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How is it that the vast majority of us go to jobs where the profit of our labor goes to someone else? Does that even make sense in any conceivable way? How could we have possibly accepted such a system? I mean, it is really bad mathematics. You should get out what you put in, therefore if you put in your labor, you should get out the benefit or the compensation for that, so how is it that the average worker at the 'bottom' of the job hierarchy, the ones that do the actual day to day labor which is the 'backbone' of the business itself, gets the least pay of all?
This shows that we've got a real malfunction with our value system. We've got individuals doing the labor, but the value goes to someone else, and really it goes to a minority, so that they can live lives of luxury, while those doing the actual labor aren't paid enough to be able to cover all their basic needs.
I mean, it is a really twisted and warped situation and when you take a step back and really look at the big picture, it is really quite psychotic to have most of us working so hard, just trying to survive, having to forgo many of our basic needs like proper healthcare, when the value of our labor which we created through our labor, goes…somewhere…else… It goes to someone else who did not do the labor, instead of to those who created the value in the first place.
What's fascinating is that in working for a large corporation, at staff meetings, the equal importance of every employee position is professed – but then, why aren't all positions equally valued – by being equally compensated for their equal importance? It's the manager's job to tell you that you are appreciated and the work you do for the company is appreciated, and it sure is, all the way to the bank by those who are profiting off of the labor of others.
Talk is cheap, literally. We all know that we have collectively decided that the only thing in this reality that has value is – MONEY. You need it to buy your right to life – without it you die, and your life has no value. Thus to express appreciation and importance of employees is just empty words, because those words do not put food on the table, or provide you with an effective education, or proper healthcare.
Now, within the Capitalist system, as we've accepted it, you need to have a job to get money to be able to live. So how is it, we allow jobs to exist which don't provide adequate MONEY to ensure you are able to LIVE properly, and not just 'getting by' paycheck to paycheck or like many, going into credit card debt. Why would we allow this, it just doesn't make sense. Because we know the job you have is how you make your living, so why would we deliberately allow some to have 'less of a living' than others? Certainly, no one needs LESS LIVING. No one needs a POOR quality of life. No one needs to suffer through ailments that could have been prevented because they can't get the proper healthcare.
Obviously, the only reason that so many are doing such jobs is that there isn't a better option. I mean, it's really simply math, to see how there simply isn't enough jobs out there that pay properly for one to have a dignified living, and so the majority is going to get stuck with the inferior compensating jobs. I mean, take Costco for example, who pays their employees and average of $17 per hour. That is above and beyond what the majority of jobs out there pay. And you know what, the waiting list for applications to Costco, I was told when I applied, is three years long…
That's no surprise is it? Because who wants the lesser paying job? Less pay means less quality of life. Nobody wants that. So why do we allow that? Is it necessary? No. Why is it not already so, that employees gets the value they create? Because the value the employees create, it is created, and it exists, and it goes somewhere. It goes into the hands of those at the top.
This is literally modern day slavery. Just because you get the tiniest possible portion of the value you create is enough to make you think you're not a slave after all, because you're being compensated, apparently. But this very basic simple math principle was not understood. If you're creating X amount of value, how come you're only getting a spec of that?
This problem is one that will be corrected within Equal Money Capitalism – compensation will be actual compensation to those who have actually done the labor. All aspects of a job will be equally compensated, because all are equally important, and everyone has the equal need to live and have their physical needs met and the highest possible quality of living, which is leaps and bounds above what is available to most but is available to the select few who have all the money. Profit that goes to the hands of a few to live lives of luxury while the rest suffer in survival will no longer exist, as it is a crime against life and humanity.
The Result of this will be a great Reward where Stress from lack of Money will cease to exist – no more having to forgo proper healthcare because your low-minimum wage job doesn't provide benefits while certainly not providing enough to buy benefits as an individual, leading to more and more health problems with lasting effects, which could have all been prevented with the proper care. I mean, how much do companies really value their employees if they don't care if they remain in proper health? It doesn't matter to the companies, because the low-wage jobs are also low-skilled jobs, and there is always plenty of individuals needing jobs that they can just hire another one when one employee gives out, and in this way, you're literally used just like a battery, sucked dry until there's nothing left, and then discarded and replaced with a 'fresh' one.
This is what our lives have become, just like in the Matrix – batteries for the system, and as anyone with a low paying job knows and is going through, that is not really living. This isn't what life should be like, or has to be like. All can have a dignified life, once we no longer allow the scam of profits being diverted into the hands of a few, and make sure the money is going where it is needed. Just like the human body – ensures that the blood travels to all parts, and distributes the resources the physical body requires to all its parts. Imagine – if the body did not do this, but functioned like our system does now, how long would that human body last? Not long, before it would start to fall apart. So in the human body we have a real example of how to effectively operate as a functioning whole that functions at optimum capacity, which is obviously when every part is provided what one needs and is supported to the utmost, to function and be the best that it can be.
Imagine – what kind of a humanity would we have then? Where what we do we do because of the value we create, not because it's what we have to do because it's the best we could get. I mean, that is slavery. Most of us are actually slaves, because we didn't choose what we're doing, we're doing it because it's our means to survival. Imagine when your survival is not at stake – when we have a system in place that ensure you are effectively supported, and even has a buffer system in place for those that would find themselves in between jobs for a moment, because, when that happens now it is like a great fear and uncertainty and most of us will do what we can to stay with the job we've got, and not take the risk of trying to find something else, because what if it doesn't work out, could we get our old job back, who knows and then how will I pay my bills, because most of us can't even miss a paycheck. I mean, is that any way for the companies that exist today to be treating their valued employees that do the labor for them? To allow them to be in such risk and uncertainty for their very survival? Obviously not, obviously the companies and corporations today that do not provide equal compensation for their employees are a disgrace.
Imagine a life where what you do is actually what you like to do, you were able to choose, without fear of being broke and not being able to put food on the table. I mean, it's really like we are living in the Dark Ages. We have never come out of that, and it's in fact only gotten worse. We as humanity have every capability to exist where everyone is supported to have the best possible life, so it's really quite evil that we have that capability and yet – haven't put that into application. We've become so caught up into the 'daily grind' it's like we're on 'auto-pilot' just going through the motions, day in, day out, to Paranoid to consider change, because our situation is so unstable as it is, we don't want it to get any worse. But – realize – it IS going to get worse UNLESS you stand up for a change, to make it BETTER, and sort out this system to ensure that it is functioning properly as an Economic system is Supposed to do – provide the best life possible for everyone – not just one or two here and there while the majority is enslaved to jobs that only exist for the sake of making profit and which are actually causing harm to our earth and ecosystem with no regard for life whatsoever.
This can change, all it takes if for us to walk that change into reality. Get involved and start your process of self education of how reality could be when lived in common sense support of life:
Visit the Group Capitalism vs. Equal Money group on Facebook.
Read the Equal Money Wiki
Visit the Equal Life Foundation Page
To assist in breaking through the brainwashing that is behind why humanity has accepted such an abusive system:
Read Creation's Journey to Life blog
Read Heaven's Journey to Life blog
Read the 7 Year Journey to Life blogs


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Hate, loathe and abhor are all words I would use to describe the way I feel about job hunting.
I don't always have bad luck with the recruitment process, actually if the truth be told, there have been times when changing jobs has been relatively painless. Times when for example, I thought I got on really well with the people interviewing me. At other times I remember being asked questions pertinent to the job at hand. On yet another occasion I recall, signing a contract within days, and feeling proud of myself sitting at my new shiny desk. But these Disney scenarios are the exception.
I'm now 35. It's crystal clear that the older I get, the more apparent it is. Job hunting is convoluted, tedious and stressful.
Here is the infernal list of the things that bug me the most:
1. No ideal jobs
Let's get this out of the way first. It's not exactly like there is great demand for "Bikini Model Massagers" but even in my own field (IT) I am finding it harder to find work that is creative enough to satisfy me. I would like to think I'm not the exception here to the rule, it seems as a species we have created so much tedium, that most of us, the ones that aren't solidified zombies yet, really really need to go out on Friday and get horribly slaughtered. I mean what kid when asked what do you want to be in your life one day says "Office Clerk" or "Data Capturer" ?
It's not like most people have an option to quit the day job in favor of – Oh I don't know, going to work on an oil rig. Not everyone has a knack for business, and a great deal of us are not self employed.
2. Outdated ADS
I can't count how many jobs I've seen listed that are from last year. Job portals most likely leave these on to fluff up the results a bit. Come on get rid of them.
3. Low pay
IT used to be a highly paid respectable field to work in. Well that was before certain countries started selling themselves out as labour economies. Working for 3 or 4 times less with a smile on their face – I'm looking at you India and Pakistan! Work from home? How about ODesk, sure if you don't mind working for a bowl of rice a day! Since I've recently been in Dubai, I've seen programming jobs going for 3000 AED a month. The cheapest rent I could find here is more than that. I would like to ask you furries how are you surviving? Are you living in the sewers and is Shredder charging you rent?
4. Dipshit agents
You know when an agent has a job they're trying to place and if they're good at their job. It is simple – they don't ask you irrelevant questions, and you feel they are on your side. With these guys soon you might get hired.
As for the rest, they're time wasters.
5. The what are you currently earning question
Almost like there is a link that if you are earning x now, your next job shouldn't be too much higher than that. This question is entirely redundant when you're moving to a new country where the economies are incomparable that won't stop them asking you that question.
6. What is your desired salary?
Here you ideally want to always give them a higher figure than what you are willing to take. Never act like a church mouse. But ideally it should be the employer who offers the job and says this is the salary. I don't get this backwards logic?
7. The 3 interviews process
One interview should be more than enough. Who you typically meet? Your direct manager, the HR Manager, and the CEO or Department Manager. In my experience the HR manager and CEO meeting should be combined. Your direct manager interview is the important one. I've had interviews with the CEO where he thought it was a good idea to sit and talk about himself for 2 hours, and in the end I didn't get the job anyways. Grrr…..
8. The suit and tie thing
No I am not suggesting you rock up to an interview with a Metallica T-Shirt on but I mean smart casual should do the trick if that is what you are going to wear on a regular basis anyways.
Let me be clear, I wear suits when I interview, or someone dies or has a wedding.
9. Waiting
Mostly the waiting is just due to pure incompetence. I've seen it many times when resources are planned before a project starts, then the project dies during the interview process. With smaller companies who have questionable budgets, they didn't do their maths correctly, yet still decide to keep you on a string incase something improves.
Generally I would like to know if I got the job or not within days of interviewing. Weeks and months are not acceptable.
And that is that! I think I'll be finding one job now and keep it for at least the next 5 years.

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Scipio- Do you know what I dont get about you?
Why are you defending Wall Street so vigorously? That small segment of the Worlds population just made 30Billion (thats 30 billion in bonus money this year) and that does not include their high weekly paychecks. They can afford to defend their honor with lawyers and espouse their honesty with print and television influence till the cows come home. If some greedy Wall Streeter is breaking the law to turn a 30B bonus into a 35B one next year they deserve all that is coming to them and then some.
Scipio you dont work for Wall Street you are not a financial writer or a hedge fund manager. So why do you defend them so much and attack Byrne as much as you do? The markets are not transparent and there are well documented cases of Wall Street manipulation that go unpunished.
Do you like it when the NASD SEC investigates Citigroup or Morgan and fines them a token amount for breaking a massive amount of securities regulations never admitting guilt?
Here is an example of one where NASD fined Morgan.
executed thousands of short sales transactions without ensuring that the firm could deliver or arrange to borrow the securities by the settlement date;
Now Scipio one thing about you and the people like you is you always talk about Wall Street manipulation; but its always pump and dump manipulation. There is no question that the P-D exists, but so does its opposite the Short and Distort. No one ever wants to talk about the S-D in fact some deny that it even exists! Fails exist S-D schemes exist naked shorting exists downwards manipulation exists whether you choose to accept it or not.
I am john doe I live paycheck to paycheck I pay my taxes and I donate when I can and sometimes when I cant. I am law-abiding and I try to be as honorable as I can be.
I also invest when I can; in the hopes that I can get a better return than what the banks are giving me. I also invest so that I dont have to live paycheck to paycheck with my minimal standard of living wage increases that I get from working for the man.
I have seen Wall Street manipulation and greed first hand and I am not as dim as Wall Street thinks I am.
I have seen the chain of events that decimate stocks in the same manner time and time again.
Sequence of events happens to companies every single day
1- Company goes on SHO
2- Volume increases dramatically- sometimes more shares than are in the float trade in a single day
3- Incredibly the unusual volume is all sellside which provides massive downward pressure
4- The price drops precipitously
5- The media writes a bunch of negative articles about the company but never mentions SHO or fails or Bear Raids
6- Every single day of the year there is a new company on SHO that goes from T+3 to T+4 and T+13 to T+14
7- When most companies come off of SHO after a few days they have lost a LARGE amount of their market caps
8- When a company checks in at the SHO motel they check out losing 50% 60% 70% percent of their value in just a short period
This happens almost every single day. A company goes on REG-SHO and gets destroyed and the media has to write a story to explain the destruction but it never uses the most obvious reason BEAR RAID! There seems to be a moratorium on using the words bear raid and fails FTD and REG-SHO.
I have noticed that most in the media do not use facts when they provide a negative story about a REG-SHO inhabitant. They never talk about fails or the fact that more shares than the float traded or the enormous increase in sellside volume. It is so blatantly obvious that if I can put it together I would have thought that all of these smart investigative journalists could have figured it out.
This has gone from conspiracy theory to fact. They are so brazen that they do not even try to hide what they are doing or perhaps doing it in plain sight is the ultimate way to fool the masses.
If they can do that here they can do it anywhere I truly believe No stock is safe if they decide to take it down. I received an education here and it was not free. . It seems the media is using a dull razor instead of Occams.
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Where's the fine line of truth in-between
The walls of the seed of decision
That separates the large from the lean
The buildings from the trees,
Where creativity was born.
No man is an island…
Looking for womb
In natural alcohols
Pollutants in disguise as progress or necessity,
In truth
Let it rest, let it be
Nothing can hide for long.
What is truth?
Truth is what you need,
Not what you want,
The line is fine;
Mostly hypnotised .
A moment happens to all,
Not eventually,
Even if it be in the time of our passing,
Although never found,
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About this time of year all the talk in the kitchen of my office space Toronto is focused on hockey, particularly about the Toronto Maple Leafs. But this year sports talk around my Toronto office space for rent has changed. Instead of talking about the improvements of veteran players and the hopes for new rookies, the talk is about the strike and why millionaire athletes are fighting with billionaire owners at a time when the everyday guy is worrying about keeping their head above water in these slow economic times.
Another sign that sports talk around my Toronto office space for rent has changed is that some people are now starting to talk about the Toronto Marlies (the AHL farm team of the Toronto Maple Leafs). I remember the last hockey strike. I was taken to a Marlies game by a friend and found it more entertaining that watching NHL hockey. The players in the AHL have more heart and desire – they want their chance to show they can play with the big league some day.
When one office space for rent Toronto client was talking about what will fill the void, another person pointed out that there is plenty of high-calibre hockey that can be seen in the GTA, at a fraction of what it costs for an NHL ticket. There is the AHL Toronto Marlies, OHL Mississauga Steelheads, OHL Brampton Battalion and the Mississauga Aeros of the National Women's Hockey League. If that is not enough hockey, let's not forget that there is University hockey like the Ryerson Rams (Ryerson University) whose new arena is within a hockey shrine known as Maple Leaf Gardens, the Varsity Blues (University of Toronto) and the York Lions (York University).
The hardest part of the uncertainty surrounding this current hockey lockout is the status of the Winter Classic game that is to be held outdoors on January 1, 2013 at the University of Michigan's Stadium in Ann Arbor, Michigan. This stadium is the highest capacity non-motorsports stadium in North America. Because the game will be between long-time rivals Toronto Maple Leafs and Detroit Red Wings, there is plenty of interest in Toronto. One office for rent Toronto client mentioned that he is really worried that this labour dispute may not be be resolved in time to save this game. This office space for rent Toronto client has a particular interest in this game because he and a group of friends have booked hotel rooms and a motor coach to and from the game. If the game does not take place, they will lose their deposits and be on the hook for other expenses.
All of this has gotten me to thinking about just how people are filling the NHL void, so I am going to post a survey question on Facebook to see how people are coping.


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Saito continues to prove worth
By Tony Jackson STAFF WRITER Takashi Saito added another $50,000 to his 2007 salary on Thursday night by blowing away two San Diego batters and getting the third one to ground weakly to second base for Saito's 38th save in his second season as the Dodgers' closer. It also was his 50th game finished, and that statistic gave him another performance bonus and a salary of $1.15 million, with an outside chance still to max out those bonuses and earn $1.3 million. Even if he does max them out, he remains one of baseball's best bargains. Saito has become one of the game's most dominant closers barely 18 months after he came to spring training with the Dodgers on a minor league contract. He has converted 38 of his 41 save opportunities this season, allowed only four of 11 inherited runners to score and retired the first batter 47 times in his 58 appearances. And while no closer will ever pitch enough innings to qualify for the ERA title, Saito's mark of 1.24 is the best among all major league pitchers with at least 50 innings. "I think Saito is one of the great stories in baseball since the day he showed up in Vero Beach and pitched his way onto the club," Dodgers general manager Ned Colletti said. "He has pitched really well, and he pitches efficiently. He shows the great value of throwing strikes. Most of the time, he is ahead in the count, and that is a good lesson for all." Saito has been especially dominant lately. He hasn't given up a hit in any of his last four outings, during which he has faced just one batter more than the minimum. "His workload during this last month hasn't been steady," Dodgers manager Grady Little said. "He might work four or five days in a row and then be off two or three days, and I think that has helped. A lot of it has to do with him throwing 94 to 95 miles-an-hour, but a lot has to do with location, too. And this guy doesn't shy away from anything." The best news for the Dodgers might be the fact they know they probably will have Saito for at least one more season. Although he is 37 and spent 14 seasons with the Yokohama BayStars, he is in just his second season in the United States and thus has the same status as any other second-year player. He won't even be eligible for arbitration until after 2008, and the Dodgers hold the rights to him through 2011. Interleague schedule Although the Dodgers' 2008 schedule remains highly subject to change and thus is a tightly guarded secret around Chavez Ravine, the Daily Breeze has learned that the club is tentatively scheduled to host nine interleague games against the Angels, Cleveland and the Chicago White Sox and will play six road games at the Angels and Detroit. Dates of those games were not available. The Dodgers have played nine interleague road games and six home games each of the past several seasons, and they went a combined 4-23 in American League parks from 2005-07. Thus, the fact it looks like they will host nine games next year while playing only six on the road is somewhat significant. Defying time As Dodgers employees prepared for Friday night's pregame ceremony honoring Tommy Lasorda's 80th birthday – which, by the way, isn't for another week, when the team is on the road – the Hall of Fame manager said he does not, in any way, feel like an octogenarian. "People ask me how I feel, and I say I'm like those cars that come out of Earl Scheib," Lasorda said. "They might look good on the outside, but you don't know what is under the hood. But the key is staying active, and I also love what I'm doing. If a man really, truly loves what he is doing, then Old Man Sickness and Death will get tired of chasing him because he has no chance to catch him." Lasorda has played an active role in the Dodgers' front office – including extensive travel and countless trips to Japan – since retiring as the manager in 1996. firstname.lastname@example.com local news?Sign up for the Localist and stay informed Something went wrong. Please try again.subscribeCongratulations! You're all set!


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From the Reagan-Bush '84 Campaign in Washington State comes MR&C
Our Chairman, Steve Mitchell, discusses how Mitchell Research & Communications came to be.
After working on the national staff of Reagan-Bush 84, where I was in charge of all voter programs and chief spokesperson for the President's re-election campaign in the State of Washington, I returned to Michigan and formed Mitchell Research & Communications, Inc. with offices and phone center in East Lansing.
Working on a presidential campaign had been quite an education for me, especially since it was a re-election race and I was dealing with the president and vice president coming into my state. I observed and learned to operate at such a high level of sophistication that when I had clients later I could use the same methods and operational approaches for them as I did when working for the president.
Even though my presidential campaign was 30 years ago, the processes and how you handle strategic planning and working on crises has not changed. Obviously, we did not deal with social media – I've had to learn that since. One key trait I learned was to get the work done that is of the highest quality and to get it done on time. My ability to get things done quickly helped my parents meet President Reagan.
My Dad and Mom knew the president was coming to Seattle and wanted to know if they could get a good seat to see him if they flew up from Scottsdale, Arizona where they lived. I said of course, but, I couldn't guarantee if they would get to meet the president and shake his hand since I had not yet met the advance staff that would make that decision.
The advance team flew in four days before the event. We had to build a big crowd and they chose a venue that would seat 20,000 people. The team said it was going to be hard to assemble that many people because they couldn't mail out invitations and tickets before the event because they didn't have enough time.
This meeting was on a Monday night at 8 PM. I asked when they would need the mail dropped at the post office if we were to mail out invitations and they said by 6 PM the next day, Tuesday. I said let me make a couple of calls. After talking to a printer I had been working with, he said he could get it done, and so did the mail house we had been using as part of the voter programs. By 9 PM Monday, I told them I could do it.
At 5:45 PM Tuesday, less than 20 hours after hearing about it, the letters with tickets as well as envelopes were printed, stuffed, postage added and at the post office. I did what I promised in lightning time. We had a standing room only crowd when the President flew in and the advance team was ecstatic.
So, they insisted my parents go to the $5,000 reception and have their picture taken. Since my mother loved Ronald Reagan from his acting days, since they were both hard-core Republicans, and since they had never met an American president before, it was one of the highlights of their life. I have my picture and their picture with President Reagan on my office wall in East Lansing.
Every day when I see it, I think back to how I was able to give them one of the great moments of their life…and hope it made up for all the grief I gave them when I was younger!
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Job roles in social care tells you more about the different roles you could do in the sector, including direct care roles, management roles and support roles. It includes what qualifications and experience you might need for each role.
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Bouncing back from some recent health issues, 90-year-old Jerry Lewis stars as a newly widowed father and grandfather who makes a shocking discovery about his late wife. This is no drive-by guest role; Lewis appears in virtually every scene of the movie, giving a fine performance that toggles between humor and pathos — a quality that marked many of his classic films. Lewis has been directed by some of Hollywood's best, and his own book on filmmaking is a must for any fledgling director. But director Daniel Noah, making only his second film, says Lewis put him at ease from the start: " 'If this thing is gonna work,' he told me, 'we've gotta love each other. So I'm gonna start loving you right now!' " Noah even spent a few weekends with the star. "An amazing moment for me was being served lox and bagels by Jerry Lewis."
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As funny as he was, as explosively manic as his characters could be, we always sensed that Gene Wilder harbored a gentle soul. When he died this week at 83 of complications from Alzheimer's, we were reminded of these two episodes from our Movies for Grownups Radio Show, in which he delightfully recounted the day Zero Mostel kissed him on the lips … and the one demand he made before he would agree to play Willy Wonka.
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This live-action version of the 1967 Disney cartoon is as close to Kipling's literary classic as Angry Birds is to Audubon's Birds of America. Still, the computer animation is jaw-dropping, and Bill Murray enjoys himself as the voice of Baloo the Bear.
Another unapologetic weepie is this story of a young woman (Game of Thrones' Emilia Clarke) determined to make life worth living for a handsome quadriplegic (The Hunger Games' Sam Claflin). Charles Dance and Janet McTeer are touching as the hero's furrowed-browed parents. FULL REVIEW
Next time we need to see a shrink, can it please be Paul Giamatti? Here the masterly actor plays a sports psychologist trying to help an insecure young pitcher (Johnny Simmons) overcome anxieties rooted in his relationship with his abusive father (Ethan Hawke).
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Seldom seen since its release, this alternate-universe version of Melville's classic has a character named Ahab hunting a big white whale. And there the similarities end. John Barrymore stars as the one-legged sea captain out to kill the whale for having ruined his chances of landing the girl of his dreams (Joan Bennett). Available only online through Warner Archive.
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No one asked for a new version of the 1959 Charlton Heston classic (itself a remake), but director Timur Bekmambetov (Night Watch) guides a capable cast, including Morgan Freeman, through the familiar narrative. He also brings breathtaking energy to the action sequences, most notably a nerve-shattering battle at sea. FULL REVIEW
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Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant and director Stephen Frears (Philomena) breeze through the funny and sad true story of a 1940s Manhattan socialite who bought out Carnegie Hall to give a one-woman singing recital. The hitch: She could not sing a note.
Robert De Niro stars as legendary trainer Ray Arcel; Edgar Ramírez plays his most famous protégé, the Panamanian boxer Roberto Duran. The powerhouse cast includes Ellen Barkin as Arcel's wife, plus Rubén Blades and John Turturro. FULL REVIEW
In Norwegian director Hans Petter Moland's bloody, brutal revenge comedy, Stellan Skarsgård plays a model citizen/snowplow operator who methodically kills his way through a list of people responsible for the violent death of his son. This is funny? Surprisingly, yes, as Moland channels the Coen Brothers and Tarantino in equal measure.
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Haven't you always wanted to watch origami come to life? Masterly stop-motion 3-D animation adds artful delicacy to this tale of a boy in ancient Japan, searching for a mystical suit of armor worn by his late samurai father.
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Jason Statham's grim-faced assassin must kill a series of unfortunate folks lest some very bad men butcher his sweetie (Jessica Alba). Tommy Lee Jones goes scowl for scowl with Statham as one of his targets.
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The 1977 Disney original starred Helen Reddy and Mickey Rooney. This remake's got Bryce Dallas Howard and Robert Redford. Whether or not that's an upgrade, the dragon's definitely more impressive this time around.
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A bicyclist was killed Saturday night after being struck by a car in east Athens, Athens-Clarke County police said.
Tobias Antwon Smith, 19, was riding a bike westbound on Winterville Road near Hancock Road at about 7:20 p.m. when he was struck from behind, according to police.
The motorist, a Spring Valley Road resident, reportedly observed the bicyclist suddenly and then swerved in an unsuccessful attempt to avoid the collision, police said.
Smith, of Evans Street, was taken to Athens Regional Medical Center where he was pronounced dead, police said.
The motorist was not immediately charged and an investigation continued, police said Sunday morning.
Police noted that the bicycle was not equipped with lights or reflectors.
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Holiday Haiku 150
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I belong to no one.
Attached to no one.
I may be a daughter
born from both a mortal womb
and nature's eternal nest, but
those strings have snapped
I feel detached,
a single breathing object–
if these shallow heaves are breaths–
in a world of sticky tangles,
where sympathy is a modern sham.
I witness much, perhaps too much,
For now I care less and less,
My heart has turned inward upon itself,
Feeds from slow and steady blood.
Nothing external is edible,
I've chewed upon the pains of others before,
only to regurgitate their hidden claims
my conscience will have none their strings.
I've dissociated. Disappeared.
Into a state of emotionless,
Reality just a web of perceptions
I refuse to play my part.
Death as an Artist 147
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Sometimes I think of death as art,
like black ink curling up white walls,
beautiful strokes of wild passion,
delicate tears forming black waterfalls.
Perhaps it is because I'm in a room
Four walls–plain, completely white–
What little stimulation for creativity
to place Death in the lonely spotlight.
What else can it do but paint art,
Everything is dead here already,
Nothing to taunt or inject with misery
No, there's enough of that in me.
My mind plays tricks on the bareness,
or is it the other way around?
Either way death is just an artist now,
Skating across walls without a sound.


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Trailers have always been modern in attitude, even more than in look. "There's this whole on-the-road American idea of freedom," Aley says. "To me," says Agnew, who takes his trailers to the desert and the sea, "it doesn't matter what kind of trailer you have, as long as you're enjoying the outdoors."
And, as Lum points out, it's their size that makes trailers seem modern today. 'Think Small,' the New York Times recently headlined a feature about the "tiny-house movement," a new generation of modular vacation homes, "seldom measuring much more than 500 square feet," that are popping up on mountains and by the ocean.
That's where Tom Carson comes in. Carson is a young architect whose Marina del Rey firm does work that ranges from residential to historic preservation—and now trailers. With Butcher, Carson is inventing "a new, ground-up, free interpretation of the trailer," he says, for people looking for a second home, a pool house, or a home office. "It's like a prefabricated home," he says, "but we're going to leave it on wheels."
"There are no modern trailers now," Carson says. "That's a huge hole in the market, and it's what we are aiming at. We're going to revolutionize the trailer industry with this new piece we're doing."
Today's trailers lack the style and character of the vintage models they love, Carson and Butcher say. "We're tired of the look of what's out there now," Butcher says. "The style of the trailer has not changed in the last 30 years. It still looks like a 1970s, '80s house." "They lost their cool look when they started going to fiberglass exteriors," he adds.
Butcher shows off some of the vintage trailers he has restored and modernized to suggest what his latest endeavor might accomplish. They've dropped floors to provide holding tanks for water and wastewater, added air-conditioning, espresso machines, I-pod docks, Tivo, computer cables, and European cabinetry. They're adding solar panels to a 1952 Spartanette and a vintage Westcraft. "We try to make it look like it was built in the '50s," Butcher says, "with a little bit more modern flair to it." "And all the comforts," Carson adds.
Movie stars have used their revamped machines as homes away from home while on location, and Hollywood writers have used them for offices.
Butcher may spend his weekdays driving for studios and weekends rebuilding trailers, but he's never been happier. "That's what we like to do," he says, "design and build. It's not about the money. It's about building something cool, something that looks good."
Photos: John Eng. Also by Douglas Keister; and courtesy Juergen Eichermueller, PhD, Funky Junk Farms
Splash illustration: Ed Lum
• Funky Junk Farms is open for tours (by appointment only) to visitors with a sincere appreciation of travel trailers and all things vintage. Call 323-309-8087, or e-mail. Web site: funkyjunkfarms.com
• The Monterey Trailer Park, a Los Angeles designated historic monument, is at 6411 Monterey Road, in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Highland Park, a few blocks from South Pasadena and just of the Pasadena Freeway.
• For interesting CD collections of vintage travel trailer magazines, brochures, and memorabilia, contact Juergen Eichermueller and view his archive online through allmanufacturedhomes.com
By Juergen Eichermueller, PhD
The 'wheel estate' market of the 1950s boasted many bold designs—with big-ticket price tags to match—that rivalled some of the most modern site-built homes of the era.
The major difference between the two living spaces was that the travel trailer, or mobile home (as they were more commonly called), could be moved, usually by a special moving company, at the whim of the owner. Whereas the stick-built homeowner was tied down, literally, to the property on which their house was built, the mobile homeowner could 'get up and go' to any part of the country, and in any season.


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Christopher High (7-2, 3-2) avenged a two-game losing streak at home Friday night when the Cougars blew out the Watsonville 42-14 in a crucial Monterey Bay League-Pacific Division game that kept their playoff hopes alive.
"They played a little upset tonight," said Christopher coach Tim Pierleoni. "When you lose two games in a row that's a bad taste and they wanted to get it out."
Junior quarterback Ben Sanford ran the Cougars' precision passing attack beautifully, leading the offense to four unanswered touchdown drives on the way to a 28-0 lead before Watsonville could get on the board.
"Ben did a great job, but it was our offensive line tonight; they did a great job," Pierleoni said. "We ran the ball well, they pass protected well and Ben did a great job throwing, but it all starts out there in front on both sides of the line."
The Cougars' offense was running on full power, four plays into the game when senior wide receiver took a handoff through a hole cleared by Christopher's hefty offensive line on the way to a 65-yard rushing touchdown.
It was all piling on from there.
Cougar backs, senior Jon Scarcella and junior Tyler Davis chewed up yards as Sanford diced up the Wildcatz' defense. Sanford was explosive, throwing two scoring strikes of 28 and 17 yards to junior tight end Scirigione, a 44-yard bomb to tight end Payton Mitchell and a 50-yard touchdown to wide-open wide receiver Joseph Cupp.
"I can't thank my line enough and my wide receivers for the plays they made," said Sanford who had 227 yards passing and four touchdowns. "Coming into this, Coach P (Pierleoni) said we had to put max effort into this. That was our main goal after two consecutive losses and we definitely got it done."
As effective as the offense was, the defense was equally as potent.
The hits kept coming the entire night. None, however, was as nasty as the shot administered by Crawford to a Wildcatz wide receiver, who was drilled in the back, dislodging the ball but also drawing a personal foul on the defense. The crowd and coaching staff was not pleased by the call and the penalty yards helped lead to a Watsonville's second touchdown of the game.
For Watsonville (5-3, 2-2), next to nothing went right a week after it defeated Monterey High 41-14 last week. For the Wildcatz, the loss dims playoff hopes that were already fading.
"They were at their best and we didn't step it up," said Watsonville Head Coach Ron Myers. "It's still a game of blocking and tackling and we didn't do either very well tonight. It's that simple,"
For the Cougars, playoff hopes are restored but coach Pierleoni cautioned his team not to get too caught up in the victory.
"We have a chance, but we need to win out," Pierleoni said.
The Cougars will next travel to Monterey next Friday to take on Coach Dan Brown's 3-6 Monterey High Toreadores who were blown out by Gilroy.
Christopher routs Watsonville
Christopher High (7-2, 3-2) avenged a two-game losing streak at home Friday night when the Cougars blew out the Watsonville 42-14 in a crucial Monterey Bay League-Pacific Division game that kept their playoff hopes alive.


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"Any attempt to shoot the messenger represents social failure. It signals the incapacity of a society, a group, or an individual to distinguish between an existing reality and the medium that frames that reality. It rejects the possibility of critical engagement with issues of important public concern.
"It destroys the slightest possibility of building a rational discourse. Most disturbing of all, it closes the door on the possibility of an informed response to crucial political, social and economic developments of our times."
She said in earlier times too, warring factions had discovered the need to communicate and had designated messengers, who carried white flags, for the purpose. These messengers were never shot, which shows how important they were.
"The media and those who write for the media are today's messengers and are often called upon to expose uncomfortable truths about the everyday realities in our daily lives. Kamala Saikia understood this and saw it as an responsibility that came with the role of being a journalist," Philipose said.
She said so many years after Saikia's assassination, journalists everywhere, including in India, continue to be extremely vulnerable to attack and assault.
Philipose cited new data that revealed that India today is among the countries in the world where journalists are most threatened.
"In many parts of the country, including in Assam and other parts of North East, they are functioning under the shadow of intimidation and violence, whether from mainstream political parties, militant outfits or criminal syndicates. A pointer to this growing threat came from the media watchdog Reporters Without Borders, in April this year. According to its World Press Freedom Index, India now ranks 133rd among 180 countries, having slipped three slots since last year," she said.
Philipose said that despite it being over quarter of a century since Kamala Saikia was abducted by ULFA militants and killed so brutally, it is tragic that justice is still proving elusive in this case.
Presiding over the function, veteran journalist Kanaksen Deka rued that despite the entire journalist fraternity of the State pressing for justice in the Kamala Saikia assassination case since a quarter century now, the government machinery has done little.
"If such a person cannot get justice, how can the common man expect it? May be this is why people have lost trust in the State machinery and they now tend to demand CBI inquiry in every case. This lack of trust on the State machinery is very unfortunate," Deka said.
He also informed that in a ruling yesterday, the Gauhati High Court had given four weeks' time to the State government to give the status of the inquiry into the killing of Kamala Saikia.
The lecture was organised by the Journalist Kamala Saikia Memorial Trust in association with Guwahati Press Club.
The organisers had planned to felicitate Editor of The Assam Tribune PG Baruah for his contributions in the field of journalism in the State, but he could not be present at the function due to his poor health condition. The organisers have decided to felicitate him at his residence tomorrow.
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"The CustomFit web page offered by Lehigh Outfitters has proved to be a valuable tool for equipping our employees with Metatarsal boots. The District Sales Manager offered the program during a Safety Awareness Week expo and quickly set up a model for us to evaluate. After the evaluation and approval to set up the custom website to our needs, we quickly had the ability to purchase metatarsal boots! The ease of ordering, low cost and free shipping exceeded all of our expectations. We have over 1000 employees that are in need of boots at any given time and this program works out great for us. Their CustomFit website program is just that (CustomFit). In some cases, we had the need to ship boots back (because of size issues) and Lehigh quickly set up a return process on our CustomFit website to expedite the return and re-shipment, the shipping and returns are free too. I am pleased to say that not only has Lehigh helped us to meet our goals to get our employees metatarsal boots, but they have taken the customer service to the next level. Thank you!"
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Maura Correa, HR Administrator
"Just wanted to give you an update on our CustomFit program. We've had the website up and running and people ordering shoes for almost 2 weeks now. I've been pleasantly surprised with the ease of the whole process! Initially I was a little concerned about people finding it difficult to navigate, but it really has turned out to be the easiest process for us. We've even had success with our Spanish speaking population. No issues to date. The return process has also been smooth. Of the 35 pairs of shoes that have been ordered so far, only 1 has been returned, and that was quick and painless as well. Thank you for all your help setting this up for us, I am a convert!"
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Bill Adams, Safety, Zanesville, OH location
"Just a note to say that our online boot process with Lehigh is working very well. And any time I have a question about an order or how to make the system run smoother, Tara is extremely helpful and responds to me quickly."
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Stacy Pitta, Human Resources Manager
"I have had much success with a seamless implementation in our York, PA location. We receive prompt responses and reactions to questions or concerns. I have enjoyed working with Lehigh from an administrative perspective and have received positive feedback from the employees here at the York location. Looking forward to continuing to grow our business relationship!!!"
Markus Jones, HSE Sr. Specialist in the Aerospace Industry
"The service, selection and product quality are top notch. Lehigh's IT group worked with us to customize a data management system which allowed for more accurate data input and reporting. Lehigh's web-based ordering interface is specific to our company and is available 24/7 and the Lehigh Creative Team even provided iPad based kiosks as a convenient ordering alternative. Pricing is competitive, which has resulted in a substantial savings over traditional 'brick and mortar only' retail options."
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Joe Sentipal, Purchasing
"I wanted to shoot you a quick thank you as well for all that you did for us. The website works great, the prices are better, and the shipments are fantastic. Some people have told me that they have actually received their shoes in the next day after ordering. Thank you for suggesting that we try this rout, I would say it was a success."
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Amber Sinclair, HR Service Supervisor
Safety is our #1 priority, so when we were looking for a safety shoe provider we made sure that our employees had access the best product, with a variety of choices and sizes, and that they could get their shoes in a short period of time. Lehigh delivered on all accounts; variety, reliability, and most importantly safety."
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Survey Responder
"Employees can choose from hundreds of options that are within their budget requirements. Our shop operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, so the service provides an equal opportunity for all emploiyees to purchase shoes according to their schedule. It improves productivity on the shop floor. We found that employees were wasting countless time on the shoemobile. This process gets our employees back to work in a timely manner."


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Onward and upward with the arts. First he outsolemnized Ingmar Bergman with Interiors. Then, with Stardust Memories, he scored a modest 5 out of Fellini's 8½. Now Woody Allen has transported Shakespeare's "wood near Athens" to upstate New York at the turn of this century for A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy. As might be expected, none of these homage-pastiches measures up to the original. But then, neither Bergman nor Fellini nor even Shakespeare ever tried writing a Woody Allen comedy.
Allen did tryeight times, from Play It Again Sam to Manhattanto the kind...


text: Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has condemned the deadly bombing [Reuters] A suicide bomber has killed at least 23 people and wounded dozens while they were attending prayers at a mosque in a northwestern Pakistani tribal area, sources tell Al Jazeera. Friday's bombing occurred in the village of Anbar Tehsil in the Mohmand tribal district bordering Afghanistan where the Pakistani army has been battling the Pakistan Taliban. Pakistan Taliban reject peace talks "The suicide bomber was in a crowded mosque, he shouted 'Allahu akbar' (God is greatest) and then there was a huge blast," Naveed Akbar, deputy administrator of Mohmand Agency, told Reuters news agency. Akbar added that some fatalities appeared to had been caused when part of the mosque caved in from the force of the blast. "A portion of the mosque and verandah collapsed in the blast and fell on worshippers. We are still retrieving bodies and the injured from the rubble of the mosque," he said. One of the wounded, 41-year-old Ghulam Khan, said he heard a deafening explosion during the prayers. "I cried for help, but no one came to me ... there were other bodies ... wounded worshippers, who were reciting verses from Quran and waiting for help," he told the Associated Press news agency. Khan said local residents and tribal police helped transport the wounded to hospital. No claim of responsibility There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but Pakistani Taliban in particular routinely attack soft targets such as courts, schools and mosques. READ MORE: Deadly twin blasts hit court in Pakistan The army launched an operation in June 2014 in a bid to wipe out armed groups bases in the northwestern tribal areas to bring an end to a violent campaign that has cost thousands of civilian lives since 2004. Pakistan Taliban chief killed in drone strike Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif condemned the bombing and said the "attacks by terrorists cannot shatter the government's resolve to eliminate terrorism from the country". Security in Pakistan has improved in recent years - the military says "terrorist incidents" dropped from 128 in 2013 to 74 last year - but major attacks on soft targets are still common. A bombing of lawyers in the city of Quetta killed 74 people last month, an attack claimed by both the Islamic State Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and Jamaat-ur-Ahrar, a breakaway faction of the Pakistan Taliban. Jamaat-ur-Ahrar also claimed the Easter Sunday bombing in a park in the eastern city of Lahore that killed 72 people, many of them children. SOURCE: Al Jazeera News And Agencies Pakistan War & Conflict Asia


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A soldier returns from Iraq. The war and the Lord have changed his life. He wants to do something for veterans who've fallen through the cracks…jobless, addicted, homeless.
The church he's joined offers him a building to start his ministry, but just as he's getting started, he's involved in an accident that leaves him almost incapacitated. He's dismissed from the hospital, but needs help caring for his injuries for a while. Not being able to afford a nurse, he asks for help on social media. His mother travels half way across the country to care for him.
There's many lessons we can take from this story. A new Christian is led to help his fellow veterans. The church has generously donated to his cause. A mother's love is great.
But there's something missing from this picture. Why did the mother have to travel half way across the country to help her son? Where was the church? Had they already done enough by giving the young man a means to carry out his mission? Did they know he needed help? Did the young man ask for their help? Why not? Why did he even have to ask?
I'm afraid many churches have grown cold in this age. We don't know each other…not really…and because we don't know each other, we don't love each other.
Churches set up this program and that group, each made up of good intentions and a lot of bureaucratic rules for how we relate to each other. There's little time or effort made to getting to know each other…to really know each other, you know, the feelings and circumstances that make up the person.
The average church goer has little chance to learn much more than a person's name and what he thinks about a particular Bible verse. Yes, we have our friends, but shouldn't every believer be a friend?
I believe if we make our needs and problems known, the church would pray for us. Some might find a way in their rules to provide money or assistance. Visiting is mainly left up to the pastor these days. It's his job.
I'm not sure how often we see a need and move by nothing but love to reach out to another. But how can we reach a world with God's love if we don't show love to one another?
It's not that we don't have the capacity to love. If we hear of a tornado hitting another town, we are spurred into action to help any way we can. Yet there may be someone sitting beside us on the church pew who's facing a problem greater than a tornado…and we don't even know it.
I wish I had a solution. Jesus deserves more from His Church.


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Erzbergrodeo XIX
Date fixed: May 30th to June 2nd 2013
Good things don't come easy they say and so the organizers oft he Erzbergrodeo took some extra time this year to decide on a date for one oft he toughest enduro races on earth. 1500 off road weirdos storm the peak oft he Erzberg, only the best 500 riders qualify for the main race. Last year a mere 7 athletes out of these 500 riders reached the finish line.
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TracTive Suspension
Our roots go way back into the 20th century. In 1977 WP Suspension was founded in the Netherlands by Wim Peters. The characteristic, white-coated springs gave the product its first brand name "White Power Suspension". Sport successes in the 70ties and 80ties established the reputation as a high-end shock absorber supplier. End of the 80ties the company developed into a 1st Tier supplier to KTM, Husaberg, BMW, .. After a bankruptcy in 1991 the name became WP Suspension. In 1995 the company was bought by KTM Power Sports. From 2007 onwards the company was gradually moved to Munderfing in Austria near KTM.
The core development and engineering team from the original WP plant took this chance to start Tractive Suspension 1st June 2010. In the previous jobs, we developed products used for Moto GP, World MX, Super Motard, Trail, ATV, Formula 1, and Snowmobiles. The Tractive team members contributed to the success of more than fifty GP teams and riders, like Valentino Rossi, Hans Spaan, Jorge Lorenzo, Max Biaggi, Loris Capirossi, Ralf Waldmann, Troy Bayliss, Pierre Francesco Chili, Jean Michel Bayle, Joël Smets and Michael Schumacher, in various disciplines of motorsports.
The Tractive team aims to keep this unique expertise and innovation alive and so Tractive was born in a passion for suspension technology. This background explains the use of white springs as a reference to this heritage, orange branding as Dutch national colour and the company motto "The Art of Suspension". Most of its employees and most of its suppliers have been active for more than 25 yrs in suspension. During its short lifespan, TracTive received several innovation awards.
The fresh start with plenty of relevant experience offered us the opportunity to make shock absorbers using absolute top materials, sealing components, suspension fluids, guiding bushings, springs, etc. Today TracTive stands for attractive products providing superior traction, ultimate comfort, precise adjustability and modern design for aftermarket products as well as special OEM series. Thanks to its modular design Tractive is capable of producing shocks for many different motorcycles, snowmobiles, cars and ATV's in a short lead time. The shock absorbers are equipped with all ways of manual adjustment until the most advanced semi-active electronic way of adjustment.
TracTive Suspension started 1st of June 2010 after WP Suspension moved from the Netherlands to Austria. The ex-WP core development team used this opportunity to start TracTive Suspension. Immediately the staff realised that the future in suspension is in electronically adjustable suspensions, not in marginally optimizing already fine-tuned suspension.
TracTive develops technologies with electronic control of damping and ride height. The millisecond fast, patented damping adjustment valve (DDA Dynamic Damping Adjustment), which allows for active body control, is one of the many existing examples. Based on this electronic know-how, the Tractive R&D department started doing prototyping & development work for OEM customers like BMW (DE), Touratech (DE), Aragosta/Topline (JP), BRP Lynx / Totaltek (Fi), BRP (CA), Koni (Netherlands), Tenneco (Belgium), VB-Air (Netherlands), VRM (Italy), … Many customers appreciate our experience, technical know-how, flexibility and independent position.
TracTive has in one hand everything that is needed for electronic suspension prototypes: experienced staff, shock absorber components, control units, sensor, actuators and algorithms.
The combination of technical know-how and our small to medium size scale production makes TracTive an attractive proposition for development projects. When a vehicle manufacturer is looking for ways to modernise or "electrify" his suspension, he will find TracTive as an independent consulting partner or Proof-Of-Concept supplier. TracTive works on projects from concept phase till release for production, including supplier selection, pre-production series, engineering and ride-work.


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A Proof Assistant for Beginners
Its purpose is to support non-experts in exploration and self-education in logic and axiomatic mathematical reasoning, using the real numbers as a starting point. The design is driven by an overriding concern for simplicity and a less difficult learning process. It also strives for compatibility with textbook presentations of mathematical concepts.
This paper introduces the system, its logic, implementation, and user interaction. It aims to acquaint a technical audience with aspects of interest, though the system itself is designed for less technical users. The source code repository https://github.com/crisperdue/prooftoys contains the full source code and documentation, and the project Web site http://prooftoys.org/ is updated frequently with recent versions of the working system.
To a new user, Prooftoys is a list of steps in a proof, displayed on a Web page. The list might be open for the user to extend and modify, or it might be locked down to be viewed but not changed. It might be on the Prooftoys web site (http://prooftoys.org/proofbuilder.html), or anywhere else on the web. It can operate in all of these modes.
All aspects of the system are under continuing development, so some parts should be expected to evolve in the future.
Prooftoys at work
Proof displays
In the user interface a proof is just a sequence of proof steps, each being an axiom, a definition, a fact already known true, or the result of applying some rule of inference to some input values, which may be proof steps, parts of proof steps, terms in the language, or other values.
A live version is at http://prooftoys.org/proofbuilder.html?fact=SubclassInter&details=true
Each step is numbered, with a statement of the step followed by some description of its derivation. Hovering over the step number highlights key step(s) and/or parts of the steps involved in deriving the step. Assumptions of types, using "ind".
Assumptions of the form
R x (that certain variables are real-valued) are omitted by default from the displays, and repetitive displays in the left side of a step may be reduced to just an ellipsis if
they are identical to the previous step.
Proof step details
Almost all proofs use theorems that have already been proved, and most proof steps are really compositions of many smaller steps. Proof displays give the user easy access to proofs of theorems and details of proof steps by clicking within some part of the description of the step that is highlighted in blue.
So in the proof above, clicking on the word "use" in step 2, then digging down to details of details eventually takes us to:
This reveals the final phase of the proof of the key tautology for step 2.
Proof editing
- "Point and click" selection – of steps and arbitrary terms
- Simple editing of existing proof, with deletion and inlining of details
Selecting, drilling down. Viewing proofs
Levels of difficulty
Saving and restoring work
Logical concepts
The logic is based on Alonzo Church's simple type theory as developed by Peter Andrews under the name Q0.
Prooftoys has the same theorems as Q0 and the same rule of inference, which allows replacement of an arbitrary term with one always equal to it. The axioms are like the five axioms of Q0, but two are generalizations that in Q0 are proved as theorems. The definitions of the boolean operators (except boolean equality) are defined by their truth tables by axiomatizing if-then-else. Prooftoys implements Q0 as a Hilbert-style system in the sense that it does not support a concept of hypotheses except as conjunctions of assumptions that form the antecedent of a conditional statement.
The logical core supports simple constant definitions that take the form of equalities with the defined name on the left and its definition on the right, with the usual restrictions on freshness of the name and absence of free variables in the right-hand side.
The real numbers are treated as a subset of the logical base type of individuals, and are axiomatized as a complete ordered field. This approach gives the math in Prooftoys a significantly different feel than other systems based on type theory. In particular, statements about the real numbers must explicitly include assumptions that certain variables have values in ℝ, where in other systems numbers are introduced as new types of the logic itself
Given that the reals are treated as a subset of the individuals, the integers, rationals, and natural numbers naturally become subsets of the reals, and there is much less need for explicit presentation of types of variables. On the other hand, closure of operations must be stated explicitly, and assumptions that an expression has a real value must be proved.
Logical kernel
The inference component of Prooftoys is built as a logical kernel, with additional functionality implemented by additional JavaScript functions that call the kernel functions and each other. JavaScript does not offer guarantees that new code will not bypass the kernel, but this aspect of the design still greatly improves the trustworthiness of the system.
The logical kernel supports assertion of axioms, starting with the logical axioms, and builds proofs withe Q0 primitive inference rule R, which takes a proved statement, a path specifying a term within that statement, and an equation as input. It returns a new proved statement as its result.
An empty path refers to an entire statement, and each component of a path indicates which part of the top-level term to traverse. A function invocation has a function part and an argument part, and a lambda term has a bound variable and a body. A path is a sequence of zero or more of these indications.
The kernel also supports assertion of axioms by an
assert function
that takes a statement in the logic as its only argument.
New proof steps ("steps") are built up from axioms, constant definitions, and use of rule R. Each proved statement is linked to the name of the inference function that produced it, and all the arguments passed to that function, so the step can be reproduced.
Additional inference rules are implemented as side-effect-free JavaScript functions that accept arguments and return a proof step.
A step may depend on other steps, or on facts already proved as part of the system. Or it may not depend on other steps, for example being an axiom or theorem, or a step that proves a tautology from its statement.
Additional inference rules are implemented as JavaScript functions that accept arguments such as terms of the language and previously proved statements.
Identifiers are
composed of alphanumerics with an optional numeric subscript indicated
by appending
_<digits>. Sequences of most other printing (currently ASCII) characters
are considered to be operators. There are also integer literals within the limits
of exact arithmetic in JavaScript.
Variable names are single-character identifiers, possibly subscripted. Operators and all other identifiers are reserved for constants, and operators can be declared internally as infix with a precedence. At present there is not an explicit syntax for entering an explicit type (such as individual) through the language.
Any expression can be enclosed in parentheses for grouping, a sequence of proof steps.
In this sense, the proof editornd an operator enclosed by itself in parentheses is allowed to represent its designed to support forward reasoning.
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Backward reasoning from a goal toassociated constant.
Notations of the form
{<var>. <term>} and
[<var>. <term>] indicate
lambda expressions. For example
{x. p x} its proof is also supported idiomatically
by sthe same as
λ x. p x in
lambda notarting with with a step of the form
conditions ⇒ goal, where
is the conclusion part of the desired theorem. on. Terms with quantifiers use this notation,
forall {x. p x ⇒ q x} ⇒ subclass p q.
The syntax with braces is intentionally suggestive of set/class notation, but
brackets have the same meaning.
Convenient inference
Tautology checking
The tautology checker is a function that takes a propositional calculus statement as its argument and attempts to prove the statement true. The result is a proved duplicate of the input. Like all proved statements in Prooftoys, the result is connected to the steps from which it was derived.
Rewriting could be considered the characteristic form of reasoning in Prooftoys. When a basic math text describes use of a basic law such as commutativity, it is effectively referring to rewriting.
Prooftoys matches a statement of equality (or logical equivalence) with an occurrence of an arbitrary term in some statement. If it finds a substitution into the equality that makes its left-hand side identical to the term it is matched against, the rewrite applies this substitution to the equality and replaces the occurrence with the right-hand side of the resulting equality.
The equality can be conditional, and if so the replacement step adds the antecedent (after substitution) to any assumptions as it replaces the occurrence of the term.
The system uses rewriting to accomplish other traditional forms of reasoning as well, described below.
Forward and backward reasoning
(goals and subgoals?)
The user interacts with the proof editor primarily by entering one step after another, producing a sequence of proof steps. In this sense, the proof editor is designed to support forward reasoning.
It is also straightforward to reason backward from a goal. For example
a proof of a theorem of the form
conditions ⇒ conclusion
could start with an already-proved fact that has the same form
but different conditions, even a tautology such as
conclusion ⇒ conclusion.
Other convenient inferences
Supporting mechanisms
Fact registration and lookup
Matching / substitution finding
Higher-order matching
Assumption management
Some basic and ubiquitous issues related to assumptions are handled internally to some of the rules of inference, such as rewriting rules. Among these are
It deduplication ofes assumptions, removal ofes assumptions trivially known to be
true, such as "3 is a real number", and handling of closure of operations by
reducing reduces type assumptions on terms such as
R (x + y) to
R x & R y, and puts assumptions into a standard order
for consistency between steps.
Working with real numbers
Comparison with other tools
Metamath, Mizar, (no tactic proofs)