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Wednesday, May 11
Camp Blogaway 2011: Paying It Forward
Until last week, I had never been camping. OK, it wasn't hardcore camping. It was Camp Blogaway. We bunked in cabins with heat and bathrooms. But we did have to bring our own sleeping bags, which to me is camping. Since I don't own a sleeping bag, I borrowed one from a Navy friend of ours who said it kept him warm for months when he was stationed in Alaska. Despite this US military grade sleeping bag and my toasty flannel pj's, I was unable to get my core temperature up.
That first night, I finally gave in, plugged in my hair dryer and blasted hot air into my sleeping bag. After thirty minutes, a sous vide Susan was finally warm enough to fall asleep.
Here's what I learned about my camping abilities: I don't have any.
*I'm unable to generate enough body heat to survive temperatures below 55 degrees.
*I didn't know I had to bring bath towels, so I dried off with paper towels after my shower.
*I got lost on a one-way loop trail.
In spite of my camping failures, I did learn a lot at Camp Blogaway, none of which will help me on an episode of Dual Survival, but will definitely help me in my quiet, comfortable, soothingly warm life in San Diego.
*Be part of a community: Our lives are full of communities. It could be a mommy and me community, a blogging community, an art community, you name it. Whatever your community is, make sure you're contributing something positive to it.
*Be authentic: Stop comparing your self to others. Be who you want to be, not what you think others expect from you.
*Define success for you: Think seriously about what "success" means to you. Is it higher blog traffic, a bigger pay check, more time with your family, a sense of self-worth? Then work honestly and diligently toward achieving that success.
*Pay it forward: Promote other people, celebrate their successes, be as generous as possible.
In the spirit of paying it forward, I'd like to list a few bloggers with whom I made a personal connection. I hope you check out their blogs and make your own personal connections: Sarah of Average Betty, Lana of Bibberche, Dara of Cookin' Canuck, Diane of Created by Diane, Andrew of Eating Rules, Jean of Gluten-Free Doctor Recipes, Jennifer of Kitchy Cooking, Adair of Lentil Breakdown, Stacy of Little Blue Hen, Amee of Rabbit Food Rocks, Stephanie of Recipe Renovator, Julie of Savvy Eats, Shefaly of Shef's Kitchen. Thanks to Patti Londre of Worth the Whisk for her leadership and enthusiasm, and to Ray for taking the great photo of us pictured at the top of this post.
Now for the recipe. Just like Camp Blogaway, these simply fresh and elegant Scallop-Stuffed Avocados with Mango Salsa are all about community. The avocados were given to me by the amazing folks at the California Avocado Commission, and the bay scallops are from my friend and fisherman extraordinaire, Tommy Gomes, of Catalina Offshore Products in San Diego.
Scallop-Stuffed Avocados with Mango Salsa
Makes 4 avocado halves
Printable recipe.
2 teaspoons olive oil
1/2 pound bay scallops
2 medium-large avocados of your choice
Mango Salsa:
1/2 medium mango, peeled and diced (about 1/3 cup)
1 scallion, thinly sliced
Juice of 1/2 lime (about 2 teaspoons)
Couple pinches of cayenne pepper
Couple pinches of sea salt
1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh cilantro
1. In a large skillet over medium-heat, warm oil. Add scallops; saute about 4 minutes per side, or until meat is opaque and scallops have a golden seared crust. Remove from heat.
2. In a medium bowl, combine mango, scallions, lime, cayenne pepper, salt and cilantro. Toss well.
3. Slice avocados in half, remove the pits, and rub the flesh with lime juice. Divide the scallops evenly among the four halves. It's OK, if you have a few scallops tumbling on to the plate. Top each half with a scoop of mango salsa. Serve immediately.
27 comments:
First of all, thanks so much for the mention! You rock! And I had no idea you weren't a camper! I guess we talked about so much other stuff that weekend. Funny that you used paper towels ;)
Also, i've seen a lot of avocado recipes lately, and yours def. catches my eye. I'm gonna make it. Pic is gorgeous.
- May 11, 2011 at 6:22 AM
- Patti at Camp Blogaway said...
Susan, despite your "belief" that you're no camper, I would have to disagree. You were one of the most beloved presenters at camp, so generous with your advise and insights. The other campers LOVED that you brought books to sign. And by Sunday, you looked pretty well broken in, just like the rest of us -- a hearty bunch after all. Hope to see you at future camps!
- May 11, 2011 at 7:26 AM
- Lentil Breakdown said...
Susan, it was great meeting you, and thanks for paying it forward! If you'd like to forward that incredible-looking avocado, I'll gladly stay in recipient mode.
- May 11, 2011 at 7:40 AM
- Lentil Breakdown said...
Susan, it was great meeting you, and thanks for paying it forward! If you'd like to forward that incredible-looking avocado, I'll gladly stay in recipient mode.
- May 11, 2011 at 7:48 AM
- Julie @SavvyEats said...
Thank you for the shoutout, dear!
And how funny that I was celebrating the warmth for much of the weekend (though the evenings did get chilly)...this is why you live in CA and I live in upstate NY ;)
- May 11, 2011 at 8:05 AM
Terrific post - burst out laughing about the paper towels after your shower!
- May 11, 2011 at 8:24 AM
- Amee said...
This post made me smile a lot! I love "sous vide susan"...im always cold too! And i ALMOST forgot a towel too! Photo is beautiful. It was great to meet you. You are so charming and i thought your advice on community and commenting etc was very well thought out and genuine.
- May 11, 2011 at 9:15 AM
Camp was such an inspirational event for me. I love my communities at home and in person, but just hadn't considered how much community is formed by the sharing of information.
It was fun to see old friends from prior conferences and to meet special people like you.
Love the getting lost on a one way loop trail. so glad you found your way back to the hearth.
- May 11, 2011 at 9:23 AM
- Food Glorious Food! said...
This is soooooo tempting! I love seafood and this is ideal fr small party... great presentation!
- May 11, 2011 at 9:51 AM
- averagebetty said...
Susan, You filled me with so much inspiration and direction -- thank you for spending time with me... teaching me.
Now let's make a video!!
- May 11, 2011 at 10:12 AM
- The Cilantropist said...
Love this recipe Susan, and it was fantastic to meet you this weekend at Camp! Your camping woes made me laugh, but I can sympathize - even though I have been camping loads of times, I know how it feels when your body temp just cant seem to adjust. :P
In any case, this is a great recipe using avocados and scallops, and those scallops from Catalina are awesome - just got some this weekend myself!
- May 11, 2011 at 11:36 AM
- The Teacher Cooks said...
Sounds as if your camping adventure was fun. The avocado looks delicious!
- May 11, 2011 at 11:44 AM
- Susan from Food Blogga said...
shef-Yeah, you don't want me on your Survivor team. ;)
We did talk about a lot of stuff, and I can't wait to do it again!
patti-Aw, you just warmed my heart with your kind words. Thank you so much. And next time-- winter coat, gloves and boots!
adair-Hehe. They're all gone! Loved meeting you too.
julie-I'm so glad you enjoyed the weather. You can't go by me. I'm always, always cold. I think I'd turn into a popsicle in NY.
liz-Yeah, between paper towels and hair dryers, I eventually got the job done.
amee-Almost is the key word there, huh! I don't recommend using paper towels. Ever. I adored chatting with you, and can't wait to get together in Austin!
jean-Beautifully said, my dear. I felt the same way. I loved the intimacy of camp that you don't always experience at other conferences.
- May 11, 2011 at 1:12 PM
- Susan from Food Blogga said...
fgf-I'm so happy you like it. It's really wonderfully fresh and tasty.
sarah-You're a doll, and I loved meeting you too. Thanks for the kind words. And, yes, let's do that video!
amanda-Oh, I'm so happy to hear you went to Catalina too. Isn't their seafood amazing? And the folks are just so knowledgeable and friendly.
teachercooks-It was lots of fun, and the avocado is oh-so-good!
- May 11, 2011 at 1:15 PM
- Jennifer (Savor) said...
Awesome report - reckon we dont want to camp at the beach this summer. Lovely to have seen you again!
- May 11, 2011 at 1:37 PM
- Lana said...
Susan, thanks so much for the mention:) Meeting you and listening to your advice was one of the highlights of the Camp for me. I am so happy that we live close to each other:)
I wish I knew you were cold the first night! We could have commiserated! I was not able to fall asleep because my nose was cold throughout the night:) I got up to put the socks on, and then slept with the pillow over my head to warm up my face, and in the end I had to don a heavy hoodie on top of my flannel pajamas. The next night was much more pleasant with the heat turned up somewhat.
I am a tropical creature and I thrive in warm weather, even though I grew up in a moderate climate, just like you:)
I am going to stop now - but I am looking forward to our get-together:)
- May 11, 2011 at 2:28 PM
- Unknown said...
that is a very delicious and creative salsa & presentation! A good one to remember for my picnics since I be not much of a camper :(
- May 11, 2011 at 5:09 PM
- Alison @ Ingredients, Inc. said...
This looks like so much fun! I hope to meet you one day soon, fellow sandwich author
- May 12, 2011 at 6:02 AM
- Stephanie Weaver said...
Susan, thanks for the mention, for your very helpful session, and for being such a lovely person inside and out. While you might not be a "camper," you absolutely won the most stylish award. Having grown up taking every vacation in a camper, and then more than 10 years of church camp retreats, I was so in my element there. I really wish I'd know you were without a towel... I would have happily loaned you one! Loved sous vide Susan. Looking forward to seeing you soon.
- May 12, 2011 at 7:15 AM
- cheryl said...
I had such fun with you, even when we got lost on the one-way trail and I thought I saw a pack of bears. (Thanks for not outing me.)
- May 12, 2011 at 8:51 AM
- ~ Chef Louise said...
it was great to meet you at camp. you forgot to tell everyone about your fabulous sense of style at camp... not to mention your "fancy" flannel pjs, too cute. your panel advice was authentic, thank you so much.
- May 12, 2011 at 10:33 AM
- Elizabeth @Asian in America said...
Susan,thanks for a terrific post...such timeless life lessons and awesome recipe. I love MANGOES, grew up with them in our yard. This is a new twist to salsa.Must try this one! PS:Would have gone to Camp Blogaway, if it wasn't so far for me!
- May 12, 2011 at 10:51 AM
- T.W. Barritt at Culinary Types said...
Ha! I had to laugh at the thought of a sous vide Susan, and letting lost on a loop trail! Great point (especially the one about success) and a great community recipe!
- May 14, 2011 at 6:26 AM
- Susan from Food Blogga said...
Hi Everybody!
Apparently when Blogger went down last week it took many of your comments with it. If a comment of yours is missing, I'm so sorry!
- May 16, 2011 at 4:46 PM
- Cookin' Canuck said...
Susan, it was so good to meet you. You are so generous with your knowledge and time. I hope that we have a chance to connect again in the future.
- May 20, 2011 at 1:58 PM
Thanks for this post and your words of inspiration. You are one of the bloggers that inspired me to chronicle my family's food journey. Thank you for the food and for the calm, kind perspective.
- May 21, 2011 at 9:01 PM
- Susan from Food Blogga said...
dara-You're most welcome. I too hope we connect in the near future. You're just lovely.
ricekernel- Really? That's so wonderful. It doesn't get much better than inspiring other people, and if I can do that, then I thrilled. All the best to you!
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In London, England, almost two centuries ago a very clever chap by the name of John Finlaison wrote an urgent letter to the chancellor of the British Exchequer, imploring the government to change the way it priced and sold life annuities to the public.
You might not have known this, but in the late 17th and 18th centuries, many countries financed their national debt with the sale of life annuities and tontines, not the coupon-bearing bonds they use nowadays. So, for example, in exchange for a £100 initial investment (lent) to Her Majesty's government, the annuitant would receive an annual income of £10 for the rest of their life. There was an active market in what might be called longevity-contingent claims.
Now, John Finlaison was no commoner exercising his democratic right to complain about prices and yields. Rather, his official position was "actuary of the national debt" from the years 1822 to 1851. Arguably he was the world's first full-time actuary, who then went on to launch the British Institute of Actuaries, where his son and then grandson served in the same roles. There are entire buildings named after him in downtown London. More interestingly and relevant, in contrast to most people who might complain that the prices of goods and services purchased by retirees were too high, John Finlaison's concern was that prices were in fact too low.
In handwritten letters to members of Parliament, he presented very convincing data that British retirees and pensioners were living much longer than what was assumed in the government's pricing schedule. This then meant that payments were made for longer, costing the government more than it had budgeted for. John Finlaison expressed great concern that pricing wasn't sustainable and urged officials to lower the payouts and raise the fees. At the very least, he argued, males and females should be paying different prices for annuities. Prior to his work in 1829, nobody thought to differentiate pricing by gender.
I know all of this, not because I am Google-ing or Wikipedia-ing historical facts from my laptop, but because I am deep inside the magnificent edifice of the British National Archives, inLondon, England. (See photo, taken before the pandemonium surrounding the royal heir.) Finlaison's cogent letters and supporting actuarial data are labeled "reference item T1/3744" and have been retrieved from the dusty files for your humble correspondent.
To boil this all down to its financial essence, according to Mr. Finlaison's calculations on the eve of the Victorian Era, Her Majesty's government was selling annuities worth £175 in present values term, for a mere £100 up-front cost, which was a jolly good deal.
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You would think that governments and pension and insurance industries would learn to reduce mispricing errors and better manage their risks by now. Indeed, the last two centuries are littered with similar examples, whether they have to do with life annuities, life insurance, long-term care or other forms of insurance. Alas, the long-festering battles over the underfunding of state pension plans are yet another good example of mispricing. They all come down to the same thing: reasonable models with bad assumptions.
And, lo and behold, now history has been repeating itself with variable annuities (VAs). This time around it isn't human longevity that's causing problems. Rather, it is human rationality that is rupturing the pricing models.
Let me back up a wee bit and ask you to ponder this. When the company that manufactured your car, contacts you out of the blue and asks to "buy it back," or when the tailor who made your suit, suddenly offers to replace it with a better one — are they doing it out of the goodness of their heart? Rather, they likely made some sort of mistake in the design, and possibly a fatal one.
For those of you with VAs on your books, you probably know where I am going with this. North American insurance companies have spent a good part of the last year doing exactly that. Namely, offering to buy back your client's VA policy. And, I don't think it's because they want to display the certificates in a museum or an archive. They made pricing mistakes and want a re-do.
As a recent report by Moody's Investors Service (which was profiled with much fanfare in the Wall Street Journal of June 26) indicated, most insurance companies assumed that policyholders and customers were (to put it bluntly) idiots. They assumed individuals would lapse or surrender their policies at the worst possible time (for the owner). They assumed your clients would cancel their home insurance coverage just as the hurricane was arriving or cancel the life insurance just before the priest was about to administer last rites.
Well, you don't have to be Mr. Spock to realize that isn't a good idea. Perhaps when the sun is shining and life is groovy people give up their insurance, but not in bad times and certainly not in the era of annuity analytics.
VAs with rich guaranteed living and death benefits allowed policyholders to participate in the upside of the market and generate a princely income that far exceeded what was available from other comparable instruments. So, as long as you and your clients didn't listen to the media nonsense about the evils of VAs, they effectively arbitraged the insurance companies they did business with.
Now, in their defense, perhaps the insurance company executives had been exposed to disproportionate amounts of behavioral finance theory peddled by psychologists with scant regard for mathematical finance and the market value of put options. Recall that according to this non-Vulcan view of the world, consumers are highly irrational, susceptible to systematic errors in judgment, emotional, fickle and can be easily manipulated. If that were true — with Homer Simpson as exemplar of clients — they would surely lapse or exchange the policy well before it would come back to haunt the manufacturer.
But, according to Moody's, the wake-up call is in the data. Whether by good intuition or numerical savvy, clients and their advisors are getting smarter about VA guarantees. They are learning to keep their coverage, optimize their policies and maximize their value. Of course, not all of them are behaving this way — and lucky for the insurance companies. There is still plenty of irrationality to go around (observe your teenage kids for example) but there is less of it relative to what the companies assumed. This has caused much grief and hence the buy-back offers.
Need to know
If a product offers you a guaranteed 5 percent, 6 percent or 7 percent income for the rest of your life, it becomes more valuable when interest rates are lower, human longevity is higher and markets are more volatile. The exact relationship and models linking these variables are subjects for Ph.D. dissertations, but the underlying intuition is ironclad. So, run the numbers and don't walk away from a good deal.
And, even if the math makes your head spin and your eyes water, perhaps a shortcut is to call up your local insurance rep and ask: "What are your actuaries hoping (praying?) my clients will do?" If you get a coherent answer out of them, start calling your clients. Needless to say, they should do the opposite.
I would like to think that if John Finlaison were still alive today, he would be writing letters and articles (perhaps even in Research magazine) advocating the same.
For more from Moshe A. Milevsky, see:
- Annuity anomaly: EIA + GLB > SPIA?
- The cold harsh calculus of retirement income
- Will GMWBs keep up with retirees' inflation?


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Strictly Come Dancing - although not exactly an AV voting system - had it been run along a first past the post system, it would have ended after the first programme with Ann Widdecombe as the clear winner.
No wonder the Tories like it.
I am voting 'no', because I don't understand whether i would be allowed to leave some boxes blank or not if I don't like certain candidates and do not want to give them any chance at my vote! Can you for example tick one box and leave the rest blank if you so wish?
If so, what's the point then?! Might as well stay how we are - if it ain't broke ... :-)
Anonymouse - yes, of course you can choose only one candidate. In Dan's 'going for drinks' analogy you'd be saying that you'd quite like to go to the Red Lion, but if we're not going there, you don't really mind where else we end up.
That's fine. Your choice. But it seems unfair to withhold the option from those of us who would use it if we could!
The idea that with AV you could vote somebody in that you don't want is one of the falsehoods that has been peddled. AV gives you more control over whom you want by enabling you to rank the candidates - if that is what you want to do. You don't have to.
The second video is geared to portray AV as impossible to understand and bizarre which it definitely is not. It is unequivocally fairer which may be why the opponents focus on muddying the waters so as to confuse and frighten you.
"it seems unfair to withhold the option from those of us who would use it if we could! "
But I am voting for 'me' not for 'you' Becca, isn't that the whole point of an election? Elections are perhaps the only permissible totally selfish act :-)
And I understand why you think it might be 'fairer' Dr G I don't think it is practical, specially for young age or uninformed groups who will probably see the names on that card for the first time when they are in the polling station, perhaps with some knowledge about a first or second choice but not the rest then just tick the rest haphazzardly on the spot. Will their 'choices' be 'fair' in this case?
It's good you started debating this here now. I hope many others will participate their views too so that we can all learn from each other then decide away from the influence of those inolved and their campaigns.
But you don't have to tick the rest haphazardly. You stop ranking them at the point that the order makes no difference to you - which might be because you do not know enough about the candidates or it could be because the order makes no difference to you - like going to the Black Lion pub or the Red Lion pub when you really wanted coffee.
To make my point clearer, if you really wanted coffee but prefer the Black Lion to the Red Lion because they have a garden and it is a sunny day then AV is a better system because you still have a say on which pub to go to even though you really wanted coffee.
The difference between AV and FPTP is very slight and the example above shows exactly what that difference is. I think that if you find yourself having to go to the pub even though you really wanted coffee you would want to have an input into which pub you all go to. That's all it is. Not a big difference at all but an important tweak that gives you some preference over something that was not your first choice.
Dr G
It seems your commenting system may be playing up again (as I know mine does). It accepted the comment below, and said it had been saved, but failed to display it in the post:
The very fact you are having this discussion here, with only a few days to go to the referendum, and still variously unclear not just about whether AV is better/fairer (the moral judgement) but, crucially, how the system works in practice, is yet more evidence of one of the key points in Dr No's
latest post: for some reason (and Dr No thinks lazy journalists have a lot to do with it) far too many people simply don't know how AV really works in practice. And if you don't understand it, how can you make a moral judgement on it?
As WSC said: "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." Anonymouse's remarks that some (many?) might indulge in casual/haphazard lower choice voting are pertinent here...we can't rely on all voters to be as considered, responsible and sensible as Dr G will undoubtedly be on election days.
At least with FPTP, just about everyone understand how the election works, because it is the most simple, the most basic, way of conducting an election. Changing over to Alternative Voodoo, on the other hand, might give new meaning to that old saw: be careful what you ask for.
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I couldn't post your contribution either, Dr No. I think it may have been the HTML as without it has appeared.
It is certainly true to say that if people do not understand it they cannot use AV to their best advantage.
But the same is true of FPTP. Mrs Grumble always used to vote for the third placed candidate in our constituency where it is really a two horse race. That is a wasted vote. Whatever system you have you need to understand it and I am not at all sure that Mrs G fully grasped FPTP - especially when we moved to a new constituency. You need to have knowledge of previous elections which is not necessary for AV. She also has a certain stubbornness which requires her to vote for a candidate with no chance of winning. You can do that with impunity with AV.
I agree absolutely that the journalists, as usual, have been very idle when it comes to explaining AV.
I actually I don't think you need to understand AV you just need to trust it. Even if you only want to vote for one candidate it works fine. You do need to understand FPTP and I think it is a myth that everybody does. My kids didn't until I explained tactical voting to them.
The difference between FPTP and AV are actually very slight though it may not seem that way given the misinformation.
I vote no, on the following grounds:
1. AV would not bring 'better' government. There was an excellent summary of voting systems on the BBC's 'More or Less' programme. Podcast might still be there . . .
2. It will cost a lot of money to change - and there will be 'unintended consequences' that will, again, cost the taxpayer yet more money.
3. It would make Neil Kinnock a very rich man. See back copies of Private Eye for more. I don't want him or his family to benefit by one more bean from the UK taxpayer.
4. The general standard of "debate"`has been appalling. Every day I have to drive past a 'YES' poster. It claims that, somehow, AV will make MPs "work harder". I'm not dure what it means, but there are better ways to do this - like sacking half of them & paying the residue by results. A formula based on real per capita disposable income might help focus their minds.
I agree the quality of the debate has been very poor.
Unfortunately advertising messages have to be simple and this has led to nonsense claims from both sides which has led to a general suspicion making a vote for change rather unlikely.
I'm voting yes to AV tomorrow.It isn't proportional representation, but it is a step in the right direction for England, which has become totally hidebound by FPTP. I've been pretty annoyed by the misrepresentation of AV, particularly in the case of the Tories who use it for the election of their party leader. If it's good enough to pick their own leader, why isn't it good enough for the electorate to pick theirs?
They are politicians so both sides spout bull. I have seen nothing from either side that would cause me to even think about the subject let alone persuade me to vote either way.
I liked the coffee/beer argument. Even if only one person wanted beer common sense says pub because you can get coffee, usually good, in pubs.
I agree Dr Grumble, you don't have to rank the candidates but all the propaganda so far has concentrated on ranking all the candidates. Thus I suspect many folk will do just that giving preference to candidates they would not actually vote for.
I will be voting against. A decision I made before the deliberate propaganda began.
Dear Dr Grumble, I agree with most or all your NHS posts and I find them cathartic and wise. But there is something niggling and worrying me about this AV system and your reassurances about it. It seems to me that the whole point is that it should give a result that most would be reasonably happy with. Because the 2nd choices of the higher ranking candidates are never consulted we would never know if the majority were actually more happy with the first ranked candidate (if the 2nd choices of the 2nd and 3rd ranked candidates were taken into account). A 3rd ranking candidate might win because the 2nd and 3rd votes were transferred to them from eliminated less popular candidates. But what if you had eliminated the 3rd candidate as well and revealed that their 2nd choices were transferred to the 1st, say and gave them 70% of 1st or 2nd choices versus 51% for the 3rd ranking candidate? But the system would have allowed the 3rd ranked candidate to win. I'm afraid I don't know enough of politics or maths but it worries me that this isn't as straightforward as it seems....
One of the commonest arguments against AV is that it leads to coalition governments and that FPTP results in strong governement with working majorities.
A coalition government need not necessarily be weak and ineffective. Many countries in Europe have successful coalition governments.
The problem is that in the UK, our tradition of working majority governments has resulted in a deeply ingrained culture of an adversarial style of politics. There is no culture of collaboration. The current ConDem coalition with its early promise of the Lib Dems softening the harsher elements of the Conservative manifesto has dashed all hopes of a new collaborative politics because we just do not know how to do coalitions.
Sticking to FPTP will preserve this antiquated adversarial culture of politics that gives us such extreme government as that of Margaret Thatcher who had a huge majority despite 65% of the population voting against her party.
Voting "Yes" for AV will help us grow up.
Julie "the Tories who use it for the election of their party leader. If it's good enough to pick their own leader, why isn't it good enough for the electorate to pick theirs?"
Because they are 'politicians' and it is part of their job to know, very well, how to do it. The electorate are not that lucky. You only need to read Anonymous @22.36 to know what I mean. Which takes me to;
Dr No
"At least with FPTP, just about everyone understand how the election works, because it is the most simple"
I like to simplify matters rather than complicate them, because complicate = problems = doubt = unfair = mess. then there is the cost to consider too! See how 'simple' makes more sense in every way?
Hence, it's still Dr no's camp for me
... and how are we voting tomorrow? The 'simple' FPTP way?
Very impressive New Kind of GP!
now you made me think - and doubt!
The process of FPTP may be simpler but how you vote when the candidate you really want does not stand a chance is not a simple matter. You need to have a feel for your constituency. You need to know who the front runners are and if there is one you particularly don't want who looks like winning you may have to vote for the candidate most likely to topple him. That is not simple. None of this is necessary if you have AV which does all of this for you in a reliable way. Unfortunately people seem to find the AV process rather mysterious and complicated which it really isn't if they could only spend a little time to get their heads round it. The propaganda from both sides has only made matters worse.
"Unfortunately people seem to find the AV process rather mysterious and complicated which it really isn't if they could only spend a little time to get their heads round it."
This may well be true Dr G, but the country is already going through so much at the moment, I do not think now is the right time to cause an upheavel to the voting system too. People already have enough to cope with. And there is the high cost to consider too.
Not the right time, No!
I think the cost is yet another myth.
Dear Dr G,
You said "but how you vote when the candidate you really want does not stand a chance is not a simple matter."
Well this seems silly to me, all the Parties are competing for votes by givng a manifesto that they think would run the country best. If your party has the worst manifesto, ie the worst way of running the country, than they dont deserve a vote.
AV will lead to a mediocre government, who nobody voted for as a first choice. Just think that if we AV at the last general election we would probably still have old Gordon Brown in power.
And the analogy with the pub and coffee does not really work for me, each party is discreet whereas pubs may not be. If you vote for one party that may not mean that another would satisfy you.
In my constituency Labour always comes last. Effectively the choice is between Conservative and Liberal. We have had Labour governments when the Labour candidate has had no chance in the Grumble constituency. You can't say that Labour don't deserve a vote if the country as a whole elects them. In a constituency like mine, in practice, you have just the choice of two parties. It would be like that with AV too but you could at least put Labour number 1 if you were so minded.
They have now admitted that the cost was made up:
Well, I voted today. One was FPTP, one was single transferable vote and one was Yes/No for AV. I didn't find it confusing, but we've been doing PR for a while in Scotland and consensus government and we've benefited. If we can get our heads round it, then why not the English?
Earlier today I saw the results of an exit poll carried our on doctors who had voted in the referendum. It is illegal under the Representation of the People Act to tell you what it showed until after 10pm - but I was surprised.
Dr G,
I didn't want to say this before, but there isn't much difference between parties now anyway ...
Why I also want to keep Cameron in place too, 'he started, and he'll finish' sort of thing and be accountable for same too, instead of changing midway only to end up in a spectacular mess and wonder who was responisible for what without ever finding out when it's too late.
I agree, Anonymouse. There is a big problem with our political parties in that they are really all the same. This used to be said years ago but now it is true. (Not, perhaps, helped by FPTP.)
I think it is now safe for me to reveal how the doctors voted in their exit poll. I have to do this from memory as, because of the law, the result was quickly taken offline. To my surprise, it was 2:1in favour of AV. Many doctors use AV already so that could be the reason.
Sorry Dr Grumble, I just have to say it! Steve Field's performance in this radio interview{from your shared list} was not only pathetic but despicable too, it made my blood boil! He has this effect on me anyway, but this one was just awful!
That the PM 'listens' to whatever he may say is very worrying indeed!
And, thank our lucky stars for Prof Dame Sally Davies!
Yes the poor man wants to say what the government want him to say but he is not quite sure what that is so he comes over very poorly. Of course, if he told the truth and spoke from the heart he wouldn't have a problem.
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Apple Cranberry Crumble Recipe
Delicious, comforting and perfect for your Holiday table! Apples and cranberries topped with oats, nuts and a little brown sugar are baked in the oven and served warm. Now this is my kind of comfort food!
This was a makeover request I was HAPPY to tackle. I was asked to lighten up a Christmas must-have for her table, perfect for dessert, but she also serves this for breakfast table.
We taste tested both her original recipe and this lightened up version and we know she will be pleased with the new results!
To serve a large crowd, simply double the recipe and use a larger baking dish. You can easily make this ahead, then reheat when you are ready to serve.
Apple Cranberry Crumble
Servings: 8 • Size: just under 3/4 cup • Points +: 6 pts • Smart Points: 4
Calories: 211.5 • Fat: 5.4 g • Carb: 44.7 g • Fiber: 2.9 g • Protein: 1.8 g • Sugar: 35.5 g
Sodium: 186.6 mg
For the filling:
3 cups (about 4) peeled gala apples, sliced
1 cup fresh cranberries
1 tbsp flour or cornstarch
1/2 tsp cinnamon
2/3 cup honey or pure maple syrup
cooking spray
For the topping:
3/4 cup dry quick-cooking oats
1/4 cup packed light brown sugar
1 tbsp all-purpose flour
3 tbsp melted whipped butter
1/4 cup chopped walnuts or pecans
1/2 tsp salt
Preheat oven to 325°F.
Lightly spray a 9-inch square baking dish with cooking spray. Combine apples, cranberries along with the rest of the filling ingredients in a bowl. Pour into baking dish and even out with a spoon.
In another bowl, combine the topping ingredients; sprinkle over apple/cranberry mixture.
Bake uncovered, for 55-60 minutes or until browned and bubbly. Serve warm.
*It's hard to keep up with science, one day something is good for you, the next day it's not. When I first wrote this recipe agave was a healthy alternative to sugar, but now scientists are claiming it's actually not because it's processed so I'm sticking with honey, raw sugar or or real maple syrup in my recipes and will be updating them as time permits.
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The past couple of weeks have been busy, exciting, and affirming for me and the use of the technology that we have available to us today.
I have posted a couple of articles here that has told some of the story. But as you may guess, there is "the rest of the story". But as the story continues to be written, another chapter has been written.
(what's he talking about ???)
It all started with a phone call. An unknown person, with a surname I know, once I got beyond the Caller ID name, called and asked if I knew the relationship between us, the caller and myself, and a Towsend K. Cheyney, specifically to the Ingram Mills. "Didn't know, but would do some research" was my answer.
That was Monday a week ago. Fast forward to last night, when I had a chance to listen to Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak, of Who Do You Think You Are fame, in a presentation called "Cases That Made My Brain Hurt"
My wife and I had a chance to have coffee with Megan a couple of months ago and have been following her work for a number of years but have not had a chance to hear her speak. This was the talk for me to listen to, in the midst of the ongoing search for Towsend K. Cheyney.
What she described, to me at least, was how she does research in a variety of circumstances. Some of Megan's examples were what I have been experiencing in my search for Towsend.
She used a different term, but the term I use is "look sideways". That is, if you can't find what you are looking for, look for other family members others in a community, but to take the blinders off and look around.
Don't always take what you see / read and consider it 'the truth', but to consider the possibility that the information may be inaccurate. Check it out.
Use other resources. I thought her example of using her network of friends to help with a specific topic was perfect. The term, I guess, that we might use in 2010 is Social Networking, email, use of the Internet in our Family Research.
But clearly , in each of her examples, it was more than collecting and connecting names. It was to find out and tell stories about the people she was researching. Who were these "people"? What was their story? and making connections between people.
What is what these past two weeks have been about. A phone call from a cousin I didn't know, reconnecting with a cousin I haven't seen for "too long", and connecting with new cousins. And at the same time, making the connection to Towsend K. Cheyney.
Within 10 minutes of posting the last message on this blog, I made two "cousin" connections. The first was following a couple of Bloggers on Twitter, Facebook, and the use of Google Reader, where Blogs can be read, letting google sending the blogs to the Google Reader for me to read. I was reading a blog that had, as an example, for this more technical blog, my Dad's family. All there in black and white. What are they doing on this persons Blog? Followed by another contact asking about the Cheyney Surname. Wow, how cool is that?
An Email at least 10 years old, and two "hits" from a blog message in 10 minutes, is an example, for me, as to the benefit of "putting stuff out there" and patiently waiting.
The first blogger is JLog Simple Computer Technology for Genealogiest
That blog is where I saw my Dad's family. There is a connection there, and more of a connection between the Blogger and Chester County, PA, which is where Towsend K. Cheyney lived.
The second blogger is Gini Webb at Ginislogy
Gini and I have communicated before on other occasions, but not about family research. The subtitle on her blog, really tells a story. "My place to Honor our Ancestors, Memories, Histories, and our Lives".
Like JL, Gini has Cheyney in her research as well. Still working on that connection, but the location for us being related is very good, although not Chester County, PA (yet). She has too many surnames in her research not to have a connection somewhere.
The social networking paid off. Finding someone, in the area, willing to do some research or looking around for another researcher.
On Gini's Facebook page, was a series of photos taken at the Southern Genealogical Genealogy Society's conference last month. Megan Smolenyak had been there, but so had Gini. When I took Megan's book, Who Do You Think You Are? up for her to sign (for my daughter) I put that photo inside the book where Megan would sign so that she could see my "new found cousin".
Most of the week was doing research, looking for Towsend, no luck, but I had put together a pretty good view of the Cheyney family down from the earliest Cheyney in Chester County (PA).
While walking the Old Cheyney Family Burial Ground, I saw Towsend headstones. Not first names, but as a Surname. As usual, I ask the question, "Where did that name come from?"
Knowing that I wouldn't be researching for a couple of days, I remembered the JLog blog posting, so I sent an email to see if there was a Towsend in their files. Waiting for a reply, I did another Google Search for Towsend K. Cheyney. I ended up on a website with the genealogy report that included our Cheyney's. Oh, and there was a link to JLog as well. So there was a connection. What that tree gave me was the siblings of Towsend, that was information that I didn't have. This let me look 'sideways'.
A quick check in the 1850 Census put the family together. My ancestor was listed as the brother of Towsend K. Cheyney. When looking the census records showed the neighbors, including other Surnames that were in the family.
Haven't found where "Towsend" came from, yet, but I'll guess that there is a connection with the surname in the area at the time.
Cousin Barbara has the connection to Towsend that she wanted (I hope), Nancy, the current owner of the Cheyney house, is on the way to get the family story about previous owners of the house, and I have filled in a couple of pieces in the early childhood of my father in the letters that Evie had in a bank deposit box.
Not to mention connection to cousins who blog.
My feet hurt from the "Happy Dance" of the week.


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Note: This stty option is not available on Solaris, however, if you have it installed, the /usr/openwin/bin/resize command sets the COLUMNS variable.
update: This post originally said "width of your Linux terminal" but as noted in the comments, this feature of
stty is also available in *BSD implementations, even though it is not part of the
POSIX standard. So you should expect this to work on GNU and BSD systems (eg, most GNU/Linux distros, most *BSDs, including OSX) but not on all POSIX-compliant systems (eg, Solaris). I would assume that AIX, HPUX, SCO, the other "traditional" UNIX systems would also not support this, though I have not (yet) tested any of them. YMMV.


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Estimation and Time Tracking
Important Links
Demo Site | User Manual | Open Tickets | new ticket
Table of Contents
This is a plugin that adds (aspires to add) estimation and time tracking to Trac.
Supported Versions
Currently this has been tested on:
- Python >=2.3
- Trac >= .10
- Because we are using ITicketChangeListener this plugin is only compatible with Trac >= .10
- if you wish to use Trac < .10, I suggest checking out: http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TimeTracking
- DB, should support all three major free backends
- sqlite3 >= 3.2.3
- MySql
- PostgreSQL
- Genshi
- for trac 11 you need a Genshi >= 5
- for trac 12 you need a Genshi >= 6 (Trac installs this automatically)
Getting the Plugin
Download the source using Svn at:
- SVN Trac0.12 branch - BETA
- SVN Trac0.12 branch With Permissions - BETA
- SVN Trac0.11 branch
- SVN Trac0.11 branch With Permissions
- SVN Trac0.10 branch - no longer maintained
Download the zipped source :
- [download:timingandestimationplugin/branches/trac0.12 Zipped source for plugin for Trac0.12]. - BETA
- [download:timingandestimationplugin/branches/trac0.12-Permissions Zipped source for plugin for Trac0.12 with permissions]. - BETA
- [download:timingandestimationplugin/branches/trac0.11 Zipped source for plugin for Trac0.11].
- [download:timingandestimationplugin/branches/trac0.11-Permissions Zipped source for plugin for Trac0.11 with permissions].
- [download:timingandestimationplugin/branches/trac0.10 Zipped source for plugin for Trac0.10]. - no longer maintained
When downloading these files the extention is lost, or the filename corrupted. a simple rename to filename.zip seems to resolve it the contents are intact
Browse the source using Trac:
- Version of this plugin for Trac0.12. - BETA
- Version of this plugin for Trac0.12-Permissions. - BETA
- Version of this plugin for Trac0.11.
- Version of this plugin for Trac0.11-Permissions.
- Version of this plugin for Trac0.10. - no longer maintained
In the repository there is a script folder 0.12/0.11 that contains some various python files that I have written to perform billing queries across an entire directory of tracs and email the results to a specified address. As is these are written to work in my setup and some paths at the top of each file will probably need to be changed. These are mostly included because I wrote them for myself and thought others might want to perform similar tasks. (See: script help?)
- Initial Plugin Specification
- User Manual
- See Post Installation Configuration Options for information about this plugins SVN Post Commit Hook
- [TimeEstimationAndQuotingNewFeaturesSpecification New Features Specification ]
Installation Help
- Install the plugin (either for a single project, or globally). See the details on how to install a trac plugin at: TracPlugins
- No Really, GO READ TracPlugins
- Be sure that the plugin is enabled. Add "timingandestimationplugin.* = enabled" to trac.ini (in the [components] subheading).
- Alternatively, this can be enabled in the Web Admin section of the website as well
- Run
$ trac-admin /path/to/projenv upgrade
- You should get a message like this:
Timing and Estimation needs an upgrade Upgrading Database Creating bill_date table Upgrading fields Upgrading reports Upgrading usermanual Done Upgrading Upgrade done.
- You should get a message like this:
- Reload/restart your HTTPD / other webserver / Tracd. That's it.
Post Installation Configuration Options
By default, the TimingAndEstimationPlugin's four components will all be active. However, you can disable some of the components if you want to. (The easiest way to do this is to ensure you have the trac:WebAdmin plugin installed.)
The plugin's components are:
- TimeTrackingSetupParticipant
Required component.
- TimeTrackingTicketObserver
Ensures that the "Total Hours" values are updated when a user edits a ticket's "Add Hours to Ticket" field. You would not normally want to disable this component.
- TicketWebUiAddon
- TimingEstimationAndBillingPage
Permissions (Trac>=11 only)
- TimeEstimationUserManual has section about configuring permission if you are using the permission enabled branch
Post Commit Hook
- SVN Post-Commit-Hook Clock time and make comments from your svn commit message
Bugs/Feature Requests
Existing bugs and feature requests for TimingAndEstimationPlugin are here.
If you have any issues, create a new ticket.
Uninstall Help
There is not a lot here, but ticket:995 is the best source of information for people uninstalling the plugin.
- #3081 Extra remaining hours after the ticket is closed inconsistency
- #5195 Patch to allow development time and time spend writing automated tests to be tracked separately on the same ticket
Related Plugins
- EstimationToolsPlugin - makes pretty pictures based on estimated hours field (which this plugin can provide)
- The ScrumBurndownPlugin makes use of this plugin to provide a javascripted daily burndown chart, useful in the agile development methodology known as Scrum.
- RoadmapHoursPlugin - Makes the roadmap / Milstone views be based on the hours provided by TimingAndEstimationPlugin
- ScrumPlugin - a Radical reworking of the ScrumBurndownPlugin and TimingAndEstimationPlugin.
- WorkLogPlugin gives an interface that allows you to record time in a work log type format (start and stop tasks)
- TracSlimTimerPlugin - Trac and SlimTimer integration
- TimeVisualizerPlugin the same as ScrumBurndownPlugin except is much more flexible and doesn't change db in any way (just reads history data provided by TimingAndEstimationPlugin & Trac itself). For details see InitialDesignGoals.
- TaskjugglerPlugin - Export data from Trac to Taskjuggler - uses the same custom fields as TandE
Interacting with T&E
If you want a plugin that you are writing to add reports to the management page, there is a file, reportmanager.py, that should make interacting with its reports easier.
Recent Changes
- 17249 by bobbysmith007 on 2018-07-30 16:26:11
Change db backend import stuff to allow running without all backends installed re #13462
- 17107 by bobbysmith007 on 2018-04-09 17:22:27
1.5.9(b) - fixed Decimal cast in ticket_daemon re #13405
- 17096 by bobbysmith007 on 2018-04-05 15:41:39
Fix hour summing in reports to not round partial hours
version 1.5.8(b)
re #13405
- 17028 by bobbysmith007 on 2018-02-01 17:24:41
Fixing bug relating to <none> status in billing.html 1.5.7
Author: bobbysmith007
- Obsidian Software sponsored the work to create a permission enabled branch
- Alessio Massaro: wiki:masariello
- Helped Get Reports working in postgres and started moving toward generic work rather than hours
- kkurzweil@…
- helped postegresql db backend compatiblity
- Jonas Borgstrom : t:wiki:JonasBorgstrom
- made it so that base_url was unnecessary
- Colin Guthrie
- Refactored custom reports stuff into a single class/module that can be copied to other plugins, to make interaction with T&E easier.
- David Abrahams
- Trac.11 - Stream filters to prettify the Reports Screen and make TotalHours not editable
- Tay Ray Chuan
- Added a stopwatch to the ticket pages
- Josh Godsiff, for www.oxideinteractive.com.au
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