who deserve them," including Harvard students, whose blindness to their good fortune left the poor apprentice all but speechless. Young Franklin then did his caustic widow one better. He invented for her a priggish critic, Ephraim Censorious, who beseeched Mrs. Dogood to save her scolding for the fair sex, since "Women are prime Causes of a great many Male Enormities." Ahem.
Franklin wrote heaps of this kind of stuff. He got older, and a little less sophomoric—_At 20 years of age the Will reigns; at 30 the Wit; at 40 the Judgment—_but he never lost his appetite for satire and imposture. In 1732, when he was an aspiring twenty-six-year-old printer in Philadelphia, having run away from his apprenticeship, fathered an illegitimate child, and married, he gave birth to the fictional Richard Saunders, a kindhearted but hapless astrologer with empty pockets. In the preface to the first "Poor Richard's Almanack," Saunders addressed his "Courteous Reader": "I might in this place attempt to gain thy Favour, by declaring that I write Almanacks with no other View than that of the publick Good; but in this I should not be sincere; and Men are now a-days too wise to be deceiv'd by Pretences how specious soever. The plain Truth of the Matter is, I am excessive poor, and my Wife, good Woman, is, I tell her, excessive proud." Sincerity and plain truth? Not a bit of it. Poor Richard was naught but pretense.
Almanacs, issued just before the New Year, were cheap page-a-month calendars, with tides, important dates, and the phases of the moon. They were handy. They were purchased, as Franklin pointed out, by "the common People, who bought scarce any other Books." Printers filled their blank space with poems, jokes, prophecies, and proverbs, which were, alas, almost never beautiful, funny, true, or wise. Then came Poor Richard.
Franklin didn't write most of Poor Richard's proverbs. By his own guess, he wrote perhaps one out of every ten; the rest he found in books, especially anthologies like Thomas Fuller's 1732 "Gnomologia: Adagies and Proverbs; Wise Sentences and Witty Sayings Ancient and Modern, Foreign and British." But Franklin was the kind of literary alchemist who could turn drivel into haiku. Fuller had written, "A Man in Passion rides a horse that runs away with him." Franklin outpaced him: A Man in a Passion rides a mad Horse. Where Titan Leeds, the author of "The American Almanack," blathered, "Many things are wanting to them that desire many things," Poor Richard pegged it: If you desire many things, many things will seem but a few.
What really set Franklin's almanacs apart was Poor Richard himself, who started out as an affectionate imitation of Jonathan Swift's 1708 parody of an imaginary almanac-maker, Isaac Bickerstaff. Like Bickerstaff, Saunders confidently, and, of course, wrongly, prophesied the death of his chief rival—in this case, the unfortunate Titan Leeds—reading the future by the stars badly to suggest that it couldn't possibly be done well. Not everyone picked up on the homage to Swift, but Franklin's lampoon was hard to miss. (It helped that the word "poor" in the title of an almanac was an eighteenth-century term of art, a promise that a book would be silly and a warning that it might be vulgar. Poor Richard's rivals included Poor Robin and Poor Will.) Almanacs forecast twelve months' worth of weather. Franklin knew this for nonsense: in 1741, Poor Richard predicted only sunshine, explaining to his Courteous Reader, "To oblige thee the more, I have omitted all the bad Weather, being Thy Friend R.S."
Franklin's brainchild was tenderhearted, henpecked, and witless. Ever since Follies have pleas'd, Fools have been able to divert. Poor Richard had picked up his pen because his wife had threatened to burn his books and stargazing instruments if he didn't earn a few more farthings, and because "The Printer has offer'd me some considerable share of the Profits." Saunders liked his privacy, and never told anyone where he lived: "I would eat my Nails first." But everyone knew that Franklin kept his house and printshop on Market Street, where he sold his almanacs for five pence each. Franklin's wife, Deborah, who called the best-selling almanacs "Poor Dicks," could barely keep them in the shop.
Saunders once complained that rumors had circulated "That there is no such a Man as I am; and have spread this Notion so thoroughly in the Country, that I have been frequently told it to my Face by those that don't know me." Some ill-natured fiends had even suggested that Benjamin Franklin was really Poor Richard. A pox on them. "My Printer, to whom my Enemies are pleased to ascribe my Productions," Saunders protested, "is as unwilling to father my Offspring as I am to lose the Credit of it."
Poor Richard was Benjamin Franklin's most famous bastard, but by no means his last. Over the course of his long life, Franklin used dozens of pen names, from the high-minded Americanus to the humble Homespun to the farcical and low FART-HING. Still, a pseudonym was too thin a veil for his most scandalous pieces, which he circulated only in manuscript. Strange! That a Man who has wit enough to write a Satyr; should have folly enough to publish it. In 1745, when Franklin was thirty-nine, he produced a parody of a gentleman's-conduct manual that his most exhaustive biographer, J. A. Leo Lemay (in the second volume of a planned seven-volume biography), calls "a small masterpiece of eighteenth-century bawdry." Franklin, who had suffered much from "that hard to be govern'd Passion of Youth," wrote a letter advising a young man suffering the same, but unwilling to seek the remedy of marriage, to take only older women for mistresses, because "There is no hazard of Children." Also, older women are wiser, better talkers, better at intrigue, and better at other things, too, "every Knack being by Practice capable of Improvement"; not to mention, "They are so grateful!!"
Franklin counterfeited court documents, elegies, and even Scripture. Some of his fakes are so cunning that they weren't discovered to be fakes, or his, until long after he was dead, partly because he was remarkably discreet (Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead) and partly because he was a practiced mimic. The boy too poor to go to Harvard had taught himself to write by imitating the prose style he found in an English gentleman's magazine, The Spectator. He made The Spectator the tutor he never had: he read an essay, abstracted it, and then rewrote the argument from the abstract, to see if he could improve on the original. To make his prose more lyrical, he then turned the essays into poetry, and back again. In an essay he later wrote on literary style, which reads like Strunk and White, he pledged himself to brevity ("a multitude of Words obscures the Sense"), clarity ("To write clearly, not only the most expressive, but the plainest Words should be chosen"), and simplicity: "If a Man would that his Writings have an Effect on the Generality of Readers, he had better imitate that Gentleman, who would use no Word in his Works that was not well understood by his Cook-maid."
About 1755, Franklin wrote a pastiche of the Old Testament, a parable attacking religious persecution, in pitch-perfect King James. He had it printed and bound within the pages of his own Bible so that he could read it aloud and see who would fall for it. (Franklin was a Deist, though he usually kept his skepticism to himself. Talking against Religion is unchaining a Tyger.) In Franklin's chapter of Genesis, Abraham casts a bent and bowed old man out of his tent and into the wilderness when the stranger reveals himself to be an infidel. At midnight, God, finding the old man gone, thunders at Abraham, "Have I borne with him these hundred ninety and eight Years, and nourished him, and cloathed him, notwithstanding his Rebellion against me, and couldst not thou, that art thyself a Sinner, bear with him one Night?"
Benjamin Franklin took a great deal of pleasure in his wit, and maybe most of all in Richard Saunders. Even after he retired from business, in 1748, to devote himself to reading, writing, scientific experiments, and what would turn out to be forty-two years of tireless public service, he kept on writing the prefaces to Poor Richard's almanacs, now printed by his partner, David Hall. But by 1757, on that voyage to London to lobby for a more equitable distribution of the taxes Parliament was raising to pay for the French and Indian War, Franklin took up his favorite role for what he must have thought would be the last time. "The Way to Wealth" was Poor Richard's swan song, Franklin's farewell to a troubled America. (He did not return until 1762, and left again two years later. He spent most of the rest of his life in England and France.)
Saunders began by thanking his readers, "for they buy my Works; and besides, in my Rambles, where I am not personally known, I have frequently heard one or other of my Adages repeated, with, as Poor Richard says, at the End on't." This pleased him so much, he said, that "I have sometimes quoted myself with great Gravity." Then he told a story. He had stopped his horse at an auction, where one Father Abraham, "a plain clean old Man, with white Locks," stood before a crowd. (It's hard not to hear the echo of Franklin's Biblical Abraham.) "Pray, Father Abraham, what think you of the Times?" the crowd asked the old man. "Won't these heavy Taxes quite ruin the Country? How shall we be ever able to pay them?" What followed—Father Abraham's harangue—was, of course, Franklin himself, quoting himself, just as he'd hinted, with counterfeit gravity, and with his characteristic charity, since the speech was his parting gift to countrymen bearing the cost of a war for which there was no end in sight (not for nothing did it come to be called the Seven Years' War):
Friends, says he, and Neighbours, the Taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the Government were the only Ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness, three times as much by our Pride, and four times as much by our Folly, and from these Taxes the Commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an Abatement. However let us hearken to good Advice, and something may be done for us; God helps them that help themselves, as Poor Richard says.
The rest of Father Abraham's speech, strung together from proverbs hoarded from earlier almanacs, endorsed thrift: "Here you are all got together at this Vendue of Fineries and Knicknacks. You call them Goods, but if you do not take Care, they will prove Evils to some of you. You expect they will be sold cheap, and perhaps they may for less than they cost; but if you have no Occasion for them, they must be dear to you. Remember what Poor Richard says, Buy what thou hast no Need of, and ere long thou shalt sell thy Necessaries."
After the hoary old man finished, the people "approved the Doctrine and immediately practised the contrary, just as if it had been a common Sermon." The sale opened, and "they began to buy extravagantly."
Franklin didn't heed Father Abraham's advice, either. When he reached London, he went shopping, and shipped to his wife a huge collection of china ("there is something from all the china works in England"), along with melons, bowls, coffee cups, four silver salt ladles, "a little instrument to core apples," tea cloths ("for nobody here breakfasts on the naked table"), a carpet, tablecloths, napkins, sheets, fifty-six yards of cotton, seven yards of fabric for covering chairs, snuffers, a snuff-stand, silk blankets, and a gown made of sixteen yards of flowered tissue. He even thought about buying his daughter a harpsichord, but, thrifty man, decided against it.
The best-known proverb of "The Way to Wealth" has vexed generations of the lazy-boned and sleepy-headed. Early to Bed, and early to rise, makes a Man healthy, wealthy and wise. "The sorrow that that maxim has cost me through my parents' experimenting on me with it, tongue cannot tell," Mark Twain once wrote. By the time Twain was writing, in 1870, Benjamin Franklin had turned into Father Abraham in the American imagination. "The Way to Wealth," so useful in the farming, boycotting, non-importing, independence-loving eighteenth century, came to be worshipped in the capitalizing, industrializing, Founders-revering nineteenth century. The joke fell flat. The parody within the sham became the man. Of the nineteenth-century's frugal, prudent, sober, homey, quaint, sexless, humorless, preachy Benjamin Franklin—loved (by Dale Carnegie), hated (by D. H. Lawrence), and held up (by Max Weber) as the original American Puritan striver, the prophet of prosperity—Twain wrote, "He was a hard lot."
Until Carl Van Doren's 1938 biography, Franklin was hostage to this narrow view of his character. Valiantly, Van Doren vowed "to rescue him from the dry, prim people who have claimed him as one of them." He wrote, "They praise his thrift. But he himself admitted that he could never learn frugality, and he practised it no longer than his poverty forced him to. They praise his prudence. But at seventy he became a leader of a revolution." Van Doren, who had earlier written a biography of Swift, couldn't have tried harder to free Franklin from the shackles that bound him. "The dry, prim people seem to regard him as a treasure shut up in a savings bank, to which they have the lawful key. I herewith give him back, in his grand dimensions, to his nation and the world."
Bad biographies make small men great; Franklin's biographers have had the opposite problem. It's difficult to fit Franklin between the covers of a book. His contributions to statesmanship, science, philanthropy, and literature were unrivalled both in his time and in ours. Even though Van Doren's "Benjamin Franklin" was "cut with hard labour to the bone," it still runs well past eight hundred pages. People who fall for Franklin fall hard. William Strahan, the London printer who brought out Samuel Johnson's dictionary, wrote in 1757, on meeting Franklin, "I never saw a man who was, in every respect, so perfectly agreeable to me. Some are amiable in one view, some in another, he in all." Van Doren felt the same way.
For all that Van Doren did, he failed to set Franklin free. Nearly every biographer to follow him has had to try to unfetter Franklin from his myth. "I do not come to bury this story, this Benjamin Franklin," David Waldstreicher wrote in his 2004 study of Franklin and slavery, "so much as to show how it became the story." "We seem to have been blinded" by Franklin's light, Joyce Chaplin observed, in "The First Scientific American." "Debunking Franklin" is what Gordon Wood tried to do in his 2004 "Americanization of Benjamin Franklin," in which he suggested that Franklin, the man Frederick Jackson Turner dubbed "the first great American," was essentially European. "Not Your Usual Founding Father," Edmund Morgan titled his 2006 selection of Franklin's writings, in which he deliberately skipped over "The Way to Wealth" and instead included a chapter called "The Uses of Laughter." But Benjamin Franklin is still good and stuck—a walking, talking, page-a-day desk calendar. To his twee reputation, the man's cosmopolitan, enlightened, revolutionary life and volume after volume of his Papers seem to matter not at all. As Poor Richard once said, sometimes Force shites upon Reason's back.
Maybe the blame ought to be laid at Franklin's own desk. On board that ship to London in 1757, he looked at twenty-five years' worth of Poor Dicks and chose ninety-odd proverbs to put in "The Way to Wealth," a set that, by any measure, is no fair sample of Poor Richard's wisdom, which was not mostly or even very much about money and how to get it. If Franklin hadn't been so worried about taxes, he might instead have pulled together some of Poor Richard's many proverbs about equality: The greatest monarch on the proudest throne, is oblig'd to sit upon his own arse. Or hypocrisy: He that is conscious of a Stink in his Breeches, is jealous of every Wrinkle in another's Nose. Or courtship: Neither a Fortress nor a Maidenhead will hold out long after they begin to parly. Or religion: Serving God is Doing good to Man, but Praying is thought an easier Service, and therefore more generally chosen. Or delusion: He that lives upon Hope, dies farting. (Scholars have suggested that the last one was a printer's error, and should have read "fasting," but, I ask you, who was the printer?) Or he might have chosen to collect the dozens of Poor Richard's proverbs advising against the accumulation of wealth: The Poor have little, Beggars none; the Rich too much, enough not one.
Franklin didn't live by Poor Richard's proverbs, nor did he agree with all of them. He that best understands the World, least likes it could hardly be farther from Franklin's philosophy. And Nothing dries sooner than a Tear is not the sentiment of a man who, thirty-six years after the death of his four-year-old son, Francis, was still felled by grief at the thought of the boy.
But he did believe, earnestly and passionately, in hard work and sacrifice. The man behind Silence Dogood was committed to the principle of silently doing good. And he had boundless sympathy for the common people who bought his almanacs, people John Adams disdained as "rabble," people as poor and humble as the tenth son of a second-rate chandler. In 1757, when Franklin finally set sail on that ship to England, he picked proverbs that might help struggling Americans bear the cost of the war. "I would rather have it said, He lived usefully, than, He died rich," Franklin once wrote, and he meant it.
In 1764, just before sailing again for England, Franklin may have written—scholars are uncertain—one last preface to his almanac. The war had ended in 1763, but half of Britain's revenues were now going to pay interest on its debt, and Parliament, which had just passed the Sugar and Currency Acts, was debating a new stamp tax. Once again, Poor Richard urged frugality. "Taxes are of late Years greatly encreased among us, and now it is said we are to be burthened with the Payment of new Duties," a distressingly sober and spiritless Saunders observed. "What are we to do, but, like honest and prudent Men, endeavour to do without the Things we shall, perhaps, never be able to pay for; or if we cannot do without them or something like them, to supply ourselves from our own Produce at home." In these dire times, Poor Richard offered not proverbs but recipes, to help Americans get by without imported sugar: recipes for wine made from homegrown grapes, rum made from corn, and sugar made from beets. In London, in 1766, Franklin was questioned before the House of Commons during its deliberations on the repeal of the Stamp Act. Asked how soldiers sent to enforce the new taxes would be received, Franklin answered, "They will not find a rebellion; they may indeed make one."
The king and Parliament heeded Franklin's advice just about as much "as if it had been a common Sermon." They sent the soldiers. They made a rebellion. In 1771, not long after the Boston Massacre, in which British troops fired into a crowd of civilians, Franklin began writing his autobiography. He never finished it; it breaks off in 1758, just after he tells the story of sailing to London. By 1771, "The Way to Wealth" had already risen to its unexpected status as his most celebrated piece of writing. "The Piece being universally approved was copied in all the Newspapers of the Continent," Franklin noted. It had proved useful. Franklin's "Autobiography," as carefully crafted a piece of prose as anything he ever wrote, is, in some ways, "The Way to Wealth" writ large; it was, as he must have judged it, the most useful thing he could offer to the American people, into whose service he had long since pressed his very self. The Master-piece of Man is to live to the purpose.
Benjamin Franklin abridged his genius, his character, his life. But he reads better unabridged; and "The Way to Wealth" makes a poor epitaph. Maybe it's wiser to repay his wit with irreverence, and remember him by the epitaph he wrote for himself, in 1728:
The Body of
B. Franklin,
Like the Cover of an old Book,
Its Contents torn out,
And stript of its Lettering and Gilding,
Lies here, Food for Worms.
But the Work shall not be wholly lost;
For it will, as he believ'd, appear once more,
In a new and more perfect Edition,
Corrected and amended,
By the author.
And sweet, tenderhearted Poor Richard? Maybe he's best remembered by his annual farewell: "May this Year prove a happy One to Thee and Thine, is the hearty Wish of, Kind Reader, Thy obliged Friend, R. SAUNDERS." ♦


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A collection of over twenty Dutch fairy tales including: The Entangled Mermaid, The Princess with Twenty Petticoats, and Why the Stork Loves Holland.
Bibliographies with some of the lectures; 1891 and 1892 never published
The year is 1880, and Jack Baker is a young, driven student at Harvard University for Engineers. In this America, industry depends on "Creation" magic rather than machines, and most engineers are train repairmen, not inventors like Jack. Even his Creationist friend Clare thinks Jack's genius is going to waste at Harvard.
There is one man who knows how to put Jack to use, however: famous novelist and sometimes spy Ellis Graveworthy, who wants Jack to come with him...


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Romney cancels NH trip as storm forces campaign to adjust travel
FINDLAY, Ohio (AP) � Mitt Romney has canceled plans to campaign in New Hampshire this week because of the storm bearing down on the East Coast.
It's the second major schedule change for the Republican presidential candidate with the election just nine days away. Romney campaigned in Ohio on Sunday instead of Virginia as planned.
He told supporters at the University of Findlay that, quote, "our thoughts and prayers are with people who will find themselves in harm's way."
President Barack Obama has also changed his campaign schedule for the coming days. The election is Nov. 6 and early voting is already underway in several states.
Romney was supposed to campaign in New Hampshire on Tuesday. He last held an event there on Sept. 7.
The campaign also canceled a Monday appearance set for Romney's wife, Ann.


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Cache la Poudre River Half-Day Rafting Trip
- Duração: 6 Horas (Aproximadamente)
- Localização: Estes Park, CO
For your convenience, all trips meet at the Estes Park High School right in town.
Note: All rafters must be at least 7 years of age and weigh at least 50 pounds. 6 hour trip duration includes all transportation, safety briefings, and rafting. Time on river varies by water flows but is typically 1.5-2 hours.
Morning, Mid-Day and Afternoon Half Day Trips
Did you say "rapids"???
We offer two half-day trips on the Poudre River each day, and a third on weekdays.
The Poudre River (how the heck do you say it? "Poo-der". We didn't name it - we just float it). The "Poo-der" is a fast-moving river with nearly continuous Class II to III rapids and little float water. Early in the season it's usually a strong class III+. This river has the distinction of being the only "wild and scenic" designated river in Colorado and we are one of the few companies allowed to run it.
NEVER BEEN RAFTING? Don't worry, our professional guides ensure that both the first time rafter and the experienced rafters have a great time. Non-swimmers are also welcome. (If you are terrified of water, you probably shouldn't go. All the screaming is distracting to other rafters, and it's not good for business.)
Actual time on the river can vary each day depending on water flow. While each season is different, the water is usually swift-moving early in the season and slows down after the snowmelt is gone. By August some of the fun comes from dodging the rocks along the way. We'll get you wet!
Feel free to bring snacks and non-alcoholic beverages along if you like.
Trips depart from the Estes Park High School at 9:30am and 12:30pm daily. We also have a 6:45am trip Monday through Friday. (Okay, I heard you *GASP* when you read that time. Those of you from the Central Time Zone it's 7:45am for you. Before you dismiss this trip as too early, this trip is often smaller and we're often the only company on the water then. The river is all ours - it's incredible! Then you're back in time for lunch and your afternoon is open to do something else. This one runs during peak season - mid June through early August)
Call 970-577-7238 (RAFT) or 800-367-8523 for reservations as space is strictly limited on all half day trips. The U.S. Forest Service regulates the number of rafters per trip. (They have no sense of humor about this so no, unfortunately we can't just sneak you on.) During peak season we run at capacity and will turn people away, so reservations are strongly encouraged. Payment is required in advance for all trips so we know how many boats and guides we'll need.
We don't want to leave you behind - call us now!
These trips run from around Memorial Day through the end of August - sometimes Labor Day if water levels permit.
Cancellation Policy:
We go rain or shine - weather can be different on the river than it is in Estes Park. We take payment at time of reservation. We run at capacity most of the season and turn away others to hold the space for you. We reserve the space for you - you in turn agree to pay for the trip. All money is fully refundable if we are advised of the cancellation at least 7 days prior to the trip.
Within 7 days of the trip, we are happy to refund your money if given enough advance notice to resell the space. Trips resold within 7 days will be refunded minus a $5.00 processing charge per participant. No refund applies if the space is not resold before the trip.
Absolutely no refunds if you just do not show up for the trip. We turn away others to hold the space for you. Additionally, drivers, guides and meals are prearranged based on your being on the trip. These costs cannot be recouped. Thank you for understanding.
Every participant is required to sign a waiver before being allowed to raft.


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At 9 weeks pregnant, I'm puking every morning and sometimes at night. Is there any end to the nausea and vomiting?- Vicki
Unfortunately, nausea and vomiting are very common during pregnancy, especially in the first trimester. And despite its name, morning sickness isn't always restricted to the morning — some women feel sick to their stomachs morning, noon, and/or night.
If the nausea and vomiting are mild, there's usually no cause for concern. And fortunately, morning sickness usually goes away by the second trimester.
In the meantime, these things may help keep your stomach in check:
Studies are being done on various complementary and alternative therapies for morning sickness, such as acupressure with wristbands and treatment with ginger or a vitamin B6 supplement. Speak with your doctor to see what therapies are right for you.
Talk to your doctor if your nausea or vomiting is severe, or if you're losing weight from vomiting. If the need arises, your doctor can prescribe medicine or even decide to treat you with intravenous (IV) fluids.
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Airports for Art Lovers
Though Most Fliers Just Rush By, Public Art Thrives at Airports, From Dutch Masters to a Giant Red Rabbit
If you want to see some of the best contemporary art in U.S. cities these days, buy an airline ticket.
Airports have been spending heavily on public art over the past 10 years, thanks to a heavy focus on turning what historically have been nondescript atriums of stress into interesting rest stops catering to upscale clientele.
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If the pilot of cop show "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" is any indication, police captain Ray Holt is well on his way to joining the pantheon of well-realized LGBT characters on network TV.
It's not that Holt (portrayed by "Homicide" alum Andre Braugher) is particularly central to the new Fox sitcom. That honor rests with Andy Samberg, who plays immature-but-brilliant Brooklyn detective Jake Peralta. "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" is built around the actor's well-proven hyperactive humor, albeit a little more restrained. To wit: In the pilot's cold open, Peralta recites a "Donnie Brasco" monologue in the middle of a crime scene and stages a fire-extinguisher roller derby in his office. Essentially, he's an unorthodox cop who hates to play by the rules. But rather than being an unethical rogue, he's a giant goofball.
To both allow Peralta's antics to shine and to temper them, "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" introduces Holt as a stern new precinct captain with no patience for unprofessional behavior. He wants Peralta to wear a tie -- a grave offense, apparently -- and quit acting a fool. The detective (predictably) rebels against the new boss, and the central conflict of the show's pilot is whether Holt can get Peralta to grow up and respect his command.
That's a familiar trope, and in lesser hands, Holt could easily fall into stock character territory. But Braugher plays the captain as an imposing, placid figure with impeccable deadpan. Holt's uncompromising, to be sure, but his wry sensibility and dry delivery round him out in an important way.
So, also, does the fact that he's gay.
If tension between Holt-the-disciplinarian and Peralta-the-class-clown is what pushes this episode forward, it's Holt's sexual orientation that really drives that narrative. Holt came out 25 years ago, he tells Peralta and his partner, when "the NYPD was not ready for a gay captain." When diversity became advantageous for the force, police brass pushed Holt into a paper-pushing public affairs job where they could trot him out as a token gay while keeping him away from the pavement-pounding police work apparently reserved for real heterosexual men. (That kind of misogynistic and heternormative assumption gets challenged a few times in this show's pilot. "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" actually offers a legitimately diverse cast but doesn't trumpet it.) Now that he's finally been put in charge of a precinct, he doesn't want to screw it up, which is meant to explain his hardline approach to Peralta.
The foray into Holt's backstory takes -- as Sun critic David Zurawik pointed out on Sunday -- about a minute of screen time. But that short period is packed with Holt's on-screen coming out, an acknowledgment that his sexuality's hardly a big deal - "I don't try to hide it," he tells a stunned Peralta - and a microcosmic look at LGBT history. When he came out, Holt was stigmatized, then moved to being showcased but sidelined before finally achieving a level of parity with his heterosexual colleagues. Most LGBT viewers - especially those of color, who rarely see themselves represented on network television - will easily understand how that shapes him. The fact that "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" could integrate that into a character's backstory, and still make it feel like an afterthought, is laudable.
What remains to be seen is how "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" integrates Holt's sexual orientation now that what The A.V. Club's Molly Eichel dubs the pilot's "Big Reveal" is out of the way. But if Braugher keeps firing on all cylinders and the tone of the pilot holds up, Capt. Ray Holt is poised to join TV's top ranks.


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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Stock futures were pointing to a rebound on Wall Street Tuesday, tracking gains in the European markets ahead of a report that's expected to show an improvement in U.S. factory orders. Futures for the S&P 500 were rising 5.75 points, or 3.68 points above fair value, at 1,561.75. The S&P is up 9.53% so far this year. The S&P concluded a strong quarter last Thursday with a climb of 0.4% to 1,569.19, trumping its former, pre-credit-crisis record of 1,565.15 reached on Oct. 9, 2007. This came shortly after the Dow Jones Industrial Average broke its 2007 record high on March 5. The S&P's next milestone is its all-time intraday high of 1,576.09, set on Oct. 11, 2007. " Clearly, stocks have had an exceptional run to start the year and handily outperformed bonds," Russ Koesterich, BlackRock's global chief investment strategist, said in a weekly investment note late Monday. "We certainly don't expect this pace of gains to continue, but even after the first-quarter rally, stocks still look inexpensive compared to fixed income alternatives, so we would continue to advocate overweight positions in equities." The Census Bureau is expected to report at 10 a.m. EDT that factory orders rose 2.9% after declining 2% in January. Futures for the Dow were up 49 points, or 18.15 points above fair value, at 14,538. Futures for the Nasdaq were ahead by 15 points, or 9.28 points above fair value, at 2,803. BGC Partners ( BGCP) shares were soaring 49.09% to $5.74 in premarket trading after Nasdaq OMX Group ( NDAQ) agreed to buy eSpeed from BGC for $750 million in cash. eSpeed is an electronic service for trading U.S Treasury notes and bonds. The acquisition is expected to be completed in the middle of 2013. Health care stocks were gaining after the U.S. government reversed a proposal to reduce a key Medicare payment rate. UnitedHealth ( UNH) advanced 4.43% to $61.58 and Humana ( HUM) popped 9.36% to $82.04. The benchmark 10-year Treasury was falling 3/32, lifting the yield to 1.846%. The dollar was up 0.02%, according to the
U.S. dollar index. The FTSE in London was rising 0.99% on Tuesday and the DAX in Germany was up 0.7% on less harsh-than-expected bailout terms for Cyprus and a better-than-feared eurozone manufacturing sector report. May crude oil futures were adding 5 cents to $97.12 on the New York Mercantile Exchange. U.S. automakers, including Ford ( F) and General Motors ( GM), are scheduled Tuesday to release auto sales for March. Ford shares were rising 0.78% to $13 and GM shares were up 0.72% to $28. Written by Andrea Tse in New York >To contact the writer of this article, click here: Andrea Tse.


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Social media meets old media:
Saying that he's convinced "the demand for long-form, quality journalism is strong in our country," Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes tells NPR's Steve Inskeep that he's buying The New Republic.
That's a magazine, as Steve says, which is four times older than its new owner. Hughes is 28.
"People still want independent, rigorous reporting and The New Republic has been a place where that happens," Hughes tells Steve during a conversation that's to be broadcast on Friday's Morning Edition.
Hughes, who directed online organizing for the Obama campaign in 2008, adds that there's no shortage of short-form journalism these days (such as blogs). "The shortage is understanding the big problems of our day," he believes. "Where do you go for context on the problems our nation faces?"
And he sees a growing ability to connect long-form journalism to digital users, thanks to tablets that allow users to "pause, linger, read and process very important ideas."
He sees The New Republic as a place "of liberal values. And by that I mean values that embrace the core American ideals of freedom, equality and an American responsibility to make the world a better place."
There's no word yet on the price Hughes is paying for The New Republic. He does think it "can be profitable," though it's "not going to be the next Facebook-" — which earned him the money to make a deal such as this.
We'll add the as-broadcast version of their discussion to the top of this post later today.
Update at 6:45 a.m. ET. The New York Times also spoke with Hughes. Its Media Decoder blog writes that:
Hughes "will become publisher and the editor in chief of the magazine, and Richard Just will remain the editor. Martin Peretz, who was editor in chief from 1975 until 2010, when his title was changed to editor in chief emeritus, will become a member of the magazine's advisory board. ...
"Under Mr. Peretz's editorship and ownership, the magazine has passionately supported Israel and drawn criticism at times for its pro-war stances. The magazine's editorials supported the Iraq War in 2003 and later expressed deep regret for doing so."
It wasn't so many years ago that Chris Hughes, a student at Harvard, co-founded an Internet startup, Facebook. Later he coordinated online efforts for Barack Obama's presidential campaign in 2008.
And now he's becoming a magazine publisher. Hughes has purchased The New Republic, we can tell you this morning. The liberal magazine was founded almost a century ago, around the start of the First World War. It has featured writers such as George Orwell and John Maynard Keynes. Like many print publications, The New Republic has more recently fallen on hard times.
Now, at the age of 28, Chris Hughes has taken on the job of reviving it. What is it that would make you want to buy a magazine that's almost four times older than you are?
CHRIS HUGHES: It's pretty simple. I believe that the demand for long-form quality journalism is strong in our country and I think that despite all of the changes in technology over the past few years, people still want in-depth, rigorous reporting, and The New Republic has been a place where that's happened. And under my leadership and the leadership of folks there, we'll double down on that.
INSKEEP: Well, let's talk about that a little bit. When you say people want long-form, quality journalism, I'd certainly like to think it's true, but magazines have really suffered - a lot of magazines have really suffered in the last several years especially.
HUGHES: Yeah, there's no question that there's been a technological disruption, if you will, and it's changed the way that people consume their news. But at this point I think the shortage is not actually with these places where you can get tidbits of news. The shortage is understanding the big problems of our day. Where do we go for context on the problems that our nation faces?
I mean, you can take something like Syria, for example. There's a headline about it every day. There's a snip-it. Often times I think people read a few paragraphs, but where do you really dig in and ask yourself the question, what should the United States policy towards Syria be? What would an intervention look like? The sources of that kind of journalism, I feel like, are in demand more than ever.
INSKEEP: What kind of publisher do you envision being? Are you going to be the kind who, like, is walking around on the newsroom floor and giving advice and instructions to people, or keep your hands off?
HUGHES: I expect to be involved in shaping the editorial tone of the magazine and also the business side. The thing that I think is most interesting and has really provided a new opportunity for this type of long-form serious journalism is the introduction of the tablet, and by tablet I mean not just the iPad but the Kindle, the Nook, all the Android devices. I mean the numbers of these things that are being sold are really staggering. And I think that while they're not a panacea, they're not going to solve all of our problems, I do think that they make it easier for people to pause, linger, read, and really process very important ideas and things that may take a little bit longer than a couple clicks and a browser would allow.
INSKEEP: You're saying that on tablets, on iPads and the like, that it's a little bit easier to stay focussed?
HUGHES: I think so. I think most people - I think it's hard to read a 3,000 word piece or a 5,000 word piece even on a browser, because you've got email open in another tab, you might have Facebook, you might have other news websites that are calling for your attention. So it's rare that we pause for that long.
INSKEEP: How much have you looked into the history of the New Republic?
HUGHES: A bit. It's an institution that I know well. So you know, the â I think the fact that it was founded nearly 100 years ago at a time that in some ways was very similar to our own from a journalistic prospective makes it a very unique institution and one with a long history of an important role in the national affairs.
INSKEEP: Explain something you just said. You said almost 100 years ago, 1914 - is that right? - was a time very similar to our own in terms of journalism. What do you mean by that?
HUGHES: Well, the editors of the publication in the very first issue make clear that there was a deep skepticism about the demand for serious journalism. They too bemoaned a desire for entertainment in the news or for some of the things that you hear lots of media skeptics today...
INSKEEP: This was a time of expansion of mass circulation newspapers. Pulitzer, William Randoph Hearst, people like that. So they were looking for something a little less sensational, I guess.
HUGHES: Well, I think there's an important difference between the newspaper and a magazine. I view the role of the magazine as providing the deeper reporting and the thoughtful analysis to help you make sense of why that news is important. And I think that the founding editors of the magazine almost 100 years ago felt something similar.
INSKEEP: Chris Hughes is the new owner of The New Republic. Thanks for coming by.
HUGHES: Thank you for having me. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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When you go to the beach, there's always a chance you'll stumble across something lost in the sand like loose change or a piece of lost jewellery. You never imagine you might find actual buried treasure.
But a group of guys at Venice Beach did just that in the US. Except it was all a prank (and perhaps a viral ad for the Chevy Sonic they're driving in the beginning of the video). They fooled a crowd of beach-goers into thinking they had discovered a chest full of gold doubloons. Turns out, it was just chocolate. The set-up is fun. The reactions? Amazing. [Tastefully Offensive]


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Exclusive: Police reports detail Belcher, Perkins' last hours
Seconds after fatally shooting his longtime girlfriend, Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher leaned over her in their master bathroom, said he was sorry and kissed her on the forehead.
His mother, who heard gunfire as she stood in the kitchen, rushed to her son's bedroom and watched his remorseful goodbye.
Belcher apologized to his mother, kissed his 3-month-old daughter and fled his rented home in the 5400 block of Crysler Avenue in his Bentley.
The Star learned those details and others from multiple police sources Monday as officers continued their investigation into why Belcher, 25, killed his live-in girlfriend, Kasandra Perkins, 22, on Saturday morning. Arguments over relationship and financial issues had simmered for months between them, according to the sources.
Belcher's mother, who came from New York to live with her son so the couple could work through their issues, didn't hear much of the argument. But just before 8 a.m., she heard her son say something to the effect of: "You can't talk to me like that!"
Then she heard gunfire.
Afterward, Belcher drove to the only place he felt safe — to his other family at Arrowhead Stadium, police said.
As he covered the five miles from his home to the stadium, his violent act weighed on him, police believe.
"He probably realized he had done something and he couldn't go back," said Police Sgt. Richard Sharp.
In the parking lot of the practice facility at 1 Arrowhead Drive, Belcher encountered Chiefs General Manager Scott Pioli. Belcher stepped out of his Bentley with a gun pointed at his own head, police said.
"I did it," he said, according to police. "I killed her."
Club officials knew about the couple's problems. The Chiefs had provided counseling and "were bending over backward" to help, Sharp said.
But Belcher told Pioli that the assistance wasn't enough to fix their problems and now, "It was too late."
When another Chiefs employee arrived, Pioli told him to stay back. Meanwhile Pioli tried to persuade Belcher to lay down the weapon, Sharp said.
Belcher thanked Pioli for everything he had done for him. He asked if he and Clark Hunt would take care of his daughter.
Chiefs Head Coach Romeo Crennel and linebackers coach Gary Gibbs arrived in the parking lot and Belcher reportedly announced, "Guys, I have to do this."
Crennel tried to dissuade him.
"I was trying to get him to understand that life is not over," Crennel told The Star. "He still has a chance and let's get this worked out.''
As Pioli and Crennel tried to reason with Belcher, the men heard police sirens closing in. Belcher then walked a few steps away with the gun still pointed at his head.
"I got to go," Belcher reportedly said. "I can't be here."
Belcher knelt behind a vehicle and made the sign of the cross across his chest before firing a single bullet into his head.
Kansas City police believe Belcher killed himself because he was distraught over what he had done to Perkins.
"He cared about her," Sharp said. "I don't think he could live with himself."
The night before the killings, Perkins had attended a concert downtown with friends, and Belcher had "partied" at the Power and Light District, police said. It was unclear when they arrived home, where Belcher's mother was watching their baby. A woman who answered Belcher's mother's cell phone Monday declined to comment.
Detectives don't know what specifically sparked the argument between the couple at home, but a friend of Perkins told The Star that the couple argued around 1 a.m. Saturday when Perkins returned home from the Trey Songz concert and drinks with friends afterward. Belcher was mad she had stayed out so late, the friend said.
Sometime later, Kansas City police talked with Belcher after finding him asleep in his Bentley on Armour Boulevard. Officers determined he was able to drive himself home. Police believe he arrived home about 7 a.m., well before a 9:30 team meeting. That's when the yelling began.
Police said youth, immaturity and financial pressures served as a backdrop. During his college years, Belcher allegedly punched a dormitory window because he was upset over a woman.
Autopsies with toxicology tests were performed on both bodies, but results will take weeks, police said. Investigators believe alcohol may have played a role in the argument's escalation.
Police recovered several legally owned guns from Belcher's home. Investigators were testing each one, and the gun found with Belcher's body, against shell casings and bullets they recovered.
Police spokesman Darin Snapp said Monday that Belcher's mother, who had been staying with the couple, was given temporary custody of the couple's daughter. But he said it was unclear if the grandmother and baby were still in the Kansas City area.
Perkins, who grew up in Texas, met Belcher, who grew up in New York, through a cousin, Whitney Golden Charles, the wife of Chiefs running back Jamaal Charles. Perkins moved to Kansas City in 2010 to be with Belcher. Her relatives learned of her death from the news, police said. A woman who answered the phone at a relative's home Monday declined to comment.
Monday afternoon, the family issued a statement that spelled Perkins' first name with a double s, though she spelled it with one on her Facebook page:
"On behalf of the Perkins Family, we appreciate the outpouring of love and concern for our Kassandra 'Kasi' Perkins. Our hearts are truly broken for Kasi was a beloved daughter, granddaughter, sister, mother, cousin and friend.
"Please keep us in your hearts and prayers as well as the Belcher family for two lives were loss. Again we thank you for your support, our wish is for Kasi to be remembered for the love she shared with us all. Kasi will be truly missed!"
Jamaal Charles also released a statement: "Our family has suffered a personal tragic loss. As this is a very tough time for our family, I ask that we are respected as we grieve. Kassandra was not only family, but a friend and a loving mother. As my actual family and my Kansas City Chiefs family have been altered forever, we ask that you keep us and most importantly their child in prayer. Thank you all for your continued support."
Later Monday, Belcher's somber relatives provided statements outside of Belcher's boyhood home in New York. Yamiesse Lawrence, a cousin of Belcher's, said the weekend's events were an "inconceivable tragedy."
"As a family, no words can express the sorrow we feel over the loss of Jovan and Kasandra," Lawrence read aloud.


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killer whale
killer whale
killer whale, orca, or grampus, a large, rapacious marine mammal of the dolphin family. Historically considered one species, Orcinus orca, killer whales may be classified into several types, based on differences in appearance, prey preferences, and where they are found. Members of these groupings do not appear to interbreed, and some scientists believe, based in part on DNA evidence, that there are several species of killer whale. Killer whales are worldwide in distribution.
They are black above, with a sharply contrasting white oval patch around each eye; the belly is white with white markings projecting up along the animals' sides. They have a high, triangular dorsal fin midway between head and tail, and broad, paddle-shaped flippers. Male killer whales may reach a length of 30 ft (9 m) and females half that length.
Swift and ferocious animals, armed with more than four dozen sharp teeth, killer whales are the only cetacean (see whale) that feeds regularly on birds or mammals. Killer whales may eat seals, sea birds, and fish, and in packs they may even attack larger whales. The female gives birth to a single calf, up to 7 ft (2.1 m) long, following a gestation period of approximately one year. Females mature in 6 to 7 years, males in 12.
They are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Mammalia, order Cetacea, family Delphinidae.
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Wednesday, March 2, 2011
The Oppressive Goods and Services Tax (GST)
The Minister asserted that what the low-income group will receive from the Government budget pay-outs will more than offset what they pay in GST. How long can this largesse last and this low-income group will go back to square one once government's hand-out is exhausted. Can you imagine that if you go to a restaurant where there is no service charge or where the service charge is 5 per cent, you will find that you are faced with an absurd bill for GST which is more than the service charge?
The opposition MP Mr. Low Thia Khiang has hit the nail on the head when he asserted in Parliament that the Government uses the GST as a panacea to everything. However strenously the Finance Minister tried to dismiss it offhand, there is no denying that Mr. Low's assertion is viewed with credibility by a significant section of the electorate. And his proposal of a two per cent cut in the GST cannot be an election gimmick and is without doubt very popular with the population, citizens or non-citizens, rich and poor, and even PAP members and supporters. So how can a credible Government not pay heed to a popular wish of the population and continue obstinately to expect their approbation as a matter of course. Worst still, there are talks in town that to aggravate the people's burden, the PAP Government is going to raise the GST to 10 per cent after the general election.
Although the GST is not a major issue, it is significant enough for the opposition parties to highlight it in their hustings. The poorer section of the electorate will certainly be enamoured of the not illogical opposition arguments against the GST. Even the middle class and the rich will readily lend their ears to the opposition stand on this absorbing subject. The Government's stand on this issue has been expounded ad nauseam and there is unlikely to be any new line of argument in their defence.
Our country is Singapore and what other countries do with their GSTs are irrelevant because their polities are different and any comparison is untenable. The PAP Government is kiasu in thinking that acceptance of Mr.Low Thia Khiang's proposal of 2 per cent cut in the GST is conceding a political advantage to the opposition. The PAP will still be returned to power, perhaps with a reduced percentage, in the coming general election and the opposition parties will be able to capture one or two GRCs if they show unity. This is Singapore's political reality and no amount of political play will be able to change this chessboard.
10 comments:
- Lenox said...
Let's say, reduce the GST. What do you propose to recover the lost of taxes in GST through which other means?
- March 2, 2011 at 8:20 PM
- Singapore Recalcitrant said...
The tax revenue the government receives from the two casinos is more than enough to cover the two per cent cut in the GST
- March 2, 2011 at 11:31 PM
- Chee Ken said...
Although the govt is correct to state that richer Singaporeans contribute most of the GST revenue, what they have always failed to prove is that the GST is used to "help the poor".
It's not as if GST is used to fund social programmes. Instead, it's used to beef up the govt coffers! So please stop the charade that the GST is to help the poor.
Are they saying that if GST was 0%, they would be forced to withdraw workfare, medifund, and public assistance? It can't be further from the truth, especially with a $47bn budget!
Singapore has more than enough money to do all that, even if GST was at 5%... After all, they had enough to return $4bn to the reserves and yet project a budget surplus.
- March 3, 2011 at 1:27 AM
- none said...
Why must it always be on a who wins who loses basis? When GST was increased from 5% to 7% was the government concerned about how to recover the "loss" to the GST-payer?
Why ask this now question when the proposal is to lower the GST? Why can't a reduction in GST be simply considered as a step to help people in these difficult times when they are suffering from a surfeit of increases, as long as it is affordable?
- March 3, 2011 at 10:20 AM
- Gary said...
Singaporeans have a problem with the govt - we have allowed it to do what it likes unquestioningly for far far too long. We failed to note the subtle difference between the different people centred vested interest during the time of the old guards like Goh Keng Swee and Hon Swee Sen and the greed-inspired, greed-motivated interest of the recent past and current govt.
We should have realised that something is SERIOUSLY WRONG when the govt ministers started to pay themselves obscene and astronomical salaries unheard of in the history of modern govt. That day really, in retrospect, marks the point of desperation the Lee family has reached. lky has run out of ideas, simply stated.
He is in his death throes, and Singaporeans are in mortal danger of being drag under by his desperate flailing to stay afloat. He is too aware that his pu yi-like son cannot prevail the moment he leaves the scene. IMO, at heart LHL has no ambition for the job. We as Singaporeans has nothing to thank him for for failing to stand up to his selfish old man.
- March 3, 2011 at 7:52 PM
- Gary said...
To put it very crudely, the goodies given out to Singaporeans just before the GE can be likened to what a customer pays a prostitute to open her legs.
- March 5, 2011 at 11:52 PM
- Gary said...
After the customer has finished with the prostitute, with what regard do you think he will still hold the prostitute? He will no doubt return again the next time round when he has an urgent urge to gratify again.
That seems to characterize the relationship that the ruling party likes to have with the people of Singapore.
Do Singaporeans want to be treated this way, again and again and again? I guarantee that they would continue to be as long as they continue to behave like the prostitute, willingly spreading her legs for the customer on each occasion for what must be to the latter a CHEAP price for the HUGE FAVOUR that she bestows on him in return again.
- March 6, 2011 at 12:52 AM
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"Some people do not like Ronaldo because he is a great player, good-looking and has sex with all the ladies. People get jealous. The only bad thing about Ronaldo's life is Messi. If it was not for him, Ronaldo would have been the best player in the world for five years in a row now."
Luiz Felipe Scolari
"Muhammad Ali in his pomp, you couldn't out-box. No-one could. Now no team on this planet can out-football Barcelona. Madrid have tried, Manchester United tried, but you cannot do it. Ali, though, was beaten by Frazier because of his aggression and refusal to give in, and those are the qualities Chelsea will need to stand a chance of reaching the final."
Glenn Hoddle
"I told Mario [Balotelli] that if he'd played with me ten years ago, I'd have given him a punch to the head maybe every day. I don't speak with him every day because otherwise I would need a psychologist!"
Roberto Mancini
"Rijkaard did not believe in me. He wanted our game to be based on a superior physical level. He believed that it was the only way to be at the same level as the top clubs in Europe. Four or five years ago, I was deemed terrible and useless. I was Barça's cancer! A player 1.70m tall was simply worthless."
"The current Brazil team is rubbish. It will be tough to even get past the first round of the World Cup."
"Raul played himself into the hearts of the Schalke fans in two years. But in terms of [retiring a jersey], I would say players like Ernst Kuzorra, Stan Libuda, Klaus Fichtel and Klaus Fischer are more deserving. They are players with real Schalke roots. They have a real cult status at Schalke. To compare this with Raul's two years at Schalke... well, for me that's going too far."
Olaf Thon, Schalke legend, on the club's decision to retire the No7 shirt worn by Raul
"I am a right-back, [but] not full-stop. In the Brazilian school, the emphasis is on attacking, but that doesn't mean I'm not a fullback. Take Gareth Bale, a player I love. He's a fullback in the Brazilian mould. In Europe, Tottenham play him as a winger, but in my team he'd always be a fullback. People get scared and play attacking fullbacks as wingers. They think they will attack more, but often they attack less and less well. It happened with Roberto Carlos: as a winger, he was less effective, he needed to start his run sooner. Bale is more skillful and good as a winger, but at Barcelona he would be a fullback."
Daniel Alves
"I'll choke on my beer if Chelsea win the Champions League and we finish fourth! But the rules are the rules."
Alan Pardew dreads the possibility that his Newcastle United side are denied a 2012/13 UEFA Champions League place due to Chelsea winning this season's competition
"I watch Iniesta and realise that, even at my age, I could be learning new things. We all have to be less arrogant."
Juan Roman Riquelme, 33, on the 27-year-old Barça midfielder
"I live life as I did when I was a kid, like a video game - there will always be another level to overcome."
Alessandro Del Piero
"Seeing players of the calibre of Romario and Bebeto up close had a real impact on my future. I was able to learn from them, look out for the small details, how they trained, how they found their focus. Romario used to boss me about, getting me to fetch his boots and his coffee, as if I was a youth-team player! But he'd always treat me with respect, that was just the pecking order in the side."
Ronaldo to FIFA.com on the importance going to USA 1994 had on his career
"When I went to Liverpool, I admit it was more of a culture shock than coming to France."
Joe Cole
"This is a final where you kill or be killed. The team needs to give their lives on the field. We want to go to the World Club Cup, we want another chance. The goal is to return to Japan and remove the spine that has been struck in our throat."
Jesus Zavala of Monterrey ahead of the CONCACAF Champions League final against Santos Laguna – Los Rayados lost their FIFA Club World Cup quarter-final on penalties in December
"I was lucky enough to officiate matches in magnificent stadiums, but I never refereed at the Bombonera. I have watched some of Boca Juniors' matches and the atmosphere in that stadium is intense. That is a stadium where I would have liked to have refereed."
Pierluigi Collina
"Mario Balotelli is like Marmite - you either love him or hate him. Me? I'm in between."
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Today's post is Part 1 for the Carnival of Genealogy.
Before genealogy took a hold of me, scrapbooking was my primary passion. I've spent many days and many hours scrapbooking, taking scrapbooking classes, watching scrapbooking tutorials and videos, and reading scrapbook themed blogs. I used to post my scrapbook pages on Scrapbook Flair (find me as curlymelb4 on the site) but I've spent so much time on my genealogy research, I haven't created a lot of new pages lately. If you are interested in doing digital scrapbooking, I'd highly recommend Scrapbook Flair. Through Scrapbook Flair you can upload your scrapbook pages, download free images to use on your pages, participate in challenges and discussion boards, and comment on other peoples pages. If you do a search for the keyword "heritage" on Scrapbook Flair, you'll get a lot of great ideas and hints on making your own pages. My favorite use of Scrapbook Flair is the ability to print your pages, so you can add the pages to a traditional scrapbook for usually $0.99 for a 12x12" print (which is one of the cheapest and best quality prints I've found over the last two years)
My second favorite site for digital scrapbooking is Two Peas in a Bucket. Similar to Scrapbook Flair, you can upload pictures, download free and purchased elements for your pages, participate in discussion boards, and view other pages. Unlike Scrapbook Flair, the site also features traditional (paper) scrapbooking and card making. The site also has great lessons and tutorials. Again, a search for the keyword "heritage" is a great place to start.
You don't need Photoshop or a fancy image editor program to start digital scrapbooking (I started by using Microsoft Power Point). Digital Scrapbooking is a lot cheaper than traditional scrapbooking as you don't need to buy the paper and elements or print out pictures. There are many free resources available online for downloading elements, backgrounds, and word art for your pages.
CAUTION: Digital Scrapbooking is extremely Addictive! (don't say I didn't warn you...)
The pages I share below were created in 2009 using Photoshop.
My paternal grandpa, 1931
My paternal grandpa, abt 1948
My paternal grandpa's mom, Ruth M. Brown, abt 1930


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Does God exist? I find it interesting that so much attention is given to this debate. The latest surveys tell us that over 90% of people in the world today believe in the existence of God or some higher power. Yet, somehow the responsibility is placed on those who believe God does exist to somehow prove that He really does exist. To me, I think it should be the other way around.However, the existence of God cannot be proven or disproved. The Bible even says that we must accept by faith the fact that God exists, "And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him" (Hebrews 11:6). If God so desired, He could simply appear and prove to the whole world that He exists. But if He did that, there would be no need for faith. "Then Jesus told him, 'Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed'" (John 20:29).That does not mean, however, that there is not evidence of Gods existence. The Bible declares, "The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge.
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Please, do post something shorter and not in bold letters, it is difficult to read and hurts the eyes.
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First, is this an assignment? If so, then please let us see what you think may be the repetitions, complex sentences and so on. We can then comment and advise.
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Ryan Braun did most of the heavy lifting, but once again it was Bill Hall providing the winning hit. Hall's RBI single in the eight inning put the Brewers out in front of the Astros who ultimately fell 6-4. Eric Gagne picked up the win in relief before Salomon Torres closed the door in the ninth for the save. The Cubs and Brewers now sit tied atop the Central standings with the two set to meet for a crucial four game series in Milwaukee starting tomorrow. • Tim Lincecum matched Brandon Webb pitch-for-pitch in a match-up of two of the NL's most dynamic aces, but in the end it was Webb picking up his league leading 14th win of the season. Lincecum's 13 strikeouts went to waste when Tyler Walker was belted for three runs. • Carl Crawford's two triples lifted the first place Rays to another win over the lowly Royals, maintaining their three-game lead in the AL East. Boston sits two games behind Tampa with the surging Yankees three back. Troy Percival gave up a run in the ninth inning, but he was able to hold on from there for his 22nd save.
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No one gets out of here alive…
Death and grief are things that I am familiar with. I've known them since I was just under 3 years old… as long as I can remember.
First it was my mom. I think it was some time in August of '82. She was pregnant with my brother or sister. I don't remember the funeral, but I've known the grief of that loss my whole life. It's a grief for something I never remember having.
I think my Grandma Bernice (my mom's mom) died in 1988 some time. I remember seeing her in her hospice bed. At that time, she was living in the house my dad and mom used to rent from her. When the cancer got real bad, she moved into her house to die in some sort of comfort. A good friend of the family brought little brass figures for us kids. I still have my brass bear.
Great Grandma Mauddie was the coolest old lady ever. She loved the Denver Broncos, crosswords, and Jesus. I saw her for the last time about an hour before she passed. It was good to see her smile.
When I was in 9th grade, amid the hormones, long hair, and budding teen angst, a classmate died. They had been drinking, and he was goofing off on a truck. The truck went forward, he fell off and with a hit of the head he died.
In 11th grade, a friend (Mikey) let all the pressure of life in Utah get to him. He lit himself on fire in the mountains that weekend. We all drove around listing to "Brick" by Ben Folds Five for days, girls crying, David thinking about killing himself, and me in a haze.
My Papa (dad's dad) died when I was 21 or so. He had survived a tipple bypass a few years back, but this time he never woke up after surgery. Grandma (his wife) had a stroke around '05. She died 6 months later I think.
Death has been around the corner most of my life. He is a bastard and I fucking hate him.
Death is not just a part of the life cycle. Death is an abrupt, tragic end to something that should never stop. I know death isn't how it's suppose to end; it hurts too much to be anything but a damn curse.
This week, I've felt the weight of that curse again. My friend, teacher, and blogging hero Michael Spencer died on Monday. Cancer was the symptom; death was the sickness. And I am sick with grief.
Michael was a good man. He spent most of his life working in the poorest county in the U.S., seeking to teach and help kids find life. He was a prolific writer at Internet Monk.com, writing about the problems of the evangelical church he loved so much and the Jesus shaped solution to it all. His words impacted me, helped shape my thinking about church, Jesus, and what part we play in it all. I never met the man face to face, be his interactions with me were always gracious and thoughtful. He even let me be a part of his virtual pub, The Boars Head Tavern. He was a sort of father figure to me. He helped me not give up on the people in churches. He helped me see Jesus.
Death got him, just like it's gonna get all of us. None of us can get out of this messed up world alive. Even though it's not how it's suppose to be, we are all dying. Death comes for us all, and no one has a get outta the grave free card.
Are you sad yet?
Are you mad?
Are you confused?
Do you just want to ignore it till life can move on?
Ya, me too.
Death messes with my heart and my head. Even though I've dealt with it in so many ways for so long, I am still surprised by grief that wraps my throat and makes my heart heavy.
But… Death doesn't win.
I believe that Life will swallow up death, everything will be made right, and all that is sad will become untrue.
(you hear that death… your gonna become fiction! Eat it!)
This is the good news, the gospel if you will. Jesus didn't come and die so that you and I can be good little people who get to be some wussy angles strumming on a harp when we "pass on". Jesus came, died, and got up from the grave again so that we could live on and on and on and on and on forever and ever amen.
(Where O death is thy sting…)
Michael believed this. His hope was in Jesus making all things right for those who hope in him. Now, Michael is seeing that hope more clearly than I am. I believe he is with Jesus now… and they are waiting. Waiting for the time when heaven and life breaks into this screwed up, sinful existence we call the world. When that happens, everything is gonna be right. We aren't gonna become some ethereal spirits floating around some bright white clouds. Heaven and earth will be married and joined as one and everything will become more real than it ever has been before. Earth will finally not be some hell hole filled with wicked men and women, power struggles, war, and assholes. Earth is going to be home for God and for true humans to have true humanity and true, never ending life.
All that stuff that is good right now, things like good beer, good coffee, good books, good films, good music, good food… all of that is finally going to be what it's trying to be now.
Michael loved baseball. The game was a sanctuary to him, the field was a chapel for him. In the new heaven and earth, Michael and I and all our friends are gonna go to a baseball game, drink beer, eat good "field food", and watch a good game.
This is the hope I have. This is why I can grieve over the people I have lost in my life and yet rejoice, because I'm gonna see them again, the real them. And they are going to see the real me. And Jesus is gonna be at the good game with us, drinking beer, eating food, telling jokes, and finding joy in the rightness, the goodness, the LIFE he has given to us forever.


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Texas DA slain in his home, had armed himself after assistant was killed
KAUFMAN, Texas - Ever since one of his assistants was shot and killed two months ago, north Texas district attorney Mike McLelland took no chances.
He said he carried a gun everywhere he went, and took extra care when answering the door at his home. In an interview less than two weeks ago, the 23-year Army veteran said he was "ahead of everybody else" -- because he was a "soldier."
Despite his precautions, McLelland and his wife have been found shot to death in their home. Authorities aren't discussing a possible connection with the shooting of his assistant in January.
The killings of McLelland and his wife came less than two weeks after Colorado's prison chief was gunned down at his front door -- a killing authorities believe was carried out by a white-supremacist ex-convict. And McLelland himself had raised the possibility that his assistant, Mark Hasse, had been killed by white supremacists.
Police recently said that the FBI was checking to see if the January killing of the assistant prosecutor in Texas could be related to this month's killing of prison director Tom Clements in Colorado.
The former Colorado inmate who authorities believe killed Clements died ten days ago in a shootout with Texas deputies, about 100 miles from where the prosecutor and his wife were killed.


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Hi all,
I have a system of 6th-order polynomial equations in 4 variables $q_1, q_2, q_3, q_4$ (i.e. polynomials with all the terms such as $q_1^6, q_2^6, q_2^4 q_3^2$):
$P_k(q_1, q_2, q_3, q_4) = 0$ with $k=2,\dots,N$
I don't have any good guess of the q_i. So, Newton method and its variant won't work because they need a good starting point to converge to the right solution.
My question is whether exists any numerical method to find the solution of that system of equations.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
p/s: If you want to know further background information, you may want to check my previous post. Systems of polynomial equations


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Nick Burke necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 35 diseños de 8 diseñadores freelance.
DirectTrainer.com is a web based service to allow people to work out with a personal trainer in their home or on the road via a web cam and an internet connection. We will handle the scheduling and payments so that all the end users needs to do is show up and workout.
We have been getting some negative feedback on our existing logo so we are throwing it out here for a revision, update, revamp … basically we want something new.
The idea is simple so we'd like the logo to be simple but yet informative. We are starting to test with Clients and Trainers and want to make sure they can get the idea quickly.
We will be pitching to investors in the next couple of months so we need to make sure we have our best foot forward with regard to our logo.
Note: The service allows one one one sessions as well as streaming and group sessions.
Oh yea, and if you have front end experience with re: to building websites - we are looking for a team member to work with us on creating this next level service … - email me at firstname.lastname@example.com
We believe that our target audience will be 60% women and 40% men between the age of 24 - 40. The logo should not be female focused but should have a lighter appeal. We are targeting people who care about wellness, nutrition, and staying in shape. Also people who have some general knowledge of technology.
We are specially targeting people who want to make a change in their body. This can be anyone from an obese person that won't go to the gym or a fit person who is too busy to get to the gym. Busy lifestyle executives or stay at home moms that can't find the 2 hours to go to the gym in the middle of the day.
The existing markets can be described as soccer moms, yoga moms, executives, and fitness nuts. These people all care about their appearance and wish to keep in within their range. The people that will be drawn to use this service have some knowledge of the internet and video conferencing and the logo will need to reflect that subtly.
The colors we have been working with up to now are a dark blue, gray with orange as the accent. I would like to keep the orange as the accent and the grey incorporated. I'm free to let other colors in or toy around with whatever creativity you come up with.
We'd like to convey fitness and video conferencing in some way within the logo.
The attached file is an example of our old logo and a sample logo taken off of this site. I'd like for DirectTrainer to be displayed and for the tag line to be - "Together, we can do this". Other variations on the tag line are - "Changing the way you think about working out" or "Fitness on the go.."
My requirements are :
Convey the concept of the business - video conferencing and fitness
Use the right colors to convey nutrition, health, wellness, fitness
Slightly Skew to appeal to a 60% female audience - (that can mean a muscle dude like in the example)
Show a landscape version and a portrait version. (our business cards are min moo cards and are rectangular)
Show the company name and tag line - "Together, we can do this"
I'm open to new ideas, concepts and versions on this message. Thanks!
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An 18-year-old Fontana man died Saturday when he rode a bicycle across railroad tracks and was struck by a train.
Carlos Morales Guzman was pronounced dead at the scene at 5:20 p.m., San Bernardino County coroner's officials said.
Guzman was riding north along Beech Avenue, north of Ceres Avenue in Fontana at 5:15 p.m. when he began crossing the tracks and a westbound train hit him.
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