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There's no way to spin the 2011 debt-ceiling crisis as anything other than ridiculous, but it's easy to understand the mentality that led the GOP to hold the country hostage. Republicans had just won a massive victory in the House of Representatives and conservatives felt validated; the GOP majority was built with candidates who didn't shy away from the right. Moreover—to the recently elected representatives—the public had sent them to Washington to cut spending, and the debt ceiling was a perfect opportunity to do just that.
There's much less clarity in the current situation. President Obama won re-election by a solid margin, taking 51 percent of the popular vote and 65 million votes overall. Democrats expanded their majority in the Senate, and managed to make a little headway in the House. For as much as it disappointed liberals, the fiscal-cliff deal was a sign of the new times: It's hard to imagine any House Republicans voting for a tax increase on the wealthy in 2011.
Unfortunately, the 2012 elections didn't disrupt Republicans enough to push them away from the debt ceiling as a negotiating tool. The Washington Post, for example, reports that at the same time GOP leaders are urging ordinary lawmakers to keep ranks—John Boehner told House Republicans to "hold the line"—more cautious legislators are whether its worth doing this in the first place:
Rep. Billy Long, a Missouri Republican who first won election in the 2010 tea party wave, voted in favor of the 2011 debt-limit deal in part because "no one knows the ramifications of not passing a debt ceiling increase and this plan prevents us from finding out," according to a statement he released at the time.
In an interview Friday, Long lamented that the only way Congress seems to do business is in eleventh-hour deals and he balked at the notion of shutting down the government.
It's important not to overstate the amount of dissent here—key Republicans in both chambers of Congress have endorsed using the debt ceiling as a way to force spending cuts. Nonetheless, it's fair to say that the self-assured Republican Party of just two years ago has been replaced with something a little more gun shy. Indeed, given the administration's refusal to cut a deal on the debt ceiling—and the obvious necessity of raising it—there's a (small) chance that, when push comes to shove, Republicans will back down from their call for spending cuts, and just raise the ceiling.
It should be said that if there's been an attitude change among congressional Republicans, it's almost certainly a reflection of soul searching within the party. Thanks to the Bush administration, millions of Americans now associate the GOP with intolerance, incompetence, and warmongering. They've lost the popular vote in five of the last six presidential elections, and they're losing by huge margins among young people, women, and non-whites.
The same divisions in congressional strategy—between hard-liners who would make brinksmanship a normal part of goverance, and realists who understand that not everything can be a standoff—are present in the push for reform. One side wants the GOP to craft an agenda that's more friendly to the interests of Latinos, women, and middle-class families; the other thinks that a more conservative agenda will win the day.
The debt ceiling fight—or rather, whether there is a debt ceilng fight at all—will give us a sign of who is winning this battle. The last debt limit battle wrecked havoc on the GOP's approval with the public, and was a huge force in pushing many Americans from the party and its approach to politics. Which is to say that any attempt at reform must include a repudiation of those tactics. If that doesn't happen, and Republicans threaten global recession again, then we can safely predict a nice period in the wilderness for the GOP.
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"...millions of Americans now associate the GOP with intolerance, incompetence, and warmongering."
Of course Jamelle, there ARE millions of low information, slow thought process people out there. You are one of them. Point in case: "One side wants the GOP to craft an agenda that's more friendly to the interests of Latinos, women, and middle-class families; the other thinks that a more conservative agenda will win the day"
Your serious failure of logic (in this case) is that the two concepts are incompatible. One can EASIILY present a more conservative case that is friendly to the interests of Latinos, women, and middle-class families, as well as young voters. In fact, we already have presented it but too many people did not believe the truth. They began to see the light in the last few days when they realized that Obama is in fact taxing everyone more - not just the rich. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/01/07/obama_supporters_shocked_at_new_tax_hikes_299216.html
If they are unhappy now, wait until the next round of lay-offs begin as employers start looking for ways to maintain their margin in perspective of the new taxes and Obamacare costs. The next four years will prove everything that Republicans have been saying for the last 4 and you won't be able to pretend its not Obama's fault anymore.
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I'm ready for another government shutdown. Since the Dems seem unable to realize that "spending" is one big huge problem. Lets just shut it all down for awhile. And please, I know that spending has been a HUGE problem on both sides, but we borrow 40 cents on every dollar for spending, something has to give. No congress people offer to give up their salaries or perks..why should the rest of us average taxpayers give anything for more wasteful spending???? Anyway, the supposed debt default is just that..."supposed" is a scare tactic by the administration. Enough money comes in all the time for the government to pay on the debt. Leave the debt ceiling alone....it will only give congress more money to waste. Leave it where it is, and they will be forced to find cuts...and they are all over the place with all the pies this government has its fingers in. Maybe a real budget might help???????
Tue, 2013-01-08 19:27
Jamelle, your illiteracy is breathtaking, and you don't even know it. I lost count of all of the grammatical errors, errors in syntax, poor sentence constructs, complete and utter non-sequiters, and examples of outright delusional and shallow reasoning after the third paragraph. You, sir, are a perfefct example of an Obama voter: low intelligence, intellectually lazy, unable to formulate any original ideas, unable to say anything except what you can parrot back from your years of indoctrination in black liberation theology and marxist 'social theory' by loser professors. Reading anything you write is truly a waste of time and effort. You're a joke.
Tue, 2013-01-08 20:14
Non sequitur. No dash. Latin is a privilege, not a right. This, by the way, would be the definition of irony; your misspelling a fine example of res ipsa loquitur.
Dick, I'm afraid you are neither intelligent nor erudite enough to be commenting from such a lofty post. I recommend you go back to grammar school and try, try again.
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^ Jesus H. Christ, looks like Punk's got his own Keith Apicary now...
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During last night's Raw televised event, WWE Superstar CM Punk exited the ring into the stands as part of the show. WWE security was unfortunately not in the appropriate place at the time. Given CM Punk's persona as a 'bad guy,' fans were naturally heckling him, but unfortunately a few fans began shoving him and one struck in him in the kidney and on the back. WWE regrets that proper security measures were not in place, and CM Punk apologizes for reacting in the heat of the moment. Other than this isolated incident, WWE always provides proper security to ensure the safety of our fans and our performers.
I think the whole situation sucks. It's an unfortunate and isolated incident. I was up in the stands, surrounded. Somebody said, 'let's push him down the stairs.' I got hit in the ribs three times. I was getting shoved and I was getting punched…Then I started getting tagged in the back of the head. Unfortunately, I lashed out in the heat of the moment and I apologize. I'm really just glad nobody was hurt.
Posted 10 October 2012 - 13:31
I'm hoping she actually accepts Dixie's offer, as I'd love to see how TNA will try to capitalise on this!
It was reported on TMZ that Shelly Ehler was upset at Alberto Del Rio for ripping her 8-year-old's sign up and then mocking her son crying.
I spoke to Ehler in an exclusive interview recorded for Wrestling Reality on TribLIVE Radio and she revealed TNA President Dixie Carter personally called her today.
Carter said she was sad to read about her WWE experience and offered Ehler's family VIP passes to Bound For Glory in Phoenix, AZ.
Ehler said Carter explained TNA's wrestlers would never act that way. She encouraged them to come meet Hulk Hogan and all the wrestlers on behalf of TNA.
The full 12 minute conversation between Ehler and I will be released tomorrow. During the interview the following topics are covered...
- Her detailed account of the incident with Alberto Del Rio
- Sheamus reaching out to her through Direct Message on Twitter
- She asks me if I feel Del Rio acted like a bully
- If she'll ever bring her son back to a WWE show
- How TMZ got a hold of the story
- Dixie Carter's conversation with her
Guessing time: Who do you think it was? I'm gonna go down the obvious route and say CM Punk.
A number of top talents have approached Vince McMahon in recent weeks...
One of the top talents had a verbal back and forth with McMahon in front of everyone. In this exchange, the talent basically told Vince the writing sucks and that McMahon doesn't have his finger on the pulse of things anymore.
...The talent told him he needs to start listening to people around him...saying when WWE goes to "hell in a handbasket," it will be all Vince's fault.
Posted 10 October 2012 - 13:33
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From WrestleZone's Justin LaBar
I'm hoping she actually accepts Dixie's offer, as I'd love to see how TNA will try to capitalise on this!
And a bit of a biggie from PWInsider...
Guessing time: Who do you think it was? I'm gonna go down the obvious route and say CM Punk.
Posted 10 October 2012 - 14:02
Former WWE Diva, Ashley Massaro, took to Twitter yesterday stating she was taken off this Thursday's BLOW event in New Jersey. BLOW is a brand new all-women's promotion, owned and operated by the same people behind Pro Wrestling Syndicate.
Massaro said it was unprofessional of PWS to leave her on the promotional flyer for the event "until a week before". She also encouraged fans to reach out to PWS and demand a refund if they purchased due to her promoted appearance.
I reached out to both parties via Twitter and text message for statements. I have yet to receive word from Massaro or anyone related, but Eric Tapout (co-owner) sent the following statement on behalf of PWS/BLOW:
"Ashley Massaro was booked on PWS' 9/14 event. Her booking entailed valeting The Big O, doing a 50/50 gimmick split for 2 hours before show, and during intermission. Ashley was paid full upon arrival.
Her boyfriend instructed the person operating the autograph table that Ashley was to receive the first $500 collected, in addition to the flat fee she received. This was not per her agreement.
Ashley refused to sign any extra photos. She did valet The Big O, then skipped out before intermission without notifying anyone at PWS."
Massaro said in her explanation on Twitter that she wasn't feeling very well, but still stayed for both of her signings with The Big O before leaving. She also stated that she could not find the promoters anywhere to inform them she was leaving.
Tapout continues: "Several days later, at 3am legit, Ashley's boyfriend (Nick, who is also her manager) texted me saying we 'needed to talk'. Reason he gave was, 'It was unfair that dude at the door collected $20 admission and Ashley didn't get a cut because she's the crowd getter'.
I responded with, 'You do understand there were a dozen ex-WWE names on the show, Mr. Belding, and a ton of smart mark wrestlers, right?'
Her boyfriend responded with, 'Nah, they come to see Ash'.
After a discussion with my partner, Pat Buck, the decision was reached to remove Ashley from our 10/11 Bombshell Ladies of Wrestling (BLOW) event. Ashley has since picked up a booking at NYC Comic Con, so honestly, it was a win-win for both of us.
I was appalled that she was ranting on Twitter about the situation without being honest."
WrestleZone.com's Bill Pritchard was in attendance and thinks it was shortly after the second match(the match she accompanied Big O to the ring), no longer, that Massaro was around before leaving, but her departure time is unconfirmed.
In the purely speculative column, the word going around the locker room is that Massaro might have been nervous and left early due to Reby Sky (Matt Hardy's girlfriend) being there. Some are claiming Massaro might have been worried Sky would approach her regarding things Ashley said about her in the past. That clearly hasn't been confirmed by Massaro, and Reby Sky has not commented on the situation either.
Eric Tapout did add that any fan wanting a refund because Ashley Massaro will not be on the card can make a request through www.prowrestlingsyndicate.com, and they'll be happy to return your money.

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I have an Amish Country spa with a Brett Aqualine EM-203T pack. I cannot get tha spa temperature above 97 degrees. It heats up fast, but stops at 97. All other spa functions work fine. I tried removing the filter and it makes no difference. I can get more heat by removing the capillary bulb from the tube, fooling the thermostat. So I know the heater element is good. I am wondering if there is an adjustment on the thermostat itself, and how do I get to it. I have read that on some thermostats there is a set screw to adjust heater shut off temperature. On my spa, does the top of the side control panel come off along with the dial, and access would be from the top, or do I have to remove all the components from the bottom of the control box? Or is there some other potential cause that I have overlooked? Please, any info would be appreciated.
It sounds like it may be the thermostat. I have seen different schematics for this system. Is your thermostat located on the front of the controller? Does your system have a seperate "heat" time clock? If so, is the timer operating?
I do not have a schematic for the topside. I was only able to find one for the thermostat located on the controller. In most spas the topside would adhere to the spa by an adhesive gasket. So can be removed by lifting up on it, you may need to use a small screw driver or tool to pry it up. I do not know if there is an adjustment switch on this thermostat.
That looks like the type of panel you remove by lifting it up. I do not know if there would be any type of adjustment. Normally if the thermostat goes bad it is replaced. You do not want to make any adjustment where the water can get too hot and burn you. That is why most do not have an adjustment.
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Spill by Ívar Valgarðsson (b. 1954) comprises three murals of drips of paint which have trickled onto the floor in Gallery A at the Reykjavík Art Museum's Hafnarhús site, plus three photographs. Ívar focuses a digital microscope camera, designed for scientific research, on the paint-drips, and projects the images onto the walls in real time – as a kind of magnified digital paintings of the drips. In this way he draws attention to the paint that has been spilt. He makes use of the painter's mistakes, when painting the walls of the space, by returning the drips to the wall.
Spill is, like Ívar's previous works, well-considered and lyrical. The artist is enchanted by the creativity embodied in the formation and development of the manmade environment – high-tension cables transporting electricity from one region to another, splashes of oil on the street, layers of paint on walls, or, as here, drops of paint which have dripped to the floor. Ívar is thus attracted above all to the mutability, and the cycle, of materials and ideas.
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Last week, the Special Education Parent Teacher Organization (SEPTO) was blatantly trying to make me mad.
And it worked.
I was jealous of the "smarty pants," frustrated by my own inabilities and I harbored animosity for my instructors who, arguably, were just trying to do their jobs. Learning was not fun. I wanted no part in it.
But, that was the point.
At this SEPTO event, titled "Take a Walk in Their Shoes" and presented by Lynn Burke of the International Dyslexia Association, I, along with 48 other teachers and parents from across the East End, were put through situations designed to make learning tough.
"These are contrived circumstances," Burke initially informed the crowd. "But, they're designed to let people experience what it's like to be dyslexic."
I sat at a table with half a dozen others, including two out-of-work, recently certified teachers and two mothers from Southampton.
Knowing full well that the exercises we would be put through would be difficult — only moments before we began, Burke told me that a Sag Harbor teacher had become nauseous earlier in the day when asked to perform these same tasks — I vowed to remain calm, cool and collected.
I may not pass with flying colors, I told myself, but I would at least be able to avoid the onset of nausea.
By the time the first exercise — called the "unfair hearing test" — began, I could see how one could succumb to illness.
Seated around a standard boom box in the far corner of the Pierson Library, surrounded by other groups of highly audible people who made no allocations for the fact that we were actually being expected to decipher sound, our task was theoretically very simple: listen to 10 words as they're spoken, then write them down.
The list was repeated three times, the words spoken at various frequencies, and, naturally, the recording was fuzzy — which became the blame for my utter ineptitude.
The first word, we eventually learned, was "fill." I had captured the sound in my head as "arrow" at first, and then as "bill." The second word, "catch," I had heard on all three occasions as "cat."
It got worse.
"Juice" had sounded at first like "sleep" and then as "tooth." And the word "shows" sounded different all three times I heard it: "say," "toes" and then — it horrifies me to admit it — "seven." (I have no idea.)
It was a pitiful show. But at least I could blame my struggle on the ambient noise. During the next few painstaking stations, it was just me: my eyes and my brain.
At one station, we were asked to read a short paragraph out loud; but, complicating matters, of course, the words had all been written backwards, and we didn't have mirrors. (Most of us — struggling to progress from one word to the next — failed the brief reading comprehension test at the end of the story.)
The mirrors were saved for another station, where were forced to trace letters while looking at our papers through a mirror reflection.
At this point in the evening, I was thrilled by the fact that my relatively squiggly pencil marks didn't venture outside the generously thick, black letters on the page. In fact, I was doing pretty well until I got to the very bottom of the lower-case 'q,' right where the tail flips up. For some reason my fingers were paralyzed, my pencil refusing to veer ever so slightly right. My hand simply wouldn't do what I was internally screaming at it to do.
But, as frustrating as it was, the coded reading station was the worst.
The first page of our story packet contained a simple sentence written in plain, old, regular English. However, various words were followed by random assortments of symbols. These codes, we learned, were used throughout the rest of the story in place of the English words they were associated with. The frequency of the coded words grew as we progressed through the story. Once I figured that out, all effort to engage in the text completely vanished.
And then I was called upon to read.
Others in the group had already pled frustration and passed. I figured I'd give it a shot. Staring at the page, I stuttered, pausing for what felt like minutes at a time as I flipped through the pages of the text, looking for the words I needed to decode the words in the sentence.
"The…." I flipped to the first page. Not there. Where was the damn word?!
"Books," one girl in our group chimed in. She did this a lot.
"Good job," our instructor praised. She then turned back to me, "How does that make you feel?"
I wanted to punch the table. I had never wanted to punch a table. But I did then.
According to Burke often times dyslexia either goes unrecognized or isn't properly addressed.
"We're about 20 to 40 percent of the population," Burke continued. And while she estimated 60 percent of those who have dyslexia are able to conjure up a language that allows them to translate what they see into something they can understand, Burke said the other 40 percent "struggle."
"Forty percent of kids in fourth grade are reading below grade level," she added. "And once it gets to that point, it doesn't change."
After the excruciating bout of exercises that night, I spoke with Erin Albanese, a special education teacher who is currently working as a substitute teacher while looking for full-time teaching work.
"The students are frustrated all the time," she said. "They're lost in space," she continued, and when they don't have answers and can't do their work, "they run to the bathroom, or to the water fountain. They have trouble expressing themselves."
Our group eventually learned that the "smarty pants" among us was actually a reading teacher who said she used the various tools she gives her students to decipher the foreign words we encountered at each station. She knew the word I was searching for was "books," for example, because the image associated with that page of text contained books.
Burke concluded the evening by stressing the importance of recognizing dyslexia and other learning disabilities and addressing each situation appropriately. Understanding what students struggle with is key, she added, because there are tools out there to help students learn.
"It's important that you learn as much as you can about dyslexia," Burke stated. "And try to spread the word."


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Why we need to apply behavioural science to help stop gun killingsIn this guest post Simon Corbett argues behavioural science shows why incidents like the Charleston massacre won't stop in the US until gun laws are changed. "If he didn't have a gun then he would have made an IED or just found another way… he was crazy and intent to take lives" That is almost certainly not true and BJ Fogg, head of persuasion technology at Stanford University can explain to us why. Not that any pro-gun morons are going to listen.
The Aussie Cannes Lions haul is the lowest in four years - so do we suck at creativity?Australia took home the least Cannes Lions from Cannes in four years, but it's the categories there was success in which tells the real story argues Mumbrella editor Alex Hayes. It's probably quite telling that the first thing I saw about this year's Cannes Lions after ending a two-week media blackout yesterday was that tweet of a couple getting it on on the red carpet at the Palais. Telling because there hasn't exactly been a lot to shout about for the reporters who made the 24-hour journey to the south of France from an awards perspective - just 59 overall and not a Grand Prix amongst them.
The ABC versus News Corp and Abbott: This farce is about politics, not terrorismThis week's scandal over Q&A's decision to allow a former radical on air is being fuelled by cynical self-interest on the part of the Government and News Corp, argues Mumbrella's Tim Burrowes. So I'm an idiot. On Tuesday, when the ABC admitted it had blundered over the previous night's Q&A episode, I told all and sundry: "That was smart. Now it'll be a one-day story and everybody will move on." That's not quite how it turned out.
Why the new business beauty contest is bullshitAgencyland's relentless focus on new business and pitching is increasingly hurting both clients and agencies alike, argues Nic Christensen. If there's one question I get from agency bosses, more than any other, it is this: "Any new gossip on what's pitching?" After two and half years at Mumbrella, and close to four years as a media/marketing writer, you get accustomed to the fact that agency heads - be they media or creative - always have one eye on potential new business. But what worries me is the growing pressure on agencies to deliver a big, fat, fresh new piece of meat, (aka a major client), every couple of months.
Video battlelines: prime time vs all the timeVideo streaming has had regular headlines this year but James Wainwright argues the battle for video audiences is more complex than many have recognised. Listening to the heads of the major SVOD brands speak at Mumbrella360, it was apparent that the TV industry isn't on the brink of one war, it's on the brink of two.
Piracy: Dispelling myths, why people pirate and the reasons behind the new lawsPiracy hit the headlines once again this week after new website blocking laws passed parliament. In this in-depth look at the issue, Miranda Ward asks who pirates content, what impact it has on the media industry and what practical steps can be taken in the fight to protect copyright. "I pirate because it allows me to access television shows almost immediately after they air overseas," says Elise, a 31-year-old school teacher. "I do it simply because it has become habit. If TV Networks had adapted to the market quicker, like five years ago when broadband became fast enough to pirate, and had more diverse programming - then maybe I would not have started pirating." On Monday night, the Senate passed new legislation aimed at stopping the likes of Elise from accessing pirated content online. But, already, critics have noted the new laws have potential loopholes and could even drive people towards using virtual private networks (VPNs) in an attempt to continue accessing pirated content.
There are better ways to combat piracy than blocking websitesThe new anti-piracy laws, passed this week, allow rights holders to go court to block overseas websites but Marc C-Scott argues there are better ways of tackling the issue. The Senate passed controversial anti-piracy legislation, the Copyright Amendment (Online Infringement) Bill 2015, last night. But it's not so clear whether the legislation will actually achieve its stated ends of reducing piracy, and it might be easily circumvented by the public. Arguably, the media industry can do more to prevent piracy by making content more easily accessible rather than quixotic efforts to block it using legislation.
Why addressable TV poses a bigger threat to TV networks than any video streaming serviceThe future of television has become a ongoing issue for our industry but Paul Wilkinson argues that the medium's future revenue lies in buyers being able to buy on demographic and behavioural information. Disruption in the TV sector raises a multitude of questions such as how will the split between linear TV, SVOD and Catch Up etc play out in the next five years? How will we trade TV? What will be our currency when the TARP goes by the wayside? Will we even call it TV? But one point stands out to me more than any other: "The future of TV advertising is 'addressable'." This is something I've heard more and more about in recent months, and as a media buyer, I love the concept.
When did 'advertising' become a dirty word?Is adland afraid of using the word "advertising"? Sean Cummins argues the industry needs to take more pride in what it does. What's wrong with "advertising?" I don't mean the industry (although there is definitely a lot to talk about there), I mean the word "advertising." Because that is the business I am in, but I seldom hear the word these days. Instead, I hear everyone saying every word under the sun but the a-word.
YouTube could change the way we broadcast sport in AustraliaLast week Mumbrella revealed that Google and the NRL had discussed the online behemoth potentially bidding on the code's sports rights. In this cross post from The Conversation Marc C-Scott from Victoria University looks at what the implications of such a bid might be.
Third time lucky as News Corp delivers a low drama leadership changePeter Tonagh and Michael Miller are the low risk, logical choice to lead News Corp, writes Mumbrella's Tim Burrowes. The surprising thing about today's changes in management at News Corp is how unsurprising it all was. Contrast that with the drama of the Kim Williams firing in 2013 and the end-of-an-era feel to John Hartigan's exit in 2011.
'Mobilegeddon' is here to stay so how do you build an ad strategy for a mobile first world?The media industry often talks about the importance of mobile but Vishan Jayasinghe argues social media companies are the ones best nailing the mobile format in the advertising space. So much has been made about the underinvestment of mobile as an advertising channel. In fact Mia Freedman at the recent Mumbrella360 conference lamented how mobile dominates the 'time-spent' stat, yet only received 15 per cent of advertising spend. I don't blame her. Even despite 'mobilegeddon' being here to stay, it still seems that the normal response to add mobile to a plan has long been, and will still involve, taking a tiny portion out of the usual display budget and using a poor quality gif, or the accidental click-magnet MREC.
The four pillars of the new world of marketingEarlier this week Carolyn Bendall the ANZ's head of marketing spoke at CMO Disrupt, in this cross posting from ANZ Bluenotes, she discusses whether marketing is more science, art or a combination of the two. When you look at how the world is changing through technology – and the pace of change – people are now consuming and utilising media, sharing information, making decisions, engaging with brands and purchasing products in ways we never dreamt of 20 years ago.
The death of the focus group?Focus groups research get a lot of criticism but is part of the problem the way the discussions are being conducted asks Kreab Research's Pete Wilson. "The cost of everything is going up. Like petrol. On the weekend we can't afford to fill up the V8 anymore so we have to take the V6 out instead." So said a recent focus group participant from Western Sydney when asked what issues were concerning her. In many cases the term 'focus group' itself has become a pejorative verb. Indeed ideas, policies and campaigns are said to be 'focus grouped to death.'
Publishers in push for premium advertising network
Leading Australian online publishers Mi9, Yahoo!7, Fairfax Media and News Limited are in confidential talks to create a premium advertising market in a move designed to challenge the display network of digital behemoth Google, reports The Australian.
According to the newspaper, talks between the parties are so advanced that names for the marketplace are already under discussion. A new platform would provide advertisers with a way to easily buy premium online advertising space at high volumes/
It is understood senior executives from three of the four companies travelled to New York last month for meetings with a technology company to provide the real-time bidding technology that would power the exchange.
Mi9 chief executive Mark Britt has told newspaper talks are underway. "While there's nothing to announce, we think it'd be a great thing to bring the power of technology and real-time bidding together for premium digital media in Australia," Britt told The Australian.
Globally established digital publishers have been losing share to Google and its dominant DoubleClick Ad Exchange.
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I don't know to be honest. It was just the episode that was on the BBC iPlayer last night.mspanners wrote:Is it this months episode? My sky box fail to record it! Thanks for the link.....
Darn it, I was trying to remember what we call it. My mind went blank.poohcarrot wrote:...or the Plough (as we say in England )
Wikipedia wrote:In both Ireland and Great Britain, this pattern is known as the Plough or sometimes the Saucepan. It is also occasionally referred to as the Butcher's Cleaver in northern England. In Ireland the figure is sometimes called the Starry Plough and has been used as a political symbol. Known as Charles his waine in some areas of England, it was formerly called by the old name Charles' Wain[1] ("wain" meaning "wagon," and derived from the still older Carlswæn), as it still is in Scandinavia, Karlavagnen, Karlsvogna, or Karlsvognen. In the northeast of England it is sometimes known as Charlie's Waggon. A folk etymology holds that it was named after Charlemagne, but this common Germanic name meant the men's wagon (the churls' wagon), in contrast to the women's wagon (the Little Dipper).[2][3] An older Odin's Wain may have preceded these Nordic designations.[1] Similarly, in Romanian and most Slavic languages it is known as "the Great Wagon", as opposed to "the Small Wagon," the Little Dipper. In German it is called Großer Wagen (Great Cart).
In Dutch, its official name is Grote Beer ( Big Bear), but often called Steelpannetje (saucepan), because of its resemblance to the utensil.
In Finland the figure is known as Otava and widely used as a cultural symbol. In Finnish dialects, the word otava means a 'salmon net', but this word is largely obsolete in modern Finnish.
In Hungary, it is commonly called Göncölszekér ("Göncöl's cart") after a figure in Hungarian mythology, a táltos who carried medicines in his cart that could cure any disease.[4]
These seven stars (septentriones, from the phrase septem triōnēs, meaning "seven plough oxen"[5]) are the origin of the Latin word septentriōnēs meaning "north" and now found as the adjective septentrional (northern) in English, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. This etymology goes back to a passage in Varro (Marcus Terentius) who explains that triōn- (a word not attested elsewhere) means "plough ox" and derives the form from terō, one of whose meanings is "thresh grain by rubbing". The derivation is acceptable (Latin short vowels often syncopate before -r- in medial syllables), but the meaning, if Varro is right about the root derivation, is surely "threshing ox", as the seven stars (oxen) perpetually wheel about the pole star like oxen on a threshing floor. A different etymology appeals to *septem astr-iōn- "seven stars" (aster-), which is not obviously wrong (if lacking poetic inspiration), but the development of *-nstr- to -ntr- is not without problems.
DaveC wrote:Cool. Will check it out when I get home. Don't think I have ever seen a whole episode, only bits. Looking forward to Mastermind on Thursday, am curious as to why DW is suddenly allowed.
polythenegirl wrote:DaveC wrote:Cool. Will check it out when I get home. Don't think I have ever seen a whole episode, only bits. Looking forward to Mastermind on Thursday, am curious as to why DW is suddenly allowed.
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A MAN and his dog were rescued from the sea off Walney after becoming trapped by the tide.
Following a 999 call by a local member of the public at 5.45pm yesterday Walney Coastguard were tasked to investigate a report of a person and a dog in the water north of Earnse Bay at Walney.
The member of the public was concerned for the safety of the person on the incoming tide. On arrival on scene, Walney Coastguard could see objects in the water, but were unable to determine what they were.
An attempt to wade out with water rescue gear was made, but the objects were about 300 metres offshore and too far out to reach. An RAF search and rescue (SAR) helicopter was requested, and Duddon Inshore Rescue were proceeding to scene.
At first the objects appeared to be seals, but then one was identified as an Alsation dog that was recovered, but then kept trying to get back in the water. Paramedic assistance had been requested, and a Sea King helicopter, call sign Rescue 122 was tasked from RAF Valley.
Duddon Inshore Rescue arrived on scene and pulled a male from the water, and returned him to Walney Coastguard waiting on the shore.
The man was found to be still breathing, and taken to Cumbria Ambulance Service paramedics waiting at the car park at Earnse Bay.
Rescue 122 landed at the car park and took the casualty to Furness General Hospital, while the police took care of his dog.
A Walney Coastguard spokesman said: "This was one very lucky man, with three fortunate points working in his favour. Firstly, it was very opportune that he was spotted by the first informant; secondly, his dog wanting to go back in the water suggested that the other of the two objects visible was indeed a person and not a rock or seal as was first thought; and thirdly, to survive for over an hour in water that is still very cold at this time of year is incredible.
"He managed to tell us that he had fallen and injured his knee and was unable to move. His rescue was a good example of inter-service working involving Walney Coastguard assisted by Duddon Inshore Rescue, Cumbria Ambulance Service, Police, and RAF Sea King Rescue 122. We also appreciated the assistance given by Gary Powell of North West Kitesurfing by allowing the use of his facilities at Earnse Bay to shelter the casualty while paramedics stabilised him before transfer to the helicopter."
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It may surprise you to learn that you need water for a boat and there wasn't enough depth to launch the Coastguard's own boat, and would have meant a 40 minute delay bringing it right round Walney, hence the request for Duddon to bring theirs - which is smaller, draws less water, and was much closer.
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RATIONALE: Baclofen-amitriptyline-ketamine (BAK) gel may lessen peripheral neuropathy caused by chemotherapy. It is not yet known whether BAK gel is more effective than a placebo in treating peripheral neuropathy caused by chemotherapy .
PURPOSE: This randomized phase III trial is studying BAK gel to see how well it works compared with a placebo in treating peripheral neuropathy caused by chemotherapy in patients with cancer.
Chronic Myeloproliferative Disorders
Lymphoproliferative Disorder
Multiple Myeloma and Plasma Cell Neoplasm
Myelodysplastic Syndromes
Myelodysplastic/Myeloproliferative Neoplasms
Unspecified Adult Solid Tumor, Protocol Specific
Drug: baclofen/amitriptyline/ketamine gel
Other: placebo
Phase 3
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Masking: Double-Blind
Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
|Official Title:
|The Use of Topical Baclofen, Amitriptyline HCI, and Ketamine (BAK) in a PLO Gel vs. Placebo for the Treatment of Chemotherapy Induced Peripheral Neuropathy: A Phase III Randomized Double-Blind Placebo Controlled Study
- Total sensory neuropathy (area under the curve [AUC]) as measured by the EORTC QLQ-CIPN20 at baseline and week 4 [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Motor neuropathy as measured by the EORTC QLQ-CIPN20 at baseline and week 4 [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Autonomic symptoms and functioning as measured by the EORTC QLQ-CIPN20 at baseline and week 4 [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Mood states and total mood disturbance as measured by the Profile of Mood States-Brief at baseline and week 4 [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Pain severity and interference as measured by the Brief Pain Inventory at baseline and week 4 [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Numbness, tingling, and pain as measured by the Peripheral Neuropathy Questionnaire at baseline and weekly for 4 weeks [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Perception of benefit as measured by the Subject Global Impression of Change at the end of week 4 [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Frequency and severity of adverse events reported by the patient in the Symptom Experience Diary and evaluated through clinical assessment by NCI CTCAE v3.0 [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|February 2008
|Primary Completion Date:
|January 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Arm I
Patients apply 1 spoonful of baclofen-amitriptyline hydrochloride-ketamine gel topically to each area of pain, numbness, and/or tingling on the feet and/or hands twice daily for 4 weeks.
Drug: baclofen/amitriptyline/ketamine gel
Applied topically
Placebo Comparator: Arm II
Patients apply 1 spoonful of placebo gel topically to each area of pain, numbness, and/or tingling on the feet and/or hands twice daily for 4 weeks.
Other: placebo
Applied topically
Detailed Description:
- Compare the effectiveness of baclofen-amitriptyline hydrochloride-ketamine (BAK) gel versus placebo, in terms of improving sensory neuropathy, in cancer patients with chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy.
- Compare motor and autonomic symptoms and functioning, mood states, pain, and peripheral neuropathy in these patients.
- Assess the adverse event profile of topical BAK gel.
- Explore whether topical BAK gel is absorbed systemically.
OUTLINE: Patients are stratified according to neurotoxic chemotherapy (active vs non-active), current use of opioids or oral pain medications (yes vs no), pain rating (4-7 vs 8-10), and prior ineffective pharmacologic treatment for peripheral neuropathy (yes vs no). Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 treatment arms.
- Arm I: Patients apply 1 spoonful of baclofen-amitriptyline hydrochloride-ketamine gel topically to each area of pain, numbness, and/or tingling on the feet and/or hands twice daily for 4 weeks.
- Arm II: Patients apply 1 spoonful of placebo gel topically to each area of pain, numbness, and/or tingling on the feet and/or hands twice daily for 4 weeks.
Some patients in both arms may choose to continue on the active gel or, if on placebo, begin the active gel for an additional 8 weeks off study.
Patients complete health, pain, mood, and quality of life questionnaires at baseline and periodically during study. Patients also record adverse symptoms weekly in a Symptom Experience Diary.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
- Diagnosis of cancer
- Received or currently receiving neurotoxic chemotherapy including, but not limited to, taxanes (e.g., paclitaxel or docetaxel); platinum-based compounds (e.g., carboplatin, cisplatin, or oxaliplatin); vinca alkaloids (e.g., vincristine or vinblastine); or other neurotoxic chemotherapy agents (e.g., bortezomib, lenalidomide, or thalidomide)
Must have pain or symptoms of peripheral neuropathy attributable to chemotherapy for ≥ 1 month
- Neuropathy is limited to either hands and/or feet where gel can be applied
- Neuropathic pain score of ≥ 4 out of 10 on the numbness/tingling/pain numeric analogue scale
- No pre-existing or history of peripheral neuropathy due to any cause other than chemotherapy (e.g., diabetes, alcohol, toxin, heredity)
- ECOG performance status 0-2
- Life expectancy ≥ 4 months
- Creatinine ≤ 1.5 times upper limit of normal
- Not pregnant or nursing
No ability to bear children defined by 1 of the criteria:
- Menopausal (12 months and no menstrual period if natural menopause)
- Underwent a hysterectomy and/or oophorectomy
- Permanent surgical sterilization (tubal ligation)
- Fertile patients must use effective contraception
- Able to complete questionnaires independently or with assistance
- Able to sign informed consent and understand the nature of a placebo-controlled trial
- No history of an allergic reaction to baclofen, amitriptyline hydrochloride, and/or ketamine
- No diagnosis of any New York Heart Association class I-IV congestive heart failure
- No diagnosis of coronary artery disease including, but not limited to, myocardial infarction, within the past 5 years
- No other medical condition that, in the opinion of the treating physician or allied health professional, would make this clinical trial unreasonably hazardous for the patient
- No skin abnormalities at the intended application sites (hands and feet) of study gel (i.e., skin breakdown)
- See Disease Characteristics
More than 30 days since prior anticonvulsants, tricyclic antidepressants, monoamine oxidase inhibitor, or other neuropathic pain medication (e.g., carbamazepine, phenytoin, valproic acid, gabapentin, lamotrigine, topical lidocaine patch or gel, capsaicin cream, or amifostine)
- Patients treated with any of these agents for peripheral neuropathy for ≤ 1 week during the past 30 days are eligible provided they are no longer taking the agent
More than 5 years since prior percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty or coronary artery bypass graft
- Prior heart valve replacement surgery allowed provided patient has fully recovered from the surgery
- No concurrent use of study agents other than as specified in the trial
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00516503
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|Study Chair:
|Debra Barton, RN, PhD, AOCN, FAAN
|Mayo Clinic
Additional Information:
|Responsible Party:
|Charles L. Loprinzi, North Central Cancer Treatment Group
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00516503 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|August 14, 2007
|Last Updated:
|March 17, 2012
|Health Authority:
|United States: Federal Government
Keywords provided by National Cancer Institute (NCI):
unspecified adult solid tumor, protocol specific
accelerated phase chronic myelogenous leukemia
acute undifferentiated leukemia
adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia in remission
adult acute myeloid leukemia in remission
adult acute myeloid leukemia with 11q23 (MLL) abnormalities
adult acute myeloid leukemia with inv(16)(p13;q22)
adult acute myeloid leukemia with t(15;17)(q22;q12)
adult acute myeloid leukemia with t(16;16)(p13;q22)
adult acute myeloid leukemia with t(8;21)(q22;q22)
atypical chronic myeloid leukemia, BCR-ABL1 negative
blastic phase chronic myelogenous leukemia
chronic myelomonocytic leukemia
chronic phase chronic myelogenous leukemia
mast cell leukemia
meningeal chronic myelogenous leukemia
progressive hairy cell leukemia, initial treatment
prolymphocytic leukemia
recurrent adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia
recurrent adult acute myeloid leukemia
recurrent adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma
refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia
refractory hairy cell leukemia
relapsing chronic myelogenous leukemia
secondary acute myeloid leukemia
stage 0 chronic lymphocytic leukemia
stage I adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma
stage I chronic lymphocytic leukemia
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Lymphoproliferative Disorders
Multiple Myeloma
Myelodysplastic Syndromes
Myelodysplastic-Myeloproliferative Diseases
Myeloproliferative Disorders
Neoplasms, Plasma Cell
Neurotoxicity Syndromes
Peripheral Nervous System Diseases
Blood Protein Disorders
Bone Marrow Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases
Chemically-Induced Disorders
Hematologic Diseases
Hemorrhagic Disorders
Hemostatic Disorders
Immune System Diseases
Immunoproliferative Disorders
Lymphatic Diseases
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Nervous System Diseases
Neuromuscular Diseases
Pathologic Processes
Precancerous Conditions
Vascular Diseases
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on July 05, 2015


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Axsium Group Releases Retail Labor Forecasting Playbook
Toronto, ON, August 25, 2010 – Axsium Group Inc., the leading Workforce Management (WFM) consulting firm, today unveiled the Axsium Retail Forecasting Playbook. The Playbook provides retailers with the fundamental tools to tackle the complicated and often overlooked issue of successful forecasting. The Axsium Retail Forecasting Playbook will be featured as a series on Axsium's Retail Blog and it will run over the next several months, with new featured posts every two weeks.
Based on in-depth client project exposure, industry research, and Axsium consultant experience, the Forecasting Playbook will highlight best practices to maximize the effectiveness of your existing forecasting strategy or the foundation for an effective initial approach to forecasting.
"Retailers tend to put a lot of emphasis on forecasting early in a workforce management project, think they can't go back and make meaningful adjustments that will impact the overall approach, but just like every other part of the system it needs to be managed regularly," said Bob Clements, senior principal, Axsium Group. "The reality is, you can create a good forecast without a good schedule, but you can't create a good schedule without a good forecast. Our playbook will offer retailers a step-by-step guide to successful forecasting, with practical solutions and deployable methods."
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To learn more about the Axsium Labor Forecasting Playbook, visit Axsium's Retail Blog. Axsium's WFM Blogs provide an interactive online community that serves as both a resource for information, and a meeting place for all WFM users and experts to discover and share ideas about best practices, by industry. The blog features information on various WFM topics and readers are given the opportunity to share their ideas and views by commenting on the blog posts and opening up discussions with other readers. For more information or to sign up to receive RSS feeds, log on to www.axsiumgroup.com.
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iOwnTheWorld is holding its annual PUK Award contest for the best conservative image of the year. I submitted a few pieces and one of them is currently in one of 14 "cage matches."
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Thirty-something Mikey comes to New York on a business trip and stays in his parents' downtown loft. When his consulting job is finished, instead of returning home to his wife and newborn, Mikey finds an excuse to stay on. And on. Holed up in his childhood bedroom, Mikey prefers life before responsibilities to life the way it is. But, his parents' growing unease and the mounting pressure from his own family threatens his temporary break from reality.
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CS Colloquium 10/11/2013 "Integrated Access to Web Databases"Posted Oct. 9, 2013
Integrated Access to Web Databases
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The Web consists of millions of databases accessible through special Web query interfaces. In recent years, there have been much efforts in developing techniques to make the data in these databases accessible in an integrated manner. In this talk, I will first compare the two leading paradigms in achieving such an integrated access, Surfacing and Metasearching. Surfacing applies deep crawling techniques to collect data from these Web databases and indexes them just like regular Web pages for centralized search. Metasearching provides a mechanism to interact with multiple Web databases and gather results from them for each query in an integrated manner on the fly. Then I will outline the main research problems under the metasearching paradigm and report some of our more recent efforts/results in tackling some of these research problems, including automatic annotation of the search results and system prototying. I will also briefly introduce some ongoing work and future directions in this topic.
Weiyi Meng is currently a professor in the Department of Computer Science of the State University of New York at Binghamton. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science at University of Illinois at Chicago in 1992. His research interests include metasearch engines, Web database integration systems, Internet-based information retrieval, information trustworthiness analysis, Web data quality, Web information extraction, sentiment analysis, and database management system. He is the co-author of three books "Deep Web Query Interface Understanding and Integration", "Advanced Metasearch Engine Technology" and "Principles of Database Query Processing for Advanced Applications". He has also published over 120 research papers. He was a PC chair of the 2013 DASFAA conference and is the chair of the steering committee of the WAIM conference series.


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sustainability > Center Partners with City to Bring STAR Community Index to St. Louis
|From left, Catherine Werner, sustainability director for the City of St. Louis, John Sondag, president of AT&T Missouri, Tim Keane, executive director of the Center for Sustainability, Mayor Francis Slay and Paul Dickinson, executive chairman of the Carbon Disclosure Project, announced a research project to test a new sustainability software platform designed to help the city develop a comprehensive sustainability plan..
Thanks in large part to support from the Center for Sustainability at Saint Louis University, the City of St. Louis was chosen as one of only ten cities nationally to participate in the development of the STAR Community Index software platform, a tool that local governments across the globe will use to help create the sustainable cities of the future.
The developing organization, ICLEI, was founded in 1990 as the "International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives" at the United Nations' first "World Congress of Local Governments for a Sustainable Future." Since then, ICLEI has grown to represent more than 1,200 local governments across 70 countries in sustainable development initiatives like the creation of the STAR Community Index software.
The city's participation in the STAR Community Index project is being supported by the Center for Sustainability at SLU with seed funding, as well as hands-on research through the "REAL Partners" program, an initiative that provides research support from the Center's graduate students. The STAR Community Index software will help the city's sustainability efforts through the measuring and tracking of local sustainability assets and barriers, with the goal of integrating the data into a long-term sustainable development plan for the region.
According to Tim Keane, Ph.D., executive director the Center, this initiative fits perfectly with their mission and strategic objectives.
"The Center for Sustainability is seeking collaborations with sustainability thought leaders, both inside SLU and externally, that recognize we are a society in crisis. Tools like the STAR Community Index help quantify the urgency, and support actions to replenish, not deplete, our ecosystem resources," Keane said.
As part of the initiative, the City of St. Louis released the results of its Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions Inventory back to 2005 as a baseline to benchmark progress in reducing its carbon footprint and show how the city is utilizing technology to minimize its impact on the environment.
"It is important that we know our impact on the environment so we can measure our progress, focus where we can make the most improvement, and know which initiatives are working and which are not," said Mayor Francis Slay.
The Center for Sustainability offers a master of sustainability degree and supports inter-disciplinary research that has the potential to solve sustainability-related issues in society.
For more information about the Center's degree options or research collaboration opportunities, please visit sustainability.slu.edu or call 314-977-3608.
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It looks like it. I figured there had to be a slightly better way, I've
just never been motivated to find one because I can usually get what I
want from the find and grep, and because I felt more in-control by using
the grep utility I've used a long time than having to learn a new
command, simple though it may be.
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012, Alex Mandel wrote:
> Isn't this what locate does?
> assuming the db is up to date, and if it isn't
> sudo updatedb
> locate somefile.txt
> Thanks,
> Alex
> On 02/24/2012 01:05 PM, Chris Jenks wrote:
>> Dear Bruce,
>> I expect that your question has been satisfied already, but one general
>> fast strategy I use to find files (though I expect there are others as
>> fast) is to create a text file of my full file system by executing:
>> sudo find> dir.txt
>> in my root directory (/) from a command shell. This creates a text file
>> with all the files in my file system (of the main system drive), at least
>> as of that time, and I can then use grep to locate file names without
>> having to actually search the entire system, which would take much longer.
>> I like this strategy because of its simplicity and availability from the
>> command line, which I use often.
>> Yours,
>> Chris
>> On Thu, 23 Feb 2012, Bruce Wolk wrote:
>>> I am trying to find the location of an executable file named
>>> mkvirtualenv. If I run "locate mkvirtualenv" it does not find it. If I
>>> run "sudo find . -name mkvirtualenv" from the root directory it does not
>>> find it. "which mkvirtualenv" yields nothing. But if I type mkvi<tab>,
>>> bash completion completes it and it will execute from any directory.
>>> Can someone explain to me what is going on? I am using Ubuntu 10.04.
>>> Thanks.
>>> Bruce Wolk
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