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The mission of NNVAWI is to eliminate violence by advancing nursing education, practice, research, and public policy.
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The Nursing Network on Violence Against Women (NNVAWI) was formed to encourage the development of a nursing practice that focuses on health issues relating to the effects of violence on women's lives. NNVAW was founded in November of 1985 during the first National Nursing Conference on Violence Against Women held at the University of Massachusetts/ Amherst. We now have international members and have added "International" to our name (NNVAWI).
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - An arrest has been made in a 14-year-old Cedar Rapids murder case.
According to the Cedar Rapids Police Department, police in Shakopee, Minn. have arrested 34-year-old Deshaun L. Phillips in the 1999 murder of 44-year-old Judith Weeks. Police said on April 5, 1999, Weeks' body was found behind 1319 Second Ave. SE. Weeks died from multiple injuries, police said. There was insufficient evidence to file charges at the time of the murder, police said. Police have not said what led to a breakthrough in the case and have said they will not be releasing any additional information on the case. According to a police department press release, the case has been reviewed numerous times since the original investigation. Recently, investigators were assigned to the case and were successful in developing new information on Phillips. First-degree murder is a class A felony, punishable by a mandatory life sentence. Click here to see other unsolved Iowa murder cases Most Popular |
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Insane Portrait-Taking Rube Goldberg Machine
This is a 4-minute video of a massive, multi-room sized Rube Goldberg machine that culminates in the taking of a man's portrait (God, just ask a stranger!). I couldn't really find a screencap that would do the machine justice, so it's best if you just watch the video and see for yourself. Feel free to skip around though, you don't have to watch the whole thing. But it is all good. Like me the three days right before Christmas hoping Santa didn't have time to check up on me except last minute. The rest of year?
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*smashes guitar, puts on sunglasses, blows kiss to a hunk*
Hit the jump for more ball-dropping, balloon popping, things rolling around and hitting other things action than you could shake a camera at while taking a picture and wind up with a blurry-ass photo. Plus a making of video.
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Thanks to michal, who agrees it's way easier when you have another person around to push the button.
This is a short video entitled 8-Bit Trip that is a tribute to 8-bit video games made entirely out of LEGO blocks. Personally, I would have gone with a 16-Bit Trip, but I like good visuals (one time I saw the face of Loki from Super Ghouls n' Ghosts come out of a brick wall an... / Continue →
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This is the music video for Chicago-based OK Go's 'This Too Shall Pass', which consists of an unbelievable 3:53 long Rube Goldberg machine. You have to watch it. I mean, you don't haaave to, you'll just miss out if you don't. Then, at the water cooler tomorrow when we're all... / Continue →


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So, we've set up a package deal over at our merch store. Nab a copy of the split and any shirt we have left in stock for 13 dollars, and 69 cents, dude. We're normally selling the split for $12, so that basically works out to getting a shirt for a whopping $1.69, dude.
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When people want to ride, all they need to do is call and their boat will be moved via forklift from storage to the water. When boaters arrive, keys are in the boat.
This option allows people to boat solo. Loading and unloading boats onto to trailers for traveling takes two people.
"We have single women who come by themselves as well as single men," said Graham. "They'll come get their boat, go for a ride and when it's over they drop their keys in the mailbox and go home. No sweat."
Since carrying the Chaparral line, they have sold about 25 new boats. In the last three years, they sold about 105 new and used boats all together.
"It's done pretty well for us," said Philip Mullins, who's worked at Trojan for about six years. He added the storage facility really helps the resell value of boats by about 15 percent.
Graham agreed, "As odd as it may seem, water and sunshine are kind of the enemy of your boat. If it's in our building, in the shade, high and dry, it lives longer."
Technology has helped Trojan Landing reach customers farther away.
"What's really doing well for us is online sales," Mullins said.
Right now, though, the boating business is gearing up for winter.
"These boats are water cooled like a car motor," Mullins said. "We've got to get all the water out of your engine block or else water freezes and expands, and that's not food for the inside of your motor."
Last year they winterized about 250 boats. From start to finish, smaller boats take about two days to do a full service winterization. Bigger boats take about three to four days.
Both Charleston Marina and Trojan Landing provide boat transportation. Mullins said more people kept their boats at places like Summersville Lake, where water levels are more consistent, this year.
Mullins and Graham would like to see more local boating events like Live on the Levee.
"Before fuel became so expensive people would gather in groups and take trips up the Ohio River for a weekend," Graham said. "That doesn't happen so much anymore. Boaters still want to go but they're not willing to spend the fuel it takes."
Graham added, "We're going to have a great summer next year. I'll be there every weekend."
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Exploiting 64-Bit Linux
Wide availability of 64-bit systems offers an opportunity to simplify programming. By leveraging large virtual addresses and memory mapped files, we combine programming and file persistence into a single activity. This simplifies programming when persistence and sharing of large complex data structures are required. It also improves the efficiency of data access and sharing, as multiple programs can access data directly (operate in place) from the single real page copy. This eliminates the need to copy the data through multiple layers of buffering. When all programs share data at the same virtual address, there are opportunities for the kernel to manage the memory map to avoid aliases and share MMU resources across applications.
As a proof of concept, I have a small user library I call SPHDE (Shared Persistent Heap/Data Environment). This library manages a portion of the application's address space to provide blocks of persistent and shared storage. The library also provides some locking primitives and some "utility objects" that provide finer-grained storage allocation and indexing.
As a demonstration, I wrote a gigapixel Mandelbrot (GTK2) GUI program. This program computes each point in the Mandelbrot set once and saves the resulting image as a quadtree in SPHDE storage. This quadtree representation can be shared and displayed by multiple instances of the program. Program instances can cooperate to fill in the next level of detail.
System design and programming models are (initially) driven by the need to manage scarce resources. In the early days of programming, both address spaces and physical memory were small. IO Subsystems evolved to manage the buffering of serial media, such as tape and punch cards. Even the introduction of random access disk and virtual memory did not change the basic paradigm much. The programming paradigms we use and teach today have far outlived the original scarcity that caused them. The separation of programming from persistent data is a prime example. It creates inefficiencies in both programming effort and runtime execution.
With the prevalence of 64-bit microprocessors, the original (addressing/memory) scarcity is gone. We can leverage virtual memory to access and share massive data structures directly using "operate in place" and "implicit persistence" patterns. This simplifies programming, because any data structure is implicitly persistent by where it is allocated. This improves operational efficiency, because it eliminates layers of buffer management and the OS has more opportunities to share a single physical copy. There are additional opportunities for improving address translation efficiency by eliminating address aliasing and exploiting hardware features, such as large pages.
There have been attempts to unify programming and persistence before. Persistence frameworks abound, but they simply add layers of buffering and data conversions to the top of the IO Subsystem stack. Operational efficiency is lost to obtain a modest reduction in programming effort.
Alternatively, Single-Level Stores have been a research topic for years. Although the technology works (simplified programming and data efficiency), the requirement for specialized hardware or unique OS environments has limited acceptance.
This picture changes again with widely available 64-bit microprocessors and standardized POSIX memory management APIs. The addition of a small runtime library allows adventurous programmers to use operate in place and implicit persistence across numerous OSes and 64-bit hardware platforms. This hybrid Single-Level Store approach allows for incremental exploration and adoption of a new programming paradigm.
Simple memory-mapped files is not enough. We need a design for how the address space and backing files are managed. The design should balance simplicity and efficiency in the management of the virtual (address space) and physical (real memory and disk space) resources.
Here are some principles I believe are important to include in the design. The runtime should be simple to use and compatible with UNIX programming and POSIX APIs. It should use resources (address space) that are not normally used in existing applications. It should appear to the program like a large shared persistent heap (SPH). Access to data in the SPH should use standard C pointer semantics. Setup to access to data in the SPH should be minimum. The design evolved to the concepts of regions, stores, segment and blocks, all with power of two sizes.
The region is simply the range of virtual addresses that the application wants the runtime to manage on its behalf. The region should be in a range of virtual addresses not normally used by the application. We want to ensure that the region does not interfere with the normal program usage of (local temporary) heap and dynamic libraries. On Linux, this means the area above the TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE and below the main stack. Leaving lots of room below the stack and above TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE still allows for the use of up to half the program's address space for SPH.
Next, we need to choose a segment size. The segment is the unit size for allocating backing files and memory mapping those files into the region. This should be large enough so that we don't do frequent kernel calls and small enough so that we don't waste file space.
A store is a directory that contains one or more files used to back SPH segments. A system can have multiple SPH stores by allocating the backing files in different directories. For now (also to keep things simple), a program can bind to only one region/store at a time.
Finally, a block is the unit of space allocation within an SPH region. It is normally between a page and a segment in size, but that is not a hard limit. The only hard limit is that the block fits with the remaining space at the time. If the block is allocated to a portion of the SPH region that does not currently have a backing file allocated, the SPH runtime will implicitly create the file(s) in the store directory associated with the region.
For overall simplicity, we use power of two sizes for blocks and segments. This allows a power of two buddy system to be used to track all aspects of SPH storage. The buddy system reduces fragmentation and simplifies recombining smaller blocks into larger blocks when they are freed.
We need some low-level utility functions to help manage the buddy lists. First, we need a simple heap manager to sub-allocate blocks for smaller control blocks and lists. The lists need to be ordered and will be searched frequently, so we use a simple binary tree. Algorithms for the heap manager and binary tree can be found in Donald E. Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming (see Resources).
Finally, we need a place to store and maintain this information. The anchor block is the first block in the region. The anchor block starts with a block header, which includes signature words (eye-catchers initialized to special values), type info, pointer to the start of the local free list (heap) and a set of pointers for the various binary trees that manage space in the SPH region. The remainder of the anchor block is initialized as free heap space. This internal heap is used to allocate additional nodes required for the binary trees and any other internal control blocks needed to manage the SPH region.
After an SPH region is initialized, we have mostly an empty region with one segment (backing file in the store directory) and one block (the anchor block) allocated from that segment. The various lists have been initialized to depict this state. For example, the region free and used lists contain entries for the unallocated (no backing files) and allocated (with backing files) portion of the region. An entry for the anchor block is added to the "used" list. The "uncommitted" list contains entries for the current unused portions of the first segment. And, the free list is empty. Now we are ready to allocate more blocks.
I'd also appreciate some more links to the source code
I don't think the article is understandable at all for people who is not familiar with memory mapping, etc.
Also timings for different calculations are given, but there is no reference values to compare the improvements gained from shifting to the 64-bit platform.
Where is the code?
Neither the resources nor the text provide URLs for the code for the SPHDE library nor the Mandelbrot demo program. When did Linux Journal become a place to report research without allowing readers the opportunity to participate (try out, test, play, and expand on the work described)?
Also, the SASOS URL doesn't work.
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WHO recommendations on postnatal care of the mother and newborn
The postnatal period is a critical phase in the lives of mothers and newborn babies. Most maternal and infant deaths occur during this time. Yet, this is the most neglected period for the provision of quality care.
WHO guidelines on postnatal care have been recently updated based on all available evidence. The guidelines focus on postnatal care of mothers and newborns in resource-limited settings in low- and middle-income countries.
New guidance for treating children with severe acute malnutrition
WHO has issued new treatment guidelines for the almost 20 million children under-five worldwide who have severe acute malnutrition. Severe acute malnutrition is when children suffer severe wasting that may or may not be accompanied by swelling of the body from fluid retention. Children with severe acute malnutrition are among the most vulnerable people in the world.
Levels and trends in child mortality 2013
The United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN-IGME) updates child mortality estimates annually for monitoring progress. This report presents the UN-IGME's latest estimates of under-five, infant and neonatal mortality and assesses progress towards MDG 4 at the country, regional and global levels.
It aims to help countries and partners give high priority to reducing newborn and child mortality, particularly by targeting the major killers of children with effective preventive and curative interventions.
Maternal death surveillance and response: Technical guidance
Most maternal deaths are preventable. In order to end preventable maternal deaths, accurate information on how many women died, where they died and how they died is essential, but is currently inadequate. Maternal death surveillance and response (MDSR) contributes to better information for action by promoting routine identification and timely notification of maternal deaths, review of maternal deaths, implementation and monitoring of steps to prevent similar deaths in the future.
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Right at the start of the thread the OP made the point that Neil Gaiman is the obvious choice as the guy who's got a big rep as a prose writer as well as comics.
That's certainly true.
Anyhow finally got round to reading American Gods this week, not having read any of his prose before. Its well written, efficient fantasy. But... I have to say... I'm startled at size of its critical reputation. It regularly makes top 25 fantasy lists... but I really don't see why. (For me, it's no where near as enjoyable as hundreds of other fantasies by likes of Guy Gavriel Kay, J V Jones, Phillip Pullman, Raymond E Feist, etc.)
Moore's Voice of the Fire stands out for me as by far the best book written by someone previously known mainly as a comics writer. Nothing else I've read comes close.
Ellis's Crooked Little Vein was good, but a bit lightweight; I expect something more substantial from him in the future, though. His first effort showed he has no problem writing in this new (for him) medium, so if he's motivated to do something a little more ambitious, I think he'll likely pull it off.
I had the misfortune to read Gaiman's comic book writing before anything else by him, and I've found it to be mediocre at best; thus I've lost interest in trying any of his novels.
I thought I was the only one,,,
Gaiman's main strength is the understated elegance of his prose, which makes the act of reading very enjoyable. But when it comes to plot, character development and tension, his comic-book work strikes me as far superior. American gods was something like Sandman redux, although more predictable. Ananai boys had me as worried about its protagonists as if they had been having a nice picnic in the Thousand Acres wood, which is unlikely to have been the desired effect. [I]Good omens was funny and irreverent, but also pretty predictable and lacking in the thrill department. All in all, my favorite Gaiman book is the least ambitious one, Neverwhere. It reads like a comic, but isn't apologetic about it. (And I say that as someone who worships Gaiman in his comic-book writer role. The sheer level of creativity and skill shown in Sandman, a level that kept rising as the series progressed, defies description).
I heard that his short stories are better than the novels, though, and I might try them someday.
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It feels weird to me, how much I can't groove on Harlan Ellison's early comics writing much at all. So good in words, not so hot when coupled with pics and the Comics Code.
It was definitely a lightweight, fun book, not a deeply serious and substantial novel, but he's been writing prose fiction for commercial markets since around the time of his comics debut, if infrequently (and nonfiction prose since shortly before comics). A lot of folks I've talked to seemed to want a more substantial/serious book, but for it was all that bothered me was a repeat of the old cranky man and young hip girlfriend assistant trope which is just a lure and fishhook to catch the story, but still. You can tell by the kinds of books/writers that he regularly talks highly of, or his love of the one-off comics story, that he likes short, fast, entertainment writing, too, though, so I can't believe it was just to test the waters as much as Warren Ellis just likes that sort of thing.
Wondering, now, who all broke into comics and prose fiction at roughly the same time. Dennis O'Neill, though more known as a comics writer was doing prose back in the day pretty much concurrent to his first comics work, including the novel that introduced the world to Richard Dragon. Marjorie Liu pursued her prose and comics career simultaneously (and wisely, through an agent for both), but she had a few novels out before any comics. Gaiman didn't put out a solo novel for ten years or so into his comics career (an adaptation of his script for Neverwhere, not an "original novel" per se, though obviously, he's adapting his own work), but he was publishing short fiction and nonfiction the whole time.
I can pretty much agree, though it feels, rather than any genuine subtlety, to be that he's soft-selling, that the phrasing is restrained to avoid making us uncomfortable or to give us room to question anything. I think it's a great commercial strength, but for me, as a reader, it can get wearisome.
I enjoy his short fiction more than his novels, of what I've read, but some of those, as well, can be especially twee and cushioned for safety. His best, to me, is when he goes whole hog for that, and just does a comedy routine, such as "Shoggoth's Old Peculiar," which is Dudley Moore and Peter Cooke in Lovecraft's Innsmouth, generally making otherwise sharp comedy and devious horror warm and charming. That, for me, may be his great strength: making everything, be it horrific or immense or scalding, warm and charming. Except for the sex, which tends, in his prose, to be pretty darn tedious for me and I like sex in my fiction.
I have no idea if they're good, but I understand that Dan Abnett has written a lot of Warhammer 40 000 novels that had impressive print runs. (If they're anything like Guardians of the galaxy and Legion of the damned, then they're probably a good bet).
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If I can damn him with incredibly faint praise, Abnett writes some of the best RPG tie-ins out there.
His original stuff is pretty decent, too. Embedded is a nice bit of satire that still works as traditional military SF and Triumpff is an entertaining, if lightweight, steampunk-y adventure.
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I doubt I could have articulated it so eloquently, but that's exactly what I feel. It was particularly true in Anansi boys, where the matter of someone's murder is rold in as inoffensive a manner as possible. It's neat the first few times around because it's unexpected, but afterr a while, like everything, it gets old.
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Brad Meltzer of course. Although I'm not a big fan of his thrillers.
I would not call it great but John Jackson Miller wrote a good Star Wars book that ties into the Knight Errant comics also callled Knight Errant.


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Donnie Darko: Director's Cut
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Oct 9 2004
Richard Kelly
Richard Kelly
Donnie Darko: Director's Cut
Highschooler Donnie is plagued by visions of a giant evil rabbit who orders him to commit acts of violence and predicts the impending end of the world. Read MoreOfficial score:
Dr Butcher MD (aka Zombie Holocaust)
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Nov 30 1979
Marino Girolami
Walter Patriarca
Dr Butcher MD (aka Zombie Holocaust)
A mad scientist lives at an molukk island inhabited by cannibals. He experiments with corpses which he reanimates to zombies… Read MoreOfficial score:
After a harrowing ride through the Carpathian mountains in eastern Europe, Renfield enters castle Dracula to finalize the transferral of Carfax Abbey in London to Count Dracula, who is in actuality a vampire. Renfield is drugged by the eerily hypnotic count, and turned into one... Read More Read MoreOfficial score:
Evil Laugh
A group of Med students fix up an old house over a weekend. Where a mass murder occurred 10 years earlier. Mayhem ensues. Read MoreOfficial score:
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A gang of young thieves flee Paris during the violent aftermath of a political election, only to hole up at an Inn run by neo-Nazis. Read MoreOfficial score:
Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning
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Jul 10 2004
Grant Harvey
Christina Ray
Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning
Set in 19th Century Canada, Brigette and her sister Ginger take refuge in a Traders' Fort which later becomes under siege by some savage werewolves. And an enigmatic Indian hunter decides to help the girls, but one of the girls has been bitten by a... Read More Read MoreOfficial score:
A psychotic murderer institutionalized since childhood escapes on a mindless rampage while his doctor chases him through the streets. Read MoreOfficial score:
High Tension (Uncut) (FR)
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Jun 10 2005
Alexandre Aja
Alexandre Aja
High Tension (Uncut) (FR)
In High Tension Marie and Alex are schoolmates and best friends. Hoping to prepare for their college exams in peace and quiet, they decide to spend a weekend in the country at Alex's parents' secluded farmhouse. But in the dead of night, a stranger knocks... Read More Read MoreOfficial score:
When a nasty storm hits a hotel, ten strangers are stranded within and as they begin to know each other, they discover they are being killed off one by one. Read MoreOfficial score:
Inside (À l'intérieur) (V)
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Apr 15 2008
Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury
Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury
Inside (À l'intérieur) (V)
Still grieving over her recently deceased boyfriend, a pregnant woman becomes haunted by a mysterious woman. Read MoreOfficial score:


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Stars with frickin' laser beams!
About a month ago, we wrote about the HomeStar Pro Planetarium, which uses LEDs to project the night sky on your ceiling. Here's another one for the astronomy buffs: Laser Stars, a projector that beams star and cloud formations onto your wall or ceiling of choice with laser technology and holographics. For those of us who live in brightly lit cities where we can't really see any real stars at night, it's a cool idea.
The Laser Stars projector looks to be less for nuts-and-bolts astronomy buffs than for people who just like to look at a … Read more
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Nikko's nerdtacular Star Wars R2-D2 gear
These are probably the greatest gadgets I've seen at all of CES. Massive HDTVs and supercharged game PCs are great, but they can't compare to products fashioned to look and act like the galaxy's greatest astrodroid.
Electronics company Nikko, best known for its remote-controlled cars, has announced a DVD projection system and a wireless, networked Webcam, both based on Star Wars' R2-D2. The nerd truly is strong in these ones.
The R2-D2 DVD Projector is a 480p home-theater projector that looks just like the beloved robot. The 20-inch-tall projector features built-in speakers, an iPod dock, a memory … Read more
Viewsonic ViewDock projector for iPod
Well, this is a first...the first one I've seen, anyway. Yesterday at CES, Viewsonic announced the ViewDock projector, which features a built-in iPod dock. According to Viewsonic's press release, iPod users are "three times as likely to download video clips, movies and Web casts to their computers"--the company is obviously interested in capitalizing on this fact. Viewsonic asserts that the ViewDock is great for on-the-go sharing, but at 3-plus pounds and roughly 12 x 10 x 5 inches (my estimate), it's not really all that portable. In a car, certainly, but I wouldn'… Read more
InFocus preps instant home theater
A handful of all-in-one home-theater projectors have hit the market over the last 18 months, and InFocus jumps into this interesting category with the InFocus Play Big IN1, an inexpensive DLP projector with an integrated DVD player and speaker to output sound. While the info on the unit is a little vague, InFocus says that they are also looking into having an iPod dock for playing back iPod videos, to go along with the DVD player "dock" that attaches to the bottom of the projector.
Here are the details so far:
Price: $499 (subject to change)
Availability: Spring … Read more
Turn your phone into a projector
So you like the idea of watching TV or movies on your MP4 player or cell phone, but the screens are just too small for you to make an accurate call on instant replay, especially if your next paycheck is on the line with the game's outcome. All that could change with new technology from Microvision, which claims to have built the world's smallest projector.
The company's Pico Projector, which is planned for release at this week's Consumer Electronics Show, is designed to be embedded in handheld products to project "photos, videos, movies and TV … Read more


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See Full ArticleHumanitarian, international peacemaker, former mountaineer, co-founder of two non-profit organizations and co-author of Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson will present the Schooler Lecture at Mount Union College on Tuesday, March 23, 2010 at 8 p.m. in the Timken Gymnasium of the McPherson Academic and Athletic Complex.
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See Full ArticleThe P.L.A.Y.E.R.S. Club Steppers performance, sponsored by the Black Student Union and the Raider Programming Board, was held on February 3 in the Mount Union Theatre.
See Full ArticleThe River City Brass Quintet will perform on Monday, February 8 in Presser Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
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See Full ArticleDr. Stanley Hauerwas, the Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics at the Divinity School of Duke University, presented the Carr Lecture on February 3 at Mount Union College.
See Full ArticleThe Mount Union College Continued Learning Committee is offering free Continued Learning Program sessions for adults every Tuesday in February at 10 a.m. in the Hoover-Price Campus Center.
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
"C'mon Ben!"
I don't think anyone still believes that the US thinks a strong dollar is in it's best interest. The dollar has very little going for it these days in that there will be trillion dollar deficits for years to come, the Fed is buying treasuries and keeping rates at zero in an effort to spur lending which anecdotally speaking appears to not be happening (there is also data to support the idea of very little lending).
There are dollar bulls out there but as best as I can tell the arguments here seem to focus on counter trend activity which even if correct is not a story about dollar health.
One interesting point made in the article was that the current zero rate environment hurts savers, referred to in the article as the prudent, while rewarding the scofflaws (the article didn't use that word, I just think it's funny). While I am not sure what priority prudent savers should be on the Fed's list the idea of encouraging risk taking is not good insomuch as some people should not take risk or more practically speaking what ever amount of money you have that should not be exposed to risk should not be exposed to risk. Zero percent potentially encourages people to make bad decisions chasing yield with money that should remain riskless.
A point I have made repeatedly is that if you are getting 4% in a 0% world you are taking risk--hopefully you understand what that risk is.
Can we all agree that in getting to this point the Fed, the Bush administration and the Obama administration all took (or are now taking) extreme action, perhaps the most extreme action ever taken (I concede most extreme ever could be open to debate)? Based on how certain types of human frailties tend to repeat over and over it is reasonable to question whether the correct action can be taken at the correct time to prevent the sorts of things that the Schiffians are worried about (hyperinflation and a worthless greenback) from happening.
Without turning this into a political debate my sense is that Obama somehow does not understand the potential consequences of extreme action. I don't think he understands, I mean really understands, that in general there are economic consequences for policy decisions. Nor do I think he understands, I mean really understands, the potential consequences of the actions taken to date during the current event. Were the Obama administration to talk more about potential consequences in detail they would instill confidence, some anyway, that they understand, I mean really understand, the potential and how to mitigate a series of negative consequences.
A huge part of the problem here is that political cycle and the priority of reelection above all else works against finding the best solution. Pretend for a minute that they can figure out a plan of short term pain to create a long term fix, what Senator due for reelection in 2010 will vote for something that causes short term pain? With that line of thinking what member of the House would ever vote for the tough choice?
A rather brutal analogy; In 1982 I was diagnosed with a rare but treatable form of cancer. I was told that it was very unlikely that I would die from this but I was going to be in for a bad 48 weeks. So the trade off was a bad short run for a healthy (knock on wood) long run. As a country we lack the political will for a bad 48 weeks (more likely a couple of years or so).
One line of thinking that has been mentioned elsewhere that I buy into is that the Fed needs, in the short run, to pick between the dollar and the stock market. Thus far it has chosen the stock market which creates the appearance of health but is not true long term health. Long term health would come by choosing the dollar instead which means rates would go up, there would be less or no monetization and so a big drag on stocks for a while as everything but the equity market moved toward real health. Perhaps this line of thinking is right or maybe it is wrong but for now it is certainly easier to just own more foreign stocks than you used to.
As for the picture of Bryce Canyon again; get used to it for a while. After we made the video I posted yesterday we learned that there is a short hike through the hoodoos that was also awesome. It was a 1.3 mile loop that goes down one way and up coming back up. Maybe we're the last to know about this place but it was truly spectacular.
20 comments:
- Anonymous said...
The question is not does Obama understand.
Does Obama care? I mean really care about the consequences. Of course he does not. You do not save high paid union auto worker jobs at enormous expense while many Americans are squeaking out a living in other areas. He only cares about the consequences to his backers. - 5:38 AM
- Anonymous said...
While there will be consequences, I think it's incorrect to mix Fed policy with politics. The Fed did what needed to be done. Their cohorts worldwide did the same. Was there any choice, really? It has nothing to do with Obama. Bush, whose administration was at the helm incidently when this all started, would be in the same boat.
- Rhianni32 said...
Wow first post and we are already Obama bashing. I had hoped we could at least make 8-10 posts before we got to that point.
I'm not sure if any president, repub or dem, can know about the consequences of their actions. Even the experts that spend 100% of their time in finances don't seem to do a good job and they don't have to split their time with other concerns national and foreign.
I do agree that unfortunately the short term gain in votes outweighs long term health of the nation. One other thing to keep in mind is that the politicians will have their wealth for retirement and comfortable living and don't have a self interest in fixing much of anything. - 6:07 AM
- Jim L. said...
"He only cares about the consequences to his backers." And that would be the left-wing, liberal, commie-socialist with neo-fascist tendencies faction? Glad we kept this discussion "non-political."
- Anonymous said...
It is not possible to discuss this topic in a non-political manner. How many times have Obama and the other Dem's blamed George Bush for the present mess (and this is at least partially true); ignoring the long-term costs of their favorite social program, affirmative action (in my opinion, the cause of the housing market meltdown, which in turn caused the crash)? Add to this the fact that the Fed Chairman (Bernanke) has to be re-confirmed by the Senate next year, so he becomes at least more political than he might otherwise be.
- RW said...
Adherents of the financial sector such as Summers and Geithner are clearly not giving Obama good advice but the political climate is probably the biggest obstacle: It's corrupted by election financing and poisonous with partisanship that mass media eggs on to increase its own revenue and market share.
The press was once viewed as the Fourth Estate, a bulwark of democracy, but now corporate media mixes news with entertainment and marketing to the point no one can be entirely sure which is which. The mishmash of sensationalized half-truths and bullshit delivered by semi-pretty people would make anyones head spin: Witness the comment above by someone who clearly believes "high paying" union jobs are the problem when in fact they are being lost to off-shoring as fast as all the rest of Main Street or the other comment by someone who has clearly bought the CRA-did-it story hook line and sinker and believes poor, colored folk brought down the most powerful nation on the planet by getting loans or promotions that should have been given to someone more deserving.
All this while tens of billion$ in bonuses are given out at banks who are making a better living by trading with 0% money on the taxpayer dime than by originating loans. What we have now is socialism for the rich (AKA plutonomy), capitalism and risk for the rest of us and the house takes its cut no matter what: It's not just government that could use some cleaning up and downsizing, the financial sector is out of control and now that it has both explicit and implicit government guarantees it can make bets bigger and riskier than ever before.
Did I mention yet we've got another bubble growing as a result? There are risks an individual can control and there risks an individual can only avoid or deflect at best; be on your guard. JMO - 6:49 AM
- Paul said...
@Anonymous - Mixing Fed policy with politics has been going on, at a minimum, since Easy Al! To believe otherwise is foolish or naive or both.
The nugget in this post is Roger's observation of the decision to support the equity markets OR support the greenback. As my momma always told me, politics is what politics does. Look out below... - 6:54 AM
- Matthew said...
The analogy that sticks in my mind is that the stock market is like the air-speed dial in a plane. If your engines stall and your passengers only care about air-speed - well there is one sure way to get the air-speed up: point the nose down. Then all you have to do is use the intercom to belittle any passengers and crew that are worried about the consequences as toothless "crashers" ;->
In fairness I don't think that Obama or most of congress can think in terms of feedback systems. Great numbers of people think in simplistic terms such as 'if the government raises taxes then it will have more money to spend'. If anyone brings up pesky data showing that this is only true under certain circumstances then their brains just shut off.
I think this is a pretty important point: large chunks of our leadership operate on the hypothesis that our economy is a linear system with no feedback loops. In reality we exist in a highly non-linear environment with both positive and negative feedback loops.
Part of our country thinks that the Fed can make the country safer through the use of monetary policy. But another part of our country thinks that the Fed is destroying our country through monetary policy. There is really no reason to be afraid of sound money. Here is an interesting plot from the early Greenspan years when he had us on a virtual gold standard: http://www.goldworld.com/images/20060825_greenspan.gif
Notice that the decade we were on the gold standard was very successful economically. During this period period gold trended down in price, which in large part meant that people were comfortable owning dollars.
Second to last point: currency collapse is bad but it is not the end of the world or necessarily an apocalyptic event. Yes currency would be worthless in an apocalypse, but currency collapse or re-jigger all the time without an apocalypse. Think of the USSR, Russia, Iceland, Germany, Germany, Thailand, Japan, Latvia (hopefully not yet), Africa and South American countries... Economic or currency collapse CAN happen, and life goes on. I think some people have such a primordial fear that something like this could happen in the US that they refuse to think about it at all.
Last point: the real critical problem with the economy is that the government gives money away for below market rates. As Roger pointed out this just serves to boost risk and nothing else. It should be illegal to lend money at special rates to certain bankers. If this major problem went away then we would have a much less risky economic system. - 8:07 AM
- Anonymous said...
Our host's comment today pretty well nails it.
Thing is, most presidents don't have much of an economics background. Some have a law background, one was an actor, one a nuclear engineer/submarine captain. etc. Even stints as governors doesn't mean they picked up much economics knowledge. So, the current president delegated the heavy lifting to the Sec./Treasury and the Fed, which seems to have gotten dangerously close to the White House.
Perhaps what's needed is a Volcker at the Fed. A guy who will serve as the heavy while the White House says, hey, it's not us. It's that independent Fed forcing the pain on you. Then again, maybe it's too late for that.
The market has indeed had a fine run. But now, it seems time to consider what do prudent investors do?
BillM - 8:14 AM
- Rhianni32 said...
Anon 6:39. I agree that discussion of this topic is impossible without political substance. I would love to talk and read posts about how politics plays a role in the markets and most importantly, how we can make adjustments to our investing if need be. Thankfully it looks like we are back on track with the newer posts of which I am thankful for.
Posts in the tone of Obama is the devil and wants to eat our babies are not one of those posts. - 8:20 AM
- RW said...
Adding to Matthew's point, one way to dampen positive feedback so it doesn't reach the kind of levels that can damage a system -- "positive" here meaning self-reinforcing or amplifying, not intrinsically 'good' (or 'bad' for that matter) -- is to introduce resistance, a barrier of some kind.
Just the kind of resistance in fact that the Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999 removed when it weakened (ultimately repealed) the Glass-Steagall Act allowing commercial/lending banks to also become investment banks and broker-dealers on their own account as well as closely affiliate or even merge with insurance companies and other financial service providers: Cheap money, government insurance and no barriers to cross-holdings or trade; what could go wrong, eh?
We did get a more efficient system though: It can blow things up faster than ever before. - 8:53 AM
- Stephen Drone said...
This whole thing leaves me playing the same game. Keeping my non-immediate savings in cash gets me nothing. So I choose bonds or a Swedroe-type thing (short term treasuries plus a little of something risky). but your left with the usual question of "well crap are we at a top?".
I've always been good at buying near the top and now I'm a bit paranoid. Heh. - 9:00 AM
- Anonymous said...
Amen, Stephen. My situation exactly.
- Anonymous said...
SD and Anon 9:13
Cash isn't trash. Cash is future successful investments.
Loss of capital. Now that's trash.
Yeah, yeah, there's more to it than that. The point is, one shouldn't feel the need to be 'fully invested' just for the sake of, umm, being fully invested.
If you find good opportunities, go for 'em. If you don't, well, wait until you do.
BillM - 9:29 AM
- Anonymous said...
"zero rate environment"
I still think my bit about 5% government bonds ONLY available for retirement accounts is a good idea - 3:25 PM
- Anonymous said...
What would begin to show Obama understands consequences would be for him to form a committee of 5 Democrats and 5 Republicans to provide a workable list of how the debt can begin to be dealt with.
- Anonymous said...
let me join the fracas
why does it always appear that it must either be the "average worker bee" vs "the business model" in this country. Perhaps our entire system is out of whack and we need a new form of capitalism.
From what I understand, hedge funds dominate the market and of these, very few are interested in "long-term" holdings. So where does the average person fit in this scenario? - 3:38 PM
- Matthew said...
Hedge funds and large banks dominate the number of trades executed. Hedge fund total AUM is estimated at $1.5 T according to the first google hit. The world stock market is around $50 T for comparison.
How does the average person fit in with hedge funds? I can't resist that question ;0 The average person jumps late into a long position after the hedge funds are already shorting it. Other hedge funds front run the average person's brokerage as it is filling that block of orders.
After a correction the value and long/short funds buy the shares the average person is panic selling. If some how Average Person accumulates enough capital to invest in a hedge fund then the fund will collect 2 and 20 of their money until it implodes and takes it all ;-> - 4:56 PM
- Anonymous said...
Good posting for the comment board.
I agree with your take on the status of the US$ - and on the will not to take the medicine and do something about "it".
I have three children serving as military officers - and two others by our children's marriage. If they were in Afghanistan or ANY area ofpotential military conflict which required effective Presidential expertise, I would be much more worried about foreign affairs, not the dollar.
The dollar may, in the final analysis, be the least of our problems.
- Anonymous said...
Lets all bash Obama for causing all our problems.


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WILLIAMSPORT — WILLIAMSPORT — It's time for beads and beer, Cajun cuisine and the music of merriment as the Bayou comes to Billtown for the 17th annual Mardi Grass celebration and a chance to party hardy before the Lenten season starts next Wednesday.
Starting Friday night and running until an explosive fireworks climax on Saturday night, Mardi Grass, held in the city's downtown district, also comes at a time when many area residents are dealing with cabin fever and need to add a little Cajun spice to their cold and chilly days.
"Mardi Gras offers a small taste of New Orleans' spirit to us Pennsylvanians in the north," said Steve Koch of The Bullfrog Brewery in downtown Williamsport. The Bullfrog Brewery will be featuring music both nights of Mardi Gras, specialty drinks will also be featured as well as several authentically spiced creole favorites.
This year's Mardi Grass will feature a parade through the downtown on Saturday night, Cajun-inspired dishes, a gumbo cook off, lots of great music and drink specials at more than 10 downtown bars. Free trolley shuttle service across the downtown will also be offered to party-goers during the event.
"My friends and I always have a blast at Mardi Gras and we are so looking forward to it this year because the weather has been such a pain," said Lindsey Wyngate, Lewisburg. "I'm a good Catholic girl so Mardi Gras is my one last hoopla for fun before Lent starts, so my friends and I make the most out of it and have an awesome time, catch some music and lots of drinks."
A few of the bands that will be making merry include Keith Randall from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday and the ever popular blues band Miz Ida and the All Nightaz 9 p.m. to midnight Saturday at the Fourth Street Grille and Ale House.
At Barrel 135, Mallory Scoppa & Jon Shively will perform from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Friday and Simeon Myers from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Saturday.
At the Brickyard the Keystone Ska Exchange will perform groove-inspired tunes Friday from 9 p.m. to midnight while the Casheras will take to the stage Saturday from 9 p.m. to midnight. The Pub will feature the sounds of Zach Baggett and Isaih Britton on Friday from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. and on Saturday Dylan & Maverick from 7 to 10 p.m. followed by Clouds Make Sounds until 1 a.m.
Perhaps the wildest place to be during Mardi Gras will be The Cell Block as it welcomes the party band Gypsy Wisdom on Friday starting at 10 p.m. and Generation Next on Saturday night starting at 10 p.m. The Bullfrog Brewery will host Bombadil from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. on Friday and The Ameros from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. on Saturday.
"We are a piano, bass and drums three-piece from North Carolina and try to do what we can to sound as full as possible. We're often upbeat; all sing but aren't afraid to play a song solo. Folks should expect to hear everything from classical piano to Kinks-style upbeat rock to North Carolina-influenced folk-pop," said James Phillips, drummer and vocals for the Durham-based band Bombadil."We've been playing music together for five years and I feel like are able to put on a unique show that will fit the Mardi Gras vibe just right. Also, Bullfrog has amazing burgers."
Mardi Gras also provides the opportunity to experience the flavorful and sometimes spicy Cajun cuisine with many restaurants and bars offering everything from crawfish ravioli to frog legs.
Of course what would Mardi Gras be without the beads and numerous stores around the city will be stocked up with enough beads and bling to make any reviler merry.
"The CA Reed store sells numerous types of beads, plain colored, multi-colored, designs of mimes, some with hearts on them some have an alligator holding an umbrella, some with a large mask in center of necklace," said Josie Latini, manager of the CA Reed store in Williamsport.
In addition to beads, the store also stocks Mardi Gras masks featuring some with feathers and others with a Venetian design.
Although Mardi Gras has changed over the past few years with attendance less than initial years, the event still offers participants the chance to partake in some spicy food, some hot music and some jolly good times that will help chase away those winter blues.