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In 1993, E.F. Codd, the acknowledged founder of relational databases, introduced the term Online Analytical Processing (OLAP). OLAP is intended for the non-data processing professionals like the business expert, and is expected to be intuitive, rapid, and flexible.
Intuitive user interface: clear a technical roadblock for business personnel to operate freely
Rapid analysis procedure: accommodate the fast-changing business environment to seize opportunities and make decisions
Flexible computing ability: able to confront many complex business computation
When the traditional OLAP product was just introduced, it experienced 2-digit growth rates in the global market for years before clients start to complain about that projects would easily fail, no obvious effect, and the time span is a bit too long. Since 2004, the growth of OLAP drops dramatically, owing to the seven major drawbacks of traditional OLAP tools(what's the remedies of OLAP's drawbacks?):
When the traditional OLAP product was just introduced, it experienced 2-digit growth rates in the global market for years before clients start to complain about that projects would easily fail, no obvious effect, and the time span is a bit too long. Since 2004, the growth of OLAP drops dramatically, owing to the seven major drawbacks of traditional OLAP tools(what's the remedies of OLAP's drawbacks?):
1. Pre-modeling as a must
Regarding the business data, the traditional OLAP tools do not allow for the immediate analysis without pre-modeling. These tools without a good OLAP engine cannot convert the data to a pattern in which business personnel can operate directly.
Assume that you are requested to analyze the profit for a telecommunications enterprise. Firstly, you need to draft a star or snowflakes model involving the date, region, client gender, client's occupation, credit ratings, and other dimensions. Then, adapt the model to the practical database through repeated modifications. For example, remove the dimension of "customer's occupation" from the model if it is not covered in the business data; replenish the ignored dimension of "hierarchy of consumption" to the analytical model; and use the ETL tool to synchronize the "sales network" from another database to this database. The finalized stable model will be filled with data regularly at scheduled times for use in analysis. Even so, you will find that the data is not up to the convention or short of historical data. Then, you will have to establish an additional data warehouse or data mart; In case no key data from the model is found, then you will return to modify the business system instead.
Modeling is a time-consuming procedure of a great many steps. Users thus have to pay the expensive cost in advance.
2. Great dependence on IT
Although business personnel is the intended user of OLAP, they will still have to work with the IT pros because the traditional OLAP tools requires a complex modeling procedure and its users have to write a great numbers of codes/scripts/SQL.
The below jobs cannot be completed without the assistance from technicians: Propose a common analytical model; Map dimensions of model to the names of fields, tables, and views of the business database; Use ETL tool or Perl scripts to migrate and integrate all required data to a same database if they are in different databases; Establish the reasonable scheduling rules, and fill data to the model by writing SQL statements or stored procedures; Deploy OLAP application to the server, and write .net/java application for user to use. Not to mention setting-up the database warehouse or data mart and modifying the business system to replenish the key data, business personnel is unable to handle without IT involvement.
The traditional OLAP tools depend heavily on the involvement of IT pros, and cost great human resources. What's even worse, the IT pros without business expertise cannot fully understand the analysis goal. The model built by such IT pros may not be trustworthy enough. OLAP projects built through months or years of efforts often deviate away from the requirement of actual business, which gives rise to lots of project failures.
3. Poor computation capability
The data computing refers to a procedure of processing and transforming data through a series of specific steps toward a concrete goal. Data computing is a basic feature of OLAP. The traditional OLAP tools are of insufficient computational capabilities and few computational methods such as drilling, slicing, rotation, and simple column computation. This is because their architectures are old, lacking the innovation, and hard to strike a balance between user-friendliness and flexibility. Taking the below computational goal for example, it is hard to implement with the traditional OLAP tools.
How to find the workshop whose defective rate continuous to drop for 3 months in a row?
How to make statistics on students whose score on each course is above B?
In the 1st month since the new product enters the market, how many days will it takes to reach the 1/3 of the total sales in that month?
Lacking the computational capabilities impedes the flexibility of OLAP tool greatly. Analyzers are confined to a narrow and small area, incapable to analyze freely, and even have to resort to the 3rd party to perform this kind of computation. In the similar business computations, OLAP is often abandoned in an awkward situation.
4. Short of Interactive analysis ability
Data analysis is the most important feature of OLAP. Not like the data computing, data analysis is an interactive procedure requiring the perfect step-by-step computational mechanism. Toward the obscure goal, users need to observe the current data and make the reasonable assumption, and then verify/falsify the assumption to ultimately achieve the rather complicated business analysis goal. Unfortunately, the model of traditional OLAP tools is too old to provide so free a style of interactive analysis.
For example, why the sales improved greatly?
The possible assumptions include: orders flood in, sales forces beefed up in many respects, and any large orders are placed. Of which, the procedure to check the large orders is as given below:
1. List the order data, and then filter the data of recent 6 months.
2. Compute the average sales of each order.
3. Multiply the average sales by 300%, as the criterion of"large order" standard.
4. Group the data from step 2 by month, and filter the result from step 3 to get the large order.
5. View the result and lower the criterion for comparison if few orders are up to the criterion, and raise the criterion for comparison if there are too great orders after filtering.
6. Count the large orders of each month.
7. Compute the increment of large orders in each month.
Considering the above result, users may still need to keep investigating the cause of emerging large orders through computation until the clear and reliable basis for decision-making is found. The cause may be the vocational training for sales persons starts to bear fruit.
Traditional OLAP tools suffer from the limited interactive analysis abilities. They are unable to provide the above-mentioned flexible step-by-step computational capabilities, unable to solve the complex business computing, or provide the true basis for decision-making. So, quite a few clients just take OLAP tools as an expensive and apparently single-purpose reporting tool for presentation. They are trying to get more leverage, but only find the limited uses of OLAP for the time being.
5. Slow in reacting
Traditional OLAP tools require pre-molding and cooperation between people of various departments. Therefore, it is usually slow in reacting to the business analysis demands.
Assume that a toy manufacturer needs the below information before Christmas: Of the top 100 cities with the largest population, which cities require the sales effort being strengthened immediately. Then, you will find that no population data of the city in the existing model. The usage of traditional OLAP tools is as given below:
Business personnel download population data from census bureau or Wikipedia, and then use Excel and other similar tools to list the top 100 cities by population. The above step will not take more than 1 hour. But in the step followed, they will have to ask IT pros for help, because these data cannot be imported to OLAP for use directly.
Firstly, to coordinate: the business personnel raise a request to his/her superior. The superior will request the support from R&D department, and assign a project leader who will investigate the request initially, and build the project schedule and budget. The R&D department will approve and set up a development team. If cost is not a priority, then the development team can be standby all time for the business personnel.
Then, to implement: Perform the demand analysis in details and confirm it is to modify the model, schedule the task and export from Excel or database for other models to use. In addition, there are also steps of design, implementation, deployment, and verification as well as communication with database administers Web application administer, and programmers. When it comes to the final acceptance, further improvement is still required because IT pros may not be in the picture and are on the different page with business personnel. The improvement would be unavoidable unless unfortunately the Christmas was gone and they missed it.
The traditional OLAP is slow in reacting, requires great workload, and takes a bit too long time to implement the goal. Facing the fast-changing challenges, the enterprises will miss commercial opportunities, and find themselves in a disadvantage position in the intense competition.
6. Abstract model
The traditional OLAP tools convert the data of 2 dimensional from database and Excel to the multi-dimensional. To use the OLAP tools freely, business personnel must correctly understand the concepts of slicing, rotating, drilling, and other concepts as prerequisites. The abstraction of model hinders the business personnel from analyzing freely.
For example, to business personnel, the employee data, regional data, and product data are simply 3 lists or 3 sheets in Excel. Even the most ordinary business personnel know how to group, sort, and filter these data. However, things changes once these data is converted to the multi-dimensional data, business personnel have to say good bye to the data organized 2-dimensionally as flat as computer screen, and image these data as a cube. Never having the business personnel seen such data in their work or life before, they feel a bit tough to operate these abstract data.
The abstract model requires analyst to think 3-dimentionally. This gives rise to the difficulty to understand. Users are hard to convert the business language to the abstract multi-dimensional operations. Therefore, it is hard to truly implement the goal of on-line-analysis.
7. Great potential risk
Traditional OLAP tools have a huge potential risk due to the lacking of the computation and low interactive analysis ability, and the implementation relies on the cooperation with IT pros. The procedure and the cycle are a bit long.
The analyst are often forced to abandon the OLAP due to its poor computation ability that results in the failures to submit data of huge amount, and great difficulty to provide valuable references for the decision-maker. Lacking the interactive analysis ability, unable to solve the complex business analysis problem or find the true cause and solution, these drawbacks give rise to the faulty conclusion of analysis, and bring about great direct loss to the enterprise. In the analysis aimed to the business, too much work is relied on the IT pros. No wonder the procedure and cycle is lengthy, huge manpower and physical resources are consumed, while users are still unable to react effectively and efficiently to the constant changing business environment. Quite often, the "stars" business is exceeded and "cash cow" business is captured by others too. The analysis conclusion often deviates from the original goal of analysis, and the wrong decision may be easily made.
These potential risks can easily incur the failure of OLAP project, and bring about unrecoverable loss to the enterprise.
All in all, the traditional OLAP tools do not implement On Line Analytical Processing according to its true essence. They are just the "OLAP in its narrowest senses or the subset of OLAP". It is neither intuitive nor fast or flexible.


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Fencamfamine (Glucoenergan, Reactivan) is a stimulant which was developed in the 1960s as an appetite suppressant, but was later withdrawn for this application due to problems with dependence and abuse. It is around half the potency of dexamphetamine, and is prescribed at a dose of 10-60mg, although abusers of the drug tend to rapidly develop tolerance and escalate their dose. Reactivan is still rarely used for treating depressive day-time fatigue, lack of concentration and lethargy, particularly in individuals who have chronic medical conditions, as its favourable safety profile makes it the most suitable drug in some cases.[1]
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Fencamfamine acts as an indirect dopamine agonist. It releases dopamine by a similar mechanism to amphetamines, but is 10x less potent than dexamphetamine at producing this effect. The main mechanism of action is instead inhibition of dopamine reuptake, more similar to that of methylphenidate. Also unlike amphetamines, fencamfamine does not inhibit the action of monoamine oxidase enzymes and so is somewhat safer.[2] Some experiments also suggest a role for opioid receptors in the activity of fencamfamine, as low doses can cause paradoxical sedation, and some effects of the drug are blocked by naloxone.[3]
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Contraindications: should not be used in patients with heart disease, angina, glaucoma, thyrotoxicosis or in patients being treated with monoamine oxidase inhibitors.
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- ↑ Planeta Cda S, Aizenstein ML, DeLucia R. Reinforcing properties of fencamfamine: involvement of dopamine and opioid receptors. Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior. 1995 Jan;50(1):35-40.
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The window heights here are over 10 feet high: finding the right window treatment was particularly tricky because I am not permitted to attach any brackets to the window mullions: so every bracket must be drilled into the concrete slab ceiling. The reason for attaching to the ceiling is that the window manufacturer invalidates the product warrantee if holes of any type are drilled into the metal framing around the panes of glass.


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Back during Spring Training, I took a look at each team and made predictions about how each team would do and how I thought their season would go. This was the first year doing this, and I figured now was a good time to take a look back and see how it went. I reviewed the AL East previously, and now it's on to the AL Central.
Chicago White Sox
Predicted Record: 84-78 Actual Record: 88-74
This team's record ended up slightly better than I thought it would, but actually finished in the same spot in the standings I believed that they would. They got solid pitching as usual, but not as much from Jake Peavy once he suffered a season ending injury. The move to second base for Gordon Beckham seemed to cause him some serious struggles throughout most of the season, and he didn't seem to get his bat back until after the All-Star break.


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St-Pierre wins by stunning split decision over Hendricks
LAS VEGAS – Georges St-Pierre said Johny Hendricks would provide the biggest threat yet to his welterweight title, and he proved to be right.
Even St-Pierre may have been surprised at the outcome, though, as many in attendance were when the longtime UFC champion was announced as the split-decision winner. Immediately after the fight, St-Pierre could be seen mouthing, "You did it" to Hendricks.
The welterweight title bout was the main event of today's UFC 167 event at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, and after the decision was read out, many in the crowd booed in disbelief, thinking Hendricks had done enough for the upset win.
The victory, the 19th of St-Pierre's UFC career, broke the record held by UFC Hall of Famer Matt Hughes, a former welterweight champion.
Hendricks came out swinging early, and landed often en route to what he and his cornermen thought was a victory. But St-Pierre took a pair of 48-47 scores to one 48-47 for Hendricks.
Then St-Pierre dropped a bombshell, telling Joe Rogan that he needs to "step away" from fighting for a while to focus on some personal issues in his life. When asked by Rogan if he was indeed retiring, the champion said he just needed to take some time away.
St-Pierre kicked early, and when Hendricks threw a big punch, St-Pierre dove in and took him down. He latched onto a guillotine, but Hendricks slipped it. The two went to work wrestling on the feet, with Hendricks bullying the champion to the cage. But after a short stalemate, referee Mario Yamasaki split them up. The challenger just missed with a big left uppercut, but landed some punches in tight as the two clinched. Then he rained down with elbows as St-Pierre held on to a takedown.
St-Pierre's face was marked up midway through the round, and Hendricks took him down. But St-Pierre was back up quickly and finally broke off. It was the kind of back-and-forth that would be the hallmark of the entire fight.
Hendricks had the champion in trouble several times in the fight, even though he appeared to wane slightly in the fourth. St-Pierre stayed in the fight with jabs and a Superman punch, hoping he had survived the challenger's onslaught each time it came.
The two touched gloves for the fifth round, and St-Pierre may have known he had to go into desperation mode to get a finish. He shot early for a takedown and held on to a single. But he couldn't get the challenger to the canvas as Hendricks kept his balance. St-Pierre hurt Hendricks with a kick to the body, though, and came right after him with more than three minutes left in the fight, getting him to the ground. Hendricks tried to sneak out and back to his feet and did so, then reversed position. With two minutes left, he worked knees to the body, but Yamasaki split them up. St-Pierre got his third takedown of the fight with 30 seconds left, but Hendricks popped right back to his feet to close things out.
"I thought I clearly won the fight," Hendricks said. "But Georges is a great competitor. It sucks, but I'm coming back. I'll get that belt. It's mine."
St-Pierre (25-2 MMA, 19-2 UFC) stretched his winning streak to 12 fights. Hendricks (15-2 MMA, 10-2 UFC), who fought in the championship rounds for the first time, had his six-fight streak snapped.
UFC 167 results include:
-- Georges St-Pierre def. Johny Hendricks via split decision (48-47, 47-48, 48-47)
-- Rashad Evans def. Chael Sonnen via TKO (punches) - Round 1, 4:05
-- Robbie Lawler def. Rory MacDonald via split decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28)
-- Tyron Woodley def. Josh Koscheck via KO (punches) - Round 1, 4:38
-- Ali Bagautinov def. Timothy Elliott via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 30-27)
-- Donald Cerrone def. Evan Dunham via submission (triangle choke) - Round 2, 3:49
-- Thales Leites def. Ed Herman via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
-- Rick Story def. Brian Ebersole via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
-- Erik Perez def. Edwin Figueroa via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
-- Jason High def. Anthony Lapsley via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
-- Sergio Pettis def. Will Campuzano via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 29-28)
-- Gian Villante def. Cody Donovan via TKO (punches) - Round 2, 1:22
Matt Erickson writes for MMAJunkie.com, a property of USA TODAY Sports Media Group.


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I am not inclined toward market anarchy, or anarchist capitalism, as I see it as being both non-viable, since capitalism without restraints invariably breeds monopoly capitalism, which is no longer capitalism in the sense of a free market, but a form of feudalism, since the few end up dominating and ruling over the rest; and because capitalism is based upon a two-tiered society of the owners of production, in Marxist terms, the people who have an unequal share of economic power, and hence also, social, cultural and political power, and those who must work for them in order to survive; and thus, capitalism is based upon the need (of the many, not the few) to rent yourself out for money, which is degrading and dehumanizing, as well as antithetical to freedom.
Renting yourself out for money was called wage slavery by Abraham Lincoln and others who opposed it. A more stark and honest term for what it means to rent yourself out for money is simply prostitution.
Unless you want to be a slave – or a slave master, if you are both lucky and also supremely unethical – or you are simply lost in confused thinking and illusions, you cannot support capitalism in any form: at least, not without strong legislation such as labour laws, minimum wage standards, workplace safety requirements, environmental protocols, and above all, anti-trust legislation to prevent and break up monopolies.
If you want capitalism, if you want an economic system and a society based upon wage slavery – though I do not see why any sane person would – then at the very least, you have to put restraints on it: you have to chain the beast, or it will devour you.
You certainly cannot support a form of capitalism that strips capital, and the controllers of capital, of all restraints – unless you are either a self-deluded ideologue, or you are a member of the business elite, or a wanna-be member of this class.
So I would say that the idea of market anarchy, or anarchist capitalism, is one that is propounded by two groups: the deluded, and the cynically dishonest and self-serving.
Of course the business elite like the idea of eliminating all government oversight and restraints on their actions. It would mean total freedom for them – freedom to loot and pillage at will, to play one nation, state, province and community against another in a race to the bottom, with ever lower wages and working conditions, and ever lower environmental standards, and by these and other means, to gather even more of the wealth, resources and power on the planet into their hands, even more rapidly and frantically than they are already doing.
The corporate elite also favour the elimination, not only of all governmental restrictions on their actions – although they are quite keen to push for a police state to restrain the actions of the people, and to further secure their power and their de facto rule; they also strongly favour the elimination of all social safety nets and all government programs that help the poor and unemployed.
There are two reasons for this. Firstly, social programs that help the people cost money – and the corporate elite would rather their multi-billion and trillion dollar state subsidies increase; therefore, programs that help the people must be slashed and eliminated – the welfare state is supposed to provide for the rich, not the masses.
Secondly, and more essentially, the welfare state, and all social safety nets and social programs that help the poor and the unemployed, must be slashed and eliminated, so that the people will be driven to desperation, and will welcome their corporate masters, and beg to be shackled and chained for a mere few cents an hour, or a few crumbs of bread.
The business elite like to talk amongst themselves and in the business press about what they call pampered Western workers. They like Chinese workers much better, as the offshoring of production and the deindustrialization of the West make abundantly clear. They do not want to pay $30 or $40 an hour for labour, or even $10, or $7.50 an hour for a wage slave in North America or Europe, when they can get one for $1 an hour in Mexico, or $0.10 an hour in China. Destroying social programs and safety nets means that Western workers can be trained to accept Chinese standards of pay – which is to say, social programs and safety nets must be destroyed in order to make the pampered Western workers more compliant and malleable serfs.
The other means of creating an ultra-low cost labour pool is through slavery, and that is being vigorously pursued by the reigning corporate powers as well – it is called the prison system. Prison labour is a rapidly growing out-sourcing choice for large, profitable corporations. With prison labour, you can pay workers just pennies an hour, and if they get out of line, you can get the guards to beat them to a pulp.
But to return to the driving down of wages and benefits across the West…
This is the primary reason for the so-called austerity programs being foisted on the people, purportedly for their own good, and the reason for the attack on the welfare state and all social programs across the Western world: free the corporations of the bondage of having to pay wages that people can live on, by driving the people to utter desperation, where they can be more easily manipulated, and exploited on a greater scale, for the increased profits of the already astronomically rich few. It is a grand and noble vision indeed.
But the main attack on government is an attack by big business on government regulations applying to big business. (They are happy to see red tape, high taxes and bureaucratic hurdles thrown up for small business, but they want a fast-track and a back door, with zero restrictions and zero taxes for themselves. Taxes, laws and regulations are for the little people.) The business elite do not want government restrictions on their actions. They want the subsidies and the bailouts and the protection of an increasingly militarized police state and a welfare state for the rich, but they do not want any restrictions on their own actions. Fascism for the people, total freedom for the elite – that is what the corporate oligarchs who rule the world today want, and that is what we are rapidly being driven into, like corralled cattle, being herded down the cattle chute.
While the elimination of government would mean total freedom for the corporate elite, it would mean total subjugation under neo-feudal corporate rule for the rest of us, and therefore we should oppose it – vigorously and passionately.
If you want to abolish government, you had better abolish all great concentrations of economic power first, or you will not have anarchism, much less freedom – you will simply have unfettered corporate rule, and a new form of tyranny.
So no, I do not support market anarchism or anarchist capitalism. I would tend to favour libertarian socialism, or anarchist socialism, where collectivism and anti-statism come together in a valuing of both freedom and mutual aid, as Kropotkin, Rocker, Bookchin, Bertrand Russell, Chomsky and others have argued for. In the short term, however, I would be happy simply to see a government that truly is, of the people, by the people, for the people, and not simply a servant of ruthless corporate powers and the super-rich.
I do not believe that a truly free society is even attainable without a very strong degree of mutual aid and solidarity among the people, which is absolutely necessary to accomplish the goal of a free society. So freedom and mutual aid must go hand in hand. To dream of it being otherwise is sheer fantasy.
How we blend and balance freedom and mutual aid, or liberty and collectivism, is the question. Whether or not we must, is a non-issue.
The seizure of corporate property by the workers, or by the people otherwise, at the local level, I do see as frequently if not generally justified, and Rothbard gives some good examples, such as workers taking over any and all corporations that are tied to the military-industrial complex, since they are involved in mass murder, among other reasons.
We can also look to the example of Argentina, where workers took over factories and ran them themselves, very successfully, as the documentary, The Take, revealed.
Or we can look to the Spanish Revolution, which was a largely anarchist revolution. The anarchist experiment in Spain, which lived between 1936 and 1939, I believe, was extremely successful, and could certainly be repeated elsewhere, but it would take great international solidarity to keep it alive in the face of the predictable backlash by the presently reigning vested interests.
As Chomsky has said, what the elite fear most, is the threat of a good example. For that reason, any example of worker control or workplace democracy, of any alternative to elite corporate rule, will be viciously attacked, no matter how small or remote. We must be prepared for that; but that is not an insurmountable obstacle to real social change. The people always have the real power. They simply need to realize it, and act upon the fact.
The anarchist revolution in Spain unfortunately ended up being crushed by an alliance between Western business elites, Western governments and the Soviet Union – Bolsheviks despise worker control just about as much as capitalists do. (Lenin destroyed the worker councils immediately upon seizing power, and Kropotkin declared after the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia, that the revolution is dead. But the example of a successful anarchist revolution, and a proven successful anarchist-socialist model for an advanced industrial society, still lives, and it still offers a better alternative, by far, over what we have now.
But to return to the subject of appropriation – or reclamation, as it might better and more accurately be called – there are other good reasons which justify such actions, and make them entirely legitimate, aside from the ones mentioned by Rothbard.
First of all, if what is nominally called private property was gained through illegitimate means, then all claim to title is null and void. For example, if an armed band of thugs rolls into town, and steals all that the people have or possess at gun point, we would say they have no right to that property. If one nation sends in its military to seize the oil or other resources of people in a foreign land, then that nation has no legitimate claim to such property. If a slave owner amasses a great fortune by means of the labour of his slaves, then he has no right to that property, which is more justly the property of the slaves who produced that wealth – cotton for example, or sugar cane, and the revenues from it – and not the slave master who illegitimately lays claim to it. And there are less obvious reasons for the invalidation of claims to property rights, such as great imbalances of power. In essence, all of these examples involve the exploitation of an imbalance of power to acquire wealth, and the imbalance of power makes all such claims to property acquired through these means, null and invalid.
That is the case generally for large concentrations of wealth and economic powers, such as the big corporations have today – for reasons of imbalances of power, and special favours sought by means of what is essentially bribery to political candidates, through what is euphemistically called election financing, among other reasons. The claims of property rights on the part of the corporate giants are highly dubious at best, and in reality, groundless, invalid and illegitimate.
Of course, this raises fears and even terror in some, for fear that their property will not be regarded as sacrosanct. Where do we draw the line between legitimate property rights, and appropriation or reclamation of what are reasonably viewed as illegitimate claims on property or resources, is the question we must ask. We draw lines all the time, and it is not hard to imagine a reasonable balance being sought and found. For example, leaving all small and medium businesses intact, as well as all family farms, family homes and personal possessions, but endorsing and supporting an appropriation or reclaiming of resources and assets which are presently held by the largest corporations, forthwith to be held as the shared property of the people – just as we now share public parks and public roads, public libraries and public fire departments – with shares in these corporation distributed equally to the people (and full voting shares, of course).
This would break up the corporate giants, immediately strip them of their excessive powers, put some teeth in anti-trust measures, and most essentially, would bring an immediate end to the domination over the global economy, the political process and the media by the presently ruling corporate elite. And it would once again restore some semblance of equality and also accountability within our society, and would at the same time dramatically increase the justice in our society, and also the quality of life and well-being of the people, immeasurably. I would therefore urge that such steps be taken immediately.
And it does not have to be an all or nothing scenario. We could start with the worst offenders, the banks, for example. If you want to dethrone Wall Street, and reign in the banking elite, and thereby get money out of politics, as any sane person should want today, then break up the big banks. And what are you going to do with them, one might ask. Well, one option is to do just what I have described here: seize their assets, and distribute shares of ownership equally among the people, effectively turning them into democratically controlled co-ops, with dividends paid directly to the people.
You do not let such corporate criminals get away with such crimes, nor do you give them a mere slap on the wrist. They are said to be too big to fail. Well, they are too big to exist – unless they are controlled by the people. Confiscate their assets, and return the power to the people.
Six giant banks now dominate the entire American economy, as well as both major political parties. Seize these powers, and put them in the hands of the people, and you will have a revolution – and real social change.
And we can have a mixed economy. We do not have to move too fast, if that scares people. Look at Europe – mixed economies are the norm. Most European nations have universal public health care, which is essentially a socialist feature of their society, yet they have democratic governments, constitutions, freedom and civil liberties, and they have capitalist, market-based economies. Adopting a universal public health care system did not turn these countries into Communist regimes, no matter what the paranoid right may scream. They are mixed economies with essentially republican governments and market economies. We can drop the paranoia now.
Despite the red scare tactics and the misunderstandings, having a socialist medical system has not turned European nations into Stalinist regimes, or anything remotely of the sort. Furthermore, the overwhelming majority of Americans have wanted a Canadian or European style health public health care system for decades – and it is half as costly as the for-profit private health care system of the United States. But this is an aside.
So we could easily imagine a mixed economy where we have excellent social programs, such as universal pensions, unemployment insurance and public health care, a market-based economy, open and transparent constitutional democracy with rights and freedoms for all enshrined in law and custom, and also have large sectors of the economy run as worker co-ops or publicly owned co-ops; run, not by the state, but by boards of directors and chief executives that are elected by the people directly, with the people being the majority or even the sole share-holders.
We are talking about taking giant, unwieldy, unaccountable and undemocratic corporations which are now out of control and running rampage, and turning them into accountable, democratically run co-ops, owned and controlled directly by the people. This would make a dramatic, and much needed, urgently needed change to our society. I see no reason to delay.
So yes, re-appropriation, or a reclaiming of resources by the people from the corporate oligarchs who have seized them and laid claim to them, is not only entirely justified and legitimate – it is also highly practical, workable, and an attainable goal which should be sought without delay.
In fact, I would say that if we do not take such measures, and soon, then the corporate elite will consolidate their power globally, with the results being that we find ourselves living in an Orwellian, technocratic, neo-feudal fascist regime, and a very dark age.
We must take bold steps now, to protect the people and ourselves from the clear and mounting threats of a full-blown corporate fascism. When six banks control 40% of the wealth of America; when six corporations control 90% of American media and can effectively manipulate the public mind; when Wall Street and the Fortune 500 fund the elections and effectively choose the political puppets of their liking; and when and a few dozen corporations, mainly banks, effectively control the global economy and rule the world, as a recent Swiss study showed, in a case of science confirming the obvious, then it is time for a bold and unhesitating response on the part of the people, without question.
Furthermore, with regards to claims of property rights: abuses of any great power also render all claim to that power null and void, as the Declaration of Independence states – and this applies to economic powers, such as those held by the business elite and the corporate giants, every bit as much as it applies to kings and queens, governments and political powers. If you abuse it, you lose it. And the corporate giants and the billionaire class who control them, are most definitely abusing their power.
A tax on tea sparked the American Revolution – it was a last, final insult, after myriad insults and injuries by an oppressive and tyrannical power. Such a tipping point is fast approaching again, when the people will say, No more, and the corporate empires will be swept aside, like so many empires that have fallen and been cast off in the past.
So I would say no to market anarchism, or anarchist capitalism, but yes to the people reclaiming the resources and assets that are held by the big corporations: for reasons of justice and equitability, for reasons of accountability, for reasons of environmental stewardship and the survival of the human race on earth, which is now in great peril, and because the corporate powers have become, and are now, simply tyrannical, by any reasonable definition or meaning of the word, and are causing great injury to the people as well as the earth on which we all depend for life.
If Thomas Jefferson could argue that a tax on tea is overly vexatious and justifies a revolution – I am exaggerating somewhat of course, to make a point, but we get the point of it – then surely today there is every justification for revolution against the new tyrants, who are the reigning global billionaire class of the super-rich, and the giant corporations they control – who are infinitely more injurious to the people than King George ever dared to dream.
Two hundred years ago Thomas Jefferson warned that the corporations, and what he called the new moneyed aristocracy who controlled them, were already bidding defiance to our laws and challenging our democratic government to a contest of strength. And he said that he hoped the new moneyed aristocracy shall be killed in its infancy. He did not mince words, nor did he have any illusions as to the great dangers which confronted the people. We did not listen however, and that is why we are in trouble today. By now, any further delay in putting serious checks and balances on the new ruling super-powers of the corporate elite, would be nothing short of disastrous.
The powers and the abuse of powers, of and by the King of England, pale in comparison to the powers and the abuse of powers of and by the Bank of America or Goldman Sachs alone. It is time to dethrone the new tyrants. It is time to kick the corporate oligarchs out of the palace and into the streets – certainly out of government, and out of their present position as the de facto world government, and the unelected rulers of the world, as the business press itself calls them.
(The business elite prefer to call themselves the masters of the universe – and no, I am not joking – and their demonstrated egomania, power-lust and sheer madness only adds to the reasons to throw them from power.)
Gentleness is the best general rule, but there is a time for boldness. There is a time for the ferocity of a lion. And there is a time for the overturning of tables. Throw the money changers from the temple. They have overstepped their proper bounds, and have made themselves a menace. They must be deposed. And the most direct and effective way to dethrone this newest ruling class of would-be emperors, Caesars and Tsars who are the global corporate elite, is to reclaim their assets, and thereby to strip them of the very basis of their powers.
If a person on a rooftop with a rifle starts shooting at people, you disarm that person, and stop the violence. The big corporations and the business elite who control them are now wielding vast and unaccountable powers, which is reason enough to strip them of such powers; and in addition, they are demonstrably wreaking havoc, destruction and great suffering on the earth and upon the people. Therefore, they must be disarmed. And the only way to effectively disarm them, or to reign them in and halt their drive to fully dominate and control the global economy and the resources, the wealth and the nations of the world, which they are well on their way to doing, as anyone who is paying attention can clearly see; as well as to prevent them from destroying democracy completely, and to halt their clearly suicidal onslaught against nature and the earth, is to strip them of their powers – which means, stripping them of their assets.
It must be done. The people must reclaim their power. And no, Lenin, you were wrong, and we will not repeat your mistakes. No, this time, the revolution must come from below, and power must be returned to the people, and kept close to the people, at the level of the grassroots, and not in the hands of any ruling class or ruling elite of any kind – be it a political elite, a bureaucratic elite, a military elite, a religious elite, a self-proclaimed intellectual elite, or a business elite.
Freedom will come. And it will mean more than being able to choose between Coke or Pepsi, or choosing between which slavers will shackle your legs and make you their wage-slave.
A new day is being born. The writing is on the wall.
Stand now, people.
J. Todd Ring,
October 24, 2013


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Brewers win 6-5 on wild pitch in 10th to snap losing streak
MILWAUKEE (AP) — For the slumping Milwaukee Brewers, winning on a wild pitch felt just as good as a home run.
Eric Sogard scampered home with the winning run on Tim Adleman's pitch that got away in the bottom of the 10th inning and the Brewers snapped a six-game losing streak with a 6-5 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Saturday night.
Sogard started the rally with a one-out double off Adleman (5-10). After Manny Pina flew out to center field, Jesus Aguilar and Eric Thames drew walks to load the bases.
An 0-2 curveball then bounced away from Reds catcher Tucker Barnhart, allowing Sogard to slide in just ahead of Adleman's tag attempt.
"I was looking for a curveball in the dirt there 0-2," Sogard said. "It was able to get just outside the dirt there. That's kind of what I was looking for. Anything close to the grass I was going to give a shot. I was able to get in there. That was great. We needed that win."
The Brewers have won three times in their last at-bat this season, twice on wild pitches.
"As much as we love walkoff hits, that was walkoff base running because that was great base running," Brewers manager Craig Counsell said. "It was not an obvious ball to go on and it was because he got a great read and two outs, two strikes that he scored."
Barnhart entered the game for the bottom of the 10th after Devin Mesoraco was ejected in the top of the frame for arguing a foul tip strikeout from the dugout.
"I pulled it off of the outside corner a little too far so that's a real tough pitch for Tucker to block," Adleman said. "He did pretty well. It didn't get too far but Sogard got a good jump on it."
Josh Hader pitched three scoreless innings of relief for the Brewers before giving way to Corey Knebel (1-2) for the ninth and 10th.
Cincinnati took a 2-0 lead in the first on a two-run homer by Adam Duvall. Travis Shaw connected for a three-run blast in the bottom half to put Milwaukee on top 3-2.
The Reds jumped back in front in the fourth on a two-run shot by Patrick Kivlehan and increased their lead to 5-3 on a homer by Zack Cozart in the fifth.
Ryan Braun homered off Kevin Shackelford in the fifth and Eric Thames launched another solo shot off the Reds reliever in the sixth to tie the game at 5-all.
Thames' home run was his 11th against the Reds this season, the most by any Brewers player against an opponent in a single season.
Brewers starter Brent Suter allowed just four hits in his five innings, but three were home runs that resulted in five earned runs.
Making his first start since July 17, Scott Feldman gave up three runs on seven hits with six strikeouts over four innings.
In an effort to improve offensive production at second base, the Brewers acquired veteran Neil Walker and cash from the Mets in exchange for a player to be named later following Saturday's game.
The Brewers have received the National League's worst OPS at the second base this season.
"I'm excited to be back in a playoff race," Walker said. "It's a place I'm very familiar with, the NL Central and Milwaukee. I'm looking forward to it, to get there, meet the team and hopefully help them as much as I can."
Walker was scratched from the Mets' lineup Saturday and returned to New York from Philadelphia via a car service. He is scheduled to take an early flight to Milwaukee on Sunday to arrive in time for the series finale with the Reds.
The 31-year-old is hitting .264 with 10 home runs and 36 RBIs. He missed 36 games due to a torn left hamstring and was 4 for 34 in his first 11 games back before going 6 for 9 in his final two games with the Mets.
"It took him a little while to get his timing back, but he seems to be back to his normal state right now," Brewers general manager David Stearns said. "We think he will be able to add a little different element to our lineup."
Reds: RHP Robert Stephenson (right shoulder contusion) will likely throw one more bullpen session before Cincinnati considers slotting him back into its starting rotation, according to manager Bryan Price. Stephenson threw 25-pitch sessions Wednesday and Friday.
Brewers: C Stephen Vogt (left knee strain) caught five innings for Class A Wisconsin on Saturday in his second game of a rehab assignment. It was his first time behind the plate since being injured in a home plate collision July 17 in Pittsburgh.
Reds: RHP Sal Romano (2-4, 5.35 ERA) makes his sixth start since joining Cincinnati's rotation following the All-Star break. He made his big league debut against the Brewers on April 16, allowing two earned runs over three innings.
Brewers: RHP Matt Garza (5-6, 4.34) will look to bounce back from his worst start of the season, in which he allowed eight earned runs in 3 1/3 innings. The right-hander has a 4.71 ERA in 15 career starts against the Reds.


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Since being recalled last week from the minors, Orioles second baseman Ryan Adams has been a whirlwind, hitting everything in sight and making play after play in the field.
Then, on Monday in a loss to the New York Yankees, he had his "This is the big leagues, kid" moment, striking out in all three of his at-bats.
Adams, a former second-rounder who possesses a definite swagger, didn't seem fazed by the rough game and neither did Orioles manager Buck Showalter.
Adams was back in the starting lineup again Tuesday for the ninth consecutive time, and it was his long fly ball to the right-center gap that gave the Orioles a wild, 6-5, 10-inning win against the Toronto Blue Jays.
"It felt good. I had an opportunity earlier, too (when he popped up with the bases loaded in the eighth)," said Adams, who is 11-for-30 in his return to the Orioles. "I was pretty upset with myself. This time, I got ahead in the count 3-1 and I just knew ... I was looking at something over the plate."
With runners on first and third and one out, Adams drove a pitch from Toronto reliever Brian Tallet (0-1) that allowed Mark Reynolds to jog home from third with the game-winner. The Orioles entered the 10th trailing by a run, but pinch-hitter Jake Fox tied it with a single to center.
Adams' reward was his first shaving cream pie in the face.
"It was a really good feeling," Adams said. "Watching TV, I've always kind of wanted a pie in the face, so it was nice."
In the ninth, the good feelings were at a premium for the Orioles and the announced crowd of 10,756.
Closer Kevin Gregg entered with the Orioles clinging to a 4-3 lead and immediately surrendered a single on his first offering. He then issued a four-pitch walk to ninth-place hitter Mike McCoy.
Then it really got interesting.
Yunel Escobar attempted to bunt, and the Orioles corner infielders started in. Escobar pulled back, and immediately the Blue Jays baserunners at first and second caught the Orioles in a bad defensive position.
Adams ran toward first, leaving second base open. Third baseman Robert Andino headed home and shortstop J.J. Hardy was stuck between a vacated second and a vacated third, while the Blue Jays successfully orchestrated a double steal.
"I know where (the mistake) is, but that's a blame game," Showalter said. "I know you're curious about it. I know exactly what should have happened and didn't happen and it won't happen again, especially considering the people."
Escobar then hit a sinking liner to right that Nick Markakis caught on a dive. The right fielder jumped up and threw a perfect strike to third but couldn't get McCoy while pinch-runner Dewayne Wise scored the tying run. The Orioles protested both tag-ups Wise, in particular, appeared to leave early -- and were denied.
"That's why I made a visit, to make sure we appealed to third and we appealed to second," Showalter said. "We've got an overhead (shot) that I'll be looking at shortly. Not that it matters now."
Gregg eventually escaped the mess, but was charged with his sixth blown save in 25 opportunities.
"I try to dwell on some of the positives. A lot of guys would have let that inning get real big and away from him, and he held them to one run," Showalter said about Gregg, who walked three (one intentional) in the ninth. "He's had some real good outings for us against tough competition. Tonight was one where command wasn't as good, but he came back and got some big outs."
The Orioles then appeared to throw the game away in the top of the 10th when Kelly Johnson led off with a triple and scored on a wild pitch by Willie Eyre (1-0).
The blown save cost a win for starter Jeremy Guthrie, who allowed multiple baserunners in all but two of his six innings. Yet all the Blue Jays runs came on one swing, a second-inning, three-run homer by rookie third baseman Brett Lawrie. It was set up by two walks, the only ones Guthrie issued.
"It was all right," said Guthrie, who wore No. 46 on the mound for the first time since the death of former Orioles great, and a former No. 46, Mike Flanagan last week. "Battled and had a shot to win and we ended up winning the game, so it's good."
Guthrie salvaged the uneven outing in the fifth. After he served up a leadoff double to Eric Thames, sure-handed catcher Matt Wieters' dropped a pop-up that probably should have been fielded by Reynolds. It was Wieters' fourth miscue of the season and broke the club's 76-inning errorless streak.
When Adam Lind singled to load the bases with no outs, Guthrie's night looked tenuous. He escaped, thanks to his own defensive ability.
Edwin Encarnacion hit a sharp bouncer that Guthrie quickly gloved, before throwing to Wieters to begin a 1-2-3 double play. Kelly Johnson flied out to end the inning.
"It felt like I had to battle every inning, I don't think I had many clean ones," said Guthrie, who threw 111 pitches. "It was a big situation. I was able to get the pitch down and Matt turned a nice double play. So that was obviously a pivotal play. That inning could have spun out of control pretty quickly with the hitters they had on base and the guys coming up to the plate."
The Orioles gave Guthrie the lead in the bottom of the fifth inning on a Vladimir Guerrero double to right that struck the area between the wall and the out-of-town scoreboard and skipped past a confused Jose Bautista.
The hobbling Guerrero tried for a triple it would have been his first as an Oriole but he was thrown out. As he lumbered off the field, he received a standing ovation. The Orioles' other runs came on Wieters' 15th homer and a throwing error by Toronto starter Brett Cecil.
A Dunkirk native and former University of Maryland closer, Cecil allowed four runs in six innings in the no decision.
It took one extra inning for the game to ultimately be decided, and it was the newcomer, Adams, who delivered the final blow one day after his worst day at the plate as a big leaguer.
"I'm sure he enjoyed it tremendously and he has played really well for us the whole time he has been up here since he got back up," Guthrie said. "We have a lot of confidence in him and I think he has shown he has a lot of confidence in himself when he goes up to the plate."


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The Ichthus and the Infinity Symbol
Posted by Kim Graae Munch in Esoterics, Essenes, Kabbalah, Rosicrucianism, The Holy Grail on December 12, 2017
A friend of mine mentioned that we had sworn fealty in a previous incarnation by making an x-like cross with our lower arms.
This sounded interesting and I have always been fascinated by the Saint Andrews Cross, also called Cross Decussata or the Saltire Cross. X is the 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet, Chi.
But I have never looked into the Andrews cross, I needed the inspiration, but now the leads came from everywhere, the puzzle pieces found each other.
It's known all over the world, and it's a central symbol for the development on Earth, for God, Adam Kadmon, Christ, the Mother and Father, for the two powers, form and idea, and in their crossing point life appears.
With some inspiration I understood it was the cross in the fish symbol, the ichthus, and I understood that the ichthus symbol was showing the first half of the Earth period, from creation to the death of Jesus in the physical world and resurrection of Christ in our inner.
That again moved on to the next understanding, that the infinity symbol showed the full development on Earth, from Alfa to Omega.
The Ichthus
All creation takes place by the One becoming Two. After Pralaya, the cosmic night, comes the Manvantara, the cosmic day of manifestation. In the manifestation separates the conscious from the unconscious, and in the focus point between darkness and light new consciousness develops out of the darkness. See Esoteric History of Man.
The darkness is developed as a vehicle for the new to be developed, and the new soul seed is prepared to enter the vehicle. In the center of the æon, when the vehicle is ready, the universe turns inside out, the light from being outside the vehicle becomes the inside.
The gods dies in the outer world and resurrects in our inner, creating a new cosmos leaving the old to die.
The Infinity Symbol
And all creation ends by the Two becoming One, we enter Pralaya again. At the end of the development phase humanity raises together with Maitreya Buddha.
Infinity Symbol – Lemniscate
It's interesting that alpha matches the form of the ichthus and the likeness between omega and the lemniscate is just as interesting, omega symbolizes the full development.
My friend made me aware that it looked like eyes and I thought about the Eye of Horus: .
The symbol for Taurus, the bull, is also much like the ichthus or left part of the lemniscate: .
From Aleph to Tav
Lets look at the Hebrew letters for alpha and omega, aleph and tav.
to .
Aleph in its oldest forms shows the head of a Bull, the first more naturalistic and the second more stylistic, but both forms are in the likeness of the ichthus. Tav in it's oldest forms are like the crossing.
Here we have the history of Aleph and our A:
Bull, Lion and Eagle
We have three periods, the period of the Bull, the time of Shiva and Lucifer, the teachers of humanity. Then follows the period of the Lion, the time of Krishna, Christ and Horus, leading toward the first real initiation of a human, or rather two. Then follows the future period of the Eagle, the time of Christian Rosenkreutz or Maitreya Buddha, humanity have now become their own teachers.
Alfa as a Bull and Omega as an Eagle, the omega have even two wings, man gets wings. The central transition as a Lion, the X, the heart and soul of humanity.
The time of the Bull prepared mans physical body as bearer of an I, and the I entered man in the period of the Lion, and the period of the Eagle should make man a spiritual being, but the pioneers of humanity are already working on it here and now.
See more on the Bull: The Age of the Bull.


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Old American folk song that is a good start in making your own song cards to prompt your kids to join in.
Monday, December 27, 2010
Bought Me a Cat American Folk Song
Watch the Rockets Song
The perfect song for a solar system or space unit.
I simply cut up magazines to make the song pictures to prompt children to join in and memorize the words.
Click on video to get to youtube.com/inspiredprek
where I post ideas like on this blog.
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Thursday, December 23, 2010
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Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Japanese Animal Song
This is an easy and fun Japanese song to use in your classroom.
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Easy Japanese Christmas Song
This is a favorite song of ours that I created. Feel free to copy the pictures for your children.
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Ocean Life Unit
Here are shelf works that represent the many choices we have in our Ocean Unit.
I am a collector of nature objects and turn them into works for the students.
I taught Montessori in Baltimore for years and collected much of this unit then.
Now in Nebraska, our land locked kids find these creatures amazing.
I envy you who are near an ocean. Take advantage of it to collect creatures and create matching cards, vocabulary cards, and hands on lessons. Most of us can find shells to match to cards, or at least a plastic crab from a party store.
Helpful sites to start your biology specimen unit:
Toys R Us has a nice collection of bugs in resin
Become a collector of nature and build a unique science area for your pupils. My past students have often told me that these science experiences are what they remember the most from my Montessori school. It leaves a lasting impression!
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Friday, November 26, 2010
Ceramic Owl
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Spoiler Alert!
It was on about a week and a half ago, so most fans have seen it or heard about it. The episode was hysterical and I am not a Simpsons fan. Maybe it was too funny. The funny bits and one-liners came pretty fast. Bill James and Mike Scioscia are in it.
The premise is that Lisa takes over managing Bart's little league team. She then learns all she can about sabermetrics and decides to teach the players all she can about it. All team strategy and decisions from then on are made according to sabermetrics.
The team starts to climb out of the cellar and closes in on first place. But in a crucial game, Bart hits a home run (a grand slam, I think) to win it for the Isotots. But Lisa had ordered all the players to take pitches to wait for walks (because she learned how important OBP was). So she kicks Bart off the team.
But I think this ignores the fact that sabermetricians like power hitting (not as much as OBP, but we extol the virtues of SLG, too). I don't think there was anything in the episode up to that point that had said how many HRs he hit. Having him get kicked off the team paints a pretty black and white picture, with statsy tactics (taking pitches) only mattering while old-fashioned skills (like power) don't matter at all. That is not what sabermetrics says. In fact, all the great research has shown that HRs are the most valuable event (and people say we have not made a real contribution).
The other thing that was interesting that one of the books showed a page with a formula for OBP. When the video was paused, that page also showed a graph or chart that had the heading "OPS vs. RISP." I could see if it had been OPS vs. lefties or righties. Or even OPS with RISP. But that made no sense. Maybe they were just trying to see if geeks like me would catch it.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Simpsons Throw Alot Of Great Pitches In The "MoneyBart" Episode, But Its Not A Perfect Game
Posted by Cyril Morong at 7:09 PM
2 comments:
- Graham Womack said...
Hi Cyril,
I'm a big fan of early seasons of "The Simpsons" and haven't watched many episodes from the past decade. It was nice to have an excuse to watch one.
I didn't think the episode was perfect either (where was Comic Book Guy at the SABR meeting? if it was held at Moe's, why didn't Homer figure in?) but all in all, pretty entertaining, definitely worth 22 minutes of my time.
- October 20, 2010 at 8:40 AM
- Cyril Morong said...
Thanks for dropping by and commenting. It certainly wasn't the "worst episode ever." Maybe Homer just wasn't in the starting lineup that day. But I agree it was worth the time. I think the graph was actually "OBP vs. RISP."
- October 20, 2010 at 8:50 AM
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Charles Nemeroff, about whom I have written much, continues to disappear. His latest vanishing act: From a psychiatric research gathering in Berlin in late November 2008. Their website now reads: "Dr. Charles B. Nemeroff (Atlanta, the USA) called his participation off in the congress and its scientific contributions." We can only hope that they had another key opinion leader of his stature to replace him.
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Posted by CL Psych at 1/02/2009 04:09:00 PM
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He's back...
- Tuesday, January 06, 2009 1:32:00 PM
that notice lists nemeroff as chair of emory psychiatry. has nemeroff been reinstated? or is their info old?
- Friday, January 09, 2009 7:15:00 AM
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