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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
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The bottom line is that sick people or injured people are going to need care. And only the most over-rich communities can afford such care without some limits on the amount and the cost. So in some way that care will be rationed. At the moment we have chosen to ration care by income. If you are wealthy, you can afford care without limit. Make a living wage and hold down a decent job - and remain relatively healthy - and you can still afford a lavish regime of treatmeent for your ailments.
Become old, or sick, or unemployed...well, one hopes that Illness will be merciful and Death will be kind.That seems fundamentally unjust. Does the elderly woman dying in her broken bed in her unheated shack love her life less than the elderly woman in her soft sheets and elegant bedroom? We seem to believe so, for we have set up a system that punishes the poor and rewards the wealthy. One suspects that this is a reflection of our political system, which empowers the powerful and disenfranchises the powerless.I wish I saw a change in the future. I do not. The forces arracyed against such a change are simply too strong.Oh, and the pictures are all from the Astor School 2009 Field Day. Go, kindergartners!
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- Lisa said...
Hello to Charles, and to Chief. I hope you guys enjoy a lovely visit.
- Ael said...
Canada has had single payer universal health care for less than 50 years.
There were huge vested interests opposing it. Doctors even went on strike to prevent it.
And yet, it took less than five years to go from first implementation in Saskatchewan to national coverage.
Well, Chief, I can understand having been on both sides of the issue as far as health care goes.
The one thing Americans have to realize is that America, i.e. joe average citizen is paying for the research that is being done in the labs.
Granted, the legion of abuses is there, as it is in any system, but herein is the bench view of what goes on when you're holding that little white bottle.
Experimental failure.
Matrix study.
Place molecule back on the shelf for later consideration.
For every successful molecule that can be medicinized, there are at least five to six failures.
Phizer had a two failures in Phase two trials...those failures were catastrophic to those molecules, and so they were canned.
Those two failures represent hundreds of millions of dollars gone, thousands and thousands of man hours gone, and years gone.
I'm currently watching two molecules go the same way at my company. Years and years, backed by tens of millions and hundreds millions of dollars...only to go nowhere. So the plug is being pulled on them.
Ael, you're benefiting from America's research efforts, as is Europe, and the rest of the world.
If you ask me, I think if the US is going to be the bio-pharma research center for the world, we should start charging the world the costs of that research.
Medicine costs money, research costs even more money, and with the new bio-engineering that is going on...wonderful things are coming out...but it costs money. A lot of money.
Unfortunately, as Chief pointed out, there are the raiders who seek to makes scads of cash hand over fist...at the expense of both the scientists and the patients.
Chief, sorry to hear of the reduced hours deal. That's tough. Saw something in the paper this AM to the effect economists now see the recession ending later this year. Let's hope.
BTW, speaking of Oregon and Portland specifically, I was reminded a couple of days ago that Oregon had the second highest unemployment rate in the nation. This was when I was talking to my best friend's nephew, who's like a nephew to me, who was axed from a fairly senior position with your local evil empire, Nike, last week. He has mixed feelings: relief that he won't hear digs about his despised employer, but concern about the future. Fortunately, he got a fairly decent package and is a frugal person.
I read the New Yorker article focusing on McAllen last night. Very, very illuminating, and I'd recommend it to anyone concerned with health care expenses. That should be everyone. I'm going to take you to task about one thing I believe you should have PUT IN GREAT BIG CAPS: Nothing that's on the table right now will do anything to fix the problem. Why is this? Well, because the McAllen situation is specifically caused by rotten, greedy venal DOCTORS. Not insurance companies. DOCTORS.
Takeaway from the article: Where doctors are motivated by professional ethics rather than by avarice, medical costs can be contained. Where they're greedy—and this includes an increasing number of areas in the country—costs cannot be contained.
I always knew it. It's the doctors.
Hope you and Charly have a great visit. Say hi to him and tell him not to slack off on his email updates.
I've worked a LOT of different angles in the Medical industry and even did a stint in insurance and I've studied healthcare costs for almost the entire time.
In MN, for example, the average cost to insure a family of four went from $880 per year in 1987 to $10,200 last year. That's almost a 1200% increase in 21 years.
The power of double-digit compounding of medical expenses is truly phenomenal. This is a perfect exammple of why Eistein identified compound interest to be the most powerful force in the universe.
Sheera has identified part of the problem, which is the way we pay for the high costs of research and the rest of the world eventually benefits. It would be very interesting to see what would happen if we shared out the costs more equitably with the rest of the world. Would they be willing to pony up and pay the tab or would they explain that they aren't willing to purchase treatments at the real price? And what would that teach us about the real value of the treatments?
But the heart of the problem is that there really ISN'T an American Healthcare System. We've got several discrete groups that influence healthcare decisions(companies that provide new treatments and services, clinics and hospitals, medical schools, doctors, insurance companies) but none of them receive any benefit from actually lowering the costs to the consumer.
Insurance companies appear to benefit from helping people control their healthcare costs but they get most of their income from two sources:
1) A fixed profit percentage based on the total dollar volume of claims processed
2) What amounts to legal kickbacks from the companies that provide the services
Considering the information above, insurance company profits (and they are VERY profitable) can only grow by increasing the total dollar volume of their claims (more healthcare expenditures) or by expanding kickbacks from the companies that provide the services (which pass the extra cost on to the consumer). And it's only American to want your company's profits to grow...
The net effect is a runaway feedback loop as the companies find ever more effective ways to bill the patient and to cope with ever spiralling costs of competing for healthcare dollars.
I disagree with the Chief on the likelihood of action from the Federal government this year. Medical expenses have gone so fast that many companies are dropping healthcare benefits and people are discovering that they can't afford to get sick and they are beginning to apply real pressure on the government to change things.
Walmart and the AFL-CIO joined forces back in 2002 to hire a bunch of first-rank lobbyists to start laying the groundwork for some sort of universal healthcare system. Their two lead lobbists were Newt Gingrich and Hillary Clinton. The Bush administration fought hard against these two and mostly held the line but the times are a changing...
On the downside, while I'm fairly sure that SOMETHING will happen this year, I'm fairly pessimistic that it will be an effective without a LOT of additional tinkering.
But, as Ael has noted, once an effective system appears to be in place in a state or region, the pressure to take the rest of the country there will be overwhelming.
I only hope we don't make too many misteps on the road to success.
- Ael said...
Canada has a vibrant drug research community. It is not immediately obvious that we are not pulling our weight, research wise.
Drug marketing costs are significantly larger than research costs. I suspect that marketing costs are cheaper in Canada as we buy in bigger lots than the americans. This improves our efficiency.
Finally, health care is not just drug costs (and in Canada, drug costs are not entirely covered by our health care system).
In any case, there are other benefits to a single payer health care system.
A single mother friend of ours just had her baby (a month early). It was a breach birth and an emergency C section was required. The baby is still in an incubator cause the lungs are quite up to par.
This has been a hectic week, starting with the unexpected labour at 4am, taking her two kids into our house, dealing with the after effects of surgery, visiting mom and babe in the hospital, getting her place organized for the extra baby, etc. etc.
It only occurred to me as I was typing up this post, that not once, during the whole process, did I even think about how she is going to have to pay for all that completely unexpected extra care.
To my mind, the benefit of health care money simply not being an issue is a considerable one.
- FDChief said...
Lisa: We did have a good visit, and the Peeper even worked up the courage to visit Charles' camper and got some cool beach glass!
Charles has a tough road ahead, but he's up for the challenge, and is eager to move ahead with his project to bring our governmental malefactors to the bar of justice. I wish him well!
Ael: I think the timing is crucial. If the U.S. had moved to a national health care back when much of the rest of the industrialized world did, that is, right after WW2, I think it would have been practical. But 2009 isn't 1959. The forces aligned against NH are just too rich, too organized and too strong, and the American sheeple have been dog-whistle trained by nearly thirty years of Reaganism into knee-jerking at the words "socialism" and "rationing". The Perfect Storm of Rich and Stupid? Too much for reform...
Sheerah: But a big part of the story here is that pharma in general has lots of other bad habits (and Ael points out a few). The insistence with which Big Pharma keeps shaking the "Research is Costly" tree makes me think that research really ISN'T that costly.
Publius: I agree with you on the docs. But the takeaway I got from the New Yorker article was that this isn't a bug; it's a feature. It's no different from AIG or the Keating Five or Teapot Dome. Make the rules so that an unscrupulous person (doctor, lawyer, securities trader, Indian chief) can warp the system to make a buck? They're gonna do it.
The GOP hates to be reminded that their idol, Adam Smith, says right there in The Wealth of Nations that businessmen can't be trusted. "People of the same trade seldom meet together," he says, "even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the publick, or in some contrivance to raise prices."
The solution is right there in the article: the Mayo system puts everyone on salary. Push more drugs? Push more surgery? Invent clever ways to mulct the patient? Doesn't matter; you collect your $49.95 a day same as everyone...
So it IS the doctors. But it's because our system is set up to make the patient the cow and allow everyone in the medical game to invent their own Unlimited Turbo milking machine...
Pluto: Your analysis actually gives me some hope. The only way that this mess will ever be straightened out is if the medical leeches suck the patient dry. They're doing that now. But I thought that the recent Wall Street goatfuck would cause the Powers The Be to question the rush to deregulate everything financial. It hasn't. Can the health care vampires suck enough lucre out of the American economy to fail where the Masters of the Universe succeeded? It'll be an interesting next couple of years...
from the new yorker article:
This will by necessity be an experiment. We will need to do in-depth research on what makes the best systems successful—the peer-review committees? recruiting more primary-care doctors and nurses? putting doctors on salary?—and disseminate what we learn. Congress has provided vital funding for research that compares the effectiveness of different treatments, and this should help reduce uncertainty about which treatments are best. But we also need to fund research that compares the effectiveness of different systems of care—to reduce our uncertainty about which systems work best for communities. These are empirical, not ideological, questions. And we would do well to form a national institute for health-care delivery, bringing together clinicians, hospitals, insurers, employers, and citizens to assess, regularly, the quality and the cost of our care, review the strategies that produce good results, and make clear recommendations for local systems..
Oh this really reeks.
Death by committee.
The whole civilized world ( except the US ) has extensive experience in operating some form of publicly financed and run national health care systems for years and years. And this SFB offers to jawbone it to death. Crazy.
Well sorry, I do get carried away sometimes. I keep forgetting that those stinkin' foreigners lie about everything, especially how good their health care is. And those goddam Canadians banging on their doctors' office doors for every splinter and hangnail while poor folk with heart attacks gotta wait 6 months to see anybody. And those Canadian doctors leaving in droves for the US to make a decent living.
Smug foreign jerks.
( PS - - - AEL, any room left up north where you are for a couple more Murcans wanting something more civilized?
And Charles if you're reading this, wish you well. )
"Sheerah: But a big part of the story here is that pharma in general has lots of other bad habits (and Ael points out a few). The insistence with which Big Pharma keeps shaking the "Research is Costly" tree makes me think that research really ISN'T that costly."
I know it seems that it isn't, but it is.
For example, in my lab I have two FACS Arias, full suite, cell sorters, LSR II, partial suite research analysis platform, and a Clinical full suite CANTO II analysis instrument. Along with a dated ADVIA 120 clinical blood analyzer, and a CONFOCAL microscope, along with two kinetic microscopes, and a slide scanner that that images slides electronically.
All total, a bout seven million dollars...just in eqiupment, in this one lab out of eight labs in this facility.
Just eqiupment, not including the costs of upkeep, repairs, and reagents to keep them going.
Add in the scientists salaries, and you're looking at a 50 million dollar a year budget for one facility...it ain't cheap. And we're just one facility.
Then there is the chemistry, toxicology, immunochemistry labs...
But thats not where it ends, then there is the OMG costs for phase I, phase II, and phase III trials, and the molecule just to bring this far has gone into close to a couple of hundred million dollars.
And still there is no product, just a molecule looking for a problem to deal with.
So, for example, lets say zetia is your drug that took about nine years to validate, which burned a lot of midnight oil, paperwork, research, testing, isolating, more paperwork, retesting, and more retesting...and it still hasn't gone to trials yet...then when it does hit trials the maker of zetia has to walk on freaking water to ensure that it won't kill anyone, or make them sicker than they are.
After that, number crunching, more testing, validations, paperwork, and what not.
Till finally, the FDA craps out it's approval, and the company now has a product that it can sell, and the whole time...it's several hundred million dollars in the hole for this product, not to mention the several hundred million dollars that the other five that were being studied concurrently with zetia were sacked due to what ever reasons there were (most likely failing toxicology testing which will sack any molecule in a heartbeat).
It's expensive, and I will grant that the Pharma execs acting like nobility doesn't make the case for us...in fact, it just makes us look bad.
But I will admit one thing which we on the inside do comment to each other on...that pharma's penchant for targeting "commercial" products rather than seeking "cures" really doesn't make the case for us.
I point to the current spate of "cholesterol" reducing drugs.../sigh...everyone has one, and that is where the ridiculous costs in marketing comes from.
Franchise OTC products. Hence the reason why I refuse to work on any project that even remotely has to do with franchise products. I'm in the business of researching cures for life threatening diseases, not humping golden calf's leg.
- Lisa said...
I'm glad to hear you all had a good visit.


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With use of 33 cats, the subpial spinal cord transection under the operating microscope was performed in the thoraco-lumbar cord and omentum was mobilized, transposed and placed directly upon the pia mater of the transected spinal cord. The following investigations have been carried out.(1) Histology of spinal cord-omental preparation : Within 64 days, "fibrous coat" of Goldsmith developed at the ometo-spinal cord interface in continuity with the edges of the dura mater. It consisted mainly of a matrix of collagen fibers and fibroblasts, well vascularized with sinusoid, capillaries, arterioles and venules. These findings were essentially the same as non-trasected spinal cord-omental preparation in cats written in our paper of 1992 (Surgical Neurology 38 : 411-417, 1992). The new establishment of a vascular network occured between the transposed omentum and the transected spinal cord via the newly formed "fibrous coat" may permit the delivery of angiogenetic factors, as well as other va
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To walk down any given road in Accra (the capital city) or any other populated area of Ghana is to elicit a flurry of vocalised team guesswork from the locals as to your geographical origin. You'll get "Yo American dude!" or "hey mano, you Italiano!", "Eh eh Englishman!" or simply a less-inspired mumble of "Espanõl" or "Portugal" or "Mexican man" or even "Amsterdam". If you're white and out on the town in Ghana, you're open to all kinds of public scrutinies, most of which are just good natured fun (outside of the air conditioned malls, foreigners are few and far between on the pavements of West Africa). However, stop and engage a guesser and make mention that you're from "South" and the ribald demeanour changes. You can see the mental plug switch flip. Beneath a giant grin it's all "Bafanaaa Bafanaaaa!", "Let's Go 2010!" (Yes, MTN is truly "everywhere you go", especially in the poorer African countries) and lately, lots of "Yeh love Jacob Zuma!" accompanied by brotherly fist-bumps and those complicated thumb-popping handshakes that very few white ous can manage properly.
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There is the depressing Elmina Castle on the Cape Coast, original home to the world's slave trade. The manic Makora Market, with its bewildering array of knock-off Puma gear, kitchen variety Tupperware, counterfeit DVDs and ginormous live snails, and the Cultural Centre Arts market will truly test your patience against the never-ending hustle that seems to characterise so much of Ghanaian life. Everything has its price and you better be prepared to haggle or at least take being brazenly ripped off in the good faith with which it is intended (you = foreigner = walking ATM.)
Next to the fact that MTN probably owns Ghana (at least judging by the number of yellow umbrellas and road-side airtime stalls you will encounter, like said earlier "everywhere you go"), the casual visitor is sure to notice the proliferation of shop names that owe their origin to the Big G, Allah, or J.C. himself (or some chick called Grace, doubt it's Jones, though.) Lotto stand, hair salon, shebeen, barber shop, bus, taxi (Tro-tro) and car: nothing is sacred, or rather put: everything is sacred. God is everywhere, especially bringing blessing and profit to business. The result is hours of priceless window shopping and mirth galore for us obrunis (literal translation: "whiteys") of heathen persuasion. Start your day in Accra perusing the latest high street fashions at "God Did It All Fashion Centre" or marvel at the latest cuts in the window of "I Can Do All Through Christ Strengthened Me Fashions," or be the envy of family 'n friends with something from the "God Bless You Modern Fashions."
Fancy a bit of a new 'do' before the disco? Who needs Scar when you have "Watch and Pray Hair Salon" or the "Clap for Jesus Hair Clinic"? Looking to get that upgrade on your old cellular device to match your new Ghanaian look? Look no further than "God & Sons Mobile Telecoms!" If your Vespa is in need of a tune-up (or an exorcism) just nip along to "God's Own Motors" or "Jesus Saves Mechanics." They'll have you on the road (to redemption) in no time! If it's just a wash n' go you're after, aim straight for the "God First Carwash" and wash your sins away. Whilst waiting for your valet, catch up on the news back home at the "Only Jesus Can Judge Internet Café and Fashion Salon", or you might try the "Only Jesus Business and Barbering Centre" down the road. Feeling peckish (or at least divinely unsure)? Then I recommend a stop at the "If God Say Yes Snack Shop" for some fresh Fufu (a local dish of meat, sauce and giant sticky dumpling, eaten with your hands) or you can opt for the less commitment intensive "Jesus Cares Snack Spot". The dishes at the "God is Great Take Aways" are divine too; for the adventurous there is always "In God We Trust Fast Foods." If you want to stock up on some homely essentials, there is the "God Will Provide Supermarket" and for the DIY enthusiast, there's the "Bride of Christ Aluminium Works" and the "Blood of Jesus Electricals" outlet, where the lowest prices are heaven sent! I took a stroll past the "Peculiar Child Academy" and wondered if I might've done some time there as a yout' myself.
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- Autoclear
- Avon Protection Systems
- Bertin Technologies
- Tradeways
- Unival Group
- Veritide
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"Crikey, I'm dead." Famous last words.
I suppose we should all have seen it coming. The man was a kind of crazy you just don't see every day. I imagine, he was in his khaki shorts, field shirt, and hiking boots-flippers attached of course- when his end came. The shear improbability of death by stingray perhaps makes up for his generally cavalier attitude, and behavior in the face of many more deadly animals. If you cross the street enough times, given enough time, you will eventually get hit by some vehicle.
But a stingray? Jesus Steevo!
How do I feel about the passing of Steve Irwin, most widely known as the "Crocodile Hunter?" It would be obvious to say that I am sorry he has died. But I wonder if the alligators, crocs, snakes, lizards, turtles, and lets not forget stingrays aren't saying a thankful prayer to whatever gods they worship that he is gone. I've always had mixed feelings about the personality that was the "Crocodile Hunter." He seemed so sincere. I am certain that his reverence for the natural world was genuine. I just don't know how much good he did for it.
I want to think that his show, and his antics were good for wildlife, and conservation, things for which Irwin had an obvious passion. But, for all his obvious enthusiasm, he had no knack for really explaining the natural world. His desire seemed only to be close to these beautiful, wild beasts. In some ways he is a milder version of the Grizzly Man, busily romanticizing nature and ignoring its reality. His show never did much in the way of helping lay viewers understand the unique ecology of the creatures he molested. He was like a guy showing you his pets. There was never very much depth. Just the power of his personality-which lets admit it-was considerable.
It isn't that there is no merit in seeing some of these creatures. It is likely that most of his viewership will never see even half of what he saw. But it could have been so much more in the hands of someone actually trained in ecology, evolution, and wildlife biology.
Steve was just a dude.
Albeit a dude who loved nature.
But there is a danger in what he did I think. His message, unitentional to be sure, was that to enjoy nature, to be a part of nature, was to somehow make physical contact with it, to grab it. Literally. There was never any way for the viewer to see that, often, learning, and careful unobtursive observation was to be just as connected to nature. His wife once said on the show-in voice over as the video showed stevo sitting amid a gaggle of Komodo Dragons- that this was how he became one with nature. What ever the hell that might mean. If it does encourage people to go handle wildlife, even a little bit, it-the show-has been a complete failure as it relates to his conservation ideals. Habituating wildlife to human contact typically ends in twin disasters. Someone gets bitten, killed or otherwise injured, and then an animal is put down. This happened with Timothy Treadwell-another well meaning, but ultimately misguided fellow. He carried romantic notions of nature into the field and got his girlfriend, himself and, ultimately, two bears killed.
At least Stevo's stingray will not pay for his foolishness. Though his family certainly must.
In addition to the strange message he delivered to his viewers, the wild success of his show inspired a sleu of pale imitations. Some insipid thing called "X-Treme Encounters" stands out in my mind. Its heroes were a trio of losers lead by a red-neck who seldom wore a shirt that wasn't missing sleeves. There was no pretense of education here, just a "lets go touch some dangerous animals." I always got the sense that these 2 guys and girl, had almost no clue as to what they were doing. So watching it was much like watching NASCAR or Formula One.
Just the wrecks man, just the wrecks.
Now we have Jeff Corwin. His show is a bit heavier on the evolutionary biology, a bit stronger on the ecological perspective, but he still bugs the shit out of the organisms he wants us to appreciate, and understand.
The Animal Planet mission is just plain wrong. Always presenting the cute, or romantic side of nature is terribly wrong-headed. The world has teeth as Stephen King once said, and it would good if we accepted that fact. That way when it's teeth show, we aren't surprised, and our appreciation of nature isn't diminished.
Addendum: 20 November 2006 As it turns out there were quite a large number of revenge killings of harmless stingrays in retaliation for the death of Steve Irwin.


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This is the Privacy Policy ('Policy') for this website which is run and provided by Hyundai Motorsport GmbH, Carl-Zeiss-Straße 4, 63755 Alzenau, Germany (we, us and our).
We will only use the personal data gathered through this website as set out in this Policy. Below you will find information on how we use your personal data, for which purposes your personal data is used, with whom it is shared and what control and information rights you have.
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When you visit our website for informational reasons, i.e. without registering for any of our provided services and without providing us with personal data in any other form, we automatically collect your IP address in order to provide you with our website and to ensure system stability and efficiency and to implement proper safeguards as to the security of our website and services..
The personal data automatically collected is necessary to provide the website, Article 6 sec. 1 sent. 1 lit. b GDPR as far as this is necessary to operate our website or Article 6 sec. 1 sent. 1 lit. f GDPR (legitimate interest) with regards to our use of technical information to enhance our systems, make your usage of the websites more convenient or ensure the security of our websites. This is based on our legitimate interest as the data used for these purposes are stored for a limited period and do not allow us to personally identify a user.
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The president of Miami/Fort Lauderdale's public television station said Monday that he will decide on Wednesday whether to continue the station's interruption-free "pledge" period. WPBT is the nation's first PBS station to go for a year without fund-raising interruptions, but poor viewer response to the first weekend in March threatens to restore what station president George Dooley calls "that interminable tin cup rattling."
PBS stations hold pledge drives three times a year -- in March, August and December. Their hallmark is high quality programming, interrupted by live, 10- minute entreaties for money by station personnel, who remind viewers that PBS is commercial-free and publicly financed.
Last August, WPBT broke with tradition. In a videotaped address to viewers, Dooley said WPBT would discontinue the pledge breaks if the public responded with donations. The gambit worked, was tried again in December, and worked then, too. But this month's first weekend "left us 90 percent behind where we were last March -- the month selected by all stations in the system as 'festival' month -- and we need to raise $750,000 this month.
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The Lifetime Isa has not been designed to cut across the pension system but is intended to serve young people's savings needs, the Treasury has argued.
Speaking at the Westminster Business Forum seminar, Edward Odell, head of the savings branch at the Treasury, defended commentators attacks following the launch of the new Lifetime Isa, saying it is not "a replacement for pensions".
He says: "Simplicity should be the objective and Lifetime Isas are about responding to that ask of flexibility for products. It is not a replacement for pensions but is around making sure there are products out there that are simple to understand. The reaction to Lifetime Isa has underlined that point."
The Lifetime Isa, unveiled by Chancellor George Osborne in the March Budget, will allow investors under the age of 40 to save up to £4,000 a year and receive a 25 per cent government top-up.
"Lifetime Isa aims to tackle the binary choice of saving for a house or later in life. It is a meaningful incentive for some people who are not engaged with pensions and savings.
"This was an issue that was raised in last year's consultation on pension tax relief. There is very clear evidence of a lack of understanding of young people around how this tax relief works but also a desire for flexibility."
During the seminar, a few panelists deemed Isa products have reached "a tipping point" among consumers as they now create confusion.
There are five different Isa products in the market with the Lifetime Isa being available from April 2017.
Nutmeg chief executive Nick Hungerford said: "Isas are a brand that work but this is going to reach a tipping point because people don't understand the difference among all of them."
Also speaking at the event, Andrew Baddeley-Chappell, head of policy and governance at Nationwide Building Society, attacked the complexity of the Isa market.
He says: "Even the government's own cash savings provider is unable to catch up with all the changes. We have a benign market which is not helping savings. The government intervention has created complexity with consumers struggling to understand products."
The government is currently in an "open discussion mode" on finalising the details on Lifetime Isa and is also "exploring" alternative life events that might count for tax relief purposes as outlined in the latest Budget document, Owen says.


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As usual de UFC website has listed what they've considered to be the top 5 UFC fights so far this year as part of the UFC unofficial half year awards. These fights kept me on the edge of my seat and are the main reason I love MMA.
In a fantastic display of the Art of Eight Limbs, viagra sale a.k.a Muay Thai, cialis Barboza and Njokuani showed octagon fans what Muay Thai is all about in UFC 128 back in March. In epic a fight that was decided by close, but unanimous decision, the Brazilian Edson Barboza won his second straight UFC fight. Barboza is now 8 for 8 in his professional career.
4 – Kyle Kingsbury (USA) vs Fabio Maldonado (BRA)
These two fighters put one of the most exciting final bouts of The Ultimate Fighter has ever seen. In season TUF 13 season finale Kingsbury and Maldonado clashed in a grueling, blood spilling and spit flying brawls fight that kept me shouting and cheering through out the 15 minutes of fight. Despite a controversial unanimous decision Kingsbury took home gold but his face was so wrecked that he earned himself a six month injury due to a rupture on his left eye ball.
3 – Diego Sanchez (USA) vs Martin Kampman (USA)
This fight can be summarized by the simple fact that Dana White gave a bonus of $160,000 bonus to both fighters for such a marvellous display of determination and skills that kept the audience on the edge of their seats from start to finish. When Kampman opened Sanchez face with a precise strike everybody thought he was on his way to victory but "The Dream" didn't back down and made an incredible come back with relentless attack that no only inflicted damage on Kampman, but earned him the victory by unanimous decision.
2 – Dominick Cruz (USA) vs Urijah Faber (USA)
In the title fight of UFC 132, bantamweights Dominick Cruz and Urijah Faber fired all their tricks in a frenetic, high paced 25 minute fight to remember that ended with Cruz' victory by unanimous decision. Now the scores are even between the top two batamweights which sets the hopes for a third and decisive bout. For now Dominick Cruz is the current UFC Bantamweight Champ.
1 – Frankie Edgar (USA) vs Gray Maynard (USA)
It is not very often that we see a fight that ended up in draw been chosen as the best fight of the first semester. But for those of you who watched the UFC 125 title will know that this fight established the standards for 2011 on New Year's Day. After dominating the first round when "The Bully" nearly ended the fight, "The Answer" made a remarkable come back and after 25 minutes of fight both fighters and the public were disappointed by the split decision. Maynard retained his title but this war is far from over and a rematch is due anytime soon.
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Lisa Brightwell, Mechanicsville MD
The red cover and binding on this record collection book is in very good condition. The inside of the front cover has a place for listing the numbers, titles, and the artists of 12 different records. The book has 12 individual heavy brown sleeves that are in Excellent Condition; no rips or tears. The book is 10 1/4" x 12" x 2".
Twelve phonograph 10" albums are included. Nine albums carry the dark red Victrola label and are single sided records which dates them pre-1930's, there is one Victor label, one Decca (2 sided), and one Banner (also 2 sided). There is light wear noted to most of the albums, one has a deeper scratch. None appear to be chipped or seriously damaged.
The titles under VICTROLA include:
"Silent Night, Holy Night," "Dear Old Pal of Mine," "A Dream," "I Hear You Calling Me," "Any Place is Heaven...," "Your Eyes Have Told Me So," "Sing Me Loves Lullaby," "Somewhere A Voice is Calling," "Honour & Love."
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"My Laddie"
The DECCA Title:
"All My Love," "Keep Smiling At Trouble;" (Al Jolson)
The Banner Title:
"Mighty Lak A Rose," (A Fox Trot)
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- New Construction: N
- Property Condition: Average+
- Design: 3+Story
- Exterior: Alum/Steel Siding
- Exterior Features: Sidewalks,StreetLights
- Electric Service: 200-300AmpEl
- Farm: N
- Land Only: N
- Land SQFT: 2962
- Land Use Code: Sfr
- Lot Dimensions: 25 X 120
- Parking: Street
- Swimming Pool: No
- Pool Type: NoPool
- Roof: ShingleRoof
- Story List: Lower 1,Main,Upper 1
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- Includes: Dishwasher, clothes washer, dryer, Refrigerator all in "as is" conditi
- Room List: Living Room,Dining Room,Bedroom-Master,Bedroom-Second,Bedroom-Third,Bedroom-Fourth,Kitchen
- Basement: Y
- Basement Type: Full,Unfinished
- Foundation: StoneFound
- Garage Spaces: NoGarage
- Heating: Gas,Hot Water,Forced Air,Radiator
- Hot Water: Natural Gas
- Cooling: Wall Unit
- Central Air: N
- Cooking Fuel: GasCooking
- Fireplace: N
- Fireplace Count: NoFireplace
- Handicap: None
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- Water: Public
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Tuesday, June 4, 2013
When we offer our gifts
Next week is my youngest son's ninth birthday and we've been wrapping presents, which he's been shaking and trying to guess. Every Christmas or significant birthday, I've faced the challenge of trying to match gifts with people who will love them. I like to think they will find my presents valuable or useful and not be disappointed. Don't we all prefer to think that our presents are being used and loved rather than sitting, forgotten, in the back of some cupboard or drawer? But protocol demands that when we give a gift, it's out of our hands and we must leave it to the recipient to decide what to do with it.
Years ago I got into some friction with my mum which started when she offered to give me back a present I'd given her so that I could give it to my mother-in-law instead. I protested that I gave it to her, thought she'd like it and didn't want it back. She said she was only trying to help and then got offended and didn't talk to me for some time. I regretted opening my mouth and it made me more determined than ever to remember that what other people do with presents I give them is their own business. If we find the perfect centrepiece for somebody's hall stand and then they don't choose to put it there, we can't march over and demand that they do. Once it's wrapped and handed to them, it's out of our control.
Well, why should it be any different with gifts we give to God? Many of us have heard it said that God gives us our passions and talents and what we do with them is our gift back to Him. In my case, I like the notion that writing novels isn't just amusing myself and others but giving a gift back to God. But it struck me that some of the angst I go through may stem back to this whole thing about gift giving. Am I treating God with the same protocol I'd treat anybody else I gave a gift to? Or am I getting my nose out of joint because I really want Him to use it a particular way?
Perhaps I catch myself thinking like this. If I give God my writing, I consider it a good gift which includes time, imagination and skill in crafting words and telling stories. It also covers the sacrifice of possible money I would have earned doing something else instead. So I expect Him to take it and make sure lots of people read it, recommend it to their friends and that I'll get plenty of good feedback. I also like to think that He'll wrangle things so I can earn enough money from it to support my family and even get to take them on little holidays from time to time. I want Him to help set up articles and speaking engagements. I look at the lifestyles of other authors and notice that this seems to be the way He's used their gifts. That's how He's supposed to use a writing gift, isn't it?
But no, God, like anyone else, has a perfect right to leave my gift at the back of His cupboard if He wants to. What applies to other people must also apply to Him. It's my inconsistency that makes me sad. A vase may be put on the hall stand for show where many people can see it, or it may be used in the recipient's own private retreat to be used only by them. In the same way, a gift of writing may be used by God to impact millions, or perhaps just thousands, hundreds or even tens.
If you're like me, you chafe at the idea of being tossed to the back of a cupboard and forgotten about. Imagine somebody taking out your gift and saying, "I forgot all about this. I totally would've been using it if I remember I had it." Over the years, I wonder if I've had some vague, unconscious idea that this is what it may have been like with my writing in God's celestial drawer?
Bringing these feelings to light shows up some ridiculousness about them. It helps to remember the nature of this particular recipient, who has promised that He's numbered all the hairs on our heads, that He'll never forget about any of us, that there's nowhere we can hide from Him, no matter how fast or far we may try to run. He is closer than our next breath and living deep in our hearts. Thankfully, this is where He differs from any normal gift recipient. His drawers don't contain darkness and cobwebs. He is responsible and dependable with what we give Him, because He gave it to us in the first place. And that needs to be enough for us. All we need to worry about is being good stewards of our gifts and using them to the best of our abilities, trusting Him to illuminate what we don't know every step of the way. We need to rely on His promise that He doesn't give gifts for nothing and will certainly make sure our gift are put to perfect use.
Paula Vince is an award-winning Australian author of Christian fiction and homeschooling mother. Visit her at www.paulavince.com
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Good post,Paula. I especially empathize with the bit about God managing my career so that the books I write to His glory, sell in the bajillions and I get enough money to fly first-class. You've given me a good reminder that it's my job to cultivate the gifts God gave me and not whine for more.ReplyDelete
What Alice said! I echo an "Amen". Good analogy and very practical nudge toward an attitude adjustment (which I very much needed).ReplyDelete
Ouch. How right you are about our thinking. Our writing is God's to do with as he pleases. Maybe he only intends to impact me and my proofreader. But even if he uses my gift in some small private place, he never forgets me in the back of the cupboard.ReplyDelete
Lovely post Paula. I associated with so much you said.ReplyDelete
Thanks, Paula. Great, honest, challenging post. Such a challenge, isn't it, to get the balance right of giving over our books to God and trusting him to do whatever with it but also doing our best to get it into the hands of readers.ReplyDelete
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It's no secret that we here at Digital Spy are huge fans of Doctor Who and Sherlock. So when it came to this week's Tube Talk Gold, we decided to delve into the filmography of Steven Moffat and rediscovered his early-noughties sitcom Coupling.
Yes, before he was sending Daleks at Matt Smith and leaving us all wondering how on earth Holmes survived that fall, Moffat was telling the story of six young things trying to get a grip of love and life in the city. It's a formula that we've seen tons of times before and since, so what is it about Coupling that sets it apart from the rest of the pack?
Coupling: Originally broadcast from May 12, 2000 to June 14, 2004
Let's get this out of the way first of all. Yes, Coupling does sound exactly like Friends, Cold Feet, This Life, Seinfeld and all the rest. And that's probably the kind of thing viewers were expecting when it launched on BBC Two at the turn of the millennium. It looked and felt (and, well, was) a typical studio sitcom with four cameras, canned laughter and beautiful people.
It focused on lovers Steve (Jack Davenport of Pirates of the Caribbean fame) and Susan (Sarah Alexander), their respective exes Jane (Gina Bellman) and Patrick (Ben Miles) and their best mates Jeff (Richard Coyle) and Sally (Kate Isitt), who hang about in metropolitan nightspots discussing their dating issues, job crises and the woes of modern life.
So far, so Friends. But Coupling was much greater than the sum of its parts and in terms of content appeared to go out of its way to avoid preconceptions of its contemporaries, rather than coast along on their success.
For a start, there was always the sense that Coupling was 'real', unlike the aforementioned formats where it was occasionally a little too obvious that viewers were watching Hollywood actors doing an impression of an everyday person. This was due to the Moffat basing Steve and Susan's relationship on his own romance with Sue Vertue and all the niggles, both minor and major, they encountered
For instance, the episode 'Inferno' - in which a pornographic movie of Steve's is discovered and he is forced to defend himself at a dinner party - was written shortly after Vertue found a similar (but apparently less dirty) tape in Moffat's VCR. And while devoting a whole episode to something as mundane as the discovery of a freckle on someone's bottom or when to take your socks off during foreplay may not make for the most spectacular scenarios, it's all charmingly personal and becomes more relatable than simply pointing at a character and saying 'I'm that one'.
And what of the characters? What are they like? Steve is described by Moffat as a "politically correct weasel", who loves making theatrical speeches but also falls to pieces in uncomfortable situations. His relationship with Susan, the insecure and sensible one, is the driving force of the series. We join them on their first date in the pilot episode and follow them throughout their engagement, a brief break-up and their journey into parenthood. It's a very sweet and grounded romance that is refreshingly far from perfect and riddled with petty arguments. For instance, when Steve does propose, it's only because he feels pressured into it by a wedding invitation, and when Susan falls pregnant, he spends the whole time panicking and having dreams about being murdered by a foetus. Nothing about their journey - one that we pretty much all go through - is romanticised, and the show is better for it.
Sally and Patrick are also great additions. She's a paranoid wreck, so desperate to keep her looks and find a man that she often finds herself pushing people away. He's an occasionally dense womaniser, but luckily Moffat avoids allowing him to stray into Joey territory by making him misogynistic and perverted to the point where only his charm saves him from being completely repulsive. They do have one of those standard will they/won't they sitcom romances, but this cliché is forgiven because it never feels like it's been forced or clearly set up from the out. It starts with a rejected date in series one and a botched one night stand (well, one lunch break stand) in series two. Only at the end of the third series (after a wonderful episode where they rediscover a repressed earlier hook-up) do they finally get together, and by this point it feels like a natural progression. It's all very subtle and well handled.
But the stand-out characters were undoubtedly Jeff and Jane. The latter is admittedly quite Pheobe-esque on paper with her airhead ways and quirky nature, but she comes across as a far less whimsical individual. Her nonsense claims, such as saying she's a vegetarian even though she eats meat and reasoning that she's pregnant because "all women are pregnant" spiritually, frequently infuriate the group and even give her psychiatrist a breakdown. Such behaviour can often come across as self-obsessed and hurtful, but it's easy to sympathise with her because she's usually naive about the consequences of her actions.
Jeff, meanwhile, is a character who both loves women and is terrified by them, the type who can be reduced to a jibbering mess and has to be secretly instructed by friends on what to say to a date. He is without a doubt the funniest character in the show, channelling his sexual frustration into ridiculous fantasies about women, creating warped rules and codes in relation to intimate scenarios and dreaming up characters such as 'Captain Sub-text' and the legendary 'The Melty Man'. His series four replacement Oliver (Richard Mylan) - also nerdy, also with curly hair, also a bumbling trainwreck - is no competition, but he's likeable enough.
It's an eclectic gang, and what's great about Coupling is that the emphasis is not so much on friendship. While there's pre-existing relationships, the six only come together for the first time in the pilot and there's even a great scene in episode two where Jeff and Steve note how awkward it is to have Patrick with them trying to keep up with the conversation. Again, it's a much more realistic representation of a modern group of people. The characters are very much six individuals who just about manage to function as a unit, allowing for frenemies, fall-outs and long-standing rivalries.
Instead the focus is on the dating and relationships, which makes for a much raunchier and titillating take on the well-weathered "group genre". It often shows a gender split on issues of love and sex, with the men and women processing the same events in entirely different ways. As such, it's a programme that both male and female viewers can identify with and argue against - in good fun, of course.
Moffat's love of a good, intricate story that would later make Doctor Who and Sherlock such compelling television is also evident in Coupling too. Gone are the B-stories and linear plots of traditional sitcoms, replaced by a series of skewed narratives, fantasy sequences and intriguing concepts. Coupling loves a good farce and one of the great joys of the series is seeing the seeds of chaos being planted throughout an episode, only to be expertly pulled together for a cringeworthy finale.
For example, there's the series four opener '9 1/2 Minutes', which splits the characters into pairs and plonks them into separate but interweaving conversations, so that the full picture of the night only comes out when all the tales are told. Or there's the series three opener 'Split', in which we follow Susan and Steve through a split screen as they seek comfort from their respective friendship groups after breaking up.
I think it's fair to say that a great deal of Coupling's success is down to Moffat. In less-skilled hands, the premise admittedly does fall flat - as shown by the ill-fated American remake that was axed after just 11 episodes. The problem was that the yanks felt compelled to reduce the show down to its most basic elements, so that it became something like a Friends-lite, devoid of that innovative spark that Moffat brought to the UK version. If you're still not convinced that there isn't anything in Coupling you haven't seen before, check out the DVDs of all four series. You might admit you love it.


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I used to cry everyday to Baba asking Him to change the guy and make him treat me good. He also believed in Baba a lot and we even went to Baba's Temple most of the Thursdays. I started believing him more because he was a Sai devotee but I was only being innocent I guess. He was very cruel and harsh. He sometimes went to the extent of cursing my family. At one point I even started feeling I might have to break up but when I spoke of breaking up he use to abuse me more and speak ill about me. So I decided this is my life and started living with it. I cried every day, I don't remember a single day for 1.5 years that I haven't cried, and almost every day I cried till 1am or 2am in the morning and then went to sleep. I even remember times when Sai Baba came in my dream and comforted me making me sleep on His lap. I use to confide everything to Baba and just go on. But somewhere, I did not want to lose him because it had been 2.5 years and I thought whether pain or gain I should not leave him. But I now feel he was prepared to ditch me because suddenly he left Bangalore and moved to his town and he said he was shifting so that he can talk to his parents about me and take me with him soon. I don't know why but I believed him and after all this I was still prepared to be a slave and get tortured but I just wanted to be with him.
But, after he went there he changed, he changed to an extent where he never called me for weeks and when he spoke, he only abused me. Somehow 2 months after he left I convinced him to speak to his parents before I leave India as I was planning for my higher studies abroad. I even stopped praying, going to temple and said I would only go once his family accepts me. I never expected even in my dreams that Baba would let me down but yes he said his parents are not accepting me and he just left. If that was it, it would be fine but he insulted me saying that I am not beautiful and that's why they don't want me. This was unacceptable. I completely broke down on hearing this. Someone who ran behind me for a year saying I was the most beautiful girl just said I am not good looking and left. I was devastated to such an extent that I even was planning to cancel doing my higher studies. He broke up with me just before my Visa interview. Even after all this I attended my interview because there was a voice in my head that always told me "it shall pass" but your education should not be given up for the sake of anyone.
I was so dejected and I hated Baba because I thought He would help me and not give up on me but strangely He gave up on me and that's what I thought then. I ran behind him for days, weeks and then after 2 months after break up still called him as a small ray of hope but he turned out to be a crook. I was left in a state of dismay but strangely I never attempted for suicide. To be frank I had attempted for it when he was there in my life. After he left I cried, I was upset and even probably in a state of depression but never lost hope and now guys I proudly would say the strength was Sai Baba, the voice in my head was none other than Baba. It is said in the Sai Satcharitra book that one has to suffer his deeds of the past and even God can't help him out because it's Karma. It's been almost 7 months now and I am so grateful that the guy even came into my life because I learnt so much. Even though he left before my Visa interview as I mentioned, I went ahead and came for my studies. Staying alone made me strong, independent and gave me the superior power that a woman should have. I had lost self-respect and almost everything because I wanted to be with someone who treated me like a slave. Now I realise how important this life given to us is. I met people who taught me different things. I learnt how important family is and how they stood by me through thick and thin. I strongly believe that Karma is something one has to go through but with Baba holding your hands the dangers are comparatively less.
With personal experience I must say that I believe in the sentence "Sai Baba will do what is best for His devotees" but it's unusual that people believe this or consider this because all of us only believe in what's happening in the present and we curse God when we have problems and forget Him when we are happy. It's human to remember God in times of trouble but we forget that it's also human to appreciate and thank him for having protected us in the past. I would request all of you reading this to recall your past may be one incident at least where you feel you cursed God but today you feel it happened for the best. I bet, all of you will be able to recall one such situation. I am not saying I am very happy after he left. I still cry, I have other problems if you all think he was my only problem but Sai Baba is there with me to take care and I believe He will do what is best for me. These 8 months were definitely tough but I am still there, writing this for all of you to read and learn that everyone goes through bad times but remember "it shall pass". Your dreams will definitely take over the reality but remember they can be controlled and that can be done by doing "Namjapp" of Sai Baba. Om Sai Sai. Bow to Shri Sai, Peace be to all.
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So where do you get the time–the time to promote, create, cultivate, circulate, get your face onto My Space, Facebook everyone you ever glanced at, and still write a book?
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Freelancing Tips 102
4 comments:
- John J Savo, the Authoring Auctioneer said...
In response to both of your tips articles. The pressure of making sure I write an article at least once a week (and now a couple of paragraphs every day on a new blog) has taught me to be less of a perfectionist. Many times, when I think I have written crap, people love it. So, I've learned to stop picking at the metaphorical scab. And as far as time... I find time to blog, write, promote, etc by not sleeping.
- August 1, 2008 at 11:09:00 AM EST
- Snowman Expert said...
John, very good point. Thanks as you said something I had hoped to say which it's Ok to make mistakes. The best comedians expect to produce 9 clinkers for every good joke. It's more important you crank out work - just keep making paper airplanes and chuck them out the window. One of them will stick.
- August 1, 2008 at 1:58:00 PM EST
- Stephen Tiano said...
Well, self-promotion surely has to be fully half the job of a freelancer. I mean, we're always one job away from not paying next month's bills, unless we have an additional source of income.
And that brings me to social networking tools. Does anyone know the one that brings contact with the most people who might use publishing freelancers? That'd be worth an article.
- August 3, 2008 at 12:25:00 AM EST
- Snowman Expert said...
Steve, thanks for your point and I will try to address you question in near future. Off the cuff, I can state this is a case by case situation with one networking tool perfect for one person and not so much for a different person. Face to face is still number 1 in, if you can pull it off. Just meet an art director myself in person at a concert. Pure luck. That's worth ten postcards left in her inbox. I know that's not exactly what you meant but Facebook and others is a great unknown as far as track record. More soon and again thanks.
- August 4, 2008 at 12:35:00 PM EST


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Our Big Science Question:
Can we predict if we need to eat inside or out - is it going to be a wet lunch time?We have looked at the clouds and can make some weather observations and predictions using the clouds... what about the wind? We know that wind is an important part of the weather, so we have another question...
Does the wind effect wether we can eat outside and get some fresh air?
What is wind?
Wind is air that you can feel (Lucy) because it is blowing (Max) it is air that is moving
"Air that is in motion" and motion is moving (Oliver)
Hot air goes up and cold air goes down (James and Ryder)There is a land breeze and a sea breeze (Reagan) it is to do with warm air and cold air moving
Can we see the air moving and the warm air rising and cold air sinking?no... so can we make a model?
We used blue ice and warm water with some red food colouring.
Prediction:Galaxy think the cold air (water) is going to move to the top ….
Ice is cold - it is solid water (Alexander),
We will see a little bit of purple (Lucy)The ice will melt and turn into liquid (Reagan)
Blue is cold and water from the hot tap…. Red (hot)
Investigation:We put the warm water in a big glass container and Kerri added some blue ice, Then Kerri added some red food colouring to the warm water.
Observations:We could see the cold blue water sinking to the bottom of the container.
The red drops kind of went down a bit first and then the red spread out really fast towards the top.
We could see the blue spreading and moving across the bottom of the container and the red staying on the top.
After a while the water went purple becasue the cold water got warmer and the warm water got a bit colder.
Conclusions:Cold water sinks and warm water rises. This is like in the movie, where the warm air form the beach rises and the cold air sinks over the sea.
The cold air moves into the space where the warm air was.
Moving air is wind!
Here is a link so we can try this again at home Model of warm air rising...