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Growing concern about the effects of automation on employment and wages has more Americans looking favorably upon universal basic income - guaranteed pay regardless of one's income level.
Though the concept has not gained significant traction among U.S. politicians, nearly half of Americans support the idea, and that percentage is likely to grow.
Via Futurism:
Universal Basic Income (UBI) is a concept in which all citizens receive a set income, no matter their occupation, financial history, housing, demographics, or any other qualifier. It is a concept that has been lauded by people like Richard Branson, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg and criticized by people like Joe Biden. The hotly debated concept may seem far-fetched, but Scotland is already trialing a program to test it.
In the U.S., the town of Stockton, California is planning to roll out a trial of its own, slated to begin in August of this year. And according to recent polling, plenty of Americans think this could be a good way to combat job losses due to automation.
In a 2018 Gallup and Northeastern University poll, 48 percent of Americans agreed that a universal income program is a positive solution.
But the news is not as rosy as it appears on its face:
While just below half are in favor, the majority disagreed about the use of UBI. More so, while an overwhelming 65 percent of Democrats support the concept of a universal income, only 28 percent of Republicans do, according to this poll.
And beyond agreeing on whether or not to implement such a program, Americans would have to agree on how to pay for it.
Only 45 percent of those polled would be willing to pay higher taxes to fund such a program. Interestingly enough, however, 80 percent of those who are in favor of a universal income also expect that business who benefit from artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous technologies should pay for it.
This line of thinking aligns with the concept of a "robot tax,"something that Bill Gates overwhelmingly supports. The thinking behind this is that, because a human worker pays taxes, automation could lead to both job loss and a severe blow to government finances.
In the meantime, automation continues to enter industry at an almost dizzying pace, bringing with it both positive and negative impacts.
Presently, 77% are "mostly positive" or "very positive" about AI's impact, yet it's clear that automation will lead to job losses at rates we have never experienced before. While not everyone agrees on the prospect of UBI, solutions must be found.


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Artist's description:
Sister painting to the painting, "Amore". This painting is sold UNFRAMED. It has been wrap around painted on the sides so you may hang it on the wall as is… unframed. Sides are colored ……….. Although sold UNFRAMED, I have included a picture of it framed in a conceptual pic. This will give you a better idea what it will look like should you choose to have it framed before hanging it on a wall as well as a representation of the size.
If you are interested in this artwork..... be sure to use the "MAKE OFFER" button next to my profile picture on each page of the item. RESPECTABLE offers considered.
For international orders, contact me for additional shipping cost discussion if your country is not included in my global shipping table.
*** International Buyers*** Import duties, taxes and charges are not included in the item price or shipping cost. These charges are the buyer's responsibility. You can research the duty and tax the artworks will be liable for on .
All large size paintings that are international orders will be removed from the wood frame, rolled up and shipped in a shipping tube. You will have to have it reframed.
Contact me here on Artfinder for possible Commission work.
NOTE: AMENDED SHIPPING INFORMATION! All items will either be shipped by UPS or the USPS (UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE}. Because of fluctuating shipping costs I will use the one most applicable for each artwork.
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Materials used:
stretched canvas, acrylic paints
Commission- "WHEN THE MOON HITS YOUR EYE LIKE A BIG PIZZA PIE!" (2015)
Acrylic painting by William F. Adams
$1,000 Sold
- Acrylic painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 20 x 16 x 0.75 in (unframed)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the front
- Style: Impressionistic
- Subject: People and portraits
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This artwork has sold, but the artist is accepting commission requests. Commissioning an artwork is easy and you get a perfectly personalised piece.
Do you like this artwork?
This artwork has sold, but the artist is accepting commission requests. Commissioning an artwork is easy and you get a perfectly personalised piece.
This artwork is sold by William Adams from United States

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This open front luxe lace kimono is made to wear without boarders & as the name suggests, is our go to travel piece. Small enough to scrunch up and store in your carry-on. Throw over any outfit for simple & luxurious bohemian style. 100% white cotton lace & cotton embroidery is soft to the touch & makes this beauty naturally breathable. Simple but stunning mandala detailing cascades the design from top to toe & brings attention to detail. Oversized fit with draping sleeves, scalloped trim & vintage lace details.
We can't take ours off and pair it back with a simple black dress and slides or chuck over denim, a white tee like the ilona lace & white sneakers for ultimate laid back weekend style. Where in the world will you go? Without Boarders and full of freedom just how we like it.
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Tetra Pendant Light
Tetra Pendant Light
Trico Collection
Dimensions: 18" x 18" x 19"
Output: 725 Lumens (as pictured, higher output available)
Source: Low Profile LEDs (6W)
Color Temperature: 2600K, 4200K, 5800K
Prices currently do not include shipping. After ordering we will be in contact to arrange shipping.
The Tetra Pendant comes standard with 6 illuminated members with a total output of 725 lumens. We also offer a fully illuminated option with 12 illuminated members for a total output of 1450 lumens. The fully illuminated option costs an additional $500. Please contact us at email@example.com if interested in this custom option.
To offer the largest number of finish options all of our lights are made to order. Our standard lead time is 6-8 weeks. In some situations we can rush the order. When adding the lights to the cart you will be prompted to answer several questions on delivery including the option to rush the order. For interior designers who wish to order product for a project, but do not want to warehouse the lights until install we also offer an extended lead time option with a gaurenteed delivery date.
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Yesterday's view of Gomer Street was on the South Side Slopes in Pittsburgh. This is the last street on the South Side Flats and it faces the first thrust of the hill that's called Mt. Washington, a steep and in some places nearly vertical natural high wall cliff above the Monongahela River.
Here a long and narrow street houses two- and three-story row houses off into the distance customized over the decades, looking straight into a tree-covered hill. At the top of that hill, at about roof level of these houses, is a single railroad line frequently carrying freight cars.
I liked the feel of it in black and white, a lot of contrasting detail. And the houses and the telephone pole really are leaning backward just a little bit.


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Our positive classrooms are staffed by amazing teachers who go beyond teaching technique to developing important life skills in students because Allison's Dance Academy is More Than Just Great Dancing! Backgrounds in tumbling/acro/gymnastics preferred. Dependability, professionalism, creativity, punctuality, and friendliness a must!
Competitive pay. Evening hours. Applications are currently being accepted!
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DIY Colorblock Clips
In my room, I don't really have an overall color palette. I tend to just go with whatever I like and sometimes I get lucky when colors match up. Or as John points out I'm going through a purple phase, or green phase. Now, it's the GOLD phase.
I cannot get enough of gold accent pieces. Here's a short list of gold things I own and use daily: my Fossil watch, a thin ring, my Russel + Hazel planner, my big keychain, my purse has gold metal, my wallet has gold on it, I love a gold nail polish, gold sandals and flats... You name it. I'll take it in gold.
Two Christmas' ago I wanted, and was gifted from my Mom, a 12 piece set of these black frames from Target. I was getting so many photos printed, beginning to gather art prints and starting to frame greeting cards. I got these frames, and have switched the photos and the layout several times but the collection of things I want to display has grown larger than just those 12 frames. I even started to just washi tape things up!
I've seen many people use push pins and binder clips to display their photos and art, and I thought to myself... GOLD. I could do GOLD binder clips. GENIUS! After researching the idea, I quickly realized I could buy gold binder clips. Wah wah. I could not stop laughing at myself and I felt sad I couldn't justify doing this project anymore. I thought about it for days, asked all of my friends and woke up Saturday morning desperate to find a way to pull off this DIY. Finally, my mom told me the truth "Everything has already been done.. you have to find your twist on the project." Then I got the idea: Today I'm sharing how to color block spray paint these binder clips!
Supply List:
- binder clips (I did a combo of small and medium.)
- spray paint (this is the one I used and I enjoyed it!)
- tape (I used scotch masking tape because that is what I had)
- cardboard boxes (tip: go to Starbucks and ask if you could have one of theirs! works like a charm!)
- clear push pins
- Clip all of your binder clips over the edges of the box.
- Use tape to cover the section you want to remain black or white. Try straight lines or angles! Make sure your tape is completely pressed down on the clip, and be sure the edges of your tape are straight to make your painting more precise and clean looking.
- Use a large strip of tape to cover the outside metal part of the clip. Make sure any part of the clip you don't want painted is covered.
- Read the directions on your spray paint first, shake the can, and spray!
- Let it dry for the recommended amount, or longer if you're overly cautious like me. This spray took about 30 minutes to dry.
- Carefully remove the outside long strip of tape and the inside too. Then carefully remove the tape you used to do the designs.
& TA-DA! Fancy new gold color-blocked binder clips!
(After they have completely dried, you may notice some spots that need to be sprayed again or maybe the design didn't turn out as crisp as you hoped. Go ahead and try again. I had some that I went back and resprayed and I was glad I did!)
I took down all of my frames and various wabi-taped prints. Then used clear push pins and my new gold clips to hang a fresh looking little gallery! For this, I think it's best not to over think, or try to perfect, the arrangement. I started with my larger prints in the middle, and randomly placed all of my other things.
I will always love this photo of John and I, so I made sure it was in my view when I'm sitting at my desk. Just above the photo is a print, by Hammer Press- a message I needed to read daily.
Here's another close up shot showing some of the solid gold clips. & The top right photo features little me with my parents at the St. Louis Zoo. You can tell it's me by the tie-dye shirt, the curly hair, and my pouty face! It's one of my favorite photos from my childhood.
I'm extremely pleased with my simple new gallery. I'm hoping to order some newer photo prints and I know I'll be collecting more prints! I was truly ecstatic about this project & I hope you enjoy it too! I'd be happy to answer any questions. If you make your own clips, please send me photos!


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Retail Fitouts at Airports - Here's 5 Gems of Wisdom
Get On Board!
Setting up a Retail outlet in an Airport Terminal is a little different from one in a Shopping Centre or a Shopping Strip.
There are similarities but definite differences.
If the opportunity arises to take up an airport lease, consider these 5 gems of wisdom before you undertake your commercial shop fitout.
We think they're worth passing on, after having completed retail fitouts in an airport setting and having knowledge of shopper behaviour.
1. There's time to spare.
Most passengers are idle for a short while, waiting for a flight and are ready to be distracted by what's on offer.
This brief window of opportunity is there for the taking, so your shopfront and retail layout should be attractive enough to trigger their interest.
2. It's a different world.
There's a definite change of environment once you step into an airport terminal. It's a fairly obvious contrast with life "outside" and normal routine.
A high quality shop fitout should reflect this difference to set a different mood with creative flair.
Setting a mood with a subtle cultural flavour is another idea. If the Airport is located on the Coast, for instance, then let your customers "feel" the sand and the beach within your fitout.
3. It's a captive audience!
Your customer base will walk past your shopfront, regardless of bad weather, public holidays, special events and so on.
You actually know that they are going to front up, so you can plan for an influx at particular times.
Clever marketing strategies and excellent shop display come into play here. Take advantage of all of these "prime times".
4. There's money to spend!
Most passengers have spare change. The majority are quite happy to spend before stepping aboard a flight.
There's always those who need to buy food and drink to kill time, purchase gifts for someone back home, or treat themselves to a new item of clothing or jewellery to make the trip complete.
Retailers need to take advantage of this diversity of reasons when thinking about their internal shop layout.
Make it easy for your customers to sit in a relaxed mood over a coffee, to seek out merchandise quickly and easily, or to try on items of clothing in a short space of time.
5. You'll need to be aware of flight schedules.
This will help in catering for the arrival and departure of different cultural groups.
For instance, menu board offerings or merchandise display need to be flexible enough so that they can be reconfigured to suit the tastes of the varying groups of passengers who arrive and depart at different times of the day or the week.
So, it's a different retail landscape, being part of the commercial scene at an airport.
It's a narrower band of customers to deal with, but a very motivated one.
Get on board to create a retail fitout which really works in this setting!
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My New Love
I planted my plot at Rutgers Gardens on a cool, cloudy Saturday with intermittent showers. The perfect day for setting out seedlings. A thunderstorm the following afternoon thoroughly drenched the Gardens, perfect for helping seedlings get settled into their new home. The weather forecast for the week leading up to the Memorial Day holiday is not as favorable. No rain and rising temperatures. I went to the Gardens this morning to water. I gave my plants a long drink of water, dragged the hose over to the other volunteer's plot that was planted the same day and gave it a long drink of water too.
Then I took a walk. I've been looking forward to seeing the Rhododendron and Azalea Garden in bloom.
I like them much better in a woodland setting than in the typical suburban landscape. The colors seem more interesting than jarring.
I can appreciate their unique forms so much better in a naturalistic setting.
The path I was on led into the Native Plants area.From there it was a few short steps to the Sun and Shade Garden.
My last stop was the new Tribute Gardens, still being built. They will be a series of "outdoor rooms". Right now they are working on the "Recreation Room" which will have a pair of oversized Adirondack chairs. And that's where I saw them.
It took me a few minutes to recognize what I was looking at because I had only ever seen them in catalogs. Single peonies.
They are among those very rare flowers that look better in person than in pictures
I've added them to my wishlist for next year. Yes, I have a list for next year already! I'm trying to be more organized about gardening. Instead of wracking my brains during the winter trying to remember all those great plants I wanted to try and/or where I wanted to plant them, I'm making a list as I go along. It has the plants, where I can order/buy them and where I would like to plant them. In some cases, like these peonies, I have no idea where I would like to plant them, just that I HAVE to have them.
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The Atrium Cafe' is wonderful for breakfast and lunch and with its unique menu and friendly staff you're sure to enjoy your visit! The cafe' is not just for the tenants of the Commonwealth Commerce Center, but is open to the general public. You can also call in your order for your convenience.
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ERIC Number: ED563254
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2015-Dec
Pages: 9
Abstractor: As Provided
Analysis of Scientific Attitude, Computer Anxiety, Educational Internet Use, Problematic Internet Use, and Academic Achievement of Middle School Students According to Demographic Variables
Bekmezci, Mehmet; Celik, Ismail; Sahin, Ismail; Kiray, Ahmet; Akturk, Ahmet Oguz
Online Submission, International Journal of Social, Behavioral, Educational, Economic, Business and Industrial Engineering v9 n12 p4006-4014 2015
In this research, students' scientific attitude, computer anxiety, educational use of the Internet, academic achievement, and problematic use of the Internet are analyzed based on different variables (gender, parents' educational level and daily access to the Internet). The research group involves 361 students from two middle schools which are located in the center of Konya. The "general survey method" is adopted in the research. In accordance with the purpose of the study, percentage, mean, standard deviation, independent samples t-test, ANOVA (variance) are employed in the study. A total of four scales are implemented. These four scales include a total of 13 sub-dimensions. The scores from these scales and their subscales are studied in terms of various variables. In the research, students' scientific attitude, computer anxiety, educational use of the Internet, the problematic Internet use and academic achievement (gender, parent educational level, and daily access to the Internet) are investigated based on various variables and some significant relations are found.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Internet, Computer Uses in Education, Academic Achievement, Middle School Students, Demography, Predictor Variables, Scientific Attitudes, Student Surveys, Student Attitudes, Statistical Analysis, Statistical Distributions, Anxiety, Computer Attitudes, Parent Background, Parents, Educational Attainment, Comparative Analysis, Computer Use, Likert Scales, Attitude Measures
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Middle Schools; Secondary Education; Junior High Schools
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers - Location: Turkey
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Computer Anxiety Scale


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Other Sports
U.S. men's volleyball will return to Wichita
Wichita's growth as a city where volleyball matters continues.
The U.S. men's national team will play Russia on July 9-10 at Koch Arena in FIVB World League matches. Last summer's matches between the United States and the Netherlands drew crowds of 4,475 and 4,825, largest on the tour.
"I thought our fans had a blast," Wichita State women's coach Chris Lamb said.
The World League divides teams into four pools and plays six weekends in the summer. Four teams advance to the final round in Argentina on July 21-25. The total purse for the league is more than $20 million. With that money at stake, Lamb said the sport has outgrown the stigma of being an exhibition. He saw the prize money handed out last year in WSU's locker room.
"It was on," he said. "It was like an old-school boxing match."
The United States, ranked No. 2 in the world, will play in Pool C with No. 3 Russia, No. 14 Egypt and No. 30 Finland.
Tickets go on sale Monday at the WSU ticket office or by calling 316-978-3267. Prices are $25 for single-match lower bowl or $40 for both. General admission prices are $15 for one night and $25 for both.


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Decrepid gaming
Decrepid gaming has hosted 49 episodes.
Decrepid started this podcast in early 2015 after he found a late blooming love for all things From Software. His gaming obsession started early on with games like Super Metroid and Zelda: A Link To The Past. You can find him talking absolute rubbish almost everyday on Twitter and you can also find his gameplay walkthroughs on YouTube. Send him an email with your favorite horror movie: email@example.com
Vader Van Odin
Vader Van Odin has hosted 94 episodes.
Charles Turner aka VaderVanOdin lives in New Zealand, and you can tell from his accent on Twitter. He also has a YouTube channel absolutely full of awesome videos he does with his son, Odin. Ask him questions about Hobbits: firstname.lastname@example.com
Bryan Wade
Bryan Wade has hosted 33 episodes.
Bwade is the newest, and therefore best, host of Dark Insight. He owns many leather-bound books and his apartment smells of rich mahog- No wait that isn't right. That's the dude from Anchorman. Actually he's a big ol' dork who likes the Souls series, roguelikes, and Nintendo games.
Matt has hosted 7 episodes.
Matt's love of gaming started one fateful Christmas when given a Nintendo Entertainment System, followed by an Amiga 500+ (if you remember what they are).
Hailing from the UK, he can be found drinking a delightful cup of tea whilst playing through his large backlog of games. An epic RPG, FPS or strategy game will make that tea taste even sweeter.
He can also be found hosting other podcasts such as Monster Dear Monster (@mon_dmonster) and Realm & Ruin (@RealmandRuin)
He loves a good chat and tries not to bite when hungry!
Kassandra has hosted 8 episodes.
Kassandra loves Jeff Gerstmann, knuckle tattoos, and powerlifting. When she's not a guest on Dark Insight, she's feigning interest in your Xbox One X opinions at a local bar. Her main expertise is listening to podcasts and playing JRPGs. You can follow her on Twitter.
Retired Hosts
Jeremy Greer
Jeremy Greer has hosted 54 episodes.
Jeremy hosts several podcasts besides Dark Insight. If you're a fan of Dark Souls, you'll probably love Don't Give Up, Skeleton, in which he interviews a different guest every week about their history with the Souls games. You can find episodes with all of the Dark Insight hosts, most of our guests, and even hosts of other podcasts like Bonfireside Chat and Twin Humanities.
Don't like Dark Souls? He also co-hosts Days of Future Cast with Gary Butterfield. DOFC is a podcast that is covering X-Men: The Animated Series from the late 90s, with various X-Men related media in between seasons. If you like Jeremy or Gary (and you probably like Gary), then definitely check out the show.
Don't like Dark Souls OR X-Men? DANG Y'ALL! Good thing he has one more show: Monster of the Week, a podcast covering every single
hunkepisode of the TV show Supernatural. Jeremy and his co-host, Chris Mosher from Chomp Chain Podcast, go through episode by episode and discuss hunks, monsters, hunks, crazy ass lore, and also, of course, hunks.
Josh Crowe
Josh Crowe has hosted 23 episodes.
Josh aka Morbid Beard is a strange man, often seen musing over Solid Snake's jawline. He is a self confessed super fan of Metal Gear Solid and Max Payne, and an apologist for Metallica's St. Anger album. He has a habit of liking things other people don't. In his spare time he daydreams about being a Sin City character, and owns a leather coat to appear more cool than he actually is. He's too short to pull it off. While others laugh at Nicholas Cage memes, he'll be spending his time watching Keanu Reeves movies and dreaming up an entire career path for Wyld Stallyns. If you wish to be excellent to him, he can be contacted via email@example.com


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Fracking chemicals can alter mouse development
DENVER — Wastewater from hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, may tote several hormone-disrupting chemicals that can alter the development of mice, researchers reported March 23 at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society.
Twenty-three chemicals used in fracking fluids can hamper at least one of five hormone signals tested in human cells, the researchers found. When the team gave pregnant mice a cocktail of the chemicals in their drinking water, their male offspring grew up to be overweight and to have heavier hearts compared with mice whose mothers didn't drink the chemicals. (The researchers are still analyzing the data from female offspring.) Prenatally exposed male mice also had bigger testicles.
"This is not actually a good thing," said endocrinologist Christopher Kassotis of the University of Missouri in Columbia, the study


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To celebrate the Queen's 90th birthday, a joint celebration with Pocklington CE VC Infant School, the junior school and St Mary and St Joseph's was held on Tuesday 28 June.
The children came dressed in anything red, blue or white that day. The children made and iced buns and on the morning of the party they made cheese, ham and jam sandwiches.
The party started by everyone singing the National Anthem followed by Happy Birthday to the Queen.
All the children were treated to a magical show by 'Puzzling Paul'.
A fun time was had by everyone and a great opportunity for the three schools to enjoy this time together.


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There's a new tongue-in-cheek religion website and its sacrilegious name is Disbeliefnet.com. You may notice similarites to our site (especially in the logo and eCards designs), to The Onion (for its irreverent humor), and Slate.com (in its heavy-handed "news" coverage).
The site is a marketing tool created by Lionsgate to promote "Religulous," an upcoming documentary starring Bill Maher, the comedian known for his controversial political satire and cynical view on religious issues. "Religulous" (which combines the words "religious" with "ridiculous") will explore (with barbed humor, of course) the problems with religion in the world. The documentary will be released on October 3, 2008.
Thanks to my web-savvy friend, who first alerted me to this site, you can now read about Burkini babes and Kosher phones. As a Beliefnet colleague pointed out, "Parody is the surest indication of success." Even I have to admit the site's content and features are brilliant. Make sure to check out "What in the World?" and "Blasphemy Box."
What do you think? Is Disbeliefnet.com harmful or harmless? Humorous or horrific?
Check out Beliefnet's own take on religious humor:


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Argentina has been bailed out by the IMF with the biggest ever loan in IMF history. UK retailers are in trouble, more stores are closing down and the press is contributing this to online sales. Consumer credit growth has slowed, savings is declining, this is a recipe for a disaster. Corelogic reports that more than half the homes in the US are overvalued, just like in 2008. Household wealth rises to an all time high, but it is all funneled into the 1%, we are now back to the great depression levels. Ben Bernanke believes the economy will not make it until 2020. China's new Silk Road is the new world trading system. DOJ confirms that Obamacare is unconstitutional. DOJ will be release their report on the Clinton email probe around the 14th of June. The DOJ is now bringing charges against a long time leaker which the FBI new about and this goes deep down the rabbit hole and confirms what Q has been saying about the phones. Facebook has said many times they are not a new organization but now with their new policies they might have to abide by the rules. Pentagon looking into why we need to keep troops in Africa, looking to remove them.
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- Just a few weeks after Argentina became ground zero for the coming Emerging Market crisis, when its currency suddenly collapsed at the end of April amid soaring inflation, exploding capital outflows and a central bank that was far behind the curve (as in "13% of rate hikes in a week" behind)…
- … the IMF has officially bailed out the country – again – this time with a $50 billion, 36-month stand-by loan, and coming in about $10 billion more than rumored earlier in the week, it was the largest ever bailout loan in IMF history, meant to help restore investor confidence in a nation that, between its soaring external debt and current account deficit, prompted JPMorgan to suggest that along with Turkey, Argentina is in effect, doomed.
Source: zerohedge.com
More UK retail woes as department store makes deep cuts
- there is now more pain for British retailers, with department store House of Fraser saying it plans to close over half its stores, including its flagship premises on London's Oxford Street.
- The company filed plans in court Wednesday to close 31 stores, which would put over 6,000 jobs at risk. Frank Slevin, Chairman of House of Fraser, said Thursday that the closures are "absolutely necessary if we are to continue to trade and be competitive."
Source: sfgate.com
- Following last month's notable slowdown in the growth of consumer credit (to its weakest since Sept '17) expectations were for a bounce but April confirmed search trend data and saw a further slowdown.
- As Bianco Research noted ahead of this data, consumer spending has been rolling over into the spring of 2018.
- Credit searches are also falling, led by home financing. We have offered analysis of credit card delinquencies, which we expect to climb across the top 100 banks to 3.7% over the next year.
- And so, against expectations for a $14.00bn rise in Consumer Credit (from $11.62bn), credit growth slowed to just $9.262bn, the weakest growth since September 2017.
- It also confirms that with the US personal savings level once again near all time lows, and with households no deleveraging on their credit cards, the second quarter is about to get very ugly for the economy which is 70% driven by consumer spending.
Source: zerohedge.com
- CoreLogic reports that residential real estate prices nationwide increased 6.9 percent year over year from April 2017 to April 2018. The firm's Home Price Index (HPI) also shows a 1.2 percent rise on the month-over-month basis from March to April 2018.
- CoreLogic Market Condition Indicators showed that 40 percent of the 100 largest metropolitan areas were overvalued in April, compared to 28 percent undervalued, and 32 percent in line with valuations.
- The report uncovers a shocking discovery that of the nation's top 50 largest residential real estate markets, 52 percent were overvalued in April.
- Home Price to Income Ratio Near 2008 Bubble Levels
- Historically a house in the US cost around 3 to 4 times the median annual income. During the housing bubble of 2007 the ratio surpassed 5 – in other words, the median price for a single-family home in the United States cost more than 5 times the US median annual household income.
Source: zerohedge.com
- In the Fed's latest Flow of Funds report released at noon today, the Fed unveiled released the latest snapshot of the US "household" sector as of March 31 2018. What it revealed is that with $116.3 trillion in assets and a modest $15.6 trillion in liabilities, the net worth of US households rose above $100 trillion for the first time ever, hitting a new all time high of $100.8 trillion, increasing for 10 consecutive quarters
- And while it would be great news if wealth across all of America had indeed risen as much as the chart above shows, the reality is that there is a big catch: , virtually all of the net worth, and associated increase thereof, has only benefited a handful of the wealthiest Americans.
- As the following chart from Deutsche Bank shows, the wealth inequality in the US is now as bad as it just during the Great Depression, with the top 0.1% of the US population owning as many assets as the bottom 90%.
- In the CBO's latest, if somewhat dated, Trends in Family Wealth analysis published in 2016, the budget office showed a breakdown of the net worth chart by wealth group, which sadly shows how the "average" American wealth is anything but, and in reality most of that $100 trillion belongs to just 10% of the US population.
- In other words, roughly 75% of the $1.1 trillion increase in assets went to benefit just 10% of the population, who also account for roughly 76% of America's financial net worth.
- It also means that just 10% of the US population is worth roughly $90 trillion, while half of the US population was virtually no wealth, and if anything it is deeply in debt.
- Athe wealthy have never been wealthier, while half of America, some 50% of households, own just 1% of the country's wealth, down from 3% in 1989. And finally, America's poor have never been more in debt
Source: zerohedge.com
- what really spooked Bridgewater is what happens in 2020 when the impact from the Trump stimulus peaks, and goes into reverse.
- none other than former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke repeated the same assessment almost verbatim in explaining his own suddenly quite dire outlook on the economy.
- Bernanke, the same man who once charged a room full of bankers $250,000 for the sage projection that interest rates would never normalize during his lifetime, now believes the US economy, which in May entered the second-longest period of expansion in modern history…
- Stealing further from the Bridgewater note, Bernanke said that while the stimulus "is going to hit the economy in a big way this year and next year and then in 2020 Wile E. Coyote is going to go off the cliff, and it's going to look down"
Source: zerohedge.com
China's New Silk Road to significantly boost global trade
- China's ambitious multi-trillion-dollar One Belt One Road Initiative could increase global trade by as much as 12 percent, cutting trading costs by half for the countries involved,
- "Trade between Asia and Europe, not including trade between EU countries, accounts for 28 percent of world trade, so making those trade flows easier has a large potential impact,"
- Countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia are set to benefit most, explaining that the benefits will depend on where trade costs fall.
- while assuming a 50-percent drop in costs. In the most conservative case, which includes only countries along the Eurasian economic corridor (China, Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, and Poland), BRI will boost global trade by four percent.
- In the most optimistic scenario involving both BRI countries and their partners, nations in Central Asia and Eastern Europe will see the biggest increases. Trade for Russia, Kazakhstan, Poland, Nepal, and Myanmar would rise by an estimated 35 percent to 45 percent. China would see its trade jump by about 20 percent, Konings estimates.
Source: rt.com
- In a letter to House Speaker Ryan, Attorney General Jeff Sessions affirmed that the Justice Dept will no longer defend the constitutionality of Obamacare
- Sessions writes that the DoJ believes the law's individual mandate – the provision the Supreme Court upheld in 2012 – has become unconstitutional.
- Notably, the three-page letter begins by saying that Justice adopted its position "with the approval of the President of the United States."
- Specifically, Sessions writes that the mandate cannot be interpreted as a tax "because it will raise no revenue as Congress has eliminated the monetary penalty,"
- Congress claimed it repealed the individual mandate last year, what it actually did was drop the tax penalty to $0.
- DOJ said the courts should strike down the coverage requirement, as well as the provision of the law that forces insurance companies to cover people with pre-existing conditions.
Source: zerohedge.com
- Less than three weeks after we learned that the IG report on the Clinton email probe was in its final review, and which has found among other things that James Comey not only "defied authority" but was "insubordinate", we finally have the long awaited drop date: June 14.
- DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz told Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley in a letter on Thursday that his office is planning to release the highly anticipated report detailing broad allegations of misconduct by FBI and Justice Department officials in the months leading up to the 2016 presidential election on June 14.
- It only gets better from there because Horowitz also said that he will testify before the Judiciary Committee on June 18 in what may be the most watched Congressional testimony since Comey spoke on the Hill on June 8, 2017.
- The inspector general's report has been more than a year in the making.
- "What is taking so long with the Inspector General's Report on Crooked Hillary and Slippery James Comey," Trump tweeted. "Numerous delays. Hope Report is not being changed and made weaker! There are so many horrible things to tell, the public has the right to know. Transparency!"
- Of course, should the IG investigation challenge Comey's work as FBI director, which we now know it will, it will bolster Trump's argument that he did the right thing by firing Comey. It also brings the debate back to Clinton's email server.
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- Longtime former director of security for the Senate Intelligence Committee, James A. Wolfe, was indicted and arrested Thursday night on charges of giving false statements to FBI agents in 2017 about repeated contacts with three reporters, Examiner.
Jim Wolfe, a longtime former director of security at the Senate Intelligence Committee, was indicted and arrested Thursday night for giving false statements to F.B.I. agents during their investigation into leaks of classified information to the media.
According to the Department of Justice, Wolfe lied to F.B.I. agents back in 2017 "about his repeated contacts with three reporters, including through his use of encrypted messaging applications."
Wolfe is also accused of making false statements about providing "non-public information related to matters occurring before the [Senate Intelligence Committee]" to two additional reporters. –Washington Examiner
- News of Wolfe's arrest follows an article by the New York Times which claims that the Department of Justice "secretly seized years' worth of a New York Times reporter's phone and email records," in connection with an investigation into classified leaks.
- NYT national security reporter Ali Watkins – formerly of Buzzfeed and Politico, came under investigation as part of a DOJ inquiry into Wolfe. FBI agents approached Watkins about her relationship with Wolfe while investigating unauthorized leaks – the first known instance of the Justice Department seizing a reporter's data under President Trump.
Source: zerohedge.com
Now that's a Methodical #Takedown. #Leakers #QConfirmations #Presstitutes
- But this is much bigger than it appears on the surface,
- there were 4 reporters with whom Wolfe was in contact; two of which were female, one of which was male. And these are, of course, anonymously identified as Reporter 1, 2, 3, and 4.
- And that would basically be where the story ends, except…
- one of these reporters has already been outed by their own news organization, why they would do that?)
- Federal prosecutors seized the records as part of an investigation into leaks of classified information to the news media by a former Senate aide.
- Ali Watkins. Worked for Buzzfeed. Politico. And NYT.
Here, take a gander at her portfolio:
But what does this indictment have to say about Miss Watkins. About "Reporter #2?"
So…. 22 year old Watkins… was shacking up with 53-year-old, married Wolfe…. in exchange for intel… for FOUR YEARS.
They had already had this arrangement going prior to Trump. And when Trump stepped into office, they decided to turn against him.
So this was bad enough that the FBI had already been investigating way back in 2014, during Obama. Wolfe had been caught by the FBI, on film, with his gal pal.v
Anyway, besides clandestine rendezvous, how did these two get away with it for so long?
Now where have I seen that before?
- BOOM! There's your #QConfirmation right there.
- Lets dig a little deeper
After the 2016 election, wealthy donors paid a former Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) staffer $50 million to continue "exposing" Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
- But really, there was a pattern with Wolfe here. An ongoing pattern, stretching back years and years and years. Stretching back so far… you have to wonder…
- Who was protecting him?
- Who would want to strategically stuff leaked to the press?
- Who would use an underling to accomplish this, and simultaneously allow them to keep their distance?
- So now we've got junior senators, ex-staffers, lobbyists, and committee underlings all pointing back to Feinstein.
- What about Ali though?
- Wonder what was on the phone.
- Watch Feinstein fall. Watch it happen.
Source: neonrevolt.com
Flashback: Zuckerberg Assured Congress that Facebook, Now Publishing Mainstream News, Isn't a Publisher
- Fewer than two months before Facebook announced its plan to publish exclusive content from establishment media outlets, its CEO was assuring congress that the platform "isn't a publisher."
- Zuckerberg insisted that Facebook did not "produce the content" that populates the platform, implying that it was therefore not subject to the usual regulations that publishers face (including legal liability for their content).
- Now that Facebook has announced its program of publishing exclusive news content from establishment and left-leaning outlets, it will be much harder for the company to escape the charge that it is no longer a neutral, unbiased platform. This could mean Facebook falls outside the bounds of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which currently grants it legal immunity for content posted by Facebook users.
- If Facebook is held legally responsible for the billions of posts published on the platform, it would be a fundamental threat to its business model.
Source: breitbart.com
- days after the company was exposed for sharing data with 60 major device developers – contradicting testimony that Mark Zuckerberg gave to Congress – Recode is reporting that the company has copped to another colossal blunder: as many as 14 million Facebook users who believed they were posting items that only their friends or smaller groups could access instead may have shared that content publicly.
According to Facebook, a software bug, which was live for 10 days in May, updated the audience for some user's posts to "public" without any warning. Facebook typically lets users set the audiences who get to see posts; that setting is "sticky," which means it remains the default setting until manually updated.
Source: zerohedge.com
- Just a day after praising "courageous and mature" President Trump for his plans to meet with North Korea's Kim Jong-Un , Putin is seeking a meeting with Trump in Europe.
- Over the weekend, they reported the White House is planning for a potential summit between President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin of Russia, "a meeting that would bring to the international stage one of the world's most enigmatic political relationships."
- Russian President Vladimir Putin has asked Austria's chancellor to organize a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump in Vienna this summer
Source: zerohedge.com
Pentagon Officials Debate Cutting US Special Forces in Africa
- The Pentagon is in the process of debating troop levels for US special forces in Africa. Though no decisions have been made, they look to substantially cut back the number of troops deployed around the continent.
- If the plan is approved, in the next three years special forces levels in Africa would go from the present level, around 1,200, to around 700. Some Pentagon officials are arguing that they would replace this with other military forces, while others argue that only special forces will do in America's many, many African conflicts.
- That the debate is going on so publicly is particularly noteworthy, as there certainly was never such a debate for sending all those troops there in recent years in the first place. Indeed, the fact that US special forces are in a number of countries, like Niger, in such numbers is a fact that even Congress wasn't properly informed of.
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Imposing CRD IV on trading houses, utilities and oil majors makes no sense
The notion of imposing capital requirements on firms that trade commodities has been advocated by some financial regulators in recent years. It has also been loudly cheered by banks, which argue non-bank commodity traders enjoy an unfair competitive advantage from not having to set aside regulatory capital against their assets.
Since the entry into force of Europe's Mifid II legislation in July last year, this abstract debate has become very real indeed. Mifid II both removes and narrows exemptions to financial market rules that many commodity trading firms previously benefited from. That means such firms may be forced to comply with CRD IV – the European Union version of Basel III bank capital rules.
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The European Banking Authority (EBA) is expected to provide technical advice to the European Commission (EC) about the prudential regulation of Mifid II firms in September. Among other things, the EBA says it will work on the presumption that there should be "a level playing field" with banks and that the counterparties of commodity traders should be protected.
There is just one small problem with this, which is that trading houses, utilities and oil majors are not banks. Unlike banks, they do not accept retail deposits and their trading activities are usually confined to large, sophisticated counterparties.
There is just one small problem with this, which is that trading houses, utilities and oil majors are not banks
In early 2013, the Global Financial Markets Association, a financial industry trade group, commissioned a study to shed light on the systemic risk posed by commodity trading houses. But the report, written by Craig Pirrong of the University of Houston's Bauer College of Business, found that trading houses didn't represent a source of systemic risk. This somewhat inconvenient report was never released. Nonetheless, there are plenty of real-world examples that back up Pirrong's conclusion, not least the 2001 bankruptcy of Houston-based energy trader Enron.
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The Support System module provides an easy and efficient way for your business to provide quality customer support to your members, customers, and the general public. Many features are included with this module including, multiple support techs, departments, categories, pre-written responses, full notification system, plus more. There are also powerful administrative features, allowing you and fellow administrators to oversee all support requests flowing through the system, and all support techs.
Perldesk is a fully featured help desk system that is an ideal solution for companies with more than one technician who support several users. Main features include: Email submissions, staff logging, knowledge base, user registration, and many more.
MySupport allows for users to submit problems with their hosting accounts and allows administrators to easily see what needs to be done.
Add live customer service to your site and host real-time customer support systems. Features outstanding graphical user interface and advanced functions such as sending images, links, paging administrators, logging, auto-answer, multiple admin/operator accounts and much more.
Fully automated web based help desk. Features ticket submission via forms and email, unique ticket number assigned to every request, unlimited forwarding for escalation and additional info requests, chat style comments to facilitate internal correspondence, automated FAQ maintenance, templates based customization, easy setup and more. Standard and SQL editions available.
Website Supporter is a Web based customer support script that centralizes all support requests and allows you to provide fast and efficient support from any computer. Supports multiple technicians, self correcting installation, template driven pages and much more.
Add life to your website, instantly chat with visitors on your website. Ox-LiveSupport can accommodate unlimited customers at no extra cost nor monthly fee, install and run from your website. Features: Admin Control Panel; Users Interface; On-Screen Alert that notifies you of Awaiting, On-hold and Active users; Optional Hold or Awaiting Time - shows users how many users are ahead of them and estimated awaiting time; Push Page Technology; Tech can view/delete report and full users and technician text chat records; Uses HTTP Protocol - supports firewalls; Browser-based Chat - No client software to install and Works with browsers 4.0 and higher.
The Active Stats is a HumanClick style application that allows the Webmasters to interact with their visitors in real-time. With the Windows based application on your PC, you can view users navigating your site in real-time. By placing a graphic of your own design or by using the stock graphic that comes with Active Stats, your users can click this graphic and you will be paged to chat with them. If you are away, the user will then be prompted with a contact form. Their question can then be emailed to you. You can also initiate a chat with a user (MSIE feature only). From there you can use canned messages, send pictures, send HTML, and push pages to your user. You can also use the Active Stats just to monitor the site if you do not wish to chat with your users. You can also see if users on your site are repeat visitors or new, and what sites your users are coming from.
SupportMan is a simple support request tracking script. It allows for users to submit problems with their hosting accounts and allows administrators to easily see and resolve the problems.
An easy to use customer relation program which keeps your incoming support calls organized
allowing your customers to track the progress/solution to their support request and respond to it. @Customer Quest is a ticket based CRS but does not require to login by typing complicated ticket-numbers. Features include: Web based, password protected administration; Ticket administration; New-Request alert; Customer reaction control; Helper tracking; Easy login without ticket-numbers; Easy online Q & A editing and adding; Complete customer history; Multi-Admin feature; Search engine; Activity logging; Switchable email-notifications customer <---> Support; Fully customizable; and HTML templates.
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Sears has really taken the guess work out of what guys are looking for in a woman: lumpy breasts and one arm. They've boiled down the whole girlfriend-experience to this polyester and felt pillow: Two boobs, one arm, and no judgement . Shit, I'll take 10!Unfortunately the "Wife" model comes with crushing guilt and an in-law attachment.
Yes, this is very, very real….and from Sears.


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Gsystems constructed over 50 commercial solar energy systems on rooftops that were leased by the company and its partners. The financial stability of the company and its partners, along with the company's proven implementation ability, enabled the rapid construction of projects that provide solid revenue for the roof-top owner as quickly as possible!!!
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South-west Florida is a new love of mine. Great beaches, quiet and laid back atmosphere away from the Orlando crowds and tons of fish to be caught in the Charlotte Harbor/Boca Grande/Fort Myers area.
I've been waiting a while for this one to get published but it was worth the wait as the guys at Fin Chasers Magazine have done a great job laying it out as always. Thanks to Mark A Spurgeon, Capt. Roger Crafton, The Beaches of Fort Myers & Sanibel, Charlotte Harbor & the Gulf Islands, Capt. Tommy Locke and Capt. Mark Futch of Boca Grande Sea Planes Inc.


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Why your PMO must be more than just an admin function
A PMO is considered by some to be nothing more than an administrative function. We believe that a PMO, limited in this way, can represent a wasted opportunity.
Most organisations have a PMO function in some form. It is generally accepted that if you want to deliver change consistently and efficiently, having a team in the centre that provides support to your projects is a must.
However, it is often the case that these teams get buried underneath burdensome admin tasks, that prevent them from adding the true value that they're capable of.
A Head of PMO friend of mine recently told me, that whilst her responsibilities included critical things, like keeping investment and strategy fully aligned within her organisation, this activity often lost focus because of emphasis placed on other activities, like ordering the stationary, by her senior management team.
This is not only unfortunate for those working in the PMO with an ambition to do more. It is also bad for the organisations within which they exist – because fundamentally your PMO should, and really must do more.
Tell them that they just do admin, and they'll just do admin
Firstly, you have to recognise that if you tell someone that they are not able to do anything more than low complexity, administrative tasks, that's exactly what you'll get from them. It self-perpetuates. The key is to decide what you want from your PMO and then give them the direction, space, and resources to give it to you.
Why they should do more
Delivering change to organisations, in general, costs money – compounded when it goes badly. And PMO teams, in any form, are an investment.
Importantly, PMOs hold a unique position within the organisation. If you think about it, beyond the CEO, there are not many people that have an impartial, cross functional, perspective on what is happening and what really should be happening.
Your PMO is in a great position to use this perspective to add significant value, by ensuring the right things are happening in the right way, relative to what the organisation is trying to achieve. Why not leverage this?
Why they must do more
An organisation's ability to change, and change quickly, has never been more important. The new 'norm' is represented by businesses that begun selling records and are now going in to space. If you can't adapt quickly, you're on the endangered list.
Organisations now need a structured way to consistently deliver change with precision and agility. It is no longer acceptable for your organisation's innovation to depend on a few talented individuals.
Where many transformation initiatives fail, is not in their ambition, but in their ability to stay focused. What most organisations fail to recognise is that they're trying to hit a moving target. The world will not stand still, whilst you innovate.
Having a part of your organisation that has the job of maintaining the alignment between the organisations strategy and what it is actively working to achieve is key. A strategic PMO, that is impartial, empowered, and pragmatic, can perform this role with tremendous results.
You need your PMO to do more than administration, so why not let them.
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Primark launches Winnie The Pooh home collection featuring bedding, candles and cushions with prices starting at just £5
The honey-loving bear has been given a homeware makeover
CALLING all Winnie the Pooh fans – a massive collection of homeware has just dropped at Primark.
It's time to get your skates on and head over to your nearest store as the latest range from the department store is simply adorable.
Our favourite childhood character has been reimaged as duvets, throws, a mirror, cushions and kitchenware.
And you guessed it, that includes a honey pot.
Prices start from £5 for a tea towel, and go up to £17.80 for a duvet set
Advertising the line on its website, Primark said: "Winnie the Pooh is back, and this time he's got edge!
"Hunnies, it's time to add a slick of sophistication into your bear boudoir and get ready to hibernate all the way through autumn.
"With a black, white, and yellow colour palette this collection is buzzing and ready to fly off the shelves.
"Get yourself ready for tasselled cushions, hanging mirrors, candles and of course, a hunny jar – after all, it's often the smallest things take up the most room in your heart!"
Teasing fans with photos of the goodies on their Instagram page, people have been going wild for the photos which have racked up thousands of likes.
One person said: "OMG this range is so beautiful!"
Another wrote: "Too cute I want to buy it immediately !!!"
A third gushed: "I need those bee pillows."
Want more Primark goodies? They're selling teddy jackets for £25… and they're perfect for keeping you warm this winter.
And they're set to sprinkle Hogwarts magic on your Christmas tree with new £4 Harry Potter baubles.
Fortnite merchandise has just dropped at Primark…and prices start from £6.


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From John McPhee's Coming into the Country, pp. 235-239. Ed and Stanley Gelvin are Alaskans who are panning for gold circa 1974:
They had a little Ranger -- a diminutive tractor, like a Cub Cadet -- which they had used to like purpose when they built a cabin on the Charley River years before. Ed cut the Ranger in half. They flew it to the mountains, and he welded it back together. The backhoe before long followed, and when it was at last reassembled they scooped into the center of a stream. Bedrock was eight feet down. Even at six, they panned the colors they had hoped to see.
They had intended to spend the whole of the following season ranging with the backhoe around the claims they had made, trying out pieces of seven miles of streams, but early results were so encouraging that they sharply foreshortened the tests. To put it conservatively, a pay streak appeared to be there, and what was needed now -- since the backhoe was just a fifty-seven-hundred-pound shovel -- was a means of moving gravel in a major way. The Caterpillar Tractor Company produces the eponymous Cat in seven sizes -- styled D3, D4, and so on to D9. Most gold miners use something less than the largest, but the Gelvins -- forming a partnership with two friends in Fairbanks -- decided to go all the way. The supreme Cat, twenty-seven feet long, eleven feet high, with a blade of fourteen feet, could sweep forty yards of gravel before it -- possibly a hundred dollars a shove. Ed Gelvin went to Los Angeles to shop for a used D9.
With his partners in Fairbanks putting up the money in return for a half interest in the claims, he paid forty-seven thousand five hundred dollars for a ten-year-old machine -- D9, Series G. In the fleets of general contractors, it had spent its lifetime ripping raw California land, making freeways, and preparing building sites on beaches and deserts. Who, watching it there -- clanking, dozing, wheezing, roaring, grunting like Pete the Pig -- could ever in farthest-fetched imaginings have guessed where it would go? It went to Seattle by train, and by barge to Whittier in Prince William Sound. There the Alaska Railroad picked it up and took it to Fairbanks, where, in early April, a lowboy hauled it up the dirt road north. Forty miles from Central, the haul stopped -- blocked by the still unbroken winter snows. The road had been smothered since October. Ed Gelvin, who was observing from the air, landed on the road and with Stanley put the blade on the Cat. The weather in a general way was warming. Snow was melting. Ice was beginning to rot. If the D9 was going to move up frozen stream beds and climb into the mountains, it had to keep going now. If the road was closed, the Cat would open it.
When Stanley Gelvin was a small boy and did his elementary-school work by correspondence from the kitchen table in Central, he was from time to time required to draw a picture. When the choice of subject was his to make, he always drew a Cat. He operated one before he drove anything else. Now, with a Cat all around him, he knew where things were. He sensed like an athlete the rhythm of the parts -- the tilt cylinders, the blade-lift arms. A good Cat skinner is a Cat mechanic, and from the torque converter to the sun-and-planet gears, he knew what was making the moves. 'I know what's inside the thing -- everything -- and what makes it work. My father knows how the stuff goes together, too. If the thing needs work, we do it.'
The snow-obscured road leading on toward Central was -- even at its best, in summer -- a tortuous trail. In several high places, it traversed the flanks of mountains as a fifteen-foot shelf with no rail of any kind and a precipitous plunge on the outboard side. On the last of these mountain passes, twenty miles from home, Stanley encountered drifts that were thirty feet deep. To keep going, he had to bite into the snow, doze some to the brink, send it avalanching down, then turn and bite some more -- all the while feeling for the road, feeling with his corner bits (the low tips of the blade) for the buried edge where the road stopped and the plunge began. A D9 is in some ways the most difficult Cat to operate. 'You've got so much iron in front of you can't see what you're doing.' It is also his favorite size, because it is so big it does not bounce around. This one weighed a hundred and ten thousand pounds. Its balance point was ten feet back of the blade. Repeatedly Stanley moved the blade eight feet over the edge. He knew where it was. If he had gone off the mountain, he would have raised one fantastic cloud of snow. Instead, he trimly dismantled the prodigious drifts and dozed on down to Central.
To the pads of the track Ed Gelvin welded ice grousers. They would keep the Cat from sliding. They were small pieces of steel, protruding like hyphens from the tracks. Ed and Stanley had built a steel slick plate and a steel sluice box, and Ed had rearranged them as a huge loaded sled -- eight feet wide and twenty-four feet long: I-beams, H-beams, three-sixteenths-inch plate. He had made a thousand-gallon fuel tank. It was full and on the sled. Here and there, he slipped in snowshoes, gold pans, a two-hundred-amp generator, a welding tank and torch. Finally, he secured to the top of the load a plywood wanigan -- that is, a small hut, with three bunks, propane, and a cupboard full of food. The rig, composed, weighed about twelve tons. When it was hooked to the D9, Stanley left for the mountains.
He crossed low terrain at first. His mother rode with him. His father hovered in the air. Then he changed passengers, taking on a friend named Gary Powers, and they began to move up Woodchopper Creek. His altitude at the start was nine hundred feet. The highest point on the trip was well above four thousand. They travelled five days, fourteen hours a day. There was plenty of wind. The highest temperature they experienced was zero. They stopped to cut their way through trees with a chain saw (fearing to doze them because the wanigan might be crushed). The Cat fell twice through rotting ice. With no difficulty, it climbed out of the water. There was some luck in the conditions, but not much. With less ice in Woodchopper Canyon, Stanley might have been stopped. But successive overflows on the creek had built the ice thickness in places to thirty feet. Nearing the head of Woodchopper, he moved the Cat slowly up a steep slope of ice, slid back, crept again, slid back, and thought for a while he wouldn't make it. Without the grousers, the big rig would have been stopped, but they held just enough, and gradually he crawled out of the head of the creek -- only to move into snow so deep the D9's steel tracks spun out. Stanley thought it wise to stop for the night. For one thing, all this was happening in a blizzard. Next day, the sky was clear, the air colder, and Stanley moved on a contour, through the deep snow until he found an uphill route. Steadily, he climbed ridges, sometimes in little snow, sometimes in seven-foot drifts. At one point, the going was so steep that he disengaged the sled and tried first to clear a trail. 'I knew that ridge was too steep to go over, because it was almost vertical. So I went around to the right. Without them ice grousers, the machine would have slid sideways and straight to the bottom as if it was on skates. Gary was scared to death. I went real slow now, and slipped some, and then went down to a dead crawl. I had it idled as low as it would go. I went on half a mile or so. When I saw it was possible, I went back for the sled.'
Landing on skis, his father would fly him out, and the D9 would sit idle in the mountains until summer. Meanwhile, there was one last ridge to cross. 'One side was sheer, and the other had deep snow and was very steep. It must have been forty-five degrees. A guy could have maybe gone around one side -- if you'd left the wanigan, dug the snow, and plowed a road. But I didn't want to make a horrible-looking mess. I moved slowly up. The track did spin a bit. I couldn't go straight up. It was too steep. I couldn't go sideways too well. I couldn't go back, because I had the sled. I'd have been afraid to back down. You can cut a road into the side of a mountain if you want to with a Cat like that, but I just inched up the thing, and over. I didn't want to dig up the country.'


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Sunday Finds #004
Another set of link round-ups for you all. This week's "finds" are a little heavier on the shopping side as Cyber Monday is hard to ignore. :)
+ Eco friendly, DIY holiday ornaments like this orange garland and rosemary wreath
+ This Wit + Delight article on how to show your partner gratitude (plus a handy "difficulty" guide for each suggestion)
+ Tips on how to declutter/minimize pre-holidays from A Considered Life
+ The jaw-dropping book The Power by Naomi Alderman
+ @lunafortun's insane makeup looks
Cyber Monday Deals
+ 20% & free shipping at Glossier (they rarely offer sales so this is a treat)
+ Impulse Fitbit buy? Because $50 off for Cyber Monday is so enticing
+ Obsessed with Old Navy's 40% off sale on all items including their already inexpensive athletic wear (seriously buying most of the list below)
+ Expensive winter/snow tread booties and shoes finally on sale (styles also below)
What about you? Are you doing any Cyber Monday shopping? Have you been pining over certain items, waiting for them to go on sale? Let me know in the comments below!


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This is not one of my better days; I think I've come down with a virus, despite having gotten a flu shot. Right now I'm making bean soup.
Today's weird thing is a rant that Barry wrote, included below.
Enjoy, and Shabbath shalom.
Having seen a few episodes of the remake of the series Battlestar Galactica, I felt like making some comparisons with the original, not all of them kind.
1) There are some interesting revisions of the characters. Boomer and Colonel Ty are no longer black (Boomer now is east Asian, Ty is white). Furthermore, Boomer and Starbuck are now women. Baltar now looks and sounds a lot like Dr. Julian Bashir from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and at times acts like him too (as when he hit on Starbuck). Baltar also now is conflicted, scared, and has hallucinations of a blonde woman which I think are caused by the Cylons. The Cylons, when they look like robots, look a lot slicker than the old ones. However, these Cylons can also look like humans. So far there is no sign of the dagget, for which I am really disappointed. I also have not seen anything in the Cylon command structure, like the one voiced by Patrick MacGee or the toadying one with all the lights in his head.
2) The show is a lot grimmer than the old one, and the characters often have to make unpleasant decisions which often involve people dying. Can you imagine Lorne Green making the decision to leave behind a ship full of people? I don't think so. Overall the show comes off as less cheesy than the original.
3) Baltar has been charged with coming up with a way to screen people for being Cylons. For some reason this is a problem. I don't know why he can't think of a convenient way of doing this (other than him being a traitor working for the Cylons), but I can think of a few ways that humans and Cylons disguised as humans might differ:
• Cylons made primarily of metal might be heavier than humans, denser, have a different specific gravity, etc. If the Cylons are denser than humans, all it might take is dumping the suspected Cylon in a tank of water to make the determination. Then again, having one step on a scale might be just as effective.
• The internal structure of Cylons might look different on a CT scan.
• Retain suspected Cylons until they say they have to go to the bathroom. Covertly observe if anything comes out of them and what exactly does come out of them.
• Analyze the composition of what they exhale. It should have less oxygen and more carbon dioxide than what went in.
• Put refrigerator magnets on the suspected Cylon's head. If they stick, you have a Cylon.
• Prick the suspected Cylon. Presumably robots don't bleed. If the suspected Cylon does bleed, put the liquid under a microscope and look for blood cells.
• Check to see if the suspected Cylon sweats.
• Swab the inside of the cheek and put the swab under a microscope. Cylons are presumably not made of cells.
None of these is completely foolproof, but making robots indistinguishable from humans would presumably become increasingly difficult the more characteristics they have to match humans on. In order to be indistinguishable from humans in every way, they would ultimately have to be humans, which does not make them robots in anything more than a trivial sense. The idea of robots passing as humans is interesting, but unless extreme measures are taken in the design and manufacture, they should be relatively easy to detect. That the humans around Baltar do not realize this (not to mention Baltar or the writers) makes me seriously question how much a future humanity has up there in the heavens.
4) My dream episode: Starbuck trips and spills her beer on a Cylon impostor, causing it to short. Baltar makes lame excuses for his failure to think of this and is thrown to the dagget. Lucifer (the annoying toadying robot) shows up and saves Baltar just so he can have something to laugh at.