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Date: March 31, 2014 06:13AM
Dear MySQL users, The MySQL developer tools team announces 6.1.4 as our GA release for MySQL Workbench 6.1. MySQL Workbench 6.1 is an upcoming major update for the official MySQL graphical development tool. Introducing over 30 new features, this version has many significant enhancements focusing on real-time performance assessment and analysis from the SQL statement level to server internals and file IO. You can see this from additions to the SQL Editor as well as new dashboard visualization and reporting that take advantage of MySQL Server 5.6 and 5.7 Performance Schema, and enhancements to the MySQL Explain Plans. Additionally Workbench 6.1 is leveraging work from various teammates in MySQL Engineering by introducing a schema called "SYS" that provides simplified views on Performance Schema, Information Schema, and other areas. Special thanks to the server optimizer team, server runtime team, and Mark Leith. For Oracle DBAs MySQL SYS is similar to the V$ catalog views, and MSSQL folks its like DMVs (Dynamic Management Views). MySQL Workbench 6.1 includes: * Improved drag and drop support in the Home screen and SQL Editor * Visual Explain 2. The Visual Explain feature was revamped and is now easier to read and interpret. You can also get the traditional tabular explain output from within the same interface. * Performance Dashboard. A graphical representation of some key statistics from the server status, gives you a bird's eye view of the status of key server subsystems. * For advanced users, Performance Schema Instrumentation. A GUI for configuring the Performance Schema in detail, for advanced users. * Performance Schema based reporting. Gives insight into the operation of the server through many high-level reports. * New query result view. Get more information about queries you execute, such as information about the fields in your result set and key performance statistics from your query (timing, index usage, number of rows scanned, joins etc). * Form Editor for resultsets. In addition to the result grid, you can now edit records row by row in a form style editor. * Table Inspector. Similar to the Schema Inspector, view detailed information from tables. A streamlined interface for creating indexes is also included. * Support for the Windows accessibility API and Windows high contrast color schemes. A new high contrast theme has been introduced. * And more. More than 60 enhancement requests and bugs reported by users have also been addressed, providing performance, usability and stability improvements across the board. For the full list of bugs fixed in this revision, visit http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/workbench/en/changes-6-1.html For discussion, join the MySQL Workbench Forums: http://forums.mysql.com/index.php?151 Download MySQL Workbench 6.1.4 GA now, for Windows, Mac OS X 10.6+, Oracle Linux 6, Fedora 19, Fedora 20, Ubuntu 12.04 and Ubuntu 13.10 or sources, from: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/tools/workbench/ In Windows, you can also use the integrated MySQL Installer to update MySQL Workbench and other MySQL products. Quick links: - http://mysqlworkbench.org/ - Download: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/tools/workbench/ - Bugs: http://bugs.mysql.com - Forums: http://forums.mysql.com/index.php?151 Enjoy! Changes in MySQL Workbench 6.1.4 (2014-03-31) Functionality Added or Changed * The Beautify query feature was changed. It now only affects the current statement, unless there is an explicit selection. Before, it would reformat all statements in the window by default. (Bug #18237189, Bug #71544) * The default schema is now expanded automatically when a connection is opened, or when the default schema changes. (Bug #18237247, Bug #70522) * A specific connection string can now be passed to the --query command-line option at startup, in the form of "--query user@host:port". If this connection string does not already exist, then it will be created. (Bug #17353691, Bug #70134) * MySQL Workbench now checks if the lower_case_table_name variable is correctly set on Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X systems. If not, then MySQL Workbench will display a dialog after connect, and emit a warning message when performing synchronization or reverse engineering actions. (Bug #14802853) * New Report a Bug functionality now opens a browser with the MySQL bug page pre-populated with MySQL Workbench data. This also allows MySQL Workbench to be fully manipulated while submitting the bug report. (Bug #14079590, Bug #65258) Bugs Fixed * The local private key file for an SSH connection when executing Remote Connection in MySQL Workbench through SSH could not be saved to a folder with accented characters. (Bug #18328846, Bug #71800) * FOUND_ROWS() (after a SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS statement) returned 1 (true) instead of the number of found rows. (Bug #18342953, Bug #71920) * On Mac OS X, using key shortcuts to record marker positions #3 and #4 on the modeling canvas did not function, as these shortcuts (Command + Shift + 3 and Command + Shift + 4) are predefined to execute screenshot features. (Bug #18268043) * Exported JSON string delimiters used double quotes instead of single quotes, and the exported JSON file extension changed from .js to .json. (Bug #18314718, Bug #71846) * Some user interface (UI) elements explicitly set a background color but not a font color, and vice-versa. (Bug #18305958, Bug #71828) * The Shift + Control + Arrow Key (left or right) now moves the cursor word-by-word in the SQL code editor, to go along with the character-by-character Shift + Arrow Key functionality. (Bug #18267537) * A Show schema name diagram preference was added. If enabled, it shows the schema name in the table heading of an EER Diagram. (Bug #18268014, Bug #71592) * On Mac OS X, pressing Shift would interfere with the Option + Arrow word-by-word selector operation, and would instead change it to a character-by-character operation. (Bug #18237104, Bug #64358) * When migrating from Microsoft SQL Server, nVarchar(n) columns would always migrate to a MySQL VARCHAR(n) column that was twice the size. (Bug #18195599, Bug #71608) * While executing the Migration Wizard, successfully entered credentials during a Test Connection remained in cache until the migration tab was closed, despite the Save password in keychain option not being enabled. The connection is now closed after executing Test Connection. (Bug #18195389) * On Linux, Help-View Reported bugs link (to view current MySQL Workbench bugs) was broken. Its path included "WB%2520bugs" instead of "WB%20bugs". (Bug #18231109, Bug #71668) * After copying and pasting tables within the Alter Table panel, clicking Apply would return "No changes detected" instead of detecting the changes. Copied and pasted entries (from the clipboard) are now detected and saved. (Bug #18205924, Bug #71632) * The Check for updates operation failed to function for the commercial edition. (Bug #18225980, Bug #16879533, Bug #69346) * MySQL Workbench will now see the NO ACTION and RESTRICT referential action options as two different options. (Bug #18237503, Bug #71499) * On Linux, a scheduled and executed MEB Online Backup would not output the error log to stderr. Also, the saved log file was always named $BACKUP_NAME.log, by using the literal '$BACKUP_NAME' instead of parsing it as a variable. (Bug #18243667, Bug #71674) * The values "true" and "false" are now converted to "1" and "0" if the column is a BOOLEAN or TINYINT. Also, synchronizing a BOOLEAN against a TINYINT no longer generates any differences, when before it might generate SQL that "changed" TINYINT columns to TINYINT. (Bug #18124474, Bug #71458) * When migrating from Microsoft SQL Server, mapping a VARCHAR column to TEXT would still attempt to migrate it to VARCHAR, which could yield an error if the VARCHAR exceeded the maximum size. It now properly maps to TEXT. (Bug #18167872, Bug #71036) * When migrating from Microsoft SQL Server, column names greater than 64 characters were automatically renamed with the object migration component. The schema creation created the new table structure as expected, but later the bulk migration bulk data transfer attempted to import data to the original column names. (Bug #18168027, Bug #71532) * The Store connection for future usage option in the Database Migration wizard did not store the defined MySQL connections. (Bug #18124149) * Saved connections would sometimes not function (connect) properly unless the password was saved to the local vault. (Bug #18154787) * When migrating from Microsoft SQL Server, DECIMAL(n, n) columns did not properly migrate to BIGINT(n). (Bug #18105487, Bug #71379) * When migrating from Microsoft SQL Server, Varchar(MAX) is now imported as LONGTEXT, instead of the erroneous VARCHAR(-1). (Bug #18105486, Bug #71253) * Altering a table's comment would immediately move the cursor position to the end of the comment. A workaround was to copy-n-paste a comment into this window. (Bug #17945616, Bug #70970) * On Linux, using a GTK theme with light font colors would cause the schema listing to be difficult to read. (Bug #17958777, Bug #71141) * MySQL Workbench failed to reverse engineer tables containing TIME(n) and DATETIME(n) (fractional timestamp) columns. (Bug #17559837, Bug #70515) * Executing Execute Now for a defined backup job would finish successfully, but would also report an error. (Bug #17408250) * When multiple versions of MySQL Enterprise Backup were installed, the MySQL Backup Command Path would include both paths. Now, the first discovered path is used, and a warning about having multiple MySQL Enterprise Backup installations is logged. (Bug #17367584) * The MySQL keywords were sometimes blank (missing) in the SQL Additions panel. (Bug #17346343, Bug #70116) * The Migration Wizard Overview text was updated to reflect better grammar. (Bug #17283213) * When too many tabs are present in MySQL Workbench, a double arrow now appears in the right top corner. When clicked, a list of the hidden tabs will appear. (Bug #16757127, Bug #69091) * The MySQL Workbench Scripting Shell did not allow tabs or spaces for indentation in interactive Python scripts. A workaround was to instead create and execute script files. (Bug #14520728, Bug #66451) * Sometimes the Report Bug window would remain open, even after pressing Cancel. (Bug #14495624, Bug #66084) * The panel dimensions for an EER diagram are now preserved. This left panel stores the descriptions, properties, and history tabs. (Bug #13972049, Bug #64661) * The Synchronize Model routine would only notice changes to some triggers, while ignoring changes to others. It would not update these triggers even if forced by using the Update Source button. (Bug #11766750, Bug #59934) * MySQL Workbench would allow a table group to be renamed using a reserved MySQL keyword. (Bug #11763690, Bug #56431) On behalf of the MySQL Workbench and the MySQL/ORACLE RE Team.
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By an abelian $\otimes$-category I mean a symmetric monoidal category $(\mathcal{A},\otimes,\mathcal{O})$, such that $\mathcal{A}$ also is an abelian category and for every $M \in \mathcal{A}$ the functor $M \otimes - $ is cocontinuous (i.e. right exact and preserves coproducts; in particular additive). A line bundle is defined as an object $\mathcal{L}$ of $\mathcal{A}$ such that there is some object $\mathcal{L}'$ such that $\mathcal{L} \otimes \mathcal{L}' \cong \mathcal{O}$. An example is the category of (quasi-coherent) modules on a locally ringed space. The line bundles then coincide with the modules which are locally free of rank $1$ (see here).
Now I want to show that in general these line bundles have similar properties as in the case of the module category. For example it's not hard to show that if $\mathcal{L}$ is a line bundle, then it is flat in the sense that $\mathcal{L} \otimes -$ is exact (it is even an automorphism of $\mathcal{A}$ with inverse $\mathcal{L}^{-1} \otimes -$). The isomorphism classes of line bundles yield a group, which may be denoted as $\text{Pic}(\mathcal{A})$.
Question 1. Is there any literature about these abelian $\otimes$-categories which treats them systematically? Perhaps the "usual" definition differs a little from mine, this does not matter.
Question 2. Let $\mathcal{L}$ be a line bundle and $\phi : \mathcal{L} \to \mathcal{L}$ an epimorphism. Does it follow that $\phi$ is an isomorphism?
Question 3. Let $\mathcal{L}$ be a line bundle and assume $\phi : \mathcal{L} \to \mathcal{L}$ is an epimorphism. Does it follow that there is an epimorphism $\psi : \mathcal{L}^{-1} \to \mathcal{L}^{-1}$ such that $\phi \otimes \psi$ corresponds to the identity of $\mathcal{O}$ under the isomorphism $\mathcal{L} \otimes \mathcal{L}^{-1} \cong \mathcal{O}$?
Question 4. Assume we also have a $\lambda$-structure on $\mathcal{A}$ which is compatible with the given data. Is it possible to give a reasonable definition of a locally free object of rank $n$? See also this question.

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First edition cover
|Joseph Heller
|Cover artist
|Paul Bacon[1]
|United States
|Black humor, absurdist fiction, satire, war fiction, historical fiction
|Simon & Schuster
Publication date
|11 November 1961
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|453 pp (1st edition hardback)
|813/.54 22
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Catch-22 is a satirical novel by the American author Joseph Heller. He began writing it in 1953; the novel was first published in 1961. It is frequently cited as one of the greatest literary works of the twentieth century.[2] It uses a distinctive non-chronological third-person omniscient narration, describing events from the points of view of different characters. The separate storylines are out of sequence so that the timeline develops along with the plot.
The novel is set during World War II, from 1942 to 1944. It mainly follows the life of Captain John Yossarian, a U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 bombardier. Most of the events in the book occur while the fictional 256th Squadron is based on the island of Pianosa, in the Mediterranean Sea, west of Italy. The novel looks into the experiences of Yossarian and the other airmen in the camp, who attempt to maintain their sanity while fulfilling their service requirements so that they may return home.
The novel's title refers to a plot device that is repeatedly invoked in the story. Catch-22 starts as a set of paradoxical requirements whereby airmen mentally unfit to fly did not have to do so, but could not actually be excused. By the end of the novel it is invoked as the explanation for many unreasonable restrictions. The phrase "Catch-22" has since entered the English language, referring to a type of unsolvable logic puzzle sometimes called a double bind.[3] According to the novel, people who were crazy were not obliged to fly missions; but anyone who applied to stop flying was showing a rational concern for their safety, and was sane.
The plotline follows the airmen of the 256th Squadron while in action over Italy, and their repeated attempts to avoid combat missions that appear to lead to certain death. Their attempts are almost always comical; when an officer refers to the string on a map representing the front line and states that they won't be able to fly if it moves beyond the target, the airmen begin watching the string obsessively until Yossarian secretly moves the string and the mission is cancelled. The officer is not amused, and assigns them a particularly dangerous mission. The ultimate escape is to have oneself declared mentally unfit for duty, but the Air Force has made this impossible through the eponymous Catch-22. In spite of their best efforts, most of the airmen are killed over the span of the novel.
The development of the novel can be split into segments. The first (chapters 1–11) broadly follows the story fragmented between characters, but in a single chronological time in 1943. The second (chapters 12–20) flashes back to focus primarily on the "Great Big Siege of Bologna" before once again jumping to the chronological "present" of 1943 in the third part (chapter 21–25). The fourth (chapters 26–28) flashes back to the origins and growth of Milo's syndicate, with the fifth part (chapter 28–32) returning again to the narrative "present" but keeping to the same tone of the previous four. In the sixth and final part (chapter 32 on) remains in the "present" time but takes a much darker turn and spends the remaining chapters focusing on the serious and brutal nature of war and life in general.[4]
Previously the reader had been cushioned from experiencing the full horror of events, but in the final section the events are laid bare. The horror begins with the attack on the undefended Italian mountain village, with the following chapters involving despair (Doc Daneeka and the Chaplain), disappearance in combat (Orr and Clevinger), disappearance caused by the army (Dunbar) or death of most of Yossarian's friends (Nately, McWatt, Mudd, Kid Sampson, Dobbs, Chief White Halfoat and Hungry Joe), culminating in the unspeakable horrors of Chapter 39, in particular the rape and murder of Michaela, who represents pure innocence.[4] In Chapter 41, the full details of the gruesome death of Snowden are finally revealed.
Despite this, the novel ends on an upbeat note with Yossarian learning of Orr's miraculous escape to Sweden and Yossarian's pledge to follow him there.
Many events in the book are repeatedly described from differing points of view, so the reader learns more about each event from each iteration, with the new information often completing a joke, the punchline of which was told several chapters previously. The narrative's events are out of sequence, but events are referred to as if the reader is already familiar with them, so that the reader must ultimately piece together a timeline of events. Specific words, phrases, and questions are also repeated frequently, generally to comic effect.
Much of Heller's prose in Catch-22 is circular and repetitive, exemplifying in its form the structure of a Catch-22. Circular reasoning is widely used by some characters to justify their actions and opinions. Heller revels in paradox, for example: "The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could stand him", and "The case against Clevinger was open and shut. The only thing missing was something to charge him with." This atmosphere of apparently logical irrationality pervades the book.
While a few characters are most prominent, notably Yossarian and the Chaplain, the majority of named characters are described in detail with fleshed out or multidimensional personas to the extent that there are few if any "minor characters."
Although its non-chronological structure may at first seem aleatoric, Catch 22 is highly structured. It is founded on a structure of free association, ideas run into one another through seemingly random connections. For example, Chapter 1 entitled "The Texan" ends with "everybody but the CID man, who had caught cold from the fighter captain and come down with pneumonia."[5] Chapter 2, entitled "Clevinger", begins with "In a way the CID man was pretty lucky, because outside the hospital the war was still going on."[6] The CID man connects the two chapters like a free association bridge and eventually Chapter 2 flows from the CID man to Clevinger through more free association links.
Yossarian comes to fear his commanding officers more than he fears the Germans attempting to shoot him down and he feels that "they" are "out to get him." Chief among the reasons Yossarian fears his commanders more than the enemy is that as he flies more missions, Colonel Cathcart increases the number of required combat missions before a soldier may return home; he reaches the magic number only to have it retroactively raised. He comes to despair of ever getting home and is greatly relieved when he is sent to the hospital for a condition that is almost jaundice. In Yossarian's words:
- The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on, and that includes Colonel Cathcart. And don't you forget that, because the longer you remember it, the longer you might live.[7]
While the military's enemies are Germans, none appear in the story as an enemy combatant. This ironic situation is epitomized in the single appearance of German personnel in the novel, who act as pilots employed by the squadron's Mess Officer, Milo Minderbinder, to bomb the American encampment on Pianosa. This predicament indicates a tension between traditional motives for violence and the modern economic machine, which seems to generate violence simply as another means to profit, quite independent of geographical or ideological constraints. Heller emphasizes the danger of profit seeking by portraying Milo without "evil intent"; Milo's actions are portrayed as the result of greed, not malice.[8]
Heller wanted to be a writer from an early age; his experiences as a bombardier during World War II inspired Catch-22;[9] Heller later said that he "never had a bad officer." In a 1977 essay on Catch-22, Heller stated that the "antiwar and antigovernment feelings in the book" were a product of the Korean War and the 1950s rather than World War II itself. Heller's criticisms are not intended for World War II but for the Cold War and McCarthyism.[10]
The influence of the 1950s on Catch-22 is evident through Heller's extensive use of anachronism. Though the novel is ostensibly set in World War II, Heller intentionally included anachronisms like loyalty oaths and computers (IBM machines) to situate the novel in the context of the 1950s.[8] Many of the characters are based on or connected to individuals from the 1950s:
- Milo Minderbinder's maxim "What's good for M&M Enterprises is good for the country" alludes to former president of General Motors Charles Erwin Wilson's statement before the Senate "What's good for General Motors is good for the country."[8]
- The question of "Who promoted Major Major?" alludes to Joseph McCarthy's questioning of the promotion of Major Peress, an army dentist who refused to sign loyalty oaths.[8]
Czech writer Arnošt Lustig recounts in his book 3x18 that Joseph Heller told him that he would never have written Catch-22 had he not first read The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek.[11]
In 1998, some critics raised the possibility that Heller's book had questionable similarities to Louis Falstein's 1950 novel, Face of a Hero. Falstein never raised the issue between Catch-22's publication and his death in 1995 and Heller claimed never to have been aware of the obscure novel. Heller said that the novel had been influenced by Céline, Waugh and Nabokov. Many of the similarities have been stated to be attributable to the authors' experiences, both having served as U.S. Army Air Forces aircrew in Italy in World War II. However, their themes and styles are different.[12]
Strictly speaking, a "Catch-22" is "a problematic situation for which the only solution is denied by a circumstance inherent in the problem or by a rule."[13] For example, losing something is typically a conventional problem; to solve it, one looks for the lost item until one finds it. But if the thing lost is one's glasses, one can't see to look for them - a Catch-22. A few more examples: If the lights are out in a room, one can't see to find the light switch. If one locks one's keys in one's car, it is not possible to unlock the car to retrieve them. If one lacks work experience, one cannot get a job to gain experience. If one doesn't have money, one can't invest to make money. The term "Catch-22" is also used more broadly to mean a tricky problem or a no-win or absurd situation.
In the book, Catch-22 is a military rule typifying bureaucratic operation and reasoning. The rule is not stated in a general form, but the principal example in the book fits the definition above: If one is crazy, one does not have to fly missions; and one must be crazy to fly. But one has to apply to be excused, and applying demonstrates that one is not crazy. As a result, one must continue flying, either not applying to be excused, or applying and being refused. The narrator explains:
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he were sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle. (p. 56, ch. 5)
Other forms of Catch-22 are invoked throughout the novel to justify various bureaucratic actions. At one point, victims of harassment by military police quote the MPs' explanation of one of Catch-22's provisions: "Catch-22 states that agents enforcing Catch-22 need not prove that Catch-22 actually contains whatever provision the accused violator is accused of violating." Another character explains: "Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing."
Yossarian comes to realize that Catch-22 does not actually exist, but because the powers that be claim it does, and the world believes it does, it nevertheless has potent effects. Indeed, because it does not exist, there is no way it can be repealed, undone, overthrown, or denounced. The combination of force with specious and spurious legalistic justification is one of the book's primary motifs.
The motif of bureaucratic absurdity is further explored in 1994's Closing Time, Heller's sequel to Catch-22. This darker, slower-paced, apocalyptic novel explores the pre- and post-war lives of some of the major characters in Catch-22, with particular emphasis on the relationship between Yossarian and tailgunner Sammy Singer.
Literary allusions
Catch-22 contains allusions to many works of literature. Howard Jacobson, in his 2004 introduction to the Vintage Classics publication, wrote that the novel was "positioned teasingly ... between literature and literature's opposites – between Shakespeare and Rabelais and Dickens and Dostoevsky and Gogol and Céline and the Absurdists and of course Kafka on the one hand, and on the other vaudeville and slapstick and Bilko and Abbott and Costello and Tom and Jerry and the Goons (if Heller had ever heard of the Goons)."[14] One critic argues that it is Kafka's influence that can be seen most strongly in the novel:
- Like Kafka's heroes, Yossarian is riddled with anxiety and caught in an inexorable nightmare – in his case created by Colonel Cathcart and the inevitability of his raising the number of missions he has to fly.[15]
Historical context
The idea for Catch-22 was based on Joseph Heller's personal experience in World War II. The feelings that Yossarian and the other bomber pilots felt were taken directly from problems he suffered while on duty. Heller flew 60 bombing missions from May to October in 1944. Heller mentions that he should have been killed three times over, since the average death rate was 5% per mission. Heller was able to make it out of the war, but the experience tortured him and it took until 1953 before he could start writing about it. The war experience turned Heller into a "tortured, funny, deeply peculiar human being".[16]
After publication in 1961, Catch-22 became very popular among teenagers at the time. Catch-22 seemed to embody the feelings that young people had toward the Vietnam War. It was joked around that every student who went off to college at the time took along a copy of Catch-22. The popularity of the book created a cult following, which led to over eight million copies being sold in the United States. There are many[who?][not in citation given] who feel that "the comic fable that ends in horror has become more and more clearly a reflection of the altogether uncomic and horrifying realities of the world in which we live and hope to survive."[17]
Explanation of the novel's title
The title is a reference to a fictional bureaucratic stipulation which embodies forms of illogical and immoral reasoning. The opening chapter of the novel was originally published in New World Writing as Catch-18 in 1955, but Heller's agent, Candida Donadio, requested that he change the title of the novel, so it would not be confused with another recently published World War II novel, Leon Uris's Mila 18. The number 18 has special meaning in Judaism (it means Alive in Gematria; see Chai) and was relevant to early drafts of the novel which had a somewhat greater Jewish emphasis.[18]
The title Catch-11 was suggested, with the duplicated 1 paralleling the repetition found in a number of character exchanges in the novel, but because of the release of the 1960 movie Ocean's Eleven, this was also rejected. Catch-17 was rejected so as not to be confused with the World War II film Stalag 17, as was Catch-14, apparently because the publisher did not feel that 14 was a "funny number." Eventually the title came to be Catch-22, which, like 11, has a duplicated digit, with the 2 also referring to a number of déjà vu-like events common in the novel.[18]
Publication and movie rights
Catch-22 was sold to Simon & Schuster, where it had been championed by editor Robert Gottlieb, who would edit and oversee the marketing of the book. Nina Bourne also participated in editing the book. Officially published on 10 October 1961, the hardcover sold for $5.95. The book was not a best-seller in hardcover in the United States. Though it sold 12,000 copies by Thanksgiving, it never entered the New York Times Bestseller List. Catch-22 received good notices and was nominated for the National Book Award in March 1962. (Heller lost out to Walker Percy's The Moviegoer.) It went through four printings in hardcover, but only sold well on the East Coast. The book never established itself nationally until it was published in paperback for 75 cents.[19]
Upon publication in Great Britain, the book became the #1 best-seller.[19] Don Fine of Dell Paperbacks bought the paperback reprint rights to Catch-22 for $32,000. Between the paperback's release in September 1962 and April 1963, it sold 1.1 million copies.[19] In August 1962, Donadio brokered the sale of movie rights to Columbia Pictures for $100,000 plus $25,000 to write a treatment or a first draft of a screenplay.[19]
The initial reviews of the book ranged from very positive to very negative. There were positive reviews from The Nation, ("the best novel to come out in years"), the New York Herald Tribune ("A wild, moving, shocking, hilarious, raging, exhilarating, giant roller-coaster of a book") and The New York Times ("A dazzling performance that will outrage nearly as many readers as it delights"). On the other hand, The New Yorker, ("doesn't even seem to be written; instead, it gives the impression of having been shouted onto paper," "what remains is a debris of sour jokes") and a second review from the New York Times ("repetitive and monotonous. Or one can say that it is too short because none of its many interesting characters and actions is given enough play to become a controlling interest")[20] disliked it. One commentator of Catch-22 recognized that "many early audiences liked the book for just the same reasons that caused others to hate it"[21] The book had a cult following though, especially among teenagers and college students. Heller remarks that in 1962, after appearing on the Today show he went out drinking with the host at the time, John Chancellor, who handed him stickers that Chancellor got privately printed reading "YOSSARIAN LIVES". Heller also said that Chancellor had been secretly putting them on the walls of the corridors and executive bathrooms in the NBC building.[21]
Although the novel won no awards upon release, it has remained in print and is seen as one of the most significant American novels of the 20th century.[2] Scholar and fellow World War II veteran Hugh Nibley said it was the most accurate book he ever read about the military.[22] Since its release in 1961, the book has sold 10 million copies.
- The Modern Library ranked Catch-22 as the 7th (by review panel) and 12th (by public) greatest English-language novel of the 20th century.[23]
- The Radcliffe Publishing Course rank Catch-22 as number 15 of the 20th century's top 100 novels.[24]
- The Observer listed Catch-22 as one of the 100 greatest novels of all time.[25]
- TIME puts Catch-22 in the top 100 English-language modern novels (1923 onwards, unranked).[26]
- The Big Read by the BBC ranked Catch-22 as number 11 on a web poll of the UK's best-loved book.[27]
- Catch-22 was adapted into a feature film of the same name in 1970, directed by Mike Nichols.
- Catch-22 (play): Aquila Theatre produced a stage adaptation of Catch-22, based on Heller's 1971 stage adaption. It was directed by Peter Meineck. This production toured the USA in 2007/8 with a New York City production in the fall of 2008.[28]
- A pilot for a comedy series based upon Catch-22 was made and televised in 1973, with Richard Dreyfuss in the starring role of Capt. Yossarian.[29]
Selected releases
This list covers the first and most recent printed publications by the original publisher Simon & Schuster as well as all other formats. Other print publishers include Dell, Corgi, Vintage, Knopf, Black Swan, Grasset & Fasquelle and Wahlström & Widstrand.
The original manuscript is held by Brandeis University.[30]
- 1961, Simon & Schuster ISBN 0-671-12805-1, pub date June 1961, Hardback
- 1961, Simon & Schuster ISBN 0-440-51120-8, advance Paperback with signed bookplate
- 1978, Franklin Library ISBN 0-8124-1717-8, signed limited edition Leather Bound
- 1996, Simon & Schuster ISBN 0-684-83339-5, pub date September 1996 Paperback
- 1999, Simon & Schuster ISBN 0-684-86513-0, pub date October 1999, Hardback
- 1980, Books On Tape ISBN 0-7366-8962-1, unabridged Audio Cassette reader Wolfram Kandinsky
- 1984, Caedmon Audio ISBN 0-694-50253-7, Audio Cassette
- 1990, Books On Tape ISBN 0-7366-9085-9, unabridged Audio CD reader Jim Weiss
- 1994, DH Audio ISBN 0-88646-125-1, abridged edition Audio Cassette reader Alan Arkin
- 2007, Caedmon ISBN 978-0-06-126246-3, unabridged Audio CD reader Jay O. Sanders
- 2008, Hachette Audio ISBN 978-1-4055-0387-7, unabridged Audio CD reader Trevor White
See also
Notes and references
- ↑ "Paul Bacon cover artist". Solothurnli.com. Retrieved 11 March 2011.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "What is Catch-22? And why does the book matter?". BBC News. 12 March 2002. Retrieved 11 March 2011.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Merriam-Webster dictionary: Related to DOUBLE BIND - Synonyms: catch-22
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Clinton S. Burhans, Jr. Spindrift and the Sea: Structural Patterns and Unifying Elements in Catch 22. Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 239–250, 1973. JSTOR online access
- ↑ Joseph Heller, Catch 22 (Simon & Schuster, New York. 1996), p. 24
- ↑ Joseph Heller, Catch 22 (Simon & Schuster, New York. 1996), p. 25
- ↑ Heller, Joseph (1961). Catch-22. New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 124.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Sorkin, Adam J. (1993). Conversations with Joseph Heller. Jackson, MO: University Press of Mississippi. p. 150. ISBN 0-87805-635-1.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ DM Craig. From Avignon to Catch-22. War, Literature, and the Arts 6, no. 2, 1994 pp27-54.
- ↑ Heller, Joseph (1977). "Reeling in Catch-22". In Lynda Rosen Obst. The Sixties. New York: Random House/Rolling Stone Press. pp. 50–52.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Zenny Sadlon. "Personal testimony by Arnošt Lustig". Zenny.com. Retrieved 11 March 2011.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Gussow, Mel (29 April 1998). "Critic's Notebook; Questioning the Provenance of the Iconic Catch-22". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 April 2010.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ catch-22. 2012. In Merriam-Webster.com. Retrieved March 8, 2012, from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/catch%2022
- ↑ Random House ISBN 978-0-09-947046-5 Vintage Classics
- ↑ McDonald, Paul. Reading Catch-22. Humanities E-Books
- ↑ Bailey, Blake (26 August 2011). "The Enigma of Joseph Heller". New York Times. Retrieved 7 May 2012.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Aldride, John W. (26 October 1986). "The Loony Horror of it all - Catch-22 Turns 25". Sunday New York TImes. Retrieved 7 May 2012.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 N James. "The Early Composition History of Catch-22". In Biographies of Books: The Compositional Histories of Notable American Writings, J Barbour, T Quirk (edi.) pp. 262–290. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1996.
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 19.3 Daugherty, Tracy (2011). Just One Catch: A Biography of Joseph Heller. New York: St. Martin's Press. pp. 224–230. ISBN 978-0312596859.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles> Cite error: Invalid
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- ↑ "The Internet Public Library: Online Literary Criticism Collection". Ipl.org. Retrieved 11 March 2011.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 Heller, Joseph (1994). Catch-22. New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 11. ISBN 0-671-50233-6.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Hugh Nibley and Alex Nibley, Sergeant Nibley PhD.: Memories of an Unlikely Screaming Eagle, Salt Lake City: Shadow Mountain, 2006, p. 255
- ↑ Randomhouse.com Modern Library's 100 best novels of the 20th century
- ↑ Herbert Huber. "Radcliffe Publishing Course: the twentieth century's top 100 novels". Lesekost.de. Retrieved 11 March 2011.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Robert McCrum (8 August 2006). "The Observer's greatest novels of all time". The Observer. UK. Retrieved 11 March 2011.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Time's top 100 English language modern novels". TIME. 16 October 2005. Retrieved 11 March 2011.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ The BBC's Big Read
- ↑ Phythyon Jr., John. R. (2 March 2008). "Catch-22 a nearly perfect adaptation". The Lawrence Journal-World & News.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Catch-22 (TV Movie 1973) on IMDb .
- ↑ Heller archive, Brandeis University.
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Attorney Larry Krantz, representing Perez, asked him if he was manipulating them so they could participate in the massive fraud without knowing it.
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Attorney Gordon Mehler said his client, O'Hara, was "used, abused, manipulated, lied to, snookered and bamboozled" by two of the greatest criminal masterminds in history, Madoff and DiPascali.
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Breslin said Crupi was a victim of "the lies that they told her to her face, year after year."
The verdict was delivered after the jury deliberated for about 20 hours over a period of two weeks. The panel was down to 11 jurors after one juror became sick during deliberations and was dismissed.
The defendants were described by prosecutors as "necessary players" in Madoff's fraud. They said Bongiorno, hired in 1968, and Crupi, hired in 1983, used old stock tables to fabricate account statements and other fake records that kept the Securities and Exchange Commission in the dark. The government said they also rewarded themselves with tens of millions of dollars in salaries and bonuses, including $2.5 million for a beach house for Crupi as the Ponzi scheme was falling apart.
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It is impossible to separate your eating from your health and fitness. The overused, but all too true saying that "You are what you eat" is worth closer inspection. Most of us want to believe that the high fat, low food value that constitutes the American diet is somehow turned into good fuel for our body. What have you eaten in the last four days? Based on what you know about what is good food, what is your score on the quality of food you have eaten in the last week? Would you describe your diet as "high octane fuel" that your body needs? Or, is your body having to sift through the debris that you have ingested to find a few worthwhile nutrients?
If you look around when you are driving, food is everywhere. Most of it is not what our body wants or needs. No wonder we overeat so often. Our body is continuing to look for food that has taste and can really satisfy. The following are a few helpful hints that might help you improve your quality of eating:
- Do not rely on "willpower" to help you make good decisions about eating.
- When you are really, really hungry, eat the best food for your body
- Fiber is as close to a magic bullet as there is to satisfy hunger
- Drink water when you feel hungry
- Finish your last meal of the day at least two hours before bedtime
- A small breakfast in the morning gives your body a head start
- Think long term about your weight
- Try to consume more high volume, low calorie dense foods
Do not rely on "willpower" to help you make good decisions about eating: Most people have an idea of what eating behavior routinely causes them to overeat. They lament "I just end up going to the freezer and eating a pint of ice cream." If that's the case get rid of the ice cream. Throw it in the trash and get it out of the house. Make it difficult for you to give in to your dietary whims. Drive an extra couple of blocks to avoid the convenience store you routinely stop to eat at on your way home. Willpower is overrated. Arrange your environment so you can be successful with minimal "willpower."
When you are really, really hungry eat the best food for your body: Pay attention to this tip because it works. When I was training for The Ironman, I would train Sunday mornings for 5 hours on the bike. Then I would go to church and take the family to a Sunday pizza buffet. I figured I had deserved it; I had burned nearly 4,000 calories. By the time I reached the buffet, I was starved. Forty five minutes later I had eaten 4,500 calories and I was stuffed. On my biggest workout of the week, I had eaten more calories than I had burned. I gained body fat that day. More interesting, the next Sunday, I started thinking about that buffet an hour before the ride ended. Each week I could picture that buffet and could not wait to get to my reward for training so hard. Then it hit me. I had conditioned myself to obsess on a high calorie dense food. My mind was conditioned to associate hunger with pizza. Now I will eat a fruit salad when I come in from a long training session. Guess what I start craving thirty minutes before the end of my bike ride these days? Make this "paired association" work for you, not against you. When you are really hungry, eat something that your body can really use.
Fiber is as close to a magic bullet as there is to satisfy hunger. Eat foods with high fiber content. If you are older, you may want to add a fiber supplement with your meals. You will feel satisfied with less food and even lower the risk of some cancers.
Drink water when you feel hungry. Thirst is often confused with hunger. Dehydration is common during the summer. Try drinking a glass of water, wait for a while and see if you are still hungry. You may find that a glass of water will be what your body wanted.
Finish your last meal of the day at least two hours before bedtime Late meals seem to be increasingly common in our fast pace world. Dinner is bumped back to late in the evening. Then you end up going to bed before your food has emptied from your stomach. When you sleep, you do not need many calories. What can the body do with that late dinner? You guessed it, the dinner is stored as fat. Eat earlier and take a fifteen minute walk after dinner. It is a great time to discuss the day with a significant other. By the time you get back home your hunger has disappeared. You have kept yourself from snacking on an additional three or four hundred calories.
A small breakfast in the morning gives your body a head start. Two to three hundred calories in the morning gives your body a little fuel. We tend to deplete our glycogen during the night. A small breakfast is part of a smart balanced diet. I know people who do not eat anything until lunch, or worse, dinner. By then they are famished and get out of control at dinner. They end up eating more than they would have had they eaten three smaller meals.
Think long term about your weight. We live in a world of immediate gratification. People often decide they want to lose weight and want to "lose 5 lbs a week". They think losing 5-10 lbs/wk is easy; after all they see it on TV all the time. Let's look at the math of losing body fat. One pound of body fat contains about 3,500 calories. If you burn 500 calories a day more than you eat, every day for a week you will lose one pound of fat per week. I know that in the beginning you also lose an equal amount of water, so it is possible the scales may show up to four pounds the first week or two. If you can average one pound of fat per week over a long period of time, you are really doing well; pat yourself on the back!
Try to consume more high volume, low calorie dense foods. My pizza example above is an example of a high density food. A typical slice of pizza can have 400 calories. It is pretty easy to eat 4 slices of pizza and still be hungry. Four slices at 400 calories is around 1,600 calories. That is a whole days worth of calories for most of us. A medium sized apple has about 100 calories. Can you imagine eating 16 apples in a single meal? No, you would be full after three apples. That is the difference between high density foods and low density high volume foods. Fat has three times as many calories as protein or carbohydrates. Minimize the fat in your diet. If you think fatty foods taste better, reread the section above about the food you eat when you are really hungry. You train yourself to like certain types of foods. You can retrain your self to eat healthy and never feel deprived.
Diet is such a complicated area. There are a plethora of books about diet and weight loss. I hope that these few tips will be helpful in getting your diet headed in the right direction, without massive willpower or deprivation. Eat healthy and enjoy the improved quality of life that comes with your health.


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Firefighters battled a large fire on Main Street in Vian, Oklahoma on Wednesday.
The fire started at 7 p.m., said a spokesman with the fire marshal's office, and destroyed three businesses with shared interior walls. At one point, witnesses said the flames shot 100 feet in the air.
The fire started in Sunrise Cafe and the other buildings were used for storage, said an official with the fire marshal's office.
Other area departments were called in to assist firefighters contain the fire overnight.
The three destroyed buildings, built in the late 1800s, were historic to Vian. Through time, one served as a First National Bank, a hotel, and doctor's office. The buildings were also used as a backdrop for the 1971 film Where the Red Fern Grows.
The fire chief said they had previously made a fire plan for the historic building because of its age and the amount of fuel inside. He said they knew that it would be a dangerous situation if the buildings ever caught on fire.
"It was packed full of stuff. We had kind of pre-planned this out in the past, that if ever it burnt, that it would be a hazard," said Vian Fire Department Chief Ed Barton.
The state fire marshal's office said it's going to take a week to figure out how the fire started.
Vian Mayor Kenneth Johnson is also concerned about the old buildings.
"We talked with the owners that hopefully, there wasn't going to be any electrical problems or anything like that. It seemed everything was up to code in the cafe that was being used," Johnson said.
Dean Risley owned part of the building that burned, and he said he was using one of the buildings to store things from an old house he's renovating.
"The history of it all, it just makes me sick. It was built in the late 1800s. it was a bank, and you know, in the 50s and 60s, it was a cafe. It really hurts," Risley said.
Johnson said the focus is on clean up and protecting the historic property for the future.
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Charmaine Cianciullo isn't a singer or an aspiring actress, but the Ottawa organic esthetician is making waves in social media. Since she began blogging in 2008, she has become a leading voice in the movement for safe, natural cosmetics garnering 15,000 followers on Twitter, 250,000 YouTube views and a recent feature in the Huffington Post.
"I have a great message and people want to hear it," said Cianciullo, who is a recent convert to the green movement. She is behind Manotick's Peppermint Organic Spa, where she offers handmade skin care, nail and hair removal treatments free of synthetic ingredients created for each client's specific skin type.
Cianciullo had a life-altering moment three years ago while reading the book, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry by Stacy Malkan.
"I was in the process of trying to get gorgeous to fit into my wedding dress by losing weight and eating healthier. I was given the book as a Christmas gift and what I read made me want to quit my job. I didn't want to work in a toxic environment or expose customers to chemicals," said Cianciullo, who was working in an area spa at the time.
The former model has long been an advocate of positive body image for young girls. In 2008, she started the popular video blog Glamology.com, which is a guide to natural and organic makeup, skin care, fashion, and nutrition, and is the owner of MintandBerry.com, an online eco-beauty boutique.
"The media want women to look like celebrities. We bake our skin in the sun and apply cosmetics laced with chemicals wanting to look beautiful. It's like going to McDonalds for a meal. You get instant satisfaction, but you feel lousy 30 minutes later. The same can be said about your skin."
Cianciullo opened a spa in her Gloucester home and began networking with others in the green movement. Two years ago, she went to Los Angeles to visit the women behind the website Greengirls.com to pick up tips on how to craft a successful message. She is now a contributing editor on the site.
"In a single visit to a beauty or nail salon, a woman can easily be exposed to thousands of potentially harmful chemicals. The biggest organ on a human is our skin. The big brand names are the most guilty when it comes to using chemicals."
The 30-year-old esthetician has recently moved to Manotick, opening a soothing, bright space in her new home on Rideau Valley Drive.
Cianciullo prefers to work with "the simple stuff found on the Earth" such as Manuka honey from the New Zealand bee, shea butter, beeswax, essential oils for fragrance, vegetable glycerine, argan oil to hydrate the skin and pure aloe gel with no preservatives or alcohol. Corn starch is used in favour of talc powder and walnut husks and raw sugar for exfoliants for pedicures.
She carries an array of product lines, including Cocoon Apothecary, Trillium Organics, Pomega5, Zosimos Botanicals, Urban Forest, Suncoat nail polish, which can all be purchased at her spa boutique.
Cianciullo is attracting a different clientele and admits it can be challenging to educate her longtime clients, but many are willing to give it a try.
"The most important thing for everyone, especially women, is to realize that there is a lack of governmental regulation with respect to ingredients in personal-care products, and it's up to each of us to personally determine if a product is safe."
Ottawa has a bevy of like-minded women who are also behind successful organic skin care companies and spas, including Revolution Organics, Lilou Organics, Exuberance Beauty, and Oresta Organic Skin Care Confectionery, to name a few.
A key resource for learning about the potential health risks associated with cosmetics is the Environmental Working Group's website, cosmeticsdatabase.com.
The site features a collection of personal-care product ingredient listings with more than 50 toxicity and regulatory databases.
"Conventional creams, scrubs, and nail polishes used in most spas contain a cocktail of synthetic chemicals, including parabens, petroleum by-products and phthalates; all of which have been linked to health issues from headaches, eye, nose and throat irritation, nervous system disorders, skin conditions like eczema, birth defects, hormone disruption and damage to the liver and kidneys," Cianciullo said.
"Ottawa has a lot of women spreading the natural, organic message. I'm the new kid on the block. Hopefully we can all work together."
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1. Get rid of your conventional nail polish and opt for a water-based solution.
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3. Drop petroleum-based lip balm in favour of natural options. Badger and Eco Lips are top picks.
4. Natural facial oils such as argan oil are an ideal way of hydrating the skin. You can put a few drops in bath water, face and on your hair to control frizz.
5. Baking soda can be used to whiten your teeth and sprinkled on the palm of your hands, patted onto your arm pits for protection against sweating.
What's in your beauty products?
A 2007 national survey conducted by Environmental Working Group (ewg.org) determined that 'the average adult is exposed to 168 hazardous chemicals each day.'
Of the 82,000 ingredients used in personal-care products more than 10,000 are industrial chemicals, including carcinogens, pesticides and reproductive toxins, according to the David Suzuki Foundation.
Although most ingredients in cosmetics have never been tested for their effects on human health and the environment, Health Canada does not require pre-market testing of chemicals used in cosmetics.
Manufacturers are not required to disclose specific fragrance ingredients on the product label. Instead, the generic term parfum is listed, representing a mixture of potentially dozens of chemicals.
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Oaths to quit smoking or start exercising 'tomorrow' rarely pan out. But there's one 'I'll do it later' promise you can make that research suggests will pay off in better
Oaths to quit smoking or start exercising 'tomorrow' rarely pan out. But there's one 'I'll do it later' promise you can make that research suggests will pay off in better financial health: setting up automatic bill payments and savings bumps.
The reason we kick the can down the road in the first place is often because we have low willpower and 'present bias' " the human tendency to favor immediate payoffs over long-term gains. Setting up automatic payments helps you sidestep that bias and, in turn, boost your finances. Rather than having to pay your bill or increase your retirement contributions today, you agree to have your financial institution or, in some cases, employer, do it later.
Here are some ways to use automatic payments to reduce the power of present bias, based in part on research from behavioral economists Shlomo Benartzi and Richard Thaler, who is also a Nobel Prize winner. These tips may help you reduce debt, improve your credit score and �grow retirement savings.
Pay bills with automatic payments. Set up automatic payments for all regular expenses such as utilities, housing and credit card or loan repayments. (Contact your financial institution if you're unsure how to do this.) Time the transactions to coincide with paydays so you're not tempted to spend too much of those deposits before paying the bills.
With automated payments, you're more likely to pay bills on time and protect your credit score. There are five basic metrics used to calculate your credit score, and prompt payment history is one of them.
Set a �larger monthly payment for high-interest debt. Make at least minimum payments on all credit cards, but consider �setting up automatic payments for an amount that's double or triple the monthly minimum on higher-interest debt. Or pay more toward the account with the �highest balance. That will lower the total amount of credit you are using, known as �credit utilization, �which is another big �factor �in your credit score.
Automatically put part of your pay in a savings account. After getting high-interest debt under control, it's time to start paying yourself. Arrange with your employer or bank to automatically transfer a set �amount �from your paycheck to your savings account. This will help build your emergency savings fund, which will reduce the need to lean on high-interest credit cards when your car or home needs repair.
Auto-escalate your retirement savings. Many companies now offer a program that automatically raises your 401(k) contributions, typically 1% a year, until you reach a preset limit. Your employer also may offer the SMarT ('Save More Tomorrow') program, developed by Benartzi and Thaler, �where regular contributions automatically increase with every pay raise.
Both programs require you to opt out to leave, so the power of inertia " or, as Benartzi and Thaler wrote in a 2017 Wall Street Journal op-ed, 'our tendency to accept the status quo' " now swings in favor of increased savings.
Automate monthly payments to tax-advantaged IRAs. After you've contributed to your 401(k) or another employer-sponsored retirement plan enough to get employer match, �a move to consider is opening a traditional or Roth individual retirement account. Set up automatic payments to max out your $5,500 contribution per year ($6,500 if age 50 or above).
We can all be lazy when it comes to changing financial habits. By automating savings increases, however, we can finally profit from our tendency to procrastinate.
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The North American Ing Masters (NAIM) Championship is the North American continental championship. Featured in a variety of formats over the years, this year's tournament — which kicked off Sunday night at the U.S. Go Congress — is a 16-person, 4-round Swiss tournament that will determine the North American Masters Champion. This tournament is invitation only, and participants are determined by qualification tournaments played over the six months before Congress begins.
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The best thing you'll eat this week – trust us. Our fresh dough rolled with sweet cinnamon and drizzled with icing
Single Portion, £5.49
A new and improved recipe straight from Papa John's kitchen. With extra chocolate for a richer taste. Delivered warm and perfect for sharing
Improved with extra chocolate chips, cut into eight slices and delivered warm
Sharing Portion, £4.99
Coconut flavoured ice cream with caramel & cookie swirls and chocolatey pieces. Non-dairy and Vegan
Large tub, £5.99
Buttery brown sugar ice cream with pink chocolatey salted caramel cups, a cookie swirl, a pink topping & chunks
Caramel Ice Cream with a Caramel Swirl and Chocolatey Covered Caramel Chunks
Chocolate ice cream with chocolate brownie pieces
Vanilla ice cream with chocolate chip cookie dough