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I also made a Christmas stocking last weekend. If I were to make it again, I would make the pattern a bit wider. By the time the stocking pieces were quilted and everything sewn together, it does not allow for a gift of much width to go in. I am going to do the same thing as Libby from a Simple Girl and make some stockings to be used as gift wrap instead of paper. It is something that can be reused instead of thrown away like paper. And I certainly have plenty of fabric to make stockings from. The stocking pattern is also for the "Christmas or Not" book.
I am working on a secret project. I can't post a picture as it would be a for sure giveaway as to who was going to be receiving it. But it is oh so cute!
I thank all of you for your concern about my back discomfort. The pain is certainly less than it was but not cured either. But I can sew and that makes me happy!
We are experiencing cool weather in Florida. This is a bit early for us. In the past, I have served Thanksgiving dinner out by the pool when we had bunches of company. I think we had rain or some kind of weather problem last year at Thanksgiving time, but that was a first that I can remember not having decent weather for Turkey Day since we moved to Florida. I know eating turkey by the pool does not sound much like a traditional Thanksgiving dinner but it works for us.
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Juveniles will be showcased on Sunday at Saratoga Race Course, which will host the Grade 2, $200,000 Saratoga Special.
Four of the seven Saratoga Special entrants will be making their second start in Sunday's race, and trainer Todd Pletcher will send out two of them in Corfu and Danza.
Corfu is stretching out in distance off a hard-fought, half-length triumph in a five-furlong maiden race on July 25 at Saratoga. Leaving from post 1, the Malibu Moon colt dueled for the lead from the inside and prevailed following a lengthy battle with Pure Sensation.
"It was a very fast race," said Pletcher, who trains Corfu for Michael Tabor, John Magnier and Derrick Smith. "I think he showed some courage. There was a lot of pace pressure early, and he seemed to bounce out of the race really well, so we hope to take advantage of his speed and give this a try. I was interested to see how he'd bounce back, and he bounced back with very good energy. He's in great condition, and there's every indication the race moved him forward."
Corfu, the 5-2 morning-line favorite, will have the services of Hall of Fame jockey John Velazquez from post position 4.
Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners' Danza enters the Saratoga Special off a three-quarter-length debut win on July 12 at Belmont Park.
"The Sanford [on July 21] was too quick back, and we zeroed in on this during that time," said Pletcher. "I think there will be more pace in a race like this, and I think the horse will prefer to settle and make a run."
Javier Castellano will ride Danza, 8-1 on the morning line, from post 6.
Cathy and Bob Zollars' Candy Dandy stalked the early pace before running away to a five-length victory on June 30 at Churchill Downs. Both the runner-up (Dunkin Bend, August 3) and third-place finisher (Base Case Scenario, July 27) returned to break their maidens at Saratoga.
"He's been training good up here," said trainer Steve Asmussen of Candy Dandy. "He was ready the first time, and he's very professional and easy to train. He puts plenty into everything he does."
Rosie Napravnik has the call aboard Candy Dandy, 3-1, from post 3.
Invading from Florida is Lunarwarfare, who earned a Beyer Speed Figure of 92 for his debut victory on July 14 at Gulfstream Park. That figure has been surpassed only by the 94 Big Sugar Soda received when he broke his maiden in his second start on July 22 at Saratoga.
In his debut, Lunarwarfare raced in the clear just off the early leader in third, offered a challenge at the quarter pole, quickly dispatched the pacesetter and drew off to a 6 ½-length triumph in the 4 ½-furlong dash.
"[The extra distance] should be beneficial," said Michael Yates, who trains the Shadybrook Farm homebred. "He has a good mind and he's easy to rate if need be. In his debut we rushed him a little more than he wants to be, but he responded well, finished well, and galloped out well. I was impressed with the race."
Lunarwarfare, 6-1, will depart from the rail with Juan Leyva aboard.
Wired Bryan is the only stakes winner in the field and is being wheeled back off a 5 ¼-length triumph in the Grade 2 Sanford on July 21 at the Spa. The Anstu Farm homebred also has a 7 ½-length victory against New York-bred maidens on June 21 at Belmont Park to his credit.
Trainer Michael Dilger, who won his first stakes and race at Saratoga in the Sanford, admits Wired Bryan is making a quick turnaround.
"He had 32 days between his maiden win and the Sanford; that's probably ideal," said Dilger. "This is maybe a little bit short, but he's got a good disposition, he's held his weight well, and he's trained well and breezed well. It was a case of 'Why not?'"
Wired Bryan, 7-2, will leave from the outside post in the field of seven with Shaun Bridgmohan in the irons.
The Saratoga Special will be the third start as well for Twang, who is also coming back off short rest. After finishing third in his debut in June at Churchill, the son of Dixie Union led the field from gate to wire in a 3 ¼-length maiden win on July 27 at Saratoga.
"We're happy he broke his maiden and we started thinking about spots," said Al Stall, who trains Twang for Claiborne Farm and Adele Dilschneider. "[Nominations for] the Saratoga Special closed that afternoon after he ran, so we shot him into that race before it closed. We're just trying to catch the right spot. He came out of the race well, so we're looking sooner rather than later. He's a strong horse, and, win or lose, it seems like the right thing to do.
"He's professional," Stall added. "He doesn't need to be on the lead - he just found himself on the lead the other day. We just took what they gave us. He's a laid-back type of horse."
Joel Rosario has the call aboard Twang, 5-1, from post 5.
The Saratoga Special field also includes Ogermeister, who defeated New York-breds on May 16 at Belmont before finishing 15th of 24 in the Windsor Castle Stakes on June 18 at Royal Ascot.


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Hello all,
For learning purposes, I've built a vector of strings and tried to access each element on each string performing an uppercase conversion on all characters. I wanted also to use iterators. I produced the following code:
The code works but...Code:string strtemp; for (vector<string>::const_iterator i_iter(vstr.begin()); i_iter != vstr.end(); ++i_iter) { strtemp = *i_iter; for (string::iterator str_iter(strtemp.begin()); str_iter != strtemp.end(); ++str_iter) { *str_iter = toupper(*str_iter); //Warning reports this line } }
1. I get on VC++ 2005 Express a warning about possile loss of data from a conversion from int to char. I read of the help file concerning this warning code (C4244). I think it is a level 3 warning that warns about a __int64 conversion to unsigned int. Question is why?
Under Dev-C++, this code produces no warning even with -Wall and -Wextra. So my best guess before I decided to bother you good people, is that this has something to do with Microsoft's support for sized intergers. Namely this __int64 type. Is this so? Are iterators being declared as __int64 under VC++ 2005?
2. I couldn't find a way to access each string directly after the 2nd FOR loop. Hence having to create the temporary string. My best shoot for the second loop was:
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The Central Connecticut softball team (18-9, 8-0 NEC) maintained its undefeated conference streak with two shutouts over the Sacred Heart Pioneers in Saturday's doubleheader at the CCSU Softball Field. The Blue Devils took the first by a score of 5-0 and the second 4-0. Sophomore Laura Messina records her sixth and seventh shutouts of the season with the victories.
"Laura pitched two great games for us today," Head Coach Jeff Franquet said. "Our fielding has improved and we've been swinging the bat really well as a team. We are looking forward to playing Saint Francis tomorrow and hope to keep up the good work."
Messina pitched the 14 innings against the Pioneers (16-13, 2-4 NEC) and posted a total of 14 strikeouts, setting a new CCSU career record of 317 strikeouts. Today's games mark her second and third consecutive shutouts. Messina has given up only three runs in the last 10 games and her season record improves to 13-5.
Game 1
Both teams remained scoreless until the bottom of the third inning when freshman Hannah Cooper led off with a double to center field. She was replaced on base by senior pinch runner Sarah Emery. Cooper was followed at the plate by freshman Brittany Ernst who reached first base on an error by the Pioneer first baseman to score Emery and put the Blue Devils up 1-0.
Central broke the game open in the bottom of the fifth with an Ernst double to left field. Junior Arielle Bruno reached first on a bunt and sophomore Kat Malcolm followed with a center-field bomb to clear the bases and put the Blue Devils up 4-0. The homer is the fifth of the season for Malcolm.
The final run came when freshman Evie Rentzel smacked a double to send junior Tessa Brown, who reached on a fielder's choice, across the plate.
The Pioneers threatened in the bottom of the fifth, loading the bases, but Messina struck out two of the last three batters of the inning to leave three stranded on base and earn the shutout.
The Blue Devils tallied eight hits compared to six for the Pioneers including two from Bruno and double and a single from senior Nicole Springer.
Game 2
Freshman shortstop Eileen Purcell blasted her second career home run, a two-run bomb over the center-field fence, to kick off the scoring for the Blue Devils in the bottom of the second inning. Purcell drove in Rentzel on the play, who had singled to the Pioneers' second baseman, to give Central a 2-0 lead.
Rentzel led off in the bottom of the fourth and smacked her second double of the day. She moved around the bases on sacrifice bunts by Purcell and Cooper. Cooper earned the RBI and Rentzel's run put the Blue Devils up 3-0.
Central added the final run of the day when Springer drove a single through the right side to score Malcolm who had reached base on a single to right center.
The Blue Devils registered eight hits in game two compared to just three for the Pioneers. Rentzel led the team with two and Bruno, Malcolm, Springer, Purcell, Cooper and Ernst each added one.
The Blue Devils look to keep their NEC win streak alive, facing off against the Saint Francis University Red Flash tomorrow at the CCSU Softball Field in New Britain, CT. The doubleheader is set to begin at 12 p.m. Fans can follow the action via LIVE STATS.


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Hi guys and dolls,
I think I can remember that there was a small group of home roasters at TMC who tried their hands on roasting and blending and then mailing each other a small batch to comment on. I also think I can remember being a part of that group. Now I can't find the posts/thread anymore on TMC (probably not using the right keywords).
I know for sure that the following TMCers participated as well:
Matt (espressomattic)
Simon (SimonP)
Beany (Beanbeliever)
Anyone interested in setting up something like that again? I would


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The intersection of two human impulses – play and profit – was at the center of an entertaining and informative Mitchell Lecture on Oct. 8 in O'Brian Hall.
The speaker for this year's address, the Law School's signature lecture series, was Madhavi Sunder, a leading scholar of law and culture who teaches at the University of California Davis School of Law.
Sunder studies intellectual property law, a once-staid field that has blossomed into new possibilities with the advent of digital technologies. Professor Mark Bartholomew, who chaired this year's Mitchell Lecture Committee, noted that the success or failure of IP law has long been judged on a single axis: whether it provides the incentive for writers, artists and filmmakers to produce more creative work. Sunder, he said, has broadened that perspective, bringing into the equation the perspectives of human rights, free speech and social well-being.
Sunder began her talk by documenting the "phenomenon of living our lives in imaginary worlds that are protected by copyright and trademark." For example, she said, "people today play Quidditch for their universities, dance in flash mobs, create elaborate costumes for conventions such as Comic-Con in San Diego, and celebrate life's most important moments, from birthday parties to even weddings, in their fantasy world of choice."
It's this phenomenon of popular participation in imaginary worlds that is the subject of Sunder's work. Her critique of current IP law is that it has "an unduly narrow view of what culture is: the production of more goods, films, books and music." But, she said, "Culture is more than just a set of inputs and outputs. Culture is the sphere in which human beings sing, dance, share, learn and enjoy life together. … Intellectual property law should promote not just more goods, but a good life. That is, a life in which people can enjoy, think about, play with and critique the cultural works that dominate and shape our selves and our society."
And in the current culture, Sunder said, consumers are demanding participatory experiences, what economists call the "experience economy." "From Star Wars to Harry Potter, fans don't just want to read or watch their favorite characters, they want to be them," she said. "They want to don the robes of Gryffindor, flick their wands and drink the butterbeer."
And make no mistake, she said, big money is involved. Movie-related merchandising is now a $100 billion-a-year industry, one that grew exponentially after the first Star Wars film in 1977.
Sunder reviewed some important cases in the laws governing who has the right to produce movie-themed merchandise. The current law has its roots in a 1980s case brought by Warner Bros. over products related to the Dukes of Hazzard television show. An appellate court ruled that because the studio had a substantial financial interest at stake, it alone had the legal right to license toys based on its show.
Exercising that right has sometimes come at a cost in goodwill, Sunder said, as in 2009 when Warner Bros., holder of the Harry Potter license, sent a cease-and-desist letter to a single mother in the United Kingdom who was planning to host a Harry Potter-themed dinner party, serving butterbeer and pumpkin soup, and charging admission. In a similar case, the music licensing firm ASCAP was roundly derided for attempting to collect fees from a Girl Scout summer camp where campers sang Puff, the Magic Dragon and Over the Rainbow around the campfire.
Sunder noted that current research supports the benefits of experiential play. "There is more to child's play than meets the eye," she said. "Contemporary education theory powerfully suggests that learning is not just a product of rote exposure to static goods, such as books, but it involves participation, doing, role playing, social attraction and immersion into worlds. Learning is a product of experience."
So, for example, she said, "fan activity, such as writing and editing a Hogwarts newsletter online, teaches professional skills such as reading and writing and also the critical thinking skills we need in a democratic society. And through such activity, we learn to empathize with the characters we are embodying, be it someone of the opposite gender, someone who is poor, someone who is old, etc. Yesterday we were bowling together to form social solidarity and understanding; today we're playing Quidditch and dancing in flash mobs."
The concern, she said, is that companies' heretofore laissez-faire attitude toward fans' use of their properties may fall victim to a push for ever-greater profits. "Today," Sunder said, "management scholars ruthlessly advise companies that 'more experiences should yield transformation' and that companies should 'charge for life-changing experiences.' Management gurus offer that 'the greater the positive memory created and the longer it lasts, the more value is created,' with value meaning profit. … My studies suggest that we should fear the creep of trademark law into our lives, especially where property law increasingly seeks to govern arenas fundamental to our humanity, such as play and learning.
"Even if copyright owners want to offer their own authorized version of a game or a camp or a costume, we need to keep open spaces for unscripted experiences and unscripted and unauthorized activities," she concluded. "Telling your own stories empowers kids to know that they can make a difference rather than following a copyright owner's script. They see how their choices actually affect the world. Fantasy worlds are not stock commodities but become familiar places in which kids can experiment, create and learn."
SUNY Buffalo Law School's most prestigious lecture series, the Mitchell Lecture was endowed in 1950 by a gift from Lavinia A. Mitchell in memory of her husband, James McCormick Mitchell.


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Andy Says: 5 Reasons Why 'One Tree Hill' Needs A Ninth Season! Do You Agree?
The show hasn't been picked up for the fall 2011 season yet. Do you think it deserves a last-minute renewal?
Many CW viewers breathed a sigh of relief April 26 when the network announced the renewal of five hit series — but the news wasn't quite as hopeful for One Tree Hill fans, whose favorite show remains very much on the bubble. As a longtime fan myself, I have to say I'd be pretty bummed if these next three episodes also turn out to be the last. I'm not ready to say goodbye to the group of madcap southerners who taught me so much about life. And actually made me care about basketball.
1. The cast wants to do it.
It's not every day you get actors wanting to stick with a series into its ninth year, which I think is a true testament to what a great show One Tree Hill is, and how much the cast enjoys working together. Sophia Bush, Bethany Joy Galeotti, Austin Nichols, Robert Buckley, Stephen Colletti and Lisa Goldstein have all signed on for a potential ninth season, with James Lafferty reportedly interested in returning at least part-time.
2. The fans deserve a 'final season.'
Much like Smallville fans have been savoring every second of the show's admitted "final season," One Tree Hill fans deserve the same experience. There are a ton of story lines to wrap up, and unless the writers know ahead of time that the series is ending, there will be a ton of loose ends left… well, loose.
3. The characters' stories aren't finished!
The denizens of Tree Hill, N.C., have been through a lot over the past eight years. We've watched them long for their dreams, achieve their dreams, and ultimately… lose their dreams. Do we seriously want the series to end on such a low note? Let's see Nathan's back heal enough for him to shoot some hoops again. Let's see Brooke regain her clothing empire (which it looks like she's finally starting to.) Heck, I'm even interested in seeing Mouth (Lee Norris) get back in the newsroom!
4. Lucas & Peyton might actually come back… seriously this time!
While I'm sure the current regulars hate hearing about it, the fans really want to see Lucas (Chad Murray) and Peyton (Hilarie Burton) make one last trip to Tree Hill before the series ends. And Chad recently broke his silence about the possibility, tweeting: "Return to oth? I don't know. Maybe next season for u guys."
5. Do you really want Glee's Brittany to die so young?
One of my favorite lines ever spoken on Glee — not that there are many — was when sexually-confused cheerleader Brittany (Heather Morris) said she didn't want to die "before One Tree Hill gets canceled." Doesn't she deserve at least a few more precious months on this earth?
Show your support for OTH by signing this petition for a ninth season!


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Erica is a 21-year old woman that finished her electrical engineering degree last summer. She looked forward to moving out of her on-campus apartment to a nicer home.
The other day, I was looking at some old websites from the late 1990s. These include the official website for Bob Dole's 1996 campaign.
This is not some add-on in the same vein as popular mobile editing applications like Snapseed, it is the most indispensable addition (outside of Photoshop and Lightroom) to any photographer's digital workflow and Nik which once cost $500, is free.
Blackmagic's Davinci Resolve 12.5 is quite simply the best free editing and delivery program ever made Resolve, is a panacea for those still grieving over the loss of Final Cut 7 or who lack the funds to subscribe to Avid or Adobe's yearly plans
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In addition to a deep dive into revolutionary new apps for desktops and mobile devices, celebrity speakers like Baz Luhrmann and parties at Adobe Max 2015; Max is boasting some unique offerings for attendees this year.
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We live in an age in which families are further apart and closer together than ever before. It's easy and enjoyable to create family photo books from the digital images stored on your computer
At the National Association of Broadcasters 2014 the capability of broadcasting in 4K finally became a reality. And to meet the demand all the industry leaders premiered their new cameras, software and cloud based sharing and delivery systems.
The award-winning film, Chasing Ice, documents the ceaseless journey of environmental photographer James Balog and his small, devoted team using time-lapsed photography to tell the story of the ice by presenting the viewer with terrifying evidence
Along with new camera demos DV EXPO 2013 made available high class educational offerings and a glimpse into the future of drone cameras and Canon DSLRs and how they can be transformed by Magic Lantern software
How to the use capabilities of the newest version of Adobe Photoshop to make magic with your photos. Resize photos without blurring, remove blur caused by camera shake and turn photos into painterly works of art.
The sunshine is starting to make its way through the clouds and that mean summer is not far behind and with that comes all of the vacations, long weekends and family get togethers and you don't want to miss a single memory. To make sure you can download all those great memories and they will look just as vivid as the moment you experienced that memory, Polaroid has come out with the iF045 14-Megapixel Waterproof Dual Screen Digital Camera. This easy to use camera will not only take those great pictures, but it won't put a dent in that vacation budget
The Olympus Tough TG-820 is a great camera and I've thoroughly enjoyed it. I would have preferred to receive it before my trip and might have had a better user experience if I had the time to learn the camera functions and the camera ability
GIFBoom is an application on the Iphone & Andriod devices that creates a short animated clip from up to 30 still pictures.
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Watch "Fareed Zakaria GPS," Sundays at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. ET on CNN
Fareed speaks with Stuart Butler, a Brookings scholar, who's written extensively on massive open online courses, or so-called MOOCs, and Anant Agarwal, who runs edX, a MOOC outfit founded by two bricks and mortar institutions.
Stuart, explain first the kind of crisis in what you've called the business model for higher education.
Well, it certainly is a crisis that they're facing. First of all, the costs of traditional education have been going up and the indebtedness associated with it. Now student tuition debt in the United States exceeds credit card debt. Secondly...
And it's $1 trillion, right?
Butler: Yes, exactly. Secondly, you're seeing different kinds of information coming forward so that people can actually evaluate the success of going to one college or another, whether it actually pays off.
And then the third thing, which you referred to, is that you're seeing new kinds of technologies that, first of all, appeal to students who are not part of the regular market, but now that technology is being developed, such as through edX and through others, such that it is really beginning to break open the existing traditional market. So there's an existential threat to the very business model that, quite honestly, has been lasting for almost 2,000 years.
You point out the numbers are pretty staggering. You now have, among private, non-profit college graduates, 65 percent in debt. The average indebtedness is $20,000. Cost is obviously now at two, three hundred thousand dollars to go to college, at least. And it's not clear that they get that much out of it.
Butler: That's right. And that's the driving force. Once you combine information about whether you're getting good value for money, and then you combine that with new technologies, that gives you different ways of actually getting to the same result. That's what breaks open a market.
But of course, a lot of people say, that's fine, but you can't just sit in front of a computer and watch some professor – that's not education. What do you say to that, as somebody running an outfit that does sort of that?
Agarwal: Today's online education is not our grandfather's online education. Its completely transformed. We are doing short videos, interactive gaming technology where professors are using game-like technologies, discussions, segments such as yours, where various people get together, experts in the field get together to discuss a topic. So it's not just a video of a professor standing at the end of a classroom. So the technology has advanced tremendously. We bring discussion forums and the social into the classroom, into the online experience. And so this can be a very rich and very high quality experience.
Watch the video for the full segment
It musta broke your heart when mini blinds came out and everyone in your neighborhood bought some eh @ philip?lol
Chrissy, your 10:40 am comment has won the the internet today.
Poor philip...the sun aint gonna shine anymore...the moon aint gonna rise in the morn....lmao buh bye now!
Sky i meant.
Lol ty @ banasy...we need to get him a freakin dress so he can "look" like a proper biatch eh!
He takes "Neighborhood Watch" to a whole new level.
Hmm @ banasy...speaking of...i wonder how many neighborhood watch lists hes on? The predator ones i mean.
And @ philip...remember this "Pursue peace and you shall find it?" You told me that the ONLY time you ever really apologised to me. And it was in regards to...your barbs about my truck brakes!! Go figure huh! And THAT was Oct 16th 2011 and the insults had been going on for awhile at that time. I havent lost all my faculties just yet dude so you need to back up off me!!!!
Hey you guys are jobless? Sitting in some cave in India doing opium? What a waste. Oh well. I am outta here. Comments are so babyish
Wait, wait, wait...you're going to complain about the "babyish" comments after writing something as babyish as "Hey you guys are jobless? Sitting in some cave in India doing opium? What a waste. Oh well. I am outta here. Comments are so babyish" to people you know live and work in America?
You disparaged men, Banazi. You ACCUSSED young Philip of wanting another man. You despise gay priests do you? 500 Hail Marys or burn in catholic dogma hellfire!
Knock it off, Philip. I did nothing of the sort.
What I said is that you WANT a man, and the is 98% percent of your problems.
Stop denying your orientation. There is no shame in being gay.
Lol. Your ignorant attempts at trying to guilt me for suggesting you embrace your sexuality is futile.
You only out yourself more.
Wut up essay banazi? Making funs of Philipe for wanting a man insteads of as for wantings big fat house hags? U just not politically correct, essay.
He likes hags, being he is one.
Give him your phone number. Perhaps he will fit you in between his busy schedule of peeping into windows to see what position his neighbors are currently in.
Banasy would win. She isn't the genetic aberration the person who posted this is.
Lol. How could banasy possibly win when the case is clearly vs Banazi.
How could anyone possibly miss that you call me banazi all the time because you enjoy bastardizing my name whilst bringing up my family's history at the hands of the Third Reich?
It is well known you don't have boundaries. Nothing new.
Get a clue. Nobody wins vs The Hague. Not even the 8 (out of all the hundreds of) ardent NAZI MDs were able to escape The Hague. The 8 went to prison. The hundreds went to America. (Declassified US gov op Paperclip)
I am not a Nazi, but you will always be an ignorant ass.
So i take it today is NOUN day eh? Lmao you are consistant ill give you that philip!
It's a simple concept, Chrissy. If he doesn't bring me up in his posts, I won't bother him unless he posts wrong information like he did yesterday when he stated unequivocally that Ritalin was (in fact) a SSRI when, (in fact) it is not.
After watching the morning news i am astonished that the people that are governing this country, particularly my STATE govt are so incredibly STUPID!!! Michigans Representative, Candice Miller (R) has announced her concern on the POTUSs immigration reform. She is going to tighten the borders in our state. She mustve forgotten we are nearly surrounded by water! But to all you people of Ohio, Indianna and Illinois Beware, it wont be an easy feat to enter our state illegally from here on out! She isnt too concerned about the Canadian Border though because Homeland Security monitors that border!! Go back to school Candice!!!
Of all the problems this state has im relatively certain....illegal immigrants does NOT make the top 50!!!! But obviously education DOES!
Hi Chrissy, it's so true. Louisiana is always at the bottom when it comes to education. Arizona was no better. That's why I'm headed to the northeast to finish what I started. My family for the most part is all there. That counts for so much.
Lol @ Tori hello! And yea i know its a challenge these days. But im glad youre gonna be close to your mom. And tell your dad i said hi next time you talk to him. I was being sarcastic earlier you know right? I just couldnt believe when she was spouting all that stupidness! Theyve been doing some real dumb stuff in our state...they cut a million bucks out of the education budget and closed up WHOLE school districts, and then give their staff 82 to 90% pay increases. Meanwhile no road repairs have been done...but hey! We're gettin another bridge to Canada, that we dont need nor want, named after the governor! Its ridiculous!
And have you been having servor problems today? This is the first ive been able to get online, well that post just before this one since this morning.
And correction, that shouldve read cut a "Billion" out of the education budget not a million.
The finest quality of the MOOC concept is the increased potential for Equality in education.
A college degree, to which every citizen has a right guaranteed by the...uh, by law, in the USA, is not the same thing for each person. Let's take a doctorate, for example.
A doctorate for Sally may not reflect the same interests, attention span, or reading comprehension that a doctorate reflects for Joe. Each, if he goes through the course, will give different answers. If Joe gives a less desirable answer, the computer can offer an easier question, repeatedly, until Joe has correctly answered enough questions to earn his doctorate.
There should be no way for Sally to know what questions Joe answered correctly to earn his Equal doctorate.
Take @ TORI, for example. She is studying to be a medical doctor. She is not doing that in a MOOC. When she has been graduated, she will have a doctorate.
Now, as for the Reverend Billy Graham, he also has a doctorate.
They are both doctors, aren't they?
Just don't ask Dr. Graham to write a prescription. For that, you'll have to go to an NP.
I am posting this early in the morning because I am back into a work schedule that infuriates my doctors -the real doctors.
I cannot stand being retired. We all know of my greed.
Four years ago, a bunch of doctors stood around my hospital bed and said, "it' time to slow down."
A lady doctor explained the Serenity Prayer to me, and reminded her that she was a scientist.
A male doctor said, "we're talking about death here."
Next week I'll be 76 years old.
Lmao @ Joey....i highly doubt your dislike of retirement has anything to do with money, or greed!!! More than likely its the mundane days of nothing to keep you active. At least not as active as you like! I find retirement rather boring. Lets just say its nothing like what i was led to believe! So in spite of your "real doctors" i say "good for you and keep on keepin on" ;)!
I have been taking edx courses for more than a year now, followed roughly 80 courses and gained a certificate in close to 30 (all withoyt having to pay a cent). I have a full time job. All I did was to swap the hours I watch TV with edxing... Instead of commercials between videos I answer questions about usually fun and exciting stuff.
I wish this remains free for the future, because it is the future.
Generally I don't learn post on blogs, however I would like to say that this write-up very compelled me to check out and do it! Your writing style has been surprised me. Thanks, quite great article.
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MONDAY, Sept. 24, 2007 (HealthDay News) -- People need to take care of their heart both before and after heart trouble starts, two new studies suggest.
In the first study, researchers said that to avoid heart failure when you're 70 or 80, you must begin by keeping your blood pressure and weight under control when you're 50.
"We tested the hypothesis that higher levels of blood pressure and body mass index (BMI) in midlife would be powerful determinants of heart failure risk in later life, and that the risk posed by preceding measurements would remain even after accounting for these risk factors measured later in life," said lead researcher Dr. Ramachandran S. Vasan.
"This is exactly what we found," added Vasan, a senior investigator with the Framingham Heart Study and a professor of medicine at Boston University School of Medicine.
An increase of about 20 mm Hg in systolic blood pressure at age 50 was associated with a 36 percent higher risk of heart failure up to 20 years later. Every 2.2 pound increase in BMI (a ratio of weight to height) at age 50 was associated with a 6 percent increase in the risk of heart failure, Vasan said.
"The study highlights the importance of maintaining an ideal BMI and blood pressure over the life course of individuals," Vasan said.
For the study, Vasan's team collected data on 3,362 people who were part of the Framingham Heart Study who had routine examinations between 1969 and 1994. During follow-up, 518 people developed heart failure.
"The prevention of heart failure should begin early in life and should include screening for elevated blood pressure and BMI," Vasan said. "Failure to identify or treat such modifiable risk factors in early and mid-adulthood may result in the loss of opportunities to reduce the incidence of heart failure in later life."
The findings are published in the November issue of the journal Hypertension.
Dr. Gregg C. Fonarow, a professor of cardiology at the University of California, Los Angeles, said he agrees that keeping both your weight and blood pressure down will help you avoid the ravages of heart failure.
"The lifetime risk for developing heart failure in both men and women is one in five," said Fonarow. "However, heart failure can be prevented, and there are a number of modifiable risk factors for heart failure, including hypertension, obesity, and diabetes.
"Maintaining a healthy blood pressure and body weight is essential to reduce the risk of heart failure," he said.
The second study found that fewer than 20 percent of patients seek cardiac rehabilitation after a heart attack or coronary bypass surgery.
"It has been shown by many trials that cardiac rehabilitation reduced the risk for new coronary events, re-hospitalization and mortality. The main advantage of cardiac rehabilitation is to reduce mortality," said study leader Dr. Jose A. Suaya, a lecturer and scientist at the Brandeis University Schneider Institutes for Health Policy, Heller School, in Waltham, Mass.
Cardiac rehabilitation also improves functional capacity, Suaya said. "Patients can walk more without pain and improve their quality of life," he said.
For the study, Suaya's group collected data on 267,427 men and women, 65 and older, who had survived a heart attack or bypass surgery. The data were drawn from 1997 Medicare claims records.
In the year after hospital discharge, only 18.7 percent of the patients had at least one session of cardiac rehabilitation. Patients who underwent bypass surgery were more likely to seek rehabilitation -- 31 percent -- compared with heart attack patients -- 13.9 percent.
More men had cardiac rehabilitation (22.1 percent) than women (14.3 percent). Age also played a role -- patients 75 to 85 were less likely to go for rehabilitation, the researchers found.
In addition, patients with other medical conditions, such as diabetes, a previous stroke, congestive heart failure or cancer, were significantly less likely to seek cardiac rehabilitation, Suaya's group found.
The study results are published in the Oct. 9 issue of the journal Circulation.
There are many reasons why patients don't seek rehabilitation, the researchers said.
"Many doctors may be reluctant to refer patients to cardiac rehabilitation," said study co-author Donald S. Shepard, a research professor at Brandeis' Heller School. "In addition, patients may not know or ask about it."
Shepard also noted that many medical institutions don't promote the service, which typically includes exercise and advice on diet. "It's not glamorous and, from the data we have, it is not very profitable," he said.
It may also be difficult for people to get to rehabilitation centers, Shepard said. "One of the findings in the study was that the closer you are, the more likely you are to use the service," he said. "Travel time and travel expense are things that reduce the use of the service."
Fonarow said "more needs to be done to ensure that eligible patients are effectively enrolled in supervised cardiac rehabilitation. The American Heart Association's 'Get With The Guidelines Program' is one example of a highly successful initiative to improve referral to cardiac rehabilitation after hospitalization for cardiovascular event or surgery."
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In "The World Before Her," Nisha Pahuja looks at the extremes of India's evolving notions of gender.
When Canadian filmmaker Nisha Pahuja went back to her native India to do research for her first documentary, "Bombay Bound," she got invited to an event, a sort of homecoming party for a Miss World winner. The reaction of people at the party made a big impression on her.
"It really struck me how there was a tremendous amount of euphoria and pride," she said. "It was sort of like an athlete had won a gold medal."
Pahuja felt the interest in the pageants – rampant in India now, she says – ¬had something to say about the country's identity and the changing role of women there. In her latest movie, "The World Before Her," which won the World Documentary Competition at the Tribeca Film Festival this year and screens in the 10th Annual South Asian Film Festival in San Francisco on September 22, she explores that world – filming 20 young women from around the country who show up in Bombay for a month-long beauty boot camp where they are told how to walk, speak, wear make up, and in the words of one women who teaches them diction, are "polished like diamonds." For the contestants, winning can mean a lucrative career, stardom and maybe more freedom in a patriarchal society.
"Clearly the pageants objectify women and can be demeaning, but I think in context of India, which is such a sexually conservative society, the fact that they were able to reveal their bodies is a symbol for some people of a certain kind of progress," Pahuja says. "It takes so much courage for a women in India to do such a thing – in some sense they're taking ownership of their bodies."
Along with many feminists in India who object to the pageants, Hindu fundamentalists oppose them, calling them immoral and a symbol of the Westernization of India. In "The World Before Her," Pahuja shows this world as well. As a contrast to the lives of young women getting ready to compete for the title of Miss India, she filmed girls at a camp run by Durgha Vahini, the women's wing of a militant fundamentalist movement.
Pahuja says it took her two years to get access to these camps, where film crews had never been allowed before. She heard about them through a young woman, Prachi, an instructor at the camps, and ended up moving to India to really get to know her and the others involved.
In the movie, we see the young women striving for a crown getting Botox injections; wearing tight jeans and ripped T-shirts at a photo shoot where they are instructed to look sexy, not bitchy (when one of the contestants, Ruhi, sees the photo in the paper, she speculates that the nation's president might be looking at it); and walking with sheets over their heads, so the onlookers will only judge them by their legs. And we also see the young girls at the fundamentalist camps dressed in traditional Indian clothing such as salwar kameez, smiling as they talk about their pride in not having any Muslim friends, and chanting they will slit the throats of anyone trying to take Kashmir from India.
Pahuja was careful to not let her shock at these moments show in the finished movie. She says she had no interest in sensationalizing what she saw in either of the two worlds.
"When I was making the film, the person in me reacted to things all the time," she said. "You can't help it. My blood would turn cold when little girls are screaming about slitting the throats of people, and there are lots of moments like that. I would think. 'I can't believe these young women are getting Botoxed. I can't believe they are walking around with sheets over their heads.' But I didn't editorialize. I don't like films that hit you over the head. Culture is complicated, but there's no point in sitting in judgment although you can't help but feel things because you're human."
Another reality Pahuja presents in "The World Before Her" is how girls are seen as less valuable than boys – in both of these different worlds. The mother of the winner of the contest, Pooja Chopra, Femina Miss India 2009, talks about how she had left her husband after he told her to put the baby in an orphanage or kill her. And Prachi, the fundamentalist camp instructor – who says she likes it when the girls at the camp are afraid of her because it makes her feel important – sits by smiling as her father talks about heating up an iron rod and burning her foot when she lied as a child.
"He has the right," she says about her father hitting her. "He has given me birth, knowing that I'm a girl child, he let me live. In a traditional family, people don't let the girl child live. They kill the child."
In the movie, Pahuja includes the statistic that 750,000 girls are aborted in India every year. She wonders what will happen in a country so obsessed with sons.
"What I'm trying to explore with the film is how women are being used in India to create two ideas of nationalism," she said. "There are these two competing ideologies and they are playing themselves out on the bodies of women."
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One benefit of IPv6 will be a huge expansion in the number of unique IP addresses. The raw number:340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456or3.4 X 1038or340 undecillionIn practice only 85 percent of the addresses can be used, with the other 15 percent reserved for special purposes. Still, this is approximately 4 billion times 4 billion times 4 billion times the size of the IPv4 address space.Source: Nathaniel Clark, Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.
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We're back from Indianapolis after delivering one of our cats to our daughter and family. We stayed three nights, to see the family and for the cat to get adjusted to her new situation.
I offered to go get some cat food, but our daughter and granddaughters would not allow me near the pet food aisle after my last blog!
I don't know what it is but whenever I visit them I go into "vacation mode" – I don't feel like doing anything. I just want to relax. This is not fair to them. We help take care of three (sometimes, five) grandchildren in Lansing; then have four when we visit Indy.
Our family Sunday ended up being a day in front of the television with our granddaughters who introduced us to the British series "Father Brown," available on Netflix. It was actually quite good, though some things did irritate me. For example, whenever the priest prayed in Latin, the closed-caption subtitles simply said: "Prays in a foreign language." Don't most people know that Latin has been the lingua franca of the Catholic church for almost 2,000 years?
Family members are all trying to be healthier, which meant no junk in the house. If I had remembered that, I would have taken some goodies to nibble between meals. I was so hungry, at one point I called our daughter in Lansing and said: "Can you come down immediately and bring some food?" I was just being humorous – it's a 4+ hour drive; and I could have gone to a local grocery store if I thought I might expire.
Mike, our son-in-law, is a very good cook and the food was excellent. I decided to join the healthy eating and then continue it at home, which is what I'm now doing. I feel better already. I've had no indigestion for a week and feel more energetic. The dog food last week probably helped.
It was really nice to have a break from everything, including world news.
The terror attack in New York on Tuesday is a reminder of the constant threat to our lives that emanates from radical Islam. It's also a constant reminder of how hopeless our governments are – they keep letting in Muslims en masse, trying to claim that "Islam is a peaceful religion that has been hijacked by extremists."
Trump called immediately for Congress to abolish the Diversity Visa Waiver program. This is a lottery that enables 50,000 people a year from usually poor and backward countries to enter the United States. They may then sponsor their relatives and friends to enter the US. Tuesday's murderer brought in 23 over 15 years. Most of these people go straight to the bottom of our economic ladder, competing for jobs with low income Americans.
(Do the math. If one man brought in 23, multiply 50,000 x 23 = 1, 150,000 people per year. That's in addition to the one million plus who get a visa the normal way.)
President Trump immediately called on Congress to change the law. That's commendable. The law needs to be changed. But, then, why didn't he react the same after the Las Vegas mass shooting? Changes to the law are desperately needed.
It's been over twenty years since the Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania, Australia. 35 people were killed in a little over half an hour. The conservative prime minister, John Howard, immediately called on parliament to pass tough controls on assault weapons.
"Twelve days after the Port Arthur massacre, the Australian prime minister, John Howard, announced a sweeping package of gun reforms in a country where firearms had long been considered an essential prop in the national mythology of life in the bush.
"At that stage the gun lobby was the ruling lobby in Australia," says Philip Alpers, associate professor at the University of Sydney. "What happened at Port Arthur is that they were outpaced, outflanked and outwitted by a man who had the power to move in 12 remarkable days."
"Tim Fischer was leader of the National party and Howard's deputy prime minister in the Coalition government, charged with persuading skeptical country voters to support, or at least accept, reforms. "Port Arthur was our Sandy Hook," he says. "Port Arthur we acted on. The USA is not prepared to act on their tragedies." (The Guardian 14th March 2016).
The Sandy Hook massacre of kindergarten children took place on December 14th, 2012. Congress did not pass any laws following the deaths of 26 people, including 19 children. If the country could not make any changes after the deaths of so many young children, it's doubtful they will ever come.
President Trump and others reacted to the Las Vegas shootings by saying, "Now is not the time to discuss gun control."
Then, when will it be the time? Immigration policies make the situation worse – the killer at Virginia Tech ten years ago was from South Korea. The Boston Marathon killings were also the work of new arrivals.
Changes can be made without encroaching on the Second Amendment, which says:
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
Today, the US definitely has a "well regulated militia," so America's needs have changed. At the same time, people do have a right to defend themselves. There's a balance. It's time for a national debate.
On the highly successful Australian TV show, "Janet King," Janet, a senior employee of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS; sometimes referred to as "Crownies"), is appointed by the country's Governor-General to head a royal commission into gun violence. It's time the United States had a presidential commission to look into mass casualty gun violence, with the remit that it report back to the president and the public within twelve months, making recommendations to effectively reduce gun violence.
Before we leave the Antipodes, New Zealand has a new, radical prime minister.
Jacinda Ardern is only 37 and the third female leader of the country. She wants to restrict immigration into New Zealand – one of her first acts was to ban the sale of homes to people living outside of the country. She is a left-wing republican, meaning she would like to end NZ's relationship with the Crown thereby giving greater power to the politicians, of which she is the chief! Interestingly, she is also a former Mormon who has strong views on churches that encourage families to shun former believers like herself; she left the church over its anti-homosexual stance.
QUOTE: "President Xi (of China) believes that America is in steep decline and China rising in a power game that will define our century" (Carrie Gracie, China Editor, BBC News, 11/2). President Trump is about to visit China.
Today, November 2nd, is the centenary of the Balfour Declaration. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in London to commemorate the celebration, boycotted by the anti-semitic socialist Labour Party of Jeremy Corbyn.
The famous Balfour Declaration was announced in the middle of World War I by British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour, at a time when Great Britain was the dominant power in the world. It committed His Majesty's Government to establish in Palestine a home for the Jewish people. It was one of the most important documents of the twentieth century and a major fulfillment of Bible prophecy. It led directly to the establishment of a Jewish nation in the Middle East, the country now called Israel.
An independent Jewish nation had not been in existence since Roman times. The Roman Jewish province of Judea rebelled against Rome in 66 AD. The Romans crushed the Jewish Revolt in 70 AD, destroying much of Jerusalem in the process. The Jews rebelled again from 132 AD-135 AD. Once again, the Romans crushed the revolt. This time, the Jews dispersed to other parts of the Roman Empire and beyond. For almost two millennia, they did not have their own country. But scriptures made it clear that the Jews would be back in their homeland, called Judah in the Bible (the Jews were only one of the twelve tribes of Israel).
Zechariah was a prophet 2,500 years ago. His Old Testament book is a Millennial prophecy about the Second Coming of the Messiah. Judah figures quite prominently in events at the time immediately prior to Christ's Return.
Note Zechariah 12:2-3 – "Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples, when they lay siege against Judah and Jerusalem. And it shall happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem a very heavy stone for all peoples; all who would heave it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all nations of the earth are gathered against it."
And Zechariah 14:2-4 – "For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
"Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
"And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south."
The last verse is clearly still in the future. Jerusalem, Judah, revived after almost 2,000 years is once again a central point of geographical contention, with neighboring nations and tribes wanting to destroy the country. As if perpetually drunk, they desperately try to destroy her, so far not succeeding.
Five days after the Balfour Declaration, Russia had a second revolution. Earlier in the year, the Czarist regime had fallen and was replaced by a parliamentary system. Elections were scheduled for later in the year. Two weeks before the election, the Bolsheviks (communists) staged a coup on November 7th that overthrew the interim government of Alexander Kerensky. They proclaimed the world's first communist state. It brought seven decades of misery to the country, with despotic leaders that made the czars look like Sunday school teachers. Communism has gone, but the country remains a dictatorship, though claiming to be a democracy.
The Bolshevik Revolution was the second revolution of 1917; there was an earlier revolution in 1905, which led to the establishment of the Duma (parliament) but still left the czar with ultimate power and authority. Russia's parliament today is also called the Duma and is the people's assembly. However, some would say that Vladimir Putin is a new Czar, with all the power and authority.
500th ANNIVERSARY OF PROTESTANT REFORMATION
Tuesday was the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther nailing his 95 theses to the door of the Wittenburg church in Germany. We should all be thankful to Martin Luther. He had the courage to stand up to the Church of Rome, ending the monopoly the Church had in western Europe. All churches today owe their freedom to Luther.
I watched a two-hour documentary on PBS recently about Martin Luther and the Reformation. He is considered the greatest theologian of all time, due to the fact that he wrote more books and articles on the Bible than anybody else. He also translated the scriptures into German.
Later in life, asked to sum up his writings, he replied: "God forgives." That was of paramount importance to Luther, who struggled all his life with sin, as we all do. Hearing that, I thought about all the churches that have come out of Luther, directly or indirectly. Many have one thing in common – they can't forgive. How ironic.
Earlier in the month, we were in Cincinnati, Ohio. A group of us, including four of our grandchildren, took the opportunity to visit Noah's Ark, which is just over the state line in Kentucky. It's well worth a visit, if only to get a better idea of the size of the original ark. This replica is built according to biblical specifications.
I'm very thankful that the enterprising Australian behind this project was inspired to build the Ark (and the Creation Museum nearby). More and more people are biblically illiterate, so it's good that somebody has kept the story alive. I found the wall plaques explaining everything interesting, but I do not agree with his theory that the earth is only 6,000 years old.
We had been told to allow three hours for our visit. With two 5-year-old twin boys, we went through quite quickly, in exactly two hours. We left early — because it was raining!!!
The following evening we had a group of Barbadians over for dinner. Wonderful people. They had actually come from Barbados to visit the Ark. They are also Young Earthers, believing in the 6,000 years. We agreed to disagree and still remain friends. That's the way it should be.
I've been asked why I quote so often from the Daily Express and Daily Mail newspapers, two Conservative British tabloids.
The answer is quite simple: they have the best web sites. Check them out sometime.
The Guardian and Independent, more intellectual papers, are constantly asking for money whenever I check their sites; whereas the Times, the Telegraph and the Financial Times make very little available.
The biggest problem with the two papers I use is that they often sensationalize news items.
I will try to find alternative sources, but, realistically I will have to use them occasionally as I don't have the funds to pay for subscriptions to the more highbrow papers; and they have to request money as they have smaller circulations.
(This blog is a fully independent blog that has no connection to any church or secular organization. It was started to keep people informed on international affairs in light of the scriptures. Financial support comes from myself and readers who graciously donate to help cover costs.)


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The Washington Post has a practice of running a story ever month or so about Japan facing a demographic nightmare because its population is living longer. The idea is that this will impoverish the nation's youth, imposing a crushing burden for caring of the elderly. Of course those who know arithmetic know better.
This month's feature began by telling readers:
"The ominous demographics of this aging nation have long been seen by Japanese as a distant concern, not a present-day one. But that mind-set is being called into question by a prime minister who says that a crisis requiring immediate sacrifices has already begun.
In recent months, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has staked his job and bet his support on a tax increase designed to fund Japan's soaring social security costs.
And the potential tax hike is only a sneak preview of the burdens to come as Japan grows into the world's grayest society, a nation where two decades from now seniors will outnumber children 15 and younger by nearly 4 to 1.
Economists and government officials say that Japan, in the coming years, will probably raise the retirement age, again increase taxes and trim spending on everything from education to defense, all to care for its elderly.
Young Japanese — those entering the workforce amid two decades of stagnation — will face the greatest burden: They will earn less in real terms than their parents, pay higher pension premiums, receive fewer social services and, eventually, retire with a less-generous pension package."
Okay, let's unpack this one a bit. First, by every measure Japan's economy is operating far below its potential capacity. Why on earth does it need tax increases to pay for anything right now? This makes zero sense.
Japan can simply continue doing what it has been doing, running large deficits and having it central bank finance them by buying up government bonds.
Is there a problem with this? Japan has been seeing deflation for much of the last two decades. The interest rate on 10-year government bonds is hovering near 1.0 percent.
If Prime Minister Noda is arguing that the country needs to raise taxes he either does not understand economics or has a hidden agenda that the Post article did not discuss. In the current economic situation it is quite obvious that there is no need whatsoever to raise taxes. A tax increase would actually hurt the economy by reducing demand and employment.
Let's consider the longer term issue. According to OECD data, productivity growth in Japan has been increasing at the rate of 1.8 percent a year over the last two decades. If this continues, output per worker will be 150 percent higher in 2050 than it was in 2000.
If the ratio of workers to retirees falls roughly 3 to 1 over this period to roughly 1 to 1, as the article tells us, and the pension system provides Japan's workers with a pension equal to 50 percent of the income of the average worker (Social Security benefits equal 40 percent of the average wage) then the after Social Security tax wage will be roughly 80 percent higher in 2050 than it is today.
If we look at the issue more closely, this almost certainly understates the likely gains. First, as the work force shrinks productivity growth is likely to accelerate. This would occur for two reasons. First, the least productive jobs (e.g. the midnight shift at the 7-11) will simply go unfilled, thereby raising average productivity.
The other reason is that a smaller population will reduce pressure on the natural environment and infrastructure. If the population declines by 50 percent, then the share of the population who will be able to live in houses with ocean views will double. Also traffic jams will be much less serious, trains will be less crowded and people will have to spend much less time commuting. Some of these gains are likely not to be included in official statistics since they are not designed to pick up these sorts of quality improvements.
Also, it is likely that the share of the population that is employed will increase. This will be both true among the under 65 population, as more women enter the workforce, and also many healthy older Japanese may decide to work later in life. If Japan can achieve that same employment to population ratio among its age 16-64 population as Iceland has today, this pace of productivity growth would allow after-tax living standards to double over the years from 2000-2050.
Finally, the issue about trimming spending on education may seem less of a concern when we remember that the whole story is that number of children in Japan is plummeting. Why wouldn't Japan trim spending in education. In short, this means that the tax increases needed to fund a larger population of retirees will be in part offset by the lower taxes needed to support a smaller population of children.
In short, there is not really a plausible story whereby a declining population will cause future generations of Japanese to be poorer than the current generation. Of course inept economic management could well bring about this result, but that is a very different story.
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Have you ever been on a project when the patient goes "Code Blue"? It is crashing. No pulse. No breath. No blood pressure.
So what do you do? My first piece of advice is that you don't try to fix everything at once. On the battle field or in an emergency room they have the concept of triage. This means that you start with the most critical, life threating issue. In order to do that you must evaluate the patient.
List what the projects are for the project. Is there a lack of performance? Are there mysterious bugs that are driving the users insane? Possibly it is that the understanding of the requirements were wrong.
Like medicine, the most critical wound is if the heart stops. To an IT project the heart is the business need. If you can check of the requirements then move to the next step. This is usually bugs that are stopping the users from working.
Another key point is don't guess at solutions. Create your theories and test them out. Quick fixes often don't address the real problem and only prolong the bleeding.
Of course this doesn't cover everything, but it gives you an idea of an approach to triaging your project. Good luck.
I have come across a situation at a client where they believe that queues are the answer for everything. It is how they abstract their database from the applications. The battle cry seems to be "If we go through a queue it is more flexible and ensures that messages between apps will get to their destination.
While I do believe that queues such as MSMQ and MQ Series have their place, they are not the answer to all the worlds woes. Of course the same goes for any technology. I have heard of companies that do the same thing with web services.
As the saying goes, "everything in moderation". Technology should be used where it is best suited. Queues are great for processes that you don't need an immediate response and have high volumes. The wrong place for a queue is where it holds a synchronous reply to a UI.
The last thing I want to address is the use of queues for database abstraction. This is why we build configurable data layers in our applications. Using a queue has not done any better job and slows down responses.
The main point here is not to get stuck on one technology or pattern. One final cliché. Just because you have a hammer doesn't make everything a nail.
As architects we try to look for the simplest solution to a business problem. This is not just because we are lazy, but because simple solutions are easy to maintain and tend to be less tightly coupled. This does not mean that the simplest solution is always the right solution. If one aspect of a business requirement can be addressed by a pattern but it invalidates three related business requirements then it is the wrong answer no matter how simple it may be.
In the end it boils down to coming up with a design that takes into account the correct amount of scope and fits the users needs. After all, it may build our egos to say that we can make a program in one line of code, but if it leave the business stake holders with a view of only half of their process then it is doing more damage than good. Verifying your business requirements and putting them at the center of your design process is key to success in your project.
My latest project has been all consuming to the point where I am starting to feel like the world is passing me by. The other day I was listening to a podcast while commuting and heard WinFx referred to as .NET 3.0. When did this happen? Somehow I missed that announcement. For those who are behind the times like me you might check out this site.
The most disturbing part is that anyone who has been in this business for a while knows that if you don't keep up someone else will soon be doing your job. These are not the good olé days of COBOL where you could have the same skill set for a decade and still have a job. Wake up call! It is time to catch up! I'll be back as soon as I read a few more articles.
This is really an observation about large enterprises. The larger they get, the more people are required to make a single decision.
I am currently working for a client that has an entire floor of a building with nothing but architects residing there. In the process of this project we came across a technical issue relating to the database. We presented alternatives to the lead architects and thought that we had an approval for a solution. Surprise! It turns out the data architects were still discussing alternatives. We were then informed that the enterprise architects would have the final say.
Now I have no problem with getting knowledgeable people involved. What I do have problems with is not knowing who the right people are. Large enterprises need to make sure that there is a clearly defined and published procedure for getting the right people involved. When projects are under are fighting to stay on time and under budget the last thing they need are false starts due to undocumented procedures.
So what can you do to help the situation? The best thing I can suggest is asking frequently if anyone else is required to approve a decision. Some times a reminder to the people you are working with is all that is needed.
Tim is a Solutions Architect for PSC Group, LLC. He has been an IT consultant since 1999 specializing in Microsoft technologies. Along with running the Chicago Information Technology Architects Group and speaking on Microsoft and architecture topics he was also contributing author on "The Definitive Guide to the Microsoft Enterprise Library".


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The brothers did a phoner with the Riverfront Times to promote their new endeavor and the question, "What other sports blogs do you read?" was asked.
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Potted Flowers
- Taking Care of Potted Lily Flowers
- How to Care for Potted Roses in Winter
- How to Keep Potted Plants Moist
- How to Winterize Potted Roses
- How to Care for Indoor Pine Trees
- How to Take Care of Outdoor Potted Plants Over Winter
- How to Prune a Potted Rose Bush
- How Much Rain Is Too Much for a Potted Plant?
- How to Get Rid of Ants on a Potted Plant Outside
- How to Leach From Potted Plants
- How to Care for Potted Palms
- Potted Plant Gardens
- How to Care for Potted Roses
- What Might Be Digging in Flower Pots?
- How to Seal Terracotta Pots
- How to Insulate Outdoor Pots
- How to Plant Flowers in Pots
- Are Clay Pots Better for Plants Than Plastic?
- Do Different Colored Pots Affect Plant Growth?
- How to Clean Clay Flower Pots
- How to Sterilize Flower Pots
- How to Sterilize Garden Pots
- How to Plant Bulbs in Containers
Taking Care of Potted Lily Flowers
How to Care for Potted Roses in Winter
Potted roses have many advantages. Their containers can be moved from place to place to be enjoyed where you want. They also can be rotated around to receive evenly-distributed amounts of light. While potted roses can be brought in during the cold winter months, some care is still needed for them to thrive to their greatest potential.
- Potted roses have many advantages.
- While potted roses can be brought in during the cold winter months, some care is still needed for them to thrive to their greatest potential.
Bring potted roses indoors in the fall, before the first frost. While roses planted in the ground can survive most winters, potted roses do not have the insulation to keep their roots warm. Place the roses near a sunny window. Alternatively, wrap the bottom of the container with a blanket and add several inches of mulch in areas with mild winters. The roses will go dormant like outdoor roses. Bring them indoors to a cool location, such as a garage, if you have a colder than usual winter so they can continue their dormancy without damage.
Continue to keep your indoor roses moist to enjoy their foliage all winter long. Fertilize them monthly with a rose fertilizer and follow the label instructions.
Cut back damaged or diseased branches as well as suckers that grow near the base of the trunk. Roses brought indoors are like roses grown in subtropical climates in that they need pruning twice a year (August and March). In March, prune your roses (indoors and outdoors). Generally, you should prune roses back to about half their size. Thin out the bush as well to encourage better light in the center of the plant.
How to Keep Potted Plants Moist
Add water-retaining granules, discs or spikes to the plant's potting soil. These products hold onto water, then release it as the soil dries. When you mix them with the potting soil, they will help keep the soil more consistently moist. Most garden stores sell these water-retaining soil amendments.
Place the plant pot (if the pot contains drainage holes at the bottom) on a saucer or plate covered with water. This allows plant roots access to moisture from the bottom of the pot.
Place sphagnum moss or wood chips on top of the soil. Doing this helps slows water evaporation from potting soil.
Move the plant away from direct sunlight and other heat sources (such as indoor furnaces or stoves). The sun's burning rays will dry out plants quickly, as will being too close to heat sources.
How to Winterize Potted Roses
Stop fertilizing the rose bush after August 15.
Discontinue cutting flowers and deadheading after October 1. Allow the rose plant to produce rose hips.
Remove all the leaves and hips from the rose after the first hard frost. Clean up any debris, such as twigs and fallen leaves, in the pot.
Prune the rose to remove damaged wood, branches that cross over others, and overly long canes.
Spray the branches of the rose with a fungicide, according to label directions.
Wrap the rose tree lightly. There are several methods that work well. If the rose is small enough, place a tomato cage over it and stuff leaves over and around it. The National Gardening Association suggests placing the potted rose in a burlap bag and stuffing the bag with leaves. The association also cautions against wrapping the rose too tightly, as it needs air circulation to avoid fungal disease.
Place the potted rose in an area where temperatures will not drop below 20 degrees F, such as in a shed, garage or basement. Place the pot off the floor--on a table, for instance--where the air is warmer.
How to Care for Indoor Pine Trees
Pot the evergreen in the proper soil. Soil should be supportive of the trunk and provide a stable environment. Provide a 3-to-1 ratio mixture of peat and sand in the soil.
Maintain a cool environment. Pines will enjoy a bright and cool location, with only a few hours of direct sunlight each day. Turn the planter weekly to prevent tilting if sunlight is only available from one direction.
Fertilize the soil with an indoor foliage plant fertilizer when the plant is growing. Follow the instructions on the package for proper dosage. Only feed when the plant is actively growing, not in dormant winter months.
Water the plant well and often. Apply water to the pot when the top 1 inch of soil has become dry. Pour water through the pot until the excess drains from the bottom of the pot.
Provide humidity indoors for the plant. Pines require 50 percent humidity, which is hard to achieve indoors. Run a humidifier indoors in winter months to maintain the tree's comfort.
How to Take Care of Outdoor Potted Plants Over Winter
Remove all plants that are in clay, terra-cotta or stone pots and place them, along with the soil, into a plastic pot. Stone and clay pots crack in cold weather, so store them inside for the winter.
Walk around the yard and locate a clear area of ground on the north side of a house or building. If possible, find an area that receives direct winter sun.
Move the potted plants to the chosen area, setting them all in a cluster as close together as possible. The top rims of the plant pots should touch each other and the back row of pots should touch the wall.
Rake up the leaves from your yard or ask a neighbor if you can have their discarded leaves. Pour the leaves on the ground and chop them up by running a lawn mower over them three to four times.
Scoop up the chopped leaves with a shovel and pile them on top of the area where the potted plants are located. Continue adding leaves until you can no longer see the pots and there is 12 inches of leaves on top of the pots.
Water the area with a garden hose once a week if no rainfall or snow occurs.
How to Prune a Potted Rose Bush
Put on a thick pair of gardening gloves to protect your hands from thorns.
Remove any dead wood from your potted rose with a pair of sharp pruning shears. Maintaining dead wood utilizes your plant's growth resources.
Clip leaders that cross or are beginning to grow downward. Leaders are another term for stem. Leaders, or stems, that cross can rub against each other, causing damage to bark and creating a way for disease to enter your rose. Downward growing leaders can create an unbalanced look to the rose and could rub against the pot, creating similar problems to crossed leaders.
Prune away as much as two-thirds of the previous year's growth. Most roses bloom only on the current year's growth, making woody growth from previous years superfluous.
Thin your potted rose to allow sun to reach inside leaves and growth. Prune your rose from the bottom up and from the inside out, much as you would prune a tree.
How Much Rain Is Too Much for a Potted Plant?
Potted plants with proper drainage can take a fair amount of water, but if rain continues for more than a few days, move pots into covered areas to prevent rot.
How to Get Rid of Ants on a Potted Plant Outside
Fill a tub with a solution of water and insecticidal soap. Make the solution a ratio of 2 tbsp. of insecticidal soap for every quart of water.
Place the plant in the tub so the solution covers the top of the soil by an inch.
Allow the plant to soak in the solution for at least 20 minutes.
Remove the plant, and set it in sunshine to allow the soil to start drying out.
Allow the plant to remain in a sunny location 24 to 48 hours to help the soil dry before you move the plant back to its previous location.
Wrap a strong weatherproof tape around the pot with the sticky side facing out. Duct tape or packing tape work well for this. Ants will not be able to cross the tape to get back up into the plant. Replace the tape as needed when it becomes full of stuck ants or loses its adhesiveness.
How to Leach From Potted Plants
Turn on the water faucet and adjust the water to room temperature. Cold or hot water extremes shock the potted plant's root system.
Tilt the potted plant at a 45-degree angle and place the base of plant under the running water. The objective is to water the potting soil and not drench the leaves and blooms of the plant.
Remove the potted plant from the water source when a stream of water flows out of the drainage holes. Turn off the water source.
Sit the potted plant in the base of the sink. Set a timer for one hour. The plant needs sufficient time to drain and leach. One hour is the time recommended by the N.C. State University Extension.
Remove the potted plant from the sink. Repeat steps 1 through 4. Return the plant to its original location.
Use a slow trickle of water instead of full pressure to minimize the risk of damaging potted plant roots.
Place a strainer or fabric in the sink to avoid potting soil flowing into the primary sink drain pipe.
Never use extreme water temperatures when leaching potted plants.
How to Care for Potted Palms
Choose containers appropriate for the size of your palms, usually a 25-gallon size for large plams and 10- to 15-gallon sizes for the dwarf varieties
Fill a pot with a mixture of 25 percent sand, 25 percent peat moss and the rest with potting soil to provide adequate drainage and nutrients.
Mist your palm daily to increase humidity as well as keep dust and insects away. If you do not have a mister, place a shallow pan of water near your palm to allow for evaporation and high air humidity.
Keep the palms in at least eight hours of sunlight per day, rotating them regularly to ensure that all sides receive equal sun exposure.
Water the plant until water runs out of the bottom of the pot, and allow the top inch of soil to dry before watering again.
Fertilize your palm twice a year with slow-release formula especially designed for palms, following the exact directions on the label.
Protect palms from cold weather by bringing them indoors at the first sign of freezing temperatures. Transfer your palms to a larger pot when the roots begin to grow at the surface of the soil and water takes several minutes to soak in.
Do not nail signs or lights to the trunks of palms because puncture wounds in palm trees never heal.
Potted Plant Gardens
How to Care for Potted Roses
Select a rose that grows well in the container you have space for. Small roses, such as the miniature varieties, grow well in half-gallon containers, while larger roses need a much larger container to grow well.
Fertilize the potted rose with indoor plant food, according to package directions.
Water the rose frequently to keep the soil moist but not soaked. The soil should be moist to the touch. If the soil stays wet, the chances of fungal growth are increased.
Prune away any dead or dying foliage using very sharp pruning shears. Make your cut where the dead or dying foliage joins the main shoot of the rose. By using sharp pruning shears, you avoid damaging the healthy portions of the plant, as you would with dull shears.
Treat any pests, such as aphids, by filling a spray bottle with 3 parts water and 1 part dish soap. Lightly mist the rose with this mixture until the pests have subsided. The soapy water mixture will not harm the rose and will treat many pests.
What Might Be Digging in Flower Pots?
Deer usually avoid urban city centers, but may dig for shoots in flower pots in city outskirts and more rural areas. Neighborhood cats with free reign will dig into flower pots and use them as a restroom. Less common diggers include skunks, groundhogs, rabbits and dogs.
Squirrels will go after flower bulbs in pots, or dig them up to bury their own seeds. They are also drawn to freshly turned dirt, and will sometimes dig in flower pots just to see if there's something to eat there.
- The most thorough prevention method is to surround the property with sturdy fences.
- Squirrels can be repelled by dried blood meal sprinkled around bulbs.
The most thorough prevention method is to surround the property with sturdy fences. This will shut out deer, rabbits, dogs and some small animals. Squirrels can be repelled by dried blood meal sprinkled around bulbs. Cats will not go near flower pots that have been sprayed with a solution of water and garlic.
How to Seal Terracotta Pots
Rinse the inside of the pots to remove any dust or residue. If the pots have been used previously, wash them in soapy water and scrub the insides with a stiff wire brush. Rinse well to remove all soap residue. Set them upside down on a rack and allow to dry for two to four hours.
Paint the inside of the pots with the polyurethane or terracotta pot sealer, using a sponge-type paint brush. Completely cover the interior.
Set the pots, right side up, on a shelf or rack to allow the sealer to dry. The time will vary with the sealer used, but should take approximately two to three hours.
Apply one or two more coats, allowing ample drying time between coats.
Oil-based polyurethane lasts longer than water-based polyurethane.
Because of the potential for lung injury from fumes, use oil-based polyurethane only in a well-ventilated area.
How to Insulate Outdoor Pots
Place the edge of a roll of bubble wrap against the pot and wrap it all the way around it twice to create an insulation barrier. Cut off the excess bubble wrap with scissors.
Wrap masking tape all the way around the bubble wrap at the top and the bottom of the pot to hold the wrap in place.
Look for a location near a fence, wall or the side of a building that is protected from wind.
Set all of the insulated pots in this location, placing them as close to each other as possible.
Lay a tarp on top of the pots and secure three of the corners to the ground using tent stakes. Leave the fourth corner free to allow for air circulation.
You can also use Styrofoam, newspaper or leaves to insulate outdoor pots.
Certain types of pots, such as terra-cotta pots, do not winterize well and should be emptied and stored for winter. Types of pots to consider for overwintering include plastic, stone, fiberglass and wood pots.
How to Plant Flowers in Pots
Select a pot for the flower. The size depends upon the mature size of the plant; begin with one that is 15 inches across. You can transplant it to a larger pot later. Choose a pot with adequate drainage holes, and include a saucer that fits under the pot.
Mix equal amounts of sterile potting soil and peat moss. Fill the pot half full with the mix.
Remove the flower from the nursery container and place it in the center of the pot, being careful not to damage the root ball. Add potting mix around the root ball of the flower and gently tamp it down.
Put the saucer under the pot and place the container in the appropriate amount of sunlight--depending on the flower variety. Water thoroughly until water runs through the drainage holes.
Keep the soil moist, but not wet, until the flower shows signs of new growth. Then, reduce the water to the proper amount for the flower.
Fertilize the flower, if necessary, using a fertilizer that's formulated for flowerpots. Use a fungicide and pesticide for any potential problems unique to the flower.
Are Clay Pots Better for Plants Than Plastic?
Clay pots appeared on the scene around 6000 B.C. at the genesis of the Neolithic period. The invention of plastic occurred about 100 years ago. Plastic pots, mere infants in time, now rest on the shelves of retail establishments next to the familiar terracotta pot.
- Clay pots appeared on the scene around 6000 B.C.
- at the genesis of the Neolithic period.
The porous clay pot breathes, thereby letting air circulate throughout the roots of the plant. It also absorbs moisture, which gets rid of excess water in the soil — an advantage for some plants. Along those same lines, soaking the clay pot in water can serve as a way to keep plants watered while on vacation.
Plastic pots prevent oxygen and water from entering the pot to nourish the roots of your plant. They also prevent excess water from escaping, which can cause root rot. In addition, plastic provides no insulation from extreme temperature changes.
Do Different Colored Pots Affect Plant Growth?
Colored plant pots affect growth due to the attraction of sunlight. Darker-colored pots absorb more heat from the sun. The intense heat affects plant growth by causing fast evaporation of moisture and increased soil temperature levels that damage plant roots and foliage.
How to Clean Clay Flower Pots
Squeeze 4 to 6 drops of dish soap into a bucket.
Fill the bucket three-quarters full with water.
Empty the pot of dirt, plants or anything else inside of it.
Completely submerge the flower pot in the bucket.
Dip the scrub brush in the water. Scrub the flower pot clean.
Remove the pots. Dump the soapy water out. Rinse out the bucket out with water.
Fill the bucket with water. Submerge the buckets. Leave the flower pots sit in the water for at least an hour, according to gardenguides.com.
Remove the pots. Set them out in the sun to dry. Dump the water out of the bucket.
How to Sterilize Flower Pots
Fill a sink with hot, soapy tap water. Submerge the flower pots in the water and wash off any stuck-on soil with a nylon brush.
Mix 1 part chlorine bleach with 9 parts water. Soak the flower pots in this solution for two to three hours.
Rinse the chlorine bleach solution off plastic pots with clear, running water. For clay pots, fill the sink with clear water and soak the pots for an additional three hours. The bleach permeates the pores in clay pots, and so must be soaked out.
Set the pots in a well-ventilated room and allow them to air dry completely before planting.
Wooden pots should be sterilized the same way that you clean clay pots.
Store sterilized pots in a clean, sealed garbage bag until you are ready to use them so they do not become reinfected.
Only use sterile potting soil in the flower pots, or disease organisms will be reintroduced.
How to Sterilize Garden Pots
Fill your bathtub up with 10 to 20 gallons of hot water. Use 10 gallons if you only have a few pots to clean and 20 if you have more pots to clean.
Add 1 gallon of bleach to water for every 10 gallons of water that you use--1 gallon of bleach for 10 gallons of water, 2 gallons of bleach for 20 gallons of water.
Set your pots in the bleach water, and let them soak for a few minutes.
Scrub the dirt off of the pots with a soft-bristle brush. After the pots have soaked, this should be quite easy.
Drain the bathtub, and rinse each pot with warm running water. Set the pots outside in the sun to dry.
Hydrogen peroxide can be used in place of bleach.
If your pots are small, you can set them in your dish drainer to dry.
How to Plant Bulbs in Containers
Select an attractive ceramic, clay or wooden container. Pots with a diameter of 10 to 12 inches work nicely. That's big enough for 8 to 12 tulips or daffodils.
Fill the pot with enough quality potting soil so that bulbs placed on top can be covered with enough soil to bury them at the proper planting depth (at least an inch or more).
Mix some slow-release bulb fertilizer into the top of the potting soil.
Set the bulbs on top of the soil in the pot. The closer together they are, the more flowers you'll get at bloom time.
Fill the pot with soil to within an inch of the top.
Water thoroughly.
Place the pots in a cool spot and cover with several inches of mulch. Check the pots often and water if necessary through winter.
Move the pots to a sunny location when you see the first signs of growth.
Keep the pots moist until after bloom.
Fertilize every two to four weeks with a liquid plant food. Follow label instructions.
Move the pots to an out-of-the-way spot after bloom. Keep moist until foliage dries.
Plant the bulbs in the garden next fall. They may or may not bloom.