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Born Lucky posted...The other point is this - why buy a "4k" TV when there's practically nothing for it.
As long as you are sitting at about PC monitor distance away (ie less than 3 feet) then yeah you could see a benefit from 4K technology.
Keep in mind though that means a 4K capable display, a 4K capable cable, a 4K capable transport (Blu-ray or equiv) and 4K source (preferably natively created/filmed/programmed for 4K resolution and not just upscaled). So the point I'm making is that's alot of tripping points to make certain you get the full value of what 4K can potentially offer. Basically, that's alot of "if's" ;)
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DarkZV2Beta 3 years ago#22
icelt posted...
skermac posted...Born Lucky posted...The other point is this - why buy a "4k" TV when there's practically nothing for it.
That's the problem with game consoles, and anything else relying on backwards DRM-ridden TV standards.
With open platforms, you just plug it in and it works. Come on, a $300 handheld can do 4k. Why can't a $400 console?
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Combo Master 3 years ago#23
The advantage of 4k is the picture should look almost the same sitting far away from the tv and up close when there can be quite a difference on 1080p. You do not need a huge tv to notice that difference.
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Not happening, Metro LL requires 2 Titans to run at 4K, that's not fully maxed. It'll be at least 2 years before PC Graphic cards are even capable of it without cutting detail
Project CARS runs in 4k on dual Titans, the devs had a racing rig at IFA Berlin last week doing a demo for Panasonic. According to the guy who set it up, it was running solid 60fps with all settings bar downsampling maxed out.
Metro's engine is notoriously badly optimised though of course, which is why it makes a great benchmark. Some cutting-edge games certainly can manage 4k / 60fps already however.
Fixing Turn10's omissions since 2007, and Playground Games' since 2012.
maybe next gen. those tvs are a few thousand dollars right now anyway.
Neoreloaded313 3 years ago#26
4k games are possible, with sacrifices to graphics. Pretty sure 4k Pacman or Pong would be possible.
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MaliciousMongo 3 years ago#27
By the time 4K games even become feasible, 8K or whatever the next step up would probably start becoming available.
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The PS3 had a 60fps 1080p game at launch. Pretty sure 4K on the PS4 is quite practical, unless you don't think that the PS4 is even twice as powerful as the PS3. Hell, even Xbox 360 and PS3 games have already had framebuffers as big as 4K.
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Green Bay - Bob Jeter entered the National Football League as a wide receiver and retired a two-time Pro Bowl cornerback, serving as a vital cog on three Green Bay Packers championship teams.
On Thursday afternoon, Jeter, 71, died of an apparent heart attack while at his home in Chicago.
"The first thing you think about with Bob Jeter was his speed," former teammate Dave Robinson said Thursday evening. "He had an awesome amount of it. People didn't say he was a speedster, but I remember one time Gale Sayers was running downfield and it looked to me like it happened in four frames: Bob ran him down and stopped a touchdown."
Jeter's son, Rob, is the head basketball coach at UW-Milwaukee. A school spokesman told The Associated Press that Rob Jeter went to Chicago to be with his family and that Rob Jeter told him his father was thought to have died of cardiac arrest.
Bob Jeter joined the Packers in 1962 after playing in Canada, sat out a year under NFL rules, and then played eight seasons for the team, teaming with Hall of Famer Herb Adderley to form one of the top cornerback tandems in the league.
Jeter played three more years with the Chicago Bears after his Packers years and finished his career with 26 interceptions for 333 yards and two touchdowns. He played in 107 regular-season games with Green Bay and was inducted into the Packers Hall of Fame after his retirement.
"I think they realized that with two good corners you could cover the pass and be physical up front with your ends and force everything inside," Adderley said Thursday. "Jeter and I were able to do that. We talked a lot about our (position) and we both applied the discipline needed to help win some championships."
Jeter was a running back at Iowa and set a Rose Bowl rushing record in 1959 with 194 yards in nine carries. Before the NFL draft, he and his backfield mates at Iowa signed contracts for the Canadian Football League. Vince Lombardi used a second-round pick on him anyway.
After two years in Canada, he came to Green Bay in '62 as a receiver, but eventually was moved to cornerback.
"I remember Vince wanted 'Jetes' to be Boyd Dowler's backup," Robinson said. "But during one practice he suffered a dislocated finger. The bone popped out. In typical Lombardi fashion, they fixed it and he was back out there the next day. And on the next day the same thing happened on his other hand.
"Vince said he had soft bones and he couldn't play wide receiver. So he told him to go with the defense. After that we used to kid him that he had 'soft bones.' "
Jeter made the switch to cornerback and wound up making the Pro Bowl in 1967 and '69. He was traded to Chicago in 1971
Most recently, he had worked for the Chicago Park District.
"He had just gotten home at around 3 p.m.," said Adderley, who had spoken to family members. "His daughter was there and he just stopped breathing. He had passed away before the medics got there. It happened so suddenly."
Robinson said Jeter was the godfather to his youngest son and the two had a close relationship through the years.
"I don't know what to say," Robinson said. "I was just talking to someone and they asked me how I felt. It's hard. I'll miss him a lot. It will hit me when we go to a reunion and Bob is not there."


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As 2012 prepares to call it quits and retreats into the historic mists where expiring years go to join their calendrical ancestors near and far, the least we can do is thank the old boy. For, by any measure, these were a memorable 12 months, filled, in turn, by frustration and satisfaction. They encompassed a somnolent economy at home as well as a fragile European Union that threatened to fracture at any moment and take the euro with it, but managed through deft and delay to muddle through.
Besides the Old World teetering on the edge of, or already mired in, recession, worsened by a widespread veneration of austerity, the year drawing to a close was witness to a staccato recovery by a conspicuously less vigorous China; a lackluster performance of gold after decades of glistening gains; and, of all things, a neat cyclical-bull market in equities fueled by the dexterity of Uncle Ben and his counterparts around the globe in debasing their currencies and by investors' insatiable lust for yield in a zero-interest-rate world.
By no means does this exhaust the claims that the departing year can legitimately make for being extraordinary, but, at the very least, they bring into sharp relief the remarkable crosscurrents that raged from January right through its final waning hours, which were charged with anxiety spawned by the discomfiting presence of the fiscal cliff. It was, too, lest we forget, an election year, featuring the incredible implosion of Mitt Romney and triumph of Barack Obama, despite the handicap of a character tic that prompted him to give away the store every time he sat down to negotiate virtually anything with the perennially belligerent swamis of the GOP.
Retaining the presidency seems to have fortified Mr. Obama's spine, at least temporarily. In any event, the well-publicized, seemingly boundless enmity between the two parties hasn't been ameliorated one whit, as illustrated in their reluctance in the scant time remaining to thrash out some sort of makeshift agreement that would defer the fiscal strictures ordained by the law enacted as part of a 2011 deal to raise the debt ceiling. The howls you hear are from our beloved congressmen squealing about having their vacations from the cushiest job imaginable cut short and being forced to return to Washington in a Hail Mary effort to keep the nation from tumbling over that scary cliff.
THE PROSPECTS FOR THESE last-minute "heroics" look decidedly iffy. And further beclouding the picture is Mr. Boehner's inability to deliver the Republican vote in the House. But we can't really blame those GOP lawmakers, since they were no doubt confused by the speaker's unveiling an all-but-indecipherable Plan B, having forgotten apparently to devise a Plan A.
What we find truly absurd is how, as the clock ticked on, the markets complacently put their faith in the notion that the "smart money" (whoever they might be) was darn-near unanimous in endorsing the shibboleth that a deal had been cut by the legislators to circumvent the ever-more-menacing fiscal cliff. All by themselves, even casual spectators of the investment scene would almost instinctively know that when the consensus is so overwhelming, it's rarely right.
Even as we scribble these lines, the president is huddling with the so-called leaders of both parties to have one more shot at patching together a detour around that daunting cliff. Anything is possible, of course, but it would take the mother of all miracles to achieve a political truce that's an absolute prerequisite for that to happen, and Washington is not famous for conceiving even minor miracles.
The received opinion on the Street is that should all these last-ditch efforts come to naught, both the economy and the markets are destined to keel over. Obviously, it doesn't take all that much insight to come to that conclusion, and up to a point, it echoes our feeling. We suspect, though, that the impact will be greater on the markets than on the overall economy. And we draw some comfort from the fact that two economists, Michael Darda of MKM Partners and Paul Kasriel of Econtrarian, whose calls over the years have mostly been on the money and whose judgment we respect, don't think the world necessarily is coming to an end should we go over the cliff.
In his latest dispatch, Michael notes that an abrupt drop in consumer confidence in December as measured by the Conference Board, to 65.1 from the previous month's 71.5, got a lot of media coverage that connected it with the looming fiscal cliff. What didn't get more than a speck of attention was that the entire decline in Jane and John Q's confidence was in the volatile "expectations" category. By contrast, the "present situation index" advanced to a new cyclical high last month, and "jobs hard to get" hit a new low since recovery began.
None of this, commented Michael, is to say "there are no signs of risk aversion." Among them was that velocity of money remains depressed and "investors are literally paying the federal government to borrow from them" (which he takes as "making a mockery" of fears that the U.S. is headed for a fiscal crisis). He points out that the one comparable recession during the past 100 years, in 1945, involved a fiscal 10 times the size of the fiscal cliff and was also associated with a slowdown in monetary growth at a time when the velocity of money was falling. The Fed, Michael says, is making what he dubs "an open-ended effort to avoid such a scenario," and he believes it has a good chance to succeed.
Paul Kasriel retired last April as the designated prognosticator and economy-watcher for Northern Trust and is no stranger to this sacred space. What we particularly like about Paul are his willingness to stand apart from the crowd in sizing up the economic outlook and his leavening sense of humor, a missing element from most practitioners of the dismal science. Both qualities were very much in evidence in a recent paper he put out taking issue with the idea embraced by what he calls "the economist quacks" that we're headed for hell in a handbarrow (aka recession) if taxes go back to where they were during the Clinton era.
"I keep hearing," he explains, "that if tax rates and revenues rise, a huge amount of spending power will be sucked out of the economy." He asserts that's rubbish. "The Treasury is going to collect higher taxes from me and either transfer them to you or buy something from you. In other words, an increase in tax revenues will not 'suck' spending power out of the economy, but rather redistribute that spending power." He readily grants that "you may not like the outcomes of this redistribution," but suggests you not confuse it with a net decline in spending as a whole.
Paul also takes issue with the idea that Uncle Sam's spending is out of control. Does anyone bother to take a gander at the data? he wonders. No question that outlays soared when the economy fell out of bed at the start of the recession, and money was wildly pumped into the financial system and the like to contain the damage.
But when the concern that the recession would morph into depression subsided, so did the level of government spending. Since early 2010, growth in such expenditures, including entitlements, defense, interest, waste, and fraud have been, Paul reckons, "quite tame," indicating to him that the $1 trillion reduction in spending authorized by Congress back in 2011 "is biting."
We can't say we buy every bit of either Paul's or Michael's analyses and arguments. But we cotton to their contrarian take on the economy and the presumed fiscal crisis as worth sharing with you.
OUR FRIENDS AT BESPOKE Investment Group have come up with their variation of the "Dogs of the Dow" approach to playing the market. It consists of buying the 10 highest-yielding stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average at the start of every year. Last year, investors using this strategy found themselves barking up the wrong tree: The Dogs were up more than 7%, but the other 20 had an average gain of more than double that amount.
Nonetheless, over the years the Dogs have acquitted themselves quite well. So Bespoke has thoughtfully provided the likely pack for 2013 and their yields as of last week:
AT&T T -1.4712976362759287% AT&T Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD40.85 -0.61 -1.4712976362759287% /Date(1475096467333-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 25709573 AFTER HOURS USD40.85 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 630636 P/E Ratio 17.645788336933045 Market Cap 255061914367.676 Dividend Yield 4.700122399020808% Rev. per Employee 577456 More quote details and news » (ticker: T), 5.27%; Verizon Communications VZ -0.8192036578395885% Verizon Communications Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD52.06 -0.43 -0.8192036578395885% /Date(1475096648219-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 12808012 AFTER HOURS USD52.06 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 471081 P/E Ratio 14.706214689265536 Market Cap 213965098924.457 Dividend Yield 4.437187860161353% Rev. per Employee 732217 More quote details and news » (VZ), 4.70%; Intel INTC 0.6993006993006993% Intel Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD37.44 0.26 0.6993006993006993% /Date(1475096400174-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 16633090 AFTER HOURS USD37.44 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2387709 P/E Ratio 18.08695652173913 Market Cap 175898581443.787 Dividend Yield 2.7777777777777777% Rev. per Employee 527624 More quote details and news » (INTC), 4.28%; Merck MRK 1.16669330350008% Merck & Co. Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD63.3 0.73 1.16669330350008% /Date(1475096421313-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 11591197 AFTER HOURS USD63.3 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 203781 P/E Ratio 34.78021978021978 Market Cap 173019064204.954 Dividend Yield 2.9067930489731437% Rev. per Employee 574500 More quote details and news » (MRK), 4.08%; DuPont DD -0.104073743681237% E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co. U.S.: NYSE USD67.19 -0.07 -0.104073743681237% /Date(1475096512142-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2664489 AFTER HOURS USD67.19 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 38067 P/E Ratio 26.66269841269841 Market Cap 58807102188.8047 Dividend Yield 2.262241404970978% Rev. per Employee 474096 More quote details and news » (DD), 3.78%; Hewlett-Packard HPQ 0.9778357235984355% HP Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD15.49 0.15 0.9778357235984355% /Date(1475096554526-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 9635511 AFTER HOURS USD15.49 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 106722 P/E Ratio 8.283422459893048 Market Cap 26244837741.5277 Dividend Yield 3.202065848934797% Rev. per Employee 213986 More quote details and news » (HPQ), 3.66%; General Electric GE 0.06693440428380187% General Electric Co. U.S.: NYSE USD29.9 0.02 0.06693440428380187% /Date(1475096405377-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 26332928 AFTER HOURS USD29.91 0.01 0.033444816053511704% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 417705 P/E Ratio 21.912788567240746 Market Cap 267761646424.746 Dividend Yield 3.076923076923077% Rev. per Employee 381222 More quote details and news » (GE), 3.61%; Johnson & Johnson JNJ 0.14259352457641336% Johnson & Johnson U.S.: NYSE USD119.39 0.17 0.14259352457641336% /Date(1475096420734-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 4958265 AFTER HOURS USD119.39 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 117826 P/E Ratio 22.44172932330827 Market Cap 326171253691.256 Dividend Yield 2.6802914816986347% Rev. per Employee 558002 More quote details and news » (JNJ), 3.45%; and McDonald's MCD -1.4544832306639288% McDonald's Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD115.18 -1.7 -1.4544832306639288% /Date(1475096543988-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 5547081 AFTER HOURS USD115.15 -0.03 -0.026046188574405278% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 91793 P/E Ratio 22.192678227360307 Market Cap 99740948159.101 Dividend Yield 3.090814377496093% Rev. per Employee 59822.1 More quote details and news » (MCD), 3.43%.
In a fey touch, Bespoke points out that the lowest-yielding Dow stock at the end of last year was Bank of America BAC 0.5886200130804448% Bank of America Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD15.38 0.09 0.5886200130804448% /Date(1475096430790-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 62611904 AFTER HOURS USD15.37 -0.01 -0.06501950585175553% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 3464498 P/E Ratio 13.264338076757223 Market Cap 156031388624.39 Dividend Yield 1.9505851755526658% Rev. per Employee 431596 More quote details and news » (BAC), with a gain of upward of 106%.
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Arlen Wagner has an awful gift: he can see death in the eyes of men before it strikes. He's never wrong.
So when Arlen awakens on a train one hot Florida night and sees death's telltale sign in the eyes of his fellow passengers, he tries to warn them. Only 19-year-old Paul Brickhill believes him, and the two abandon the train, hoping to escape certain death. They continue south, but soon are stranded at The Cypress House - an isolated Gulf Coast boarding house run by the beautiful Rebecca Cady - directly in the path of an approaching hurricane.
It doesn't take Arlen and Paul long to realize that the storm isn't the only approaching danger - a much deadlier force controls the county and everyone living in it. But Paul refuses to abandon Rebecca to face the threat alone, and Arlen's eerie gift warns him that they'll never leave.
From its chilling beginning to its terrifying end, The Cypress House is a story of relentless suspense from (as Michael Connelly says) "one of the best of the best".
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"Great book read by a great narrator!"
I generally stay away from supernatural books; not my thing. However, this one piqued my interest and I decided to give it a try. It's a great book!!!! Fantastic story development, it moves at a good clip and the narrator is amazing. I'll definitely look for more books narrated by Robert Petkoff; he managed to make the characters distinct without any of them sounding like caricatures. I absolutely loved this book!!
"Suspenseful and enjoyable"
Just finished this one and enjoyed it very much. The characters were rich and believable and had complex motivations that kept me interested. The paranormal elements added some flavor to a good story and but did not overpower it.
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"Enjoyed the suspense"
A very enjoyable listen. Had some good twists and plenty of suspense. Went through it faster than I usually go through books because it kept my interest and kept me wanting to know how the next situation turned out. A little corny in places, like when the narrator kept whispering the word "dead", but all in all a good story with an excellent narrator.
"Loved it!!"
Very nice book, I loved the charaters. It was written very well with bring past experiences into present and yet not leaving me confused. I would love to read another involving these charaters!!
I love espionage, legal, and detective thrillers but listen to most genres. Very frequent reviews. No plot spoilers! Please excuse my typos!
"The Cypress House is better than The Ridge."
I'm not a fan of books that deal with the supernatural, but am a big fan of crime novels. The Cypress House is a terrific crime novel that would have been even better if the main character had not been able to talk with the dead. It adds nothing to the novel.
Koryta is a wonderful young writer. His first books, the Lincoln Perry series, were his best novels until Those Who Wish Me Dead (released in 2014), which is probably the best mystery/thriller book released so far this year and is Koryta's best novel. I have now read 9 or 10 Koryta novels, all except So Cold the River which I will read soon, All 9 except The Ridge and The Cypress House have earned 5 star ratings. The Ridge has been the only disappointment.
I usually don't enjoy the sound of most male narrators and have passed on many a good book due to the way most male narrations grate on my ears.(To be fair, plenty of female narrators are just as irritating) This book, however, sucked me in from the very first word. This book is a symphony of indepth, rawly human, complex characters who are differentiated beautifully by Robert Petkoff. I thourougly, thuroughly enjoyed every word in this book. The "other-wordly" aspects of the story were earily believeable while the human condition was layed out for all to see and feel and experience right along with the characters. Thanks MIchael Koryta! This was my first Michael Koryta book but I k it
I like books that have interesting characters and easy to follow plots. For example, Cormoran Strike, is a great character for me.
"Agonizing to finish"
Usually the reviews of other listeners are correct about a book; some are positive, some are negative. This book received almost unanimous approval. I hated it. I mean I really hated it. It was agonizing to finish it. It was trite, the characters were hackneyed, it was repetitious and the background music, UGH! The author telegraphed every single plot twist. There wasn't a single surprise. Not one. In fact, the only reason I kept listening was to see if Koryta could come up with a single original character or plot scene. He couldn't. The author couldn't decide if he wanted to be Stephen King or Nora Roberts. The paranormal stuff made absolutely no sense. The protagonist could see who would die by the look in the person's eyes. But sometimes he couldn't and then sometimes he could but then they wouldn't die and he could speak with the dead and sometimes they would help him and sometimes they wouldn't. Sometimes the dead would be really good people and sometimes they would remain their nasty human selves. I mean, come on, stupid is as stupid does. My advice, don't be lured by the book description. This book really, really stinks. If you want a good romance thriller, read a Harlequin novel. At least, with them you get what you expect. I listen to hundred books a year. This one was #99.
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Inland region has power, resources and initiative
AMAZING topography on China's southwestern plateau nurtured a stubborn inland city which refused to resign itself to backwardness and poverty because of poor transport and access.
Taking strides to overcome its geographical handicaps, the city of Guiyang has undergone sweeping changes to become the industrial and transportation hub of the landlocked southwestern region.
'We took off late because we are located inland, where beneficial policies fell behind those of coastal and central cities, stifling our development,' said vice-mayor Zhao Zongzhe.
The capital city of Guizhou province, which in the '60s was a manufacturing base for missiles, now boasts having more ammunition than coastal cities in the fight for economic growth.
'We have large bauxite, phosphorus, coal and hydro-power reserves. This enables us to develop power consumption industries and aluminium industries,' Mr Zhao said.
Officially granted capital city status in 1941, with five districts under its jurisdiction, Guiyang, hardly a household name, has a population of 1.6 million in its 2,436 square kilometre area.
In July 1992, it was given a shot in the arm when it won the right to the same preferential policies as coastal open cities, being designated an inland open city.
Guiyang has rail links with Hunan to the east, Guangxi to the south, Yunnan to the west, and Sichuan to the north. All lines are electrified, except the line to Guangxi which will be converted next year.
'Guiyang stands to benefit from the expected development of the southwestern region,' Mr Zhao said.
Growth in recent years has been tremendous. Led by industrial development such as metallurgy, machinery, tobacco and light industries, the city has the back-up of commodity trading and wholesaling.
Three industrial development zones have been designated to make use of Shanghai-based industrial technology and expertise which moved to the city in the '60s for strategic reasons.
Industrial output now accounts for a third of the province's total, which in turn makes up about one per cent of the country's figure.
Originally a rugged and remote town, Guiyang has grown into an increasingly lively city with improved facilities, thanks to the country's reform programmes.
'Ten years ago, there were few flights out of Guiyang, roads were narrow and you had to register to get international dialling on your telephone,' said a Hong Kong businessman.
Now, site works abound for new high-rise buildings and the refurbishment of old districts, and shelves in the shops are packed with necessities such as electrical appliances and modern fashions made in Shanghai and Guangdong.
An international airport is planned, the first four-star hotel is being mapped out and more power plants are under construction. Guiyang is also generating income by transmitting power to Guangdong province.
City dwellers, despite earning only about 200 yuan (about HK$180) to 300 yuan a month, about half the average of coastal cities, are willing to spend the bulk of their income on food and clothing.
'People are willing to spend. Young ladies spend the bulk of their income on clothes, and parents spend on their beloved children,' said a local citizen.
'We love food as well. Food stalls offering hot-pots and barbecued meat are packed with people at night-time,' he said.
The change in consumption behaviour follows the increasing initiative of the 1.6 million city residents, who improve their living standards either by setting up their own businesses or taking part-time jobs.
That initiative is the major force fuelling the city's growth. It is not uncommon to find factory workers and farmers giving up their jobs for better opportunities.
Minibus and taxi operating rights are all put up for sale, encouraging private enterprise and raising capital for the government.
Added to the area's attraction is its multicultural flavour. Apart from the Han race, Guiyang has a mixture of minority races such as the Miao, Dong, Buyi and Gelu.
The city's average income may be lower than that of Guangdong, but beggars are not common, probably because most are willing to work no matter how low the salary.
This reflects the healthy evolution of the city, where simplicity has not been eroded by the somehow mad and fuzzy growth of the coastal cities.
In 1981, the first foreign-funded enterprise set up in Guiyang and now the city has 695 foreign enterprise with total contracted foreign investment of US$680 million, of which $95 million has been committed.
Most foreign investment has come only in the past two years. Last year, the number of foreign-funded enterprises established (381) accounted for more than half the total since 1981.
Contracted foreign investment last year was worth $452 million, with $42 million committed.
Although there are 695 foreign enterprises operating in Guiyang, there are no foreign banks or representative offices in the city; vital for the city to further develop and to attract foreign investment.
While Guiyang saw a quantum leap in its economic development, its too-rapid growth had outpaced the original planning and put a heavy burden on the transport, environment systems and the city's economic structure, said Li Guangrong, head of the city's construction committee.
'These problems won't be resolved before the end of the century,' he said.
Chartered flights between Guiyang and Hong Kong are still only available twice a week at Leizhuang Airport, formerly a military airport. International routes will only be available when a new airport, Longdongbao, is completed in 1997.
The city has only nine hotels with a star-rating, of which two are three-star hotels. Highways are still lacking and the best roads in Guiyang allow maximum speeds of up to 100 kilometres per hour.
Telecommunications facilities are in their infancy, and the exploitation rate of the city's rich natural resources remains low. Its tourism industry has yet to make up a meaningful part of the gross domestic product.
The biggest obstacle to development is shortage of money.
'We have many programmes on the agenda, but with limited capital we can only move step by step,' said Mr Zheng Fusheng, of the city's Foreign Economic Relations and Trade Commission.
Another barrier has been the lack of outside understanding. 'Outsiders tend to associate Guiyang with poverty so, when they come here, they cannot believe this is Guiyang.
'We have changed, and now they are starting to notice the changes.' statistics Population: 1.6 million Area: 2,436 sq km Gross Domestic Output: 9.2 billion yuan (1993) Industrial Output: 6.7 billion yuan (1993) Import value: US$99.3 million (1993) Export value: US$32.78 million (1993) Foreign-funded enterprises now operating: 695 Contracted foreign inv.: US$452 million (1993) Committed foreign inv.: US$42 million (1993) contact Vice-mayor, Zhao Zongzhe: 523 783 Economic Comm. dep. dir., Mi Zhaozhang: 529 675 Foreign Economic Relations & Trade Commission deputy director, Zheng Fusheng: 524 160, 527 004 C'ttee of City Construction: Li Guangrong: 522 321 People's Bank of China vice-pres., Luo Jidong: 524 447
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Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with these fresh takes on traditional Irish dishes, including shepherd's pie, corned beef and cabbage, and Irish soda bread. We've also included a few nontraditional recipes to add a bit o' festive green to your meal!
Add a festive topper to this easy-to-make potato soup by smearing a dab of pesto on shamrock-shape pieces of toast. The basil-flavored blend pairs perfectly with the warm paprika, curry powder, and smoked cheese highlighted in the dish.
Test Kitchen Tip: For a vegetarian version of this potato soup recipe, replace the ham with 1 cup of cooked cannellini beans.
The quintessential Irish recipe, corned beef and cabbage gain tangy flavor from a spicy-sweet honey and brown mustard dressing. Add new potatoes and carrots to the dish for a full-bodied meal.
Traditionally, Irish soda bread was made from just flour, buttermilk, baking soda, and salt. Our recipe adds a bit of sugar, fresh currants, and orange peel to elevate the flavor.
The coastal country of Ireland boasts an array of fresh seafood, and any Irish menu is incomplete without salmon. Combine the flaky fish with chive-flavored mashed potatoes, bread crumbs, and dill for irresistible salmon potato cakes that are ready in 30 minutes.
This open-face take on steak and Guinness pie features fresh mushrooms, red onion, and lean ground beef all stuffed into a crisp packaged pizza dough. Blue cheese crumbles add tang to the savory tart that is sure to please the entire family.
Cabbage is a nutritious and versatile vegetable that can be boiled, steamed, or cooked in the microwave. Watch as we show you four no-fail ways to cook cabbage for a quick and easy side dish.
Include the Irish cook's staple -- potatoes -- for your St. Patrick's Day feast with this irresistible sweet potato hash recipe. A spicy chipotle pepper hollandaise sauce complements the sweet maple syrup that blankets juicy chunks of sweet potato, onion, poached eggs, and crispy bacon.
We all know the Irish love their greens, and Brussels sprouts are no exception. With a little sherry, garlic, and fresh herbs, you can transform basic Brussels sprouts into a mouthwatering side dish that's ready in minutes. Pair them with corned beef for a twist on the classic St. Patrick's Day recipe.
You don't have to wait until St. Patrick's Day to enjoy this Irish beef stew. Boneless beef chuck, cipolini onions, carrots, cremini mushrooms, and Yukon gold potatoes cook together in the hearty and warming dinner stew.
While not traditionally Irish, this bowl of assorted greens (we used collard, kale, mustard, beet, and turnip) is sure to bring you a bit of luck on St. Patrick's Day. Accent the side dish with ham, garlic, and jalapeno pepper.
Inspired by Dublin coddle -- a traditional Irish dinner recipe of sausage, onion, and potatoes -- this dish features juicy smoked sausage, fresh green beans, and tender apple slices boiled in your favorite wheat beer. Shredded orange peel and cider vinegar add tang to the 410-calorie dinner.
Self-rising flour makes this yummy beer bread super easy. Monterey Jack cheese, dill seeds, and dill weed flavor the hearty bread, which is perfect for dipping in a stick-to-your-bones lamb stew.
Beer Bread Tip: When choosing a beer for your bread, pick a brand with similar flavors to your recipe. For heavier rye beer bread, use a dark ale such as Guinness. For bread with fruity notes or a recipe that calls for white flour only, try a lighter lager or pilsner.
When cooked low and slow, beef shanks provide tender, moist meat and a rich-bodied stew. Pair them with root vegetables, earthy mushrooms, and gnocchi to soak up every drop of the tomato-mushroom broth that flavors this dish.
This flavorful variation on the traditional Irish dish uses mashed butternut squash in place of mashed potatoes and sweet Italian sausage instead of ground beef. If you prefer to keep your shepherd's pie traditional, check out another recipe below.
Peas are an Irish mainstay, and this recipe gets its name from both the frozen peas used in the broth and the dried split peas that dot the soup. Smoked pork and roasted vegetables keep the soup extra hearty, while lemon juice adds freshness.
Ireland's vast coastline harbors an abundance of fresh seafood that makes for delicious, protein-packed dinners. Pair mussels and clams with fresh herbs, chopped tomato, and a buttery white wine sauce that can be soaked up with our tasty pesto toasts.
A top-rated recipe, this potato salad gets its spunk from a vinegar-mustard dressing, fresh herbs, and dry cured sausage. Green onions and parsley give the side dish bright flavor and a bit o' green.
An Americanized take on traditional Irish corned beef and cabbage, this one-pot meal requires just 10 minutes of prep time. Serve with a mug of cold beer for St. Patrick's Day.
Loosely inspired by the Irish dish called champ, this creamy potato dish incorporates spring onions, cream cheese, butter, and milk. We added cooked ham and Dijon-style mustard to amp up the flavors in this comforting dish.
With all the potatoes and cabbage of classic colcannon, this warm and hearty chowder incorporates onion, smoked chicken, and carrot for a creative twist on the traditional Irish recipe. The stew is especially delicious when paired with crusty beer bread.


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"Three Parent" Babies? No, More Like 2.001 (If That)…
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Bioethicists are, for the most part, a pretty presumptuous bunch: who on earth do they think they are?
In this case, however, highlighted by the Washington Post, they have got things right:
An elite panel of scientists and bioethicists offered guarded approval Wednesday of a novel form of genetic engineering that could prevent congenital diseases but would result in babies with genetic material from three parents.
The committee, which was convened last year at the request of the Food and Drug Administration, concluded that it is ethically permissible to "go forward, but with caution" with mitochondrial replacement techniques (MRT), said chairman Jeffrey Kahn, a bioethicist at Johns Hopkins University.
No, I'm not sure why it is up to them to decide what is or is not "ethically permissible", but still…
But the advisory panel's conclusions have slammed into a congressional ban: The omnibus fiscal year 2016 budget bill passed by Congress late last year contained language prohibiting the government from using any funds to handle applications for experiments that genetically alter human embryos.
Thus the green light from the scientists and ethicists won't translate anytime soon into clinical applications that could potentially help families that want healthy babies, said Shoukhrat Mitalipov, a pioneer of the new technique at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Ore.
"It seems like the FDA is disabled in this case by Congress," Mitalipov said. "At this point we're still not clear how to proceed."
Congress should get out of the way.
The FDA released a statement Wednesday saying it will carefully review the report from the advisory committee, but added that the congressional ban prohibits the agency from reviewing applications "in which a human embryo is intentionally created or modified to include a heritable genetic modification. As such, human subject research utilizing genetic modification of embryos for the prevention of transmission of mitochondrial disease cannot be performed in the United States in FY 2016."
The new clinical procedures should be used rarely, with extreme care and with abundant government oversight, and they initially should be applied only to male embryos, the advisory panel said. The group delivered its report at a morning news conference at the National Academy of Sciences headquarters in Washington.
The report comes at a time of dazzling advances in genetic engineering and a commensurate struggle to understand the ethics of "playing God," a phrase uttered twice Wednesday by committee member R. Alta Charo, a professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin.
Then again, as it's most unlikely that God played God…
The FDA last year asked the Institute of Medicine, now part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, to review the ethical implications of MRT since this other method of genetic engineering would result in what has been loosely referred to as "three-parent babies." British officials have already approved investigatory experiments involving the technique.
Certain serious congenital diseases can be passed from a mother to child via the tiny amount of genetic material contained in the mitochondria, which are small organs within a cell that are often described as the cell's energy factories or power plants. New experimental techniques involving in vitro fertilization make it possible to replace mutated and potentially disease-associated mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) with non-pathogenic mtDNA donated from another woman.
Mitochondrial DNA contains 37 genes and is distinct from nuclear DNA (nDNA), which in humans has upwards of 20,000 genes. The mitochondrial DNA is not found in sperm, only in eggs, and thus is passed only from mother to child. That's why the panel recommended limiting the experimental procedures at first to male embryos.
The males-only guideline is intended to prevent the introduction of unwanted, irreversible genetic changes to the human species. Any genetic changes associated with this kind of engineering will meet a dead end in males.
"If there are adverse events, they would not be reverberating down the generations," Charo said.
The procedure should be extended to female embryos only after the long-term effects of such novel genetic engineering are better understood, the committee concluded.
Nuclear DNA is by far the more significant form of genetic material for determining most human characteristics. As the committee put it, "[W]hile mtDNA plays a central role in genetic ancestry, traits that are carried in nDNA are those that in the public understanding constitute the core of genetic relatedness in terms of physical and behavioral characteristics as well as most forms of disease."
As a result, the modification of mitochondrial DNA "is meaningfully different."
But panel members said that they took the philosophical issues seriously, noting that someone with genetic material from two different maternal bloodlines would potentially have to wrestle with questions about identity, kinship and ancestry.
Not really. The babies who benefit from this technology will have about 0.1 percent of their DNA attributable to a third party. It's a (very) crude way of looking this, but think how many great, great-grandparents away it would take to account for 0.1% of someone's ancestry….
To describe the donor as a third "parent" is, to put it mildly, a stretch.
And, as a reminder of what this is about:
The donor provides only their mitochondria. Often called the "power plants" of the cell, the mitochondria converts energy from food into energy that can power a cell. When someone's mitochondria don't function properly, it's bad news indeed…
As one 'ethicist' notes:
It is not part of what makes us genetically who we are.It doesn't affect height, eye color, intelligence, musicality. It simply allows the batteries to work properly…
And as to what's at stake;
Mitochondrial diseases can cause a whole host of life threatening problems, and it's estimated that as many as 4,000 children are born with such conditions in the United States each year.
Again, politicians should get out of the way.
For the Children (Not)
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Muscular dystrophy is an inalienable human right (or something).
The Daily Telegraph reports:
A group of 34 European politicians, including eight British MPs and peers, has signed a declaration attacking plans which will make the UK the first country in the world to permit the new IVF technique. Under legislation being drawn up by ministers the treatment will be offered to a handful of parents at high risk of having children with conditions such as muscular dystrophy, as early as next year.
The therapy can dramatically reduce the risk of children inheriting disorders of the heart, brain and muscle which are caused by faults in the mother's mitochondria, structures which supply power to cells. But it has proved controversial because it involves substituting a small fraction of the mother's damaged DNA with that of a healthy female donor.
Because the swap takes place at the "germ line", the third party's DNA would not only be passed on to the child, but also to any future generations down the female line. The therapy was recommended to government by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority earlier this year after a public consultation revealed general support. Doctors developing the treatment have emphasised that the DNA in question lies outside the nucleus of the cell and will have no bearing on the child's personality or appearance.
But a declaration made by members of the Council of Europe, a human rights and ethics organisation made up of politicians from across Europe [it's rather more than that], strongly condemned the decision to permit the technique.The declaration proposed by Jim Dobbin, a British Labour MP, which compared the technique to a "eugenic practice", was signed by 34 members of the human rights organisation's 318-strong parliamentary assembly.
It said: "The undersigned members of the Parliamentary Assembly affirm that the creation of children with genetic material from more than two progenitor persons, as is being proposed by the United Kingdom Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, is incompatible with human dignity and international law".
Superstition, nothing more. Well, on reflection, monumental arrogance too.
It was signed by five other Labour MPs and peers as well as Edward Leigh, a Conservative MP, and the Earl of Dundee, a hereditary peer along with politicians from twelve other nations. The declaration, in effect a statement of opinion by the signatories, does not reflect the view of the whole Council but could now become the subject of a full debate or report.
That Leigh, supposedly a conservative, believes that this is a matter for some international and unaccountable body rather than something to be decided by Britons for themselves only makes matters worse.
Gene Genie
Should people be allowed to see details of their own genetic information?
Of course.
Yet, as Reason's Ron Bailey points out in a post linking to this article by Slate's Virginia Hughes, "timorous and condescending bioethicists and physicians" insist on getting in the way.
Hughes notes:
The public discussion about DNA testing tends to focus on ethical dilemmas: What if doctors find that a person's father isn't really? Should they tell a patient about a DNA glitch if it's only occasionally linked to disease? What if, while looking for mutations that could explain a known sickness, they stumble on others that might predict late-life dementia or indicate the presence of HIV? Would adding this data to someone's medical record affect health insurance rates? What if—gasp—we end up with a real-life Gattaca?
These questions are worth talking about. But the genetics community and popular press spend too much time debating when and how the medical establishment should "protect" people from their children's or their own DNA.
For example, many bioethicists argue that DNA glitches shouldn't be disclosed if they're ambiguous or linked to untreatable conditions. Doing so "may create unwanted psychosocial burdens on parents," according to a commentary on newborn sequencing in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Ah yes, bioethicists.
They really are a useless, worthless bunch, philosopher-princelings and wannabe clergymen who hawk their insulting and condescending babble to a political class always looking for new reasons to tell people what not to do.
Bailey concludes:
It is way past time for 25 or so states that have restricted the right of citizens to obtain their genetic information from direct-to-consumer companies to lift their bans.
Indeed it is.
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From a WSJ review of a new book chronicling the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart:
The Minnesota study's IQ results hit a nerve years before their publication in 1990, overshadowing other controversies that might have been. Many of its findings are bipartisan shockers. Take religion, which almost everyone attributes to "socialization." Separated-twin data show that religiosity has a strong genetic component, especially in the long run: "Parents had less influence than they thought over their children's religious activities and interests as they approached adolescence and adulthood." The key caveat: While genes have a big effect on how religious you are, upbringing has a big effect on the brand of religion you accept. Identical separated sisters Debbie and Sharon "both liked the rituals and formality of religious services and holidays," even though Debbie was a Jew and Sharon was a Christian.
Just another example of the 'God Gene' at work, I suppose, and, as such, just another reminder that there is little or no prospect of ever weaning mankind off religion (Professor Dawkins, please note).
On Jews & genetics
3 Comments · Posted by David Hume in history
I have been travelling, and so blogging has been light from my end for a while now. But I thought I would point readers to a long post I put up over at Discover Blogs on Jewish genetics. The post wasn't long enough really to say everything that needs to be said, so I'll follow up, but I didn't have more time than an afternoon to devote to it. Of more relevance to Secular Right readers, I'll be posting a moderately negative review of Larry Witham's Marketplace of the Gods: How Economics Explains Religion over there too. Shorter: more a bibliography than a précis, and a bit ill-timed in regards to capitalizing on the boom of economics-explains-everything books (writing began before the 2008 Financial Crisis).
Your genes on cuisine
2 Comments · Posted by David Hume in culture, science
A year ago there was a paper on the effect of diet on enzyme production, Diet and the evolution of human amylase gene copy number variation. That human evolution skeptic, P. Z. Myers, has just noticed the paper, and says:
This work by Perry and others went on to look for patterns in different human populations with different dietary historys, and discovered that there is a correlation: cultures with diets heavy in starch, agricultural populations such as Americans, Europeans, and Japanese, or hunter-gathers who live on many roots and tubers, have a higher average copy number than cultures that depend more on hunting and fishing.
Look at the distributions! Populations with little starch in their diets also have a relatively low copy number of 5.44 amylase genes per individual; we french fry eaters have a higher number of 6.72 amylase genes per individual. The difference is small, and the distributions also overlap significantly (note that some with high starch diets only have 2 copies, and some living on low starch diets have 13 copies), but the difference is measurable and significant. It implies that there may have been some selection for greater copy numbers in cultures with diets high in starchy plants.
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Skip to comments.Good Grief Now Team Obama Wants to Blow Up 3 Dams In the Name of Junk Science
Posted on 02/29/2012 7:09:27 PM PST by Baynative
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Either that (or more obviously), the fish are merely an excuse to do the greatest amount of economic damage possible.
Actually, the fish will go crazy when all the silt which has been deposited in the reservoirs is released...for fish, that will be the equivalent of breathing thick smoke, and just as healthy.
Maybe Obama really wants to jack up food prices some more by making another area of land unfit to grow crops.
It's pretty simple -
if it makes the lives of Americans better, he's against it.
if it makes their lives more peasant-like, he's for it.
Bump for Tom Mc...
I suggest that the statement is totally inaccurate. Those dams do NOT release CO^2*. The real problem is that those old generators arc & spark, creating OZONE a pollutant 500 times worse than CO^2, because the dam operators refuse to retrofit the generators & water turbines with EPA approved emission control systems. /S
*According to a study (EPA & NEA [category, Performance Art] funded) by Vegan Artists For Obama And Saving The Environment For Free Swimming Fish
Better to have a thousand armed "Minutemen" defending it.
Sure, more effective in one aspect at least, but then the media would just spin it that we were kooks preaching violence, and the public would turn a blind eye to any action the government took against us, just like they did to the Branch-Davidians. It's much easier to get a PR victory if you put yourself in a position where the government has to either resort to violence without any possible justification, or fold. The leftists learned that lesson from Gandhi very well, and I know it goes against the grain to suggest we can learn anything from their "hippie" tactics, but I say, if a weapon is effective, we shouldn't cede it to the enemy but rather keep it our quiver as well.
Not if they "Occupy" the ridge lines near the dam. Since that's wild country, they'll need their "hunting rifles" to defend themselves against the bears and cougars. You know the ones with the ten power scopes and calibers like .308, .338 and .50. :)
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I know you are concerned about the Klamath Secretarial determination process, so I wanted to bring to your attention to an allegation of scientific and scholarly misconduct and reprisal for a whistleblower disclosure I made concerning the biased summarization of key scientific conclusions for the Klamath River dam removal Secretarial determination process.
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Here are some columns about what the County's legal, scientific and tech. consultants found in the EIR/EIS:
I took a peek at both part one and part 2 and I'll read 'em just before the program starts at 8:AM in the morning... Which is really going to be 7:AM with GovernMentally imposed Pacific Daylight Savings Time... Pfffffffft!!!
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