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The California Academy of Sciences Presents
New Exhibit Opens at 875 Howard Street May 1, 2004
SAN FRANCISCO (April 27, 2004) - May 1, 2004, the California Academy
of Sciences will open its new facility at 875 Howard Street, and audiences
everywhere are ANTicipating the arrival of the fANTastic new natural history
exhibit that will be featured at the downtown facility - ANTS: Hidden
Worlds Revealed. Curated by Academy entomologist Brian Fisher, this
exciting exhibit will showcase six colonies of live ants, each of which
will display distinctive nest building and food collecting behaviors.
Four of the species represented - Harvester ants, Carpenter ants, Honeypot
ants, and invasive Argentine ants - are commonly found in California.
The other two species, however, come from further afield. Leaf Cutter
ants, which cultivate gardens of fungus in order to ensure a steady food
supply, make their home in the tropical rainforests of South America,
while meat eating Army ants migrate through parts of Africa and the Americas
in search of prey.
The ANTS exhibit will also teach visitors about the highly complex social
structures of the various ant colonies. At the Harvester ant display,
visitors will be able to discern the detailed division of labor within
the colony: some worker ants husk, clean and crack seeds, while others
chew kernels into a soft pulp called "ant bread." Still others
store sun-dried seeds in large nest chambers or apply a chemical germicide
to prevent seeds from sprouting. The Honeypot ants display yet another
specialized behavior - some individuals are designated as living refrigerators
that are responsible for storing excess food in their stomachs. These
"honey pots" hang from the ceilings of cool nest cavities, holding
fast by their claws until their precious stores are required. As the desert's
food supply dwindles seasonally, nest mates will stroke the antennae of
a storage ant, causing it to regurgitate some of the "honey"
into the supplicant's mouth.
The California Academy of Sciences, including Steinhart Aquarium and the Natural History Museum, is open to the public at 875 Howard Street. Admission to the Academy at 875 Howard Street is: $7 for adults, $4.50 for youth ages 12 to 17, Seniors ages 65+ and students with valid ID, $2 for children ages four to 11 and children ages three and younger will be admitted free of charge. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. everyday. www.calacademy.org (415) 750-7145.
The California Academy of Sciences,
the fourth largest natural history museum in the United States, is home
to Steinhart Aquarium, Morrison Planetarium and the Natural History Museum.
The Academy is beginning an extensive rebuilding project in Golden Gate
Park. Pritzker prize-winning architect Renzo Piano is designing the new
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|29 May 2010
Win7 Doesn't See Tuner Card
It's an odd situation.
I have a multi-boot system; I can boot into WinXP or Windows 7. The OSs are installed in separate partitions and the boot manager at startup lets me choose which I want. Normally I run the default - Windows 7.
A few months back I began having trouble with my motherboard, an Asus P5K Deluxe WiFi AP. The system would refuse to boot at a cold start until I'd powerdown/powerup about five or six times and then I'd be off and running with no problems until the next cold boot. At first I thought the problem was memory or power supply, but nope -- after trying everything I could think of, I put all my components on a new motherboard -- Asus P5Q Pro Turbo -- and now my boot problems have gone away, apparently for good.
Now you'd think I'd have done the smart thing and reinstalled my OSs from scratch with the new Mbo, but I didn't. I thought I'd see how things went with WinXP and Windows 7 when they saw a new motherboard, and sonofagun, it all seemed to work just fine. Yes, both OSs began loading driver after driver at boot, but pretty soon everything was working again and I was happy. Until I tried to watch TV with my ATI TV Wonder HD 650 PCIE tuner card. It works fine under WinXP but Windows 7 no longer sees it.
I had Windows Media Center working fine under Windows 7 Ultimate before the mbo switch. And it continues to work fine under WinXP. But Windows 7 just doesn't see the card. It's not listed in Device Manager as a mystery device or anything -- it just isn't there.
Now if I switch the card into a different PCIE socket, Windows 7 reacts by indicating it's found a new device and it loads a sound driver under Sound, Video and Game Controllers -- it's the ATI Unified AVStream driver. But that's it. I can find no other device in Device Manager that looks even a bit like the tuner card.
Everest, a system monitoring program, sees it. Calls it ATI Theater 650 TV Card. But there's nothing like that in Device Manager.
If it were in Device Manager and weren't working, I'd try loading different drivers for it or deleting it so it would load again or something. But it's not there!
Anybody know how I can persuade Windows 7 -- which USED TO see the device on the other motherboard -- to find this tuner card? Media Center won't work without it. Thanks.
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The tuner is that new "sound card" device as best as Windows 7 can determine. Delete it and install the tuner driver per the manufacturer's instructions.
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I have a Theater 550 pro installed using the latest 10.5 Catalyst suite and it works fine under Windows 7 x64
there is no installed device named "ATI Theater 550 Pro" anywhere to be found in the Windows 7 Device Manager on my PC and it confused me at first also but since it worked with no problems I never really gave it much thought
the tuner is listed as ATI Unified AVStream Driver under sound, video, and game controllers tab in the Device Manager
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The Bible John Huston adapted the first 22 chapters of the Book of Genesis in this mostly silly 1966 film that takes us from Creation through Noah's Ark through Abraham's near-sacrifice of son Isaac. This is one of Huston's more personally distant projects, à la Annie or Victory; and for the most part you'd barely know there was even a director involved. On the other hand, Huston does provide some of the only liveliness on screen, playing Noah. --Tom Keogh The Robe When Roman tribune Marcellus Gallio (Richard Burton) is sent to Jerusalem, one of his assignments is the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Marcellus, a cynical and hardened man, wins the robe Jesus wore to the crucifixion while gambling with other Roman soldiers underneath the dying savior. He later becomes convinced that his hallucinations and violent outbursts are the result of a curse received from the robe, which is now in the possession of his escaped slave, Demetrius (Victor Mature), somewhere in the Middle East. He sets out to find Demetrius in order to destroy the robe and the curse and finds faith instead, converting to Christianity. This was the first movie to be filmed in CinemaScope and won Oscars in 1953 for costume design, art direction, and set decoration. The visual aspects of the film are stunning, and it may be worth viewing for that alone; however, the script and acting leave much to be desired, and you won't find inspiration in these areas if that's what interests you. If, however, you are more interested in this film for its religious matter, the story of the conversion of the hardened Marcellus is inspiring. --James McGrath
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New England Patriots No. 1 wide receiver Danny Amendola was able to practice all week, and he reportedly passed all of his concussion tests. On Friday, Amendola declared himself "ready to go", so if there was any doubt that he would play today, then this report should put all doubts to rest. According to a source close to the NFL Network's Albert Breer, Danny Amendola has been cleared to play and will play today against the rival Miami Dolphins.
Amendola is a big key to the game, because he has the ability to work a favorable matchup and have a big day moving the chains for this offense. Getting both Rob Gronkowski and Danny Amendola on the field for a key division matchup is huge for the Patriots, especially given how poor their offense was last week in Gronk's debut. They have to be able to throw the football well, because that's honestly how they are going to beat the Dolphins. While the Dolphins have a pair of All-Pro talents in the secondary in Reshad Jones and Brent Grimes, they also lack depth.
Tom Brady needs to be about as sharp as he was in Week 4 or 6, and the Patriots need steady contributions from a few receivers to win. Ryan Tannehill is clicking on the other side, so the Patriots need to be able to keep up the pace on offense. It's great to hear that Amendola is back in the fold, but the obvious worry is that he'll just go down again anyway.
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Well yes, the app's all well and good, but if you're using it on a laptop it doesn't quite have the same convenience as being able to slip it into your coat pocket and read whenever you feel like it.
Link: Open, Read Kindle Books On Computer Without Using Kindle Reader Device
I was asked recently by a member of our English Department which electronic book reader should he go for. Now I can advise him that he can use his school issued Staff Laptop and not layout a penny!
Well yes, the app's all well and good, but if you're using it on a laptop it doesn't quite have the same convenience as being able to slip it into your coat pocket and read whenever you feel like it.
not to mention the kindles screen is much easier on the eyes
It all depends what you want out of it. If he just wants to be able to sit at his desk and read then yep, go with just the app. If on the other hand he wants to read in bed, or settle on the sofa with a good book, the laptop's not going to be the best choice.
I was looking at a book in Amazon the other day - the ebook version was £2 more expensive than the paperback!
Firstly eBooks do tend to be cheaper than physical books, sometimes substantially so, and free books are available. On the format standardization there's pretty much Amazon's, mobi and ePub. If you get a Kindle then ePub's difficult, but there are converters available for all of the formats, and since most people with a Kindle will be buying from Amazon the format's not an issue in the first place.
My phone's battery lasts for two days. My Kindle needs charging about once a month - and I read a lot.
The easier on the eyes thing is also important - I work at a computer all day, sometimes it's nice to get a break from that bright, glaring screen. Usually when I need such a break I read.
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Saying all that, it's nice to be able to access your ebooks on your PC, smartphone and Kindle.
i personally use Safari Books Online and download the chapters as and when I need to and the Kindle displays them nicely
It isn't just books either. Look at digital movie rentals - I can go to Blockbuster and get 4 for £10 or I can rent one for £2.99-£3.99 via my BT Vision box (HD costing more of course, but not at a shop).
Or music. The cost of an album from iTunes is very close to the cost of the physical CD in most cases.
Yet the costs involved for the publishers are much, much, smaller. Profiteering is what it is.
I'm using Kindle on my iPad and it's good although as some have pointed out buying the ebook is more expensive in some cases than buying the paper version.
I brought myself a kindle at the beginning of the month have used it every day so much better than my pre's screen for reading stuff on.
On Amazon, when price-fixing is going on, there tends to be a "this price was set by the publisher" note attached to the book. That's Amazon's way of saying "yeah, we know it's more expensive than the paperback, but it's not our choice".
And as someone who's got thousands of ebooks and used to read them on a Handspring Visor (damn kids, get off my lawn) the Kindle is awesome.
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Lewisham NHS Trust Adopts CSC's NextGen Pathology Solution
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Lewisham NHS Trust Adopts CSC's NextGen Pathology Solution08:30 EDT Monday, July 16, 2012 FALLS CHURCH, Va. (Business Wire) -- Lewisham Healthcare NHS Trust has become one of the first trusts to adopt CSC's (NYSE: CSC) next-generation laboratory solution under a project to overhaul cellular pathology services across the new organization, formed by the merger of acute and community services in Lewisham. Under a three-year contract won in open tender during the first quarter of CSC fiscal year 2013, CSC's Healthcare Group will replace a Radius system for cellular pathology with its current laboratory solution. The agreement will immediately allow doctors to request cellular pathology tests and view all results online. As an early adopter, Lewisham will also use current NextGen modules for cellular pathology and mortuary plus tools for vital cancer registry reporting. The move supports calls for modern, efficient pathology services across the 450-bed University Hospital Lewisham and 10 community health centers. "Following this implementation we will be better placed to support the cellular pathology services now being offered across the trust in a more effective and efficient manner," said Alex Singer, Lewisham's pathology manager. "CSC's laboratory solution is known for being robust and flexible. Having a solution that is reliable, easy to maintain and easy to customize was vital. It also allows us to develop and test new interfaces without impacting the core system or existing users and migrate gradually to CSC's next-generation solution." "Our NextGen solution is designed to meet demands on modern pathology services to do more for less and is another example of the work we are doing with our customers to develop solutions that meet their exact needs," said Andrea Fiumicelli, chief operating officer of CSC's Healthcare Group. "These and other innovations will help cement our position as the UK's largest provider of laboratory information systems." Lewisham Healthcare NHS Trust was formed in August 2010 after the merger of Lewisham Hospital NHS Trust and NHS Lewisham, and is one the first trusts to integrate acute and community services under one organization. About CSC CSC is a global leader in providing technology-enabled business solutions and services. Headquartered in Falls Church, Va., CSC has approximately 98,000 employees and reported revenue of $15.9 billion for the 12 months ended March 30, 2012. For more information, visit the company's website at www.csc.com. Click here to subscribe to Mobile Alerts for CSC. Brian HemmingManager, Public RelationsCSC Healthcare+44 (0) 1295 email@example.com ShadleCSC Public RelationsCSC email@example.com VirostekDirector, Investor RelationsCSC email@example.com


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Practice with my new camera. The manual suggested just getting photos of things around you in your home, so I thought a good starting place would be my dresser. There is lots of goodies of all sorts of shapes & sizes to photograph. So here it is! My little dresser!
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Too big, too wide, unflattering I ordered this skirt in the solid magenta and zebra print and when they arrived I tried them on and loved them instantly. But...when my husband got home he said they made me look bigger and wider than I am. I liked the skirts so much I was determined to wear them even if my hubby didn't like them. A few days later I tried on the magenta one again with a short sleeve royal blue portofino shirt tucked in and looked in the mirror and I realized that it did make me look a few sizes larger from the front. The pleating at the waist poofs out to the sides immediately below the tiny waistband which gave me very wide looking hips (think 1800's) and the length hit me a few inches below the knee, cutting me off at the widest point of my calf making my very thin legs look very wide as well (unlike the fitted midi-skirts that hit at the same length). I must say though from the side it looks simply divine. I'm 5'4"/127 usually a 2 or 4 in high-waisted jeans/skirts at Express but a size 6 was a perfect fit so I would recommend sizing-up. After taking a second look I decided it wasn't quite right on my fairly straight frame, maybe better on someone with curves. I think the skirt would be more of a fashion statement than figure flattering. It is so big and makes such a huge statement that you are bound to be noticed by everyone, not sure that is a good thing. I'd say its a fun skirt and worth a try to see how it looks on you and/or suits your personal style. I opted for the shorter high-waist full skirt in two different floral patterns. September 15, 2014
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Thursday, August 28, 2008
Chocolate Shots
So now, I can send an entry for Srivalli's Microwave Easy Cooking. To make it easier for a first timer, Srivalli's actually made it a potluck party. Bring what you like, she said. I bring Chocolate Shots.
Soak 1/2 tbsp of chinagrass flakes in 1/4 cup water and leave aside for half an hour. These can be made with gelatine as well, but I just got hold of a pack of china grass and have been wanting to make something of it. Microwave for 1 minute, and stir until chinagrass dissolves completely.
In another bowl mix 1 cup milk, 1 tbsp cocoa powder, 1 tbsp caster sugar and a few drops of vanilla essence. Microwave for 5 minutes, stopping to stir in between if it looks that the milk will boil over (or use a bigger bowl). Now add chinagrass to the bowl and microwave for another 5 minutes.
Pour into shot glasses. Chill for half an hour, then leave in the fridge to cool for a few hours. Garnish with a cherry or grated chocolate. But do not, like me, try to make it pretty before the pudding sets. One of my cherries sank, and the other one barely stayed on top. So wait for a couple of hours and garnish just before you eat!
12 comments:
- Indranee said...
Simran, this is a wonderful drink...sweet and chocolaty!
- August 28, 2008 at 11:30 AM
- jayasree said...
Nice chocolatey drink...So waiting to see more of your dishes coming out of MW.
- August 28, 2008 at 12:25 PM
- Srivalli said...
That looks wonderful!..thanks for the entry simran!
- August 28, 2008 at 1:32 PM
- sowmya said...
Congrats on your new microwave..Lovely recipe with agar agar,,,have to try it!!
- August 28, 2008 at 3:05 PM
- notyet100 said...
this looks so yum,..nice shot,..
- August 28, 2008 at 3:50 PM
- Rachel said...
Ideal shot for a chocoholic like me.....
- August 28, 2008 at 8:36 PM
- Sangeeth said...
great shot thr gurl!
- August 28, 2008 at 8:46 PM
- Bharti said...
Yah! A new kitchen tool! Chocolate shots sound exciting!
- August 28, 2008 at 11:46 PM
- Nithu said...
Thats a lovely entry. Definitely up for chocolate lovers...
- August 29, 2008 at 9:21 AM
- Priti said...
Nice drink ...looks yummy..
- August 30, 2008 at 4:25 PM
- Kitchen Flavours said...
Looks gr8.
- September 2, 2008 at 4:45 PM
- Swati Raman Garg said...
new microwave.... congrats haan... you know what... u remind me of my miniscule flat in bombay.. juhu... it was a teeny weeny 1 room flst with a small slab as a ktichen ... and we were students then... i love those days...
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Taking off tight skinny jeans after a long day is like the best feeling ever.
Taking off tight skinny jeans after a long day is like the best feeling ever.
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I think it's safe to say that summer '11 kind of screwed up everyone..
Why must Facebook notify us when we simply get a poke.. -_-
I seriously don't like it when people waste my time. If I put the effort into making plans with you and you carry through, then you just say "nevermind" or something that really ticks me off. -_-
I just really like sleeping sometimes..
Some people need to know when a joke isn't funny anymore. -_- Or not even funny to begin with!
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I really wanna' go watch Titanic with someone.
Some people have like 4 of the same photos of themselves on their own Facebook.. Why…
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So I walked outta' my room and down the hallway then suddenly.. I see this big ass fly that looks like a flying spider so I ran back in my room and closed my door..
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I have like nothing to blog about anymore. LOL. Boring life~
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Don't worry - it's a friendly Halloween party.
BFR Sports & Fitness will provide a free Halloween event from 2-4 p.m. on Sunday,
Oct. 26, at the center on Snider Road, Bluffton.
The party will include games, crafts, and snacks for families with young children.
A costume judging contest is scheduled for 3 p.m., with divisions for:
• ages 0-3 years • 4-6 years, 7-10 years• 11 and older, and a • family/group division.
A Bluffton man is launching an organization that is relatively unique, not only to Ohio, but perhaps the entire country. Eric Wagner heads up the new organization called "Single Dad's United: Standing Stronger Together."
According to a recent Huffington Post article, the number of single father households in America has risen nine-fold since demographers began measuring it more than 50 years ago. Also according to the article, one of the biggest reasons for this phenomenon is simply the increase in the divorce rate.
The 2014 All-Star Volleyball Match for District 8 seniors will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 12 at Van Wert High School. Admission is $2 for adults $1 for students.
There will be one match of three games between the players of the two divisions. Those schools represented include Division I/II/III East (Coaches: Bluffton, OG):
Bluffton, Columbus Grove, Findlay, Liberty Benton, Lima Central Catholic, Ottawa-Glandorf, Shawnee; Division I/II/III West (Coaches: Elida, Wapak), Celina, Coldwater, Defiance, Elida, Fort Recovery, Parkway, St. Marys, Van Wert, Wapakoneta
Gluten Free & Food Allergy Support Group will meet at 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 27, at the Bluffton Public Library. The guest speaker is Jordan Mattice from JK Juices. Jordan and her business partners make and sell the fresh juices at the Bluffton Farmers Market.
Jordan will be talking about the different types of juicers, hintsand tips
for picking the best fruits and veggies for juicing, and how JK started
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Local Bluffton Boy Scout Troop #256 will in have a scare station at
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Victoria Myers, a senior from New Franklin, Ohio, is Bluffton University's third recipient of a full scholarship to Bowling Green State University's master of accountancy program.
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BLUFFTON, Ohio - The Beavers came out firing on all cylinders against visiting Manchester University in tonight's mid-week Heartland Conference match. From the beginning to the end of the match, Bluffton controlled the action, downing Manchester in three quick sets (25-14, 25-15, 25-13). The Beavers improved to 18-8 overall and 5-2 in the Heartland Conference, while Manchester slipped to 5-20 and 1-6 in the HCAC.
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Over 80 persons attended a windy and cold but exciting ribbon cutting on Oct. 21 for Lions Way Bike and Pedestrian Pathway.
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Orchard Park (WKBW.com) The Buffalo Bills added a tank with their second pick in the 5th round, taking LB Tank Carder out of TCU with the 147th pick.
Carder is a very interesting story. He was a BMX champion as a kid, survived a terrible car accident in the seventh grade, before going on to become the Mountain West Conference defensive player of year in back to back seasons at TCU.
Carder made 39 starts for the Horned Frogs during his career and finished with 228 total tackles. He's listed at 6-foot-3, and 227 pounds.
Below is the transcipt from our conversation with Bills scout Shawn Heinlen on Carder as a player.
On drafting LB Tank Carder:
He plays a lot faster than he timed at the Combine. He is an instinctive player. He is smart and he has played inside and out. He closes very fast. He is going to have to work on playing with his hands better but that is not the style of defense they play at TCU. They are an attacking gap type defense. So for him he is going to have to just bulk up and get a little stronger taking on at the point. He has great coverage skills. He is fluid for a linebacker. He changes direction well. His short area quickness is very good. And like I said because of his instincts and his intelligence to diagnose things, he just has a feel for the game. He plays a lot faster than he times.
On what the Bills had Carder timed at in the 40-yard-dash:
We had some varying times on him. Different times from TCU and the pro day. It depends on where his weight was and things.
On Carder's unique background:
Yeah, you are not going to find many like that. For sure.
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Probably going to start at (weak inside linebacker) because of the athletic skills, his movement and those types of things. The coverage; as he gets bigger and stronger, as he fills out, he can move over to that (strong side linebacker) to do those types of things and be stronger at the point.
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Unity3D is an amazing tool. It was named the Best Game Engine by Game Developer Magazine. This engine is as close to perfect as you can get, especially if you're on a shoestring budget, as is the case with the video game startup I'm involved with. There is a big problem with the engine, though, and it's a problem that most people don't really stop and think about.
Unity3D does not support the use of a revision control system.
That's right. Stop and ponder that for a moment: a software development tool does not support revision control. And the worst part? It's an intentional decision by Unity Tech, presumably made to drive up sales of their Pro license (currently, $1,500 USD).
Currently, Unity3D is the ideal choice if you don't want to work with any other developers. In other words, if you're building a very small project, use Unity3D. Good luck with a large project though, because the free version of Unity3D doesn't give you any way to collaborate with other developers. There have been some very kludgy workarounds suggested in the forums, but they are just that: workarounds.
The probem is that Unity3D stores project metadata and scene/level files as binary files. You can check these files into version control, but you cannot merge them. That means that developers can never work on the same scenes at the same time. In addition, if you create new asset connections in your project, that metadata will likely be broken for the other developer involved because, again, that metadata is an unmergable binary file.
There's a few things that I don't understand here:
- Why would UT create a proprietary data format for storing this information when there are LOADS of other formats that could have done the trick? It's much more effort to build such a thing, and it prevents developers from using the tools that they are used to.
- Why would UT, being comprised of lots of seemingly great engineers, actively prevent users of their software from following good engineering practices? Version control is not just for professional projects: it's for any project where you like to be able to revert to a given point in time for regression testing, observing the evolution of your project, or many other things that are widely documented.
I noticed that UT quietly introduced a new license add on called the "Team License". I thought that UT had finally warmed up to the idea of making version control integration more widely available. According to Beth Thomas, that is not the case.
From Cameron Eagans on [date unknown]
NOTE: The text of this first email is from memory, since UT's contact form doesn't send me a copy
Hi there!
The new 3.5 beta is awesome :) I saw that there was a new team license being offered as part of the 3.5 release. I was wondering if you could give me some more information about that license and what it included.
Does it include support for using external version control systems? If so, will it work with the free version of Unity?
To Cameron Eagans From Beth Thomas on 1/3/12
Hi Cameron,
Thanks for the mail :-) Glad to hear that you are enjoying the 3.5 beta.
As of right now, the team license will include our current Asset Server and the new Cache server to speed up asset importing and switching platforms. The price is yet to be determined.
As far as version control is concerned, at this time it is not going to be extended to the free version of Unity.
However, the Pro version of Unity will have version control support so you could use a free version control like Subversion and not have to spend the extra $500 for asset server.
Please let me know further questions.
Thank you!
Beth Thomas
Account Executive - Midwest and Canada
Unity Technologies
50 Osgood Place, Ste 220
San Francisco, CA 94133
415.820.4285 Office
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To Beth Thomas from Cameron Eagans on 1/3/12
Hi Beth,
Thanks for the info!
It seems sort of unreasonable that something so ingrained in the software engineering process would be restricted to people that can afford a pro license. I'd probably never buy Asset Server anyway, but I don't understand why UT is so reluctant to provide such an important workflow component to non-Pro users.
I don't mind paying for software, but as I said, I cannot justify paying $2000 just for the ability to use version control systems.
Using version control doesn't mean that I'm a "professional" user. Usually, the projects that I work on are one or two-person projects, but it's impossible to collaborate on anything because there's no reasonable way to move the project assets between project participants.
We're in the process of starting a company, and we're looking into a round of VC funding, but that's still a long way out. We simply cannot afford the Pro license, but we need a way to collaborate on our first couple projects and Unity won't allow us to do that.
I'm not alone in this sentiment: http://feedback.unity3d.com/forums/15792-unity/suggestions/564207-licensing-vcs-support-for-everyone
I understand that it's a business/marketing decision made as an incentive for more people to buy Pro, but using version control is an absolutely non-negotiable component of software engineering for many teams. As I said, we're trying to build a game development company. We want to standardize on an engine early on: one that will grow with us. But we have to start small, and Unity's lack of version control support in the free version doesn't allow us to do so.
We have five people that we need to support immediately. If we choose Unity for our engine, that sets our startup costs at a MINIMUM of $7500. Just for the ability to use version control. We don't need nor want any of the other features in Pro at this time.
If you're concerned about income related to the VCS feature, why not supply it as an "add-on" for $50/head. That's much more reasonable for small shops, and I imagine that you'll get a lot of buy-in on that approach.
I'm not suggesting that you give away all the important features in pro. We just need an alternative, along with at least 560 other people on the Feedback site.
I'll conclude with this: I'd really like to see some way for small shops to effectively use your product to START a company. Requiring Pro for something as trivial as version control support is a non-starter for us and many others. We want to use Unity, but won't be able to if this feature is not available in a reasonable licensing scheme. More importantly, we want to grow our business around Unity, but won't be able to if this feature is not available in a reasonable licensing scheme. I believe that by making the decision to only give VCS support to pro users, you're missing out on a huge market: the game company startup market.
I hope to hear from you (or anyone else at UT) regarding this matter soon.
Cameron Eagans
To Cameron Eagans from Beth Thomas on 1/4/12
Hi Cameron,
This has been a topic of discussion internally for awhile now and as of right now it has been decided that only Pro users will have access to external version control.
I would be more than happy to set you and your team up with trial Pro keys in an effort to create a prototype to secure funding.
Please let me know.
Thank you!
Beth Thomas
Account Executive - Midwest and Canada
Unity Technologies
50 Osgood Place, Ste 220
San Francisco, CA 94133
415.820.4285 Office
BT.unity3d Skype
To Beth Thomas from Cameron Eagans on 1/4/12
I hate to pry, but could you give more detail on why that decision was made? I don't understand why UT, being comprised of lots of great engineers, would make such a decision: it just doesn't make any sense.
I'd be interested in being provide Pro trial keys, but it really depends on how long the trial keys would be valid for: we'd need to complete a prototype, and that could potentially take a while. We aren't even sure that we want to secure funding: it'd be ideal to avoid that process and be self funded, but that will not be possible with Unity.
Again, what I'd really like is a way to purchase version control support for the free version of Unity.
Cameron Eagans
To Cameron Eagans from Beth Thomas on 1/4/12
Hi Cameron,
It was a business decision. Maybe this will change with new versions?
I can provide 60 day trials keys of the full suite of Pro products when the team is ready to start working.
Please let me know.
Beth Thomas
Account Executive - Midwest and Canada
Unity Technologies
50 Osgood Place, Ste 220
San Francisco, CA 94133
415.820.4285 Office
BT.unity3d Skype
So, it looks like I have the following options for my video game startup:
1) Take the 60 day pro trial for our entire team, try to build a solid prototype of some game, and try to raise a round of funding. If we don't get funding, we have a pile of source that we cannot use until we buy pro.
2) Come up with our own way to use a version control system (which will be problematic: the options here are to find a way to coordinate working with the binary assets (which is next to impossible) or find a way to deconstruct a scene into code and vise-versa (which is also likely next to impossible)); or
3) Find another engine that cares about good engineering practices
Again, the fact that a developer tool does not support the use of version control is completely ridiculous.
If you're in the same position that I am, and you really want to see UT make an intelligent decision, please take a moment to do the following things:
- Leave a comment on this post talking about your situation. I'll be informing Unity Tech about this post, and hopefully, somebody with some decision making power will read this. The more input, the better.
- Go put your votes on the Version Control for Everybody feature request; and finally
- Get in touch with Unity Tech and let them know how you feel.
If enough people show that they care about this issue in a very loud way, hopefully Unity will finally listen.
Note to Unity Tech staff: If you're reading this, and you'd like to discuss this, feel free to leave a comment. If you contact me and can verify your identity, I'll make sure your comment is noticed by everyone else reading this post.


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What do indoor picnics and funny face contests have to do with loving Jesus?
More than you realize!
As a mom in the throes of parenting, Courtney DeFeo believes that instilling virtues in children starts with laughter, not lecture. That perspective propelled her to create this ...read more
Becoming the Girl He Wants
Do you ever wonder…
What does she have that I haven't got?
Why doesn't he ask me out?
What makes her popular? Why not me?
Maybe it's time to change the questions you're asking. Maybe it's time to ...read more
The Power of Unstoppable Faith
Your Keys to a Fulfilled Life (10-PK)
"People often ask me how I stay positive and where I find the strength to overcome my disabilities? My answer, always, is 'I pray for God's help and then exercise unstoppable faith.'" –Nick Vujicic
Become Unstoppable
Millions around the ...read more
Greater Devotional
A Forty-Day Experience to Ignite God's Vision for Your Life
Dancing on the Head of a Pen
The Practice of a Writing Life
In this masterful blend of the practical and the spiritual, Robert Benson invites you into the work and rewards of a writer's life. More than a primer on effective writing, Dancing on the Head of a Pen is a winsome guide to the place in the heart where the life of the spirit meets the life of ...read more
Finding Hope After Divorce
Divorce is painful. Take comfort in God as healer and counselor.
With divorce comes many questions, pain, and frustration. What am I going to do? How will I survive? What about the children? What will people think of me? What does God think of me?
So how can you get through ...read more
Heaven, Hell, and Life After Death
Discover what God says about death, dying, and life after death.
Many people are intrigued by what lies beyond death's door, but we live in an age bombarded with many conflicting views. How can we be sure of what is true?
In this eye-opening study you'll examine the Bible's ...read more
Crash the Chatterbox Participant's Guide
Hearing God's Voice Above All Others
Focus on the promises of God to overcome the voices of insecurity, fear, condemnation, and discouragement….
This guide will help you and your small group replace negative internal chatter with the promises of God. Join Pastor Steven Furtick as he walks you and your group through the ...read more
The Good News About Marriage
Debunking Discouraging Myths about Marriage and Divorce
Divorce is not the biggest threat to marriage. Discouragement is.
You've probably heard the grim facts: Half of all marriages end in divorce. The divorce rate inside the church is the same as outside. Most marriages are just holding on. But what if these "facts" are ...read more
Spoken For
Embracing Who You Are and Whose You Are
Say Yes to the Love Story of Your Life
A great romance was set in motion before you were born. A relentless Lover is pursuing you, and He has made His intentions clear. He wants you to be His forever. How will you respond to the One who longs for you to be His with your whole heart?
In Spoken For, ...read more
And Life Comes Back
A Wife's Story of Love, Loss, and Hope Reclaimed
"Now I know that every single day, the best and the worst, only lasts for twenty-four hours."
—Tricia Lott Williford, And Life Comes Back
When your life falls apart—through a death, a lost relationship, a diagnosis—you want more than anything to know that your ...read more
Miss Brenda and the Loveladies
A Heartwarming True Story of Grace, God, and Gumption
One woman's fight to provide hope for the hopeless…
Seven ex-cons who changed her heart forever…
For Brenda Spahn, entrepreneur and businesswoman, wealth was a lifestyle—until a brush with the law threatened to send her to prison. In those dark moments, Brenda made ...read more
Crash the Chatterbox
Hearing God's Voice Above All Others
Crashing the chatterbox = Overpowering lies of insecurity, fear, condemnation, and discouragement with the promises of God.
"I used to think that someone who struggled with the kinds of weaknesses I deal with daily was useless to God. I felt so often like I was drowning in internal dialogue ...read more
Ten Days Without
Daring Adventures in Discomfort That Will Change Your World and You
A Rebellion against Apathy.
A Strategy for Action.
"Life is full of good intentions, but for too many, our good intentions never become good actions—they don't move us forward, draw us closer to God, or make a difference in the world.
Good intentions are cans ...read more


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This Saturday might be perceived as some to be an unofficial Brooklyn holiday of sorts. "Girls" creator Lena Dunham gets a chance to host "Saturday Night Live" for the first time in her career. Adding more hipster cred is musical guest The National. With the success of "Girls" it isn't a surprise to see Dunham get a hosting slot on SNL.
Last week's Jim Parson's hosted show was a dud, but it was the same weekend as the Oscars. That show was too aware that no one would care about it. Dunham appears in her promos for SNL with Kate McKinnon. McKinnon has become a top player for the show in recent weeks. Her impersonations of Ellen DeGeneres and Justin Bieber were viral hits. She has the crazy side of Amy Poehler, and the celeb voices of Jimmy Fallon.
In the promo McKinnon reveals to Dunham that she's not only fallen victim to a "Girls" theme park ride, but also tries to get her own role on the hit HBO comedy. Don't miss Dunham's outfit that features a pattern from a retirement home couch.
"Saturday Night Live" hosted by Lena Duham with musical guest The National kicks off Saturday, March 8th at 11:30 pm.


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Mirrormask dir. by Dave McKean
I'll admit to being a Neil Gaiman fan, so I've been waiting for this film for quite a while, and although I try not read reviews of films I haven't seen, I had read a few negative remarks about this film. However, I am pleased to report that the film lived up to all my expectations. Helena is a circusRead more


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Posts tagged with 'economics'
Occupy the Economy
The Economist reviews Martin Wolf's The Shifts and the Shocks: What We've Learned—and Have Still to Learn—from the Financial Crisis, and shows a centrist going rogue. The world economy has not healed itself following the last bust in 2008 because the systemic issues have not been addressed: there is too much of a reliance on banks and too little effort into making our financial systems resilient. Wolf seems to have seen through the fog of confusion arising from the crash of the economy, and he sees we are in the postnormal, where everything has changed.
The Economist, The world economy: How to fix a broken system
Mr Wolf's proposals stem from an exhaustive assessment of the origins and contours of the crisis, which make up the bulk of the book. Plenty has already been written on this; "The Shifts and the Shocks" contains little that has not been said elsewhere. Mr Wolf's contribution is comprehensiveness and a piercing logic in piecing the disparate elements together. He weaves the macroeconomic and financial elements of the crisis, its origins and aftermath, into an all-encompassing analysis. Along the way he demolishes many of the popular explanations—such as that the mess was due to greedy bankers or to loose monetary policy—as too simplistic.
The result is convincing and depressing; there are no quick fixes. The origins of the crisis lie in the revolutionary changes in the structure of the global economy and finance in the 1990s and early 2000s (these are the "shifts" of the book's title). The macroeconomic shift was the emergence of a "savings glut" as countries from China to Germany saved more than they invested, pushing down real interest rates. Both at a global level and within the euro area financial innovation and freer capital mobility transformed these excess savings into huge cross-border capital flows, sending asset prices and credit soaring and, in the process, creating an inherently fragile financial system. Unfettered finance transformed the savings glut into a credit bubble. And in both cases the bursting of that bubble worsened the savings glut, as households, companies and governments in Europe slashed their spending.
Mr Wolf argues that the post-crisis recovery has been feeble because too many policymakers failed to understand this dynamic. Rather than accepting that bigger fiscal deficits would be the natural counterweight to private thrift, politicians pushed for austerity. Far too little emphasis was put on restructuring unpayable debts. At the same time, the underlying causes of the savings glut have, if anything, become stronger as deeper factors such as rising inequality have kept overall spending weak. Larry Summers, a Harvard economist, has argued that the rich world faces "secular stagnation". Mr Wolf also believes that weak demand is here to stay. So, too, is the fragility of finance. Despite "manic rule making" he argues that banks are still a powder keg, with insufficient capital, and are liable to wreak havoc when they blow up.
This grim assessment leads Mr Wolf towards radicalism, both in macroeconomic and financial reforms. His more moderate suggestions include requiring banks to hold vastly more capital and the creation of insurance schemes that allow emerging economies, the most plausible engines of demand, to import capital safely and sustainably. But moderate change may not be enough. Pushing his analysis to its logical conclusion, he argues that the only way to deal with today's underlying problems—a fragile financial system and a secular weakness in demand—may be to move away from bank-based credit altogether and rely on permanent budget deficits financed by central banks. Forcing banks to match their deposits with safe government bonds would reduce the risks of bank crashes and encourage a healthier reliance on equity finance. Permanent money-financed deficits would, in turn, provide a safer way to sustain spending than private-asset booms and busts. If done responsibly, they need not cause inflation.
Radical to admit that the financial markets are not self-regulating. The next step is to move control of the financial system out of the hands of those who make money by manipulating financial markets.
There are some things too important to run by wagering.
I suggest that we learn to think about capitalism coming to an end without assuming responsibility for answering the question of what one proposes to put in its place. It is a Marxist—or better: modernist—prejudice that capitalism as a historical epoch will end only when a new, better society is in sight, and a revolutionary subject ready to implement it for the advancement of mankind. This presupposes a degree of political control over our common fate of which we cannot even dream after the destruction of collective agency, and indeed the hope for it, in the neoliberal-globalist revolution. Neither a utopian vision of an alternative future nor superhuman foresight should be required to validate the claim that capitalism is facing its Götterdämmerung. I am willing to make exactly this claim, although I am aware of how many times capitalism has been declared dead in the past. In fact, all of the main theorists of capitalism have predicted its impending expiry, ever since the concept came into use in the mid-1800s. This includes not just radical critics like Marx or Polanyi, but also bourgeois theorists such as Weber, Schumpeter, Sombart and Keynes.
That something has failed to happen, in spite of reasonable predictions that it would, does not mean that it will never happen; here, too, there is no inductive proof. I believe that this time is different, one symptom being that even capitalism's master technicians have no clue today how to make the system whole again—see, for example, the recently published minutes of the deliberations of the Federal Reserve's board in 2008, or the desperate search of central bankers, mentioned above, for the right moment to end 'quantitative easing'. This, however, is only the surface of the problem. Beneath it is the stark fact that capitalist progress has by now more or less destroyed any agency that could stabilize it by limiting it; the point being that the stability of capitalism as a socio-economic system depends on its Eigendynamik being contained by countervailing forces—by collective interests and institutions subjecting capital accumulation to social checks and balances. The implication is that capitalism may undermine itself by being too successful. I will argue this point in more detail below.
The image I have of the end of capitalism—an end that I believe is already under way—is one of a social system in chronic disrepair, for reasons of its own and regardless of the absence of a viable alternative. While we cannot know when and how exactly capitalism will disappear and what will succeed it, what matters is that no force is on hand that could be expected to reverse the three downward trends in economic growth, social equality and financial stability and end their mutual reinforcement. In contrast to the 1930s, there is today no political-economic formula on the horizon, left or right, that might provide capitalist societies with a coherent new regime of regulation, or régulation. Social integration as well as system integration seem irreversibly damaged and set to deteriorate further. What is most likely to happen as time passes is a continuous accumulation of small and not-so-small dysfunctions; none necessarily deadly as such, but most beyond repair, all the more so as they become too many for individual address. In the process, the parts of the whole will fit together less and less; frictions of all kinds will multiply; unanticipated consequences will spread, along ever more obscure lines of causation. Uncertainty will proliferate; crises of every sort—of legitimacy, productivity or both—will follow each other in quick succession while predictability and governability will decline further (as they have for decades now). Eventually, the myriad provisional fixes devised for short-term crisis management will collapse under the weight of the daily disasters produced by a social order in profound, anomic disarray.
In summary, capitalism, as a social order held together by a promise of boundless collective progress, is in critical condition. Growth is giving way to secular stagnation; what economic progress remains is less and less shared; and confidence in the capitalist money economy is leveraged on a rising mountain of promises that are ever less likely to be kept. Since the 1970s, the capitalist centre has undergone three successive crises, of inflation, public finances and private debt. Today, in an uneasy phase of transition, its survival depends on central banks providing it with unlimited synthetic liquidity. Step by step, capitalism's shotgun marriage with democracy since 1945 is breaking up. On the three frontiers of commodification—labour, nature and money—regulatory institutions restraining the advance of capitalism for its own good have collapsed, and after the final victory of capitalism over its enemies no political agency capable of rebuilding them is in sight. The capitalist system is at present stricken with at least five worsening disorders for which no cure is at hand: declining growth, oligarchy, starvation of the public sphere, corruption and international anarchy. What is to be expected, on the basis of capitalism's recent historical record, is a long and painful period of cumulative decay: of intensifying frictions, of fragility and uncertainty, and of a steady succession of 'normal accidents'—not necessarily but quite possibly on the scale of the global breakdown of the 1930s.
Wolfgang Streeck, How Will Capitalism End?
Benjamin Harrison, 1872
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The Fed is Unable to Estimate Growth
Is the Fed tieing it shoe laces together by predicting high growth and then revising downward?
Binyamin Appelbaum, Fed Expected to Reduce Growth Forecast but Cut Stimulus
The pattern is striking. In every year since 2008, Fed officials have steadily reduced their initial expectations for economic growth. In each year except 2012, they had still overestimated the strength of the economy in June of the forecast year.
The consequences at times have been painful. Fed officials have said they did not act more strongly to stimulate the economy in the immediate aftermath of the recession because they expected the economy to rebound more quickly.
Fed officials argue that unanticipated economic setbacks have contributed to their failures of foresight, including spending cuts by federal, state and local governments, the European economic crisis and, most recently, an unusually cold winter.
But officials have also acknowledged that the impact of those setbacks appears to reflect an underlying weakness in the economy that they did not anticipate.
Josh Bivens, director of research and policy at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, said economic conditions in recent years had few precedents, making it hard to predict the pace of the recovery. Traditional models assume the Fed can restore growth by cutting interest rates, but the Fed has held interest rates near zero since late 2008, and that has proved insufficient. That has left forecasters guessing, he said.
"You can definitely be sympathetic with them," he said. "We're just in uncharted territory."
Fed officials have adjusted by gradually backing away from their assumption that the economy will rebound strongly. Officials make an initial forecast two years before the beginning of a given year. Those long-range forecasts reflect their views of the economy's potential more than the conditions that are likely to prevail at that time. And for the last five years, Fed officials have steadily reduced their expectations. In 2009, they estimated that growth in 2012 would run as high as 4.8 percent. Last year, they estimated that growth in 2016 would run no higher than 3.3 percent.
Such slow adjustments are typical, researchers have found. William D. Nordhaus, a professor of economics at Yale, found in a benchmark 1985 paper that forecasters are anchored to their opinions. "We break the good or bad news to ourselves slowly, taking too long to allow surprises to be incorporated into our forecasts," Mr. Nordhaus wrote.
The Fed is no better than other market watchers: they are all caught in the postnormal fog, unable to peer into the uncertain future. But the consequences of the irrational exuberance of the Fed's projections are much more significant than an investment fund guessing wrong on Apple. It seems that the optimism may be another tool in the Fed's bag to influence behavior of other parties, but this rapidly turns into the boy who cried wolf.
Diane Swonk
Show Me The Money
A protegé of the French economist Thomas Piketty, Gabriel Zucman has researched the mystery of international balance sheets showing increasing liabilities: Where's the money?
Rich people and cash-rich companies are hiding it in tax havens:
Jacques Leslie, The True Cost of Hidden Money
GABRIEL ZUCMAN is a 27-year-old French economist who decided to solve a puzzle: Why do international balance sheets each year show more liabilities than assets, as if the world is in debt to itself?
Over the last couple of decades, the few international economists who have addressed this question have offered a simple explanation: tax evasion. Money that, say, leaves the United States for an offshore tax shelter is recorded as a liability here, but it is listed nowhere as an asset — its mission, after all, is disappearance. But until now the economists lacked hard numbers to confirm their suspicions. By analyzing data released in recent years by central banks in Switzerland and Luxembourg on foreigners' bank holdings, then extrapolating to other tax havens, Mr. Zucman has put creditable numbers on tax evasion, showing that it's rampant — and a major driver of wealth inequality.
Mr. Zucman estimates — conservatively, in his view — that $7.6 trillion — 8 percent of the world's personal financial wealth — is stashed in tax havens. If all of this illegally hidden money were properly recorded and taxed, global tax revenues would grow by more than $200 billion a year, he believes. And these numbers do not include much larger corporate tax avoidance, which usually follows the letter but hardly the spirit of the law. According to Mr. Zucman's calculations, 20 percent of all corporate profits in the United States are shifted offshore, and tax avoidance deprives the government of a third of corporate tax revenues. Corporate tax avoidance has become so widespread that from the late 1980s until now, the effective corporate tax rate in the United States has dropped from 30 percent to 15 percent, Mr. Zucman found, even though the tax rate hasn't changed.
Mr. Zucman's tax evasion numbers are big enough to upend common assumptions, like the notion that China has become the world's "owner" while Europe and America have become large debtors. The idea of the rich world's indebtedness is "an illusion caused by tax havens," Mr. Zucman wrote in a paper published last year. In fact, if offshore assets were properly measured, Europe would be a net creditor, and American indebtedness would fall from 18 percent of gross domestic product to 9 percent.
So, another wrinkle in the new abnormal economics: the wealthy can skew the system to pile their shekels higher and higher, meanwhile manipulating the system so that national policies reinforce the massive inequality of our economy.
Welcome to the postnormal.
The new normal is there is no normal
The way the world's financial markets 'work' has ceased to follow classical models, and now the experts cannot track risk. Welcome to the postnormal.
Susanne Walker and Liz Capo McCormick, Unstoppable $100 Trillion Bond Market Renders Models Useless - Bloomberg
If the insatiable demand for bonds has upended the models you use to value them, you're not alone.
Just last month, researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York retooled a gauge of relative yields on Treasuries, casting aside three decades of data that incorporated estimates for market rates from professional forecasters. Priya Misra, the head of U.S. rates strategy at Bank of America Corp., says a risk metric she's relied on hasn't worked since March.
After unprecedented stimulus by the Fed and other central banks made many traditional models useless, investors and analysts alike are having to reshape their understanding of cheap and expensive as the global market for bonds balloons to $100 trillion. With the world's biggest economies struggling to grow and inflation nowhere in sight, catchphrases such as "new neutral" and "no normal" are gaining currency to describe a reality where bonds are rallying the most in a decade.
"The world's gotten more complicated and it's a little different," James Evans, a New York-based money manager at Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., which oversees $30 billion, said in a telephone interview on May 30. "As far as predicting direction up and down, I don't think they have much value," referring to bond-market models used by forecasters.
In an economy where secular stagnation has taken hold, and the world's currencies are spiraling in a liquidity trap, it appears we are still in a crisis; but people are spending a great deal of time talking about heading off the next one.
A hundred trillion being invested in bonds because investors can't accurately gauge risk, and the degree of complexity and uncertainty continue to rise, and — despite the hype about big data — no one seems to know where things are headed.
The Economist
The Past and Future of America's Social Contract - Josh Freedman and Michael Lind - The Atlantic →
Josh Freedman and Michael Lind look back to the New Deal and forward to a new social contract. Will we have a continuation of the ruinous "low-wage" social contract that is now in effect, a shift to the Nordic social state, or a third alternative?
What, then, would a better social contract look like?
First, we could accept the basic shape of the low-wage economy while softening its edges by asking government to do even more. With higher taxes on the wealthy, Washington could use the tax code to provide poor and middle-class families more generous means-tested subsidies to pay for childcare, education, and healthcare. Since the Clinton era, much of the Democratic Party has embraced this version of the social contract. It is essentially the model behind Obamacare.
The downside, besides the challenge of raising taxes, is that subsidies don't guarantee affordability. They can even encourage industries to raise their prices; see, for example, the proliferation of cheap student loans, which have not made college much more affordable. What's more, means-tested programs for the poor often lack the political support needed to keep them strong.
Another possibility, which would please many progressives, would be to nudge the economy toward a social democratic model such as that of Scandinavia. This social contract would entail high wages, a high cost of living, and a universal welfare state paid for with high, relatively flat taxes.
But transplanting the Nordic model as a whole to the U.S. would be difficult in the face of fierce resistance to higher levels of spending. It would also be hard to import a system of benefits paid for by broad and flat taxes, like payroll taxes and consumption taxes, on a country like the U.S. with much greater inequality.
In our own work at the New America Foundation, we have outlined a third idea we call the "middle-income social contract." It assumes that many service industries won't be able to offer their workers middle-income salaries, which means that, in addition to raising wages somewhat, the government will have to take a more active role in making essential services like education, child care and health care more affordable. The best way to do this is to provide these programs directly, such as through universal Pre-K, single-payer health insurance, or subsidies to the states for taking care of the elderly. Policymakers can begin to build a middle-income social contract by raising the federal minimum wage closer to a true living wage and expanding public early education, both of which are widely popular proposals.
The current low-wage social contract between American workers, employers, and the government has been a raw deal for most Americans. Just as the New Deal contract shifted to the low wage model, we need to shift once again to a system more suited to the current economy and needs of workers and citizens. The options for the next social contract are many—we just have to choose the right one.
I believe that we are on the path toward government provided education (pre-K through college), health and elderly care, and greatly strengthened social security, all paid for through higher taxes on the wealthy and business. We will simply have to wait for the GOP to be made insignificant through changing demographics.
Of course, many libertarians — including the tech sector — will be opposed, but there is a split there for social liberalism, like education.
But this will be the front and center political battlefield for the next presidential elections. The core question: How much does the State have to do to ensure equality, both in opportunity and in services?
World Economy Share Since 1000 - Business Insider
A great snapshot.


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"Bro, do you even pose?!"
Skipping ahead to "Gaming", because I just watched the trailers for Jojo's All Star Battle and now I really want this game…! So I'll live vicariously through my OTP
"And that's why you're no good, Takao."
Starting off the 30 Day OTP Challenge that I most likely will not finish! First entry is "holding hands". I went with arm wrestling because it's not time to break out the fluffy stuff yet.
Oh my god this anime is killing me
The Duet Series CD is scheduled to be released on the 26th of this month. I'm really curious about what the track titles will be, considering how homo Takao's are for his own CD:
BONUS: Amazon ships them too:
And all the other boys, Try to chase me, But here's my number, So call me, maybe?
Before you came into my life, I missed you so bad, I missed you so, so bad
Oh yeahhh, I'm going to pass out now.
Uh-oh I forgot your necklace~~ Kagamiiiii~~ I bet that's a plot point later in the series~~~~
Kuroko no Basket/Basuke is the best BL anime to come out this season.